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Cops have a new game to play By Ken Hildebrand Contributing writer for End the Lie and host of the Information Nation on Orion Talk Radio For quite a while now the police have had a new toy to play with, the taser. Now they have turned it into a new game called “Let’s see who can tazer the most people to get them to comply.” Editor’s note: RT has also covered this horrific incident and many other insane instances of police using tasers for fun including: “Driver in diabetic shock killed by cops with pepper spray and Tasers”, “NY cops break into Marine vet’s home and Taser him before shooting him to death”, and “Cop Tasers a waiter for fun.” However, even more disturbing is the following article, “Tasers have killed at least 500 Americans.” The latest victim of this game was Chicago resident, Tiffany Rent, a 30-year-old pregnant woman in her 8th month of her pregnancy. What was her crime? Was it armed robbery, terrorism, or drunk and disorderly? No, it was parking in a handicapped spot at Walgreens. The police report says that after Rent got a ticket she tore it up and threw it at the police officer. In the course of the altercation a taser was discharged. Rent and her boyfriend Joseph Hobbs were charged with resisting arrest and simple assault. All this took place in front of Rent’s two children, her 9 year old son and her 3 year old daughter who were in the car at the time. This isn’t the first time that police have tased someone; in fact it has become an all too frequent occurrence. And it’s not going to stop anytime soon. A federal court of appeals ruled that three Seattle police officers did not use excessive force when they tased a pregnant woman 3 times for failing to sign a speeding ticket. In Washington failure to sign was a non-arrestable misdemeanor. I guess using pain to force compliance is legal. Police officers using, or threatening to inflict, pain just because the individual they encounter disagrees is the Nazi way to control the populace. What will be next, water boarding? Local, state and federal governments have gotten out of control. They look at the people as cattle, to be controlled and herded into pens for compliance. You must be observed at all times and told what to do and where to do it. If you fail to comply you will be tased and detained. Barack Obama said during his 2008 campaign that he wanted a civilian force as well armed and funded as the military. What he failed to say is that he wanted it to be used on the American people. It looks like he got his wish. The use of the taser, beatings, detentions, forced inoculations and the rest will not stop unless the people rise up in protest against these actions. Your local politicians must be made aware that you will not tolerate this type of behavior from any of your local law enforcement personnel and that they should not be allowed to carry tasers. Tell your politicians that if they fail to comply you will replace them in the next election. The TSA was the first step in the enslavement of the American people. It has now moved to local government. The next phase of your enslavement is about to become reality. Armed drones will soon be coming to your neighborhood. Welcome to 1984 where surveillance is everywhere and the real terrorist is your government. Edited by Madison Ruppert Ken Hildebrand is the host of the Information Nation on the Orion Talk Radio Network. The Information Nation airs 6:00-8:00 PM PST/9:00-11:00 PM EST immediately before End the Lie Radio. Be sure to tune in to both for four hours of informative talk radio. It is the absolute best way to cap off your weekend and start off a new week, guaranteed! I agree the pregnant woman was probably out of line, but that doesn't give the cop an excuse to use tasers just because they don't happen to like you. My link

This is the only checker I could find that wasn't on a government page. That being said, I agree with your concern, however, a LOT of computers have been infected with redirecting virus' written by people with no morals or ethics in order drive hits for profit. It has happened to me in the past, and the only way I could have got it was from a "trusted" email. I use Malwarebytes and it got past that. I tried Spyware Hunter, and that one crashed my OS. I had to reformat and reload all apps. So far, the updated malwarebytes has done it's job. If you don't think you have a DNS virus, then don't use the checker. I know my software tells me when there are any outgoing requests. It's the only way I know to ensure I haven't been infected with some dang thing or another. This is true, ever since P4 your computer logs into Intel before your home page even comes up. At least in P3 you could turn it off in the bios.

As you may know, the FBI and Homeland Security will be disconnecting people from the internet on Monday. Here is the link to test your browser. DNS checker read more; As many as 64,000 Americans could be knocked offline Monday as a result of malware unless they change their DNS server addresses, according to a report. The problem is exclusive to Windows users, but you can check if your computer is infected by clicking on this link. If you are, call your Internet provider, let its representatives know you were affected by the DNS Changer Malware and have them give you a new DNS address, which should solve the problem. However, that link was down at least for some time Thursday morning, likely due to high amounts of traffic, so if that's the case, there are also various links on this help page to assist you in checking for the infection manually. Google and Facebook have also been Good Samaritans and have been issuing alerts if their sites suspect infected users are logging on. If you don't catch the infection in time, you can still fix the problem the same way. Simply contact your Internet service provider. The problem is a result of a large online advertising scam that took over more than 4 million computers around the world. When the FBI went in to shut down the scheme, the agency realized that turning off the malicious servers would cause infected computers to lose access to the Internet. So the FBI set up two other servers, which have been connecting infected users to the Internet, but they will be shut down on July 9 at 12:01 a.m. EDT. As a result, 277,000 computer users worldwide as well as about 50 Fortune 500 companies could be affected by the shutdown, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Brother, please, don't let this take you away from your purpose. Even though you can see through the veil, that doesn't mean everyone has to as well. I appreciate your ambition, but it sometimes gets in the way. I started a alternative medicine thread a few days before you. I didn't bother to say anything when you did because I just wanted it to take root and have a place for people to discuss alternative healing. I only mentioned that to perhaps suggest it really doesn't matter how many responses you get to a thread, as long as the idea, the thought, lives on. That really is our only true mission in life, to be a witness, a living testimony, and a blessing to others. You have accomplished that. Be at peace with yourself my friend. Then, be at peace with the rest of the world. You deserve that. Everything WILL happen in God's time, not ours. You just do what you are led to do, and then leave it to God to do what He intended to do the whole time.

excellent video scrum. I emailed out a link today.

Yes, it is called free speech, and I absolutely respect it. I did not call anyone stupid. That would be rude, inflammatory, and an obvious violation. However, if a person is ignorant of a fact, law, custom, or procedure, that can be easily remedied. My entire point was that there seems to some that are ignorant of the facts surrounding the reason the USA is not appreciated around the globe. As I said, a little honest research could easily fix that. To twist that statement into something it isn't is to destroy the intent. As I said, there was not intent to offend, and even though I wasn't talking to you, I will apologize to you and anyone else that was offended. Now, go do your own research and quit being ignorant of the truth. You just may realize we are far more alike than different. Unless of course, you are saying that if the USA got invaded by a foreign government, and they started raping, murdering, and pillaging, that you wouldn't bother to lift a finger and you would be content to watch your family and neighbors die? I didn't think you were like that. I got the impression you love the USA as much as I do. See? I was ignorant of that fact until this moment, but now I know it's OK with you if we are ever invaded, because you are OK with invading some other country and decimating the land and peoples. See how easily ignorance can be cured? What? you WOULD help? Then does that mean you are a hypocrite, or just think Americans have the right to kill and destroy anyone they want to if they have something we want? See, I believe there is only ONE RACE, THE human RACE we have no more rights than anyone else, and we need to stop the lies, deceit, and murdering.

Wow, Sanitorum, really? The same moron that said he was going to vote for O because he didn't get the nomination? That freaking weak kneed jelly fish establishment dolt? If you didn't understand what Ron Paul was talking about you can't possibly wrap your mind around other far more important issues that our government has lied to you about also. That's what's REALLY scary, people that have lost the ability to reason, who have completely surrendered intellect for camera shots, dramatic music, and a pompous moron wearing make up TELLING them what to think at the end of a 30 minute "news" program that was only a propaganda platform anyway. I don't know about you, but if Iran invaded the US, bombed us, occupied our cities, murdered our countrymen, just because of a few greedy bastards, I would be part of the resistance myself. I would defend my country to my death, and be proud I died for my country by killing a few of the occupiers. I do not condone Hamas or any of the other hate groups, but truth is if WE didn't go there and start killing to get the freaking oil they wouldn't be hating us. There's a LOT more to that, but to cheer Ron Paul getting booed for telling the truth is pretty darn ignorant. Also, Paul isn't saying drop everything and pretend we don't have an enemy, he's saying quit being the antagonizer and leave them the hell alone. You may be more brainwashed that you realize. Tell me, can anyone actually buy anything with a US dollar? Even a single piece of gum? If your answer is yes you need to start studying, and start "unlearning" all that "education". I just reread my response. I did not say anything to intentionally agitate, but I did hope to promote comprehension.

Actually yes. I will be there. If anyone else is going we should meet up. I'll bring my gear and we can bbq fresh crab.

I watched a news documentary about the cities. They talked to a couple that's the only ones in the whole 20 something story condos. A lot of wealthy Chinese purchased condos as an investment, and now have lost their life savings. Entire malls are open and vacant except for janitors, security, and cashiers. The Chinese government forced the growth to appear to maintain some growth rate. Their bubble has been building for decades as well. Here's one of them

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Way to go Frogee, it aint easy being green, but it made a man out of ya... (just kidding, I couldn't help it) Honestly, they can't lock up 350 million Americans. As long as the resistance is splintered individuals can be singled out, but there's no stopping a full blown movement.

Sarge, I know you are probably right. I understand my vocal opposition to their continued oppression may have no net result other than getting me put on some government black list or another. I had a medium level security job in the Army, I understand how those freaking paranoid and delusional "spy guys" think. I also know that while those voicing their opposition may not be directly responsible for any changes, they are definitely a factor. I spent most of my military time deciphering messages or fixing the equipment that did the coding. There were times I came up and realized I had not seen real sunlight for almost 30 days. I love this country with my all, and I just can't sit around and watch a bunch of corrupt morons destroy it without so much as a whimper. As for anything else I may or may not be doing, I invoke the 5th. I completely understand your position. Be well.

I'm shocked. Doesn't anyone know what the LOST treaty is about? It's about taking YOUR taxes and giving the money to the UN to "redistribute" to other "less fortunate" countries. It's about paying carbon taxes for non-existent global warning. It's about handing over Americas sovereignty to an entity that has never recognized the US Constitution as valid. It's about accepting the New World Order, and realizing defeat as America. here's a brief; The Law of the Sea Treaty, formally known as the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS III, was adopted in 1982. Its purpose is to establish a comprehensive set of rules governing the oceans and to replace previous U.N. Conventions on the Law of the Sea, one in 1958 (UNCLOS I) and another in 1960 (UNCLOS II), that were believed to be inadequate. Negotiated in the 1970s, the treaty was heavily influenced by the "New International Economic Order," a set of economic principles first formally advanced at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). That agenda called for "fairer" terms of trade and development financing for the so-called under-developed and developing nations. Another way the New International Economic Order has been described is "redistributionist." The Law of the Sea Treaty calls for technology transfers and wealth transfers from developed to undeveloped nations. It also requires parties to the treaty to adopt regulations and laws to control pollution of the marine environment. Such provisions were among the reasons President Ronald Reagan rejected the treaty in 1982. As Edwin Meese, U.S. Attorney General under President Reagan, explained recently, "...it was out of step with the concepts of economic liberty and free enterprise that Ronald Reagan was to inspire throughout the world." In additional to the economic provisions, the treaty also establishes specific jurisdictional limits on the ocean area that countries may claim, including a 12-mile territorial sea limit and a 200-mile exclusive economic zone limit. Some proponents of the treaty believe that the treaty will establish a system of property rights for mineral extraction in deep sea beds, making the investment in such ventures more attractive. Notwithstanding concerns raised about the Law of the Sea Treaty - and there have been many - the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended U.S. accession to the treaty in a unanimous vote in March 2004. A vote of the entire U.S. Senate has yet to be scheduled.

As of last night, there are now 20 RINO Senators that have verbally agreed to support the LOST treaty. If you remember, this gives power and pays our taxes to the UN. Here are the Rinos pages, and the address you can use to send them an email. I have already sent each one an email using their own address. Please note, you MUST use an address inside their district or the email will no go through. Also, here is a sample letter you can copy/paste. Form Letter; Are you going to be a RINO forever? Has the Ron Paul message passed you by? Don’t you get it? STOP BETRAYING AMERICA!!! Vote NO to L.O.S.T. Or get ready to be unemployed in the next election. The "silent majority" will be silent no more. Didn't you take an oath to PROTECT America? Why then are you so willing to give her away? Addresses; Lamar Alexander http://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email Chattanooga Office Joel E. Soloman Federal Building 900 Georgia Avenue, #260 Chattanooga, TN 37402 Phone: (423) 752-5337 Kelly Ayotte http://www.ayotte.senate.gov/?p=confirm&success=true&validate=contact Nashua Office 144 Main Street Nashua, NH 03060 Phone: 603-880-3335 Scott Brown http://www.scottbrown.com/contact-us/ 337 Summer St Boston, MA 02210 (857) 263-8346 Thad Cochran http://www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me 911 East Jackson Avenue Suite 249 Oxford, Mississippi 38655 662-236-1018 Susan Collins http://www.collins.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email 202 Harlow Street, Room 204 Bangor, ME 04402 Main: (207) 945-0417 Bob Corker https://www.corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactMe 3322 West End Ave., Suite 610 Nashville, TN 37203 Main: 615-279-8125 Michael Enzi Federal Center, Suite 2007 2120 Capitol Avenue Cheyenne, WY 82001 Lindsey Graham http://lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.EmailSenatorGraham 508 Hampton Street, Suite 202 Columbia, SC 29201 Main: (803) 933-0112 Charles Grassley 307 Federal Building http://www.grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm 8 South 6th Street Council Bluffs, IA 51501 Kay Bailey Hutchison 961 Federal Building http://hutchison.senate.gov/?p=email_kay 300 East 8th Street Austin, Texas 78701 512-916-5834 512-916-5839 (FAX) Johnny Isakson http://isakson.senate.gov/ One Overton Park, Suite 970 3625 Cumberland Blvd Atlanta, GA 30339 , Mike Johanns http://www.johanns.senate.gov/public/index.cfm 4111 Fourth Avenue, Suite 26 Kearney, NE 68845 Tel: (308) 236-7602 Fax: (308) 236-7473 Mark Kirk, http://www.kirk.senate.gov/ 230 South Dearborn Suite 3900 Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: 312-886-3506 Fax: 312-886-2117 Richard Lugar http://lugar.senate.gov/ 1180 Market Tower 10 West Market Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 (317) 226-5555 p (317) 226-5508 f John McCain http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/ 2201 East Camelback Road Suite 115 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Main: (602) 952-2410 Fax: (602) 952-8702 Mitch McConnell http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/ 601 W. Broadway Room 630 Louisville, KY 40202 Phone: (502) 582-6304 Lisa Murkowski http://www.murkowski.senate.gov/public/ 101 12th Avenue Suite #329 Fairbanks, AK 99701 Main: 907-456-0233 Fax: 907-451-7146 Rob Portman http://portman.senate.gov/public/ 312 Walnut St. Suite 3075 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-684-3265 Olympia Snowe http://www.snowe.senate.gov/public/ Two Great Falls Plaza Suite 7B Auburn, Maine 04210 Phone: (207) 786-2451 Fax: (207) 782-1438 Patrick Toomey. http://www.toomey.senate.gov/ United States Federal Building 228 Walnut St. Suite 1104 Harrisburg, PA 17101

Just like they claimed it wasn't a tax, they also said the panel of bureaucrats deciding what treatment you get won't be based on saving money. You can bet the "death panels" are coming, and we are about to lose many thousands of jobs as manufacturing in America becomes a thing of the past. When will America realize it has never been Republican against Democrat, but individual against collectivist? The British National Health Service (NHS) — the epitome of socialized medicine — may be prematurely ending the lives of as many as 130,000 elderly patients annually, a top physician told the Royal Society of Medicine in London. Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and professor of clinical neurosciences at the University of Kent, said a controversial end-of-life care method called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) now used in British hospitals has become an “assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway,” according to a report in the Daily Mail. “If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying as it is now associated with 29 per cent of NHS deaths,” Pullicino declared, referring to statistics showing that of the 450,000 annual deaths of patients under NHS care, about 130,000 are of patients who were on the LCP. The Mail offers a brief history of the LCP: The Liverpool Care Pathway was first developed at a Marie Curie [Cancer Care] hospice in the city with the intention of making the last days and hours of cancer sufferers as decent and painless as possible. It rapidly became fashionable: recognized as a model for the NHS in 2001; approved by NICE [the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which rations care on a cost-benefit basis] as a recommended practice in 2004; and a 2006 health white paper said it should be adopted across the country. Its use spread from cancer sufferers to all patients. Doctors are supposed to identify a patient who is bound to die in the near future. The plan then can include withdrawal of treatment, including the provision of water and nourishment by tube. Patients are typically heavily sedated. The LCP’s quick adoption by the NHS and NICE represented “euthanasia by the back door,” in the words of the Telegraph’s Gerald Warner. “In 2007–08,” he wrote, “16.5 percent of deaths in Britain resulted from continuous deep sedation — twice the rate of the Netherlands with its notorious culture of death and legalized euthanasia.” Since that time the percentage of deaths due to the LCP has increased by 75 percent, with no signs of slowing. Indeed, with the NHS “heading for an iceberg” (as NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar put it) of unsustainable costs, the LCP death percentage is likely to grow even more rapidly. It costs far less, after all, to give a patient morphine for a day or two — death occurs on average within 33 hours of beginning the LCP — than to treat his condition for the remainder of his natural life, which could last for months or even years. Pullicino, according to the Mail, recalled taking a 71-year-old patient off the LCP, after which the man lived another 14 months, mostly at home, “at considerable cost to the NHS and the taxpayer.” (He died after being admitted to the hospital for pneumonia and put back on the LCP.) Other doctors have recounted similar experiences. Dr. Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in palliative medicine at St. Luke’s Cancer Center in Guildford, told the Telegraph in 2009 that “he had personally taken patients off the pathway who went on to live for ‘significant’ amounts of time.” Hargreaves worried that the LCP could “become a self-fulfilling prophecy” because doctors would make the determination as to which patients were likely to die and then, by withdrawing lifesaving treatment and heavily sedating them, guarantee that they would die. As Hargreaves and other experts put it in a letter to the Telegraph, “Forecasting death in an inexact science,” and “sometimes, when all but essential drugs are stopped, ‘dying’ patients get better.” In fact, Hargreaves noted, some patients may exhibit signs of dying when their bodies are merely reacting to sedation combined with dehydration and then “be wrongly put on the pathway.” Once a patient is sedated under the LCP, University of London geriatrics professor P.H. Millard told the Telegraph, “it is much harder to see that a patient is getting better.” Pullicino echoed many of these sentiments, saying that “patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition,” that “predicting death” at a specific time “is not possible scientifically,” and that, as a result, “very likely many patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP.” He cited “pressure on beds” — which is to say the inevitable shortage of care under socialized medicine — and “difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients” as reasons that the LCP has become so widely employed by the NHS. In other words, it’s much cheaper and easier to bump old people off than to treat them. Who’s going to know which ones might have recovered and enjoyed a few more years with their children and grandchildren? No one should be surprised that government-run healthcare kills people. All socialist systems end up rationing whatever goods and services they have to offer; and when you’re rationing healthcare, the most vulnerable patients are going to suffer the most. The only surprising thing is that there are still people who think socialized medicine is a dandy idea — among them President Barack Obama, who said multiple times that he wanted a “single-payer universal healthcare program”; his Secretary of State, who once tried to foist such a system on Americans; and his former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, who declared his undying love for the NHS. Who, then, could doubt that ObamaCare’s purpose is to put the American healthcare system on the LCP — and when the system finally keels over, to convert the United States to a single-payer system and the “death panels” that such a system invariably entails? My link

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different ...... Two Different Versions ...... Two Different Morals OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself! MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green..' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012 I believe that you are an ant! You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it anyway.

Nice . never heard of this, would have never put that cut shell in a shotgun and pulled the trigger if I hadn't seen the video. Posting stuff like this is almost as powerful as good cooking.. you'll be a lady after my own heart...

Has it come to this? If we banded together as Americans, not democrats, not republicans, we could take our country back.

Can you believe this? The imposter is now begging people for their birthday money too. The more the real O comes out the more I realize what a freaking spineless arrogant worm he really is. Obama campaign launches donation gift registry BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff - June 22, 2012 3:27 pm President Obama is so worried about a fundraising gap that he is asking supporters to forego “birthday, anniversary, or wedding” gifts and instead request their guests instead donate to his campaign: Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up? Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl. Between raffling off sit-downs with the president and his predecessor Bill Clinton and seats at celebrity-laden dinners, the Obama campaign has been a trailblazer in finding new ways to beg supporters for money this election cycle. My link

Green Energy Gulag Federal inmates build solar panels for company with ties to Obama administration BY: Andrew Stiles - June 20, 2012 5:00 am The Obama administration is using prison labor to advance its green energy agenda, enriching foreign companies and some of the president’s largest campaign donors in the process. Federal Prison Industries, most commonly known by the trade name UNICOR, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Justice. Established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934, UNICOR was intended as a voluntary work-training program for federal inmates. It has recently gone into business supplying federal agencies with green energy technology such as solar panels. Hundreds of federal inmates earn between $0.23 and $1.15 per hour manufacturing solar panels at UNICOR facilities in New York and Oregon. The panels are then sold to a variety of government agencies, which are obligated by law to purchase them. One of the alleged rationales for the program is to allow federal agencies to purchase domestically produced solar panels at an affordable price. UNICOR’s website insists its solar panels “are domestically sourced and produced, meeting the requirements of the Buy American Act, Trade Agreement Act, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” However, the agency signed a five-year $219 million contract in 2009 with Taiwan-based Motech Industries to provide the individual solar cells used to assemble the panels. It is a common trick employed to get around “Buy American” restrictions, said Rep. Bill Huizenga (R., Mich.). Products manufactured using foreign components still qualify if they are physically assembled in the United States. “It’s yet another outrage on what is happening with our tax dollars,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. Huizenga has sponsored legislation to reform UNICOR in an effort to ensure that prison labor “is not taking business away from the private sector.” UNICOR typically partners with private companies to install the panels and help the agencies put in place other energy-saving measures. Major beneficiaries of this system include Constellation Energy, which was recently acquired by the Exelon Corporation, a Chicago-based utility provider with deep ties to the Obama administration. Less than two week after the two firms finalized their merger, Constellation won a 20-year contract to provide renewable energy to 10 State Department facilities, including its Foggy Bottom headquarters, as well as a portion of the White House campus. The “first-of-its-kind federal contract” will help the department contribute to President Obama’s executive order mandating a 28-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, according to a company press release. It will also spur the development of several new green energy projects facilities, including a 5-megwatt solar project in New Jersey that will use panels provide by UNICOR. Constellation is one of the most prolific providers of green energy to federally owned facilities, sporting contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA) for the U.S. Capitol building, the Federal Reserve, the Smithsonian Institution, the United Nations building in New York, and a host of federal buildings in several states. The company appears to have cornered a market that failed solar company Solyndra sought to break into before filing for bankruptcy in September 2011, despite receiving more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer-backed loans. Emails uncovered by congressional investigators reveal that former Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet “spoke very openly” with President Obama about “the need for installation of Solyndra’s rooftop solar on U.S. government buildings.” Constellation, like Solyndra, received hundreds of millions of dollars for green energy projects in the 2009 stimulus package. The company, Peter Schweizer notes in Throw Them All Out, was identified as a promising investment by liberal billionaire George Soros, who bought 300,000 shares of Constellation that same year. Constellation’s new parent company, Exelon, is one of the most politically connected firms in the country, as well as one of President Obama’s top sources of campaign contributions. Exelon employees, including a number of current and former top executives, have donated at least $246,000 to Obama since 2007, including at least $83,000 this cycle. “Chicago-based Exelon stands out as one of the best patrons throughout Obama’s political career,” notes Politico’s Darren Samuelsohn. “Its employees make up the largest group of donors this cycle from the energy and natural resource sector.” Exelon was Obama’s fourth-largest campaign donor when he ran for Senate in 2006, contributing more than $73,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The firm donated $326,000 to Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008. Frank Clark, who recently retired as chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison, another Exelon subsidiary, helped advise Obama before his 2008 presidential run and has been a prolific campaign bundler ever since. Clark has already raised between $100,000 and $200,000 for the president in the current cycle. Exelon board member John Rogers has bundled more than $500,000 for the president this cycle, as he did in 2008, and has personally contributed at least $100,000 to the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities Action. Rogers, who played on the Princeton basketball team with Obama’s brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, recently attended the wedding of senior White House adviser Valeria Jarrett’s daughter in Chicago. The connections extend well beyond the large campaign contributions of top executives. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod is a former consultant to the company. Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel helped broker the $8.2 billion merger between PECO Energy and Unicom that led to the firm’s creation in 2000. It was the biggest deal of Emanuel’s two-year career as an investment banker in Chicago, during which he pocketed more than $16.2 million, according to congressional disclosure forms. Obama’s close ties to Exelon became a contentious issue during the Democratic primary in 2008, when Hillarious Clinton accused her opponent of cutting deals “behind closed doors” to benefit “one of his largest contributors.” Exelon was a vigorous proponent of cap-and-trade legislation, even going so far as to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the group’s opposition to the bill. It was also poised to be one of the biggest financial beneficiaries of the bill’s passage, which ultimately never happened. One study estimated that Exelon “could see its operating income jump by almost $1.7 billion” under a cap-and-trade regime. Exelon still managed to secure its share of federal funding. In 2011, it received a $646 million taxpayer-guaranteed loan to build a solar facility in California and created only 20 permanent jobs. The administration’s cozy relationship with Exelon is emblematic of a Democratic party that has been corrupted by powerful special interest groups, said Jay Cost, a political analyst and author of Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic. “Democrats like to say they are for the people over the powerful. It’s just not true,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. “We have not seen a government raid the public treasury to pay off constituent groups to such an obscene extent in American history. A hundred years from now historians will look back at this administration and hold their nose.” UNICOR maintains it is “preparing inmates for the green economy” and that the program reduces the recidivism rate among prisoners, though a 2011 Congressional report found that studies looking into that claim “are not conclusive.” UNICOR did not return requests for comment. The same report noted that little about the UNICOR operation appears to have changed since its founding nearly a century ago: “Most of FPI’s current operations are based on a manufacturing, mass-production, low-skilled labor economy of the 1930s. Inmates employed in FPI are working in ‘a labor-intensive manner’ where the emphasis is on employing as many inmates as possible with each inmate producing little output.” UNICOR has a history of using its competitive advantage—federal law typically requires government agencies to buy its products, even if cheaper alternatives are available—to undercut private businesses. A military clothing manufacturer in Tennessee recently lost out to UNICOR on a $45 million contract to make products for the Department of Defense, the New York Times reported in March. As a result, the firm laid off about 100 employees. Earlier this year, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) intervened on several occasions to prevent Kentucky manufacturers from losing federal contracts to UNICOR. “Why are we going to use taxpayer dollars to purchase materials that are literally taking business away from the private sector?” said Rep. Huizenga. “And let’s be honest, let’s pull the pin on the hand grenade. If this was Chinese prison labor, we’d be rejecting every single one of these imports.” My link

Really? It doesn't matter that the partisan politics have nothing to do with Americans, but who gets to control them by making the rules. The reason I posted was not to continue to perpetrate a non-issue, which in reality where O was born does not matter. What does matter is that the entire democratic party knew they were lying to America by confirming O was a qualified candidate. That means they simply don't care about what is right or wrong. That means they have INTENTIONALLY divided our nation in order to advance their agenda through deception, and pulled off one of the biggest cons in history. Why can't people see past the face value of anything? Why doesn't it matter that our country is nearly destroyed by some power hungry tyrants? I can't believe how forgiving everyone is that they were made a chump by corrupt politicians. I am astounded this doesn't provide the impetus to cause people to finally realize almost all politicians have been complete hypocrites. To just roll over and take that, or to live in denial of the reality, is to further enable the collectivists to force their doctrine down our throats. The last 3 years have caused more damage than probably any other time frame in our history, and all you can say is it's no big deal? Really? The GOP is just as corrupt as the democrats. Isn't it time for people to take an action? Before anyone tries to twist that into something it isn't, I'm talking about taking an active roll in your local government, voting out the liars from both sides. Americans are not willing to even research the truth about this country, most would never accept the possibility of a sovereign human. The very least we could do is try to hold them to some sort of ethics and morality. While it doesn't matter where O was born, it very much DOES matter that we were lied to these last 4 years.

You already know I am aware of this. We the commoners were never part of the plan, except to provide the labor for their pleasure. However, you ignored the hypothetical postulation completely.

This story was posted for entertainment purposes only. The hypocrisy from both sides is mind-numbing. This really doesn't matter if you understand our true status as American "citizens". However, one could make the argument that since the lie has been perpetrated for a couple hundred years it is now truth, and then Americans have the right to force the government to adhere to the bogus constitution. It's all a matter of perspective and enforcement. They have been enforcing a lie and made it true, so why can't we enforce the deception and make it real? I'm not really serious about that, I am forced to laugh before it makes me cry...

Can you believe this? After faced with the overwhelming evidence, the Democratic party admitted o was a lie. They say the voters decided the was eligible because he was voted in, so that's the end of it. WHAT??? If they had not perpetrated the lies, people would have known he was not eligible, and he would not have been voted in. Can you wrap your mind around the contempt, arrogance, deception, and hypocrisy being displayed by the democrats?? Dems Admit Obama’s Not Eligible June 23, 2012 By Doug Book Comments (7) Weary of defending in court the Constitutional eligibility of their man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Democrat Party has finally admitted Barack Obama is not qualified to be president of the United States– and that it doesn’t matter. According to a motion filed by Party attorneys in a Tennessee eligibility lawsuit, “…Defendants [the Tennessee Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee] assert that the Tennessee Democrat Party has the right to nominate whoever it chooses to run as a candidate, including someone who is not qualified for the office.” In numerous previous lawsuits questioning the Constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama, Democrats have maintained that voters, not the Constitution, should be the final arbiters of presidential eligibility. Though a disgraceful assertion on its face, such mindless rambling was about all that desperate Democrat attorneys had in their arsenals, apart from the perpetually employed “plaintiffs lack standing” defense. But now, the cat is out of the bag, and the true sentiments of Democrat Party officials have finally been aired. It seems that, according to the left, as long as the acting president has the requisite contempt for the United States, is willing to work tirelessly to destroy the national economy, and will ignore both the rule of law and his Constitutional duty to enforce it, he is eminently qualified to hold the country’s top job. In February, Georgia Administrative Judge Michael Malihi ignored Supreme Court precedent, made a shambles of case law, and distorted the rulings of other courts in a pathetically obvious mission to find Barack Obama eligible for the Georgia presidential ballot. Although the first judge to decide an Obama eligibility case on the merits, his contempt for an honest judicial process certainly did nothing to mend the rapidly deteriorating reputation of the American legal system. On Wednesday, United States District Judge S. Thomas Anderson joined a long list of robed colleagues, ruling that plaintiffs in the Tennessee case “lacked standing” to point out Obama’s Constitutional ineligibility for the presidency. That is, plaintiffs could not claim sufficient personal harm should the Manchurian Candidate remain in or be re-elected to the White House. Strange how the law works. After 3 ½ years of cynical disregard for the borders, language, and culture of the United States, one would think that some 240 million people have suffered “sufficient personal harm” to claim legal standing for a crack at His Royal Highness in a court of law! There are only 30 million illegals currently residing in the United States, and those the Attorney General refers to as “his people” might actually lack legal standing in the eyes of an honest arbiter. At any rate, Democrats have finally admitted what the rest of us have known for quite some time. Barack Obama is NOT qualified to hold the job won for him by the national media in 2008. But it seems only the voters will have the authority to reclaim it from him. God willing, the vast majority who exercise that authority in November will be both American and alive. My link