‘Anonymous’ Calls for Flag Day Protest June 14, 2011; Calls for Bernanke to Step Down Immediately
According to TheRawStory.com, the most well-known hacker group, Anonymous, uploaded a video message to YouTube yesterday calling for Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to resign.
Do we know the ‘real’ Anonymous made this video? That’s hard to say … because Anonymous is you and me. So I guess you made it since I know I didn’t.
“Democrats have failed us, Republicans have failed us… It is time for us to stand up for ourselves… We must fight back against the organized criminal class… We must launch “operation Empire State rebellion. The operation will commence on June 14th…Operation Empire State Rebellion Engaged.”
You may recall Anonymous first called for Bernanke to resign on March 12.
Anonymous even made a handy dandy Google Map guide for you to find the nearest protest.
“This Flag Day, Tuesday June 14th, we will launch a non-violent social movement with this list of demands: End the campaign finance and lobbying racket, Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks, Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class and Order Ben Bernanke to step down (my personal favorite).”
The Banks: #BofA, #Citibank, #Chase, #WF, #Ally
Want to help? Tweet: See FLAG DAY http://bit.ly/mdtXF3 #OpESR
Click on the $ on the map for rally info: #NYC #DC #Chicago #SF #STL #OKC #Flint #WI #Monterey
Here is more information about the Flag Day protest
The movement has also been referred to as, “CTRL+ALT_BERNANKE.”
Here is the Anonymous video message:
… but what this story’s mission directive lacks, is the “or else” factor… that’s what we look forward to hearing… and seeing the full wrath of Anonymous in action. This video is not a strong one and lacks the conviction and confidence that past ones have featured.
I like my hero-hackers to be bold and confident, but not braggards and arrogant. They should be liberating and highly ethical- enlightened even… but never destructive to the little guy or harmful to innocent bystanders. Take down the banks, their mean boards of directors, and their corrupt political allies, but leave the clerks and customers in the ATM booth alone please. Anonymous has done this in the past. Their actions have been swift and decisive.
This video above seems to be of a junior level to what they normally do, and as such, I’m not convinced it is authentic. More likely made by a couple of Hipsters jacked up on caffeine with a few hours to kill before the next trip to Hot Topic.
Going “Paperless”; Will American States Follow Iceland in Declaring Independence from International Bank debt?
As rumors of considering secession become more of a plausible alternative to a state government instead of the fringe idealist battle cry that it is often considered; we must first take a look at the effects of breaking off from the Union.
Money and national security are the two biggest reasons to not leave the union. We need both as a state to survive… or do we?
When the biggest modern enemy we face is not a hoard of soldiers marching over a hill with muskets, but rather a single suicide bomber with a nuke in his backpack, one wonders what a standing army can really do for domestic wars of this millennium that a strong state militia with good coordinated intelligence gathering can’t handle (foreign armies are excluded from this supposition since Canada and Mexico aren’t massing troops at the moment.) It would seem that we’d be more likely to get invaded by the remaining 49, 48, or 47 states to “re-unify” its resources and taxpaupers (formerly taxpayer, now broke). After all, it worked for Lincoln once already, so there is precedent.
Additionally, when we have currency that is utterly worthless (aka a Federal Reserve “Note”) as it’s issued by a private bank and is no more than a promise to pay a dollar of air for every dollar you have, one wonders what exactly anyone would do to your state if you didn’t pay back the trillions in debt owed to the private bank—”The Fed”.
After all, our states have the militia and the Fed has marble buildings with vaults that close at 2pm… hardly a threat. It becomes more of a moot issue when you learn that only about three percent of ALL transactions in America are done with paper and coin money! So all those pallets of cash you see in the movies account for less than a “tip” if you spent all that cash at Starbucks. So, what if you just “unplugged” yourself from that monetary system and send them a paper letter saying you promise to pay back your share of the debt as soon as you can? Sure, they would send you a paper letter back taking your state to international court where you may lose the case and be sent a piece of paper to order you to pay the banks back, “or else.” But again, courts have gavels and robes, not much of a threat there either.
Discussions in Texas, New Hampshire, and Washington state of secession have reached as far as the statehouse floors within the past decade, with various Internet sources citing between 15 and 25 more states having fairly serious conversations about it today. We have dozens of states calling for a Constitutional convention to attempt a fix to the current crisis of overreaching federal hands in private lives. Virginia is paving the way for suing to get out of Obamacare mandates and many are following suit. All that is fine and dandy, but still doesn’t get to the root of most of the corruption and problems… money supply. Banks have it, and people generally think we all “need” it.
But recall and research if you will, bartering and trading throughout human history, and you’ll learn that we actually got along pretty well as a species long before a banker created “easy money.” People used to work for money. They had a trade and craft. They performed a service of value to others worth paying for… it wasn’t until “paper” with pictures on it became so “valuable” that we all wanted it instead of food, clothes, and durable goods. Sure, it works as a system when everyone is honest about how much paper something is worth, and we generally can agree on a system of price setting that’s fair and attainable for the average day of work… but what happens when that number becomes blurry? Like say, $7.00 for a gallon of gas, or $190/barrel of oil, and the trickle down effects set in of a Big Mac now costing $11.00 all of a sudden. It all comes crashing down that’s what. Bankers get overly greedy and monetary systems collapse. The digital age has brought consumer access to knowledge to an instant, so nothing happens gradually or over time any more. This works for catastrophes as well as solutions though.
The politicians can’t be bought off fast enough to pass laws to control people and keep them enslaved to the cash, and even the banks now realize that dumb politicians have raised their price above the rate of corruption’s inflation! So we little people are left with some decisions to make in the next couple decades and election cycles…. are we going to remain slaves to the international bankers and their puppets in the U.S. Federal Government who help to enslave us, or are we going to walk away and tell them that the paper check is in the mail to pay back the paper notes they gave us to run the state all these years? We can always sell state paper bonds to fund the paper checks if we need to, right?
I certainly have no idea what will end up happening in Virginia, but I suspect that the country will get a lot worse for a while financially before the helping hands are offered to us at the last-minute. Whether we reach out for the banks to solve the crisis by loaning even more paper money, or communism ideals, or incorporate into a North American Union to spread the debt out to new suckers, or foreign ownership of our debt, or simply just “quit” is anyone’s guess. I think it’s fair to say that “change” IS coming, and it’s going to happen fast for some states.
Here’s what Iceland did recently, and it’s something we should look at and discuss.
Iceland is free. And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers.
On April 9, the fiercely independent people of island-nation defeated a referendum that would have bailed out the UK and the Netherlands who had covered the deposits of British and Dutch investors who had lost funds in Icesave bank in 2008.
At the time of the bank’s failure, Iceland refused to cover the losses. But the UK and Netherlands nonetheless have demanded that Iceland repay them for the “loan” as a condition for admission into the European Union.
In response, the Icelandic people have told Europe to go pound sand. The final vote was 103,207 to 69,462, or 58.9 percent to 39.7 percent. “Taxpayers should not be responsible for paying the debts of a private institution,” said Sigriur Andersen, a spokeswoman for the Advice group that opposed the bailout.
A similar referendum in 2009 on the issue, although with harsher terms, found 93.2 percent of the Icelandic electorate rejecting a proposal to guarantee the deposits of foreign investors who had funds in the Icelandic bank. The referendum was invoked when President Olafur Ragnur Grimmson vetoed legislation the Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, had passed to pay back the British and Dutch.
Under the terms of the agreement, Iceland would have had to pay £2.35 billion to the UK, and €1.32 billion to the Netherlands by 2046 at a 3 percent interest rate. Its rejection for the second time by Iceland is a testament to its people, who feel they should bear no responsibility for the losses of foreigners endured in the financial crisis.
That opposition to bailouts led to Iceland’s decision to allow the bank to fail in 2008. Not that the taxpayers there could have afforded to. As noted by Bloomberg News, at the time the crisis hit in 2008, “the banks had debts equal to 10 times Iceland’s $12 billion GDP.”
“These were private banks and we didn’t pump money into them in order to keep them going; the state did not shoulder the responsibility of the failed private banks,” Iceland President Olafur Grimsson told Bloomberg Television.
The voters’ rejection came despite threats to isolate Iceland from funding in international financial institutions. Iceland’s national debt has already been downgraded by credit rating agencies, and now those same agencies have promised to do so once again as punishment for defying the will of international bankers.
This is just the latest in the long drama since 2008 of global institutions refusing to take losses in the financial crisis. Threats of a global economic depression and claims of being “too big to fail” have equated to a loaded gun to the heads of representative governments in the U.S. and Europe. Iceland is of particular interest because it did not bail out its banks like Ireland did, or foreign ones like the U.S. did.
If that fervor catches on amongst taxpayers worldwide, as it has in Iceland and with the tea party movement in America, the banks would have something to fear; that is, the inability to draw from limitless amounts of funding from gullible government officials and central banks. It appears that the root cause is government guarantees, whether explicit or implicit, on risk-taking by the banks.
Ultimately, such guarantees are not necessary to maintain full employment or even prop up an economy with growth, they are simply designed to allow these international institutions to overleverage and increase their profit margins in good times — and to avoid catastrophic losses in bad times.
The lesson here is instructive across the pond, but it is a chilling one. If the U.S. — or any sovereign for that matter — attempts to restructure their debts, or to force private investors to take a haircut on their own foolish gambles, these international institutions have promised the equivalent of economic war in response. However, the alternative is for representative governments to sacrifice their independence to a cadre of faceless bankers who share no allegiance to any nation.
It is the conflict that has already defined the beginning of the 21st Century. The question is whether free peoples will choose to remain free, as Iceland has, or to submit.
Bill Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government. You can follow Bill on Twitter at @BillWilsonALG.
Committee of 500- A Front for More Liberal Taxation and Control of Spotsylvania County?
from SpotsyGOP.com’s blog ‘On The Spot’
For Immediate Release
Contact: Steven Thomas
703-819-0127
Sgt1997@gmail.com
Statement of Spotsylvania GOP Chairman on the Committee of 500 Forum
While we respect the attempt to bring the public together in a forum, the Committee of 500 gathering Sunday was a disappointment. Our disappointment stems from the presentations, including one espousing the merits of the local government controlling the development process rather than allowing free market economic forces to guide it, while protecting property rights. Another presented the need for the General Assembly to provide more revenues to the local governments or for the local government to find new ways to raise the revenues. Or better put, have the taxpayers pay more in taxes at a local and state level.
We had thought that the statism espoused by the speakers and C-500 Board members was discredited with the failure of the Democratically-controlled Congress and Administration. But this group- many of which actually supported and endorsed Obama, including C-500 Chair Christine Lynch and Chancellor supervisor Hap Connors- has sadly become a proxy for the Spotsylvania Democrats.
While each speaker gave reasons why taxes should go up in perpetuity and government should get ever-larger, the voices of many participants- including many Spotsylvania Republicans- seemed to be dismissed in favor of infringement on property rights, runaway government spending, and the seeming “fairfaxization” of Spotsylvania. Even more disappointing was how out of touch some in the room were as to the main challenge of the time- jobs and economic development.
There was no better example of this than the list of groups that were not invited to the narrow echo-chamber. Where were the Spotsylvania Landowners’ Assocation? Where was the local Farm Bureau? Where was the local Chamber of Commerce? In fact, those with the greatest stake in the local private economy and on the front lines in job creation were never even notified of this forum, let alone invited to it.
The Spotsylvania Republicans will continue to focus on economic development by seeking industries that would add to the employment base to the county and offer current residents the opportunity to work locally. We will resist the growth of taxes and government as the priorities that we believe most Spotsylvanians share with us.
Democrat State Senator Edd Houck Attacks Opponents Invoking Bible Scripture?
…more from the Hypocrisy Magazine weekly section featuring career politician, Senator Edd Houck (D-VA17) on his 28-year rant against anyone who opposes him. Christians everywhere who hear this are saddened by Edd’s selfish invokation of the Bible’s true message.
But Edd Houck will stop at nothing to tear apart his opponents, even WHEN THEY ARE DEMOCRATS.
Sourced: Bearing Drift Blog Feb 23, 2011
Generally, when a public figure wants to go the religious-route the stereotype is that it’s a social conservative advocating for life (which, by the way, is awesome).
However, I never pegged Sen. Edd Houck (D-Spotsylvania) as an evangelizer.
I would be wrong.
Today, near the end of session, Senator Houck spoke on a point of personal privilege.
A witness tells me that Houck berated those who voted for the House budget, saying that they ignored Christ’s admonition in Mark’s gospel to “suffer the little children to come unto me” by cutting funding for the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI), public broadcasting, and for supporting school choice, etc. He also questioned whether those who support school choice, but not VPI, really care about education or the best interests of children.
Needless to say, this intentionally antagonistic rhetoric was responded to. In the case, by Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg):
Suffer the little children to… attend state-supported preschool? We see our share of debates on social and moral issues in the Senate, and it’s rare for members to make direct religious appeals on even the most charged of these, so you can imagine my surprise when Senator Edd Houck (D-Spotsylvania) invoked Christ’s words to condemn everyone who voted for the House budget on the grounds that it provides modest school choice support, and it reduces funding for Public Broadcasting and for Governor Tim Kaine’s signature Pre-K program.
My guess is that among those who will share my surprise will be his eight Democratic House colleagues who voted for the House budget – Kenny Alexander, Mamye BaCote, Bob Brink, Rosalyn Dance, Algie Howell, Johnny Joannou, Jim Scott, Lionell Spruill, and Onzlee Ware.
Oh well. We are in the final days of budget negotiations, so the rhetoric will probably continue to soar.
Personally, I love public broadcasting, but I had no idea of the religious connotations!
Less than 48 hours. I pray cooler heads prevail and we have “sine die.”
Edd Houck Cries Foul for Your Cash- Will Your Hungry Family Fall For It? Reward Offered for Return of Dignity to this Office
Cover of Hypocrisy Today magazine- Virginia Senator Edd Houck decries he's been victimized
In a transparently false email laced with half-truths of accomplishment and misleading denial, Edd Houck has cried victim of scurrilous blogging, against free speech, and denies his record of voting and loose ties to the abortion and sex slave industries.
Why he kicked a sleeping tiger for a few dollars is anyone’s guess. I had already grown bored of him and was contemplating retiring from blogging and bothering with such seemingly unchanging systems such as our political structure. Thanks to Edd, it hit me that that’s what he wants— to bully and push dissenters out of the arena of debate and discussion, and to silence free speech… and by association, his opposition!
If anyone should be asking for money, it should be my eye doctor because after looking at this header graphic (below) that he sent around with the crying wolf email, I may need a new pair of glasses! In no possible way can Edd claim he “needs” money, his PAC has more than $430,000 sitting in it right now.
Notice how he says, “our positive vision” below… who is he referring to? You? or the dozens of Richmond lobbyists and PACs who fund his campaigns in exchange for favors?
I’m honored he sent a few new readers to our blog though, but it’s GAME ON now Edd.
Senator Houck Needs Your Help Now!
… it is unfortunate that my opponent in this year’s election has chosen to start his campaign with an intensive campaign of negative attacks against me and my record of accomplishment in newspapers and internet blogs throughout the district.
In fact, I have been accused by one of my opponent’s paid political consultants of “helping to fund the sex slave industry.” If you don’t believe that I would be attacked in this manner, check out this link.
If you agree that there is no place in our region and state for these kinds of smears and unethical campaign tactics, please consider a donation. In view of my opponent’s early attacks and distortions, it is critical that I begin raising money now to articulate our positive vision for Virginia.
Your donation in the amount of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, or any amount will help me to print brochures and yard signs, purchase media advertising and communicate my record of accomplishment in what will certainly be a very expensive and competitive campaign.
You can make a secure online contribution at https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/19395.
Or you can mail your check, payable to “Friends of Senator Edd Houck,” to P.O. Box 7, Spotsylvania, VA 22553.
I am deeply grateful for your friendship and support. With best wishes and warm regards, I remain
Sincerely,
R. Edward Houck”
FACT: Edd Houck supports the taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain.
FACT: Planned Parenthood is a bigoted organization that is exposed on camera repeatedly in harboring and profiting from illegal actions including rape and the sex slave industry.
FACT: Edd Houck gave a public presentation in February, 2011 and included a member of Planned Parenthood at his table as a helper he referred to as “my staff”.
FACT: Edd Houck is holding back more than $430,000 in existing campaign funds on-hand. He doesn’t need any money for anything. That’s more than what his past two opponents spent against him combined.
FACT: Edd Houck is asking people to give money via Act Blue, a George Soros funded shell company for the liberal left agenda that includes big government, more taxes, and less freedom for your family. George gets a cut of what you donate. Nice huh?
FACT: Edd Houck has spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in every election in the past two decades sending out false, accusatory, and slanderous campaign propaganda through a bulk mail house in Richmond attacking his opponents. If you’ve lived in his district, you’ve received these. Remember the cartoon 11X17 glossy mailers lampooning his opponent as a toll-booth raiser or The Grinch? He sent out nearly one each day during the last week of every campaign to tens of thousands of homes. This is what he wants your money for.
FACT: His self-described “accomplishments” include raising your taxes 13 times in one day’s worth of voting; getting decreasingly less money each year from Richmond back to our area than we send in for schools, roads, police and fire services; taking money from a consulting job while he chairs the committees that vote on issues that directly affect those employers; funding the abortion industry- specifically Planned Parenthood who is directly tied to supporting the sex slave business and racist eugenic policies today.
FACT: “R. Edward Houck” is not the moniker he usually uses in his notes to friends. Is he worried you’ll Google “Edd Houck” and learn something he’s ashamed of?
FACT: He accuses his latest opponent of “negative attacks against me and my record of accomplishment in newspapers and internet blogs throughout the district.” As far as I can find, his opponent has done NO SUCH THING. I am not his opponent. I am his constituent. I have shone light on his record of tax-hiking, liberal spending, abortion funding, PAC-money grabbing, back-room dealing, cronyism, and previous attacks of HIS against ALL of his opponents, past AND PRESENT … and will continue to do so. The voters have a right to know about Edd Houck’s REAL agenda and how he REALLY works behind the scenes. Just watch as he asks mindless minions to begin attacking this blog in the comments section, and notice the tones and style including “Edd is such a nice guy and a victim, how dare you, you bastard!” that will come out soon in letters to the editor and comments on blogs…
FACT: Edd Houck is worried that you’ll do research on his voting record before the upcoming Democratic Primary time frame (either June or August) and will give your vote and money to his opponent. This is why he falsely uses the term “conservative” in as many talking sound bites as he can and regularly attempts to align himself with Republican’s votes and initiatives. He’s not even staying loyal to his liberal roots in a transparent attempt to win independent votes in a race that his opponent is sure to be more left-wing oriented.
FACT: Edd Houck lied in the above email to his unsuspecting donor base. I am not a paid political consultant for anyone in this year’s race. Edd Houck is my VA Senator and nearby neighbor. He is doing a lousy job as my elected official by most reasonable standards of measure. I’m a conservative, he is nothing of the sort.
“Anyone but Edd Houck Reward Offered” = I will offer $10,000 of in-kind political consulting services during the primary season to help any Democrat who wishes to run against him in this year’s Democratic primary including the two Spotsylvania men and one woman from Orange who are gathering support right now and have already spoken to me about this (you know who you are, I’m not certain if you’ve announced yet). The first one to respond gets my help.
… Now if I was a paid political consultant for his opponent, I couldn’t make that offer now could I?
Looks like someone else already beat me to exposing the Houck agenda. Kudos!
Planned Parenthood of Virginia Kills Baby Bunnies with Your Tax Dollars
IN this video, you’ll be SHOCKED:
Okay so it’s not THAT bad… they don’t actually kill bunnies.
…Only baby humans. Crisis protests from the SPCA and PETA avoided.
Thanks to historic legislation this week passed by the Virginia General Assembly, and voted AGAINST by Senator Edd ”Kill Babies and Moms too” Houck of the 17th Senatorial District, Virginia passed what I call a “duhh” law.
The new law regulates the safety controls, cleanliness (hygeine) and emergency response requirements (defibrillators, etc) of abortion clinics to be the same as any other medical clinic. And would you believe there are opponents to this? There are- and there are many. Most of them are astro-turfing liberals who are PAID by the abortion industry of course, because they seem to want you to not only kill your baby for their financial gain, but they also don’t seem to care if you die in the process!
Remember the chant “Keep Abortion Safe and Legal”? We can assume they didn’t really mean it… because all this law does is make your abortions more safe… for the mom, not for her baby of course. She dies in their scenario. Women DIE while having aboritons. How about if we don’t kill our taxpayers while giving these “safe and legal” abortions, shall we?
