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Where Are We in Obama's World Today?

 

Where We Are Today

Hard to keep up with the overwhelming amount of information, betrayals, lies, cover-ups, money figures, strategies. ..Maybe this will help.

TARP. Remember that? All Bush right? Ben Bernanke, Barney Frank, and Nancy Pelosi pushed Bush and told him TARP was needed or there would be a meltdown. Does the urgency sound familiar? Did TARP funds make the banks more solvent? 84 banks have failed this year and the FDIC is in jeopardy. Remember that Geithner (the tax cheat and ex-President of the Federal Reserve) said the limits on the FDIC had to raised? Instead of 100k insurance for every investor, it was raised to 250K, so when banks fail and no one purchases the assets, the FDIC has to pay each individual account up 250k.

GM and Chrysler, remember them? They needed bailouts(bailouts are loans with interest, borrowed from our tax dollars without interest.)Ford refused the money and has a 23% profit for the last 3 quarters. GM re-emerged as Government Motors after more than 50 billion of our money made the government a 70% shareholder. SO, we have cash-for-clunkers. Gov gives a $4500 rebate to a dealer to pass on to a consumer, Consumer isn’t told that the $4500 is taxable income and non-GM dealers have to wait for their checks. SO, our tax dollars, loaned to the Gov. with no interest, help pay for someone else’s new car which is taxed while the dealers pay for crushing perfectly good automobiles and end up selling Toyotas instead of Chevys. SO, now, GM is investing $293 million of OUR money in a company in China so China can make a profit.

Stimulus, remember that? $787 Billion for “shovel-ready” job creation that was supposed to create or save 2-3 million jobs and really stimulate the economy.  Here are a couple of reminders from Hannity on 101 stimulus waste projects injected into the bill by both Repubs and Dems that include bridges to nowhere, tearing down trees that burned in 1973, providing turtle crossing signs…well, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8iAM-pwUQ and then part 2 to really get disgusted. The bill was allowed 1 hour on the Senate floor, was over 900 pages, and Congressmen were told there would be Martial Law if they didn’t sign it.

Omnibus bill is additional stimulus, remember? This money went to $25 million fund for a wind technology testing center and $250 checks sent to more than 20,000 dead people and 10,000 prison inmates.

Budget Let’s see, Obama finding $100 million in waste to offset the budget deficit. Watch this 1 minute example of what that meant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE  Obama and crew needed to keep a certain percentage because of their agenda for CHANGE. Let’s see what kind of math they used (Geithner’s Mom and Dad.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTW6mmbp9GM

Guantanamo First executive order was to close Guantanamo. Big T.V. splash on this. The problem is, nobody read what Obama was signing. It called for closing Gitmo by the end of August, but it also said prisoners could be taken to any country and imprisoned indefinitely. It also said that NEW detainees would be kept in foreign countries indefinitely. Sounds like rendition to me.

Lobbyists Hey, Indiana, listen up. Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AknbG8LaEc Remember Tom Daeshle? He was going to be the HHS secretary before Sebelius(tax cheat) was appointed, but he cheated on his taxes. He also makes more than $5 million a year as a pharmaceutical drug company lobbyist. Though Obama has yet to fill 500 posts in his cabinet, Michelle Obama has more than 25 aides, many of them past lobbyists for community and hospital groups, mostly in Chicago.

Cap and Trade Part of the $1.6 trillion dollar budget. Regressive tax, state by state, raising utility rates up to 400%! Pushed through by the House, not yet done in the Senate. Electrical Grid is being worked on now, even though we haven’t heard about it because it was slipped into the passed budget bill when it went back to Pelosi. That grid will eventually allow the Gov. to monitor your energy use and turn off the heat, air conditioning, stove or lights when you use too much and use a sliding scale UP to tax you on usage. Warren Buffet doesn’t like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SlBlvirqA0

Health Care Reform This finally got people mad when they SHOULD have been marching on Washington months ago. $1.3 trillion dollars, but Obama says 2/3 will be covered by cuts and the last third covered by taxing the rich. $586 billion in cuts to Medicare advantage, meaning seniors (and we will be seniors someday) will lose this program. It helps to pay for medications, the prices of which are marked up by pharmaceutical companies anywhere from 220% to 4000%! Some say Medicare is a government option. Yes and no. I have been paying for my medicare since I started working at 16 years old. I’ve also been paying Social Security, another bankrupt Government trust. I paid taxes for everything else since I was 16. I guess when you reach 55 and become “useless” according to Obama’s Health Advisory Panel, you don’t deserve any of your money back. After all, you only kept the country going and helped to build it with your sweat and tears. $101 trillion dollars - believe it? Watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inAJVKO1Kkg And we can afford health care for the “40 million” who don’t have health care? $10 million are illegal. 12 million have opted out of insurance for many reasons- don’t like doctors, follow alternative health, want other things in their lives. The argument from Obama is that everyone pays for the uninsured when they get in an accident and go to the hospital. Hmmm. I pay car insurance because I CHOOSE to own a car. That insurance pays my medical bills in case of an accident, and pays another’s bills if it’s my fault. The answer to our health care problems are fairly simple. 1. Allow nationalized insurance. When companies have to compete with many other companies in each state, the premiums will go down. 2. Tort reform. Congress doesn’t like this because they’re all lawyers. Simple. Get rid of the lawyers in Congress. 3. Drug company reform. The largest corporations in the world are the drug companies. They even beat oil. 4. Medicare and Medicaid fraud enforcement. Some people know how to beat the system, and they do it.

We are only 230 days into this administration. We are close to $13 trillion dollars in debt and that’s a low estimate and barring any disasters or “attacks.” We are still in Afghanistan and will be for several more years. We may have to go back to Iraq(which only cost $860 billion- small change compared to the Dems spending plans.) A new census with ACORN knocking on your door and changing voting districts.

People are marching on Washington on 9/09-9/12 with the big rally on 9/12, but I just heard that only 15 busses from the Atlanta area are going. Fifteen? Fifty-five people per bus? There should be 500. I have heard every excuse imaginable- “I have to pick blueberries for my husband’s breakfast that day.” “My wife doesn’t want me to get involved.” “I like Palin, but I’m not into politics.” I suggest people read what many are sending to you. Listen and watch the videos if reading  isn’t your thing. I suggest you find a copy of the Constitution and read that because it may be the LAST time you ever see it.

There’s more coming. Congress comes back on September 8th. They’ll try to push Health Reform, start Immigration Reform and Obama will change the 9/11 day of remembrance to the day of service as he introduces Rahm Emanuel’s agenda for change. Time to take a stand,  America.  No fear. No excuses.

Glenn Beck’s 5 pledges. Ask your Mayor. Ask your Congressmen. Ask your President.

1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.

2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.

3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, and coal as necessary.

4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity, power over U.S. citizens.

5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.

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Obama-Ayers

Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl, who had infiltrated and joined the Weather Underground, described their post-revolution governing plans for the United States in this video taken from the 1982 documentary "No Place to Hide." The Weather Underground openly discussed exterminating 25 million Americans who refused to be "re-educated" into communism.

Here's a transcript of his interview:


I bought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government. We, we become responsible, then, for administrating, you know, 250 million people.

And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics; how are you going to clothe and feed these people.

The only thing that I could get, was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.

They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution. And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education centers in the southwest, where we would take all the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them... how things were going to be.

I asked, well, what's going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate; that are die-hard capitalists. And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill. 25 million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious."

-- Larry Grathwohl, former member of the Weather Underground

If we were being fair and open-minded, then if you looked around at the world today, you would say the greatest purveyor of of violence, as King said, is our own government. ...
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White supremacy and racism continues to be the dagger point of American democracy. I do believe that. I believed it then, I believe it now.
William Ayers

If nothing else, this should make you or your family, friends wonder and ask: Why are we attacking the CIA?
Why is 9/11 now a National Day of Service?
Why do we need a civilian Army "Just as Strong, Just as well-funded" as our military?
Why did the WH jump at the chance to seize park property in the Southwest(Ref: wher to put 25 million non-Communist dissenters)
Why are they scaring people about swine flu and forced vaccinations?

The U.S. people have been seriously deceived about the Palestinians and Israel. End Aid to Israel!" William Ayers

Continue with the WH Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, also an avowed Socialist who believes that "education of the young, indoctrination that is more in line with everyone playing on the same field, is very important. If we recruit the young, and educate them away from Imperialism and White Supremacy, we can have a Nation of equal opportunity for all."

Why was the Stimulus rushed, only to provide pork for certain Congressional earmarks, or money to inmates, or the rest of the money being hidden in the IMF/Fed Reserve and given to other countries?
Why was "Cash for Clunkers" really enacted? For the economy? Every person who traded a car and watched it being crushed will be taxed on their rebate. Most cars sold were foreign built. Most car dealers have not been paid.

Many keep trying to educate and inform those who are stuck in their tunnel-vision or too complacent to care. If you don't want to wear a Chinese uniform and share your rice with all who knock; If you don't want to kiss the feet of the elite King and his loyal subjects, be HE black or White; If you believe in the Constitution and the Freedom you have come to take for granted, Get EDUCATED! and GET MAD! TIME IS SHORT!
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WILL WE SURVIVE?

 

WILL WE SURVIVE?

                The coming days will be the hardest test of faith, endurance, wisdom, courage, and fortitude, but most of all, faith. Many will perish or become invisible, missing. Communication will cease as cell phone towers are shut down, television other than state-run channels will be silenced, and internet access will be blocked. Road signs bearing the words “Recovery Act” will become the new map as they mark the course for many who will march into oblivion at gun point. Food supplies will be curtailed and grocery shelves will empty as farms are appropriated under public domain for the use of the new government. Oil and Gas will not flow, those agreements already made in Cairo, Libya and Iran. Israel will cease to exist, but Americans will not know. Newspapers will headline only government orders and world tenets necessary to propel the mission forward. Roadblocks will be manned by a black army recruited many months ago, and cars will be confiscated and crushed as clunkers. A new Army will be enlisted and trained, “stronger and better funded” than our military. Our Army, Navy, and Marines will be lost in confusion, and stripped of their weapons. The new Army, blindly seeking a free ride to higher education, will be in charge of all domestic uprisings and border breaches. To aid the takeover of the people, 195 million flu vaccines will be administered, many receiving them voluntarily from fear, others forced to comply. The vaccines will destroy the nervous systems of many, kill thousands, and frighten masses into submission. Money will cease to exist, hoarded in the Federal Reserve, the IMF, and already amassed in foreign vaults. People will suddenly awaken and panic. They will helplessly cry out and try to gather to defend their country. They will have no weapons, no power, no way to communicate, but they will try. Babies will be left to die as their parents are marched to camps, only the older children allowed to enlist and learn the new way. Water will be tainted with drugs that cause apathy and compliance, and the people will drink because they thirst. Those who try to come home from other countries will be detained and our borders will be crossed by the many who have longed to rule this nation. The leader has told them already that this country has the highest Muslim population in the world. He spoke too soon, but now it will be true. The CIA has been dismantled, so no intelligence will be gathered to see the path of foreign dictators or armies. The FBI is being placed under direct control of the White House to ensure the policing of dissidents by Executive order. Local police and military will comply or be banished. People will flock to churches and synagogues, tears streaming while they gasp in disbelief. Why did this happen here? How could it happen? Why didn’t I know? They will pray, if they are allowed, and beg for help as their lives vanish before them. The traitors who sided with the new government will display their very recognizable arrogance. They believe they are part of the circle. They believe they are safe. They don’t realize they will be the first to go as they know too much and are considered both dangerous and useless. They have forgotten how many were dismissed or discarded when they were no longer useful.

                Will we survive? Will we be united enough to stop the left, right, liberal, conservative, black, white, rich, poor angry chatter to save the Union? Will we have enough faith to know we must pray, but must also be God’s warriors? Will we have enough courage to face the mission, to defeat the enemy, or to die trying?

                This administration has been planning this coup for years. They aren’t afraid of trillion dollar deficits because they know where your money is. They aren’t drilling for oil or natural gas because the alliance with oil-rich terrorist nations is strong, and only the powerful will have access. They don’t blink at the suffering of Iranian dissidents under dictators because their alliance is not with the people or democracy. They perfect their salutes to the military because they will need them, and because Taquyya, the Muslim word, states they can lie and pretend for the good of the Muslim nation. They can kill grandmothers if it for the good of the Nation. They can golf on Memorial Day because they despise the soldiers who died under imperial rule. They can ignore the missiles of a rogue government because they know they are brothers and safe. They can bow to Kings because those Kings will finance the reformation of a new country. They will free those imprisoned believing them innocent, and allow their leaders to pitch their tents on our soil. They will enlist Tsars who answer only to The One and the greater collective. These are the new Generals. And they will tell their own children not to fear. Reparations weren’t enough, but Social Justice is coming. Black Muslim America is being born and only the people of the United States can abort this birth.

                Will we survive? I say, Give me Liberty, or Give Me Death. God Bless The United States of America.

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Gerrymandering Is Next

 

As health care reform continues to bring warriors to the battle lines, I am concerned that we are missing all that is happening behind closed doors. Americans have forgotten that Cap and Trade is till an issue and will be voted on in September. Americans have forgotten that Congress will be asking for another stimulus bill by mid-September to counter the money given to cash for clunkers. They will say the program was a success but the auto industry and others need more help. This is because the Treasury gave more than $160 billion to the IMF which gave part of that to foreign countries to boost their economies. The Obama admin. will no doubt brag that their actions have helped “stabilize” the world economy, but more needs to be done.

All  of this is out there, but the main thing that concerns me is GERRYMANDERING, the re-districting of the entire United States to ensure elections, earmarks, grants and funding are given to those Obama believes deserve it. His Social Justice platform that the media ignores. The Republicans tried the same thing in the nineties, but they didn’t have powerful organizations enabled by the White House to take the census and draw new lines. George Soros and others want to make sure only Democrats, radical left-wingers, get elected from now on, and ACORN will be working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to take the new census in 2010. The census will redraw the map and our multi-cultural country will look more multi-cultural than ever. Obama told you about this in a speech, actually in many speeches, when he stated our country is no longer a Christian nation, or a black and white nation, but a nation of all cultures. Then he told the Muslim world that we have one of the largest Muslim populations in the world. We are 28th. He always tells us his plans, people just don’t listen. The re-districting will fundamentally change the make-up of the House of Representatives, giving the far left an even stronger majority that will thwart the efforts of any opposition, possibly forever.

Stay focused on health care, as it is the spark that awoke the lazy, the uninformed, the apathetic, and the regretful voters, but realize  Rahm Emanuel’s philosophy to never let a crisis happen without capitalizing on it by pushing through things you never thought you could get done. Americans often have tunnel vision. Yes, when they finally get mad they find the energy to fight, but Health Reform is only a battle, not the war.

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Town Halls and Nazis

I am a child of the fifties who lived through the sixties and suffered through the seventies. I am a Marine who was essentially anti-war, who knew Nixon was a crook,that Johnson had ensured a Viet Nam loss,and that Woodstock was full of anti-Americans. I was right about some things,wrong about others, but my age and experience tells me I can't be wrong about today. For two years I've written and done podcasts about the "company" our lawmakers and leaders keep. The average American doesn't pay attention. The working American is too busy. The Young American doesn't care. The older American at least questions character because they were raised knowing that character does make a difference.
Americans are angry, and the left-over radicals from the defeated sixties don't understand why or don't want to know. They are back to "peace and love" for everyone, universal health care for everyone, no matter what. It makes us all equal, they say, and it's a right. To be American, in their eyes, means you have a right to a house, a car,a paycheck or a hand-out, free doctors,free education, and the freedom to beat anyone who disagrees.They don't believe anyone should die for their country and that only the rich and powerful or the corporations are responsible for the hatred we feel from other countries. They believe if we destroy the rich,raise up the poor,devalue the dollar,collapse the economy, but provide all the benefits they believe are a "right," that the world will be a better place.
   Welcome to the Third Reich. Study history and study Hitler. His idols wrote the books that Obama's advisors read and believe. To the "Advisory Board" and the Czars, the angry American just doesn't like giving up their weath and privelege. To them, the angry,WHITE, American is the enemy. Beware, America. And be very strong. Pledge allegiance to your flag and remember the constitution.And don't worry about being loud or expressing your unique American anger, even if it's the President you express it to, because those Americans behind you and around you who cheer your words are the company you keep, and each of them has character.
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SWINE FLU - WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN KILL YOU

   Twenty-five people a day enter a clinic in Douglas, Georgia and in toher cities around the country. They roll up their sleeves for a quick shot, and put out their hands for a quick payment, usually around $35. The government is rushing H1N1 vaccine, and they need people to test what they have so far. The promise of a little money during these depressive times can make people react without sound judgment, but I don't believe they really know what they're getting into. First of all, it's not one shot, but two and possibly more. What's most important is what's in the shot. Vaccines are made from the virus they are meant to fight. Since no one knows the origin of this particular flu, we can deduce it was most likely made in a lab. The implications of a man-made virus now being addressed as a probable pandemic should make even the poorest American shudder and turn away from any shot. But we live in a country of trust; In God, in doctors, in priests, and sometimes, in Presidents. So we trust they would never subject people to anything that truly do harm, at least not knowingly, and we submit to their programs believing that their vaccines will save us from a terrible fate.
   Squalene oil is one of the ingredients of H1N1 vaccine. It's a carrier oil that is supposed to help the virus be attacked by our immune systems. Instead, it reverses the benefits, and enables the body to attack itself. The result can be frightening and is very dependent on the health of the person receiving the vaccine. Okay, so let's say the clinics have everyone fill out several forms that "prove" the patients are in relatively good health. Good start. But most of these forms assume the patient has firm knowledge about the health of their own bodies, and that's a poor assumption. Ask if their bowels are regular and you'll get a yes. To some that means twice a week or once a month, while others go at the drop of a hat. Regular should be within an hour after every meal. People don't know that. SO they say they're normal, get the shot, and get sick. Some may even die. Researchers will say it's unfortunate, but we need to do more studies.
   Meanwhile, we have the World Health Organization (WHO) alarming the world about a virus that may have killed a few people and taking control of a forced vaccination plan for the fall. WHO is a corrupt group aligned with some of the corrupt and damaging pharmaceutical companies in the world. These companies stand to make Billions on these forced innoculations. By the way, some of the biggest investors in Baxter, the contracted company of choice, are congressmena and women, and a former Senator now President. That knowledge alone will keep me from ever rolling up my sleeve. They'll have to either shoot me, or quarantine me in of the now-ready detention camps.
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White House Says Americans Can't Read

   To borrow a phrase from Michelle Obama, for the first time in (decades) I am proud of my country. People have taken to the streets to express their concerns, fears, and anger, as only Americans can. We're allowed. Because of a piece of paper and hard work by men who had to hide from the King and were often called traitors, we get to show up where our representatives are and try earnestly to find the truth. The problem is, our representatives have forgotten the meaning of their titles, and most certainly, have forgotten their job descriptions. As one of their employers, let me try to remind them.
   Congress is an ELECTED body and one of three branches of government. It is divided between the lower House of Representatives and the Senate, but all representatives are elected by their individual states to essentially act as liasons between the people of their states and districts, and the Federal Government. Yes, they enact laws, set wages, control federal commerce and have the sole authority to remove the President. Nowhere does it state in the constitution that they can or should play doctor. Nowhere is it written that they have the power to oppose their constituents and only follow the Executive branch. They are paid by tax dollars from the people and set their own salaries, supposedly with prudence and understanding of the economy.They can regulate commerce, establish and maintain an Army and a Navy, and establish Post Offices.
   The Executive Branch, the President, is also elected by the people, but through an electoral college. His duties include providing a State of the Union address to the PEOPLE, meeting Heads of State, and being Commander -in-Chief of the Armed Forces to protect the nation from foreign threat.
   Section 4 of the Constitution clearly states that the power of government comes from the people.
   I was deeply troubled when George W. Bush was elected and members of his cabinet decided that the election gave them a precedent to do what THEY believed was right. I was just as troubled, and still am, by the Obama administration and Congress stating that "They won," which somehow implies that everyone else lost. These two branches of people-owned government are responsible to ALL states, be they red or blue, and are employed by all people of those states no matter what color or origin the people.
   Somewhere in the past, all of this understanding has been lost. Senator Barbara Boxer admonished a General of the Armed Forces for referring to her as "Ma'am." He could have ignored her completely as a citizen who employs her, but instead gave her military respect. Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to half the country as a swastika-carrying mobs, when she works for that half of the country as well as the other half. President Obama's cabinet gather names and emails of dissenters, clearly against the law and unconstitutional, while the President himself relies on the rhetoric of "cleaning up the mess" he inherited and telling everyone else to "stop talking" and get out of  his way. He forgets that he inherited the "mess" from a Democratic Congress, and a Senator who believed a "roll of the Dice" with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sure things.
   Somehow these two branches of OUR government don't believe we are capable of reading or understanding the thousand-plus page legislations that they have tried to slip into law. They don't believe their employers, the people, are smart enough to interpret a bill that will affect generations and then ask the questions or state their opinions. We are just supposed to shut up.
   I was willing, as an American,a veteran, and a Patriot, to give this administration a chance. It was only right. He was democratically elected. When I disagreed with the stimulus, the second stimulus, the recovery and the budget, I emailed, called, faxed, and mailed my representatives, the Speaker, and the White House. They didn't listen, or chose not to. When I disagreed with Cap and Trade, I emailed, called and faxed, but noone seemed to hear. Then Health Care Reform was on the table. I read 1118 pages and spent hours interpreting it. I came up with hundreds of questions and tried to ask them, but no one would answer their phones or email. In fact, Democratic representatives had full mail boxes that wouldn't accept messages, or had their phones completely turned off. As their employer, my distrust of their job performance grew to rage, and I decided to spread the word and go to Washington.
   Americans can read. Americans inherently know their rights. When you assume otherwise, you will hear their voices, feel their anger, and ultimately, lose your jobs.
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Top Trends in Healthcare

We posted this in 2005! And then incorporated into our second book on Alternative health, "Forget the Cures, Find the Cause." You think maybe some Reps and Senators should pay attention to this since Americans spend more than $34 Billion a year on alternative health and complementary medicine?
   Top 10 Trends in Healthcare
America is undergoing a dramatic shift in healthcare. Actually, ten distinctly different shifts. Although the
changes are unsettling, and will cause dislocations in our economy, the overall trends are positive and will
help us all be healthier and wealthier when it all shakes out.

Western Medicine Costs Continue to Rise
It's hard to imagine, but the cost of going to a regular MD or hospital is going to get more and more expensive.
This is not because doctors or hospitals are getting greedy, but instead because their own costs are rising
every year. Malpractice insurance for risky surgical procedures, pharmaceutical drug reactions and deaths
with accompanying lawsuits, complex medical equipment for diagnostic testing – everything is rising
dramatically in cost. Pharmaceutical drug costs will continue to escalate also, leaving consumers holding the
bag, because...

Health Insurance Opt-Outs Surge
For many years, corporations and small businesses have provided health insurance as an employee benefit.
Often, employees would choose a job based on who offered the best health insurance. No longer. Small
businesses have almost completely opted-out of the insurance game, and large corporations are not far
behind. General Motors complains that health insurance costs them more per year than steel for their cars. In
a few years, health insurance through your employer will be only a memory. Everyone will be buying health
insurance the same way they buy home insurance or car insurance – independently.
Because of this shift, consumers will begin treating health insurance the same way they treat car and home
insurance. Which is to say, they will treat it like...

INSURANCE.
Today, many Americans run to their doctors for even the smallest maladies, and they expect their health
insurer should pay for everything. In fact, they're incensed when they don't. “What, you're not paying for this
bottle of antibiotics for my kid's ear infection? How terrible!”
This is opposite of how we treat car insurance. Imagine expecting your insurer to pay for oil changes, car
washes, pockmarks in the paint job, a broken cupholder. Can you picture it? Of course not. It would be
ridiculous.
Yet, with health insurance, it's been okay. Why? Because the employer is picking up the tab. Not anymore,
they're not.
As a result, Americans will pay more attention to preventive healthcare, like regular exercise, good diet and
meditation, etc. They will also do more cost comparisons between all their healthcare options, including a trip
to the doctor, or...

Alternative Medicine Becomes the Dominant Healthcare System in America
I feel bad calling this a future trend, since this has almost already occurred. Alternative medicine, including
naturopathy, hypnotherapy, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, yoga, etc. is fast overtaking Western medicine
(drugs and surgery) as the dominant healthcare system of America.
Several studies have shown that Americans spend more out-of-pocket on alternative medicine than on
Western medicine. They've also shown that people are making more trips to these alternative practitioners
than they are to regular MDs. These are positive developments. The downside is that people are reticent to
mention their alternative therapies to their doctors, because they're afraid of disapproval by their doctor.
But the trend is clear. Alternative medicine is often less expensive (especially outside of insurance), equally
effective and produces less harmful side effects, as was evidenced by the flurry of pharmaceutical drugs this
past year that were removed after being prescribed to hundreds of thousands of patients.
People's trust in Western medicine is diminishing, and their relief in finding alternatives is rising.
Major institutions are now doing large numbers of studies on alternative medicines, including herbal
remedies, bodywork, meditation, dietary changes and many others. Randomized, controlled studies are
available on almost every type of alternative healing practice, and they typically show good results.
The rise of alternative medicine and the opting-out of employer-funded health insurance has led us inevitably
to an era of...

Consumer-Driven Healthcare
People are making their own choices in healthcare and health insurance. They want to make their own
decisions.
This is extremely positive. One study after another shows that hospital patients who are disruptive, picky,
nosy and non-compliant are the ones who fare best with any surgery or recovery from illness. The patients
who are compliant and put their fates in the hands of their doctors are the ones who fare most poorly. Taking
charge of one's health is part of consumer-driven healthcare.
This term also refers to how people are deciding to use whatever treatments they think will work best, based
on their own research. Fewer people simply accept their “doctor's orders” and instead they find out for
themselves what is available and make informed choices. This also means they are deciding to use a different
kind of health insurance, which is more compatible with their free-will healthcare style...
High-Deductible Health Insurance and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
As corporations drop their employees' health plans, the employees are choosing to buy high-deductible health
insurance policies, which are much cheaper.
In fact, a high-deductible policy ($2,500 deductible or higher) is almost always so much cheaper, that even if
you had to pay the entire deductible yourself every year, you'd still save thousands of dollars. The monthly
premiums are reduced MORE than the amount of the deductible.
Along with high-deductible policies, people are choosing to use the Health Savings Account (HSA), introduced
in 2003. This is a tax-deductible savings account that can be used for any medical treatment (Western
medicine, actually), which is basically a tax savings for everyone who buys their insurance independently.
High-deductible policies and HSAs allow people to have Western medicine waiting in the wings when they
have serious health problems that require expensive drugs, tests and surgery. But until then, they are able to
use alternative medicine as the best service for prevention and small day-to-day health problems.
Alternative medicine provides a “first line of defense” while Western medicine provides the expensive,
dangerous, but necessary backup.
Since alternative medicine has taken such a major role in healthcare, the state and federal laws have had to
adjust, which has meant...

The Rise of Health Freedom Laws
Health freedom is a term applied to a particular kind of legislative bill. It is a bill that allows alternative medical
practitioners to practice their healing arts, as long as they stay out of the areas where extensive Western
medical training is required:
•        performing surgery
•        prescribing pharmaceutical drugs
•        administering injections (like vaccinations)
•        knowingly contradicting an MD's orders
If alternative medical practitioners are caught doing any of these, they can be arrested for practicing medicine
without a license. But otherwise, they can use any other type of healing art, including bodywork, dietary
changes, movement therapies, hypnosis, etc. to help their clients.
This bill is needed in many states, because current laws state that no one can practice medicine except
medical doctors, and the definition of practicing medicine is anything that helps people with their health! This
means that if someone has a cold, and they go to a massage therapists who recommends echinacea, that
massage therapist is breaking the law! Ridiculous? Practitioners have been shut down in many states for
doing less.
Health Freedom laws are common sense. They've been passed in four states already – Minnesota, Rhode
Island, California and Idaho. These states have had excellent results from these bills, including patients from
neighboring states making trips to their states to seek relief from health problems. Can you say “boost to the
economy?”
For more information about Health Freedom initiatives, visit the National Health Freedom Website.
With Health Freedom information, and alternative medical options available, it is only natural that people turn
to...

The Internet As a Healthcare Information Resource
The Internet has become the first stop for someone who has a health concern. Feeling low? Do a search on
depression remedies on the Internet. Just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor says it's
chemotherapy or die? Jump on the Internet and see what your other options are.
Of course, the Internet has its benefits and its problems. There is a tremendous amount of misinformation
about healthcare on the Internet. Much of it comes from well-meaning entrepreneurs who have been sucked
into a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme and are trying to pitch some health elixir or other. A second source
of health misinformation comes from the Western medical establishment, who seek to discredit alternative
medical therapies that could take significant revenues away from their invested therapies. A third source of
misinformation comes from the anecdotes of individuals who experienced relief from one therapy or another,
but who do not (and cannot) actually represent a proven cure to a particular health problem.
Even with all these caveats, the Internet's influence in healthcare decisions will gain momentum. People will
understand the “good sources” and “bad sources” of information and new portals will crop up that separate
the wheat from the chaff.
The reason people are turning to the Internet in such numbers is due to a lack of trust...

Distrust in Existing Medical Institutions
At one time, you could hold no position of higher trust than to be a doctor. My wife's father was a doctor in a
small town in Ohio. When he died, the funeral was packed with his patients over the years. People appreciated
his caring and his dedication to keeping them healthy.
Now, doctors are viewed with suspicion. Will my doctor let me die by not revealing an alternative therapy that
could help me? Is my doctor getting kickbacks from the cute, young, female pharmaceutical rep who visits
him twice a month?
The system has gained the pallor of corruption, even when it's not really true. Big medicine has become big
business, and the number one concern is no longer the patient, it's dollars and cents.
But hospitals and doctors are not the only things that Americans distrust...

Distrust of Socialized Medicine
People in government and in society seem to feel that some brand of socialized medicine will be the magic
solution for America's healthcare problems. The “single payer system” of healthcare, successful in other
countries, must be implemented here, they say.
But America is a different kind of country, from its very beginnings. Americans praise the independent spirit,
the entrepreneur, the underdog.
Socialized medicine will not work in America. And Americans know it. They do not want a government-run
system. What is the least efficient organization you can imagine? It's the government. Do you really want a
government worker making decisions for you about healthcare?
Yes, America needs to find a way to insure every single person in this country. But socialized medicine is not
the cure for this illness.
Ask any country that has tried it.
I understand that the person in the middle of this entire crisis, the professional who has the most to gain or
lose, is the doctor, the general practitioner. They will be devastated by a socialized medicine system, and they
will also be affected greatly by the other trends in this article.
Because of this, I see the emergence of a final trend...

Doctors Incorporate Alternative Medicine Into Their Practices
Doctors will have no choice but to use pieces and parts of alternative medicine in what they do day-to-day with
patients. “The customer is always right,” as they say, and the customer definitely wants a choice.
Although doctors are increasingly using alternative medicine in their own practice, and hiring alternative
practitioners to work in their offices, the independent alternative practitioner will still be the rule, not the
exception. There are just too many alternative practitioners (massage therapists, chiropractors, yoga
instructors, etc.) for doctors to absorb everyone. And people will want a choice. A Western medical
experience, or perhaps an alternative medicine experience.
And a choice they will receive.
The Western medical practitioners who are clearly leading the way are nurses. Nurses are much more open
to alternatives than doctors, and they are increasingly opening their own offices, as nurse-practitioners
sometimes, and treating patients with a wide variety of healing methods. Patients appreciate the nurses
Western medical knowledge, and also their openness to a new set of options. Maybe nurses should be elected to the Senate.
Overall, the outlook for healthcare is extremely positive for everyone involved. Tremendous change, yes. But
upheaval can create some wonderful new circumstances. If only the lawmakers had a clue.

                                                                                 
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Racism and Negativity

   I lost one listener yesterday. She said my podcasts have been more negative than the people I talk about. My last podcast spoke about Gamliel and Obama's first love with some added stories about my own process with racism through the 70's and 80's. I spoke about taking a Blacks in Film course and being the only white person there. Everyone sat in pockets of 5 or 6, probably because they knew each other. I sat alone, but thought nothing of it. Large college courses often left some sitting by themselves. We were about to watch "Night of the Living Dead." The Professor turned out every light in the auditorium and turned the sound to maximum. This was a pretty scary movie then. By the end of the film, we all had somehow managed to change our seats so that we were all sitting together. We needed to analyze the racism theme in the film, but during that process, the greater need was to find comfort in the humanity around us.
   I also spoke about a good friend, a black woman who passed away very young. We lived within a collective household, common for college kids, and her room was just across the hall from mine. Wanda and I were both Media majors. We enjoyed sharing film nights and bar hops and spirituality. One day she yelled across the hall that she needed to borrow my hair dryer. I stood dumbfounded in the hall, dryer in hand, and asked her why. She smiled at me and said, "For my hair." It had never occurred to me that a Black woman would need a hair dryer. After all, their hair was different, kinky, curly. I handed her the dryer and we both broke into hysterical laughter. She knew it was a "teaching moment," but because my intent was not racist, there was no anger. I was a White, Viet Nam-era veteran of the Marines working for IBM and struggling to gett the G.I. bill to help pay for college. She considered herself an upwardly mobile, Urban Black woman also struggling to find ways to pay for college. We were friends. How negative can I possibly get?
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Obama's First Love

   Nestled in the South Side of Chicago, and now also in 34 states, Puerto Rico and South Africa, is a "faith-based" organization that once hired Barack Obama to be its community Organizer. Saul Alinsky created the "Back of the Yards Community Council" to help generate participation. Its motto was, "We Shall Decide Our Own Destiny." It evolved into the present-day foundation in 1968, but didn't truly begin to grow until the year 2000. The conditions that they believe have led to their present strategies they describe as American Apartheid. In the year 2000 they announced their 10 year plan to "transform America." You may remember Obama three days before the election announcing there were 3 days before we transform the United States of America. They believe in mass numbers employing every "bully" technique they can think of to influence local community and National agendas. They have several arms. Recruitment, training, expansion, finances, redistricting,health care, transportation, and housing. You can stop blaming George Bush for the economy now. He was not and is not a member of any of these groups.One promise organizer Obama gave as one of their most esteemed leaders was to fulfill this agenda by the year 2010. To ensure housing was available and affordable for all minorities and working-class citizens. To attach the wealth of the small percentage of Americans in the wealthy class and redistribute that weath to the needy.To redraw boundaries and districts in every state that have been manipulated by the white man to enslave blacks and Latinas in poverty.(the census is coming.) To provide universal health care for every citizen in the United States, legal or not, as God intended. To force automobile companies to build smaller, more affordable and eco-firendly cars so the poor can afford transportation. If you don't see the pattern here or understand the mission, I suggest you do some homework and realize that Obama said all along that these community organizations would shape his agenda and transform the country. By the way, the number of people Obama believes don't have health care changes daily, but is constant between 45 and 47 million even though all other sources say his numbers are wrong. Gamaliel repeatedly states the number is 47 million.
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Sotomayor- the darling of the SEIU

   Democrats are warning Republicans to support Sonia Sotomayors appointment to the Supreme Court or "pay a price." Sotomayor is Obama's choice, and the darling of the SEIU. Obama has always said he believes the constitution of the United States is a "living document" that needs re-interpretation and should be used with more conventional "wisdom." Sotomoyer is the "wise, Latina" judge who, like Obama, is basically racist. For those of you jumping already at the mention of the word racist, stop for a moment and consider the definition from Merriam-Webster:  a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Sotomayor's statements from many speeches relate directly to this definition. Obama's racism is often more subtle, until the mask is removed and the true racist chip-on-the-shoulder victim forever attitude appears. When he spoke of his Grandmother's fear of meeting a black man at a bus stop, he said she's "a typical white person." When he responded to the question regarding the cop and the professor, he just knew the cops had to act "stupidly." His friend, Henry Lewis Gates, is a believer that racial injustice prevails, just as Obama believes reparations "didn't go far enough."
   Obama chose a Latina woman, straight from the SEIU playbook, and found someone with a resume that would dupe even the strongest Republican opponent, while continuing to mask the same underlying chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that our President proudly wears. This President is not for all the people, as a President should be, but for the unions,SEIU's agenda, and the George Soros anger and belief that America is the problem. Sotomayor, the darling of SEIU, may change the Supreme Court, and what we once knew aas America, forever.
 
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Blue Dogs Cave with "Deal."

Blue dog Democrats gave into pressure from Emanuel and Pelosi by listening to a NEW CBO report that back pedals from the reports of last week. They have decided that $100 billion in so-called savings is a good sign, as long as there is no full congressional vote until September. This is very disappointing. First, the assumption that the meeting between the CBO and the White House was simply business and not influential in changing the numbers is naive or downright corrupt for any Congressman to believe. Second, the assumption that waiting until September to vote will somehow challenge Congressmen and women to actually read the bill instead of vacationing at Martha's Vineyard or elsewhere, is also naive. Their answer to this is that congressman need to find out from their constiuents what people really feel, so a delay on voting is imperative. My question? Where do all the phone calls, letters, emails, petitions and telegrams go? Millions of people are expressing their concerns every day, the "constiuents," and none of the congressmen know where people stand or will find out when they get home? The American people deserve to be represented through ALL processes in Washington, not just during vacation time.
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The Obama Coup Part 1

 Destruction of America from Inside the Belly of the Monster
How do you take over a country that is considered the most powerful in the world?  How do you destroy the framework
that enabled that power? How do you use the population and demographics to accomplish your goal? How do you harness
the negative emotion toward one person and use it to catapult another? How do you redefine the word “dream” so it
captures the hopes of an entire race? How do you use the economic system you intend to destroy to advance your cause?
How do you control the communication media to ensure your message is the one people hear? How do you time all of this?

When Japan was ultimately defeated in World War II after awakening the “sleeping giant” at Pearl Harbor, many
Japanese vowed that someday they would rise again and defeat the enemy from within its belly. When Adolph Hitler
sought world power through aggression, he enlisted the youth of a nation and began a class war that that was later defined
a race war, using the negative anti-Jewish sentiment to further his cause. When the Chinese emerged victorious over the
Japanese and Germans with American help, they redefined their relationship to Eastern culture and continued their
connection to the power of America. When the once isolationist America emerged victorious after the war, its people felt
obligated to rebuild all that they had destroyed and to use its now powerful arsenal to help police the world and keep it safe
from further aggression. America “policed” a divided Korea that remains divided. America “advised” a divided Viet Nam
that is still divided. America “rescued” oil-rich Kuwait from Saddam Hussein and left him in power. America “trained” the
Taliban to defeat the Russians and left them in power.

The American people, still basically isolationists rebelled against global involvement. They were anti-war, anti-dictatorship,
and filled with compassion for those who were oppressed by tyrants. Emotionally, they stood by their country and their
leadership. Patriotically, they demonstrated their disapproval. Financially, they contributed freely to help others in the
world, while continuing their free-market enterprises to enhance their own wealth. Many Americans worked hard. Many
didn’t work at all, expecting the same compassion, exploiting the cultural differences, and always waiting to “overcome”
the power. A divided America was born.
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Becoming ACORN

We are becoming Obama's ACORN. Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel are the generals and need to be removed. Impeachment is
impossible with a democratic congress, so, maximum effort is needed to remove Pelosi. The Blue Dog Dems might
even help with that process. Once she is gone, the exec branch is more vulnerable and congressional elections can change
the Dem domination.
Effort also has to be exerted to support the investigation of ACORN before they get their hands on the additional 8.6 billion congress is giving them. No war is fought on one front or from one trench, but every war has to have a final mission and strategies to achieve that mission. Singling out one issue here and there is sure defeat. Remove Pelosi, then Dodd, Frank, Reid. Stump and support the election of true patriots to change the balance in congress.
Remember, once Sotomoyer gets confirmed, we will see justices caving in to changing the constitution and new
interpretations of the "sideline" precepts incorporated into all these stimulus and reform laws. We must be swift,
determined, fearless and mighty. Saying one can't make it to D.C. to protest and that is okay, is really not okay. We have to find
ways to impress with millions rather a few hundred. I never paid attention to the little anti-war/anti-Bush protests
scattered throughout my area or the country, but i DID pay attention to thousands marching in the 60's. Those marchers
are now ACORN, AMERICORPS, Congress and the Executive Branch. Pool resources, hire busses, carpool, bring tents,
share, pressure bosses to close, boycott any and all business that support this socialist movement. There is much to be
done.  
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