Monday, January 30, 2017

Suicides by Chicago Police Officers Skyrocket

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A new report finds that the Chicago Police Department has a suicide rate 60 percent higher than the national average.

The study found that of the 10,000 officer force up to three CPD officers per year commit suicide, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

The CPD’s suicide rate corresponds with the extreme level of violence seen in the Windy City. Last year Chicago’s murder rate was higher than that of New York and Los Angeles combined.

“There is a problem, and nobody’s doing anything about it,” Ron Rufo, a peer support counselor, told the paper. “Supervisors don’t talk about it. The rank-and-file don’t talk about it. And it’s like the administration does not want to admit it’s a problem.”

Psychologist Alexa James also noted that CPD officers are living in what many might consider a “war zone” but aren’t getting the mental health treatment they need.

“It is a hard, hard job, and police officers get very little support,” she insisted.
The Times reported that there are only three full-time counselors for the entire 10,000-officer force. In contrast, the LAPD has 11 clinicians on staff for an even smaller force.

One problem identified is an Illinois anti-gun law that prevents anyone who has had mental health issues from being able to gain a firearms license. Because of this law many officers feel reticent to engage a mental health provider for fear of losing the license they need to remain a police officer. Illinois is one of the few states to impose such a law on mental health patients.

“But that’s the Catch-22,” psychologist Marla Friedman said. Police “are afraid if they go to counseling, they’ll lose their job forever. But if they hold it in, they can stay on the job. And then they snap. Which is safer?”

“This is a real problem,” Friedman added. “Police officers are the only class of citizen in the U.S. who is going to lose their job for seeking mental health care.”

 http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/30/suicides-chicago-police-officers-skyrockets/

Protests and marches aren’t coming ‘out of nowhere’


Commentary: Don’t be fooled — protests and marches aren’t coming ‘out of nowhere’

 


It feels like the marches and protests are everywhere, and have been since President Donald Trump took office a little over a week ago. 

For some reason, the progressive left, undoubtedly the organizers of these events, wants the public to believe these gatherings are organically springing up, born of the  natural outrage over Trump’s recent executive orders and, frankly, the fact of Trump himself. But nothing could be further from the truth.

The Women’s March in Washington, D.C., and other cities across the country, happened the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated 45th President of the United States and was openly a protest. The protests against Trump’s executive order, which halted travel into the U.S. from a number of Muslim-majority countries, are explicitly protests and have been happening in cities around the country, including New York (where it began), Washington and Chicago.

And there are more to come, with the Science March already being organized and a number of others reportedly on the horizon. In fact, a site called Bustle offers a handy primer on five protests/marches that “need your help to organize,” including the Immigrants March (slated for May 6) and the Trump Taxes March (to be held, of course, April 15).    

And yet, mainstream news outlets for some odd reason are trying to push the idea that these are organic gatherings that spring up quickly and are not centrally organized.
 
The New York Times, for example, ran a piece when the protest began at John F. Kennedy airport in New York after immigrants coming back into the country were detained. Their headline? “Protest Grows ‘Out of Nowhere’ at Kennedy Airport After Iraqis Detained.”


"This is the humanity, this is the soul of America. This is what pushed me to move, leave my country and come here."


The article gives the source of the “out of nowhere” quote as progressive activist, filmmaker and Democrat personality Michael Moore, who routinely makes television appearances and, in fact, recently called for “100 days of protest” against Donald Trump:
Just past 3 p.m., a man with a social media megaphone gave it a blow. “Everybody in NYC area — head to JFK Terminal 4 NOW!” Michael Moore said on Twitter. “Big anti-Trump protest forming out of nowhere!”
According to The Washington Post, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) added to the call for rallies on Saturday when he gave an interview in which he said “opponents of President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees should oppose them in the streets.”
“It’s time for people to get active, to get involved, to vote and to organize,” said Ellison, who was in Houston to campaign for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “Trump must be stopped, and people power is what we have at our disposal to make him stop. We need mass rallies. We need them all over the country. We need them in Texas. We need them in D.C. We need them in Minnesota.”
One would have to be blind not to see that these rallies, marches and protests are being organized, something the progressive left is known for, and has been since the days when the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, better known to most as ACORN, was a major player in progressive circles. 

A series of undercover videos proving ACORN was peddling some pretty ugly advice forced that organization back into the shadows. But it appears the organizing efforts live on. How else could the Women’s March become a multinational event without some pretty serious organizational skills pulling the strings? And, in fact, there were. They even created a pretty slick website with those skills.

So the progressive left is continuing to do what it has always done in the way of organizing protests and rallies to speak out about what they see as injustices. It’s not out of character. They put community organizer Barack Obama in the White House for eight years after all. They obviously see the power in organization on a mass scale and find it meaningful.

Which begs the question: why are they trying to hide it now?




Trump’s Order That Will DEPORT Over 11 MILLION Illegals


REVEALED: Here is Trump’s Order That Will DEPORT Over 11 MILLION Illegals


Trump promised that he was going to clean up the immigration system in the United States and he has already begun, to every patriot’s deep relief!

Trump recently signed an executive order called “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” which calls for those illegal immigrants who have broken further laws in our country to be deported, via ABC News.

In a 2014 Pew study, it was estimated that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States. That is an enormous number considering we have laws on the books to prevent them from entering and remaining here.
Unfortunately, the previous president did not believe in enforcing laws passed by Congress on this matter.

In his order, Trump said, “Interior enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws is critically important to the national security and public safety of the United States.” He’s right.  Story after story shows that many immigrants come here to bring in drugs and commit crimes.

“Many aliens who illegally enter the United States and those who overstay or otherwise violate the terms of their visas present a significant threat to national security and public safety. This is particularly so for aliens who engage in criminal conduct in the United States,” he added.

The order specifically says that illegal immigrants are going to be subject to deportation if they have engaged in “fraud or willful misrepresentation”. This means that if you enter the United States without a visa or if you overstayed a valid visa, then you could be subject to deportation.

It’s amazing that liberals are upset by this, because Trump is merely enforcing laws that are already on the books. It’s clear that Liberals simply want people to be able to come here whenever they want despite the risk of potential terrorist attacks. There is a name for that: anarchy.

If immigrants are willing to break the law to get into the country, what would stop them from breaking the law when they are inside of the country? Nothing. We know that many illegal immigrants bring drugs and crime to our country.

Trump is probably not going to be able to deport all of the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants that are currently in the United States, not under this order alone. But, cracking down on new illegal immigrants and enforcing the law on the books may start to ease the burden on the American people.

Nothing that Trump has done indicates that he is in anyway anti-immigrant. He just wants people to come here legally so that American citizens are safe, as his own wife did! A country has every right to control its borders because without them there is no country at all.

Americans want to have an application system where people can be vetted properly, to ensure that they do not intend to harm a single American. Mostly, we want to make sure that no one is coming here who intends to commit acts of terrorism. That’s not racism– that’s being responsible.

http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/trump-order-to-deport-illegals/ 

BREAKING: Trump Has Been Planning His Whole Life To Take Down NWO

You don't think the enemy is the only one with sleeper cells do you?





Caution About News

It doesn't matter if you believe American State Nationals should be in the drivers seat and that Trump is only the CEO of the Corporation, What he does still will effect you greatly and the globalists know it.  Sorry but that is just how it is. Maybe not how it's supposed to be, but how it is.

This comment is by one of the people who was kicked out of the John Birch Society with me back in the 60s for being too political.
We all need to make the most of Donald Trumps actions across this country as long as he keeps walking the line to freedom.

Thanks Bill,

Paul Stramer

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Baker
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 8:58 AM
Subject: Caution About News

Don't get up set by all the bad new spread by the leftist news media about the so call catastrophe  being caused by President Trump's current ban on people trying to get into the USA. Gorge Soros, one of the most powerful and wealthiest communist in the world, is funding much of the so called spontaneous demonstrations at air ports and else where in the US. He has been funding many such demonstrations and backing many far left political candidates including Hillary Clinton. He has even placed add offering $15.00 per hour to demonstrate.

What you are seeing on your TV is a massive highly funded and organized campaign to negate the efforts of President Trump to preserver and restore  our constitutional republic as originally intended and protect the citizens of the US from people outside this nation.

The political left in the media, entertainment industry and in public office are going to use every means at their disposal to stop President Trump's efforts to reverse our nation's slide into a socialist state.

Communist George Soros and others of great power and wealth are working hard to destroy individual national sovereignty of all nations in the world because of their goal of a one world government controlled by the communist controlled United Nations. For those of you who do not know, the original founding charter document for the UN was written by Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss was later identified as a communist agent in FDR's administration. You can look him up in Wikipeda if you don't believe me.

What you are now seeing and will continue to see will be a fight for the survival of this nation as originally constituted. President Trump loves this nation and has taken it upon him self to help restore it. Power forces are going to bring great pressure to defeat his efforts. 

President Trump will need the help of every God fearing and loyal American citizen who believes in the US Constitution in order to accomplish his goal. With God's help he will be successful.

Bill 

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5 secrets the media won’t say - does that surprise you?!


5  secrets  the  media  won’t  say  about  Trump’s  immigration  order

President Donald Trump is vigorously defending his immigration restrictions, as angry protests spread throughout the country (EXPECT the left to DENY this and other reports:   https://youtu.be/ZIxhcvBbty8 ; http://thefreethoughtproject.com/soros-funding-hiring-anti-trump-protesters/ ; http://abcnews.com.co/donald-trump-protester-speaks-out-i-was-paid-to-protest/ ;
https://www.conservativeoutfitters.com/blogs/news/proof-protesters-are-paid-2-500-to-disrupt-trumps-inauguration) saying “this is about terror and keeping our country safe.”

Trump released a statement Monday asserting, “To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban as the media is falsely reporting.”

He’s right.

Despite the mainstream media outcry, the administration’s move is totally legal.

In fact, it’s actually very standard… and that truth is what the media is hiding in their condemnation of Trump.

Actually, it’s five truths. Because five out of the last six presidents of the United States have done almost the same exact thing.

Where was the media outrage when former President Barack Obama banned Iraqi immigrants in 2011 for six months, and in 2012 barred the entry of persons that have worked with the Iranian and Syrian government?

Where was this fury when former President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton each used the authority six times; Clinton banned Haitians in 1991 and residents of Serra Leone in 1998, if they were related to anyone involved in that country’s ruling government – where were the accusations of racism from Democrats?

Former President Ronald Reagan used this same authority five times; the media won’t mention that, of course.

And in 1980, former President Jimmy Carter used it to ban Iranians from entering the United States. His executive order suspended “all visas issued to Iranian citizens for future entry into the United States,” and said the U.S. government “will not reissue visas, nor will we issue new visas, except for compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country requires.”

Trump’s order, which also suspends refugee admissions for 120 days and indefinitely bars the processing of refugees from Syria, has sparked widespread protests and denunciations from the same Democrats and talking heads in the mainstream media that cheered Carter and Obama and Clinton’s actions.

And they’re ignoring the truth – this has been done many, many times in the past.

It’s totally legal, according to section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 which states: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”

To their credit, the Trump administration has remained unfazed by the unfair coverage.

“America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression,” Trump said, “but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border. This is not about religion — this is about terror and keeping our country safe.”

“I have tremendous feeling for the people involved in this horrific humanitarian crisis in Syria,” he said. “My first priority will always be to protect and serve our country, but as President I will find ways to help those who are suffering.”

In a background call with reporters Sunday, a senior administration official declared the order’s implementation “a massive success story,” claiming it had been done “seamlessly and with extraordinary professionalism.”

The Associated Press contributed to this article

https://thehornnews.com/5-secrets-media-wont-say-trumps-immigration-order/

Frame shop turns away lady for being pro-Trump; here’s what happens when she refuses to be bullied

But he’s our president!
A Colorado business reportedly turned away a customer because of her support for President Donald Trump.

Clip via Fox News Channel
Katie Richter took some photos and memorabilia from Trump’s inauguration into Suitable For Framing, an Aspen business, to have them mounted and framed.

As she was looking down at the mementos, she asked the clerk for her recommendations. The clerk told Richter that she couldn’t help her.
Federal judge overrides Trump’s executive order, grants stay to refugees
When she asked, “Is it because of my political affiliation?” Richter was told yes.
“I was a little befuddled,” Richter Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.”
Richter said that as she left the shop, she gave the clerk a parting shot.
“I respect your freedom of speech but am happy my vote canceled yours out.”
Trump cracks up the room and British PM May with witty response to BBC reporter’s question
When the story blew up on social media, the shop attempted to walk back its original reason for turning down Richter’s request, claiming that there was because of a crease in a photo making it unsuitable to frame.

No one was buying it, however, and posted numerous comments on the store’s Facebook page.

“I hope that your narrow-minded attitude towards the Trump voter causes your business to fail.” wrote Kenneth Quinn. “You do have the right o serve who ever you want but the public also has the right to boycott your business.”

It wasn’t that long ago that another Colorado business, Masterpiece Cakeshop, was sued for refusing to cater to a same-sex wedding ceremony. The business lost its case and appealed all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case.

 http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/01/29/frame-shop-turns-away-lady-pro-trump-heres-happens-refuses-bullied-441524

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Obama came up with the list of Muslim countries to ban


Donald Trump didn’t come up with the list of Muslim countries he wants to ban. Obama did.


President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that would impose a 30-day ban on entry to the United States for visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

After word of Trump’s pending executive order spread, the administration faced a lot of pushback — especially the early stages of his Muslim ban.


How, though, did the Trump administration choose these seven Muslim-majority countries? The truth is it didn't: The countries were chosen during Barack Obama's presidency. 

According to the draft copy of Trump's executive order, the countries whose citizens are barred entirely from entering the United States is based on a bill that Obama signed into law in December 2015.

Obama signed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act as part of an omnibus spending bill. The legislation restricted access to the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens from 38 countries who are visiting the United States for less than 90 days to enter without a visa.

Mark Elliott @markmobility
As we ban refugees from Muslim-majority countries, I'm reminded of this from 1939.

Though outside groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and NIAC Action — the sister organization of the National Iranian American Council — opposed the act, the bipartisan bill passed through Congress with little push back. 

At the initial signing of the restrictions, foreigners who would normally be deemed eligible for a visa waiver were denied if they had visited Iran, Syria, Sudan or Iraq in the past five years or held dual citizenship from one of those countries.

In February 2016, the Obama administration added Libya, Somali and Yemen to the list of countries one could not have visited — but allowed dual citizens of those countries who had not traveled there access to the Visa Waiver Program. Dual citizens of Syria, Sudan, Iraq and Iran are still ineligible, however.

So, in a nutshell, Obama restricted visa waivers for those seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen — and now, Trump is looking to bar immigration and visitors from the same list of countries. 
Kevin Allred @KevinAllred
sean spicer just said if you are from a predominately Muslim country you have a "predisposition" for terrorism. he used that exact word.
Trump's use of a list created with Democrats' support is obviously geared toward a more nefarious end. A total visa-issuance moratorium is more severe than restricting visa waiver access. But the guilt-by-association of having a higher burden for entry at all underlies the bill Obama signed, too.

And one of the criticisms of Trump's reported proposal for the early stages of his Muslim ban — that it is security theater — is true of Obama curtailing visa wavers. 

Those restrictions were an early response to the San Bernardino shooting and Paris attacks, but in both cases the assailant were nationals of the countries in which they carried out such violence.

When the Trump administration announced its plans to issue the executive order, Sean Spicer told the White House press pool that people coming from the Middle East and Africa have a "predisposition" for terrorism. The visa waiver restriction, a bipartisan bill Obama signed into law, reinforces that same xenophobic sentiment.

https://mic.com/articles/166845/the-list-of-muslim-countries-trump-wants-to-ban-was-compiled-by-the-obama-administration#.HIDjGGgUY

http://eheadlines.com/donald-trump-didnt-come-up-with-the-list-of-muslim-countries-he-wants-to-ban-obama-did/

'Very Dangerous' Obama Directive


Gingrich  warns  U.S.  of  'very  dangerous'  Obama  directive

Last-minute  move  leaves  America  vulnerable  to  devastating  attack


WND EXCLUSIVE
January 29 2017


The day before President Trump was inaugurated, a Democrat-controlled commission set new standards to protect the America’s life-sustaining electric grid that will leave the U.S. vulnerable to a devastating electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack from a hostile nation such as North Korea or Iran.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s directive, issued Jan. 19, will protect the nation only from an EMP caused by solar activities.

The move was condemned by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a top adviser to Trump during the presidential campaign.

“There’s a very, very dangerous decision being made today by the energy commission on how we protect ourselves from electromagnetic pulse,” Gingrich said in a “Fox and Friends” interview Jan. 19.

“It is being designed as stupidly and as destructively as possible. … If I were [President Trump], it’s one of the things I would literally repeal late tomorrow.”
 
WND reported Jan. 16 the warning of William R. Graham, the former director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and science adviser to President Ronald Reagan. Graham said FERC’s ruling, which came three days later, “is likely to have far-ranging, seriously counter productive national security implications.”

Graham was chairman of the 2008 congressionally mandated EMP Commission.  He said FERC’s inadequate action would “have a “significant near-term impact on our national security, especially in view of recent moves by North Korea to establish an EMP attack capability with (intercontinental ballistic missiles), nuclear missile-carrying submarines and satellites.”

Former Ambassador Henry Cooper, who was President Ronald Reagan’s chief representative in the “Star Wars” initiative negotiations with the Soviet Union and SDI director under President George H.W. Bush, agreed that should Trump repeal the directive immediately and appoint new FERC commissioners “who will represent him by putting America first — not the electric power industry.”

Cooper said in a commentary for Family Security Matters “the short sighted FERC rule means that when the ‘powers that be’ ever get around to addressing the more threatening problem, they will have to start all over again in upgrading whatever they do in response to the less threatening threat.”

“The ‘man made’ EMP threat includes a much higher amplitude low frequency component and contains high frequency components that are not part of the ‘natural’ EMP threat,” he said. 

Cooper explained that protecting the grid from the man made EMP threat also protects it from the natural EMP threat, but the converse is not true.

He noted the new Department of Homeland Security secretary, John F. Kelley, promised during his confirmation hearing to address the issue.

Kelly was asked for his assessment of the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse, ground-based missile defense, cyber attack and physical attacks to the nation’s critical infrastructure.

“All these threats, in addition space weather, pose potentially catastrophic dangers to U.S. infrastructure, particularly our energy, transportation and telecommunications networks, which are the life blood of our economy,” Kelly said.

“Mitigating these risks to an acceptable level is vital. The department has a critical role to play.”  He promised, if confirmed, to “pay particular attention to these threats.”

‘Unprecedented cascading failures’

Because of the continued threat of an EMP not only from a natural solar storm but also from a man made high-altitude nuclear detonation, Congress last year renewed the EMP Commission in section 1089 of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act.

As chairman of the commission, Graham warned in 2008 that the United States is especially vulnerable since its critical interdependent infrastructures rely more than most other nations on electronic components.

While the electrical grid and electronic components have given the U.S. major economic, industrial and societal advantages, Graham previously has testified to Congress that these critical inter-dependencies also create the potential of multiple, simultaneous disruptions and failures.

An EMP event, whether natural or man made, would cause “unprecedented cascading failures of major infrastructures,” Graham said.

The critical, life-sustaining infrastructures that depend on the vulnerable national grid include banking and finance, telecommunications, food and water delivery, automated control systems, petroleum and natural gas, transportation, emergency services and space systems.  

Obama appointees

Graham pointed out the FERC is dominated by three Obama administration appointees. “It may not be an accident that this action is being addressed on the last full day of the Obama administration rather than at a time when the Trump administration can influence the ruling,” Graham told WND on Jan. 16.

He said Trump, as president, will have the authority to appoint three new FERC commissioners between January and July 2017, giving the regulatory board a Republican majority by mid-summer.

“A rebalanced FERC could mandate integrated protection against both [natural] and nuclear EMP, with substantial cost saving and major infrastructure survivability improvement that would significantly strengthen national security,” Graham said.

“A Nation Forsaken” warns of the growing threat from an EMP, either from a natural solar event or an attack from America’s enemies. Threatened are not only the nation’s power lines, but its banking, fuel supply and even food distribution systems.
 
http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/gingrich-warns-of-very-dangerous-obama-directive/   


Trump’s First Weekly Address

President   Trump’s   First   Weekly  Address   To  The  American  People





We will upload the address here every week to insure that you get the update from your president.


http://eheadlines.com/president-trumps-first-weekly-address-to-the-american-people-video/ 

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Mainstream News for the Demo-RATS

So you love Hillary etc.? VIRAL, VIRAL,VIRAL! You gotta watch this!!! CIA, Clintons Finished!! Emailed by a reader

Listen to at least 15 minutes of this interview to find out what Obama and Hillary Clinton did to the jewel of Africa, Libya, in 2011. In particular "60,000 bombing sorties" were made by NATO and the UN  all of which carried depleted uranium bombs. These Americans, who were in Libya during the seige, get right into the Khazarian Mafia and their Jewish banking affiliate's culpability in this massacre and rape of Libya. 






  I bet you cannot watch more than 10 min. of this interview.
I thought I knew how great Libya was before Hillary and her Central banker friends butchered Gaddafi, but these 2, a U.S. business couples who were in Libya on a development project before and during the take-down, make my head spin.
This makes me sick.
They state maybe 6% of Libya's population were against Gaddafi.  These 6% were mostly of the radical Islamics. These "rebels" were so few, that the Central banksters had to import the guys who were fighting the U.S. in other countries so there would be enough in Libya to riot.
This sounds exactly like what has since happened in Syria.
This sounds exactly like what George Soros and friends are doing in Europe and America, today.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=67297

The Pope and the Pontiff, Or, Stop Being Stupid Part 28

Link: http://www.paulstramer.net/2017/01/the-pope-and-pontiff-or-stop-being.html

By Anna Von Retiz

How many times have you heard references to "the Pope"?  All your life there has been a Pope, right?   And right along beside that, how many times have you heard references to the Pope as  "the Roman Pontiff"----?  
 
I think I was five when I crawled up on my long-suffering Father's lap and asked, "What are they talking about when they say the Pope is the Pontiff?"
 
He rolled his eyes heavenward with an aggrieved expression on his face.  I am not sure if it was the result of his reflections about the Pope and the Pontiff or the ongoing ordeal of having to answer my questions every day.
 
"The Pope," he explained, "is the leader of the Catholic Church.  He tells people what to believe about God and Jesus and the meaning of the Bible.  But he has another job, too.  As the Pontiff,  he decides who owns what and how people do business."
 
Good old Dad. That's what the Pope does, that's what the Pontiff does. Make what you like of it.
 
Nothing much has changed in 1200 years.
 
For those who bother to poke into such things, it is no news that the entire concept of corporations was invented by the Roman Curia, the juridical body serving the Roman Pontiff. 
 
The Curia invented all the different kinds of corporations you are familiar with: trusts, C-corps, S-corps, non-profit corporations, cooperatives, foundations, LLPs and LLC's and every other permutation of "business structure" you can think of except partnerships and sole proprietorships.
 
None of these corporations we take for granted actually exist.  They are all figments of the imagination and always have been, no matter how solid Exxon and the USA, Inc. and GE may appear.
 
Just like Bridge and Pinochle and Hearts and Poker are all card games, trusts and C-Corps and cooperatives and foundations are all corporations.  Just as the card games are defined by their cards and playing pieces and the "rules of play", so corporations are similarly defined by their structures (like Boards of Directors and Chief Executive Officers) and their rules of play.  
 
The Roman Curia, under the leadership of the Roman Pontiff, creates and defines and sets up the rules of play for all corporations worldwide.  That's why the Pontiff retains the right to amend or repeal the "laws" of any corporation. It's his game, under his copyright, and he can do what he likes with it.
 
Governments in the modern world are all corporations, too.  So guess what?
 
That's right.  The Roman Pontiff gets to repeal or amend any law made by any incorporated government or business. 
 
This has nothing to do with the Pope's role as the head of the Catholic Church. It's a separate office and a separate roster of functions and it always has been.
 
Of course we all expect this one single man to be fair and do what is right by everyone, but past history has shown that expectation to be unfounded.  Many Roman Pontiffs have been greedy and self-interested and venal and many corporate government CEO's have ignored the direction of the Pontiff even though he literally owns the game they are playing.
 
This results in constant wars and economic hardships and vicious market manipulations and the Pontiff stands there, as Francis is doing now, looking very stiff and stern and tight-lipped. 
 
It's his game, after all.  If we want to play his game and use his corporate structures to define our governments, then we should live by his rules, right? And if not by his rules, then whose? 
 
Americans like to think of ourselves as special and Independent and so on, but our government from its infancy was dependent on the "greater government" of the world beyond our shores.  There were certain things -- nineteen of them to be exact--- that we were ill-prepared to do for ourselves. So our states contracted with the Roman Pontiff and the British King to provide those services for us.
 
That is how we wound up with a Constitution that allows the  foreign federal government corporation the delegated authority to control our money, our trade policies, our relations with the rest of the world, our commercial operations, and our military. 
 
We might as well have included the key to our bathrooms. 
 
And that is the way it is and the way it has been from the time the ink dried on the actual Constitution.  It was a flagrant give-away of much of the power and responsibility that is naturally ours in exchange for peace and "good faith" service from the Game Masters.
 
I leave it to you to figure out to what extent their responsibilities have been honored and disregarded, and also to discern the motives behind the great veneration given to the Constitution.  So long as we mindlessly cling to it without insisting on the terms of it being honored by the Federales and their Handlers in Britain and Rome, we enslave ourselves very neatly. 
 
As long as we allow ourselves to be mischaracterized as "citizens" of any stripe and allow our states to be "represented" by incorporated "States of States" like the "State of California", they have free reign over us without the need to honor the actual Constitution at all.
 
Remember that the Roman Pontiff and his vassal Monarchs control everything that is incorporated.  To be free of them and free of their system of things requires operating your own government as an unincorporated Body Politic--and that is precisely what we are meant to do in this country.   
 
Given this dose of reality, it should not be any mystery why I and other Americans dissatisfied with the "service" we have received, would go to Rome to visit the Roman Pontiff.  Upon being presented with the evidence of multiple betrayals, gross Breaches of Trust, and overall mis-administration of the "federal government" it is no wonder that Pope Benedict XVI was overwhelmed and little wonder that Pope Francis is dissatisfied.
 
What remains to us, as Americans, is to wise up and bring forward our claims against the Federales in no uncertain terms and before the entire world---while restoring our rightful unincorporated government at the county and state levels. 
 
The world that the Roman Pontiff and the British Monarch create and control is a world of lies and half-truths that only Satan could inspire, but it is also a world that depends utterly upon rules and contracts for its existence. 
 
The Roman Pontiff(s) and the British Monarch(s) have, over time, been caught red-handed, pants down around their ankles, operating in gross Breach of Trust, neglect, and dishonesty with regard to the only contract they have with us.  Their duplicity, deceit, profit-mongering, and dishonor has turned the entire world into a slave market and been the cause of two World Wars.  It's time for it to stop.
 
All Americans are called upon to demand that the Roman Pontiff and the British Monarch and their Successors at the UN and in FRANCE, honor our agreement known as The Constitution for the united States of America and withdraw their interference against us and our lawful government --permanently-- and cease and desist false claims against our people and our assets.
 
All people worldwide, most especially the Catholics, are called upon to stand with us and exert the necessary pressure to bring about an end to the sale of bonds based on the assets and labor of living people. This secretive form of enslavement being practiced by the Roman Pontiff and the incorporated governments that serve at his pleasure is a gross affront to decency and Law.
 
The worldwide prohibition against slavery stands and adding to one's sins by practicing personage against the innocent and pretending that enslavement of PERSONS is allowable when it results in the enslavement of living men and women, is nothing more than the sophistry with which Satan's kingdom abounds.
 
These and similar matters are the content of my communications with Benedict XVI and with Pope Francis alike.  To the extent that they accept the necessity of reform and do in good faith, in spirit and in truth, honor their obligations to America and the rest of the world from now on, I shall be their willing servant; to the extent that they continue to avoid the moral and contractual obligations that go with their authority, I shall not lift voice or finger in their support. 
 
Those of you who think that you can avoid dealing with the Roman Pontiff in his role as the ruler of the incorporated world, or persist in the childish idea that the Pope has authority only in the Catholic Church, need to wake up and smell the java.  Pope Francis holds two offices which together serve to define the circumstances of our lives---whether we are at peace or at war, live in plenty or in poverty, are enslaved or set free.  That being so, it behooves all of us to pay strict attention to everything the Pope/Pontiff says and does---and yes, to hold him accountable.
 
It also behooves us to hold our incorporated governments feet first to the fire and to -- in the case of America -- operate our own unincorporated government in a responsible fashion. 
 

Here's another quote from Dad--- "Rights go with responsibilities.  You can't have one without the other."  
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Sunday Prayers for Patriots - 4th Sunday after Epiphany

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

INTROIT Adore God, all ye His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad. (Ps. XCVI. 1.) Glory be to the Father, etc.
 
COLLECT O God, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so great perils, that because of the frailty of our nature we cannot stand; grant to us health of mind and body, that those things which we suffer for our sins, we may by Thy aid overcome. Through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord &c.
 
EPISTLE (Romans XIII. 8-10.) Brethren, owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. For thou shaft not commit adultery; thou shaft not kill; thou shaft not steal; thou shaft not bear false witness; thou shaft not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word: Thou shaft love thy neighbor as thyself. The love of our neighbor worketh no evil. Love, therefore, is the fulfilling of the law.
 
What is meant by St Paul's words: He that loveth his neighbor, hath fulfilled the law?
St. Augustine in reference to these words says: that he who loves his neighbor, fulfils as well the precepts of the first as of the second tablet of the law. The reason is, that the love of our neighbor contains and presupposes the love of God as its fountain and foundation. The neighbor must be loved on account of God; for the neighbor cannot be loved with true love, if we do not first love God. On this account, the holy Evangelist St. John in his old age, always gave the exhortation: Little children, love one another. And when asked why, he answered: Because it is the command of the Lord, and it is enough to fulfill it. Therefore in this love of the neighbor which comes from the love of God and is contained in it, consists the fulfillment of the whole law. (Matt. XXII. 40.)

GOSPEL (Matt. VIII 23-27) At that time, when Jesus entered into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves; but he was asleep. And they came to him and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish. And Jesus saith to them Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up, he commanded the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm. But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?
 
Why did Christ sleep in the boat?
To test the faith and confidence of His disciples; to exercise them in enduring the persecutions which they were afterwards to endure; to teach us that we should not waver in the storms of temptations. St. Augustine writes: "Christ slept, and because of the danger the disciples were confused. Why? Because Christ slept. In like manner thy heart becomes confused, thy ship unquiet, when the waves of temptation break over it. Why? Because thy faith sleeps. Then thou shouldst awaken Christ in thy heart; then thy faith should be awakened, thy conscience quieted, thy ship calmed."
 
Why did Christ reproach His disciples when they awaked Him and asked for help?
Because of their little faith and trust; for if they firmly believed Him to be true God, they would necessarily believe He could aid them sleeping as well as waking.
 
Nothing so displeases God as to doubt His powerful assistance. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh (mortal man) his arm (aid), and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. (Jerem. XVII. 5. 7.) God sometimes permits storms to assail us, such as poverty, persecution, sickness, so that we may have occasion to put our confidence in Him alone. Of this St. Bernard very beautifully says: "When the world rages, when the wicked become furious, when the flesh turns against the spirit, I will hope in Him. Who ever trusted in Him, and was put to shame?" We should therefore trust in God only, and take refuge to Him, invoking Him as did the disciples: Lord, save us, we perish; or cry out with David: Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, and cast us not off to the end. (Ps. XLIII. 23.)
 
Why did Jesus stand up and command the sea to be still?
To show His readiness to aid us, and His omnipotence to which all things are subject. His disciples who saw this miracle, wondered and said: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey Him?
 
We see daily in all creatures the wonders of the Omnipotence, the wisdom, and the goodness of God, and yet we are not touched; we continue cold and indifferent. The reason is, that we look upon all with the eyes of the body and not with the eyes of the soul; that is, we do not seek to ascend by meditation to the Creator, and to judge from the manifold beauty and usefulness of created things the goodness and the wisdom of God. The saints rejoiced in all the works of the Lord; a flower, a little worm of the earth would move the heart of St. Francis of Sales, and St. Francis the Seraph, to wonderment and to the love of God; they ascended, as on a ladder, from the contemplation of creatures to Him who gives to every thing life, motion, and existence. If we were to follow their example, we would certainly love God more, and more ardently desire Him; if we do not, we live like irrational men, we who were created only to know and to love God.
ASPIRATION Grant us, O good Jesus! in all our needs, a great confidence in Thy divine assistance, and do not allow us to become faint-hearted; let Thy assistance come to us in the many dangers to which we are exposed; command the turbulent winds and waves of persecution to be still, and give peace and calmness to Thy Church, which Thou hast redeemed with Thy precious blood, that we may serve Thee in sanctity and justice, and arrive safely at the desired haven of eternal happiness. Amen.

ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD
But he was asleep. (Matt VIII. 24.)
It is an article of faith in the holy Catholic Church that God has not only created the world, but that He sustains and governs it; this preservation and ruling of the whole world and of each individual creature is called Providence. There are people who think that God is too great a Lord to busy Himself about the care of this world, that to do so is beneath His majesty; it was enough for Him to create the world, for the rest, He leaves it to itself or to fate, enjoys His own happiness, and, as it were, sleeps in regard to us. Thus think some, but only the ignorant and impious. Were He as these imagine Him, He would not or could not have aught to do with creation. If He could not, then He is neither all-wise nor almighty, if He would not, then He is not good; and if He knows nothing of the world, then He is not omniscient.
 
If we once believe that God created the world, (and what rational man can doubt it?) then we must also believe He rules and sustains it. Can any work of art, however well constructed and arranged, subsist without some one to take charge of and watch aver the same? Would not the greatest of all master-pieces, the world, therefore come to the greatest confusion and fall back into its original nothingness, if God, who created it from nothing, did not take care of its further order and existence? It is indeed true that the method of Divine Providence with which God controls all things is so mysterious that, when considering some events, one is persuaded to admit a necessary fate, an accident, the course of nature, the ill will of the devil or man, as the fundamental cause. Yet in all this the providence of God is not denied, for nothing does or can happen accidentally, not the smallest thing occurs without the knowledge, permission, or direction of God. Not one sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Matt. X. 29. 30.) Chance, fate, and luck are but the ideas of insane or wicked men, which even the more rational heathens have rejected, and the course of nature is but the constant, uninterrupted, all-wise and bountiful preservation and government of creation through God. The perverted will of men or of the devil is but the instrument which God in His all-wise intention, uses to effect the good, for He knows how to produce good from evil, and, therefore, as St. Augustine says, "permits the evil that the good may not be left undone." If we peruse the history of our first parents, of Abraham, of Joseph in Egypt, of Moses, of the people of Israel, of Job, Ruth, David, Tobias, Esther, Judith and others, we will easily see everywhere the plainest signs of the wisest Providence, the best and most careful, absolute power, by virtue of which God knows how to direct all things according to His desire, and for the good of His chosen ones. The gospel of this day furnishes us an instance of this? Why did Christ go into the boat? Why did a storm arise? Why was He asleep? Did all this occur by accident? No, it came about designedly by the ordinance of Christ that His omnipotence might be seen, and the faith and confidence of His disciples be strengthened.
 
Thus it is certain that God foresees, directs, and governs all; as Scripture, reason, and daily experience prove. Would we but pay more attention to many events of our lives, we would certainly notice the providence of God, and give ourselves up to His guidance and dispensations. The Lord ruleth me, and I shall want nothing, says David. (Ps. XXII. 1.) And we also, we shall want nothing if we resign ourselves to God's will, and are contented with His dispensations in our regard; while, on the contrary, if we oppose His will, we shall fall into misfortune and error. God must rule over us with goodness, or with sternness, He is no slumbering God. Behold! He shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel. (Ps. CXX. 4.)