Five ATF officials found responsible for Fast and Furious
Richard A. Serrano
LA Times
Republican congressional investigators have concluded that five senior ATF officials — from the special agent-in-charge of the Phoenix field office to the top man in the bureau’s Washington headquarters — are collectively responsible for the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation that was “marred by missteps, poor judgments and inherently reckless strategy.”
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Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012
Michael Bastasch
Daily Caller
Facing declining demand for electricity and stiff federal environmental regulations, coal plant operators are planning to retire 175 coal-fired generators, or 8.5 percent of the total coal-fired capacity in the United States, according to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
A record-high 57 generators will shut down in 2012, representing 9 gigawatts of electrical capacity, according to EIA. In 2015, nearly 10 gigawatts of capacity from 61 coal-fired generators will be retired.
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Retailers Ready To Force Consumers To Pay ‘Swipe Fee’ For Using Plastic
newyork.cbslocal.com
Every time you use your credit card, the store pays up to 3 percent of your total purchase to the credit card company. It’s called a “swipe fee” and now some fed-up retailers are getting ready to pass this cost on to you, in the form of a surcharge.
While others want to reward you for paying with cash.
Paper or plastic? It’s a simple choice, but it’s about to get a lot more complicated, CBS 2’s Emily Smith reported.
“You’re going to start to see retailers really weighing what they’re going to charge consumers for using a credit card,” said Kelli Grant of Smart Money magazine.
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American Secret Trade Deal TPP. Complete take over of a country by corporations.
Our founding fathers warned us about a central bank taking control of the countries money. The federal reserve is a private company.
This is what happens when banks take control of a country
If your an American and own a car you better beware they have plans to tax you for every mile you drive. They already tax drivers in Europe. They have attempted before to tax Americans for every mile they drive but the public voted it down.
Guess what, it’s back again. California is attempting some tests to decide on taxing drivers per mile. These tests have already been done in Europe. Their is no reason for this waste of tax dollars. This is agenda 21. Your future is being taxed to death. Sanfrancisco is playing with the tax for every mile driven. Americans must get a head of this and put a stop to it. They already tax you with a gasoline tax which is suppose to fix roads and they add a toll fee on top of it. Wake up America your being raped. Check out HR Bill HR 7 it requires every state to have tool roads.
HR 7 – SEC. 1204. TOLLING. All States must have a toll section plan under HR 7
(a) Amendment to Tolling Provision- Section 129(a) is amended to read as follows:
(a) Basic Program-
(1) AUTHORIZATION FOR FEDERAL PARTICIPATION- Subject to the provisions of this section, Federal participation shall be permitted on the same basis and in the same manner as construction of toll-free highways is permitted under this chapter in the–
(A) initial construction of a toll highway, bridge, or tunnel or approach thereto;
(B) initial construction of one or more lanes or other improvements that increase capacity of a highway, bridge, or tunnel (other than a highway on the Interstate System) and conversion of that highway, bridge, or tunnel to a tolled facility;
(C) initial construction of one or more lanes or other improvements that increase the capacity of a highway, bridge, or tunnel on the Interstate System and conversion of that highway, bridge, or tunnel to a tolled facility, if the number of toll-free non-HOV lanes, excluding auxiliary lanes, after such construction is not less than the number of toll-free non-HOV lanes, excluding auxiliary lanes, before such construction;
(D) reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement of a toll highway, bridge, or tunnel or approach thereto;
(E) reconstruction or replacement of a toll-free bridge or tunnel and conversion of the bridge or tunnel to a toll facility;
(F) reconstruction, restoration, or rehabilitation of a toll-free Federal-aid highway (other than a highway on the Interstate System) and conversion of the highway to a toll facility;
(G) reconstruction, restoration, or rehabilitation of a highway on the Interstate System if the number of toll-free non-HOV lanes, excluding auxiliary lanes, after reconstruction, restoration, or rehabilitation is not less than the number of toll-free non-HOV lanes, excluding auxiliary lanes, before reconstruction, restoration or rehabilitation;
(H) conversion of a high occupancy vehicle lane on a highway, bridge, or tunnel to a toll facility; and
(I) preliminary studies to determine the feasibility of a toll facility for which Federal participation is authorized under this paragraph.
HR-7 Also states foreign companies can build and run all these tolls on the state roads.
Americans great 2nd great depression coming soon.
A West Virginia man is accused of making his wife a slave for 10 years.
The other foreclosure crisis: Losing a home for $400 in back taxes
By Les Christie @CNNMoney
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – People are losing their homes over unpaid tax bills that, in some cases, add up to just a few hundred dollars.
Outdated state laws that allow local governments to sell tax liens on delinquent properties to investors in order to more quickly collect on overdue property taxes is sparking a second “foreclosure crisis,” a report from the National Consumer Law Center said Tuesday.
When homeowners don’t pay property taxes or other municipal bills, like water or sewer fees, local governments have less money to maintain services like schools, police and fire departments and road maintenance. By selling tax liens, those governments can collect on what it is owed.
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Americans are not free to have bible study in Phoenix Arizona.
Father of six faces 60 days behind bars for hosting Bible study in his OWN home against city rules
By Snejana Farberov
Daily Mail
A Phoenix man has been sentenced to two months in jail, three years’ probation and more than $12,000 in fines for using his private home to host weekly Bible studies in violation of the city’s building codes.
‘They’re cracking down on religious activities and religious use,’ Michael Salman told Fox News Radio. ‘They’re attacking what I as a Christian do in the privacy of my home.’
However, the Phoenix city prosecutors’ office has insisted that the issue has to do with public safety, not religion.
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UPDATE California bans home bible study without permit. But it’s still OK for Monday night football parties, showers, birthday parties for now but, sooner or later you will need a permit to have a certain amount of people in your home. Bible study banned in California Without Permit
Amtrak Subsidies 24 cents per mile with tax payers dollars
California OKs funding for high-speed rail line
Take a ride on Amtrak Lincoln Service
By JUDY LIN
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California lawmakers approved billions of dollars Friday in construction financing for the initial segment of the nation’s first dedicated high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The move marked a major political victory for Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the Obama administration. Both have promoted bullet trains as job generators and clean transportation alternatives.
“No economy can grow faster than its transportation network allows,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement applauding the legislative vote. “With highways between California cities congested and airspace at a premium, Californians desperately need an alternative.”
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American Highways Given To Foreign Companies Bill HR 7 plans to parcel off and sell out entire sectors of America’s infrastructure to foreign companies. HR 7 would put tolls on all state roads in America. Currently tax payers pay for roads through the gasoline taxes. The Traitor Politicians want to divert the gasoline tax dollars to the transportation and highway Trust account at the IMF. (IMF Lends money to Countries around the world and puts them in debt) Of course, that trust fund, just like Social Security has been raided continually by the federal government since its inception leaving a negative balance for that particular identified revenue stream. The money the federal government invested in the original construction of these highways and freeways was garnered from individual taxes and was not taken from some non-existent private account owned by the Fed.
The Fed has no money of its own.
HR 7 will effectively end our right to travel freely by making the cost of travel so expensive, that we won’t travel.
From www.texasturf.org Texas Turf:
It’s been 7 years since Congress passed the last federal highway bill. Now its racing through Congress at the speed of light — why? Because they want to sell-off our public roads to private corporations, raise your taxes through tolls, and lift the ban on imposing tolls on existing highways. There are 500 toll projects being contemplated in Texas alone!
An amendment to allow tolls on ALL existing interstates in all 50 states is expected to be presented on the floor by Senator Carper of Delaware. Imposing tolls on existing freeways is a massive DOUBLE TAX — charging motorists an additional tax, a toll, to use what they’ve already built and paid for! They also are proposing taxing people by the mile they drive but, that is a side issue at this time.
The current House Bill, HR 7, only bans tolls on existing FEDERAL interstates. It GUTS the ban on imposing tolls on existing STATE highways — a ban that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison put in place for Texas since 2007. The fate our public freeway system is under attack!
URGENTACTION ITEM
STEP 1 -
Call Senator John Cornyn and ask him to support the Hutchison ban on tolling existing STATE and FEDERAL freeways and to STRIP PPPs & TIFIA loans OUT of the transportation bill .
Call Cornyn’s office at 202-224-2934 & email him here.
STEP 2 –
Call your member of Congress and ask him/her to ADD the Hutchison “Freedom from Tolls” Amendment to ban tolling existing freeways – BOTH state and federal – to HR 7 and STRIP PPPs & TIFIA loans OUT of the transportation bill.
Find out who your member of Congress is here or call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
Sneaky new tax
Government has figured out that instead of solving congestion, they can manipulate it for a profit (by keeping your free lanes congested and forcing people to pay a premium to get mobility). They’re terrified to raise the gas tax, but have no problem imposing tolls on all new capacity to our roads, even on EXISTING lanes that we travel today without tolls.
It costs 1-2 cents per mile to travel a gas tax funded freeway, but anywhere from 20 cents a mile up to 75 cents per mile to use a toll lane. It’s an explosion in our cost to travel. A gas tax funded road costs PENNIES a day, a toll road costs DOLLARS a day and THOUSANDS more in new taxes per year.
The way toll roads are being financed today, ALL Americans are paying to build them through subsidies of taxpayer money like gas tax, but you won’t be able to use them without paying a toll, too (a DOUBLE TAX)! So whether you can afford to take these toll lanes or not, you’re paying for them. This notion that tolls are user fees is a myth when you look at how heavily they’re subsidized by ALL taxpayers. You’re also paying for them through a higher cost of goods that gets passed onto consumers.
Selling us out
Both the House and Senate versions of the federal highway bill, dubbed the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, include public private partnerships (or PPPs) that sell-off our public roads to private corporations in 50-99 year government-sanctioned toll road monopolies. PPPs use heaps of public money to socialize the losses, while they privatize and GUARANTEE profits for the private operators.
Columnist Michelle Malkin calls PPPs ‘corporate welfare.’ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were some of the first PPPs and eventually caused the sub-prime mortgage crisis and subsequent $1 trillion dollar taxpayer BAILOUT!
The TIFIA loan program is a HUGE source of funds used to subsidize ill-conceived toll roads that can’t pay for themselves. It’s the primary pot of taxpayer money given to these private, foreign corporations seeking to takeover our U.S. highways using public private partnership toll road contracts.
NOTE: The first TIFIA loan was awarded to a private consortium in a PPP deal on the South Bay Expressway in San Diego. It went bankrupt less than three years later due to traffic projections that were off by over 40,000 cars per day! Taxpayers had to accept a write-down of nearly $80 million of a $172 million federal TIFIA loan in yet another taxpayer bailout for private corporations.
The TIFIA loan program is all BORROWED money from the Federal Reserve, so who will have to bailout these toll roads when the cars don’t show up as they didn’t in San Diego along with other projects across the country? YOU and me, the taxpayer.
Think about it – PPPs give private corporations the power to TAX! They are granted the power to levy unlimited toll taxes on the traveling public – and we can’t hold corporations accountable like we can politicians at the ballot box. This is why politicians LOVE PPPs. They get to OUTSOURCE the taxation to their special interest buddies and makes us pay back our own money with interest through tolls!
Rather than get rid of the failed TIFIA loan program, the federal highway bill INCREASES TIFIA funding by nearly TEN times from $100/yr to $1 BILLION/yr. Current law requires the taxpayers to be paid back first, now in the bill as written, private interests would get paid back first and taxpayers would be paid back last.
PPPs also contain non-compete clauses that prohibit or penalize the expansion of free roads surrounding the privatized toll roads, guaranteeing congestion on the free routes.
Also, PPP toll contracts allow private entities to benefit from the use of eminent domain, and they result in toll rates as high as 75 cents a mile. That’s like adding $15 to every gallon of gas you buy!
Note: Europe has cars that travel 75 miles per gallon. These cars are banned in the United States because the government makes money by how much gasoline you buy. If everyone had a car that traveled 75 miles per gallon they would lose much needed tax revenue. Some of these cars are manufactured in the United States and are exported to places in South America. The over all goal is to make transportation expensive for as many people as possible. Once toll roads are in place everywhere, they will allow cars that can travel 75 miles per gallon. As for side roads and local driving that will be taxed by the mile you drive. This is all part of Agenda 21.
Mitch Daniels and The Indiana Toll Road, officially the Indiana East–West Toll Road, is a toll road that runs for 157 miles (253 km) east–west across northern Indiana from the Illinois state line to the Ohio state line. It has been advertised as the “Main Street of the Midwest”.
It is owned by the Indiana Finance Authority and operated by the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company, a joint-venture between Spanish Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte and Australian Macquarie Atlas Roads.
Governor Mitch Daniels leased the toll road for 75 years to an Australian-Spanish consortium for an upfront payment of $3.8 billion. Part of the proceeds will fund a portion of the planned extension of I-69 through southwestern Indiana. Your Gasoline tax will go to the IMF. And no longer build roads as it was intended to do. Your tolls will build roads and your gasoline tax is robbed of you and sent to the IMF. Stolen to the bankers.
Interste 80 interstate 90 was built with your gasoline tax, that’s why you pay a gasoline tax. Toll roads are corporate welfare.
We are all American slaves. The new world order has almost complete control today. People are becoming debt slaves. People are ordered to buy things from their governments or, pay the penalty which is actually a tax, as in Obama care. Europe is being reformed by the new economy and global war is around the corner. The Federal reserve has full control along with the central banks of the world. Listen in their own words. We are all slaves now.
The new world is planned get prepared world
The American dream is still alive for now. If things keep going the way they are and, the same socialist people keep getting voted in, the dream will be gone or, stolen from you. Which takes us back to the 1990′s. Under the Clinton administration they began to loosen up requirements for home buyers, more so for minorities and, did away with the Glass Steagall act which allows bankers to basically gamble money. This was the beginning, the flood gates opened up. With each passing year the restrictions became less and less, just about anyone could buy a home. Even Obama, with his socialist and community organizer back ground threatened banks with lawsuits to sell homes to people who were not qualified. I remember driving across the country in 2004 and noticing areas where homes were being built as far as the eye could see. I even stated, who is going to live there? where are the jobs in this area that would allow anyone to afford these homes. As we found out, it didn’t matter if you had a job, besides, the bankers had a plan just for you.
Mr and Mrs Smith would go to the banker and apply for a bank loan for a home, the banker would say great! here is the papers, fill these out. Mr Banker would say ” well, your income is a little low but we can tweak it and, make it look better”. Which they did. Then Mr banker would come back to them and say look, we can approve your loan for $250,000 dollars but, you should probably get a loan for $400,000 dollars because your approved up to that amount and, remember houses always go up in value. Mr and Mrs Smith said why not. Then Mr Banker would say your monthly payment will fall every 34 days. You have until the 4th of each month to have the payment in. No problem said the Smiths with excitement of getting a new home and, a banker who was actually helping them, so they thought.
After so many years or sooner, the Smiths get a letter from the bank stating they are behind on their mortgage and the interest rate doubled. This cant be says the Smiths. Yes it is says the banker, your 34 days was changed to 30 days and, your payment came in on the 33 day which makes the contract change as you signed it. But you didn’t tell us it was changed to 30 days! it don’t matter says the banker, we did not have to tell you, here, read the fine print. Needless to say the Smiths could not afford the house payment anymore and, were kicked to the curb. This was repeated on many people over and over. Meanwhile, the banks behind this fraud and, the fraud of lending to anyone,claimed they were broke. Dead beats stopped paying on their homes screamed the banks and, we want our money. The banks and the government work hand and hand, they are partners actually. The federal reserve is a private company and, protected by Congress but, the federal reserve runs Congress. The banks claimed if they didn’t get a bail out their would be riots in the streets. This is what congress people stated the federal reserve told them. The federal reserve is a private company that issues the bank notes or money. They told congress if they didn’t get a bail out by tax payers they would not loan to anyone. And they didn’t loan to anyone. The same trick they did to start the great depression along with, calling in all loans which they knew the people couldn’t pay.
Since the banks would not loan money to businesses the economy shrunk. Which caused massive unemployment on top of the housing crisis, which made things worse for the average working person. It was a pincer move by the international bankers who run the Federal Reserve. The bankers stole the American dream by deceit and evilness.
Congress gave the bankers the money they wanted, even though they needed not. Since these are the bankers who run the federal reserve and, the whole American economy the Congress backed down. Congress could easily kicked the bankers out of federal reserve and, go back to how the US banking system was meant to be. So what happened? the Government borrowed money from the very bankers who caused the problems, those in the federal reserve and, signed every American citizen on to more debt. When the government borrows money from the Federal Reserve they borrow it with interest. Who pays for the amount of the loan and the interest on the loan, the tax payer. It has become a pattern for bankers to do this to the American people every 60 or 70 years. We were warned by our forefathers of any central bank run by foreigners or anyone that this would happen if it was not run by the people.
There were a few who went on the main stream news warning of this housing collapse, they were laughed at and, basically never asked back. The damage done was a socialists utopia dream. It’s no secret that they plan to destroy the USA from the inside by debt. They write it in their books and, many of them are czars to Obama or, exposed and gone like Van Jones.
American Dream taken over by threatening Bankers the new world order
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