Georgia Judge Denied Obama's Motion to Dismiss Ballot Access Challenge

Georgia Judge Denied Obama's Motion to Dismiss Ballot Access Challenge: 

Hearing Set for Jan. 26, 2012 

The Occupy Movement and the Stinking Rich

The Occupy Movement and the Stinking Rich




Patrick McCarthy, a Microsoft VP of Sales, took the proverb "Dress for Success" to its logical extreme that in order to get money, you should smell like money.

Here’s the perfume that will make you smell like a million bucks (literally):

"I really feel that people who wear this will feel more confident," McCarthy told AOL News. "I got the idea after reading a story about a Japanese study that showed a significant increase in worker productivity when the smell of money was pumped through vents into factories."

And when McCarthy went to his ATM and noticed how much he enjoyed the scent of fresh, crisp bills, he really smelled the potential for making a mint.

"[The odor of money] is a unique fragrance," he said.

"Occupy Oakland is rousted by fascist police state goons with military hardware and riot gear but the people have returned tonight in the thousands. I support you Oakland! All for the rich nothing for everybody else by all politicians. They are all weasels and asses. Obama may be the worst though as he stabs you in the back repeatedly then gets out a tiny bandage and offers it to you. They all make me sick. Jobs plan nonsense, mortgage plan; too little too late useless. All the rest are just inhuman caricatures. I'm sick of it and hope Occupy occupies everything and shuts down the whole stinking mess."

WARNING !!! TRUTH Being Told Here. !!! The "Stench of Truth" F-bomb WARNING !!! TRUTH Being Told Here. !!!

Congress about to undermine our basic constitutional rights

Congress about to undermine our basic constitutional rights
December 1, 2011, by Jay Bookman

It is a question that in a rational world should not have to be asked, because the answer is so damn obvious:

Should the U.S. military be given the power to arrest U.S. citizens, here on U.S. soil, and to detain those citizens indefinitely in military prisons, without access to legal counsel or due process, and without trial in civilian court?

The U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights say hell no. Holding U.S. citizens in military prisons without right to trial or counsel? Really?

Centuries of American liberty also say hell no. The CIA, FBI and the entire U.S. intelligence system say no, as does the military. They do not want the power to arrest and detain U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, and any legitimate reading of our nation’s traditions, beliefs and founding documents says they should never have it. It is antithetical to a free people.

Yet a majority of the U.S. House and Senate says otherwise. Despite a stern veto threat by President Obama, Congress is about to pass such language into federal law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. I hope and pray that Obama has the guts to carry out his veto threat, and I hope freedom-loving Americans of all ideologies rally to support him in that cause.

The theory behind the proposed law is that the United States is part of the battlefield against the war on terror, and that the military must be given free rein to fight that war, even here in the United States itself. Sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA say that the military can arrest and detain anybody “who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.”

Look, if U.S. citizens are suspected of aiding and abetting terrorists, they should of course be arrested and tried. If convicted, they should be put away for a long long time. But there is no reason to suppose that civilian courts are not capable of handling such cases competently and fairly. And without access to our civilian system of justice, what agency or body is supposed to determine whether a citizen has “directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces?”

Would Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield, for example, have been tossed into a military brig without a lawyer under such a law? If so, he might still be there, despite the fact that the FBI was later forced to acknowledge that he was absolutely innocent. What about the people falsely accused of terrorism as documented here and here? What about the million or more people whose names have somehow ended up on the government’s “terrorist watch list?”

Some advocates of the proposed change in federal law claim that it would not apply to U.S. citizens. They are either wrong or deliberately misleading. Any lawyers out there can confirm that claim by reading the provisions in question. They contain no language protecting U.S. citizens on U.S. soil from being swept into military custody.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, an advocate of the provisions, certainly understands that they apply to U.S. citizens. As he said on the floor of the Senate:

“But we need to let this president know, and every other president, that if you capture someone in the homeland, on our soil — American citizen or not — who is a member of al-Qaida, you do not have to give them a lawyer or read them the rights automatically. You can treat them as a military threat under military custody, just like if you captured them overseas…. Under domestic criminal law, you cannot hold someone indefinitely without giving them a lawyer or reading them their rights, nor should you. But under military law, if you have evidence that the person is a military threat, you don’t have to give them a lawyer.”

This is not some temporary provision. As Graham said, he expects the war on terror to continue long after he is dead. Nor is there any compelling need for such legislation. It tears a huge hole in the U.S. Constitution, and for what reason?

Earlier this week, a group of senators attempted to strip the provisions in question from the defense bill. By a vote of 38-60, they failed. Two Republicans — Mark Kirk of Illinois and Rand Paul of Kentucky — voted to kill the change, while 15 Democrats voted in favor of it. Since the bill has already passed the House of Representatives, it seems almost certain to end up on the president’s desk.

Again, I hope that he has the courage to veto it. And in an era when some Americans claim to see a dire threat to their liberty in some health-care reform law, I hope the American people are still wise enough to recognize a very real threat to their freedom when one arises. SOURCE

– Jay Bookman

Selling our souls to Mark Zuckerberg

September 28, 2011

When Mark Zuckerberg stood on stage last week to introduce Facebook's latest upgrades, the social media mogul essentially offered this deal to his 750 million (and growing) users:

Hand over your data, your life, your … soul. And enjoy eternal like in the social media universe.

This has been the deal proffered by Facebook from the beginning. Since 2004, many of us have been happily paying for this free network with the bits and bytes of our lives. Our reward: An instant source of birthday greetings and thumbs-up affirmation of every status update we post. It's been an intoxicating wave of friending, fans, likes and tags.

Rolling out now, a new "Timeline" format promises to document the entire history of our lives, or as much of it as we're willing to share — and we generally share too much. The look of Facebook is about to change, and our profiles will turn into slick digital scrapbooks. "It's your life," proclaimed Zuckerberg from the stage of Facebook's annual f8 developers conference, where he flashed tantalizing details of his own life ("first road trip with my girlfriend!") to wow the crowd — and some 80,000 people watching on a live stream.

The Timeline will likely appeal to the narcissist in most of us, but it's another new feature that marks the real sobering crossroads. As you provide all of your Timeline life data, new "Open Graph" apps, Zuckerberg said, will expand the notion of sharing for a "frictionless user experience."

A frictionless wha?

It means that in the very near Facebook future, much of what you do online — listen to music, watch videos, read news stories — will be available directly through Facebook. One-stop shopping, or listening or viewing. That's convenient. But Facebook, mostly through your "likes" — and with its growing list of partners, including Netflix, Spotify and The Washington Post — will track all of your shopping, listening and viewing and identify patterns so that it can suggest more things to buy, listen to or view.

Then, because this is a social network, all of your shopping, listening and viewing will be announced immediately to your friends. (Yes, even that Neil Diamond playlist you just tried to hide.) The "frictionless" part means that you'll contribute to those valuable market-research patterns without even noticing. Hit a "like" button on your friend's guilty pleasure song choice and, wham. It's word-of-mouth marketing on steroids.

And so "it's your life" more blatantly than ever becomes "it's your life for Facebook to exploit."

Which brings us back to the crossroads.

Market research is nothing new. The concentration of data in the hands of one company is, though, and it should raise concern. The data (and those patterns) provided by his 750 million users — us — is marketing gold that will be parlayed into enormous financial gain for Facebook and its partners (there's a Facebook IPO just around the corner).

Swept up by the feel-good effects of "friends" and "like" buttons, 750 million of us have unwittingly allowed a business model that relies on our giving away information and then celebrating the "free" access we have to it. SOURCE:

Shouldn't Mark Zuckerberg be paying us?

The People vs. Goldman Sachs - Trial and March!

The People vs. Goldman Sachs - Trial and March! Posted Nov. 3, 2011, 12:08 a.m. est On November 3rd, the People, the 99 percent, will hold A People’s Hearing of Goldman Sachs in Liberty Square Park and march on Goldman Sachs! The people will bring to justice perhaps the single most egregious perpetrator of economic fraud and corruption in the United States. The Hearing will include testimonials from individuals directly affected by Goldman’s fraudulent manipulation of financial markets, including victims of housing foreclosures, pension losses, public lay-offs and untenable student debt. The proceedings will also include expert analysis from Ralph Nader, Cornel West and Chris Hedges. Following the 99-minute hearing the people will decide on a fair and deliverable verdict via our own process of consensus-based direct democracy – and we intend to deliver it ourselves – to the headquarters of Goldman Sachs at 200 West Street, eight blocks from Liberty Square. We will ask for something our judicial and legislative systems have so far failed to deliver – the return of billions of taxpayer dollars to the 99 percent and criminal sentences for those Goldman Sachs executives who carried out the fraud. The event will be broadcast live via the Occupy Wall Street Livestream, among other public media outlets. The People’s Hearing will examine the collapse of regulations and political and economic controls that permitted Goldman Sachs to loot the U.S. Treasury. It will look at how we came to live in a country where it became impossible to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. It will ask why Goldman Sachs was allowed to enrich itself not only at the expense of millions of small investors but through its control of the bailouts and the regulatory process. It will demand to know why Goldman Sachs, one of the prime culprits in the destruction of the global economy, is permitted to continue to bankrupt countries such as Greece, creating massive human suffering, without oversight or control. The People’s Hearing will finally give Goldman Sach’s victims a voice. Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." The broad outlines of Goldman Sachs’ massive fraud are well documented. It put together a collaterized debt obligation (CDO) from mortgage-backed securities that the company assumed would fail. It sold these CDOs as assets and secure investments to pension and mutual funds as well as institutions and banks while betting against them through credit default swaps (CDS). A credit default swap, or CDS, is an insurance policy where the issuer makes up a loss if an asset goes bad. Goldman Sachs, in essence, sold toxic garbage to investors and when this garbage was exposed as garbage, wiping out tens of millions of individual investors who had put away money for retirement or college, Goldman Sachs raked in money from insurers. AIG, which insured these worthless CDOs, lacked sufficient funds to pay Goldman Sachs during the financial meltdown of 2008, a meltdown that evaporated some $ 40 trillion in worldwide wealth. Goldman Sachs, with numerous former officials ensconced in the Treasury department and government, simply looted the U.S. Treasury to pay itself. And they are sitting on our money to this day. The firm has committed numerous acts of fraud that extend beyond our shores. Goldman Sachs was instrumental in helping Greek authorities hide its mounting government budget deficit by selling swaps to the Greek government in return for future revenue streams. The Greek government was able through this arrangement to mask the loan which would have raised its budget deficit above euro zone limits. The sleights of hand now threaten to see Greece go into default and could trigger a massive banking crisis through Europe. The crisis has seen the Greek government unleash draconian austerity measures that are taken out on the backs of students, the poor and the working class. Goldman Sachs is a global criminal syndicate. Goldman Sachs, while its victims suffer from foreclosures and bankruptcy, has set aside $ 10 billion in compensation and bonuses for its chief executives this year. These bonuses are being paid out even as Goldman Sachs dismissed 1,300 employees with another 1,000 employees expected to lose their jobs by the end of the year. No one is safe from our oligarchic elite, not even the underlings at Goldman Sachs. We invite the newly unemployed from Goldman Sachs to join us. The median paycheck in the United States, even while these corporate heads pulled in salaries that often equate to $ 900,000 an hour, fell by 1.2 percent to $ 26,364. The number of poor and unemployed is swelling while the number of Americans making $ 1 million or more climbed to 94,000, a 20 percent increase from 2009. Corporate profits now account for 88 percent of all income growth while wages account for 1 percent. The top one percent has, through fraud and the corporate control of the judiciary and regulatory agencies, accounted for about half of all income growth since the 1970s. How is it possible that in a democracy the bottom 99 percent sees only half of economic growth? How is it possible that the economy does not work on behalf of the 99 percent? How is it possible that financial swindlers and liars continue to run our economy and our government? Its time to bring justice to Goldman Sachs! SOURCE:

Goldman Sachs Tower, at 30 Hudson Street, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

SEC Fraud Suit Against Goldman Is a ‘Buy’ Sign:

April 26 (Bloomberg) -- Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has unofficially declared Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to be the big bad wolf of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, what should investors do?

See link under "Crisis" for Conspiracy of the Lemmings: Barack Obama and the Radical Left's Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-25/sec-fraud-suit-against-goldman-is-a-buy-sign-john-dorfman.html

FYI: During 2008 Goldman Sachs received criticism for an apparent revolving door relationship, in which its employees and consultants have moved in and out of high level U.S. Government positions, creating the potential for conflicts of interest. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Additional controversy attended the selection of former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson as chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, despite President Barack Obama's campaign promise that he would limit the influence of lobbyists in his administration.

In 2010 Goldman Sachs was criticized for its involvement in the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis. Goldman Sachs between the years 1998-2009 has been reported to systematically help the Greek government to mask its national true debt facts.[66] In September 2009, though, Goldman Sachs among others, created a special Credit Default Swap (CDS) index for the cover of high risk national debt of Greece.[67] This led the interest-rates of Greek national bonds to a very high level, leading the Greek economy very close to bankruptcy in March 2010.

Here in is the hit for anyone who's paying attention. Look to the chart done in 1976
Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html

The tag team of JPMorgan as the monster and Goldman Sachs as its harlot represent a powerful pair that is more responsible for destroying the entire US financial system than 95% of the American public has any awareness. The colossus of JPMorgan is a monster, a predator, nurtured by pond scum. It has gobbled up Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover, Chemical Bank, Bank One, and more over the past two decades. Their profound presence in keeping the USTreasury Bond yields down can never be understated. They do so by managing 85% of the credit derivatives on the planet. They distorted usury prices, as in price of borrowed money, thus aggravating the LIBOR (London InterBank Offered Rate) market in a very visible manner.

JPMorgan Chase profits jump 55 percent in first quarter of 2010

While numerous financial analysts point to the soaring profits of the big banks as evidence that the economy is strengthening, a look at the numbers suggests something different. Having looted the public treasury with the aid of the Bush and Obama administrations, the banks are returning to profitability through the same parasitic practices which produced the crisis in the first place.

http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/jpmo-a16.shtml

Goldman Sachs took in $13.4 billion in profits in 2009. The persecuted Mr. Viniar earned $837,365 in 2009, and, on top of that, was handed a $9 million bonus, along with other top executives.

No wonder the idea of an audit of the Privately Owned Federal Reserve is taboo. The patience's are in charge of the asylum.

Chart 1 reveals the linear connection between the Rothschilds and the Bank of England, and the London banking houses which ultimately control the Federal Reserve Banks through their stockholdings of bank stock and their subsidiary firms in New York. The two principal Rothschild representatives in New York, J. P. Morgan Co., and Kuhn,Loeb & Co. were the firms which set up the Jekyll Island Conference at which the Federal Reserve Act was drafted, who directed the subsequent successful campaign to have the plan enacted into law by Congress, and who purchased the controlling amounts of stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914. These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council in 1914. In 1914 a few families (blood or business related) owning controlling stock in existing banks (such as in New York City) caused those banks to purchase controlling shares in the Federal Reserve regional banks. Examination of the charts and text in the House Banking Committee Staff Report of August, 1976 and the current stockholders list of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks show this same family control.
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2712

Again, according to our own research, just five months after Kennedy was assassinated, no more of the Series 1958 'Silver Certificates' were issued either, and they were subsequently removed from circulation. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to all future presidents not to interfere with the private Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. It seems very apparent that President Kennedy challenged the 'powers that exist behind U.S. and world finance'. With true patriotic courage, JFK boldly faced the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt:

1) war (Viet Nam); and,

2) the creation of money by a privately owned central bank. His efforts to have all U.S. troops out of Vietnam by 1965 combined with Executive Order 11110 would have destroyed the profits and control of the private Federal Reserve Bank. SOURCE:

http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id808.html

Vatican Calls For Radical Economic Reform Of World's Financial Systems

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican called Monday for radical reform of the world's financial systems, including the creation of a global political authority to manage the economy.

A proposal by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace calls for a new world economic order based on ethics and the "achievement of a universal common good." It follows Pope Benedict XVI's 2009 economic encyclical that denounced a profit-at-all-cost mentality as responsible for the global financial meltdown.

The proposal acknowledges, however, that a "long road still needs to be traveled before arriving at the creation of a public authority with universal jurisdiction" and suggests the reform process begin with the United Nations as a point of reference.

Vatican pronouncements on the economy are meant to guide world leaders as well as the global church. United States Roman Catholic bishops, for example, have released a voter guide for the 2012 election that highlights social concerns such as ending poverty.

"It is an exercise of responsibility not only toward the current but above all toward future generations, so that hope for a better future and confidence in human dignity and capacity for good may never be extinguished," the document said.

It highlights that reforms must assure that financial and monetary policies will not damage the weakest economies while also achieving fair distribution of the world's wealth.

The proposal also called for a "minimum, shared body of rules to manage the global financial market," lamenting the "overall abrogation of controls" on capital movements.

While past Vatican pronouncements have condemned unfettered capitalism, the latest criticized "an economic liberalism that spurns rules and controls."

It also attacked "utilitarian thinking," saying what is useful to the individual does not always favor the common good. SOURCE:

Pope wanted Muslim-dominated Turkey to be out of EU: Wikileaks

Vatican City, Dec 11 : Secret US diplomatic cables released by the whistleblower website `Wikileaks' have revealed that Pope Benedict XVI is responsible for the Vatican''s growing hostility towards Turkey, the Muslim state, joining the European Union (EU).

The Guardian quoted the cables as saying that in 2004, Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was the leading voice behind the Holy See''s unsuccessful drive to secure a reference to Europe''s "Christian roots" in the EU constitution.

The cables also said Ratzinger "clearly understands that allowing a Muslim country into the EU would further weaken his case for Europe''s Christian foundations".

In 2004, after the pope spoke out against letting a Muslim state join the EU, Vatican''s acting foreign minister, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, responded by telling US diplomats that Ratzinger''s comments were his own rather than the official Vatican position, the paper said.

However by 2006, Parolin was working for Ratzinger, and said: "Neither the pope nor the Vatican have endorsed Turkey''s EU membership. Rather, the Holy See has been consistently open to accession, emphasising only that Turkey needs to fulfil the EU''s Copenhagen criteria to take its place in Europe," he added.

The cables further revealed that the American government had lobbied within Rome and Ankara for Turkish EU membership.

"We hope a senior department official can visit the Holy See and encourage them to do more to push a positive message on Turkey and integration," the 2006 cable said.

However by 2009, the American ambassador briefed ahead of US President Barack Obama''s visit, said: "the Holy See''s position now is that as a non-EU member the Vatican has no role in promoting or vetoing Turkey''s membership. The Vatican might prefer to see Turkey develop a special relationship short of membership with the EU."

The Vatican has diplomatic relations with 177 countries and has used its diplomatic status to lobby the US, United Nations and European Union to impose its moral agenda through national and international parliaments, the paper added. (ANI) SOURCE:

Christian Jihadist: Antisemitic Christianity

"The Israeli Apartheid Wall Divides Beit Jala?"

http://www.sizers.org/photos/beitjalawall/index.html

One can see in photos by this Christian leader of an assembly in the U.K. and by reading his album descriptions: it's obvious where he stands with Israel.

"Herod's Soldiers Operating in Bethlehem Today"(IDF) Says photo album by Church Pastor Stephen Sizer of Christ Church Virginia Water, U.K. [1]

"The Israeli Apartheid Wall in Occupied Palestine"

Resisting the Israeli Occupation non-violently in Al Ma'sara, Palestine

"Occupied Jerusalem"

Illegal Settlements

Etc.

"I am in Toronto, Canada for a three day conference arranged by the Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue Group. The aim is to create a common framework for extended conversation between Evangelical Christian and Muslim scholars and religious leaders. The ultimate goal is to commit ourselves to a dialogue that will build a deep and lasting trust that will remain despite any obstacles that may arise." [2]

Stephen Sizer
Vicar and Senior Pastor

"As an evangelical Anglican church, we belong to the Diocese of Guildford within the Church of England yet welcome you whatever your spiritual background. Our church family is enriched by folk from many different denominations.
Christ Church is a member of the Willow Creek Association and the Evangelical Alliance. We work in partnership with UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), New Word Alive and the Christianity Explored Course.
Our Church Council has endorsed the Jerusalem Declaration.
Stephen, Ro and Francis, our three ordained pastors, support GAFCON and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) as well as the South East Gospel Partnership"

Church of England - Christian?

An associated assembly [3]
The carol Twelve Days of Christmas was sung as:
"Twelve assassinations/
Eleven homes demolished/
Ten wells obstructed/
Nine sniper towers/
Eight gunships firing/
Seven checkpoints blocking/
Six tanks a-rolling/
Five settlement rings. Four falling bombs/
Three trench guns/
Two trampled doves/
And an uprooted olive tree."

"It was appalling to see a church allow one of its most endearing seasonal traditions to be hijacked by hatred," Prosor told the Times, accusing the Church of having failed to condemn such a carol which provokes anti-Semitism and disregards years of efforts to bridge gaps between the two religions.

"Unfortunately, the criticism from within the Church of England, that should have echoed with bold moral clarity, has instead sounded like a silent night, but far from holy,"

"Ron Prosor, Israel's Ambassador in Britain lashed out against the Church of England on Wednesday for having approved an anti-Israel carol that was sung as part of a service, according to the Times of London."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-israeli-envoy-to-u-k-accuses-church-service-of-being-anti-semitic-1.259248

http://www.cc-vw.org/index.php?id=45&level=2

http://www.sizers.org/photos.htm

Herod's Soldiers Operating in Bethlehem Today

http://www.sizers.org/photos/soldiers/index.html

Here is a resent article by the man of God, Vicar and Senior Pastor Sizer

"Seven Biblical Answers to Popular Zionist Assumptions"

http://www.stephensizer.com/2011/08/seven-biblical-answers-to-zionist-assumptions/