Sequester, Catastrophe, Apocalypse or Just Smoke & Mirrors?

se·ques·ter

[si-kwes-ter]

verb (used with object)

1.to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.

2.to remove or separate.

3. Law. to remove (property) temporarily from the possession of the owner; seize and hold, as the property and income of a debtor, until legal claims are satisfied.

4.International Law. to requisition, hold, and control (enemy property).

With headlines such as these it’s no wonder all the little chicks are screaming the sky is falling:

• Sequester cuts will devastate Head Start -SFGate

• As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released- Washington Post

• Kentucky and Indiana would feel federal spending cuts from defense to parks- Courier Journal

• Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the looming defense spending cuts will “hollow out” America’s military. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, has called the cuts a threat to national security.- Cincinnati.com

• Department of Homeland Security releasing illegal immigrants before sequesterhttp://bit.ly/Y0HzcU Redlands Daily Facts ‏@RedlandsNews

Here’s a section taken from the White House Propaganda Government Website- this is specific to Arizona the state in which I reside:

ARIZONA IMPACTS
If sequestration were to take effect, some examples of the impacts on Arizona this year alone are:

• Teachers and Schools: Arizona will lose approximately $17.7 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 240 teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition about 19,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 70 fewer schools would receive funding.

•  Education for Children with Disabilities: In addition, Arizona will lose approximately $10 million in funds for about 120 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.

• Work-Study Jobs: Around 2,310 fewer low income students in Arizona would receive aid to help them finance the costs of college and around 330 fewer students will get work-study jobs that helpthem pay for college.

• Head Start: Head Start and Early Head Start services would be eliminated for approximately 1,000 children in Arizona, reducing access to critical early education.

• Protections for Clean Air and Clean Water: Arizona would lose about $2.1 million in environmental funding to ensure clean water and air quality, as well as prevent pollution from pesticides and hazardous waste. In addition, Arizona could lose another $1.1 million in grants for fish and wildlife protection.

•  Military Readiness: In Arizona, approximately 10,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $52.5 million in total.

• Army: Base operation funding would be cut by about $43 million in Arizona.

•  Air Force: Funding for Air Force operations in Arizona would be cut by about $6 million.

• Law Enforcement and Public Safety Funds for Crime Prevention and Prosecution: Arizona will lose about $298,000 in Justice Assistance Grants that support law enforcement, prosecution and courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, drug treatment and enforcement, and crime victim and witness initiatives.

•  Job Search Assistance to Help those in Arizona find Employment and Training: Arizona will lose about $781,000 in funding for job search assistance, referral, and placement, meaning around 26,360 fewer people will get the help and skills they need to find employment.

• Child Care: Up to 500 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care, which is also essential for working parents to hold down a job.

• Vaccines for Children: In Arizona around 2,570 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to reduced funding for vaccinations of about $176,000.

•  Public Health: Arizona will lose approximately $611,000 in funds to help upgrade its ability to respond to public health threats including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events. In addition, Arizona will lose about $1.9 million in grants to help prevent and treat substance abuse, resulting in around 4,500 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs. And the Arizona State Department of Health Services will lose about $186,000 resulting in around 4,600 fewer HIV tests.

•  STOP Violence Against Women Program: Arizona could lose up to $132,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic violence, resulting in up to 500 fewer victims being served.

•  Nutrition Assistance for Seniors: Arizona would lose over $1 million in funds that provide meals for seniors.

Click here for full PDF of Arizona and here for a State by State list of the impact of Sequester.

The “Nationwide” Impact bullet points weren’t so terrible. Getting rid of TSA is not a bad thing in my opinion. Both Republicans and Democrats are always looking for a reason to allow slave labor illegals into the US for cheap labor and if they get citizenship it just is a bonus for everyone since they will be new tax revenue generators. Really, read through the “National” effects and you’ll see it isn’t all that bad. Don’t buy into the hype and there’s plenty of that. Don’t forget while you’re reading the Potus himself came up with this plan. As much as Obama desires to blame the Republicans for being obstinate, he’s the one who appears to be withholding progress.

Obama Rejects Plan For More Say In Spending Cuts- CBS DC

“The impact won’t be immediate. Federal workers would be notified next week that they will have to take up to a day off every week without pay, but the furloughs won’t start for a month due to notification requirements. That will give negotiators some breathing room to work on a deal.”

See more at: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/02/26/obama-rejects-plan-for-more-say-in-spending-cuts/#sthash.XwLKra02.dpuf

Sequester is not the end of America and it’s certainly not the end of the world. Look at the UK, Portugal, Greece, and other countries that have survived Austerity, they’re still alive. However, it is odd how this particular crisis is lining up with the drama being drawn out in Rome (Vatican City is paralleling Washington DC in relationship to the ‘governmental’ changes taking place). Weird. Maybe if a few meteors fall out of the sky on Friday we’ll be more inclined to buy the barrels of seed and drums of barley. For now we endure $4.50 gallon gas, less pay, more taxes, and Michelle Obama procuring her next invasion of pop culture showing up on TV shows.

WhiteHouseGov explains Sequester for the people in colorful slides and cool fonts.

Gov. Bobby Jindal To Obama: Stop Scaring The American People-Fox2now St. Louis

  As long as we continue using the term “Sequester” it keeps us preoccupied and distracted by the “Austerity” package that is being manufactured for consumption.

Austerity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In economics, austerity refers to a policy of deficit-cutting by lowering spending via a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided.^[1] Austerity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce their deficit spending^[2] and are sometimes coupled with increases in taxes to demonstrate long-term fiscal solvency to creditors.^[3]

Supporters of austerity predict that under expansionary fiscal contraction (EFC), a major reduction in government spending can change future expectations about taxes and government spending, encouraging private consumption and resulting in overall economic expansion.^[4]

Critics argue that, in periods of recession and high unemployment, austerity policies are counter-productive, because: a) reduced government spending can increase unemployment, which increases safety net spending while reducing tax revenue; b) reduced government spending reduces GDP, which means the debt to GDP ratio examined by creditors and rating agencies does not improve; and c) short-term government spending financed by deficits supports economic growth when consumers and businesses are unwilling or unable to do so.^{Source Here}

Don’t lose sight people, this may turn out to be either the most devastating act of Obama onto the American people or, it’ll be a huge facade of nothingness like the Fiscal Cliff, the Debt Crisis, and that great Recession he ‘inherited.’

Source of Obama Cartoon was this article: Phil Gramm: Obama and the Sequester Scare

“For a typical American family that earns less than it did in the year President Obama was elected, the anguished cries and dark predictions coming out of the White House should elicit not sympathy but revulsion.

When the 1985 sequester was created, the formula for cuts was closely examined, debated, amended and agreed to by a Democratic House and a Republican Senate and White House. Today’s sequester is denounced because of the allegedly arbitrary nature of its across-the-board cuts. Yet the sequester formula that goes into effect on Friday preserves the spending priorities legislated by the Congress and the president, including exemptions and limitations they favored when the Budget Control Act of 2011 became law. The president himself first proposed the sequester. He may not like the way it works, but he has offered no real alternative.” Click here for more

Americans Want the Novus Ordo Seclorum

“The New World Order.”

Americans want it and they need and although they hate it they can’t function autonomously in a world that is Globally run, unless we Americans are willing to trade places with countries like those in third world Africa. Would lady “Liberty” give up her technology, her global dominance in Military might, her manipulated and concocted image of the bringer of Democracy to the oppressed? We don’t want a President that knows how much a gallon of gas costs or a gallon of milk. Are you going to hire your teenagers high school Economics teacher who understands the middle class and how capitalism works to be the head of the Federal Reserve? Oh no, how about the junior college dean of Social Sciences to head up DHS? Let’s face it people, we don’t care that Romney is a Millionaire or that Obama is and was coddled from cradle to Harvard to Pennsylvania Ave. We need the elite to take care of us, to provide us with a sense of direction, to challenge us on occasion that we are going to lose our “rights” when in reality our rights have been whitewashed long ago. We know in the deepest parts of our inner being that we are slaves to the New World Order and yet we take shallow breaths and hand write an occasional poster board to alleviate some angst. We idly sat and watched the Government of the US coupled with working men and women in MERS puff up our real estate market and give homes and sign loans over to people on welfare because it made our little three bedroom house go up 20-30% in value and we borrowed against that knowing full well the bubble couldn’t stay afloat forever. Us middle class understand a little something about helium balloons; they last a little longer than latex but they too eventually deflate! We knew the crash was coming. We’re not as dumb as the elite want to believe we are. But we took the hit; we accepted the foreclosures the short sales and the bank bailouts so that we could at least have a job to go to. We save our money for iphones so that we can have a semblance of wealth, even though we are poorer than our grandparents and we will not be retiring well into our grandkids teenage years. We accept that politicians run our lives, we acknowledge that we will be dragged into illegal wars and kill innocent people in other countries based on nothing more than fear that is bred in the pulpits every Sunday of Muslims. We will take the red pill and chase it with a blue pill as we watch the controlled media, that’s MSM and alternative, tell us that if we don’t forfeit our liberties some other group will come in and hunt us in our sleep. We will act scared when the financial experts tell us that bailouts will devalue the dollar and that the US greenback is going to be replaced, but when we are eventually told that there has been a currency called the “Special Drawing Rights” (SDR’s) functioning for decades and that all trade is taking place on a basket of currencies not just the USD then we’ll breathe a collective sigh of relief. As long as we can order our take out food, rent a movie, and shuttle our yuppie kids to their friends sleep over we’ll be ok. Both political parties work effectively to drive the divide between the haves and the have nots, the rich and the poorer. We are ok with having poor people around, as long as we don’t slip under the poverty line we’re ok. We’ll cry, we’ll protest, we’ll lament, we’ll blog, but in the end we’ll accept the Novus Ordo Seclorum because it’s the greatest piece of deception that has ever been. We want to believe, that America is the Greatest Nation on Earth; that the Sun rises and sets on our face and our face alone. We don’t really care about other countries that are run by tyrants, give us our ballot box! Never mind that other countries are consolidating their debt and their power and will rise as a phoenix over the ashes of the United States, as long as we rise first, better, and higher than theirs we’ll be ok. Because nothing bad ever happens to those who deny God and His Son, those people are always given mercy and grace in the bible. We’ll be blessed forever and ever, even if the entire US government builds a war that comes upon Israel, we’ll be ok because the “Church” in America stands by Israel. Because the Church in America hasn’t denied the Christ who saved them. We’ll be ok. Everything is good. Nothing to complain about really.

**try to figure out where irony and sarcasm meet and where truth is told**

I was just in one of those moods this morning to write a slap in the face. If you get it, hit the “like” button.

FauxNews:What Didn’t happen in 2010

Faux: Fake, not real, artificial or imitation.

News: something not previously known to wide audience that is disseminated to the masses via Satellite TV, Cable, Social Media, Radio, Internet.

I always like the end of the year reflectional type of shows. Shows that highlight all the happenings of the year gone by. It’s so quaint how one can summarize great events that impact the course of human life in terms of 10 second sound bites, flash media, and then just as quick as the show is over, move on to the next year’s ‘prophesies’ as though we had any foreknowledge of what just happened to justify predictions of the forthcoming year.

In lieu of the real news I will first address the ‘FauxNews;’ that which was contrived and set out before us like a table fully decorated in fine China, soft linens, and exquisite silverware.

Health Care Reform- Passing Socialist Legislature. Disregarding the American people’s objections the Congress passed this Unconstitutional piece of TP without so much as one burp of anger following the vote. The American people were neutered in one night and told to accept Tyranny – and they did.

Cordoba House- Ground Zero Mosque. First Americans were angry about this. They protested and held vigils. Then the United States State Department sent the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to the Gulf to solicit money for the construction. Upon finding out that our own government was sponsoring this building, the protests continued to be directed in the wrong direction (at the Imam) as opposed to the real culprit, our own Government. Once again, the dehumanized American public turned a blind eye to truth and chose to keep the ‘enemy’ they have been brainwashed into hating- Islam. **Cults have existed since man’s fall from grace. What we should be fighting is the true enemy, Satan; and we do this by Preaching the FULL complete unadulterated Gospel. Not picketing a mosque.

Sb1070- Arizona’s State Version of a Federal Law that is not enforced. Now neither is! This was deliberate action by our own politicians to pit ‘Americans’ against Immigrants and vice versa. First of all it was a hoax. It generated a lot of publicity, Arizona didn’t loose. The Immigrants didn’t loose. In the end the controversy forced us take a side only to later realize the Governor of AZ didn’t care if it passed or not, nor did most people in Arizona.

Price of Gold- The price of Gold has been artificially pumped up to levels not seen since the great depression.  The IMF will find a way to switch it’s gold holdings into a way to bailout countries who are indebted to them, while switching real wealth into a SDR. It’s a real conundrum but just accept that Global Elites will not allow you, Johnny Rocket or you Susie Desperate Homemaker, to have ANY wealth. Kiss those bullion’s goodbye!

“Burn a Koran,” says ‘Pastor’ Terry Jones – Koran burning that never was. This crackpot decided to advertise that he was going to burn Korans on 9-11. He never intended to, but he got plenty of publicity for acting like he would. Hate groups came out of the woodwork, MSM claimed it would start a new surge of terror attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the end a few guys with a Koran and a BBQ pit burned a few Korans and posted to You tube. No one cared. It disappeared from the media as quickly as it came.

Restoring Honor Rally (Glenn Beck’s 2010 Interfaith Social Justice Dogma come home to roost inside every Greedy Evangelical Mega Pastor’s Dream). I have a dream too, however my dream does not include Satanists and Wiccans joining hands with me to keep our freedom. Glenn a professing Mormon called on his evangelical friends, Catholic, Jewish, Gay Clergy you name it, as long as it looked religious it was welcome to join hands with him on stage for a cry fest that lead to a revival without any repentance. Not one denounced their false god, idolatry, spiritual fornication, or social justice-prosperity gospel-kingdom now theology-heresy. The rally that was meant to ‘take back America’ turned out to be more ‘man’ worship and savior seeking among mortals then really seeking the Jesus Christ of the Bible. Glenn did manage to raise the flag above apostate churches. Thank you for that Beck, you made it much easier to identify some wolves.

G20, G8, Davos, et. al- I was waiting for a new currency. Just a bunch of Global Elites gallivanting all over the globe throughout the year with nothing to prove accept a few failed governments across the planet.

Mid-Term Elections- What a huge waste of time.

Nudy Scanners- TSA Groping- Opt out Day- The threat that people would have to show their jubblies to the whole TSA (world) didn’t set people off. People were stupid enough to just go through the nudy scanner. It wasn’t until people caught wind that if you chose ‘to not to’ that you would be molested by TSA (government) Agents. This set a few people off. Those who were quick to dawn their Americana Costumes and scribble Pro-America slogans onto cardboard at Beck’s rally, were dually ready to throw down with DHS/TSA on Turkey Day. “Opt Out!” was the rally cry. Force TSA to grope you and slow down travel. No one did it, and no one cared. America went back to sheeple status…

Cop16 Cancun- By now the only ones who pay attention to the Meeting of the Parties (of the Kyoto Protocol) are college students who have recently come down with Glaucoma (medical marijuana Rx’s) and those of us who think the New World Order uses these meetings to decide the fate of the peons. In the end, both groups who follow are left clueless. Either the plans are not made at all or they are and we’re too peon to know anyway.

Wikileaks- My Favorite story. It was dynamic and pointless. It took the attention off the Gulf Coast of the US, the floods of Tennessee, the Volcano Eruptions all over the world this year, the QE 2, the Jobless numbers, the tax hike and every piece of real news that mattered that we were too lazy or too tired to pay attention to this year! Way to go. This proves sex still sells and that in the end the American people will continue to submit to the slave state and not think twice. Bravo…whoever came up with this fauxnews!

I see the folks at JibJab captured the sentiment of this post!

The Real Number US Unemployment 22%

Unemployment Rate, by State “According to Labor Department”

State	June 2010 Jobless Rate	May 2010 Jobless Rate	Month-to-Month Change	Year-to-Year Change
Alabama	10.3%	10.7%	-0.4	0
Alaska	7.9%	8.2%	-0.3	-0.1
Arizona	9.6%	9.6%	0	0.3
Arkansas	7.5%	7.7%	-0.2	0.2
California	12.3%	12.4%	-0.1	0.7
Colorado	8.0%	8.0%	0	-0.3
Connecticut	8.8%	8.9%	-0.1	0.4
Delaware	8.5%	8.8%	-0.3	0.4
District of Columbia	10.0%	10.4%	-0.4	-0.1
Florida	11.4%	11.7%	-0.3	0.9
Georgia	10.0%	10.1%	-0.1	0.3
Hawaii	6.3%	6.6%	-0.3	-0.7
Idaho	8.8%	9.0%	-0.2	0.9
Illinois	10.4%	10.8%	-0.4	0.1
Indiana	10.1%	10.0%	0.1	-0.5
Iowa	6.8%	6.8%	0	0.8
Kansas	6.5%	6.6%	-0.1	-0.7
Kentucky	10.0%	10.4%	-0.4	-0.8
Louisiana	7.0%	6.8%	0.2	-0.1
Maine	8.0%	8.0%	0	-0.2
Maryland	7.1%	7.3%	-0.2	0
Massachusetts	9.0%	9.2%	-0.2	0.5
Michigan	13.2%	13.6%	-0.4	-0.7
Minnesota	6.8%	7.0%	-0.2	-1.6
Mississippi	11.0%	11.4%	-0.4	1.5
Missouri	9.1%	9.3%	-0.2	-0.4
Montana	7.3%	7.2%	0.1	1.1
Nebraska	4.8%	4.9%	-0.1	0
Nevada	14.2%	14.0%	0.2	2.3
New Hampshire	5.9%	6.4%	-0.5	-0.5
New Jersey	9.6%	9.7%	-0.1	0.2
New Mexico	8.2%	8.4%	-0.2	1.1
New York	8.2%	8.3%	-0.1	-0.4
North Carolina	10.0%	10.4%	-0.4	-1
North Dakota	3.6%	3.6%	0	-0.8
Ohio	10.5%	10.7%	-0.2	0
Oklahoma	6.8%	6.7%	0.1	0.1
Oregon	10.5%	10.6%	-0.1	-1.1
Pennsylvania	9.2%	9.2%	0	1
Rhode Island	12.0%	12.3%	-0.3	0.9
South Carolina	10.7%	11.1%	-0.4	-1.2
South Dakota	4.5%	4.6%	-0.1	-0.4
Tennessee	10.1%	10.4%	-0.3	-0.8
Texas	8.2%	8.3%	-0.1	0.4
Utah	7.2%	7.3%	-0.1	0.4
Vermont	6.0%	6.2%	-0.2	-1.2
Virginia	7.0%	7.1%	-0.1	0.1
Washington	8.9%	9.2%	-0.3	-0.3
West Virginia	8.5%	8.9%	-0.4	0.3
Wisconsin	7.9%	8.2%	-0.3	-1
Wyoming	6.8%	7.0%	-0.2	0.3

Source: Labor Department –WSJ

Just because we’re in a double dip recession (translation: The Depression of 2009 never ended) doesn’t mean we can’t save the planet from EVIL COAL!

Ameren’s Coal Carbon-Capture Plant Gets $1 Billion From Obama

Source: Bloomberg

41 Million Americans Are Receiving FOOD STAMPS

Source: NewsOxy

Wheat Famine in Russia?

Pakistan farmers fear famine after floods

Source: The National

As thousands of people streamed into the city of Sukkur yesterday from areas that have either already been flooded or are under threat, sharecropping farmers expressed profound fear for their futures. Ghulam Haider, who walked with about 100 people from Ghospur village, about 70km away, is now living with them on the side of a road.

“Our future is gone,” Mr Haider, a rice farmer, said. “All the rice we had from last year is gone and this crop is also gone. We have no food.”

Meraj Mahar lives in Sukkur but his family arrived here on Saturday from Shikarpur village. He said he will give rice plant seeds to his cousins from the flooded areas to take back with them to plant next month.

“The yield won’t be much, just for eating for a few months only,” he said. “After that only Allah knows.”

Wheat rots in India as world prices at 2 year high

Source: AP

Normal Crazy or Crazy Normal?

Just the Facts…

The News isn’t just News anymore. Most of the time what you see on television or read on the internet is carefully orchestrated distribution of bias, dogma, and mind control. This site was birthed because MSM (Main Stream Media) does not report all the news or a conservative view point. I remember the day that my gaze turned to Cable News, it was September 11, 2001. When the World Trade Center was hit, the second time, by terrorists and the world was in chaos over how many attacks there would be by the end of the day. I recall fishing through the various Cable News Networks. If Fox News stopped covering the WTC attack, I would switch to CNN, MSNBC I even watched Headline News! I fanned across internet sites; now not just the news mega giants but anyone else who saw this coming, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, MEMRI, various Christian sites: Olive Tree Views, Worldview w/Brannon Howse. I was scouring for information. When I started my search I began to realize that there is a lot out there in the way of real information, crazy paranoid information, and fluffy puffy stuff. It was a matter to discern my way through all that, go back to what the Bible already Tells me is going to happen and then make sense of what is going on out there in this crazy world.

It’s not all News

The hardest topic for me to cover is not Terrorists, Earthquakes, War, bombs, political takeovers, New World Order Agendas, Evil policy making, in the end the most grievous of all topics to cover is the APOSTASY of the Church. The great falling away of the body of Christ. When the light goes out and the salt has lost it’s flavor what is a girl to do? The only thing I can do, and the only thing I would ever recommend anyone do is, Look up! Not look up and ignore what is going on, Look to Jesus Christ for the answers. Look to the Word of God,your Abba in Heaven that created the Heavens and the Earth, and find solace in the Peace of Christ Jesus who already warned us of all these crazy things that are happening on this earth. It’s one thing for the ‘World’ not to believe (John 15) but when ‘the body’ (of Christ) stops believing, my soul writhes in mourning. I see many who rather believe in the Mayan Calendar than in the GOD who created them. I see many who believe that all ‘this’ is NORMAL CRAZY, and it’s not pointing to the Judgment coming upon this earth. So if you are CRAZY (thinking that Jesus is coming again just like He said He would) then you’re NORMAL to me. And you’ll at least be willing to hear what I have to say.

And Now for the Headlines…

Iceland’s Volcano Continues- SECOND VOLCANO could erupt soon- video on link.

Volcano in Vanuato-South Pacific Erupts threatens Flights

Volcano in Ecuador Erupts

Volcano in Guatemala Erupts

Tropical Storm Agatha causes 140 Landslides in Guatemala including a major Sinkhole

6.1 Earthquake Rocks Costa Rica

Gulf Oil Spill–is not a spill–It’s a LEAK from the ocean floor in MULTIPLE sites Pass day 40 now

National Guard Troops being sent to Arizona... I live in AZ, don’t see any coming through…yet!

Flotilla loaded with media (Al Jazeera) and Iranian media, along with ‘activists’ also jihadis/tactical guards of some kind, have been intercepted by the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) due to some deaths on board after being attacked, now Israel is in the heat of Backlash already causing a UN ‘Emergency’ Meeting in New York…

Iran has 2 Nuclear Weapons

Syria has 1,000 weapons pointed at Israel.

Obama continues his policy making, changes, transformation of our United States, how do I say this; He’s continuing on his path for Cap & Trade (Financial Redistribution and switching from Capitalism to Eco-Facisim and Neo-Communist seizure of Financial Institutions). Plain English might read: “America is no longer FREE” but I think you would miss the point.

Greece is still on fire. Spain is on fire but no one wants to know…EUROZONE Collapsing

The world is prepping for Inflation but you wouldn’t know that if you went shopping this weekend.