Boycotting BP Works

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I took some vacation time, at home, the week before the 4th of July weekend. I live on the Alabama Gulf Coast, and spend most of my time away, from there, working. I had not been home since before the oil rig leak, in the Gulf, had began.

I didn’t know what to expect really. My only source for information is the internet. Internet news stories ranging from BP propaganda, to end of the world scenarios, have had me very emotional.

My mother’s family were among the first English settlers in the area. My mother even had an uncle, by marriage, whose family, were Spanish subjects, from the Spanish colonial days.

I was born in Mobile Alabama, and the Gulf is a part of me, it is a part of who I am. Many of my happiest moments, as a child, were spent fishing, and swimming, in the Mobile Bay.

Just a mile, down the road, from where I live, there is a BP station. I have bought gas at the station since it was opened. I knew, however, that I would no longer be a customer there. While away, I felt sorry for the people that owned the station. I was resolved to never buy another BP product, for as long I as I live.

Having had family members, in the gas station business, and having been a gas pump jockey, during my High School years, I knew the station is a family business. I also know that the business owners can change the product at their gas pumps.

 

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I had returned home over the weekend, and stayed, shut in, the house going through my mail. Monday morning, I ventured out, to make a dentist appointment, and do some investigating, on the the Gulf beaches.

Leaving the house, I had made up my mind, to drive past the gas station, at the next cross roads. Approaching the station, I was happily surprised, to see that it was now a Shell station.

I made a point to stop in and patronize the station. Saturday, I had bought gas at a Chevron, and didn’t need to buy more. The station owners had been as outrage, as everyone else, at the conduct of BP, and the Federal Government. They had taken the decision to end their association with BP on their own.

Entering the store, I noticed that all BP products had been removed from the shelving, and Shell Oil products, in their place. The store owners, and managers, were not available, so I couldn’t ask them any questions. To show some support, I bought a few items, that could have been bought, more cheaply, elsewhere, and moved on.

 

 

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As you can see, from the above picture, the store was completely empty. No one inside, and no cars at the pumps. I took this picture in mid-morning, at what should have been, a busy time of day for the station. While I had been certain to never patronize the station, as long as they sold BP products, I was saddened.

The owners had taken the initiative to change their oil company affiliation, but passing motorists, could only see the BP green, and not the Shell Oil replacement sign. The Shell sign being, basically, a large bag placed over the, more permanent, BP sign.

Over, the many, weeks of the oil leak, I have listened in to talk shows, so far as, I could stand to listen. Many talk show hosts have been criticizing the BP boycott because it hurts the small business owners. If small business owners are hurt, by their association with BP, they can change their business associations.

Please beware of propaganda in it’s many forms. While many of the national talk show hosts try to make you feel sorry, for Mom, and Pop, they are really shilling for the corporate giant.

Some of the propagandists are quite clever. This article, from Newsweek, Boycott BP!, subtitled, Because it is better to give your money to Exxon,  asserts that, if you boycott BP, you are giving your money to Exxon, as if their are no other oil companies.

It maybe true that Exxon got off light, from the Exxon Valdez spill, it wasn’t their company policy that kept it going for profit. As is the case with the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

The disaster, in the Gulf of Mexico, isn’t the only place that BP is leaving their mark. BP is dumping, as many as, 5 lbs. of mercury, in lake Michigan, per year, from their Indiana operation. The Chicago Sun Times has been calling for a boycott of BP for it.  Please see Sun Times Says Boycott BP.

British Petroleum, is an un-needed, corporation, in the United States of America. We do not need a foreign company to steal our natural assets, and sell them back to us. BP drills, and pumps oil, from Alaska, and sells it to other nations, like Japan.

The vey fact, that BP does business, in North America, is the result of the policies of the Trilateral Commission, whose purpose, was to merge the economies of Japan, The United States, and Great Briton.

I often tell people about the Trilateral Commission and their purpose. They often tell me that they don’t think it could happen. Well, it happened in the 1980’s.

Were you sleeping?

Oppose Financial Regulatory Overhaul Legislation

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Senator Christopher Dodd’s newest legislation entitled the “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” (S. 3217) is set to hit the Senate floor for debate as early as next week. A swift passage is President Obama’s priority goal. A highly intrusive, unconstitutional, authority-expanding gift to the Federal Reserve, the bill was only officially introduced on April 15. It had already made its way out of the Senate Banking Committee in draft form with the blessings of the Democratic majority on March 22.
Instead of relieving the Federal Reserve of the broad and sweeping powers it currently holds, the Dodd bill is a 1,336-page gem that would grant the Fed expansive new regulatory authority. It contains a $50 billion bailout fund, described as an "Orderly Liquidation Fund," for financial institutions. Democrats are defending the bailout fund because they insist that the money will not come from taxpayers but from banks.
The financial regulatory bill also creates a new consumer protection agency that may end up residing inside the Federal Reserve. This new Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be formed to monitor things like credit cards and mortgages — and far more, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  A real kicker for some is that the bill gives the President power to appoint the president of the New York Fed, which would dramatically change the political dynamics already at work in the current, but unconstitutional, central banking system run by the Federal Reserve.
Up to now there has been little, if any, strong reaction in principle from the minority party in Congress. It seems as though the Republicans merely want to be part of the legislative decision-making process, or should we say bipartisan partners in the revamping of the entire financial landscape. They should be excoriated for such an unprincipled approach. This bill could easily be named the Federal Reserve Act II due to the massive fundamental changes it would make in the relationships between Wall Street, Main Street, and the federal government.
This bill is a cleverly crafted package that would guarantee further monetary manipulation in conjunction with an expanded set of regulatory activities for the federal government. It is a fully-stocked tool chest loaded with the latest in gadgets and gizmos, devices and mechanisms that would enable the Federal Reserve to heavily police the entire financial sector and destroy any vestige of the free market.
Contact your representatives in the Senate and House by sending a pre-written, editable message in opposition to any further financial regulatory reform at this time. Click here for other contact information for your representative and senators to make phone calls and personal visits.
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SB233 Being Blocked in Alabama State Senate

State Senator Lowell Barron is not allowing SB233 to come to the floor for a vote.  Demand, by calling NOW, demand that this issue be brought to the floor so that the voters of Alabama can have an up or down vote!

SB233 would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to prohibit any person, employer, or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system.  It reads in part:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT
(a) In order to preserve the freedom of all residents of Alabama to provide for their own health care, a law or rule shall not compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system.

(b) A person or employer may pay directly for health care services and shall not be required to pay penalties or fines for paying directly for lawful health care services. A health care provider may accept direct payment for lawful health care services and shall not be required to pay penalties or fines for accepting direct payment from a person or employer for lawful health care services.

(c) The purchase or sale of health insurance in private health care systems shall not be prohibited by law or rule.

Read it all here.

Melt the phone lines.  Call Senator Barron and demand that this issue be brought to the floor so that the voters of Alabama can have an up or down vote!  Call the following numbers NOW:

State House:
Room 729-B
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7858   
Business:
P.O. Box 65
Fyffe, AL 35971
(256) 623-2298
Home:     P.O. Box 65
Fyffe, AL 35971
(256) 623-2811

Senator Barron represents DeKalb, Jackson, and Madison counties. You need to say that you live in one of the following cities:
Collinsville, Crossville, Fort Payne, Fyffe, Geraldine, Hammondville, Henagar, Ider, Lakeview, Mentone, Pine Ridge, Powell, Rainsville, Sand Rock, Shiloh, Sylvania, Valley Head, Bridgeport, Bryant, Dutton, Flat Rock, Higdon, Hollywood, Hytop, Langston, Paint Rock, Pisgah, Pleasant Groves, Scottsboro, Section, Skyline, Stevenson, Woodville, Gurley, Harvest, Hazel Green, Huntsville, Madison, Meridianville, Moores Mill, New Hope, New Market, Owens Cross Roads, Redstone Arsenal, Triana, Toney

If you don’t live in any of the above, please call any friends that might live there and ask them to call.
Also, call your local State Senator too and demand that this issue be brought to the floor so that the voters of Alabama can have an up or down vote.  Please Call NOW!

Reality Report Special Interview- Katherine Albrecht

 

 

http://RestoreTheRepublic.com | Katherine Albrecht, coauthor of "SpyChips", joins Gary for an interview on the Reality Report to discuss the latest on Real ID, RFID, and technology to track people world wide.

Lindsey Graham’s Crappy Republican Party

 

Commentary on Republican, and Democrat, socialist health care, by the Southern Avenger.

"Romneycare" and "Obamacare" are Republican and Democratic versions of the same, big government healthcare scheme–whether Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to admit it or not.

Help Oppose Obama’s Health Care Plan

The latest battle in the healthcare war is being waged using a new strategy; the circumvention of the intent, spirit, and true definition of the legislative process by folding the health care bill into a budget bill and using the budget reconciliation process to facilitate passage. The 1974 reconciliation method is the perfect vehicle to navigate around certain obstacles, like a Republican filibuster. Besides, the budget reconciliation process only requires a 51-vote majority in the Senate.

 
President Obama and his administration have unveiled “The President’s Proposal,” a health care bill that is a combination of the Senate and House versions, but heavy on the Senate version. Unfortunately, it too, is unconstitutional and is camouflage for a government takeover of this country’s healthcare system.

As of March 3, the Democrats’ strategy for passing President Obama’s health care plan is to have the House first pass the health care reform bill that was passed by the Senate back on December 24th. The House would do this on the basis that the Senate would then pass a bill with changes in the Senate health care bill as demanded by House Democrats. This new Senate bill could be passed with only a 51-vote majority under the budget reconciliation process. Next, the House would pass the Senate reconciliation bill and the result would be final passage of President Obama’s health care plan as embodied in the combination of the Senate health care bill of December 24 and the new health care reconciliation bill which would modify the Senate’s original bill as per Obama’s health care plan with last-minute tweaking by Senate and House Democrats.

Congressional Republicans are not going to sit idly by
while all of this legislative maneuvering happens. They plan to use everything at their disposal to delay and possibly torpedo the Democrats’ legislative strategy.

The New York Times reports that although no official cost analysis has been completed on Obama’s proposal, the White House admits that the plan will cost about $950 billion over 10 years, which is more than the Senate version, but less than the House’s. The plan will extend coverage to more than 31 million Americans by 2019. And the excise tax to pay for this latest unconstitutional health care budget buster will be delayed for insurers and employers until 2018.

Obama’s plan would actually expand the role of federal regulators, czars and overseers, in order to review premium increases in individual states. Mr. Obama would “call on the federal secretary of health and human services to work with state regulators to review premium increases,” while “superseding the authority of state regulators only if they refused to act in the face of excessive rate hikes.”

Language pertaining to abortion coverage in the Senate version remains as government officials “believe they cannot make changes to the Senate language on abortion” when using budget reconciliation. One interpretation of the provision is that insurance plans that cover abortions are eligible to receive federal subsidies, while another interpretation suggests that the bill would establish a separate premium to segregate funds used to pay for abortions, but just how this is done and how it keeps the taxpayers’ money from paying for abortions is not exactly clear.

The bottom line is that congressional passage of President Obama’s Health Care Plan would amount to an unconstitutional, government takeover of one-sixth of our nation’s economy. With sufficient public outcry from the grassroots this freedom-destroying health care plan can still be stopped.

Contact Congress, for free, using the JBS Mission Advocacy page.

There is a sample letter that you may use. You may also edit the letter to best suit your personal view.

Mexican Military Invasion

KGRV, Channel 5, report on Mexican military helicopter activity in Starr County Texas.

See this story, and search for related stories, on the KGVR website.

The United States boarder with Mexico is the most crossed boarder in the world, legally, and illegally. The boarder of the United States and Canada places second in the number of boarder crossings.

In 2006 there were 29 invasions, of the United States, by Mexican officials. It is well documented that 17 of those invasions, or incursions, were armed. The total number of, documented, military incursions, across the US boarder, is known to be, as high as 253. The actual number, is no doubt, much higher.

The government of Mexico is criminal, and the purpose, of the incursions, is criminally motivated. The Mexican military has fired upon, and held US law enforcement at gun point to protect drug smugglers.

The US Boarder patrol website reports that 4,000 US citizens die, each year, at the hands of illegal immigrants. The US Boarder Patrol also reports that 8,000 highway deaths, each year, involves illegal aliens. That is nearly 1/5 of all highway fatalities in the United States.

In March, 2003, the US Boarder Patrol, was placed under the Department of Homeland Security by the Bush Administration. It is ever certain that DHS has nothing to do, whatsoever, with securing the homeland, as it’s name implies.

While the Mexican government commits acts of war, against the people of the United States, and illegal immigrants reign terror, DHS is, itself, only in the business if waging war on the American people.

Reality Report 35; Dissent is Terrorism, Bilderberg Roots, Ron Paul on the Census, Tobin Takes on CA

Part 1; McCain/Lieberman Enemy Belligerent Act, Ron Paul on the Census, Are you a serf? (excerpt from Don’t Tread on Me), IRS tracking online sales, Bilderberg Group’s Nazi roots. The founder of Bilderberg, Prince Bernhard, of Netherlands, worked for I. G. Farben during WWII.   The Ford family did business, with Nazi Germany, under the name I. G. Farben. The Ford, Rockefeller, and Bush families are the same traitors now, as they were then.

 

 

Part 2; Interview with Christina Tobin, Libertarian candidate for Secretary of State, for the State of California.

http://www.tobinforca.org/

 

Part 3; Behind the scenes at KBDI screening of Camp FEMA, picture of the week, ad for Don’t Tread on Me, Mail Bag, questions from viewers,

 

Part 4; This weeks enemy of the state, and it’s a good choice!

Huffington Post Censors Jesse Ventura

Former Governor, of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, was asked to be a contributing editor for the Huffington Post. He claims that he was given a free hand to write articles on any topic of his choosing.

The former Governor was interviewed on Russia Today.

 

Anastasia Churkina interviewed Ventura about his theories and the motives of those trying to quiet him.

 

So, what did Mr. Ventura say that was so controversial?

American Free Press has published Mr. Ventura’s article in full.

Excerpt from American Free Press.

NIST started its investigation on Aug. 21, 2002. When their 10,000-page-long report came out three years later, the spokesman said there was no evidence to suggest a controlled demolition. But Jones also says that molten metal found underground weeks later is proof that jet fuel couldn’t have been all that was responsible. I visited the site about three weeks after 9-11, with Gov. Pataki and my wife Terry. It didn’t mean anything to me at the time, but they had to suspend digging that day because they were running into heat pockets of huge temperatures. These fires kept burning for more than three months, the longest-burning structure blaze ever.
And this was all due to jet fuel? We’re talking molten metal more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Probably the most conclusive evidence about a controlled demolition is a research paper (two years, nine authors) published in the peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal in April 2009. In studying dust samples from the site, these scientists found chips of nano-thermite, which is a high-tech incendiary/explosive. Here’s what the paper’s lead author, Dr. Niels Harrit of the University of Copenhagen’s chemistry department, had to say about the explosive that he’s convinced brought down the twin towers and the nearby Building 7:
“Thermite itself dates back to 1893. It is a mixture of aluminum and rust powder, which react to create intense heat. The reaction produces iron, heated to 2,500 degrees Centigrade [4,532 degrees Fahrenheit]. This can be used to do welding. It can also be used to melt other iron. So in nano-thermite, this powder from 1893 is reduced to tiny particles, perfectly mixed. When these react, the intense heat develops much more quickly. Nano-thermite can be mixed with additives to give off intense heat, or serve as a very effective explosive. It contains more energy than dynamite, and can be used as rocket fuel.”

Read the full article from American Free Press

 

Russia Today isn’t the only place Mr. Ventura has been speaking out about the media.  In a telephone interview, for the Young Turks, he talks about media censorship.

Ventura describes his, short lived, relationship with MSNBC.

 

 

The mainstream, corporate media, is controlled. It is the illusion of opposition. The talking sock puppets are told what to say to keep issues within the false, Left vs. Right paradigm.

Once Rupert Murdock, ever admitted, that he order the staff of, Fox News, to talk up the pro war propaganda, you should have known, it is all fake.

Red State Update: Al Gore, Give Back Nobel Prize

Jackie & Dunlap are ashamed to call Al Gore a fellow Tennessean