Mike Marnell just forwarded this e-mail from Americans for Prosperity urging you to write your Congressman and Senators to oppose the Obama administration's attempt to regulate the Internet. I wrote the following letter:
Dear Congressman Hinchey/Senator Schumer/Senator Gillibrand:
I oppose Julius Genachowski's and President Obama's efforts to squelch freedom of speech on the Internet. The Internet does not need regulation, especially from a bonehead like Mr. Genachowski. The very proposal is evidence of the authoritarian, fascistic intent of the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party.
Sincerely,
Mitchell Langbert
>Washington wants to take over everything it can get its hands on. The banks. Insurance companies. Automakers. Our health care.
Now Obama FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has set his sights on taking over the Internet, and we're launching a major national effort to stop him.
Too many dominoes have already fallen. We need to hold the line. The Internet as is exists now is the most powerful tool for grassroots activism and communication that the world has ever known. We simply cannot risk allowing the FCC to succeed in its efforts to impose heavy-handed regulation by "reclassifying" the Internet as an old-fashioned public utility.
Today we are launching a major national effort to educate and mobilize Americans against this newest threat. Check out our new ad, which is running nationally starting today, on http://www.nointernettakeover.com/.
Robert McChesney, founder of the left-wing group Free Press (whose communications director was hired by FCC Chairman Genachowski to assist his effort to regulate the Internet) is honest about the stakes, telling SocialistProject.ca: "What we want to have in the U.S. and in every society is an Internet that is not private property, but a public utility."
Please take a moment right now to head over to http://www.nointernettakeover.com/ and view our new national TV ad called "Dominoes." If you like the ad, please consider clicking on the donate button. Your donation will help keep the ad on the air to educate and mobilize more Americans to demand that Congress step in and stop the FCC's Internet power grab.
The new site also has a petition that I hope you'll sign, and tools to write Congress and demand they stop the FCC. Chairman Genachowski and his two Democratic allies at the FCC could, with just their three votes, take over a sector of our economy roughly the same size as health care.
Congress cannot let that happen. As the legitimate legislative branch, Congress must step up and take responsibility. And we need to send a clear message that if this Congress will not stop the FCC's Internet takeover, we need to elect one that will.
With your help we can finally stop Washington's takeover streak.
Tim
P.S. Please forward this email to your friends and share our new www.NoInternetTakeover.com site on Facebook and Twitter. We need to make this a major issue so that Washington will understand that we're paying attention and will not accept another big government takeover. Thanks.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Why Might Obama Use a Connecticut-Based Social Security Number?
According to World Net Daily President Obama uses a Social Security number based in Connecticut (h/t Jim Crum). WND writes that it:
"has copies of affidavits filed separately in a presidential eligibility lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia by Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels and Colorado private investigator John N. Sampson.
"The investigators believe Obama needs to explain why he is using a Social Security number reserved for Connecticut applicants that was issued at a date later than he is known to have held employment."
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about questions like this is the religious fervor with which the Democratic Party media outlets insist that raising them is taboo.
"has copies of affidavits filed separately in a presidential eligibility lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia by Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels and Colorado private investigator John N. Sampson.
"The investigators believe Obama needs to explain why he is using a Social Security number reserved for Connecticut applicants that was issued at a date later than he is known to have held employment."
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about questions like this is the religious fervor with which the Democratic Party media outlets insist that raising them is taboo.
Ron Paul on Vitter Amendment
Mike Marnell forwarded this video, which appears on the Daily Paul site. As NPR reports, a weaker "audit the Fed" bill put forward by Senator Bernie Sanders had been approved 96-0. NPR explains the difference between the Vitter amendment and the Sanders bill:
"The Grayson-Paul bill authorizes audits by the Government Accountability Office of every item on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, including all credit facilities and all securities purchase programs; there would be exemption only for unreleased transcripts, minutes of closed-door meetings and the most recent decisions of the central bank. The Senate measure is narrower in its focus, but it would require the GAO to scrutinize some several trillion dollars in emergency lending that the Fed provided to big banks after the September, 2008, economic meltdown."
The Fed should be open to everyone's scrutiny. Better yet, it should not exist. The recent "bailouts" of private Wall Street firms and now foreign governments such as Greece highlight the unconstrained power of the Fed to deprive the American public of its wealth at the whim of insiders, international bankers and greedy government officials.
"The Grayson-Paul bill authorizes audits by the Government Accountability Office of every item on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, including all credit facilities and all securities purchase programs; there would be exemption only for unreleased transcripts, minutes of closed-door meetings and the most recent decisions of the central bank. The Senate measure is narrower in its focus, but it would require the GAO to scrutinize some several trillion dollars in emergency lending that the Fed provided to big banks after the September, 2008, economic meltdown."
The Fed should be open to everyone's scrutiny. Better yet, it should not exist. The recent "bailouts" of private Wall Street firms and now foreign governments such as Greece highlight the unconstrained power of the Fed to deprive the American public of its wealth at the whim of insiders, international bankers and greedy government officials.
Zeitgeist--the Movie
I noticed this five-part video on Youtube and embedded it below. It is about 65% accurate, which makes it 65 times more useful than anything you will seen on television news this year. Rather than take facts from the movie, use it to stimulate reading. Much of what's in the videos won't be supported by more detailed research.
I don't like the conspiracy theory aspects of these films and wish the implication that 9/11 was a Rockefeller conspiracy had been omitted. That's emabarrasingly absurd. It is untrue that Robert McNamara said that the Golf of Tonkin attacks "never happened" or were a "mistake". He said that one of them occurred and one of them didn't. You can see this in the 2003 movie/interview Fog of War. There are numerous other mistakes. As well, I found the fifth part to be ridiculous. Love as a political tactic is fine, but if the public cannot figure out that the Fed is destroying their future I'm not sure what deciding "life is a ride" will accomplish. That said, the movie does open your eyes.
Much of the history is useful, such as the discussion of Prescott Bush's involvement with the Union Bank and the Nazis and the background of the Fed. Some interesting quotes from Woodrow Wilson are included. The stuff about chip implants is worth watching. The comments about the education system's serving as a counterpart to inculcated stupidity via mass media are spot on.
At first I liked the Patriot Act. Now I don't. Although I reject conspiracy-based theories I am convinced that government uses war to curtail civil liberties and that this has occurred in the past ten years. I also see both the Democratic and Republican Parties as well as Congress, the President and the US Supreme Court as threats to my well being that exceed the threats that terrorists pose. Which is not to say that terrorists don't exist or that they are a figment of Nick Rockefeller's imagination. But Washington must not be permitted to accumulate power by using terrorism as an excuse.
It is unfortunate that opponents of the Fed fail to follow the KISS strategy--keep it simple, stupid. Occam's Razor is a guide. That is, the simplest explanation is the best: "plurality should not be posited without necessity." Conspiracy theories fail the KISS and Occam's Razor standards and should be chucked.
I don't like the conspiracy theory aspects of these films and wish the implication that 9/11 was a Rockefeller conspiracy had been omitted. That's emabarrasingly absurd. It is untrue that Robert McNamara said that the Golf of Tonkin attacks "never happened" or were a "mistake". He said that one of them occurred and one of them didn't. You can see this in the 2003 movie/interview Fog of War. There are numerous other mistakes. As well, I found the fifth part to be ridiculous. Love as a political tactic is fine, but if the public cannot figure out that the Fed is destroying their future I'm not sure what deciding "life is a ride" will accomplish. That said, the movie does open your eyes.
Much of the history is useful, such as the discussion of Prescott Bush's involvement with the Union Bank and the Nazis and the background of the Fed. Some interesting quotes from Woodrow Wilson are included. The stuff about chip implants is worth watching. The comments about the education system's serving as a counterpart to inculcated stupidity via mass media are spot on.
At first I liked the Patriot Act. Now I don't. Although I reject conspiracy-based theories I am convinced that government uses war to curtail civil liberties and that this has occurred in the past ten years. I also see both the Democratic and Republican Parties as well as Congress, the President and the US Supreme Court as threats to my well being that exceed the threats that terrorists pose. Which is not to say that terrorists don't exist or that they are a figment of Nick Rockefeller's imagination. But Washington must not be permitted to accumulate power by using terrorism as an excuse.
It is unfortunate that opponents of the Fed fail to follow the KISS strategy--keep it simple, stupid. Occam's Razor is a guide. That is, the simplest explanation is the best: "plurality should not be posited without necessity." Conspiracy theories fail the KISS and Occam's Razor standards and should be chucked.
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