Israel takes control of more West Bank land

“JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has taken control of a large chunk of land near a prominent West Bank settlement, paving the way for the possible construction of 2,500 settlement homes, officials said Monday, in a new challenge to Mideast peacemaking.

Successive Israeli governments have broken promises to the United States to halt settlement expansion, defined by Washington as an obstacle to peace.” (Read more from google.com)

Support apartheid? YES WE CAN!

ABCNNBBCBS: They hate us because they are evil! ISLAMIC EXTREMISM!!! Terrorism! Terrorism! Terrorism!

Rahm, our knuckle-cracking, perk-receiving, tax-avoiding, fraud-committing Chief of Staff

“Rahm Emanuel: ‘The Second Most Powerful Person In The Country’
Earlier this month, Barack Obama was meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers when Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, began nervously cracking a knuckle.

Mr. Obama then turned to complain to Mr. Emanuel about his noisy habit.

At which point, Mr. Emanuel held the offending knuckle up to Mr. Obama’s left ear and — like an annoying little brother — snapped off a few special cracks.” (Read more from huffingtonpost.com)

“Rahm’s Rent Is Just The Tip Of The Ethics Iceberg
NYPost — NEWS broke last week that Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, lived rent- free for years in the home of Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) – and failed to disclose the gift, as congressional ethics rules mandate. But this is only the tip of Emanuel’s previously undislosed ethics problems. . . . Emanuel is a multimillionaire, but lived for the last five years for free in the tony Capitol Hill townhouse owned by De Lauro and her husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.

During that time, he also served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – which gave Greenberg huge polling contracts. It paid Greenberg’s firm $239,996 in 2006 and $317,775 in 2008. (Emanuel’s own campaign committee has also paid Greenberg more than $50,000 since 2004.) . . . Some experts suggest that it was also taxable income: Over five years, the free rent could easily add up to more than $100,000. . . .

Emanuel served on the Freddie Mac board of directors during the time that the government-backed lender lied about its earnings, a leading contributor to the current economic meltdown. The Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight Agency later singled out the Freddie Mac board as contributing to the fraud in 2000 and 2001 for “failing in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.” In other words, board members ignored the red flags waving in their faces. . . . Emanuel was paid more than $260,000 for his Freddie “service.” Plus, after he resigned from the board to run for Congress in 2002, the troubled agency’s PAC gave his campaign $25,000 – its largest single gift to a House candidate.” (Read more from informationclearinghouse.info)

Jim Rogers: “Let the banks fail.” “Abolish the IMF and World Bank.”

Jim Rogers is one of my heroes. The truth has a particular ring to it, not easily mimicked:

On the Obama ‘stimulus’: “They’re making things worse. . . They’re taking the assets away from the competent people, and giving them to the incompetent people. . . It’s terrible economics, and it’s terrible morality, not that politicians care about morality.”

“abolish the World Bank and the IMF. . . they do little more than take care of themselves, their own pensions, their own perks, their own salaries, if you work for the World Bank or the IMF you have a great life, but they’ve not done much for the rest of the world.”

“[Treasury Secretary Timothy] Geithner has never known what he was doing . . . and pretty soon everybody is going to find out.”

“Let them go bankrupt.”

Setback for New Hampshire reassertion of sovereignty (7 yea, 11 nay)

New Hampshire was the first of eight states (now nine) to introduce state legislation opposing the federal government’s invasiveness beyond their constitutional duties.

Here, NH-Rep. Dan Itse, is interviewed on Alex Jones’s infowars. Rep Itse sponsored of HCR 6, the bold reassertion of New Hampshire’s sovereignty under our tenth amendment.

Unfortunately, after much supportive rhetoric, the bill was voted down.

The rhetoric:

The vote (7 yes, 11 no):

More information here.

The Growing Army of Angry Men

“By Mark R. Crovelli

February 10, 2009 ‘Lew Rockwell’ — – One of the hardest things to deal with in the current economic depression is the disgusting hypocrisy of the U.S. congress, the new president, and the members of the Federal Reserve System. It is one thing to be told, as we all are, that we must hand over fat wads of our hard-earned money to these warmongering and thieving snakes or face jail terms, but one feels a whole new level of revulsion when these people make statements to the effect that they, and they alone, are in a position to ‘save the economy’ by ‘creating jobs.’ . . .

On its face, the idea that politicians, bureaucrats, and bankers could ‘save’ the economy is laughable. These are people, after all, who live exclusively at our expense. That is, these are people whose entire livelihoods are dependent upon taking money away from productive people and spending it on themselves and their favorite wasteful projects.” (Read more from informationclearinghouse.info)

Tell it like it is, brother.

Sound Money at the State Level

From goldseek.com:

Here is a list of 6 states (4 in the last month) and (2 states today) that have pending legislation to authorize the use of gold and silver to settle debts with its citizens and to provide them the legal means to avoid the devaluing of the dollar by having a parallel currency in light of massive bailouts and to protect them in the event of the dollars failure.

New Hampshire (The “Live Free or Die” state began in 2003)

Indiana Senate Bill 0453

Colorado House Bill 09-1206 (concerning a precious-metal-backed electronic currency)

Missouri House Bill No. 561 (provisions concerning gold and silver use by state and local government)

Georgia

Maryland’s House Joint Resolution 5 (HJR5)

Nevada (This bill failed.)

Texas State Senator Dan Patrick: “If the Federal government doesn’t protect the border, Texas will.”

Texas went on alert for the first time in modern history, in reaction to violence just across the border between the Mexican military and the Mexican drug cartels.

TX Senator Dan Patrick:

“Mexico is on the verge of civil war.”

“Yesterday, the drug cartel used bazookas to take on police in Reynosa.”

“If the Federal government doesn’t protect the border, Texas will.”

This reporter is a dork: “umm . . .” (Imagine my surprise.) He keeps playing with his cool big-screen widget, minimizing everything controversial, and sticking to the same stupid question even after it’s answered.

US army ‘wants more immigrants’

“The United States army is to accept immigrants with temporary US visas, for the first time since the Vietnam war, according to the New York Times. Until now immigrants have had to have permanent residency – a ‘green card’ – in order to qualify for the services. . . .

‘The American army finds itself in a lot of different countries where cultural awareness is critical,’ said Lt-Gen Benjamin C Freakley, the top recruitment officer for the army. ‘There will be some very talented folks in this group,’ he told the New York Times. ‘The army will gain in its strength in human capital, and the immigrants will gain their citizenship and get on a ramp to the American dream.’ . . .

The programme will be limited to 1,000 enlistees in its first year, but if successful could be spread to other services and expanded. It could eventually provide the army with one in six of its recruits, the Times said. . . .

The Times said there appeared to be some opposition from officers and veterans, who expressed concern that some foreigners might have divided loyalties or be terrorists seeking to infiltrate the US armed services.” (Read more from news.bbc.co.uk)

End the Fed by Ron Paul

Before the US House of Representatives, February 4, 2009, introducing the The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, H.R. 833.

Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation to restore financial stability to America’s economy by abolishing the Federal Reserve. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, middle and working-class Americans have been victimized by a boom-and-bust monetary policy. In addition, most Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies. This represents a real, if hidden, tax imposed on the American people. . . .

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy.

In fact, Congress’ constitutional mandate regarding monetary policy should only permit currency backed by stable commodities such as silver and gold to be used as legal tender. Therefore, abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to a constitutional system will enable America to return to the type of monetary system envisioned by our nation’s founders: one where the value of money is consistent because it is tied to a commodity such as gold. Such a monetary system is the basis of a true free-market economy.

In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stand up for working Americans by putting an end to the manipulation of the money supply which erodes Americans’ standard of living, enlarges big government, and enriches well-connected elites, by cosponsoring my legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve. (Read more from lewrockwell.com)