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TIMISOARA, Romania – To the strains of strings playing Christmas carols, Romanians paid homage Wednesday to the fighters who took to the streets of this Transylvanian city 20 years ago, sparking the revolution that swept Eastern Europe's most repressive dictator from power. It was here that residents flocked to the defense of an ethnic Hungarian dissident pastor who was being threatened with forced relocation, leading to rapidly escalating confrontations with police. The next day, police, army and secret service units began firing at protesters, the start of six days of fighting that subsequently spilled over to Bucharest and led to...

Britain’s financiers and entrepreneurs are quitting the UK at a rate of 10 a week to avoid Labour’s new 50% taxes. The burgeoning exodus threatens to deepen a £178 billion black hole in the public finances and leave middle-class voters with higher taxes for years to come, figures obtained from Companies House reveal. The number of directors of British businesses registered as living in the low-tax centres of Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man has risen by almost 500 to 6,729 in the past 12 months. The British Virgin Islands is also a popular destination, with 615 directors of...

JERUSALEM – Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. About 70 coins were found in an excavation at the foot of a key Jerusalem holy site. They give a rare glimpse into the period of the Jewish revolt that eventually led to the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple in A.D. 70, said Hava Katz, curator of the exhibition. The Jews rebelled against the Roman Empire and took over Jerusalem in A.D. 66. After laying siege to Jerusalem, the Romans...

The American people need to send a stronger message to Washington...we are not paying any more tax money until you stop passing laws we do not want. We need to get everyone who has withholding tax to change it to zero NOW! Stop paying any federal taxes until Congress starts listening to us. We can bankrupt them in a month if we act fast and furious.

Below is a template to send to the Blue Dogs demanding the socialist, unconstitutional health care bill be killed along with their email addresses. You can change the template as you see fit. Some addresses may come back undeliverable. Don't let that deter you. Put in the subject: Vote NO on Pelosi Healthcare bill or we vote NO in 2010 Put in the message: We are organized, engaged, and enthused. We were able to organize sending 20,000 to 45,000 people to Washington DC in less than 6 days even during a recession when people do not have money. In 2...

Up shot of article (my snap translation):--Obama in a painful situation, because just one year ago, he took these states. Now, tonight, they fell to the Republicans.--It seems that with the election of the 2 Republicans and defeat of Obama, his prized "Health Care" program is in jeopardy.--The results show the sentiment of the American People in those states toward Obama and is a reflection of what might be expected a year from now in the 2010 midterm elections.--Obama had quite a year in Virginia (in 2008), which did not go for a Democrat for President in 44 years, and...

I'm tired of liberals talking about "cleaning up Republican messes."  For progressives, they sure regress a lot... California, Michigan, and now New York have shown us that taxing and spending destroys jobs, kills economic growth, and eventually leads worn out taxpayers to flee the state. The two headed beast of government bureaucracy and liberal social programs ends up destroying its master. It's a Joke, but it's True Politicians who blather on about "cleaning up Republican messes" would do well to recall this oldie but goody: An old bull and his young son stood atop a hillock, looking down upon a...

Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years. Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes. Here are five messages for those people: We're not going back to the Bush years:...

As very few of our Congressional elected officials—Democrats AND Republicans—are taking any actions or exhibiting any desire to stop the Obama Dictatorship and We-the-People are now being completely left out of any and all legislation that directly affects us, I can only surmise that we as the Nation of the United states of America may have reached the point of no return in our rapidly forced descent into totalitarianism. From the anti-American and anti-human recently-passed Congressional bills, I have also concluded that—as these self-same elected officials no longer care what their constituents think—our attempts to stop the insanity of government...

Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia. In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find. Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution. More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities....

Saying They Should Be Given A Choice, Employees Rally In Albany, Around State, Chant "No Forced Shots!" Protesters Hold Signs That Read: "The State Doesn't Own My Body'" They're upset over an ultimatum from the health department. Workers are being told to either get the swine flu vaccine or lose their jobs. New York is the first state in the country to mandate flu vaccinations for its health care workers. The first doses of swine flu vaccine will be available beginning next week. Much of it is reserved for state health care workers, but there is growing opposition to required...

Red Bluff woman launches credit card revoltBy David Benda Posted September 17, 2009 at midnight RED BLUFF - Ann Minch's vow to stop making payments on her Bank of America credit card has captured a nation. Upset that the bank raised her interest rate to 30 percent, the 46-year-old Red Bluff native vented her outrage on video and uploaded it to YouTube. She calls the four-minute, 28-second clip "the proverbial first shot in an American Debtors Revolution," and it has struck a chord with the public. Minch will be in San Francisco today doing a live TV interview for the...

A top Republican senator warned Tuesday that if Democrats try to overhaul health care without Republican support, "it will wreck our health care system and wreck the Democratic Party." "The intensity on this issue across the country is like nothing I"ve seen in a long, long time," said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate. After a month of town halls back home, Alexander said it's clear to him and other Republicans that Americans are "scared to death" about the sweeping policy changes coming from Washington this year and the massive debt they are creating. Alexander...

This afternoon, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) held a town hall meeting in Sun City, AZ. In response to an attendee’s statement about not trusting any major party candidates, McCain said the following: "I think you may be seeing the beginning of a peaceful – and I emphasize peaceful – revolt in America, against what - I’ve seen involvement and engagement on the part of Americans that I have never seen the likes of which before. … We’ve got to take back our government from the special interests!" Video: McCain - "Peaceful Revolt Underway in America"

The best moment of almost every YouTube video of the raucous town-hall meetings on health care is the same: It’s the nonplussed look on the face of the senators and congressmen who have rarely suffered such indignity. Be assured: No one talks to them that way in the “members only” elevators in the U.S. Capitol. Nancy Pelosi and Co. insist that the town-hall protesters are the tools of special interests. Not likely. Almost all of the special interests have been enticed or bullied into cooperating with Obamacare. The alphabet soup of major players on health-care policy is basically on board...

Ev'rybody's talking about Socialism, Fascism, fishyism, Obamaism, Nazism, Marxism This-ism, That-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m All we are saying is pay your own bills, All we are saying is pay your own bills Yeah! C'mon Ev'rybody's talking about Administers, Sinisters, Disasters, And congressers, Unions, and Fishyops, And elderly death cries, and Sad eyes, Bye, bye, bye byes All we are saying is pay your own bills, All we are saying is pay your own bills Let me tell you now Ev'rybody's talking about Eugenasia, Single-payer, Abortion, Flagellation, regulation, integration, Certification, Medication, Congratulations. All we are saying is pay your own...

I received this in an email. I don't necessarily endorse all that said here, but there is food for thought. ------------------- Friends, When the storm finally hits (and it will), those of you who supported the Obama administration will be affected as well. It won’t just be us gun owners or Flat Taxers, or Pro-Lifers that get hit. You’ll be right there next to us. You see, you all thought the Conservatives were nut cases. You know, all of us who believe in God, small government, the Second Amendment, etc. And you thought you could just go back to sleep...

Americans, even the disabled and the elderly, will not line up on railroad platforms to be taken away in box cars, either literally or figuratively. The strength of old people is that they remember how things used to be. If all else fails, the geezers may recall the words of Winston Churchill: “You can always take one with you.” Churchill was bracing the British people for an anticipated invasion by Nazi troops. A similar thought may occur to people who anticipate an invasion by Nazi-like ideas and Nazi-like methods. One should be careful not to give people the idea that...

Link only - Liberal Dems threaten health care revolt

On 7/17/09 from 4:00 Pm to 6:00PM, the Western Massachusetts 912 project (www.massachusetts912project.com) staged a protest of the National Health Care proposal working its way through congress and the "Cap-n-Trade" bill to be considered by the senate. We have noticed in the previous weeks that the public was surprisingly un-aware of information regarding these subjects; so this protest was also an attempt at educating the public. We posted on all four corners and at the traffic islands with signs and literature, and as cars stopped for the lights we gave literature to any that asked. We did not disturb the...

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says the Honduran people "have the right to insurrection" against the interim government that forced him out of the country. Zelaya says that Honduran citizens also have the right to demonstrate and to stage strikes against the government of de facto President Roberto Micheletti, who has threatened to jail Zelaya if he tries to return. Zelaya said at a joint news conference with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom on Tuesday that "nobody owes allegiance to a usurper government." Zelaya said "insurrection is a legitimate process." Zelaya was toppled by a military-backed coup June 28. He is...

Guvernator Comes to Escondido June 12, 2009 12 PM As the doors opened up to the Center for the Arts in Escondido the union men were allowed to be seated before any women, the elderly, or women with children. I knew they were union because they all came wearing their brand new union t-shirts! That was the beginning of an otherwise boring press conference. It was more of the same rhetoric that had the governor sheepishly blaming the citizens for not passing the May propositions. The Governor even seems to think that the "out dated tax structure in CA" is...

California is like a functional drunk. It sips, then swills, then gulps, then passes out, waking and swearing off the juice until the next time. Government spending is California’s whiskey, and when the lush – also known as the state legislature – has sucked on the budgetary bottle too long, the state’s slightly more sober side kicks some collective rump. ... A couple of decades after Howard Jarvis smite the state, and under the expert mismanagement of Gray Davis, California’s employee roles and budget ballooned yet again, retaining nearly one percent of the population for no discernable performance. Davis was...

WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - As a deep recession strips Americans of their jobs, homes and investments, the 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers. "Our calls are up 280 percent," said Richard Boggs, founder and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Nationwide Tax Relief, a firm that helps delinquent taxpayers resolve tax issues.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- State officials are questioning plans by tax activists to dump a crate of tea bags into the Wabash River in protest of excessive government spending. A spokeswoman for the state's environmental agency said that throwing tea into the Wabash, or any river, could hurt aquatic life by depleting the water of oxygen. "It would technically be considered an unpermitted discharge," said Amber Finkelstein, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. She said putting tea in the river would also be a fineable offense, and that IDEM would not be able to permit the protest because...

While many members of the mainstream media have been negligent in covering what has become a nationwide, grassroots movement, activists across the country have taken it upon themselves to make sure the word is getting out. This afternoon, while looking at the GoogleMap we have been updating, I noticed that it has already generated over 500,000 views, and we now have listed well over 450 upcoming events.

In many cities across the US, homeowners are filing record numbers of assessment appeals, wanting their property taxes to reflect their shrinking value of their houses. Homeowners watching the value of their houses slowly ebb are storming tax offices from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Atlanta, demanding that county officials reassess their homes and lower their property taxes. It is a question of fairness, says Gene Burleson of Atlanta, who stood in line April 1 to appeal his assessment. His house has lost 25 percent of its value since it was last assessed, he adds: "I'm just trying to insulate myself...

Hundreds showed up at a tea party in Cape Coral, and they were not happy. The political activists expressed their anger over taxes and what they call out-of-control government spending. Attendees wanted just three minutes to speak their mind and hear what others had to say. "We don't like what's happening to our country. We're tired. We don't want more taxes. We don't want a big government. We don't want Washington running car companies and insurance companies. They can't even run themselves," Beth Neuhausel said. Taking center stage, or stump, was the stimulus and bailouts. Mary Rakovich said, "The spending...

The state of the US economy and the anticipation of increased taxation has inspired numerous references in recent weeks to the book "Atlas Shrugged", by the late author and philosopher Ayn Rand. In her fictitious book Rand anticipates a time when those who create wealth within the social order, and from whom that wealth is forceably extracted for the benefit of others, eventually express their frustration by ceasing their labors. Those drawing the parallel to today’s reality suggest that we are now approaching a scenario when the real producers of today’s society will cease to produce, resulting in dramatic social...

The Constitution Party of Santa Clara County is hosting the San Jose (Bay Area) Tax Revolt Tea Party on tax day 2009! We initially limited the scope of the event to Santa Clara County, but upon further research learned there was only one other county wide tax day tea party (San Mateo ), so we decided to invite all patriots from within the nine bay Area counties to join with us, and speak in one voice of our bewilderment, shock, anger, betrayal, and legalized theft of our tax dollars in front of the FED's local collection agency, the San Jose...

This was strictly an Indiana protest against taxes held in the north end of the rotunda at the Indiana statehouse. This was an excellent warmup to the nation wide April 15 teaparty. Some of the topics discussed were “Increasing Debt: Mortgaging Our Children’s Future,” “The Colts, Pacers and the Capital Improvement Board,” “Run over by the Speedway Redevelopment Commission,” “Lobbying and Ethics Reform,” “Transparency and Accountability in Government,” “Pay to Play Politics, Indiana Style,” and “Fun and Games in Evansville.” The protest started at 1130 and lasted for about an hour and a half. It was civil in the Hoosier...

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Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons -- his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:30pm to 7pm Meet at Lawyers Co-op Park (next to the Southwest corner of the Main St. Bridge) NY Gov. Patterson is going to be at the Rochester Convention Center for a "Town Meeting" at 5:30pm that day.

They're revolting. Families with children, bikers, seniors, pirates - by the thousands descended on a Fullerton bar Saturday to join talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI in protesting tax increases recently approved in Sacramento. Police estimated that some 8,000 people came to the Slidebar Café in downtown Fullerton to listen to The John & Ken Show. "I expected a lot and it was way more than I expected," said co-host John Kobylt. The talk show hosts put forward an ambitious goal for their Tax Revolt 2009 live broadcast that ran for more than three hours. "The...

Tax Revolt and Recall Protest draws 15,000 Fullerton – An estimated crowd of 15,000 people showed up at a tax revolt and recall protest hosted by The John & Ken Show of radio station KFI 640. The hyperactive John Kobylt and immaculately groomed Ken Chiampou prodded the crowd into chants of "heads on a stick" and "off with their heads" several times during the three hour event, referring to lazy legislators and the lying governor. Some people brought bloody effigy heads of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and stuck them on the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts...

Veterans Park, Lafayette, LA. Estimated crowd of 300-400 folks. Lots of veterans. Rousing speeches, many signs. No TV coverage, but newspaper was there and will post link to pics. Good time had by all and the crowd was very fired up!

Action Alert! LIVEBLOGGING TAX REVOLT 09! Real time commentary of what's happening at the event. Video, pics posted on the fly depicting sights, sounds, emotions of rally! See it all here! IT’S ON! REVOLT, RECALL & REPEAL! The John and Ken 2009 Tax Revolt is on! Make your voice heard! The Slidebar Café is located in the Fullerton Transportation Center. Take your car, take the train or take the bus. Whatever you do take the time to come out and be heard! Plenty of free parking Click here for directions Click here to print out fliers and pass them out...

Internet TV media company Pajamas TV has been monitoring the recent Tea Party protests across the U.S. under its "American Tea Party" initiative and has extensive video coverage of the events on its website at www.PJTV.com. Furthermore, photos of protests that took place on Friday, February 27 in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Hartford, Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, New York, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Monica, Seattle, Springfield, Mo., St. Louis, Tulsa and Washington, D.C. can be viewed at: http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=page&page-id=121. Pajamas TV is keeping a schedule of upcoming protests, interviewing organizations and individuals involved, and gathering...

It was announced on the air today that there will be a TAXPAYERS TEA PARTY on Thursday, March 12th 4 to 6 PM at Flat Branch Park in Downtown Columbia, Mo. The Tea Party is being organized by Local Talk Show Host Gary Nolan. Nolan was a former Libertarian candidate for President a few years ago. Bring you tea bags and a letter of tax protest that will be hand delivered to Sen Claire McCaskill (D).

HILLSBOROUGH -- If a meeting last week at the Big Barn in Hillsborough is any indication, the Central Orange Senior Center could be crowded tonight as residents plan to share with county commissioners their opinions on property revaluation. As many as 1,400 people went to Hillsborough last week to protest the county's large hikes in property revaluations and to learn how to combat what some see as abuse of power. The crowd grew so large so fast that the fire marshal had to turn people away. The meeting was organized by a group known as the Orange Tax Revolt, which...

The president-designate's gaze passed swiftly over the faces of the cameramen. All were doing their best to retain a professional demeanor. None were entirely successful. The overwhelming majority of them, like the majority of their brethren in journalism, had supported the deposed administration. Few had any sympathy for the views of those who were to replace it. Yet each of them had volunteered for his assignment, knowing full well what had come to pass. "I wish it could have been otherwise, but the late president gave us no choice. He had decided to place himself and his associates above the...

Make your voice heard! 2009 Tax Revolt is on! Join John and Ken Saturday March 7, from 3-6PM Doors open at 3, live broadcast 4-6 The Slidebar Café 122 East Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton CA 92832 714-871-2233 The Slidebar Café is located in the Fullerton Transportation Center. Take your car, take the train or take the bus. Whatever you do take the time to come out and be heard! Plenty of free parking Go to the link for directions.

President Barack Obama's first budget includes $15 billion a year for renewable energy programs and an ambitious plan to raise $646 billion from a carbon reduction proposal. "Because our future depends on our ability to break free from oil that's controlled by foreign dictators, we need to make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Mr. Obama said Thursday morning. "That's why we'll be working with Congress on legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy." The plan uses money from a cap-and-trade program — which would allow companies to...

CHAPEL HILL -- Calling it a revolution and vowing that the anti-tax movement exploding across the county has yet to reach its critical mass, organizers and members of the fledgling group say profligate spending, oppressively high tax rates and a political class that has lost touch with its constituents are in the crosshairs of change. In an astonishing show of strength and depth, as many as 1,400 people went to Hillsborough on Monday night to protest the county's large hikes in property revaluations and to learn how to combat what many see as abuse of power. The crowd grew so...

President Obama will pledge Tuesday night that the nation "will rebuild, we will recover," as he delivers an address to a joint session of Congress and with a nervous nation watching at home. "While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," Mr. Obama will say, according to excerpts of his remarks. In lofty language, Mr. Obama is expected to promise a new path forward...

Loyal to Liberty THOUGHTLET What signals the difference between a "socialist" and a "communist"? It's the gradual repression of political and civil liberty culminating in the open prosecution and suppression of dissident views. But this suppression cannot come about until a monopoly has been established over access to the seats of government executive and decision making power. The key manifestation of this monopoly is of course some form of party dictatorship. Aside from all the evidence in his known background, associates, policy preferences and political actions one of the main reasons I make bold to call Obama a communist is...

I probably should have just listened to Paul Harvey. Though it wasn’t actually Paul Harvey. It was Ron Chapman. And that’s probably the problem. I understand Ron Chapman is a radio legend somewhere, but I don’t live there. So, to me, he’s just an insufferable bore. But I should have been listening anyway. Instead I got an idea. An idea that had been kind of simmering in my head for a week or so. I was trying to think of a way to show that I wasn’t happy. That I was tired of bailouts. That I didn’t want to pay...

Barack Hussein Obama will propose a massive business tax on greenhouse gases in his FY 2010 federal budget to be presented this week.The massive tax increase and power grab was buried at the end on article on Obama's forthcoming budget proposal in The New York Times:On energy policy, Mr. Obama’s budget will show new revenues by 2012 from his proposal to require companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the permits would raise up to $300 billion a year by 2020. Since companies would pass their...

I'll be telling my employer to keep the thirteen dollar "tax credit" the government is so generously bestowing upon me. I will not claim it at the end of the year. I need to know to whom I should write to tell them to shove their thirteen dollars where the sun does not shine. it is an insult. I saw a thread earlier asking people to join in a new tea party; I'll be there for a march on April 1. I respect governors that are planning on refusing the "stimulus" money. I am doing the same.