Steven Birn
Steven Birn Speaks

President Obama has urged Europe to back off of the austerity measures that are being implemented in countries that are about to go bankrupt.

Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland are all on the brink of bankruptcy. Either they cut spending and raise taxes, get bailed out by the rest of Europe or they go bankrupt and perhaps take down the Euro. Most of these countries are taxed out, so raising taxes isn’t really an option. Cutting spending is. Not surprisingly Obama opposes any move away from a massive cradle to grave welfare state even if said welfare state brings a nation bankruptcy or threatens an entire currency.

Obama’s advice to the Europeans shows his complete lack of understanding about how economies work. He wants Europe to back off austerity, which of course means that the nations on the verge of bankruptcy will likely end up bankrupt or bailed out. At the same time he advocates the happy sounding idea of a “strong growth’ model. How does government create strong growth in the government? It cannot, at least in terms of actually creating the growth. Growth happens in the private sector. Government can create favorable conditions for growth by lowering taxes, cutting spending and backing off on regulations.

Obama isn’t interested in any of that though. He doesn’t want Europe to cut taxes or spending. All the talk of belt tightening from Obama is meaningless in light of his admonition that Europe stop austerity measures. The fact is Obama believes in a socialist top down economy. Government controls the economy from the top to the bottom in Obama’s world. That’s why he’s aligned himself with France’s new Socialist President. These people really believe that a socialist state will bring about prosperity, even to the point of ignoring the double digit unemployment that Europe’s most socialist countries enjoy.

Obama wants to follow Europe down the road to bankruptcy. In his three plus years in office, the Federal government has created $5 trillion in new debt. Any talk of cutting anything from the Federal budget is met with attack from the President. How much longer will it be before America turns into Greece? We surely won’t have Germany bailing us out. In fact, Germany may not bail out Greece this time around. But it begs the question why we would want this for ourselves?

One of the problems with the ‘too big to fail’ argument concerning bank and auto company bailouts is that people begin to apply it to government. Surely the Federal government is too big to fail and will be bailed out. The Federal government is big enough to fail and no one will bail us out. Greece’s economy isn’t anywhere near as big as our own. Yet it is about to fail and at some point it’s going to. Germany will have had enough and they’ll cut Greece and the other debtor nations in Europe free. Those nations have had their chance at bailouts, they’ve had their chance to get their fiscal house in order. So have we. We have a chance to cut spending significantly, we have a chance to get our debt under control. With Obama it won’t happen, with Romney it’s at best a 40 percent shot that it will happen.

Greece is a precursor to the problems we’re going to face down the road if we don’t get our Federal spending under control. Obama is quite clear about his position. He opposes European austerity, he believes in government control of the economy and has so much as stated this via is absurd “strong growth” position. We will not get spending under control under this President. We will not have a strong economy until we start cutting government spending and cut taxes. Obama’s mishandling of economic matters is bad enough here in the US. In Europe his position will likely lead to bankruptcy in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. It could even lead to the collapse of the Euro. Do we want this disaster for ourselves?

Steven Birn is an attorney and conservative political junkie and blogger. For more news and commentary visit Steven Birn Speaks.

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Bradlee Dean
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Bradlee Dean shares video YouTube dumped as ‘hate’.

Just this week I received a phone call on my radio program from a listener from Maine who said that homosexual marriage was defeated in his state in 2009. Then he said, “Here they come again.” I responded that he was not dealing with people who are ruled by law, and their objective is to overthrow law. I said, “Don’t you remember the ‘change’ that was promised by the first gay president, who is clearly not ruled by our Constitution? So what do you expect? Every state where the vote has gone to the people, homosexual marriage is voted down. Thirty-two states out of 50 have defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Now I hope you can understand why the radical homosexual community does not want the vote going to the people.”

In California, the Proposition 8 vote by the people protected marriage. Since that wasn’t the answer the homosexuals wanted, they usurped the voice of We the People and had a radical homosexual activist with a judge’s cloak, Vaughn Walker, to overthrow the voice of 7 million people in that state. He had no business in that position. He conveniently retired after his unlawful usurpation before being impeached by the people he defied. Now it is back in court, exactly where the radicals want it, so they can debate the pith and marrow out of common sense – that marriage is between one man and one woman, as God has defined.

Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage in hopes of promulgating his unlawful agenda in four swing states that are voting on the issue – Washington, Maine, Minnesota and Maryland.

But those working to preserve traditional marriage say the president’s words will backfire, as they always do. This is now a perfect opportunity for the American people to take their government back.

Joe Fuiten, pastor of the Cedar Park Church in Kirkland, Wash., said Obama’s support for gay marriage will not change deeply held beliefs. “He decided he had to do it to get his liberal base behind him again,” said Fuiten, “but it’s not going to play well in the country.”

Friends, people need to realize that homosexual marriage is not about homosexual marriage; it is about overturning law by a totalitarian government.

In fact, homosexual marriage is not even about marriage. In the video below, I go across the border into Canada where they’ve “framed mischief by a law” (Psalm 94:20) by legalizing an illegal act called homosexual marriage to show you what the objective truly is. For example, what does lowering the age of anal intercourse have to do with homosexual marriage? What does the family and homeschoolers have to do with homosexual marriage? How is it the state’s business to intrude on churches and force them to perform homosexual marriages?

The video below was shut down by YouTube within two hours of being uploaded and was flagged as “hate speech.” The video contains offensive facts about the hate that is promoted by the radical homosexual agenda in Canada toward the law that exposes them:

Homosexual Manifesto:

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Barb Adams
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Michael Tellinger, of South Africa, is fighting for transparency in banking by challenging the global financial system in a landmark lawsuit.

Michael Tellinger

In what is being called an historic, landmark case challenging the global financial system, author, researcher and scientist Michael Tellinger recently filed a notice of motion against Standard Bank of South Africa accusing the bank of “unlawful and unconstitutional activity.” Tellinger also served notice on the Reserve Bank and Minister of Finance as well. Tellinger’s suit, CCT 28/12, has now made its way to the Constitutional Court, and takes aim at the heart of the banking system. Although Tellinger chose Standard Bank, he says “ultimately it is the other banks as well,” and hopes this case will bring light to the myriad of “deceitful” activities practiced as part of the overall banking system worldwide.

Tellinger decided to take on South Africa’s largest bank after he realized, during the course of his research into the origins of humanity, that money just “suddenly appeared.” As a result, he began wondering about the origins of money itself, and how it became so intrinsic in society. Upon further investigation, Tellinger began realizing that it’s just a small number of families that control the supply of money worldwide, citing the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Morgans as examples. He hopes his suit will redress the imbalance that has taken place by these banking elite.

Tellinger’s premise for his suit against Standard Bank is based on their “unscrupulous activities,” which he believes are also practiced routinely by banks worldwide. The lawsuit is 1,100 pages of actual case law, evidence, and arguments defining the laws, acts, and bills that are broken on a daily basis by banks, including the Reserve Bank, all under the “watchful eye of the Minister of Finance,” who Tellinger claims is aware of these behaviors but has “done nothing to prevent this from happening.” Tellinger believes this is “pure exploitation of every South African citizen.”

In addition, Tellinger believes that banks are fueling inflation by issuing and printing money without having the assets to back those monies. Many in the financial industry argue that this is how the system was built, doing business this way for decades, and that leveraging is just part of standard operating procedure. But Tellinger argues that just because the banks do this “does not mean it is right.” He has had several meetings with shareholders of the Reserve Bank and states that he has been “amazed” at some of the revelations as to how the Reserve Bank works and how “absolutely deceitful the activities are.”

Using the bank loan process as an example of how banks create money out of “thin air,” Tellinger says that when someone applies for a loan, the banks don’t actually have the physical cash in their vaults to give. Instead, they “punch some numbers into a computer and magically just create money that is not backed by anything.” This process of issuing money as interest-bearing loans is akin to “counterfeiting” according to Tellinger, and if ordinary citizens tried to do anything like this, they would be prosecuted for it.

Tellinger obtained much of his information from the Supreme Court of South Africa, which he has been to on three occasions arguing against the “highest-paid lawyers money can buy.” His case has now moved to the Constitutional Court “because it’s not just about unlawful activity of banks on a daily basis…it’s also about breaking and breeching constitutional rights.” Tellinger says this suit is about his and other South African citizens’ “constitutional rights,” which he believes the banks are breaking on a daily basis.

Support for Tellinger’s initiative continues to grow, especially among those who have researched this topic for themselves and “figured out what the banks are doing.” As Tellinger points out, “Some are really smart lawyers and advocates who have offered their work pro bono, for free, because they realize that what is going on is absolutely wrong.” New ERA, or New Economic Rights Alliance, is one such group that is bringing together support for “those who have been abused by banks.” Their mission is to support victims of corporations that put profit ahead of human rights.

“It’s all about economic freedom, economic liberty,” says Tellinger. Citing Nelson Mandela’s release and the fight for political freedom in South Africa, he believes it is now time to end “economic slavery.”

Tellinger realizes he is going up against a global system that has been in place for decades “since the creation of the Federal Reserve system on Jekyll Island,” he says. These are privately owned institutions that answer to “nobody,” as he states. Tellinger’s suit also includes the government, stating that the Minister of Finance knows banks are breaking the law. He says that the Minister of Finance and the government are “supposed to be servants of the people,” and believes the Minister of Finance should have intervened on the behalf of citizens against the banks.

Ultimately, Tellinger believes his case will challenge the Constitutional Court to see just how constitutional it really is, and if they will rule in favor of the people and “stop supporting through the legal system the banks that have been exploiting the system.”

For too long, the banking giants have been untouchable, especially by common citizens. Tellinger’s case is important in that it allows the “common man” direct access to a constitutional court. Everyone could be affected by this case, because if Tellinger is successful, the repercussions will be widespread, and the global banking industry may be facing a radical overhaul through major public policy shifts and the changing of laws governing the banks.

For more information about this landmark case, see www.thebigcase.co.za.

Michael Tellinger joins Amerika Now this Saturday, May 19th, from 8 to 10 p.m. Pacific, 11 to 1 a.m. Eastern, to discuss his landmark lawsuit against economic slavery.

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LD Jackson
Political Realities

I have a question for the readers of Political Realities: Do you believe the situation with Iran is better now than it was when Barack Obama and Joe Biden took over the controls in Washington?.

No, that’s not a trick question and yes, I really want you to answer. In this world of political craziness, here is a news flash for you, if you haven’t already heard. According to Vice-President Joe Biden, the reason we were having trouble with Iran all along was the man who was in the White House before Obama. Yes, you heard me right. He is blaming George W. Bush for the problems with Iran and says things are much better now. You know, since we have such a good President leading the diplomatic effort.

Biden was speaking Tuesday at the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual convention in Atlanta. From Fox News, here is some of what he had to say.

Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday pinned the country’s rocky negotiations with Iran on the Bush administration, saying only after President Obama took office and made “good faith” efforts toward dealing with the rogue nation did the world realize Iran is the problem.

“By going the extra diplomatic mile, presenting Iran with a clear choice, we demonstrated to the region and the world that Iran is the problem, not the United States,” Biden said at the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual convention in Atlanta.

“When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran,” Biden continued. “We were the problem, we were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe. We were neither fully respected by our friends nor feared by our opponents. Today it is starkly, starkly different.”

Does Joe Biden really think Americans are dumb enough to swallow that line? Does he really expect us to believe the only reason we were having trouble convincing the Iranian leadership of the error of their ways was President Bush? Taking that a bit further, does he really think the situation with Iran is better than it was three or four years ago? The last time I checked, Iran was still talking as tough as they always were. They have made no new concessions with their nuclear program and they still have a crazy man for their President.

Sometimes, I have to question Joe Biden’s sanity. He seems to come up with more than a few zingers; off the wall remarks that make little to no sense. At other times, I cheer the man on, as I feel he is one of our best weapons against him and his boss. I say, turn the man loose and let him do his best. The more he talks, the more foolish he sounds. It’s no wonder Osama bin Laden wanted to kill President Obama and let Joe Biden take over as President.

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