>> Unfortunately, this is all true. Please spread the word!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Subject: FW: Hillary hopes you have forgotten......have you?
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- Be careful how you cast your vote.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hillary Clinton has
>> been telling America that she is the most qualified
>> candidate for president based on
>> her "record," which she says includes
>> her eight years in the White
>> House as First Lady - or "co-president" -
>> and her seven years in the
>> Senate. Here is a reminder of that that
>> record includes:
>>
>>
>> 1. As
>> First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over healthcare reform, a
>> process that cost the taxpayers
>> over $13 million. she told both Bill
>> Bradley and Pat Moynihan, key
>> votes needed to pass her legislation,
>> that she would "demonize" anyone
>> who opposed it. But it was opposed;
>> she couldn't even get it to a
>> vote in a Congress controlled by her own
>> party. (And in the next election,
>> her party lost control of both the
>> House and Senate.
>>
>> 2.
>> Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female attorney
>> general.
>> Her first two recommendations
>> (Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) were forced to
>> withdraw their names from
>> consideration, and then she chose Janet Reno.
>> Janet Reno has since been
>> described by Bill himself as "my worst
>>
; mistake.&
quot;
>>
>> 3. Hillary
>> recommended Lani Guanier to head the Civil Rights
>> Commission. When Guanier's
>> radical views became known, she had to
>> withdraw her name.
>>
>> 4. Hillary recommended her former
>> law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince
>> Foster, and William Kennedy for
>> positions in the Justice Department,
>> White House staff, and the
>> Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later
>> imprisoned; Foster "committed
>> suicide," and Kennedy was forced to
>> resign.
>>
>> 5. Hillary also recommended a
>> close friend of the Clintons, Craig
>> Livingstone, for the position of
>> director of White House security. When
>> Livingstone was investigated for
>> the improper access of up to 900 FBI
>> files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread
>> use of drugs by
>> the White
>> House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him.
>> (FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene
>> confirmed in a Senate Judiciary
>> Committee in ! 1996 both the drug
>> use and Hillary's involvement in hiring
>> Livingstone. After that, the FBI
>> closed its White House Liaison Office,
>> after serving seven presidents
>> for over 30 years.)
>>
>> 6. In order to open "slots" in
>> the White House for her friends, the
>> Harry Thomasons (to whom millions
>> of dollars in travel contracts could
>> be awarded), Hillary had the
>> entire staff of the White House Travel
>> Office fired; they were reported
>> to the FBI for "gross mismanagement"
>> and their reputations ruined.
>> After a 30-month investigation, only one,
>> Billy Dale, was charged with a
>> crime - mixing personal money with
>> White House funds when he cashed
>> checks. The jury acquitted him in less
>> than two hours.
>>
>> 7. Another of Hillary's assumed
>> duties was directing the "bimbo
>> eruption squad" and scandal
>> defense; urging her husband not to settle
>> the Paula Jones lawsuit; refusing
>> to release the Whitewater documents,
>> which led to the appointment of
>> Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor after
>> $80 million of taxpayer money was
>> spent. Starr's investigation led to
>> Monica Lewinsky, which led to
>> Bill lying about and later admitting his
>> affairs.
>>
>> ---- Then they had to settle with
>> Paula Jones after all.
>>
>> ---- And Bill lost his law
>> license for lying to the grand jury.
>>
>> ---- And Bill was impeached by
>> the House.
>>
>> ----
>> And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and
>> obstruction of justice (she
>> avoided it mostly because she repeated, "I
>> do not recall," "I have no
>> recollection," and "I don't know" 56 times
>> under oath).
>>
>> 8. Hillary accepted the
>> traditional First Lady's role of decorator of
>> the White House at Christmas, but
>> in a unique Hillary way. In 1994, for
>> example, the First Lady's Tree in
>> the Blue Room (the focal point each
>> year) was decorated with drug
>> paraphernalia, sex toys, and pornographic
>> ornaments, all personally
>> approved by Hillary as the invited artists'
>> depictions of the theme , "The
>> Twelve Days of Christmas."
>>
>> - Hillary co-wrote "It Takes a
>> Village," demonstrating her Socialist
>> viewpoint (and inability to even
>> do that by herself).
>>
>> - Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate
>> in a state she had
>> never
>> lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get
>> Latino support and the New Square
>> Hassidim to get Jewish support.
>> Hillary also had Bill pardon her
>> brother's clients, for a small fee, to
>> get financial
>> support.
>>
>> - Then
>> Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000
>> in White House furniture, china,
>> and artwork she had stolen.
>>
>> - In the campaign for the Senate,
>> Hillary played the "woman card" by
>> portraying her opponent (Lazio)
>> as a bully picking on her.
>>
>> - Hillary's husband further
>> protected her by asking the National
>> Archives to withhold from the
>> public until 2012 many records of their
>> time in the White House,
>> including much of Hillary's correspondence and
>> her calendars. (There are ongoing
>> lawsuits to force the release of
>> those records.)
>>
>> - As the
>> junior Senator from New York, Hillary
>> has passed no major
>> legislation. She has deferred to
>> the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend
>> to the needs of New Yorkers, even
>> on the hot issue of medical problems
>> of workers involved in the
>> cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.
>>
>> - Hillary's one notable vote,
>> supporting the plan to invade Iraq,
>> she
>> has since
>> disavowed.
>>
>> Quite a resume, isn't it? Sounds more like an organized
>> crime family.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> AMERICA, PLEASE
>> REMEMBER!!
>>
>> Hillary hopes you have
>> forgotten. Have
>> you???
>>
>>

The Financial Dominoes are Falling
(Don't get hit
Silver Stock Report
by Jason Hommel, March 16, 2008

The Financial Dominoes are Falling.

Ironically, the major financial stocks are now more volatile and risky than mining exploration stocks!

Countrywide Financial Group (CFC) fell first, a few weeks ago. A year ago, CFC traded at $40, today, trading at $4.50, with Bank of America seemingly waiting in the wings to merge or bail them out. This wiped out $20 billion in Countrywide stock value so far, with $2.6 billion to go.

One of the Major holders of CFC stock is Legg Mason Capital Management, owning 9.4% of CFC, losing about $2 billion.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=CFC

Last week, Carlyle Capital Group fell, wiping out 90% of a $22 billion fund.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/business/worldbusiness/13cnd-carlyle.html
?em&ex=1205640000&en=6a369e43f6475e98&ei=5087%0A

One of the fund's lenders was Bear Sterns, followed by Bank of America, and Citigroup.

Then, on Friday, that collapse was followed by Bear Sterns (BSC).

Bear Sterns stock had fallen from nearly $100/share in 2008 down to $50/share last week, and then down to $30/share on Friday. JP Morgan today, announced they will buy Bear Sterns for $2.00/share, as long as their liability is limited!

At $100/share, Bear Sterns was worth $13 billion, today, worth $0.26 billion.

One of the major holders of BSC stock was again Legg Mason Capital Management, owning 4.84% of BSC, losing about $570 million since December.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BSC

It seems as if Legg Mason was not an insider to what is going on, as they are getting creamed or blindsided in these cascading cross defaults and bankruptcies.

Two other stocks that have plunged in this housing mortgage mess are the notorious government sponsored Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). Each stock is down from about $60 to $20, losing 2/3 of their value, each losing between $20-40 billions of dollars for major institutional shareholders. Each stock is probably a bookkeeping nightmare of undisclosed mark-to-fantasy losses.

Who are the biggest three financial firms that dominate the banking and investment industry? JPMorgan (JPM), Citigroup (c), and Bank of America (BAC). Each of these three owns derivatives books that are larger than all other U.S. banks, combined, $80 trillion, $30 trillion, and $30 trillion, respectively. For comparison, the GNP is $13 trillion, money in U.S. banks is $13.5 trillion, and the national debt is $9 trillion. These three banks leverage their "assets" about 100 to 1 through interest rate derivatives contracts, and cannot afford to see catastrophic events happen, such as a major rise in interest rates, or a major rise in the gold price.

But interest rates must rise as high as the gold price is rising to prevent further gold price rises, which means that interest rates need to rise to about 30-50% which would devastate bond values, and so, they are in deep trouble of going under themselves.

This is why they are bailing out other banks; to prevent withdrawals in case people lose confidence in their entire fraudulent system.

All three have market caps of over $100 billion. Looking at the charts, all three appear to be in serious trouble as they have lost almost 50% of their market cap in the last 6 months. Collectively, that's about $300 billion in losses right there. Citigroup appears the worst off, losing more than 50% of their stock price.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=C&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BAC&t=5y
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=JPM&t=5y

The funds that own these banks are also in big trouble, losing huge amounts of capital.

Look who owns them:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=C
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BAC
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=JPM

It's quite incestral, and many of the same names, the following 7 names, all show up in the top 10 holders of each of the top 3 banks, Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings, Capital Research and Management, STATE STREET CORPORATION, THE VANGUARD GROUP, FMR, AXA, Bank of New York Mellon corporation. Each fund has lost about $7-15 billion on all three of the major bank stocks in the last 6 months, collectively, about $70 billion in losses right there.

It seems as if there is a game afoot called avoiding bankruptcy. It appears to me as if each fund is trying to raise capital by selling off their bank stocks at the same time to raise capital to offset other losses or to meet other financial obligations, and this is creating a positive feedback loop creating further losses.

I think there is a major panic right now among the world's largest institutions and funds.

It seems they don't know who to trust.

It appears as if it will get worse next week. It is just amazing to me to see JPMorgan buying up Bear Stearns (but not their liabilities) for $2/share this Sunday night, when on Friday, the stock was down 47% to $30/share.

Now, next week, it will be a game to see who is depending on Bear Sterns' ability to pay?

Let me give them the same advice that I'll give you.

You should not trust anyone right now!

This is why you need silver and gold. They cannot go bankrupt. They cannot go to zero value. Their value does not depend on another's promise to pay. Silver and gold are not promises, they are payment in full.

You should especially not trust anyone to hold your silver or gold for you; especially not any large institution.

Get your money out of banks, get out of all bank stocks, get out of funds that invest in banks. I hesitate to say this, only because it is illegal to cause a "bank run" on a specific bank; therefore, I say to get out of all banks, both your accounts, and your bank stocks.

Get physical silver and gold. Immediately. No delay. No excuses.

I don't want to hear you bellyaching to me about how you think it might be risky to hold assets in a safe at home, because you are only renting. Get a safe at a local discount store, gun shop, or locksmith shop, or safe company.

Bolt your safe to your wall studs, or mount it inside a closet, or concrete garage floor. Put some cardboard boxes or wooden panels around it to hide it. There is a very low risk of theft from a break-in to your home safe, the risk is extremely small, unless you live in a particularly risky part of town; and if that is the case, then move. Most home invaders will not have the skills to crack your safe.

The risk of a home safe getting cracked is probably less than 1 in 10,000,000.

The thief you need to watch out for right now is called bankruptcy, and default, and these are bigger thieves than government taxes or inflation, which only take 10-20% per year; a risk of 1 in 10, or 1 in 5! Bankruptcy and default take 100% of your assets held by the other party, all at once.

If you live in a nation where you don't have access to silver or gold, and if you have no clear options, then there are two companies that I can "sort of" suggest. These are the only two companies in the industry that I "might" trust with a very tiny portion of my gold and silver, but I have not opened accounts with either of them. I trust them more than any others because of the way they do business, because it's audited, and because of their philosophy:

http://www.goldmoney.com/
http://www.anglofareast.com/
and maybe Brink's.
http://www.brinksinc.com/Products-Services/Precious-Metals.html --they do home security, armored transport, and they also manage bullion for select large accounts.

If you can't open accounts with those companies, then there is one last option on how you can somewhat own some gold and silver. You can use a brokerage account to buy the ticker CEF, a trustworthy fund that holds 95% or more of it's assets in gold and silver. I do not trust any other ETF. But even if you do that, you are still at risk if your brokerage company goes bankrupt.

Let me be clear: I HOLD NO SILVER OR GOLD WITH ANY OF THOSE COMPANIES!

I do not trust kitco.com, nor the Perth Mint, nor Monex, nor any other private company that claims to hold your gold or silver for you.

Remember, if someone else holds your gold or silver for you, then you don't own gold or silver, you have merely traded one form of promise for another form of promise. You own promises, unless you own silver and gold. Only silver and gold in your hands can protect you from another's bankruptcy or default.

If you can't trust your own location, then trust your family members. Spread out your wealth among several safes with several family members if you have no other options--you don't have to give them the combination to the safes!

I'm worried, very worried, but much more for you than for me. I hold my IRA with a major brokerage house, and I use my IRA to invest in mining and exploration stocks. My IRA is with one of the top 5. It could have been Bear Stearns, but it was not. I've been assured that if my brokerage house goes bankrupt, that my IRA assets are safe, because they can't borrow or pledge against them. But who really knows--they automatically sweep my cash into a money market fund, and what is that except a bond fund, which depends on another's ability to pay?! I can't opt-out of the money market deal, so I just hold as little cash as possible. And if I lost my IRA, I'd have enough physical bullion in my hand to protect myself.

If your only nest egg is your IRA, then I suggest taking half of your money out, and paying the penalties, and buying physical silver or gold immediately from your local coin shop.

My local coin shop tells me things have really changed. It used to be that more people sold silver than bought. This was consistent with the market structure of 200 million oz. of silver recycling, and only 50 million oz. of investors buying. However, in January, it changed. His business volume was up by a factor of 10, as compared to last year. In February, up by a factor of 8, but people were still mostly selling. Now it's changed big time. Investors are now buying more than people are selling, partly because of gold's breakout above $1000/oz. This is the first time I've seen this happen to my local dealer.

This is not a time for dallying, or worrying. This is a time for action. You must act fast to get your money out and into silver and gold.

Want to know where to go, what kind of silver to get, how much to pay? See here:
http://find-your-local-coin-shop.com/

While I was writing this, Sunday evening, gold shot up $23/oz. to $1027, after a high of $1033/oz.

Sincerely,

Jason Hommel
www.silverstockreport.com
www.miningpedia.com

WRITTEN BY A 15 yr. old SCHOOL KID IN ARIZONA :

The New Pledge of Allegiance (TOTALLY AWESOME) !
Since the Pledge of Allegiance and "The Lord's Prayer" are not allowed in most public schools anymore because the word 'God' is mentioned.... A kid in Arizona wrote this:

A NEW School prayer :

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen

If you aren't ashamed to do this,
please pass this on.

Jesus said,
"If you are ashamed of me,
I will be ashamed of you before my Father."

I'M Not ashamed. I've Passed this on to you; you can pass it along too....

Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign has released her 2000-2006 joint tax returns, showing $109.2 million in income over the last seven years.

In 2000, when the Clintons last made their returns public, they reported an adjusted gross income of $416,039. Since then, Bill Clinton alone has made $82 million from just his speech income ($51.85 million) and payments (totaling $29.6 million) from his two books -- "My Life " and "Giving."

The key details from Clinton's website:

TAXES PAID: $33,783,507

The Clintons paid $33,783,507 in federal taxes - 31% of their adjusted gross income. According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more paid on average 20.8% of their adjusted gross income in taxes.

CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS: $10,256,741

The Clintons donated $10,256,741 to charity - 9.5% of their adjusted gross income. According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more contributed 3.1% of their adjusted gross income in cash contributions to charity. Information about the Clinton Family Foundation, including a list of charities to which the Clintons contributed through the Foundation, is available online in the Foundation's publicly available tax returns (www.foundationcenter.org).

AFTER TAX EARNINGS: $57,157,297

CUMULATIVE TOTAL(GROSS) INCOME: $109,175,175

Including, among other items:

* Senator Clinton's Senate Salary: $1,051,606
* President Clinton's Presidential Pension: $1,217,250
* Senator Clinton's Book Income: $10,457,083
* President Clinton's Book Income: $29,580,525
* President Clinton's Speech Income: $51,855,599

"The Clintons have now made public thirty years of tax returns, a record matched by few people in public service," Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said in a statement. "None of Hillary Clinton's presidential opponents have revealed anything close to this amount of personal financial information."

America IS in Crisis Mode....

Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from
it's death throes? He has a new book, and here are some excerpts.
Lee Iacocca Says:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening?
Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder.
We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right
over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we
can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car.
But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads
when the politicians say, "Stay the course"

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America , not the
damned "Titanic". I'll give you a sound bite: "Throw all the bums out!"

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and
maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this
country anymore.
The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in
handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning
and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom
-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the
" America " my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.
I've had enough. How about you?

I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're
not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
The Biggest "C" is Crisis !

Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis.
It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory.
Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a
battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes
tumbling down.

On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other
time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the
ashes. A Hell of a Mess So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a
bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're
running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're
losing the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies
are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing,
and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in
trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed
every which way These are times that cry out for leadership.

But when you look around, you've got to ask:"Where have all the leaders
gone?" Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the
people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense?
I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making
us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We've spent
billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to
do is react to things that have already happened.

Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina.
Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane,
or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial
hours after the storm.

Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again.
Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out
what you're going to do the next time.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore
our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there
could ever be a time when "The Big Three" referred to Japanese car companies?
How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the
debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem.The silence
is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.

I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and
do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity.What is everybody so afraid of? That some
bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break.
Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?

Had Enough?
Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope I believe in America . In my lifetime I've had the privilege of living through some of America 's greatest moments. I've also
experienced some of our worst crises: the "Great Depression", "World War II", the "Korean War", the "Kennedy Assassination", the "Vietnam War", the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I've learned
one thing, it's this:
"You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our
children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a call to "Action" for people who, like me, believe in America . It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the crap a nd go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had "enough."

Make a "real contribution" by sending this to everyone you know and
care about......our future is at stake!