Friday, March 27, 2009

The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto Translated

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it "paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public "law" 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). This private bank has an exclusive monopoly in money creation which in reality has ended the need for revenue from taxes. So why do they tax? To FOOL YOU into thinking they need them.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) madated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department of Transportation regulations. There is also the postal monopoly, AMTRACK and CONRAIL
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000. And I almost forgot...The Equal Rights Amendment means that women should do all work that men do including the military and since passage it would make women subject to the draft.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" . Read more...


H.R. 833: Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act

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Occurred: IntroducedFeb 3, 2009
Occurred: Referred to CommitteeView Committee Assignments
Not Yet Occurred: Reported by Committee(pending)
Not Yet Occurred: Voted on in House(pending)
Not Yet Occurred: Voted on in Senate(pending)
Not Yet Occurred: Signed by President(pending)
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee. [Last Updated: Mar 7, 2009 11:26AM]
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Feb 3, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.

Research material

Category: Administrative procedure -- Federal Reserve System

To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes. Many people were interested in the full text of the resolution, so here it is. Please feel free to share it with your Congressperson.


Thursday, March 26, 2009

State considers return to gold, silver dollars

By Drew Zahn

Proposed bill slams Fed, allows payments in precious metals

A bill being considered in the Montana Legislature blasts the Federal Reserve's role in America's money policy and permits the state to conduct business in gold and silver instead of the Fed's legal tender notes.

Montana H.B. 639, sponsored by State Rep. Bob Wagner, R-Harrison, doesn't require the state or citizens to conduct business in gold or silver, but it does require the state to calculate certain transactions in both the current legal tender system and in an electronic gold currency. It further mandates that the state must accept payments in gold or silver for various fees and purchases. Read more...




Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Nearly 1 in 5 workers has no health insurance


American workers - whose taxes pay for massive government health programs - are getting squeezed like no other group by private health insurance premiums that are rising much faster than their wages. Read more...

A Call to the Obama Administration for Action on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Prof. Vernellia R. Randall


In refusing to allow the U.S. to take part in next month's international gathering on racism, dubbed Durban II, the first Black president will "take the same action as his all-white predecessors: refuse to engage and to be a leader in the elimination of racism." Much more is up for discussion than just the question of Israeli anti-Arab racism. The event's agenda includes slavery reparations and institutional anti-Black racism in the United States and throughout the African Diaspora - issues that Barack Obama would, apparently, rather avoid. Read more...


Did Africans Sail With Columbus?

By LIVESCIENCE

Teeth from exhumed skeletons of crew members Christopher Columbus left on the island of Hispaniola more than 500 years ago reveal the presence of at least one African in the New World as a contemporary of the
explorer, it was announced.

Three of the individuals' teeth subjected to isotopic analysis by the Wisconsin group were males under the age of 40 and had carbon isotope profiles far different from the rest, suggesting an Old World origin (Africa or Europe). Read more...


Study: Younger Blacks Have More Heart Failure

Studies have shown that in older people, serious heart disease is about two to three times more prevalent in blacks than in whites. But a new study finds younger blacks are developing the life-threatening condition at a rate 20 times higher than whites.

The study, in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, is based on a very small number of heart failure cases and the authors acknowledge more study is needed. But experts say the take-away message is that doctors need to be aggressive in treating young blacks who may be at risk. Read more...



Studies Prove Stress Can Make You (Black women) Sick

by Carmen Dixon

As if it wasn't enough to deal with the emotional upheaval of a once-in-a-lifetime financial tsunami, the just-released results of two studies show that stress can cause physical illness. And black women are particularly vulnerable.

One study found that stress triggers spikes in blood sugar among African American women who carry extra weight around their middles. ... Read more...



TV One founder Cathy Hughes and BET Founder Bob Johnson Feud over TV Networks

Bobbi Booker

Johnson is joined in his application by Ion Media Networks Inc., which describes itself as “a network television broadcasting company which owns and operates the largest broadcast television station group in the U.S., as measured by the number of television households ION’s stations serve.” Johnson’s company would own 51 percent of the new venture and Ion 49 percent. The plans for the urban channel have been challenged by TV One Chair Alfred C. Liggins, who heads the largest multimedia company that primarily targets African American and urban listeners, viewers, readers and Internet users.

TV One told the FCC that Johnson’s plan “simply would substitute a government-favored programmer (Urban) for another, such as TV One, that does not receive the government’s favored dispensation.” Read more...




Death link to too much red meat

Scientists have produced new evidence suggesting eating lots of red and processed meat damages health.

They found big meat eaters had a raised risk of death from all causes over a 10-year period.

In contrast, a higher intake of white meat was associated with a slightly reduced risk of death over the same period. Read more...


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Obama Saves Liberians From Deportation

Last week, President Barack Obama signed an order that would allow about 3,600 Liberians to stay in the United States for another 12 months, reports The Associated Press.

Since the country’s civil war in the early 1990s, Liberians have had temporary protected status, a designation given to people from countries considered too dangerous to return. Read more...




Multiracial Pupils to Be Counted in A New Way

By Michael Alison Chandler and Maria Glod

Public schools in the Washington region and elsewhere are abandoning their check-one-box approach to gathering information about race and ethnicity in an effort to develop a more accurate portrait of classrooms transformed by immigration and interracial marriage. Next year, they will begin a separate count of students who are of more than one race. Read more...

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Professionals, middle class losing out on income and opportunity

By Ashahed M. Muhammad

President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan has proposed several initiatives that should increase job growth in the professional services sector—including information technology, engineering, legal and financial services—but a recent report warns old barriers to Blacks in the professional services industry could limit benefits from the new government investment.

According to a Chicago Urban League report, the failure of White firms to hire Black workers or Black firms for professional services and unequal treatment of Blacks in the industry is already costing the city’s Black community some $1.2 billion in lost income. Read more...





Mexico: The Next Iraq or Afghanistan?

By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO, and VIC WALTER

U.S. Officials Say Drug Cartels Using Paramilitary Guerilla Tactics, Car Bombs, IEDs.

The Obama administration may have announced its $700 million plan to help the Mexican government fight the powerful drug cartels, but the cartels have already geared up for a battle undergoing a "transition from the gansterism of traditional narco hit men toparamilitary terrorism with guerilla tactics," according to a confidential federal law enforcement assessment obtained by ABC News. Read more and watch video report...






Caught on Tape: Government Ineptitude

By BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and JUSTIN ROOD

Every year, bosses steal what could be billions in wages from their workers – and the federal government has largely failed to protect employees from such abuse, an undercover investigation has found.

The government agency that's supposed to protect those American workers, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, is a miserable failure, concludes the Government Accountability Office. Read more and watch video...




Slave Reparations Act

A BILL - To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes. - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. Read more...

Introduced In House

From John Churchilly

3-23-9


Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (Introduced in House)


HR 40 IH


111th CONGRESS


1st Session


H. R. 40


To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES




Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes

By Naomi Wolf

In early March, more shocking details emerged about George W. Bush legal counsel John Yoo's memos outlining the destruction of the republic.

The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to wage war against U.S. citizens; take them from their homes to Navy brigs without trial and keep them forever; close down the First Amendment; and invade whatever country he chooses without regard to any treaty or objection by Congress.

It was as if Milton's Satan had a law degree and was establishing within the borders of the United States the architecture of hell. Read more...




Monday, March 23, 2009

The Racial Wealth Gap Gets Wider

By Meizhu Lui

The gap between the wealth of white Americans and African Americans has grown. According to the Fed, for every dollar of wealth held by the typical white family, the African American family has only one dime. In 2004, it had 12 cents.

This is not just a gap. It's a deepening canyon. Read more...


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Emotions Evoked by Music Are Universal

By Bill Hendrick

Study Shows Happy, Sad, and Fearful Emotions in Western Music Are Understood by Other Cultures

Three basic emotions evoked by Western music affect peoplerap.54 everywhere, regardless of culture or habits, a new study shows.

People in Africa who've never listened to a radio can still pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music, researchers say in the journal Current Biology.

These emotions in music can be universally recognized, says Thomas Fritz of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. "These findings could explain why Western music has been so successful in global music distribution…  Read more…

Protest Planned Outside NY Immigration Office to Stop Deportations of 30,000 Haitians

Haitian organizations are calling for a demonstration today outside the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement here in New York to call on the Obama administration to immediately grant Temporary Protected Status to the 30,000 undocumented Haitians in the United States who are currently threatened with deportation back to Haiti. We speak with author, activist and TransAfrica founder, Randall Robinson. His most recent book is An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. [includes rush transcript]

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What the Pros Say: US Is Now 'Bankrupt'

Global stocks traded higher, as did the dollar against the euro, Thursday after the Federal Reserve's surprise announcement it would buy $300 billion in US Treasurys in order to help the ailing economy.

But experts tell CNBC they have concerns over the Fed's latest move and that the current national balance sheet is a disaster.

US is Already 'Bankrupt'

Technically, the U.S. is already "bankrupt" because it has a debt that is almost four times the size of its economy, says Puru Saxena, CEO of Puru Saxena Wealth Management. He tells CNBC that the U.S. is at risk of hyperinflation. Read more...




Sunday, March 22, 2009

Was Eliot Spitzer Taken Out Because He Was Going to Bust AIG?

by Melina Ripcoco

Eliot Spitzer is back and he's talking. The thought of this, no doubt, brings a small shiver to the boardrooms of some of the perps walking around trying to figure out how to hide the money this week. Today Edward Liddy testified that there have been death threats made to or about executives who received bonuses, so no names will be put on the record, but these anonymous players must know that the jig is up in the land of easy-money. Isn't what to do a no-brainer for these great Americans? Read more...



World Bank: G20 Warned Unrest Will Sweep Globe

by Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott

A wave of social and political unrest could sweep through the world's poorest countries if G20 leaders fail to come to their aid, the World Bank warns today, as new research says the credit crunch will cost developing countries $750bn (£520bn) in lost output and drive millions more into poverty. Read more...




Kucinich Requests Investigation into “Executive Assassination Ring”

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) Friday sent a letter to Chairman Edolphus Towns of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requesting an immediate investigation into allegations made by the investigative reporter Seymour Hersh that the White House operated an ‘executive assassination ring’ that circumvented Congressional oversight.

Kucinich explains in the letter that, “Mr. Hersh made the allegation before an audience at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. He stated, ‘Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving… It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. . .Congress has no oversight of it.’”

Kucinich adds, “If true, these operations violate longstanding U.S. policy regarding covert actions and illegally bypass Congressional oversight… Hersh is within a year or more of releasing a book
that is said to
include evidence of this allegation. However, we cannot wait a year or more to establish the truth.” Read more...



Obama to expose 'ugly' Bush torture methods

The Obama White House will declassify and publicly release internal memos that will reveal the "ugly" Bush interrogation techniques.

Senior Obama officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Newsweek that the three internal memos will lay out details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration against "high value" al-Qaeda detainees. Read more...