Friday, January 3, 2014

MICHELLE MALKIN - Obama's Afghanistan Mess | CNS News

Obama's Afghanistan Mess | CNS News

BARACK OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS PUMPED INTO MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS AND PROTECTED THEIR BORDERS EVEN AS HE SABOTAGES OUR BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX TO BUILD THE DEMS’ PARTY BASE OF LA RAZA SUPREMACIST.

 

Obama's Afghanistan Mess

January 3, 2014 - 6:12 AM



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Is President Obama sleeping well on his Hawaiian holiday? I can think of many families of American soldiers who might not be enjoying the same bliss right now. That's because 2014 opens with alarming news that the Afghan government will free an estimated 650 prisoners from a Bagram detention facility — including scores involved in deadly attacks on our men and women in uniform.

The White House handed over control of the jihadi-clogged prison to the Afghan government last spring. Some 3,000 notorious Taliban and al Qaeda killers call the jail home. Surprise, surprise: After the Obama administration supposedly secured "private assurances" that no dangerous criminal operatives would be released, U.S. officials are now balking that the agreement has been broken. Everyone, put on your shocked faces.

An anonymous U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal this week: "We are concerned that 88 people who have blood on their hands — Afghan and coalition blood — would be turned loose, but more important, that an agreement that we have with the Afghan government is being violated." The New York Times reports that Muslim terrorists who trained teen suicide bombers and planted IEDs at schools are among the lucky thugs slated for release. "These are guys that are tied directly to killing and trying to kill our forces and Afghan forces," an American military official told the New York Times. "This is an issue of deep concern. It is serious." Cue the "UNDERSTATEMENT" klieg lights.

Members of Afghanistan's own parliament are decrying the lax review process and dangerous unilateral decisions of a "Bagram Inmates' Assessment Committee" established by presidential decree. Afghan senator Dawood Hasas told the Afghanistan Times: "Among the released prisoners from Bagram jail, many were murder convicts, and release of notorious prisoners would not be in the national interests."

Who knows how many others will be freed to kill American soldiers again? President Hamid Karzai is busy pandering to Taliban forces in advance of the country's spring election season. He is also stalling approval of a bilateral security deal with the U.S. and U.K. It's a recipe for bloody recidivism.

The new batch of freed jihadists will join a burgeoning population of other freed Taliban commanders who promptly returned to the battlefield. Last fall, Karzai freed senior Taliban leader Maulawi Ghulam Mohammad — who now commands some 400 insurgents and immediately launched several deadly attacks on security forces' check-posts in the Badghis province.

Mohammad joins Mullah Zakir, the Taliban's top "surge commander," who was released from Gitmo to Afghanistan custody and let loose by the Afghanistan government in 2007. He's back at work, killing in the name of Allah without skipping a beat. Former Gitmo detainee Abu Sufian bin Qumu, also released in 2007, has been named a possible lead plotter in the Benghazi attack. Karzai's jail-emptying scheme comes as the Obama administration continues to widen the Gitmo revolving door for even more potential recidivists-to-be. In December alone, the White House returned Guantanamo detainees to Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, and dispatched three Uighur detainees to Slovakia.

Question: Are the Taliban leaders detained and arrested last fall in connection with the deadly 9/14/12 attack on our Marines at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan on Karzai's release list? Don't forget that the infiltration of 15 jihadists disguised in U.S. combat fatigues took place three days after the 9/11 attack on our Benghazi consulate.

Refresher: The Camp Bastion attack came exactly six months after a failed suicide bombing that targeted then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The meticulously coordinated siege resulted in the deaths of Lt. Col. Christopher Raible and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, along with the most devastating loss of U.S. airpower since Vietnam. British commanders knew the airfield was insecure before 9/14/12. Leaders on both sides of the pond failed to coordinate their defenses. Three months before the raid, the Pentagon acknowledged, military officials had been warned of "uncontrolled access" that left "personnel and equipment exposed."

The families of the fallen continue to fight for accountability on both sides of the pond, and to push for both the U.S. and U.K. to take meaningful remediation steps to secure coalition bases. It's safe to say that "Freeing imprisoned Taliban and al Qaeda jihadists who targeted and killed American troops" wasn't on any military family's New Year's wish list.

As for the commander-in-chief? It's back to the golf course. Fore!


 

73% DEATHS ON OBAMA’S WATCH – DURING IS TERMS, HOW MANY AMERICANS (LEGALS) WERE MURDERED OR RAPED BY MEXICANS OR CHILDREN MOLESTED?

The 12-Year War: 73% of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan on Obama's Watch


MALKIN - MACDONALD

WHAT DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT BARACK OBAMA USING AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO FUND THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “THE RACE”???


IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY NOW THE PARTY FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY, OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING, AN EVER EXPANDING MEX WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY???

 

 

The Genealogy of Obamacare - The looting of America from Wall Street continues

The Genealogy of Obamacare


WHY BIG PHARMA LOVES BIG OBAMA… and his looting of America…

The more information that comes to light about the plans being offered through Obamacare demonstrates that, in their rapacious drive to increase profits, private insurance companies are not only charging steep premiums—some 30 percent higher than in the present individual market—but are peddling cut-rate policies with staggering out-of-pocket costs, which also limit access to doctors and hospitals.


THE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON THAT AWAITS THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IN 2014:

CRONY CAPITALISM: Obama vows Wall Street’s looting will reach even greater dimensions during 2014.

………….. and his bankster donors’ profits are soaring!!!  


                                         
OBAMAcare AND THE FALL OF OBAMA and PELOSI and end of the Mexican LA RAZA WELFARE STATE in AMERICAN BORDERS

The LA RAZA Mexican Crime Wave in America


'We're being inundated': Vigilante Group uses secret cameras to record the flow of illegal immigrants across the border  

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 “While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican  have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.
 
MEXICAN GANGS - 14 YEAR OLD MEXICAN BOY born in San Diego (Anchor baby?) BEHEADS 4 FOR MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL
 
Edgar Jimenez Lugo, who authorities said was born in San Diego, was wanted on suspicion of killing rivals — allegedly beheading some — as part of his work for a violent drug-trafficking cartel.
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EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY LA RAZA AND 8 CHILDREN MOLESTED. THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000 CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY LA RAZA WHO THEN FLED BACK OVER OUR BORDERS TO AVOID PROSECUTION! REALLY WANT THE DEMS’ AMNESTY AND OPEN BORDERS?
Illegals Committing Heinous Acts Against Children & civilians in U.S.
PDT

EXAMPLE #1 : • What sort of monster could murder three children in the most brutal manner — one child was beheaded and the two other were nearly decapitated. They also suffered a variety of injuries including blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. The victims, residents of Baltimore, (l. to r.) were siblings Alexis Quezada (10) and Lucero Quezada (9) and their cousin Ricardo Espinoza (9). The two men arrested for the crime were also relatives: Policarpio Espinoza, 22, brother of the father of the two siblings, and Espinoza's cousin Adan Espinoza Canela, 17. The accused are illegal aliens as are the parents of the murdered children. Apparently the arrests were based on DNA/blood evidence.

OBAMA’S OPEN DOOR POLICY FOR THE MEX  – VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND OPEN BORDERS???

THE CARTELS NOW OPERATE IN MORE THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES INCLUDING OBAMA’S CHICAGO!

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Known for mounting the severed heads of its rivals on poles or hanging their dismembered bodies from bridges in cities throughout Mexico, Los Zetas easily has become the most feared criminal gang in Mexico.

DRUG CARTELS FIND CALIFORNIA A GREAT PLACE TO LOOT!

Street gang that controls ALL of Orange County drug trade taken down: SWAT teams swoop on 120 members of the 'Mexican Mafia' a total of  129 people have been indicted by county and federal grand juries alleging crimes including murder, drug trafficking and extortion

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mexican-crime-tidal-wave-mexican.html

More Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens than Iraq War, Study Says

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73% DEATHS ON OBAMA’S WATCH – DURING IS TERMS, HOW MANY AMERICANS (LEGALS) WERE MURDERED OR RAPED BY MEXICANS OR CHILDREN MOLESTED?

The 12-Year War: 73% of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan on Obama's Watch


MEXICAN THUG RAPIST SHERIFF JOSE RIGABERTO SANCHEZ…. ANOTHER LA RAZA RAPIST!

HEY, JOSE RIGABERTO SANCHEZ IS A MEXICAN! WHAT DID THEY EXPECT???

 

PALMDALE (CBSLA.com) — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Monday on suspicion of rape and soliciting bribes, among other crimes, according to authorities.

Jose Rigaberto Sanchez, 28, a seven-year veteran of the force, was taken into custody at his home around 5:30 p.m. on 11 felony counts, including sexual penetration under the color of authority, rape under fear or duress, and soliciting a bribe from alleged victims. He’s being held on $1.4 million bail.

 

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TEXAS FALLS TO LA RAZA SUPREMACIST

We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.


We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.
 

SEN. JOHN CROYNYN (R-TX) SAYS TEXAS SHOULD FALL TO LA RAZA SUPREMACY and the OBAMA LA RAZA WELFARE STATE in AMERICA/AZTLAN.
 

 We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.

"While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican  have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common."
 
KNIFING AND STABBING!

LA RAZA GANG INFESTED LOS ANGELES, A DUMPSTER WELFARE COLONY OF MEXICO’S…

DHS LIES and SABOTAGES HOMELAND SECURITY FOR OBAMA TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS
“Americans should understand that this legislation only guarantees legal status for illegal aliens, including serious criminals,” Mr. Crane said. “It contains no promise of solving our nation’s immigration problems.”
 
. “It’s very disturbing as an employee in general to see the Department of Homeland Security lie to the American people day in and day out about who we’re arresting.”
 
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders

WorldNetDaily Exclusive

Dem administration advancing 'North American Union' agenda

Published: 12/15/2010 at 10:20 PM
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OBAMA’S CYNICAL JOKE of HOMELAND SECURITY
 
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department.
Obama’s Promise of Homeland Security to Americans (Legals) and his Vow to Illegals of Open and Undefended Borders With Narcomex
 

 
 
 
 

SERGIO GARCIA CELEBRATES ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW AGAIN IN MEXIFORNIA! Undocumented immigrant can practice law, California Supreme Court rules ( video)

Undocumented immigrant can practice law, California Supreme Court rules ( video)


WILL THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA and MEXICO DESTROY CALIFORNIA? ISN’T IT ALREADY A LOOTED WELFARE COLONY OF MEXICO’S WHERE ALL THE JOBS ALSO GO TO MEXICANS?


DEMS PARTY of ILLEGALS

THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” DEMOCRAT PARTY… DEDICATED TO CUTTING SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR AMERICANS (Legals) TO BUILD THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA.

THE DEMS PROMISE LEGALIZATION of MEXICO’S LOOTING WITH AMNESTY, OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH?


 

michelle malkin

Alejandro Mayorkas ……………ANOTHER ADVOCATE FOR OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS – THE JOKE OF HOMELAND SECURITY WHILE OBAMA SQUANDERS BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS!


 What qualifies Mayorkas to serve as DHS deputy secretary? Well, there's his prodigious fundraising in 2008 as an Obama bundler, of course. There's his dutiful pro-open borders record in his current job as director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. And once again, the operational motto of the Beltway prevails: Screw up, foul up, move up.

FOOLS STILL THINK MEXICANS ARE NOT VOTING FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY. THEY VOTE IN DROVES FOR RACIST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GIL CEDILLO!

WHEN ILLEGALS ELECT MEXICANS, THAT LA RAZA SUPREMACIST CONSIDERS MEXICANS THEIR SOLE CONSTITUENCY, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGALS!


But that nickname diminishes Cedillo, who should be taken seriously. When it comes to representing the interests of illegal immigrants Gil Cedillo is a true believer.

LA’s own ‘secretary of state’ not looking after our interests

By Doug McIntyre, Los Angeles Daily News

Posted: 08/17/13, 6:31 PM PDT | Updated: 11 secs ago

Our secretary of state was one busy diplomat last week scrambling to get ahead of a mushrooming crisis.

 

 

Are liberal hopes for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio too high? ( video)

Are liberal hopes for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio too high? ( video)


WAS DE BLASIO’S BULL ON HOPE AND CHANGE WRITTEN BY WALL STREET CRIMINALS LIKE OBAMA’S LOOTING AGENDA???
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/01/de-blasios-obama-crap-called-hope-and.html


WILL THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA and MEXICO DESTROY CALIFORNIA? ISN’T IT ALREADY A LOOTED WELFARE COLONY OF MEXICO’S WHERE ALL THE JOBS ALSO GO TO MEXICANS?


DEMS PARTY of ILLEGALS

THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” DEMOCRAT PARTY… DEDICATED TO CUTTING SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR AMERICANS (Legals) TO BUILD THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA.

THE DEMS PROMISE LEGALIZATION of MEXICO’S LOOTING WITH AMNESTY, OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH?

Poll: Americans see health care as the top problem OBAMA and LA RAZA SEE GRINGOS AS EASILY LOOTED! | WashingtonExaminer.com

Poll: Americans see health care as the top problem | WashingtonExaminer.com


WHY BIG PHARMA LOVES BIG OBAMA… and his looting of America…

The more information that comes to light about the plans being offered through Obamacare demonstrates that, in their rapacious drive to increase profits, private insurance companies are not only charging steep premiums—some 30 percent higher than in the present individual market—but are peddling cut-rate policies with staggering out-of-pocket costs, which also limit access to doctors and hospitals.


WILL THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA and MEXICO DESTROY CALIFORNIA? ISN’T IT ALREADY A LOOTED WELFARE COLONY OF MEXICO’S WHERE ALL THE JOBS ALSO GO TO MEXICANS?


DEMS PARTY of ILLEGALS

THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” DEMOCRAT PARTY… DEDICATED TO CUTTING SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR AMERICANS (Legals) TO BUILD THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA.

THE DEMS PROMISE LEGALIZATION of MEXICO’S LOOTING WITH AMNESTY, OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH?

WOULD TED CRUZ PUSH BACK MEXICO'S LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS? Flashback Column: Byron York on Ted Cruz's fearlessness and 2016 | WashingtonExaminer.com

Flashback Column: Byron York on Ted Cruz's fearlessness and 2016 | WashingtonExaminer.com


WHAT DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT BARACK OBAMA USING AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO FUND THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “THE RACE”???


IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY NOW THE PARTY FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY, OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING, AN EVER EXPANDING MEX WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY???

MEXIFORNIA

WILL THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA and MEXICO DESTROY CALIFORNIA? ISN’T IT ALREADY A LOOTED WELFARE COLONY OF MEXICO’S WHERE ALL THE JOBS ALSO GO TO MEXICANS?


DEMS PARTY of ILLEGALS

THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” DEMOCRAT PARTY… DEDICATED TO CUTTING SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR AMERICANS (Legals) TO BUILD THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA.

THE DEMS PROMISE LEGALIZATION of MEXICO’S LOOTING WITH AMNESTY, OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH?


 
michelle malkin

Alejandro Mayorkas ……………ANOTHER ADVOCATE FOR OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS – THE JOKE OF HOMELAND SECURITY WHILE OBAMA SQUANDERS BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS!

 

What qualifies Mayorkas to serve as DHS deputy secretary? Well, there's his prodigious fundraising in 2008 as an Obama bundler, of course. There's his dutiful pro-open borders record in his current job as director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. And once again, the operational motto of the Beltway prevails: Screw up, foul up, move up.

 

VALUE LIFE! 70 new anti-abortion laws OK'd in 22 states, second most ever | WashingtonExaminer.com

70 new anti-abortion laws OK'd in 22 states, second most ever | WashingtonExaminer.com

HOPE and CHANGE and then the REALITY OF OBAMA'S CON JOBS - Ex-Polish president: US doesn't lead the world in morality, politics | TheHill

Ex-Polish president: US doesn't lead the world in morality, politics | TheHill


Barack Obama… the man that conned an entire nation and still called it “CHANGE”… but was only Bush’s 3rd & 4th terms.


 

THE YEAR WAS 2009…

 

At the town hall in New Orleans, Obama appealed for patience. He said, “Change is hard, and big change is harder.” Is that the excuse? Now where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah. From George Bush.

 

THE MAN THAT CALLED HIS HOAX “CHANGE”

'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most frequently used words to describe the president: Pew Research Center

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The larger fear is that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking voters much as the Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy.

Sanders's resolution: Increase minimum wage - OBAMA SAYS SAY WE WILL BUT WON'T FOR REAL! | TheHill

Sanders's resolution: Increase minimum wage | TheHill


THE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON THAT AWAITS THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IN 2014:

CRONY CAPITALISM: Obama vows Wall Street’s looting will reach even greater dimensions during 2014.

………….. and his bankster donors’ profits are soaring!!!  


…. should we keep handing over our jobs, welfare, “free” medical and open borders for easy Mexican looting???

Income inequality grows four times faster under Obama than Bush


The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.


INEQUALITY
THE TWO AMERICAS under Obama:

THE 1%’S WALL STREET CORPORATE WELFARE STATE and LA RAZA – MEXICO’S FASCIST WELFARE STATE in AMERICA…

American’s get the tax bills for Wall Street and MEXICO’S looting!


HOPE and CHANGE and endless lies and con jobs as his WALL STREET DONORS’ LOOTING of AMERICA CONTINUES!

Having presided for the past five years over an unprecedented growth of social inequality, President Barack Obama, down in the polls because of popular indignation over his fraudulent health care “reform,” adopted the unlikely pose of tribune of egalitarian values in a speech on Wednesday at the pro-Democratic Party Center for American Progress in Washington DC.


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-bankster-owned-president-for-1.html 

In typical fashion, Obama decried the growth of inequality in America as though he were an innocent bystander and had absolutely no role in the process he was criticizing. The most remarkable aspect of the speech was the contempt for the intelligence of the American people it expressed.

 
 

OBAMA'S BANKSTERS' LOOT DETROIT - WHICH CITY IS NEXT? Corporate spokesman Mike Duggan inaugurated as Detroit mayor

Corporate spokesman Mike Duggan inaugurated as Detroit mayor


Australia: National Gallery of Victoria patrons denounce selloff of Detroit masterpieces

By our reporters
3 January 2014
World Socialist Web Site reporters recently spoke with people outside the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne about plans by the unelected financial manager of Detroit, Kevin Orr, to sell off part of the Detroit Institute of Arts priceless art collection in order to pay the American city’s wealthy bondholders.
Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest art gallery, maintaining a collection of 68,000 works of art, including pieces by major international figures such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Mark Rothko, William Blake and many others. The reporting team distributed WSWS articles to patrons of the gallery, located in Melbourne’s arts precinct.
While most of those approached were unaware of the moves against the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) virtually everyone expressed their horror over plans to sell its art works. Many explained the importance of access to serious art, and noted the connection between the privatisation of art and the immense growth of social inequality.
Hinton Lowe, a retired former academic, said: “I don’t think that any public property should be sold off to private hands, and especially art. It was created for the public and the common good and should not be sold off, especially when small groups of elites will make large amounts of money out of it. That’s where the benefits always end up; it’s for those small groups of people.
“The value of public art for the benefit of the public’s consciousness is priceless and has probably been collected in Detroit for several generations. It’s outrageous that it should be taken away out of the arena of public education…
“We’ve got some big problems in our society to think about,” he added. “One is that a very small part of the population enjoys the wealth and the privilege.”
WSWS reporters pointed out the connection between the sale of the DIA’s artwork and the international assault on the pensions, healthcare and other social entitlements of the working class.
“It’s all the same,” he replied. “It’s to further and further concentrate wealth into the hands of smaller and smaller numbers… These galleries contribute to the common good, giving people opportunities to enrich their lives and imaginations and to develop the capacity for empathy. That’s what it’s there for. The last thing that the rich want is for the public to be educated, to wake up as to how they’re being exploited and manipulated.”
Adam, a painter, explained the impact that the NGV’s collection had on his own creative work. “Artwork should be publicly available. Since I moved to Melbourne, having art works available to me—a Rembrandt in particular—has changed my world. How could someone, at just 22-years-old, have such an artistic and technical ability to do that? The Rothko in there, it hits me all the time. Having intimate, regular contact with these masters has changed my life.”
Joe, who works in a private hospital dealing with autism sufferers, and Jon, a production manager, were on a two-week-holiday in Melbourne from America’s Rhode Island.
Joe said: “It’s just another example of that separation of classes in society. The wealthy are able to get those priceless pieces of art and, whether it’s in their bathrooms or living rooms, they get to show it off to their friends, to a very select number of people. Kids will be robbed. There are not too many more of those pieces lying round.”
When WSWS reporters pointed out that America’s ruling elite had a political interest in blocking workers’ access to culture, Joe replied: “That’s right. If you can keep the working class separated then you can keep your wealthy, your elite, on top. If you start educating the working people and providing basic cultural rights to everyone, the rich won’t have such a huge advantage, and that means they might lose power…
“I’ve lost a lot of hope in the political front,” Joe added. “There’s no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, except perhaps for special interests.”
Jon said: “I think at the moment capitalism is being abused and misused. There has been a power shift and a swing in power to the rich and it’s swinging way out of control. The gap between rich and poor is getting wider, and it’s picking up speed, it’s almost exponential.”
Joe related plans to sell the DIA’s collection to budget cuts occurring across the US, including in his own workplace. “Funding has been cut so far that you now have unsafe staff-to-patient ratios,” he explained.
“Previously, we had about 24 beds for autistic patients and we’d keep about 12 staff members on, which was already pretty risky. That’s been cut down to about eight. They’ve also imposed budget cuts where the highest paid doctors and clinicians have been let go, and they’re getting in new people to do the same job on half the wage.”
Michael Harding, a high-school English and History teacher from New South Wales, noted the positive impact of a personal encounter with art.
“These things are vitally important. It is one thing to view art on the Internet or in text books but another to see it in real life, to see what it really looks like and what the colours really look like, how big the pieces are, and to see them in an institution where they are sensitively displayed,” he said.
“It would be a great pity for such works to fall into private hands and be bought typically by people who have no interest in the art but are purely looking for financial gain. Some things are above money; man does not live by bread alone. I think these works shouldn’t be considered as items for sale…”
“The global financial crisis hasn’t come to an end and doubtless there will be more crises like this. Detroit will be seen as a blueprint for other city councils. I think it’s morally wrong. These things are owned by the people, not just by the city council; they’re the people’s property.”

Hewlett-Packard to cut another 5,000 employees - AS THEY CONTINUE TO IMPORT CHINESE AND INDIANS TO TAKE OUR TECH JOBS!

Hewlett-Packard to cut another 5,000 employees


THE ENTIRE BASIS OF AMNESTY IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.

“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have stagnated.”

Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill

Americans would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.



 

 

 

VISAS

America… NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

One-way trips to U. S. frustrate immigration authorities

An estimated 4.4 million people entered the country on legal visas and have never left. Officials often have no way of knowing whether they do.


 

HOMELESS AMERICA vs WALL STREET'S LOOTING UNDER OBAMA - As 2014 begins, New York City’s homeless population continues to grow

As 2014 begins, New York City’s homeless population continues to grow


WAS DE BLASIO’S BULL ON HOPE AND CHANGE WRITTEN BY WALL STREET CRIMINALS LIKE OBAMA’S LOOTING AGENDA???


 

DE BLASIO'S OBAMA CRAP CALLED HOPE AND CHANGE PER WALL STREET'S ORDERS! Bill Clinton administers oath of office to New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio

Bill Clinton administers oath of office to New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio

At the same time the new chief executive of New York made it very clear that his aim was to save and defend the profit system, not to fight against it. “We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love,” he said. “We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.”

The reference to “inequalities” signals the new mayor’s aim: not to put an end to the fundamental social inequality that characterizes New York, with the world’s largest concentration of billionaires and millions of working poor, but to pay lip service to “progressivism” and “social justice” with the aim of staving off a social upheaval that could “unravel the city.”


…. should we keep handing over our jobs, welfare, “free” medical and open borders for easy Mexican looting???
Income inequality grows four times faster under
Obama than Bush


The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.

OBAMA – THE SOCIOPATH BANKSTERS FUNDED AND ILLEGALS REELECTED.

OBAMA IS A SOCIOPATH. HE CAN LIE OUT OF HIS BIG MOUTH ABOUT ANYTHING AND THEN GO SERVE HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS AND LA RAZA!


But the latest New York Times/CBS News poll shows something that is a troublesome sign for the White House. Only 30 percent of Americans believe that the president “cares a lot” about “the needs and problems of people” like themselves.

Barack Obama… the man that conned an entire nation and still called it “CHANGE”… but was only Bush’s 3rd & 4th terms.


 

THE YEAR WAS 2009…

 

At the town hall in New Orleans, Obama appealed for patience. He said, “Change is hard, and big change is harder.” Is that the excuse? Now where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah. From George Bush.

 
THE MAN THAT CALLED HIS HOAX “CHANGE”

'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most frequently used words to describe the president: Pew Research Center

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As 2014 begins, New York City’s homeless population continues to grow

By Elliott Vernon
3 January 2014
According to the 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) presented to Congress by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in November, nearly 64,000 people, including 22,000 children, are homeless in New York City.
In 2013, the number of homeless in New York City increased by 13 percent compared to January 2012. New York State led the nation with the largest increase over 2012. These statistics, coming on top of federal cuts to unemployment benefits and food stamps, reveal the increasing misery in the city with the largest number of billionaires on the planet.
A recent report in the New York Times describes the city’s upsurge in homelessness as “occurring even as the local economy has recovered,” as though the phenomenon were paradoxical. But the exacerbation of New York’s longstanding housing and homelessness crisis is inevitable, given the policies of the Bloomberg administration and the spiraling inequality that is a feature of daily life in America’s largest city.
The economic recovery is a myth for all but the wealthiest. Ninety-five percent of income gains since the 2008 recession have gone to the top 1 percent.
Over its four terms in office, the Bloomberg administration has responded to New York’s housing crisis with programs that rely on market forces and tax breaks for real estate developers to incentivize the creation of affordable housing. The failure of these programs is self-evident as the numbers of homeless people continue to break records, rising by 69 percent in 12 years.
Tax abatements for the real estate industry may indeed have created a few relatively affordable housing units, but the hundreds of millions in lost tax revenue provided the City is little more than an excuse for cutting programs designed to help families leave shelters by finding apartments and work. The “affordable” units thus created, meanwhile, are still well beyond the means of the working poor. In some buildings, the minimum income requirement to rent “affordable” apartments exceeds by thousands of dollars the median income in the very neighborhoods in which, and for which, the housing was ostensibly established.
The administration has made matters worse for the growing homeless population with its well-documented poor management of the public housing system and its complicated homeless services bureaucracy. Bloomberg also discontinued a policy of giving homeless families priority for Section 8 vouchers, and has defunded rental assistance programs.
An increasing number of New Yorkers are barely hanging onto the housing they have. The decline of the real estate market in recent years has not been accompanied by a corresponding decline in rents.
Instead, rents have continued to increase as wages have stagnated. There has been a consequent increase in the numbers of people who are severely rent-burdened, i.e., whose rent and utilities cost half or more of their income.
Some families have resorted to doubling up, and overcrowding has trended upward over the past several years. The poorest borough, the Bronx, has the highest rate of overcrowding. According to the most recent data available from the US Census Bureau, New York has the distinction of being second only to Los Angeles in overcrowding.
There is little reason to expect the housing crisis to improve under the new administration of Democrat Bill de Blasio and his new Commissioner of Homeless Services, Gilbert Taylor, who served in the Bloomberg administration. During his campaign, de Blasio declared his support for requiring developers to dedicate a percentage of space in their buildings to “affordable” housing—the same policy that has failed under Bloomberg. Even if his campaign promises were to come to fruition, it would mean building a pathetic 50,000 new affordable units over a decade.
The Real Estate Board of New York did not spend money to defeat de Blasio, and its president, Steven Spinola, has said “He’s not somebody that there’s any reason for us to be frightened of. We’ve worked with him. We have no reason to believe he won’t work with us.”
Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to people who were seeking shelter at the city’s Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH) center in the Bronx.
Shanika
Shanika, a mother of two, has been homeless for two-and-a-half years since she came to New York City from Georgia to stay with her mother, who subsequently lost her section 8 housing subsidy. Shanika last worked in August at Jamba Juice, but had to quit because of too-frequent appointments with the city’s housing authority.
Shanika is caught in a catch-22. The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) insists that she could live with her mother but her mother’s Supportive Housing (a government-funded program for the formerly homeless) rules forbid additional people living in her apartment who aren’t on the lease.
Shanika has been found ineligible on the basis that she lives with her mother although, in fact, she does not, as demonstrated by documentation including a letter from her mother’s Supportive Housing case manager.
This bureaucratic nightmare has been going on since October. “I’ve been staying out at my aunt’s house,” Shanika said, “or I have to bounce from house to house to house, with my two-year-old daughter.
“This is the third time I’ve come here and they found me ineligible for a homeless shelter. My kids miss school because every time they find you ineligible you have to bring everyone who is part of your case, which for me means my kids.
“If I come in after 5:00 PM, we have to be there overnight, which means we are forced to stay in a cold room for the night. Then at 5:30 in the morning we get dropped off back in front of the intake center, even though they don’t open for a few hours.
“We are not allowed to bring food into the center, so we can only eat what they give us. This food is terrible, maybe some juice, a disgusting sandwich, or a bagel that is so hard you could chip your tooth on it. It is so bad because they are refreezing already stale food. That is what they are giving to us.
“While they are trying to figure out if you are eligible to stay in a shelter, they put you in a hotel for 10 days. That is a good situation, but I don’t understand why the program is wasting money doing this. They should be putting people in apartments or in shelters. Instead they find people ineligible for benefits and they come back to reapply, they spend another 10 days in the hotel.”
Asked about how she got into this situation, Shanika replied, “Last year I had a home that I lived in for five years, but it was condemned because of Hurricane Sandy. The ACS [Administration for Children’s Services] said kids couldn’t live there. Since I had no one to stay with it meant I had to become homeless in order to keep my kids.
“They put me on the Child Advantage program and said that it would turn into Section 8 [the federal housing assistance program], but that never happened.”
Gesturing to her two-year-old daughter, Shanika said: “All I’m asking for is placement to at least get her out the cold.”
Elizabeth Ramos and her husband, Edwin, told us that this was their first time at the intake facility.
“I am placed in a shelter on Grand Concourse, which they wouldn’t give me the key to,” Elizabeth said. “They were doing construction work, and there is debris in the air. My daughter has asthma. Also, my daughter has kidney disease, so she can’t hold her urine. I waited 35 minutes for a security guard to open the door to enter my apartment.
Elizabeth and Edwin
“I contacted Client Advocacy, and they just moved me to a facility, which is mice-infested, and the beds are all stained.”
We asked how long they’d been homeless. “I just lost my apartment in October of this year,” Edwin said, not long after he had lost his job as a roofer. “The company died out. They gave us the pink slip, and one thing led to another. I couldn’t get unemployment so it was kind of hard to make ends meet. So the only thing we can do is come over here because in Connecticut they don’t have shelter systems like out here. I work now. I’m a grill cook. I’ve done food service for 20 years.
“They downgrade us working people,” he said, “even people who are trying to look for work. There are some people out here who are trying to better themselves. But there’s always somebody who’s bringing them down. So it’s a win-lose situation. You have a job, you can’t make ends meet.
“I don’t have faith in the political institutions. I don’t vote for that reason, because they don’t help. They make situations worse.
“I do catering events as well. You’ve got all these political people, doing these little galas for fundraisers. Where is the money they raise going? They’re spending $2500 on a plate of food.
“It’s either you’re wealthy, and you get to survive. If you’re middle class, you’re screwed. You go to the store and you get a loaf of bread, it’s close to four dollars, a gallon of milk, five dollars. It’s ridiculous. The rent is too high, and the minimum wage is way low.”

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