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Hi Everyone,

This is April 8th and I am adding 3 more stories from others to the blog. Remember to tell people about this and get your friends thinking. What kind of Government do you want? Obama give me enough things to talk about. He is wrong about the direction he is taking America. Free Markets and Freedom are still alive. Enjoy the information and have a good day.

Tom Brown
Editor Of North American Freedom

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North American Freedom Newsletter
Issue 2 Vol 1.
April 8,2009


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Homeland Alert #1

HACKETT: Obama lowers our shield

As North Korea launches missiles into orbit

By James T. Hackett | Tuesday, April 7, 2009

www.washingtontimes.coim

COMMENTARY:

It is surprising that North Korea's testing of President Obama by firing a long-range missile should coincide with word from the administration that it plans to slow the major program defending this country against such threats.

When North Korea launched its missile, dozens of radars and other sensors followed it, confirming that its payload fell into the sea. Either its payload was not a satellite or it was one that failed to reach orbit.

For the rest of the story click below

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/07/obama-lowers-our-shield/

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Economic Alert #1

The Oil and Glory Interview: Paul Kennedy

Posted by: Steve LeVine on March 30

www.businessweek.com

Economic historian Paul Kennedy is arguably the West’s most influential scholar on the decline of great powers. When you hear or read someone talking about whether or how America is being eclipsed as the world’s pre-eminent power, you are almost always getting a derivation of Kennedy’s seminal 1987 work, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.

Two narratives are currently going on. One is the global financial turmoil. The second is America’s place in the world now and going forward. To plumb those subjects and others, Oil and Glory caught up with Kennedy by phone at his New Haven, CT., home, where his grandchildren gave him a respite to talk. Here is a related story. And here is the edited interview:

Click on the link below for the rest of the story

http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/russia_oil_politics/archives/2009/03/the_oil_and_glo_2.htm

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Bailout Player Alert #1

Bailout Man Turns the Screws

By Deborah Solomon

USA Inc.

April 7, 2009

online.wsj.com

WASHINGTON -- Late on New Year's Eve, James Lambright, a Treasury Department official, sat waiting impatiently for documents to arrive from Citigroup Inc. He'd just been told by the bank's chief financial officer that Citigroup couldn't reach some executives who needed to sign the paperwork, including one woman whose husband was in the hospital with a heart attack.

"Well then, you know where to find her," Mr. Lambright replied to the finance chief, Gary Crittenden, according to three accounts of the call. "Put someone in one of your fancy black cars and get her to sign the document."

Associated Press

James Lambright (right), bailout deal maker, with ex-Treasury chief Henry Paulson in December.

As the government continues to pour cash into the economy, Mr. Lambright, 38 years old, has become one of the most powerful men in American finance. Unknown to most outside the Treasury building, he's an embodiment of how power in the economy has shifted -- for good or ill -- to Washington



Click on the link below for the rest of the story

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123906145595395075.html

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Copyright 2009 North American Freedom

First Newsletter Issue 1 Vul !

North American Freedom
Issue #1 Vol.1
April 6, 2009

Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of North American Freedom.

This newsletter and blog is set up to teach people and let people know
about the issue you might have missed. We believe in Freedom for all of
North America. We are like the Minutemen from our Revolution from long
ago.*Warning* The State is coming! The State is coming and more laws and
rules passed into law. Tell your friends and let them know what is going
on. The voters need information for 2010. Be that information. We need
leaders who follow the bill of rights and who did not view it as legend on
a map.

The State and Federal Governments of the USA are passing all kinds of
Intolerable Acts. Just like is 1774. What are they thinking? New York State
is really asking for it with all the taxes they trying to pass.All of North
America should be free. Canada and Mexico need to keep Government out of
their noses as well. We are looking for stories about them.

The fight for your mind is at your doorstep. The State wants to control
your life. It is here. The time to defend the ideas of Liberty is now. You
can no longer ignore what is going on.The first step of defending Liberty
is education before you take any action. The second is to meet people who
feel the same and third is to take steps that work. We will do our best to
look for stories that let you make up your own mind. If you want to be
free, you have to be informed. Please let us know what you think.

Enjoy the newsletter and blog.

-Tom Brown Editor of North American Freedom

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Freedom Alert #1

The American Spectator

Il Duce, Redux?

By Quin Hillyer

on 4.2.09 @ 6:09AM

Trying to handle the crisis, the Fascist government nationalized the
holdings of large banks which had accrued significant industrial
securities. The government also issued new securities to provide a source
of credit for the banks and began enlisting the help of various cartels….

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/02/il-duce-redux

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Interesting Ideas #1

Vanishing Republic

More than 200 years ago, Prof. Alexander Tyler mused that:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from
the public treasury.From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the
result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy…always
followed by a dictatorship.”

The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of
history, has been about 200 years.

During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the
following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

He wrote this back in 1787 about fall of the Athenian Republic.

Do you find these words ring true today?

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Freedom *Red Alert* of the day.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN REPEALED
By Dick Morris
www.dickmorris.com
04.6.2009

On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London. The joint communiqué essentially announces a global economic union with uniform regulations and bylaws for all nations, including the United States. Henceforth, our SEC, Commodities Trading Commission, Federal Reserve Board and other regulators will have to march to the beat of drums pounded by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a body of central bankers from each of the G-20 states and the European Union.

The mandate conferred on the FSB is remarkable for its scope and open-endedness. It is to set a “framework of internationally agreed high standards that a global financial system requires.” These standards are to include the extension of “regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments, and markets…[including] systemically important hedge funds.”

Note the key word: “all.” If the FSB, in its international wisdom, considers an institution or company “systemically important”, it may regulate and over see it. This provision extends and internationalizes the proposals of the Obama Administration to regulate all firms, in whatever sector of the economy that it deems to be “too big to fail.”

The FSB is also charged with “implementing…tough new principles on pay and compensation and to support sustainable compensation schemes and the corporate social responsibility of all firms.”

That means that the FSB will regulate how much executives are to be paid and will enforce its idea of corporate social responsibility at “all firms.”

The head of the Financial Stability Forum, the precursor to the new FSB, is Mario Draghi, Italy’s central bank president. In a speech on February 21, 2009, he gave us clues to his thinking. He noted that “the progress we have made in revising the global regulatory framework…would have been unthinkable just months ago.”

He said that “every financial institution capable of creating systemic risk will be subject to supervision.” He adds that “it is envisaged that, at international level, the governance of financial institutions, executive compensation, and the special duties of intermediaries to protect retail investors will be subject to explicit supervision.”

In remarks right before the London conference, Draghi said that while “I don’t see the FSF [now the FSB] as a global regulator at the present time…it should be a standard setter that coordinates national agencies.”

This “coordination of national agencies” and the “setting” of “standards” is an explicit statement of the mandate the FSB will have over our national regulatory agencies.

Obama, perhaps feeling guilty for the US role in triggering the international crisis, has, indeed, given away the store. Now we may no longer look to presidential appointees, confirmed by the Senate, to make policy for our economy. These decisions will be made internationally.

And Europe will dominate them. The FSF and, presumably, the FSB, is now composed of the central bankers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States plus representatives of the World Bank, the European Union, the IMF, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Europe, in other words, has six of the twelve national members. The G-20 will enlarge the FSB to include all its member nations, but the pro-European bias will be clear. The United States, with a GDP three times that of the next largest G-20 member (Japan), will have one vote. So will Italy.

The Europeans have been trying to get their hands on our financial system for decades. It is essential to them that they rein in American free enterprise so that their socialist heaven will not be polluted by vices such as the profit motive. Now, with President Obama’s approval, they have done it.

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Copyright 2009
North American Freedom

Where do you begin?

How many freedoms are being being tested by Obama? What we are seeing is the New Deal Plan where all the cards are being shuffled. This is not Clinton it is Carter but worst. I mean Bush was not a Freedom Republican like Steve Forbes but as least he knew what taxes to cut. Bush's problem was he never said no spending. Like a rich kid who was over the limit and kept spending. Obama on the other hand is trying to fix what he thinks is wrong and does not care what happens to the old way even if it bankrupts us. When the people find out what he is all about. He will not get voted back in 4 years. Pray we can last.

So I ask the question -where do we begin?

I state:

When you see a freedom being taken by the goverment you have to report it. Then take action and contact your representative. Put the pressure on them to vote the way you like. If that does not work. Report it! Tell people how they voted and get new people to run.

Speak about this stuff with your friends and people not engaged. People do not always know what is going on. Tell them what you know.

The time is now to stand up for what you believe in. No one likes to do it. We all have things we would rather do. If we believe in our freedom that our forefathers believed in when they fought the British Empire we will make North America the freedom continent of the world.

The big 3 United States, Canada, and Mexico all have different issues but one thing they all should be have in common that is freedom. The big 3 need to show the rest of world how you live in peace and have freedom. We do not have to join into one country like the EU. We can trade and still be have our way of life. What do you think?

Are you up to the task in making this happen? Please send me an email and let me know.

On April 17th - beginning at midnight EST - supporters of the Campaign for Liberty and of the campaign to END THE FED will join together to trigger a first in a series of “bank runs” in hopes of overwhelming the Federal Reserve’s ability to continue it’s propping up of our nation’s bankrupt financial system.

The goal of this project is to highlight the need to pass Congressman Ron Paul’s recently reintroduced House Resolution 833 - a bill to abolish the Federal Reserve.

We wish to emphasize the need for sound money - backed by gold and or silver.

All supporters should remove all cash except $17.76 from any bank and withdraw maximum allowable funds from any money market accounts on that day.

We seek an “electronic run on the banks” in addition to traditional “bank runs.” Over time, we hope to build these events in order to topple the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve.

We are also asking all supporters to donate $100 to Congressman Paul’s Campaign for Liberty at

www.campaignforliberty.com

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This is interesting. They are calling for a run on the banks. This site will not be up long.

-Tom

Newsmax

Steve Forbes: Stimulus Lacks Strategy

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:40 AM By: Dan Weil Article Font Size

Former presidential candidate and Forbes magazine publisher Steve Forbes lambasted the fiscal stimulus program working its way through Congress as a waste of money. “It’s just a grab bag of every spending proposal that’s been banging around Congress for years,” the chief executive of Forbes Inc. told Bloomberg TV. “They just threw in everything. There’s no coherence, no real strategy. There are some good parts — stimulus for small businesses to invest, the electric grid. But even there, they didn’t really follow through.” What does Forbes recommend instead? “If you want sustained economic growth, you need incentives,” he explains. “If you want to throw around a lot of money, they should have reduced the payroll tax in half for two years.” The benefit of that is that it gets money instantly into people’s hands, Forbes said. “If you’re low income, you have to wait until next year before you get money from this thing.” And a payroll tax would instantly cut hiring expenses, making businesses more eager to expand their workforce. Forbes also favors a business tax cut. “The U.S. has the second-highest business tax rate in the developed world,” he explains. “Why not cut that from 35 percent to 20 percent? That’s the way to have businesses plan for the future.” Forbes isn’t the only one criticizing the stimulus plan. “The fiscal package now before Congress needs to be thoroughly revised,” Harvard economist Martin Feldstein wrote in The Washington Post. “In its current form, it does too little to raise national spending and employment.” © 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Three Hats Off to Judd Gregg

I like Larry Kudlow's view on this. Judd Gregg made the right choice. Check it out and see if you agree.

Tom Brown
North American Freedom

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Kudlow's Money Politics

Three Hats Off to Judd Gregg

Thursday, February 12, 2009
By Larry Kudlow

Three hats off to Judd Gregg for withdrawing his nomination for commerce secretary. And I mean three hats. I’ve never seen anything like this.

I say this not in a partisan-political sense, but in terms of Sen. Gregg’s extraordinary character and integrity. He would not compromise his beliefs.

Here’s the money paragraph:

However, it has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census, there are irresolvable conflicts for me. Prior to accepting this post, we had discussed these and other potential differences, but unfortunately we did not adequately focus on these concerns. We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy.

Judd Gregg has more backbone than anyone in politics today. He did his best to cross over and help Pres. Obama. But as Gregg and I discussed in a recent CNBC interview, the senator has a long and outstanding record as a tax-cutter, budget-cutter, deficit-cutter, and debt-cutter. All of these principles have been badly violated in the so-called stimulus package. And of course the White House move to steal the Census Bureau during a crucial political-reapportionment period was a low blow.

But how many major public figures would have simply drawn a line in the sand and said, No, I simply cannot cross that line? That’s what Gregg just did.

With so many weak-kneed leaders in business and politics today, Gregg has just provided an incredibly strong leadership example. If you can’t wake up in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror in good conscience, then you’re doing something wrong. There’s a right way and a wrong way in life. Gregg chose the right way.

You know what? He ought to think very seriously about a presidential run. I mean it. This is an act of courage. That’s what we need.

Ralph Nader Lambasts Limbaugh in Ridiculous Rant

This is a story I read in the radio blog I like to check out. Ralph Nader is way off base with this. He hates Rush and is telling the American people outright strange things. He has lost his mind if he believes this.

Two thumbs down for Ralph!

Tom Brown

North American Freedom

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Ralph Nader Lambasts Limbaugh in Ridiculous Rant

Feb 5 2009

By Corey Deitz, About.com

I almost didn't believe a story I read in The Washington Times. Ralph Nader, the consumer activist, was taunting Rush Limbaugh because of his multimillion-dollar income and said, "You are making this money on the public property of the American people for which you pay no rent.

You, Rush Limbaugh, are on welfare..." Nader also said Limbaugh should, "...set a capitalist example for his peers and pay rent to the American people for the very lucrative use of their property."

I don’t even know where to begin.

Inane. Idiotic. Absurd.

Why is Nader singling out Limbaugh? Why would his show be any different from what Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller do? What separates him from Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Glenn Beck, the "Kim Kommando Computer Show", "Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline", or hundreds of syndicated personalities and shows which air weekdays and on the weekends? For that matter, what about the progressively-programmed Air America Media. It operates on radio stations owned by the public, too.

Look: talk show hosts and programs don’t just bully their way into stations and force themselves onto the air. They are contracted for, paid for, hired if you will by station "licensees" to work for them.

The station licensees are "licensed" by the Federal Communications Commission and responsible for operating the frequencies. They do so on behalf of the public who remain the true "owners" of AM and FM real estate. But, the licensees of commercial radio stations run them to make a profit – and they hire local or syndicated talent to generate listeners, ratings, and revenue.
Limbaugh is no more on the public dole than the park rangers at Yellowstone National Park. Both are paid for a service they provide to a publicly owned asset.

So, Ralph Nader – please shut up. Your personal politics are showing - not your understanding of commercial radio

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I could not agree more.

-Tom