Gabriel's Trumpet

The Truth, Plain and Simple

2012-02-14T13:37:00.000-08:00

"Judge Napolitano's Final Word on the Last Episode of Freedom Watch. FOX news did not "fire" the Judge... they just cancelled his show. According to Fox News press release, the Judge will be appearing again on Fox but Freedom Watch is done for.rather ironic a show about freedom got shut down. Although its sad to watch this end, one had to wonder how long it was going to last or how it even got on Fox News at all.

It is a sad day in this once free country when the truth of the government's encroachment on civil liberties is a reason for cancellation...

Pentagon's Shopping List

2012-02-11T16:03:00.000-08:00

The 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb is becoming an "urgent" NEED for the Pentagon's future plans. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is dropped by a B-2 Stealth Bomber or B-52 High Altitude bomber. The Pentagon is prepping 20 plus of the HUGE bombs for use against IRAN'S hardened underground facility near the city of Qom in the Fardow mountain range.

The maker of the MOP Boeing advertises the Bunker Buster as a weapon which allows the warfighter to destroy ANY adversaries' most highly valued military facilities. With a nod to the Bush administration's lies, Boeing added.. "especially those protecting weapons of mass destruction."

Just as NATO underhandedly took over Libya they are now concentrating on surreptitiously felling Syria by a CIA coup. Then, it's on to IRAN.

The Drum beats to WWIII are getting louder and louder.

All Americans are Terrorists

2012-02-11T15:19:00.000-08:00

Homeland Security states "YOU'RE ALL MILITIA NOW"

A recent Federal manifest, distributed to thousands of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targets ALL US citizens concerned about their Second Amendment rights and the steady encroachment of the federal government, labeling all Americans as “militia extremists.”

http://www.scribd.com/doc/74788445/DHS-Extremism-Lexicon-FINAL

Wanting freedom is terrorism.

Ron Paul has crazy ideas and thoughts.

Wanting to protect our country by securing our borders is anti-Semitic.

They're slowly changing the framework.

For NOW, it is "acts of violence"... which includes any freedom-loving, patriotic, US citizens who still believe that there are certain UN-alienable Rights set forth in the US constitution for all men.

Next it will be "acts of disobedience"...

Then, "Acts of vocal distrust of government"

Followed by "Acts of verbal terrorism"...

Finally..."Pre-Crime Thoughts against the government..."

Get it now? The Slippery-slope right back to 1939 Germany...

Only this time it's not the Jews...

Its the Freedom loving, 2nd Amendment defending, Bill of Rights supporting, citizens of a once Free Country...

Who will be going to the DHS RE-Education centers

US Administration lies about Afghanistan AGAIN!!!

2012-02-07T16:57:00.000-08:00

How AMERICAN Politicians have let the US Military down...

By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS

I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.

What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.

Entering this deployment, I was sincerely hoping to learn that the claims were true: that conditions in Afghanistan were improving, that the local government and military were progressing toward self-sufficiency. I did not need to witness dramatic improvements to be reassured, but merely hoped to see evidence of positive trends, to see companies or battalions produce even minimal but sustainable progress.

Instead, I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level.

My arrival in country in late 2010 marked the start of my fourth combat deployment, and my second in Afghanistan. A Regular Army officer in the Armor Branch, I served in Operation Desert Storm, in Afghanistan in 2005-06 and in Iraq in 2008-09. In the middle of my career, I spent eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve and held a number of civilian jobs — among them, legislative correspondent for defense and foreign affairs for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.

As a representative for the Rapid Equipping Force, I set out to talk to our troops about their needs and their circumstances. Along the way, I conducted mounted and dismounted combat patrols, spending time with conventional and Special Forces troops. I interviewed or had conversations with more than 250 soldiers in the field, from the lowest-ranking 19-year-old private to division commanders and staff members at every echelon. I spoke at length with Afghan security officials, Afghan civilians and a few village elders.

I saw the incredible difficulties any military force would have to pacify even a single area of any of those provinces; I heard many stories of how insurgents controlled virtually every piece of land beyond eyeshot of a U.S. or International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base.

I saw little to no evidence the local governments were able to provide for the basic needs of the people. Some of the Afghan civilians I talked with said the people didn’t want to be connected to a predatory or incapable local government.

From time to time, I observed Afghan Security forces collude with the insurgency.

From Bad to Abysmal

Much of what I saw during my deployment, let alone read or wrote in official reports, I can’t talk about; the information remains classified. But I can say that such reports — mine and others’ — serve to illuminate the gulf between conditions on the ground and official statements of progress.

What I observed all over the country...

In January 2011, I made my first trip into the mountains of Kunar province near the Pakistan border to visit the troops of 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry. On a patrol to the northernmost U.S. position in eastern Afghanistan, we arrived at an Afghan National Police (ANP) station that had reported being attacked by the Taliban 2½ hours earlier.

Through the interpreter, I asked the police captain where the attack had originated, and he pointed to the side of a nearby mountain.

“What are your normal procedures in situations like these?” I asked. “Do you form up a squad and go after them? Do you periodically send out harassing patrols? What do you do?”

As the interpreter conveyed my questions, the captain’s head wheeled around, looking first at the interpreter and turning to me with an incredulous expression. Then he laughed.

“No! We don’t go after them,” he said. “That would be dangerous!”

According to the cavalry troopers, the Afghan policemen rarely leave the cover of the checkpoints. In that part of the province, the Taliban literally run free.

In June, I was in the Zharay district of Kandahar province, returning to a base from a dismounted patrol. Gunshots were audible as the Taliban attacked a U.S. checkpoint about one mile away.

As I entered the unit’s command post, the commander and his staff were watching a live video feed of the battle. Two ANP vehicles were blocking the main road leading to the site of the attack. The fire was coming from behind a haystack. We watched as two Afghan men emerged, mounted a motorcycle and began moving toward the Afghan policemen in their vehicles.

The U.S. commander turned around and told the Afghan radio operator to make sure the policemen halted the men. The radio operator shouted into the radio repeatedly, but got no answer.

On the screen, we watched as the two men slowly motored past the ANP vehicles. The policemen neither got out to stop the two men, nor answered the radio — until the motorcycle was out of sight.

To a man, the U.S. officers in that unit told me they had nothing but contempt for the Afghan troops in their area — and that was before the above incident occurred.

In August, I went on a dismounted patrol with troops in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province. Several troops from the unit had recently been killed in action, one of whom was a very popular and experienced soldier. One of the unit’s senior officers rhetorically asked me, “How do I look these men in the eye and ask them to go out day after day on these missions? What’s harder: How do I look [my soldier’s] wife in the eye when I get back and tell her that her husband died for something meaningful? How do I do that?”

One of the senior enlisted leaders added, “Guys are saying, ‘I hope I live so I can at least get home to R&R leave before I get it,’ or ‘I hope I only lose a foot.’ Sometimes they even say which limb it might be: ‘Maybe it’ll only be my left foot.’ They don’t have a lot of confidence that the leadership two levels up really understands what they’re living here, what the situation really is.”

On Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the infamous attack on the U.S., I visited another unit in Kunar province, this one near the town of Asmar. I talked with the local official who served as the cultural adviser to the U.S. commander.

Here’s how the conversation went:

Davis: “Here you have many units of the Afghan National Security Forces [ANSF]. Will they be able to hold out against the Taliban when U.S. troops leave this area?”

Adviser: “No. They are definitely not capable. Already all across this region [many elements of] the security forces have made deals with the Taliban. [The ANSF] won’t shoot at the Taliban, and the Taliban won’t shoot them.

“Also, when a Taliban member is arrested, he is soon released with no action taken against him. So when the Taliban returns [when the Americans leave after 2014], so too go the jobs, especially for everyone like me who has worked with the coalition.

“Recently, I got a cellphone call from a Talib who had captured a friend of mine. While I could hear, he began to beat him, telling me I’d better quit working for the Americans. I could hear my friend crying out in pain. [The Talib] said the next time they would kidnap my sons and do the same to them. Because of the direct threats, I’ve had to take my children out of school just to keep them safe.

“And last night, right on that mountain there [he pointed to a ridge overlooking the U.S. base, about 700 meters distant], a member of the ANP was murdered. The Taliban came and called him out, kidnapped him in front of his parents, and took him away and murdered him. He was a member of the ANP from another province and had come back to visit his parents. He was only 27 years old. The people are not safe anywhere.”

That murder took place within view of the U.S. base, a post nominally responsible for the security of an area of hundreds of square kilometers. Imagine how insecure the population is beyond visual range. And yet that conversation was representative of what I saw in many regions of Afghanistan.

In all of the places I visited, the tactical situation was bad to abysmal. If the events I have described — and many, many more I could mention — had been in the first year of war, or even the third or fourth, one might be willing to believe that Afghanistan was just a hard fight, and we should stick it out. Yet these incidents all happened in the 10th year of war.

As the numbers depicting casualties and enemy violence indicate the absence of progress, so too did my observations of the tactical situation all over Afghanistan.

HUGE Credibility Gap

I’m hardly the only one who has noted the discrepancy between official statements and the truth on the ground.

A January 2011 report by the Afghan NGO Security Office noted that public statements made by U.S. and ISAF leaders at the end of 2010 were “sharply divergent from IMF, [international military forces, NGO-speak for ISAF] ‘strategic communication’ messages suggesting improvements. We encourage [nongovernment organization personnel] to recognize that no matter how authoritative the source of any such claim, messages of the nature are solely intended to influence American and European public opinion ahead of the withdrawal, and are not intended to offer an accurate portrayal of the situation for those who live and work here.”

The following month, Anthony Cordesman, on behalf of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote that ISAF and the U.S. leadership failed to report accurately on the reality of the situation in Afghanistan.

“Since June 2010, the unclassified reporting the U.S. does provide has steadily shrunk in content, effectively ‘spinning’ the road to victory by eliminating content that illustrates the full scale of the challenges ahead,” Cordesman wrote. “They also, however, were driven by political decisions to ignore or understate Taliban and insurgent gains from 2002 to 2009, to ignore the problems caused by weak and corrupt Afghan governance, to understate the risks posed by sanctuaries in Pakistan, and to ‘spin’ the value of tactical ISAF victories while ignoring the steady growth of Taliban influence and control.”

How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding and behind an array of more than seven years of optimistic statements by U.S. senior leaders in Afghanistan? No one expects our leaders to always have a successful plan. But we do expect — and the men who do the living, fighting and dying deserve — to have our leaders tell us the truth about what’s going on.

I first encountered senior-level equivocation during a 1997 division-level “experiment” that turned out to be far more setpiece than experiment. Over dinner at Fort Hood, Texas, Training and Doctrine Command leaders told me that the Advanced Warfighter Experiment (AWE) had shown that a “digital division” with fewer troops and more gear could be far more effective than current divisions. The next day, our congressional staff delegation observed the demonstration firsthand, and it didn’t take long to realize there was little substance to the claims. Virtually no legitimate experimentation was actually conducted. All parameters were carefully scripted. All events had a preordained sequence and outcome. The AWE was simply an expensive show, couched in the language of scientific experimentation and presented in glowing press releases and public statements, intended to persuade Congress to fund the Army’s preference. Citing the AWE’s “results,” Army leaders proceeded to eliminate one maneuver company per combat battalion. But the loss of fighting systems was never offset by a commensurate rise in killing capability.

A decade later, in the summer of 2007, I was assigned to the Future Combat Systems (FCS) organization at Fort Bliss, Texas. It didn’t take long to discover that the same thing the Army had done with a single division at Fort Hood in 1997 was now being done on a significantly larger scale with FCS. Year after year, the congressionally mandated reports from the Government Accountability Office revealed significant problems and warned that the system was in danger of failing. Each year, the Army’s senior leaders told members of Congress at hearings that GAO didn’t really understand the full picture and that to the contrary, the program was on schedule, on budget, and headed for success. Ultimately, of course, the program was canceled, with little but spinoffs to show for $18 billion spent.

If Americans were able to compare the public statements many of our leaders have made with classified data, this credibility gulf would be immediately observable. Naturally, I am not authorized to divulge classified material to the public. But I am legally able to share it with members of Congress. I have accordingly provided a much fuller accounting in a classified report to several members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, senators and House members.

Civilan Spy Programs

2012-02-06T19:26:00.000-08:00

The Federal government is fast approaching it plan of unifying local Police, Fire and Rescue, State Police, and all departments of the homeland security whose underpinnings are the new Civilian spy programs. This marriage of Federal and Civilian domestic spying is being called..."Threat fusion centers" which integrates real time data from public and private sources.

The FBI has now made public their "Communities Against Terrorism" Suspicious Activity Reporting flyers.

Listed below are all 25 known flyers that should be read in their entirety if one wishes to discover just how far the United States has traveled in its attempt to replicate a level of citizen snitches not seen since the Stasi of East Germany.

Airport Service Providers -- Includes on-craft providers: baggage, cleaners, cargo, catering, mechanics, ground crew, food service, cleaners, security, taxi, limos, and shuttles.
Beauty/Drug Suppliers -- People who have burn marks, missing limbs, travel a long distance, nervous, who are picked up, make illogical requests (even of consumer-grade products).
Bulk Fuel Distributors -- New customers not from the area, those using cash for large transactions, nervous, large purchases, having a rental vehicle.
Construction Sites -- People with environmental slogans and/or anti-government slogans, banners or signs that threaten or imply violence.
Dive/Boat Shops -- New customers reluctant to provide complete personal information, customer who does not have certification, using cash for expensive transactions, extended rentals, appearing uninterested in safety rules, experiencing guarded behavior.
Electronics Stores -- Person who alters appearance from visit to visit (changing hair color, shaving, etc.), fills a "shopping list" of components while lacking knowledge about their use. Pays cash for large purchases.
Farm Supply Stores -- New customers not from the area, nervous or impatient, suspicious inquiries regarding equipment specifications, failing to state legitimate use for supplies, rental vehicle, cash for large transactions.
Financial Institutions -- No evidence for legitimate business activity, those with multiple accounts, banks, parties, and jurisdictions (layering). Mixed deposits (money orders, third-party checks, and/or payroll into a business account). Large volume of wire transfers, or repetitive patterns, shell entities, "pass through" points by foreign jurisdictions.
General Aviation -- Taking flying lessons but appear uninterested, renting under vague reasons for doing so, requests to fly over specific locations without substantiated reason, taking pictures or videos of potentially sensitive locations, actions outside the norm, parking near the perimeter of airport, asking questions without substantiation.
General Public -- Basically everything exhibited by those with an inquisitive nature: questions, note taking, drawing, annotating maps, inappropriate photos or videos, people in places where they do not belong.
Hobby Shops -- Interest in remote-controlled aircraft, interest that does not seem genuine, possessing little knowledge of purchase, exhibiting unusual interest, exhibiting no interest, using cash for large transactions.
Home Improvement and Large Retail Stores -- Large quantity of ammunition, firearms and ammunition out of season, combination of unusual items, interest in night vision and camouflage apparel, purchases of pipe fittings and supplies, rental vehicle, refusal to complete firearms paperwork, using cash for large transactions.
Hotels/Motels
Internet Cafes
Shopping Malls -- Wearing backpacks, discreet use of cameras, note-taking, or video over an extended period, several men arriving together then splitting up, continuing to communicate (dry run?), speaking to security guards, comments regarding radical theology, vague or cryptic warnings, or anti-U.S. sentiments that appear out of place and provocative.
Martial Arts/Paintball -- Insist on paying with cash, travels long distance to participate, interest in learning offensive moves in a confined space, learning the use of hidden weapons, learning kill and restraint techniques with no occupational need, group training, uttering racist, religious, unusual, anti-US, or vague and cryptic warnings, close combat training, paintball tactics of ambush or kidnapping scenarios, operating a private facility, converting large plots of rural land to conduct these activities.
Mass Transportation -- Altering one's appearance, exhibiting burns, bleached body hair, concealed wires, nervous, actions suggesting use of a hidden camera, unusual comments, questioning security/facility personnel via normal means of communication, groups arriving together then splitting up and communicating via cell phone.
Military Surplus -- Demanding identity privacy, insisting on paying with cash, suspicious comments, bulk purchase
Peroxide Explosives -- Unknown customer, individual requesting more information.
Recognizing Sleepers -- Arrival from countries where violent militant Islamic
groups are known to operate, long unexplained absences, fury at the West for reasons ranging from personal problems to global policies of the U.S., conspiracy theories about Westerners (e.g. the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands), accusing the West of trying to destroy Islam.
Rental Cars -- Reluctance to provide complete personal information, using cash, unusual questions.
Rental Properties -- Using cash for large transactions, inquiries about local sites, refusing maintenance or service over extended time, not using property for intended purpose, unusual number of package deliveries, unusual amounts of traffic, discovery of unusual items.
Rental Trucks -- Reluctance to provide personal information, cash for large transactions, inquiries about renting a truck with a wooden floor, questions about vehicle specifications.
Storage Facilities -- Failing to provide complete personal information, using cash to pay fees in advance, placing unusual items in storage, disposing of tools, gloves, masks, or clothing, discarding clothes or shoes in new condition, avoiding contact with rental facility personnel, accessing facility an unusual number of times, storing items that emit unusual odors or leak liquids.
Tattoo Shops -- Demanding identity "privacy," paying cash, altering appearance (beard, hair style, hair color, style of dress, etc.), making racist or extreme statements, suspicious comments that suggest or appear to endorse violence in support of a cause, repeated returns with multiple individuals requesting identical tattoos, inquiries about unusual methods of tattooing or placement which could allow the concealment of extremist symbols

Massive US prep for attack on Iran

2012-01-27T18:42:00.000-08:00

The US military continues it's break neck preparation for it's soon attack on Iran with a massive concentration of US air, sea, and land forces on the two strategic islands. The first being Soqotra, is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The largest island, also called Socotra, is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies some 240 kilometres (150 mi) east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula.

The second island being Masirah an island off the East coast of Oman, 95 km long north-south, between 12 and 14 km wide.

This concentration of US military forces is the largest since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. If the current pace of arrivals on the two island bases continues unabated, 50,000 US troops will have boots on the ground on both Socotra and Masirah by mid-February.

This is in addition to the 50,000 US military troops already present in the Persian Gulf.

The drums of war are beating loudly as the US will shortly command over a 100,000 boots on the ground. Lessons learned in the Iraq war I & 2 have taught Washington that success in the middle east depends more on a military presence then just point and click air power.

Adding to the massive manned military build up, the American Navy will have three US aircraft carriers and their strike groups plus a French carrier in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea all by February 15th 2012.

Those ships include the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Carl Vinson, USS Enterprise and the Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

A fourth US carrier and it's strike group will be near by in the Pacific Ocean. In less then 48 hours sailing time they can be off of Iran’s coast ready to fight.

Soon, very soon, the world will see 1 of 4 scenarios:

1) A False flag, staged event whose bloody body count will have the public into demanding
      an attack on Iran.

2) A sudden FIRST STRIKE attack by Israel, in the early morning hours, which will be
     the spark which ignite the entire Middle east.

3) Economic/ Military / Humanitarian sanctions so severe that Iran threatens to
     cut all oil supplies to the West (and / or) threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz.
     This will cause the Western finical markets to nearly collapse, forcing the US and
     Israel to attack Iran or risk the collapse of the Western Democracies.

4) An unknown, preplanned action, which causes a Known reaction leading the entire world into WW3

Yeah Right!

2012-01-26T15:40:00.000-08:00

Obama to Ignore Order to Appear in Atlanta Court

by Keith Koffler on January 25, 2012, 11:34 pm

President Obama will ignore an order by an Atlanta judge to appear in court Thursday for a hearing in a case challenging his qualifications under the Constitution to be president.
According to the White House, Obama will continue with his current trip out West, starting the day in Las Vegas and then continuing on to Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colorado before heading to Detroit where he will spend the night.

The Associated Press reported last week that the judge had denied a motion to quash a subpoena for the president to show up for the hearing, which is scheduled for 9 am ET.

The case centers on whether Obama, whose father was Kenyan, qualifies as a “natural born citizen,” as required of a president under the Constitution. Some contend that “natural born citizen” means both of a presidential candidate’s parents must be U.S. citizens.
The Atlanta lawsuit would deny Obama the right to participate in the March 6 Georgia Democratic primary, though backers of the suit clearly hope to establish a precedent that would help make a national issue over whether Obama can serve as president.

A letter apparently sent by Obama attorney Michael Jablonski Wednesday to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp asks Kemp to “bring an end to this baseless, costly and unproductive hearing by withdrawing the original hearing request as improvidently issued.”

Jablonski states that while waiting for Kemp to do as requested, “we will, of course, suspend further participation in these proceedings, including the hearing scheduled for January 26.”

A letter that appears to be from Kemp to Jablonski rejects the demand and holds out the threat of punitive action should Obama and his attorneys withdraw from the proceedings.
“To the extent a request to withdraw the case referral is procedurally available, I do not believe such a request would be judicious given the hearing is set for tomorrow morning,” the Kemp letter states. “Anything you and your client place in the record in response to the challenge will be beneficial to my review of the initial decision; however, if you and your client choose to suspend your participation in the OSAH proceedings, please understand that you do so at your own peril.”

Does anyone think Obama actuallyshowed up for the hearing?

Nope!

Was anything at all done about it?

Nope!

politicians only get in trouble when they do NOT do what their Master's tell them. As long as a politician dances like a chicken to the tune of their Master's they will continue to be above the law.

Now ask me what would have happened to a Normal Citizen if they had ignored the Judges orders.

The full extent of the law would have come crashing down on their heads, Stormtroopers, Swat teams, et-all.

Precrime Thought Criminals

2012-01-24T14:10:00.000-08:00

Big brother surveillance by US police forces has exploded. The Associated Press reports that East Orange, New Jersey intends to identfy criminal by their PRE-ACTIONS by shinning PRE-suspects with a red-beamed spotlight, before any crime is committed.

The “PRE-CRIME” thought deterrent will be mounted on ALL street lights, and, or buildings or any suitable structures.

In East Orange, and cities all over the United States everyone is NOW a “Pre-crime” suspect until the Local, State, or Federal government decides otherwise.

To add to the 'PRE-CRIME' hysteria officer squad cars also scan the license plates of EVERY SINGLE vehicle they pass, checking them against a variety of lists– from terrorist monitor lists, to unpaid parking tickets, warrants and more.

Officers can then pull over vehicles even if the driver has committed no violations, so, as to divert attention from BIG BROTHER'S Pre-Crime patrol vehicle.

Cameras tied into police video monitor stations can also be accessed from squad cars as well as the reverse. Patrolling PRE-CRIME Thought Police can zoom in on nearby locations to determine if a Pre-Crime Thought might be in progress. A NON-suspect can be identified and arrested BEFORE HE/SHE engages in PRE-CRIME thoughts.

How effective is this New technology?

Only one single crime is solved for every 1,000 CCTV PRE_CRIME Thought cameras

So, to catch one single purse snatcher, 10,000 citizens are monitored minute by minute, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Civil rights are violated, the US Constitution is shredded, and individual privacy, guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, is illegally denied

All to catch 1 single misdemeanor criminal...

Dark Skies

2012-01-22T22:27:00.000-08:00

The Main Stream Media (MSM) unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the continental United States of America as a “battlefield” is indicative of the Orwellian thought process occurring in America.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama.
The Act authorizes $662 billion in funding, among other things “for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad.” In a signing statement, President Obama described the Act as addressing national security programs, Department of Defense health care costs, counter-terrorism within the U.S. and abroad, and military modernization.

The Act also imposes new economic sanctions against Iran (section 1045), commissions reviews of the military capabilities of countries such as Iran, China, and Russia, and refocuses the strategic goals of NATO towards energy security.

The most controversial provisions to receive wide attention are contained in Title X, Subtitle D, entitled “Counter-Terrorism.” In particular, sub-sections 1021 and 1022, which deal with indefinite prolonged detention of AMERICAN CITIZENS which the government suspects of involvement in ANY Activity IT, the government deems as threatening.

The N.D.A.A. by DEFAULT makes EVERY US citizens subject to military apprehension and detainment for life without access to a trial or attorney. When did this become acceptable in a land once called Free and Brave?

Habeas Corpus the foundational corner stone, the linchpin of the United States Constitution has been struck down by the Tyranny of Evil men masquerading as Agents of change.

The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a judicial mandate requiring that a prisoner be brought before the court to determine whether the government has the right to continue detaining them.

The potential implications for abuse by the Presidential authority is staggering!

Where is the oversight?

Where is the oversight?

Where is the oversight?

This is a Oubliette whose offspring bears malice and dark skies...
Robert D Anding III

Alaska Man Cited For forgetting he's a SLAVE

2012-01-20T13:30:00.000-08:00

Slaves have no right's, Serf's have no right's on their Master's property or too their Master's property.

Chad Gerondale, of Alaska forgot that he was a SLAVE.

Alaska Wildlife Storm-Troopers last week issued Gerondale a summons to appear in court on Feb. 3 to be arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of illegal barter of game meat. Troopers issued a news release Friday stating Gerondale had been cited for agreeing to trade 125 pounds of moose meat for two cords of firewood.

Buying, selling or bartering of game meat, except snowshoe hares, is illegal.

Gerondale allegedly offered to swap moose meat for firewood on the radio show, Tradio, which airs on KFAR 660 AM.

“The allegations are the guy was on Tradio and said, ‘I need some firewood and I’m willing to trade some moose meat,’” Satterberg said.

Trooper Ken Vanspronsen contacted Gerondale to make a deal and then showed up at his house and issued him a citation, Satterberg said.
…

“If you say, ‘I’ve got some moose meat; you’ve got some salmon, let’s trade,’ that’s a crime,” Satterberg said. “Simply making the statement is the crime. That’s a serious First Amendment question.”

What the law says:
AS16.05.920. Prohibited Conduct Generally.
(a) Unless permitted by AS16.05-AS16.40, by AS41.14, or by regulation adopted under AS16.05-AS16.40 or AS41.14, a person may not take, possess, transport, sell, offer to sell, purchase, or offer to purchase fish, game, or marine aquatic plants, or any part of fish, game, or aquatic plants, or a nest or egg of fish or game.

Another example of the enslavement of the American people.

STOP S.O.P.A.

2012-01-18T12:23:00.000-08:00

Stop S.O.P.A

The US Congress does NOT Fucking own the Internet!

Nor does SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS with lots of $$$ have the right to tell the world What WE can do with our interconnected computers.

Dear SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Go Fuck yourselves! And take your crappy mediocre movies, pre-packaged shitty pop music, FAke ass A.Idol, and your steaming pile of dog shit called pop-rap and shove it up your ass!

Keep your filthy stinking hands off OUR Internet!

P.S. Dear Politicians..."Go Fuck yourselves, you thieving, lying, back stabbing, country betraying, self-serving, scum!"

US Debt Noose

2012-01-15T21:39:00.001-08:00

United States National Debt Facts...

It took the country from George Washington until Ronald Reagan—approximately 200 years—to reach the first $1 trillion in debt.

Politicians driven by short-term election goals focus on short-term problems. For example, President Bush once told us the problem was shrinking, pointing to the annual federal budget deficit, which fell from a high of $413 billion in fiscal 2004 to about $163 billion in fiscal 2007. The debt, meanwhile, continues to explode.

All of the taxes you pay, including Social Security, are used for current government services and benefits, NONE of it is saved for OUR future.

US Office of Management and Budget, "There is nothing left. There are no finical assets in the Social Security trust fund."

The Government Accountability Office states , if spending on government retirement programs remains on its current course and revenues grow at their historical averages, interest on the debt could skyrocket from its current 9 percent to almost 50 percent of the budget by 2040.

Fed Chairman has stated that the time to solve this problem was "ten years ago." Meanwhile, Congressional Quarterly reports that a delay of even 10 years in solving this will triple the impossibility of EVER solving the problem.

Washington IS absolutely myopically intending to make the nation's fiscal problems much worse by expanding entitlements and bail-outs. The 2012 US budget calls for adding more than 3 trillion dollars to the federal debt via deficit spending and as much as another five trillion in unfunded liabilities.

Presidential Betrayal

2012-01-04T17:45:00.000-08:00

Americans CAN NOW BE DETAINED INDEFINITELY."

President O has betrayed the American people by signing into law the NDAA.

No longer is it safe to be an American.

Never again will America be called the Home of the Free.

This video is a good introduction to the NDAA and how it will impact your everyday life

It is truly a dark day for each and every freedom loving American.

I ask you..."Who does this NDAA betrayal serve? It doesn't serve the American people. This legislation is paranoid and blatantly anti-American. Whose interests are being served here, because it's not the interests of the people of the United States of America.

Whose interests are being served here?

Who benefits from the false imprisonment of American citizens?

Whose interests are being served here?

Whose interests are being served here?

Whose interests are being served here?

ANTI-Freedom Supporters of the S.O.P.A. Act

2011-12-26T17:31:00.000-08:00

List of Supporters:

H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act

60 Plus Association

ABCAlliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)

American Federation of Musicians (AFM)

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)Americans for Tax ReformArtists and Allied Crafts of the United States

Association of American Publishers (AAP)Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies

Association of Talent Agents (ATA)Baker & Hostetler LLPBeachbody, LLC

BMIBMG ChrysalisBuilding and Construction Trades

DepartmentCapitol Records NashvilleCBSCengage LearningChristian Music Trade Association

Church Music Publishers’ Association

(CAOVP)Comcast/NBCUniversal

Concerned Women for America (CWA)

Congressional Fire Services Institute Copy hype

Coty, Inc.Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB)

Council of State Governments

Country Music AssociationCountry Music

TelevisionCovington & Burling LLPCowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLPCowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.Creative AmericaDavis Wright Tremaine LLPDeluxe

2Directors Guild of America (DGA)

Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc.ElsevierEMI

Christian Music GroupEMI Music

PublishingESPNEstée

Lauder CompaniesFraternal Order of Police (FOP)

Go Daddy

Gospel Music AssociationGraphic Artists
GuildHachette

Book GroupHarperCollins Publishers Worldwide,

Inc.HyperionIndependent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)

International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE)

International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)

International Trademark Association (INTA)

International Union of Police Associations

Irell & Manella LLPJenner & Block LLPKelley Drye & Warren LLPKendall Brill & Klieger LLPKinsella

Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP

L’Oreal

Lathrop & Gage LLPLoeb & Loeb LLPLost Highway

RecordsMacmillanMajor County Sheriffs

Major League Baseball

Majority City ChiefsMarvel Entertainment,

LLCMasterCard WorldwideMCA RecordsMcGraw-Hill

EducationMercury NashvilleMinor League Baseball

(MiLB)Minority Media & Telecom Council

(MMTC)Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLPMorrison & Foerster LLPMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Moving Picture Technicians

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Internet Censorship

2011-12-25T12:42:00.000-08:00

If you Belive in Internet FREEDOM! Please I beg you watch and pass along this video!

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that will effectively hand over compete power of the Internet to the Finical Interests of the Motion picture industry and the The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

This Draconian take over of the Internet was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect IP Act.

The homepage with complete articles and further information.

http://onecandleinthedark.blogspot.com/

Dire Truths-- Part I

2011-12-17T18:51:00.000-08:00

The fall of the great Western Roman Empire reached it's apex in A.D. 476. The end of the Western Democracies began in the Land of the Rising Sun...

Japan was the first country to fall into a deflationary spiral starting in 1989. The United States of America followed suit in early 2000. A very anemic tepid recovery sputtered to life in 2009-2011, which is where we find ourselves now.

As of 2010 the European Union has begun to finically come apart due to an unwillingness by the socialists who currently hold power in the weaker E.U. members to face brutal austerity measure.

The European Union collapse will be a deadly contagion which will swiftly infect the global credit supply, making an already weak US dollar practically worthless. Financial markets the world over will shut down due to a complete lack of available credit. All liquidity will be frozen by the stark knowledge that the global collapse has begun and there are no more safe harbors.

"This massive crash was caused by the massive debt which has been created by the central banks of the world creating credit instruments out of thin air, highly leveraged banking practices, debt based financing, the sale of toxic debt masquerading labeled as 4A credit rating, and outright fraud on a global scale.

Currently, The United States of America has just 4 percent of the world’s population, but owes 82 percent of the entire world's debt.

The European Union owes a mere 8 percent of the world’s debt.

Japan owes 6 percent.

The remaining debt is held by the other 168 other countries of the world at a measly 4 percent.

Short term U.S. treasuries yield just 0.02 percent at this present time. If they were to rise by 0.27 percent, this would consume ALL remaining annual income in the United States. All Federal spending would cease, no Defense spending, no SSI, no Medicaid, no federal employees, nothing. The United States would be forced to do nothing else but pay interest on the national debt.

America’s gross domestic product is $10 trillion a year.

The 27 member European Union's gross domestic product is $16.07 trillion a year.

China's gross domestic product is $5.07 trillion a year.

Russia's gross domestic product is $1.48 trillion a year.

Africa's collective gross domestic product is $.07 trillion a year.

The gross domestic product for the entire WORLD is $33 trillion.

The total global toxic debt is $300 trillion and growing.

What can be done to stop this?

Part II "The Solution"

Salvation Army

2011-12-14T13:31:00.000-08:00

The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit is still $5 million away from reaching its $8.2 million 2011 Red Kettle Campaign fundraising goal, and 9 percent below its fundraising pace from last year.

Nearly 20 percent of 16.8 percent of Michigan residents living in dire poverty.

According to Governor Rick Snyder, The Salvation Army is the largest private provider of social services in the state.
This past year, The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit was involved in providing...

3,194,802 million meals

and 687,203 nights of shelter for the homeless.

The Salvation Army uses $.85 of every dollar raised to provide direct services to people in need each and every day of the year.

Disaster relief by the Salvation Army

Today the Salvation Army is best known for its charitable efforts.
The Salvation Army is a non-governmental relief agency and is usually among the first to arrive with help after natural or man-made disasters. They have worked to alleviate suffering and help people rebuild their lives. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived immediately at some of the worst disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead.
Since then they have helped rebuild homes and construct new boats for people to recover their livelihood. Members were prominent among relief organizations after Hurricane Hugo and Hurricane Andrew and other such natural disasters in the United States. In August 2005, they supplied drinking water to poor people affected by the heat wave in the United States. Later in 2005 they responded to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Most recently they have helped the victims of the May 2006 Indonesian Earthquake.

Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, The Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than $365 million to serve more than 1.7 million people in nearly every state. The Army’s immediate response to Hurricane Katrina included the mobilization of more than 178 canteen feeding units and 11 field kitchens which together have served more than 5.7 million hot meals, 8.3 million sandwiches, snacks and drinks.

Its SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network) network of amateur ham-radio operators picked up where modern communications left off to help locate more than 25,000 survivors. And, Salvation Army pastoral care counselors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals. As part of the overall effort, Salvation Army officers, employees and volunteers have contributed more than 900,000 hours of service.

The Salvation Army was one of the first relief agencies on the scene of the 9/11 attacks in New York. They also provided prayer support for families of missing people.

Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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Donate NOW to the Salvation Army

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School Ain't what it Use to Be

2011-12-13T22:00:00.000-08:00

A Bachelors degree at a 4 year university is no longer worth the $25,000 investment. Instead of preparing the next generation of leaders for the jobs of tomorrow a 4 year university degree college has become a finical black hole that most people will NEVER pbe able to pay back.

High school students have it drilled into their heads that they MUST go to college! It USE TO BE true that a college education WAS worth the money. The fact of the matter is that the quality of education at America's colleges and universities is ranked just above West Nigeria in SAT scores.   The thing NO ONE is talking about is that there are way too many college graduates and not nearly enough quality jobs.

In the USA there are millions upon millions of Americans that are enslaved, FOR LIFE, to student loan debt.   The cold hard truth is that 98 percent of college graduates with a bachelor degree just bought a ticket to a crappy low level job.

Disturbing Facts about a College Education

1) After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.

2) The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

3) Over the past 25 years, the cost of college tuition has increased at an average rate that is 7-10 percent higher than the average rate of inflation.

4) The cost of college textbooks has tripled over the past decade.

5) The student loan default rate has doubled since 2005 and will soon triple.

6) 15 percent of all students that graduate with student loan debt end up defaulting within 3 years of making their first student loan payment.

7) Federal statistics reveal that only 40 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor's degree within four years.

8) 33 percent of college grads end up taking jobs that don't even require college degrees.

9) In the United States today, over 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

10) In the United States today, over 450,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

11) In the United States today, over 360,000 cashiers now have college degrees.

12) Today in 2011 there are more then 8 million college grads under 25 living with their parents because they have a diploma, but can't find a job.

13) Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households for the ages of 25 to 34 have fallen by about 12 percent, while college costs have increased by 50 percent in the last ten years.

14) The only way 99 percent of college grads will be able to pay off their college loans in their life time is to win the Lottery.

2011-12-12T22:31:00.000-08:00

The out right decapitation of the Polish government by Russian forces in Smolensk has been inundated by misdirection, slight of hand, and outright lies.

In the case of Polish President's Plane crash in Smolensk, Russian Intelligence was sure because of the heavily wooded area and difficult to reach location there would be no eye-witnesses. As with all intel operations misjudgement and assumptions caused mistakes to be made.

The mobile phone video shot seconds after the plane was intentionally brought by Russian intelligence was seen worldwide. This was a major flaw in the Russian's plan, which, was to blame the crash on weather and pilot error.

In the video there are people shouting Polish words in authoritative and angry tone: "Calm down! Look into my eyes! Change of plans!"

There are clear sounds of gunfire. Make no mistake, the survivors were being executed by Russian/Polish-traders special forces.

The 10 official lies according to Leszek Szymowski, the former journalist of the weekly „Wprost" and TVP, the author of the controversial book titled: "Zamach w Smoleńsku," (Assasination in Smoleńsk)

1.The President's Tupolev airplane flew to Smolensk registered as an international flight. It's a lie: The plane was the governmental TU 154M, and the flight to Smolensk was registered as the military flight.

2.The crew of the plane was inexperienced and made fundamental mistakes. Ignoring orders of the air controllers and making an attempt to land. It's a lie: Pilots were professionally trained and had great experience, and the controller gave them permission to land.

3. At 8:41 am, after collision with a birch tree, the plane turned to its back and hit the ground. Power of the load factor killed all passengers. Nobody survived. It's a lie: Tupolev cut trees down, but to some point damaged, managed to make emergency landing in the mud. O8: 39 the strength of the bomb explosion tore it into pieces and killed some passengers. The ones, who survived, were murdered with firearms.

4.The video shot on the spot with a mobile phone by Wołodia Safonienko does not make any difference, and the sounds registered there, come from the explosion of the ammunition of Government Protection Bureau officers. It's a lie: Wołodia Safonienko didn't shoot this film. The sounds of the shots came from firearms, and the film is the evidence that passengers who survived, were murdered.

5.The investigation from the very beginning was conducted altogether by Poland and Russia, the cooperation was superb and it was led according to the highest standards. It's a lie: the Tusk government let the Russians carry the investigation and the Polish prosecutor's office could hardly say anything. From the very beginning the Russians did monkey business.

6.From the very first second, the families of the victims were provided with legal and psychological aid and could participate in all activities. All bodies of the victims were identified and transported to Poland.
It's a lie: families of victims have been humiliated from the beginning and had difficulties to get access to the investigative materials. The coffins brought to Poland were soldered and the families were not permitted to open them.

7.Polish and Russian investigators, bearing in mind importance of the case, diligently informed the public about the progress in the investigation and about the most important arrangements. It's a lie. From the very first second after the crash, it has been a well organised disinformation action. Both Polish and Russian investigators lied. The Russian MAK Comitee and both governments lied as well.

8.Russian Security Services didn't have the slightest interest in killing Lech Kaczyński, because in a few months he would stop being a president and would walk away into the political oblivion. It's a lie: Lech Kaczyński could win elections again. He acted against the politics of Russian imperialism, he tried to get Georgia into NATO. He reinforced the independence of Poland, contributed to dissolution of WSI (Poland's former Military Intelligence Services) and opposed the disadvantageous regulations of the gas agreement with Russia.

9.After the death of President Kaczyński, relations with Russia have been normalized, and relationships between both states have became eventually correct . It's a lie. Polish foreign policy turned into prorussian direction, and the servility of the government and the president Komorowski towards Russia have reached inconceivable scale.

10.The death of Lech Kaczyński was a result of the disaster being an effect of many ill-fated circumstances. It's a lie: Lech Kaczyński was murdered.

This deliberate assassination of the entire top echelon of the Polish government, including the Polish President was accomplished by the same organization with the same agenda as the 9/11 attacks within the United States.

US Governemnt Burning BIBLES

2011-12-11T22:52:00.000-08:00

This video shows the difference between how the US government handles the HOLY BIBLE, the word of Almighty GOD and the false gospel the Koran.

The U.S. government condemns burning the Qur'an. Yet the U.S. government burns Bibles. This is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Judicial Tyranny

2011-12-10T15:27:00.001-08:00

A US Federal judge decides that HE is the ONLY judge of who is an ‘authorized journalist' and who is not.

U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernández ruled that “investigative blogger” Crystal L. Cox “was not a journalist and cannot claim the protections afforded to mainstream reporters and news outlets.”

In his ruling Judge Marco A. Hernández arbitrarily decided “investigative blogger” Crystal L. Cox Montana blogger was not acting as a journalist when she lambasted an Oregon attorney in online statements.

The ruling by Judge Marco A. Hernández began as a lawsuit filed against Internet blogger Crystal Cox that accused her of defaming Oregon attorney Kevin Padrick with writings on her website that called him corrupt.

Kevin Padrick was working as a trustee in the bankruptcy case of an Oregon-based real estate firm, Summit Accommodators Inc.

After Summit unraveled, executives with the firm were charged with wire fraud and money laundering over an alleged scheme that saw customers lose millions, according to the FBI.

Cox representing herself (ALWAYS a BAD Move)presented arguments seeking legal protections given to the media on the grounds that, in her view,KEVIN PADRICK and his company, Obsidian Finance Group, were public figures.

US Media organizations are protected by ”actual malice” legal standard established in a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which holds that under the First Amendment, journalists to be liable for defamation must know or have warning signs their inflammatory statements against a public figure are false.

David Ardia, co-director of the University of North Carolina center for media law and policy, said the judge exhibited a “cramped and myopic” view of journalism in his ruling against Cox.

“There is no accepted definition of journalism or who is a journalist,” he said. “Judges have wisely shied away from wading into that debate unless they absolutely have to.”

John Barrows, executive director of the Montana Newspaper Association, told Reuters he found the ruling “troubling” but that his group would review it further.

WHO or WHAT qualifies as a Journalist in the United States?

The Central Intelligence Agency( C.I.A.) and the National Security Agency (N.S.A.) have BOTH said Internet Bloggers are modern day 21st century Journalists. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have altered policies to indicate they’re taking blogs seriously, and a growing number of public offices are actively reaching out to the blogosphere. The CIA recently updated its policies on Freedom of Information Act requests to allow bloggers to qualify for special treatment once reserved for old-school reporters. Last August, the NSA issued a directive to its employees to report leaks of classified information to the media — "including Internet BLOGGERS!"

At the the criminal trial of former White House aide "Scooter" Libby was the first time a federal court had issued press credentials to bloggers.

Adding more to the issue...

The press, once again, has been expanded"

said New York University journalism professor (and blogger) Jay Rosen.

"It’s not fundamentally different than other moments in earlier eras," Rosen explained. "Radio reporters had to be added to newspaper reporters, which were originally ‘the press.’ Public institutions had to make accommodations for television cameras when they became part of ‘the press.’" While some agencies are changing their policies — in the CIA’s case, they are granting bloggers a waiver on fees for copying the documents it releases to requesters once available only to traditional media.

Modern Day Slave Trade

2011-12-10T01:00:00.001-08:00

Human trafficking is perpetrated in every country, rich or poor, and is the second largest, fastest growing organized crime in the world. Free the Slaves estimates that there are currently 27 million people toiling as modern day slaves around the globe.

Modern-day slavery looks different in North America than it does in Africa or Asia, the industry is nevertheless alive and thriving in all its forms.
Modern-day slaves are often hard to identify – anyone from a dishwasher in a restaurant, to a domestic or agricultural worker, to an adolescent runaway. These people are all illegally bought and sold to sinister underworld figures who have total control over the falsely indebted slave.

Many low income workers are brought in from extremely poor foreign countries with promises of work. When they get the United States their passports and cell phones, when they have them, are seized, severing them from all outside contact. Then, with threats of violence, rape, and death the newly indentured slaves are forced into all types of prostitution and sex work.

Yearly revenues of SLAVE trafficking are currently estimated at $5 billion to $9 billion US dollars. The United States Department of State estimates 1,600,000 to 1,820,000 men, women, and children are sold into SLAVERY each year, approximately 70 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The data also illustrates that the majority of transnational SLAVES are sold into the international sex trade.

Currently, enslavement of young men from middle eastern and African countries are being sold into SLAVERY for the sole purposes of free manual labor. Back breaking labor exploitation is often hidden behind the facade of guest foreign labor, such as has been the case in Abu Dhabi. At least 12.3 million people around the world are trapped in forced . Forced labor is often known as debt bondage. The victims are very poor migrants trapped in debt bondage-SLAVERY- such as, sweatshops, farm workers, day laborers, kitchen help, dishwashers, household servants, etc. They are kept there by violent and illegal tactics and are generally paid nothing.

I am just one person, what can I do to stop modern day Slavery?

The Somaly Mam Foundation ( www.somaly.org/) is a nonprofit charity committed to ending modern day slavery in North America and around the world.

Human trafficking, a multi-billion dollar industry, is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. With over two million women and children sold into sexual slavery each year, it is a global crisis that must be stopped. More resources are critically needed to support the rescue and rehabilitation of these young victims.

Co-founded by sexual slavery survivor, Somaly Mam, the Foundation works to eradicate human trafficking, liberate its victims, and empower survivors so they can create and sustain lives of dignity. The Foundation supports survivor rescue, shelter, and rehabilitation programs globally with a special focus on Southeast Asia, where the trafficking of women and girls, some as young as five, is a widespread practice. The Somaly Mam Foundation also runs awareness and advocacy campaigns in the United States and around the world that shed light on the crime of human trafficking and focus on getting the public and governments involved in the fight to abolish modern day slavery.

If you KNOW a victim of human trafficking call the toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available to answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

1-888-3737-888

Told You So!

2011-12-08T13:45:00.001-08:00

A federal appeals court in California is set to hear argument Thursday on whether to disqualify a federal judge who ruled that the US Constitution guarantees a right to gay marriage.

In California, supporters of Prop 8 (a ban on same-sex marriage) say the ruling by Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker should be vacated because the San Francisco-based judge in the case failed to disclose that he was, himself, in a long-term gay relationship and stood to personally benefit from his landmark ruling.

At issue is whether Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker who has since retired, should have revealed his relationship to the parties in the litigation prior to the 2010 trial or stepped quietly aside before hearing the case.

I already spoke about this very fact when Prop 8 (a ban on same-sex marriage) was voted into law by a majority of California voters and subsequently struck down by one single GAY judge.
I, again declare, that the judiciary is out of control in this country. If the will of the people can be ignored by the 'WHIM' of a single US judge then we are not living in a Democracy, but a Judicial dictatorship.

The United States Constitution begins with the words...

"We the People of the United States..."

It does not say "We the Judges who rule the people..."

It does not say "We the lying, thieving, pandering Politicians who rule capriciously and recklessly over the people..."

It says quite clearly...

"We the People of the United States..."

Long live the Republic by which FREEDOM stands! Right or Wrong it says...

"We the People of the United States..."

Well Said

2011-12-06T19:23:00.001-08:00

Jesus Christ, a man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and HE became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with Almighty GOD.
Sai Baba

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
Ramakrishna

A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty and personal freedom.
Ron Paul

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander Hamilton

Unanswered fear is the diet of Slaves

R.D.Anding III

Guard with jealous attention public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

A Free country is one where the state recognizes it's existence depends upon the largess of the people and in doing so respects their wishes

R.D.Anding III

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

It's not a pleasure doing business, with Mona Vie it's a business doing pleasure.

Jerry Christopher Jr

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

It not about the hardware anymore, it's all about the software. That's why people by Apple products.

Jerry Christopher Jr

Desperation is just as valuable as Inspiration.

R.D.Anding III

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

War is the failure of sane men to do the right thing

R.D.Anding III

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson