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The Money Masters–Videos

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“…The Money Masters explains the history behind the current world depression and the bankers’ goal of world economic control by a very small coterie of private bankers, above all governments.

The Central bankers’ Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1988 in the “Basel I” regulations imposed an 8% capital reserve standard on member central banks. This almost immediately threw Japan into a 15 year economic depression. In 2004 Basel II imposed “mark to the market” capital valuation standards that required international banks to revalue their reserves according to changing market valuations (such as falling home or stock prices). The US implemented those standards in November, 2007. In December 2007 the US stock market collapsed and credit began drying up as banks withheld loans to comply with the 8% capital requirement as collateral valuations began to drop. The snowball effect of tightening credit, which reduces economic activity and values further, which resulted in further tightening of credit, etc., has produced a worldwide depression which is worsening.

Those capital standards have not been relaxed despite the crushing effects on the world economy* the credit contraction it requires has caused. Why? Because:

Bruce Wiseman
“The purpose of this financial crisis is to take down the U.S. dollar as the stable datum of planetary finance and, in the midst of the resulting confusion, put in its place a Global Monetary Authority [GMA – run directly by international bankers freed of any government control] -a planetary financial control organization”- Bruce Wiseman

*The U.S did modify these rules somewhat a year after the devastation had taken place here, but the rules are still fully in place in the rest of the world and the results are appalling.

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole… Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world’s money…” .- Prof. Carroll Quigley renowned, late Georgetown macro-historian (mentioned by former President Clinton in his first nomination acceptance speech), author of Tragedy and Hope. “He [Carroll Quigley] was one of the last great macro-historians who traced the development of civilization…with an awesome capability.” – Dr. Peter F. Krogh, Dean of the School of Foreign Service (Georgetown) …”

http://www.themoneymasters.com/

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Background Articles and Videos

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 1

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 2

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 3

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 4

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 5

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 6

Address by Mark Levin, Pt. 7

Mark Levin Interview on C-SPAN (Part 1)

Mark Levin Interview on C-SPAN (Part 2)

Mark Levin Interview on C-SPAN (Part 3)

Mark Levin Interview on C-SPAN (Part 4)

Mark Levin Interview on C-SPAN (Part 5)

Mark Levin Interview on C-SPAN (Part 6)

Mark Levin – Constitution vs. Obama Redistributio of Wealth

Mark Levin ~ The Time is Now (Part 1 of 3)

Mark Levin ~ The Time is Now (Part 2 of 3)

the best of mark levin.

Rush interviews Levin PT1

Rush interviews Levin PT2

Marl levin

“…Mark Reed Levin (born September 21, 1957) is an American radio host, lawyer, author, and political commentator who served in the Reagan administration. He is the host of The Mark Levin Show, a nationally-syndicated talk show that airs throughout the United States, and the President of Landmark Legal Foundation. He is the author of multiple bestselling books and a contributor to various other media outlets.

Mark R. Levin grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and holds a B.A. from Temple University, where he was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. Levin also earned a JD from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Beginning in 1981, Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet, eventually becoming Associate Director of Presidential Personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese; Levin also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and Deputy Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

He has practiced law in the private sector, and is president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest law firm founded in 1976 and based in Leesburg, Virginia.

Levin has participated in the Freedom Concerts, an annual benefit concert to aid the families of fallen soldiers, and he uses his radio program to promote the concerts.^[1]^[2] Levin is also involved with Troopathon, a charity which sends care packages to soldiers serving overseas.^[3]

In 2001, the American Conservative Union awarded Levin its Ronald Reagan Award.^[4]^[5]

Levin began his broadcast career as a guest on conservative talk radio programs. For many years he was a frequent contributor of legal opinions to The Rush Limbaugh Show, where Limbaugh referred to him on-air as “F. Lee Levin,” a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. He was also a contributor to The Sean Hannity Show and eventually got a radio slot of his own, on WABC, following Sean Hannity’s program. Hannity has nicknamed Mark Levin “The Great One.” Levin and Hannity remain frequent contributors to each other’s programs, often calling in and facetiously referring to each other as “Doctor Hannity” and “Doctor Levin.”

Levin began his radio hosting career in 2002 as a Sunday afternoon host on WABC. His radio show, a mix of political and social commentary from a conservative point of view, covers legal issues in some detail, including decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Levin follows the traditional talk radio model of taking listener calls throughout the show. In the fall of 2003, his show filled the 6-8 p.m. (ET) time slot. As of February 2, 2009, his show was expanded to three hours, namely, 6-9 p.m.^[6]

As of 2006, his show is syndicated by Citadel Media (formerly known as ABC Radio Networks) on over 150 stations as well as on the XM America Right and SIRIUS Patriot channels. Levin’s show has been rated number one in its time slot in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas – Fort Worth and Washington, D.C.^[6] According to Talkers Magazine, The Mark Levin Show is tied for the fourth most-listened to talk show with The Laura Ingraham Show on commercial radio in the United States, with more than 5.5 million listeners weekly.^[7]

Levin occasionally has guests on his show, including Republican politicians, conservative pundits and commentators, and a variety of entertainers such as Jackie Mason, Jon Voight, and Clint Walker.

Levin is supportive of the military and civilian first responders, and ends nearly every radio show saying “We salute the men and women of the armed forces, policemen, firefighters, and emergency personnel.” He regularly plays the themes for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines. He plays “America the Beautiful” as performed by Ray Charles every Friday.

Levin’s show has garnered criticism from moderate conservatives. New York Times columnist David Brooks labeled Levin as one of a number of “people I consider loons and harmful for America”.^[8]^[9] Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum has emerged as a leading critic of Levin^[10]^[11] and repeatedly criticized Levin’s approach as an example of right-wing broadcasters who have adopted an angry tone and posed a negative influence on both conservative politics and civil discourse.^[12]^[13] Mark McKinnon, former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain, has condemned Levin’s “jaw-dropping hate language about the President” and accused him of “reveling in the President’s failures”.^[14]

For his part, Levin dismisses Frum, Brooks and others as “phony conservatives”^[15] and “ineffective lightweights who shoot spitballs at conservatives^[16]. Levin believes that Frum, Brooks, et al. are used by liberal pundits and organizations^[17] who try to portray them as the real face of conservatism^[18] in order to make Levin and others look like extremists.^[19]

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

Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

By Thomas Lifson

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Mark Levin’s new book, published today, is essential reading. It is a remarkable work on several different levels. It takes no degree of clairvoyance to predict that it will become an enormous best seller and very soon begin to influence the national political debate.

Liberty and Tyranny artfully presents a harmonious marriage of the timeless with the timely. On the one hand, the book is a thorough yet compact briefing on the major political issues of this era. On the other hand, the author brings to bear the principles of the American Founders and Framers of the Constitution (and the great thinkers who guided them), illustrating, dissecting, and explaining our current political arguments, while enlightening the reader with the genuine wisdom bequeathed to all of us — the sacred trust of the Founders, embodied in the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and Federalist Papers, all of which are quoted and applied with insight and precision.

Think of it as an outstanding tutorial in applied political philosophy, and you will begin to grasp the scope of Mark Levin’s achievement. The fact that the book is lucid, unpretentious, and utterly accessible to anyone who cares to focus and think, means that it will elevate the quality of political thought and dialogue across a broad swath of the American populace.

If you care passionately about America, and worry for its future — and who doesn’t, given the current national leadership? — then you owe it to yourself to buy and devour this marvelous work. It is an essential antidote to what ails America at the moment. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/mark_levins_liberty_and_tyrann.html

Book Review: Liberty and Tyranny A Conservative Manifesto

“…In his New York Times best selling book, Levin provides two key weapons for anybody who considers himself a conservative. Firstly, he outlines this history of what he identifies as a shift towards Statism. While some might read Levin and claim that he is a bit of a conspiracy theorist or that he is blowing things out of proportion (for example when, in Chapter 8, he seems to make the case that the EPA’s banning of DDT wasn’t about ‘protecting the environment’ but was, instead, about controlling the world, even if it meant allowing folks in Africa to die), I read it as being a terrifyingly honest and accurate look at the realities of the world as we know it.

The history of ’statism’ that he provides is unbelievably eye opening. BUT, the two most important chapters in the book are on the Constitution and on Federalism. In his chapter on the Constitution, Levin reminds all of us of the importance of our Constitution. He provides a short explanation of the biggest lie that Liberals and Statists use: that the Constitution is a ‘living breathing’ document. It is not, as Levin and others have pointed out, living and breathing; it is undying and never changing. It is the bedrock for our Nation.

Levin uses the Constitution chapter to lead into his discussion of Federalism and it’s importance. The obvious argument in favor of Federalism always has been the “experiment” function–the idea that a state can examine and put into practice various ideas in order to find the best and most effective strategy before implementing that idea at the National level. But Levin also introduces readers to a less discussed function of the Federal system: mobility. This is not something that is taught in school or in college, nor is it something I had considered before, but Liberty and Tyranny makes an excellent case for this function. Simply, Federalism allows the citizen to move from state to state to avoid or to find state-level governmental functions that best suit each individual. The most obvious example is the exodus from New York City of such leading New Yorkers as Rush Limbaugh in response to the ever-rising tax-rates the city imposes. …”

Mark Levin’s new book ‘Liberty & Tyranny’ is a timely bestseller

“…Instead, Levin is channeling the old fashioned language of conservative icons like Burke and Kirk, Buckley and Chambers, and the stirring, majestic cadences of the Founders and The Federalist.

Liberty & Tyranny is actually a stylistically more challenging read than Conscience of a Conservative (1960), the last book widely touted as a popular (but note: not necessarily populist) conservative manifesto.

This passage early on in Liberty & Tyranny is a typical example of Levin’s style throughout:

“The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution. And when the resolution proves elusive, as it undoubtedly does (…) the Statist demands even more authority to wring out the imperfections of mankind’s existence. Unconstrained by constitutional prohibitions, what is left to limit the Statist’s ambitions but his own moral compass, which has already led him astray?”

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, a man (and it is invariably a man) who tries to write like that is a geek and a crank who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, for whom “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”, and the results are cringe worthy. But incredibly, Levin pulls it off.

And Levin’s apparent confidence that “dumbing down” his message for our supposedly “stupider” times has paid off. Folks have lined up for hours at Levin’s book signings. It doesn’t hurt that Liberty & Tyranny was released just before the Tea Party movement took off; those activists are Levin’s readers and listeners, as became apparent during that disastrous CNN reporter’s encounter with one Tea Party attendee, who, it’s safe to guess, got his Lincoln stuff from pages 93-94 of Levin’s book. …”

http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m4d29-Mark-Levins-new-book-Liberty–Tyranny-is-a-timely-bestseller

Background Articles and Videos

Eric Holder Drops Charges on Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation – Bill O’Reilly Reports

Senator Graham Questions Attorney General Eric Holder

Background Articles and Videos

A Conflict of Vidions – Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell – The Vision of the Anointed

Liberal Fascism (1) — Jonah Goldberg UNEDITED

Liberal Fascism (2) — Jonah Goldberg UNEDITED

Liberal Fascism (3) — Jonah Goldberg UNEDITED

Liberal Fascism (4) — Jonah Goldberg UNEDITED

Liberal Fascism (5) — Jonah Goldberg UNEDITED

Liberal Fascism Q-A (1)

Liberal Fascism Q-A (2)

Liberal Fascism Q-A (3)

Federalist Papers In Modern English

Federalist Papers In Modern English By Mary E. Webster

Rush Limbaugh Interviews Mark Levin Part 1

Rush Limbaugh Interviews Mark Levin Part 2

Rush Limbaugh Interviews Mark Levin Part 3

Rush Limbaugh Interviews Mark Levin Part 4

Mark Levin–Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto–Videos

Please read all of the above books and seriously consider reading them in the above order starting with Thomas Sowell’s book The Conflict of Visions.

Background Articles and Videos

The Founders and Us

Progressivism

“…Progressivism is a political and social term for ideologies and movements favoring or advocating changes or reform, usually in an egalitarian direction for economic policies (public management) and liberal direction for social policies. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative ideologies. Progressive Movement is a movement began in the cities with the settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work. The reformers spoke out about the need for laws regulating tenement housing and child labor. They also called for better working condition for women.

In the United States, the term progressivism emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternative to both the traditional conservative response to social and economic issues and to the various more radical streams of socialism and anarchism which opposed them. Political parties, such as the Progressive Party, organized at the start of the 20th century, and progressivism made great strides under American presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson.^[1]

Despite being associated with left-wing politics in the United States, the term “progressive” has occasionally been used by groups not particularly left-wing. The Progressive Democrats in the Republic of Ireland took the name “progressivism” despite being considered centre-right, or classical liberal. The European Progressive Democrats was a mainly heterogeneous political group in the European Union. For most of the period from 1942-2003, the largest conservative party in Canada was the Progressive Conservative Party. …”

“…United States

Main article: Progressivism in the United States

In the United States there have been several periods where progressive political parties have developed. The first of these was around the turn of the 20th century. This period notably included the emergence of the Progressive Party, founded in 1912 by President Theodore Roosevelt. This progressive party was the most successful third party in modern American history. The Progressive Party founded in 1924 and the Progressive Party founded in 1948 were less successful than the 1912 version. There are also two notable state progressive parties: the Wisconsin Progressive Party and the Vermont Progressive Party. The latter is still in operation and currently has several high ranking positions in state government.

Today, most progressive politicians in the United States associate with the Democratic Party or the Green Party US. In the US Congress there exists the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which is often in opposition to the more conservative Democrats, who form the Blue Dogs caucus. Some of the more notable progressive members of Congress have included, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, John Lewis, Barack Obama,and Paul Wellstone. …”

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

Progressivism in the United States

“…Progressivism in the United States is a broadly-based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century and is generally considered to be middle class and reformist in nature. It arose as a response to the vast changes brought by modernization, such as the growth of large corporations and railroads, and fears of corruption in American politics. In the 21st century self-styled progressives continue to embrace concepts such as environmentalism and social justice^[1]. Social progressivism, which states that governmental practices ought to be adjusted as society evolves, forms the ideological basis for many American progressives.

Historian Alonzo L. Hamby defines progressivism as the “political movement that addresses ideas, impulses, and issues stemming from modernization of American society. Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, it established much of the tone of American politics throughout the first half of the century.”^[2] …”

“…Politics

In the early 20th century, politicians of the Democratic and Republican parties, Bull-Moose Republicans, Lincoln-Roosevelt League Republicans (in California) and the United States Progressive Party began to pursue social, environmental, political, and economic reforms. Chief among these aims was the pursuit of trustbusting (breaking up very large monopolies), support for labor unions, public health programs, decreased corruption in politics, and environmental conservation^[18]

The Progressive Movement enlisted support from both major parties (and from minor parties as well). One leader, Bryan, had been linked to the Populist movement of the 1890s, while the other major leaders were opposed to Populism. When Roosevelt left the Republican party in 1912, he took with him many of the intellectual leaders of progressivism, but very few political leaders^[19] The Republican party then became notably more committed to business-oriented and efficiency oriented progressivism, typified by Taft and Herbert Hoover.^[20]

A social attitude underlying some forms of Progressivism has been populism, which can range from the political left to the political right. Populism has often manifested itself as a distrust of concentrations of power in the hands of politicians, corporations, families, and special interest groups, generating calls for purification and the rejection of rule by elites.^[21]

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“…Contemporary progressivism

The fourth and current liberal Progressive movement grew out of social activism movements, Naderite and populist left political movements in conjunction with the civil rights, GLBT (Gay rights), women’s or feminist, and environmental movements of the 1960s-1980s.^[28] This exists as a cluster of political, activist, and media organizations ranging in outlook from centrism (eg. Reform Party of the United States of America) to left-liberalism to social democracy (like the Green Party) and sometimes even democratic socialism (like the Socialist Party USA).

Modern American progressivism includes political figures such as Barack Obama who calls himself a progressive, as do Joe Biden^[29], Hillary Clinton^[30], John Kerry^[31] Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Al Franken, Debbie Stabenow, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Cynthia McKinney, John Edwards, Sherrod Brown, Kathleen Sebelius, David McReynolds, Ralph Nader, Howard Dean, Peter Camejo, Al Gore, and the late Paul Wellstone and Ted Kennedy. Also in this category are many leaders in the women’s movement, cosmopolitanism, the labor movement, the American civil rights movement, the environmental movement, the immigrant rights movement, and the gay and lesbian rights movement. Other well-known progressives include Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, George Lakoff, Michael Lerner, and Urvashi Vaid.

Significant publications include The Progressive magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Prospect, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, In These Times, CounterPunch, and AlterNet.org. Broadcasting outlets include Air America Radio, the Pacifica Radio network, Democracy Now!, and certain community radio stations. Notable media voices include Cenk Uygur, Alexander Cockburn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, Arianna Huffington, Jim Hightower, the late Molly Ivins, Ron Reagan, Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy, Keith Olbermann, Greg Palast, Randi Rhodes, Betsy Rosenberg, Ed Schultz, David Sirota, and The Young Turks (talk show).

Modern issues for progressives can include[citation needed]: electoral reform (including instant runoff voting, proportional representation and fusion candidates), environmental conservation, pollution control and environmentalism, same-sex marriage, universal health care, abolition of the death penalty, affordable housing, a viable Social Security System, renewable energy, smart growth urban development, a living wage and pro-union policies, among many others.

Examples of the broad range of progressive texts include: New Age Politics by Mark Satin; Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne, Jr.; Community Building: Renewing Spirit & Learning in Business edited by Kazimierz Gozdz; Ecopolitics: Building a Green Society by Daniel Coleman; and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.

The main current national progressive parties are the Democratic Party and the Green Party of the United States. The Democratic Party has major-party status in all fifty States, while there are state Green Parties or affiliates with the national Green Party in most states. The most successful non-major state-level progressive party is the Vermont Progressive Party. However, progressives often shy away from parties and align within more community-oriented activist groups, coalitions and networks, such as the Maine People’s Alliance and Northeast Action. …”

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

Background Articles and Vidoes

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 1 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 2 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 3 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 4 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 5 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 6 of 7

Glenn Beck Show – January 29, 2010 – Pt 7 of 7

AIG and Goldman Sachs were bailouted for the simple reason the executives of these firms gave campaign contributions to candidate Barack Obama.

AIG–Follow The Money Trail–Bailing Out Business Buddies–Corrupt Crony Radical Socialism

Neither AIG nor Goldman Sachs should have received one dollar of bailout money from the American people.

AIG and Goldman Sachs should have negotiated a settlement without any Federal Government intervention into these transactions.

The political class in Washington, both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt.

The progressive radical socialists of both political parties are responsible for the Bush Obama Depression.

Time for a new political party.

Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity and Bennett are wrong.

The Republican Party at the national level is run by progressives for progressives no matter what they say or call themselves.

Glenn Beck is right about both political parties.

Do not waste time or money trying to recapture the Republican Party from progressive Republicans.

Start a new conservative/libertarian party now.

Democrats, Republican, Independents, and Libertarians are looking for a new political home.

Time to build a new political party.

The last time this happened Abraham Lincoln was elected President as a Republican.

Background Articles and Videos

Treas. Sec Geithner Faces Poss. Criminal Charges

Background Articles and Videos

Cardinal George warns Obama against moving U.S. towards despotism

HHS Secretary Sebelius Takes Questions from BlogHer on Health Reform

Floor Statement: Sen. Cornyn Talks About Concerns With Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Secretary – Part 1

Floor Statement: Sen. Cornyn Talks About Concerns With Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Secretary – Part 2

Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius at CHC09 (Part 1)

Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius at CHC09 (Part 2)

Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius at CHC09 (Part 3)

Background Articles and Videos

Henry David Thoreau

“…Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817– May 6, 1862)^[1] was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and “Yankee” love of practical detail.^[2] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life’s true essential needs.^[2]

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist.^[3] Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government– “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”^[4]– the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”^[4]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhP7PKoRmmY&NR=1

Background Articles and Videos

J.D. Salinger

“…Jerome David “J. D.” Salinger (pronounced /ˈsælɪndʒər/; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.

Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.[2] The novel remains widely read and controversial,[3] selling around 250,000 copies a year.

The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny: Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), a collection of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His last published work, a novella entitled “Hapworth 16, 1924,” appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.

Afterward, Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the 1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of memoirs written by two people close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover; and Margaret Salinger, his daughter. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish “Hapworth 16, 1924″ in book form, but amid the ensuing publicity, the release was indefinitely delayed. He made headlines around the globe in June 2009, after filing a lawsuit against another writer for copyright infringement resulting from that writer’s use of one of Salinger’s characters from Catcher in the Rye.[4]

Salinger died of natural causes on January 27, 2010, at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.[5][6]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

“…The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of alienation and rebellion.^[1] It has been translated into almost all of the world’s major languages.^[2] Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than sixty-five million.^[3] The novel’s protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.^[4]

The novel was included on a 2005 Time Magazine list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923,^[5] and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged^[6]^[7]^[8] in the United States for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst. It also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation.

Plot summary

The first-person narrative follows Holden Caulfield’s experiences in New York City in the days following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a fictional college preparatory school in the fictional city of Agerstown, Pennsylvania.

Holden shares encounters he has had with students and faculty of Pencey, whom he criticizes as being superficial, or, as he would say, “phony”. After being expelled from the school for poor grades, Holden packs up and leaves the school in the middle of the night after an altercation with his roommate. He takes a train to New York, but does not want to return to his family and instead checks into the dilapidated Edmont Hotel. There, he spends an evening dancing with three tourist girls and has a clumsy encounter with a prostitute; he refuses to do anything with her and, after he tells her he just wants to talk, she becomes annoyed with him and leaves. However, he still pays her for her time. She demands more money than was originally agreed upon and when Holden refuses to pay he is beaten by her pimp, Maurice.

Holden spends a total of three days in the city, characterized largely by drunkenness and loneliness. At one point he ends up at a museum, where he contrasts his life with the statues of Eskimos on display. For as long as he can remember, the statues have been unchanging. These concerns may have stemmed largely from the death of his brother, Allie. Eventually, he sneaks into his parents’ apartment while they are away in order to visit his younger sister, Phoebe, who is nearly the only person with whom he seems to be able to communicate. Holden shares a fantasy he has been thinking about (based on a mishearing of Robert Burns’ Comin’ Through the Rye): he pictures himself as the sole guardian of numerous children running and playing in a huge rye field on the edge of a cliff. His job is to catch the children if they wander close to the brink; to be a “catcher in the rye”. After leaving his parents’ apartment, Holden then drops by to see his old English teacher, Mr. Antolini, in the middle of the night, and is offered advice on life and a place to sleep. Mr. Antolini tells Holden that it is the stronger man who lives humbly, rather than dies nobly, for a cause. This rebukes Holden’s ideas of becoming a “catcher in the rye,” a godlike figure who symbolically saves children from “falling off a crazy cliff” and being exposed to the evils of adulthood. During the speech on life, Mr. Antolini has a number of “highballs,” referring to a cocktail served in a highball glass. Holden’s comfort is upset when he wakes up in the night to find Mr. Antolini patting his head in a way that he perceives as “flitty.” There is much speculation on whether Mr. Antolini was making a sexual advance on Holden, and it is left up to the reader whether this is true. Holden leaves and spends his last afternoon wandering the city. He later wonders if his interpretation of Mr. Antolini’s actions was correct.

Holden intends to move out west; he relays these plans to his sister, who decides she wants to go with him. He refuses to take her, and when she becomes upset with him, he tells her that he will no longer go. Holden then takes Phoebe to the Central Park Zoo, where he watches with a melancholic joy as she rides a carousel. At the close of the book, Holden decides not to mention much about the present day, finding it inconsequential. He alludes to “getting sick” and living in a mental hospital, and mentions that he’ll be attending another school in September. Holden says that he has found himself missing Stradlater and Ackley (his former classmates), and the others—warning the reader that the same thing could happen to them. …”

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

Catching Salinger: Pencey Prep

JD Salinger Overview

OMFG CATCHER IN THE RYE!!!

The Catcher in the Rye, Part 1

The Catcher in the Rye, Part 2

The Catcher In The Rye Movie Preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjeOvH0e9uA

Background Articles and Videos

Cato Institute Scholars Analyze the 2010 State of the Union Address

Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov’t Is Not Stimulus

Obama’s So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy

Stimulus II: A Sequel America Can’t Afford

Kline Rejects Government Takeover of Student Loan Programs

Sen. Wicker Discusses State of the Union Speech with Neil Cavuto

Senator Thune discusses the State of the Union Address on Kudlow and Company

Background Articles and Videos

U.S.: Obama Announces Education Secretary

Background Articles and Videos

President Obama Personnel Alert: U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

Background Articles and Videos

Obama Announces Another Republican for his Cabinet, Illinois Congressman Ray LaHood

Ray LaHood: Witness to History

U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood

President Obama Speech At Department of Transportation ( 1 of 2 )

President Obama Speech At Department of Transportation ( 2 of 2 )

Background Articles and Videos

Obama’s So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy

Stimulus II: A Sequel America Can’t Afford

Transcripts of President Obama’s State of Union Address, January 17, 2010

Text: Obama’s State of the Union Address

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/politics/28obama.text.html

State of the Union: President Obama’s Speech
President Obama Delivers State of the Union at US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Jan. 27, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/State_of_the_Union/state-of-the-union-2010-president-obama-speech-transcript/story?id=9678572

U.S. Debt Clock–Real Time

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The National Debt Is Now Over

$12,300,000,000,000

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

The Total Unfunded Liabilities of

The United States of America Are Over

$107,000,000,000,000

We The People

Are Broke!

Stop Socialist Spending

Real Change and Hope

Milton Friedman on Libertarianism (Part 4 of 4)

Shut Down and Close Permanently

10 Federal Government Departments,

Several Agencies and Many Programs Now!

1. Department of Agriculture

2. Department of Commerce

3. Department of Education

4. Department of Energy

5. Department of Health and Human Resources

6. Department of Housing and Urban Development

7. Department of Interior

8. Department of Labor

9. Department of Transportation

10. Department of Veterans Affairs

11. Environmental Protection Agency

12. Other Independent Agencies

13. International Assistance Programs

If

We The People

Do Not Do This Now

You Can Forgot About

Receiving Your

Social Security and Medicare Benefits!

Social Security and Medicare Projections – I.O.U.S.A.

http://www.federalbudget.com/

The American People March on Washington D.C.–August 28, 2010–At The Lincoln Memorial! Mark Your Calendar–Be There–Three Million Minimum–Join The Second American Revolution

We The People Stimulus Package

Ray Stevens – We The People

Mark Levin–Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto–Videos

Background Articles and Videos

Ron Paul: State of the Union Address Part 1 of 3

Ron Paul: State of the Union Address Part 2 of 3

Ron Paul: State of the Union Address Part 3 of 3

Flashback: Obama Ridicules McCains Call for Spending Freeze

United States of Amercia Government

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive.shtml

Obama’s 2010 Federal Budget Explained in Plain English

by Rebekah Manning

http://www.onlineforextrading.com/blog/federal-budget-broken-down/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3015540/US-Budget-Deficit-or-Surplus-1960present

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/

Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans

$1.4 Trillion in Red Ink Means Less to Spend On Obama’s Ambitious Jobs, Stimulus Policies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/16/AR2009101602388.html

http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/obama-tripled-the-national-deficit-his-first-year-in-office.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125119686015756517.html

Unites States Cabinet

“… The United States Cabinet (usually referred to as the President’s Cabinet or simplified as the Cabinet) is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. Its existence dates back to the first American President, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four people (Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton; Secretary of War Henry Knox; and Attorney General Edmund Randolph) to advise and assist him in his duties. Cabinet officers are nominated by the President and then presented to the United States Senate for confirmation or rejection by a simple majority. If approved, they are sworn in and begin their duties. Aside from the Attorney General, and previously, the Postmaster General, they all receive the title Secretary. Members of the Cabinet serve at the pleasure of the President. ..”

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

“…Department of Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) develops and executes policy on farming, agriculture, and food. Its aims include meeting the needs of farmers and ranchers, promoting agricultural trade and production, assuring food safety, protecting natural resources, fostering rural communities, and ending hunger in America and abroad.

The United States Secretary of Agriculture administers the USDA.

Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce is the government agency tasked with improving living standards for all Americans by promoting economic development and technological innovation.

The Secretary of Commerce oversees a $6.5 billion budget and approximately 38,000 employees.

Department of Defense

The mission of the Department of Defense (DOD) is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country. The department’s headquarters is at the Pentagon.

Department of Education
The mission of the Department of Education is to promote student achievement and preparation for competition in a global economy by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access to educational opportunity.

The U.S. Secretary of Education oversees the Department’s 4,200 employees and $68.6 billion budget.

Department of Energy

The mission of the Department of Energy (DOE) is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.

The DOE is also tasked with ensuring America’s nuclear security, and with protecting the environment by providing a responsible resolution to the legacy of nuclear weapons production.

The United States Secretary of Energy oversees a budget of approximately $23 billion and more than 100,000 federal and contract employees.

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development oversees approximately 9,000 employees on a budget of approximately $40 billion.

Department of the Interior

Department of Justice

With a budget of approximately $25 billion, the DOJ is the world’s largest law office and the central agency for the enforcement of federal laws.

Department of Labor

The Secretary of Labor oversees 15,000 employees on a budget of approximately $50 billion.

Department of State

The Secretary of State serves as the President’s top foreign policy adviser, and oversees 30,000 employees and a budget of approximately $35 billion.

Department of Transportation

The U.S. Secretary of Transportation oversees approximately 55,000 employees and a budget of approximately $70 billion.

Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury is responsible for promoting economic prosperity and ensuring the soundness and security of the U.S. and international financial systems.

The Secretary of the Treasury oversees a budget of approximately $13 billion and a staff of more than 100,000 employees.

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs oversees a budget of approximately $90 billion and a staff of approximately 235,000 employees.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/executive-branch

Background Articles and Videos

iPad Product Page

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

It’s Official: Jobs Announces Apple’s iPad

Agam Shah, IDG News Service

“…Apple on Wednesday launched its much-awaited iPad tablet device, a handheld that will allow users to view movies, surf the Internet and play high-definition games.

We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, after taking the stage in front of a throng of media and IT luminaries at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco.

“Everybody uses a laptop and smartphone. A question has arisen: Is there room for a third device between a [laptop] and smartphone?” Jobs asked. “We’ve got something that is. We call it the iPad.”

iPad features include the ability to browse the Web and listen to music, with photo, calendar, and maps applications. It will work with the iTunes store to let users discover and purchase music, movies and TV shows, Jobs added.

When the iPad is turned sideways, it orients the view for the user. “It’s a dream to type on,” Jobs said, demonstrating that feature. …”

http://www.pcworld.com/article/187871/its_official_jobs_announces_apples_ipad.html

Apple’s iPad Tablet Could Slay Smartphones, eBooks and Netbooks

By: Rob Enderle

“…Newton + Tablet Done Right?

Steve Jobs both panned the idea of a Newton and a tablet PC, and strangely enough, the iPhone, iPod Touch and now this planned iPad are all combinations of both concepts. The iPad is likely the closest to what the Newton was evolving into given its size and capabilities, and the rumored design is identical to a tablet PC, albeit a small one.

“iPad” tablet concept

If this were anybody else, I’d figure the chances that this will be successful to be slim or none, but Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone have a user interface that will at least scale to 10 inches (the rumored screen size of this new device), and should work just fine.

Content is Key: Overcoming The Apple TV Problem

The problem for Apple, much like it was for the iPod, which it got done, and Apple TV, which it didn’t, is getting access to the media folks want to watch and play with on the device. It will be about the size of a Kindle DX, but it will need a decent book library if it is going to be used in that fashion. Luckily, there is a Kindle reader already for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but even Amazon doesn’t have perfect access (for instance, the Harry Potter books aren’t available on a Kindle). And Apple has never wanted anyone else to own the critical services on any of their devices in the first place.

This would be a great portable movie and TV viewer as well, but the lack of great content is what has plagued the AppleTV and kept it from joining the iPod, iPhone, and iMac on stage as a truly innovative product. Without decent video content, this just won’t scale to the kind of audience that the iPod or even the iPhone will enjoy. This is probably the most troubling aspect for Apple, because it didn’t really pull this off for Apple TV, and this may suggest the company can’t actually get it done this time either. …”

http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/apples-ipad-tablet-could-slay-smartphones-ebooks-and-netbooks/

Apple May Bring Non-iPhone to Verizon

by Sascha Segan

“…As we reported in 2007, AT&T’s contract with Apple covers “all models” of the iPhone. But it only covers iPhones. So if Apple builds something that isn’t an iPhone, well, all bets are off.

If BusinessWeek is to be believed, Apple is working on a “media pad that would let users listen to music, view photos, and watch high-definition videos,” and which would “place calls over a Wi-Fi connection.” If the device doesn’t make cellular voice calls, it may be able to avoid the iPhone’s AT&T exclusivity.

According to BusinessWeek, Apple has been talking to Verizon Wireless about the device, as well as about another “iPhone-like” device which may be the “iPhone Mini” I wrote about a few weeks ago.

Verizon has already been experimenting in the VOIP media pad space with the Verizon Hub, a home-based media pad that makes Wi-Fi calls. Apple’s product would hopefully work better than the Hub, though.

Getting an iPhone Mini onto Verizon before 2010 may prove much more difficult than launching a media pad, because of the iPhone exclusivity contract with AT&T. …”

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346071,00.asp

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President Barack Obama–Portrait of A Progressive Radical Socialist Narcissist–A Cult Of Personality!

Posted on January 27, 2010. Filed under: Blogroll, Communications, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Fiscal Policy, Law, liberty, Life, Links, media, People, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Rants, Raves, Security, Talk Radio, Taxes, Technology, Video, War, Wisdom | Tags: Arrogance, Barack Obama, Cult, Cult of Personality, I, Narcissism, Narcissist, Narcististic Personality Disorder, President Obama, Sam Vaknin |

You Probably Think This Speech is About You

Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?

Sam Vaknin on the Tamar Yonah Show on Israel National Radio. Broadcast 8/4/2009.

Sam Vaknin Analyzes Barack Obama (Part 1)

Sam Vaknin Analyzes Barack Obama (Part 2)

Sam Vaknin Analyzes Barack Obama (Part 3)

Phil Hendrie and Dr Sam Vaknin Part 1

Phil Hendrie and Dr Sam Vaknin Part 2

Rush: Obama’s A ‘Man-Child Narcissist’ Who Puts His Pants On One Leg At A Time — Like Hillary

Rush Limbaugh Interview on “FOX News Sunday”

Part 8| President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address – 01/27/10

Background Articles and Videos

NARCISSISTIC – POMPOUS – OBAMA – REVEALS HIS ELITIST PERSONA !!!

Obama’s Seal

Obama’s Seal Of Approval

Does Barack Obama Have a Personality Disorder?

Mind Control Cults

Obama’s Narcissism Made Worse in First Year in Office

Sam Vaknin Ph.D

“…Predictably, Barack Obama’s narcissistic behaviours grew worse and more visible during his first year in office. As I noted in a radio interview (an observation later picked up by George F. Will), Obama’s first person “pronoun density” has increased since his inauguration. Properly measured, first person pronoun density reflects the number of times a person substitutes first person pronouns for more appropriate third and other person pronouns. Thus, to say: “My country, right or wrong” is not indicative of a narcissistic self-preoccupation; but the sentence: “The Russians were afraid of me” is improper because, clearly, the Russians are not afraid of any single individual: they are afraid of what he or she represents. Thus, context counts. It is wrong to merely count the times Obama has used “I”, “my”, or “mine” in his speeches and utterances (as George F. Will did).

Obama’s pronoun density has doubled between January 20, 2009 and October 2009. It then subsided, though it is still about 50% over the level exhibited during his election campaign. This would seem to indicate that his pathological narcissism has been exacerbated in office as he was probably basking in media attention and the trappings of power. The backlash, such as it was, against several of his more egregious behaviours and faux-pas led him to modify his conduct and pay closer attention to his syntax and grammar: Obama is now acting modest. False modesty is another hallmark of raging, malignant narcissism. …”

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/135740

Is Obama a Narcissist?

By Robin of Berkeley

“…Many of us are asking ourselves the million dollar question: are Obama and his crew narcissists?

(Translation: What in God’s name is wrong with these people? Are they on medications? Are they off their medications?

Are we being unknowingly subjected to some new reality show, Extreme Alien Invasion?)

Now as a newbie conservative, I have a long way to go to herald myself as an expert on conservatism, neoconservatism, paleoconservatism (whatever that is), and the like. But one thing I do know is crazy — and that’s not just because I’ve been a licensed psychotherapist for over 20 years. It’s because for almost 30 years I’ve been eating, sleeping, and living with crazy, what I have dubbed the Psycho Network

There are plenty of nice folks around these parts (although mention the words Sarah Palin or Tea Parties and they’ll morph into Linda Blair in the Exorcist). But we also have lots of Bernadine Dohrn look-alikes who appear to have just crawled out from some prehistoric rock.

So, let me take a stab at the burning question of Obama’s mental health status.

Is Obama a garden variety narcissist? Probably, but that’s the least of our problems. …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/is_obama_a_narcissist.html

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	Adm. Michael G. Mullen (USN)
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	Gen. James E. Cartwright (USMC)
Chief of Staff of the United States Army	Gen. George W. Casey, Jr. (USA)
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force	Gen. Norton A. Schwartz (USAF)
Chief of Naval Operations	Adm. Gary Roughead (USN)
Commandant of the Marine Corps	Gen. James T. Conway (USMC)

Command	Commander	Home Base	Area of Responsibility
United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM)	General Victor E. Renuart Jr. (USAF) (also Chief of NORAD)	Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado	North American homeland defense and coordinating homeland security with civilian forces.
United States Central Command (CENTCOM),	General David H. Petraeus (USA)	MacDill Air Force Base, Florida	Egypt through the Persian Gulf region, into Central Asia; handing over responsibility of Horn of Africa to AFRICOM.
United States European Command (EUCOM)	General John Craddock (USA) (also Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)	SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe), Belgium (USEUCOM HQ in Stuttgart, Germany)	Europe, including Turkey, and Israel
United States Pacific Command (PACOM)	Admiral Timothy J. Keating (USN)	Camp H. M. Smith, Oahu, Hawaii	The Asia-Pacific region including Hawaii.
United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)	Admiral James Stavridis (USN)	Miami, Florida	South, Central America and the surrounding waters
United States Africa Command (AFRICOM)	General William E. Ward (USA)	Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany for now; to be relocated to African continent	Africa excluding Egypt
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)	Admiral Eric T. Olson (USN)	MacDill Air Force Base, Florida	Provides special operations for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM)	General James Mattis (USMC)	Naval Support Activity Headquarters (Norfolk) and Suffolk, Virginia	Supports other commands as a joint force provider.
United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM)	General Kevin P. Chilton (USAF)	Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska	Covers the strategic deterrent force and coordinates the use of space assets.
United States Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)	General Duncan J. McNabb (USAF)	Scott Air Force Base, Illinois	Covers global mobility of all military assets for all regional commands.

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