The "Project," Part 1

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‘THE PROJECT’ PART I — ALL TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGIES ARE THREAT TO U.S.

• Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:06pm by  Tiffany Gabbay
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There are multiple ways to access “The Project.” This chilling documentary can be viewed ON DEMAND at TheBlazeTV or now on DISH channel 212. Don’t forget to tune into Part Two on Thursday 9/27 at 8pm ET. 

A 2001 raid in Switzerland unearthed a chilling manifesto now dubbed “The Project,” a detailed Islamic blueprint for infiltrating, subverting and ultimately defeating the U.S. and the West. Today, 80 file boxes worth of evidence submitted during the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial — the largest terror financing trial in U.S. history to date — including “The Project” documents, arebeing withheld from the American public by the Department of Justice.

On Wednesday, September 26, TheBlaze documentary unit released the first installment of this chilling two-part series outlining how the current administration has stonewalled repeated requests by Congress to release the disturbing documents and for allowing the Muslim Brotherhood greater entree into American government. Further the documentary reveals just how close American-Islamic operatives from groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) have been to subverting the U.S. and Israel.

The Holy Land Foundation trial 

The lynchpin of documentary is found in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which was brought to bear by the Justice Department first in 2007 and then again in 2008 against the Holy Land Foundation, a “charity” that was later found to have funneled more than $12 million to the terrorist organization, Hamas. During the discovery process for the trial, prosecutors submitted 80 boxes of Islamic material including the The Project document. Strangely, “subject matter experts” were subsequently called in deemed the documents inadmissible as evidence. The identity of these experts or the grounds on which they came to their conclusion has never been revealed.

Soviet and Nazi parallels 

The first half of the documentary provides background on “The Project” documents and how the Muslim Brotherhood has been successfully waging a “propaganda” campaign in much the same way the former Soviet Union did before and during the Cold War. One such push advocated by the Brotherhood is to purge the U.S. and its government of anything deemed offensive to Islam, including teachers, lecturers and library books.

Among those interviewed for the series was Rep. Michele Bachmann, member of the House Intelligence Committee, who likened the “purging” of people and material critical of Islam as akin to the type of purging that was carried out in Nazi Germany at the behest of Adolf Hitler.

TheBlaze documentary team also drew stark parallels between the current climate surrounding the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of U.S. government and that of the Communist infiltration of U.S. government during the Cold War. The documentary reminds viewers that after the Hitler-Stalin pact — a non-agression pact between the two nations during WWII — was violated, a contingent of Americans began a Communist “outreach” effort, believing it prudent to incorporate Communists into the U.S. government, including the Treasury Department and the pre-cursor to the C.I.A.

To place the Islamic threat in its proper context, the documentary notes how the Communist Manifesto, by all means nothing more than a minuscule pamphlet, became the greatest “life and death threaten to the Western world” until 1990. Likewise, Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (which, ironically means “my struggle,“ the same as ”jihad”) provided key insight into the führer’s political ideology and goals of world domination long before he put his “Final Solution” into effect.

Juxtaposing World War II and the Cold War with the current war on terror, the documentary also points out how critics of Islam today are being vilified in much the same way as was Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and, ten years earlier, Democratic Senator Martin Dies Jr.. Ironically, both Dies and McCarthy were correct in their assertion that American government had been breached by those who championed a totalitarian ideology anathema to U.S. interests.

Today, those who question the Islamist-influence on U.S. government, or who call terrorism and Islamic extremists by their rightful names, are painted as “bigots” — much like those who questioned one’s Communist affiliation was dubbed a “Red Baiter.” This policy of shaming Islam-critics in the public square is a propagandist tool engineered to stifle honest and open dialogue.

Ironically, one of the panelists noted that were President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office today, he would have considered Islamism a far more grave threat to the United States and greater Western world than was the Soviet Union.

Dr. Nabi Fai

As the “The Project” uncovers, there are more insidious ways of espionage than the traditional use of spies. Directing affairs of the state and influencing its operations may not be “tangible,” but that is what some Islamists are currently doing.

With this in mind, the documentary also explores the story of Dr. Nabi Fai, director of the Kashmiri-American Council who was exposed as a member of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a Pakistani intelligence agency officially listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization. Fai received over $1 million from the Pakistani government to donate to the various political campaigns. In the end, he contributed to the campaigns of President Barack Obama and Senator Dick Durbin among others. Andrew McCarthy, chief prosecutor of the “Blind Sheik,” noted, however that such donations and corruption are both widespread and bipartisan.

Be sure to tune into TheBlazeTV or DISH channel 212 Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 8:00 p.m. ET for the release “The Project” and while watching, consider the following Abraham Lincoln quote:

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

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Eric Holder will not release the documents referred to above. The President will not release information regarding this conspiracy, among all the others. The coming election is simply a yes or no on our Constitutional government. If the Democrats gain control of Congress and the president remains, I recommend you have your escape plan ready.  We are not looking at silly European socialism the control of unions and beneficiaries, we are looking at fascism. This is not something you want to just live through and wait for things to change. I am sure many in Germany had that feeling in 1937,

I won't add part two, it is up to you to look into your future; if it is not worth you time, you have voted.

It is TIME

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Watering Big Brother's Roots

Just a note concerning your freedom and that of your children. Don't want to intrude upon important matters.

The FBI has announced, proudly, it has commenced implementation of its new facial recognition system. Terrorism...bla....bla...protection....

This comes on the heels of Homeland Security, Department of Fisheries, and Social Security buying some 1.5 billion bullets. You never know when fish and terrorists in wheel chairs will attack.

The recent announcement does not include information mentioned two years ago about the system's actual design. It is designed to capture images from social media, et al., so that it will have a massive data base of everyone, everyone being potential terrorists as they may disagree with the state. 

Therefore, in a few years, as you walk down the street you can be identified in seconds and cameras can follow you automatically. I recommend watching British TV shows (I get them on Netflix) where the TV surveillance is old hat and a recent hit show was about the extensiveness and pending danger of total surveillance. The British have complied with the institution of total surveillance. We do not pay attention which, as Terence wrote long ago, "is consent."

You can be sure that in the near future, the police will be out arresting people who wear face masking of any type, even aliens, see below. Notice the move to re ban the wearing of religious head wair in Europe. This is contrary to the open society philosophy currently polluting Europe. It is sold as blocking terrorism, all the while nations are pretending to be politically correct about Muslim practices and not profiling. Simple masks will defeat Big Brother, so you can see what will happen.

Watch the entire YouTube of:

ALIEN VISITOR 

In England the rule is "do you trust Big Brother?," not "I am free." The lie is you have to put up with control to make you safe. Doubleplusgood speak. We are in the middle of this decision point and making a decision against freedom. 

The FBI reported it has 60% compliance in hooking up local police forces! We have a national police force working for the President. Did you sign up for this? Do local police have any idea they are becoming brown shirts?

So, I suggest removing photos. Leave the one in with you wearing a blue elephant hat. Or, one with a sign threatening to bomb terrorists for Christ.  

I hope you have not been putting anything substantive online, unless it is in praise of the Praetorian Guard.  Recall the recent posts about arrests by the Feds, along with local police, based upon Facebook posts. The last one arrest was dismissed after a one hour hearing, but the damage is done - people will begin to fear. The defendant was not victorious, we were all victims. 

Facebook is trolled to find key words as well as other indicia I could not even guess at. This is serious stuff for all of us, not just nut jobs.

Google hands over files of customers to the Feds upon request. That is correct, upon request. The files includes all the data they collect on you, which is everything that passes by their gates. Years ago, I was VP at First Interstate Bancard, N.A.  I got a call to deal with an FBI agent who showed up at our massively secured credit card center and asked to see someone's file.

This sent alarms among bankers. I talked with the agent in the cafeteria and said I don't think we can release information, he did not seem surprised, but I went to call the main legal office. They agreed and the agent left in a friendly manner. Today, banks give up information without a warrant, if it is not merely extracted in secret. http://money.msn.com/taxes/canada-tells-irs-to-back-off-marketwatch.aspx

People will, as it always the case, create an entire network around Big Brother thereby destroying our national community and public economy, giving rise to further "justified" state action. This is how Russia worked for a hundred years - everything was in the shadows and sometimes, someone was caught who had not paid off the police or courts. Then, the system collapsed; however, the oligarchs are back in control, as always happens without a Constitution that is protected.

We will become another Italy where voluntary tax compliance makes no sense.  You can see how their economy is doing. Italians are brilliant and hard working; their troubles have nothing to do with being without a foundation for a great nation. Socialists nations are popular with the users and the producers visit with John Galt. If you do not get that reference, I suggest you look into it.

Look for new software encrypting messages followed by the arrest of the entrepreneurs who refuse to release back doors into messages. In the meantime, people may want to invent new words. Grok?  (not a new one, actually)

Now, England is placing CCTV on private homes. I get the impression the goal is to put it in homes, exactly like in Orwell's 1-9-8-4.  See, my attempt to have the book reference undetected by the NSA.

A little excerpt from a 2008 site discussing the NSA:

...Supporters say the NSA is serving as a key bulwark against foreign terrorists and that it would be reckless to constrain the agency's mission. The NSA says it is scrupulously following all applicable laws and that it keeps Congress fully informed of its activities. 

According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called "transactional" data from other agencies or private companies, and its sophisticated software programs analyze the various transactions for suspicious patterns. Then they spit out leads to be explored by counterterrorism programs across the U.S. government, such as the NSA's own Terrorist Surveillance Program, formed to intercept phone calls and emails between the U.S. and overseas without a judge's approval when a link to al Qaeda is suspected. 

The NSA's enterprise involves a cluster of powerful intelligence-gathering programs, all of which sparked civil-liberties complaints when they came to light. They include a Federal Bureau of Investigation program to track telecommunications data once known as Carnivore, now called the Digital Collection System, and a U.S. arrangement with the world's main international banking clearinghouse to track money movements. 

The effort also ties into data from an ad-hoc collection of so-called "black programs" whose existence is undisclosed, the current and former officials say. Many of the programs in various agencies began years before the 9/11 attacks but have since been given greater reach. Among them, current and former intelligence officials say, is a longstanding Treasury Department program to collect individual financial data including wire transfers and credit-card transactions....

Of course, the laws that the NSA says it complies with are easily changed or circumvented in the dark.  Be aware that every transaction you make using a bank is collected. You Internet use is kept. Bytes are cheap, but freedom is priceless.

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Progressivism's enemy: the flat tax

Investment guy Porter Standsberry has been been writing lately about the logic of the progressive tax system, the one we are "used" to.  

Today, he wrote of his forty neighbors on a rural hill in Pennsylvania who met to deal with the fact that a few people continued to use the private road and not pay the $50 per property an amount the community had agreed by contract was how the maintenance cost would be met. They decided that the contract will be enforced.

The meeting took an hour and there was unanimous consent that all pay equally; there was not a mention of progressivism. The richer were not asked to pay more. A deal was a deal and the contribution was fixed regardless of whatever story the property owner may weave. 

This not apply to out country, the one we own, as Eastwood noted.

Last week, he commented on Disneyland's model:  one price and you are in. (Apparently, it used to have a tiered cost.)

If every voter had an equal say in the government, then we would all pay attention and not shift revenue taking to the "rich," which sounds like a "fair" idea, as it did to Marx and U.S. progressives - but is it?  Is it fair?

And, to start with a contraction that is deserved, fair to whom?

All progressive tax is find a way to take from the wealthy and the productive and give to the unproductive, a wonderful incentive to not challenge oneself. It is how big government takes from the productive and buys votes from those who do not mind being addicts.

Further, it encourages the government to help the wealthy get more money. The wealthy will go along with that as long as the system feeds them. Warren Buffet doesn't care about taxation as long as he is not prosecuted for insider trading. 

Large companies do not mind being the large target as long as they can continue to have the federal and local governments make competition nearly impossible. This is the oligarchy I have been mentioning. Just try and market something that competes with Big Pharma. Try and sell  health insurance across state lines. Try to start a private school, for that matter.

We all saw the Marxist tendencies in Wisconsin where the self-appointed educators, which is ultimately true, imported goons to attack the legislature to stop the forced taking of union dues from teachers! The unions knew more than half their income would vanish under the new law.  They were fighting for power in the progressive system and had no concept of education in mind,.

The failure of the socialist attack in Wisconsin is on my list as a candidate for one of the most important events of the year. The nation was watching. The ramifications will go long into the future as the results become clear.

The oppositional argument is in opposition, but is not an argument; it is a subversion of the American tradition with a new system of socialism. 

Think carefully, as this is the key to the progressive scheme: create a fear and need in the people, create an understanding that government will take care of us, create an understanding we all must pay our "fair share" so the "government" can take care of us. This is not paying for a service, though, it is feeding a malevolent hydra.

Government's purpose become to grow. It seeks to control the economy and supports oligarchy, which, in turn, produces poorer quality goods, sends jobs to other countries, and assures itself of tax breaks. 

This is the opposite of what the Constitution gave us; hence, it is under daily attack - and is loosing.

Here is a Stansberry quote:

...As my colleague Jeff Clark pointed out in a recent Growth Stock Wire essay, the federal government is now spending $12,000 per person each year. Thus, to govern a family of four in the U.S. now costs $48,000 a year. Obviously, the overwhelming majority of families in the U.S. can't afford to pay this kind of bill for governance. They can't afford this "road." So to pay for this enormous burden, we're attempting to tax the incomes of about 10% of the population.

This has proven unworkable (big surprise). So now we're borrowing more than $0.40 of every dollar we spend. How long can this go on? Remember, eventually, all these costs must be paid by our economy. 

It is essential to apply logic, these days. Most Americans don't bother as we just earn more to withdraw. We mortgage, borrow, and project. The pie seems to always grow. Recall what happens when it shrinks and you cannot meet your debts.

Now, apply that logic that to your nation. In this light, one can see an endgame of some sort is certain. Then, once you see that, you will know, instinctively, what to do to protect yourself. (silver and peanut butter.)

The endgame need not be the endtimes. 



 

There but for time, go we

By Ronan McMahon, editor, Real Estate Trend Alert

Thursday, September 6, 2012 Just over a decade ago, Argentina spectacularly unraveled with the biggest default in history – $100 billion.

Dollar deposits were converted to pesos. Then, overnight, the peg of one-to-one with the dollar was broken. The unpegged currency was immediately devalued. Savings were wiped out. Banks were set alight. And locals took to the streets in protest.

That crisis created the biggest buying opportunity of a decade. During the fire sales, you could have picked up a historic, high-end property in Buenos Aires or a vineyard in Mendoza for a song.

Today, Argentina is back in a bind...The signs are all there. The streets of Buenos Aires have recently seen the return of the backstreet currency exchange.

According to the official exchange rate, which is subject to capital controls, 4.4 pesos buys you a dollar. But on the street, people are happy to pay up to 6.7. Inflation runs at 25%. The purchasing power of an Argentine's peso savings is going down by one-quarter each year.

The government claims inflation is 9.9% and has outlawed calculating or quoting any other inflation rate. Forty percent of dollar deposits have been withdrawn from Argentina since last October. Now there are capital controls. You need special permission to move your dollars overseas.

To take a foreign vacation, Argentines have to apply to a bureaucrat for permission and explain where they got the money for the trip. And there are rumors that it will be made illegal to talk about the existence of the shadow market exchange rate for dollars.

But a lot of Argentines' dollars and pesos don't reside in bank accounts. Property transactions typically take place in special rooms in lawyers' offices, and they're cash deals. There's that much distrust of banks. They are fine for day-to-day things like paying your electric bill. Not for your savings, though.

And these transactions more often than not take place in dollars… If you pay in dollars, you could get 25% off the price of property. The government has outlawed this, making the buying and selling of real estate in dollars illegal. Just one more rule Argentines will find their way around.

By some reports, if an Argentine company complied with all the taxes and tariffs it faces, they would eat up more than the company's pretax profits. So the shadow economy thrives… by necessity, it seems, rather than greed to pay less tax. Middle-class day-trippers take the ferry to Uruguay to put their savings in deposit boxes. The rich spend millions on condos in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

For Argentines, real estate is their bank. They understand inflation and expropriation from bank and pension accounts. If they have some spare cash, they'll buy an apartment. Or a beach home across the Río de la Plata in Uruguay. Or a condo in Miami.

Now, fewer Argentines are using local real estate as a hedge against inflation. New construction and permit applications have fallen off a cliff. They just want their cash out.

The government claims that the rate of outflow has slowed. But with every passing week, companies and individuals figure out new ways to get their cash out. For instance, companies buy financial instruments locally in pesos that they immediately resell in New York for dollars.

Argentines have seen it all before. When a government and a banking system take your life's work with the stroke of a pen, you don't forget. If you're lucky enough to rebuild your savings, the next time you will be ready. And the harder the Argentine president, Cristina Kirchner, tries to keep assets in the country, the more they'll be siphoned out.

Meantime, Argentina is all but frozen out of international debt markets. The government hasn't reached a settlement with the group of creditors (known as the Paris Club) since its last default. So the country and the banking system desperately need these deposits to stay afloat.

But they continue to do incredibly dumb things. Two years ago, President Kirchner seized private pension accounts. Now she is going to lend $4.4 billion of this money, at a rate of one-tenth the inflation rate, to new home buyers. A lottery will decide who gets the loans – not capacity to repay.

Argentina has major competitive advantages in beef production. But land under beef farming is contracting. Beef producers face large and complicated export tariffs and are forced to sell cheaply to the domestic market. Many have moved operations to Uruguay or switched to soya.

It's one crackpot idea after another. And the cycle repeats. Expropriating your citizens' savings or international companies like YPF (a subsidiary of Spanish oil company Repsol), which President Kirchner nationalized last April, might buy you some time. But not much. The writing is on the wall.

In the last crisis, the trigger event was Argentina's massive default on its sovereign debt. This time around, Argentina doesn't face that scenario. Government spending has to be funded from printing presses, taxes, and expropriation of personal or company assets. It's hard to see how the government can collect more taxes. The printing presses are already causing the inflation and the rush to backstreet currency-exchange brokers. There's a limit to what you can expropriate.

This time around, the trigger event for a full-scale crisis will be the country running out of hard currency. There will be no money to pay for imports. Argentina can make do without more Porsches and Gucci handbags, but the country will grind to a halt if industry and energy-producers can't get their hands on crucial imports. The factories will shut.

Things will have to get really bad before we're in a "buy" situation. Pay attention if you turn on your TV and see news flashes of burning banks and of factories that don't have hard currency to buy raw materials, locking out their workers. If you turn on your TV a second day and see similar reports, then book your flight. Your dollars will go a long way.

Comparisons between the high-end neighborhoods of Paris and Buenos Aires are correct. It's a world-class capital, with a wealth of cultural activities, fine dining, and shopping. Buy when the Argentine capital is in turmoil, and you'll be sitting on prime real estate in one of the world's finest cities.

If you've ever dreamed of owning your own vineyard, I can think of no better place than Mendoza, Argentina's most famous wine-producing region. Mendoza sits at the foot of the Andes, 600 miles west of Buenos Aires. Soil and climate are perfect here for wine production.

Argentina long held promise. In 1900, it was the world's sixth-richest country – richer than the U.S. Immigrants flooded from Europe. The British came to build the railways. They brought along Irish and Italians. The Spanish came.

What followed is textbook mismanagement. When it comes to a head again, we'll have a full-blown crisis. And an opportunity to pounce once more.

Regards,

Ronan McMahon

Doupleplusgoodspeak

From Richard:

From Ben Stein: "Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."   "Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens."

SO, 

If the health insurance subversion continues, you can be: a mustlim, Christian Scientist, or foreigner to retain freedom over your body. 

More Paradox: the new insurance plan, falsely called a "health plan," is attempting to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions. They theory, here, is that a woman has the freedom over her body to force her doctor to perform fetuscide.

FEW FEWER PARADOXES

VOTE NO TO ANY INCUMBANT

(unless they prove to you they voted as they spoke)

Best states to live

The cartoon is only tangentially related to the report below, but I like it, so it is here. This analysis is exactly correct as to the subtext of Obamaspeak. The real purpose, of course, is to secure a permanent voting block of takers. The problem is the democrats have not built up that class in time for the current coup to sustain itself.

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Below is part of an article from the Casey Research people.  You can click on the name to see the criteria for the report, always essential to understand the results. 

The author wanted to present a list of places one should move or set up an alternative life to search for freedom, after he got reamed by the readership for recommending finding a new country to set up shop. He was right to say most people will not leave the country, nor could they.

Hence, you new home can be found below.  

...An impressively extensive report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University titled Freedom in the 50 States ranks US states according to a proprietary "freedom index" developed by the researchers. A PDF version of the report is also available...

The first link above takes one to a very cool interactive map, where clicking on a state takes one to the state's freedom ranking page, which shows statistics about the state and an analysis of personal, economic, and overall freedom of the state.
Here is the ranking of the 50 states according to the report: 

[ME: note the bottom ten states include the key democratic (socialist) states. Have to figure out what Alaska is doing there.]

(Click on image to enlarge)

* State tax on income from interest and dividends only.
Gray = States with no tax on income.
Blue = Top five states with the lowest overall tax burden.
Red = Top five states with the highest overall tax burden. 

A detailed, state-by-state analysis of taxes is found available from a different source. 

I have written before in this space about the importance of residing in a low-tax state. The numbers show that low-tax states have faster population growth, greater employment growth, and higher growth in gross state product. The result is a higher standard of living. 

No surprise that the growth in state tax receipts for low-tax states also exceeds that of high-tax states – a fact that, because it is counterintuitive, seems to eludes most politicians. Reduce the tax burden on productive citizens and they will work harder, and the state will draw other workers and businesses from outside the state as well....