Referring to the existence of the secret government and the evolution of the national security state, one former U.S. president summed it up accurately and succinctly: “Secrecy and a free, democratic government don’t mix.” Every since President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to sign the National Security Act of 1947 that gave birth to the Central Intelligence Agency, secrecy has been spreading like a runaway cancer metastasizing throughout the body politic. Accountability to the people is one of the fundamental hallmarks that distinguishes a democratic society from the darker alternatives, and when this
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by Tom DeWeese  (American Policy Center) Awareness of Agenda 21 and sustainable development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked. So here it is: a one page, quick description of Agenda
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Public health officials, pharmaceutical companies, the United Nations, and various world governments have spent the last several years doing everything they can to whip up hysteria and fear among the public by warning us repeatedly that the next killer pandemic may be just around the bend.  Constantly invoking the memory of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919 that allegedly killed more than 20 million people, we have been told over and over that each and every flu strain that comes around could very well turn out to be that dreaded super bug. Everyone is encouraged
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by Tom DeWeese He might be a whiz kid at creating computer software, but beyond that, Bill Gates has proven time and again that he hasn’t a clue about why or how freedom works. He constantly teams up with anti-free market types like the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce “educational programs” in his software packages, misdirecting unsuspecting children with political propaganda. In 2002 he gave the NWF $600,000 worth of software to help these environmental radicals run their programs to block the drilling of American oil. Apparently Gates doesn’t understand that he needs oil
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to the Congressional Budget Office the amount of money the federal government derives in taxes from the U.S. economy will rise by more than 30 percent from 2012 to 2014. In its Budget and Economic Outlook report, the CBO also forecasts the economy will continue to show sluggishness, due in part to higher taxes. Summing up its findings the CBO said: “In particular, between 2012 and 2014, revenues in CBO’s baseline shoot up by more than 30 percent, mostly because of the recent or scheduled expirations of tax provisions, such as
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WASHINGTON, D.C.  – Attorney General Eric Holder may soon be facing contempt charges issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-California). Congressman Issa threatened last December to hold Holder in contempt of Congress but this time he has formalized it in a letter. According to Issa, Holder has until Thursday, Feb. 9 to comply. In the letter to the Attorney General, Issa wrote, “this committee will have no alternative but to move forward with proceedings to hold you in contempt of Congress” if Holder and the Department of Justice don’t produce documents relating to the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal.
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While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should be concerned with protecting us from the greedy agribusiness interests that are responsible for the rampant contamination of our food supply, this organization has much smaller fish to fry. At the urging of the factory dairy farming industry, the FDA has been carrying out a relentless campaign
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Under the current administration, there has been a 32% increase in direct government payments made to individuals, and the last budget President Obama presented asked for another $500 billion dollar increase by 2016. According to the latest Census Bureau statistics from the third quarter of 2010, only one-third of those direct payments came from programs where benefits were expected, namely Social Security, Railroad Retirement, veteran’s compensation, veteran’s educational assistance, and Medicare. Republican contenders have labeled this administration the “Food Stamp” administration, and the numbers seem bear out that. At the end of 2008, approximately
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Convincing the federal government to end wasteful spending programs is usually about as easy as getting a crocodile to sit still so he can have his teeth brushed. Once the government starts subsidizing some kind of private interest or industry, those who benefit from this largesse will do everything in their power to keep those handouts coming. Because there is no money to be raised or votes to be gained in ending a government program, these efforts usually succeed, and the wasteful spending then continues indefinitely.

You didn’t vote for them, I can guarantee that, and it doesn’t even matter which box you checked during the last election. Few Americans know what all of the White House’s czars do, as they go about their work behind the scenes in the nation’s capital. Czars are appointed rather than elected and require no
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