http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-s-Middle-Class--t-by-Richard-Clark-110517-719.html

The end of the middle class

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Strong-Unions--The-Worst-by-Michael-Collins-110517-439.html

We need strong unions!!!

http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=131835

The Anti-Christ is a dictatorship, a third world country, and a banana republic!!!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-philosophy-of-the-righ-by-Adnan-Al-Daini-110515-849.html

The Anti-Life Party and Satan’s disciples hate most Americans!!!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Democrats-Attack-Union-by-shamus-cooke-110515-432.html

The Democrats have sold out Americans!!!

"a provision that affirms we are at war with Al-Qaeda"

If there was a provision that stated we are not at war with Al-Qaida or any other anti US militant organization or individual what you wind up with is an oxymoron and a bunch of bad guys laughing their arses off at us.

Semantics amounting to a big Duh ! IMO

Re: Obama's Made in America t-shirts & mugs.

Are the T-Shirts & mugs made in America?

From Robert Scheer's article in today's Truthdig:

"One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street"

"All of the leading politicians and officials, federal and state, Republican and Democrat, were on board to complete the job of saving the banks while ignoring their victims ... until last week when the attorney general of New York (Eric Schneiderman) refused to go along."

"Despite a mountain of evidence of robo-signed mortgage contracts, deceitful mortgage-based securities and fraudulent foreclosures, the banks were going to be able to cut their potential losses to what was, for them, a minuscule amount.

In a deal that had the blessing of the White House and many federal regulators and state attorneys general—a settlement probably for not much more than the $5 billion pittance the top financial institutions found acceptable—the banks would be freed of any further claims by federal and state officials over their shady mortgage packaging and servicing practices and deceptive foreclosure proceedings.

At the same time, the SEC and other federal regulatory bodies are making sweetheart deals with the bankers to close off accountability for creating and collecting on more than a trillion dollars’ worth of toxic mortgage-based securities at the heart of the nation’s economic meltdown..."

"The financial crisis occurred only because Republicans and Democrats passed the laws that Wall Street lobbyists wrote ending reasonable banking industry regulation installed in the 1930s in response to the Depression. And when the greed they enabled threatened the foundations of our economy, under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, it was the bankers who were assisted into lifeboats that had no room for ordinary people."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/one_lawman_with_the_guts_to_go_after...

Again...both the Republicans and the Democrats (some of them...especially Obama) are not your friends! They have all committed economic treason against the majority of Americans. So go ahead and vote for your favorite parasite this next election but it really amounts to folly and a waste of time.

Effectively we've been on a war footing since 1939, which has been a big factor in keeping the economy going. This provision just "legalizes" the process. Whether it was fighting the Axis, Communists, or Terrorists, there always seemed to be an enemy to justify payouts and repression. Sometimes the conflicts were justified, sometimes they weren't, except maybe in the minds of those on the front line. Perhaps the only difference is that the process isn't even being kept half-hidden anymore, having moved from overseas to right here. Orwell thought military spending was used to absorb resouces that otherwise would help the people become more independent. That might not be the intention here, Thom, but the effect is the same. Endless war is just another way this country is drifting further into being a feudally stratified society. If this continues I do not believe America can survive in recognizeable form; "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave" is already a mockery.

Ending our endless wars would certainly be possible if the Department of Defense was forced to raise revenue in the same manner many Public Schools have to - with property tax. At the same time we could switch the funding of all public education to federal income tax. Think about it, instead of everyone pissing and moaning about unions and overpaid teachers, the high cost of war would become the righteous focus.

I just hope they don't use a loose definition of "belligerent" because then anyone questioning the US Government in the war crimes they committed might be sorry they believed in freedom of speech. It has happened before, of course, being imprisoned merely for saying something to the effect that "our sons are being used by the Government as cannon fodder".

In that Section 1034 of that HR 1540 bill one could almost substitute "Hitler" or "the Furor" in for "the President"...and "the Jews" (who the Germans believed were committing economic terrorism) or the "communists".

The Germans had their false flag burning of the Reichstag building that led to Hitler's ascension to dictatorship...and we had our false flag 911 attacks. Like the Reichstag fire (the building was pre-planted with incendiaries by the Nazis before) and the WTC buildings were pre-planted with explosives including nano-thermite used in the demolition of the buildings made to look like the crashing planes guided by Muslim terrorists. I think the Muslims are like the German's Jews and used as scape goats to elicit the history that followed...ie: ultra-nationalism and jingoist misguided patriotism. This was needed by the ruling elite because of the Ponzi scheme capitalism that was crashing in on the high-rollers who rolled the dice with everyone else's money.

We have had a "war economy" for quite a while and some saw a new war on terrorism as the detractor of the criminal actions the ruling elite had been waging against us. The illegal invasions of these middle east countries sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Muslim patsies so that the war economy would prosper and help keep the country from collapsing economically. But the war economy and printing more money to create more bubbles won't save it either.

It is such a shame that in order for rich people, or any of us for that matter, to maintain a certain consumerist lifestyle that our country continues to murder people that don't deserve to die. Women, children....I shutter to think if that ever happened here...to us...and most people would not even imagine that it would be possible. And so it is so easy to shut off the atrocities our military commits against people... Vietnamese..Iraqis...Afghanis...Yemenis...Pakistanis...and most of them are Muslims...But many Americans have not even been outside of America and are grossly misinformed and misled about so many things. Many are too myopic and shallow and their minds have been forged in Hollywood movies and propaganda.

It is not an accident that Americans have been dumbed down...for one thing...it gives our corporations the excuse to seek more highly trained and less paid workers in other countries. If you are not educated...you will be too dumb to fight back and see how you are being screwed...it is only too easy to be manipulated into thinking that legions of evil Muslim terrorists are out to destroy America and that they were totally behind 911. Well, I imagine that was not the case before we invaded and killed so many of them.

How would you feel if our country was invaded and occupied and almost daily murders killed some of your family? I would bet that more than a handful of Americans would be pissed off enough to take revenge against the invaders and their country even many years into the future. If they killed your children or you wife or brother or sister you'd be classified as a terrorist too by that evil invading force.

The way I see it when need to have a peaceful revolution NOW before we have to have a bloody one later!

And George W. Bush took this to heart when he started the War on Terror. But the truth is – there’s nothing worse for a nation than endless war.

Were you asleep Thom on 9/11? Were you in a closet in 1996 when Bin Laden declared war on the United States? What followed after that declaration? USS Cole, Kohbar Towers, Two U.S. Embassies and 9/11. And you have the guts to say that "Bush declared a War on Terror"? Have you ever thought Bush's declaration was in 'response to' the above mentioned atrocities. Afterall, Clinton didn't do anything following the attacks on his watch.

"Beware the military-industrial complex." 1/17/1961, by someone who we can be sure knew for sure..

ESTATE NOTES:

CONTINENTAL BANK Number: C0408144 Date Filed: 1/17/1961 Status: merged out Jurisdiction: California

aka Wells Fargo

1/1/1870 Institution established. Original name: Crocker-Citizens National Bank (FDIC#3511)

NIC History:

1959-12-31 UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF SAN DIEGO located at 202 BROADWAY, SAN DIEGO, CA was established as a National Bank.

1961-07-31 CONTINENTAL BANK located at 8730 SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CA was established as a Non-member Bank.

1964-02-01 UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF SAN DIEGO was renamed to UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK and moved to 190 BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA.

1966-03-01 CONTINENTAL BANK moved to 9430 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD BEVERLY HILLS, CA.

1968-08-31 CONTINENTAL BANK was acquired by UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK.

1968-08-31 CONTINENTAL BANK was renamed to BEVERLY HILLS OFF and changed from Non-member Bank to Domestic Branch of a Domestic Bank. 1973-01-19 Institution is closed

7/1/1971 Changed name to Crocker National Bank (FDIC#3511)

5/19/1972 Acquired The First National Bank Of Upland (#3536) in Upland, California.

1973-10-19 UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK failed. CROCKER NATIONAL BANK acquired the remaining assets

10/19/1973 Acquired United States National Bank (#3506) in San Diego, California.

12/31/1973 Acquired Imperial Valley National Bank (19518) in El Centro, California.

5/30/1986 Changed name to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (#3511).

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"Nobody in my corner was

Nobody in my corner was supporting Newt anyway. Secondly, abortion is about 'another' body. The one inside, that is unless you feel that 'thing' in a woman's body is nothing more than just a glob of flesh, by the way has: a nose, hands, eyes, a heartbeat, its own DNA etc., etc., etc.,"

Yes and some even grow up to become Republicans! Also, OBL was not aborted. Nor was Hitler. Nor was Stalin. Nor was Lenin. Nor were any of the Khmer Rouge. Nor were the countless other Dictators who murdered their people by the MILLIONS and practiced Genocide. They were not aborted so that they could live to murder and gas MILLIONS later on! The Millions they killed also had noses, hands, eyes, heartbeats, and own DNA - and also one thing that aborted babies do not - the awareness that they were being killed and murdered; cognizant that their loved ones were also being murdered; and aware of and feeling pain!

And what about those who were also not aborted and who are now “Soldiers in Christ” and who’s main mission in life is to KILL abortion doctors??

And you sir - What if you would of had the Power to Abort OBL knowing what he would do? Would you have done it? And if not, would you then be guilty of the 3000 he murdered on Sept 11? You can't have it both ways. If you say it is all God's will, then you are stuck with the fact that it is also God's will that some babies be aborted. If you then state not so, then it is God's will that 3000 died on Sept 11 because God is all knowing and all powerful and he knew what OBL would do. Under your logic no one is guilty - not you, not OBL, not God!! But if GOD knew, that means he allowed it to happen. That means he has to take responsibility. If he is All Knowing, and All Powerful, that means he is very much aware that abortions do happen, and that means that he does allow them to take place. If you say no to that, then that means that he is NOT All- Knowing and All-Powerful: if that is the case, he is not much of a god.