Tune in tonight EMERGENCY BROADCAST 9-12EST

[ThoughtOnFire]

I know Alex is the man, but can't help feeling sorry for Bermas.

That actually made me laugh!!  

[2010]

I know Alex is the man, but can't help feeling sorry for Bermas.

Its a conspiracy.
This was his plan from the start. He couldn't get his show extended longer. So he started a new show that he can take over when ever he likes. 

[trailhound]

is this the empire strikes back suite?

[Alchematron]

I LOVE THE SMELL OF EXPOSING THE NWO AGENDA IN THE EVENING!

[Monkeypox]

I LOVE THE SMELL OF EXPOSING THE NWO AGENDA IN THE EVENING!

No, I farted.  That's what you smell.

 

[2010]

No, I farted.  That's what you smell.

 

The NWO and a fart? how can you tell the difference?

[Size10]

Ummmm.....Alex just went Chipmunk on us...

[trailhound]

It sho stinks one way or t'other

[Jaan]

Whats with the mickey mouse voices... seriously.. dont fricken say its ahacking.,...  cus its getting old. if you are being hacked record and make available later.

[fatguyinspandex]

yea......thats entertaining the cat. but no doing much for us.

[Intruth]

This is posted on Steve Quayle's site.

FEMA Trailers Heading Toward Main Cities




April 30, 2009
Glenn

TRUCK DRIVERS ARE REPORTING THAT FEMA TRAILERS ARE HEADING FROM THE MAIN DEPOT TOWARD MAIN CITIES. THIS COMES FROM CB REPORTS AND IS CREDIBLE. ALSO, I HAVE A FRIEND THAT USED TO WORK WITH ME IN PITTSBURGH'S LARGEST HOSPITAL HAS REPORTED THAT THE EMERGENCY ROOMS ARE GEARING UP FOR A DANGEROUS OUTBREAK. THIS SWINE FLU THING IS NOT SOME HARMLESS THING. I THINK IT MAY BE A PRECURSOR TO MARTIAL LAW. I WILL ADVISE OF FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. ONCE AGAIN, THANKS FOR PRAYING FOR ME LAST NIGHT. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FRIEND---GLENN

[2010]

if you listen to the stream link in the first post the audio is fine. Not sure what you guys are hearing.

http://www.infowars.com/audiobox.html

[fatguyinspandex]

yea the flash version on mane live page is working the WMV link is goofy.

[Jaan]

it sounds normal on windows media player sound only

[Monkeypox]

Sounds fine to me...

I'm listening through Flash.

[Size10]

The audio only stream sounds OK. The video stream on pptv is still chipmunk.

[Jaan]

Ugh, and my husband wants to go to new york this weekend....

[joe911]

whats so breaking/emergancy about it? this could have waited till tomorrow

[BengalBrandon]

How many times do we have hear about Obama fudge packing?

[donnay]

The audio only stream sounds OK. The video stream on pptv is still chipmunk.

I am listening on PPtv and it seems fine.

[vCFy7W3SFb]

hey, it's not just me. the WmV stream is completly f**ked up.

[trailhound]

 WTF is it new troll week?

[Jaan]

Seriously, guys, my husband wants to go to New york city brooklyn this weekend. should i have his gunny intervene?

[2010]

Seriously, guys, my husband wants to go to New york city brooklyn this weekend. should i have his gunny intervene?

I dunno...

I doubt he'd get the flu. but if martial law is declared, will he be able to get home?

[Dig]

Dr. Ron Paul hitting the MSM:

Swine Flu Skeptic: The Sky Is Not Falling
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/04/swine-flu-skept.html
April 30, 2009 1:36 PM

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: In Texas, state officials have shut down all high school sporting events.  In Washington, Vice President Biden says he's advised family members not to fly in airplanes.  But at least one member of Congress has a different message on the swine flu: Don't worry about it.

Congressman Ron Paul, R-Tex., is a committed libertarian who is skeptical of government action of any kind.  He is also one of the few medical doctors in Congress and he may have a point.  Maybe, just maybe, swine flu fears have been blown out of proportion.

As ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reported earlier this week, Dr. Paul was a freshman Congressman in 1976, during the last swine flu panic.  He says he was one of just two members of the House who voted against the emergency swine flu vaccination program ordered by President Ford.  An extreme position?  Not really.  Only one person died from the swine flu then, but at least 25 people died because of the vaccine.

We caught up with Dr. Paul in his Congressional office and talked about this latest swine flu scare.  Listen carefully: He might be as correct on this one as he was in 1976.

[Jaan]

I dunno...

I doubt he'd get the flu. but if martial law is declared, will he be able to get home?

Yeah I'm mainly worried about martial law.

[vCFy7W3SFb]

i just got word from jason bermas that he told the 'tech guys' about the windows media stream problem

[Satyagraha]

Ron Paul seems to be the sole voice of reason in Washington.

[Jaan]

That Fox clip was messed up 

[Dig]

Mexico plans shutdown to stem flu’s tide
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/mexico-government-shutdown/
By Raw Story Published: April 30, 2009

On orders from President Felipe Calderon, Mexico plans to close all nonessential government offices and functions of the country’s private sector for five days beginning Friday in order to halt the flu’s spread.

“The decision came as global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared to stabilize at its epicenter. A toddler who succumbed in Texas became the first death outside Mexico,” reported MSNBC.

“Health Secretary José Angel Córdova Villalobos announced the move to shut down most of the country’s government and economy shortly after his department reported that confirmed cases of infection with the new strain of influenza had risen,” the network continued. “The death toll in Mexico is believed to be 160.”

“Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in a televised address Wednesday night that only essential businesses like supermarkets, hospitals and pharmacies would stay open,” reported PBS.

“Police and soldiers will still be on duty.”

The announcement sent the Mexican Peso tumbling “1.6 percent to 13.83 per dollar, erasing most of the gains it made on Wednesday when the central bank’s closing 1:30 p.m. reference put it at 13.605 per dollar,” reported Reuters. “Lab tests have shown eight deaths caused by the virus out of 99 confirmed cases of infection, up from seven and 49 respectively at the previous count, Health Minister Jose Cordova told reporters late yesterday in Mexico City. Cordova said there were 17 new deaths from suspected swine flu, raising the total to 176,” reported Bloomberg News. ‘The World Health Organization warned yesterday that the first influenza pandemic since 1968 is ‘imminent’ and urged stepped-up preparations after swine flu was confirmed by lab tests in at least nine countries and 11 U.S. states. The WHO raised the level of its six-tier alert system to 5, indicating little time remains for countries to complete emergency plans.” “Mexico’s top medical officer voiced optimism Thursday that swine flu has slowed in the nation hardest hit by the virus, but the World Health Organization cautioned there is no evidence the worst of the global outbreak is over,” reported the Associated Press. “The U.S. caseload rose slightly to 109 as hundreds of schools nationwide shut their doors, and the crisis even reached the White House, which said an aide to the secretary of energy apparently got sick helping arrange a presidential trip to Mexico.”

[2010]

Ron Paul seems to be the sole voice of reason in Washington.

Nothing new here...

That Fox clip was messed up 

This is that clip.
http://snardfarker.ning.com/video/breaking-news-loss-of-civil

[heavyhebrew]

No, I farted.  That's what you smell.

 

Dude, broccoli, gross!

[Dig]

Top Senate Democrat: bankers "own" the U.S. Congress
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/30/ownership/index.html
Glenn Greenwald Thursday April 30, 2009 05:35 EDT

Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken:  "And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."  The blunt acknowledgment that the same banks that caused the financial crisis "own" the U.S. Congress -- according to one of that institution's most powerful members -- demonstrates just how extreme this institutional corruption is.

The ownership of the federal government by banks and other large corporations is effectuated in literally countless ways, none more effective than the endless and increasingly sleazy overlap between government and corporate officials.  Here is just one random item this week announcing a couple of standard personnel moves:

Former Barney Frank staffer now top Goldman Sachs lobbyist

Goldman Sachs' new top lobbyist was recently the top staffer to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., on the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank.  Michael Paese, a registered lobbyist for the Securities Industries and Financial Markets Association since he left Frank's committee in September, will join Goldman as director of government affairs, a role held last year by former Tom Daschle intimate, Mark Patterson, now the chief of staff at the Treasury Department. This is not Paese's first swing through the Wall Street-Congress revolving door: he previously worked at JP Morgan and Mercantile Bankshares, and in between served as senior minority counsel at the Financial Services Committee.

So:  Paese went from Chairman Frank's office to be the top lobbyist at Goldman, and shortly before that, Goldman dispatched Paese's predecessor, close Tom Daschle associate Mark Patterson, to be Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, himself a protege of former Goldman CEO Robert Rubin and a virtually wholly owned subsidiary of the banking industry.  That's all part of what Desmond Lachman -- American Enterprise Institute fellow, former chief emerging market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney and top IMF official (no socialist he) -- recently described as "Goldman Sachs's seeming lock on high-level U.S. Treasury jobs."

Meanwhile, the above-linked Huffington Post article which reported on Durbin's comments also notes Sen. Evan Bayh's previously-reported central role on behalf of the bankers in blocking legislation, hated by the banking industry, to allow bankruptcy judges to alter the terms of mortgages so that families can stay in their homes.  Bayh is up for re-election in 2010, and here -- according to the indispensable Open Secrets site -- is Bayh's top donor:


Goldman is also the top donor to Bayh over the course of his Congressional career, during which Bayh has received more than $4 million from the finance, insurance and real estate sectors:


In a totally unrelated coincidence -- after the Government, as Matt Taibbi put it, enacted "a bailout program that has now figured three ways to funnel money to Goldman, Sachs"-- this is what happened earlier this month:

Goldman reports $1.8 billion profit

Goldman Sachs reported a much stronger-than-expected first-quarter profit Monday, bouncing back from its worst quarter as a public company. . . .

In reporting its results a day earlier than expected, New York-based Goldman said it earned $1.81 billion, or $3.39 a share, for the quarter ended March 31. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were looking for a profit of $1.64 a share.

Goldman shares, which have surged more than 70% during the past month, continued rising late Monday, gaining about 4.7% for the day.

Nobody even tries to hide this any longer.  The only way they could make it more blatant is if they hung a huge Goldman Sachs logo on the Capitol dome and then branded it onto the foreheads of leading members of Congress and executive branch officials.

Of course, ownership of the government is not confined to Goldman or even to bankers generally; legislation in virtually every area is written by the lobbyists dispatched by the corporations that demand it, and its passage then ensured by "representatives" whose pockets are stuffed with money from those same corporations.  Just as one example, as Jane Hamsher reported about Bayh:

Bayh's little "lobbyist problem" is considered by many to be what tanked his Vice Presidential aspirations. His wife Susan earns about $837,000 a year serving on seven corporate boards, among them Wellpoint, a health insurance company for which Bayh helped secure a $24.7 million dollar grant. She's on the board of ETrade, even as Bayh is on the Senate Finance Committee.

Bayh wants people to believe he's a "moderate" who sits in the "center."

Center of K Street, maybe.

Meanwhile, the only citizen protests relating to this mass robbery are driven by anger at the government for treating bankers too harshly and unfairly -- one of the most classic manifestations of what Taibbi, in a separate piece, so aptly calls the "peasant mentality":

After all, the reason the winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That’s why even people like [Glenn] Beck’s audience, who I’d wager are mostly lower-income people, can’t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who f**ked them over. . . .

Actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields.  You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad.  A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger.  And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish . . . can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff.

One might think it would be a big news story for the second most-powerful member of the U.S. Senate to baldly state that the Congress is "owned" by the bankers who spawned the financial crisis and continue to dictate the government's actions.  But it won't be.  The leading members of the media work for the very corporations that benefit most from this process.  Establishment journalists are integral and well-rewarded members of the same system and thus cannot and will not see it as inherently corrupt (instead, as Newsweek's Evan Thomas said, their role, as "members of the ruling class," is to "prop up the existing order," "protect traditional institutions" and "safeguard the status quo"). 

That Congress is fully owned and controlled by a tiny sliver of narrow, oligarchical, deeply corrupted interests is simultaneously so obvious yet so demonized (only Unserious Shrill Fringe radicals, such as the IMF's former chief economist, use that sort of language) that even Durbin's explicit admission will be largely ignored.  Even that extreme of a confession (Durbin elaborated on it with Ed Schultz last night) hardly causes a ripple.

* * * * * *

Here's Jane Hamsher, with Rachel Maddow, in February, assessing the motives of people like Evan Bayh and analyzing who owns and controls them (begins at the 3:00 minute mark):

[Alchematron]

[Dig]

What else is the Pandemic wargame hiding?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CIA failed to closely evaluate harsh interrogations: report
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/26/cia-failed-to-closely-evaluate-harsh-interrogations-report/
By Agence France-Presse Published: April 26, 2009

WASHINGTON – The US Central Intelligence Agency used tough interrogation techniques on suspected Al-Qaeda prisoners for nearly seven years without ever seeking a serious assessment of the effectiveness of its methods, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Citing current and former US officials familiar with the matter, the newspaper said on its website that the failure to conduct a comprehensive examination occurred despite calls to do so as early as 2003.

That year, the CIA inspector general circulated drafts of a report that raised deep concerns about waterboarding and other methods, the paper said.

According to The Times, the report described in general terms the volume of intelligence the interrogation program was producing.

But neither this nor other audits examined the effectiveness of interrogation techniques in detail, or sought to scrutinize assertions by CIA counter-terrorism officials that enhanced interrogation methods were essential to the program’s results, the paper noted.

One report by a former government official, who was not an interrogation expert, was about 10 pages long and amounted to a glowing review of interrogation efforts, The Times said.

“Nobody with expertise or experience in interrogation ever took a rigorous, systematic review of the various techniques — enhanced or otherwise — to see what resulted in the best information,” the paper quoted one unnamed senior US intelligence official as saying.

[Satyagraha]

The Mexican economy will collapse - what is the point? What's the NWO plan - how does collapsing Mexico's economy figure into the larger scheme? Bye bye peso and hello Amero?

[Travinyle1]

Cant get either stream to work on PPTV

[Lilly Bighorn]

you gotta give alex credit for doing a complete 180 from where he was this morning, when he was saying what a super killer this virus would be. seriously, i do respect that he listened to dr. tenpenny and adjusted his approach.

[Jaan]

It would be awesome if he called the white house 

[Dig]

Hey look at the constitution in action (you will not see this in the MSM). At least one fricking amendment is being somewhat protected:

Citizens can challenge state, local gun laws
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/20/BA1V1760BI.DTL&feed=rss.news
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, April 21, 2009


(04-20) 19:10 PDT San Francisco -- A federal appeals court ruled Monday that private citizens can challenge state and local gun laws by invoking the constitutional right to bear arms - the first such ruling in the nation - but upheld a ban on firearms at gun shows at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.

The ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco followed last year's landmark Supreme Court decision that the Constitution's Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess guns for self-defense.

The high court struck down a handgun prohibition in Washington, D.C., a federal enclave, and did not say whether the Second Amendment also applied to state and local laws. Nor did the court spell out the extent of the government's authority to regulate firearms, although it said guns could be excluded from "sensitive places such as schools and government buildings."

National Rifle Association lawsuits in the aftermath of the ruling prompted some local governments and agencies to abandon restrictive gun laws, including a ban on possession of guns and ammunition in public housing that the San Francisco Housing Authority dropped in January. But no court had ruled on the scope of the Second Amendment until Monday.

The case was a challenge by gun show promoters to a 1999 ordinance that banned firearms on all Alameda County property, including the fairgrounds, where 16 people had been injured in a melee that included gunfire the previous year. The court could have decided the case with its conclusion that the ban was a reasonable safety measure, without addressing the Second Amendment, but opted for a broader ruling.

While a few sections of the Bill of Rights apply only to the federal government, amendments that protect fundamental rights - including the Second Amendment - can be enforced against the states, said Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain in the 3-0 decision.

"The right to bear arms is deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the republic," O'Scannlain said, citing selected passages from speeches and writings during the colonial and post-Revolutionary War period and the years leading up to the Civil War. "It is a means to protect the public from tyranny" as well as "to protect the individual from threats to life or limb."

Judge Ronald Gould, in a separate opinion, pictured a gun-wielding citizenry defending 21st century America against invaders or terrorists.

"That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived," he said.

The judges concluded, however, that the Supreme Court's reference to exclusion of guns from "sensitive places" allows a county to ban firearms from its property. The ordinance "does not meaningfully impede the ability of individuals to defend themselves in their homes," O'Scannlain said, and county officials are entitled to conclude that guns sold at shows on the fairgrounds could be dangerous.

Donald Kilmer, lawyer for the gun show promoters, said they have not yet decided whether to appeal. He said other Bay Area counties - including San Mateo, Marin, Santa Cruz and Sonoma - have emulated the Alameda County ban, despite what he described as a lack of evidence linking the gun shows to any crimes or violence.

"The county was never able to point to any problems," Kilmer said. "Isn't it a good idea for gun shows, if they're going to take place, to be on public property" patrolled by law enforcement?

The county's lawyer was unavailable for comment. Sam Hoover, an attorney with Legal Community Against Violence, which supports gun regulation, said the court had needlessly opened the door to challenges of other state and local laws.

"We already have a patchwork, piecemeal system of gun regulation in the United States," he said. "This is going to make it that much harder to stem the tide of gun deaths and injuries."