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Embarrasingly poor "article" for Forbes to publish (although I do acknowledge it is via the Cato Institute..)
Forbes readers are not the same as Fox News viewers. This is insulting to your readers intelligence.
Great job!
Agree wholeheartedly.
I disagree with Mattc666, it's a good OP/ED article that is taking a different perspective than what the media has covered thus far.
MarkFidelman: You are correct, it's a different perspective than the media has taken thus far….except for on all those inane conspiracy websites which claim that "9-11 was an Israeli Intelligence op that worked" and that there are "Forced labor FEMA camps where folks are imprisoned and worked to death" and so forth. The reason most people don't take that route with their stories is that those writers aren't clinically insane, greedsick, paranoid schitzophrenic types like this article's author obviously must be. How mad a person must be to print such entrail! Most editors of financial magazines aren't ridiculous enough to give those types a platfom from which to spew their ravings, either. Very sad that you are an apologist for this. One cannot write "I am Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated, kneel to me." and call it "OP/ED": nutcases are nutcases. :-(
Gawd you must be the most arrogant condescending little putz. Why do you not confine your criticisms to the article Instead of marshaling even one argument you merely spit out "Cato Institute" and "Fox News viewers".
Ad hominem attacks are desperate bids of the clueless. It is the casting of aspersions on the author of the argument as the means to attack the argument. Thus the "Cato" comment.
But what is this additional swipe at "Fox News viewers"? Is there a name for the rhetorical device of damning an idea by naming its defenders, and simultaneously attacking them!
So mattc666: Do you despise "Fox News Viewers" because they presumably would agree with this article, or do you despise this article because "Fox New viewers presumably would agree with it? I am confused.
perhaps you would like to expound on your comment
Better late than never, I guess.
THIS Forbes reader AND Fox News viewer begs to differ with your factually devoid sophistry. The fact that you apparently have an effective spell checker does not lend credence to your "comment."
Perhaps you would be better served Sir to reserve future blogging on "Yahoo!."
A different perspective? Yes. A FACTUAL perspective? No.
EO #8248 was the original order to deal with national defense resources preparedness & was issued in 1939. It has been superseded throughout nearly every administration since it's inception, each receiving a new reference number. The latest makes minor changes to the previous version, it adds several new positions in the administration, like the Homeland Secretary & modifies FEMA responsibilities. Sadly, this is based on false information which itself was created for a party's political agenda
Here's a link for the information from a politically unbiased group, which even provides details of where they get their info
This article is unbelieveably bad. What is the point of it? I'm going with Fortune-Forbes is going to the nut case right-wingers.
Maybe you need to have a conversation with the Japanese Americans who were herded into internment camps under Executive Order 9066, issued by FDR. Pay more attention to what's going on around you and stop watching so much CNN and NBC.
Dude RELAX….Your missing the BIG PICTURE…Its all has to do with "Rare Earth Minerals"…Since the DEMOCRATS, and the EPA prohibited our Nation from MINING and DRILLING for the Materials needed to keep our Economy and Military Functioning. (we outsourced to CHINA)…CHINA CUT OFF our Supply 18 months ago…The CATASTROPHIC Threat to our NATIONAL economic well being, is such that MILLIONS of Businesses and TENS of MILLIONS of JOBS could disappear, if our NATION doesn't IMMEDIATELY start mining and drilling for those MUCH NEEDED resources…Current GAO estimates place that it will take 10-15years to RAMP up production. EVERYTHING in our COUNTRY needs those "Rare Earth Minerals" NOW go back and RE-READ that E.O. again and put the WORD "Rare Earth Minerals" in the Equation…and you can see why…
For a long time I rejected the idea Obama has an agenda he'll push through hell or high water. No longer. I'm a political independent and find myself leaning more to the Romney camp. There's nothing I read and hear about Obama that leads me to think he has become more accomplished at leadership. On the other hand, Romney is a proven and natural leader. He's intelligent, decent, successful, dignified. As a president, what's not to like about him? As for Obama, I agree with Peggy Noonan's assessment of him in a recent op/ed piece: he's boring.
This is madness. If you read an article like this and take it at face value, you're doing yourself a disservice. Read the text of the order and compare it to the analogues signed by previous officeholders and you'll see that there's nothing new or alarming going on here.
Usually there's a lot of room to wiggle and to debate an issue, but Powell is just being deliberately inflammatory and misleading. He's lying. I've *never* said that about an Op/Ed before today.
Days like this, I'm ashamed to be a Republican. Seriously — we're better than this.
I've read quite a few previous executive orders…which ones say the Cabinet members should plan to seize control over all resources?
I agree: "Obama's boring". So what we need is a vascillating weathervane/Etch-A-Sketch who will tell everyone what they want to hear and do only for his rich buddies, screw the Middle Class, BORING! Screw Health Care, BORING! Screw our diplomatic standing in the world, BORING! Let's give another 6 trillion to 2% of the population, can't hurt, right?
The biggest office in the world requires someone who buzzes with enough personality to fill the job, and most of them have it.
But Romney doesn't buzz with anything. His vision of humanity is just a million tons of meat floating around in a sea of base calculations. He's like a teenager who stays up all night thinking of a way to impress the prom queen, and what he comes up with is kicking a kid in a wheelchair. Instincts like those are probably what made him a great leveraged buyout specialist, but in a public figure? Man, is he a disaster. It's really incredible theater, watching the Republicans talk themselves into this guy.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/romneys-free-stuff-speech-is-a-new-low-20120713#ixzz21U2P4zP0
You're a sad, lonely party that has nothing to offer anyone. You routinely espouse delusions by smoking your crack of paranoia. You make many lives miserable by never being focused on anything productive that genuinely or cleverly benefits large groups of people in any way. Please put aside your self importance and step aside for people who do take life seriously, have a purpose, and want to help.
This is ideological crap, not a serious article for a business publication. I'm not crazy about everything Obama is doing, but he's not this crazy socialist. This type of Fox News article does a disservice to valid criticisms of his policies. Personally I'd like to see more focus on a stable dollar and personal responsibility, but don't see that happening. However it's a real stretch to compare Obama to fascist countries, and it's a huge leap with zero analysis behind it.
The Right's tactics these days incorporate the features of Confederate politics to include endless name calling and accusations, often of their own sins just to fuzz up the issues and make real discussion impossible. At times it's uncomfortably close to Goebbels, though Confederate politics is much older.
It also presently includes attempting to govern the US from the House and lopping off the top of the Executive Branch, bottling up the President in the White House. The President has responded by staffing his administration with "czars" and other measures which the author of this column would like to limit. The President is noticeably more successful in areas less impacted by our second Civil War – foreign policy and his role as CIC.
The author's discussion of Executive Orders and the Presidency sounds like an argument for Constitutional reform providing for a Parliament and Prime Minister instead of the Congress and the Presidency. Such a discussion would be interesting but not in this context of extreme partisan warfare.
Our US system is failing not because of this or that architecture, but because of the total corruption of politics by money – our Washington and state capitol Pay-To-Play system. Because of it we do not have Capitalism/Markets outside of Main Street and the economy is increasingly distorted. Multinational corporations, including financial ones, buy their global interests in Washington to the point where citizens have to ask if we have an American Congress at all. Our elections more than ever are really two ballots, the first cast by money. Some on the Right would as soon drop the second or keep it for the appearance of Democracy. In an increasingly competitive world the United States cannot survive as a Banana Republic.
The US Pay-To-Play political system is a Founding Flaw probably left over from having to include the slave Southern Territories in the Revolution and the new country. Its society required the corruption of politics by money to maintain itself. The core South is a different, distinct culture area to this day. A central feature of its politics is to be very good at raising distracted, conflicting mobs while the real players clean the table. After the US Civil War the lack of a Jefferson's Wall between politics and money was never fixed. Indeed, Washington became famously corrupt. So we retain one of the most malign features of the Confederate government to this day. Again, in an increasingly competitive world the United States cannot survive as a Banana Republic.
Perhaps the reason for this executive order is in preparation for the coming dollar bubble and debt bubble bursting, which will cause complete financial chaos (including hyperinflation) in the USA.
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As the article says, "President Obama, the Federal Reserve and Congress will do everything they can to not let this collapse happen before the November 2012 elections. However, they may not be able to stop it, as the markets are already reacting to failed attempts at austerity in the EU and the rising cost of debt. "
It's not so much Obama that's at fault, its the entire flawed system. If John McCain had won in 2008, we'd be facing pretty much the same problems with our government, the only difference would be the rhetoric voiced in public would be a bit different. Its not Obama, its the entire system thats corrupt. Thats why Ron Paul, whatever flaws most people think he has, needs to win.
I agree, he's heard everything as it was happening, and fought to stop it, but no one was listening. I sure hope the country wakes up, and listen's now. But they won't.
This article is too long for this medium.
This is how insane with hate you are towards Obama.
Look at your reasoning:
"There would probably be a serious brain drain as talented people with critical skills escaped to freedom wherever that might be. Canada?"
Right! They would escape to Canada, where they would finally be able to enjoy a cost effective national health care plan!
Jeez! Why didn't we just short circuit this entire mess, and simply copy Canada's health plan?
"Even if Obama's 13603 were no different than previous national security executive orders…"
Right, because, without looking them up, I can bet it's hardly any different.(or YOU, who make a living writing this bunk, would certainly tell us, and highlight the differences)
Look, you need to at least think about, and make a plan, about what you would do should something major happen, like 3 suitcase nukes, in LA, Chicago, and NY, on the same day. I don't like it, and I don't like the idea of what would happen, but guess what, we would be in a war/lockdown situation, and most of us would "know" the country was in dire trouble, and we would be thinking about the survival of our country first.
When the radiation from Fukushima makes its way around the globe a health crisis of unprecedented proportion will disrupt civilization in a way that no government and no person can prepare for. The media is covering up the full extent of this disaster and for good reason. While government in the US and Europe put the final nails in the coffin that contain our liberty the appearance of normalcy will be maintained.
When you are as concerned about governments wanting to micro-manage women's health and politicans that want to regulate what happens in private bedrooms I will take what you say seriously. Until then you're just another talking head doing mental gymnastics to defend your corporate masters.
1976: Executive Order 11921: Allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production, distribution, energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money.
Signed by Gerald Ford…
Wow… This guy writes such a 'thorough' essay (11 pages!) on this topic, I wonder how or why he missed that one?
My favorite logical blunder of his is how there will be a flight to Canada of people looking for "freedom".
Huh? They would be going to a country with a national healthcare policy!
I thought that was the bee in his bonnet to begin with! LOL
Yes, this is essentially what happens with each major war. Factories and people are conscripted and food and goods are rationed. It's bad because war is bad, not because there's bad socialist intent.
Sigh…do they really pay you over at Cato for this kind of thing?
EO 13603 is, for the most part, a restatement of of EO 12919, first signed by Bill Clinton and left in full force and effect by President George Bush. EO 13606 is updated to bring in the amendments to The Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950 (passed by Congress), as amended by Congress in 2009-wherein, by the way, Congress authorizes the President to declare Martial Law.
There is some additional language that I acknowledge deserves your attention. That would be the addition of the words 'non-emergecy'. While it takes an incredibly perverse approach to theorize that this is some secret plan by the president to seize control of the economy and all all other aspects of American life- a theory which is, apparently, keeping you up at night- you do realize that one can take virtually any law to an extreme and, in an act of extreme Chicken Little, declare that it is a nefarious attempt to enslave us all? A more clear headed reading of the EO (if you can imagine such a reading) would very much indicate that 'non-emergency' , within the context of the EO, speaks to things such as domestic unrest or, possibly, a foreign or domestic terrorist threat which has not yet come to pass.
I truly hope that your intent is simply to get folks all shook up in an election year because I would hate to think that Cato is wasting all that hard earned Koch cash on Fellows who actually think that this president is plotting the takeover of the nation -with a plan to make political prisoners out of Cato Fellows as his first order of business. But then, I suspect your next piece will be an expose over how the theme of the Obama campaign – "Forward" – is proof of his fealty to the communist movements of the past. You know, sort of like how John McCain's 'America First' motto was an honorific to the American fascists of the 1930′s who existing as the "America First Party'. Yes, that is an absurd charge…just as is suggesting that "Forward" is an homage to the commies….just as is the suggestion that EO 13606 is a secret plot to take over the country in the dead of night.
Really, Jim Powell? You are kidding, right?
So much for you really knowing your political history. This is an executive order that reads almost the same since Reagan.
Tell the full story here, Bud. You disgust me.
I appreciate your comments, Mr. Unger, and I don't mean to offend you, but I believe this article is right on target. If we examine the intent of the president, who by-passed the vetting policies required by the DNC upon application for a U.S. Presidential candidate, 2x, or his by-passing the vetting policies when he applied as a candidate to be a senator, as well as his ignoring and avoiding Article II, how then can we excuse all branches of government who put blinders on and didn't enforce U.S. state or federal government policies, requirements, and constitutional identification laws, but allowed a man who promised transparency to slip through the cracks unscathed? A politician should be a man of integrity, a man or woman of character, trustworthy, and a man of principles, right or wrong? Mr. Obama aka Barry Soetoro concealed his background and credentials the day after he swore an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution by granting himself the unprecedented authority to do so through an existing Bush Presidential Directive, without objection by anyone in pubic office. He was aware of the vetting procedures because Philip J. Berg, esq., whose background in criminal justice is extensive, filed an Eligibility Lawsuit prior to the inauguration. And, by the way, Mr. Berg is a democrat. This is the most scandalous never ending consistent crisis-breaking presidential two-term administration that has ever hit our nation which makes the Clinton Chronicles appear pale in comparison. How can we deny that Obamacare is intrusive and peers into every aspect of the private lives of mainly U.S. Natural Born Citizens, patriotic legal Americans, who choose to be Christians, Conservatives, or Catholics…remember, Obama's right hand advisor, Valerie, stated on national TV prior to the elections, that they would punish anyone who opposed them, so should we not believe her? Obamacare penalizes businesses and targets unborn babies, as well as veterans, seniors, and the sick, by including death panels, early end of life counseling, as well as the authority to ration or deny health care services to Americans who are forced against their will to pay-up for a consumer product they don't want to buy with their own earnings. So, how is it then ok for Obama to appoint a "committee of 9″ and allow them to determine who lives and who dies? Sounds like a more modern and sophisticated agenda carried out in line with WWII for depopulation and bring in the NWO. Isn't Obama using Obamacare to hire an additional 16,000 taxpayer funded gestapo-type IRS agents and provide them with unprecedented powers and taxpayer funded bonuses for carrying out the Obamacare agendas? How is holding IRS agents over our heads and placing them on our doorsteps not a form of tyranny? in my opinion, the Obama administration, who doesn't favor criticism, is the most rogue administration to ever hit our nation. In fact, about 2001, 2008, and 2012, Obama commented that the U.S. Constitution and Congress are "meaningless and a mere charter of negative laws which need to be changed." He made comments alluding to the fact that he wants to run the nation without congress and the constitution and they appear to allow him to do whatever he wants without their authority. There is a financial economic disaster on the horizon, Obamacare is unaffordable long term per the CBO's within the White House, and the White House scandals have led to the murders of Americans which he alluded to in the news as bumps in the road. The Obama administration is a never ending seamless manufacturer of serious scandals without end….and I assume there are more to come. By the way, we have had terrorist attacks on our soil at Ground Zero, Boston, and attempts in Arizona and New York and the Detroit airport as well as the scandal of a murdered U.S. Diplomat and 3 murdered volunteer military men who were left to defend themselves on protected soil at Benghazi. And, never forget the murdered U.S. Navy Seals, Team 6. But, according to the democrats in Congress, they've commented as to what difference does it make and these scandals aren't that important.
Remember, Obama and Congress declared America to be a "battlefield" even though Obama stated that "America will never be at war with Islam," so who are we battling? Is it ok for Islam to be at war with America, only? If so, why are our troops deployed? It appears that this administration is battling select groups and individual US Natural Born Citizens. After all, they targeted selected Americans through the IRS; targeted Americans accused by this administration under the NDAA Law, targeted Americans for Radiation and groping under the Patriot Act; targeted Americans with MTBE and other scandals involving the EPA. This administration targeted the AP; and they target worldwide unborn babies for taxpayer funded mandated abortions; as well as targeting the elderly, veterans and the sick for early end of life counseling. They're targeted Americans by unconstitutionally mandating excessive taxation; and excessive penalties. This administration targets the veterans, sick, and seniors for Medicare cuts. They target veterans for psychiatric evaluations and allegedly are planning on taking away their right to bear arms. The Obamanation hope and change is not anywhere near protecting and upholding freedom and liberty for the masses, but providing freedom and bonuses to those in the Obama administration who work within their federal government circles and those he favors in my opinion. In the end, Obama's hope and change appears to be contrary to Western Civilization, U.S. History, God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments, U.S. roots, traditional family, births, and traditions. If America continues on Obama's transformation, not only will his identification remain a mystery, but the USA will be unidentifiable as well. If Congress fails in their fiduciary duty to investigate the myriad of serious scandals, perhaps, the future of unborn babies who would be U.S. Natural Born Citizens, Christians, Conservatives, and baby boomers should be paced on the list as one of the world's most endangered species. Also, amazon released my latest entertaining satire written as an adventure story, "Obamacare, Dinosaurs, Red Necks and Radicals" at amazon.
Get lost, you psychotic Birther loon.
This is simply not true. Corporate America has more loop holes then ordinary people and always have. President Obama can not fix what corporate America paid dearly to bust and take over. People are all a nuisense to you. This country means nothing more to you then something to take over and use and ruin. These companies pay little to nothing in taxes and own more of the media then is wise in a Democracy. I have to go with my own eyes and listen to more then the same Corporate entity taking over this country to pollute at will, take from every source they can, and then they simply write it off. Your money can't go with you when you die, all you will have is a legacy of the ruin you caused of this country. What have YOU done for your country corporate America, except cheat the people, sell them out and buy the message that people hear along with our government. What have you done for your own country except take?
Almost speechless. Lock and load.
You, sir, are an ass-hat. That is all.
This is madness. Read the text of the order and compare it to the analogues signed by previous officeholders and you'll see that there's nothing new or alarming going on here.
Usually there's a lot of room to wiggle and to debate an issue, but Powell is just being deliberately inflammatory and misleading. He's lying. I've *never* said that about an Op/Ed before today.
Days like this, I'm ashamed to be a Republican. Seriously — we're better than this.
I was starting to take this seriously but then read this:
"Even if Obama's 13603 were no different than previous national security executive orders, it's more worrisome because it was issued by the president who rammed Obamacare and runaway spending bills through Congress, who racked up $5 trillion of debt and surrounded himself with hardcore "progressives" hostile to the private sector and America as we have known it."
Obamacare's creation, however imperfect it may be (and it is), was not prescribed by Obama but the spawn of legislative process, and its timing was slow in coming – since the Clinton administration. Most of the debt incurred since Obama took office results from budgeting practices and an economic crisis attributable to prior admininstrations' low tax, big spending policies. Collectively, they are a leviathan that is slow to turn. This doesn't mean it shouldn't be turned (it should) or that Obama shouldn't be working harder to turn it (he should). But to say Obama forced it upon the nation or is primarily responsible for recent debt is just too glib to be taken seriously.
The concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of so few will be the end of our Republic. It has been in the works for a very long time. 31). "We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the
destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs.
We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own."
(You Gentiles, by Jewish Author Maurice Samuels, p. 155).
32). "We will have a world government whether you like it
or not. The only question is whether that government will be
achieved by conquest or consent." (Jewish Banker Paul Warburg,
February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate).
Wow! Brilliant hatchet rant with so much hyperbole and innuendo it's amazing the spittle on your keyboard didn't cause more typos. Is CATO's motto stolen from Shakespeare?
"a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying, absolutely nothing."
There should be a way to reclaim the bandwidth and storage costs incurred by reading such empty rhetoric.
If you trust Obama with this decision, then you would trust Romney if he did the same thing right? If not, then you better remember, Obama isn't gone to be in office forever. Then what?
As with many commenters thus far, I am profoundly disappointed by this article. I read financial press so as to get an accurate picture of the state of the world, its economies, its markets,and the forces that drive change. Based on all that, I make decisions that put my money at risk in the hopes of capital gains. This article is misleading drivel.
The only virtue is that the author provided a link to the original Executive Order (EO) about which he writes. Clearly, very few of the readers have made the effort to read the EO and assess the interpretations offered in the article.
Nowhere in the EO is the word seize or seizure to be found, nor any reasonable synonym. It concerns the obligations of government to plan for the assured availability of resources of all kinds that might be needed by the organs of national defense. One writer has mentioned rare earths. In a true national emergency, the needs go far beyond that. The EO grounds each and every undertaking to the requirements of existing law: to wit, the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.). In other words, it is not socialist overreach: it is grounded in existing law of 60 years standing.
Few if any of the commenters have any memory or awareness of the degree of national mobilization required for the USA to emerge victorious from WW II. Before you criticize this EO, go read some history. Do a few Google searches on wartime mobilization. I, for one, am glad that someone is thinking about our self-sufficiency for national defense. We have allowed our industrial might to flee overseas in search of cheap labor without a thought for how we could staff, equip, transport and feed a military engulfed in global war, and keep the civilian support system humming along at full bore.
So you would want the government to take all that you have, and make you work for them in the middle of a crisis? You would want to be out on the roads when the SHTF? You wouldn't want to stay home and, take care of your own family? You would give up your food that you have for your family? Where do you think Obama will be when this is all going on? Where do you think his family will be? There isn't one word about compensation to the people, that they take from. And you feel good about this? If something should happened that would make them break out this plan, I'd just be glad to have the military around to keep the bad guys in check. Then have neighbors helping neighbors, until we could pull it back together. I just don't like the idea that someone can come to my door or business, and be in control of my life, without my say. It's Un-American!
Congratulations to Forbes. You have done your share as part of the great propaganda machine now dividing people in the US through the use of watchwords such as progressive, and/or forward, and communist. I am telling like it is right here;
The only united group I can fine in America are the very Democrats you vilify and the very Republicans you support. They are one in the same. They are unified on key issues that are now working against the best interests of the nation.
While being a well written piece on The History of Executive Orders, overall it reads like rhetorical, Fox News babble. I read 11 pages waiting for the moment that all this research would reveal some sort of diabolical world domination scheme, perpetuated by President Obama, and all I got was "hey, ya never know". It's this kind of seed planting skepticism that fuels right wing extremist to fabricate more false theories and further divide us as a nation, in our most vulnerable state, I might add. However, I do thank you for teaching me something about Executive Orders.
There really isn't much to see here; 13603 is a framework outlining how to deal with an unanticipated catastrophe that goes back to the 1930s. This article is sadly alarmist. Moreover, for all the historical context, it demonstrates no powers of critical thinking.
Trying to enact the provisions of such an order would be political suicide inviting impeachment, unless there were a true emergency and Congress fully backed the President. Yes, in some alternate universe where the military has no mind of its own, the President could ignore Congress and declare martial law, but then legal frameworks are irrelevant to begin with so why bother telegraphing nefarious intentions via 13603 in the first place?
Factually speaking, plans for temporary central management of resources in a national-level emergency have been in place since the FDR era and variations on the theme going back before that. Latest incarnation before 13603 was Executive Order No. 12919. That order itself superseded a variety of earlier orders including:
(1) Section 3, Executive Order No. 8248 of September 8, 1939, (4 FR 3864).
(2) Executive Order No. 10222 of March 8, 1951 (16 FR 2247).
(3) Executive Order No. 10480 of August 14, 1953 (18 FR 4939).
(4) Executive Order No. 10647 of November 28, 1955 (20 FR 8769).
(5) Executive Order No. 11179 of September 22, 1964 (29 FR 13239).
(6) Executive Order No. 11355 of May 26, 1967 (32 FR 7803).
(7) Sections 7 and 8, Executive Order No. 11912 of April 13, 1976 (41 FR 15825, 15826-27). (8) Section 3, Executive Order No. 12148 of July 20, 1979 (44 FR 43239, 43241).
(9) Executive Order No. 12521 of June 24, 1985 (50 FR 26335).
(10) Executive Order No. 12649 of August 11, 1988 (53 FR 30639).
(11) Executive Order No. 12773 of September 26, 1991 (56 FR 49387), except that part of the order that amends section 604 of Executive Order 10480.
I agree with the majority of these comments, this is really insane, and Forbes should print the opposite and apologize.
Not Obamas' Plan.
Obama is just a puppet speech reader.
As will be Mitt Romney.
Jim, very good. Very thorough. Nice writing. Thank you Forbes for having the guts to publish it.
I'm surprised this made it into Forbes. But I understand why. Forbes is about business and private enterprise. This executive order is a slap in the face to private enterprise and to the United States. Those that disagree that this would never happen only need to go to their unaltered history books and research what FDR did in the 1930′s. FDR imprisoned Asian-Americans, created anti-hoarding laws, made gold illegal for private ownership, the list goes on. Most of this was done with what? Executive Orders and strong arming congress and stacking the supreme court. Something like what is going on today with examples like NDAA and CISPA. Oh, FDR was a good democrat.
I see most of the current laws being passed (rubber stamped) and executive orders as nothing more than setting up a legal defensive posture against their own citizens. It cannot be unconstitutional if there is a law or executive order bypassing the constitution, would it?
Rex River- I wouldn't sweat the Chinese. There is another source in the US, why would DOD spend millions of dollars building a road that's wide enough for 8 lanes across an island in southeast Alaska going to a village with the population of a 1300 or so?
NCguy11- The point is: it's bad for business if your company has been nationalized and you no longer own or control it. Have you spent any time and read through the executive order? Perhaps you should. While you're at it, search for "ISM 1948″ on youtube and watch that as well. perhaps it'll make more sense then.
you think Obama has a personality disorder? This need for control & punishment for those not in agreement seems like a bully would act this way; underneath his public personna may be someone very insecure & afraid. Mr. Powell, from your study of history you know of many world leaders thru time that have fallen due to their greed & insecurity. If a move to impeach Obama began, in light of these anti-constutional exec orders, it would really tip things.
How much knowledge of the constitution & understanding of our do you suppose these polits in DC have. Seems to me everyone in politics & finance is so driven by money, that they can see anything else. What happened to the "checks & balances" and states' rights provided in the constitution.
you think Obama has a personality disorder? This need for control & punishment for those not in agreement seems like a bully would act this way; underneath his public personna may be someone very insecure & afraid. Mr. Powell, from your study of history you know of many world leaders thru time that have fallen due to their greed & insecurity. If a move to impeach Obama began, in light of these anti-constitutional exec orders, it would really tip things.
How much knowledge of the constitution & understanding of our constitution do you suppose these politicians in DC have. Seems to me everyone in politics & finance is so driven by money, that they can't see anything else. What happened to the "checks & balances" and states' rights provided in the constitution.
It will be up to the Ron Paul campaign to continue "stealing" delegates from Romney (lol) and to win the nomination. Paul polls best vs. Obama in numerous accredited voter surveys so he is likeliest to win if he is nominated. Paul will use executive orders for only one purpose, the repeal of most, if not all, of those 13,603 prior executive orders.
Ron Paul will likely become our next President, if not, acting President. Obama, Romney, Bush's, Rockerfeller, Rothschilds and others will soon be brought down for massive financial corruption charges linked to the Federal Reserve and foreign money laundering.
Look for news on this coming out possibly this week.
You are right that Paul (or whomever is put in as acting President) will primarily be responsible to repeal all non-Constitutional laws, executive orders and treaties.
This article seems to make some people very defensive. I hope that they will lower their guard long enough to please share their point of view on my understandings in this article:
First, if we can eliminate party affiliation from this discussion it would be greatly appreciated. I'd argue this a reasonable request because over a long enough period of time every political party will have had a number within its upper ranks who should rightly be restricted from fulfilling their ambitions for power.
If we are no longer talking about any political party, there remains the two individuals named specifically in the article. I'd request that we eliminate these two names as well because if we focus on them we will be distracted from the principle and underlying understandings I'm asking your point of view on.
If we bypass political party and the named individuals, what is your view on the following from the article?
1. The executive branch collects powers over time. Each power gained is available to all subsequent executives.
2. Most powers which have been collected were previously held by either the congress, the courts, or reserved to the states and to the people.
3. The potential checks on the collected executive powers are severely weakened by neglect over time because new powers reinforce the retention of lesser earlier powers in the executive.
4. Over a long enough period of time, perhaps many generations, it is conceivable, even likely, that these powers will fall into the hands a wrong headed person at the convergence of events who will abuse the collected powers and harm people we cannot now know.
5. We also cannot be certain what later generations of our families will believe and hold dear nor how their beliefs will position them when the executive powers are exercised. Will it be their businesses and properties that will be seized or forced under? Will they be the ones held indefinitely and without habeas corpus? Will they be made to labor at the executive's whim? Will they be forced to fight in a war they abhor? Will they be executed without a trial and without the requirement of any evidence ever being produced?
6. The potential fates listed above are all possible to anyone now or in the future with the executive powers collected thus far.
7. If we do not become check these powers before they are used, who will suffer the task of attempting to check them while they are in use?
poor president obama getting flack from right wingers. don't both left and right wings know that he's only a puppet doing what the bilderburgs want to make a one world government with only one leader? how do you do it? answer socialization of the entire world. if romney gets in, he do the same as obama. chill, all our freedom is coming to an end. say goodbye to capitalism, parting will be sweet sorrow.
Jim, You stole my blogs. For months I've been saying that this government is heading towards totalitarianism. Most people think I'm crazy and many here might as well and that's OK. The great thing about the US is we have a first amendment or at least what is left of it. Being an Objectivist, I hold personal rights to a very high standard. The government is meddling way to much into our personal lives. Thanks for the article and it's nice to know that I'm not the only one that see's the truth.
The defense does know that Americans can have free water and that everything is free and Obama does know you can have money and he worked on healthcare so whats the problem, really nothing because people know what is free and free water is pretty free.
they overwhelmingly helped elect him with their contributions.
It is encouraging to read of the reversal of the Clinton and Truman EO's. But do we have this degree of intellectual integrity on our current Supreme Court? One in which the Chief Justice acted as if he were representing the Government? I recall he created an argument and then agreed with it: that the fine for non-purchase of Health Insurance is a tax. No matter what he says words have meanings! A fine is not a Tax! If the words are interchangeable then every Tax claim is as an indictment. At every turn a sales tax can be litigated as it is the same as a fine, which is the result of the conviction of a crime. We must all become Attorneys.
It' a frikkin re-authorization of National defense act of 1950
I don't see why he needs any more power. With power comes responsibility. If you can't handle your responsibility, you can't handle your power. Therefore, you need not more power.
Its obvious what Obama wants to do, yet people are going ot vote for him, h eis a usurper and anything he signs is null and void anyway so I am no tworrying aobut using his healthcare, his is not vbalid, nothing he signs is valid. If everytime he ordered soemthing ridiculous, like a new war, everyone shoudl just say no, he is not eligibel and he can't legally send men and women ot their deaths , b ut the Senate and the Congress and the Supreme court are allowing it, by not having a citizens arrest or a class action suit we are aiding and abetting all of his actios, the Government lets avnything go on, it doesn't matter , as long as they don't get in trouble with the Rothchilds,m even though small countries are kicking them out on thier behinds we continue ot bend over for them. Mitt Romney said he will repeal eveerything Obama has done, well thats great except he is a usurper too, he can't sign anything either let alone repeal anything, this is the first time in History this has ever happened and I dont' blacme the usurpers, I blame the men in office who allowed it. Obama is still giving our industries and jobs ot China, no one is stopping him, he is not oging ot tell us what to do anymore, I myslef will perform a citizens arrest along with a hundred or so other people and the Sheriff, thats that. Someone get rid of the UN and we'll be all set. I can't understand anyone being horrified at what Obama will do , why are you surprised, no one saw this coming? The Rothchilds are listened to by whom? the little numbskulls in office who are trying to hang on to their jobs? they will be gone anyway, no one is getting away wiht this now or in the future, it has to end somehere. Bill Gates can also be arrested for threatening my very life everytime he opens his mouth, he is a frightening person, money has damaged his brain and I am thinking of suing him. . Yes we have two usurpers and every media person out there avoids it and calls him Mr. President, he is not Mr. President, he is Mr. Usurper. Why won't anyone admit that? cowards.
George Soros, the Democratic White House media group and Media Matters controled from Chicago Obama Campaign issue the daily news to support the POTUS and his failed campaign of trying to disqualify Mitt Romney with deception and word art. Saying the same things by all the news media does not make it true.
Mid east foreign policy:"A movie caused these peaceful people to disrespect America" HA!
These folks have been poducing this full feature tale presented on the nightly news for almost (4) four years.
After 4 years of Obama, this country REALLY needs some R&R!! / ROMNEY / RYAN 2012!!
Not that this is good but wasn't this order executed in the '50′s and was renewed. Has every President renewed it through all these years or is Obama choosing to do it now because it hasn't been done?
This poorly written and biased article seems to ignore the fact that the Romney camp and Republican leaders are pretty much on board with these types of things. They only cry about it when the other side gets to push the button instead of them.
Both parties are corrupt and working against the interests of the the American people.
Both parties should be disbanded, and their leaders rounded up and hung for treason.
I found this to be a very well written and illuminating article. My only quibble is with the title. I think that the title's focus on President Obama as the evil one with a plan takes the focus away from the article's true value and much wider picture.
I believe that after one reads the article that it should be evident that what the author has a problem with is the "imperial presidency". It is amazing to see that the practise of American Presidents issuing proclamations/executive orders has its beginning with America's very first president isssuing the innocent proclamation that the nation should have one day for giving thanks.
What I find most amazing is that the executive branch of the U.S. government has for so long been able to get away with not just exercising a power that the U.S. Constitution does not provide but also having this non-existent power upheld by the courts and congress.
I personally think that it is dangerous that a president can issue an all encompassing law that over turns the nation's Constitution and is to be just placed on the shelf for the day when it "may" be needed. That is very much the behaviour of a despot, but then that is the nature of executive orders.
You're right, it's not a bad educational and historical account.
Unfortunately it does not match it's title and gives no credence to it.
This is a badly written, dry account of executive orders made since Washington to Obama, with nothing much to support its sensational title. Sprinkled a little speculation at the end, and called it a day. Horrible and pointless article.
Obama is a globalist. He has no love loss for Americans. Look at his treatment of the black community; they are outraged. The Stockholm syndrome has made this president receive more approval ratings than anything else unless you are a limousine democrat. Having said that, I look at what this man has in place for the future of America.
We do not see a jobs bill. The banks are stealing wealth hand-over-fist. At least 4 trillion dollars has left US soil and invested into emerging economies, where the jobs now are for blue collar and IT workers/telecommunication based. Oh yes, Obama has plans for America and it's called "a department. If you think the govt will continue to be loaned money by a predatory lender (the Fed), think again, the currency will be worth less than the paper it is printed on eventually, the goal. One world govt, centralized, self-appointed officials, never to face competition again, is taking place. Every major industry is being consolidated by the same people. This has been discussed, verified and covered so many times, it seems you have been asleep at the wheel to not realize globalization is being financed by middle class wealth and in the end, the middle/lower class will be painted in a corner – no job, no home, no money for essentials and a huge medical insurance bill that will be paid one way or another. The "culture" in charge has no qualms in sending Americans into labor camps. History is repeating itself. The ending may surprise us all but just the same, many good people will suffer, many lives will be ruined, misery, anguish and drudgery will be introduced, replacing the circus we have (when cable becomes unaffordable to anyone but the higher income brackets). Cops in this country are preparing for trouble. The collapse is no surprise but you informed readers on Forbes certainly are. Investor Protectionism is the new economy.
President is simply using the Hugo Chavez model to install a Marxist State for America. We can deny reality all we want but it doesn't change a thing. Once the "Boot of Marxism is fully shoved down on the neck of American's freedoms, liberties, Bill of Rights, and our Constitution, it will be too late. A problem is the "Boot's sole becomes rather bloody. Yes, blood will be flowing in the streets of America and at that point there is little available to do anything about it. It is Wake Up time America!
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I totally agree with you. Not sure why people are not paying attention to what is happening in America. We are currently on the brink of war, Obama has promised Russia something……(as we saw when his microphone was not turned off months ago) – Russia has aligned with Iran…what does that tell us? So, basically Obama has sided with IRAN? He has turned his back on Israel….so, not sure why he has promised to disarm all our nukes if we are close to WWIII. Guess he really does hate the United States if he has no plans to defend us. Anyway, people voted in a president that hates everything this country was founded on, and to me has destroyed the United States, and now is ready to hand us over to 'the world' in a new world order. He touted CHANGE, and well, Democrats you have your change…..as the article states. Most people are too busy with their daily lives, to even acknowledge what he has done. God help us all.
Sounds like Atlas Shruged part 2
Great article that speaks openly and honestly about the president and his agenda. These are the important, life altering facts you do not see or read about in mainstream media – they are too busy being hypnotized by our president's charisma and charm and attacking anyone who brings up factual data…little do they know that behind the curtain our president is creating, signing or aligning with orders such as this one. I'm only sorry it took me so long to read find and read such a powerful article. After reading the article, I researched Executive Order 13603 and there it was…plain as day on the gov.org site. There is absolutely no disputing this, or bending and twisting the information in this article. It seems these days that even when faced with raw, absolute evidence and facts, the mainstream media still tries to find a way to warp it and make it all "a lie" or "crazy right winger conspiracy theories" but alas, the order is alive and well, and on the government's own website. Iron clad.
Jim is an impressive writer, intelligent fact-checker and truthful reporter. Sadly, a good amount of main stream reporters cannot even be considered in the same league as Mr. Powell. If something comes out opposing what they like to hear, they either completely ignore it and never report on it, ever…or when faced with it, they fabricate, exaggerate and work purely on emotion, rather than data and facts. I will be sharing this article and many more archived on Jim's blog. He is an intelligent, honest, educated historian and reporter…something so desperately needed in the USA these days.
Enter From all appearences Mr.Obama is the anti-christ
Sorry, this just reeks of paranoia. I am not a fan of any politician, but I thought "W" was a lot scarier than the current occupant.
Didn't Hitler try this and look how that turned out!!!!
Enough. D.C. Is NOT part of America. It is an illegal group of war mongers and 1% elite scum and frankly they must die. All of them including their family members so mankind can end the ongoing destruction of the world for a few inbreed scum.
Obama is a insane dictator who is worse than a power hungry rabid dog. He needs shot before he makes us all rabid. They are all criminals and yet nobody is doing a damn thing to go in person arrest them and stop the greedy madness.
What's the problem?! Nothing he has done is legal or in line with our rights. He is not wanted and needs to be arrested. So why is he and all of them not in prison right now! There is no reason. It is all a big head game to torture the World and laugh at the murders. All humans die and they will to. But not in good graces.
It is hopeless to expect Obama sycophants to listen to facts or even read evidence concerning the Kenyan, Muslim Communist that has taken over our government, abrogated the Constitution and completely ignored the Congress. I guess it is just too difficult to see the obvious for Liberals and Progressives (Communists).
The point of the essay is that even the most Draconian executive orders are all but totally unrestrained by the courts and the legislature — and seem to legally bypass Constitutional constraints (according to the courts, not common sense).
Perhaps the emphasis on OBAMA being a real threat in this instance is overplayed. He probably won't be the one to activate the totalitarian measure described in the piece — if only because of the short time frame remaining before he is termed out. That being said, I can think of no President in our nation's history (except perhaps FDR) who would be more likely to declare such martial law than Barack Obama.
After all, similar executive orders have been put in place for many years — but not YET activated. And that's the problem. These executive orders are time bombs lying in wait — dormant orders that, under the "right" circumstances, some President might indeed choose to implement.
If this happens, the public response is hard to gauge. Surely many will be outraged at the federal government taking control of EVERYTHING — literally the overnight loss of freedom. But for me, what is MORE frightening is that most people will passively accept this (perhaps final) loss of their liberty.
Where's the accountability? Where's the outrage? Where's the media?
Jim Powell is a moron. His stupidity reaches into every nook and cranny of his brain save for the few cells needed to maintain involuntary functions and to put nonsensical words together.
As and independent and US history buff I found this article intriguing. I wonder what everyone thinks of it now, and the executive order (if any of you actually read through it) in light of this last week of "scandals" and Congressional hearings. I agree with another poster – the point shouldn't be so much aimed at Obama as it should be at the abuse of Executive Orders by all presidents. It shows a weakness that can be exploited in the American Democratic system. Thank goodness one cannot write an Executive Order preventing a Presidential Election every 4 years.
The Legislative and Judicial Branches of government have morphed into one branch of government, the Executive Branch, as I stated in my book, Fight Back Legal Abuse, which means that there are no Checks and Balances. The current and past Congress and Senators have rolled over as lap dogs and for a pat on their heads and bonuses or promotions approved by Obama for supporting his unconstitutional and tyrannical legislation without conscience have become his circle of pit bulls that prevent the American people from accessing their U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, justice, sovereignty, and the right to Recall and file Grievances or demand Special Prosecutors investigate Obama-Holder-Hillary scandals, as they cleverly control the main stream media who will not be free in the end, either. They are selling out their children and grandchildren while wearing blinders to the truth!
I hope I am never traveling on that windy mountainous road, but if I must, I shall definitely want to be in that same Cadillac with the same driver at the wheel!
Where the hell is the Congress. Is this 1933 Germany? Who is speaking for the Constitution and the people. The media is at fault here for protecting and kowtowing to this criminal in the White House.
Thanks Forbes. It's been "crickets" from the national media, on this particular EO.
As Rick Ungar points out, Executive Order 13603 is simply an update of Clinton's Executive Order 12919 (1994), which was itself an update of FDR's Executive Order 8248 (1939). Why was this update needed? Because the organization of the government had been changed. Most notably, in 1994 we didn't have a Department of Homeland Security. The changes from EO 12919 to EO 13603 mostly involve transferring responsibilities from the FEMA director to the Homeland Security secretary.
Here is a section to reinstitute slavery.
Sec. 502. Consultants.
The head of each agency otherwise delegated functions under this order is delegated the authority of the President under sections 710(b) and (c) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2160(b), (c), to employ persons of outstanding experience and ability without compensation and to employ experts, consultants, or organizations. The authority delegated by this section may not be redelegated.
Impeachment time ….
Obama is an insult to OUR United States! Obama and ALL of his sympathizers/appointees/supporters/string-pullers must be "arrested", "prosecuted", and punished according to OUR United States' Constitution & UCMJ requirements as to the treatment of CRIMINALS AND/OR TRAITORS!
Do you know how many guns are in America now? This order is about CIVIL WAR when the greed of the super-rich finally begins to cause famine.
This was in Forbes? Really? This is the kind of paranoid raving you'd hear from the creepy guy who sits next to you on the bus.


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Droves of parents turned out last Thursday night to express concern about the recent firing of Harwood Union paraprofessional Denise Fuoco at the December 9 school board meeting. School board members heard public comment before entering executive session to hold a grievance hearing.
Fuoco was fired after she failed to prove her "Highly Qualified
Professional (HQP)" status by passing a federally required written exam,
a task made increasingly difficult due to her dyslexia.
She has worked in the Washington West Supervisory Union (WWSU) for the past several years including seven at the Moretown Elementary School prior to joining Harwood.
At Moretown, Fuoco was allowed the accommodation of submitting a portfolio of her work in lieu of taking the test. She filed a grievance with the Harwood School Board after she was informed that that accommodation would no longer be afforded to her and that she would need to take and pass the federal test.
Several parents of special needs children spoke to Fuoco's skill and high level of professionalism while working as a para with students with Down syndrome, many of whom she had worked with prior to middle/high school.
Ellen Reilly, parent of a special needs Harwood student who had worked one on one with Fuoco, said that under Fuoco's guidance her son's behavior had improved significantly and is proven by the data she presented to board members.
When Fuoco was chosen as her son's paraprofessional, Reilly said administrators told her, "I think you will be extremely happy with the individual we've chosen; she has incredible experience and skill and has worked almost exclusively with children with Down syndrome."
Reilly said, "Denise hit the ground running. She was able to implement the behavior plan with minimal support."
"I question the choice of WWSU to limit the options provided by the federal government and enforced by the state in determining HQP status," she continued.
Under section 1119(c) through 1119(h) of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) the federal requirements for Title I, part A, "instructional paraprofessionals" to achieve HQP status, paraeducators must have a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent.
In addition, they must have completed at least two years of study (defined as a minimum of 48 credit hours) at an institution of higher education or obtained an associate's degree (or higher) or meet the standard of quality and demonstrate it through a formal state or local assessment.
According to the Vermont Department of Education, "The latter option (II-C) may be fulfilled through standardized assessments such as <MI>Parapro or Paraeducator.net<D>, or through a locally developed portfolio process (see <MI>Where do I find out more about testing options?<D> for more information about testing). LEAs may also choose to accept comparable HQP documentation from other school districts or states."
Kelly DeFelice, mother of a special needs Harwood student who has worked with Fuoco in both Moretown and at Harwood, said that "Denise being fired and the way she was fired was unjust and a disgrace to Harwood and WWSU; the message it sends is that they are not good enough."
DeFelice also read a letter written by her daughter Faith in support of Ms. Fuoco that asked the school board to give Fuoco her job back.
Harwood paraprofessional Susan Whitehair said she was trained last year by Fuoco who taught her, among other things, some sign language to help understand the students.
"Our first meeting at school, we heard about how great Harwood was, how we think out of the box; this woman thinks out of the box more than anyone and she's fired. I'm devastated. She's an asset we cannot afford to lose," she said.
Harwood parent Cheryl Kingsbury said, "I don't know if I'm more mad or sad. Here we are with this woman that has so much to offer, gets fired because she can't take the test because of her disability; never did we hear that this was a lack of performance."
Kingsbury said after many "rocky years" as a student, once her daughter started at Harwood "that all changed; with spending part of her day in the resource room, she got to know Denise and in their brief interactions, she felt something from her and felt positive about school for the first time."
"I'm a difficult parent. When it comes to my kids I want nothing but the best for them. I wouldn't be here advocating for her job if Denise wasn't the best," Kingsbury added.
School board chair Scott Mackey told the group that the board would enter executive session to hold the grievance hearing; a decision is due Thursday, December 16.
WWSU Superintendent Brigid Scheffert told attendees, "I find it very difficult to come before the group tonight. Whenever there is conflict or difference of opinion, the one thing that is hardest, you don't know me as a person. I have a nephew with special needs. I am a special educator. It's where I began my career. I have a master's in special education. I hear you. I understand you."
Scheffert continued, "I sit here as a superintendent that has obligations, whether I like them or not, there are state and federal rules and regulations. They help us run our schools and funding is tied to those. It's not something I can ignore. I regret that we are here tonight. I pondered long and hard over this decision, tried everything I could for some wiggle room."
Where the option of submitting a portfolio in lieu of taking a test was concerned, Scheffert said that out of the 60 supervisory unions in Vermont, one uses the portfolio method.
"The standard is significantly higher and would have to be implemented for all paraprofessionals in WWSU," she said.
The portfolio would need to consist of a collection of coursework, workshops and the like and, according to Scheffert, the law doesn't allow schools to use it unless its equivalent to coursework form an institution of higher learning.
"I have to be responsible to you and of course I care about the children, but I'm also responsible for federal and state reports. I'm trying to do the job to the best of my ability. I regret that we're here and hope I've shared enough with you. I also don't want to be one of those superintendents that says, 'No comment,'" Scheffert said.


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DeOliveira enjoyed a standout playing career at national powerhouse Southern Connecticut State University. Leading the team in goals, the Owls won four regular season championships and had four NCAA tournament appearances in De Oliveira's four years.
A two-time All-State selection while playing for Bridgeport Central High, he went on to be selected to the Northeast-10 All-Conference team while playing for the SCSU.
He has played internationally in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Portugal where he suited up for Division II Team Desportivo De Chaves & the youth development program. De Oliveira has returned to finish his B.S. Degree in Physical Education & Health and also works as a goalkeeper coach for several camps & clinics throughout Connecticut.
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Goddard College union debate heating upBy Eric Blaisdell
STAFF WRITER | January 17,2013PLAINFIELD With a staff vote on unionizing less than a week away, some employees at Goddard College say they are disappointed with the schools anti-union rhetoric and think the school may have damaged its reputation by going against its history of progressive social awareness.
But school officials have hinted that the union drive could hurt Goddard financially, including by alienating donors.
Staff members are to vote Wednesday at the schools campus in Plainfield by secret ballot. If the vote is in favor, the staff will become members of United Auto Workers Local 2322, which already represents the faculty.
The school in November declined the unions request that staff be included in Local 2322 without a vote, saying it wanted to make sure all the staff wanted to join the union.
Kitchen worker Jeff Dutton said he was surprised by the schools response to the union drive. He said the school sent staff members links to websites recently trying to show an alternative view of unions, but that the websites were in fact run by national anti-union lobbyists that have been used by the likes of Wal-Mart in its attempt to keep employees from unionizing.
Dutton said that from a business standpoint he can understand the schools fear of the staff unionizing because of the unstable economic climate.
(School administrators) job is to oversee budgets and cost controls. They dont necessarily weigh the long-term benefits and savings in taking care of employees and making employees happy.
Its very easy to lose sight of that.
While he would not say which way he is voting, Dutton said his mind is made up.
One area school administrators have said may be hurt in the union debate is donations. Goddard officials declined to be interviewed for this story, but in an email to faculty and staff, Chief Advancement Officer Lauren Geiger Moye addressed criticism of the schools stance on the union and how that criticism may affect potential donors and the future of the school.
And just at the point when the college has achieved tremendous momentum, this negative debate and public references to intimidation could seriously undermine the progress we have made with the external audiences we must depend upon to thrive and excel, Moye wrote. I strongly believe that if President Vacarrs current efforts are not successful, the impact of unionization on our campus will be the last thing we will need to be concerned about. The colleges very survival and the employment opportunities here for all of us will be at risk.
Dutton said he does not think the union will hurt donations from alumni and people who have a history with Goddard.
If you are looking for corporate, mainstream donations, maybe, he said.
Paul Somerset is the schools executive chef and kitchen supervisor. He is not eligible to join the union now because he is a supervisor but said he would like to join if eligibility is expanded.
Somerset said the school should be supportive of unions now, as it was in 1998 when the board of trustees allowed the teachers to unionize without even taking a vote. He said that even to hint at opposition to unions goes against the schools mission statement, which reads: To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.
Somerset also said he sees a contradiction between the schools hosting of an event celebrating the Occupy Wall Street movement last year, coupled with the anti-conservative talk he heard around campus leading up to the November elections, and the schools decision not to support the union and to spread anti-union rhetoric, a tactic he said is also used by conservative politicians.
In a statement about the Occupy event last February, Goddard President Barbara Vacarr said, Goddard College has strong roots as an activist college. Institutions of higher education have a duty to foster and encourage student activism and citizen participation.
Somerset did give Vacarr credit for facilitating an open and honest dialogue about the union drive. He also gave her credit for meeting with his staff two weeks ago to address their concerns about their status as temporary employees, because of the nature of the school calendar, who are not eligible for unemployment.
He did call the timing of the meeting suspect, however, saying hes been trying to have the concerns addressed since he started working there a year and a half ago.
Kitchen worker Adam Woogmaster supports the union. He said the school should be embracing it with open arms and an open heart and agreed the administrations response reflects fear about the bottom line.
Goddards administration did release a statement confirming the schools hesitation to support the union out of fears it will cost the school money.
We have deep concerns about whether this is the best time for a union on campus, that a union wont add to the resources available to us and will place a further strain on those resources, the statement said.
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Anderson forced to decline invitation to join Team Sonnen
I think it's nice he thought of me, but unfortunately I won't be in Brazil, says Silva, currently training in Los Angeles for his rematch with Chris Weidman in December.
I think this is going to be a nice TUF since Wanderlei and Chael are great athletes. Sonnen hyped the two fights with me in inappropriate fashion but he is a great athlete, a great man and I hope they make a great fight as well.
But if Anderson had been in Brazil and was available to take part?
If I had the time, was in Brazil and Wanderlei hadnt offered me a spot, I would accept it for sure. I think it's valid for the sport, he says.
Sonnen will coach Brazilians on TUF: Brazil 3
In an interview with Bleacher Report, he recited a conversation with Joe Rogan that elaborated on UFCs supposed plans:
"My understanding is that the show will have purely Brazilian contestants. That's a little different than in America, where we bring in competitors from all over the world. I know on my last team we had a gentleman from England. I had a gentleman from Jamaica. I had a gentleman from Sweden. All on one team. But when we take the show to a foreign market, we seem to only build talent from that market. It's a bit of a different formula."
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Mom begs Brazil: Don't allow someone to hurt Chael
"I'm worried about his safety during filming there," she said to Brazilian website Mano a Mano, as translated by MMAMania. "I know you all are legal, decent people. My sister and her family received an exchange student from Brazil who has lived in her house when Chael was younger and they have shared many hours with each other. That said, it only takes one to ruin it ... and I pray that you not allow someone to reach Chael in person. He is a great coach and is eager to help the young fighters as much as he can."
Wanderlei Silva discusses Chael Sonnen's safety on 'TUF: Brazil 3′
"He'll be 100 percent safe," Silva said. "Just one guy is going to beat him, and this guy is me. Nobody (else) is going to touch you. Brazil is different."
"TUF: Brazil" debuted in 2012, and the second season aired this spring. "TUF 3: Brazil" begins taping shortly for a spring 2014 debut. Silva (35-12-1 MMA, 5-7 UFC) and Sonnen (29-14-1 MMA, 7-7 UFC) both will coach teams of Brazilian fighters, and then they meet at a season-ending card in Brazil.
UFC officials capitalized on the duo's long-brewing feud – and even announced the coaching assignments and upcoming fight before Sonnen's recent UFC 167 loss to Rashad Evans. While Sonnen, who's often made Brazil the target of his humor, often suggests it's all in good fun, Silva doesn't see it that way.
"It's a joke for you, but it's not a joke for me and not for my country," he said. "But don't worry. You're going to be safe. But you're going to pay for all the [comments] in June."
Couldn't Silva simply be taking things too seriously? Possibly. But Silva said his best training partners understand he's an intense guy, which he thinks Sonnen will learn soon enough.
"I don't like fake people," he said. "I don't like jokes. I don't like guys who talk stupid things about me, and when you say (those things), you're going to need to pay."
Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva Will Fight at Light Heavyweight Following TUF Brasil 3
As part of Friday night's UFC Brisbane pre-fight show on Fox Sports 2, Sonnen announced that he would acquiesce and fight Wanderlei Silva at light heavyweight following their stint as The Ultimate Fighter Brasil 3 coaches.
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WASHINGTON, March 19, 2014 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for individuals to serve on the 2015 American Lamb Board.
Five vacancies will occur with the 2015 board. Two vacancies will occur for producersone position of less than 100 head and one position of more than 500 head; one feeder position of less than 5,000 head from either Region 1 or 2; one seedstock producer; and one first handler position. For the producer positions, one must be from Region 1 and the other may be from either Region.
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I am 'dickers' legit granddaughter, he is not a paedophile, but he is morbidly obese. His daughters are not often mentioned as one has down 's syndrome and the other gave up training at green belt level as she could not cope with him as a trainer. She later worked for him at wuma being paid less than a man in the same job before being fired by her own father in 2006. It's fair to say his morale compass doesn't face north. His wife, Simone, is an amazing woman who fought breast cancer but still trains now. They are no longer together as she is a lesbian. I can understand why you all want to poke fun, but isn't it better to if you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all?
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The short answer is, not always. When someone is part of a profession and they are morally corrupt or professionally unethical or incompetent or dishonest, etc., it can be far better to say something, and to say it in a way that makes it available to the public, in order to protect them from being preyed upon.
I am not acquainted with your grandfather (assuming that your relationship is as you say), but from what you say, it sounds as though he may well be someone about whom one may well have a duty to say bad things, to let women know that they are likely (as you suggest) to be treated unfairly by him, for example, and to let prospective customers know that his moral compass is (as you say) out of line.
So, since I assume that those are among your reasons for posting as you did here, I think you'll agree that the old cliche that it is better to say nothing if you can't say something nice is at best only true under certain circumstances.
By the way, I don't know if you noticed, but no one had said anything in this thread for nearly 6 years before you posted in it.
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I met a guy who received a black belt in Kickboxing, Judo and Muay thai from WUMA.
Not sure of his exact grades but he is 2nd/3rd dan in at least one of those.
Nice guy, does BJJ at a legit school too (Blue belt). Not seen the quality of his stand up.
When he told me about his grades all coming from the same org and a BB in Muay Thai I did have a scooby doo moment "Reery?".
Oh and Danyxwatson please feel free to share more personal information about teh deadly dick to encourage us not to mock him?
If he has gone from killing his partners with his sexual prowess to turning them into homosexuals there is definitely something wrong with his Chi.
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