The International squeeze against all our freedoms

Already we look evidence in this administration of media tampering, intimidating as well as even threatening if certain subjects are covered such as the President’s eligibility which millions of Americans want to cognize about.

Is it not a fair question to ask….why has this President spent over 1.5 million dollars to hide every one of his records, passport, birth certificate, completely college and school records Gee, inquiring American minds want to know. Wouldn’t you be proud of your school records Why hide them

We know through the investigative and excellent work of Doug Hagmann, httpwww.homelandsecurityus.com and Judi McLeod, editor of httpwww.canadafreepress.com that at least one major national host had contacted Doug saying he had been ordered not to do any segment regarding Obama’s eligibility issues, but told there would be serious consequences if he did. Doug and Judi started digging and it was discovered and verified that numerous in various networks had been ordered away from certain Obama birth certificate stories, intimidated and threatened if they dared mention it.

It's quite evident that this President is a narcissist and media hound. Obama loves getting in front of cameras and giving teleprompter speeches but WITHOUT any real questions, challenge or disagreement by the press. Obama is known for controlling questions he ever gets to minimize dissent and confrontation on a myriad of issues. Even veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas couldn’t believe his controls She stated to CNSNews.com “Nixon didn’t try to do that….They couldn’t control the media. They didn’t try.” “What the hell do they think we are, puppets “They are supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

As most know by now most the TV media has worshiped at the feet of Obama from way before he was elected, even campaigning to move into the White house for Health- car-a-Thon coverage and public manipulation. First we saw NBC move right into the White house for worshipping coverage regarding the Obama health concern horror show then ABC couldn’t take it and they dove in. They planned to devote a whole news day, Good Morning American clear through to Nightline on Obama and health care. Naturally ABC planned to cover prime time, Obama’s town hall, moderated by Dian Sawyer and Charles Gibson………..then of course the grand posh dessert conclusion, World News Tonight anchored from the White House. Even with this amount of worship from mainstream TV media this administration wants more.


Freedom of the press and speech is a threat to this administration

Even White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said recently in a videotaped conference “Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t completely control,” She went on…..”One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters.” Dunn continued on….”Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was….Making the press cover what we were saying.”

It can’t get much clearer than that. This administration is all about cramming, manipulating and force-feeding their message. Difference of opinion and free speech is simply in the way and not acceptable.

Remember the influences and training behind Obama

Obama was a huge fan of Saul Alinsky author of Rules for Radicals, dedicated by the way to Satan in the front of his book. The ‘hope and change’ montra we have heard crammed down our throats before and after Obama was elected were the exact words of Alinsky and part of the strategy of ClowardPiven. Obama not only studied these nut case radicals but taught their strategies and techniques as a community organizer for ACORN! You know, that inspiring group that has dozens of indictments for voter fraud and wanted to bring in young people to form a prostitution ring Isn’t that inspiring and special Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stated she is a fan of Saul Alinsky. You could certainly see it in their own words, Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff and Hillary herself have said “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.”

Remember with this administration words and contexts are twisted to back up their agenda.

Our second amendment rights and freedom of speech is being threatened and surrounded by the UN. You know….the largely pro Muslim radical, anti Israel, anti Christian, anti American and anti Capitalist UN Yes, that one. There is a proposal at the UN hiding behind the lovely montra of “freedom of opinion and expression” but this freedom of expression is to be completely subservient and submissive to international human rights obligations. Cutting way to the bottom line it'll force a halt to the criticism of Islam.

Remember the UN is pushing already for us to submit to an international court, the ICC, distorted obsession and plans regarding the environment and global warming (the non science) wanting to enact ‘rights of the child’ - international rules that trump all parental rights, prevent Muslim extremist language and planning while trying to slander and arrest Soldiers and leaders in Israel for simply defending their country…..on and on.

Also remember, this UN that Obama kisses up to is mostly influenced, led and funded by Islamic countries. Naturally they are planning to shut up any individuals or countries daring to put the light on radical Muslims who are planning to take over the world by force. We aren’t to notice that many well funded and radical Muslim groups are planning our demise and take over. I guess what we used to call our ‘freedom of speech’ is just their ‘freedom to murder’.

Keep your eye on the International ball regarding the manipulated suckage of our freedoms starting with speech, guns and use of our environment. WE MUST PROTECT OUR SOVERIGNTY AND SUPPORT LEADERS WHO SUBMIT ONLY TO U.S. LAW NOT UN LAW OR TREATIES.

Saul Alinsky, Cloward and Piven would be proud. Still look like the Messiah but take total control of speech, guns and money through the supported UN rules you submit to through the back door. If you really want to know who Obama is, read who he studied and taught….then pray a lot.

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The Cloward-Piven Strategy

Although I was vaguely familiar with the Cloward-Piven strategy, I had not taken a good look at it until Neal Boortz tweeted a link to an article about it so I send out a well-deserved HatTip to the TalkMaster (@TalkMaster) for enlightening me. Neal’s link was to an article at a great site called DiscoverTheNetworks.Org, which has detailed information about the tangled web of left wing activist groups. From there I found another article written in October of last year by a retired Air Force colonel named Robert Chandler in which he analyzes the use of the Cloward-Piven strategy by individuals seeking to damage our financial system. These two articles are worth reading and forwarding to your thinking friends.

Named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, the general idea behind the strategy is to intentionally overload the government system so much that it causes a crisis and collapses with a subsequent loss of confidence that Cloward and Piven hoped would “hasten the fall of capitalism.” I am reminded that my late father, a conservative, had a good but incredibly liberal friend who would bluntly argue that the cost of avoiding violent class warfare in America is the network of welfare programs that keep the poor complacent. As much as the idea disgusts me I have always thought that he was at least partly right. The article at DiscoverTheNetworks points out that the basic idea behind the Cloward-Piven strategy is to break the system in order to make the poor miserable enough to rebel. Not surprisingly to those of us watching the tactics being employed by the current ruling party, the author also mentions their connections to the radical Saul Alinsky, whose ideas apparently so inspired President Obama:

In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people able to advance exclusively when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to substitute the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.

Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky

The author points out that the approach called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.” In fact, after Cloward and Piven recruited an organizer named George Wiley to do just that his group, the National Welfare Rights Organization, enjoyed such successes in New York that they did cause the desired collapse:

Regarding Wiley’s tactics, The New York Times commented on September 27, 1970, “There have been sit-ins in legislative chambers, including a United States Senate committee hearing, mass demonstrations of several thousand welfare recipients, school boycotts, picket lines, mounted police, tear gas, arrests – and, on occasion, rock-throwing, smashed glass doors, overturned desks, scattered papers and ripped-out phones.”These methods proved effective. “The flooding succeeded beyond Wiley’s wildest dreams,” writes Sol Stern in the City Journal. ”From 1965 to 1974, the number of single-parent households on welfare soared from 4.3 million to 10.8 million, despite mostly flush economic times. By the early 1970s, one person was on the welfare rolls in New York City for every two working in the city’s private economy.”As a direct happen of its massive welfare spending, New York City was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1975. The entire state of New York nearly went down with it. The Cloward-Piven strategy had proved its effectiveness.

These are precisely the same tactics employed by groups like ACORN to intimidate elected officials into acquiescing to their demands, such as forcing lending institutions to make loans to people with bad credit. The author argues that this approach requires surprise and that “when the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to other sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.” In fact, he points out that followers of the Cloward-Piven strategy successfully shifted their focus to our electoral system, with sinister results:

The new “voting rights” coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of “racism” and “disenfranchisement,” and “direct action” (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America’s welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now seek to overwhelm the nation’s understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to U.S. elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries. Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros’s Open Society Institute and his “Shadow Party,” through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for many of the Left’s most ambitious campaigns.



In an article at the Washington Times subtitled Using the poor to tear down capitalism, Col. Robert Chandler points this out and shows that it not only was proven viable when the approach successfully bankrupted New York City in the 70s but that our sub-prime financial crisis was engineered with these tactics:

The socialist test case for using society’s poor and disadvantaged people as sacrificial “shock troops,” in accordance with the Cloward-Piven strategy, was demonstrated in 1975, when new prospective welfare recipients flooded New York City with payment demands, bankrupting the government. As a consequence, New York state also teetered on the edge of financial collapse when the federal government stepped in with a bailout rescue.

The 2008 financial crisis has all of the earmarks of a Cloward-Piven strategy assault against the capitalist system. Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center recently explained that “community organizers” (1) “intimidate banks into making high risk loans to customers with poor credit,” (2) “occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies, and confront executives at their homes,” and, through these thuggish tactics, (3) compel “financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions dollars in mortgages to low-credit customers.” “In other words,” Mr. Kurtz explained during a presentation at the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, “community organizers help to undermine America’s economy by pushing the banking system into a sink-hole of bad loans.”

We have seen the results of the Cloward-Piven strategy, from the sub-prime crisis to [always left-wing] voter fraud in any swing state, these people are playing for keeps. Working in the trenches with these very people, attempting to destroy the system from within so that he could remake it, was our community organizer president. Saul Alinksy would be so proud.

We need to interrupt underestimating our opponents and the depths to which they will sink to force their statist ideology on Americans.

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The ClowardPiven Strategy of Economic Recovery

Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is just rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up.

The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.

Obama adheres to the Saul Alinksy Rules for Radicals method of politics, which teaches the dark art of destroying political adversaries. However, that text reveals only one front in the radical left's war against America. The Cloward/Piven Strategy is another method employed by the radical Left to create and manage crisis. This strategy explains Rahm Emanuel's ominous statement, "You never want a dangerous crisis to go to waste."

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

According to Discover the Networks.org:

Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation... [Emphasis added.]


Making an already weak economy even worse is the intent of the Cloward/Piven Strategy. It is imperative that we view the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan's spending on items like food stamps, jobless benefits, and health concern through this end goal. This strategy explains why the Democrat plan to "stimulate" the economy involves massive deficit spending projects. It includes billions for ACORN and its subgroups such as SHOP and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Expanding the S-Chip Program through deficit spending in a supposed effort to "save the children" only makes a faltering economy worse.

If Congress were to allow a robust economy, parents would be able to provide for their kids themselves by earning and keeping more of their own money. Democrats, quick to not waste a crisis, would consider that a lost opportunity.

The Cato Institute reports that the plan will harm a faltering economy, intentionally causing increased job losses leading to increased demands for the aforementioned programs. Even the jobs to be created are set apart to render social justice, not economic revival. Robert Reich believes new infrastructure jobs should not go to white construction workers. Meanwhile, workers at Microsoft, IBM, Texas Instruments, and the retail market find themselves experiencing the life of the welfare poor.

If highly educated and trained workers continue to lose jobs and business falters as a whole, where will these jobless workers go? Could this be construed as revolutionary social reorganization that puts the underachiever above the achiever? Where is the future economic strength when jobless professionals collect welfare and unemployment while dreaming of a minimum wage job? For whites, there's not even the hope of a great paying construction job.

Because these programs are financed with deficit spending, the effect of the Cloward/Piven Strategy becomes doubly destructive. Talk about a complete storm! The Democrat stimulus plan is a mechanism whose goal is the destruction of the traditional American way of life. It is bitter irony that the American taxpayer will actually fund the destruction of his own ability to live according to the values of our Founding Documents. It is not alarmist to identify this situation as a coup d'etat.

As the flow of money from the top of the economy dries up, job losses and mortgage busts will mount exponentially. The Democrat stimulus plan provides for welfare expansion but not for a robust economy that creates high paying jobs. Is this what Obama means when he warns, "It's going to get worse before it gets better?" If we are not bailing out corporate America so they can regain profitability, we must conclude Obama is working toward another end goal. Recognizing these attack methods reveals the only logical response -- an unwavering wall of "No!"

Nancy Coppock publishes The Jackalope's Voice.

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Promise vs. Performance

A Senate committee Tuesday voted 14-9 to pass the Baucus bill. That's my favorite bill. Now, it has to be combined with the Dodd bill, as well as I come from a state where they say "Dumb Dodd." Not when he's got great bills that he is pushing!

Whatever the mutations the House puts together before this is said and done, you able to bet that this bill, as bad as it is, is about to get much, much worse.

Neil Cavuto pointed out Tuesday on his program that President Obama has maintained we must have health care reform right now, even though it's not going to take effect until 2013 — which is weird, why the hurry?

He told us that any tax increases needed would come later, but now, it looks like they're going to kick in later this year. I thought he meant a little later when he said "later."

He promised lower premiums and it looks like instead of lower, they'll be higher. He promised nobody is going to wait for a doctor, but as it turns out, it looks like a little of will wait longer.

This reform plan is definitely turning out to be something that wasn't what I saw advertised on TV. He said consumers need protection from the insurers. Mr. President, I'm beginning to think that the consumers — the Americans need protection from you guys and Congress.

The president keeps telling us that his health care reform public option obsession is –- well, I do not even know what they're talking about. I'm for choice and competition.

But I think we've already made a choice. America doesn't want a public option. No more government. I think it's kind of big as it is. Most polls have shown this. The town hall meetings have shown that.

The vast most of us believe this so-called public option would lead to a single-payer universal health care plan. There's a lot of us that who think that kind of socialism is best left to Canada and other places.

Oh, but don't worry, because Barack Obama doesn't want that kind of option either.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter, because, frankly, we historically have had an employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that, I believe, would be too disruptive. So, I'm not promoting a single-payer plan:

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Obama’s Orchestrated Crisis

The financial crisis continuing to brew in America is part of a deliberate strategy to expand the size as well as scope of government, Glenn Beck argued on his TV show.

It’s called the Cloward-Piven Strategy of orchestrated crisis. It’s an approach to radical social and political modify articulated by Marxist university professors Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in a 1966 Nation article, “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” They called for “a massive control to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls” in an effort to overwhelm the system. [Italics in original.]

The strategy helped to push New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975. Years later, then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, denounced the academic activists by name.

In the Nation article, Cloward and Piven made it clear that they were irritated that many Americans legally eligible to receive forcibly redistributed wealth hadn’t bothered to ask for handouts. They wrote:

“The discrepancy is not an accident stemming from bureaucratic inefficiency; rather, it is an integral feature of the welfare system which, if challenged, would precipitate a profound financial and political crisis.”

One of the leftist activist groups that contributed to the current economic climate is ACORN. Its founder, Wade Rathke, is a big believer in the Cloward-Piven Strategy but he’s given it a early name for a new millennium. He calls it the Maximum Eligible Participation Strategy and has said he wants to use the Internet to swamp America’s social welfare system.

Although the Cloward-Piven Strategy pertains specifically to welfare benefits, the basic idea is that any massively unsustainable financial demands on the government'll cause chaos and civil unrest.

Policy makers in Washington either want to cause crisis in order to overthrow the existing system or they simply don’t care. What else could explain the jaw-dropping fiscal irresponsibility in Washington?

Couple this with the fact that in the closing weeks of the Bush administration, incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel practically admitted the Obama administration was planning to sabotage America in order to force socialism upon the American people:

Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.

A massive increase in the money supply takes roughly two years to cause inflation or hyperinflation in the economy. In the 1970s the government printed money like crazy and added 13% more to the money supply over two years. This caused an inflation rate of 12%.

The Federal Reserve chairman at the time, Paul Volcker, had to raise interest rates in order to stem inflation. He raised interest rates to 20%.

But, Beck noted, the money supply in the U.S. has been increased by 120% in the last year or so in order to visit the unachievable demands of a reckless president and Congress.

How high will our interest rates have to rise to in order to tame the inflation that is about to be unleashed? Will those brutal interest rates snuff out economic growth?

We’re going to find out.

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Obama’s Orchestrated Crisis

The financial crisis continuing to brew in America's part of a deliberate strategy to expand the size and scope of government, Glenn Beck argued on his TV show.

It's called the Cloward-Piven Strategy of orchestrated crisis. It's an approach to radical social and political modify articulated by Marxist university professors Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in a 1966 Nation article, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." They called for "a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls" in an effort to overwhelm the system.



The strategy helped to push New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975. Years later, then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, denounced the academic activists by name.

In the Nation article, Cloward and Piven made it clear that they were irritated that plenty of Americans legally eligible to receive forcibly redistributed wealth hadn't bothered to ask for handouts. They wrote:

"The discrepancy is not an accident stemming from bureaucratic inefficiency; rather, it is an integral feature of the welfare system which, if challenged, would precipitate a profound financial and political crisis."

One of the leftist activist groups that contributed to the current economic climate is ACORN. Its founder, Wade Rathke, is a big believer in the Cloward-Piven Strategy but he's given it a early name for a new millennium. He calls it the Maximum Eligible Participation Strategy and has said he wants to use the Internet to swamp America's social welfare system.

Although the Cloward-Piven Strategy pertains specifically to welfare benefits, the basic idea is that any massively unsustainable financial demands on the government will lead to chaos and civil unrest.

Policy makers in Washington either want to cause crisis in order to overthrow the existing system or they just do not care. What else could explain the jaw-dropping fiscal irresponsibility in Washington?

Couple this with the fact that in the closing weeks of the Bush administration, incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel practically admitted the Obama administration was planning to sabotage America in order to force socialism upon the American people:

Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.

A massive increase in the money supply takes roughly two years to cause inflation or hyperinflation in the economy. In the 1970s the government printed money like crazy and added 13% more to the money supply over two years. This caused an inflation rate of 12%.

The Federal Reserve chairman at the time, Paul Volcker, had to raise interest rates in order to stem inflation. He raised interest rates to 20%.

But, Beck noted, the money supply in the United States has been increased by 120% in the last year or so in order to meet the impossible demands of a reckless president and Congress.

How high will your interest rates have to rise to in order to tame the inflation that is about to be unleashed? Will those brutal interest rates snuff out economic growth?

We're going to find out.

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NEVADAS ECONOMY Consumers spend less revenue plummets

NEVADA'S ECONOMY Consumers spend less, revenue plummets


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Nevada's businesses saw their sales fall 24.1 percent from August 2008.
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Nevada posted its 10th straight month of double-digit declines in taxable sales in August, as a major federal incentive to boost car sales failed to drive consumer purchases into growth territory.

Wednesday's numbers from the state Department of Taxation showed that Nevada's businesses rang up $3.1 billion in sales in August, down 24.1 percent from $4.1 billion in August 2008.



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The numbers include the results of an earlier tax-amnesty program that augmented collections a year ago. Businesses that owed back taxes paid $263 million in August 2008. Take out that amnesty revenue, as well as the year-over-year sales decline would have been 18.9 percent.

In Clark County, taxable sales dropped from $3 billion to $2.2 billion year over year in August.

Several sales categories showed declines in the month. Sales in the construction sector plummeted 47.5 percent, while furniture retailers saw a 38.6 percent decline. Clothing stores, bars and restaurants and department stores posted significant sales dips.

And despite the $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, dealers of cars and car parts experienced a 16.4 percent drop.

Local analysts said the results reveal a state that remains mired in a recession that is almost 2 years old.

"The question remains: Where's the bottom? The economy is clearly not stabilizing," said Brian Gordon, a principal in local research firm Applied Analysis. "Retailers continue to be affected by consumer spending by both residents and leisure travelers, and these numbers are a clear sign that we're not out of the woods yet."

Added Keith Schwer, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas: "It's very clear the national economy is showing signs of recovery, and we're not."

Schwer said spending in Nevada remains low because of high unemployment and flagging consumer confidence.

More than 190,000 Nevadans are out of work, and as joblessness surged through the summer, residents with jobs feared they soon would receive pink slips themselves. So a sizable chunk of the state lacks the discretionary income to spend; the rest are too nervous to take on purchases such as cars and appliances.

Cash for Clunkers, which offered consumers rebates of up to $4,500 to trade in older cars for more fuel-efficient versions, did seem to curb sales declines among car dealers, who had been seeing year-over-year sales declines of 30 percent or more in the months before August. But the federal program couldn't completely avert losses.

A recent study from the Retail Association of Nevada backs up the idea that Cash for Clunkers wasn't too fashionable among the state's residents.

The trade group's report found that Nevada ranked No. 48 in Cash for Clunkers rebates per capita, which indicates that a smaller-than-average percentage of residents took the money. Assuming one rebate per Nevadan, 1.3 Nevadans out of 1,000 traded in old cars, compared with a national average of 2.3 out of 1,000.

The association estimated that Cash for Clunkers added $3.6 million in state sales taxes that would not have materialized without the rebate program.

Some sectors of the economy did expand their sales in August. Heavy and civil engineering construction, which consists of big public-works projects, rose 46.6 percent, and telecommunications jumped 30.4 percent. Rail transportation, management of companies, performing arts and spectator sports showed increases in sales.

The state collected $242.4 million in revenue from sales and use taxes. That is an 18.4 percent drop compared with August 2008. Adjusted for the amnesty program, revenue collections were off 17.6 percent year over year.

Taxable sales help finance public services such as schools and prisons, and budget projections show the sales are bringing in less revenue than expected so far in fiscal 2010, which began July 1. In the first two months of the fiscal year, the general fund portion of sales and use taxes is 1.16 percent, $9.3 million, below forecasts of the Economic Forum, a nonpartisan group of appointees who craft revenue estimates for budgeting purposes.

Fifteen of the Silver State's 17 counties posted declines in taxable sales, with exclusively Mineral and Lincoln counties spared any drops.

Gordon said consumer spending in Nevada has fallen to 2002 levels, and he expects spending to continue shrinking well into 2010.

Gov. Jim Gibbons released a statement saying that the sales data show a sustained slump in Nevada's economy.

"August's sales and use tax figures demonstrate that the people and businesses of Nevada continue to feel the effects of the recession," Gibbons said. "The administration continues to monitor and plan for the effects of the impaired housing market, sluggish consumer spending and the overall condition of the economy."

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Major columnist legitimizes theory of Obama plot to destroy U.S.

From the very start of Barack Obama's rather odd, meteoric rise to prominence in American politics, many of us on the conservative side voiced our suspicions that something subversive was under way.

Too many strange coincidences, many troublesome alliances, too much hype in too short a period of time all pointed to many hidden, concerted, coordinated effort to get this man into the White House in short order.

We alerted you to the views of Obama's admitted mentors--such as Saul Alinsky, the 1960s radical who worked to destroy capitalism as well as America's form of government, and William Ayers, whose underground movement in the late 60s and 70s bombed federal buildings and vowed to murder those who staunchly defended the American way of life.

Both of these strong influences on Obama adhered to the Cloward-Piven strategy, developed by 2 radical university professors in the 60s, which advocated deliberately overloading the United States social and economic system so that the entire thing would crash under the weight. By deliberately causing such a crash, a new order could be built in America based upon pure Marxism.

Then, once in office, low and behold Obama begins to load up his administration with self-avowed Communists, Marxists, and different radicals who not only adhere to the views espoused by Alinsky and the Cloward-Piven strategy but who believe that Communist dictators e.g. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela make good role models for what should occur in America.

We have discussed this at length in previous columns on Vann Jones, Mark Lloyd, Cass Sunstein, Valerie Jarrett, and many other 'czars' and political advisers with whom Obama has surrounded himself.

All of this, of course, has been summarily dismissed by those in the mainstream as 'fear-mongering,' 'the ranting of right-wing nutcases,' or 'paranoia.'

Such knee-jerk reactions to reasonable observations based on factual evidence might be about to change.

National syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, who has never been regarded as a true conservative but as a 'neo-con' as the liberals like to call it, now says that such suspicions concerning Obama's true motives may be right.

To be sure, Krauthammer has never been one to engage in speculative conspiracy-theory mongering. His columns appear in 'mainstream' newspapers all across America. And on the night that Barack Obama won the White House, he commented on Fox News that may be given the choices that we had, Obama was the best one for the job.

Circumstances have clearly changed, at least in Krauthammer's view. The columnist now believes that Obama's ultimate goal is to finally bring about the scenario envisioned by the Cloward-Piven strategy--a complete collapse of the American economic system at which time the 'ruling elites' can start over and rebuild America based upon a radical agenda as envisioned by his mentors such as Saul Alinsky.

The method by which Obama would bring this about is gradually coming into sharp focus.

An economic strategy has been launched that will ultimately bring stagnation to the U.S. economy, similar to that from which European countries have suffered for decades, leading to a devaluing of the dollar. This, in fact, is already happening. The dollar is now practically worthless, and other nations are calling for a different world-currency to substitute the dollar.

Once the dollar is devalued and the economy is stagnant, America can no longer be THE world power that it is today, forcing us to essentially withdraw as the major voice for liberty in the world and drastically scale back our military forces and weapons arsenals.

It is then that the radical Marxists will have the money to implement European-styled Socialism, or worse. This, of course, would involve spending mind-boggling amounts of money to build a cradle-to-the-grave nanny-state, along with all of the various restrictions and limitations on human behavior that such a system entails.

No longer would the U.S. Constitution be viewed as the final authority on matters of law and rights but as merely a foundational document which is no longer relevant. Instead of adhering to a rule of law that places severe restrictions on government, we would then develop a 'declaration of human rights' of sorts, that includes such things as 'the right to healthcare,' which by nature means that government is required to confiscate funds from citizens in order to provide.

Anytime another citizen is forced by government to pay for many supposed 'right' that somebody else claims they have, then it immediately ceases to be a right. It is then a mandate, and we are at that point nothing more than slaves to government.

And lest you view this as the paranoid musings of a rightwing nutjob, remember that Obama's closest friends, allies, and supporters all admit that this is their ultimate vision for America.

Be sure to read all of Krauthammer's article. It is an eye-opener.

And keep in mind that the more of this stuff the citizens find out, the more we are determined to fight for our liberties and to oust the charlatans from office.

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Collapsing the System

I've told you a lot of spooky things on this show and I'm hoping a lot of those things are wrong.

On Tuesday, I asked you the question: Does it matter if these individuals are Marxists?

Does it matter that the guy rebuilding our automotive industry has no experience and believes that the free market system does not work? Or that the manufacturing "czar" said that the free market's "nonsense?" Or that we have communists and radicals serving in the administration and advising the president?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)

RON BLOOM, WHITE HOUSE MANUFACTURING 'CZAR': Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense...

MARK LLOYD, FCC DIVERSITY 'CZAR': In Venezuela, with Chavez, a really incredible revolution, a democratic revolution...

THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.

VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS 'CZAR': Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth!

ANITA DUNN, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each another, but the two people that I turn to most...

(END VIDEO CLIPS)

Does it matter?

The answer is yes, if you believe that what makes America, America are the individual dreamers, builders and doers. Not the collective, but the individuals, the dreamers and the inventors.

From the people that brought us moving pictures the assembly line, the light bulb, the elevator, the Chia Pet, those are the each people that made us great. And that is what is being stifled.

Now, government will tell you what to create, how to make it and what to do with it after you've created it. They'll control your financing, control your education, control your health. They'll control what you watch on television, they'll control absolutely everything — because now, they'll own a lot of the banks and many of the companies.
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So now, not only does an inventor have to invent the thing the government says it is looking for, they'll make sure that you can't go out on your own and try to create something better.

It is total control. And it is also, total insanity.

I've told you before about Cloward and Piven, a 1960s strategy that identified the best way to stop the Republic — the best way to subvert the Constitution and replace it with communism, Marxim or socialism — is to first financially collapse it.

Just a year ago, this stuff sounded absolutely crazy.

We've completely worried about the debt. I want to not only show you how bad the debt is, but I also want to arm you with information, you will not accept their answer when they present a solution for what's coming. And what's coming is a system that is unsustainable. A system that is going to collapse. A system that quite honestly, looks a lot like what happened in Iceland.

In Iceland, all three of their McDonalds have been forced to close. Now, that might not sound like a national emergency, but neither does the swine flu. The think they shut down is that Iceland's currency, the krona, has devalued to the point where the McDonalds' franchise owner could no longer afford to even import the packaging, meat and cheese to run the business.

Remember, four years ago, Iceland was a stable economy. But now, after being in a position where they were importing workers from Poland, they've gone to a 10 percent unemployment rate in one year. Massive debt, coupled with the currency and banking crisis, has caused Iceland's once thriving economy to hit the skids.

Iceland's GDP is around $20 billion; their foreign debt alone is $120 billion — six times their GDP. Would you like a hot apple pie with that debt, Reykjavik? If only their biggest problem was where to find their next Big Mac. If only that was our biggest problem.

Our GDP is $15 trillion. Our actual debt, as you've seen many times on the debt clock, is $105 trillion. Hmm, seven times our GDP.

I want to make this clear: Ours is actual debt; theirs is foreign debt. But do you know the games our government plays with the accounting books? Do you realize we have four separate books? According to David Walker, former U.S. comptroller, everybody involved would be in jail — if we didn't own the jails.

Liberal blogs are having fun with me saying there's more truth from Pravda. Well, let me give you a quote from Pravda last week: "It able to be safely said, that the last time a great nation destroyed itself through its own hubris and economic folly was the early Soviet Union (though in the end the late Soviet Union still died by the economic hand). Now we get the opportunity to watch the Americans do the exact same thing to themselves. The most amazing thing of course, is that they are just repeating the failed mistakes of the past."

How is it happening? Well, let me explain how the system works:

A year ago we had a problem with the banks: People took out many bad loans and the government pressured banks to make those loans, by the way, to people who couldn't afford them and the whole thing melted down.

So the banks didn't have enough money to cover bad loans and we were faced with a choice: Let them fail or bail them out. Well, you know what happened: We passed the Troubled Asset Recovery Program (TARP) to help the banks cover the bad loans and fund new ones.

Now we're hearing that the banks aren't producing loans. How is that possible? After all, we gave them all of that money.

It's actually a good thing right now that the banks aren't making those loans. Too much money would be flooding the system. They are not making those loans because they're afraid that the worst is not yet behind us and they need to have that money on hand so they could keep their doors open.

But if things takeoff to get better again, then all of that money will flood out into the system. It's called velocity — the speed of the money coming out of banks into the economy. And for inflation to happen, you need a lot of money in the system.

We do not really have an inflation problem right now, but back in the '70s under Jimmy Carter, for two years we printed too much money. We added 13 percent more money to our money supply for two years. Remember how bad the inflation was? And we started down a socialist utopia with Jimmy Carter.

To stop it, what did we have to do? Fed Chairman Paul Volcker came in and, in an effort to suck all the money back to the Fed and out of the system, he had to raise interest rates.

Remember, the banks have all of this money on the sidelines right now. As soon as they release it into the system, from that time, it usually takes about two years for the money glut to cause inflation.

After printing 13 percent more money for two years, we had runaway inflation of 12 percent. So Volcker raised the interest rate to 20 percent, because whenever you borrow, let's say, $100, you'll then owe $20 — the Fed then takes that $20 and destroys it to get it out of the system and bring inflation back down.

So we had to have a 20 percent interest rate for a 13 percent increase in the money supply for two years. In the last year or so since Lehman Brothers failed, we have increased our money supply by 120 percent.

How high will our interest rate have to be to pull all of that money back out of the system?

The reason I bring this up is that our real debt, as I pointed out, is $105 trillion. You and I both know we can't pay that back, so how do you pull this money back in without completely shutting down the entire economy? Can you afford a house with a 30-year interest of 35 or 40 percent? How about a car payment? How many business loans will be taken out with 25 percent interest rates?

You can't. Everything stops. So how do you keep an economy, based on purchaseing — not building — going when you can't borrow money? You don't. It's the real reason that Chris Dodd wants a cap on credit cards today. They must have your credit cards working. They must have you spending.

Here's what I think they're doing: They will pay off the debt by printing enough money to pay off $105 trillion. It'll be worthless, but we'll give the Chinese and the rest of our debtors, their money. And those people that we've sold stuff to will come and take their assets.

But then what's left to restart the country? We have to have something to back our currency. Well, what about gold? There are $200 trillion in investible assets in the world and just $800 billion in gold to back it. So you can't go back to the gold standard; you need something to buy stuff with — we can't barter forever.

So, we have to have money and we have to base it on something. Let's go back to the people who taught us in the last century what we do when there's an out-of-control money supply: the Weimar Republic in Germany. What did they do? After their currency had become so worthless that they had printed 2 trillion-mark bank notes and their economy collapsed, they dumped the mark, switched to the rentenmark and backed it with real estate — land.

Well, there's certainly enough land and resources in America that we could back our currency that way as well, but the government would have to own all the land.

Hey, good news! Between Fannie and Freddie, the federal government already owns 55 percent of the mortgages in this country. And coupled with all the federal land grabs for parks, polar bears who are crowded but endangered and all the oil we're not drilling for or coal we're not mining, you might be able to base a currency on all that. And what a deal for China when they come in to "help."

I hope I'm absolutely wrong about this, I honestly do. But think about this: Who would the new "regime" responsible for this "new America" have on their side? Who would the federal government, after they've destroyed your future and that of your children, who would they have on their side?

You'll say: Let us fix it; let the free market fix it. But we've already seen those in the government don't believe in you or the free market. The government is going to say: Let the world fix it. They're already saying that — and when you watch Friday's show on global warming, you'll look how they're laying the groundwork for this.

Don't fool yourself. Read history. During the American Revolution and the Civil War, we needed allies: People who would fight and supply money. Our government is making those allies: Russia, China, Venezuela. But don't you think China would be willing to come over here to protect this government, from its people under those circumstances? For a piece of our oil, coal, mineral reserves and land? And to be part of one, big, happy global family?

You bet.

So it boils down to this: What if the dollar collapses in the next three, five, eight years? What if, this is the plan? Does it matter?

And let me ask specifically to all those who support Gitmo being closed, the Amnesty International goofballs, the protect-the-endangered-crowded-polar-bear crowd: Do you really think Russia and China will be better protectors of the planet than we have been? Will Russians cordon off 200,000 square miles of extra space for polar bear roaming or will they shoot them in the head to get a barrel of oil that used to belong to you?

I know I would. Surely, Ivan will.

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CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS)

* Strategy for forcing political modify through orchestrated crisis



First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of unachievable demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.

In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people could advance exclusively when "the rest of society's afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.

The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of achievable welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level."

Their article called for "cadres of aggressive organizers" to use "demonstrations to create a climate of militancy." Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of "a federal program of income redistribution," in the form of a guaranteed living income for completely -- working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.

This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements -- mass movements whose outward mean seems to be providing material support to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown -- providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory.

Cloward and Piven recruited a militant black organizer named George Wiley to lead their early movement. In the summer of 1967, Wiley founded the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). His tactics closely followed the recommendations set out in Cloward and Piven's article. His followers invaded welfare offices across the United States -- often violently -- bullying social workers and loudly demanding every penny to which the law "entitled" them. By 1969, NWRO claimed a dues-paying membership of 22,500 families, with 523 chapters across the nation.

Regarding Wiley's tactics, The New York Times commented on September 27, 1970, "There have been sit-ins in legislative chambers, including a United States Senate committee hearing, mass demonstrations of several thousand welfare recipients, school boycotts, picket lines, mounted police, tear gas, arrests - and, on occasion, rock-throwing, smashed glass doors, overturned desks, scattered papers and ripped-out phones."These methods proved effective. "The flooding succeeded beyond Wiley's wildest dreams," writes Sol Stern in the City Journal. "From 1965 to 1974, the number of single-parent households on welfare soared from 4.3 million to 10.8 million, despite mostly flush economic times. By the early 1970s, one person was on the welfare rolls in New York City for every two working in the city's private economy."As a direct because of its massive welfare spending, New York City was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1975. The entire state of New York nearly went down with it. The Cloward-Piven strategy had proved its effectiveness.

The Cloward-Piven strategy depended on surprise. Once society recovered from the initial shock, the backlash began. New York's welfare crisis horrified America, giving rise to a reform movement which culminated in "the end of welfare as we know it" -- the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which imposed time limits on federal welfare, along with strict eligibility and work requirements. Both Cloward and Piven attended the White House signing of the bill as guests of President Clinton.

Most Americans to this day have never heard of Cloward and Piven. But New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attempted to expose them in the late 1990s. As his drive for welfare reform gained momentum, Giuliani accused the militant scholars by name, citing their 1966 manifesto as evidence that they had engaged in deliberate economic sabotage. "This wasn't an accident," Giuliani charged in a 1997 speech. "It wasn't an atmospheric thing, it wasn't supernatural. This is the result of policies and programs designed to have the maximum number of people get on welfare."

Cloward and Piven never again revealed their intentions as candidly as they had in their 1966 article. Even so, their activism in subsequent years continued to rely on the tactic of overloading the system. When the public caught on to their welfare scheme, Cloward and Piven simply moved on, applying pressure to different sectors of the bureaucracy, wherever they detected weakness.

In 1982, partisans of the Cloward-Piven strategy founded a new "voting rights movement," which purported to take up the unfinished work of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Like ACORN, the organization that spear-headed this campaign, the new "voting rights" movement was led by veterans of George Wiley's welfare rights crusade. Its flagship organizations were Project Vote and Human SERVE, both founded in 1982. Project Vote is an ACORN front group, launched by former NWRO organizer and ACORN co-founder Zach Polett. Human SERVE was founded by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, along with a former NWRO organizer named Hulbert James.

All three of these organizations -- ACORN, Project Vote and Human SERVE -- set to work lobbying energetically for the so-called Motor-Voter law, which Bill Clinton ultimately signed in 1993. The Motor-Voter bill is largely responsible for swamping the voter rolls with "dead wood" -- invalid registrations signed in the name of deceased, ineligible or non-existent people -- thus opening the door to the unprecedented levels of voter fraud and "voter disenfranchisement" claims that followed in subsequent elections.

The new "voting rights" coalition combines mass voter registration drives -- typically featuring high levels of fraud -- with systematic intimidation of election officials in the form of frivolous lawsuits, unfounded charges of "racism" and "disenfranchisement," and "direct action" (street protests, violent or otherwise). Just as they swamped America's welfare offices in the 1960s, Cloward-Piven devotees now go to see to overwhelm the nation's understaffed and poorly policed electoral system. Their tactics set the stage for the Florida recount crisis of 2000, and have introduced a level of fear, tension and foreboding to United States elections heretofore encountered mainly in Third World countries.

Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros's Open Society Institute and his "Shadow Party," through whose support the Cloward-Piven strategy continues to provide a blueprint for a little of of the Left's most ambitious campaigns.

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Careful consideration or dithering dilemna.txt

As Democrats defend President Obama's decision to take his time as well as cautiously consider conflicting strategy proposals from top advisers, Republican senators say the clock's ticking -- with allied forces continuing to suffer casualties in part due to they lack reinforcements.

Republicans who want to back up President Obama's war strategy in Afghanistan expressed interest Sunday that the president could miss a key opportunity to increase the upper hand on the growing insurgency by waiting too long to grant a ask for thousands for more U.S. troops.

But what is the correct action for our President to take?

Do we send in more troops as suggested by senators e.g. McCain, Kyl and Hatch? Or do we initiate a hybrid system and begin pulling back on the number of troops in the Afghan region?

GO!

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Barack Obama the Cloward-Piven, Candidate of Manufactured Crisis

Jim Simpson on "Barack Obama as well as the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis" edited

No one has connected completely the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left, but it is apparent that he is a willing participant and has spent most of his adult life immersed in it. Obama could be tied directly to a strategy that has motivated many, of the radical leftist organizations in the US since the 1960s: The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy was first seen in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:

The strategy of forcing political modify through orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-
Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government
bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and
economic collapse.
Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:
"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his
1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and
statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal
social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to
its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist
"rule book" with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks, org)

Newsmax rounds out the picture:
Their strategy to make political, financial, and social chaos that would happen in
revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing
about a modify in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and
Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to
force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.

In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:
By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in many institutional sphere. Crisis can
occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and
protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to
public attention.

No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:
The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government entities
but not currently receiving all they can.
The offensive seeks to known or create new benefits.
The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the
ultimate goal of forcing their collapse.

Capitalizing on the racial unrest of the 1960s, Cloward and Piven saw the welfare system as their first target. They enlisted radical black activist George Wiley, who created the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) to implement the strategy. Wiley hired militant foot soldiers to storm welfare offices around the country, violently demanding their "rights."

According to a City Journal article by Sol Stern, welfare rolls increased from 4.3 million to 10.8 million by the mid-1970s as a result, and in New York City, where the strategy had been particularly successful, "one person was on the welfare rolls... for every two working in the city's private economy."

According to another City Journal article titled "Compassion Gone Mad
"The movement's impact on New York City was jolting: welfare caseloads, already
climbing 12 percent a year in the early sixties, rose by 50 percent during Lindsay's first
two years; spending doubled... The city had 150,000 welfare cases in 1960; a decade
later it had 1.5 million.

In 1970, one of George Wiley's prot?g?s, Wade Rathke -- like Bill Ayers, a member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -- was sent to found the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now. While NWRO had made a good start, it alone couldn't accomplish the Cloward-Piven goals. Rathke's group broadened the offensive to include a wide array of low income "rights." Shortly thereafter they changed "Arkansas" to "Association of" and ACORN went nationwide.

Today ACORN is involved in a wide array of activities, including housing, voting rights, illegal immigration and other issues. According to ACORN's website: "ACORN is the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low-and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country," It is perhaps the largest radical group in the U.S. and has been cited for widespread criminal activity.

On voting rights, ACORN and its voter mobilization subsidiary, Project Vote, have been involved nationwide in efforts to grant felons the vote and lobbied heavily for the Motor Voter Act of 1993, a law allowing people to register at motor vehicle departments, schools, libraries and other public places. That law had been sought by Cloward and Piven since the early 1980s and they were present, standing behind President Clinton at the signing ceremony.

ACORN's voter rights tactics follow the Cloward-Piven Strategy:

1. Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise and help them vote, multiple times if possible.

2. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.

3. Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards.

In this effort, ACORN sets up registration sites all over the country and has been frequently cited for turning in fraudulent registrations, as well as destroying republican applications. In the 2004-2006 election cycles alone, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud in 12 states. It might have swung the election for many candidates.

ACORN's website brags: "Since 2004, ACORN has helped more than 1.7 million low- and moderate-income and minority citizens apply to register to vote." Project vote boasts 4 million. I wonder how many of them are dead? For the 2008 cycle, ACORN and Project Vote have pulled out all the stops. Given their furious nationwide effort, it is not inconceivable that this presidential race could be decided by fraudulent votes alone.

Barack Obama ran ACORN's Project Vote in Chicago and his highly successful voter registration drive advocating massive, no-holds-barred voter registration campaigns, they [Cloward & Piven] sought a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. that would re-distribute the nation's wealth and lead to a totalitarian socialist state.

Obama aided ACORN as their lead attorney in a successful suite he brought against the Illinois state government to implement the Motor Voter law there. The law had been resisted by Republican Governor Jim Edgars, who feared the law was an opening to widespread vote fraud.

And now we have the mortgage crisis, which has sent a shock wave through Wall Street and panicked world financial markets like no other since the stock market crash of 1929. But this is a problem created in Washington long ago. It originated with the Community Reinvestment ACT (CRA), signed into law in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The CRA was Carter's answer to a grassroots activist movement started in Chicago and forced banks to make loans to low income, high risk customers. PhD economist and former Texas SenatorPhil Gramm has called it: "a vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks."

ACORN aggressively sought to expand loans to low income groups using the CRA as a whip. Economist Stan Leibowitz wrote in the New York Post.:

In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of "redlining"-claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the first accusation.

In fact, minority mortgage applications were rejected more frequently than other applications-but the overwhelming reason wasn't racial discrimination, but simply that minorities tend to have weaker finances.

ACORN showed its colors again in 1991, by taking over the House Banking Committee room for two days to protest efforts to scale back the CRA. Obama representd ACORN in the Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 1994 suit against redlining. Most significant of all, ACORN was the driving force behind a 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton Administration that greatly expanded the CRA and laid the groundwork for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac borne financial crisis we now confront. Barack Obama was the attorney representing ACORN in this effort. With this new authority, ACORN used its subsidiary, ACORN HOUSING, to promote subprime loans more aggressively.

As a New York Post article describes it:
A 1995 strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to find
ways to give mortgages to their poorer communities. It also let community activists
intervene at yearly bank reviews, shaking the banks down for large pots of money.
Banks that got poor reviews were punished; some saw their merger plans frustrated;
others faced direct legal challenges by the Justice Department. Flexible lending
programs expanded even though they had higher default rates than loans with
traditional standards.

On the Web, you can still find CRA loans accessible via ACORN with "100 percent financing . . . no credit scores . . . undocumented income . . . even if you do not report it on your tax returns." Credit counseling is required, of course.

Ironically, an enthusiastic Fannie Mae Foundation report singled out one paragon of nondiscriminatory lending, which worked with community activists and followed "the most flexible underwriting criteria permitted." That lender's $1 billion commitment to low-income loans in 1992 had grown to $80 billion by 1999 and $600 billion by early 2003.
The lender they were speaking of was Countrywide, which specialized in subprime lending and had a working relationship with with ACORN.

Investor's Business Daily added:
The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans
containing subprime mortgages. The modifies came as radical "housing rights" groups led
by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public- interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama.

Since these loans were to be underwritten by the government sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the implicit government guarantee of those loans absolved lenders, mortgage bundlers and investors of any concern over the obvious risk.

As Bloomberg reported "It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit."

And if you think Washington policy makers cared about ACORN's negative influence, think again. Before this whole mess came down, a Democrat-sponsored bill on the table would have created an "Affordable Housing Trust Fund," granting ACORN access to approximately $500 million in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac revenues with little or no oversight.
Even now, unbelievably -- on the brink of national disaster -- Democrats have insisted ACORN benefit from bailout negotiations! Senator Lindsay Graham reported (9/25/08) in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of On the Record that Democrats want 20% of the bailout money to go to ACORN!

This entire fiasco represents perhaps the pinnacle of ACORN's efforts to advance the Cloward-Piven Strategy and is a stark demonstration of the power they wield in Washington.

Most people are unaware that Barack Obama received his training in "community organizing" from Saul Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation. But he did. In and of itself that marks his heritage and training as that of a radical activist.

Obama objects to being associated with SDS bomber Bill Ayers, claiming he is being smeared with "guilt by association." But they worked together at the Woods Fund. The Wall Street Journal added substantially to our knowledge by describing in great detail Obama's work over five years with SDS bomber Bill Ayers on the board of a non-profit, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, to push a radical agenda on public school children. As Stanley Kurtz states:

"...the issue there is not guilt by association; it's guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr.
Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is
a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago."

Also included in the add is Theresa Heinz Kerry's favorite charity, the Tides Foundation. A partial record of Tides grants tells you all you need to know: ACLU, ACORN, Center for American Progress, Center for Constitutional Rights (a communist front,) CAIR, Earth Justice, Institute for Policy Studies (KGB spy nest), National Lawyers Guild (oldest communist front in U.S.), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and practically every other radical group here is. ACORN's Wade Rathke runs a Tides subsidiary, the Tides Center.

We have heard about Bill Ayers, but we hear little about fellow SDS member Carl Davidson. According to Discover the Networks, Davidson was an early supporter of Barack Obama and a prominent member of Chicago's New Party , a synthesis of CPUSA members, Socialists, ACORN veterans and other radicals. Obama sought and received the New Party's endorsement, and they assisted with his campaign. The New Party also developed a strong relationship with ACORN. As an article on the New Party observes: "Barack Obama knew what he was getting into and remains an ideal New Party candidate."

The reason for George Soros' fervent support of Obama, comes from the President of his Open Society Institute is Aryeh Neier, founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As told above, three other former SDS members had extensive contact with Obama: Bill Ayers, Carl Davidson and Wade Rathke. Surely Aryeh Neier would have heard from his former colleagues of the promising new politician. More to the point, Neier is firmly committed to supporting the hugely successful radical organization, ACORN, and would be some back their favored candidate, Barack Obama.

Obama has spent a large portion of his professional life working for ACORN or its subsidiaries, representing ACORN as a lawyer on some of its most critical issues, and training ACORN leaders.

This is Obama's own words:
"I've been fighting alongside ACORN on topics you care about my entire career. Even
before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in
Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work. -
Barack Obama, Speech to ACORN, November 2007 (Courtesy Newsmax.)

In another article on Obama's ACORN connections, Newsmax asks a nagging question:
It would be telling to cognize if Obama, during his years at Columbia, had occasion to meet Cloward and study the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Is it possible ACORN would train Obama to take leadership positions within ACORN without telling him what he was training for? Is it possible ACORN would put Obama in leadership positions without clueing him into what his purpose was?? Is it possible that this most radical of organizations would put someone in charge of training its trainers, without him knowing what it was he was training them for?

As a community activist for ACORN; as a leadership trainer for ACORN; as a lead organizer for ACORN'S Project Vote: as an attorney representing ACORN's successful efforts to impose Motor Voter regulations in Illinois; as ACORN's representative in lobbying for the expansion of high risk housing loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to the current crisis; as a recipient of their assistance in his political campaigns -- both with money and campaign workers; it is doubtful that he was unaware of ACORN's true goals. He could not be unaware of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

In his few years as a U.S. senator, Obama has received campaign contributions of $126,349, from Fannie and Freddie, second only to the $165,400 received by Senator Chris Dodd, who has been getting donations from them since 1988. What makes Obama so special?

His closest advisers are a dirty laundry list of every people at the heart of the financial crisis: former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson; Former Fannie Mae CEO and former Clinton Budget Director Frank Raines and billionaire failed Superior Bank of Chicago Board Chair Penny Pritzker.

Johnson had to step down as adviser on Obama's V.P. search after this gem came out:
An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998. A 2006 OFHEO report found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson's compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.

Obama denies ties to Raines but the Washington Post calls him a member of "Obama's political circle." Raines and Johnson were fined $3 million by the Office of Federal Housing Oversight for their manipulation of Fannie books. The fine is small change however, compared to the $50 million Raines was able to obtain in improper bonuses as a result of juggling the books.

Most significantly, Penny Pritzker, the current Finance Chairperson of Obama's presidential campaign helped develop the complicated investment bundling of subprime securities at the heart of the meltdown. She did so in her position as shareholder and board chair of Superior Bank. The Bank failed in 2001, one of the largest in recent history, wiping out $50 million in uninsured life savings of approximately 1,400 customers. She was named in a RICO class action law suit but does not seem to have come out of it badly.

As a young attorney in the 1990s, Barack Obama represented ACORN in Washington in their successful efforts to expand Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) authority. In addition to making it easier for ACORN groups to force banks into making risky loans, this also paved the way for banks like Superior to package mortgages as investments, and for the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to underwrite them. These changes created the conditions that ultimately lead to the current financial crisis.

Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate, has been a radical activist for most of his political career. That activism has been in support of organizations and initiatives that at their heart seek to tear the pillars of this nation asunder in order to replace them with their socialist vision. Their influence has spread so far and so wide that despite their blatant culpability in the current financial crisis, they are able to manipulate Capital Hill politicians to cut them into $140 billion of the bailout.

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112 First Coast Tea Party Hosts ‘D.C. Dirty Tricks’ Town Hall.txt

Around 400 individuals entered the hall Monday evening after work to learn the latest about the topics affecting the country. They came from all walks of life, all ages, to learn. They brought can goods for a food kitchen as a donation. As they visited with others as well as checked out the d?cor, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi characters floated around the room-stealing their money-the monopoly money they had been given when they entered. A fun way to make the point that Congress continues taking money from working people as fast as they can make it.

This was the second Town Hall for First Coast Tea Party and the first time that the meeting would be streaming live on the website. The stage was set for Halloween with scary pumpkins and cobwebs. As always, co-founder of FCTP, Billie Tucker, opened the evening with a prayer and the pledge and we all stood as the national anthem was sung. Billie recognized the military members that were in attendance and there were many. The crowd saluted them.

Then it was on to the meat of the night. Billie opened with a multi-media presentation on “D.C. Dirty Tricks.” She gave updates on topics ranging from the government healthcare bill to cap and trade and more. The crowd agreed, booed, clapped and agreed as Billie covered numerous topics. Nancy and Harry would make appearances throughout the evening and people enjoyed the fun but poignant statement made by the actors.

Then, Diane Leone, volunteer media liaison and social marketing leader presented “The Dirtiest Trick of All: Taking Away Our Freedom.” The presentation laid out how we got to where we are today and focused on highlights about Saul Alinsky, Cloward and Piven and George Soros, eventually showing a map of the ties from these people and all the organizations and others-including President Obama. The crowd gasped when they saw the chart. They listened intently, at times angry, and other times shocked as they learned many things they had not heard before. It started producing sense, the Rahm Emanuel statement about not wasting a great crisis and more. When the crowd saw the Rules for Radicals and the Cloward/Piven “Crisis Strategy,” a lot of things started making sense. And the realization that this was very happening, in America, sank in. It’s startling to learn that your President is considering signing a treaty that could take power over your Constitution, e.g. the Copenhagen treaty in December.

After the education, the Constitution was presented with a few uplifting points about the freedoms it gives us and the intentions of our Founding Fathers. The angels came to the front and “swept” Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi off the stage and as they turned the pumpkins around, they were beautiful, smiling faces.

It is amazing that people that have worked all day, have to find a baby sitter for their children and have not eaten dinner,'ll come for 2 1/2 hours to learn what is going on, learn about the Constitution, and just be with other like-minded people. It lets them cognize that they are not alone.

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The Obama-Cloward-Piven Strategy Will Kill Us All.txt

Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven (husband and wife), and Cloward "Bevin" strategy to accelerate the decline of capitalism overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and the 'economic collapse. "*
Mao Tse Tung, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler is the most resentment tyrants in history who has managed to control under the guise of a "better society for all." They finally killed
Of millions of their own people, and even during the war.
All three had a unique way to change society and the consolidation of power. However, they all have the same outcome with the exception of Mao. Mao, China, which has become less violent, and took many managers of capitalism.
However, it is important to know that our region in modern times stems from the socialist movement, it all started with the acceptance of Cloward - Piven strategy, in our academic community.
If you study in the first paragraph of this article, you can understand why we are now facing problems of America.
We are now, unions, members of the Senate, a member of Congress, judges, minorities, non-profit groups and most marginalized of the American promise of this strategy as a battle cry.
Now the executive power in our country has been taken over by left wing ideologues who believe they can change America in this nightmare.
Let us remember that it is very possible that our president has been taught by Mr. Cloward (Socialist) in Colombia, but because of the college and sealed, and we do not know with certainty. But, again, another sign of a tactical control system.
To illustrate this strategy offers a look at the unions and their operation in America.
Unions muscle en route to the first company in the range of industries such as automotive. The objective of this belief is the opposite of the normal and the rhetoric that the purpose of this is the best worker.
It is the bankruptcy of the company and eventually turn the company unions. By offering benefits more and more workers in the company can no longer exist. This is the heart of socialism.
This is what President Obama is trying to do in America with help from members of Congress to liberal.
He wants to bankrupt the U.S. financially, and the low standard of living for all Americans and to consolidate power through the restructuring of our economic system, values and beliefs in the form he believes he should be.
If this sounds scary to you, it should be. You should be shaking in your shoes at this point.
As you can see it does not take much time for that, yes, even America.
According to Moody's rating, and you lose the Americas debt at the highest level of quality in the next 5 years. In this sense, at this stage, we will more than pay our debt to borrow. This means that most or all of the revenue will go to repay the debt did not leave something for people to provide support services to maintain the security of the natural community. You can imagine what happens from a complete collapse of our society.
All that is left will be a government of the dictator, who will crush all civil liberties and rights.
As you can see, there is no end to the normal to this madness. Most million chance of dying, and he fought wars, and there is a large discrepancy occur once in this great country of ours.
All in the name of power by the few. Will let you do that?
Remember that it took almost 5 years to consolidate the power of Hitler in Germany. It will take a long time, or that Obama will be less?

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Cloward–Piven strategy

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, then both sociologists and political activists at the Columbia University School of Social Work, in a 1966 article in The Nation. The two argued that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would create a political crisis that would force U.S. politicians, particularly the Democratic Party, to enact legislation "establishing a guaranteed national income."

Contents 1 The strategy 2 Focus on Democrats 3 Reception 4 References

The strategy

Cloward and Piven’s article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They argued that full enrollment of those eligible for wellfare “would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments” that would “deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the white working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas.” They wrote “the ultimate objective of this strategy (is) to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income... (via)the outright redistribution of income.”

Focus on Democrats

The authors pinned their hopes on creating disruption within the Democratic Party. "Conservative Republicans are always ready to declaim the evils of public welfare, and they would probably be the first to raise a hue and cry. But deeper and politically more telling conflicts would take place within the Democratic coalition," they wrote. "Whites – both working class ethnic groups and many in the middle class – would be aroused against the ghetto poor, while liberal groups, which until recently have been comforted by the notion that the poor are few... would probably support the movement. Group conflict, spelling political crisis for the local party apparatus, would thus become acute as welfare rolls mounted and the strains on local budgets became more severe.”

Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote that Cloward and Piven "proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy."

Reception

Historian Robert E. Weir argues that the original goal of the strategy was to bring about a crisis in the welfare system that would require radical reforms. A major article in the New York Times in 1970 investigated the welfare system and discussed the impact of the Cloward–Piven strategy. Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus, was quoted in 1982 as saying that the strategy could be effective because "Great Society programs 'had created a vast army of full-time liberal activists whose salaries are paid from the taxes of conservative working people.". Robert Chandler claimed, "The socialist test case for using society's poor and disadvantaged people as sacrificial “shock troops,” in accordance with the Cloward–Piven strategy, was demonstrated in 1975, when new prospective welfare recipients flooded New York City with payment demands, which may have contributed to the bankrupting of the state government."Other observers credit the city's bankruptcy to the mismanagement caused by politics, encouraging "frequently maturing short-term debt that left officials constantly scrambling to pay off loans"

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