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Malaysian Air Disappearance: Why Do Immigration Enthusiasts Sabotage Identity Security?
As I wrote in a recent letter to the editor, Malaysian Air flight MH370 has literally disappeared into thin air. The most seasoned aeronautic veterans are scratching their heads and wondering how an apparently well-maintained modern jet airplane can just up and vanish when it has reached cruising altitude in untroubled clear blue skies. They all seem to agree it must have been something fairly sudden and catastrophic because no communication has been detected by authorities, which one would assume would happen given something like a jammed jack screw.
No, something more sudden seems to be the consensus, it's increasingly pointing into the direction of murder most foul. Investigation into the passenger manifest has revealed two people traveling with stolen passports. Which of course makes us all suspect that perhaps one of both of these people boarded the plane under-cover with a bomb with the intention of meeting Allah in a hurry. [Passport Theft Adds to Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet, By Thomas Fuller And Eric Schmitt, NYT, March 8, 2014]
But it is odd, if that is the case, that they would target a Malaysian airline. It is a Muslim country, after all. But maybe they saw Malaysia's candy-striped flag (right) and said to themselves, "Close enough, I want me my 72 virgins, Allahu Akbar!"
Given all this hand-wringing and speculation, it's a wonder that the Main Stream Media has not picked up on the deplorable state of U.S. identity security. Here in the U.S., any attempt at improving the security and validity of identification is met with full-throated defiance by the usual suspects, who happen to run the country. We are meant to believe that asking for basic forms of identification routinely needed for something as simple as renting a movie is tantamount to poll-taxes and Jim Crow.
This mentality can be seen in the Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill being pushed by the Great and the Good. It actually has a provision that makes it illegal to "forge, counterfeit, alter, or falsely make 3 or more passports".
See? The first two are free! [Rubio Didn't Know His Own Bill Allows Someone to Forge 2 Passports Before It's a Crime,By Alissa Tabirian, CNSnews.com, July 19, 2013.]
But honestly, what is the thinking behind this? Why on earth, given our apparent state of perpetual war against whole swaths of mankind, would we attempt to lay avenues of attacks unobstructed to foreigners whose designs may be anywhere from rudely imposing to murderous? I mean, what's that point of having an official document if in fact the law actually has provisions allowing it to be counterfeited?
I'll answer my own question: it's because the person(s) who wrote this bill are wild-eyed Open-Border Treason Lobby fanatics. They don't want ANY form of identification that hinders the absolute free-movement of people.
This Gang Of Eight bill was written by the likes of
More Evidence CPAC ("CorporatePAC") Thinks America Is Not A Country, It's Just A Business
Mickey Kaus, moderator Jonathan Garthwaite, and Ann Coulter "Debate" Immigration
I've made it pretty clear that Conservatism Inc. exists for the benefit of its wealthy donors, not to protect the interest of its voters. But protesting participants tell me that this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, which I discussed here, took price gouging and abuse of the loyal grass roots to new lows. The Beltway Right increasingly resembles the hitman antihero of the film Killing Me Softly, who concludes at the end of the movie: "America's not a country; it's just a business. Now f***ing pay me."
As even the Leftist Main Stream Media has discovered, major corporations don't just fund CPAC—they set its agenda. [Why CPAC isn't as grassroots as you think, by Eli Clifton, Slate, March 7, 2014] Chief among the donors: oil, tobacco, and gun companies. Xbox, Motion Picture Association of America, and even Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook (!!!), also had booths at CPAC, part of the increasing corporate presence. CPAC now really stands for Corporate Political Action Conference.
But while the Left usually loves to bash Big Business, it is silent about the consequences of this corporate corruption—because it approves of the political consequences: above all the blatant repression of immigration patriots and the steady drumbeat for Open Borders and mass immigration.
Of course, in order for this plan to work, "CorporatePAC" (CPAC) has to control not only the views presented from the main stage but the organizations that participate in the Exhibit Hall. Over the past few years, the sponsoring American Conservative Union (Al Cardenas, caudillo) has steadily increased prices, limited access, and discouraged grassroots participation to make sure no unapproved views are aired at its swanky party.
This year, "CorporatePAC" (CPAC) dramatically cut down the hours in which paying exhibitors could display their booths: just 11 AM - 4 pm during Thursday and Friday, and 10 AM to 2 pm on Saturday. That's only 14 hours for small groups that paid $4,000 to attend the event just to have a booth—nearly $300 an hour.
For the second year in a row, the main stage where the speakers talk was on a different floor from the Exhibit Hall. Many people now never bother to go down to visit the Exhibitor Hall because they spend their whole time in the main Ballroom.
But at least last year exhibitors had a nice view of the harbor from the exhibit hall, and there were big-screen TVs in the hall so attendees could follow events. In contrast, this year all exhibitors were closed off from views, TV's were eliminated, and "side events" also took place in the noisy Exhibit Hall, rendering them hard to hear and all but ignored. Small groups paid huge amounts of money for no perks, receiving as consolation prizes only "free lunches" and live music in the Exhibit Hall, which no one listened to. The obvious intent of all of this was to actively discourage participation by the grassroots.
Many exhibitors feel insulted by the way they were treated. Some libertarian groups are disgusted but take in stride because they think they are making a "hostile takeover" of the Establishment conservative movement. If the gray old men are eventually forced out by socially liberal, openly hostile left-libertarians, they have only themselves to blame given the way they treat their own supporters. Rather than a meeting place for a movement, "CorporatePAC" (CPAC) has become a gathering place for opposing tribes of con artists plotting how to exploit each other.
"CorporatePAC" (CPAC)'s venue, the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center, is very far away from any Metro subway station. This makes it very hard or expensive for people who do not have cars to attend the event. The obvious target is students, once seen as the very heart and soul of the annual event. CPAC claimed to have shuttle buses running from Union Station, but they were shut down at about 8:00 pm on Friday, making it all but impossible for students to stick around for late night events. The younger libertarians grousing about this in their "Stand With Rand" T shirts speculate that the Gaylord Hotel was chosen to make it difficult for the Ron Paul/Rand Paul student brigades to swamp the vote for their candidate.
This failed—Senator Paul won the straw poll this year, as he did the year before. Still, "CorporatePAC" (CPAC)'s manipulations have ensured that the Paulistas
CPAC 2014: Conservatism Inc. Tries To Finesse Amnesty/ Immigration Surge—But Ann Coulter Doesn't Let Them
|CPAC: The Good—Ann Coulter
|The Bad and The Ugly—ACU chairman Al Cardenas
They have learned nothing. They have forgotten nothing. They are doing nothing. And they may win by default.
Thus is the state of "the movement" at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2014 Anno Domini.
Much was the same as the year before. Once again, ACU organizers did their best to prevent any dissent against their preferred policy of Amnesty. Once again, speakers used militant rhetoric on tangential issues. Once again, there were laughable efforts at minority outreach, greeted with hooting scorn by an openly hostile Main Stream Media. And once again, the only person who bluntly told the truth about the dispossession of the historic American nation was Ann Coulter.
One MSM mini-meme for this year's CPAC: "sanity" (as defined by Leftists) has been restored to CPAC. This was duly dissected by VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow, whose appearance in 2012 seems to have been nominated as the nadir by whatever replaced Journolist.
The problem, of course: the goal posts for "racism" keep being moved. Thus the collection of clickbait clichés known as Gawker dispatched one Gabrielle Bluestone who duly kvetched that "on the second day of CPAC, all of the main speakers are white men." [A Sea of White: Day Two at CPAC, by Gabrielle Bluestone, Gawker, March 7, 2013] (Like the demographic that created the country.)
CPAC did try its usual tactic of presenting a Great Black Hope—in this case, Dr. Ben Carson, who received a raucous reception. Conference organizers also tried to head off race-baiting stories with panels on minority outreach—unfortunately for them, no one showed up, at least not at the beginning of the panel. Thus, liberal journalists were able to write triumphalist stories about how CPAC is neglecting diversity. The smug John Hudak gloated
"The diversity panel is the path to the party being successful and making inroads into traditionally Democratic groups. If the GOP wants to see the Democratic Party struggle to elect a president, they should win 20% of the African American Vote or 50% of the Latino vote…If the attendance pictured above reflects the party's future approach to diversity outreach, it is probably safe to say that for some the given future, the White House will be a solid hue of deep blue."
[Live from CPAC: The Most Important Panel Everyone Missed, by John Hudak, Brookings Institution, March 6, 2014]
The deliberate exclusion of immigration patriots was intensified this year—as Rosemary Jenks of NumbersUSA put it, CPAC has become a "kind of the corporate elites playground instead of [about] conservative principles. [Immigration hardliners: No room for us at CPAC, by Jackie Kucinich, The Washington Post, March 7, 2014]. The Huffington Post celebrated that "Cuban-born lawyer and lobbyist Al Cardenas has invited several Latino activists and leaders to take part in panels and immigration and health care." [CPAC, Once Again An Obstacle To GOP Attempts To Soften Message, Shows Signs of Moderation, by Jon Ward, Huffington Post, March 6, 2014]. (See here for more disgusting details on corruptocat Cardenas.)
However, there was an odd defensiveness about the entire conference
National Data | February Jobs: Only Immigrants Weather the Storm
Do you hear the wind? It's a collective sigh of relief.
After two dismal employment reports—for December and January—that came in in well below expectations, many economists feared the worst: That the slowdown was not weather related but a sign that the economy was sliding back to recession—or worse. So last Friday's news that employers added a better-than-expected 175,000 jobs in February, despite horrific weather, lifted much of the gloom. [US economy adds 175000 jobs in February despite harsh weather By Jim Puzzanghera , Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2014]
The latest figures for hiring are down from the average of 189,000 over the past 12 months and fell a bit short of what policy makers had been hoping to see at this stage of the recovery. The unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage point to 6.7 percent.
Still, the relatively strong showing means the Federal Reserve will stick with its plan to ease back its monetary stimulus, a policy that assumes long-term economic recovery is in the works.
To which we say: NOT SO FAST. The "other" employment survey, of households rather than employers, tells a very different story. The household survey found a mere 42,000 jobs were created in February, down sharply from the whopping 638,000 job growth it reported in January.
The household survey reports national origins. And more troubling still is the fact that native-born American workers received absolutely none of last month's paltry job growth. In February:
- Total employment rose by 42,000, or by 0.03%
- Native-born American employment fell by 57,000 or by 0.05%
- Foreign-born employment rose by 99,000, or by 0.42%
Bad weather is bad news for all workers, but especially for immigrants concentrated as they are in construction, landscaping, and other occupations sensitive to weather. You would expect that the immigrant share of total employment would be less this February than in other recent February's. But our analysis of BLS data shows the opposite:
Foreign-born Employment (millions)
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Wyoming Patriots Alert! The Refugees (And Treason Lobby Scam Artists) Are Coming!
Also by Paul Nachman: Astonishing Immigration Patriot Victory In Montana—No Thanks To GOP, Which Ran Away (And Lost)
Since early February, the indefatigable Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch has been sounding the alarm that Wyoming, the only state without a refugee program, is setting itself up for all the woe that having such a program brings. Its Governor Matt Mead, [Email him] a Republican, actually contacted the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to indicate his interest in getting started.
(Reading between the lines at Wikipedia's profile of Mead, we can guess that he's a typically well-insulated and clueless member of what columnist Mark Steyn calls America's "depraved political class." The profile includes this: "In 2003, Mead and his brother and sister put their family ranch in [Grand Teton National Park] up for sale; the price was said to be $110 million.")
Wyomingites wanting to bring themselves up to speed on this threat should first read Ms. Corcoran's blogs on the subject:
- Wyoming to get refugee resettlement office (they know not what they do!) (February 3, 2014)
- Wyoming being fed a pack of lies! (February 25, 2014)
A couple of weeks ago, I did a VDARE.com blog about the threat to Wyoming, urging citizens of Wyoming and others with strong connections to the state to contact Mead and express your displeasure (politely, of course). If enough people do that, the governor may catch on that pursuing this initiative won't necessarily be a controversy-free way to burnish his "compassion" credentials. If you've been meaning to do that but haven't yet gotten around to it, step right up.
This Tuesday, March 4, a letter from me appeared in the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming's largest-circulation newspaper, under the (editor-supplied) headline Refugee influx not so great. Since others might use it as a starting template for their own letters, I'll provide the full text here:
The Feb. 22 article (Former child soldier wants refugee office in Wyoming) about a possible influx of refugees to Wyoming paints the cheerful picture of a program—under careful, joint control by the federal government and national charitable organizations (e.g. Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Services; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)—that brings in people whose diverse backgrounds enrich the lives of the locals, even as these newcomers speedily become "self sufficient."
That scenario has almost no overlap with the actual experiences of cities across the country (e.g. Lewiston, Maine; Amarillo, Texas; Manchester, N.H.) that have been deluged with needy people—typically unaccustomed to living in a modern, self-governing society—once they agreed to accept a few refugees.
And often they didn't even agree. Instead, the U.S. State Department, in cooperation with those national organizations, merely announced that refugees would be coming, and it was up to local governments and their taxpayers to accommodate the inflow.
One explicitly local burden is the surge of non-English-speakers into public schools (ESL teachers required) and as clients of the court system and social services agencies (translators required). Those don't qualify for the federal support that supposedly makes the program cost-free to receiving communities.
All public benefits—federal, state, and local—are available to refugees by 30 days after their arrival in the U.S., and their use is much higher than that by native-born citizens. For example, in 2010, 49 percent of refugees who had arrived during 2005-2010 were receiving medical assistance (primarily Medicaid).
Further, what's implied by "self-sufficiency?" This merely means that refugees aren't collecting federally-funded Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). They can still be receiving food stamps, Medicaid, locally-funded general (cash) assistance, and Supplemental Security Income while being officially counted as "self sufficient."
It's also important to recognize that those organizations that help resettle refugees are federal contractors. Instead of providing actual charity, they run their refugee operations primarily with taxpayer money.
So Wyomingites shouldn't just leave decisions about the proposed state refugee program to such self-interested "experts." Remember, it's still your state.
PAUL NACHMAN, Bozeman, Mont. (Hyperlinks supplied by VDARE.com)
At this writing, there have been nine comments added by readers. The one by refugee expert
Obama's Gun Control Obsession Causes Corporate White Flight From Black-Run America
President Barack Obama may be the greatest gun salesman in American history—and, as with most things in American culture and politics, the root cause is race. But an unnoticed related phenomenon is that white flight is now operating on an interstate level—and gun manufacturers are leading the way.
The FBI reported a record number of background checks for gun sales in 2013. [Obama backfires, gun sales in 2013 smash all records, By Emily Miller, Washington Times, January 6, 2014] The previous record was in 2012… which broke the record of 2011, and so forth back to the year of Obama's election.
One of the few rights that Americans seem to have successfully defended is the ability to own a firearm. The Main Stream Media occasionally pushes gun control after some spectacular gun crime committed by a white shooter. But the real pattern of gun violence in this country can be seen in cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Memphis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Washington D.C. These cities, not surprisingly, already have strict gun control policies—and they have nothing to do with white people or Republicans.
Each year the anti-gun Violence Policy Center (VPC) puts out its Black Homicide Victimization in the United States study. [PDF] Each year the conclusion is the same:
Blacks in the United States are disproportionately affected by homicide. For the year 2011, blacks represented 13 percent of the nation's population, yet accounted for 50 percent of all homicide victims.
The devastation homicide inflicts on black teens and adults is a national crisis that should be a top priority for policymakers to address. An important part of ending our gun violence epidemic will involve reducing homicides in the African-American community.
For blacks, like all victims of homicide, guns—usually handguns—are far and away the number-one murder tool. Successful efforts to reduce America's black homicide toll, like America's homicide toll as a whole, must put a focus on reducing access and exposure to firearms.
Any mention of the black face of America's gun crime sends even the most militant NRA-member running for the hills. MSM Journalists also do their best to ignore the obvious when writing navel-gazing stories about gun violence. For example:
Among cities with at least 100,000 residents, Birmingham ranked No. 9 last year, according to the FBI data. That is higher even than Chicago, a city that has gained a great deal of attention as a place with an out-of-control murder problem.
Alabama's other large cities – Montgomery, Mobile and Huntsville – ranked 30, 38 and 85. Only Huntsville's rate was in the bottom half of the country's big cities…
James Alan Fox, [Email him] a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston, said the most murderous cities and states tend to have higher concentrations of black residents, who on average are six times more likely to be involved in murders.
"There are certainly patterns there," he said.
But Fox cautioned that race often masks deeper socioeconomic factors, such as poverty, unemployment and low levels of education.
"Demographics is a big part of it, but it's not the whole story," he said. "Of course, it's not race, itself. There's a whole array of economic issues. … It looks like demographics, but it's really socioeconomic issues."
[Demographics? Guns? Southern culture? Reasons for regional homicide variations remain elusive, by Brendan Kirby, Al.com, September 20, 2013. Emphases added].
But if "socioeconomics issues" were at the heart of the debate, why didn't National Review's Kevin D. Williamson find poverty-stricken white Appalachia replete with gun-aided homicides? [The White Ghetto , January 9, 2014]
Presumably for the same reason the Kansas City Star editors couldn't say the obvious in a recent editorial on violence.
The statistics for all 50 large cities do show a correlation
John Derbyshire Asks: Will "National Conservatism" Come To The U.S.A.?
I recently needed to look something up in George H. Nash's 1976 book The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945. I found what I wanted, then fell to browsing.
It is still fascinating to read about American Conservatism during the Cold War, but you can't help noticing something missing in those debates, something that puts them at a distance from the headlines of today.
Headlines like this one, for example:
EU demands Britain gives more rights to migrants:
Commissioner wants citizens to "enjoy same rights they have at home in other member states"
Eurocrats will today demand that Britain give "rights without borders" to EU migrants.
In a move certain to spark a new row with Westminster, EU Commissioner Viviane Reding is pressing for a "fully functioning common area of justice."
Most controversially, citizens would be able to "enjoy the same rights they have at home in another Member State"—potentially importing a string of onerous new rules and obligations to the UK …
[By James Slack, Mail Online, March 3, 2014.]
What's missing from those Cold War debates is any foreboding that, fifty years on, the very concept of the nation-state would be under threat.
The word "nationalist" does not even appear in the index of Nash's book. It does appear in his narrative, most significantly when he discusses the mid-1960s exchanges between Straussians like Harry Jaffa and states' rightists like Frank Meyer over liberty versus equality.
What Nash calls "nationalists" here were the Straussians, whom the other side saw as:
… too Hamiltonian, even authoritarian, to satisfy a man [i.e. Meyer] for whom individual freedom and limited government were supreme, and for whom the Tenth Amendment was a good deal more than a "truism." [Ibid. p. 226.]
From today's perspective it all looks a bit naïve and parochial. Didn't they see what was coming?
Well, no, of course they didn't. We never do.
Writes Nash:
In a noteworthy exchange between Harry Jaffa and Frank Meyer in 1965, the debate was joined on the issue of Abraham Lincoln.
A vigorous and, yes, noteworthy exchange it sounds to have been. But … 1965? The year of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act? Wasn't that pretty darn "noteworthy"?
Not to a historian of conservatism writing in 1976. Neither Philip Hart nor Emanuel Celler appears in Nash's 15-page index. Nor does Teddy Kennedy. Nor, for that matter, does the word "immigration." Such innocent times!
There are of course allowances to be made. This was the Cold War. The nations of the West were huddled together like sheep in a storm, with the possibility of nuclear annihilation always just one crisis away. It was natural for the intellectuals Nash was writing about to think in terms of civilization, not nationality.
Nationalism had in any case suffered by association with fascist collectivism. To cherish one's country was acceptable, but to regard it as the organic expression of a particular people was frowned upon. This was a time when people said—I think Russell Kirk actually said it—"I am a patriot but not at all a nationalist."
The more one thinks about that assertion, the less sense it makes; but the technology and demographics
And The Same To You, Al Cardenas! CPAC Secession Movements Show The Way
The evil Peter Brimelow
Al Cardenas (email him) the Cuban immigrant who succeeded the ethically-challenged David Keene as chairman of the American Conservative Union, must be breaking out the mojitos tonight! The trendy Leftist Daily Beast is writing favorably (or at least less unfavorably) about ACU's flagship Conservative Political Action Conference, which starts in Washington D.C. on Thursday March 6. [Is CPAC Getting Less Crazy?, by Dean Obeidallah, March 4, 2014). What more could a Conservatism Inc. apparatchik want? (Oh, yes, more fees).
At VDARE.com, we're kind of amused too: the nadir from which CPAC is allegedly climbing back is…moi!
Obeidallah (email him) writes:
[T]he American Conservative Union's annual conservative political convention has increasingly become a showcase for the worst of the right.
Who can forget the 2012 CPAC panel, "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the Pursuit of Diversity is Weakening the American Identity"? This program featured Peter Brimelow, a person the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described as leading, "a race-baiting hate group that warns against the pollution of America by non-whites, Catholics, and Spanish-speaking immigrants." [Link in original]
Of course, what unforgettably happened in 2012 was that, in its now-familiar Journolist-style orchestrated way, the Left/ Main Stream Media (is there any difference?) wanted to embarrass CPAC, followed Spencer Ackerman's famous prescription ("find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear") and found (absurdly) me. (See here and here and here).
In fact, Obeidallah has solved a puzzle for me: why so many echo-chamber MSM reports claimed I'd said immigration was "polluting" America. I didn't, and there's a recording to prove it. But I see now that they were just mechanically scalping the pre-written $PLC smear to which Obeidallah links. The SPLC itself didn't even pretend to be quoting me, it's just paraphrasing i.e. inventing
The Inevitability of Obamacare (And American Organ Transplants) for Illegal Aliens
[VDARE.com note: Just a reminder that this issue is what caused Congressmen Joe Wilson to shout "you lie!" to Barack Obama, when during a speech to Congress, Obama claimed that "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those here illegally."Wilson apologized for shouting, and Obama...we're still waiting .]
You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. When government expands entitlements, illegal aliens always end up with a piece of the pie. Obamacare promoters relented to GOP pressure to include an illegal alien ban on eligibility and vowed endlessly that no benefits would go to the "undocumented." But denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's the Obama way.
In Oregon this week, officials confessed that nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants had been "accidentally" steered from the state's low-income Medicaid program and instead were enrolled in Obamacare in violation of the law. Oopsie. The Oregonian newspaper's Nick Budnick reported that the health bureaucrats "discovered the problem several weeks ago and are correcting it." [Cover Oregon health insurance exchange fiasco spawns problems for low-income Oregonians' health plan, March 1, 2014]Get in line. The beleaguered Cover Oregon health insurance exchange has been riddled with ongoing problems, errors and glitches since last October that have yet to be fixed.
Take note: This wasn't a one-time computer meltdown. Because Oregon's health insurance exchange website has been offline and its software architects under investigation for possible fraud, the Oregon Obamacare drones have been processing each and every application manually. That means nearly 4,000 illegal alien applications with "inaccurate" data somehow passed through government hands and somehow ended up getting routed through as new enrollees with Obamacare-approved full-service health care.
How many Obamacare services did these nearly 4,000 illegal aliens avail themselves of, and at what cost?
Does anyone believe the same incompetent boobs who enrolled them will be able to track down the nearly 4,000 illegal alien beneficiaries, "correct" the "errors" and ensure that it doesn't happen again?
What a slap in the face to the millions of law-abiding Americans who have lost their health care coverage and work hours thanks to Democratic-sponsored federal health care regulatory burdens and mandate costs.
One Oregon Obamacare manager defended the unlawful illegal alien enrollment by explaining: "We were just getting people into the services." And there's the rub. The imperative of these government social engineers is to herd as many "clients" into taxpayer-subsidized programs as possible. Just last week, Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson publicized an open letter to families with illegal alien relatives promising that no one would be deported for seeking Obamacare services.
"No one in America who is eligible should be afraid to apply for health coverage because they have a family with mixed status," Johnson assured. And in another sign of how the White House is still planning for mass illegal alien amnesty, Johnson also made clear: "Enrolling in health coverage ... will not prevent your loved ones who are undocumented from getting a green card in the future or who do not yet have a green card at risk."
As always, California Democrats are at the forefront of busting open Obamacare for the illegal alien population. Earlier this month, Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara introduced a bill to extend health benefits and a special online marketplace to one million illegals under an Obamacare-style program subsidized by state taxpayer dollars.
In case you forgot, President Obama had already paved the path for illegal alien Obamacare when he
Even Weatherman Al Roker Says That NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio is Incompetent—but De Blasio's Incompetence Is Really Anti-White Animus
It's unusual for notoriously pragmatic media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a resident of New York City, to burn a bridge like this:
NYC now totally managed by leftist activists with no experience in running anything beyond protests. Big mess ahead.
But, to borrow from Casey Stengel, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is amazin.'
In their 1962 maiden season, the New York Mets were the worst team in big league history. The team went 40-120, a record for futility that still stands. Someone asked Mets manager Casey Stengel to describe his team. In classic Stengelese, Casey lamented, "They're amazin.'"
The Mets were trying hard to win, but they were awful. Mayor de Blasio, by contrast, is trying to lose. His incompetence is the expression of his racial hatred. He hates productive whites and Asians, and loves deadbeat and criminal blacks and Hispanics.
- Weathergate
I've lived in New York City since 1985, and this is the worst winter that I or anyone I know has seen here. With 57 inches so far, the snowfall has already more than quadrupled the annual average of 13.4 inches, but the real problem has been the bitter cold. Most winters, New York has no days with wind chill factors around zero or below, but this year we've had several such school days since New Year's.
In a city with functioning services and a mayor who cared about its citizens, such problems could be managed.
But New York is not such a city.
Like hundreds of thousands of city parents, I have kept my son home from school five times since January 3, based on the weather and the lack of reliable transportation. Only once (January 3) has de Blasio closed the schools, and that was only after dithering until after parents had already had to decide on their own what to do. During their first 30 school days in office, he and his schools chancellor Carmen Farina screwed up five times.
All but one of the five times Gov. Cuomo declared a state of emergency, Mayor de Blasio ignored him and kept the city's schools open. Each time, hundreds of irate parents criticized de Blasio at the schools' Facebook pages.
On Thursday, February 13, another snow storm hit. Yet again, de Blasio ignored the forecasters and Gov. Cuomo, who had declared another state of emergency, and kept the schools open.
A little before noon that day, at de Blasio and his schools chancellor, Carmen Farina's press conference, de Blasio asserted that National Weather Service had wrongly forecast only two-three inches of snow. (The National Weather Service ate my homework?)
Chancellor Farina notoriously declared,
[A]s snow and freezing rain fell outside…"It's absolutely a beautiful day out there right now."
[Clueless schools chief: 'It's a beautiful day' by Bob Fredericks and Yoav Gonen, New York Post, February 13, 2014.]
All of the local weathermen—whom de Blasio staffers constantly watch—had predicted up to 10 inches of snow over 24 hours earlier.
Weatherman Al Roker, a New York institution for 30 years, tweeted from the Sochi Olympics at 8:43 that morning:
@NYCMayorsOffice says snow was faster/heavier than expected. No, Mr. Mayor. It came as predicted. Don't blame weather for YOUR poor policy
How dare @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools throw NWS under the school bus. Forecast was on time and on the money
De Blasio countered that Roker should stick to weather. Roker responded,
Troy Senik On California: Stupidity, Corruption Or Cowardice? (We Know About NATIONAL REVIEW)
Conservatism Inc. may have failed to limit the power of the federal government, cut spending, or defend traditional values, but it can take credit for one thing—inventing an entire genre of journalism intentionally designed to mislead its own supporters. A typical example: in the March 10 treezine issue of National Review, Land of Inequality, [by Troy Senik (email him), webposted February 24, 2014] which discusses the cratering of California—without even mentioning the word immigration.
Senik, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, bemoans the decline of California from a "beacon to the middle class, a place where you could author the future on your own terms" to an overpriced, overregulated state dominated by a "regnant liberalism [supported by] a political alliance between the super-rich and the super-poor."
So far so good, apart from the occasional standard Beltway Right talking point—I confess I started laughing at the sentence "CEO Magazine has ranked California the worst state in the nation in which to do business"! Still, Senik does clearly identify that California's main problem is not oppressed Chief Executive Officers, but middle class Californians fleeing their home state:
These are not titans of industry looking to maximize profits in Texas or Florida; these are everyday citizens who've found themselves priced out of what was once called the California dream.
Senik also notes that "unemployment had stayed at or above 12 percent from September 2009 to February 2011."
And he summarizes accurately what has happened to the Golden State:
As the economy faltered, the state raised taxes and continued to let regulation and litigation run riot. As the freeways clogged and housing prices climbed to astronomical levels, environmental activists called for high-speed rail and "sustainable communities." As the state's schools saw their performance plummet to national lows, the California Teachers Association — the state's dominant teachers' union and foremost opponent of education reform — remained the single biggest financial player in state politics.
Indeed, Senik even approaches a discussion of Steve Sailer's "Affordable Family Formation" concept (without giving him credit, of course) in explaining why the GOP retains some influence in the Golden State. Senik notes that "many of the state's inland counties have the political disposition of red states" and identifies the critical economic issue facing the struggling middle class is "finding affordable housing." He mourns the loss of the California that once "beguiled the nation—one with abundant, affordable suburban housing, open roads, middle-class jobs aplenty, and good schools." (My emphasis!)
Unfortunately, Senik falls into the usual conservative trap of blaming everything on the "fiscal, legal, and regulatory environment for business." He says California isn't permissive enough on new housing. The environmentalists won't let California utilize its oil reserves. It is actually quicker for Carl's Jr. (the famous California-based fast food chain) to build a new restaurant in Siberia than it is in California. As a result, Carl's Jr. is "aggressively expanding in Texas."
What is the reason for all of this? Senik says that the rich in California want a state "where white-collar workers take public transit through densely packed urban centers, leaving nary a
John Derbyshire Asks: Island Race No More?
When I read news from the country of my birth, the emotions I experience (with rare exceptions) are disgust, horror, and despair.
This last week, for example, saw the sentencing of the Woolwich killers. These two young men, English-born to Christian Nigerian parents, converts to Islam, ran down an off-duty British soldier in May last year. Then, in a busy London street at half-past two on a mid-week afternoon, they stabbed and hacked the soldier to death, trying unsuccessfully to decapitate him, while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great.) [Woolwich attack: terrorist proclaimed 'an eye for an eye' after attack, By Gordon Rayner and Steven Swinford, Daily Telegraph, May 22, 2013]
The killers did not take their sentencing well:
Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, had to be manhandled out of court by security guards after being told by Mr. Justice Sweeney that their crime was a "betrayal of Islam."
Adebolajo screamed at the judge as he was manhandled down the dock stairs in the historic Court No 2 but, in scenes lasting several minutes, his co-defendant was held to the floor and cuffed before being carried downstairs head first.
Relatives of Drummer Rigby, who were sitting just three feet away from the dock, stood up and cowered away from the violence.
[Lee Rigby murderers sentenced to life in prison, By David Barrett and Clare Carter, Daily Telegraph, February 26, 2014.]
I would rather have read: "… after being told by Mr. Justice Sweeney that their crime was 'obviously inspired by Islam'," and that "Relatives of Drummer Rigby, who were sitting just three feet away from the dock, leapt forward to assist the court officers, taking the opportunity to gouge out the accuseds' eyeballs and knock out their teeth…"
Alas, either thing would have been utterly at odds with the whipped, pacified, emasculated, cringing posture of 21st-century Britain. "They cowered away from the violence…" Of course they did.
Had Mr. Justice Sweeney said what I wish he had said, he would have been stripped of his office and made the subject of a parliamentary enquiry.
Had Drummer Rigby's relatives done what I wish they had done, they would themselves have been swiftly arrested, charged, tried, convicted, and jailed, to tremble in their cells at the mercy of the Muslim gangs who control Britain's houses of correction, and who are welcoming the Woolwich killers as heroes even while I am writing this.
The Woolwich horror, and many others, flows directly from the decision by postwar British governments to open their country to floods of blacks and Muslims: the least assimilable of races, and the most intolerant of religions. When black resentment of the host society combines with Muslim fantasies of world domination, Woolwich is what happens.
It could all have been foreseen. We know that, because it was foreseen. Historians of the future will marvel at such an astounding act of national suicide—the more so because post-WW2 Britain was a quirkily conservative place, its culture as singular as Japan's.
We now know from genetic investigations that Britain's uniqueness was rooted in biology. The British were indeed what Winston Churchill called them: an island race.
As VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow wrote the other day:
DNA archeology has actually completely rewritten British historiography. It is not true that the English are descendants of Saxon invaders, except linguistically. The base population in England simply changed its language. It's not even true that there is any ethnic difference between the Irish and the English. But 14,000 years of history is about to be overwritten by just a few decades of government policy. [Electing A New People in America and Britain, by Peter Brimelow; February 15, 2014]
Peter has been exploring his own ancestry, he tells me, using the 23andMe service. He (to be exact, his identical twin brother) reports in at 32.4 percent British and Irish, 2.2 percent Scandinavian, 59 percent nonspecific northern European, and 6.4 percent nonspecific European. And he is 3.2 percent pre-Homo sapiens, thanks to Paleolithic hanky-panky between our species and their cousins, the Neanderthals. Most Europeans are around 2.7 percent Neanderthal, according to 23andMe.
Curious about my own antecedents, a few weeks ago I signed up
Memo From Middle America | A Spanish-Language Teacher Says "Basta!" To Hispandering Rep. Mulvaney
Congressman Mulvaney talks to illegal aliens in their own language in Gaffney, South Carolina
The Treason Lobby seems to have complete control of the South Carolina GOP, as VDARE.com's Patrick Cleburne just pointed out. He cited the recent gushing New York Times advertorial boosting Congressman Mick Mulvaney, who just held a "town meeting" geared toward "Latinos," some of whom made clear they were illegal aliens. (So much for "living in the shadows"). Mulvaney spoke and answered questions entirely in Spanish. [G.O.P. Congressman in South Carolina Takes a Risk With a Foray Into Immigration, by Julia Preston, February 21, 2014].
"Risk"? Nowadays, opposing illegal immigration takes more guts. Of course, Julia Preston is a Treason lobby mouthpiece who has received many dishonorable mentions on VDARE.com. (See my Evangelical "Leaders" Need Reality Check—Evangelicals Don't Support Amnesty)
We're supposed to be impressed. But as a fluent Spanish-speaker long-resident in Mexico, who now teaches Spanish in an American public school, I most decidedly am not.
Why should any American politician be dealing with American political topics, for an audience in the United States, in any other language than English?
Even mass immigration boosters usually claim to support assimilation through the English language. And the various amnesty proposals give lip service to having Amnesty applicants learn English. So why should Rep. Mulvaney, supposedly a conservative Republican, be talking in Spanish? [Mulvaney dusts off Spanish skills for town hall in Gaffney, By Lynne P. Shackleford, GoUpstate.com, February 17, 2014]
But the Republicans have been following the trend of creeping bilingualism for several years now.
Preston's portrait is breathless:
Even more surprising to the spellbound crowd at the First Baptist Church, Mr. Mulvaney said he and other conservative House Republicans were open to some kind of legal status, although not a path to citizenship, for many immigrants living in the country illegally. But he also said it would not happen this year: Republicans just do not trust President Obama to carry out any law they might enact.
"Spellbound crowd"? Wow.
But how revolutionary is the Mulvaney approach? The House GOP leadership appears to be for Amnesty - and for Bilingualism. How surprising is it that some lower-level flunkey would drink the Kool-Aid (especially considering there's big donor money involved?).
Needless to say, "legal status but no path to citizenship" is a scam. If the illegals are legalized, how long until the Democrats figure out a way to naturalize them? And their American-born anchor babies, don't forget, are already citizens.
Preston claims Mulvaney's boldness is all part of a Trend:
The politics of immigration are gradually shifting in South Carolina
The Fulford File | Jan Brewer Says Businesses Can't Refuse To Serve Homosexuals—The SPLC Says Businesses Shouldn't Serve VDARE.com
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has cravenly vetoed SB1062, which would have prevented homosexuals from attacking people like, say, a Knights of Columbus Hall that didn't want to host the nuptials of two women, or a wedding photographer who didn't want to take part in a male/male wedding. SB1062's title was "Religious Freedom Restoration Act." The description of its intent: "Strengthens protections in Arizona law to defend against religious discrimination." And that's what Brewer vetoed.
In other words: homosexuals (or at least their Cultural Marxist leaders) 1, Christians 0.
Mark Steyn has a good column about Brewer's capitulation, in which he mentions suspicions that Brewer vetoed the bill because of fears by Arizona businesses (=donors) about boycotts, and because she didn't want to be known as "Jan Crow." [If I Knew You Were Suing, I'd've Baked a Cake, by Mark Steyn, SteynOnline, February 27, 2014]
Of course, Brewer's betrayal didn't stop the hate against her even for a minute—Michelle Malkin's Twitter curating site Twitchy has a roundup, of which this is a sample, from Daily Beast columnist Sally Kohn [Email her] chosen because it's not as obscene as most of them:
Just because Jan Brewer did good thing and vetoed #AZ1062 doesn't mean she's not still a vicious anti-gay, anti-immigrant extremist
'Still a vicious anti-gay extremist': Hate thrown at Jan Brewer in spite of #SB1062 veto, February 26, 2014
Freedom of association means that people get to decide who they do business with. The famous "Lunch Counter Law" was designed to override the principle, because of the exceptional plight of American blacks, only with "public accommodations" in mind. The late Robert Bork discussed this in The New Republic before the Civil Rights Act was passed:
"The legislature would inform a substantial body of the citizenry that in order to continue to carry on the trades in which they are established they must deal with and serve persons with whom they do not wish to associate. In part the willingness to overlook that loss of freedom arises from the feeling that it is irrational to choose associates on the basis of racial characteristics. Behind that judgment, however, lies an unexpressed natural-law view that some personal preferences are rational, that others are irrational, and that a majority may impose upon a minority its scale of preferences."
"Civil Rights—A Challenge," New Republic, [PDF] August 31, 1963
Bork doesn't mean here a racial majority, but a political majority—the kind that passes these laws.
But nowadays, of course, a combination of judicial activism, Leftist agitation, and elite influence means that it's a minority imposing its will on a majority.
In fact, as a person of mildly dissident views, I find that large, well-financed organizations are urging people to discriminate against me.
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 01:23 PM
I hope I didn't alienate any of my usual readers by acknowledging a Christian holiday, you can fill in your own non Christian Theo holiday if you wish. This topic got me thinking; As Cub fans, we need some holidays to set us apart from all of the non-suffering fans of the world. These days can further bond us, and waste even more time on one of the most inept sports teams in the history of the universe.
JANUARY 27th- BOWABERG
When early Cub fans named this day, they miscalcualated who the best player in the Ivan Dejesus for Larry Bowa/Ryne Sandberg deal was going to be. Cub theologians have long debated changing the name, but have decided to keep it the same.
CUSTOMS- Taking candy from random babies, stealing from the blind.
DO'S/DON'TS- No talk of World Championships since, and no mention of Davey Martinez.
JANUARY 31st- THE BIRTH OF MR. CUB DAY
One of the holiest of Cub days, we honor the birth of Ernie Banks.
CUSTOMS- wearing your shortstop glove for most of the day, then switching to your 1B's glove for the last few hours.
DO'S&DON'TS- absolutely no mention of post season play, and the year 1969.
A minor holiday honoring Kerry Woods 20 strikeout performance against the Astros in 1998.
CUSTOMS- Some Cub Fundamentalists(they're crazy!) bend their elbows backwards until they hear the snap, requiring Tommy John surgery.
One of the most somber and reflective days of Cub worship, remembering the trade of Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio to the hated Cardinals. Some Cub Theoligans persisted in debating the trade of a poor fielding 4th outfielder for an 18 game winner for decades, to no avail.
CUSTOMS- Cub fans must recite each year that the Cardinals have won the World Series since this date on 1964.
DO'S& DON'TS- It is highly recommended not to look at Mr. Brock's career stats on this day.
On one of the few triumphant days over the Cardinals, Ryne Sandberg's 5-6 two homer day is celebrated.
CUSTOMS- Watching the replays on You Tube, killing a white rat.
DO'S&DON'TS As usual, no mention of Championships since, and the Davey Martinez thing again.
Minor holiday in honor of the trade that sent a big pile of garbage to the Pirates for Kenny Lofton and Aramis Ramirez, which lead to the closest we have been to the Cubocalypse. The name most Theologians give the eventual or possible (depending on who you believe) World Championship. Some prefer Cubgasm.
THE ANNUAL SEPTEMBER DEATH MARCH and CHOKETOBER
These two months are the most dreadful in all of Cub history. They offer numerous days of atonement, reflection and depression. In fact, due to the number of choices, Cub fans themselves choose which days they celebrate/remember. For example, my father drank all of September in honor of the 1969 Cub collapse.(actually he drank every month now that I think of it). Being of younger vintage, I celebrate Septmber 24th(the day my '84 Cubs clinched) and contemplate suicide(not really) every October 7th('84 loss) and October 14th( game 6 loss to Marlins).
These are just a few of the holidays on the Cub calender. Let's hope Theo gives us a new one soon.
Posted 19 October 2011 - 01:42 PM
Posted 19 October 2011 - 01:57 PM
Which one includes the Airing of Greivances and Feats of Strength?
Posted 19 October 2011 - 02:16 PM
Cubstivus is celebrated on October 6th, the day my forefather Billy Goat was denied access.Cubstivus
Which one includes the Airing of Greivances and Feats of Strength?
Posted 19 October 2011 - 03:10 PM
Posted 19 October 2011 - 03:51 PM
Brogliosis sounds like a spinal misalignment.
Posted 19 October 2011 - 09:06 PM
Al: With every bullet, so far.
Posted 19 October 2011 - 11:32 PM
Juicin' June
In which the truly devout Cub fans memorialize Sammy Sosa's glorious 20 HR June of 1998. Sosa's record breaking month came on the back of some serious performance-enhancing drug use and helped lift an otherwise inept team into Wild Card contention.It also helped launch Slammin' Sammy into the national spotlight with Mark McGwire, who together made a mockery of our most cherished baseball record. But it was fun.
Customs: All participants shall undergo a high-intensity PED regimen for the entire month. Lifting will be required on a daily basis, as will the Sammy-chest-tap routine be required to be performed at least three times per day at work, optimally after finishing a spreadsheet or sending out some real important emails.
Do's&Don't's: Please do not hollow out the freeweights and replace their centers with cork.
Posted 19 October 2011 - 11:47 PM
A day of celebration in remembrance of a great man.
Customs: All Cubs fans shall return to their baseball roots/families and remind themselves of why we love this game and this team. All Cubs fans shall wear a burnt hairpiece for the duration. All Cubs fans shall spend the day in as much joy as they can, forgetting their troubles and inequities dealt to them, in honor of a man who truly loved life. All Cubs fans shall post 79 career WAR at work and not be properly appreciated by their bosses (where applicable)
Do's&Don't's: DO watch This Old Cub, DO listen to as much Santo/Hughes dialogue on youtube as is available, DO donate to JDRF. DO NOT mention Brant Brown
Posted 20 October 2011 - 05:32 AM
Posted 20 October 2011 - 06:11 AM
CUBSTIVUS: A rotating holiday that starts the first day of the WS (for the rest of us)
Customs: Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, Cubstivus Miracles, Cubstivus Pole
- Airing of Grievances: All Cub fans are ordered to air out all the bad luck that has fallen on the Chicago Cubs. A Cub fans are order to open their "Box of Faith" and watch the video that contains all Cub's grievances. Billy Goat, Black Cat, Leon Durham, Bartman, Alex Gonzalez, among others. Then all Cub fans are to step outside their house at exactly 9pm ET and scream at the top of their lungs, FUCK! Followed by excessive drinking and/or crying.
- Feats of Strength: After the cathartic nature of Airing of Grievances combined with plenty of holiday cheer (a strong stout mixed with whiskey is the traditional beverage of choice) the Feats of Strength begin. Here it is ordered that all Cub fans still standing and not in the fetal position put on their ass kicking Cub's gear and go out into the night search for the only thing that can quell our violence and pain- A Fucking Cardinal fan's blood. All true Cub fans are to challenge as many Cardinal fans to battle until they can no longer stand. The true goal being to find Matt Holliday and beat him with rusty cleats. It is not the proudest moment of Cub's nation, but Cubstivus is a holiday that is needed.
- Cubstivus Miracle: All this is done for the hope of the Cubstivus Miracle. The day in which all Cub fans can keep their box of faith closed during mid/late October and taste what October baseball is like.
- Cubstivus Pole: All homes should be adorned with a undecorated pole to pay homage to the empty flag pole at Wrigley Field where there is no "W" flag being flown.
Posted 20 October 2011 - 06:15 AM
Posted 20 October 2011 - 06:25 AM
it did cross my mind as well as some other uses of the pole to truly express the pain it takes to be a Cub fan
I was terrified that the Cubstivus Pole would somehow involve Dick Pole.
Posted 20 October 2011 - 03:25 PM
it did cross my mind as well as some other uses of the pole to truly express the pain it takes to be a Cub fan
I was terrified that the Cubstivus Pole would somehow involve Dick Pole.
Except dancing on one, just to get through college, of course.
Al: With every bullet, so far.
Posted 20 October 2011 - 05:03 PM
Katie glad your part of BN, or any other pole dancers you might know.it did cross my mind as well as some other uses of the pole to truly express the pain it takes to be a Cub fan
I was terrified that the Cubstivus Pole would somehow involve Dick Pole.
Except dancing on one, just to get through college, of course.
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Koch Brothers refers to Charles G. Koch and his brother David H. Koch, the billionaire co-owners of Koch Industries. They run the Koch Family Foundations, one of the largest single sources of funding for conservative organizations in the United States, and the money behind Citizens for a Sound Economy, which in July 2004, CSE was merged into FreedomWorks. They also back the group Americans for Prosperity. David's twin brother, William I. Koch, is the owner of Oxbow Energy. Frederick R. Koch, the eldest brother, took a different trajectory, earning an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama in 1961 and becoming an art and real estate collector and philanthropist,[1] and was "disowned and partially disinherited" by their father.[2]
The 2011 Center for American Progress Report "The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right" noted that the Koch brothers' combined wealth is the fourth highest in the nation, with operations in 45 states.
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The Koch Brothers are the conservative billionaire co-owners of Koch Industries. As two of the richest people in the world, they are key funders of the right-wing infrastructure, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on the Kochs include: Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, Americans for Prosperity, American Encore, and Freedom Partners.
The Koch Brothers' Fortune
Charles and David Koch tied for fourth most wealthy person in the U.S. again in 2013, worth $36 billion each, according to the 2013 Forbes 400. Their combined wealth of $72 billion matches that of the top American billionaire, Microsoft founder Bill Gates.[3] Buoyed by aggressive speculative trading on volatile energy markets, the Koch brothers accumulated $15 billion in wealth [from] March 2010 [to September 2011], a 43 percent increase" in that time period alone, as seen in the following chart:[4]
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed commented on their fortune and politics as follows:
- I'm troubled by the gaping contrast between their political rhetoric and their own experience. Through the right-wing groups that they control and fund, and through their own statements, they describe an American economy that is so overrun with rules and regulations, so handicapped by high taxes and so deeply hostile to the interests of the wealthy that it has become difficult if not impossible to do business. . . .
- Yet as the chart above demonstrates, despite the crippling restrictions allegedly placed on capitalism, the two brothers have somehow managed to more than quintuple their combined wealth, from roughly $7.5 billion to $50 billion, over the last seven years. In the last three years alone, most of it during the presidency of the much-despised Kenyan Marxist usurper destroyer of America, they have increased their wealth by a remarkable $20 billion. That three-year increase alone is more than 200,000 times the median household wealth in this country.[5]
Koch Brothers' Fortune vs. Koch Industries' Employment
On Thursday, September 22, 2011, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow commented on the publication of the 2011 Forbes 400 and the growth of the Koch brothers' fortune, noting that, rather than being "job creators," as their fortune has risen since 2007, the number of people employed by Koch Industries has fallen. She showed the following chart:
The "Rachel Maddow Show" associate Will Fernia summarized the source of this information as follows:
- The net worth of the Koch "job creators" comes from the individual profiles of the Forbes 400 list, with the worth of each brother added together. We took just the October number for each year.
- The employee number comes for different souces depending on the year but basically the source is Koch Industries itself. In their current company description they say, "With a presence in nearly 60 countries and about 67,000 employees..." So that's where the 67,000 number comes from for 2011 on the chart. But the 2007 number comes from this 2007 Forbes profile of Koch Industries in which they are ascribed 80,000 employees.[6]
Articles and Resources
See the related articles below for more information on the Kochs.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- Charles G. Koch
- David H. Koch
- Koch Industries
- Koch Family Foundations
- FreedomWorks
- Americans for Prosperity
- Freedom Partners
- TC4 Trust
- Center to Protect Patient Rights
- 60 Plus Association
- American Future Fund
- Themis
- Public Notice
- Generation Opportunity
- The LIBRE Initiative
- American Legislative Exchange Council
- National Rifle Association
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- American Energy Alliance
- Front groups
- Propaganda
Related PRWatch Articles
- Nick Surgey, Revealed: Extensive Koch Links to New Right-Wing $250 Million Mega Fund, PRWatch, September 16, 2013.
- Brendan Fischer, California Elections Board Peels Back Layer of Dark Money Onion, Finds More Onion, PRWatch, November 6, 2012.
- Lisa Graves, ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection, PRWatch, July 20, 2011.
External Articles
- Bernie Sanders, What Do the Koch Brothers Really Want?, Common Dreams, April 11, 2014.
- Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei, Exclusive: The Koch brothers' secret bank, Politico, September 11, 2013.
- Eric Lach, Revealed: The Secret Koch Group That Gave Conservatives $236 Million In 2012, Talking Points Memo "TPM Muckracker," September 12, 2013.
- Kenneth P. Vogel, Koch World reboots, Politico, February 20, 2013.
- Kenneth P. Vogel and Tarini Parti, Inside Koch world, Politico, June 15, 2012.
- Asjylyn Loder and David Evans, Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales, Bloomberg, October 3, 2011.
- Tony Carrk, The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the Radical Right, Center for American Progress, April 2011.
- Jason Easley, Getting Rich Off The Poor: How The Koch Brothers Wealth Grew 43% Since 2010, PoliticusUSA, September 21, 2011.
- Brad Johnson, Forbes: Koch Brothers Now Worth $50 Billion, TruthOut, September 22, 2011.
- ↑ Frederick R. Koch, Wikipedia, accessed April 29, 2011
- ↑ Andrew Goldman The Billionaire's Party, New York Magazine, July 25, 2010
- ↑ Forbes 400, Forbes, annual survey of 400 wealthiest Americans, September 16, 2013.
- ↑ Center for American Progress Action Fund, Forbes: Koch Brothers Now Worth $50 Billion, organizational blogpost, September 21, 2011
- ↑ Jay Bookman, Best rebuttal to Koch brothers is their own bottom line, Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog, September 22, 2011
- ↑ Will Fernia, The Koch brothers graph, The Maddow Blog, MSNBC" show blog, September 23, 2011
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This post was to be written on Mahalaya. But wasn't.
That is okay.
That does not take away the joy from this post. We are still hanging around Tritiya, the 3rd day of Navratri, which I think is a good time to say what I want to say. Which is that I wanted to talk about this guy.
I live in a bubble and had not heard of Nipun Mehta until his recent speech at Harker's. His motto in life "to live simply, love purely, and give fearlessly" , seems to be so simple that you might think, "Yeah. So?" But then when you read about his "gift-economy" you might roll your eyes at his Utopian ideals and yet understand deep within that what he has done is not easy to pursue. Now, I really don't know the details beyond Wikipedia and his site of how he sustains himself in this mode and if he already has some kind of a support structure to do what he does. What I know is, I will never have the courage to do what he has done. And yet, I would love to.
His idea of "doing a small act of kindness" and "paying-it-forward" is something that is probably imbibed in all of us but might be so deeply hidden that we don't get to show it everyday. This festive season, let us try to dig up that hidden gem and do just that. Small acts. Random nice acts. Anything to put a smile on the face of a stranger.
You all have shown me enough kindness when you supported me from all corners of the world for my book. You reviewed, left comments, constructively criticized and spread the word. You bought copies of my book, gifted them and came back to tell me all about it. To a bystander it might all seem very natural and matter-of-fact. But for a first time author, you all showed me immense kindness.
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3. Tell your friends and get them to join too.
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2. That person will get a signed copy of my book
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4. I will also contribute $25 towards the charity selected by him/her. The contribution will be made under the winner's name and not mine. Note: The charity should be a registered one, non-religious and should be able to receive online payment.
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|The principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony and the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Todd Levy has also performed with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, and Miami string quartets; with Pinchas Zukerman, Christoph Eschenbach, and Mitsuko Uchida; as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Mostly Mozart, and with the Israel Philharmonic; and as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, and Orpheus.
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Sunday, July 21, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Monday, July 22, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Thursday, July 25, 12:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
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Todd Levy is principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Fe Opera, as well as a participant of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Todd Levy is on the clarinet faculty at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. He made his debut at the age of seventeen performing the Hindemith Clarinet Concerto at Lincoln Center. Since then, some highlights of his solo career have included concerto appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv. In addition, Mr. Levy has collaborated with some of the latter 20th century's most significant composers in performances of the Brahms F Minor Sonata arranged for clarinet and orchestra by Luciano Berio with Maestro Berio conducting, the world premiere of Peter Schickele's Concerto for Clarinet and Flute with the composer conducting and the European premiere of John Harbison's Concerto for Clarinet and Oboe. He has also given world premiere performances of chamber music pieces by Joan Tower, Paquito D'Rivera and Morton Subotnick. Mr. Levy can also be heard on the 2008 release of Marc Neikrug's Through Roses chamber work for the Koch label, together with violinist Pinchas Zukerman, actor John Rubenstein and the composer conducting. Mr. Levy also gave the world premiere of Marc Neikrug's Clarinet Concerto in March of 2010 with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. A frequent soloist for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Mr. Levy, at the request of choreographer Lar Lubovitch, performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in the U.S. premiere of the company's Concerto 622 at Carnegie Hall. Since then, he has collaborated with company numerous times in performances of this work at New York's City Center and also with the New York City Ballet Orchestra at the Dancing for Life AIDS benefit at Lincoln Center's New York State Theater. In November of 1998, Mr. Levy performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at the White House for President and Mrs. Bill Clinton. He has participated in two Grammy Award-winning recordings – the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra CD entitled Shadow Dances – Stravinsky Miniatures in February 2001, and the Renee Fleming CD entitled Bel Canto in February 2003. In 1999, his recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Boriskin (piano), and the EOS Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Sheffer was given a Rosette Award in the Penquin Guide to Compact Discs.
An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Cleveland, Orion, Mendelssohn, Ying and Miami Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio, James Levine, Pinchas Zukerman, Marc Neikrug, Christoph Eschenbach, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Carol Wincenc and Paula Robison. He has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival for four summers, a member of the Naumburg Award-winning Aspen Wind Quintet and principal clarinetist of the New World Symphony under conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. He has been guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Recent highlights include the 2010 Boosey and Hawkes publication of a new print edition and recording of the Bernstein Clarinet Sonata, which Mr. Levy recorded and co-edited, principal for the 2005, 2006 and 2008 seasons of the Tokyo Opera Nomorio under Seiji Ozawa and Ricardo Muti in Tokyo and principal clarinet with the 2006 Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra under Alan Gilbert. His latest recording of the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas with UWM faculty member Elena Abend on the Avie label was just released. In June of 2007, he recorded three book/CDs for a new project for the G. Schirmer Instrumental Library Collection published by Hal Leonard. He has recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon, London/Decca, BMG and Telarc labels. He performs exclusively on Vandoren reeds, mouthpieces and ligatures, and Selmer Signature clarinets. Mr. Levy is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with David Weber.
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Team Profile: France
Appearances at finals:
1930 - First round
1934 - First round
1938 - Quarter-finals
1954 - First round
1958 - Third place
1966 - First round
1978 - First round
1982 - Fourth place
1986 - Third place
1998 - Winners
2002 - First round
2006 - Runners-up
Prior to that controversial night, France had limped in behind Serbia in Group Seven, opening their campaign with a shocking 3-1 defeat to Austria. After beating Serbia and then drawing away in Romania, France secured two 1-0 wins over Lithuania and a narrow victory over the Faroe Islands before drawing at home to Romania and then away at Serbia.
Home wins over Faroe Islands and Austria secured second spot but it was an unconvincing campaign to say the least.Qualifying record: P12, W7, D4, L1, F20, A10, Pts24. Most appearances: Thierry Henry, Bacary Sagna (11).Top goalscorers: Thierry Henry, André-Pierre Gignac (4).


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ARM pantry gets a Bible-school boost
By Kayla Carter
As the new school year draws closer, some Carter County families will be able to focus more on their children making
friends and good grades and less on whether they can provide them with lunch.
Thanks to a crew of Bible school students.
Assistance & Resource Ministries received 23 boxes of food on Tuesday from children participating in Bunker Hill Christian Church's week-long summer vacation Bible school.
During the June 9-14 Bible school, the children collected a daily offering, which was used to buy the food donation, said 7-year-old Shelby Perry, a member of Bunker Hill's youth group.


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Cellar/Tasting Notes "It could be easy, after tasting the monumental 2005, to dismiss the 2006 Troplong Mondot, but don't be so foolish. Proprietress Christine Valette has turned out another exceptional performance... the 2006 Troplong Mondot is an impressive, powerful, broad, surprisingly masculine and deep effort...
Cellar/Tasting Notes "A dark ruby (but not opaque) color is followed by aromas of sweet raspberries and black currants with dusty, earthy, loamy soil notes in the background."
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "This classic, backward, tannic St.-Julien is made in the style of the 1996 and 1986. The 2006 Ducru Beaucaillou possesses a dense purple color along with a sweet perfume of graphite, black raspberries, cassis, licorice, and subtle toasty oak. Despite their prominent place in the wine's..
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "he exceptional 2006 Cos d'Estournel is composed of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot, 55% of the production was utilized. Revealing superb intensity for a 2006 as well as an inky/blue/purple color, and a sweet bouquet of blue and black fruits, licorice, graphite, and..
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Piedmont's crown means its seniors will graduate with a state championship in their final year of high school. Their last state title came as freshmen, when they arrived on campus in time for a state championship season in football.
Since then, they were part of Piedmont's football teams that put together unbeaten regular seasons in 2011 and 2012 but fell in the state playoffs, including a second-round loss to Deshler last season.
"The biggest thing with that group of seniors is that everyone played football, so they all had a little bit of a bitter taste in their mouth, because we were picked to win it all," Piedmont track coach Mark Mitchell said. "We came up short, and it gave them a little extra motivation.
"Once they got about halfway through the track season and saw they had another chance for something they have wanted since ninth-graders, I really think in the back of their minds they had a shot at it. Anytime you lose and get a second chance, you have to make the most out of it."
And for senior Jamie Major, a three-time first-team all-state football player, the motivation was there. Major, who has signed to play football at Samford, ran the first leg in the 4-by-100 relay. That was the event that sparked Piedmont last weekend at the state meet in Selma.
Cody Daughtry was the second leg, followed by Darnell Jackson and Denard Spears. And when Spears got the baton, he had only one thing in mind.
As Piedmont edged out Deshler in the 4-by-100 relay, Spears also won the 100-meter dash. Event winners earn 10 points toward their team total, and considering Piedmont totaled 81 for the meet, which is seven more than second-place Trinity, those two victories served the Bulldogs well.
"I just knew we needed those 10 points if we were going to come in first place," Spears said. "I think we also owed Deshler one, too, from football."
But the success of Piedmont wasn't expected after the boys finished 18th at state last year. But a swift hire by athletics director and football coach Steve Smith to get Mitchell was a big start.
"It was a no-brainer by us to go get him," Smith said. "He's a great assistant on the football staff, but he's also one of the most organized people I know in any sport. He does a great job of finding kid and finding events they can score in for the team."
Smith was familiar with Mitchell after coaching with him at Class 1A Cedar Bluff from 1995-2005. While Smith took over at Piedmont in 2006, Mitchell remained at Cedar Bluff, coaching boys teams that won six straight state championships. He also was named the National High School Federation state track coach of the year last year.
"We came into the first day of practice with a sorry attitude, and he came in and changed a lot of stuff up to have us doing what he wanted us to do," Jackson said. "We just did what we said. Things changed a lot, and now we're state champs."
Mitchell thought it would take a month to set his formula in place, and after a track meet at Lincoln in mid-April, he said he "knew we had a chance then."
Two weeks later, when Piedmont went to sectionals, the boys left with first place next to their names.
"I had to sit them back down and explain to them that just because you win sectionals doesn't mean anything," Mitchell said. "Our goal wasn't to win sectionals -- it was to qualify as many kids in the right spots to get to state. If you just wanted to win sectionals, you can do that and not win state."
And while the boys brought home the state championship trophy Saturday, the girls team finished higher than any previous team in school history, finishing in third place with 67 points behind state champion Bayside Academy (131.5) and runner-up T.R. Miller (110.5). The Lady Bulldogs also won sectionals.
"The girls bought in the same as the boys did and worked just as hard," Mitchell said. "They didn't have the same outcome, but we finished better than any girls team at Piedmont. I think that will motivate our girls in the future because our girls want a blue trophy in the school very badly."
Despite not winning the state championship as a team, senior Breanna Thompson not only won state in the triple jump, but she also broke the state record. Her distance of 37 feet, 2 inches topped the old mark of 36-5. She hadn't competed in the event before this spring.
"I'm not going to take any credit for it, but I've seen people like her before do very well in triple jump. She went out and did the drills and I taught her, taught her and taught her," Mitchell said. "Her goal was 38 feet, and she almost got there. But I was very proud of her breaking the state record. She worked hard at it and deserved it."
Now with another season -- and championship -- under Mitchell's belt, the Piedmont seniors that have strived for a title since the winter of 2009 can cross the graduation stage knowing they'll get rings over the summer. And for the underclassmen, they'll have a chance to repeat as champions next spring.
"We went down there knowing a little bit about what we have to compete against, but now we know what to expect," Daughtry said. "In the future, that will help us out."
Brandon Miller covers prep sports for The Star. He can be reached at 256-235-3575 or follow him on Twitter @bmiller_star