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Bill Gates–Hope, Change and Rapid Affluence Development–Creative Capitalism!

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“We’ve really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”

-Bill Gates, June 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/default.aspx

June 27, 2008 is the day Bill Gates transitions from the role of Chief Software Architect and Chairman of Microsoft to Chairman.

The stated reason is to allow him more time to devote to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

If Bill Gates can achieve at his foundation, what he achieved with Microsoft, the world will be a better place.

Imagine a world where poverty, disease, hunger and illiteracy were eliminated and everyone on the planet had a standard of living exceeding that of middle America today.

Gates’ creative capitalism may provide a system that achieves these worthy goals:

“…At the same time, profits are not always possible when business tries to serve the very poor. In such cases, there needs to be another market-based incentive—and that incentive is recognition. Recognition enhances a company’s reputation and appeals to customers; above all, it attracts good people to the organization. As such, recognition triggers a market-based reward for good behavior. In markets where profits are not possible, recognition is a proxy; where profits are possible, recognition is an added incentive.

The challenge is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive the change.

I like to call this new system creative capitalism—an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world’s inequities. …”

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/Speeches/Co-ChairSpeeches/BillgSpeeches/BGSpeechWEF-080124.htm

“Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”

~Ludwig von Mises

Imagine – John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

~ Adam Smith

Background Articles and Videos

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Discuss “Creative Capitalism”

“…Warren Buffet: I would rather have Bill, if he will, give me the main points.

Bill Gates: Well it’s not completely well defined. It’s a phrase that I used in a speech at Harvard a year ago, because I totally believe in markets as such powerful forces for drawing out innovation and creating things that are sustainable. And yet, you do get trapped in this situation where the markets serve where the dollars are, so you don’t get markets meeting the needs of the poorest. And so how do you bootstrap or support the needs of the poorest so markets are reaching out to them. I mean, when I view the last hundred years as an experiment in how good markets are, the answer is very, very clear and very strong. It’s one of those things that’s so clear people won’t even discuss it with you anymore. Like in this [Edward] Teller biography: he says, Look, if he didn’t believe in innovation, he would have been a communist. If the economy is a zero-sum situation, then you ought to try some crazy sharing thing. It’s only the innovation and pie-growing activity that made Teller feel comfortable with the capitalistic approach. And I think that that’s been validated. …”

http://www.creativecapitalismblog.com/creative_capitalism/2008/06/bill-gates-and.html

Gates seeks ‘creative capitalism’

“…Much of Gates’ work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has centered on two particular shortcomings of capitalism–solving health problems that affect only the poor and improving educational systems.

In his speech, Gates calls on businesses to launch “creative capitalism” projects of their own.

“I definitely see, once I’m full time at the foundation, reaching out to various industries–going to cell phone companies, banks and more pharma companies–and talking about how…they can do these things,” Gates told The Wall Street Journal in an interview before his speech. …”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9857386-56.html

January 24, 2008
World Economic ForumDavos, Switzerland
Prepared remarks by Bill Gates

“…What unifies all forms of creative capitalism is that they’re market-driven efforts to bring solutions we take for granted to people who can’t get them. As we refine and improve this approach, there is every reason to believe these engines of change will become larger, stronger, and more efficient.

There is a growing understanding around the world that when change is driven by market-based incentives, you have a sustainable plan for change—because profits and recognition are renewable resources. …”

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/Speeches/Co-ChairSpeeches/BillgSpeeches/BGSpeechWEF-080124.htm

Gates Transition Plan Shows He’s Ready For A Change. Is His Company?

“…Gates has long had an exit strategy–throwing his energies into the charitable work done by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has $29 billion in assets and stands to gain more as the world’s richest man funnels his wealth to chosen causes. Few will quibble with Gates’ decision to concentrate on the planet’s biggest health hazards and its most disadvantaged people; no time is too soon in the battle against diseases such as AIDS and malaria. Gates pointed last week to a “common thread” between the world of computer technology that ignited his passion as a young man and the research into health and education in developing countries. “It’s about using technology not just for the privileged few, but for everyone,” he said. …”

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189500130

Gates’ transition only half done

“…The transition is not over. It’s not even halfway done.

That’s not because Gates remains as chairman, which he does, or continues to be Microsoft’s largest individual investor, which he is, although those are important factors. Nor is it because Gates will continue to maintain an office at Microsoft and, as P-I reporter Todd Bishop reports this week, will continue working on specific Microsoft projects.

Instead what’s at work here is an issue larger than Microsoft itself, one that every company faces as it makes the transition from one top executive to another.

The planning leading up to a change of executive leadership is crucial. What happens after the hand-over takes place may be even more important. …”

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/virgin/368083_virgin24.html

Davos Annual Meeting 2007 – GAVI Alliance Results

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0U8L4NMCIM

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP5VIhbJwFs&feature=related

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_YQmRD_q9Y&feature=related

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwdMXquKTzM&feature=related

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzlMxltEAwk&feature=related

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZKW5Gs6z7o&feature=related

Remarks of Bill Gates

Harvard Commencement

(Text as prepared for delivery)

“…We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end – because people just … don’t … care.” I completely disagree.

I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with. …”

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/99-gates.html

William H. Gates Sr.: Wealth and Civic Obligations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-9Nhk6rz3c&feature=related

Gates Foundation follows new paths

Giving away $3 billion a year is not as easy as it seems

By TOM PAULSON

“…This is another key role Bill Gates says he will play at the foundation, reaching out at the highest levels of government and industry to encourage partnerships on projects aimed at reducing the global gap between the richest and poorest. He said he plans to really push corporations, especially the drug industry, to get more involved.

“There are also things around creative capitalism,” said Gates, referring to the phrase he used at the 2008 World Economic Forum to describe his notion of redirecting the profit motive toward helping the planet’s poorest. It is an idea he truly believes in, but one that many critics dismiss as, at best, wishful thinking and, at worst, a billionaire’s attempt to gild over a largely exploitive system with a shiny layer of moral repurposing. …”

“…The Seattle philanthropy is focused on three areas:

Global health

Global development

U.S. programs education, libraries and Pacific Northwest needs …”

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/368325_gatesevol25.html

Bill Gates: A Retrospective

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/photos/popupV2.asp?SubID=3860&page=1>itle=Bill%20Gates%3A%20A%20Retrospective

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 1 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 2 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf6dV4FSf8&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 3-1 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCvLTlQWT6A&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 3-2 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhHIqJyjY0&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 4 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXKv9jc-otc&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 5-1 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_rxpAgBFQo&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 5-2 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2aLYBC5onk&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 6 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8K1yexO6s&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 7-1 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGH-1L-0zo4&feature=related

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 7-2 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQwhbazr5ug&feature=related

Background Articles and Videos

The Impressionists BBC (Part 1)

The Impressionists BBC (Part 2)

The Impressionists BBC (Part 3)

Background Artilces and Videos

Congress Fiddled With Warming While Earth Cooled

By Marc Sheppard

“…Last week Democrats tried to kill the economy in the name of solving a problem that doesn’t exist. Republicans should hang this bill around their necks in every district where an incumbent voted for the woefully misnamed and deservedly DOA Climate Security Act, technically S.3036.

Asking Americans to pony up even more at the pump with already record gasoline prices creeping higher almost daily seems offensive enough. But compelling such burden under the guise of moral imperative to curb global warming at a time when the planet is actually cooling rings downright obscene.

Don’t get me wrong — the fiscal arguments against the bill’s draconian business regulations were inexorable — its massive consequent spike in energy costs would be nothing short of ruinous to the nation. An April EPA analysis of the bill estimated a 53 cents per gallon increase in the price of gasoline and a 44% jump in electricity costs by 2030 should it become law. Even those figures precariously assumed a 150% increase in nuclear and “significant use of biomass” for electricity generation; otherwise costs will be “significantly higher.” Add a projected net loss of almost a trillion dollars in GDP by that very same year and this blatantly socialistic power-grab attempt deserved the pauper’s funeral it received on financial grounds alone. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/congress_fiddled_with_warming.html

Biofuel scam: Reality check on ethanol.

Biofuel Backlash – World

Pitfalls of Ethanol Fuel

Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol

“Ethanol is one area in which Mr. Obama strongly disagrees with his Republican opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona. While both presidential candidates emphasize the need for the United States to achieve “energy security” while also slowing down the carbon emissions that are believed to contribute to global warming, they offer sharply different visions of the role that ethanol, which can be made from a variety of organic materials, should play in those efforts.

Mr. McCain advocates eliminating the multibillion-dollar annual government subsidies that domestic ethanol has long enjoyed. As a free trade advocate, he also opposes the 54-cent-a-gallon tariff that the United States slaps on imports of ethanol made from sugar cane, which packs more of an energy punch than corn-based ethanol and is cheaper to produce. …”

“…Mr. Obama, in contrast, favors the subsidies, some of which end up in the hands of the same oil companies he says should be subjected to a windfall profits tax. In the name of helping the United States build “energy independence,” he also supports the tariff, which some economists say may well be illegal under the World Trade Organization’s rules but which his advisers say is not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/us/politics/23ethanol.html?hp

China Great Leap Forward Mao Zedong

Chinese economic planning under Mao part 1of2

Chinese economic planning under Mao part 2of 2

Great Leap Forward

“The Great Leap Forward (simplified Chinese: 大跃进; traditional Chinese: 大躍進; pinyin: Dàyuèjìn) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1960 which aimed to use China’s vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. Mao Zedong based this program on the Theory of Productive Forces.

The Great Leap Forward is now widely seen – both within China and outside – as a major economic failure and great humanitarian disaster with estimates of the number of people who starved to death during this period ranging from 14 to 43 million.^{[1] ….”}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Stalin’s ‘collectivization’ in Ukraine

HOLODOMOR; Ukraine’s Genocide of 1932-33 SHORT FILM

Holodomor

“The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор) is a great famine which occurred in 1932-33 on a territory of Ukrainian SSR^[1]^[2]. Modern estimates for the total number of victims of the famine range between 2.2 million (demographers’ estimates)^[3]^[4] and 3-3.5 million (historians’ estimate).^[5] although much higher numbers are sometimes published in the media and cited in political debates.^[6]

The reasons of the famine are the subject of intense scholarly and political debate. Some historians claim the famine was purposely engineered by the Soviet authorities as an attack on the Ukrainian nationalism, while others view it as an unintended consequence of the economic problems associated with radical economic changes implemented during the period of Soviet industrialization.^[7] It is sometimes argued that natural causes may have been the primary reason for the disaster.

There is no international consensus among scholars or politicians on whether the Soviet policies that caused the famine fall under the legal definition of genocide.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[6] However, as of March 2008, the parliament of Ukraine and the governments of several other countries have recognized the actions causing Holodomor as an act of genocide.^[12] …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Ayers’ Weathermen planned “re-education”, genocide

Obama answers question on global warming actions

Obama and Gore: Leaders to deal with Global Warming

Lord Al Gore The Global Warming Fascist

More Scientists don’t see CO2 as temperature driver

What is your stance on nuclear power?

The Nuclear Industry’s Golden Child

That Obama Glow

By JOSHUA FRANK

“…Obama’s campaign wallet, while rich with millions from small online donations, is also bulging from $227,000 in contributions given by employees of Exelon. Two of Obama’s largest campaign fundraisers include Frank M. Clark and John W. Rogers Jr., both top Exelon officials. Even Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, has done consulting work for the company.

During a Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works hearing in 2005, Obama, who serves on the committee, asserted that since Congress was debating the negative impact of CO2 emissions “on the global ecosystem, it is reasonable — and realistic — for nuclear power to remain on the table for consideration.” Shortly thereafter, Nuclear Notes, the industry’s top trade publication, praised the senator. “Back during his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2004, [Obama] said that he rejected both liberal and conservative labels in favor of ‘common sense solutions’. And when it comes to nuclear energy, it seems like the Senator is keeping an open mind.”

The rising star of the Democratic Party’s ties to the nuclear industry run deep indeed, but Obama may not only be loyal to Exelon and friends. The Senator is also cozy with Big Coal. …”

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank02222008.html

Selective Precaution
How does the third world insure itself against Lieberman-Warner?

By Lawrence Solomon

“…There is no consensus of 2,500 scientist-endorsers. Moreover, many of those 2,500 reviewers turned thumbs down on the studies that they reviewed — I know this from my own interviews with them, conducted in the course of writing a book about scientists who dispute the conventional wisdom on climate change.

From my interviews, it also became clear to me that, if a consensus exists, it exists on the other side. For instance Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute, a former peer reviewer for the IPCC’s work on the spread of malaria and other diseases due to warming says, “I know of no major scientist with any long record in this field who agrees with the pronouncements of the alarmists at the IPCC.” Other scientists also told me that, in their particular discipline, the IPCC’s position was the outlier, far from the mainstream. …” “…“So what?” many say. “Even if there is great uncertainty about the science of climate change, what harm will come of reducing our emissions of carbon dioxide? If it turns out that global warming is a natural phenomenon, we will have gained for ourselves cleaner air and less dependence on foreign oil.” As Sen. Lieberman put it in a PBS interview, “we ought to buy an insurance policy to deal with it. You know, I buy an insurance policy on my house. I don’t know there’s going to be a fire or a pipe is going to break, but I spend the money on it because the consequences of not having insurance are worse. And that’s what we’re doing here.”

This view finds favor with people across the ideological spectrum. Environmentalists, public-health advocates, and planners recognize an opportunity to lower emissions while promoting lifestyle changes; security hawks seize on the prospect of energy self-sufficiency; others see an opportunity to make common cause with Europe. All justify the expense of meeting Kyoto’s emissions targets as an insurance policy of sorts.

The problem is that far from being an insurance policy, Kyoto represents the single greatest threat to the global environment today and its scheme for using carbon credits and carbon offsets to reduce CO2 emissions comes with horrible human costs.

When we in the West purchase carbon offsets, typically someone, or some government, in the third world is paid for providing a “sink” for the carbon we’re emitting. Often that sink will be an industrial eucalyptus plantation, planted on what had been farmland or old-growth forest. Apart from the environmental amenities lost, personal tragedies abound. The former inhabitants of that land — either peasant farmers or forest peoples — will have been evicted from their lands, generally without fair compensation. Mass evictions are also the rule with new large-scale hydro dams, which can appear to become economically feasible only because of carbon credit schemes. China’s Three Gorges Dam, touted for being carbon-free, is uprooting some two million peasants and townsfolk. Nuclear power, too, is enjoying a renaissance due to carbon pricing — nuclear reactors have never been commercially viable without subsidies, and coming back now only because of a perceived carbon crisis. …”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2ZiMDc3ZjIxMzEzZjE1ZTg3YzEwYmI3NTBkM2Y4OGI=&w=MQ==

Global warming is socialism and political movemnt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2J-zHo-ILw&feature=related

No Future For Obama

“…Barack Obama is against lifting the ban on drilling for oil offshore because it would not reduce gas prices “this year, next year, five years from now,” according to CNN .

“John McCain’s proposal, George Bush’s proposal to drill offshore here in Florida, and other places around the country, would not provide families with any relief, this year, next year, five years from now… Believe me, if I thought there was any evidence at all that drilling could save people money who are struggling to fill up their gas tanks by this summer or the next few years, I would consider it, but it won’t.”

This sure looks like Obama, the great problem solver according to Al Gore , is not interested in solving any problems that show up only beyond “this summer or the next few years” or that take more than a few years to fix (5 tops, apparently).
Not very forward-looking, is he? In fact, his time window of interest seems to coincide rather perfectly with what would be his first term as President. Any problem that won’t show up during his term is not a problem he would try to solve. So much for the vision thing.
Then where does that put global warming, by the way? I was not aware that global warming would have dire consequences this summer or the next few years or that it could be solved within 5 years. According to Senator Obama’s logic then, why try to solve it? This would be especially so since even global warmists believe the next decade will involve little or no warming . I also did not know that all the alternative energy sources Senator Obama advocates could be brought on line “this summer”. Wow, those windmill guys are good. …”

http://www.trueobamafacts.com/2008/06/22/no-future-for-obama/

Barack Obama: Global Poverty Act = World tax = Socialism

Barack Obama’s Hidden Agenda, More Taxes, Socialism….

How Ethanol is a really bad idea

Heritage In Focus: Farm Subsidies: Too Much of a Bad Thing

The Farm Bill
Ethanol For Everyone!
Brian Wingfield

“…”Now that the ethanol industry has matured, it is appropriate to curb the tax subsidy provided to ethanol,” says a Senate Finance Committee report on the tax provisions of the bill.

That’s a politically popular statement to make: Corn-based ethanol production has taken much of the blame for the recent run-up in world food prices. In 2007, President Bush famously called for a nearly 500% increase in ethanol production to reduce the country’s reliance on oil. Congress granted his wish at the end of last year by mandating 36 billion gallons of production by 2022–far beyond the 9 billion gallon goal for 2008. Not only is ethanol production mandated and subsidized, the industry is protected by a 54-cent import tariff.

That tariff, which serves largely to keep Brazilian sugar-based ethanol out of U.S. markets, would be extended by two years under the Farm Bill. “This would effectively raise the barrier to marginal ethanol gallons from Brazil,” says FBR Capital Markets analyst Kevin Book in a research note.

Former Congressman Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, who now lobbies on agriculture and energy policy for law firm Olsson, Frank, Weeda, says the tax-credit reductions for corn-based ethanol are “a step in the right direction.” But he wants Congress to adopt a market-based approach in which subsidies are discontinued when they’re no longer necessary.

“There’s no valid reason for maintaining a subsidy for ethanol with oil at $120 a barrel,” he says. …”

http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/05/15/ethanol-congress-agriculture-biz-beltway-cx_bw_0515farmbill.html

Newt Gingrich – We Must Drill for Oil NOW

Red State Update: Gas Prices

Background Articles and Videos

George Carlin

“George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.^[22]

Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his “Seven Dirty Words” comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government’s power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.

The first of his 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. In the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin’s routines focused on the flaws in modern-day America. He often took on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. His final HBO special, It’s Bad For Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death.

Carlin was placed second on the Comedy Central cable television network list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, ahead of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor.^[23] He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and was also the first person to host Saturday Night Live. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin

Dennis Miller interviews George Carlin (1997)

George Carlin – Archive of American Television Interview

“Full 7-part interview with comedy legend George Carlin, recorded December 17, 2007. He talks about his early influences (particularly Danny Kaye’s films) on his comic sensibilities. He then chronicles his life through in Air Force, as a disc jockey, and as half of a comedy team with Jack Burns, that led to his first professional appearance on television on Jack Paar’s “Tonight Show”. He notes the various “breaks” along the way that got him seen and furthered his career. He talks about going solo and working as a stand-up comedian for several years before breaking into TV again on such programs as “The Ed Sullivan Show”. He speaks in detail about his infamous “Seven Dirty Words” monologue and the FCC case that resulted from it (filed against WBAI radio, for obscenity). He recalls his appearance as the very first host of “Saturday Night Live”. He talks about his HBO specials and how they resurrected his career. He touches on his later work as an actor in Kevin Smith’s movies and on such shows as the PBS series “Shining Time Station”, which earned him two Daytime Emmy nominations. Conducted December 17, 2007 by Henry Colman and Jenni Matz, in Venice, CA. …”

George Carlin – Archive Interview Part 1 of 7

George Carlin – Archive Interview Part 2 and 3 of 7

George Carlin – Archive Interview Part 4 of 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhOzbDGnjk&feature=related

George Carlin – Archive Interview Part 5 of 7

George Carlin – Archive Interview Part 6 of 7

George Carlin – Archive Interview Part 7 of 7

George Carlin: 400,000 American Musical Favorites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIAJlpyOrg&NR=1

George Carlin: in His Own Words

George Carlin Interview: Fresh Air – WHYY-FM (Part 1 of 4)

George Carlin Interview: Fresh Air – WHYY-FM (Part 2 of 4)

George Carlin Interview: Fresh Air – WHYY-FM (Part 3 of 4)

George Carlin Interview: Fresh Air – WHYY-FM (Part 4 of 4)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 1 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 2 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 3 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 4 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 5 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 6 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 7 of 8)

George Carlin: Art Bell Interview – 1999 (Part 8 of 8)

George Carlin: 92nd Street Y Interview (04/30/01) 1 of 6)

George Carlin: 92nd Street Y Interview (04/30/01) 2 of 6)

George Carlin: 92nd Street Y Interview (04/30/01) 3 of 6)

George Carlin: 92nd Street Y Interview (04/30/01) 4 of 6)

George Carlin: 92nd Street Y Interview (04/30/01) 5 of 6)

George Carlin: 92nd Street Y Interview (04/30/01) 6 of 6)

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 1 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVsRXyZQ6bw&feature=related

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 2 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmxnEXV5vI&feature=related

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 3 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THa9AfxhqPQ&feature=related

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 4 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSiwixdRCNM&feature=related

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 5 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJMLDUXJTI&feature=related

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 6 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1eTd1CmKHI&feature=related

George Carlin on Comedy: Interview – 2002 (Part 7 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=San3v0kAKX0&feature=related

George Carlin Interview – 2008 (1 of 2)

Jon Stewart interviews George Carlin

George Carlin (Full The View Interview) – Wild fires

Seven Words

George Carlin – Voting

The Owners of the Country

George Carlin FAT PEOPLE

Pro Life is Anti-Woman – George Carlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXvDXVhqfU&feature=related

George Carlin on white people

George Carlin – Religion is bullshit.

George Carlin on the Tonite Show- 1966

George Carlin ‘The Hippy Dippy Weatherman’

(1982) – Carlin at Carnegie Hall Part 1 of 6

(1982) – Carlin at Carnegie Hall Part 2 of 6

(1982) – Carlin at Carnegie Hall Part 3 of 6

(1982) – Carlin at Carnegie Hall Part 4 of 6

(1982) – Carlin at Carnegie Hall Part 5 of 6

(1982) – Carlin at Carnegie Hall Part 6 of 6

George Carlin: Carlin on Campus – 1984 (Part 1 of 6)

George Carlin: Carlin on Campus – 1984 (Part 2 of 6)

George Carlin: Carlin on Campus – 1984 (Part 3 of 6)

George Carlin: Carlin on Campus – 1984 (Part 4 of 6)

George Carlin: Carlin on Campus – 1984 (Part 5 of 6)

George Carlin: Carlin on Campus – 1984 (Part 6 of 6)

George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head – 1986 (Part 1 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nepVyh3Ajx0&feature=related

George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head – 1986 (Part 2 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZJ7ivA39Cc&feature=related

George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head – 1986 (Part 3 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnN_YpCDY4U&feature=related

George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head – 1986 (Part 4 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejhQ2r_Pg6k&feature=related

George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head – 1986 (Part 5 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBeNQlz-ZMo&feature=related

George Carlin: Playin’ with Your Head – 1986 (Part 6 of 6)

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George Carlin on Our Similarities

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – 1999 (Part 1 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQL_t_sjL4c&feature=related

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – 1999 (Part 2 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdVJlfyTlXQ&feature=related

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – 1999 (Part 3 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxIuYdst0BQ&feature=related

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – 1999 (Part 4 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtmxIN3o8do&feature=related

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – 1999 (Part 5 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVBXWwtI0eQ&feature=related

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – 1999 (Part 6 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9N7pS7NTYg&feature=related

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 1/7]

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 2/7]

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 3/7]

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 4/7]

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 5/7]

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 6/7]

George Carlin: WTF Am I Doing in New Jersey? [Part 7/7]

George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances – 2001 (Part 1 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCHB4P6Em-Q&feature=related

George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances – 2001 (Part 2 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd4-R4GgyvA&feature=related

George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances – 2001 (Part 3 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u7HkfrBm7Q&feature=related

George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances – 2001 (Part 4 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxiILusn47g&feature=related

George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances – 2001 (Part 5 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFebQdejock&feature=related

George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances – 2001 (Part 6 of 6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8XnK1eycw&feature=related

George Carlin On Answering Machines

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 1 of 7)

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 2 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmiLPc6g18&feature=related

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 3 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L7_xMkHCF0&feature=related

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 4 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3uvTnd4OJM&feature=related

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 5 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx3luZ2aB9k&feature=related

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 6 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vowL1CXpdB0&feature=related

George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing – 2005 (Part 7 of 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvrBU48b3U&feature=related

George Carlin – It’s Bad for Ya – 2008 HBO Special Part 1/7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRCKoT1HY3U&feature=related

George Carlin – It’s Bad for Ya – 2008 HBO Special Part 2/7

George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya! – 2008 (Part 3 of 7)

George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya! – 2008 (Part 4 of 7)

George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya! – 2008 (Part 5 of 7)

George Carlin: It’s Bad for Ya! – 2008 (Part 6 of 7)

George Carlin – 7 of 7 – It’s Bad For Ya! [2008, Final Show]

Books Written and Read By George Carlin

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 1 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjxjAEgt8w&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 2 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goKHcBETeY&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 3 of 14)

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George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 4 of 14)

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George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 5 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZkFuOFv0A8&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 6 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Qwf5h2tMg&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 7 of 14)

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George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 8 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWl3hUAekM&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 9 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alqjqW5Ol64&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 10 of 14)

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George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 11 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmumNCNgP4&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 12 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkQouzErcKo&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 13 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgD0JzEaCI&feature=related

George Carlin: Napalm & Silly Putty (Part 14 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07WXpysv7w&feature=related

George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 1 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 2 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSQOmtgGWY&feature=related

George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 3 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 4 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 5 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 6 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 7 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 8 of 14)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20gQiB6kia0&feature=related

George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 9 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 10 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 11 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 12 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 13 of 14)

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George Carlin: Brain Droppings – (Part 1 4 of 14)

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Barrack Obama’s Kansas Values–Killing Babies in Cold Blood?

Posted on June 21, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll, Climate, Economics, Immigration, Links, Politics, Quotations, Rants, Raves, Religion, Reviews, Science, Taxes, Technology, Video, War | Tags: 1 Minute Voter Guide Video: Killer of American Dreams�, abortion, babies are a punishment, baby killer, Barack Obama, democide, eugenics, Frederick Hayek, genocide, George Soros, Hitler, infanticide, Mao, Margaret Sanger, NARAL, Obama, partial birth abortion], Paul Johnson, Planned Parenthood, pro life, Stalin, The Road to Serfdom, The Silent Scream |

“Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

~President Ronald Reagan in 1982

New Barack Obama Ad

Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Watch How Obama Punishes Babies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FN875QmKv0&feature=related

Obama Vote-Infanticide-living babies thrown into waste bins

Obama & ‘Live Birth Abortion’

Mad World of Barack Obama

“…Barack Obama opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. This would provide basic medical care to infants that survive abortion. This is a mad world….”

Senator Barrack Obama has a new video ad where he speaks about his Kansas family values.

This from a man who supports selective infanticide, the killing of live babies in cold blood.

This from a man who supports late term partial birth abortions.

This from a man who considers having a baby a punishment.

I seriously doubt that these are the strong family values he learned from his grandparents and mother in Kansas.

These are not the values of the vast majority of American people who consider both infanticide and late term partial birth abortion morally repugnant, a mortal sin and a crime that should be punished.

Senator Obama real values are not the values appearing in his video ad.

If they were, he would never be elected President of The United States of America.

Senator Obama’s socialist values on infanticide and late term partial birth abortion are the values of a state socialist with little respect for the individual and human life.

Supporting infanticide and late term partial birth abortion are more the values of such noted socialist leaders as Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.

State socialists first take the property and lives of those least able to defend themselves–babies, children, disabled, woman, and the elderly.

Mao, Stalin and Hitler were all very clear how they valued the individual and human life:

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”

“Every Communist must grasp the truth, “Political power rows out of the barrel of a gun.” “

~Mao Zedong

“Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.”

“A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.”

~Jospeh Stalin

“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”

~Adolf Hitler

State socialism from the left or right leads invariably down the road to serfdom and totalitarianism:

“Totalitarianism of the Left bred totalitarianism of the Right; Communism and fascism were the hammer and the anvil on which liberalism was broken to pieces. The emergence of Stalin’s autocracy changed the dynamic of corruption not in kind but in degree. For Stalin “was but old Lenin writ large.” The change is degree nonetheless was important because of its sheer scale. The arrests, the prisons, the camps, the scope, the brutality and violence of the social engineering – nothing like it had ever been seen or even imagined before. So the counter-model became more monstrously ambitious; and the fear which energized its construction more intense. If Leninism begot the fascism of Mussolini, it was Stalinism which made possible the Nazi Leviathan.”

Paul Johnson
“Modern Times”

These leaders of state governments killed tens of millions of human beings in a reign of terror.

These socialist leaders are the bloodiest dictators of this millennium and they give real meaning to the term democide.

Democide

Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel for “the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder”. Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the legal definition of genocide, and it has found currency among other scholars.

Democide

**Bloodiest dictators for the millennium.**Rummel, [2][3][4].
Dictator	Dates	Est. Deaths
Qing Dynasty, mainly Empress Dowager Cixi	1859-64, Tai Ping Rebellion	12,000,000
Genghis Khan	1215–1233	4,000,000
Adolf Hitler	1933–1945	21,000,000
Chiang Kai-shek	1921–1948	10,000,000
Kublai Khan	1252–1279	19,000,000
Vladimir Lenin	1917–1924	4,000,000
Leopold II of Belgium	1885–1908	10,000,000
Pol Pot	1968–1987	2,000,000
Joseph Stalin	1929–1953	43,000,000
Hideki Tojo	1941–1945	4,000,000
Mao Zedong	1923–1976	77,000,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

Once the American people learn just how radical Senator Obama position is on both abortion, especially late term partial birth abortions, and his support for infanticide, his election run for the presidency will be over.

Not even the entire fortune of his leading campaign donor, George Soros, whose agenda Senator Obama is promoting, will be able to save his candidacy.

The American people will never knowingly elect a radical socialist–no matter how charming and likeable.

Elections matter.

Despite many serious reservations about Senator McCain, especially about illegal immigration and the need for a cap and trade tax, I will vote for him.

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
~Pope Benedict XVI

Background Articles and Videos

CNN: Barack Obama’s opposition to Born Alive Act

“…CNN fairly reported then-state Sen. Barack Obama’s opposition to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act, a bill to protect abortion survivors from being shelved to die in hospital soiled utility rooms.

Obama not only voted against Born Alive, he was the sole senator to speak against it on the senate floor – 2 years in a row.

The federal version of Born Alive passed unanimously 98-0 in the US Senate with Sens. Kennedy and Boxer speaking in support on the senate floor. It passed overwhelmingly by voice vote in the US House. President Bush signed it into law on August 5, 2002.

As chairman of the IL Senate Health & Human Services Committee, Obama singlehandedly stopped the identical wording of the federal bill from being introduced in IL in 2003.

Barack Obama is so radical in his support of abortion, he supports infanticide. …”

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

Forget Obama’s Abortion Radicalism: Gas is 4 Bucks!

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

Obama’s abortion lies

By Michelle Malkin • August 11, 2008

“…There’s a newly uncovered paper trail demonstrating Barack Obama’s abortion militancy you can believe in (hat tip – Jill Stanek):

Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an IL state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion – even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion. Obama’s legislative actions in 2003 – denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions – were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/11/obamas-abortion-lies/

Obama’s Catholic Problem

by Linda Chavez

“Barack Obama has a Catholic problem. If he doesn’t do better than John Kerry did in 2004 with this quintessential swing voting bloc, he won’t be elected president. …”

“…Catholics are by no means a single-issue voting group. But for observant Catholics, those who attend Mass regularly and follow the Church’s teachings, a candidate’s position on abortion matters. Even among more broadly identified Catholics — those who call themselves Catholic, regardless of whether they are observant — 59 percent oppose abortion, according to a recent Time magazine poll. And Barack Obama’s record on this issue will cause pause for many of them.

Like most Democratic politicians, Barack Obama favors abortion rights for women, with few exceptions. He has recently said that he might support some limits on very late-term abortions, those that occur in the last trimester of pregnancy. But when it comes to actual legislative limits, he’s never found one yet he can vote for. …”

http://townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2008/08/08/obamas_catholic_problem

Obama Abortion Stance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORqC49mMCxs

“Obama’s Twisted Mind – Obama’s sick voting record”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlS0_rArks&feature=related

Catholic League President Criticizes Obama On Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BNIk9FgagQ&feature=related

Obama Blocked Born Alive Infant Protection Act

by Jill Stanek, guest reporter

“On Jan. 10, 2005, newly elected U.S. Sen. Barack Obama visited former colleagues and staffers at the Illinois state Capitol, where he had served seven years as state senator. I happened to be at the Capitol that day, too, and a friend and I took the opportunity to speak to Obama, who had not yet achieved rock-star status and was still approachable.

We were in Springfield to lobby for passage of the state Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation that would require hospitals to care for infants who survive an abortion. Obama spoke against the legislation in 2001 and 2002 and single-handedly defeated it in committee in 2003.

My friend stood in Obama’s path and said, “Senator, we are going to pass Born Alive here in Illinois this year.”

Obama smiled smoothly and agreed, “I think you will,” adding, “I would have voted for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois had it been worded the same as the federal bill. I think that’s the position the Democrats should take.”

There’s just one thing he forgot to mention: Obama had stopped his committee from adding the federal wording.

With Obama no longer in the state Senate, the Born Alive legislation passed in 2005. …”

http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007034.cfm

Obama’s Abortion Extremism

By Michael Gerson

“…But Obama’s record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called “too close to infanticide.” Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” because of a crisis pregnancy — hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life.

For decades, most Democrats and many Republicans have hoped the political debate on abortion would simply go away. But it is the issue that does not die. Recent polls have shown that young people are more likely than their elders to support abortion restrictions. Few Americans oppose abortion under every circumstance, but a majority oppose most of the abortions that actually take place — generally supporting the procedure only in the case of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother.

Perhaps this is a revolt against a culture of disposability. Perhaps it reflects the continuing revolution of ultrasound technology — what might be called the “Juno” effect. In the delightful movie by that name, the protagonist, a pregnant teen seeking an abortion, is confronted by a classmate who informs her that the unborn child already has fingernails — which causes second thoughts. A worthless part of its mother’s body — a clump of protoplasmic rubbish — doesn’t have fingernails. …”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102197.html

Obama is no moderate: His radical position on ‘abortion’ after birth

By ABRAHAM KATSMAN

“…Reasonable people may differ in their opinions regarding abortion and thorny questions of precisely when life begins. Jewish doctrine, with its focus on the health of the mother, may differ from Christian or other religious positions over the circumstances under which abortion may be permitted. But once a baby is born, even prematurely, there is across-the-board agreement that a new human life exists. Certainly, there is no longer any threat to the health of the mother. Abortion is no longer an option, as there is no longer a pregnancy to terminate.

So, what are we to make of Obama’s votes against protecting the right to life for living babies who have survived attempted abortions? Such babies are sometimes born alive as a result of late-term induced labor abortions, often sought when babies are believed (sometimes in error) to have genetic defects such as Down syndrome.

Earlier this decade, such living, breathing, babies who survived labor were “shelved” – left to die and disposed of with other medical waste, or were “aborted” – killed outside the womb. The practice was ultimately banned by unanimous Congressional votes, as even the most pro-abortion Senate Democrats – including every defender of partial-birth abortion – recognized that killing these breathing babies is no longer abortion in any real sense. It crosses the line; it is infanticide. Yet, incredibly, Obama repeatedly worked to deny these living babies any right to life. …”

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207159750412&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Obama’s 10 reasons for supporting infanticide

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59702

NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC Endorses Sen. Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2elXcVySElc

Barack Obama, A Vote For Infanticide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfL_H7zg1QI&feature=related

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

“The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (Public Law 108-105, HR 760, S 3, 18 U.S. Code 1531)^[1] (or “PBA Ban”) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late-term abortion that the Act calls partial-birth abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the term “partial-birth abortion” in the act pertains to a procedure that is scientifically called intact dilation and extraction.^[2] Under this law, “Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.” The law was enacted in 2003, and in 2007 its constitutionality was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial-Birth_Abortion_Ban_Act

Most Who Know of Decision Agree With Supreme Court on Partial Birth Abortion

“…Overall, among all adults, 53% believe that abortion is morally wrong most of the time. Thirty-two percent (32%) disagree. Those numbers have changed little over the past year and there is virtually no difference of opinion between men and women. Upper-income Americans are the least likely to see abortion as morally wrong. Last year’s survey found that 61% of Americans know someone who has had an abortion.

By a 71% to 22% margin, Republicans believe that abortion is morally wrong most of the time. Democrats are evenly divided on that question.

Forty-five percent (45%) of American adults believe that it is too easy for a woman to get an abortion in the United States. Twenty-two percent (22%) say it is too hard while 21% say the balance is about right. Those numbers are little changed from a year ago.

Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans believe it is too easy for a woman to get an abortion. Just 14% of the GOP faithful believe it is too hard. Among Democrats, 36% believe it is too easy and 30% believe it is too hard. …”

http://legacy.rasmussenreports.com/2007/April%20Dailies/partialBirthAbortion.htm

Obama’s Stealth Pro-Abortion Stance

By Ned Barnett

“…In response to a Pennsylvania voter’s question about elementary school sex education, Obama said:

“Look, I got two daughters – nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

This makes two things clear. First, Senator Obama supports abortion on demand — even “convenience” abortions — for minors, including his own daughters; and second, Obama considers babies a “punishment” he’d rather spare his daughters, even if those daughters have to abort Obama’s own unborn grandchildren to avoid that particular “punishment.”

That unguardedly candid public statement is political dynamite — or it would be, if the media had reported on it. Instead, four weeks later, America remains widely unaware of Senator Obama’s explosive position favoring on-demand convenience abortions for minors, or his equally explosive view of babies as a “punishment.” …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obamas_stealth_proabortion_sta.html

Abortion and Presidential Politics, 2008

“…On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Gonzalez vs. Carhart banning intact dilation and extraction (“partial birth abortion”) as an acceptable method of “ending fetal life,” the Democratic Party blanketed the state of South Carolina for the week preceding its first nationally-televised presidential debate of the season. All the candidates criticized the Court’s decision in Carhart and several denounced it from the stage during the debate.

Polls, however, demonstrate that two-thirds of Americans oppose late term abortions, as apparently did 63 Congressional Democrats and 17 Senate Democrats when they voted for the federal ban in 2003 – perhaps, before pandering to the deep-pocket Leftist ilk of George Soros and MoveOn.org became de rigueur for the emblematic donkeys. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/abortion_and_presidential_poli.html

Infanticide

“Infanticide is the practice of someone intentionally causing the death of an infant. Often it is the mother who commits the act, but criminology recognises various forms of non-maternal child murder. In many past societies, certain forms of infanticide were considered permissible, whereas in most modern societies the practice is considered immoral and criminal. Nonetheless, it still takes place — in the Western world usually because of the parent’s mental illness or violent behavior, and in some poor countries as a form of population control, sometimes with tacit societal acceptance. Female infanticide is more common than the killing of male babies due to sex-selective infanticide. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide

Abortion in the United States

“Abortion in the United States is a highly-charged issue involving significant political and ethical debate. In medical terms, the word abortion refers to any pregnancy that does not end in a live birth and therefore can refer to a miscarriage or a premature birth that does not result in a live infant. Such events are often called spontaneous abortions if they occur before 20 weeks of gestation. In common parlance, however, abortion is used to mean “induced abortion” of an embryo or fetus at any point in pregnancy, and this is also how the term is used in a legal sense.^[1] …”

^{“…According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there were 854,122 legal induced abortions in the US in 2003.^[6]}

Abortions and ethnicity

Abortions are much more common among minority women in the U.S. In 2000-2001, the rates among black and Hispanic women were 49 per 1,000 and 33 per 1,000, respectively, vs. 13 per 1,000 among non-Hispanic white women.^[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States

Dr. Lile PBA Partial Birth Abortion Demo Pro-Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_W75zh1j2I

Abortion -This is a Suction Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAPleF1t0&feature=related

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/medical/suctionweb.jpg

Abortion -This is a Dismemberment Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_y9GP_-DA&feature=related

http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/medical/de.jpg

Abortion -This is a Prostaglandin Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=HDj12ffvpgY

The Silent Scream Part 1 2 3 4 5 ProLife Anti-Abortion Video

ABORTION – THE SILENT SCREAM #1 (with permission from APF)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THS2zZ4m260&feature=related

ABORTION – THE SILENT SCREAM #2 (with permission from APF)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU_DQ_7NcDA&feature=related

ABORTION – THE SILENT SCREAM #3 (with permission from APF)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzSiAPXTiQ&feature=related

ABORTION – THE SILENT SCREAM #4 (with permission from APF)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=_NwOn1wvL4Y

ABORTION – THE SILENT SCREAM #5 (with permission from APF)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SHeFSyUYOM&feature=related

CDC’s Abortion Surveillance System: FAQs

“…Abortion Surveillance Reports
Abortion Surveillance—United States, 2004 | View PDF 479KB
In 2004, 839,226 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. This total represents a 1.1 percent decrease from the 848,163 abortions reported for 2003. The abortion ratio for 2004 decreased since 2003. The ratio was 238 legal induced abortions per 1,000 live births in 2004. In 2004, the abortion rate was 16 per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years of age, the same since 2000. For the same 47 reporting areas, the abortion rate remained relatively constant during 1998–2004. As in the past, a higher number of abortions were obtained by white women, unmarried women, and women under 25 years of age. More than half (61%) of the reported legal induced abortions were performed during the first 8 weeks of gestation; 88% were performed within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Source: MMWR 2007;56(SS-9);1–33.

Previous MMWR Abortion Surveillance Reports
2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994–1993 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987– 1986 | 1985–1984 | 1981 1980–1979

http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/Data_Stats/Abortion.htm

Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States

January 2008

INCIDENCE OF ABORTION

Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]

• In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.[2]

• Each year, about two out of every 100 women aged 15–44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion.[3]

• At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45[4], and, at current rates, about one-third will have had an abortion.[5,6]

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

U.S. Abortion Total Hits Lowest Mark Since Year After Roe v. Wade

By Lawrence Jones

“The number of abortions nationwide has dropped to their lowest levels since the year following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision Roe v. Wade, according to the latest annual Abortion Surveillance report by the Center for Disease Control.

The documented number is the lowest since 1974, the year following the Supreme Court ruling that gave women the right to have an abortion. In that year, the CDC reported the total number of abortions to be 763,476.

There were 238 abortions per 1,000 live births in 2004, a decrease from 241 the year before. The abortion ratio peaked at 364 per 1,000 in 1984, according to the report, and since then has demonstrated a generally steady decline. …”

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071126/30222_U.S._Abortion_Total_Hits_Lowest_Mark_Since_Year_After_Roe_v._Wade.htm

Deal Hudson: Obama and Infanticide?

“…The Roman Catholics for Obama Web site has no mention of his opposition to the Born Alive Infant’s Protection Act. Look under its section “Life and Dignity of the Human Person,” and you will find statements on the death penalty, the Iraq War, gun control, and the promise to nurture “a socio-economic environment” that will provide “a safety net that will make abortion increasingly unnecessary and rare.”

Some of Obama’s infanticide apologists argue that since the declared intention of Obama in voting against the BAIP Act was to uphold Roe v. Wade then it was not evidence of “support for infanticide.” Such poor logic completely detaches Obama’s act of voting against the bill from its consequences. Without the passage of the bill, infants born in Illinois remained vulnerable to the lack of treatment witnessed first-hand in Christ Hospital by Jill Stanek.

It would be like a senator arguing that his vote to approve Iraq War funding was just to “support the troops” but not the war. How can you put a gun in a soldier’s hand without taking responsibility for what happens when he shoots it?

Democratic pundits don’t want to talk about Obama on abortion or infanticide, either. On a recent CNN broadcast, Wolf Blitzer asked Bill Bennett what he would ask Obama, if given the chance.

Bennett said he would ask Obama about his abortion extremism and why he “doesn’t see a problem with killing a baby after it’s been born after eight months.” …”

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=28442

Barack Obama – Abortion

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

Barack Obama on Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8lsCUXUHfo&feature=related

Obama and Latins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CEs5cKhD6U

Barack Obama Addresses Planned Parenthood

Brit Hume: Planned Parenthood’s racism

Ingraham on O’Reilly: Planned Parenthood racism

Planned Parenthood

“Planned Parenthood is the collective name of organizations worldwide who are members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the U.S. affiliate of IPPF and one of its larger members. PPFA provides reproductive health and maternal and child health services. The organization’s status as the United States’ leading provider of surgical abortions has put it in the forefront of national debate over that issue. Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. (PPAF) is a related organization that lobbies the U.S. political system for pro-choice legislation, comprehensive sex education, and access to affordable health care.^[1] …”“…Planned Parenthood describes itself as “the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care advocate and provider.” In 2006, Planned Parenthood provided 289,750 surgical and medical abortions, about 3% of its total services.[2]

“…Planned Parenthood receives almost a third of its money in government grants and contracts ($336.7 million in FY 2007). Clinic income that same year totaled $356.1 million and miscellaneous operating revenues $56 million. Planned Parenthood is also heavily sponsored by private individuals, with over 900,000 active individual contributors.[2] Large foundations, such as the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, contribute a substantial part of the organization’s budget, and other wealthy businessmen, such as Bill Gates are also known to contribute money and time to the organization. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood

margaret sanger and planned parenthood

“…first part of an old 16 minute film created by Planned Parenthood primarily about its founder, margaret sanger. narrated by katherine hepburn!…”

margaret sanger and planned parenthood part 2

Margaret Sanger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

“Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman’s choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children. In her drive to open the way to universal access to birth control, Sanger was ahead of her time. However, her racist ideology and advocacy for eugenics are positions which have tarnished her reputation. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

Eugenics

“Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.^[2] Throughout history, eugenics has been regarded by its various advocates as a social responsibility, an altruistic stance of a society, meant to create healthier and more intelligent people, to save resources, and lessen human suffering.

Earlier proposed means of achieving these goals focused on selective breeding, while modern ones focus on prenatal testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering. Opponents argue that eugenics is immoral. Historically, a minority of eugenics advocates have used it as a justification for state-sponsored discrimination, forced sterilization of persons deemed genetically defective, and the killing of institutionalized populations. Eugenics was also used to rationalize certain aspects of the Holocaust. The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883,^[3] drawing on the recent work of his cousin Charles Darwin. From its inception eugenics was supported by prominent people, including H.G. Wells, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, William Keith Kellogg and Margaret Sanger.^[4]^[5] ^[6] G. K. Chesterton was an early critic of the philosophy of eugenics, expressing this opinion in his book, Eugenics and Other Evils. Eugenics became an academic discipline at many colleges and universities. Funding was provided by prestigious sources such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the Harriman family.^[7] Three International Eugenics Conferences presented a global venue for eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York. Eugenics’ scientific reputation started to tumble in the 1930s, a time when Ernst Rüdin began incorporating eugenic rhetoric into the racial policies of Nazi Germany. …”

“…During the 20th century, many countries enacted various eugenics policies and programs, including:

Genetic screening
Birth control
Promoting differential birth rates
Marriage restrictions
Segregation (both racial segregation as well as segregation of the mentally ill from the normal)
Compulsory sterilization
Forced abortions, or, conversely, forced pregnancies
Genocide …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Eugenics 103

Evolution and Eugenics

Barack Obama’s Speech on Father’s Day

Obama’s Twisted Mind – Obama’s sick voting record”

Networks Ignore Revealing Obama ‘Baby’ Gaffe
Candidate doesn’t want daughters “punished with a baby.”

By Brian Fitzpatrick

“…Speaking off the cuff to a Johnstown, Pennsylvania audience, Obama said:

When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include abstinence education and teaching children that sex is not something casual. But it should also include other information about contraception because, look, I’ve got two daughters, nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.

Despite intensive coverage of the fight for the Democratic nomination, and condemnations of the remark from growing numbers of religious and pro-life organizations, we haven’t found a word about Obama’s colossal gaffe on ABC, NBC or CBS’s morning and evening news broadcasts as of the afternoon of April 2. …”

http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2008/20080402175415.aspx

Louis Farrakhan on Barack Obama, Churches and Satan’s Rule

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38I55mZuSOY&feature=related

Minister Farrakhan Speaks About Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7QUftErt_M&feature=related

Hillary vs. Partial Birth Abortion

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

Obama on Abortion He Considers Babies To Be a Punishment

http://dirtyelection.com/obama-on-abortion-he-considers-babies-to-be-a-punishment/obama/

Coulter – Hillary Enjoys Torture, Obama Like Hitler

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3Evm6aw7i4

Charlie Rose: June 12, 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7sC9_u-3UE

Neil Cavuto’s interview of George Soros Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4moR4NFTd8

Neil Cavuto’s interview of George Soros Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-C-GT-iNeU&feature=related

George Soros

“…In December of 2006, Soros met with Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama in his New York office. Soros had previously hosted a fund-raiser for Obama during the latter’s 2004 campaign for the Senate. On January 16, 2007, Obama announced the creation of a presidential exploratory committee, and within hours Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount allowable under campaign finance laws. Later that week the New York Daily News reported that Soros would back Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had also supported in the past. Soros’s announcement was seen as a repudiation of Clinton’s presidential aspirations, though Soros said he would support the New York senator were she to win the Democratic nomination. …”

“…Soros and his foundations have had a hand in funding a host of leftist organizations, including the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the National Organization for Women; Feminist Majority; the American Civil Liberties Union; People for the American Way; Alliance for Justice; NARAL Pro-Choice America; America Coming Together; the Center for American Progress; Campaign for America’s Future; Amnesty International; the Sentencing Project; the Center for Community Change; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Human Rights Watch; the Prison Moratorium Project; the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Coalition for an International Criminal Court; The American Prospect; MoveOn.org; Planned Parenthood; the Nation Institute; the Brennan Center for Justice; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the National Security Archive Fund; the Pacifica Foundation; Physicians for Human Rights; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Urban Institute; the American Friends Service Committee; Catholics for a Free Choice; Human Rights First; the Independent Media Institute; MADRE; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee; and the Peace and Security Funders Group. …”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977

George Soros: Open Society and Open Borders

James H. Walsh
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

“…To support his belief that the human mind cannot fathom ultimate truth and reality, Soros apparently advocates the deconstruction of nations by educating the masses in open-society jargon.

His open society comes off as a bastardization of socialism and libertarianism. This mixed brew includes more taxes (but not on the Soros fortune), increased government spending, open borders, immigration entitlements for legal and illegal aliens, devaluing citizenship but promoting feminism, free abortions, affirmative action, and sex and gender rights. Incongruously he would lessen government intrusion while eliminating “excessive individualism.” Essential to an open society is destruction of the nation-state authority, family structure, and religious beliefs, thus rendering national culture, heritage, and ethos meaningless. …”

“…Organizations that receive Soros funding, directly or indirectly, include Human Rights Watch, the Center for American Progress, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and the New Democrat Network (NDN). As an example of what these organizations do, the NDN operates the Hispanic Strategy Center to assist immigrants, legal and illegal. The goal is to extend the vote to all non-citizens and to assure that they vote the Democratic ticket.

The old bromides–environmental degradation, abortion, anti-war, poverty, human rights, justice for all, health care for all, and peace at any price are being doled out to a new generation in the hope that enough naïve, poorly educated U.S. citizens will support the open-society agenda. …”

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/25/104735.shtml

George Soros, Postmodern Villain

“…Why is Soros so interested in promoting more abortions in Eastern Europe? Overpopulation cannot be the reason: The region is experiencing a colossal demographic collapse and has some of the lowest fertility rates in the world. Unavailability of abortion cannot be the answer either: According to a recent U.N. report, five European countries had more abortions than live births in 2000-the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Belarus, Rumania, and Ukraine. Overall, the report said, abortion rates are “substantially higher in central and eastern Europe and the CIS countries than in western Europe and North America.” The only logical answer is that Soros wants as few Russians and others born into this world as possible. …”

“…That polity will not be “American” in any recognizable sense if Soros has his way, however. Here, he supports increased government spending and tax increases, drug legalization, euthanasia, open borders and immigration, immigrant entitlements, feminism, free abortion on demand, affirmative action, and “gay” rights. He opposes the death penalty in any circumstance. …”

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/georgesorospostmodernvillian31aug04.shtml

Soros the Guiltless

By James Lewis

“…George Soros absolves himself constantly. He calls himself a “spectator” when he was an active collaborator. His only reply is that, well, he could have been “on the other side” — a victim rather than a perp. His is an instrumental morality.

Now we don’t know exactly what happened sixty years ago in the life of György Schwartz during the Nazi Holocaust. According to Robert Slater, “George Soros later said that he ‘grew up in a Jewish, anti-semitic home,’ and that his parents were ‘uncomfortable with their religious roots.'” We don’t know if his parents’ anti-semitism influenced his willingness to cart off the property of his Jewish neighbors. But by 1944, Hitler’s plans for the Jews could not be denied. Soros himself escaped persecution by being adopted as a Christian. He must have known what he was doing therefore, even as a teenager. Two years later, when Auschwitz and the other death camps made headlines all over the Western world, not even the young Soros could have denied his role in what happened. But George Soros felt free of guilt. …”

“…Soros seems to think of capitalism as a kind of piracy, and personal morality does not seem to play a conspicuous role in his life. Instead, he seems to like to be the supreme manipulator.

It makes an interesting psychological profile, doesn’t it? On the one side, calm denial about his Holocaust role in Hungary, and decades later, about his part in manipulating currencies from Britain to Asia, benefiting himself but impoverishing others. On the other hand, his funding of very aggressive political mudslinging teams in the United States, openly trying to bring down a twice-elected president of the United States. Add to that his animosity toward Israel, a home for Jewish refugees from the same European Holocaust that saw him collaborating with the Nazis.

We live in a time of steady public decline in civilized values. The Left shamelessly peddles the idea that real patriotism means leaking national security secrets when our soldiers are risking their lives in combat. The national media have become so vulgarized that scapegoating GOP presidents has become the open aim of the “profession” of journalism. Opportunistic demagogues like Al Gore jump on the phony Global Warming bandwagon, and are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, thus raising his public image while debasing the Nobel Prize.

We have seen immense vulgarization in one generation, a loss of simple decency in public life. Much of that decline has been deliberately pushed by the Left and the tabloid press, which is no longer separate from the “mainstream” press. Sociopathy is flying high. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/soros_the_guiltless.html

Mike Savage – Barack Obama – Baby Killer & Gay Agenda Part1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dFRkNDxHm8

Keyes-Obama debate 2 (Death Penalty and Abortion)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOL8TxtexM

Paul Johnson

“Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on 2 November 1928 in Manchester, England) is a British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. Whilst associated with the left in his early career, he is now a prominent conservative popular historian. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson_(writer)

Frederick Hayek

“Friedrich August von Hayek, CH (May 8, 1899 – March 23, 1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher known for his defence of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century.^[1] One of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics, he also made significant contributions in the fields of jurisprudence and cognitive science. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with ideological rival Gunnar Myrdal “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.”^[2] He also received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.^[3] He is considered to be one of the major forces of change from the dominant interventionist and Keynesian policies of the first part of the 20th century to the more market friendly, less state controlled and liberal policies after the 1980s. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

The Road to Serfdom

“The Road to Serfdom is a book written by Friedrich Hayek (recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974) and originally published by Routledge Press in March 1944 in the UK and then by the University of Chicago in September 1944. In April, 1945, Reader’s Digest published a slightly shortened version of the book (still in print from the Institute of Economic Affairs), which eventually reached more than 600,000 readers. Around 1950 a picture-book version was published in Look Magazine, later made into a pamphlet and distributed by General Motors. The book has been translated into approximately 20 languages and is dedicated to “The socialists of all parties”. The introduction to the 50th anniversary edition is written by Milton Friedman (another recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics [1976]). In 2007, the University of Chicago Press put out a “Definitive Edition”. The Road to Serfdom is among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism.

This single book has significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the concepts of ‘Reagonomics’ and ‘Thatcherism’. It also led to the revival of Neoclassical economics in the West and lessening the Keynesian influence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

The Road from Serfdom: Forseeing the Fall

Thomas W. Hazlett

“…Reason: Are you optimistic about the future of freedom?

Hayek: Yes. A qualified optimism. I think there is an intellectual reversion on the way, and there is a good chance it may come in time before the movement in the opposite direction becomes irreversible. I am more optimistic than I was 20 years ago, when nearly all the leaders of opinion wanted to move in the socialist direction. This has particularly changed in the younger generation. So, if the change comes in time, there still is hope.”

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33304.html

Mao Zedong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao

Joseph Stalin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

Adolf Hitler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler

War on the Weak by Liam Dunaway / Eugenics Legislation Video

Eugenics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Sir Francis Galton – Father of Eugenics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufqOe0_pres&feature=related

Euthanasia Program: Action T4

Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program in Nazi Germany officially between 1939 and 1941, during which the regime of Adolf Hitler systematically killed between 200,000 to 250,000^[1] people with intellectual or physical disabilities. Performed unofficially after 1941, the killing became less systematic.^[2] The codename T4 was an abbreviation of “Tiergartenstraße 4”, the address of a villa in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten which was the headquarters of the General Foundation for Welfare and Institutional Care (Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Heil- und Anstaltspflege).^[3] This body operated under the direction of Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler’s private chancellery,^[4] and Dr Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician. This villa no longer exists, but a plaque set in the pavement on Tiergartenstraße marks its location.

The T4 program developed from the Nazi Party’s policy of “racial hygiene,” the belief that the German people needed to be “cleansed” of “racially unsound” elements, which included people with disabilities. The program set important precedents for the later Holocaust of the Jews of Europe: the historian Ian Kershaw has called it “a vital step in the descent into modern barbarism.”^[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-4_Euthanasia_Program

Genocide

“Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

In Cold Blood Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhNqyukp0h4&feature=related

IN COLD BLOOD CLIP

LOL

Barack Obama TV AD – BRAND NEW, JUNE 2008

Barack Obama TV AD #2 JUNE 2008

LOL: Bob–The Voice of The American People!

John McCain wants to LOWER Gas prices…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8W_KS52FI

Lower Gas Prices…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyN5jnrrm80&feature=user

30 Years of Useless Polticians on Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3X6vTFwIo

The Price of Ethanol…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSRU9BudqQI

Global Warming is a Myth…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=431kofHEtZs

Illegal Immigrants!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHMxeXOgR8&feature=related

Illegal Immigrants are above the law…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT8Ft5loYbw&feature=related

Illegal Immigrant “AMNESTY” Act

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJNa9aoQSw&feature=related

Politicians keep promising change…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmeHYtTvP1Y

What about the issues?!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef9tdsXfSjo&feature=user

“our” political system is a JOKE…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDlguYM0eI

The Democratic Party is a Joke…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKmo1ocj0I&feature=user

Barack Obama can’t STOP lying…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STgixh2avNo&feature=user

Barack Obama can’t make SIMPLE decisions…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vCHwwk_wMI&feature=user

Barack Obama says there are 57 states…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZawCHXWr4I&feature=user

Three Cheers for Bob!

Background Artilces and Videos

Poll Shows Majority of U.S. Adults Believe They Pay More Tax than Donald Trump

“…“While divided on tax reform, Americans appear united in one respect—their dislike of the federal estate tax,” said Hodge. When asked about completely eliminating the estate tax, an overwhelming 68 percent of survey respondents favored elimination. Currently the estate tax is scheduled to be phased out in 2010 only to return in 2011 unless Congress takes action.

Other key results include:

66 percent rated the value received from the federal government as “poor” or “only fair.”

The maximum percentage of anyone’s income that should ever go to taxes is just 16 percent – the mean response given by those surveyed – far below the nation’s estimated tax burden of 29.1 in 2005.

34 percent said taxes and government services should be reduced, while only 13 percent favored increases 3.

When told that an estimated 44 million Americans file tax returns each year but owe no federal income tax after deductions and credits, 59 percent of respondents said everyone should be required to pay some minimum amount of tax to help fund government.

The federal estate tax and income tax were seen as the least fair federal taxes (from a list of 4) by respondents, while local property taxes are seen as the least fair state and local taxes (also from a given list of 4).

28 percent said they had bought something over the Internet rather than from a local store, 25 percent said they gave more to charity, and 14 percent said they crossed a border to shop in a neighboring area with lower taxes in part because it meant that they would pay less in taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/press/show/343.html

Rasmussen Reports: 67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices

“…Sixty-four percent (64%) of voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that gas prices will go down if offshore oil drilling is allowed, although 27% don’t believe it. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of conservatives say offshore drilling is at least somewhat likely to drive prices down. That view is shared by 57% of moderates and 50% of liberal voters.

Nearly all voters are worried about rising gas and energy prices, with 79% very concerned and 16% somewhat concerned. …”

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/67_support_offshore_drilling_64_expect_it_will_lower_prices

Rasmussen Reports

“…4. When thinking about how you will vote in the presidential election, which of the following issues is most important—the economy, the War in Iraq, immigration, national security, health care, Social Security, or government ethics and corruption?

34% Economy

26% War in Iraq

8% Immigration

8% National security

9% Health care

2% Social Security

8% Government ethics and corruption

2% Some other issue

3% Not sure …”

“…10* A proposal has been made to increase the capital gains tax from 15% to 28%. Do you favor or oppose increasing the capital gains tax to 28%?

23% Favor

61% Oppose

16% Not sure

11* If the capital gains tax is increased to 28%, will that help the economy or hurt the economy?

19% Help

49% Hurt

19% No impact

13% Not sure …”

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/state_toplines/oregon/toplines_oregon_general_election_may_7_2008

McLaughlin Group – John McCain VP Predictions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XS5JeCIAU

Bill O’Reilly: Who will be McCain’s VP choice?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiGlSoila4

John McCain’s Top 24 Potential Picks For Vice-President

http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/02/john_mccains_top_22_potential.php

Starting Gate: Who Will McCain Pick?

“…That leaves us with a great, big guessing game as the process goes forward, so without further ado, here are the five candidates topping the inaugural edition of our Republican Vice Presidential Hot Sheet:

1). Mitt Romney: Wounds from the primaries have healed thanks to Romney’s efforts to raise money and campaign for McCain. He’s got the economic chops to fill a hole and could help in Michigan. But is the chemistry there?

2). Tim Pawlenty: Young, fresh face of the GOP, a Washington outsider and the governor from the battleground state which hosts McCain’s convention. Is he ready for to be a heartbeat away?

3). Charlie Crist: If this election is all about Florida, Florida, Florida, the very popular governor of the state should be a lock. Conservatives might balk though and if McCain needs him to lock down the state, he may have bigger problems.

4). Bobby Jindal: Policy wunderkind who has little beltway baggage and brings ethnic diversity to boot. But at 37 years of age, this could be too much of a May-December match to work.

5). Tom Ridge: Always on a short list but never the pick, the third time could be a charm for the former governor of Pennsylvania, a state the GOP is eyeing once again. But pro-choice leanings could be a non-starter for party loyalists.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/06/18/politics/horserace/entry4189219.shtml

Obama Vice President Picks: Who Are The Frontrunners?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/09/obama-vice-president-pick_n_100869.html

ENPR — McCain’s Libertarian Problem and Evangelical Problem

by Robert Novak and Timothy P. Carney

“…Add to this McCain’s un-conservative tastes, as exemplified by the two men he would most like to name as his running mate: former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.). Either of these VP nominees would destroy his conservative support, and McCain surely knows that. …”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27081&s=rcmp

McCain, Obama offer different visions on taxes

By LIZ SIDOTI

Associated Press Writer

“…”On tax policy, health care reform, trade, government spending, and a long list of other issues, we offer very different choices to the American people,” McCain says at every turn.

Concurs Obama: “When it comes to the economy, John McCain and I have a fundamentally different vision of where to take the country.”

Major changes to the tax code are at the heart of both candidates’ sweeping economic plans, given that most cuts enacted since President Bush took office expire at the end of 2010 and the alternative minimum tax (AMT) is poised to hit much of the middle class – two years into the next president’s first term. …”

http://www.kansascity.com/449/story/666934.html

Background Articles and Videos

Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall” speech 1 of 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfhDpCFN2U&feature=related

Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall” speech 2 of 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMvVPCZMeZE&feature=related

Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall” speech 3 of 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGc3VlGTx3k&feature=related

Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” – The Origin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtMX6wC11Ys&feature=related

30 Years of Useless Polticians on Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3X6vTFwIo

“Mr. Bush, Tear Up That Offshore Drilling Ban”

By Michelle Malkin

“… reported yesterday that GOP Rep. John Peterson’s effort to rescind the offshore drilling ban was rejected by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment. As I noted, California and Florida-pandering members of the Senate and the White House both oppose the measure. Thomas Pyle of the Institute for Energy Research sent this statement and letter to President Bush today: …”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/12/mr-bush-tear-up-that-offshore-drilling-ban%E2%80%9D/

Bush in offshore drilling call

“President Bush has asked the US Congress to end a ban on offshore oil drilling. …”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ueE_asuDQ

Bob Barr: Energy Policy & ANWR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6fFRN8MrmQ&feature=user

Bob Barr On Energy Independence On Glenn Beck 06/05/2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMirWOR3JY&feature=related

Barr on Glenn Beck 06/06/2008 – Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mbi3JVaTdw

McCain on offshore drilling: For it before he was against it before he was for it again;

“…Just a recap: McCain was AWOL on the windfall profits tax debate in the Senate (a failed Carter relic that he says he’d be “glad to look at”). He had nothing to say about Rep. John Peterson’s effort to lift the offshore drilling ban when it was up for a vote last week. And as I noted back on May 22, he has channeled the entire Democrat presidential field’s class warfare rhetoric and repeatedly referred to the oil industry’s “obscene profits.”

Now, he’s announced he wants to lift the offshore drilling moratorium and will give an energy speech tomorrow. He was for it before he was against it before he was for it again. Positively Kerryesque:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/16/mccain-on-offshore-drilling-for-it-before-he-was-against-it-before-he-was-for-it-again/

McCain calls for end to offshore drilling ban
GOP candidate in Houston today to mend fences with oil industry

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

“…As McCain revealed Monday, his speech today includes a proposal to end a federal ban on offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and much of the the oceanic coasts, giving states the option to approve oil production within their waters.

“As for offshore drilling, it’s safe enough these days that not even Hurricanes Katrina and Rita could cause significant spillage from the battered rigs off the coasts of New Orleans and Houston,” he says in the prepared text of the speech. “Yet, for reasons that become less convincing with every rise in the price of foreign oil, the federal government discourages offshore production.”

The ban, which McCain favored in some of his legislative votes, stems from environmental concerns and preservation of coastal scenery.

McCain also suggests in today’s speech that the federal government relax regulations on nuclear power and the development of oil refineries.

But he also asserts that the nation must be mindful of the effects on global warming of the use of oil and other carbon-based fuels. And he calls for an eventual reliance on alternative, clean fuels, as well as a commitment to conserving energy.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5841366.html

McCain Seeks to End Offshore Drilling Ban

“Sen. John McCain called yesterday for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices and immediately drawing the ire of environmental groups that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has courted for months.

“We must embark on a national mission to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil,” McCain told reporters yesterday. In a speech today, he plans to add that “we have untapped oil reserves of at least 21 billion barrels in the United States. But a broad federal moratorium stands in the way of energy exploration and production. . . . It is time for the federal government to lift these restrictions.” …”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602731.html?nav=rss_business

Spudd or Spudding In

“The Question:

In the oil drilling industry there is a term called “spudding.” What is it and how does it work?

The Answer:

“…To spud comes from the Middle English word, “spudde” meaning a short knife. In oil drilling “spudding” means the very start of drilling on a new well. The American Petroleum Institute offers the following definitions using the word spud:

Spud Contractor Name

The name of the contractor spudding the well.

Spud Date

The day when the drilling bit penetrates the surface utilizing a drilling rig capable of drilling the well to the authorized total depth.

Spud Time

The actual time (hours and minutes) when the drilling bit penetrates the surface utilizing a drilling rig capable of drilling the well to the authorized depth.

Spudding In

The very beginning of drilling operations of a new well. …”

http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/spudding-oil-drilling.html

Money Talks, Bullshit Walks

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Money+Talks%2C+Bullshit+Walks

Congressional Democrats Vote For Dependence on Foreign Oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9nY9Oxgfqo

Thomas Sowell

Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution
Stanford University

http://www.tsowell.com/

Executive Summary

Generation: While average temperatures prevailed across most of the Nation in January 2008, warmer-than-average temperatures in the more densely populated Northeastern United States led to a total heating degree day level for the contiguous U.S. that, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was 3.7 percent lower than the average for the month of January, but 5.0 percent higher than the fairly mild January 2007. According to the Federal Reserve Board, industrial production was 2.3 percent higher than it had been in January 2007. The higher heating demand and rise in production led to a net generation total that was 3.1 percent or 10.9 million MWh higher than January 2007. The increased generation was largely met with natural gas-fired capacity, although coal and wind generation also increased, offsetting the decrease in hydroelectric and nuclear generation from January 2007.

Of the four major sources of net generation (coal, nuclear, natural gas, and conventional hydroelectric), only coal and gas-fired generation showed an increase from January 2007 to January 2008. According to NOAA, “26 percent of the U.S. was in moderate to exceptional drought in January 2008,” and 39 percent of the Southeast was under “extreme or exceptional drought.” These conditions, particularly those in the Southeast, contributed to the 15.3 percent or 4.0 million MWh drop in conventional hydroelectric generation from January 2007.

Coal generation in January 2008 was 3.8 percent or 6.7 million MWh higher than it was in January 2007. Net generation attributable to nuclear sources was 4.5 percent or 3.3 million MWh lower than the year before. Natural gas-fired generation was 20.8 percent or 12.4 million MWh higher than its January 2007 level, while petroleum liquid-fired generation was 29.3 percent or 1.3 million MWh lower compared to a year ago, with its overall share of net generation still quite small compared to coal, nuclear, and natural gas-fired sources. Wind-powered generation was 52.0 percent or 1.3 million MWh higher than it was in January 2007. Wind-powered generation contributed 11.7 percent of the increase in total net generation. Even with these significant increases, the contribution of wind-powered generation to the national total was only 1.0 percent in January 2008.

In January 2008, 50.3 percent of the Nation’s electric power was generated at coal-fired plants (Figure 1). Nuclear plants contributed 19.5 percent, 19.8 percent was generated at natural gas-fired plants, and 1.2 percent was generated at petroleum-fired plants. Conventional hydroelectric power provided 6.2 percent of the total, while other renewables (primarily biomass, but also geothermal, solar, and wind) and other miscellaneous energy sources generated the remaining electric power. Figure 2 shows net generation by month for the last 12 months.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html

Nuclear Power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power

The above is background information for my comment below.

LOL

John McCain wants to LOWER Gas prices…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8W_KS52FI

Background Articles and Videos

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

“The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. It consists of 19,049,236 acres (79,318 km²) in the Alaska North Slope region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge

The Arctic Refuge and its Coastal Plain

Part II: The Debate

http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrdebateindex.html

Tapping Oil Reserves In A Small Part Of ANWR: Environmentally Sound, Energy Wise

by Charli E. Coon

“…Drilling in the ANWR will not threaten that natural preserve and will increase U.S. energy independence. Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimate that drilling in ANWR could yield up to 16 billion barrels of oil-an amount roughly equal to 30 years of oil imports from Saudi Arabia. Such a resource would increase the nation’s energy security as well. Members of Congress should resist any effort to delete oil and gas exploration in ANWR from H.R. 4.

How much of ANWR is involved?
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located within the Arctic Circle in northeast Alaska, consists of 19 million acres. Oil and gas development in the refuge is prohibited by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-487) unless Congress specifically authorizes such activity. In Section 1002 of this act, Congress set aside 1.5 million acres of the refuge’s coastal plain section for potential exploration and development of oil and gas. In 1995, Congress approved exploration in the so-called 1002 Area, but President Clinton vetoed that measure. The debate in Congress today centers solely on this small section; the remaining 17.5 million acres of ANWR lie in the protected enclave that cannot be developed.

Moreover, only a tiny amount of the section proposed for exploration would actually be involved in drilling. New production technology-including multilateral wells as well as directional drilling and other horizontal underground drilling-would require the use of only 2,000 acres in the 1002 Area, a parcel no bigger than Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., leaving 99.99 percent of ANWR untouched. …”

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/WM27.cfm

Arctic Refuge drilling controversy

“…The U.S. consumes about 20 million barrels (3,200,000 m³) daily. If the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil reserves were used to supply 5% of the U.S. daily consumption the reserves, using the low figure of 4.3 billion barrels (680,000,000 m³), would last approximately 4300 days, or almost 12 years. Using the high estimate, the reserves would last approximately 11800 days, or 32 years. Using the increasing price of oil this supply (with 10.5 billion barrel mean and crude oil at over $120 a barrel) would be worth $1.26 trillion.

In total, the oil deposits in ANWR contain enough oil to solely support U.S. consumption for 7 months (4.3B estimate) to 19 months (12B estimate). If used to completely replace oil imported from the Persian Gulf (775M barrels in 2007^[12]), oil from ANWR would last from approximately 5.5 years (4.3B estimate) to 15 years (12B estimate).^[13]…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Refuge_drilling_controversy

There is a reason it was call the Arctic National Wildlife Range before the subtle name change to refuge, it is mostly mountains, the Brooks range.

Alone Across Alaska: 1,000 Miles of Wilderness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZvxNB_Z_5Y&feature=related

Brooks Range

“The Brooks Range is a mountain range that stretches from west to east across northern Alaska and into Canada’s Yukon Territory, a total distance of about 1100 km (700 mi). The mountains are not especially high, topping out at over 2,700 m (9,000 ft). This mountain range forms the northern-most drainage divide in North America, separating streams flowing into the Arctic Ocean and the North Pacific. The range roughly delineates the summer position of the Arctic front. It represents the northern extent of tree line, with no trees (apart from some isolated Balsam poplar stands) occurring north of the continental drainage divide. Mount Chamberlin, 9020 ft (2,749 m), is the highest peak in the range. Other notable peaks include Mount Isto, 8,975 ft (2,736 m) and Mount Michelson, 8,855 ft (2,699 m).^[1]

The range is mostly uninhabited, but the Dalton Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System run through the Atigun Pass (1,415 m, 4,643 ft) on their way to the North Slope and the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay. The Alaska Native villages of Anaktuvuk and Arctic Village, as well as the very small communities of Coldfoot, Wiseman, Bettles, and Chandalar Lake are the only settlements in the 700-mile Brooks Range. In the far west, near the Wulik River in the De Long Mountains is the Red Dog Mine, Alaska, largest zinc mine in the world. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Range

Brooks Range

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg0JDyefeHk&NR=1

Brooks Range 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHm94wEhhQU

Brooks Range 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywRKqyJOaWU&feature=related

History of ANWR

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Established in 1960

“…

http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_of_anwr

Comparison of ANWR to the Continental U.S.

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/pages/03-ANWRtoUSmap.htm

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the Air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzb87nYX9BQ&feature=related

Alaska Hunting: 700 Miles Alone by Backpack & Raft

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

Chairman Don Young Introduces ANWR Bill, Sparks Many Converts

“…Minority Natural Resources Committee Chairman Don Young introduced HR 6107, The American Energy Independence and Price Reduction Act. The bill was co-sponsored by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD). The bill calls for the opening of the 10-02 Area of ANWR to responsible oil and gas development and uses the funds generated from oil production taxes to set up an Alternative Energy Trust Fund to promote the development and production of alternative energies.

The trust fund would also be used to help fund many of the alternative energy provisions not paid for in the 2005 National Energy Act (EPACT) and the 2007 National Energy Bill (EISA). The funds generated for such programs will not only provide a way forward away from a finite oil supply but will cost the tax payers of America not one penny.

Chairman Young’s bill is gaining many supporters most notably his co-sponsor Rep. Bartlett who has often in the past been against ANWR legislation. Rep. Bartlett held a press conference on Capitol Hill announcing his change of policy due to his understanding of the huge economic benefit of ANWR oil development on the nation at a time when gasoline and food prices are at record highs. Bartlett stated, “Investing this money in alternative sources of energy will eventually reduce gas prices because supply and demand will come forth to balance and the price will drop.” …”

http://www.anwr.org/Headlines/Chariman-Don-Young-Introduces-ANWR-Bill-Sparks-Many-Converts.php

How Much Oil in ANWR

“…Geologists agree that the Coastal Plain has the nation’s best geologic prospects for major new onshore oil discoveries. According to the Department of Interior’s 1987 resource evaluation of ANWR’s Coastal Plain, there is a 95% chance that a ‘super field’ with 500 million barrels would be discovered. DOI also estimates that there exists a mean of 3.5 billion barrels, and a 5% chance that a large Prudhoe Bay type discovery would be made.

High potential. The high potential for significant discoveries of oil and gas in ANWR has long been recognized. Early explorers of the region at the turn of the century, found oil seeps and oil-stained sands. However, since ANWR was established in 1960, exploration in the region has been restricted to surface geological investigations, aeromagnetic surveys, and two winter seismic surveys (in 1983-84 and 1984-85). No exploratory drilling has been accomplished in the area except for one well commenced in the winter of 1984-85 on Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation lands southeast of Kaktovik on the Coastal Plain. …”

http://www.anwr.org/Background/How-much-oil-is-in-ANWR.php

There’s Something About McCain
An uncanny ability to drive virtually all conservatives nuts.
by Dean Barnett

“…There’s little doubt that John McCain really believes what he says about ANWR. One of John McCain’s virtues is that you can pretty much believe everything that comes out of his mouth. The fact that McCain’s conviction is so unquestionable is one of the things that makes this otherwise trivial matter disturbing.

You have to wonder, Where did McCain come up with his conclusion that ANWR is the same as the Grand Canyon? What did he see that Jonah Goldberg missed? Did the senator’s previous immersion in the balmy Arizona climate make ANWR’s 70-below-zero temperatures feel like an invigorating change of pace? Or perhaps it was warmer out, but the bugs weren’t biting the day the Senator hit ANWR.

Then again, has John McCain ever been to ANWR? We’ve inquired of the McCain campaign three separate times in the past day whether McCain knows of ANWR’s epic beauty from first hand experience. Regardless of whether or not the senator has ever been there, his comments on ANWR reside somewhere on a continuum between laughable blustering and ignorant blustering.

WHAT MAKES McCAIN’S stridency on ANWR particularly odd is the issue’s utter irrelevance. Regardless of whether John McCain, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, or Ron Paul wins the 2008 presidential election, the exact same amount of oil will come gushing forth from there over the next president’s term–none. And even if ANWR were to get fully tapped, it would only marginally lessen America’s dependency on foreign oil.

McCain’s decision to stick by his original positions on ANWR is admirably principled if arguably hidebound. But that doesn’t explain why McCain chose to defend his ground by reciting Sierra Club talking points, the same ones that liberals use to belittle conservatives whenever this issue arises. …”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=14604&R=13AE57B

Potential Oil Production from the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Updated Assessment

3. Summary

1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the 19 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the largest unexplored, potentially productive geologic onshore basin in the United States. The primary area of the coastal plain is the 1002 Area of ANWR established when ANWR was created. A decision on permitting the exploration and development of the 1002 Area is up to Congress and has not been approved to date. Also included in the Coastal Plain are State lands to the 3-mile offshore limit and Native Inupiat land near the village of Kaktovik.

The USGS estimated:

a 95 percent probability that at least 5.7 billion barrels of technically recoverable undiscovered oil are in the ANWR coastal plain,

a 5 percent probability that at least 16 billion barrels of technically recoverable undiscovered oil are in the ANWR coastal plain, and

a mean or expected value of 10.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable undiscovered oil in the ANWR coastal plain.

EIA postulates two development rates for each of the three USPS probability estimates without specifying the effect of various levels of oil prices and technology advancements, ranging from 250 to 800 million barrels developed per year. EIA projects peak production rates from 600,000 to 1.9 million barrels per day over the six cases, with peak production estimated to occur 20 – 30 years after the onset of production.

Seven to 12 years are estimated to be required from an approval to explore and develop to first production from the ANWR Area. This study uses 9 years, to 2010. The time to first production could vary significantly based on time required for leasing after approval to develop is given. Environmental considerations and the possibility of drilling restrictions would directly impact the time interval to reach first production.

The USGS economic analysis of the ANWR 1002 Area calculates that once oil has been discovered, more than 80 percent of the technically recoverable oil is commercially developable at an oil price of $25 per barrel. The imported refiner acquisition cost in 2020 is projected in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2000 reference case at $22.04 (1998 dollars). At this price, the potential ANWR oil recovered would have a value between $125 and $350 billion (in 1998 dollars.)

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/arctic_national_wildlife_refuge/html/summary.html

George F. Will:

The Gas Prices We Deserve

“…One million barrels is what might today be flowing from ANWR if in 1995 President Bill Clinton had not vetoed legislation to permit drilling there. One million barrels produce 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Seventy-two of today’s senators — including Schumer, of course, and 38 other Democrats, including Barack Obama, and 33 Republicans, including John McCain — have voted to keep ANWR’s estimated 10.4 billion barrels of oil off the market. …”

“…Also disqualified from complaining are all voters who sent to Washington senators and representatives who have voted to keep ANWR’s oil in the ground and who voted to put 85 percent of America’s offshore territory off-limits to drilling. The U.S. Minerals Management Service says that restricted area contains perhaps 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — 10 times as much oil and 20 times as much natural gas as Americans use in a year.

Drilling is underway 60 miles off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are.

ANWR is larger than the combined areas of five states (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware), and drilling along its coastal plain would be confined to a space one-sixth the size of Washington’s Dulles airport. Offshore? Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed or damaged hundreds of drilling rigs without causing a large spill. There has not been a significant spill from an offshore U.S. well since 1969. Of the more than 7 billion barrels of oil pumped offshore in the past 25 years, 0.001 percent — that is one-thousandth of 1 percent — has been spilled. Louisiana has more than 3,200 rigs offshore — and a thriving commercial fishing industry. …”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403052.html

Bob Barr on Glenn Beck 06/06/2008 – Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHoF6lYtnRo&feature=related

Bob Barr on Glenn Beck 06/06/2008 – Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1yuJboCpo8&feature=related

Bob Barr on Glenn Beck 06/06/2008 – Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-TrTXS8io&feature=related

Bob Barr on Glenn Beck 06/06/2008 – Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMirWOR3JY&feature=related

Bob Barr on Immigration 5/24/2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_QWmZV30pc

DRILL!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB2_8kgS7h0&feature=related

The Perils of the Precautionary Principle: Lessons from the American and European Experience

by John D. Graham, Ph.D.

“…In summary, there are two major perils associated with an extreme approach to precaution. One is that technological innovation will be stifled, and we all recognize that innovation has played a major role in economic progress throughout the world. A second peril, more subtle, is that public health and the environment would be harmed as the energies of regulators and the regulated community would be diverted from known or plausible hazards to speculative and ill-founded ones. For these reasons, please do not be surprised if the U.S. government continues to take a precautionary approach to calls for adoption of a universal precautionary principle in regulatory policy.”

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/hl818.cfm

Senate OKs oil drilling in Alaska’s ANWR
Democrats vow that the fight is not over for wilderness area

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/216352_anwr17.html

LOL

John McCain wants to LOWER Gas prices…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8W_KS52FI

Background Articles and Videos

Know Enough?

Obama/Ayers gets an airing

By Michelle Malkin • August 21, 2008 05:48 PM

No library gatekeepers can keep the lid on the truth forever.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/21/obamaayers-gets-an-airing/

Group to spend $2.8 million on anti-Obama ad

“A conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain‘s presidential campaign is spending $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama’s relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.

The ad, which is expected to begin airing Thursday in Michigan and Friday in Ohio, focuses on William Ayers, whose Weatherman organization took credit for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol 40 years ago.

American Issues Project, the sponsor of the ad, is a nonprofit 501(c)4 organization. One of its board members, Ed Failor Jr., was a paid consultant for McCain’s campaign in Iowa last year. The campaign paid his firm $50,000 until July 2007. American Issues Project spokesman Christian Pinkston said Failor has no connection to the McCain campaign now.

Ayers is now a university professor. He and Obama live in the same Chicago neighborhood and served together on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity group. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.

“Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote, ‘Respectable’ and ‘Mainstream,'” the ad states. “Obama’s political career was launched in Ayers’ home. And the two served together on a left-wing board. Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it? Do you know enough to elect Barack Obama?” …”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_el_pr/anti_obama_ad_1

O’Reilly on ABC Debate, Exposes Obama and Far-Left Cowards

Will Big Media Look at Obama and His Leftwing Influences?

By Bill Steigerwald

“…Q: Can you briefly sum up what you have discovered about Obama’s ideological influences that you say need to be checked out by Big Media?

A: We think all the major candidates should be examined for their ties to foreign and hostile elements. In the case of Obama, he has gotten a very, very favorable press. The media seem reluctant to dig into his background, even though he is relatively new on the political scene. What we discovered, in two different places — first in Hawaii, where he went to high school, and in Chicago, where he started his political career — is that he is right in the middle of communist networks. In Hawaii, he was mentored by a member of the Communist Party by the name of Frank Marshall Davis. In Chicago, his career was launched and he was close friends with a number of communists and socialists.

Q: What specifically did your investigation find out about Davis, who Obama calls only “Frank” in his memoir “Dreams from My Father”?

A: What was very disturbing to us was the fact that Barack Obama had covered up the true identity of this “Frank” who played such a role in his life just before he went off to college (in the late 1970s). There are several references in his book to this “Frank.” We discovered that “Frank” was indeed Frank Marshall Davis, who was a member of a Soviet-sponsored communist network on the island of Hawaii. We think Obama should be asked to explain why he didn’t reveal Frank’s true identity in his book. We looked into this and had confirmed by several sources that Frank was indeed Frank Marshall Davis, and that he had a considerable influence on Obama. But we cannot really get a rational explanation of why Obama would cover up the identity of this Stalinist agent. …”

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/09/will_big_media_look_at_obama_and_his_leftwing_influences

Identifying the “Frank” in Young Obama’s Life

“…Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy In Media calls Davis Obama’s “childhood mentor.” I would caution Obama-watchers not to overstate the importance of Frank in Obama’s life; I read the sections describing Frank not as a wholehearted endorsement of Davis and his views (although obviously if Obama knew of Davis’ communist ties, he chose not to include that in his book); but as something of a cautionary tale. What teenager would want to grow up to be an elderly, embittered drunk, going on at length at life’s injustices in a run-down house in Waikiki?The one way in which “Frank” seemed to really impact Obama was in his racial suspicion, his sense that no white man could truly relate to his experiences. Obama describes feeling “truly alone” after hearing the above monologue from Frank; he’s been offered a disturbing opinion that his grandfather (and, implictly, his mother and grandmother) may love him, but will never understand him.

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjRkZjI4ODI5YmVhMTcyOWVmZWE3NDU5MmMzZDExYjk=

“…A couple of weeks ago in Washington, Herb Romerstein and Cliff Kincaid, two veteran investigators of American communism, held a press conference on Capitol Hill to announce the release of two new reports on Barack Obama’s radical past, or, more specifically, his association with extremist elements from the American left — yet more evidence of a frightening pattern of associations by Obama throughout his distant and recent life, from Bill Ayers to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, all of which at the least shows bad judgment. At the press conference, they discussed Romerstein’s report on Frank Marshall Davis, an influential figure in Obama’s early life, whom Obama refers to only as “Frank” (albeit affectionately) in his autobiography Dreams From My Father. Davis was a communist, a member of CPUSA. Romerstein developed that fact very carefully in his report, which contained at least a half dozen exhibits and other forms of reliable documentation — a fact that itself is news, since many (on the gullible left) still like to question whether Davis was a Party member. …”

“…Where does Obama meet Davis? — in Hawaii. Similar to Obama, whose mother moved from Kansas to Seattle to Honolulu, with Obama on to Chicago, Frank Marshall Davis went from Kansas to Chicago to Honolulu. Obama freely admits to learning and taking advice from Davis, which surely was nothing like the “Midwestern values” that Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS) claimed his mother learned in Kansas. While most Americans by the late 1970s and early 1980s were at last convinced that détente with the Soviets was a sham, and that the USSR was an Evil Empire that needed to be dissolved, Obama almost certainly was learning exactly the opposite — moving totally against what Ronald Reagan described as the “tide of history,” a “freedom tide” that would “leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history.”

Instead, as Obama writes in Dreams From My Father, he was hanging out with the “Marxist professors,” attending “socialist conferences,” and “discuss[ing] neocolonialism.” Rather than learning about the American exceptionalism that would seek to bring freedom to the USSR and Eastern Europe, Obama was hearing about the glory of the Bolshevik experiment. This was the wrong side of history. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/return_of_the_dupes_and_the_an.html

Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis Took the Fifth Amendment When Asked About His

Communist Party Membership

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/obama_mentor.pdf

The buzz about Barack’s birth certificate

By Michelle Malkin • June 10, 2008 07:39 AM

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/10/the-buzz-about-baracks-birth-certificate/

Friday Videodrome: The One Where Obama Is On Friends

By see-dubya • June 6, 2008 02:11 PM

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/06/friday-videodrome-the-one-where-obama-is-on-friends/

The not-so-simple story of Barack Obama’s youth

“…In his best-selling autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama describes having heated conversations about racism with another black student, “Ray.” The real Ray, Keith Kakugawa, is half black and half Japanese. In an interview with the Tribune on Saturday, Kakugawa said he always considered himself mixed race, like so many of his friends in Hawaii, and was not an angry young black man.

He said he does recall long, soulful talks with the young Obama and that his friend confided his longing and loneliness. But those talks, Kakugawa said, were not about race. “Not even close,” he said, adding that Obama was dealing with “some inner turmoil” in those days.

“But it wasn’t a race thing,” he said. “Barry’s biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment. The idea that his biggest struggle was race is [bull].” …”

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-obama-making-1,0,4014075.story

Activism blossomed in college

By Maurice Possley | Tribune staff reporter

“…Some took Obama’s professed radicalism as posturing. “I was impressed by the sharpness of Barry’s intellect and, like many, his effortless charm,” said classmate Mark Dery, a journalism professor at New York University. But “I also harbored an instinctual suspicion of his … suave demeanor.”

Somewhere along the line Barry, the name of the boy from Waikiki, gave way to Barack, the name he inherited from his Kenyan father.

For the most part, Obama’s commitment to social activism was limited to coffeehouse talk. But near the end of his time at Occidental, he got caught up in protests against apartheid in South Africa, helping plan a large campus rally demanding that the college divest investments there. …”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-0703291042mar30,0,4252889.story

Barack Obama: The making of a candidate

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-life-storygallery,0,6974953.storygallery

Is Barack Obama a Marxist Mole

“…But you will find it briefly discussed, sort of, in Obama’s own book, Dreams From My Father. He writes about “a poet named Frank,” who visited them in Hawaii, read poetry, and was full of “hard-earned knowledge” and advice. Who was Frank? Obama only says that he had “some modest notoriety once,” was “a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago…” but was now “pushing eighty.” He writes about “Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self” giving him advice before he left for Occidental College in 1979 at the age of 18.

This “Frank” is none other than Frank Marshall Davis, the black communist writer now considered by some to be in the same category of prominence as Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. In the summer/fall 2003 issue of African American Review, James A. Miller of George Washington University reviews a book by John Edgar Tidwell, a professor at the University of Kansas, about Davis’s career, and notes, “In Davis’s case, his political commitments led him to join the American Communist Party during the middle of World War II-even though he never publicly admitted his Party membership.” Tidwell is an expert on the life and writings of Davis. …”

“…Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, talked about it during a speech last March at the reception of the Communist Party USA archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University. The remarks were posted online under the headline, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party.”

Horne, a history professor at the University of Houston, noted that Davis, who moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 “at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson,” came into contact with Barack Obama and his family and became the young man’s mentor, influencing Obama’s sense of identity and career moves. Robeson, of course, was the well-known black actor and singer who served as a member of the CPUSA and apologist for the old Soviet Union. Davis had known Robeson from his time in Chicago.

As Horne describes it, Davis “befriended” a “Euro-American family” that had “migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago.”

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck2.22.08.html

Obama’s Communist Mentor

“…However, through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What’s more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations. …”

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

Frank Marshall Davis: Black Labor Activist and Outsider Journalist:

Social Movements in Hawai`i

by: Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~takara/frank_marshall_davis.htm

Abercrombie & Obama

The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky

The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinksy and His Legacy

http://www.itvs.org/democraticpromise/legacy1.html

Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption

http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm

Showing his bare knuckles

In first campaign, Obama revealed hard-edged, uncompromising side in eliminating party rivals

“…The day after New Year’s 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city’s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama’s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.

But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer. …”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-0704030881apr04,0,4580576.story

Minister Farrakhan Speaks About Barack Obama

Glenn Beck: Obama – Black Liberation Theology 1

Glenn Beck: Obama – Black Liberation Theology 2

‘Context,’ you say? A guide to the radical theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright

By Stanley Kurtz | May 19, 2008 | 3922 words

“…Wright’s defenders have portrayed Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ as “well within the mainstream of the black church” while downplaying its militancy and politicization. In fact, Wright’s church is not only thoroughly politicized, but is arguably the most radical black church in the country. The substance and style of Wright’s infamous remarks are part and parcel of a broader, and proudly radical, theology. The bold denunciations are not distractions or somehow beside the point, but are the culmination and justification of Wright’s prophetic vocation. Even his famous “Audacity to Hope” sermon, which led to Obama’s conversion and baptism, fits into this framework.

A scarcely concealed, Marxist-inspired indictment of American capitalism pervades contemporary “black-liberation theology.” Far from the mainstream, Trinity (and the relatively small band of other churches that share its worldview) sees itself as marginalized and radical, struggling in the face of an overwhelming rejection of its political theology by mainstream black churches. …”

“…Obama has now attempted to distance himself from Wright, claiming to be “outraged” by the reverend’s recent comments. Yet it’s hard to believe that Obama heard anything in the past few weeks that he hadn’t heard before. What gives outrage only now has been going on for decades.

In his rejection of the path of assimilation; in his contempt for “middle-classness” and the capitalist system it sustains; in his pursuit of a separate, black Christianity and his hostility to conventional religion; in his bitter and “prophetic” denunciations of America’s history, its founding icons and its anti-Qaddafi, pro-Israel foreign policy; in his conviction that the U.S. government is responsible for genocide against blacks; and in his insistence that Americans are collectively guilty for 9/11, Jeremiah Wright is a true follower of James Cone’s theology of black liberation. It would seem the only thing worse than quoting Jeremiah Wright out of context is quoting him in context.”

http://www.mywire.com/pubs/NationalReview/2008/05/19/6468370?pbl=252

Dr. James Hal Cone & A Black Theology of Liberation

http://www.zimbio.com/RBG+Afrikan-+Centered+Cultural+Development+and+Education/articles/721/Dr+James+Hal+Cone+Black+Theology+Liberation

Jeremiah Wright on Fox

Obama promotes America’s enemies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLy9y1vr7pg&feature=related

Double Life of Barack Obama
Wright is wrong for America.

By Thomas Sowell

“…While talking about bringing us together and deploring “divisive” actions, Senator Obama has for 20 years been a member of a church whose minister, Jeremiah Wright, has said that “God Bless America” should be replaced by “God damn America” — among many other wild and even obscene denunciations of American society, including blanket racist attacks on whites.

Nor was this an isolated example. Fox News Channel has played tapes of various sermons of Jeremiah Wright, and says that it has tapes with hours more of the same.

Wright’s actions matched his words. He went with Louis Farrakhan to Libya and Farrakhan received an award from his church.

Sean Hannity began reporting on Jeremiah Wright back in April of 2007. But the mainstream media saw no evil, heard no evil, and spoke no evil.

Now that the facts have come out in a number of places, and can no longer be suppressed, many in the media are trying to spin these facts out of existence.

Spin number one is that Jeremiah Wright’s words were “taken out of context.” Like most people who use this escape hatch, those who say this do not explain what the words mean when taken in context.

In just what context does “God damn America” mean something different?

Spin number two is that Barack Obama says he didn’t hear the particular things that Jeremiah Wright said that are now causing so much comment.

It wasn’t just an isolated remark. Nor were the enthusiastic responses of the churchgoers something which suggests that this anti-American attitude was news to them or something that they didn’t agree with.

If Barack Obama was not in church that particular day, he belonged to that church for 20 years. He made a donation of more than $20,000 to that church.

In all that time, he never had a clue as to what kind of man Jeremiah Wright was? Give me a break!

You can’t be with someone for 20 years, call him your mentor, and not know about his racist and anti-American views.

Neither Barack Obama nor his media spinmeisters can put this story behind him with some facile election-year rhetoric. If Senator Obama wants to run with the rabbits and hunt with the hounds, then at least let the rabbits and the hounds know that. …”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0MDI5ZDE5MTcyYjBmMjI0MmVhZjhiOTM2MDI5NzM=

Obama RACISM – Charles Krauthammer ANALYSIS

A Conversation with James Cone

Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx

“…Karl Marx seemed to regard religion as one of the toughest roadblocks to mounting and sustaining a proper revolution by the proletariat. That the masses would continue to stubbornly cling to their religions, placing their hope in God rather than man, was evidently one of the more prickly thorns in ole Karl’s side.

Both Lenin and Stalin concurred with Marx, and one of the most stringent and murderous thrusts of Soviet Communism was its campaign against religion, especially Judaism and Christianity. Mao and other eastern communists went this route as well, and never pretended to have any faith whatsoever in anyone or anything but the material world.

But Barack Obama, the student of Saul Alinksy, sees the necessity of reeling in those of faith, and making them part of the class struggle, while avoiding the harsher approach of demanding that the people give up their faith as a consequence of their commitment to revolutionary change. Americans have proven much more stubborn in the religious realm than the Europeans, who fell hook, line and sinker for Marx, Lenin and Stalin.

America might seem more amenable to the kind of Third Way socialism that Hitler brought to Germany, while cunningly using Christian jargon to wile his way into Aryan minds and hearts.

Black liberation theology, I have discovered (Read Part One here.), is yet another form of Third Way socialism, developed by Marxists seeking a way around the stubbornness of the ardently faithful, a way to hook folks on the revolution, without putting up a fight to eradicate their religion.

And Obama’s Chicago experiences seem to give him great hope that his cloak of religiosity will help to catapult him over the religious right and into the White House on the wings of liberation theology. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/obama_black_liberation_theolog_1.html

Barack Obama’s Goldmine

By Ed Lasky

“…With Obama’s campaign we have fully entered the internet era of electoral politics.

The Mybarackobama site is the first social network site devoted to a political campaign. Mybarackobama.com capitalizes on “viral growth”: by inviting friends to join you in supporting Barack Obama. Powered by this simple but effective mechanism, the Obama campaign’s list of contacts, supporters and donors has grown at an exponential rate with zero incremental costs of “acquiring” them. Why buy mailing lists?

This is a powerful competitive advantage. Through it, supporters become part of the campaign: learning of meet-ups where they join with like-minded Obama supporters; they can also tap phone bank lists, so as to contact other potential supporters and new recruits. The website also encourages them to express their concerns over a range of issues — helping the campaign develop its own talking points on the campaign trail. Supporters have entered megabits of personal information that otherwise would have to be derived from expensive and less reliable sources (credit card records, magazine subscriptions, and the like); because it is information that is volunteered, its veracity is considered greater.

Of course, the campaign has also risen on the vast amount of money collected from a fundraising effort that has eclipsed that of all previous campaigns. Barack Obama has been a prodigious fundraiser; the campaign’s prowess is remarkable. Obama has even been able to convince former supporters of Bill Clinton to support his own election, damaging the Clinton’s campaign that has been chronically short of funds. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/barack_obamas_goldmine_1.html

Barack Obama Church Pfleger White Guilt Hillary Clinton

Black Liberation Theology: How To Fit In by Michael Pfleger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H11x6bMu4Y&feature=related

Barack Obama – New Bill Ayers – Bernardine Dohrn

Lou Dobbs discusses Obama – Ayers connection

Lou Dobbs Demands that Barack Obama Apologize to Him

Barack Obama – Ayers – Dohrn – Weathermen Terrorists

No Regrets

“…Overall, it is not easy to imagine him as part of the Weatherman, a group that during the late sixties and early seventies openly called for revolution in America, led a violent rampaging protest in Chicago, and took credit for numerous bombings around the United States.

One of the Weatherman leaders was Bernardine Dohrn, a smart, magnetic figure who, in part because of her penchant for miniskirts and knee-high boots, was dubbed “La Pasionaria of the Lunatic Left” by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. After a bomb exploded accidentally and killed three of their colleagues, Ayers and Dohrn “hooked up,” in the parlance of the day, and, since 1982, they have been married. This—violence, death, and white-hot rhetoric—is his past and Ayers insists he has no regrets. “I acted appropriately in the context of those times,” he says. But it’s hard to reconcile this quick-witted man with that revolutionary. Today Bill Ayers seems too happy to have ever been so angry. …”

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

Movement (Obama)

“The Weather Underground”

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1847524043861152897

Obama’s Other Radical Friends

By ELIZABETH WURTZEL

“…Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there’s been some press about the senator’s friendship with this controversial Weathercouple. Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as “flimsy,” that the senator’s relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close.

In her tepid, wobbling way, Hillary Clinton has attempted to use this well-known fact to portray her opponent as a secret subversive. But mostly, the press doesn’t want to touch this story – and no one else does either, as if it actually were TNT. Perhaps right-wing evildoers are holding onto this story to exploit in the general election….”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120968398096261113.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Obama the Movie trailer (Clear and Present Danger)

Barack Obama – The Cult Continues – Tony Rezko

The Shadow Party

By Jamie Glazov

“…A new book by David Horowitz and Richard Poe has enraged the Left and alarmed many conservatives. It exposes the machinations of a radical clique working at the highest levels of government and finance to undermine American power. That book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. It hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week in print. …”

“…FP: How does Soros use his influence over the Party?

Poe: He uses it to push the Party leftward. He is systematically purging the Party of moderates and packing it with radicals. For instance, the Shadow Party ousted Senator Joseph Lieberman in favor of Ned Lamont, because Lieberman refused to support a “cut-and-run” policy in Iraq.

FP: Isn’t that just politics as usual, though – wealthy fat cats funding their favorite candidates?

Poe: Funding ordinary candidates, be they Democrats or Republicans, would be politics as usual. Funding radical candidates who seek America’s destruction is not. Money is a tool. It can be used for good or evil. The Shadow Party is using it for evil.

FP: Does the Shadow Party really seek to destroy America?

Poe: Judge for yourself. In his new book The Age of Fallibility, Soros writes, “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.” He announced in 2003 that it is necessary to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.” Soros is working systematically to achieve that goal.

On the economic front, he is shorting the dollar in global currency markets, trying to force a devaluation. At the same time, Soros is orchestrating a nationwide movement to encourage mass immigration into the United States, and to mandate the provision of free social services to illegal immigrants. These measures alone have the potential to bankrupt the nation. However, if they fail, Soros has another program that will certainly finish the job. A long-time Soros operative named Jeffrey Sachs has been placed in charge of the United Nations Millennium Project – a global war on poverty designed to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones. Sachs is currently demanding that American taxpayers turn over $140 billion per year to his global welfare bureaucracy.

On the political front, Soros has poured massive funding into such groups as the ACLU, which uses lawsuits to hamstring the War on Terror. Soros also funds Amnesty International, whose US executive director has called for the arrest of President Bush as a war criminal. Another Soros-funded group, The Center for Constitutional Rights, has drawn up detailed articles of impeachment against the President. …”

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5A30173A-2F13-4FAE-9437-2C67243B964A

O’: MeddiaMatters, GeorgeSoros ConspiringAgainst John McCain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy0X5IH5zN0

Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception

By Ed Lasky

“…It is well-known that George Soros, the hedge-fund manager, major Democratic Party donor and anti-Israel crusader, has been a generous contributor to Barack Obama. But relatively few people realize that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed Soros his family members to be particularly generous in support of Obama’s Senatorial campaign.

Because Obama was running against Blair Hull in the primary and then Jack Ryan in the general (both multi-millionaires), Obama could, and did, receive especially large donations from individuals, to so-called “millionaires exception.” Normally individuals are limited to giving $2300 to candidates in federal elections, but when candidates are running against millionaires, these limits are lifted and candidates are allowed to receive up to $12,000 from a single individual. Soros and his family gave Barack Obama $60,000. This does not include money that Soros was able to funnel to so-called 527 groups (Moveon.org, for example) that have also been politically active; nor does it include money that Soros was able to raise from tapping a network of friends, business associates, and employees. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/soros_obama_and_the_millionair.html

Unlike Kerry, Barack Obama Covets George Soros’ Support
By Robert B. Bluey

“…Little has been made of his connection to Soros, although it is quite unique. Not only did George Soros donate to Obama’s campaign, but four other family members – Jennifer, sons Jonathan and Robert and wife Susan – did as well.

Because of a special provision campaign finance laws, the Soroses were able to give a collective $60,000 to Obama during his primary challenge. Obama faced millionaire Blair Hull, which allowed donors to give more than typically allowed.

Obama is one of only a handful of candidates to get a personal contribution from George Soros. The others include Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Bob Graham (D-Fla.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, and former Vermont governor Howard Dean. …”

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200407%5CNAT20040727a.html

The McCain v. Obama Nightmare – Ann Coulter * UNEDITED *

Soros is a big supporter of Obama. …”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-0iNVYs2o&feature=related

George Soros – The Bubble of American Supremacy

Charlie Rose – George Soros

Charlie Rose: October 2, 1995

“…A conversation with George Soros, the world’s most famous investor and noted philanthropist, about his book “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, a reflection of his philosophy about business and philanthropy. The book also deals with his Open Society Fund and the hope of assisting Eastern European countries towards more free and democratic societies. …”

Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”

“…Via Discover the Networks, you’ll see that Soros’s OSI is a key open borders funder–providing support to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; and the American Immigration Law Foundation.

Remind me again which party’s presidential nomination John McCain is running for?”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/25/meet-the-open-borders-family-mccain-hernandez-soros-and-the-reform-institute/

Socialist-Marxist-Communist, Say Hello to Michelle Obama

Meet Michelle Obama!

Obama – MIchelle Obama Speaks at UCLA Rally

Congressional Progressive Caucus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

Totally Radical!

By: Robert W. Lee

“…Congressmen Rangel (NY) and Miller (CA) both belong to the House Progressive Caucus (HPC), a consortium of radical congressional collectivists whose stunning success in November remains one of the most under-reported stories of the election. Fifty-five of the 58 members on last year’s HPC roster (see sidebar on page 31) ran for re-election; every one of them was re-elected.“…The media have ignored the extremism of congressmen who have openly allied themselves with a subversive network seeking to supplant our form of government with totalitarian socialism. Yet the same media have branded as extremists congressmen who supported the impeachment of our corrupt President. The problem, in short, extends far beyond the President to the media and Congress and the other citadels of power. But the problem can be solved — if only sufficient numbers of grassroots Americans will become involved.

The truth about the congressmen profiled above, if widely enough known, could destroy their effectiveness and electability. That is why the major media, which supports their vision of a Socialist America, cover up their records — and that is why we must circumvent the major media. “

This success occurred in spite of the fact that there is a symbiotic relationship between the HPC and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — a relationship that has been ignored by the major media. The DSA is the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, the world’s oldest and largest hodgepodge of socialist, social democratic, and labour parties. The Socialist International proudly boasts that it is the successor to the so-called “First International” of Karl Marx, founded in London in 1864. According to one DSA position paper, its collectivist agenda includes “massive redistribution of income from corporations and the wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector”; “a massive shift of public resources from the military … to civilian uses”; and “expanding [Medicare] eligibility to people of all ages and income regardless of health or employment status” so that “the federal government can serve as the single payer” for the nation’s health care. After all, the DSA contends, “Free markets or private charity cannot provide adequate public goods and services.”

The House Progressive Caucus was founded in 1992 by Representatives Bernard Sanders (Independent-VT), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Lane Evans (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and then-Congressman Ron Dellums (D-CA). …”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/905

Fascist liberal Obama Demands More Censorship

Fascist “Chairman” Barack Obama (Jimmy Carter’s second term)

Jimmy Carter’s Inferior Years

by Fulton Lewis

“…If the “proof of the pudding is in the eating,” the statistics on the Carter Administration were nauseating. Automobile prices increased 72%. New house prices went up 67%. In 1979 alone, gasoline prices increased 60%. The inflation rate went from 6.8% in 1977, to 7.6% in 1978, to 11.5% in 1979, to 12.4% in 1980. National productivity declined sharply. The unemployment rate was roughly double what it is today under President Bush. Interest rates soared. By the time Carter left office, the prime rate was 21.5% — a new record.

On July 15, 1979, the television networks aired Carter’s infamous “Malaise Speech” –written by Chris Matthews, currently the host of “Hardball” — which declared that the nation had reached a “crisis of confidence.” It was widely criticized as being a “huge depressant” at a time when America needed encouragement and a pep talk. Three days later, Carter called for the resignations of all of his Cabinet members. To further underscore the crisis atmosphere, he symbolically lowered the thermostats in the White House and other federal facilities to 65 degrees in the winter, and raised them in the summer to 78 degrees. Promotional pictures showing the President in a heavy sweater were supposed to inspire everyone to “follow the leader”. The national Christmas Tree was not lighted in 1979 and 1980. But few were impressed and even fewer were motivated….”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20828

Stump Speech

“A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office. The term derives from the custom in 19th century America for political candidates campaigning from town to town to stand upon a sawed off tree stump to deliver a standard speech. Because the busy pace of campaigning often forces candidates to address people several times per week or even per day, he and his staff will usually write a single speech to be delivered at most public appearances. The beginning of the speech is usually tweaked to include mentions of local elected officials and campaign staff, with local references sometimes peppered throughout, but most of the speech remains identical from day to day.

The need for a stump speech stems from a desire to keep candidates on message and consistently make certain arguments or point out certain aspects of their political platform. …”

Candidates will often use major events to unveil a new or substantially revised stump speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_speech_(politics)

Barack Obama: “Friends”

LOL

Red State Update: Hillary’s Out!

Background Articles and Video

The Climate Alarmist Manifesto

By Marc Sheppard

“…Through Carbon trading, taxes, mandatory “clean energy” technology transfers, and other austere regulations, proposed UN-controlled international climate treaties to succeed Kyoto would penalize wealthy, innovative, capitalist countries while subsidizing poorer nations with waivers and foreign aid. And with most “good governance” requirements for beneficiary nations lifted, this equates to coerced underwriting of military regimes, dictatorships and, of course, socialists.

In his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program, Marx defined the basis for a communist society with the words “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” What a marvelous creed for today’s climate alarmists, who would steal from flourishing countries, enterprises and citizens in order to give to those they deem chronically underprivileged. And, by spreading their woefully unproven yet widely accepted GHG horror stories, would do so on a global level that Marx and Lenin themselves dared only dream of. And would wield more centralized control of international economies than either ever dared envision. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/the_climate_alarmist_manifesto.html

The Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Act: A Solution Worse Than the Problem

by Ben Lieberman

“… It is hard to think of any economic activity that does not involve energy, and there is not one that would not be made more expensive by Lieberman–Warner. No matter how measured, the impacts of the bill on the American economy overall as well as on individuals and households would be substantial and hardly different from a massive energy tax.

The impact on the overall economy is reflected in cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses estimated at $1.7 trillion (with generous assumptions) to $4.8 trillion (with more realistic assumptions) by 2030. The single-year GDP losses would range from $111 billion to $436 billion, or $949 to $3,726 per household for each of the nation’s 117 million households. (See Chart 2.) Thus, the annual costs of the Climate Security Act would significantly exceed the Department of Homeland Security’s 2007 expenditures of $43 billion and could also exceed the $155 billion spent on highways at all levels of government in 2005. …”

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2140.cfm

Green Lip $ervice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-X7TdC8Gvw&feature=related

200 dollar a barrel oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niho6JM3orw

Correcting Mistakes of the 1990s Should Top the Energy Agenda for 2006

“…The 1990s were a time of relatively inexpensive fossil fuels. Oil averaged $20 per barrel, and natural gas averaged $2 per thousand cubic feet, compared to $56 and $7.50, respectively, in 2005. ^[1] With energy prices so low, Washington took a complacent approach to America’s future energy needs. Other priorities, especially environmental concerns, were given precedence. Many environmental measures that affected energy supplies were enacted, including:

The 1990 presidential directive placing most areas with untapped offshore oil and natural gas off-limits;
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments regulating motor fuels;
The 1995 veto of legislation opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration and drilling; and
The 1998 Environmental Protection Agency enforcement initiative against oil refiners. …”

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg1921.cfm

Three Reasons the Lieberman-Warner Legislation is Bad for the Economy

http://www.heritage.org/wherewestand/hif/hifvideo.cfm?vid=184

Two Key Principles of Positive Global Warming Policy

http://www.heritage.org/wherewestand/hif/hifvideo.cfm?vid=178

Energy Solutions for America

http://www.heritage.org/wherewestand/hif/hifvideo.cfm?vid=126

LOL

Lower Gas Prices…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyN5jnrrm80

What about the “issues”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGeQAEpe8s

Background Articles and Videos

“…1881 – 1973

About the Author

Ludwig von Mises was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economic thought, a prodigious originator in economic theory, and a prolific author. Mises’ writings and lectures encompassed economic theory, history, epistemology, government, and political philosophy. His contributions to economic theory include important clarifications on the quantity theory of money, the theory of the trade cycle, the integration of monetary theory with economic theory in general, and a demonstration that socialism must fail because it cannot solve the problem of economic calculation. Mises was the first scholar to recognize that economics is part of a larger science in human action, a science which Mises called “praxeology”. He taught at the University of Vienna and later at New York University. Mises wrote many works on two related economic themes: 1. monetary economics, inflation, and the role of government, and 2. the differences between government-controlled economies and free trade. His influential work on economic freedoms, their causes and consequences, brought him to highlight the interrelationships between economic and non-economic freedoms in societies, and the appropriate role for government.

In The Library:

author: The Anti-capitalist Mentality (1956)
author: Bureaucracy (1944)
author: Economic Freedom and Interventionism (1990)
foreword: The Economic Point of View (1960)
author: “Finance and Banking in the Austrian Empire and the Republic of Austria” (1921)
author: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (FEE ed.) (1949)
author: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, in 4 vols. (LF ed.) (1996)
author: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, vol. 1 (LF ed.) (1996)
author: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, vol. 2 (LF ed.) (1996)
author: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, vol. 3 (LF ed.) (1996)
author: Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, vol. 4 (LF ed.) (1996)
author: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition (LF ed.) (1962)
author: Liberalism: A Socio-Economic Exposition (IHS ed.) (1962)
author: Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time (1919)
author: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1922)
author: Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (1957)
author: Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LF ed.) (1957)
author: The Theory of Money and Credit (1912)
author: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method (1962)…”

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fperson=195&Itemid=28

My Old Party

William J. Bennett

“…And thus the Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of George McGovern, albeit without McGovern’s military and political record. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far-left candidate in the tradition of Michael Dukakis, albeit without Dukakis’s executive experience as governor. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of John Kerry, albeit without Kerry’s record of years of service in the Senate. The Democratic party is about to nominate an unvetted candidate in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, albeit without Jimmy Carter’s religious integrity as he spoke about it in 1976. Questions about all these attributes (from foreign policy expertise to executive experience to senatorial experience to judgment about foreign leaders to the instructors he has had in his cultural values) surround Barack Obama. And the Democratic party has chosen him.”

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjY1ZWRhODA2NTViOTJhN2YyMDFjOWI3M2RkZjJjZmM=

Charlie Rose – George Will

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EVGOQVuU2Q

Glenn Beck – The Obama Socialist Agenda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgc4zm3XrBc

Barack Obama: Global Poverty Act = World tax = Socialism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PePbtEABzGk&feature=related

Glenn Beck on Obamanomics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zEvO8dTOKk&feature=related

Obama The Racialist Socialist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRcTY4XPMY&feature=related

Obama: Stealth Socialist?

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

“…Rated the most liberal member in the Senate, Obama wants to soak the most productive members of society and subsidize those who are not. He wants to hit small businesses and big corporations alike with major tax hikes — singling out for special rebuke oil producers and “Wall Street predators” who have “tricked” blacks out of their homes. At the same time, he plans to expand the welfare state with massive increases in domestic spending. …”

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?status=article&id=295831088444972&secid=1501

Obama and His Socialist Agenda

Rick Moran

“…If Obama and his socialist friends were to focus on what “actually works,” they would make school choice the law of the land, crack down on drugs and gangs, lower taxes in urban areas to encourage the growth of the private sector, and a host of other free market solutions that have been advocated for decades. Instead, we get the same old tired bromides about government intervention.The inner city is not the liberal’s pet laboratory where they can experiment with people’s lives as if they were lab rats. What the inner city needs, Obama and his socialist theories of government activism cannot provide. And that is the simple human dignity that goes with being self sufficient and supporting your loved ones. Getting those jobs to where they can do the most good will require rethinking urban policy so that lower taxes as well as tax incentives will begin the process of wealth creation that Americans are so good at. But asking these big city Democratic mayors to lower taxes and seek more free market solutions to their problems flies in the face of their own interests in feeding the numerous interest groups, special pleaders, and cronies who have gotten used to the contracts, the handouts, and the barely disguised bribes that pass for local government action these days.

It was federal government policies and programs that caused most of the problems of the inner city today. The fact that Obama wants to try more of the same only shows that absolute dearth of ideas emanating from the left regarding urban policy. They just can’t help themselves. And Obama can no longer disguise his far left policies by advocating them using soothing, non-threatening rhetoric.” http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/obama_and_his_socialist_agenda.html

Obama: I’m with John McCain and Ted Kennedy on Immigration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNZjDNrUqEw&feature=related

John “God’s Children” McCain Won’t Secure Borders

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

Jobs Americans wont do a Myths?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLy88uTGDMI

McCain Flip-Flops on Immigration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jua_8BYS5ZE

McCain Flip-Flops On Ethanol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3q3PVZ_ck&feature=related

Lou Dobbs: Why Amnesty is Insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBzSjIKih8&feature=related

Lou Dobbs Tonight: Cost of Illegal Immigrants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClM4cuESz0w

Heritage In Focus: Ethanol and Higher Gas Prices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-fa8np2d1g&feature=related

Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Is Bad for U.S. Economy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWIKay-ntQM&feature=user

McCain’s YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&feature=related

Will the real John McCain stand up

“…It is quite likely that the senator for Arizona will continue to manoeuvre over the remaining 152 days left of campaigning. One day he will be promising to bring a new era of bipartisanship to Washington, the next he will be banging the drum for the right to bear arms. In the end, the old John McCain and the new, the maverick free-thinker and the rightwing panderer, will just have to get used to living with each other as they travel the country on the Straight Talk Express.

If they go all the way, as they just might, and together take up joint residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then it will be another matter. Then the world will demand to know the truth. Will the real John McCain please stand up.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/05/johnmccain.uselections20081

LOL

The Democratic Party is a Joke…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKmo1ocj

Barack Obama can’t STOP lying…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STgixh2avNo&feature=user

Democrat or Republican???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFVDmaU8RTo

Background Articles and Videos

Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Is Bad for U.S. Economy

“…The Lieberman-Warner legislation is bad for the U.S. economy for these three reasons:

1. It’s a huge new tax.
2. It will negatively impact the economy by lowering incomes.
3. And, it will establish a new trade bureaucracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWIKay-ntQM

This Week in Washington: June 2, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ggrMKwvME&feature=user

“Thank a Democrat”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BehOBY-AE

Three Reasons the Lieberman-Warner Legislation is Bad for the Economy

http://www.heritage.org/wherewestand/hif/hifvideo.cfm?vid=184

Two Key Principles of Positive Global Warming Policy

http://www.heritage.org/wherewestand/hif/hifvideo.cfm?vid=178

Five Myths About the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Legislation

‘…On June 2, the United States Senate will begin debate on America’s Climate Security Act (S. 2191), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). The Lieberman-Warner bill (LW) would restrict energy use to combat global warming. Like global warming itself, the bill has been the subject of considerable hype and little hard-nosed analysis. For this reason, there are several myths about it that need to be dispelled. …”

“…Overall, the Lieberman-Warner bill promises substantial hardship for the economy overall, for jobs, and for energy costs. Given current economic concerns and energy prices, this is the last thing the American people need. At the same time, the environmental benefits would likely be small to nonexistent. The Lieberman-Warner bill fails any reasonable cost-benefit test.”

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1940.cfm

The Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill: Quick Summary and Analysis

by Casey Lartigue and Ryan Balis

“…Conclusion

Imagine if, in 1966, then President Lyndon B. Johnson had tried to determine what the emissions levels of America should be 42 years into the future. Even if he had gotten together the best and brightest minds of the day, it is unlikely that his advisers would have come up with data that could have anticipated either our energy needs or our standard of living today. Although some lawmakers may be reluctant to admit it, policymakers today are similarly handicapped when it comes to predicting our future needs, technologies and circumstances.

Lieberman-Warner would embark Americans on an unprecedented and large-scale manipulation of the national economy that would depress economic growth and have both short- and long-term unintended consequences. Lieberman-Warner’s “cap-and-trade” could hamstring Americans for decades.”

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA570.html

Poll Shows Little Public Enthusiasm for Lieberman-Warner

“…The survey also found that 71% of Americans reject spending more for electricity, with 16% opposing spending any more than 12% extra for electricity.

A study commissioned jointly by the American Council for Capital Formation and the National Association of Manufacturers estimated that the Lieberman-Warner proposal would increase electricity prices by between 13% and 14% by 2014. Other econometric studies indicate that Lieberman-Warner would push electricity costs even higher.

When gasoline and electricity price increases are taken together, 90% of Americans reject Lieberman-Warner plan’s costs — even the low-range of the projected costs.

“As incredible as it sounds that 90% of Americans reject the Lieberman-Warner plan’s costs, the actual number who reject it may be even higher. Electricity and gasoline price hikes are only two of the costs of this proposal,” said David A. Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. “The price for food and consumer goods would also be pushed higher and many Americans would lose their jobs. You can’t merely accept energy price increases and opt out of all the other costs.”

“As amazing as it is that 90% of the public agrees on anything,” added Ridenour, “is the fact that all three of the major presidential candidates — Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama — favor a proposal the public appears to be almost unanimously against.”

http://www.nationalcenter.org/2008/05/poll-shows-little-public-enthusiasm-for.html

Overwhelming Majority of Americans Oppose Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Proposal, New Poll Suggests

Clinton, McCain and Obama at Odds With 90%+ of Americans

http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-Poll_Lieberman_Warner_052808.html

Inhofe Talks With Glenn Beck About Climate Tax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uj4GVB7cYQ

Fascist liberals won’t allow innovations for oil supply

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

CO2 cap and trade will make largest market, save trillions

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

Calls for end to food tariffs

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

May 29, 2008, 2:47 pm

McWavering: What’s the Deal-Breaker for Lieberman-Warner?

Posted by Jeffrey Ball

“….Although Sen. McCain has partnered with Sen. Lieberman on similar bills over the years, his stance on the current bill is a mystery. On Wednesday–as he has several times in recent weeks–Sen. McCain hinted to reporters that he might withhold support for the measure unless it’s amended to include greater incentives for nuclear power, a potential deal breaker for many Democrats.

“We’re never going to really significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions unless nuclear power is a major component of” U.S. energy supply, Sen. McCain told reporters Wednesday. Nuclear energy currently accounts for around 20% of the country’s electric power supply. He added that he’s “been disappointed so far” that the bill doesn’t provide “a robust and serious addressing of the issue of nuclear power.”

“I know that’s not the most popular position, but that has to be in it, and I will make a judgment accordingly as the legislative process goes forward,” he added. …”

http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/category/politics-and-policy/cap-and-trade/

McCain’s cap-and-trade hoax

Posted: June 02, 2008, 7:32 PM by NP Editor

Climate change, John McCain,

George Will, cap-and-trade system

Cap-and-trade is a huge tax hidden in a bureaucratic labyrinth of opaque permit transactions

By George Will

“…McCain, who supports Lieberman’s unprecedented expansion of government’s regulatory reach, is the scourge of all lobbyists (other than those employed by his campaign). But cap-and-trade would be a bonanza for K Street, the lobbyists’ habitat, because it would vastly deepen and broaden the upside benefits and downside risks that the government’s choices mean for businesses.
McCain, the political hygienist, is eager to reduce the amount of money in politics. But cap-and-trade, by hugely increasing the amount of politics in the allocation of money, would guarantee a surge of money into politics.
Regarding McCain’s “central facts,” the UN’s World Meteorological Organization, which helped establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — co-winner, with Al Gore, of the Nobel Prize — says global temperatures have not risen in a decade. So Congress might be arriving late at the save-the-planet party. Better late than never? No. When government, ever eager to expand its grip on the governed and their wealth, manufactures hysteria as an excuse for doing so, then: better never.”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/06/02/mccain-s-cap-and-trade-hoax.aspx

Table of Contents: A Layman’s Guide to Man-Made Global Warming

“The purpose of this paper is to provide a layman’s critique of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory, and in particular to challenge the fairly widespread notion that the science and projected consequences of AGW currently justify massive spending and government intervention into the world’s economies. This paper will show that despite good evidence that global temperatures are rising and that CO2 can act as a greenhouse gas and help to warm the Earth, we are a long way from attributing all or much of current warming to man-made CO2. We are even further away from being able to accurately project man’s impact on future climate, and it is a very debatable question whether interventions today to reduce CO2 emissions will substantially improve the world 50 or 100 years from now. …”

http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/09/table-of-conten.html?gclid=CNSMgYG82ZMCFQE0xgodM1YnTw

The Deniers

Posted: December 13, 2007, 1:55 PM by DrewHasselback

Lawrence Solomon, Junk Science

“The National Post’s sensational series on scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science. Written by Lawrence Solomon, the series profiles the ideas and the scientists who do not share the “consensus” United Nations’ theories on climate change and global warming. Read them all. …”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/pages/the-deniers.aspx

The Deniers: Our spotless sun

Posted: May 31, 2008, 3:07 AM by NP Editor

Lawrence Solomon, The Deniers, Climate change, global warming, carbon dioxide, sunspots

With the debate focused on a warming Earth, the icy consequences of a cooler future have not been considered

By Lawrence Solomon

“…But many are watching the sun for answers, and for good reason. Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire. “The next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do,” believes Dr. Chapman. “There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the U.S. and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.” …”

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/05/31/the-deniers-our-spotless-sun.aspx

Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power
Peter W. Huber, Mark P. Mills

“…The U.S. today consumes about 100 quads—100 quadrillion BTUs—of raw thermal energy per year. We do three basic things with it: generate electricity (about 40 percent of the raw energy consumed), move vehicles (30 percent), and produce heat (30 percent). Oil is the fuel of transportation, of course. We principally use natural gas to supply raw heat, though it’s now making steady inroads into electric power generation. Fueling electric power plants are mainly (in descending order) coal, uranium, natural gas, and rainfall, by way of hydroelectricity. …”

“…The power has to come from somewhere. Sun and wind will never come close to supplying it. Earnest though they are, the people who argue otherwise are the folks who brought us 400 million extra tons of coal a year. The one practical technology that could decisively shift U.S. carbon emissions in the near term would displace coal with uranium, since uranium burns emission-free. It’s time even for Greens to embrace the atom. …”

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_nuclear_power.html

John Stossel – The Global Warming Debate 10-20-07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FI0U5JOtoo&feature=related

Cap-and-trade like Soviet-style central planning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4oBjbe8BIA

Pat Toomey on Cap and Trade Legislation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwZxIU2hJX4

Background Articles and Videos

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY&feature=related

President Eisenhower On The Military-Industrial Complex

Farewell Address, 1961

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/speeches/a/eisenhower.htm

The Iraqi Upturn

Don’t look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war.

“…Gen. Petraeus pointed out that attacks in Iraq hit a four-year low in mid-May and that Iraqi forces were finally taking the lead in combat and on multiple fronts at once — something that was inconceivable a year ago. As a result the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki now has “unparalleled” public support, as Gen. Petraeus put it, and U.S. casualties are dropping sharply. Eighteen American soldiers died in May, the lowest total of the war and an 86 percent drop from the 126 who died in May 2007. …”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053101927.html

Washington Post sees Iraq Turnaround

Rick Moran

“…

WaPo thinks that the month of May could turn out to be the most important month of the war because all the things that must happen for victory are finally coming into being. American casualties are the lowest since the war began, attacks on Iraqis are way down, and the Iraqi government and military are demonstrating that they can handle the security of the country on their own.

There’s still a way to go. But when the Washington Post even sees huge progress, Obama is the candidate who seems “out of touch” on Iraq. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/washington_post_sees_iraq_turn.html

Fact Sheet: Strategy for Victory: Clear, Hold, and Build

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060320-6.html

Iraq and U.S. Policy

Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington, DC
October 19, 2005

“…In short, with the Iraqi Government, our political-military strategy has to be to clear, hold, and build: to clear areas from insurgent control, to hold them securely, and to build durable, national Iraqi institutions. …”

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/55303.htm

Clear, Hold Build: Not So Clear
Posted by Heather Hurlburt

“…We know what we must do. With our Iraqi allies, we are working to: Clear the toughest places — no sanctuaries to the enemy — and to disrupt foreign support for the insurgents. We are working to hold and steadily enlarge the secure areas, integrating political and economic outreach with our military operations. We are working to build truly national institutions by working with more capable provincial and local authorities. We are challenging them to embody a national compact — not tools of a particular sect or ethnic group. These Iraqi institutions must sustain security forces, bring rule of law, visibly deliver essential services, and offer the Iraqi people hope for a better economic future. …”

http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2005/11/clear_hold_buil.html

BUSH’S WAR Part 25/27

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a25lvj4OVcA

BUSH’S WAR Part 26/27

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

BUSH’S WAR Part 27/27

SEVEN
Endgame?

“…Gen. Petraeus, replacing Casey, is the Army’s most outspoken advocate of the Tal Afar approach – “clear,hold, build.” Will it work? Is it too late? …”

Operation Wetback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_12m4Qe7Ic

Deported Criminal Illegal Aliens Over-Run Mexican Border

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83cDkgjIZWk

Michelle Malkin; Alien Raids, Penalties for Business Owners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7TdunSsws

Citizens Fighting Employers Who Hire Illegal Day Laborers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k60hSbO1rPE&feature=related

Business Lobby Fights Crack-down on Illegal Employers

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

‘Illegal Immigration, Big Business & Southern Workers’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjC8Usfwseg

Deporting Criminal Illegals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrIMIzhHJYo&feature=related

Virtual Fence is a Virtual Flop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkrwqE26aO8&feature=related

The Virtual Fence is NOT working 2-13-2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKeV3ioGJIw

Lou Dobbs – Bennie Thompson Fighting the Border Fence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFF2cjdyJk

Update on the Border Fence with Michael Chertoff

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

Duncan Hunter on the Border Fence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow1L4MsmUGM

Glenn Beck Interviews Duncan Hunter over Border Fence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyxNZiiQY8Q&feature=related

Business Lobby Fights Crack-down on Illegal Employers

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

‘Illegal Immigration, Big Business & Southern Workers’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjC8Usfwseg

Archive for June, 2008

-Bill Gates, June 2008

~Ludwig von Mises

Imagine – John Lennon

~ Adam Smith

Background Articles and Videos

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Discuss “Creative Capitalism”

The Birth of Microsoft

Bill Gates: Looking Back, Moving Ahead – Part 1

Bill Gates: Looking Back, Moving Ahead – Part 2

Bill Gates Part 1

Bill Gates Part 2

Bill Gates Part 3

Bill Gates Part 4

Bill Gates Part 5

Bill Gates Part 6

Bill Gates Part 7

Microsoft without Gates

Channel 9-Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future

Channel 9-Bill Gates:Transitioning into the Future Part 1/3

Channel 9-Bill Gates:Transitioning into the Future Part 2/3

Channel 9-Bill Gates:Transitioning into the Future Part 3/3

This Week on C9: Jeff Sandquist and Bill Gates stories

New Role for Bill in July 2008

‘Softies share their favorite Bill Gates stories

Charlie Rose – An hour with Bill Gates

The Outlook For Microsoft as Bill Gates Prepares to Exit

Bill Gates Unplugged

Davos Annual Meeting 2008 – Bill Gates

Gates seeks ‘creative capitalism’

January 24, 2008 World Economic ForumDavos, Switzerland Prepared remarks by Bill Gates

Gates Transition Plan Shows He’s Ready For A Change. Is His Company?

Gates’ transition only half done

Davos Annual Meeting 2007 – GAVI Alliance Results

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1)

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 2)

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 3)

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 4)

Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 5)

Remarks of Bill Gates

Harvard Commencement

(Text as prepared for delivery)

William H. Gates Sr.: Wealth and Civic Obligations

Gates Foundation follows new paths

Giving away $3 billion a year is not as easy as it seems

By TOM PAULSON

Bill Gates: A Retrospective

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 1 of 7

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 2 of 7

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 3-1 of 7

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 3-2 of 7

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This woman’s work is exceptional. Too bad she’s not a man.

~Edouard Manet

Berthe Morisot with a Bunch of Violets, 1872

Combat of the Kearsarge and the Alabama, 1864

When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. When you haven’t, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

~Edouard Manet

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

~Ludwig van Beethoven

I need to work to feel well.

~Edouard Manet

Bouquet of Lilacs, 1882

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

~Edouard Manet

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