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When the second wave of (originally organized in 2006/2007) Tea Parties and related liberty groups popped up in 2009 it was every group for themselves. It took a little while for networking between various groups to get going. Everyone was looking for and trying to create hubs where organizers could make plans together as far as dates on events and what was helping their group or just for therapy purposes - because being an organizer is a lot more stressful than it may sound. Of course, I have to make room for the fact that there are different types of organizers too... I don't want to speak FOR anyone but I have seen a LOT. Different types of organizers: 1. those Out to make a name for themselves or posturing for a higher position somewhere 2. the Republican astroturf (there's just no nice way to say it - it exists) 3. the Totally clueless (most of which have either allowed their groups to be co opted by the republicans or have lost all their members due to a lack of substance) 4. Those who think they get the big picture 5. Then there are those of us who are still committed to nonpartisanship and focus on actually educating people - encouraging them to research, educate themselves and spread the word to others. For us, it's not about rallies or who's group is the biggest... we work on a local level within our communities ignoring the established top down organizations on the state and national levels because they don't KNOW our community. They have no personal relationships with these people. They just want numbers. It's kind of funny that those of us who focus on education - we didn't jump into these positions intentionally. It was either accidental or thrown at us. We had no idea where this would lead or the responsibility we were being saddled with. It's a lot to take on... especially when you never asked for it. But everything happens for a reason. So having that background on the behind the scenes of liberty groups, here are a few more details you probably didn't know... "Tea Party Patriots" established themselves as THE site for organizers to try to connect... but the leadership there wouldn't let us have eachothers contact information - oh and they wanted the contact information for everyone on our local group lists. Unfortunately for the movement, there were those who handed over the private information of others and allowed their groups to be coopted. Unfortunately for Tea Party Patriots, there are those of us who didn't and the truth is getting out. Tea Party Patriots Investigated: "They Use You and Abuse You" Zuma/Manny Crisostomo. Monday, Feb 14, 2011 Pricey political consultants, constant fundraising, fame-seeking leaders: A grassroots group cozies up to the DC establishment and alienates the activists who put it on the map. Part 1 of 3. — By Stephanie Mencimer Two years ago, Tea Party Patriots got its start as a scrappy, ground-up conservative organization. Its rowdy activists demanded more transparency and less business-as-usual in the nation's capital, and they worked hard to elect candidates who they believed wouldn't succumb to the ways of Washington. But it didn't take long for the grassroots tea party organization to embrace the DC establishment—and some of its more questionable practices. Lately, Tea Party Patriots (TPP) has started to resemble the Beltway lobbying operations its members have denounced. The [national] group's leaders have cozied up to political insiders implicated in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and have paid themselves significant salaries. TPP accepted the use of a private jet and a large donation of anonymous cash right before a key election, and its top officials have refused to discuss how the money was spent. And recently, the group has hired several big-time fundraising and public relations firms that work for the who's who of the Republican political class, including some of the GOP's most secretive campaign operations. As TPP's leaders entrench themselves in Washington, local activists the group represents have accused them of exploiting the grassroots for their own fame and fortune while failing to deliver any meaningful political results. "Tea Party Patriots? I can't attribute one victory to them at all," says Laura Boatright, a former TPP regional coordinator in Southern California who has become an outspoken critic. "Where's the success with what they've done with all this money? My view is that it's just a career plan" for its national leaders—namely Jenny Beth Martin, who in 2010 was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Mark Meckler, now a regular commentator on Fox News. (Meckler and Martin did not respond to a request to comment for this story.) In August, TPP inked a contract with MDS Communications, an Arizona-based phone fundraising firm that counts as clients the Republican National Committee and most of the GOP's congressional campaign organizations. MDS even handled the telephone fundraising for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. The firm specializes in working with the GOP's evangelical foot soldiers, including the National Right to Life Committee, Concerned Women for America, and the Family Research Council. It has been heavily involved in anti-gay marriage activities, once donating its services to help raise more than $7 million for Arizona's Proposition 102, which created a state ban on gay marriage. "Tea Party Patriots? I can't attribute one victory to them at all," says Laura Boatright, a former TPP regional coordinator. The MDS deal with TPP is anything but cheap. Documents filed with the Colorado secretary of state indicate that MDS will keep at least 70 percent of the money it raises—nearly $3 out of every $4. In 2005, California's attorney general released a report (PDF) showing that MDS was among a number of fundraising companies that returned less than 15 percent of what they raised to some of the charities they worked for. Out of more than $585,000 MDS pulled in for the Concerned Women for America, for instance, not a dime went back to the nonprofit group, according to the report. TPP's leaders negotiated a similar deal with Capitol Resources, the most formidable GOP phone fundraising operation in the presidential bellwether state of Iowa. Corporate filings show the company will keep 75 percent of the money it raises hitting up tea partiers for donations. The firm's owner, Nicole Schlinger, is a longtime GOP operative. She was the finance director of the Iowa Republican Party in the late 1990s, and she directed Mitt Romney's victorious 2007 Iowa presidential straw poll campaign. Schlinger also served as the original president and sole board member of the American Future Fund, an outside expenditure group that spent millions from anonymous donors during the 2010 midterms attacking Democratic candidates. (Earlier this month, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked the IRS to investigate the group for allegedly violating its tax-exempt status.) Rounding out TPP's new stable of political consultants is the Richard Norman Company, a Virginia-based direct-mail fundraising and PR firm. Norman, like the other firms on TPP's payroll, represents some of the country's most prominent GOP players, including the political action committee of former uber-lobbyist and current Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. TPP has long insisted that it wants to avoid divisive social issues like abortion to focus on the core values of fiscal responsibility and limited government. But in hiring the Norman firm (and MDS, too), it has joined the ranks of a long list of evangelical organizations affiliated with the far-right wing that are represented by the company. Norman clients include the Foundation for Moral Law, the group founded by the defrocked Alabama Supreme Court judge Roy Moore, who was kicked out of office for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments sculpture from his courtroom. Also on the firm's client roster are several anti-immigration groups, including the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Norman even represents a group headed by birther Gary Kreep. Next page: Activists feel like fundraising marks-not partners in a movement. TPP's new coterie of consultants and fundraisers may put the group in a new league politically—but they have sparked bitter complaints by affiliated tea party groups, whose members are tired of being hounded for money. Some see TPP morphing into the very type of slick, DC-centric special interest group they have been fighting against. In an interview with Congress.com last month, TPP's Martin tried to play down such notions. "Any possible solutions that we come up with, especially policy related, we're going to go back to the local coordinators and say, 'Do you agree with this?'" she said. Rank-and-file tea partiers aren't buying it. Last month, Jeanie Backus Coates, then the New Mexico state coordinator for TPP, sent out an urgent email to her grassroots compatriots warning that TPP was using telemarketers to raise money from local activists. In a January 13 email, she wrote: The Tea Party Patriots national website clearly states that 100% of the funds raised go to furthering OUR efforts. Well, I guess that's true AFTER paying out salaries, consultants, telemarketers, attorneys, etc... And yes, Jenny Beth and [coordinator] Mark Meckler hired a consultant without most of us even knowing about it and now that consultant has encouraged and those two have decided to start soliciting donations from our own local tea party participants so that they can pay themselves, their consultant, their telemarketers, and their attorneys. Coates was particularly angered because the national TPP leaders have relentlessly pressured local affiliates to turn over their valuable membership contact lists to the national organization, which the group is now using to sic telemarketers on tea partiers. The list controversy dates back to September, when TPP announced that it had received a $1 million grant from an anonymous donor to conduct get out the vote work before the midterm elections. The money was distributed to local tea party groups, but initially only on the condition that they turn over their membership lists to the national organization, a move that raised suspicions that TPP intended to sell this valuable data. (Fueling these suspicions was the fact that Meckler works for a lead-generation company that provides email contacts to companies often considered to be pyramid schemes.) "They make it seem like they help local groups. None of that money ever goes back to local groups." Now, activists are furious to discover that TPP is leveraging those lists to mine tea partiers for money that will fund such things as Meckler and Martin's salaries, a winter conference in Phoenix, and of course, the high-priced fundraisers themselves. Disgruntled former TPP volunteers and activists say that rather than partners in a movement, they have increasingly come to feel like fundraising marks. TPP's fundraising appeals, they say, can be quite deceptive. One sent out recently by TPP's Martin pleads with "patriots" to donate to pay for sound-stage equipment, event security, travel expenses for speakers, and other tea party rally trappings. She promises that the money will fund the group's efforts to meet with local tea party groups and "to give them the advice, direction, and the logistical support they need to get off the ground." Respondents can return a form pre-addressed to Martin that reads, "Dear Jenny Beth, Thank you for sacrificing your former way of life to fight for our liberty and for the core values and principles our great nation was founded on." Some tea partiers point out that Martin's "way of life" has improved considerably since she started making a reported $6,000 a month as TPP's national coordinator. Before she became a tea party star, she was working as a maid, scrubbing toilets for Atlanta suburbanites after her husband's company went belly up. Cindy Chafian, the co-coordinator of California's Chino Hills Tea Party in California, used to donate monthly to TPP. She has since grown disillusioned with the group and its leaders. Far from helping local activists like her, Chafian says, TPP's fundraising efforts are actually diverting resources from the local groups that need them. "They make it seem like they help local groups," she says. "None of that money ever goes back to local groups." TPP's nonstop fundraising efforts have reached the point where the group's weekly conference calls with activists have turned into little more than telethons, says the organization's former Georgia state coordinator, Joy McGraw. And, far from bolstering local groups, the national organization has left them holding the bag for bills they incur advancing the movement. Such was the case with McGraw, who says she arranged an event attended by Martin and Meckler that featured GOP talking head Dick Morris. McGraw says Martin had her deal with all the logistics for the event, even signing contracts for catering and other expenses, but refused to let her handle any of the money raised to pay for it, including through ticket sales. When the $5,000 catering bill came due, the national coordinators refused to pay, she says. When creditors began to come after her, McGraw was forced to raise money from fellow activists to pay off the debt. "Tea Party Patriots don't really do anything for the local groups," she says."There are a lot of frustrated people. There are a lot of other people in the country who've done events and have gotten screwed over. We are all volunteers. We do not get paid like [Martin] does. They don't say, 'Thank you.' They use you and abuse you."** The money TPP has raised is significant, and the hiring of professional fundraisers should only help matters. According to a financial statement filed with the Colorado secretary of state, TPP raised $538,009 between June 1, 2009, and May 31, 2010. It would later receive the $1 million donation. Given the amount of cash that has sloshed through TPP's coffers in the past two years, much of it from individual grassroots donors, many activists have begun to wonder how it's been spent by an organization that doesn't even have an office. Yet TPP has proven virtually inscrutable, and its leaders have refused to answer the question: Where's all the money going? TOMORROW: TPP says it's a nonprofit political charity. "News to us," says the IRS. **Update 2/14/10 Mother Jones asked a tea party spokesman to comment on this story last week but did not get a response. After the story was published, Debbie Dooley, a TPP national coordinator in Georgia, emailed Mother Jones disputing McGraw's account of events, saying that McGraw approached TPP about doing the event with Dick Morris and offered to sign a contract pledging to handle all the expenses and debt from the event, in exchange for taking a 15 percent cut of any profits, with the rest going to the Atlanta Tea Party. Source: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/tea-party-patriots-investigated Tea Party Patriots Investigated: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Zuma/Pete Marovich. Tue, Feb 15, 2011 The nation's largest tea party group wants your money. Just don't inquire about where it's going. Part 2 of 3. — By Stephanie Mencimer The nation's largest tea party group, Tea Party Patriots, made a name for itself through raucous protests demanding more government transparency and fiscal responsibility. But the high standards of transparency and financial restraint that TPP's leaders expect from the Obama administration don't seem to apply to their own organization, a Mother Jones investigation has found. TPP leaders have used dodgy accounting tricks to avoid publicly disclosing financial information. They've refused to share this information with the group's members. Tea partiers who've tried to pierce the veil of secrecy have found themselves threatened with lawsuits or shut out of the organization entirely. And the group has tried to buy the silence of former employees and disillusioned board members, offering sums as high as $20,000 to sign confidentiality agreements. (National TPP coordinators did not respond to requests for comment for this story.) TPP has proven highly adept at raising money, and it has hired a team of high-priced PR consultants and GOP-connected direct-mail and telemarketing firms to give the group even more fundraising firepower. Yet it has failed to complete the simple bookkeeping chores required of a well-managed charitable organization. TPP claims it is a 501(c)(4) entity. That means the group does not pay taxes, but donations to the group aren't tax-deductible. Yet despite raising millions of dollars since its founding in February 2009, TPP has not even applied to the IRS for such official status, according to a TPP spokesman. And the IRS confirms that it has not filed paperwork that would reveal basic information about its finances. "You'd think they'd lead by example, you'd think they'd open their books and not hide behind their tax status." The IRS allows nonprofits like TPP to bill themselves as tax-exempt before they’ve received official approval, but they are still required to file tax forms—what are known as 990s—publicly disclosing how much money they've raised, how much top staff members are paid, and generally how its funds are spent. One glance at a 990 can often distinguish a bad nonprofit from a good one by showing how much the group invested in actual program expenses, as opposed to administrative costs like salaries and other overhead. TPP first ratified its bylaws in February 2009 and was incorporated in Woodstock, Georgia, that June, self-identifying as a 501(c)(4). Under standard charitable organizational practices, TPP would have filed a 990 last April or (with an IRS extension) by November 15, 2010. It didn't. Instead, Randy Lewis, a spokesman for the group, says that TPP has declared a May 31 end to its fiscal year. This means that under IRS rules, TPP won't have to file its first tax form for the 2009 tax year until April 15, 2011, more than two years after its inception. There's nothing illegal about what TPP is doing—but it's certainly not the action of an outfit that welcomes public scrutiny. Marcus Owens, a DC tax lawyer with the firm of Caplin & Drysdale, who served for 10 years as the director of the Exempt Organizations Division of the IRS, says that shifting the tax year is an old trick used by political groups to delay disclosure. He noted that the IRS has said that one of its goals this year is to crack down on this type of foot-dragging by charities in light of all the anonymous money flooding the political system. TPP's opaque operations have raised the suspicions of some tea partiers who have accused the group's leaders of hypocrisy—preaching transparency and preventing it at the same time. "You'd think they'd lead by example, you'd think they'd open their books and not hide behind their tax status," says Laura Boatright, a former TPP regional coordinator in southern California who's become one of the group's loudest critics. While TPP hasn't deployed its significant resources to get its books in order, many smaller tea party groups it counts as affiliates have. At least one—the North Houston Tea Party Patriots—has posted its financial information on its website for anyone to see. "All over the country, small tea party groups are playing by the rules," says Florida tea party activist Robin Stublen, who served as a TPP state coordinator before becoming disenchanted with their lack of transparency. "If [TPP] hasn't filed their taxes, quite frankly, that's outrageous." Even the Tea Party Express, which TPP national coordinator Mark Meckler has derided as an Astroturf group because it's run by a handful of California political consultants, has been more transparent than TPP. Tea Party Express, a political action committee, has come under fire for raising significant funds from tea partiers that went back to the consulting firm that organized it. But one reason activists were able to criticize the organization is that it had reported its expenditures to the Federal Election Commission, as required by law. Next page: “They were eating like kings and queens on donated money.” TPP's opacity has left local organizers and even some former staffers in the dark about what's happened to the millions of dollars the group has raised over the past two years. This has fueled suspicions about how Meckler and fellow national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin are spending the money—and whether they are exploiting the tea party movement for personal gain. Martin said last summer that she was making $6,000 a month for her work. But activists have been unable to officially confirm her salary or Meckler's. Asked late last year by Mother Jones, Meckler refused to say how much he's being paid, though such information is legally required to be disclosed on a charity's tax forms. "You are taking money out of the pockets of local groups and spending it on what? Rallies, hotels, airplanes so Mark and Jenny Beth can fly around and talk to potential donors? It's ridiculous." To local tea party activists, Meckler and Martin appear to be living large (even as they churn out op-eds bashing Republicans for not doing enough to cut the budget). They did little to dispel such notions in October, when the pair jetted across the country in a private plane to whip up the tea party faithful ahead of the midterms. Recently, they launched their own slick personal websites highlighting their tea party leadership and media appearances—sites that are separate from the national group's website and have all the trappings of the work of image consultants. "They're acting just like the regular GOP does," say Joy McGraw, a former Georgia state coordinator for TPP who spent some time in DC with its national leaders. "They received a million in donations; they flew around in a private jet. Every time they stayed in DC, they stayed in the Hyatt. They were eating like kings and queens on donated money." TPP's honchos don't take kindly to questions about how they are spending the group's money, either, as California tea partier Cindy Chafian discovered the hard way. During one of the group's weekly webinars last fall, Chafian, the co-coordinator of the Chino Hills Tea Party, asked some pointed questions about why the group wasn't more forthcoming about how it spent the $1 million donation. Afterwards, her tea party group was deleted from the TPP website and she was blocked from further calls. She subsequently sent a letter to TPP's board raising her concerns. In it, she wrote: When I think of what a LOCAL GROUP could do with that money it really makes me angry. There are many groups who are struggling just to keep their heads above water; your organization should be encouraging them to keep their money local. Instead you are taking money out of the pockets of local groups and spending it on what? Rallies, hotels, airplanes so Mark and Jenny Beth can fly around and talk to potential donors? It's ridiculous. TPP relies on DONATIONS from it's members to survive…for you to waste that money is completely unacceptable. In return she was threatened with a lawsuit by one of the board members, Debbie Dooley, who in an email called her allegations slanderous and said, "I can tell you that if you go public with these lies, I will obtain an attorney personally for myself and seek legal action against you. You are way off base and I am glad you are no longer associated with TPP." Dooley did not responded to questions from Mother Jones. Scott Boston, TPP's onetime national education coordinator, says he, too, pressed for answers about the group's finances—and was pushed out of the group as a result. Boston says he was offered a severance package that was contingent on signing a nondisclosure agreement. He declined to sign. Rob Gaudet, TPP's former chief technology officer who created the group's website as well as many of its related software applications, was also forced out of the organization last fall. (TPP says he refused to follow orders about server management; Gaudet says he was ousted for criticizing the top leadership and its management.) TPP offered him $20,000 to keep quiet, he says. Like Boston, he declined. "Any time anybody asks about the money, you're immediately labeled as a problem or an adversary," says Boatright, the southern California tea partier. "They act like you're a troublemaker just for asking." Source: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/tea-party-patriots-investigated-part-two?page=1 Tea Party Patriots Investigated: The Tax-Dodging Treasurer Pete Marovich/Zumapress.com Why'd the group put a failed businessman who owes big money to the IRS in charge of its finances? — By Stephanie Mencimer Wnd, Feb 16, 2011 The finances of the nation's largest tea party group have increasingly become a subject of concern—and outrage—to conservative activists. Some question whether donations to the organization, Tea Party Patriots, have gone to advance the movement, or just the careers and jet-setting lifestyles of its leaders. What they don't know is that the group has had a man with an unusual background managing its money: He was sanctioned by the IRS several years ago for failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in payroll taxes related to a failed business that pushed him into bankruptcy. He also happens to be married to one of the group's leaders. For a group that has demanded financial accountability and transparency from the Obama administration, Tea Party Patriots (TPP) has not embraced those principles in its own business affairs. It has been highly secretive about its finances, and the organization's leaders have dealt harshly with activists and employees who've pressed for answers on how donor money has been spent. Meanwhile, the group has failed to file a timely tax return indicating how much money it has raised and what, generally, it spent it on—including how much it's paying its top staffers. And despite identifying itself for nearly two years as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, the group has neglected to actually apply to the IRS for such status. "I couldn't get paid without contacting Lee Martin." Former TPP insiders say the organization's finances have largely been managed by Lee Martin, who's identified in some corporate filings as the group's assistant treasurer. He's better known to tea partiers as the husband of Jenny Beth Martin, a cofounder of TPP and one of the faces of the tea party movement. Unknown to all but a few tea partiers who have knowledge of TPP's internal dynamics, Martin has taken a wide-ranging role in the organization, managing a range of payroll and personnel issues. Former employees describe him as a financial gatekeeper of sorts. "I couldn't get paid without contacting Lee Martin," says Scott Boston, who worked for several months as the group's national education coordinator before he was let go last fall. Ex-TPP insiders familiar with Martin's role at TPP say having him handle the group's bills poses a conflict of interest. They also question the wisdom of placing a person with a dubious financial track record in charge of managing the group's donated money—which, since the group's founding in 2009, has totaled in the millions. Much of it arrives via small online contributions that can create a bookkeeping nightmare. While Lee Martin does have experience running a business, things did not end well for his company. For about eight years, Martin owned a Georgia temp company called Indwell, which supplied non-English speaking temporary workers to local businesses. The company went belly up in 2007, and Martin has blamed a former business partner for contributing to its demise. But while running the company on his own, Martin failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in payroll taxes. Next page: “I can authorize $13,000 right away, “Lee Martin wrote.” By 2008, the company's collapse had forced the Martins to file for bankruptcy. At the time, they were more than $1.4 million in debt. Of that, they owed $510,000 to the IRS and more than $172,000 to Georgia's tax authorities. The Martins eventually lost their home and twin Lincoln Navigators. Before the tea party movement came along in early 2009, Jenny Beth was working as a maid and Lee was fixing computers to make ends meet. "I think it's a huge conflict of interest to be handling all that money when you're in such dire straits." While Jenny Beth took a high-profile role in promoting the tea party movement—Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world last year—Lee Martin worked behind the scenes for the organization his wife helped found. Martin admits that he has done a lot of "back office" and administrative work for TPP, but downplays his role within the organization. "I'm taking care of our 7-year-old twins while my wife runs around the country doing tea party stuff," he says. He portrays himself as more paper push than treasurer, noting that he doesn't sign any checks or make payments. He does confirm, however, that "if people want to get paid, the bill goes through me for administrative purposes." Lee Martin—who says he is not paid for his TPP work—doesn't just handle money matters. He's also taken on the role of a de facto human resources manager, as well. When TPP fired its chief technology officer, Rob Gaudet, in October, it was Martin who wrote to him offering a sizable payout to sign a nondisclosure agreement. "I can authorize $13,000 right away in exchange for an agreement that basically says we will part on good terms, support a smooth transition, and refrain from making negative comments about each other," Martin wrote in an instant message. Eventually, TPP offered him $20,000, Gaudet says, but he declined to sign the agreement. Why did Martin get involved in this matter? "I used to work in the human resources industry," he explains. "My history in that gave me knowledge the group found useful." Some tea party insiders, however, see Martin's work for the group as an indication that it's relying on nepotism rather than good management to run its affairs. In part, that's because Lee Martin isn't the only relative of Jenny Beth who's involved in running TPP. Her cousin, Kevin Mooneyhan, is a paid TPP employee. Lee Martin says Mooneyhan, once the operations coordinator for his defunct temp firm, is his wife's right-hand man, and insists there is nothing improper about his hiring. "It didn't have anything to do with the fact that he was a cousin," he says. "I think [Jenny Beth] has about 30 cousins, he's the only one [working there], and it's strictly because of his qualifications and not because he's a relative." Martin blames criticisms of him and TPP's leadership on disgruntled employees and activists. "We've got a few people who along the way just did not work out as team members," he says. "They're not happy about having to be separated from the group." This sentiment is shared by some TPP loyalists. "Those speaking out against them, they are just sour grapes," says Anthony Shreeve, a Tennessee state coordinator for TPP. But Laura Boatright, a onetime TPP regional coordinator in southern California, says activists have good reason for concern about Lee Martin's role in the group. She points in particular to the Martins' fragile financial condition. "I think they should be worried, not only because of his prior record dealing with finances and having a very successful business that went under, but I think it's a huge conflict of interest to be handling all that money when you're in such dire straits." Source: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/tea-party-patriots-investigated-part-3?page=1 Many similar stories can be found doing your own research. Don't be a sheeple - think for yourself! EXECUTIVE ORDER:
BLOCKING PROPERTY OF TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/executive-order-blocking-property-transnational-criminal-organizations RELATED - Presidential Memorandum--Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/presidential-memorandum-blocking-property-transnational-criminal-organiz RELATED - Presidential Proclamation--Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/presidential-proclamation-suspension-entry-aliens-subject-united-nations RELATED - MESSAGE FROM OBAMA REGARDING THE CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/20/message-president-regarding-contintuation-national-emergency-respect-for PREVIOUS: “Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 USC 1622(d), provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. Consistent with this provision, I have sent to the Federal Register the enclosed notice, stating that the emergency declared with respect to the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, is to continue in effect for an additional year.” THIS year's message of continuation: "Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication stating that the national emergency and related measures dealing with the former regime of Charles Taylor are to continue in effect beyond July 22, 2011." (Only extended it by a couple days... Just long enough to declare a NEW emergency? Needed more time to come up with a valid reason that would meet IEEPA criteria? Nice.) INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS ACT (IEEPA) - CODES In the event of an actual attack on the United States, the president can also confiscate property connected with a country, group, or person that aided in the attack. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sup_01_50_10_35.html NATIONAL EMERGENCIES ACT (NEA) TERMINATION Any national emergency declared by the President in accordance with this subchapter, and not otherwise previously terminated, shall terminate on the anniversary of the declaration of that emergency if, within the ninety-day period prior to each anniversary date, the President does not publish in the Federal Register and transmit to the Congress a notice stating that such emergency is to continue in effect after such anniversary. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/usc_sec_50_00001622----000-.html http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-declares-organized-crime-threat-a-national-emergency-2011-7 http://inteldaily.com/2010/09/obama-declares-another-national-emergency-when-none-exists/ http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/075321-2010-09-14-obama-declares-another-national-emergency-when-none-exists.htm?From=News http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28683.html http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/4573-bush-obama-and-the-nine-year-emergency http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=13091 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=55957#axzz1TNAmwN00 http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/eo/eo12919.htm Annex A: United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1) UNSCR 1521 (2003) (concerning Liberia): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1521/ 2) UNSCR1572 (2004)) (concerning Côte d’Ivoire): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1572/resolutions.shtml 3) UNSCR 1591 (2005) (concerning Sudan): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1591/ 4) UNSCR 1636 (2005) (concerning Lebanon): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1636/ 5) UNSCR 1718 (2006) (concerning North Korea): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1718/ 6) UNSCR 1844 (2008) (concerning Somalia): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/751/ 7) UNSCR 1857 (2008) (concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1533/ 8) UNSCR 1907 (2009) (concerning Eritrea): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/751/ 9) UNSCR 1929 (2010) (concerning Iran): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1737/ 10) UNSCR 1970 and 1973 (2011) (concerning the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1970/ 11) UNSCR 1988 (2011) (concerning Afghanistan): http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1988/ 12) UNSCR 1989 (2011) (concerning Al Qaeda) http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/ Annex B: Executive Orders 1) Executive Order 12947 of January 23, 1995 (Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process), as amended by Executive Order 13099 of August 20, 1998 (Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process) 2) Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995 (Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers) 3) Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 1997 (Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan) 4) Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001 (Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans), as amended by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003 (Termination of National Emergencies With Respect to Yugoslavia and Modification of Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001) 5) Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism), as amended by Executive Order 13268 of July 2, 2002 (Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Taliban and Amendment of Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001) 6) Executive Order 13288 of March 6, 2003 (Blocking Property of Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe), as amended by Executive Order 13391 of November 22, 2005 (Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe) 7) Executive Order 13310 of July 28, 2003 (Blocking Property of the Government of Burma and Prohibiting Certain Transactions) 8) Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003 (Blocking Property of the Former Iraqi Regime, Its Senior Officials and Their Family Members, and Taking Certain Other Actions), superseded in part by Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004 (Termination of Emergency Declared in Executive Order 12722 With Respect to Iraq and Modification of Executive Order 13290, Executive Order 13303, and Executive Order 13315) 9) Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria), as amended by Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008 (Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria) 10) Executive Order 13348 of July 22, 2004 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of Certain Goods from Liberia) 11) Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005 (Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters) 12) Executive Order 13396 of February 7, 2006 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire) 13) Executive Order 13399 of April 25, 2006 (Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria) 14) Executive Order 13400 of April 26, 2006 (Blocking Property of Persons in Connection With the Conflict in Sudan’s Darfur Region) 15) Executive Order 13405 of June 16, 2006 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus) 16) Executive Order 13412 of October 13, 2006 (Blocking Property of and Prohibiting Transactions With the Government of Sudan) 17) Executive Order 13413 of October 27, 2006 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) 18) Executive Order 13438 of July 17, 2007 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq) 19) Executive Order 13441 of August 1, 2007 (Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions) 20) Executive Order 13448, of October 18, 2007 (Blocking Property and Prohibition Certain Transactions Related to Burma) 21) Executive Order 13460 of February 13, 2008 (Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria) 22) Executive Order 13464 of April 30, 2008 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Burma) 23) Executive Order 13469 of July 25, 2008 (Blocking Property of Additional Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe) 24) Executive Order 13536 of April 12, 2010 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia) 25) Executive Order 13551 of August 30, 2010 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to North Korea) 26) Executive Order 13566 of February 25, 2011 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya) 27) Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011 (Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to Human Rights Abuses in Syria) 28) Executive Order 13573 of May 18, 2011 (Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of Syria) 29) Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011 (Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations) Other: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/presidential-proclamation-suspension-entry-aliens-subject-united-nations http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/21/message-president-congress-regarding-continuation-national-emergency-res http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/21/notice-regarding-continuation-national-emergency-respect-persons-who-com Proof
of "Weather Modification" - (Must see for skeptics) http://www.weathermodification.com The Specifics on Fukushima & Radiation - what it means for US
Leuren Moret is a Nuclear Power whilstleblower who is telling all that will listen. Get yourself a bite to eat and a cup of coffee then hunker down and listen up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0ow2Jjs9E http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=165352 http://www.whale.to/b/moret23.html http://www.multistalkervictims.org/moret2citycouncil.htm nuclear meltdown material in the air will DECAY INTO CHEMTRAIL materials.. BARIUM and STRONTIUM ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5uJSo-Ed70 here are a copule links on "nuclear transmutation" you can CLEARLY see.. these radioactive elements WILL DECAY into barium and strontium! i.e.. the same substances found in / make up CHEMTRAILS! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/radionuclides/cesium.html http://www.google.com/search?q=barium+and+strontium+chemtrails&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7 Barium & strontium also needed for holograms (Project Blue Beam anyone?) this "blue beam device" even calls for the use of BARIUM and STRONTIUM crystals in the air to project 3D images.. realtime for HOURS after the image was made.. it hangs in the air!!! below is the link to the "3D imaging" text.. all about how the military will be using barium and strontium to "reflect" holograms for hours or DAYS in the atmosphere!!! http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA338490&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf RADIATION: LISA JACKSON -head administrator of EPA [email protected] Sara DeCair-health physicist EPA's office or Radiation [email protected] (202) 343-9713 It's not a constant slam of it there are peaks and wanes but better safe than sorry here you go: http://www.baycitizen.org/japan-disaster/story/government-under-fire-radiation-milk/1/ http://www.npl.washington.edu/monitoring/node/1 http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-sampling-data.html#precipitation Iodine-131 Radiation found in WA: air filter, milk, drinking water & precipitation Left or is leaving MSM/other news/entertainment affiliates:
Oprah (see her ties to Rockefeller, Gates & others), Beck FOX, Kathleen Parker CNN, John Roberts CNN, Sue Bunda CNN, Keith Olbermann MSNBC, Lloyd Robertson CTV, Larry King, Regis Philbin, Katie Couric, Matt lauer, Meredith Vieira, Anne Curry, Natalie Morales |