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August 2nd -

We began with talking about how important it is to conquer your fear.  Living in fear keeps us from acting – it’s important to recognize it for what it is, and move on.  We cannot allow fear to rule or deter our actions.  Oftentimes we allow fear of what may be, camps, death, torture, keep us from doing what is necessary for a free republic. One person can make a HUGE difference in the lives of MANY other people. You can be that match light in the dark.

We did not care for it much.

Beer Review:  Widmer Brother, w’08 Crimson Wheat Wheat Beer. No one really liked it much.  Katie bought it because it said Wheat Beer on the side of the box, but come to find out when you pick one up it said W’08. Oh god!!!! That led to conversation about how everything is prepping us for the NWO. (just seems that way some times)

Especially when you go to the movies. It seems to be all about Martial Law, were all going blind, we cant have babies, the bad people are coming, the aliens are coming. SOMETHING. Its just sickening.Rita saw Black Night which was HORRIBLE.

Property Tax Protest – Went to a Property Tax Protest that was sponsored by Don Zimmerman (Who is running for County Tax Assessor–lets hope he wins!) About 40 people showed up including the media. Our property tax is going up even with this economy by $5000 a house..Its really ridiculous.

Uncounted – Movie at Alamo Draft house sponsored by VoteRescue. What an awesome movie. Here is the trailor:

Katie fired today from talking politics (the war) in the break room. What a bunch of bullshiznit.  She is fine, she went part time a few months ago because she wanted to be home with the kids. Thank God she didn’t need to work. But has this happened to anyone else? Talk about socialism? I bet you $100 that if I was talking about killing Muslims and how great that was…nothing would happen to me. – Katie

Newspapers letting go hundreds to thousands of jobs and are being bought up by bigger news papers/companies over the past year. Newspapers are in trouble and so are we. If independent people are fired, the ones who actually go out and search for the answers, then all we WILL end up with is the Governements “talking points” and Associated Press/Rueters reports. Its almost all we have right now anyways. Another reason this is big is that radio/broadcasting is about five years behind. The internet is taking over, but I think that having all different means to information is great. Most people who read the paper spend about 45 minutes reading it and most people who get news online spend 7 minutes getting it. Most people we know STAY in the NEWS so this is talking about main stream society. Not “awake” people. Lol

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047441/posts

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/13/business/main3828738.shtml

www.observer.com/2008/i-l-times-i-will-eliminate-100-150-positions-job-cuts-across-tribune

www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1109801.html

www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003705012

If you google job cuts observer/cronicle/newspaper/etc tons of papers are having to cut over the past year. Where is jounalism going. What is the impact.

Dripping Springs Man takes a case before the Grand Jury regarding Ghost Voting in the legislature. Gary Conner is my HERO of the week! He saw this news report: and got mad as hell. Did some research and said that this has to be illegal. He brought up charges up on impersonating a government official and tampering with government documents. He brought the issue DIRECTLY to the Grand Jury, bypassing the DA (with a fight no less) and finally got it seen by them.

“The investigation wrapped last month with the grand jury issuing a report, condemning the practice and calling on the legislators to stop or change their rules, which prohibit members from voting for each other.”

ONE MAN did this for the entire state of Texas. Think of how huge that is….

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/07/27/0727grandjury.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=52

I met him one time at a training for the senate convention. He was awesome! Way to go Gary! Everyone, no matter where they are on the scope of things needs to pay attention to this. While we still have a say, we can do things like this. They haven’t totally shut us out yet. I am sure this will have an effect on future laws as in, there will be something soon to squash this from happening again. Think about what they were trying NOT to go to the Grand Jury. I mean total corruption and totally unlawful acts!! It’s acts like this, from ONE PERSON, out there that can make a HUGE difference on a huge amount of people. Thank God there are people out there fighting not only for his liberty and justice, but all of ours.

PROPAGANDA MEDIA

We hadn’t seen this video as many of our friends out there IM SURE have….But it still blew me away that he just nonchalantly puts it out there…”Oh yeah, we send talking points to Fox News all the time!” “We tell them what to say-thats the way we like it” Oh man….Its so bad!!!

This is the saddest article I have seen in awhile. It really broke my heart.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25875340/ 22,000 veterans have called suicide hot linePhone line was launched last July after complaints VA wasn’t doing enough Mon., July. 28, 2008

WASHINGTON – More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.  And thats WHO CALLED IN..can you imagine how many have problems that HAVENT called in. Another things that really upsets me about this article is that it says that it saved 1,221 suicides, so how many did it NOT save? What are those numbers? I really feel for the men and women overseas everywhere that see and hear stuff that we can not even imagine.

A different way to treat PSTD that we got from a caller: http://www.hgi.org.uk/archive/PTSD_Trauma_Treatments.htm

Speaking about military, I heard from Casey J Porter and he is alive and well and doing great.

Even the RAND corporation, HERE IS RAND AT A GLANCE: (RAND’s research is commissioned by a wide range of sources. Federal, state, and local government agencies provide the largest share of the funding; however, RAND also conducts projects for foundations, foreign governments, and private-sector firms. Contributions from individuals, charitable foundations, and private firms, as well as earnings from RAND’s endowment, offer a steadily growing pool of funds that allow RAND to address problems not yet on the policy agenda. RAND’s revenue in FY07 was $223.01 million.) says that Al Queda is stronger and better than ever!!!!

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2008/07/29/

Excerpt:

Al Qaida has been involved in more terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, than it was during its prior history and the group’s attacks since then have spanned an increasingly broader range of targets in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, according to researchers.

In looking at how other terrorist groups have ended, the RAND study found that most terrorist groups end either because they join the political process, or because local police and intelligence efforts arrest or kill key members. Police and intelligence agencies, rather than the military, should be the tip of the spear against al Qaida in most of the world, and the United States should abandon the use of the phrase “war on terrorism,” researchers concluded.

“The United States cannot conduct an effective long-term counterterrorism campaign against al Qaida or other terrorist groups without understanding how terrorist groups end,” said Seth Jones, the study’s lead author and a political scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “In most cases, military force isn’t the best instrument.”

SO mean we’re not fighting terrorism right??? NO IT CANT BE!!! NO WAY? SERIOUSLY? BUSH/CHENEY HAVE IT WRONG? NO WAY!!!!

HEALTH
- How to make organic toothpaste

Baking Soda
Hydrogen Peroxide
Drop of peppermint oil
Think about how cheap and easy. I mean you know EXACTLY what is in it!

Speaking of health issues: This is some great FREAKING BREAD!!! MUST FIND AND EAT! They have it in Austin, and I just DIE for it. You can go into the store and sample ALL the bread they make there for free! Also, They grind their OWN WHEAT every morning! It really is amazing bread! It only has FIVE INGREDIENTS in their MAIN Wheat bread. (which is my favorite)

http://www.greatharvest.com/

Excerpt: “Great whole grain, whole-wheat bread does not need a long list of ingredients. Five pure and simple ingredients are all it takes: whole-wheat flour, filtered water, fresh yeast, salt, and something sweet (usually a local honey). In fact, we’d say bread is best when you keep it simple. It’s even better when you use the highest quality ingredients you can find.”

Down fall: the PRICE has risen over a $1.50 in the past two months. The lady at the counter said that the wheat prices have gone up so much, and it was so scarces they had to raise their prices too. Where is all the wheat?

TOAST: We did our “11:15 Toast, “To the soldiers who are fighting on our behalf” Keep them safe. Our toasts are usually Buttery Nipples, not beer though!

They are put into such a hard situation: Look at this article:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25874540/

U.S. military acknowledges Iraqi civilians killed. The statement reverses earlier claims that victims were suspected militants

–They were bankers. How many times has this happened in Iraq? Very sad war that we do not even know who the combantants are and who people that are coming/going to work. Impossible to win when you do not know who your enemy is? The enemies are in the white house in my opinion! (Katie)

- Aug 11th – Great American Walk for Freedom – campaign to massively hand out constitutions and get thousands of people to sign up for the campaign for liberty – We should follow their lead and do this in Austin! I think the 14 list needs a protest activity like this to get people involved again
http://walk4freedom.org/

- I like this action too: Setting up a booth to swear citizens in to defend and protect the constitution. Rita brought this to our attention. They are doing this in California, if I am not mistaken.

C4L

http://rally.campaignforliberty.com/

Now that we’re all going to MN, we should really start pumping up the hype. Here’s some stats:

Rally tickets sold so far   : 5000+

From Texas                  :  300+ (6%)

States with more tickets than Texas : California

The only others even close are Florida, Illinois, and Wisconsin (but
Minnesota numbers are missing from the list I have for some reason.)

We are also 17% of the tickets for the Real Politics Training School on the
31st.

Come on Texas we can beat CALIFORNIA!

Some topics that we did not get to on the show….

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Former Googlers unveil Cuil
http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=961 I do not like it so far. I haven’t found anything of value everytime I used it. I do not like the format either, how its in squares. Great concept though, and if you want something off the beaten path as far as info might be a good tool to have.

British Passports “secure” but hijacked off of truck, over 3000 of them. Can’t wait to see where they come up at!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080729/wl_uk_afp/britaincrimepassports

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25939894/ Presidential Executive Order of the week.12333.. Now not only  the CIA will be spying…many other companies are being paid to do it! This is in the mainstream…no one cares…

I had heard about the signing with the SPP earlier and then saw some more info on DemacracyNow. They used this video from Al Jazeera.  President Bush signs with Mexicos President to help “fight” the drug war. Here is a documentary from Al Jazeer.http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insideusa/2008/07/200872674623290878.html Makes Mexico responsible for OUR national security. Oh god, I heard the phrase, what we are doing is “Armoring NAFTA”. Military society, you have CONTROL. SPP is trying to get Mexico’s Oil too. $116 Million going to military, huge chunk going to Mexico’s POLICE, Human rights training (brain wash them)–that tortures, great!! Private security teaching Mexicans torture–has been done!!?? But Mexico finally rejected it. Militarizing the society–the worst violaters of human rights in Mexico.  Plan Mexico? Is this what it is called? There are STRICT GUN LAWS in Mexico..duh, if the people aren’t armed..then the gangsters can take over! Again…no one knows or cares. Mexico has crossed the border at least 40 times this year and even held up our border patrol by gun point, nothing happens.

Zimbabwe brings in new currency to tackle inflation crisis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/01/zimbabwe.economics

Poll in Ireland shows resistance to the Lisbon Treaty is growing.  Yay Ireland! Keep it up! Don’t give in! and DONT USE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES!!!!!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4408073.ece