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OLDDOGS COMMENTS I UNDERSTAND THE READER MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU MAY ASSUME IS DULL STATISTICS. HOWEVER, YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT WHAT A BUNCH OF THIEVES YOUR GOVERNMENT IS. Want answers?

Rate of Mortgage Foreclosures? Well then, here they are: 1. Collective government (local and federal) is the #1 investors in the majority of the mortgages. Government does so by being the #1 investor with the banks; mortgage institutions; mortgage security fund pools; etc. We are talking a few trillion-dollars in “collective” totals. Since the bubble burst in 2008, the government investment funds have been creating specialty funds with names like: “Residential Real-estate Opportunity Fund”; “Residential Real-estate Rollover Fund”; “Commercial Property Opportunity Fund”; and so on, so on into ad-nauseous.

They have used these investment funds to take over residential and commercial property at pennies on the dollar (10c to 40c on the dollar). Thousands if not hundreds-of-thousands of properties each year since 2008 which they can now sell at 80c on the dollar or lease / rent out to other parties. These specialty investment funds have been “very” profitable, of which creates the LARGEST conflict of interest per the judicial or administrative cooperating with the financial institutions to kick the late pay home owner out of their houses on to the streets.

Boils down to nothing other than systematic theft in a symbiotic relationship to perpetuate theft-by-taking. [ It is kind of like Foxes bringing a chicken rancher to court being that the rancher objected to the Foxes eating chickens from his coop, and the case will be decided by the fox’s extended family (the judges) to determine the only issue to be allowed at the table, with that being: if the rancher is to be fined; jailed; or forfeit his chicken coop to the Foxes. It is part of the communist manifesto that all real property is to be owned by the state. The state has mover this along over the last forty-years with the first phase being the implementation of Property-Tax. Any party subject to property-tax is truly but a renter and not a true owner.

If they do not pay their rent, their property will be stolen from them. The housing market bubble burst at the end of 2008 was no accident.

It was a staged take-over to the tune of trillions of dollars in less than two-months at the end of 2008. Derivatives were used to pull that one off and the profits were accomplished by and through government institutional accounts positioned “Globally”. Since that time government institutional investment accounts and funds have focused on buying up the real property at 10cto 40c on the dollar. Trillions of dollars of property in collective totals: TREASON: “Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?

For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612 To view a few of these new government institutional property take-over accounts, Google your local government state pension fund CAFR. The investments broken up into categories both domestic and international are easily seen there being that the pension funds are still required to list every investment held. As an easy reference to view the New York State retirement fund or CALSTERS, they can be viewed at the following links – and 4. In many local venues when property-tax was implemented, safeguards were put into place to keep the local government from seizing your property if you became six-months or one-year in the arrears. In most venues the local government was restricted from going after your property, and could do so if you became four-years in the arrears. Local governments got around this time restriction by modifying how mortgages were written. The new mortgages make the lending institution responsible for collecting the property tax in with the monthly mortgage payment.

Here if you do not pay the property tax and fall delinquent on your mortgage, the financial institution can in six months move for eviction and the courts put their stamp of approval on it. The intent and motive for that quick stamp of approval is based on nothing other that self interest to perpetuate their own investment return and move a new body in who will stay current on paying the property-tax assessed and mortgage payments that government through the back door owns by investment in the first place. How do you get the full and complete cooperation of government on issues that are contrary to the public’s interest? ANSWER: Give government the largest cut of the profit for doing so. Again: TREASON: “Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612. Walter Burien – CAFR1.com ADDENDUM FACT: The state Treasurer's offices also run Investment Poolsthese reside OUTSIDE of the State Budgetsthey get interest which are posted in the Bank of New Yorkand legislators lie about their existence.

Walt Burien discovered them in New Jersey during 1996, brought the facts out to the public, which continues to 'doubt' their existence. Bunch of dummies who refuse to read the actual accounts. FACT: Now, we learn about another investment pool that uses FEES gathered by the Courts.all with silence from Congresswhich means it has Congressional approval. QUESTION: Why does the 'government' want to arrest you? [HINT: It wants your money.] Do not bother your legislators with your opinion, because they are not listening to youANDFor the Record, resistance is futile.

Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences Freelance Investigative Science Reporter ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ QUOTE ———- Forwarded message ———- From: ' © ™ original works' Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:30:18 -0500 Subject: CRIS MISC COURT REGISTRY INVESTMENT SYSTEM & MISC To: *Court Registry Investment System* Back in 1990, Federal judges and clerks down in South Texas got to thinking 'Damn, with all the fees lying around, shouldn't we invest it and make some money off it?' Pretty soon, they cooked up the Court Registry Investment System (CRIS), on the recommendation of financial analyst (now Clerk) Mike Milby, and with permission of the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The pooled funds never actually leave the US Treasury account in the Texas Commerce Bank of Houston because the Bank invests them in US Treasury Bills through CRIS investment managers at JP Morgan. Thus all 25 member US Court Districts always have funds available to disburse for their various purposes. Not only does the court have several billion dollars in the pool and over a billion dollars invested at any one time, but also it earns upwards of a million dollars a month in interest alone.

And it charges a registry fee of upwards of 10% for managing the investment (rather than taking the fees out of earnings). Member District Courts share proportionately in CRIS earnings. See the US COURTS press release on CRIS here; see Google links here. I have attached a RAR archive containing documents.

If you cannot open it, get and use WinRAR or Jzip or 7zip. See the 1990 documents (attached) establishing CRIS in the South Texas USDC below. And now, some questions: – Do you suppose the investment managers securitized the investment fund? – – Shouldn't the investment fund reduce the amount of fees the people must pay for court services, transcripts, PACER, and so on? – – When you pay fines or fees, should you designate them to go into CRIS investment? – – If you do designate them for CRIS, will YOU receive the earnings? – – Should you write to your legislators about this?

MORE OLDDOG COMMENTS Surely by now, you do believe the investigators logic is “ FOLLOW THE MONEY” and “ CRITICAL THINKING”. SO, ask your self, since the government is a profit seeking business and not just legislators and bureaucrats’ WHO GET’S THE PROFITS?

WE SURE AS HELL DON’T! Now is a good time to further investigate the claims that America really is a privately controlled corporation, for funneling the riches of American Enterprise back to the International Investment Banking Cartel, and the Vatican. Our money is going somewhere folks, and this theory is as creditable as any out there. WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO FIND OUT WHO RAPED AND MURDERED YOUR BEAUTIFUL INNOCENT DAUGHTER? Apathy, in the face of imminent disaster is inexcusable!

Since you will not believe what I have published on this subject, go and find out for your self, WHERE IS THE MONEY? Posted by In a recent statement put out by “” several call for denser cities in order to mitigate worldwide population growth. When in doubt that UN’s Agenda 21 is not the Mein Kampf of our day, one should consider yet another in-your-face confession from yet another certified biocratic control freak According to one of the while speaking about human populations worldwide, stated: “We certainly don’t want them strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely [together].” Insisting the world’s population be locked up within the confounds of mega-cities, the elite realizes that if the herd is to be properly controlled walls are needed- thick walls, and by constructing these walls, making the masses go this or that way will be made easier. Chief scientist Michail Fragkias involved with “Planet under Pressure” told MSNBC that “the answer (to population growth) is denser cities.” The conference, by the way, released its statement calling for denser cities to mitigate “worldwide population growth” ahead of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in June of this year. “If cities can develop in height rather than in width that would be much more preferable and environmentally not as harmful”, Fragkias said.

People who know anything about history know that the creation of mega-cities in which the masses may be rounded up and enclosed, is identical to the Nazi principle of the “ghetto” as a means of managing the masses. Every student of history may also know what happens to those masses shortly after.

Some of the organizers of “Planet under Pressure” are founding their plea on the notion that we (as humanity) have entered the “Anthropocene”: a new geological era in which humans- not natural conditions- are the main drivers of geological and meteorological processes. Citing, Martin Rees of the Royal Society stated at the conference: “This century is special in the Earth’s history. It is the first when one species — ours — has the planet’s future in its hands,” reports. “We’ve invented a new geological era: the Anthropocene.”, he stated.

This echoes yet another scientist, a professor at the University of Colorado, who in recent times also mentioned this new era in relation to a when he stated: “Scientists now speak of humanity’s increased demands and impacts on the globe as ushering in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Such selfish and destructive appropriation of the resources of the Earth can only be described as interspecies genocide.” In addition, the professor said: “Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers (emphasis added) may be necessary in order to do so.” The call for compact cities, filled to the brim with humans, is part of the UN’s for sure. Within these proposed mega-cities, humans will be allowed to use RFID technology so they can be kept in check. The rest of the world, the “countryside” as one of the scientists told MSNBC, is reserved for the elite. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences Freelance Investigative Science Reporter NOTE: The article below my message is 'old news' at this point in time.

Yes, we heard about it, but there is more to the story that is unfolding. In the 'home of the brave and land of the ignorant', let me share the following fact about the REAL situation. FACT: [QUOTE] 'In 1942, the State Department and CFR members collaborated to set up a new “supranational organization” to replace the League of Nations, based on Wilson’s internationalist ideas. 9 Secretary of State Cordell Hull (CFR) asked Communist Alger Hiss to assemble a group of fourteen other CFR members to draft the United Nations Charter (UN).10 The UN Charter displaced the U.S.

Constitution with little response from the voters who were traumatized by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Senators accepted the charter without even viewing a copy. They were not authorized to bind U.S. Citizens, without their consent, to the conditions of the U.N. Charter.11 Stalin would join the allies only if the U.S. Would accept the UN.

On April 12, 1952, Secretary Dulles would claim, “Treaty law can override the Constitution. Treaties can take powers away from Congress and give them to the President.” SOURCE: 'By Way of Deception, We Shall do War!'

By Deanna Spingola, 18 Sep 2010 [Full Disclosure] FACT: History does not tell citizens what the LEGAL record reveals. Men have argued that Secretary Dulles was not correct, based on historical information. They are wrong. Just look at what has happened. REALITY is in front of your eyes. This nation is not going back to the previous fairy-tale.

THINK: Therefore, what is taught to the Public is a lie; what is on the Record is the truth. In the recent discussion between Senator Sessions and Sec of DOD Panetta, there is a clever tap-dance of ideology via political arm wrestling that most citizens missed. The Senator was talking 'history'; Panetta was talking 'legal.' The Senator knows very well that the Senate displaced the US Constitution with the UN Charter in the 1940s, but he must pretend that itdid not happenthe Public is not supposed to understand the details. If you are an adult who pays taxes, then it is time for you to learn the truth. It will not be in your history books, because they are written by the very perpetrators of these lies. It is in the LEGAL records.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK: Google the article by Spingola – 'By Way of Deception, We Shall do War!' Google the article 'Who Controls the World' by Ray Sperring or go to. The UN Charter displaced the U.S. Constitution Coup D’etat: Pentagon & Obama Declare Congress Ceremonial Congressman Jones introduces bill that would subject Panetta & Obama to impeachment Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Thursday, March 8, 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony asserting that the United Nations and NATO have supreme authority over the actions of the United States military, words which effectively declare Congress a ceremonial relic, have prompted Congressman Walter Jones to introduce a resolution that re-affirms such behavior as an “impeachable high crime and misdemeanor” under the Constitution.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey brazenly admitted that their authority comes not from the U.S.

Constitution, but that the United States is subservient to and takes its marching orders from the United Nations and NATO, international bodies over which the American people have no democratic influence. Panetta was asked by Senator Jeff Sessions, “We spend our time worrying about the U.N., the Arab League, NATO and too little time, in my opinion, worrying about the elected representatives of the United States. As you go forward, will you consult with the United States Congress?” The Defense Secretary responded “You know, our goal would be to seek international permission. And we would come to the Congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this, whether or not we would want to get permission from the Congress.” Despite Sessions’ repeated efforts to get Panetta to acknowledge that the United States Congress is supreme to the likes of NATO and the UN, Panetta exalted the power of international bodies over the US legislative branch.

“I’m really baffled by the idea that somehow an international assembly provides a legal basis for the United States military to be deployed in combat,” Sessions said. “I don’t believe it’s close to being correct. They provide no legal authority. The only legal authority that’s required to deploy the United States military is of the Congress and the president and the law and the Constitution.” In an effort to re-affirm the fact that “the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution,” in the House of Representatives. The full text reads; Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution. Author Unknown Barack Obama actually plans to do it.

He actually plans to neuter America by unilaterally dismantling most of the U.S. Strategic nuclear arsenal. In fact, Barack Obama says that the United States has a “moral obligation” to disarm as we lead the way to “a world without nuclear weapons”.

Sadly, a “world without nuclear weapons” is a fantasy that will not be possible any time soon. Nuclear weapons technology is getting into more hands with each passing year, and geopolitical tensions are rising all over the globe. If the United States did not have nuclear weapons, anyone with just a handful of nukes would constitute a massive threat to our national security.

An overwhelming strategic nuclear arsenal helps keep us safe because every other nation on the planet knows that it would be national suicide to attack us. If you take that overwhelming strategic nuclear arsenal away, the entire calculation changes. Many out there claim that even if the U.S. Only has a few hundred nuclear warheads that it will be more than enough to be an effective deterrent. Sadly, that simply is not true.

If an enemy knows that we only have a few hundred warheads, and if they know exactly where those warheads are located for verification purposes, then a first strike which would take out the vast majority of our operational warheads becomes very plausible. That is why what Obama wants to do is so incredibly dangerous. If he reduces our strategic nuclear arsenal down to almost nothing, the odds of a nuclear first strike against the United States someday will go up dramatically. The following is what Fox News reported that Obama said during a speech in South Korea the other day.

“American leadership has been essential to progress in a second area — taking concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons,” Obama said yesterday during a speech in Korea. “I believe the United States has a unique responsibility to act — indeed, we have a moral obligation.” A moral obligation to do what? A moral obligation to neuter America? Obama also said the following in South Korea during his speech the other day. “Even as we have more work to do, we can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need.”. By Mychal Massie At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, 'Get used to it' – and with an insouciant grin and chortle, he told another person at the event, who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to 'get a more fuel-efficient car.'

[ O'D NOTE: As if that person could AFFORD a hybrid car!]. The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Wa shington. And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they're spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf. In the 1950's they called it acting NIGGER RICH. Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it's so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order 'to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don't have to sacrifice the America we believe in.'

The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they've never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they're going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers' expense. Obama continues to exhibit behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a deeply damaged individual.

In a February 2010 column, I asked, I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him. At that time, I wrote that not having things go one's way can be a bitter pill, but reasonable people don't behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon, where he had been an invited guest.

I had speculated that was, in part, what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress, the nation and the world, during the 2010 State of the Union address. It appeared, at that time, as if he were 'fraying around the emotional edges.'

That behavior has not abated – it has become more pronounced. While addressing the nation, after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya, America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.

But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt, he took his scornful, unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of 'The Tudors' television series, he invited Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan's budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama's actions.

Today, criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said, 'I have been very disappointed in [Obama], to the point where I'm embarrassed that I endorsed him. It's so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?'

('Democrats' Disgust with Obama,' The Daily Beast, April 15, 2011) Steve McCann wrote: Obama's speech 'was chock full of lies, deceit and crass fear-mo ngering. It must be said that [ he] is the most dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed' ('The Mendacity of Barack Obama,', April 15, 2011). Moonlight Sonata Sheet Music Pdf Free Piano. McCann continued: '[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud.

That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. ' With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?

The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is becoming increasingly more contumelious? Mychal Massie is chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21 – a conservative black think tank located in Washington, D.C. He was recognized as the 2008 Conservative Man of the Year by the Conservative Party of Suffolk County, N.Y.

He is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. A former self-employed business owner of more than 30 years, Massie can be followed. OLDDOGS COMMENTS Who would have ever thought that America could ever have been destroyed? Especially by a skinny half breed with no affection for our Nation, or loyalty to the people. When I think back to the time of the war in Nam, I can see the deterioration, but before that, I was blind to it. Now, I know it has been deteriorating from the get go, due to our mistaken confidence in our representatives, and our own laziness.

So now, we are faced with loosing everything we have worked for all of our lives, including many friends, and loved ones, as we are being pushed into a corner that has no escape. Mark these words reader, there will be wailing and gashing of teeth shortly in America, as brother once more goes to war against brother, which is the most despicable thing that human beings can stoop too. I hope this half breed scumbag is proud of his accomplishment, and rots from the inside out. If he wins this next so called election, it will be time to lock and load again. My agony is from being too old to be a grunt again.

Pray for the real patriots! Please, if you have not subscribed for daily notices of new post, do so now, and encourage your friends and family to do like wise. Every American needs to get educated on what has happened to us.

SUBSCRIBE ON BOTH SITES: AND Numbers really do matter! Just days ago a military ammunition supplier announced that, which is more than on bullet for every man, woman and child in the United States. ATK Awarded Contract to Supply 450 Million Rounds of.40 Caliber Ammunition to the Department of Homeland Security ATK has secured a major Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity deal to supply up to 450 million rounds of.40 caliber ammunition to the Department of Homeland Security. The 1 year contract with four option years comes at a time when many Americans believe that DHS, along with certain aspects of the military, will soon turn their sights on the American people during some sort of martial law scenario.

“We are proud to extend our track record as the prime supplier of.40 caliber duty ammunition for DHS, ICE,” said Ron Johnson, the president of ATK’s Security and Sporting group,” reported a PR Newswire release. While the news is startling and one can only speculate on the reason Homeland security needs so much ammunition an even more alarming report has surfaced today. According to an anonymous source the federal government is buying out all ammunition from military surplus stores and says vendors have told him they have been instructed to cease sales of ammunition to the public. The source claims to have contacted numerous military surplus stores in an attempt to purchase 5.56 ammo and has been repeatedly informed the stores are sold out because the federal government is buying out all surplus ammo. The vendors are also sold out of Federal M193 and M855 SS109 ammunition and military surplus suppliers and say that any remaining supply of 5.56 ammunition and.223 caliber is about to spike significantly in price due to the shortage being created by the government. The source points out that after recently purchasing 440 rounds of federal surplus steel core ammo for $149.00 the price has now skyrocketed to over $440.00 for the same amount of ammunition.

While all of this is coming from an unreliable anonymous source I am putting it out there in case the claims are true. Federal Jack Reports: Subject: Government buying out all the 5.56 Military surplus ammo and is telling ammo dealers to stop selling to their vendors and civilians. I have been calling allot of ammo distributors and ALL of them are telling me that our government is [buying out] all the 5.56.223 cal military surplus ammo. And they’re also telling the ammo distributors stop selling the ammo to civilians and their vendors because the government is buying it all up from everyone they can. I have also spoken with theses ammo dealers and they told me that the 5.56 and.223 ammo is going way up in price. For instanceI paid $149.00 for federal surplus 440 rounds of steel core and now at the gun show today it was selling for $440.00 for 420 rounds.

I have checked and A LOT of places online are out of the Military surplus ammo by federal [including] M193 and M855 SS109 ammo. I did find one place still carrying both these ammo’s and good prices still, but they’re the only place I could find. If interested let me know and Ill forward the info. I was also told by the same ammo dealers that the government is going to buy all the 9mm and.45 ammo up, so hurry and buy while you can at the lower prices while still available. Guess if they won’t take our guns because they figure that there are so many out there, they will just buy all most popular military calibers. Can’t shoot a gun with no ammostock up now while you still can.

OLDDOGS COMMENTS ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? Please don’t tell me you think those S O Bs in DC are going to change their minds and return to Constitutional governance.

No one can be that frickin dumb! Good Morning to all my loyal readers, The following letter was sent out to my mailing list this morning. THIS IS THE LAST BULK MAILING FROM ME UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, BUT NEW ARTICLES WILL BE POSTED EVERY DAY AS USUAL. Once again, the government has made a bad situation worse with stupid regulations.

It seems like the wonderful amount of growth I have experienced, in numbers of new readers has been noticed, and now I must convert to a double opt in mailing list or you will not receive the daily posts notification or any other bulk mailing from A Nation Beguiled. The government has made the Hosting companies liable for spamming if their customers are bulk mailing to people who were first contacted and agreed to continue receiving bulk mailings, but if you just happened to stumble on to my web site or blog and liked it enough to subscribe, then that’s alright. It’s a matter of who made first contact. So, I am going to have to hire a developer to write a script to install on my site, and you will have to go there and click the subscribe button to once again receive my daily post notification or any information I deem worthy of bulk mailing, and this is going to take some time to install. I am keeping my present mailing list for one on one communication, but mailing every one INDIVIDUALLY even once a day, would leave me no time to research for new articles or anything else. You are probably already experienced at this method from doing your own research on other sites, so it’s not something new to be afraid of.

Those of you who have been awakened to the governments method of solving problems is to give it’s self more authority, will now see it in action. No one ever invented anything the government could not screw up, and make more expensive. Now we will see how many of you are loyal readers of the articles I post on as you will have to sign up on even if you are only reading because that site’s script is controlled by wordpress, and they send out a daily post notification of their own, and I never know who the readers are. Your continued loyalty will be appreciated. Don't forget, new post will continue to be up on a daily basis.

Warm Regards, OldDog. By Brandon Turbeville In a stunning move, on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order stating that the President and his specifically designated Secretaries now have the authority to commandeer all domestic U.S. Resources including food and water. The EO also states that the President and his Secretaries have the authority to seize all transportation, energy, and infrastructure inside the United States as well as forcibly induct/draft American citizens into the military.

The EO also contains a vague reference in regards to harnessing American citizens to fulfill “labor requirements” for the purposes of national defense. Not only that, but the authority claimed inside the EO does not only apply to National Emergencies and times of war. It also applies in peacetime.

The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order exploits the “authority” granted to the President in the Defense Production Act of 1950 in order to assert that virtually every means of human survival is now available for confiscation and control by the President via his and his Secretaries’ whim. The unconstitutionality of the overwhelming majority of Executive Orders is well established, as well as the illegality of denying citizens their basic Constitutional and human rights, even in the event of a legitimate national emergency. Likewise, it should also be pointed out that, like Obama’s recent Libyan adventure and the foregone conclusion of a Syrian intervention, there is no mention of Congress beyond a minor role of keeping the allegedly co-equal branch of government informed on contextually meaningless developments. As was mentioned above, the scope of the EO is virtually all-encompassing. For instance, in “Section 201 – Priorities and Allocations Authorities,” the EO explains that the authority for the actions described in the opening paragraph rests with the President but is now delegated to the various Secretaries of the U.S. Federal Government. The NSAs SPY NETWORK By Once it’s operational, the Utah Data Center will become, in effect, the NSA’s cloud.

The center will be fed data collected by the agency’s eavesdropping satellites, overseas listening posts, and secret monitoring rooms in telecom facilities throughout the US. All that data will then be accessible to the NSA’s code breakers, data-miners, China analysts, counterterrorism specialists, and others working at its Fort Meade headquarters and around the world. Here’s how the data center appears to fit into the NSA’s global puzzle.—J.B. 1 Geostationary satellites Four satellites positioned around the globe monitor frequencies carrying everything from walkie-talkies and cell phones in Libya to radar systems in North Korea. Onboard software acts as the first filter in the collection process, targeting only key regions, countries, cities, and phone numbers or email. 2 Aerospace Data Facility, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado Intelligence collected from the geostationary satellites, as well as signals from other spacecraft and overseas listening posts, is relayed to this facility outside Denver.

About 850 NSA employees track the satellites, transmit target information, and download the intelligence haul. 3 NSA Georgia, Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia Focuses on intercepts from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Codenamed Sweet Tea, the facility has been massively expanded and now consists of a 604,000-square-foot operations building for up to 4,000 intercept operators, analysts, and other specialists. 4 NSA Texas, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio Focuses on intercepts from Latin America and, since 9/11, the Middle East and Europe. Some 2,000 workers staff the operation. The NSA recently completed a $100 million renovation on a mega-data center here—a backup storage facility for the Utah Data Center.

5 NSA Hawaii, Oahu Focuses on intercepts from Asia. Built to house an aircraft assembly plant during World War II, the 250,000-square-foot bunker is nicknamed the Hole. Like the other NSA operations centers, it has since been expanded: Its 2,700 employees now do their work aboveground from a new 234,000-square-foot facility. 6 Domestic listening posts The NSA has long been free to eavesdrop on international satellite communications. But after 9/11, it installed taps in US telecom “switches,” gaining access to domestic traffic. An ex-NSA official says there are 10 to 20 such installations.

7 Overseas listening posts According to a knowledgeable intelligence source, the NSA has installed taps on at least a dozen of the major overseas communications links, each capable of eavesdropping on information passing by at a high data rate. 8 Utah Data Center, Bluffdale, Utah At a million square feet, this $2 billion digital storage facility outside Salt Lake City will be the centerpiece of the NSA’s cloud-based data strategy and essential in its plans for decrypting previously uncrackable documents. 9 Multiprogram Research Facility, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Some 300 scientists and computer engineers with top security clearance toil away here, building the world’s fastest supercomputers and working on cryptanalytic applications and other secret projects. 10 NSA headquarters, Fort Meade, Maryland Analysts here will access material stored at Bluffdale to prepare reports and recommendations that are sent to policymakers. To handle the increased data load, the NSA is also building an $896 million supercomputer center here. Before yottabytes of data from the deep web and elsewhere can begin piling up inside the servers of the NSA’s new center, they must be collected. To better accomplish that, the agency has undergone the largest building boom in its history, including installing secret electronic monitoring rooms in major US telecom facilities.

Controlled by the NSA, these highly secured spaces are where the agency taps into the US communications networks, a practice that came to light during the Bush years but was never acknowledged by the agency. The broad outlines of the so-called warrantless-wiretapping program have long been exposed—how the NSA secretly and illegally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was supposed to oversee and authorize highly targeted domestic eavesdropping; how the program allowed wholesale monitoring of millions of American phone calls and email. In the wake of the program’s exposure, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which largely made the practices legal.

Telecoms that had agreed to participate in the illegal activity were granted immunity from prosecution and lawsuits. What wasn’t revealed until now, however, was the enormity of this ongoing domestic spying program. For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed Stellar Wind, in detail. William Binney was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping network.

A tall man with strands of black hair across the front of his scalp and dark, determined eyes behind thick-rimmed glasses, the 68-year-old spent nearly four decades breaking codes and finding new ways to channel billions of private phone calls and email messages from around the world into the NSA’s bulging databases. As chief and one of the two cofounders of the agency’s Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and his team designed much of the infrastructure that’s still likely used to intercept international and foreign communications. He explains that the agency could have installed its tapping gear at the nation’s cable landing stations—the more than two dozen sites on the periphery of the US where fiber-optic cables come ashore. If it had taken that route, the NSA would have been able to limit its eavesdropping to just international communications, which at the time was all that was allowed under US law.

Instead it chose to put the wiretapping rooms at key junction points throughout the country—large, windowless buildings known as switches—thus gaining access to not just international communications but also to most of the domestic traffic flowing through the US. The network of intercept stations goes far beyond the single room in an AT&T building in San Francisco exposed by a whistle-blower in 2006. “I think there’s 10 to 20 of them,” Binney says. “That’s not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast.” The eavesdropping on Americans doesn’t stop at the telecom switches. To capture satellite communications in and out of the US, the agency also monitors AT&T’s powerful earth stations, satellite receivers in locations that include Roaring Creek and Salt Creek.

Tucked away on a back road in rural Catawissa, Pennsylvania, Roaring Creek’s three 105-foot dishes handle much of the country’s communications to and from Europe and the Middle East. And on an isolated stretch of land in remote Arbuckle, California, three similar dishes at the company’s Salt Creek station service the Pacific Rim and Asia. The former NSA official held his thumb and forefinger close together: “We are that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.” Binney left the NSA in late 2001, shortly after the agency launched its warrantless-wiretapping program. “They violated the Constitution setting it up,” he says bluntly. “But they didn’t care. They were going to do it anyway, and they were going to crucify anyone who stood in the way. When they started violating the Constitution, I couldn’t stay.” Binney says Stellar Wind was far larger than has been publicly disclosed and included not just eavesdropping on domestic phone calls but the inspection of domestic email.

At the outset the program recorded 320 million calls a day, he says, which represented about 73 to 80 percent of the total volume of the agency’s worldwide intercepts. The haul only grew from there. According to Binney—who has maintained close contact with agency employees until a few years ago—the taps in the secret rooms dotting the country are actually powered by highly sophisticated software programs that conduct “deep packet inspection,” examining Internet traffic as it passes through the 10-gigabit-per-second cables at the speed of light. The software, created by a company called Narus that’s now part of Boeing, is controlled remotely from NSA headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland and searches US sources for target addresses, locations, countries, and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email.

Any communication that arouses suspicion, especially those to or from the million or so people on agency watch lists, are automatically copied or recorded and then transmitted to the NSA. The scope of surveillance expands from there, Binney says. Once a name is entered into the Narus database, all phone calls and other communications to and from that person are automatically routed to the NSA’s recorders. “Anybody you want, route to a recorder,” Binney says. “If your number’s in there? Routed and gets recorded.” He adds, “The Narus device allows you to take it all.” And when Bluffdale is completed, whatever is collected will be routed there for storage and analysis.

According to Binney, one of the deepest secrets of the Stellar Wind program—again, never confirmed until now—was that the NSA gained warrantless access to AT&T’s vast trove of domestic and international billing records, detailed information about who called whom in the US and around the world. As of 2007, AT&T had more than 2.8 trillion records housed in a database at its Florham Park, New Jersey, complex. Verizon was also part of the program, Binney says, and that greatly expanded the volume of calls subject to the agency’s domestic eavesdropping. “That multiplies the call rate by at least a factor of five,” he says. “So you’re over a billion and a half calls a day.” (Spokespeople for Verizon and AT&T said their companies would not comment on matters of national security.) • • • The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) • By • • March 15, 2012 • 7:24 pm • Categories:,,,,,, • After he left the NSA, Binney suggested a system for monitoring people’s communications according to how closely they are connected to an initial target. The further away from the target—say you’re just an acquaintance of a friend of the target—the less the surveillance. But the agency rejected the idea, and, given the massive new storage facility in Utah, Binney suspects that it now simply collects everything.

“The whole idea was, how do you manage 20 terabytes of intercept a minute?” he says. “The way we proposed was to distinguish between things you want and things you don’t want.” Instead, he adds, “they’re storing everything they gather.” And the agency is gathering as much as it can. Once the communications are intercepted and stored, the data-mining begins. “You can watch everybody all the time with data- mining,” Binney says.

Everything a person does becomes charted on a graph, “financial transactions or travel or anything,” he says. Thus, as data like bookstore receipts, bank statements, and commuter toll records flow in, the NSA is able to paint a more and more detailed picture of someone’s life.

The NSA also has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time. According to Adrienne J. Kinne, who worked both before and after 9/11 as a voice interceptor at the NSA facility in Georgia, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks “basically all rules were thrown out the window, and they would use any excuse to justify a waiver to spy on Americans.” Even journalists calling home from overseas were included. “A lot of time you could tell they were calling their families,” she says, “incredibly intimate, personal conversations.” Kinne found the act of eavesdropping on innocent fellow citizens personally distressing. “It’s almost like going through and finding somebody’s diary,” she says. In secret listening rooms nationwide, NSA software examines every email, phone call, and tweet as they zip.

But there is, of course, reason for anyone to be distressed about the practice. Once the door is open for the government to spy on US citizens, there are often great temptations to abuse that power for political purposes, as when Richard Nixon eavesdropped on his political enemies during Watergate and ordered the NSA to spy on antiwar protesters.

Those and other abuses prompted Congress to enact prohibitions in the mid-1970s against domestic spying. Before he gave up and left the NSA, Binney tried to persuade officials to create a more targeted system that could be authorized by a court. At the time, the agency had 72 hours to obtain a legal warrant, and Binney devised a method to computerize the system. “I had proposed that we automate the process of requesting a warrant and automate approval so we could manage a couple of million intercepts a day, rather than subvert the whole process.” But such a system would have required close coordination with the courts, and NSA officials weren’t interested in that, Binney says. Instead they continued to haul in data on a grand scale.

Asked how many communications—”transactions,” in NSA’s lingo—the agency has intercepted since 9/11, Binney estimates the number at “between 15 and 20 trillion, the aggregate over 11 years.” When Barack Obama took office, Binney hoped the new administration might be open to reforming the program to address his constitutional concerns. He and another former senior NSA analyst, J. Kirk Wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the Department of Justice’s inspector general. They were given the brush-off. “They said, oh, OK, we can’t comment,” Binney says. Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together.

“We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,” he says. There is still one technology preventing untrammeled government access to private digital data: strong encryption. Anyone—from terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senders—can use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths—128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bits—it’s incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for top-secret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithm—trying one combination after another to unlock the encryption—would likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (10 36).

Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze. The more messages from a given target, the more likely it is for the computers to detect telltale patterns, and Bluffdale will be able to hold a great many messages. “We questioned it one time,” says another source, a senior intelligence manager who was also involved with the planning.

“Why were we building this NSA facility? And, boy, they rolled out all the old guys—the crypto guys.” According to the official, these experts told then-director of national intelligence Dennis Blair, “You’ve got to build this thing because we just don’t have the capability of doing the code-breaking.” It was a candid admission. In the long war between the code breakers and the code makers—the tens of thousands of cryptographers in the worldwide computer security industry—the code breakers were admitting defeat. So the agency had one major ingredient—a massive data storage facility—under way.

Meanwhile, across the country in Tennessee, the government was working in utmost secrecy on the other vital element: the most powerful computer the world has ever known. The plan was launched in 2004 as a modern-day Manhattan Project. Dubbed the High Productivity Computing Systems program, its goal was to advance computer speed a thousandfold, creating a machine that could execute a quadrillion (10 15) operations a second, known as a petaflop—the computer equivalent of breaking the land speed record. And as with the Manhattan Project, the venue chosen for the supercomputing program was the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee, a rural area where sharp ridges give way to low, scattered hills, and the southwestward-flowing Clinch River bends sharply to the southeast.

About 25 miles from Knoxville, it is the “secret city” where uranium- 235 was extracted for the first atomic bomb. A sign near the exit read: what you see here, what you do here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here. Today, not far from where that sign stood, Oak Ridge is home to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and it’s engaged in a new secret war. But this time, instead of a bomb of almost unimaginable power, the weapon is a computer of almost unimaginable speed. In 2004, as part of the supercomputing program, the Department of Energy established its Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility for multiple agencies to join forces on the project.

But in reality there would be two tracks, one unclassified, in which all of the scientific work would be public, and another top-secret, in which the NSA could pursue its own computer covertly. “For our purposes, they had to create a separate facility,” says a former senior NSA computer expert who worked on the project and is still associated with the agency. (He is one of three sources who described the program.) It was an expensive undertaking, but one the NSA was desperate to launch.

Known as the Multiprogram Research Facility, or Building 5300, the $41 million, five-story, 214,000-square-foot structure was built on a plot of land on the lab’s East Campus and completed in 2006. Behind the brick walls and green-tinted windows, 318 scientists, computer engineers, and other staff work in secret on the cryptanalytic applications of high-speed computing and other classified projects. The supercomputer center was named in honor of George R. Cotter, the NSA’s now-retired chief scientist and head of its information technology program. Not that you’d know it. “There’s no sign on the door,” says the ex-NSA computer expert.

By Nile Bowie Edward Bernays believed that society could not be trusted to make rational and informed decisions on their own, and that guiding public opinion was essential within a democratic society. Bernays founded the Council on Public Relations and his 1928 book, Propaganda cites the methodology used in the application of effective emotional communication. He discovered that such communication is capable of manipulating the unconscious in an effort to produce a desired effect – namely, a capacity to manufacture mass social adherence in support of products, political candidates and social movements. Nearly a century after his heyday, Bernays’ methodology is apparent in almost every form of civic and consumer persuasion. The platform of social media is being used in unprecedented new ways, one such example is a new online documentary about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an extremist rebel group operating in Central Africa. The documentary is unprecedented, not for its educational attributes but for its capacity to use visual branding, merchandising and highly potent emotional communication to influence the viewer to support US military operations in resource rich Central Africa under the pretext of capturing the LRA’s commander, Joseph Kony.

The Lord’s Resistance Army was originally formed in 1987 in northwestern Uganda by members of the Acholi ethnic group, who were historically exploited as forced laborers by the British colonialists and later relegated by the nation’s dominant ethic groups following independence. Together with the Holy Spirit Movement, the LRA represented the armed wing of a resistance faction aiming to overthrow the government of current Ugandan President and staunch US military ally, Yoweri Museveni. The LRA was originally formed to combat ethic marginalization, but soon became dominated by Joseph Kony, a self-proclaimed spiritual messenger of the (Christian) Holy Spirit. Kony utilized his messianic persona to lead a syncretic spiritual movement based on Acholi tribal beliefs’ and extremist Christian dogma. It is claimed that LRA seeks to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments, however its inner ideological mythology is largely unknown. In an effort to mobilize a large scale armed resistance, the LRA routinely recruited child soldiers and forced them to commit heinous acts such as cannibalism and mutilation on others who resisted to join the rebel group during their extensive twenty-five year campaign. KONY 2012 is directed by Jason Russell and runs just thirty minutes; the video has received.

The highly produced feature is narrated from the perspective of Russell and his attempt to explain the Lord’s Resistance Army to his infant son, Gavin. The video features footage from Russell’s trip to Uganda (prior to 2006, when the LRA was still operating in the region) and introduces the viewer to Jacob, a Ugandan boy who was formally recruited by the LRA as a child soldier. Russell presents various montages of ethically diverse groups of students raising their fists in the air, sporting KONY t-shirts, and scenes of mass celebration in response to President Obama signing the. The bill was passed without congressional approval, and allows the US to deploy military forces in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and South Sudan (at the consent of those nations) in pursuit of LRA rebels.

The film further advocates the requirement of public support for US military operations in the region through forms of street activism, encouraging viewers to purchase Action Kits ($30.00) and posters ($10.00) featuring images of Joseph Kony. Russell then targets specific celebrities and US policy makers and pressures them to endorse the campaign against Kony.

Perhaps most absurdly, Russell suggests that without mass public support from the American public, the US would withdraw its military presence from the region. This is the first large-scale campaign to mobilize social medialites to aggregate public support for what would otherwise be, controversial pro-intervention US foreign policy. The production relies on highly charged and often unrelated emotional triggers, which ultimately rely on the viewers sense of compassion in tandem with a lack of prior information on the subject to produce a desired result – explicitly, the villainous mythification of Kony and the mainstream acceptance of US presence in Africa through a proposed archipelago of AFRICOM military bases in the region. The production targets an age group between thirteen and twenty-one, and uses a level of academic vocabulary appropriate for a young adult audience with a limited attention span; the narrator at one point even insists the viewer pay attention. The viewer is encouraged to form an emotional connection to Russell, as we witness unrelated footage of his child’s birth. The viewer is then subsequently associated with Russell’s role as a nurturer to his young son, before shifting to scenes of Russell nurturing the Ugandan child soldier, Jacob. Russell is shown prophetically pledging to stop the LRA to the traumatized and crying young boy.

The intimate portrayal of emotion in these scenes work to further incite an reactionary response from the viewer, towards the preordained conclusion suggested in the narrative – a mass mobilization of support for the US military in their efforts to stop Jacob’s source of trauma. Bernays’ would be beside himself. KONY 2012 is produced like any other sleek marketing campaign – instead of stimulating elements of self-satisfaction like advertisers would do to promote a product, US military intervention is justified to end an atrocious humanitarian catastrophe. The film also plays on an underlying theme of the White Man’s Burden, a notion that persons of European descent inherit a quality of guilt for their ancestors’ inclination for slavery and colonialism, requiring an activist response to finally correct the situation by “ saving Africa.” During the Nigerian civil war in 1967, western media successfully used images of starving children for the first time to strengthen public support for military aid to the secessionist Republic of Biafra before rebel forces were defeated. This film attempts to purportedly “change the conversation of our culture,” however it remains a highly sophisticated refurbishment of pro-military interventionist foreign policy propaganda, dependent on dangerous subliminal messaging. Furthermore, the film was produced by an organization called Invisible Children, Inc., Invisible Children has partnered with two other organizations, Resolve and Digitaria, to create the LRA Crisis Tracker, a digital crisis-mapping platform that broadcasts attacks allegedly committed by the LRA.

CBS, FOX, MTV, ESPN, Adidas, NFL, Qualcomm, NBC, National Geographic, Hasbro and Warner Brothers. While KONY 2012 attempts to portray itself as an indigenous activist movement bent on bringing justice to African children, its parent organization is affiliated with the upper echelon of the US corporate media and with a long history of fomenting pro-US regime change under the banner of democratic institution building., not a single case of LRA activity has been reported in Uganda since 2006. The website records ninety eight deaths in the past year, with the vast majority taking place in the northeastern Bangadi region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a tri-border expanse sharing territory with the Central African republic and South Sudan. Since December 2009, the eastern Djemah region of CAR has seen occasional LRA activity; the western Tambura region of South Sudan has experienced even less. The LRA has been in operation for over two decades, and. Due to the extreme instability in northern DRC after decades of rebel insurgencies and Rwandan/Ugandan military incursions into the nation, it remains highly unlikely that cases of violence in the region can be sufficiently investigated before concluding LRA involvement.

The whereabouts of Joseph Kony are completely unknown; The US military currently has one hundred military officers training and overseeing the Ugandan military in anti-LRA operations. Due to the complete absence of LRA activity in Uganda, it becomes feasible that the US may be planning further operations in the resource rich DRC., largely with US complicity. The regimes of Paul Kagame in Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda have both received millions in military aid from the United States. Since the abhorrent failure of the 1993 US intervention in Somalia, the US has relied on the militaries of Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia to carry out US interests in proxy.

Paul Kagame of Rwanda has been given free reign by the US to conduct military operations inside DRC in the on-going ethnic conflict in that region following the 1994 Rwandan genocide. For Ugandan participation in the fight against Somalia’s al Shabaab,. The US has contributed enormous sums to these nations and now is beginning to consolidate its presence in the region under Barack Obama and AFRICOM, the United States African Command.. Considering that the United States completely ignored events in DRC and Rwanda that collectively resulted in nearly seven million deaths, their participation against the ailing Lord’s Resistance Army is completely absurd by comparison.

Through AFRICOM, the United States is seeking a foothold in the incredibly resource rich central African block in a further maneuver to aggregate regional hegemony over China. DRC is one of the world’s largest regions without an effectively functioning government. It is entirely feasible that the US can considerably increase its presence in DRC under the pretext of capturing Joseph Kony.

The US may further mobilize group forces, in addition to the use of predator drones and targeted missile strikes, inevitably killing civilians. In a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM will further its regional presence by 'operating under the principle theatre-goal of combating terrorism”.

During an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests.The crimes of the Lord’s Resistance Army have been documented in the past and they are truly despicable actions. Presently, the operations of the LRA have nearly dissolved and their presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is difficult to verify. While the pro-war filmmakers behind KONY 2012 naively call for the US military to assert its place in the conflict, an independent fact finding mission would be far more effective in assessing the seriousness of the LRA threat in the present day. Would America be a better place without?

Of course it would. The 'vampire squid' of Wall Street does not care about the future of America.

Sadly, Goldman Sachs apparently does not even care much about their own clients. What Goldman Sachs is all about is making as much money as humanly possible. In the end, there is nothing wrong with making money, but there are constructive ways to make money and there are destructive ways to make money. Unfortunately, Goldman Sachs seems to find the destructive path almost irresistible. Greg Smith, the head of the U.S. Equity derivatives business for Goldman Sachs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa made headlines all over the world on Wednesday when he resigned publicly from Goldman Sachs in a scorching editorial. Smith said that he could 'honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it'.

Considering what we know has gone on at Goldman over the past decade, that is very frightening to hear. So could this be the beginning of the end for Goldman Sachs? And if it is, will America be a better place when Goldman is gone? You would think that at some point clients of Goldman would become so sick and tired of the stories of corruption coming out of the firm that they would simply walk away. Unfortunately, corruption is so endemic on Wall Street that Goldman Sachs really does not seem out of place.

The truth is that a lot of the things that are said about Goldman could also be said about JPMorgan Chase,, Citigroup and. But in recent years Goldman Sachs has truly become a national symbol of what is wrong with our financial system. As the American people become fed up with institutions such as Goldman, hopefully we will start to see some of them disappear. The following are 11 reasons why America would be a better place without Goldman Sachs. #1 Even after all of the negative publicity we have seen in recent years, Goldman Sachs appears to not have learned any lessons.

The following is how Greg Smith described at Goldman Sachs. 'What are three quick ways to become a leader? A) Execute on the firm’s “axes,” which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit. B) “Hunt Elephants.” In English: get your clients — some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren’t — to trade whatever will bring the biggest profit to Goldman.

Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like selling my clients a product that is wrong for them. C) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym.' #2 Goldman Sachs is one of and those banks just keeping getting bigger than ever. Back in 2002, the top 10 U.S. Banks controlled of all U.S. Banking assets.

Today, the top 10 U.S. Banks control of all U.S. Banking assets.

So if we couldn't afford to let them fail back in 2008 because they were so big, why did we allow them to become even larger? #3 The shows great favoritism to big Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs.

For example, between December 1, 2007 and July 21, 2010 the Federal Reserve made in secret loans to Goldman Sachs. #4 Goldman Sachs is at the heart of the that threatens to throw the entire global financial system into chaos. At this point, Goldman Sachs has of exposure to derivatives. According, the big Wall Street banks completely control derivatives trading. In fact, the says that representatives from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup hold a secretive meeting each month to coordinate their domination over the derivatives market. On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan.

The men share a common goal: to protect the interests of big banks in the vast market for derivatives, one of the most profitable — and controversial — fields in finance. They also share a common secret: The details of their meetings, even their identities, have been strictly confidential.

#5 Goldman Sachs was at the very heart of the financial crisis of 2008 which plunged the entire global economy into a very deep recession. In the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008, Goldman Sachs was putting together mortgage-backed securities that they knew were garbage and they marketed them to investors as AAA-rated investments. On top of that, Goldman then often against those exact same securities which turned out to be extremely profitable when those securities crashed and burned. The following is how described what was going on at the time. 'Goldman was not the only firm that peddled these complex securities — known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.’s — and then made financial bets against them, called selling short in Wall Street parlance. Others that created similar securities and then bet they would fail, according to Wall Street traders, include and Morgan Stanley, as well as smaller firms like Tricadia Inc.'

Sylvain Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York, said at the time that he was by what Goldman was doing. 'The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen' #6 Goldman Sachs played a huge role in getting Greece, Italy and several other European nations into so much debt. The following is an excerpt from an article. In the same way that homeowners take out a second mortgage to pay off their credit card debt, Goldman Sachs and Chase and other U.S. Banks helped push government debt far into the future through the derivatives market.

This was done in Greece, Italy, and likely several other euro-zone countries as well. In several dozen deals in Europe, “banks provided cash upfront in return for government payments in the future, with those liabilities then left off the books.” Because the deals are not listed as loans, they are not listed as debt (liabilities), and so the true debt of Greece and other euro-zone countries was and likely to a large degree remains hidden. Greece effectively mortgaged its airports and highways to the major banks in order to get cash up-front and keep the loans off the books, classifying them as transactions. #7 Goldman Sachs is working very hard to help state and local governments sell off our highways, water treatment plants, libraries, parking meters, airports and power plants to the highest bidder. Much of the time foreigners are the highest bidders for these precious infrastructure assets.

The following is how described what is going on. On Wall Street, setting up and running “Infrastructure Funds” is big business, with over $140 billion run by such banks as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Australian infrastructure specialist. Goldman’s 2010 filing should give you some sense of the scope of the campaign. Goldman says it will be involved with “ownership and operation of public services, such as airports, toll roads and shipping ports, as well as power generation facilities, physical commodities and other commodities infrastructure components, both within and outside the United States.” While the bank sees increased opportunity in “distressed assets” (ie. Cities and states gone broke because of the financial crisis), the bank also recognizes “reputational concerns with the manner in which these assets are being operated or held.” #8 At the same time that Goldman Sachs is causing all sorts of trouble for everyone else, their employees are making crazy amounts of money. During 2010, employees of Goldman Sachs brought in in total compensation. #9 Goldman Sachs has way too much influence over the federal government.

There is a reason why it is commonly referred to as 'Government Sachs'. No matter who is the White House, people that used to work for Goldman and other big Wall Street banks always seem to be crawling around.

Last year, Michael Brenner about the composition of the Obama administration. Wall Street's takeover of the Obama administration is now complete. The mega-banks and their corporate allies control every economic policy position of consequence. Obama has moved rapidly since the November debacle to install business people where it counts most. Mr.William Daley from JP Morgan Chase as White House Chief of Staff. Gene Sperling from the Goldman Sachs payroll to be director of the National Economic Council. Eileen Rominger from Goldman Sachs named director of the SEC's Investment Management division.

Even the National Security Advisor, Thomas Donilon, was executive vice president for law and policy at the disgraced after serving as a corporate lobbyist with O'Melveny & Roberts. The keystone of the business friendly team was put in place on Friday. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt will serve as chair of the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. #10 Employees from Goldman Sachs pour way too much money into our national elections. In 2008, donations from individuals and organizations affiliated with Goldman Sachs donated to Barack Obama. This time around they are pouring huge amounts of cash.

#11 Goldman Sachs is still a 'vampire squid' as once so famously proclaimed. 'The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.'

Once again, there is nothing wrong with making money. And there is certainly nothing wrong with working in the financial system. But there is a right way to do things and there is a wrong way to do things. Goldman Sachs is doing things very much the wrong way, and America would be a better place without them.

Read more: OLDDOGS COMMENTS Remember this statement! The day will come when American’s will wonder why they did not demand a covert strike on the Investment Bankers, for if any human being deserves to die at the hand of justice it is these scumbags In the International Investment Banking Cartel.

They are directly responsible for more atrocities than anyone who has lived in the history of civilization. Roasting them in public is not enough pain to compensate for what they have done. Hitler, and Stalin were saints in comparison to them. Also read Bank of America Too Crooked to Fail at In a story that should be getting lots of attention, of J.P. Morgan Chase's credit card services division, relying on multiple current and former Chase employees. One of them, Linda Almonte, is a whistleblower whom I've known since last September; I'm working on a recount of her story for my next book. One of the things we were promised by the lawmakers who passed the Dodd-Frank reform bill a few years back is that this would be a new era for whistleblowers who come forward to tell the world about problems in our financial infrastructure.

This story now looms as a test case for that proposition. American Banker reporter Jeff Horwitz did an outstanding job in this story detailing the sweeping irregularities in-house at Chase, but his very thoroughness means the news may have ramifications for Linda, which is why I'm urging people to pay attention to this story in the upcoming weeks.

The Cliff's Notes version of the story goes something like this: Late in 2009, Chase's credit card services division sold a parcel of nearly $200 million worth of credit card judgments to a debt collector at a discount. This common practice in the credit-card industry is a little like a bookie selling the outstanding debts of his delinquent gamblers to a leg-breaker for 25 cents on the dollar. If the leg-breaker gets half the delinquents to pay, the deal works out for both sides — the bookie gets 25 percent of money he wasn't going to collect, and the leg-breaker makes a 100 percent profit. In the case of credit cards, of course, you're selling the debts to collection agents, not leg-breakers, but aside from that unpleasantly minor distinction the process is the same. The most valuable kinds of sales in this world are sales of credit card judgments, in other words accounts in which the debtor has already been successfully brought to court. That, ostensibly, is what this bloc of accounts Chase sold in 2009 involved. Almonte came to Chase in the summer of 2009 as a mid-level executive in the credit card services division's offices in San Antonio, and was quickly put in charge of preparing the documentation for this enormous sale of credit card judgments.

When Chase regional offices from places like southern California and Illinois began sending in the papers for these 'judgments,' Almonte very soon found out that something was seriously wrong. From Horwitz's piece: Nearly half of the files [Linda’s] team sampled were missing proofs of judgment or other essential information,. Even more worrisome, she alleged in her wrongful-termination suit, nearly a quarter of the files misstated how much the borrower owed.

In the 'vast majority' of those instances, the actual debt was 'lower that what Chase was representing,' her suit stated. Linda subsequently found an enormous range of errors. Some judgments, she told me, were not judgments at all. In some cases, she said, Chase actually owed the customer money.

When she brought these concerns to her superiors, what do you think their response was? They told her and others to shut up and just sell the stuff anyway. Her boss, Jason Lazinbat, allegedly told her 'she had better go along with the plan to sell the misrepresented asset.' Think of the consequences of this: because Chase was so anxious to make money off this debt sale, countless credit card borrowers would now have collection agents chasing them for money they did not owe. The debt-buyer, too, was victimized by being sold accounts it could not collect on. It is almost impossible to estimate how many man-hours of pointless court proceedings would be lost because of this decision. Anyway, when Linda refused to go along with the sale, she was fired.

This was in November of 2009. She then went through a post-firing odyssey that is an epic tale in itself: her many attempts to get any of the major bank regulators interested in this case were disturbingly fruitless for a long time (although the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is apparently looking into it now), and she struggled to find work in the industry. She has been repeatedly harassed and has gone through all sorts of personal hardship as a result of this incident.

She filed a whistleblower claim with the SEC as part of the new whistleblower program created by Dodd-Frank, but so far there's been no progress there. When I met Linda last year, my first reaction to her story was that I was skeptical. The tale she told went far beyond the bank knowingly selling millions of dollars worth of errors into the financial system. She also recounted, firsthand, the bank's elaborate robosigning operation, which Horvitz, talking to other Chase employees, also discussed: 'We did not verify a single one' of the affidavits attesting to the amounts Chase was seeking to collect, says Howard Hardin, who oversaw a team handling tens of thousands of Chase debt files in San Antonio. 'We were told [by superiors] 'We're in a hurry. Go ahead and sign them.' ' And there were other storiessuffice to say that the picture Linda painted of life inside Chase reminded me a little of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: they were putting just about everything into those sausages.

When I was writing it all up for my book I went through a period where I was waking up nights, seized with the urge to close every credit account I had – her story makes you think that most credit card companies are essentially indistinguishable from giant identity theft operations. Again, though, when I first heard the story, I was skeptical – until I found other people in the company who verified Almonte's account, all the way down the line. Horvitz, too, found numerous employees in Chase's credit card services division who confirmed the story of the company knowingly selling a mountain of errors into the market, and manufacturing robo-signed documents to the tune of thousands per week.

The financial crash wouldn't have happened if even a slim plurality of financial executives had done what Linda Almonte did, i.e. Simply refuse to sign off on a bogus transaction. If companies had merely upheld their own stated policies and stayed within the ballpark of the law, none of these messes could have accumulated: fraudulent mortgages wouldn't have been sold, families wouldn't have been foreclosed upon based on robo-signed documentation, investors wouldn't have been duped into buying huge packets of 'misrepresented assets.' But most executives didn't refuse to go along, precisely because powerful companies make it so hard on people who come forward. Almonte, after being fired, entered into a modest settlement with Chase that prohibited her from coming forward publicly.

At the time she entered into the settlement she was in an extremely desperate state, and she made a bad decision, taking a very bad deal. Still, like Jeffery Wygand, the tobacco scientist from the movie The Insider, she was sitting on top of a story that, morally speaking, should not ever be protected by a confidentiality agreement — and the subsequent lack of regulatory action eventually moved her to speak out to people like Horvitz and me. Of course, now that her story is out there in public, the concern is that the bank will move swiftly to take her to court.

This person does not have any money, so an action by Chase at this point would be purely punitive, to send a message to future whistleblowers. They'll be more likely to do it if they think no one is paying attention. I'll keep you posted on that score. In the meantime, please check out Horvitz's piece. It should give everyone who has a credit card pause. See it below.

OCC Probing JPMorgan Chase Credit Card Collections First in a series JPMorgan Chase & Co. Took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and former employees say. The process flaws sparked a regulatory probe by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and. The bank's errors could call into question the legitimacy of billions of dollars in outstanding claims against debtors and of legal judgments Chase has already won, current and former Chase employees say. For the banking industry at large, that shoddy back-office procedures and flawed legal work extends well beyond mortgage servicing. 'We did not verify a single one' of the affidavits attesting to the amounts Chase was seeking to collect, says Howard Hardin, who oversaw a team handling tens of thousands of Chase debt files in San Antonio.

'We were told [by superiors] 'We're in a hurry. Go ahead and sign them.' ' Hardin left the bank in 2010 to work in a different industry.

Chase declined repeated requests to discuss details of its consumer debt collection activities. Company documents, court filings, and interviews with seven current and former employees reveal that Chase's credit card litigation operation was allegedly plagued by unreliable external attorneys, management's disregard for accuracy, and patchy technology. The bank's computer systems frequently disagreed about how much debtors actually owed, several of the Chase sources say. The employees' stories corroborate allegations made by Linda Almonte, a former mid-level business process executive in Chase's San Antonio-based Credit Card Litigation Support Group. Dismissed in November 2009 after six months on the job, Almonte filed whistleblower complaints and a wrongful termination suit claiming that she was fired for objecting to the sale of credit card debts with erroneous balances. Almonte's complaints drew the attention of the OCC, former Chase employees say, and led to the of a formidable collections operation that generated several billion dollars of legal judgments every year. Few details of the OCC's investigation are available, but current and former Chase employees confirm that staffers from the agency's enforcement division spent two months gathering information in the San Antonio facility late last year.

A person familiar with the OCC's review says that the regulator is taking the situation very seriously. This is the first article in a series that will look at what allegedly went wrong in Chase's credit card litigation operation — and how those missteps could roil the banking and debt collection industries. 'Outhouse' Attorneys The root of Chase's card collections failures was more machine than man.

Chase maintains a patchwork of computer systems that don't always communicate well, according to former employees who used them. Meet TSYS, TCSF and RMS. TSYS is what outsiders assume a global bank's customer data system looks like. Licensed from Total Systems Services Inc.

And managed by Chase, it's the modern and versatile system that consumers ultimately talk to when they check their credit card balance online. TSYS only handles current accounts, however. When customers stop paying credit card bills, their accounts are passed to TCSF, for collections and litigation, and eventually to RMS for charge-offs. Each of Chase's systems handles its own tasks just fine. The problem employees faced is that TCSF and RMS can only talk to each other through TSYS, and each of the systems operates by its own rules.

This means that when presented with the question of how much a customer owes, each might spit out a different answer. 'I came across that on a regular basis,' says Carole McGinn, who retired in 2010 from the credit card litigation support group in San Antonio. The discrepancies were usually minor, she and three other employees say, but payments by heavily delinquent borrowers would throw the records seriously out of whack.

'There was no way to reconcile those balances that I knew of,' says McGinn, who worked at Chase for almost 15 years. To overcome this problem, Chase's business process staff reviewed records in multiple systems and reconciled the accounts manually. Chase's relationship with outside debt collectors posed another potential glitch. In populous states like California, Illinois and Florida, the bank employed in-house attorneys who were wired into all of its relevant computer systems.

Elsewhere, it relied on what credit card litigation staffers referred to as 'outhouse attorneys.' Paid according to how much money they recovered, the outsiders were connected only to TCSF, the litigation system. Former Chase employees say some of the firms, such as the Mann Bracken LLP, were known for poor recordkeeping. Chase's San Antonio crew was well versed in dealing with their computer systems' quirks and the outside firms' foibles. They adjusted accordingly, monitoring outside law firms for errors and stripping inaccurate charges from accounts. 'We made it work,' says a former employee.

'Everything in Dollars Collected' Things began to change in 2008, when Chase replaced the credit card division's San Antonio management, current and former Chase employees say. The bank installed Edmond Helaire as the San Antonio operations director, and he hired Jason Lazinbat as his No. Chase staffers who spoke with American Banker say they were never told the reason for the house-cleaning, but several speculate that the bank was looking to increase recoveries.

Even before the financial crisis made a shambles of consumers' finances, Chase's expanding credit card portfolio and growing propensity to sue for unpaid debts had dramatically increased the volume of cases it handled. At the beginning of the last decade, Chase recouped $130 million a year from bad consumer debt of all stripes.

By 2009, recoveries on credit cards alone exceeded $1.2 billion. Over the next two years, the bank would charge off more than $20 billion in credit card accounts. Litigation was the most profitable way to handle the bad debts.

Lazinbat was a Chase veteran with experience overseeing teams of debt collectors. He chafed at what he saw as the duplicative checks and balances that the old guard considered essential to ensuring the numbers were accurate, former employees say. Lazinbat 'measured everything in terms of number of dollars collected,' says a former Chase employee who requested anonymity.

'He did not understand that in the process world, that's not what you look. That's not the metric.' Chase spokesman Paul Hartwick responded to messages left for Lazinbat, who declined to comment. Rank-and-file staff began complaining about orders to take shortcuts as part of the broader culture clash, current and former employees say.

The conflict ended when Lazinbat and Helaire terminated several key mid-level officials in 2008 and early 2009, employees say. 'Documents Were Trashed' One of the replacements brought in was Linda Almonte, a congenitally upbeat former Washington Mutual process execution manager who gets excited about Six Sigma quality control. By the time of Almonte's May 2009 arrival, the rapidly expanding portfolio of delinquent accounts and the quirks in Chase's systems had produced serious problems, she and others say. The outside attorneys were one flashpoint. The records the law firms used to sue people sometimes differed from Chase's own files at an alarming rate, prepared by Almonte and later submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some law firms' records disagreed with Chase's in almost 20% of cases sampled, a rate far above what is regarded as an acceptable level of errors. 'That's horrendous,' says a former Chase attorney who was informed of the numbers by American Banker.

The outsiders' lack of access to TSYS was one weakness. Another was that the law firms' recovery-based pay encouraged slapdash work, says the former attorney and other former Chase employees.

'They did not make a meaningful review of what they had,' the attorney says. The staff of the Credit Card Litigation Support Group grappled with quality control and how to ascertain that customers did, in fact, owe the company money. In one Chase email, Almonte suggested to Lazinbat that the bank should negotiate with delinquent customers before suing them. Doing so, she wrote, would 'weed out additional accounts that were settled or payments made that are not showing up in the system.' Other things were falling through the cracks. Borrower correspondence sent to the San Antonio facility, such as bankruptcy notifications, address changes, and hardship requests were being dropped on an unmanned desk, according to a 2009 printout from Chase's troubleshooting log. 'There is no existing process in place that states what action should take place when this correspondence is received,' submitted by an employee.

(The emails and internal records cited in this story are pulled from Almonte's whistleblower complaints. While Chase has declined to discuss them, former employees attested to the documentation's apparent legitimacy.) Documents weren't simply misplaced: Chase shredded incoming correspondence such as records of borrower payments and counter-judgments extinguishing debts, Almonte alleged in her wrongful termination suit. While none of the people who spoke with American Bankerwitnessed this, McGinn says she also heard colleagues acknowledge that some correspondence had been destroyed. 'I understand there were documents trashed, yes,' she says.

McGinn retired from the San Antonio facility in June of 2010 after she says she became uneasy with how it was being managed. 'My mouth was going to get me in more trouble than I could live with,' McGinn says. Three Signers, Billions in Debt Former Chase employees say they used to consider the mass production of affidavits by document signers to be at most a technical concern. This is because quality control staff traditionally vetted the files thoroughly for bankruptcies, identity theft, and errors before passing the documents to signers. But given their growing concerns about possible errors in underlying collections and litigation records, these procedural issues began to seem substantive. One of Chase's most prolific affidavit signers was Ruben Alcaraz, one of three San Antonio liaisons with the in-house collections attorneys, court filings indicate. By law, collection affidavits require the signer to be familiar with the bank's pertinent records.

(The failure to follow similar procedures in the mortgage market is what created the industry's foreclosure robosigning problems.) 'Based upon my review of the Plaintiff's books and records of Defendant's account(s), I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth in the attached pleading,'. 'This verification is made subject to the penalties of [Pennsylvania law] relating to unsworn falsification to authorities.' Numerous former employees say that Alcaraz and his colleagues rarely if ever reviewed such files. They routinely signed stacks of affidavits on flights and in meetings, which in some cases were attended by Helaire, Lazinbat and Chase compliance staffers.

Nobody objected, Almonte and others say. Alcaraz also describes himself in the court documents as an 'officer of the bank' and an 'Assistant Treasurer.' High-level Chase management had instructed the staff to stop signing documents using such titles around the middle of the last decade, four Chase sources say. But Lazinbat ordered them to do it anyway.

An operator for Chase's internal switchboard identified Alcaraz as a 'business analyst.' 'Hardly, if ever, was anything verified,'.

'There was constant complaining by the Attorney Liaisons about having to manually sign these affidavits they always questioned why they could not have them digitally signed in bulk.' 'Each and every one of those [affidavits] should have been manually checked,' says Hardin, framing the issue as one of basic quality control. 'There was a lot of need for diligence, and sometimes that just didn't happen.' A message left for Alcaraz was returned by Chase spokesman Hartwick, who said that Alcaraz declined to comment. 'A Huge Cleanup' Almonte says she initially limited her criticism of Chase's operations to pushing internally for improvements.

'I have a lot of areas where the ball was dropped and now we have a huge cleanup,' she wrote in an email to Lazinbat in October 2009. While Almonte says her relationship with Helaire and Lazinbat was initially excellent, it fell apart when she began questioning how the bank was handling the sale of $200 million of legal judgments to an outside debt collection company. Nearly half of the files her team sampled were missing proofs of judgment or other essential information,. Even more worrisome, she alleged in her wrongful-termination suit, nearly a quarter of the files misstated how much the borrower owed. In the 'vast majority' of those instances, the actual debt was 'lower that what Chase was representing,' her suit stated. Among the files Chase was selling, Almonte said, were former Providian Financial Corp debts that had previously belonged to the failed Washington Mutual.

(JPMorgan acquired Wamu's assets from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. In 2008.) The Providian files had been labeled with a code that that the credit card litigation group used to signal 'toxic waste,' she says. Another person familiar with the files confirmed that the Providian accounts were commonly referred to with that term. The debt had long been considered unreliable and lacked documentation.

It was never supposed to be sold, this person says. A review of state court records shows that second-hand debt buyers are suing people who allegedly owe money on the Chase-Wamu-Providian accounts, however. Informed that the files have surfaced in court, the former Chase employee who confirmed the files' 'toxic' status was appalled. 'That's crazy,' the person says. 'I can't believe they [Chase officials] did that.' Almonte called for the bank to halt the debt sale, but was warned by Lazinbat that 'she had better go along with the plan to sell the misrepresented asset,'.

Almonte says she refused Lazinbat's order and escalated her concerns to his boss, Helaire. Chase fired her on Nov. Carole McGinn was not a party to discussions about the debt sale but confirms the thrust of Almonte's claims.

'I know she [Almonte] was looking into things that they didn't want her looking into,' McGinn says. The following March, Almonte filed her wrongful termination suit. First reported by the, the case brought Chase's alleged problems into public view. 'This is not an accident anymore,' Almonte now says.

'The same people who created this problem at Chase are still in charge. They aren't going to fix it unless they're forced to.' NEXT: Almonte sues. The OCC gets interested. Chase fires in-house collections attorneys and the reliability of its judgments comes into question.

OLDDOGS COMMENTS DON'T BE A FOOL, USE YOUR LOCAL CREDIT UNION. PART 1 AND 2 By Publius Huldah March 14, 2012 NewsWithViews.com [The Proposed Tennessee Resolutions of 2012] Proposed by Publius Huldah 1. Resolved, That the States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to the federal government; but that, with the Constitution for the United States, they established a federal government for limited purposes only. That they delegated to this federal government only limited and enumerated powers; and reserved, each State to itself, all remaining powers, along with the right to their own self-government. That whenever the federal government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

That to these Principles, each State agreed as a State, and as the Parties to the Constitution. That the federal government is not a party to the Constitution, but is merely the creature of the Constitution; and as the mere creature, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it; since that would have made the creature’s will, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers. That as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each State has an equal right to judge for itself as to whether the creature has committed infractions, and as to the mode and measure of redress. Resolved, That Art. 2, of the Constitution of The State of Tennessee acknowledges the Principle that the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States ordained and established a Federation of Sovereign States which united only for THE LIMITED PURPOSES enumerated in the Constitution: national defense, international commerce and relations; and domestically the creation of an uniform commercial system: Weights & measures, patents & copyrights, a monetary system based on gold & silver, bankruptcy laws, and mail delivery. That the 10th Amendment to the Constitution also declares that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” That nowhere in the Constitution of the United States was any power granted to Congress to make laws respecting agriculture, farming operations, labor and employment, or children and families; and that nowhere in the Constitution are powers over these matters prohibited to the States.

These matters are altogether outside the scope of powers delegated to the federal government. Therefore, power over these matters is reserved solely and exclusively to the respective States and THE PEOPLE, each within its or their own territory.

Resolved, That Art. 1 of the Constitution of the United States provides that all legislative Powers granted by that Constitution are vested in CONGRESS; therefore, Departments within the Executive Branch are forbidden to make any “rules” or “laws” of general application whatsoever. That administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Labor, one of the Executive Departments of the federal government, set forth at 29 CFR Part 570, and which pretend to regulate child labor throughout the several States; are altogether void, and of no force, as in violation of Art.

1, of the federal Constitution. Resolved, That child laborers, including agricultural workers and children who work on family and other farms, are under the jurisdiction and protection of the Constitution and laws of the State wherein they are; that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”; the rules of the federal Department of Labor set forth at 29 CFR Part 570, which assume powers not delegated by the federal Constitution over child laborers, including agricultural workers and children who work on family and other farms, is not “law”, but is altogether void, and of no force. Resolved, That since children and their parents or employers are under the protection of the State Constitution and laws of the State where they are; in cases of any violations of the Laws of such State, they are entitled to have their cases handled by the duly convened Courts of such State.

That transferring power of defining, prosecuting, and judging any such violations from the three branches of the State Governments to bureaucrats within one of the federal executive departments, is altogether unlawful and an intolerable usurpation of power. Resolved, That the misconstructions long and unlawfully applied by the federal government to the so-called “taxing”, “general welfare”, “interstate commerce”, and “necessary and proper” clauses, to the effect that these clauses bestow unlimited powers on the federal government, goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to their powers by the federal Constitution. That the true and genuine meaning of those clauses is as follows: a) The “taxing” and “general welfare” clauses: Art. 8, cl.1, employs “general terms” which are “immediately” followed by the “enumeration of particular powers” which “explain and qualify”, by a “recital of particulars”, the general terms. It is “error” to focus on the “general expressions” and disregard “the specifications which ascertain and limit their import”; thus, to argue that the general expression provides “an unlimited power” is “an absurdity” (Federalist Paper No.

41, last 4 paras). The federal Constitution declares that “the power of Congressshall extend to certain enumerated cases. This specification of particularsexcludes all pretension to a general legislative authority, because an affirmative grant of special powers would be absurd, as well as useless, if a general authority was intended” (Federalist No.

83, 7th para). B) The “interstate commerce” clause: “Commerce” is the buying and selling of goods – only that and nothing more. Webster’s American Dictionary (1828) says “commerce” is: an interchange or mutual change of goods, wares, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals by barter, or by purchase and sale; trade; traffick inland commerceis the trade in the exchange of commodities between citizens of the same nation or state. Federalist No. 22 (4th para), Federalist No.

42 (9th &10th paras), Federalist No. 44 (at 2.), and Federalist No. 56 (5th & 6th paras), explain the two purposes of the “interstate commerce” clause: (1) to prohibit the States from imposing tolls and tariffs on articles of import and export – goods & commodities – merchandize – as they are transported through the States for purposes of buying and selling; and (2) to permit the federal government to impose duties on imports and exports, both inland and abroad. Article I, Sec.

8, cl.1; Art. 5 & 6; and Art. I, Sec.10, cls. 2 & 3, of the federal Constitution give express effect to these two purposes of the “interstate commerce” clause. C) The “necessary and proper” clause: This clause merely delegates to Congress the power to pass laws necessary and proper to execute its declared powers (Federalist No.

29, 4th para); a power to do something must be a power to pass all laws necessary and proper for the execution of that power (Federalist No. 33, 3rd para); “the constitutional operation of the intended government would be precisely the same if [this clause] were entirely obliterated as if [it] were repeated in every article” (No. 33, 2nd para); and thus the clause is “perfectly harmless”, a “tautology or redundancy” (No. 33, 3rd para).

Madison writes to the same effect in (Federalist No. The clause merely permits the execution of powers already delegated and enumerated in the federal Constitution. No additional substantive powers are granted by this clause. That contrary to the misconstructions long and unlawfully applied by the federal government, the federal Constitution is one of enumerated powers only: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people (Federalist No.

45, 9th para) the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignity over all other objects.(Federalist No. 39, 3rd para from end) the general [federal] government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws.

Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects (Federalist No. 14, 8th para) It merits particular attention that the laws of the Confederacy [those made by Congress], as to the ENUMERATED and LEGITIMATE objects of its jurisdiction, will become the SUPREME LAW of the landThus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members [the States], will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS[caps are Hamilton’s] (Federalist No. 27, last para). That The Federalist Papers – and not the U.S. Supreme Court – is the highest authority and evidence “of the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the US.

On questions as to it’s genuine meaning”. The supreme Court is merely a creature of the Constitution and is completely subject to its terms; and when judges on that and lower federal courts – who serve during “good Behaviour” only (Art. 1) – usurp powers, they must be impeached and removed from office (Federalist No. 81, 8th para). Resolved, That to take from the States all the powers of self-government and to transfer all powers to a general and consolidated national government, in defiance of the Constitution which was ordained and established by THE PEOPLE, is not for the peace, happiness or prosperity of THE PEOPLE. Therefore this State is determined to refuse to submit to undelegated powers exercised over them by the federal government; and rejects altogether the notion that the federal government may exercise unlimited powers over them. That in cases of an abuse of the delegated (enumerated) powers, the members of the federal government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy.

But, where powers are usurped which have not been delegated to the federal government – when the federal government acts outside of, and in defiance of, the federal Constitution by exercising powers not delegated to it by that Constitution; then a nullification of the unlawful act is the rightful remedy. Thus every State has a natural right – which pre-dates & pre-exists the federal Constitution – to nullify of their own authority all such lawless assumptions of power within the boundaries of their State. That without this pre-existing natural and original right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whoever in the federal government chooses to exercise tyrannical powers over them. The States alone are The Parties to the compact; and thus are solely authorized to judge in the last resort of the powers exercised under it.

Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch are not parties to the contract; but are merely the creatures of the compact (Federalist No. 33, 5th para). As mere creatures, they may exercise no powers other than those enumerated powers specifically delegated to them.

PART 2 of 2 9. Resolved, That matters pertaining to “labor”, “employment”, “farms”, “children” and their employers or parents, are nowhere delegated to the federal government by the federal Constitution; but are among the countless multitudes of matters reserved to the States or THE PEOPLE. Therefore, the federal Department of Labor is itself an unlawful department, and its mere existence an affront to the Constitution; and all of the powers it exercises are usurped powers as outside the scope of the powers delegated to the federal government by our Constitution. Goetsch By promoting an entitlement mentality, liberals in Congress and the White House are sowing the seeds of America’s destruction.

Because of an ever-growing list of social programs, subsidies, and entitlements, more than half of all Americans now look to the government for at least a portion of their sustenance. As a result, many American’s have come to view government as the solution to their problems rather than the cause of them. The principles of limited government that undergirded Ronald Reagan’s Republican Revolution are being steadily undermined by the seductive allure of government handouts. This dangerously misguided trend promotes an entitlement mentality in a country that has long been known for its positive work ethic. The entitlement mentality, in turn, encourages the growth of government and the cycle continues, creating a downward spiral toward disaster. America became an economic superpower not by accident, chance, or luck but because it was established with a free-market economy and people who thrived in an environment of economic freedom. These two pillars of America’s economic success—a free-market economy and economic freedom—hold the key for reversing America’s descent into insolvency.

The only contributions to an economic recovery needed from government are: 1) get out of the way, 2) get out of the pockets of Americans, and 3) stop over-regulating businesses and the lives of American citizens. Sharp reductions in spending, taxation, and regulation will do for America’s economy what the government can never do: unleash the power of the free market, encourage entrepreneurship, and reinvigorate America’s work ethic. After decades of prosperity, America’s economy is being undermined by a rapidly mutating government that devours initiative, drive, innovation, and the capital needed to seed an economic recovery. Too many Americans have bought into the increasingly discredited philosophy of the left that the government is the answer to all problems. No one exemplifies this misguided philosophy more than Maxine Waters, the Democrat Congresswoman from California. During the height of the budget reduction debate in August and September 2011, Waters indulged in a flight of fantasy and proposed increasing government spending rather than cutting it. What is ironic about the tax-and-spend philosophy of the left as exemplified by Maxine Waters and President Obama is that not only do they fail to understand economics they don’t even know their own history.

The worst tax-and-spend Democrat before Barack Obama was Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ). But even LBJ knew that cutting taxes was the best way to stimulate a weak economy. In his book, American Business, 1920-2000: How it Worked, Thomas McGraw wrote this about LBJ: “Johnson continued Kennedy’s efforts to use aggressive tax policies to stimulate the economy. The Revenue Act of 1964 cut taxes by $11.6 billion–$9.2 billion for individuals and $2.4 billion for corporations. In anticipation of more money flowing into the economy, businesses increased their inventory levels. As personal incomes swelled, consumer spending increased, and by 1965, the U.S. Gross national product had expanded by over 25 percent During the same period, industrial production increased by 27 percent, and corporate profits grew by 64 percent.

The prosperity resulted in the unemployment rate’s dipping below 4 percent in 1966—a rate not seen since 1953.” In spite of evidence like this that is readily available from the history of their own party, President Obama, Maxine Waters, and their fellow liberals continue to view the solution to America’s economic problems as spend, spend, and spend some more. In spite of the demonstrated failure of the hugely expensive stimulus bills, Obama, Waters, and their colleagues on the left still propose that Congress stop shooting the American economy in the foot and start shooting it in the head. All that this kind of thinking has brought America is an entitlement mentality that will make it increasingly difficult to do what is necessary to bring about an economic recovery. World Central Banks will Dump Their U S Dollar Reserves! Greece Now in Default, Portugal, Hungary & Spain are NEXT! World Central Banks will Dump Their U.S. Dollar Reserves!

And The Petrodollar will be Eliminated! Petrodollars are U.S. Dollar deposits made in western banks for oil transactions.

Almost Every Country in the World Must Buy U.S. Dollars to purchase Oil. Dollar to Oil peg, a rtificially keeps the Dollar Alive.

(1973 -1979)-The U.S. ' Persuade' oil producing nations to sell their oil in Petrodollars ONLY.

Plus, the treaty mandated nations who accepted payment in Petrodollars to 'invest' their profits in U.S. Treasury notes, bond and bills. In return, the U.S. Would protect them from Russia and any other nation that could cause harm to their oil fields. A Sweet Deal for the U.S., that`s coming to an END! Oil producing nations are not happy, the current Fed Fund Rate is near Zero; treasuries are paying near Zero. Plus, the U.S.

Dollar is being Massed produced at an alarming rate, it`s now seen as a liability, not an asset. When the Oil to U.S. Dollar peg is broken, the artificial demand for dollars will end. Dollar will End! On January 14th, senior diplomats of both Iran and Russia announced they have Replaced dollars in their Oil trade with India, Japan and China. Demand for the U.S. Dollars is diminishing daily!

President Obama is Only adding to the Imminent Collapse of Our Money, on November 28th, during the annual summit between the U.S. & Europe, President Obama announced: 'The U.S. Is ready to do our part to help Europe solve its problems' On November 30th, officials revealed the joint venture between the Swiss National Bank, European Central Bank, Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Japan and the U.S.

Federal Reserve. The Plan is to Dump Trillions of U.S.

Dollars in the Hands of Weak European Banks. The March 9th Greek default, leaves Greek banks 'holding the Billion dollar bag'. President Obama and the Federal Reserve will Bailout European Banks with Tax Payer Dollars! All participating Central Banks will Dump their U.S. Dollar Reserves, in an effort to keep banks like Barclays, Deutsche Bank and others afloat. One key factor in this joint venture, the Only Currency being dumped in the Open Market, will be the U.S. Trillions of U.S.

Dollars held and kept out of circulation by Central Banks, will Now Flood the Currency Markets. Greece has 14.5 Billion in outstanding debt, due on March 20th. The Greek government has no money to pay it, the outstanding debt will be auctioned off on March 9, 2012.

The final blow could come from the IMF. On January 18th, the IMF announced it`s prepared to 'Infuse' $600 Billion Dollars in the Open Market for the European Crisis. The IMF dumped 18 Billion dollars, immediately after the Greek default was announced, that`s on top of the 10 billion infused weeks earlier. Dollar Dumping Scheme will take place through the 'U.S. Dollar Swap Line', an Over The Counter (OTC) Currency Market. Dollar Swap Line was specially designed after the 2008 financial scare, the sole purpose of this market is for 'Emergency Infusion' of Liquidity.

The International Swap & Derivatives Association (ISDA), said Friday March 9th the Greek default will trigger a 'Credit Event'. Guess What Happens to the Value of Your Savings, when Central Banks Dump their U.S. Dollar Reserves? Do you remember the 2008 'credit default' bailout?

Guess who`s 'On the Hook' for the Money, the Obama Administration will give European Banks? Yes, Americans will get hit two ways: 1.) Higher Taxes, someone has to pay it! 2.) Higher Costs of Living Food & Energy are traded Against U.S. Dollars; adding Trillions of Dollars in the open market will devalue the U.S. Dollar, instantly! IF You`re NOT Concerned You Should Be!

The Greek 'Chapter XVIII' will be held on March 19, 2012! It gets worse! The S&P recently Downgraded 15 Major Banks, such as: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase. Based Banks were: Barclays, HSBC, UBS, RaboBank and others. Even Australia`s 'Big Four' banks have been hit with downgrades. If that wasn`t Bad Enough, on January 13th, the S&P Downgraded 9 European Countries, not banks. Countries are officially downgraded, this has Never been done before! All Major European Countries and All Major Banks, in the U.S.

& Europe are in Trouble! The Central Banks of Canada, Switzerland, England and Japan have joined forces to Bailout Banks in Europe; the Federal Reserve and the IMF will Bailout Countries in Europe. Do you 'Smell' A Major Financial Crisis? The Obama Administration, the Treasury and Federal Reserve, sure do! Federal officials are ' urging' U.S.

Banks to recapitalize Money Market Accounts- officials say they`re in ' Systemic Risk'. For Many Years, U.S. Banks were taking American`s money overseas, they paid U.S. Depositors 1%–1.25% on money market accounts, while depositing those funds in European Banks at an average yield of 4.75% – 5.75%. Good returns with Low Risk so they thought! Again, If you`re not concerned, You Should Be!

About 50% of all money market funds-$1.6 Trillion are in European Banks. How Real is the Collapse of the European Financial System? The head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) told the UK`s biggest lenders to ' draw up contingency plans for the collapse of the single currency'. Andrew Bailey, a senior executive at the FSA, said: ' We must not ignore the prospect of the disorderly departure of some countries from the Eurozone'. When will the Financial Collapse Begin? We could be days away! Greece was the first 'Domino' to fall; the financial Cancer will spread quickly!

Negotiations between the Greek government and private holders of Greek Debt, shutdown after investors refused a proposed 50% 'voluntary' haircut. On Friday March 9th, it was announced, some Greek bond holders will now take a 74% loss. The Greek 1 year Bond yield 397%, before the default. The new Greek Bond that will mature 2042, is set to open at 17-23%. The EU rate (FED Fund rate equivalent) is set a 3.25%, a 23% Greek bond rate means, there`s High risk of more Greek losses. How will A Financial Collapse in Europe affect your Money? Remember, the Old Saying, ' When the U.S.

Catches a cold, the world catches a Fever'. The New statement is: ' When the Banking System catches a cold The World catches a Fever' Today, All World Financial Markets, are One In The Same! THINK ABOUT IT. The above mentioned Central Banks, the Federal Reserve and the IMF, would Not be joining forces and preparing for a financial Catastrophe. If they didn`t already Know One was Coming!

The World`s Financial System, lives on Borrowing & Lending of Money If the System Fails, The World Fails! The question is What Have You Done to Protect Your Wealth? Gold is a Safe Haven, Gold rose against All major currencies, immediately after Friday`s Greek Default. This is the First Major default of a Nation since, WWII. For Years, you`ve heard that China has Stocked-piled Gold to Prepare for a Financial Crisis.

They are now One of the World`s Largest Holders of Gold. & European Banks were being Downgraded by S&P, the Bank of China, China Construction Bank and other China Based Banks, were Upgraded! Educate yourself, on the Process of Owning Gold, Before The Next Financial Crisis! NOTE: Read the words from an immigrant, who came to America as a young man, made his fortune as a Mechanical Engineer, and is watching his 'land of opportunity' crumble before his eyes he knows the truth and he cares about this nation more than most natural born citizens could ever do. Learn from him.share this article.

Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences Freelance Investigative Science Reporter Game-over! Not copyrighted, may be distributed Dr. Krieg: 03.05.12 Let me start by clearly articulating that just like Andrew Breitbart, I am in excellent health, just 30 years older, and I don’t anticipate death at least for ten more years. But, then, of course, neither did Andrew. Strange things have been taking place in the last few months. Scientists disappearing, bankers, and I mean mega bank mangers have been quitting all over the world.

Many columnists not toting the PC mantra are being forced from view, Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC, and judge Andrew Napolitano was fired from FOX, I have taken to carrying a gun everywhere. The political left was always vicious and without morals or scruples but this is getting perilous. Leftist icons like SPLC are behind an orchestrated national movement, more exactly, a conspiracy, to silence opposition, demonize opponents and through the process of linkage, falsely accuse that someone is affiliated with a nationally accepted as evil racist organization. Engine Serial Number Lookup Chevy. Everyone that the SPLC dislikes, for whatever grounds, will find the words and phrases; nazi, skinhead, White Supremacist, Aryan Nation, or other such attached to their bios, Wikipedia accounts, all over the Internet are under relentless attacks. Why does SPLC do that? Because they have very successfully suckered 600,000 American contributors and our government bureaucrats to give them money and allowing the SPLC officers, Morris Dees a salary of $297,509.00, Richard Cohen $ 274,838,00 and Joseph Levin $171,904.00 to become multi-millionaires. They did give to the poor $ 837,907.00 of their over $ 216 + million purse.

Regardless lets take a closer look at what is happening to America. For 100 years since the passage of the 16th and 17th amendments to the constitution, banksters and their congressional associates have been systematically debasing our money and looting the treasury. Additionally they have since 1913 caused one market depression after another enriching themselves and their politician cronies in the process. As a consequence, America is rapidly becoming a two-class society, as was the norm in the Middle Ages.

Today the dollar in terms of 1913 value has been reduced by 98%. Because of Cultural Maxims and the fact that close to 80% of college professors are either communists or socialist and the lame stream media is 95% leftist, exposure of these events remains unreported. Education in which we were 4th in the world in 1970 before Jimmy Carters Department of Education, has succeeded in reducing us to number 34 in the world; this “Dumbing Down” has reduced the number of citizens even able to grasp the significance of these events to those over 65. Reported in my local “Fishwrap”, 45% of the American population is illiterate. This is the first reason that the middle class is disappearing. The second reason also unreported and most likely unknown in Lame stream is a huge systemic statistical change in American business.

This change which has been brought on by “Free Trade” and monumental over regulation of business by government, is destroying small and family owned businesses at alarming rates. More Americans are employees of large multinational corporations than ever before in our history, graphs indicate that this trend is accelerating exponentially.

Employees are far less interested in liberty, freedom, and economic sovereignty than employers. If you don’t believe this is planned then you had better reconsider.

I want to pound this into your head. The Obama administration has done its job in one term, who gets elected in 2012 is irrelevant, the economic and finacial situation is beyond repair. Obama’s FRS bankster handlers have so far overextended our debt that it is simply impossible to repay it. I also want to make it perfectly clear that the Republicans are just as responsible because they acquiesced to Obama’s masters, and because “Greenspan” started it in the George W.

Bush administration and Bernanke continued it under Obama. As I have been saying it is a “System” and I call it the “Republocrat System”, there-being only one political party, the Republocrats. This has been a long and arduous process by which the Marxists succeeded in destroying the greatest nation ever conceived by man. In the last four years our freedoms, both economic as well as social have been totally destroyed. You might want to read the communist manifesto and its ten points, six having been enacted already three are halfway there and one is waiting in the wings. Besides financial freedom, as above, social freedom has also been destroyed. Our Constitution is so grossly violated by all three agencies of government Executive, Legislative and Judicial as to make the Constitution and Bill of Right irrelevant.

The passage of the American Patriot Act that was re-passed in 2011 stripped from all citizens the Habeas Corpus provision that previously forced the government to allow one to face our accuser in open court and has been part of English common law for 700 years, it is no longer applicable. The Bill of Rights has been stripped of the first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth amendments. They then in 2012 passed NDAA has removed the Posse Comitatus laws that were enacted in 1879 after the civil war and the abuses of reconstruction. The newly enacted laws allows the use of America’s military to be employed in the arrest and detention or murder of American Citizens, without a warrant, without a known accuser, without any evidence whatsoever simply on the words of a secret court, some bureaucrat, or the president. It further allows indefinite detention without trial, torture, and secret arrest. Then in the week of March 1, 2012 congress struck again with passage of HR 347 (The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement act of 2011) this law makes it a federal crime, with imprisonment of at least one year for any “unauthorized” (You) person to remain or be in a building or the grounds of –where the Secret Service is present.

No more of those pesky demonstrations at Republocrat conventions, or when the president gives another one of his endorsement speeches to the illegal AIPAC convention. And this just in, the executive (Obama) has ordered the IRS to hold up applications for Tea Party organizations to obtain 501 (c) (4) tax-exempt status. Some have been waiting for 12 months. So we see by these acts that the elites have finally, after over 100 years succeeded and will now proceed at full speed, to the implementation of the New World Order that they have been promising us for the last five decades.

Remember Bushes thousand points of light? I can’t even recall how many of our forefathers clearly warned us about the banksters and how they were more dangerous to America than a standing army. Or how the price of freedom was eternal vigilance. On the financial side, money is being created through the addition of zeros at the end of the operating financial statements of each of the twelve FRS banks.

This is not just a crime it is a crime against the nation and every one of its citizens. They are through inflating the dollar, systematically looting the nations wealth and destroying the middle class in the process. Inflation will top 30% in 2013 and will be higher in 2013. Inflation for 2009 was 9.8% for 2010 10% for 2011 12.5% and will in 2012 reach way over 15%. In just the last 3-½ year of the Obama administration, the banksters have debased the dollar by half.

There simply is no way to walk this back and the only way forward is massive inflation. All of this administrations advisors, Czars, and cabinet members, are either Marxists, communists, or Fabian socialists and that includes the economists. People like the Grey Lady’s Paul Klugman et al.

All this was accelerated in 1944 with the passage of the monitory Keynesian (Fabian) financial system as introduced by pervert Lord Keynes as the economic system based on fiat non backed paper money. Along the way Nixon helped by making the dollar not convertible to gold, and then in 2010 the FRS announced in March that they would no longer report the M-3 money supply, which ended our ability to gage the value of the dollar. The entire Austrian school of economics was opposed to the Bretton Woods conference, but Lord Keynes and his troop of homosexuals including US participants, communist Harry Dexter White, radical Zionist Morgenthau prevailed. Fiat money backed by nothing is now the rule of the day in every nation of the world. Trade, in which America was world leader in exports after WWII has seen our star fall below the horizon. As of 2011 the United States has a trade deficit of $470,200,00,000.

According to the CIA world Fact-book we have the distinction of being number 197 among listed nations, (last) the 25% deficit we had in the 60’s grew to 30% by 1972 and is today unknown (unreliable government statistics) but certainly over 40% of GDP. Even Paul Klugman should be able to understand that no nation can survive if it produces decade after decade of deficit trade numbers. (Importing more than we export) The $420.2 billion deficit must be added to the expanding to $17 trillion Obama deficit, oh well, what’s another half trillion? Our loss with just Mexico that was a $5.7 billion annual surplus 12 years ago has now with NAFTA grown to an accumulated total of over $ 800 billions, or about $64 billion per year. There are three basic issues confronting us: 1) Monitory, financial 2) Social communal 3) Military expansionism. Monitory & Financial A simple change back to the gold standard would be nice, but its not going to happen. The ever-entrenched Ponzigoniff banksters control the entire world’s money supply and most of the hard assets.

They are simply not going to; short of a violent revolution, allow nations to re-exercise their Constitutional National Rights over the issuance and control of the means of exchange or to take back the monies stolen from the people over that last 100 years. Besides that, reverting to gold standard will do nothing for our outstanding debt. They will inflate the dollar until it is next to worthless and then re-pay outstanding debt with worthless fiat.

Take note; all you Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, T-bond, Savings bond and T-bill holders. America will at some point, in the not too distant future, be faced with the total collapse of our dollar. Individual citizens will become forced to revert to barter, or if they have it, hard asset (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, etc as exchange means. The situation is no better in the EU whose member states can boast deficits about parallel with ours. The problem is not national it is international.

Due to this there is very little alternative for individual citizens. How you deal with this dilemma largely is dictated by where you live and what your planned lifestyle is to be. Remaining under the government radar would be a prime objective; the alternative is to be part of a movement of sufficient power to keep government at bay. A3P is such a growing movement.

You must have an ample hard asset backing to survive at least for five years. I would include a one year supply of food and the mechanical ability to purify water. Social & Communal If anything, with the advent of PC (Cultural Marxism) as widely used in media, government and academia freedom of expression has become stilted.

Socially America is in far worse a position than financially. Morals and ethics are considered anachronisms of the 19th century. Today’s citizen does not even have a clear understanding of what honesty is. Our children in public schools have been shown unable to understand that cheating is wrong. Pornography is now one of the largest industries in America, so large in fact that the first legal act when we took over Iraq was to make pornography legal. I’m not kidding, pornography is a larger industry than GM and GE combined.

When I started in business in the 50’s there were almost no contracts, all sales and transfers of title were done on a handshake, none violated their word because doing so put you on a list ending your business career. Today led by government and Wall Street and largely influenced by Jews and shysters honest businessmen are laughed at as being stupid for not taking advantage of their fellow man. With the free trade inspired destruction of small and family business and massive inheritance taxes, all this is accelerating rapidly. Military expansionism The effort by the elites to create one world governance through the use of America’s military has been rapidly growing since the Bushes but has grown even faster under Obama.

America has become Israel’s bitch in caring out not American foreign policy, but Israeli foreign policy. Senator toadies like McCain, Levin, Liberman, Feinstein, Boxer, Sanders, Schumer and all those other AIPAC puppets have ensured the prominence of Israeli interest above those of America and Americans. If this not be treason, then name another word for it! Anyone daring to oppose this (Dr. Congressman Ron Paul) is demonized by the Zionist owned Lamestream media sparing no effort to intimidate, slander, or marginalize any possible opponent. These military efforts on behalf of a mini-state in the Middle East have created scores of enemies to America in a region in which before 1948 we did not have a single enemy. Military adventurism forced upon us by 47 congressional zionists and their friends, Chritian zionists (Hagee) are at the cusp of financially destroying this nation.

Our national problem is a totally corrupted system of government, which came into its own after passage of the 17th amendment that removed from the individual, states the power to select their senators. Allowing senators to be elected by popular vote simply increased the people’s voice at the expense of individual states. At the same time the 16th amendment provided the banksters power over our national finances, at the elimination of congressional power or oversight. Since 1913 no one and nothing has overseen what these crooks are doing to our finances. The Fed has never been audited by anyone or anything. The FRS is a private corporation as reported in the NY Times in September 23 rd 1914. For a more detailed discussion of these maters go to my site.

Or respond to me via secure e-mail at my off-shore site I also recommend reading: Money a primer; July 4th 2016 The Last Independence Day; Our Political Systems And coming later this month: A3P’s book “Our Vision for America” which I coauthored with Merlin Miller the A3P candidate for president.

Contents • • • • • • Server • GoDaddy announced a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service. The new service benefits from the Bitnami partnership for applications. GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrars and shared hosting providers, is jumping into the cloud market with a new OpenStack-powered public cloud service. • Not even VMware invaded the data center as quickly as open source container supplier Docker has in its first three years.

In an interview with InformationWeek, CEO Ben Golub offers his vision for the future. • Kernel Space • Earlier today, March 22, 2016, kernel developer Zefan Li had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of a new maintenance release for the stable, long-term supported Linux 3.4 kernel branch. • The portability of the util-linux package is not our primary goal, but in many cases port code to the another libc or another operation system (if possible) is a way how to detect code disadvantages, obsolete functions etc. V2.28 is possible to compile on OSX and improved has been also support for kFreeBSD and GNU Hurd (of course you cannot compile Linux specific stuff, but build-system is smart enough to automatically disable utils irrelevant for your OS). • We are a little more than half-way through the Linux 4.6 kernel merge window so here’s a quick look at the new changes and features that have made it into the code-base for this next major kernel release. • Graphics Stack • • • • Benchmarks • While still working on some AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Linux driver benchmarks using AMD’s new hybrid driver with Vulkan support, for your viewing pleasure this morning are some benchmarks comparing the new AMD GPU-PRO driver with its binary OpenGL driver against the pure open-source driver stack with the Ubuntu 16.04 AMDGPU driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D from Mesa 11.2 + LLVM 3.8.

• Applications • This Perl (core) module provides a variety of functions and tools for manipulating ANSI color and text style escape sequences. • This is a minor bug fix release of the Perl POD translators for text and man pages. It fixes a warning about use of uninitialized variables when run on a Perl module in the current directory, cleans up a confusing warning during the Perl core build, and fixes a long-standing bug in turning off italic font in =item tags in a C block. • Instructionals/Technical • • • • • • • • • • • • Wine or Emulation • Today, March 21, 2016, the Wine Staging team has announced the release and immediate availability for download of Wine Staging 1.9.6, based on the recently released Wine 1.9.6 development snapshot. • The Wine-Staging 1.9.6 release adds an experimental Vulkan wrapper for running Vulkan Windows binaries on Linux. • CodeWeavers got their Wine-based CrossOver software running on Android, but before getting too excited, it’s x86 Android. • Games • • • • But there is something weird about these figures.

For a start it does not include Steam’s own Linux based operating system as being Linux. In 2013, Valve announced there were over 65 million SteamOS users around the world. In February 2015, Valve announced there were over 125 million active SteamOS users worldwide. [.] According to Gaming on Linux the figures are pants and Linux use amongst gamers is healthy. In fact there should be between 160 – 190 million accounts as of March 2016. • Desktop Environments/WMs • GNOME Desktop/GTK • The highly anticipated GNOME 3.20 desktop environment is about to be released in a couple of days, and we can’t help but notice that many of its core components and apps are being updated these days to version 3.20.0.

• We did it again, the Igalia WebKit team is pleased to announce a new stable release of WebKitGTK+, with a bunch of bugs fixed, some new API bits and many other improvements. I’m going to talk here about some of the most important changes, but as usual you have more information in the NEWS file. • One of the new nice features of Maps 3.20 is the ability of loading map layers in GeoJSON, KML, and GPX formats. • GTK+ 3.20 was released on Monday as the toolkit empowering the GNOME 3.20 desktop release this week. GTK+ 3.20 brings much-improved Wayland support, a lot of CSS canges, support for reading.XCompose files, support for using native file choosers on Windows, a high contrast inverse theme, and a variety of other changes. • • New Releases • The developers behind the OpenELEC Linux operating system for embedded device designed to act as a media center, have announced the release of the first Beta build of OpenELEC 7.0.

• Arch Family • Today, March 22, 2016, the Manjaro development team proudly announced the general availability of a new stable update for the Manjaro Linux 15.12 (Capella) computer operating system. With today’s update, Manjaro Linux 15.12 users will receive the recently released Linux 4.5 kernel, along with the KDE Applications 15.12.3 software suite for the KDE Plasma 5.5.5 desktop environment, and of course, updates to many of the core components and applications.

• Red Hat Family • Some people call patience a virtue. To me, it’s the single toughest lesson I had to learn when joining an open organization. It dawned on me recently in the middle of a class discussion with a group of MBA students at North Carolina State University. When I visited their classroom a few weeks ago to chat about their assigned reading, The Open Organization, I was overwhelmed (but also overjoyed!) by the number of insightful questions the students posed during my short time with them.

But one in particular stuck with me long after I left. “What was the hardest thing you had to learn,” one student asked me, “when you started working at Red Hat?” • • • • Fedora • Google Summer of Code is a yearly program ran by Google that focuses on bringing more students into open source software development.

Students work with an open source organization over a three month period during their break from school. Google has a more comprehensive break-down of how the program works on their website.

Fedora is happy to announce that for the tenth year, we are participating in Google Summer of Code 2016. • Debian Family •.