The message from the people at the TEA party in Greenville to Congressman Gresham Barrett was very clear: They aren't going to put up with Republicans who voted for these massive government bailouts.
It is good to see a member of Congress who voted for TARP mercilessly booed.....
Is the Republican party establishment becoming gay friendly? Meghan McCain (the daughter of John McCain) and the man who managed McCain's presidential campaign spoke in support of gay marriage at the latest Log Cabin Republican convention.
While many considered John McCain to be a presidential candidate that was not open to gay issues, the reality is quite different. In particular, his daughter, Meghan McCain, has become something of an icon for Log Cabin Republicans.
Megan McCain has very passionately endorsed gay marriage, and she is using the visibility that she achieved during the campaign to continue to press this issue with Republican leaders.
"For the party to be seen as anti-gay, that is injurious to its candidates in places like California and Washington," Schmidt said at the Log Cabin event.
Even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who many considered to be very "conservative", is backing efforts to overturn Proposition 8. Proposition 8 banned gay marriage in California, but now many Republicans leaders such as Schwarzenegger are leading the effort to defeat it.
So is the Republican party going to embrace gay marriage any time soon?
Let's hope not, but things are certainly trending in that direction.
In one of the most shocking comments uttered by a network anchor in recent history, Anderson Cooper referred to the recent tax protests by conservatives as "tea bagging". In fact, he used the term more than once, and the fact that his guests laughed at the term means that they understood exactly what Anderson Cooper was trying to say.
For those of you who don't know what "tea bagging" is, it involves oral stimulation of the male reproductive organs.
You can't make this stuff up.
The video of the Anderson Cooper tea bagging comment is at the end of this article.
This all happened when Cooper had David Gergen and Ali Velshi on his show to discuss the events of the day. Gergen was responding to a question by Cooper about the Republicans when Cooper blurted out, "Tea-bagging. They’ve got tea-bagging."
Gergen apparently got the joke and then continued by saying this:
Well, they’ve got the tea-bagging. But there was an interesting Politico survey -- it was out today that said that, you know, the president -- the trust level in the president on economic issues is extremely high, and, you know, and everybody else in the administration is well below him. But the Republicans are a little below that. So, Republicans have got a way -- they still haven’t found their voice, Anderson. They’re still -- this happens to a minority party after it’s lost a couple of bad elections, but they’re searching for their voice.
At least Gergen was trying to get the conversation back on track.
But in response to Gergen, Cooper made this offensive remark: "It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging."
Why would it be hard to talk? You see, Cooper knew EXACTLY what the smear meant.
THIS is what we are to expect from our network news anchors now?
The video of this stunning exchange below.....
This is the kind of thing that conservatives can not let go by. The Anderson Cooper tea bagging comment must become a huge issue. Conservatives must demand an apology from Anderson Cooper. If this kind of smear becomes commonplace, then what is next after that?
Did you all really expect that things would change under Obama?
The Obama administration continues to argue that even some of the worst government abuses are "state secrets" that are beyond the reach of judicial scrutiny. Just this last week, the Justice Department once again reiterated this argument in a court filing.
This demonstrates that Obama is not going to hold Bush and Cheney accountable.
In fact, all indications are that the Obama administration is carrying on most of the abuses that were happening under Bush.
Rather than giving us "change", Obama is giving us a lot more of the same, and we wouldn't be surprised if the governmental abuses actually get worse under Obama.
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For years world leaders avoided using the term "New World Order" and the mainstream media pretended that it did not exist. But now all of that has changed, as world leaders at the G20 summit openly hailed the creation of a "New World Order" and the mainstream media around the world splashed headlines about a "New World Order" across their front pages.
So why this sudden change? Why are world leaders constantly discussing a "New World Order" now?
Nobody knows for certain, but this G20 summit is likely to go down as the moment when a lot of things changed. As the G20 summit drew to a close, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed the creation of a "new world order". The following YouTube clip contains footage of Gordon Brown openly announcing the creation of a "New World Order" at the G20 summit.....
The term is absolutely everywhere in the media now. In fact, if you just want to see this for yourself, just go to Google News and do a search for "New World Order" and see how many hundreds of search results come up.
Do these world leaders and media outlets know what they are saying?
Sure they do.
You would have to be living in a cave somewhere to not know what it means.
Did you also realize that the G20 summit was reportedly held at a location where there is an uncapped pyramid? If you do not know what an uncapped pyramid means, then you should look it up.
Even Time magazine recently came out with a major article entitled "New World Order" that advocates a one world financial system and a one world central bank.
It seems as though more than ever, both the media and government leaders around the world are advocating increased globalism as the answer to all of our economic problems.
But wasn't all of this globalism a big part of our problems?
Isn't it the elite central bankers of the world who played a big role in leading us into this crisis in the first place?
Apparently nobody seems to care about that.
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland there was only talk of MORE globalism, more centralization and more power to world financial and government bodies.
So are we headed towards a one world financial system?
Are we headed towards a one world government?
Will we be hearing even more about the need for "a new world order" in the media?
Now why would the media and so many world leaders use the term "new world order" when they know it is going to upset so many people?
Why do they shove that term in our face when they know that we know what it means?
Do they want to purposely alarm us or do they think that nobody can stop them or do they just not care anymore?
After all, who would want a one world government, a one world financial system and a one world religion?
In any event, many world leaders are not even trying to hide the move towards a "new world order" anymore.
For example, in the stunning video clip from CNBC posted below, Henry Kissinger says that this current crisis is a great opportunity for Barack Obama to help bring about "a new world order".
Here is an excerpt from Kissinger's remarks.....
"he can give new impetus to American foreign policy ... I think that his task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a 'new world order' can be created. It's a great opportunity. It isn't such a crisis."
The video of Kissinger making these remarks on CNBC is below.....
Meanwhile, a headline on CNN a while back declared exactly what these world leaders are up to as they endeavor to set up a new financial system: "G-20: Shaping a new world order".
The G-20 represents a huge chunk of the population of the earth. With its 19 nations plus the European Union, the G-20 represents 90% of the world's economy and 75% of its population.
In fact, many world leaders have been quite up front recently about their desire for a new world order.
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the U.K., was very open about his desire for a new world order in recent remarks about the global economic crisis:
"The alliance between Britain and the US, and more broadly between Europe and the US, can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to build a stronger and more just international order.
"My message is that we must be internationalist not protectionist, interventionist not neutral, progressive not reactive and forward-looking not frozen by events. We can seize the moment and in doing so build a truly global society."
Even President Obama spoke of the need to move towards world government during his speech in Berlin when he described himself as a "citizen of the world"....
"Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world."
But is this "new world order" a new idea?
Hardly.
It has been on the minds of world leaders for quite a long time.
The following are quotes by prominent leaders around the world from the past few decades telling us of their desires for world government, domination of the media, population control, the end of national sovereignty and a new world order:
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
-David Rockefeller (on page 405 of his autobiography 'Memoirs')
"We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the rule of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders."
-President George Bush, 1991
"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."
-CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs.
"My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order."
-Henry Kissinger, in an address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 1975
"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order."
-Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address at the United Nations (December 1988)
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."
-Brock Adams, Director of the U.N. Health Organization
"A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities."
-Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary General
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-Richard Salent, former president, CBS News
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
-Margaret Sanger, outspoken atheist and socialist, founder of the Voluntary Parenthood League in 1914, and responsible for opening the first birth control clinic in the United States in New York City.
"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
-Katherine Graham, Washington Post publisher and CFR member
"There is no such thing as an independent press in America, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print."
-John Swinton, editor of the New York Tribune
"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with."
-Richard M. Cohen, Senior Producer of CBS political news
"We are moving toward a new world order, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road."
-Mikhail Gorbachev 1987
"There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international . . . network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies . . . but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."
-Professor Carroll Quigley, in his book Tragedy and Hope, 1966
"A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
-Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine
“There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…."
–Thomas Ferguson, State Department Office of Population Affairs
"We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda."
-Bernard Goldberg, as quoted by Harry Stein in the June 13-19, 1992 TV Guide.
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
–Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, 1991
"Let me control a peoples currency and I care not who makes their laws."
-Meyer Nathaniel Rothschild in a speech to a gathering of world bankers February 12, 1912
"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."
-Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.
"We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage."
-Mikhail Gorbachev
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany 1991
"National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing a new world order."
-Adolph Hitler during World War II
"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
-Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
-David Rockefeller
"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
-Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation."
-David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations
Is the swine flu becoming another political issue?
