My newest Business Endeavor

Starting an online business is not easy, especially in today's economy. Loads of lay-offs and people in general doing without. I frequent the local pawn shops and there is a disturbing trend that is taking place. People are selling their possessions for little or or next to nothing.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a place where you could get top dollar or best offer for your items?

After much research and investment I started an auction site where people can do just that.

My main goal was simple:

• Keep it simple (the KISS method)
• Enable users to setup a free store
  No cost - No Charges - No Fees of any kind
• Enable users to swap items
• Allow users full control of their store / items
• Be as far from an ebay as possible
• Have a free for life store for a small onetime fee
  Unlimited items, never a fee, never changes
  

After months of work I am proud to announce the Grand Opening of AngeloAuction.com.
Stop by and check us out. Start a store and become one of the original stores.

The American Money Machine

Where does money come from? Most people would say that all the money comes from the government. We have all seen the clips of the US Mint cranking out coins and the printing presses spitting out the George Washington's. This is what I was taught in school and is probably still being taught but, it is far from the truth. Banks create money, not from their own earnings or from the funds deposited by customers, but from the borrowers' promises to repay loans. Most importantly, borrowers not only promise to repay, but to repay with interest, and so the bank writes the amount of money of both into the borrower's account. Money created on the promise of repayment. No printing, no stamping of coins, entered into a computer at the bank and magically more money is on the books. What this all amounts to is that banks can create as much money as they can loan.

While doing some research, I ran across Paul Grignon the author of Money as Debt. This is an animated 5 part video of the history of money and the inner workings of banks. Don't be intimidated because this video is animated, it was done well and there is a world of information. Mr. Grignon did his homework and produced a very good documentary. Videos below.

"Each and every time a bank makes a loan (or purchases securities), new bank credit is created — new deposits — brand new money."
Graham F. Towers, Director, Bank of Canada

"The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled."
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible -- but there it is."

Videos on my main site

Are we a country of and by the people anymore?

Where are we to turn as the United States retreats from its roots, and begins to institute a socialistic agenda? Are we a country of and by the people anymore?

Obama and crew would like to create a national health care program in which every person must submit, possible life saving care, to the Federal government. Based on their record of accomplishment, I wouldn’t trust them to watch my dog.

Should we follow the UK’s example, this proposed monopoly of our already fragmented and corrupt health care system will only lead to longer waiting times for treatment, and contemptible care.

Repeatedly, the government and power elites try to categorize the public into subsets similar to cattle. Now, the influence behind our loving government stands ready to draft a health care pyramid with the wealthy residing at the top and the less fortunate corralled at the bottom. We are, after all, subclass humans in the eyes of the privileged.

Those that think that a nice house and a bank account filled with zeros equates to being part of the upper crust need to reassess the real world qualifications of power. The true men of power are ruthless, cunning, and diabolical in their approach. Control is the name of the game, and nothing beyond a global uprising will curb their efforts.

Allowing anything other than a doctor’s intimate knowledge of his patients to administer medical advice, and/or procedural recommendations should be strongly opposed. Not to mention the invasion of privacy by the database needed to house all of patient’s information, the funds necessary to implement such a program, or the repercussions on individual’s Second Amendment rights by the government’s knowledge of psychiatric care.

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Umpire ejects entire crowd during baseball game

Sheeple of the Month Award goes to Umpire Don Briggs in West Burlington, Iowa
for taking a big crap on our First Amendment Rights.

It's the trickle down God Complex at work here. It seems that no matter how low on the totem pole they are, some people, if given even the slightest bit of power seem to abuse it at will. Umpire Don Briggs working a High School baseball game in West Burlington, Iowa felt it necessary to eject the entire crowd of over 100 people for being unruly, yelling and arguing.

However, West Burlington Superintendent James Sleister said he didn't see any unusual behavior and said he thought the umpire overreacted. The game resumed after a 40-minute delay. West Burlington won 12-11. The umpire called police as a precaution. West Burlington police officer Al Waterman says there were no arrests. He says he saw no unruliness himself.

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Subpoena violates First Amendment rights of anonymous commenters

A federal prosecutor in Nevada is trying to get the names, telephone numbers, IP addresses and possibly even the credit card numbers of newspaper readers who participated in a forum about a tax protest case. According to an Associated Press report in the Reno Gazette Journal, the recent subpoena issued to the Las Vegas Review-Journal doesn't explain the reasoning for the request from the U.S. attorney's office, but in an open court hearing before Judge David Ezra it was confirmed prosecutors sought the information because of "hinted" acts of violence.

According to the AP report, newspaper Editor Thomas Mitchell said he would contest the demand which was delivered to the paper about June 2, although he said the newspaper would cooperate if specific threats were presented.

The comments on the newspaper's site concerned a case against Robert Kahre, who faces accusations he paid workers with gold U.S. coins worth hundreds or thousands of dollars but paid taxes on the coin's face value of $20 and the like.

One forum participant suggested that the "12 dummies on the jury" … "should be hung along with the feds."

The vitriol between Kahre and the prosecutor's office dates back to the 2003 raid on Kahre's business. Kahre and several workers later sued prosecutors in a civil case, which remains pending.

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ABC Turns Programming Over To Obama

Completely dispensing with any notion of independence or impartiality, ABC News is set to mimic the likes of Communist China and North Korea by completely turning its news coverage over to the government and excluding any dissenting opinions to promote President Obama’s health care agenda.

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.
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Marijuana Legalization: Momentum Building For Broad Debate

NEW YORK — The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, "Yes _ I inhaled."

These developments and others are kindling unprecedented optimism among the many Americans who want to see marijuana legalized. Doing so, they contend to an ever-more-receptive audience, could weaken the Mexican cartels now profiting from U.S. pot sales, save billions in law enforcement costs, and generate billions more in tax revenue from one of the nation's biggest cash crops. Said a veteran of the movement, Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance: "This is the first time I feel like the wind is at my back and not in my face."

Foes of legalization argue that already-rampant pot use by adolescents would worsen if adults could smoke at will. Even the most hopeful marijuana activists doubt nationwide decriminalization is imminent, but they see the debate evolving dramatically and anticipate fast-paced change on the state level.

"For the most part, what we've seen over the past 20 years has been incremental," said Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief now active with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. "What we've seen in the past six months is an explosion of activity, fresh thinking, bold statements and penetrating questions." Numerous prominent political leaders, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Mexican presidents, have suggested it is time for open debate on legalization.
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Oklahoma Trooper Exposed, He Lied

Not long ago we posted a story about a scuffle between two highway patrol officers and an EMT and it was captured on video after the police pulled over an ambulance on route to the hospital with a patient on board. The incident occurred on Highway 62 near Boley in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.

As always and as to be expected the cop claimed that the EMT assulted him before the camera started rolling. It seems that (once again as expected) that the cop was lying.

Fox 23 in Tulsa filed a Freedom of Information request for the dash cam but the OHP stonewalled the request. Late on June 12, the department finally released the video. It was posted on YouTube on June 13. Earlier reports in the media claimed police had turned off the dash cam before Martin assaulted the EMT worker.

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Sarkozy's Secret Swine Flu Overkill

The French Government is developing secret plans to impose mandatory vaccination of the entire French population, allegedly against possible Swine Flu disease according to reports leaked in a French newspaper. The plan is without precedent and even defies recommended public health advice. Pharmaceutical giants benefit from the move, as the Swine Flu increases the trend to militarization of public health and use of needless population panic to advance the agenda.
According to a report in the May 30 edition of the French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche (french Language), the Sarkozy government has authorized spending of an estimated €1 billion to buy vaccines allegedly to combat or protect against H1N1 Swine Flu virus. The only problem is that to date neither the WHO nor the US Government’s Center for Diseases Control (CDC) have succeeded to isolate, photograph with an electron microscope and chemically classify the H1N1 Influenza A virus. There is no scientifically published evidence that French virologists have done so either. To mandate drugs for a putative disease that has not even been characterized is dubious to say the least.

Even more bizarre is the admission by the US Government’s Food & Drug Administration, an agency responsible for health and safety of its citizens, that the ‘test’ is approved for premature release to test for H1N1 is not even a proven test. More to the point, there is no forensic evidence in any of the deaths reported to date that has been presented that proves scientifically that any single death being attributed to H1N1 Swine Flu virus was indeed caused by such a virus. European epidemiologists believe the deaths reported to date are ‘coincidental’ or what are called opportunistic infections.

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Prince of Pot at war with US drug war

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Psychedelic rock booms through The Vapour Lounge. In the store, young and some not-so-young people smoke pot through a variety of devices. And owner Marc Emery stands in the middle of it all, proclaiming his goal of defeating the U.S. war on drugs.
Known as the Prince of Pot, Emery has sold millions of marijuana seeds around the world by mail over the past decade. In doing so, he has drawn the attention of U.S. drug officials, who want him extradited to Seattle. Emery has agreed to plead guilty in Seattle to one count of marijuana distribution in exchange for dismissal of all other counts, and the U.S. District Attorney is pressing for a sentence of five to eight years in a U.S. prison.

The case is the latest twist in Emery's two-decade-long fight against the prohibition of marijuana in North America. To his supporters, he is a brave crusader for the use and sale of a drug with both recreational and medicinal value. To drug officials, he is a criminal and the biggest purveyor of marijuana from Canada into the United States.

Emery sits "right smack in the middle" of the North American debate over marijuana prohibition, said Allen St. Pierre of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Washington, D.C. St. Pierre predicted that Emery's trial would "kick-start it all again."

But drug officials say they are simply going after one of the world's top 50 drug traffickers. U.S. authorities claim Emery's seeds have grown $2.2 billion worth of pot.

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Journalist claims papers turned down story about Bush’s desire to invade Iraq

An investigative journalist who authored a controversial book on the Bush dynasty says he approached major US newspapers about publishing a story regarding President George W. Bush’s alleged intent to invade Iraq before the 2004 election but was rebuffed. The journalist and author, Russ Baker, says he had a taped interview of Bush’s onetime biographer in which he says Bush told him he intended to invade Iraq as early as 1999, during his presidential campaign. The interview with former Bush ghostwriter Mickey Herskowitz took place before the 2004 election.

Baker eventually published his story online in October of 2004. In it, Herskowitz is quoted as saying, “He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999. It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade·.if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it.”

The Bush campaign parted ways with Herskowitz during his 2000 campaign for president and replaced him with campaign adviser Karen Hughes. Herskowitz was a sports writer in Houston and co-authored a book while Bush was governor of Texas in 1993.

In a column published Tuesday, Baker is quoted as saying that his story was turned down by The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

Baker described the Post as “scared because of the Dan Rather thing, and they said to me, ‘What do you have in the way of evidence?’”

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Miami-Dade prosecutor charged with punching pizza delivery woman

A controversial Miami-Dade prosecutor is under scrutiny again after he was charged with punching a tardy pizza delivery woman. For Miami-Dade County prosecutor David Ranck, a Domino's pizza accomplished what courtroom outbursts and a whistle-blower lawsuit against his own boss could not: It got him temporarily thrown off the job.

Ranck, 54, was suspended without pay Monday after he was accused of punching a tardy pizza delivery woman trying to deliver a pie to his Miami Beach condo.

According to Miami Beach police, officers on Saturday found Ranck standing next to the car of pizza woman Yudisceus Rodriguez de Armas, who was locked inside ``shaking and in tears.''

He was charged with misdemeanor battery and signed papers promising to appear in court.

ANOTHER COUNTY

To avoid a conflict, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office has asked the governor to appoint a prosecutor from another county to handle his prosecution.

Ranck was in the news after he filed a federal lawsuit last fall against his bosses, claiming he was unfairly suspended for posting on the Internet an internal memo detailing his misgivings about a fatal police shooting.

Reached by e-mail Monday, Ranck said: ``I am sorry, but I cannot comment under these circumstances.''

His lawyer, Allan Kaiser, declined to comment on the case. But he did say: ``At this point, I'm wondering where his pizza is. He never got his pizza.''

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Second revolution to take back America

Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense," returns to modern times to plea for a second revolution to take back America, Now! View Video

Hall Of Shame: Police Brutality Videos Archive

This archive contains 64 videos, with direct links for file downloading. Unfortunately, many of these shocking and outrageous videos contain extreme violence and even death. This archive was made in memory of Oscar Grant of Hayward, CA.
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Hawaiians May Need Special ID to Buy Gas in 2010

In a move completely ignored by the corporate media, the state of Hawaii has introduced resolutions in the Senate and House to initiate a study by the Insurance Commissioner to determine how best to deny gasoline purchases to uninsured motorists.
In order to do this, the Hawaii Senate and House concur that “motor vehicle insurance companies issue motor vehicle insurance cards to insured drivers and to require that the card be either scanned electronically or examined by the sellers of gasoline in order to purchase gasoline.”

If these bills pass in the regular 2010 session, residents will not only need the state’s permission to buy gasoline but will in essence need permission to work and buy food, that is unless they walk or ride bicycles to work or the grocery store.

Since the September 11, 2001, false flag attacks, the federal government has worked overtime to impose national ID schemes on the American people. The September 11 whitewash commission recommended “national standards” for “identification documents,” including driver’s licenses in 2004.
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Epic Blockbuster

Good Samaritan pleads not guilty to charges stemming from mowing city park

The man who was arrested after mowing Central Park’s grass isn’t going down without a fight.

John Hamilton, 48, pleaded not guilty Friday in Sandusky Municipal Court to misdemeanor charges of obstructing official business and persistent disorderly conduct.

If found guilty, Hamilton could face up to 90 days in jail and $1,000 in fines.

Hamilton was arrested 8:30 a.m. Thursday as he mowed the foot-high grass at the park. Police arrested him after he continued to mow when they asked him to stop.

He said he’s looking for an attorney for his next court hearing, slated for 1:30 p.m. Aug. 3.

“I could have pled guilty and it all would go away with a fine,” Hamilton said. “But they didn’t even know what to charge me for, so (the charges were) kind of a catch-all.”

The next step will be handled by prosecutors, city prosecutor and assistant law director Lynne Gast-King said.

“This is a very trying time for the city,” she said. “We’re all doing the best we can right now in a very difficult position. We’ll handle it just like any other case with a not guilty and charges pending." Read More

The Citizen Police State

While the threats to our liberties from our own government may be great, many don’t realize that the greatest threats to our freedoms may be soon coming from our own neighbors and friends. While reporting neighbors to city officials for unsightly lawns and shoddy house maintenance has become accepted and common place, the precedent is dangerous.

In the great dystopia novel, 1984, George Orwell describes a police state regime which uses friends, neighbors, and even children to spy and report to “Big Brother” about their neighbor’s movements and ’suspicious’ activities. This citizen spy network terrorizes the populace of 1984 to keep in line with the established order.

It seems that lately the governments of the west have taken a cue from George Orwell and are beginning to encourage more active citizen spying. The reasons for this shift are likely many. One reason may be that it makes government seem less culpable while at the same time greatly increasing their effective spying network. Unfortunately, the resultant loss of freedom will be a lot worse than any illusion of security, especially if citizens come to think that reporting fellow citizens is an admirable thing.

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9/11 Richard Gage Fox News Interview

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National security

The administration can do anything now, above the law or not. Regardless whether or not our rights are infringed or not, regardless of citizens privacy or civil liberties, regardless of respecting law and upholding the Constitution which is the law of the land. All under deceitful guise of "fighting terrorism!" "keeping America safe from big bad evil terrorists who hate our freedom and way of life!" or whatever flavor of the month phantom bogeyman 'enemy' they're currently promoting to scare us cattle into complacency so they can carry out their war fraud profiteering scam and resource grabbing uninterrupted. As the government destroys more of our rights, civil liberties and extinguishes the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in the process.

We have no security or real protection in this country. We are no more "safer" now than we were on 9/11 it's all a total FARCE.

Give us more "patriot act" garbage legislation and spy bills to search our computers without probable cause or consent, but leave Americas borders and ports wide open, completely unsecured right. Sounds like a real serious "terrorist threat" huh. What a joke. Why bother securing the borders when the real terrorists are in Washington wearing Brooks Brothers suits, right ?

It is not the duty of the so called "law enforcement" or police to protect you. Their job is to protect the Corporation of the US, inc. and arrest code breakers.

Any illusion of 'security' is to be used against us instead. The security state is to protect the elite crime syndicate in power, the bought, sold & paid for puppet parade, the fine clothed, makeup coated, script reading, vote seeking, trained and polished mis"leaders" who are very well protected from the common peoples plight. Not us.

The 'WAR ON TERROR" is a giant crock of shit. The war is on us.

No phantom terrorists are destroying this country. The mis-leaders, professional deceivers and organized crime in positions of power are destroying this country.

Wake the FUCK up people. What's it going to take, America?

"Today we are facing despots who are using "national security" and "classification" to push everything under a blanket of secrecy. To gag-order, and to call it a "privilege"..Unless we recognize the attacks for what they are, and stand up, and speak out, no -SHOUT OUT -,against those despots in government, then we are doomed to wake up one sad morning and wonder when and where our freedom DIED."

White House Says Feds Should Have Unfettered Access To Mobile Phone Location Info

The Obama administration says the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures does not apply to cell-site information mobile phone carriers retain on their customers.
At issue is whether the government can require federal judges to order mobile phone companies to release historical cell-tower information of a phone number without probable cause — the standard required for a search warrant. While judges have varied on the issue, the resulting evidence can be used in a criminal prosecution. This certainly seems like the sort of private info that, under the 4th Amendment, would require a warrant, but not according to the administration(s). It feels that mobile phone providers should freely hand over records of what mobile phone tower any phone was connected to, even without the administration bothering to get a warrant (i.e., whenever and for whomever it wants to keep tabs on). This is tremendously problematic if you believe in the basic principles of the 4th Amendment. The EFF and the ACLU have asked a court to stop this practice, and it's rather disappointing that the administration is pushing in the other direction.

Piracy Up - Global Warming Down

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Bush's Secret Dictatorship

Glenn Greenwald blogs for Salon: "Over the last eight years, we had a system in place where we pretended that our 'laws' were the things enacted out in the open by our Congress and that were set forth by the Constitution. The reality, though, was that our Government secretly vested itself with the power to ignore those public laws, to declare them invalid, and instead, create a whole regimen of secret laws that vested tyrannical, monarchical power in the President. Nobody knew what those secret laws were because even Congress, despite a few lame and meek requests, was denied access to them."

Greenwald also writes, with some vindication: "Yet those who have spent the last several years pointing out how unprecedentedly extremist and radical was our political leadership (and how meek and complicit were our other key institutions) were invariably dismissed as shrill hysterics."

Nine previously undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel documents released by Obama's Justice Department yesterday, most of them making baldly spurious legal arguments to support any number of unprecedented tactics that were either contemplated or employed by the White House.

The Pirate Bay Trial Summations

The trial will soon wrap up, and a verdict will be made. The important thing to learn, for those of us paying attention, isn't the verdict but the trend. The death of Napster brought us Kazaa, the death of Kazaa brought up Limewire.

As long as there is information on the Internet, pirates will share it. The worst part of all this isn't that pirates are stealing from artists, but rather that the record labels are. The simple fact is that very little of the profits from an album trickle down to the actual artists. The vast majority of the money made by musicians comes from live performances and merchandise.

If the pirating of music doesn't damage the artist much, who files all these lawsuits? Who matters more to the public: the musicians we love or the suits who burn their albums and reap the benefits?

It may be wrong to pirate, but it is more wrong to profit from art that is not yours. That is why pirates will continue on - not out of the love of stealing, but from the love of music.

In the world of digital piracy, there are many ways to get what you want. Peer-to-peer sharing, direct download links and torrents are the most popular among the pirating community. Each has endured its share of attack from those who seek to profit from music, movie and book sales, and each has survived and thrived from those attacks.

How To Kill The Music Industry

The “it’s common sense” argument that the music industry is peddling in their attempt to tie the declining revenues to piracy, simply doesn’t hold. It is not as clear-cut as the industry believes; the true reason for the decline is something they are still unwilling to face, but will have to face sooner or later:
The fact is that the music industry’s revenues have been artificially inflated for decades because of limited consumer options. The last 15 years of innovation have lifted those limitations, effectively leaving the music industry with an obsolete, defective business model of monopolized production technology, forced album bundling, and almost nonexistent competition in the realm of home entertainment. What is happening now - the decline of music profits and the piracy witch hunt by the music industry - is merely the panicked struggle of a dying business model, a complacent industry’s refusal to accept its diminishing role in a digital world. The pirates are not the reason, and the decline is the not the disease. It is the cure.

States Sovereignty Movement

The Tenth Amendment, a part of the "Bill of Rights", says flatly: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Some legal experts say that the Supremacy Clause in the US Constitution makes all the efforts of the states moot. The Supremacy Clause is a clause in the United States Constitution, article VI, paragraph 2. The clause establishes the Constitution, Federal Statutes, and U.S. treaties as "the supreme law of the land." The text establishes these as the highest form of law in the American legal system, mandating that state judges uphold them, even if state laws or constitutions conflict. See Also The States Are Not Branches Of The Federal Government!

The coming civil war

With Obama now actually in the Oval Office -- and a financial crisis in full force that is generating the exact type of widespread, intense anxiety that typically inflames these cultural resentments -- their mask is dropping, has dropped, and they've suddenly re-discovered their righteous "principles." The week-long CNBC Revolt of the Traders led by McCain voter Rick Santelli and the fledgling little Tea Party movement promoted by the Michelle Malkins of the world are obvious outgrowths of this 1990s mentality, now fortified by the most powerful fuel: deep economic fear. But as feisty and fire-breathing as those outbursts are, nothing can match -- for pure, illustrative derangement -- the discussion below from Glenn Beck's new Fox show this week, in which he and an array of ex-military and CIA guests ponder (and plot and plan) "war games" for the coming Civil War against Obama-led tyranny. It really has to be seen to be believed.