How to Survive Super-Worm

A super nasty computer virus, Conficker, is due to strike tomorrow, April Fool’s Day. Here are two useful articles that may help.

~Eowyn

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Last-minute Conficker survival guide

Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:42PM EDT

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464

 

Tomorrow — April 1 — is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it’s packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type — passwords, credit card numbers, etc. — and send that information back to its masters?

 

No one knows, but we’ll probably find out soon.

 

Or not. As Slate notes, Conficker is scheduled to go “live” on April 1, but whoever’s controlling it could choose not to wreak havoc but instead do absolutely nothing, waiting for a time when there’s less heat. They can do this because the way Conficker is designed is extremely clever: Rather than containing a list of specific, static instructions, Conficker reaches out to the web to receive updated marching orders via a huge list of websites it creates. Conficker.C — the latest bad boy — will start checking 50,000 different semi-randomly-generated sites a day looking for instructions, so there’s no way to shut down all of them. If just one of those sites goes live with legitimate instructions, Conficker keeps on trucking.

 

Conficker’s a nasty little worm that takes serious efforts to bypass your security defenses, but you aren’t without some tools in your arsenal to protect yourself.

 

Your first step should be the tools you already have: Windows Update, to make sure your computer is fully patched, and your current antivirus software, to make sure anything that slips through the cracks is caught.

 

But if Conficker’s already on your machine, it may bypass certain subsystems and updating Windows and your antivirus at this point may not work. If you are worried about anything being amiss — try booting into Safe Mode, which Conficker prevents, to check — you should run a specialized tool to get rid of Conficker.

 

Microsoft offers a web-based scanner (note that some users have reported it crashed their machines; I had no trouble with it), so you might try one of these downloadable options instead: Symantec’s Conficker (aka Downadup) tool, Trend Micro’s Cleanup Engine, or Malwarebytes. Conficker may prevent your machine from accessing any of these websites, so you may have to download these tools from a known non-infected computer if you need them. Follow the instructions given on each site to run them successfully. (Also note: None of these tools should harm your computer if you don’t have Conficker.)

As a final safety note, all users — whether they’re worried about an infection or know for sure they’re clean — are also wise to make a full data backup today.

 

What won’t work? Turning your PC off tonight and back on on April 2 will not protect you from the worm (sorry to the dozens of people who wrote me asking if this would do the trick). Temporarily disconnecting your computer from the web won’t help if the malware is already on your machine — it will simply activate once you connect again. Changing the date on your PC will likely have no helpful effect, either. And yes, Macs are immune this time out. Follow the above instructions to detect and remove the worm.

 

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How to tell, what to do if computer is infected (AP)

Posted on Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:46PM EDT

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090315/ap_on_hi_te/tec_inside_a_botnet_checklist

 

Computer-virus infections don’t cause your machine to crash anymore.

Nowadays, the criminals behind the infections usually want your computer operating in top form so you don’t know something’s wrong. That way, they can log your keystrokes and steal any passwords or credit-card numbers you enter at Web sites, or they can link your infected computer with others to send out spam.

 

Here are some signs your computer is infected, tapped to serve as part of “botnet” armies run by criminals:

 

• You experience new, prolonged slowdowns. This can be a sign that a malicious program is running in the background.

 

• You continually get pop-up ads that you can’t make go away. This is a sure sign you have “adware,” and possibly more, on your machine.

 

• You’re being directed to sites you didn’t intend to visit, or your search results are coming back funky. This is another sign that hackers have gotten to your machine.

 

So what do you do?

 

• Having anti-virus software here is hugely helpful. For one, it can identify known malicious programs and disable them. If the virus that has infected your machine isn’t detected, many anti-virus vendors offer a service in which they can remotely take over your computer and delete the malware for a fee.

 

• Some anti-virus vendors also offer free, online virus-scanning services.

 

• You may have to reinstall your operating system if your computer is still experiencing problems. It’s a good idea even if you believe you’ve cleaned up the mess because malware can still be hidden on your machine. You will need to back up your files before you do this.

 

How do I know what information has been taken?

 

• It’s very hard to tell what’s been taken. Not every infection steals your data. Some just serve unwanted ads. Others poison your search result or steer you to Web sites you don’t want to see. Others log your every keystroke. The anti-virus vendors have extensive databases about what the known infections do and don’t do. Comparing the results from your virus scans to those entries will give you a good idea about what criminals may have snatched up.

Obama, the Hustler

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Hustle (Hŭs’əl):

v. 1. To jostle or shove roughly. 2. To usher hurriedly or urgently…. 4. Slang. a. To obtain (money) in questionable ways. b. To sell by high-pressure means. 5. Slang. To induce (someone) to gamble in a game set up against him.

~Eowyn

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Oshama

editor’s note

March 31, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/oshama_1.html

 

This image comes from a woman who prefers to be known as Jill, one of the artists on the staff of iOwnTheWorld. She titles it “Oshama.” Feel free to share it with your friends.

No Honor For This Old Man

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John McCain & his supporters have made much of his sense of honor. Well, there’s precious little “honor” on display here. If it weren’t for Sarah, McCain would have lost by an even greater margin. And this is how this POS is repaying Sarah?

~Eowyn

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McCain Won’t Endorse Palin for 2012

Submitted by jmeasley on Sun, 03/29/2009

http://www.politicususa.com/en/McCain-Palin-2012

 

McCain, the rino

John McCain was on Meet the Press today, and he gave an interesting answer when he was asked about supporting Sarah Palin for 2012. He only said that Palin should compete, and talked about all the good candidates the GOP has for 2012. He gave a let’s wait and see answer to supporting Palin.

When host David Gregory asked McCain if he would support Palin in 2012, he answered, “I’d like to see her compete. I think we’ve got some very good candidates: Jon Huntsman and–the problem when I run down these names, I always leave, leave out a, a name–Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty. There’s, there’s so many. There’s a lot of good, fresh talent out there. On specifically supporting Palin, he said, “Oh, I’d have to see who the candidates are and, and what the situation is at the time. But have no doubt of my respect, admiration and love for Sarah and her family.”

That certainly sounds like an answer that a former nominee would give about a running mate who he didn’t see eye to eye with. The Palin and McCain camps are still trading jabs and blame over who was at fault for last year’s defeat. McCain could be a big problem for Palin, especially if he endorses someone else for the 2012 primary. I could see McCain endorsing Tim Pawlenty or Bobby Jindal. Above everything else, McCain is a good party soldier and he support whoever the nominee is.

The McCain/Palin relationship is reminiscent of the Kerry/Edwards situation in 2004. The two didn’t seem to like each other. Edwards was added to the ticket because he was supposed to be the young star that would push Kerry over the top. After they lost both sides blamed each other, and Kerry never gave a thought to endorsing Edwards in 2008. It is obvious there is some bad blood between the McCain and Palin camps, and this could cause a bit of embarrassment for her in the 2012 primary.

Earth Hour? What Earth Hour?

Here’s yet more evidence that Lefties are rank hypocrites.

~Eowyn

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Al Gore ignores ‘Earth Hour’
Driveway to Nashville mansion flooded with electricity
Posted: March 29, 2009 5:25 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93315

  

 

Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” may have inspired many to participate in yesterday’s “Earth Hour” by switching off their lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., but maybe the former vice president didn’t get the memo.

 

Drew Johnson, the president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, decided to drive by Gore’s mansion in Nashville at 8:48 p.m. and records that floodlights were on illuminating the driveway leading up to the main quarter.

“ pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48 p.m. – right in the middle of Earth Hour,” he wrote on his blog. “I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.”

 

He added: “The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion. I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.”

 

Earth Hour was deemed a huge success by its organizers, the World Wildlife Fund. The group estimated that 1 billion worldwide took part.

 

From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Empire State building in New York, illuminated patches of the globe went dark last night to highlight what the group believes is a man-made threat of climate change. Time zone by time zone, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries dimmed nonessential lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., according to organizers.

 

WWF called the event, which began in Australia in 2007 and grew last year to 400 cities worldwide, “the world’s first-ever global vote about the future of our planet.”

 

The United Nations’ top climate official, Yvo de Boer, called the event a clear sign that the world wants negotiators seeking a climate change agreement to set an ambitious course to fight global warming.

 

The event was initiated with hopes of impacting talks in Bonn this week to craft a deal to control emissions of the heat-trapping gases supposedly responsible for “global warming.” The talks are due to culminate in Copenhagen this December.

 

“Earth Hour was probably the largest public demonstration on climate change ever,” de Boer told delegates from 175 nations. “Its aim was to tell every government representative to seal a deal in Copenhagen. The world’s concerned citizens have given the negotiations an additional and very clear mandate.”

The Other Bill

There are two men named Bill whom I utterly loathe. One is Bill Ayers; the other is the unfunny so-called comedian, Bill Maher – he who lauded the “courage” of the terrorists who flew two passenger jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

~Eowyn

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Video: Maher “salutes” American troops

posted at 1:35 pm on March 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/30/video-maher-salutes-american-troops/

 

I stopped watching Bill Maher a long time ago, and it’s moments like this that remind me why he’s a waste of broadcast air time. Maher complains that we need to bring home the troops from World War II by pulling out of Germany and Japan, and gives us this pithy little “salute” to American fighting forces:

Forget about bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me why, in 2009, we still have more than 50,000 troops in Germany and 30,000 in Japan? At some point, these people are going to have to learn to rape themselves. [boos] I’ll ignore that.

Recall, if you will, when Maher claimed that the 9/11 terrorists had more courage than Air Force pilots and/or Navy commanders. “We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from two thousand miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly. You’re right.” ABC cut ties with Maher after that statement, leading to his HBO show.

Will HBO keep Maher around after this despicable comment? Probably, unless enough people complain about it. HBO has less pressure in its subscription model; with no advertisers to boycott, HBO won’t have to worry about lost revenue in the traditional sense. If subscribers start lining up to cancel and cite Maher as a reason, however, that could have some impact.

I don’t watch the show anyway, as I said before, so I don’t really give a damn whether HBO gives him a platform or not. Maher crossed over to despicable years ago. Maybe it serves a good purpose to have a spotlight trained on him; we can find more examples of how the Left hates the military, rather than hearing them insist that they love the troops while trying their best to keep them from college campuses and recruiters out of their neighborhoods.

Update: Commenter 1GoodDaddy offers this information, for those wishing to communicate their displeasure with Maher:

How can I contact HBO to express my opinions about their programming?

You may contact HBO’s Consumer Affairs Department at 212-512-1208 Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM Eastern Time. You can also write to us using the link below

Feel free to go at it.  I think, though, that HBO will tend to see this as an endorsement of Maher’s relevance than any threat to their business.

We’re So Screwed

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We already know that the social security system will be in arrears when the bulk of the Baby Boomer generation retire. But the news has gone from bad to worse. Whatever surplus we thought there was in the mythic “social security fund” has just evaporated. THERE IS NO SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS!

 

P.S. I’m substituting for our Fearless Leader, Gio. He’s on a fact-finding mission, returning Thursday.

 

~Eowyn

 

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Social Security Surplus Already Gone

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:37 AM
By: Marc Davis

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/social_security_surplus/2009/03/31/197950.html

 

Another victim of the recession has cashed in its chips — the Social Security surplus.

Expected to survive until 2017, according to many educated estimates, the stock decline has instead wiped the surplus out completely.

It happened in the blink of an accountant’s eye, as we were all paying attention to other serious financial problems, says Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, commenting on this unamusing disappearing act in a column for Bloomberg.com.

“Social Security has for years been the near-term bright spot in the federal budget,” writes Hassett.

“Each year the program has raised $50 billion to $100 billion more in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits.”

Opponents of Social Security reform often cited these surpluses as a good reason to postpone any attempt to fix the system.

But with American workers losing their jobs at an almost unprecedented rate, Social Security payroll revenues have declined substantially, says Hassett. Recession-driven early retirements have also increased, adding to the drawdown of funds.

Social Security reform has not been enacted, in part, because the Congressional Budget Office has been issuing excessively rosy estimates of surpluses, thus creating the unwarranted impression that the system is on firm financial ground, according to Hassett.

The decline means that the Treasury Department could be forced to borrow an additional $700 billion from foreign investors like China and Japan just as those investors seem unwilling to hold the trillions in bonds they already own.

“The Social Security trust fund, though technically in balance, is going to put huge pressures on taxpayers very soon,” warns Sen. Judd Gregg, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.

 

I Am Honored!

They have no idea what they have done for my ego. They have no idea what they have done for my self-worth. They have no idea how close I was to calling it quits and giving up this blogging gig. They have no idea how much they have vindicated and validated my thoughts, rants,  and musings.

They used my copy without my permission, so I'm using their graphic without their permission.

The they I speak of is…. “The Village Voice” of course. Seriously, the Village Voice blog picked up Giovanni’s World in one of their blogs titled “Running Scared”. Here’s the part they printed (without my permission I might add)…

“If Comrade Obama had any class, he would politely back out of this invitation,” said Giovanni’s World. “I have very low expectations of our president so I don’t expect him to man-up.”

Just in case you want to check out an extremely far left rag from New York City, here’s the URL http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/03/rightbloggers_o_6.php

Feel free to check them out, but let me warn you, their content really sucks! I only did all this to poke them in the eye. And, I enjoyed it!

Gio-

Obama Turns Down Pot

Liberals never cease to amaze. Just when you thought they could NOT get any loonier, they pull out another piece of crap to get upset over.

I cannot stand Obama, not even a little bit, but on this one… hehehehehehe!

The following article copied from the Huffington Post, which is funny in itself. Enjoy…

Gio-  

Another future Democrat.

Marijuana No Laughing Matter, Mr. President

The president’s busy. He’s got important things to do, like rescuing the economy, saving jobs and mortgages and industries. But we ought not to let him off the hook for his frivolous dismissal of a widely popular question he faced in Thursday’s Online Town Hall.

At the top of the televised event, the president announced that of the 3.5 million votes on the thousands of questions received in advance, one topic “ranked fairly high.” It was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and encourage job creation. He responded: “The answer is no, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow our economy.” He then asked rhetorically what the question says about “the online audience.”

Get it? His in-the-flesh audience got it, chuckling politely at the allusion to a Stoner Nation plugged in to the “internets.”

The problem for Mr. Obama is that marijuana reform was at or near the top of the list of all questions in three major categories: budget, health care reform, green jobs and energy. Our leader doesn’t seem to understand that millions of his interlocutor-constituents are actually quite serious about the issue.

Which is not to say that drugs, particularly pot, doesn’t offer up a rich if predictable vein of humor. Cheech and Chong’s vintage “Dave’s not here!” routine is still a side-splitter. As Larry the Cable Guy would say, “I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.”

But there’s nothing comical about tens of millions of Americans being busted, frightened out of their wits, losing their jobs, their student loans, their public housing, their families, their freedom…

And show me the humor in a dying cancer patient who’s denied legal access to a drug known to relieve pain and suffering.

Having just returned from Minnesota whose state lawmakers are entertaining a conservative, highly restrictive medical marijuana law, I can tell you what’s not funny to Joni Whiting.

Ms. Whiting told the House’s Public Safety Policy and Oversight Committee of her 26-year-old daughter Stephanie’s two-year battle with facial melanoma that surfaced during the young woman’s third pregnancy. The packed hearing room was dead quiet as Ms. Whiting spoke of Stephanie’s face being cut off “one inch at a time, until there was nothing left to cut.” She spoke of her daughter’s severe nausea, her “continuous and uncontrollable pain.”

Stephanie moved back to her family’s home and “bravely began to make plans for the ending of her life.” The tumors continued to grow, invading the inside and outside of her mouth, as well as her throat and chest. Nausea was a constant companion. Zofran and (significantly) Marinol, the synthetic pill version of THC, did nothing to abate the symptoms. Stephanie began wasting away. She lost all hope of relief.

Joni’s other children approached their mother, begged her to let their sister use marijuana. But Ms. Whiting, a Vietnam veteran whose youngest son recently returned from 18 months in Iraq, was a law-abiding woman. And she was afraid of the authorities. There was no way she would allow the illicit substance in her house. As she held her ground, her grownup kids removed Stephanie from the family home.

Three days later, wracked by guilt, Joni welcomed her daughter back. “I called a number of family members and friends…and asked if they knew of anywhere we could purchase marijuana. The next morning someone had placed a package of it on our doorstep. I have never known whom to thank for it but I remain grateful beyond belief.” The marijuana restored Stephanie’s appetite. It allowed her to eat three meals a day, and to keep the food down. She regained energy and, in the words of her mother, “looked better than I had seen her in months.”

Stephanie survived another 89 days, celebrating both Thanksgiving and Christmas with her family.

Shortly after the holidays, Stephanie’s pain became “so severe that when she asked my husband and me to lie down on both sides of her and hold her, she couldn’t stand the pain of us touching her body.”

Stephanie died on January 14, 2003 in the room she grew up in, holding her mother’s hand. A mother who, as she told the legislative committee, would “have no problem going to jail for acquiring medical marijuana for my suffering child.”

Following Joni Whiting’s presentation, it was all I could do to hold it together during my own testimony. Such was the power of this one woman’s story. And of the sadness and rage roiling inside me as I reflected on the countless other Stephanies who are made to suffer not only the ravages of terminal illness and intractable pain but the callousness and narrow-mindedness of their leaders.

When I finished my testimony, a local police chief, a member of the committee, angrily accused me of disrespecting the police officers in the room–who’d shown up in force, in uniform, to oppose medical marijuana. Wearing a bright yellow tie with the lettering “Police Line, Do Not Cross,” the chief charged me with placing more stock in the opinions of doctors than of Minnesota’s cops. Guilty, as charged. Who are we, I asked him, to substitute our judgment for that of medical professionals and their patients? Who are we, for that matter, to deny the will of the people.

There’s much value in humor, even during times of pain and tragedy. So long as the joke is not at the expense of the suffering.

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the president. His Leno comment about the Special Olympics while self-deprecating and not malicious was certainly tone deaf, followed soon after by his casting gratuitous aspersions at serious advocates of marijuana reform.

But Barack Obama is a decent and honorable man, compassionate and wise. I can’t believe he would do anything other than what Joni Whiting did if, God forbid, he faced similar choices within his own family. I can’t believe he doesn’t realize the political value of taking a more reasoned, courageous stand on drug policy reform in general. Or of at least providing honest, thoughtful answers on the issue.

Perhaps we should show him what’s in it for him? Perhaps we should make certain that in every future “town hall” the president is reassured of the seriousness of the legions of voters working to end cruel and ineffective drug laws.

Git-er-done!

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The guy that wrote this piece must have been stoned at the time. Who but Larry the Cable Guy says “Git-er-done”?

Gio-

Obama Dream Killing

If the title of this article has is right, then we should celebrate. But whatever you do, don’t give up the fight just yet, because we are a long way from winning.

Gio- (A proud Obama Dream Killer)

 Submitted by west coast editor Eowyn.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/NoemieEmery/Death-of-the-Obama-dream-41801612.html
Death of the Obama dream
By Noemie Emery
Examiner Columnist | 3/25/09 5:07 PM

Well, that was fast.

On March 20, only two months after the cosmic anointing, Vanity Fair, of all places, unloaded on Barack Obama, in the terms it had reserved for the past four or five years for the likes of George W. Bush.

Well, not the whole magazine, but one of its writers, media writer Michael Wolff, took an axe to the president, in a posting beginning “Sheesh, the guy is Jimmy Carter,” ending “This guy is leaden and this show is in trouble,” and titled “Barack Obama is a Terrible Bore.”

The same day, ex-fan Peggy Noonan called him “insubstantial and weightless…not fully focused…jumping from issue to issue and venue to venue from day to day.” “The administration’s difficulties…have created an unfortunate impression of incompetence,” said The Economist. Politico noted that his skills as a salesman have begun to desert him.

It all came at the end of what Rick Klein of ABC News called Obama’s “lost week,” which got worse on Sunday, when he was attacked by the New York Times in three columns and one editorial. One warned of an oncoming fall of Katrina dimensions. And these were his friends.

Actually, since he was sworn in most of his weeks have been lost ones, or at least weeks headed downward, the problem being that three or four variations on the theme of incompetence have had time to harden and set.

First, the financial crisis he was hired to fix has only grown worse under his tutelage, losing another 2,000-plus points on the Dow since his ascension. Second, the smoothest transition on record stopped being smooth when Bush went back to Texas, and has since been a melange of scandals and dithering. Third, the immense sums in his budget are starting to stun the more moderate Democrats, not to mention the Obamacons, who once put their hopes in his moderate temperament.

Fourth, he and some of his high-profile picks have shown a repeated addiction to unforced errors and slights—mixing up names, misplacing dates, dissing Nancy Reagan, dissing the British Prime Minister, dissing the Special Olympics, created and run by John Kennedy’s sister – giving the impression the administration is run by the under-informed and the boorish and socially compromised.

Would Caroline’s father, who took part in his family’s effort to raise his retarded sister as normal, and who as president put great store in his special relationship with Uncle Harold McMillan, have found this amusing? One rather thinks not.

In short, the idea of Obama, the eloquent, elegant, trans-racial hero, able to inspire his way around anything, ran into reality and was dissolved by it, revealing a not-well-prepared neophyte politician with an embarrassing penchant for gaffes.

The markets are down, the price tags are up, the British are piqued, and the independents are heading back to the Republicans, who now have a (slight) lead in the generic ballot, for the first time in nearly three years.

Obama’s teleprompter has its own blog, its own code name – Totus – and is building a following. One laughs with it, and at him, which cannot be promising. For a would-be Messiah, this is hardly good news.

Way back last year – it was called the campaign – some people, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, to name only two of them, seemed to suggest that something like this might happen, that there were risks to electing someone with no record or background to speak of, who had never done anything well except talk. They were dismissed as too old and too cranky, jealous that they too did not have a fan base of cult-like intensity.

This was probably right – at least about jealousy – but it doesn’t mean they were wrong on the rest. They were waiting for the bubble to burst, which it did, but too late for their benefit.

“Democrats are worried that the Obama spell will break between the time of his nomination and the time of the election, and deny him the White House,” Charles Krauthammer wrote February 15, 2008, winning the Seer of the Year prize for prognostication. “My guess is that he can maintain the spell just past Inauguration Day. After which will come the awakening. It will be rude.”

Examiner columnist Noemie Emery is contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and author of Great Expectations: The Troubled Lives of Political Families.

The Economic Engine That Said…

…I give up!

The Train Wreck                   

-By Dan Scott

A number of people recently have been commenting on how the economy seems to be showing signs of recovery, all without a single penny of the so called stimulus bill having been spent. The stock market has been moving up of late giving investors a sense of hope that the bottom has been reached signaling an end to their financial losses. Hope is good but false hope is dangerous as it causes people to lower their defenses against the oncoming train wreck. Counting on an economic recovery is occurring due to a bear market rally, is false hope. The psychology of the bear rally is based on false hope.

Have you noticed the price of gas lately? Its been creeping back up and now is up to $2/gallon. It’s not due to  domestic demand  but the world price of oil. Because of the misconduct of the RULING POR (Pelosi, Obama, Reid) Party causing over a trillion dollars to be printed, the dollar is devaluing and the price of oil is going up as a result. If the price of oil continues to rise we will soon reach the tipping point where the economy will stall again. That tipping point is somewhere around $2.50/gallon based on what happened in January 2007 when unemployment started it’s steady climb. The economy then took a nosedive as the price of gasoline hit $4/gallon. Of course President Obama continues to talk in non-sequiturs claiming in order for the economy to recover he must impose a carbon tax to create “green jobs”. He plainly admitted such a tax scheme would  cause the price of energy (electricity) to “skyrocket”, his term not mine. While he was specifically speaking of coal in regards to electricity, such a tax would also hit petroleum products like gasoline almost as hard.

I pointed out the  effects of printing money, their term is monetizing the debt, which causes the devaluation of the dollar. As the rest of the irresponsible deficit spending plans are enacted I am predicting $100/barrel oil by the end of the year based on a 60% devaluation of the dollar. With oil at that price any economic recovery will be aborted. They already printed $1 trillion, they plan to print at least $2 more trillion in short order, thus quadrupling the total dollars in circulation.

Here in the US, the Federal Reserve is the Treasury’s buyer of last resort, how do you think Germany and England met their bond obligation when there was no PRIVATE or even foreign government money to buy their bonds? They printed money JUST like the Federal Reserve did, that is why the Euro and Pound fell in value from last summer until currently when the US began it’s printing spree, now the roles are reversed. The Europeans reluctantly printed more albeit smaller amounts and so the dollar has been falling against these two currencies. Obama knows there isn’t enough private and foreign government investment dollars out there to fund his utopian dream so he is doing the next best thing, monetize it. However, he can’t do that without getting all the other countries to do the same otherwise the dollar collapses in value and no one will buy bonds at all, only the Fed with more printed money.

The Europeans have flatly said they have spent all they are going to spend, they did most of it last year with no effect. During that period The British Pound dropped by 30% and the Euro dropped as well. Now that we have begun printing money, the dollar is falling against both the Pound and the Euro. The reason why Obama wants the Europeans to spend/print more is so their currency will fall in tandem with the dollar, which would disguise the devaluation to the public and especially to the bondholders and oil producers.

The Europeans apparently are not going along with the deception. If they did agree together to devalue their currencies in tandem, the price of oil being denominated in both Euros and Dollars would not change, however, if only the dollar devalues then the Euro will be the determinate value place holder for the price of oil and thus the price of oil would rise for us but not for them (Europeans). What Obama is really asking the Europeans to do is collude with him in a scheme to defraud the taxpayer, the government bondholders and the oil producers. Since the Yen (Japan) and Yuan (China) are pegged to a defined range on the dollar, their currencies would also fall and thus disguise their currency losses on the bonds they hold, however their losses will still occur as evidenced by other currencies rising in value like the Swiss Franc or a commodity like Gold. Of course the taxpayer is on the hook for all the trillions of dollars in government debt the phony (printed) money purchased. Here’s a hint, use the Swiss Franc to monitor the performance of the Euro and Dollar, when you compare the trends, the  Euro dropped against the Franc  until just recently.

Those who own bonds, especially foreigners who are exposed to currency risk will be subject to huge percentage losses. Here’s a hint to the  Chinese and Japanese  who are the first and second largest holders of US Bonds, respectively and who hold nearly half the US debt, President Obama plans to devalue the dollar and so cut his effective debt value in half at the foreign bondholder’s expense. He is already doing it. How was the South American debt crisis solved? Do you really think President Obama is going to do something different than the South American countries when he ran up the debt in the same way they did? The estimates on the financing of the debt are out in public for all to see, ask yourselves, is $800 billion a year sustainable? Don’t get caught in the same mistake the international banks made with the South American countries thinking a government wouldn’t default on it’s own bonds or force a write down of principal. President Obama in fact has already shown his willingness to play this game by doing the exact same thing to the US banks holding home mortgages, a write down of principal and lower interest rate. You know what’s coming, consider yourself warned. GET OUT NOW before a self-serving POR Party fleeces you! Only by telling the ruling POR in Washington that you plan not to buy their Bonds and in fact start unloading them will their delusional utopian dream be stopped. Trust me, you’re doing us (taxpayers) and yourselves a favor by dumping the bonds now, otherwise if you continue to enable the ruling POR Party in their spending spree both you and us are going down together.

Anyway you slice this pile of news, the US economy is going to take it hard. Whether the bondholders like China and Japan balk at buying more bonds and thus begin unwinding their positions or not, the ruling POR Party is determined to spend for their utopian dream. Either result is an exploding national debt ending with unsustainable interest payments since the Federal Reserve will print up what bonds are not bought. Whether the Europeans go along with Obama in colluding to devalue their currencies in tandem or not, the price of gasoline is still going to go up because the Ruling POR will fruitlessly chase after the potential $2 trillion in carbon taxes to offset some of their spending spree. The economy in response to higher energy costs will tank just like before thus putting even more people out of work. The taxpayers who are protesting now with their Tea Parties won’t be listened to, the ears of the ruling POR Party are deaf to the chattering classes that refuse to have faith in the agenda to bring about the utopian dream. We are headed for a train wreck unless someone in the political class has the courage to grab the brake or uncouple the cars from the runaway engine.

My Tea-Party Slogan

 

 

 

For less confrontational slogans, go here.

Gio-

Tea Party Danger Alert

Please read this carefully. I cannot verify, but knowing how ACORN works I believe they are very capable of this. Just keep in mind that ACORN is a Socialist/Communist Organization, and they will use any dirty trick in the book to further Obama’s push towards Communism!

Gio-

Don’t sign anything at tea parties unless you are absolutely sure what you are signing.

I don’t know if this is just rumor, but this has been circulating so I thought it needed attention:

“And for general information: ACORN is “gate busting” Tea Parties nationwide.

These far-left goons are attending them and misapprehending their allegiance.

They are getting petitions signed, misrepresenting them as opposition to the Obama agenda.

They are getting petitions signed, misrepresenting them as against Obama and taxes.

They explain something different than that written on the petition.

More fraud, and lies from Obama Acorn people.

Please be careful when signing your name to anything at these Tea Parties.

We are still not sure what these whackjobs are using the names for, these people are known for violent criminal acts,bullying tactics, fraud and harassment (just to name a few).

Again, please pass this on and GOD BLESS YOU, YOURS, OUR TROOPS, AMERICA, and HER PEOPLE.

Rob Shepherd
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My Head Is Gonna Explode!

No, I am not kidding. I have not had a chance to keep up with the news today, even on the internet. It wasn’t until about 8 minutes ago that I found the following info at a UK site.

Read it and weep! Or better yet, write to Comrade Obama and tell him to kiss our collective asses!

Gio-

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Prospect of Barack Obama show causes UK to clear its decks

Britain will get its first chance to see Barack Obama this week when a White House cavalcade – complete with armoured limousines, helicopters, 200 US secret service staff and a six-doctor medical team – sweeps into the UK.

Obama will fly into London for his first visit to the UK as president of the United States on Tuesday to take part in the G20 summit in the capital’s Docklands area. He will not be travelling light.

More than 500 officials and staff will accompany the president on his tour this week – along with a mass of high-tech security equipment, including the $300,000 presidential limousine, known as The Beast. Fitted with night-vision camera, reinforced steel plating, tear- gas cannon and oxygen tanks, the vehicle is the ultimate in heavy armoured transport.

In addition, a team from the White House kitchen will travel with the president to prepare his food. As one official put it: “When the president travels, the White House travels with him, right down to the car he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats. America is still the sole superpower and the president must have the ability to handle any crisis, anywhere, any time.”

US security teams have already carried out three visits to prepare for Obama’s first official visit to Britain. The first was a “site survey”, the second a “pre-advance visit” which was carried out to pick sites that the president would visit. Finally there was the “advance trip”, which took place last week. Its purpose was to set up equipment, sweep venues for electronic bugs, test food for poison and measure air quality for bacteria…

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Thanks for spending us into oblivion you toad!

Gio-

Cancelled Tea-Party Update

By now everyone has heard about Cape Coral Fl canceling the April 15th protest. The town says they are afraid “too many people will show up”. Ok?!

Well, we still believe in the American dream, the right to address grievances, and the right to assemble, so until Comrade Obama outlaws these things, we should still protest in Cape Coral!

It may be helpful if we contacted some of the people that actually live and work in the lovely town of Cape Coral to see how they feel about this. We should all write a very short email, or just write something down to repeat over the phone, and contact these folks. Be very polite and patriotic, but most of all, be sure to get to the point right away. Ask them (politely) what the rest of the country is going to tink of such an UN-PATRIOTIC TOWN. Ask them how it would effect tourism if the word kept going out across the country that Cape Coral is very UN-AMERICAN. Just remember to keep it polite, and leave out profanity. Below are some of the major players in the beautiful little town of Cape Coral.

I’m betting they can change the minds of the rest of the townspeople!

Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral
2051 Cape Coral Parkway E
Cape Coral, Florida 33904
(239) 549-6900 office
(800) 226-9609 toll free
(239) 549-9609 fax
info@capecoralchamber.com

Mary O’Toole & Jane Story
Keim Associates, Inc.
maryotoole@keimrealtors.com
239-699-2231
239-850-6906

PaulHomes
linda.paul@paulhomes.com
gary.paul@paulhomes.com
bob.knight@paulhomes.com
3215 Ceitus Parkway · N. Cape Coral, FL · 239-283-9010

Obama Contradicts Catholic Values.

If Comrade Obama had any class, he would politely back out of this invitation. I have very low expectations of our president so I don’t expect him to man-up.

Gio-

Submitted by west coast editor Eowyn.

Please note this paragraph from the article below: “Seventy percent of the alumni letters opposed having Obama giving the speech, while 73 percent of student letters supported his appearance. Among the 95 seniors who wrote letters, 97 percent supported the president’s invitation.”

~Eowyn
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Criticism over Obama invite mounts at Notre Dame
By TOM COYNE
Associated Press Writer
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D976AAE00&show_article=1&catnum=0

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – Jimmy Carter came to Notre Dame in 1977. So did Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George W. Bush in 2001.

The University of Notre Dame has a tradition of inviting new presidents to speak at graduation. But this year’s selection of President Barack Obama has been met by a barrage of criticism that has left some students fearing their commencement ceremony will turn into a circus

Many Catholics are angered by Obama’s planned appearance at the May 17 ceremony because of his decisions to provide federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and international family planning groups that provide abortions or educate about the procedure.

The consensus Thursday on the campus of the nation’s largest Catholic university was that any president should be welcomed at Notre Dame.

“People are definitely entitled to their outrage, but I think the main thing is to see that it’s an honor to have the president of the United States come to speak here whether you agree with him or not,” said Katie Woodward, a political science junior from Philadelphia.

Justin Mack, a senior film major from Dallas, agreed.

“I didn’t vote for him and there are a lot of things I don’t agree with him or support. But I feel like for this event people need to put that aside,” said Mack, a senior film major from Dallas. “My hope is that doesn’t distract too much from what the weekend is about, which is the graduation.”

But the distractions have been mounting, including sharply worded letters from two bishops. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Phoenix Diocese on Wednesday called Obama’s selection a “public act of disobedience” and “a grave mistake.” On Tuesday, Bishop John D’Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, which includes Notre Dame, said he would not attend the ceremony because of Obama’s policies.

Hundreds of people on both sides of the issue have sent letters to the student newspaper, and a coalition of conservative student groups has announced its opposition.

University spokesman Dennis Brown says Notre Dame does not plan to rescind the invitation. Anyone associated with the university can recommend a commencement speaker, he said, and the president consults with university officers to see who would be most appropriate.

Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins has said the university does not condone all of Obama’s policies but that it’s important to engage in conversation.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that Obama believes everyone has the right to express their opinion, saying the president met last week with Chicago Cardinal Francis George and others to discuss topics Obama and the Catholic church are interested in.

“He looks forward to continuing that dialogue in the leadup to the commencement, and looks forward to delivering the address in May,” Gibbs said.

Bob Reish, the student body president and a graduating senior, said there is a “general excitement” about Obama’s visit, although he is aware there are people on both sides of the issue.

As of 2 p.m. Thursday, The Observer, the student newspaper, had received 612 letters about Obama’s appearance313 from alumni and 299 from current students.

Seventy percent of the alumni letters opposed having Obama giving the speech, while 73 percent of student letters supported his appearance. Among the 95 seniors who wrote letters, 97 percent supported the president’s invitation.

Sophomore Kelsey Fletcher, a Japanese major from nearby Elkhart, said she doesn’t think the university should have invited Obama to speak.

“He shouldn’t be giving the commencement address because of his policies, but once you invite him you can’t disinvite him,” she said. “That would be rude.”

Others noted that Obama is only speaking at three universities this year.

“We can’t just forgive his viewpoints, we can’t just let it go without expressing our thoughts on it,” said Thomas Heitker, a freshman biology major from Columbus, Ohio. “But he’s only speaking at three universities this year and to be one out of so many is something we should be proud about.”

Chris Carrington, a political science major from the Chicago area, said he doesn’t see how Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame contradicts Catholic values.

“To not allow someone here because of their beliefs seems a little hypocritical and contradictory to what the mission of the university and church should be,” he said.

Tea-Bag Protest Info

With all the protests being planned for April 15th, I thought I would post this info on how to set-up a protest in Washington DC. Some of these tips are very helpful, especially the common sense ones.

Also, don’t forget to check out our “T-Baggers Helper” page where you can get ideas for Tea-Bag pictures/graphics, and slogans that may interest you.

Gio-

There is this huge misconception that only large national organizations are able to conduct a march or protest in the District of Colombia, but in reality, anyone can. The problem is that many people do not know where to start. The information is not available through the Washington, D.C. website. Follow the guidelines below, however, and you can conduct a protest or march in Washington with ease.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2051467_organize-protest-washington-dc.html

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Phone and fax machine

Step 11

Start planning at least three months ahead of your anticipated march. Permits are approved within 48 hours but you can submit them up to a year or more in advance. The earlier you start, the better.

Step 22

Contact the National Parks Permit Office by calling (202) 619-7225. Ask them to fax you a permit application.

 

Step 33

Visit the Dcpages website for a map of the District of Colombia. Determine the protest gathering point, march route and rally area. Print the map by hitting the ¨Print Screen¨ button on the keyboard. Use a yellow highlighter to plot out the different protest points on the map.

Step 44

Call the National Parks Permit Office again; Ask them for the availability dates on the gathering location, march route and rally point. Once they have confirmed availability, proceed to fill out the entire application.

Step 55

Make sure to specify the estimated number of people participating in the protest and the main contact person. That person must sign and date the application.

Step 66

Make a copy of the application and the highlighted map for your records.

Step 77

Mail the original application and highlighted map to: National Parks Permit Office, Room 128, 1100 Ohio Drive Southwest, Washington, District of Colombia 20242.

Step 88

Wait about a week for a National Parks Agent to call. This agent will be specifically assigned to your organization for the permit application process. Have the agent give you her direct extension for further questions and information.

Step 99

Provide the agent with any additional information he may need to approve the permit. Ask him to fax you the approved permit immediately and mail the original back to you.

Step 1010

Start campaigning for participants with your permit in hand. The National Parks Permit Office will take care of notifying the District of Colombia Police and other city organizations that require special events notification. It’s that simple!

It All Adds Up

THIS…

PLUS THIS…

AND THIS…

AND THIS…

EQUALS…

And the streets will run red with the blood of our children. This is NOT the America I want to live in, how about you?

Gio- 

 

Obama’s Union Army Part #2

Giovanni World member SlicedSky left this link in one of her comments to the original post called “Obama’s Union Army”, and it proves so much of what I have been trying to say, that I just had to re-print in it’s entirety.

Months ago Eowyn had turned me on to NewZeal.Blogspot, and now I have an excellent reason to show everyone that she was right!

Everything highlighted in bold has been done by me to make the reader stop momentarily to think about their meaning.

Gio-

This article originally posted on NewZeal in November of 2008. http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-file-49-how-communists-socialists.html

How the Communists and Socialists got Obama elected.

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and their allies in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have backed Barack Obama for many years.

So what you say? How can a couple of fringe Marxist sects with a combined membership of probably under 10,000, possibly effect a country as powerful as the United States of America?

Here’s how.

In this report from the Communist Party USA’s Political Affairs website, humbly entitled “Special Interest or Class Consciousness? How Labor Put Obama in the White House” the communists explain how socialist led unionists elected a president.

Political Affairs explains the importance union backing played in the Obama campaign and goes on to quote AFL-CIO President and well known DSA member John Sweeney and AFL-CIO Political Committee Chair and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee-also allegedly a DSA member.

“New polling data released this week by the AFL-CIO revealed the extent of union support for Barack Obama in the presidential election.

The data showed that a “high turnout among working-class union voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan formed a foundation of support for Obama.” In addition, union voters in key battleground states like Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida proved influential as well, an AFL-CIO press statement on the new data indicated.

Union members supported Obama by a 68-30 margin and strongly influenced their family members, according to an election night survey conducted for the AFL-CIO by Peter D. Hart Research Associates.

According to exit polling by major media outlets, voters from union households totaled one in five voters.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said, “We have taken the first crucial steps to build a better future for our children and grandchildren. And what we’ve seen – the stunning voter participation and the common call for change – is an indication of the history we can continue to make together.”

“More than 250,000 union volunteers took to the streets in the largest independent voter mobilization in history,” AFL-CIO Political Committee Chair and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee said.

Union education and mobilization efforts turned in impressive statistics for the Obama-Biden ticket, the data revealed.

Obama won among white men who are union members by 18 points. Union gun-owners backed Obama by 12 points. Union veterans voted for Obama by a 25-point margin. In the general population, Obama lost these groups by significant margins.

In addition, labor leaders stated that an immediate goal is to pass an economic stimulus package that provides direct relief for working families by strengthening the social safety net, creating jobs through public infrastructure investments, and directing financial relief to states to help cover costs of health care and education programs.

“The election is just step one in delivering the change we need,” Sweeney said. “Working men and women are poised to keep the energy pumping to help the Obama administration lead the change we need. There will be no gap or letdown.”

The AFL-CIO mobilized 250,000 volunteers in 24 battleground states. In its final “get out the vote” push,” the AFL-CIO boasted, union volunteers contacted 1 million union voters. Throughout the campaign, the union said, the labor movement made 76 million calls, knocked on 14 million doors, and circulated 29 million fliers at work sites and union households. The effort identified a total of 3 million “undecided” voters and helped convince many of them to support Barack Obama.”

That’s step one. Use union muscle to get who you want elected, elected.

Step two. Use front groups and unions to push socialist policy inside the Democratic Party. Make communist/socialist policies “respectable” by giving them a Democratic Party label.

Let me stop here for a moment to remind you that this is exactly what it states in the “45 Communist Goals for America”. This was well known and put into the public record back in 1962. Here is the exact one… 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. You can read the rest of them here… “45 Communist Goals for America”.

Step three. Use your sympathisers, allies and secret members inside the Democratic Party to get your socialist policies passed into law.

In an adjacent article Political Affairs extensvely covers Dr Quentin Young’s call for a “single payer” health care system. “Single payer”, or socialised medicine is a long time platform issue for both CPUSA and DSA.

“A group of over 15,000 U.S. physicians has called on President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress to “do the right thing” and enact a single-payer national health insurance plan, a system of public health care financing frequently characterized as “an improved Medicare for all.”

“Our country is hailing the remarkable and historic victory of Barack Obama and the mandate for change the electorate has awarded him,” said Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.

“In large measure Sen. Obama’s victory and the victories of his allies in the House and Senate were propelled by mounting public worries about health care,” he said. “Yet the prescription offered during the campaign by the president-elect and most Democratic policy makers – a hybrid of private health insurance plans and government subsidies – will not resolve the problems of our dangerously dysfunctional system.,” Young said.

“The only effective cure for our health care woes is to establish a single, publicly financed system, one that removes the inefficient, wasteful, for-profit private health insurance industry from the picture,” he said. “Single payer has a proven track record of success – Medicare being just one example – and is the only medically and fiscally responsible course of action to take.”

Stop time again… When has anything run by the government ever been efficient?

“A solid majority of physicians endorse such an approach,” Young said. “An April 2008 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows 59 percent of U.S. physicians support national health insurance. Opinion polls show two-thirds of the public also supports such a remedy. Now, with strong political leadership, this reform is within reach.”

Young said the adoption of a single-payer health system can be a “major component of the new president’s economic rescue of Main Street.”

Young noted that Obama has said more than once that he is a supporter of a single-payer universal health care program, and that if he were “starting from scratch,” he would favor adopting one. In 2003, Young said, then Illinois state Sen. Obama remarked that “first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

Young remarked: “Tuesday’s election has made all of these conditions happen. In his first 100 days, President Obama has a window of opportunity to inspire the nation by championing the enactment of single-payer national health insurance under the slogan, ‘Everybody in, nobody out.’ Such a plan is embodied in the U.S. National Health Insurance Act, H.R. 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and co-sponsored by more than 90 others, more than any other health reform legislation.”

“Adopting a nationwide single-payer system will build on the great achievement of Medicare, further unify our people, strengthen our country’s economic competitiveness and assure President Obama’s legacy as an American hero,” Young said.

The article doesn’t say so, but Quentin Young is a leading member of Chicago DSA. Before joining DSA in the early 1980s Young was heavily involved in Communist Party fronts and in the early 1970s was accused by a Senate Internal Security body of once belonging to the North Chicago Bethune Club of the CPUSA.

Quentin Young is a long time personal friend and political supporter of Barack Obama. he was present at the famous 1995 meeting in the home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, that helped launch Obama’s poltical career.

Quentin Young has treated both the Obama and Ayers/Dohrn families.

“Single payer” advocate Rep John Conyers also has a long communist front record, is reputedly a DSA member and is most certainly a strong Obama supporter.

DSA and CPUSA controlled unions got Barack Obama (and dozens of other socialist Democrats)elected.

DSA and CPUSA fronts use those beholden politicians to promote socialist policies inside the Democratic Party.

By using front groups like Quentin Young’s “Physicians for a National Health Program”, the communists and socialists can advance their agenda under a false flag. Their sympathisers and allies in the Democratic Party can then promote and vote on those policies, claiming them as their own-leaving the public in the dark as to their true source.

The socialist threat to America, comes not from abroad, but from the DSA/CPUSA controlled unions, their front groups and their allies in the Democratic Party.

That is how a few thousand dedicated activists can influence and in some cases control, the political direction of the mightiest country on earth.

How much easier will it be, now that their man has the top job?

Obama’s Union Army

I’m trying to put together an indepth look at how Labor Unions have played, and will play, a major role in the future of Obama’s presidency, and in the destruction of the USA. This post is not it!

I simply wanted to give you a heads up on something that is starting to emerge as a pattern with Obama. Let me give you a peek…

Labor Unions are in large part responsible for getting Obama elected. They donated tens of millions of dollars to his campaign knowing that he would be instrumental in helping Unions grow at a rate never before seen in this country. What they may not have known, is one of the reasons why he is so interested in Unions.

One would think that Unions would be open to anyone of any color, religion, etc. I did. Then I started to do some research on the Unions that help to get him elected and found a disturbing pattern. Below is just a sample. I copied this info from the Service Employees International Union or simply SEIU.

First up is their general mission statement…

“We are the Service Employees International Union, an organization of 2 million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating a more just and humane society.”

The bold highlighting of those last 8 words only gives you a hint at where Obama is eye-to-eye with this Union. Now comes the part that makes one wonder.

Once you become a member, the SEIU wants you to become an active member by joining one of two of their activist organizations….

Join the Member Organizing Reserves

Become a Member Political Organizer

Now check out what one of the senior members wrote on the MPO (Member Political Organizer) blog. Their goal is to support Obama’s upcoming budget by getting active in bugging the crap out of Congress to pass his budget. Here are the reasons this person gives for wanting to support Obama’s 3 TRILLION DOLLAR budget…

Why Obama’s Budget Matters
By SINSI HERNÁNDEZ-CANCIO
The first step is making sure the President’s budget gets the support it needs from leaders in Congress. His budget makes a huge down-payment on reforming healthcare this year, and toward erasing the disparities that have resulted in unequal care. We need to show our strong and unequivocal support for the Presidents budget. Already, Obama has done more to reform health care than George Bush did in eight years including:

· Covering More Children: Reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover an additional 4 million children

· Preventing Cuts in Medicaid: $87 Billion to prevent Medicaid cuts

· Real Money for Disease Prevention in Underserved Communities: $1 billion for prevention & wellness–much of which will be focused on underserved communities & advocates need to weigh in with HHS to shape this spending

· Research Into Which Treatments Work Best for Minority Communities: $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness–research into what treatments & procedures work best for which patient groups–this research will be conducted with sensitivity to gender, ethnicity, and minority populations.

· Technology To Collect Health Data For Communities of Color: $20 billion in Health Information Technology investments–Health Information Technoloy should enable the improved collection of patient demographic data to better measure patient outcomes by subpopulations

· Investing in the Healthcare Workforce for Communities of Color: $500 million for health care workforce–much of this investment will go to promote National Health Service Corps, whose physicians, dentists, and nurses serve underserved communities

Obama’s proposed budget will go even further to promote equality by:

· Investing $640 Billion In Expanded Coverage To Improve The Delivery System and Contain Costs. It’s the first step in vastly reducing the number of uninsured and leveling the health care playing field.

· A New Nurse Home Visitation Program That Targets Families At Risk for Chronic Disease With Early Intervention Programs for New Moms.

· Additional $330 Million in Health Care Workforce – Something Communities Of Color Need, So That We Have The Workforce and Delivery System To Level The Playing Field.

Now let me ask you, doesn’t that all sound a bit strange? And I don’t understand, especially in this day and age, why they would target COLOR for this money? I can see under served socioeconomic areas being served by this money, which would include white, black, brown, yellow, etc, but why target people of color? If a wealthy person of color goes to the same doctor as a wealthy white person does, is there really a need for this?

Ok, let me wrap this up because I could literally write about this all day. Think of all the connections (those of you that have been paying attention) that Obama has to groups or individuals that teach a Communist version of “America is an inherantly racist nation”. Now we have a president of the largest South American country, Brazil, blaming Whitey for the economic ills of the world. And this guys thinking is in line with Castro, Chavez, and our very own president, Barack Obama.

Food for thought? I think so!

Gio-

Racist Brazil Crisis

The following story about the dumb president of Brazil should worry people for a couple of reasons, but not the reasons you may be thinking.

One, how stable can a duly elected president of a country be, to make general racist statements like that? This is the talk of a tyrant nut-case. History has taught us, that leaders who speak like this, have caused enormous pain, death and destruction on unimaginable scales.

Two, is this the precursor of things to come with an Obama presidency? I fear that Obama wants to see to it that certain races become more equal than others. My next post titled “Obama’s Union Army” will explain my rationale.

In general, it sounds like this guy has been spending time with Hugo Chavez.

Gio-

Hangin' with Hugo!

Submitted by west coast editor Eowyn.

Brazil’s leader blames white people for crisis
By Jonathan Wheatley in So Paulo and agencies
Published: March 27 2009 00:27 | Last updated: March 27 2009 00:27
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae4957e8-1a5f-11de-9f91-0000779fd2ac.html

Brazil’s President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on white people with blue eyes and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.

Speaking in Braslia at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.

He added: I do not know any black or indigenous bankers so I can only say [it is wrong] that this part of mankind which is victimised more than any other should pay for the crisis.

Mr Brown appeared to distance himself from Mr Lula da Silva’s remarks. “I’m not going to attribute blame to any individuals,” he said.

Mr Brown was visiting Brazil as part of a five-day tour of Europe, the US and South America in preparation for the G20 summit to take place in London next Thursday. He made a joint appeal with Mr Lula daSilva for the world’s biggest economies to provide $100bnto boost global trade.

“I’m going to ask the G20 summit next week to support a global expansion of trade finance to reverse a slide in world trade,” Mr Brown said.

Mr Lula daSilva also spoke out strongly against raising trade barriers in response to the global crisis. “I compare protectionism to a drug,” he said. Why do people use drugs? Because they are in crisis and they think the drug will help them. But its effects pass quickly.”

The two leaders’ remarks demonstrate the desire each will have to secure the other’s support during the G20 meeting.

Brazil – which has long campaigned unsuccessfully to be given a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council – will argue for a bigger voice for Brazil and other emerging nations in multilateral organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Forum, a group of central banks and national supervisory authorities established in 1999.

Brazil is one of many nations calling for increased regulation of global financial markets and greater powers for multilateral regulators.

It will also call for a resumption and conclusion of the Doha round of talks at the World Trade Organisation.

In return for supporting such initiatives, Mr Brown will expect Brazil to endorse calls for fiscal stimulus in a bid to mitigate the impact of the global crisis, such as the proposed $100bn in trade finance.