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Thursday, October 14, 2010

A coming imperial presidency?

FBN's David Asman explains how Obama may be using the regulatory power of his cabinets and their bureaucracies to avoid having to get bills passed in Congress. There are already hundreds of new boards, commissions and agecies created in the Obamacare, financial reform and consumer protection bills which give bureaucrats vast new powers without congressional oversight.

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DOJ Civil Rights Division extorting banks

EPAs Anti-Industrial Policy – Threatening Jobs and Americas Manufacturing Base

The Pigford Pig-Out and the Election








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September home foreclosures top 100,000 for first time

The number of homes taken over by banks topped 100,000 for the first time in September, though foreclosures are expected to slow in coming months as lenders work through questionable paperwork.

By Corbett B. Daly at Reuters

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Banks foreclosed on 102,134 properties in September, the first single month above the century mark, RealtyTrac said. There were 347,420 total foreclosure filings in September, 3 percent higher than August and 1 percent higher than a year earlier.

For the quarter, there were 930,437 foreclosure filings, an increase of 4 percent over the prior three months and 1 percent lower than a year ago. One in every 139 homes received a foreclosure filing in the third quarter.

Nevada posted the highest foreclosure rate for the 45th straight month, followed by Arizona, Florida, California and Idaho.

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Democratic Congressman: ‘The Constitution is Wrong.’

During a debate Wednesday evening at a local high school with his Republican opponent, Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., weighed in with his opinion on the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.

In the past, the court has ruled that monetary campaign donations are an extension of individuals' First Amendment constitutional right to free speech, but McGovern shocked some in the audience when he declared, "the Constitution is wrong."

"We have a lousy Supreme Court decision that has opened the floodgates, and so we have to deal within the realm of constitutionality. And a lot of the campaign finance bills that we have passed have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

I think the Constitution is  wrong. I don't think that money is the same thing as human beings. I don't think money equals free speech. I don't think corporations should have the same equality as a regular voter in this district."

Congressman McGovern has represented Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District in since 1997 and is battling Republican Marty Lamb in his bid for re-election.








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Barbara Boxer – friend of America’s enemies

After Jane Fonda aided the North Vietnamese she was tagged Hanoi Jane. Should we call Sen., don't call me ma'am, Boxer Taliban Bab?

Scott Swett at American Thinker

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In Congress during the Cold War, Boxer consistently worked to cut military funding for projects such as the Patriot missile and stealth aircraft, and supported a Congressional Black Caucus recommendation to cut the defense budget in half.  In 1991, she sponsored a House resolution demanding prior Congressional approval of all covert US actions overseas – a measure that would have crippled anti-terrorist efforts.

Perhaps the most revealing window into Boxer's true feelings towards our military is her close alliance with Code Pink, a radical leftist group that reviles American troops as terrorists and assassins while praising their enemies as freedom fighters.

Code Pink actively supports terror groups such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Hezbollah and al Qaeda.

Code Pink's leaders had just returned from Fallujah, Iraq, where 51 Americans had been killed and 560 wounded in the US Marines' heaviest urban combat since the Vietnam War.  Code Pink delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies to the very insurgents the Marines had been fighting against – quite literally giving aid and comfort to America's enemies in a time of war.  As noted in Islam Online, a diplomatic courtesy letter from Barbara Boxer helped make the trip possible.

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It Isn’t Insider Trading When Congressmen Do It: Ann Woolner

Laws that criminalize insider trading cover corporate insiders and those they tip, but not specifically Congress. And while scholars differ on whether existing law could be applied on Capitol Hill, it hasn't been.

Ann Woolner at Bloomberg.com

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This week the Wall Street Journal reported that during the past two calendar years, 72 congressional aides from both parties made trades in companies that their bosses' help oversee. Among them are top advisers to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Their timely investments proved profitable, but the staffers deny the trades sprung from inside knowledge, the Journal reported.

U.S. senators, representatives and congressional staffers routinely attend high level, closed briefings or engage in conversations where secrets are disclosed that might send shares climbing or slumping if widely known.

"This is an area in which the public is quite justifiably suspicious about dual standards," says Representative Brian Baird, a Democrat from Washington state.

Congress should be ashamed of itself for not passing a law forbidding conduct that is criminal if anyone else does it. Why not assure voters that the people they put in Congress aren't putting their portfolios ahead of solid public policy?

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Congressman Conyers says Democratic Socialists job is to get Obama ‘on the right track’

John Conyers speaking at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting, October 5, 2010, called for picketing and protests to tell Obama that everyone knows you can't win a war in Afghanistan. He also said the Teaparty was 'small and dismissible'.

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The Marxist Roots of Obama's Rage, Part One

The Marxist Roots of Obama's Rage, Part Two

Obama's Radical Past – key to America's radical future








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BUSTED! Conyers Meets With Marxists - How Democrat Politics REALLY Works

This may be one of the most important articles New Zeal has ever posted. Please read it. Digest it. Act on it.

This post proves a point I have long made: that Democratic Congressmen are willing to collude with marxists in order to promote socialist legislation and to influence the political direction of the United States.

This is how the modern Democratic Party actually works - in partnership (often junior partnership, at that) with hard core marxists.

Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D MI), chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee has been caught on tape, meeting with members of the U.S.'s largest marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America.

The tape clearly shows Conyers treating the marxists as friends. He continually refers to the gathering as "we", as he urges the comrades to rally behind his "beloved 44th president", Barack Obama.

The tape, posted on the D.S.A. Vimeo site, was filmed before the recent One Nation Rally in Washington DC, and shows Conyers speaking to a meeting of D.S.A. members in what appears to be an hotel room.

The website clearly states that this is a D.S.A. meeting and Conyers is introduced to the gathering by D.S.A. National director Frank Llewellyn. Prominent Boston D.S.A. member David Duhalde appears on the right, behind Llewellyn, wearing a beard, black T shirt and a cap.




In the first few seconds, Conyers is introduced by Frank Llewellyn as the "only congressman endorsed by Martin Luther King".

Llewellyn then notes Conyers' "long support for HR 676, the single payer Bill that this organization [D.S.A.] has long supported".

Quentin Young, Barack Obama

D.S.A. has indeed "long supported HR 676", which sprang from the "single payer" health care movement midwived by Chicago physician and D.S.A. member Quentin Young - a close personal friend of both John Conyers and President Barack Obama.

At about 34 seconds Llewellyn states, "many might not know that John is in the process of introducing sweeping legislation to address the jobs crisis - which is certainly one of the most important crises we face and one of the reasons why we're all here today."

At 60 seconds Conyers starts talking, addressing Frank Llewellyn by name and then says,
"Its good to know that a lot of my Michigan and Detroit and Grosse Point people are here. David Green, and Dave and Herman and probably others."
David Green is a leader of both Michigan and national D.S.A. Green visited Cuba in 2009 and proved his marxism with this statement in the Spring 2007 issue of D.S.A.'s Democratic Left.
"What distinguishes socialists from other progressives is the theory of surplus value. According to Marx, the secret of surplus value is that workers are a source of more value than they receive in wages. The capitalist is able to capture surplus value through his ownership of the means of production, his right to purchase labor as a commodity, his control over the production process, and his ownership of the final product. Surplus value is the measure of capital's exploitation of labor

Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production. Our immediate task is to limit the capitalist class's prerogatives in the workplace...

In the short run we must at least minimize the degree of exploitation of workers by capitalists. We can accomplish this by promoting full employment policies, passing local living wage laws, but most of all by increasing the union movement's power...

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) provides an excellent organizing tool (i.e., tactic) through which we can pursue our socialist strategy while simultaneously engaging the broader electorate on an issue of economic populism.
This is one of John Conyers' "people". Coincidentally Conyers is also a big fan of the EFCA.

After a "new agey" rave about the "oneness" of everything (cut out of this video), Conyers thanks the gathering for coming to the march and at 1:30 minutes goes on to say:
"This is an important event, that we don't doubt will be played down and misinterpreted by the corporate media...We understand the significance of it. We know that when unions, political ideology, clergy, labor, civil rights come together... and just people that are progressive enough to see in this one World concept, that we're all in this together, it makes certain things easy to understand where we're coming from."
At 2:25 minutes, Conyers talks about "peace" and Dennis Kucinich.
"Overriding it all is the quest for peace in the world...and I am firmly supporting Congressman Dennis Kucinich's measure that would make a Department of Peace in the United States Federal government." (applause)
John Conyers was once an affiliate of the Soviet front World Peace Council. Like Kucinich, Conyers also has a long history with the Communist Party USA, which has consistently advocated such measures.


At 4:20 minutes, Conyers moves on to the "question of my beloved 44th president of the United States."

Conyers criticizes America's war in Afghanistan and how "we" need to "make it clear to him, through all the usual means of communication, including pickets and protests....there probably isn't anybody above the 10th grade who doesnt know that you cannot win a war in Afghanistan." (laughter).

At 7:35 minutes Conyers says of Obama;
"I respect him, I support him... I say that all against the backdrop, of the fact that in 2012, there is a highly organized effort to make sure that he is a one term president.

This started even before he was sworn in. It's grown... I only mention the Tea Party, because it is small and dismissible, but there are much more serious and affluent sources behind this effort to interfere with a re-election campaign of Obama... I've got to ensure he is re-elected 2 years from now. That calls for some balancing, but not a whole lot from where I stand."
At 6.10 minutes Conyers goes on to deal with how those assembled need to help Obama.
"I see that us making him more cooperative with our plans is going to strengthen him and not weaken him... (applause) And to have this press secretary of his denouncing the left is an automatically dismissible act, if I were president...

The whole point is that, trashing progressives and the left, and at the same time watching your ratings go down - gee... what's so difficult about figuring that out?... Whose job do you think it is to get him straightened out and get him on the right track? Ours! Ours!"
(applause)
D.S.A. has tried to publicly distance itself from Obama in recent times, though they have a twenty seven year history with the President. Even Conyers has publicly criticized the President.

Clearly, John Conyers understands he is among friends, who are just as pro-Obama as he is. In private, Conyers and D.S.A. are right behind their man.

Like Obama, John Conyers has a long history with D.S.A.
  • In 2003 John Conyers was a keynote speaker at the D.S.A. national conference in Detroit - with 2008 Obama Black Advisory Council member Cornel West and the first journalist to promote obama on the national stage, the Washington Post's Harold Meyerson.
  • In 2005 D.S.A'.s Democratic Left -Spring edition, called "Congressman John Conyers (a key D.S.A. ally in Congress)..."
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The real secret of contemporary U.S. Politics is this:

Under today's Democratic Party, much of the legislation they push for is not made by Democrats. It is actually formulated by organizations close to D.S.A. and the Communist Party. It is then infiltrated into Congress by socialist sympathizers like John Conyers and his comrades, in the more than eighty strong, D.S.A. co-founded Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Socialized health care, the grossly mis-named Employee Free Choice Act, the current push to "normalize" relations with Cuba, even the campaign for a national holiday in honor of D.S.A. and the Communist Party's best friend Cesar Chavez, are all communist/socialist initiatives.

If this sounds far fetched, remember that in most U.S. states the Democratic Party is almost totally dependent on labor unions for manpower and money.

Since D.S.A. member John Sweeney became president of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the once anti-communist U.S. labor movement has come under near complete marxist control.


Barack Obama, John Sweeney

He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

The Democrats simply put a "respectable" face on policies originated by tiny, but hugely influential marxist sects.

Think of it this way. Just as the Mafia once used "respectable" front-men to control Las Vegas casinos, the marxists use "respectable" Democrats, kept in line with labor union "muscle" to control your Houses of Congress.

That's how it works America.

If you don't start throwing the Democrats out of office come November, your children may inherit a country permanently ruled by these people.







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Krauthammer: “It’s Not Surprising Obama Doesn’t Know What a Shovel Ready Project Is. He’s Never Work



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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Chile glad to welcome foreign assistance. Obama on the Gulf Oil Spill… Not so much

The colors of their flag are Red, White and Blue.  And if you were anything like me, you watched today as miner after miner was carefully taken to the surface.  They hugged loved ones.  They shook hands with their President.  And they gave their love to their country.

But though Chile is an advanced society, they didn't get those folks out alone.  They needed help, and they knew the international community would respond to their request for assistance.  For example, the drilling system employed came from a Pennsylvania mining company.  A great deal of the technology to deal with the physical and medical complications of being extracted from such depths came from NASA in the United States.  Additional technology came from Peru, Canada and Australia.

Does this sound familiar, especially with regards to a natural/manmade disaster that occurred recently in the United States?

Does Chile's President sound like a Captain Kickass to you?


President Pinera and the First Lady have been in the Atacama Desert since the evacuation began to personally greet each man as he emerges from the underground chamber.

Florencio Avalos, the first miner to be rescued from the San Jose mine, received a giant bear-hug from Chile's leader.

Speaking after Mr Avalos was freed from the specially made capsule, Mr Pinera said: "The lesson of the miners remains with us forever."

He added that the group had shown "that when Chile unites in the face of adversity, it can achieve great things".

Mr Pinera has become the champion of the miners during this crisis and the right-wing politician has seen his popularity soar.


Mr. Obama could hardly be bothered to even speak about the Macondo well's capping, much less its final death

Course not.

He's been too busy playing golf, talking about Republican slurpees and explaining how there's really no such animal as a "shovel-ready job."








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The Battle for America begins in 20 Days

However, the movie is already out:

In Generation Zero, Citizens United & Director Stephen Bannon laid out the crimes. In Fire from the Heartland they observed the heroes. The third film of this stylized trilogy is the final act and we are all in it.

The Battle for America wasn't specifically written for politicos like you and me. It was developed with the sideliners in mind. The politically uninvolved, if there are any left, to give them the perspective and the emotional stirring they may need to get out and cast votes in favor of liberty this November.

With appearances by Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and with the bulk of the narration done by Dick Morris, this film lays out the state of affairs and the feelings that have been brought to the forefront of American culture in the last 20 months. It's gripping and powerful and as is the case with it's counterparts, is an excellent film to show to that friend of yours that's still "not sure".

Battle for America reexamines where we were, where we are, how we got here, and most importantly, where we need to go. It's unapologetic in it's bluntness as it not only reminds us of how important it is to win this November, but briefly imagines the cost of losing.

It examines the Tea Parties and recognizes that movement as the solution; an answer to what ails our nation. In one of my favorite moments from the film, they highlight the difference between Americans and the rest of the world.  If you need an example of American Exceptionalism, look no further than how we protest in order to get our governments to stop trying to take care of us, stop trying to protect us from ourselves, and get out of the way.  This is in stark contrast to European riots where cars are set on fire and violence is commonplace as people demand that the government do everything for them.  American individuality has led this nation to be the most prosperous in history.  Isn't that worth fighting for?

I had the opportunity to interview the Director and discuss the film with him recently. I encourage you to listen to our conversation as we cover not only the substance of the film, but the future of conservative media and the role we must all play to restore our government to it's rightful place: under the people's control. (The interview with Stephen begins about 10 minutes into the show)

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