Daily Topics Blog - Monday July 26th 2010
By louisehartmann
Hour One: Former CIA Ray McGovern www.consortiumnews.com Topic: Does the Wikileak release of 91,000 secret documents show war crimes?
Plus... "Labor Segment" Doug Cunningham www.laborradio.org Hear who's pushing to re-industrialize America and bring back our manufacturing jobs!
Hour Two: Private physician George Watson www.doctorsteaparty.us Topic: Doctors Tea Party: Obamacare will make doctors "slaves on the government PLANtation"...really?!
Plus...Talk Radio News Segment
Hour Three: bestselling suspense fiction author Lisa Gardner http://lisagardner.com Topic: "Live to Tell" - Suspense writer Lisa Gardner tells how her fiction novel mysteriously relates to Thom...it's a secret you'll want to know!! Don't miss Lisa's Reading & booksigning event at 7 p.m., Powell's Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 Cedar Hills Blvd. in Beaverton, OR
Plus...Jesse A. Saperstein http://us.penguingroup.com Topic: "Atypical: Life with Aspergers in 20-1/3 Chapters"
Comments
#2
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
#3
I want to make a comment to Alan Grayson, the Democratic congressman from Florida. You will have a tough time winning re-election because Florida is a haven for conservative crazies.
Mr. Grayson, “it does not matter if you win or lose it is how you played the game.”
Thank you for sticking with your convictions! John F. Kennedy wrote a book, “Profiles in Courage.” I believe that you are a man of courage.
#4
Dear Thom Listeners,
I had a chance to hear Naomi Wolf talk. She mentioned that after she wrote her book, “The End of America” she has been targeted as a domestic terrorist. On her boarding pass for airline flights there are three S’s that red flag her as a terrorist.
I know that there are people who say I am a doomsayer. I only try to share information. Some information is doom and gloom. There are also people who say that I am a bull shitter. I will admit that I can bull shit with the best noted bull shitters in the world. My bullshitting days are numbered because the internet has opened new information sources and so I can give you more factual information.
Naomi Wolf in her book says that key individuals are targeted by our brown shirted, goose-stepping police state personnel. I believe that Thom Hartmann is targeted as a terrorist in fact he has currently three files on his terrorist activities. There is a file on domestic terrorism for the many books he has written, foreign terrorism for his work in Europe and Africa, and as a humanitarian terrorist for his Sacramental Moments. A fourth file has been set up. Our police state government is trying to gather information on him as an animal trainer terrorist. We know from his words that Higgins, his cat, will attack human beings. Has Thom trained other animals to attack human beings? Our police state nation will try to answer that question.
Sincerely, Gerald
#5
@9:00am PDT home pages Yahoo + MSN --
no WIKILEAKS in their headlines --
snooze ya lose?
#6
@rladlof: In the intro to my programming classes I state that ignorance is curable, and that willful ignorance is stupidity.
#7
MSN just reported WIKILEAKS --
"going to put lives at risk" ?
#8
Van Jones quit. We are doing an article for The Independent and here is a paragraph from the article about Van Jones.
He is an attorney and has never been in jail. Fox and company set out to destroy Mr. Jones and they won. Mr. Jones resigned from his position in President Obama’s administration in September 2009 stating, “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me.” “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.” That is what Fox does best.
Fox lies
#9
@camplunalinda: It's possible that the lives at risk could be those who did, as Greg Palast said, "tell the truth on 'em."
Secrecy is often used to keep the voters uninformed, and is therefore dangerous to democracy.
#10
As Butch Cassidy said to the pretender, "first, we have to establish the rules." Response, "rules? In a knife fight?"
#11
@Jeanine, I know that one of my posts made you depressed. My next posts will be three or four posts to cover ten disks on the fall of America. These posts may put you in a deep depression and your love ones will find you in a catatonic state. Your loved ones will have to view you in a vegetative state. I encourage you not to read the posts on these ten disks.
#12
The End of America
Action Point
Disk 1 – Economic Crisis
The Federal Reserve is private. Cartels do not want competition. Cartels love governments. Cartels and governments work together. No one has control over the Federal Reserve. Banks and governments are partners. Government steals money from the people and gives it to its partners. Our debt will never be paid. Debt is chaos and fear in order to control the people. Plus, there is no money. If the loan is for five percent, your interest rate is nine times higher to more than forty-five percent. Money will become extinct. Inflation is a tax, a hidden tax. Cartels manipulate our taxes in order to have more of our money. Our country survives on debt. Derivatives are a fake and steals from the people. Fiat currency has no backing. Money needs backing. Nations do not want currency because it is losing its value. American corporations do not want American workers and they seek to outsource the jobs to foreign countries. The destroying of the American economy has taken place gradually. America has not created any new jobs. Americans do not have upward mobility. Outsourcing and off shoring has Americans losing their jobs. The good paying jobs are gone. Our debt is financed by Asians. American savings rate is zero. Americans have no growth in income. We are headed for a crisis. Capital is wealth. Money is paper and most likely it is worthless. Money that is coming into the USA is worthless and our economic crisis will worsen. Average Americans will be devastated by our economic crisis. Monetarily we are no longer a super-power. Politicians want the dollar to crash so our government does not have to pay our debt or give us any money. Amero money is the new American dollar. The government wants to control our economic lives and our personal lives. They seek to control our liberties. Our economy is collapsing. Our boom and busts in the economy are manipulated by financial institutions who want more of our money.
Disk 2 – Economic Armageddon
Economic and financial institutions are the brink of collapse. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 and cloned closely to the Bank of England. Our purchasing power is down. Our middle class is being squeezed. Our economic and financial system is broken. An easy money system has broken our economy. We no longer have gold and silver backing our money. Keep our citizens stupid! Derivatives are destroying America and other countries. We cannot trust our financial institutions. Americans are addicted to debt. Credit cards are also harming Americans. The death of the dollar is real. Our dollar is worthless. . Investors demand more profits. Investors are taken care of first and foremost. The United States has infected other countries with its ideas. In America we are slaves. We do not own anything. We owe everything to the banks and financial institutions. We need to take personal responsibility for our lives and we need to appraise the world. Where are my risks? Americans lack awareness. We must get liquid as soon as possible. List our useless assets! Reduce debt! Keep it simple! If you do not understand, do not do it. Know what is important and what really matters in our lives! Think for yourself! Be flexible and understand the times we live in! Plan ahead! Develop a strategy and a mindset for survival! Never give up! Americans are not used to hardships! Have cash on hand! Money is paper, like toilet paper. There is no difference between the two major political parties. There is no easy fix for our current banking and financial institutional problems.
Disk 3 – Police State
The system we live in is a nightmare. The Patriot Act has cost us our freedoms. We are losing our civil liberties. We live in a Police State. The Patriot Act targets Americans. Jaywalking may be a terrorist act. Freedom of speech is taken away. Dissent is illegal. You cannot give up your freedoms and really feel secure. Civil liberties make us free. 9-11 was an inside job. We cannot trust our government, banks, and our financial institutions. We should be able to dissent in times of war. We must stop serving evil, such as mass murders and war crimes. Our politicians and our government want another 9-11. Free speech zones limits free speech. Our government has legalized murder in our country and in other countries. We are now guilty and no proof is necessary to jail us or kill us. Habeas Corpus is suspended or eliminated in our country. We are building more prisons to detain Americans. Halliburton has been awarded a $385 million contract to build more prisons. Our voting machines do not have a paper trail to verify the results of our elections. We have rampant voting fraud in our country. Elections are stolen. We are an abnormal democracy. More police, more cameras, and more misery await Americans through our police State. The United States is the United States Constitution. Our government and our Supreme Court are attacking the United States Constitution. More chaos and fear are ahead for Americans. American minds are being conditioned so we give up our freedoms and liberties.
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Disk 4 – The End of the World
What we see happening in our country is using the law to subvert the law. Naomi Wolf list ten tactics that are help to limit our freedoms. 1. Invoke a threat! 2. Create a prison system for torture and torture is now legal in order to control the masses. 3. Develop a paramilitary force like Blackwater to menace the masses! 4. Surveil ordinary Americans in order to manipulate society! We have 900,000 Americans on the terrorist watch list. 5. Infiltrate citizen groups! 6. Arbitrarily detain people! Halliburton has a $385 million contract to build more prisons. 7. Target key individuals! The Ricoh Law applies for everyone! 8. Restrict the press! 9. Criticism is espionage and dissent is treason. Subvert the rule of law and declare martial law!
We hype the terrorist situation because there is money to be made in weaponry. We create terrorists. We will not have freedom. Our constitution is being destroyed. We are witnessing profound change in our lives. We have to control and secure our borders. Conservatives and liberals favor immigration. We are a consumer economy and not a producer economy. America must have a middle class in order to give the people some hope in their lives. People must want to change and make corrections to our problems. We must demand checks and balances on our corporations. Our children need to be taught American Government.
Disk 5 – The Power Elite, Part I
Our middle class is being attacked and the corporatists control our world. We are facing tyranny. We are headed for a world government and a new world order through the Bildenberg Group, dynasty families, and financial empires. There are books to read that tell people and groups how to rule and control people. We have puppets in government. Deception and lying are needed to control the masses. There can be no superpower in a world government and a new world order. The USA is targeted for control. We restrict competition with taxes on the middle class and no taxes for the rich and for corporations. A world government and a new world order are started by evil people and run by evil people. We have sociopaths ruling the USA and the world. Sociopaths cannot change just as zebras cannot change their stripes. The USA policy is to exterminate third world people. Americans must make a stand against evil people. With Mexican immigrants coming to the USA and sending money back to families in Mexico helps to prop up the corrupt Mexican government from falling like a deck of cards. This is another reason why both major political parties favor immigration. The elites have always waged war against the middle class because a middle class gives the people more freedom. The American government can control starving people. Twenty-two percent of our children go to sleeps hungry. Our federal government, the rich, and the corporations are destroying the middle class. American is controlled by evil people, sociopaths, and control freaks!!!
Disk 6 – The Power Elite, Part II
The world is a pyramid. The tiny elite are at the top with more minions at the bottom of the pyramid. We must think for ourselves. Do not accept blindly other persons’ demands! Hunger is by design and scarcity is introduced to control the people. Abundance set people free!!! We are living with Problem Reaction Solution. The power elite create a problem. We react by going to war as a solution to the created problem. The power elite create a problem by cutting taxes on the rich and corporations. We react by saying that more money in the hands of the rich and corporations and you say will create more jobs as a solution. When we rig our elections, we are preventing change for our many problems. People must be in harmony to bring about change. What the power elite do to Americans is to divide the people so they can rule over them. Fear controls the people so we create chaos to bring on more fear!
Disk 7 – Our American Nightmare
Evil people have destroyed our constitution and our nation has drifted away from her spiritual life. There is something seriously wrong in our country. Our idealistic America is collapsing. People in the middle class have an axe to grind and to spread their agenda. Our government is the worst enemy of the people. Our journalists are lapdogs for the government. They are activists with a political agenda to have the rich and the corporatists gain more power. The people need more power in controlling their lives. We need more socialism in our country and the will of the people is important.
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Disk 8 – America’s Collapse
We have two natures – animal and divine. Americans are suffering from an identity crisis. Who are we really? We have been moving toward globalism for five thousand years. There has always been one person who desires to control the world. The only person who should rule over our lives is Jesus Christ. Today, we have mob rule and a mob mentality ruling us. The world empire is referred to as a beast. The Federal Reserve is cloned after the Bank of England when it was formed in 1913. Chatham House needs to be studied. If you want to bring down America, you need to bring down the American dollar. Lamb is signified as a perfect sacrifice and Americans are the lambs to be sacrificed. Computers and television mesmerize people. Television goes into a person’s subconscious. Television is creating a world culture. Terrorism will bring about control over the people. America and England are the beasts. They are the dragons. The beasts seek to totally absorb us. The beasts must destroy our morality. Our government is dummying down Americans. We will be controlled by military high tech, the electronic money system, and human technology, like bar codes, will control us. We must always have freedom of choice. The anti-Christ will take away our freedoms. Man is a beast without God. The new world order is a beast. We need to become more like Jesus Christ to overcome darkness and the beasts. There is darkness coming to us. People are a mixture of good and evil. Americans seem to be moving toward more evil. There is more spiritual darkness in American lives.
Disk 9 – Survival Guide
We need to learn how to protect our family and ourselves. We cannot be passive in our world. We must be active. Get out of debt! Have less, do less, say no!!! We must get organized. The collectivists took one hundred years to destroy America. Taking back our country will not happen overnight! The Founders of our country took on problems and they prayed for Divine Intervention. God is still in control. God wants to hear from us. We must ask God for His help. Our government cannot stop us from praying. We need election reform with a paper trail; election day should be a holiday; we need a viable third party; we should not have just two parties; big money must be out of our elections; our media will need to reform; they must be more objective in reporting the news; the internet cannot be privatized; we must think for ourselves. Do not trust people who have the most to gain!!! Get assets outside the USA! The USA government is more dangerous than anyone else we know. We need tax reform with a graduated income tax scale. Treasury bills, liquid cash, gold and silver need leverage, and precious metals are important to guard against the next depression. We need to slow down the pace in our lives. Relax and find a comfortable place in life! Try to enjoy your life more! Do good work to help people! We live in different times but also exciting times to make a positive difference. We are on a journey to Mount Calvary and our final judgment before God. The elites want to limit us. We will need to expand our knowledge and understanding of the USA and the world. The elites seek to entice and entrap us through our five senses. Americans are headed for more prison cell unless we educate ourselves. People must become conscious and act upon their beliefs. We need courage to act.
Disk 10 – Conquering the Chaos
We use bubbles to avoid the depressions. How did we get into the financial crisis? Greed dominates. Federal Reserve manipulates our economy for the pluses and minuses. We cannot eliminate risk. Derivatives expanded to create a bubble before the bust. Booms lead to busts. Wall Street is an organized crime syndicate. Wall Street is controlled by crooks and thieves. Derivatives have no value. Wall Street is addicted to leverage. American home owners have massive problems. We are headed for a major depression. We have too much debt. Unemployment is too high. Job losses are mounting. Real estate will continue to be a problem for people. We have had a terrible economy for at least five years. With no manufacturing job to buffer the depression for a long life I depression could with us three or four generations. There is no transparency and the severity of our depression. We no longer trust our banks and financial institutions. Americans will have to pay at least $20 trillion to bailout the crooks and thieves. America has no plan. Without a plan we are losing. The bailouts are the worst in the history of the world. Leverage is a problem. The banks have borrowed too much and now the loan must be paid. The small people like me will have to be robbed to repay the borrowed money. We are dead broke. The borrowed money must be paid. The elites, the rich, and the corporatists will not be taxed to help with the bailouts and the middle class will be robbed of their money. There is no hope in resolving our crisis. We will have hyper inflation for most of this century. The Federal Reserve cranked out money in 1929 and they need to crank out even more money in 2010. Countries are no longer in the American dollar. Debt is a dangerous place for people. Liquidity is important. Market cycles are either fear or hope. We are in the fear cycle. Conquering the chaos will be extremely difficult.
#15
To view the ten disks I needed between eight and one half to ten hours.
#16
George Watson is full of it.
#17
Secretary Vilsack is the one who acted as a knee-jerk racist . . . Why hasn’t he been asked to resign?
#18
The Democrats will experience an old fashion alley mugging in November, 2010.
#19
Sec'y Vilsack acted like a Democrat who retreats to the fetal position every time Fox Noise screams about anything, which is every day.
#20
UPDATE: Finding the Fun with Blue Shield of California . . .
If you all remember my company’s renewal letter from Mark Gastineau, Senior Vice President of Blue Shield of California showed a rate increase of 10.3%. It turns out that if we re-up with them they will cut that increase in half by lowering our risk profile . . . BUT will not state the quote of the rate increase that way SO other insurers are forced to quote us at the higher risk profile.
Additionally, BSoC are still excluding Cedar-Sinai Medical Group (My doctors of over twenty years and the award winning, nationally-recognized medical excellence center) because BSoC wants guarantee profit margins to secure their annual Executive Bonuses . . .
#21
I vehemently disagree with the earlier caller who suggested the phrase, "THEY PULLED A SHIRLEY" to describe snookering the press and public with deliberate distortions, half-truths, or outright lies. That would be just a further insult to the wonderful SHIRLEY SHERROD, having already been victimized and maligned! Let the blame go where it belongs:
"SO-AND-SO HAS PULLED A BREITBART".
The name of ANDREW BREITBART should forever stand as one more symbol of deceitful, malicious, and inflammatory speech or acts for partisan ends, used to throw blame elsewhere and distract attention from their OWN machinations. Breitbart is in good company in the Halls of Shame, with Rove, Bush-Cheney, Lee Atwater, and all the Republican cherry-pickers and dirty tricksters.
My Gramma used a wise, wonderful Yiddish phrase about this particularly insidious form of deceit: "A halber emes is a gantzer lign" - "A HALF-TRUTH IS A WHOLE LIE". Always look deeper for the full truth of things, and don't allow an adversary to sell you a bowl of cherries they just picked.
#22
National Shanda: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/senate_strips_funding_for_black_farmers_from_war_b.php
Perhaps Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington should get some air-time on this: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/rangel_ethics_commitee_investigated_more_alleged_v.php
Simply FABULOUS!!!: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/ted_haggard_i_over-repented_for_my_meth-gay_prosti.php
May roommates become cell mates: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/coburn_turns_over_emails_to_feds_investigating_ens.php
#23
Thank you, whybaby.
#24
The East Moline Public Hospital served many mentally ill patients. When Raygun emptied it, the logical choice for the hospital's mission was to turn it into East Moline Correctional Institution and take back the former patients as prisoners.
Prison guards are far less expensive than medical staff.
#25
As to the dirtiest tricksters of all, I should have included FOX NEWS. My bad.
#26
There are a lot of things we must understand about abused children, and children of war- there is no difference.
Lorne
#27
I was appalled that the President dared to urge progressives at "Netroots Nation" to "keep up the fight". We have gotten nothing but more of the same....More and larger genocidal wars, more $Billions for the Banksters and militarists, more poverty for working people, more surveillance and repression at home and more Patriot Act.
And the so called "Health Care Reform" bill is just another casino for the insurance companies. The man is a fraud and a Goldman Sacks puppet. No rationalizations can explain away his sellout to those most responsible for the near destruction of our country and the carnage of the last nine years.
At the Democratic Convention in his acceptance speech he roared "Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough!"
Enough indeed. Enough of him already. I voted for him (much to my everlasting regret) and now despise him.
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