Canada have just said they're going to invalidate non-resident same-sex marriages. That means mine, even though I'm Canadian. This will affect a lot of Americans too.

America's #1 Export!!!

America's largest export is Gasoline. The oil industry exports surplus gasoline so that it can keep the prices artificially high domestically and add another sales source of income. The amount of raw material that is being refined is huge and can cause more cancer in the United States and damage to the Chesapeake Bay.

The oil companies get this oil from the Persian gulf without having to pay for the cost of America's Military. Further, Exxon Mobile hasn't even paid taxes for the last 2 years. Is it any wonder why our defense budget is higher than every other countries budget in the world. And, has tripled since 1998. Is it any wonder that the Republicans are against the EPA, global warming, damage to the ecology and regulation. Hampering oil production is the primary reason.

Now we also know the reason for the Republicans to rush to get Obama's 2 month decision to approve the XL Pipeline. The conservatives want this. Because they don't have any concern for America's health. Their only concern is to do the bidding of the oil companies who own them and who want the politicians to protect their profits and expanded oil distribution to other countries through this effort.

We are exporting more gasoline, diesel and jet fuel than any other export product in America. Meanwhile the entire Republican Mantra is no job killing regulation. And with these refineries there are limits on how much poison that you can put into the air. When Bush would talk about how exports were up I could never figure it out when everything else wasn't. Manufacturing had collapsed in this country including my own company so I didn't get it. Now I do get it. Oil. This is so staggeringly unbelievable.

Other countries don't want to refine their own oil because it is a dirty and smelly business. That said oil companies profits will increase and so will the amounts on cancer in our country. But what will all of this do for the job market?

This issue is another example of the news media not informing the American People.

Jack Murphy

I'm reading about Zillionaire Santorum backer Foster Friess, and his strange connections to a very strange religious charity ("The biggest charity you never heard of).

http://thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=14007

Kathleen Parker is channeling Mitt Romney today.

http://gazettextra.com/news/2012/jan/12/pious-baloney-20/

The line that stands out for me:

Since when in a free, capitalist nation is it a sin to buy a company and turn a profit?

Ah, the pure innocence of focusing only on profit, and nothing else. Doing it is not a sin - but ignoring the consequences, for the community and for the nation, yes, that IS a sin.

It's OK to fire the company managers who were providing "lousy service" running the company. But the employees who worked on the line and lost their jobs? Were they providing lousy service? And the businesses that depended on the purchases that those employees made? Were they providing lousy service? And the public employees - the teachers, police, firemen - who relied on the tax base that was supported by those employees? Were they providing lousy service?

Is it a sin to denigrate all of them because the company managers weren't good at their jobs? Oh yes, I think it is.

By the way, for your moment of geek, this is truly fantastic news:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Planet_Population_is_Plentiful_999.html

The estimate: One in six stars have Jupiter-sized planets; half have Neptune-sized planets; two-thirds have Super-Earth-sized planets. Not bad.

You might hear the term "war for minds" in your internet travels. And as this is done by elites, including the political types, to the masses, here appears to be a great resource list for further investigation, for the goal of mass awareness and elimination of such barbarism:

http://www.duncanofinioan.com/Reference.php

A sample:

Operation Mind Control: Zombie States of America

The objective of Operation Mind Control during this period has been to take human beings, both citizens of the United States and citizens of friendly and unfriendly nations, and transform them into unthinking, subconsciously programmed "zombies," motivated without their knowledge and against their wills to perform in a variety of ways in which they would not otherwise willingly perform. This is accomplished through the use of various techniques called by various names, including brainwashing, thought reform, behavior modification, hypnosis, and conditioned reflex therapy. For the purpose of this book the term "mind control" will be used to describe these techniques generically.REF

Mind control is the most terrible imaginable crime because it is committed not against the body, but against the mind and the soul. Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo expresses the attitude of the majority of psychologists in calling it "mind rape," and warns that it poses a great "danger of destruction of the spirit" which can be "compared to the threat of total physical destruction . . ." ... [p. 23]

"I can hypnotize a man—without his knowledge or consent—into committing treason against the United States," boasted Dr. George Estabrooks in the early 1940s.

http://ce399.typepad.com/weblog/2009/11/operation-mind-control-zombie-states-of-america-pdf-file.html

Not only does this constitute coercion, duress, entrapment—crimes—but, indeed, is rape and torture of one's divine essence and radical destruction of right to thrive and actualize one's potential to supreme bliss, love, joy, truth, vitality. I have not encountered very many who are truly alive any more. The masses are affected to a large degree and oblivious. Educate yourself.

Just watched Rock Center on the Mexican Romney family. Brian Williams said "George Romney could be the poster boy for The Dream ACT". Great line, I think. Wonder when Mitt will acknowledge these really nice people. They are an impressive group as told by the interviewer. Adds much to the Romney story for me. I had no idea he was trying to build a fence to keep his family out. (joke)

Ritual Abuse: The Attack On Our Children

On June 25, 1992, Dr. Corydon Hammond gave a lecture entitled "Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse" to an audience of professionals at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Hammond, a psychologist, has lectured, written and received many awards related to the field of psychology—including a 1998 Presidential Award for Advancements to Clinical Hypnosis.

Dr. Hammond's main subject was the ritual abuse of children. He stated that in as many as two-thirds of ritual abuse cases, the victims had been subjected to highly developed and uniform technology of mind control, suggesting that there is a large network of practitioners conducting such atrocities on children in the U.S. Often, according to Hammond, these will be "bloodline people," that is, people who are involved in cultic practices such as Satanism or in American intelligence agency programs.

"When you start to find the same highly esoteric information in different states and different countries, from Florida to California," according to Dr. Hammond, "you start to get an idea that there's something going on that is very large, very well coordinated, with a great deal of communication and systematic-ness to what's happening. So I have gone from someone kind of neutral and not knowing what to think about it all to someone who clearly believes ritual abuse is real and that the people who say it isn't are either naïve like people who didn't want to believe the Holocaust or—they're dirty."

http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/05_Global/050520.abuse.html

Whistleblowers are officially toast.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/01/11/1978212/judge-dismisses-whistleblower.html