Naomi Wolf - End of America

I keep hearing that the United States is a "Christian nation" outside of the creepy feeling those words have another meaning, how can this be true when the US treaty with Tripoli saying exactly opposite. This is especially interesting since, at the time, the Founding Father of the Nation were actively participating in government? Notice what Article 11 says. Its an explicit contradiction of the "Christian nation" idea. My understanding is that, for the most part, the Founding Fathers were Deists. Look it up. Its true. Deist basically believe that there is a God and his presence is manifest in nature. They don't believe in a "Revealed Truth". Just so you know.

Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.

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Annals of Congress, 5th Congress

Article 1. There is a firm and perpetual peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary, made by the free consent of both parties, and guarantied by the most potent Dey and Regency of Algiers.

Art. 2. If any goods belonging to any nation with which either of the parties is at war, shall be loaded on board of vessels belonging to the other party, they shall pass free, and no attempt shall be made to take or detain them.

Art. 3. If any citizens , subjects, or effects, belonging to either party, shall be found on board a prize vessel taken from an enemy by the other party, such citizens or subjects shall be set at liberty, and the effects restored to the owners.

Art. 4. Proper passports are to be given to all vessels of both parties, by which they are to be known. And considering the distance between the two countries, eighteen months from the date of this treaty, shall be allowed for procuring such passports. During this interval the other papers, belonging to such vessels, shall be sufficient for their protection.

Art. 5. A citizen or subject of either party having bought a prize vessel, condemned by the other party, or by any other nation, the certificates of condemnation and bill of sale shall be a sufficient passport for such vessel for one year; this being a reasonable time for her to procure a proper passport.

Art. 6. Vessels of either party, putting into the ports of the other, and having need of provisions or other supplies, they shall be furnished at the market price. And if any such vessel shall so put in, from a disaster at sea, and have occasion to repair, she shall be at liberty to land and re-embark her cargo without paying any duties. But in case shall she be compelled to the land her cargo.

Art. 7. Should a vessel of either party be cast on the shore of the other, all proper assistance shall be given to her and her people; no pillage shall be allowed; the property shall remain at the disposition of the owners; and the crew protectedand succored till they can be sent to their country.

Art. 8. If a vessel of either party should be attacked by an enemy, within gun-shot of the forts of the other , she shall be defended as much as possible. If she be in port she shall not be seized on or attacked, when it is in the power of the other party to protect her. And when she proceeds to sea, no enemy shall be allowed to pursue her from the same port, within twenty-four hours after her departure.

Art. 9. The commerce between the United States and Tripoli; the protection to be given to merchants, masters of vessels, and seamen; the reciprocal right of the establishing Consuls in each country; and the privileges, immunities, and jurisdiction, to be on the same footing with those of the most favored nations respectively.

Art. 10. The money and presents demanded by the Bey of Tripoli, as a full and satisfactory consideration on his part, and on the part of his subjects, for this treaty of perpetual peace and friendship, are acknowledged to have been received by him previous to his signing the same, according to a receipt which is hereto annexed, except such as part as is promised, on the part of the United States, to be delivered and paid by them on the arrival of their Consul in Tripoli; of which part a note is likewise hereto annexed. And no pretense of any periodical tribute of further payments is ever to be made by either party.

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Art. 12. In case of any dispute, arising from a violation of any of the articles of this treaty, no appeal shall be made to arms; nor shall war be declared on any pretext whatever. But if the Consul, residing at the place where the dispute shall happen, shall not be able to settle the same, an amicable referrence shall be made to the mutual friend of the parties, the Dey of Algiers; the parties hereby engaging to abide by his decision. And he, by virtue of his signature to this treaty, engages for himself and successors to declare the justice of the case, according to the true interpretation of the treaty, and to use all the means in his power to enforce the observance of the same.

Signed and sealed at Tripoli of Barbary the 3d day of Junad in the year of the Hegira 1211— corresponding with the 4th day of November, 1796, by

JUSSOF BASHAW MAHOMET, Bey.
MAMET, Treasurer.
AMET, Minister of Marine.
SOLIMAN KAYA.
GALIL, General of the Troops.
MAHOMET, Commander of the City.
AMET, Chamberlain.
ALLY, Chief of the Divan.
MAMET, Secretary.

Signed and sealed at Algiers, the 4th day of Argill, 1211—corresponding with the 3d day of
January, 1797, by

HASSAN BASHAW, Dey,

And by the agent Plenipotentiary of the United States of America,

I found a wonderful summation of what I think we face as a society in the West that, if left unchallenged, will ultimately lead to our undoing and I want to share that. This is a speech by Peter Joseph of the Zeitgeist Movement. If you want to know more, check out their websites at:

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/

Peter Joseph: "Where are we going?" Nov. 15th '09 1/2 from peter joseph on Vimeo.

Michael Moore Nails The Health Care Debate

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Richard cage interview sur la chute des Twins Towe

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The local news on KRLD 1080 had a report that the recession is over. I ventured over to shadowstats.com to see what they had to say about the unemployment rate. This is what I found:



If what they meant to say was that the "rate of unemployment is slowing", I don't understand how the equivalent of "I'm going broke slower than I did last year" mean that things are ok now.

Lets Get Real about North Korea

PUTTING THE NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST IN PERSPECTIVE

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June 23, 2009


These days the media is filled with dire warnings about a missile test North Korea plans to conduct in the near future. The headlines read that North Korea will launch the missile "in the direction of" Hawaii, and follow-up stories report how nervous the people living in hawaii are that there may be some additional fireworks on the Fourth of July.

To read the news or watch the TV media you would think the outbreak of a new world war is imminent, waiting only a a replay of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

But let us put things into perspective with a few facts.

The straight line distance between Honolulu and Pyongyang is approximately 7397 kilometers (4596 statute miles).

The specific missile being test fired by North Korea, the Taep'o-dong 2, has two variants. The two stage variant has a range of around 4,000 km (2,500 statute miles) and the three stage variant has an estimated range of 4,500 km (2,800 statute miles). In other words, the missile being test fired by North Korea cannot actually reach Hawaii.

Let me repeat: the missile being test fired by North Korea cannot actually reach Hawaii.

As a side note, the North Koreans have had a great deal of trouble with the multi-stage Taep'o-dong 2. The last test exploded just off the launch pad.

Now, take a look at a map of North Korea.










If North Korea were to launch their test missile to the north, there is a real possibility that it might land on either China or Russia if there is a failure. South might but debris from a mishap into Malaysia, or Australia. Even a successful launch westward would have the missile coming down on occupied lands belonging to other countries.

That leaves East, and while while Japan has a right to be concerned about an over flight of a notoriously cranky launch vehicle, an east launch inevitably points the North Korean missile "in the direction of" Hawaii.

But It means roughly the same thing as "in the direction of" the moon. It might point that way, but reaching it is another target.



Now then, take a look at this stuff.



This material is called Trinitite. It is a piece of desert sand melted into green glass by the heat of the world's first Atomic Bomb, Project TRINITY.

North Korea is not going to attack the United States. North Korea is not a threat to the United States. Neither was Iraq for that matter. Nor Iran. It does not matter whether a foreign nation has a nuclear weapon or not; they will not attack the US and for a simple reason. The US maintains the largest nuclear arsenal on Earth, with warheads, ICBMs, stealth bombers, submarines and so forth. One strike on the US and the US will turn the offending nation into a giant slab of the green glass you see above you. And remember, for all the talk about the "threat" from Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc. one and only one nation has ever actually used nuclear weapons of mass destruction against the civilians of another country, and the nation that has used nuclear weapons to kill civilians.. is the United States

There is another Reason Kim Jong-Il is not going to attack the US. Heads of state have monstrous egos. They dream of statues raised in their honor, of their faces on the coinage and postage, and the last thing they want to do is trigger a war that will kill the future generations that will admire and worship their image on statues, coinage and postage.

Finally, please consider the simple reality of our situation here in the United States. The economy is in dire straights. Between the government-sanctioned exporting of manufacturing to other countries, the repeal of Glas-Steagal, and deregulation, we face the gravest economic crisis in history.

They say that history repeats, and therein lies a motive for the US Government to want a new war. After all, the US Government got out of the depression that resulted from the crash of 1904 by getting into WWI. The US Government got out of the depression that resulted from the crash of 1929 by getting into WWII. Now we are seeing the aftermath of the crash of 2008. If you see an obvious pattern here, rest assured, so does the US Government, which has a long history of using wars to correct, or at least to distract the people from , economic turmoil. From the point of view of Washington DC, it is far better that the taxpayers believe Iran and North Korea are the threat to our way of life, rather than Wall Street and of course, Washington DC itself.

So, the US Government and the servile corporate media are trying to kick up a new war, any war; and in a real-life repeat of Michael Moore's "Canadian Bacon", it doesn't matter who gets attacked! Iraq and Afghanistan are bogged down, and a new war will take the people's minds off of those failures (it is hoped by the DC boys).

So, any enemy will do right now, and North Korea will do just fine, as long as the American people can be tricked into believing that North Korea is a danger to the United States. But we have been down this road before, with Iraq, and therein is the very best reason not to be worried about North Korea, because the people who are trying to claim that North Korea is a danger to you are the very same people who insisted that Saddam had 'nookular' bombs!


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Interview with Sara Palin Supporters

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Iraq SOFA Means a Huge Change is Coming

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Fox News - Israeli Spying- 9/11.. Strange Brew

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