Eternal Vigilance

This 4th of July, while you and your family celebrate the 230th Anniversary of the founding of our great nation, there’s one party you won’t be invited to…

…And that’s the party that Kofi Annan is throwing at United Nations headquarters in New York — using your tax dollars — for nearly fifty dictatorships, six terrorist states, governments that endorse execution based on religious faith, and a multitude of other nations from around the globe.

You see, this party isn’t to honor your freedoms — but to conspire to take them away. That’s right. Over our 4th of July holiday, while taps is played at Arlington National Cemetery to honor Americans who have sacrificed their lives for freedom…

…These dictatorships, terrorist states and so-called “free” nations of the world plan to meet on our home soil to finalize a U.N. treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection, and strip you of your rights under the Second Amendment.

Before one word falls from their lying lips about our country and our freedoms, I want them to hear from America’s 80 million gun owners and YOU.

When the government told a court Friday that it wanted a class-action lawsuit regarding the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping on Americans dismissed, its lawyers wielded one of the most powerful legal tools available to the executive branch — the state secrets privilege.Wired News: Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit

America’s Middle Class Falls Deeper into Debt as Income Growth Slows and Costs Climb

America’s middle class is drowning in debt. A typical middle income family earning around $45,000 a year saw its debt burden grow by 33.1% between 2001 and 2004, even after adjusting for inflation. Debt relative to income rose even more, to 33.9%, during this period for middle income families. Personal bankruptcies among these households are rising steeply.

The reasons for greater economic distress among middle class households are not hard to pinpoint. Slow income growth between 2001 and 2004, the last year for which complete data is available, has not kept pace with the rising cost of big ticket items such as housing and education loans, medical expenses and transportation. Family budgets have been squeezed.

Drowning in Debt - Center for American Progress

abc7news.com:  As interest rates increased steadily over the past year and the explosive growth in housing prices declined, many Americans fell behind in their mortgage payments. Now some have defaulted on home loans and could lose their homes due to foreclosures.

And one world currency

The Bush-Kennedy Immigration Tsunami (by William F. Jasper)

Even as the car to pick him up for the show was en route, the station canceled his appearance when he refused to slam Sheen.

CNN SEEKS SHEEN SLAMMERS

Iran plans to require non-Moslems to wear badges.
Canada.com 2006 May 19

Andy Ramirez serves as chairman of Friends of the Border Patrol (FBP), a non-profit organization that was created to support the U.S. Border Patrol and defend U.S. national security. Founded in 2004, FBP works with the Border Patrol and law enforcement officials across the United States and is using surveillance cameras on the U.S.-Mexico border to serve as a “neighborhood watch” and as “eyes and ears” for the Border Patrol in high-traffic areas where the Border Patrol does not have cameras operating. With his many contacts in the Border Patrol, Mr. Ramirez also breaks important stories that have been neglected or covered up by the politicians and the major media.

Bordering on a War Zone

“In a nation of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation” Jim Kramer

Organic Consumers Association - Educating for Health, Justice, and Sustainability

By Julian James

 

Oh, What a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind!  What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries!  And the privacy of it all!  A secret theatre of speechless monologue and preveniant counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, and infinite resort of dissapointments and discoveries.  A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can.  A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do.  An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror.  This conciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet nothing at all. 

What is it?  And where did it come from?  And Why?