10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest Inside The United States Are Now More Likely Than Ever

Excerpts:

#1 Going to the state fair used to be such a fun thing for American families to do. But now no place is safe.

#2 According to a new Rasmussen survey, 48% of Americans believe that reductions in government spending are "at least somewhat likely" to result in civil unrest inside the United States.

#3 U.S. consumer confidence is now at its lowest level in 30 years.

#4 Joblessness among young Americans is at an epidemic level, and when rioting does break out it is usually young people that are leading the way.

#5 We are starting to see mindless violence in a lot of areas that used to be considered safe.

#6 "Flash mobs" have become such a problem in Philadelphia that the mayor has imposed a strict curfew on young people

#7 All over the United States we are seeing that many struggling Americans will do just about anything for money.

#8 Desperate people do desperate things.

#9 According to CNN, sales of safes and vaults are absolutely soaring right now.

#10 Over the past 100 years, the American population has moved steadily into our big cities and the surrounding suburbs.

A massive economic collapse is coming, and most Americans are going to be totally blindsided by it.

UK Mayhem Leaves Disarmed Citizens at the Mercy of Criminals

Friday, August 12, 2011

By now you have seen the headlines and images of destruction: the rioting, looting, violent assaults, and arson. London and other UK cities look like war zones and their citizens are afraid to venture out, because the danger is very real. It's a view of the temporary breakdown of society. It is gut check time; a time when the concept of being able to defend oneself gives way to the stark reality that few viable options to do so exist.

Gun laws in the UK are among the most restrictive in the world. In March of 1996, a deranged man walked into a school in Dunblane, Scotland and killed 16 children and one teacher. In the aftermath of this tragedy, British politicians sought to reduce violent crime by enacting a ban on all handguns. Handgun owners were given a February 1998 deadline to turn in their firearms--and they did. The UK was supposed to become a much safer place--but dramatic increases in crime following the gun ban proved it didn't.

A July 3, 2009, Daily Mail article reported that "Britain's violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European Union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the U.K. also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa."

And the current bedlam has proved it further. Restrictive laws concerning long-guns, combined with the outright ban on handguns, leave the country's citizens largely defenseless (it was reported this week that sales of one type of aluminum baseball bats on Amazon UK rose 6,541 percent). In many places, it was reported that police were unable to stop the mayhem. As a result, panicked, defenseless law-abiding citizens were forced to flee their homes, while others watched as their businesses were destroyed. Compare this to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, when armed citizens were able to protect their lives, families, and property from looters and violent mobs.

An August 11 Herald Sun article reported one resident as saying, "its absolute bedlam on the street. People have been openly looting for an hour, two hours, and the police have been ineffectual. They've done nothing." Another victim, who was trapped in her hair salon in Clapham Junction while a mob smashed its way in and trashed it, said, "They were mocking us, [saying] 'look, look, they look scared'. Where is the police? I want protection. This is what they're here for . . . I'm not secure at my workplace. I'm not secure at my home place. Will they be there to protect us tonight? They weren't here to protect us last night."

The Telegraph.com.au reported on Tuesday that mobs were forcing hapless victims to strip off their clothes while being robbed, and described a shocking video that shows a bleeding, already-pummeled teenager being robbed in broad daylight by lawless thugs who pretend to help him to his feet, and then steal the contents of his backpack while he can barely remain standing, much less defend himself.

This is what a disarmed country looks like. This is how little is left when free men and women surrender their right to own a firearm.

One has to wonder how differently this all would be playing out if the law-abiding were allowed to arm themselves. How different would the reports be if violent, opportunistic, amoral thugs were confronted with armed resistance from their intended victims?

It has been said that, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." In this case, good men and women have been stripped of their ability to do something, and evil has certainly triumphed.

Ironically, the UK is an outspoken proponent of the United Nations' efforts to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty. Presumably the UK's goal in supporting an ATT is to spread the "safety and sanctity" they imagine their country as having to the rest of the world. Perhaps the recent calamities will cause the British to rethink their position; we certainly hope so. It's time for the British government to drop its draconian gun-control laws and restore the right of self-defense to its law-abiding citizens.

It's time to face the facts. When law-abiding citizens are disarmed, is their society a safer one? Do gun bans reduce violent crime? Will the police always be there to protect you? England's current plight is just the latest example to show us, yet again, that the answer to these questions is an emphatic "No."

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Why Sarah Palin Needs To Run For President In 2012

While always open to the idea of one day supporting Sarah Palin for President, since 2008, I've gone back and forth on whether or not I thought it was smart for her to run next year. Re-visiting my thoughts yesterday, what with Palin's appearance in Iowa, not only am I convinced she should run, she needs to run and, regardless of one's preferred candidate, all Conservatives should encourage her to run and welcome her into the race, assuming she does.

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I AGREE!

Obama Social Security Number to become issue in 2012 race?

President Obama's potentially criminal use of a mysterious, Connecticut-based Social Security Number should become an important issue in his quest for re-election in 2012, says a former presidential candidate and ambassador in Ronald Reagan's administration.

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Temporary tattoo today...permanent implant tomorrow

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. . .

How computers will soon get under our skin

Mark of the Beast?

The Catastrophe of Public Education

What H.G. Wells says in his famous statement above is quite true. History is a race between education and catastrophe. Unfortunately, the manner in which education is delivered in the United States, and in other countries of the Western World, through public institutitions, now is itself the catastrophe. Rather than preventing a larger historical catastrophe, public education is now promoting and contributing to just such a thing.

This is not exactly news. It was already realized early in the 1980's (the federal report, "A Nation at Risk," 1983) that students were graduating from high school, and often from college, without knowing much of anything. Sometimes they were functionally illiterate, especially from inner city schools. Alarms were continually sounded through the 1990's, such as with Thomas Sowell's splendid Inside American Education, The Decline, The Deception, the Dogmas [The Free Press, 1993]. But now, after a good thirty years, and with some marginal improvements in some places, the general problem is just as bad, if not in certain respects worse. With some regularity, polls seem to show that graduates know little about history, government, literature, science, economics, geography, etc.

In the 80's, it was easily recognized that one problem with the schools was just the "dumbing down" of the curriculum. Less and less was expected of students, often deliberately, so as not to damage their self-esteem; and, indeed, international surveys showed that American students felt better about themselves, even when their performance was dismal in international comparisons. Students from say, Korea, felt worse about themselves but accomplished much more. This was a trend that should have been reversed just as easily as it was recognized. But it wasn't. In 1988, E.D. Hirsch published a book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, talking about the essential general knowledge that education should be conveying; but the educational Establishment ignored this.

Nor is this just an American phenomenon. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist practicing at a public hospital and a prison, in his marvelous Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass [Ivan R. Dee, 2003], remarks that he didn't know what disturbed him more, that the young toughs of his experience were tatooing themselves with swastikas, or that they actually didn't know, thanks to British education, who had actually used the swastika (the Nazis) and what they had done (dictatorship, war, mass murder). His regular experience with the young patients he saw was that they knew little about anything.

Why this has all happened is not all that mysterious, nor why it has proven so difficult to reverse the trend. There has just not been the political will, or perhaps even the political means, to accomplish reform -- with a smokescreen of lies and deceptions confusing the matter. Indeed, I believe that the system is simply unreformable, and the only solution is to allow students and parents to escape it.

The root of the problem can be summarized in three terms: (1) teachers' unions, (2) education schools, and (3) the federal government. Each of these has become its own rent-seeking and bureaucratic institution, following a dynamic, well described by Public Choice Economics, that serves themselves as institutions but bears little relation to what most people would think of as the purposes of education, let alone public education. The most disturbing feature of this dynamic is the extent to which ignorance promotes the control and purposes of the educational establishment better than the successful dissemination of knowledge would. . .

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Establishment Elite Still in Control

The Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group

Published by the Fund to Restore an Educated Electorate (F.R.E.E.)
P. O. Box 293339.
Kerrville, Texas 78029

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which organized in England . . . (and) . . . believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established." [WITH NO APOLOGIES by Senator Barry Goldwater, Berkley Books, New York, p 126]

The Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Japan, Europe (European Union countries), and North America (United States and Canada) to foster closer cooperation among these core democratic industrialized areas of the world with shared leadership responsibilities in the wider international system.

"The Trilateral Commission is international . . . (and) . . . is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States." [ WITH NO APOLOGIES, by Senator Barry Goldwater, Berkley Books, New York, p 293]

The Bilderberg is a quasi-secret consortium of international elite who meet annually to plan world economic and political policies. The Bilderberg has no membership per se. Those identified with “B” in this chart have attended at least one Bilderberg meeting.

Council on Foreign Relations
The Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10065
Tel. (212) 434-9400; FAX (212)434-9800
Washington Office
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

The Trilateral Commission
1156 Fifteenth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20005
Tel. 202-467-5410

This chart shows present and past members and
their positions; B, C, or T indicates affiliation

United States Presidents
Barack Hussien Obama, B
William J. Clinton B,C,T
George Herbert Walker Bush C,T
James Earl Carter C,T
Gerald R. Ford, Jr. B,C
Richard Milhous Nixon C
Dwight D. Eisenhower C
Herbert Clark Hoover C

2008 Presidential Candidates
Hillary Rodham Clinton [D] B
John Edwards [D] B,C
John S. McCain III [R] C
Fred Thompson [R] C

Vice Presidents
Joseph Biden B
Richard B. Cheney C,T
George H. W. Bush C,T
Walter Mondale B,C,T

National Security Council
Richard N. Haass, Sr. Dir. GHWBush Admin C,T
Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Dep. Dir, GWBush admin C,T
William J. Luti, Sr. Dir for DefensePolicy B

Specil Assistants to the President
Dennis B. Ross , Mid East Cord for GHWBush & Clinton B,C,T
Richard Holbrooke Spec. Rep Afghanistan & Pakistan B,C,T

Central Intelligence Agency
Directors
Gen. Michael V. Hayden C
George J. Tenet C
William O. Studeman C
John M. Duetch B,C,T
James Woolsey C
Robert M. Gates C
William H Webster T,C
William J. Casey C
Stansfield Turner C
George H. W. Bush C
William E. Colby C
James Schlesinger C
Richard Helms C
John A. McCone C
Allen W. Dulles C
Walter Bedell Smith C

Secretary of Agriculture
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman B,C

Secretaries of Commerce
Ronald H. Brown C
Juanita M. Kreps C,T
Elliot Lee Richardson C,T
Peter G. Peterson C,T
John Thomas Connor, Jr. C
Barbara Hackman Franklin C

Secretaries of Defense
Robert Gates C,B
Donald Rumsfeld B
Douglas J. Feith, Under Sec. B,C
Richard Norman Perle, Asst. Sec B
John J. Hamre, Deputy C,T
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Asst. Sec B,C,T
William S. Cohen C,T
John M. Deutch. Deputy B,C,T
Graham T. Allison, Asst. C,T
William J. Perry B,T
Les Aspen C
Richard B. Cheney C,T
Frank C. Carlucci, III C,T
Casper W. Weinberger C,T
Harold Brown C,T
Donald H. Rumsfeld C
James R. Schlesinger C
Elliot L. Richardson C,T
Melvin R. Laird T
Robert S. McNamara B,C,T
Neil H. McElroy C
Charles E. Wilson C
George C. Marshall C
James V. Forrestal C

Secretaries of Energy
William B. Richardson B,C
James R. Schlesinger C
Charles W. Duncan, Jr. C

Secretaries of Health & Human Services
Tommy G. Thompson C
Donna E. Shalala C,T
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. C
Casper A. Weinberger C,T
Elliot L. Richardson C,T
Abraham A. Ribicoff C

Secretaries of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
Henry G. Cisneros C,T
Carla A. HIlls C,T
James T. Lynn C,T

Secretary of Interior
Bruce E. Babbitt C,T

Attornies General
Charles A. James, Asst, GW Bush
admin B
Jamie Gorelick, Deputy, Clinton admin. C
Richard Thornburgh C
William P. Rogers C
Elliot L. Richardson C,T
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach C

Secretaries of Labor
Elaine L. Chao C
Lynn Martin C

Secretaries of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton B
James B. Steinberg, Deputy Sec. fmr. Dean,
Univ. of Texas LBJ School C,T
Anne-Marie Slaughter,
Dir. Policy Planning C,T
Condoleezza Rice C
Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor
(exec. dir.,9/11Commission) B,C
Colin Powell B,C
Robert B. Zoellick, Deputy B,T,C
Winston Lord, Asst. Sec. C,T
Thomas R. Pickering, Und. Sec C,T
Richard L. Armitage, Deputy T
Madeline Albright C
William B. Richardson C
Warren M. Christopher C,T
Lawrence S. Eagleburger C,T
George P. Schultz C
Alexander M. Haig, Jr. C,T
Edmund S. Muskie C
Cyrus R. Vance C,T
Henry A. Kissinger B,C,T
William P. Rogers C
Dean Rusk B,C
Christian A. Herter Jr. B,C
John Foster Dulles C
Dean G. Acheson C
George C. Marshall C
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. C
Cordell Hull C
Henry L. Stimson C
Frank B. Kellogg C

Secretary of Transportation
William T. Coleman, Jr C, T

Secretaries of Treasury
Timothy F. Geithner B, C, T
Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. C
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers B, C, T
Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy B,C
Robert Edward Rubin C
Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. C
Nicholas F. Brady C
James Addison Baker, III C
W. Michael Blumenthal C
William E. Simon C

Cabinet Officials

Military Officers

Chairmen of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Richard B. Myers C
John M. Shalicashvilli C
Colin L. Powell B,C
William J. Crowe, Jr. C,T
John W. Vessey C
David C. Jones C
Maxwell D. Taylor C
Lyman Lemnitzer C

Chiefs of Staff - Air Force
Norton A. Schwartz C
T. Michael Moseley C
Ronald R. Fogleman C
Merrill A. McPeak C
John T. Chain, Jr. C
Lew Allen, Jr. C
Michael J. Dugan C
Charles A. Gabriel C
Larry D. Welch C

Chief of Staff - Army
Eric K. Shinseki C
Dennis J. Reimer C
Gordon R. Sullivan C
John A. Wickham, Jr. C
Edward C. Meyer C

Chief of Naval Operations
Jay L. Johnson C
Thomas B. Hayward C
Elmo R. Zumwalt C

Marine Corps
Commandant
Charles C. Krulak C
Paul X. Kelley C

Coast Guard
Commandant
Thad W. Allen C
Robert E. Kramek C

United Nations Ambassadors
Madeleine Albright C
John R. Bolton C
Jeane Kirkpatrick C
Bill Richardson B, C

President’s Council of Economic Advisors
R. Glenn Hubbard C
Janet Yellen C
Joseph E. Stiglitz C
Laura D'Andrea Tyson B,C
Martin S. Feldstein B,C,T
Murray L. Weidenbaum C
Alan Greenspan B,C,T
Paul W. McCracken C

9/11 Commission
Thomas H. Kean, Chmn.; fmr Gov., New Jersey C
Lee H. Hamilton,Vice Chairman, fmr Congressman (D-IN) C
Jamie Gorelick, fmr Deputy Attorney General, Clinton Admin. C
Bob Kerrey, Pres. New School University, fmr US Senator (D-NE), fmr Gov, NE C
John F. Lehman,fmr Sec. Navy C
Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director/Chair B,C

Federal Judiciary
Stephen G. Breyer Assoc. Jus. S.Ct C
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Assoc. Jus. S.Ct. C
Sandra Day O’Connor Assoc. Jus. S.Ct. C
Felix Frankfurter Fmr. Assoc. Jus. S. Ct C
Charles E. Hughes Fmr. Assoc. Jus S. Ct C
Dudley Baldwin Bonsal Dist. Ct. Judge, NY C
Jose Alberto Cabranes Dist. Ct. Judge, CT C
William W. Schwarzer Dist. Ct. Judge, CA C
Laurence Hirsch Silberman Cir. Ct. App. Judge C
Barrijngton D. Parker Dist. Ct. Judge, NY C
Richard Clark Allison U.S.Clms Trib Judge,
The Hague C
Stephen Myron Schwebel Int. Ct. Judge,Hague C
Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Tax Ct. Sr. Judge C

Federal Reserve System
Daniel K. Tarullo Bd of Gov. (designate) B,C
Alan Greenspan Chmn, Bd. Gov.(fmr) B,C,T
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr Vice Chmn (fmr) C,T
Alice Mitchell Rivlin Vice Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C,T
Alan Stuart Blinder Vice Chmn (fmr) C
Paul AdolphVolcker Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) B,C,T
Eugend R. Black Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Arthur F. Burns Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
William McC. Martin Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Thomas B. McCabe Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Eugene Meyer Chmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
G. William Miller hmn, Bd. Gov (fmr) C
Ellen Victoria Futter Chmn. FR Bank, NY C
E. Geerald Corrigan Pres. FR Bank, NY (fmr) T
Maurice R. Greenberg Dep. Chmn FRB, NY(fmr) B,C,T
William J. McDonough Pres. FR Bank, NY (fmr) B,C
Dorothy Meadow Sobol FR Bank, NY C
Willene A. Johnson Sr. Officer, FRB, NY C
Ernest T. Patrikis Dep. Gen Counsel, FRB, NY C
Harold W. Anderson Pres. FR Bank, KS City (fmr) C
Robert Patrick Forrestal Pres. FR Bank, Atlanta C
Michael H. Moskow Pres. FR Bank, Chicago B,C
Warren Bruce Rudman Dep. Chmn, FR Bank, Boston C
A. William Reynolds Chmn, FR Bank, Cleveland C
Margaret L. Greene Dep. Mgr. FR Bd. Frn Ops. C
Sam Y. Cross Mgr. Fed Open Market Acct C

Export-Import Bank
James H. (Jim) Lambright Chmn,Pres. C
John D. Macomber Pres. & Chmn (fmr) C
Kenneth D. Brody Pres. & Chmn. (fmr) C
Eugene K. Lawson 1st VP, V. Chmn. (fmr) C

International Monetary Fund
Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff
Economic Counsellor and Director C,T
John P. Lipsky First Deputy Managing Director C
William Brown Dale Dep. Mng. Dir, Geneva C
Helen B. Junz Spec. trade Rep. Geneva C
Richard David Erb Dep Mng. Dir., Washington C

The World Bank
Robert B. Zoellick President B,C, T
Jessica P. Einhorn Mng. Dir. (fmr) C,T
James David Wolfensohn Pres. (fmr) B,C
Robert Strange McNamara Pres. (fmr) B,C,T
Raymond Vernon (dec) Visiting Prof. (fmr) B,C
David A. Wirth Econ. Asst.(fmr) C

International Bank of Reconstruction & Development
Lewis Thompson Preston (dec) Pres. (fmr) C
Andrew M. Kamarck Washington office (fmr) C

Bank of America (Bankamerica Corp)
Hugh McColl Chmn & CEO (fmr) T
A. W. Clausen Chmn & CEO (fmr) T
Nicholas Burns Binkley Chmn & CEO (fmr) C
Rudolph A. Peterson (dec) Chmn Exec Comm (fmr) B,C
George William Coombe, Jr. Exec VP (fmr) C
Ignazio E. Lozano, Jr. Dir. C

Bankers Trust Company acqired by Deutsche Bank
Charles Stedman Sanford, Jr. Chmn & CEO C
George J. Vojta Vice Chmn (fmr) C
Donald L. Staheli Dir. (fmr) C

Brown Brothers Harriman
Robert Livingston Ireland, III (dec) Gen. Partner C
Alexander Tonio Ercklentz Partner C
Frank W. Hoch Ltd Partner C

Chase Manhattan Bank
merged w/ J.P.Morgan (2000) to form J.P.Morgan Chase
James "Jamie" L. Dimon,CEO, chmn, JPMorgan Chase & Co.. C
David Rockefeller Chmn Int Adv Comm B,C,T
Walter Vincent Shipley Chmn & CEO (fmr) C,T
Robert Royal Douglas V. Chmn (fmr) C
John Donald Wilson Sr. VP (fmr) C
John P. Lipsky Ch. Economist (fmr) C
Riorden Roett Director (fmr) C
Marina Von N. Whitman Director (fmr) C,T

Citigroup
Richard Dean Parsons Chmn, CEO C
Stanley Fischer Vice Chmn (fmr) C,T
Walter Bigelow Wriston (dec) Chairman (fmr) B
William Reginald Rhodes Vice Chmn (fmr) C
Richard A. Freytag (dec) Pres. & CEO (fmr) C
Leslie Elizabeth Bains Mng Dir. (fmr) C

North Carolina National Bank (NCNB)
renamed NationsBank acquired BankAmerica
Hugh L. McColl Jr. Chmn & CEO (fmr) T

Federal National Mortgage Assoc. (FNMA) (Fannie Mae)
Franklin Delano Raines Chmn & CEO (fmr) B,C,T
Thomas L. Donilon Vice Pres B

Media
Anne Applebaum Writer, Washington Post C
Max Boot Cont. Ed., The Weekly Standard, WSJ; Sr. Fellow, CFR B, C
David G. Bradley Chmn, Atlantic Media Co. T
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Editor, Washington Post C
Richard M. Cohen senior producer for CBS News and CNN C
Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric Mng Ed.,CBS Evening News C
Lee Cullum Columnist, Dallas Morning News C,T
David Gergen editor-at-large, U.S. News & World Report C,T
Paul A Gigot Wall Street Journal, Editor B
Donald E. Graham Chmn, CEO, Washington Post Co. B
Jimmie Lee "Jim" Hoagland Asso. Ed, Washington Post B,C
Robert Kagan columnist, Washington Post C
Richard N. Kaplan president of CNN/U.S. of the CNN News Group C
Glenn Kessler Washington Post diplomatic correspondent. C
Joe Klein Columnist, Time Magazine C
Anne Elise Kornblut staff writer, Washington Post C
Charles Krauthammer Columnist, Washngton Post B,C
Charles M. Lane editorial writer, The Washington Post C
Andrea Mitchell Chief Foreign Affairs Corr, NBC News B,C
Rupert Murdoch chmn, managing dir. ,News Corporation (News Corp) C
Richard Dean Parsons former CEO, Time Warner C
Norman Pearlstine Cont. chief, Bloomberg L.P;
fmr Sr. Adv. Time Warner; fmr Ed Time B,C
Steven L. Rattner founder Quadrangle Group B,C
Charles Peete (Charlie) Rose, Jr. PBS, Charlie Rose Show B,C
Vivian L. Schiller senior vice president and general manager, New York Times C
Lesley Stahl Co-Editor, 60 Minutes in New York C
Martha Teichner Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning C
John Vinocur Sr. Corres, International Herald Tribune B
Barbara Walters ABC World News Tonight C
Robin Wright foreign policy reporter, The Washington Post C
Mortimer B. Zuckerman U.S.News & World Report, Chmn, Editor in Chief C,T

Union Leaders
Jay Mazur ILGWU, Pres , AFL-CIO VP C,T
John J. Sweeney AFL-CIO Pres C,T

Religoious Leaders
Rick Warren pastor, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA;
Author, The Purpose Driven Life. C
Richard D. Land president, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC),
the public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, U.S. C

Directors of The Federal Bureau Of Investigation
William H. Webster C
William D. Ruckelshaus C,T

Current House of Representatives
Howard L. Berman (D) CA C
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D) GA C
Charles W. Boustany Jr. (R) LA C
Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly (D) VA C
James (Jim) H. S. Cooper (D) TN C
Goeffrey Clark Davis (R) KY C
Norman D. Dicks (D) WA C
David Dreier (D) CA C
Jane Harman (D) CA C
James A. McDermott (D) WA C
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) DC C
Ed Pastor (D) AZ C
Thomas E. Petri (R) WI C
Charles B. Rangel (D) NY T
John M. Spratt , Jr. (D) SC C
Ellen Tauscher (D) CA C
William M. Thornberry (R) TX C

Former House Members
John B. Anderson (R) IL C
Michael D. Barnes (D) MD C
Anthony C. Beilenson (D) CA C
Douglas K. Bereuter (R) NE C
John Brademas (D) NY B,C,T
Thomas J. Campbell (R) CA C
Richard B. Cheney (R) WY C
William F. Clinger, Jr. (R) PA C
Barbara B. Conable (D) NY T
Mervyn M. Dymally (D) CA C
Dante B. Fascell (D) FL C
Geraldine A. Ferraro (D) NY C
Thomas S. Foley (D) WA C,T
Sam Gejdenson (D), CT C
Richard A. Gephardt (D) MO C, T
Newton L. Gingrich (R) GA C
Daniel "Dan" Glickman (D) KS B,C
William H. Gray, III (D)PA T
Lee H. Hamilton (D) IN B,T
Jane Lakes Harmon (D) CA C
Amory Houghton, Jr. (R) NY C
Henry Hyde (R) IL C
Nancy Lee Johnson (R) CT C
James T. Kolbe (R) AZ C
John J. LaFalce (D) NY B
Mel Levine (D) CA C
James A. S. Leach (R) IA T
Dave K. McCurdy (D) OK C
Susan K. Molinari (D) NY C
Jim Moody (D) WI C
Donald M. Payne (D) NJ C
John Edward Porter (R) IL C
Ogden R. Reid (D) NY C
William B. Richardson (D) NM C
Carlos A. Romero-Burcelo (D) PR C
Patricia Scott Schroeder (D) CO C
Charles Schumer (D) NY C
Peter Plympton Smith (R) VT C
Stephen J. Solarz (D) NY C
Louis Stokes (D) OH C
Esteban Edward Torres (D) CA C
Robert G. Torricelli (D), NJ C
Vin Weber (R) MN C
Charles W. Whalen, Jr. (R) OH C
Howard Wolpe (D) MI C

Current U. S. Senate
Evan Bayh (D) IN B,C
Christopher J. Dodd (D) CT B,C
Dianne Feinstein (D) CA C,T
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) TX B
John F. Kerry (D) MA C
Joseph I. Lieberman (D) CT C
John McCain (R) AZ C
Jack Reed (D) RI C
John D. Rockefeller, IV (D) WV C,T
Olympia J. Snowe (R) ME C
Mark R. Warner (D) VA C

Former U. S. Senators
Lloyd Bentsen (D) TX B
David L. Boren (D) OK C
Rudy Boschwitz (R) MN C
Edward Brooke (R) MA B
William L. Bradley (D) NJ C
John H. Chafee (R) RI B,C,T
Hillory Rodham Clinton (D) NY B
William S. Cohen (R) ME C,T
Dick Clark (D) IA C
Jon Stevens Corzine (D) NJ B
Alan Cranston (D) CA T
John C. Culver (D) IA C,T
John C. Danforth (R) MO T
John Edwards (D) NC B
Bob Graham (D) FL C
Chuck Hagel (R) NE B
Fred R. Harris (D) OK B
Gary Hart (D) CO C
J. Bennett Johnston (D) LA B
Charles McC. Mathias (R) MD B,C
George S. McGovern (D)SD C
George J. Mitchell (D) ME C
Daniel Moynihan (D) NY C
Sam Nunn (D), GA B
Claiborne Pell (D), RI C
Charles H. Percy (R) IL C
Larry Pressler (R), SD C
Abraham Ribicoff (D) CT C
Donald W. Riegle (D) MI B
Charles S. Robb (D) VA C,T
Terry Sanford (D) NC C
Paul Sarbanes (D), MD C
Hugh Scott (R) PA B
Adlai E. Stevenson, III (D) IL B,C
William V. Roth, Jr. (R) DE C,T
Robert G. Torricelli (D) NJ C
Timothy Wirth ( D) CO C
Harris L. Wofford (D) PA C

Financial Institutions
Jack Sheinkman, (dec), Chmn., Amalgamated Bank B,C
Richard L. Carrion, Chmn. CEO, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico C
Odeh Felix Aburdene, (dec) Mng. Ptnr.,Capital Trust, Boston C
Mitchell W. Hedstrom, VP, Citibank, NYC (fmr) C
Richard Leslie Huber, Vice Chmn., Continental Bank Corp. merged w/ BankAmerica C
Jackson B. Gilbert, 2nd Chmn., Espirito Santo Bank, FL C
Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chmn, Eton Park Capital Mgmnt C,T
John Robert Petty, Chmn., Marine Midland Bank in New York C
Maynard J. Toll, Jr., Managing Dir., First Boston Corp., NYC C
Richard C. Holbrooke, V. Chmn., CS First Boston B,C
David C. Mulford, fmr Chmn.CEO, CS First Boston, Inc., London C
John M. Hennessy, former Chmn. & CEO, CS First Boston, Inc. C
Alfred R. Abboud, former Chmn. & CEO, First City Bankcorp, Hou. C
Anthony P. Terracciano, Chmn, Sallie Mae; former Pres. Wachovia C
Ferdinando “Nani“ Beccalli-Falco, Pres. CEO, GE International T
Peter Weinberg, fmr CEO, Goldman Sachs International, Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners B
John L. Thornton, co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International B
Jon Stevens Corzine, co-CEO, Goldman Sachs B
Joseph A. Rice, fmr. Chmn & CEO, Irving Bank Corp. C
Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel, Jerusalem C,T
Dennis Weatherstone (dec), fmr. Chmn. & CEO, J. P. Morgan & Co. C
Thomas S. Johnson, Chmn. CEO, Greenpoint Fin. Corp. Dir., Freddie Mac C
Robert G. Wilmers, Chairman, fmr.Pres & CEO, Mfr & Trdrs Trust, Buffalo C
Henry Furlong Baldwin, Chmn., Mercantile Bankshares C
Rimmer de Vries (dec), fmr Sr. VP, Morgan Guarantee Trust C
Frederick L. Deming, Pres., National City Bankcorp. (Ret), former Pres., FRBank Minneapolis B
Richard E. Beeman, Chmn. CEO, The Private Trust Co. C
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Ch., Pres. & CEO, NationsBank Corp. C,T
Morris Wolf Offit, Pres., Offit Bank, NYC C
Arthur F. Ryan, Chmn, CEO, Pres Prudential Financial, Inc. C,T
Leslie Elizabeth Bains, Exec. VP, Republic Bank of NYC C
Joe Lewis Allbritton, Chmn., Riggs Bank of Washington C
George Soros, Chmn. Soros Fund Mgmt. B,C
Roger W. Ferguson , Jr., Pres, CEO, TIAA-CREF C,T
M. Straser Holcomb, Exec. VP, USAA, San Antonio C

Council on Foreign Relations
Richard Haass President C,T
Henry Siegman. Sr. Fellow ,
Dir. Mid East Pproject B,C

Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller. Fonder, Honorary
Chmn, Lifetime member B,C,T
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
North American Chairman B,C,T
Paul A. Volcker
fmr No. American Chmn B,C,T

College & University Presidents (partial list)
Robert Hazard Edwards Bowdoin College (fmr) C
Vartan Gregorian Brown Univ. (fmr); Pres. Carnegie Corp, NY C
Tomas Abel Arciniega Cal. State, Bakersfield (fmr) C
Stephen Richard Lewis, Jr. Carlton College C
William Reckling Cotter Colby College (fmr) C
Michael Ira Sovern Columbia (fmr); Chancellor, Columbia Law School C
Claire Lynn Gaudiani Connecticut College (fmr); Professor: New York University C
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes Cornell Univ. (fmr) C
David J. Skorton Cornell Univ. C
Thomas H. Kean Drew Univ. (fmr) C
Nannerl Overholser Keohane Duke Univ. fmr) ; Wellesley College (fmr);
Prof, Princeton Univ. C,T
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg George Washington Univ., President Emeritus C
Neil Leon Rudenstine Harvard Univ. (fmr) C
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers Harvard Univ. (fmr) B, C, T
Steven Muller J ohns Hopkins Univ. (fmr) C
Robert Irvin Rotberg Lafayette College (fmr) C
Niara Sudarkasa Lincoln Univ. (fmr) C
David Joel Steinberg Long Island Univ. C
Melville Peter McPherson Michigan State Univ. (fmr) C
Elizabeth Topham Kennan Mt. Holyoke College (fmr) C
Lawrence Jay Oliva New York Univ. C
Henry S. Bienen Northwestern Univ. C

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Will Hillary go for sloppy seconds?

A 2012 primary challenge by Mrs Clinton is currently regarded as unlikely, but growing number of party activists and old hands are hoping that she changes her mind.

Democrats doubt Barack Obama's reelection chances

British journalist blames 'liberal dogma' for UK riots

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'I created Obama's certification of birth'

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Isn't it comforting to know that these are the people who are in charge of your future?

Palin knocks it out of the park

Hot Air: Green Room

Few people in the public eye have said anything useful about the recent unpleasantness with the national debt and the national credit rating. The president hasn’t. The vice president hasn’t. Surprisingly few of the declared Republican candidates have. The MSM haven’t. They’re busy trying to make the expression “Tea Party downgrade” go viral. . .What is interesting is how few in our national political life have put the case together, as Palin has, without temporizing or bloviating. I haven’t heard anyone else do what she does with this post.

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Federal deficit tops $1T for 3rd straight year

Before 2009, the deficit had never come close to $1 trillion in a single year.

Thank, Bama!

Commandos criticize call for SEALs

Rangers’ danger, single helicopter among questions

Pastor Hagee receives a bomb threat

Glenn Beck:

One of the guest speakers at Glenn’s “Restoring Courage” event and the leader of Christians United for Israel received a note this morning telling him “There’s a bomb set to go off unless you withdraw your backing of Governor Rick Perry. So I’d stay away from all ministry offices.” Glenn was shocked, but it turns out this wasn’t the worst threat he’s had to deal with.

“There was a man who walked into my church during a Bible study. It was on a Wednesday night, and he came in. He was carrying a loaded six‑shooter, and he walked to the front of the church and he roared like a wild animal and said, ‘I’ve come to shoot you to prove that Satan has more power than Jesus Christ.’ And I held up my Bible and said that this book says that no weapon formed against me shall prosper. And he became infuriated and said, ‘I’m going to kill you on the count of three. Get on your knees and beg for your life.’ I said, I will not because the Lord is my protector. And he said, ‘I’m going to shoot you on the count of three.’ He lied. He started shooting on the count of two. And he emptied the gun at me from a distance of eight to ten feet, and by the grace and mercy of God missed every shot. He ran out of the building, he was knocked down, apprehended, sent a few days later to the asylum for the criminally insane. Ninety days later a team of psychiatrists pronounced him ready to take his place in society and he went home and immediately climbed the highest tree in his backyard and hung himself,” Hagee told Glenn.

“And this, this bomb threat is coming because our church went to Houston, Texas Saturday and participated in the prayer service that Governor Perry called for us to pray for a nation in crisis, and that entire service that lasted from 10:00 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon was apolitical. It was nothing more than prayer, repentance, fasting, calling out on God to help America and to help break this drought in Texas. And here someone who’s from out of state sends this threat because I will tell you that prayer infuriates the ungodly,” Hagee added.

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The Patriot Post

Greater freedom for tax payers would be seized from tax consumers, in an act of terrorism against the sacred machinery of redistribution. This mindset flows from the fundamental leftist misunderstanding of freedom. They view the essence of freedom as action. ... In reality, freedom is property. Every form of collectivism, from fascism to socialism, is an offense against property rights. The early philosophers of socialism railed bitterly against the private ownership of property. They hated the notion of a middle class with independence secured through ownership. The perilous financial situation of the United States government illustrates how closely private property rights are connected to all other forms of liberty. The less absolute your rights of ownership over your land, labor, and fortune become, the more easily the other rights can be dismissed at the convenience of the State. ... Now we are told that we have no choice but to allow the State to become larger, spending and borrowing more as it extends its control over our lives. Those who disagree are denounced as 'terrorists.' ... In a nation where the government fully respected private ownership, the notion of citizens becoming 'hostages' to federal budget cuts would be laughable, rather than insulting. Freedom is not something to be granted, rationed, allocated, or redistributed. It is not won or lost in an election. Freedom is something you own.

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SEAL TEAM 6 - INVESTIGATE THE WHITE HOUSE

The United West
DEMAND A SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION!

Sound begins about 00:15

There is a disturbing let them eat cake mentality projected by the Obama White House...

...and The Obama presidency comes across as bitter, nasty and divisive

Nile Gardiner, UK Telegraph:

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S&P UPGRADES...OHIO!

Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) explains how Ohio turned its greatest fiscal shortfall into a structurally balanced budget, all while cutting taxes for every Ohioan.

Conservative ideas work!

Socialist ideas don't (never have).

ALAN GREENSPAN: No chance of default...

Greenspan on Meet the Press: No Chance of Default. Really?

Quick: Someone tell the President!

Tip from Afghanistan...you will not believe what's really going on

Obama commissions Hollywood pic on OBL Raid
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 6, AD 2011 9:48 PM MST

Yep. Published this very day, written by uber-leftist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. The Obama regime has commissioned a major motion picture about the fake Bin Laden raid. The film will be released . . . October 12, 2012.

Guys, we're into full-blown Leni Riefenstahl territory now.

Here's the link to the Dowd piece. I am linking to page 2 of 2 because that's where the stuff about the movie is, but do read the whole thing.

Read up.

Money quotes:

The White House clearly blessed the dramatic reconstruction of the mission by Nicholas Schmidle in The New Yorker — so vividly descriptive of the SEALS' looks, quotes and thoughts that Schmidle had to clarify after the piece was published that he had not actually talked to any of them.

(snip)

The White House is also counting on the Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal big-screen version of the killing of bin Laden to counter Obama's growing reputation as ineffectual.

The Sony film by the Oscar-winning pair who made "The Hurt Locker" will no doubt reflect the president's cool, gutsy decision against shaky odds. Just as Obamaland was hoping, the movie is scheduled to open on Oct. 12, 2012 — perfectly timed to give a home-stretch boost to a campaign that has grown tougher.

The moviemakers are getting top-level access to the most classified mission in history from an administration that has tried to throw more people in jail for leaking classified information than the Bush administration.

It was clear that the White House had outsourced the job of manning up the president's image to Hollywood when Boal got welcomed to the upper echelons of the White House and the Pentagon and showed up recently — to the surprise of some military officers — at a CIA ceremony celebrating the hero SEALs.

Is this why Matt Damon is currently sporting a buzzcut? Hmmmm.

Update: Bin Laden Raid Story Being Debunked
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 6, AD 2011 8:04 PM MST

Via BigPeace.com, the widely read cover story published in the New Yorker on August 1 by Nicholas Schmidle supposedly detailing the entire Bin Laden raid is being exposed as a fraud. And if you read the debunking piece linked below, you will see that the author C. Christine Fair is no conservative and even calls anti-sharia legislation in the U.S. "ludicrous and shameful." If you aren't familiar with the New Yorker magazine, it is an uber-liberal mouthpiece for the Obama regime.

Read up.

Tip from Afghanistan
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 7, AD 2011 6:57 AM MST

I received a tip from a soldier stationed with an aviation brigade out of Jalalabad overnight.

"Almost immediately, after news of the crash began to spread, we were placed in an internet and phone blackout. This means communication with family, friends and "others" back home, in real time, is prevented until further notice.

However, there are also chinook pilots, crews and mechanics assigned here who were privy to the details of the crash almost immediately. One of confirmed details they have been discussing is that the chinook shot down belonged to a National Guard unit. Which is causing people to whisper in astonishment, "why were some of the most elite of America's military, in such large numbers, tooling around on a National Guard aircraft?"

Also, those around me are wondering why such a large number(extremely unconventional for Seals, Green Berets, etc) of them riding in a single aircraft instead of being spread out into numerous aircraft.

Without question, I mean no disrespect to the pilots and crew of the National Guard aircraft, but the fact is that it's very "strange" that Seals would be conducting an actual mission, with such large numbers, in such a basic aircraft. Especially, given the fact, that there were special operation chinooks easily available, and sitting idle, when this tragedy took place."

I am not a journalist. I have no means of checking this. But SOMEONE needs to investigate if in fact the SEALS were on a National Guard helo, if there were SPECOPS Chinooks available and idle, and what the difference in armament is between Guard Chinooks and SPECOPS Chinooks. This potential difference in armament is HUGE and could account for the possibility of the Chinook being shot down by an RPG, if that is what happened.

Hello? Journalists? Anyone out there?

UPDATE: The SPECOPS Chinook is a very different beast that is heavily upgraded with enhanced survivability features. It is the Boeing MH-47E/G. Boeing's Homepage for the SPECOPS chinook here. The soldier quoted above contends that the SEALS were NOT in one of these units, but rather in a standard Chinook while these SPECOPS Chinooks were available and sitting idle. Again, a JOURNALIST needs to confirm this.

UPDATE 2 (From a reader):

Ann,
You are on to something here. I was in the 160th 1982- 1985 and I can tell you that the reason the aviation wing was created was so special ops would never again have to fly missions with anyone other than their own pilots and birds.

UPDATE 3 (From a reader):

Ann, I'm sure you're getting a lot of notes on the Chinook debacle. I'm retired USAF familiar with how the system works when it comes to the questions asked by your Jalalabad contact. First, look to the Command Authority. Dispersion protocols are almost never broken except on direct order up the chain high enough that nobody could question or refuse the order without jeopardizing their career. Second, 'who benefits'? Follow the trail of beneficiaries to the incident. Tactically, intell had to be passed to the shooters as to the timetable. I'm willing to bet that there were several RPG's (if not Stinger's - remember, we provided quite a few and never kept a record during the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan) involved. Then, once fired, the shooters had to egress unseen to fight another day. Many people I know, including some recently back from that area say this stinks to high Heaven, as you do.

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On U.S. Stinger Missles in Afghanistan
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 7, AD 2011 3:49 PM MST

No, the Chinook could not have been shot down with a 1980s-era Stinger supplied by the U.S. when the Soviets were in Afghanistan. It turns out that U.S. Stingers were designed to have an "expiration date" after which they became useless and inert. The seeker head of the U.S. Stinger contained a coolant that degraded over time. All U.S. Stingers in Afghanistan are long since inert. The risk today in Afghanistan are the Russian "Grail" and French "Mistral" MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems).

Following up on the RPG question, we have lost only one (that I can find) SPECOPS Chinook to RPG fire, and that incident saw the RPG shot go inside the cabin of the SPECOPS Chinook through an open hatch. It was a Golden BB shot. That tells us that the SPECOPS Chinooks are extremely resilient and have high combat survivability. The SPECOPS Chinooks are like a heavily armored Brinks truck. A standard National Guard Chinook would be analogous to a FedEx truck by comparison. You never pack 25 SEALs into one helo as a point of dispersion protocol, as stated by a reader below. I have been told that a MINIMUM of three helos would normally be used for a group of that size. And IF they were indeed in a standard National Guard Chinook and not a SPECOPS Chinook, that would be like rolling out in a FedEx truck with your extremely precious cargo.

(Every human being is infinitely precious, but we can all agree that from a battlefield standpoint, SEALs are "tactically precious.")

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Confirmed: It was A National Guard Chinook & Crew
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 7, AD 2011 6:17 PM MST

From the obituary of Sgt. Patrick Hamburger who served in the Nebraska National Guard as a Chinook Helicopter crewman and crew chief. The family was notified at 5:00pm CDT Saturday afternoon.

Link Here.

From the article:

Sources from the US military say the giant NATO chopper was called into action as backup. A team conducting a night raid on Taliban fighters was in trouble and the chopper went down as it arrived to help. . .

Requiescat in pace, Sgt. Hamburger, and all the fallen dead.

Sgt. Hamburger had JUST ARRIVED in Afghanistan a couple of days ago. Why was a green National Guard unit flying backup for DEVGRU SPECOPs??????? Where was the 160th SOAR backup??????

My God.

UPDATE: Additional confirmation that it was a CH-47 transport helo. Copy and paste this URL: www.1011now.com/home/headlines/Lincoln_Native_Killed_in_Afghanistan_Helicopter_Crash_127089778.html

What in the HELL was a CH-47 TRANSPORT helo doing in a DEVGRU combat theater???? FILLED WITH 25 SEALS??????? If the SEALs' MH-47G SPECOPS Chinook that they rode in on was taken out in the Tangi theater, where is the fallen MH-47G helo itself? Shouldn't there also be dead crew members from the 160th SOAR, which is an Army unit? This ain't right, people. I'm telling you. This is NOT RIGHT.