Enough is enough; this is enough: Capitol Dome Is Imperiled by 1,300 Cracks and Partisan Rift - The dome needs a full rehabilitation, but the House has declined to appropriate the $61 million required for repairs as it pushes to reduce federal spending.

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From The New York Times:

To the myriad indignities suffered by Congress, including stagnant legislation, partisan warfare and popularity on a par with petty criminals, add this: the Capitol’s roof is leaking, and there is no money to fix it.

The Capitol dome, the nation’s grandest symbol of federal authority, has been dinged by years of inclement weather, and its exterior is in need of repair.
      
The dome has 1,300 known cracks and breaks. Water that has seeped in over the years has caused rusting on the ornamentation and staining on the interior of the Rotunda, just feet below the fresco “The Apotheosis of Washington,” which is painted on the Rotunda’s canopy.        Like most of what the federal government is on the hook to fix — highways, bridges and airports — the dome is imperiled both by tough economic times and by a politically polarized Congress. While Senate appropriators have voted to repair the dome, which has not undergone major renovations for 50 years, their House counterparts say there is not money right now. In that way, the dome is a metaphor for the nation’s decaying infrastructure.

David Brooks: Ryan’s Biggest Mistake

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David Brooks writes in The New York Times:

A few years ago, President Obama established a debt commission that was led by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and had a group of eminences, including Representative Paul Ryan.

When that commission came up with its proposal, some conservative Republicans, like Tom Coburn and Judd Gregg, voted yes, but Ryan voted no. This was a devastating blow. If Ryan and the other House Republicans had voted for the Simpson-Bowles proposal, it would have gone to Congress for up-or-down votes, regardless of how President Obama reacted. We would have had national action on debt reduction.
      
The Simpson-Bowles plan would have simplified the tax code and lowered rates. It would have capped the size of government. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, it would have brought the federal debt down from 73 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product today, to 67 percent of G.D.P. in 2022.  Ryan voted no for intellectually coherent reasons. He argued that the single biggest contributing factor to public debt is the unsustainable growth of Medicare. Yet the Simpson-Bowles plan did nothing to restructure Medicare, and it sidestepped health care issues generally. Ryan said that it was silly to come up with a debt-reduction proposal that didn’t fix the single biggest driver of the nation’s debt.        This is the sort of argument that makes a lot of sense in a think-tank auditorium. The problem was there were almost no Democrats who endorsed Ryan’s Medicare reform ideas. If Ryan was going to pinion debt reduction to Medicare reform, that meant there would be no debt reduction.        But Ryan had another way forward, noting: We’re going to have an election in 2012; the country will choose between two different visions; if we Republicans win, we’ll be able to reform Medicare our way and reduce the debt our way.  In other words, Ryan was willing to sacrifice the good for the sake of the ultimate.        In order to get this ultimate solution, though, Ryan was betting that three things would happen. First, he was betting that Republicans would beat President Obama. Second, he was betting that Republicans would win such overwhelming Congressional majorities that they would be able to push through measures Democrats hate. Third, he was betting that a group of Republican politicians would unilaterally slash one of the country’s most popular programs and that they would be able to sustain these cuts through the ensuing elections, in the face of ferocious and highly popular Democratic opposition.        To put it another way, Ryan was giving up significant debt progress for a political fantasy.
       Ryan’s fantasy happens to be the No. 1 political fantasy in America today, which has inebriated both parties. It is the fantasy that the other party will not exist. It is the fantasy that you are about to win a 1932-style victory that will render your opponents powerless.        Every single speech in this election campaign is based on this fantasy. There hasn’t been a speech this year that grapples with the real world — that we live in a highly polarized, evenly divided nation and the next president is going to have to try to pass laws in that context.        It’s obvious why candidates talk about the glorious programs they’ll create if elected. It fires up crowds and defines values. But we shouldn’t forget that it’s almost entirely make-believe. In the real world, there are almost never ultimate victories, and it is almost never the case (even if you control the White House and Congress) that you get to do what you want.        The real world looks a lot like the Simpson-Bowles commission, where you get a diverse group of people who try to make progress in the areas where that is possible and try to sidestep the areas where it is not.        The real world looks like the budget talks between Obama and John Boehner last summer, in which two party leaders get together and work out a budget deal between themselves (which is easy) and also try to write a deal they can sell to their party bases (which is hard).        In the real world, leaders have a dual consciousness. They have a campaign consciousness in which they argue for the policies they think are best for the country. But then they have a governing consciousness, a mind-set they put on between elections. It says: O.K., this is the team the voters have sent to Washington. How can we navigate our divides to come up with something suboptimal but productive?        Paul Ryan has a great campaign consciousness, and, when it comes to things like Medicare reform, I agree with him. But when he voted no on the Simpson-Bowles plan he missed the chance to show that he also has a governing consciousness. He missed the chance to do something good for the country, even if it wasn’t the best he or I would wish for.

PTL. No let's move on: No Charges Filed on Harsh Tactics Used by the C.I.A.

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From The New York Times:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday that no one would be prosecuted for the deaths of a prisoner in Afghanistan in 2002 and another in Iraq in 2003, eliminating the last possibility that any criminal charges will be brought as a result of the brutal interrogations carried out by the C.I.A.

Mr. Holder’s decision in 2009 to open a new investigation into the C.I.A. interrogations was sharply criticized by some former intelligence officials and Republicans in Congress. The harsh interrogation methods, including the near-drowning of waterboarding, had been authorized in Justice Department legal opinions, and the deaths in custody had been previously reviewed by prosecutors during Mr. Bush’s presidency.

Valerie Jarrett - The Other Power in the West Wing

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From The New York Times:

A Chicagoan who helped Mr. Obama navigate his rise through that city’s aggressive politics, Ms. Jarrett came to Washington with no national experience. But her unmatched access to the Obamas has made her a driving force in some of the most significant domestic policy decisions of the president’s first term, her persuasive power only amplified by Mr. Obama’s insular management style.
      
From the first, her official job has been somewhat vague. But nearly four years on, with Mr. Obama poised to accept his party’s renomination this week, her standing is clear, to her many admirers and detractors alike. “She is the single most influential person in the Obama White House,” said one former senior White House official, who like many would speak candidly only on condition of anonymity.

Emanuel Takes On New Role as a ‘Super PAC’ Wrangler

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From The New York Times:

Senior Democrats put aside any remaining qualms about jumping into the “super PAC” era, enlisting Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago to focus on raising money for outside groups that are seeking to help the White House rather than keep a leadership role in President Obama’s re-election campaign.

Mr. Emanuel, who is leaving his honorary position as co-chairman of Mr. Obama’s campaign, intends to help funnel donations to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC founded by two former Obama aides. The group is more than $60 million short of its goal, reflecting a philosophical objection to outside groups among many wealthy liberals, and a feeling among donors that the White House has been insufficiently attentive to them.
      
The move thrusts Mr. Emanuel into the kind of role long played by Karl Rove, the Republican strategist who advises and raises money for a network of Republican-leaning outside groups that intend to spend as much as $500 million in the campaign. Mr. Emanuel is the latest and among the most high-profile examples of how the lines have blurred between campaigns and their outside supporters. A former White House chief of staff to Mr. Obama and the current mayor of the president’s hometown, Mr. Emanuel is deeply immersed in his party’s strategy. Now he is barred from coordinating with the Obama campaign — a prohibition that has proved to be of little consequence to prominent members of either party at a time when relatively weak rules have been exploited to knit the parties’ official and unofficial wings into unified machines.

Bill Clinton delivers for Obama at Democratic convention. Polls show him with a 69 percent approval rating, about 18 percentage points higher than Obama’s.

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From The Washington Post:

Here strode Bill Clinton onto the national convention stage once again, the Democratic man for all reasons.

Twelve years out of office but still and always ready to be needed, he took to prime time as master explainer and policy clarifier, party morale booster extraordinaire, voice of experience, historian longing for the old days of political bipartisanship, earnest economics instructor, hoarse whisperer to the middle class, and empathetic testifier for President Obama, who came to the Democratic National Convention arena on Wednesday night to watch as the former president placed his name in nomination.

It was at Obama’s request that Clinton gave the nominating speech, and in gratitude, in what was more a surprisingly modest gesture than a grand moment, the two men stood arm in arm onstage when Clinton was done. If they were not exactly basking in the glow of a deep friendship, there was at least the sense that Clinton had done precisely what he was asked to do in a way that only he could do it.

Even as his speech went on and on toward the 48-minute mark, blasting way past his allotted time, Clinton did not seem rambling so much as direct and fast and eager. His voice grew more powerful if scratchy, his signature gesticulations became more frequent — the thumb point, the finger point and finger roll, the open-handed can-you-believe-it lament, the raised eyebrows — as he made the case for Obama and against the Republicans and moved through the issues one after another, from health-care reform to the auto industry bailout to Medicare to tax and budget cuts.

In classic Clinton style, the more he got going, the less inclined he was to follow his printed text, ad-libbing his way through a series of knowing asides such as, “I know; I get it; I’ve been there.” He took his listeners on a kaleidoscopic tour of recent political history and deep into the Clintonian method, a modern-day variation of the Socratic method in which every question is worthy of consideration, and every opposing argument is given its due before being shredded.

Polls show him with a 69 percent approval rating, about 18 percentage points higher than Obama’s.

David Brooks: Character, Not Audacity - America will only be governable again if there is a leader who breaks the mold and reframes the debate. Romney is unlikely to do that, and Obama’s speech didn’t offer much either.

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David Brooks writes in The New York Times:

As I listened to President Obama on stage in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday night, I thought back to the days more than four years ago, when he spoke at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa, or on the night he won the caucuses of that state. There was his romantic vision, the possibility of transformational change.
      
I don’t know if we are worse off now than we were back then, but we were certainly worse off then than we knew. The financial crisis of the past years has exposed debilitating flaws in our way of life. It’s exposed the crushing burden of debt and the unsustainability of our entitlement system. It’s exposed flaws in our style of capitalism — the overreliance on finance, the concentration of power. It exposed a widening education gap; the educated have recovered from the recession while the unskilled fall further behind. It exposed even deeper dysfunctions in our political system.        Obama was rhetorically grand back then, but many of us have spent this year looking for even bigger strategies and policies.        The Republicans understand the severity of our economic problems, but they put too much faith in tax cuts. The Republicans understand that unless Medicare is reformed, it will swallow everything else, though judging from their convention, they are too timid to explain the problem or champion their own plan.        So, as I looked to President Obama’s speech Thursday night, I was looking to see if he was capable of a new burst of change.        There were parts of his speech that raised the old expectations. I liked the emphasis he put not on himself but on the word “you” — the idea that change comes organically from the bottom up. I liked his extraordinary self-awareness, his willingness to admit that often life on the campaign trail requires candidates to do silly things. I liked the sense of citizenship that pervaded his address, the sense of mutual obligation.        But what I was mostly looking for were big proposals, big as health care was four years ago. I had spent the three previous days watching more than 80 convention speeches without hearing a single major policy proposal in any of them. I asked governors, mayors and legislators to name a significant law that they’d like to see President Obama pass in a second term. Not one could. At its base, this is a party with a protective agenda, not a change agenda — dedicated to defending government in all its forms.        The Obama speech offered some important if familiar hints of big policy ideas. There was a vague hint of a major tax reform. There was a vague promise to accept an agreement based on the principle of the Simpson-Bowles committee on deficit reduction. But it’s hard to be enthusiastic about President Obama truly championing initiatives that get no more than a sentence or a clause.        Over all, the speech had a fierce opposition toward the Republicans and a desire for incremental continuity about what the Democrats themselves would offer. Worse, the speech was dominated by unexplained goals that were often worthy, but also familiar, modest and incommensurate with the problems at hand. The government should help more students attend community colleges. It should recruit more math and science teachers. These are good existing programs, but these are not policies to pinion a presidency around.        It would be nice if exports doubled. It would be nice if deficits came down gradually over the next 10 years. But the goals President Obama set in these spheres will probably be met if everybody in Washington carried on the status quo. They do not entail big change.        President Obama offered other small and worthy ideas, familiar to him since his days in the Senate, that would make America better — more long-lasting batteries, more trade agreements. But these are improvements fit for countries that are already firmly on the right track.        The country that exists is not on the right track. It has a completely dysfunctional political system. What was there in this speech that will make us think the next few years will be any different? America will only be governable again if there is a leader who breaks the mold and reframes the debate. Romney is unlikely to do that, and Obama’s speech didn’t offer much either. In short, change is still the issue, and the focus of his solid but not extraordinary speech was incremental improvement. The next president has to do three big things, which are in tension with one another: increase growth, reduce debt and increase social equity. President Obama has the intelligence, the dexterity and the sense of balance to navigate these crosscutting challenges. But he apparently lacks the creativity to break out of the partisan categories, the trench warfare gridlock.  Thursday night’s speech showed the character and his potential. It didn’t show audacity and the fulfillment of that potential.

Pitiful Gov. Romney - politicizing a national tragedy. You deserve the withering criticism for distorting the chain of events overseas and appearing to seek political advantage from an attack that claimed American lives.

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It was time to apologize Governor, not double down the next day:

“They clearly — they clearly sent mixed messages to the world. And — and the statement came from the administration — and the embassy is the administration — the statement that came from the administration was a — was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a — a — a severe miscalculation.”

From The New York Times:

 The deadly attack on an American diplomatic post in Libya propelled foreign policy to the forefront of an otherwise inward-looking presidential campaign and presented an unexpected test not only to the incumbent, who must manage an international crisis, but also to the challenger, whose response quickly came under fire.

While President Obama dealt with the killings of an ambassador and three other Americans and deflected questions about his handling of the Arab world, Mitt Romney, the Republican seeking his job, wasted little time going on the attack, accusing the president of apologizing for American values and appeasing Islamic extremists.
      
“They clearly sent mixed messages to the world,” Mr. Romney told reporters during a campaign swing through Florida.        But Mr. Romney came under withering criticism for distorting the chain of events overseas and appearing to seek political advantage from an attack that claimed American lives. A statement he personally approved characterized an appeal for religious tolerance issued by the American Embassy in Cairo as sympathy for the attackers even though the violence did not occur until hours after the embassy statement. Mr. Romney on Wednesday said the embassy statement, which was disavowed by the administration, was “akin to apology, and I think was a severe miscalculation.”  Mr. Obama fired back later in the day, accusing his opponent of politicizing a national tragedy. “Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later,” he told CBS News for its “60 Minutes” program. “And as president, one of the things I’ve learned is you can’t do that — that, you know, it’s important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts, and that you’ve thought through the ramifications.”

Brave Talaban: Taliban Gun Down Girl Who Spoke Up for Rights

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From The New York Times:

At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by giving voice to her dreams. As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and became a symbol of defiance against Taliban subjugation.

On Tuesday, masked Taliban gunmen answered Ms. Yousafzai’s courage with bullets, singling out the 14-year-old on a bus filled with terrified schoolchildren, then shooting her in the head and neck. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack. All three survived, but late on Tuesday doctors said that Ms. Yousafzai was in critical condition at a hospital in Peshawar, with a bullet possibly lodged close to her brain.

If we don’t get Medicare right, there’s no money for anything else. On this particular policy issue, the Republicans have the edge.

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David Broooks writes in The New York Times:

In Thursday night’s debate, Vice President Joe Biden will almost certainly go after Representative Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan. And why shouldn’t he? It’s unpopular. But I’d like to make a case for that plan. It’s the best thing the Romney-Ryan campaign has going for it.
      
First, let’s define the problem. Today, Medicare costs about $550 billion. By 2020, according to the Congressional Budget Office, it will cost more than $1 trillion, sucking money away from every other government program.        According to the Urban Institute, the average couple in 2010 had paid $109,000 in Medicare taxes during their working years but would be able to receive about $343,000 in benefits. A chunk of that $234,000 gap will be paid for by their grandkids. That should weigh on the conscience of every American over 55. You’re supposed to help your grandkids, not take from them.        Basically, there are two ways to reduce Medicare inflation, through the political system or through a market system. Obamacare tries the former. The current budget projections are so bad because almost no one outside the employ of the president believes this approach will reduce Medicare costs. Obama’s primary cost-control instrument is an independent board of experts that Mitt Romney mentioned often in last week’s debate. It’s supposed to lower payment levels.        There are problems. It’s hard for a few people in Washington to centrally rejigger something that complex. Second, the board is not really out of political control. Congress has already restricted its power and has devised gimmicky ways to overrule an unpopular decision. (All decisions to restrict benefits are unpopular.)        The history of Medicare is strewed with efforts to control costs by controlling prices. The results are terrible. Providers just increase the number of services, redefine the classification of services or find other ways to get their money back. A study by the Congressional Budget Office found that, between 1997 and 2005, Medicare payments for individual treatments fell by 5 percent, but the total spent on these services skyrocketed by 35 percent. Doctors made up in volume what they lost in reimbursement levels.        The second approach is to replace the fee-for-service system with more normal market incentives. Give recipients a choice among insurance options and have providers compete to offer comprehensive coverage like today’s Medicare.        This idea has been floating around for a while, and it used to be popular in parts of the Democratic Party until the party swung left. Senator John Breaux, a Democrat, co-led a commission that promoted this idea in 1997. Bill Clinton floated a “managed competition” plan for Medicare late in his presidency. Democrat Alice Rivlin and Republican Pete Domenici have co-authored a premium support plan for the Bipartisan Policy Center.        Paul Ryan wrote his own version a few years ago and has come up with a more moderate version with Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat. Whenever you hear a Democrat say that Romney and Ryan would end Medicare or cost seniors $6,000, that is a misleading reference to the original Ryan plan, not anything on offer today. Today’s Romney plan would not shift costs to seniors.        Would a market-based approach reduce costs? There are some reasons to think so. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that if Ryan-Wyden had been in place between 2006 and 2009, costs might have come down by around 9 percent with no reduction in benefits. Under a demonstration project in Denver in the 1990s, private plans bid 25 percent to 38 percent less than government-determined payment rates.        The Medicare drug benefit began in 2006 with a voucher approach. Costs have been about 30 percent below early estimates. A RAND Corporation study of consumer-directed high deductible plans found that when families had an incentive to monitor costs, they spent about 14 percent less.        Do these and other studies prove that market-based approaches would work? Absolutely not. In each case, the situation is complicated. Voucher plans may save money, but perhaps by shedding the sickest customers.        There are serious health economists who scoff at market-based strategies. Others just don’t know. The leader of the Congressional Budget Office, Doug Elmendorf, candidly admitted at a Congressional hearing that his agency doesn’t know how behavior would change under this sort of competition.        My bottom line is this: The status quo is cataclysmic. The national debt problem is a Medicare problem. The Democrats’ price-control approach has little chance of working.        The Romney-Ryan approach might work. If it doesn’t, the federal budget would suffer but seniors wouldn’t. Today’s seniors would be left untouched anyway, and tomorrow’s would have the option of private plans or traditional Medicare. At worst, if the market approach flopped, we’d be back to where we started.        If we don’t get Medicare right, there’s no money for anything else. On this particular policy issue, the Republicans have the edge.

New Border Regime is Taking the U.S.-Canada Partnership to the Next Level

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We need not tell our informed readers what these gradual steps towards amalgamation mean, but we will: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT & LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY

SAY "NO!" to the NAU!

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

By Dana Gabriel


The Beyond the Border deal announced in December 2011 represents the most significant step forward in U.S.-Canada cooperation since NAFTA. Dual action plans are further transforming trade, regulatory and security relations between both countries.


Over the next few years, various cross-border initiatives will be rolled out, with some beginning as pilot programs. The U.S. and Canada have laid the framework for a new border regime which is taking their partnership to the next level and pushing the continent closer to a fully integrated North America security perimeter.

The Department of Homeland Security and Canada Border Services Agency recently announced the Phase I pilot of the Entry/Exit program which is part of the Beyond the Border action plan. It will include collecting and exchanging biographic information of third-country nationals, permanent residents of Canada, and lawful permanent residents of the U.S. at four selected land border ports of entry. A fact sheet stressed how this, “is an important step as both countries move towards a coordinated entry/exit system that will strengthen border and immigration programs, support law enforcement, and accelerate the legitimate flow of people and goods into Canada and the United States and across our common border.” The Canadian government is also advancing plans to use biometrics for immigration and border security that would bring them in line with the U.S. and other countries. The perimeter security agreement called for implementing, “systematic and automated biographic information-sharing capability by 2013 and biometric information-sharing capability by 2014.” A North American biometric identification system could be used to restrict, track and trace our movements.

On October 4, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Transport Canada officials announced the extension of the expedited screening initiative, TSA Pre✓™ which will now include lanes for Canadian NEXUS members at 27 participating U.S. airports. Canadian Minister of State For Transport Steven Fletcher explained that, “The Government of Canada and the United States are delivering on commitments to include Canadian NEXUS members in designated TSA Pre✓™ lanes as part of the Beyond the Border Action Plan.” He went on to say, “This will mean smarter and faster air travel for Canadian NEXUS members traveling within the U.S., while maintaining a high level of aviation security.” TSA Administrator John Pistole acknowledged that, “The inclusion of Canadian NEXUS members in TSA Pre✓™ is an important step in further harmonizing the security screening process between the U.S. and Canada.” Under NEXUS, pre-screened travelers are granted expedited access across the border, by air, land or sea. As part of the perimeter security deal, both countries are expanding and integrating trusted traveler programs.

The Next-Generation pilot project which would permit U.S. agents on Canadian soil is on hold while legal issues are being resolved. The security perimeter agreement stated that both countries would, “create integrated teams in areas such as intelligence and criminal investigations, and an intelligence-led uniformed presence between ports of entry.” The plan which is a land-based version of the Shiprider program was scheduled to be deployed this summer. Allowing U.S. agents to cross the border and pursue suspects into Canada poses a threat to sovereignty and could infringe on personal privacy laws. The pilot project is part of the process of acclimating U.S. policing activities in Canada and could later be expanded. More>>  BE YOUR OWN LEADER: New Border Regime is Taking the U.S.-Canada Partnership to the Next LevelRelated Posts : Canada,Conspiracy,Mexico,NAU

Mexico Tops World’s Most Dangerous Country List

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This 'accomplishment' accredited to US Attorney General Eric Holder and his "Fast and Furious" team with commensurating cover-ups by the DEA & CIA. And of course, by extension, the Racist in the White House.

by Oct 11, 2012

New York: It's official! Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world - with five of its cities named in a top 10 of deadly global murder capitals.


The dubious honour of most violent urban area in the world, however, went to the Honduran metropolis of San Pedro Sula - where 1,143 of its 719,447 citizens were killed in just 12 months.

That works out to 159 people per 100,000 citizens - higher than Ciudad Juarez, which led the list for three consecutive years, and dropped to second at a "only" 148 per 100,000, the 'New York Daily News' reported.


Mexico is the most dangerous country in the world.Forty of the 50 most dangerous cities are in Latin America, including 14 in Brazil and a dozen in Mexico.

Two Mexican cities - Monterrey and Veracruz - made the list for the first time in 2011, while Tijuana, Reynosa and Matamoros dropped out of the top 50.

Ciudad Juarez, Acapulco, Chihuahua, Durango and Torreon also featured high on the list of cities with the worst murder rates, according to a recently released report, based on 2011 statistics, by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice.

The most violent city in the US, New Orleans, came in 21st on the list with 199 murders out of a population of 343,829 - or a rate of 57.88 per 100,000.

The list of most violent cities for 2011 was topped by San Pedro, Sula Honduras, followed by Juarez, Mexico at 2nd spot and Maceio, Brazil at 3rd place.

Acapulco, Mexico and Distrito Central, Honduras stood at 4th and 5th place respectively .

Other cities in the top ten are Caracas, Venezuela (6th), Torreon, Mexico (7th), Chihuahua, Mexico (8th), Durango, Mexico (9th) and Belem, Brazil at 10th.

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The Bogus Drug War: "We got him - but we lost the body" *video*

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We have a reasonable question to pose at this time. In the likely event that widespread civil unrest develops in the US, would Washington's tyranny throw open the borders even wider to the drug gangs South of the border? The drug lords would then hookup with the ready-in-waiting 5th column of US street gangs. 


Our military ordered to not intervene, would oblige by staying "neutral". (Unless, of course, patriotic Americans began to get the upper hand against the terrorists, then the US military would take a more punishing form by supporting the terrorists against the Americans). Local law enforcement would by now be corrupted, under federal control, and ineffective in this rampage of violence. 

Posse Comitatus can go to Hell.

Far out scenario? Maybe. After all, aren't totalitarian dictatorships built on Anarchy?

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is one that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will see you as an enemy. ~~Natan Sharansky

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They LOST the freaking body!
Let me get this straight.

The government trained him in special forces methods and then he went rogue and became a government enemy.

Then the government tracked him down and with great daring-do killed him, but now no one can see the body?

I guess the Mexicans liked the Osama bin Laden story so much, they re-cycled it.

Instead of taking Mexican drug lord Heriberto Lazcano's body to a police morgue - which is standard operating procedure even in Mexico - the military took it to an UNGUARDED and privately owned funeral parlor and lo and behold, some bad guys came and took it away.

Who exactly did the Mexican Marines kill?

Well they did an in field ID test (hey, just like the SEALS!) and determined it was him. Too bad the body is gone. (I guess the Mexicans didn't think that throwing the bodies of bad guys in the ocean is a plausible way to get rid of whoever it was they shot.)

Heriberto Lazcano was originally trained by US Special Forces to fight Mexican drug cartels. He decided the money was better on the other side and started his own narco-body guard service and then his own cartel with his other US trained buddies. (A real "Scarface" story.)

Now he's dead...sort of...they think.

Note: The cartel that the US wants to win this war - the Sinoloas - has barely gotten a scratch and they profit massively from the Mexican government's success fighting the Zetas.

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WikiLeaks to begin Election-related Intel Dump

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Wednesday 10th October, 17:00 BST

WikiLeaks GI Files Presidential Campaign Release

Today, Wednesday 10th October, WikiLeaks begins releasing over 200,000 Global Intelligence Files (GI Files) relating to the U.S. presidential elections. Each week day we will release thousands of emails referring to Obama, Biden, Romney and the Republican and Democratic parties. Today we will publish over 13,734 emails referring to republican(s), Romney, RNC and/or GOP, ranging from 3rd January 2011 to 19th December 2011.


The GI Files total over five million emails from the U.S. private intelligence firm Stratfor.

Stratfor is a secretive multi-national private intelligence firm, providing services to large corporations, and government agencies. Despite providing the U.S. government with "global intelligence" services there is no public oversight of Stratfor. The emails highlight Stratfor staff’s revolving door with government offices; Stratfor’s Vice-President for Intelligence, Fred Burton, was formerly a special agent with the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and was their Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division. Although Stratfor boasts U.S. governmental sources and reports to have a lot of influence on western decision makers, their emails reveal poor working and security methods and show strong political bias within the organization.

This close connection to the U.S. government means that these GI Files releases will shed insight into key U.S. federal election players. The only legitimate government is one that is elected by an informed population. Through this release WikiLeaks aims to inform the U.S. electorate in an unbiased way through the release of source documents from one of the most oddly influential companies in the U.S. today. We call upon all people around the world to search the emails and publicise their findings using the hashtag #wlfindGI.

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America’s Moral Degeneracy

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Paul Craig Roberts

Institute for Political Economy

October 10, 2012

On May 31, 2010, the Israeli right-wing government sent armed military troops to illegally board in international waters Gaza aid ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. The Israelis murdered 8 Turkish citizens and one US citizen in cold blood. Many others were wounded by the forces of “the only democracy in the Middle East.”


Despite the murder of its citizen, Washington immediately took the side of the crazed Israeli government. The Turks had a different response. The prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, said that the next aid ships would be protected by the Turkish navy. But Washington got hold of its puppet and paid him to shut up. Once upon a time, the Turks were a fierce people.

Today they are Washington’s puppets.

We have witnessed this during the past week. The Turkish government is permitting the Islamists from outside Syria, organized by the CIA and Israel, to attack Syria from Turkish territory. On several occasions a mortar shell has, according to news reports if you believe them, fallen just inside the Turkey border. The Turkish military has used the excuse to launch artillery barrages into Syria.

People who with good cause no longer believe the US and western media or the US and western governments think that the mortar shells were fired by US or Israeli operatives, or by the “rebels” they support, in order to give Turkey the excuse to start a NATO war with Syria. A UN sanctioned NATO invasion or air strikes, as in Libya, has been blocked by the Russians and Chinese. But if Syria and Turkey get into a war, NATO must come to the aid of its NATO member, Turkey.

Once again we see that Muslims are easily dominated and slaughtered by Western countries, because Muslim countries are incapable of supporting one another. Instead of supporting one another, Muslim governments accept payoffs to support instead the Christian/Zionist forces of the Western bloc.

Washington knows this, which is one reason why Washington began its assertion of world hegemony in the Muslim Middle East.

In the West, the Ministry of Propaganda continues to talk about the “Syrian revolt.” There is no revolt. What has happened is that the US and Israel have equipped with weapons and sent into Syria Islamists who wish to overthrow the secular Syrian government. Washington knows that if the Syrian government can be destroyed, the country will dissolve into warring factions like Iraq and Libya.

America’s European and Japanese puppet states are, of course, part of Washington’s operation. There will be no complaints from them. But why is the rest of the world content for Washington to interfere in the sovereign affairs of nations to the point of invading, sending in drones and assassination teams, and murdering vast numbers of citizens in seven countries?

Does this acquiescence mean that the world has accepted Washington’s claim that it is the indispensable country with the right to rule the world?

Why, for example, do Russia and Venezuela permit the US government to fund their political opposition?

The one party American state has no political opposition. But imagine if it did. Would Washington tolerate the funding of its opposition by Russia or Venezuela? Obviously not.

Those running against America with foreign money would be arrested and imprisoned, but not in Venezuela or Russia, countries where, apparently, treason is legal.

On October 8, Hugo Chavez defeated his American-financed opponent, Henrique Capriles, 54% to 44%.

This would be an amazing margin of victory in a US presidential election. However, in his previous reelection Chavez won by 27%. Obviously, Washington’s money and the propaganda activities of the US-financed Non-Governmental Organizations succeeded in swaying Venezuelans and reducing Chavez’s margin of victory to 10%. Washington’s interference is a massive barrier to leadership in other countries. Fully 44% of the Venezuelan people were too brainwashed or too stupid to vote for their own country’s candidate and voted instead for Washington’s candidate.

It is extraordinary that 44% of the Venezuelan voters voted to become an American puppet state, like Turkey, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltics, Scandinavia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Belgium, Taiwan, Colombia, Pakistan, Yemen. Probably, I have left out a few.
As a high government official once told me, “Empire costs us a great deal of money.”

Washington has to pay its puppets to represent Washington instead of their own peoples.

Washington in its hubris forgets that its rule is purchased and not loved. Washington’s puppets have sold their integrity and that of their countries for filthy lucre. When the money runs out, so does the empire.

By then the American people will be as corrupted as the foreign “leaders.” In his review of The United States And Torture, edited by Marjorie Cohn (New York University Press, 2011) in the Fall 2012 Independent Review, Anthony Gregory writes:

“In Reagan’s America, a common theme in Cold War rhetoric was that the Soviets tortured people and detained them without cause, extracted phony confessions through cruel violence, and did the unspeakable to detainees who were helpless against the full, heartless weight of the Communist state. As much as any other evil, torture differentiated the bad guys, the Commies, from the good guys, the American people and their government.

However imperfect the U.S. system might be, it had civilized standards that the enemy rejected.”

By 2005, a year after torture photos from Abu Ghraib were leaked, polls of Americans showed that 38% had succumbed to the propaganda that torture was justified in some circumstances. After four more years of neoconservative advocacy of torture, an Associated Press poll reported in 2009 that 52% of Americans approved of torture.

Torture apparently was an instrument of US cold war policy. Torture was taught to Latin American militaries by the US School of the Americas, which operated in Panama and subsequently at Fort Benning, Georgia. However, this was a clandestine operation. It awaited the neoconservative Bush regime for US Department of Justice (sic) attorneys, graduates of the best law schools, to write legal memos justifying torture despite US statutory and international laws prohibiting torture, and for both the president and vice president of the United States to openly acknowledge and justify torture. Some of the criminals who wrote these memos are now teaching in prestigious law schools. One was appointed to the federal judiciary and sits as a judge sentencing others for their offenses.

We can conclude with Anthony Gregory that it is not only foreign political regimes that are corrupted by Washington’s evil, but also Americans themselves. “Nothing better demonstrates the moral degeneracy of American political culture than the U.S. torture state.”

Washington still masquerades wearing the white hat, and most of the rest of the world is paid to go along with the masquerade.

Source:  America’s Moral Degeneracy - PaulCraigRoberts.orgRelated Posts : Corruption,Israel,Middle East,Terrorism,Zionists

Iowa Cops Doing ICE HSI's Work

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While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Victims Unit (ICE SVU) continues to do work unrelated to terrorism, immigration or customs laws, the State of Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations is doing the work ICE SVU should be doing; arresting aliens who vote.  (h/t Election Law Center)

Fox News September 20, 2012 Associated Press
Three Noncitizens Charged With Voter Fraud In Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says three Council Bluffs residents have been charged with election misconduct.
Two Canadian nationals and a Mexican national were booked into the Pottawattamie County jail. The felony charges allege they registered to vote in Iowa and voted in at least one election.
The arrests followed an investigations by an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent who was assigned to work with Secretary of State Matt Schultz to root out voter fraud.
Charged are 52-year-old Albert Harte-Maxwell, 49-year-old Linda Harte-Maxwell, and 40-year-old Maria Ayon-Fernandez, all of Council Bluffs.
A criminal complaint says Albert Harte-Maxwell voted in the 2010 general election and 2011 city election and Linda Harte-Maxwell voted in the 2011 city election. Maria Ayon-Fernandez voted in the 2010 general election.

ICE SVU doesn't like arresting aliens, but claims that its work is investigating criminal aliens.  Call Gary Hartwig, the ICE SVU Special Agent-in-Charge in Chicago, and let him know that he is missing out on three good criminal cases of alien voters.  All the work has been already done, so you can't say they are too busy.  All they have to do is copy and paste from the indictment.
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Didn't Someone Report This A Year Ago

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The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has released a report detailing the total failure of the Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Centers.  The report describes the product of the Centers as useless, misleading, and too late to be useful if it by accident is accurate.

The New York Times October 2, 2012 by James Risen

Inquiry Cites Flaws in Counter-terrorism Offices

WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s biggest domestic counter-terrorism programs has failed to provide virtually any useful intelligence, according to Congressional investigators.
Their scathing report, to be released Wednesday, looked at problems in regional intelligence-gathering offices known as “fusion centers” that are financed by the Department of Homeland Security and created jointly with state and local law enforcement agencies.

The report found that the centers “forwarded intelligence of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism.”

More importantly, like much of DHS, it has focused on a mission already a function of other federal agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigations:

Their scathing report, to be released Wednesday, looked at problems in regional intelligence-gathering offices known as “fusion centers” that are financed by the Department of Homeland Security and created jointly with state and local law enforcement agencies.

The report found that the centers “forwarded intelligence of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism...”

However, state and local law enforcement agencies already were working with the F.B.I. in regional counterterror units called Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which were responsible for handling terrorism-related criminal cases. The fusion centers quickly became a black hole for taxpayer money, the Senate investigators found. The fusion centers were run by state and local officials, but were funded through grants to states from the Federal Emergency Management Agency with little oversight. That made it easy for state and local officials to divert the federal money earmarked for the centers to other things, including sport utility vehicles and dozens of flat-screen televisions for use by state and local agencies.

And as this blog reported, it was openly politically motivated, with a working mission of attacking whites, gun owners, libertarians, and veterans.

However, the Fusion Centers are not alone in their FBI Envy.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Victims Unit (ICE SVU), otherwise known as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has FBI Envy.  ICE SVU has decided that it will no longer enforce immigration law and has abandoned immigration law enforcement for child porn investigations.  It also has ambitions to replace not only the FBI, but also the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  Just as the Fusion Centers have no real mission that is not duplicative of FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), so ICE SVU is nothing more than a poorly dressed version of the FBI (yes, ICE SVU Special Agents are notorious for appearing at United States Attorney's Offices in jeans rather than in professional business attire.).  And like the Fusion Centers, ICE SVU has no mission other than avoiding arresting aliens at any cost.  While at the same time the FBI is forced to do the work that ICE SVU fails at, such as arresting alien terrorists who commit immigration fraud.

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ICE SVU Out Of Immigration Enforcement Business

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Three stories in the recent week show just how egregious U.S. Immigration and Customs Special Victims Unit's (ICE SVU) failure to execute its duties as required by law.
In the first, it has failed, again, to arrest the homosexual activist Jose Antonio Vargas, an illegal alien from the Philippines, who publically announced his illegal status.  He was arrested recently for driving without a license and wearing headphones while driving.  He was booked and held, then released because ICE SVU does not arrest illegal aliens anymore.

Minneapolis Star Tribune October 8, 2012 by AP
Immigration Authorities Say They Won't Move Against Journalist Who's In US IllegallyMINNEAPOLIS - Immigration authorities said Monday they won't take action against a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was arrested in Minnesota for driving without a valid license.Jose Antonio Vargas attracted national attention last year when he revealed that he's an illegal immigrant. He was scheduled to speak at Carleton College in Northfield last Friday but never made it.
When a state trooper stopped him in Minneapolis for driving with headphones on, Vargas produced a canceled Washington state driver's license, said Lt. Eric Roeske, a spokesman for the Minnesota State Patrol.
"He did not have a valid license, and the identification he produced when the trooper ran a check on it indicated it was canceled due to some sort of fraudulent activity, so there was some doubt to his actual identity," Roeske said.
Vargas was booked at the Hennepin County Jail and released on his own recognizance Friday pending a court appearance set for Oct. 18. The State Patrol contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Roeske said, but the federal agency did not block his release.

And the typical ICE SVU excuse for not arresting an illegal alien who falls into their lap:

An ICE spokeswoman in Washington said Monday that the agency intends to leave Vargas alone because he's not a high priority.
"Mr. Vargas was not arrested by ICE nor did the agency issue a detainer," Gillian Christensen said in an email statement. "ICE is focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that prioritizes the removal of public safety threats, recent border crossers and egregious immigration law violators, such as those who have been previously removed from the United States."

And it is not as if ICE SVU had to expend any resources.  They could have filled in a few forms and issued a detainer or even just released him for a hearing before the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).  There would have been minimal effort and resources, but the real reason for ICE SVU's inaction was a support for illegal immigration.  Undoubtedly Vargas will be voting for Barak Hussein Obama.  It has nothing to do with smart, effective immigration enforcement.  This is non-enforcement.  It is not as if ICE SVU is busy arresting alien terrorists, recently entered illegal aliens, or egregious immigration law violators like Vargas. 
In fact ICE SVU is busy arresting American citizens for sex crimes; crimes that are traditionally enforced at the local level, or at the Federal level, by the FBI.  To wit ICE SVU recently arrested a Puerto Rican woman for pimping out her daughter, both of whom are American citizens.

Minneapolis Star Tribune October 5, 2012 by AP
Puerto Rican Mother Charged With Prostituting 14-Year-Old Daughter, 2 Other Girls At HotelSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Federal agents have arrested a woman suspected of prostituting her 14-year-old daughter in Puerto Rico.Authorities filed a federal criminal complaint charging Betsian Carrasquillo Penaloza with taking her daughter and two other girls to the Sheraton Hotel at the San Juan Convention Center after meeting with undercover U.S. agents. The affidavit says Carrasquillo demanded $500 for sex with her daughter and $250 more for each of the other girls.
An agent with Homeland Security Investigations says in an affidavit signed Friday that the 34-year-old Carrasquillo also prostituted other underage girls and goes by the nickname "Fatty the Maneater."

And just how is this smart, effective immigration enforcement?  No immigration or customs violations here.  Is the Policia de Puerto Rico not capable of doing a common prostitution sting? 
Then we have another case where ICE SVU instead of arresting one of the thousands of illegal alien terrorists infesting Michigan decided that it will run a sting on child predators, much like NBC:

The Detroit News October 5, 2012 by Christine MacDonald
Authorities: Georgia Man Who Flew To Detroit To Have Sex With Minor ArrestedAuthorities arrested a Georgia man Friday at Detroit Metro Airport who police say traveled to Detroit to have sex with a 14-year-old boy.David Crossman, 66, of Atlanta faces up to life in prison after he was charged with online enticement and with travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in any illicit sexual conduct with another.
Officials say Crossman spent two months communicating online with an undercover agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, who responded to Crossman's ad seeking sex with a minor. The agent posed as the father of a young boy.
"We are finding more and more that state lines and international borders are clearly not a hindrance to child predators," said Brian M. Moskowitz (AKA Abu Moskowitz), special agent in charge of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations in Detroit, in a press release.

How is that smart and effective immigration enforcement?  An interstate crime?  Call the FBI.  ICE has a particular responsibility to enforce the immigration and customs laws of the United States, not be the national vice squad for America.

Guest blog: Major League Baseball's "bitter cup of coffee"

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By Doug Gladstone   Here's a hypothetical for you -- Let's say you've been working for Company A for seven years. Company A, which is led by Casey Dunivan, has a pension eligibility policy of 10 years. In other words, you work for Casey for 10 years, and you're guaranteed a lifetime retirement annuity that you can pass on to your loved one or designated beneficiary when you croak. What's

Guest Blog: Do Assad's Torture Chambers Justify NATO Intervention In Syria?

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The United Kingdom and France have been taking a tough line against the behaviour of President Assad of Syria. The Middle Eastern dictator is variously accused of a number of crimes against humanity. He has attracted particularly fierce condemnation for his treatment of protesters, who are reportedly publicly objecting to his regime’s continued rule over the country and Assad’s refusal to hold

Israel's move toward early vote may shelve any attack on Iran - Los Angeles Times

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Israel's move toward early vote may shelve any attack on Iran Los Angeles Times Though no final decision has been made about moving up national elections slated for next year, the Knesset, or parliament, is talking about dissolving this month and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce as soon as next week an ... Vote Early, Vote Bibi? The Jewish Week  »

Feds to Alabama: Immigration law could have harsh, lasting effect - Los Angeles Times

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Feds to Alabama: Immigration law could have harsh, lasting effect Los Angeles Times By Michael Muskal Even as the Supreme Court is deciding what to do about Arizona's tough law on illegal immigration, the Justice Department has warned Alabama that its law could have “continuing and lasting” consequences for Latino children. Justice Department: Ala. law hurting Hispanic students USA TODAY Feds: Ala. immigration law caused spike in student absences WDIV Detroit Justice Department Says Alabama Immigration Law Hurting Hispanic Students W »

Analyst: YRC bankruptcy is

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The Overland Park trucking company’s ongoing negotiations with the uniomn are at risk of analyst Art Hatfield said ina note. “Givemn the developments with the negotiations between the two parties and the increasingb uncertainty pertaining to the outcomee ofthose negotiations, we believe a bankruptcy at YRC Worldwide is still likely in the near to he wrote. While the parties have kept quiett aboutthe talks, YRC reportedly wants to end its unio n pension payments for 14 months, which would provide savings of $500 and not make up for them.
Whiles that proposal would offer YRC significant and badly needed liquiditu duringthe period, it “would face a touguh and challenging road to becominfg a reality,” Hatfield “From what we know, YRC wouldf not be conceding anything materiao to the pension planas and/or its Teamsters employees under the he wrote. “Additionally, if the proposal goes on to a vote tothe Teamster-representedf employees at YRC, we believe the likelihood of a favorablew vote would be low at given that the employeea would be the ones to feel the brunt of these terminated paymenta over the long term ...
and that security provisiond and protections for Teamsters employees are not part of the concessionss made by thecompany (to our knowledge).” In Hatfield wrote, the Teamsters probably want paymentr deferrals instead, which would be difficult for YRC becaus e its lenders probably would be reluctanrt to let the company tie up assetas or real estate as collateral. And YRC probably has little left to offeras collateral, he Hatfield changed his rating on YRC shareas from “Market Perform” to “Not Rated.” YRC began the recent concessions talks with the Teamsters on June 29.
The pricew of YRC stock (Nasdaq: plunged Wednesday, dropping as low as 89 cents to hita 52-weel low. The previous 52-week low was $1.20 on Nov. 20, accordintg to . YRC closed on Wednesday at 89 cents, down 35 cents, or 28 on volume of 20.2 million shares. The stock’s averagse daily volume the past threer monthsis 3.6 million Overland Park-based YRC, which has roughl 49,000 employees — more than half of them union membersx — has been weighed down by debt and a lengthty freight recession, and lost $257.4 milliobn in the first quarter. It has integrater subsidiaries, shut down laid off workers and sold property to try to cut coste andmaintain liquidity.
Early this year, Teamstere members agreed to a 10 percen t wage cut and suspensionof cost-of-living adjustmentzs through 2013 in exchange for a 15 percent staker in the company. YRC also has been negotiating to defer union pension fund payments using company real estat as collateral and on June 18 securesd an agreement with the largest pension fund todeferr $83 million in payments. The union has said it also is reachingf out tostakeholders — such as pension fundss and YRC’s lenders — to address the cash YRC ranks No. 2 on the Kansas City BusinesdsJournal ’s list of area public companies.

P&G moving Iams headquarters to Mason - Business First of Columbus:

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Kris Parlett, spokesman for Procter and Gamble PG) Pet Care, which includes Iams and said the company and its 240 employees would be movinhg in October to the Mason business where other personal healtbh care divisionsof P&G and more than 2,000 employeews are housed. “It will make it easier to collaborate and increase Parlett said. Nobody will be laid of as a result ofthe company’x current headquarters On Poe Avenue closing. all 240 employees will be offered there same positiondin Mason. P&G acquired Iams in 1999. Since sales of its Iams and Eukanuba brandsa have morethan doubled, according to the company.
“Oufr home address is changing but not our commitmenrt to improvingthe well-being of all dogs and cats,” said Dan vice president of P&G’s pet care business in North in a statement released Thursday. “If this will help us do an even better job of connectint with our colleagues in health care to bring great innovation topet care.” A company spokespersoj confirmed that 250 employees at the Iams-Eukanuba manufacturinbg and R&D complex in Preble County will not be part of the The news of the move came as a surprisr to Vandalia officials Thursday, who said they had been working vigilantly behindf the scenes to keep Iams local.
“Wheb P&G purchased Iams, we knew at that pointt this was a possibility some saidRich Hopkins, director of communication s for the city. “But we are surprised today that the announcemenfwas made.” Hopkins said Iams was one of the top employers in Vandalia, though he could not say how much income was generaterd by the company. The city will have a press conferenc at3 p.m. Thursday to further discuss the implicationd ofthe move. Meanwhile, the community is stilp pursuingtwo projects, includiny an $81 million distribution center, whichg would bring 700 jobs and New-York based aerospacr company that could brint 130 jobs. “This is bad news for any Hopkins said.
“We have two projectzs in the pipeline now that could brin up to 900 employees to the so it’s not all glook and doom here.”

Forte pleads guilty in Ponzi scheme - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said that between 1996 and Forte collected investment money from nearly 80 individualws using a fraudulent scheme in which the he claimed that he was tradinb in stock index futures through a partnership named JosepjForte LP. Prosecutors said 53, of Broomall, Pa., used his scheme to collecft roughly $80 million from investors, paying some investors on their investments by using money contributed byotheer investors. Prosecutors said Forte reporteds fabricated investment returns between 18 percent and 38 whenin fact, he consistently lost money on his trades.
Prosecutorss said Forte paid himself millions of dollars in salariee and fees and used his profits to make numerouszfinancial transactions, including taking out a $500,000 Commercr Bank [now TD Bank] loan by misrepresentingg the value of Joseph Fortre LP. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 2. He facese possible prison time, fines and payinfg full restitution to the victims ofhis crimes, and forfeiturse of all property that constitutes or is derivefd from his criminal proceeds.
The case was investigated by the Unitefd States PostalInspection Service, the Federall Bureau of Investigations, the Delaware County Districty Attorney’s Office, the Securitieds and Exchange Commission, and the Commoditiees Futures Trading Commission. It is being prosecutecd by Assistant United States Attorney Joe Forte was charged in a civil case in earlyg January by the Securities andExchange Commission, which obtained an emergenc y court order freezing his assets.

Grijalva is a Traitor II: Aztlan and MEChA

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By Velcro, Conservative Observer AZ. In my last post, we saw that Raul "Boycott Arizona" Grijalva (D-Az 3) is still a traitor to his constituency and to America, and would not hesitate to declare economic war on Arizona again.  Of course, the group of people he thought were being marginalized, the ones at the core of the SB 1070 law, are not American citizens, they are illegal aliens.

In the actual quote, he states that his mandate comes by his being elected.  Elected by who?  American citizens, not illegal aliens.  And yet SB 1070 was a "direct attack" on illegal aliens, not American citizens.

"We are elected and sometimes, there is a direct attack, there is a direct issue that affects a group of people that are being marginalized. . . I’m not going to tolerate it. I’m going to speak up every time."

Raul "Boycott Arizona" Grijalva

In a nutshell, he sees himself elected, in part, to defend illegal aliens flooding into this country.

[Chasing a rabbit that may have a lot of meat on it, one can ask, "...are there other groups who may be marginalized in Grijalva's district?"  The 28% of Yumans who are unemployed?  The ranchers whose lands are trashed and overrun by illegal aliens?  People who are hoping the Rosemont mine will bring them jobs while Grijalva fights against it because it might hurt the environment?  Conservative journalists Grijalva swears at and rudely walks away from refusing to answer questions?]

I also conclude that Grijalva is a traitor because he supports the "liberation of Aztlan," and the deliberate dissemination of La Raza's propaganda through the establishment of MEChA student organizations. 

I said a lot in that sentence, and to many of you, this is not news.  But let me break it down.  Aztlan is the name of the region of North (and South) America belonging to the descendants of the ancient people who dwelt there.  Namely, La Raza ("the Race").  [Another rabbit - how can anyone be blind to the inherent racism in this claim?].  La Raza's goal is to exercise economic and political independence, and "self-determination for the people of Aztlan."

MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) is a primary means of accomplishing this, through "education," or more accurately, indoctrination.  Most colleges and universities have MEChA chapters as student "cultural" clubs.  There are also groups of "Brown Berets" (brown shirts?) that represent a military arm of La Raza.

Remember the big hoorah over Mexican-American Studies in the Tucson Unified School District?  This is what that was about .  The State of Arizona decided it didn't want it's young people being brainwashed by MEChA (here's an update).

At this point, rather than boring you further with a post that's too long already, please bear with me and let me present the words of MEChA itself.  I have taken great pains to not take these quotes out of context nor to cut out the flavor of the language; rather, consider this a summary.

This from the National MEChA Philosophy statement:

"Chicanismo does not seek to use the word "Chicano" as an umbrella term when representing all of "La Familia de La Raza". Rather, Chicanismo seeks to educate our barrios and campos about our history y cultura to further create a movement of self-determination for the Liberation of Aztlán, something that Hispanic and Latino has yet to represent or recognize...

"Chicanismo results from a decision based on a political consciousness for our Raza, to dedicate oneself to building a Chicana/Chicano Nation...

"Chicanismo involves a personal decision to reject assimilation and work towards the preservation of our cultural heritage. Recognizing that all people are potential Chicanas and Chicanos, we encourage those interested in developing a total commitment to our movement for self-determination for the people of Aztlán to join Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA)...

"Thus, by all means necessary, We Chicana/Chicano estudiantes or Aztlán, dedicate ourselves to taking our educational destiny into our own hands through the process of spreading Chicanismo, in the spirit of carnalismo...

"As Mechistas, we proclaim that we are the people of Aztlán and that we recognize our indigenous unity with our brothers and sisters of Ixachitzlan (Alaska to Tierra del Fuego)...

"MEChA pledges itself to reach out to the community and schools, to establish new educational opportunities...

"We, as Mechistas must dismantle the co-optation of Raza students from becoming "corporate Hispanics" claiming to be leaders of our community with no understanding of El Pueblo Chicano. Instead, MEChA seeks to train future community leaders to be consciously committed to serve the people of Aztlán...

"Finally, as Mechistas, we vow to work for the liberation of Aztlán, leading to socioeconomic and political justice for our Gente. MEChA then, is more than a name; it is a spirit of unity by comadrismo/carnalismo, and a resolution to undertake a struggle for liberation! Tierra y Libertad!"

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Illegal Alien Lawbreakers Line Up For Obamnesty

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Posted by PatriotUSA from Patriot's Corner.

You do not think this is pandering for illegals votes, who broke the law to get here in the first place? Take a look a this video. They are saying up to two million illegal law breaking aliens 'may' qualify. You can bet they will ALL qualify under the direction President Obama

Now we have OBAMNESTY  to go along with obamacare.


"The part you won’t hear about in President Obama’s “Amnesty by Dictatorial Fiat program” are the thousands rushing over the border to begin the process, and yet thousands more who get their blank copies mailed, faxed and downloaded to sites all around Mexico so they don’t even have to leave their country to apply for Amnesty benefits in the U.S.

Fill out the paperwork in Mexico then send to a connection in the U.S. who walks it into the building and files it. It is just one way the professional illegal community game the system."

Hat Tip: The Last Refuge.

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