Pandemic
Historian: Coronavirus ‘a Disease of Globalization’
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The Chinese coronavirus “is emphatically a disease of
globalization,” a pandemic historian at Yale University says.
In an interview published in
the Wall
Street Journal, Yale
University’s Frank Snowden — a historian who most recently in 2006 published a
book about Italy’s eradication of malaria — details how the coronavirus
pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and
free trade.
The interview finds the Journal‘s
Jason Willick seemingly admits the coronavirus is tainting globalism and
pushing Americans and the peoples of Europe toward nationhood:
Yet while the [bubonic] plague saw
power move up from villages and city-states to national capitals, the
coronavirus is encouraging a devolution of authority from supranational units
to the nation-state. This is most obvious in the European Union,
where member states are setting their own responses. Open borders
within the EU have been closed, and some countries have restricted export of
medical supplies. The virus has heightened tensions between the U.S. and
China, as Beijing tries to protect its image and Americans worry about
access to medical supply chains. [Emphasis added]
Snowden told the Journal the
coronavirus is a direct result of the globalization of the American economy
after nearly four decades of free trade policy initiatives:
The coronavirus is threatening “the
economic and political sinews of globalization, and causing them to unravel to
a certain degree,” Mr. Snowden says. He
notes that “coronavirus is emphatically a disease of globalization.” The
virus is striking hardest in cities that are “densely populated and linked by
rapid air travel, by movements of tourists, of refugees, all kinds of business people,
all kinds of interlocking networks.” [Emphasis added]
Globalization, Snowden notes, has
driven the coronavirus to majorly impact the wealthiest of Americans.
“Respiratory viruses, Mr. Snowden
says, tend to be socially indiscriminate in whom they infect. Yet because of
its origins in the vectors of globalization, the coronavirus appears to have
affected the elite in a high-profile way,” the Journal piece
states. “From Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, people who travel frequently or are
in touch with travelers have been among the first to get infected.”
The infection of thousands of the
nation’s rich and upper-middle-class has driven class warfare in regions like
the Hamptons in New York where some of the wealthiest, most liberal celebrities
own property.
A report by Maureen Callahan for the New
York Post chronicles how
the working class staff of the Hamptons’ elite are turning on them as those
infected disregard rules and Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines:
“There’s not a vegetable to be found
in this town right now,” says one resident of Springs, a working-class pocket
of East Hampton. “It’s these elitist people who think they don’t have
to follow the rules.” [Emphasis added]
It’s not just the drastic food
shortage out here. Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care,
is under strain from the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites
panic-fleeing … — and in some cases, knowingly bringing
coronavirus. [Emphasis added]
…
“We’re at the end of Long Island,
the tip, and waves of people are bringing this s–t,” says lifelong
Montauker James Katsipis. “We should blow up the bridges. Don’t let
them in.” [Emphasis added]
While globalization has delivered soaring profits
for corporate executives, working- and middle-class American communities have
been left behind to grapple with fewer jobs, less industry, stagnant wages, and
increase competition in the labor market due to decades-long mass legal
immigration.
Since 2001, free trade with China
has cost millions of Americans their jobs.
For example, the Economic Policy Institute has found that from 2001 to
2015, about 3.4 million U.S. jobs were lost due to the nation’s trade deficit
with China.
Of the 3.4 million U.S. jobs lost in
that time period, about 2.6 million were lost in the manufacturing
industry, making up about three-fourths of the loss of jobs from the
U.S.-Chinese trade deficit.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Soros and the Coronavirus pandemic
Billionaire George Soros uses his political-philanthropic private
foundations' global network to induce chaos to change the capitalistic
democratic systems that prevailed since the end of WWII. Soros aims to reshape
the world according to his purported wily Open Society philosophy, which
evolved after the collapse of the Soviet Communist system. He tested his ideas
in Eastern Europe before moving to the rest of the world, and on to his major
target, the United States of America.
Soros’s open-borders agenda and his efforts to create a global
‘open society’ have suffered a setback due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic, but his ambition of changing America from within, and meddling in the
domestic affairs of nation-states where his OSF operates did not ebb. Rest
assured that Soros, who thrives on chaos, takes advantage of the distraction
caused by the pandemic to advance his political goals in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Over the last three decades, Soros used the massive spending
of his private International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO), to spur
political activism in progressive Left-leaning/radical organizations, academic
institutions, and media outlets, along with large campaign contributions. He combined
this formula with his market manipulations to produce fundamental disruptions
and changes in the political landscape of many countries, including the
U.S., affecting domestic and international markets, policies, and even the presidency.
When Steve Kroft interviewed Soros on “60 Minutes”
in December 1998, he asked the famous speculator whether he felt any
complicity in the financial collapses in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Japan, or Russia. Smiling, Soros responded: “I don’t feel guilty because I
am engaged in an amoral activity which is not meant to have anything to do
with guilt.” His amoral behavior is not limited to finance. “I cannot and
do not look at the social consequences of what I do,” he replied arrogantly.
Professing to be an “amoral” financial speculator has earned
Soros the image of a maverick. His generous handouts did wonders to blind the
political, media, academic and social elites, and afforded him the respectability
and credibility he needed to advance his sociopolitical disruptive agenda,
remodeling countries, especially the U.S., to whatever he deems as an
“open society.”
To increase the spread of and maximize the influence of his
disruptive ideas, Soros has been using his charities to fund progressive socialist/globalist
groups. He endowed his flagship charity, the Open Society
Foundations (OSF), which operates as an INGO, with more than
$19.5 billion and an operating budget of $1.2 billion for 2020. It is the
"world's largest private grant-making" political entity, which
according to its website operates in more "than
120 countries,” distributing "thousands of grants every year” to
local NGOs and individuals who claim to be independent and sometimes even
non-partisan, to “promote” the OSF’s “values.”
As of this writing, there are 197 countries in the world and 10 million
NGOs worldwide (!) Many of them operate in collaboration with
tens of thousands of INGOs. (Last available data from 2013 stated there
were more than 40,000 INGOs.)
It is important to note that “INGOs are not elected bodies,
are not founded on the principle of representation, and are not accountable
to the public,” as pointed out by Dr.
Raphael Ben-Ari, an expert on NGOs and international law. INGOs have no
legal recognition and guidelines and their often biased “fact-finding”
reports are rarely questioned by the media or even “national courts and
international tribunals and institutions.”
The short and long-term aggregate influence of Soros’s private
INGO, and its network of thousands of local NGO’s is multidimensional and
grows exponentially.
Soros’s global network is exceptionally complex and notoriously
opaque. Transparify,
which rates global think-tank transparency, classified the OSF as "highly
opaque," with the rating of "0."
He already spent at least “$32 billion of a
personal fortune” in propagating his progressive “open society” creed through
an intricate and disruptive web that would put the 'black widow' spider to shame.
In January 2020, Soros chose the World Economic Forum in Davos to announce his most ambitious initiative,
the "most important and enduring project" of his life, the Open
Society University Network (OSUN). He pledged $1 billion to create what "the world really needs," an
international platform for teaching and research that existing universities all
over the world would be able to join, among other things, "to fight
dictators and would-be dictators."
How would the scholars at the OSUN identify "would-be dictators"?
Easily. According to Soros, "A perfect
way to tell a dictator or a would-be dictator if he identifies me as an
enemy."
S
oros's latest self-styled global academic venture comes on top
of his OSF's contribution of $407,790,344 in gifts and commitments to higher
education since the year 2000, as reported by the Media
Research Center in January 2020.
Soros created the OSUN, a “new kind of
global educational network," to serve as a global indoctrination organ to fight against "climate
change" (the Left's new religion) and to "educate against
nationalism” and other topics close to his heart, so his "Open
Society" doctrine of radical socialist political activism endures and
spreads after he's gone.
Soros' new OSUN is set to function as a “thought” feeder to and
enforcer of his Open Society doctrine, which functions as a clarion call for
resistance and revolutions, evoking some of Karl Marx’s and Leon Trotsky’s
ideas on permanent revolution.
The OSF’s
press release announced that the OSUN would join forces with other Soros-funded
universities: his Vienna based Central European University (CEU), and Bard
College in upstate New York, with campuses in New York City, Boston, California,
Germany, and Russia, Al-Quds University in the West Bank, Arizona State
University, the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan, BRAC
University in Bangladesh, and others.
Soros’s OSF calls for and funds NGOs and individuals for training
to organize protests and large-scale demonstrations and teaching resistance
techniques. They also call for and support activities against nationalism,
Judeo-Christian values and traditions, and of course, capitalism.
Soros’ foundations also support fighting against global warming,
and for ‘global social justice,’ transgenderism, population control, and free
abortion, to mention but a few.
The billions Soros had spent already made deep inroads into
pre-disposed academic institutions and led to significant modifications in our
social discourse and political conventions. If the past is of any indication,
with billions more left to the OSF and his other foundations, Soros’s radical
socialist legacy will continue fueling political, economic and social turmoil
long after he is gone.
The 89 -year-old Soros, whose goal, as the British daily Guardian described
it, is to "push the world in a cosmopolitan direction in which racism,
income inequality, American empire, and the alienations of contemporary
capitalism would be things of the past," is now in a hurry to leave an
even grander legacy.
Soros, who vehemently opposes Donald Trump, failed to foresee the
latter’s successful run to the White House, thus shorted the equity market, losing nearly $1 billion. Since then, he
pledged to use all available means to overthrow Trump, whom he calls an “imposter,”
and his administration a
“Danger to
the World,” out of office.
Soros and his family and their foundations are pouring money into
election campaigns of Democrat candidates to all offices, especially district
attorneys. They also fund advocacy groups that function as “echo-chambers” for
candidates for the 2020 elections. The candidates’ main qualification is
adherence to Soros' progressive- socialist, anti-law enforcement, open borders,
illegal migration, sanctuary cities, gender and racial rights, social justice,
climate change, etc.
Soros's bottomless funding of such candidates led U.S. Attorney
General William Barr to warn that the
liberal billionaire has been bankrolling radical prosecutor candidates in
cities across the country. "There's this recent development [where] George
Soros has been coming in, in largely Democratic primaries where there has not
been much voter turnout and putting in a lot of money to elect people who are
not very supportive of law enforcement and don't view the office as bringing to
trial and prosecuting criminals but pursuing other social agendas," he
told Martha MacCallum, on "The Story" on Fox News, in
December 2019.
The chaos following the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic that
tanked the financial markets and shut down the U.S. economy is a crisis Soros
will not waste to attack Trump. According to the Washington Free Beacon,
Soros has already given “$3 million in contributions” to Priorities
USA Action -- the Democratic Party's largest super PAC. The money is used to
flood Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin with ads attacking Trump’s
handling of the pandemic. How much did Soros contribute to help fight the
pandemic?
TRUMP'S GOLDMAN SACHS CRONY
Goldman Sachs Bankster “King of the Foreclosures” Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin vows that the Goldman Sachs infested Trump Admin will
hand no-strings massive socialist bailouts to Trump Hotels. Mnuchin says the
welfare will exceed the Bankster-owned Democrat Party’s massive bailout of
Obama crony Jamie Dimon of J P Morgan’s bailout in 2008
TRUMP’S TAX BILL:
A massive tax cut for his plundering Goldman Sachs infested
administration.
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His
Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews: Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s
Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs,
GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama
was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big
Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
In Obamanomics, investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up
the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t
see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to
America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate
welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics.
Gary Cohn: ‘I Am a
Globalist
— I Believe We Live in a
Globalized World’
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Former President Donald Trump economic adviser and
former Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn, when asked
Tuesday on CBS’s “This Morning” about Trump calling him
a “globalist” and if it was an anti-Semitic remark,
proudly proclaimed himself as a globalist.
“I’m
absolutely not offended by the term ‘globalist’ as I am a
globalist,”
Cohn stated. “I believe we live in a globalized
world.
I think the United States is an integral part of a
globalized
world. And we have to figure out how to live as a
good
citizen in a globalized earth — so do the Chinese, so do
the
Russians, so do the Middle Eastern countries.”
“We
are globalized. We cannot change that fact,” he
concluded.
CLINTON MAFIA AND THEIR BANKSTERS AT GOLDMAN SACHS
WHO IS TIGHTER WITH THE PLUNDERING BANKSTERS? CLINTON, OBAMA or
TRUMP?
The Clinton White House famously abolished the Glass–Steagall
legislation, which separated commercial and investment banking. The move was
a boon for Wall Street
firms and led to major bank mergers that some analysts say helped contribute to
the 2008 financial crisis.
Bill and Hillary Clinton raked in massive speaking fees from
Goldman Sachs, with CNN documenting a total of at
least $7.7 million in paid speeches to big financial firms, including Goldman
Sachs and UBS. Hillary Clinton made $675,000 from speeches to Goldman Sachs
specifically, and her husband secured more than
$1,550,000 from Goldman speeches. In 2005 alone, Bill Clinton collected over $500,000
from three Goldman Sachs events.
TRY TO SEPARATE THE CLINTON MAFIA AND DONALD TRUMP’S CRIMES FROM
THEIR BANKSTER PAYMASTERS AT GOLDMAN SACHS!
Can’t be done!
NEW YORK — In the midst of a
public relations nightmare, former White House Deputy National Security Adviser
Dina Habib Powell took charge of Goldman Sachs’s global charitable foundation,
helping to resurrect the big bank’s shattered image after it was implicated in
practices that contributed to the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
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Obamanomics:
How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends,
Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
NEW YORK —
In the midst of a public relations nightmare, former White House Deputy
National Security Adviser Dina Habib Powell took charge of Goldman Sachs’s
global charitable foundation, helping to resurrect the big bank’s shattered
image after it was implicated in practices that contributed to the financial
crisis of 2007-2008.
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Hillary Clinton is simply the epitome of the rabid self – a
whirlpool of selfishness, greed, and malignance.
It may well be true that Donald Trump has made his greatest
contribution to the nation before even taking office: the
political destruction of Hillary Clinton and her infinitely corrupt
machine. J.R. Dunn
"Hillary
will do anything to distract you from her reckless record and the damage to the
Democratic Party and the America she and The Obama's have created."
WHAT DID THE BANKSTERS KNOW ABOUT OUR ACTOR OBAMA THAT WE DIDN’T
KNOW?
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are
employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG
($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).
BARACK OBAMA HAS COLLECTED NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH MONEY AS
JOHN McCAIN
BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Wall Street firms have chipped in more than $9 million to Barack
Obama. Zurga/Bloomberg
Wall Street is investing heavily in Barack Obama.
Although the Democratic presidential hopeful has vowed to
raise capital gains and corporate taxes, financial industry bigs have
contributed almost twice as much to Obama as to GOP rival John McCain, a Daily
News analysis of campaign records shows.
“The administration has been pushing hard for a
settlement among state attorneys general, the nation's five
Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. — and
certain federal agencies.”
THE LOOTING
OF AMERICA:
BARACK OBAMA AND HIS CRONY BANKSTERS set
themselves on America’s pensions next!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/04/obamanomics-assault-on-american-middle.html
The new aristocrats, like the lords of old, are not bound
by the laws that apply to the lower orders. Voluminous reports have been issued
by Congress and government panels documenting systematic fraud and law breaking
carried out by the biggest banks both before and after the Wall Street crash of
2008.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of America and every other major US bank have been implicated in a
web of scandals, including the sale of toxic mortgage securities on false
pretenses, the rigging of international interest rates and global foreign
exchange markets, the laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and
lying to bank regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent
borrowers, credit card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of
energy markets, and complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Judicial
Watch: Only Crimes in Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama Gang’
OBAMA NEEDED THESE ILLEGALS TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEM AFTER OBAMA'S CRONY BANKSTERS' PLUNDER.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR
Barack Obama’s Russia Connection
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/barack-obamas-russian-connection-who.html
If Obama was a fully recruited agent
of Moscow, tasked with giving Russia a significant military advantage over the
United States, and economically weakening and socially dividing the nation, how
would he have conducted his presidency (or his post-presidency) any
differently? TREVOR LOUDON
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Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party
Across the Nation
OPERATION OBOMB:
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY
GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
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Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
One of the most disgusting things to come out
of the Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where
members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
allowed illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun
walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were
connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were
eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used
to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. BETH BAUMANN
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https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
The United States at the Point of No Return
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Inequality, class and life expectancy in America
15 February
2016
February 13, 2016
More 'legacy lies' from
outgoing Obama on economy
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Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?
House Committee on the Judiciary
9:00 a.m., Thursday, February 4, 2016
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=9AC016C4-D7CD-44D7-8172-9B81E587D2BD
Witnesses:
Brandon Judd, U.S. Border Patrol Agent and the President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National Border Patrol Council
Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety
Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for immigration Studies
RASMUSSEN:
Republican Debate Shows Where Comprehensive Immigration Is Headed: Nowhere
House Appropriations Boss Initiates
Crackdown on Sanctuaries
Surge
in Illegal Aliens, 500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Houston Slayings Fueled
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Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
"Then we suffered the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world." ALAN BERGSTEIN
THE RISE of
BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the
U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is
ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if
they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical
behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
BARACK OBAMA
POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda
for the Obama bankster-funded third term for life.
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
FAKEBOOK and
GOOBLE ASSAULT FREE SPEECH TO BUILD THE GLOBALISTS’ BILLIONAIRES’ DICTATORSHIP
FOR THE RICH
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/facebook-and-google-assault-free-speech.html
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS, THE SUPER RICH and
OPEN BORDERS
ADVOCATES TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE-CLASS.
There’s a reason why Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg,
Bloomberg, Gates and the Koch Brothers love the Obomb!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical
Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
Obamanomics: How
Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends,
Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal
aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an
assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor,
uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens
and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
GEORGE SOROS PARTNERS WITH BARACK OBAMA and ERIC
HOLDER TO CREATE A GLOBALIST REGIME FOR THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS and CRONY
BANKSTERS…. Open borders and endless hordes of illegals will make it happen!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/monica-showalter-soros-banksters-and.html
YOU WONDERED WHY OBAMA-HOLDER WORKED SO HARD TO SABOTAGE
AMERICAN VOTING FOR MORE ILLEGALS???
Those
are the subliterate, low-skill, non-English-speaking indigents whose own
societies are unable or unwilling to usefully educate and employ them. Bring
these people here and they not only need a lot of services, they are putty in
the hands of leftist demogogues as Hugo Chavez demonstrated - and they are very
useful as leftist voters who will support the Soros agenda.
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
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BARACK OBAMA and
the RISE OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA ‘The Race’, now calling itself
UNIDOSus.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/03/traitor-barack-obama-and-rise-of.html
(TOP - THIRD TERM, PAY-TO-PLAY – BIDEN)
JOE BIDEN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO
KNOW THIS!
THE SECRET LIFE OF A BANKSTERS’
RENT BOY.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
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THE OBAMA
MARXIST-MUSLIM BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
THE RISE OF
BARACK OBAMA an American Traitor
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/03/traitor-barack-obama-and-rise-of.html
by Michelle Malkin
Concentrated
Corporate Power: Liberal Metropolises, Monopolies Increasingly Dominate U.S.
Economy
They are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order to protect their privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay the price, the current ruling class and their progeny will have far more to lose.
Deplorables Versus the
Ruling Class: A Global Struggle
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle Class Americans Against
‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires
JOHN BINDER
The Republican Party
must defend America’s working and middle class against “concentrated corporate
power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the United States’ economy,
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
Tucker Carlson
Exposes D.C. ‘Conservatives’ for Doing Big Tech’s Bidding
‘The
Left Case Against Open Borders’: Liberal Author Pans ‘Useful Idiots of Big
Business’
Progressives’
enthusiastic support for mass immigration has converted them into “useful
idiots” for the nation’s business elites, says a left-wing writer.
AMERICA
UNRAVELS:
Millions of
children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves and ILLEGALS SUCK IN
BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
*
"The
top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly three-quarters of all household
wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
*
Two
Americas: De Blasio's Amazon vs. Trump's Walmart
Report:
‘Impeachment’ Billionaire Tom Steyer Prepares to Launch Presidential Bid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/19/report-impeachment-billionaire-tom-steyer-prepares-to-launch-presidential-bid/
Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer, who spent millions in the 2018
midterm elections pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is preparing
to launch a campaign for president in 2020, according to Politico.
Democrat
Corruption is a Clear and Present Danger to America
DEMOCRACY DIES IN A LEFTIST COUP
The best midterms that San Francisco donors could buy.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
MULTI-CULTURALISM
and the creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in
America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
AS WALL STREET
PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s Export of
“cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But a series of
reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over the past week
reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in
record levels of wealth.”
MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE
RICH: YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK…. for Wall Street, Banksters, Billionaires
and LA RAZA.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-democrat-party-for-billionaires.html
“But a series of
reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over the past week
reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in
record levels of wealth.”
Class
Conflict within the Democratic Party
Dem
billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg already have spent a combined $200 million in
quest for presidency
THE LOOTING
OF AMERICA:
BARACK OBAMA AND HIS CRONY BANKSTERS set
themselves on America’s pensions next!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/04/obamanomics-assault-on-american-middle.html
The new aristocrats, like the lords of old, are not bound
by the laws that apply to the lower orders. Voluminous reports have been issued
by Congress and government panels documenting systematic fraud and law breaking
carried out by the biggest banks both before and after the Wall Street crash of
2008.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of America and every other major US bank have been implicated in a
web of scandals, including the sale of toxic mortgage securities on false
pretenses, the rigging of international interest rates and global foreign
exchange markets, the laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and
lying to bank regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent
borrowers, credit card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of
energy markets, and complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Judicial
Watch: Only Crimes in Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama Gang’
Katie Pavlich's Latest Books, Fast
and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up are
available on Amazon
FOR EIGHT YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND ERIC
HOLDER SABOTAGED HOMELAND SECURITY TO EASE MORE MEXICANS OVER OUR BORDERS AND
INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS.
OBAMA NEEDED THESE ILLEGALS TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEM AFTER OBAMA'S CRONY BANKSTERS' PLUNDER.
“The watchdogs at
Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR
Barack Obama’s Russia Connection
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/barack-obamas-russian-connection-who.html
If Obama was a fully recruited agent
of Moscow, tasked with giving Russia a significant military advantage over the
United States, and economically weakening and socially dividing the nation, how
would he have conducted his presidency (or his post-presidency) any
differently? TREVOR LOUDON
*
We are all victims of the Obama
cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all Americans who
believe in our free and fair election process.
///
Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party
Across the Nation
“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described as
the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general
Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has
aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign
staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct action
against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for
example, features lectures by former campaign executive
Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
*
“Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists
whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein
Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of
the key players who put Obama into power.”
*
We are all victims of
the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all
Americans who believe in our free and fair election process.
OPERATION OBOMB:
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY
GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
*
“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve
center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder
has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with
the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with
a variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
Obama choose Communists and Marxists
for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest
political advisors, and his head of the CIA. These facts are not in
dispute. Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary
damage control. Our press chooses not to report them.
Professor
Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny
include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the
openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who
put Obama into power.
WAS THE RUSSIAN HOAX ONLY OBAMA’S ATTEMPT TO PUT
ASIDE TRUMP FOR AN OBAMA THIRD TERM FOR LIFE???
*
They Destroyed Our
Country
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)”
*
These
people were engaged in a massive political conspiracy. The Democrats made a
decision from the outset—beginning with the election campaign of the favored
candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, Hillary Clinton—that they would not
oppose Trump on his anti-working-class social policy or his authoritarian
hostility to democratic rights and promotion of anti-immigrant racism, but on
issues of imperialist foreign policy.
*
“Obama’s new home in Washington has
been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition.
Former attorney general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll”
and has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former
high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
Barack Obama’s plot
for a third term for life
A Muslim dictatorship
like his crony paymasters, the 9-11 invading Saudis who have financed him for
decades.
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse. After all, he went around saying he
didn't have Constitutional authority to legalize the illegals, and then he
tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
*
What was
Obama’s motive? Simple, he knew if he did that for Hillary, he’d own the next
President of the United States, and could blackmail her with the truth till the
end of time. It literally would have given him a 3rd and 4th term.
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIAN
CONNECTION
*
WITH THESE TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
*
How President Barack Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear
dominance.
///
The Democrats are now
officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to the disastrous
presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
*
*
Abunimah’s piece -- and Obama’s numerous
anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout his life Barack
Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah
Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS…
Did he serve them well?
Malia,
Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard
Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good
enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and
Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before
prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their
dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire
peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
“Of course,
one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry”
is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein
Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
///
CRONY CAPITALISM
Barack Obama created more debt
for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also had the
only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the wealth created
went to
the top 1% of the world’s
wealthy.
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United
Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase
from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies
that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics,
investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media
ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change,
Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s
battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE THE RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR BARACK
OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP
Obama orchestrated the
greatest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history!
THE WALL STREET BOUGHT AND
OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY
SERVING BANKSTERS,
BILLIONAIRES and INVADING ILLEGALS
THE
CRONY CLASS:
Income inequality grows
FOUR TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush.
“By
the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the Democratic Party had
completely repudiated its association with the reforms of the New Deal and
Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to provide an ample
supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO
E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed the 1994
Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that has
helped create the largest prison population in the world.”
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special
interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting
handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small
businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative reporter
Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White
House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering
corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate
America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s OBAMANOMICS TO
SERVE THE RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
INCOME PLUMMETS UNDER OBAMA AND HIS WALL
STREET CRONIES (THERE'S A REASON WHY GEORGE S OROS RUNS OBAMA'S BID FOR A
THIRD TERM FOR LIFE).
///
MICHELLE OBAMA ANNOUNCES SHE WILL RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND
BE BARACK’S THIRD TERM FOR LIFE.
MEXICO WILL ELECT HER!
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/01/michelle-obama-ill-be-baracks-third.html
The main objective of “political
animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a
broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there are
people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at the
huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing that
Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people who
have brought it down.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years. MATTHEW VADUM
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight long years. MATTHEW VADUM
Editorial Reviews: Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s
Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics. TIMOTHY P CARNEY
*
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special
interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting
handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small
businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative reporter
Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White
House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering
corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate
America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s OBAMANOMICS TO
SERVE THE RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
BARACK Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM
PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED AMERICA!
"But the Obamas are
the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet
spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
The mullahs
rolled in cash as a result of rolling Obama and his gullible team over the
deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for some sort of
legacy. MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM
DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS, FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
(FARRAKHAN MUSLIM)
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
*
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation
is now “divided, resentful and
angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack
Hussein Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
*
"But
the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the
media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
MONICA SHOWALTER
*
"Along
with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to
this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY
PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING
ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
One of the most disgusting things to come out
of the Obama administration was "Operation Fast and Furious," where
members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
allowed illegal gun sales to go through – commonly referred to as "gun
walking" – in order to track buyers and sellers they believed were
connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were
eventually found throughout the United States and Mexico. Two of them were used
to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. BETH BAUMANN
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The Democrat Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders,
more welfare for invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally
vote for…. All to destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’
DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the
party whose principle objective is to thoroughly transform the nature of the
American electorate by means of open borders and the mass, unchecked
importation of illiterate third world peasants who will vote in overwhelming
numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG
(JEWISH –
ANTI-SEMITICISM)
Anti-Semitic,
open borders for cheaper labor and funded by criminal banksters… and these pols
are making vast fortunes sucking the blood of America!
We must not let
them cheat their way to power over the rest of us. Their ongoing
vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves
and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture. What they
have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are
doing it on purpose. They have nothing but contempt for the US as
founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN
THINKER
“Then we suffered
the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-,
Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the
electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of
his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no
secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was
out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world.” ALAN BERGSTEIN
“There is a deep
racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator
Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be
asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist
we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
February
16, 2016
The United States at the Point of No Return
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/the_united_states_at_the_point_of_no_return.html#.VsOT8DBA5Nc.blogger
There
is an unquestioned disconnect between the vast majority of the American people
and the so-called elites or ruling class. Whenever I am in the company of
those that are members of this exclusive fraternity, and when the conversation
inevitably turns to the subject of the irascible mood of the electorate, I
offer what I consider to be a valid theory as to one of the primary reasons
why. That is: a plurality of the populace, myself included, firmly
believe the United States is approaching the point of no return to its founding
as a nation of individual freedom and opportunity, and that the 2016 election
is the most significant in 150 years insofar as determining the long term fate
of the country.
More
often than not these acquaintances react as if Chicken Little had just escaped
the asylum and was running amok claiming the sky is falling.
However, in an effort to be kind to the loon in their midst, I have been
told, as a figurative pat on the head, because of my personal background as
displaced war orphan from World War II that I am hypersensitive and what is
going on in America really isn’t as bad as I claim.
Not
as bad as I claim?
Not
since the presidential election of 1932 has the American electorate been so
mired in discontent. Despite the best efforts of the media to portray
this discontentment as limited to the Republican base, a variety of polls have
confirmed a vast majority of the populace shares this same sense of disgruntlement.
Innumerable polls taken over the past seven years are consistent in showing
nearly 7 in 10 Americans believing the nation is headed in the wrong
direction.
Further,
nearly 60% think that the next generation will be worse off than they are. And
few have any faith that the economic outlook for the country will improve in
the near or distant future.
Beginning
in the late 1980’s, the cognoscenti declared that expansive government
spending, globalization and free trade, combined with a comprehensive and
overarching regulatory regime determined to root out so-called corruption and
inequality as well as save the planet from the over blown evils of global
warming, would be the course the nation should pursue. The result of this
foolhardy and myopic scheme:
1. In 1988 the national debt
of the United States stood at $2.6 Trillion, today it is over $19.0 Trillion--
an increase of 635% (and projected to reach $29.0 Trillion by 2026). On
the other hand the debt of all the nations on earth has grown by only 135% since 1988.
2.
Since November of 2008 the working age population has increased by
over 18 million. However, the number of those employed has increased just 5.5
million. Meanwhile those unemployed or no longer in the work force has
ballooned by 12.4 million to a staggering total of 102 million or 40.4% of the working age population.
3.
Another factor impacting on the economic health of the American
people is immigration. In 1988 there were 16 million immigrants
(including less than a million illegal aliens) living in the United
States. Today that number has skyrocketed to 42.4 million (including an
estimated 12 million illegal aliens). This enormous increase (165%) in
the immigrant population has not only put pressure on a stagnant job market but
it has also been a major factor in the decline of median income in the country.
4.
The upshot of all the above is that since 1988 the income of the
top 5% has risen 39.3% (adjusted for inflation) and the income of the bottom 50% has fallen by 1.9%.
5.
Since 2008 the Obama cabal has added
over 18,000 pages to the Code of Federal Regulations. It is estimated that
complying with federal regulations costs the economy nearly $2 Trillion per
year and is, along with taxes and innumerable mandates, one of the principle
reasons for the lack of new business start-ups and loss of jobs to other
countries.
One
of the primary hallmarks of the United States had been that of a classless
society wherein economic factors allowed the citizenry to take advantage of the
marketplace in order to move up or down based on their efforts and willingness
to work. However, this scenario is disappearing as the opportunities for
upward mobility cease to exist. In its place a class driven society,
similar to all other quasi-socialist nations past and present, is now becoming
inevitable as even the Bureau of Labor Statistics admits that the level of
Americans working and in the labor force will continue to decrease over the next 8
years.
Another
of the primary factors in the decline of the United States is that the nation’s
elites, rather than view education as the means for the people to attain
success in a competitive world, have recast it into a vehicle for their pet
theories and political views. Whether it is the promulgation of faux
self-esteem, the obsession with the so-called evils of capitalism and the
nation’s past, and the theoretical joys of socialism among other inane curricula,
the education establishment has assured that the American people are rapidly
becoming among the least well-educated populations in the world.
In
2013 American 15 year olds ranked 32nd among
industrialized countries in math, 20th in reading and 24th in
science. In 1988 this same age group ranked among the top 5-10 nations in
the world in these same categories. Further, recent polls have indicated that
as a byproduct of the radicalized education establishment, nearly 7 out of 10 between the ages of
18 and 29 would vote for an avowed socialist. Thus it is clear that the
future of the country is on very shaky ground.
As
for the issue of freedom: in a recent analysis it was determined that the
United States now ranks 12th among the nations of the world in
economic freedom (6thin 2008) but a dismal 31st in
personal freedom (17th in 2008). The authors of the study commented:
The
decline reflects the long-term drop in every category of economic freedom and
its rule of law indicators. The US performance is worrisome and shows that the
US can no longer claim to be the leading bastion of liberty in the world.
In addition to the expansion of the regulatory state and drop in economic freedom,
the war on terror, the war on drugs and the erosion of property rights due to a
greater use of eminent domain all likely contributed to the US decline.
Using
the cudgel of the mainstream media, the entertainment complex and the education
establishment, the Left and its surrogate, the Democratic Party, have
successfully inculcated into a plurality of the American people a belief that
there are no moral absolutes and that the state can grant any rights that it so
chooses to whomever it chooses. Further, the nation’s founding documents
are arcane, racially insensitive, and unsuitable for today. Thus
religious liberty, property rights and freedom of speech are under aggressive
assault. The Judiciary is now almost under the complete control of these
same statists, and with the death of Justice Scalia the last line of defense,
the Supreme Court, is in peril.
The
vast majority of the American people sense that the future of the nation and
that of their progeny is in serious jeopardy. However, one of the most
troubling aspects of the current unease and angst among the general public is
what this portends: when anger and frustration evolve into deep seated passion,
reason is too often a casualty. As Thomas Sowell recently wrote:
Too
many nations, in desperate times, especially after the authorities have
discredited themselves and forfeited the trust of the people, have turned to
some new and charismatic leader, who ended up turning a dire situation into an
utter catastrophe,
This
has been true throughout history whether in England in the 1650’s, France in
the 1790’s, or Russia, Italy and Germany in the 20th century.
In
the current campaign for the next president, there are candidates attempting to
tap into the ire of the citizenry by either promising that a purer form of
socialism will magically solve the problems or by claiming that they, by sheer
force of their will and personality, will part the seas and save the
nation. Unfortunately, due to the ill-education of the populace as well
as their angst, far too many seeds of this demagoguery are falling on fertile
ground. The election of any of these candidates will only exacerbate and
make permanent the nations woes.
So
to my ruling class friends safely ensconced in Washington, New York and other
enclaves among the like-minded and wealthy, this nation is at the point of no
return to the country of freedom and opportunity that allowed you to be where
you are. The folks in fly-over country know it and so should you.
*
AMERICA AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN
THE LEGACY OF CORRUPTION OF BARACK OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON
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An old joke I heard during my brief time in the opera business went something like this: There are four types of tenors: leggiero, lyric, spinto, and heldentenor. The leggiero tenor has no balls. The lyric tenor has one ball. The spinto tenor has two...
The main objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing that Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people who have brought it down.
Inequality, class and life expectancy in America
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An old joke I heard during my brief time in the opera business went something like this: There are four types of tenors: leggiero, lyric, spinto, and heldentenor. The leggiero tenor has no balls. The lyric tenor has one ball. The spinto tenor has two...
The main objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing that Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people who have brought it down.
Inequality, class and life expectancy in America
Inequality, class and life expectancy in America
15 February
2016
A study by Brookings
Institution economists released Friday documents a sharp increase in life span
divergences between the rich and the poor in America. The report, based on an
analysis of Census Bureau and Social Security Administration data, concludes
that for men born in 1950, the gap in life expectancy between the top 10
percent of wage earners and the bottom 10 percent is more than double the gap
for their counterparts born in 1920.
For those born in 1920, there was a six-year differential between rich and poor. For those born in 1950, that difference had reached 14 years. For women, the gap grew from 4.7 years to 13 years, almost tripling.
Overall, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent improved by just 3 percent for men born in 1950 over those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, it soared by about 28 percent.
Life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of male wage earners born in 1950 rose by less than one year compared to that for male workers born 40 years earlier—to 73.6 from 72.9. But for the top 10 percent, life expectancy leapt to 87.2 from 79.1.
The United States ranks among the worst so-called rich countries when it comes to life expectancy. But its low ranking is entirely due to the poor health and high mortality of low-income Americans. According to the Social Security Administration, life expectancy for the wealthiest US men at age 60 was just below the rates for Iceland and Japan, two countries with the highest levels. Americans in the bottom quarter of the wage scale, on the other hand, ranked just above Poland and the Czech Republic.
Life-expectancy is the most basic indicator of social well-being. The minimal increase for low-income workers and the widening disparity between the poor and the rich is a stark commentary on the immense growth of social inequality and class polarization in the United States. It underscores the fact that socioeconomic class is the fundamental category of social life under capitalism—one that conditions every aspect of life, including its length.
The Brookings Institution findings shed further light on the catastrophic decline in the social position of the American working class. They follow recent reports showing a sharp rise in death rates for both young and middle-aged white workers, primarily due to drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide. Other recent reports have shown a dramatic decline in life expectancy for poorer middle-aged Americans and a reversal of decades of declining infant mortality.
It is no mystery what is behind this vast social retrogression. It is the product of the decay of American capitalism and a four-decade-long offensive by the ruling elite against the working class. From Reagan to the Obama administration, Democrats and Republicans alike have overseen a corporate-government assault on the jobs, wages, pensions and health benefits of working people.
The ruling elite has dismantled the bulk of the country’s industrial infrastructure, destroying decent-paying jobs by the millions, and turned to the most parasitic and criminal forms of financial speculation as the main source of its profit and private wealth. Untold trillions have been squandered to finance perpetual war and the maniacal self-enrichment of the top 1 percent and 0.1 percent.
The basic infrastructure of the country has been starved of funds and left to rot, to the point where uncounted millions of people are being poisoned with lead and other toxins from corroded water systems. Flint, Michigan is just the tip of the iceberg.
Under Obama, this social counterrevolution has been intensified. The financial meltdown of 2008 has been utilized by the same forces that precipitated the crash to carry through a reordering of social relations aimed at reversing every social gain won by the working class in the course of a century of struggle. A central target of the attack is health care for working people.
Obamacare is the spearhead of a worked-out strategy to reduce the quantity and quality of health care available to workers and reorganize the health care system directly on a class basis. Corporate and government costs are to be slashed by gutting employer-paid health care, forcing workers individually to buy expensive, bare-bones plans from the insurance monopolies, and rationing drugs, tests and medical procedures to make them inaccessible to workers.
The rise in mortality for workers and the widening of the life span gap between rich and poor are not simply the outcome of impersonal economic forces. In corporate boardrooms, think tanks and state agencies, the ruling class is working to lower working class life expectancy. In late 2013, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank with the closest ties to the Pentagon and the CIA, published two policy papers decrying the “waste” of money on health care for the elderly. The clear message was that ordinary people were living much too long and diverting resources needed by the military to wage war around the world.
The social and economic chasm in America finds a political expression in the vast disconnect between the entire political establishment and the masses of working people. Neither party nor any of their presidential candidates, the self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders included, can seriously address the real state of social conditions or offer a serious program to address the crisis.
In his final State of the Union Address last month, Obama presented an absurd picture of a resurgent economy. “The United States of America, right now,” he declared, “has the strongest, most durable economy in the world… Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton and Sanders are seeking to outdo one another in seizing the mantle of the Obama administration and praising its supposed social and economic achievements.
They cannot address the real conditions facing the masses of working people because they defend the capitalist system, which is the source of the social disaster. The remedy must be based on an understanding of the disease. It is the building of an independent socialist and revolutionary movement uniting the entire working class, in the US and around the world.
For those born in 1920, there was a six-year differential between rich and poor. For those born in 1950, that difference had reached 14 years. For women, the gap grew from 4.7 years to 13 years, almost tripling.
Overall, life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent improved by just 3 percent for men born in 1950 over those born in 1920. For the top 10 percent, it soared by about 28 percent.
Life expectancy for the bottom 10 percent of male wage earners born in 1950 rose by less than one year compared to that for male workers born 40 years earlier—to 73.6 from 72.9. But for the top 10 percent, life expectancy leapt to 87.2 from 79.1.
The United States ranks among the worst so-called rich countries when it comes to life expectancy. But its low ranking is entirely due to the poor health and high mortality of low-income Americans. According to the Social Security Administration, life expectancy for the wealthiest US men at age 60 was just below the rates for Iceland and Japan, two countries with the highest levels. Americans in the bottom quarter of the wage scale, on the other hand, ranked just above Poland and the Czech Republic.
Life-expectancy is the most basic indicator of social well-being. The minimal increase for low-income workers and the widening disparity between the poor and the rich is a stark commentary on the immense growth of social inequality and class polarization in the United States. It underscores the fact that socioeconomic class is the fundamental category of social life under capitalism—one that conditions every aspect of life, including its length.
The Brookings Institution findings shed further light on the catastrophic decline in the social position of the American working class. They follow recent reports showing a sharp rise in death rates for both young and middle-aged white workers, primarily due to drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide. Other recent reports have shown a dramatic decline in life expectancy for poorer middle-aged Americans and a reversal of decades of declining infant mortality.
It is no mystery what is behind this vast social retrogression. It is the product of the decay of American capitalism and a four-decade-long offensive by the ruling elite against the working class. From Reagan to the Obama administration, Democrats and Republicans alike have overseen a corporate-government assault on the jobs, wages, pensions and health benefits of working people.
The ruling elite has dismantled the bulk of the country’s industrial infrastructure, destroying decent-paying jobs by the millions, and turned to the most parasitic and criminal forms of financial speculation as the main source of its profit and private wealth. Untold trillions have been squandered to finance perpetual war and the maniacal self-enrichment of the top 1 percent and 0.1 percent.
The basic infrastructure of the country has been starved of funds and left to rot, to the point where uncounted millions of people are being poisoned with lead and other toxins from corroded water systems. Flint, Michigan is just the tip of the iceberg.
Under Obama, this social counterrevolution has been intensified. The financial meltdown of 2008 has been utilized by the same forces that precipitated the crash to carry through a reordering of social relations aimed at reversing every social gain won by the working class in the course of a century of struggle. A central target of the attack is health care for working people.
Obamacare is the spearhead of a worked-out strategy to reduce the quantity and quality of health care available to workers and reorganize the health care system directly on a class basis. Corporate and government costs are to be slashed by gutting employer-paid health care, forcing workers individually to buy expensive, bare-bones plans from the insurance monopolies, and rationing drugs, tests and medical procedures to make them inaccessible to workers.
The rise in mortality for workers and the widening of the life span gap between rich and poor are not simply the outcome of impersonal economic forces. In corporate boardrooms, think tanks and state agencies, the ruling class is working to lower working class life expectancy. In late 2013, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank with the closest ties to the Pentagon and the CIA, published two policy papers decrying the “waste” of money on health care for the elderly. The clear message was that ordinary people were living much too long and diverting resources needed by the military to wage war around the world.
The social and economic chasm in America finds a political expression in the vast disconnect between the entire political establishment and the masses of working people. Neither party nor any of their presidential candidates, the self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders included, can seriously address the real state of social conditions or offer a serious program to address the crisis.
In his final State of the Union Address last month, Obama presented an absurd picture of a resurgent economy. “The United States of America, right now,” he declared, “has the strongest, most durable economy in the world… Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton and Sanders are seeking to outdo one another in seizing the mantle of the Obama administration and praising its supposed social and economic achievements.
They cannot address the real conditions facing the masses of working people because they defend the capitalist system, which is the source of the social disaster. The remedy must be based on an understanding of the disease. It is the building of an independent socialist and revolutionary movement uniting the entire working class, in the US and around the world.
February 13, 2016
More 'legacy lies' from
outgoing Obama on economy
Here is what President
Obama said on the Ellen show on Abe Lincoln's birthday:
Since I came into office,
we reduced the deficit by two-thirds, but if you ask the average person,
they're sure that spending has shot up. And the reason is because there are a
bunch of folks who say that we're wildly overspending, even though we aren't.
Here are some actual
numbers: in FY 2007, the last year President Bush and Republicans had 100%
control of Congress, federal spending including both wars was $2.7 trillion.
The budget President Obama just submitted is $4.1 trillion. That is
up over 50% despite record-low interest rates and his continually bragging that
he has ended the wars. Median family income around the country is
actually down or flat, so I do not understand how the president could pretend
that they aren't overspending and taxing.
The deficit was down to $161 billion in FY 2007, including the spending on the wars and because of President Bush's across-the-board tax cuts in the summer of 2003. In FY 2003, federal income tax receipts had decreased to around $900 billion prior to the tax cuts, due to a recession and a collapsed stock market. By FY 2007, due to the stimulus of the tax cuts, the economy rebounded, economic growth was substantial, unemployment was way down (not because of a lower labor participation rate), and income tax receipts had climbed to over $1.5 trillion. The tax rate cuts did not cause receipts to go down, as Democrats and CBO had projected; they actually skyrocketed by over 60%. The tax cuts obviously did not cause the deficit.
The projected deficit for FY 2016 is projected to be over $500 billion. Think how high it would be if the Federal Reserve weren't keeping the interest rates artificially low.
Despite the record-low interest rates and massive increases in federal spending, economic growth has been some of the slowest on record after a recession. Keynesian economics is obviously not that stimulating.
The president also continually says that his policies brought us out of the great recession. The recession actually ended by June 2009, four months and ten days after he took office. This is obviously before any of his policies could have had any effect.
On February 10, in Springfield, Illinois, he gave a speech where he said his opponents are not entitled to their own facts. It would be nice if he paid attention to that lecture, and it would be great if the media would call him out on his many false statements.
The deficit was down to $161 billion in FY 2007, including the spending on the wars and because of President Bush's across-the-board tax cuts in the summer of 2003. In FY 2003, federal income tax receipts had decreased to around $900 billion prior to the tax cuts, due to a recession and a collapsed stock market. By FY 2007, due to the stimulus of the tax cuts, the economy rebounded, economic growth was substantial, unemployment was way down (not because of a lower labor participation rate), and income tax receipts had climbed to over $1.5 trillion. The tax rate cuts did not cause receipts to go down, as Democrats and CBO had projected; they actually skyrocketed by over 60%. The tax cuts obviously did not cause the deficit.
The projected deficit for FY 2016 is projected to be over $500 billion. Think how high it would be if the Federal Reserve weren't keeping the interest rates artificially low.
Despite the record-low interest rates and massive increases in federal spending, economic growth has been some of the slowest on record after a recession. Keynesian economics is obviously not that stimulating.
The president also continually says that his policies brought us out of the great recession. The recession actually ended by June 2009, four months and ten days after he took office. This is obviously before any of his policies could have had any effect.
On February 10, in Springfield, Illinois, he gave a speech where he said his opponents are not entitled to their own facts. It would be nice if he paid attention to that lecture, and it would be great if the media would call him out on his many false statements.
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February 2, 2016
The ‘Right Stuff’ for the
Presidency
By Jon N. Hall
An old joke I heard during my brief time in the opera business went something like this: There are four types of tenors: leggiero, lyric, spinto, and heldentenor. The leggiero tenor has no balls. The lyric tenor has one ball. The spinto tenor has two balls. And the heldentenor has two balls, and he’s standing on one of them.
An old joke I heard during my brief time in the opera business went something like this: There are four types of tenors: leggiero, lyric, spinto, and heldentenor. The leggiero tenor has no balls. The lyric tenor has one ball. The spinto tenor has two balls. And the heldentenor has two balls, and he’s standing on one of them.
The joke might be funny
only to opera goers, especially those who attend the Bayreuth Festival. But
allow me to add that the recently-departed Canadian heldentenor Jon Vickers had
three or four balls and never needed to stand on any of them. (As you might
guess, I’m a fan of that late, great singer.)
In any event, balls bring us to Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the U.K. Some might think it rude to say that the “Iron Lady” had more balls than the men of her day leading other European nations -- rude, that is, to Lady Thatcher, who was every inch a woman. However, it could be said that compared to some of her male counterparts, Mrs. Thatcher certainly had no fewer balls.
What is meant by “balls” is: guts, grit, courage, will, determination, and resolve. But those attributes can also work in the service of evil; Hitler certainly had “will,” didn’t he? So there must be other qualities that are needed in the leader of a nation besides balls. Just what are those other qualities that make a person fit to be the prime minister or the president of a great nation?
At a recent rally in New Hampshire, former president Clinton spoke of his wife Hillary: “I spent a lot of time thinking about this. I do not believe in my lifetime anybody has run for this job at a moment of great importance who was better qualified by knowledge, experience, and temperament to do what needs to be done now to restore prosperity, to deal with these human issues, to make us as safe as possible. Thank you very much [short video].”
Okay, but why believe him? After all, the former president has a record of lying, even under oath in a grand jury. Perhaps Bill’s just trying to get himself back in the White House. And I’d like to remind the former president that he was alive in 1946. So his “lifetime” includes the runs for president of Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and Reagan. Hillary’s more qualified than those guys? C’mon, Bill.
“Going the Distance,” a January 2014 article in The New Yorker, is often cited for Pres. Obama’s reference to ISIS as a junior varsity basketball team: “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” (And getting elected president doesn’t mean one is fit to be president, Mr. President.)
Another Obama quote from that same article is germane to our issue of what are the essentials, the “right stuff,” for being president: “I have strengths and I have weaknesses, like every president, like every person. I do think one of my strengths is temperament.”
Is that a fact? Does Obama have the correct temperament for the presidency? When Bill Clinton spoke in New Hampshire about his wife, he stressed the word “temperament.” So, what exactly is theideal presidential temperament?
One important aspect of temperament is the ability and willingness to be collegial. “Collegiality” involves respecting one’s colleagues and listening to their ideas; it involves being open to others’ input. So many of the monumental achievements of the modern age, like going to the Moon, were massive collegial efforts, where folks pool their knowledge and expertise. Together, we’re smarter.
Barack Obama demonstrated a lack of collegiality at the Healthcare Summit in 2010. Senator McCain had just presented a very respectful call to revisit certain issues in the healthcare legislation that would become ObamaCare, and finished his comments saying, “I thank you, Mr. President.” Obama responded thus: “Let me just make this point, John, because we’re not campaigning anymore; the election’s over.” Some might have wished that McCain had responded in kind: Yes, Barry, I know, and I can’t explain the electorate’s bad judgment.
Fortunately, Sen. McCain was a gentleman and refrained from payback. Had he done so, it would have further poisoned the summit, (and he would have lowered himself to Obama’s level). There was nothing in Sen. McCain’s comments that was unreasonable, but the president couldn’t resist putting McCain in his place. What would possess someone to be so rude to a genuine American patriot? Was it that Sen. McCain wouldn’t let Obama cut him off: “Can I just finish, please?” Maybe that ticked off our little princeling. (You can watch McCain’s entire presentation by starting at the 2:21:10 mark of this C-SPAN video, or you can watch just the end, or this split-screen version positioned at Obama’s snark.)
Throughout his presidency, Obama has demonstrated a singular deficiency at collegiality. When Obama encounters questions he doesn’t like, he tries to shut down the questioner and end the discussion. When asked if the healthcare bill’s “individual mandate” were actually a tax, Obama would have none of it, and laughed at his questioner dismissively. Obama’s belief in his own pet ideas is so absolute that he is even comfortable overriding the best advice of his generals. Obama seems not to have an ability to work with others; it’s all “my way or the highway.” But there’s no need for collegiality if you already know everything. In “The Confident Ignorance of Barack Obama,” Thomas Sowell writes:
In any event, balls bring us to Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the U.K. Some might think it rude to say that the “Iron Lady” had more balls than the men of her day leading other European nations -- rude, that is, to Lady Thatcher, who was every inch a woman. However, it could be said that compared to some of her male counterparts, Mrs. Thatcher certainly had no fewer balls.
What is meant by “balls” is: guts, grit, courage, will, determination, and resolve. But those attributes can also work in the service of evil; Hitler certainly had “will,” didn’t he? So there must be other qualities that are needed in the leader of a nation besides balls. Just what are those other qualities that make a person fit to be the prime minister or the president of a great nation?
At a recent rally in New Hampshire, former president Clinton spoke of his wife Hillary: “I spent a lot of time thinking about this. I do not believe in my lifetime anybody has run for this job at a moment of great importance who was better qualified by knowledge, experience, and temperament to do what needs to be done now to restore prosperity, to deal with these human issues, to make us as safe as possible. Thank you very much [short video].”
Okay, but why believe him? After all, the former president has a record of lying, even under oath in a grand jury. Perhaps Bill’s just trying to get himself back in the White House. And I’d like to remind the former president that he was alive in 1946. So his “lifetime” includes the runs for president of Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and Reagan. Hillary’s more qualified than those guys? C’mon, Bill.
“Going the Distance,” a January 2014 article in The New Yorker, is often cited for Pres. Obama’s reference to ISIS as a junior varsity basketball team: “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” (And getting elected president doesn’t mean one is fit to be president, Mr. President.)
Another Obama quote from that same article is germane to our issue of what are the essentials, the “right stuff,” for being president: “I have strengths and I have weaknesses, like every president, like every person. I do think one of my strengths is temperament.”
Is that a fact? Does Obama have the correct temperament for the presidency? When Bill Clinton spoke in New Hampshire about his wife, he stressed the word “temperament.” So, what exactly is theideal presidential temperament?
One important aspect of temperament is the ability and willingness to be collegial. “Collegiality” involves respecting one’s colleagues and listening to their ideas; it involves being open to others’ input. So many of the monumental achievements of the modern age, like going to the Moon, were massive collegial efforts, where folks pool their knowledge and expertise. Together, we’re smarter.
Barack Obama demonstrated a lack of collegiality at the Healthcare Summit in 2010. Senator McCain had just presented a very respectful call to revisit certain issues in the healthcare legislation that would become ObamaCare, and finished his comments saying, “I thank you, Mr. President.” Obama responded thus: “Let me just make this point, John, because we’re not campaigning anymore; the election’s over.” Some might have wished that McCain had responded in kind: Yes, Barry, I know, and I can’t explain the electorate’s bad judgment.
Fortunately, Sen. McCain was a gentleman and refrained from payback. Had he done so, it would have further poisoned the summit, (and he would have lowered himself to Obama’s level). There was nothing in Sen. McCain’s comments that was unreasonable, but the president couldn’t resist putting McCain in his place. What would possess someone to be so rude to a genuine American patriot? Was it that Sen. McCain wouldn’t let Obama cut him off: “Can I just finish, please?” Maybe that ticked off our little princeling. (You can watch McCain’s entire presentation by starting at the 2:21:10 mark of this C-SPAN video, or you can watch just the end, or this split-screen version positioned at Obama’s snark.)
Throughout his presidency, Obama has demonstrated a singular deficiency at collegiality. When Obama encounters questions he doesn’t like, he tries to shut down the questioner and end the discussion. When asked if the healthcare bill’s “individual mandate” were actually a tax, Obama would have none of it, and laughed at his questioner dismissively. Obama’s belief in his own pet ideas is so absolute that he is even comfortable overriding the best advice of his generals. Obama seems not to have an ability to work with others; it’s all “my way or the highway.” But there’s no need for collegiality if you already know everything. In “The Confident Ignorance of Barack Obama,” Thomas Sowell writes:
As Professor Richard
Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama
made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other
faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the
point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong? [Italics
added.]
The main objective of
“political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to
fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who govern and there
are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the latter. Just look at
the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons. It’s amazing
that Democrats who still care about their party still support the very people
who have brought it down.
America is so beaten up and broken right now that she needs a “savior,” like a Lincoln. If Obama doesn’t do the right thing and proceed with an indictment of Mrs. Clinton, then Republicans should “fight fire with oil” and nominate a woman. And they should also insist on a minority for running mate. Just to be sure, they probably ought to do those two things anyway. Carly Fiorina might just have the right temperament to be president, but there are other terrific conservative women that convention delegates could draft.
America needs a collegial president, not a “lyrical” one.
America is so beaten up and broken right now that she needs a “savior,” like a Lincoln. If Obama doesn’t do the right thing and proceed with an indictment of Mrs. Clinton, then Republicans should “fight fire with oil” and nominate a woman. And they should also insist on a minority for running mate. Just to be sure, they probably ought to do those two things anyway. Carly Fiorina might just have the right temperament to be president, but there are other terrific conservative women that convention delegates could draft.
America needs a collegial president, not a “lyrical” one.
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Another Surge of Illegal Immigrants Along the Southwest Border: Is this the Obama Administration’s New Normal?
House Committee on the Judiciary
9:00 a.m., Thursday, February 4, 2016
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=9AC016C4-D7CD-44D7-8172-9B81E587D2BD
Witnesses:
Brandon Judd, U.S. Border Patrol Agent and the President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National Border Patrol Council
Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety
Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for immigration Studies
RASMUSSEN:
Republican Debate Shows Where Comprehensive Immigration Is Headed: Nowhere
House Appropriations Boss Initiates
Crackdown on Sanctuaries
Today the chairman of the
House appropriations subcommittee in charge of funding the Department of
Justice, John Culberson (R-Texas), put the Obama administration on notice that
it must take steps to rein in sanctuary jurisdictions or risk problems getting
approval for its own budget requests. In addition, Culberson announced that he
will begin requiring local jurisdictions to follow federal law and stop
obstructing communication with immigration agencies as a condition for
receiving certain federal law enforcement funding.
BLOG: LIKE ALL OF OBAMA'S CABINET, ONE MUST FIRST BE CONNECTED TO THE BANKSTER SECTOR AND SECONDLY BE AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, SABOTAGE E-VERIFY AND PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF LA RAZA ABOVE LEGALS. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT LORETTA LYNCH HAS AND WILL DO.
In a sternly worded letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Culberson said that he has a responsibility to ensure that state and local law enforcement agencies are following federal law before they can get federal grants. He said that sanctuary policies restricting communication between local and federal officials are a clear violation of Section 1373 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Among the jurisdictions that have imposed such policies are San Francisco, Cook County, Ill., and New York City. In addition to prohibiting local officers from communicating with immigration authorities, these jurisdictions bar federal officers from coming into jails to interview or arrest deportable criminals.
BLOG: LIKE ALL OF OBAMA'S CABINET, ONE MUST FIRST BE CONNECTED TO THE BANKSTER SECTOR AND SECONDLY BE AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, SABOTAGE E-VERIFY AND PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF LA RAZA ABOVE LEGALS. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT LORETTA LYNCH HAS AND WILL DO.
In a sternly worded letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Culberson said that he has a responsibility to ensure that state and local law enforcement agencies are following federal law before they can get federal grants. He said that sanctuary policies restricting communication between local and federal officials are a clear violation of Section 1373 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Among the jurisdictions that have imposed such policies are San Francisco, Cook County, Ill., and New York City. In addition to prohibiting local officers from communicating with immigration authorities, these jurisdictions bar federal officers from coming into jails to interview or arrest deportable criminals.
State and local sanctuary policies obstruct immigration
enforcement and cause the release of criminal aliens back to the streets of
American communities. According to ICE records that the Center obtained in a
FOIA request, in 2014 more than 9,000 criminal aliens that ICE was seeking to
deport were instead released. More than 2,300 of these criminal aliens went on
to commit additional crimes within just a few months.
The three law enforcement funding programs that could become off-limits to sanctuaries currently dispense more than $1 billion a year to state and local agencies.
Mr. Culberson contacted the Center shortly after the publication of this information in July, saying that he had long sought concrete information on the extent of this problem and that he was determined to use his authority to address it. The Center has compiled a list of over 300 cities, counties, and states that have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that protect criminal aliens from deportation — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, or otherwise impeding open communication and information exchanges between their employees or officers and federal immigration officers. These jurisdictions are noted on a map here.
Culberson's letter outlines several steps he expects the Justice Department to take:
The three law enforcement funding programs that could become off-limits to sanctuaries currently dispense more than $1 billion a year to state and local agencies.
Mr. Culberson contacted the Center shortly after the publication of this information in July, saying that he had long sought concrete information on the extent of this problem and that he was determined to use his authority to address it. The Center has compiled a list of over 300 cities, counties, and states that have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that protect criminal aliens from deportation — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, or otherwise impeding open communication and information exchanges between their employees or officers and federal immigration officers. These jurisdictions are noted on a map here.
Culberson's letter outlines several steps he expects the Justice Department to take:
1.
Beginning this year, amend the grant application forms for the
Byrne/Justice Assistance Grants (JAG), Community Oriented Policing Services
(COPS) grants, and State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)
reimbursement program to require agencies seeking these funds to swear that
they do not have policies that violate Section 1373; and
2.
Work with sanctuary jurisdictions to change their policies, and
if they do not, take legal action to compel their compliance with federal law;
3.
Deny funding to any non-compliant sanctuary jurisdictions.
In addition, he
asks the attorney general to look at whether jurisdictions that release
criminal aliens sought by ICE are in violation of 8 USC 1324, the federal felony statute
that prohibits anyone from shielding illegal aliens from detection. After all,
these jurisdictions have been notified in writing by the detainers (federal
Form I-247) that the aliens' identities and status have been confirmed by
biometric fingerprint matching, and that federal agents wish to take custody of
the aliens, and/or to be notified of the date, time, and place of release — so
the sanctuaries are knowingly releasing deportable aliens sought by ICE. He said
that he will consider applying this section of the law next year to block
funding to jurisdictions that release criminal aliens sought by ICE. This
action could affect the hundreds of agencies that fail to comply with or accept
ICE detainers, for example.
Culberson warned that if the administration stubbornly continues to tolerate sanctuaries, he will find it hard to look favorably on any spending requests from DOJ in the coming appropriations season: "I hope the attorney general will do the right thing here so that I am not compelled to object to relevant portions of the Department's spending plan and reprogramming requests. Any refusal by the Department to comply with these reasonable and timely requests will factor heavily in my consideration of their 2017 budget requests."
Even following public outcry over a series of cases of murders committed by criminal aliens after release by sanctuaries, including the killing of Kate Steinle in San Francisco, the Obama administration has resisted calls for action to discourage or punish the jurisdictions that obstruct immigration enforcement. Instead, it has pressed ahead in implementing the so-called Priority Enforcement Program, which explicitly allows sanctuary policies that violate federal law. It's clear that the administration is more interested in protecting criminal aliens than in protecting the public from their acts; now we'll see if the Department of Justice is willing to jeopardize its own funding to spare sanctuaries from being sanctioned, and if the sanctuaries are willing to sacrifice federal funding in order to protect criminal aliens.
Culberson warned that if the administration stubbornly continues to tolerate sanctuaries, he will find it hard to look favorably on any spending requests from DOJ in the coming appropriations season: "I hope the attorney general will do the right thing here so that I am not compelled to object to relevant portions of the Department's spending plan and reprogramming requests. Any refusal by the Department to comply with these reasonable and timely requests will factor heavily in my consideration of their 2017 budget requests."
Even following public outcry over a series of cases of murders committed by criminal aliens after release by sanctuaries, including the killing of Kate Steinle in San Francisco, the Obama administration has resisted calls for action to discourage or punish the jurisdictions that obstruct immigration enforcement. Instead, it has pressed ahead in implementing the so-called Priority Enforcement Program, which explicitly allows sanctuary policies that violate federal law. It's clear that the administration is more interested in protecting criminal aliens than in protecting the public from their acts; now we'll see if the Department of Justice is willing to jeopardize its own funding to spare sanctuaries from being sanctioned, and if the sanctuaries are willing to sacrifice federal funding in order to protect criminal aliens.
Surge
in Illegal Aliens, 500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months. Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months. Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
Houston Slayings Fueled
Border Security Debate
·
Jan. 31, 2016
Enlarge Photo by Michael Stravato
Dan Golvach, father of Spencer Golvach, at his son's grave in
Houston Tuesday, October 20, 2015.
HOUSTON — Julie Golvach remembers that something felt “off” the
night she lost her only child.
It was exactly one year ago today, a few minutes before 1 a.m. Standing in the driveway of her Houston home, waving goodbye to her sister under a clear winter sky, something didn't feel right. The stars didn’t look the same.
Golvach tossed and turned in bed for a while but was sound asleep when a knock on the door came at 6 a.m.
“I jumped up and I knew,” she said.
She stopped by her son’s boyhood bedroom, the one with the window looking out onto the driveway. He’d slept there a week earlier, the evening they went to see "American Sniper" together. She slipped past the picture of him and his best childhood friend on the wall, skirting the bed with the stuffed toy lamb — a baby shower relic — lying on top.
Out the window, Golvach saw three people — two uniformed police officers and a woman wearing a shirt that read “chaplain.” Her chest pounded as she made her way to the front door and opened it.
“Is it Spencer?” she asked.
The second those words tumbled out of her mouth, she knew the answer, just as she had known when she uttered that exact phrase the day he was born, before anyone told her if the baby was a boy or a girl. She just knew.
It was Spencer.
One night off
Spencer Golvach grew up in the sprawl of northwest Houston, surrounded by guitars and destined for a career in music, his father’s passion.
When he turned 16 in 2005 and got his driver’s license, the easygoing musician started working at a local guitar store in a strip mall not far from Jersey Village High School, where he excelled in shop class and anything he could do with his hands.
He had always fiddled with his dad’s guitars, and he developed a knack for fixing and rebuilding them at the store. A few years later, when the shop owner announced his retirement, Spencer decided to buy the Cy-Fair area business.
It was exactly one year ago today, a few minutes before 1 a.m. Standing in the driveway of her Houston home, waving goodbye to her sister under a clear winter sky, something didn't feel right. The stars didn’t look the same.
Golvach tossed and turned in bed for a while but was sound asleep when a knock on the door came at 6 a.m.
“I jumped up and I knew,” she said.
She stopped by her son’s boyhood bedroom, the one with the window looking out onto the driveway. He’d slept there a week earlier, the evening they went to see "American Sniper" together. She slipped past the picture of him and his best childhood friend on the wall, skirting the bed with the stuffed toy lamb — a baby shower relic — lying on top.
Out the window, Golvach saw three people — two uniformed police officers and a woman wearing a shirt that read “chaplain.” Her chest pounded as she made her way to the front door and opened it.
“Is it Spencer?” she asked.
The second those words tumbled out of her mouth, she knew the answer, just as she had known when she uttered that exact phrase the day he was born, before anyone told her if the baby was a boy or a girl. She just knew.
It was Spencer.
One night off
Spencer Golvach grew up in the sprawl of northwest Houston, surrounded by guitars and destined for a career in music, his father’s passion.
When he turned 16 in 2005 and got his driver’s license, the easygoing musician started working at a local guitar store in a strip mall not far from Jersey Village High School, where he excelled in shop class and anything he could do with his hands.
He had always fiddled with his dad’s guitars, and he developed a knack for fixing and rebuilding them at the store. A few years later, when the shop owner announced his retirement, Spencer decided to buy the Cy-Fair area business.
Enlarge Photo courtesy of Golvach family
Spencer Golvach, at the age of three, pictured with a guitar.
Authorities say Golvach was killed by Victor Reyes, an undocumented immigrant,
during a random shooting spree in January 2015.
With nine employees and a soft economy, life as an entrepreneur
proved tough sledding. He struggled to turn a profit, and he took a second
full-time job as a receiving lead and forklift operator at a local warehouse.
Even that wasn’t enough to cover the bills. By early 2015, Spencer was preparing to move into a smaller — and cheaper — space in the same shopping mall. He could hardly wait for Saturday, Jan. 31 to arrive, the day the slimmed-down version of Spencer’s Guitar Shop was set to open. Between giving guitar lessons, working an 8-to-5 day job, building out the new store and playing bass in his band — The Dead Revolt — Spencer needed a break.
“The guy was burning the candle at both ends for a long time,” recalled Dan Golvach, his father. “He takes one night off, to go take his girlfriend out for her birthday. That was Jan. 30. And he drops her off ... and 15 minutes later he pulls up to that red light.”
Less than a mile from his apartment, Spencer steered into the left turn lane at 18th Street and Mangum Road and waited for the green light. The details of what happened next are captured in the records of two police agencies, more than a dozen news articles and the unceasing nightmares of Spencer’s parents and loved ones.
An undocumented Mexican national named Victor Reyes, a native of Reynosa along the Texas-Mexico border, pulled up next to Spencer's beloved white Toyota pickup. He pointed a pistol at Spencer’s head and pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through the passenger side window and into Spencer’s skull, at the top of his right ear.
“I choose to believe it killed him instantly,” his father said in an interview months later. “I think he was just there and then it’s like someone turned the lights off. I don’t think he suffered.”
But the Golvach family’s suffering — compounded by the feeling that Spencer’s death could have been prevented — was just beginning.
Houston police, their report indicates, found 25-year-old Spencer dead in his truck at 12:56 a.m. — right around the moment Julie Golvach, waving goodbye to her sister, couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.
A few hours later, she was phoning her ex-husband to break the news.
Even that wasn’t enough to cover the bills. By early 2015, Spencer was preparing to move into a smaller — and cheaper — space in the same shopping mall. He could hardly wait for Saturday, Jan. 31 to arrive, the day the slimmed-down version of Spencer’s Guitar Shop was set to open. Between giving guitar lessons, working an 8-to-5 day job, building out the new store and playing bass in his band — The Dead Revolt — Spencer needed a break.
“The guy was burning the candle at both ends for a long time,” recalled Dan Golvach, his father. “He takes one night off, to go take his girlfriend out for her birthday. That was Jan. 30. And he drops her off ... and 15 minutes later he pulls up to that red light.”
Less than a mile from his apartment, Spencer steered into the left turn lane at 18th Street and Mangum Road and waited for the green light. The details of what happened next are captured in the records of two police agencies, more than a dozen news articles and the unceasing nightmares of Spencer’s parents and loved ones.
An undocumented Mexican national named Victor Reyes, a native of Reynosa along the Texas-Mexico border, pulled up next to Spencer's beloved white Toyota pickup. He pointed a pistol at Spencer’s head and pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through the passenger side window and into Spencer’s skull, at the top of his right ear.
“I choose to believe it killed him instantly,” his father said in an interview months later. “I think he was just there and then it’s like someone turned the lights off. I don’t think he suffered.”
But the Golvach family’s suffering — compounded by the feeling that Spencer’s death could have been prevented — was just beginning.
Houston police, their report indicates, found 25-year-old Spencer dead in his truck at 12:56 a.m. — right around the moment Julie Golvach, waving goodbye to her sister, couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.
A few hours later, she was phoning her ex-husband to break the news.
“I couldn’t make out
what she was saying and I finally just said, ‘is my son dead?’”— Dan Golvach
“She was just inconsolable,”
he recalled. “I couldn’t make out what she was saying and I finally just said,
‘is my son dead?’ She said, ‘yes.’ Then of course I started. I joined the
chorus.”
More than a thousand people attended Spencer’s memorial service, a tribute to his fun-loving nature and penchant for making friends across generational, ethnic and gender lines.
Those who knew Spencer universally describe him as fun-loving and strikingly calm. After he died, a family friend ordered up a batch of commemorative rubber bracelets emblazoned with his laid-back motto: “Chill Don’t Freeze."
A bloody rampage
More than once since the funeral, Julie Golvach has found herself wishing that her son’s attacker had gotten to know Spencer. She’s convinced he never would have pulled the trigger. But the official evidence of the crime, while scant, suggests Spencer was chosen randomly. And he wasn’t the only victim.
Police say Reyes shot a man in the face, wounding him, in the suburban city of Jersey Village minutes before killing Spencer, and they connected him to at least two more random shootings shortly thereafter. All told, Reyes shot two dead and wounded three others before a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy took him down after a violent shootout, officials say.
John Weston, 67, says he’s lucky to be alive after encountering Reyes on the Hempstead Highway near Pinemont, about 10 minutes north of where Spencer had just been killed. He remembers seeing a big, dark truck driving aggressively behind him. When he got to the stoplight, it pulled up alongside him.
“All of a sudden I hear this ungodly noise,” Weston recalled. “I don’t know if you can imagine how fast your mind works, but I saw a shattered window and I saw a bullet hole in my window. My mind is thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, somebody’s shooting at me and this guy at this light.’”
He pressed his foot to the accelerator to get out of the line of fire, but not soon enough. He heard the second shot, and its impact felt like someone “hauled off and hit you upside the head,” he said.
Weston realized the truck's driver was the gunman. “I saw blood everywhere,” he said. His hands were covered in it, so he could only manage to re-dial on his cell phone. He finally reached his wife, who told him to go to the nearest toll booth. An ambulance was called. Doctors found that a bullet had entered his left cheek and stuck in the other side of his mouth.
A year later, after reconstructive surgery to replace a badly shattered jaw, his mouth remains completely numb below the tongue. With his health woes and lost time at work, he’s struggling to keep his printing business afloat.
“Everything I do now is a little more difficult, but considering I’m here talking, I’m blessed to be here,” Weston said. “It’s scarred me forever. I don’t break down and cry, but I think about it all the time.”
Had Reyes been a homegrown criminal, the story might have ended in the empty field where the deputy shot him — chalked up as another random act of violence in a city and nation all too used to them.
But as word spread about Reyes’ long criminal record and multiple deportations, the case was thrust into the volatile debate over illegal immigration and control of the southern border: first in local news stories, then at the Capitol in Austin and most recently on the presidential campaign trail — on a stage in mid-November with GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Beaumont, where Dan Golvach spoke out and held up a poster of Spencer along with others killed by undocumented immigrants.
Gunman's long record
According to the Houston office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Reyes had been removed from the country four times between 2003 and 2010, but little is publicly known about what he was doing in Houston prior to terrorizing its northwest environs — or why he did it.
His criminal and illegal entry records stretch back at least to 2002 when, at age 18, he was convicted of burglarizing a building in Hidalgo County, across the border from Reynosa, which he told police was his place of birth. He spent a month and a half in jail before a state court sentenced him to three years' probation, ordered him to pay an $850 fine and mandated 120 hours of community service.
More than a thousand people attended Spencer’s memorial service, a tribute to his fun-loving nature and penchant for making friends across generational, ethnic and gender lines.
Those who knew Spencer universally describe him as fun-loving and strikingly calm. After he died, a family friend ordered up a batch of commemorative rubber bracelets emblazoned with his laid-back motto: “Chill Don’t Freeze."
A bloody rampage
More than once since the funeral, Julie Golvach has found herself wishing that her son’s attacker had gotten to know Spencer. She’s convinced he never would have pulled the trigger. But the official evidence of the crime, while scant, suggests Spencer was chosen randomly. And he wasn’t the only victim.
Police say Reyes shot a man in the face, wounding him, in the suburban city of Jersey Village minutes before killing Spencer, and they connected him to at least two more random shootings shortly thereafter. All told, Reyes shot two dead and wounded three others before a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy took him down after a violent shootout, officials say.
John Weston, 67, says he’s lucky to be alive after encountering Reyes on the Hempstead Highway near Pinemont, about 10 minutes north of where Spencer had just been killed. He remembers seeing a big, dark truck driving aggressively behind him. When he got to the stoplight, it pulled up alongside him.
“All of a sudden I hear this ungodly noise,” Weston recalled. “I don’t know if you can imagine how fast your mind works, but I saw a shattered window and I saw a bullet hole in my window. My mind is thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, somebody’s shooting at me and this guy at this light.’”
He pressed his foot to the accelerator to get out of the line of fire, but not soon enough. He heard the second shot, and its impact felt like someone “hauled off and hit you upside the head,” he said.
Weston realized the truck's driver was the gunman. “I saw blood everywhere,” he said. His hands were covered in it, so he could only manage to re-dial on his cell phone. He finally reached his wife, who told him to go to the nearest toll booth. An ambulance was called. Doctors found that a bullet had entered his left cheek and stuck in the other side of his mouth.
A year later, after reconstructive surgery to replace a badly shattered jaw, his mouth remains completely numb below the tongue. With his health woes and lost time at work, he’s struggling to keep his printing business afloat.
“Everything I do now is a little more difficult, but considering I’m here talking, I’m blessed to be here,” Weston said. “It’s scarred me forever. I don’t break down and cry, but I think about it all the time.”
Had Reyes been a homegrown criminal, the story might have ended in the empty field where the deputy shot him — chalked up as another random act of violence in a city and nation all too used to them.
But as word spread about Reyes’ long criminal record and multiple deportations, the case was thrust into the volatile debate over illegal immigration and control of the southern border: first in local news stories, then at the Capitol in Austin and most recently on the presidential campaign trail — on a stage in mid-November with GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump in Beaumont, where Dan Golvach spoke out and held up a poster of Spencer along with others killed by undocumented immigrants.
Gunman's long record
According to the Houston office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Reyes had been removed from the country four times between 2003 and 2010, but little is publicly known about what he was doing in Houston prior to terrorizing its northwest environs — or why he did it.
His criminal and illegal entry records stretch back at least to 2002 when, at age 18, he was convicted of burglarizing a building in Hidalgo County, across the border from Reynosa, which he told police was his place of birth. He spent a month and a half in jail before a state court sentenced him to three years' probation, ordered him to pay an $850 fine and mandated 120 hours of community service.
Victor Reyes,
shown in 2001 jail mug shot from Hidalgo County. Authorities say Reyes, an
undocumented immigrant, went on a January 2015 shooting spree in Harris County
that killed two and wounded three.
A year later, he
was back in the Hidalgo County Jail for breaking a beer bottle over a man’s
head at the Tejano Saloon in Pharr. He was sent back to Mexico after serving
about a month in the local jail, but he came back. By then, his previous
probation had been revoked, and he served several months in a state jail in
Raymondville.
Deported again on Jan. 20, 2004, Reyes was caught trying to cross the border the next day, triggering a 90-day sentence in federal prison and yet another deportation — his third.
A few months later, on Aug. 10, he was caught again, in McAllen, and received a one-year federal prison sentence for his fourth known illegal re-entry. His crimes didn’t end there. A few weeks before his prison release date, Reyes beat up a fellow inmate — described by his lawyer as a rival gang member — cutting and fracturing his face, according to federal court records.
Two new assault charges made Reyes eligible for 20 years behind bars. Despite his history of violence, burglary and repeat illegal crossings, federal prosecutors offered Reyes a deal: In exchange for a guilty plea on one of the counts, and in recognition of his “truthful testimony” and “acceptance of responsibility,” they promised to give him a sentence “at the lowest end of the applicable guidelines” on a single charge, court papers show. Under the plea bargain, Reyes' sentence was 63 months, a quarter of the maximum he faced under the two counts.
That’s a few more spoonfuls of salt in the wound for Dan and Julie Golvach. Had Reyes been given even half of his possible sentence on the two assault counts, he would have been in prison instead of at that traffic light killing their son.
“The people who agreed to this deal need to be held accountable,” Julie Golvach said. “The result was the horrific murder of my son.”
The prosecutor who signed the plea agreement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Hammer, declined to talk about the case, referring questions to U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Angela Dodge in Houston.
Dodge sent The Texas Tribune a boilerplate description of plea deals, saying they “ensure a resolution of the case and that someone is convicted of the crime(s) we believe they committed without going through the time and expense of a trial,” while providing “justice for all.” She declined to say whether prosecutors took Reyes' previous crimes into account, or if they frequently offer plea deals to convicted criminals who commit additional crimes behind bars.
It’s another official secret in a case with no shortage of them.
Family still seeking answers
The Houston Police Department, using its own discretion under the Public Information Act, blocked release of all but a few details on the Golvach and Weston shootings. The department cited a provision allowing it to withhold criminal records absent a final disposition, such as a conviction or deferred adjudication. Since Reyes is dead and the city’s case is otherwise closed, that means Houston police likely can withhold the information indefinitely.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office declined to release its investigative files, but for an entirely different reason: After every officer-involved shooting — in this case, a deputy ended Reyes’ deadly rampage — the Harris County district attorney’s office presents the case to a grand jury even if no one complains. That happened last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the shooting spree.
The federal government holds onto its files with a tight grip, too, citing the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act. The act covers only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decreed that its protections apply to federal immigration detention records, even those related to undocumented immigrants convicted of horrific crimes. The agency voluntarily released a narrative of its multiple encounters with Reyes, but the Tribune has not yet heard back from ICE or U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services on its written request for his entire immigration file.
The secrecy across local and federal agencies that came into contact with Reyes confounded and frustrated the people touched by his violence. Weston said his wife became “very disillusioned” about their quest for even the simplest answers.
Deported again on Jan. 20, 2004, Reyes was caught trying to cross the border the next day, triggering a 90-day sentence in federal prison and yet another deportation — his third.
A few months later, on Aug. 10, he was caught again, in McAllen, and received a one-year federal prison sentence for his fourth known illegal re-entry. His crimes didn’t end there. A few weeks before his prison release date, Reyes beat up a fellow inmate — described by his lawyer as a rival gang member — cutting and fracturing his face, according to federal court records.
Two new assault charges made Reyes eligible for 20 years behind bars. Despite his history of violence, burglary and repeat illegal crossings, federal prosecutors offered Reyes a deal: In exchange for a guilty plea on one of the counts, and in recognition of his “truthful testimony” and “acceptance of responsibility,” they promised to give him a sentence “at the lowest end of the applicable guidelines” on a single charge, court papers show. Under the plea bargain, Reyes' sentence was 63 months, a quarter of the maximum he faced under the two counts.
That’s a few more spoonfuls of salt in the wound for Dan and Julie Golvach. Had Reyes been given even half of his possible sentence on the two assault counts, he would have been in prison instead of at that traffic light killing their son.
“The people who agreed to this deal need to be held accountable,” Julie Golvach said. “The result was the horrific murder of my son.”
The prosecutor who signed the plea agreement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Hammer, declined to talk about the case, referring questions to U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Angela Dodge in Houston.
Dodge sent The Texas Tribune a boilerplate description of plea deals, saying they “ensure a resolution of the case and that someone is convicted of the crime(s) we believe they committed without going through the time and expense of a trial,” while providing “justice for all.” She declined to say whether prosecutors took Reyes' previous crimes into account, or if they frequently offer plea deals to convicted criminals who commit additional crimes behind bars.
It’s another official secret in a case with no shortage of them.
Family still seeking answers
The Houston Police Department, using its own discretion under the Public Information Act, blocked release of all but a few details on the Golvach and Weston shootings. The department cited a provision allowing it to withhold criminal records absent a final disposition, such as a conviction or deferred adjudication. Since Reyes is dead and the city’s case is otherwise closed, that means Houston police likely can withhold the information indefinitely.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office declined to release its investigative files, but for an entirely different reason: After every officer-involved shooting — in this case, a deputy ended Reyes’ deadly rampage — the Harris County district attorney’s office presents the case to a grand jury even if no one complains. That happened last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the shooting spree.
The federal government holds onto its files with a tight grip, too, citing the 1974 U.S. Privacy Act. The act covers only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decreed that its protections apply to federal immigration detention records, even those related to undocumented immigrants convicted of horrific crimes. The agency voluntarily released a narrative of its multiple encounters with Reyes, but the Tribune has not yet heard back from ICE or U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services on its written request for his entire immigration file.
The secrecy across local and federal agencies that came into contact with Reyes confounded and frustrated the people touched by his violence. Weston said his wife became “very disillusioned” about their quest for even the simplest answers.
Enlarge Photo by: Michael Stravato
Dan Golvach, father of Spencer Golvach, in Houston Tuesday,
October 20, 2015 at the intersection where his son was killed by an
undocumented immigrant in January.
“I mean, we asked them, ‘Who was the guy?’” Weston said. “We had
to fill out paperwork and all that kind of stuff, but we never got any
satisfactory answer. It was almost like it was top secret information.”
Hoping to break through the bureaucratic walls and get some answers about who killed their son and why, the Golvaches eventually hired a former investigative reporter, ex-KTRK-TV newsman Wayne Dolcefino. In a letter last year to then-Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, Dolcefino said the sheriff’s office was “doing a disservice to this crime victim by not responding to this request in a proper manner.” The local investigative files remained sealed as of late last week, but the Harris County Sheriff's Office asked the Tribune to resubmit its request for the records and promised a quick turnaround.
Even with new information beginning to trickle out, the victims and their families still don't know where Reyes lived or if he had a job, who owned the truck he was driving that night or — least of all — the motive for his deadly rampage.
According to Harris County Assistant District Attorney Heyward Carter, some elements of the senseless crime may never be known.
Carter, who handled a single aspect of the case — the officer-involved shooting — was able to speak about the case for the first time last week. He revealed that Reyes was "extremely intoxicated" and had a "significant amount of cocaine" in his system. He also identified the weapon, a .380 caliber pistol, that he said was legally purchased at one point, but authorities haven't determined how a convicted felon and undocumented immigrant, barred from buying or possessing firearms, obtained it.
Hoping to break through the bureaucratic walls and get some answers about who killed their son and why, the Golvaches eventually hired a former investigative reporter, ex-KTRK-TV newsman Wayne Dolcefino. In a letter last year to then-Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, Dolcefino said the sheriff’s office was “doing a disservice to this crime victim by not responding to this request in a proper manner.” The local investigative files remained sealed as of late last week, but the Harris County Sheriff's Office asked the Tribune to resubmit its request for the records and promised a quick turnaround.
Even with new information beginning to trickle out, the victims and their families still don't know where Reyes lived or if he had a job, who owned the truck he was driving that night or — least of all — the motive for his deadly rampage.
According to Harris County Assistant District Attorney Heyward Carter, some elements of the senseless crime may never be known.
Carter, who handled a single aspect of the case — the officer-involved shooting — was able to speak about the case for the first time last week. He revealed that Reyes was "extremely intoxicated" and had a "significant amount of cocaine" in his system. He also identified the weapon, a .380 caliber pistol, that he said was legally purchased at one point, but authorities haven't determined how a convicted felon and undocumented immigrant, barred from buying or possessing firearms, obtained it.
“We live in an age of mass shootings,
and even though this one didn’t get a whole lot of publicity, that’s what this
is."
— Heyward Carter, Harris County Assistant District Attorney
Carter also provided details
about the actions of the Harris County deputy sheriff, Javier Rojas, who
finally put an end to the deadly rampage. By chance, Rojas was patrolling the
area and heard shots being fired. He saw the truck of Reyes' final victim,
identified by police as Juan Garcia, in obvious distress, weaving randomly at
an intersection. Garcia later died from his wounds, and a woman in the car with
him was slightly injured from the broken glass.
Rojas chased after Reyes, who crashed his truck through a barrier at the end of a dead end street and went another 200 yards or so into an empty field. Rojas continued the pursuit on foot and found Reyes crouching behind the truck. He ordered the suspect to drop his weapon but Reyes stood and fired at the officer instead. Rojas returned fire and struck him in the chest. When authorities photographed the body his hand was still gripping the pistol "with his finger on the trigger," Carter said.
In terms of a motive, authorities can only speculate based on a conversation Reyes had with a supposed girlfriend about three hours before the shooting spree began. He wanted her to go out to a bar or nightclub with him, and she turned him down. Authorities speculate he may have been taking out his rage on couples: It's possible he saw Spencer Golvach dropping off his girlfriend shortly before shooting him at the red light and then targeted Garcia after seeing he had a woman in his vehicle.
But it's just a theory.
“We live in an age of mass shootings, and even though this one didn’t get a whole lot of publicity, that’s what this is," Carter said. "I don’t understand why he was doing it.”
Carter did confirm what the families had learned from detectives in the immediate aftermath of the shootings: Reyes still had plenty of ammunition left in his truck — suggesting that he was planning a more extensive shooting spree. There were at least 20 live rounds left in the vehicle, and he appeared to be reloading while driving near the scene of his final attack.
“Had this officer not been there just coincidentally ... there were plenty of roads for him to go down. He had plenty of ammo, and it didn't seem like he was stopping, that's for sure," Carter said. "As horrible as this situation was, it could have been way worse.”
After the facts were presented to grand jury last Wednesday, the panel decided not to proceed with any further action related to the incident. The Golvach family calls Rojas' response heroic.
"Why was he allowed to be here?"
Julie Golvach burst out into tears again last week after hearing for the first time some of the details of the crime that took her son's life.
“I really feel I deserve to know what brought them together at that point in time, what caused him to shoot my son,” she said. “I think we deserve to know why he was even here — why he was allowed to be here.”
It’s a common refrain among those who have been victimized by people in the country illegally. They weren’t supposed to be here in the first place, and the government's inability to keep them from crossing the southern border after they’ve been deported — and prevent them from committing crimes — provokes a unique brand of helplessness and outrage.
Even Weston, a lifelong Democrat who attended both of Barack Obama’s inaugurations and favors allowing otherwise law-abiding immigrants into the United States to work and seek a better life, said he had to fight the urge to call Donald Trump and tell him he was “dead-on” with his focus on foreigners who commit crimes here.
“Somebody’s got to do something about it,” he said. In the same breath, Weston emphasized that he doesn’t support Trump for president and said keeping dangerous felons from crossing the border or entering the vast illegal workforce defied simplistic solutions.
“If there’s some way to filter out the ones that intend to harm people, I would be in support of that,” he said. “It may prevent something like this from happening to somebody else.”
Dan Golvach is more blunt and outspoken. A few weeks after his son’s murder, he was at the state Capitol testifying in favor of 2015 state legislation — ultimately doomed — that would have prohibited local law enforcement authorities in Texas from adopting “sanctuary” policies that keep police out of immigration matters.
Then late last year, he appeared with Trump at a campaign rally in Beaumont, saying his son died as “the result of politically correct politics” — namely, bipartisan policies that he believes go too easy on undocumented immigrants and the people who hire them.
“When you lose the thing you love the most, you’re not that worried about being PC,” Golvach said in an interview. “If you’re going to come here, you need to do it legally on our terms, not your terms.”
Golvach readily admits that anger over his son’s killing sometimes hits “toxic” levels. He says he’s still haunted by the image of Spencer in a hastily chosen coffin, still upset he was killed right next to the stadium where he used to watch baseball as a kid, still mad as hell that the government won’t cough up the records they have on his son’s killer.
It would be worse without all the good memories of his son, and without the certainty that if Spencer were alive today he would say to him: “chill don’t freeze.”
“He’d tell me, ‘Don’t have a heart attack. You know, clear your mind and keep it cool,'” he said. “He would tell me not to hate anybody.”
Rojas chased after Reyes, who crashed his truck through a barrier at the end of a dead end street and went another 200 yards or so into an empty field. Rojas continued the pursuit on foot and found Reyes crouching behind the truck. He ordered the suspect to drop his weapon but Reyes stood and fired at the officer instead. Rojas returned fire and struck him in the chest. When authorities photographed the body his hand was still gripping the pistol "with his finger on the trigger," Carter said.
In terms of a motive, authorities can only speculate based on a conversation Reyes had with a supposed girlfriend about three hours before the shooting spree began. He wanted her to go out to a bar or nightclub with him, and she turned him down. Authorities speculate he may have been taking out his rage on couples: It's possible he saw Spencer Golvach dropping off his girlfriend shortly before shooting him at the red light and then targeted Garcia after seeing he had a woman in his vehicle.
But it's just a theory.
“We live in an age of mass shootings, and even though this one didn’t get a whole lot of publicity, that’s what this is," Carter said. "I don’t understand why he was doing it.”
Carter did confirm what the families had learned from detectives in the immediate aftermath of the shootings: Reyes still had plenty of ammunition left in his truck — suggesting that he was planning a more extensive shooting spree. There were at least 20 live rounds left in the vehicle, and he appeared to be reloading while driving near the scene of his final attack.
“Had this officer not been there just coincidentally ... there were plenty of roads for him to go down. He had plenty of ammo, and it didn't seem like he was stopping, that's for sure," Carter said. "As horrible as this situation was, it could have been way worse.”
After the facts were presented to grand jury last Wednesday, the panel decided not to proceed with any further action related to the incident. The Golvach family calls Rojas' response heroic.
"Why was he allowed to be here?"
Julie Golvach burst out into tears again last week after hearing for the first time some of the details of the crime that took her son's life.
“I really feel I deserve to know what brought them together at that point in time, what caused him to shoot my son,” she said. “I think we deserve to know why he was even here — why he was allowed to be here.”
It’s a common refrain among those who have been victimized by people in the country illegally. They weren’t supposed to be here in the first place, and the government's inability to keep them from crossing the southern border after they’ve been deported — and prevent them from committing crimes — provokes a unique brand of helplessness and outrage.
Even Weston, a lifelong Democrat who attended both of Barack Obama’s inaugurations and favors allowing otherwise law-abiding immigrants into the United States to work and seek a better life, said he had to fight the urge to call Donald Trump and tell him he was “dead-on” with his focus on foreigners who commit crimes here.
“Somebody’s got to do something about it,” he said. In the same breath, Weston emphasized that he doesn’t support Trump for president and said keeping dangerous felons from crossing the border or entering the vast illegal workforce defied simplistic solutions.
“If there’s some way to filter out the ones that intend to harm people, I would be in support of that,” he said. “It may prevent something like this from happening to somebody else.”
Dan Golvach is more blunt and outspoken. A few weeks after his son’s murder, he was at the state Capitol testifying in favor of 2015 state legislation — ultimately doomed — that would have prohibited local law enforcement authorities in Texas from adopting “sanctuary” policies that keep police out of immigration matters.
Then late last year, he appeared with Trump at a campaign rally in Beaumont, saying his son died as “the result of politically correct politics” — namely, bipartisan policies that he believes go too easy on undocumented immigrants and the people who hire them.
“When you lose the thing you love the most, you’re not that worried about being PC,” Golvach said in an interview. “If you’re going to come here, you need to do it legally on our terms, not your terms.”
Golvach readily admits that anger over his son’s killing sometimes hits “toxic” levels. He says he’s still haunted by the image of Spencer in a hastily chosen coffin, still upset he was killed right next to the stadium where he used to watch baseball as a kid, still mad as hell that the government won’t cough up the records they have on his son’s killer.
It would be worse without all the good memories of his son, and without the certainty that if Spencer were alive today he would say to him: “chill don’t freeze.”
“He’d tell me, ‘Don’t have a heart attack. You know, clear your mind and keep it cool,'” he said. “He would tell me not to hate anybody.”
Concrete Evidence of the
Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program". The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years, from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program". The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years, from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
BARACK OBAMA and his SAUDIS PAYMASTERS: Did they build his Muslim tower
in Chicago?
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERS:
STILL SUCKING THE BLOOD OUT OF AMERICA
This manufactured crisis has, in turn, been exploited by the Obama
administration and both big business parties to hand over trillions in pension
funds and other public assets to the financial kleptocracy that rules America.
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com
“This was not because of
difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney
General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama
administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do
so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
OBAMANOMICS
TO SERVE BANKSTERS
AND
GLOBAL BILLIONAIRES
"One of the premier institutions of big business,
JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the
10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama will
produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact of central
bank actions in driving inequality between asset owners
and labor."
CLOSET MUSLIM BARACK OBAMA’S CONSPIRACY FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE
First, destroy Trump and put Hillary away if she doesn’t end up in
jail.
HE PARTNERS WITH ZUCKERBERG, SOROS AND LOUIS FARRAKHAN
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros
really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
“Hillary was always
small potatoes, a placeholder as it were. Her health was always suspect. And do
you think the plotters would have let a doofus like Tim Kaine take office in
the event that Hillary became disabled?”
“Obama has the totalitarian
impulse. After all, he went around saying he didn't have Constitutional
authority to legalize the illegals, and then he tried anyway. The courts
stopped him.”
“The bottom line 2 is
this: Barack Obama is a Communist. This was all an Obama operation. Why is
anyone surprised that a communist (Obama) tried to subvert an election. That is
what Communists do. It is Barack Obama and his people like Brennan and Clapper
behaving to type. That's what Maduro does in Venezuela. That's what the Castro
brothers did. That's what every communist and socialist nation does. THEY FIX ELECTIONS!!”
“Hillary
kept a secret server overflowing with national security info which, more than
likely, was hacked. June 28, 2016, on a Phoenix tarmac, Bill Clinton met with
Attorney General Loretta Lynch to seal a deal insuring Hillary would not be
prosecuted.”
“Obama, of course, covered
up his own role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic
efforts to repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At
the end of those eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial
oligarchy were fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while
working people were poorer than before, a widening social chasm that
made possible the election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November
2016.”
David Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The
Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule
of Law.”
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A
never-ending story.” Michael
Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews: Obama
Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE,
Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was
supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big
Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
In Obamanomics, investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up
the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t
see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to
America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate
welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics.
*
OBOMB for
BRIBES:
BARACK OBAMA
AGAIN TALKS THIRD TERM.
President
Barack Obama: During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption
to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
"We know that
Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan
and execute resistance to the Trump administration and
his legislative agenda. None of these people care about the
American people, or the fact thatTrump won the election because
millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
Obamanomics: How Barack
Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate
Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
BARACK OBAMA’S NOT SO
SECRET PRO-MU$LIM, ANTI-SEMITIC MOVE FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE.
"When former president
Barack Obama, former president Bill Clinton and Eric Holder, a top DOJ official
in both administrations, have been caught hanging around with Farrakhan,
there’s a racism problem." DANIEL GREENFIELD
"Then we suffered the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was out to "fundamentally transform America" and the world." ALAN BERGSTEIN
Attorney General Eric Holder: Tim Geithner can be sure he
won't be hounded about his tax-dodging by his colleague Eric Holder, US
Attorney General. Judicial Watch strongly opposed Holder because of his
terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI investigation of the
theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple
requests for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses
by then-Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House; undermining the
criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the midst of
the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize
then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro's
Cuba. JUDICIAL WATCH
BARCK HUSSEIN OBAMA’S MUSLIM HERITAGE
Earlier this month, jihadists of the
Al-Shabaab terror group hijacked a bus heading to Garissa and ordered all the
passengers to exit the vehicle. The assailants asked for identification cards,
then proceeded to separate the Muslims from the Christians.
When two Christians refused to recite
the Islamic statement of faith, or Shahada, they were executed.
THE RISE of
BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the
U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is
ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if
they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical
behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
JUDICIAL WATCH TEN MOST
CORRUPT
President Barack Obama: During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political
corruption to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
BARACK OBAMA
POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda
for the Obama bankster-funded third term for life.
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
FAKEBOOK and
GOOBLE ASSAULT FREE SPEECH TO BUILD THE GLOBALISTS’ BILLIONAIRES’ DICTATORSHIP
FOR THE RICH
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/facebook-and-google-assault-free-speech.html
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*
TRAITOR
BARACK OBAMA and the MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
Reconquistas
Muñoz, Solis present at Obama sovereignty sellout session ...Obama was joined
at the meeting [about a push to amnesty millions of border-hopping job thieves]
by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senior Advisor Valerie
Jarrett, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro,
and White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs [and former 'Tan Klan'
minion] Cecilia Muñoz...
*
"Of course none of this comes as any surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
"Of course none of this comes as any surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS, THE SUPER RICH and
OPEN BORDERS
ADVOCATES TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE-CLASS.
There’s a reason why Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg,
Bloomberg, Gates and the Koch Brothers love the Obomb!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical
Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
JUDICIAL WATCH’S TEN MOST
CORRUPT LIST
President Barack Obama: During
his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and
transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President
has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political
corruption to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
Obamanomics: How
Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends,
Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You
Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal
aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an
assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor,
uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens
and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
GEORGE SOROS PARTNERS WITH BARACK OBAMA and ERIC
HOLDER TO CREATE A GLOBALIST REGIME FOR THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS and CRONY
BANKSTERS…. Open borders and endless hordes of illegals will make it happen!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/monica-showalter-soros-banksters-and.html
YOU WONDERED WHY OBAMA-HOLDER WORKED SO HARD TO SABOTAGE
AMERICAN VOTING FOR MORE ILLEGALS???
Those
are the subliterate, low-skill, non-English-speaking indigents whose own
societies are unable or unwilling to usefully educate and employ them. Bring
these people here and they not only need a lot of services, they are putty in
the hands of leftist demogogues as Hugo Chavez demonstrated - and they are very
useful as leftist voters who will support the Soros agenda.
Banksters’ rent boy Eric Holder declares that Obama is ready
to roll for a third term!
BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER: BUILDING OBAMA’S MUSLIM-STYLE
DICTATORSHIP requires destroying white middle class first.
(BANKSTERS)
NO POLITICIAN
IN HISTORY SUCKED IN MORE BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS THAN BARACK OBAMA, AND HE DID
IT BEFORE HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE.
What did the
Wall Street banksters know that took us so long to find out???
"One of the premier institutions of big business,
JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the
10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that
another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a
government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama
will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact
of central bank actions in driving inequality between
asset owners and labor."
Obama, of course, covered up his own role, depicting
his presidency as eight years of heroic efforts to repair the damage caused
by the 2008 financial crash. At the end of those eight years,
however, Wall Street and the financial oligarchy were fully
recovered, enjoying record wealth, while working people were poorer
than before, a widening social chasm that made possible the election of
the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November 2016.
“The
response of the administration was to rush to the defense of the banks. Even
before coming to power, Obama expressed his unconditional support for the
bailouts, which he subsequently expanded. He assembled an administration
dominated
by the interests of finance capital, symbolized by economic adviser
Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
Trump criticized
Dimon in
2013 for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic downturn. “I’m not
Jamie Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case and then pays $11 billion to
settle a case and who I think is the worst banker in the United States,” he
told reporters.
(END
BANKSTERS)
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(BANKS
DEPRESSED WAGES)
Crony Capitalism, Economic plunder by Wall Street, Bottomless Bailouts
and Wider Open Borders to Keep Wages Depressed and Profits up.
The stupendous run-up on the global
stock exchanges and vast increase in the personal fortunes of the
financial oligarchy have depended on the relentless downward pressure on
workers’ wages and conditions.
This is a class-conscious decision by the central bank
executives, who understand that investors tend to make far more money when the
sword of mass unemployment and poverty is kept swinging over the heads of
workers.
*
VIDEO:
JUDICIAL WATCH GOES AFTER CLINTON AND OBOMB… will they see
prison time?
THE OBAMA-CLINTON SWAMP…. How close they came to destroying
American democracy…. It’ what happens when two psychopath lawyers are permitted
to run for office!
“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel
and unusual punishment, the sentence I would like to see imposed would place
both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12
cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – AMERICAN THINKER com
“They knew Obama
was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train
wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of
America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac,
and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps
irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified
crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to
happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the
world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet
they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
THE RISE TO POWER OF BANKSTER-OWNED
BARACK OBAMA
'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most
frequently used words to describe the president: Pew Research Center
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.
OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA -WHY WALL STREET, ILLEGALS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS
and the 1% LOVE HIM, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE SHAFT TO PAY FOR HIS CRONY
CAPITALISM
CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm separating the rich and
super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than
11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of the Obama
“recovery”—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually shrank.
Meanwhile, Obama is pressing forward
with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the next fiscal year, to slash
$400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from Social Security… AS WELL AS
WIDER OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
INCOME PLUMMETS UNDER OBAMA AND HIS WALL STREET CRONIES
WELFARE
CHEAT BARACK OBAMA FUNDS HIS EGO TOWER off tax payers backs!
I am sure
that Obama and his friend and former chief of staff Rahm would not like to see
pols running for mayor on a platform of halting the giveaway."
But that halt to lawlessness hasn't stopped the
Windy City's politicians rushing to hand over almost 20 acres of precious
lakefront park land to the private foundation controlled by Barack and Michelle
Obama. The Obama Foundation (Obama.org) promises to build a monument
to his presidency, called the Obama Presidential Center (OPC). It
has to be called the OPC because it will not be an actual presidential library,
under the control of the National Archives, but rather a privately controlled
entity, free to focus on whatever pleases the 44th president.”
*
NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY SUCKED IN
MORE BRIBES FROM CRIMINAL BANKSTERS THAN BARACK OBAMA!
This was not because of
difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney
General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama
administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do
so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
*
BARACK OBAMA and
the RISE OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA ‘The Race’, now calling itself
UNIDOSus.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/03/traitor-barack-obama-and-rise-of.html
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a 11 TRILLION
DOLLARS in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!
Barack Obama created more
debt for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also had
the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the
wealth created went to
the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR BARACK OBAMA MOCKS TRUMP
Obama orchestrated the greatest transfer of
wealth to the rich in U.S. history!
THE WALL STREET BOUGHT AND OWNED DEMOCRAT PARTY
SERVING BANKSTERS, BILLIONAIRES and INVADING ILLEGALS
THE CRONY CLASS:
Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under
Obama than Bush.
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election
in 1992, the Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with
the reforms of the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare
programs to provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW
MEANS OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black
capitalists, and passed the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three
strikes” provision that has helped create the largest prison population in the
world.”
(TOP - THIRD TERM, PAY-TO-PLAY – BIDEN)
JOE BIDEN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO
KNOW THIS!
THE SECRET LIFE OF A BANKSTERS’
RENT BOY.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
*
THE OBAMA
MARXIST-MUSLIM BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein
Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power." Karin McQuillan
*
"We know that Obama and his inner circle have
set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan and execute resistance to
the Trump administration and his legislative
agenda. None of these people care about the
American people, or the fact that
Trump won the election because millions of
people voted for him."
Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
THE RISE OF
BARACK OBAMA an American Traitor
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/03/traitor-barack-obama-and-rise-of.html
LOOKING LIKE 30 YEARS FOR HILLARY CLINTON …. OBAMA MAY FOLLOW
HER!
MICHAEL BARONE
“The Lawlessness of the Obama
Administration: A never-ending story.”
GLOBLIST BARACK OBAMA,
AND HIS GLOBALIST CRONIES WANT WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON
ARIZONA
SENATOR JEFF FLAKE’S STATE of MEX-OCCUPIED ARIZONA:
1.
SECOND ONLY TO MEXICO CITY IN MEX KIDNAPPING.
2.
PHOENIX IS U.S. FIRST PLACE FOR MEX HOME INVASION
3.
PHOENIX IS U.S. FIRST PLACE FOR MEX CAR THEFT.
4.
MILLIONS PAID OUT TO MEX ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS
The
Mexican fascist separatist movement of M.E.Ch.A's goal is even more radical: an
independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S.
Southwest – Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."
*
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
*
More than half a million
illegal immigrants of several dozen nationalities have been apprehended on John
Ladd’s sprawling cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona. Ladd has also found 14
dead bodies on his 16,500-acre farm, which has been in his family for well over
a century and sits between the Mexican border and historic State Route 92.
*
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.
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group
called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of
left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors
have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
JUDICIAL WATCH
OBAMA HANDS TAX DOLLARS TO LA RAZA MEXICAN SUPREMACIST:
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is
replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Concentrated
Corporate Power: Liberal Metropolises, Monopolies Increasingly Dominate U.S.
Economy
Drew
Angerer/Getty Images
23 Dec 201918
4:13
Metropolises
stationed in blue states and giant monopolies are increasingly dominating the
American economy with their concentration of corporate power, research finds.
Analysis
by Bloomberg News this
month revealed that just 31 counties in the
United States now make up more than 32 percent of U.S. gross domestic product
(GDP) despite only being home to about 22 percent of the nation’s population
and 26 percent of the workforce.
The report noted:
The nation’s economy is becoming increasingly
concentrated in large cities and by the coasts — and less so in rural counties
— spurring the question of whether rural areas will be increasingly left
behind. The growing concentration of the country’s economic activity could
impact a variety of things from infrastructure spending to labor mobility, but
it’s unclear how rural areas will fare as their share of economic output
continues to dwindle.
These 31 counties all include
metropolises like Los Angeles, California; New York City, New York; San
Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida;
and Houston, Texas.
As a result, industries are
increasingly concentrated in these metropolises along the coasts. The
information and tech sectors, for example, are mostly settled in Silicon
Valley, California and San Francisco. The financial sector continues to have a
stronghold in Manhattan.
While the entertainment industry is
less concentrated in Los Angeles, it is not because of a growing foothold in a
smaller city or middle America state but rather because New York City has
increased its share of the industry.
The concentration of economic power
coincides with more concentration of corporate power as a handful of
multinational corporations and executives increase their shares of the market.
Extensive research by the Open Markets Institute
has detailed from pharmaceuticals to retail where just one or a few
corporations dominate whole industries in the U.S.
Open Market Institute researchers
write:
Today, a single corporation,
Walmart, controls 72 percent of warehouse clubs and supercenters in the entire
United States. In close to 40 metropolitan areas across America, Walmart sells
more than half of all groceries. Amazon, meanwhile, dominates e-commerce in
general, and many specific lines of business. The corporation, for instance,
sells 74 percent of all e-books and 64 percent of all print books sold online.
In drug stores, CVS controls nearly
60 percent of the industry, while Walgreens controls about 31 percent. In tech,
Google controls about 64 percent of desktop searchers and 94 percent of all
global and mobile tablet searchers.
With airlines, mergers have allowed
just four corporations — American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines,
and Southwest Airlines — to control about 80 percent of the market. The same is
true of rental car companies, where Enterprise, Hertz, and Avis effectively
controlling the entire market.
Sen.
Josh Hawley (R-MO) has said the concentration of economic power and
wealth must be
challenged by Republicans and Democrats in defense of America’s
working and middle class:
I think that we have here at the
same time that our economy has become more concentrated, we have bigger and
bigger corporations that control more and more of our key sectors, those same
corporations see themselves as less and less American and frankly they are less
committed to American workers and American communities.
“That’s turned out to be a problem
which is one of the reasons we need to restore good, healthy, robust
competition in this country that’s going to push up wages, that’s going to
bring jobs back to the middle parts of this country, and most importantly, to
the middle and working-class of this country,” Hawley continued.
It isn’t just in America. The world as a whole is
pivoting. The dogmatic socialist established order is ending.
We enter the age of the Deplorables. The Deplorables are ascending in
America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much
of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are
the antidote to arrogant globalist socialists. Deplorables
everywhere say “from now on we will make our own decisions.”
everywhere say “from now on we will make our own decisions.”
They are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order to protect their privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay the price, the current ruling class and their progeny will have far more to lose.
Deplorables Versus the
Ruling Class: A Global Struggle
Consider the age of monarchs. Squabbling barons select a
supreme ruler – a king or an emperor -- to suppress the squabbling. Peace
and prosperity return to the land. The king makes policy but he can’t do
everything. His minions take care of the details.
Minions mean bureaucracy. The bureaucracy grows.
The king grows old and dies. The dynasty continues. The bureaucracy
continues – always continues, and always grows. The bureaucracy becomes
an establishment kingdom unto itself. The bureaucracy grows in power and
serves its own interests. The king diminishes in power. The land
grows restless under the increasing regulatory tyranny and taxes. Legitimacy
–what the Chinese called the “mandate of heaven” -- is
lost and so is the dynasty.
Change the names and we are at the end of a similar cycle – a
cycle that began with the guillotine. This time it is a world-wide
cycle. The modern king is a modern tyrant – Stalin, Hitler, Mao were the
worst.
The socialist idea had been kicking around since the
18th century. This seemingly plausible notion shaped the various
Marxist evils of the 20th century. The Soviet Union, Mao’s China,
Nazism, Fascism, and today’s imperious European Union, are all socialist
tyrannies of one degree or another.
Bureaucratic agencies become ideal tools for tyrants. A
tyrant can point his agencies in a particular direction and unleash them.
They immediately glory in their new power. Horrors ensue. Nazi
Germany gave us the Holocaust and war. Stalin used betrayal.
Friends betrayed friends. Children spied on parents. During the
Soviet show trials of the 1930’s Stalin’s innocent victims were forced to
falsely confess in order to save the lives of their families. Fear
reigns.
Sound familiar? How about the FBI inducing General Flynn to
plead guilty in order to protect his son? Mao injected dark comedy by
unleashing hordes of children to humiliate their elders. No one was
safe. Fear reigns. Sound familiar? Antifa anyone? Black
Lives Matter anyone? Greta anyone? Mao lives!
The United States has become an undemocratic administrative state as well, but only by happenstance. In this country
Congress has ceded much of its power to unchecked regulatory agencies, allowing
them to write their own laws -- regulations which enable them to prosecute, and
persecute, anyone who might stand in an agency’s way. The agencies are
powers unto themselves -- judge, jury, and arresting police altogether.
Innocents are often victims.
It isn’t just the regulatory, or administrative, state that is the
problem. There is a growing sense that something is terribly wrong
throughout society – throughout progressive liberal society,
that is. How about needles in the street? How about sanctuary
cities, counties and states? How about the ruins of Detroit? How
about the weekly slaughter in Chicago? How about suppression of free
speech in academia? How about the corrupt liberal media? How about
big tech bias and censorship? It seems that our governments, and our
intellectual establishments both, no longer serve the average citizen.
They serve only a leftist political ideology, and themselves.
Worst of all, the political ideology that the establishment
promotes is antithetical to the native ideology of America. America was
founded as a society with spiritual values. True America is a society
where the family is paramount. It is a society where a person is rewarded
in proportion to his contribution. It is a society devoted to the
individual where the individual is inherently free because his rights derive
from the Creator not from the government. The purpose of government,
according to the American ideology, is to serve the
individual, not to be his master. The collection of individuals is to be
the master of the government. This is classical liberalism – now a
conservative ideal. It is the opposite of “progressive liberalism.”
The true American ideology cautions against granting power to any
bureaucratic establishment. In its ever increasing hunger for power the
establishment has gravitated to an alien progressive ideology – an ideology of
ever bigger government and government control. But the bossy progressive
Left increasingly forbids Americans to be Americans.
Political turmoil is the consequence. The barons are
squabbling. The Left openly advocates overthrowing the
Constitution. The Right counters with Donald Trump. The Left
politically assassinates him with impeachment. The Right, with centrist
allies, will reelect him anyway. The Mandate of Heaven has been removed
from the elitist establishment. It is passing to the Deplorables.
It isn’t just in America. The world as a whole is
pivoting. The dogmatic socialist established order is ending. We
enter the age of the Deplorables. The Deplorables are ascending in
America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much of Europe,
in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are the antidote to arrogant
globalist socialists. Deplorables everywhere say “from now on we will
make our own decisions.”
What is it with the Deplorables? What gives them such
power? Three things, I believe, are elevating them. Deplorables
are pragmatic. They are not wedded to any extreme
ideology. Deplorables will go with anything that works. It is no
wonder that the Deplorables began in America. For, as Americans we
inherit the pragmatism of our pioneering ancestors.
Second, the Deplorables adhere to the original American ideology
of free individuals. They reject the concentration of government power
that has accumulated over the past century.
The third energizer is a technological miracle – the
internet. Establishments everywhere fear the internet. And properly
so. For the first time we can instantly communicate across the
world. We can find like-minded people everywhere. We have
discovered just how very many people agree with us.
It follows that Deplorables are no longer just an American
phenomenon, the phenomenon resonates with people everywhere. People
around the world are much the same. They value their traditions and
customs. They value their families, their values, their spiritual
heritage. They value their nation. They resent the imposition of
intrusive government by strangers, by bureaucratic globalists. They are
becoming Deplorables.
Born in the still free parts of America, this new movement seems
destined to chart the course for the whole world -- for this century and
beyond.
The Mandate of Heaven no longer rests with the condescending
progressive bureaucratic establishment. It is passing back to the
people. It is passing to Deplorables everywhere in the world.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle Class Americans Against
‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires
JOHN BINDER
The Republican Party
must defend America’s working and middle class against “concentrated corporate
power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the United States’ economy,
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
In an
interview on The Realignment podcast, Hawley said that “long
gone are the days where” American workers can depend on big business to look
out for their needs and the needs of their communities.
Instead,
Hawley explained that increasing “concentrated corporate power” of whole
sectors of the American economy — specifically among Silicon Valley’s giant
tech conglomerates — is at the expense of working and middle class Americans.
“One of
the things Republicans need to recover today is a defense of an open,
free-market, of a fair healthy competing market and the length between that and
Democratic citizenship,” Hawley said, and continued:
At the
end of the day, we are trying to support and sustain here a great democracy.
We’re not trying to make a select group of people rich. They’ve already done
that. The tech billionaires are already billionaires, they don’t need any more
help from government. I’m not interested in trying to help them further. I’m
interested in trying to help sustain the great middle of this country that
makes our democracy run and that’s the most important challenge of this day.
“You have
these businesses who for years now have said ‘Well, we’re based in the United
States, but we’re not actually an American company, we’re a global company,'”
Hawley said. “And you know, what has driven profits for some of our biggest
multinational corporations? It’s been … moving jobs overseas where it’s cheaper
… moving your profits out of this country so you don’t have to pay any taxes.”
“I think
that we have here at the same time that our economy has become more
concentrated, we have bigger and bigger corporations that control more and more
of our key sectors, those same corporations see themselves as less and less
American and frankly they are less committed to American workers and American
communities,” Hawley continued. “That’s turned out to be a problem which is one
of the reasons we need to restore good, healthy, robust competition in this
country that’s going to push up wages, that’s going to bring jobs back to the
middle parts of this country, and most importantly, to the middle and working
class of this country.”
While
multinational corporations monopolize industries, Hawley said the GOP must
defend working and middle class Americans and that big business interests
should not come before the needs of American communities:
A free
market is one where you can enter it, where there are new ideas, and also by
the way, where people can start a small family business, you shouldn’t have to
be gigantic in order to succeed in this country. Most people don’t want to
start a tech company. [Americans] maybe want to work in their family’s
business, which may be some corner shop in a small town … they want to be
able to make a living and then give that to their kids or give their kids an
option to do that. [Emphasis added]
The
problem with corporate concentration is that it tends to kill all of that. The
worst thing about corporate concentration is that it inevitably believes to a
partnership with big government. Big business and big government always
get together, always. And that is exactly what has happened now with the tech
sector, for instance, and arguably many other sectors where you have this
alliance between big government and big business … whatever you call it, it’s a
problem and it’s something we need to address. [Emphasis added]
Hawley
blasted the free trade-at-all-costs doctrine that has dominated the Republican
and Democrat Party establishments for decades, crediting the globalist economic
model with hollowing “out entire industries, entire supply chains” and sending
them to China, among other countries.
“The
thing is in this country is that not only do we not make very much stuff
anymore, we don’t even make the machines that make the stuff,” Hawley said.
“The entire supply chain up and down has gone overseas, and a lot of it to
China, and this is a result of policies over some decades now.”
As
Breitbart News reported, Hawley detailed in the interview how Republicans like former
President George H.W. Bush’s ‘New World Order’ agenda and Democrats have helped
to create a corporatist economy that disproportionately benefits the nation’s
richest executives and donor class.
The
billionaire class, the top 0.01 percent of earners, has enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as the bottom 90 percent
since 1979. That economy has been reinforced with federal rules that largely
benefits the wealthiest of wealthiest earners. A study released last month revealed that the richest Americans are,
in fact, paying a lower tax rate than all other Americans.
Tucker Carlson
Exposes D.C. ‘Conservatives’ for Doing Big Tech’s Bidding
Rich Polk/Getty
ALLUM BOKHARI
21 Dec 20190
3:53
Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed establishment conservatives
for taking money from big tech companies to do their bidding, on Tucker
Carlson Tonight, Friday night.
The
popular host, known for his no-holds-barred denunciations of establishment
conservatives as well as Democrats, revealed massive spending by the
establishment conservative Koch Foundation to protect big tech in Washington.
Tucker
revealed that Americans for Prosperity, a “purportedly conservative group”
controlled by the Kochs, launched an ad campaign trying to stave off the
closing net of antitrust enforcement against Google and Facebook. The ads
targeted Republican and Democrat state attorneys general that were
investigating alleged antitrust violations by big tech companies.
The
Koch-funded group also targeted members of the Senate Judiciary Committee with
digital ads urging them to “oppose any effort to use antitrust laws to break up
America’s innovative tech companies,” reported Carlson.
The Fox
host ran through a laundry list of allegedly “conservative” D.C. think tanks
that take money from big tech, and often advocate against regulating them over
political bias or any other matter.
“In
all, the Koch network quietly spent at least $10 million defending Silicon
Valley companies that work to silence conservatives.”
Tucker Carlson Slamming Conservative Inc.
for Defending Big Tech
Tucker Calls Out
-Kochs
-Heritage Foundation
-American Conservative Union
-AEI
"Big Tech Companies silence Conservatives, Conservative Non-Profits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it."
Tucker Calls Out
-Kochs
-Heritage Foundation
-American Conservative Union
-AEI
"Big Tech Companies silence Conservatives, Conservative Non-Profits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it."
“Google
has given money to at least 22 right-leaning institutions that are also funded
by the Koch network,” reported Carlson.
“Those
institutions include the American Conservative Union, the American Enterprise
Institute, the National Review Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute,
the Heritage Foundation, and the Mercatus Center.”
Carlson
explained that this spending gets results.
“In
September of 2018, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and three other groups
funded by Google and the Kochs sent a joint letter to the Attorney General
at the time, Jeff Sessions, expressing grave concerns over the DoJ’s plans to
look into whether search engines and social media were hurting competition and
stifling speech.”
Carlson
also called out The Heritage Foundation, arguing that its shilling for big tech
meant that it “no longer represents the interest of conservatives, at least on
the question of tech.”
“A recent
paper by Heritage, entitled ‘Free Enterprise Is the Best Remedy For
Online Bias Concerns,’ defends the special privileges that Congress
has given to left-wing Silicon Valley monopolies. And if conservatives don’t
like it, Heritage says, well they can just start their own Google!”
Evidence
of big tech’s efforts to co-opt establishment conservatives has been
accumulating for some time. In March, Breitbart News published leaked audio from a senior director of
public policy at Google, talking about using funding of conservative institutions to
“steer” the movement. Another part of the leaked audio transcript was also revealed on Tucker
Carlson’s show at the same time.
The
Heritage Foundation has continued to defend big tech against efforts to
strip them of their special legal privileges, which were given to them by Congress
in the 1990s and are enjoyed by no other type of company.
This is
despite the fact that Google publicly snubbed the foundation last year,
canceling the formation of a planned “A.I ethics” council after far-left
employees of the tech company threw a hissy fit over the fact that Heritage
president Kay Coles James was set to be one of its members.
Are
you an insider at Google, Facebook, Twitter or any other tech company who wants
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In truth,
the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared
with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half
of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San Francisco, which now has the highest property crime rate among major
cities.
December 20, 2019
California
Preening
The Golden State
is on a path to high-tech feudalism, but there’s still time to change course.
“We are the modern
equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta. California has the
ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta,” declared then-governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007. “Not only can we lead California into the future
. . . we can show the nation and the world how to get there.” When a movie star
who once played Hercules says so who’s to disagree? The idea of California as a
model, of course, precedes the former governor’s tenure. Now the state’s
anti-Trump resistance—in its zeal on matters concerning climate,
technology, gender, or race—believes that it knows how to create a just,
affluent, and enlightened society. “The future depends on us,” Governor Gavin
Newsom said at
his inauguration. “And we will seize this moment.”
In truth, the Golden
State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared
with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half
of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San Francisco, which now has the highest property crime rate among major
cities. California
hasn’t yet become a full-scale dystopia, of course, but it’s heading in a
troubling direction.
This didn’t have to
happen. No place on earth has more going for it than the Golden State. Unlike
the East Coast and Midwest, California benefited from comparatively late
industrialization, with an economy based less on auto manufacturing and steel
than on science-based fields like aerospace, software, and semiconductors. In
the mid-twentieth century, the state also gained from the best aspects of
progressive rule, culminating in an elite public university system, a massive
water system reminiscent of the Roman Empire, and a vast infrastructure network
of highways, ports, and bridges. The state was fortunate, too, in drawing
people from around the U.S. and the world. The eighteenth-century French traveler J. Hector St. John de CrèvecÅ“ur described the American as “this new
man,” and California—innovative, independent, and less bound by tradition or
old prejudice—reflected that insight. Though remnants of this California still
exist, its population is aging, less mobile, and more pessimistic, and its
roads, schools, and universities are in decline.
In the second half of the twentieth
century, California’s remarkably diverse economy spread prosperity from the
coast into the state’s inland regions. Though pockets of severe poverty
existed—urban barrios, south Los Angeles, the rural Central Valley—they were
limited in scope. In fact, growth often
favored suburban and exurban communities, where middle-class families,
including minorities, settled after World War II.
In the last two decades,
the state has adopted policies that undermine the basis for middle-class
growth. State energy policies, for example, have made California’s gas and electricity
prices among the steepest in the country. Since 2011, electricity prices have
risen five times faster than the national average. Meantime, strict land-use
controls have raised housing costs to the nation’s highest, while taxes—once
average, considering California’s urban scale—now exceed those of virtually every state. At the same time, California’s economy
has shed industrial diversity in favor of dependence on one industry: Big Tech.
Just a decade before, the state’s largest firms included those in the
aerospace, finance, energy, and service industries. Today’s 11 largest companies
hail from the tech sector, while energy firms—excluding Chevron, which has
moved much of its operations to Houston—have
disappeared. Not a single top aerospace firm—the iconic industry of
twentieth-century California—retains its headquarters here.
Though lionized in the
press, this tech-oriented economy hasn’t resulted in that many middle- and
high-paying job opportunities for Californians, particularly outside the Bay
Area. Since 2008, notes Chapman University’s Marshall Toplansky, the state has created
five times the number of low-paying, as opposed to high-wage, jobs. A
remarkable 86 percent of new jobs paid below the median income, while almost
half paid under $40,000. Moreover, California, including Silicon Valley,
created fewer high-paying positions than the national average, and far less
than prime competitors like Salt Lake City, Seattle, or Austin. Los Angeles
County features the lowest pay of any of the nation’s 50 largest counties.
No state advertises its multicultural bona
fides more than California, now a majority-minority state. This is evident at
the University of California, where professors are required to prove their service to “people
of color,” to the state’s high school curricula, with its new ethnic studies component. Much of California’s
anti-Trump resistance has a racial context. State Attorney General Xavier
Becerra has sued the administration numerous times over immigration policy
while he helps ensure California’s distinction as a sanctuary for illegal
immigrants. So far, more than 1 million illegal residents have received driver’s licenses, and they qualify for free health care, too. San Francisco now permits illegal immigrants to vote in local elections.
Such radical policies may
make progressives feel better about themselves, though they seem less concerned
about how these actions affect everyday people. California’s Latinos and
African-Americans have seen good blue-collar jobs in manufacturing and energy
vanish. According to one United Way study, over half of Latino households can barely pay their bills. “For
Latinos,” notes long-time political consultant Mike Madrid,
“the California Dream is becoming an unattainable fantasy.”
In the past, poorer
Californians could count on education to help them move up. But today’s
educators appear more interested in political indoctrination than results.
Among the 50 states, California ranked 49th in the performance of low-income students. In wealthy San Francisco, test scores for
black students are the worst of any California county. Many minority residents,
especially African-Americans, are fleeing the state. In a recent UC Berkeley
poll, 58 percent of black expressed interest in leaving California, a higher
percentage than for any racial group, though approximately 45 percent of Asians
and Latinos also considered moving out.
Perhaps the biggest demographic
disaster is generational. For decades, California incubated youth culture,
creating trends like beatniks, hippies, surfers, and Latino and Asian art,
music, and cuisine. The state is a fountainhead of youthful wokeness and rebellion, but that may prove short-lived as millennials leave. From
2014 to 2018, notes demographer Wendell Cox, net domestic out-migration grew
from 46,000 to 156,000. The exiles are increasingly in their family-formation
years. In the 2010s, California suffered higher net declines in virtually every
age category under 54, with the biggest rate of loss coming among the 35-to-44
cohort.
As families with children
leave, and international migration slows to one-third of Texas’s level, the
remaining population is rapidly aging. Since 2010, California’s fertility rate
has dropped 60 percent, more than the national average; the state is now aging
50 percent more rapidly than the rest of the country. A growing number of tech
firms and millennials have headed to the Intermountain West. Low rates of homeownership among younger people play a big role
in this trend, with California millennials forced
to rent, with little chance of buying their own home, while many of the state’s
biggest metros lead the nation in long-term owners. California is increasingly a greying
refuge for those who bought property when housing was affordable.
After Governor Schwarzenegger morphed into
a progressive environmentalist, climate concerns began driving state policy.
His successors have embraced California “leadership” on climate issues. Jerry
Brown recently told a
crowd in China that the rest of the world should follow California’s example.
The state’s top Democrats, like state senate president pro tem Kevin DeLeon,
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, and billionaire Democratic presidential
candidate Tom Steyer, now compete for
the green mantle.
Their policies have worsened conditions for many middle- and working-class Californians. Oblivious
to these concerns, Greens ignore practical ideas—nuclear power, natural gas
cars, job creation in affordable areas, home-based work—that could help reduce
emissions without disrupting people’s lives. Ultra-green policies also work
against the state’s proclaimed goal of building more than 3.5 million new housing units by 2025.
In accordance with its efforts to reduce car use, the state mandates that most
growth occurs in already-crowded coastal areas, where land prices are highest.
But in cities like San Francisco, the cost of building one unit for a homeless person surpasses $700,000. California’s
inland regions, though experiencing population gains, keep losing state funding for decrepit highways in favor of urban-centric, mass transit projects—yet transit
use has stagnated, especially in greater Los Angeles.
The state, nevertheless,
continues its pursuit of policies that would eliminate all fossil fuels and
nuclear power—outpacing national or even Paris Accord levels and guaranteeing
ever-rising energy prices. Mandating everything from electric cars to
electric homes will only drive more working-class Californians into “energy
poverty.” High energy prices also directly affect the manufacturing and
logistics firms that employ blue-collar workers at decent wages. Business
relocation expert Joe Vranich notes
that industrial firms account for many of the 2,000 employers that left the
state this decade. California’s industrial growth has fallen to the bottom tier of states; last year, it ranked 44th, with a rate of growth one-third to
one-quarter that of prime competitors like Texas, Virginia, Arizona, Nevada,
and Florida.
Similarly, the high energy
prices tend to hit the interior counties that, besides being poorer, have far
less temperate climates. Cities like Bakersfield,
capital of the state’s once-vibrant oil industry, are particularly hard-hit.
High energy prices will cost the region, northeast of the Los Angeles Basin,
14,000 generally high-paid jobs, even as the state continues to import oil from Saudi Arabia.
California’s leaders apply
climate change to excuse virtually every failure of state policy. During the
California drought, Brown and
his minions blamed the “climate” for the dry period, refusing to take
responsibility for insufficient water storage that would have helped farmers. When the rains returned and
reservoirs filled, this argument was forgotten, and little effort has been made
to conserve water for next time. Likewise, Newsom and
his supporters in the media have
blamed recent fires on changes in the global climate, but the disaster had as
much to do with green mandates against controlled
burns and brush clearance than anything occurring on a planetary scale. Brown joined
greens and others in
blocking such sensible policies.
Few climate advocates ever
seem to ask if their policies actually help the planet. Indeed, California’s
green policy, as one paper demonstrates,
may be increasing total greenhouse-gas emissions by pushing people and
industries to states with less mild climates. In the past decade, the state
ranked 40th in per-capita reductions, and its global carbon footprint is
minimal. Renewable energy may be expensive and unreliable, but state policy nevertheless enriches the
green-energy investments of tech leaders,
even when their efforts—like the Google-backed Ivanpah solar farm—fail to deliver affordable, reliable energy.
It’s not so surprising, given these
enthusiasms, that progressive politicians like Garcetti—who
leads a city with paralyzing traffic congestion, rampant inequality, a huge rat infestation, and proliferating homeless camps—would rather talk about
becoming chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.
Reality is asserting
itself, though. Tech firms already show signs of restlessness with the current
regulatory regime and appear to be shifting employment to other states, notably Texas, Tennessee, Nevada, Colorado,
and Arizona.
Economic-modeling firm Emsi estimates that several states—Idaho, Tennessee,
Washington, and Utah—are growing their tech employment faster than California.
The state is losing momentum in professional and technical services—the largest
high-wage sector—and now stands roughly in the middle of the pack behind other
western states such as Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. And Assembly Bill 5, the
state law regulating certain forms of contract labor,
reclassifies part-time workers. Aimed initially at ride-sharing giants Uber and Lyft,
the legislation also extends to independent contractors in industries from
media to trucking.
At some point, as even Brown noted,
the ultra-high capital gains returns will fall and, combined with the costs of
an expanding welfare state, could leave the state in fiscal chaos. Big Tech
could stumble, a possibility made more real by the recent $100 billion drop in the value of privately held “unicorn” companies,
including WeWork. If the tech economy slows, a rift could develop between two
of the state’s biggest forces—unions and the green establishment—over future
levels of taxation. More than two-thirds of California cities don’t have any funds set aside for retiree health
care and other retirement expenses. The state also confronts $1 trillion in pension
debt, according to former Democratic state senator Joe Nation. U.S. News & Report ranks California, despite the tech
boom, 42nd in fiscal health among the states.
The good news: some
Californians are waking up. A recent PPIC poll found that increasing proportions of Californians believe
that the state is headed in the wrong direction—a figure that exceeds 55
percent in the inland areas. And voters dislike the state legislature even more than they dislike Donald Trump. Newsom’s approval rating stands at 43 percent, placing him toward the bottom among the
nation’s governors. A conservative-led campaign to recall him is unlikely to succeed, but surveys
reveal growing opposition to the new tax hikes proposed by the legislature. There’s a growing
concern about the state’s expanding homeless population.
And a rebellion against
the state’s energy policies is already under way. Recently, 110 cities, with total population exceeding 8 million, have demanded changes
in California’s drive to prevent new natural gas hookups. The state’s Chamber
of Commerce and the three
most prominent ethnic chambers—African-American,
Latino, and Asian-Pacific—have joined this effort.
Californians need less
bombast and progressive pretense from their leaders and more attention to
policies that could counteract the economic and demographic tides threatening
the state. On its current course, California increasingly resembles a model of
what the late Taichi Sakaiya called “high-tech feudalism,” with a small
population of wealthy residents and a growing mass of modern-day serfs.
Delusion and preening ultimately have limits, as more Californians are
beginning to recognize. As the 2020s beckon, the time for the state to change
course is now.
Joel
Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University
and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His latest book
is The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. His book on the return to
feudalism will be released next year.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
Their banksters and billionaires demand
wider open borders to keep wages depressed
"This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate
these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will
never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of
migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must
endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members,
drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt
for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
‘The
Left Case Against Open Borders’: Liberal Author Pans ‘Useful Idiots of Big
Business’
5:13
Progressives’
enthusiastic support for mass immigration has converted them into “useful
idiots” for the nation’s business elites, says a left-wing writer.
Today’s
well-intentioned activists have become the useful idiots of big business. With
their adoption of “open borders” advocacy—and a fierce moral
absolutism that regards any limit to migration as an
unspeakable evil—any criticism of the exploitative system of mass
migration is effectively dismissed as blasphemy. Even solidly leftist politicians,
like Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United
Kingdom, are accused of “nativism” by critics if they recognize the legitimacy
of borders or migration restriction at any point. This open
borders radicalism ultimately benefits the elites within the most powerful
countries in the world, further disempowers organized labor, robs the
developing world of desperately needed professionals, and turns workers against
workers.
Nagle
also argues that mass immigration operates extracts human talent from
developing societies for the benefit of wealthy, comfortable U.S. elites:
Advocates
of open borders often overlook the costs of mass migration for developing
countries. Indeed, globalization often creates a vicious cycle: liberalized
trade policies destroy a region’s economy, which in turn leads to mass
emigration from that area, further eroding the potential of the origin country
while depressing wages for the lowest paid workers in the destination country.
One of the major causes of labor migration from Mexico to the United States has
been the economic and social devastation caused by the North American Free
Trade Agreement (nafta). Nafta forced Mexican farmers to compete with
U.S. agriculture, with disastrous consequences for Mexico. Mexican imports doubled,
and Mexico lost thousands of pig farms and corn growers to U.S. competition.
When coffee prices fell below the cost of
production, nafta prohibited state intervention to keep growers
afloat. Additionally, U.S. companies were allowed to buy
infrastructure in Mexico, including, for example, the country’s main
north-south rail line. The railroad then discontinued passenger service,
resulting in the decimation of the rail workforce after a wildcat strike was
crushed. By 2002, Mexican wages had dropped by 22 percent, even though worker
productivity increased by 45 percent.7 In
regions like Oaxaca, emigration devastated local economies and communities, as
men emigrated to work in America’s farm labor force and slaughterhouses,
leaving behind women, children, and the elderly.
Left-wing
servants of business elites spray claims of racism on the public to suppress
their rational and reasonable opposition to immigration exploitation,
Nagle argues:
The
immigration expansionists have two key weapons. One is the big business and
financial interests all working on their side, but an equally
powerful weapon—wielded more expertly by the left-leaning
immigration expansionists—is moral blackmail and public shame. People
are right to see the mistreatment of migrants as morally wrong. Many people are
concerned about the growth of racism and callousness toward minorities that
often accompanies anti-immigration sentiment. But the open borders position
does not even live up to its own professed moral code.
The
tacit alliance of the wealthy against the middle prompt some invective by the
Irish author;
In
the wealthiest nations, open borders advocacy seems to function as a fanatical
cult among true believers—a product of big business and free market
lobbying is carried along by a larger group of the urban creative, tech, media,
and knowledge economy class, who are serving their own objective class
interests by keeping their transient lifestyles cheap and their careers intact
as they parrot the institutional ideology of their industries. The truth is
that mass migration is a tragedy, and upper-middle-class moralizing about it is
a farce. Perhaps the ultra-wealthy can afford to live in the borderless world
they aggressively advocate for, but most
people need—and want—a coherent, sovereign political body to
defend their rights as citizens.
The
establishment’s economic policy of using migration to boost economic growth
shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar
foreign labor.
That flood of outside labor spikes profits
and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for
manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees.
The
policy also drives up
real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’
schools and college education, pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are
now struggling with opioid addictions.
Immigration
also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal
investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations
living in the coastal states.
AMERICA
UNRAVELS:
Millions of
children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves and ILLEGALS SUCK IN
BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
*
"The
top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly three-quarters of all household
wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
*
"While telling workers there is
“not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund social programs, both parties
hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft
carrier that cost $13 billion to build, stuffing the pockets of numerous
contractors and war profiteers."
Two
Americas: De Blasio's Amazon vs. Trump's Walmart
That the Democrat Party is now the party
of the rich is increasingly seen in its candidates. Forget the occasional
Ocasio-Cortez. A Democrat candidate is more likely to be someone like Illinois’
new governor, J.B. Pritzer, who promises to complete Illinois’ financial
collapse with single-payer insurance and a progressive income tax,
promising to persist until he runs out of other people’s
money:
John Edwards once spoke of “two Americas,” one “for all of those people who have lived the
American dream and don't have to worry, and another for most Americans,
everybody else who struggle to make ends meet every single day”. One is
reminded of this by New York City mayor Bill De Blasio’s full-throated shouting
of “socialism for all” from the rooftops of buildings whose height his politburo would determine and whose rents and
occupants his commissars would control.
Mayor Bill de Blasio cited his
"socialistic impulse" in describing an ideal world where New York
City government has control over all land and buildings in his city.
“I think people all over this city, of
every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine
which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what
the rent will be,” de Blasio said in a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine. “I think there’s a socialistic impulse,
which I hear every day, in every kind of community that they would like things
to be planned in accordance to their needs.”
To each according to their needs -- gee,
where have we heard that before? One would be willing to believe De Blasio’s
socialistic impulses arises out of genuine, if wrongheaded, concern for the
working poor and the middle class, the people the Democrat “party of
compassion” is allegedly the champion of, if it were not for De
Blasio’s support for what some would call corporate welfare, welcoming
cash-rich and taxpayer-subsidized Amazon’s new HQ to New York City while
closing its borders to a Walmart invasion.
A listener asked just what the difference
was between the two retail giants during the mayor’s weekly guest spot on WNYC radio:
“Amazon is… part of the American economy,”
he continued. “I would ask every good progressive, every listener out there who
has a concern about Amazon: How many are using Amazon as part of their daily
lives? Whatever you like or dislike about Amazon, Walmart is an entirely
different universe in terms of the efforts they’ve undertaken to not only
undermine labor, small business, the environment… and obviously the politics of
[Walmart’s owners] the Walton family to add to it,” referring to the Waltons’
track record of funneling megabucks to conservative causes.
Funny that De Blasio has no objection to
the likes of billionaires Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, and George Soros funneling
big bucks to liberal candidates and causes. One of the takeaways from the 2018
midterms was the morphing of the Democrats to the party of the rich as those
stinky Walmart shoppers lined up at Trump rallies. The GOP is now the party of
the working class, or the deplorable bitter-clingers of Hillary Clinton’s and
Barack Hussein Obama’s disdain. As deep state coup architect Peter Strzok infamously said in a text message to fellow agent
Lisa Page:
“Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart.
I could SMELL the Trump support.”
Who wants Walmart greeters and cashiers
moving to New York when you can have the high-rollers who work for
Amazon? Amazon promises to deliver 25,000 jobs with an average salary of
$150,000, which is a lot more than the average Walmart greeter or cashier
makes.
Wal-Mart gave people what they want at a
price they can afford. Those “mom-and-pop” stores De Blasio champions were
often inefficient, opportunistic price-gougers. Walmart believed a fair wage
was and is one agreed upon between employee and employer. No one was forced to
work or shop there. It was efficient, innovative, successful, and
non-union, and that is why it was and is hated for all these reasons. It is the
poster child for roll-up-your-sleeves capitalism.
Founded as a single five-and-dime store in
a small Arkansas town, its success story mirrors America’s. It is a poster
child for capitalism and the American dream. It is ironic that Wal-Mart
critics, who have long complained its employees live paycheck to paycheck,
forget that many of its customers also live paycheck to paycheck, and seek
quality merchandise at decent prices. They opposed “low” wages for Wal-Mart
employees while in effect supporting higher prices for Wal-Mart customers.
That the Democrat Party is now the party
of the rich is increasingly seen in its candidates. Forget the occasional
Ocasio-Cortez. A Democrat candidate is more likely to be someone like Illinois’
new governor, J.B. Pritzer, who promises to complete Illinois’ financial
collapse with single-payer insurance and a progressive income tax,
promising to persist until he runs out of other people’s
money:
This month saw the election of Jay Robert
"J.B." Pritzker as governor of Illinois. Pritzker, an heir to the
Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated $3.2 billion, and spent $171.5
million to get himself elected, according to Money magazine.
Another winner was Edward M.
"Ned" Lamont Jr., in the Connecticut governor's race. Lamont, an heir
to the J.P. Morgan banking fortune of his great-grandfather Thomas Lamont,
estimated his assets in 2006 at between $90 million and $300 million, and showed
reporters tax returns last month with income totaling $18 million over 5 years.
The winner of the election for governor of
Colorado, Jared Polis, filed financial disclosure forms as a member of the House of Representatives indicating
estimated wealth of more than $300 million.
Pritzker, Lamont, and Polis are all
Democrats…
Somehow, the wealth of Pritzker, Lamont,
and Polis has gotten less attention, perhaps because it doesn't so easily fit
the country-club Republican stereotype. Instead of writing about the limousine
liberals who are so rich they make the Trump cabinet look like a bunch of
paupers, the press has been obsessing about how a newly elected congresswoman from the Bronx,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, can't afford to rent a place in Washington until she
starts collecting her congressional salary.
The socialism of the coastal elites of
which De Blasio is a leader is akin to the old Soviet politburo who lived very
well as they dictated what could be built and where, what people would make and
where and how they would live. Everyone was equal but some were more equal than
others.
I reject the Democrat Party of the rich in
favor of the GOP party of the working poor and the middle class, the deplorable
bitter clingers. God, how I love the smell of Walmart in the morning.
Daniel
John Sobieski is
a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among
other publications.
Report:
‘Impeachment’ Billionaire Tom Steyer Prepares to Launch Presidential Bid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/19/report-impeachment-billionaire-tom-steyer-prepares-to-launch-presidential-bid/
Spencer Platt / Getty
2:17
Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer, who spent millions in the 2018
midterm elections pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is preparing
to launch a campaign for president in 2020, according to Politico.
The
former billionaire investor, climate activist and impeachment agitator Tom
Steyer will take several steps toward a 2020 presidential bid Tuesday.
That will
include a six-figure web ad buy on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram
along with a full-page ad in USA Today and other Gannett newspapers outlining a
political platform, a revamped TomSteyer.com, and the announcement of five town
halls across the country, the first of which will be in the crucial early
primary state of South Carolina, according to copies of the ad and platform
provided to POLITICO.
The first
town hall is set for Dec. 4 in Charleston, S.C., and the next will be in
Fresno, Calif., sometime in December, according to Aleigha Cavalier, senior
communications adviser for TomSteyer.com who also works for Steyer’s
climate-focused group NextGen America. There will be one town hall for each of
the “5 rights” on Steyer’s platform: the right to an equal vote, to clean air
and water, to learn with pre-K education through college, to a living wage, and
to health.
Steyer
has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on other Democrats’ campaigns in
recent years. He was the party’s top donor in 2014 — buying few wins but
allowing him to force the party to stage an all-night talk session about
climate change on the Senate floor.
In 2018,
he spent over $100 million on an effort to push for impeachment, reinforcing that message the day after the election in a New York Times op-ed.
Joel
B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author
of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him
on Twitter at @joelpollak.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
"This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate
these plans are extravagantly wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in
Congress will never be exposed to the downside of the invasion of millions
of migrants, the crime or the financial burden. They have
nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
Democrat
Corruption is a Clear and Present Danger to America
On November 6, it seemed the Republicans
might hold their majority in the Senate and in the House. Sadly,
they lost their majority in the House. The mystery is why so many Democrat
candidates who are so obviously ethically challenged won in races that should
not have even been close.
How and why do Democrats continue to
vote for unqualified, dishonest candidates? Elizabeth Warren is a
proven liar, a cheat who claimed Native American heritage in order to get a job
at Harvard. Her baby, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was
her plan to wield control over all bank and non-bank institutions without
Congressional interference. In short, she is a hard-left socialist who
means to control how Americans earn, spend and borrow money, how they use their
savings. Warren is a blight on the Constitution and the guaranteed
freedoms of US citizens. She is an advance operative for the socialist America
the left envisions.
Andrew Gillum, the left's choice to be
Governor of Florida, is the failed mayor of Tallahassee. He remains under FBI investigation for corruption. Given the
information about that investigation that has been released, he appears yet
another greedy and corrupt Democrat pol in the Hillary Clinton
mold. The stability of Tallahassee declined catastrophically under
his leadership; crime and murder rose drastically.
Gillum sold out his city for money, and
cries racism when confronted with his crimes. He should never have
been the candidate for the Governor of Florida but the left cares only about
race and power, not ethics or honor. For progressives, race trumps
everything else, even character. If Gillum wins after the cheating
Broward County is infamous for, Florida will suffer the slings and arrows that
are inevitable under politicians like Gillum. Why was this race even
close? Have half the nation's voters scuttled any semblance of traditional
values in order to win? Yes.
Then there is Robert Menendez, the
credibly accused pedophile senator of New Jersey. He should be in
prison but was saved by one juror in his corruption trial with whom he partied
after his win on November 6. Who votes for a man like this? There is plenty of proof that he
took bribes from a wealthy client for numerous favors, trips to the
Dominican Republic for sex with underage girls being one of
them. But New Jersey just re-elected this man. They too
have lost all sense of right vs. wrong.
Stacey Abrams, the still grasping
gubernatorial contender in Georgia, is a hard-left, anti-capitalist,
anti-Second Amendment candidate. She owes about $200K in credit card
debt and wants to run Georgia? She too is corrupt and
incompetent. She is also willing to cheat to win. Are Georgians ignorant
of her many, many negatives? If they are, they voted for her
anyway. Again, skin color trumps everything.
The left ignores fine men like John
James, who ran for
the House in Michigan against Debbie Stabenow. The
left ignored Eddie Edwards who ran in New Hampshire. Both men are
conservative African Americans. The American left today pretends
such candidates do not exist. They have ignored fine people like
James and Edwards as they have always ignored brilliant men like Thomas Sowell,
Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Jason Riley, and Larry Elder. They
revile the brilliant Clarence Thomas. They don't like to be reminded
of men like Frederick Douglass or Booker T. Washington. Neither of them, like Sowell, Steele, Williams and
Elder ever promoted the idea that African Americans were or would be perennial
victims. Each of them advocated for quite the opposite, for
self-reliance and independence.
This notion of personal responsibility is
anathema to today's left; they need and promote subservience and dependency
among their flock of reliable but uninformed voters. This is why
they encourage the immigration of so many millions of illegal migrants. They
assume they will be able to win for them the right to vote. Judging
by the number of them who likely voted in the midterms, their plan is
succeeding.
This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are extravagantly wealthy. Those tasked with
representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the downside of
the invasion of millions of migrants, the crime or the financial
burden. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must
endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members,
drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention
of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt
for us.
Then there is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
the thoroughly-ignorant-of-everything candidate who won her
district by 80%! This young woman knows nothing about how
any government works, let alone ours. She is hopelessly uniformed;
she knows even less about US history or the Constitution. She is
clueless about the economy. When asked how she would pay for all the
give-away programs she touts, she replied that that was a
"puzzling question"! "You just pay for it" she answers. She has no
idea; no idea about anything. She thinks she will be
"inaugurated" to the House! Most fourth graders know more
than she does about US history. And yet she is already
thinking about running for President! This is a
wholesale indictment of our politicized, dumbed-down system of
education. Many of her constituents are immigrants; we are obviously
not educating them at all. They voted for all the free stuff --
college, medical care, basic income, housing, that Ocasio-Cortez has
promised to deliver. This is what socialist Democrats dream
about: perpetual power over a populace too ignorant to rebel. American
as founded is at grave risk.
In addition to ODasio-Cortez,
Gillum, Ilhan Omar, Abrams, Sinema, who very likely cheated to
take the Arizona Senate seat, there is Linda Sanchez. Kirsten Gillibrand is a Hillary clone; she only cares
about her own political power. She speaks like a small child but is also
considering a run for the presidency. She was best pals with Bill
Clinton and Harvey Weinstein until they were politically inconvenient. Amy
Klobuchar, who embraced the vicious and obviously false allegations against
Judge Kavanagh, was re-elected! Like every other Democrat member of
the judiciary committee, she knew those accusations were false, without a shred
of corroboration, but her constituents re-elected her! Who are these
voters? How do they reconcile voting for people willing to destroy a
fine man for political purposes? She is exactly who every Democrat
member of that committee is, who every member of the Democrat Party
is: nothing more than power-hungry political operatives out to ruin
any and all opponents by any means necessary. They are a clear
and present danger to American as founded.
Young people are no longer taught the
truth of American history. They are not taught the truth of the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism is acceptable, even
promoted, by the Democrats. They embrace Linda Sarsour and Louis Farrakhan without shame. Young people don't know that
communism killed over a hundred million people in the twentieth
century. Their calculated-by-leftists ignorance is
destroying our country. They try to sell the idea that gender is not a factor
of biology! They attempt to convince young people that climate
change is man-made (a travesty) and that global warming causes wild fires (a
lie). Having control over academia, they have willfully brainwashed
students for nearly two generations. Unless your children are a
strong-willed, independent thinkers, do not send them to college!
How and why the American left has devolved
into the kind of party one finds in a banana republic is a
mystery. That our media is so anxious to promote their corrupt
candidates and the low-brow tactics they employ is a tragedy. Do they do it because they can no
longer win by promulgating their Orwellian vision of a socialist state,
mandated equality of outcome? Perhaps. They will never
sell socialism to enough sentient Americans to win. They need
millions of uninformed voters to succeed.
We must not let them cheat their way to
power over the rest of us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped
and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have
become. It's not a pretty picture. What they have become threatens
to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on
purpose. They have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and
for those of us who love this country.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN A LEFTIST COUP
The best midterms that San Francisco donors could buy.
November 15, 2018
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism
Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer
focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
After President Trump took office,
the Washington Post announced its new motto, “Democracy dies
in darkness.” But it was the Washington Post, not Trump, that was
guilty of undermining democracy.
President Trump had been legitimately
elected by a majority of states. The Washington Post was an establishment
paper in a government city owned by a dot com robber baron. There’s nothing
more undemocratic than a paper owned by the richest man in the world working to
overturn an election.
There was just as little democracy to the
midterm elections in which wealthy donors from blue states and districts poured
money into local races in red and purple states and districts. San
Francisco and New York billionaires buying elections in Pennsylvania and Nevada
is not democracy. It’s oligarchy.
American elected officials were meant to
be elected by local communities to serve their needs. Instead the Left has
nationalized local races by exploiting its cultural power. And when that didn’t
produce the immediate results that it wanted, began overwhelming local elections
with huge piles of outside cash.
The midterm elections were the best
elections that San Francisco donors could buy.
Senate Democrats picked up $220 million in
out-of-state donations these midterms. That huge pile of cash also amounted
to sixty percent of their haul. The majority of Dem
Senate cash came from donors who weren’t living in the states they were running
in, but who were trying to buy elections for them.
That’s the Washington Post brand
of democracy.
It’s not just Senate races being bought up
by out-of-state donors. 45% of House Dem money came from out-of-state donors.
And when they didn’t succeed in buying a local election the first time, they
just kept on pouring in more money into a district until they got their way.
Last year, Democrats poured in $22.5
million into a special election in Georgia’s 6th congressional
district. 95% of the donations came from out-of-state donors.
Democrat Jon Ossoff received more donations from California than Georgia. Ossoff still lost to Rep. Karen Handel,
even though her donations amounted to only a fraction of his ActBlue bucks.
But the same donors just waited a year and
bought the seat for Lucy McBath in the midterms.
In October, Lucy McBath was appearing at
the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles hosted by Hollywood royalty like
Katzenberg, Tony Goldwyn and Cameron Crowe for a $500 a head fundraiser.
A large chunk of outside money behind
McBath came from Michael Bloomberg. McBath touted his gun control positions and
the New York billionaire’s front groups put $4.5 million behind his lackey.
There’s nothing democratic about Bloomberg
buying the 6th the way he once bought Gracie Mansion.
In Illinois' 13th Congressional District,
Betsy Dirksen Londrigan pulled in $1.7 million to Rep. Rodney Davis' $700K in a
three month period. And then outside groups poured in nearly as much again in
support of Londrigan. $300K of that money came from California.
In Nevada, out-of-state donors bought
Jacky Rosen a senate seat. 85% of the radical lefty candidate’s donations came from outside
the state. Of her 5 top donor zip codes, two were in New York, two in
California, including Palo Alto, and the odd zip code out was in Chevy Chase,
Maryland.
The media frequently airs complaints about
how little political power New York and California have per capita compared to
a handful of small states. These complaints are not only cynically specious,
they ignore the fact that between the media’s messaging force multipliers and
the bicoastal wealth being used to buy elections, political power has become as
concentrated as economic and cultural power.
And that’s the opposite of democracy.
The midterms weren’t a populist wave. They
were an angry tantrum by wealthy blue state donors who used their money to buy
local elections as payback for having their views ignored in 2016. Instead of
listening to the rest of the country, they set out to buy it, lock, stock and
barrel. They found experts, consultants, strategists, programmers and
organizers who would buy them other people’s elections.
Much of their money was wasted. Just ask
Beto O’Rourke and his $70 million war chest. But their hysterical frenzy of
spending made an undeniable impact. If you throw enough mud or money at an
election, eventually it sticks. The Democrat raised nearly $1 billion to take
the House.
And they took it.
$166.8 million was pumped into 30 House Democrat candidates. That’s compared to
$90.7 million for the Republican candidates in those races.
The most expensive midterm elections in
history paid off for Democrats. And there’s nothing democratic about that.
Democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies
in the glare of lefty media, lefty money and lefty power which strip away local
issues and local agency in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Big
blue state donors bought the midterm elections to send a message to President
Trump. Many had been convinced by frenzied media hit pieces in papers like
the Washington Post that action was desperately urgent.
When the Washington Post,
the rest of the media and their long tail of ActBlue donors intervene in local
elections, it doesn’t uphold democracy. It drowns it in the bright actinic
glare of flashes and floodlights.
The media postures as a defender of
democracy, but corporate media is more naturally a defender of establishments,
of the nostrums and platitudes of the elites whom it serves and coddles. When
it interferes in elections, it doesn’t do so for the sake of the people, but
for the sake of its people.
Political elites mistrust the people and
use the media to manipulate popular elections into endorsing their unpopular
agendas. The mainstream media is an inherently undemocratic institution that
amplifies elite voices at the expense of local communities. It claims to be
democratic only because it reinterprets democracy to mean the political agendas
of the Democrats rather than those of the people.
Lefties often misuse democracy to mean a
set of values while actual democracy, the vox populi, is tarred as populism.
But democracy isn’t a set of social issues. It’s the power shift between the
voters and elected officials. Big media and blue state billionaires have
shifted that balance away from local voters by buying local elections and
seeking new voters when the old won’t vote their way.
If a few million in attack ads won’t
influence local voters, you register new ones. If that doesn’t work, then you
legalize felons. And if that won’t do it, there are the illegal aliens, and
voter and ballot fraud. Buy a few secretary of state races. Set up housing for
out-of-state college students. Sign up aliens to vote. And then even if the
local voters don’t vote your way, it won’t matter. They’ll have been outvoted.
This isn’t democracy. But it is how
Democrats have won some local races.
The shift away from local voters to a
national political infrastructure is undemocratic. But it neatly fits into the
larger leftist cause of centralizing all of politics (and all other areas of
life) in elitist strongholds. The partnerships between elitist leaders and
their local crony stakeholders act as a fig leaf for the dismantling of local
autonomy with performative diversity replacing representational democracy.
The Democrats have waged an undemocratic
war on democracy in the name of democracy. The midterms were the latest leftist
coup against democracy. And democracy lost to the Left.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
"GOP estb. is using the $5 billion border-wall fight to hide
up to four blue/white-
collar cheap-labor programs in lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are
worried that
salaries are too damn high, & estb. media does not want to
know."
MULTI-CULTURALISM
and the creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in
America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
AS WALL STREET
PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s Export of
“cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But a series of
reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over the past week
reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in
record levels of wealth.”
MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE
RICH: YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK…. for Wall Street, Banksters, Billionaires
and LA RAZA.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-democrat-party-for-billionaires.html
“But a series of
reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over the past week
reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are wallowing in
record levels of wealth.”
"America’s elites, now overwhelmingly
represented by the Democratic Party, have a single overriding interest: their
self-indulgent lifestyle."
Class
Conflict within the Democratic Party
Over many decades, the American Left, the
Democratic Party and their mutual propaganda arm, the self-styled “mainstream
media,” have successfully portrayed conservatives and the Republican Party as a
coalition of the wealthy and intolerant. Further, the Democrats and the
left have claimed that they are the true champions of the working or middle
class as they unceasingly fight to defeat and marginalize this evil
menace.
The reality, however, is that this cabal
has virtually no interest in defending or aiding the working class as they are,
in fact, the party of a bifurcated constituency: the wealthy and those
dependent on the largess of the government.
Of the fifty wealthiest congressional
districts throughout the country, the Democrats now represent forty-one. Of the remaining nine represented by Republicans, three
are in Texas, the only red state on the list of fifty districts. Not
coincidentally the residents of these same fifty districts are supposedly among
the most well-educated and sophisticated. This transformative process is
not a recent phenomenon as the trend began in the 1980’s and accelerated
rapidly in the early 2000’s.
America’s elites, now overwhelmingly
represented by the Democratic Party, have a single overriding interest: their
self-indulgent lifestyle. This is manifested in their mistaken belief that conservatives
(i.e. the “right”) are hell bent on enforcing their version of morality on the
nation, thus potentially calling into question the lifestyles of the rich and
solipsistic.
The veracity of this claim is immaterial
as it would require an element of deliberation not emotion -- a trait in
extremely short supply among the nation’s privileged class, nearly all of whom
have difficulty in generating an original thought due to the ill-education
rampant in America’s universities. Thus, the mindless accusations of
racism, misogyny and Fascism directed at the conservative rubes in middle
America are acceptable, and in far too many instances believed, particularly as
many had the temerity to vote for Donald Trump – who, although wealthy and Ivy
League educated, is considered the ultimate unsophisticated rube.
As conservatives are the dominant force in
the Republican Party and this nation cannot function politically with more than
two major political parties, the alternative is the Democratic Party. An
entity dominated by the American Left, an assemblage whose core philosophy is
antithetical to the interests of the wealthy and privileged. Yet,
determined to protect their lifestyles and vilify conservatives, they willingly
ally with the left and overwhelmingly support virtually any Democratic
candidate. In the recent 2018 mid-terms, Democratic House candidates
outspent their Republican opponents by a two to one margin thanks primarily to
this wealthy but myopic assemblage.
Their colleagues in the Democratic Party,
and the preponderance of the membership, are those dependent on the largess of
the federal and state governments. On the other hand, the growing segment
of the citizenry who are working and self-sufficient are increasingly joining
those who believe in limited government in migrating to the Republican Party--
a process that is accelerating with the policies and tactics of Donald Trump in
combating the entrenched left and their determination to culturally and
economically transform the nation. The Republican Party will inevitably
become the party of the working or middle class. As such, they could
potentially dominate the political agenda for the foreseeable future.
The left and the Democratic Party, in
order to offset this possibility, must aggressively seek to increase the number
of dependents by promoting the legalization and ultimate citizenship for untold
millions of illegal immigrants and promising all Americans cradle to grave economic
security. In order to enact this strategy to defeat the Republicans, the
left must have the active participation and financial support of the nation’s
wealthy-- which they have.
The Democratic Party has evolved into
essentially an incompatible two-tier class-driven entity encompassing the
nation’s wealthiest and the nation’s poorest. Nonetheless, it is at
present a convenient home for the elites to hold off the imaginary horde of
conservatives outside their gilded doors.
However, the voting numbers within the
party are overwhelmingly with those who generally support the leftist
philosophies of redistribution (e.g. socialized medicine and guaranteed
incomes) and curtailing of freedom (e.g. speech, assembly and religion).
While it may not manifest itself to the affluent who have cast their lot with
the Democrats, the redistribution of wealth must, by necessity, come from the
wealthy, as that is where the bulk of the nation’s wealth resides.
It is also this same small-in-numbers group that benefits the most from
freedom of speech and assembly.
Once fully embroiled in this marriage of
convenience, a divorce will be impossible as the co-inhabitant of the
Democratic Party, the dependent class, must continue grow in order to electorally
defeat the Republicans and protect the left’s agenda. Further, the
oversold expectations promulgated by the left will never be satisfied
regardless of how many promises are made or token redistributive programs are
enacted by the current ruling class. Only a complete transformation of
this nation into a failed socialist state will satiate the left, their acolytes
and their attendant army of dependency. A goal more in reach than ever
thanks to the inability of the nation’s elites to give a damn about the future
of the country.
There is not a more short-sighted and
self-absorbed group of citizens in this nation than the white, wealthy
well-educated urban and suburban voters. They are willing to rend the fabric of
this nation in order to protect their privilege and lifestyle. While the
vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay the price, the current ruling
class and their progeny will have far more to lose.
Dem
billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg already have spent a combined $200 million in
quest for presidency
Remember when the Democrats thought “money
politics” was a bad thing? That moral certainty started to crumble when Hillary
Clinton outspent Donald Trump by a factor of at least 2, and still went down to
defeat. And while vilifying Wall Street makes for good progressive
virtue-signaling, the Dems are now the party of plutocrats, buying with welfare
and money transfers the support of an underclass kept angry and dependent by
progressive policies that hamper job-creation and reward idleness and
dependency.
President Trump’s tax and regulations cuts
have boosted job growth and income at the lower end of the market, imperiling
this strategy, but that hasn’t stopped the billionaires lusting for power and
still welcome in the party. Maya King of Politico writes:
Together, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg
have poured nearly $200 million into television and digital advertising alone,
with the former New York mayor spending an unprecedented $120 million in the
roughly three weeks since he joined the presidential race. That’s more than
double the combined ad spending of every single non-billionaire candidate in
the Democratic field this entire year.
“We’ve never seen spending like this in a
presidential race,” said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican political strategist who
worked as a consultant for Bloomberg’s mayoral bids in New York. “He has a
limitless budget.” (snip)
Steyer isn’t spending at the same
stratospheric levels as Bloomberg, yet with $83 million in ad buys so far, he’s
still far outpacing everyone other than his fellow billionaire. The next
highest spender on ads is Pete Buttigieg at $19 million.
Many readers know that political
consultants love campaign advertising because they get a percentage of the
spend in compensation, often 15%, which really adds up when a budget of $120
million is up for grab. And that’s just for 3 weeks.
Bloomberg is stiff-arming the early
primary states, but Steyer,who has been in the race much longer, is spending
gigantic sums in small and inexpensive media markets in the first 4 states:
Steyer is largely focused on the four
early voting states. He has spent nearly $37 million in Iowa, South Carolina,
Nevada and New Hampshire — much of it on digital ads. Since joining the race in July,
he’s more than doubled the combined ad spending of Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the early states.
…according to the RealClearPolitics national poll average, Bloomberg is languishing in fifth place, with 5%. Steyer
is doing even worse, in tenth place, with 1.5%.
Steyer improves to seventh in Iowa (2.5%)
and New Hampshire (2.7%), sixth in Nevada (3.5%), and fifth in South Carolina (4.0%). Bloomberg’s best result in an early primary state
appears to be in California, where he is sixth (3.3%).
I don’t think either man has a chance of
capturing the Dems’ nod, but they do have the potential to create mischief.
Steyer already bankrolled a push toward impeachment that succeeded in
forcing the House to vote out the lamest articles of impeachment in history.
And Bloomberg is planning to sink huge resources into not only his own
campaign, but into Democrat congressional races, where advertising can be far
more effective, since most voters have much less knowledge of their own
congressional candidates than they do of presidential races.
Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin has nothing on
the resources of Steyer or Bloomberg.
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