JANUARY 13, 2015 12:00 AM
What Not Even the King of England Could Do
A federal researcher points out George III couldn’t suspend laws — as many say Obama just did.
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Republicans up for reelection in Democratic-leaning states worry about a political backlash.
One such Republican, Senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), told Politico that the House bill “leads us to a potential government shutdown scenario, which is a self-inflicted political wound for Republicans.”
Sessions disagrees. “A constitutional breach of this magnitude demands nothing less than a vigorous, public, disciplined campaign to rally the nation behind a Republican effort to deny the president the funds he would need to carry it out,”
What Not Even the King of England Could Do | National Review Online
How can any Republican be stupid enough to believe that the 2013 shutdown hurt them?
Any senator who falls for old CNN mind tricks should be run out of office.
It doesn’t shut the government down. It shuts part of the government down. Obama will choose to punish his subjects in the manner he does it. On the last one, I was fishing with a group on one of the NPS Outer Banks (NC) islands. The Ranger politely restricted us to our cabin while we waited for the ferry. Coincidentally, I assume, we had an overflight, with circling us, by a Marine helicopter. It seems the government had sufficient funds to operate certain parts.
You are dead on b@lls accurate on this one Tony. It is the President who much choose between his unlawful executive order and protecting the homeland. Republicans should not waiver in delivering this message to the public. Given that the incident in France is still fresh in our minds, the sooner this gets to his desk the better.
The age of the internet prevented the MSM from dictating the government shutdown narrative the way they wanted to. When people saw the barriers being put up around the WW II memorial and the various other memorials that belong to the people in DC they understood that this was simply an example of purely vindictive political hardball where by the administration sought to punish the people and blame the opposing party for it. From what I read in comments at that time opinion was even prevalent among the low information types.
When there were enough public employees still on the payroll to put up the barricades, guard monuments and parks and to restrict people to their cabins, buses and hotel rooms, even the low information types figured it was vindictiveness not lack of personnel or funds.
It blew-up in the democrats face because the public employees visible to the public were using gestapo tactics. Even if the park employees were cut to 50% of the normal level that is not what the low -information voter saw. What they saw in the alternate media is people in wheel chairs and old folks being harassed. And this was after all the stories of police brutality and wrongful death.
The other mistake made was the threat not to send out Social Security checks in 2011.
From the Washington Times: July 17th 2011 Obama’s not bluffing: Social Security and military checks are in danger
At the time I was on a popular board and did my usual digging and found this Shutdown of the Federal Government: Causes, Processes, and Effect by Clinton T. Brass, Analyst in Government Organization and Management.
The Social Security Fund was raided by various politicians to buy votes and is now a DEBT of the US government it is not an annual appropriation. The only way for Obummer to STOP the Social Security pay checks is to declare the government employees who cut the checks “non-emergency personnel” This would be the bookkeepers cutting ALL the checks for the bureaucratic personnel, Congress Critters and their staffers.
My brother loves the shutdowns. He gets paid to go hunting and skiing, and then has all his accrued vacation time to use the rest of the year. Texas is the answer.
“The Legislature of the State of Texas, operating under the biennial system, convenes its regular sessions at noon on the second Tuesday in January of odd-numbered years. The maximum duration of a regular session is 140 days. The governor is given authority under the state constitution to convene the legislature at other times during the biennium. Such sessions are known as called or special sessions and are reserved for legislation that the governor deems critically important in the conduct of state affairs. Called sessions are limited to a period of 30 days, during which the legislature is permitted to pass laws only on subjects submitted by the governor in calling for the session.”
America would be much better off if her politicians only worked part time.
We have a stealthy one party system. The past 6+ years have proven this. Not one of either party has stood up on the floor of either house and said, Our president is a usurper and here is the proof, let me introduce Sheriff Joe and Mike Zullo for their sworn testimony – Let me explain to you who were the first Obama birthers and let me introduce Jerome Corsi and his testimony – 911 was a false flag created by our government agencies will unseen outside interest and here are the building engineering experts that can prove it – This is what the BRICS are doing and why, and let me introduce you to their members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa plus the 100 plus nations in support – let me tell you what happened to the gold America once had to back it’s dollar and what Nixon and friends allowed to happen to it. And on and on it should have happened if we had a 2 party system.
Time to increase the meds…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunking_9/11_Myths
Gator,
I would not trust WIKI – William Connolley and the Wikibullies at work.
Do I use WIKI? Yes but I try to also look at the original sources. Wiki is good for general information that is not controversial and as a starting point. On politically explosive issues? All bets are off as Connolley and his edit wars have shown.
Gail, Wiki did not write the book refuting the 911 conspiracies. But they do have the only real rebuttal (which turned out to be incorrect) to this book listed, which Amazon.com would not. I always check Wiki’s info before I post a link to them, I am well aware of their leftist bent and that is why I love to use them to discount leftist BS.
911 Truthers should be tarred and feathered, and run out on a rail, this fairy tale has been repeatedly and soundly debunked. Move on to Bigfoot or Nessie for Pete’s sake. 😆
Wiki is a starting place for research on certain subjects and not an end. That goes double for any subject having political connotations.
OK gator,
Just checking. (By now I should know you better, sorry.)
No problem Gail. The only thing more ridiculous than CAGW Doomers, is 911 Truthers. As you may know, my brother was one of the lucky ones working at the Pentagon that day.
May you inherit common sense and soon.
That came in my genetics, so no need to wait.
May you never have a family member incinerated by terrorists, and then have half-wits insulting their memory by telling you it was an inside job.
I see the Obots are here acting as public rather than private. Yeah to the useful idiots.
😆 Once again, you could not be more wrong. I abhor Obama. I held my nose and voted McCain, and then Romney, hoping that we could keep Skeeter out of the White House. I have hated the man since he stole the Illinois election (by smearing his opponents private sex life all over the air waves) for state senator.
Strike three! 😆
You admit you voted for Mr. Mitt Bilderberg and you are proud of that. Useful idiot are you with eyes wide shut..
Make up your mind Re-tard, am I an Obot or an illuminati?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8GwT7ZotCg
Only you have that answer as a choice. Or it is ignorance.
Looks like I have confused Re-tard, who has changed his name, and likely his tinfoil cap. 😆
Very intelligent response tipping you mitt again.
Gator admits he voted for Romney and is proud of it. Let’s connect the dots and see whom you really voted for.
Margaret C. Whitman was a VP at Bain & Company, the California finance co-chair for the 2008 Mitt Romney presidential campaign, and the SVP for the Walt Disney Company.
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Walt Disney Company.
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for Bain Capital.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is of counsel at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Thomas S. Foley is a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and an executive committee member for the Trilateral Commission (think tank).
Martin S. Feldstein is a director at the Trilateral Commission (think tank), was a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Klaus Kleinfeld is a member of the Trilateral Commission (think tank), a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the chairman of the U.S.-Russia Business Council, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
James A. Johnson is a member of the Trilateral Commission (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the Trilateral Commission (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
illuminati-news.com
You are such a patriot deceiver.
:lpl:
I am being attacked by a bipolar word salad! :lol
First I am accused of being an ‘Obot’ (strike three BTW), then when I explained I voted Romney to keep Skeeter out of office, I told that makes me an illuminati! 😆
What a fruitcake!
Re-tard, Gail warned you about looking crazy, and you just tripled down. Good job! 😆
You just fully exposed yourself as a product of government run school systems. It is clear you once were a useful innocent but now have graduated to Useful Idiot with no reading comprehension skills for the truth.
Many of us will continue to pray for the uninformed. This site is loaded with the likes of them as they will vote for a Romney or Bush again expecting change as a lemming.
You got me! Yep, I was at the illuminati meeting where we decided that Capt Kangaroo, Amelia Earhart, and Jimmy Hoffa would fly planes into the towers and Pentagon. Of course the Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese and Ronald himself had hoped to take on that mission. But the votes of George Washington’s head and The Cheshire Cat’s votes put that to rest.
It all started with our human sacrifice and minutes from the last meeting. Bigfoot was still dizzy from the CIA LSD experiments, and was pissed because Nessie refused to pick him up on her unicorn. Thankfully the area 51 aliens were in the neighborhood and gave him a ride. But they all missed out on the blood matzah, which Mothra brought, homemade!
But I digress. What you didn’t know is that we implanted a tracking device under your skull, and have been using you to discredit conspiracy theories.
Thanks for being useful, idiot. 😆
Richard you really need to get your facts straight.
9/11 and Obummers birth certificate are dead issues leave them buried. All they do is allow people to call you loony tunes and discount everything else you say.
On Fort Knox and the gold you are off by about forty years. Nixon didn’t ‘allow it to happen’ Nixon was the one who shut off the hemorrhaging!
It was FDR that confiscated privately owned US gold and gave it to the Federal Reserve via Executive Order 6102. After that only banks and foreigners could exchange US gold certificate dollars for actual gold.
Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation Remarks in Congress, 1934
How Much Gold Remains In Fort Knox?
link showing actual gold certificate dollars and other evidence.
A very good source of information on the Federal Reserve is:
A PRIMER ON MONEY
COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WRIGHT PATMAN Chairman 1964
link
It is long but not hard to read. It has a lot of good information.
The reason the gold outflow happened was because the USA forced a set price on gold in America, but in world markets gold was in a free market. Thus gold at $35 an ounce obtained with dollars, and then transferred to countries with floating gold prices, that gold was an instant profit. The evil was in the setting of the price of gold. Thus doing so caused the debacle that Nixon did, removing the last vestige of a gold standard. And how has real inflation done since then? Yep, screwed the working people all around. Nixon was wrong, as the feds were wrong to set the price of gold.
Also, read this work by Murray Rothbard.
http://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money
Don says: “The reason the gold outflow happened was because the USA forced a set price on gold in America, but in world markets gold was in a free market….”
Sorry Don, gold was never a ‘free market’ during most of the time the USA existed. The Rothschilds set the price and made sure the gold confiscated by FDR flowed from the American people TO the London bankers.
From WIKI According to Time magazine McFadden was “denounced and condemned by all Republicans for his ‘contemptible gesture’.” The Central Press Association reported that he was “virtually read out of his party … [had] his committee posts … taken away from him…was ostracized by Republicans [and] called crazy …”. Sen. David A. Reed (R-PA) said “We intend to act to all practical purposes as though McFadden had died”
When driving McFadden out of congress still did not shut the man up he was shot at twice and then poisoned. (Wiki used the ‘official’ cause of death)
So what about the Rothschilds/Central Baners setting the price of gold?
Rothschild to pull out of gold market after 200 years
This from Rolling Stone of all places!
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
You know the evidence is piling up when the lefties start agreeing with the ‘Right-wing Conspiracy nuts’!
Don, I found this hiding in my old notes, so you are correct about Nixon.
Mises, via Gary North noted
Also on gold:
Good luck with your thoughts of knowledge- I’ll pay attention to the demise of the Petro dollar and the Reset as its result. Be prepared while the dollar is strong. then if its not to late follow the BRICS as most investors are doing to avoid the dollar hit.
The BRICS countries have certainly challenged the Central Banksters.
Here is another tidbit or two a long the same lines.
Sorry Gail, but you are wrong. The price of gold was a floating price in other nations when they realized that Americans had gold frozen at $35 an ounce, thus trading dollars for gold, then transferring that gold to a country with floating gold prices, which were above $35 an ounce was an instant gain. Otherwise it would have made no sense to transport gold to those nations, it is very expensive to transport bullion safely. They weren’t going to do it except it was profitable. I don’t care about FDR here, that isn’t what I discussed, so raising FDR is a red herring in this context.
That is why they were converting dollars into gold at that time. Nixon should merely have allowed the gold price to float in America, but he wasn’t willing for whatever reason, and thus shut the gold window. And by ending that last vestige of the dollar being linked to gold he wrought decades of the destruction of the purchasing power of the dollar and wrecked the middle class at the same time. Simple as that, no Rothschild conspiracy needed. Usually the simplest explanation is the correct one.
Don says: ” Sorry Gail, but you are wrong. The price of gold was a floating price in other nations….”
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First thanks for the Link to the Marry Rothbard book. What Has Government Done to Our Money? (I am still reading it.)
I will exchange that for North’s Mises on Money
My old link is dead but I found a new link as a pdf.
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How can the price of gold be a “floating price” when for two hundred years that price was fixed by four central bankers on a twice daily basis? Remember the whole objective of the central bank cartel is to control money and thereby skim off a chunk of civilizations wealth via the hidden tax of inflation.
Yes, individuals can trade at a different price than that set for the international market, but that international price is going to place major restraints on the within country price.
As for moving the bullion physically. It was not necessarily moved just the ownership was moved.
Federal Reserve Refuses to Submit to an Audit of Germany’s Gold Held in U.S. Vaults
Fort Knox Conundrum: China Claims Fake Gold Bars Are From US!
This of course leaves the question as to where the heck the gold taken from US citizens actually went.
Good article; thanks for all of them. A tangential point of order for the sake of accuracy; the graphic is a powerful illustration of the political majority in America but it left-out one of the few the “red” Oregon counties on the West side of the cascades…the political “ankle bite” or “pin-prick” known as Yamhill County….. 🙂
Onto the main topic, I do not believe the GOP has the super-hero suit that it would take to stem the tide of Socialism in America, but it’s a nice thought; perhaps we should be satisfied with the opening salvo that attempts to turn-back 50 years of conditioning (entitlements).
The political majority only came about because of all the pain caused by Obama’s policies….why we have to squash the Keynesian financial strategies wherever they exist.
I am convinced that the Republican establishment and most of its leadership actually support the main thrust of the liberal agenda. They want open borders and more work visas, to keep wages down for their corporate donors and to keep the Chamber of Commerce happy. They want larger government, evidenced by the Republicans’ massive expansion of the Department of Homeland Security and their own new unfunded Medicare Rx entitlement. They want the federal government in the drivers’ seat on education, evidenced by their support for Common Core and passage of No Child Left Behind. They supported the Wall Street bailouts. They want us to be the world’s policeman, which requires a massive permanent standing army.
There have been a few flashes of spine over the years, but the general trend by the Republicans in the federal government has been to expand the size and scope and financial obligations of government and run up more debt. The leadership is more interested in being in the drivers’ seat of the federal juggernaut they have created than in dismantling it.
“The Republican establishment ” = the Controlled Opposition.
That is why the Tea Party is giving them hissyfits.
The Tea Party is just a bunch of people causing diversions from the important issues. you will never hear them standup in either house and talk about what the BRICS are doing and why, False Flag school shootings, 911 false flag, there will never be peace in the Middle East unless the phony Jews leave the Arabs lands and go back to Europe.
They will never talk about the energy technologies being used by the Military Industrial Complex that would free the world of oil, gas and coal.
TP is Bull Shit for the useful idiots.
It is not a ‘liberal’ agenda, it is a Progressive agenda. And yes, we have Progressives on both sides of the aisle now. That is why I am a Libertarian, it is the only real alternative to BAU in DC.
International efforts were also made to stem a run on gold. A run in the London gold market sent the price to $40 an ounce on October 20, 1960, exacerbating the threat to the system. In response, the London Gold Pool was formed on November 1, 1961. The pool consisted of a group of eight central banks (Great Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France, and the United States). In order to keep the price of gold at $35 an ounce, the group agreed to pool gold reserves to intervene in the London gold market in order to maintain the Bretton Woods system. The pool was successful for six years until another gold crisis ensued. The British pound sterling devalued and another run on gold occurred, and France withdrew from the pool. The pool collapsed in March 1968.
At that time the seven remaining members of the London Gold Pool (Great Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and the United States) agreed to formulate a two-tiered system. The central banks agreed to use their gold only in settling international debts and to not sell monetary gold on the private market. The two-tier system was in place until the US gold window closed in 1971.
These efforts of the global financial community proved to be temporary fixes to a broader structural problem with the Bretton Woods system. The structural problem, which has been called the “Triffin dilemma,” occurs when a country issues a global reserve currency (in this case, the United States) because of its global importance as a medium of exchange. The stability of that currency, however, comes into question when the country is persistently running current account deficits to fulfill that supply. As the current account deficits accumulate, the reserve currency becomes less desirable and its position as a reserve currency is threatened.
http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Events/DetailView/33
Don says:
“…. The price of gold was a floating price in other nations when they realized that Americans had gold frozen at $35 an ounce, thus trading dollars for gold, then transferring that gold to a country with floating gold prices, which were above $35 an ounce was an instant gain….. They weren’t going to do it except it was profitable. I don’t care about FDR here, that isn’t what I discussed, so raising FDR is a red herring in this context.”
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Don you SHOULD care about FDR because he was pivotal in the transfer of US gold/wealth overseas to the Central banking cartel.
Whodo you think set the US gold price in the first place?
Gold Reserve Act Of 1934
FDR’s Son-in-law made it very clear who was pulling the strings on FDR Franklin Roosevelt: My Exploited Father-in-law
Paul Warburg as representative of the European Central Bankers came to the USA to set-up a Central Bank. He did not just go home.
From WIKI
” [Paul Warburg] became a director of the Council on Foreign Relations at its founding in 1921, remaining on the board until his death. From 1921 to 1926 Warburg was a member of the advisory council of Federal Reserve Board, serving as president of the advisory council in 1924–26. He was also a trustee of the Institute of Economics, founded in 1922; when it was merged into the Brookings Institution in 1927, he became a trustee of the latter, serving until his death”
His son, James Warburg was a Financial Advisor to FDR. James Warburg was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In February 17, 1950, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations James Warburg said,
“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.”
The Council on Foreign Relations is a Milner’s Round Table Group according to Bill Clinton’s Mentor Professor Carroll Quigley. Clinton went to Oxford on a Ceil Rhodes scholarship.
Well, Well, Well
Seems that WordUnimpressed will not allow quotes from C*arroll Q*uigley’s The A*nglo-A*merican E*stablishment to be posted. (That is why I posted a series of short comments.)
I just spent the last three hours, shutting down my computer, shutting down this Website and reposting the same comment and variations there of.
I have had a devil of a time posting the link
(wwwDOT)thirdworldtraveler.com/N*ew_W*orld_O*rder/Anglo_American_Estab.html
Perhaps it is N*ew_W*orld_O*rder they obiect to.
N*ew_W*orld_O*rder seems to be the trigger. It took five tries to get that link posted. GRUMBLE.
I very much doubt it is Steve doing the c*ensoring.