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Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.
Since 1978, I've observed, comprised and assembled various color pallets of today's Global Governance which still finds most commentators aloof on various rabbit trails that The Trust wishes all to find. This weekend should have pointed many to the obvious, but, like many rabbit trails it wasn't pieced together...so... lets try this again.
In Germany, a very very important election occurred.
, it states that "if zombies actually existed, an attackby them would lead to the collapse of civilizationunless dealt with quickly and aggressively."
Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University tackles this conundrum through the Global Governance looking glass.
The religious right’s preferred presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee recently returned from a visit to Israel. What prompted Time to call it his first campaign stop in the 2012 race?
Until recently, leaders of the organized American Jewish Community were wary of a Huckabee presidential candidacy. His 2008 description of himself as a “Christian leader” raised hackles at both the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. Abe Foxman, director of the ADL, wrote an open letter to Huckabee in which he stated that “we presume you seek the presidency in order to be the leader of all Americans, regardless of the faith they hold.”
Mike Huckabee's Israeli sponsor American Friends of Ateret Cohanim provides funding for Yeshiva Ateret Cohanim, a school of higher education in Israel. Ateret Cohanim´s Yeshiva was founded in 1978 in the heart of the Old City. The Yeshiva is located in the historic Torath Chaim Yeshiva on HaGai Street, just opposite the Temple Mount. The Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva, Ateret Yerushalyim, headed by Rav Shlomo Aviner, is the spiritual focus for the return of Jews to their homes in the "Moslem" (once known as the Mixed) Quarter. Today this historic building serves as the main study hall for 150 students from all over the country, all of whom serve in the army. These boys dedicate themselves to Torah(which torah????? read Michael Hoffman's Judaism Discovered to find out, you will be surprised.) study out of love for Jerusalem and the Jewish people. Source. U.S. group invests tax-free millions in East Jerusalem land
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44. Central global governance mandated modern weather modification technologies
Illuminating blue clouds are baffling scientists and a strange set of experiments have followed to uncover its origin. While some scientists cite global climate change others argue something entirely different.
This image shows one of the first ground sightings of noctilucent clouds in the 2007 season over Budapest, Hungary on June 15, 2007. Credit: Veres Viktor
Noctilucent clouds over northern Europe. Credit: Pekka Parvianien.
Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in Earth’s polar regions have appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the past several days.
Noctilucent clouds over Mt. Sabalan, a 15,784 ft extinct volcano in northwestern Iran. Credit: Siamak Sabet
Blue glowing clouds filmed from the international space station.
Dr. Wayne Scales from Virginia Tech, with his colleagues, are Creating Waves to uncover the new phenomena.
Wayne Scales, director of the new Center for Space Science and Engineering Research
"Being an expert in computational space plasma physics has involved Dr. Wayne Scales in projects from analyzing the effects of high-altitude nuclear detonations to creating and perturbing charged dust clouds in space...
The project's goal is to develop novel techniques of generating electromagnetic waves that interact with the radioactive particles and scatters them out of the radiation belt, he says. "One way to do that is to use a big, high-power transmitter on the ground that sends a high power radio wave. Another option would be to use a satellite that has a high-power transmitter, he says."
Dr. Wayne Scales powerpoint sheds light in the direction of new weather modifications techniques.
Highlights: Artificial Perturbation of Natural Dust Clouds
Use of nickel carbonyl, sulfur hexafluride, trifloromethyl bromide
Creation of Artificial Plasma Clouds in Space for Remediation of Radioactive Particles after High Altitude Thermonuclear Detonation HAND
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Onthe subject of radioactive particles, recent inquests have discovered radioactive depleted uranium from the Gulf War had detremental effects on servicemen.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Two Irwin Union Bank subsidiaries in Kentucky and Indiana were closed by regulators Friday, bringing the total number of U.S. bank failures this year to 94 and punching an $850 million hole in the federal deposit insurance fund.
First Bank Failures Announced In Indiana; Kentucky
The first bank failures in Indiana and Kentucky were announced, Friday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced it was appointed receiver for Louisville, Kentucky-based Irwin Union Bank, F.S.B., and Columbus, Indiana-based Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co., by the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Indiana Department of Financial Instutions, respectively.
The two failed banks have a total of 27 bank branches and are subsidiaries of the Columbus, Indiana-based Irwin Financial Corporation. Irwin Union Bank and Trust Co. had a total of $2.7 billion in assets and deposits of $2.1 billion, and Irwin Union Bank had total assets of $493 million and deposits of $441 million as of Aug. 31, of this year.
So far this year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has shut down 92 banks. That compares with 25 banks last year. Business Week notes that this might be seen as surprisingly few closures. During the last banking crisis, 381 banks were seized in 1990, 268 in 1991, and 179 in 1992. But the crisis isn't over, and the pace of bank failures is picking up.
Three banks failed over the last few days, including Corus Bank of Illinois. Since July 1, the FDIC has closed down 47 banks. Meredith Whitney predicted not too long ago that 300 banks would fail this year. That's looking more and more prescient every week. Real estate, retail and especially commercial, remains the culprit. Construction loans are also creaking right now.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says she is "considering all options, including borrowing from Treasury," to replenish the dwindling fund that insures bank deposits.
"I never say never," FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair told an audience at Georgetown University Friday.
Bair's remarks go beyond what she said just three weeks ago when asked about tapping the Treasury after the fund that insures regular deposit accounts up to $250,000 hit its lowest point since 1992, at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis. "Not at this point in time," she said on Aug. 27.
"If we live in Spirit, in Spirit also we should be conformed to."—Galatians 5:25.
HE two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith.
He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in experimental theology, for they are vital points to a Christian. You will never find true faith unattended by true godliness; on the other hand, you will never discover a truly holy life which has not for its root a living faith upon the righteousness of Christ.
Woe unto those who seek after the one without the other! There are some who cultivate faith and forget holiness; these may be very high in orthodoxy, but they shall be very deep in condemnation, for they hold the truth in unrighteousness; and there are others who have strained after holiness of life, but have denied the faith, like the Pharisees of old, of whom the Master said, they were "whitewashed sepulchres."
We must have faith, for this is the foundation; we must have holiness of life, for this is the superstructure. Of what service is the mere foundation of a building to a man in the day of tempest? Can he hide himself therein? He wants a house to cover him, as well as a foundation for that house.
Even so we need the superstructure of spiritual life if we would have comfort in the day of doubt. But seek not a holy life without faith, for that would be to erect a house which can afford no permanent shelter, because it has no foundation on a rock.
Let faith and life be put together, and, like the two abutments of an arch, they will make our piety enduring.
Like light and heat streaming from the same sun, they are alike full of blessing.
Like the two pillars of the temple, they are for glory and for beauty.
They are two streams from the fountain of grace; two lamps lit with holy fire; two olive trees watered by heavenly care.
O Lord, give us this day life within, and it will reveal itself without to Thy glory. - C.H. Spurgeon
"Europe is going united to Pittsburgh with a clear and strong message: We don't want this to ever happen again," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said.
"It will be the task of those who go to Pittsburgh to convince our American friends that we have to get the international finance community to accept new rules of behavior," Luxembourg Prime Minister and Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker told German public radio.
Disagreement over Tobin tax proposal
But there was some disagreement from the 27 EU members over proposals by Germany to levy a global tax on financial transactions that could act as a buffer against future economic setbacks.
These two articles are a perfect example of stratagem and persuasion while invigorating the heart with faith and patriotism. The sheep have no shepherds as the flock is corralled. Is this too hard to decipher in the times we are living in?
Evangelical pastor John Hagee addresses a crowd in Jerusalem.
Playing the Jesus Card
Why is Netanyahu courting Christian fundamentalists?
BY M.J. ROSENBERG|JULY 24, 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. The Obama administration is insisting on a settlements freeze, and the Israeli prime minister, who is resisting such demands, is not getting the support he might have expected from the U.S. pro-Israel community. Usually, when an American President makes any sort of demand on Jerusalem, pro-Israel (primarily Jewish) organizations compel Congress to pressure the president to cease and desist. It usually works. But not this time.
So what's an Israeli leader to do? Netanyahu is resurrecting a tried and true strategy: Call on Christian fundamentalists -- who see maintaining Israel's occupation as paramount -- to galvanize popular pressure against Obama. But just like the last time he played this trick, the tactic is unlikely to work magic for Bibi anytime soon.
Oil's very future is now being seriously questioned, debated, and challenged. The author of an acclaimed history explains why, just as we need more oil than ever, it is changing faster than we can keep up with.
Oil's very future is being seriously questioned, debated, and challenged. The author of an acclaimed history explains why, just as we need more oil than ever, it is changing faster than we can keep up with.
By Daniel Yergin
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James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bristol County district attorney’s office in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
McDonald was found in a car behind an auto dealership in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office. He appeared to have shot himself, though the matter is still under investigation, Miliote said.
Ex-CEO of Beneficial Corp. Finn H.W. Casperson was found dead in an apparent suicide behind an office building in Westerly, Rhode Island.
Casperson, 67, was discovered dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound on September 7th, after police were asked to “check on” him. Casperson came from a wealthy family and moved with powerful people, and he was known for his political influence, fundraising and philanthropy.
Police are investigating the death of the former chief fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich as a “death-suicide,” an Illinois mayor said Sunday.
Financier Christopher Kelly told police shortly before he died Saturday that he took an “overdose of drugs,” said Dwight Welch, mayor of Country Club Hills, Illinois.
Country Club Hills police found several drugs in Kelly’s black 2007 Cadillac Escalade, but they were not sure yet whether they were prescribed, Welch said. Country Club Hills is about 27 miles south of Chicago.
Kelly had recently undergone surgery and was taking drugs following the operation, Welch said. Welch said he did not know which drugs Kelly was taking.
Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge, Illinois, was pronounced dead at Stroger hospital in Cook County at 10:46 a.m. Saturday, hospital spokesman Marcel Bright told CNN.
Newport Beach financier Danny Pang died early Saturday at a local hospital, according to the Orange County coroner’s office. The cause of death has not been determined and an autopsy is planned for Sunday, said Larry Esslinger, supervising deputy coroner.
Police officers were dispatched to Pang’s home in the 2600 block of Crestview Drive about 3:30 p.m. Friday on a “medical assistance call,” said Sgt. Doug Jones of the Newport Beach Police Department.
Pang was pronounced dead at Hoag Memorial Hospital at 5:12 a.m. Saturday, Esslinger said. He had no further details.
The 42-year-old Pang has been accused by the government of operating a Ponzi scheme and of taking at least $83 million in inflated fees, salary and loans from his investment firm before it was seized by federal regulators in April. He had denied wrongdoing.
And today, Gold closes at an all time high while Silver ROARS!!!! Understand and formulate today's Global Economic and Global Governance issues like this by subscribing to the monthly newsletter. Do it now! -Johnny
NATO’s New Strategic Concept, A Strategic Opportunity For Israel
August 21, 2009
Baltimore Matthew Mark Horn Special to the Jewish Times
Several years ago, we created AJCongress’ NATO-Israel Program based on the changing international security dynamic in the post 9/11 world, coupled with the fact that Israel as a Western democracy should be afforded the opportunity to become a NATO partner or member regardless of its geography. We forged a unique partnership with the Atlantic Forum of Israel, then-headed by Dr. Uzi Arad, who currently serves as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s national security advisor, and its executive director Prof. Tommy Steiner. We are the first and only Jewish organization to undertake a project that advocates for an upgrade in Israel’s formal relationship within NATO from that of a Mediterranean Dialogue participant (currently there are 7 participants) to that of a full-fledged NATO partner.
In early July 2009, I attended the launch of NATO’s new Strategic Concept held in Brussels which laid the foundation for how NATO will conduct itself over the next decade (the last one is ten years old and now dated). As the then-Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer stated, [the purpose of the new strategic concept is to] “determine how our needs and capabilities can be tailored to meet the challenges now really important for the security of our allies.” This year-plus long drafting process of the new Strategic Concept provides us with the opportunity to seek a change in NATO’s partnership structure that allows democracies such as Japan, Israel and Australia to become partners and perhaps even members. As NATO prosecutes a war outside of its traditional Euro-Atlantic area of operation in Afghanistan, it is only fitting that new partnership requirements for democracies outside Europe are incorporated in the new Strategic Concept.
NATO's New Strategic Concept: The Group of Experts on the new Strategic Concept met with Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at NATO Headquarters for the first time and attended a special North Atlantic Council meeting.
At the NATO Summit in Strasbourg/Kehl on 4 April 2009, Heads of State and Government (HoSG) tasked the Secretary General to develop a new NATO Strategic Concept. This exercise should be completed by the time of NATO’s next Summit which is expected to take place in Lisbon in late 2010. The Summit also tasked the Secretary General to convene and lead a broad based group of qualified experts who will lay the ground for the new Strategic Concept. This will be done with the active involvement of the North Atlantic Council (NAC).
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the hotly anticipated new Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to explore Hogwarts Castle, buy Quidditch equipment and drink Butterbeer.
Universal Orlando unveiled details of the park, a 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure property, on Tuesday in a video presentation on the Web. The resort, owned by NBC Universal, secured the theme park rights to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books in May 2007 but has been silent about specific plans until now.
The so-called “theme park within a theme park” will be faithful to the visual landscapes of the Harry Potter films produced by Warner Brothers, which licensed the rights to Universal after a flirtation with the Walt Disney Company. “We’ve tried to include something from every book,” said Alan Gilmore, an art director for the films who is helping to oversee the theme park design.
Universal offers some details on secretive Harry Potter theme park
Posted on September 15, 2009 - 10:09 AM by Kevin Melrose
Who needs Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk when you have Harry Potter?
Amid speculation as to what Disney's announced $4-billion purchase of Marvel could mean to existing theme-park licenses, Universal Orlando today unveiled details for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure.
The rights to the $265-million "theme park within a theme park" were secured from author J.K. Rowling in 2007, but NBC Universal has managed to keep information about the project a secret.
Wizarding World, set to open next spring, is expected to give Islands of Adventure a much-needed boost. Despite popular theme rides like Jurassic Park and the Spider-Man and Hulk roller coasters, attendance has suffered, Media Decoder reports. About 5.3 million people visited the park in 2008, compared to 17 million at the nearby Magic Kingdom.
UPDATE 1-Germany's SPD Woos Left With Tax On Financial Deals
Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:00am EDT
* SPD unveils plan to tax financial transactions
* Step could be aimed at wooing left-wing voters
By Hans Busemann
BERLIN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have unveiled plans to push for a global tax on financial market transactions, in an apparent attempt to win over left-leaning voters weeks before election polls suggest they will lose.
In a paper by SPD chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, the party outlines steps to make banks bear some of the costs of the economic crisis.
By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin , Financial Times, 11 Sep 2009
Germany's finance minister has called for a global tax to be imposed on financial transactions in an effort to end what he derided as "binge-drinking" on markets.
In one of the more radical steps mooted by a world leader to reform the financial system, Peer Steinbrück said receipts from the tax would be used to repay the cost to governments of tackling the crisis, including fiscal stimuli and bank rescue operations.
A conference marking 70 yearssince the beginning of WorldWar II will commence today September 15, 2009 at 10 A.M. at the Diaspora Museum (Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish People), on the campus of Tel Aviv University (Bnei Zion auditorium), Israel.
Several researchers will offer a contemporary look at a controversial issue: the attitude of the Yishuv pre-state Jewish establishment to the Holocaust (Do I hear an 80 year anniversary?) as it was happening. This question is also the focus of the collection of articles "When Disaster Comes from Afar" (in Hebrew), edited by Dina Porat and recently published by Yad Ben-Zvi.
Isaiah 10:1 "Woe to the ones writing wickedness; for the ones writing [wickedness are writing];
10:2 turning aside equity of the poor, snatching away a judgment of the needy of my people, so that [would be to them a widow] for ravaging, and an orphan for plunder.
10:3 And what will they do in the day of visitation? For the affliction [to you from a distance shall come], and to whom shall you take refuge for help? And where will you leave your glory,
10:4 to not fall into enslavement? For [underneath the ones being done away with they shall fall]. And for all these things [shall not turn his anger], but still his hand is high.
10:5 Woe to the Assyrians, the rod of my rage, and anger is in their hands.
All smiles: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir at their only televised political debate on Sunday before the election on Sept. 27.
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Ron FraserColumnist
German Election—Each-Way Bet
September 14, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com
In two weeks, the German electorate will cast their vote for the government that will rule their nation over the next four years. The result of that election is now anyone’s guess.
Talk about a seesaw! German polls indicate that the upcoming federal election is going to be a nail-biter.
That the result will lead to another cobbling together of an unwieldy coalition of uncomfortable bedmates seems a foregone conclusion. But who will ally with whom remains an open question.
Chancellor Merkel has gone public with her intentions to dump Germany’s left-of-center Social Democrats in favor of the business-oriented Free Democratic Party (fdp). The fdp’s East German orientation may be more within her comfort zone, as she hails from Germany’s east herself.
The real question is, if more of the vote on polling day goes to the Social Democratic Party (sdp) leader, Frank Walter Steinmeier, which parties he will choose to engage with in coalition. If he looks further left and engages the Green Party and the current opposition Left Party (at present a seemingly unlikely proposition), then the most recent polls indicate the combined vote would marginally exceed that of a Christian Democrat/Christian Socialist/fdp alliance.
Sunday's TV debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier was billed as the highlight of the election campaign, but turned into a snore as the two uncharismatic contenders praised their cooperation over the last four years and avoided direct confrontation.
German voters had hoped that Sunday's much-hyped television debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democratic Party (SPD) challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier would breathe life into the tepid election campaign that has been likened to a cotton wool fight.
Their hopes were dashed. The 90-minute encounter billed as a "TV duel" between the dispassionate German leader dubbed "Mutti" or Mummy and the gray-haired career bureaucrat was almost over when one of the four interviewers uttered in exasperation: "You're like a harmonious old married couple!"
The United States falls one place to second position, with weakening in its financial markets and macroeconomic stability. Singapore, Sweden and Denmark round out the top five.
European economies continue to prevail in the top 10 with Finland, Germany and the Netherlands following suit.
The United Kingdom, while remaining very competitive, has continued its fall from last year, moving down one more place this year to 13th, mainly attributable to continuing weakening of its financial markets.
The rankings are calculated from both publicly available data and the Executive Opinion Survey, a comprehensive annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum together with its network of Partner Institutes (leading research institutes and business organizations) in the countries covered by the Report.
Dollar Gets Roughed Up In Unusually Heated World Economic Forum Panel
Among the more interesting moments of the World Economic Forum that wrapped up Saturday in Dalian occurred on the final morning, when a panel on Asia’s foreign-currency exposure turned into an unusually contentious discussion on the future of the U.S. dollar.
In front of CNBC cameras, Yu Yongding, an academic who was formerly an advisor to the Chinese central bank, got the discussion off on a decidedly bearish tone for the dollar, with strong criticism of public finances in the U.S.
“The U.S. has been running a current account deficit for more than 26 years now, and they are accumulating huge foreign debt, and now they are running huge budget deficits. According to very optimistic estimations, within ten years, they will continue to run budget deficits,” he said.
Yu said he strongly supports a proposal by People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan to develop of a new international reserve currency based on Special Drawing Rights, a kind of synthetic currency created by the International Monetary Fund in the 1960s. But he acknowledged that the SDR cannot replace the US dollar “at this stage.”
Click here to read entire Wall Street Journal article
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World Economic Forum Competiveness Report drops US to #2
The World Economic Forum has produced a new study on the competitiveness of each of the worlds many nations. This report is available as a nearly 500 page pdf file, and shows some surprising elements as they downgraded the US from the most competitive economy in the world to second behind Switzerland.
And competitiveness is important as the report writer notes in the first pages as he writes:
Competitive economies are those that have in place factors driving the productivity enhancements on which their present and future prosperity is built.
And this has been the great advantage the US has maintained in the economic world and part of why the US economy is bigger than the combined economies of Japan and China (the nations with the #2 and #3 economies by annual GDP). Actually you could add in Germany (#4) and the UK and only barely beat the US. But the report indicates that the economists of the World Economic Forum are worried about the situation in the US.
Their analysis is simple, but elegant and they note:
We define competitiveness as the set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity of a country. The level of productivity, in turn, sets the sustainable level of prosperity that can be earned by an economy.
It’s a good point. And plays into the analysis.
Click here for entire San Diego Economy Examiner article
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WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of demonstrators descended on Capitol Hill Saturday, protesting the expansion of government spending and illustrating the network of conservative activists that has emerged in opposition to President Barack Obama's policies.
Associated Press
Organizers said they believed people from all 50 states came for the "Taxpayer March on Washington." Crowds filled nearly every pocket of open space near the west lawn of the Capitol, many standing and listening without a view of the stage. They marched from Freedom Plaza, adjacent to the White House, as shouts of "U.S.A." echoed through downtown Washington and marchers dressed as colonials banged drums. Some people stayed stranded on Constitution Avenue as the program began near the Capitol, unable to find room to watch the speakers.
A spokesman for D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services estimated the crowd at "in excess of 75,000" people. Local and federal law enforcement authorities don't provide crowd estimates.
The gathering was largely peaceful. Speakers and demonstrators said they opposed Democratic plans to overhaul health care, as well as the bank bailouts of the past year. "It's not about health care, it's about Obama seizing our freedom," said one sign. Opposition to climate-change bills moving through Congress was also on display, with coal workers in hard-hat helmets lining the front of the stage during a speech about energy.
WASHINGTON – The capital was rocked today by a taxpayer march and rally that could be the biggest protest ever – potentially dwarfing the Million Man March and the Promise Keepers Rally.
Though crowd estimates vary from as low as 60,000 to 70,000 according to ABC News to a high of 2 million by London Daily Mail, photographs and videos of the march and rally demonstrate its enormity.
The taxpayers stormed Washington, D.C., today, taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government
and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol.
All week citizens have been heading to the Hill by the busloads for the showdown today. The Tea Party Patriots' "Tea Party Express" national bus tour has been hosting a series of tea party rallies all across the nation. A caravan of buses, speakers and entertainers arrived in Washington, D.C., just in time for the march. The taxpayers have paid their own way to the event.
The White House said Friday it was unaware of the rally. President Obama has traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., to promote his health-care plans at a rally there.
But so many taxpayers showed up on Pennsylvania Avenue that the crowd ran out of room and the march was forced to begin early.
WND was at the scene to get crowd reaction and take photos of the protest.
Live at the scene in Washington, D.C. (WND photo)
Citizens carried hand-made signs that read:
2010: Vote all incumbents out!
Our Constitution has termites!
We are under attack by our own government
Stop the march of socialism
You can put lipstick on communism, but it's still communism
Congratulations to everyone who participated today in the March on Washington. Whether you were on the ground in DC, at home watching CSPAN, or using social media to help get the word and photos out, pat yourselves on the back.
While Robert Gibbs stated that the President was unaware of today's events and most of the main-stream media avoided the event, anyone who watched or participated knows that over a million people came out to stand for our freedoms, constitution, and our country!
Picture taken by SGP Director of Communications, Rebecca Wales, from the stage at the March.
Unfortunately, it appears that our fight has just begun. Late yesterday, Senator Baucus came out and said that a bill is close to leaving the finance committee. He will be sharing the bill with the "Gang of Six" and hopes to push something out of committee by Tuesday.
Please make sure you get on the phone, fax, and email tomorrow and make your thoughts known to the Finance Committee. More details to follow shortly.........
As Americans awaken from good times, indifference and apathy, they are looking for leadership. Citizen activism and "grassroots" is alien to so many. Some find it intimidating and scary, but know in their hearts that we are in serious trouble and everyone must stand up and fight. On September 8, 2009, I sent out an email which Jeff Rense posted to his web site. It's short, so I'll reproduce it here:
Global governance or world governance: When the political interaction of transnational actors aim at solving problems that affect more than one state or region. The allusion when there is no power of enforcing compliance, in essence there are powers or global trusts that are. The modern question of world governance exists in the context of non-nation sovereignty, hence globalization. A silent war whose agenda dictates responses to a West political perception on accelerating interdependences viewed from a worldwide scale. A euphemism proposing a new world order towards global domination both between human societies and between humankind and the biosphere. A select few, under the banner of "world governance", designating regulations intended for the global scale.
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For more than 200 years an international banking cartel has literally bought the world. Conspiracy Theory? No! Conspiracy Fact! Author Cliff Ford draws upon his extensive background in international finance to document how this group's plan to control the world's monetary system has progressed and how near they are to achieving their diabolical objective. Discover why a group of men whose combined assets represented one sixth of the world's wealth met secretly on Jeckyll Island, South Carolina in 1910 and how that meeting affected the course of history. Discover how the most powerful men in government during World War I were part of the same banking firm controlling both the German Secret Service and British Intelligence while on opposite sides. Discover who financed Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and how they later became highly placed officials in the US Government. Discover what the Federal Reserve is - and what is not. And last, discover what inflation really is (hint: it's not what you think it is).
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With the incorporation of the Greek Old Testament Scriptures into the New Testament via quotes, surely this puts the Greek Old Testament in a unique position, as these Greek Old Testament words have become engrafted into the Divine Word of the New Testament. For hundreds of years after the Christ, during the formation of the apostolic age, the Greek Scriptures were consistently read and quoted by the Church Fathers. These all-Greek Scriptures are still in use in Eastern Christendom today, although the Canon is different. The Apostolic Bible continues this tradition of The Apostolic Age Greek Scriptures, and is thus named The Apostolic Bible.
The Missing Peaces: Old City Of Jerusalem Global City State
A Special City State - A Special Regime Mission Statement: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative will develop creative options for the governance and management of the Old City of Jerusalem in preparation for a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians. The powerful symbolic and emotional attachment which these two peoples have for the Old City and its holy sites requires careful preparatory work and discussion in order to create possible paths to a just and lasting peace. In encouraging dialogue and academic discussions on key issues that are critical to national and religious aspirations of all involved parties, a foundation can be established on which further political negotiations can be based. Working with Israeli, Palestinian and international civil society partners, the Canadian team will provide leadership and coordination in developing and implementing research, dialogue, advocacy and policy option identification relating to the critical issues that affect a settlement over the Old City.
John F. Walvoord's Every Prophecy In The Bible
Every Prophecy of the Bible: Clear Explanations for Uncertain Times by One of Today's Premier Prophecy Scholars. Dr. Walvoord, one of evangelicalism’s most prominent 20th century leaders, was a man of remarkable depth and breadth. Though best known for his encyclopedic grasp of Bible prophecy, he was also a man who understood and taught the core of Christian theology with unusual clarity and conviction. Before the last insurgent coup d'état by post modernism in Protestant Evangelical seminaries, there were once great men of God that held steadfast to the end, Dr. John F. Walvoord was one of them. "The comprehensive sweep of the Bible, as it looks at history from God's point of view and then presents the glorious future that awaits the child of God, gives the Christian a life of meaningful activity. It provides as system of values that transcends the materialism of our day, and it gives us a glorious hope of a world to come where there is much happiness." - John F Walvoord
The International
[In explaining the "true" nature of banking in the world] The IBBC is a bank. Their objective isn't to control the conflict, it's to control the debt that the conflict produces. You see, the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. You find this upsetting, yes? But this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt.
The European Union-NATO-Israel Triangle
The Institute for Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel, has been actively involved in examining new and alternative partnerships that will strengthen Israel's relations with the Euro-Atlantic Community, in particular through its two major components - the European Union and NATO. This objective is based on the perception that Israel's future strategic strength depends on new regional associations, international legitimacy and recognition, and increased involvement in global economy.
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Rockefeller & Co. CEO Dies From Gunshot Wound
James McDonald, chief executive officer of New York investment firm Rockefeller & Co., died Sunday, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Bristol County district attorney’s office in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
McDonald was found in a car behind an auto dealership in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, said Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office. He appeared to have shot himself, though the matter is still under investigation, Miliote said.
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