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 published on the internet.
An online security consultant who wished to highlight the social networking site's privacy issues published a

 list of data taken from more than 100million users' profiles.

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The file has now spread rapidly across the net prompting anger and concern from millions of users all over the 

world.
On Pirate Bay, the world's biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more

 than 1,000 users, but it is believed it will be acessed by thousands more in a matter of days.
One Pirate Bay user, going by the name of lusifer69, described the list as 'awesome and a little terrifying'.

 already exists in Google, Bing, other search engines, as well as on Facebook.
'No private data is available or has been compromised.'


Simon Davies, from the watchdog Privacy International, told BBC news that Facebook had been given ample

 warning that something like this would happen.
He said: 'Facebook should have anticipated this attack and put measures in place to prevent it.
'It is inconceivable that a firm with hundreds of engineers couldn't have imagined a trawl of this magnitude and

 there's an argument to be heard that Facebook have acted with negligence.
'It adds to the confusion which has long surrounded the privacy settings - people don't fully understand them

 and this is the result,' he said.

As a result, the site introduced simplified privacy controls.
Facebook has a default setting for privacy that makes some user information publicly available.
People have to make a conscious choice to opt-out of the defaults.
A spokesman for the firm said: 'It is similar to the white pages of the phone book, this is the information available

 to enable people to find each other, which is the reason people join Facebook.

'This highlights the argument for a higher level of privacy and proves the case for default nondisclosure,' he said.
'There are going to be a lot of angry and concerned people right now who will be wondering who has their data

 and what they should do.'
Mr Davies pointed out that more personal information, such as email addresses, phone numbers and postal

 addresses, had not been included in the trawl.


How to protect your privacy on Facebook
Facebook has a default setting for privacy that makes some user information publicly available.
People have to make a conscious choice to opt-out of the default setting.
To opt out:
Go to the 'Account' tab at the top right of your Facebook profile page
Go into the Facebook privacy settings menu and change the 'Sharing on Facebook' options to 'Friends only'.
To keep your profiles from being found in search engines like Google click the 'Edit your settings' link and

 change the setting for 'Public Search.'

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In July 1969, while the world was spellbound by the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, President Richard M. Nixon and

 his close advisers were quietly fretting about a possible nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Their main worry was

 not a potential enemy of the United States, but one of America’s closest friends.

 warned President Nixon in a memorandum dated July 19, 1969.

Israel’s nuclear arms program was believed to have begun at least several years before, but it was causing special 

fallout for the young Nixon administration. For one thing, President Nixon was getting ready for a visit by Prime 

Minister Golda Meir of Israel, who was also in her first year in office and whose toughness was already legendary.

Should Washington insist that Israel rein in its development of nuclear weapons? What would the United States do

 before men first walked on the moon.

The Nixon White House’s concerns over Israel’s weapons were recalled in documents held by the Nixon Presidential

 Library that were released today by the National Archives. They provide insights into America’s close, but by no

 means problem-free, relationship with Israel. They also serve as a reminder that concerns over nuclear arms proliferation

 in the Middle East, currently focused on Iran, are decades-old.

The papers also allude to a campaign by friends of W. Mark Felt, who was then the second-ranking F.B.I. official, to

 Watergate-scandal revelations helped to topple the president.

There are also snippets about Washington’s desire to manipulate relations with Saudi Arabia, so that the Saudis might

 help to broker a peace in the Mideast; discussion of possibly supporting a Kurdish uprising in Iraq; and a 1970 incident

 in which four Israeli fighters shot down four Russian Mig-21’s over eastern Egypt, even though the Israelis were

 outnumbered two-to-one in the battle.

But perhaps the most interesting material released today, and the most pertinent given the just-completed Mideast peace 

conference in Annapolis, concerns Israel and its relations with its neighbors, as well as with the United States.

“There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available for Israel’s weapons development was illegally 

obtained from the United States about 1965,” Mr. Kissinger noted in his long memorandum.

One problem with trying to persuade Israel to freeze its nuclear program is that inspections would be useless, Mr. Kissinger

 said, conceding that “we could never cover all conceivable Israeli hiding places.”

“This is one program on which the Israelis have persistently deceived us,” Mr. Kissinger said, “and may even have 

stolen from us.”

Israel has never officially acknowledged that it has nuclear weapons, but scientists and arms experts have almost no 

in the Middle East.

Mr. Kissinger’s memo, written barely two years after the Six-Day War and while memories of the Holocaust were still vivid

 among the first Israelis, implicitly acknowledged Israel’s right to defend itself, as subsequent American administrations 

have done.

After President Nixon met Prime Minister Meir at the White House in late September 1969, he said: “The problems in the 

 to instant diplomacy.”

Bullsh@t.

As usual, the NYT puts its best zionist spin on the article, reminding readers of israel's so-called 'unconditional

 right to self-defense.'

But, what struck me most from the memo was that even back then the biggest dilemma Nixon faced concerning

 whether or not to pressure israel to abandon its nuclear ambitions was governed by his FEAR of what the 

Israel Lobby could do to him if he threatend to withhold something from them.

THE DILEMMA WE FACE :

Our problem is that israel will not take us seriously on the nuclear issue unless they believe we are prepared to withhold 

all the international consequences this entails.

Read the memo (PDF) yourself.

I'm interested to see what the other documents hold. The NYT can't be trusted to reveal everything we need to know.
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place--but thank you mostly for remembering. Sometimes I sit in this cage and I find myself wondering 

if anyone really remembers. Many days, remembering is all my mind allows me to do. So, again, thank

 you. Thank you for bearing witness and being a part of a living memory.

But maybe the most important thing I'd like to say is don't forget. Not ever.

You must be the historians who keep this lesson alive because this story isn't about one day, one

 revenge that continues until this very moment. So don't forget. Not ever.

It is vengeance that preoccupies the mind of the colonizer. It is this fervor to show us who is boss that

 led to the massacre at Wounded Knee, the theft of the Black Hills, the establishment of boarding 

schools, and the criminalization of our languages and traditional ways. It is vengeance that armed the

 GOON squads, killed our leaders, and surrounded our people at Wounded Knee again in 1973.

 Revenge is why they today prosecute Indian people for the crimes they know the government 

committed during their murderous campaigns of the last generation. Vengeance is what killed 

Joe Stuntz, Anna Mae Aquash, Buddy Lamont and so many others. Getting even is what keeps me 

in prison. So don't forget. Not ever.

All of these events are bound together, interrelated and interdependent. And quite clearly the lesson 

--will unleash an attack so vast it will even seek to destroy our genetic memories. So don't forget. Not ever.

In days past, some among our people were induced to become "scouts". For whatever reasons,

to fit a preconceived outcome. So don't forget. Not ever.

We gather today after decades and generations of blood and trauma. We gather in defiance.

And we remember.

We remember not just one day or one event, because remembering what occurred on June 25 or 

 do is remember. So teach your children. Pass this knowledge. Don't forget. Not ever.

Remembering is resisting and, if we remember, then we'll be free one day. Free of their mindset. Free of

 their theft. Free of their guns and their bombs. Free of their cages. Free to be who we are.

And free of their fear. That's the truest freedom of all and true freedom is what this is really all about,

 not the illusion of freedom they offer us.

So don't forget. Not ever.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,


Leonard Peltier
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 package bills. They are going to track your money and your body. Here’s the first few things they are doing. This is step one.

 It will only get worse from here.

According numismaster.com:

…the Health Care Bill mandates, according to Numismaster.com, Starting on January 1st in 2012, S federal law will require coin 

and bullion dealers to report to the Internal Revenue Service all gold and silver coin purchases and sales greater than $600.
No that is not an error, they tacked the gold coin tracking regulations into the health bill. They are just tacking stuff on 

wherever they can.

As for your body, you will be required to have an “electronic health record”, by 2014. They snuck this into one of the

This is a tip off to how micro-managed they are going to attempt to run your life.

Keep in mind that the health bill and financial “reform” bill are thousands of pages, with much of the details left up to the new 

agencies to fill in. Obama is appointing major league interventionists to head these agencies. They are completely clueless as 

to how an economy works. Their regs will be over the top. It will stifle America in so many ways, it is difficult to imagine.

 I was in East Berlin the year before the Wall came down. I saw what constant monitoring and micro-management did to people.

 It is not pretty. The gray, the drab, the despair was everywhere. When you can only take orders and wait for approvals and are

 constantly watched, it saps the life out of you. America is going to be changing and the government is going to try and watch

 you and monitor your vitals, as if you were a lab rat, as it does the changing.

It is not going to be pretty.

(Thanks to John Perez for the gold coin info.)

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/07/serious-tracking-of-americans-begins.html
                                                              ~~ END ~~

Prominent economists in China are calling for their government to ditch vast holdings of U.S. Treasuries in favour of

The evidence is now overwhelming. The United States government has facilitated the theft of trillions of dollars of national wealth and 99% of the US population no longer has political representation.

I: The Ongoing Theft of Trillions
II: Off-the-Books, Off-the-Record
III: Osama bin Bank of America
IV: New Mafia World Order
V: The Goldman Sachs Obama Illusion
VI: American Heroes Speak Out on the Financial Reform Ruse
VII: Economic Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMDs)
VIII: Hank “Pentagon Sachs” Paulson
IX: $5.4 Trillion a Year Bullion Market Ponzi Scheme
X: Ponzi Nation: Welcome to America, Sucker
XI: Economic Shock and Awe
XII: Time for a Second American Revolution - The 99% Movement
XIII: How You Can Get Involved

Now that I have your attention, I want to make it clear to you that I am being rational and serious when I ask this question: Is it time for law abiding American citizens to stop paying their taxes and start a new government?

Before you roll your eyes and dismiss me as some “extremist,” let me explain the situation to those who are unfamiliar with my past reports. In my report on the Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States, I lay out the case proving that our economy and tax system has become an organized criminal operation. I defy anyone who spends time researching and analyzing the facts and overwhelming evidence to support this claim to prove otherwise. I invite anyone who thinks I’m wrong to a debate on national television. I’m talking to you, Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon and President Obama!

I torturously spend 60 plus hours a week researching this and the torrent of devastating news and evidence is mounting by the minute. The staggering level of theft continues unabated. As I am watching this unfold, I am horrified thinking about the severe consequences that have only just begun to reap their toll. Our nation is being raped and pillaged. Our future is going up in flames and our government isn’t even making the slightest effort to put out the fire. In fact, they are purposely pouring gasoline all over it.

“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that… the machine will be prevented from working at all.” – Mario Savio

 and Take Back the Country?

Obama is NOT a Mahatma Gandhi Savior. Is the USA now the land of Marginalized Mediocrity?

In response to yesterday's worldwide condemnation of the Gaza Flotilla Massacre, our US government has decided NOT to stand for justice

 of the American people and even the lives of American servicemen and women.

So far and blatant is their arrogance and contempt for our people, that when it's clear that an injustice is at play, they continue on as if nothing

 has happened and ignore it until the next news cycle sending us their PR reps to hit the mainstream media to soft land us back into our

 hypnotic political stuper.

The gambit has worked in the past because the American public was desensitized to the plight of oppressed peoples vis-a-vie its' propaganda 

 to it's public.

But is this Lack of Empathy Dynamic Changing?

U.S. Military Lives Lost Directly Related to Israeli Occupation:


By not standing for justice, the current administration confirms what the world already knows and what the American public is starting to find 

out in that the USA is under occupation.

The interests of everyday Americans are being trumped by the interests of the Global Elite Force that many call Zionism.

But something at home in America is NOT sitting well…

With our children's education being cut back and our loss of international respect and admiration around world from our nostalgic look back

 of evil that we once fought against!

Will History Punish us for this "Greed Before Justice" Disposition?

In my view, during World War II, we stood for something and the world admired our grit, heart, and do-good righteous effort. It was grandly

 rewarded for many years with amazing worldwide admiration and respect. People wanted to be in America. They wanted to be Americans!

 But now, we stand for nothing!

The world continues to watch us as the leadership train leaves the station while we gorge on our media manipulated ego-centric narci-cystic

 selves.

And thus, without thought and care, our ability to influence is fading faster than speeding bullet through the heart of real live empathic protester

 and control.

But why is "Devolution of Greatness" happening to us?
Why can't "We the People" stand for justice once again?
Was not "Justice" and "Pursuit of Good" our once proud ideal?
For those partisans who blame one party or the other, I got some bad news for all of you. It does NOT matter who's in power because they are

 both beholden to the same masters. The Global Elite Force are running the show at Foggy Bottom and the losers are everyday people like you

 and me, not only in the USA but around the world.

We used to stand for justice for all people because we were once a moral group with a general sense of do-good in our hearts. Generally, 

 Elite Force that is using us and then slapping us in the face while we stand there and stare like deer in the headlights.

It's become so blatant that we are just in a daze at their arrogance and feel helpless as we watch our dignity sold to the highest bidder.

 We are being conned by the greatest. We're dazed and confused!

So for those of us who are disappointed in Bush or even Obama, did you really expect them to be Gandhi?

I actually believe Obama is a good man who, if he could within his disposition, would do something great. But alas, he's a politician first and 

a leader second. He's no Gandhi! So let's stop expecting him to be a savior. Its' not going to happen.

I mean, he did speak of non-violent protest and encouraged it. And so when the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza came as a protest against oppression

 and were swash buckled on the high seas by an attacking state ending in a massacre, what did he do? Nothing! No amazing Gandhi moment 

here folks! He and his group are paralyzed! Why? Because our government is under occupation!

Americans are Living Under Occupation!

Obama is NOT a savior who is going to fight against his masters. For me, it's a missed opportunity for greatness but for him, he's probably

 in perspective so that our anger is pointed in the right direction.

Anyway, the point is that the USA is on path to mediocrity as it continues to be marginlized.

Without standing for something like justice for all men, we stand for nothing and thus, in the 21st Century, we will continue to marginalize

 ourselves into just another country with no specific ideology except get your piece before it's too late. Is that what we want in America?

Our greatest generation defined us….but that's history now and the American people can take pride for that time when we were a special 

 sands of time.

Are you Mad and Angry? Can We Change What Appears to be this Inevitable Path to Marginalized Mediocrity?

Well, answer these 2 very important questions:

Are we, the American people, willing to revolt against our Zionist Occupied Government in Washington and put in a government that is fighting

 United States of America?
Time will tell…

* Johnny Punish is a syndicated columnist, artiste, musician, song writer and entertainer.

Source: veteranstoday.com
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American Century signatories sent to President Clinton, putting pressure on him to initiate war on Iraq. They

 did maneuver him into pulling out UN weapons inspectors and bombing Iraq. The US removal of the inspectors

 made the West blind as to the lack of Iraqi weapons programs, since their absence could no longer be certified

. In turn, Iraq’s opaqueness as a result of the Clinton actions allowed the Bill Kristol crowd and the rest of the

 Israel, war industry and oil lobbies to propagandize America into the fruitless and ruinous Iraq War. Now they

 are repeating this pattern with regard to Iran.

Think about how weird it is. Nearly half of Republicans in the House are from the South, which has relatively few

case of white Christians sacrificing Jews for their own interests and is a form of anti-Semitism.

The likely outcome of an Israeli military strike on Iran s as follows:

* Iran will use Shiite operatives and militiamen to kill the increasingly vulnerable remaining US troops in Iraq (once

 there are less than 50,000 non-combat troops in that country, they are not troops, they are hostages).

* Iran will probably bide its time and act in covert and hard to trace ways against US interests in the region. There 

could be more operations like the Khobar Towers bombing of US troops in Saudi Arabia or the 1983 attack on a 

Marine barracks in Beirut. All US commercial and government offices in the region would become targets.

* Not only would the democratically inclined opposition movement in Iran evaporate, but Muslim fundamentalists

 in Egypt, Jordan and other US allies would mobilize and perhaps gain in popularity out of anti-imperial solidarity.

 (Only 6% of ordinary Arabs is worried about an Iranian nuclear bomb, whereas almost all are disturbed by Israel’s

 treatment of the Palestinians).

* Once such hostilities began, and given these likely responses, the US could well get sucked into a third major

 Middle East war, against a country geographically much bigger than either Iraq or Afghanistan, and more than twice 

as populous as each of them. At another $1 trillion, that cost would push the US into $14 trillion in indebtedness all

 by itself, and since that is American annual gross domestic product, it could trigger a downgrading of American 

credit, making the interest servicing on existing and future loans far more expensive and, along with crippling high

 oil prices, beginning America’s final spiral down into poverty and weakness.
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Recently, the United Nations broke its silence on the siege of Gaza which is about to enter its fourth year, not to denounce

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs seems to have forgotten that his boss has already broken his central campaign

 promise – a “firm pledge” that “no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your

 income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

Responding to a question during his daily press briefing today, Gibbs said, “The President believes raising taxes on

 the middle class during this economic time would not make a lot of economic sense.”

But President Obama has already broken his “firm pledge” at least eight times:

*  156% Federal Tobacco Tax Hike (took effect April 1, 2009)

Tax Foundation, How Would President Obama's Tax Plan Raise Tax Payments for a Couple Earning $250,000 or Less?
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 Iceland-based website that collects and distributes such information. Some news organizations were given the tens

 of thousands of documents several weeks early so that they could sift through the files and prepare their coverage.

 The revelations are sure to spark wide debate about the U.S. role in Afghanistan and the nature of the ongoing war.

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 balance their budgets, and do not possess the ability to print money, they're finding themselves in a critically 

weakened position to challenge the Federal Government.

In our republic, states have sovereignty to create and enforce their own laws as long as they don't violate the U.S.

 Constitution. The Tenth Amendment gives states the freedom from Federal laws and regulations if they deem

 them to be unconstitutional.

The Tenth Amendment: which makes explicit the idea that the Federal government is limited only to the powers

 granted in the Constitution, is generally recognized to be a truism. States and local governments have occasionally

 attempted to assert exemption from various federal regulations, especially in the areas of labor and environmental 

controls, using the Tenth Amendment as a basis for their claim.

An oft-repeated quote, from United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100, 124 (1941), reads as follows:
The amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. There is nothing in the 

the states might not be able to exercise fully their reserved powers...(Source)
Recently, it seems the Federal government is overstepping their authority and infringing on the sovereignty of 

social structures, we can assume that the Feds will use that to impose even stronger controls.

The Federal government has clearly violated California state law regarding medical marijuana by raiding 

state-approved legal dispensaries and grow-ops. And now, Obama and company are suing Arizona to overturn

 their new anti-illegal immigration law, which is essentially a reiteration of the Federal law, just with plans to

 actually prosecute it.

Additionally, we have seen the steady erosion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the

 and drug searches are becoming everyday news -- again a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment.

It is clear that the goal of Federal government is to centralize and consolidate control as much as possible.

 Liberty advocates have a growing concern that states teetering on the verge of bankruptcy will require

 Federal bailouts that will come with sovereignty-smashing strings attached. Based on the clear violations 

already exhibited by the Federal government, we can only assume that more centralized oppression 

is on the way.
                                                                            ~~ END ~~

07/13/2010


Every couple of years the same drearily predictable charade repeats itself. This time we’re really going to limit government!
Or so they tell us. We on the Right then dutifully compose our letters to the editor, attend rallies, and vote for candidates
without whom, we are breathlessly assured, we shall all revert instantly to barbarism. And no matter who wins, the federal
government grows and grows. The Right gets a bunch of pretty speeches, and the Left gets the victories.

The passive approach of crossing our fingers and hoping Washington will follow the Constitution has not worked. The
only surprising thing about it is that anyone could have expected it to work in the first place. It is long past time for those
of us who want to confine the federal government to its constitutional limits to try something different.

The time has come to revisit nullification, the quintessentially American mode of resistance against federal lawlessness
that Thomas Jefferson urged as an essential ingredient of our political system. In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798,
Jefferson insisted that the states needed a way to defend themselves against unconstitutional exercises of power by the
federal government. Jefferson’s fear was that if the federal government had a monopoly on defining the scope of its own
powers, it would be constantly discovering new ones. Likewise, James Madison urged in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798
that the states were “duty bound to resist” when the federal government violated the Constitution. (The reader will not be
surprised to learn that Bill Clinton held no White House soiree in honor of the two hundredth anniversary
of these documents in 1998.)

These principles were used for honorable purposes throughout antebellum American history. Virginia and Kentucky used
them on behalf of free speech. The New England states employed them against unconstitutional searches and seizures.
Numerous northern states used them against fugitive slave laws, provisions of which they considered unconstitutional
notwithstanding the Constitution’s fugitive-slave clause. More than six decades after Jefferson penned the immortal
words of the Kentucky Resolutions, the legislature of Wisconsin quoted them word for word in defense of its defiance
of such laws.


Do American schoolchildren read about any of this? The question answers itself. They are about as likely to read that I,
Tom Woods, am the king of England.

But all of a sudden, out of the clear blue, nullification is back. Fiscal conservatives and civil libertarians joined hands in 2005
to oppose the REAL ID Act, which involved the centralization and standardization of identification procedures. They had
no idea how successful they would be. Two dozen states pledged to defy the law. Stung by this degree of resistance,
the federal government gave up trying to enforce the Act.

Now, states are banding together to devise resistance measures against Obamacare, cap and trade, and a whole raft of
constitutionally offensive legislation. Several states have already instituted Firearms Freedom Acts, which pledge the
state to prevent the enforcement of federal gun regulations when the guns in question have never entered interstate
commerce. (Color me skeptical that the recent Supreme Court decision means Americans’ Second Amendment
rights are safe forever.)

So far, most conservative radio and television hosts have shied away from the issue. That’s a shame, to be sure, but it
doesn’t change much. The Tea Party folks are going to nullify with or without them. Within six months these same media
personalities will be huffing and puffing to catch up with what has been going on right under their noses.

But you, dear reader, ought to get in on the ground floor. The Tenth Amendment Center, for example, is sponsoring a tour
of America called Nullify Now! (NullifyNow.com), which will bring these important ideas to major American cities and
force them back into the American political discussion where they belong. My new book, Nullification: How to Resist
Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, gives you all the ammunition you need to understand and defend nullification as
an essential defense mechanism for a free people.

And my “Interview with a Zombie” YouTube video shows you how the mainstream media will handle the issue,
and how we should respond.

The rebirth of nullification is not welcome news to everyone. MSNBC and the New York Times do not want us to say or do
these things. They like the situation just the way it is: we make lots of noise, and they rack up the victories. They are happy
if we persist in the same failed and flawed strategy that has gotten us exactly nowhere. I for one would prefer not
to give them the satisfaction.

It’s fine to hold conferences, write letters to the editor, and sign petitions. But at some point it becomes morally (and practically)
necessary to do more than just wring our hands about the behavior of the federal government. At some point we in our states
must say: we are not going to do it. Never did I suspect that the American people would grow angry and politically aware
enough to put these great principles back on the table. Ideas I once covered as a historian I am now discussing as a
commentator on current events. This is the healthiest development in American politics I have seen in my life. Everyone reading
these words owes it to the cause of freedom to be a part of it. We have been played for fools long enough.

Editor’s Note:
Take the time to explore Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. Mike P.

Mr. Woods' most recent book is Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century (Regnery) and he is the author
of 33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
(Regnery) and Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government
Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (Regnery)
                                                                                ~~ END ~~

(Reuters) - Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they lack faith in President Barack Obama, according to a public

According to a report in Time magazine Israel has managed to convince Washington to put the option of a military strike

anger, distrust, and hostility toward business and government because of a "perfect storm of conditions" 

- wrecked economies, fueling "epic discontent" toward responsible officials.

PRC found nearly 80% of Americans don't trust government to do the right thing, the highest distrust level

 findings, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/growing-public-anger-i n-america.html

People want help when they most need it, but aren't getting it, privilege always trumping the public interest,

 getting more extreme in America, Canada, and throughout Europe, a prescription for greater outrage,

 perhaps fury for beneficial change.

It bears watching as the deepening global depression plays out, throwing millions more to the wolves, 

abandoned by fiscal harshness, governments protecting business, not their people.

On December 9, 2005, in better times, New York Times writer Claudia Deutsch headlined, "New Surveys 

Show That Big Business Has a PR Problem," saying:

"More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it," according to pollsters, 

 the books and lining their own pockets" ad infinitum in good and bad times.

Prior to public knowledge about Wall Street banksters, corporate scandals outing Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, 

and other company executives fueled growing anger and distrust, management consultant

 Michael Hammer saying:

"There is a sense that business is a zero-sum game, that if companies are making a lot of money, it must

 be coming out of someone else's pocket."

In Le Pere Goriot, Honone de Balzac (1799 - 1850) wrote:

"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been 

found out, because it was properly executed."

He meant behind every great fortune lies a crime, far greater today on a global scale, but just as harmful

 to those hurt.

In a Roper July/August 2005 poll, 72% of respondents said wrongdoing was widespread in industry,

one executive saying the term "crooked CEO is redundant."

In a November 2005 Harris poll, 90% of respondents said corporations have too much influence in 

Washington, 68% believed the media are too powerful, few expecting government to intervene and help.

In his April 26, 2010 Forbes.com article, Brian Moriarty headlined, "Why Everyone Distrusts Both

 Business and Government," saying:

"Since Gallup began measuring public trust in 1976, 19% of people polled have held a 'very high' or 'high' 

opinion of the honesty and ethics of business executives. Public trust of congressmen has been even

 feebler, averaging just 15%," an all-time low reached in 2008 at 12% for both, unsurprising in the 

post-bubble economy, the 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer saying 84% of the public blames business, 

81% government and regulators they appoint.

In their "Handbook of Organizational Performance: Behavior Analysis and Management," editors 

 section, explaining distrust toward business from antiquity. More recently in the 1950s and 60s:

"old horror stories about sweatshops and child labor were replaced by fear and anger toward the

 'military-industrial complex.' In the 1980s, people (like anthropologist) Marvin Harris argued that

 (oligopolies increasing bureaucracy), and a shift to a service-and-information economy were the

 root causes of most of our social and personal problems." He omitted the financialization of America. 

Even then, Wall Street bankers dominated, running the country by controlling its money.

In the 1980s and 90s, numerous scandals erupted, including savings and loan fraud, insider trading,

finding out when corruption and other improprieties surface, reinforcing John Acton's maxim that:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men,"

 especially in business, government, and the military, environments fostering wrongdoing.

New People for the American Way (PFAW) Survey

Conducted in June, it showed:

-- deep dissatisfaction with the political system;

-- voters believing corporate influence on government policies is a "serious problem;"

-- support for a constitutional amendment limiting corporate influence (specifically, funding parties

 ads saying which corporations paid for them;

-- 62% believe greater disclosure isn't enough; and

-- 82% feel Congress isn't doing enough to curb corporate influence; Congress, in fact, curries it.

Transparency International (TI) 2009 Global Corruption Survey

TI calls itself a "global civil society organisation (sic) leading the fight against corruption....,"

 its 2009 survey showing a "growing distrust of business," saying most respondents in 69 countries

 believe corporations bribe public officials to buy influence, specific findings showing the following:

-- private sector corruption is growing and worrisome;

-- half of respondents would pay more to buy from a corruption-free company;

-- political parties and the civil service are perceived as the most corrupt globally, the term corrupt

 public official, in fact, redundant;

-- in some countries, the judiciary was called most corrupt; also the police;

-- developing nations fared worst, but none are corruption-free;

-- ordinary people aren't empowered to correct abuses; and

-- governments do little to correct them when public officials are beneficiaries.

Overall, the results show "a public sobered by a financial crisis precipitated by weak regulations and a

 lack of corporate accountability." But people are also willing to actively support clean business.

 "What is needed now is bold action by companies (to correct) their policies and practices, and to

 report more transparently on finances and interactions with government."

Most important is public sentiment demanding responsible governance, not settling for ineffective,

 corrupted, collaborating ones, the common practice globally only grassroots activism can change.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit

 his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished

 guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US

 Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body 

“road warrior” economic depression. 17% believe the country is headed for a depression no worse than the 

Great Depression, while 13% think the economic crisis will continue along its current trajectory and not get worse. 5% of 

respondents believe the economy will turn around as Obama and the government promises.

The government claims unemployment is at 9.5%. However, Raghavan Mayur, the president at TechnoMetrica Market

 Intelligence, an outfit that follows unemployment data closely, points out how the unemployment rate is actually over 22% 

and rapidly approaching the Great Depression level of 25%.

22 cents an hour,” reports Business Insider.


Low paid jobs are now approaching 50% in the United States. “More than 40% of Americans who actually are employed are now

 working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.” As a consequence, more and more Americans are becoming impoverished

 and in need of government hand-outs. For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the

Additional signs of distress include plunging U.S. home sales. Nearly 1 in 3 home sales are now foreclosures at rock bottom prices and 

home foreclosures will likely reach more than 1 million by the end of the year. A crash of commercial real estate now threatening to

 explode will and exacerbate the crisis Obama and the government insist is now on the mend.
Add to this a massive implosion of city and state debt and we are looking at a situation that will soon surpass the so-called Great

 Depression. In California, the situation is so dire the state’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has slashed the hourly wage for state

 workers to the minimum wage (about $455 a week), an act guaranteed to add millions of desperate people to welfare 

and food stamp rolls.

Like the Great Depression, the Greatest Depression now being scientifically created has a specific agenda in mind — to crash the

 global economy and rebuild it from the bottom up by the banksters who will institute a global central bank and a one world

 government with an authoritarian control and police grid.

 debt bubble. When it bursts, and it will burst, the world will enter into the Greatest Depression in world history.”
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 siege of Gaza.

In a statement on its website, the group said its boat would set sail in September or October as part of a flotilla of 

ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa, and parts of the Middle East.

Israel’s raid on a Turkish Gaza-bound aid ship on 31 May sparked international condemnation after soldiers killed 

nine passengers on board. Israel’s government refused Turkish demands for an apology, and ignored calls for an 

international investigation into the incident, opting instead for an internal probe.

Two survivors of the raid on the Freedom Flotilla, author Iara Lee and retired colonel Ann Wright, have expressed 

their support for the US aid mission, named The Audacity of Hope.

US professor Rashid Khalidi, who is supporting the initiative, commented that "Given the national-religious hierarchy 

which determines what the IDF can do to whom, the fact that the ship is American will make it harder to deal with it as 

the Mavi Marmara was dealt with."

Speaking to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Khalidi suggested that if the name of the boat, after the 2006 bestseller penned 

that Israel lift the siege.”

Commentators have seized on Khalidi’s association with the project, although he explained to Haaretz that while he

 supports the endeavor he is not an organizer. During Obama’s election campaign, the president drew criticism for his

 association with the Columbia professor, as US media reported Obama had attended a dinner in Khalidi’s honor 

several years earlier.

The campaign website lists a wide range of notable supporters, including Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, president

 2003 when an Israeli military bulldozer ran her down in Gaza as she protested the demolition of a Palestinian house.
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