Friday, January 29, 2010

The State of the Union at Unrest

Using his Executive Powers he plans to issue is own edicts upon the American populace regardless of what Congress has voted against. President Obama plans to issue Executive Orders to mandate his wishes and wills upon the citizenry. Also, not liking the decsions of the Supreme Court, he urges Congress to put forth legislation that will enable continuation of the campaigning status quo. The President is drunk with power. He stand upon 24 States of National Emergency of which he continued 23 and included another the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic Emergency.



America continues its difference to the world with its unequivical view of the globe and smashing public will in all corners of the Earth. No people may gather and protest their views of poverty and oppression, unless they match the views put forth by U.S. Foreign Policy. If they dare, the dogs of war shall be upon them in the form of Xe, NATO, U.S. Armed Forces, and the CIA. It shows the rather hippocritcal nature of a bankrupt country with unrest beyond history's recollection growing in her belly to step forward on foreign lands and attempt to stabalize social structure, infrastructure, and financial structure with monies taken from children unborn, dreams unmet, and mouths unfed.



A good long look in the mirror should, under normal conditions, be enough to show that a light of reason needs to shine on America herself and in her own closets of the Treasury, of the Federal Reserve Bank, of the Political Lobby, of the Corporatism, and every Executive Branch drunk with delegated authority yet, un wanted by her own people. A closet so stuffed with I.O.U.'s that teleprompters can't keep up with the demand of schemes and back room deals that may be launched one more time to lull a country back to sleep. A country that has awakened to see her founding documents placed upon a shelf and the call number lost with some librarian on her way to audition for an opportunity to be the next American Idol.



A speech which carries truth and vision delivered with integrity in a manner of statesmanship worthy of and to the status of a President of the United States, I did not hear. What I heard was 3 more years of the same. A Corporate-Wall Street-Big Bank guided agenda with no attention paid to the sweat, blood, and tears streaming down the face of lady liberty.

Federal Property Off Limits to the Homeless

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced on Jan. 29, 2010 that federal property is unsuitable for use to assist the homeless.

The U.S. governemnt has millions of acres of land. This land is being used in many ways by the public, by private corporations, and by a variety of organizations, yet it is not being used for the purpose of saving lives and families.
The public uses federal land mainly as parks or as reserves for endangered species. They use these parks as areas of recreation. The public takes camping trips or other types of sight-seeing tours to enjoy America's beauty. That is, the wealthy families do. America's poor and homeless leave that to their one day bucket lists. Corporations see the federal land as an opportunity for profits. They cut down the trees, mine the minerals, and set-up organized camping areas to bilk the public out of their money just to experience their own public land. Schools and other organizations use the land to study nature or protect it from man's harmful affects, yet at the same time, charging a fee to do so.

None of the before mentioned uses serves the public in such a way as providing a space where a family might flower and grow in the security of a home. Thousands of the millions of acres are suitable for building a home and starting a garden. A use for which has gone unseen, unheard, unheralded, and under-recognized as one of the greatest ways to help the homeless of America.

Federal land has been given to American homeless before, in fact, 1.6 million acres of land was granted for such use between 1862 and 1916.
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a growing population with the land Americans needed to live, prosper, and grow. This was furthered by the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909, and the Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916. These humanitarian acts indeed set the course for America's strength and prosperity to flourish and grow. America's strength has always been her people, who are of various types, but all have the backbone, desire, and American spirit to set forth upon the land and develop it with homes and farms.
The Veteran's Land Warranty also helped many Americans obtain a piece of land after fighting in the Civil War. Do veterans of today's wars deserve any less? Do the homeless of today's economic crisis of the twenty-first century deserve any less than the settlers of the 1860's?

Mark R. Johnston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs in the Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn't think so. By his report, dated January 29, 2010, as published in the Federal Register claims that no federal land is of suitable use to the homeless. He apparently did not take any Forestry, Shop, Agriculture, or Home-Economics classes in school. Hundreds of thousands of the millions of acreage that the U.S. Government owns (known as Federal Property)is suitable for development. It is far more suitable than back alleys and street corners and sidewalks where they are prodded along and shewed away. This was as if the National Coalition for the Homeless hadn't won their case against the Veteran's Administration back in December of 1988. Veteran's rights, the rights of the homeless, are American's rights. the constitution states "provide for the general welfare". This seems to be one of those times in American history when the governemnt can do the most good by instead of a debt load heaped upon them by Fanny Mae or Freddy Mac, that a grant of title to 80 acres shall be made after they meet the condition set out by the Homestead Act of 1862: build a home 12X14, five(5)yrs. continuance occupancy, and make a garden.

My own family tree shows titles of land granted to them by the Homestead Acts and the War Veteran Warranty Act, sadly most of this has been taken by the banks and corporations that have grown up around a once free and sovereign nation.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Heath Check: the State of a Nation

The big day has arrived. President Obama will give his "State of the Union Address" to the nation. He faces many challenges that few presidents have. Will he speak to the people, who are concerned about jobs, foreclosures, the mounting debt, and healthcare, or will he speak to Wall Street and Corporate America? The nation faces an economy on the brink of collapse, another decade of War, and a disconnectedness with Washington D.C. that seems to confuse politicians. Does President Obama have the leadership ability to lead the nation out of this crisis? He won an award for peace, yet wages war, so it is easy to see why there is confusion. The nation did, in the past, fight a war to end all wars, so there is hope, but maybe it is the audacity of hope.

Many questions remain. The nation is divided in many ways. Will the President speak without making a reference to September 11, 2001? While he wages war stemming from that day, how can he not. But, in so doing, does he not also leave an opening for people to ask questions. Questions about 9/11.

got a time machine and a good camera?
because realistically speaking, it would be just re-hashing a long drawn out subject with no real substantive progress on the who's and how's. Not saying put this dog to rest, just nothing new to report.

The future holds unknowns. Maybe the day will come when a politician with class and integrity steps forward and says lets discuss this openly, not with bias or insinuations, but with an open agenda and follow the different trails and see where they lead. Involve many panels and teams of investigators. Some of the American population are satisfied with reports already given, however; many others are still asking valid questions to which these past reports fail to mention or avoid entirely. As we approach a decade apart from the tragic occurance of 9/11, time doesn't heal all wounds. let us not forget our brothers and sisters that expired that day, and to their memory we shall continue the effort to bring forward the truth in its entirety be it shame on America or not.

Moving forward as a nation through tough political, economic, and national identity times can only be achieved by being aware of the "State of the Nation" in all it ramifications. This must include an honest appraisal of the past, and it is to this past that we draw a question mark. People are divided. Questions remain unanswered. Many "camps" have been formed and throwing them all into the category of conspiracy theorists is mis-guided. The void in leadership, statesmanship, diplomacy, and accountability weighs down on Washington D.C. like an achor on the tail of a kite. Sweet liberty she wants to fly, but she cannot. The winds of freedom cannot lift her and the anchor of corruption.

it may be better to weave a huge American flag and drap it over the Statue of Liberty that none may see it and mistake it for a beacon to the weary of the world seeking to escape the dictators, the oppressors, the totalitarianists and land upon our shores only to join the long lines at the food banks, employment offices, vaccination centers, homeless shelters, and the string of buses loading up the illegals to send them back to the front lines of the hells they fought so hard and dreamed to escape.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

U.S. Aid to Yemen $63 or $150 Million

According to the Christian Science Monitor of Jan. 21, 2010 an article by Caryle Murphy states that U.S. officials plan to spend $63 million in aid to Yemen. This changes when you read the Reuters story of Jan. 21, 2010 by Adam Entous, who states that General Petreaus is asking for $150 million in aid for Yemen.

That is $63 or $150 million that won't go into the U.S. economy but, instead, comes out of taxpayer pockets. The American economy is on the brink of collapse. A record number of home foreclosures, homeless citizens, unemployed citizens stare at the news in disbelief that the government officials of the United States could be so unaware of its own domestic issues.
The U.S. cares not for its own people, the U.S. foreign policy says. Continued bailouts of other nation economies will deal the final death blow to the United States.

Washington D.C. has certainly lost its way. That is up to $150 million dollars that could have been used to stimulate business, or start new business on U.S. soil. $150 million that could have been used to house American citizens or help them stabalize local economies in this new Great Depression.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Rebuilding Yemen and Waiting for the Bill

Now that the United States has expanded its war on terror to Yemen, the American taxpayer can soon expect another bill to be laid upon President Obama's desk, via congress. The American people, who are reeling from very tough economic times, though Wall Street seems to have bounced back, are soon to be faced with the financial task of rebuilding Yemen.

The President and congress are on an unlimited spending spree. The "War on Terror" is spreading from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and now into Yemen with Uzbekistan next on the list. Patty Murray, the democratic Senator from Washington State, said it quite clearly when President George W. Bush decided to go into Iraq with the tag line, "You break it, you buy it". So, with bombing raids now covering more and more of the Middle-East, the American taxpayer can be expected to cash in the rest of what they own, drain their bank accounts, and do their part to push the Whitehouse's Foreign Policy further across the globe in the Democratization of the planet with the rebuild as you go mind-set. Does China or the other lending nations, share this vision? The United States is broke. It borrows to implement its own Federal programs, and keep its military afloat, all this on the backs of the American taxpayer and its generations to come.

The American people grumble, but continue to pay in more ways than taxes as their own liberties fade in order to stay safe from terror. Air raids on Yemen will bring the U.S. into accountability for the damage. No announcements have been made to the public in regards to the need to re-structure the government of Yemen, but since they are harboring terrorists as Afghanistan and Iraq were, it can't be far off. The U.S. Treasury is stacked full of I.O.U.'s to other countries, so as the bombing raids of Yemen continue, the American tax payer waits for the President or congress to drop a bomb in the form of another spending bill to cover the damages.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Federal Preparedness & Trust

President Barack Obama issued Executive Order #13527 on Dec. 30, 2009
which got published in the Federal Register in January 2010. The Executive Order was issued to prepare for the event of a biological attack on the U.S. populace, namely, an anthrax attack. The Executive Branch ordered the United Postal Service to deliver vaccines into the infected area by the use of the Postal Service. It also orders State & Local enforcement agencies to prepare to assist in the delivery of the vaccines.

With the fading trust the public has with the government, this is seen by many people refusing to get vaccinated for the H1N1 influenza virus because of fears that the vaccination is actually infecting the public with something else or just the health concerns over lack of testing of the anti-viral drugs involved, so the U.S. government has an uphill battle with trying to regain the public's trust. Many alternative media sources are abuzz with lack of faith in the government. They cite President Obama's campaign promises as examples of say one thing do another. It is true that President Obama promised to close Gitmo, bring the troops home from Afghanistan, and approve no bills with earmarks in them. On all three of these promises, the President has reneged.

Now, ordering that the public believe him in such a serious situation as biologic warfare or disaster, his integrity comes into question. The President will soon deliver his State of the Union Address, Jan. 27, 2010. This provides a new opportunity for the President to start to rebuild trust with the public. No previous mention has been made to the public of the Postal Service delivery plan. Is this because it really is part of some other bigger move to reduce the population through biological warfare, or just a Public Relations mistake.

The President speaks of transparency, but continues to maneuver behind the scenes.

Will the police show up with the Postman and force vaccination?

The public is left to guess and take other measures to protect themselves, as the government remains silent and deals behind closed doors on healthcare reform and foreign country invasion. WHO's side is the President on? The public or the corporate?

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Homelessness in America and Government Failure.

As the homeless count in America increases, the U.S. government led by President Barack Obama focuses on bombing raids, Iranian propaganda, bank bailouts, and "terrorism".

The Federal Register of January 2010 includes a notice stating that property owned by the U.S. government is unavailable for homeless Americans, even though; the Americans themselves own the property because they are the U.S. government. It seems that these first decades of the new century will be filled with America rediscovering all the problems that plagued it during the last century. The first few decades of the last century saw joblessness, depression, and homelessness as America became bankrupt by the rich and wealthy elite who controlled the banking system. This new century shows the same systemic problems, but with an even greater magnitude jobless, homeless, and depression wave to hit than the prior century due to the increase in population and overall lack of government capability to handle such problems.

It would seem that America concentrates more on what it's good at-War! Bombing raids of Yemen and Pakistan find the daily papers with first denial then acceptance by the Whitehouse. The homeless walk by paperboxes and read the daily headlines. These daily headlines also include the unrest of Iranians rioting in the streets of Iran. The Obama Administration made sure to include $35 million in the Defense Bill 2010 for a multi-media blitz of the Iranian population urging them to continue their unrest and reach for democracy because after all that is what the jobless, homeless, hungry Americans have back in the good ole USA. The Obama Administration didn't just spend it's borrowed money on the defense of America, it also spent hundreds of billions of dollars on bailing out the banks, who stole the homes of many Americans then paid themselves huge bonuses in celebration of good business practices. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still rage on as the mighty U.S. military machine helps the people of these great nations become more Americanized, and to help achieve this, private military companies have been given billions of U.S. dollars to train the Iraqis and Afghanis in the art of defense and policing. All of this under the name of combating terrorism.

When homeless Americans scrounge through garbage cans for their next meal, they can be gratified that the great U.S. government is thinking about their safety and security. Never mind that the Stewart B McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 was passed to help homeless Americans, because the Department of Housing and Urban Development has deemed that their is no federal property available for living on. What with the millions of acreage owned and possessed by the federal government, not even 1 acre is deemed suitable for habitation by the federal government.

Maybe it is time to let the people decide. Maybe it is time for the people to stop asking and start taking their land back. The banks have taken their homes and were rewarded by a federal government who has no clue about American domestic policy. A federal government that is so focused on learniong what its foreign policy ought to be.

I suggest the government put down its guns and grab a hammer and a shovel cause we got work to do.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The United States of Emergency

It was determined by the President of the United States that, in 2009, 24 states of national emergency existed, so that the President, acting on behalf of the American People and the National Interests of the U.S.A., needed to continue or declare new policies to deal with the 24 states of national emergencies.

The President did so by Executive Order based upon current or prior declaratory statements given the following:

33 executive orders
4 Proclamations
2 United Nations Security Council Resolutions
2 Acts (passed by congress)
1 Agreement
1 Accord
1 Regulation

The above declaratory statements deal with the perpetual state of national emergency facing the United States of America and that those emergencies include the following nations, situations, or Individuals:

Iran, C[ocirce]te d'Ivoire, Cuba, Zimbabwe, the Former Liberian Regime of Charles Taylor, the Sovereignty of Lebanon, North Korea, Western Balkans, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia, Belarus, Iraq, Syria, Russia, Burma, Terrorists Who Threaten the Middle East Peace Process, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Sudan, H1N1 Influenza Virus, Certain Terrorist Attacks, Export Control Regulations, and Terrorism.

All of these declarations of the "State of National Emergency" can be found in the Federal Register http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/
It is interesting to note that in 1978 congress attempted to deal with the issue of "continued states of emergency" and so commissioned a committee to investigate and report on its findings. After reading the report and following the subsequent actions taken by that congress and those that have followed, I found that in 1983, congress made it by law that declarations of national emergency expire one(1) year after their declaration and must be continued on or before their expiration date in order to continue the actions drawn up to act upon the declared state of national emergency. In congresses investigation and preceeding action most declarations and actions of the past presidents were lapsed except that of 3 National Emergency declarations which were in a status of neutral with powers of action also held back unless called forth again by a further declaration of a national emergency.

Some such situations caused by world wars and the declaration of war by past presidents and approvals by the congress give such actions to countermand the situations. The United States facing difficulties in the past such as the Great Depression, World War I, the U.S. bankruptcy of 1933, the Hostage Crisis in Iran, the Fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist's Republic, and Internation Drug Trafficking, call upon certain abilities backed by United States law as found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) or backed by Statutes which point to Public Law. These give the President power to act and call upon resources and place the Federal Republic in different stasis as deemed necessary by the president and under the scrutiny of the sitting congress, mostly governed by the Senate.

The states of emergency prior to 1983( when the law was changed), if declared by the president, will remain in affect, however; the power given the executive branch to act upon those past states of emergencies stay in a state of limbo as I said earlier, until those powers are brought forth by a new declaration of a state of national emergency. The specific powers granted the President by these declarations must be declared and approved by the congress, in each instance, and for what purpose. It has been suggested that certain powers of the Presidency have been stepped up due to the declarations of national emergency or the continued status of a national emergency if declared by a previous president. All of that is very true. Certain rights of citizens such as that of Habeas Corpus are suspended under certain specific Law powers pulled on by the president when the president declares a state of national emergency.

Upon my findings and upon my research into this matter of the United States of Emergency are that unless the U.S. takes action to specifically deal with each situation which caused the president's declaration, then that state of emergency will exist perpetually until said emergency ceases to exist outside the control of the executive branch. This means that most of the emergencies declared in 2009 will again be declared in 2010, with possible new ones added, because the executive branch presided over by President Barrack Obama has failed to garner resources, public support, congressional bi-partisanship, and clear resolve to put the business of American Societal Health, Economical Health, and Foreign Relations Health to the forefront, but instead chooses to engage in 19th Century policy diplomacy.

The U.S. Constitution does provide by the no faith in governance clause that states may invoke their 10th Amendment privileges and so opt out of the continued madness of affairs of the United States of America, until such time when a course of action with sanity is again possible to bring the States back into their strength as a union, but until such a time it is now in the best interest of each state in the union of the United States to succeed, thereby; protecting themselves and their own citizens using their own militias to defend themselves, except whereupon called by another state or states to assist in their defense.

The new National Emergency shall be that of the Sovereignty of the States themselves- a State Emergency of which the dis-unionized federal government is of no help whatever, but that any further engagement with the federal government before succeeding will only bring about further decay of each states sovereignty making them unable to provide valuable governance to their own citizens, and thus, bringing the once great nation known as America closure to that unflattering point of departure of status as a nation.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Hacking Iran's Website is an Act of War

Iran's website has been hacked and this is equivelant to an act of war.

According to the New York Times, Jan. 5th, 2010 Iranian President Ahmadinejad had his website attacked by hackers on Monday Jan. 4, 2010. The content had been altered and a re-direct was installed. The website was still down as of 7:00 AM Pacific Standard time USA.

The New York Times article written by Robert Mackey states that Iran uses heavy censorship measures. Mackey goes on to explain that internet technology expert Austin Heap in San Francisco helps people get around censorship software, even though Iran has passed laws stating that certain websites are not in its citizens best interests.

If Austin Heap was connected to the security breach of President Ahmadinejad's website, wouldn't he be guilty of an act of war? Wouldn't the U.S. bring charges against someone hacking the Whitehouse website?

Censorship is being done by the U.S. on the internet and isn't just being practiced by Iran or China, although; those countries may be more extreme examples of censorship, it is for the citizens of their respective countries to figure out along the line of their political processes. It is not for private citizens of the USA or other countries to commit acts of war upon China, Iran, or any other country which choses to place safeguards to help protect its citizens from content it has deemed harmful.

Cyberwar is War

Article By Curious Moon Publishing

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Small business needs stimulus package

2010 a year of events

Many Americans hope for an upturn in the economic cycle. They hope for jobs. The unemployment level hovers around 10% for claimers and 19% for actual unemployeds. Does President Obama have a plan for job growth? So far, the President's concerns seem to be healthcare reform, intelligence reform, war on terror reform, banking reform, derivatives reform, credit card reform

change and yes we can, but nothing has changed. The U.S. economy is still hanging on the edge of depression. The rich have wall street to play with. The poor have their food stamps and homeless shelters. Federal aid is needed at the small business level. But, corruption in the federal government won't allow stimulus to reach small business. They operate as always trying to scam the people instead of helping them.

There are no loans available that AAA credit rating businesses couldn't get before the economic crisis. A real stimulus reaches out to small business in an attempt to invigorate the bottom tear of American society. Grants are needed for small businesses or gauranteed loans, but mostly grants. $35,000 - $100,000 on average would get the economy rolling. Small businesses that desperately need capital only.

Taking the war road to try and get America out of the economic slide towards major economic collapse isn't going to work. Special interests control the defense department spending. Real recovery will come from stimulating small business. A huge small business bailout. Until that happens, America will continue towards major calamity, unrest, insurrgency, mass riots, mass protests, martial law, and the end of what was America. President Obama's lasting legacy looks to be the fall of America.