Obamacare: The Corporatocracy wins, Americans lose.

Danny Panzella
TheMadProphet.com
3/3/2010

To the Conservatives who thought the insurance industry DIDNT want Obamacare, and to the Liberals who thought Obamacare was about helping the poor…

Here is your wakeup call. Health-Care Stocks Up After House OK's Overhaul

Conservatives will call this socialism. And they are right. But not in the way they are thinking. This is not about some liberal communism where the free market is banished and the government controls everything so that the poor are taken care of.

This my friends is fascism in its finest hour. This is private corporations, the wealthiest most powerful insurance companies, pulling the governments strings to destroy its competition, and force people who don’t pay healthcare premiums, to start paying to them. Hence: healthcare stocks up. (they are up 28% since Oct)

Jan Schakowsky was telling the truth last year when she said they wanted Obamacare to put the insurance companies out of business. 

Jan neglected to mention it is not ALL private companies they intend to put out of business; just not the ones her and the rest of the congress are invested in. Congress is exempt from Insider trading laws, and can buy stocks based on its knowledge of upcoming legislation or other non-public information.

"Federal agency officials are generally prohibited from buying and selling stock in the companies they oversee. But Congress long ago exempted itself from ethics rules regarding investments. At one time this exemption made sense: Farmers wanted to be able to serve on the Agriculture Committee without selling their farms, for example. But many lawmakers now interpret this exception as carte blanche to invest after taking office. Says Sheila Kaplan, MA, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Editors note: There is currently a bill in congress called the H.R. 682  Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act'. or “The STOCK Act”

The myth that insurance companies “hate” this bill is misinformation perpetuated by the corporate controlled media designed to keep conservatives fighting to “preserve the free market”, and liberals fighting to stick it to the greedy corporations so the poor can be taken care of. This bill will do neither.

This bill is almost identical to the plan written by AHIP, the insurance company trade association, in 2009. The original Senate Finance Committee bill was authored by a former Wellpoint vice president. Since Congress released the first of its health care bills on October 30, 2009, health care stocks have risen 28.35%. Reported  Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake.com

NASDAQ.com reported March 23rd 2010 that: Health-care providers, drug companies and device makers are expected to see a neutral or even a positive impact from the legislation. Hospitals, clinical laboratories and pharmaceutical companies will see a deluge of new customers and could potentially benefit if millions of more Americans are insured.

The article then went on to say new regulations such as barring insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions -- “and limit their ability to differentiate insurance premiums based on a customer's age and other factors.”

The larger companies wont be as affected by these regulations as smaller insurers will be forced out of business sending their customers to the larger companies. (Sound familiar? The large banks pulled a similar scheme during the recent economic/bailout debacle. They cooked their books to show losses, ask for bailouts, then buy other failing banks to consolidate their wealth and market share.)

The bottom line? The biggest, wealthiest corporations, their owners and top executives also known as the corporatocracy use the US government as its enforcer, the way the mafia uses bought and paid for cops and judges to make sure local businesses are paying their “protection money”, and put their competition out of business insuring they dominate their market.

This relationship between government and the Fortune 500 is evidenced by the revolving door between these companies, and government positions both elected and appointed.

Communism in the United States

Are We Living Under the Communist Manifesto?

By Gary McLeod http://www.garymcleod.org/communis.htm

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared." Cicero, 42 B.C.

The only difference between communism and socialism is its method of imposition. Communism is forced upon the people against their will. Socialism on the other hand is entered into voluntarily by the majority of voters.
Even though the goals are the same, socialism is much more dangerous because it gradually enslaves the people without the use of visible force, while artfully disguising its evil motives with a variety of so-called noble causes.
The evils of socialism and humanism cannot survive exposure unless "good men and women do nothing". The following is offered in hopes that you will join our efforts to expose those evils. Your comments are WELCOME!

The 10 planks of the communist manifesto written in 1848 by Karl Marx appear below in red.

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The Communist Manifesto

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. Property tax paid annually prevents the outright ownership of property, because if property can be confiscated for taxes owed, it can never truly be owned. The application of our rents of land (property taxes)are used for public purposes as envisioned by Karl Marx.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. The income tax was imposed upon the people briefly after the War Between The Southern States and The dictatorial Federal Government. In 1895, The US Supreme Court abolished it with the words, "The income tax is indeed a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional". The Court understood that, "No capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid,..." Art. 1, Sec. 9, of the US Constitution, means exactly what it says. However, in 1913 there were enough socialist in Congress to again foist the income tax upon the people with the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. The income tax is not designed just to raise taxes, which could be accomplished very easily with a national sales tax. Instead, its goal is to punish achievement, invade privacy, and control the people through fear and intimidation from the most gestapo-like arm of our government, the I.R.S.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. Our inheritance tax puts all rights of inheritance in jeopardy. Property tax, income tax, and inheritance tax, should be abolished because they are all direct taxes and they all violate our God-given property rights. They could be replaced with indirect taxes like sales tax, tobacco tax, alcohol tax, or gasoline tax. Some advantages of indirect taxes are:
   • They are indeed Constitutional.
   • Our privacy would be protected.
   • Everyone who spends money participates including the super-wealthy, foreign visitors, illegal aliens, drug dealers, and others now in the underground economy.
   • It is a pay as you go system - no April 15th.
   • The IRS and all associated collection cost would be eliminated.
   • Lower production cost will allow business to compete internationally.
   • Prices would come down more than enough to cover the sales tax increase.
   • Business would expand creating new jobs.
   • The money now in off-shore tax-havens would flood back into this country stimulating the economy.
   • Manufacturing would come back home absent the over-taxation and over-regulation that drove them to foreign countries.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. Our government does not normally confiscate property of emigrants, however, many laws and regulations have been passed in recent years which allow many government agencies such as the I.R.S., O.S.H.A., E.P.A., B.L.M., and drug enforcement agencies to confiscate property from citizens that are considered rebels. Much of this confiscation is achieved without due process of law.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913. It is not federally owned and nothing is in reserve. It is a private corporation with the power to increase or decrease the money supply by changing the interest rates and the reserve requirements of its member banks. It can create money out of thin air, lend it to the government and then collect the principal and interest from the taxpayers. That is why its owners always have and always will promote war and socialism to create inextinguishable government debt.

   "Permit me to control the currency of a nation and I care not who makes its laws" Baron De Rothschild, brainchild of the Federal Reserve Bank.

   "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Communication and transportation are controlled by a number of government agencies, e.g., The Federal Communication Commission (FCC), The Dept. of Transportation (DOT), The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Public Television is also a good example of state control of communication for the indoctrination of the concepts of socialism and humanism.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvements of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. Dan Smoot's book, "The Business End of Government" revealed that, the federal government owned 1165 different businesses like AMTRAC. The Bureau of land Management, The Department of Agriculture, The Department of Commerce, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), etc., all promote a common plan of more and more regulation and control from government with less and less freedom enjoyed by the people.
8. Equal liability of all to labor and the establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Heavy taxation, over-regulation, and other economic problems caused by our government's adoption of socialism has forced women to labor equally with men. Our industrial army is the Social Security System which requires membership at birth.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. We are not living under this plank totally. However, we do have many large agriculture corporations who have combined all levels of production from the farm to the consumer. It appears that the goal of this plank is to reduce the number of family farms making it easier to gain control of all food and fiber production. This goal is fast becoming reality.
10. Free education for all children in public schools.... Communist and socialist have long recognized the value of indoctrination through a free educational system. And, it has produced a people with no understanding of the vast differences between the Free Enterprise System and socialism. During our Bicentennial celebrations (1986), a national poll of school children revealed that 46% of them believed that "From him with the most ability - to him with the most need" was part of our Constitution. Today all socialist, all liberals and most democrats believe the same thing.

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Would it surprise you to learn that "The Democratic Socialist of America" are alive and well in the U.S.A.. Its "Progressive Caucus" list 58 members from the U.S. House of Representatives. All are democrats except their chairman, Benard Sanders, who ran on the socialist party ticket. You can find the list at: Democratic Socialist of America

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"Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds." Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850).

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation - UPDATE

From The Sunday Times May 24, 2009

Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation

America's richest people meet to discuss ways of tackling a 'disastrous' environmental, social and industrial threat John Harlow, Los Angeles SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education. The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. These members, along with Gates, have given away more than £45 billion since 1996 to causes ranging from health programmes in developing countries to ghetto schools nearer to home. They gathered at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University, in Manhattan on May 5. The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires’ aides were told they were at “security briefings”. (Why would a meeting of philanthropists need to be top secret?)

Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, said the summit was unprecedented. “We only learnt about it afterwards, by accident. Normally these people are happy to talk good causes, but this is different – maybe because they don’t want to be seen as a global cabal,” he said. (Is that because they are one?)

Some details were emerging this weekend, however. The billionaires were each given 15 minutes to present their favourite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an “umbrella cause” that could harness their interests. The issues debated included reforming the supervision of overseas aid spending to setting up rural schools and water systems in developing countries. Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority. (Isn't it interesting that Obama's new science advisor is also concerned with overpopulation. He wants to force abortions to stop overpopulation. See my posts earlier today) This could result in a challenge to some Third World politicians who believe contraception and female education weaken traditional values. (See what they do there? they subtley say that if you dont believe in contraception, then you want to keep females from being educated. Because no educated woman would want to have alot of children. Only oppressed women who believe in "traditional" {read CONSERVATIVE} values. Gates, 53, who is giving away most of his fortune, argued that healthier families, freed from malaria and extreme poverty, would change their habits and have fewer children within half a generation. (That is some logic, if you are happy, you will have less kids. Consider the thought processes and attitudes that are behind statements like these) At a conference in Long Beach, California, last February, he had made similar points. “Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare (In context i would take this to mean: if we educate women, they will have less children and/or more abortions), we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,” Gates said then. Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gives more than £2 billion a year to good causes, attended the Rockefeller summit. She said the billionaires met to “discuss how to increase giving” and they intended to “continue the dialogue” over the next few months. Another guest said there was “nothing as crude as a vote” (How enlightened of these billionaires NOT to take a vote on how they are planning to stop the reproduction of the masses) but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat. “This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,” said the guest. “They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.” (Read: We are so enlightened we cannot be hindered by any government, we must stop the ignorant masses from reproducing themselves into destruction. "we know better") Why all the secrecy? “They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government,” he said. (If they had nothing to hide, if they were truly philanthropists, without designs on controlling people, why wouldnt the left media positively spin the meeting? Maybe that silly Fox news network might report otherwise, but they are already marginalized by the rest of the media, so who cares. Editors note: Fox news Channel is the highest rated news network in the country. Check the numbers, MSNBC is #2, with CNN trailing behind.) Taken from an exerpt of Ecoscience; written by John Holdren Science advisor to President Obama. Read my other posts about Obama's science advisor. Could it be a coincedence that all of this is happening at the same time? Or could it be that the power elites are purposely keeping the lower classes in the dark?

Most recently Bill Gates said at the TED confab that better healthcare, vaccines and reproductive services  could be used to lower the growth of the population 10-15%. Jason Bermas breaks it down in this clip:

ABC Hit piece on the Treason In America Conference 2010

 

Here is the ABC News hit piece: http://blogs.abcnews.com/nightlinedailyline/2010/03/inside-a-911-truther-convention-.html

Here is the full behind the scenes footage of the ABC “Loose Change” Interview.

And here is the behind the scenes interview with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley:

You decide if the coverage was fair.

NYPD Officer: "I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason… I’m tired of this”

"I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this," said Adil Polanco, an NYPD Officer

ABC

NEW YORK (WABC) -- An Eyewitness News investigation talks to a police officer who reveals the pressure they are under to make quotas.

When Officer Adil Polanco dreamed of becoming a cop, it was out of a desire to help people not, he says, to harass them.

"I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this," said Adil Polanco, an NYPD Officer.

Officer Polanco says One Police Plaza's obsession with keeping crime stats down has gotten out of control. He claims Precinct Commanders relentlessly pressure cops on the street to make more arrests, and give out more summonses, all to show headquarters they have a tight grip on their neighborhoods.

"Our primary job is not to help anybody, our primary job is not to assist anybody, our primary job is to get those numbers and come back with them?" said Officer Polanco.

Eyewitness News asked, "Why do it?"

"They have to meet a quota. One arrest and twenty summonses," said Officer Polanco.

This audio recording exclusively obtained by Eyewitness News seems to back up Officer Polanco's assertion of a quota. You can listen to one officer as he lectures his rank and file officers during roll call at the 41st precinct.

"Things are not going to get any better. It's going to get a lot worse," said a police officer.

He lays out clearly that they need to bring in the numbers.

"If you think 1 and 20 is breaking your balls, guess what you're going to be doing. You're gong to be doing a lot more, a lot more than what they're saying," said the officer.

In another recording, the 41st Precinct Patrol Supervisor appears to step up the pressure to write more and more summonses:

"Next week, 25 &1, 35 & 1, and until you decide to quit this job to go to work at a Pizza Hut , this is what you're going to be doing till then. Do you understand?" asked the patrol officer.

"He's being clear, the only choice that we have is to do it," said Officer Polanco.

Eyewitness News asked, "Are you telling me they're stopping people for no reason, is that what you're saying?"

"We are stopping kids walking upstairs to their house, stopping kids going to the store, young adults. In order to keep the quota," answered Officer Polanco.

"Yeah, they locked us up for nothing," said Zebulun Colbourne.

The Colbourne brothers say they and three other friends were the victims of quotas. All were arrested a few months ago after one of them had fallen while racing each other.

Eyewitness News asked, "You fell and that's how you hurt your eye?"

"Yeah, and they just wanted to arrest us. I told them I fell but that didn't matter to them," said Elijah Colbourne.

All five were accused of engaging in tumultuous and violent conduct that caused public alarm, given a summons for unlawful assembly and locked up overnight.

Eyewitness News asked, "So you're locked up waiting to see the judge, right?"

"Yeah," answered the Colbourne brothers.

Eyewitness News asked, "Then what do they do?"

"We don't see the judge, they let us out the back door after they kept us for a day and some change," said Elijah Colbourne.

The charges were dropped, but Officer Polanco says the patrolman still got 5 summonses toward their monthly quota.

"At the end of the night you have to come back with something. You have to write somebody, you have to arrest somebody, even if the crime is not committed, the number's there. So our choice is to come up with the number," said Officer Polanco.

One Police Plaza declined our requests to interview the 41st precinct commander. But, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said, "Police Officers like others who receive compensation are provided productivity goals and they are expected to work."

Officer Polanco says if they are just goals, why are officers who fail to make them, re-assigned to different shifts or relocated far from home.

It's the consequences of not making the numbers or quotas, he says, that forces officers to give out bogus summonses.

"I cannot be more honest than I've been. There's no reason for me to lie, there's no reason for me to get into the trouble I am, cause I just could've kept quiet and made the money," said Officer Polanco.