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POPSWhy Socialists Pursue Socialism to the Ends of the Earth
. . . and offers the only internally consistent explanation for their historic obsession with divisive policy. From their early support of Hitler to their central role in the current financial crisis, the Left’s contribution to domestic and foreign policy at federal, state and local levels can only be described as wantonly destructive. Their takeover of schools and popular culture has been equally toxic. Their environmental radicalism has spawned the energy crisis, while offering no viable alternatives. It defies logic. But there is logic, a deadly logic, and in the '60’s, two radicals gave it a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. As explained in the prior article in this series, the goal was to create a groundswell of demands for public services to overwhelm government, create crisis and usher in a widespread call for fundamental economic reform at the federal level, with socialism the ultimate goal. Cloward and Piven focused on welfare, voting,
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POPSundignified tone “I hope the President will learn that true bipartisanship begins with mutual respect,” Graham said in response to Obama’s fervent criticism of those who oppose him. “Not all criticism is demagoguery,” he added. Graham said when it comes to the public option, “the President is either being disingenuous or misinformed. The public option, contrary to the president’s claims, will eventually lead to a government takeover of our health care system.” Graham believes Obama’s address to Congress is the beginning of a “go it alone” strategy in the push for the government takeover of the health care system. “If the Obama Administration and congressional Democrats go down this path and push a bill on the American people they do not want, it could be the beginning of the end of the Obama presidency.” © 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
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POPSParsing the “preparedness” phenomenon - Part 5 You get the idea. All of this was simply gathered from a Google News search for "preparedness." This just seems kind of out of control to me. I'm just 30 years old, but I have never seen so much propaganda and social engineering regarding all of this in my short life. What has changed? Climate? Terror? Technology? There must be some ulterior motive or agenda being spear-headed here. It could simply be that this is the only industry left in America. Pitching fear and a remedy. The bigger the fear, the more costly the remedy.
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POPSGovernors Oppose Federal Martial Law Powers, Invoke States' Rights This could apply to any potential Swine Flu emergency declarations or any other federal responses during acts of terrorism, disasters, or crises whereby the Pentagon has pleaded a domestic role for power. See Clipmark U.S. Military Plans for H1N1 Flu Outbreak Good for the governors and states' rights! As a side, people should note that because Governor's have authority over each states "National Guard" that they could invoke their authority to NOT DEPLOY these troops (never intended for foreign wars) to unjust wars, or war undeclared by Congress (the only lawful wars) for foreign operations, i.e. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. They have full legal power to resist if only they have political courage to stand upon principle against mistaken notions of zeal or "patriotism" invoked to push such wars. More on that here.
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POPSMcCain, Graham: Dead Wrong About Obama Approach On Iran McCain and Graham seem to desire the cowboy diplomacy of the George W. Bush years, asserting that Obama is being too cautious on Iran. However, a return to the diplomatic belligerence of the previous administration would be a disaster. It would play directly into the hands of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei whose harsh response to the persistent protests is presently serving to loosen his grip on Iran's political reigns
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POPSAnyone Else Have FEMA Exercises in Their Town Today? The exercise will simulate criminal activity and is designed to test and evaluate the response to a crisis situation. These incidents will not be real; however, the responses to them are intended be as realistic as possible. In all cases, every effort has been made to balance realism with safety, while still allowing the creation of an effective learning and evaluation environment. Likewise, all participating agencies have balanced their participation in this exercise with their requirements for real-world emergency response and protection. The areas where the full-scale exercise will be undertaken will be clearly marked and will have an appropriate off-limits perimeter established. Law enforcement personnel will be assigned to direct and provide safe passage for motorists while the exercise is being conducted.
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POPSFEMA's 9/11 Coloring Book This is nothing more than FEMA's lame attempt to bolster their image. Perhaps an attempt to counter the bad image these children’s parents have for FEMA’s missteps in Katrina’s aftermath? They are hoping today’s children will, in the future, remember how FEMA ‘was there to help’ in times of disasters. Why they feel they need to do this? I don’t know. What do you think?
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POPSNation’s Food System Nearly Broke This is a pretty dire picture being painted here. It seems Americans have been getting off cheap with low food prices, but that’s about to change. None of us want to see family farms go out of business, they simply cannot survive on subsistence earnings any longer. If you have a space to grow your own food, I suggest you start learning how to make it very productive and learn to can the excess. "Any time a country neglects its family farm base and allows it to become financially bankrupt, the entire economy of that country will soon collapse. It may take generations to rebuild the farm economy and that of the country." Concerned citizens can call the White House, 202-456-1111, or your members of Congress, 202-224-3121, to urge them to support policies that enable farmers to earn a fair market price
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POPSPresident Obama Declares Major Disaster In Ky. There are -- there are one or two counties in the far west of Kentucky. I know there was unhappiness by one person who spoke out there, he's -- one or two fairly unique, fairly tough situation for them. We want to make sure that services are being made available to them through the state; in other words, you know, the -- you know -- but we kind of -- kind of go where the state tells us they need the help. So that's what we're trying to do. MEDIA AVAILABILITY WITH HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO DURING A VISIT TO FEMA LOCATION: FEMA HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON, D.C. DATE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009
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POPS Blogging The Inaugur-A-Palooza NEW YORK — President-elect Barack Obama decided not to sign corporate sponsors to help pay the projected $40 million cost of the official events around the Jan. 20 swearing in. So many marketers are working other avenues to get their brands before the millions of people who will attend the festivities or watch on TV. Among them are such well-known names as Pepsi, Ikea, T.G.I. Friday’s and Dunkin’ Donuts. From the airwaves to the streets of Washington, D.C., big-name marketers are trying to find ways to ride Inauguration Day enthusiasm. Which raises the question of when “He’s The Real Thing” is going to morph into ”Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.” MSNBC and other news outlets are looking to capitalize on the heightened interest in the inauguration of Barack Obama, as watch parties are being planned in cities across the nation.
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POPSGermans destroy the myth of Superman Brown When Gordon Brown told the Commons that he led the world into recovery, he was not telling the truth. Germany believes, as I do and many others, that one of the perpetrators of the oncoming disaster cannot also be the saviour. When I listened to Esther Rancid eulogising over hero Brown, all my misogyny kicked back in.
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POPSMajor Quake Watch Has Internet Buzzing A geologist predicted a major earthquake on the West Coast in December on Coast-to-Coast radio this week. First hour guest, geologist Jim Berkland spoke about earthquakes. There's an 85% probability of seismic activity during the window of Dec. 12 -13th, 2008, due to a full moon and very high tides InstaPundit has been making similar posts about a midwest earthquake possibility. The Reuters article clipped here shows that the New Madrid fault (which has been silent since the 1800s) they fear is due. Another 6.3 quake rocked Sumatra (remember the Tsunami two Decembers ago) today, Nov. 22nd. Others may want to add other news or prediction reports to comments as they appear.
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POPSOfficial Accidentally Demonstates E-Voting Problems on Film This video of an election official trying (and failing) to debunk claims of e-voting problems makes it clearer to me than ever before just why e-voting has been such a disaster: Wishful thinking on the part of non-technical morons who seem willing to discount practically any problem with machines that make their jobs easier.
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