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Biofuels will not feed the hungry Financial Times, London  Mar 27, 2008 Biofuels will not feed the hungry, The London Times article states: "But the biggest structural change is biofuels. In the space of a few years, the US has diverted about 40m tonnes of maize to produce bioethanol - about 4 per cent of global production of coarse grains. That rapid growth is largely the result of subsidies - which must halt. The environmental benefits of maize biofuel are ambiguous at best and it should not be favoured over growing maize for food... "Cuts to food production subsidies, most notably in the EU, will also have a permanent effect on supply...' Editor CE adds- We are grateful to the author and agree with the substance of the prestigious London Financial Times article: Biofuels are a silent killer.  However, we must correct an important detail; the destruction of food is on an order of magnitude worse than the Times' statistics state. Our own story last September entitled Corn-to-Ethanol: US Agribusiness Magic Path To A World Food Monopoly, quoted The Renewable Fuel Association, a trade organization of big agribusinesses, which lists 129 existing plants, and with 76 more under construction. It projects the total production capacity at a staggering 13,429 billion gallons of ethanol every year. To make this much 90-proof alcohol, some five billion bushels of corn have to be burned per year.  Worse yet is a new law signed on Dec 19, 2007, which subsidizes the destruction of upward to 14 billion bushels of corn (maize in Europe) to produce 35 billon gallons of alcohol per year. This pencils out to be as much as 40% of the US corn crop! The ethanol abuse is so great that it can be understated by a factor of 10 and still shock readers. The Times may be the first big paper anywhere to correctly demand: 'That rapid growth is largely the result of subsidies - which must halt.'   WHTT says: in the interst of humanity, ban all ethanol subsidies, and recall every Congressmen who resist!

U.S. employee killed in Baghdad's Green Zone Assocated Press, Martin Crutshinger  Mar 27, 2008 Editor CE- The numbers tell us why the US,  and our puppet Maliki government, is hated by all sides and sects in Iraq: This AP story confirms what we all know: "Precise Iraqi casualties are not known but the widely cited human rights group Iraq Body Count said this month that up to 89,300 civilians have been killed since 2003. "Editor CE adds: In a related AP story we learn: "Tens of thousands of Sadr supporters marched in Baghdad in a massive show of force for the cleric, demanding Maliki's removal. In the vast Sadr City slum, named after the cleric's slain father, crowds of angry men chanted slogans... "We demand the downfall of the Maliki government. It does not represent the people. It represents Bush and Cheney," marcher Hussein Abu Ali said... The slum of 2 million people is in a virtual state of siege... "We are trapped in our homes with no water or electricity since yesterday. We can't bathe our children or wash our clothes," said a resident who gave his name as Mohammed. AND "President George W. Bush praised Maliki's "boldness" in launching the operation and said it showed the Iraqi leader's commitment to "enforce the law in an even-handed manner."

Public Must Pay for Wall Street Rescues Torres & Tyson, Bloomberg.com  Mar 26, 2008 Taxpayers May Be Liable For Bear Stearns Mortgage Rescue:  "In an emergency action that jeopardizes the dividend it pays the Treasury, the Fed authorized a $29 billion loan against illiquid mortgages - and asset-backed securities from Bear Stearns that will be held in a Delaware corporation.  JPMorgan Chase & Co. contributed $1 billion... The Delaware corp will liquidate the assets over 10 years, with JPMorgan absorbing the first $1 billion in losses, with the Fed bearing any that remain. Any such losses would hurt the Fed's balance sheet, and ultimately the taxpayer, because they would reduce the stipend the Fed pays to the Treasury from earnings on its portfolio. The dividend was $29 billion in 2006." "Editor CE rejects this- What this story fails to say is that the public (not only taxpayers) is libable for every dollar the FED loans or gives away, including this $30 billion and all the other trillions on the FED's books. Why, because the FED has no money of its own, it does not need money because it can create bank deposits for itself and its banker friends out of electrons over a wire.  All FED loans and gifts dilute the money in our pockets and in our bank accounts.  The FED pretends to be clean by giving the treasury the interest it collects on the treasury bond the FED buys from our treasury with dollars of its own creation.  Why else would they give back the interest? Here is an essay by a 16 year who understood the FED 25 years ago.... Why don't you understand it? Student, on the Federal Reserve: What We All Need to Know  http://cp.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=877

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POISONING BY CHLORINATED WATER

Joseph G. Hattersley

CHLORINE THE PARADOX

Barrie Carlsen

 

Let's explore this. When chlorinated water is run through a hose or carried in a pail followed by milk as in a dairy, what happens? "Very tenacious, yellowish deposits chemically similar to arterial plaque" form; with unchlorinated water this does not happen.

CBS' "Sixty Minutes" show July 11, 1992, displayed two laboratory rats, both of them eating standard rat chow and drinking chlorinated water. One rat had clear arteries. The other was also drinking pasteurized, homogenized milk. When the animals were sacrificed and cut open, the arteries of its milk-drinking companions were clogged. A scientist in a white coat winked at the camera and said, "He [the rat he was holding] is the only one doing research on that." The researcher didn't say why, but the powerful dairy and chemical lobbies come to mind.

Dairy buckets and hoses, and rats' arteries resist the arterial-wall damage known as atherosclerosis. But what can chlorinated water and milk, particularly homogenized milk, do to the far more susceptible arteries of humans? The arteries of young chickens are about as susceptible to such damage as people's arteries. Therefore, as a first approximation, J.M. Price, MD gave cockerels (roosters less than a year old) only chlorinated water. They rapidly developed arterial plaques; and the stronger the concentration of chlorine, the faster, and worse the damage. Other cockerels given unchlorinated water developed no such damage.²

The residents of the small town of Roseto, Pennsylvania, had no heart attacks despite a diet rich in saturated animal fats and milk--until they moved away from Roseto's mountain spring water and drank chlorinated water. After that, consuming the same diet, they had heart attacks.² The Roseto example is dramatic enough, but the needed detailed comparisons and follow-up are not likely to be done.

What is going on here? Highly reactive chlorine is one of the industrial waste products profitably disposed of into us Americans like garbage cans, then on into the environment. Chlorine oxidizes lipid (fatty) contaminants in the water. It thus creates free radicals (highly reactive sub-atomic particles lacking an electron) and oxysterols (formed when lipid molecules combine with oxygen molecules).

We require moderate numbers of both free radicals and oxysterols. The immune system employs free radicals to kill cells that its cellular immune mechanism cannot handle. A second mechanism using free radicals initiates programmed cell death known as apoptosis. Moreover, moderate quantities of oxysterols, like cholesterol itself, serve a protective function. But excess free radicals and excess oxysterols damage arteries and initiate cancer, among many other kinds of harm.

How well does the incidence of heart attacks match the areas where, and times when water is/was chlorinated? Chlorination spread throughout America in the second and third decades of this century, about 20 years before the mushrooming of heart attacks. Light chlorination, we will recall, yielded slow growth of plaques in Price's cockerels; and so chlorination of people's drinking water at the usual low concentration would have been expected to take at least 10-20 years to produce clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis. The timing fits, and the Roseto example fits.

A physician team led by William F. Enos autopsied three hundred GIs who had died in battle in the Korean War. These men, who had passed induction examination as healthy, averaged 22.1 years of age; the doctors wondered what they would find. To their shock and amazement, in seventy-seven percent of the 300 they found "gross evidence of arteriosclerosis in the coronary arteries." In several, one or more heart arteries were partly or completely blocked.

Although Dr. Enos did not try to explain his grisly discovery, he assumed arterial clogging had developed gradually. Seeming to support that assumption, almost 20 years later advanced arterial damage was discovered in ninety-six percent of nearly 200 consecutive babies who had died in their first month outside the womb. Two of those babies' coronary arteries were blocked, causing infantile heart attacks.

But did arterial damage in fact develop slowly? The water American soldiers had to drink in Korea was so heavily chlorinated that many could hardly tolerate it. In Vietnam too, autopsies of American solders found heart-artery damage. Again, water supplied to them had been heavily chlorinated. Did much of these soldiers' arterial damage develop, not gradually but quickly as in Dr. Price's cockerels? The truth-slow or rapid development of clogging-may never be known.

Industrial chemist J.P. Bercz, PhD, showed in 1992 that chlorinated water alters and destroys unsaturated essential fatty acids (EFAs), the building blocks of people's brains and central nervous systems. The compound hypochlorite, created when chlorine mixes with water, generates excess free radicals; these oxidize EFAs, turning them rancid.

SIDEBAR: Most Western diets already contain very little of critically needed omega-3 EFAs. These are found in fish oil, better, in flaxseed oil; also in moderate quantity in first-virgin olive oil. These EFAs (except in olive oil) go rancid quickly. Therefore, to extend their products' shelf life food processors remove all health-promoting EFAs while destroying or discarding most needed micronutrients.

Processors substitute either saturated fats or, now, partially hydrogenated trans, transformed fats. Found in all boxed and packaged foods that have long lists of hard-to-pronounce chemical names on the side, trans fatty acids consumed in large quantity can cause heart attacks and many other degenerative diseases.

Cancer-fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated tap water. It has been discovered that some of the most valuable nutrients and essential anti-disease phytochemicals form cancer-causing substances when combined with chlorinated tap water. This includes familiar foods like soy, fruits, vegetables, tea, many health products, and even some vitamins.

In addition, chlorine reacts with organic compounds in water to produce trihalomethanes (THMs) such as carcinogenic (cancer originating) chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. It is the combination of chlorine and organic materials already in the water that produces cancer-causing byproducts. The more organic matter in the water, the greater is the accumulation of THMs.

In a study of more than 5,000 pregnant women in the Fontana, Walnut Creek and Santa Clara areas of California, researchers from the state health department found that women who drank more than five glasses a day of tap water that contained over 75 parts per billion of THMs had a 9.5 percent risk of spontaneous abortions, i.e. miscarriage. Women with lower exposure to the contaminants showed 5.7 percent risk. No comparison was given for women who ingested no THMs.

Taking a warm shower or lounging in a hot tub filled with chlorinated water, one inhales chloroform. And worse, warm water opens the pores, causing the skin to act like a sponge, and so one will absorb and inhale more chlorine in a 10-minute shower than by drinking eight glasses of the same water. This irritates the eyes, the sinuses, throat, skin and lungs, makes the hair and scalp dry, worsening dandruff. It can weaken immunity.

A window from the shower room open to the outdoors removes chloroform from the shower room air. But to prevent absorption of chlorine through the skin, a shower-head that removes chlorine from shower water is a must.

SIDEBAR: Chlorine in swimming pools reacts with organic matter such as sweat, urine, blood, feces, mucus, and skin cells to form chloramines. Chloroform risk can be 70 to 240 times higher in the air over indoor pools than over outdoor pools. If the pool smells very much of chlorine, do not go into it.

Canadian researchers found that after swimming for an hour in a chlorinated pool, chloroform concentrations in the swimmers' blood ranged from 100 to 1,093 parts per billion (ppb). Researchers even recorded increases in chloroform concentration in bathers' lungs of about 2.7 ppb after a 10-minute shower in chlorinated water. For many people the intake through those routes is much greater than in water taken orally.

Another issue: There is evidence that adding chlorine, a common process in conventional drinking water treatment plants, makes some pharmaceuticals more toxic.

Studies in Belgium have related development of deadly malignant melanoma to consumption of chlorinated water. Franz H. Rampen, et al., of the Netherlands, state that the worldwide pollution of rivers and oceans and the chlorination of swimming pool water have led to an increase in melanoma. That disease is not associated with exposure to ultraviolet light. People who work indoors all the time, exposed to fluorescent lights, have the highest incidence of melanoma.

Long-term risks of consuming chlorinated water include excessive free radical formation, which accelerates aging, increases vulnerability to genetic mutation and cancer development, causes difficulty metabolizing cholesterol, and promotes hardening of arteries.

Excess free radicals created by chlorinated water also create dangerous toxins in the body. These have been directly linked to liver malfunction, weakening of the immune system and pre-arteriosclerotic changes in arteries (which, as we saw, struck Dr. Price's cockerels and may have happened to American soldiers in Korea and Vietnam). Excess free radicals have been linked also to alterations of cellular DNA, the stuff of inheritance.

Chlorine also destroys antioxidant vitamin E, which is needed to counteract excess oxysterols/free radicals for cardiac and anti-cancer protection.²

Other harm from chlorination. A study in the late 1970s found that chlorinated water appears to increase the risk of gastrointestinal cancer over a person's lifetime by 50 to 100 percent. This study analyzed thousands of cancer deaths in North Carolina, Illinois, Wisconsin and Louisiana. Risk of such cancers results from use of water containing chlorine at or below the E.P.A. (Environmental Protection Agency) standard and "is going to make the E.P.A. standard look ridiculous," stated Dr. Robert Harris, lead scientist in the study.

Later, a meta-analysis found chlorinated water is associated each year in America with about 4,200 cases of bladder cancer and 6,500 cases of rectal cancer. Chlorine is estimated to account for 9 percent of bladder cancer cases and 18% of rectal cancers. Those cancers develop because the bladder and rectum store waste products for periods of time. (Keeping the bowels moving regularly will minimize such risk.) Chlorinated water is also associated with higher total risk of combined cancers. Chlorine in treated water can cause allergic symptoms ranging from skin rash to intestinal symptoms to arthritis, headaches, and on and on.

Why does chlorine in water cause these problems? It destroys protective acidophilus, which nourishes and cooperates with the immunity-strengthening "friendly" organisms lining the colon. In addition, as mentioned earlier, chlorine combines with organic impurities in the water to make trihalomethanes (THMs), or chloramines. The more organic matter, the more THMs; and like excess oxysterols they are carcinogens.

Recently, a joint study was undertaken in Japan by research scientists at the National Institute of Health Sciences and Shizuoka Prefectural University. They determined that natural substances originating from these foods react with chlorinated tap water, forming dangerous compounds, named MX, which stands for "unknown mutagen". They are similar to well-known and more easily detected cancer-causing THMs (trihalomethanes).

In 1997, scientists in Finland determined that MX was 170 times more deadly than other known toxic byproducts of chlorination, and was shown in laboratory studies to damage the thyroid gland as well as to cause cancerous tumors.

The Japanese scientists specifically mentioned that MX is created by the reaction of chlorine with plant phytochemicals such as catechins, which are contained in tea and flavonoids (found in fruit). To make things worse, it is certain that the fresh plant foods we eat react even with the chlorinated tap water we drink with our meals. This means that fresh fruits, cooked and raw vegetables, green tea, black tea, herb teas, soy products, vitamin pills, various health supplements, and even some pharmaceutical drugs, in combination with chlorinated water can all be implicated in cancer. These foods contain a significant amount of phytochemicals including hormones, sterols, fatty acids, polyphenols, and ketones—the subgroups that include flavins, flavonoids, flavones, tannins, catechins, quinones, isoflavones and tocopherols.

These compounds are some of the most valuable and promising anti-cancer nutrients found in our foods and health supplements. Coenzyme Q10 is a quinone, vitamin B-2 is a flavin, vitamin E is a tocopherol, citrus fruit bioflavonoids like hesperidin, quercetin, and rutin are all flavonoids. Green tea contains catechins, phenols, tannins, and isoflavones. Potentially all of these substances, and many more, are subverted by chlorination.

The deadly cancer-causing agents that are produced are extremely toxic in infinitesimal amounts, so small and obscure that they are extremely difficult to detect. Very little chlorine is required. When the concentrations of phytochemicals are high, such as in health supplements or even fruits and vegetables coming from more fertile soil, the deadly combination with chlorination intensifies.

As this message spreads, it will no doubt shake the very foundations of the chlorine and water treatment industries, let alone the government agencies that are implicated along with them. There certainly should be cause for serious alarm within the nutritional supplement and food industries, as well as those segments of the medical industry that might awaken to the problem.

This message is of utmost importance to the public, because chlorine, acid rain, hard water, heavy metals, chemicals, fertilizers, and depleted dead soil will be exposed as major causes and contributors to cancer and degenerative disease; they will also be found to be responsible for damaging the body's immune and hormonal systems by mutating the food-based plant estrogens and phytochemicals that support those systems.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. According to the National Cancer Institute, about 1,228,600 new cancer cases were expected to be diagnosed in the year 2000. Since 1990, approximately 11 million new cancer cases have been diagnosed, and about 564,000 Americans were expected to die of cancer in 2,000, more than 1,500 people a day.

In the year 2000, about 564,800 Americans were expected to die of cancer, more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., exceeded only by heart disease.

Breast cancer is epidemic in this country. One in every nine American women will face breast cancer. Every three minutes, a woman is diagnosed, and every 13 minutes, a woman dies from the disease. The American Cancer Society estimated more than 200,000 women would be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, and more than 40,000 would die from the disease. In addition to invasive breast cancer, 61,980 new cases of in situ breast cancer were expected to occur among women during 2006.

It has been known by the water treatment and chemical industries for many years that chlorine reacts negatively with natural organic compounds. These industries call the compounds DBPs (disinfection by-products) and they are known to cause cancer in populations whose drinking water contains them. THM, the most commonly known DBP, causes a high incidence of bladder cancer and causes spontaneous abortion of fetuses.

Chlorine, fluorine, and fluoride are chemically related to iodine and compete with it for assimilation, blocking iodine receptors in the thyroid gland. Dioxin, a dangerous chlorine-related compound found throughout the food chain, is one cause of low thyroid. Rather than feeding the body's endocrine glands, including the thyroid, as nature intended, the hormone-like nutrients found in food are altered by chlorine and turned into mutagens that do permanent damage to the glands. Also, the serious deficiency of valuable phytochemicals in modern diets may be responsible for undernourished hormonal functions in those with otherwise healthy glands.

To help rid yourself of the chlorine in your system and get the intended benefit from your food and nutritional supplements, you may want to try humic extracts (especially fulvic acids), that are said to provide natural chelation properties. Chelation means that the chemicals actually bond with or "pick up" the toxins. They detoxify the liver and the digestive tract by attaching to toxic build-up, including heavy metals and chlorination byproducts, and then disarm, neutralize, and remove these toxins as waste products. Fulvic acids also work as nature's most powerful antioxidants, neutralizing dangerous free radicals, and supplying hormone-stimulating micronutrients.

The chlorine issue should come as no real surprise to any biochemist. Chlorine has been combined with many other normally safe organic substances to form some of the most powerful deadly toxins known, such as dioxin, DDT, and PCBs. The bottom line is that chlorine is the one of the major culprits in disintegrating health, not the substances with which it reacts.

Is there a better substitute for chlorine in water treatment: Yes. Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) destroys infectious organisms and impurities in water 4,000 times better than chlorine. Ozone (O₃) treatment is equally effective. Eleven hundred cities, worldwide, treat their drinking water with ozone; many have done so since as early as 1901.

To generate ozone, dry air or oxygen is passed through a high-voltage electrical field. Ozone drinking-water treatment in Andover, Massachusetts successfully controlled the effects of algae blooms and eliminated water quality problems. Potential THM formation was reduced by an average of 75 percent.

But H₂O₂ and O₃ are relatively cheap; moreover, the only byproducts are pure oxygen and hydrogen, so no one can make a big immediate profit on them. (Hydrogen is a potential major energy source for electricity generation and for zero-emission vehicles, and so it could be important in future years.) France and Germany, wiser and less controlled by the chemical industry, chlorinate water only in emergencies.

The chemical companies pulled off a huge coup when they bamboozled America and Canada into chlorination. They make big profits disposing of excess chlorine into our drinking water; otherwise, they would have to pay to destroy it. So now, we know why American water is not treated with safe, cheaper, more effective ozone. Now, we know why Dr. Price's revealing studies with cockerels were never followed up.

SIDEBAR: Swimming in chlorinated water. Drinking and swimming in chlorinated water can cause malignant melanoma. Sodium hypochlorite, used in chlorination of water for swimming pools, is mutagenic in the Ames test and other mutagenicity tests. Redheads and blonds are disproportionately melanoma-prone; their skin contains a relative excess of pheomelanins compared to darker people.

Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) tests have shown that "in the water we drink, over 2,100 organic and inorganic chemicals [including pesticides, heavy metals, radon, radioactive particles] and parasitic organisms including cryptosporidium have been identified; 156 of them are pure carcinogens. (In 1993, cryptosporidium killed more than 100 and infected over 400,000.) Of those, 26 are tumor promoting [they can make an existing tumor grow]. Exposure to cryptosporidium in people with lowered gastrointestinal immune function could lead to chronic GI infection. Other examples include recurring cases of Legionnaire's disease, a pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila, which may lurk in hot water supplies.

A public notice recently issued in Washington, D.C. warned that a high level of bacteria in the [chlorinated, fluoridated city system] water made it unsafe for dialysis patients, AIDS patients, organ transplant patients, the elderly, and infants. Water contamination is the worst in small communities that cannot afford proper treatment; the EPA has not released this information.

And hearings before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight discussed Pfiesteria outbreaks among people drinking chlorinated water. The organism, which kills fish, sickens some people; they get sick from drinking the water, not from eating infected seafood. The EPA's Robert Perciasepe said, in written testimony that "Any new public health policy on this issue needs to consider reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in our waters." A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would require managers of municipal water systems to tell customers what contaminants have been found in local drinking water. But with present crude test methods, that would offer little help.

Sherry Rogers, MD, pioneer in and authority on environmental medicine (EM), raises the number of chemicals in drinking water to 5,000. And 85 percent of American aquifers supplying wells below 8,000 feet altitude are contaminated with heavy metals; a recent federal report says the water you drink may have been recycled from sewage waste back to drinking water five times. As the late Kevin Treacy, MD of Australia said, "If municipal water were introduced now, it would not be allowed."

SIDEBAR: Plants do not thrive as well on chlorinated as on unchlorinated water; wild animals do not develop atherosclerosis until they drink chlorinated water in American zoos. Although their food, selected by people, is not the same as what they caught, plucked or dug up in the wilds, evidence suggests chlorinated water, together with its thousands of other chemicals, is the worst culprit in their arterial clogging.

Scientists in Minnesota grew embryos from healthy frogs in plain tap water. Some of the frogs had no legs or other had six legs or an eye in the middle of the throat. Earlier, deformed frogs were found in the U.S., Canada and Japan. And we are drinking and growing our food in it.

The EPA called 129 of the contaminants found in water supplies "dangerous" singly, let alone in combination. Pesticides and other toxic wastes run off farmlands and pastures or are dumped by factories, pollute rivers and seep into underground aquifers. Aptly called "biocides" by Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, pesticides are designed to end life; few have been shown to be safe. The EPA depends on producers of pesticides to test their safety: the wolf guards the hen house. It should be no surprise that the tests take a long time, and many have been fraudulent.

Further, one poison is tested at a time; synergistic effects of combinations, potentially far worse, are ignored. Besides, many of the so-called "inert" substances in pesticide combinations are more toxic than the "active;" one of the "inerts" is DDT, prohibited for American farm use since 1973.

Are these contaminants dangerous in such minute quantities? Yes! In a laboratory, healthy living cells weakened, malfunctioned and some died within seconds or minutes when exposed to toxins commonly detected in American drinking water such as mercury, nickel, cadmium and lead at the extremely low concentration of only one part per billion (ppb).

Above document Copyright (c) Joseph Hattersley and Barrie Carlsen; all Rights Reserved. 
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----- Original Message -----

From

To: Dick Eastman

Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 4:40 PM

Subject: personal message from ken freeland to dick eastman

Hey Dick,

 

I don't know if you noticed this post of mine to CHDouglas, but I am looking forward to your response there.

Thanks.

 

Peace,

Ken

 

 

Yes, Ken.   Here is the reply I sent 

Monday, April 14, 2008 11:02 AM

scroll down for the article 

 

From: Dick Eastman

Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:57 PM

Subject: comments: Night of the Living Goyim

> Dick
> I would like to send you nothing but kudos for this splendid little piece
> but I cannot. Despite its many insights, it seems there is a fly in the
> ointment.  Perhaps you can persuade me that it is not a factual error.
> Then
> I would be able to disseminate your piece far and wide without
> compunction.
> But because of what appears to me a major factual error I cannot.  You
> write:  "Mao and Zhou were backed by the international bankers against the
> liberal Republic of China trying to be born but aborted by banker-owned
> communism."  Where is your proof of that?  I don't need chapter and verse,
> just any source that demonstrates that international bankers subsidized
> the
> Chinese Communist Revolution.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Peace,
> Ken Freeland

 

Ken,

 

There are hundreds of books on this subject.  I have dozens of them.  It is the famous question "Who gave away China?"  George C. Marshall played a very big part.  Joseph McCarthy was not wrong on what made him famous.  His speech before Congress Retreat from Victory details Marshall's role in the loss of China.  In the FDR and the Truman administration there were many "reds" for the Communists and against Chang Kai-shek heir of Sun Yat-sen -- American educated and attempting to establish a Republic.  The US government, whose most influential string puller at the time was Bernard Baruch, did everything to sabotage the Kuomintang and back the Communists.  There are the banking interests.  Why?  Because Hong Kong was the very profitable bottle neck through which all trade was conducted with "closed" China.  Since the days of Venitian merchant banking -- merchant bankers made their fortune monopolizing trade between China and Europe -- a free republic of China on lines drawn up by the University of Chicago would end the exclusive middleman role of the merchant bankers.  You will not that Kissinger & Associates plays this game of selling access to the communist dictatorship.  You will note too that after the COmmunist revolution and even during the Korean War China did not snatch Hong Kong  -- that was Zhou Enlai's doing  -- Zhou was decended from the Mandarin family that leaisoned between the British opium traders and the Emperor.  Zhou was a communist but  a communist with ties to the banks.  One week after Nixon opened China (remember the ping pong meetings?)  David Rockefeller and Kissinger went to Zhou and essentailly planned the industrialization of China at the expense of the US middle class.  Also, China and Israel immediately recognized each other when created in 1949  -- Trotsky and Zhou never divided.  Mao also was a opium druglord as well as a red revolutionary -- and you know who gets the laundered proceeds from drug dealing  -- and the arms that drug money buys. 

 

Only one other person has commented on Night of the Living Goyim  -- I guess it was too long  -- when something is too long everybody finds at least something they don't like

 

Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

 

Dick

 

April 13, 2008

 

 

Night of the Living Goyim -- Ending How Zionists View the Nations

by Dick Eastman

Read this article here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frameup/message/26608

 

 

 

===========

 

One of my early efforts  From early 1998:

CHARLIE CHAN AND THE SINISTER PLOT OF ZHOU ENLAI

(A middle-aged Asian-American in white suit and hat, stands
talking with his eldest son)

#1 Son:
Gee, Pop, it looks like Beijing got all our secrets of the
neutron bomb, miniaturized nuclear warheads, satellite
electronics, and electro-magnetic pulse weapons. I
guess the White House was too trusting.

CC:
White House trusting many empty heads like head on
shoulders of inattentive son. Not disappointed.

#1: What do you mean, Pop?

CC:
Man not put mustard in bun unless expecting
hot dog.

#1:
You mean the Reds really bribed the leader of
the Free World with campaign money?

CC:
Please hold tongue so ears can hear. Beijing money
operating expenses for red-agent President.

#1:
But the Cold War ended 10 years ago, Pop. We¹ve
built up all kinds of economic ties and good will
with China.

CC:
Economic ties tight around neck of Uncle Sam.
Old Chinese saying: Eagle and dragon watch bear
die. Eagle think safe to sleep. Dragon soon making
wish with wishbone. Good will to Beijing Reds one
way street. Bank crooks give factory and know-how
to China Princelings; Get big profit. Uncle Sam
left with big slum and no middle class.

#1:
But why would any American do that, Pop?

CC:
Beijing Reds murder many Chinese. Big-shot
bank pirates rob America. Beijing Princelings
make crooked deal with bad bankers.
Princelings' heads not chopped off. Bad
bankers not go to jail.

#1:
But Pop, at the University the profs say our
economic ties are going to move China to freedom.
When they see the advantages of capitalism
they will open their society to our values.

CC:
Loud-mouth son waste time at expensive loud-mouth
college. Bad bankers not missionaries. Wall Street
crooks meet Beijing agent in Asia; smoke big cigars.
Play with bodies of pretty Burmese slaveboys. Talk
about big profit from coolie labor. Pick best country
to move money. No time for Thomas Jefferson.

#1:
But how could they plan something as big as
wrecking the United States?

CC: Plan already there. Zhou Enlai make plan
50 years ago. Use ancient Chinese military
strategy of Sun Tzu: If too weak to defeat enemy
today, corrupt grandchildren of enemy. Beat later.

#1:
Wow. So that¹s what happened to generation
³X² with all the broken families, all the dumbing
down in the schools.

CC:
Education reform controlled by big foundations
under thumb of bad money men.

#1: Is that why no one could stop the pornography
and all the abortions? I¹ll bet the crooked bankers
control the crooked lawyers too. Huh, Pop?

CC:
Tongue moving again. You overlook biggest weapon.
Zhou Enlai never forget Chinese loose Opium Wars
against English tea corporations. Use same weapon
against Uncle Sam. Red Beijing behind big drug invasion.
Make friends with American gangsters. Drug money
buy all crooked lawyer and politician they need. Old
Wall Street families long ago marry with English
opium-corporation families. See new chance to fill
pocket with drug money. Banks become agents for
Beijing. Transfer American know-how and machine
to Communist China. Throw honest hard-working
Japan, South Korea and Nationalist China on ear.
Beijing Communist not love people. Love power.
Bank crooks love power too. Poison propaganda
of CP hidden when letters changed to PC.
People fooled. Arrange own funeral.

#1:
But our military is still more powerfulful than theirs.

CC:
Number one son cannot open mouth without big
display of ignorance. Red-agent President disarm
own country. Send soldiers to middle of big Balkan
minefield. Stop American scientist weapon research.
Give missile secrets to Beijing Communists so
Communist soldiers know how to set pulse-beam
so burn up satellite and missile circuits. EMP bomb
destroy all electrical devices. President waste all
American missiles on Yugoslav mountainside.
Reds not take chances. Plan new Korean War
and Taiwan invasion when Uncle Sam start to
fight people of Iraq and whole Moslem world.
Defeated land of free go into receivership.
Everyone kowtow to Beijing Reds or else push
up daisies.

#1:
I don¹t get it, Pop. If all our key positions are
filled with enemy agents, criminals and dupes
and if all the good people have been lied to,
intimidated, or pushed out of decision-making
positions, how do we win? What¹s our
counter move?

CC:
Move already made.

#1:
Huh?

CC:
Words written down by man standing behind
potted plant will go on internet.

#1: Gosh, then the case is solved. Say, wait a
minute, Pop! What happens if no one listens?

Lifting his cup of tea toward his lips, the greatest
American detective smiles enigmatically and says
nothing.

finis
---------

Loose weight.

DICK EASTMAN 'S WIFE'S COSTLESS DIET PLAN:

PUT A BIBLE IN YOUR REFRIGERATOR AND MAKE THE
RULE THAT YOU CAN ONLY GRAB A SNACK IF YOU FIRST
READ AN ENTIRE CHAPTER. SHE SAYS IT SHOULD BE
ESPECIALLY EFFECTIVE IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE JEWISH
OR MOSLEM. SHE ALSO SAYS IF I DO NOT GET OFF THIS
COMPUTER RIGHT NOW SHE WILL TWIST MY HEAD OFF
AND MAKE ME EAT IT. *

I'm gone.


Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to evey other man.

* stealing from Woodhouse

From: Peter Schiff/Euro Pacific
To: olfriend@...
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:57 AM
Subject: Skousen's Conference


Mark Skousen has just extended the "early bird" discount for 1 week until
April 22 for Euro Pacific clients and newsletter readers. If you were
thinking of going to this great event in Las Vegas, now is the last time you
can sign up and receive this price reduction. I'll be speaking, along with a
host of superb speakers. I will also be hosting a "client-only" breakfast
meeting (more on that in another e-mail).
Hope to see you there,

Peter


THE WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT at  FREEDOM FEST 2008
"The Trade Show for Liberty"
July 10-12, 2008, Bally's/Paris Resort
www.freedomfest.com

Three Conferences in One!  First, a free-market alternative to the global
central planners and their corporate sycophants who meet annually at Davos,
Switzerland.

WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT
(Top economists & geo-political experts)

SKOUSEN'S CAFÉ  (The World's Best Investment Seminar)

And

FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!  (Eight great debates in 2008)

Join us in Las Vegas  88 speakers, over 100 exhibitors, and more than 1,000
attendees expected.

Dear Euro Pacific Capitalists!

At last year's FreedomFest, I warned attendees about the coming financial
crisis and how to protect yourself and even profit.  Few listened, but those
who did have seen their portfolio rise sharply while the rest of the world
saw their investments collapse.

Now I'm happy to announce that I'll be back at FreedomFest to address "The
World Economic Summit" there on July 10-12 at Bally's/Paris Resort, and I
urge you to join me.

It's going to be an incredible three-day conference.  In fact, FreedomFest
is three conferences in one!


WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT
AT FREEDOMFEST

First, a free-market alternative to the global central planners and their
corporate sycophants who meet annually at Davos, Switzerland.  Our speakers
are much better than Bill Gates and Al Gore!

Keynote Address.  I lead off the conference with a major speech: "The
Growing Financial Crisis:  What Can Be Done?" followed by a major panel on
the global economy with Steve Forbes, Steve Moore, and Mark Skousen, editor
of Forecasts & Strategies and producer of FreedomFest.

Followed by these notable speakers:

--Steve Forbes on "What's Next?  Report from the World's Most Important
Financial Center."

  --John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market, on "Conscious Capitalism:  A Better
Way for Bill Gates to Solve the World's Problems."

  --Congressman Ron Paul, 2008 Republican Candidate for President, on "The
Welfare-Warfare State:  Danger Ahead!"

  --Steve Moore, Wall Street Journal editorial board:  "The Coming Tsunomi:
What An Obama Presidency Will Mean."

  --David Boaz, Vice President, Cato Institute, on:  "The Politics of
Liberty."

  --Robert Poole, Jr., Reason Foundation, on "Look, Ma'am, No Traffic Jams:
Real Market Solutions to the Transportation Boom."

  --Warren Coats, former IMF official and currency board expert in Bosnia,
Iraq and Afghanistan.  "The Truth About the Middle East."

  --Gene Epstein, columnist, Barron's:  "Why We Need Real Monetary Reform
Now:  Is Ben Bernanke the World's Most Dangerous Man?"

  --James Gwartney, Professor of Economics, Florida State University, and
chief author of the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom Index.
"Geo-Political Hot Spots:  The Good News and the Bad News."

  --Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute, author of "Losing Ground"
and "Human Accomplishment" on:  "There's Too Many Kids in College!"

  --Larry Abraham (Insider Report), Ken Schoolland, Professor of Economics,
Hawaii Pacific University, and Captain Jim Green (former Naval officer;
retired pilot, Continental Airlines) on "China:  Friend for Foe?"

----------------------------
  "A world-class event, the best I've ever attended."--Alex Green, chairman,
Investment U
------------------------------


#1 Sought After Financial Guru
Enters the Skousen CAFÉ

Second, FreedomFest will also host our 3-day private investment conference
called Skousen CAFÉ (Center for Applied Finance & Economics).  Our featured
speaker is:

Jeremy Siegel, "The Wizard of Wharton" and author of the bestseller "Stocks
for the Long Run" who predicted the top of Nasdaq almost to the day in
March, 2000.  He is making a rare appearance on the topic, "Future Shock:
My Most Shocking Surprise in 50 Years on Wall Street."

Other luminaries are Rick Rule, one of the country's top money managers;
David T. Phillips, the world's #1 expert on estate planning and index
annuities; Frank Seuss on Swiss investing; Jon Golding on international
asset protection; George Gilder on the new technology stocks; Frank Holmes,
president of U. S. Global Investors, on "Why Emerging Markets Now?"; Vern
Jacobs, CPA, on "Tax Angles for Offshore Investors"; Martin Truax (Morgan
Keegan in Atlanta) on "Why Income Investing Can Make You Rich"; Van Simmons
(David Hall Rare Coins) on "Collecting for Fun and Profit"; Greg Galloway
(Fund Advisors of America), on "How to Choose a Good Money Manager";
Nicholas Vardy (Global Guru) on "My Favorite Five Foreign Stocks."  Plus
Mark Skousen be speaking on his new book, "EconoPower:  How a New Generation
of Economists is Transforming the World."

The Oxford Club and their top financial experts will hold several sessions,
including ones by Alex Green, editor of Investment U; Floyd Brown, blue-chip
contrarian; and Louis Basenese on "Winning in Today's HOT IPO Market."

Plus Doug Casey, Michael Checkan, Larry Abraham, Ron Holland, Frank Trotter,
Bert Dohmen, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Peter Zipper, John Mauldin, and many more.

-------------------------------------
"I turn down hundreds of invitations to speak each year, but FreedomFest is
one I'd pay to attend.  I wouldn't miss it!" -- John Mackey, CEO, Whole
Foods Market
----------------------------------

DON'T MISS "THE MAIN EVENT"!

Last but not least, the conference is planning "Eight Great Debates in
  2008," culminating with Friday Night's Fight:

  The Big Debate:  Two #1 New York Times Bestselling Authors, Christopher
Hitchens ("God is Not Great") and Dinesh D'Souza ("What's So Great About
Christianity"), take off the gloves in an explosive debate on religion,
politics, and war.  Plus...

  "The Real Islam: Radical or Peaceful?" Robert Spencer, author of the
dangerous bestseller, "The Truth About Muhammad," argues with Daniel
Peterson (BYU professor of Islamic Studies) and author of "Muhammad, Prophet
of God."

WARNING:  Robert Spencer's views are so controversial that his life has been
threatened and he cannot reveal where he lives.  But he's coming to
FreedomFest!
  John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and John Goodman (National Center
for Policy Analysis) debate Marxist economist Michael Perelman (UC Chico)
and David Himmelstein, M. D. (Harvard Medical School and co-founder of
Physicians for a National Health Program) on "Should American Adopt
Universal "Single Payer" Health Insurance?"   The sparks will fly!
  "Should the World Return to the Gold Standard?"  Gene Epstein (Barron's)
says "Yes!" while Warren Coats, Chicago economist and former IMF monetary
official to Bosnia and the Middle East says "No!"
  "Who Really Wrote Shakespeake's Plays?" Prof. Bill Rubinstein (University
College of Wales) and co-author of "The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real
Shakespeare" and Mark Anderson, author of "Shakespeare by Another Name" will
take on Stratfordian expert and Berkeley professor Alan Nelson on this
controversial authorship question.

  "Was the Civil War Necessary?"  Historian Jeff Hummel (San Jose University)
takes on Harry Jaffa (Clermont Institute) on the issues of slavery, war, and
Abraham Lincoln.

  Plus a Special Panel on "Infamous Latino Dictators:  Peron, Pinochet,
Castro, and Chavez," moderated by Muso Ayau, founder of Universidad
Francisco Maroquin and former president of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Plus These Unusual Speakers

Even if you are not interested in investing and geo-political topics, you'll
love these "offbeat" topics at Freedom Fest (we have topics for everyone to
enjoy!):

  American poet and Middlebury professor Jay Parini, author of "Robert Frost,
A Life."  Hear Professor Parini read Frost's poetry and talk about the
amazing life of America's favorite poet.

  Bill Jenkinson, author of "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs," on "Babe
Ruth:  The Greatest Sports Figure Ever."  If you are a sports fan (like am
I), you will love this talk.

  Pam Nichols, president of the Red Rock Audubon Society, on "Free as a Bird:
The Pleasures of Bird Watching."

  Michael Shermer (Scientific American) on his new book, "The Mind of the
Market:  The Darwinian Case for Free-Market Capitalism."

  Tyler Cowen, George Mason University professor, on "Culture Wars:  Does
Western Capitalism Destroy Eastern Cultures?"

   Chuck Muth (Citizen Outreach) on "Freedom in Education: Give Choice a
Chance!"

   Debbie Brezina on her book, "The Spirit of Churchill").  Back by popular
demand!

   New York Times bestselling author Mary Beth Brown on "Condi: The Life of a
Steel Magnolia."

   Harry King, MD, on "How to Live to be 100, and Enjoy it!"

-------------------------------
  "WOW!! I'm still just so gob-smacked by the amazing experience of
FreedomFest that I'm having trouble finding my words..I have always loved
argument and debate, and can honestly say that I have never had such
agreeable disagreements as in those fantastic three days in Las
  Vegas."--Professor Clive Wynn, Professor of Psychology, U. of Fla.
-------------------------------

And don't forget:  Chip Wood, the world's #1 emcee, will return to moderate
the entire conference.  Plus an incredible exhibit hall of over 100 sponsors
and exhibitors, including some of the top free-market think tanks, including
Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, Fraser Institute, FLOW, Hillsdale
College, and Eagle Publishing.  Plus a huge bookstore run by Laissez Faire
Books!

And Euro Pacific Capital will be there at the exhibit hall to answer all
your questions.

Sign up NOW:  "Early Bird" Registration Extended to April 15!

FreedomFest 2008 is a great bargain.  The registration fee for the 3-day
conference is normally $495 per person/$795 per couple, but I've arranged a
special deal to Euro Pacific Capital clients.  The "early bird" special has
been extended to April 15.  You save $100 per person/$200 per couple off the
retail price.  This fee includes all sessions, cocktail parties, luncheons,
and the sumptuous Saturday night gala banquet.

And we've arranged a very low price of only $97 a night at Bally's Hotel &
Casino, located right in the heart of the Las Vegas strip.

But you must act now.  Already over 600 paid attendees have signed up, and
the room block is filling up fast.  I urge you to register now by contacting
Tami Holland, conference co-ordinator, at tami@..., or toll-free
1-866-266-5101.  Or go to www.freedomfest.com to learn more, and to sign up
online.

Where will you be on 7-11 this year?  Make it memorable by coming to
FreedomFest 2008 in Las Vegas.  Fly there, drive there, bike there, be
there!

Your friend in liberty and prosperity, AEIOU,

Peter Schiff
President and Chief Global Strategist
Euro Pacific Capital

P. S.  Saturday night's gala banquet will be an unforgettable moment:  the
first induction ceremony of the Free Market Hall of Fame!  Plus some great
entertainment to celebrate liberty.  See you in Vegas on 7-11!

Proof that UPC has compromised a Cohocton Planning Board member who voted for the UPC " Special Use" Permits.

Now he is employed by the Mortenson general contractor on the UPC Wind Cohocton  Project, while remaining a Cohocton Planning Board member.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZLjvx-NI4

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----- Original Message -----

From: Vicky Davis

To: Dick Eastman

Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:20 PM

Subject: Re: Fw: Skousen's Conference

'Free Market' is what we have.    The 'Free Market' is what has given the power to the large corporations to so fuck up our country and this world that it is probably not recoverable. 

 

Dick Eastman <olfriend@...> wrote:

From: Peter Schiff/Euro Pacific
To: olfriend@...
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:57 AM
Subject: Skousen's Conference


Mark Skousen has just extended the "early bird" discount for 1 week until
April 22 for Euro Pacific clients and newsletter readers. If you were
thinking of going to this great event in Las Vegas, now is the last time you
can sign up and receive this price reduction. I'll be speaking, along with a
host of superb speakers. I will also be hosting a "client-only" breakfast
meeting (more on that in another e-mail).
Hope to see you there,

Peter


THE WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT at FREEDOM FEST 2008
"The Trade Show for Liberty"
July 10-12, 2008, Bally's/Paris Resort
www.freedomfest.com

Three Conferences in One! First, a free-market alternative to the global
central planners and their corporate sycophants who meet annually at Davos,
Switzerland.

WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT
(Top economists & geo-political experts)

SKOUSEN'S CAFÉ (The World's Best Investment Seminar)

And

FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS! (Eight great debates in 2008)

Join us in Las Vegas 88 speakers, over 100 exhibitors, and more than 1,000
attendees expected.

Dear Euro Pacific Capitalists!

At last year's FreedomFest, I warned attendees about the coming financial
crisis and how to protect yourself and even profit. Few listened, but those
who did have seen their portfolio rise sharply while the rest of the world
saw their investments collapse.

Now I'm happy to announce that I'll be back at FreedomFest to address "The
World Economic Summit" there on July 10-12 at Bally's/Paris Resort, and I
urge you to join me.

It's going to be an incredible three-day conference. In fact, FreedomFest
is three conferences in one!


WORLD ECONOMIC SUMMIT
AT FREEDOMFEST

First, a free-market alternative to the global central planners and their
corporate sycophants who meet annually at Davos, Switzerland. Our speakers
are much better than Bill Gates and Al Gore!

Keynote Address. I lead off the conference with a major speech: "The
Growing Financial Crisis: What Can Be Done?" followed by a major panel on
the global economy with Steve Forbes, Steve Moore, and Mark Skousen, editor
of Forecasts & Strategies and producer of FreedomFest.

Followed by these notable speakers:

--Steve Forbes on "What's Next? Report from the World's Most Important
Financial Center."

--John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market, on "Conscious Capitalism: A Better
Way for Bill Gates to Solve the World's Problems."

--Congressman Ron Paul, 2008 Republican Candidate for President, on "The
Welfare-Warfare State: Danger Ahead!"

--Steve Moore, Wall Street Journal editorial board: "The Coming Tsunomi:
What An Obama Presidency Will Mean."

--David Boaz, Vice President, Cato Institute, on: "The Politics of
Liberty."

--Robert Poole, Jr., Reason Foundation, on "Look, Ma'am, No Traffic Jams:
Real Market Solutions to the Transportation Boom."

--Warren Coats, former IMF official and currency board expert in Bosnia,
Iraq and Afghanistan. "The Truth About the Middle East."

--Gene Epstein, columnist, Barron's: "Why We Need Real Monetary Reform
Now: Is Ben Bernanke the World's Most Dangerous Man?"

--James Gwartney, Professor of Economics, Florida State University, and
chief author of the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom Index.
"Geo-Political Hot Spots: The Good News and the Bad News."

--Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute, author of "Losing Ground"
and "Human Accomplishment" on: "There's Too Many Kids in College!"

--Larry Abraham (Insider Report), Ken Schoolland, Professor of Economics,
Hawaii Pacific University, and Captain Jim Green (former Naval officer;
retired pilot, Continental Airlines) on "China: Friend for Foe?"

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"A world-class event, the best I've ever attended."--Alex Green, chairman,
Investment U
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#1 Sought After Financial Guru
Enters the Skousen CAFÉ

Second, FreedomFest will also host our 3-day private investment conference
called Skousen CAFÉ (Center for Applied Finance & Economics). Our featured
speaker is:

Jeremy Siegel, "The Wizard of Wharton" and author of the bestseller "Stocks
for the Long Run" who predicted the top of Nasdaq almost to the day in
March, 2000. He is making a rare appearance on the topic, "Future Shock:
My Most Shocking Surprise in 50 Years on Wall Street."

Other luminaries are Rick Rule, one of the country's top money managers;
David T. Phillips, the world's #1 expert on estate planning and index
annuities; Frank Seuss on Swiss investing; Jon Golding on international
asset protection; George Gilder on the new technology stocks; Frank Holmes,
president of U. S. Global Investors, on "Why Emerging Markets Now?"; Vern
Jacobs, CPA, on "Tax Angles for Offshore Investors"; Martin Truax (Morgan
Keegan in Atlanta) on "Why Income Investing Can Make You Rich"; Van Simmons
(David Hall Rare Coins) on "Collecting for Fun and Profit"; Greg Galloway
(Fund Advisors of America), on "How to Choose a Good Money Manager";
Nicholas Vardy (Global Guru) on "My Favorite Five Foreign Stocks." Plus
Mark Skousen be speaking on his new book, "EconoPower: How a New Generation
of Economists is Transforming the World."

The Oxford Club and their top financial experts will hold several sessions,
including ones by Alex Green, editor of Investment U; Floyd Brown, blue-chip
contrarian; and Louis Basenese on "Winning in Today's HOT IPO Market."

Plus Doug Casey, Michael Checkan, Larry Abraham, Ron Holland, Frank Trotter,
Bert Dohmen, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Peter Zipper, John Mauldin, and many more.

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"I turn down hundreds of invitations to speak each year, but FreedomFest is
one I'd pay to attend. I wouldn't miss it!" -- John Mackey, CEO, Whole
Foods Market
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DON'T MISS "THE MAIN EVENT"!

Last but not least, the conference is planning "Eight Great Debates in
2008," culminating with Friday Night's Fight:

The Big Debate: Two #1 New York Times Bestselling Authors, Christopher
Hitchens ("God is Not Great") and Dinesh D'Souza ("What's So Great About
Christianity"), take off the gloves in an explosive debate on religion,
politics, and war. Plus...

"The Real Islam: Radical or Peaceful?" Robert Spencer, author of the
dangerous bestseller, "The Truth About Muhammad," argues with Daniel
Peterson (BYU professor of Islamic Studies) and author of "Muhammad, Prophet
of God."

WARNING: Robert Spencer's views are so controversial that his life has been
threatened and he cannot reveal where he lives. But he's coming to
FreedomFest!
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and John Goodman (National Center
for Policy Analysis) debate Marxist economist Michael Perelman (UC Chico)
and David Himmelstein, M. D. (Harvard Medical School and co-founder of
Physicians for a National Health Program) on "Should American Adopt
Universal "Single Payer" Health Insurance?" The sparks will fly!
"Should the World Return to the Gold Standard?" Gene Epstein (Barron's)
says "Yes!" while Warren Coats, Chicago economist and former IMF monetary
official to Bosnia and the Middle East says "No!"
"Who Really Wrote Shakespeake's Plays?" Prof. Bill Rubinstein (University
College of Wales) and co-author of "The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real
Shakespeare" and Mark Anderson, author of "Shakespeare by Another Name" will
take on Stratfordian expert and Berkeley professor Alan Nelson on this
controversial authorship question.

"Was the Civil War Necessary?" Historian Jeff Hummel (San Jose University)
takes on Harry Jaffa (Clermont Institute) on the issues of slavery, war, and
Abraham Lincoln.

Plus a Special Panel on "Infamous Latino Dictators: Peron, Pinochet,
Castro, and Chavez," moderated by Muso Ayau, founder of Universidad
Francisco Maroquin and former president of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Plus These Unusual Speakers

Even if you are not interested in investing and geo-political topics, you'll
love these "offbeat" topics at Freedom Fest (we have topics for everyone to
enjoy!):

American poet and Middlebury professor Jay Parini, author of "Robert Frost,
A Life." Hear Professor Parini read Frost's poetry and talk about the
amazing life of America's favorite poet.

Bill Jenkinson, author of "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs," on "Babe
Ruth: The Greatest Sports Figure Ever." If you are a sports fan (like am
I), you will love this talk.

Pam Nichols, president of the Red Rock Audubon Society, on "Free as a Bird:
The Pleasures of Bird Watching."

Michael Shermer (Scientific American) on his new book, "The Mind of the
Market: The Darwinian Case for Free-Market Capitalism."

Tyler Cowen, George Mason University professor, on "Culture Wars: Does
Western Capitalism Destroy Eastern Cultures?"

Chuck Muth (Citizen Outreach) on "Freedom in Education: Give Choice a
Chance!"

Debbie Brezina on her book, "The Spirit of Churchill"). Back by popular
demand!

New York Times bestselling author Mary Beth Brown on "Condi: The Life of a
Steel Magnolia."

Harry King, MD, on "How to Live to be 100, and Enjoy it!"

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"WOW!! I'm still just so gob-smacked by the amazing experience of
FreedomFest that I'm having trouble finding my words..I have always loved
argument and debate, and can honestly say that I have never had such
agreeable disagreements as in those fantastic three days in Las
Vegas."--Professor Clive Wynn, Professor of Psychology, U. of Fla.
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And don't forget: Chip Wood, the world's #1 emcee, will return to moderate
the entire conference. Plus an incredible exhibit hall of over 100 sponsors
and exhibitors, including some of the top free-market think tanks, including
Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, Fraser Institute, FLOW, Hillsdale
College, and Eagle Publishing. Plus a huge bookstore run by Laissez Faire
Books!

And Euro Pacific Capital will be there at the exhibit hall to answer all
your questions.

Sign up NOW: "Early Bird" Registration Extended to April 15!

FreedomFest 2008 is a great bargain. The registration fee for the 3-day
conference is normally $495 per person/$795 per couple, but I've arranged a
special deal to Euro Pacific Capital clients. The "early bird" special has
been extended to April 15. You save $100 per person/$200 per couple off the
retail price. This fee includes all sessions, cocktail parties, luncheons,
and the sumptuous Saturday night gala banquet.

And we've arranged a very low price of only $97 a night at Bally's Hotel &
Casino, located right in the heart of the Las Vegas strip.

But you must act now. Already over 600 paid attendees have signed up, and
the room block is filling up fast. I urge you to register now by contacting
Tami Holland, conference co-ordinator, at tami@..., or toll-free
1-866-266-5101. Or go to www.freedomfest.com to learn more, and to sign up
online.

Where will you be on 7-11 this year? Make it memorable by coming to
FreedomFest 2008 in Las Vegas. Fly there, drive there, bike there, be
there!

Your friend in liberty and prosperity, AEIOU,

Peter Schiff
President and Chief Global Strategist
Euro Pacific Capital

P. S. Saturday night's gala banquet will be an unforgettable moment: the
first induction ceremony of the Free Market Hall of Fame! Plus some great
entertainment to celebrate liberty. See you in Vegas on 7-11!

Vicky Davis 

 

"The communists are a disease of the soul; It affects the whole body"  ~  Chiang Kai Shek  

 

 

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Subject: Bitter? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. by Robert Reich

 

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN

Send Page To a Friend Bitter? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet. Obama, Bitterness, Meet the Press, and the Old Politics By Robert Reich 16/04/08 "Common Dreams" -- -I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 61 years ago. My father sold $1.98 cotton blouses to blue-collar women and women whose husbands worked in factories. Years later, I was secretary of labor of the United States, and I tried the best I could - which wasn’t nearly good enough - to help reverse one of the most troublesome trends America has faced: The stagnation of middle-class wages and the expansion of povety. Male hourly wages began to drop in the early 1970s, adjusted for inflation. The average man in his 30s is earning less than his father did thirty years ago. Yet America is far richer. Where did the money go? To the top. Are Americans who have been left behind frustrated? Of course. And their frustrations, their anger and, yes, sometimes their bitterness, have been used since then — by demagogues, by nationalists and xenophobes, by radical conservatives, by political nuts and fanatical fruitcakes - to blame immigrants and foreign traders, to blame blacks and the poor, to blame “liberal elites,” to blame anyone and anything. Rather than counter all this, the American media have wallowed in it. Some, like Fox News and talk radio, have given the haters and blamers their very own megaphones. The rest have merely “reported on” it. Instead of focusing on how to get Americans good jobs again; instead of admitting too many of our schools are failing and our kids are falling behind their contemporaries in Europe, Japan, and even China; instead of showing why we need a more progressive tax system to finance better schools and access to health care, and green technologies that might create new manufacturing jobs, our national discussion has been mired in the old politics. Listen to this morning’s “Meet the Press” if you want an example. Tim Russert, one of the smartest guys on television, interviewed four political consultants - Carville and Matalin, Bob Schrum, and Michael Murphy. Political consultants are paid huge sums to help politicians spin words and avoid real talk. They’re part of the problem. And what do Russert and these four consultants talk about? The potential damage to Barack Obama from saying that lots of people in Pennsylvania are bitter that the economy has left them behind; about HRC’s spin on Obama’s words (he’s an “elitist,” she said); and John McCain’s similarly puerile attack. Does Russert really believe he’s doing the nation a service for this parade of spin doctors talking about potential spins and the spin-offs from the words Obama used to state what everyone knows is true? Or is Russert merely in the business of selling TV airtime for a network that doesn’t give a hoot about its supposed commitment to the public interest but wants to up its ratings by pandering to the nation’s ongoing desire for gladiator entertainment instead of real talk about real problems. We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral. Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment - all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now. Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written ten books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet, and his most recent book, Reason. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. Click on "comments" below to read or post comments   Comments (5) Comment (0) Comment Guidelines Be succinct, constructive and relevant to the story. We encourage engaging, diverse and meaningful commentary. Do not include personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. Comments falling outside our guidelines – those including personal attacks and profanity – are not permitted. See our complete Comment Policy and use this link to notify us if you have concerns about a comment. We’ll promptly review and remove any inappropriate postings. 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I am bitter that this administration gutted the nation's regulatory apparatus for the sole purpose of boosting industry profit margins, resulting first in the mortgage meltdown and more recently safety maintenance chaos in the airline industry.

I am bitter that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's unnecessary and illegal war in Iraq has gotten 4000 other people's children killed while their daughters have been allowed uninterrupted lives of privilege and safety.

I am bitter that this administration has treated the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as though they were suggestions rather than the sacred law of the land.

I am bitter that this administration placed one of the nation's most powerful agencies of government, the Department of Justice, in the hands of a man. Alberto Gonzales, who's only claim to fame is that he was unqualified, unprincipled and underhanded.

I am bitter that congress has shown neither the patriotism or guts to step up to their constitutional duty to impeach members of this administration for breaking existing laws, violating our civil rights and showing utter contempt for the separations of powers mandated in the US Constitution.

But most of all I am bitter that it appears almost certain that the criminal acts committed by members of this administration will go unpunished. That they will indeed get away with it all. And that that will set a precedent for the next George W. Bush-type who finagles his/her way into the Oval Office.

Those are the reasons I'm bitter. And it you're one of those folks Hillary and McCain keep assuring me are "not bitter," I have only one question for you:

Why aren't you?

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