2012 forecast: Food riots, ghost malls, mob rule, terror

2012 forecast: Food riots, ghost malls, mob rule, terror
Trends chief says people should brace for 'the greatest depression'
Posted: October 10, 2009
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A trends forecaster says the current economic 'rebound' from last winter's Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by 'phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing.'

And Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com, says people right now should be bracing for 'the greatest recession' which will hit worldwide and will mark the 'decline of empire America.' Crop failures could be among the minor concerns.

'Here we are in 2012. Food riots, tax protests, farmer rebellions, student revolts, squatter diggins, homeless uprisings, tent cities, ghost malls, general strikes, bossnappings, kidnappings, industrial saboteurs, gang warfare, mob rule, terror,' he writes for a quarterly publication that is available through subscription on his website.

He also talked about his forecasts with Greg Corombos of Radio America/WND in an interview that has been posted online.

The recent surge in Wall Street indexes back to near the 10,000 level, still far below the 14,000 prior to the crash, should be no reassurance for anyone, he said.

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Congress to Obama: Lose Jennings

CZAR WARS
Congress to president: Lose 'safe school' chief
'It is clear Mr. Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications'
Posted: October 10, 2009
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Kevin Jennings

About a dozen members of Congress have written President Obama, strongly suggesting the administration lose Kevin Jennings, a homosexual activist who was appointed to supervise the Education Department's Office of Safe Schools.

'We respectfully request that you remove Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, from your administration,' the members wrote. 'It is clear that Mr. Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in this capacity.'

WND has been reporting on Jennings appointment and background since his nomination was announced in May.

He founded the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, which promotes homosexual perspectives in public schools across the nation.

In a letter signed by U.S. Reps. Doug Lamborn of Colorado, Steve King of Iowa, Duncan Hunter of California, Darrell Issa of California, Paul Broun of Georgia, Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and others, the authors point out Jennings 'has played an integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America's schools.

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Holdren sought 'planetary regime'

WND Exclusive CZAR WARS
Urges making U.S. government subject to U.N.-run apparatus
Posted: October 10, 2009
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

John Holdren

White House science czar John Holdren has called for the United States to surrender sovereignty to a 'Planetary Regime' armed with sufficient military power to enforce population limits on nations as a means of preventing a wide range of perceived dangers from global eco-disasters involving Earth's natural resources, climate
, atmosphere and oceans.

As previously reported, WND has obtained and reviewed a copy of the 1970s college textbook 'Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment' that Holdren co-authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul R. Ehrlich and Ehrlich's wife, Anne. The authors argued that involuntary birth-control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under extreme conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by 'climate change.'

On page 943, the authors recommended the creation of a 'Planetary Regime' created to act as an 'international superagency for population, resources, and environment.'

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Report: Reining in lawsuits would cut deficit - Washington Times

Bolstering what's likely to be a key health care reform argument from Republicans, Congress' budget scorekeeper ruled that limiting medical malpractice lawsuits would reduce the federal deficit by $54 billion over 10 years.

The Congressional Budget Office - in an analysis that projects a nearly10-fold increase in savings over its findings last year - said tort reform would cut costs by limiting the use of diagnostic tests and other services health care providers and doctors use to reduce exposure to lawsuits.

In explaining the increase in savings, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told lawmakers 'recent research has provided additional evidence that lowering the cost of medical malpractice tends to reduce the use of health care services.'

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Jonah Goldberg : Global Warming and the Sun - Townhall.com

On the last day of August, scientists spotted a teeny-weeny sunspot, breaking a 51-day streak of blemish-free days for the sun. If it had gone just a bit longer, it would have broken a 96-year record of 53 days without any of the magnetic disruptions that cause solar flares. That record was nearly broken last year as well.

Wait, it gets even more exciting.

During what scientists call the Maunder Minimum -- a period of solar inactivity from 1645 to 1715 -- the world experienced the worst of the cold streak dubbed the Little Ice Age. At Christmastime, Londoners ice-skated on the Thames, and New Yorkers (then New Amsterdamers) sometimes walked over the Hudson from Manhattan to Staten Island.

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New World Order

Oh Praise Obama the Messia

Please can someone stop this woman!!

Boxer widens fundraising lead for 2010 campaign - San Jose Mercury News: "Boxer widens fundraising lead for 2010 campaign
The Associated Press
Posted: 10/09/2009 10:36:22 AM PDT
Updated: 10/09/2009 10:36:34 AM PDT

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is facing re-election next year, has added to her fundraising lead by taking in $1.6 million during the latest quarter, giving her $6.3 million in the bank.

Boxer is expected to sail through California's Democratic primary next June. Her main Republican competition so far, state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, raised about $330,000 during the last three months, according to his campaign's Web site.

Former Hewlett Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina is considering entering the race for the Republican nomination.

Reports to the Federal Election Commission are due Thursday, but well-financed candidates often release totals beforehand to demonstrate the vibrancy of their campaigns.

Boxer and DeVore said their respective fundraising shows strong grassroots support. More than 43,000 people donated to Boxer, while about 14,000 donated to DeVore."

President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize - Washington Times

Friday, October 9, 2009
President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Karl Ritter and Matt Moore ASSOCIATED PRESS

UPDATED:

OSLO (AP) -- President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for 'his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

During the press conference to announce the winner, there were gasps in the room when Obama's name was mentioned in Norwegian. Moments later, the announcement was made again but in English.

Speculation had focused on Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a Colombian senator and a Chinese dissident, along with an Afghan woman's rights activist."

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Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism

Defends communism, welfare state but says 'white majority' oppose programs aiding blacks, Hispanics
Posted: October 07, 2009
10:35 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Cass Sunstein

JERUSALEM – The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's 'white majority' opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

'The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics),' wrote Sunstein.

The Obama czar's controversial comments were made in his 2004 book 'The Second Bill of Rights,' which was obtained and reviewed by WND.

In the book, Sunstein openly argues for bringing socialism to the U.S. and even lends support to communism.

'During the Cold War, the debate about [social welfare] guarantees took the form of pervasive disagreement between the United States and its communist adversaries. Americans emphasized the importance of civil and political liberties, above all free speech and freedom of religion, while communist nations stressed the right to a job, health care, and a social minimum.'"

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Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Compares Holocaust To Immigration And Discusses Israeli Settlements

Oil no longer traded in dollars?

VAT's The Matter? - from Investors Business Daily

Posted 10/06/2009 07:10 PM ET

Fiscal Policy: Sometimes the worst ideas are the most tempting. So it is with the value-added tax, or VAT — a potential money gusher for strapped governments but a massive new levy on all Americans.

At least twice a decade, it seems, desperate politicians latch on to the idea of a VAT as the best way to raise lots of money for their spending schemes. No wonder. Unlike our current system, a VAT would impose a uniform levy at each level of production, from raw materials to finished goods, so the revenue potential is huge.

Which is why it keeps coming up in our free-spending Capital.

Earlier this year, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, fresh from crafting a $700 billion bailout for the banks, a $787 billion "stimulus" package and untold billions more in other spending, suggested that a good way to pay for it all might be a VAT.

In recent days, as Congress feels the public's ire over its gross fiscal irresponsibility, the VAT is getting even more attention.

White House economic adviser and former Fed chairman Paul Volcker suggested it's one way the budget deficit could be closed, and another former Fed chief, Alan Greenspan, went a step further by calling it "the least worst solution" to our budget problems.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asked point blank by TV interviewer Charlie Rose if she's considering a VAT, answered: "I would say, put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves." She went on to extol the virtues of the VAT.

So, we've been warned. The VAT is a bad idea, however, and should be rejected out of hand. It wouldn't solve the core problem of fiscally incontinent politicians; it would only give them more money to waste, and lead to even bigger government.

This massive levy would fall on all Americans, including those earning less than $250,000, the group President Obama promised would not pay a dime in higher taxes.

Tax analyst Curtis Dubay of the Heritage Foundation notes that, because of the way it's structured, a VAT tax even at low levels would be a disaster.

Using data for 2008, a VAT of just 1% would raise an added $63 billion. Make it "just" 5%, and it's a $315 billion annual tax hike on all Americans — or roughly $2,670 on every household, including the poor and middle-class.

To sell the idea to gullible taxpayers, politicians play down these problems, focusing instead on tax "efficiency" and the idea that the VAT is a low rate applied against a broad base of taxpayers.

But once imposed, it's like the camel's nose under the proverbial tent. Any time the government wants more money, it can raise the tax . Once at 5%, what's to stop them from raising it to 6% or 7%? Some advocates have already suggested a level as high as 20%.

University of Chicago economists Casey Mulligan and (Nobel Prize-winning) Gary Becker found in a 2003 paper that European nations had used the VAT as a way to expand government.

Europe began its experiment with the VAT in 1965. Today, by European Union law, all nations must have a VAT of at least 15%. According to Cato Institute economist Dan Mitchell, the average tax burden in post-VAT Europe has surged from 28% of GDP to just under 40%; the U.S., by contrast, had grown from 25% to 28%. Mitchell also found a correlation between the size of the VAT and the size of government.

If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will go more than $13 trillion into the red over the next decade. The answer to such irresponsibility is smaller government and lower taxes, not a massive new burden that will just make matters worse.

Firefighters lose large U.S. grant to ACORN - Washington Times

By Audrey Hudson

Nearly $1 million in Homeland Security funding typically earmarked for fire departments has been awarded to ACORN, despite a clear signal from Congress that it intends to cut off federal funding to the embattled group.

The grant to ACORN's Louisiana office became public on Oct. 2, less than three weeks after the House and Senate voted to cut off ACORN funding after employees were caught on video advising a fake prostitute and pimp on scams.

It was one of only three such grants issued to the state and made up almost 80 percent of the firefighting money earmarked for Louisiana, prompting one of the U.S. senators from the state to demand that the funds be taken back.

'I request that you rescind this grant based on a history of abuse of federal dollars by ACORN and their clear lack of expertise in this area,' said Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican.

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NAACP spearheads prison vote drive in Maine

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation's first such statewide drive.

The relatively few votes at stake -- only a few hundred -- mean the drive's potential to affect outcomes this fall on such issues as gay marriage, marijuana laws and tax limits is low.

Though prison inmates tend to skew to the Democratic side, the drive isn't about furthering any political agenda, said Rachel Talbot Ross, president of the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

"It's about establishing strong voter patterns and becoming a fully functioning person to re-enter society," Ross said. "It's part of the rehabilitation and re-entry process."

The NAACP is wrapping up its effort in Maine prisons this week. After next June's primary election, the organization plans to lead another drive at all 15 county jails, as well as state prisons.

It's not focusing just on black inmates.

Volunteers already have registered an estimated 200 or more inmates at five of the state's seven adult correctional centers. The Maine State Prison's NAACP chapter -- the only one of its kind in New England -- has 70 members, many of them white, including the branch president, Ross said.

Randal Horr, a 49-year-old white inmate at the Bolduc minimum-security prison in Warren, registered as a Democrat when volunteers arrived. Going through the voting process helps him feel connected to the outside world and will help when he is released, he said.

In November's election, he said, he plans to vote for state and municipal tax and spending limits and liberalizing medical marijuana laws. He's not sure how he'll vote on whether to overturn a state law allowing gay marriage.

"Having that access to the vote makes a difference. It makes me feel I'm continuing in the loop of the community and society. You feel like you count," said Horr, who has served nearly nine years of an 11½-year sentence for habitual drunken driving.

State laws giving convicted felons the right to vote vary. About 5.3 million people nationwide are barred from voting because of criminal convictions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Only in Maine and Vermont are felons in state prisons allowed to cast ballots while serving their sentences. Those prisoners, however, still have to register to vote, something easier done on the outside.

To help those inmates, the NAACP last year held a drive at the Maine State Prison, the Maine Correctional Center in Windham and the Cumberland County jail in Portland.

The effort now under way is the first time there's been a systemwide initiative to register inmates across an entire state, Ross said. Benjamin Jealous, national NAACP president, was on hand last week as volunteers registered inmates at five correctional centers.

Inmates are prohibited from hanging political signs in their cells or even wearing political buttons, said Denise Lord, Maine's associate corrections commissioner. But officials encourage inmates to vote, she said.

"When someone is engaged in social activities, thinking of others or outside of themselves, that is what we would call a positive behavioral development," she said. "Registering to vote is one indication of that."

State Sen. Chris Rector, R-Thomaston, gave a quick presentation of the Republican platform to a group of inmates before helping register them last week at the Bolduc prison, where Horr learned about his options.

"They say recidivism rates are lower among those who can achieve some kind of community engagement," Rector said. "This is a tiny building block in that process."

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Letter to Congress: Lose 'gay' radical Jennings

It is clear he wants to remake public education the way he personally sees fit.

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Kevin Jennings, President Obama's choice to run the Department of Education's Office of Safe Schools, has made a career connecting the idea of 'safety' and advocacy for homosexual behavioral choices, and as such 'has shown that he cannot be trusted with this position and should be removed from it as soon as possible.'

The criticism of Obama's selection to oversee safety programs for public schools
in the United States came today from the American Principles Project, a group dedicated to preserving and propagating the fundamental principles on which the United States was founded. It has set up a website program through which concerned parents and others can send a message with their concern to members of Congress.

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Rangel rakes in cash from island rum scrum - Washington Times

Chairman weighs two tax bills

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By S.A. Miller

The outcome of a legislative tussle over rum taxes between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands remains in doubt, but there is already one clear winner - the House's top tax writer, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who is pocketing campaign cash from both territories.

At issue are competing bills that could make or break a deal that lured rum producer Captain Morgan from its longtime home in Puerto Rico to a new facility in the Virgin Islands with the promise of billions of dollars in subsidies to the liquor company paid out of U.S. rum taxes.

Puerto Rico wants to drastically limit the amount of U.S. rum tax money the islands can give directly to the liquor industry, while the Virgin Islands wants to make permanent the rum-tax rebates to the territories, a change that would bolster its 30-year agreement to subsidize the production of Captain Morgan.

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Eminent-domain mayor: We're rescuing residents

By Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com

The new Ground Zero in the rekindled war over eminent domain is Riviera Beach, Fla., whose mayor says the potential relocation of as many as 6,000 residents is 'necessary to rescue and save the remainder of the people of Riviera Beach.'

Singer Island is part of Riviera Beach on Florida's Atlantic coast

'We are going to rescue and relocate individuals and we will put them in a better position than they're living in now,' Mayor Michael Brown told Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel tonight. 'They are not thrown out into the streets, they are compensated. ... It's no different than building a courthouse or a hospital or anything else.'

The predominantly black city of Riviera Beach, located just north of the more affluent municipalities of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, is looking to revitalize an area some consider an example of urban blight.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an eminent-domain ruling in a Connecticut case, giving governments the power to transfer private property from one private party to another. The decision ignited a firestorm of outrage across the political spectrum.

During the broadcast of 'Hannity & Colmes,' a number of residents in the redevelopment zone voiced dismay at what they believe is a government-sanctioned land grab benefiting wealthy citizens and private developers.

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City to homeowner: Let us in, or get out

POLICE STATE, USA
Posted: October 04, 2009
11:33 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


City notice posted on Michael Marcavage's duplex

A Pennsylvania man who refuses to allow city officials to enter his home without a warrant has been forced out to stay in a hotel instead, evicted by a notice posted on his door that forbids him from using or occupying the building he owns.

Borough Ordinance No. 1188 of Lansdowne, Penn., requires all rental properties – including the private residence of the landlord, if he lives onsite – be subjected to annual inspections, with or without a warrant.

But Michael Marcavage, who lives in half of a Lansdowne duplex he owns, renting out the other half, believes the city knocking on the door and demanding warrantless entrance and inspection of his private residence – just because it also happens to be part of a rental building – is a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment.

The Fourth Amendment states in part, 'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.'

Marcavage has not been accused of any wrongdoing, nor has any warrant been sought to inspect his property. In fact, he's been fighting the borough's rental inspection ordinance as unconstitutional for years, both for himself and his tenants. He's even been issued a citation and fine in the past for refusing to permit warrantless search of his home.

But earlier this week, the borough stepped up the battle.

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Townhall.com Blog : Meredith Jessup : No Olympics for Chicago: Blame Bush!

Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 1:42 PM
Senator Roland Burris, the Democrat picked to fill President Barack Obama's vacant Illinois senate seat, blames George W. Bush for Chicago not getting the Olympic bid for the 2016 Games:

Burris stated in an interview, shortly after the announcement, that the image of the U. S. has been so tarnished in the last 8 years that, even Barack Obama making an unprecedented pitch for the games could not overcome the hatred the world has for us as a result of George Bush. ...Burris even went on to say that this is just another way Bush is now hurting Chicago.

I'd like to say that I wish I could be surprised by such an idiotic statement, but since EVERYTHING is blamed on Bush these days, this doesn't come as a shocker.

I guess Burris forgot that the city of Chicago was announced as a finalist for the 2016 Games in 2008, during Bush's presidency."

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Investors.com - High Court Targets Chicago's Gun Ban

Posted 10/02/2009 07:29 PM ET

Gun Control: The Supreme Court agrees to decide if the Second Amendment applies to all of us, or just Washington, D.C. Why would the Founders put in the Bill of Rights something applying only to a federal enclave?

In a 5-4 decision last year written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court overturned a draconian District of Columbia gun ban enacted 32 years ago that barred private ownership of handguns at all. Scalia wrote that an individual's right to bear arms is supported by 'the historical narrative' both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted.

The court ruled that the Second Amendment indeed protected an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use that firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. But it left unclear whether the ruling applied outside the nation's capital."

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