VIDEO : Wow Wow ! : Fire and Fury in the Congressional Black Caucus - U. S. Rep Andre Carson( Democrat Indiana ) Full Speech : "Racist Tea Party Wants Black Americans 'Hanging On a Tree'" - See People enthusiastic with speeches

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The Fire and the Fury :

U. S. Representative Cedric Richmond, Democrat Louisiana ( New Orleans ), U. S. Alcee Hastings, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, Congressman Al Green.

August 30, 2011


Congressional Black Caucus: Racist Tea Party Wants Black Americans 'Hanging On a Tree'
August 30, 2011 at 11:28 am - Naked Emperor News
Dateline: America


Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) told the attendees of his event that members of the Tea Party in congress would like to see "us hanging on a tree".

Congressional Black Caucus Racist Tea Party Wants Black Americans 'Hanging On a Tree'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klh2fS5z1rk

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U. S. Supreme Court : Patrolling officers may stop vehicles if the the occupants appear to be of Mexican ancestry and the location is close to the border and its functional equivalents - UNITED STATES v. BRIGNONI-PONCE 1975 - CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

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Text of Decision here. Racial Profiling is perfectly legal, constitutional and supports SB 1070. Used for "War on Drugs", Terrorism, etc ....

Bibliography on Legality of "Racial Profiling"

Bernstein, Steven K. (1990). "Fourth Amendment—Using the Drug Courier Profile to Fight the War on Drugs". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern University) 80 (4): 996–1017. doi:10.2307/1143688. JSTOR 1143688.

Johnson, Kevin R., How Racial Profiling in America Became the 'Law of the Land': United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States and the Need for Rebellious Lawyering, 98 Georgetown Law Journal 1005 (2009)]

Smith, Michael R.; Alpert, Geoffrey P. (2002). "Searching for direction: Courts, social science, and the adjudication of racial profiling claims". Justice Quarterly 19 (4): 673–703. doi:10.1080/07418820200095391.

Soltero, Carlos R. (2006). "United States v. Brignoni-Ponce (1975), law and order on the border". Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. pp. 107–117. ISBN 0292714114.

FindLaw.com
For Legal Professionals
U.S. Supreme Court - UNITED STATES v. BRIGNONI-PONCE 1975


UNITED STATES v. BRIGNONI-PONCE, 422 U.S. 873 (1975)


Some excerpts :

The Fourth Amendment held not to allow a roving patrol of the Border Patrol to stop a vehicle near the Mexican border and question its occupants about their citizenship and immigration status, when the only ground for suspicion is that the occupants appear to be of Mexican ancestry. Except at the border and its functional equivalents, patrolling officers may stop vehicles only if they are aware of specific articulable facts, together with rational inferences therefrom, reasonably warranting suspicion that the vehicles contain aliens who may be illegally in the country. Pp. 878-887.

(a) Because of the important governmental interest in preventing the illegal entry of aliens at the border, the minimal intrusion of a brief stop, and the absence of practical alternatives for policing the border, an officer, whose observations lead him reasonably to suspect that a particular vehicle may contain aliens who are illegally in the country, may stop the car briefly, question the driver and passengers about their citizenship and immigration status, and ask them to explain suspicious circumstances; but any further detention or search must be based on consent or probable cause. Pp. 878-882.

(b) To allow roving patrols the broad and unlimited discretion urged by the Government to stop all vehicles in the border area without any reason to suspect that they have violated any law, would not be "reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment. Pp. 882-883.

(c) Assuming that Congress has the power to admit aliens on condition that they submit to reasonable questioning about their right to be in the country, such power cannot diminish the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens who may be mistaken for aliens. The Fourth Amendment therefore forbids stopping persons for questioning about their citizenship on less than a reasonable suspicion that they may be aliens. Pp. 883-884.

499 F.2d 1109, affirmed. [422 U.S. 873, 874]

POWELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BRENNAN, STEWART, MARSHALL, and REHNQUIST, JJ., joined. REHNQUIST, J., filed a concurring opinion, post, p. 887. BURGER, C. J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which BLACKMUN, J., joined, post, p. 899. DOUGLAS, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, post, p. 888. WHITE, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which BLACKMUN, J., joined, post, p. 914.

Deputy Solicitor General Frey argued the cause for the United States. On the briefs were Solicitor General Bork, Assistant Attorney General Petersen, Acting Assistant Attorney General Keeney, Mark L. Evans, Peter M. Shannon, Jr., and Jerome M. Feit.

John J. Cleary, by appointment of the Court, 419 U.S. 1017 , argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Charles M. Sevilla. *

[ Footnote * ] Sanford Jay Rosen filed a brief for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case raises questions as to the United States Border Patrol's authority to stop automobiles in areas near the Mexican border. It differs from our decision in Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U.S. 266 (1973), in that the Border Patrol does not claim authority to search cars, but only to question the occupants about their citizenship and immigration status.

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As part of its regular traffic-checking operations in southern California, the Border Patrol operates a fixed checkpoint on Interstate Highway 5 south of San Clemente. On the evening of March 11, 1973, the checkpoint was closed because of inclement weather, but two officers were observing northbound traffic from a patrol [422 U.S. 873, 875] car parked at the side of the highway. The road was dark, and they were using the patrol car's headlights to illuminate passing cars. They pursued respondent's car and stopped it, saying later that their only reason for doing so was that its three occupants appeared to be of Mexican descent. The officers questioned respondent and his two passengers about their citizenship and learned that the passengers were aliens who had entered the country illegally. All three were then arrested, and respondent was charged with two counts of knowingly transporting illegal immigrants, a violation of 274 (a) (2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 66 Stat. 228, 8 U.S.C. 1324 (a) (2). At trial respondent moved to suppress the testimony of and about the two passengers, claiming that this evidence was the fruit of an illegal seizure. The trial court denied the motion, the aliens testified at trial, and respondent was convicted on both counts.

Respondent's appeal was pending in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit when we announced our decision in Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, supra, holding that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the use of roving patrols to search vehicles, without a warrant or probable cause, at points removed from the border and its functional equivalents. The Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, held that the stop in this case more closely resembled a roving-patrol stop than a stop at a traffic checkpoint, and applied the principles of Almeida-Sanchez. 1 [422 U.S. 873, 876] The court held that the Fourth Amendment, as interpreted in Almeida-Sanchez, forbids stopping a vehicle, even for the limited purpose of questioning its occupants, unless the officers have a "founded suspicion" that the occupants are aliens illegally in the country. The court refused to find that Mexican ancestry alone supported such a "founded suspicion" and held that respondent's motion to suppress should have been granted. 2 499 F.2d 1109 (1974). We granted certiorari and set the case for oral argument with No. 73-2050, United States v. Ortiz, post, p. 891, and No. 73-6848, Bowen v. United States, post, p. 916. 419 U.S. 824 (1974).

The Government does not challenge the Court of Appeals' factual conclusion that the stop of respondent's car was a roving-patrol stop rather than a checkpoint stop. Brief for United States 8. Nor does it challenge the retroactive application of Almeida-Sanchez, supra, Brief for United States 9, or contend that the San Clemente checkpoint is the functional equivalent of the border. The only issue presented for decision is whether a roving patrol may stop a vehicle in an area near the border and question its occupants when the only ground for suspicion is that the occupants appear to be of Mexican ancestry. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals.

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Ordinary investors tend to sell stocks at the wrong time and buy at the wrong time. There’s evidence for this going back decades. You could actually have made money over the long term by just buying when the public sold and selling when the public bought. And right now they are selling — big time

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But Insider Traders are buying and Companies are buying up stock in the last days. Those are the guys that know the game.

MarketWatch.com -
Portfolio Insights by Brett Arends -
Ten reasons for investors to look on bright side -
Commentary: The outlook for stocks might not be as bad as we think
August 29, 2011

Brett Arends is a senior columnist for MarketWatch and a personal-finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal.


Ten reasons for investors to look on bright side -


Some excerpts :

2) We’ve just had a big correction. In total the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market DWC fell about 20% from peak to trough — a hefty fall. Overseas markets have also tanked. A fall this sharp and widespread usually clears the air

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The latest data from the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund association, shows that ordinary investors withdrew a hefty $84 billion from U.S. equity mutual funds from the start of May through mid-August, and TrimTabs estimates they withdrew another $14 billion last week.

5) Insiders have been buying. According to a report by Bloomberg, a few weeks ago top executives were buying stock in their own companies this summer at the fastest rate since the March 2009 market bottom.

6) Companies are buying up stock. TrimTabs reports that companies bought nearly $100 billion of their own stock just in July and August. They can do so with borrowed money — and thanks to the raging bullishness in the bond market, can pay next to nothing in interest on the money. This is a huge transfer of wealth from the bond market to the equity market — and suggests one should be most wary of bonds, not equities.

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9) Everyone is still really nervous. And that ought to be bullish. The Vix VIX +2.73% , the so-called “fear gauge,” is a lofty 32: TrimTabs notes it has closed above 30 for 21 days in a row. Investors continue to buy more “put” options, to protect against a crash, than “calls,” to bet on a rally.

10) Institutional investors have panicked. The latest Merrill Lynch/Bank of America survey of global money managers found their cash levels this month surged above 5%, the highest level since … March 2009, and nearly as high as November 2008. Merrill calls this “capitulation” and says it “triggers a buy signal for equities.”

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VIDEO, "Old Fart Rants", The many trillions of the Defense Budget and the Cost of Useless Eternal Never Ending Wars. - "Wars to make us more insecure" - "What Would Jesus Cut?"

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Killing Poor Third World People to increase hate against America. The Economy of War and the Fools that want to deny "Entitlements" to the Poor, Minorities and the Sick.

Uploaded by oldfartrants on Aug 16, 2011


Since the year 2000, the Pentagon's budget has cost us almost 6 trillion dollars. And thanks to George Bush and Dick Cheney lying us into the never ending war on terror, we've spent another 2.5 trillion killing innocent people overseas for no good reason... except to make contractors like Halliburton rich. Re-building the stuff we blew up while we neglect our own infrastructure back home. $795 billion a year is over 2 billion dollars a day. Over 90 million an hour! Over 1.5 million a minute! Over $25,000 a second! Just in the time it took you to read these numbers, we just spent another $500,000 on defense. And $200,000 of it was just for Iraq & Afghanistan! And we're still not safe - they still have to stick their hands down our pants at the airport! WTF? So - what would Jesus cut to help solve our budget problems? Compassion and care for the lesser among us - the poor, the sick and the elderly? While not asking the more fortunate among us who can afford it to pitch in to help? Or would he cut the $25,000 a second we've been spending to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people with for 10 years straight?

"What Would Jesus Cut?" by Old Fart Rants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClMatVryDYk

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In California, minorities make up 72% of those under age 15. In 2000, they made up 65%. Nationally, 46% of children under 15 are minorities, compared with 40% in 2000. "That's just the barometer of things that are likely to come over the next decade," said Michael Stoll, a professor of public policy at UCLA.

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Much of the future of labor supply, of leadership in the United States is going to come from groups that historically have not received attention," Stoll said.

Huffington Post
A Dream Anew
By Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ
August 24, 2011

A Dream Anew

Some excerpts :

Further, the consulting group McKinsey & Company writes in their report, "The Economic Impact of the Racial Achievement Gap":

The underutilization of human potential in the United States is extremely costly. For the economy as a whole, our results show that:

If the gap between black and Latino student performance and white student performance had been similarly narrowed, GDP in 2008 would have been between $310 billion and $525 billion higher, or 2 to 4 percent of GDP. The magnitude of this impact will rise in the years ahead as demographic shifts result in blacks and Latinos becoming a larger proportion of the population and workforce.

Put differently, the persistence of these educational achievement gaps imposes on the United States the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession. The recurring annual economic cost of the international achievement gap is substantially larger than the deep recession the United States is currently experiencing. (emphasis added)

If America is to continue to thrive in a global knowledge-based economy, if we are to continue to lead the world in arts and innovation, business and science, technological advancements and countless other fields of human endeavor, then we must ensure that we fully cultivate the greatest natural resource our nation possesses: the genius, ability and boundless potential of all our children.

I believe the greatest threat to our long-term national security is our inability to empower all of our children to compete in this increasingly competitive economic environment -- the more a nation's children learn, the more a nation's economy will earn. We need the productivity of all Americans or America will decline in growth, prosperity and influence. King's dream that a child's life opportunities and outcomes be about character and their commitment to excel and not their race or class is not just an ideological aspiration. It is a pragmatic and essential ideal for the strength, security and prosperity of us all. America will either rise together in mutual prosperity or fall apart in economic and moral decline. As Dr. King more eloquently stated,

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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As I sit here in Newark, New Jersey I am more confident than ever that the change we seek must come from neighborhoods, communities and individuals all across our nation. As Ella Baker said, "We are the leaders we have been looking for." Too many of us have come to think that politics is a spectator sport where we can sit back and give color commentary about what is happening. We are being lulled into a state of sedentary agitation, where we are very upset about that state of our nation but we fail to get up and do something about it. And we are allowing our inability to do everything undermine our determination to do something.

I'm fortunate that Newark has prevented me from surrendering to cynicism about our nation. While we have great challenges in our city, Newark has made my faith stubborn and my hope unhinged. Here in our community I have seen how groups like the Manhattan Institute on the right, and grass roots local activists who have never voted Republican, are partnering on innovative programs to help liberate ex-offenders from the expensive and soul sucking cycle of recidivism. This coalition has helped to create a program that has lowered recidivism rates from above 60% to below 10% and resulted in millions of dollars saved in taxpayer and societal costs. I have seen how philanthropists and public education leaders can team up to expand high performing schools and launch promising pilots in other traditional public schools, such as our expanded learning time pilots, so children are studying and working harder -- more similar to those in many of our global competitor nations. And many residents have successfully encouraged me to find common ground with our Republican governor, despite our many differences, and advance in unity around those areas we both agree on. I believe this cooperation has benefited our city more than any furious political fighting could ever have.

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Rick Perry : “To punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about”, Rick Perry told the New Hampshire Sunday News shortly before announcing his candidacy this month

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Washington Post Editorial -
By Editorial Board -
Mr. Perry’s Dream Act -
August 25, 2011 -


Mr. Perry’s Dream Act


Some excerpts :

To his credit, Mr. Perry has stood by the legislation. “To punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about,” Mr. Perry told the New Hampshire Sunday News shortly before announcing his candidacy this month.

In the context of his party’s reflexive stance against illegal immigration, that remark is brave. However, his courage apparently fails him in the debate over a federal Dream Act, which, according to the Sunday News, Mr. Perry opposes.

We’ve asked the Perry campaign for an explanation: Why, if it’s unfair to punish youngsters for their parents’ actions in Texas, is it not equally unfair across the United States? So far, we’ve had no response.

Similarly, Mr. Perry has failed to adequately explain his opposition to overhauling the nation’s broken immigration system, including a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. On the one hand, he has sensibly helped thousands of undocumented Texas students — who have spent most or all of their remembered lives in America — to attend public colleges and universities. On the other hand, he opposes legislation that would enable them to find work legally once they are educated. How does that make sense?

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Mr. Perry backed the Dream Act in Texas for the right reasons — to maximize the potential of a cohort of young people who have grown up in America, consider themselves Americans and are highly likely to spend their lives here. He also did so because Hispanics represent an important and fast-growing chunk of the electorate. Those are also the right reasons to push for a federal Dream Act. The sooner high-profile Republicans such as Mr. Perry tell that hard truth to their own party, the better it will be in the long run for the GOP, and for the country.

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VIDEO, Democracy Now, Rev. Peter Morales, the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, faces the possibility of jail, because of protests against violations of Civil Rights in Arizona

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Arizona's SB 1070 and Sheriff Joe Arpaio as vehicles of Abuse and Violation of Civil Rights. Reverend Morales against Racism, LatinoPhobia.

"Those are not American Values". - "It is our responsibility to bear witness".

Uploaded by democracynow on Jul 29, 2011

DemocracyNow.org - Today marks the one-year anniversary of the enactment of parts of Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant law, known as SB 1070. A trial is beginning in Phoenix for those arrested last year while protesting the bill by blocking the entrance of the Maricopa County jail. Among those facing misdemeanor civil disobedience charges is Rev. Peter Morales, the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Rev. Morales was elected the first Latino president of the Unitarian Universalist Association in 2009. Democracy Now! interviews Morales about why he was arrested and his outspoken criticism of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's sweeping raids of Latino neighborhoods. "I participate in this not as a political act, but religious witness. My own faith is founded on a principle of the inherent words and dignity of all people of compassion, equity and democracy," Morales says.

For the complete transcript, podcast, and to see additional Democracy Now! reports on the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform, visit

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/29/protesters_face_trial_on_one_year

Rev. Peter Morales Faces Trial For Protesting Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law One Year Ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ym-o0Oq4N4

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The New York Times : Famous Human Rights Activist John Lewis, Democrat, Black congressman from Georgia, he protests against the Repùblican Racist State Laws against Minority Voters : Blacks, Latinos, Native American Indians, Asians, etc ...

Congresman Lewis is an important Historic Figure of the Civil Rights Struggle during the sixties ( 1960s ) :

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The New York Times
"A Poll Tax by Another Name".
August 26, 2011

By John Lewis
From Wikipedia :

John Robert Lewis (born 1940) is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987. He was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), playing a key role in the struggle to end segregation. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

As a student, Lewis was very dedicated to the civil rights movement. He was instrumental in organizing student sit-ins, bus boycotts and non-violent protests in the fight for voter and racial equality. In 1961 he joined SNCC, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and the Freedom Rides. He was 21 years old. John Lewis was one of the 13 original freedom riders. There were seven whites and six blacks.

He endured brutal beatings by angry mobs and suffered a fractured skull at the hands of Alabama State police as he led a march of 600 people in Selma in 1965. He was nearly beaten to death in Montgomery.

In 1963, when Chuck McDew stepped down as SNCC chairman, Lewis was quickly elected to take over. Lewis' experience at that point was already widely respected—he had been arrested 24 times as a result of his activism. He held the post of chairman until 1966. By 1963, he was recognized as one of the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, along with Dr. King, Whitney Young, A. Phillip Randolph, James Farmer and Roy Wilkins. He was one of the planners and keynote speakers of the March on Washington in August 1963, the occasion of Dr. King's celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech. Lewis represented [SNCC], the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,and was the youngest speaker.

New York Times : "A Poll Tax by Another Name"


Some excerpts :

Despite decades of progress, this year’s Republican-backed wave of voting restrictions has demonstrated that the fundamental right to vote is still subject to partisan manipulation. The most common new requirement, that citizens obtain and display unexpired government-issued photo identification before entering the voting booth, was advanced in 35 states and passed by Republican legislatures in Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri and nine other states — despite the fact that as many as 25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification.

Having fought for voting rights as a student, I am especially troubled that these laws disproportionately affect young voters. Students at state universities in Wisconsin cannot vote using their current IDs (because the new law requires the cards to have signatures, which those do not). South Carolina prohibits the use of student IDs altogether. Texas also rejects student IDs, but allows voting by those who have a license to carry a concealed handgun. These schemes are clearly crafted to affect not just how we vote, but who votes.

Conservative proponents have argued for photo ID mandates by claiming that widespread voter impersonation exists in America, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. While defending its photo ID law before the Supreme Court, Indiana was unable to cite a single instance of actual voter impersonation at any point in its history. Likewise, in Kansas, there were far more reports of U.F.O. sightings than allegations of voter fraud in the past decade. These theories of systematic fraud are really unfounded fears being exploited to threaten the franchise.

In Georgia, Florida, Ohio and other states, legislatures have significantly reduced opportunities to cast ballots before Election Day — an option that was disproportionately used by African-American voters in 2008. In this case the justification is often fiscal: Republicans in North Carolina attempted to eliminate early voting, claiming it would save money. Fortunately, the effort failed after the State Election Board demonstrated that cuts to early voting would actually be more expensive because new election precincts and additional voting machines would be required to handle the surge of voters on Election Day.

Voters in other states weren’t so lucky. Florida has cut its early voting period by half, from 96 mandated hours over 14 days to a minimum of 48 hours over just eight days, and has severely restricted voter registration drives, prompting the venerable League of Women Voters to cease registering voters in the state altogether. Again, this affects very specific types of voters: according to the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, African-Americans and Latinos were more than twice as likely as white voters to register through a voter registration drive.

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HuffPost : The U.S. economy simply hasn't been creating enough demand to absorb productivity's growth - There is a common concept, a common word you hear all the time, but is poorly understood these days, even (especially) by many economists: DEMAND

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More than globalization or technology (and they're all intertwined), the concept of DEMAND explains why there is a recession and bog unemployment. There is no demand because many people have been fired from their jobs, so they can not demand products and services and aggregate DEMAND falls.

Huffington Post
Can America Self-Correct?
August 26, 2011


By Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities


Can America Self-Correct?


Some excerpts :

Throughout our history, and that of other economies, while we were more productive, we also created more demand for goods, services, projects, trips, endeavors, energy, public infrastructure, moonshots, schools, music, knowledge... you name it. That was the intervening variable that soaked up, if you will, the faster productivity growth, and enabled us to keep adding jobs, even as we could produce more output per hour.

But since the 2000s, when the split in last graph begins, the U.S. economy simply hasn't been creating enough demand to absorb productivity's growth. That been particularly acute and evident in the recession, of course, but it predates the downturn, especially, though not exclusively, for prime-age men.

And here is the teaser. We can do something about this. We can surely do something in the short run, as I hope and believe we'll hear from President Obama in early September. But we can also do something about it in the longer term, if we have the will.

I'll elaborate soon, but for now, look at the end of that last figure and ask yourself the key, central, most critical question about the future of this country: are we capable of self-correction? Because a system that cannot self-correct is a system in decline.

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Two VIDEOs : Art Murals in Phoenix Arizona, 16th Street Mural Project - Bringing people together for Art using Facebook, Twitter, etc ... - "Calle 16" : Artists are transforming 16th Street in Phoenix into an open air gallery of murals

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"Calle 16 is not a political retaliation against SB 1070", it is not a Mexican or Latino movement. - "Build on your own American Dream" .... The idea is to spread the "American Spirit".

Uploaded by AZPBS on Aug 1, 2011

Calle 16 Mural Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ra4YRVOWv0

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Uploaded by CALLE16phoenix on Sep 16, 2010


Calle 16 Mural Project; located on 16th Street . Phoenix . Arizona


In the aftermath of SB1070 the Phoenix artist community comes to her rescue. Together we are building community, one wall at a time.


This mural project was commissioned by Barrio Cafe, started October 2009 and finished July 2010 by acclaimed artist, el Moises. This was el Moises first public art project.


Located in the alley between Earl and Windsor Avenue off of Calle 16. 2814 N. 16th Street in Phoenix, Arizona.

CALLE 16; Mural Project - el MOISES and BARRIO CAFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1k1_qzKYI

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VIDEO, Keith Olbermann with Janeane Garofalo ( actress, comedian and "Man About Town" ) - Racism of the tea party, Herman Cain, female Republican candidates and more. - Republicans becoming more extremist and right wing

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Janeane Garofalo speaks out about Racism in America :

Published on Aug 18, 2011 by Current


Tune in Weeknights at 8:00/7:00c on Current TV

*Countdown with Keith ...: Janeane Garofalo on the tea party, Herman Cain and more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyfaxOl4y0Y

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Los Angeles Times : The wrong budget analogy : The federal budget is not like a household budget, and it's misguided to try to apply similar austerity measures given the shaky economy. - Cutting Government Budget and Spending is the wrong policy to get new jobs

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"When consumers and firms cut back, government can help replace the lost economic activity through direct spending (on infrastructure projects, for example) and through indirect means, such as tax cuts, which increase households' disposable income".

Los Angeles Times
The wrong budget analogy
August 24, 2011

By Bill Craighead
Bill Craighead teaches courses in macroeconomics and international economics at Wesleyan University and writes the blog Twenty-Cent Paradigms.

The wrong budget analogy


Some excerpts :

Washington's renewed obsession with government budget deficits has become a major obstacle to dealing with the U.S. unemployment crisis. At the root of this misplaced focus are widespread misconceptions about the role of deficits in the economy.

The fact that high unemployment and budget deficits are occurring at the same time has generated confusion about the real sources of the slump. The increased deficit is a consequence, not a cause, of the downturn. When economic activity falls, so does tax revenue. Some categories of government spending, such as unemployment benefits, automatically rise during a recession. This contributes to a higher deficit.

Politicians of both parties have furthered the misunderstanding by frequently drawing an analogy between the federal budget and household budgets. "Families across this country understand what it takes to manage a budget," President Obama declared in a February radio broadcast. "Well, it's time Washington acted as responsibly as our families do." While this comparison appeals to a general belief that we should "live within our means," it's also misleading.

Decisions about the federal budget are fundamentally different from those of individual households, because policymakers need to account for how their choices affect the economy as a whole. It is more appropriate to liken government budget deficits to prescription medicine. Just as medication can be helpful to a sick patient, deficits can aid a failing economy.

The U.S. economy slumped largely because of a reduction in spending by households and businesses. For households, this was a reasonable response to declining property values, job losses and insecurity. Likewise, it made sense for firms to cut back on investment as their customers spent less. If the federal government were to act this way, though, it would reinforce the decline in economic activity, not alleviate it.

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Latin America : Impractical, useless and naive : "Liberalization of Drugs", "Hating Gringos", Blaming the USA for everything. Latin America should first fight by all means possible : Education, and struggling against corruption, laziness, cowardice, etc ... of Fiscalías ( District Attorneys ), and Procuradurías ( the agencies against the corrupt "public servants" ).

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Drugs are destroying many thousands of youngsters in Latin America :

I am sure that the President of Mexico and the President of Colombia are aware of the problem and that Liberalization is not the practical and pragmatic solution.

These two men know that Corruption of Police and the Judicial System is of the essence of the Problem. I listen to their speeches.

I have some faith in these two presidents.

They know that their Policemen, and Fiscalías ( District Attorneys ) are very lazy, corrupt, coward and Kafkian ( like the writings of Franz Kafka ). But they can't say that.

Sometimes these policemen exist to punish the victims and befriend and fraternize with the Drug Dealers or the crazy small scoundrels of the street and "Cantinas" that are on bazuko ( crack ), perico ( sniffing coke ) or something worse like heroin.

Everybody knows where the "Ollas de Bazuco" ( Crack Houses ) are located. The only people that ignore that are the Policemen ( because they are levying taxes on the Drug Dealers ). So Policemen are mafia.

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I do not have to prove that Chavez is a Terrorist, and that the earth is round. I do not have to prove that the sun rises and sets every day. I have received a heavy rain of criticism for saying that Chavez, the greatest friend of Gaddafi is another farcical dictator, clown and that nothing can be worse for Venezuela.

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Chavez personally gave the "Sword of Bolivar" to the Cretin Clown of Libya.

There is ample proof that Hugo Chavez sponsored terrorism inside Colombia, Chavez has given sanctuary and economic resources to the FARC Terrorists that kill children with land mines, throw gas cylinders over the poorest hamlets of Colombia, kidnap Children, Women, the Old, etc ...

The word "napper" in kidnapper is obsolete slang for a thief, coming from the verb nap, "to steal." .... "Kidnapper is first recorded for usage in 1678.

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According to Racists the Ku Klux Klan is a kindergarden compared to "La Raza".... - In fact "La Raza" is led by a gentle Lady Janet Murguia, her twin sister is an important judge of the ninth circuit court of appeals in San Francisco.

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There are polls that show that most Latinos inside the USA have a friend or relative that is "Illegal" .....

They are going to vote 2/3 for Obama, that is 66.66% or better, perhaps 70% or 75%.

There are many poseurs in the Latino Community saying that they are going to abandon Obama.

Have you ever had a child in your family or friends that does not want to eat his lunch ?? ( only candy, ice cream, etc .... ) ...

The Republicans do not offer Candy or Ice Cream for Latinos Legal or Illegal. Only trains of Deportation for Legals and Illegals ( Nazi Style with Rottweiler Dogs ) and people packed like cattle until released in the desert in the other side of the Tortilla Wall.

When they see the progroms that Republicans are preparing they will vote "en masse" ..

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Latino Decisions Polls : The number of Latinos who are certain to vote for Obama in 2012 does not reach the level needed for Obama's reelection - See CA, TX, FL, NY/NJ, etc - You can see the results in Great Detail in this page

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Currently, only 38% of Latino voters are certain they will vote for Obama. This was 43% in February, when Latino Decisions did a similar poll, and it had increased to 49% in June after the capture of Osama bin Laden and Obama’s speech in El Paso reaffirming his support on immigration.

Latino Decisions -
Everything Latino Politics -
President Obama’s image takes a hit
By Pilar Marrero
August 22, 2011


President Obama’s image takes a hit


Some excerpts :

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The most recent poll of Latino voters reveals a continuing political problem for President Barack Obama, which he must address if he wants to get re-elected next year. The number of Latinos who are certain to vote for Obama in 2012 does not reach the level needed to, at this point, obtain the supermajority of votes the president needs to win certain difficult states, such as New Mexico, Colorado and other western states. The most recent impreMedia/Latino Decisions poll, conducted between late July and early August, showed this result.

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However, they are a sign for President Obama that he is losing ground with a group of voters he needs for re-election. “In certain states where the president will have a tough fight (to win the electoral college), great enthusiasm from groups like the Latinos is needed—a supermajority, as a way of saying it,” said Sánchez. “If he loses ground there, even if it is by a few points and with less participation at the polls, he could be in trouble.”

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An interesting point, as with prior polls, is that the decrease in the approval ratings or voting intentions favoring Obama does not translate into gains for the Republican side. Instead, voters remain “undecided.”For example, the Republican voting intentions among Latino voters remain the same, and they are at one of the lowest levels in the country’s history.

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Only 10% of Latino voters said they are certain to vote for a Republican, while 8% said they may vote for a Republican for president. Another 4% said they are still undecided but leaning toward a Republican candidate. These percentages add up to a soft 22% that does not offer much hope to this political party, whose “brand” has become severely damaged in the eyes of Latinos, among other reasons for its tough attitude on immigration and the use of only program cuts to balance the budget.

METHODOLOGY: LD polled 500 Latino registered voters between July 27 and August 9 in the 21 states with the largest Hispanic populations, representing 95% of the electorate. Those interviewed were selected at random from voters lists. The poll includes interviews conducted via cell phone and land line telephones. The margin of error is +/-4.3%. The interviews were conducted in English or Spanish at the request of the respondent.

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Nothing and Nobody can be worse than Gadaffi for Libya.- Nothing and Nobody can be worse than Hugo Chavez for Venezuela. Those are two Great Nations by other measures and I am sure that they have the best of Human Beings.

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Those two guys were Best Friends and praised each other to the moon :

Now they are in "The Autumn of the Patriarch", that is a famous novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, where Dictators are shown as very ridiculous, farcical, idiotic, stupid, Alzheimer like fools that believe to be eternal gods.

Shakespeare would have written a comedy with these two characters.

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I am a poor fool and lover of plants that I study in my little garden.

If I could then I would be happy studying the desert of Libya, its plants, animals, oasis, etc ....

And I am told that Venezuela is a Garden of Beauty, with many strange geological formations of mountains, chasms, cliffs, valleys, rivers. I would be the greatest thief of plants there.

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NYT : The joint government of Nashville and Davidson County tortured a nine month pregnant lady, also during child birth labor and postpartum. The terrorized mom got a $200,000 award for the torture she received. What cowards and scoundrels !

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The situation was so brutal that the labor and delivery nurses were crying. Later, when she was taken back to the jail, she developed infections in both breasts because the officers at the Davidson County Jail (in Nashville) would NOT allow her to have a breast pump.

The arresting officer, Tim Coleman, was a local school board candidate who ran on "ANTI-Latino" and "ANTI-Immigrant" rhetoric in support of the 287(g) program.

Celebrating the 4th of July in Jail for driving without a license and giving child birth !

This is an excellent example of coward police officers dedicated to bigotry, racism and bastardy ( the behavior of bastards ! )

New York Times
Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact
By JULIA PRESTON
July 20, 2008


Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact


Some excerpts :

It started when Juana Villegas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was nine months pregnant, was pulled over by a police officer in a Nashville suburb for a routine traffic violation.

Juana Villegas and 2-week-old son in her lawyer’s office Thursday in Nashville. Mother and son had been separated for two days.

By the time Mrs. Villegas was released from the county jail six days later, she had gone through labor with a sheriff’s officer standing guard in her hospital room, where one of her feet was cuffed to the bed most of the time. County officers barred her from seeing or speaking with her husband.

After she was discharged from the hospital, Mrs. Villegas was separated from her nursing infant for two days and barred from taking a breast pump into the jail, her lawyer and a doctor familiar with the case said. Her breasts became infected, and the newborn boy developed jaundice, they said.

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Lawyers and immigrant advocates say Mrs. Villegas’s case shows how local police can exceed their authority when they seek to act on immigration laws they are not fully trained to enforce.

“Had it not been for the 287G program, she would not have been taken down to jail,” said A. Gregory Ramos, a lawyer who is a former president of the Nashville Bar Association. “It was sold as something to make the community safer by taking dangerous criminals off the streets. But it has been operated so broadly that we are getting pregnant women arrested for simple driving offenses, and we’re not getting rid of the robbers and gang members.”

Mrs. Villegas, who is 33, has lived in the United States since 1996, and has three other children besides the newborn who are American citizens because they were born here.

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So when Mrs. Villegas went into labor on the night of July 5, she was handcuffed and accompanied by a deputy as she was taken by ambulance to Nashville General Hospital at Meharry. Cuffs chaining her foot to the hospital bed were opened when she reached the final stages of labor, Mrs. Villegas said.

“I felt like they were treating me like a criminal person,” Mrs. Villegas said, speaking in Spanish in a telephone interview. The phone in her room was turned off, and she was not permitted to speak with her husband when he came to retrieve their newborn son from the hospital on July 7 as she returned to jail, she said.

As Mrs. Villegas left the hospital, a nurse offered her a breast pump but a sheriff’s deputy said she could not take it into the jail, Mrs. Villegas said.

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“Whether this lady was documented or undocumented should not affect how she was treated in her late pregnant condition and as she was going through labor and bonding with her new baby,” Mr. Ozment said.

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Maria Teresa Kumar, Executive Director, Voto Latino, asks Obama for a Big Speech to attract Latinos to the Democratic Tent : Explain and Celebrate an America in which one of every four kindergarteners today is a Latino. This can't just be done at a Latino conference or in a closed door meeting

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HuffPost : "What's required is a major presidential address on the most important demographic shift of the last one hundred years and what it means for America's future".

Huffington Post
Dear Mr. President Obama: Five Ideas for Winning the Latino Vote
By Maria Teresa Kumar, Executive Director, Voto Latino
August 10, 2011


Dear Mr. President Obama: Five Ideas for Winning the Latino Vote


Some excerpts :

5. The Big Speech

President Obama is a legendary orator. Believe me, the Latino community needs his inspiration now more than ever. We're feeling beat up and beat down (sadly, I mean that literally in a sense: the FBI says hate crimes against Latinos are up 45% since 2003). And we're ready for the president to tell us that he understands what we're going through and is committed to our community.

Let's not forget that 60% of the 50 million Latinos in America were born in the US. We are first-and-foremost Americans. But we feel increasingly like we are being marginalized and alienated from the mainstream of America by the vicious rhetoric and racial profiling laws around us.

Just as the president brilliantly synthesized the full range of viewpoints in his famous race speech during the last campaign, during this campaign we need a seminal speech on the biggest and fastest-growing American community -- Latinos. We, and all Americans, need to hear the president explain and, indeed, celebrate an America in which one of every four kindergarteners today is a Latino. This can't just be done at a Latino conference or in a closed door meeting. What's required is a major presidential address on the most important demographic shift of the last one hundred years and what it means for America's future.

I cannot imagine all the pressures involved in the job of president of the United States (even though we at Voto Latino do our best contribute to them on issues we care about!) but Latinos are not just some interest group that needs to be placated or an ideologically driven faction that can come and can go. We're 50 million Americans and our views span the full range of the American political spectrum. Above all, we're American first and we expect a president who treats us as such, not as an afterthought. Readers of HuffPost Latino know the election is coming faster than most people realize. Tick tock, Mr. President.

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Professor Greg Weeks of North Carolina wrote in blogspot "Two Weeks Notice" : "This should also be taken in the context of the Obama administration's decision to focus on criminals and to review 300,000 cases and possibly even give work permits to those without criminal records. A focus on criminals is a welcome step."

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Here is the link :


Undocumented immigrants and North Carolina

Very True, I agree !

This makes sense in many contexts : for the Judiciary and Judges, for Public Security and Safety, for the Economy where many businesses like Services ( Hotels, Casinos, Restaurants, Spas, Gardening, Landscaping, Maid Servants, etc ...) the Foreign Undocumented Workers are crucial and vital.

For Construction and Building like in Texas where you find so many undocumenteds working in many projects including Rick Perry's pet ones ....

For Agriculture, gathering fruit crops : cucumbers, peppers, onions, grapes, lettuce, tomatoes, etc ...

And most important that what I have mentioned :

It is the right human solution ( Humanitariam and in accord with Human Rights ) and it is the right Political Solution.

Everybody says that President Obama is toast, but Gamblers, Bettors and Bookies are betting for Obama with bets that hover over 49%, 50% and larger.

People forget that Obama is a Great Professor, Intellectual, Studious, and a superb Campaigner and Orator.

I repeat : this is the correct Political Solution.

It is false that Obama does not care about Hispanics, Latinos, the Poor, Blacks, etc ...

Even CNN Money in collaboration with Fortune Magazine says that the Cut Cut Cut Solution to the Economy would get an F in the first partial exam of Economy 101.

President Obama is buying his time.

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CNN : Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano : "it makes no sense to expend our enforcement resources on low-priority cases, such as individuals... who were brought into this country as young children and know no other home"

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DHS enforcement resources will be diverted from illegal immigrants who don't have criminal records to individuals who pose a threat to public safety and national security.

CNN
Administration says it will conduct case-by-case review on deportation
By Jim Barnett, CNN
August 19, 2011


Administration says it will conduct case-by-case review on deportation


Some excerpts :

Washington (CNN) -- In a move that could shake up the U.S. immigration system, the Department of Homeland Security is going to begin reviewing all 300,000 pending deportation cases in federal immigration courts to determine which individuals meet specific criteria for removal and to focus on "our highest priorities."

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said the review will enhance public safety. "Immigration judges will be able to more swiftly adjudicate high priority cases, such as those involving convicted felons," Napolitano wrote Thursday in a letter to assistant majority leader Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and 21 other senators including Indiana Republican Richard Lugar.

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Napolitano said the new policy change would not negate reforming immigration laws and "will not alleviate the need for passage of the DREAM Act," which would give legal status to illegal immigrant students who attend college or join the military. She added, "President Obama has called the DREAM Act the right thing to do for the young people it would affect, and the right thing to do for the country."

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Under the new process, a DHS and the Department of Justice working group will develop specific criteria to identify low-priority removal cases that should be considered for prosecutorial discretion, including cases with minors, the elderly, pregnant and nursing women, victims of serious crimes, veterans and members of the armed services and individuals with serious disabilities or health problems.

Durbin expressed support for the Obama administration announcement, saying in a written statement that it was "the right decision" specifically as it relates to students.

"These students are the future doctors, lawyers, teachers and maybe, senators, who will make America stronger," Durbin stated. "We need to be doing all we can to keep these talented, dedicated, American students here, not wasting increasingly precious resources sending them away to countries they barely remember."

Durbin's statement added that when reviews of individual cases result in cases being closed, those individuals "will be able to apply for certain immigration benefits, including work authorization."

Durbin's statement did not elaborate on that aspect of the policy change, beyond saying such applications for benefits would be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The National Day Laborer Organizing Network, an organization advocating improved rights for day laborers, praised the move. "The administration had earned the President the title of 'Deporter-in-Chief.' We hope the statement today announcing review of the current caseload of victims of indiscriminate enforcement is carried forth," the group said in a news release.

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CNN MONEY FORTUNE : "Some policies and statements you hear from Tea Party types about the economy and the debt markets are utterly insane. Any competent economics instructor would give you an F if you asserted the same sort of nonsense on an exam"

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This article is from the September 5, 2011 issue of Fortune :

CNN MONEY FORTUNE -
American Idiots: How Washington is destroying the economy -
By Allan Sloan, senior editor-at-large -
August 18, 2011 -


American Idiots: How Washington is destroying the economy


Some excerpts :

What's ailing us? It's not just unemployment. It's not just Europe's debt woes. And, no, it's not Wall Street this time. It's the takeover of the economic debate by fanatics who are up to no good. Fix that -- and maybe you fix the economy.

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Now that I've finished venting , let me make one more attempt to be reasonable -- and show how relatively easy it would be to solve our problems while allowing both the Tea Party and the left wing to claim victory and go home. This requires (1) that we survive the 2012 election cycle (boy, that's going to be a blast) and (2) that the winners recognize that our current federal income tax rules and rates, Social Security benefit formula, and Medicare provisions are historical and political accidents rather than holy writ handed down to Moses by the Lord on Mount Sinai.

We need more jobs, more growth, and more tax revenue. Note that I said more revenue, not higher rates. There are lots of proposals kicking around that would cut rates, eliminate the alternative minimum tax, and broaden the tax base by drastically reducing itemized deductions. Only about a third of taxpayers, primarily higher-income types, itemize deductions, so only they would be affected. Do this right, and you end up with more tax revenue from high-income people (which allows the "tax the rich" types to be happy) but lower rates (which lets the Tea Party folks claim victory). Making the system fairer should be doable.

On the entitlement front, we modify Social Security and Medicare formulas, imposing higher costs on higher-end retirees (which would include me, should I ever retire). What's in it for the right-wing fanatics? Those programs' projected costs drop. For liberal wingnuts? They can claim victory because people are living longer than when these programs were introduced and will collect more benefits over their lifetime than originally intended.

Yes, rationality is out of style, and fanaticism is the new normal. But do we really want a national life like the one we've had the past few years? All shrieking and no thinking? Today's problems are horrible, but what are they compared to the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II? Enough screaming. As for me, I'm going back to the beach to finish my vacation.

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National Journal : President Obama's Tipping Point : Obama's Likeablity Gives Him a Big Edge - Obama has an important factor breaking his way as he seeks another term : Americans still overwhelmingly like the guy

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"Polling consistently shows that the majority of Americans view Obama favorably, even while they increasingly disagree with his job performance. There is a nuance to voter sentiment, pollsters say, one that provides Obama with a path to reelection".

National Journal
President Obama's Tipping Point
By Reid Wilson
August 18, 201

President Obama's Tipping Point

Some excerpts :

On its face, the idea that an incumbent officeholder can be reelected when more Americans disapprove of his or her job performance than approve seems unlikely. After all, if voters don't like the job you're doing, why would they give you the chance to keep doing it?

But President Obama, whose job-approval ratings are mired well south of 50 percent, has an important factor breaking his way as he seeks another term: Americans still overwhelmingly like the guy.

There is a partial correlation, pollsters say, between a politician's job-approval ratings and favorability ratings. Favorability ratings generally represent a ceiling, above which job-approval ratings do not rise. And poor job-approval ratings, over the long term, can prove a drag on an incumbent's favorability ratings. A short-term drop in approval ratings doesn't portend a corresponding drop in personal favorability—but when favorable numbers begin to descend, it's an ominous sign for anyone planning to run for another term.

Polling consistently shows that the majority of Americans view Obama favorably, even while they increasingly disagree with his job performance. There is a nuance to voter sentiment, pollsters say, one that provides Obama with a path to reelection. But the disconnect between the two numbers, if it ever shrinks, could also become a leading indicator that the president's chances for a second term are headed south.

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VIDEO, Old Fart Rants, "Danger Rick Perry!", Rick cultivates a following of fundamentalist Christian fools and cretins that believe in the most absurd theories. - Waiting for "The Second Coming of Jesus"

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Uploaded by oldfartrants on Aug 12, 2011

Rick Perry - the governor of Texas - the guy who just held "The Response" a week ago in Houston -- that day of fasting and praying to Jesus to fix all our problems - just announced he's running for president - and that makes him the most dangerous person in the country. If you thought George Bush was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet! And here's why you should be worried. Gov. Perry is affiliated with a fanatical right wing Christian group called the New Apostolic Reformation.

They were involved in setting up the big "pray-in? in Houston. Do a little research on these guys -- it'll blow your mind! The New Apostolic Reformation believes that certain Christians (them) have been hand picked by God to take over society. These people are insane, and their goal is power, dominion and total control. Now you know the real reason why Rick Perry held his big everybody pray to Jesus event. Now you know why he says he's "doing what he's supposed to be doing - following God's calling to serve". Now you know why Rick Perry is running for president. And now you know why Rick Perry is the most dangerous person in America!

"Danger Rick Perry!" by Old Fart Rants

Obama portrays himself as a pragmatic problem-solver who might appeal to independent voters wary of the tea party's conservative fervor. "I make no apologies for being reasonable," Obama told the Iowa crowd.

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Obama attacks the unreasonable Tea Party Republicans :

Mitt Romney falls in the Tea Party embrace and drifts towards Extremist Right Wing positions. His presumed GOP front-runner status looks shakier than before. He is responding by edging toward tea party positions, opening himself to the Democrats' broad-brush criticisms.

Huffington Post
Elections 2012: White House Paints GOP Presidential Field With Tea Party Brush
By Associated Press
August 17, 2011


Elections 2012: White House Paints GOP Presidential Field With Tea Party Brush


Some excerpts :

At last week's Iowa debate, for instance, Romney joined all the others in saying he would reject a debt-reduction package if it included as much as $1 in tax increases for every $10 in spending cuts.

"That's just not common sense," Obama told a Minnesota crowd on Tuesday.

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Tying a political opponent to a not-so-popular person or movement is a hit-or-miss strategy, said John J. Pitney Jr., a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College. Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign ran ads against "DoleGingrich." The goal was to link GOP nominee Bob Dole to Newt Gingrich, then the embattled House speaker, and now a presidential candidate.

The tea party could be a tougher target, Pitney said. "A diffuse movement with no clear leader does not arouse the same kind of emotion," he said.

Mike DuHaime, who managed Republican Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign, said the Democrats' tactic might succeed so long as Romney and the other GOP candidates seem to be toeing the tea party line.

"The strategy is sound for the Obama team because they would love the campaign to be about the challenger, no matter who it is," DuHaime said. "To the extent that our candidates continue to essentially march in lockstep with each other on major issues, it will be easy for the Obama campaign to paint them all with the same brush."

Obama had a rare direct brush with a tea partyer this week while shaking hands in Iowa. Activist Ryan Rhodes complained about reports that Vice President Joe Biden had said tea partyers acted "like terrorists" in the debt-ceiling showdown.

Obama said Biden "was objecting to us almost defaulting" on U.S. debts. When Rhodes persisted, Obama told him "it doesn't sound like you are interested in listening."

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Rick Perry : "We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom : we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there. And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers"

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Rick Perry continues : "That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede"

Rick Perry is the best friend of Latinos, but sometimes he acts as the worst Enemy pandering to non-lovers of Hispanics. Here in an anti-Latino and LatinoPhobic Website called TownHall.com where Rick Perry is accused of having LatinoPhilia inclinations. ( A Horrible Paraphilia ).

TownHall.com
Rick Perry: Secure the Border, It's a War Zone
By Katie Pavlich
August 15, 2011


Rick Perry: Secure the Border, It's a War Zone


Some excerpts :

However, as Tom Tancredo pointed out in a recent Politico Op-Ed, Perry may have a strong border security stance, his illegal immigration policy stances are questionable.

When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist.

When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workers” special in-state tuition at Texas colleges, the first state in the nation to do so.

“The message is simple,” Perry concluded, “educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.” Education is the future, and (echoing Cesar Chavez’s slogan) yes we can.]

Just a few weeks ago, Perry defended his decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. He said “to punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about.”

Perry opposed Arizona’s tough anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070. “I have concerns,” he explained, “with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas.”

He spoke out last year against using E-Verify to prevent illegal immigrants from getting jobs as state employees, who get their paychecks from the taxpayers. He insisted it “would not make a hill of beans’ difference.”

Numbers USA, a group that supports immigration control, gives Perry a “D-“ for his positions supporting amnesty, open borders, and opposing border security.

And Kerry Picket of the Washington Times asks: Do Conservatives Want Perry's DREAM Act too?

In the midst of a number of conservatives believing Governor Rick Perry, Texas Republican, is the GOP's answer to taking on President Barack Obama, squishy aspects of Mr. Perry's background are being overlooked. As a border state governor, Mr. Perry signed state immigration law in 2001 known as the Texas DREAM Act. Here is an excerpt from a speech Governor Perry gave during the border summit in August of 2001:

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VIDEO, Lawrence O'Donnell : Immigrants For Sale Plays on MSNBC : Forced Hotels ( Jails ) : Republican Business : Corporations and Politicians with Ties to White Supremacists and Nazis are using Humans as Merchandise. They promote SB 1070 clones everywhere

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The "Immigrants For Sale" documentary campaign has gotten widespread attention and now mainstream media is taking notice. Watch as MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell plays the full Cuéntame video at minute 1:34 of his program.

Brave New Foundation : "Immigrants are for sale in this country. Sold to private prison corporations who are locking them up for obscene profits !" - This is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.

Uploaded by bravenewfoundation on May 18, 2011

Here are the top 3 things YOU need to know about the Private Prison money scheme:

The victims: Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons.

The players: CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations—combined these private prisons currently profit more than $5 billion a year.

The money: These private prisons have spent over $20 million lobbying state legislators to make sure they get state anti-immigrant laws approved and ensure access to more immigrant inmates.

Immigrants For Sale Plays on MSNBC

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VIDEO, Democracy Now : THE NEW JIM CROW Online documentary : The war on drugs is used to label Blacks and Latinos as felons and criminals for small misdemeanors. - This is a new segregation to deny rights to Blacks and others.

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This is Racial Politics at its worst - The Republican Party appeals to scared poor Whites to Racially color all issues of crime and welfare. - Publicity Campaigns are used to smear Blacks and others... And to Racially profile drugs, felonies and crimes.


The War on Drugs uses little offenses like smoking a marihuana cigarette to destroy the life of a Black Youngster. And this produces a new Segregation or Apartheid.

The New Business of Private Jails, managed by GOPers and the New Slave Labor in America.

Uploaded by killak38 on Aug 12, 2011


A online video documentary depicting the way the war on drugs has gave rebirth to the jim crow laws and how the prison industrial complex makes billions to lock us up

THE NEW JIM CROW Online documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McZOXzlnC2U

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The Presence of the Temple in the Apocalypse or "Book of Revelation" points to a writing date before year 70 and the Jewish War that destroyed the "Herodian" Temple. And there are no prophecies of reconstruction. Who are the Beasts, the 666 and the Antichrist ??

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Are they Roman Emperors ?? : Caligula, Nero or Domitian ?? - Some Republicans want to accelerate the Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World ! - Let's see if they are Crazy or Sane !

Just push the red button of Super Nuclear War !


Do you want to elect a President that brings on the Armageddon ??



BIBLE.ORG
Chapter 3: Dating the Apocalypse
Study By: D. Ragan Ewing


Chapter 3: Dating the Apocalypse


Some excerpts :

An issue that has for some been determinative of the date is the presence of the temple in 11:1–2. In fact, this argument was the most persuasive issue to most early-date scholars of the nineteenth century.116 For them, it seemed unthinkable that such a passage could be written after the leveling of the temple in A.D. 70 without any mention of the event. It certainly does seem that at the time of writing the Herodian temple is still standing. In fact, most late-date scholars even admit these verses must have been written before 70.117

How then do these scholars continue to hold to Domitianic composition of the book? There are basically two answers here. The primary response has been, once again, to resort to source criticism. Collins goes so far as to attribute the downfall of the early date to the rise of source-critical methods, which gave many scholars a way out, so to speak, of this compelling argument.118 The retort therefore has been to concede the pre-70 writing of 11:1–2, but to then speculate that these verses are simply being incorporated by the Domitian-era author from earlier material. It seems difficult, however, to account for the inclusion of such obsolete material without any updating. This is what Robinson chides as the “resort of commentators to treating anything that will not fit a Domitianic date as the incorporation of earlier material, though (for reasons they do not explain) without subsequent modification.”119 Seams from such use of a source are not visible, and of course if one holds to the unity of the book as a whole, the pull of this evidence is especially difficult to escape.

Another way to respond to this argument has been to treat these verses as merely symbolic, depicting an ideal temple, not the actual Herodian building.120 This seems unlikely however for a couple of reasons. First of all the seer is quite explicit in the book when dealing with heavenly versus earthly realities involving Jerusalem and the temple. In chapter 21 of course we vividly have the New Jerusalem descending from heaven itself to earth, and John is careful to note that within it there is no temple. Similarly, in the very passage in question, chapter 11, we are later given a vision of the heavenly temple, in which the ark of the covenant appears.121

Second, all of this seems to be in contrast with the temple described in 11:1–2, which is to be trampled by Gentiles, and is clearly located in the city of Jerusalem, where the witnesses will prophesy.122 It would seem John is at great pains to identify for the reader the literal, earthly temple in historic Jerusalem.123

One could possibly relate the whole passage to a future, rebuilt temple, but in the context its presence is merely presupposed. Without any informing of a future rebuilding in the text, the author, writing so soon after the Jewish War in a late date paradigm, would have surely confounded his readers. In Gentry’s words, “Where is there any reference to the rebuilding of the Temple in Revelation so that it could be again destroyed? … If there is no reference to a rebuilding of the Temple and the book was written about A.D. 95, how could the readers make sense of its prophecies?”124

While these approaches to the problem are certainly not impossible, they all involve some degree of conjecture for the sake of maintaining late composition, and the most plausible explanation remains that John is speaking of the integrity of the temple in his own day. And if this is the case (and if we find the source-critical pleas unconvincing), then we have a very important piece of evidence pointing to a pre-70 date for Revelation, just as former scholars once widely recognized.

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Paul Krugman : "If the downgrade of U.S. debt had any effect at all, it was to reinforce fears of austerity policies that will make the economy even weaker." - "This week, on the heels of a downgrade that was supposed to scare bond investors, those interest rates actually plunged to record lows"

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The New York Times
The Hijacked Crisis
By PAUL KRUGMAN
August 11, 2011


The Hijacked Crisis


Some excerpts :

What made this so bizarre was the fact that markets were signaling, as clearly as anyone could ask, that unemployment rather than deficits is our biggest problem. Bear in mind that deficit hawks have been warning for years that interest rates on U.S. government debt would soar any day now; the threat from the bond market was supposed to be the reason that we must slash the deficit now now now. But that threat keeps not materializing. And, this week, on the heels of a downgrade that was supposed to scare bond investors, those interest rates actually plunged to record lows.

What the market was saying — almost shouting — was, “We’re not worried about the deficit! We’re worried about the weak economy!” For a weak economy means both low interest rates and a lack of business opportunities, which, in turn, means that government bonds become an attractive investment even at very low yields. If the downgrade of U.S. debt had any effect at all, it was to reinforce fears of austerity policies that will make the economy even weaker.

So how did Washington discourse come to be dominated by the wrong issue?

Hard-line Republicans have, of course, played a role. Although they don’t seem to truly care about deficits — try suggesting any rise in taxes on the rich — they have found harping on deficits a useful way to attack government programs.

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What would a real response to our problems involve? First of all, it would involve more, not less, government spending for the time being — with mass unemployment and incredibly low borrowing costs, we should be rebuilding our schools, our roads, our water systems and more. It would involve aggressive moves to reduce household debt via mortgage forgiveness and refinancing. And it would involve an all-out effort by the Federal Reserve to get the economy moving, with the deliberate goal of generating higher inflation to help alleviate debt problems.

The usual suspects will, of course, denounce such ideas as irresponsible. But you know what’s really irresponsible? Hijacking the debate over a crisis to push for the same things you were advocating before the crisis, and letting the economy continue to bleed.

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