Two Congressional Victories!

Wow! We recently had a couple of wonderful events in Congress.

First, Americans will now be allowed to get oil from the oceans off our own country. Nancy Pelosi's efforts to supposedly "save the planet" have evidently been defeated. :-p The ban on offshore drilling was not renewed, and will expire October 1st (this coming Wednesday). Sen. Jim DeMint described it as an "energy freedom day for America."

Also, perhaps even better, the socialistic plan to "bail out" the American economy for $700 billion dollars was unexpectedly defeated today in the House!!!! In reality, the goal of this bill had been to buy out the banks and mortgage institutions, giving control over all commerce to the Federal government. The vote was 205 for, 228 against. The plan had been supported by President Bush and both major party presidential candidates.

However, the vote immediately caused the stock market to plunge toward a large crisis, so we might be seeing interesting days ahead for the economy. If I had any advice it would be for everyone to get their assets into precious metals and/or other tangible investments they can trade or use to provide things for themselves they can trade with. In other words, cash and other "funds" are not going to be dependable much longer. There have been people saying similar things for a long time, but it is different when it is actually occuring right before our very eyes!

The best thing about the economic problems is that people will begin needing to look to Something Greater than their pocketbooks to provide for them. And in America, it would truly be a great benefit for us to do so.


-R. Josiah Magnuson

Obama lauds EU and globalism to Germans

(Text abridged; from http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/raw-data-transcript-of-obamas-speech-in-berlin/ )

“I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before, although tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen, ­ a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world....”

"People of the world, look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

"...We know,­ we know that these walls have fallen before. After centuries of strife, the people of Europe have formed a union of promise and prosperity. Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center of a Europe at peace.

"If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman, in London and Bali, in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope."

"This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan and the traffickers who sell drugs on your streets.

"No one welcomes war. I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO’s first mission beyond Europe’s borders is a success. For the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be done.

"America can’t do this alone. The Afghan people need our troops and your troops, our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaida, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild their nation. We have too much at stake to turn back now.

"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children to a world where the oceans rise, and famine spreads, and terrible storms devastate our lands.

"People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment. This is our time."

Is A Power Grab the Economic Solution?

What appears to be a new Federal power grab is about to take place in the financial world. A new system of regulation is being introduced which would render state laws useless. But this will only harm the economy futher, as do all mis-guided attempts to impose prosperity without regard to law or principle. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080331/fed_overhaul.html?.v=3

Don't believe the "border security"

I posted a column the other day which supported a bill introduced by Congressman Health Shuler (D-N.C.) which supposedly increases border security. The concept is that of Attrition Through Enforcement, the same idea advanced by people such as Tom Tancredo. However, I did not realize that part of the program would be the creation of a mandatory employee database on a Federal level. I have thus removed the article and am replacing it with the following response (to a news email) written by an American citizen named Vicky Davis.

This email makes me really sad. Roy Beck is gleeful that a Democratic Congressman has a bill requiring employers to eVerify every potential employee before hiring them. Why is this something to be sad about? Because they (the traitors who are running our government) are insulting your intelligence and they are taking another step toward government management of the labor force.

The Problem
The scam was relatively simple. Allow Mexicans to flood into our country and pretend that we couldn't tell the difference between a hispanic American and a Mexican. Cripple border patrol and ICE.

The Solution
Step One: The eVerify system is the first step to get employers to use the Internet - government system to verify the legal status of an applicant.

Step Two: There will be crys and moans from employers that this will put them out of business - they will have "shortages of workers". So what the government must do is to establish a "Guest Worker" program. (demanding a solution)

Step Three: There will be a system (it already exists) for employers to put in their requests to the government for "guest workers". The hitch will be that they must list the jobs for which they claim to need guest workers on the government job search website (this already exists too). Listing on the government job search engine will eventually be a requirement for all employers just like the eVerify. The reason given will be that the Labor Department needs to be able to assess the Labor Market demands for that particular job type. If the listings show high demand over a long period of time, that would indicate that a shortage exists and the guest worker applications would be approved. At the point when all jobs must be listed, all job seekers will also register on the system as a matter of necessity if they hope to obtain a job. Otherwise, a job they might get could be given instead to an imported guest worker. For children who are in school, their information will automatically be in the government registry system because the computer systems for the schools and workforce are already integrated. This is the cradle-to-grave national workforce management system designed by Marc Tucker of the NCEE as described in a letter to Hillary Clinton in 1992.

End Game
At this point, the Labor Department has full control over the labor market and will be able to set wages by controlling the supply of labor in the market. They will also have the control mechanism for people by allowing or inhibiting their access to gainful employment. This is a classic Hegelian Dialectic which is being used to "transform" the United States to a communist system to "compete" with the COMMUNIST Chinese slave labor system.

I hope to God you're smarter than they think you are.

Article from FaxDC.com on the NAU

EX-MEXICAN PREZ: REGIONAL CURRENCY COMING

Tell Congress you support a Resolution to end the North America Union and the
abandonment of integration with Canada, Mexico.

Alert: Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a plan
conceived with President Bush to create a new regional currency in the Americas,
in an interview last night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly
confirmed a plan for a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional
trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve
into other previously hidden aspects of integration.

According to a transcript published by CNN, King, near the end of the broadcast,
asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener, a Ms. Gonzalez from Elizabeth,
N.J.: "Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of
having a Latin America united with one currency?"

Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He admitted
he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the
Americas – a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere,
suggesting part of the plan was to institute eventually a regional currency.

"Long term, very long term," he said. "What we proposed together, President Bush
and myself, it's ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas."

ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of
the FTAA in Spanish.

King, evidently startled by Fox's revelation of the currency, asked pointedly,
"It's going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?"

"Well, that would be long, long term," Fox repeated.

Fox noted the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist
president of Venezuela.

"Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came," Fox commented. "He
decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea."

Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing
FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an amero-type currency
later – a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself.

"I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement," Fox said. "And
then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA."

Fox's reply to the CNN viewer was captured in a clip posted on YouTube.com. CNN
posted video of the interview but did not include the segment with questions
from viewers.

Last week, BankIntroductions.com, a Canadian company that specializes in global
banking strategies and currency consulting, is advising clients the amero may be
the currency of North America within 10 years.

Coin designer Daniel Carr has issued for sale a series of private-issue fantasy
pattern amero coins that have drawn attention on the Internet.

The African Union is moving down the path of regional economic integration, with
the African Central Bank planning to create the "Gold Mandela" as a single
African continental currency by 2010.

The Council on Foreign Relations has supported regional and global currencies
designed to replace nationally issued currencies.

In an article in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, entitled "The End of
National Currency," CFR economist Benn Steil asserts the dollar is a temporary
currency.

Steil concluded "countries should abandon monetary nationalism," moving to adopt
regional currencies, on the road to a global "one world currency."

Steve Previs, a vice president at Jeffries International Ltd. in London, said
the amero "is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which
is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico."

A continued slide in the value of the dollar on world currency markets could set
up conditions in which the adoption of the amero as a North American currency
gains momentum.

DO NOT BE SILENCED BY ANYONE STAND UP! MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

TAKE ACTION: Send YOUR blast faxes to ALL 535 Congressman NOW!

To visit FAXDC.com, click here: http://faxdc.com/

Guliani - Everyone's Worst Nightmare

Yet, Rudy Giuliani wants people to believe that he is "liberals' worst nightmare"? Who is he kidding? Giuliani is a liberal. Actually, Rudy Giuliani is worse than a liberal. He is a liberal that likes to hurt people. I tell you the truth, Rudy Giuliani scares me far more than Hillary Clinton does. Far more. I'll say it right here: if the 2008 Presidential election comes down to Hillary vs. Giuliani, Hillary is the "lesser of two evils." That's how bad Giuliani is.

Read more here: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20070921.html

Executive Order on Property

Here is the full text of Mr. Bush's ("The Decider's") unfortunate recent decree abolishing private property. I should have posted this here earlier, but in any case it's here now. From Josiah

From http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order:


Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in property of the following persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense,

(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:
(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.


Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.


Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:
(a) the term "person" means an individual or entity;
(b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and
(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.


Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.


Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.


Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government, consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken.


Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or hereafter under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated, modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this order.


Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.


GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 17, 2007.