Last week Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood floated the idea of a mileage tax. “The idea — which involves tracking drivers through Global Positioning System (GPS) units in their cars — is gaining support in some states as a way of making up for a shortfall in highway funding,” reports CNN.
CFR member and current DHS boss Janet Napolitano rolled out the idea of “enhanced driver’s licenses,” that is to say RFID national ID cards.
It didn’t take long for Obama to reject the idea — at least for now. The National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission report rolling out the mileage tax is designed not to foist this intrusive technology on the American people in the short term, but rather get them acclimated to the idea of being tracked and taxed.
“The White House was somewhat premature,” commission Chairman Robert Atkinson told Bloomberg. “It’s absolutely critical that we look at it. The members of Congress that are committed to a robust transportation system are certainly very aware of the risks of that system not having as much money as it needs because of the stated policy of the Obama administration.” According to Atkinson and the panel, the so-called stimulus bill won’t be sufficient to meet highway-funding needs and financing programs in partnership with private companies “can play an important supplementary role.”
Private companies such as defense contractor Lockheed-Martin currently manufacture and profit from red light cameras now going in around the country. Lockheed-Martin not only manufactures the cameras, it also takes a cut from fines issued to red light violators.
“Not only has the sheer number of tickets issued and money reaped increased, but the type of photo enforcement and surveillance the government uses has also vastly increased,” notes the National Motorists Association. “There are red light cameras, speeding cameras, railroad crossing cameras, and most recently face identification cameras. Tampa Bay, Florida is now scanning the faces of pedestrians on the street to compare them to their database of criminals. The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles is investing in a camera system that will map the face of anyone with a driver’s license thus creating a photo database of the vast majority of their population. How long until the system used in Colorado is married to the system used in Florida?”
Adding GPS tracking to this emerging surveillance network would be a control freak’s wish come true. Obama’s supposed rejection of the GPS track and tax idea is a public relations trick. In fact, the global elite have long planned to impose a high-tech surveillance and control grid on humanity.
At approximately the same time we were told Obama rejected the GPS track and tax idea, CFR member and current DHS boss Janet Napolitano was rolling out the idea of “enhanced driver’s licenses,” that is to say RFID national ID cards.
“Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly,” writes Bob Unruh for WorldNetDaily.
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
“Enhanced driver’s licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it’s less elaborate than REAL ID,” Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.
Globalist servant Napolitano’s idea is a classic bait and switch. The government introduced the idea of REAL ID a few years ago and after this technology was rejected as “flawed” by Congress and a number of states, Napolitano’s “less elaborate” scheme was floated.
Michigan State Rep. Paul Opsommer told WND when he sought an exception to the growing federal move toward driver’s licenses with an electronic ID chip, and he was told that was “unlikely.” In addition, Opsommer was informed that the government is “trying to harmonize these standards with Canada and Mexico [so] it had to apply to everybody. I was absolutely dumbfounded.”
In other words, implementing this intrusive technology — facial recognition cameras, RFID chips, and GPS track and tax — is part of the world government agenda, beginning with the merger of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, otherwise known as the North American Union.
Robert Atkinson was correct when he stated that the “White House was somewhat premature” in its supposed rejection of the track and tax idea. As the banker devised “stimulus” borrow and spend bill flounders — it wasn’t designed to address such problems, but rather hand out pork in the name of political favor and inflate the national debt — and the nation’s crucial infrastructure continues to crumble, the track and tax idea will be forced on the American people along with the RFID national ID card and other control grid schemes.
The global elite will track our every move. Imposing burdensome taxes on us is only part of the agenda. The other and equally important part is the “electronic identification for every adult in the U.S.” (and eventually the entire world), especially those who may attend anti-government rallies.
In the not too distant future, if the effort to surveil our every move is not defeated, merely attending such rallies will become impossible.
Friday: General Electric* said it’ll slash its quarterly dividend 68 percent, to 10 cents from 31 cents per share, beginning in the third quarter. The move is expected to save the mega-conglomerate $9 billion annually. The U.S. agreed to boost its stake in Citigroup to as much as 36 percent, giving the government far more control of the ailing banking giant. U.S. GDP data was sharply revised downward, with economic loss at 6.2 percent as consumers cut spending by the most in over 28 years. Experts told CNBC that the market is resisting scary talk from President Obama and Fed Chairman Bernanke — but the recession’s end is nowhere in sight.
Sign of the Times: A Great Big “???”
Frederic Dickson of D. A. Davidson & Co. said huge questions remain about the Obama administration’s budget proposal, e.g., will it cap growth potential for businesses? He says it’s likely to be a drag on the markets — at least until there is some clarification.
Lots of Downward Pressure, But Market Holds its Own
Ben Lichtenstein of Traders Audio said speeches by President Obama have been a downward force on the market this week, as have most data releases, and Fed Chairman Bernanke’s testimony was not especially encouraging. But the market has been rather resilient. 750 was an important level in the S&P 500; once it was breached to the downside Friday, the next key S&P support level will be in the 730s.
Stephen C. Webster Raw Story
Saturday, Feb 28, 2009
It wasn’t even one year ago when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and members of his political campaign said now-President Barack Obama “seems to think losing a war will help him win an election.”
Which is what makes this week’s announcement of — and the fallout from — President Obama’s plan to withdrawal troops from Iraq so surprising. It isn’t the opposition party Obama must now win over: It’s his own political allies.
Sen. McCain and top Republican leaders actually support the Democratic administration’s plan, while some top Democrats have openly criticized it. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), himself a former presidential candidate, hit back Friday against a portion of Obama’s plan which would leave 35-50,000 “observer” soldiers in the country.
“You can’t be in and out at the same time,” said Kucinich in a media advisory.
“America must determine at some point to end the occupation, close the bases and bring the troops home,” he said. “We must bring a conclusion to this sorry chapter in American history where war was waged under false pretense against an innocent people. Taking troops out of Iraq should not mean more troops available for deployment in other operations.
“In February of 2007 I presented H.R. 1234, legislation that would end the war in Iraq, and the process I outlined is still necessary. We should immediately bring home American service members and contractors, convene a regional conference to prepare an international peace-keeping force and accelerate Iraq-driven reconstruction.”
“As a candidate for President, I made clear my support for a timeline of 16 months to carry out this drawdown, while pledging to consult closely with our military commanders upon taking office to ensure that we preserve the gains we’ve made and protect our troops,” Obama said on Friday. “Those consultations are now complete, and I have chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months.”
Obama added, “Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.”
Congressman Kucinich has been a leading opponent of the Iraq war policy even well before many of his Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives came to agree with his position.
David Edwards and Muriel Kane Raw Story
Saturday, Feb 28, 2009
The conservatives attending this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference are generally hawkish when it comes to foreign policy, but they applauded Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on Friday when he told them the US has no choice but to get out of Iraq.
“Part of the reasons why we lost this last election was the foreign policy issue,” Paul insisted. “Generally speaking, the presidential candidate who argues the case for less war-mongering will win the election.”
Paul noted that George Bush ran in 2000 on a pledge to end Bill Clinton’s nation-building, but then he “joined the idea that the American taxpayers — you — have an obligation to take care of everybody and police the world.”
“This is literally what bankrupts the country,” Paul complained. “It costs us a trillion dollars a year to take care of our foreign policy, and that cannot last.”
“The person most pleased with our foreign policy is Osama bin Laden,” Paul went on. “He said, ‘I’m going to get you to come over here and we’ll fight you on our sand, and we will do what we did to the Soviets.’ … He said he will do the same thing, he will eventually bankrupt this country.”
“So yeah,” Paul acknowledged. “We want to get rid of a bad guy in Iraq — we did. But … another one million Iraqis got killed. Believe me, they weren’t all terrorists. … But nevertheless, it pleased Osama bin Laden.”
Paul concluded by criticizing President Obama for proposing to send another 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. “Don’t we know anything about history?” he asked. “It is bankrupting our country. It will end … because we can’t afford it. … That’s what the financial crisis is telling us. … and the sooner we realize that the better.”
This video is from CNN.com, broadcast Feb. 27 2009.
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