Former Governor Jesse Ventura "The CIA infiltrated state government"
The CIA is not supposed to operate inside the United States. Yet, they have their own permanent agent in the Minnesota governor's office. This is according to former Minnesota Governor Jessee Ventura. Do you see Ventura in the mass media very often? Now you know why.
This is from the Central Intelligence Agency website:
Does the CIA spy on Americans? Does it keep a file on you?
By law, the CIA is specifically prohibited from collecting foreign intelligence concerning the domestic activities of US citizens. Its mission is to collect information related to foreign intelligence and foreign counterintelligence. By direction of the president in Executive Order 12333 of 1981 and in accordance with procedures approved by the Attorney General, the CIA is restricted in the collection of intelligence information directed against US citizens. Collection is allowed only for an authorized intelligence purpose; for example, if there is a reason to believe that an individual is involved in espionage or international terrorist activities. The CIA's procedures require senior approval for any such collection that is allowed, and, depending on the collection technique employed, the sanction of the Director of National Intelligence and Attorney General may be required. These restrictions on the CIA have been in effect since the 1970s.
They apparently haven't paid attention to their website. Watch this amazing 10-minute video!
What Blagojevich was doing right before he was indicted
Coincidence?
December 8 - Governor Rod Blagojevich announces the State of Illinois will cease doing business with Bank of America.
December 9 - Governor Rod Blagojevich, who has been reportedly under investigations by the federal government for three years is indicted based on a recent wire tap.
If he is as dirty as he is being portrayed, why did it take three years to find something on him?
Also...
When is the last time you saw a governor take a high profile stand for a small business and working people against a multinational bank?
The FBI sure shut that down quick. What convenient timing they have.
President Bush recently remarked that he would like to be known as a man who liberated 50 million people. An Iraqi news reporter decided to show his gratitude to President Bush by throwing his shoes at him during a news conference today in Baghdad.
Remarks of President-elect Barack Obama Radio Address on the Economy Saturday, December 13, 2008
Good morning.
Earlier this week, we learned that the number of Americans filing their first claim for unemployment insurance rose to a nearly 30-year high. This news reflects the pain that’s been rippling across our entire economy. Jobs are being cut. Wages are being slashed. Credit is tight and people can’t get loans. In cities and towns all across this country, families enter a holiday season with unease and uncertainty.
To end this economic crisis, we must end the mortgage crisis where it began. This all started when Americans took out mortgages they couldn’t afford. Some were reckless, aware of the risks they were accepting, but many were innocent, tricked by lenders out to make a quick buck. With banks creating securities they could not value, and regulators looking the other way, the problem began infecting the whole economy, leading to the crisis we’re now facing.
One in ten families who owns a home is now in some form of distress, the most ever recorded. This is deeply troubling. It not only shakes the foundation of our economy, but the foundation of the American Dream. There is nothing more fundamental than having a home to call your own. It’s not just a place to live or raise your children or return after a hard day’s work -- it’s the cornerstone of a family’s financial security.
To stem the rising tide of foreclosures and strengthen our economy, I’ve asked my economic team to develop a bold plan that will dramatically increase the number of families who can stay in their homes. But this plan will only work with a comprehensive, coordinated federal effort to make it a reality. We need every part of our government working together -- from the Treasury Department to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that protects the money you’ve put in the bank. And few will be more essential to this effort than the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
From providing shelter to those displaced by Katrina to giving help to those facing the loss of a home to revitalizing our cities and communities, HUD’s role has never been more important. Since its founding, HUD has been dedicated to tearing down barriers in access to affordable housing -- in an effort to make America more equal and more just. Too often, these efforts have had mixed results.
That is why we cannot keep doing things the old Washington way. We cannot keep throwing money at the problem, hoping for a different result. We need to approach the old challenge of affordable housing with new energy, new ideas, and a new, efficient style of leadership. We need to understand that the old ways of looking at our cities just won’t do. That means promoting cities as the backbone of regional growth by not only solving the problems in our cities, but seizing the opportunities in our growing suburbs, exurbs, and metropolitan areas. No one knows this better than the outstanding public servant I am announcing today as our next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development -- Shaun Donovan.
As Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development in New York City, Shaun has led the effort to create the largest housing plan in the nation, helping hundreds of thousands of our citizens buy or rent their homes. Prior to joining Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, Shaun worked both in business, where he was responsible for affordable housing investments, and at one of our nation’s top universities, where he researched and wrote about housing issues. This appointment represents something of a homecoming for Shaun, who worked at HUD in the Clinton administration, leading an effort to help make housing affordable for nearly two million Americans. Trained as an architect, Shaun understands housing down to how homes are designed, built, and wired.
With experience that stretches from the public sector to the private sector to academia, Shaun will bring to this important post fresh thinking, unencumbered by old ideology and outdated ideas. He understands that we need to move past the stale arguments that say low-income Americans shouldn’t even try to own a home or that our mortgage crisis is due solely to a few greedy lenders. He knows that we can put the dream of owning a home within reach for more families, so long as we’re making loans in the right way, and so long as those who buy a home are prepared for the responsibilities of homeownership.
In the end, expanding access to affordable housing isn’t just about caring for the least fortunate among us and strengthening our middle class -- it’s about ending our housing mess, climbing out of our financial crisis, and putting our economy on the path to long-term growth and prosperity. And that is what Shaun and I will work to do together when I am President of the United States.
The Republican Party did not bat an eyelash when it gave Wall Street $700 billion based upon a simple 3-page request, but it screams with outrage that Congress would consider a $15 billion bailout of the three American automobile manufacturers. They blame the workers, never mind the management that owns a fleet of corporate jets and takes hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses.
The southern state Republicans who have lured foreign manufacturers such as Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, etc., to develop manufacturing plants in their states are the same ones that stopped the bailout of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford cold. This is insanity if we allow our largest industrial manufacturing base to vanish into oblivion.
These same Republicans who make sure we spend $10 billion per month in Iraq and who have raped our coffers, quote Herbert Hoover of all people, the most inadequate President in modern history prior to George W. Bush as they justify their behavior which is not only un-patriotic, but perhaps treasonous. They are taking every step possible to assure the next President will have a nearly impossible task in saving the American economy. These are the same extremists who rally against any form of universal healthcare while at the same time promoting foreign car manufacturers whose countries provide healthcare for all, and whose cars are not burdened by the extra cost of healthcare that is saddled upon every American car built.
The American middle class will NEVER FORGET. This is the beginning of the end of the party of Big Business. They have stolen billions from the treasury and refuse to this day to even disclose who got money and why, even in the face of Freedom of Information Act requests.
As a child growing up I remember the cheery commercial sung by the Limelighters and one of my favorite singers at the time, Glenn Yarborough. "Things go better with Coke" was a catchy tune that was one of the most popular commercial songs of the time. Here it is:
Well, over the years it seems that things not only go better with Coke, they also go "deader" (if that is a word). To wit:
Farmers are ingenious people.
Corporate Cola (Coke, Pepsi etc.) sold in India are repeatedly found to have high pesticide levels so farmers there do the logical thing.
How would you like a building material that is stronger than cement and SIX TIMES lighter? Better yet, one of its main ingredients in the waste product of a plant that literally grows like a weed. Well, Big Brother says you can't have it because the plant - HEMP - is "dangerous to society."
Here's the reality about cement:
1. The manufacture of traditional cement is incredibly energy intensive, so much so that many cement companies seek and receive legal variances to not only burn coal, but also medical waste and used automobile tires as fuel for their kilns.
2. After oil refineries and chemical plants, cement factories are the most polluting factories in the world, spewing tons of microparticles containing toxins like arsenic and mercury into the air. Here are the facts:
It is time that common sense emerged in America to replace the corporate greed that keeps a product like hemp illegal while robbing America of sensible and practical options to improve society. Write your congressman. Let's legalize hemp. It was mandatory for the original settlers to grow it, and the government paid our farmers to grow it during World War II in the interest of national security. Time for common sense.
Mystifying... No less an industrial and financial titan than Henry Ford demonstrated that the Hemp plant, the sister plant of marijuana, could be transformed into a lightweight material stronger than steel. The perfect material for car bodies. Watch this 38 second video and see the car Ford produced in 1941:
Who needs steel? Maybe the guys who owned all the iron ore and coal fields (the Rockefeller syndicate) needed steel which is why for decades this simple technological possibility has been denied to us.
For decades, wealthy industrialists trying to protect their industries from the superior qualities of the Hemp plant, have conspired to keep hemp (and marijuana) illegal. During World War II, when hemp was desperately needed for canvas and rope, the United States government produced this movie they called, "Hemp for Victory", while at the same time agreeing to pay anyone who grew hemp in the National interest. Here is that government-made video:
Well, it's time again. Our NATIONAL INTEREST DEMANDS IT. Pass this on to your congressmen and write letters to the editor. It's time we put foolishness aside in the political arena and proceeded with some common sense. Legalize hemp. It not only makes a lightweight steel, it also produces a clean burning biofuel.
The BBC reported on the French version of this technology which we featured in an earlier item. This report from Australia goes into more depth and also covers an Australian version.
How many billions of dollars in research and development funds would the big auto makers claim they need to get this far? Yet, the technology is here now, ready to exploit - and it is not being used. What's the hangup?
Why are we still:
* allowing ourselves to be dependent on foreign countries for our energy? * spending billions to transport and refine a highly toxic material? * polluting our air thereby sickening and killing people, especially children, with toxic fumes? * putting a massive, daily "transportation tax" on everyone who drives a car?
If you agree, pass it on and let your Congressman know how you feel.
