Category Archives: Mr. President
From the Drudge Report
•Watch lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors…
•Odd working hours, unexplained travel…
•Monitor co-workers stress, divorce, financial problems…
•Track online activities…
•Those failing to report face penalties, criminal charges…
OBAMA ORDERS FED WORKERS: SPY ON EACH OTHER
Are We Looking Foolish Yet?
From Armstrong Economics:
Europe still does whatever the USA orders it to do. Like Rome, all roads lead to Washington. It does not matter that the USA is spying on European politicians, it is also in a position to blackmail them so they do as the USA demands. There is no better example of this than Austria forcing the plane of the Bolivian President to land because they thought Snowden was on board.
Somebody’s Watching Me
LOL. This song by Rockwell is dedicated to our friends at Big Brother.gov.
If video is missing, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJM6x6l400
or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f4fSqw2_uI
Postscript:
Three times I have tried to embed the video with lyrics to Rockwell’s Somebody’s Watching Me from YouTube. I copied the code from three separate videos, thinking the first one was corrupted. The second one I assumed was a fluke. After the third video code failed, I am considering it enemy action.
🙂
Court and Senator Say NSA Has Violated Constitution
Historically, the NSA prided itself on its internal code of conduct. Something happened to this once moral agency. It crossed a line from following the law to violating it.
So says Senator Ron Wyden, talking about domestic intelligence collection by the NSA and the findings of the court (FISC) charged with overseeing NSA’s collection program:
“… on at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
We don’t know the details of the classified order, but it’s clear that it’s a very important aspect of the domestic spying apparatus that even the court overseeing the program found it straying into illegal territory, says Business Insider.
Here’s the relevant text of the amendment:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Business Insider has written an article on this topic, including other sources of information about intelligence collection by the agency. You may read it by clicking the link below.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-spying-violated-the-constituion-2013-6
Do You Remember Signs that Read “The End Is Near”?
Guest Post: How Does It End?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/14/2013 – 11:32
The days of reasonable economic forecasting are over. Today, an economic forecast is more like the analysis of a criminal mind than the evaluation of economic data. The dominating role of government overpowers markets intentionally. In the short-term that will continue. Reactions to Federal Reserve minutes referencing continuation, alteration or cessation of quantitative easing cause stock markets to move by over 100 points. Other markets are affected by government interventions, just not so noticeably. Long term, markets will overpower government. Welfare states can no longer maintain their level of spending, services and welfare. However, they dare not stop lest civil unrest and violence break out. The bind they are in has no solution. Governments around the world are doing whatever is necessary to survive. Lying, stealing and outright confiscation will begin in order to support their bankruptcies. Cyprus was a minor precursor of what is coming.
Obama Versus Ben Franklin–Quotations
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Obamas Cost More Than Royal Family To Protect
Obama family ‘costs taxpayers
$1.4BILLION per year’ (that’s 20
times more expensive than British
Royal Family)
PUBLISHED:00:26 EST, 29 September 2012| UPDATED:00:26 EST, 29 September 2012
Politicians looking for savings to deal with the national debt crisis should perhaps start by abolishing the President.
Barack Obama and his family cost the taxpayer $1.4billion per year, according to a recently published book.
By contrast, the British Royal Family costs less than $60million each year.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html#ixzz2W9gNz6Eq Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
When Those In Power Break the Law
William Binney, formerly in leadership at the NSA, says that testimony to Congress that says that the NSA doesn’t have access to content of e-mails is “an outright lie.” He’s an insider from the Agency. He knows.
Someone should tell the NSA that lying to Congress under oath is a crime. Where is law enforcement? What will be the tipping point that makes America wake up and stand up for the Constitution of the United States of America?
http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=27811905
DEA Agent Blows Whistle on CIA
“The more informed we are, the freer we are.” –Joe Madison
It is the job of the public to look for patterns of behavior that appear over and over again, demonstrating our government is not acting in the public’s best interest.
from the Montel Williams show
The Hunt for Capital Is On
It takes a lot of money to float an artificial economy’s boat. $80-plus billion dollars a month is what the FED is pouring into the banks and financial markets to keep the house of cards standing. Artificial suppression of the interest rate has produced a tepid increase in housing. Most of the single family homes sales are re-sales of existing homes to CASH buyers, not new buyers who need a loan to buy. Many of the new housing projects are rental properties–people who can’t buy a house need a place to live.
At the same time that government expenditures are increasing, the money-making sources that the government can tax are decreasing. Small businesses, facing higher priced regulatory fees and taxes, are closing. Once profitable companies that have lost too much business in the economic downturn are downsizing or shuttering the business. When businesses close, the inventory is depleted. Employees no longer get a paycheck because they no longer have a job. The government’s ability to raise money through permits, licenses, inventory taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes and the like is annihilated. Income tax revenues shrink; people without jobs pay no taxes.
The government’s traditional sources for raising revenue are drying up. Yet the government would never think of right-sizing itself to match its existing income. Instead, the hunt for capital is on.
According to Catherine Austin Fitts, “When G-7 concluded their emergency meeting in London last weekend, they announced that they were going to target tax havens.”
Whew, you might say. I don’t need to worry because, as John Q. Public, I have no money in a tax haven.
Well, think again. When Cyprus bank accounts were raided, it was revealed that many of the account holders were Russians, Middle-easterners, and criminals hiding cash. Other unidentied parties also were said to be hiding money in the Cyprian tax haven. The Cyprus banks were well-known as a tax haven, and many diverse entities were pouring the money into bank accounts for safe-keeping.
Those who missed the chance to extract their money before the money was seized were pissed. Do you think for one minute that if other money they have stashed in other countries also is targeted for seizure, there will not be a retaliation? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Stealing the money of powerful wealthy entities will not be ignored.
Russia is a big country with lots of resources. China and other Asian nations have lots of money and technology and people to follow orders. Organized crime is cash rich and has long invisible tentacles that can reach out and touch enemies using covert mechanisms. And who knows who else is hiding money in tax havens the world over.
Remember 9/11 was an angry entity sending a message for what it considered bad behavior. And who got hurt? John Q. Public. Who is still paying the price as a consequence of 9/11? John Q. Public.
So don’t think for a minute that what the G-7 does to persons or countries who stash money in a tax haven has no effect–or consequence–for you. Consider how your own personal world has changed since 9/11? If the G-7 starts stealing the money of rich and powerful Russians, Asians, Middle-easterners and other foreign nationals, drug lords, gun runners, crime bosses and others, you haven’t seen anything yet.
Rep. Jeff Duncan Asks Why IRS Trains with AK-47s
Representative Jeff Duncan from South Carolina recently toured a Department of Homeland Security facility as part of his Congressional oversight committee duties. While at the DHS, Duncan observed Internal Revenue Service agents training with AK-47’s. Duncan is asking why the policing branch of the IRS needs, in the Congressman’s words, “standoff capabilities.”
Good question, Congressman. I’d like to know, too.
Here’s a copy of the Congressman’s Tweet on the topic.
Rep. Jeff Duncan@RepJeffDuncan9h
I’ll be on John Gibson’s radio program at 1:05 to discuss the #IRS training with semi-automatic weapons. #PJNET #tcot
Congressional Probe Hints IRS Targeting Has Larger Scope
Isn’t it interesting that our government keeps doing stupid things, lying about it, then getting caught telling lies. An example follows, excerpted from a longer article on Yahoo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators are starting to see cracks in the Internal Revenue Service argument that a small group of agents in the Cincinnati office solely targeted conservative political groups.
. . . two agents in the IRS’s Cincinnati office say they believe their work was being closely monitored by higher-ups in Washington. One agent, Elizabeth Hofacre, complained to investigators that she was being micromanaged by Washington when she processed applications for tax-exempt status by tea party groups, according to a transcript of her interview with investigators.
Her interview suggests a long trail of emails that could support her claim. . . .
How the IRS Spends the Money It Collects
The Treasury inspector general for tax administration, the same source as the crushing report exposing the IRS persecution of conservative groups, released a
report highlighting the spending and “questionable expensing” by IRS staff who blew through $49 million across 225 conferences between 2010 and 2012. The source of the money was largely unused cash meant to hire more enforcement
agents. Instead it was spent on things like the previously mentioned Star Trek parody, ad hoc drawn paintings of Abraham Lincoln and “motivational speakers” whose primary requirement is to be flown in first class.
Source: www.zerohedge.com
Whistle-blowers
The world needs whistle-blowers. They are the insiders who know what dirty deeds are being done behind closed doors. They have a conscience which ultimately prods them to spill the beans on naughty behavior. The value of whistle-blowers led the government to form laws to protect the whistle-blower from retaliation.
Hence the outrage when government itself tries to intimidate whistleblowers who are pulling back the curtain in OZ to reveal dirty little government secrets.
From today’s Huffington Post:
. . . On the actually scandalous end is the administration’s snooping through the AP’s phone records, which the New York Times called “an effort to frighten off whistle-blowers.” The incident points out the hypocrisy of a White House that praises whistleblowers in the abstract, but then goes after them — aggressively and often. “Speaking truth to power is now a criminal act,” says whistleblower and former NSA executive Thomas Drake, who the DOJ charged under the WW I-era Espionage Act. It’s President Obama’s war against whistleblowers that is the true scandal.
I'm Off My Meds Again 