Congress Gives America the Gifts of Debt and Pork this Christmas

     Congress loves to pass the worst parts of their agenda during the holidays. They count on you being too busy with shopping, baking, decorating and the like while they squeeze the noose just a little bit tighter around the neck of the idea of freedom. The worst example of this was in 1913, when Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, after the vast majority of Congressmen had already left for Christmas, our history and our economic freedom was forever changed. Today, just before taking their holiday recess, Congress just passed a $681 Billion dollar spending bill, none of which is paid for by any kind of budget cuts or other tax offsets. Speaker Paul Ryan has been a "champion" of fiscal responsibility, and always rails against unchecked spending. He is always campaigning on the fact that we must balance the budget, that the enormous national debt shackles future generations of Americans. While those statements are correct, his actions fail to even attempt to live up to his ideals.

    This new spending bill includes all kinds of items that the American people have been firmly against, but we shouldn't be surprised with our elected representatives totally ignoring the will of the people. This entire bill is a total capitulation to the Obama agenda, and is basically caving in to allowing Obama cementing his "legacy" of "fundamentally transforming America.

     One of the biggest items in the bill which is a direct slap in the face to the American people and especially to those of us living in West Virginia, is the appropriation of $500 Million in the next fiscal year to fund Obama's unconstitutional climate agreement, which the global elite just finished putting together in Paris. Republicans had stated that they would fight this to the bitter end, but now they have turned their backs on the American people, who have been largely skeptical not just of the supposed "settled science" of "climate change", but skeptical that this agreement will actually do anything substantive to help the environment. Obama is attempting to enforce this agreement without the blessing of the people, and without a vote from our representatives in Congress.

     Another item in the bill which is directly ignoring the will of the American people, is another year of continued funding of Planned Parenthood. Yes, another year of government subsidized infanticide, another year of encouraging these poor, desperate women to deny their children a chance at life so that government employees can enrich themselves with harvest and sale of "fetal tissue". As much as some may argue that Planned Parenthood provides other services, with the advent of Obamacare, and healthcare in general being subsidized, there is no reason for them to exist, since anyone needing these services can get them from a regular OB/GYN.

     Speaking of Obamacare, another piece in this bill is a couple of supposed "fixes" to the healthcare law, which really do nothing to help the American people with access to care or increased affordability, but are simply accounting tricks to make it harder to repeal and replace the law once Obama has left office. This is a win for the drug companies, insurance providers, and labor unions, but a big fat fail for the American people.

   Next on the list is a particularly concerning item. Congress has appropriated $1.6 Billion to provide "refugee and entrant assistant activities". Basically our tax dollars are paying for not only bringing in at leas 10,000 Syrian refugees which we have no good way of properly vetting their background, but it is also going to pay for the "resettlement" of thousands of illegal immigrants across the country. I personally will not capitulate and refer to them as "undocumented individuals", they are criminals. The news media has repeatedly tried to spin the influx of people coming across the border as it being a flood of "unaccompanied minors", but the evidence shows that most of these individuals are between the ages of 12-17, and most of them have already had gang or drug cartel affiliation, and once in the US, will likely become members of MS-13 or other Latino gangs, and just contribute to the huge problems we are already dealing with in the southwest and across the country.

     So called "cyber security", has also been slipped into this gigantic spending bill. As with most anything the government does, anything having to do with "security" usually means less liberty for the American people. This is actually less a security bill and more of swinging the door wide open for further unwarranted surveillance of the American People. Members of Congress have decried this part of the bill, especially because they state that this should be a stand alone bill to be fully debated on its own before passage.  Unfortunately, the dissent of a few was far from being enough to keep this draconian set of measures to be passed.

     The sad truth is that this is all par for the course for Congress. most of these measures really should be dealt with individually, but like Frank Fritz from American Pickers, Congress loves a bundle. This ensures that measures that would normally get a full and honest debate can be rammed through at the last minute, because like any normal American, Congressmen just want to be done so that they can get home and spend the holidays with their families. One other point to note is that this bill totally ignores the "sequester" spending freezes that were previously enacted to attempt to reign in the deficit. So this bill directly adds over half a Trillion dollars to the national debt without any kind of offset.

     These are just the major points of the bill, there are many other slabs of pork stuffed in to keep individual Congressmen happy. Things such as tax cuts for NASCAR race tracks and horse racing are in there as well, but they would tell you that's just a totally normal cost of doing business in Congress. So just know as you are all gathered around the table this Christmas, Congress just heaped a huge helping of debt onto your plates once again this year.

Greasing the Slippery Slope

        One of the latest tactics we've seen being rolled out by the political left to attempt to restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of the American people is the "common sense" statement that the "no fly list" and other "terrorist watch lists" should automatically equate to stripping those people on the list of the ability to purchase a firearm. Of course this sounds like a perfectly logical idea. Who would argue that we should allow terrorist to freely buy guns and ammunition?

     However, there are several big red flags that give 2nd Amendment advocates major cause for concern. First of all, these government watch lists are far from being perfect. There have been many instances where completely innocent Americans, even small children, even US Senators have found themselves on one of these lists. A person can end up on one of these lists just because they have the same or a similar name to a terrorist or "person of interest", and will find themselves unable to board an airplane by complete coincidence, and be left with little to no legal recourse to remedy the situation.

    One of the biggest problems with this line of thinking is that we are talking about denying American citizens their unalienable rights guaranteed by The Constitution. An American citizen would be stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights while also being denied their right to due process under the law. These lists are compiled completely extra-judicially without a person actually being charged with any crime at all. This is basically taking the very fabric of what it means to be an American and throwing it out the window. This should be very concerning to all Americans and we should be extremely wary of this kind of Government power at a time when our Government already has assumed all kinds of undue power all in the name of "safety". To make matters worse, Obama is urging Governors across the country to enact executive orders to force these new regulations into place, bypassing our representative and the will of the people.

     When people talk about a "slippery slope" this is the perfect example. If this kind of draconian measure were to be enacted, there is no telling where it will end. Where is the line drawn between someone exercising their right to free speech, and right to have a dissenting view of government policy, and being labeled a "dangerous extremist"? This opens the American people up to a complete and final shredding of our founding principles. How long before these "watch lists" are populated with anyone and everyone who has posted any kind of anti government speech on social media? How long before these lists get sent to local law enforcement, and are used as "probable cause" for arrest warrants for citizens guilty of nothing but speaking their mind?  This is not paranoia, but simply taking these kind of unconstitutional measures to their ultimate and inevitable conclusions.  Make no mistake about it, as much as the left denies, obfuscates, demonizes, misdirects, and misleads, they want your guns. They will use every means at their disposal to achieve the ultimate end of a completely disarmed population. The unbelievable lengths at which they are willing to go to achieve that end is a subject for another article.


Listen, as Gov. Malloy of Connecticut plays on imagined fears of out of control gun violence to attempt to further his totally unconstitutional idea of restricting the 2nd Amendment. Remember, this is the same Governor who forced through the passage of a huge package of anti 2nd Amendment measures following the Sandy Hook incident, an incident which still has many unanswered questions about what actually happened that day.

    Our founders taught us that the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. Vigilance against threats not only from external sources but especially from threats posed by our elected representatives. The entire point of our Bill of Rights is to protect those who would say the unpopular thing. It is not easy to advocate for maximum liberty in a time of such turmoil and danger, but our founders also taught us that if we give up our permanent liberty to receive some temporary security we will end up with neither.

    Therefore we can not fall into this trap that has been set for us by those who would seek ultimate power over our nation. The sad reality is that it is not the terrorists who "hate us for our freedom", it is the scum within our own government who seek the power to control our speech, our freedom of movement, even our very thoughts. The socialists who want you to believe that it is the state itself, not the people who should have absolute power and control.

New Evidence of Obama Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy

   



     Just another example that the Obama regime is aiding ISIS by confusing the American people with strong-ish rhetoric, but at the same time doing everything possible to make sure that this conflict drags on so it becomes the next administration's problem to deal with... From aiding and arming "moderate rebels" while knowing full well all of the weapons and material aid was ending up in ISIS hands, to turning a blind eye while Turkey and Saudi Arabia continue to fund and strengthen the enemy. This behavior is treasonous, but the American people are too dumbfounded to actually do anything about it... Call Obama out on anything, and you'll be called a racist, and have a mob of angry "Black Lives Matter" thugs shouting you down at every turn... We do not have a Commander in Chief... We have a Divider in Chief...



     The sad reality is that the American populace is worn down, tired of conflict after a decade of pointless wars that achieved absolutely nothing beneficial for our country. Most people are so focused on simply surviving and making ends meet that they don't have time or energy to find out what those in power are actually doing, and the severe consequences those actions will have on not just our immediate future, but on future generations as well. Obama and the radical leftists behind him know this full well, and are taking advantage of every opportunity to sow the seeds of division and doubt across the nation.



     Those in power are counting on your inaction, and if we continue to give them chance after chance to further their agenda, there won't be an America left for our children to grow up in. There are so many facets, so many angles that our free society is being attacked from that we can easily find ourselves just wanting to throw in the towel. Looking at the gigantic political and economic machine that is steamrolling it's way through our nation and our culture, the picture is indeed extremely bleak.



     However, it is when things look darkest that the enemy can become complacent. The whole radical leftist crew of people like Valerie Jarrett, who is an avowed radical communist, and her entire family is tied in with the Muslim Brotherhood. Bill Ayers, another avowed communist and unrepentant terrorist responsible for multiple bombings of government buildings. Obama even launched his political career from Ayers' living room! Melissa Harris-Perry, the left's chief propagandist and overall flat out evil mean spirited individual. Eric Holder, simply the worst Attorney General in US history, launched numerous illegal operations from the Justice Department ranging from gun running AKA Fast and Furious, (Obama had to claim Executive Privilege during the hearings to keep Holder and his wife out of prison), funding and arming Mexican Drug Cartels while cracking down on nonviolent drug users across the country. Using the IRS to attack political rivals and enemies, and abusing his office to attack journalists, trampling all over the 1st Amendment. John Holdren, who called for everything from drugging the water supply to make us all more submissive, to forced abortion,

     Let's not forget Obama's massive array of political hitmen, from Media Matters to the saddest excuse for journalists on the planet over at Salon.com, and of course everyone's favorite crazy cat lady running the supposed "authority on debunking anything anti-Obama" at Snopes... As well as these people are paid to parrot the Obama leftist narrative, they will all suffer the same if they succeed in their "Fundamental Transformation" of America into a smoldering ruin of Communist garbage. At this point they think that they have won. They have their minions all across the media and in the streets marching us toward full blown Communism. They have control of the printing press of the US Dollar, and gigantic sums of money funding their schemes through the money changers like George Soros, Warren Buffett. Soros pumped millions of dollars to stir up trouble and fuel the hatred which led to Ferguson becoming a war zone.



     They employ the ugliest of tactics to get their way, shouting down any kind of dissent, using every kind of race baiting and trying to shame anyone and everyone who attempts to express any kind of free thought. The Thought Police are constantly attacking language itself, twisting it to their own ends. Making ridiculous statements like "The term 'hard work' is demeaning towards 'People of Color'", because somehow their enslaved ancestors are the only people capable of hard work and everyone should just bow down, because...slavery... Constantly launching tired and transparent straw man arguments, Ad Hominem attacks, spreading supposed "political correctness", crying about wanting their "safe spaces".  But make no mistake about it, if left unchecked, these monsters will incite and bait their way to massive civil unrest and allow the country to be laid to waste to achieve their goals. It really is a cunning bait and switch operation. They try to make themselves to appear as they are so oppressed, and it is the closed minded, "bitter clingers, hanging on to their guns and religion" that are standing in the way of "progress".



      We've seen the all out assault on "traditional American values", attacking the family, using economic warfare to force both parents into the workforce, paving the way for the state itself to become the parents of America's youth. It was the "witch queen" Melissa Harris-Perry who said, "Your Children belong to the State". They push for "alternative lifestyles" to become the norm rather than the exception. It was Cass Sunstein who called for the concept of the "nudge", starting with baby steps toward Socialism, until it snowballs into a full blown totalitarian state. They twist the idea of freedom and liberty to throw any kind of real morals out the window.  These are the kind of people who in publications like Salon and even in the UK Parliament are trying to call pedophilia an "alternative sexual lifestyle", instead of a capital crime. Turn society on its head while behind the scenes they strip away the laws that our founders intended to protect us from an overbearing state.



     What they do not hold is the key to ultimate victory. We are armed with the truth, the greatest weapon of all in an information war. Exposing the enemy's tactics and schemes, bringing this vile and evil agenda out into the light of day is the key. We only need but employ our own tried and true strategy. Truth, Knowledge, Vigilance, Diligence, and Unity. The time to stand up and make our own noise is now. Peaceful, Intense Dedication, and Trust in our Constitution and what has made our country so great for the past 2 and a half centuries. There's so much more info out there, so many pieces to the globalist puzzle which I will continue trying to tackle. Right now I'm standing, in full view and in full defiance of these arrogant, despotic, tyrants. Come and join me and let's reclaim America and rebuild it into a country we can be proud of.

You PC Bro? Then turn in your guns and bow to the Muslim invasion

That evil creature in Congress Dianne Feinstein is at it again. Mrs. "Turn them all in" is looking to turn the tyranny up a notch, while trying to make it seem reasonable. With the recent attacks in Paris, we're seeing knee jerk reactions all over the place as per usual. This new push attacking the Second Amendment comes on the heels of a report talking about people on the "Terrorist Watch List" being able to purchase firearms in the US. So the rhetoric goes "We have to stop terrorists from getting their hands on guns!".  Sounds reasonable enough, but there's one huge problem. There are over 700,000 people on that list, and a large majority of them have never committed any kind of criminal act. Making matters worse is the fact that this list is compiled completely extra judicially without any kind or real oversight, and worst of all, zero due process of law. This is literally the Federal Government saying, "we don't like you, we see you as a threat, therefore we are taking away your constitutional rights with no judge, no jury. Currently there is no legal recourse to get yourself off the list, even if it is found that your name was put on it in error.

This is the epitome of the "slippery slope". If we allow this to continue, how long before this spreads to regular Americans. If the Federal Government can just wave a magic wand and totally wipe away your rights, how long before this policy is applied to political dissidents? How long before they say, "People on the Terror Watch List are buying property! We have to stop it!". The political left likes to accuse their opponents of fear mongering, but now the tables have turned. This is just another case of "Give up your rights so we can keep you safe!".  Cue the Ben Franklin quote.

This situation is quickly escalating, and who knows how far it will go. We know that Obama and his globalist masters are using Saudi Arabia to fund, arm, train, and deploy ISIS fighters to keep the world in a state of perpetual chaos. With Obama using the political correct hysteria already sweeping the country, he is attempting to shame and slander his opponents into backing down and allowing a huge influx of "refugees" from Syria into the US, and of course will give them the full run of welfare and government benefits all paid for by the taxpayer.

Unfortunately, when the ISIS attacks do eventually hit American soil, it seems like there is little chance that Obama will have the blame placed on him. He will give speech after speech attacking his political opponents, calling them racists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, and every other slanderous name under the sun.

If they had their way, the entire nation would be a "gun free zone". Except that is, for the select few that the Administration wants to be armed. The terrible reality is, this is a classic example of bait and switch. Obama and his cronies will scream bloody murder about terrorists getting guns, therefore we must limit the access to firearms for all Americans, while at the same time funding and arming the same terrorists they are screaming about.

Ultimately, it is the PC culture that will be our downfall if it continues unchecked. These people are not "checking your privilege", they are merely attempting to shame you into submission to their agenda. They don't want "equality" or "tolerance", they want dominance. They want to control the culture firstly through the control of language. Any kind of political dissent automatically becomes "hate speech". Against letting thousands of "refugees" into our country unchecked to suck off of the system? You're a racist, Islamophobic bigot.

Let's face it, no matter what they try to say about "vetting" these refugees, there is absolutely no realistic way to satisfactorily vet these people. They've come from a war zone, probably had their homes and possessions either stolen or destroyed, and most have exactly zero documentation of who they really are. Please explain to me how you're going to vet them.

Obama already has tried to shame his opponents into submission by implying that they are scared of "widows and orphans". While there may be widows and orphans among the "refugees", I've already documented in previous posts that the vast majority of these people are military age men. If Obama wants to talk about widows and orphans, then that should be our policy, women and children first.

Hillary Clinton repeatedly says "we are not at war with Islam", She cringes at the words "radical Islamic terrorism". I guess she expects us to forget about Paris, Ft. Hood, Chattanooga, The Boston Marathon, and the list goes on. But they need to shift the focus away because it doesn't take much research to see that this entire situation is being orchestrated from behind the scenes. The elite are funding both sides of the conflict just as they have with every major conflict since Napoleon.

If catastrophe is to be avoided, we're going to have to wake up, get loud, and be extremely vigilant. Cue Thomas Jefferson quote.

More on this coming as it develops. As usual, don't take my word for it, do your own research.

The Fog of War Shrouds Moves on The Grand Chessboard

                                      The Fog of War

The Global Elite are casting a huge fog of confusion over the planet. While the mainstream media is keeping you focused on Donald Trump's hair, Ben Carson's childhood misdeeds, Lamar Odom's overdose, and any other pointless drivel they can throw your way, big moves are being made on The Grand Chessboard that is the global stage, and it very well could explode into World War 3 at any minute. The situation in Syria has become so muddled and perplexing that I am not sure that anyone knows who they are fighting or why.  President Assad is clinging to power in the middle of a blasted wasteland.  Huge swaths of his people have fled into Europe, causing a huge migrant crisis in almost every country in the EU, which is causing violent unrest across the continent. Germany is overwhelmed with supposed refugees, although statistics are showing that the overwhelming majority of those coming in wanting "asylum" aren't elderly, women, and children. They are 75% male, and the vast majority of them are young men, 15-40. It is looking less like a flood of refugees, and more like an invading army under the guise of humanitarian crisis. Swedish officials fear their entire system of social services may collapse under the weight of nearly 200,000 "refugees".   Similar stories are coming out of almost every country in Europe.  Russia has now thrown their military might into Syria behind the Assad regime to protect their economic interests in the region. The Islamic State has seemingly sprung up out of nowhere over the past 18 months and has laid claim to large portions of Syria and Iraq.

The United States has an extremely fluid set of positions in the conflict which seem to change by the day.  President Obama keeps talking about these mysterious "moderate rebels" who are supposedly friendly to the US and are supposedly being unlawfully oppressed and attacked by the Assad regime. However, it seems like every time Obama authorizes any kind of material support to this shadowy group of "moderate rebels", all of the assets sent over end up captured by either Assad's forces or ISIS.

The Kurds also factor into the conflict.  They have been struggling for decades to carve out their own nation out of portions of northern Syria and Iraq, as well as parts of southern Turkey.  President Obama has also been sending support to the Kurds, but unfortunately almost every other group in the region wants the Kurds ethnically cleansed and wiped off the face of the Earth.  They are basically the unwanted step-children of the Middle East, but the area they currently occupy could end up being a flash point that ignites this proxy war into an all out conflagration.

President Obama recently authorized 50 special "military advisers" to be sent to Syria, specifically to the region occupied by the Kurds. This is happening at the same time as Russia is unleashing a daily barrage of air strikes all across any part of the country not fully under control of the Assad regime. If our military assets get caught in the crossfire, and a Russian airstrike happens to lead to the loss of the lives of American servicemen, things could get very sticky very quickly.

Now to fully understand what is happening, we have to back up and look at the entire chess board.

                                                            The Grand Chessboard

Obama is continuously trying to ride the fence and play the strange role of pacifist warmonger. On the one hand he repeatedly grandstands talking about how he ended the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and brought our troops home victorious. Meanwhile he is quietly shifting the chess pieces around and wetting the slate for the next conflict. In reality it is Obama's policies that have led to the rise of ISIS, and it all started back in what became known as the Arab Spring. In December 2010, large protests and riots broke out in Tunisia. things quickly got out of control and the situation rapidly deteriorated and led to the overthrow of the Tunisian government. The Global Elite quickly seized the opportunity to bend the situation to their will, and used the organic anger and grievances of the people in the region, and began nudging the people of neighboring Libya and fomenting unrest in that nation as well.

The Global Elite had a serious bone to pick with Libyan President Qaddafi. He was one of the last regimes to refuse to institute a Federal Reserve style central bank, and bow down to the power and control of the World Bank and IMF. In fact, he had built a paradise by comparison to the rest of the African continent that was and remains mostly war torn and impoverished. His people had the highest net worth and wages per-capita on the continent. Obviously things in Libya were far from perfect, but it was definitely a much better situation than the rest of Africa, and Qaddafi had grandiose plans to lift the rest of Africa up as well.

Enter the Islamic extremists. They quickly built an army of rebels who were surprisingly well equipped and very angry. The city of Benghazi quickly fell and became the rebel capital and stronghold. Obama and his Globalist masters quickly moved in and began filling the American airwaves with propaganda stating that we had to come to the aid of these "oppressed" people who were fighting for their independence from a wicked dictator. The American people were far from sold on the idea, and Obama would eventually go around what he considered to be an obstructionist Congress and declare that he and his "coalition" of European nations were instituting a no fly zone over Libya.

The US Air Force made short work of what was basically a defenseless Libyan government, and rained down hellfire all over the parts of Libya which were still controlled by Qaddafi.  It wasn't long before the rebels stormed into Tripoli, and the ending was a gruesome video which was broadcast all over the world of Qaddafi being beaten, dragged through the streets and then executed without any kind of trial or formal charges being brought against him.  This was a bold statement by the Global Elite. You either play ball and bow to the global system, or die.  Libya has now gone from being the jewel of Africa, a shining example of what could be accomplished on that continent, to a burnt husk, a smoldering wreck now run by gangs of Muslim thugs who have really been unable to form any real stable government, and are constantly fighting over the country's scarce resources.

Meanwhile, the revolution was quickly spreading east into Egypt, but the situation there played out much differently and luckily much with somewhat less violence.  Huge protests and riots erupted in Cairo, which eventually led to the downfall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Elections were held, and the Muslim Brotherhood, which was quietly being funded by Obama with our tax dollars through his half brother, Malik Obama, who was overseeing the Muslim Brotherhood's international investments.

The Egyptian people would elevate Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed ElBaradei to President of Egypt. However his reign would be short lived. President El Baradei and his Mulsim Brotherhood cohorts attempted to institute Sharia Law across Egypt, and began a vicious crackdown on Christians, Jews, and anyone else who challenged the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme authority. The Egyptian people were not about to fall from one dictatorship to an even more oppressive one, quickly sprung back into action and the protests and riots resumed in Cairo, which ultimately led to the overthrow and arrest of El Baradei and several of his cronies.

The wave of unrest throughout the Muslim world continued to spread like wildfire, and civil war erupted in Syria. Rebels calling themselves the Free Syrian Army began launching attacks against the Assad government, and took over most of the eastern portion of the country. This radical separatist sentiment crossed the border into western portions of Iraq as well, and seemingly out of nowhere rumblings began of a new Caliphate, an Islamic State who's aim was to take over the entire middle east.

While all this was happening, there were American intelligence assets lurking around across the region, specifically back in Libya. The CIA had set up a safe house/annex near the American Embassy in Benghazi. Part of the Globalist agenda was to be rid of the Assad government in Syria and moves began to be made on The Grand Chessboard. Weapons, including heavy artillery and high tech guided missiles left over from the Libyan revolution were being gathered up, and shipped out of the port of Benghazi, bound for Turkey where they would be smuggled across the border and given to the Free Syrian Army. This was all being overseen by the CIA and their asset, Ambassador Chris Stevens.

By now we all know what happened next, but the full truth of the event will most likely never be known for sure. What we do know is there was a terrorist attack on the "Annex" of the US Consulate in Benghazi, the place was burnt to the ground, and four Americans including Ambassador Stevens lost their lives. Volumes could be written about who knew what, why the Obama Administration blatantly lied about the attack and what and how much Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew about what was going on. However at this point it is just one piece of the puzzle, one move of a pawn on The Grand Chessboard, and you know that The Global Elite are always thinking 10 moves ahead.

The next move was our premature exit from Iraq. One of Obama's proudest moments. He gave speech after speech bragging about how he was the one who brought our troops home. How he put an end to over a decade of our soldiers being sent overseas. He was the self proclaimed peacemaker, and he has the Nobel Prize to prove it. Unfortunately for him the situation is much more complicated than he would have you believe and maybe than even he himself believes. It was not but months after our troops began coming home that an under-trained and totally incompetent Iraqi government found itself completely unable to hold its own territory, as Islamic extremists quickly flooded into the power vacuum in western Iraq, where the Iraqi government's power was weakest.

What happened next is one of the more interesting series of events of this entire saga. It was probably the finest example of Obama talking out of both sides of his mouth, playing the role of Nobel Peace Prize winner and warmonger simultaneously. Obama along with the UK began a campaign of providing what they claimed was "non lethal" support to supposed "moderate rebels" who according to the administration had been thoroughly vetted and surely wouldn't turn around and hand these assets over to the "more extreme" elements of the opposition. Obama then began putting out a series of talking points very similar to President Bush's blitz about Saddam Hussein's WMD program. Obama and his media lackeys began saying that the Assad regime was in possession of chemical weapons, and was preparing to use them against the Free Syrian Army. Obama claimed he was drawing a "red line", and if Assad crossed it, America would have no choice but to invade and crush him like a bug.

Then, right on cue, as if it was some kind of double dare, there was a chemical weapon attack in a residential area of Damascus. It appeared as though Assad had trampled all over Obama's red line, and said "come and get me". The war rhetoric was instantly turned up to 11. It looked as though America was quickly going to be sucked right back into war in the Middle East. But then things took a sharp and unexpected turn. The "red line" had been crossed, but Obama was appearing hesitant to act. The Neo-Cons like John McCain and Lindsey Graham were screaming to fully fund the Free Syrian Army, and bomb Assad into oblivion, but the American people had other ideas. Americans stood up along with many in the international community to say a resounding NO to more American war, and the momentum for an American attack quickly fizzled out.

Soon thereafter evidence was revealed that it wasn't the Assad regime that carried out the chemical attack after all, it was the Free Syrian Army, however we still don't know for sure how they got their hands on those weapons in the first place. Did they raid a stockpile of Assad's weapons? Or were they slipped in along with Obama's support for the "moderate rebels"? Either way it represented a major escalation in the conflict.

Assad quickly countered by announcing to the international community that he was going to destroy his entire stockpile of chemical weapons, in hopes to avoid a foreign invasion and in hopes of being able to continue to cling to power.

                                                               The Rise of ISIS

At the same time Islamic extremists were moving from Iraq across the wide open border with Syria, and began rallying more and more people to their cause. They suddenly seemed to adapt to the realities of the new millennium, they became adept at using social media after seeing how much Twitter affected the revolutions in Lybia and Egypt. Using different monikers depending on who you talk to, The Islamic State, ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) or as Obama loves to use ISIL (The Islamic State of Syria and the Levant), This radical army exploded onto the scene in the Middle East seemingly out of nowhere, complete with an armada of brand new Toyota pick up trucks, high tech audio visual equipment which they have used to produce numerous high quality videos showing their dominance and utter brutality. They have slaughtered Christians and Muslims alike, shown the world what it's like to be witness to beheadings, burning prisoners alive, drownings, crucifixions, and more.

They make no real demands to their enemies, they just live to destroy them. However, all of this begs the question, where did they get all of this high tech equipment?  How did a ragtag band of terrorists who can barely get along with each other end up becoming a well oiled war machine that has been able to hold off the American trained Iraqi army and Syrian army, as well as American and Russian air strikes to hold a large area of both countries and establish their new Caliphate?  Who is the shady character Al Bhagdadi and is he even still alive, considering the mainstream media has reported his death several times?

The answers to these questions aren't exactly cut and dry. We know that a large amount of the military equipment ISIS has was either commandeered from battles fought against the Iraqi and Syrian armies, or gifted from the supposed "moderate rebels" in Syria that Obama has talked so much about and has continually funded and equipped. This is also where the Fog of War begins to come into play. ISIS is definitely not Al Qaeda. They are the terrorists of the 21st Century. They have a vast network of intelligence assets that are online and worldwide. As much as President Obama and  Secretary of State Kerry want you to believe they are "The JV Squad" or "The B Team", their success in the battle space and cyberspace tell a much different story.

The amount of bloodshed caused by ISIS and their affiliated Islamic extremist forces is staggering. Over 100,000 people were killed in 2014 alone between Syria, Iraq, and Libya. The numbers are likely closing in on over 1,000,000 in those 3 conflicts since 2011, most of them civilians, and a very large number of them persecuted Christians. Those numbers are just the beginning.

                                                                 The House of Saud

In addition, what is mostly kept quiet is the flow of money from Saudi Arabia to ISIS. The mainstream media will never talk about this because they want to breed confusion and increase the Fog of War. For the most part the American people think that Islam is one group united in their hate for America and Israel. However it is much deeper than that. The House of Saud, which is the head of the Sunni sect of Islam has always been at odds with all of Shia Islam. This includes Iran, Syria, and portions of Iraq. The Saudis rake in over a Billion dollars a day in oil profits, and are using that flow of cash to build this proxy army which they have unleashed upon the Middle East, while they sit back and watch the fireworks, knowing that the US is bound by treaty to protect them if they are ever invaded. We have already seen for the past decade in Iraq that the American Military Industrial Complex loves to make war for profit. As long as our government continues to hand out no bid contracts, massive war profiteering will continue.

What most people do not understand is that the US is bound to the Saudis because of the Petro Dollar.  Our currency is totally dependent on the fact that all oil around the world must be purchased with US Dollars. Until recently every other country on earth must convert their own currency into US Dollars, then purchase the oil from the OPEC nations. Now several nations including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (The BRICS Nations) have begun work on their own deal to subvert the Petro Dollar and the World Bank/IMF system. To counter this the Saudis had planned a  pipeline deal  to run through Syria to get to Europe. Russia, and by proxy Iran and Syria have countered this, and thus you can see why Syria has become the focus of so much violence and international attention.

So, trudging deeper through the fog, the many pieces begin to fit together. Syria is much bigger than just a local civil war, or even a regional conflict. It is even bigger than simply a proxy war between two superpowers vying for position and economic dominance. It is even more serious than any of the small communist vs capitalist conflicts of the Cold War. The stage is being set for the deciding battle over what kind of World Order will define the rest of this century.

                                                      The Kremlin Intervention

Russia has become the latest piece of the puzzle to crash onto the Syrian scene in defense of their own economic interests. Vladimir Putin has begun a large scale bombing campaign to defend the Assad regime and to ensure that they remain in power.

The bombing of the Russian airliner has opened a whole new can of worms. ISIS was quick to claim responsibility, and it seems as though the attack may have caught Vladimir Putin by surprise. Obviously we still don't know the full truth of what happened, and we may never know. What we do know is that over 200 Russians are dead, ISIS at bare minimum wants the world to believe that they did it, and there are serious consequences coming.

Russia claims to be in the conflict to fight the Free Syrian Army and ISIS, and they have obvious political and economic reasons to be doing so. Obama claims that we are fighting ISIS, but as we have discovered ISIS is a direct creation of Obama and the Global Elite through their proxy Saudi Arabia. This is exactly why the elite rely on keeping the public confused through mainstream media talking heads, and keeping you focused on the clown car circus that is this election cycle. While we are fed endless clips of people like Donald Trump spewing one outrageous statement after another, the real battle is beginning to spiral out of control.

To top things off the US and Europe are fighting a second proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. The battle is still raging even though it has been completely buried in the American Press. That war will take a back seat as the fighting slows during the harsh Russian winter, but things are heating up in the Syrian desert.

Putin tends to keep things close to the chest as they say, it is hard to know exactly what he is planning and exactly how he will retaliate. But now things are getting even more serious with the news of one of Putin's closest advisers being found dead along with one of the founders of Russia's largest news network, Russia Today, in a hotel in Washington DC. Details are still very sketchy at the moment but this could very well be a direct US retaliation for Russia entering the Syrian conflict.

United States Special Operations commanders recently had a meeting, and released a statement saying that they are itching for a fight with ISIS, which is not really that surprising considering the American media has been saturated with footage of ISIS forces torturing, murdering, and generally causing untold amounts of mayhem across the land that we just brought our troops home from.  I am sure it makes our servicemen feel like they have unfinished business to deal with. Sadly, they are falling right into the trap set for them by the globalists. Obama and his puppet masters have created a new enemy to throw our young men into battle against, and they may unwittingly get pulled into a global conflagration with a real superpower which they may not be ready for.

Now it seems as though those Special Ops commanders and military contractors may get their wish. The US Congress is now taking up the issue of authorizing a full scale invasion of Syria

All we can do now is attempt to look through this fog and expose the true intentions of those behind it.  Only then will we have any chance in preventing what could be the next (and possibly last) great war of our time. The worst case scenario is what is on the minds of the elite, and it is no good for any of us.

Obama and the UN put another nail into the coffin of the free world

Obama has been unable to get his Cap and Trade scheme passed, so yet again he is plotting an end run around Congress and the will of the American people by colluding with the UN to create a whole new quagmire of regulatory BS. Instead of creating a carbon tax, this treaty will create a global court which will have the power to enforce "climate debt" upon countries and industries which it unilaterally deems to be a "climate offender".

According to the proposed draft text of the climate treaty, the tribunal would take up issues such as “climate justice,” “climate finance,” “technology transfers,” and “climate debt.” These are obviously all just catch-all terms for massive wealth redistributions and the creation of massive new bureaucracies which will be used to completely dismantle what little is left of industrial manufacturing in the US.

Of course this will all be selectively enforced, and you can guarantee that the US and especially the coal industry will be very high on the economic hit list, while countries like China and India will be exempted, even though their supposed "carbon footprint" is exponentially higher. Much like the TPP trade agreement, this will do much more than just erode American sovereignty. This is just another step toward a global dictatorship.

The Obama administration is making it abundantly clear that since he is faced with opposition in Congress, he is more than willing to sell us out to a global corporate government in order to finish his "fundamental transformation" of America.

Source:
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/11/u-n-tribunal-to-judge-u-s-for-climate-debt/

Planned Parenthood = Planned Genocide

Has the conservative movement been completely politically castrated? Is there anything that can awaken the so-called "great silent majority" of yesteryear? What amount of political malfeasance will cause a breaking point?

Last week the Republican held Congress had a golden opportunity to take a stand and at least take a vote on the issue of defunding Planned Parenthood. After a series of shocking revelations pulled back the curtain on what could go down as one of the most disgusting schemes ever hatched in our nation's history, you would think that quick, decisive action would be a no-brainer. Unfortunately the hideous, spineless, amphibian looking slimeball Mitch McConnell once again sold out not only his party, but the lives of the countless babies who have been and will continue to be snuffed out in the name of ridiculous profits for a select few corporations and the doctors who service them for a quick buck. While McConnell claims to support defunding Planned Parenthood, actions speak louder than words as he blocked an amendment to a highway funding bill which would surely have passed, instead nearly assuring a losing battle by requiring the measure to stand alone and open it up to a left wing filibuster and a probably unachievable 60 vote requirement.

Luckily there are a few good human beings left on Capitol Hill, who are continuing to be persistent on the matter. Although as we will explore, the fact that any of this is even happening in America shows how far we have sunk as a nation.

Obviously, the leftists and their corporate media lap dogs have been attempting to spin this story like a top since it first broke. "nothing to see here, nothing illegal is going on, Planned Parenthood is a champion of women's health"... Of course the facts and the hard video evidence paint a much different and much more grim picture of the situation.

The liberals would have you believe that any compensation given to Planned Parenthood in exchange for "human fetal tissue" that they harvest is only to offset supposed costs incurred in terms of "storage, packaging, transportation, etc.", and therefore is perfectly legal under the letter of the law. However the video evidence paired with insider whistleblower testimony paints a starkly different picture. Not only do basically zero of these supposed "costs" even exist, these doctors are all too happy to toss the human element right out the window and look at these human lives only in terms of dollar signs, and were even filmed discussing the most efficient means of extracting the aborted children as to maximize their monetary value.

Shockingly these revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. Whistleblower testimony also revealed that each office had its own quota as to how many lives had to be extinguished for the employees to receive their monthly bonus. Starting to sound a lot less like "pro-choice" and a lot more like "pro-coercion" isn't it?

Digging a bit deeper into the numbers, you may ask yourself about the demographics involved in this scandal. Well, if we take a look at the locations of Planned Parenthood offices, a large majority of them just happen to be in poverty stricken areas, as well as neighborhoods with large minority populations. Now some of this is simply statistical logistics, but that's taking a very narrow view. African Americans do have the highest rate of illegitimate pregnancies, and Americans living in poverty have a high rate of abortions. However, what is the causal relationship here? Are these numbers of abortions really all because these pregnancies are "unwanted"? Or is it because there is a government funded agency whispering in the ear of these communities, promoting their" women's health services", while having a huge vested monetary interest? As the evidence piles up it continues to scream toward the latter, louder and louder.

One huge statistic pretty much sums this up very well. In 2012 in New York City alone, there were around 24,000 African American babies born. However, in the same year, same city, there were over 31,000 African American babies aborted! Ladies and Gentlemen, that is genocide. It is tantamount to ethnic cleansing. More children of one race killed, harvested and sold than children of that race who were allowed to have a chance at life. All the while the same political hacks who are defending these very practices are out there pushing their #blacklivesmatter meme. The word hypocrisy doesn't cut it, because it's not hypocrisy, it's carefully crafted and skillfully executed racial division and destruction. This is the dreams of eugenicists like Margaret Sanger fully realized. This is wholesale slaughter for profit that would make the entire Nazi regime collectively blush.

But the question must be asked, "should we really be that surprised?". These are the kind of people who idolize Marx and Mao. People like this ignorantly wear T-shirts depicting Che Guevara like some kind of folk hero when they've never read a single word he wrote or spoke. We have devolved into a culture that places zero, even negative value on human life, and it's painfully apparent that this ideology has infiltrated the leadership of both major political parties. The worst possible scenario, all of the dehumanization of Maoist Communism mixed with the corporate greed of pure fascism. That point where the far left and the far right come full circle to meet at the point of complete, patiently and scientifically crafted totalitarianism.

Minimum Wage for a Minimal Citizenry

To those harping about the minimum wage, your rhetoric fails to take in the full picture. The latest CBO report shows that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour could kill up to 1 Million jobs by the time it is fully implemented.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that around 3.6 Million people are paid minimum wage. A large portion of those are young people, with much less education and experience than their higher paid counterparts.

So, even if the CBO report is totally wrong and a minimum wage hike results in ZERO job cuts, this is still only benefitting about 1% of the total workforce.

The bigger issue here is twofold. Firstly anytime the minimum wage has increased, consumer prices rise proportionally. Secondly, chances are all of the hourly workers making around $10 an hour won't see a proportional rise in their wages. So all that is really accomplished is a large swath of jobs that used to be considered "well paying" or at least decent now become bottom feeding minimum wage jobs. If this happens the left will surely grandstand and go on and on about how they have lifted all of these people out of poverty, while neglecting to mention that the poverty line should slide upward with a rise in consumer prices, so in reality they have created more poverty not less.

But the politicians and the media know that the average citizen knows little to nothing about real economics, so the poor will demand a larger portion of the table scraps which they have become accustomed to surviving on, unaware that these actions will do nothing but increase their numbers while nobody really gets ahead at all.

I understand that young people need to get by, and because of this horrible job market "AKA wonderful economic recovery according to our dear leader" that more and more older workers have had to take minimum wage jobs just to try and make ends meet. However, for whatever reason the left never wants to admit that these jobs were never meant to be careers, they were meant to be an "entry level" opportunity for young people to get experience and work their way up. How the left rationalizes prosperity as wallowing in a combination of low wages and government assistance is beyond me.

If we are really going to attempt government investment as a way to spur job growth, (a shaky idea to start with) shouldn't we be investing in ways to pull these people up to the next rungs of the job market, instead of trying to force burger flipping to be higher up the food chain than it should be? Couldn't just the money spent on government studies about wages be used to fund better job training programs and trade schools?

You can't force prosperity and success on people. The people have to want it and go get it. Otherwise it's not really prosperity or success it is only a handout.

So the real question becomes: Why all the fuss over such a miniscule percentage of the total workforce? The easy answer being perceptions and votes. This being an election year, it is pretty obvious that this is the Democratic Party's attempt to take back the House. The plan being to get the Republicans to go on record as voting against the minimum wage increase, and then lambasting them with attack ads all summer long proclaiming that the Republicans hate the poor and only cater to the top 1%.

The reality of course is not nearly so cut and dry. Sure, the so called "progressives" love the poor, but only to the extent that they are politically expedient. They love the poor to stay poor and to grow in number. The progressive movement makes its political hay out of taking middle class tax dollars and turning it into entitlement programs for the poor. Their policies expand the lower class and in turn they continue to vote for the progressives and their promises of "free stuff". They play on the people's insecurities and talk about "class warfare" trying to make it poor vs rich. When in reality it is really the ruling class vs everyone who doesn't make them richer and more powerful. It really is what can only be described as Neo-Feudalism. Their idea of progress is to take us back into serfdom. They want you as distracted and uneducated as possible so that you will just take their word as gospel truth.

So we see that for all of the supposed good intentions, when it comes to politics there are always hidden motives behind everything. The sooner the powers that be are held to account, and their lies and motives exposed, the sooner we can start moving toward real economic growth and prosperity.

The Economics of "Change"

Ok so we've obviously seen that Obamacare has raised health care costs... Obama also said that under his energy plan electricity rates would skyrocket... Food prices are nearing record highs... And he wants you to believe that minimum wage is the problem...

Well over here in reality, it is not hard to see the cause and effect between the Fed dumping gigantic amounts of cash into circulation, and that cash therefore being worth less overall...

If income inequality really is the biggest problem, why is Obama ensuring that only the top 0.01% benefit most from all of the Quantitative Easing?

The real 800 pound gorilla in the room is fascism. Don't be misled, this is not the same outwardly overt, "Kill all the Jews" style fascism that our grandparents fought in Europe. This is a slow, creeping, "under your nose" kind of fascism. However, it still holds true to Mussolini's definition: "The merger of State and Corporate powers"

Greenspan told you as much, he stated that "There is no other agency of government that can overrule actions taken by the Federal Reserve". Combine that with the fact that the Federal Reserve is nothing more than a revolving door for the heads of the 6 Mega Banks, who ensure that their board members end up on the Fed's board with the express mission of protecting the interests of the Mega Banks. Is the picture a little clearer? 
As much as the left loves painting the free market capitalist system as only leading to the Bernie Madoffs of the world, in reality it is the moves we've made away from capitalist principles which have done the worst damage.

Although the Federal Reserve has been causing havoc in the economy for the past 100 years, up through even Reagan we still had some protections in place keeping us on the right side of capitalism. There is much more to be learned about the Fed itself, and I would point you toward the book: "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin

As the end of the 20th century approached, the rhetoric of the day moved toward terms like "modernization". It was all too easy of a scapegoat. "To remain competitive in the coming century, we must adjust our laws to align with global standards" which really meant "Give the banks unprecedented power and access create and manipulate markets, and in turn the banks will ensure that the politicians will be set for life"

Enter what Max Keiser so eloquently calls "The Casino Gulag". Part of this "modernization" was to repeal a law known as Glass-Stegall. Basically this law kept commercial banking (i.e. loans, savings, checking, etc.) separate from investment banking (i.e. Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, etc)

This change in law allowed for all of the shady dealings that caused the crash of '08 to take place. This stuff makes "The Wolf of Wall Street" look like a boy scout by comparison. Market manipulation, price fixing, interest rate rigging, "special investment vehicles"... All things these bankers knew that the general public couldn't even begin to fathom. They also knew that if it all came crashing down, that they would have already made their fortunes and would be set up in offshore tax havens.

Even when it did finally crash, all of the big time players just hid behind scary terminology like "too big to fail". The regulators and the DOJ were scared to death to try and prosecute any of this. Partially because everyone was screaming that if you arrest the bankers, you take down the entire global economy, and partially because the changes in law had moved all of this malfeasance into a legally gray area that would have been tough to prosecute. Mainly because it would be impossible to get a jury to understand what the banks were doing, let alone explain exactly how it was illegal.

So along came Obama. His "Hope and Change" platform swept him into office like few before him. But while the average voter heard "Hope and Change", some of us saw that he was ultimately just another puppet. However, a much more dangerous puppet than anyone before because he was able to be a front man for the banks and the status quo, while publicly grandstanding as a "man of the people", and the people bought it. Hook. Line. Sinker.

So now we come full circle back to the question of the Fed and QE. Obama started his attempt at economic recovery with "stimulus packages". Later it became apparent that the jig was up, and no other countries were going to buy our bonds and perpetuate this nonsense.  So the Fed decided to just flip on the printing press, and leave it on. This has continued with next to zero press coverage to the point where the Fed now owns more of our country's debt than anyone else.

Presumably, the Fed intends to sell the government bonds they bought up at a premium, and actually make money in the process. Unfortunately the dirty little secret is that nobody wants to buy them, and probably never will.

This has led to the conundrum we find ourselves in today. The Fed keeps claiming they want to "Taper" or slowly stop buying the $85 Billion in bonds every month, but every time they even hint about it, the markets tank by a couple percentage points.

The market has become addicted to this Quatntitative "heroin". Every month, more money is printed, and our dollar becomes worth less. This doesn't effect the rich, as they have millions to spare. But when a dollar won't buy as much as it did last month, it always hurts those who only have a dollar to spend.

The public at large loves to jump at the idea of "free stuff" (healthcare, food stamps, unemployment, higher minimum wage, etc), but they fail to realize that each time one of those programs expands the printing press is fired up, the value of the dollar sinks, purchasing power is lost, and the cycle is perpetuated.

So we see how the status quo is stacked to keep itself, and there will never be any kind of real substantive progress unless we make real moves to reign in the "Casino Gulag" and take steps back towards a true free market system.

Quick word on the Coke commercial

In case you missed it, during the Super Bowl last night there was a commercial for Coca Cola that has a lot of people talking.

The commercial involved the singing of America the Beautiful in several different languages. So obviously we already have battle lines drawn between the "right wing" "Keep America American" crowd, and the left wing "let's call everyone a racist" crowd.

As usual I come in with my 2 cents somewhere in between.   First off, both sides are being totally insufferable, and doing nothing but hurting their own causes. The right wing crowd should know better by now. America is a nation of immigrants, and you just add fuel to the race baiting fire by attacking the ad.  This was a trap waiting to happen, the left knew immediately that there would be controversy, and the right has once again fallen for it.

Illegal immigration is an entirely different issue and there are no shortages of arguments to be had on either side, but this commercial was really quite benign. It had more to do with celebrating America as the 'melting pot' of cultures that it has always been, rather than a pro illegal immigration message that some have tried to paint it as.

Anyway, that's my quick thoughts on it. It just proves to be another example of how polarized everything in this country has become. It seems like if you don't like Obama you are being pushed far right, and if you like Obama, you are off the far left deep end.  The middle ground has been eroded away into a deep partisan chasm.

If we could just get back to those 5 words that have always made America great... Liberty and Justice for All

Common Core: The Demoralization and Dehumanization of our Youth Part 1

The Obama Administration has been busy. President Obama promised that he would "fundamentally transform" America, and he was dead serious. One of the latest moves has been largely ignored in the mainstream media. Common Core is the Obama Administration's overhaul of the public education system, and it's turning out to be just as much if not more of a disaster than even Obamacare. But unfortunately this goes way beyond just Obama and the American Progressive movement. Here I will attempt to follow the money and find out just what this new set of standards and curriculum is all about. Make sure to follow all the links provided here, as they can provide much more info than I can fit in this article.

For starters, the first question we must ask is "What is Common Core?" and how did it begin? Well, it goes all the way back to before Obama was even in office. In June 2008 The Hunt Institute for Education Leadership hosted a conference with the National Governors Association to discuss writing a common set of standards for public schools. This was funded by 2.2 Million Dollars provided by The Gates Foundation. Take note of that, because Bill Gates has his fingers all over this. Of course the stated goal was to "Make America a global leader in education", which just like any other progressive initiative sounds like a noble endeavor.

Following this conference, The NGA and the Council of Chief State School Officials (CCSSO) began accepting grants to fund the writing of the Common Core standards and curriculum. In December of 2008, during the transition of power from Bush to Obama, the NGA and CCSSO provided the Obama Administration with their plan. Titled "Benchmarking For Success", the plan outlined state adoption of a "Common Core" of international standards, and assured that state textbooks, curricula, and testing would reflect these standards.

In February of 2009, as part of The American Recovery and Restoration Act, Obama signed into law the "Race to the Top" program, and announced that 5 Billion Dollars had been allotted for these education incentives. Acceptance of Common Core was an "Absolute Priority" for states to get in on this funding.

Fast forward to the end of 2010, and 41 states and Washington DC had adopted the Common Core standards, with 5 more set to join by the end of 2011. So far as we've seen, this was all sugar coated with feel good language about "preparing our youth for the global marketplace of the 21st century". But as with anything the federal government does, the substance of how this all affects you is far beneath the surface of legalese and rhetoric. To date, The Gates Foundation has pumped $150 Million into the Common Core program.

As I briefly mentioned, Common Core is aligning our education system with a global set of standards. When anything is involved with international standards, obviously the UN is involved, and along with the UN comes their Agenda 21 program, which is much more of an involved subject than I can get into in this article alone. However I will attempt to connect some of the dots as to how Common Core relates to this

As much as this all has been buried by the mainstream media, those who have been paying attention have had some ample warning of this. Charlotte Iserbyt, who is a former high level employee in the Department of Education has done several excellent interviews on the subjects of education and how globalized standards will in reality serve to indoctrinate our youth to Agenda 21, and the leftist ideology.

Common Core may only be the tip of the iceberg of Agenda 21, but it is central to the movement towards global socialism. This is mainly because education is obviously compulsory for our youth, and if they can get a grip on our children in their youngest and most impressionable years, they will have a stranglehold on the future of our country. The higher education system in America has already become infested with thousands of professors who are spouting hard left communist ideologies on a daily basis, but this agenda seeks to begin the indoctrination from Kindergarten all the way through University.

In the interest of not getting too long winded, I will finish up part one with a few examples of how these standards are subscribing to an agenda of an all out assault on the moral fiber of America, with a goal of desensitizing our youth to the most radical fringes of society.

One of the most shocking things I have found in my research has been a movement toward the overt hyper sexualization of our children. Not just middle school and high school kids, but elementary and even as young as kindergarten students are beginning to see sexual indoctrination. In New York, there was an especially grotesque example of this, where children logging on to the Common Core test prep website were linked to a page with extremely vulgar sexual personality quizzes. While this was eventually pulled from the New York Common Core website, it just goes to show how the progressive movement is testing the waters and pushing the boundaries to see how much you will put up with.

This is obviously a large, in depth subject with a lot of moving parts, so this will probably end up being a running series of articles so we can attempt to cover as much as possible and hopefully educate ourselves together. There are many groups who are standing up and fighting back against this, and we are definitely not going to roll over to this agenda. The UN wishes to impose its will on us and establish global rule through fiat and backroom agreements and treaties. There is much to learn and they have a head start as they have been working this movement of globalization since its inception after World War 2. This just means that we have to arm ourselves to the teeth with knowledge. This is truly an information war, and truth is our main weapon.

Bringing all of this into the light of the public eye is our best defense. The social engineers can accomplish much by tucking these initiatives into the back pages of thousand page bills that Congress is not reading anyway. I will work to unmask the true intentions of the ruling class, and I hope you will stand with me.

Where do we draw the line between compassion and dependency?

It's a very tough question to address, let alone answer. Of course government aid programs come from a host of well meaning thoughts full of good intentions, but the problems quickly become apparent that it is nearly impossible to keep these programs under control and prevent them from turning into a mass of fraud and abuse.

Just in the last few days we've seen reports showing just how out of control these welfare programs are.

Firstly, how can we ever expect unemployment numbers to drop in any substantial way when in many states it actually pays more to collect welfare than it does to work 40 hours a week at minimum wage? Combine those statistics with the fact that Obama has removed the limits for how long people can collect welfare, and you can begin to see how these policies are accomplishing nothing but breeding more perpetual dependence on these programs.

Food stamp programs have surely helped many families and countless children to keep themselves nourished during tough times. Unfortunately, along with this we have reports showing that the government overpaid food stamp recipients by 2.1 Billion dollars last year. New USDA stats also show that a record 20% of all US households received SNAP benefits during 2013. That's 23 Million households! In some states the numbers are as high as 30+%! With no true work requirements we move deeper down the road of total dependence.

Sure they claim that you must be actively seeking employment while receiving these benefits, but there is also nothing stopping people from basically sabotaging their own chances of landing a job by purposefully doing a shoddy job of filling out job applications, thus completing the requirements of job seeking while simultaneously ensuring the flow of free money continues.

All of this is happening alongside the government cutting off unemployment benefits which actually is a better system because there is at least a bit more accountability when it comes to seeking employment. But the government wants you dependent, especially the liberals who grandstand as being the compassionate ones, while the reality is they are really acting more like drug dealers, giving you the "potent" stuff, (ie free "benefits" making you feel like you're getting something for nothing), extending these programs indefinitely and meanwhile the people are failing to realize that the longer they milk the system, the harder it becomes to get gainful employment.

Do you think a prospective employer will be impressed by an application that basically says you've been sitting around for the past 2 years collecting a check paid for by that employer's tax money? He probably would be and rightly should be offended. So this cycle continues to grind forward, spitting out the poor saps that bought into the nonsensical idea of a perpetual free lunch.

Then we come to probably the toughest program to pin down in terms of drawing a line, and that is SSI/Disability. West Virginia in particular just has gone through a big fiasco with disability judges and corruption and that's definitely not making this issue any easier to pin down. Obviously it's a noble thing to want to provide for those who physically cannot provide for themselves, but it is painfully obvious that this system is probably the worst breeding ground for fraud and abuse. This leads to people who genuinely are in need of help having to fight like dogs and pay a hefty price for legal representation to navigate the system, and also leads to things happening like addicts, alcoholics, and cases of mild depression getting paid, while people with much more debilitating (and not self inflicted) conditions being left to fight an increasingly uphill battle.

I definitely don't claim to have the answers to these problems. They have become so pervasive, so deeply entrenched in our culture that even if we made a commitment to work towards reform today, it would likely take years or even decades to find solutions, let alone implement them.

Complicating all of these matters even further is the growing income gap as the middle class is being increasingly squeezed, while those at the top can afford to buy politicians and procure huge amounts of corporate welfare. The richest of the rich are able to procure endless supplies of easy money at near zero interest and exponentially compound and centralize their wealth through derivatives, high frequency trading, and countless other market manipulations that the vast majority of people can't even begin to fully understand.

So once you step back and look at the bigger picture, it begins to become clear that what is touted as compassionate and love for the less fortunate is in reality nothing more than a shell game to transform what used to be our wonderful system of free market capitalism into nothing short of crony corporatism.

I implore all who read this to do your own research, learn all you can about these systems of control and together we can pick ourselves up and restore our republic to the great bastion of liberty that our founders envisioned.

Gov. Cuomo thinks you are Loco

For the Governor of New York to speak about people who are against infanticide with such disdain like being Pro Life is some kind of dirty, evil position to take isn't just sad, it's borderline criminal... 55 MILLION of our unborn have been snuffed out since Roe v Wade, as if that's something to be proud of, as if we've saved those women from the burden of giving life... Sure, some of those babies would have had tough childhoods. Some of them may have grown up to be murderers or rapists, but how is that any reason to not give them at least a shot at life? Would you like to be judged for things you might do in the future? That's the kind of precedent being set here.

You can't really get the whole picture of how grotesque Mr. Cuomo's comments are without listening to the audio for yourself. The hatred and disgust in his voice is more than apparent. His tone is thick with rage, and you can almost feel his lust for the blood of the unborn.

These are the kind of people we have allowed to gain a stranglehold on power in this country. Those who not only love to belittle the value of human life, but also would have you believe that murdering babies is empowering and liberating women. But the Governor's comments didn't stop there. He went on to attack all conservative viewpoints in general, also showing equal disgust and disdain for anyone who is for the 2nd Amendment and the basic right of self defense. While that viewpoint isn't all that surprising coming from a leftist, he went on to say that if you hold these conservative viewpoints, then you have no place in the state of New York.

Sure, we can write this off as a left wing loon who has no grasp of our Constitution or the idea of unalienable rights, but the reality is far more dangerous and dark than that.

Conservatives have allowed this kind of thinking to become not only pervasive in our culture, but also very powerful. For those same leftists who hold these radical viewpoints have been extremely effective in stifling dissenting voices by viciously attacking conservatives. Not only are we constantly portrayed as racist, homophobic, anti-women, backwards ignorant redneck bigots, but the leftists have also become adept at using our own government against us.

When conservatives try to organize they are audited and constantly harassed by the IRS. The DOJ and NSA target conservative journalists and commentators. The left has a giant, well oiled and well funded propaganda machine dedicated to reading and attacking all conservative media. Groups like the SPLC and the ADL have an unlimited warchest and are always on the warpath. Even our own President has the audacity to insinuate that if you are against his policies that must mean you are racist.

The race card is an extremely effective one too, because it automatically puts people on the defensive, and forces them to dispel the accusation instead of being able to argue the merits of one position or another.

While all of this may be discouraging, to me it lights the fire in my gut to stand up. Because the radical left has no fear in their positions, they have become emboldened over the last decade. So too we should have no fear in standing against them.

So be daring my fellow Americans, dare to stand in the face of tyranny, stand in the face of the labels and name calling, stand up, for the only other option is to lay down and be trampled.