By Keith Johnson



NOTE: This post was updated Saturday morning.



Better leave the hardhat on (AP)



With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation.



But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From… Continue

The Origin of Power is the People



Posted on 17 July 2009



Editor’s Note: Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was one of the signers of the US Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He was one of three men who refused to sign the Constitution because it did not then include a Bill of Rights.



As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States of America, serving under James… Continue

Claiming Almost Everything is “Commerce”



Posted on 20 July 2009



by Rob Natelson



How can Congress get around the Tenth Amendment and regulate almost every aspect of American life?



One way is by claiming that the Tenth Amendment doesn’t apply because Congress is merely acting within the scope of its enumerated powers. But to make this claim, one must assume that some of the enumerated powers are much broader than they really are.



One of the… Continue

My fellow Americans and Patriot hearts,



For too long we have suffered oppression under the hands of a corporation that claims itself to be our government.

For decades we have been deceived and mislead and kept in ignorance.

By the grace of the Almighty, the technology of the internet, a means thereby wherein we have been enabled to be enlightened, the knowledge of the usurpation of our freedoms has become evident.

More and more of us each day are learning the truth of… Continue

THE GREAT GOLD HEIST



The Desert Wilderness Protection Act



by Karen-lee Bixman



(Author and publisher information)



(Index)



Senator Diane Feinstein: "The Modern Jesse James"







Congress should be convening a criminal investigation. On October 8, 1994, the biggest gold heist in history occurred, but this theft lacked the melodrama of a Jesse James' holdup or the excitement of a Brink's truck robbery. Nary a word was reported… Continue

by Secretary Clinton: July 2009

Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations



Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Washington, DC

July 15, 2009





Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the… Continue

Ralph C. Whitley, Sr. a Veteran

Public Money CANNOT be used for payment of Corporations !

Thu Jul 16, 2009 22:02

71.251.122.220



NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:



Once upon a time a man and woman in Florida clearly reported the theft of well over $27.5 TRILLION DOLLARS from the people of the United States involving the President of the United States, Specific known American's, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve and specific people who had BACK DOOR ACCESS to the… Continue

Fed's Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman Missing Trillions of Taxpayers' Dollars

http://www.wanttoknow.info/banking_finance/elizabeth_coleman_fed_missing_trillions



Dear friends,



Elizabeth Coleman is the inspector general of the Federal Reserve of the United States, commonly referred to as the Fed. This is the little-understood institution which prints and regulates all U.S. money. As inspector general, the Federal Reserve website states Elizabeth Coleman is… Continue

Will this be a Deja'vu moment

for the Obama Administration?

On April 19, 1775 a British detachment of 800 men under the command of Lt. Col. Francis Smith was deployed to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts to seize stored colonial arms and ammunition and to arrest the ringleaders of the plot to assert America's independence from England. What caused this action? A series of oppressive British taxes known collectively as the Intolerable Acts.



They were the result of massive… Continue

HE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK IS A VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION



Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution reads:

The Congress shall have the Power.....To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,....

Congress has no authority to delegate this responsibility to third parties

http://www.libertyforlife.com/banking/federal_reserve_bank.html



AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM?

The Federal Reserve has never been audited by the government since it took over our money… Continue

The History of Usury



With credit to James M. Ackerman, Interest Rates and the Law: A History of Usury, 1981, Arizona St. L.J.61 (1981)

What do Hammurabi, Plato, Charlemagne, Dante and Queens Mary and Elizabeth have in common? They all condemned, outlawed or regulated the charging of interest on loans. In fact, until the early 1900s interest rates in the United States were kept at or near 10%. And until 1979, loan laws provided some interest rate cap in every… Continue

For many years it has been debated and called conspiracy that the US Government has been using Biological warfare against the people of our planet. NOW they have been caught and used terrorism to get back one plane. Call every representative and start screaming!!!! This is planned destruction and mass genocide of humanity. Now come the forced vaccinations which will not work on the bird flu. Or you can go to prison for 10 years.



Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 5:22 AM



US… Continue

Revolution in the air



Wat Tyler, the leader of the Peasants' Revolt, being killed by the Mayor of London William Walworth



By Dan Jones

Author, Summer of Blood

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8061000/8061725.stm



The anger in the air is palpable. The ordinary people hold the political class in contempt.



The government is failing, as war and economic catastrophe are dealt with in increasingly unconvincing fashion by second-rate… Continue