http://www.squidoo.com/Proverbs-29
“4 By justice a king gives a country stability, but one who is greedy for bribes tears it down.
5 Whoever flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his feet.
6 An evil man is snared by his own sin, but a righteous one can sing and be glad.
7 The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdztacB5Dk
Press TV /News Analysis/US Banking System Continue to Deteriorate/ 24 /10 /2009
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=18611
From etc: “The nation’s preeminent seniors group, AARP, has put the weight of its 40 million members behind health care reform, saying many of the proposals will lower costs and increase the quality of care for older Americans. But not advertised in this lobbying campaign have been the group’s substantial earnings from insurance royalties and the potential benefits that could come its way from many of the reform proposals, says the Washington Post.
Consider:
* The group and its subsidiaries collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name, accounting for the majority of its $1.14 billion in revenue, according to federal tax records.
* It does not directly sell insurance policies but lends its name to plans in exchange for a tax-exempt cut of the premiums.
* AARP also heavily markets the policies on its Web site, in mailings to its members and through ubiquitous advertising targeted at seniors.
The group’s dual role as an insurance reformer and a broker has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks from congressional Republicans, who accuse it of having a conflict of interest in taking sides in the fierce debate over health insurance. Three House Republicans sent a letter to AARP on Monday complaining that the group was putting its “political self-interests” ahead of seniors.”
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html
Stumbler Yoza correctly informs us that “This is the original Propaganda book by Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud). It is to the PR industry what Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was to the field of economics. Two of Edward Bernay’s greatest PR ‘successes’ were: convincing woman smoking was acceptable and cool; running the PR campaign for the United Fruit Company which led to the CIA participating in the overthrow of the mildly reformist government in Guatemala and the instalment of a vicious dictatorship.
From the Page: “Undoubtedly the public is becoming aware of the methods which are being used to mold its opinions and habits. If the public is better informed about the processes of its own life, it will be so much the more receptive to reasonable appeals to its own interests. No matter how sophisticated, how cynical the public may become about publicity methods, it must respond to the basic appeals, because it will always need food, crave amusement, long for beauty, respond to leadership.
If the public becomes more intelligent in its commercial demands, commercial firms will meet the new standards. If it becomes weary of the old methods used to persuade it to accept a given idea or commodity, its leaders will present their appeals more intelligently.
Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125668489932511683.html
” In a stark reminder of how some battered financial firms remain dependent on government lifelines, GMAC Financial Services Inc. and the Treasury Department are in advanced talks to prop up the lender with its third helping of taxpayer money, people familiar with the matter said.
The U.S. government is likely to inject $2.8 billion to $5.6 billion of capital into the Detroit company, on top of the $12.5 billion that GMAC has received since December 2008, these people said. The latest infusion would come in the form of preferred stock. The government’s 35.4% stake in the company could increase if …”
http://www.newswithviews.com/Betty/Freauf150.htm
Glen Beck has already been exposed as a wolf in sheeple’s clothing. I suspect he knows the truth, but is out to milk both the establishment and the alternative news public.. Bottom line, he’s a fake phony fraud.
And yes, McCarthy was right. If only he had the intell available to him at the time to expose Beck & Cronkite’s leftist-journalist-daddy, Ed Morrow.
Glen Beck has already been exposed as a wolf in sheeple’s clothing. I suspect he knows the truth, but is out to milk both the establishment and the alternative news public.. Bottom line, he’s a fake phony fraud.
And yes, McCarthy was right. If only he had the intell available to him at the time to expose Beck & Cronkite’s leftist-journalist daddy, Ed Morrow.
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“One of the participants was state Rep. Sean Jerguson (R-Holly Springs), a Georgiacarry member, who said he believes so strongly in gun ownership that, when his daughter turned 4 years old, he gave her a “pink .22.” His son was about to turn the same age, and would get a blue one, the lawmaker said.
But the focus was on three candidates for governor: State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, state Rep. Austin Scott of Tifton, and Ray McBerry of McDonough. A stand-in appeared for Secretary of State Karen Handel. Libertarian candidate John Mond also attended.
Oxendine told the gun crowd that he thought licensed carriers should be allowed to pack heat “virtually” anywhere – except for courtrooms, prisons and jails.
“I wouldn’t feel bad at all if someone wanted to carry a gun in the Governor’s Mansion. We may go out on the back porch and shoot a few wine bottles or something,” he said.
But drinking while carrying a concealed firearm is a no-no. “Commissioner Oxendine, you’d have to change the no-alcohol policy first,” Scott interjected.
“That will be done the day I’m sworn in, don’t worry,” Oxendine said.
The spokesman for Handel declared that the secretary of state was likewise a strong believer in H.B. 615, sponsored by state Rep. Tim Bearden (R-Villa Rica), which would do away with Georgia’s public assembly restrictions.
The only Republican to disappoint Georgiacarry was Scott, who declared himself a gun enthusiast, but said he couldn’t support a wholesale dismantling of the state’s public assembly law. “I wouldn’t be honest with you if I told you that as governor I was going to let you carry firearms into a high school football game,” Scott said.
Last week, U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal said he could support an end to restrictions on firearms at public gatherings. But Eric Johnson, the former senator from Savannah, was more careful. “It is not something the campaign senses is a principle concern of Georgia voters,” said campaign manager Ben Fry. Jobs and the economy are greater worries.”
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