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Martin Scorsese joined a press audience at the Francesca Beale Theater via live video from London on Saturday to discuss his new documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World, which screens at the festival on Tuesday.
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Includes info about rush ticket availability. Today at NYFF: Corpo Celeste, Melancholia, Le Havre, Crazy Horse, Don't Expect Too Much and some great options from the Nikkatsu Centennial series!
NYFF Press Roundup: Day Three
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NYFF Day Three
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Garnier Anti-Dark-Circle Eye Roller
594 reviews
76% would repurchase
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INGREDIENTSAqua/Water, Cyclopentasiloxane, Alcohol Denat., Butylene Glycol, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Phenyl Trimethicone, PEG-10 Dimethicone, Squalane, Bis-PEG/PPG-14/14 Dimethicone, Magnesium Sulfate, Talc, Nylon-12, Maltitol, Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Aluminum Hydroxide, Sorbitol, Caffeine, Citrus Medica Limonum Extract/Lemon Fruit Extract. May Contain: CI 77891/Titanium Dioxide, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499/Iron Oxides. [October 14, 2010]
on 9/15/2010 4:40:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Oily, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I generally do not use concealer without make up, but this I used, and liked. It's natural and refreshing.The colour is great (altough it seens too clear, it works nice). The tip (the roller) could be a little smaller, to be easier to use.
on 9/11/2010 10:20:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
- medium coverage for undereye circles (and the lids)
- no creasing or caking whatsoever
- lasts a long time
- perfect for days when you don't want to wear much makeup
- looks great paired with my benefit erase paste under it
- you only need a small amount if you have minor/moderate circles
- drying, but probably not a problem for most people
- can irritate sensitive skin/eyes
- I don't like the roller, because if you really ROLLED on the product around your eyes, you'd be using too much
- not many colours
Overall I am very happy with my purchase and glad Garnier got SOMETHING right! :)
on 9/11/2010 2:36:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
wow- I am surprised! this is actually reaaly good- coverage is not too shabby- no creasing, blends right in and lasts all day- I have horrible circles and a deep eye socket- this is enough alone for a workday or weekend- For a formal evemt where I wear foundation- this is good to add on top of regular concealer....
my day to day regime is this on top of my mineral powder
on 9/11/2010 1:18:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I was expecting to love this product due to all the rave reviews, but I hated it. As soon as I rolled it only, my undereye area became dry and parched. Also, the color did not blend in with my medium toned skin at all (it said that it was for all skin tones, so I guess that my CVS has not gotten the different shades yet). Even if it were the right color, it was so drying and uncomfortable, that I could not wait to get it off. The packaging is nice, with the roller ball. Too bad the product is so awful!
on 9/8/2010 5:29:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
i really like this product ! i can through it in my purse on the run and not only can it fix ur eyes its a good lil spot treatment ! i no its not for the but i use a dab here or there and i am totaly happy with it .. i will buy again i just wish it wasnt so expensive ...
on 9/8/2010 11:20:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
LOVE this. I have horrible eyes--not even bags, but deep lines from where my nose meets my under-eyes. This stuff has SOMEthing it it to deflect those horrible ridges I have on top of my cheeks. I love this! I read the product reviews and searched for it online all over the place (Ulta has it) but I actually found ONE left at my local Wal-Mart and I grabbed it. I immediately loved the results! This is worth $11. Using this alone makes it look like I have no makeup on yet look good! Don't stop making this!
on 9/8/2010 10:55:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
In Canada this is labelled Skin Renew Ant-Dark-Circle Roller. It only comes in one, light shade that would only work for fair to medium-fair types. As a fair-complexioned person, it is perfect for me but it only offers sheer coverage so it is only suitable for under the eyes as a highlighter/concealer and would need to be reapplied often. imo, it's the same as YSL's Touche Eclat and I got it on sale for $15 CDN so I'm a happy camper.
You wouldn't be able to cover pimples or really dark circles with this but for my skin colour and light circles, it works really well.
If you are looking to save some cash and wean yourself off YSL's TE buy this instead.
on 9/8/2010 4:45:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have really bad dark circles and I am still on the hunt to find the perfect concealer. I tried this one and its horrible. I bought this after reading the reviews but was very disappointed because by the end of the day I looked really tired as my dark circles were not concealed properly. I wouldn't use this again and it was a waste of my AUD$15.
on 9/5/2010 10:05:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
This is my dream concealer. Picked it up in the UK in February, and I've used it almost every day since. I use the medium, and it covers perfectly, is lightweight, doesn't settle into fine lines, and lasts all day! I was stranded at the airport without foundation today and rolled a bit into my palm mixed with some moisturizer - it saved the day. I've heard you can only get the lighter one here in the US, I hope they add the medium soon!
on 9/5/2010 6:06:00 PM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
UPDATE: so this proved to be too dry for the Sahara-like skin under my eyes. I thought I'd have to get rid of it, BUT I found another use for it. It works beautifully as a primer. I love Smashbox's primer, but it's expensive. So I use this, instead. My e/s goes on beautifully and stays till I take it off. So this keeps its 5 stars.
Chalk me up among the enthusiasts of this prod. It's wonderful. The way they got the consistency just right (not too liquid, not too thick, not too creamy) is pure genius. It is NOT sheer. It does cover (and isn't it what it's supposed to do?), but does not settle into lines nor over-dry my already dry under eye area. It comes in only one shade in the USA, which is a tad too light for me. So I got my sister to send me a Medium color from Europe and it's perfect! I do recommend this.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—Jacob Pullen got knocked to the floor, his hip aching and his Kansas State team stuck in an early hole on the same floor where the NCAA tournament's biggest upset had just taken place.
When he refused to stay down, so did his Wildcats.
Pullen scored 20 of his career-high 34 points in the first half to help rally No. 2 seed Kansas State back from an early 10-point deficit, and the Wildcats turned away Jimmer Fredette and BYU 84-72 on Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
"I just couldn't sit there and watch us play," Pullen said. "Unless something was broken (or) I couldn't walk, man, I would have gotten back up and tried to play."
Behind Pullen's standout effort on both ends of the floor, the Wildcats (28-7) are doing something they didn't do even when No. 2 NBA draft pick Michael Beasley was on the team two years ago—moving into the third round of the NCAAs.
K-State coach Frank Martin and his athletic team will face the winner of Sunday's game between No. 3 seed Pittsburgh and sixth-seeded Xavier next weekend in Salt Lake City. The last time the school made it that far came in 1988, when Mitch Richmond was completing his college career before moving on to the NBA.
"It's an amazing feeling," Pullen said. "It's a childhood dream. I've watched basketball my whole life. I watched all of the NCAA tournaments since I was a kid, so for me to be able to be in this position, I thank Frank all the time. It's an amazing thing that he was able to give me the opportunity.
"My recruitment wasn't crazy. I didn't have a million schools knocking on my door. I had some mid-major schools and then I had Frank walking through my door and telling me I could play."
Martin, the Wildcats' fire-breathing coach, recalled how Pullen had been largely responsible for the Wildcats' early exit from the tournament in Beasley's only year at K-State. He was charged with stopping Wisconsin's Trevon Hughes, who matched his career high with 25 points in a 72-55 rout.
But Pullen came back and accepted Martin's discipline and structure, and committed to working hard to make the Wildcats better. Pullen called it his way of paying Martin back for believing in him.
"You live for the moment where you get around guys like him," Martin said.
Pullen came alive with a scoring flurry shortly after he and Fredette got tangled up in transition in the first half, scoring Kansas State's final 11 points of the first half to build 41-31 lead after the Wildcats had fallen behind 10-0 to start the game. BYU never got closer than five in the second half.
Pullen ended up surpassing 30 points for the third time in his career while matching a career best with seven 3-pointers. Equally as important was his physical defense against Fredette, who had scored 37 points to get the seventh-seeded Cougars (30-6) past Florida in double overtime in the first round.
Fredette finished with 21 points on 4-of-13 shooting, breaking his string of three straight games with at least 30 points.
Pullen said he had studied Fredette's crossover move and his favorite tendencies, and he executed Martin's plan to keep Fredette out of the middle of the floor.
"I just tried to remember all of the those little things to make sure that I kept him at arm's distance," Pullen said. "He's a good player, though. He still found ways to score the ball. I give him a lot of credit because he's an amazing scorer. He finds a way to score the ball, regardless of the defensive presence."
When he wasn't being hounded by Pullen, Fredette faced the kind of physical play he'd prepared for by playing a handful of games against inmates at upstate New York prisons.
Fredette took shots to his face and head at least three times in the game, including a midcourt run-in with Denis Clemente that left him grabbing at his nose to check for blood. Fredette also got smacked in the face in transition after a K-State steal in the first half and had his head dinged under the basket just after halftime.
"They did a good job, were aggressive and sometimes that happens," said Fredette, who added that he hadn't made up his mind about whether to enter the NBA draft. "They had a good game plan, executed it pretty well and played good defense."
Fredette put his stamp on March Madness with a combination of tricky scoop shots and clutch 3-pointers as he matched BYU's NCAA tournament scoring record in the opening game.
But then he ran into Pullen—literally.
The two got tangled up after Pullen knocked the ball away from Fredette with just under 7 minutes left in the first half and Pullen remained on the court for a few moments grasping his left hip. He stayed in the game and hit a 3-pointer from the right wing that gave K-State its first lead with 4:21 left before halftime.
"They turned it up a notch and put a lot of pressure on us," said Jackson Emery, who hit two 3-pointers in BYU's opening 10-0 spurt. "It wasn't a pressure that we haven't seen before … but it took us a little while to respond to their pressure and to just counter that. By the time we did that, we were already in a hole."


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CHICAGO -- Kirk Hinrich scored a season-high 22 points, and the Chicago Bulls pulled away late to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 95-83 Monday at the United Center. It was a game when something had to give. The Bulls started the night a mediocre 11-11 at home this season, while the Lakers were 5-13 away from the Staples Center. Monday's defeat was Los Angeles' sixth road loss in a row. With the game tied 75-75 midway through the fourth quarter, Chicago scored eight consecutive points and finished the game on a 20-8 run. Hinrich nailed a couple of jumpers, then Jimmy Butler drained a long turnaround as the shot clock expired to put the Bulls ahead 83-75 with 4:11 remaining. After the Lakers ended the 8-0 run, Bulls guard Marco Belinelli knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers to make it 89-79 with 2:26 left. Belinelli finished with 15 points for Chicago, while Carlos Boozer had 14, Richard Hamilton 13, Nate Robinson 11 and Butler 10. Lakers star Kobe Bryant finished with 16 points...
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Burma's uneven reform process continued in 2013 with notable improvements in some sectors, but serious problems continuing throughout the country. Basic freedoms of assembly and association improved but laws were enforced inconsistently and in several instances peaceful demonstrators still faced arrest. Media freedoms continued to flourish in 2013, but at time of writing the government was seeking new laws that could roll back important recent gains.
Burma released more than 200 political prisoners in amnesties in 2013, including 56 in October and 69 in November. Despite this progress, it still had an estimated 60 political detainees at time of writing. New arrests of peaceful political activists continue to be reported.
The national parliament has proven to be a more robust venue for debate and legislative reform than many observers predicted, with surprisingly open discussion of issues such as land grabbing by the military, constitutional reform that would reduce military representation, and rule of law initiatives.
Violence against Muslims
Communal violence against Muslim communities in central Burma spread during 2013, with a series of apparently coordinated attacks against Muslim communities and property. In late March, Burmese Buddhist mobs attacked Muslim communities in the central Burmese town of Meiktila. At least 44 people were killed and 1,400 mostly Muslim-owned businesses and houses were destroyed. Burmese police forces failed to intervene during much of the violence and in most cases did not act to protect Muslim lives or property; in some instances they actively participated in the anti-Muslim violence. More than 12,000 people were displaced by the violence, and many remained in government-protected displacement camps in the town at time of writing.
Similar outbreaks of violence were reported during the year in Pegu and Okkan north of Rangoon, and in Lashio in Shan State. In October, attacks against Kaman Muslims in southern Arakan State around the town of Thandwe killed at least six people and destroyed nearly 100 houses. The attacks coincided with a visit to the region by President Thein Sein. Authorities arrested senior Arakanese political party members accused of instigating the violence.
Legal proceedings against perpetrators of violence were initially asymmetrical, with more Muslims tried and sentenced in more cases than Burman Buddhist instigators. However, in June, 25 Buddhists involved in violence in Meiktila were sentenced for murder and arson, in July, 6 suspects were arrested in connection with the killing of Muslim pilgrims in 2012 that sparked violence in Arakan State, and in September two men were sentenced to five years in prison for arson and violence in Okkan. At time of writing, no members of the security forces were known to have been disciplined or prosecuted for involvement in violence.
In some cases, anti-Muslim violence and hate speech is being spread by nationalist Buddhist monks such as U Wirathu, active proponent of the so-called 969 movement that has urged Buddhists to boycott Muslim businesses and refrain from marrying Muslims and converting to Islam. U Wirathu has even drafted legislation that would ban such marriages and conversions. Key political leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi did not publicly denounce this movement in 2013, although in an important speech in April, President Thein Sein warned that the rise in communal violence had the potential to derail the fragile reform process.
During a country visit in August, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, was attacked in his car by Burman Buddhist mobs in Meiktila; security forces in the vicinity failed to intervene. Compounding their failure to adequately ensure Quintana's safety, senior government officials accused him of exaggerating the incident. Many in the Burmese-language media also lambasted Quintana, a disturbing reflection of rising Burman nationalism and backlash against international pressure to end human rights abuses.
The condition of the displaced Rohingya Muslim minority in northern Arakan State remained precarious in 2013, even with a considerable international humanitarian response. At time of writing, an estimated 180,000 people, mostly Muslims, remained in over 40 IDP camps throughout Arakan State, many living in deplorable conditions. While more international assistance reached them in 2013 than in 2012, serious concerns remain over restrictions on movement, lack of livelihoods, inadequate basic services, and continued threats from hostile Arakanese. In Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships, local ordinances reportedly prohibited Rohing ya women from having more than two children; when the policy became publicly known and met with international outrage, national officials backtracked and claimed no such policy was in effect.
A government commission of inquiry report on the anti-Rohingya violence of June and October 2012 in Arakan State failed to investigate cases or assign responsibility for the violence, and made no recommendation for prosecution of security forces involved in the violence. Human Rights Watch had found that the attacks on Rohingya had amounted to a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" and crimes against humanity. On several occasions in 2013, Rohingya IDPs were abused for staging protests; in one incident in June, police shot and killed three women protesters at an IDP camp.


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Mangel Pflugeisen compared the amounts two key elements, strontium and calcium, at the core of each otolith -- the part of the bone that grew just after the fish hatched.
Bedrock beneath the Sandusky contains more strontium than bedrock beneath the Maumee. Yet both sites contain roughly equal amounts of calcium. So, she reasoned, fish hatched in the Sandusky should have absorbed much more strontium from the water during their early life, and stored much higher concentrations of strontium in their otoliths from that time.
Once she isolated a unique chemical signature for the two rivers, she used a statistical technique known as Bayesian hierarchical mixture modeling to analyze the data. The task was difficult, because the model had to account for the ratio of elements in the otoliths and in the water of both rivers at the same time.
The analysis showed that about 92 percent of the fish that were caught at the Maumee had also hatched in the Maumee, with a very small percentage having originated at the Sandusky.
At the Sandusky, however, only about 66 percent of the fish that were caught were returners -- that is, had been hatched in the Sandusky -- and about 30 percent originated at the Maumee.
The results confirmed what Marschall already suspected: the Maumee fish were straying to the Sandusky to spawn, but not vice versa.
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Arlington bank robbery injures elderly lady
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Rockville bank robberies: Suspects strike at nearly neighboring banks
Robbers struck at two Rockville banks Tuesday morning, authorities say, and detectives are looking into the possibility that the crimes are connected.
Glen Burnie TD Bank robbed; suspect on the run
Police are on the lookout for a man who robbed a TD Bank in Glen Burnie Friday morning. He was possibly armed with a handgun.
Jamese Queen charged after three Maryland bank thefts
A modern-day female bank robber who struck two Glen Burnie banks three times has finally been taken into custody and charged.
'Beacon Hill Bandit' robs same Alexandria bank five times
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The FBI is searching for the "Beacon Hill Bandit," the man responsible for four bank robberies in Alexandria.
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Hyattsville Police are searching for at least two suspects they believe were involved in robbing a woman who was carrying money given to St. James Church in Mt. Rainier.
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The idea that she would be robbing banks in broad daylight in well-to-do areas of Fairfax County draws surprised reactions. But opinions differ on why she is doing little to hide her identity – except for the blonde wig and sunglasses.
Chantilly Bank of America robbed
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An off-duty Montgomery County Police officer saw a bank being robbed and helped capture two suspects. The officer tells ABC7 how it all happened, including how one suspect - abandoned by his getaway driver - started throwing money as he ran from the officer.
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A suspect pulled out a gun inside a Manassas bank and demanded money Friday morning, and Prince William County police are searching for him.
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A Capital One bank branch just down the street from the headquarters of the FBI was robbed Friday morning, police say.
Clinton SunTrust Bank robbedComment
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SunTrust Bank robbery suspect soughtComment
Police say the man walked into the SunTrust bank in the 6400 block of Georgia Avenue, NW just before 4 p.m. and demanded money. He walked out of the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.
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D.C. police are searching for a suspect Monday after they say the same woman robbed two banks in Northwest Washington.
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Rhonda Schember included this recipe in her column published Nov. 28, 2012.
3 cups flour 2 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened, divided 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1 egg 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 (7-ounce) jar marshmallow cr�me 4 ounces (1/2 package) cream cheese, softened 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 cup chopped peppermint candies
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt. 2. In a large bowl, beat 3/4 cup of the butter and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add molasses and egg; beat well. 3. Gradually beat in flour mixture until well mixed. Press dough into a thick, flat dish; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight. 4. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased or parchment-lined baking sheets. 5. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges of cookies just begin to brown. Remove to wire racks; cool completely. 6. Mix marshmallow cr�me, remaining ¼ cup butter, cream cheese and lemon extract until well blended. Place about 1 tablespoon filling on the flat side of one cookie. Top with second cookie, pressing gently to spread the filling. Repeat with remaining cookies. Roll edge of cookies in chopped candy.
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Nik Wallenda makes history as the first person to cross the Grand Canyon on a high wire. Technically it wasn't the Grand Canyon, but nearby. He is crossing over the Little Colorado River Gorge. Wallenda will be 1,500 feet off the ground and he will have to walk 1,400 feet across, without a safety harness. He crossed in 22:54 minutes. He achieved what many don't even bother dreaming about, but it's an awesome testimony to believing in oneself.
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Dina Garatly, Content Modeler and Producer at the KAUST Visualization Lab, created 3D models of a Nabataean tomb at Mada'in Saleh (Al-Hajir), Saudi Arabia to help archeologists with their study and annotation in the World Heritage Site.
For further details about the project, see the article in the KAUST Beacon, October 2010 Issue, Pg: 6-7.
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In the mid-1990s, East German novelist Benjamin Stein crossed paths with then-celebrated Holocaust memoirist Binjamin Wilkomirski at a literary conference, in a pleasant enough encounter. Soon after, Wilkomirski was exposed as a fraud who had invented his identity as a child Holocaust survivor; in fact he was Christian, born and raised in Switzerland.
In The Canvas, a novel just translated from German into English, Stein takes that encounter and builds from it a riveting story, told in two parts, about two fictional men who become intimately involved in the rapid rise and subsequent fall of a Wilkomirski-like character named Minsky. One protagonist is Amnon Zichroni, who is sent away from his ultra Orthodox Jerusalem community after he's discovered reading secular literature. Zichroni remains religious but also pursues training as a psychotherapist and later aids Minsky in delving into his traumatic past. The other protagonist is Jan Wechsler, the writer who exposes Minsky only, it seems, to then flee from his own past in a similar fashion. These two stories meet, literally (and dramatically), at the center of the book—you can begin either with Zichroni's life or with Weschler's and must turn the book over to get from one to the other.
Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry speaks with Benjamin Stein about this unusual novel and about the ruptures in his own past, first when as a teen he decided to become a practicing Jew (having been raised in a nonreligious, staunchly Communist family) and later with the fall of the Berlin wall. We also hear from the book's translator, Brian Zumhagen, whose voice and name may be familiar to New York City listeners from his day job as a news anchor at WNYC.
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Welcome to Obamageddon
Friday, March 18, 2011, 01:45 PM
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Author of The Conscience of a Libertarian
One has to wonder if congratulations are in order for President Obama? The U.S. economy is in ruins, the country in crisis, the world in chaos. Was this all a purposeful plan, or is Obama simply an inexperienced, incompetent, bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the White House?
From the day of Obama's election, many concerned patriots have warned about Obamas goals. Obama is a follower of radical Marxist strategy, like Saul Alinskys Rules for Radicals and Cloward and Pivens strategy of overwhelming the system to create economic crisis and chaos.
Based on those strategies, one would be foolish not to at least wonder whether Obama's goal from the start was to wreck capitalism; redistribute wealth by punishing, penalizing and demonizing the wealthy; force Americans to their knees to beg for help from big government; and then in response to those pleas, put government in control over every aspect of our lives.
Examine the state of the union and the world under President Obama. Judge for yourselves whether we are in a state of Obamageddon.
The United States is broke. Bankrupt. Insolvent. Weve spent more and increased the debt more dramatically during the past two years than any anytime in history. Alarm bells are ringing with the news that our deficit for February was the highest in history ($223 billion). The U.S. government now borrows 42 cents of every dollar it spends and has run a deficit 29 months in a row -- a modern record. The debt is now so immense that if the IRS taxed every U.S. citizen 100%, we still could not achieve a balanced budget. If we add in unfunded liabilities, we couldnt balance the budget if we all paid 100% taxes FOREVER. Obamageddon?
States, counties and cities are more broke and insolvent than the federal government. California is so broke, illegal immigrants are being caught sneaking into Mexico. Bill Gross, CEO of the biggest bond fund in the world, just sold all his U.S. municipal bond holdings and invested the proceeds in emerging bond funds. So Bill Gross now trusts African nations and Brazil more than U.S. bonds.
Real unemployment is close to 20%, a number not seen since the first Great Depression. Small business -- which creates around 80% of all new jobs -- continues to struggle. Only days ago Robb & Stucky, an upscale national furniture chain in business for 95 years, filed bankruptcy and announced it was closing all stores immediately. The famous Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas also announced its closing its doors after a 59 year run. Even a combined 154 years of success is no match for Mr. Obama's economic gameplan. Unless one starts to think that perhaps failure and crisis are the gameplan.
We have a union crisis in this country with Obamas best friends and biggest campaign contributors -- government employee unions -- pitted against private sector taxpayers. In Wisconsin, this crisis has led to protests, work stoppages, and threats on the lives of union opponents.
The housing market is in dreaded Double Dip territory, with declines actually accelerating across the country. Commercial real estate is so bad, landlords are begging the banks to take their keys and take back the properties. The banks are saying, "No, thanks. You keep it."
Real inflation -- including food and energy prices -- is skyrocketing. The Fed is printing hundreds of billions of dollars to buy Americas own bonds, which even China now refuses to buy. If the Fed continues to debase the currency, bond holders will demand higher interest rates to compensate for higher inflation. Since America owes a $14 trillion debt compounded with an annual $2 trillion deficit, any rise in interest rates would increase payments on the debt to the breaking point. Interest payments would crowd out all other forms of government spending.
Under Obama, we are more energy dependent on the Middle East- a region in flames. Oil has skyrocketed to over $100 per barrel, yet Obama refuses to allow any new drilling, exploration, or construction of new refineries on U.S. soil. Does this seem like a reasonable man with Americas best interests in mind? Or someone bringing about a crisis to purposely bring the U.S. economy to its knees?
Our southern border is in crisis with drug wars, violence, and murders spilling out into the United States. Border agents are out-gunned and out-manned. Obama's reaction? Sue the state of Arizona for defending its own border. Is this a reasonable reaction, or a man looking for a crisis?
In the meantime, we have become a nation on the dole. A record 45 million Americans are on food stamps. One-sixth of all personal income in the USA is now provided by government. Are we building a future for our children to be productive and competitive in this world? Obamas own Education Secretary announced days ago that 82% of all public schools are failing. What would you expect from a President owned by the teacher unions?
Can it get worse? Sure, the NFL could go on strike and we wouldnt even have football as a distraction anymore. Uh oh.
The country formerly known as the United States of America is now the Crisis States of America. All we can say to Obama is congratulations -- "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."
It really doesn't matter if Obama is doing this on purpose or not. With friends like this, who needs enemies?
Welcome to Obamageddon.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 04:48 PM
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author of The Conscience of a Libertarian
Its funny how life works. Even when I agree with Barack Obama, I am still offended by his Big Brother attitude and Nanny State goon tactics. Obamas actions remind me of a dictator who thinks he knows better than you or me. Last week, President Barack Obama erased any doubt that he sees himself as King Supreme Ruler rather than as the elected servant of the American people. Obama declared he would not defend a law passed by the Congress of the United States called DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).
As a well-known Libertarian-conservative and States' Rights activist, I believe the federal government has no place in the debate on marriage. If any government should be involved (and I don't think they should be), it is a States Rights issue and should only be decided on the state and local level. DOMA tramples on States Rights in violation of the Constitution.
But Obama's support of my opinion makes me feel no better. One could respect his argument that DOMA is unconstitutional if Obama was a consistent defender of the Constitution. But Obama is about power and pleasing his biggest political contributors, not upholding the rule of law. If Obama was frank with the American people he would simply state, I am your king, your ruler. Congress is irrelevant and the Constitution is a meaningless piece of paper. I will tell you what laws are good for you. Obama knows little about truth. He received an Ivy League degree in speaking out of both ends of his mouth. And a Masters Degree in the art of weapons of mass distraction.
Obama's decision was pure politics. And a perfect distraction while the economy and global security melts down. The national debt is mounting; cities and states are bankrupt; the dollar is headed for oblivion; gas prices escalate out of control; real unemployment heads for a staggering 20%; the Middle East is in flames; our border is undefended. To a master of deception like Obama, this is the perfect time to distract the media and the masses. Change the topic. Open the fight on another front. Confuse, misdirect, and overwhelm the opposition, while simultaneously rewarding a group that contributes heavily to Democratic causes. Right out of Obamas favorite book, Rules for Radicals.
But dont buy into Obamas propaganda. This has nothing to do with the Constitution. If Obama cared about the Constitution, hed be refusing to support many of his own bills. After all, there is nothing constitutional about Obamacare. Forcing consumers to buy a product (health insurance), with the threat of government (fine or prison), is certainly unconstitutional.
If the Constitution mattered, Obama certainly could not consider giving waivers to opt out of Obamacare to unions across America. He certainly could not attempt to set price controls on doctors, insurance companies, and medical device manufacturers. He could not support Cap and Trade. What role does the Constitution allow for government to take control over private industry?
What about bailouts? Is it constitutional to steal taxpayer money from the treasury to hand out to companies that wrote the biggest checks to your Presidential campaign?
How about Card Check? You think its constitutional to enrich 7% of the population (union employees) who happen to send hundreds of millions in contributions to Obama, all balanced on the backs of the other 93% of the population? Is it constitutional to accomplish this by taking away the rights of employees to vote in secret? I wonder if it's constitutional to be a President and union hack at the same time?
And then theres Obamas obsession with banning oil drilling. Recently, a federal judge called Obamas de facto ban unreasonable, unacceptable and unjustified. Obamas unconstitutional disregard for the rule of law could threaten the security and stability of the entire U.S. economy.
It certainly cant be States Rights that Obama is concerned with. Afterall, he is currently suing the state of Arizona, interfering with their constitutional right to protect their own border and citizens. Amazingly, Mexico has joined the suit. Do you think its constitutional for our President to be suing one of our own states, with Mexico as a partner?
So why start quoting the Constitution with DOMA? In the middle of the Great Depression II and a Middle East meltdown, why choose gay marriage as the issue to draw the line in the sand? What would the medias reaction have been if President Bush had decided he would no longer defend the Civil Rights Voting Act on constitutional grounds? Yet in this case, we hear only deafening silence from the media.
No matter that for the first time, Obama and I are on the same side of an issue. His handling of DOMA is simply an extension of his non-stop Big Brother power grab through the appointment of radical czars; blatant disregard for the rule of law (see his handling of the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies); and implementing rules, regulations, and policies that bypass the Congress and the will of the American people.
Our President can cite his new found appreciation for the Constitution all he wants. But from his actions as President, its clear he wouldnt know the Constitution if it hit him in the face. This man considers the American people serfs and himself our King and dictator. As my father, the common-sense blue-collar butcher, used to say, Dont listen to what he says, watch what he does.
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." His web site:
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A Teachable Moment: How Obama Would Solve the NFL Labor Crisis
Monday, March 7, 2011, 05:21 PM
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian"
Some are now suggesting that President Obama get involved in the NFL strike talks. I was his college classmate at Columbia University and have studied his political career for years. My record of predicting where Obama will come down on the side of an issue and what lie he will tell to rationalize his decision is near perfect. Just call me The Obama Whisperer.
Heres a quick lesson in how he thinks:
First, Obama is a Socialist who believes in the redistribution of wealth. He hates those who have worked hard and earned money -- unless they give him massive campaign contributions.
Second, hes a union hack, who will do anything for unions, even break the law and violate the Constitution -- at least for those unions that give him massive campaign contributions. Dont believe me? Ask the shareholders and banks that loaned billions to GM and Chrysler, only to see their ownership and legal contracts erased by Obama in order to hand ownership to the unions that destroyed the automakers in the first place.
Third, like a true Socialist, Obama believes government has the solution to every problem, and that solution is more government and higher taxes, combined with a prescription of social justice and affirmative action.
Based on his lifetime body of work, here is how I predict Obama will settle the NFL labor crisis:
Like Cap and Trade, Obama will produce scientists to declare that football is a dangerous sport threatening the health and welfare of the players. He'll then pass Helmet and Trade legislation putting government in control of football -- setting salaries for players, prices for fans, and giving new powers to the NFL players union.
Never letting a serious crisis go to waste, Obama will then pass legislation called "NFLCare" that demands that the NFL pay for the lifetime pension and healthcare of the players, paid for with massive new taxes on the NFL and its fans. The doctors who treat the NFL players will have caps placed on their fees. Of course this will lead to shortages of doctors and rationing, so eventually NFL Limb Panels will be set up to decide who gets a new knee, or shoulder, or hip. These decisions will be based on years of player life expectancy remaining, or the size of contributions to the Obama campaign.
Hell then decide what income is fair and what is greedy, placing wage controls on players. Obama will say, There is no longer a need for million dollar salaries. After all, just like government union employees, Im going to guarantee NFL players -- even the failed ones -- pensions of $100K per year for life and free healthcare. Well call it NFL Tenure. It's like a government job -- a guaranteed job for life, without any performance necessary.
Like American businesses, players will react to lower wages and higher taxes by leaving the USA to play football in Canada and Europe, destroying the NFL. Obama, of course, will blame the greedy NFL owners for sending American jobs offshore and pass a huge tariff on each player leaving the USA.
Then, Obama will state proudly, Weve got to spread the wealth around and pass NFL Financial Reform, requiring ninety-five percent of revenues be redistributed to employees, vendors, peanut salesmen, ticket takers, security, and parking lot attendants. A peanut vendor will be seen crying and telling a reporter, Ill never have to worry about paying rent or putting gas in my car ever again.
But, Obama is just getting started. Fifty percent ownership of NFL teams will be turned over to the Players Union, just as in the case of GM and Chrysler. Obama will state, The working man needs a stake in his own future. This legislation will also demand teams have a minority owner in their ownership group and 50% of all NFL contracts be awarded to minority owned businesses. Not losing the opportunity for a teachable moment, Obama will say, The NFL must reflect the diversity of America. It is time for the ownership, players, and contractors to reflect social justice. To get this party started correctly, I have fired Commissioner Goodall and appointed Reverend Al Sharpton as Commissioner of the NFL.
Next hell pass rules limiting work hours for players and declare off-season workouts as overtime. The White House will set up a Toll Free (800) number for players to call the Bar Association, one of Obamas leading contributors, who will provide lawyers free of charge to sue NFL teams within hours of a reported violation.
Finally, various new taxes will be imposed including "draft taxes, trade taxes, and a "championship tax" (doubling taxes on Playoff teams; tripling on the Super Bowl winner). Hell impose VAT taxes on everything bought at the games and a "wealthy fan confiscation tax for prime, sideline seats. Skyboxes, of course, will be seized for the use of government officials, bureaucrats, politicians, and Obama campaign contributors.
At this point NFL owners will plead insolvency and threaten bankruptcy. Obama will ask So, whats in it for me? Understanding EXACTLY what he means the owners will make massive campaign contributions to Obama and receive billion dollar bailouts from the U.S. Treasury as part of his next stimulus package.
Problem solved. NFL Strike/lockout averted. Obama has done it again. How did business survive before Obama?
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." His web site:
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Comparing the Life of a Government Employee with the Private Sector
Monday, February 28, 2011, 03:32 PM
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author of The Conscience of a Libertarian
The world is backwards. It should be the taxpayers striking in the streets of Wisconsin. But, private sector taxpayers cant afford to take a day off, let alone a week. Doesnt that say everything? Only government employees with their powerful unions, lifetime job security, short work-weeks, loads of sick days, nonstop holidays, early retirement, and bloated pensions, can afford to stand in the street protesting. Common sense tells us anyone with this much time to protest and the ability to abandon their work duties, is greatly overpaid.
Its time for a reality check. These $100,000 per year teachers keep talking about the kids. Exactly who is teaching those kids while their teachers abandon their jobs and commit fraud with fake doctors notes? If they cared about the kids, theyd be in the classroom. Theyd leave the striking and lobbying to their union leaders and lobbyists. Its the students (and their parents) who should be on strike. Wisconsin teachers are the highest paid in the Midwest, but their students performance hasnt improved. Wheres the taxpayers union? Where's the students' union? Are students and taxpayers getting their moneys worth? Perhaps they should be on strike.
Im a small businessman. Like all private sector workers, I have no time to protest or strike. Take a day off? How could I do that? I run a business. People depend on me. Im on call 24/7/365, weekends, holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. Vacations are working vacations. The phones never stop ringing, the emails never slow down. I have to work 16-hour days just to pay my taxes. Who benefits? Those government employees protesting in the streets of Wisconsin.
Is it fair that government employees can be paid as much as 70% more than the same jobs in the private sector? Is it fair that private sector taxpayers work to age 65, 75, or even longer, to pay obscene taxes, so government employees can retire at age 50, with bloated pensions? Does any of this make sense?
These public servants claim this is a battle for the middle class. Let me assure you, in the private sector a $100,000 per year job with paid medical, early retirement, and thirty (or more) years of pension is:
A) As far from middle class as you can get
B) Very rare, if not non-existent.
Call me old fashioned, but the system has been rigged. Here in Las Vegas firefighters average $199,000 per year in compensation. Yes, you heard correctly. Quite a few have income of over $300,000. One fireman took 48 sick days, and still took home $232,187. Another is headed to prison for trying to have sex with underage girls. Hell get his $200,000 pension while in prison. Its happening all over the country. This isnt middle class, its a privileged class. This is no more about middle class rights than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett fighting over caviar.
My father in law, Ralph Parks, was a hospital CEO for 30+ years. He managed a hundred million dollar institution with hundreds of employees. He was on emergency call at all hours of the day or night, holidays, weekends, birthdays, vacations. Ralph rarely enjoyed a real day off. In his best years, he was paid just over $100,000. He received no pension or lifetime healthcare. He saved money for his own retirement. He had no tenure and could be fired at any time. At age 59, he lost his CEO job. Soon thereafter he had a stroke and heart problems. He never worked again. Thats the way it works in the private sector. There are no guarantees. Why are these government employees guaranteed a job for life? Are they better, or more deserving than Ralph Parks? Why dont they keep, or lose their jobs, based on performance?
More importantly, please explain to me how millions of government employees on the local, state, and federal level; who get holidays, weekends, and in some cases the entire summer off; without CEO job responsibilities; take no midnight phone calls; never have to risk their own money (as entrepreneurs in the private sector do); and have a guaranteed lifetime job; deserve $100,000 compensation, plus early retirement, and free medical care and pension for life all on the back of true working class taxpayers? How is that possible? How does it make fiscal or moral sense for an average government employee to be paid more than a CEO? The answer is, of course, it doesnt make sense. Its government logic. You see its your money, not theirs. So the politicians dont care.
Its the taxpayers and business owners who should be in the streets protesting, shouting, pumping fists, screaming SHAME. But, of course, were not in the streets protesting. We have no time for strikes. Were too busy working for a living, paying the taxes that fund the bloated salaries and pensions of government employees.
This sad story is at the heart of what has damaged the U.S. economy, created a national debt of $100 trillion (counting unfunded liabilities), and has cities, counties, and states on the verge of economic Armageddon.
Please understand that if we don't get government employee unions under control, we face disaster. All of us lose. And good luck with those $100,000 pensions. Soon $100,000 may buy you a loaf of bread.
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." His web site:
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Its Time for a REAGAN Moment: Wisconsin Teachers-- YOURE FIRED!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 03:12 PM
By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Best-Selling Author of The Conscience of a Libertarian
Ronald Reagan stood up to the Air Traffic Controllers and in response to the threat of a strike simply fired them all. Can you imagine? Air Traffic Controllers- unique individuals with rare and valuable skills, thought irreplaceable, fired en masse. And we never noticed. Supervisors filled their shoes for months, while new ones were trained. Not a single accident. What happened to those Air Traffic Controllers who lost todays equivalent of $100,000 per year jobs? Few ever found a job with that kind of pay again.
Its time for a Reagan moment in Wisconsin. The average Milwaukee teacher compensation at retirement age is about $100,000 per year. Yes, I said $100,000. Thats not being reported on the nightly news, now is it? And, what good is all that bloated compensation doing? Milwaukee has a depressing 68% graduation rate. Two-thirds of Wisconsin 8th graders read below grade level.
That $100K annual teachers compensation is the highest in the Midwest. Yet, during a ten-year period, while Wisconsin teacher salaries rose dramatically, students saw no improvement. None. Proving once again, taxpayers, students and parents get nothing in return for higher teacher pay. Who spends the most on teacher pay? California and Washington D.C. -- all for dismal results.
Government employee unions, teacher unions in particular, have to be the only business (or should I say racket") that asks for raises for horrible performance. The worse they do, the more they ask for. Its always the money. The teacher unions never mention that private and Catholic school teachers make far less, with far superior results.
What drove GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy was not the bloated salaries for blue collar union workers. It was the gold-plated pensions and free lifetime healthcare that killed the automakers. Wisconsin (and every other state in the USA) faces the same problem with their public employee unions.
Today, a teacher reported retiring at age 55, after working part-time for 5 short years. She gets only about $250 per month for life from the taxpayers of Wisconsin. Receiving $250 per month doesnt sound like much, until you do the math. If this teacher lives to the average age of 78, shell be paid over $65,000 in pension. With cost of living increases it probably goes to $75K. Perhaps that doesnt sound like much. But, when you realize her entire 5-year working salary was $35,000, taxpayers will pay her twice that much in retirement. But what if she lives to 100? Perhaps triple or quadruple her working pay.
Now, think about all the full-time teachers in Wisconsin making $100,000 (or more) who have not paid a penny toward their retirement, but will get handed multi-MILLION dollar pensions for 25 to 40 years of not working.
But, it gets worse. Wisconsin taxpayers also pay all their post-retirement health care costs, and pay for new teachers to replace them. Ever wonder why America is broke, busted and insolvent? That is why.
Heres the irony. While these government employees get gold-plated pensions and free lifetime healthcare, the taxpayers who are paying their bills struggle to survive.
Why should taxpayers work their fingers to the bone until the day they die to support teacher and other public employee bloated wages and pensions? Its time for anger and revolt alright. It is taxpayers who need to go on strike!
Its time for Governor Walker and other Governors across America to invoke Ronald Reagan. The message is simple: Accept these modest cuts and end abusive collective bargaining by public employees or YOURE FIRED. And be sure to charge the teachers at the protests who hold fake doctor notes with fraud.
Good luck finding any job in the private sector paying $100,000 (or even $50,000), to work 8 to 3 with weekends, holidays, sick days and two months off in the summer, then retire young with a bloated pension and healthcare for life.
Its time to stop being polite and politically correct. Rome is burning. The national debt and unfunded liabilities now totals $100 trillion. The clock on Americas survival is ticking. Its time to invoke Reagan.
Guess what? If Air Traffic Controllers can be replaced, so can teachers, at far lower salaries and drastically reduced pensions. Look at the test scores. It cant get worse. I bet we can get the same results for 30% less. Heck, bringing in fresh blood with new, creative ideas might improve the results. How can we find out if we dont give it a try?
Oh, did I mention my daughter, Dakota, was home-schooled and is now a freshman at Harvard? Wheres my pension?
Wheres The Donald when we need him? Wisconsin teachers union YOURE FIRED!
That's a good start. Next week, lets have this same conversation with the all the rest of our government employees.
Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." His web site:
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