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Paul Ryan the Paris Hilton of politics

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You remember Paris Hilton, don’t you? For you younger Solano County residents, she was the first Kim Kardashian, a person who was famous, simply for being famous.

When Ms. Hilton first appeared on my TV screen in a “reality” show, I just assumed that she was some new actress I had never heard of. After watching one of her movies, I realized that she was not. No, Paris Hilton, and now, Kim Kardashian, are famous, not because they have accomplished anything, but simply because they are famous, period.

Today, I’d like to nominate the celebrated and influential GOP Rep. Paul Ryan for membership in that elite club.

Paul Ryan has been in Congress for 14 years and only two of his bills have passed: In July 2000, he changed the name on a post office building, the congressional equivalent of a golfing “gimme,” and in December 2008, he changed how arrows (as in bows and arrows) were taxed. It makes me wonder if that post office was named after bow-hunting Republican spokesman and savant, Ted Nugent.

It was déjà vu all over again this week, when math whiz Paul Ryan presented his Republican budget plan to Congress. This year’s budget plan is remarkably similar to last year’s, only this time it’s better. Now, by cutting taxes for the wealthy down to 25 percent, Ryan says he will balance the federal budget by 2023, not 2038. That’s truly remarkable. In a word, unbelievable. I think this thing really deserves a “New and Improved” sticker slapped on it.

The Ryan Plan, like all Republican budgets, eliminates federal deficits through massive tax cuts for the wealthy. But mathematical analysts with expertise in both addition and subtraction have pointed out a potentially fatal flaw: How can you balance the federal budget with more tax cuts?

Here’s where the Ryan budgets traditionally get a bit fuzzy. Obviously there have to be lethal cuts to federal programs and colossal tax hikes to middle class workers to balance the budget, but with this year’s plan, like the last, nobody knows the particulars.

Last fall, we voters were promised that the finer details of the Ryan Budget Plan would emerge after the election. The Romney-Ryan ticket lost the election while here at home, the Obama-Biden ticket walked away with more than 63 percent of the vote. Well, it is now five months after the election and Ryan’s details, both fine and coarse, are still missing in action.

Paul Ryan glossed-over this year’s hollow plan in his March 12 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by simply saying, “Yet the most important question isn’t how we balance the budget.” Really? His op-ed, titled, “The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023” had a subtitle indicating the goal can be reached, with no new taxes, while increasing spending 3.4 percent a year instead of the current 5 percent.

What a hoot.

Tell me would you let me get away with that kind of snake oil hokum? Oh, and President Obama has not increased federal spending by 5 percent annually, and not even by 3.4 percent, but less than 1 percent over four years. Could such a faulty premise somehow alter Ryan’s calculations?

The title for my Daily Republic column is The Big Picture. I always try to make world and national events relevant to us regular folks who live here in Fairfield. So here’s your bottom line: Don’t worry; nothing will change. There are more representatives in Congress who possess basic math skills than those on the conservative right who do not. I think it’s safe to say that most middle schoolers in our Fairfield-Suisun schools possess the math skills necessary to clearly see the flaws in Ryan’s budget plan.

Consequently, Paul Ryan’s Magical Mystery Tour de Force Budget has absolutely no chance of ever getting through Congress, and Paul Ryan, like trailblazers Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian before him, will continue to remain famous and influential, while accomplishing absolutely nothing.

Mike Kirchubel grew up in Fairfield and is the author of “Vile Acts of Evil – Banking in America.” He can be reached at mikirch@comcast.net.

Mike Kirchubel

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  • PatriotMarch 18, 2013 - 6:18 am

    Mikey, here you go again..What about Obama's budget plan to reduce the deficit? He now says we don't have a problem. He says trust me, continue to drink the koolaid. The banks control all of this mess and Obama, Bush and others have followed their direction to get us into this mess..

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  • rlw895March 18, 2013 - 12:48 pm

    So we need to deal with bankers, not presidents. I agree with that. But which party has proposed stonger financial regulation? The Democrats. The Republicans have been obstructionists. If we want to deal with bankers we need more Democrats or better Republicans.

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 4:25 pm

    RLW, I don't think "patriot" will ever get that. All he wants to do is rail against me and the Dems, never stopping to look up for fear he may stumble upon an inconvenient truth or two and end up needing a whole "field of crutches" to move on.

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  • PatriotMarch 18, 2013 - 5:34 pm

    Mike, I believe we are not going to agree on anyones point of view..You, unfortunately are allowed to print a one sided view weekly in this newspaper..

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 6:29 pm

    Kinda like Tommy Sowell, and Billo, and Michael Ramirez, and Lisa Benson, and Star Parker, and and and and on and on. The difference is that I tell you the cold, hard truth and you would rather relax, sitting in the nice warm bull-oney

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  • PatriotMarch 18, 2013 - 6:19 am

    Oh by the way the debt is now at $16.7 trillion. Do you care about this Mikey? What is your thoughts and plan?

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  • CarmenMarch 18, 2013 - 6:41 am

    Paris Hilton/ Paul Ryan !!! Love it ! More please !

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  • Mr. PracticalMarch 18, 2013 - 7:40 am

    That's hot!

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  • CD BrooksMarch 18, 2013 - 7:55 am

    Mr. Practical, hilarious!

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  • .Hot Dog - Led Zeppelin .March 18, 2013 - 8:56 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3itxVNJJ3mo

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  • rlw895March 18, 2013 - 3:41 pm

    What we should care about is debt as as a percentage of GDP and the direction it's moving. Obama isn't doing bad, despite the Republicans being willing to waste the country to insulate their wealthy benefactors from higher taxes.

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  • PatriotMarch 18, 2013 - 4:01 pm

    Obama, likes to spend $800 billion to bail out the banks..Give them the money and they charge us interest..The banks never lose as long as you feed them..Cut them off, let them die...

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  • rlw895March 19, 2013 - 12:18 am

    Patriot: Actually, that was Bush and his cronies. It wouldn't have been so bad if the money had not gone out without a lot more serious regulatory strengthening. But the Bush crowd demanded the money then fought the reforms.

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  • CD BrooksMarch 18, 2013 - 7:55 am

    Hey Mike, this is a great informative column as always. Love the Hilton analogy, maybe we'll see Rubio as Ryan's BFF?? :)

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  • mike kirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 8:01 am

    Maybe the two of them could do a reality tv show where they travel the country messing up minimum wage jobs.

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  • CD BrooksMarch 18, 2013 - 8:07 am

    Mike, I think what I love most is the Republicans following this stuff thinking their party is finally heading in the right direction. What that says to me is they are as lost as ever! Have a nice day.

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  • G-ManMarch 18, 2013 - 8:31 am

    You can believe Korchubel or you can believe your eyes..that debt clock isn't a curiosity..Spin the numbers all you want..what was it when Bush left,what is it now..Kirchubel would have made a good National Socialist..alow level functionary..Yesterday they were just thugs in Chicago,today they control our lives..tomorrow they'll be in charge of the public latrines.

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  • rlw895March 18, 2013 - 3:42 pm

    I can believe both because they say the same thing.

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 4:28 pm

    To quote a dead Kennedy: "California Über Alles"

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  • Link won't postMarch 19, 2013 - 8:25 am

    Put this in Youtube search box....Dead Kennedys-California Über Alles lyrics

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  • ExplanationMarch 19, 2013 - 8:28 am

    The title is an allusion to the first (and no longer sung) stanza of the national anthem of Germany, which begins with the words "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles." (literally, "Germany, Germany above all.")........... The song focuses on Jerry Brown, the Governor of California 1975-1983 (and later 2011–present), and is sung from his perspective. An imaginary version of Brown outlines a hippie-fascist vision for America, in which his "suede denim secret police" kill un-cool people with "organic poison gas" chambers. Lines such as "Serpent's egg already hatched" (a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar) comment on the corrosive nature of power. The lines "Big Bro on white horse is near" and "now it is 1984" refers to the totalitarian regime of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, describing a future (from 1979) where Jerry Brown has become President Brown presiding over secret police and gas chambers.

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  • SavetheRepublicMarch 18, 2013 - 7:57 am

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  • Monday on InfowarsMarch 18, 2013 - 9:02 am

    On the Monday, March 18 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex breaks down the collusion between the EU and IMF in confiscating individuals' private wealth to ultimately seize control of economies, paving the way for years of dependency on financial dictatorship. On today's show, Alex gets a woman's perspective on the developing resistance to anti-2nd Amendment legislation nationwide from firearms instructor Julianna Crowder, a mother of two who enjoys firearms for sporting and self defense. Alex also invites economic trend forecaster and publisher of the Trends Journal Gerald Celente to discuss the looting of Cypriot bank accounts, and what the future holds for Italy, which may be the next nation to be similarly plundered. We'll also cover other major headlines and take your calls.

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  • Check this outMarch 18, 2013 - 9:09 am

    Banking Chief Calls For 15% Looting of Italians’ Savings Paul Joseph Watson | Is the financial ape of Cyprus another IMF riot waiting to happen? So Mike you wrote a book about the history of Banking.....Do you think the whole banking system could crash, bank runs in the US, another starve to death type depression could really occur? Are you on the Darkside also? I do not see how you could write your book and not realize the problem is with both sides Dem and Repub....you know Barney Frank and Feinsein were major players in setting the US up for the fall, the Dem Treasury Secretaries have been just as guilty as the Repub ones.

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  • StRMarch 18, 2013 - 9:24 am

    Iraq war killed 120,000, cost U.S. $800 billion AFP | At least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 coalition troops died in Iraq between 2003 and 2011. Japan times news............and this piece does not even talk about the Depleted Uranium that was left behind in Iraq...also The Department of Homeland Security is buying armored vehicles lots of them coming back from Iraq, how many of these have DU contamination?

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 9:31 am

    Democrats are not equally as bad as Republicans. That's the point. As it stands, with no viable third party, we have to choose one side or the other. Personally, I don't think America's wealthy need more help and I am saddened that so many working class voters continue to slit their own economic throats so that the wealthy can have more.

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  • StRMarch 18, 2013 - 10:23 am

    So you think Johnson was better than Nixon...seems to me Johnson was willing to send lots of poor and middle class young men to their deaths, in another illuminati war. I used to think you were smarter than me (and that does not take much effort) but Now I am losing all faith in you Bill. Time is running out, people all this talk and no real action to fix it is not getting us out of the coming economic collapse. So Mike we need an action plan...give us a step by step action plan. So you deny that the Obama administration is doing the bidding of the International Bankers....You approve of Lybia, Syria, the pending attack on Iran? The Republicans are totally misguided, but to me most people that vote Dem either are in the Liberalism is a disease catagory or are too Dumbed down enmass to see that we are all being enslaved. OBAMA will not save you. You Dems like NDAA, that the Patriot Act has not been repealed. The DHS ammo purchases, the drones over America, so why is the Obama Administration doing this? Nationally should we not be stockpiling Food and Oil, if they think a collapse is coming. THEY are all in on it Dem and Repub. I don't see the mass of Dems protesting their President and Congress members to change these policies. Some of the more Conservative types are waking up and protesting the actions of Congress ect.....But all the Dems are just sitting back drinking the Koolaid.

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 10:47 am

    StR, I don't tell you what you think, so please don't presume to know what I think. I didn't like Johnson or Nixon. Find out who actually made the policies you don't like before assigning blame.

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  • StR....@ Mike time for a make up KISSMarch 18, 2013 - 10:52 am

    I wish I was sure that you are not on the Dark side.....But anyway I will still kiss your feet if your book wakes some people up. But overall TIME IS RUNNING OUT. All you uninformed Democrats and Liberals buy Vile Acts of Evil and read it.....But know this Obama will not save you.

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 11:05 am

    I guarantee you that I am not wealthy nor am I a member of any secret organization. As a matter of fact, I can't think of any organization or group that I belong to. Even my political party affiliation is Independent. I am just a working class guy trying to help other working class people.

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  • StR....OK kiss kiss ( I am easily fooled)March 18, 2013 - 11:16 am

    @ Mike Check this out...Progress?.....Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher provides peek at proposal to fix “too big to fail” megabanks...By Sheryl Jean..January 16, 2013 ..Dallasnewscom

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 11:30 am

    Good, but don't hold your breath. By the way, Fischer is associated with Kissinger, Brown Brothers, Harriman, W.T.O., and NAFTA. Any hackles rising?

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  • StR....Regarding FischerMarch 18, 2013 - 11:36 am

    Yes probably just more theater for the masses, but who knows maybe he is trying to redeem himself. So Mike have you taken any precautions, stocked up on anything in prep for a possible collapse?

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  • rlw895March 18, 2013 - 12:54 pm

    All presidents have strengths and weaknesses, but historians and I generally agree that Johnson was "better" than Nixon.

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  • PatriotMarch 18, 2013 - 4:05 pm

    As much crap that Nixon did I would put him ahead of Obama on the crap, lies, deceit...

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  • StRMarch 18, 2013 - 9:38 am

    My guess would be Detroit

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  • StRMarch 18, 2013 - 9:46 am

    Yes once the Spirit departs the body, the body only leaves the impression of being a form of matter, nothing more or less than a rock, or a grain of rice, but subject to decay. But the Spirit lives on, the only question is where.

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  • StRMarch 18, 2013 - 9:51 am

    And God is the animating life force, the source of all energy and spirit.

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  • Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 4:33 pm

    StR, to answer your question as to where the spirit of the dead lives on: The Internet, obviously. At least until they E.M.P. us.

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  • ExplanationMarch 18, 2013 - 10:40 am

    If the Black Ops operatives within our own government (our government which really works for the International Illuminati bankers, just like China is run by the International bankers)were to do a false flag staged Nuclear event, (like they did with the Oklahoma Federal Building, 9/11 - an inside job, the recent Psyops shootings) then one of my guesses for a location is Detroit. Others have said Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago and Denver, I think Denver is out, they are building lots of Illuminati infrastucture in Denver.

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  • Some HistoryMarch 18, 2013 - 9:36 am

    In the 1780s, the Bavarian Government found out about the Illuminati’s subversive activities, forcing the Illuminati to disband and go underground. For the next few decades, the Illuminati operated under various names and guises, still in active pursuit of their ultimate goal. According to the Illuminati, the Napoleonic Wars were a direct result of Illuminati intervention, and were intended to weaken the governments of Europe. One of the results of these wars was the “Congress of Vienna”, supposedly brought about by the Illuminati who there attempted to form a one world government in the form of a “League of Nations.” However, Russia held out and the league of nations was not formed, causing great animosity towards the Russian government on the part of the Illuminati........Their short-term plan foiled, the Illuminati adopted a different strategy. The Illuminati say that they achieved control over the European economy through the International Bankers and directed the composition of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and its anti-thesis written by Karl Ritter in order to use the differences between the two ideologies to enable them to “divide larger and larger members of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.”

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  • ContinuedMarch 18, 2013 - 9:48 am

    Under new leadership by an American general named Albert Pike, the Illuminati worked out a blueprint for three world wars throughout the 20th century that would lead to a one world government by the end of the 20th century. According to the Illuminati, the First World War was fought to destroy Czarism in Russia (the Illuminati had held a grudge against the Czarist regime since Russia had thwarted its plans for a one world government after the Napoleonic Wars) and to establish Russia as a stronghold of Communism............. Likewise, the Illuminati claim that the Second World War pitted the Fascists against the “political Zionists” so as to build up International Communism until it equaled in strength that of the United Christendom. According to Illuminati plans, the Third World War, which is to be fought between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world, will drain the international community to the extent that they will have no choice but to form a one world government.

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  • End Game - Plan for Global EnslavementMarch 18, 2013 - 11:00 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-CrNlilZho

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  • BookMarch 18, 2013 - 11:03 am

    Book....9-11 Descent into Tyranny: The New World Order's Dark Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet

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  • @ Mike....What about rewarding bad behaviorMarch 18, 2013 - 12:00 pm

    I can say this because I am a bustard myself (born out of wedlock). So do you think it is fair that everyone has to pay for somebody else's kid because they did not take the initiative to get married and provide a home and support for a child. That everybody is responsible for supporting another persons poor choices and lack of responsibility? The more bad choices are supported the more of it you get. Why reward bad behavior? In other words ladies use birth control (and pay for it yourself, or make your stud pay for it, or keep your knees together). And I say this from personal experience as a bustard and how in so many cases your Mom was already poor and you as a child become nothing more in the end than an unwanted burdon.

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  • StRMarch 18, 2013 - 3:56 pm

    An unwanted burden who ain't goin' to learn to spell correct.

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  • You Heathens will probably like thisMarch 18, 2013 - 8:53 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Rumfb5kyU

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  • VOTE for Fundamentally Fun Neo-Pagan Mike!March 19, 2013 - 7:46 am

    Google this...Argumentative? Dichotomies in conversations lead to arguments not solutions APRIL 14, 2011…thoughtsfromatherapistcome....Maybe we could all learn something......This one is interesting also from the same site......Trauma – What happens to a person who has experienced trauma and why.

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  • An exampleMarch 19, 2013 - 9:45 am

    this really was subliminal on my part, did not notice till just now....speaking of trama..the.rapist.come....The human mind is a great and terrible thing.

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  • Today Tuesday on ....March 19, 2013 - 9:38 am

    On the Tuesday, March 19 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex breaks down the plan by the IMF and EU to steal billions from bank deposits in Cyprus as the global economy continues its slow-motion implosion. He also covers rising outrage over the Department of Homeland Security's massive and unprecedented ammo purchase and the Senate's plans to introduce legislation aimed squarely at the heart of the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Alex welcomes back to the show activist and former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche and crypto-anarchist and law student Cody Wilson who developed and published open source gun designs suitable for 3D printing. Cody will join Alex in-studio..wwwinfowarscom

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  • Google thisMarch 19, 2013 - 9:41 am

    Ron Paul: The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow ....Ron Paul..Infowars.com March 19, 2013

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  • MK-Ultras are real, there are lots of themMarch 19, 2013 - 11:42 am

    But it is not their fault, they are cruelly used Human Guinnea Pigs....Well, when it comes to so-called truth drugs like sodium pentothal, sodium amatyl, scopolamine, mescaline, LSD, and hypnotic benzodiazepines, where are the pros with real experience?......... At run-of-the-mill psychiatric wards? No. Those hacks in the Colorado state hospital system have rarely if ever tried out the drugs for the purpose of getting at the truth.......... But the CIA has up-to-date interrogators around, and thousands of pages of MKULTRA (mind control) literature, that constitute the best experience in this dark art........... Therefore, it’s highly probable the CIA or their independent contractors will be sitting in on James Holmes’ drug-induced sessions, supervising them, giving advice. It’s the Ghostbusters motto: “Who ya gonna call?”......... Martin Lee points out that, even before the CIA was created, its forerunner, the OSS, tried out a cannabis extract as a truth serum. This was back in the 1940s. Lee goes on to trace US intelligence-agency and military “leadership” in truth-drug testing........... In 1947, the US Navy Project Chatter, borrowing from Nazi studies, moved on to experiments with mescaline as a truth drug.......... Shortly after its inception, in the late 1940s, the CIA used drugging with sedatives, plus hypnosis, to extract secrets from agents. This method, and barbiturates alternated with amphetamines, were soon rolled up into the infamous and overarching MKULTRA mind-control program, with its hundreds of sub-projects. MKULTRA was all about developing chemical means of eliciting truth from prisoners, along with creating unconscious assassins..........

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  • ReferenceMarch 19, 2013 - 1:28 pm

    The CIA, James Holmes, MKULTRA, and truth-serum torture..Jon Rappoport..Infowars.com March 18, 2013

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiqZC_3uwgMarch 19, 2013 - 1:54 pm

    Paradise - Coldplay (Lyrics)

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwBHlEWiyo4March 19, 2013 - 2:36 pm

    Illuminati Mind Control - Britney Spears

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Kh6iamBskMarch 19, 2013 - 2:48 pm

    Mind Control: Switching, Triggers and Victims

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  • SavetheRepublicMarch 19, 2013 - 2:52 pm

    Put this in the Youtube search box...'CIA killed 9/11 author in black ops hit' ...PressTVGobalNews.............Covers the death of Philip Marshall

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  • Very Funny Evil PeopleMarch 19, 2013 - 8:46 pm

    This use of the term “haircut” to describe government theft of private banking accounts has got to stop. It’s not a haircut, it’s outright thievery. When a person breaks into your home with a gun and steals your jewelry or cash, do we call that a “haircut?” Of course not. It’s a criminal act, not a trip to the salon.............. I’m referring to the government bank raids in Cyprus, of course, where up to 10% of private accounts are simply being stolen by the government. It’s being called the great EU bank robbery, and there is a lot of speculation that this may set off bank runs across European nations. But the media calls it nothing more than a “haircut.”......... Why is everybody using the term “haircut” to describe this outright theft? The reason, of course, is because the term “haircut” is a mind game. Its purpose is to make it sound like it’s not outright theft. By calling it a “haircut,” it seems more polite, almost as if the government there is doing everybody a favor.............Google this...It’s not a ‘haircut’ – it’s THEFT when governments loot your private bank accounts Mike Adams...Natural News...March 19, 2013....Explaination...From the Securities Lending Glossary..Haircut = Initial margin on a repo transaction. Generally expressed as a percentage of the market price............Margin, initial: Refers to the excess of cash over securities or securities over cash in a repo/reverse repo, sell/buy-buy/sell, or securities lending transaction. One party may require an initial margin due to the perceived credit risk of the counterpart......Repo: Transaction whereby one party sells securities to another party and agrees to repurchase the securities at a future date at a fixed price.......See Haircut is an actual term used in high finance....a planned event type thing, that THEY set up. Cyprus is being REPOED with an initial Haircut, and this is a shock test for the eventual collapse of the rest of the European Banking system and the skimming off of control of the actual physical assets by the Illuminati.

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  • At the Heart of High Finance?March 19, 2013 - 9:00 pm

    A Practical Guide to Using Repo Master Agreements...ISBN: 978 1 84374 120 6... Author(s): Paul C Harding and Christian A Johnson...Publisher: Euromoney Books....Google all this...Some names dropped here...Kurt Crommelin, Head of Legal, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, London......Keith Spiller, Executive Director -Traded Products Legal, UBS Investment Bank.....negotiator in the City of London with Barclays Capital Securities Limited and Hill Samuel Bank Limited, where he was Head of Treasury Documentation....Christian A. Johnson is an associate law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he teaches courses on derivatives, banking and taxation. He graduated from Columbia Law School and was the Executive Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He practised law with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York and Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in Chicago (Loyola the Jesuit connection)....I don't know really but just threw some stuff out there.......TBMA/ISMA Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA): The market-standard document used for repo trading. The GMRA, whose original November 1992 version was based on the PSA Master Repurchase Agreement, was revised in November 1995 and again in October 2000

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  • Interesting Google How Harry Reid made his moneyMarch 20, 2013 - 7:43 am

    Here’s another example: The Los Angeles Times reported in November 2006 that when Reid became Senate majority leader he committed to making earmark reform a priority, saying he’d work to keep congressmen from using federal dollars for pet projects in their districts. It was a good idea but an odd one for the senator to espouse. He had managed to get $18 million set aside to build a bridge across the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz., a project that wasn’t a priority for either state’s transportation agency. His ownership of 160 acres of land nearby that stood to appreciate considerably from the project had nothing to do with the decision, according to one of his aides. The property’s value has varied since then. On his financial-disclosure forms from 2006, it was valued at $250,000 to $500,000. Open Secrets now lists it as his most valuable asset, worth $1 million to $5 million as of 2010.......Google...August 15, 2012 4:00 A.M. How Did Harry Reid Get Rich? His career in public service has ended up being remarkably lucrative. By Betsy Woodruff Nationalreview.....they all do it....my point again is that most of the Dems are no better than most of the Repubs.....Google How Daine Feinstein got rich.

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  • mike KirchubelMarch 20, 2013 - 8:25 am

    They are not both the same. Didn't you read THE book?

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  • StRMarch 20, 2013 - 8:47 am

    Yes I read THE BOOK and now I would like to beat you over he head with it....Such a good book....but you are delusional if you can not see that the Dems are controlled and used by the Power elite just the way the Dems are. I am considering resigning as your Campign Manager Bill. Care to make a Public Statement on your choice of Belly Dance All Stars and Swedish Bikini Team. PS....Are your precious Democrats going to BARF on the FED? Now about our short list for Vice President....Hmmmmmmmmm to please you I will have to see if Karl Marx has any direct descendants that want to join you.

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  • I have another bad migraine...ByeMarch 20, 2013 - 8:51 am

    Correction....and used by the Power elite just the way the Repubs are.

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  • mike kirchubelMarch 20, 2013 - 9:12 am

    Maybe what i don't understand is if you know that they are both evil, why would you support the more evil of the two?

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  • Just do me a favor and listen to Alex todayMarch 20, 2013 - 9:42 am

    Evil is Evil...like I said before Johnson was evil, bush was evil...Kennedy was evil, but saw the light for some reason, Reagan was not as evil after all Bush tried to assassinate him.......Dem, Repub, knowlingly evil or duped they are all used by the Power Elite, I really do not think one is really much better than the other. What are the Dems doing right now that is going to save us, Michael? Get rid of the FED? Repeal NDAA act provisions? Obama works for the Illuminati also, anyone can see this, we are all just being used. The Dems are used as one avenue of attack and the Repubs as another line of attack. I can not think right now, I will blame it on you....you give me a headache. They have set up the entire world financial system to collapse, do you not see this happening? Prepare to be chipped, or starve.

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  • StRMarch 20, 2013 - 9:54 am

    The situation is hopeless when both major party candidates in any race are cotrolled by them. Have you not been paying attention...DUH....when have I supported the Repubs? The first time I voted for Obama as maybe the lesser of two evils (to no avail) this time I voted for Gary Johnson....I voted for Jerry Brown as the lesser of two evils...The problems is we are forced into this situation voting for lesser of two evils. But I would like to vote in a conservative manner but this is not possible with current slates of Money controlled, candidates....and yes the Illuminati controls even candidates down to the local level.

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  • Today Wednesday on InforwarsMarch 20, 2013 - 9:13 am

    On the Wednesday, March 20 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex examines the Chase bank glitch that left customers with zero balances, and breaks down why Sen. Feinstein's aggressive gun control bill may have intentionally been doomed to fail. Alex also analyzes the prosecution of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist charged with snapping the necks of newborn babies with scissors, whose defense says he's being unjustly prosecuted because he's black. On today's show, Alex is joined by top researcher Rosa Koire, a veritable expert on the creeping takeover of cities and states under the paralyzing guise of the buzzword “sustainability,” and author of Behind the Green Mask: U.N Agenda 21. We'll also hit on Obama's trip to Israel, S. Korea's cyber-attack and other key news items. wwwinfowarscom

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  • They want your bloodMarch 20, 2013 - 10:52 am

    Google....Blood DNA for New World Order Database.......wwwlovethetruthcom /government/ police_state/blood_dna (dot) htm

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  • Fact the Illuminati is a Fact not a "Conspiracy"March 20, 2013 - 9:30 am

    At the turn of the 20th century the world’s #1 oil producing field was in the prosperous port city of Baku, in Azerbaijan. The famous Nobel brothers of Sweden launched the Baku oil boom in 1873. Soon huge oil tankers from that region were traversing the globe........... Then, in 1883, oil companies owned by the Rothschild family entered the scene in Baku followed by Rockefeller’s gigantic Standard Oil Company. Heated competition was on for control of the world’s top producing region.........At the time, Rockefeller and Rothschild were competing as the world’s foremost oil and banking barons. But the two competitors each finally realized that competition was not a good thing. The more oil wells they drilled, the more oil was produced, the more the price of oil per barrel fell. This led a disgruntled John D. Rockefeller to exclaim, “Competition is a sin!”........... A solution, therefore, was soon brokered. It was decided that the world’s markets would geographically be carved up, with the two barons, Rockefeller and Rothschild, each having their separate, well-defined shares. Moreover, limits would be put on oil produced globally so as to keep the market price as high as possible. Under this arrangement, both Rothschild and Rockefeller would benefit........... Of course, all other competition would be squelched, driven out of business, including the Nobel Oil Company in Baku.............. The next course of action was that the Rockefeller-Rothschild cartel and their banker associates (Schiff, Warburg, Morgan, et al) proceeded to fund and sponsor the Bolshevik Communist revolution of 1917. Their puppets, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin, soon reigned over the vast Soviet Russia empire............Google...Rothschild, Rockefeller, Lenin, and the Destruction of Baku's Oil Fields...texemarrscom....you can also Google....History of Rothschilds russian oil field control BTW See Trotsky was the Illuminati's firt choice he was suppose to take over from Lenin, Stalin gave the International Bankers some problems, but was often convinced to go along with them. The Rothschilds ect Illuminati built Communism and put it in place in both Russia and China. We are all, countries are, set up by the Illuminati to fight each other, just the Grand Chess Board.

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  • mike kirchubelMarch 20, 2013 - 9:54 am

    If tou really read the book, you would know that Rothschild funded Rockefeller too. Competition? I think not. Perhaps sharing would be a better term.

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  • Yes Tatoo.....De Book....De BookMarch 20, 2013 - 10:03 am

    Yes, I know that, but I was referencing a different source, that explained the Russian oil fields ect...in this manner....I was looking for a condensed coverage of the topic that people could read and more quickly absorb.....OK....are you on vacation or something....or just find pestering me to be amusing?

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  • So Mr. Fantasy Island Bill/Mike....March 20, 2013 - 10:15 am

    I feel like beig itchy today....Shake the tater tots out of your head and tell me what you think about what is going on in Cyprus. Please, you are the Smart one, you wrote THE BOOK!

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  • @ Bill / MikeMarch 20, 2013 - 11:24 am

    But I really love you cat/man!.....Come back.....Please....Here Kitty Kitty....I would be lost without you.....BUMMER! I have alienated my Candidate.

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  • The Dark Knight RisesMarch 20, 2013 - 12:15 pm

    wwwritualabuse.us

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  • Today Thursday on InfowarsMarch 21, 2013 - 9:08 am

    On the Thursday, March 21 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers the unfolding situation in Syria as the U.S. “elects” a new Syrian leader, moves to support al-Qaeda and a gruesome video surfaces showing the beheading of a civilian by the so-called “rebels.” Alex also covers the latest on efforts by the gun-grabbers to take down the Second Amendment and the Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano's refusal to answer questions on bullet purchases by the agency. On today's show, Alex talks with Jon Rappoport about the alleged assassin James Holmes, mind control, the CIA and MKULTRA. Alex also talks with New York Times-bestselling author and investigative journalist Greg Palast about the banker heist. Palast is the author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps.

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  • StRMarch 21, 2013 - 9:14 am

    Censored again? Some stuff will not post?

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  • StRMarch 21, 2013 - 9:20 am

    Read Revelation in the Bible

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  • Post PleaseMarch 21, 2013 - 10:01 am

    Google....Breaking Rothschild Banking Operatives Obama, McCain, Lieberman, & Graham: Unleashes Mercenary Terror ”TIDAL WAVE” Over North Africa!......Political Velcraft…veil of politics……Tony Cartalucci.

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  • The Who- Behind Blue Eyes LyricsMarch 21, 2013 - 9:29 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_TRaiWj4o

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  • Knockin' On Heaven's Door lyricsMarch 21, 2013 - 9:32 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejTFN8Zgl8

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  • Check this outMarch 21, 2013 - 10:14 am

    www dot gregpalast dot com

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  • Solutions we need SolutionsMarch 21, 2013 - 10:20 am

    How do we actually get the evil people arrested?......English system is MASONIC...At the State level...Nullification is the key....we need to start pestering our State Legislatures big time.

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  • StRMarch 21, 2013 - 10:41 am

    Explain the significance of the insurance pay out to Silverstein with the World Trade Center....the involvement of Warren Buffett and the Rothschild fronts with Swiss Re....the whole "reinsurance industry" is complicated and interesting.......What about the major armaments manufacturers who are they, who is really paying for all the guns in these middle east wars.....Is Russia controlled by the Illuminati?......Is Iran really independent of the Illuminati or are they a controlled Chess Piece....Our country the US is controlled by the Illuminati as is China....are there any countries not controlled by the Illuminati....The Riot is written into the Plan

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  • Quote from a former IlluminatiMarch 21, 2013 - 10:28 am

    quote from somewhere else....“The first time I had ever had a tear in my eye was when he told me that little girls and little boys aren't normally scraped by their fathers, that is not the standard of living in which we lived. And that upset me to such a point – that was the first time I ever felt a tear on my face. Because I really felt so bad that children were not being loved by their fathers. And it took me a long time to understand the difference, because right is wrong, and wrong is right, that's how you are programmed. Isn't it something, when you really think about it? I look back on it now, and I cannot believe the ability they had to do to my mind and so many other survivors out there. To what degree they would go. ...”...I started to crack the code...when I played on a softball team on Offutt AFB and noticed that the coach and the husbands of the lady players were treating their kids nice...I always thought men had just a public code..persona and that yes at home wives and children were tools to be used. Maybe there was a different reality....Please check out these videos...I am telling you that we are all PROGRAMMED to a certain extent....WAKE UP....You only know what you know, till you look outside the box they taught you to be in, till some kind soul shows you the truth.

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  • Obama Now Global Head of Al-QaedaMarch 21, 2013 - 10:51 am

    President Barack Obama is now the global head of Al-Qaeda – bankrolling, arming and equipping terrorists around the world in order to achieve his administration’s geopolitical objectives – while simultaneously invoking the threat of terrorists domestically to destroy the bill of rights............Google...Obama Now Global Head of Al-Qaeda.....Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones..Infowars .com March 21, 2013

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  • Creepy Lindsey Graham (So is D. Feinstein)March 21, 2013 - 11:10 am

    Put in Youtube search box...Senator Lindsey Graham "We Are Not The SS" wearechange.........And REMEMBER these people are stooges of the NWO and they lie....they are part of the Illuminati US Government and they are here to help you most evilly into the NEW LUCIFERIAN WORLD ORDER

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  • GoogleMarch 21, 2013 - 11:36 am

    The Illuminati Part Eleven The President's Girl..asis.com

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  • Put this in Youtube search boxMarch 21, 2013 - 11:45 am

    The Horrors of Mind Control:Paul Bonacci[ had 120 personalities]1/9

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  • You know....scarry stuffMarch 21, 2013 - 11:50 am

    You know there are Military Delta Systems (Programmed soldiers who are now human robots) that are trained just to eliminate other Deltas that are going crazy or waking up from programming. Some Deltas were implanted into Koresh's WACO but went wacko (not following programming) and part of the burining down of WACO was taking out these rouge Deltas

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  • GoogleMarch 21, 2013 - 11:53 am

    The Story of the CIA's "Finders" Abduction Operation

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  • StRMarch 21, 2013 - 12:07 pm

    I don't know why I ask this, but at Offutt was there ever a sub-project known as CIGAR BOX? Was this MK-ULTRA?

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  • rlw895March 21, 2013 - 8:51 pm

    This site is drowning in StR insanity. She writes copious irrelevant stuff, then responds or adds more using another name. Whatever is relevant is lost in the volume. She admits to cutting and pasting from other sources to add bulk. She haunts Mike's column just because it attracts a lot of attention, I assume, attention StR apparently craves for herself. DR, what can you do about this problem?? We need you to provide an StR patrol and quarantine.

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  • Sir VesaMarch 21, 2013 - 11:30 pm

    Re: The StR problem. I agree with RLW. This person and her dozens of aliases make a shambles of this site almost daily. Many posters here have asked her to back off a little, but this only seems to make things worse. Hey, DR, please help!

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  • JHeffinCMarch 22, 2013 - 8:28 am

    Sir Vesa, I have sent a subtle message through my teachings that she stop with this nonsense. She will begin to feel an uncomfortable sensation in both hands and feet. Thou shallot rain tears upon the sensitivities.

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  • Just a closer walk with theeMarch 22, 2013 - 9:41 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOKaircCiGI

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  • We're on a mission from GodMarch 23, 2013 - 12:40 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4YrCFz0Kfc

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  • 4 U Heathens caution alot of F words in thisMarch 23, 2013 - 12:48 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEbAyc5oFo

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  • World War 3March 22, 2013 - 7:43 am

    Q: What are the plans of the Illuminati for the Middle East and how will it affect the rest of the world? Will we see WWIII?......... A: The conflict in the middle east is only to the advantage of the Illuminists. They HATE Israel, and hope one day to see it destroyed, and are biding their time. One of the olive branches offered by the UN when it takes over is that they will prevent war in the middle east, and this will be greeted with joy by many.......... At the same time, the Illuminati covertly supply guns and funds to BOTH sides to keep the conflict fueled. They are very duplicious people. They used to funnel guns through the USSR to Palestine, for example, in the name of promoting "friendliness" between the USSR and this state and other arab nations. Then, the US Illuminists would help funnel guns to Israel, for the same reason........... These people love the game of chess, and see warfare between nations as creating an order out of chaos. The USSR is going to get stronger again. It has too strong a military both openly, and covertly (ALL Illuminati military trainers have visited Russia to learn from them) to sit quietly and quiesciently to the side. In the NWO, they will be stronger than us............

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  • ContinuedMarch 22, 2013 - 7:47 am

    Quote from past member......Want to hear the end of the world scenario the Illuminati taught me? It was cult propaganda, but this is how they believed the New Order would be ushered in:............ There will be continued conflict in the mideast, with a severe threat of nuclear war being the culmination of these hostilities........... An economic collapse that will devastate the economy of the US and Europe, much like the great depression........... One reason that our economy continues limping along is the artificial supports that the Federal Reserve had given it, manipulating interest rates, etc............ But one day, this won't work (or this leverage will be withdrawn on purpose) and the next great depression will hit........... The government will call in its bonds and loans, and credit card debts will be called in.......... There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide......... Europe will stabilize first, and Germany, France and England (surprise) will have the strongest economies, and will institute through the UN an international currency........... Japan will also pull out, although their economy will be weakened................ Peacekeeping forces will be sent out by the UN and local bases to prevent riots............. The leaders will reveal themselves, and people will be asked to make a pledge of loyalty during a time of chaos and financial devastation............... Doesn't sound pleasant, does it? I don't know the exact time frame for all of this, and wouldn't want to even guess. The good news is that if a person is debt-free, owes nothing to the government or credit debt, and can live self sufficiently, they may do better than other. I would invest in gold, not stocks, if I had the income. Gold will once again be the world standard, and dollars will be pretty useless (remember after the Civil War? Our money will be worth about what confederate money was after the collapse).............. All this said, it could just be cult propaganda taught to me and others to frighten us. It may be that none of this will happen. I sincerely hope not. I also strongly believe that God is able to stay the hand of the wicked, and to take care of our nation and others, if we turn to Him...........

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  • ContinuedMarch 22, 2013 - 7:50 am

    Q: Overall, would you say the Illuminati are racist? I am asking this because their agenda seems to be very white supremist throughout history.......... A: The Illuminati are racist, and have a very "aryan" outlook. They believe strongly in the rule of the "pure" and "intelligent" by their definitions, and in their ceremonies, there will occasionally be minorities killed in ceremonies.................. They are trying to breed a "genetically superior" race to rule, with their children and descendants. They are also followers of Plato's Republic, and believe that they will be the ones to usher in this "Utopian" rule with the NWO in their opinion. In their Utopia, the intelligentsia will rule, and the sheep like masses will follow their leaders (that is their view of the world; that the occult leaders are "enlightened' and intelligent, while the average person is a "sheep" to be led by the nose)............. Q: Why would they allow a black leader to head the UN?.............. A: Because it is a temporarily politically expedient thing for them to do. They are liars, and will hold out a hand to a popular political figure, throwing them a figurehead role in one of their organizations, to make the UN look better, and as a group that promotes "interracial harmony" and "unity" and "peace".................. The real leaders would never publicly allow their real feelings to show. The UN is a preparation, but it is not the real power in the world, and will be relatively unimportant when the NWO comes into being. The real councils will then step forward. But as a means of getting the general public to accept the idea of a "global community" and the "one world community" the UN is a stepping stone in their working towards the NWO...........

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  • ContinuedMarch 22, 2013 - 7:54 am

    what role does and will the UN play in the future and how do you see this unfolding? What is their timeline?......... A: The UN was created early in this century in order to help overcome one of the biggest barriers to a one world government necessary, if there is to be a military rule and dictatorship by the Illuminists. That barrier is the one of nationalism, or pride in one's country. This is why it was NOT a popular concept when first introduced, it took years of country bashing in the media and the destruction of any sense of national pride by a (not so subtle) media campaign over the years............ It's agenda? It is set up as a shadow, or forerunner, of the Supreme World Council that will represent every nation. Every ambassador to the UN has either done something to curry Illuminati favor and been rewarded, or is a political figurehead chosen to make the organization "look good"............ The Illuminati and governmental leaders chose to create the UN early in the past century, and worked hard and against opposition to put it in place (FDR was their man in America who helped the American public accept it). Both he and Eleanor were staunch Illuminists. So is Shirley Temple Black. In fact, most of our presidents since the beginning of the past century have been either Illuminists, or agreed by oath to support their goals, in return for campaign funds and support. I believe it is impossible to win a presidential election in our country today without their backing. The Kennedy family were punished because they tried to disobey them. They were free thinkers, and too hard to "control".......... The UN has a stated goal of world peace, and wants to incorporate under its fold military and peace-keeping functions. But in reality, giving this role to the UN weakens the individual military strength of nations, and encourages them to lean more and more on an external organization, making them less able to resist when the takeover occurs............. I was told that by the year 2020, that the New Order would be openly revealed, BUT that may have been cult propaganda, and they are always changing dates. I personally believe that by the mid of this century, they will reveal themselves. This is just my opinion, though.

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:13 am

    STR is a bane to this publication

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:13 am

    STR please stop your inane rants

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:14 am

    STR time to put down the key board and walk away

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:14 am

    STR you must have arthritis by now?

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:15 am

    STR there is medication for that

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:15 am

    STR people are sick to death of your garbage

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:15 am

    STR unplug the electricity

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:16 am

    STR stop paying your PG&E

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  • getouttahereMarch 22, 2013 - 8:16 am

    STR enough all ready

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  • .Nearer, My God, to TheeMarch 22, 2013 - 9:47 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwLl5nY5WPI

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  • Fester Up...Is that You Rich? Please tellMarch 23, 2013 - 12:34 pm

    From StR....Please calm down. Thank You...If not you my apologies.

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  • Today Friday on InfowarsMarch 22, 2013 - 9:19 am

    Today on the Friday, March 22 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show, we break down the accelerating global economic collapse, FEMA federalizing police for domestic war, and Obama's new title as global head of Al-Qaeda. We'll also cover the victory in bringing the massive DHS ammo purchases to light, which forced mainstream media and Congressmen to address the issue. On today's show, Alex welcomes American economist and renowned columnist Paul Craig Roberts to examine the Cyprus bank crisis situation and America's own crumbling economy. Alex also invites author and American radio and television personality Larry Elder to discuss the Obama deception still entrancing Americans and people worldwide.

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  • GoogleMarch 22, 2013 - 9:54 am

    Time To Plan For The Worst Rather Than Hope For The Best...Brandon Smith..Alt Market..March 22, 2013

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  • GoogleMarch 22, 2013 - 9:57 am

    FEMA Federalizing Police for Domestic War.. Melissa Melton..Infowars.com..March 22, 2013

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  • Read the Bible...everything else is falseMarch 22, 2013 - 10:03 am

    Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost..Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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  • StR GoogleMarch 23, 2013 - 11:09 am

    Vladimir Putin rolls out the red carpet (and guards on horseback) for visit of President Xi Jinping..Clifford Coonan Hong Kong Friday 22 March 2013 The Independent........... Russian premier gives unprecedented welcome to new Chinese leader as relations thaw

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  • Google this..I am trying to Educate PeopleMarch 23, 2013 - 5:30 pm

    I mean Google THIS...Rothschilds Run British Intelligence Operation into Russia through JNR and Diligence March 14, larouchepac .com.........The main investment vehicle of the Rothschilds into Russia and Eastern Europe is JNR UK Ltd, an investment bank specializing in Eastern Europe and Russia. JNR stands for Jacob and Nathaniel Rothschild. Since Feb. 2003, Nathaniel Rothschild has been director of JNR. JNR has offices in Guernsey and Switzerland. The decision to run JNR out of its Swiss and Guernsey offices was made for tax reasons. Most of the revenues are derived from outside the UK. Through JNR the Rothschilds run their operations inside Russia and Eastern Europe in conjunction with the Russian oligarchy. As previously reported, Nathaniel Rothschild, as director of JNR, is the chief advisor to Russian aluminum oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Deripaska's Rusal, the world's largest aluminum company, in which Rothschild is also heavily invested. In addition to his relationship to Oleg Deripaska, Nathaniel Rothschild's best friend is another Russian billionaire oligarch, Roman Abramovich. An earlier operation, the Wellsian, Open Russia Foundation, which was set up by the Rothschilds with Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky, was shut down in 2006 by Russian authorities after Khodorkovsky's criminal conviction. Just prior to his arrest, Khodorkovsky attempted to hand over control of the Yukos oil company to Jacob Rothschild. Khodorkovsky had a "previously unknown arrangement" with Jacob Rothschild for the latter to take control of the former's Yukos stock in the event that the former could no longer "act as a beneficiary" of the shares. This effort to give control of Yukos to Rothschild was thwarted when, in 2004, the government of Russia seized and sold Yukos's largest production unit in compensation for large back tax bills.

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  • Tom ChalkMarch 23, 2013 - 7:42 pm

    That's it! I am done with this website. Too many folks playing games for amusement and clogging up the works with nonsensical posts, some involving cut-and-paste baloney or you-tube clips one after another, ad nauseum. Have fun people!

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  • MARILYN MONROE - I'm Through With LoveMarch 24, 2013 - 11:01 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q_yQY6ntaY

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  • Black Heart of International Banking?March 23, 2013 - 7:00 pm

    The Inter-Alpha Group was founded as a mechanism to take advantage of this currency vulnerability. The group arose out of six relatively small European banks which represented the family fortunes—or fondi—of the Venetian system. Each of these banks had significant private banking arms, private banking being a term for banks which specialize in handling money for the wealthy. Each of its six members was chosen to represent a bank in one of the principal nations of the European Economic Community: Kredietbank, of Belgium; Nederlandsche Middenstandsbank of the Netherlands; Credit Commercial de France, of France; Banco Ambrosiano, of Italy; Williams & Glyn's Bank (a unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland), in the UK; and BHF Bank, of Germany. A seventh bank, Privatbanken of Denmark, was added in 1972............ Inter-Alpha took the form of an alliance among these banks; each bank maintained its separate identity, while they all worked together to advance the Group's mission. The Group, and its member banks, were dedicated to restoring imperial rule........... The operation was run by Jacob Rothschild, initially out of N.M. Rothschild in London. The Rothschild banking network, from its inception in Frankfurt in the late 1700s, has been a Venetian operation. One of its early sponsors was the Thurn und Taxis family of Bavaria, the controllers of Venetian intelligence and one of the leading families of the Habsburg's Austrian Empire. This Venetian connection is the true source of the fabled Rothschild intelligence network, as well as the source of the family's financial power. The Rothschilds are also close to the British Crown, primus inter pares of the royal families of Europe, and a considerable power within the Empire. Jacob Rothschild, for example, manages the funds of Prince Charles, among his other crimes.........The Venetian Black Nobility?

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  • GoogleMarch 23, 2013 - 7:08 pm

    The Inter-Alpha Group: Nation-Killers for Imperial Genocide September 11, 2010 larouchepac

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  • GoogleMarch 23, 2013 - 7:35 pm

    Venetian Black Nobility, Rulers of the World..hubpagescom....I think the connection to the Byzantine empire is interesting...Do you know that Byzantine historian Procopius wrote a book that said that Justian (married to Theodora) was so demon possessed that he could actually shape shift....

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  • Google.....Attention Project Censored?March 24, 2013 - 12:52 am

    The $43 Trillion Bankster Lawsuit and the Mysterious Murder of Two NY Toddlers..Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism October 27, 2012

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  • Post PleaseMarch 24, 2013 - 1:04 am

    *************Many foreign and overseas banks were named in the suit in conjunction with the mega-banks – pointing to the fact that financial institutions like JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and others were using offshore banks to hide their monies acquired by the mortgage-backed securities scam. In essence, these financial institutions took monies from mortgage-holders, funneled it to offshore bank accounts and then after securitizing the loans, took the actual property from the individuals.............. The complaint states that the Ponzi scheme concocted by the banksters was “the largest scheme in US history where domestic banking institutions – on an international basis” conspired together with the common purpose of engaging in a “worldwide scheme to steal, rob and convert the personal property, money and proceeds of such assets of each Plaintiff herein” with the obvious purpose of a conspiratorial “decade-long systematic conversion . . . that damaged millions of borrowers across the US.”.......... This massive money laundering scheme was fostered by the Obama administration who gave the biggest bailout to the technocrats in the US. Indeed, Bank of America is instrumental in prospects that involved foreign countries in the largest global Ponzi scheme with the intention to steal and covert billions of dollars from millions of homeowners across America............Republicans ( 9/11 was an inside job ) Democrats...same same both work for the Bankers...who obviously will skill, they plan, fund and start the wars worldwide...all us average citizens in each country should have no desire to skill each other...It is the Bankers and the Government leaders that the Bankers put in place who set us up to ignorantly fight their wars for them, remember they fund both sides in any given war or most covert actions

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  • googleMarch 24, 2013 - 1:30 am

    Major Banks, Governmental Officials and Their Comrade Capitalists Targets of Spire Law Group, LLP's Racketeering and Money Laundering Lawsuit Seeking Return of $43 Trillion to the United States Treasury..marketwatch.com...Oct. 25, 2012

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  • Prayer for Mercy and HelpMarch 24, 2013 - 10:07 am

    Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,...... That the mountains might quake at Your presence—...... As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—...... To make Your name known to Your adversaries,...... That the nations may tremble at Your presence!...... When You did awesome things which we did not expect,...... You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence....... For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear,...... Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,...... Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him....... You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,...... Who remembers You in Your ways....... Behold, You were angry, for we sinned,...... We continued in them a long time;...... And shall we be saved?...... For all of us have become like one who is unclean,...... And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;...... And all of us wither like a leaf,..... And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away....... There is no one who calls on Your name,...... Who arouses himself to take hold of You;...... For You have hidden Your face from us...... And have [c]delivered us into the power of our iniquities............... But now, O Lord, You are our Father,..... We are the clay, and You our potter;...... And all of us are the work of Your hand....... Do not be angry beyond measure, O Lord,..... Nor remember iniquity forever;...... Behold, look now, all of us are Your people...... Your holy cities have become a wilderness,...... Zion has become a wilderness,....... Jerusalem a desolation....... .Our holy and beautiful house,...... Where our fathers praised You,...... Has been burned by fire;...... And all our precious things have become a ruin....... Will You restrain Yourself at these things, O Lord?...... Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

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  • SavetheRepublicMarch 24, 2013 - 2:11 pm

    On the Sunday, March 24 broadcast of the Alex Jones Show, Alex exposes the globalist takeover creeping over the U.S. and other nations with special guests: George Noory, host of the most listened to overnight radio program in North America Coast to Coast AM, and in-studio guest activist, speaker and author of Behind The Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21, Rosa Koire. Also, read Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow's letter to Sen. Cornyn and watch Alex's latest videos on the presidency's dictatorial rise to power and the coup d’état against America's Constitutional Republic. Tune in for this special Sunday broadcast from 4PM to 6PM CST.

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  • Movie SuggestionsMarch 24, 2013 - 2:28 pm

    A Dark Truth.......The International.....They Live

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  • Book SuggestionMarch 24, 2013 - 2:39 pm

    Book....The Globalization of Poverty: Inside the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky....and google Global Research Chossudovsky

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  • YoutubeMarch 24, 2013 - 2:41 pm

    The Corbett Report

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  • Repeating...Obama Now Global Head of Al-QaedaMarch 24, 2013 - 2:52 pm

    ***********President Barack Obama is now the global head of Al-Qaeda – bankrolling, arming and equipping terrorists around the world in order to achieve his administration’s geopolitical objectives – while simultaneously invoking the threat of terrorists domestically to destroy the bill of rights............Google...Obama Now Global Head of Al-Qaeda.....Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones..Infowars .com March 21, 2013

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  • America Destroyed by DesignMarch 24, 2013 - 2:59 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcewpiMs1HU

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  • State of the Union 2013March 24, 2013 - 3:04 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWA583mGxE

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  • GoogleMarch 24, 2013 - 3:28 pm

    NYT’s Rhodes to Nowhere: A Cipher in the Oval Office By Russ Baker on Mar 21, 2013...whowhatwhy.com.........Obama Advisors ties to 9/11....very interesting...same same Democrat/Republican no difference at the top people......You Dems wake up, help us fix things do not be fooled all the Presidential candidates are chosen by the Baking elite and yes 9/11 was an inside job PNAC NEOCONS (Repubs with the full cooperation of top Dems)/Mossad Israeli/MI5/6 City of London/Saudi/Illuminati Bankers

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  • 9/11 and the Cheney ConspiracyMarch 24, 2013 - 7:11 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW5qiuLb8jY

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  • Ditto this is part 1March 24, 2013 - 8:03 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6sdbVMYjE

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