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		<title>Election &#8217;08 and the Shadow Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men&#8217;s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=33&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men&#8217;s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.&#8221;&#8212;Woodrow Wilson</p>
<p align="left">&#8220;We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.&#8221;&#8212;David Rockefeller</p>
<p align="left">&#8220;We can&#8217;t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.&#8221; &#8211; Bill Clinton, U.S.A. Today, March 11, 1993</p>
<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="left">The shadowy organization president Wilson spoke of was the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); more recently, in 1973 David Rockefeller&#8217;s Trilateral Commission (TLC) joined the ranks of global elite puppeteers.  The CFR manipulated the 1912 election.  Once Wilson was elected, his closest advisor and CFR member Edward Mandell (Col.) House, saw to it that many fellow CFR members were appointed to key White House staff positions, cabinet posts, and government department heads.  Soon we had income tax, and the Federal Reserve banking system that was completely independent of government interference.  Working in concert with European central banks, currencies could be inflated or deflated as necessary.  Deficit spending was now possible.  The U.S. could now be maneuvered into WWI.  The elite don&#8217;t owe allegiance to nations, only wealth and power.  They achieve these goals in war <em>and</em> peace</p>
<p align="left">Since 1912 the CFR has influenced our politicians, and manipulated public consensus through the media.  The CFR public image is that of an open forum of influential individuals and corporations coming together to discuss international problems.  Through the upper echelon Round Tables of economists, bankers, industrialists, corporations, and globalists, the plans of the global elites are brought to fruition.  They use a network of national banks that act outside government control, to bestow large grants to tax free foundations that support socialist ideals, and drain enormous wealth from democratic to socialist nations by way of the IMF and the World Bank.  As proof of the ongoing infringement of world democracy consider this:  after two world wars, and a forty year cold-war, the communists are now our friends and industrial partners in the New (Socialist) World Order.  No matter whether we&#8217;ve had republican or democratic leadership, neither have slowed the growth of world socialism!</p>
<p align="left">The CFR is well represented in the 2008 election.  Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Rudy Guilliani are CFR members; however, there is only one candidate that is completely surrounded by CFR members&#8230;Hillary Clinton.  Her closest advisor, Bill is a member of the CFR, TLC and the Bilderbergs.  Her senior advisors former Secretary of State Madaleine Albright, former Asst. Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger, former Gen. Wesley Clark, and former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro are CFR members.  Why this infestation of CFR and TLC members?  The global elites have a timetable to meet.  They want a fully integrated North American economy by 2010.  World oil production will begin falling by 2012.  They need to tear down the Mexican and Canadian borders, convert to a common currency, and create a trilateral sharing of continental force security.  The Democratic Party is most likely to bring us to a constitutional crisis, while Republicans and independents will call for a Constitutional Convention.  The crisis will most likely be over free trade and immigration reform.  A Constitutional Convention would provide the means to rewriting our constitution, or scrapping it in favor of a North American Union.</p>
<p align="left">Remember Bill Clinton promised NAFTA would create a million jobs and we lost three million; The Canadians lost two  million jobs, and unemployed, unsubsidized Mexican farmers are fueling the invasion of illegal aliens.  Clinton also said, we shouldn&#8217;t be fixated on the rights of ordinary Americans!  David Rockefeller of the TLC says the right crisis will stir global support for the New World Order.  The first decades of the post-peak oil era will be chaotic; the world will experience extremes in climate, famine, disease, oil shocks, and oil wars.</p>
<p align="left">The elites have chosen Hillary to be our next president; while the mainstream media is rapidly coming to a consensus on Hillary.  My friends, the fix is in!  The only thing that can change this outcome is <em>your vote</em>!  No matter your age or ethnic group, we all need to vote.  The next few election cycles will be the most important in American history.  I urge you to educate yourselves on the issues, check out the second tier candidates, and vote!</p>
<p align="left">J.R. Lutticken</p>
<p align="left">Sources:</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/">www.TheNewAmerican.com</a></p>
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<p align="left">&#8220;The Creature from Jekyll Island&#8221;, G. Edward Griffin</p>
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<p align="left"><a href="http://ontopofacloud.com/Salvos%20At%20Sovereignty.htm">http://ontopofacloud.com/Salvos%20At%20Sovereignty.htm</a></p>
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<p align="left">GAO Crude Oil Report, Feb. 2007</p>
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		<title>Dysfunctional!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This country is in trouble.  We have a delusional president whose ineptitude in economics and foreign policy, is only exceeded by his arrogance!  Now, let&#8217;s talk about congress.  They waste time and taxpayer money playing childish games of partisan one-upsmanship!  The American people deserve better than this. Why would the House pass a meaningless resolution condemning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=31&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This country is in trouble.  We have a delusional president whose ineptitude in economics and foreign policy, is only exceeded by his arrogance!  Now, let&#8217;s talk about congress.  They waste time and taxpayer money playing childish games of partisan one-upsmanship!  The American people deserve better than this.</p>
<p>Why would the House pass a meaningless resolution condemning Turkish genocide during WWI?  Certainly not to placate a handful of Armenian voters in Speaker Pelosi&#8217;s district.  Every historical scholar recognizes the Turkish genocide, but if the Turks want to hang on to their national delusion, so what.  Bringing this up now, only opens old wounds and strains our strategically important, yet delicate foreign relations with Turkey.  Why didn&#8217;t Pelosi stop this resolution from coming to the floor?  This appears to be a desperate, ham fisted attempt to derail the Bush war machine; which could interfere with supply lines into Iraq, and endanger our troops.</p>
<p>The Sense of the Senate resolution condemning Moveon.org for the &#8220;Gen. Betrayus&#8221; add, was nothing but nonsense.  The republicans wanted to brand some democrats as unpatriotic.  While the house is burning down&#8230;<em>they play games</em>!  Then we have congress mucking around in the Terry Schiavo case.  Their actions were initiated by republicans who were strict constitutional constructionists.  They knew they couldn&#8217;t get their nonsense past the Supreme Court!  They were bolstering support from the religious right; not to mention, they needed to shift public attention away from Iraq.  We can&#8217;t forget the Defense of Marriage Act.  The religious zealots of the right, and the homophobic neo-cons tried to tell us the nation would become gay, if we allowed gay marriage; they even thought about amending the constitution.  While all this was going on, some of the very same congressmen were chasing House pages!</p>
<p>What must the world think about the reprehensible behavior of our time wasting, tax wasting, theocratic, partisan gridlocked government?  I think our forefathers are probably spinning in their graves!  Nancy Pelosi, and all the democrats that want us to think they are better than republicans, should remember they are all products of the swamp the Speaker wants to drain.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time for term limits, and federally funded elections!</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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		<title>The Elephant in the Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CDC has concluded a study on the neuropsychological effects of thimerosal in childhood vaccinations; thimerosal is a mercury based preservative used to prevent bacterial contamination of vaccines.  Forty-two neurological disorders were studied, with no connection to thimerosal found.  Next year they will conclude an additional study to see if there is a link to thimerosal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=22&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The CDC has concluded a study on the neuropsychological effects of thimerosal in childhood vaccinations; thimerosal is a mercury based preservative used to prevent bacterial contamination of vaccines.  Forty-two neurological disorders were studied, with no connection to thimerosal found.  Next year they will conclude an additional study to see if there is a link to thimerosal and autism.  Since the Nineties autism has increased by 172%.  There may be as many as 1.5 million cases of autism in America.</p>
<p>So how do we explain this dramatic increase in autism?  I believe the answer may be found in the chemical body load of children with autism and their parents.  There are literally thousands of industrial chemical compounds in use today.  These chemicals are everywhere in our environment; they are in our homes, offices, and vehicles.  These chemicals leach out into the air we breathe, and the food we eat.  There are tons of particulate pollution belching from smokestacks.  Europe requires all chemicals to be tested for hazards to humans; while the majority of chemicals in the U.S. aren&#8217;t tested until civil damage suits are brought.  We breathe it in, and when it rains these chemicals fall to earth and are absorbed by plants, eaten by grazing livestock, then people.</p>
<p><a href="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/bodyload_image1.jpg" title="bodyload image 1"></a><img border="2" vspace="4" align="left" width="221" src="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/bodyload_image1.jpg?w=221&#038;h=135" hspace="4" alt="bodyload image 1" height="135" />Since the Thirties, the proliferation of the industrial chemicals we breathe and ingest, has been exponential; in 1935, DuPont coined the ad ditty, &#8220;Better Things For  Better Living&#8230;Through Chemicals.&#8221;  The slogan changed to, &#8220;Better Things For Better Living&#8221;, in 1982.  While in 1999, it morphed into, &#8220;Better Things For Better Living&#8230;The Miracles Of Science.&#8221;  (Chart is in millions of tons).  Successive generations have passed many of these chemicals to their offspring, especially the carbon based organic ones.   They are stored in fat cells, which in the case of pregnant women, means they share these chemicals with their unborn child, and again while nursing.  Many of these chemicals interfere with hormones, some are carcinogens, while others are neurotoxic.</p>
<p>Dioxins and furans are by products of <a href="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/frog-deformity.jpg" title="frog deformity"></a>plastic manufacturing.  They are dumped illegally, or burned off <em>legally</em>.  When absorbed by the soil, they can take 25 years to decay!  They can disrupt the immune, endocrine, and reproductive systems.  They are also carcinogens.  PCB&#8217;s are carcinogens and endocrine disruptors.  They have a life of maybe twenty years in fish, and maybe six years in soil.</p>
<p>While the chemical doses may be small, build up over successive generations becomes serious.  Amphibians are very sensitive to chemical toxins in their <a href="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/frog-deformity.jpg" title="frog deformity"><img border="2" vspace="4" align="right" width="192" src="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/frog-deformity.jpg?w=192&#038;h=116" hspace="4" alt="frog deformity" height="116" /></a>environment; they are the equivalent to the <em>canary in the mine</em>.  Researchers find more amphibian anomalies all the time.  What is the cumulative effect of these toxins?  What is the combined synergy of these chemicals?  At what point does the body load pass critical level and we begin to see neurological and reproductive problems, that appear with increasing frequency?  We don&#8217;t know!  Perhaps autism is a body load problem.  Researchers have found increasingly lower sperm counts in males.  Chemical body load doesn&#8217;t show up in standard blood testing panels.  Special blood tests are necessary, and insurance won&#8217;t cover the testing.  Chemical body burden may be the answer to many misdiagnosed and unexplained medical problems.</p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t be foolish enough to expect your government will protect you!  They do very little to mitigate pollution in America, and do even less to control contamination of the food chain by Chinese exports.  This week the Environmental <em>Protection</em> Agency overrode the recommendation of fifty scientists, half a dozen of which were nobel laureates.  They will allow methyl iodide to be sprayed on fields before planting, to fumigate the soil of weeds and pests. California will not allow spraying until further testing is done on this carcinogen.  The EPA will require strict safety for farm workers.  What happens when the chemicals are drawn into the plants that will be ingested by animals and humans?</p>
<p>Let your senators and representatives know how you feel with a ticking bomb inside you!  For further reading on this crisis, here are some links:  <a href="http://www.oztoxics.org/cmwg/body%20burden/load.html">http://www.oztoxics.org/cmwg/body%20burden/load.html</a>   <a href="http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/problem/bodyburden.html">http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/problem/bodyburden.html</a></p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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		<title>This Pastor Has Guts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pastor joe wright]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard; &#8220;Heavenly  Father, We come before you today To ask your forgiveness and To seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, &#8220;Woe to those who call evil good&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=30&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard;</p>
<p>&#8220;Heavenly  Father,</p>
<p>We come before you today</p>
<p>To ask your forgiveness and</p>
<p>To seek your direction and guidance.</p>
<p>We know Your Word says,</p>
<p>&#8220;Woe to those who call evil good&#8221;</p>
<p>But that is exactly what we have done.</p>
<p>We have lost our spiritual equilibrium</p>
<p>And reversed our values.</p>
<p>We have exploited the poor and</p>
<p>Called it the lottery.</p>
<p>We have rewarded laziness</p>
<p>And called it welfare.</p>
<p>We have killed our unborn</p>
<p>and called it choice.</p>
<p>We have shot abortionists</p>
<p>and called it justifiable.</p>
<p>We have neglected to discipline</p>
<p>Our children and called it</p>
<p>building self esteem.</p>
<p>We have abused power</p>
<p>And called it politics.</p>
<p>We have coveted our neighbour&#8217;s</p>
<p>Possessions and called it ambition.</p>
<p>We have polluted the air</p>
<p>With profanity and</p>
<p>Pornography and called it</p>
<p>Freedom of speech and expression.</p>
<p>We have ridiculed the time</p>
<p>Honoured values of our</p>
<p>Forefathers and called it enlightenment.</p>
<p>Search us, Oh, God,</p>
<p>And know our hearts today;</p>
<p>Cleanse us from every sin</p>
<p>And set us free.</p>
<p>Amen!&#8221;</p>
<p>I recieved this email and thought I would post this for everyone.  Pass this on to your friends.</p>
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		<title>Between a Rock and a Hard Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s exactly where every American voter will be in the 2008 election!  Do I vote for Clinton?  Or&#8230;do I vote for whichever top tier republican wins the party nomination? If we take the Clinton path, we will see open borders, more free trade agreements, and more job losses for American workers.  The Clinton presidency will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=29&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s exactly where every American voter will be in the 2008 election!  Do I vote for Clinton?  Or&#8230;do I vote for whichever top tier republican wins the party nomination?</p>
<p>If we take the Clinton path, we will see open borders, more free trade agreements, and more job losses for American workers.  The Clinton presidency will embrace globalization, which can only end in a much lower standard of living for America.  The world elite globalists will use Hillary&#8217;s closest advisor, Bill to influence Hillary to move us ever closer to a North American Union.  Bill Clinton was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization set up by the elite to influence world politics and trade; he brought NAFTA to fruition.  Ironically, since Wilson&#8217;s administration the socialists have made great strides in the world, <em>no matter which party is in power!</em>  Every administration and congress since Wilson, has had numerous present and former CFR members serving in the government, in order to shephard the global elite agenda.  The New World Order will be socialist!</p>
<p>The  republicans will bring us <em>more</em> fear and loathing, they will continue to fertilize foreign soil with American blood!  We will continue a preemptive foreign policy, in the name of a myth, <em>homeland security</em>.  We will be spied upon, data mined, given national I.D. cards, and forced to live by religious fudamentalist moral standards.</p>
<p>The mainstream media should be ashamed!  They have marginalized the so-called second tier candidates of both parties.  These are the candidates who could upset the global elite&#8217;s apple cart, and set this country right.  The mainstream media has already reached a consensus&#8230;it&#8217;s either going to be Hillary or Rudy as president.  Either path we take, we will ultimately lose our fundamental rights and freedoms as American citizens.</p>
<p>The American voters need to go to the Internet and look at Ron Paul, or Dennis Kucinich.  Look at all the candidates before you vote in the primaries.  Vote in the primary and the general elections.  Excersise your right to vote and be heard, before you lose yor rights!</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken </p>
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		<title>1912 Redux?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1912 election was manipulated by the industrial banking elite; it appears history will repeat in 2008.  These are the same people behind globalization today.  In 1912 they wanted the federal reserve system and income tax.  After 467 ballots, Wilson was chosen by the democrats&#8230;and the elites!  Wilson may not have been the best qualified candidate, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=25&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 1912 election was manipulated by the industrial banking elite; it appears history will repeat in 2008.  These are the same people behind globalization today.  In 1912 they wanted the federal reserve system and income tax.  After 467 ballots, Wilson was chosen by the democrats&#8230;and the elites!  Wilson may not have been the best qualified candidate, but he was easily manipulated by Col. House, his close advisor in the behalf of the elite.  To ensure Taft wouldn&#8217;t be elected, the elite enticed Teddy Roosevelt to split the party for decades, by running on a third party ticket.  Once Wilson was president, we soon had income tax and a federal reserve system that layed the financial groundwork for federal deficit spending during WWI; the industrial banking elite gained a further foothold on globilization.</p>
<p>The elites owe no allegiance to any country, only money and power!  In the upcoming election they seek a president that will futher their goal of a North American Union; Bill Clinton layed the cornerstone with NAFTA, now Hillary will carry forward the agenda.  Zbigniew Brzinzki as much as admitted the fix was in, during an interview earlier this year with Bill Mahr!  Brzinzki is one of the Council on Foreign Relations elites; the council Round Tables are groups of elites that influence governments, banking, and industry around the world.  Now we hear about a meeting of evangelicals to perhaps pick a third party ticket they like better than the current republican choices.  This might fracture the party and guarantee a victory for Hillary and the elite; while ensuring a loss of freedom and our constitution.  What do you think?</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our government is broken!  Being a politician has become a career.  Our forefathers never imagined a Strom Thurmond; he was a living, breathing fossil who could barely speak.  Extreme partisanship, lobbyist and special interest money, and fear of being on the wrong side of issues costing them their congressional seats, has given our congressman feet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=21&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our government is broken!  Being a politician has become a career.  Our forefathers never imagined a Strom Thurmond; he was a living, breathing fossil who could barely speak.  Extreme partisanship, lobbyist and special interest money, and fear of being on the wrong side of issues costing them their congressional seats, has given our congressman feet of clay.</p>
<p>We wouldn&#8217;t be in Iraq today if the democrats had backbones; but once Dubya wrapped himself in the flag, and became the avenging angel of freedom and democracy, they were afraid to vote no.  Too many in congress are willing to sellout our country to foreign interests.  They almost sold our ports to Dubai, now they will discuss selling a 20% interest in the NASDAQ to Dubai.  Our homeland defense and security have been neglected, so we can fight a war most of us don&#8217;t want.  China our avowed ideological enemy now finances our deficit spending and floods our nation with unsafe products.  We have no leverage with the Chinese, because of the untennable position the Bush administration has put us into.  While the borders are wide open to illegal immigrants and terrorist infiltrators.  What does congress do? Nothing!  They would rather spy on us.</p>
<p>The time has come for a Jeffersonian approach to government.  The monolithic federal government is failing to meet the needs of the people.  Washington should be responsible for foreign policy, the national military, foreign trade, and national security.  States should take responsibility for <em>country of origin labeling</em>, that the government refuses to enforce; states could enter into regional agreements to watch over food and product safety.  Border states must look to securing their own stretch of border from illegal immigration.  States could develop regional plans to control pollution.</p>
<p>There are undoubtedly many other responsibilities the states could takeover from the feds.  The feds could gradually assist the states in setting up their programs; as federal tax revenue requirements fall states would gradually increase taxes.  State capitols are much closer to the people than Washington, it&#8217;s easier for people to camp out on the steps of the state capitol.  That&#8217;s one reason the states are more responsive to need than the feds. Additionally, most states require balanced budgets and their governors do a better job of managing money than congress.  Think about it, it&#8217;s time for a change in America!</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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		<title>Surprised?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why all the surprise that Bush plans to hand his war off to the next president, and that we plan on a longterm presence in Iraq?  The media seemed surprised that Mr. Greenspan said the war in Iraq was all about oil. He asked the White House what America would think of a war fought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=20&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why all the surprise that Bush plans to hand his war off to the next president, and that we plan on a longterm presence in Iraq?  The media seemed surprised that Mr. Greenspan said the war in Iraq was all about oil. He asked the White House what America would think of a war fought for oil?  Their response&#8230;Sh!  The public was told we could use Iraqi oil to finance the war.  Of course this never happened, because we&#8217;ve never been able to maintain security in the oil fields.  Insurgents keep blowing up the pipelines.  What else could it have been about!  We never found any WMD, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and there weren&#8217;t any al-Qaeda in Iraq before we arrived there.</p>
<p>The Draper biography, &#8217;Dead Certain&#8217;, was written well before Bush&#8217;s post-Petraeus speech to the nation.  In it we are told Bush plans for the next president, hopefully a republican, to continue the war.  Bush spoke in his speech about a longterm presence in Iraq.  This is no surprise!  Since the beginning of the Afghan war we have been making agreements to upgrade military bases in former Soviet block countries of central Asia; in return we are allowed to use these upgraded bases.  Currently and for the forseeable future, we have military basing in Qatar.  Why would we build a $600 million dollar embassy in Iraq, if we weren&#8217;t planning on staying?  The Baghdad embassy is by far our largest in the world.</p>
<p>Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world.  The Iraq war and the forward military basing we have negotiated, is a strategic move to protect and then annex Iraqi oil for ourselves.  Oil will be at the root of the next world war.  The slide down the peak-oil curve is about to begin.  I believe this is why the Bush administration has kept the minutes of Cheney&#8217;s energy plan secret.  The truth would belie the whopper Bush told the world.  None of this is a surprise if you were paying attention!</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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		<title>Reviving the Past&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come for compulsory national service.  Liberals and conservatives will probably all howl at this idea.  The neo-cons decry anything &#8216;Rooseveltian&#8217; in nature; while liberals will say, &#8220;No way, that&#8217;s too much government interference in our childrens&#8217; lives!&#8221;  Now, before you liberal social engineers and blonde neo-con harpies begin railing against this idea, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=15&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The time has come for compulsory national service.  Liberals and conservatives will probably all howl at this idea.  The neo-cons decry anything &#8216;Rooseveltian&#8217; in nature; while liberals will say, &#8220;No way, that&#8217;s too much government interference in our childrens&#8217; lives!&#8221;  Now, before you liberal social engineers and blonde neo-con harpies begin railing against this idea, let&#8217;s put partisanship aside and use a little common sense!</p>
<p>American infrastructure is slowly collapsing.  There are roads and bridges in disrepair, as we&#8217;ve recently seen in Minnesota.  Every summer the Western states erupt in flames, because forests go unmanaged.  In light of the continuing drought in many areas, we need better water management.  The nation&#8217;s electrical grid is an accident waiting to happen!  The answer to electrical power in the post-peak oil years will be nuclear power.  We have a huge security poject in the fencing of our borders.</p>
<p>We have adopted a preemptive foreign policy that will have us chasing terrorists until the end of days, while we&#8217;ve neglected national security.  Our military has been hammered on the anvil of terrorism, which has significantly impaired our ability to respond to future situations, both at home and abroad.  The Army and Marines have announced a substantial increase in their forces, over the next five years; but they barely make their monthly recruitment requirements now!  The government doesn&#8217;t want a draft, it might lead to riots, reminiscent of the Vietnam war.  The last draft was hardly conducted in an equitable manner, mostly poor and middle-classes were called up; while too many of our &#8216;fortunate sons&#8217; sought refuge through college deferments.  We will be rebuilding our military for a long time as a result of the war in Iraq, and it will be vitally important to our security in the post-peak oil era.</p>
<p><img border="2" vspace="3" align="left" width="102" src="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/civilian-conservation-corp.jpg?w=102&#038;h=170" hspace="3" alt="Civilian Conservation Corp" height="170" />National service similar to the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), could provide the manpower needed for infrastructure repair and the military expansion.  All 18 year-olds would be required to do two years of service to the nation.  They could work in forestry, road building and repair, inner city revitalization, and construction.  Alternatively, they could enlist in the military, in the event recruitment levels aren&#8217;t achieved<img border="2" vspace="3" align="right" width="260" src="http://theunvarnishedtruth.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/work-progress-administration.thumbnail.jpg?w=260&#038;h=121" hspace="3" alt="Street Repairs" height="121" style="width:191px;height:89px;" /> the draft would be instrumented; however, this time there won&#8217;t be any college deferments!  Workers would be paid a monthly stipend, room and board, medical, and money for college when they complete their service.</p>
<p>In order to explain the logic of this plan, I must take a short segway into some observations I&#8217;ve made as a substitute teacher.  I worked with middle school and high school students in suburban Atlanta, GA.  All the way through the twelfth grade, I saw too many kids who had very poor reading, writing, math and science skills.  There was little emphasis on critical thinking skills.  Students were bored, as were the teachers, while they taught the kids to pass the state and federal tests mandated by the <em>No Child Left Behind</em> program.  Too many high school seniors lacked direction; they didn&#8217;t know what they wanted to study in college, and seemed to be going just to please their parents.</p>
<p>A few figures will help put things in perspective.  There were approximately 19.5 million students entering college in 2006.  Current figures indicate roughly 9.2 million students will drop out before receiving a degree.  Out of the 10.3 million that will graduate, 3.7 million will be functionally illiterate; they will need remedial business courses in order to write coherent documents.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the problem here?  Some of the drop-out rate reflects a lack of funds for many of the poor students.  The illiteracy can be directly linked to our broken education system.  Regarding the middle and upper income students, while both parents are working to send the kids to college, the kids are at school which is just a big party.  At home the kids are surrounded, adrift, and sheltered in the lap of luxury, complete with cell phones, text messaging, computer games, stereos, and television.  When they get to college, there&#8217;s no one to get them up in the morning and no one cares if they study; too often college turns into another big party.</p>
<p>Now back to national service!  The first year the program would have approximately 4.4 million 18 year-olds, by the second year forward there would be 8.8 million available annually.  These kids have been given everything for 18 years, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to expect something in return.  Along the way they will learn skills, and responsibility.  They will learn about life, and build character.  Above all they will realize they don&#8217;t like working for peanuts; they&#8217;ll be ready to appreciate a college education!</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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		<title>Sadness and Rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lutticken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He stands alone, feelings of foreboding overwhelming, As he gazes at the ominous gathering storm. They called him a Cassandra! Sadness, anger and rage contend for his very soul, While the storm races to blot the horizon; He mourns the impending annihilation of Eden, Which only he seems to see! Power and priviledge strive to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theunvarnishedtruth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1610854&amp;post=19&amp;subd=theunvarnishedtruth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He stands alone, feelings of foreboding overwhelming,<br />
As he gazes at the ominous gathering storm.<br />
They called him a Cassandra!<br />
Sadness, anger and rage contend for his very soul,<br />
While the storm races to blot the horizon;<br />
He mourns the impending annihilation of Eden,<br />
Which only he seems to see!</p>
<p>Power and priviledge strive to create private nirvanas,<br />
Alas, too self-absorbed to see they already have it all!<br />
Greed masquerades as civilization&#8217;s progress,<br />
While the skies swirl, with choking clouds of multi-hued offal;<br />
Rivers drink in poisons and nutrients alike,<br />
Rescinding God&#8217;s exquisite symmetry.</p>
<p>Ancient foes bubble and churn in contagious froth,<br />
Lying in wait for their master&#8217;s order to issue!<br />
In subterranean vaults, elements seethe and simmer,<br />
Promising a millenium of death if they escape their crypt!<br />
Humankind&#8217;s creative ingenuity is legendary,<br />
Surpassed only by it&#8217;s destructive nature and rapacious greed!</p>
<p>He hangs his head, alone and isolated he stands,<br />
His vision impinges on the pursuit of wealth,<br />
And self-absorbed amusement.<br />
People say he is old beyond his years,<br />
His face etched with worry.<br />
Knowledge is both gift and curse.<br />
Still he hurls an anguished plea skyward,<br />
Which breaks unanswered on the crashing storm!</p>
<p>J.R. Lutticken</p>
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