The Soul of a Man Anthology

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are officially starting Father's Day early at The Soul of a Man. Our new book, "The Soul of a Man," is out in certain Border's and Barnes and Nobles bookstores nationwide, and available online at
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An Atlanta book signing is set for August 8, 2009 at Greenbriar Mall, and others are pending in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York .

"The Soul of a Man" is an inspirational anthology consisting of 14 authors dealing with real men's struggles and the journey to find peace, hope and victory in the midst of the storm.

One Amazon.com reviewer writes:

“That question is answered quite eloquently several times over by this dynamic group of men. Elissa Gabrielle has done it again! Ms. Gabrielle has put together a collection of short stories that will ignite your soul and this time, they are all written by some very talented men! From the social and political stance of Mr. Alvin Romer who takes us to another level with his story "What Lies in the Souls of Men?" To Mr. William Frederick Cooper who dares to bare his soul as he talks about love and heartbreak with his story "NO REGRETS. . .(A True Story)." A collection of this magnitude would not be complete without looking at the spiritual journey through the eyes of a man and that man is Mr. Brian Ganges who teaches us about "Manning Up with God." There is something for everyone within these pages. Well done Ms. Gabrielle.”

Feel free to purchase your copy of the "The Soul of a Man" online, or if you would like a personalized copy you can purchase one or multiple copies from me through paypal (using this email address) or snail mail.

One book is $15.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling; Two books total $30.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. If you wish to purchase Three or more books, contact me for the discounted price.

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Headlines for the Week Ending January 3, 2009

Bioethics Professor Seeks to Drug College Students with Ritalin Before Exams

John Harris, professor of bioethics and director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester is at it again, pushing for drug use by college students who want to "enhance their brain power" before exams. What drugs should they be taking? Amphetamines, he says! (Speed)

Codex Alimentarius is trying to outlaw naturally occurring vitamins and minerals, but Big Pharma wants to legalize their drugs and increase their profit margins, at our expense. I am not surprised. If students were caught taking amphetamines when I was in school, you got expelled!!!!!

Marine Allegedly Attacks Pregnant Wife With Hammer

A woman who grew up in Whitehall remained hospitalized on Friday after her husband -- a decorated United States Marine -- allegedly attacked and beat her with a hammer.

There are reports every month where cops and military personnel are going on rampages, abusing their authority, and abusing or killing people. We don’t need these types of people in positions of authority. These are the kind of people who unscrupulous bosses will let do their dirty work, but as far as providing honesty, and protecting and serving, they aren’t fit for the job. We don’t need to send people to war for multiple tours and fry their brains, and we definitely don’t need these types of people on the police force.

Troops lured by drug trade, report warns

Military cites 'high probability' some Canadians will become drug traffickers while in Afghanistan.

Question: Why was the drug crop on the decline before we occupied Afghanistan? Why has the drug crop hit record highs since we got there? See the article and draw your own conclusion…….. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article612865.ece

An Obama inaugural ball will be only for military

When we get to the point where we lift one group of people up above the rest (almost to the point of worshipping them) then we have a potential problem. Thank God for those who willing serve our country in this capacity, but the military alone didn’t put Obama into office. So to say that civilians (the majority of the voters) won’t be allowed to participate in this historic and festive occasion is a snub in my book.

US is the World’s Number One Sponsor of World Terrorism

In a ‘manual’ which is officially to be released only to ’students from foreign countries on a case-by-case basis only’, the US Army outlines a program of what it now calls ‘irregular warfare’, in fact US state sponsored terrorism, insurgency, and PSYOPS.

We’re a Republic, NOT a Democracy

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
- Ben Franklin

“A Democracy is the vilest form of Government there is.”
Thomas Paine, Father of the American Revolution.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda minister.

Then consider this from a pamphlet titled “Democracy or Republic, Which Is It?” by Benedict LaRosa:
“Democracy concentrates power into the hands of the few organized and clever enough to manipulate the masses. It is characterized by a communistic attitude toward property and monopolistic enterprises. Government thus becomes an instrument for the redistribution of wealth as well as the security of the state. It is the rule of men, the dictatorship of the majority without regard to the consequences upon individuals or society.”

These quotes say it all.

Environment minister Sammy Wilson: I still think man-made climate change is a con

Spending billions on trying to reduce carbon emissions is one giant con that is depriving third world countries of vital funds to tackle famine, HIV and other diseases, Sammy Wilson said.

As I have always said, the man-made climate issue is nothing but a scam. It is merely an excuse to try to tax and to control us. Any other explanation is a lie or the advocate for combat global warming is an idiot. Warming and cooling cycles are real, but they are not man-made.

RNC mulls accusing Bush of ’socialism’

The divisions taking hold among Republicans are becoming more severe as the party prepares to accuse its outgoing president of embracing “socialism.”

This is all a red herring. The fact is that both the democrats and the republicans are both acting in line with socialist/communistic tendencies. The finger pointing cause the people to be divided into a false paradigm and the people never focus their energy and attention to stopping the true culprit: the money people who run the system.

Fear of stricter gun-control laws causing sales to rise

The Saturday after Barack Obama was elected president, people jammed Cook’s Gun Shop in Biloxi, eager to purchase the guns they believe might be off limits beginning next year.

If guns are so bad, why don’t politicians change the Second Amendment? The answer is because the politicians would never get the support of the people. So the politicians have to make Unconstitutional gun ban laws to incrementally steal our right to bear arms.

Quotes on American History, Education and the Bible

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.
- George Washington, first President of the United States of America

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
- George Washington, first President of the United States of America

There is a book [the Bible] worth all the other books ever printed.

- Patrick Henry, Early America Leader

The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
- John Jay, First Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Education is useless without the Bible.
- Daniel Webster, Early American Politician

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields. God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
- Noah Webster, American Schoolmaster

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America

Headlines for the Week Ending December 27, 2008

1. Cops accused of Toys for Tots thefts ‘tarnished’ police’s image, official says

The four District of Columbia police officers reportedly caught on tape stealing from Toys for Tots “tarnished” the department’s image, a police official said.

Can we start to make examples of crooked law enforcement, politicians and other civil servants?

2. Don’t take health tips from celebs if you know what’s good for you

From Madonna’s quest to “neutralize radiation” to Tom Cruise’s dismissals of psychiatry, celebrities are seldom shy about expressing their views on health and science – even when they appear not to know what they are talking about.

A roll call of public figures such as Cruise and Delia Smith have offered bogus advice or “quackery” this year, according to scientists and doctors. The charity Sense About Science is concerned that celebrities mislead the public when they endorse theories, diets or health products while misrepresenting the science involved.

It’s the same thing that I was saying about the global warming hoax. Dumb celebrities promote dumb science. They don’t even realize that they are being used to look like idiots to sell wooden igloos to the unsuspecting public.

3. NY Times solution to the economic crisis: Raise the Gas Tax

More taxes are always their solution. Too bad the people aren’t tired of it yet. But they will when their children are hungry.

4. Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.

Four blue pills. Viagra. "Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.

Well well, our tax dollars are still being spent well I see. Bailouts, scams, wars, lost jobs going overseas, more taxes and complimentary Viagra. What a deal!!!!!

5. New York’s Soda Tax Scam

http://www.junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20081225.html

So the government is continuing to find ways to penalize us for making bad choices. The government gives these manufacturers a license to provide their products then the government turns right around and punishes the product and makes it less attractive to their customers. If it is an unhealthy product or not isn’t the issue. Why did the government approve the product in the first place, if it is so bad? Big brother is way out of control, and the people are accepting, as usual.

6. The Government now wants to tax farting. I’m serious………

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,462445,00.html

What more can be said about this? One day the people of this nation are going to wake up (hopefully) and ask, “What have we let happen to our country?” That can’t happen soon enough……

7. Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"

This is like I have always said. But all the phony proponents of this foolishness have to do is add cool and trendy commercials to this lie and people believe it. People, I am begging you to wake up. If they are lying about this, about what else are they lying?

8. Kids Learn That Killing Is Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/113079/kids_learn_that_killing_is_fun_at_the_army%27s_lethal_new_theme_park_/

No, killing isn’t cool or fun. It is a part of life for those who are called to serve in this capacity. It isn’t to be taken lightly or abused. But many of our servicemen/women and civilian youth are being conditioned to accept this type of barbaric behavior as trendy. We are truly living in a warped society.

9. Teen Arrested After Passing Gas at School

At best, this was just disgusting. But because he was rude for not excusing himself from the class before he passed gas, he probably should have been reprimanded. But arrested? The cop who arrested him needs to be suspended without pay.

10. Elf, Grinch Ticket Red-Light Runners

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/18235930/detail.html

This is cool. Huh? No, this is not cool. But this is nothing new. Governments throughout history have trained the public to be spies on each other for the Government; instead of the people watching out for each other against real criminals. But most people will say that I am paranoid, but if they were in Nazi Germany observing the exact same thing happening, they would have a different opinion on the matter.

11. U.S. Troops May Be Deployed In Arizona

http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=13113

Why are US troops being deployed domestically? The Government must be expecting something serious to happen.

12. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

Keep moving, folks. Nothing to see here!!!!!

13. Mexico’s Calderon Says Beheadings Signal Cartels’ Desperation

Mexican President Felipe Calderon hailed eight soldiers who were decapitated in Guerrero state as heroes who died at the hands of criminals growing increasingly desperate amid his government’s crackdown on drug cartels.

Actually, Calderon and the Mexican military are being played by the drug cartel.

14. CBS: KBR knowingly exposed troops to toxic dust

A CBS News investigation has obtained evidence that a subsidiary of Halliburton, the giant energy company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, knowingly exposed United States soldiers to toxic materials in Iraq.

You mean the company that gets the “no bid contracts?”

15. FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Headlines to Ponder During the Holidays

1. Senior Citizen Fined for Feeding the Birds

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/17720475/detail.html

I thought this was a joke. Surely no cop or politician is too dumb to execute or to enforce this ridiculous law. But, we do live in a wonderland full of stupidity, mindless morons on megalomaniacal power trips and control. Welcome to the land of the sheep and the home of the slave!

3. The speed trap set by your neighbor - police recruit residents in road safety war

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088718/The-speed-trap-set-neighbour--%20police-recruit-residents-road-safety-war.html

Neighborhood watches are fine, but it should be neighborhood cooperation and there should be a genuine and friendly relationship between the cops (public servants) and the people. For example, look at the relationships between the cops and the people on television shows like: Sanford and Son; the Andy Griffith Show; and What’s Happening. Everyone worked together, and it wasn’t an "us vs. them type situation." In history, Hitler used a twisted version of this type of relationship with the Nazi youth brigades, the brown shirts and the tattletale squads. We don’t want or need this, but there are some in seats of power who would want us to act like little spies on each other for there own nefarious purposes. People need to wake up and if I am wrong, let’s err on the side of caution.

3. Debate on the Existence of Plunge Protection Team

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/debate-on-the-existence-of-plunge-protection-team/

If you think outside of the corporate box and consider an alternative, you are absurd. You are vilified and coerced to stay on the establishment plantation of non-thought. It’s funny, these pundits never prove that the claims are untrue. They only say that the claims are silly, wrong or conspiratorial. Try doing that in a court of law!

4. No comment from Germany on Kosovo spy report

http://www.wiredispatch.com/news/?id=463166

Germany declined to comment on on Saturday on reports that three Germans arrested on suspicion of throwing explosives at an EU office in Kosovo were intelligence officers.

This is another example of government involvement in terrorism. I wonder if there are any other examples in history that confirm government involvement in terrorist acts.

5. Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/MNVN14C8QR.DTL

The federal government committed an additional $800 billion to two new loan programs on Tuesday, bringing its cumulative commitment to financial rescue initiatives to a staggering $8.5 trillion, according to Bloomberg News.

See how they sold it? They said pass this $700 Billion bill NOW!!!!!!! Now it’s up to $8 Trillion and rising. It’s kind of like the war: Bush asked for $87 Billion and now the war is well over a trillion dollars. Sales 101, I guess.

6. Horrific quotes:

“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work, with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.” -- Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
- Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961

Back in 1965, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) sponsored a study to define how they were going to get to where they were then in 1965 to where we are now in the 21st century. They came out with a report in 1969 called ‘The Behavioral Science Teacher Educational Program’ that’s now fully integrated within our educational program. It said:

“Calculations of the future and how to modify it are no longer considered to be an obscure academic pursuit. Long range planning and implementation of plans will be made by a technological scientific elite. This will strain the democratic fabric to the ripping point. The Protestant ethic will of atrophy as more and more enjoyed a very leisured and guaranteed sustenance. Work as a means and an end of living will diminish.

Most people will tend to be hedonistic, and a dominant elite will provide the bread and circuses to keep social dissension and disruption at a minimum. A small elite will carry societies burdens. The resulting impersonal manipulation of most peoples lifestyles will be softened by provision for pleasure seeking and guaranteed physical necessities. The controlling elite will engage in power plays, largely without the involvement of most of the people. The Society will be a leisurely one. People will study, play and travel. Some will be in various stages of drug induced experiences. Each individual will receive at birth, a multi-purpose identification, which will have amongst other things extensive communications and control uses. Each individual will be saturated with ideas of information. Each will be self selected, other kinds will be imposed, overtly by those who assumed the responsibility for the others actions. Relatively few individuals will be able to maintain control over their opinions. .” Most will be pawns of competing opinion molders

7. GM crops 'to be grown in secret'

Trials could also be conducted away from the public in the Government's Porton Down military research site in Salisbury, Wiltshire, it is claimed. There are currently no GM food trials underway in the country and the more than 50 that have been conducted since 2000 have been affected by vandalism.

These people are determined to give the people what they DON’T want. But will the people fight back is the question?

8. Albuquerque police want ad: We need snitches

An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks "people who hang out with crooks" to do part-time work for the police. It reads in part: "Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK."

Interesting, this is what the Stasi in Nazi Germany did, as well.

9. Citizen Soldiers May Need More Training On Homeland Operations, Defense Secretary Say: Military Examines Role In Domestic Defense

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/national/main4631564.shtml?tag=topHome%3btopStories

Why does he feel that we are going to have some incidents occur that will require a merger of police and military? What scenario does he see coming that is so bad? Tell me, so that I can prepare. People should ask “Why?” Research “Posse Comitatus!” There is an agenda here that they are not openly discussing with the average people.

10. Social services ’set up CCTV camera in couple’s bedroom’

Council staff are said to have spied on the young parents at night as part of a plan to see if they were fit to look after their baby, who was sleeping in another room. The mother and father were forced to cite the Human Rights Act, which protects the right to a private life, before the social services team backed down and agreed to switch off the surveillance camera while they were in bed together.

So now the government decides who is a good parent according to their own subjective standards? The Government wants to put a camera in your bedroom? Come on folks, wake up!!!

11. A near-riot and parliament besieged: Iceland boiling mad at credit crunch

THOUSANDS of Icelanders have demonstrated in Reykjavik to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Geir Haarde and Central Bank governor David Oddsson, for failing to stop the country's financial meltdown.

Good for the people who are willing to stand up. Will Americans stand up if things get bad enough here? Stay tuned…….

12. THE BIGGEST SCAM IN HISTORY

Just in case you didn't know the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years,--- this time! They are not part of the United States Government. Yet today they collect hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year.

Pay attention now, you're about to read about the biggest and most successful scam in History.

13. Pfizer Implicated in Human Drug Experimentation on Critically Ill Children in Nigeria

Did Pfizer recruit critical ill Nigerian children for illegal drug experiments? That’s what the Nigerian government is charging in an $8.5 billion lawsuit against the drug maker. To avoid a court battle, Pfizer is offering to pay off the Nigerian government with $150 million in drug money, hoping it will drop the case and end what could potentially be a public relations nightmare for the drug maker.

http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000544_Pfizer_Nigeria_medical_experiments.html

14. 54 year old woman tasered at football game

http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9412105

Here is another example of more idiot cops throwing their weight around. Hopefully, people will get tired of this and realize that we don’t live in Russia or Nazi Germany. I believe that these cops will have to give an account to God for this foolishness

15. The REAL story behind Thanksgiving; pilgrims practicing communism / socialism STARVED until they changed to capitalism!

The failure of Soviet communism was only the latest demonstration that freedom and property rights, not sharing, are essential to prosperity. The earliest European settlers in America had a dramatic demonstration of that lesson, but few people today know it.

When the Pilgrims first settled the Plymouth Colony, they organized their farm economy along communal lines. The goal was to share everything equally, work and produce.

They nearly all starved.

Why? When people can get the same return with a small amount of effort as with a large amount, most people will make little effort.

Headlines for the week ending June 28, 2008

1. Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming?

Preventing someone from driving drunk is a good thing. But could these breathalyzers become an eventual invasion of privacy? Technology is a good thing, but when people with evil motives are in charge, no wonder why some of think the worse in some situations.

2. Taguba: Bush administration tortured detainees, 'committed war crimes'
   

We need more higher level people in Government speaking out against evil. General Taguba should be commending for his honesty and bravery.

3. Evangelist accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible
   

These politicians are comical. Most of them have no idea about religion and politics and should stay away from both subjects.

4. Court rejects death penalty for raping children
   

This the same court that says it's cool to torture people at Camp X-Ray who may have done nothing wrong whatsoever? We have very odd people ruling over us. What does that say about the people who choose these leaders?

5. Man caught having sex with table gets 6 months

Do I have to comment on this article?

6. U.S. Military Demands Bonus Money Back from Soldiers with Arms, Legs Blown Off
   

If you are asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for your country, can you actually put a price tag on your arms and legs?

7. Leaked NIST Docs: "Unusual" Event Before Collapse Of WTC 7

Leaked confidential NIST documents concerning the investigation into the collapse of WTC 7, the 47-storey skyscraper that was not hit by a plane but imploded in under seven seconds on 9/11, reveal that an "unusual" event preceded the collapse of the building - a "jet of flames" that shot out of several windows after most of the fire had already died down.

8. 'Agents Provocateurs' caught in the UK

Governments have been caught time and time again using agent provocateurs. This is nothing new, just another example of Governments getting caught and back peddling.

9. NJ Salutatorian has critical speech cut off

Maybe a graduation speech wasn’t the right place to complain, but you got to give the kid credit for not being a wimp and speaking up for what she thought was right.

10. Mexican Army Members Busted for Home Invasion and Murder

Police reports show that three men arrested in a Phoenix home invasion and homicide Monday may have been active members of the Mexican Army.

11. Government Permission Required For Parents To Kiss Children

A quarter of the entire adult population of the United Kingdom will be mandated to pass a state check operated by a newly formed government agency to have any physical contact with children under the age of 16 in public - including their own kids.

12. Five Myths About the New Wiretapping Law

Perhaps most controversially, the bill effectively pardons the telecom giants that assisted the Bush administration in the warrantless wiretapping program. They will now be shielded from dozens of civil lawsuits brought against them after their involvement was exposed. House Democrats insist that the telecoms are not automatically getting off the hook. Instead, the companies must go before a federal judge. But here's the catch: For the suits against them to be "promptly dismissed," they must demonstrate to the judge not that what they did was legal but only that the White House told them to do it.

13. Oil's rise is mainly dollar's devaluation, OPEC chief says

And all the while I thought that it was the big bad commodity speculators. FYI folks, the commodities are denominated in DOLLARS, which have been devalued. Welcome to economics 101!!!!!

14. Oceans clearing greenhouse gases faster than expected

Oceans clearing greenhouse gases faster than expected...someone needs to contact Al Gore and tell him that science still works. Can we get a return on that Nobel Peace Prize, if necessary, Al?

15. San Francisco to vote on George W Bush sewage works

San Francisco is to hold a vote on whether to rename one of its largest sewage treatment facilities after George W. Bush, in what supporters describe as "a fitting monument to the President's work". Call me crazy, but I’m not sure that I would like a sewage system named after me.

16. City Pension Funds Lose Billions

Taxpayers could be on the hook, AGAIN!!!! When will you learn?

17. Gun Control for Dummies
    

The FACT of the matter is that the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution states quite clearly that "the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." It's also a FACT that the Supreme Court has already stated in their decision Miranda v Arizona: "Where rights (liberty) secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no legislation which would abrogate (abolish) them."

In Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105: "No State shall convert a liberty into a privilege, license it, and charge a fee therefore."

In Sherer v. Cullen, 481 F 946 "There can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of this exercise of constitutional rights."

In Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham Alabama, 373 US 262: "If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity."

With the ruling that the Second Amendment does convey an INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms, prior Supreme Court Rulings make it clear that gun registration and indeed even limits to the kinds of weapons the individual may choose to keep are unconstitutional.

18. The meaning of the phrase "well-regulated" in the 2nd amendment

The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.

19. American 'Meltdown' is the Reason for the Money Injection by Fortis

Fortis expects a complete breakdown of the American financial markets within days or weeks. This explains, according to the bank insurer, the series of interventions on Thursday with the aim of strengthening themselves by € 8 billion. "We are ready at the last moment. The U.S. is doing much worse than we had thought," said Fortis chairman Maurice Lippens, who insists that CEO Votron shall not be replaced. Fortis expects bankruptcies of 6,000 U.S. banks that have low coverage. "But the same goes also for Citigroup and General Motors, and thereby starts a complete meltdown in the U.S."

20. HUGE CREDIT CARD CRISIS NEXT FOR AMERICA

People are using their credit cards to pay for gas and even their mortgages, just trying to hang on until the HIGH-PAYING jobs come back. But the jobs are NEVER COMING BACK. Bush actually gave huge tax credits to corporations to make it easier for them to offshore manufacturing jobs.

21. Department of Defensee Announces Force Adjustments
    

This doesn’t look like we’re going to be leaving Iraq anytime soon.

Headlines for the Week Ending June 14, 2008

1. YouTube - Syndicated Radio host Michael Reagan, adopted son of former president Ronald Reagan, publicly calls for 9/11 Truth Activist Mark Dice to be murdered.

Michael Reagan: "We ought to find the people who are doing this, take them out and shoot them. Really. You take them out, they are traitors to this country, and shoot them. You have a problem with that? Deal with it. You shoot them. You call them traitors, that's what they are, and you shoot them dead. I'll pay for the bullets."

Folks, even if you don’t agree with someone’s view or resounding questioning of an event, this is still no excuse to publicly call for the murder of people. Michael Reagan is the son of a former US President so he may just get a slap on the wrist, if that. But if you or I were to say such incendiary remarks, we just might get a visit from a pack of stormtroopers with black ski masks.

2. Nicolas Sarkozy plans to bypass Irish no vote

Diplomats and officials have no intention of letting the Irish no vote sink a blueprint to boost the EU's powers on the international stage and to create a President of Europe. Gordon Brown has already phoned Paris to promise Mr Sarkozy that Britain will ignore Ireland to continue parliamentary ratification of the EU Treaty.

This is just another example of the will of the people being thwarted. But if people continue to vote for the establishment’s racehorses, then you can expect to get the same pay off in the end. America, get a good look at how you are getting treated by this European example.

3. The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?

Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million - mostly Black and Hispanic - are working for various industries for peanuts.

This is a follow up to an article from a week ago. But the same system that many laud as a savior is showing signs of a tyrannical system of control and abuse. We, the people, are to blame; and until the people rise up, stop rationalizing everything and demand substantive change, the status quo will always prevail.

4. A New Kind of Wage Slave

So when you call directory assistance using, say, Excel Telecommunications, chances are good your inquiry might be answered by a federal prisoner. At Carswell, a fifth of the prison workforce -- most from the camp but a few from the hospital as well -- get to sit in cubicles in an air-conditioned building, start at almost double the pay of the regular prison jobs, and, if they behave and don't make mistakes, get regular raises until they reach the maximum pay of -- hold onto your hat -- $1.45 an hour. Of course, they have to work seven and a half years to reach that maximum. And since this center hasn't been open long enough for anyone to make the maximum, the highest pay at Carswell is $1.15 an hour.

Could this be the reason for such a large prison population explosion?

5. ISRAELI ARMY NOW DICTATES WHO ONE CAN MARRY

When I read the following I had flashbacks to a time in the USA when certain states had it written into law forbidding a white person from cohabiting with a black person.... the same was true under the apartheid regime in South Africa.

When will people stop being slaves? When will our law enforcement realize that they are being played like a marionette dancing on a string. Just doing your job, huh?

6. German Papers Say 'Many Have Lost Faith in America' Because of Bush

With George W. Bush visiting Germany and other parts of Europe this week, German newspapers have been slamming the U.S. president in language stronger than most American dailies use.

If an American citizen with a lot of influence said this, he/she would have been considered a traitor by the bleeding heart establishment shills and the sheeple.

7. Secretary General of Iraqi Scientists and Intellectuals Arrested

The officials said that one of the so-called Muthanna Brigade units in the Abu Ghraib arrested Sheikh Ahmad during his return from Baghdad to the city without reference to any reasons behind the arrest. The source said that a delegation of notables and the people of Fallujah will go to the brigade headquarters to know the reasons for arrest and mediating for his release. It is noteworthy that the arrest of Secretary General came one day after the Congress held by "the group of Iraqi scientists and intellectuals" against the American Treaty.

I’m wondering if this man was arrested because he was giving sensitive information to our enemies. If this is the case, then shouldn’t Bill Clinton and George Bush both be arrested for giving sensitive information to the North Koreans and to the Chinese. Never mind the man behind the curtain!

8. Iraq war could cost taxpayers $2.7 trillion

In addition to the cost of war, taxpayers pay for rising veteran health care costs, and returning soldiers faced with foreclosure and unemployment.

Now, anyone want to explain why the American people should fork over that $2.7 trillion for a war started with lies? Well, they say it’s broken now, and we have to fix it. The American people didn’t break it; so let the bankers who funded this fiasco pay for it.

9. U.S. Ranks Dead Last Among 19 Nations in Preventive Medicine

The United States ranks worst among developed nations in the number of preventable deaths, according to a study conducted by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and published in the journal Health Affairs.

Are we to think that the Pharmaceutical companies, their lobbyists and all of their “cure-alls” are partly to blame for all of this? What about changing our diet, exercise regimen, and unhealthy practices, etc? Responsibility and education are key, but so many people are lazy and spoon fed their “news” from unreliable sources, no wonder this nation is in this sad state of affairs.

10. Security scans will show sex organs

Security scanners that can see through passenger’s clothing and reveal details such as their sex organs, colostomy bags and breast size, are being installed in 10 U.S. airports.

Security is fine, but the good people of this country are doing virtually nothing and letting our government use the threat of terrorism to take away personal liberties: a right to privacy.

11. Teen Challenge: Your tax dollars, paying for institutionalised abuse

Abu Ghraib and Gitmo aren't the only abusive facilities getting tax dollars--both by direct funding and by welfare fraud, Teen Challenge gets quite a bit of your tax money for institutionalized abuse...and Bush is still bailing them out when they're caught doing something wrong.

Like I have always said, when anyone is outside of their authoritative job description, a mess or chaos always results.

12. Bush warns of pay cuts for troops

President Bush on Saturday pressed Congress to approve billions of dollars more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that failure to quickly act could lead to mass layoffs at the Pentagon and an inability to pay the salaries of troops in combat.

How can this President even have those words come out of his mouth after the lie he and his administration told is what got the troops over there in the first place? If I was him, I wouldn't threaten to cut the troops salaries, I'd threaten to cut my own, my entire cabinet's salaries and perks, the judicial branch of Government and all of the pork barrel bills that our Government funds. How's that for leadership?

13. Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles

Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles.

Too little too late, Dennis. Pelosi is compromised and like I told many democrats before the republicans lost control of the House, Pelosi and the gang can accurately be depicted as the “new boss, same as the old boss.” Nothing will change, and it hasn’t. Feel better now?

14. Central bank body warns of Great Depression

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the organization that fosters cooperation between central banks, has warned that the credit crisis could lead world economies into a crash on a scale not seen since the 1930s.

What we have to remember about economics is that these types of things are cyclical and planned. It isn’t necessarily about poor people and a tanking economy; it’s about a transfer of wealth from those who don’t know the rules, to those who make the rules. Remember that! Those people who are losing their homes and their jobs don’t know the rules. The banks are being bailed, bought out, and the “higher ups” are still getting their lucrative financial payoffs. The average Joe is paying $4.00 per gallon at the pumps, inflation is going higher, and American jobs are continually being outsourced. Think about it, folks.

15. Vegan girl, 12, 'has spine of 80-year-old'

A girl brought up by her parents on a strict vegan diet has been admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition said to have left her with the spine of an 80-year-old.

Jesus wasn’t a vegan, the Children of Israel under the Law of God weren’t vegans, science doesn’t support a vegan lifestyle, and there is no New Testament mandate to support a vegan lifestyle. Bring on the meat!

16. Man Who Fell Off Couch Laughing at TV Show Ends Up Pepper Sprayed, Arrested

Here we go again. Cops are just doing their jobs, as usual.

17. FEMA gives away $85 million of supplies for Katrina victims

FEMA gave away about $85 million in household goods meant for Hurricane Katrina victims, a CNN investigation has found. The material, from basic kitchen goods to sleeping necessities, sat in warehouses for two years before the Federal Emergency Management Agency's giveaway to federal and state agencies this year.

YOU voted for this administration America, and YOU got ‘em.

18. Was polygamy the only issue with the FDLS?

19. EMINENT DOMAIN: GOVERNMENT STEALING FAMILY FARM

Headlines for the week ending June 7, 2008

1. US is 'the world's leading jailer:' Human Rights Watch

The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world and more than ever before in its history, Human Rights Watch said Friday. "The new incarceration figures confirm the United States as the world's leading jailer," said David Fahti, Human Rights Watch's US program director. "Americans should ask why the US locks up so many more people than do Canada, Britain, and other democracies," he added. Folks, you better wake up-like yesterday. There is an agenda at work that the media is purposefully not reporting to you. But if your focus and attention is on the NBA Playoffs and whether of not Big Brown won the Triple Crown, then you’re already behind the 8-ball.

2. Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change

If this is true then Al Gore has a lot of explaining to do. Can Nobel Prize winners be stripped of their award?

3. 22,000 Jobs Cut on Wall Street, With More to Come

Does this look like the Bush stimulus plan is working?

4. Obama-Hillary Ticket? Ain't Gonna Happen

If Obama even begins to consider whether a Vice President Clinton would loyally help him better govern the country, she's toast in the veepstakes. This better not happen. After all of that mud slinging with Hillary and her bunch acted like she deserved the nomination. Honestly, there isn’t too much difference between these two candidates anyway, but Hillary has enough baggage to put Samsonite out of business. Don’t do it, Barack.

5. US elections: Jimmy Carter tells Barack Obama not to pick Hillary Clinton as running mate

"I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made," said Carter. "That would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates." Hillary Clinton? Negative?

6. Artificial Sweeteners Confound the Brain; May Lead to Diet Disaster

If that theory plays out, there could be implications for those who use artificial sweeteners as a weight-control aid. Recent research indeed suggests a correlation between artificial sweetener intake and compromised health. In one large survey, diet soda consumption was found to be associated with elevated cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk. A different study reveals a possible mechanism behind this effect: rats that were fed artificially sweetened yogurt in addition to their regular feed ended up eating more and gaining more weight than rats that ate yogurt with real sugar. The study's authors suggest that exposure to an artificial sweetener may undermine the brain's ability to track calories and to determine when to stop eating. Folks, the word “artificial” is the kicker and makes this decision a no-brainer. Stop using the junk!!!! Use stevia instead.

7. NJ superdelegate accuses Clinton camp of divisive tactics

U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Hillary Clinton, tells The Star-Ledger of Newark he received a call from a top member of Clinton's organization shortly before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary. Andrews says the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and blacks. The Clinton’s? Divisive tactics? How could he say such a horrible thing about them after all of these wonderful years?

8. Pentagon said drawing up plans for strike on Iranian camp

The Pentagon is drawing up plans for a "surgical strike" against an alleged insurgent training camp in Iran, according to the UK Sunday Times' Michael Smith.

You know, back when Clinton was President, and coincidentally on the very same day Monica Lewinsky testified, Clinton attacked a target in Sudan he insisted was making weapons of mass destruction for Al Qaeda. As it turned out, Bill's media distraction blew up a medical supply company, pretty much the only one they had in Sudan. As it turned out, there was no trace of WMDs found in the rubble, the owners of the company sued the US and you wound up paying to rebuild the company (along with the bill for those million-a-pop cruise missiles Bill used to do the job). Our government at work!

9. Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control

A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilize Iraq's position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.

This is what the current administration considers to be a viable plan for the future of Iraq???? A US presence in perpetuity? And just what, precisely, do the Iraqi people get out of this agreement? I think the words "absolutely nothing" come to mind here. Wait a minute, I thought that the Presidential candidates (in word only except for Ron Paul) were talking about bringing the troops home. It appears to be only rhetoric again. Am I surprised? Should you be surprised? (Shake your head)

10. Australian Troops Pull Out of Iraq

About 500 Australian combat troops pulled out of their base in southern Iraq on Sunday, fulfilling an election promise by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to bring the soldiers home this year. The current Prime Minister knows that the former Aussie Prime Minister acted hastily in committing troops to this fiasco. He’s getting out while the getting is good. Can you blame him?

11. Cheney calls Iraq withdrawal 'betrayal'

The US Vice President Dick Cheney has told Virginia Republicans that withdrawing US troops from Iraq would be 'an act of betrayal.' One has to wonder against whom Cheney would characterize a withdrawal from Iraq a "betrayal"; Haliburton? Kellogg, Brown & Root? Dyncorp? Blackwater?

All these companies have received no-bid contracts, and have been raking in money hand over fist from the privatization of our military infrastructure. In terms of betraying the Iraqi people, we have already done that by going to war in Iraq on a pack of lies, destroying their infrastructure, and poisoning many of them with exposure to depleted uranium, which causes all kinds of cancers and terrible malformations of their kids. We have also exposed our troops to this same kind of deadly poison, causing the same damages to our troops and their children. I wonder why our vets can’t get the same standard of care that Cheney gets. That sounds like betrayal to me.

12. America's house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression

As housing prices in America continue their rapid descent, market-watchers are having to cast back ever further for gloomy comparisons. The latest S&P/Case-Shiller national house-price index, published this week, showed a slump of 14.1% in the year to the first quarter, the worst since the index began 20 years ago. Now Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale University and co-inventor of the index, has compiled a version that stretches back over a century. This shows that the latest fall in nominal prices is already much bigger than the 10.5% drop in 1932, the worst point of the Depression. I wonder why we aren’t hearing about this on the news, while Bush and his administration act as if everything is just fine.

13. Man banned from jet for Transformers T-shirt

Airport guards stopped a man boarding a plane -- for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun. Some of these airport workers need to get a job.

14. Latest Airline Fee: Pay Toilets?

I’m starting to think that USA stands for Unsurpassed Stupidity of Americans.

15. Bush has plans to turn Iraq over to the corporations and their mercenary armies

Could the U.S. ultimately end up privatizing its entire mission in Iraq? That's what the latest round of contracts the U.S. government plans to let out in the coming months might suggest. And to think, many of them have no competition and get no-bid contracts with minimal oversight and/or accountability.

16. 400,000 Troops needed in Afghanistan

ISAF Commander McNeill has said himself that according to the current counterterrorism doctrine, it would take 400,000 troops to pacify Afghanistan in the long term. But the reality is that he has only 47,000 soldiers under his command, together with another 18,000 troops fighting at their sides as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, and possibly another 75,000 reasonably well-trained soldiers in the Afghan army by the end of the year. All told, there is still a shortfall of 260,000 men. One has to wonder; just precisely how this shortfall going to be made up. I hope that they don’t start implementing conscription (a draft) of Americans or illegal aliens.