BREAKING: Guccifer hacks Bush Family Emails and posts them on line

FEBRUARY 7–The apparent hack of several e-mail accounts has exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The photos and e-mails were uploaded yesterday to an online account that appears to have been hacked for the purpose of hosting the material.

In e-mail exchanges with the person who claimed responsibility for the hack, the individual claimed to have [...]

Jacob Weisberg: Obama’s encore must show more than pragmatism

from FT:

Mr Obama faces the problem of what to do for an encore. He takes his oath for the second time with greatly diminished personal promise, a far healthier economy and facing no special peril. After some eloquent words today, he seems likeliest to keep on governing like a Dwight Eisenhower or George H.W. Bush — a moderate, effective problem-solver with limited aspirations. The word Mr Obama has used more [...]

SHOCK: Both Presidents Bush To Skip Obama Inauguration And The List Is Growing

I Can understand why old bush is not attending because of his ill health.
I hope “they” not expecting something to happen.

Former President George W. Bush does not plan to attend President Obama’s second inauguration on Monday, joining his father, former President George H.W. Bush, among the living former presidents who are sending regrets, according to several officials with knowledge of inaugural planning.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/presidents-bush-to-skip-obama-inaugural/

the list is growing. This is getting interesting.

Well for [...]

We Are Witnessing The End Of A Once Great Country: A Fiscal Deal Approved By The Senate And President Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households Which Will CUT $1 IN SPENDING FOR EVERY $41 IN TAX INCREASE, And ‘Somehow’ ADDS Nearly $4 TRILLION To The Deficit Over The Next 10 Years, Now The House Republicans Are Forced To Pass It Or Millions Will Lose Unemployment Benefits And Market Will Crash. WTF!?!?

Senate-Passed Deal Means Higher Tax on 77% of Households

The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.

More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the [...]

NEW REPUBLICAN MATH: $1 IN CUTS FOR EVERY $41 IN TAXES

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.

When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 3:1 and 2:1.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/31/Fiscal-cliff-deal-41-1-in-tax-increases-to-spending-cuts-ratio

George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston

Former President George H.W. Bush remains in a Houston hospital, where he has been for seven days as doctors battle a lingering cough that has drawn concern, officials said Thursday.

Bush, 88, has bronchitis, but his condition is not considered life threatening, said his chief of staff, Jean Becker.

“President Bush is in the hospital,” Becker said. “We have kept this quiet out of respect for him.”

Bush has been in and out of Methodist Hospital for [...]

AGENDA 21: How can America fight what it doesn’t even know exists? And…

Why isn’t Agenda 21 being discussed openly in your ever- precious quadrennial voting charade…or any other for that matter?

I don’t think I ever said PIN THIS SHIT. but I’m saying it now. link to article below.
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – Tea Party activist Judd Saul admits that he can sound a little unhinged when he gets talking about an issue close to his heart that most Americans have never heard of.

“Agenda 21 is [...]

Fox News reporter blames mainstream media for America’s imminent destruction

 

(NaturalNews) In a recent speech to an audience focused on the state of politics and the U.S. media, a Fox News contributor and former Democratic pollster lambasted the Fourth Estate for its lack of journalistic integrity and, in his words, an “overwhelming bias” that he sees as contributing to the demise of the country.

Patrick Caddell, in his Sept. 21 speech to attendees of the “Obamanation: A Day of Truth” conference hosted by [...]

Paul Ryan: I gave ‘several years’ of tax returns to the Romney campaign

U.S. Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said he provided “several years” of tax records toMitt Romney’s campaign as part of its vetting process for choosing a running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

Ryan also said he planned to release two years of his tax records to the public, as Romney has pledged to do. Democrats and even some Republicans have called on Romney to release more years of his returns.

“It was a very exhaustive [...]

A federal appeals court has upheld the creation of no demonstration zones, which prohibit free speech in certain public areas.

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Aug 8, 2012

There was once a group of men who established a fundamental law of the land that allowed the people of their new found country to peaceably assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances. These founding fathers of that Great nation even went so far as to declare that the government itself could never make a law that would threaten to supplant these protections, which were reserved [...]

‘Can America really make the suits we make?’ Chinese manufacturer hits back over Team USA uniforms

There has been huge controversy over the outfits being produced abroad
Boss of clothing firm says lower costs in China keep clothes affordable

The Chinese manufacturer who made the USA’s Olympics uniform has hit back over criticism at it being produced overseas, questioning whether America would be capable of anything comparable.

Li Guilian, who owns Dayang Trands, pointed to the cheaper cost of labour and materials in China, which allows the country to [...]

Buchanan: USA needs no more neo-imperial nonsense

From FT:

 

Triumphant in the first Gulf war, George H.W. Bush, in October 1991, went before the UN to declare that the US’s goal was now to build a “New World Order”.

Rejecting this as Wilsonian utopianism, my 1992 presidential campaign called for an end to US military intervention where no vital interest was imperilled, for federal action to secure our southern border and for a halt to the outsourcing of US [...]

Romney’s State House counter-rally ‘shows campaign’s nimbleness’

Polls already show that President Obama is destined to win Massachusetts handily this fall, but Mitt Romney’s team showed Thursday that it won’t allow insult on top of that political injury.

When word leaked Wednesday afternoon that senior Obama strategist David Axelrod was coming to the State House on Thursday morning to criticize Romney’s record as governor, Romney’s team quickly mobilized.

There would be no such rally such as that George H.W. [...]

Why Does The Mainstream Media Ignore The Bilderberg Group?

by Michael

Over the next several days, more than a hundred of the most powerful people on the planet will attend a secret conference at a hotel in Chantilly, Virgina.  Some of the biggest names in politics and business will be there.  The hotel is going to be completely locked down and will be swarmed by hordes of security guards carrying machine guns.  This conference is so important that even the [...]

W RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — This is a little awkward.

President Barack Obama can’t seem to stop bad-mouthing the record of former President George W. Bush. But on Thursday,Obama is going to welcome his predecessor and proudly preside as Bush’s image and legacy are enshrined at the White House forever.

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will join Bush and his wife, Laura, as their official portraits are unveiled. The incumbent is keeping up a presidential tradition [...]

Obama heading towards defeat

Gallup is out with a look today at some key indicators that look troublesome for Barack Obama’s re-election prospects this fall.

 

There are three main indicators, which Gallup looks at from historical perspective to judge Obama’s prospects this year. They are his approval rating, economic factors and Americans’ view of the direction in which the country is headed.

So, first is Obama’s job approval. At 47 percent in May, it compares with other presidents that have [...]

A Growing Body Of Evidence Suggests Watergate Was A Setup To Nail Nixon

Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy

 

This is the second installment of a three-part series, featuring chapters related to Nixon and Watergate from WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker’s book, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years.

 

Notes: (1) Although these excerpts do not contain footnotes, the book itself is heavily footnoted and exhaustively sourced. (2) To distinguish between George Bush, father and son, George H.W. Bush is sometimes referred [...]

A shocking new way Obama is worse than either Bush or Clinton

From Washington’s Blog:

Obama Aggressively Prosecutes Whistleblowers … But Refuses to Go After White Collar Criminals

Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton each prosecuted financial crime more aggressively than Barack Obama.

But that doesn’t mean that Obama is failing to prosecute. He is just aiming at a different type of target.

The New York Times reported last year:

In President Obama’s 26 months in office, civilian and military prosecutors have charged five people [...]

Obama has Prosecuted More Whistleblowers than All Other Presidents COMBINED

Obama Aggressively Prosecutes Whistleblowers … But Refuses to Go After White Collar Criminals

Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton each prosecuted financial crime more aggressively than Barack Obama.

But that doesn’t mean that Obama is failing to prosecute. He is just aiming at a different type of target.

The New York Times reported last year:

In President Obama’s 26 months in office, civilian and military prosecutors have charged five people in cases [...]

Wilbur Ross to Yahoo Finance: “playing the class division card is going to come back and haunt our whole society”

The Economy Can’t Function Without Wall Street: Wilbur Ross

Mitt Romney scored three big primary wins Tuesday night, widening his lead over his remaining rivals in the GOP presidential nominating contest, including his closest competitor Rick Santorum. With victories in Maryland, Wisconsin and the Washington, D.C., Romney has become one step closer to securing the GOP nomination and appears on track to amassing the delegates he needs to be his party’s [...]

Bill Clinton Cites Trayvon Martin in Effort to Kill Stand Your Ground

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 2, 2012

Former president Bill Clinton has joined the Obama administration in exploiting the Taryvon Martin case in what is now obviously a concerted effort to roll back the Second Amendment.

Bill Clinton signs Brady bill on November 30, 1993. James Brady looks on.

Clinton told ABC News that Stand Your Ground Laws – the right of a person to defend himself with deadly force when there is reasonable belief of a threat [...]

Rep. Paul Ryan endorses Mitt Romney

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is expected to endorse Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney before Wisconsin’s GOP primary next Tuesday, according to media reports.

Ryan would be the latest in a string of high-profile endorsements for Romney this week, as party leaders have increasingly coalesced around the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign. The Wisconsin lawmaker would join popular freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and former president George H. W. Bush in [...]

Senate Committee to Vote on Fed Nominees

The Senate Banking Committee plans to vote on President Barack Obama’s two nominations to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on March 29, according to a statement posted on the committee’s website today.

Committee approval would move Jerome Powell, a former private equity manager and Treasury undersecretary under President George H.W. Bush and Jeremy Stein, a Harvard University economist and former adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, a step closer [...]

Barbara Bush: ‘It’s Been The Worst Campaign I’ve Ever Seen In My Life’

“I’m worried about this campaign. Too ugly. I really don’t like it, and I think it’s too bad, very much, for Mitt Romney,” Former First Lady Barbara Bush said on FOX News’ “The Five” today.

“I think it’s been the worst campaign I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said.

Bush and her husband, former President George H. W. Bush have endorsed Mitt Romney for the nomination.

“I’m worried about this campaign because [...]

SATISFACTION WITH COUNTRY WORST SINCE CARTER

By LAUREN FOX, USN News

It’s February, nine months before a presidential election, and only 22 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going. Voters haven’t been this unhappy with the country since George H.W. Bush’s presidency, when only 21 percent of Americans reported being happy with the country’s direction. And before that, the lowest approval rating was 19 percent during Jimmy Carter’s first term.

What do the two presidencies have in common? [...]

FBI file reveals Steve Jobs drug use, ‘honesty’ issues

Steve Jobs introduces the Macbook Air in 2008. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo

With Reporting By ABC News’ Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan:

Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who transformed personal computing, communications and other fields with such products as the iPhone and iPad, also had a 191-page FBI file that detailed a federal background check, a bomb threat on his home, and second-hand reports of drug use.

Released today under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the FBI file shows that [...]

The Tax Gap

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20…0/the-tax-gap/

The ‘Tax Gap’
By BRUCE BARTLETT

Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of the coming book “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take.”

In keeping with its apparent policy of releasing important economic reports late on Friday afternoons in [...]

Is This Why They Won’t Prosecute? Top Justice Officials Represented Big Banks, Freddie, Fannie

Washington’s Blog
January 21, 2012

Eric Holder and Head of DOJ’s Criminal Division Were Partners for a Firm Which Used to Represent the Big Banks, Fannie, Freddie and MERS

Obama’s Department of Justice isn’t prosecuting any big fish.

Indeed, the Obama administration is prosecuting fewer financial crimes than Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton.

This is true even though the big banks – such as Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo – committed [...]

Huntsman Releases Tacky, Glib ‘Twilight Zone’ Attack Ad In Desperate Bid To Steal Ron Paul Voters

If Ron Paul’s foreign policy positions are out of the Twilight Zone, why does Paul get the most support from the U.S. military?

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, January 2, 2012

John Huntsman’s futile effort to steal Ron Paul’s voters has manifested itself in the form of a badly produced ad which characterizes Ron Paul’s beliefs, most notably his foreign policy stance, as being out of the Twilight Zone – a strange claim to [...]

“There’s near-insatiable demand’ for U.S. debt

Obama Wins Most Demand for Debt Since 1995 - The U.S. government received record demand for its bonds in 2011, pushing longer-maturity Treasuries to their best performance since 1995 in a sign that President Barack Obama may have little difficulty financing a fourth consecutive year of $1 trillion budget deficits. The Treasury Department attracted $3.04 for each dollar of the $2.135 trillion in notes and bonds sold, the most since the [...]

WOODWARD: In his debut in Washington power struggles, Gingrich threw a bomb

By Bob Woodward,

On the evening of Oct. 4, 1990, Newt Gingrich and his then-wife, Marianne, were enjoying a VIP reception at a Republican fundraiser when they were suddenly hustled over to have their picture taken with President George H.W. Bush.

“I thought it was a bad idea,” Gingrich said in a series of interviews in 1992 that have not been previously published.

Days earlier, Gingrich had dramatically walked out of the White [...]

Great take on Presidential Race from an astute political analyst: plus RON PAUL surge update!

From the Friday, 12/23/11 edition of the WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF by Joel Skousen

 

ATTACKS ON RON PAUL GO INTO HIGH GEAR

Ron Paul is suddenly the man to beat. With polls showing support for Newt Gingrich collapsing in Iowa the kingmakers are facing a very real problem: how to stop this growing anti-government, anti-war movement backing Ron Paul that draws from conservatives, libertarians and honest liberals alike. Despite media attempts to play like [...]

RT: What’s really happening in Syria will not be told by the mainstream media

RT
November 26, 2011

Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing.

The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group along with additional naval vessels are to remain in the Mediterranean to conducting maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operations [...]

Just out from CBS: “The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart “immediately,” and Turkey’s foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling through Syria.”

by ZH

Yesterday we reported that the Arab League (with European and US support) are preparing to institute a no fly zone over Syria. Today, we get an escalation which confirms we may be on the edge. Just out from CBS: “The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart “immediately,” and Turkey’s foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling [...]

CNN POLL: Whites give president thumbs DOWN 61%-36%; Non-White thumbs UP 67%-32%

APPROVAL DIVIDED ON RACIAL LINES

Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating remains in the mid-40s, where it has been since July, and he continues to receive much higher marks for foreign policy than for domestic issues, according to a new national survey out one year before he is up for re-election.

A CNN/ORC International Poll released Tuesday indicates that 52% of all Americans approve of how the [...]