Judge: Tea Party Nation must pay $748k Las Vegas hotel bill

Posted on August 10, 2012 by DRenegade

Judson Phillips

A judge has ordered Tea Party Nation to pay a six-figure hotel bill for a large number of rooms he booked for a tea party rally, which he later cancelled when the event failed to draw enough attendees.
Tea Party Nation is a corporation created by Judson Phillips.

The Venetian Las Vegas Casino Resort alleged that Tea Party Nation had reserved 1,637 rooms for the July 2010 event, and then cancelled the reservations just a few weeks before the scheduled date. The rooms were not paid for.

In a court order last month, which The Tennessean reported Thursday, a judge ruled that Tea Party Nation owed the resort $748,000, including the $554,000 hotel bill and $194,300 in accrued interest.

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Moron in Chief

Posted on August 10, 2012 by DRenegade

From Zerohedge.com

A 40% loss of post-IPO market-cap, channel-stuffing largesse, contract-law destruction, and all with tax-payer backing. That is what the Bailout’er-in-chief has in mind for every manufacturing company in the US. As Politico reports this evening, President Obama gave a speech we think rivals his ‘you didn’t build it’ miasma as he alienated foreigners, encouraged socialized losses, and suggests bailouts for any and all. “I said, I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,” (cough – down 43% – cough) he said. “Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.”

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Exclusive: U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse

Posted on August 10, 2012 by DRenegade

An ATM machine at a Bank of America office is pictured in Burbank, California August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

I wrote an article outlining the Bank of America Declaration in May, 2012.  While some people thought that this was a “red herring”, I still believe our banking system is the root cause of our impending economic collapse. Bank of America was (and still is) a good target based on its record of abuses as outlined previously. J.P. Morgan Chase is just as culpable with their theft of personal property through MF Global. But Jamie Dimon is part of the Obama administration or more likely one of the puppet masters.

From the Huffington Post‘s Mark Gongloff: Continue reading →

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Reality Check: The U.S. Government Created Al Qaeda?

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

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From YouTube:

Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the United States government created Al Qaeda and yet in some countries is still fighting them while in others is supporting them.

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Virus found in Mideast can spy on finance transactions

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

By Jim Finkle

BOSTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) – A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab.

Dubbed Gauss, the virus may also be capable of attacking critical infrastructure and was built in the same laboratories as Stuxnet, the computer worm widely believed to have been used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear program, Kaspersky Lab said on Thursday.

The Moscow-based firm said it found Gauss had infected personal computers in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. It declined to speculate on who was behind the virus but said it was related to Stuxnet and two other cyber espionage tools, Flame and Duqu.

“After looking at Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same ‘factory’ or ‘factories,'” Kaspersky Lab said in a posting on its website. “All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations.”

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Tony Blair ‘deeply worried’ Britain will leave EU via referendum

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

Picture shows former prime minister Tony Blair, picture for an interview by Charles Moore

Mr Blair also told a German newspaper that the UK’s exit from the EU could be sparked by too much power being transferred to Brussels.

David Cameron said in July that it was a “perfectly honourable position” to call for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU – something polls show a majority of British people would vote to reject – but has resisted pulling the country out of his own accord because of fears it would harm UK interests.

Mr Blair told Die Zeit it was clear that the ongoing eurozone debt crisis would lead to a “powerful political change of the EU”, adding: “And on this point, I am deeply worried that Britain could decide by referendum to leave the whole process.”

“If more competences are transferred to the EU, then its democratic legitimacy must be built up too,” he added. “Britain must play a strong role in this. Because we need a balance between European institutions and the nation states.

“If this is done wrongly, we could create a political crisis that could become just as a big as the euro crisis. People will not go along with the abolishment of the nation state.”

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Saudi Arabia announced that it would attack Israeli aircraft on their way to Iran

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

This would mean that Israel would have to fly over Jordan or Syrian and then Iraqi airspace to reach Iran. This pathway is more direct to Iran’s capital but not their southern nuclear installations.

David DeGerolamo

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August 9, 2012: Saudi Arabia announced that it would attack any Israeli aircraft that flew over Saudi Arabia on their way to bomb Iranian nuclear weapons facilities. This does not guarantee that the Saudis will actually oppose an Israeli attack on Iran, as the Saudis and Israelis have been holding secret talks for years. But it’s not politically correct in the Moslem world to admit that sort of thing.

Despite the Saudis insisting they don’t want war with Iran, the Gulf Arab states continue increasing their stocks of modern weapons. In the last two months alone, the Gulf Arabs have ordered over $11 billion worth of weapons and military equipment. While the Iranians are historically better fighters, the Gulf Arabs are encouraged by the fact that Iraq fought Iran to a draw in the 1980s mainly because of over $50 billion worth of modern weapons bought with loans or gifts from the Gulf Arab states. The Iranian government budget for a year is about $40 billion.

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Are We Free or Are We Cowards?

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Roth Harbard

By Bob Lightner

A couple of years ago, this writer took his American flag down from the pole at his farm, reverently folded it, and placed it in a drawer. It has not seen the light of day since then. Although the writer substitutes for teachers in the government schools, he no longer joins in the Pledge of Allegiance. The particular point that determined his course in this regard was the phrase ‘land of the free and home of the brave.’ You see, he came to realize that America as practiced in the 21st Century is a fraud. We say we are free, we contend we are brave. The writer contends both are mere fiction; the result of propaganda and mind control. Consider the following questions before you discard this line of reasoning.

Does a free society send government hit men to eliminate anyone they perceive to be an enemy of the state?

Does a free society have hundreds of police agencies, each with the authority to deprive a man of his life, liberty and property in their sole discretion?

Does a free society have hundreds of thousands of laws, codes, rules, regulations, and policies which effectively criminalize nearly every aspect of one’s existence?

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Disinformation: How It Works

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

Brandon Smith

There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.

Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.

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The mainstream media, once tasked with the job of investigating government corruption and keeping elitists in line, has now become nothing more than a public relations firm for corrupt officials and their Globalist handlers. The days of the legitimate “investigative reporter” are long gone (if they ever existed at all), and journalism itself has deteriorated into a rancid pool of so called “TV Editorialists” who treat their own baseless opinions as supported fact.

The elitist co-opting of news has been going on in one form or another since the invention of the printing press. However, the first methods of media disinformation truly came to fruition under the supervision of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who believed the truth was “subjective” and open to his personal interpretation.

Some of the main tactics used by the mainstream media to mislead the masses are as follows:

Lie Big, Retract Quietly: Mainstream media sources (especially newspapers) are notorious for reporting flagrantly dishonest and unsupported news stories on the front page, then quietly retracting those stories on the very back page when they are caught. In this case, the point is to railroad the lie into the collective consciousness. Once the lie is finally exposed, it is already too late, and a large portion of the population will not notice or care when the truth comes out.

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h/t Pastor Bob

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Barak: A nuclear Iran is taking shape before us. Time for decisions is short

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

Defense Minister Ehud Barak Stout refutation of reported disagreements over the military option against Iran’s nuclear program between the US and Israel, and himself and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, took up most of a long radio interview given by Defense Minister Ehud Barak Thursday, Aug. 9. He explained that US and Israeli intelligence essentially see eye to eye on this matter and so do he and the prime minister.

Barak referred to the new US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran as confirming that both capitals understand that not much time is left for making decision on whether or not to go on the offensive against Iran’s nuclear facilities and when, because, he said, “a nuclear Iran is taking shape right before our eyes.”

Defense Minister Barak’s key remark was this: “I am aware of an American intelligence finding (not the new National Intelligence Estimate) that brings American intelligence assessments [of the current state of the Iranian nuclear program] very close to ours. This makes the Iranian question [i.e., the issue of the Iranian nuclear program and a possible military operation against it] extremely urgent,” he said without further explanation.

Barak disclosed that the US and Israel have been essentially of one mind for many months in their estimates of Iranian nuclear progress and the factors holding Tehran back from starting to build a nuclear bomb. All options therefore remain on the table, he stressed.

DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources add:  American-Israeli talks about a military operation against Iran wound up months ago in early 2012. The administration was made aware that notwithstanding President Barack Obama’s objections, Israel would soon go into action against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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Biderman’s Daily Edge 8/8/2012: We Remain Bearish While Minimizing Risk

Posted on August 9, 2012 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznRDevQsO0

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The 5 stages of Grieving/Loss Process In Relationship To The Battle for Our Republic – Part 2

Posted on August 8, 2012 by DRenegade

The first article outlining the five stages of grieving for our Republic was posted in February, 2011. It is time to revisit the thoughts outlined in that article again. Why now? People sensed something was wrong when Barack Obama became our president. Americans who understand what this country really stands for, recognized the tenuous grip on Liberty that we were facing. But now our sense of trouble has become manifested into reality: we are not facing a precipice in the future but are on the precipice itself.

The time frame between now and the end of the year will bring changes that no one can fully anticipate but we know that these changes will not be positive. Especially for our Liberty. Reviewing the five stages of the loss of our country at this time may help people cope with their actions and feelings now.

1. Denial- Socialism could never happen to America.  The American spirit would never allow it.  Our Constitution protects us from this.  

2. Anger- An increase in group protests, demonstrating anger with the politicians and political parties,  Tea Parties, etc.

3. Bargaining- Compromising on your values, voting for the lesser of two evils,  convincing yourself that socialism isn’t so bad – after all the government will at least take care of me so sacrificing a little freedom is acceptable.

4. Depression- Basically being defeated, giving up, low voter turnout, apathy and complacency, hopelessness. There is nothing we can do to change the situation.

5. Acceptance-  You recognize you may not win the battle, but at least you are going to keep up the fight.  You may have a renewal of your faith. You also recognize you should prepare for the worse and hope for the best.   You no longer are immobilized with fear. I consider this the resurrection phase myself.  Becoming functional again and the ability to deal with the situation, to prepare one’s one’s self for the future and embrace it.  Ready to move on.

So where are we 18 months later? Continue reading →

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Confederate supporters protest flag removal at courthouse in Haywood County

Posted on August 8, 2012 by DRenegade

fr confederate

A protest was held this week in front of the Haywood County historic courthouse by Confederate supporters who say their flag is being discriminated against.

For years, David Crook had been making monthly rounds past the Confederate Memorial on the lawn of the historic courthouse and tucking a tiny flag into the ground at its base. And for years, an anonymous person who felt the flag carried negative symbolism had been pulling them up.

“They kept disappearing,” said Thomas Shepard, whose own ancestors fought for the South. “So we kept replacing them.”

The flag tug-of-war gradually ramped up, with a new one being put down and pulled up almost daily.

The county was forced to wade into the fray in June, when a local attorney complained about the tiny flag display and asked the county to intervene.

“Personally, I have been more than uncomfortable with the flag’s presence on government property,” Waynesville Attorney Bob Clark wrote in an email to county commissioners. “Will you please take action, quietly and effectively, to stop the display of this divisive symbol?”

If the county won’t step in and stop the tiny flags from cropping up, then perhaps the commissioners should issue a public statement that they “support the flying of this symbol,” Clark suggested.

County Manager Marty Stamey talked the issue over informally with commissioners, and the next morning directed county maintenance workers to pull up the flags whenever they saw them. Stamey sent county maintenance workers an email asking them to keep an eye on the monument a couple of times during the day to monitor for the flag’s reappearance.

“Am I understanding correctly that you are requesting the Confederate Flag to be removed and not ever be placed back in front of the Confederate Monument?” County Maintenance Director Dale Burris wrote back to Stamey.

“It is a sensitive issue with government property as you are aware,” Stamey wrote back to Burris. “Maybe we can request that they just keep a nice wreath in front of the memorial instead.”

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h/t Brock

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Arroyo Movie Trailer

Posted on August 8, 2012 by DRenegade

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From YouTube:

After two years, Declaration Entertainment (www.declarationentertainment.com) has finished its first feature film, THE ARROYO! Bill shows you the new trailer, talks about the next film — AURORA:THE FREE FRONTIER — and makes a pitch.

h/t Brock Townsend

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Is Paul Krugman a Coward?

Posted on August 8, 2012 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxT4uxeDJ2U

From YouTube:

Paul Krugman, noted Keynesian, has been challenged to a public debate by Robert Murphy of the free-market Austrian School of economics. Right now nearly $75,000 will go to charity if Krugman agrees. The pledge number is rising. Keep the pressure on: http://www.KrugmanDebate.com

h/t Brock Townsend

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