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1.Calif. lawmakers face deadline to avoid IOUs (news.yahoo.com)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A midnight deadline loomed Tuesday as California lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dueled over ways to cut into a $24.3 billion budget deficit or face having to issue IOUs to cover the state's bills.
Democrats lawmakers, the majority in both houses, tried two approaches Monday but both failed to draw Republican support.
Voting almost totally along party lines, the state Senate approved a package of bills featuring spending cuts and fee and tax increases to close the deficit.
But the Republican governor quickly promised to veto the legislation, saying he wouldn't sign anything that raised taxes or fees more than he has proposed."They should forget about that," he said, accusing Democrats of going through a "song and dance. Let's get to work, fix it."
Hours later, Senate Democrats put up three stopgap spending cut bills that passed the Assembly last week with bipartisan support. But again Republicans refused to budge, saying the budget problems needed a comprehensive solution focusing on spending cuts........
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2.Ron Paul: Democrats Who Opposed Climate Bill Voted For It Anyway (www.prisonplanet.com)
In a Campaign for Liberty video commentary, Ron Paul reveals that even though up to 20 Democrats opposed the controversial climate bill, they voted for it anyway, underscoring once again how the vast majority of Congress members are bought and paid for by the elite in Washington.
The Congressman points out that the eight Republicans who voted for the bill did so in order to provide political cover for the Democrats. Even if those Republicans had not defected, some of the 44 Democrats who voted against the bill would have changed their votes anyway to ensure the bill’s passage.
“One Democrat talked to me, a friend of mine,” said Paul, “and I said how are you going to vote on this bill and he said I’m going to vote for the bill but then he sort of whispered and he said, but I sure hope it doesn’t pass.”
Asked why he was voting for a bill that he actually opposed, the Democrat responded, “yeah I have to do that.” read more
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The California governor says he will veto the Legislature-approved package, which includes tax hikes. The state is days away from having to issue IOUs.
By Shane Goldmacher
1:07 PM PDT, June 29, 2009Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today scolded Democrats for squandering time holding legislative votes on budget solutions that face certain veto, with the state days away from having to issue IOUs.
"They are wasting time by going through this drill," the governor told reporters in his office this morning. "Why run out of time, and then all of a sudden we have to hand out IOUs?"
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4.Assembly Democrats OK budget package (www.latimes.com)
Measure passes in a rare Sunday night session without GOP votes. A veto is expected.
By Shane Goldmacher
June 29, 2009Reporting from Sacramento -- Democratic leaders in the state Assembly, frustrated by the refusal of Republicans to support tax hikes to help balance the state budget, pushed through a proposal Sunday night that uses a series of legal maneuvers to put higher levies in place without any GOP votes.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to veto any budget package that includes tax increases, and he vetoed a budget last winter that contained a similar tax ploy........
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5.Buchanan: Climate Bill Is Transfer Of Wealth To World Government (www.prisonplanet.com)
During an appearance on MSNBC, political commentator Pat Buchanan correctly defined the “Climate Bill” for what it really is, not just a new tax on the American people, but a complete transfer of power and wealth to a global government that is using the manufactured fear of global warming to grease the skids for total domination.
Referring to the passage of the climate bill and global warming in general, Buchanan said that the legislation was passed through the use of fear and that, “More and more scientists are coming forward to say this is a hoax and a scam which is designed to transfer wealth and power from the private sector to the government sector and from the government of the United States to a world government. Which is what we’re going to get in Copenhagen when we get this Kyoto two agreement.”
Buchanan labeled the legislation a “tax bill” that would raise the prices of utilities for every American, hammer the middle class and working class, “for a danger that we don’t even know is really there”.
The former senior advisor to three U.S. presidents accused the Obama administration of hyping the apocalyptic myth that the oceans will rise and that cities will be underwater in order to ram through the legislation........ -
6.FLASHBACK: Obama Intimately Tied To Carbon Trading Scam (www.prisonplanet.com)
President helped fund profiteers of carbon tax program he is now seeking to implement
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, March 30, 2009A combination of interesting mainstream and alternative media reports reveal compelling links between president Obama and a privately owned carbon trading group, which also has direct ties with elitist groups such as the Club of Rome and the Trilateral Commission.
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7.Communist U.N. Boss Praises "Mother Earth" (www.newswithviews.com)
Armed with a new sex scandal that can further damage Republican opponents of the Obama Administration, our media haven’t found much time to cover the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis underway at the world organization’s headquarters in New York. But the Obama White House is working hand-in-glove with a Communist Catholic Priest who gave a bizarre speech on Wednesday devoted to saving “Mother Earth” from evil capitalists.
A performance as gripping as that of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitting to adultery was turned in by Miguel D’Escoto, the President of the U.N. General Assembly, when he declared that “There is a growing awareness that we are all sons and daughters of Earth and that we belong to her.” He urged “a planetary civilization” that is “more respectful of Mother Earth, more inclusive of all people and with more solidarity with the poorest, which is more spiritual and full of reverence for the splendor of the universe and which is much happier.” read more
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Thought Crime Bills Threaten Talk Radio (www.prisonplanet.com)Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt compared the bill to Orwell’s Animal Farm and said it would damage free speech.
HR 1966 has cleared the House and now faces the Senate as S.909, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (officially, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act). The bill is expected to sail through the Senate as it did in the House. It will provide federal assistance to the states, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for “other purposes.” It creates special protective status based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability........
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9.Arizona's budget war is a GOP standoff (www.latimes.com)
Reporting from Phoenix -- In recent years, the onset of summer in Phoenix meant two things -- triple-digit temperatures and a budget battle between the Republican-dominated Legislature, which regularly pushed to cut taxes, and Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, who pushed to maintain them to save or expand services.
In January, Napolitano moved to Washington to become secretary of Homeland Security, and Jan Brewer, a staunch fiscal conservative who was then Arizona's secretary of state, took her spot. "We thought, we've got a friendly face in the governor's office and we'll be able to do some good things," said Bob Burns, president of the state Senate........
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10.House Passes Nightmare “Cap And Tax” Bill (www.prisonplanet.com)
This is far worse than just a “new tax” as Republicans are complaining - this is the total takeover of the American economy by private banking interests through the carbon trading system.
It is also the entrée for the complete and total subjegation of any freedoms we had left and the beginning of nightmare regulation and suffocating control over every aspect of our personal lives by millions of green stasi tasked with enforcing impossible to attain goals of 80% carbon dioxide reduction - all based on the manufactured threat of global warming.
This bill will also sink the economy and create a new great depression, effectively obliterating America’s first world status.
Read our previous articles to truly understand the depth of tyranny that has been rubber stamped by the House this evening. This information is essential and only scratches the surface of what this nightmare bill has set in motion........
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11.Divisive climate bill narrowly gets through House (www.freep.com)
WASHINGTON — In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation's first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy........
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12.Gore to Talk Climate Change With House Democrats Thursday (www.prisonplanet.com)
Senior Democratic leaders are whipping and cajoling skeptical lawmakers to side with them to approve the measure that could have significant economic impact on the energy bills of many Americans and even drive up the price of food.
Former Vice President Al Gore will meet with House Democrats Thursday to appeal to reluctant lawmakers to approve the controversial climate change bill on Friday, FOX News has learned........ -
13.Arizona Looks to Outlaw Global Warming Legislation (www.prisonplanet.com)
Climate change is a controversial topic. Some believe man is causing the world to warm. Others point out that the Earth has undergone solar warming and cooling for millions of years and that current temperatures are well within historic levels. A recent report challenging AGW theory showed significant support with 31,478 U.S. researchers and scientists, many of whom hold Ph.D’s, signing a statement that they believe that man has not played a part in the current warming trend........
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14.The Associated Press: Obama: Community service is a national duty (www.google.com)
this sounds so Hitler!!
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15.Weird politics: Hold on, did he just say that? (news.yahoo.com)
Wait a minute, back up. There's the Democratic governor of New Jersey, the father of two daughters, standing next to his attractive wife, giving a televised press conference. Something must be wrong with the sound. Did he just use the word "gay"? In the first person?
Yes, he did. "My truth is that I am a gay American," said Jim McGreevey, who with one sentence opened a public relations nightmare and simultaneously became the first openly homosexual governor in U.S. history — until he resigned in disgrace three months later. "I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man," McGreevey stunningly admitted in 2004. And the man had been appointed by McGreevey as the state's national security adviser, a position for which he had no experience........
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16.Boehner’s PAC spent over $30,000 on a Florida golf outing with lobbyists (thinkprogress.org)
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), an avid lover of golf, has repeatedly used the golf course for fundraising purposes. Unlike the imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who famously used golf as “bait…to lure Republican politicians into his realm,”
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17.Family Research Council removes Sanford’s picture from Values Voters Summit website (thinkprogress.org)
Previously, the website for the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit 2009 featured a picture of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, advertising that he was a potential speaker. But Pam Spaulding points out that following Sanford’s announcement of an affair, his picture was quickly removed from the website....
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18.Neo-Cons Are Cheerleading For A Terrorist Who Helped Kill Hundreds Of U.S. Marines (www.prisonplanet.com)
The horrible irony to arise out of the riots and protests in Iran is that many Neo-Cons and phony conservatives, in their unified effort to enthusiastically embrace the Anglo-American establishment’s agenda for regime change, are cheerleading for a brutal thug who directed a terrorist campaign that killed hundreds of U.S. Marines in the 1980’s........
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How the Wall Street Bankers Bought Congress (dissidentvoice.org)You would think that causing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression might have repercussions. You would think being a major factor in the destruction of around 40 percent of the world’s wealth might get you in trouble. You would think being the cause of the worst housing crisis in history — with millions of people losing their homes because of you — might force a restructuring of how Wall Street does things........
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20.Drunken Driver To Advise U.S. Secretary Of State (www.judicialwatch.org)
The trusted Clinton aide who pleaded guilty to drunken driving during the 2008 presidential campaign will soon become a special adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State.
Well known for vigorously defending the Clintons through numerous scandals, Sidney Blumenthal, a coveted White House aide under Bill, is on the verge of becoming Hillary’s high-ranking special adviser. The position doesn’t require Senate confirmation, according to the news report that broke the story, which will avoid digging into Blumenthal’s storied past........
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21.Texas Federal Judge Impeached (www.judicialwatch.org)
An imprisoned federal judge who continues collecting his salary from jail has become the first in two decades—and only the 14th in history—to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Last month the disgraced Texas judge, Samuel Kent, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for obstructing an investigation into charges that he sexually assaulted two female employees. Kent had already made history as the first federal jurist to be indicted with sex crimes, specifically aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact........
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