Saturday, July 4, 2009
KIND OF HARD TO CELEBRATE THE 4th OF JULY AS "INDEPENDENCE DAY" ANYMORE
Establishing martial law in the United StatesThe John W. Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2006 (PL 109-364) was signed October 17, 2006, by President George W. Bush. The Act "has a provocative provision called 'Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies'," the thrust of which "seems to be about giving the federal government a far stronger hand in coordinating responses to [Hurricane] Katrina-like disasters," Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor wrote December 1, 2006.
"But on closer inspection, its language also alters the two-centuries-old Insurrection Act, which Congress passed in 1807 to limit the president’s power to deploy troops within the United States ... 'to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy'," Stein wrote
Executive Order 12919: "National Emergency"
Should the President proclaim and put into effect Executive Order 12919, "the President would put the United States under total Martial Law and Military Dictatorship." [2]
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"The President need not wait for some emergency to occur, however. He can declare a National Emergency at any time, and freeze everything. Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an Executive Dictatorship, as long as the President advises Congress in a timely matter."
Foundation: Executive Orders
Executive Orders (EO) related to Federalism and Emergency Preparedness
EO 13132: "Federalism", August 4, 1999.
EO 11490: "Federal Departments and Agencies", February 16, 2004.
EO 12472: "Telecommunications Functions", April 3, 1984; February 16, 2004.
EO 12407 "provides the regional and local mechanisms and manpower" for carrying out the provisions of Executive Order 12919: National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness. This order, signed February 22, 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, "sets up ten Federal Regional Councils to govern ten Federal Regions made up of the fifty States."
EO 13132: "Federalism", August 4, 1999.
EO 11490: "Federal Departments and Agencies", February 16, 2004.
EO 12472: "Telecommunications Functions", April 3, 1984; February 16, 2004.
EO 12407 "provides the regional and local mechanisms and manpower" for carrying out the provisions of Executive Order 12919: National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness. This order, signed February 22, 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, "sets up ten Federal Regional Councils to govern ten Federal Regions made up of the fifty States."
Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Functions, October 11, 2004
The following EOs all fall under EO 12919: [8]
EO 10990: "allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports." [9]
EO 10995: Federal seizure of all communications media in the US.
EO 10997: Federal seizure of all electric power, fuels, minerals, public and private.
EO 10998: Federal seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private and all farms and equipment.
EO 10999: Federal seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks, or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and water ways.
EO 11000: Federal seizure of American people for work forces under federal supervision, including the splitting up of families if the government so desires.
EO 11001: Federal seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
EO 11002: Empowers the Postmaster General to register every single person in the US.
EO 11003: Federal seizure of all airports and aircraft.
EO 11004: Federal seizure of all housing and finances and authority to establish forced relocation. Authority to designate areas to be abandoned as 'unsafe,' establish new locations for populations, relocate communities, build new housing with public funds.
EO 11005: Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, both public and private.
EO 11051: Provides FEMA complete authorization to put above orders into effect in times of increased international tension of economic or financial crisis (FEMA will be in control incase of 'National Emergency').
EO 12919 "Apparently Allows Cabinet Heads to Make Direct Loans to Government Contractors." [10]
EO 10990: "allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports." [9]
EO 10995: Federal seizure of all communications media in the US.
EO 10997: Federal seizure of all electric power, fuels, minerals, public and private.
EO 10998: Federal seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private and all farms and equipment.
EO 10999: Federal seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks, or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and water ways.
EO 11000: Federal seizure of American people for work forces under federal supervision, including the splitting up of families if the government so desires.
EO 11001: Federal seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
EO 11002: Empowers the Postmaster General to register every single person in the US.
EO 11003: Federal seizure of all airports and aircraft.
EO 11004: Federal seizure of all housing and finances and authority to establish forced relocation. Authority to designate areas to be abandoned as 'unsafe,' establish new locations for populations, relocate communities, build new housing with public funds.
EO 11005: Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, both public and private.
EO 11051: Provides FEMA complete authorization to put above orders into effect in times of increased international tension of economic or financial crisis (FEMA will be in control incase of 'National Emergency').
EO 12919 "Apparently Allows Cabinet Heads to Make Direct Loans to Government Contractors." [10]
Also see Index of Executive Orders, Beginning December 30, 1992, WorldNetDaily website.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MEDIA MANIPULATION COOPERATIVE
It's so nice to see Corporate America and the United States government working together!
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This news item was released by the Department of Health and Human Services Today:
The J&J drug, Remicade, generated $3,8 Billion in sales in 2008.Arthritis drugs that generated $16.9 billion last year for Amgen Inc., Wyeth, Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson warrant U.S. review as part of an Obama administration push to overhaul health care, a report said.
Outside advisers told the Department of Health and Human Services today that studies should compare the effectiveness of the drugs, including Remicade from J&J, and Enbrel, marketed by Wyeth and Amgen, in a family of medicines linked to cancer.
But how is this a cooperative effort to manipulate the media you ask?
Because, the bad news about a planned investigation into concerns that these incredibly expensive drugs (annual cost for one person can easily exceed $20k) may be overused and may be linked to cancer was held until Today..... less than 24 hours after Johnson & Johnson received this bit of great news:
J&J Wins Record $1.67 Billion Verdict From Abbott: Johnson & Johnson’s Centocor unit won $1.67 billion, the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, from Abbott Laboratories over an invention used to produce the Humira arthritis drug.
The negative information about Humira and Remicade came from a report completed some time ago by "outside advisors" who waited until today to reveal this bad news to the Dept. of Health and Human Services (in fact, since HHS was aware of this information long ago, it wasn't actually revealed to HHS today, HHS just admitted it was knowledgeable about the information today).
The J&J/U.S. Government cooperative, by holding its really bad J&J/Remicade news until one day after yesterdays' great J&J/Remicade news, was able to blunt the affect of the negative news on J&J's stock price.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
HEALTHCARE FRAUD: "BUSINESS AS USUAL"
The Justice Department and 16 states recently intervened in a Qui Tam lawsuit against Wyeth. The complaint alleges that from 2001 through 2006 Wyeth overcharged Medicaid for Protonix to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to the Relators in this case, Dr. William LaCorte and Lauren Kieff, the fraud allegedly perpetrated by Wyeth during a 5-year period is an industry wide practice. And LaCorte should know. Last year Merck settled a lawsuit filed by LaCorte twelve years earlier, by paying the government $650 million for defrauding Medicaid.
Pharmacuetical manufacturers across the nation pay hidden discounts and kickbacks to hospitals as part of a scheme to avoid paying rebates owed to the government on drugs purchased through Medicaid. By law, Medicaid must get the "best price."
According to the Relators in this case, Dr. William LaCorte and Lauren Kieff, the fraud allegedly perpetrated by Wyeth during a 5-year period is an industry wide practice. And LaCorte should know. Last year Merck settled a lawsuit filed by LaCorte twelve years earlier, by paying the government $650 million for defrauding Medicaid.
Pharmacuetical manufacturers across the nation pay hidden discounts and kickbacks to hospitals as part of a scheme to avoid paying rebates owed to the government on drugs purchased through Medicaid. By law, Medicaid must get the "best price."
According to LaCorte, "This is business as usual by hospitals and drug companies in the United States."
Thursday, June 18, 2009
THE BIG PHARMA HEALTHCARE PLAN
The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise bill on Wednesday has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of key players in the health care industry. In addition, the company that presented those findings, the Bipartisan Policy Center, counts as a major fundraiser one of the country's largest pharmaceutical companies. See: Daschle's Firm And Group Have Ties To Private Health Care Industry The Bipartisan Policy Center, for instance, lists the pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough as a "substantial contributor" on its 990 form. A spokesperson for BPC, Eileen McMenamin, dismissed the notion that Schering-Plough -- which is a member of the anti-public-option Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) -- played any role in crafting the group's health care proposal.
The company did not have "unique access to or influence over any of our projects" McMenamim said. They were "one of 16 members of our Leaders' Council, which provides 10% of the total organization's funding."
SO WHO DID FUND THE GROUP?
"The entire funding for the Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care (which is our health care project that released the report yesterday)," said McMenamin, "came from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation," (RWJF).
That's right... the group claims it was not influenced by the healthcare industry because all of its funding came from the RWJF, which is entirely funded by Johnson & Johnson (also a member of PhARMA). The RWJF Board of Trustees is stacked with former J&J executives and former members of J&J's Board of Directors.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation desn't turn over one cent to any group, unless it will in some way benefit the business of Johnson & Johnson.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
"WE HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN OUR GOVERNMENT"
Statements form Bernie Madoff's victims .
Clearly, Madoff could not have carried out this fraud for more than a decade without the aid of the SEC.
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For ten years Harry Markopolis described in great detail to numerous SEC investigators Madoff's exact fraud.
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A Ponzi scheme is the most basic of all frauds, but the SEC failed to expose Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The SEC's refusal to conduct a proper investigation goes beyond incompetence. The SEC failed to conduct a proper investigation because it is a corrupt organization..
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There are many heart-wrenching stories in this memo to Judge Denny Chin, but here are a few statements regarding the failure of the SEC to perform its duty:
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$134.5 BILLION U.S. BOND MYSTERY
Two "Japanese nationals" (who may not actually come from Japan) were caught in Italy just as they were about to take $134.5 billion dollars in bonds into Switzerland. Most of these bonds were of such a ridiculously high denomination ($500 million each) as to make them non-negotiable by normal humans.
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Mystery number 1: What did the "Japanese nationals" hope to do with these instruments?
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Mystery number 2: Are the bonds counterfeit or real? If real, Italy stood to gain a windfall -- Italian law allows the government of that country to take 40 percent of the booty.
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Mystery number 3: Why has the American press kept mum about a possible swindle that dwarfs the Madoff affair? The Europeans and the Asians are all over it.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
TOP LAWMAKERS HAD CONSIDERABLE HOLDINGS IN BAILED-OUT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Lawmakers Invested in Bailed-Out Firms: Top House lawmakers had considerable holdings in major financial institutions that took billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts at the end of last year, according to annual financial disclosure reports released yesterday
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband lost hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in American International Group, which has received $170 billion in government loans and cash injections, making it by far the largest recipient of federal bailout dollars. Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his wife held stock, retirement plans and other investments worth at least $183,000 and as much as $495,000 in firms benefiting from federal government rescue efforts, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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At least 18 members of the House Financial Services Committee -- which oversees the banking and housing industries at the core of the economic meltdown -- held stock last year in firms that received federal bailout assistance, according to a review of the forms that were available yesterday. Read all...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband lost hundreds of thousands of dollars investing in American International Group, which has received $170 billion in government loans and cash injections, making it by far the largest recipient of federal bailout dollars. Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his wife held stock, retirement plans and other investments worth at least $183,000 and as much as $495,000 in firms benefiting from federal government rescue efforts, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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At least 18 members of the House Financial Services Committee -- which oversees the banking and housing industries at the core of the economic meltdown -- held stock last year in firms that received federal bailout assistance, according to a review of the forms that were available yesterday. Read all...
RON PAUL'S CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY HAS BEEN INFILTRATED BY RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS
Ron Paul has been a bastion of common sense and honesty regarding the flawed policies of the world banking institution, the corrupt actions of the Federal Reserve, and the increasing infringement by the federal government of our most basic civil rights.
What was a righteous movement founded by Ron Paul, the CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY, is being taken over by extremists on the far-right. It's becoming apparent that the Campaign For Liberty is no longer a movement by the people for the people. It has become too powerful to be ignored by corrupt money-brokers. The Campaign For Liberty is now controlled and funded by far-right extremists.
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Just this week, I've seen two instances of individuals connected to radical extremist groups who have moved into administrative positions in the Campaign For Liberty.
EXAMPLE #1TPMmuckraker has found that on June 1 the registration for James Von Brunn's now-defunct white supremacist website, HolyWesternEmpire.org (turned off yesterday) was transferred from Von Brunn's name into that of Steve Reimink, of West Olive, Michigan. Searches of online records by others confirm that the site was registered to Reimink at the time of the shooting yesterday.
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Reimink's email address begins "steveo1488." Both 14 and 88 are numbers of particular significance in neo-nazi culture. Von Brunn also at time used the number 88 after his name.
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A woman named Patti Thompson, who is listed as a coordinator for the Ron Paul campaign in Michigan, shares the phone number that's given for Reimink in the domain records for the site -- and who appears to be his girlfriend. .
EXAMPLE #2
Orville Brettman is the McHenry county, Illinois coordinator for Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty.
Brettman's past actions seem to conflict with Paul's emphasis on civil liberties as expressed in the American Freedom Agenda Act and his warnings against the dangers of a surveillance state.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, Orville Brettman was an important member of right-wing extremist group the Legion of Justice, and a close associate to the group's leader, S. Thomas Sutton. The groups' ideology was similar to that of Posse Comitatus, Ku Klux Klan, and Aryan Nations. Members of these groups are typically white supremacists who stockpile weapons, engage in paramilitary training, vehemently oppose social liberalism and globalism, and promote violence and terrorism as a means to achieve their objectives.
According to one member, the Legion of Justice had two wings. The main one was strictly military in nature. The other was the political propaganda wing, which checked out new members, concerned itself with security, intelligence and so on.
The stated primary goal of the Legion of Justice was to "assassinate traitors." They even had business cards which read, "TREASON MUST BE PUNISHED.".
Note the crossed hairs of a telescopic sight centered on the guillotine on the Legion of Justice "business card." In the early 1960s Robert DePugh adopted as the Minutemen symbol, the crossed hairs of a telescopic sight.
To the Legion of Justice, traitors were those individuals who did not actively support the Legions' fight against social liberalism, desegregation, globalism, Jews, and "Jew-lovers."
In October 1970 a spokesman for The Chicago Black Media Representatives quoted Brettman as stating that he would attend the March for Victory in Washington. D.C. and that he and his group would "step outside the law" to deal with "treasonous left wing" peace demonstrators if they appeared.
The Legion of Justice operated within a network that encompassed Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and Michigan; the same four states where the most militant of all Posse Comitatus groups had built compounds where they'd amassed weapons arsenals and where they stored barells of cyanide. It was in these states that the Legion of Justice and other right-wing extremist groups conducted paramilitary training.
Brettman is quoted in transcripts from testimony he gave to a Cook County grand jury in 1975 as saying that he participated in burglaries of left-wing organizations in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Legion of Justice. During these burglaries, conducted at the request of the CPD Red Squad and the 113th Military Intelligence Group, Legion members assaulated members of left-wing organizatons and stole documents and equipment, which they turned over to federal and local law enforcement agencies. None of the Legions' members were ever charged for the crimes they committed.By all appearances, the Legion of Justice was a professionally trained, politically connected, elite arm of the Posse Comitatus militia. Many members, including Brettman, were US military veterans. The group carried out illegal covert operations on behalf of the United States 113th Army Military Intelligence group, the Chicago Police Departments' "Red Squad" and other local police departments in nothern Illinois.
The Legion of Justice received money, electronic surveilance equipment and weapons, including tear-gas and MACE, from the United States government.
Contrary to claims made by officials within the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice and the United States Congress, the Legion of Justice never really disbanded, its members just stopped using that name. The group was simply absorbed by the loosely organized posse comitatus groups that continued to grow stronger and more violent during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
SENATOR WHITEHOUSE PREPARES US FOR THE HORRIFIC TORTURE THAT WILL BE DESCRIBED IN SOON TO BE RELEASED DOCUMENTS
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: "We've been mislead about nearly every aspect of this program."
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"... The storyline that we have been lead to believe... the storyline about waterboarding that we have been sold is false in every one of its dimensions."
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY'S HOLY GRAIL
From this article - J&J focusing research on cancer, other unmet needs - comes hope from the fine snake-oil salesmen at Johnson & Johnson:
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"Combination therapy will certainly help turn at least some cancers into chronic disease."
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If J&J truly can find a way to ensure that some cancers are not cured, but rather turned into lifetime chronic diseases, they will have found the Pharmaceutical Industry's HOLY GRAIL.
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