Government Holdings of Wheat are at Zero

Quietly, the last of the U.S. government’s wheat reserves, held in the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust, were sold in late May o­nto the domestic market for cash. The cash was put in a trust for food aid. With no other government wheat holdings, U.S. government wheat stocks are now totally exhausted.

http://starfishacres.blogspot.com/2008/07/us-govt-out-of-wheat-completely.html

Ron Paul’s Bill To Audit The Fed Will Pass

House Financial Services Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, said he expects former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul’s legislation to audit the Fed to pass out of his committee in October as part of a larger regulatory package.

Today, the Government Accountability Office has no power to audit the Federal Reserve. Mr. Paul’s bill would empower the government watchdog to do so and make their findings available to the public.

Mr. Frank said, ”One of the things the audit will show you is what the Federal Reserve buys itself. And that will be made public, but not instantly because if it was made instantly people would be trading off it, so the data would be released after a time period of several months, enough time so it will not be market sensitive. This will probably pass in October.”

Bill Would Give Obama Emergency Control Of Internet

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. (“Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)

Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

To read the entire story go to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

From a Retired Navy Captian

“I had a doctors appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday and found something very interesting I would like to pass along..

While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions:

1. Did I feel stressed?

2. Did I feel threatened?

3. Did I feel like doing harm to someone?

The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.

I am a Viet Nam vet and 15 year CC permit holder. Looks like they are going after us vets
Be forewarned and be aware.

The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners as potential terrorists

If you are a veteran, you’ve been warned. If you know veterans, please pass this on to them.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel: Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously

Check out this post from James4America.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is a special advisor to the President on health care. As the brother of the President’s Chief of Staff, it is safe to assume that he has better access to the the President than many of his other advisors.

So, how content should we be as the ObamaCare healthcare reform is forged ahead, when Dr. Emanuel does not believe that the Hippocratic oath is important. He believes that care should not be based on individualism, but on communitarianism. The costs of healkthacre should be spent on those that will be productive within the community, primarily those between the ages of 15 and 40. Those with disabilities should not be given the same level of treatment, nor should the elderly.

The following passage details just some of Dr. Emanuel’s thoughts on helath care, rationing health care, and why the government should be the ones in control of every facet of healthcare:

If health care is to be rationed, what’s the right way to do it? Zeke Emanuel (who is also the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) wrote an entire article on this subject in the Lancet on January 31, 2009. Emanuel advocated allocating health resources in order to maximize collective life years. Suppose a 25-year-old and a 65-year-old have a life threatening disease. Since the 25-year-old has many more potential years of life ahead of him, he should receive preferential treatment, says Emanuel. He justifies denying care to elderly patients in the following way:

The complete lives system discriminates against older people…. Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years.

There’s more. In a different article written more than 10 years ago for the Hastings Center Report, Emanuel said health services should not be guaranteed to “individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens.” He continues, “An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

Full article on Dr. Emanuel: http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/rationing-health-care-2/

http://james4america.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/dr-ezekiel-emanuel-doctors-take-the-hippocratic-oath-too-seriously/

Well-Paid U.N. Official Took French Welfare Payments in Fraud Case

A United Nations official in a department that promotes “ethics, transparency and accountability” falsified his permanent address to illegally obtain what could amount to tens of thousands of dollars in family allowance and housing funds that normally go to poor and moderate-income citizens in his native France, according to investigators there.

The fraud findings against Bruno Bastet, 40, are contained in an investigation report issued on May 20 by France’s Caisse d’Allocations Familiales (CAF), a branch of the French social security system that calls itself “one of the pivots of the French ’social model’” — in other words, a centerpiece of the French welfare state.

The fraud involves Bastet’s listing himself, his then common-law wife and two children as residents of a city-owned housing complex in Paris designated for those in need of social assistance. Bastet, a program officer in the U.N. Department of Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), has actually lived in New York City since 2004, while his former companion told FOX News she and the children have lived in the Dominican Republic since 2005.

If you would like to read the rest of this story, go to http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543562,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g4:r5:c0.000000:b27383522:z0

Death Panels In Oregon – Barbara Wagner

Politicians will tell you anything to stay in office. Instead of listening to what they say, let’s look at what is actually happening after the legislation is passed and implemented.

Don’t let the government take over our health care America!

American Confederate Heroes

The US National Debt Clock

The US National Debt Clock is very interesting

Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Congressman Brian Baird