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Forbes Magazine: "Time to devalue the US Dollar"
"overnight currency devaluation" to help right the economy. The writer says that
devaluing the US dollar by THIRTY PERCENT (30%) would do the trick.
Source:
Business News and Financial News at Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/
Dollar Devaluation To Fix The Great Recession
http://tinyurl.com/62dvsv
Adviser Soapbox
Frank Beck, 12.09.08
A quick dollar devaluation would work wonders for submerged borrowers. Don't kid
yourself: It could happen.
What began as government social tinkering--with implied threats to banks and
mortgage companies to extend home loans to even the most marginal of
borrowers--led to a greed-blinded mortgage banking business and the meltdown we
are experiencing today. Now we are asked by the same congressional leadership to
go along with taxpayer-funded bailouts of the very banksters who, while making
millions, created the mess.
Despite the trillions of dollars already expended recapitalizing banks, there is
very little, if any, progress to show. Will a few trillion more do the trick?
That seems to be the consensus among Congress and the banks. "They are simply
too big to let fail," or are they really just too big to save? We can go back to
"Plan A" and buy the toxic assets. If so, at what price? What if a few trillion
does not remove enough toxic waste from the system or doesn't get credit flowing
again and the economy bustling?
Some argue that it is time to help Main Street, not Wall Street. So, we should
"forgive" some of the mortgages for those who are 90 days or more behind on
their payments. Have you quit paying yet?
If we are to save bankers, shouldn't we at least distinguish between those who
possess the intelligence to renegotiate their loans to workable terms? If we are
to save homeowners, should not we first define the term "homeowner?" Perhaps it
is not only someone who agreed to and signed a mortgage and is living in a
house. Just perhaps, it should also include the stipulation that this individual
paid some amount of a down payment: 20%, 5%, a dollar. I can tell you who is not
a homeowner. It is not someone who paid zero down and ridiculously low payments
for two years; that, my friend, is a renter.
The Birth Certificate Blues
Now that the Supreme Court has taken a pass on the issue, the action filed by United States Justice Foundation (USJF) is our best hope when it comes to compelling President-elect Obama to respect the Constitution and provide the American people viable substantiation that he is Constitutionally qualified to be President of the United States.
Some of what you are about to read may shock you. Some of what you read may cause you to tremble. In fact... Reading this letter may be the one of the most important things you do in your life! The sad and unfortunate truth is that your life... the liberties and freedoms we all sometimes take for granted... your future and the future of your children and grandchild actually hinges on what actions you choose to take after reading this letter.
1. What would happen if you woke up one morning and found out that the President of the United States was a USURPER... a FRAUD... a PHONY? Think about that question for a while before you answer. Mull it over.
2. What would happen if the leader of the free world was Constitutionally ineligible to be President of the United States but - in direct and undisputable violation of the letter of the Constitution - decided to take and hold office anyway?
3. What would happen if a politician actually got away with such a thing?
4. Do you believe ANY of our God-given rights would remain secure?
5. Would any bill this Usurper signed into law be valid?
6. Would this Usurper's Supreme Court appointments be valid?
7. Would the military recognize this Usurper as Commander-in-Chief and what actions would those within our military take?
8. What would our enemies around the world do?
9. What would happen to the economy... your job... your home... your assets or what you've put away for retirement?
10. Would our society destabilize uncontrollably and would we actually start down the road to anarchy?
Here's a scarier proposition. For years, liberal activist judges have tried to legislate from the bench and erode the Constitution, but in doing so, they have always been nuanced and careful in their approach. They found "penumbras" in the Constitution or claimed the Constitution was a "living, breathing and evolving document" so they could make a pretext of honoring the Constitution as they changed its actual meaning and slowly and almost imperceptibly eradicated the rights of the people.
Would a flagrant, callous and outright disregard of the Constitution send a clear message to liberal activist judges and legislators that a nuanced approach was no longer necessary... that they could literally strip our rights, liberties and freedoms with tyrannical impunity... that the Constitution of the United States is effectively a WORTHLESS PIECE OF PAPER?
Could the will of the people become merely something that could be ignored by those who tyrannically hold the reins of political power at the moment? If JUST ONE SECTION of our Constitution can beflagrantly and callously ignored, IS ANY PART OF THE CONSTITUTION VALID ANYMORE?
If you think I exaggerate, ponder those points for a moment and understand why President-elect Barack Obama MUST be compelled to verify that he is a "natural born citizen!" If President-elect Obama is NOT compelled to verify that he is Constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States, the consequences could be dire for you... for your children... for your grandchildren... and for our nation!
The people of the United States do NOT directly elect the President. The people choose Electors from their respective states who, in turn, elect the President and Vice-President of the United States. THESE ELECTORS MEET ON DECEMBER 15!
Americans in each state are being asked to please contact their state Attorney Generals to demand that they take necessary steps to ensure that the Electors from their respective states properly fulfill and execute the duties of their office and verify that President-elect Obama is a "natural born citizen" prior to casting their votes on December 15. These Electors have an obligation to uphold the Constitution. It's an obligation that supersedes their pledge to vote for a particular candidate. And moreover each of the Attorney Generals of the 50 States has an obligation as well to see to it that the Electors properly execute the duties of their office.
For the Record, we are not saying that President-elect Obama is NOT Constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States. The problem is we simply do not know! When reports surfaced that President-elect Obama's maternal grandmother was claiming that she was was present at Obama's birth in Mombasa in what is now Kenya, some people dismissed the statement as unsubstanciated. But then, a birth certificate that turned out to be a forgery made its way onto Obama's website. Why produce a forged birth certificate?
Then there were the ambiguous statements from officials in Hawaii who claimed that a "Certificate of Live Birth" exists for President-elect Obama in Hawaii. However the laws of Hawaii allow for a child to be furnished a "Certificate of Live Birth" even if the child was NOT born in Hawaii. Specifically, the statute reads: " Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health thatthe legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child."
Dr. Chiyome Fukino with Hawaii's Department of Health stated: "Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures." But officials in Hawaii got mysteriously silent when asked; if the "Birth Certificate" listed Obama's actual place of birth. Why?
Then there was the issue of college records that Obama refuses to release. Why? Could those records indicate that he received financial aid as a foreign student?
Recently Dr. Jerome Corsi traveled to Kenya to see if he could find a birth certificate for President-elect Obama but was etained by Kenyan officials. Again... Why?
Janet Porter, writing for WorldNetDaily.com, raises even more questions: According to Porter: "In Hawaii, a Certification of Live Birth is issued within a year of a child's birth to those who register a birth abroad or one that takes place outside a hospital,' she said.""'There's the matter that Obama traveled to Indonesia, Pakistan, Southern India and Kenya in 1981. He said he went to Indonesia to see his mother. This seemed plausible, except for the fact that his mother returned to Hawaii in August of 1980 to file for a divorce from her second husband, Lolo Soetoro. Unless she went back to pal around with the man she divorced, she wasn't there at the time of Obama's visit," Porter wrote.
There's another problem. No record of Obama holding an American passport prior to the one he received once becoming a U.S.senator has been found. If he traveled to Pakistan with an American passport, he wouldn't have been allowed in -- since Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and under martial law. It was also on the State Department's travel ban list for U.S. citizens,' she wrote. "'If he couldn't get into Pakistan with a U.S. passport, perhaps he went there with an Indonesian passport. But the only way you can get one of those is if you are an Indonesian citizen.'"
And finally, one can not shake President-elect Obama's unwillingness to release an authentic copy of his birth certificate, nor can it be ignored that President-elect Obama has hired teams of attorneys (not individual attorneys but teams of attorneys) to thwart attempts by third parties to compel him to produce a birth certificate.
The question as to whether President-elect Obama is a "natural born citizen" - as REQUIRED (NOT SUGGESTED) by the Constitution - is not just significant... it's now downright compelling. And it's a question that MUST be answered! The people of the United States do NOT directly elect the President. The people choose Electors from their respective states who, in turn, elect the President and Vice-President of the United States. THESE ELECTORS MEET ON DECEMBER 15! These electors will vote in a matter of days. Time is short and under such circumstances, working your way upthe food chain quickly is a PRIORITY!
Some people have contacted the Electors in their states. Lynn Stuter, writing for the Internet website NewsWithViews.com, recounts what happened when she e-mailed an elector in her state. Stuter pointsout: "Electors are sworn to uphold it (the Constitution) with their vote on December 15th in the Electoral College. But they must first know for sure tha the candidates meet the Constitutional requirements for the office of President beginning with being a natural born citizen." Then, Stuter gets to the meat of the matter: "I am requesting that you examine closely the information provided below before you vote on December 15, 2008. If, after being elected president, Barack Hussein Obama is found to be, in fact, ineligible, the constitutional crisis will be far reaching." "The first duty of every Elector is to the Constitution.
"The next morning, I received the following response from one of the Electors: "'I have put you on my spam service. I will NO longer accept mail from you. I have signed an affadavit (sic) that I will vote for my parties (sic) candidate. You are asking me to go against this affadavit (sic) which not only would cause a large monetary fine but would go against the promise I made in Person (sic) to well over 1000 people.' "'In asking me to go against my written pledge which our state requires you are (sic) encourage me to do an illegal thing.' "'Most of all, I think that President-elect Obama is one of the best things to ever happen to our country. As a life long Democrat and (sic) a bi racial (sic) son who was killed in action as a soldier; it is my HONOR to cast my electoral vote for him.'"
Incidentally, while we're on the subject of Electors, we recently located what appears to be a glaring irregularity in California. In Los Angeles County, Ilene Huber is listed as the presidential elector designated in the 28th Congressional district. However, the registrar-recorder/county clerk of the county of Los Angeles, state of California, has no record of an Ilene Huber listed as a registered voter in the County of Los Angeles. Furthermore, a statewide search of public records has revealed only one Ilene Huber in the state of California, and she is deceased. Other than a dead Elector there may be even more irregularities.
According to WorldNetDaily.com: "... [A]ccording to Chris Myers, director of research for the California Democratic Party, who submitted the list of presidential electors for the Democratic Party to the office of the California secretary of state, there are additional, undisclosed, 'errors' in the list of electors. This admission was made in a telephone conversation with a representative of the American Independent Party on or about November 20, 2008."
Simply stated, if the Electoral College actually allowed an unqualified person to be elected President of the United States, or allowed a person to be elected without verifying that that he or she is qualified, our entire form of government could be compromised!I don't make that statement lightly. It's not an exaggeration. Liberty and freedom are not the rule in this world. They're exceptions. In the United States, we take freedom for granted. It's a given. To us it's like breathing or walking. And that's no accident.
Our Founding Fathers established a government under the basic premise that men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." .. rights that could not be taken away because they come from a Power greater than any one of us. They believed the primary purpose of government was to secure and safeguard those rights and they enumerated those rights in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Stated in greater detail..."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...."
When the most powerful among us are no longer bound by those founding documents - and, more importantly, when we refuse to hold them accountable - there can be no freedom... no liberty... only unrest...violence... oppression... tyranny... perhaps not tomorrow, but very soon! Our Founding Fathers knew that all too well. The action you take now may very well determine the future you leave to your children and grandchildren.
We have indeed crossed the Rubicon. If we do nothing... we sign the death warrant for our nation.
NOTE: The above was received form the USGOP.
Some editing of the article was conducted to remove references to contact and fax numbers, etc.
Obama Birth Certificate Church Presentation
Warning!
#1 Obama is a communist. Not a socialist. His voting record proves it.
#2 This is a new web site. How did they get an even 250,000 addresses so soon?
#3 It's virtually impossible for even the best web sites to garner one million addresses.
#4 I belong to this site back when Steve Elliot was involved. Not one damned thing was ever accomplished. Nothing!
#5 Never trust a professional patriot!
Here's what they're doing. Gathering addresses to further their propanda. Do they have yours?
Go see for yourselves...
http://www.grassfire.org/111/petition.asp?PID=1867
FedEx Members of
The Electoral College
Last chance to lobby for
constitutional eligibility standard
Despite receiving more than 60,000 of our letters last week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it had refused to review one of the cases challenging the President-elect' s eligibility to hold that office.
"That leaves it up to the Electoral College," says WND Editor Joseph Farah. "If you want to do everything you can, like I do, to see that the letter and spirit of the Constitution are upheld in this election year, this may be your last chance to weigh in before Inauguration Day. I urge you to work with us in sending letters to members of the Electoral College."
Here's Our Next Move:
Following up the campaign last week to FedEx the U.S. Supreme Court, WND today announces a historic first in its quest to establish Barack Obama's eligibility for office - a similar FedEx letter drive directed at individual Electoral College members.
Through Thursday at noon Eastern, WND is providing an opportunity to Americans who would like to contact electors of the next president before they vote Monday to send Obama to the White House.
WND has obtained addresses for more than 87 percent of the 538-member Electoral College. The letters will be sent FedEx to the 470 members for whom addresses are available. They will all be delivered Friday morning, giving each elector the weekend to consider the constitutional issues raised by Obama's presidency.
With the new "FedEx the Electoral College" program, you can reach all 470 with a one-page pre-written letter, with your name and address attached, delivered overnight for less than it would cost you to FedEx one member - if you had the address.
"The idea was to make this very easy and inexpensive for Americans to make their voices heard," explained Farah. "We encourage other creative ways to prevail upon the consciences of the Electoral College members, but these are not high-profile, public figures. They are ordinary Americans who are little known to the public and who lead private lives. It is not easy to find their names, let alone addresses. While we do not feel comfortable making those addresses public, we believe this campaign will allow Americans to offer their opinions and concerns in a controlled way, without violating the privacy of individual members."
Farah personally drafted the letter that will be sent to the Electoral College members above the name and address of all those participating in the program. The letters sent in the "FedEx the Electoral College" campaign will read:
Electoral College Member
123 Main Street
Anytown, PA 12345
Dear member of the Electoral College:
Before you cast your vote Monday to make Barack Hussein Obama Jr. the next president of the United States, please seriously consider the following:
Right now, a dozen lawsuits are pending all over the United States - including one brought by a former presidential candidate and U.N. ambassador, and another suit brought by a former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, plus there are many others - all attempting to bring clarity to an issue that will haunt an Obama presidency if it isn't dealt with now.
That issue, as you surely know, is the fact that the U.S. Constitution says clearly and unambiguously in Article 2, Section 1 that presidents must be natural born citizens. But, as is evident not only from lawsuits, but from news stories and the actions of millions of Americans signing petitions, this constitutional issue has not yet been addressed, even at this late hour.
Unfortunately, there isn't enough time for our slow-moving legal process to deal with this before the Electoral College meets next week. Only you, our Electors, have the power and responsibility - and the obligation under the Constitution - to use your authority to establish, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. qualifies for the office under that standard.
There is grave and widespread concern throughout the American public that this constitutional requirement is being overlooked and enforcement neglected by state and federal election authorities. There should be no doubt whatsoever that America's next president was truly born in the United States.
Remember, if the Constitution doesn't mean precisely what it says, then America is no longer a nation under the rule of law. And a nation no longer under the rule of law is, by definition, under the rule of men.
Therefore I urge you to honor the Constitution in this matter and uphold the public trust - even if doing so may prove awkward or inconvenient.
All Americans should have confidence their president is eligible to serve. In this unique and historic case, you may prove to be the Constitution' s last line of defense.
Sincerely,
The name and address of every participant in the "FedEx the Electoral College" campaign will be displayed for the 470 Electoral College members who receive the letters.
This is an historic opportunity to speak directly to the Electoral College at a critical time in American history.
Sign me up! I want to send my FedEx message to the Electoral College right now for only $10.95.
P.S. Remember, the Electoral College convenes Monday, Dec. 15, to determine who the next president will be. After that, nothing stands in the way of a Barack Obama presidency -- and another nail in the coffin of literal interpretation of our Constitution. So act now!
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Attachments only for special list.
Attachment 1 – Excerpts of Congressional Record of Vol. 92 Pt. 2 and Vol. 92 Pt.. 5 of 1946.
Attachment 2 – Excerpt of 28 U.S.C. § 1254 with commentary from Westlaw and some case cites.
CAUTION – READING THIS WILL SHOCK THE CONSCIENCE!
Does the Supreme Court of the United States Declare the Law Today?
The Truth about the Writ of Certiorari.
Is Barack Hussein Obama’s Natural Born Citizen Status Secret Safe?
If the Supreme Court of the United States does not declare the Law arising under the Federal Constitution on the mandatory issue of natural born citizen for a President of the United States in Article II Section 1 Clause 5 concerning Barack Hussein Obama, then who does? Shockingly the answer is no one! So the next question should be how can that happen?
“The object of the constitution was to establish three great departments of government; the legislative, the executive, and the judicial department.. The first was to pass laws, the second to approve and execute them, and the third to expound and enforce the them.” [1]
It is well settled law that only the judicial department declares the law as held and pronounced in adjudged decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 177 (1803) “[I]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” See also United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598, 607 (2000); Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc, 514 U.S. 211, 211 (1995); Harper v. Virginia Dept. of Taxation, 509 U.S. 86, 107 (1993).
The tripartite constitutional Republic established in the Federal Constitution, which consisted only of the legislative, executive and judicial departments is no longer used “[W]ith the advent and triumph of the administrative state” [2]. This knowledge is only posited in some Federal and State Agency personnel, the Congress, the President, federal judges, some state legislators and state judges precluding the people of these United States the their secured rights of a tripartite government. This “Administrative State” triumph and the demise of the tripartite government isn’t being taught in the schools and colleges in America; or, disclosed in media; or, disclosed on talk shows or, disclosed by the people that understand the overthrow of the Republic.
So what happened to the tripartite constitutional Republic where the judicial Branch declares the Law?
From the Congressional Record of 1946 Senator McCarran who was the chairman of the judicial committee reporting to the Senate on the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 prior to it being passed in 1946 stated that Congress setup a fourth branch in the Congressional Record [3] to wit:
The 1937 President’s Committee on Administrative Management of Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued in its report with the excerpt evidenced in the Congressional Record of 1946 Volume 92 Pt. 2 Cong. Rec. Sen. page 2149 the “headless” fourth branch [3] and this was also acknowledged by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to wit:
Congress continued with what can only be termed Treason by usurping the executive Power of the United States by Senator McCarran explaining in Congressional Record of 1946 Volume 92 Pt. 2 Cong. Rec. Sen. page 2149 that Congress wanted to administer the laws “We found that the legislative branch, although it might enact law, could not very well administer it.” [3]
Congress’s Administrative scheme circumvents Article VI of enacting Laws of the United States that have application directly upon the people. To fool the people into the idea of the tripartite Republic, Congress uses “agencies” mandating that they publish in the Federal Register and only then does Congress’s Code apply to the individual citizen as explained by Representative Gwynne of Iowa in the Congressional Record Volume 92 Pt. 5. Rec. Rep. page 5656 [3], to wit:
This is easily verified that rules and regulations must be published in the Federal Register first to have any application to individual citizens and then have a comment period mandated under 5 U.S.C. § 553 to have the force and effect of law being identified as “substantive regulations.” See holding in Chrysler v. Brown, 441 U.S. 281 (1979). Very few people are informed of Congress’s Administrative scheme and want to use the U.S.C. taught that the “law” resides therein, but is doesn’t.
With the triumph of the “fourth branch” of government not sanctioned by the Federal Constitution there was no need for the constitutional Courts of the United States secured in Article III. The “District Court of the United States” was quietly posited in the closet in 1948 and a new court was established being the “United States District Court” (“USDC”) in 1948 in Title 28 U.S.C. § 132. The USDC does not exercise “The judicial Power [“of the United States” – Article III Section 1 Clause 1] shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under the Constitution . . . “ of Article III Section 2 Clause 2. Under the Administrative State in the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 [4] we find in the Congressional Record excerpt [5] of Senator McCarran disclosing the court system that will be used in the newly created fourth branch, i.e. Administrative State, to wit:
In the current Administrative State there is no requirement for a Court of Law (constitutional court) as this is only required in a tripartite constitutional Republic and the current Equity court is sufficient today.
Having no access to the Law side of Court of the United States today, but only to the Equity side, the Supreme Court of the United States is no longer mandated to declare the law pronounced in Marbury, supra.
In 1988 the only constitutional Courts left in the Republic was the Supreme Court of the United States and of the Court of International Trade (“CIT”). The CIT exercised a very small part of the judicial Power of the United States arising under Article III having nothing to do private rights of the people, which is constitutional as the judicial Power of the United States can be posited in several courts as required. The CIT still exists today.
The access to the Supreme Court of the United States had been closed by Public Law 100-352 by eliminating the mandatory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and eliminated the appeal process. This is found in the commentary in Westlaw by David D. Siegel excerpt of 28 U.S.C. § 1254 [6], to wit:
The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Writ of Certiorari is totally discretionary today and the denial of the Writ of Certiorari has absolutely nothing to do with either the merits or the standing of the parties. So the denial by the Supreme Court of the United States of the Certiorari concerning Obama has absolutely no meaning as to whether he is or isn’t a natural born native.
And a denial of the Writ of Certiorari does not affirm or deny any veracity to the decision of the lower courts and has no precedential value but only affirms the Supreme Court of the United States chose not to grant the Writ of Certiorari. [[6] for cases cites..]
A denial of the Writ of Certiorari by the Supreme Court of the United States is seldom disclosed but only means there were not four members of nine members that wished to hear the case, i.e. known as the “Four Justice Rule.” [[6] for cases cites.]
Few understand the closure of all appeal access to the Supreme Court of the United States to declare the law with the attorneys religiously citing cases with the “certiorari denied” in their pleadings that is absolutely worthless unknown to American citizens that rely upon their expertise.
The Writs of Error designed to declare the law were abolished in 1928 at 45 Stat. 54. So here find ourselves with no mandatory Judicial Branch by the Federal Constitution to declare the Law. The Writ of Habeas Corpus has been restricted by Congress mandating the filing of a 2255 Motion prior to the Habeas Corpus to the Federal Courts. To even entertain a real Habeas Corpus Congress has restricted the writ so narrowly rending it almost totally ineffective.
There are real solutions but they will not be easily attained..
Hosea Chap. 4 verse 6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
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[1] Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, 14 U.S. 304, 329 (1816).
[2] Bowsher v. Synar, 478 U.S. 714, 761, 762 (1986) dissenting opinion of Justice White.
In an earlier day, in which simpler notions of the role of government in society prevailed, it was perhaps plausible to insist that all "executive" officers be subject to an unqualified Presidential removal power, see Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52, 47 S.Ct. 21, 71 L.Ed. 160 (1926); but with the advent and triumph of the administrative state and the accompanying multiplication of the tasks undertaken by the Federal Government, the *762 Court has been virtually compelled to recognize that Congress may reasonably deem it "necessary and proper" to vest some among the broad new array of governmental functions in officers who are free from the partisanship that may be expected of agents wholly dependent upon the President. [Emphasis added]
[3] Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commission Senator McCarran of Nevada in the Congressional Record of 1946 in Volume 92 Pt. 2 Cong. Rec. Sen. Page 2149 and 2163 and Volume 92 Pt. 5 Con. Rec. Rep. Page 5656 with Rep. Gwyenne prior to the passing of the Administrative Procedure Act on June 11, 1946 at 60 Stat. 237.
Attachment 1 excerpt.
[4] The Administrative Procedure Act was codified in 1966 at 80 Stat. 378 and is found today in Title 5 of the United States Code §§§§§ 500, 600, 700, 800 and 900.
[5] Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commission Senator McCarran of Nevada in the Congressional Record of 1946 in Volume 92 Pt. 2 Cong. Rec. Sen. Page 2163. Attachment 1 excerpt.
[6] 28 U.S.C. 1254 with commentary by David D. Siegel from Westlaw with assorted cases. Attachment 2 excerpt.
Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
And each time I’ve written one of those stories, I have received e-mails attacking my acceptance of the fact that Webb committed suicide on the night of Dec. 9, 2004. Some people want to believe that he was really assassinated by the CIA or some other government agency.
But the evidence of his carefully planned suicide – as he suffered deep pain as a pariah in his profession who could no longer earn a living – actually points to something possibly even more tragic: Webb ended his life because people who should have supported his work simply couldn’t be bothered.
Though Gary Webb was horribly betrayed by his colleagues in the news business – and especially his editors at the San Jose Mercury News – he also was taken advantage of by people in the progressive movement, who sometimes exploited his celebrity by having him speak at their events for little or no money.
There is a deeply troubling attitude within the American progressive movement that it bears next to no responsibility for people who speak truth to power and suffer terrible consequences, as Webb did. While sometimes progressives cheer the heroism, they rarely back it up with anything sustainable.
More often than not, after the celebrity fades, the person is left to fend for him or herself as an outcast from a profession that pays a salary and lets a person support a family. Indeed, what happened to Gary Webb – and to other mainstream journalists who took chances in the name of truth – is a powerful object lesson to those left behind, to play it safe.
Progressives often denounce mainstream journalists as sell-outs who are too timid to challenge the powerful or to take on the tough stories. But – by refusing to invest significantly in a media infrastructure – the progressives are partly responsible for the problem.
I must take some of the blame for Webb’s death, too.
Army calling for all youth to mandatory service immediately
Report suggests radical personnel changes
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 9:25:15 EST
A bipartisan think tank takes controversial positions involving military personnel in a new report about national security strategy.
To deal with recruiting and retention problems, the Center for National Policy recommends lifting the military’s ban on open service by gays, barring the services from using stop-loss orders to keep people on active duty beyond their separation dates, and requiring every American youth to serve the nation in mandatory national service with military duties as one option.
Called “Agility Across the Spectrum: A Future Force Blueprint,” the report, released today, also recommends phasing out the use of civilian contractors as private security guards by 2014, which would require an increase of 92,000 active-duty personnel.
For whole article, see the link...
- "requiring every American youth to serve the nation in mandatory national service with military duties as one option."
The Perfect Law of Liberty--the Solution
There is a solution to increasing government power and control. There is
a solution to the destruction of families, culture, borders, and freedom.
This solution was implemented by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. It was the
only solution that could set men free from tyranny and keep them free.
In the Old Testament it was called the Perfect Law of Liberty. The
Apostle Paul called it the Higher Liberty. It was the plan for
government laid out by God and implemented by His Prophets.
That solution is men living under the Perfect Law of Liberty by
following the pattern of grassroots social and economic organization
laid down by God and proclaimed the Prophets and by the Messiah.
God's model for bottom-up self-government has been in our faces in the
Bible. Yet today few see it and reject it for top-down government that
gradually eats out all wealth and oppresses all men.
Many are exposing corruption but there is very little mention of any
workable solution.
According to God's Word as contained in the Holy Bible, men are to solve
the problem of centralized power by organizing themselves into
autonomous orders to take care of each other and render the need for
government benefits and government commerce obsolete. While most modern
churches teach that the gospel is to claim Jesus as your saviour and
meet on Sundays to sing hymns, we find that the ancient Christians and
Israelites had a far different view and practice of the gospel. It was
and remains about self-government and selfless service.
His Holy Church is one church that has been publishing this workable
solution for years. All the information needed for patriots to be free
is contained in several free publications offered by the church. [
http://www.hisholychurch.net ]
All that is needed is for this information to reach the masses and for a
small minority of people to begin implementing it.
When organized and prepared, without a central authority to undermine
the society, a free people under God can and will weather the tough
times ahead.
That solution is so obvious, so simple, that it is not obvious or simple
to men blinded by fear, selfishness, greed, and sloth. But the diligent
and those who love their neighbor can see the way and begin to implement
the building up of a free society under Christ even in the wake of a
burgeoning police state.
Learn more at: http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/index.html
Fed considers issuing its own debt: WSJ
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve is mulling issuing its own debt for the first time in a move that would give it more flexibility to stabilize financial markets, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Government debt issuance is largely the job of the Treasury Department, but Fed officials are looking for new tools as the crisis drags on and have approached Congress about the idea, the Journal reported. It added the concept could include issuing bills or some other form of debt, but it isn't known whether the preliminary discussions will result in a formal proposal or Fed action. The Journal said one roadblock is that the Federal Reserve Act doesn't explicitly permit the Fed to issue notes beyond currency
Rep. Ron Paul Schools the House, Twice! 12/10/2008
Congressman identifies Federal Reserve as the real problem
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, December 11, 2008
OPERATION "TROJAN" OF THE "CONTRA'S" and EGGAR-THY NEIGHBOR CURRENCY DEVALUATIONS
The CONTRA'S of 1871..
Historical Outline
Martial Law is declared by President Lincoln on April 24th, 1863, with General Orders No. 100; under martial law authority, Congress and President Lincoln institute continuous martial law by ordering the states (people) either conscribe troops and or provide money in support of the North or be recognized as enemies of the nation; this martial law Act of Congress is still in effect today. This martial law authority gives the President (with or without Congress) the dictatorial authority to do anything that can be done by government in accord with the Constitution of the United States of America. This conscription act remains in effect to this very day and is the foundation of Presidential Executive Orders authority; it was magnified in 1917 with The Trading with the Enemy Act (Public Law 65-91, 65th Congress, Session I, Chapters 105, 106, October 6, 1917). and again in 1933 with the Emergency War Powers Act, which is ratified and enhanced almost every year to this date by Congress. Today these Acts address the people of the United States themselves as their enemy.
source: http://www.teamlaw.org/HistoricalOutline.htm
THE "CONTRA" TROJAN INTENTIONS OF BEGGAR-THY-NEIGHBOU R CURRENCY DEVALUATIONS appears to have hit a 'snag' going up river on its way to GLOBAL BANKING, FINANCING AND ECONOMICS "HOSTAGE" TAKING. All the little rich boys pushed the envelope too far, the CONTRA TROJAN backfired on all of them.. Instead of the Global International Community of Banking "making a financial killing" from this Global Ponzi Scheme they discovered they had 'bit on the poisoned baith' of THE AL QAEDA more specifically identified as THE CONTRA'S who, if you look the word CONTRA up.. you will find these individuals are "against, confronting, opposite to; on the other hand; on the contrary" to and against 'established, long standing laws of Civilized Governments. ' As fine example of a "CONTRA" that can be found, can be found in Franklin D. Roosevelt's "CONTRA" "Emergency Powers" established in 1933 to co-respond to Adolph Hitlers "Emergency Powers" of 1933.. within days of each other.. or shortly after the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who were 'friends of both Adolph and the Roosevelts' delivered 'messages' as they were guests in the HYDE PARK home of the President and his wife.
Roosevelt's next "CONTRA" move came in the form "REFORM OF THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY" [U.S. 75th Cong. 1st Sess. Sen. Report 711 ] which I have written previously about "VK DURHAM:SECOND ATTEMPT TO "REFORM THE JUDICIARY ACT" http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive. cgi?read= 72104 and "ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL A COMMUNISTS BEST FRIENDS" at http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read= 72224 . Perhaps a supportive such as this historical document will convince the doubting Thomas's. Read:
http://www.fjc. gov/history/home.nsf/page/judicial independence pdf/$file/JudicialIndependencefinal.doc.pdf
See: Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937, requesting the American People 'turn over all their gold'
snip:
"My FRIENDS, last Thursday I described in detail certain economic problems which everyone admits now face the nation. For the many messages which have come to me after that speech, and which it is physically impossible to answer individually, I take this means of saying thank you. Tonight, sitting at my desk in the White House, I make my first radio report to the people in my second term of office.
I am reminded of that evening in March, four years ago, when I made my first radio report to you. We were then in the midst of the great banking crisis.
Soon after, with the authority of the Congress, we asked the nation to turn over all of its privately held gold, dollar for dollar, to the government of the United States. http://www.hpol.org/fdr/chat/ .
Note: Roosevelt's "Fire Side Chat" was in 1933. Four years prior would have been 1929 the WALL STREET CRASH.
THE "CONTRA'S CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST" .. AND BROUGHT ALL THEIR 'NASTY'S WITH THEM.. AS THEY ASK WE the PEOPLE to "BAIL THEM OUT".. from this "A CREDIT CRISIS OR A COLLAPSING PONZI SCHEME? Robert Rubin "
A new Citigroup scandal is engulfing Robert Rubin and his former disciple Chuck Prince for their roles in an alleged Ponzi-style scheme that's now choking world banking.
Director Rubin and ousted CEO Prince - and their lieutenants over the past five years - are named in a federal lawsuit for an alleged complex cover-up of toxic securities that spread across the globe, wiping out trillions of dollars in their destructive paths.
Investor-plaintiffs in the suit accuse Citi management of overseeing the repackaging of unmarketable collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that no one wanted - and then reselling them to Citi and hiding the poisonous exposure off the books in shell entities. http://www.nypost.com/seven/12042008/photos/biz059a.jpg
FALLOUT FROM THE "PONZI SCHEME:
"ATHENS IN FLAMES"
While Greece was preparing for its general strike tomorrow Thursday, 10 December, against the Karamanlis government and against the ECONOMIC CRISIS, and with the grassroots mobilisation in schools and universities growing for some time against proposed bailouts, Alexandros Grigoropolous, only 15 years old, was the unlucky choice to become victim and scapegoat of the police apparatus, and was killed in cold blood by the State Police force.
http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/12/2008seasons discernmints_from.shtml
MORE FALL OUT:
http://www.as-coa.org/article.php?id=1380
Carin Zissis
December 9, 2008
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. (AP Images)
With the global financial slowdown dragging on Central American economies, eight heads of state came together in Honduras Friday to discuss how to head off the effects of the credit crisis. Presidents and vice presidents of the seven Central American countries plus the Dominican Republic for the annual Central American Integration System (SICA) leaders summit in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The leaders hammered out a 41-point economic agreement of “urgent measures,”including proposals to step up integration, food security, and investment. The countries also pitched the idea of creating a common currency. El Salvador and Panama use the U.S. dollar while the remaining countries currently have their own currencies.
The global credit crisis has delivered a wallop to SICA nations, which were already hit hard by a food crisis that struck earlier in 2008 and a slowdown in remittance flows. Analysts predict a deceleration in Central American growth next year, from 4.3 percent in 2008 to 2.8 percent in 2009. Moreover, many SICA countries command the highest poverty rates in the Americas. For example, although a new report published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean found that Honduras saw one of the regions sharpest drops in poverty (by 3.7 percent) in 2007, it continued to have the highest poverty rate of any of the countries surveyed, running at nearly 70 percent.
"The architecture of the economy needs changes; we have to achieve financial, trade, and food independence within the region," said the Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. With these goals in mind, leaders of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic agreed to create a credit fund and stimulus packages for various sectors to counter the possibility of slowing foreign investment and slowing remittance flows.
The details of how such credit fund would be created have yet to be worked out. So do plans for a common currency and passport as well as a plan to "standardize laws" in the immigration, education, and security sectors "that will give greater cohesion to Central American integration and that ensure citizens the benefits of that integration. " As the Latin Americanist blog points out, should SICA pursue such plans, the region will undoubtedly draw comparisons to the European Union. The SICA proposal comes at a time when the Central American countries continue to negotiate with the EU for an association agreement designed to deepen political dialogue, cooperation, and establish a free trade zone between the two regions. Negotiations are expected to conclude next year.
The SICA meeting coincided with a handover of the organization’ s six-month presidency from Honduras’ Zelaya to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega. On the day before Friday’s summit, Honduran Central Bank President Edwin Araque reported that his country does not plan to follow IMF recommendations to devaluate the lempira. In August, Honduras joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) whose other members consist of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Venezuela, and new SICA host country Nicaragua. rest of article: http://www.as-coa.org/article.php?id=1380 .
MORE CONTRA FALL OUT:
A staggering $41.8bn (£28.6bn) of cash was carved up in November alone between Iceland, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine and Pakistan, with a further $10bn bail-out being finessed this weekend to pull Turkey back from possible default.
But the IMF is not the only one saving sovereign states.
The buccaneers of restructuring, already busy breathing oxygen into the lungs of debt-choked companies, like retailer Baugar, are parleying what they do for corporates, multi-nationals and financial institutions into a tool kit to help them fix the breakdown of entire finance ministries and the economies they run. source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/3658690/Defaulting-countries-reach-out-to-IMF-and-financial-fixers.html .
Let us not forget Russia and China, to wit;
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Putin Suggests Russia, China Ditch Dollar in Trade Deals
RIA Novosti reports that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Tuesday that Russia and China gradually switch over to national currency payments in bilateral trade, expected to total $50 billion in 2008.
"We should consider improving the payment system for bilateral trade, including by gradually adopting a broader use of national currencies," Putin told a bilateral economic forum.
He admitted the task would be tough, but said it was necessary amid the current problems with the dollar-based global economy. rest of article at http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2008/10/putin-suggests-russia-china-ditch.html
And it is just beginning..
POUND STERLING AND CHINESE YUAN ARE JUST THE BEGINNING
Thursday 11 December 2008 02:00
THE END OF GLOBALISATION: THE PRETEXT AND COVER FOR THE FRAUDULENT FINANCE WORLD ENTERING LONG PHASE OF ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION THANKS TO THE CROOKS
CRISIS IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE FINANCIERS OF TERRORISM: ROUND THEM ALL UP NOW! MORGAN STANLEY 'TERRORISM FINANCING CENTRE' EXPOSURE REVERBERATES GLOBALLY
FIVE 'SETTLEMENTS TRUSTEES' IN EUROPE 'DRAGGING THEIR HEELS': ARREST THEM! TIME TO PREPARE GEORGE BUSH SR.'S NOTORIOUS LAMP POSTS FOR THEIR TASKS?
NO MORE LEEWAY FOR THE CRIMINALS IS PERMISSIBLE: LOOK AT THE PLIGHT OF BRITAIN...
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Full article, here:
http://worldreports .org/news/184beggar thyneighbour currency devaluations source: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=137464
Yes, Virgina; There is "THE CORPORATION" .. they promote the development and use of material and human resources in the developing countries
which are members of the Corporation; Make direct investments, through the granting of loans, and preferably through the subscription and
purchase of shares or convertible debt instruments, in enterprises in which a majority of the voting power
is held by investors with Latin American citizenship, and make indirect investments in such enterprises end snip, full article: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=137344 and www.fourwinds10. com/journals/UnPublished/J206.pdf .
CORPORATE CORRUPTION AT THE TOP including the $200,000,000 GOLD from the TAX PAYERS "U.S. DEPT. OF THE TREASURY "TRUST" which was "Allocated" and "MISUSED" by Gross Misappropriation of Funds used to 'bribe' foreign leaders in a 'Conspiracy to Overthrow the Republics of the united States of America'.. through the Treaty international agreements other than treaties process during the Iranian Contra Affair fiasco and the Latin American Contra Affair fiasco [remember what you read above]. We can view the allocation and payoffs to the Latin American Leaders in Tias 12087 of 1984-86; The initial authorized capital stock of the Corporation shall be two hundred million dollars of the United States of America (US$200,000, 000).
The authorized capital stock divided into twenty thousand (20,000) shares having a par value
Country's Leaders who were bribed with our TAX DOLLARS:
LAUNDERING OPERATION" designed to collapse the governments of all agreeing parties.. which the United States Congress 'authorized' to buy, bribe and pay off these following countries leaders to participate in the OVERTHROW OF THE REPUBLICS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;
Argentina—2,327; Brazil—2,327; Mexico—1,498; Venezuela—1,248; Chile—690; Columbia—14
690; Peru—420; Bahamas—43; Barbados—30; Bolivia—187; Costa Rica—94; Dominican Republic—
126; Ecuador—126; El Salvador—94; Guatemala—126; Guyana—36; Haiti—94; Honduras—
94; Jamaica—126; Nicaragua—94; Panama—94; Paraguay—94; Trinidad and Tobago—94;
Uruguay—248; United States of America—5,100; Austria—100; France—626; Fed. Rep. of Germany—
626; Israel—50; Italy—626; Japan—626; Netherlands—310; Spain 626; Switzerland—
310.
Which includes THE BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB JUDGES increasing the PAY RAISES for judges to "turn a blind eye to UnAmerican Activities, Excessive Abuse of Powers, Conflict of Interest, Exceeding Jurisdictional Powers, Bribery, Blackmail, Coercion, Intimidation, Behavior Unbecoming Officers of Public Trust, Breach of International Policy etc.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_ongo co/judicial payraise
The U.S. Government also set up an Inter-American Investment Corporation to cover the action of this money laundering. Capital stock shares were sold at $10,000 per share. The Corporate “By-Laws” hold these member drug runners free from prosecution. The by-laws state only members can monitor or sanction members. They then are above the law.
Let’s look at the parent Corporation. The major single capital stock holder is the U.S. Government, as it owns a fourth of the Capital Stock. Then there are the “also known as”. In law enforcement lingo-jargon these are called “AKAs”. The Inter-American Investment Corporation, aka: Contra Money Laundering, aka: U.S. Government’s Inter-American Investment Corporation, aka: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operating under the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Mexico connection of Inter-American Investment Corporation was Banco de Londres y Mexico, also known as the Bank of London in Mexico, called the Banco Serfin. This Banco or “Bank” tied in with ALL European Banks and banks of the United States. Mr. Greenspan, Mr. Bush, Mr. North, Mr. Baker,
Mr. Wright, Mr. Bentsen and all presidents since the Kennedy administration, have been and are, allegedly, involved, as is Operation TROJAN.
It is beyond comprehension that the U.S. Government would “loan” buy-in moneys to these Contra nations for capital shares in this Inter-American Investment Corporation and then keep on lending the Contra nations money while they put U.S. dollars “loaned” to them into Swiss accounts, or into accounts in Liechtenstein.
This Inter-American Investment Corporation and then keep on lending the Contra's and underwriting the AL QAEDA alleged to be a WASHINGTON, D.C. IN HOUSE OPERATION.
This brings about the GIGA or CIGA GRAND CAYMAN ACCOUNTS http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=131446
MORE 9/11 CANTOR FITZGERALD, GOLDMAN SACHS, FED. R., UST, BUSH ETAL 'FINANCIAL TERRORISM' at http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read= 134567 and ABUSE OF POWER, CONFUSION; & A WHOLE LOT OF LYING GOING ON http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=136799
THE PAPER TRAILS have been systematically destroyed while bankers involved have been systematically murdered to "COVER UP THE CONTRAS ACTIVITIES" around the world..
As the "fed" considers to sell it's own DEBTS http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122888021757894023.html
RACIST CAP LOCK IGNORANT BIGOTRY FLIPPY NO LINK NEWS SERVICE
"CORRUPTION" you can believe in!
RAINBOW NIGGER ACTIVIST DENIES/LIES ABOUT ANY WRONG DOING IN ILL. GOVERNER SCANDAL
ANTI-GUN NIGGER BITCH SAYS,"WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT IT BEING UNCOSTITUTIONAL?"
FAGS FAIL TO GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER ON FIRST ANNUAL FAG DAY!WEB CAM CAPTURES DIRTY 'OLE MAN JACKING OFF AT WORK
SPICS GET BUSTED TRYING TO KIDNAP CORN DOG HIERESS
NIGGER HOSTS TEENAGE HOOKER PARTY
CLFNS PRESENTS YOU THE FULL CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST ROD THE POLOCK WHO LOOKS LIKE HE HAS A
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DISGUSTING! FAT NIGGER OPRAH ANNOUNCES
FUCK YOU AL GORE, YOU COCKSUCKER! SIBERIA GOES TO -81 THIS WEEK AND SO. CALIFORNICATION
FILTHY HOOK NOSER CALLS FOR ONE WORLD GUBBERMINT! SITES "GLOBAL WARMING" "GLOBAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE
OFFICIAL NWO ROCKEFELLER PLOT REVEALED IN 1969
Green Machinations?
For one young Brit, exploring the world is no fun if you can't save it, too. On an 8,000-mile sail across the Pacific in a boat made of bottles, he will prove that one man's trash is another's pleasure. By Hudson Morgan
June 2008
David de Rothschild charts a course from San Francisco to Australia. Napapijri jacket, $566. John Varvatos shirt, $225. Banana Republic pants, $49.50, and desert boots, $118. (Photo: Phil Poynter)
Some years ago, the 29-year-old British explorer David de Rothschild endured that universal male ritual of telling his father what he wanted to do with his life.
It could have been potentially awkward because 1) his father is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, former captain of the British branch of the fabled family banking empire, and 2) David wanted to save the world rather than buy and sell it. "I started in natural medicine and for a while my dad was like, 'You're a naturist?'" de Rothschild recalls. "And I'm like, 'No, no, I'm a naturopath. Naturists get naked and run around the woods. I'm sure that's kind of fun, but, um, no.'"
Sure, with his shoulder-length hair, trustafarian beard, and faded Converse sneakers, de Rothschild could be mistaken for one of those patchouli-scented dudes praying for a Phish reunion tour. But as he explains his grand designs over breakfast at San Francisco's Clift Hotel, it's clear that exploring the globe is only the first step in his quest to improve it. Not content to simply brave the Arctic Ocean, be the youngest Brit to reach both poles, and set a speed record for traversing the Greenland ice cap, de Rothschild has added a green twist: He started Adventure Ecology, an organization that shares his expeditions with kids and tweens on the Web to spread environmental activism. The idea is that they'll tell their friends, teachers, and parents. Call it trickle-up eco-nomics.
"The stumbling block of the whole green movement is that there has been this slightly exclusive, sanctimonious air about it," de Rothschild says. "You feel intimidated. It's like, 'What are you doing?' It makes you feel guilty." His other peeve is the braver-than- thou genre of modern exploration, which he feels is counterproductive to tree-huggery. "If you're watching a documentary, " he says, "and some guy is sitting in a tent and going" — he switches to a mountain-man burr — " 'I'm barely surviving here, and it's miserable,' you think: 'That looks miserable. Why the hell would I want to protect that place?'"
De Rothschild's next Adventure Ecology mission, in December, is his most ambitious yet: a four-month, 8,000-mile voyage from San Francisco to Australia in a 60-foot sailboat made of post-consumer plastic bottles. Dubbed the Plastiki (à la Thor Heyerdahl — get it?), the trip will spotlight the desecration of the oceans by trash, oil, and other unsavory man-mades. "What people don't know is that a lot of Western countries send their waste to Asia to be sorted out," de Rothschild says. "That's how trash ends up in our oceans. There are now practically more floating containers in our oceans than there are whales."
A few perils await the six-man crew, including treacherous weather, currents, and, of course, the possibility that the boat could split apart and become its own environmental disaster. I ask if de Rothschild is avoiding films like The Perfect Storm and Dead Calm. "When I was in Antarctica, somebody was like, 'You really must watch Touching the Void,'" he says, laughing. "I'm like, 'Why would I want to do that?' I guess it's the same with this." At least he won't have to worry about pirates on the high seas: "I think they'll take one look at our vessel and go, 'They're fucking crazy.'"
De Rothschild's taste for the untamed is born of his upbringing on the family's country estate an hour north of London, where he rode horses with his Olympic equestrian uncle and generally ran amok. "I have my teachers to thank because they often got so pissed off at me that they'd send me out of the classroom, to where I wanted to be — outside." After getting a graduate degree in natural medicine, he decamped to an organic farm in New Zealand for a bit of the examined life. These days his home base is a modest house outside of London, where he lives with his "two girls," a Staffordshire bull terrier named Smudge and a little schnauzer named Nesta.
As to whether there's an actual human girl in the equation, de Rothschild errs on the side of caginess. Even though he was once rumored to knock Birkenstocks with Cameron Diaz and Tatler ranked him ahead of Prince Harry on its eligible bachelor list, de Rothschild still seems bewildered by the tabloid glare. "It's frustrating because it cheapens what you do," he says. "People want to know who I'm dating rather than what expedition I'm doing. If you position yourself anywhere near the public eye, people will feel like they have a sense of ownership over you, and want to know every detail." He pauses, and as if channeling Ricky Gervais, continues: "What did you have for breakfast?" "Cold porridge." "What color are your boxer shorts?" "White."
De Rothschild is savvy enough to know that his gilded pedigree — and the Sasquatch-size carbon footprint from frequent flying around the world to promote his cause — exposes him to charges of insincerity. "People will snipe," he says. "I'm not perfect by any means. My CO2 output is more than most because of the lifestyle I lead, but it's less than it could be. But what would you rather I do? Just sit back and consume? I want to maximize my social impact and make a difference, and that's why I do what I do." He smiles. "I could very easily not."
After breakfast, de Rothschild and I take a cab to the Port Commission for a sit-down with a city official (How many entrepreneurs do you know who show up at a business meeting wearing a North Face backpack?) and then walk along the Embarcadero to the Plastiki build site. "He was frosty at first," de Rothschild says of the guy's perhaps understandable reluctance to lease waterfront property to a recycled ark. "And then the mayor, Gavin Newsom, came along and said this is a good thing." De Rothschild is well aware that on a day-to-day basis he's less like Sir Edmund Hillary and more like, well, Senator Hillary. "I like to moisturize, I like fluffy pillows, and I can't do a one-armed push-up," he admits. "I'm the first person to say I'm not a hero." Plus, being close to his BlackBerry allows him to stay in the loop on his upcoming projects: a sail through the South China Sea, an expedition to Africa in '09, and an "edutainment" pilot for NBC.
We reach Pier 31, a hangar-like enclosure with high wood rafters and industrial bay doors opening onto the shipyard. The location is quintessential San Francisco: The Bay Bridge hangs to the east, the Transamerica Pyramid just to the south, and the ferry to Alcatraz — de Rothschild swam the hazardous route a few years ago — is next door. (The Plastiki's construction will become its own attraction for disposable-camera tourists flocking to Fisherman's Wharf.) He may even shack up in an Airstream on the premises whenever he's in town supervising the project, and he plans to throw a launch party here come December. Will there be a nautical costume theme? "I'm not sure we'd want to do a maritime theme in San Francisco," de Rothschild replies. "We might end up with lots of, um, sailor boys. Might be the wrong kind of party. But at least it'd be interesting. "
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