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		<title>Exerpt from Timothy McVeigh&#8217;s letters to his sister..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following are excerpts from a letter dated Oct. 20, 1993, and written by Timothy J. McVeigh to his sister Jennifer McVeigh. The idiosyncrasies in spelling and punctuation are Mr. McVeigh&#8217;s. Grandpa McVeigh saw this. He never knew why, but one day, I showed up at his door, freezing outside, in only sweat pants and in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following are excerpts from a letter dated Oct. 20, 1993, and written by Timothy J. McVeigh to his sister Jennifer McVeigh. The idiosyncrasies in spelling and punctuation are Mr. McVeigh&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Grandpa McVeigh saw this. He never knew why, but one day, I showed up at his door, freezing outside, in only sweat pants and in total, complete breakdown. Gramps, I&#8217;m sure, never told anyone about that day, and I respect him greatly for that, as I spent about an hour upstairs &#8221;losing it.&#8221; It was almost suicide at that point, but rage, but denial, but acceptance &#8212; all these feelings were battling for control. . . .</p>
<p>Now here&#8217;s what led to my current life: It all revolves around my arrival at Ft. Bragg for Special Forces. We all took intelligence, psychological, adeptness, and a whole battery of other tests. (Out of a group of 400). One day in formation, ten (10) Social Security numbers were called out (no names) and told to leave formation. Mine was one.</p>
<p>The 10 of us were told that out of the select group of 400, we had scored highest on certain tests. We had been selected because of our intelligence, physical make-up (165 lbs. 6 ft. being &#8221;ultimate warrier&#8221; type &#8212; I was only slightly off &#8212; 160 lbs. 6&#8217;1 1/2&#8221;), and physical abilities. We were to feel special, part of a hand-picked group). . . .</p>
<p>We were all asked to &#8221;volunteer&#8221; (talk about peer pressure!) to do some &#8221;work for the government on the domestic, as well as international, front.&#8221; . . .</p>
<p>What I learned next, both from the briefings, and from the questions and private talks included:</p>
<p>1.) We would be helping the CIA fly drugs into the U.S. to fund many covert operations;</p>
<p>2.) Military &#8221;consultants&#8221; were to work hand-in-hand w/civilian police agencies to &#8221;quiet&#8221; anyone whom was deemed a &#8221;security risk.&#8221; (We would be gov&#8217;t-paid assassins!)</p>
<p>3.)Many other details &#8212; to verify these last two, see the enclosed article, or watch, again the movie &#8221;Lethal Weapon&#8221;. . . .</p>
<p>It also gives you new insight on things like WACO, etc. &#8212; they were murdered by hit-men.</p>
<p>Photo: An image taken from video shows Timothy J. McVeigh with his sister Jennifer, to whom he confided in letters.</p>
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		<title>Deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since writing the last post on the OK City bombing, I have been perusing various articles on the internet and came across a few things I wanted to share. I encourage you to read the other post before continueing with this one. In my last post I mentioned another individual, wanted for questioning that became [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since writing the last post on the OK City bombing, I have been perusing various articles on the internet and came across a few things I wanted to share. I encourage you to read the other post before continueing with this one.</p>
<p>In my last post I mentioned another individual, wanted for questioning that became referred to as John Doe No. 3, well it seems that although a multi million dollar investigation couldn’t find him but it seems the internets have. A really good <a href="http://eyeonhate.com/mcveigh/mcveigh5.html">article </a>I came across, containing information on an Andreas Carl Strassmeir, who not only moved to Oklahoma from Germany in the years prior to the bombing he looks a hell of a lot like the composite sketch of John Doe No. 3. The article reveals that an ATF informant Carol Howe was infiltrating a white supremacist group ran by Tom Metzger called White Aryan Resistance. In a report she filed in 1994 she said that “she overheard Andreas Strassmeir and Dennis Mahon discussing a plan to blow up Federal buildings including the Tulsa IRS Office, the Tulsa Federal Building and the Oklahoma Federal Building.” It seems to me this provided the evidence needed by the FBI to ‘hijack’ the plot, further radicalize those involved, provide whatever material support needed, (training, explosives) so that they had a patsy all lined up. As for why he wasn’t pursued in the OK city bombing, it seems that Andy the German (as he was known by some) may have been a CIA asset. Apparently one evening, after some of the people Andreas had been associating with suspected something was up, and decided to follow him. They allegedly followed him to a Federal Building, entered the correct code for the locked door. Apparently, in addition to this an individual who worked at an impound lot, got a lot of pressure from lawyers and the state department to release Andreas’ car, and fast, because he had diplomatic immunity, which spells CIA asset to me. When he came to pick up his car, he was more worried about a briefcase which had been searched and was said to have remarked, “&#8217;Well, no one will be able to understand what these are anyway.” After leaving the country Strassmeir was said to have remarked:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s obvious that it was a government &#8216;op&#8217; that went wrong, isn&#8217;t it? The ATF had something going with McVeigh. They were watching him, of course they were. What they should have done is make an arrest while the bomb was still being made instead of waiting till the last moment for a publicity stunt. They had everything they needed to make the bust, and they screwed it up.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>For more on this <a href="http://eyeonhate.com/mcveigh/mcveigh5.html">click here</a>.</p>
<p>One of the biggest things going for them is that the general public doesn’t even have a clue about explosions. A large, visibly impressive explosion is rarely that destructive. The pressure waves put of by high explosives don’t give the large cloud of fire and smoke that smaller explosions (usually used in Hollywood for obvious reasons). But it is this pressure wave that causes the damage. However, most explosives experts agree, <a href="http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_01.htm">&#8220;[..] [M]y belief is that 4800 lbs of ANFO wouldn&#8217;t have scuffed the paint on the building!&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Another thing I came across was a video, of a man, arrested on what he claims are false drug charges used to get him off the street. He was apparently involved in building a bomb that he says fits the devastation seen in the OK city. It also apparently explains the fact that <a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html">evidence exists that two explosions, 5 seconds apart</a> occurred on the morning of the OK city bombing. This 5 second gap between the first small explosion and the second is to allow a gaseous chemical explosive to fill the air surrounding the structure to be destroyed before that gas is then ignited causing the second explosion. He has no doubt that the OK city bomb was this barometric bomb. The other interesting thing he mentioned at the very end of the film is that the 1983 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_States_embassy_bombing">US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon</a> (although he claims in the video it was an apartment complex) was the first time this type of bomb had been used.</p>
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<p>Some other useful links:<br />
<a href="http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_01.htm">http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_01.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mcveigh2.htm">http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mcveigh2.htm</a></p>
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		<title>OK City, 1st False Flag on US soil??</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, maybe not the first, but one of the most memorable &#8216;terrorist&#8217; bombing on US soil murdering 168 people, including 19 children, all under 6. It was said to be carried out by a ‘home-grown terrorist” Timothy McVeigh, with help from Terry Nichols. It was more likely carried out by elements within the US Government [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, maybe not the first, but one of the most memorable &#8216;terrorist&#8217; bombing on US soil murdering 168 people, including 19 children, all under 6. It was said to be carried out by a ‘home-grown terrorist” Timothy McVeigh, with help from Terry Nichols. It was more likely carried out by elements within the US Government in order to pass the Anti-Terrorist Act, which was later used to destroy a $100 Million medical plant in Sudan. This Legislation could not have passed if it were not for the 168 killed that day.</p>
<p>I remember coming across an article somewhere (which of course I can’t find) about Timothy McVeigh’s history and that there is a period of about a year that his whereabouts is unknown. Apparently, a video exists showing McVeigh on a US Military base during that time, apparently undergoing training in explosives.</p>
<p>It was said in the days following this bombing that a sophisticated group of individuals had to be behind it, but only McVeigh was prosecuted (and executed post haste). Apparently, but not surprisingly, security tapes exist showing the explosion and the events before and after the explosion but are apparently not important enough to be released (flash forward to the pentagon on 9/11). They apparently show another individual, who came to be known as John Doe No. 2, sitting in the front seat of the Rider van prior to its detonation. Why was this man never pursued by police? What happened to the other two bombs discovered that day? Why did they not provide a window into the perpetrators of this crime? Why did the government not take a stronger stance on this considering it has come to light that they knew about the bombing prior to the event? What was in that building that needed to be disposed of? Why are there pictures showing a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-Braggs? Why was McVeigh smart enough to create a bomb of this calibre but not remember to put a licence plate on his car? And speed? And how could a bomb in a truck parked out front of a building pulverize support columns in the center of the building?</p>
<p>Break a few windows, sure, but those support columns can withstand an upwards of 3,000 psi force, the 4,800 pound ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture bomb, they say was similar to 5,000 lbs of TNT, likely only produced a force in the order of 50-100 psi max (although some things I&#8217;ve come across say more like 25 psi especially in the vicinity of the pulverized columns). Although the key here is not the size of the bomb, (especially since the Ryder Truck Bomb seems to be more of a distraction, so witnesses see a blast, the shape charges that blew out the columns aren’t nearly as impressive), it is the location of the charges. How many lbs of explosives do you think were used to bring down what was remaining of the Murrah Building? About 150 lbs according to one thing I read, but they would have been placed strategically around on the columns that remained of the structure. A great analysis of the blast by Benton K. Partin, Brigadier Gen. USAF (Ret.) can be found here.</p>
<p>Early news reports talk of bombs inside the building, including 2 bombs that were disarmed. Where were these bombs located? Early news reports said they were INSIDE the buildings. Witnesses even discussed seeing people, in the days leading to the bombing, examining blueprints in the parking garage located below the building.</p>
<p>There remain, to this day, many unanswered questions, most of which will likely go unanswered indefinitely. Below is a video outlining some of the problems with the ‘lone bomber’ theory pushed by the mainstream news and provides some evidence to support the idea that elements within the US government plotted to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City or at least covered up evidence of others involved in the plot. It looks like OK city may have been a joint Mossad-German intelligence operation, although the reasoning behind it is still just speculation. The big question that remains is weather or not Timothy McVeigh knew of the FBI’s involvement. He likely knew nothing about the charges placed in the building in the days before the blast. It seems another case where the FBI likely encouraged Tim in his plans, providing material support along the way, and ultimately allowing 168 people including children to lose their lives, and for what??</p>
<p>They say, when looking for who was involved, follow the money, well one thing that did come out of this was a $98 Million investigation into the bombing, likely including the costs associated with destroying the evidence before thorough testing could be done which would have easily proven the theories above wrong.</p>
<p>&#8220;One day you will find out your government was behind this&#8221; &#8211; Tim McVeigh</p>
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		<title>Some good news&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just emailed this article and thought it was worth the read, so I&#8217;m gonna post it. Worthwhile Canadian Initiative Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1&#8211;compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1. Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009 The legendary editor of The New Republic, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was just emailed this article and thought it was worth the read, so I&#8217;m gonna post it.</p>
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<p>Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1&#8211;compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1.</p></div>
<div class="author">Fareed Zakaria</div>
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<div class="articleUpdated">From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009</div>
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<p>The legendary editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley, once held a &#8220;Boring Headline Contest&#8221; and decided that the winner was &#8220;Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.&#8221; Twenty-two years later, the magazine was rescued from its economic troubles by a Canadian media company, which should have taught us Americans to be a bit more humble. Now there is even more striking evidence of Canada&#8217;s virtues. Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in the financial or mortgage sectors. Yup, it&#8217;s Canada. In 2008, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada&#8217;s banking system the healthiest in the world. America&#8217;s ranked 40th, Britain&#8217;s 44th.</p>
<p>Canada has done more than survive this financial crisis. The country is positively thriving in it. Canadian banks are well capitalized and poised to take advantage of opportunities that American and European banks cannot seize. The Toronto Dominion Bank, for example, was the 15th-largest bank in North America one year ago. Now it is the fifth-largest. It hasn&#8217;t grown in size; the others have all shrunk.</p>
<p>So what accounts for the genius of the Canadians? Common sense. Over the past 15 years, as the United States and Europe loosened regulations on their financial industries, the Canadians refused to follow suit, seeing the old rules as useful shock absorbers. Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1—compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1 and European banks at a frightening 61 to 1. Partly this reflects Canada&#8217;s more risk-averse business culture, but it is also a product of old-fashioned rules on banking.</p>
<p>Canada has also been shielded from the worst aspects of this crisis because its housing prices have not fluctuated as wildly as those in the United States. Home prices are down 25 percent in the United States, but only half as much in Canada. Why? Well, the Canadian tax code does not provide the massive incentive for overconsumption that the U.S. code does: interest on your mortgage isn&#8217;t deductible up north. In addition, home loans in the United States are &#8220;non-recourse,&#8221; which basically means that if you go belly up on a bad mortgage, it&#8217;s mostly the bank&#8217;s problem. In Canada, it&#8217;s yours. Ah, but you&#8217;ve heard American politicians wax eloquent on the need for these expensive programs—interest deductibility alone costs the federal government $100 billion a year—because they allow the average Joe to fulfill the American Dream of owning a home. Sixty-eight percent of Americans own their own homes. And the rate of Canadian homeownership? It&#8217;s 68.4 percent.</p>
<p>Canada has been remarkably responsible over the past decade or so. It has had 12 years of budget surpluses, and can now spend money to fuel a recovery from a strong position. The government has restructured the national pension system, placing it on a firm fiscal footing, unlike our own insolvent Social Security. Its health-care system is cheaper than America&#8217;s by far (accounting for 9.7 percent of GDP, versus 15.2 percent here), and yet does better on all major indexes. Life expectancy in Canada is 81 years, versus 78 in the United States; &#8220;healthy life expectancy&#8221; is 72 years, versus 69. American car companies have moved so many jobs to Canada to take advantage of lower health-care costs that since 2004, Ontario and not Michigan has been North America&#8217;s largest car-producing region.</p>
<p>I could go on. The U.S. currently has a brain-dead immigration system. We issue a small number of work visas and green cards, turning away from our shores thousands of talented students who want to stay and work here. Canada, by contrast, has no limit on the number of skilled migrants who can move to the country. They can apply on their own for a Canadian Skilled Worker Visa, which allows them to become perfectly legal &#8220;permanent residents&#8221; in Canada—no need for a sponsoring employer, or even a job. Visas are awarded based on education level, work experience, age and language abilities. If a prospective immigrant earns 67 points out of 100 total (holding a Ph.D. is worth 25 points, for instance), he or she can become a full-time, legal resident of Canada.</p>
<p>Companies are noticing. In 2007 Microsoft, frustrated by its inability to hire foreign graduate students in the United States, decided to open a research center in Vancouver. The company&#8217;s announcement noted that it would staff the center with &#8220;highly skilled people affected by immigration issues in the U.S.&#8221; So the brightest Chinese and Indian software engineers are attracted to the United States, trained by American universities, then thrown out of the country and picked up by Canada—where most of them will work, innovate and pay taxes for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>If President Obama is looking for smart government, there is much he, and all of us, could learn from our quiet—OK, sometimes boring—neighbor to the north. Meanwhile, in the councils of the financial world, Canada is pushing for new rules for financial institutions that would reflect its approach. This strikes me as, well, a worthwhile Canadian initiative.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I support Israel’s right to defend its land from rocket fire, there is little talk of the overt actions of the part of Israel to further radicalize those trapped in the world’s larges internment camp. 

 

Look at this way, let’s say for a moment that the Native Americans and the Mexicans rounded up all North American Europeans, forcing them into ghettos, refugee camps and then put a nice big wall around the whole thing so no weapons, bombs, fuel, food or other supplies can enter. I mean those North Americans should be able to take care of them selves and feel content in their quality of life. Then, in the event that the North American Militants fired rockets into Native American and Mexican territory injuring someone, the Native American and Mexican Soldiers are completely justified in bombing schools and refuge camps and not guilty in any way of provoking such attacks.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">In what can only be described as an onslaught, Israel continues to attack ‘militants’ in Gaza, one of the few remaining strongholds of Hamas the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">terrorist organization</span> </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4726494.stm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">government elected by the Palestinians</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KntmpoRXFX4"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Israel broke a ceasefire</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> agreement that had lasted about 4 months, claiming their hand was forced by Hamas militants digging a tunnel out of Gaza to apparently attack Israeli soldiers (remember there is a big </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080123-AP-israel-pale.html"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">wall</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> around these people and they were probably trying to get </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7808825.stm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">food and clean water</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">, but I digress). Israel has continued a 12 day<strong> </strong><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">offensive</span> defensive attack on the region with the supposed intent of ending numerous (mostly unsuccessful) rocket attacks from the region. However, in what is considered the most densely populated </span><a href="http://www.masada2000.org/historical.html"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Palestinian land that remains</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">, the attacks on ‘militants’ seem to have been abandoned in favor of killing </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2991838.stm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">women</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> and </span><a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/01/06/israel-mulls-complaining-to-un-after-killings/"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">children</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> to either further radicalize the region, further justifying these attacks, or to try and turn the remaining Palestinian population against their resistance movement. (which do you see as more likely?) Israel has admitted to deliberately targeting a school, which they now claim was being used as </span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/the_un_gaza_school_was_a_weapo.html"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">a weapons dump</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">, or </span><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07484032.htm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">had someone fire on them</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">, even though the </span><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07484032.htm"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">UN had assured them that no ‘militants’ were present in the school</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">, only civilians attempting to flee the assault on their homes (remember the wall, they have no where to run). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After killing over 600 Palestinians (about a quarter of which have been confirmed to be civilians, although I would tend to think this is likely higher than that) Israeli Prime Minister</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a title="More articles about Ehud Olmert." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/ehud_olmert/index.html?inline=nyt-per"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Ehud Olmert</span></a></span><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> voiced his plans to travel to Egypt where another ceasefire will be discussed (and eventually broken). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Eight Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded during battles with Hamas militants Monday afternoon, IDF said. On Sunday, an Israeli soldier was killed, marking the first military death since the ground operation launched Saturday night.</span></p>
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<h1 style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Source:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/israel.gaza/index.html">Israeli military surrounds Gaza City, officals say</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"> </span></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The above article also mentions of another 4 Israelis being killed during the initial reaction from Hamas, which puts the Israeli casualties in the order of 30, seems a bit one sided (although I can’t seem to find an official Israeli death toll). But Israel’s justification for this precision bombing of Palestinian territory (including hospitals and schools) remains the hundreds of low tech rockets, most of which hit low populated regions of the desert between Gaza and Israel.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">With another day of gory news reports inflaming the Arab world, Israel contended that the deaths at the school, at the Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, demonstrated Hamas’s callousness toward the lives of Palestinian civilians.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Source: </span></strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/world/middleeast/07mideast.html?_r=2&amp;hp"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Israeli Shells Kill 40 at Gaza U.N. School</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">I think the above quote says it all, “don’t blame us, all we are doing is bombing what little land you Palestinians have left, blame your elected government because they don’t support the ethnic cleansing of the land we took from you 50+ years ago because it is the rightful Jewish homeland cuz we lived there once too.. Oh yeah, and don’t forget the holocaust, yeah that too…”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Although I support Israel’s right to defend its land from rocket fire, there is little talk of the overt actions of the part of Israel to further radicalize those trapped in the world’s larges internment camp. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Look at this way, let’s say for a moment that the Native Americans and the Mexicans rounded up all North American Europeans, forcing them into ghettos, refugee camps and then put a nice big wall around the whole thing so no weapons, bombs, fuel, food or other supplies can enter. I mean those North Americans should be able to take care of them selves and feel content in their quality of life. Then, in the event that the North American Militants fired rockets into Native American and Mexican territory injuring someone, the Native American and Mexican Soldiers are completely justified in bombing schools and refuge camps and not guilty in any way of provoking such attacks.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Think about it!! Seriously…</span></p>
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		<title>Climate Change, Case Closed???</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a blog article from the Huffington Post about Climate Change and the ‘global-warming-is-an-exact-science’ crowd, and have a few things to say.

 

I have to start out with the typical disclaimers that seem to be required for anyone debating the global warming myth. Firstly, I too see our climate changing and I too am concerned about the possible outcomes. Secondly, we do not require an excuse to be better to our environment or to question the workings of this complicated biosphere. Lastly, my genuine concern for our planet (and its future residences) exists regardless of the global warming science that is typically used to induce guilt.

 

That being said, there remain a few clarifications.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">I just finished reading a blog article from the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-ambler/mr-gore-apology-accepted_b_154982.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> about Climate Change and the ‘global-warming-is-an-exact-science’ crowd, and have a few things to say.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">I have to start out with the typical disclaimers that seem to be required for anyone debating the global warming myth. Firstly, I too see our climate changing and I too am concerned about the possible outcomes. Secondly, we do not require an excuse to be better to our environment or to question the workings of this complicated biosphere. Lastly, my genuine concern for our planet (and its future residences) exists regardless of the global warming science that is typically used to induce guilt.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">That being said, there remain a few clarifications.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">As pointed out in the article mentioned above, our climate is always changing. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">There has been no stable period of climate during the Holocene, our own climatic era, which began with the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This last ice age, as some of you may be aware, saw the majority of what is now North America under glaciers. But of course, one could (wrongly) assume that after the ice age temperatures leveled out and have remained relatively constant ever since. Average temperatures have gone through warm periods, where civilizations thrived, and cold periods, which tended to coincide with plague, famine, and empire collapse. “History shows that periods of cold are far more stressful to humanity than periods of warm.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Another thing that was brought up by the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-ambler/mr-gore-apology-accepted_b_154982.html" target="_blank">Huffinton Article</a> is that the relationship between temperature and CO2 levels aren’t as cut and dry as some would like us to believe. Scientists have found that there is about an 800 year delay between the rise in global temperatures and the rise in CO2. This is to say that the CO2 levels could not have ‘caused’ the initial warming, but that it may contribute in some way to the continued warming cycle. So could this actually show that increase in global temperature has an effect on the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere?</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">When the ocean-atmosphere system warms, the oceans discharge vast quantities of carbon dioxide in a process known as de-gassing.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doesn’t seem quite as cut and dry when you look at it that way. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is?</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Methane?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Carbon Dioxide?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Nitrous Oxide?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Water vapour…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">I wonder how long until water vapour becomes a controlled substance and hanging clothes up to dry outside cited for the increase in global temperature? I guess it depends on how much money governments can make outlawing CO2 emissions. The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is well above the levels of CO2, so why aren’t we hearing about it in all of the global-warming hoopla?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">So since water vapour is a greenhouse gas, an increase in water vapour will increase global temperatures, right?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Wrong! Increased water vapour actually reflects more UV light thereby decreasing the amounts seen on the ground. Increase water vapour would also contribute to high levels of precipitation that also have a cooling effect. Also, due to the high heat capacity of water, a lack of water vapour in the air contributes to increased temperature fluctuation from day to night as seen in most arid climates.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The fact is our planet has seen global averages well above and well below levels we see today. The only certainty is that the climate will continue to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resulting questions are two fold, 1) how will humans adapt to climate change? And, 2) will guilt, through man-assisted-global-warming be used to justify these adaptations? or will the natural sense of pride in our Earth along with the acceptance of a dynamic/changing climate?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The article goes on to mention the fact that there is evidence that </span><a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">other planets</span></a><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> in our solar system are warming and that cosmic rays from other galaxies could actually have an effect on cloud cover here on Earth. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">As NASA has corroborated, the number of cosmic rays passing through our atmosphere is at the maximum level since measurements have been taken, and show no signs of diminishing. The result: the seeding of what some have taken to calling &#8220;Svensmark clouds,&#8221; low dense clouds, principally over the oceans, that reflect sunlight back to space before it can have its warming effect on whatever is below.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>My point:</strong> ‘Proof’ exists on both sides of this issue, and although I agree that Climate change will likely be one of the major tests of humanity, in my opinion, the human influence on climate change is irrelevant and is only wasting time. Also, the claim that climate change is case closed is at best dubious (would they not welcome science showing that we aren’t doomed as some claim). There is no statute of limitations on truth, something seen as true in science today can (and will likely) be proven false at least in part, whether the science was in already or not (see Newtonian Physics vs. Quantum mechanics). The best evidence for ulterior motive is when ones mind seems to be made up and evidence is then cherry-picked for only those discoveries that prove that point.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black;">In conclusion, should we recycle and use less energy and be more environmental? Of course!!! Should we sturdy the climate and begin preparing for monumental shifts in climate? Of Course!!! Should we each pay governments to save us from <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">the boogie man </span>climate change? <strong>HELL NO!!!</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Possible Link Between Morgellons Disease and Genetically Modified Food?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Burge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been following the stories of Morgellons disease closely because it was, until recently, considered by Western Medicine, to be part of a mass delusion. The idea that just the perception of suffering from an unknown disease could spread amongst a population of educated individuals intrigued me because something about it just didn’t fit. Acording [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve been following the stories of Morgellons disease closely because it was, until recently, considered by Western Medicine, to be part of a mass delusion. The idea that just the perception of suffering from an unknown disease could spread amongst a population of educated individuals intrigued me because something about it just didn’t fit. </p>
<p>Acording to <a href="http://waronyou.com/2008/12/gm-files-horrifying-new-disease-contains-identical-material-to-gm-%E2%80%9Cfood%E2%80%9D/">an article</a> I just came across:</p>
<blockquote><p>Morgellons Disease was first described when a woman’s 3 year old son developed rashes and intensely itchy sores which produced weird multicolor fibers emerging from his skin. She put up a website about the condition in 2001 and named it “Morgellons Disease” after a 17th century report of a similar affliction.</p>
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<p>Common symptoms include the sensation of crawling beneath the skin, the growth of multi colored fibers from leasons and scabs that have formed in the skin. Some have even reported inexplicable hair loss, loss of visual acuity, and loss of the sense of smell. In addition to these, lets call them physical symptoms, there are also many mental symptoms that are reported and are (for me) the most interesting. Things like short term memory loss, an inability to focus or concentrate, mood swings, confusion, depression, disorientation and other neurological problems such as clumsiness, stumbling while walking, and impeded speech. More symptoms can be found <a href="http://www.rense.com/general74/morg4.htm">here</a>.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, one of the most identifiable symptoms is the various colored fibers that appear to grow out of leasons in the skin. It was because of this that most western physicians concluded delusional parasitosis, when patients (or their parents in the cases of delusional parasitosis by proxy) would bring in to physicians fibers that they would claim were expelled from the skin.  </p>
<blockquote><p>Nearly any marking upon the skin, or small object or particle found on the person or their clothing, can be interpreted as evidence for the parasitic infestation, and sufferers commonly compulsively gather such &#8220;evidence&#8221; and then present it to medical professionals when seeking help.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_parasitosis#cite_note-Webb-0#cite_note-Webb-0">[1]</a> This presenting of &#8220;evidence&#8221; is known as &#8220;the matchbox sign&#8221;.</p>
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<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_parasitosis">Delusional parasitosis</a></p>
<p>So until recently it was nearly impossible to be taken seriously by a physician who, rather than look at the many symptoms that do present themselves, would dismiss the individual as delusional. This has caused Morgellons sufferers to be ridiculed and marginalized and have received very little help for their suffering as a result.</p>
<p>Recently the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/unexplaineddermopathy/">US Center for Disease Control</a> has in fact begun a study in California, of a small number of sufferers so they have at least for now come to the conclusion that more information about this condition is needed.</p>
<blockquote><p>We do not know the cause of this condition or whether this condition is new. CDC has received an increased number of inquires from persons who report similar symptoms; therefore, we are conducting an investigation to learn more about this unexplained dermopathy.</p>
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<p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/unexplaineddermopathy/">CDC Unexplained Dermopathy </a>(aka &#8220;Morgellons&#8221;)</p>
<p>However, where the CDC was slow in their reaction to complaints from people, others have not been so slow to investigate the fibers that are produced. A <a href="http://waronyou.com/2008/12/gm-files-horrifying-new-disease-contains-identical-material-to-gm-%E2%80%9Cfood%E2%80%9D/">recent article</a> made the following claim.</p>
<blockquote><p>A study of the fibers shows that they contain DNA from both a fungus and a bacterium which are used in the commercial preparation of genetically modified foods and non-food crops (such as cotton). The fibers themselves are primarily cellulose, which the human body cannot breakdown or manufacture.</p>
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<p>It goes on to claim:</p>
<blockquote><p>These fibers twist and twine, grow and divide. In short, living beneath the skin of people, they form parasitic lesions out of what should be non-living material but which, through the horror of genetic modification, has taken on the characteristics of a living thing.</p>
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<p>According to the article, “some researchers say that every person they have tested has some level of Morgellon’s type pathology in their skin.”</p>
<blockquote><p>An even more provocative finding is that biochemist Vitaly Citovsky discovered that the fibers contain a substance called “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrobacterium">Agrobacterium</a>,” which, according to New Scientist, is “used commercially to produce genetically-modified plants.” Could GM plants be “causing a new human disease?”</p>
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<p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=6486">Skin Disease Might be Linked to GM Food</a></p>
<p>Lastly, it is also worth mentioning that most Morgellons sufferers allegedly test positive for lime disease. It could be that lime disease affects our immune system in such a way as to make one more susceptible to whatever causes Morgellons.  However, it seems strange to me that while physicians were completely discounting Morgellons as a mass delusion one could still find information about the apparent link with lime disease. It is possible that such a claim could be used to cover-up these apparent links with genetically modified food and create plausible deniability.</p>
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		<title>Department of [in]Justice&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK so I came across this article and haven&#8217;t had the time yet to read it in it&#8217;s entirety but thought that something mentioned strikes me as extremely odd. William J. Benson was charged with falsely telling the American people the 16th Amendment was not ratified and therefore the income tax is unconstitutional. The evidence of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK so I came across <a href="http://yannone.blogspot.com/2008/11/our-lawless-government-is-on-trial.html" target="_blank">this article</a> and haven&#8217;t had the time yet to read it in it&#8217;s entirety but thought that something mentioned strikes me as extremely odd.</p>
<blockquote><p>William J. Benson was charged with falsely telling the American people the 16th Amendment was not ratified and therefore the income tax is unconstitutional. The evidence of the truth of his statement was struck from the record as &#8220;irrelevant and immaterial.&#8221; The appeal before the 7th Circuit raises the question of whether American citizens will continue to be allowed to prove their innocence in the courts of this country.</p></blockquote>
<p>What is really amazing here is not the claims that none of the states properly ratified the 16th Amendment allowing for the government to collect from <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">forced slave labour</span> citizens income. It&#8217;s the fact that this man is not being allowed to defend himself!!! It also makes one wonder what they had to hide that is had to be struck from the record, because if it was truly irrelevant and immaterial, why not leave it in so anyone reviewing the case could make similar decisions about the validity of his evidence. Is it because the department of justice is funded by revenue from taxes? Seems like a miscarriage of justice AND a conflict of interest all rolled into one.</p>
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<p>Take a closer look at that one. Benson is charged with falsely claiming that the 16th Amendment was never ratified, then the court declares any and all proof that might vindicate him as &#8220;irrelevant and immaterial.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is, of course, the logical outcome of a court system which is itself funded by tax dollars. There is a clear conflict of interest which precludes justice being done in this case.</p>
<p>The government&#8217;s attitude towards the 16th is that it no longer matters if it was really ratified or not, the tax system depends on it, therefore by fiat it is legal. Judge James C. Fox, in Sullivan Versus United States, <strong>admits right in the court record that examination shows that the 16th Amendment was not actually ratified</strong>, then goes on to say that since the nation has acted as if it was ratified all this time, there is no reason to change things at this late date. This is akin to saying that if a man get away with a murder for, let us say, twenty years, there is no reason to go back and prosecute him even if the evidence proves his guilt. [emphasis added]</div>
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<p style="text-align: right;">Source: <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com">www.whatreallyhappened.com</a></p>
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		<title>Worth the Read&#8230; The FED</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across an amazing post about the privately owned US Federal Reserve. Part One Part Two Basically, Congress was given the power by the US Constitution to “To coin Money, regulate the value thereof,” but somehow has given that power to a private bank known as the Federal Reserve. They have never, in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I just came across an amazing post about the privately owned US Federal Reserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://vincentgioiasblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/federal-reserve-bank-its-not-what-you.html" target="_blank">Part One</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://vincentgioiasblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/federal-reserve-bank-its-not-what-you_03.html" target="_blank">Part Two</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Basically, Congress was given the power by the US Constitution to “To coin Money, regulate the value thereof,” but somehow has given that power to a private bank known as the Federal Reserve. They have never, in the history of the reserve, been audited mostly because no one, not Congress, not the IRS, have the power to do so. When congress spends money it doesn’t have (deficit spending) they issue a government bond that is then bought by the Federal Reserve, thereby providing the money needed. They get the money from the US Treasury which prints the money at a cost of about $0.03/$100.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then charge the American Government interest on moneys provided. The amounts to over $100 profit for every $100 government deficit spending. Any other privately owned company would have to pay taxes on their profit, but not the FED. They claim only $20 billion profit a year which is returned to the US Treasury. The rest is spent abroad, without oversight, in whatever way the owners of the FED desire. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">The U.S. Government now owes the FED owners the interest on those bonds. Remember the FED owners do not earn the bonds, they simply arrange for printing the money to buy the bonds. In other words, they created money out of thin air, and exchange it for the interest bearing bonds.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">When the OWNERS of the FED receive the interest on the BONDS they&#8217;re holding, they are receiving that money essentially for free and without the need to pay taxes on the profit.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Why don’t we learn about any of this in school??? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Update:</strong> Came across another article today that quotes a Thomas Edison New York Times article from 1921. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 &#8212; that is what it amounts to, with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful of dirt nor contribute a pound of material will collect more money from the United States than will the people who supply the material and do the work. That is the terrible thing about interest. In all our great bond issues the interest is always greater than the principal. All of the great public works cost more than twice the actual cost, on that account. Under the present system of doing business we simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong>Update 2.0:</strong> Came across another article, <span class="article_text"><span class="article_title"><a href="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4101.shtml" target="_blank"><strong>Bag the Fed!</strong></a> Looks like the recent economic &#8216;crisis&#8217; is sure getting people talking about the Federal reserve.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span class="article_text"><span class="article_title">The Fed always increases the money supply to increase the money owed to it. That money is also loaned out, as said earlier, at interest, creating more debt, which equals a kind of economic slavery because it’s impossible for the government to ever free itself from this self-generating debt-load.</span></span></p>
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<p><strong>Update 3.0</strong>: Come across this <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279">google video</a>, haven&#8217;t had a chance to watch it yet&#8230; Linked from <a href="http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/135.html" target="_blank">BrasscheckTV</a>.</p>
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		<title>More Melamine Contamination News&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just came across an article that (finally) confirms the Melamine contamination I mentioned a few days before Halloween.    The FDA&#8217;s test results, which the agency hid from the public and only released after the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request, showed that Nestle, Mead Johnson and Enfamil infant formula [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">So I just came across an </span><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/024947.html"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">article</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> that (finally) confirms the Melamine contamination I mentioned a few days before Halloween.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">The FDA&#8217;s test results, which the agency hid from the public and only released after the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request, showed that Nestle, Mead Johnson and Enfamil infant formula products were all contaminated with melamine.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The first thing that stands out above is that the FDA hid test results from the public, something that seems to deny common sense. If the levels are low and of no risk to the public, why hide the info.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Why not let people know so that they can try to limit their exposure and commit to reducing, or eliminating the chemical altogether. Instead, after testing baby formula that is being sold in the US, the FDA has decided to raise the limit that it claims is safe for infants from none, to 1ppm, which just happens to be slightly higher than products being sold in the US. They have made these claims without doing any research into the toxic effects. </span></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Prior to these test results being made public, <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/the_FDA.html">the FDA</a> had published a document on its website that explained there was no safe level of melamine contamination in infant formula. Specifically, the FDA stated, &#8220;FDA is currently unable to establish any level of melamine and melamine-related compounds in infant formula that does not raise <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/public_health.html">public health</a> concerns.&#8221;Once tests found melamine in U.S.-made formula products, however, the FDA changed its story. As of today, the FDA has now officially declared melamine to be safe in infant formula as long as the contamination level is less than one part per million (1 ppm).</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Astonishingly: <em>The FDA has no new science to justify its abrupt decision declaring melamine to be safe!</em></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">The standard is the same as the one public health officials have set in Canada and China, but is 20 times higher than the most stringent level in Taiwan.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;" align="right"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Source:</strong> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7SAbhJj3By_isZUoRAgTOPHzwkQD94OM2CG0">link</a> </strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The second question that arises is how melamine got into the baby formula in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The official claim is that it is due to contamination from manufacturing equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">And yet the AP is reporting that the expected level of melamine contamination from manufacturing equipment is only 15 ppb (parts per billion).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Yet the FDA’s own tests found levels 16x that expected due to contamination from manufacturing equipment. This of course leads to the question of how levels could get so high. One conclusion is that Melamine was actually added in order to artificially raise the protein content. Another is that Melamine in animal feed could account for high levels in milk products. The second possibility means that all of the milk produced in the US could be high in Melamine and therefore any milk products like yogurt, cheese, etc. are also at risk.</span></p>
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