"Don't Bank on It" Book Review

“There is something strange about fighting debt by incentivizing more debt.”

-          Jaime Caruana, head of Bank of International Settlements, “the central bank of central banks”

Craig R. Smith and Lowell Ponte’s book, “Don’t Bank on It,” should be a required primer for high school and college students who often graduate economically illiterate unless they major in Economics. The average American’s economic literacy would be tremendously augmented by reading this book, written for the average person who is not an investor or a banker.

Smith, the Founder and Chairman of Swiss America Trading Corporation, and Lowell Ponte, a former think tank futurist, offer sound advice and options for a future that “you could bank on” as well as a lengthy list of risks to Americans’ bank accounts.

The detailed and fascinating history of money and banking, the value of the dollar, its depreciation, and the attractiveness of gold as an alternative to illusory electronic investment that can be hacked overnight and disappear, are laid out carefully and logically.

Touting a cashless society that would eventually deal in electronic entries only, is not so far-fetched. It is a reality that “97 percent of transactions in Stockholm now happen via credit cards, smart phones, checks, and other means of transferring disembodied money that exists almost entirely as flickering digital signals inside computer circuits.” Entire towns in Sweden accept no cash. The risks of hacking from a world away can never be underestimated, potentially “breaking the banks.” (p. 24)

Financial warfare originating from unfriendly nations makes “too big to fail” banks “much too big to fail” by falling prey to full-time hackers. (p. 27)

The firewalls and the gate keepers entrusted with our money may allow the theft of billions of dollars. Cyber financial warfare such as the Stuxnet computer worm can make anybody vulnerable. (p. 32)

Smith and Ponte describe the “financial Pearl Harbor” that occurred in three coordinated assaults aimed at destroying the dollar as the world’s reserve currency:

1.      The 9-11-2001 attack which closed the U.S. exchanges for six days.

2.      “Bear raids” by Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds with $2 trillion (derived from oil profits of $147 per barrel prices in 2007) against companies like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Merrill Lynch, aimed at collapsing them through “naked short selling and manipulation of credit default swaps, both of which were virtually unregulated” (p. 34)

3.      Direct economic attack on the U.S. Treasury to collapse the dollar by “dumping Treasury bonds.” (p. 35)

Smith and Ponte explain how the Pentagon was “war gaming” the possibility of a social breakdown caused by a potential economic collapse. Computer-generated trading in nanoseconds can certainly cause “flash crashes.” And “high-frequency trader interaction with computerized algorithms of large-cap financial institutions is providing opportunities for high-speed, virtually undetectable market manipulation.” (pp. 36-39)

Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia could affect a “flash crash” on Wall Street or an attack on the vulnerable power grid and water supply in order to replace the dollar with a “new gold-backed Russian Ruble and Chinese Yuan/Renminbi during the next U.S. or global panic.” (p. 45)

Smith and Ponte believe that “decentralizing our technologies would make America much less vulnerable to high-tech terrorism and breakdowns.” There is always the possibility of a “Carrington Event,” a solar flare affecting the Earth’s magnetic field with disruptive electromagnetic effects, frying “stock trading computers, banking, crash the Belgium-based SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications,” or the potential of a terrorist Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) from a weather balloon nuclear bomb exploded 110,000 above America. (pp. 40-43)

Smith and Ponte explain that the inflationary history of money and of governments with their “fiat currency” should teach us that money is not a good store of value. Fixing prices, debasing the money, and price controls are also good arguments in favor of gold as store of value.

Because the “magical” fractional reserve banking that the Fed engages in is a Ponzi scheme and should not create a sense of security of our money stored in any bank, Smith and Ponte call it the “Fractured Reserve Banking.” Your bank is a “de facto owner of an unsecured loan or asset you have given it.” (p. 61-65)

Printing money ad nauseam is not something new. Smith and Ponte state that, from the original 13 colonies with 2.4 million people and only $12 million Spanish dollars in circulation, in five years there were $225 million in circulation, the creation of the “federal trough.” (p. 66)

The first Continental dollars issued were worth 1-1.5 silver coins each. By 1779, the inflated Continental was worth 1/24^th of face value in silver dollars.  According to Smith, in 1782 America’s first fractional reserve bank came into being, the Bank of North America, “the depository for all congressional funds.”(pp. 67-68)

In 1791, the Bank of the United States issued millions of dollars in paper money, using only $2 million worth of gold and silver. Hamilton said that our nation had a “scarcity” of gold and silver and, in order to grow, we had to issue paper money. Inflation rose by 72 percent. (p. 70-71)

Jefferson said about the ‘money changers,’ “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” (p. 71)

With the assassination of Republican President William McKinley in 1901, a staunch gold advocate, Progressives took reign under President Teddy Roosevelt. “These Progressives would crucify humankind not upon a cross of gold, as Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan said, but upon a double-cross of paper and fractional-reserve banking,” said Smith. (p. 79)

Smith and Ponte opine that the centralization of banking in America started in December 1914 when 95 percent of the 27,349 banks in existence did not have branches. The dawn of the Fed in 1913, “a new cartel of 12 private central banks,” marked the beginning of politicizing banks. (p. 80-84)

The argument presented at the time that creating the Federal Reserve took politics out of the money supply decisions was preposterous. Minnesota Republican Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh recognized the Federal Reserve Act as the “most gigantic trust on Earth.” Using other people’s money, “They [Fed] know in advance when to create panic to their advantage. They also know when to stop panic.” (pp. 85-86)

In addition to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 “imposed by the new Progressive President Woodrow Wilson,” the 16^th Amendment created the Progressive income tax, taking more from the rich, a recommendation made by Karl Marx in 1848 in his Communist Manifesto as one of the ten ways to destroy capitalism. (p. 88)

Smith describes how President Woodrow Wilson “took the dollar off the classic gold standard by making it more difficult to convert dollars into gold.” FDR issued an Executive Order that confiscated Americans’ bullion gold coins, forcing them to exchange any non-numismatic coins at the rate of $20 per troy ounce. (pp. 94-95)

The 1944 Bretton Woods treaty, pegging the dollar at $35 per troy ounce, gave rise to the World Bank (run by an American) and to the International Monetary Fund (run by a European). (p. 98)

According to Smith and Ponte, the Glass-Steagall Act, which did not allow commercial banks to engage in various investing schemes, was not repealed in 1999.  They explain that “Insured banks are still prohibited from underwriting or dealing in securities. What was repealed in 1999 were the Glass-Steagall provisions that had prohibited commercial banks from being affiliated with investment banks engaged in underwriting and dealing in securities.” This repeal will further endanger the safety of our money. (p. 96)

Beardsley Ruml, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1945, listed federal taxation “as an instrument of fiscal policy to help stabilize the purchasing power of the dollar.” He devised income tax withholding from paychecks which enabled the out-of-control federal spending and thus the weakening of the purchasing power of the dollar through inflation brought on by excessive money printing no longer backed by gold. Before Ruml’s withholding, only seven percent of Americans paid income tax. (p. 99)

Craig Smith expounds on the Progressives’ giveaway of trillions of dollars since the 1970s and how “this political extortion of the banks led to the 2008-near collapse of our economy” and to the current economic situation. (p. 103)

What Smith aptly calls the “Great Unraveling” has cost more than five million people their homes, $5 trillion loss to homeowners when home prices fell by 30 percent, and a forfeiture of $50 trillion in investor equity.

President Carter gave us in 1977 the Community Reinvestment Act which eventually led to forcing banks to give ARM loans to non-credit worthy home buyers in previously red-lined areas, and to the bursting of the mortgage bubble in 2008, all in the name of imposed equality. It was not fair for the rich to be the sole fortunate “winners of life’s lottery.” (p. 110)

The two monster banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, pooled, securitized, and sold mortgages to the tune of $5.4 trillion in 2008 when they were bailed out, said Smith, $1,4 trillion sub-prime. (p. 111)

According to Smith and Ponte, Fannie and Freddie became profitable in 2012, made enough money to pay the required 10 percent to the government, and had money left to pay private investors. However, the Treasury changed the terms such that the 10 percent dividend due to the U.S. Treasury became 100 percent, an act of expropriation not unlike the deal with the Chrysler bankruptcy. (p. 115)

Forcing banks to lend to sub-prime customers restarted in 2013 with the Progressive social engineering of the Obama administration “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” HUD rule. According to Craig Smith, mapping all U.S. neighborhoods by race and publishing ‘geospatial data,’ HUD will find out segregated areas and will force them to change zoning laws to include subsidized housing for low-income and minorities in ‘white suburbs.’ The minorities will include illegal aliens. (p. 131)

Americans will be unable to escape the tax man no matter in what corner of the world they might move to – the arm of the IRS will reach them thanks to a new arm-twisting law, FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which forces foreign banks to report any Americans with accounts over $50,000. Incredibly, 77,000 banks and financial groups abroad have registered to comply.

And if anyone should harbor the erroneous thought that their money is safe in banks, all they have to do is read what happened to the citizens of Cyprus and their bank accounts, when the EU technocrats decided to help themselves to other people’s money who worked hard and saved wisely.

“The bigger a Progressive welfare state becomes, the more of other people’s money it needs to devour. Our politicians have targeted banks, and our accounts in those banks, as pools of wealth they intend to plunder,” explained Craig R. Smith. (p. 153)

Of the 101 million Americans who work full-time, 86 million are employed in the private sector. These Americans own retirement accounts, 401(k(s, IRAs, and other pension funds for a total of $20 trillion. Politicians are trying to figure out how they can tap into this goldmine. Smith describes how a Progressive-proposed “Guaranteed Retirement Account” power grab might seize your savings. The federal government has already “borrowed” $5 trillion from various government programs that were supposed to be safe lock-boxes. And $5 trillion of unfunded Social Security liability accrues each year. (pp. 166-169)

Smith and Ponte quote Keynes on inflation, “Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…” To paraphrase Frederich A. Hayek, inflation is usually engineered by governments for their gain. (p. 171-172)

Even the IMF is after our money in the form of a “one time levy” of ten percent on income earners with “positive net wealth,” Smith explains, that would be households with income of $34,000. (p 173)

Smith and Ponte conclude that it is not out of the realm of possibility that banks and the dollar may cease to exist in the future. Banks are already nationalized via confiscation of property by regulation. Near zero interest rates punish the savers, the retired, and investors in general. The crypto-currency called bitcoin, an attempt to replace the dollar is not “legal tender.” Smith says that it can cause deflation, “an increase in value over time as owners hoard it.” (p. 194)

Will we become a cashless society as the government eliminates the middlemen and becomes America’s bank?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Stop the Coming Civil War" Book Review

In his bestselling book, “Stop the Coming Civil War,” Michael Savage makes a well-documented argument for the multi-faceted war waged by this administration on our borders, language, culture, the U.S. military, the middle class, our health care, civil rights, science, schools, and our allies.

In his opinion, depending on one’s political views, the point of no return has been reached with the NSA spying program, with the release of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay without congressional input, or with the purposeful flood of illegal aliens into the United States.

Because this administration uses so adroitly the politics of race and class warfare, Americans are ever more divided and racially polarized. Consequently, our national security, freedom, and survival are threatened on many fronts.

“Desiring to control us from inception to death, from womb to tomb,” Savage predicts that our nation will eventually “snap” from the controlling pressure exercised on what we do, eat, drink, think, learn, speak, read, and write. (p. 15)

Facing a constant assault on our “borders, language, and culture,” Savage explains that “we’ve become a post-Constitutional society,” in the most perilous position since the 1860s, a “culture of statelessness and corruption.” He compares our nation with a “tinderbox” ready to ignite. In his opinion, the bi-partisan rule from Washington is based on “greed and hunger for power of a crony oligarchy, not the rule of law.” (pp. 16-17)  

Opining that the suspension of the filibuster rule by Harry Reid enabled the dismissal of legal challenges to the (un) Affordable Care Act and the eventual destruction of the best health care system in the world, Savage laments the fact that the rest of America seems to live in peace, unperturbed by “subterranean rumblings” caused by:

-          The fact that health care has become “the industry of the haves-versus-the-have-nots” (p. 20)

-          “Hostile takeover of Americans’ formerly private information” (p. 22)

-          America is losing its position as the world’s superpower (p. 23)

-          Lack of patriotism and nationalism (p. 24)

-          Collapse of the military, the economy, and culture (p. 24)

The “once righteous and heroic America” is replaced “with a leftist government defined by immorality and greed.” (p. 31)

A true patriot and son of a legal immigrant from Russia, Savage wants to put a stop to the corporate debasement of our “most cherished possession: our pride in our country.” (p. 31)

War on Culture, Language, and Borders

Savage describes how the war on our culture, language, and borders evolved from the liberal “humane” enforcement of immigration laws which released criminal aliens on our streets. (p. 28)

Illegal immigrants are not here to chase the American dream, said Savage, they are here to “game the system” and strip hard-working Americans of their wealth and establish a fundamentally transformed America that resembles the hell-hole they’ve escaped. Savage describes the President’s Dreamers as a “living nightmare.” (p. 34)

Savage explains that the war on our culture, on Christians, on women, on men, on children, on minorities, and on the rule of law is expanded to include the introduction of cultural Marxism, a war on morality, allowing and promoting “polymorphous sexuality” and “hedonism.” (p. 40)

Communist professor Herbert Marcuse’s 1960s slogan, “Make love, not war,” has become in our current time, said Savage, “Make love, not money.”

Government dependency, perennial poverty, metro sexuality, and a distrust of strong males are “foundational components of leftist values,” Savage explains.  Neutralizing the male population and disempowering the military assure success of the leftist agenda. (p. 43)

Savage continues, “A strong man is the very emblem of the democratic capitalism’s evil power.” The war on masculinity is thus justified. (p. 47)

Savage enumerates some of the agents that contribute to the degradation of our society: cultural elites, Planned Parenthood, Center for American Progress, Think Progress, FCC, “researchers” policing our newsrooms, and political leftists opposing Christians everywhere.

Even though English is the “official language of the world,” Savage laments politicians who are “too weak-kneed, to make English the official language of the U.S.” (p. 55)

War on the Military

In his opinion, the war on our military is waged by a man who “would speak loudly and carry a limp stick.” Some of Savage’s examples include:

-          VA denying appointments to veterans in dire need of health care

-          Neutering our missile defense and military cuts (p. 64)

-          Firing of generals in wartime, a rare occurrence, Savage said, including those connected to the “Benghazi murders” (pp. 64-71)

-          Appointing “handpicked military officers to second-in-command positions” in order to report on their superiors (p. 72)

-          Lowering physical standards to help women “succeed” in the name of “equality of sexes” (p. 79)

War on the Middle Class

Savage, in his inimitable way of connecting the dots of seemingly unrelated events, compares the current war on the middle class with the capture by the Union forces of New Orleans, a shipping point for Confederate forces who helped them fund the war.  

Savage sees a parallel between the economy of the Civil War and today’s economy. Economics and political power played a very important role in both. Slavery was the “rallying cry” for the Civil War, but economic and political power was the underlying cause. Savage said that five times as many wealthy men were found in the North as had been thirty years earlier. The wealth built in the nineteenth century was based on real manufacturing and trade. Today two thousand plus billionaires have increased their wealth with electronic money creation, not something tangible. (p. 104)

Savage aptly describes the stagnant economy as a “trapdoor economy through which more and more middle class Americans have dropped into poverty.” (p. 87)

This stagnant economy was created by:

-          Zero “stimulus” interest rates set by the Fed and disappearing savings (p. 91)

-          13,000 new regulations

-          Robbing the middle class through taxation to bail out the “biggest and most corrupt banks in the world” (p. 88)

-          Fed’s quantitative easings, “nothing short of robbery,” printing $4 trillion dollars backed by a “hollow full faith and credit” in government, a sort of “Confederate counterfeit money” (pp. 90-93)

Savage explains how seventy percent of U.S. stock market trading is rigged by allowing robots to do high-frequency trading in nanno-seconds, permitting market manipulation and centralization of wealth. (p. 97)

America is now a permanent welfare state and poverty is at an all-time high. Raising the minimum wage will exacerbate poverty and increase welfare recipients, while the winner, JPMorgan Chase, will benefit $560 million by processing Electronic Benefit Transfer cards (p. 102)

The middle class is adversely affected by the excessively printed and devalued dollar and the loss of its role as “reserve currency” and “petro dollar.”

The middle class is plagued by an increasing misery index, a decreasing freedom index, rising food and energy prices, the Pope’s war on free markets and capitalism, and prioritizing climate change politics over job creation.

War on Medicine

Savage talks about the war on medicine, unleashed by Obamacare, a Castro style medicine provided by government-controlled, single payer care like Venezuela. Green Mountain Care in Vermont makes a good example of a single payer system that spends $2 billion a year on health care, the entire tax revenue of the State of Vermont, a behemoth that lawmakers want to repeal. (p. 118)

Savage points out that Obamacare is so ill-conceived, non-generic drugs are not covered. Generic drug prices will go up as demand will go up. When less people will afford generic drugs, pharmacies will go broke. Healthy people will enjoy free annual visits. Sick people with cancer should put their affairs in order. (p. 123)

War on Civil Rights

Savage says that the war on civil rights includes attacks and bans on gun ownership, benefits to illegal aliens, irrelevance of the rule of law because of excessive regulations and executive orders, DOJ’s denial of civil rights to whites, auditing of conservative groups and people such as True the Vote and James O’Keefe, auditing of whistle blowers, and lack of convictions for white collar crimes. (pp. 162-163)

War on Science

The war on science centers on climate change. Savage devotes chapter 8 to the global warming debacle, focusing on some of the individual players in the ongoing deception.

-          Ottmar Edenhofer admitted that “global warming is nothing more than a  political issue” that “undermines the ‘science’ that the left invented to justify global warming” (p. 182)

-          Christina Figueres, “the climate change chief of the U.N.” thinks that China is “the ideal model for government’s role in fighting climate change  (p. 183)

-          Al Gore - Savage calls him “the global warming debate team captain” (p. 184)

Calling the EPA, “the Environmental Pilferage Agency, Savage describes it as one of the most corrupt agencies in modern American history, … its only rival is the IRS.” (p. 188)

The real cost of our climate change policy, Savage says, is the cost of expensive and bankrupt solar and wind energy, animal and bird casualties, huge cost of conversion, subsidies, and damage to human health.

Fracking is a success story. Energy production has been hindered by Obama’s non-approval of the XL Keystone pipeline from Canada.

Savage explains solar flares and volcanic activity in relationship to climate change. The NASA and NOAA reports were described by the MIT scientists as sinking to the level of “hilarious incoherence.” (p. 199)

War on Schools

The war on schools is the war to dumb down our students with the standards of Common Core. Savage talks about “outcome based education” developed in Chicago and the college textbook publishing which has “degenerated into a racket.” (p. 206)

Savage criticizes the fact that “Colleges foster the physical separation of people into racial, ethnic, and cultural groups, a purposeful result.” (p. 211)

At some point, the education bubble of $1 trillion, “thirty-three percent of all ‘subprime student loans’ are more than 90 days overdue,” is going to burst. (p. 212)

Graduates with worthless degrees, “parroting leftist platitudes,” can only find minimum wage jobs for which they are overqualified,” said Savage. (p. 213)

Savage sees the “brick and mortar universities as “debt-ridden gulags of biased, agenda-driven indoctrination.” (p. 213)

Savage believes that schools indoctrinate students into leftist thinking and “separate the youth of our nation from their parents and other Americans who grew up when the Constitution meant something.” (p. 221)

War on Our Allies

The war on our allies chapter explains the “Arab Winter,” the situation in Libya, Syria, Israel, the reality in Ukraine, and how our foreign policy of supporting radical factions in Ukraine that overthrew a duly elected president, has re-ignited the Cold War with Putin’s Russia. Savage succinctly colors the chaotic political situation with a masterful stroke, “We’re seeing American foreign policy at its nadir.” (p. 249)

Savage, a student of history and occasionally a mythological Cassandra, ends his book with incisive advice acquired from experience during his twenty years on radio, in-depth research, scholarly endeavors, 28 books, advanced degrees, a doctorate from Berkeley, and an uncanny ability to see and articulate the truth with clarity in a world drowning in deception and misinformation. “We are the equivalent of the anticommunists who fought Stalin,” he said. (p. 251)

As he sees it, the lines have been drawn in the sand:

-          “The haves against the have-nots”

-          “The illegal aliens against hard-working middle-class families”

-          “Liberals who hate the Second Amendment versus lawful gun owners…”

-           Climate militants against “deniers”

-          “Anti-Christian communist educators against God-fearing families”

-          “Republicans against patriots” (p. 252)

We are becoming global citizens of a global community which is nothing but global communism. “We are becoming the Union of Soviet States of America: the USSA,” Savage warns.

Michael Savage’s book is a documented caveat and a strong plea, a wake-up call to the American people before the 2014 elections, our last chance to right the Ship of State.

 

 

Time to Counter Land Trust Abuse Against Farmers

A chapter is dedicated to Martha's story.

Tired of land trust agents frequently abusing the public trust and the rights of property owners, Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center, Martha Boneta, owner of Liberty Farm in Paris, Virginia and other major property rights advocates are organizing a property rights rally, conference, and an early morning hearing before the Virginia Outdoors Federation on November 6, 2014 in Richmond, Virginia at the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

“It’s time to counter the powerful Green voices that are dictating policy and harassing property owners,” said Tom DeWeese in an open letter to the American public.

Farmers are demanding land trust reform to stop abusive practices of land trust agents who often disregard the rights of property owners and use local officials to intimidate and harass farmers with onerous fines and audits. A glaring example is the video showing a Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) agent who, in a German Stasi police manner, demands to inspect Martha Boneta’s closets.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=LAywKw93ucs

According to Tom DeWeese, “The Piedmont Environmental Council, an elitist cabal masquerading as a conservation group, has repeatedly overstepped its authority under the Virginia Conservation Easement Act.”

The fact that PEC was successful in bullying for eight years Fauquier County farmer Martha Boneta in spite of the well-publicized and well-documented “transgressions” against her farm is an indication that other “control and power-hungry groups” could violate property rights of Virginians across the Commonwealth and of Americans across the country.

Allowing the public trust to be violated in one area is setting a bad precedent for other well-funded groups like PEC to impose their control and will through underhanded venues on farmers, landowners and businesses in general as has been the case around the country.

Preserving private property and the rule of law in our nation is essential to safeguarding liberty.  If the rule of law is no longer respected, the Founding Fathers’ America is in jeopardy. “The first act of a tyrant is to take away your property rights,” said DeWeese.

Virginians and the American Policy Center are calling for:

-          The General Assembly to enact Land Trust Reforms “to end welfare to the rich in the form of sale of tax credits”

-          Virginia General Assembly to create Land Trust “fair business practices, consumer protections, and sanctions when Land Trust abuse occurs”

-          Virginia General Assembly to develop a “framework” to safeguard the public interest against Land Trust agents who engage in malicious and counterproductive business practices

-          Legislation enactment by the Virginia General Assembly to curb and “reign” in abuses of the Piedmont Environmental Council and other analogous land trusts.

I dedicated a chapter to Martha Boneta’s story in my book, “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy.” http://www.amazon.com/U-N-Agenda-21-Environmental-Piracy-ebook/dp/B009WC6JXO/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2/186-3038350-6259617?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414163958&sr=1-1&keywords=UN+Agenda+21%3A+Environmental+Piracy

The glaring, behind closed doors collusion is evident in Martha’s ordeal which has stretched for eight years. The Daily Signal ran her story recently. http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/20/farmers-harassment-claim-against-green-group-to-get-airing/

It is vitally important to protect our property rights in a Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, the left brainwashed our society into believing that we live in a democracy where the will of the leftist majority is forcing the rest to comply. But we live more and more in a corporatist atmosphere where the international bankers have stripped individuals of their rights bit by bit with the help of “green” legislators and environmentalist NGOs.

As John Adams so eloquently said, “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.” (John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787)

Amnesty for 34 Million Illegal Aliens

The ISIS threat has already been forgotten and the Ebola crisis has been dumped in the lap of the Department of Defense. Climate change has been declared to be the number one threat to our national security. The next manufactured crisis to be resolved is amnesty by fiat.

Soldiers, highly trained to fight wars only, will provide medical containment expertise, testing for Ebola, and hermetic and cremation mortuary services, in place of the local burial rites that have contributed to the rapid spread of Ebola.

Why stop the flights from the affected countries and ban the travel and visas for West African citizens affected by the epidemic when we can deploy thousands of healthy U.S. soldiers to contain Ebola at its source? If any foreign national travels sick to the U.S. and spreads Ebola to anyone he/she comes in contact with, it’s a chance that we have to take because we don’t want to deprive those foreign nationals of their right to travel or affect their economies.

“Operation United Assistance” began with the President’s request to Congress to make “excess Overseas Contingency Operations funds appropriated for FY2014” to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The funds will be used for:

-          “Transportation of DOD and non-DOD personnel and supplies

-          Coordination and delivery of supplies from both DOD and non-DOD sources such as isolation units, personnel protective equipment, and medical supplies

-          Construction of 17 planned Ebola treatment units

-          Training and education in support of mortuary affairs functions to limit the spread of the Ebola outbreak.” http://fas.org/sgp/natsec/IN10152.pdf?

In October 2014, 1,400 soldiers were deployed, 700 from the Army’s 101^st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and the remainder combat engineers from other units. Trained how to “avoid contracting Ebola and other endemic diseases,” the troops will be led by Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky who is replacing Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams. http://fas.org/sgp/natsec/IN10152.pdf?

Following requests made on September 8 and September 17, 2014, the House and Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees made available $1 billion for “DOD’s support of the United States’ response to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Some of the funding from the initial $500 million request would be available to support continuing humanitarian activities in Iraq.”

In the meantime, the feds are preparing for the amnesty of 34 million illegal aliens by government fiat, in a manner which is very similar to the flood of unaccompanied illegal alien children (bused and flown from Central America to our southern border), that occurred months after the federal government (DHS’s ICE) advertised in January 29, 2014, looking for Escort Services for 65,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children.

Many church charities jumped at the opportunity to receive millions in grants to care for and settle illegal minors. As we know, these illegal minors were quietly distributed across the country in small towns. Many were infected with illnesses that have been previously eradicated in this country or were unknown to this country. Lacking proper hygiene, some allegedly brought in the “mystery” respiratory illness with partial paralysis, caused by the enterovirus D68, endemic to Central America, which has killed several American children.

FedBizOps.gov, the site for federal business opportunities, posted on October 3, 2014, solicitation number HSSCCG-14-R-00028 by the Department of Homeland Security, the Citizenship and Immigration Services, called Card Consumables. As stated in the draft solicitation posting, “The objective of this procurement is to provide card consumables for the Document Management Division (DMD) that will be used to produce Permanent Resident Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards. The requirement is for an estimated 4 million cards annually with the potential to buy as many as 34 million cards total. The ordering periods for this requirement shall be for a total of five (5) years.” https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=20bc202b0a49bbe9f2a705782dba0090&tab=core&tabmode=list&=

It is obvious that the clandestine plan is to amnesty millions of illegal aliens by Executive Order since the American people vehemently oppose amnesty and Congress is unwilling to pass (before mid-term elections) the very unpopular law supported by big businesses who want cheap labor.

One thing is certain, once the cards are issued, the already dire unemployment figures among America’s blue collar workers are going to worsen and the welfare rolls are going to swell. The Democrats will be singing happily all the way to the voting booths, having achieved in perpetuity the fundamental transformation of America into a one party system utopia.

 

What Congressmen Are Told About Ebola

Photo: Ileana Johnson 2012

The Congressional Research Service has been driving the legislative debate since 1914, giving our Congressmen information on various topics. The latest report on October 3, 2014, entitled, “Ebola: Basics about the Disease,” by Sarah Lister, Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology, provides the following information obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

1.       Ebola outbreak began in December 2013 in Guinea and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone by March 2014.

2.       Ebola virus is a filo-virus named after the Ebola River in Zaire, with five different strains; the Zaire strain is causing the current outbreak.

3.       Fruits bats are considered the most likely “reservoir” of the virus which is spread to humans through contact with infected animals.

4.       Human to human transmission occurs through “direct contact with body fluids or contaminated objects such as medical equipment.”

5.       “It cannot be spread through the air” like common cold viruses or influenza.

6.       Healthcare workers and family members that care for EVD patients “have a high risk of infection.”

7.       Incubation period in humans, from exposure to onset of symptoms, “varies from 2 to 21 days, with an average of 8 to 10 days.”

8.       Survivors still have Ebola virus and “remain contagious for several months after infection even though symptoms are no longer present.”

9.       Symptoms include “high fever (greater than 101.5 degrees F), severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal (stomach) pain, and unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising).”

10.   Lab tests are available to detect the disease but they often show false negative in the incipient infection.

11.   Patients can be isolated in a medical setting (to separate ill people from healthy people) or quarantined at home (to restrict movement of people who are well but may have been exposed).

12.   The fatality rate of Ebola “exceeds 50 percent.” The World Health Organization (WHO) reported the current outbreak fatality in West Africa to be 70.7 percent in Guinea, 72.3 percent in Liberia, and 69 percent in Sierra Leone. Patients in hospitals had a death rate of 61-67 percent.

13.   Transmission prevention can be done by avoiding contact with body fluids of those infected. “EVD is not likely to be easily transmitted in community settings in the United States.” Caregivers and healthcare workers “face considerable risk of transmission.” Protective gear, “liberal disinfection, and careful handling of human remains and contaminated objects are essential.”

14.   No therapies and vaccines against EVD have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

15.   “WHO assumes that EVD-specific therapies and vaccines will not be available in sufficient time or amount to quell the current outbreak.”

16.   Oral and intravenous fluids are administered to maintain hydration as well as blood transfusions to replace the loss of blood from hemorrhage.

17.   Some victims received serum and plasma from EVD survivors in order to provide antibodies.  “The effectiveness of this approach has not been demonstrated.”

18.   WHO said that testing unproven therapies on human subjects, although it raises ethical questions, is warranted in the current outbreak. Experts in the medical field disagree.

19.   WHO warned on September 22 that by early November there will be 20,000 people infected with Ebola Zaire.

20.   The CDC warned that in the worst case scenario, the case count projections will be 1.4 million by January 20, 2015. http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43750.pdf

Lister concludes her report, “In light of concerns raised by the introduction of EVD into the United States, the CDC Director has said that these concerns can best be alleviated by controlling the outbreak in West Africa.”

This begs the questions, why is the United States not closing all flights from the affected areas, and why is it still issuing travel visas to citizens from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea who want to come to the U.S.? Travel is a privilege, not a right.

  © Ileana Johnson Paugh 2014