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PUTTING IT ALL INTO PERSPECTIVE
Before the results of the last election were final we saw Republicans celebrating exactly like the Democrats celebrated when they won control of Congress and the Messiah was enthroned at the White House. Conservatives are acting the same way, as if some huge change has occurred and the "Republican are now going to save us!" Seriously,when has either party ever saved us?! The Republicans are just as responsible as the Democrats for the nightmares we find ourselves in.
Truth is, there wasn't much more turnover of incumbents than usual, which is typically about 15%. It appears that most of the turnover occurred because about 40 people decided to retire. This means that 85% of the incumbents that ran again, the same people that have betrayed our trust so many times we can't count, are sill in office!
We threw away another golden opportunity to hold them ALL accountable. WE wasted another chance to FIRE THEM ALL! Far too many of us bought into the left/right paradigm again and failed to see we cannot afford to keep playing "their game." When we do, we lose. It's as certain as trying to beat the odds in Vegas. The House ALWAYS comes out on top when you play their games.
We have to become as ruthless with Congress critters as they are with us. We have to look at the election process with complete dispassion if we want to "actually" throw the bums out. We have to look at elections as a purely utilitarian act necessary to hold members of Congress accountable in the only way that we can, by removing them from office. At this point, it makes no difference who replaces an incumbent. None. What would make a difference is if incumbents were replaced en mass! If we did this just once, the whole game would change in ways we can't even imagine. It would shake up the status quo like nothing else could.
In the next election the powers-that-be will do their best to fixate everyone's attention on the totally controlled presidential race. Most everyone will ignore the heart of the problem, the Congress and become caught up in the presidential circus. The powers-that-be will once again con everyone into believing the most important issue is who the El Presidente is. They do this to drive everyone who still clings to a political identity into their respective camps. The powers-that-be know most people who vote still have strong political identities. Emphasizing the importance of these identities ensures that most of the vote will be split down the middle making most races fairly close, thus easy as pie to rig if necessary. All election results have to be is "believable."
Friends, it's a CON. The whole game is a con aimed at convincing you that political ideology has some real meaning in politics. It doesn't. It's a charade that hides the fact that no matter which party appears to be in power, there is an underlying continuity of agenda that moves forward regardless of which party "seems" to be in control. Overall, both parties endorse and push big government and do nothing to rid government of banking and corporate control. Things have gone so far that there is no longer any meaningful distinction between government and big business. Criminal global banking cartels and their to-big-bail corporations have seized the coercive power of government and are using it to impose their will on us all.
The simple truth is, if Congress was doing its job, the Congress could set everything right. It's not about El Presidente. It's about Congress. The Congress has more power than the executive branch. Sure the President can sign or veto bills but the important point to remember is it all starts with Congress. REMEMBER . . .
Even if the president vetoes a bill, the Congress can override the veto. We have to realize that the Congress encourages fixation on the President so they can pass the buck, blame what they are doing on the Executive branch.
Fact is, Presidents have no Constitutional authority to do most of the things they claim they can do. They can only ask the Congress to do what they want. The Congress could have stopped everything that's happening; the wars, the Wall Street takeover, the TRILLION DOLLAR defense budget they just passed. Our so-called representatives have sold us out so many times it makes my head spin and what do we all do? We not only let them keep their jobs but we also allow them to give themselves a raise for the fine job of screwing us. Last time round they gave themselves a $4,500 raise. When was the last time you got a raise like that? The way we've been holding our representatives accountable is to let them keep their $174,000 a year jobs so they can stick it to us for another two years! In case you're wondering, that's $14,500 a month!
Listen. If we are ever going to get a grip on our government, we're going to have to start acting like the employers that we are. The Congress critters work for US, not the central bankers and transnational corportions. What would you do If you owned a company and none of your employees listened to you, they lied to you, didn't do the jobs you gave them to do, and in fact, were actually working for your competition and selling your company down the river as fast as they could? I don't think you'd keep them on and give them a raise!
Well, that's exactly what we've been doing, only in this case, your company is our Federal Government, and your employees are the 435 members in the House of Representatives and the 100 members of the Senate, virtually all of them working for the criminal global banking cartels and their transnational corporations (the competition). These entities, that have absolutely no allegance to our country, have achieved a hostile takeover of our government on every level and are using the powers of our own government to have their way with us.
What the heck happened to that thing called "the wisdom of the American people?" You don't reward employees that betray you. YOU FIRE THEM! It's the most obvious and immediate remedy. You don't worry that their replacement may turn out to be as bad. In fact, it's much less likely the replacements will be as bad when they know you will not tolerate such things, that you will not hesitate to fire anyone that lies and betrays your trust. Employees are far more likely to toe the line and actually do their jobs as best they can when they know they can't get away with anything less.
Of course, no analogy is perfect. This one breaks down in the sense that a company couldn't actually fire everyone all at once unless the entire company shut down. Lucky for us, our Congress isn't engaged in actually producing goods or services (the bureaucracies that Congress has set up handle all government services). All Congress does is enact laws and authorize spending. It's just the legislative branch of government. We could easily go without any new laws authored by "corporate/special interest" for quite some time. So in this case, firing a large number of traitorous Congressional employees is imminently doable and quite frankly is the only thing we can do to slam the brakes on the corporate driven freight train that is railroading all of us into a nation ruled by corporate colonialism.
There are people we have elected to Congress who have been there 10, 20, 30, 40, even over 50 years! Our Congress has been betraying our trust and selling us out for generations. They not only suffer no consequences for what they've done; they've benefited greatly from their wheeling and dealing. They take an oath to protect our best interests and defend our rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and yet they make a mockery of that oath.
Republicans and Democrats take the exact same oath of office and very few of them take it seriously.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
There are several very good reasons we make them all take this oath. The primary reason is to make it CRYSTAL CLEAR that the job we're hiring them to do is to make sure nothing unconstitutional happens. I read a quote the other day attributed to Senator John Glenn in which he said somthing to the effect, "If we had to apply the Constitution to all the legislation that passes before us, we wouldn't be able to pass anything."
This is the whole point of the Constitution. If followed, it limits the ability of the Federal government to tax, regulate and control our lives. THIS is the job we're hiring representatives to do for us. We're not hiring them to crank out endless streams of legislation - most of which only benefits selfish private interests.
Also, strict adherence to the Constitution is the ONLY thing that makes it a LOT harder for those with the most wealth to seize the powers of government and use it for their own selfish purposes. Our Congress has totally abdicated their responsibilities and handed the powers of government over to corporate interests that have absolutely no allegiance to this nation, to the Constitution, and certainly not to playing fair. Both major political parties are complicit. They have shredded the Constitution and Bill of Rights and are about to blow the Constitutional Confetti into the air as they celebrate "closing the deal" with their "real employers," the transnational corporate interests that have orchestrated the whole mess.
The dominant ideologies of the most destructive and powerful transnational corporations are predatory and tyrannical in nature. The notion that they are even remotely interested in such things as "free trade," or democracy flies in the face of basic common sense. The corporations wreaking the most havoc on this planet, the central banks, the military, medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and energy industrial complexes, have set up monopolies and cartels by using the powers of government to legislate and regulate the industries they wish to control. The people inclined to abuse their wealth and power do what they always have done throughout history. They TAKE the most, give the least, and don't give a damn about the rest of humanity.
There is a mountain of evidence, a small fraction of it is posted on this web site, to prove that powerful transnational corporations, through their control of our election process, the legislative powers of government, the courts, the international treaty process, the world's currencies and of course, virtually total control of our mainstream media, have just about totally taken over our country. If we don't take control of Congress away from them, and fast, by a massive act of civil disobedience like this project is proposing (by not voting the way they want us to), we are simply not going to survive as a nation much longer the way things are going.
What sense does it make to allow the vast majority of people in Congress to remain there for one second longer than absolutely necessary? There is an endless stream of people pissing and moaning about how Congress is screwing us up one side and down the other and yet nobody will do a damn thing to MAKE SURE they all get voted out of office. If we don't make a point of doing just that, most all of them will get reelected yet again and they will most certainly give themselves another raise for the fine job of screwing us they've been doing. Then they will wrap up the task of destroying this country for the International Bankers, the people they really work for. We pay their salaries and the Bankers reap all the rewards. It's INSANE to allow any of the people to remain in Congress!
So here's the bottom line. If you're one of those people that is screaming and yelling and complaining about what the Congress is doing to us all, and you are not helping to make sure the people doing it are removed from office, then what's the point of all the complaining? At the very least, don't you think holding them accountable should mean the people WE KNOW ARE BETRAYING US lose their seat in Congress?
If most people continue to vote the way they usually do, in a way that allows most incumbents to be reelected, how are we holding any of them accountable for anything? We need your help to convince enough voters to vote differently, to deliberately vote for an incumbent's strongest competitor in order to make sure the incumbent will be voted out of office. We need you to help us convince enough voters to Vote for America in the upcoming election, not a political party.
We can totally hijack the upcoming election and use the
power of our votes to effect sweeping change NOW!
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by first "doing what's necessary."
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VIDEO: This
is the documentary that inspired the Kick Them All Out Project. This information
is so unbelievably disturbing that I'll be amazed if you don’t feel inspired
to get off your rear and help us do something to stop these global control freaks.
The startling history of how corporations subverted the Constitution
and opened the door to the takeover of our government and practically everything
else as well.
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ARTICLE: There
are more non-voters than voters. If you all you non-voters would download
this form and register to vote, and show up at the polls to VOTE ALL THE
INCUMBENTS OUT OF OFFICE we could pull this off!!
VIDEO/AUDIO: Jim
Condit presents a simple and powerful strategy we need to follow in order establish
fair and honest elections and get rid of the party leadership that has totally
corrupted the election process.
VIDEO: We've
all heard it said many, many times but this video presents it with a lively dialog
and great photos. It's a FACT that the drama of politics is no more real than
professional wresting.
Only an alert and well-informed population
is capable of ensuring our liberties and freedoms are preserved. This
section contains videos covering a wide range of topics and perspectives you
won't find in the main stream media. This
library will provide you with a well rounded education in record time!
ARTICLE: Why
is Ron Paul America’s last chance? Because he is the only candidate who
is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by the military-security complex, Wall Street,
and the Israel Lobby.
VIDEO: Robert
Welch, Founder of The John Birch Society, predicted today's problems with uncanny
accuracy back in 1958 and prescribed solutions in 1974 that are very similar
to Ron Paul's positions today.
VIDEO: This
is a beautifully written video that perfectly sums up a critical history of the
Untied States, were we are because of it and what we must do about it NOW!
ARTICLE:How
often have you heard people refer to America as a Democracy? When was the last
time that you heard America referred to as a Republic, yet . . . a Constitutional
Republic?
ARTICLE: The
export of fuel in 2011 from U.S. refiners topped the markets at 117 million gallons
per day of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products, up from 40
million gallons per day a decade earlier. For the first time in our history gas
and oil EXPORTS were the top of the export list although they have been in the
top ten exports for years!
VIDEO:Iranian
Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity
and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not
achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."
VIDEO:We
all know special interest lobbying is a huge problem in our government. This
video presents some enlightening information about the fact that the influence
of special interests reach far beyond lobbying.
ARTICLE:Between
TARP (only $700 Billion) and the FED bailouts ($16 TRILLION) the Banks have already
received from all of us enough money to pay off every mortgage, credit card,
student loan, auto loan and every other kind of debt allegedly owed to them.
ARTICLE/VIDEO: The
answer is your county sheriff. Ultimately, he is the one who will decide what
is and what is not enforced in your county. He has the authority and is oath
bound duty to interpose himself on your behalf to protect you from all enemies
both foreign and domestic. He is the people's protector.
ARTICLE:Poll
after poll has found that Americans are extremely disillusioned with the federal
government, regardless of their political affiliation, after the president signed
an agreement over the federal debt ceiling and budget deficit.
ARTICLE:The
banking system we are forced to use is absolutely corrupt from top to bottom.
This system provides a handful of the worst kind of people the single largest
unfair advantage against everyone else ever devised. It also provides the single
most powerful means to enslave humanity.
ARTICLE: Zionism
means Rothschild just as Israel means Rothschild. When we see the extraordinary
number of Zionists in key positions around the world we are looking not at 'manipulating
Jews', but manipulating Zionists representing the interests and demands of the
Rothschilds.
ARTICLE: Millions.
Billions. Trillions! This article shows you exactly what kind of money our out-of-control
government and out-of-control bankers are using to advance their sick agendas,
while we are expected to foot the bill.
VIDEO:This
is a scene from the HBO mini-series John Adams that depicts the adoption of the
Declaration of Independence, where our founding fathers voted for revolution
rather than continued tyranny from England.
ARTICLE:The
sheriff absolutely has the power and responsiblity to defend his citizens against
all enemies, including those from our own Federal Government. You need to make
sure your Sheriff knows what his authority and duty is!
VIDEO:If
you want to truly understand the Israel/Palestinian conflict you must understand
the truth about the creation of the State of Israel. This eye opening presentation
provides the truth about the situation.
VIDEOS:Interview
with Scholar and Journalist, Mark Bruzonsky Mark Bruzonsky, a Jewish-American
Scholar and Journalist, has been a key member behind the scenes of the Israeli
Palestinian peace initiative in the 1980s, meeting with Former Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat and with Palestinian officials.
VIDEO: The
amusing Uncle Jay describes exactly how much work our DO NOTHING Congress actually
does for the enormous amount of money they get paid, almost $14,500 a month!
ARTICLE: There
can be change no change with the same incumbents. You see, these craven crooks
in Congress don't give a tinker's damn what you and I want.
VIDEO:If
you haven't revisited the events of 9-11, this short 14 minute video will show
it to you again from entirely new perspectives. You'll clearly see the official
story we were told just doesn't make sense.
VIDEO: Learn
from 43 brave men and women as they share with you their compelling and convincing
professional expertise and insights about the events of 9/11.
VIDEO: Ralph
Nader and a panel of experts who saw much of the fallout from September 11 up
close held a panel in northwest DC to talk about how the government responded
to the tragedies—and how that response continues to undermine crucial democratic
institutions.
VIDEO: Major
General Albert Stubblebine talks, in no uncertain terms about the Pentagon attack
and 9-11. The General makes it clear that the official story about what happened
on 9-11 is pure fabrication.
ARTICLE: There
is now uncontrovertible proof that the dust from the Twin Towers and Building
Seven of the World Trade Center contains small intact samples of Thermite.
VIDEO: Did
you know the day before 9-11 our beloved Donald Rumsfeld announced our new enemy
was the Pentagon Bureaucracy!? 2.3 TRILLION had gone missing!
ARTICLE:The
World Wildlife Fund has released a report which calls for all carbon emissions
to be banned by 2050 and for the entire human population to live in a state of
poverty in the name of preserving rare species and saving the planet.
VIDEO: "Why
in the World are They Spraying?" is an investigative documentary into one of
the many agendas associated with chemtrail/geoengineering programs, "weather
control"
ARTICLE:As
set out in the Rules of the Republican Party, delegates have the ability to vote
according to the delegates’ preference, even if that is contrary to the
outcome of each state’s primary.
ARTICLE: Senator
Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported … and urged Japan to accept international help to stabilize dangerous
spent fuel pools. An international coalition of nuclear scientists and non-profit
groups are calling on the U.N. to coordinate a multi-national effort to stabilize
the fuel pools. And see this. Fuel pool number 4 is, indeed, the top short-term
threat facing humanity.
ARTICLE:Pentagon
officials recently disclosed to the Associated Press (AP) that they could not
find any photo or video evidence to confirm that Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden
was killed in the Navy Seal raid in Pakistan a year ago.
VIDEO: The
Health Ranger, Mike Adams, explains how studies in cell research have demonstrated
the mechanism by which micro RNA from genetically engineered foods may alter
organ function in humans.
VIDEO: General
Motors is becoming China Motors. Forget the spin. The evidence is clear and convincing.
Did U.S. taxpayers save GM for China? Listen to the candid comments of GM's CEO.
ARTICLE:The
FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that
would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build
in backdoors for government surveillance.
ARTICLE:Tasers
subject their victims to a 50,000 volt shock followed by 100 microsecond pulses
of 1,200 volts. Since 2001, more than 500 people in the United States have died
after law enforcement officers used this weapon against them.
ARTICLE:A
leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking
plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into
developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison
camps inside the United States.
ARTICLE:“It’s
time to END the TSA and get the government’s hands back to only stealing
our wallets instead of groping toddlers and grandmothers,” says Paul in
the statement.
VIDEO/ARTICLE:Gaia'
scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was 'alarmist' about climate change & so
was Gore! 'The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought
we knew 20 years ago.'
ARTICLE:No
American Would Have Any Privacy Left …There Would Be No Place To Hide.
If A Dictator Ever Took Over, The N.S.A. Could Enable It To Impose Total Tyranny,
And There Would Be No Way To Fight Back.
ARTICLE:Monsanto, being
blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of
the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland
with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s
genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population.
ARTICLE:Early
last year, leaked documents obtained by a Colorado beekeeper exposed the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) illegitimate approval of clothianidin,
a highly-toxic pesticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience that the regulatory
agency knew was capable of killing off bees.
ARTICLE:Section
31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event
Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for
civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so.
ARTICLE: Efforts
to pass a bill that would allow the IRS to deny travel rights to U.S. citizens
who the feds merely claim owe $50,000 or more in delinquent taxes represents
a de facto move to revoke the citizenship of Americans without due process and
in complete violation of the Constitution.
ARTICLE: The
Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth
Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska
County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Suddenly traditional
livestock are invasive species.
ARTICLE: Since
the end of 2008, the island’s banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13
percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter
of the population, according to a report published this month by the Icelandic
Financial Services Association.
ARTICLE: Taking
an audacious and shocking angle against the constitutional eligibility mandate,
Obama’s lawyer, Alexandra Hill, admitted that the image of Obama’s
birth certificate was a forgery and made the absurd claim that, therefore, it
cannot be used as evidence to confirm his lack of natural born citizenship status.
Therefore, she argued, it is “irrelevant to his placement on the ballot”.
ARTICLE/VIDEO:Every
time a government bureaucracy is set up this is what happens. They grow and grow
WAY outside their intended purpose. What the hell does this have to do with the
reason DHS was supposedly so urgently needed?
ARTICLE: Eventually
the sham is going to give, and the latest letter signed by 50 NASA experts, with
more than 1000 years of combined professional experience, is a sure sign the
gig’s about over.
ARTICLE: The
development of a new microchip for cell phones that knows the user’s location
to within a few centimeters confirms the fact that contrary to biblical fears
about mandatory implantable microchips, people have willingly exchanged their
privacy for convenience and that the cell phone itself is the de facto “mark
of the beast”.
ARTICLE: A
new review published in the journal Public Library of Science ONE confirms that
Pandemrix, a swine flu vaccine produced by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),
is responsible for causing an up to 1700 percent increase in narcolepsy among
children and teenagers under 17 years of age.
ARTICLE:Maybe
you’ve heard of it and maybe you haven’t, but in Bluffdale, Utah
alongside one of the largest polygamist sects in America, the NSA is building
a one-million-square-foot data collection center — five times the size
of the U.S. capital.
ARTICLE: Republican
Governor Mitch Daniels has signed Senate Enrolled Act 1 into law in Indiana.
The new law allows citizens to use deadly force against police officers they
think are illegally entering their homes.
ARTICLE: The
FDA has revealed that, contrary to this widely-held belief, thimerosal is actually
still present in many batch vaccines, including in the annual influenza vaccine
that is now administered to children as young as six months old.
VIDEO:The
Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led
by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local
government in August 1946.
ARTICLE: By
now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street
allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more.
ARTICLE: Wired
blows the lid off plans for a massive new National Security Agency data center
in Utah that represents the resurrection of a program that Congress killed in
2003, known as “Total Information
Awareness,” targeting literally all electronic communications all over
the world — including those made by American citizens.
Most people don't know the Federal Reserve is controlled by the largest private banks. They are using their control of the Fed to destroy the dollar, our economy and wipe out the middle class so they can replace it with a system and currency they have even MORE control of. If we don't shut down the bankers, the Federal Reserve, this nation is history! The Congress can REPEAL THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT and return control over our currency to "We The People." We have to take back control of Congress and DEMAND THIS HAPPEN in the upcoming election!