Thursday, May 26, 2011

New Federal Rules To Require Black Boxes to Record Driver Activity in Every Car

New Federal Rules To Require Black Boxes to Record Driver Activity in Every Car
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05-25-2011  •  Popular Science 
Federal officials are poised to announce next month that all cars must contain a black box, similar to that installed on airplanes, to give authorities a glimpse of your activities in the event of a car wreck. The devices could help pin down what happened in the moments before a crash, helping authorities determine who is at fault for what, and eliminating uncertainty from human witnesses.

Reported by Powell Gammill
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State and local governments may cut 450,000 jobs in FY2012


Around 450,000 people who work for U.S. states, counties, cities, towns and villages could get pink slips in fiscal 2012, sharply up from the 300,000 positions shed this year, a report said on Monday. The number of job cuts will rise mainly because the federal stimulus program is ending while the cost of Medicaid is "spiraling," said the report by UBS Investment Research. States got billions of extra dollars primarily for education and Medicaid from the stimulus plan. Medicaid is the state-federal health plan for the poor and disabled. Maury Harris, a UBS economist, on a conference call said the deficits states and municipalities will have to close will climb to $155 billion in fiscal 2012 from about $108 billion in the current fiscal year. Most states and municipalities begin new fiscal years on July 1. 

George Soros’ New Plan for Global Financial Regulation

by Arlen Williams

What would you think if George Soros were organizing his fellow anti-American, globalist, neo-Marxist “thought leaders,” in pursuit of globally governed banking and finance, in a second Bretton Woods conference?
Would you consider that their goals include dragging American influence and incomes down, while confiscating much of our personal finances and giving them to other nations (and yes, the age-old financier network behind them) in the name of “communitarianism?”

Would you find their goal is to replace the bad influences of the IMF and the World Bank, with a much worse, more powerfully controlling, post-American global apparatus?

What would you think, if that meeting were being held this April 8th through 11th?

I got an email, last week; it was Tuesday the 22nd.  It was from George Soros.  To hear as straight from the dragon’s mouth as feasible, I had subscribed.  In this emailed article, he lamented the inequities of wealth among the nation-states of Europe, under the strains of their continuing insolvency crisis.  He warned of the dangers of national interest.  Rather, he proposed, not surprisingly, a further blowing of the global insolvency bubble, so the more indebted European nations may get along owing, while their lending nations get along being owed — all the while, blending and worsening the  financial and monetary crises and spreading this yeasty recipe further throughout the world, especially to America.

That was quite provocative.

Please be patient to let this article be a rather personal narrative and a kind of portal, and follow its links. Then, follow the links within the those articles. Perhaps, even one more layer. That will limit the redundancy involved and inform you as well as a book might, but in much less time.  To begin, here are my observations upon receiving his email, “Oh. My. George. Soros on Europe’s Worsening Banking Crisis & the Most Evil Plan Yet.”  Go ahead.  Big Government will generously wait.

“’Most evil plan yet,’ was that an overstatement?” I wondered.  No, knowing what one may see about Soros, it was not hyperbole and the statement was well with my soul.  The next day, confirmation came from Dan Gainor of Business & Media Institute and Media Research Center, by his “Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy,” first published in Business & Media Institute and at Fox News.
If you read nothing else stemming from this introduction, do peruse that.  There, Gainor puts this iniquitous plan into context and elucidates.  Nope, not going to excerpt, nor even quote. Just read it if you have not by now, please.

It was my privilege to interview Dan last Monday night, for about a half-hour.  That discussion may be found here.

Again, no reiterations offered, except that I will repeat that the documentation shows we were raped by European banks, in their own, deep insolvency trouble in 2008, using us at exactly the time it hurt us the most — during the Mortgage Meltdown’s peak, right before the general election.  You know how that went.  (It was also swept along as in the sport of curling, by peculiarly timed internal operations, including those of Soros comrades, Herb and Marion Sandler, and Senator Charles Schumer’s tongue. One must not distract further, by going on about the Community Reinvestment Act(s), Franklin Raines and Fannie Mae, the Pelosi Congress and their shoot-to-miss regulations, Goldman Sachs and friends, etc.)

That being our reminder of how they operate, what may we expect from our nation’s finances being thoroughly and systematically controlled by a megacartel of despotic foreign interests?
For further reading
Just presented by colleague, Kelleigh Nelson:
Klaus Warns Euro Pact will Lead to Full Political Union,” in euobserver.com, 3/29/2011
See the observations of compatriot blogger, Maggie Thornton and the related articles she links at the bottom of her piece:

And three caveats about this subject matter
1. Yes, this is anti-American and grossly evil.  It is warfare against our People.  America has been given us at great sacred cost, to preserve and pass along our freedom to our progeny.  Just as our Constitution rests squarely upon our Declaration of Independence, our freedom rests upon our personal, intra-national, and national sovereignties. There is no exception to this rule, whether it is assailed by any seemingly altruistic ideas and ideals of global governance, or of global finance.  And even the most generous offerings of internationalism require its antecedent, nationalism.

2. One must neither be taken with, nor be deterred by any coincidences of ethnic heritage, when studying banking, globalism, and collectivism.  While antisemites will at times present lies and distortions as facts, facts by their nature, can not be prejudiced nor bigoted.  Each individual is a free and ontologically equal, moral (and immoral) agent, all are sinners, all are offered redemption.

3. Come, let us be conspiracy investigators, regardless of the connotations and prior concoctions.  I suggest you start, or start afresh, with the startling and paradigm shifting research led by a gentleman named Norman Dodd, an energetic but humble young banker from the prior century, who eventually found himself going to Washington and working for Congress.  (Much of the records of the Reece Committee have been destroyed, hidden, or buried, but they are still preserved.)  If you saw Glenn Beck’s TV program last Friday the 25th, about the Federal Reserve, you will recognize Mr. Dodd’s interviewer.

One reason there are so many wild claims in this subject matter is that not enough people of discipline and sound epistemology engage in it.  But remember your Alinsky and do not be intimidated by ridicule.  There is a vast, worldwide conspiracy shown a few inches from your nose right now and many near the core of it meet next week in New Hampshire.

Live free or die.
Follow those links.
And follow the money.

Bolton's Opinion on Netanyahu & Obama

3 Things for Obama's Opponents to Do Now That Netanyahu Has Created a New Israeli-Palestinian Dynamic

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unambiguous rejection of Barack Obama’s latest fantasy about the Middle East has potentially created a significant new political dynamic in the United States. By graciously but comprehensively rebutting Obama’s entire view of Arab-Israeli reality, first in the Oval Office, then before a joint meeting of Congress, Netanyahu has also exposed broader flaws in Obama’s worldview.

...Several observers noted correctly that Obama’s speech “could have been worse,” which is unquestionably true [but] since Obama remains president for two more years, what should opponents of his misguided policies do to capitalize on the new dynamic Netanyahu has created?

First, members of Congress must build on Netanyahu's Joint Meeting appearance through hearings, speeches, and House and Senate resolutions that Israel’s U.S. support remains broad and deep on Capitol Hill, even as it recedes almost to invisibility in the White House...This vigorous public approach may trouble the president’s political supporters, but their reluctance to speak up is a major factor underlying Obama’s evident belief he can muscle Israel without suffering domestic political damage.

...Second, there must be greater U.S. and Israeli focus and determination to reckon with Iran’s high and rising global threat...

Third, turmoil in the Middle East is also increasingly problematic...The peace agreement between the Hamas terrorists and Fatah, brokered by the post-Mubarak government in Egypt, marks the effective end of any realistic peace process between Israel and the Palestinians for the foreseeable future.

Obama has not yet grasped this reality, nor does he seem to understand that the Syrian dictatorship and Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists remain Iranian pawns, threats both to Israel and to the United States.

ISRAEL WARNS THAT EGYPT'S OPENING OF THE CROSSING INTO GAZA IS A GRAVE THREAT - HAMAS APPLAUDS IT

Israel's Vice Premier Shalom: Rafah crossing opening is a 'dangerous development'

Vice premier warns al-Qaida may smuggle weapons into Gaza; Vilna'i says opening is problematic, but Egypt did not break agreements; Hamas thanks Egypt, lauds "spirit of revolution."

Vice Premier Silvan Shalom spoke out on Thursday against the opening of the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt, calling for international supervision of the crossing.

"This is a dangerous development that could lead to weapons and al-Qaida smuggling into Gaza," Shalom said.

Homeland Security Minister Matan Vilna'i also warned that the opening of the Rafah crossing will be very problematic for Israel.

However, he added in an interview with Israel Radio, that Egypt did not break any agreements with Israel.

Hamas welcomed Egypt's decision to permanently open the crossing from Gaza into Egypt.

"This decision reflects the spirit of revolution in Egypt and the depth of brotherhood between the Palestinian people and the Egyptian people, which has returned itself to its original role in the Palestinian matter," a statement released by Hamas read.
NO GOOD EVER COMES FROM SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS APPEASING TERRORIST GROUPS LIKE HAMAS.

ESPECIALLY NOT WHEN THE TERRORIST GROUP IS JIHADIST AND GENOCIDAL AND ON THE BORDER WITH ISRAEL.

WARNING:

I PREDICT THAT WHEN THE IDF HAS PROOF THAT EVEN MORE SERIOUS WEAPONRY HAS ENTERED GAZA, THEY WILL STRIKE WITH A FORCE NOT YET SEEN IN ANY MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT.

THIS WILL PROBABLY COME RIGHT AFTER THE ARABS DECLARE YET ANOTHER ARAB STATE - THIS TIME ONE CALLED PALESTINE, AND THIS WILL HAPPEN IN SEPTEMBER.

AND SYRIA AND IRAN AND TURKEY AND LEBANON WILL IMMEDIATELY SIGN DEFENSE PACTS WITH THIS NEW STATE.

AND WHEN ISRAEL ATTACKS, THEY AND THE ARAB LEAGUE WILL DEMAND THAT NATO DO TO ISRAEL WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO GHADAFI.

WHY ELSE WOULD THE ARABS OF GAZA AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA WANT "STATEHOOD"!?!?!? THEY ALREADY HAVE COMPLETE CIVIL AUTONOMY.
THE ONLY THING STATEHOOD GIVES ARABS IN GAZA, JUDEA AND SAMARIA IS THE RIGHT TO IMPORT WEAPONS AND SIGN MILITARY PACTS.

STAY TUNED...

Yemen President won’t be dragged

SANAA (Reuters): Yemen’s entrenched President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Wednesday he would not be dragged into civil war despite clashes with the leader of a powerful tribal confederation who has sided with protesters seeking his ouster. “What happened was a provocative act to drag us into civil war, but it is limited to the Ahmar sons. They bear responsibility for shedding the blood of innocent civilians. Until this second, they are attacking the interior ministry. But we don’t want to widen the confrontation,” Saleh told selected media.

The arrest of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic

Robert Mackey reports:
Mr. Mladic, who was arrested in Serbia on Thursday in connection with the massacre of about 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica in the days after the enclave for Bosnian Muslims was overrun by his forces, clearly enjoyed being filmed. As the footage of him sauntering around Srebrenica after its capture — toasting the commander of the Dutch peacekeepers he had just humiliated, pleasantly asking a young boy his age (while perhaps weighing if a 12-year-old could be considered of military age) — he appeared proud of what his forces had achieved and acted, for the cameras, almost more like a politician than a general.
The makers of a PBS documentary, “Srebrenica: A Cry From the Grave,” later used much of the footage shot by the cameras that accompanied Mr. Mladic during that week in 1995 to put together a chilling timeline of his hands-on leadership of the campaign. Here is one part of that documentary:


It was not until a decade later that video of a very different character, also filmed that week in Srebrenica, showing in graphic detail the execution of prisoners, was broadcast on Serbian television.

Alleged Giffords Shooter Judged Incompetent To Stand Trial

Today a judge ruled that Jared Loughner is not competent to stand trial for the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others. The judge said that experts had diagnosed Loughner with schizophrenia, disordered thinking, and delusions, and that he would not be able to understand his own trial. He was removed from today's hearing after rocking repeatedly in his chair and exclaiming either "Thanks for the freak show" or "Thanks for the free jail."

Senate moves Patriot Act toward extension

Senate moves Patriot Act toward extension 26 May 2011 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he has struck the first of several agreements needed to pass a four-year Patriot Act extension before three provisions expire at midnight Thursday. The agreement to hold a test vote Thursday morning is the first progress all week... Once passed by the House and Senate, the extension must be flown to Europe for President Barack Obama’s signature.

Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan on the same page on Medicare Reform

Topics: Political News and commentaries
It's not exactly what the leadership of his party wants to hear, but it looks like the predictably unpredictable Bill Clinton is on the same page with Paul Ryan on medicare reform, and may be willing to do what his party is unwilling to do - put his country and the future of Medicare before politics, or in this case, recognize that these aren't necessarily mutually exclusive issues.
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:
The day after the stunning upset in the special congressional election in upstate New York, Rep. Paul Ryan is a man under fire.
But ABC News was behind the scenes with the Wisconsin Congressman and GOP Budget Committee Chairman when he got some words of encouragement (from) none other than former President Bill Clinton.
"So anyway, I told them before you got here, I said I'm glad we won this race in New York," Clinton told Ryan, when the two met backstage at a forum on the national debt held by the Pete Peterson Foundation. But he added, "I hope Democrats don't use this as an excuse to do nothing."
Ryan told Clinton he fears that now nothing will get done in Washington.
"My guess is it's going to sink into paralysis is what's going to happen. And you know the math. It's just, I mean, we knew we were putting ourselves out there. You gotta start this. You gotta get out there. You gotta get this thing moving," Ryan said.
Clinton told Ryan that if he ever wanted to talk about it, he should "give me a call." Ryan said he would.
Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit sees a couple of possible motives for Clinton's reach-out to Ryan:
The last thing Obama, Reid, and Schumer want before the election is one of their own elder statesmen -- one who's personally popular and famous for budget-balancing, no less -- pressuring them to inch out on the Medicare limb that's cracking under Ryan. So ... why would he do it? Could be that he's earnestly concerned about the Medicare time bomb and appreciates Ryan's leadership on it. Remember, before Erskine Bowles was co-chair of the Deficit Commission, he was Clinton's White House chief of staff. Or it could be that Clinton's worried about Democrats being perceived as debt do-nothings even though the public, for the moment at least, is with them on the specific issue of Medicare. As we saw earlier today, the more the GOP can drive home to voters that preserving the program as-is necessarily means raising the debt ceiling again and again, the more potentially vulnerable Democrats are. Or maybe Clinton doesn't much care what the White House thinks or what it might do for the Democrat' electoral prospects. Being an ex-president means never having to say you're sorry. Why not let it rip?
My own guess, and it's indeed a 'guess', is that it's a case of 'all of the above'. Despite his many shortcomings and despite my disagreeing with most of his political views, Bubba is reasonable, politically savvy, and like Ryan, smart enough to know that in regard to Medicare ... reform now rather than later is both good politics and good for the country, and all the better to be on the right side of both.


And do I hear a Hillary 2016 in the background?
Related video: ABC News was listening in:

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