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Racial Equality Can Be Reached if Everybody Works At It

by Jerry McConnell on Saturday, August 28th, 2010


The days of race sensitivity should end.  No longer should a person be afraid to speak his or her mind over a racially tinged matter.  This has been the rule that blacks follow; saying whatever they wish about whites, whenever they please.

It is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways.  If a black can threaten to kill white babies, and do it with impunity, then there is no reason why whites should not have the same privilege to threaten black babies without recourse.  Of course, most blacks and whites would never do such a thing as they pride themselves in being sane and rational human beings.  I can’t say the same about Black Panthers in particular.  They are interested only in black power.

They are like the mouse that taunts and screeches at the elephant.  Because the elephant is timid, it looks and acts afraid when just lifting one hoof and slamming it down on the mouse would end the confrontation.

Oh, of course, there are cases where the mighty Black Power is evident; particularly at the voting polls against very senior white citizens that could get blown down by a strong wind.  The Black Panthers have met their prey and they strut about shouting Black Panther epithets and scary orders. But even there they prefer to be numerically superior for added protection.

The new “hate speech” law that our racist liberal Democrats rammed through Congress and our racist liberal president signed very willingly again seems to work only in one direction: against the whites, while it protects the blacks.  But they had better learn that they are less than 20 percent of our population while whites are around 70 percent.

Whites are known and praised for their tolerance and acceptance of imaginary or supposed grievances from blacks; but the blacks had better not push too hard with this new phony tool of “hate speech” law because tolerances can be dimmed by ill-conceived threats.

For so long now, blacks have taken for granted, total immunity for any and all transgressions; in particular, the black liberal Democrat politicians. Look at the current cases involving Representatives Charley Rangel and Maxine Waters; it’s disgraceful the way they feel that their sins and omissions of wrong-doing should just be swept under the rug and forgotten.

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Summer of corruption: Obama’s Big Labor ethics loophole

by Michelle Malkin on Thursday, August 19th, 2010


Today’s column targets SEIU consigliere Craig Becker and the latest White House gift to Big Labor. So far this summer, Team Obama is fronting the SEIU-backed $8 billion Child Nutrition Act expansion and forked over the union-stamped $26 billion BigGovJobs bailout. And as I noted yesterday, the next big government/labor payoff is on the way in the form of the PBGC bailout. How many more union payoffs can we afford?!

Obama’s Big Labor ethics loophole
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

Everything you need to know about President Obama’s fraudulent ethics pledge can be summed up in four words: SEIU lawyer Craig Becker.

Becker is the left-wing lawyer Obama sneakily installed on the National Labor Relations Board. The U.S. Senate rejected Becker’s nomination on a 52-33 cloture vote in February. Obama responded by flipping the bird and ramming through his recess appointment during the congressional spring break. (The New York Times approvingly dubbed it a “muscular show of his executive authority.” When that authority was exercised by GOP President George W. Bush, of course, the Times editorial board called it a “constitutional gimmick.”)

Despite the White House’s much-heralded policy of binding every executive appointee to strict conflict-of-interest guidelines, a defiant Becker now remains free to rule on cases involving his former Big Labor bosses. And the most ethical administration in U.S. history isn’t doing a thing to stop him.

While serving as an associate general counsel for both the SEIU and AFL-CIO in 2009, Becker generously lent his legal expertise to the White House. He served as an Obama transition team member for labor issues and helped draft several union-backed executive orders.


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Summer of corruption: Blago verdict

by Michelle Malkin on Thursday, August 19th, 2010


Gird your loins. The judge in the Blago corruption trial says a verdict is coming soon.

Via Chicago Trib:

In their latest note to U.S. District Judge James Zagel, jurors signaled they may be getting close to wrapping up their negotiations. They have asked for two things.

First, they requested a copy of the oath that they took when they were sent to deliberate the case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

“Do you and each of you solemnly swear that you will well and truly try and a true deliverance make between the United States and ______, the defendant at the bar, and a true verdict render according to the evidence, so help you God?”

Second, they asked Zagel how to fill out a verdict form when they can’t agree on a specific count. “Do we leave it blank or report the vote split?” the note asked.

Blago and his brother were directed to stay within 30 minutes of the courtroom.

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Summer of corruption: Blago verdict watch, Day 13

by Michelle Malkin on Monday, August 16th, 2010


The deadlocked Blago jury took a long weekend off — and returned to deliberations with another transcript request for the federal trial judge.

Looks like they’re zeroing in on the attempted extortion of then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel, whose brother Blago wanted to host a fund-raiser in exchange for a $2 million football field grant sought by a school in Emanuel’s congressional district.

Via the Chicago Sun Times:

As Judge James Zagel described it, the jury’s question was “less than earth-shattering.”

The jurors asked for the transcript of deputy governor Bradley Tusk’s testimony in its entirety. Zagel has agreed to provide it.

Tusk’s testimony centered on a charge involving the alleged attempted extortion of Rahm Emanuel, then a congressman. That charge is count 14 — and not directly among the 11 wire fraud counts that the panel presumably was going back and deliberating after revealing Thursday they hadn’t come to a conclusion on those counts.

However, the Emanuel scheme is included in three other, broader counts, including count one: racketeering; count two: racketeering conspiracy and count three: wire fraud scheme.

Count three is a long, cumbersome charge that includes an overview of all the major schemes in the case but it is charged as a wire fraud.


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Van Jones, Green Jobs Red Stars and Bankruptcy.

by Greg Hedgepath on Sunday, August 15th, 2010


Activist in Oakland California forced The Red Star Yeast factory to close its doors in 2003.
http://www.pacinst.org/topics/community_strategies/west_oakland/

The Alliance for West Oakland Development along with the Apollo Alliance and The Ella Baker center helped muster the financing for the purchase of the land.  The reclaimed site was to be developed into a community training center with a 119 unit housing project.  But in March of 2007, 9 months before� Van Jones gets GREEN JOBS legislation passed by George Bush the project filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  Too bad this news did not get taken into account.   This concept of Green Jobs  simply will not work unless driven by Marxist law, or the Free Market.

Both require a force to see the project through.  Free Market, the force is need of a product and the capitalist vision to make a profit.  A profit that can later be applied to more projects that will employee more people.  The Marxist way is the use of force by mandate, regulation or administration of law. It is the other way to make this work through the socialist arm of Big Government.  Either way you go if the project was not meant to be it will eventually fail.

The company, a partnership of San Francisco developer Allen Curtis Eisenberger and Jabari Herbert, who until last year was the executive director of the Alliance for West Oakland Development, filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of San Francisco.  SOURCE :� East Bay Business Times

In July of 2007 the developers, (activist COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS) have filed for chapter 11 protection.   They have moved to sell the property to avoid a foreclosure sale of the property and divest themselves of any financial liability.  Let the public pay for the mess.

In hopes of raising money to pay off creditors, 1396 Fifth St. LLC, the bankrupt owner of the former Red Star Yeast factory site in West Oakland, listed the 38,000-square-foot property for sale at $3.95 million.
SOURCE :� bizjournals.com

On July 10th of 2008 the Tax payers of Oakland California picked up the tab for the purchase of the land.

REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
OF THE CITY OF OAKLAND

AN AGENCY RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE
OF 1396 FIFTH STREET (FORMER RED STAR YEAST
FACTORY) IN WEST OAKLAND FROM 1396 FIFTH STREET
LLC FOR A PURCHASE PRICE NOT TO EXCEED $3,900,000,
PLUS CLOSING COSTS IN AN AMOUNT OF $60,000
SOURCE : http://clerkwebsvr1.oaklandnet.com/attachments/19913.pdf

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Crime inc ~ Van Jones influenced ‘Green Jobs for all Act’ signed by George Bush

by Greg Hedgepath on Sunday, August 15th, 2010


Van Jones was involved in getting legislation passed into law before Obama was POTUS.  The Energy bill signed into law in December of 2007 contained a portion of which was overtly influenced by Van Jones himself thro9ugh the Ella Baker Center, H.R. 2847, the Green Jobs Act of 2007.  @1:10 into the YouTube Video Isaiah J. Poole confirms this information

Part of the “Energy Independence Day” plan rolled out Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was inspired by an Oakland pilot project that trains workers for jobs in renewable energy and energy-efficiency industries.

H.R. 2847, the Green Jobs Act of 2007, is modeled on the Green Jobs Corps created under the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ Reclaim the Future initiative. The House Education and Labor Committee passed the bill — authored by Rep. Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, and Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass. — on a 26-18 vote Wednesday.
SOURCE:insidebayarea.com

Van Jones is the founder of the Ella Baker center.

Oakland’s Green Jobs Corps is a collaboration, coordinated through the Ella Baker Center, between community groups, unions, the city and private companies. It recruits participants who’ll be taught general life skills as well as technology-specific job skills before setting them up in temporary jobs and then helping them transition into permanent, independent work. Oakland City Council this month approved $250,000 in seed money for the corps.
SOURCE:insidebayarea.com

Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer have been aware of Van Jones just like Valerie Jarret was.

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, described the bill as groundbreaking because it would reduce oil imports, cut production of the gases that scientists blame for global warming and significantly increase the efficiency of the nation’s auto fleet.

“You are present at a moment of change, of real change,” she told her House colleagues before the vote was taken.

Ms. Pelosi and other supporters of the bill expressed disappointment that it did not include a requirement that utilities produce a growing share of electric power from renewable sources and was stripped of a package of subsidies for wind, solar, geothermal and other alternative energy sources that would have been paid for by higher taxes on oil companies.

“It could have been stronger,” said Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California. “It’s really unfortunate that we didn’t have the renewable electricity standard or the incentives for wind and solar. But we’ll fight for those another day.”
SOURCE : nytimes.com

It is apparent that Speaker Pelosi is a driving participant to the Fundamental Transformation of America into a Marxist state.  She was well versed with Van Jones and admired him and his works before this April 2007 Video was shot in celebration of the bill Bush signed into law in December of 2007.

In 2005, the center unveiled an initiative that would put it at the cutting edge of progressive activism:� Reclaim the Future, a program aimed at ensuring that low-income and minority youth have access to the coming wave of “green-collar” jobs. It’s an idea that’s gaining traction and support, most notably from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who last month invited Jones to join her at a San Francisco press conference and� make the case for a national Clean Energy Jobs Bill.
SOURCE : grist.org

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The Mad Maxine Waters show; Update: “I won’t cut a deal”

by Michelle Malkin on Friday, August 13th, 2010


This should be a doozy. Stay tuned for updates.

It begins at 10am Eastern. You can watch live on CSPAN here.

Latest Mad Maxine Waters scandal coverage: LATimes looks at Waters’ grandson and chief of staff, Mikael Moore, and at the sordid record of OneUnited bank and its chairman, Kevin Cohee.

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10:04am Eastern. Still waiting for Mad Maxine’s arrival. Staffer tells press that she will be presenting a Powerpoint slide presentation.

Maybe someone could slip this into the slide show, via Hyscience:

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Summer of Corruption: Blago verdict watch, Day 9

by Michelle Malkin on Monday, August 9th, 2010


Today marks the 9th day of jury deliberations in the Blagojevich corruption trial. Early in their deliberations, the jurors asked the judge for a full transcript of the trial, including the prosecution’s closing arguments, which provided a comprehensive road map of the 28 counts and corresponding evidence against Blagojevich and his brother. The judge denied the request.

The identities of the six-man, six-woman jury are being kept secret until after a verdict is reached. Give the scope and complexity of the case, the length of the deliberations should surprise no one.

In addition to the Senate seat-trading scam, the jury must reach decisions on:

– a shady, Tony Rezko-connected state pension bond sale;

– attempted extortion of then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel, whose brother Blago wanted to host a fund-raiser in exchange for a $2 million football field grant sought by a school in Emanuel’s congressional district;

– attempted extortion and bribery of Children’s Memorial Hospital;

– conspiracy to extort and bribe a race-track owner in exchange for horse-racing industry tax subsidies;

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Unexpected Consequences.

by Skip MacLure on Friday, August 6th, 2010


Judge Vaughn Walker

This week, one man overturned the will of seven million Californians, shredding the meaning and intent of the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Vaughn R. Walker sought to turn the trial into the circus maximus of the gay movement… he wanted cameras in his courtroom to dramatize the proceedings.

It was apparent from the beginning that the good judge had a stake in the trial’s outcome. How an acknowledged activist in the gay movement ever became the trial judge on the Proposition Eight issue, without being challenged and forced to recuse, is remarkable. The ultra-left may find that this judge’s self-serving decision, which stands against the beliefs of the vast majority of the American people, will only serve to further inflame the nation against the DeMarxist government in Washington and the states themselves, many of whom are in the sights of the American Patriot movement.

Barring an October surprise (take nothing for granted), it looks like the DeMarxists in Congress, not a few ‘moderate’ Democrats and some Republicans (at least the ones we can get to this cycle), are going to be surprised at the mounting voter angst out there. I’m seeing increasing numbers of Democrats, and even a few recalcitrant liberals, change their mind about their role in furthering Obama’s Marxist tyranny.

We’ve had it with activist judges who legislate from the bench while ignoring the Constitution altogether. We’ve had it with the corruption we see on a daily basis. We’ve had it even more with the politicians that put this country at risk… who have broken their oath and have sullied the offices they occupy.
Keep marching toward November… Get active, stay active!

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis


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Monroe County TN Corruption Turns Violent

by JB Williams on Monday, August 2nd, 2010


What started out over a year ago as what seemed to be a simple citizen effort to report government wrong-doing in a Treason case against Barack Obama, filed by Retired Navy Lt. Commander Walter Fitzpatrick III, turned into something unexpected when the Monroe County justice system obstructed justice and turned its evil sights on the Commander.

Since then, Fitzpatrick has been arrested and jailed twice, humiliated by local character assassination, threatened, roughed up, accused of inciting riot, which in Tennessee code can apparently be used against anyone when three or more citizens attempt to address their local public servants in a public place, and ordered to never wear his well-earned dress white into court again, as it might “influence the jury.” Just another day in Monroe County justice…

Fitzpatrick now stands trial on a host of rigged charges, all at the hands of local corrupt public servants who seem to have a history of such activity, and a growing tendency to become violent when citizens try to make public the level of crime and corruption in that quaint little Tennessee community.

Corruption becomes Deadly

On Saturday July 17, 2010 – Republican Election Commissioner Jim Miller was brutally murdered in a Chicago mob style slaying and set ablaze in the trunk of his car.

Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Capt. Kenny Hope was immediately a “person of interest” in the case, but has since been “cleared” by TBI officials.

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