Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Speaks On Libya.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Speaks On Libya.

By, WeThePeople

Video Description: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts speaks about the current U.C involvment in Libya.

*May have to go to YouTube.

U.S Troops To Be Used In Libya?

U.S Troops To Be Used In Libya?

By, WeThePeople

Source: CBSNews.com

Article Date: April 7, 2011

Let us take a look at the CBS article,

The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over.

Army General Carter Ham told Congress today that while sending a globalist ground invasion force including American troops into Libya may not be “ideal,” it is probably the only way to make sure the CIA organized rebels defeat Gaddafi and his troops.

I find this bit of news interesting because Mr. Obama told the American Press that the U.S Military will not send ground troops into Libya but the same time the administration has not ruled out the idea. This to me is a clear sign of a ‘possible’ U.S. led invasion.

I wonder how the rest of the world will look at the country if we deploy ground troops in a country that is currently under revolution. Time will tell I’m sure.

Till the next article this is WeThePeople.

IMF Urged To Use Surplus Gold For Financial Relief.

IMF Urged To Use Surplus Gold For Financial Relief.

 

By, WeThePeople

Source: Guardian.co.uk

Article Date:  April 4, 2011

Will quote the whole article,

Development groups have called on western governments to use $2.6bn (£1.6bn) from the sale of International Monetary Fund gold to finance a new wave of debt relief for the world’s poorest nations.

The IMF’s board will meet in Washington on Wednesday to discuss what it should do with the profits raised from disposing of just over 400 metric tonnes of gold, one eighth of the IMF’s total stock of the precious metal.

When it announced the sell-off in September 2009, the IMF said the move was an important step in putting its finances on a “sound long-term footing”. It added that important components of the strategy would be the creation of an endowment and a boost to concessional lending to developing nations.

Tim Jones, policy officer at the Jubilee Debt Campaign, urged the big western shareholders that dominate decision-making at the IMF to use the money for debt relief.

“The IMF is doing very well out of the economic crisis it helped to create, with a windfall from gold sales and profit from lending,” Jones said. “Yet, many poor countries have been forced into debt through no fault of their own, whether due to disasters or the financial crisis caused by western banks. The IMF should use its excess money to cancel such debts.”

He said a total of 58 civil society organisations and networks from across the world have written to the governments that control the IMF, calling on them to use the windfall to cancel poor countries’ debts. Signatories include Oxfam International, the International Trade Union Confederation, Action Aid International, Cafod, Save the Children and the World Development Movement.

Collins Magalasi, executive director of the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, said: “This is a long-awaited opportunity for the IMF to cancel poor countries’ debts. The IMF has always said it lacks the money to be able to write off the debts of these poor countries. Now that there is an excess, it is only logical to use this money to cancel debts that are further crippling poor economies. For most African countries total foreign debt is a third of earnings from exports.”

Campaigners said Sierra Leone was an example of a poor country that had seen its debts increase as a result of the financial crisis. They said Sierra Leone’s debt to the rest of the world had doubled in recent years and in 2011, more of the government’s revenue would be spent on debt repayments than on healthcare.

I think we should view this news as a sign of how bad the global economy may be. While we keep hearing that things are slowly getting better we also keep hearing about budget cuts, tax breaks, bailouts, program cuts, ect.

Me personally, I think we will all soon find out just how bad things really are. This financial crisis has yet to be felt and when it comes down to it we are to blame because we have let our politicians run our countries.

Till the next article this is WeThePeople.

French Forces Join Assault In Ivory Coast.

French Forces Join Assault In Ivory Coast.

By, WeThePeople

Source: MSNBC.MSN.com

Article Date: April 4, 2011

I quote a statement from the article,

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — U.N. and French helicopters attacked Laurent Gbagbo’s last strongholds in Abidjan on Monday as forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara streamed into the city in a “final assault.”

A quick re-cap on whats been happening in the Ivory Coast since March 1,

Gbagbo’s supporters carried out a number of attacks during March, attacking foreign businesses and UN offices in Abidjan on 1 March and killing at least six people attending a pro-Ouattara rally in the city. The northern suburb of Abobo was attacked by Gbagbo’s forces on 13 March in a bid to drive out pro-Ouattara supporters, and mobs were also reported to be roaming the city looking for their opponents and attacking or killing them. The violence resulted in 10 confirmed deaths and scores more wounded. Abobo came under heavy attack on 17 March, killing 30 people, when shells were into a crowded market from a nearby military barracks. It was unclear whether Gbagbo or Outtara supporters were responsible, though Abobo is generally pro-Ouattara. On 18 March, the UN issued a statement saying that the shelling was “an act, perpetrated against civilians, [that] could constitute a crime against humanity.” Another 52 people were killed in continuing violence in Abidjan between 21-26 March.

So with one side on its final assault the other has remained on the defensive. The United Nations has decided to join Quattara with chopper strikes against Gbagbo forces. Apparently the U.N has been in the Ivory Coast for a while only assisting in aid missions this I didn’t know.

United States President Barack Obama on March 27 released a statement telling Gbagbo to step down and hand over power to Quattara. Gbagbo has remained in power. I’m sure within a couple of days we will see what comes of this.

Till the next article this is WeThePeople.

Former CIA Officer Explains The Libyan Situation.

Former CIA Officer Explains The Libyan Situation.

By, WeThePeople

 

 

Video Description: The video explains the situation in Libya. As I stated in a previous article, when Obama announced the end of U.S. operations in Libya they never mentioned anything about the Central Intelligence Agency. I would also like to point out how the two reporters were trying to question Michael Scheuer’s responses even though the former CIA officer was only responding to their questions.

*May have to go to YouTube.

Till the next article this is WeThePeople.

United States Government Using Mind Control On Media? Like Hollywood?

Government Mind Control On Media?

By, WeThePeople

Source: DailyMail.co.uk

Article Date: April 2, 2011

I will quote the article,

A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame.

In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended into undecipherable nonsense – looking confused and unstable. 

The frequency of the ‘attacks’ – and the fact that recorded examples of the mental meltdowns have been popular on websites – has led to conspiracy theorists pointing the finger at shadowy government experiment.

A popular theory being circulated online blames the U.S. Military’s supposed research into using microwaves as a mind control weapon.

America has never admitted conducting such research but proponents say the effects – produced by microwave signals stimulating the brain with fake images and voices – exactly mimic those displayed in the recent on-air breakdowns.

As to why the Pentagon might be targeting U.S. television presenters, the microwave theorists are less clear.

The phenomenon, which has provided internet video sites with some of the oddest footage for months, has now claimed one of America’s most highly paid broadcasters.

Judith Sheindlin, the fast-talking judge on Judge Judy, was taken to hospital on Wednesday after she began speaking a nonsensical string of words during a live recording of her courtroom TV show.

Studio insiders said Sheindlin, who earns £28 million a year for a show that is the most watched programme on American daytime TV, was sitting on camera and ‘started saying things that didn’t make any sense’.

Sheindlin then announced she needed to stop as she didn’t feel well and asked a crew member to call an ambulance.

The 68-year-old lawyer was released from hospital the following day but a spokesman said medical tests had not revealed what caused her garbled speech and double vision.

Her verbal breakdown is the fourth such recent case and the odd coincidence has prompted feverish speculation over the cause.

No video has been released of the Judge Judy incident but footage of the other three has rapidly gone viral on the internet.

The first victim was Serene Branson, a Los Angeles reporter for CBS, who delivered a completely incoherent piece to camera on the Grammy music awards last month.

The presenter was unable to get out her words and continued to struggle to speak for around 10 seconds outside the Staples Centre before producers cut to a video.

She said later: ‘My head was definitely pounding and I was very uncomfortable, and I knew something wasn’t right. I was terrified and confused.’

Her doctor later said she had suffered a complex migraine whose symptoms mimic a stroke.

Her case was followed by a Canadian news reporter whose report on his country’s contribution to the military campaign in Libya suddenly collapsed into gibberish.

Mark McAllister of Global Toronto News told viewers that the Canadian defence minister had confirmed that ‘more than sixty-four 18 fighter jets are spending about as much as 20 and ready to assist 600 hundred, hundred deployed over the an-amount needed’.

His piece-to-camera went on to become even more odd before he signed off.

His employers later confirmed there had been no problem with the autocue but McAllister had also suffered from a migraine.

In January, Sarah Carlson of WISC-TV in Wisconsin was also struck. She started out fine in her report on Wisconsin’s challenge to Barack Obama’s health care reforms, but it soon became apparent that she was having trouble forming words and the camera switched to a startled-looking co-presenter.

Unlike the others, Carlson, 35, has a history of seizures, but America’s army of conspiracy theorists are unconvinced by the medical explanations.

Video Description: Doctor uses microwave technology to show how it affects the brain’s activity. Also provides clips of what the article is talking about.

 

Till the next read this is WeThePeople.

The United States Political System

The Illusion of Choice

By, WeThePeople

 Thanks To jnyblujns

The reason for this thread is to show the American people how our political system has been set up to create an image of choice. I don’t say this off of bogus claim. I did my research and there seems to be a voting habit between us Americans.

If we take a look at our voting habits by party going back 100 years starting with our current president.

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Barack Obama, 2009- (Democrat)

George W. Bush, 2001- 2009 (Republican)

Bill Clinton, 1993- 2001(Democrat)

George Bush Sr., 1989-1993 (Republican)

Ronald Reagan, 1981-89 (Republican)

Jimmy Carter, 1977-81 (Democrat)

Gerald Ford, 1974-77 (Republican)

Richard Nixon, 1969-74 (Republican)

Lyndon Johnson, 1963-69 (Democrat)

John Kennedy, 1961-63 (Democrat)

Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-61 (Republican)

Harry Truman, 1945-53 (Democrat)

Franklin Roosevelt, 1933-45 (Democrat)

Herbert Hoover, 1929-33 (Republican)

Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29 (Republican)

Warren Harding, 1921-23 (Republican)

Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21 (Democrat)

William Taft, 1909-13 (Republican)

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The fact is, we would have to go back to our 13th president, Millard Fillmore, elected in 1850 as a member of the Whig Party, to find a president that wasn’t a member of one of the two major parties [Rep & Dem]. With a few exceptions, we follow almost the exact same pattern throughout history. We elect a Republican, then we realize they didn’t do what they said they would, so we elect a Democrat next, same thing happens with them, so we elect a Republican the next time around. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Could it be that whoever we vote for truly doesn’t matter? Better yet we should ask ourselves why we tend to stick to these two political parties. It’s not because these parties offer something more than the other parties because each party pretty much carry similar ideology.

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the Republican or Democrat may just be two sides of the same coin? The politicians in these parties are raised in the same American families and social circles. Educated in the same colleges, fraternities and secret societies. Beholden to the same corporations and special interest.

Does it not seem at times that it’s almost scripted the way the two parties go back and forth? Do either of the parties ever really accomplish anything other than to divide the country and forces people to pick a side?

Growing up we have always heard the famous saying, “Together We Stand, Divided We Fall.” Then there’s the quote from Mark 3:25 in the Bible, “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”

My point is, have we all been conditioned and deceived into believing we have a choice in this country. That the decision to choose a side may not be a decision. After all we are repeating history over and over again. The more we progress into the future the more it seems the world hates us, yet we keep supporting the same policies and ideologies that these politicians support.

I will end this article with a video that I find very on point to the way our society has become due to this Illusion of Choice and our failure to acknowledge it.

I do not consider myself to be for any political group or faction. I along with LibertyTruthOne represent my generation, the American people, the Constitution, and of course logical thinking.

Till the next read this is WeThePeople.

Sweet Lies OH Sweet Lies Please Tell US More Lies.

Sweet Lies

By, WeThePeople

Obama Lies –

 

 Bush Lies –

Video Descriptions: The following videos show how our politicans lie to us in order to get our support for whatever agenda they may have.

*May have to go to YouTube.

 

End Tax Breaks for Profitable Corporations in Huffington Post.

End Tax Breaks for Profitable Corporations in Huffington Post

By, WeThePeople

Source: Huffingtonpost.com

Article Date: March 29, 2011

I decided to bring this article back due to its importance on Tax Breaks. Whole article quoted,

End Tax Breaks for Profitable Corporations

Posted: 03/27/11 04:40 PM ET Read More: Bernie Sanders , Budget Cuts , Corporate Greed , Federal Deficit , General Electric , Head Start , Healthcare , House Republicans , National Debt , Pell Grants , Social Security , Taxes , Politics News

Republicans in the House want to balance the budget by denying more than 200,000 little children the opportunity to receive an early education through Head Start; reducing or eliminating Pell Grants for 9.4 million college students; eliminating primary health care services to 11 million Americans; and delaying Social Security benefits to half a million eligible Americans, among other things.

Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations are paying their fair share of taxes.

At a time when we have a $14.2 trillion national debt and a $1.6 trillion federal deficit, it is unacceptable that Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Bank of America, Chevron, Boeing, and other large, profitable corporations are not only avoiding paying any federal income taxes at all but have actually received huge refund checks from the IRS.

Loopholes in the tax code, offshore tax havens, tax breaks to companies that export American jobs to China, and other tax breaks have allowed giant corporations in America to receive billions in refunds from the IRS.

Meanwhile corporations are sitting on nearly $2 trillion in cash on hand, and big banks have nearly a trillion dollars in excess reserves parked at the Federal Reserve.

In 2005, one out of four large corporations paid no income taxes at all even though they collected $1.1 trillion in revenue over that one-year period.

In 2009, Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits. Not only did Exxon not pay any federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to SEC filings.

Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, even though it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.

Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.

Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year, received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

Last year, Citigroup made over $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes, even though it received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department. Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS. According to a New York Times article, “G.E. is so good at avoiding taxes that some people consider its tax department to be the best in the world, even better than any law firm’s.”

Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year, even though it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.

ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, which made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.

Ford’s federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made over $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.

Over the last five years, Southwest Airlines paid a federal income tax rate of 6.3 percent, Yahoo paid 7 percent, and Prudential Financial paid 7.6 percent.

Shared sacrifice means that corporate America must play its part in reducing the deficit.

The time has come for corporate America to start paying its fair share. We simply cannot balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the sick, the middle class, little kids and the most vulnerable people in our society.

Here are just a few things we could do to make sure corporations pay their fair share:

1. End abusive and illegal offshore tax shelters.

Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.

The situation has become so absurd that one five story office building in the Cayman Islands is now the home to more than 18,000 corporations. That is wrong.

The wealthy and large corporations should not be allowed to avoid paying $100 billion a year in taxes by setting up tax shelters in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas or other tax haven countries.

2. End tax breaks for big oil and gas companies. Exxon Mobil, the most profitable corporation in the history of the world, not only paid nothing in federal income taxes in 2009, but received a $156 million tax refund from the IRS, according to their own shareholder report. Repealing tax breaks for big oil and gas companies as President Obama has recommended would raise more than $35 billion in revenue over the next decade.

3. Stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. Today, the U.S. government is actually rewarding companies that move U.S. manufacturing jobs overseas through loopholes in the tax code known as deferral and foreign source income.

This is unacceptable. During the Bush years, the U.S. lost nearly 30 percent of its manufacturing jobs and since 2001, 50,000 manufacturing plants have been shut down. Today, corporations in this country are outsourcing jobs to China and other low wage countries where workers are paid pennies an hour. The last thing we should be doing is providing a tax break to companies that move jobs overseas.

Ending these tax loopholes could raise more than $400 billion over a 10-year period.

Till the next read this is WeThePeople.

U.S. Professor Becomes Libyan Opposition Finance Chief.

U.S. Professor Becomes Libyan Opposition Finance Chief.

By, WeThePeople

Source: CNN.com

Article Date: April 1, 2011

I will quote the article as stating,

In just a few hectic weeks, Ali A. Tarhouni has gone from being a senior lecturer at the University of Washington to managing the complicated world of finance and oil for the Libyan opposition’s new government.

The whirlwind journey has him working oil deals, loans, credits and other ways to fund the rebels and finance the government.

So when asked Thursday night by CNN’s Eliot Spitzer whether it has seemed all too surreal, Tarhouni said, “The hectic schedule that I keep so far is preventing me from thinking about it. … And then I realize that I don’t really want to think about it.”

Tarhouni, 60, returned in early March to his native Libya after more than 35 years in exile. He is the fledgling National Transitional Council’s finance and oil minister.

Tarhouni told CNN that the National Transition Council plans to use oil sales to finance the rebels and to form a broader government.

Well this would confirm their agenda to sell oil in order to fund their cause and to form a broader government. Like I stated in a previous article hopefully the rebels will stay true to their cause.

Till the next read this is WeThePeople.