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Wachovia Corporation lost almost 9 billion Federal Reserve Notes in the fourth quarter. That is equivalent to 514,285,714 silver dollars minted by the United States mint since 1986 AD.

“If Wachovia had not practiced the principles of Leninism basing their monetary standards on the standardless Federal reserve note they would not be sustaining these loses,” stated Christopher Hansen the Co-host of American Sovereign.

To back up Hansen’s claims he pointed to the works of world-renowned economist John Maynard Keynes:

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some…
“Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.’”
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) by economist John Maynard Keynes, quoted by N. Gregory Mankiw economics professor Harvard and author of Principles of Economics, in Dr. Mankiw’s article in FORTUNE magazine, Nov. 9, 1998 AD

“The Federal Reserve has created this mess,” said Hansen. “The evidence is very clear as even Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of the Treasury made these statements as reported in USA Today, January 7, 1999.”

“The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress have become increasingly irrelevant… In case you  hadn’t noticed, America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve Board. Their decisions about interest rates are determining how many of us have jobs and how many of us get a raise.
“When the Fed’s Open Market Committee decides to lower the rates, unemployment drops and wages rise.  When they raise rates, it’s just the opposite.  When they decide to hold rates steady, as they did last week, the economy continues to move in whatever direction it was already going…
“Congress is out of the loop…
“America’s foreign policy, mean while, is now being run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with some coaching from the Treasury Department…
“Here, too, Congress has become irrelevant.  Some senators and House members fussed a bit when the administration asked for tens of billions of additional dollars for the IMF.  But in the end, the elected representatives came through…
“And when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.  He just calls up a few generals, phones Tony Blair in Britain and sends in the bombers.
“Have you seen a single congressional hearing or congressional debate on the U.S.-Iraqi         war?”

If the above quotes do not convince you of your awful situation just take a look at the very notes you carry in your pockets.

On the series 1928 Federal Reserve Note it said that the note was: Redeemable in gold on demand at the United Stares Treasury or in gold or lawful money at any Federal Reserve Bank.

On the series 1934 Federal Reserve Note it said that the note was: This note is legal tender for all debts public and private and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury or at any Federal Reserve Bank.

On the series 1963 Federal Reserve Note and through to today it says: This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.

The United States is establishing the Religion of Marxism-Leninism and it will destroy the USA just as easily as it destroyed the Soviet Union.

The “Religion” of Marxism-Leninism: Lenin never realized that he, too, had established a religion of sorts, with its own superstitions and cant, with its own heretics and infidels (lots of them) a religion whose leading disciples later preserved Lenin’s corpse as a pseudo-holy relic for Communist worshipers.
How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen, p. 42,  by John G. Heidenrich, former analyst with U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Published 2001, Greenwood Publishing Group

Great men in the history of America have warned Americans but as Keynes warned: “[N]ot one man in a million is able to diagnose.”

“The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.”
Chief Justice Salmon Chase, formerly Secretary of Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration, in dissent of Knox vs. Lee (The Legal Tender Cases, 1871)

The men that promote this dishonesty, like Wachovia, Appear to be paying for their deception. What goes around is coming around. But will the Government bail them out?

“Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?”
Senator Carter Glass, Author of the Banking Act of 1933

Americans Threatened By UN Agenda

Grand Rapids, MI ( July 24, 2008) The country’s third largest and fastest-growing party, the Constitution Party announced its presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin will speak out against the United Nations’ Agenda 21 at the 9^th Annual Freedom 21 Conference to be held in Dallas Texas, Saturday, July 24-26, 2008.

Freedom 21, an annual gathering of political, economic and social policy leaders, will focus on the dangers inherent in the United Nations’ global strategy outlined in Agenda 21.

Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate for president, is a minister, radio talk show host and writer. He has been an outspoken critic of the United Nations’ aggressive Agenda 21, a program Baldwin calls “the mechanism by which Americans are rapidly losing their sovereignty, their Constitutionally- guaranteed rights and their liberties”.

Baldwin points out: “The United Nations’ stealth policies, through so-called Sustainable Development will serve only to create a tyrannical New World Order. Americans must begin to connect the dots on global schemes to advance gun control, promote a globalist education agenda in our classrooms and take away our freedoms under the guise of ‘environmentalism’. The U.N. is behind the push for national ID cards, higher taxes, denigration of the Judeo- Christian world view and the coming North American Union”.

Baldwin, the only presidential candidate who is speaking out against the danger of United Nations- imposed policies will address the conference Saturday, July 26^th at 2:00 pm. His speech is titled, The Importance of Voting Principle over Party. Baldwin will join a lineup of well-credentialed speakers including:

*Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the Eagle Forum and author of over 20 books.

*Dan Byfield, president of the American Land Foundation and has produced a number of documentaries including: Who Owns the Land and When the Environment Collides with the Constitution.

*Oklahoma state Senator Randy Brogdon, who introduced the Oklahoma Taxpayers Bill Of Rights…

*Dr Jerome Corsi, (http://www.freedom21.org/conf/2008/08speakers.html#jc) author of three New York Times best-selling books including: The Late, Great USA- the Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada.

*Tom DeWeese, founder and president of the American Policy Center

*William Jasper, Senior Editor of The New American Magazine .

*Larry Pratt, Executive Director, Gun Owners of America .

by Jim Quinn
July 26, 2008

Make no mistake. Our country is in the midst of a financial crisis of epic proportions. We are in a long national emergency. In the last 6 months, we have been on the brink of financial collapse twice. First, Bear Stearns was going to declare bankruptcy unless it was taken over by the end of the weekend. If this had occurred, it is believed the thousands of transactions with other banks throughout the world would have led to multiple bank failures and a freezing up of the financial system. Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson came to the rescue with $29 billion of our tax dollars, guaranteeing the Bear Stearns mortgage portfolio on behalf of JP Morgan. Ben then opened the Fed discount window to all Investment banks. So, these prestigious institutions can now exchange their toxic waste mortgage derivatives for Treasuries. You and I are on the hook for the inevitable losses. A government that spends $12 billion a month on a war that shouldn’t have been fought – but won’t exit until we win, figures that the numbers have become so large that the public can’t tell the difference between $29 million, $29 billion, or $29 trillion.

Last weekend, Helicopter Ben and Hammering Hank swooped in and saved the day again. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who originate 80% of all the mortgages in the U.S., were on the brink of collapse. Yet again, they were deemed too big to fail. They have in excess of $5 trillion in mortgage debt on their books, virtually no capital, and billions of losses to be recorded in the next few years. Hank committed your tax dollars to buying their stock. Your government has essentially guaranteed the $5 trillion of debt, to go with the $9 trillion already on the books. The same weekend, IndyMac was taken over by the FDIC. This is the 2nd biggest bank failure in the history of the U.S. Depositors will lose $500 million of uninsured deposits. The scenes of average Americans lined up at IndyMac branches were reminiscent of the 1930’s. Get used to it. There will be many more bank collapses in the next few years. The years of bad decisions and risk-taking will inflict pain on many people.

This week, the House of Representatives passed a housing rescue plan that will cost you, your children, and grandchildren at least $300 billion. It will quickly be passed by the Senate and signed into law next week by our esteemed President. George Bush will again show his moral backbone by signing a bill he has said for months that he would veto. It is amazing how free market capitalism is the mantra when prices are going up, but big government socialism is the answer when our multi-million dollar corporations make drastic risk management mistakes in search of obscene profits. We are now on the hook for all the past and future bad decisions of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that backing these two awful institutions will cost taxpayers $25 billion. Remember the government estimate for the Iraq War of $50 billion. We are at $700 billion and counting. Our politician leaders continue to spend our money with absolutely no plan to pay for these initiatives. At the end of the day, two companies that have lost a combined $13 billion in the last 9 months can now lose billions more without a worry. It is good to see that their CEOs really believe in pay for performance. As you can see from the chart below, they have certainly earned their multi-million dollar salaries.

CEO FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07
Daniel Mudd – Fannie $6.1 mil $2.4 mil $12.2 mil $14.0 mil $12.0 mil
Richard Syron – Freddie $8.3 mil $8.2 mil $8.0 mil $14.1 mil $19.5 mil
Source: Company records

A congressman with a moral backbone, Representative Ron Paul, voted against the $325 billion bailout boondoggle bill. His view of this bill hits at the heart of the issue:

“It is neither morally right nor fiscally wise to socialize private losses in this way. The solution is for government to stop micromanaging the economy and let the market adjust, as painful as that will be for some. We should not force taxpayers, including renters and more frugal homeowners, to switch places with the speculators and take on those same risks that bankrupted them. It is a terrible idea to spread the financial crisis any wider or deeper than it already is, and to prolong the agony years into the future. Socializing the losses now will only create more unintended consequences that will give new excuses for further government interventions in the future. This is how government grows – by claiming to correct the mistakes it earlier created, all the while constantly shaking down the taxpayer. The market needs a chance to correct itself, and Congress needs to avoid making the situation worse by pretending to ride to the rescue.”

Last week at a closed-door fundraiser in Texas, where he thought it was safe to tell the truth, President Bush summed up the financial crisis in his usual blunt manner. “There’s no question about it, Wall Street got drunk, that’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover.” So, the man who spoke these words last week will buy a drunkard $325 billion of Jack Daniels by signing the bailout bill. A little hair of the dog that bit you is good for a hangover.

This 600 page “Mother of all Bailouts” monstrosity, as Ron Paul has described it, has some interesting tidbits buried in the fine print. Mr. Paul’s summary of the bill is as follows:

• While this bill is often referred to in the news as a “$25 billion” plan, the final amount will likely be much, much higher. The Treasury’s previously limited $2.5 billion line of credit to Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac, which in 2001 Ron Paul proposed be abolished, has instead been increased to unlimited. The Treasury can now buy an unlimited amount of Fannie / Freddie housing securities and stock. While this may help “bolster confidence” in these companies, as the LA times mentions, don’t expect it to do much for the dollar! Once upon a time, our national currency was backed by gold. More recently, it has been backed by US Treasury securities. Now it will be backed – at least in part – by Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac housing securities – securities that are collapsing on the open market because no one else wants them.
• In yet another example of persistent, big brother, big government, police state creep, anyone working in the mortgage industry will now be required to be fingerprinted.
• Finally, buried deep within the bill, and not mentioned in any MSM source that I am aware of, is the provision that every credit card transaction will now be reported to the IRS. How this fits in to the housing crisis is anyone’s guess.
• A provision to increase the national debt ceiling by $800 billion. This is something Congress has to do every few years, as spending is clearly out of control.

The national debt ceiling is now $10.8 trillion. This is like giving a spendaholic an increase on their Amex credit line. Give Congress the ability to spend $10.8 trillion and they will.

Below is the National Debt.

http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/debt_clock/

The amount is $9.5 trillion. It was approximately $5.8 trillion when George Bush took office. These figures do not include the unfunded liabilities exceeding $50 trillion for Social Security and Medicare liabilities. It appears from a quick perusal of the chart below that 90% of the national debt has been generated since 1980. Republican Presidents have been in charge for 20 of those 28 years. Of course, Democrats have been in control of Congress for most of this time period. This proves that when Presidents and Congress put their heads together they can achieve big things – pushing our great country to the brink of economic disaster.

At one time, not long ago, we owed this money to ourselves. U.S. citizens and U.S. financial institutions owned the debt of the U.S. government. This is no longer the case. Foreigners now own almost 50% of our debt. This has occurred because the U.S. has lived above its means for decades. Our trade deficits have left us vulnerable to the people we owe. Warren Buffett describes the situation succinctly:

“We were taught in Economics 101 that countries could not for long sustain large, ever-growing trade deficits … our country has been behaving like an extraordinarily rich family that possesses an immense farm. In order to consume 4% more than they produce – that’s the trade deficit – we have, day by day, been both selling pieces of the farm and increasing the mortgage on what we still own.”

When a country has a massive amount of debt it is in their self interest to create inflation. By creating inflation, you pay back the debt with depreciated dollars. This makes the debt less burdensome. It is not a coincidence that for the 1st 200 years of our glorious Republic we had very little inflation. The country had very little debt. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913. As you can see in the following graph, inflation began to accelerate after the Federal Reserve took control of our currency; accelerated further after Roosevelt’s New Deal; popped after Nixon closed the gold window; and has skyrocketed since 1980 at the same time that our debt skyrocketed.

This persistent inflation has led to the dollar losing 95% of its purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve. As the biggest debtor in the history of the universe, we are now at the mercy of China, Russia, Japan, and OPEC. They can start to call the shots. Would gas be $4.00 per gallon if we were running surpluses and the Euro was .85 to the $1.00? Not a chance.

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Since January of
Versus: 1914 1933 1970

Swiss franc -80.40% -80.40% -76.50%
CPI-U -95.10% -94.00% -82.30%
Gold -97.90% -97.90% -93.40%
SGS-Alternate CPI -98.20% -97.80% -93.60%

Note: Gold and Swiss franc values were held constant by the gold standard versus coins in 1914 and 1933. Sources: Shadow Government Statistics, Federal Reserve.

Dollar’s Reaction to being worth 95% less than in 1914

It amazes me that this country does not listen to the common sense principles regarding our economy put forth by Ron Paul:

“The Fed creates new money and uses it to purchase securities from banks. Flush with funds, these banks seek to put this money to use. During the Fed’s expansionary period, much of this money went to home loans. Through a combination of federal government inducements to lend to risky borrowers, and the Fed’s supply of easy money, the housing bubble took shape. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were encouraged to purchase and securitize mortgages, while investors, buoyed by implicit government backing, rushed to provide funding. Money that could have been invested in more productive, less risky sectors of the economy was thereby malinvested in subprime mortgage loans.

The implicit guarantee from the Fed is quickly becoming explicit, as those institutions deemed “too big to fail” are bailed out at taxpayer expense. Wall Street made a killing during the housing bubble, reaping record profits. Now that the bubble has burst, these same firms are trying to dump their losses on the taxpayers. This approach requires more money creation, and therefore debasement of all dollars in circulation.

The Federal Reserve, a quasi-government entity, should not be creating money or determining interest rates, as this causes malinvestment and excessive debt to accumulate. Centrally planned, government-manipulated economies always fail eventually. The collapse of communism and the failure of socialism should have made this apparent. Even the most educated, well-intentioned central planners cannot plan the market better than the market itself. Those that understand economics best, understand this reality.

In free markets, both success and failure are options. If government interventions prevent businesses, like Bear Stearns, from failing, then it is not truly a free market. As painful as it might be for Wall Street, banks, even big ones, must be allowed to fail.

The end game for this policy of monetary inflation is that the money in your bank account loses purchasing power. So, by keeping failing banks afloat, the Fed punishes those who have lived frugally and saved. The power to create money is a power that should never be granted to government. As we can plainly see today, the Fed has abused this power, and taxpayers are paying the price.”

If you are in a deep hole, the first thing you should do is stop digging. Our government keeps digging deeper and deeper. This delusion of debt will surely end in tears.

Jim Quinn is Senior Director of Strategic Planning, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. This article reflects the personal views of Jim Quinn. It does not necessarily represent the views of his employer, and is not sponsored or endorsed by them.

I am pretty disgusted with the AIP, and especially with Cody and some in the CP/IAP. I personally contacted the Venerables, Frank Fluckinger, Cody, Janine, and every LDS that I could think of that had anything to do with the CP, AIP, and IAP.

I was not timid in my accusations against Chuck Baldwin for his dozens of ANTI-MORMON links from his websites. He was not afraid to state his dislike for Mormons and Mormon beliefs. He was present in the Tampa, FL National Committee meeting, when I stood before the committee, and told of the well known FAMILY SERVICES program of the LDS church. I told of the high-regard that LDS has for adoption and that there was no shortage of childless LDS familys ready to adopt those babies that were born to woman who had un-wanted births.

I think it was my speech at this National meeting that turned the tide and the Nevada IAP was allowed to remain affiliated with the CP. However, I have noticed a continued anti-mormon trend thereafter.

All you need to do, is visit the THIRDPARTYWATCH.COM webpage to read the bigoted anti-mormon speech and there is no outcry against it.

The #1 reason for the hatred against me, is my founding the CA MORMON BATTALION. Everyone seems to feel that the CMB is a threat to America, a threat to the CP and a threat to the AIP. No one knows it is a mere two active people from CALIFORNIA that are LDS…my son and I. We are the only two people from the AIP that are active in the party. And of us two, I am REALLY the only active voice in California.

Cody is gone (moved to Nevada), but he was inactive for most of the 8-9 years that I knew him. He attempted to run the AIP for Riverside County, but I believe that Merrill Tew did most of the work. Merrill moved to Idaho so my son and I have been the only LDS that we could convince to wallow away from the Republican/Democrat one-worlders.

I have been the State Party Chairman of the American Independent Party for two years. We started out with about 25 active people and it dwindled down to about 13 people. In otherwords, OUR PARTY IS DEAD. It has been dieing for some years now. I ran for Secretary of State in 2002. I could get NO HELP from any of the 300,000 AIP registered voters in California. I ran again in 2006 as Governor. Again, I got no help statewide. Our party has become worthless and lacking in purpose.

My call to get ACTIVE and to GET BUSY fell on deaf ears. Instead, I was critized for everything I did. I appointed a MINUTEMAN in San Diego as a county chair. I was told that he was unworthy to be my helper in San Diego. This criticism came from people who have been inactive for years and years… I told them to shut up and come in and help him get San Diego organized and up and running. They preferred to sit around and complain.

I called for men and women from the AIP to run for office. I had 1400 spots I needed filled statewide on County Central Committees. I told those complainers that wanted to ‘HAVE A SAY’ to get on their County Central Committee, get sworn in, and that mean they were serious about BUILDING THE PARTY.

But alas, we only had 6 people go in to their county and pull their papers. It only took 25 signatures each to qualify for the ballot. I got mine, but I could get very few to do likewise.

We had two STATE CONVENTIONS. One (which I believe was illegal because our bylaws state that ONLY THE STATE PARTY CHAIRMAN CAN CALL A MEETING) was attended by 25 AIP voters. Few were properly appointed by anyone with any power to appoint the delegates.

We had a 2nd STATE CONVENTION…and this one I called as per the California Elections Code in Sacramento. My Vice Chairman and I properly followed the elections code.

I was very disappointed. I knew the party was dying (if not already dead). If I were to have any change of springing it back to life it would have to be outside of the Constitution Party. The Constitution Party has just gone through a horrible anti-Mormon fight and I felt that the CP would not be the power to resurrect the AIP. They can’t even resurrect themselves.

Alan Keyes was our only hope. The CP and pretty well spit in Jerome Corsi’s face. Everyone in the CP had fallen heads over heels for Ron Paul and Ron Paul was the great white hope of everyone from Howard Phillips to Chuck Baldwin. Both endorsed Paul.

Alan Keyes was T-Boned at the National Convention with horrible lies. They made him sound like a ONE-WORLDER and a new-worlder. It was shameful how Howard Phillips treated him.

And too, Howard Phillips, Gary Odom and Nancy Spirkoff have been a thorn in my side since day one of my administration. I would not be their puppet and refused to bend on my knee to them.

Is it any wonder I would not lead the charge to remain with the CP? They trashed my religion, they trashed my term of office, and have made me sound like a traitor to America, mom and apple pie.

So how does it stand? First of all the Secretary of State had declared that I AM THE STATE CHAIR. If I have called a State Convention and if I have endorsed Alan Keyes to be on the ballot, then that is what will be…PERIOD.

The SOS says that if Phillips, Odom and Spirkoff want to go to court to have our ballot designation changed, then so be it. It will have to be fought in court.

The election is 113 days away, and I doubt there can be any court decision in time. They are going to start a battle that they cannot win QUICKLY.

Yes, I expect to be given a summons to appear, but I will have to just wait until then.

Is it worth it? Yes I believe so. I believe the spirit has told me to support Alan Keyes. I cannot support Obama, nor John McCain. I see no difference between the two.

And of course, I cannot support Chuck Baldwin because of his anti-Mormon speech. I confess that most of his vehement anti-mormon links are gone now but his views remain the same. He does not feel that Mormons are CHRISTIAN and constantly says so in his speeches. He believes we are going to hell and should not be considered to be friends.

I made a lot of enemies too, when I refused to support and endorse Ron Paul. I feel that he is still in bed with the enemy (republicans) and he cannot be trusted to be able to do anything if elected. He had been castrated as a Congressman, and none of his bills are ever passed.The same would happen if he were president.

I do feel that Alan Keyes is our best chance for change. He is not 100% perfect, but I take him gladly over Baldwin or McCain.

Is the spirit telling me wrong? I don’t think so. I think you need to re-examine both Baldwin and McCain if these are your choices. I have observed them to be not in compliance with the Gospel. I will listen if you would like to convince me otherwise.

I have a testimony of the gospel, and I feel that Baldwin has voted too many time against the LDS (he voted for disaffiliating Nevada IAP because of the views of LDS on abortions.) He cannot be my candidate.

I leave the matter in the hands of the Lord. If he wants me out, if he wants Baldwin in, then it is out of my hands. Until I know more assuredly what the Lord will have me do, I will listen to the prompting and side with Alan Keyes.

So, this is how it is in California. We have a pitiful AIP party. The evil one seems to be prevailing… and I do what I can to grow the kingdom in spite of the opposition.

Your Servant,
Edward C. Noonan
2006-2008 State Party Chairman — American Independent Party
former 2006 Candidate/Governor — State Of California

By Chuck Baldwin
July 23, 2008

This column is archived at
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080723.html

I want to begin this column with one of my all-time favorite quotes. It comes from the great German reformer Martin Luther. He said, “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

Luther’s trenchant statement reminds us that today’s Christians, especially our Christian leaders, are conspicuously absent from the field of battle. Oh, they may host large crowds in their gatherings; they may deposit multiplied millions of dollars in their financial accounts; they may receive thunderous applause from politicians, but they have fled the battlefield at the point of attack.

For the record, the real battlefield today is not abortion. It is not homosexual marriage. It is not Social Security. It is not al Qaeda. It is not taxes. It is not inflation. It is not electing conservatives. It is not posting the Ten Commandments. It is not even the high cost of gasoline. That is not to say that those issues are not important and not deserving of our best efforts and attention, because they are. But those issues do not
represent the major battlefield today.

The battlefield where the devil has amassed his greatest forces and is thrusting his deadliest armies is the surrender of our national sovereignty and independence, and the creation of global government. And it is our own political and corporate leaders that are facilitating this chicanery. Furthermore, by refusing to oppose this surrender, our Christian leaders are complicit as well.

Obviously, the surrender of our independence has been ongoing for some time. However, under Bill Clinton and especially under G.W. Bush, the pace has quickened exponentially.

Doubtless, the biggest reason President Bush has more aggressively hastened the pace of America’s merger into supranational government is because he enjoys widespread support among evangelical Christians. Absent opposition from Christian leaders, G.W. Bush has virtually had a free hand. And please know this: before Bush was a Republican, before he was a “conservative,” before he was a Christian, he was and is a globalist, as was his father and grandfather before him.

Because our national Christian leaders are content to revel in the lap of political cronyism with President Bush (and the Republican Party), they have abandoned their positions as watchmen on the wall. Instead of being watchmen and heralds of truth, they have become political lackeys and toadies for the GOP.

Now, just yesterday, James Dobson declares that he “might” support John McCain. This in spite of the fact that only a few months ago Mr. Dobson promised, “I cannot and I will not vote for Sen. John McCain as a matter of conscience.”

Ah, but that is just the problem: when it comes to groveling before the GOP, our Christian leaders have no conscience. Hence, James Dobson is now publicly saying he “might” support McCain.

The ones who are doing the yeoman’s work in trying to warn the American people to what is happening in regard to the surrender of our country’s liberties and independence are people such as Congressman Ron Paul and Dr. Jerome Corsi.

Many of you know Corsi as the man who co-authored the Number 1 New York Times best-seller, “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.”

Jerome Corsi holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science. He is not some fringe-radical (not that Harvard hasn’t produced its own radicals). Religiously, my understanding is that Corsi is either a Roman
Catholic or Episcopalian. However, Corsi is doing what James Dobson, Tony Perkins, et al. should be doing, but aren’t: he is sounding the trumpet of truth for the real battlefield.

In a nutshell, Corsi warns us that G.W. Bush is secretly working to merge the United States into a trilateral government with Canada and Mexico. Corsi maintains that back in March of 2005, President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin entered into an agreement that binds the three countries into a regional or hemispheric government.

Corsi insists that this is one of the central reasons why Bush is so adamant about granting amnesty to Mexico’s illegal aliens. Bush is simply following through with his commitment to Fox and Martin.

Corsi also notes that this new hemispheric entity already has a name. It is called the North American Union (NAU), and it is being created without any input (or even knowledge) from our legislative or judicial branches of government. The official name of the agreement made between the three leaders is the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). Obviously, the new NAU is modeled after the already established European Union (EU).

Folks, please be aware that President Bush has already committed the United States to a regional or hemispheric government. When completed, this regional government will control everything relative to the “security” and “prosperity” of this new North American Union. That includes everything relating to travel, law enforcement, trade, education, military matters, etc. So, what is left out? Nothing.

Please remember, too, that all of this is being done without any input from the American people or their elected representatives at the state or federal level. I would even dare say that the vast majority of congressmen and senators are completely oblivious to the fact that this is even happening. With the attention of the American people (and Congress) focused on the Middle East, Bush and his cabal of elitists are moving forward with plans to surrender our national independence and merge our country into a regional government. Friends, this is the real war; this is the real battlefield.

When America loses its sovereignty and independence, we will lose all of our fundamental liberties. The Constitution will be meaningless and irrelevant. The Bill of Rights will be moot. The principles of religious liberty, the right to life, and the Christian foundation of our country will be passé. And, as I said at the outset of this column, our national leaders, especially our Christian leaders, are totally absent from this battlefield.

The surrender of our national sovereignty and independence is where the battle currently rages; it is where the devil is at this moment attacking (to quote Luther). But where is the Religious Right? They have flinched and fled in the face of battle. They would rather hold onto their precious perks of power within the ivory towers of partisan politics. Luther is right: their actions are disgraceful.

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I am a BYU football fan. But I am also a Nevada football fan and I follow several teams and cheer for them including UNLV. To me it is just fun. But yesterday I got some wonderful words of wisdom from BYU very successful new coach, Bronco Mendenhall. It is good advice for everyone.

“When I became head coach, some members of the BYU administration came in to suggest themes for our program,” he said. “I learned a valuable lesson there, that if you’re not clear about what you want, others will tell you what they want. I think they saw a young and naive head coach and thought they had a chance to shape the direction of the program.

“The third day when they came back, I had our program’s principles for them - spirit, tradition and honor. Once I shared those with them, they said, ‘Those will make you a target.’ My point was, ‘When has someone stood for something boldly and not been a target?’ “

I was told that if the Constitution Party would have nominated Alan Keyes instead of Chuck Baldwin that: “many activists would have walked away, some States would not have put him on the ballot, and some States might have bolted.”

But that is what happened anyway with Baldwin’s nomination.

Baldwin was one of the leaders in the Kick out Nevada group. Why would I support him for President even if I liked him, which I do, on most issues? He believes Mormons are cultists and not Christians. Would you support a man that believed you were going to Hell?

Howard Phillips wrote a letter on September 12th, 2006 AD demanding I resign as State Chairman.

He attacked me for defending my beliefs while under attack from Calvinists calling me Satanic. I responded, essentially, in kind to the Calvinists. I have tried and tried to work with Calvinists but they believe I am Satanic because I am LDS. It makes it very difficult to say the least.

Jefferson called Calvinists daemonic. Franklin and Washington were Masons. Would they have been asked to “resign”? And Calvinists of 1776 AD worked with these “cultist” to obtain liberty. Why can this not occur again? Why can people of different beliefs not come together for the greater good of liberty and freedom of religion?

It was a foolish move with the cuts still deep to nominate a guy that was in the Anti-Mormon crowd OR in the Pro-LDS side. We needed a come together candidate. If not Keyes, who obviously has some stupid beliefs about many things, then someone else.

But it really does not matter to me because the fact of the matter is I NEVER supported the Constitution Party as an individual. I worked with them as State Chairman because the party, on a VERY CLOSE VOTE, wanted me to.

I served and serve the IAP. While I was Chairman the party grew from 16,000 to 50,000. I did it my way EXCEPT for the CP and frankly if we had not had that albatross around our neck we could have had even greater growth. Look at the time I had to waste fighting that ridiculous unelectable unattainable no exceptions plank. IT CANNOT WIN because no majority will EVER support taking away a woman’s ability to have an abortion if she is raped or going to have sever medical problems from a pregnancy. Look at the vote in South Dakota and GET REAL. Why not try to stop 50% or even 25% FIRST and then more up the % to stop more abortions. And if these so called pro-lifers would start adopting the special needs babies LIKE I DID then that would also help reduce the number of abortions. How many children in need has Howard Phillips or Chuck Baldwin or Keyes adopted?

How did Christ put is, “By their fruits ye shall know them”?

The Abortion issue is nothing more than a side issue to the people destroying our liberty. It keeps the people that should be fighting the IRS and Bankers etc. out picketing at abortion clinics instead of learning how to stop paying for their own slavery through Income taxes.

Abortion will be stopped by science and by morals and nothing else. We need to STOP PAYING our enemies FIRST. Until we do that abortion will continue because the powers at be want there to be abortions so that the ONLY people that could actually stop abortions by stopping the bad guys, keep paying the bad guys and filling 1040 forms.

I want abortion STOPPED. To do it we have to put our foot on the brake. No Exceptionist Pro-lifers are putting their foot on the stinking emergency break while pushing down on the Gas peddle. They just keep going forward but make a stink doing it.

It is called strategy. It is called cutting off the head of the snake. What other people, at war with Satan, send off a large chuck of their wealth to Satan? Only idiot Americans. If we all stopped paying their voluntary tax and filed lawsuits under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act we could bring these tyrants to their knees. But we are too busy hating “Queers” and NOT stopping abortions while claiming we are trying to do so instead of closing the government that is encouraging the practices that LEAD TO ABORTIONS.

The Gay rights issue is just as stupid. End Socialism and Gays don’t care anymore because there is no benefit to be achieved by marriage. The border issue is essentially the same (expect that it is also an intentional invasion). Why are good Christian asking for licenses from the governemnt to hold a religious ceremony? And we are fighting to stop Gays from getting licenses to marry while we pay income tax and carry around Socialist insecurity cards and get licenses to drive and be tracked etc.etc.

I don’t file 1040s or any other “return”. I don’t get permission from the government to hold religious ceremonies. I don’t have a Socialist Security Number. I don’t have government issued Picture ID or driver’s license. I practice what I preach.

I don’t carry around the Mark of the Beast (see 42 USC Sec. 666) while wasting my time fighting abortions that are being paid for and promoted by government funding paid for by taxes that YOU PAY VOLUNTARILY.

I am condemned by these so called Liberty lovers because I want to actually WIN and do the things necessary to do so instead of just being window dressing.

What have any of these so called liberty lovers actually accomplished?

Well I can point to a ton I have done because I am willing to work with anyone, no matter what their religion, as long as I can move one step closer to liberty. They all want it 100% or nothing while they live a lifestyle of Socialism and call themselves good.

You cannot fight evil while you practice it. Most Constitution Party members are practicing Socialists. And so are Libertarians.

One thing I learned. You have to be free and reject socialism if you are to defeat it. That is the one thing that Howard Phillips and Baldwin and Keyes etc. etc. etc. do not understand.

I do. I adopted a special needs child. I don’t pay voluntary taxes. I sue the government. I fight back against the Beast. You cannot throw the Socialist Cherry pie in the garbage while you are one of the cherries in the pie.

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, http://www.infowars.com/?p=3501

The campaign to force people to accept that “the debate is over” and that man-made CO2 emissions are driving climate change is in deep trouble, with another top global warming advocate - rocket scientist and carbon accounting expert Dr. Richard Evans - completely reversing his position.
Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion.
Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005 and he wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
In an article for The Australian newspaper, Evans highlights why he was so keen to jump on board the man-made explanation without there being any clear conclusion as to what was driving temperature increases in the period from the end of the 70’s to 1998.
“The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly?” writes Evans. “Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created.
We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.”
“But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming,” he concludes.
Evans points out that the “greenhouse signature” that would indicate CO2 emissions are driving temperature increases - “a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics” - which would be evident if climate change was man-made, is simply non-existent.
“If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming,” he writes.
Evans highlights data collected from satellites positioned around the globe that indicates temperatures have dropped about 0.6C in the past year - back to 1980 levels. Such figures are complimented by anecdotal evidence of a cooling pattern - China recently experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest April in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis.
Evans also cites historical climate change and the fact that CO2 does not cause, but in fact lags behind temperature increase by as much as 800 years.
“The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect,” he writes.
“The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming.
In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion,” writes Evans.
Evans warns that the insistence on behalf of the man-made advocate establishment that “the debate is over,” despite the fact that a CO2 link to climate change “was merely asserted, not proved,” and the glee with which governments have adopted measures to fight global warming under this false assumption, will cause economies to be wrecked and as temperatures cool further, authorities will have to face charges of “criminal negligence” for deliberately lying to the public about climate change.
Evans’ public reversal of his position arrives on the back of two peer reviewed scientific papers, one of which documents how C02 emissions in fact cool the planet’s temperature and another that shows how the IPCC overstated CO2’s effect on temperature by as much as 2000 per cent.
As we reported last week, the world is cooling, sea levels are falling, ice is spreading, there are fewer extreme weather events, and it was hotter 1000 years ago, yet the myth of global warming is providing governments the excuse to micromanage every aspect of our lives, with Al Gore now openly calling for a carbon tax on the energy we use.
Andrew Bolt of the Australian Sun-Herald has put together a series of graphs based on numbers from a plethora of scientific bodies to prove that the most alarmist claims about climate change are not only unproven, but in fact the complete opposite of what man-made global warming advocates proclaim is now being observed.

Janine Hansen sent out an email tonight to her group stating, on Third Party Watch, that Christopher Hansen: “continues to denegrate the IAP.”

Independent Americans are not serfs or slaves to be told who to vote for. I oppose Baldwin just as he opposed me and Nevada during the Abortion fight. Was Baldwin denigrating the Constitution Party? Of course he was not. He was fighting for what he believed in. Baldwin is a good man even if he does believe Mormons are going to Hell. He has the right to believe that. This is America. He is just not as effective in building the party as Keyes would have been. That is now obvious as California left the Constitution Party because of this. When you lose over 300,000 members that is not strategically helpful.

I believe the Constitution Party is bad for the Nevada Independent American Party. I have for years. Many Southern Nevada IAPers agree with me. I do not support their anti-Constitution anti-liberty abortion plank. I do support Nevada’s Pro-life plank. I do not support their support of the War on drugs or their opposition to legalization of marijuana. The Drug war has become a tool of tyrants and not a means to help people or children. I do not like the way they treat people that disagree with them like they treated me and all Latter-day Saints calling us baby murderers and cultists and even Satan worshipers. Baldwin supported the group that said those things. Howard Phillips demanded that I step down and disassociate myself from the Constitution Party because I defended my religious beliefs that disagreed with his religious beliefs. I did not ask for him to quit the party because of his beliefs. I support freedom of religion with more than just words.

I am not denigrating the Nevada Independent American Party. I am fighting for what it should be… INDEPENDENT. We who volunteer our time for the freedom battle should not be chastised by paid members of the Constitution Party to try to “keep them in line.” Mao and Hitler did such things.

I have the right as an American to disagree with anyone and vote for whoever I believe is the best man/woman and political party be damned. I am no longer the State Chairman. I no longer am chained to tow the party line. I am an Independent American.

Dan Hansen, the founder of the IAP, said that if a political party abandons its core principles then you should abandon that party. I believe the Constitution Party, NOT the Independent American Party, has abandoned its core principles of supporting the Constitution’s original intent. I felt that since the National Convention in San Diego more than ten years ago.

I am supporting the actions of Ed Noonan. I support Alan Keyes for tactical and not political reasons. If Ed Noonan loses in Court then I will still be happy to work with whoever wins. That is how politics works.

I probably have more in common with Baldwin than Keyes, but if you do not do what is necessary to win then you will accomplish nothing, which is exactly what the Constitution Party has done for a decade. They need to stop nominating nobodies just because they believe women should be forced to carry the child of a rapist or to die in child birth, something that none of the Founding Fathers supported. There were no restrictions on abortion in the USA in the first trimester in 1790 AD. And life, legally speaking, meant AFTER the baby was born, not conception. That is original intent, PERIOD!

We need to work to win. We should work with the other minor parties and not spit at them. But the Christian Reich will forever refuse to work with evil people like: “Mormon cultists” and “Papists” and Pagans, and Masons etc. etc. etc. waiting for God to save them instead of doing what the Founding Fathers did and work like it all depended on them while praying like it all depended of God.

The Founding Fathers that were Calvinists and Baptists etc. worked with Ben Franklin and Jefferson who were not. Franklin and Washington were both Masons and yet Adams etc. worked with them. I look forward to working with such men in the future.

We need to hang together or we will all hang separately. We need to care less about a man’s religion and more about his actions.

After all Bush and Clinton claimed to be Christians. Claimed being the key word.

Give me an atheist that will close the doors of the IRS over a Christian that will keep them open to pay for faith based initiatives.

If that is denigrating the Independent American Party , Janine, then so be it.

But as Jefferson and Franklin said, “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Right now my opposition of you is just being obedient to my Creator.

So vote for and support whomever you choose Janine and Cody and every other Nevadan. I will die for your right to do so.

The following was just posted concerning the lawsuit by Ron Paul Supporters in Nevada.

http://www.lvrj.com/breaking_news/25730469.html#blogcomments?submitted=y

Christopher Hansen wrote on July 21, 2008 07:12 PM: After all you Ron Paul supporters get kicked in the teeth by the Republican Party time and again remember that you are still invited to come join with the Independent American Party and its 50,000 members.

We love Ron Paul and had him speak at the IAP Convention in 2006 AD.

Why continue to help the Republican Party stay afloat. ABANDON SHIP and help us build a new party that wants us out of Iraq, wants to close the IRS and the Federal Reserve and restore the Constitutional principles that will help us return to a free nation and not remain a Fascist State under Bush and Mc ManchurCain. We want you to have private emails and phone calls again.

The Democrats have all the good ideas they took from Mao and Marx and the Republicans took theirs from Hitler and Mussolini.

We take ours from men like Jefferson, Adams, Washington and Franklin.

Remember! This party is waiting for you Ron Paul Republicans and honest freedom loving Kennedy Democrats to come over and support freedom once again.