The Morning Call, a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, mainstream news media print publication, carried an April 3, 2008, column by Washington Post nationally syndicated columnist George Will titled “Gambling global appeal profits Venetian’s Adelson.”

This column is titled “The Mogul Who Bet on Vegas,” the mogul being Sheldon Adelson, the third richest man in America after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and the owner of the Venetian casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Macao, Communist China, the latter being the largest casino in the world.

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Reporter Kurt Bresswein is The Express-Times’s pimp for johns like Lehigh Valley Industrial Park (LVIP) Inc. President Kerry Wrobel.

Wroebel is hooked in with all kinds of unsavory characters.  One of these is R. Chadwick Paul Jr., chief executive officer of the Northeaston Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

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“As director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [OIRA] at the White House of Budget and Management [OMB], Susan E. Dudley will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies,” as reported by Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Joel Havemann at Latimes.com.

Much of the plot to overthrow our government through a bloodless coup centers on the so-called “Lehigh Valley,” a geographical area in eastern Pennsylvania, whose borders, like shifting sand (quicksand, that is) undulated with the latest U.S. Bureau of Census figures used to establish Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

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The two lead stories in today’s edition of The New York Times, “House Narrowly Backs Iraq Timetable” for bringing our troops home,” and “Ex-Deputy of Interior Dept. Pleads guilty,” describe the impetus that led to the takeover of our national government in last November’s Congressional elections: the Iraqi War and Government Corruption.

The Billy Bytes Blog, http://www.billybyte.com/blog, has published volumes opposing the Iraqi War and fully supported the position of former U.S. Presidential Candidate Howard Dean and current Chairman of the National Democratic Party Committee, and Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha.

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Review the rogues’ gallery in the Lafayette College Magazine fall 2004 issue.

The gallery will greet the Lafayette College class of 2010 when classes resume this fall.

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The New Jersey Highlands Act, in the news again in today’s New Jersey edition of The Express-Times, in an article titled “Highlands avocates call for halt to building,” underscores articles appearing recently in that newspaper, The Morning Call, and The Newark Star-Ledger and reported on at length by Billy Bytes.

The Highlands Act is attempting to protect the Musconetcong River, the border between Warren and Hunterdon counties, and two other Highland rivers, presumably the Pequest and Paulinskill, the latter of which I helped preserve through creation of the Paulinskill Valley Trail, the abandoned former Blairstown Railroad and New York, Susquehanna, and Western railbed that parallels the Paulinskill River.

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Last August when Bethlehem City Council in a split-decision vote of 4-3 put casino gambling in the Moravian Christmas City on temporary life support, Councilwoman Jean Belinsi delivered her hand-wringing, hair-pulling rational of why she cast her vote for life support: Without casino gambling, Bethlehem could not repay $150 million it owes the federal government for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds the city received for low- to moderate-income projects such as housing but spent instead on “economic development” in tax exemptions and other subsidies to developers like Joe Posh and Louis Pektor.

Most of these corporate welfare handouts came in the form of tax increment financing, or TIF, that diverted tax revenue from the city’s coffers and into the pockets of the developers.

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Please refer to the article, “Easton groups consider cooperation on Main Street,” published in the July 27, 2006, edition of The Morning Call.

Download this article and see for yourself the evidence of what my blue-blooded neighbors on silk-stocking College Hill are doing to me and all the other voters and taxpayers, not only in Northampton County and its seat Easton, but also in Lehigh County and even Warren and Hunterdon counties and beyond.

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Please refer to article, “War over park’s fate a lengthy history of battles,” published in today’s edition of The Express-Times.

Reporter Courtney Lomax quotes former Nazareth Councilman and Mayor Elmer Yeakle as saying of the park’s deed restriction, “It’s [the deed restriction] is not there illegally.  It was approved to be there by the people who controlled the deed.”

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On the snowy evening of January 3, 2005, Easton resident and Billy Bytes publicationss’ founder Billy Givens, accompanied by his friend John Todaro of Palmer Township, attended the year’s first meeting of Northampton County Council.

The meeting was held in the county seat of historic Easton’s Jacob Bachmann Publick House.

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