More This & That & Whatever.... The Best Of Intellectual Froglegs

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You won't hear about the problems below in the news, and you certainly won't hear about the solutions. Numbers don't lie, and the numbers are telling us that things will get much worse before it gets any better, so taking certain steps that makes sense no matter what happens makes sense, right?

The Problems: Corrupt Governments, Fraudulent Central Banks, Insolvent Banks, Dying Fiat Currencies, Inflation, Insecure Gold Storage, The Rise of the Police State, Illegal Surveillance, Food Crises, Capital Controls, Wage and Price Controls, People Controls, And More.

The Solutions: Internationalization, International Diversification, Offshore Banking, Residency and Second Citizenships, Moving Your IRA Offshore, International Investing, Resilient Communities, Investing in Productive Farmland, And More.

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30 Statistics About Americans Under The Age Of 30
That Will Blow Your Mind

by Michael Snyder, on October 3rd, 2013

Why are young people in America so frustrated these days?  You are about to find out.  Most young adults started out having faith in the system.  They worked hard, they got good grades, they stayed out of trouble and many of them went on to college.  But when their educations where over, they discovered that the good jobs that they had been promised were not waiting for them at the end of the rainbow.  Even in the midst of this so-called "economic recovery", the full-time employment rate for Americans under the age of 30 continues to fall.  And incomes for that age group continue to fall as well.  At the same time, young adults are dealing with record levels of student loan debt.  As a result, more young Americans than ever are putting off getting married and having families, and more of them than ever are moving back in with their parents.

It can be absolutely soul crushing when you discover that the "bright future" that the system had been promising you for so many years turns out to be a lie.  A lot of young people ultimately give up on the system and many of them end up just kind of drifting aimlessly through life.  

The following is an example from a recent Wall Street Journal article...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303643304579105450145516622.html?mod=e2tw

James Roy, 26, has spent the past six years paying off $14,000 in student loans for two years of college by skating from job to job. Now working as a supervisor for a coffee shop in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles, Ill., Mr. Roy describes his outlook as "kind of grim."

"It seems to me that if you went to college and took on student debt, there used to be greater assurance that you could pay it off with a good job," said the Colorado native, who majored in English before dropping out. "But now, for people living in this economy and in our age group, it's a rough deal."

Young adults as a group have been experiencing a tremendous amount of economic pain in recent years.  

The following are 30 statistics about Americans under the age of 30 that will blow your mind...

#1 The labor force participation rate for men in the 18 to 24 year old age bracket is at an all-time low.

#2 The ratio of what men in the 18 to 29 year old age bracket are earning compared to the general population is at an all-time low.

#3 Only about a third of all adults in their early 20s are working a full-time job.

#4 For the entire 18 to 29 year old age bracket, the full-time employment rate continues to fall.  In June 2012, 47 percent of that entire age group had a full-time job.  One year later, in June 2013, only 43.6 percent of that entire age group had a full-time job.

#5 Back in the year 2000, 80 percent of men in their late 20s had a full-time job.  Today, only 65 percent do.

#6 In 2007, the unemployment rate for the 20 to 29 year old age bracket was about 6.5 percent.  Today, the unemployment rate for that same age group is about 13 percent.

#7 American families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.

#8 During 2012, young adults under the age of 30 accounted for 23 percent of the workforce, but they accounted for a whopping 36 percent of the unemployed.

#9 During 2011, 53 percent of all Americans with a bachelor's degree under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.

#10 At this point about half of all recent college graduates are working jobs that do not even require a college degree.

#11 The number of Americans in the 16 to 29 year old age bracket with a job declined by 18 percent between 2000 and 2010.

#12 According to one survey, 82 percent of all Americans believe that it is harder for young adults to find jobs today than it was for their parents to find jobs.

#13 Incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by about 12 percent after you adjust for inflation since the year 2000.

#14 In 1984, the median net worth of households led by someone 65 or older was 10 times larger than the median net worth of households led by someone 35 or younger.  Today, the median net worth of households led by someone 65 or older is 47 times larger than the median net worth of households led by someone 35 or younger.

#15 In 2011, SAT scores for young men were the worst that they had been in 40 years.

#16 Incredibly, approximately two-thirds of all college students graduate with student loans.

#17 According to the Federal Reserve, the total amount of student loan debt has risen by 275 percent since 2003.

#18 In America today, 40 percent of all households that are led by someone under the age of 35 are paying off student loan debt.  Back in 1989, that figure was below 20 percent.

#19 The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

#20 According to the U.S. Department of Education, 11 percent of all student loans are at least 90 days delinquent.

#21 The student loan default rate in the United States has nearly doubled since 2005.

#22 One survey found that 70% of all college graduates wish that they had spent more time preparing for the "real world" while they were still in college.

#23 In the United States today, there are more than 100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

#24 In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

#25 Today, an all-time low 44.2 percent of all Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 are married.

#26 According to the Pew Research Center, 57 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 24 year old age bracket lived with their parents during 2012.

#27 One poll discovered that 29 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are still living with their parents.

#28 Young men are nearly twice as likely to live with their parents as young women the same age are.

#29 Overall, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents according to Time Magazine.

#30 Young Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated that previous generations have saddled them with a nearly 17 trillion dollar national debt that they are expected to make payments on for the rest of their lives.

And this trend is not just limited to the United States.  Unemployment rates for young adults throughout Europe have been soaring to unprecedented heights.  For example, the unemployment rate for those under the age of 25 in Italy has now reached 40.1 percent.

Meanwhile, the overall economy continues to get even weaker.

In the United States, Gallup's daily economic confidence index is now the lowest that it has been in more than a year.

For young people that are in high school or college right now, the future does not look bright.  In fact, this is probably as good as the U.S. economy is going to get.  It is probably only going to be downhill from here.

The system is failing, and young people are going to become even angrier and even more frustrated.

So what will that mean for our future?

[Warph]

President Barack Obuma's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]

 

(Yep, he's historic, alright... what a rap sheet.  Many, many more FIRSTS can be added, ie:
First President to hide his medical, educational, and travel records

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to coddle America's enemies while alienating America's allies.

First President to go on multiple Global apology tours)

Law and Justice

• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)

• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)

• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)

• First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight ( 8 ) Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)

• First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)

• First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)

• First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)

• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)

• First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)

• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)

• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)

• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: United States Court of Appeals)

• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)

• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch)

• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)

• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)

• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)

• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)

• First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years (Source: NBC News)

• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox News)

• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)

Scandals

• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)

• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)

• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)

• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)

• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)

• First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)

• First President to Use the EPA to Punish Political Enemies and Reward Political Allies (Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute)

• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)

• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)

Economy

• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government (Source: Reuters)

• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)

• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual Freedom)

• First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than 100% in Less Than Four Years (Source: Sen. Jeff Sessions)

• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs (Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs Council')

• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases (Source: The Hill)

• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)

• First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York (Source: CNS News)

• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)

• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)

• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union supporters in the UAW (Source: Heritage Foundation)

• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)

• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)

Energy Policy

• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation - PDF)

• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for "Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)

• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)

National Security and World Affairs

• First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel for Purely Political Reasons, Rewriting a "Talking Points" Memo No Fewer Than a Dozen Times to Avoid Referencing a Pre-Planned Terror Attack (Source: ABC News)

• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)

• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)

• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)

• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)

• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])

Miscellania

• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times).

• First President to Golf 122 or More Times in His First Four-and-a-half Years in Office (Source: White House Dossier)


But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.

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What do 55 million people have in common?

By Pastor Mark Driscoll /
Published October 18, 2013 / FoxNews.com

We have bloody hands and a guilty conscience.

Of all the Ten Commandments, number six is the only one that our nation has codified into law: "You shall not murder."

Since 1973, legal abortions in America have taken the lives of 55 million people. If 55 million Americans died tomorrow, whoever led the genocide would not get a parade in celebration, bumper stickers in support, or be a viable candidate for political office.

Fifty-five million lives equals 17.5% of the country's current population. It's a number greater than the population of any state in the Union, and greater than the population of 219 of the world's country's including South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Australia, Argentina, and Canada. Fifty-five million is about the same as the population of the 25 smallest states and Washington D.C. combined.


Abortion Is Murder: America's Great Denial
Both science and Scripture are absolutely clear that life begins at conception. Taking a human life is murder, by definition, which makes abortion a murderous act.

Consider this: On December 5, John Andrew Welden will be sentenced after pleading guilty in the murder of his unborn baby. Welden's girlfriend, Remee Jo Lee, was six weeks pregnant when he gave her an abortion pill and told her it was antibiotics.

Welden was prosecuted for violating the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Believe it or not, federal legislation forbids the murder of an unborn baby—except in the 55 million instances when it doesn't. And a father can be convicted of murdering his unborn child without the mother's consent, but if a woman decides to end her pregnancy against the wishes of the father, that's her right to choose.

Choose murder? Can't follow all of the logic? Perhaps that's because it's illogical.


Evil no lesser
Thanks to ultrasound technology and pro-life advocacy, our culture is beginning to accept the fact that an abortion doesn't just remove "tissue" but ends a human life. Yet many persist in not only killing their child but also their conscience.

In a New York Times op-ed entitled, "My Abortion, at 23 Weeks," the author recounts her decision to terminate one of her two twins in utero after doctors discovered a birth defect. "We made sure our son was not born only to suffer," she explains. "He died in a warm and loving place, inside me."

The notorious abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell, likewise justified his atrocities by citing the greater good: "In an ideal world, we'd have no need for abortion. But bringing a child into the world when it cannot be provided for, that there are not sufficient systems to support, is a greater sin."

I recently spoke with one of my friends, Dr. John Piper, who told me about a conversation he had with an abortion doctor. He recalls, "Before I could get my first of ten arguments out of my mouth, [the doctor] said, 'Look, I know I'm killing children.'"

John was astounded, and asked the man to explain why he would do such a thing. "To be honest, my wife wants me to because it's a matter of justice for women [and] the lesser of two evils in her mind."

I would agree that this is a matter of justice—for the one million babies slaughtered every year as we play God and determine who lives and who dies.

As Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, said, "How can the 'Dream' survive if we murder the children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her mother. The mother decides his or her fate."

Abortion is not a matter of politics. It's a matter of life and death, for 55 million and counting. Enough.

You shall not murder.

Pastor Mark Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington and is one of the world's most-downloaded and quoted pastors. He was also named one of the "25 Most Influential Pastors of the Past 25 Years" by Preaching magazine, and his sermons are consistently #1 on iTunes each week for Religion & Spirituality with over 15 million of downloads each year.  His latest book is "A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?" releases on November 5th and is available us now for preorder.

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Russian Naval Base in Egypt? What does Cairo know about President Obuma that the United States doesn't?Egypt Turns to Russia After Kerry's Failed Trip: "Obuma Can't Be Trusted"

November 8, 2013, 3:01 PM
by Dr. Mark Christian
Executive Director Global Faith Institute

The Egyptian government has made clear that they have 'the goods' on President Obama and his administration, and are none too happy about the administration's support of the Islamist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. The current Egyptian government has told the press that they had 'wiretapped all communications made by ex-president (and Muslim Brotherhood strongman) Morsi during his year as president.'

What revelations will they expose?

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Cairo last week just hours before Morsi's trial was to begin. Can we assume he was there to advocate for Morsi? We do know that after Kerry's departure the interim Egyptian President authorized a statement that essentially said, "Americans can't be trusted, and we're now going to work with Russia instead."

Since then, Egypt has sent an official delegation to Russia to prepare for the Russian Defense Minister's upcoming trip to Egypt. This trip is a prelude to Russian President Putin's trip to Egypt, an event that hasn't occurred in decades. The last time Egypt and Russia had such a 'feel good' relationship was during the glory days of the Cold War, an era that both states seem to want to rekindle.

Russia has committed to giving Egypt 4 billion dollars' in weapons while Egypt has apparently volunteered to allow Russia to place a naval base somewhere along Egypt's shores.

Has United States diplomacy ever failed so miserably, in such a short amount of time? What does a 'Russian' Egypt mean for the Middle East and the American presence there?

(What do I think... all hell is about to happen!!!)

[Warph]

"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed." ~Ayn Rand

It's Time For Obuma To Resign!

By any reasonable measure, Obuma's is a failed presidency.  The stimulus failed to stimulate, with unemployment remaining vastly higher than administration economists predicted... even without the stimulus, much less with it.  (An awful lot of the stimulus money also seemed to wind up in the hands of Obuma cronies and contributors, too.)  And after a brief downtick last month, the unemployment rate is back up in October tho' his administration says it is lower.

Promises to rebuild our diplomacy from the days of the Bush administration have also gone unfulfilled.  The "reset" with Russia was a failure, allowing Russia to counter U.S. interests across the globe.  Obuma's support of the "Arab Spring" has backfired, with Sharia-fueled Islamist governments springing up all over.

In Libya, things are worse yet, with a deadly debacle in Benghazi that cost the lives of four diplomats, including our ambassador, and would have cost more except for two heroic CIA operatives who rescued as many as 24 people at the risk of... and, in the case of two, the cost of... their lives.  This was followed by an administration cover-up.... still unraveling as officials desperately try to keep the lid on until after the votes are counted... and an absurd, weeks-long effort to blame everything on an obscure YouTube filmmaker.  Who, conveniently, was in jail on trumped up charges made by the Obuma Adm.

We're not doing any better with the ongoing fight in Syria; the Pakistanis don't like us because of drone strikes; in Afghanistan our troops are being shot by our Afghan "allies"; and Iran continues to press on toward becoming a nuclear power.

In domestic politics, Obuma hasn't exactly covered himself with glory.  He chose, mistakenly, to focus on health care instead of economic recovery, and we wound up with a bill packed with giveaways for special interests and still highly unpopular with the American people... rammed through using legislative technicalities.  Even Democrat Ex-Gov. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the first black elected governor since Reconstruction, is criticizing Obuma.

Steve Contoro writes in The Washington Examiner: "Wilder, an emphatic Obuma supporter in 2008, said his fellow Democrats should have focused more on creating jobs during his first term and faulted the president for failing to keep his campaign promise to bridge the partisan gap in Washington."

"I think he's governed left of center and didn't focus on jobs and economic recovery," Wilder told The Washington Examiner.

That's right.  And his arrogance ("I won") and inflexibility have ensured that not much would get done.  Obuma hasn't even passed a budget and didn't even get any Democratic votes in the Senate though we've somehow managed to run trillion dollar deficits every year anyway.  Put it all together, and you've got the portrait of a failed presidency. It is time for him to go!

This shouldn't be surprising. When elected, Obuma was inexperienced: Most of his career in government was in the Illinois State Senate, with only a couple of years experience in the U.S. Senate, most of which he spent running for president.  He had no private-sector experience, no executive experience (beyond the Harvard Law Review) and little knowledge of the United States beyond the major metropolitan areas of New York, Boston and Chicago.  It would have been a miracle if he had turned out to be competent.

In 2008, lots of people expected that miracle.  It didn't happen.  Barack Hussein Obuma has FAILED.  It is DAMN time for him to go!

....Warph

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Bad Apple President

Turn on your television. Keep flipping the channels past the infomercials, the reality shows and the music videos and you'll hear it.

The problem only affects a small (millions large) sliver of the population. The plans being cancelled were substandard. Health plans aren't lost; they're transitioning to new health opportunities. The private marketplace was an unregulated Wild Wild West where villainous deductibles went around with guns blazing through the office of the town sawbones.

The insurers decided to cancel the plans for reasons having nothing to do with the government. These were "bad apple plans" that the insurers didn't even want to sell anymore. They couldn't sell the plans anymore because they had changed too much. (Such as increasing the co-pay by 5 bucks.)

Leave the television on CNN, MSNBC or your local news and between weather and sports, you'll hear these lies peddled by Obama, his advisors and staffers, and assorted Democratic Party figures  reciting the same talking points about the Wild Wild West where Bad Apple plans roamed the frontier

And every word of it is a lie.

The people losing their plans didn't have substandard plans. They had a wide variety of plans from light to bulletproof. The insurance marketplace wasn't unregulated. There is no such thing as an unregulated marketplace except when your neighbor's kid start selling lemonade from a box crate; and even then the local authorities have been known to come by and demand a business license.

It isn't a small sliver of the population that's affected; even assuming that the population of a European country could be classified as a small sliver. Once the employer-based plans are affected, nearly 100 million people will lose their health plans. Or in Obamaspeak, will be transitioned to a new opportunity with higher premiums and deductibles for less coverage. 

The forced cancellation of health plans for nearly 100 million people is not routine marketplace churn. It's the result of regulations written for ObamaCare by Obama's bureaucracy which are calculated to disqualify as many grandfathered plans as possible.

Obama's new caveat to his infamous promise, "If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan", but "only if it hadn't changed since the law passed" neglects to mention that his people made it so that even the mildest and most meaningless of changes will kill a plan and dump another victim into the ObamaCare mess.

Repeat the same process nearly 100 million times and you have the opening round of ObamaCare; the law we had to pass to find out just how terrible it was. While the spokesmen spin the tragedy to make it seem as if the millions losing their health plans now will be the last ones, a small sliver, they're only the first of many.

100 million people aren't even a small sliver of China or India... let alone the United States of America. It's far more than the number of people who voted for Obama. It's twenty times the size of his margin of victory. If that's a small sliver of the population that can be disregarded when their insurance plans are taken out back and shot, then they can also be disregarded when they voted for Obama.

The problem is not that there were nearly 100 million bad apple insurance plans out there. The people complaining about losing their plans didn't have bad apple plans... they had a bad apple president.

The man in the White House was a substandard model who relied on a Wild Wild West of unregulated executive power to set up an illegal law, tamper with it freely and then dump it on the country, while protecting a small sliver of allies in key unions and the government from what he had done to the rest of the country.

The insurers weren't angels, but they had no interest in screwing up health care for almost 100 million people. Businesses don't think that big. Governments do.

American health care has grown worse with each government intervention. Doctors are accused of playing G-d, but it's really the government bureaucrats, the politicians and the professional medical ethicists who have never treated a patient but insist on drawing up lists of who should live and who should die and which people are the biggest burden on health care, which do. 

In 2012, voters had the opportunity to exchange their bad apple president for a better model. They chose to stick with their substandard model which lacked experience and ethics, was known to pull all sorts of bad apple scams and acted like it was the Wild Wild West when it came to following the law.

Now the bad apple president has screwed up their health care in a big way and is blaming anyone and everyone except his bad apple self.

His spokesmen have blamed insurers, patients, Republicans, the internet and a solar eclipse for the chain of disasters that began with the ObamaCare website deploying like a parachute tied to an anvil and concluding with the Halloween Massacre of health care plans followed by rate hikes and empty promises of subsidies.

President Truman had a sign on his desk that said, "The buck stops here." Barack Obama has a rug that reads, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself", "No Problem of Human Destiny is Beyond Human Beings", "The Welfare of Each of Us is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us" and "The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Towards Justice"

There is nothing in any of those vaguely inspiring collectivist quotes about responsibility or accountability. They assume that government is an unrestricted good whose purpose is only fulfilled through social justice.

Taken together they encourage action without contemplation. Fear is not the only thing that government should fear. It should also fear to destroy the fragile social compact between the people and their government that makes freedom possible. It should fear that its actions will cause more harm than good. It should also fear that it is not nearly as wise as it thinks it is.

The empty grandiosity of the rug across which the bad apple president walks flatters his ego. It is a long way from the memento mori of the Roman general whose servant would interject into displays of grandiosity the warning, "Remember thou art mortal."

The grandiose rug is the reflection of a bad apple president who lies like a much cheaper rug. To every setback, he offers another lie, another talking point and another villain. Every time one of his grandiose rug-inspired plans collapses, he rejects the implication of mortality with another barrel of bad apple lies.

Health plan cancellations become opportunities, old plans become substandard plans, the over-regulated insurance becomes the Wild Wild West and the lost plans are bad apples.

If Obama had any humility, his rug would read simply, "Memento Mori"; an acknowledgement that life is fragile, death is inevitable and human capabilities limited in the face of their own mortality. It's not that we shouldn't resist death and fight to extend life, but that we must do so knowing that the power to temporarily give life or take it away does not make us immortal or infallible.

Ethics come from humility. The recognition of our own mortality teaches us our limitations. The worst tyrants and monsters, like Joseph Stalin, did not believe that they would die. The USSR's persecution of doctors was motivated by its leader's faith in his own immortality.

Obama has no humility and therefore no ethics. He does not believe in his own immortality, but  in his invincibility; political and otherwise. He really does believe that the only thing to fear is fear itself. And 100 million Americans will lose their health insurance plans because their bad apple president was too arrogant to question his own bad judgement.

That is why Healthcare.gov does not work. It's why ObamaCare is such a disaster.

A standard model president understands risks and consequences. A substandard model like Obama does not. A good apple president apologizes when he chops down a cherry tree. A bad apple president blames Bush, the cherry tree, the axe and Global Warming.

The American people are being lied to every day by a bad apple president who covers up one lie with another lie and pastes an even crazier lie on top.

Unfortunately their opportunity to trade in their bad apple president for a fully regulated model that is compliant with the United States Constitution and all subsidiary documents will not come again until the next presidential open enrollment period.

[Warph]

Putin's Power and the Late Great United States

by Dan Greenfeild

After a suicide bombing in the Moscow subway by a Muslim terrorist, Vladimir Putin said, "Russia doesn't conduct negotiations with terrorists — it destroys them."

The last American president to say something like that and mean it was Ronald Reagan, who also defeated Putin's old bosses. The current administration, which frees Taliban leaders and makes concessions to Iran for the sake of what it calls "Smart Power," couldn't defeat a wet paper bag.

Fresh from his serial humiliations of Obama on the NSA and Syria, Putin has risen to the top of Forbes' Most Powerful People list. At No. 2 is Obama, right ahead of his banker and loan shark, Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

Putin has trashed Obama's national security and foreign policy with little leverage except a UN Security Council seat and bit players like Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden, who are a long way down from the powerful insiders like Alger Hiss and Kim Philby that his old bosses used to rely on.

Whether it was Russia's troubled energy industry or a global espionage network starved of influence after the collapse of Soviet Communism; Putin made the most out of what he had to work with. And that is in sharp contrast to No. 2 who made the least out of the incredible power base at his disposal.

Obama's foreign policy goals weren't only bad ideas, but he hasn't even been able to accomplish them.

The Arab Spring, which was supposed to be his signature foreign policy achievement, has imploded spectacularly, leaving him to issue impotent political threats to the Egyptian government and impotent military threats to the Syrian government.

Like every previous flailing administration looking for a cheap win, Obama has taken to browbeating Israel into signing some sort of peace agreement with the terrorists. An administration's pivot to the "Peace Process" is usually an admission of failure on every single other foreign policy front.

Obama may have lost Egypt and Syria, but he'll always have Israel to kick around the negotiating table.

While Putin is carving out his Eurasian Union, Obama's Asia pivot has come to nothing, his Arab Spring is gone and he has nothing to show for his constant international trips except a bunch of "I'm with Stupid" souvenir t-shirts in forty different languages from forty different foreign leaders.

America has never been this impotent and irrelevant. Not even under President Carter was it such a nonentity on the international stage that it could be ignored and dismissed. Unlike Putin, most of the rest of the world isn't even bothering to humiliate Obama.

It's ignoring him.

Even friendly world leaders think of Obama as a party guest, a lightweight who makes for some good photo ops but has nothing of substance to contribute. If you want to throw a banquet you invite him over, but if there are serious decisions to be made, you invite the grown-ups instead.

Obama's big accomplishment was presiding over the end of the American Century. The famous photo of him carrying around a copy of The Post-American World has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. He has made the world into a Post-American place where the United States is as relevant as the British Empire.

Obama's vision of smart power sought to trade state power for ideological power. Instead of countries paying attention to him because of the power of the country he represented, they were supposed to pay attention to him because he represented a global evolution toward progressive values. It's hard to think of a more laughably stupid misreading of human history and motives through ideological blinders.

The ideological power that Obama wields domestically comes from a domestic liberal establishment that is sympathetic to his aims. Without that establishment, he has no power outside American borders.

Even in the West, the establishment which gave him an unearned Nobel Peace Prize was not giving him the blank check that his domestic backers did. American liberals linked their political fortunes to Obama, but European leftists never did. America is too useful an enemy for their political purposes.

Obama chose to be a man without a country. He didn't want to use American power and has been left powerless instead. And America has been left leaderless and therefore powerless.

The United States is now desired mainly for its arsenal. The Saudis and other Gulf Arabs impatiently order Obama to bomb things and insult him when he delays. And even the arsenal has been degraded. American military capabilities have been badly impacted and the military is under the jurisdiction of men like Chuck Hagel who prioritize gay marriage and Green Energy over military preparedness.

No other country has stepped in to fill the power vacuum left by the end of the American Century. Russia is satisfied to cause harm, but can no longer wield any real power over the rest of the world. China has wealth and power, but is far too insular to offer anything beyond its borders except trade agreements. In time it may be forced to step into our vacuum and protect its lifeblood of international trade with a Pax Sinica, the way that the United States formerly did with its Pax Americana.

Muslim conflict has increased exponentially with an emboldened Al Qaeda and its franchises spreading terror and death in their home countries, but these groups can barely get along with each other. Their dream of a caliphate dies at their own hands. Japan is trying to find its own strength again, but it may be too set in its ways to change. And Europe continues its fossilization into the stratified irrelevance of the European Union that may represent our own future of bureaucratic malaise and cultural decadence.

For good or ill, there is no one to step into the big boots of Uncle Sam. Obama's abandonment of American power has left behind a massive hole. The waves of instability from that black hole are destabilizing governments and societies.

For generations, America has been the center of the world. Without it, the world is spinning out of control.

A glance at the evening news may not leave the impression of a world at peace, but that is only because we have forgotten what true war is like. Before the Pax Americana, devastating wars far greater in scale than anything most of us have lived through were ubiquitous.

Liberals like Obama believed that international conflicts were caused by American power. And so they set out to destroy that power. Their success means that the real wars that the Pax Americana repressed will begin again.

The end of American power means the end of world peace.

[Warph]

[Warph]

Obuma High School Friend:
Barry 'Portrayed Himself As A Foreign, Crack-Smoking Homosexual'

by Patdollard.com
http://patdollard.com/2013/11/obama-high-school-friend-barry-portrayed-himself-as-a-foreigner-crack-smoking-homosexual/
Nov. 11, 2013

Published on Nov 6, 2013 - Mia Marie Pope, who was a high school friend of Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) in Hawaii during the 1970s, says that Obama identified himself as a foreigner in high school and was known as a crack-smoking homosexual.

Via: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/mia-marie-pope-barry-soetoero-portrayed-foreigner/

Mia Marie Pope says that Barry Soetoro "always portrayed himself as a foreign student."

While Soetoro was a little older than her and didn't always run around with the circle of friends that she had, Pope says that he "very much was in sort of the 'gay community,'" which she says that even back then was "thriving."

"We knew Barry as, just common knowledge, that girls were never anything that he was ever interested in, and as a young teenager....as a young girl.....it was clear to me that Barry was strictly into men," Pope said. She also indicated that she had no desires for him and said that they didn't get along, largely in part to the fact that he was "a pathological liar, even back then."

Pope said that Soetoro's lies were "egotistical" and always to "boost himself." She referenced Barry "bumming cigarettes," and said that as soon as someone would give him a cigarette, he would instantly turn and walk away, after he had gotten what he wanted. In Pope's words, "He seemed to be incapable or genuine about anything."

Ms. Pope said that Barry Soetoro was always "getting with these older white men." She recognized that he was one that had cocaine, which she said was "newsworthy" in the groups she hung out in. They then began to believe it was Soetoro's engagements (ie. Homosexual acts) with these older white men is how he "procured" cocaine.

"In other words, he was having sex with these older white guys, and that's how he was getting his cocaine to be able to freebase," she told Manning.

Mia Pope also said that she actually saw Obama dress up as a transvestite. She remarked that it was during the era of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Tim Curry, that this took place.

When asked by Manning why she came forward, and others were not, she said that because she it is a Christian and deeply concerned about her country. She says that if Barack Obama was doing a "good job" today, then she would not worry about his past. She wondered when Obama first came on the scene if he had, in fact, "changed his ways." Apparently, according to Pope, he had not. Pope said that she didn't care about his homosexuality or the fact that he used drugs in the past, but was concerned about who he was as an adult.

Pope says that her willingness to come forward has taken courage, and she believes it is "righteous" to speak out against Barack Obama.

"I refuse to be a coward," she added.

Ms. Pope also says that she had called the Federal Bureau of Investigations several times to expose Barack Obama's use of fake Social Security numbers, and nothing was done about it. This took place several years ago.

Pope said that when Barry's name began to be pushed forward as Barack Hussein Obama, she though there was "something shady" going on.

She was familiar with the claims of Larry Sinclair, the man who claimed prior to the 2008 elections that he had a homosexual relationship with Barack Obama and the two had smoked crack cocaine together.

(Sinclair was rumored to have been killed in a hit and run in November of 2011... which was all rumor.  Sinclair is evidentely alive and well today...Warph)
http://hillbuzz.org/free-republic-reports-larry-sinclair-is-dead-here-is-what-i-know-76157


Pope also said that for Obama to have attended the school he did, Punahou high School (which he graduated from in 1979)...

http://www.punahou.edu/alumni/community-groups/alumni-profiles/barack-obama/index.aspx

....required a lot of money and it required that he start from kindergarten, but seeing that he was entering mid-level; she believes that he must have had "something stellar" which allowed him to get in, especially when he was "fresh from Indonesia."

Manning suggested that Obama's involvement with older white men is what got him into Punahou, and Pope seems to agree, though she used a reference to the CIA or some "force" that got Obama "set up" at Punahou. "It was certainly not a natural thing," she said.

They both agreed that has been the way things happened for young Soetoro from Punahou to Occidental to Columbia to Harvard. Pope pointed out that interviews were conducted with those who were in the same classes at Columbia that Obama was supposed to be in and not a single person remembers him being there!

When Dr. Manning asked Pope why she thought that Larry Bland, Nate Spencer and Donald Young (all member of the church Obama attended, Trinity Church of Christ, where Jeremiah Wright pastors)...

http://patdollard.com/2011/11/mother-of-obamas-murdered-gay-lover-speaks-up/

...were all killed within days of each other in Chicago, she said that she believed Obama's handlers like what he is doing to the country. Therefore, in her opinion, they have kept a lid on these murders.

[...]

(This article is via Kevin DuJan, who is a Gay conservative political analyst, essayist, author and radio and TV commentator on politics, pop culture, LGBTQ issues, and current events @ Hillbuzz.com ... this article from one gay about another possible gay.  You know the old saying, "Where there's SMOKE, there's FIRE"... Like the man said, 'you be the judge'...Warph)

Is Barack Obama Gay?

While the always-eloquent Michelle Antoinette Obama might deny it publicly, there's clear evidence that Barack Obama is indeed homosexual... and is specifically what's known in the black street slang as "being on the Down Low" or "being a cake boy".  The Obamas' marriage is an elaborate sham concocted for their mutual benefit, where Michelle serves as Barack's beard and in return she gets to enjoy a life of fabulous wealth and power she could only dream of growing up in Chicago and depending on Jesse Jackson for jobs and other favors.

Why don't more people talk about this reality openly?

Well, since at least the 1964 election the agenda-driven media in this country has aggressively promoted the Left's favored candidates while strategically targeting conservatives for destruction. A copy of the Alinsky Rules for Radicals sits in every newsroom in the country, where "journalists" employ Alinsky Methods to polarize, ostracize, ridicule, and impugn Republicans at every available opportunity.  In the zeal to destroy conservative politicians, the agenda-drive media quite often reports rumors and innuendo as concrete fact. Leftist websites like Politico.com rush to be first! in reporting Republican scandals, never much worrying about being "right".

But for Democrats?  You don't need to look very hard for irrefutable evidence that the media protects its favored Leftist politicians and zealously maintains whatever story most benefits Democrats.  This entails forever protecting secrets like Barack Obama's homosexuality (and drug use) and pretending that the Obamas are the most perfect heterosexual black couple since Cliff and Clair Huxtable from the tee-vee.

A real double-standard's in play when it comes to accusations made about politicians: if a Democrat's being accused of anything, the agenda-driven media attacks the accuser, digging up any dirt it has on the person and mobilizing the Alinsky Goon Squads to annihilate this perceived opponent of the Left; if it's a Republican who's been accused of anything, the agenda-driven media heralds the accuser as the bravest and most courageous person on the planet for coming forward with dirt on the conservative in the race.

If you have followed Barack Hussein Obama's meteoric rise to power, you've noticed that anyone asking questions about his background typically finds him or herself on the receiving end of the Alinsky Attack Machine.  Any criticism of Obama is permanently branded RAAACIST!  Anyone who inquires about the many mysteries surrounding his "missing years" or his activities while in college and in his early days in Chicago is called every name in the book in the efforts to discredit that questioner.

This means Obama is never asked about the men he sleeps with...

He's never questioned about his ongoing drug use...

He doesn't have to worry about being asked whether he's sober during national crises...

He never has to account for his whereabouts when disasters strike and America expects its president to be fully aware, present, and in charge.


Why is that?

Why does the Obama Regime have to be the most secretive of any presidency in American history?

Could it all boil down to something as simple as Barack Obama being gay, continuing to use and abuse drugs, and not being anywhere near the magical black man that the corrupt media desperately wants him to be?

Is THAT what all the enigma, subterfuge, and Alinsky Goon Squad assaults are all really about?

Is Barack Obama our first down-low, closeted gay President and is Michelle Antoinette Obama our first fully-complicit "beard" of a First Lady?

As the agenda-driven media is always so quick to say when a conservative is accused of anything:  You be the judge.

Read more on this article at:  http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay


Also, checkout:

http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama-Larry-Sinclair-Cocaine/dp/0578013878#

http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama-Larry-Sinclair-Cocaine/dp/0578013878#reader_B002PSD322

Amazon: "The biggest untold story of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election... Finally, the no-holds-barred, 100% true story of Barack Obama's use and sale of cocaine; his homosexual affairs and the December 23, 2007 murder of Barack Obama's former lover and choir director of Obama's Chicago church of 20 years, Donald Young, just days before the 2008 Iowa Caucus. This searing candid story begins with Barack Obama meeting Larry Sinclair in November, 1999, and subsequently procuring and selling cocaine, and then engaging in consensual, homosexual sex with Sinclair on November 6th and again on November 7, 1999. You'll read in riveting detail how Sinclair, in 2007, repeatedly contacted and requested that the Obama campaign simply come clean about their candidate's 1999 drug use and sales. You learn how the Obama campaign, David Axelrod and Barack Obama used Donald Young (the homosexual lover of Barack Obama) to contact and seek out information from Sinclair about who he had told of Obama's crimes and actions. You'll read how the Obama campaign used internet porn king Dan Parisi and Ph.D. fraud Edward I. Gelb to conduct a rigged polygraph exam in an attempt to make the Sinclair story go away. The Obama team and the controlled media - specifically MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, the New York Times, CNN, Politico's Ben Smith, The DailyKos, The Huffington Post and others - attacked the National Press Club for making its facilities available to Larry Sinclair for a news conference to present his evidence and allegations to the world media. You'll read how Vice President Joe Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, issued an arrest warrant on completely false, fabricated charges to attempt to discredit Mr. Sinclair's National Press Club news conference. This is a staggeringly true story of how the sitting U.S.President with the help of the MainStream Media, the Chicago Police Department, the FBI, the Delaware Attorney General and others got away with murder and more...."

[Warph]

(There's no denying that we are headed for a total collapse and that those whom we are indebted to, will eventually come to take the spoils! When Russia, and especially China, decide to make their move, we will ALL inherit the devastating results that corruption, greed and the machinations of evil men like this POS Obuma and his henchmen have contributed to the destruction of our country and our ultimate misery!)

Obuma's Secret Treaty Which Will Merge America More Deeply
Into The Emerging One World Economic System

November 14, 2013 by Michael Snyder

Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the "NAFTA of the Pacific" and "NAFTA on steroids", but the truth is that it is so much more than just a trade agreement. This treaty has 29 chapters, but only 5 of them have to do with trade. Most Americans don't realize this, but this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, health care, the trading of derivatives, copyright issues, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. It will also merge the United States far more deeply into the emerging one world economic system. Initially, twelve nations will be a party to this treaty including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, those nations represent approximately 40 percent of global GDP. It is hoped that additional nations such as the Philippines, Thailand and Colombia will join the treaty later on.

There are some very good reasons why Obama does not want the American people to know anything about what is in this treaty. This agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules on the American people, it will ban all "Buy American" laws, it will give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it will force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.

It contains a whole host of things that Obama would be unable to get through Congress on his own. But he is hoping to spring this on Congress at the last minute and get them to agree to this "free trade agreement" before they realize all of the things that are contained in it.

The secrecy surrounding these treaty negotiations have really been unprecedented. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Kurt Nimmo... http://www.infowars.com/secret-globalist-treaty-threatens-internet-freedom/

"Since the beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating the treaty's chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy," Wikileaks notes in a statement on the release of the TPP draft...
https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html

"Access to drafts of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general public. Members of the US Congress are only able to view selected portions of treaty-related documents in highly restrictive conditions and under strict supervision. It has been previously revealed that only three individuals in each TPP nation have access to the full text of the agreement, while 600 'trade advisers' – lobbyists guarding the interests of large US corporations such as Chevron, Halliburton, Monsanto and Walmart – are granted privileged access to crucial sections of the treaty text."

And Obama reportedly is seeking "trade promotion authority" which would give him the ability to sign this treaty before Congress even votes on it... http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obama-secretly-signing-away-u-s-sovereignty/

Normally free -trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.

However, the White House is seeking what is known as "trade promotion authority" which would fast track approval of the TPP by requiring Congress to vote on the likely lengthy trade agreement within 90 days and without any amendments.

The authority also allows Obama to sign the agreement before Congress even has a chance to vote on it, with lawmakers getting only a quick post-facto vote.

This is so insidious that it is hard to find the words to describe it.

In essence, Obama is trying to make a giant end run around Congress on dozens of different issues that are addressed by this treaty.

Fortunately, there are at least some members of Congress that are waking up to this. Earlier this week, a small group of Republicans and a small group of Democrats both sent Obama a letter condemning this "free trade" agreement...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/trans-pacific-partnership-house_n_4263174.html

Separate groups of House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday condemned the Obama administration's proposed sweeping free trade agreement with 11 Pacific nations, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Strongly worded letters to President Barack Obama Tuesday were signed by hardline tea partiers, true-blue progressives, and moderate, corporate-friendly lawmakers in both parties, indicating political trouble for a trade deal the administration had hoped to seal by year end.

This is one of the most important political issues facing our nation here at the end of 2013, and yet you hear next to nothing about this treaty on the mainstream news. If this treaty is approved, the United States will be permanently bound by the provisions of this treaty and will never be able to change them unless all of the other countries agree...
http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids

Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPP's rules—in effect, a corporate coup d'état. The proposed pact would limit even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned, and "sweat-free," human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion. And unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.

Are you starting to understand just how dangerous this treaty is?

Let me give you just one example of how this treaty could directly affect you.

Do you remember SOPA? http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-we-must-stop-sopa

There was a huge public backlash when the very strict Internet copyright provisions of SOPA were revealed to the public, and the American people loudly expressed their displeasure to members of Congress.

But now the provisions of SOPA are back. Most of them have reportedly been very quietly inserted into this treaty. If this treaty is enacted, those provisions will become law and the American people will not be able to do a thing about it.

And according to an article in the New York Times, there are all sorts of other disturbing things that have been slipped into this treaty... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/opinion/obamas-covert-trade-deal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130603&_r=2&

And yet another leak revealed that the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta — a deal that drained millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy.

The agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Among other things, it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place.

Are you starting to grasp why the Obama administration is so determined to keep this treaty such a secret?

In addition, this "free trade" agreement will push the ongoing deindustrialization of America into overdrive. Every year, we buy hundreds of billions of dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Tens of thousands of American businesses have been lost as a result, and millions of good jobs have been shipped overseas.

If you are not familiar with our "trade deficit", you really should be. It is one of the issues at the very heart of our economic problems. Posted below is a short 3 minute video that briefly discusses the trade deficit and why it is so important...

Slowly merging our economy with the rest of the planet has been absolutely disastrous for America. Just consider the following statistics...

-Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the world since 1975.

-The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

-Back in the year 2000, there were more than 17 million Americans working in manufacturing. Now there are less than 12 million.

-There are less Americans working in manufacturing today than there was in 1950 even though the population of the country has more than doubled since then.

-Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

-When NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. By 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.

-Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was approximately 6 milliondollars (million with a little "m") for the entire year. In 2012, our trade deficit with China was 315 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.

-According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

-According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 millionmore U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.

Once upon a time, our great manufacturing cities were the envy of the entire planet. In fact, at one time Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the United States.

But now Detroit is a rotting, decaying, festering hellhole that is completely bankrupt. And there are dozens of other formerly great manufacturing cities that are heading down the exact same path.

These "free trade" agreements are neither "free" nor "fair" when you really examine them, and they are absolutely eviscerating the middle class.

Please urge your representatives in Congress to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If this treaty does get approved, it is going to make a lot of our problems a whole lot worse.


Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/obamas-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty-which-will-merge-america-more-deeply-into-the-emerging-one-world-economic-system/#rgmb5yveZY0CMk8Y.99