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  • Obama Fires Inspector General

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      Obama fires Gerald Walpin for "no" reason. He was just doing his job investigating AmeriCorps money that went to a community group called St. HOPE Academy, which was founded by Kevin Johnson, former point guard of the Phoenix Suns, who was elected Mayor of Sacramento last November, and who just happens to be a buddy of Obama's. Does it not seem strange that Obama would fire someone who was investigating a friend of his?

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      Anyone who paid attention to the election last year knows what is happening; it's called Chicago politics at its finest. And it seems that Obama is a pro at it. Does Obama think that he can get away with something like this? The answer is yes. The fact of the matter is that any President can get away with anything up to and including murder, if the news media does not cover it, or they bury it in the back pages.

      But all is not lost, I do see hope for the future. I feel that the stucco façade that surrounds Obama is beginning to crack, and that soon chunks of it will begin to fall off, which will expose Obama for what he truly is, which is an imposter, a fake, a charlatan. It will be at this time that the news media will begin to smell blood, and they will rush to investigate the imposter so as to look as if they were on the job from the beginning; they will not want to be left holding the bag.

      Now here's part of a hack piece by ABC News. The comments are better than the article.
      jbranstetter04


      Political Punch

      Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper

      President Obama Fires Controversial Inspector General

      With little public notice, President Obama Thursday fired the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Gerald Walpin.
      Saying he was exercising my power as president, Mr. Obama suspended Walpin with pay, saying his termination would be effective 30 days from now.
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      Obama fires Inspector General - Politically motivated and illegal?

      When President Bush fired a handful of U.S. Attorneys in 2006, all of which were appointed by him and "serve at the pleasure of the President," the cries of "political corruption" from the newly Democrat-controlled Senate could be heard across America.
      Today, President Obama has terminated a government inspector general, possibly in violation of laws established to prevent the same kind of political influence Bush was accused of using.
      Gerald Walpin, whose job it was to review grants awarded by AmeriCorps and its parent agency, the Corporation for National and Community Service, had discovered improprioties involving a charity headed up by the Mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson. According to his investigation, Mr. Johnson's "St. HOPE Academy" had misappropriated nearly $1 million by using money to pay volunteers for political activities, run personal errands and even wash his car.
      Mayor Johnson is a huge supporter of Barack Obama's, and this link between the two of them gives every appearence of political payback, not to mention the possibility of serious illegalities by the President.

      Why did the White House act so quickly to fire Gerald Walpin and attempt to discredit him with allegations of senility?  Until now, it appeared that the Obama administration got angry with Walpin for publicly opposing a settlement with Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson on allegations of fraud in handling federal funds that would have allowed Johnson to continue to receive such funds.  Now, however, the Washington Examiner reports that a Congressional inquiry has discovered that Johnson may have used that money to pay off women accusing him of sexual harassment — and that Walpin had gotten too close to the truth:

      In the spring of 2008, Walpin’s office received a tip that Johnson had misused AmeriCorps money. Walpin sent two investigators to Sacramento to check the story out. They discovered that money had in fact been misused, and also learned of the allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct by Johnson.

      In August 2008, at the time Walpin referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney, he also presented the evidence of misuse of federal money to officials at the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps. In September 2008, those officials barred Johnson from receiving any more federal money.

      All this was happening as Johnson was running for mayor of Sacramento, a race he won in November 2008. Johnson’s suspension from receiving federal money became a hot issue in early 2009 after Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus bill. Many people in Sacramento worried that the city would not be able to get its share of that money if the mayor was banned from receiving federal dollars. …

      The new report strongly suggests that Walpin was in fact fired because of the dispute over St. Hope and concludes that the White House “orchestrated an after-the-fact smear campaign to justify” Walpin’s dismissal.

      The report says the allegations of sexual misconduct and a cover-up “provide important context for Walpin’s insistence that the St. Hope matter should not have been settled without further inquiry.” In light of those allegations, the report says, complaints that Walpin was being too aggressive seem unfounded. “The content of the referral tends to undermine any notion that the [inspector general's] investigation was driven by inappropriate motives on the part of Walpin,” the report says. “Rather, it appears to have been driven by non-political, career investigators simply following the facts.”

      Who allegedly arranged for the transfer of hush money? In one of the stranger twists in an already strange story, Johnson’s fiancee Michelle Rhee — better known now as the head of the Washington DC school district:

      At the time, Rhee was on the board of St. Hope. A former St. Hope employee who reported one of the allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct by Johnson told Walpin’s investigators that Rhee “learned of the allegations and played the role of a fixer, doing ‘damage control,’” the congressional report says.

      The employee told investigators that Rhee told her that “she was making this her number one priority, and she would take care of the situation.” A short time later, the employee learned that the girl who had complained about Johnson had received a visit from Johnson’s personal attorney.

      The congressional report quotes the girl as saying the attorney “basically asked me to keep quiet,” and Johnson offered her $1,000 a month for the duration of her time with St. Hope. Once investigators learned about that, the report says, they had “reasonable suspicions about potential hush

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  • Dallas Black Dance Theatre Beh

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      The Dallas Black Dance Theatre takes you Behind the Scenes for their annual holiday noontime performances, November 23-25, 2009 at the Dallas Black Dance Theatre's studios, located at 2700 Flora Street.

      Behind the Scenes provides an intimate setting between dancers and patrons to learn more about upcoming Dallas Black Dance Theatre performances and to get to know all four performing ensembles.

      Performance times are 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. and are free to the community.  Seating is lim

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  • The Huge Mistake - Climate Cha

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      Here is the controversial video that the government has ordered to be taken down and censor these EPA employees from free speech.. They have over 20 years experience and made this video. Exposing the scam of Cap n' Trade..

      The HUGE MISTAKE....

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNQzSjb38g

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  • ID Theft Press Release

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      PRESS RELEASE

      CONTACT:  Lawrence (Larry) E. Wilson (214) 412-5970 or (214) 743-0451

      Web:  www.identitytheftvictims.us or www.identitytheft-victims-support-group-of-north-america.org

      E-Mail:  identitytheftvictims@identitytheftvictims.us

      Date:  November 17, 2009

      HEADLINE:  Does Your Christmas Shopping Habits Make You Prone To Be A “Victim of Identity Theft” This Christmas Season?

       Are You Prepared to Fight “Identity Thieves” this Christmas Season?  You better get ready!

       

      Plano, Tx. – We are just ten days away from “Black Friday”, which everyone knows is the start of the Christmas shopping frenzy for 2009.  While you are busy making your list and checking it twice, “Identity Thieves” are also preparing their shopping list for Christmas.  The difference between you and the “Identity Thieves” is their shopping spree will be done with your check books, credit cards and debit cards.  They will end up with the presents and you will end up with the bills, the financial losses and no gifts under the tree.

       

      You will get stuck with the headaches of trying to recover your money back from the credit card companies or the banks.  In many cases you will be treated like “The Thief” rather than “The Victim”.  In the meantime, your Christmas season for 2009, has turned into a “Financial Nightmare”.  Unfortunately, this nightmare can last long after the Christmas season is over and in some cases, you could be fighting this crime till next Christmas.

       

      Do you think this scenario is farfetched?  Do you think it couldn’t happen to you?

       

      Identity Theft has been the number one white collar crime for the last eight years in America.  Because of the “Financial Meltdown on Wall Street and Main Street” in 2008 (approx. 10 million ID Theft Victims), the number of “Identity Theft Victims” for 2009 could surpass fifteen million victims.  Business and Consumer losses due to “Identity Theft” in 2009 are estimated to be between SIXTY and SEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS ($60,000,000,000).  That is a whole lot of zeroes that we all will be paying for next year with higher prices.  Don’t be looking for a bailout from Washington on this one.  They are part of the reason why we have this mess.

       

      Since November 2008, our organization has received approximately twelve hundred phone calls or E-Mails from victims all over the country.  This doesn’t include the more than sixty thousand visitors we have had on our web site this past year.

       

      Besides the cases involving stolen credit cards, debit cards and checking account information, we have received numerous inquiries concerning skimming and security breaches from these victims.  One victim had her name, address and driver’s license number stolen by a “Identity Theft Check Fraud Ring” in Texas and the thieves wrote over sixty thousand dollars in fraudulent checks against her.  The thieves didn’t have her bank account information, but her driver’s license number led investigators back to her.  She ended up with three arrest warrants for check fraud against her.  It took our organization a month to clear up the matter with the authorities.

       

      This is why our organization is launching our “National Awareness and Educational Seminar Series” entitled, “Identity Theft, The Financial Raping of America” in North Texas on Monday Evening, November 23rd, 2009 under this new affiliation.  This seminar will be held at the Holiday Inn Select Richardson, 1655 North Central Expressway, Richardson, TX.  Seminar times will be from 7:00 P.M to 9:30 P.M.  Registration desk will be open at 6:00 P.M. for seminar check-ins.  Please bring a copy of your on-line registration invoice to expedite check-in.

       

      In order to give everyone attending an early Christmas gift, we have suspended our customary seminar fees of forty dollars ($40.00) for this seminar.  This two and-a-half hour Pre-Christmas Special of our "ID Theft Awareness & Educational Seminars" is being offered at an On-Line administrative price of $20.00 (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, and Discover).  Please register early because seats are limited.  You don’t want to miss this seminar!

       

      This will be the only seminar we will be hosting for the 2009 Christmas season.  Due to limited seating (250 seats), reservations are on a first-come; first serve basis and registration for this seminar will only be available through our on-line shopping cart.  You can go to our web site or click on this PDF link:  FLYER for Special ID Theft Seminar Nov 23 2009.pdf  to see full details on seminar.  

       

      You can also click on this link on our welcome page "Identity Theft Seminars & Workshops" and click on seminar picture for access to our online shopping cart.

       

       

      This seminar is a must for “Victims of Identity Theft” because seventy-three percent (73.0%) of all “ID Theft Victims” never file a police report (Source:  Federal Trade Commission, 2008).  Once “ID Thieves” have your information, they will use it over and over again to turn your life into a “Financial Nightmare”.  Come learn the secrets the banks and credit card companies don’t want you to know.  Remember, ID Theft is now striking one new victim every two or three seconds since the “Wall Street Meltdown” of 2008.  Don’t let your 2009 Christmas season be spoiled by “Identity Thieves”.  

       

      The National Organization for Victims Assistance (NOVA) has launched this “National Identity Theft Task Force” to address the issues of identity theft that face every American consumer daily.  We are proud to announce we have been chosen for NOVA’s New National Identity Theft Task Force.  Please go to the links below to see all recent news stories concerning our organization:

       

      http://vip.businessprnews.com/

       

      http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS141032+05-Oct-2009+BW20091005

       

      Our organization was recently honored for our work with “Victims of Identity Theft” in North Texas by being selected as one of “Sean Hannity’s Great Americans” on WBAP Radio 820 AM (Hal Jay Morning Show) during the week of June 29th to July 4th, 2009 in Dallas.  We have also appeared on the “Leslie Taylor Hare Show” which was featured on Access 34.TV web site, September 10, 2009 to a worldwide audience.

      We would like to thank everyone for their support.  Your continued support is still needed so we can reach both victims and non-victims all across America.

       

      Remember, “Identity Theft Is No Longer Someone Else’s Problem, It Is Everyone’s Problem”.  “Identity Theft Education is Not Free”, just ask 60 million plus “Victims of Identity Theft” what their tuition cost was at the “University of Identity Thieves”.

       

      Warm Regards and God Bless America,

       

      Lawrence (Larry) E. Wilson

      Founder & Executive Director

      Identity Theft Victims Support Group of North America

      Identity Theft Victims Support Group of North Texas

      Identity Theft Victims U.S.

       

      www.identitytheftvictims.us

      Phone:  214-412-5970 or 214-743-0451

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  • Barack Obama Called: He Wants

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      Remember those $400.00 and $800.00 tax credits Barack Obama gave you in his stimulus plan? And remember that $250.00 gift he gave social security recipients?

      Well, Obama decided he wants them back. Yep. According to the IRS, Obama has never asked for an adjustment of the tax tables, so millions of Americans are going to get taxed for having received the tax credits back in February — typically through adjustments the federal government demanded businesses make in employees’ withholdings.

      “While implementing a credit through reduced withholding is an effective way to provide economic stimulus evenly throughout the year, it is difficult to account for everyone’s circumstances,” said J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. “More than 10 percent of all taxpayers who file individual tax returns for 2009 could owe additional taxes.”

      The tax credit is also available for 2010. Russell said the problems will continue in 2010 if they are not resolved

       

      WASHINGTON — More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit.

      Taxpayers are at risk if they have more than one job, are married and both spouses work, or receive Social Security benefits while also earning taxable wages, according to a report Monday by the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.

      The tax credit, which is supposed to pay individuals up to $400 and couples up to $800, was President Barack Obama's signature tax break in the massive stimulus package enacted in February.

      Most workers started receiving the credit through small increases in their paychecks in April. The tax credit was made available through new withholding tables issued by the Internal Revenue Service.

      The withholding tables, however do not take into account taxpayers with multiple jobs or married couples in which both people work. They also don't take into account Social Security recipients with jobs that provided taxable income.

      The Social Security Administration sent out $250 payments to more than 50 million retirees in the spring as part of the economic stimulus package. The payments were meant to provide a boost for people who didn't' qualify for the tax credit.

      However, they went to many retirees who also received the credit. Those retirees will have the $250 payment deducted from their tax credit — but not until they file their tax returns next year, long after the money may have been spent.

      "While implementing a credit through reduced withholding is an effective way to provide economic stimulus evenly throughout the year, it is difficult to account for everyone's circumstances," said J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. "More than 10 percent of all taxpayers who file individual tax returns for 2009 could owe additional taxes."

      The tax credit is also available for 2010. Russell said the problems will continue in 2010 if they are not resolved.

      The credit pays workers 6.2 percent of their earned income, up to a maximum of $400 for individuals and $800 for married couples who file jointly. Individuals making more than $95,000 and couples making more than $190,000 are ineligible.

      "Making Work Pay was designed to deliver much needed boosts to the paychecks of 95 percent of all working Americans," said Nayyera Haq, a Treasury Department spokeswoman. "Since enactment, more than 110 million families have benefited from as much as $60 in additional take home pay each month to put toward their family budgets, serving as a steady boost to spending and consumption."

      For many, the new tax tables will simply mean smaller-than-expected tax refunds next year. The average tax refund this year was about $2,800.

      The IRS, in a response to the audit, advised taxpayers to check their withholding throughout the year to make sure they don't get hit with an unexpected tax bill.

      "The withholding system must approximate the tax liability of tens of millions of Americans, and therefore, cannot be tailored precisely to fit every individual situation," Richard Byrd Jr., commissioner of the IRS' wage and investments division, wrote in the agency's response to the report.

      (This version CORRECTS Corrects average refund amount to $2,800 sted $3,000; UPDATES with administration response. Moving on general news and financial services.)

      http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkep0UU55rYxFXyIKMRy9Zv0Oo-wD9C0NVV81

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  • Breast Cancer Survivor

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      Due to American Cancer Society ads, I started doing breast self-exams when I was 35. The third month, I found a lump. My doctor said I was too young to worry about it. I thought about the American Cancer Society ads about mammograms.  I went to a different doctor, got a mammogram. I had cancer. Since I had early diagnosis, I did not have chemo. I did have a mastectomy. That has been 30 years ago.

      I had no history of breast cancer in my family. I had two small daughters who I wanted to live long enough to raise. Now I have six wonderful grandchildren. My husband and I are proud to be event chairs for the 2010 Southwest Missouri Cattle Barons’ Ball to raise money for the American Cancer Society. August 2009 was our inaugural Southwest Missouri Cattle Barons’ Ball and we raised $502,000. Our goal this year is $750,000. I hate to think that much of that money may have to be used to try and get us where we were years ago.    

      The new guidelines are just wrong and I think just rationing of health care. I am just sick about it. All the talk about false positives and how it upsets women is malarkey!!! Trust me, I’d rather have and unjustified scare than a missed cancer diagnosis.

       

      Karen Martin

      Springfield, Missouri

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  • Side Two of the Story?

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      And now, for the rest of the story... I'm not Paul Harvey so I'll just throw this out here for your enjoyment,

      Was the Ford Hood massacre a White Psyop?

      U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan Pictures, Images and Photos

       This was sent to us by a South American reader(Hat tip : Blanko). Was this the result of a lone wolf or something far more sinister? While this act should be condemned , we must also remember that those who orchestrated 9/11, lied about Iraq(resulting in the deaths of over 1.3 million of its citizens) cannot be trusted to speak the truth. The following article raises some very interesting points. In what one Russian Military Analyst (jokingly?) speculated could possibly be a “very sick” way of publicizing a new American movie opening this week about the US Pentagons decades long experiments in mind-control technology (“The Men Who Stare At Goats”), has instead, according to these reports, resulted in a tragic massacre of at least 13 US Soldiers preparing for deployment to the Iraq war from the giant US military base of Fort Hood, Texas. From Western propaganda news media reports on this massacre the American people are being told that a US Army Military Trained Psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan [photo top left], became despondent over his recently receiving orders to deploy to Iraq and in “typical” lone gunman fashion “decided” to open fire on hundreds of his fellow soldiers killing and wounding them without discrimination. Completing the “new legend” (in almost record time too) about this “lone gunman” being made responsible for this massacre, the Western propaganda machines are reporting such idiocies as Major Hasan having previously “complained to relatives of harassment by fellow-officers mocking him for being Middle Eastern” (Major Hasan’s parents came from small Palestinian town near Jerusalem) and his “attracting the attention of police six months ago for internet postings analyzing the motives of suicide bombers that was not formally investigated”. Interesting to note in these reports, however, about Major Hasan is his past psychiatric training, paid for by the US Military, at Virginia Tech University where he graduated from that schools Center for Applied Behavior Systems with a degree in biochemistry, a school which FSB reports have long warned “is most likely” one of the US Department of Defenses top PSYOP training centers and where in April, 2007, it suffered the worst school massacre in US history when a Chinese student named Seung-Hui Cho, reported to be a subject to mind-control experiments, single-handedly gunned down 32 fellow students. Even more interesting to note is that from the initial chaotic scene of the Fort Hood massacre not just the wounded Major Hanson taking into custody, but so were three other “alleged” gunmen, two of whom were released leaving one, at last report, still in US Army custody. Now to understand the circumstances that placed Major Hasan at Fort Hood in the first place one has to understand that he was one of the US Militaries top PSYOP specialists and had received his medical degree, with honors, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2001, and did his internship at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Major Hasan then became one of the top researchers at the US Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in the field this US Military funded organization stated was: “Center scientists are actively engaged in studies of military deployment, combat stress and the mental health of active duty, Guard and Reserve and veterans. This research helps military command (leaders, physicians and mental health providers) mitigate, respond to and foster recovery from the consequences of war and other military extreme environments that can occur in combat, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance. In addition, a primary focus of the Center is conducting studies of the impact of deployment on servicemen and women and their families. This research includes surveillance of psychiatric problems among battle injured soldiers, and measuring the psychological effect of treating severely injured and disfigured soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan on health care providers at institutions like Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center.” [Note: The US Military has completely removed the website of their Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress organization early on the morning of 6 November 2009] From his position at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Major Hasan became one of the originators of what is called the US Army’s “Warrior Combat Reset Program” set up to help American soldiers returning from war zones, or being redeployed to them, cope with what is called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and which according to these reports led to his being at Fort Hood to “electronically prepare” an experimental group of US Soldiers for their return to the Iraq war zone. Important to be understood about these reports is their detailing that nearly all of the US Military Forces are suffering what is termed a “catastrophic” level of stress disorders, murders, rapes and suicides so bad that American commanders are now warning that the readiness of their forces in is danger of “outright collapse”, and which is no wonder being that in just three short months this will become the longest war in US history. Making the recycling of these battle hardened US Soldiers (to keep killing and dying for reasons they don’t even know about anymore) even more crucial are new American Military reports stating that over one-third of “Americans ages 17-24 are unqualified for military service because of physical and medical issues.” So to yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, and Major Hasan’s “true role” in it, we need to turn to a little known, but extremely shocking case filed in the United States this past spring by a San Francisco lawyer named Gordon Erspamer and alleging: “That [US] government scientists conducted human experiments at Edgewood is not in question. “The program involved testing of nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes, psychochemicals, and irritants,” according to a 1994 General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) report (PDF). At least 7,800 US servicemen served “as laboratory rats or guinea pigs” at Edgewood, alleges Erspamer’s complaint, filed in January in a federal district court in California. The Department of Veterans Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of chemical and biological substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman, sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World War I-era blister agents like phosgene and mustard. The full scope of the tests, however, may never be known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the agency’s infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, “The names of those involved in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the records were subsequently destroyed.” Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and other psychochemical drugs “were administered to an undetermined number of people without their knowledge.” And among these “experiments” conducted on US Soldiers by their government, and according to FSB files was a “research specialty” of Major Hasan’s, one was one called Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control Electronic Dissolution of Memory (RHIC-EDOM) which was pioneered for the US Military in the 1960’s by New York University Professor J. Anthony Deutsch who…“indicated that the mind is a transmitter and if too much information is received, like too many vehicles on a crowded freeway, the brain ceases to transmit. The Professor indicated that an excess of acetyl choline in the brain can interfere with the memory process and control. He indicated excess amounts of acetyl choline can be artificially produced, through both the administration of drugs or through the use of radio waves. The process is called Electronic Dissolution of Memory (EDOM). The memory transmission can be stopped for as long as the radio signal continues.” So strong was the American Military and Intelligence establishments’ belief that only by “erasing” the previous “battle stained” memories of their Soldiers could they be made to continue killing and dying that in 2007 they contracted with Russia’s Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow to purchase a system called Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology (SSRM Tek) which is a software-based mind reader that tests a subject’s involuntary response to subliminal messages and which was used by the Soviet Military on Russian troops being redeployed to Afghanistan. Unfortunately for the Americans, and who were undoubtedly warned by their Russian counterparts about this, the previous Soviet experiments using SSRM Tek software combined with RHIC-EDOM technology had a very dangerous side-effect of “triggering immediate battle memories” instead of “erasing” them and resulting in masses of Russian troops who were undergoing these experiments to “erupt” in “immediate violence” which left an estimated 37 of them dead when they began (for no apparent reason) to begin firing upon each other.

      In the United States today 13 American Soldiers lie dead, and many more are wounded leaving countless numbers of wives, children, fathers and mothers to mourn over their seemingly senseless killing. But, like the events of 9/11, the assassinations of their President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King have shown us, these Americans have been well schooled in seeing only what they are told to see when tragedies like these, and Fort Hood now, occur. Sometimes the childlike stories concocted by their propaganda masters to explain these horrific events are enough to placate the American people, but one has to wonder when at least some of them will wake up to the stark and brutal truth about what is happening to them. One can only wonder if these Americans had demanded the truth before if these Soldiers were massacred would still be alive? That is not in our knowing. But what is in our knowing is this, before they awaken from their long slumber these Americans can expect many more such deaths. We’re sure their propaganda organs are up to the task.

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  • Sat. November 14th 2009 HPW's

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      You have been officially invited to High Performance World's 1st annual Open House Day & Car Show.

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  • Obama Continues Mad Dash towar

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      By Sher Zieve  Thursday, November 12, 2009

      Like Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez on steroids, US Dictator-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama and his Marxist-Democrat Party are continuing their fast and furious drive to enslave We-the-People and take over as the aristocratic ruling body of the former United States of America.

      Behind the scene and closed doors, Obama is continuing his dark mission of the ongoing takeover of all major US businesses and creating an atmosphere that will disallow small to medium sized businesses to exist.  And, like his Marxist mentor Saul Alinsky, Obama despises the middle-class (they have traditionally wielded too much power for Obama to allow) as well as the USA.  Therefore, Obama will continue to work towards ensuring increasing unemployment of this class so that they/we no longer have any strength at all. 

      Other than being a pro-Obama government-funded worker or an ObamaCzar working for his or her master, virtually no jobs have been or will be created by the Obama pretender to the throne.  The country’s unemployment now stands at the state-run media figure of 10.2%.  However, the real figure for those out of work nationally—even according to the leftist NY Times—is 17.5%.  This is the highest unemployment figure since the Great Depression and there appears to be nothing to stop the tyrant from forcing it even higher.  It is being affected on purpose by an individual and his political cronies whose mission was and is to destroy the USA by gutting its money and resources (placing it in their own and their friends’ pockets), removing the US Constitution by refusing to follow it, doing away with the freedoms inherent in the Bill of Rights, removing the companies that produce jobs so that the middle-class can no longer find work (thus making it dependent on the whims of the ObamaGov), removing the rights of humans to their own bodies and decision making with the Machiavellian ObamaCare, making it impossible to survive (except to go back to living in grass huts or caves) via Obama’s Cap and Trade proposal and, overall, removing the American way of life and placing its citizens into permanent bondage. 

      On top of it all, he seems to be pushing for the deaths of even more US soldiers in Afghanistan (and further demoralizing our troops) by refusing to do anything to either win in or remove our troops.  Obama is also, more and more of late, praising his Muslim religion and those who practice it.  After Islamic jihadist (and of all things a US Army officer) Nidal Malik Hasan summarily slaughtered 13 soldiers, wounded 38 more and yelled Allahu Akbar (meaning “God is greater [than your God]”) Obama said in no more than an aside “don’t jump to conclusions.”  Huh?  There is only one conclusion possible—if one follows the rules of both logic and common sense.  Hasan is a terrorist.  He had also had conversations with an Al Qaeda leader.  And to rub salt into an already infected American wound, Obama had already appointed two devout Muslims to posts in US Homeland Security and regularly praises Ramadan while asking that a Christian cross be covered when he spoke at Georgetown University.  Muslims do not like either Judaism or Christianity.  In fact, they are taught by the Quran to both hate and kill Jews and Christians.  And one thing they have been excellent at for hundreds is years, however, is slavery. 

      Are you still convinced that We-the-People can handle this takeover of everything that is [was?] American can be done peacefully?  And how many US judges does Obama now control?

      http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/16788

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      Texas Traffic Ticket Death Sentence

      No person shall ever be imprisoned for debt. Texas Constitution Article I Section 18

      A tragic death in Tarrant County highlights the need to reform Texas traffic ticket laws.

      Ten days into serving her sentence at the Tarrant County Jail, a Fort Worth woman died.

      Police say Adrienne Lemons was serving time for unpaid traffic tickets. The 35-year-old was rushed to John Peter Smith Hospital on June 13, where she later died. Lemons leaves behind a 3-year-old child.

      Lemons' family said she was not receiving the medication she needed for a serious medical condition.

       

      In Texas traffic tickets do not contain jail as a possible punishment. No judge can sentence a traffic ticket defendant to any period of jail time. Nevertheless thousands of Texans are jailed annualy over traffic violations. How is this possible?

      Two ways. The first is when a defendant does not appear at this traffic ticket court date and a failure to appear/warrant is issued. Second, failing to pay fines can lead to a warrant for the payment of those fines.

      These unjust policies reflect the truth about Texas traffic enforcement. Tickets are taxes and local government will incarcerate to maximize revenue. Talk about public safety is good PR. However, the truth is that county jails in Texas have become debtors prisons, and our police are human repo men for local governments.

      Like other unjust policies this has a disparate impact on the poor. Ticket defendants who can not afford an attorney or the prohibitive ticket fines have no choice but to "sit out" their fines in the county jail.

      Contradictory Supreme Court rulings allow Texas police to arrest for traffic offenses, and allows the State to deny court appointed counsel to the indigent.

      Texas needs to reform this system before another innocent person dies in jail. First, we need to end the practice of incarceration for failure to pay ticket fines. We do not allow the government to incarcerate for failure to pay other taxes (property, sales etc) why should ticket taxes be different. Texas already has the ability to suspend your driver's license for non payment.

      Second, if Texans decide that some traffic offenses (driving with no license etc) should require jail time as a possible punishment the we need to require court appointed counsel in those cases.

      Such a system would have prevented Ms. Lemon's death, and prevented the fake ticket scandal in Dallas. Government greed has already cost one life. No one should be imprisoned for debt. Traffic tickets should not be a death sentence.

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      Robert, I'm usually 100% in agreement with you, but this time I'm not so sure. If you take away the possibility of jail time, what incentive is there for someone to pay a traffic ticket? I think that the number of unlicensed and/or uninsured motorists out there indicates that for a substantial portion of the population, just suspending their drivers license isn't much of a motivator.

      Great questions.

      If Texas wants incarceration for tickets, then we must have court appointed counsel available. Otherwise, it's a corrupt money grab.

      Uninsured motorists/unlicensed drivers are a huge problem in Texas. If Texans want to arrest for those offenses then we should grant indigent defense.

      So maybe my new stance is
      1. 95% of traffic offenses should have no arrest capability, even for failure to pay.
      2. If you want to arrest for no DL/no insurance- then provide court appointed counsel.

      Great points. Thanks for reading.

      It is always a problem when money and government get together. As you state, "traffic tickets are a huge source of revenue for local governments"

      That is the fundamental problem. If there was no incentive for the government to raise money this way, traffic laws would be much more sensible.

      In Indonesia, the neither the military nor the police are fully funded by taxes, and are expected to provide ways of funding themselves. This leads to huge corruption because they effectively run two protection rackets to raise the money.

      Should we be promoting this type of corruption in the United States by allowing local jurisdictions to keep the money from fines? If you reduce the maximum fine you remove the incentive for people not to break the law. But if you remove the monetary benefit of the fines from the local jurisdictions, you eliminate the abuse.

      Constitutional a blog covering 2nd Amendment Issues, Big Government and the Nanny State.

      What can we do to be heard? That is horrible what happened to the young lady. I want to help.

      Ms. Cook,

      What to do? That is a tough question. First, I would contact my state rep and let them know you want the system reformed.

      Second, share this post with others so we can spread the word about this injustice.

      Thanks for reading,

      RG

      This was my daughter-in-law. She was not perfect but she did not deserve this. Maybe the deputies or jailers could not give out meds BUT they are responsible to get her medical attention. She did hand over three prescription bottles when she entered their care.

      This is the reason why I fear the police more than the criminals. I have lived overseas in socialist countries and experienced the fear of knowing the police, prosecutors and judges have all the power, guns and colorable authority to destroy your life. No wonder so many wealthy educated Americans are permanently emigrating to other countries to get away from the creeping fascism here.

      I am one of those in debt from Washington state thanks to traffic laws there I got pulled over and ticketed I face 90 days in jail and 1000 dollars in fines for driving while suspended I had a legal license for 10 years and only 2 of it was for Washington state I never received any infractions in any other states I was licensed. I left the state and live elsewhere now I still have a pending traffic court date, but I'll be damned if I am going to spend another dime on those leeches and do 90 days in jail for a paperwork offense. I served the jail time for the DUI offense and got behind on the money owed. I worked my entire time living in that state paying the ridiculous mandatory insurance rates, starving to death, sleeping in my car so I could raise the funds to get out of debt so I could get it reinstated. So I bought a bus ticket and left, no way in hell should I get a longer jail sentence for being broke compared to the original offense. I did the 1 day minimum in jail on a first offense for a DUI before that my record was great for 9 years, the minimum jail for driving while suspended is ten days in Washington and they don't care for what reason either you could have an unpaid speeding ticket and thats what it will get you.

      I hope the Lemons family sues and get the ball rolling on all the deaths in Tarrant County, In Aug of 2003, we lost an Uncle in Tarrant County Greenbay jail under odd circumstances, my grandmother was able to see Danny by a video on the 3rd day of his death. She got to see him only in transport from one van to another going to the funeral home. They even done his makeup and cut his hair for know extra charge at the morgue. The funny thing is a jailer posing as inmates writes several letters saying Danny was a good man and died in his sleep, about 15 inmates in all, it was handwriting analyzed this man wrote as at least 7 of them I have documentations. In Dec 2004 we get another letter, after my Aunt wrote to him calling him a murderer, this one addressed Colorado Springs and post marked Ft Worth, talking about he didn't know how bad Danny's injuries where that he had received, again posing as someone else and again the handwriting is confirmed. Danny sure made a lot of friends in a short amount of time. The handwriting matches the officer, the signatures are ex-inmates that weren't even in jail at the time. The autopsy says heart attack, that's all, He was 40 in good health at the time before he went to jail. He had visible bruising around his neck, I have pictures that my Grandmother and her daughters took on the outgoing door of the medicals examiners, I have all the letters this so called officer wrote, I don't know what else to do. Can anyone out here help me stop them, more and more deaths are happening in Tarrant County Jail someone really needs to look into these deaths

      Poor people need to pay their bills or they deserve to sit behind bars. If they can't afford a lawyer then tough cookies, freedom belongs in the hands of people with more money. People like you must work harder so people like me don't have to. :)

      To Anonymous July 21, 2008 10:08 PM, You say that I need to work harder! well to tell the truth I own 3 business and I work more than most men or women and I pay my bills, I don't see why it gives any one any right to not give health care to another person, or to miss treat them due to the being in jail or in prison, they are still human, not a wild animal, if they acted that way, then they would be locked up and watched 24/7, and giving medicine to keep them sedated, I work hard to and still believe that you treat people with dignity and not persecute them ,that is what the law is for.

      The problem is that no one has the money to challenge local laws (and state) in federal court. Most of the local stuff would not survive constitutional challenge, but as history reveals, unconstitutional laws remain on the books until challenged in federal court. I was arrested, fined, required to report in, etc., etc., all many months before I was convicted of a driving violation. Due process is a joke when there is no federal protection of my constitutional rights.

      Hi, great article. I am being hounded by Linebarger and Goggan regarding a traffic ticket I already paid around 2003. Hopefully, I can resolve this issue with them, but the problem is that I am indigent. I receive $885 in SSDI per month. Mr. Guest, is it possible that I will have my license suspended or I will be arrested without the opportunity to be heard if I don't pay the $300 they are asking? I drove with an outdated maintenance sticker, which I promptly fixed. Tell me I can't go to jail for this? Can you recommend any pro bono help? What options do I have if I want to go to court to resolve this? I am indigent, so all of my filing fees should be free. Thanks. Anthony, Dallas County.

      it starts with one ticket. stuck in the system. take away drivers license, cant get a job cant drive to a job, cant pay the fines no way to do work to pay off fines all can do is time. is tis justice?

      hi all
      i am a foreigner and got a ticket in california state a year ago. i didn't pay for it and now i am going to states in a few months' time, will I be faced with an arrest warrant if i pass through the custom?

      It is all about money. Most people don't pay fines because they don't have the money! If you had to choose between feeding your hungry child and insurance what would you pay? Would you not go to work and let your child starve because you didn't have insurance? People cannot afford all this crap!!!~!I work hard I have had insurance for many years, but as a single parent who got no child support I had to make choices. Sometimes my insurance lapsed till I could pay it. $2400.00 a year with a good driving record and an older vehicle! Not to mention 200.00 and up for the slightest infraction of traffic? That's insane!!!!!!

      I am a divorced mom of 5 daughters. I am their sole support. I received a speeding ticket..180.00 I don't have the money. The place I worked at went out of business. I am scared, the ticket is due tomorrow, I wonder if I show up to plead guilty but unable to pay fine, will they put me in jail. We only have a few chickens left to butcher. Can they put me in jail for unpaymentof this speeding ticket?

      I am angry that they can put a warrant out for arrest in Texas. This is ridiculous and they come knocking on your door in front of your kids and family for as low as $50. This happened to me last night. I am a single mom at home getting my child ready for bed and a Tarrant County officer came banging on my door and flashlighting my windows trying to take me to jail. What the hell is wrong with this inconsiderate jerk who should be out arresting the real criminals. I am a single mother and have lost my job twice this year and its been a struggle. And they want to come banging on my door for 30 minutes scaring my child who had school in the morning by the way for a court cost from a traffic ticket. Is there any justice in the U.S. or the state of Texas. We have soldiers out here fighting for our live and they get ruined over traffic tickets inside our own country because of the hardships of some. Sick, makes me so sick. After losing my job I lost my car, my home and other things. Those things can be replaced though but someone taking me to jail in front of my child is not. I will fight this for any single mom and any one else til the day I die because this is rediculous. I cannot believe that the officer who is supposed to protect and serve does the exact opposite. Instead they arrest those who have traffic tickets and ruin their life and hurt their families by putting them in jail instead of giving them other options. I am putting this in GODS hands right now and I pray that they leave me alone at home and when I get all the financial pieces back together I will take care of their traffic ticket fine. But you tell me how I can help you get justice for this because I am thinking about calling all the news stations and frying everyones butts for this huge injustice. That officer who came to my door last night should be ashamed of yourself. If you were a single dad working your butt off after losing your job twice and trying to catch up and get everything back together and an officer came to your door while putting your child into bed so they can rest for school in the morning and they took you to jail... hoew would feel and what would your child do... they would be scared and where would they put them? So I pray this man does not come to my door threatening and harrassing me again about this traffic ticket. I will join the fight against this injustice even if it takes everything in me!!!!!

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  • The Feast of Sharing 2009

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      Just wanted to say that THANK YOU to Central Market & H.E.B. the sponsers of The Feast of Sharing Event 2009 (Thanksgiving Dinner Event) out at Fair Park today it was a well organized event the food was delicious mmmmmm we loved it, The activities for the children, the live music was great also but most of all THE VOLUNTEERS were just soooo friendly and caring i wasThe Feast of Sharing 2009 so amazed GREAT JOB GUYSNov. 10, 2009!!!! thank you so much for the invitation...............Laughing

      The Feast of Sharing 2009

       

       

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      Idelis Arroyo with Santa & Mrs. Clause

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      Idelis at the Central Market Festivety at the Fair Park. Awesome event I was really amazed at the good food served and all the FRIENDLY VOLUNTEERS : )

      Thanks so much for the invitation..... God Bless everyone.

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      The 28th Annual Dallas Historical Society Awards of Excellence luncheon was held today at the Fairmont Hotel. The Visiting Nurse Association and 12 individuals were honored for being leaders in Dallas; I'm thrilled to say that I'm one of the honorees.

      This award highlights the achievements of individuals who work to make Dallas a better place to live. It's humbling to be included in the 2009 Class in addition to joining the hundreds of past lumineries.

      We started with a rehearsel of the program and my escort was Pat Mattingly, a member of the Society as well as a member of my church. We were all briefed on the run of program, then attended a reception with past recipients and Dallas Historical Society supportors and then the luncheon started.  It was a beautiful, meaningful, marvelous event.  I was and am overwhelmed and deeply grateful. Now we're all part of the history of the great city of Dallas as we contribute to her future.

      2009 Award Recipients

      Arts Leadership, Bess Enloe

      Business, Pedro Aguirre

      Creative Arts, Clarice Tinsley

      Education, Dr. Anne Bromberg

      Health Sciences, Dr. Eugene Frenkel

      Humanities, Dr. Bruce Buchanan and Michael Rawlings

      Philanthropy, Diane and Hal Brierley

      Volunteer Community Leadership, JoAnne and Tony Roosevelt

      Jubilee History Makers, Mary Suhm

      and the Visiting Nurse Association  

      If you'd like more information about the Dallas Historical Society call 214.421.4500 or log on to www.dallashistory.org

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      In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

      The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

      Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department's subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward "promoting social and economic justice" and "social change.")

      The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded "all IP traffic to and from www.indymedia.us" on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to "include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information," including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers' Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.

      "I didn't think anything we were doing was worthy of any (federal) attention," Clair said in a telephone interview with CBSNews.com on Monday. After talking to other Indymedia volunteers, Clair ended up calling the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which represented her at no cost.

      Under long-standing Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to members of the news media are supposed to receive special treatment. One portion of the guidelines, for instance, says that "no subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media" without "the express authorization of the attorney general" – that would be current attorney general Eric Holder – and subpoenas should be "directed at material information regarding a limited subject matter."

      Still unclear is what criminal investigation U.S. Attorney Morrison was pursuing. Last Friday, a spokeswoman initially promised a response, but Morrison sent e-mail on Monday evening saying: "We have no comment." The Justice Department in Washington, D.C. also declined to respond.

      Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, replied to the Justice Department on behalf of his client in a February 2009 letter (PDF) outlining what he described as a series of problems with the subpoena, including that it was not personally served, that a judge-issued court order would be required for the full logs, and that Indymedia did not store logs in the first place.

      Morrison replied in a one-sentence letter saying the subpoena had been withdrawn. Around the same time, according to the EFF, the group had a series of discussions with assistant U.S. attorneys in Morrison's office who threatened Clair with possible prosecution for obstruction of justice if she disclosed the existence of the already-withdrawn subpoena -- claiming it "may endanger someone's health" and would have a "human cost."

      Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, said a gag order to a news organization wouldn't stand up in court: "If you get a subpoena and you're a journalist, they can't gag you."

      Dalglish said that a subpoena being issued and withdrawn is not unprecedented. "I have seen any number of these things withdrawn when counsel for someone who is claiming a reporter's privilege says, 'Can you tell me the date you got approval from the attorney general's office'... I'm willing to chalk this up to bad lawyering on the part of the DOJ, or just not thinking."

      Making this investigation more mysterious is that Indymedia.us is an aggregation site, meaning articles that appear on it were published somewhere else first, and there's no hint about what sparked the criminal probe. Clair, the system administrator, says that no IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are recorded for Indymedia.us, and non-IP address logs are kept for a few weeks and then discarded.

      EFF's Bankston wrote a second letter to the government saying that, if it needed to muzzle Indymedia, it should apply for a gag order under the section of federal law that clearly permits such an order to be issued. Bankston's plan: To challenge that law on First Amendment grounds.

      But the Justice Department never replied. "This is the first time we've seen them try to get the IP address of everyone who visited a particular site," Bankston said. "That it was a news organization was an additional troubling fact that implicates First Amendment rights."

      This is not, however, the first time that the Feds have focused on Indymedia -- a Web site whose authors sometimes blur the line between journalism, advocacy, and on-the-streets activism. In 2004, the Justice Department sent a grand jury subpoena asking for information about who posted lists of Republican delegates while urging they be given an unwelcome reception at the party's convention in New York City that year. A Indymedia hosting service in Texas once received a subpoena asking for server logs in relation to an investigation of an attempted murder in Italy.

      Bankston has written a longer description of the exchange of letters with the Justice Department, which he hopes will raise awareness of how others should respond to similar legal demands for Web logs, customer records, and compulsory silence. "Our fear is that this kind of bogus gag order is much more common than one would hope, considering they're legally baseless," Bankston says. "We're telling this story in hopes that more providers will press back and go public when the government demands their silence."

      http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml?tag=mncol;txt

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  • Fly Fishing Film Tour

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      Fly Fishing Film Tour
      Presented by The Drake Magazine
      Wednesday, November 11th
      Show starts at 7:30pm

      Magnolia Theater – West Village
      3699 McKinney Ave #100
      Dallas, TX 75204

      Schedule of activities for the Fly Fishing Film Tour
      4 - 6pm Reception at Tailwaters Fly Fishing Company with drinks and snacks
      6 - 7pm Reception at Magnolia Theater with cash bar
      7 - 7:30pm Doors open to theater and introduction with sponsor recognition

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