Ineligiblity….It’s Coming to a News Source Near You…Just Not In The MSM

OK, enough. Why didn’t you hear this from the MSM they ask. Simple…didn’t want to cover it..refuse to believe it. It’s in black and white, well, blue and white, yet they still spin it into non existance. OK, you believe a proven photoshopped birth certificate, you take him at his word, but NEVER vetted him. Our Congress should be more ashamed than the MSM, because this could rock the US now if they have to erase the 4 years. What would be gratifying is the rest of his “protection” be in Leavenworth…

The link for you to read the stammering spin of this is….Breitbart

The link for you to read real reporting is….World News Daily

Joseph Farah, owner of WND’s commentary on it….Farah

Bob Unrah’s article on states now questioning eligibility….Unrah

IF HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE, WHY WON’T HE SHOW PROOF…REAL PROOF?

Why I’m Not Republican or Democrat – I want to be a Patriot.

My friend Carl sends me this one…very thought provoking.  I don’t agree that tea partiers are Republicans, matter of a fact, I’ve met some serious ones who are Democrats. My experience with the tea party…at least in my part of the world, is that they’re Constitutional loving Patriots. They’re not wearing tags, and just like me, they’re as sick of Republicans as they are Democrats. Now, neither party in Washington have our interests at heart…well, aside from me saying that bit about the tea party, I’ll let you read on. Oh, one more. I’m not excited about Mitt Romney, I don’t agree about Obama, and I’m not a Paulite, but we’ve got serious problems in DC if we don’t start keeping their feet to the fire. 

 

Why I Hate Republicans (Including Tea Partiers), Even More Than I Hate Democrats

 

By Servando Gonzalez
theintelhub.com
May 11, 2012

 A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero.

First of all let me make it clear that, as one of my friends put it, I am an equal opportunity offender.

The reason for this is because I have never seen much difference between Republicans and Democrats. To me, both parties are actually the two sides of the same counterfeited coin. That’s why many years ago I began calling it the Repucratic Party — the true and only Communo-fascist party in the coming totalitarian America.

The more I’ve tried to find differences between them, the less I’ve found.

For example, both Republicans and Democrats accept the minor lies told by the politicians of their party (Republicans believe in free trade, Democrats in global warming), as well as the big lies told by politicians of both parties (9/11/2001, War on Terror, death of bin Laden, Arab Spring, etc).

Neither Republicans nor Democrats have ever complained about the daily abuses committed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration.

None of them seem to care about the use of torture as a way to extract “confessions,” nor about the end of habeas corpus and posse comitatus or the expansion of the surveillance state.

Year after year, election after election, both Republicans and Democrats seem to agree, and have made an effort to convince us about it, that just by changing the puppets in the White House, while keeping the same scoundrels, rascals, cheaters, tax evaders, swindlers, scam artists, fraudsters, charlatans and scumbags of their party on the hill, everything will be okay in America.

Moreover, while Democrats chant the mantra of social justice, which is actually individual injustice, Republicans sing the siren’s song of national security, which, as it has now become evident, actually means national insecurity.

Still, there are minor differences that make me hate Republicans much more than I hate Democrats. Nevertheless, let me tell you first why I hate Democrats.

I hate Democrats because they are the enemy.

Democrats viscerally hate this country, its people, its Constitution, and almost everything that was good in America: its freedom, the right of its citizens to live their lives unmolested by an intrusive government trying to “help” them, the freedom to openly criticize their elected leaders without fear of reprisals, the respect for the laws of the land. Democrats are commies and don’t make any bones about it.

They loved Stalin and Mao, still love Castro, and now love Hugo Chávez and Obama.

But at least Democrats don’t hide their hatred for everything truly American. Over and over, they have openly told in clear and explicit ways that they hate America.

Michelle Obama expressed it clearly when she had a moment of candor and confessed that the only time she felt proud of being American was when Kenyan-born Barry Soetoro was selected by the Bilderberger conspirators to be the next president of the U.S.[1] Other Democrats, like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jane Fonda, Maxine Waters, just to name a few, have expressed in deeds, and sometimes in words, their hatred for this country.

In this sense, I appreciate their sincerity.

On the other hand, I hate Republicans (including Tea Partiers, which are nothing but Republicans in disguise) because they are traitors and hypocrites. Currently, they are frantically trying to hide their love for Obama, who has provided them the wars they crave for so much. 

Their total demoralization has manifested in the presidential debates where, after proving over and over that all them, except Ron Paul, are a bunch of unprincipled liars, they have attacked everybody and his uncle except Obama.

Despite their constant claims of patriotism and respect for the Constitution, Republicans have always been eager to justify the trashing of the Constitution — provided the trashers are members of the Republican party. They loved it when George W. Bush approved the Patriot Act, one of the most antipatriotic laws ever signed by an American President, after having been passed without even a reading by a Congress with a Republican majority. 

I fully understand why Democrats who hate this country elected Jerry Brown as governor of California. What is difficult to understand, however, is why Arizona Republicans re-elected John McCone to the U.S. Congress. CFR member McCain has shown many times his hatred for this country. While in Congress, he has supported almost every anti-American law ever conceived. His latest act of treachery is his support for the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill later signed into law by Obama. 

A few months ago, while you were enjoying your turkey meal, the National Defense Authorization Act, another big jump into totalitarianism in the U.S., was approved by Congress. The approval was “bipartisan” and had full “conservative” support.

Given that in the cryptic language of the Washington politicians “bipartisan” actually means CFR sponsored, I bet that the National Defense Authorization Act, like most treasonous laws enacted by their Congress (the CFR conspirators have bought it, so it is theirs, not ours), was created in the secret conciliabula at the Harold Pratt House, headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 The National Defense Authorization Act defines the entirety of the United States as a battleground in the War on Terror. Therefore, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the Government can label any American citizens as terrorists and they can be indefinitely detained without charge or trial. Similar laws have been enacted in most totalitarian countries. Now, why did John McCain and most Republicans senators support this bill? Beats me! 

If one is to believe professional disinformer Sean Hannity, any of the Republican candidates is better than Obama. According to him, our motto should be “Anybody but Obama.” “I want to win,” said Hannity “and I want to win badly.”[2] He seems to forget that “anybody but Bush I” brought us Clinton, “anybody but Clinton” brought us Bush II, and “anybody but Bush II” brought us Obama. If doing the same and expecting a different result is a symptom of insanity, the U.S. has become an insane asylum. 

Hannity’s idea is an example of politics as football. What is at stake today, however, is not the victory of your football team, but the survival of the American Republic. Actually, thanks to disinformers like Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, et. al., the election process is not even a football game, but a coin flipping one: heads we lose, tails they win!

Disagreement, particularly political disagreement, is part of the democratic, civilized way of living. Contradictory points of view among different individuals are a strong evidence of freedom and a very healthy feature of a democratic republic. Also, it is a normal fact of life that, with the passage of time, people change their views.

What is not acceptable, however, is contradictory points of view expressed at the same time by the same individual. Inconsistency is the mark of the opportunist and the liar. A better example of inconsistency than Republicans claiming one day that they support the Constitution and next day giving their vote of approval to a law that trashes it is difficult to find. This is precisely why most people don’t like politicians like the ones now running for the presidency.

Republicans claim that they are defenders of capitalism and free enterprise, but they love corporations, the main enemies of competition and true capitalism. When listeners complain about mega corporations not paying taxes, moving the jobs abroad or using semi-slave workers, disinformer extraordinaire Rush Limbaugh answers that they have not violated any U.S. law. He never mentions, though, that big transnational corporations don’t need to violate the laws because they have greased the palms of corrupt lawmakers to pass the laws they need.

Republicans assert that they are anti-abortion, because human life is sacred, but they wait until their children are teenagers and send them to kill and be killed in foreign, unnecessary wars. These are inconsistencies bordering on hypocrisy.

Republicans profess that they are the strongest supporters of the U.S. military, but they remained silent when thousands of them died or were incapacitates for life as a result of bacteria in vaccines they were forced to take — the so-called “Gulf War Syndrome.” Nor have they complained for the government’s cover-up to hide the fact that it was done on purpose to purge the Army from patriotic, but potentially problematic Americans the conspirators didn’t trust. 

In the same fashion, Republicans are famous for complaining about the high U.S. national debt, but they never mention the fact that one of the reasons why the government needs cash is to pay for the interest on the money it borrows to maintain the national (in)security state they love so much. As a matter of fact, Republicans are as addicted to warfare as Democrats to welfare.

As keepers of the integrity of the Republic, or so they contend, Republicans have always been in the first line against illegal immigration. However, despite their zeal to keep the border closed, they never criticized their beloved George W. Bush, the man who opened the borders to an alien invasion and harassed and prosecuted the border officers who tried to do their job.

Moreover, Republicans have always supported the idea of building a high wall to exclude the invaders. Apparently it never crossed their narrow minds that some day that very same wall could be used as a containment device to prevent Americans from escaping totalitarianism in their own country. Actually, the first step has been done with a law canceling passport rights for people who owe taxes. And, mark my words, very soon other excuses will be added to keep the sheep inside the barn.

Another good example of their inconsistency is the Republicans’ criticism of banks bailouts. According to them, and I fully agree about this particular issue, we should let nature run its course, and failed institutions should not be helped, because this will encourage failure, but let them pay dearly for their mistakes. But it is obvious that the Republican Party has failed miserably once and again.

Then, why are Republicans so eager to rescue it?

But the last straw that really made me mad as hell is their treatment of Ron Paul, and I don’t want to take it anymore 

Since the very beginning of the present presidential campaign, Republicans have shown that if there is a person they really don’t want to see in the White House, that is Ron Paul. To avoid it, they have resorted to every trick in the book to sabotage Paul’s campaign. 

While Paul’s arguments about really important things have been ignored, Republicans have wasted their time talking about Obamacare (which is actually Hillarycare, which was actually Rockefeller care), illegal immigration (a non-issue, currently Mexicans are escaping back to their country), health care (which is a disaster precisely because of government intervention),[3] well, you name it.

Apparently, they seem to ignore that what is at stake in this crucial moment of this country’s history is not if we have a border fence, or a health care system even worse than the one we now have, or Mexicans (and some Americans too) escaping back to a better life in Mexico, but if the coming society will be a fascist or a communist one. And I assure you that, except for their preference for black swastikas or red hammers and sickles in their banners, there is no big difference between either totalitarian system.

It seems that the professional media disinformers have already decided behind our backs that the only possible alternative we have in this coming election is either a disaster named Obama or a future disaster named Romney. Contrary to their claims, however, we do have another alternative: neither of them! 

Currently, we have a unique opportunity to drop the bankrupt Repucratic Party where it belongs: the trash can of History. As Ron Paul recently stated, “The country is ripe for revolution.”[4] I fully agree with Congressman Paul, and we’d better do it fast before this unique window of opportunity closes, because the Repucratic carcass is rotting, and the stench is becoming nauseating. 

All things considered, I think that if at some time we realize that there is no way to put Ron Paul in the White House, Obama, not Romney or any other Republican candidate, should be our second best option.

Yes, I prefer Obama in the White House rather than any Republican. Let me tell you why.[5] 

As I have explained in detail in my book Psychological Warfare and the New World Order: The Secret War Against the American People, contrary to communists or fascists, whose tactic is to take political power overtly by quick, violent means, the New World Order conspirators have adopted the tactics of the British Fabians: taking control covertly, by slow, gradual infiltration.

Evidence shows they have been very successful at infiltrating the U.S. government, the courts, the system of public education, the academia, the mainstream press and the U.S. armed forces — I didn’t mention the CIA, because since its creation the Agency has been an obedient tool in the hands of the CFR conspirators.

Of lately, however, they have encountered unexpected resistance from the masses. Speaking in May 2001 at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting in Montreal, CFR agent Zbigniew Brzezinski warned that a “global political awakening,” in combination with infighting amongst the elite, was threatening to derail the move towards a one world government.[6]

Apparently, the CFR conspirators have become a little nervous about not been able to accomplish their deadline of having a global New World Order by early 21st century, and this rush has made them make grave mistakes. One of them has been placing their puppet Obama in the White House. 

It is not a secret that, following his masters’ orders, Obama’s long, quick steps to push America into totalitarianism has caused an awakening of a large sector of the American people, galvanizing them to action in ways we have never seen before in the recent history of this country.

Probably the only good thing Obama’s rule has accomplished is to turn things in America so bad and so fast, that it has awakened the people’s consciousness from its media-induced stupor. In this sense, by acting as an alarm clock, he has done us a big favor. Electing a CFR-controlled Republican will put the people to sleep again. 

On the other hand, do some honest Republicans truly believe that corrupt CFR puppet Mitt Romney would be better than corrupt CFR puppet Barack Obama? I don’t think so.

The fact that the CFR conspirators have been desperately pushing first their puppet Newt, then Perry and now Romney is a clear indication that they are concerned about the possibilities of success for their plans to fully implement the Communo-fascist New World Order in America.[7] Currently, the two main obstacles the conspirators face are a free Internet and gun ownership, and they will do everything in their power to eliminate freedom of speech and an armed populace as soon as possible.

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the government confiscated guns from law-abiding citizens who owned them legally. But they didn’t have to pry their guns from their dead, cold fingers — gun owners willingly surrendered their guns to the Louisiana National Guard. Of course, I guess that if a Democrat would have been in the White House things may have been different. But their beloved George W. Bush gave the orders, and the ever faithful Republicans complied.

The elimination of the current Internet, and its substitution by a controlled, censored one is relatively easy. [8] The justification will be a false flag cyberatttack, and it can be done under a Democratic president. But gun prohibition and confiscation is much more risky and it can only be done by a Republican President. A Republican President will easily recreate a Fast and Furious false flag operation as a pretext for passing a gun confiscation law and most Republican gun owners will comply. Is Romney the right guy for the job? I don’t think we should wait and see.

Somebody said that war was too important to leave it in the hands of the military. Well, today that the U.S. government has become a Leviathan avid to control all aspects of our lives, I would say that politics is too important to leave it in the hands of the politicians — particularly in the hands of corrupt, anti-American politicians of the Repucratic Party.

Therefore, instead of “anybody but Obama,” my motto in the coming elections is “anybody but a Repucrat.” If you love this country and want to live in it as a free man,[9] please, make this motto yours. Actually, by participating in this corrupt electoral process we are, wittingly or unwittingly, helping to legitimize the charade. If, by voting for an independent candidate or not voting at all we fail to get the government we want, at least we can have the clear conscience that we didn’t contribute to the mockery.

It is obvious that Republicans will never allow Ron Paul to become their candidate in this coming election. Dr. Paul’s plans are nothing less than overturning the government’s apple cart, and Republicans hate him for this. Unfortunately, and I hope I am wrong, it seems that Paul has decided not to keep fighting if he loses the nomination. If this happens to be the case, I suggest that we focus our efforts to try to convince him to run as an independent. Ron Paul is our only hope for a peaceful solution to the problems we face as a nation.

Some months ago Jesse Ventura offered to run as Paul’s vice-president if Ron Paul decided to run as an independent. I think that the combination of Paul-Ventura is a winning, unbeatable one.

Both of them have demonstrated over the years their honesty and love for this country. Even more, they scare the shit out of the New Word Order conspirators. They fear them as much as they hate them.

If Paul and Ventura reach an agreement and they decide to run as independents, there is only one way the conspirators can stop them, but they know that they have to be very careful about using that last-resort option.

If they go for it, the conspirators may start an unstoppable chain reaction of unforeseeable consequences, none of which would be good for them. 

If, for any reason, the result of the coming election is four more years of Obama in the White House, good for us.

A Republican in the White House will only put the people to sleep, while the conspirators will keep feverishly working in the shadows for the destruction of this country. Anyway, I have the gut feeling that, one way or another, Obama will not spend four more years in the White House.

After the popular vote brought Salvador Allende to power in Chile, CFR agent and war criminal Henry Kissinger said “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.” In the same fashion, we Americans don’t need to stand by and watch our country to go Communo-fascist due to the irresponsibility or ill intentions of both Democrats and Republicans.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, what type of government the Constitution had created. Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Let’s show the New World Order conspirators, their minions and the World, that we have what is needed to save this Republic and keep it alive and kicking!

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Notes:

 [1] Jaketapper, “Michelle Obama: ‘For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I’m Really Proud of My Country’”, ABCNews, February 18, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/02/michelle-obam-1-2/.

[2] Hannity said this in his radio program, November 28, 2011.

[3] See my article “The Health Care Ferrari,” NolanChart.com, September 6, 2009,http://www.nolanchart.com/article6840-the-american-health-care-ferrari.html

[4] See, Karrah Kaplan, “Rep. Ron Paul: The Country is Ripe for Revolution,” CNN, September 27, 2011,http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/27/rep-ron-paul-the-country-is-ripe-for-revolution/.

[5] I don’t need to explain why Obama is the best second option to owners of gun stores and makers of guns and ammo, because they already know it. To know why I think Obama is nothing but a puppet, see my book Obamania: The New Puppet and His Masters.

[6] See, Paul Joseph Watson, “Brzezinski Decries Global Political Awakening During CFR Speech,” Prison Planet.com, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, http://www.prisonplanet.com/brzezinski-decries-global-political-awakening-during-cfr-speech.html.

[7] See, Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones, “Newt Gingrich: Mr. New World Order,” Infowars.com, November 28, 2011, http://www.infowars.com/newt-gingrich-mr-new-world-order/

[8] See my “Kiss Your Internet Goodbye,” NewsWithViews.com, April 6, 2003,http://www.newswithviews.com/public_comm/public_commentary7.htm.

[9] I despise everything politically correct, so I keep using the word “man” in its traditional use in the English language, that is, implying men and women.

Servando Gonzalez is a Cuban-born American writer, semiologist and intelligence analyst. He has written books, essays and articles on Latin American history, intelligence, espionage, and semiotics. Servando is the author ofHistoria herética de la revolución fidelista, The Secret Fidel Castro, The Nuclear Deception and La madre de todas las conspiraciones, all available at Amazon.com.

Blame it on Bush, No, Wait, I already did…

So, can he “double” blame Bush? He will never admit it, but by the time November gets here, he will have NOTHING to campaign on. Mitt Romney can all but sew it up by asking “Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago”? The same question Ronald Reagan asked can put him in office as well. And, I guess THAT can be blamed on Bush as well….from Bloomberg…

Obama Fails to Stem Middle-Class Slide He Blamed on Bush

Barack Obama campaigned four years ago assailing President George W. Bush for wage losses suffered by the middle class. More than three years into Obama’s own presidency, those declines have only deepened.

The rebound from the worst recession since the 1930s has generated relatively few of the moderately skilled jobs that once supported the middle class, tightening the financial squeeze on many Americans, even those who are employed.

 

A job seeker during a job fair hosted by the State of New York on April 12, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

 

“It started long before Obama, but he hasn’t done anything,” said John Forsyth, 58, a railroad-car inspector and political independent from Lebanon, Ohio. “He kept pushing this change, change, change, and he hasn’t done anything.”

Underlying the erosion of the middle class, defined by some economists as the middle 60 percent of income earners, are trends that stretch back decades, including competition from lower-wage workers overseas and technological advances that allow factories and offices to produce more with less labor.

As a candidate in 2008, Obama blamed the reversals largely on the policies of Bush and other Republicans. He cited census figures showing that median income for working-age households — those headed by someone younger than 65 — had dropped more than $2,000 after inflation during the first seven years of Bush’s time in office.

Yet real median household income in March was down $4,300 since Obama took office in January 2009 and down $2,900 since the June 2009 start of the economic recovery, according to an analysis of census data by Sentier Research, an economic- consulting firm in Annapolis, Maryland.

1% Get 93%

A president who attacked Bush’s policies for favoring the rich has overseen a recovery in which the wealthiest 1 percent captured 93 percent of per-capita real income gains in 2010, according to an analysis of tax data by Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

On average, families in the top 1 percent saw their inflation-adjusted incomes rise by $105,637 that year from 2009, according to Saez.

While there is no settled definition of middle class, the middle 60 percent of households nationwide in 2010 earned between $20,000 and $100,000, according to the U.S. Census.

In and around Dayton, Ohio, a region that has endured a wrenching shift from dependence on the auto industry to new sources of growth such as distribution warehouses and information technology, disappointment with Obama is often balanced by wariness of his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.

“I don’t know if there’s anybody I’m going to vote for,” Forsyth said of the candidates.

Limited Opportunity

While the U.S. unemployment rate fell from a peak of 10 percent in October 2009 to 8.2 percent in March, the jobs data that dominate public discussion obscure a shift that has limited opportunity for workers such as Forsyth.

Ninety-five percent of the net job losses during the recession were in middle-skill occupations, such as office workers, bank tellers and machine operators, according to research by economists Nir Jaimovich of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Henry Siu of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The job growth since has been clustered in either high- skill fields inaccessible to workers without advanced education or low-paying industries, they found.

In March, 3.2 million fewer Americans held sales and office jobs than five years earlier, and 1.2 million fewer were employed in transportation and production fields, all areas that typically pay middle-income wages, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Dayton’s Dreams

By contrast, the number of better-paid managerial and professional employees grew by almost 2 million over that period and employment in lower-paying service jobs expanded by 1.5 million.

In Dayton — the birthplace of aviation and such inventions as the mechanical cash register, the self-starting car engine, the stepladder and cellophane tape — these trends have diminished incomes and curtailed dreams.

Mandy Copeland, a 34-year-old occupational therapy assistant, and her husband, a heating and ventilation technician, have given up hope of trading their three-bedroom ranch house for a home with a basement that they could turn into a recreation room for their three children.

Eighteen-year-old Alex Ray recently decided he would wait on attending a four-year college and instead spend his first year at a local community college. His father, Tom Ray, a 47- year-old information-technology project manager who only recently regained a wage cut his employer imposed during the recession, praised his son for a “very mature” choice that he estimated would save $20,000.

Falling Birthrate

Fewer children are being brought into the world; the birthrate in Montgomery County, where Dayton is located, has fallen every year since 2007, in keeping with a national trend. Even the rituals of death have changed.

To save money, families are increasingly choosing cremation over burial, said Anne Dunbar, co-owner of a funeral home in the Dayton suburb of Springfield. Others are forgoing memorial services for simple graveside ceremonies. Rather than flowers or donations to a charity, 15 to 20 families a year now ask that newspaper obituaries include a plea for contributions toward funeral expenses, she said.

‘The Real Majority’

The challenges facing residents in this Ohio city about 60 miles north of Cincinnati have been emblematic of the issues that have moved centrist swing voters ever since the 1970 publication of “The Real Majority,” a top-selling political analysis. Authors Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg created a mythical 47-year-old Dayton housewife to argue that her most pressing concerns had the potential to turn presidential elections.

Today, the most pressing concern for Lisa Meeks, 47, is making herself “more marketable” to potential employers. Meeks, who left her pre-school teaching position because her hours were reduced, now rides the bus to Sinclair Community College in the morning and then boards another bus to get to her new job, working the evening shift as a call-center manager.

“I’m still seeing people struggling,” said Meeks. “You hear people saying, ‘I’ve put in four job applications and I haven’t heard anything back. What am I doing wrong?’”

Though the scale is greater, the workplace shifts that Dayton and the rest of the country are seeing parallel the Bush- era job trends that Obama criticized four years ago, when he said that during President Bill Clinton’s administration “the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of go down $2,000, like it has under George Bush.”

Stopping Downturn

Arriving in the White House during a financial crisis, Obama concentrated on stopping a downturn that many economists feared could turn into a depression. He pressed for an $831 billion stimulus package and an auto-industry bailout. He cut taxes for middle-class workers and backed a health-care overhaul that he said would help middle-income families by keepingmedical costs down and easing access to insurance coverage.

To promote a skilled workforce, the Obama administration has stressed support for education, including aid to local schools to reduce teacher layoffs. It has emphasized infrastructure improvements to promote competitiveness and backed clean-energy technologies that could provide future jobs.

Romney says deficit spending to finance the stimulus, uncertainty generated by the health law, and tighter regulation of the financial industry have deterred businesses from hiring. He backs reductions in government spending and tax cuts, including for wealthy “job creators” to spur investment.

Nothing Obama has accomplished in office so far has stopped what Siu calls “the hollowing out of the middle.”

No Overnight Fix

Just 19 percent of registered voters believe the president’s policies favor the middle class, compared with 25 percent who say they benefit the rich, according to a CBS-New York Times poll conducted Feb. 8-13. Still, asked to choose which candidate would do a better job protecting the middle class, 49 percent say Obama and 39 percent Romney, according to an April 5-8 ABC News-Washington Post poll.

“The economic crisis, deep recession and wage stagnation weren’t created overnight and they won’t be solved overnight,” Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. “While we are making progress and the economy is growing and creating jobs, too many middle class families are still struggling to recover from the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes caused by the reckless economic policies of the past.”

Fundamental Forces

Siu and other economists attribute the phenomenon to such fundamental forces as the movement of production offshore to lower-cost countries and technological gains that have made U.S. companies more efficient. Even with 5.2 million fewer Americans employed since January 2008, the U.S. is turning out more goods and services than before the recession, one reason corporate profits hit record levels and wealthy investors prospered.

Robots are replacing factory workers. Airport kiosks are taking the place of ticket agents. Intuit Inc. (INTU)’s TurboTax software performs the work of accountants.

“This is early days. We see the next 10 years as being more disruptive than the last 10,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and co-author of the book “Race Against the Machine.” He cites developments in artificial-intelligence technologies such as those in Google Inc. (GOOG)’s experimental self-driving car, International Business Machine Corp. (IBM)’s Jeopardy-playing Watson computer, and Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s Siri voice-recognition software.

Plant Closing

That disruption is being felt in the Dayton area. Thousands of auto workers and employees at related parts manufacturers and machine-tool makers lost their jobs after General Motors Co. (GM) closed its plant in nearby Moraine two days before Christmas in 2008. Less than six months later, NCR Corp. (NCR), once called National Cash Register Co. and founded in Dayton in 1884, said it would move its headquarters to Duluth, Georgia, taking more than a thousand jobs with it.

Unemployment in the Dayton metropolitan region reached 12.4 percent in January 2010, though the jobless rate had come down to 8.7 percent in February.

Some of the lost manufacturing and office jobs have been replaced by growth in warehouse centers that take advantage of the area’s location near the intersection of two interstate highways, said Richard Stock, director of the Business Research Group at the University of Dayton.

Caterpillar Logistics, a unit of Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), and Carter Logistics LLC opened distribution centers in the area. Employees at those and other warehouses are paid “above a living wage, but they’re definitely for the most part lower-middle-income jobs,” Stock said.

High Skills Needed

The other major sources of growth have been in information technology, exemplified byTeradata Corp. (TDC), headquartered in Dayton, and Reed Elsevier Plc (REL)’s Lexis Nexis unit, which has a facility in the area, Stock said

Aeronautics and advanced materials manufacturing have also expanded around Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, home of the Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Research Laboratory, Stock said. GE Aviation, a unit of Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric Co. (GE), broke ground last year on a $51 million research center in Dayton.

“Those jobs are at the very high-skilled end, jobs that require quite a bit of education,” Stock said. “There are not too many jobs in the middle.”

As a result, pay has declined. Real average weekly earnings in the metropolitan area dropped to $800 last year from $817 in 2007, according to U.S. Labor Department data analyzed by Stock.

Sitting on a metal bleacher watching her 7-year-old son at an early evening baseball practice, Mandy Copeland reflected on the expectations she and her husband had six years ago when she finished the coursework that qualified her for her occupational therapy job.

“We had pretty high hopes,” she said. “Now we’re just happy we have jobs.”

Romney Wouldn’t Have Killed Bin Laden…I did it!

Why is it that you have to read a news story with truth about our country from outside our country? Could it be because we have no news outlets in today’s liberal media. I have already told you about Fox News selling itself to the left. Will anyone actually step up and change their vote because this man places himself above the people who protect and serve? He has not served…he has “glorified” himself to his lovers….from the Mail Online…

 

SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign

Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election campaign.

The SEALs spoke out to MailOnline after the Obama campaign released an ad entitled ‘One Chance’.

In it President Bill Clinton is featured saying that Mr Obama took ‘the harder and the more honourable path’ in ordering that bin Laden be killed. The words ‘Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?’ are then displayed.

Besides the ad, the White House is marking the first anniversary of the SEAL Team Six raid that killed bin Laden inside his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan with a series of briefings and an NBC interview in the Situation Room designed to highlight the ‘gutsy call’ made by the President.

 

Taking credit: President Obama has used bin Laden’s death as a campaign tool

Mr Obama used a news conference today to trumpet his personal role and imply that his Republican opponent Mr Romney, who in 2008 expressed reservations about the wisdom of sending troops into Pakistan, would have let bin Laden live.

‘I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did,’ Mr Obama said. ‘If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they’d do something else, then I’d go ahead and let them explain it.’

Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, said: ‘The decision was a no brainer. I applaud him for making it but I would not overly pat myself on the back for making the right call.

‘I think every president would have done the same. He is justified in saying it was his decision but the preparation, the sacrifice – it was a broader team effort.’

Mr Zinke, who is now a Republican state senator in Montana, added that MR Obama was exploiting bin Laden’s death for his re-election bid. ‘The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable.’

 

Target: Bin Laden, pictured in his compound in Pakistan, was killed a year ago

 

Mission: Senior figures gathered to watch Navy SEALs invade the compound

Mr Obama has faced criticism even from allies about his decision to make a campaign ad about the bin Laden raid. Arianna Huffington, an outspoken liberal who runs the left-leaning Huffington Post website, roundly condemned it.

She told CBS: ‘We should celebrate the fact that they did such a great job. It’s one thing to have an NBC special from the Situation Room… all that to me is perfectly legitimate, but to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do.’

Campaigning in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Mr Romney responded to a shouted question by a reporter by saying: ‘Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.’

A serving SEAL Team member said: ‘Obama wasn’t in the field, at risk, carrying a gun. As president, at every turn he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this. He does so in his official speeches because he speechwriters are smart.

‘But the more he tries to take the credit for it, the more the ground operators are saying, “Come on, man!” It really didn’t matter who was president. At the end of the day, they were going to go.’

Chris Kyle, a former SEAL sniper with 160 confirmed and another 95 unconfirmed kills to his credit, said: ‘The operation itself was great and the nation felt immense pride. It was great that we did it. 

‘But bin Laden was just a figurehead. The war on terror continues. Taking him out didn’t really change anything as far as the war on terror is concerned and using it as a political attack is a cheap shot. 

‘In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call. He can say he did and the people who really know what happened are inside the Pentagon, are in the military and the military isn’t allowed to speak out against the commander- in-chief so his secret is safe.’

 

Rival: Mr Obama has questioned whether Mitt Romney would have done the same

Senior military figures have said that Admiral William McRaven, a former SEAL who was then head of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) made the decision to take bin Laden out. Tactical decisions were delegated even further down the chain of command. 

Mr Kyle added: ‘He’s trying to say that Romney wouldn’t have made the same call? Anyone who is patriotic to this country would have made that exact call, Democrat or Republican. Obama is taking more credit than he is due but it’s going to get him some pretty good mileage.’

A former intelligence official who was serving in the US government when bin Laden was killed said that the Obama administration knew about the al-Qaeda leader’s whereabouts in October 2010 but delayed taking action and risked letting him escape.

‘In the end, Obama was forced to make a decision and do it. He knew that if he didn’t do it the political risks in not taking action were huge. Mitt Romney would have made the call but he would have made it earlier – as would George W. Bush.’

Brandon Webb, a former SEAL who spent 13 years on active duty and served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said: ‘Bush should get partial credit for putting the system in place.

‘Obama inherited a very robust package with regards to special ops and the intelligence community. But Obama deserves credit because he got bin Laden – you can’t take that away from him. 

‘My friends that work in Special Operations Command (SOCOM) that have been on video teleconferences with Obama on these kill or capture situations say that Obama has no issue whatsoever with making decisions and typically it’s kill. He’s hitting the kill button every time. I have a lot of respect for him for that.’

But he said that many SEALs were dismayed about the amount of publicity the Obama administration had generated about SEAL Team Six, the very existence of which is highly classified.

‘The majority of the SEALs I know are really proud of the operation but it does become “OK, enough is enough – we’re ready to get back to work and step out of the limelight.” They don’t want to be continuously paraded around a global audience like a show dog.

‘Obama has a very good relationship with the Special Operations community at large, especially the SEALs, and it’s nice to see. We had the same relationship with George W. Bush when he was president.’

It was ‘stretching a little much’ for Mr Obama to suggest only he would have made the decision. ‘I personally I don’t think Romney would have any problem making tough decisions. He got a very accomplished record of making decision as a business professional. 

‘He may not have charisma but he clearly has leadership skills. I don’t think he’d have any problem taking that decision.’

Clint Bruce, who gave up the chance of an NFL career to serve as a SEAL officer before retiring as a lieutenant after nine years, said: ‘We were extremely surprised and discouraged by the publicity because it compromises the ability of those guys to operate.

‘It’s a waste of time to speculate about who would and wouldn’t have made that decision. It was a symphony of opportunity and intelligence that allowed this administration to give the green light. We want to acknowledge that they made that decision.

‘Politicians should let the public know where they stand on national security but not in the play-by-play, detailed way that has been done recently. The intricacies of national security should not become part of stump speeches.’

Dems vow to Legislate against SCOTUS Decision

Boy, some folks need to read up on the rules. Constitutional Rules. If SCOTUS rules that Arizona’s law is constitutional, and then congress does this, it would be an act of defiance of the final arbiter of the constitution. Do you think that falls in the realm of the definition of failure of their oath to the Constitution and sedition against the 10th Amendment? Whether it could be called Treason is shaky, but certainly within the realm of abuse of elected powers. From the Washington Post

 

Democrats plan to force vote on Arizona immigration law if it’s upheld by court

By Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: April 23

Senate Democrats are making plans to force a floor vote on legislation that would invalidate Arizona’s controversial immigration statute if the Supreme Court upholds the law this summer.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) will announce the fallback legislation at a hearing on the Arizona law Tuesday, a day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a suit to determine whether Arizona had the authority to enact the 2010 state crackdown.

The legislation would have little chance of passing in a stalemated Senate or being approved by a GOP-held House, but it would allow Democrats to push their electoral advantage with Latino voters just as the presidential campaign heats up in July.

The plan is to allow Democrats a route to express displeasure with the Arizona law if the court allows it to stand, and it would force Republicans to take a clear position on the law during the height of the presidential campaign. The immigration law is deeply unpopular with Latino voters, who could be key to the outcome of the presidential and Senate races in several Western states.

“If the court upholds the Arizona law, Congress can make it clear that what Arizona is doing goes beyond what the federal government and what Congress ever intended,” Schumer said in an interview.

He called the Arizona law an “assault on the domain of the federal government” that Congress will need to address if the court allows it to stand.

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration, Schumer will hold a hearing Tuesday on the impact of the Arizona law. The state senator who wrote the statute will appear, as will opponents of the law. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), the law’s chief proponent, was invited but declined to attend.

The Obama administration sued to prevent implementation of the Arizona law — which included a provision requiring local law enforcement to check the immigration status of anyone stopped or arrested who they suspect is in the country illegally — arguing that the Constitution gives the federal government jurisdiction over immigration laws and that the state’s statute interferes with federal efforts.

In response, federal courts have blocked key portions of the law from going into effect. Arizona appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the state has the power to pass the legislation because Washington has failed to deal with the illegal-immigration problem.

Schumer said he believes the court will side with the federal government. But if it does not, he will propose a new law requiring federal approval for new state immigration laws, essentially blocking implementation of Arizona’s law and others like it that have passed elsewhere.

The legislation would also bar states from imposing their own penalties, beyond federal sanctions, for employers who hire illegal immigrants. Some business leaders have said they are concerned new state rules on hiring could lead to a patchwork of conflicting employment rules across the country.

Presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has said he opposes the federal lawsuit filed by the Obama administration to block the Arizona law.

But he has been working to improve his popularity with Hispanic voters, who according to the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll favor President Obama by more than 40 points.

Those numbers come after Romney took a hard line on immigration during the Republican primary season, opposing the Dream Act — which would provide a path to citizenship for some young adults brought to the country illegally by their parents as children — and indicating that he supports making life in America tough enough for illegal immigrants that they voluntarily “self-deport.”

His campaign has protested that his February comments describing the Arizona law as a “model” for the nation were misinterpreted.

Campaign officials have insisted that Romney meant only a provision requiring employers to use an electronic database to check the immigration status of potential employees. They have said recently that he believes states should be able to decide whether Arizona-style laws are appropriate.

A congressional debate on the issue would probably force Romney to take a more definitive position on Arizona’s statute and the broader issue of the proper balance of state and federal power in immigration enforcement.

At the same time, Republicans would surely cite the proposed legislation as another example of Democratic attempts to expand the federal government and squash state power.

“It’s a calculated decision,” said Steven Schwinn, a professor at the John Marshall Law School who has been following the case. “It would keep focus on an issue, but in a way that may or may not be a winner for Democrats.”

Dick “Turban” Durbin on Tornadoes and Hybrids…

Senator Dick Durban needs to go back to Illinois and retire. He’s losing it. Don’t believe me? (Don’t look for the science to back it, he didn’t need it since he’s the authority I guess…)

Durbin Says We Must Buy Hybrid Cars Because Of Tornadoes: “It’s Your Money Or Your Life”

Sen. Dick Durbin reacts to the tornadoes in Dallas, Texas earlier this week. Durbin calls for more laws regulating carbon output while he sends a dire warning that we must convert to hybrid cars or lose our life. Durbin says we must spend money now to fix the problem.

“It’s your money or your life,” he said a press conference. “We are either going to dedicate ourselves to a cleaner, more livable planet and accept the initial investment necessary or we’re going to pay a heavier price in terms of loss of human life, damage and costs associated with it.”

You can hear him say it yourself, the video is at Real Clear Politics….http://bit.ly/If8A5a

Qaddafi Exchanged for Al Queda?

The Telegraph had this one today. If this is the result of the NATO forces help in removing Quaddafi, then the Obama administration should really be proud of their accomplishment in vetting another Al Queda stronghold in Africa…..

Triumphant Tuareg rebels fall out over al-Qaeda’s jihad in Mali

As one group of rebels proudly proclaimed the independent state of Azawad in the “liberated” north of Mali last week, their allies were preparing for jihad by cutting off the hand of a “criminal” and forcing women to wear the veil.

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MNLA fighters gathering in an undisclosed location in Mali Photo: AFP/GETTY

 

 

 

By Nick Meo

 

 

The rebels, armed with weapons stolen from Muammar Gaddafi’s formidable arsenal, took over an area of the Sahara as big as France in an astonishing 72 hours, taking advantage of the chaotic aftermath of an army coup.

Few of the people they promised to free waited to find out what freedom would be like. Instead, an estimated 250,000 people left their homes, terrified families fleeing with their children and possessions. Many told tales of looting and rape by rebels who now control a vast area in the heart of Africa.

Foreign governments were left scrambling to find out exactly who the rebels were, amid fears that a base for al-Qaeda will now be set up in the Sahara similar to ones in lawless parts of Pakistan and Somalia.

“Our law is a legal war, a sacred war, in the name of Islam,” a bearded leader of the Ansar al Din militia called Omar Hamaha told his supporters in Timbuktu soon after they took control of the ancient caravan town. With its blue men, spectacular mudbrick mosques, and annual music festival under the desert stars, Timbuktu was a fashionable destination for the well-heeled tourist looking for an experience of the Sahara, until 2007 when kidnapping started.

Even more worrying than Ansar al Din were the supporters of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) who streamed into northern Mali with ambitions of setting up an Islamic state. They included men who have made millions of pounds of ransom money by kidnapping foreigners.

They put up their black flags over the three main cities of the north, Timbuktu, Gao, and Kidal, and strutted in the streets. Rare television pictures shot in the northern cities showed tough-looking men in turbans driving pick-up trucks, armed to the teeth with automatic weapons as crowds looked on nervously.

Some rebels grabbed the chance to loot, setting fire to buildings and abducting young women, according to refugees. Others — or perhaps the same ones – were determined to impose a Taliban-style Islamic rule, ordering men into the mosques to pray and closing bars and discos.

Communication with the north was difficult, but reports from people contacted by telephone were alarming. Youssouf Maga Touré, a manager at a transportation company in Gao, described desperation as shops were looted and food supplies ran out.

“Thousands of people will die in the coming days by hunger,” he said.

“We have hundreds of people, mainly women, trying to escape. Our buses will not come here. Drivers are afraid for their own lives.”

Rebels patrolled the streets, he said. “They don’t speak with the local people. They just put their flags on the main government offices. Some of them don’t even speak our language.”

With the government gone, it was not clear exactly who had seized power — “nobody knows who is in control”, said one worried resident of Timbuktu. But most of the rebels seemed to be ethnic Tuaregs loyal to the Mouvement National de liberation de l’Azawad (MNLA), who may not number many more than 1000 fighters. They say they want a free, independent, but not religious state, which they call Azawad.

Their core was formed by a group of Malian Tuareg soldiers who had been part of Colonel Gaddafi’s army for years, and in some cases decades. Last summer they realised that he was doomed and deserted his army, with large amounts of his weapons which they secretly transported across the desert to Mali. There they set up the MNLA, reviving a moribund Tuareg rebellion against Mali’s government which started at independence from France in 1960. In January they launched an insurrection under the command of Mohammed Ag Najm, a former officer in Gaddafi’s army.

His men had fought Gaddafi’s losing wars in Chad, Lebanon and against rebels in Libya last year. This time they wanted to fight for their own state, but not for religion – but they needed the support of Tuareg jihadis who were fighting the Mali government. At a tense meeting last autumn the Gaddafi deserters became allied to a group of jihadis led by a rebel called Iyad Ag Ghali, a shadowy figure who some are now calling the master of the Sahara, perhaps permaturely.

Mr Ghali, believed to be in his fifties, has been a power in Tuareg politics for decades, but became shunned by the mainstream after finding Allah in the 1990s under the tutelage of Pakistani preachers who may have been linked to Osama bin Laden.

He refuses to shake hands with a woman, and has a reputation for stern religious fervour, although he is also regarded as hospitable and generous like most Tuareg. His links to extremists are troubling; he was thrown out of Saudi Arabia because he was regarded as too extreme.

Back in Mali he carved out a role as a negotiator in some of the Sahara’s high-profile kidnappings of recent years — where the usual ransom for a European has been between €3 and €10 million.

Since he became a middle man, helping resolving kidnappings, he has become a wealthy man.

In the Tuareg rebellion he was the junior partner, yet his prestige has grown. After the MNLA refused his offer of leadership last year, Mr Ghali set up his own smaller militia, Ansar al Din. It is not clear how big a role they have played in the fighting, but Mr Ghali has proved adept at political theatre, arriving in both Gao and Timbuktu ahead of MNLA leaders and stealing their glory.

With the government ejected, his relationship with them is clearly under strain. “I am not for independence,” Mr Ghali has said. “It is Sharia I want for my people.”

His natural partner is al-Qaeda, and in Timbuktu he arrived with three of the senior emirs of AQIM – Abou Zeid, Mokhtar Ben Mokhtar, and Abou Hamame, men who have carved out reputations for ruthlessness and greed.

They sense their chance in the chaos. But the desert may not be fertile territory for them. Youssou Guindo, a shop owner from Gao contacted by telephone, said: “Mali is a secular country, we do not need Sharia. We are free to pray. If they want Sharia they can apply it where they want, but not in Mali.” Peter Tinti, who was until 2008 a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Gao, said some of his old friends had been in touch by twitter, expressing fear about their new masters.

“Most people, even most Tuareg, are probably not going to be enthusiastic about the rebels,” he said. “Malians are proud of being a democracy. Trying to turn it into an Islamic state, that is going to be anathema to most people. Gao is a small, conservative town, but it also has bars and hotels and people are pretty tolerant.”

As the dust settles in the desert after its most extraordinary week in decades, there is growing sense of dread about what happens next. Neighbouring governments fear the contagion of rebellion will spread to their own Tuareg minorities. Foreign governments fear al-Qaeda getting established in the desert.

Mali’s government in the capital Bamako is in total chaos after the coup, and nobody expects its soldiers, chased out of the north, to be back any time soon. The rebel leaders are jubilant, but some think the MNLA may have declared independence prematurely. The jihadis want to march on the south, but that seems far-fetched.

The jihadis are under pressure, with imams in Timbuktu, one of the leading Islamic cities in Africa, telling the faithful that Mr Ghali is an upstart with no credibility as a religious leader. The MNLA fighters are now reportedly making ready for a showdown with AQIM and Ansar al Din. Mali’s bloodletting may have only just begun.

Fox News, A Little More to the Left Please…

Fair and Balanced? I’d say Middle to Left….

Santita Jackson and Jesse Jackson pose on the red carpet before entering the 2008 Trumpet Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Gavin Averill/Getty Images)

Paul Bedard – Washington Examiner

Secrets hears that Fox News Channel has hired Jesse Jackson’s eldest daughter, Chicago radio host Santita Jackson, as an on-air contributor. The coup is just the latest move by Fox to staff up talkers from the left and build its rep as the nation’s “fair and balanced” cable network.

She will debut Friday at 7:15 a.m. on a Fox & Friends political panel.Along with Al Sharpton, Jackson is one of the leading personalities on Chicago’s WVON, which describes itself this way: “From 1963 to the present, WVON has gone from being ‘The Voice of the Negro’ to ‘The Voice of the Nation.’ We provide an interactive forum for the African-American community to discuss current, social, economic, and political issues. WVON is ‘The Talk of Chicago,’ where we are always giving you something to talk about.”

Climate Change, They’re Baaaccckkk…

Pardon me, but one look at this woman tells me everything…I’m sorry, I had to. I’ll leave it at that…

Climate Change Skepticism a Sickness That Must be “Treated,” Says Professor

• Global warming alarmist equates climate denial with racism

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, March 30, 2012

Comparing skepticism of man-made global warming to racist beliefs, an Oregon-based professor of sociology and environmental studies has labeled doubts about anthropogenic climate change a “sickness” for which individuals need to be “treated”.

Professor Kari Norgaard, who is currently appearing at the ‘Planet Under Pressure’ conference in London, has presented a paper in which she argues that “cultural resistance” to accepting the premise that humans are responsible for climate change “must be recognized and treated” as an aberrant sociological behavior.

Norgaard equates skepticism of climate change alarmists – whose data is continually proven to be politicized, agenda driven and downright inaccurate – with racism, noting that overcoming such viewpoints poses a similar challenge “to racism or slavery in the U.S. South.”

“Professor Norgaard considers that fuzzy-studies academics such as herself must stand shoulder to shoulder with the actual real climate scientists who know some maths in an effort to change society and individuals for their own good. It’s not a new idea: trick-cyclists in Blighty and the US have lately called for a “science of communicating science” rather reminiscent of Isaac Asimov’s science-fictional “Psychohistory” discipline, able to predict and alter the behaviour of large populations,” reports the Register.

As Jurriaan Maessen documented yesterday, the ‘Planet Under Pressure’ confab at which Norgaard is appearing to push this insane drivel is nothing other than a strategy session for neo-eugenicists to hone their population control agenda.

A statement put out by the scientists behind the event calls for humans to be packed into denser cities (eco-gulags?) so that the rest of the planet can be surrendered to mother nature. It’s a similar idea to the nightmare ‘Planned-Opolis’ proposal put out by the Forum for the Future organization last year, in which human activity will be tightly regulated by a dictatorial technocracy in the name of saving the planet.

• The mindset of this gaggle of arrogant, scoffing elitists in their drive to micro-manage the human race, which they regard as a plague on the earth, is best encapsulated by the following quote from ‘Planet Under Pressure’ attendee and Yale University professor Karen Seto.

“We certainly don’t want them (humans) strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely [together],” Seto told MSNBC.

The effort to re-brand legitimate scientific dissent as a mental disorder that requires pharmacological or psychological treatment is a frightening glimpse into the Brave New World society climate change alarmists see themselves as ruling over.

Due to the fact that skepticism towards man-made global warming is running at an all time high, and with good reason, rather than admit they have lost the debate, climate change alarmists are instead advocating that their ideological opponents simply be drugged or brainwashed into compliance.

Norgaard’s effort to equate climate skepticism with racism as a disorder that requires “treatment” also serves as a reminder of the story we covered earlier this month about the establishment’s efforts to push the pharmaceutical heart drug Propranolol as a “cure” for racist thoughts.

Obama Stepping on His Own Foot..

No one can help you screw up like yourself when you’re on a roll. This one is from Charles Hurt of the Washington Post, and it’s spot on…

 

The past seven brutal days will go down as one of the worst weeks in history for a sitting president. It certainly has been, without any doubt, the worst week yet for President Obama.

Somehow, Mr. Obama managed to embarrass himself abroad, humiliate himself here at home, see his credentials for being elected so severely undermined that it raises startling questions about whether he should have been elected in the first place — let alone be re-elected later this year.

Consider:

• Last Friday, Mr. Obama wandered into the killing of Trayvon Martin. Aided by his ignorance of the situation, knee-jerk prejudices and tendency toward racial profiling, Mr. Obama played a heavy hand in elevating a tragic situation in which a teenager was killed into a full-blown hot race fight.

Americans, he admonished, need to do some “soul-searching.” And then, utterly inexplicably, he veered off into this bizarre tangent about how he and the poor dead kid look so much alike they could be father and son. It was election-year race-pandering gone horribly wrong.

• By the start of this week, Mr. Obama had fled town and was racing to the other side of the planet just as the Supreme Court was taking up the potentially-embarrassing matter of Obamacare. While in South Korea he was caught on a hidden mic negotiating with the president of our longest-standing rival on how to sell America and her allies down the river once he gets past the next election.

• Meanwhile, back at home, the Supreme Court took up the single most important achievement of Mr. Obama’s presidency and, boy, was it embarrassing. The great constitutional law professor, it turns out, may not quite be the wizard he told us he was.

By most accounts, Mr. Obama and his stuttering lawyers were all but laughed out of the courthouse. They were even stumbling over softball questions lobbed by Mr. Obama’s own hand-picked justices.

• Mr. Obama closed his week pulling off a nearly unimaginable feat: He managed to totally and completely unify the nastily-fighting Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Late Wednesday night, they unanimously voted — 414 to zip — to reject the budget Mr. Obama had presented, leaving him not even a thin lily’s blade to hide behind.

So, in one week, Mr. Obama got caught whispering promises to our enemy, incited a race war, raised serious questions about his understanding of the Constitution, and then got smacked down over his proposed budget that was so wildly reckless that even Democrats in Congress could not support it.

It was as if you lumped Hurricane Katrina and the Abu Ghraib abuses into one week for George W. Bush. And added on top of that the time he oddly groped German Chancellor Angela Merkel and got caught cursing on a hot mic.

Even then, it wouldn’t be as bad as Mr. Obama’s week. You would probably also have to toss in the time Mr. Bush’s father threw up into the lap of Japan’s prime minister. Only then might we be approaching how bad a week it was for Mr. Obama.

Not that you will see any trace of embarrassment in the face of Mr. Obama. He has mastered the high political art of shamelessness, wearing it smugly and cockily. Kind of like a hoodie.