Concerned Women for America of North Carolina will join 40 Days for Life at a one-day prayer Vigil on Thursday, March 25. For assigned abortion clinics in the Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem area please go to http://www.40daysforlife.org/, and click your city. Times of prayer coverage can be for as little as one hour to covering an entire day of prayer on behalf of CWA.

The 2010 40 Days for Life vigil is the largest spring campaign yet! From Feb. 17 through March 28, teams in over 160 cities from coast to coast in the United States-as well as locations in Canada, Australia, and Northern Ireland- will take part in this mission. 40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life ecumenical effort that consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil, and outreach.

Here in N. C. we are praying at three abortion clinics in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Winston Salem. Our hope is that with God’s help, this groundbreaking effort will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in our cities, our state, and throughout America and the world.

As Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women for America stated:

“God is more powerful than any wicked force behind abortion. Prayer unleashes that power. 40 Days for Life lets us participate in what God wants to do, if only He were asked.”

Please consider being a part of Concerned Women for America of North Carolina’s team on Thursday, March 25^th  by joining us for prayer at one of the three 40 Days for Life vigils nearest you!

Katherine Hearn

CWA Prayer/Action Chapter Leader

Posted by Brian Darling (Profile)

Friday, March 12th at 10:00PM EST
http://www.redstate.com/brian_d/2010/03/12/constitution-be-damned-obamacare-vote-next-week/

photo with Renee Ellmers in red who is running against Congressman Bob Etheridge and to the left in suit is Bill Randall who’s running against Congressman Miller.

Another busy day in the world of Randy’s Right.  I got interviewed in the first clip of nbc and Hans and Bubba in the second clip.

NBC news clip

http://wake.mync.com/site/wake/video/10113/

WRAL news clip

http://www.wral.com/news/state/video/7213905/

In order to address this topic we must look at what motivates people to come to conclusions when information is put before them. There is a long history of people promoting ideas and concepts that will provide Americans with remedy and relief on numerous subjects.

I have found there are 2 fundamental camps among these groups. One camp seeks remedy in law that provides relief for our children and grandchildren, the other camp is the “What’s in it for me?” camp. These are the people who will look through the lens of “how do I benefit from this information?” I find these are the most blinded. They are blinded by greed and self interest. You can give them the flimsiest information as long as you have a fantastic story resulting in “great benefits” for the individual.

These 2 camps ask 2 fundamentally different questions when provided with information.

The first camp asks “What promotes justice and law?” The second camp asks “How do I benefit?” The first camp looks at what is true and provable. The second camp lives on the fringe of facts and myth melded into one, with no tolerance for any facts that goes against its fantastic story.

If we can agree to deal with facts and truth alone we can come to an easy, simple conclusion. If we are going to shroud our judgment in fantastic stories with fantastic results, where truth becomes relative (rather than absolute) you can only live in a world of confusion, being easily manipulated and mis-directed, sheepishly following the latest, greatest, fantastic story.

This is the problem with The Restore America Plan. Please note I am currently holding in my hand a handout from one of their meetings. There are 4 words that title this document, The Restore America Plan, an acronym for which is T.R.A.P (not R.A.P). Using the acronym R.A.P would be a denial of the expressed truth of the words on the page. Please note that the Federal government prides itself on cleverly naming its undercover operations (not saying that this is one, but the coincidence must be noted).

With that said, let’s address Mike’s issues, (1) NCAR is not an organization. It is the re-established de-jure government of North Carolina, re-established in law and in fact.

Mike’s 2^nd paragraph is confusing by stating that my claim that T.R.A.P is illegal and unlawful would be frivolous to debate at this particular point, yet his last sentence says “until you provide specifics in far greater detail, your opinion is nothing more than exactly what it appears: opinion”.  With that said, allow me to provide “more detail”.

T.R.A.P.’s foundation must be examined and their history unfolded in order to understand their position. Let’s get the facts laid out. The Guardian Elders of TRAP are all heavily involved in UCC commercial redemption and straw man ideologies. They believe the origins of de-facto government and the subjugation of the people comes from no one single point and that it morphed into this situation. They appear to point to 4 different events in history to support their foundation:

(1) 1933 Bankruptcy

(2) mis-application of The Trading with the Enemy Act, declaring American citizens to be enemies

(3) the 1871 municipal incorporation of the District of Columbia which somehow changed the name of the United States of America to the United States. In fact the Act says that the government shall be called the District of Columbia not the United States.

(4) Dec. 1860 which I can only assume they are using the concept of Congress adjourning sine die.

T.R.A.P. also uses Title 28 U.S.C. Sec. 3002 as a cornerstone of their belief that the United States government, by being a corporation, is a dead fictitious entity that has no foundation in law or fact, thereby making Barak Obama the C.E.O. of a dead corporate entity called the United States, rather than the President of the country called the United States of America. They are clearly confusing municipal and private corporations.

Some of the Guardian Elders have been making their livelihood upon a foundation of information that has been cobbled together, mis-applied, and spun into a fantastic story where they are making claims that no-one has to pay their mortgages, loans, or credit card debt. They sell this process and packages of learning material for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. They have been successful in getting thousands of people to believe them and these people have lost or are in the process of losing tremendous amounts of assets.

The story, as I understood it, presented at the meeting as well as the 1 ½ page document that was passed out is that high level officers in the U.S. military approached the Guardian Elders to begin “the process of assembling the Guardians of the Free Republics and reinhabiting the De-jure Grand Juries”.  These De-jure Grand Juries consist of 26 people signing a document (without having full knowledge and disclosure of the entire document in which they are signing). These same 26 people (at an unknown appointed time) will go to the offices of all 50 De-facto Governors in the United States and forcibly remove them from office and charge them with treason, unless they change their allegiance to the De-jure government. It is important to note here that when asked “What laws do you follow?”, the answer was common law and then when asked more specifically, “So, you are following British case law?”, the answer was uncertain and never clearly defined. So, T.R.A.P. is setting up supposedly De-jure Grand Juries and De-jure governments without written laws that are researchable, but rather with the ‘concept” of under common law.

The document also states that these De-jure Grand Juries will “restore and reinhabit the De-jure institutions of lawful government”. The fact is the De-jure government of North Carolina ALREADY EXISTS, and has since Dec. 1997.

According to T.R.A.P. their plan is;

An “achievable strategy for behind the scenes peaceful reconstruction of the De-jure institutions of government without controversy, violence, or civil war” and “after consultation with high ranking members of the United States armed forces, the plan is in the process of assembling the Guardians of the Free Republics and reinhabiting the De-jure Grand Juries”.

• “Restore and reinhabit the De-jure institutions of lawful government”
  • I don’t have a clue what this means. What is an institution of lawful government? This is taken in context to the concept that the Constitution of the state is a ficticious dead corporation. In other words, they are not claiming any possession of the organic laws.
• “Terminate illicit corporations posing as legitimate governments, in particular the territorial jurisdiction United States Federal Corporation posing as the De-jure United States of America”
  • This appears to terminate the entire Federal government that is in operation today.

• “End the foreclosure nightmare (for borrowing against one’s own credit)”
  • All who participate in T.R.A.P. no longer have to pay their mortgages and get to keep their house.
• “End tax prosecutions for resisting the transfer of private wealth to foreign banking cartels such as I.R.S.”
  • Everyone stops paying all income taxes and no one is prosecuted.

• “End street assaults against the sovereign people for failing to exhibit a state issued confession of subject class citizenship”
  • I assume this is a driver’s license. That being said, no one will be required to have a driver’s license

PLEASE NOTE THAT TRAP DOES NOT USE EITHER Technical OR LEGAL TERMINOLOGY AND POINT TO ANY SPECIFIC VIOLATION OF LAW.

• “End all prosecutions which lack an injured party”
  • No traffic tickets, prostitution becomes legal, all drug laws are repealed, etc.

• “End admiralty prosecutions for kidnapping and other heinous crimes against mankind ‘as commercial crimes’ against the corporate state under a contrived corporate color of law venue (27 CFR 72.11)”
  • Read it for yourself, I don’t have a clue what they are talking about
    • Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
      PART 72—DISPOSITION OF SEIZED PERSONAL PROPERTY
      Subpart B—Definitions
    • § 72.11   Meaning of terms.
    • Commercial crimes. Any of the following types of crimes (Federal or State): Offenses against the revenue laws; burglary; counterfeiting; forgery; kidnapping; larceny; robbery; illegal sale or possession of deadly weapons; prostitution (including soliciting, procuring, pandering, white slaving, keeping house of ill fame, and like offenses); extortion; swindling and confidence games; and attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or compounding any of the foregoing crimes. Addiction to narcotic drugs and use of marihuana will be treated as if such were commercial crime.
• “Terminate the intrusion of corporations posing as the state into every aspect of the people’s lives.”
  • This is the annulment of virtually all state and federal agencies.

• “End the use of covert contracts such as form 1040, car registrations, birth certificate applications, and bank signature cards which confess the signer to be a legal fiction subject of the United States Federal Corporation”
  • Again end filing and paying income taxes
• “End the use of deeds which classify the People as “tenants” on their own land, thereby transferring control to incorporated county registrars and tax assessors.”
• “End the perversion of marriage into a commercial system of state issued privileges through the so called “marriage license” whereby incorporated “courts” presumed the “right” to trespass families and kidnap children”
  • This is the ending of DSS

• “End the high jacking of automobile ownership through DMV registration which covertly exchange the divine rights of travel and ownership for the state issues “privileges” of “driving” and “title”.
  • For the second time this ends DMV all car registrations and titles
• “In place of all of the above substitute sovereign identification, diplomatic immunity and sovereign passports to facilitate safe passage throughout the world free from corporate State molestation and terror.”
  • This creates a “sovereign identification” which I have never heard of, makes all citizens diplomats and somehow it entitles these “de-jure” people to be free from the laws of every country.

• “Restore the People’s money and wealth from the banking institutions, war profiteers, and international loan sharks.”
  • I don’t know who decides the amount of wealth to be restored to every individual. I assume that it would be different amounts for every individual. It seems like this would clog up the courts.
• “Instantly vest all mortgages, auto loans and personal business loans “issued” by members of the Fed. The State shall hold no paper on, or debts against, the sovereign People, directly or through its agencies and licensed banking institutions.”
  • I am assuming all car, business loans, and mortgages are forgiven

• “Instantly end all non con-sensual and unlawful taxation including all taxes on the sacred rights of labor and privacy.”
  • This would be, I believe for the third time, to stop paying income taxes
• “Empower and inspire the sovereign people to righteousness through such renewed abundance”
  • Righteousness does not come through abundance; it begins from the fear of the Lord and is never attainable.

• “Issue orders to the military and police powers to enforce the Peoples divine rights of birth”
  • I am assuming this stops abortion but not sure
• “Reabsorb all de-facto actors into lawful de-jure capacity”
  • I am assuming this is where current elected officials are required to give allegiance to the yet to be defined de-jure government which (1) has no constitution or (2) accepts the current constitution to be de-jure but operating with de-facto officers. This presents a few questions. What constitution is the foundational law? And, Are the laws that were passed by de-facto body politics applicable to de-jure citizens? At what point in time did the laws that were enacted by de-facto officers for the benefit of subjugated citizens become legitimate and binding on de-jure Citizens? This is a foundational question that must be answered.

• “End the perverse act of requiring the People to pray to “courts” as is now required under corporate rules and traditions.”
  • The word pray has 2 definitions, (1) “address a prayer to God” (2)” wish or hope earnestly for a particular outcome” – Oxford English. The American Heritage Dictionary gives the second definition as “to make a fervent request or entreaty”. Further note, first of all I don’t believe that all courts “require” you to use the word pray, second of all, I don’t think it is an improper use of the word, and third of all, I’m not sure it’s a wise use of the United States Military’s time to make sure that this is enforced. It seems that once the de-jure government s are put back in place they could choose or not choose to deal with this issue.
• “Restore the de-jure judicial institutions including the district court of the United States and one supreme Court”
  • Article 3, Sec. 1 of the United States Constitution says that congress establishes inferior courts to the supreme Court.

• “Quietly mirror the strategies of 1933 thereby using their (our) institutions, military and public officials to undo 80 years of subterfuge without provoking alarm, controversy, or armed conflict”
  • So, T.R.A.P. is going to get rid of all laws with no injured party, void all drug laws, make prostitution legal, annul governmental agencies that affect the lives of the de-jure people. No one will have to pay car loans, mortgages, or business loans back. No one will have to pay state or federal income taxes. So the I.R.S and the State departments of “revenue are greatly reduced, if not abolished. All public officials are going to take a new oath to the de-jure government or else be forcibly removed from office and charged with treason. Everyone will be issued sovereign identification and have worldwide diplomatic immunity from the laws of all countries. DSS will be annulled. And all this will be done “behind the “scenes” and “quietly” “without provoking alarm, controversy, or armed conflict”.

I don’t believe in this or the tooth fairy.  Millions of people will lose their government jobs. Banks will have no Federal Reserve notes coming in; there will be virtually no way to pay for the United States military, and no one’s going to notice? No one will be alarmed? I think the millions losing their jobs may be alarmed.

• “Return the military and the law enforcement institutions to proper and lawful de-jure sovereign authority from the clutches of corporate actors”
  • It appears that the guardian elders, being the lawful de-jure sovereign authority, and the 26 grand jurors in every state, are going to be given the reigns of the United States military. The military will cease giving allegiance to the CEO of the dead fictitious corporation of the United States and will take their orders from the Guardian Elders. Does this mean the Guardian Elders are going to run the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and start having CIA briefings?
• “Forgive all corporate actors who repent of their State-sponsored crimes against mankind and remove the recidivists from office.”
  • Assuming that some percentage less than 100% does not repent, this means the forced removal from office or positions of potentially hundreds of thousands of people. It seems a little violence has to occur to forcibly remove some of these people from office and prosecute them.

The parts of this that I consider unlawful and illegal are;

(1) The lawful way to re-inhabit a de-jure government is to first of all to know what government you are re-inhabiting and who has the right to re-inhabit it. Reinhabiting a de-jure grand jury which has no written laws and no defined body politic is not a lawful way to bring back the governments we have lost – State and Federal. It appears you are reinhabiting a myth rather than something tangible. It’s an attempt to reinhabit something that is not defined by a body politic that is not defined

(2) T.R.A.P. violates the United States Constitution Article 1 Sec. 9 clause 3 and Sec. 10 clause 1, 5^th and 6^th Amendments  by their document being a Bill of Attainder in the form of a Bill of Pins and Penalty. They have classified an entire group of people as being guilty of a crime without due process of law. This is done by claiming people are guilty and should be removed from office without trial and due process. T.R.A.P. cannot even define when the problem happened.

(3) T.R.A.P. has not made a cogent argument to the legality of their standing on their claim that they are the de-jure people. As best as I can tell their claim is, you become de-jure by either reclaiming your straw man or either by “requesting in the presence of the Creator to be considered a guardian member of the Guardians of the Free Republics and a juror on the De-jure Grand Jury of your respective republic’ and by registering “as a member of the sovereign People on the land of your respective republic.”

Under this concept that anyone who registers with the Guardians of the Free Republics becomes the de jure People entitled and authorized to exercise lawful government. What if 26 members of the Russian Mafia registered to be the de jure citizens of New York or 26 illegal immigrants registered to be the de jure citizens of California or 26 Native American Seminole registered to be the de jure citizens of Florida? Would these people possess lawful title to these States?

Do you get my point? As a side note: It probably wouldn’t change New York that much.

(4) TRAP promotes the idea that all 50 Governors are to change their allegiance to the authority under the de jure Grand Juries or to face removal from office and be charged with treason. Please read Title 18 USC § 2331. Definitions definition #5;

(5 the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—

(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;

(B) appear to be intended—

(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and

(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

I can find nowhere in the history of this country to where the title of the land and soil and authority for government was given to “Guardians of the Free Republic”. That status has no standing in law.

The ultimate question is what is lawful de-jure government? When was it changed to unlawful or de-facto? And who has a right to re-claim it? A quick look at history answers these questions. What people hold lawful title to the soil and government of North Carolina? American law finds its roots in British law. The foundation of our law can be traced back to the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta set up the principal that the common people who were freemen had rights that the government had to respect. This is clearly stated in the Magna Carta, Article 1:

Magna Carta

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1. In the first place we grant to God and confirm… We furthermore grant and give to all the freemen of our realm for ourselves and our heirs in perpetuity the liberties written below to have and to hold to them and their heirs from us and our heirs in perpetuity.

British freemen colonized America and fought a Revolution to gain their freedom from a tyrannical British Crown, who held claim and title to the soil and government of the colonies. The transfer of the title from the Crown of England to the newly recognized American states took place on September 30, 1783 in the Paris Peace Treaty, Article 1 which states:

“His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.”

The sovereign and independent State recognized by the Crown called North Carolina was organized under a Constitution (Municipal Corporation) dated December 18, 1776. The opening paragraph states;

“Wherefore, in our present state, in order to prevent anarchy and confusion, it becomes necessary that government should be established in this State; therefore we, the Representatives of the freemen of North-Carolina, chosen and assembled in Congress, for the express purpose of framing a Constitution, under the authority of the people, most conducive to their happiness and prosperity, do declare, that a government for this State shall be established, in manner and form following,…”

Again you see that the title to the soil and government belonged to the freemen of North Carolina organized under the constitution of December 18, 1776.

Without providing all the details of entering the Union under the Constitution of the United States (Municipal Corporation) and the causes of the Civil War we will go to the end of the Civil War. The war ended in 1865, peace was declared in 1866, and in 1867 Congress changed the object of the war to be conquest and subjugation.

The Radical Republicans had a super majority in Congress and could pass any legislation they wanted. They passed the Reconstruction legislation over the President’s vetoes. To quote from President Andrew Johnson in his vetoes of Reconstruction he states;

“The purpose and object of the bill the general intent which pervades it from beginning to end is to change the entire structure and character of the State governments and to compel them by force to the adoption of organic laws and regulations which they are unwilling to accept if left to themselves.”

This tells us what we already know, that Reconstruction forced a new government upon North Carolina and forced the change of the body politic of North Carolina from freemen to those taking an oath to the United States government.

President Andrew Johnson clearly stated the transfer of the title from the freemen of North Carolina to the Federal government in his 3^rd veto where he stated;

“Another ground on which these reconstruction acts are attempted to be sustained is this: That these ten States are conquered territory; that the constitutional relation in which they stood as States toward the Federal Government prior to the rebellion has given place to a new relation; that their territory is a conquered country and their citizens a conquered people, and that in this new relation Congress can govern them by military power.”

“A title by conquest stands on clear ground; it is a new title acquired by war.”

Once you understand the unlawfulness of Lincoln’s waging war on the several states and the unconstitutionally of the 39^th Congress annulling states, coercing the amending of the United States Constitution, creating new body politics to populate the states and forcing new governments upon those states, all being completed against the consent of the freemen of those states, you will understand why we are in the mess that we are in.

Remember all government of right comes from the consent of the governed. This foundational principle of free government was overturned by Lincoln and the 39^th Congress.

We are no longer a free people! We are a conquered and subjugated people taking our dictated government and laws from our conquerors- Congress. This is the totality of our current problems in a nutshell.

The reconstructed states attempted to have the Reconstruction Acts adjudicated. It would take too long here to explain this. The bottom line is that the unconstitutionality of Reconstruction has never been ruled upon to this day. The NCAR claims that the de-facto government did not morph into place. It was overtly and clearly put into place by the Reconstruction Acts of 1867.

The remedy is Recognize clear unconstitutional acts as void and non-binding, Recognize the American Union as being comprised of State Citizens -subject to local self government- and not federal citizens- subject to absolute control by the Federal Government, Recognize lawful and provable constitutional government as binding! Re-Populate the State! (e.g. State of North-Carolina established December 18, 1776)

The way to re-populate lawfully is to fill out sworn statements of what government you recognize as lawful and binding that has been recognized as lawful and binding. Give an oath of allegiance to a lawful State and participate and pay taxes in that State.

It should be clear that there is not now and never has been any recognizable legal standing for Guardians of a Free Republic and registering “as a member of the sovereign People on the land of your respective republic.”    Governments have never been transferred to sovereign individuals organized under Grand Juries, rather to sovereign States composed of freemen as their body politics.

I do not see how in the world it is possible for people to take T.R.A.P. seriously in any way, shape, or form. It is the most bizarre, absurd, and dangerous plan to ever come about. If you are serious about learning the truth of our history and how our governmental foundation was taken from us and how to get it back on its rightful foundation, then it would be in your best interest to invite me to give a seminar in your area. I only teach true and provable American history. My problem is I am long on facts and short on fantastic stories.

John C. Ainsworth
republiclost@gmail.com

Thursday, March 4th 2010 at 10:14am by JoAnneMor

http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/this-year-us-public-debt-could-reach-end-game

Jo Anne is a friend of mine, posted with perissiom and one of the best researchers I’ve ever come across

Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke issues the warning. Asian nations, China and India first, are no longer willing to purchase securities issued by the US Treasury, which this year has about US$ two trillion short-term debt to refinance. Beijing is buying gold instead.

Milan (AsiaNews) – For at least four years, AsiaNews has sounded the alarm bells against the risks due to the huge size reached by speculative finance [1] . In 2008, we said that the attempt to save US banks could push the US debt beyond the point of solvency (see Maurizio d’Orlando, “ US debt approaches insolvency . . .,” in AsiaNews 19 December 2008) [2] . Back them it could appear a bitoverblown, but now even US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S Bernanke is warning the US Congress about the danger. In a statement before the House Financial Services Committee,[3] he said that the US public debt might no longer be sustainable very soon. Financial jargon aside, the subtitle of an article by The Washington Times —Stage is set in U.S. for a Greek tragedy—says it all. Interviewed for the article, Bernanke says the United States is likely to face a debt crisis like the one in Greece sooner than later, “not something that is 10 years away”.

http://tinyurl.com/yjkjx2x

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UPDATE: WGC Says IMF Gold Sales Won’t Be ‘Disruptive’

   By Matt Whittaker
   Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–The World Gold Council, a mining industry body, said Thursday it does not anticipate that the remaining International Monetary Fund gold sales will disrupt markets.

“The successful first phase sale to central banks had no impact on the smooth functioning of the gold market, and the remaining sales to be undertaken in phase two of the program are also not anticipated to be disruptive,” the WGC said. “The sales by the IMF in phase two do not represent a net addition to supply because they will be accommodated under the Central Bank Gold Agreement.”

Since 1999, European central banks have been allowed to sell up to 500 tons of the precious metal a year under the CBGA.

Last year, the IMF earmarked 403.3 metric tons of gold for sale to raise funds for poorer nations. It has sold more than half to India, Sri Lanka and Mauritius but wasn’t able to find any more central bank buyers.

Late Wednesday, the IMF said it will soon begin to sell the remaining 191.3 tons of gold to the open market.

“In accordance with the priority of avoiding disruption of the gold market, the on-market sales will be conducted in a phased manner over time,” the IMF said Wednesday in a statement.

Gold futures prices sank to $1,098.10 an ounce in electronic afterhours trading following the announcement. But as the market digested the news, the metal has recouped losses during Thursday floor trading on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The most-active April futures were down $3.80, or 0.3%, at $1,116.30 an ounce in recent trading.

The “initial shock” of the IMF announcement was wearing off, said Frank Lesh, broker and futures analyst with FuturePath Trading. “It’ll be parsed out little by little.”

Carlos Sanchez, associate director of research with CPM Group believes central banks will continue buying gold, even though the IMF isn’t selling directly to the official sector this time.

While the IMF is making the gold available to the wider market, that “doesn’t mean that central banks won’t buy the gold,” Sanchez said, noting the announcement comes at a time of already reduced CBGA sales.

Since the agreement was struck, European central banks have consistently sold more than 300 tons a year, but last year the amount fell to 157 tons. Sanchez said that leaves room for the absorption of the IMF sales.

http://tinyurl.com/yjgbnqt

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Note: This article says gold sale to benefit poor countries.

Remember we already know our gold was transferred and laundered throughy Citi to IMF. (See my post, “Something is up”

Now it’s about to disappear altogether. BEWARE!

Bert Burnette from Oriental, NorthCarolina has come up with an ingenious plan guaranteed to get the attention of our politicians. The plan is simple and has a minimal cost associated with it: mail an empty milk jug to a politician with your message written on the outside. For our first North Carolina campaign, we want as many milk jugs sent to Sen. Kay Hagan at her Raleigh address. We have made it simple: download the PDF and follow the instructions. Read more »

Vice President Al Gore will be putting on a free lecture at Page Auditorium at Duke University Durham NC. April 8 at 6pm for staff, students and public.

  I have spoke with Duke Campus Police dt Sgt Gary Smith  919 684 2444 to obtain a permit for a peaceful  rally protest.   We will stand outside in front of Page Auditorium where speech is scheduled with signs “Climategate” etc at 5 pm

Duke web event site information Al Gore visit

http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/deanseries/gore/gore/event

Randy’s Right

What Bubba Knows

NC Tea Party Revolution

The White House is not .  . . pleased.

Washington, DC

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 “Ten Most Corrupt” list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch’s complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee. 
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV): A number of scandals popped up in 2009 involving public officials who conducted illicit affairs, and then attempted to cover them up with hush payments and favors, an obvious abuse of power. The year’s worst offender might just be Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign. Ensign admitted in June to an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff members, who then allegedly obtained special favors from the Nevada Republican in exchange for his silence. According to The New York Times: “The Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee are expected to conduct preliminary inquiries into whether Senator John Ensign violated federal law or ethics rules as part of an effort to conceal an affair with the wife of an aide…” The former staffer, Douglas Hampton, began to lobby Mr. Ensign’s office immediately upon leaving his congressional job, despite the fact that he was subject to a one-year lobbying ban. Ensign seems to have ignored the law and allowed Hampton lobbying access to his office as a payment for his silence about the affair. (These are potentially criminal offenses.) It looks as if Ensign misused his public office (and taxpayer resources) to cover up his sexual shenanigans. 
3. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): Judicial Watch is investigating a $12 million TARP cash injection provided to the Boston-based OneUnited Bank at the urging of Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank. As reported in the January 22, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal, the Treasury Department indicated it would only provide funds to healthy banks to jump-start lending. Not only was OneUnited Bank in massive financial turmoil, but it was also “under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses, including owning a Porsche for its executives’ use.” Rep. Frank admitted he spoke to a “federal regulator,” and Treasury granted the funds. (The bank continues to flounder despite Frank’s intervention for federal dollars.) Moreover, Judicial Watch uncovered documents in 2009 that showed that members of Congress for years were aware that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were playing fast and loose with accounting issues, risk assessment issues and executive compensation issues, even as liberals led by Rep. Frank continued to block attempts to rein in the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs). For example, during a hearing on September 10, 2003, before the House Committee on Financial Services considering a Bush administration proposal to further regulate Fannie and Freddie, Rep. Frank stated: “I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two Government Sponsored Enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis. We have recently had an accounting problem with Freddie Mac that has led to people being dismissed, as appears to be appropriate. I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury.” Frank received $42,350 in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac between 1989 and 2008. Frank also engaged in a relationship with a Fannie Mae Executive while serving on the House Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 
4. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner: In 2009, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted that he failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes from 2001-2004 on his lucrative salary at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization with 185 member countries that oversees the global financial system. (Did we mention Geithner now runs the IRS?) It wasn’t until President Obama tapped Geithner to head the Treasury Department that he paid back most of the money, although the IRS kindly waived the hefty penalties. In March 2009, Geithner also came under fire for his handling of the AIG bonus scandal, where the company used $165 million of its bailout funds to pay out executive bonuses, resulting in a massive public backlash. Of course as head of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner helped craft the AIG deal in September 2008. However, when the AIG scandal broke, Geithner claimed he knew nothing of the bonuses until March 10, 2009. The timing is important. According to CNN: “Although Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told congressional leaders on Tuesday that he learned of AIG’s impending $160 million bonus payments to members of its troubled financial-products unit on March 10, sources tell TIME that the New York Federal Reserve informed Treasury staff that the payments were imminent on Feb. 28. That is ten days before Treasury staffers say they first learned ‘full details’ of the bonus plan, and three days before the [Obama] Administration launched a new $30 billion infusion of cash for AIG.” Throw in another embarrassing disclosure in 2009 that Geithner employed “household help” ineligible to work in the United States, and it becomes clear why the Treasury Secretary has earned a spot on the “Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington” list. 
5. Attorney General Eric Holder: Tim Geithner can be sure he won’t be hounded about his tax-dodging by his colleague Eric Holder, US Attorney General. Judicial Watch strongly opposed Holder because of his terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI investigation of the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple requests for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses by then-Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House; undermining the criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the midst of the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro’s Cuba. Moreover, there is his soft record on terrorism. Holder bypassed Justice Department procedures to push through Bill Clinton’s scandalous presidential pardons and commutations, including for 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican terrorist group that orchestrated approximately 120 bombings in the United States, killing at least six people and permanently maiming dozens of others, including law enforcement officers. His record in the current administration is no better. As he did during the Clinton administration, Holder continues to ignore serious incidents of corruption that could impact his political bosses at the White House. For example, Holder has refused to investigate charges that the Obama political machine traded VIP access to the White House in exchange for campaign contributions – a scheme eerily similar to one hatched by Holder’s former boss, Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The Holder Justice Department also came under fire for dropping a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. On Election Day 2008, Black Panthers dressed in paramilitary garb threatened voters as they approached polling stations. Holder has also failed to initiate a comprehensive Justice investigation of the notorious organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), which is closely tied to President Obama. There were allegedly more than 400,000 fraudulent ACORN voter registrations in the 2008 campaign. And then there were the journalist videos catching ACORN Housing workers advising undercover reporters on how to evade tax, immigration, and child prostitution laws. Holder’s controversial decisions on new rights for terrorists and his attacks on previous efforts to combat terrorism remind many of the fact that his former law firm has provided and continues to provide pro bono representation to terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Holder’s politicization of the Justice Department makes one long for the days of Alberto Gonzales. 
6. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL): One of the most serious scandals of 2009 involved a scheme by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell President Obama’s then-vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Two men caught smack dab in the middle of the scandal: Senator Roland Burris, who ultimately got the job, and Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, emissaries for Jesse Jackson Jr., named “Senate Candidate A” in the Blagojevich indictment, reportedly offered $1.5 million to Blagojevich during a fundraiser if he named Jackson Jr. to Obama’s seat. Three days later federal authorities arrested Blagojevich. Burris, for his part, apparently lied about his contacts with Blagojevich, who was arrested in December 2008 for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat. According to Reuters: “Roland Burris came under fresh scrutiny…after disclosing he tried to raise money for the disgraced former Illinois governor who named him to the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama…In the latest of those admissions, Burris said he looked into mounting a fundraiser for Rod Blagojevich — later charged with trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat — at the same time he was expressing interest to the then-governor’s aides about his desire to be appointed.” Burris changed his story five times regarding his contacts with Blagojevich prior to the Illinois governor appointing him to the U.S. Senate. Three of those changing explanations came under oath. 
7. President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration “lowlights” from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the President’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that “transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,” but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade “artists” to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the idea emerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation. President Obama has installed a record number of “czars” in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions). Under the President’s bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control — through fiat and threats — large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: “The administration’s central activity — the political allocation of wealth and opportunity — is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.” Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors — this is Obama’s “ethics” record — and we haven’t even gotten through the first year of his presidency. 
8. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): At the heart of the corruption problem in Washington is a sense of entitlement. Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2009 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline. These documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, include internal Pentagon email correspondence detailing attempts by Pentagon staff to accommodate Pelosi’s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker’s 11th hour cancellations and changes. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also came under fire in April 2009, when she claimed she was never briefed about the CIA’s use of the waterboarding technique during terrorism investigations. The CIA produced a report documenting a briefing with Pelosi on September 4, 2002, that suggests otherwise. Judicial Watch also obtained documents, including a CIA Inspector General report, which further confirmed that Congress was fully briefed on the enhanced interrogation techniques. Aside from her own personal transgressions, Nancy Pelosi has ignored serious incidents of corruption within her own party, including many of the individuals on this list. (See Rangel, Murtha, Jesse Jackson, Jr., etc.) 
9. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven: Rep. John Murtha made headlines in 2009 for all the wrong reasons. The Pennsylvania congressman is under federal investigation for his corrupt relationship with the now-defunct defense lobbyist PMA Group. PMA, founded by a former Murtha associate, has been the congressman’s largest campaign contributor. Since 2002, Murtha has raised $1.7 million from PMA and its clients. And what did PMA and its clients receive from Murtha in return for their generosity? Earmarks — tens of millions of dollars in earmarks. In fact, even with all of the attention surrounding his alleged influence peddling, Murtha kept at it. Following an FBI raid of PMA’s offices earlier in 2009, Murtha continued to seek congressional earmarks for PMA clients, while also hitting them up for campaign contributions. According to The Hill, in April, “Murtha reported receiving contributions from three former PMA clients for whom he requested earmarks in the pending appropriations bills.” When it comes to the PMA scandal, Murtha is not alone. As many as six other Members of Congress are currently under scrutiny according to The Washington Post. They include: Peter J. Visclosky (D-IN.), James P. Moran Jr. (D-VA), Norm Dicks (D-WA.), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), C.W. Bill Young (R-FL.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-KS.). Of course rather than investigate this serious scandal, according to Roll Call House Democrats circled the wagons, “cobbling together a defense to offer political cover to their rank and file.” The Washington Post also reported in 2009 that Murtha’s nephew received $4 million in Defense Department no-bid contracts: “Newly obtained documents…show Robert Murtha mentioning his influential family connection as leverage in his business dealings and holding unusual power with the military.” 
10. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): Rangel, the man in charge of writing tax policy for the entire country, has yet to adequately explain how he could possibly “forget” to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income he earned from his off-shore rental property. He also faces allegations that he improperly used his influence to maintain ownership of highly coveted rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, and misused his congressional office to fundraise for his private Rangel Center by preserving a tax loophole for an oil drilling company in exchange for funding. On top of all that, Rangel recently amended his financial disclosure reports, which doubled his reported wealth. (He somehow “forgot” about $1 million in assets.) And what did he do when the House Ethics Committee started looking into all of this? He apparently resorted to making “campaign contributions” to dig his way out of trouble. According to WCBS TV, a New York CBS affiliate: “The reigning member of Congress’ top tax committee is apparently ‘wrangling’ other politicos to get him out of his own financial and tax troubles…Since ethics probes began last year the 79-year-old congressman has given campaign donations to 119 members of Congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are charged with investigating him.” Charlie Rangel should not be allowed to remain in Congress, let alone serve as Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and he knows it. That’s why he felt the need to disburse campaign contributions to Ethics Committee members and other congressional colleagues.  
    http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/dec/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2009

This is information on the Texas primary. Not one single Tea Party supported candidate won a race.

Tim your information is correct.  Every single incumbent running for the House of Representatives won.  In some cases there were as many 4 challengers.  There was only one race on the Republican side where the race was even remotely close. 57% to 30% with the remaining votes spread over 3 other candidates.  Every other race the Incumbent had more than 70% of the vote all the way up to 90%.   On the Democrat side the closest race for House of Reps was 67% – 28%.   The only major incumbent that lost was a statewide race for the Railroad Commissioner.  The incumbent lost huge. 20 points.;  That was the only case.  And there is no evidence that the challenger was a Tea Party candidate.