Virginia Thomas Launches ‘Tea Party’ Group

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First Iceland, then the World

The public is angry. Why should the public pay for the bankers mistakes.

Who cleans up the mess when ignorant, greedy bankers rack up massive debt then go broke? The people of Iceland made a strong statement Saturday. The sins of big bankers and government regulators shouldn’t fall on the citizens. By a 93% to 2% margin, they voted down a proposal requiring them to cover bad debt incurred by one of the nation’s oldest and largest banks. Covering the debt would have cost Iceland’s 317,000 citizens around $17,000 each.

Iceland’s national referendum was the first opportunity for the people of any nation to vote directly on who pays when the financial elite fail.

As citizens voted, Iceland‘s Prime Minister was dismissing the importance of the vote and promising to negotiate a payment scheme obligating citizen subsidies for bad debt created by Iceland‘s beyond-bad bankers.

Icelanders are struggling with a collapsed economy. Businesses are failing at a startling rate, unemployment is soaring, and the prospects for the future are simply not there. Yet the British and Dutch governments demand that their swindled citizens receive compensation from beleaguered Icelanders. Where were the British and Dutch central banks and politicians while their citizens were being fleeced? Aren’t the rulers of these countries aware that the failed Icelandic bank was owned by wealth investors, not the citizens?

Iceland’s size and the very dire circumstances offer a focused preview for citizens around the world. The banks make bad deal after bad deal. When they’re about to fail, the government steps in with a taxpayer bailout. It doesn’t matter which faction of the narrow political spectrum is in charge. The message is starkly clear — when the banks fail, you pay. The solution is presented to citizens as a fait accompli, a mandatory submission to indefinite financial slavery for the benefit of the failed financial elite. The will of the people doesn’t matter even when there’s a direct vote.

The failed financial enterprises that control global commerce are opening their new show on the road in Iceland. Greek citizens are next in line for indentured servitude, thanks to their lying leaders and Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs.

Citizens in the United States remain overwhelmingly opposed to bailouts for Wall Street and big banks. Like Iceland’s Prime Minister, members of Congress and Obama don’t care. Big banks have now received at least $12 trillion in credit and cash from the US Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank. The 17 million citizens out of work, their families, and the eight million forced to work reduced hours are barely mentioned and get just a pittance compared to the ultra wealthy bankers.

Energizer Battery Charger Comes with a Software Backdoor

If you’ve bought the Energizer DUO USB battery charger, you might want to uninstall the software immediately.

Why?

Because it comes pre-loaded with a backdoor that can let someone remotely access your computer.

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a backdoor that allows unauthorized remote system access.

In an advisory, the US-CERT warned that the installer for the Energizer DUO software places the file USBCharger.dll in the application’s directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory.

An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs. The backdoor operates with the privileges of the logged-on user.

You’ve gotta wonder why Energizer did this. At least when Sony installed rootkits on people’s computers they were doing so in the name of DRM. There’s not even a poorly-justified excuse for this. [ZDnet via Make]

Wyoming Governor Signs Sovereignty Resolution

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Who Lives In A House Like This?

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This cartoon was in the Chicago Tribune in 1934

Indiana Government Positions Surpass Factory Jobs

For the first time, more people in Indiana work in government than in all the factories in the State.

“The fact that you have more workers in government than manufacturing is alarming and really emphasizes the need to develop more jobs in the private sector so the economy can sustain itself for the long haul,” said John Ketzenberger, president of the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Indianapolis.

Government is the No. 2 employer in the State, trailing retailers.

Manufacturing, which accounts for about 16 percent of the work force, is No. 3 and considered crucial to underpinning the tax base.

Obama’s Approval Rating Drops To 46 Per Cent

A new poll by Gallup showed Obama’s approval rating at a record low of 46 per cent since taking office.

Independents and Republicans have grown wary of health care reform as an expensive government venture.

Obama set Democratic leaders in Congress a deadline of March 18 to coral the votes necessary to pass health care without any support from Republicans, by using a procedure known as budget reconciliation.

He was due to leave on the same day for Guam, Indonesia and Australia. Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world where Obama spent four years as a boy.

But with the future of health care change now in critical condition the White House has decided Obama needs to stay in Washington to twist arms in Congress. A likely target will be up to 12 Democrats who say they will not vote for the proposed bill because it doesn’t prevent federal funds being used for abortions.

Polls continue to show more people are against the sweeping changes he is proposing than for. His plans would be financed by slowing the growth of government-run health care for the elderly and raising taxes.

Two leading Democratic pollsters yesterday criticized Obama for being deaf to public opinion. Patrick Caddell and Doug Schoen, who conducted polls for former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton respectively, wrote in the Washington Post that the “blind persistence in the face of reality” of Obama and his advisers ran the risk of “unmitigated disaster in November”, when midterm elections will be held.

Thomas Jefferson Removed From Texas Social Studies Textbook

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