Silver Lining - Let's Get Out of Debt!

Like what's happening to our nation? I don't either. It wasn't that many years ago when a million dollars was a lot of money. It's still a respectable sum but nothing compared to billions and trillions. Now we're talking serious money! It would really be nice if these mind boggling sums weren't debt, but they are and things don't appear to be getting any better. It's time for "We the people" to take informed action.

A youth group connected to the Campaign for Liberty has made up pocket size editions of the US Constitution to distribute to as many people as possible. Makes for good reading. As concerns money, this document clearly assigns the responsibility to Congress "to print and coin money, and to regulate the value thereof." In 1913 this nest of vipers created the Federal Reserve System. The Sixteenth Amendment was adopted by a small quorum of the Senate at Christmas time of that year, when many of their colleagues were at home with their families. Not only was this unconstitutional fraud imposed on the people but the amendment has never been properly ratified. In addition the Sixteenth Amendment specifically stated that it was not authorized to impose any new taxes.

The Federal Reserve prints fiat money out of thin air and lends it to the government at interest. It has never been audited, answers to no one, and has been looting the wealth of this nation for ninety-six years. We have had depressions, inflation, wild business cycles - all the things that the Fed was supposed to help us avoid. During the Great Depression the Fed reduced the money supply by one-third, at the very time when more money should have been made available. The Federal Reserve is a private corporation run by bankers, for bankers, with little regard for the well being of this nation and its people. But this power is only an illusion. Oh, the Fed doesn't have to answer to Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court, but it will ultimately be answerable to the people. And the time is now.

We the people can cancel all debt, personal and private, regardless the number of zeroes involved. It's a simple idea. Let's take it step by step.

The Federal Reserve is a corporation. It charges interest on the loans it makes to the government, therefore it is a for-profit corporation. As a profit making corporation it has never been legislated as immune from paying taxes. Corporations pay income taxes. As a corporation the Federal Reserve is liable for income taxes because it has never been declared exempt, and there is no reason why it should be. Has the Fed ever paid corporate income taxes? Do pigs fly?

The Attorney General of the United States can and will bring formal charges of Income Tax Evasion (remember Al Capone?) against the Federal Reserve if enough of the people stand up and demand it. Write to your Senators and Congressmen, demand that they restore their constitutional mandate and put this corrupt and criminal Central Bank out of business. The interest and penalties alone would be enough to wipe out all our national debt, which is in reality the people's debt.

Get busy.

Silver Lining - An Open Letter to Obama

Dear President Obama,

I hope that you will regard this letter in the spirit in which it is intended: true peace and justice for the people of this great nation. Your administration has come in for a fair amount of criticism over such things as your health care reforms, Check Card unionization, the National ID Card, implanted RDIF chips, the North American Union, and several other instances of increased government control of the lives of American citizens. As it turned out that protesters at one of your latest appearances were carrying rifles, it may be time to settle down and take a hard look at where we are.
Abraham Lincoln, without whose action in 1863 you would in all likelihood be sitting in the back of a bus instead of the oval office, said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." He also said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Our house, to which the voters gave you the keys in 2008 is sorely divided and this condition cannot remain unattended much longer.
One of your campaign promises was to end the war in Iraq, a war based on the lies and misrepresentations of the Bush regime, acts of treason that have so far gone unaddressed on your watch. We still don't have the truth about 911 and we the people are getting a bit hot under the collar on that issue. So, let's talk.

Firstly, I believe it would be well to formally introduce you to the people, we the people, whom you have been chosen to serve. Contrary to popular opinion we are an intelligent, honest, and decent people, and when roused to action we are capable of rising to great heights of industry and resourcefulness. We were the "arsenal of democracy" not so many years ago when we defeated totalitarianism abroad. Do you think we will tolerate totalitarianism here at home? Think again. Protesters carrying rifles suggest that we won't and that we are dangerously close to making that point in the most unambiguous of terms.

As to the war in Iraq, there is one sense in which it is not as wasteful as it may appear. Our troops are helping the cause of liberty, not for the Iraqis but for ourselves. A quote from another great leader in history, Tzar Peter the Great of Russia will help make the point.
Toward the end of the 17th century Russia was at war with Sweden under Charles XII and doing very poorly. Russia was sorely unprepared for the war and suffered a number of defeats. Peter's minsters approached the Tzar and asked what could be done to remedy the situation. Referring to the Swedes Peter replied, "Watch them, they are teaching us how to beat them."
You may recall the federal law enacted in 1878 called Posse Comitatus which prohibits the employment of federal troops against American citizens. How many troops does the Pentagon want to retain in this country for national emergencies and crowd control- 400,000? What does this have to do with the war in Iraq? Simple.The Iraqis have been teaching us how to beat an occupying military. Car bombs? IEDs? Guerrilla warfare? How do you think four hundred-thousand troops would do when set against fifty-million armed, and very pissed off Americans? Want to find out? Oh, and those foreign troops? Forget it; if we won't take shit from our own military, you can be damned sure we aren't going to take it from foreigners.

So, there you have it. The decision is yours. Stop trying to foist a Socialist agenda on the American people. Stop curtsying to the moneyed interests. Stop supporting Israel. Trash the North American Union, ID Cards, and RDIF chips. Get rid of the Federal Reserves as John Kennedy tried to do with Executive Order 11110. Disband Homeland Security and FEMA. And uphold the US Constitution as you took an oath to do.

In short, let's be friends.

Silver Lining - The Desperate Fear Mongers

I have been very busy the past month and have not had the time to post an entry in all that time. However in the course of my daily activities I have seen and heard things that make it seem that our media are trying evermore desperately to keep the American people fearful and confused. One real gem is a commercial for the Wine Experience that plays on my local classical music FM station. The spokesman opens with the question, "Does matching food and wine stress you out?" Valium, anyone?
A Newsmax email came in this morning and asked the burning question, "Is Jesus coming back?" I unsubscribed immediately. This is not news but the End Times crap that the lunatic fringe keep alive over the trouble in the Middle East. Nut cases like John Hagee of San Antonio are salivating over the possibility that the United States will go to war with Iran and kick off the Battle of Armageddon. Then Jesus comes back and the Jews convert to Christianity and all the fruitcakes get swirled up into Heaven in the "rapture". This is after Jesus ("Judge not lest ye be judged,") judges all the zombies that are supposed to rise from their graves. Somebody's been watching too many horror movies. But that is all part of the dumbing down of America, a campaign that has been going on for fifty years, ever since the book "Why Johnnie Can't Read" was published. Today Johnnie still can't read and his kids and grand kids are like wise intellectually challenged, but they don't have to worry because Johnnie and his equally clueless colleagues hold high positions in politics, science, and religion. No Johnnie and the kids don't worry because they think Jesus is coming back. As a measure of how bad it's become, there is a product on the market that helps people improve their brain function.
A radio commercial touting this "amazing breakthrough" claims to get your old gray matter humming along like a ten-speed blender. "You can read ten books in the time it takes most people to read one."
Why would I want to do that? I enjoy a well written book and take the time to enjoy reading. I don't think I would enjoy a Beethoven symphony played ten times faster, but speed is the thing these days. Like the commercial (forgot what it was for) which reminded people that after work "you have to pick up the kids, start dinner, run errands, and have little time to yourself." Things get especially hectic around the "holidays" when the whole population is envisioned as running around like chickens with their heads cut off; shopping, planning family get togethers, having the folks in from out of town, and adjusting to peoples' busy schedules.
People are cast as starving rats in a maze with a heavy scent of cheese in the air. It's the way the Real World wants us to be; scattered, off balance, with minds so clouded that one becomes easily confused when presented any concept more involved than coming in out of the rain.
Want to be happy? Then don't find time for yourself - MAKE time for yourself. Want to improve your brain function? Try thinking! Otherwise you can continue allowing others to do your thinking for you and sit quietly by waiting for Jesus to come back. It's only been two-thousand years.

Liz Cheney, Will You Please Shut Up!

Today (Tuesday, July 14) Yahoo! News reported that Liz Cheney doesn't believe that her father, Dick Cheney, did anything wrong in directing the CIA not to disclose to Congress their secret plan to kill al-Qaida figures.
At the same time, Liz Cheney accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats of seeking to politicize lingering arguments over how the Bush administration conducted the war against terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Where was she when all this was going on? How about this piece of news from the BBC?

Top Ranking CIA Operatives Admit Al-qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication

by Mr. Charrington on January 7, 2008

BBC’s killer documentary called “The Power of Nightmares“. Top CIA officials openly admit, Al-qaeda is a total and complete fabrication, never having existed at any time. The Bush administration needed a reason that complied with the Laws so they could go after “the bad guy of their choice” namely laws that had been set in place to protect us from mobs and “criminal organizations” such as the Mafia. They paid Jamal al Fadl, hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the U.S. Government’s story of Al-qaeda, a “group” or criminal organization they could “legally” go after. This video documentary is off the hook…

See,Liz? Right from the horse's mouth. NO AL-QAIDA! Got it? It was an invention by the Neo-Conservatives (Fascists) just like the reasons (lies) behind the war in Iraq. And didn't dear ol' dad make a fortune from Halliburton't no-bid contracts to provide our troops with bad food and impure water? Overall the war has turned out to be a disaster of the first magnitude and Dick Cheney was one of the prime movers who got it underway. YouTube has dozens of videos that show Cheney denying statements he is alleged to have made, and videos showing him actually making the statements.

But, Liz,I do understand your position. You were, after all, a former principal deputy secretary of state for Mideast affairs during George W. Bush's presidency. I'm sure you got that post because of your glowing credentials and not because you father was Vice President. Mideast affairs? Hey, you did a great job! But I would offer one suggestion, though.

Instead of helping with dad's memoirs your time might be better spent working on his defense because, sooner or later, he and the rest of that slimy regime will be called to account. It's only a matter of time.

Silver Lining - An Exquisitely Beautiful Video

Presented here as a reminder that in this world of pain and suffering, war, poverty, and hunger, all brought about by evil men, that people can still create rare beauty that ennobles the spirit of mankind. Enjoy!


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Silver Lining - Why Obama will Fail

Well, we've finally done it, elected a black president. This puts him in an unique position in the history of our nation; he has two constituencies, the voters at large who looked to him for change and the blacks who looked to him for identity; and it looks like he is betraying both groups. By continuing the corrupt policies of the criminal Bush regime Obama has reprised the role of Steppen Fetchit, the servile nigger who jumps at his master's every command. But these are different masters as we have been coming to understand. They are not the Kentucky colonel sitting on the colonnaded porch of his ante-bellum mansion sipping mint julep. No, the latest menagerie of masters are not so open. Hatching their plots behind closed doors and maintaining a level of secrecy that any Nazi regime would find it difficult to match, these masters are the central bankers and imperialists we have come to know as Neo-cons, white trash from top to bottom: Bush, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and all the rest of this stinking collection of human garbage who have committed high treason on several counts. And many of us thinking people wonder why these hooligans aren't doing time in Federal penitentiaries. Why are those who committed such heinous crimes still at liberty?

Certainly the highest of these crimes is being led into two losing wars based on lies, deceptions, contrived "evidence", and the spectre of 9/11 being another Reichstag Fire. Mr. Obama seems to be waffling on his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq that so far has cost the American tax payers over a half-trillion dollars, money that could be much better spent in looking after the needs of our own people. But war is a major part of our history and from which our nation was formed. In the Revolution, the War of 1812, and World War Two, many brave men and woman gave their lives that we might live in freedom. But total freedom wasn't realized until the Civil Rights movement that liberated black America from the rigors of segregation. And this conflict was fought on our own soil, a struggle based on the Constitutional guarantees of equal justice under the law. Mr. Obama has received the fruits of both these conflicts but seems not to acknowledge the gifts he has received by he blood, sweat, and tears of the many brave Americans who stood up for what was right; habeas corpus, the right to a fair trial before a jury of our peers, the Fourth Amendment guarantee of security in our person, houses, papers, and effects against unlawful search and seizure. For so long as Obama tolerates torture, warrantless wiretaps and searches, detentions, and the fictitious "war on terror", so does he deny the double heritage that is his. He forgets these things at his own peril for we, the American people will have the last word as we always have had when the going got tough. There is a revolution sweeping the land; we will take back our nation from the thieves and liars who have steered our ship of state so far off course. And that is because we are a decent people, a generous people, a good people. The permanent changes will not be brought about by stuffed suits in high places, but by decent men and women who comprise our vast body of unsung heroes. Some of these we know, most of those we don't, and some of these were there and we did not notice them at the time. I'll tie this package up by identifying one of the latter, a man well known and loved in his time, and a great American in the bargain.

He was a comedian. His name was Jack Benny and his radio and television shows were very popular in the 1930's to the 1950's. There were black entertainers in that day who had made names for themselves; Nat "King" Cole, Lena Horne, Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, Ruby Dandridge, among them, but they all experienced segregation and the hostility of bigoted whites. And then there was Eddie Anderson.

Eddie was a black man, the ever famous, much beloved "Rochester" on the Jack Benny Show throughout the years. Mr. Anderson wasn't just on the show, he shared top billing with Jack himself, and in that was the latter's greatness. Though he could have taken center stage at any time, he instead stepped aside and and let budding new talent emerge under his wing; Mel Blanc, Sheldon Leonard, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Frank Nelson, and Eddie Anderson with whom he generously shared the spotlight. Once when the show was on the road the troupe went to the registration desk of swank mid-western hotel to check in. The desk clerk said to Jack, "Why Mr. Benny, we are delighted to have you here - but, of course your friend (Eddie) can't stay here. This great American, Jack Benny replied, "If he doesn't stay here then I'm not staying either." Rochester stayed - and that was more than fifteen years before the Civil Rights movement.

Let's hope Obama sees the light.

Silver Lining - The Emerging Truth

The term that is getting the most usage these days is Revolution and this nation is inching closer to that eventuality by the day. People are getting smarter. The tireless efforts of such true patriots as Congressman Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Peter Schiff, and many others are bringing the truth to a wider cross section of the American people. But now we are seeing the government and its media toadies inadvertently aiding in the very process that will bring their criminal cabal crashing to the ground.
We are approaching the anniversary of our independence, the Fourth of July, and the hype is amping up to nauseating proportions. Gala celebrations are planned throughout the nation, but all the fireworks, bands playing patriotic music, and all the related hoopla, only amplify the garish irony surrounding the encroaching Socialism that threatens to steal more of our personal liberties and bankrupt the nation beyond redemption.

There are still 130,000 troops in Iraq, four more were killed during the pullout from Baghdad. The news carried the story but it was nothing like the media blitz that followed the death of Michael Jackson. "The whole world mourns the death of Michael Jackson," one headline bleated. Really? The whole world? I seriously doubt that anyone was really thinking about Jackson very much lately. He was famous for his odd tastes and the scandals that dogged him every bit as much as he was regaled for his music. His career was nowhere; a recluse, the London tour was intended as a comeback and he put a lot of work into it, to his credit. As with the untimely passing of any human being, Jackson's death was sad but was it a catastrophe of global proportions? Hardly. It may create jobs, though: Michael impersonators, like Elvis impersonators with fancy footwork.

Cigarette taxes tripled over the past thirty days or so as the government continues its fraudulent anti-smoking campaign. They claim its to pay the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses; but where does the money really go? It gets Pentagoned (a new term I just made up to describe the strange disappearance of tax dollars into thin air; Oops! It was here a minute ago!). It is taxation without representation, the issue that tipped the 13 colonies into revolution.

Then there's Crap and Trade (no typo) an innovative way to fuel inflation. The high costs of the meaningless target reductions in "greenhouse gases" will of course be passed onto the already overburdened taxpayers. Another log on the revolutionary fire, and it's coming! I could go on but it's time to get to the point. What kind of revolution am I talking about?

The revolution I am speaking of will not involve Minutemen, militias, or citizens carrying placards or firearms. But they will be armed - with facts and a huge resentment against the thieves and liars who have sold out to big corporations and big money. It's about the MONEY, stupid!

Write this down so you don't forget it: MONEY IS ANYTHING THAT HAS VALUE! Our economy is a barter economy and has never been anything else, and it will always be! Barter is, after all trading one good for another; we use pieces of paper bearing the portraits of dead presidents on one side of most personal transactions and we will continue to do so. These Federal Reserve Notes are worthless though, aren't they? Yes, and they always have been, but that didn't stop us from using them. The point here is simple: We the people have the sole power to decide the nature and value of money: we decide what money is. Like California. They can't agree on a budget; it's in the neighborhood of 24 billion dollars. Schwarzenegger said if the legislature can't submit a comprehensive budget for his approval, the state will have to issue IOUs to pay expenses. Guess what; these IOUs will be money every bit as much as the phony scrip the Fed has been turning out since 1913. Will they be accepted in trade? No reason why not; these Arnolds (we have to call these IOUs something) would be a supplementary currency, used to stretch the dollars supply and to pay state taxes. Remember Tally Sticks?

Some municipalities are already developing alternative currencies.A popular version of these is the Time Dollar. The way these work: I may offer to landscape a neighbor's yard. We agree on $15.00 an hour. The work takes eight hours and is worth $120.00. The customer may decide to pay with Time Dollars, wholly or in part. The person who did the work has $120.00 in Time Dollars that he can use to buy certain goods. The merchant who accepts these TDs in payment for good can use these to pay for goods and services that he needs. If he takes the whole amount in trade he can use the $120.00 worth of TDs to pay a clerk for twelve hours @ $10.00 an hour. This would be a closed loop economy limited to a community of people who agree to the strategy but it could spread as more people see the usefulness of the plan.

When the people get together behind a plan there's nothing that can stop them.