StimulusWatch.org is a great resource to find out how money from the current “economic stimulus” package is proposed to be spent in your state. In addition to listing all projects in your state, you can vote whether or not you believe the proposed project is critical. Some highly questionable examples include:
Laurel, MS - doorbells on housing for the elderly
Austin, TX - disc golf course
Las Vegas, NV - Performing Art Center
Chula Vista, CA - dog park
Lewiston, ME - a couple of dog parks
Evansville, IN - Microsoft Office licenses
Arlington, TX - golf course renovations
Austin, TX - boardwalk along lake
Cidra, PR - little league parking lot
Hampstead, NY - indoor soccer field
Salt Lake City, UT - baseball diamond viewing stands and concession booth upgrades
I suppose the idea is that all this spending will cure the nations ills caused by too much credit, too much spending, too much regulation and intervention into private businesses and markets, and fractional-reserve banking.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Increasing Number of States Declaring Sovereignty
Back in December, the Wall Street Journal had a good chuckle over Russian academic Igor Panarin’s prediction that the United States would break apart by 2010. Using threadbare Cold War logic, Andrew Osborn wrote that Panarin’s forecast “is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis.” For the WSL scribe, Panarin’s analysis is about the Red Bear “returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories.”
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were nullified many years ago, at least since the emergence of the Federalists under Alexander Hamilton.
In fact, it was not so much “weakness” that destroyed Russia as it was the IMF, the World Bank, and Wall Street, in other words it was another bankster looting and fire sale scheme that brought the former Soviet Union down, not that we should expect the Wall Street Journal to admit as much. Ditto the current “global financial crisis” and instability in the Middle East.
“Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar,” Osborn summarizes. “Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.”
In the case of a growing number of U.S. states, however, it is not so much economic decline and moral degradation pointing the way to a “disintegration,” but rather violations of the Tenth Amendment. The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791, and states restates the Constitution’s principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people. It is based on an earlier provision of the Articles of Confederation: “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
Although Fox News and CNN are not telling you about it, a growing number of states are declaring sovereignty. Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, and Georgia have all introduced bills and resolutions declaring sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Illinois are considering such measures.
For details on the particular bills and resolutions introduced by the above states, check out the following:
Washington
New Hampshire
Arizona
Montana
Michigan
Missouri
Oklahoma
California
Georgia
Sadly, far too many Americans are woefully ignorant when it comes to understanding their rights and the Constitution. As Gary Alder notes in his “15 Key Principles of the Founding Fathers,” the “9th and 10th Amendments are the keystones to preserving Freedom.” In fact, the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of (Individual) Rights, clarify the restraints placed on the national government and they safeguard the rights of individuals. It does not take a rocket scientist to conclude that all of these individual rights are under withereing attack by the federal government.
“Obama’s plans for a federal handgun license, ‘hate crimes’ laws to regulate Christians’ speech about their own religious beliefs on homosexuality, President Obama’s youth corps for mandatory public service and the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to ‘balance’ talk radio have New Hampshire Lawmakers telling Obama to basically grow up and get some better ideas,” writes Jake Jones. “They say that if Obama’s plans are implimented, it would constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States.”
Unfortunately, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were nullified many years ago, at least since the emergence of the Federalists under Alexander Hamilton, as Thomas J. DiLorenzo persausively argues. “Federalists like Joseph Story and John Marshall, and later Whig politicians like Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln… would tell The Big Lie that the Constitution was ratified by ‘the whole people’ and not as it actually was – by the citizens of the sovereign states, with their representatives assembled in state conventions,” writes DiLorenzo. In the years since, the reach and severity of federalism has grown expotentially. “The U.S. government is now characterized by dictatorial power, abuse of every kind of personal liberty, confiscatory taxation, economic fascism, dangerous militarism, and imperialism.” New World Order minion Obama will take this dictatorial power to new heights under the pretense of saving the people from the bankster engineered global economic depression.
As Obama and Congress further extend the dictatorial reach of the federal government — under the control of a small cotorie of globalists and international bankers — we can expect more states to assert their rights under the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.
http://www.infowars.com/increasing-number-of-states-declaring-sovereignty/
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were nullified many years ago, at least since the emergence of the Federalists under Alexander Hamilton.
In fact, it was not so much “weakness” that destroyed Russia as it was the IMF, the World Bank, and Wall Street, in other words it was another bankster looting and fire sale scheme that brought the former Soviet Union down, not that we should expect the Wall Street Journal to admit as much. Ditto the current “global financial crisis” and instability in the Middle East.
“Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar,” Osborn summarizes. “Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian control.”
In the case of a growing number of U.S. states, however, it is not so much economic decline and moral degradation pointing the way to a “disintegration,” but rather violations of the Tenth Amendment. The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791, and states restates the Constitution’s principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people. It is based on an earlier provision of the Articles of Confederation: “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
Although Fox News and CNN are not telling you about it, a growing number of states are declaring sovereignty. Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, and Georgia have all introduced bills and resolutions declaring sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Illinois are considering such measures.
For details on the particular bills and resolutions introduced by the above states, check out the following:
Washington
New Hampshire
Arizona
Montana
Michigan
Missouri
Oklahoma
California
Georgia
Sadly, far too many Americans are woefully ignorant when it comes to understanding their rights and the Constitution. As Gary Alder notes in his “15 Key Principles of the Founding Fathers,” the “9th and 10th Amendments are the keystones to preserving Freedom.” In fact, the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of (Individual) Rights, clarify the restraints placed on the national government and they safeguard the rights of individuals. It does not take a rocket scientist to conclude that all of these individual rights are under withereing attack by the federal government.
“Obama’s plans for a federal handgun license, ‘hate crimes’ laws to regulate Christians’ speech about their own religious beliefs on homosexuality, President Obama’s youth corps for mandatory public service and the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to ‘balance’ talk radio have New Hampshire Lawmakers telling Obama to basically grow up and get some better ideas,” writes Jake Jones. “They say that if Obama’s plans are implimented, it would constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States.”
Unfortunately, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were nullified many years ago, at least since the emergence of the Federalists under Alexander Hamilton, as Thomas J. DiLorenzo persausively argues. “Federalists like Joseph Story and John Marshall, and later Whig politicians like Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln… would tell The Big Lie that the Constitution was ratified by ‘the whole people’ and not as it actually was – by the citizens of the sovereign states, with their representatives assembled in state conventions,” writes DiLorenzo. In the years since, the reach and severity of federalism has grown expotentially. “The U.S. government is now characterized by dictatorial power, abuse of every kind of personal liberty, confiscatory taxation, economic fascism, dangerous militarism, and imperialism.” New World Order minion Obama will take this dictatorial power to new heights under the pretense of saving the people from the bankster engineered global economic depression.
As Obama and Congress further extend the dictatorial reach of the federal government — under the control of a small cotorie of globalists and international bankers — we can expect more states to assert their rights under the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.
http://www.infowars.com/increasing-number-of-states-declaring-sovereignty/
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
“I think it would just be easier if we just legalize it”
Mexican Marijuana Trade Gaining Ground In U.S.
The Department of Justice reports that the Mexican marijuana trade is gaining steam, with cartels trying new tactics.
“It’s almost impossible to get every single one,” said Victoria Contreras, of central El Paso.
While that may be true law enforcement officials are forced to change their tactics.
“One of the things that we’re striving to do is truly become an intelligence driven organization,” said Ana Hinojosa, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations in El Paso.
Hinojosa said the scanning technology that officers use at points of entry is also helpful in making marijuana and other drug busts. She said drug smugglers use all kinds of tactics to get drugs in from cans of hominy, toys, and even putting drugs in their bodies to get them over the border.
An analysis of records shows that marijuana has been the most popular drug that CBP officer have confiscated at the border crossings in the El Paso areas. In 2008 the confiscated more than 168,000 pounds. In 2007 they confiscated more than 199,000 pounds of marijuana.
Border Patrol also confiscates more marijuana than compared to other drugs. In 2008, they seized more than 87,000 pounds of marijuana. In 2007 they confiscated more than 128,000 pounds of marijuana.
One tactic that authorities said cartels are using is to grow more drugs in the United States instead of growing in Mexico and having to cross it over. Drug Enforcement Agency officials said El Paso’s desert climate and lack of water, makes it an unlikely place for cartels to start planting in the Borderland. Officials noted that it’s not impossible, just unlikely.
“I think it would just be easier if we just legalize it,” said Contreras.
Last year, the Department of Justice noted that cartels operated in 195 cities, compared to 50 in 2006.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/18626292/detail.html
The Department of Justice reports that the Mexican marijuana trade is gaining steam, with cartels trying new tactics.
“It’s almost impossible to get every single one,” said Victoria Contreras, of central El Paso.
While that may be true law enforcement officials are forced to change their tactics.
“One of the things that we’re striving to do is truly become an intelligence driven organization,” said Ana Hinojosa, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations in El Paso.
Hinojosa said the scanning technology that officers use at points of entry is also helpful in making marijuana and other drug busts. She said drug smugglers use all kinds of tactics to get drugs in from cans of hominy, toys, and even putting drugs in their bodies to get them over the border.
An analysis of records shows that marijuana has been the most popular drug that CBP officer have confiscated at the border crossings in the El Paso areas. In 2008 the confiscated more than 168,000 pounds. In 2007 they confiscated more than 199,000 pounds of marijuana.
Border Patrol also confiscates more marijuana than compared to other drugs. In 2008, they seized more than 87,000 pounds of marijuana. In 2007 they confiscated more than 128,000 pounds of marijuana.
One tactic that authorities said cartels are using is to grow more drugs in the United States instead of growing in Mexico and having to cross it over. Drug Enforcement Agency officials said El Paso’s desert climate and lack of water, makes it an unlikely place for cartels to start planting in the Borderland. Officials noted that it’s not impossible, just unlikely.
“I think it would just be easier if we just legalize it,” said Contreras.
Last year, the Department of Justice noted that cartels operated in 195 cities, compared to 50 in 2006.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/18626292/detail.html
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New Hampshire - A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles
The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step today by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and warning that certain future acts will be viewed as a "breach of peace" with the states themselves that risks "nullifying the Constitution."This act by New Hampshire is a clear warning to the federal government that they could face being stripped of their power by the States (presumably through civil war!The remarkable document outlines with perfect clarity, some basics long forgotten. For instance, it reminds Congress "That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, slavery, and no other crimes whatsoever;. . . . . therefore all acts of Congress which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution are altogether void, and of no force;"Federal gun crime laws? Void. Federal drug crime laws? Void. The gazzillion other federal criminal laws that deal with anything other than the specific enumerated crimes? ALL VOID.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html
http://halturnershow.blogspot.com/
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html
http://halturnershow.blogspot.com/
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