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December 15, 2010
By Chuck Baldwin
After several weeks of moving and settling in, many readers have been
writing me asking for an update on our move to the Flathead Valley of
Montana. First, let me say, we love it here! The scenery is
spectacular, especially now that winter has arrived. What the snow
does to the landscape in this mountainous region is breathtaking!
Driving through the mountains is like driving through Narnia. I have
never seen such beauty.
As for the climate, it is not near as cold as people made it out to
be. Coming from a warm weather State like Florida, one must learn how to dress in a cold weather State like Montana, of course. We have
quickly learned to layer our clothing–and wear the right type of
clothing. That is for sure. But in all honesty, I’ve felt colder in
the Southeast than I often do here. Obviously, the cold weather lasts
longer here, but the dry climate moderates the cold temperatures to a
great degree. What I’m saying is, the cold weather of Western
Montana is no big deal!
But the greater treasure of the Treasure State is its people. We love
the people here in the Flathead Valley! As I have said before, it is
my studied opinion that there are perhaps more freedom-loving people
(taken on the whole) in this area than in any area of the country. Our
living among the people of the Flathead only confirms my estimation.
And even better is the fact that more and more patriots are moving to
this area all the time.
When we first arrived back at the end of October, I discovered a man
from Central Florida who, after reading my initial column on our move
to Montana, packed up and moved here even before we did. In fact, he
was already here waiting on us when we arrived. I had never laid eyes
on this man before meeting him here in Kalispell. I’ve met scores of
people who have recently moved here from all over America. And if my
email correspondence is any indicator of future events, many more are
on the way. In fact, we’ve had visitors coming up to “spy out the
land” every week since we’ve been here. And several families have
already relocated to the Valley.
I really believe God is doing something in the Flathead Valley of
Montana!
I have said it time and again, if there is any hope for freedom in
this country, it is going to be for individual, freedom-loving states
to take a strong and determined stand against the ever-growing
encroachments of the national leviathan that is Washington, D.C. What
Governor Jan Brewer did in Arizona is just the beginning. States will
either defend the principles of federalism and independence or freedom will soon be forever lost to our posterity. And as I’ve also said
before, it is my opinion that Montana might just be the tip of the
spear in America’s future freedom fight.
Just look at what the feds are doing at our nation’s airports. The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is turning air travel into a
journey into Nazi Germany. And now they are thinking about expanding this insanity to the country’s bus and train stations? Then just this week, we were told that DHS is inundating hundreds of Wal-mart stores with Nazi-style turn-your-fellow-citizens-over-to-the-authorities television messages to be broadcast at checkout lanes. Even a blind man should be able to see the handwriting on the wall!
Let me ask you a question, do you believe your State will be willing
to stand up for the principles of freedom and independence when the
“stuff” hits the fan? Or will it sheepishly and complacently
accept this growing Orwellian society that Washington, D.C., is
serving up? I’ll tell you this for sure: if you believe you will
ever need to move in order to maintain liberty for your children and
grandchildren, YOU BETTER MOVE NOW, because it won’t be long and you won’t be able to move. “They” won’t let you! Let me ask it
another way: when the stuff hits the fan, do you want to be where you are, or someplace else?
These are serious and even desperate days requiring serious and
desperate action! The everything-will-be-as-its-always-been mantra is
ringing more and more hollow every day. In their hearts, people all
over America know something very serious is on the horizon. Jobs,
homes, security, comfort, etc., will mean absolutely nothing when the
curtain falls.
I’m not saying this will be easy. Since we have moved, people have
attacked us (my family and me) in the most vicious ways possible.
Connie and I never dreamed that people we thought were our friends
would be saying the things they are saying about us. We are beginning to understand what the Scripture meant when it said that Satan is the
great “accuser.” But we should not be surprised. After all,
America’s founders went through all this and a whole lot more. So
don’t be surprised when your “friends” (and even family members)
do the same thing to you.
Remember, Patrick Henry and the boys were called everything from
traitor to thief to murderer. This is why Benjamin Franklin said,
“We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang
separately.” So tell me, will the people where you live “hang
together”? Are there freedom loving people ANYWHERE that will hang
together? We believe that there might be more such people in the
Flathead Valley of Montana than perhaps anywhere else. That’s one
reason we are here.
As soon as we can locate a suitable facility, we will publicly launch
our new ministry: LIBERTY FELLOWSHIP. We have not yet found the right building, but we hope to do so soon. I’ve had scores of local
Montanans tell me they will be joining us at LIBERTY FELLOWSHIP as
soon as we announce the meeting location. And, of course, we hope to
also resume livestreaming my Sunday messages as quickly as possible.
Note: contributions are NOT tax-deductible. Liberty Fellowship will not be part of the government-sponsored “non-profit” corporation
status. People who support us will do so because they believe in our
message and are committed to Christ and freedom, not because they are looking to receive something back from Uncle Sam.
So, in a nutshell, we are in Montana and glad to be here. And we are
praying that many more patriots (especially Christian patriots) will
join us. We covet your prayers. As exhilarating as the prospect for
the future appears to be, the present attacks against us are often
overwhelming.
I recall preaching a message at Crossroad Baptist Church in
Pensacola, Florida, shortly before we left entitled “If I Perish, I
Perish,” based on the story of Queen Esther. Sometimes it looks as
if I will perish. But if God has a work for us to do here in Montana,
He will vindicate and deliver us from these attacks, and prove Himself
to be our defense and shield. And if not, may His will be done. This
isn’t about Chuck Baldwin. It never was. It’s about the Lord and
His principles, and bequeathing liberty to our children and
grandchildren. And it’s about helping the freedom-minded patriots of
Montana reclaim the constitutional jurisdiction and sovereignty of
their State. So, here we are: at the top of the Rocky Mountains and at
the tip of freedom’s spear.
P.S. We are still shipping FREEDOM DOCUMENTS. These are 50 of the
great historical documents of America–in one volume, under one title.
These are available nowhere else that we know of. Our supply will only
last a few more days. Many are ordering multiple copies as patriotic
Christmas gifts. If you want a copy, you must order now! For more
information, or to order, go to:
Freedom Documents
NOTE TO THE READER:
Chuck Baldwin is a syndicated columnist, radio broadcaster, author, and
pastor dedicated to preserving the historic principles upon which America was founded. He was the 2008 Presidential candidate for the Constitution Party. He and his wife, Connie, have been married for 37 years and have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
Please visit Chuck’s web site at ChuckBaldwinLive.com
December 14, 2010
by Tom at Third Palmetto Republic
A couple of days ago Nikki Haley, the governor elect of South Carolina, was in Washington, D.C. attending a luncheon where the president of the United States was speaking to the newly elected governors of several states. This event didn’t garner many headlines as it is basically a “pity” meeting where the all powerful president hosts the powerless governors, basically to give us the illusion of a federal government that gives a damn about the formerly sovereign governments of the several states.
This event would have been non-news if all had gone as planned, but apparently Haley wasn’t satisfied with the dog and pony show so she decided to press Mr. Obama on a couple of key issues. First, she questioned him about the healthcare legislation:
“Haley says she told Obama that South Carolina could not afford the health care mandate, and that it would cripple small businesses.
“I respectfully asked him to consider repealing the bill,” she said, to which he clearly stated he would not. “I pushed him further and said if that’s the case, because of states’ rights, would you at least consider South Carolina opting out of the program?”
Obama told her he would consider letting South Carolina opt out, she said, if the state could find its own solution that included a state exchange, preventing companies from bumping people for preexisting conditions and allowing insurance pooling.
“I think it’s something we go back to South Carolina and start crunching,” she said. “This is not about expecting what’s given. This is about saying we’re going to fight this every step of the way and use every option possible.”
There are several things that we should examine here: first, this is good news, and it is a good sign. This shows that Nikki Haley shares Mark Sanford’s “South Carolina first” attitude.
Second, while we should applaud Haley for asserting states’ rights, we must also point out that she does not fully understand the concept: we have a right to govern ourselves. If we are governed by Washington, D.C., then we are serfs and not free people. When you have a right to something, you don’t ask permission, you simply assert your right. Haley would have been better served to say something like this: “… because of states’ rights, South Carolina will be opting out of this legislation.”
Finally, Obama’s response gives us some insight into the mindset of a dictator, of an imperial master who rules over his slaves. He said he would consider letting South Carolina opt out, if the state could create it’s “own” solution, so long as that solution was based on the same premise as his solution. In other words, if we totally disagree with his premise and we think free enterprise and voluntary exchange are the proper solution, then he won’t “let” us opt out. This is what we’re up against, and it perfectly illustrates the illegitimacy of the federal government, and the reason we need Independence.
The next issue that Haley brought up with Obama was the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository:
Haley said she also asked the president if he would honor the federal government’s commitment on developing a nuclear waste repository. When he said he would not revisit opening Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, “I said, ‘Then give us our money back.’”
The site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas was proposed to house more than 4,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste from South Carolina’s Savannah River Site. The state and Washington have sued over Obama’s attempt to kill plans for the storage site after decades of study.
“SRS has done a good job, but that was a temporary solution. It was never meant to be a permanent solution,” Haley said she told him. “The federal government has reneged on its promise, and the people of South Carolina want their money back.”
South Carolina’s power plants and its customers have contributed more than $1 billion over nearly 30 years to a permanent repository.
She says Obama pledged that he would have Energy secretary Steven Chu call her promptly.
Now this is a smaller issue, but I think Nikki actually took a better approach on this one. Here she asserted the people of South Carolina’s sovereignty, as she demanded our money back from a federal program that had (as per usual) failed to live up to its end of the bargain. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t mention the wording of Obama’s response, though it does say that Obama promised to have Steven Chu call Haley about the issue. I sure would have liked to have seen his face though.
The important thing here is that Haley demanded our money back, and rightfully so. The people of this state funded a program to house nuclear waste and that program has been essentially cancelled. If any nation did the same thing to the United States federal government, they’d probably be accused of harboring WMD and an invasion would follow. In demanding our money back, Haley basically said that we have a right to be respected as a state and that our contracts should be honored. Now she just needs to demand our independence by pushing the General Assembly nullify any and all federal legislation that controls the lives of the individuals in our state, and assert that we retain the right of secession should the federal government not respect our rights.
I don’t think that Nikki Haley was thinking about that when she confronted the president. I don’t think that she’s a staunch supporter of political independence for South Carolina. However, she hasn’t even started serving her first term as governor yet, and she’s already picked up the torch of fighting back against the federal government from Mark Sanford. Hopefully we, the people of South Carolina, can influence her to join our cause.
© 2010 Third Palmetto Republic
(Editor’s Note: While Nikki Haley is a superior choice to the idiot pussy-chaser Mark Sanford, she still has a long way to go to be a true stateswoman. On the issue of the Healthcare legislation, the best response would have been to tell Mr. Obama to expect a formal letter on his desk on her inaugural day informing him of South Carolina’s refusal to be subject to the Act. On the issue of nuclear waste, she could have informed him that South Carolina would simply withhold $1 billion…plus interest…from any tax money that SC would normally send to Washington.
Nikki Haley is a modern-day Carpetbagger. Even though she hails from Bamberg, SC, she is taking her place as a Governor who does Washington’s bidding. South Carolina deserves better.)
by Stephen Lendman
(Editor’s note: You’ll see that author Mr. Lendman doesn’t like millionaires as you read. But if you ever doubted that DC is a one-party town, watch what happens over this “Bush tax cuts” issue. Rather than an up-down vote on this one issue, both parties in Congress will load up this bill with porky earmarks as extortion for votes. The sellout of America continues. The more spending bills DC enacts, the faster the economy will collapse, and the quicker Secession can proceed to once again regain liberty in North America.)
The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. On core issues, Democrats are no different from Republicans. Expect more bluster before caving like Obama, enacting his deal with the devil worth up to $1 trillion dollars. The lion’s share goes to corporations and America’s wealthy, middle and low income workers getting crumbs. The fix is in. It’ll happen, promoted as stimulus to create jobs and revive economic growth. Not so. More on that below.
Given the makeup of both Houses, their voting records aren’t surprising. Getting reelected counts most. Under a corrupted electoral system, generous funding is needed, but wealthy and corporate donors expect lavish favors in return. They get them and much more.
As a result, Congress capitulates on virtually everything big money wants. Expect it again. Besides more handouts, preserving their tax breaks are key. Most congressional members, in fact, want their own kept. Otherwise, they’ll face big increases they don’t want and can avoid by benefiting from what they give millionaires, their own class. Read on.
Both the House and Senate are infested with millionaires. For some, their net worth exceeds $100 million. House examples include:
– Rep. Darrell Issa (R. CA), his maximum net worth estimated at $451 million;
– Rep. Jane Harman (D. CA), hers is $435 million;
– Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. CA) up to $124 million; and
– Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D. CT), the House’s 25th richest member with nearly $27 million.
Senate ones include:
– John Kerry (D. MA) – heir through his wife to the HJ Heinz fortune; among their possessions, they own five homes with values well over $1 million each, the most expensive worth more than $9 million; he can afford them with a maximum net worth of $295 million;
– Mark Warner (D. VA), his at $283 million;
– Herb Kohl (D. WI), up to $231 million;
– Jay Rockefeller (D. WVA) at $136 million;
– Diane Feinstein (D. CA) $108 million;
– Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. KY) a meager $33 million; and
– the Senate’s 25th richest member – Ron Wyden (D-OR) a paltry $7 million.
No wonder the body is called a millionaires club. In fact, a multimillionaire’s one, hardly anyone not rich gets in.
On November 25, 2009, The New York Times Economix section headlined, “Your Senator Is (Probably) a Millionaire,” saying:
In 2008, about “two-thirds of United States senators were millionaires,” according to a Center for Responsive Politics (Open Secrets.org) analysis. In 2009, over half of House and Senate members reported net worth wealth at more than $1 million, 55 $10 million or more, and eight over $100 million.
In 2009, the median net worth of House members was $765,010, up from $645,503 in 2008. In the Senate, it was $2.38 million, compared to $2.27 million the previous year.
Most have considerable wealth. They want it preserved and increased, including by paying no more taxes than necessary, and in some cases, less if they can get away with it. One of Rep. Charles Rangel’s transgressions was not reporting rental income from a Dominican Republic vacation property as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income and assets on his financial disclosure statements. Perhaps also to the IRS, thinking he was too important to audit.
Open Secrets estimates Obama’s 2009 net worth at up to $7.7 million. Expect that figure to grow substantially, especially after leaving office. Estimates put Bill Clinton’s wealth at $200 million, his wife Hillary another $35 million. Who said public service doesn’t pay well?
Obama’s Full Court Press for Passage
Calling Obama an embattled president, Washington Post writer Dan Balz headlined, “Bill Clinton takes the White House stage, again,” saying:
To sell his tax deal, he got center stage, first together, “then solo in the White House briefing room, as Obama slipped away to a holiday party.” On a Friday afternoon, it “was certainly a head-turner,” Clinton “look(ing) like he might never leave, as he fielded questions” from an eager press corp.
His message:
“The agreement taken as a whole is, I believe, the best bipartisan agreement we can reach to help the largest number of Americans and to maximize the chances that the economic recovery will accelerate and create more jobs and to minimize the chance that it will slip back.”
Prodding Democrats, he urging setting aside disagreements for the sake of the country and economy. Save your fights for later, he said, when Republicans try repealing other legislation they oppose.
On December 10, it was all Clinton, “still the center of attention and doing what he likes to do best,” trying to get Obama’s deal passed.
The Wall Street Journal was nonplussed, an editorial headlined, “Clinton and Obama for Bush,” saying:
“We thought we’d seen everything in politics, but yesterday was truly miraculous: There in the White House press room was none other than former Democratic President Bill Clinton (with Obama) endors(ing) the Bush era tax cuts, trying to mobilize reluctant Democrats and the party’s base for support.
On December 11, Wall Street Journal writer Jonathan Weisman called it “back to the future in the West Wing,” the “original practictioner of ‘triangulation.’ ” He called it compromise, saying “People do not see principled compromise as weakness. (It’s) an ethical thing to do.”
In fact, it’s a sellout. He won’t say it, nor Obama or supportive Democrats, even Bernie Sanders for eight hours on the Senate floor, performing rhetorically at best. Real filibusters don’t quit without succeeding. According to Senate historian Donald Ritchie, they occur “to prevent the majority from casting a vote.” Sanders spoke on Friday. A Monday vote is scheduled. Doing it then is what counts with others holding the floor nonstop.
Instead, after what he called “a long speech,” he concluded saying:
If “the American people are prepared to stand – and we’re prepared to follow them – I think we can defeat this proposal. I think we can come up with a better (one) which better reflects the needs of the middle class and working families of our country and, to me, most importantly, the children of our country. And with that, Madam President, I would yield the floor.”
No assertion he’ll be back on Monday, staying there with others uncompromisingly to kill the deal for a better one American families deserve. Instead, rhetorical bluster substitutes for resolute action, assuring wealth again defeats popular need. Democrats are as culpable as Republicans, showing not a dime’s worth of difference between them at voting time when it counts.
Another Big Gun for the Deal – David Broder
An earlier article exposed him as a symbol of major media depravity, accessed through the following link:
Broder article
Called the “dean” of political journalists, he’s distinguished more for supporting power and privilege than delivering real journalism, his December 8 column the most recent example headlined, “Obama takes his case to the independent center,” saying:
“In opting to accommodate reality by acceding to the Republican demand for maintaining all the Bush tax cuts (ones benefitting Broder greatly) and obtaining a better price than many expected for his concessions, Obama (did) almost all that is possible to create a favorable economic environment for the 2012 campaign. (That’s) a winning posture for a president seeking a second term, (placing himself) in the center of the American political spectrum.”
In fact, he’s far to the right of center, even further by his latest deal, proposing more wealth to those already with too much. He’s offering most to fat cats and corporate favorites, chump change by comparison to working Americans.
Broder, however, wants more – “tough love budgetary changes outlined by the presidential commission on deficits,” hitting ordinary American hard while lavishing more benefits on the rich and corporate America. He called it comparable to Clinton signing welfare reform in 1996, stiff-arming the nation’s poor, including many single mothers with children sacrificed to win votes for a second term. “This was (Obama’s) best showing….in many months,” selling out to power and privilege for the same thing.
Broder, so-called pundits, other corporate media writers, and some progressive ones won’t explain it, including Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel. She’s an establishment figure, a regular on corporate TV, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member, and unabashed Obama supporter, even when criticizing as she did in her December 7 Washington Post op-ed headlined, “Obama’s disastrous path,” reciting a checklist of objectionable policies, including, saying he’s:
“on the verge of kowtowing to Republican bluster and cutting a deal to extend (Bush era) tax cuts for the rich in exchange (one hopes) for extending unemployment insurance,” implying giving up lots for a little is OK.
Then despite criticizing his current course, while stopping short of condemning and exposing it as hard right, she inflated him unjustly, saying he “has a historic mandate” like Lincoln to end slavery or Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Otherwise, he “risks a failed presidency.” She’s, in fact, clueless how corrupted, lawless, and failed he’s been for nearly two years, a record of shame, assuring his status as one of America’s worst ever leaders, serving power, not loyal constituents who elected him, the same ones again being betrayed.
Vanden Heuvel, other Nation writers, and more from the progressive left think Obama is one of them. Their level of intellectual dishonesty is shocking. Calling it blindness is too kind, including Christopher Hayes in the Nation’s December 27 issue headlined, “Tax Cuts Forever,” criticizing the deal, but saying:
“They know the economy needs more stimulus, and that Republicans are loath to allow them to deliver it. Through this deal they were able to secure some stimulative tax cuts….At this point, the White House will take what it can get,” or in other words bad deals are OK to get something.
“Obama didn’t create this system, but he is making it stronger before our eyes,” for capital, not working Americans, suckered into a bad deal Hayes won’t admit or maybe understand. Economist David Rosenberg does, calling it “a neutral for the economy,” not stimulus to create jobs and revive growth.
Progressive writers, not Obama, have “a historic mandate” to expose a failed president, a servant of wealth and power, an elitist, a corporatist betraying his base. He’s beyond rehabilitation. He and the entire Congress needs replacing for of, by and for the people governance. Try reading that in the Nation or most other left of center publications.
Democrats like Republicans are shameless. Their record belies their rhetoric. They’ll display it again next week, capitulating like always to wealth and power, calling it the best deal for Americans they could get. For themselves, other rich folks, and their corporate allies for sure.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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Norse mythology gets multi-cultural remake in upcoming movie titled “Thor,” Marvel studios. It’s not enough that Marvel attacks conservatives values, now mythological Gods must be re-invented with black skin.
Ord has calculated that his lifetime efforts will save thousands of lives in ‘developing’ countries—places where fertility is very high. He has organised a campaign called 
Is this the incomprehension of bourgeois materialism speaking? Certainly in many cases. Is this miserable envy in the face of what is taken as extraordinary virtue? Certainly in some cases. Is this secret resentment in the face of implicit guilt-mongering? I would not be surprised at all. There is, certainly, something oddly irritating and repellent about an over-educated, middle class White man with two Macs and an iPhone pontificating publicly about poverty in Africa and who agonizes—to the point of fearing a nervous breakdown—over whether buying himself a more expensive kind of cereal is really ethical. I suspect some find him rather pathetic, even if they dare not say it for fear of social sanction. But I also encountered a similar feeling of irritation and repellence around the time Bob Geldof ran his absurd Live8 campaign some five years ago. To me both Ord and Geldof represent a peculiar species of Western man—one that is pathological, the result of a subclinical neurological condition, of some form of psychological hypertrophia, that afflicts them with chronic and overpowering feelings of guilt and a totalitarian universalist outlook that tolerates no inequality and no dissidence. Some have called him homo equalis.
