Blog Smith

Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Barack Obama's poor economic policies are playing into China's hands

The poor leadership and economic policies of the Obama administration are forcing the domestic economy to compete with one hand tied behind its back.

Power Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles

"We've never had something as big as this happen."

Obama Cites 'Creator' 4X Since Reporter Asked WH About Omission Last Week

Voting Fraud, Breaking Rules of Debate: Week Before Election

Vote Fraud

http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/detail.html

Alex Sink caught breaking debate rules

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spTHQU2Gkwc

Voter reports problem with ballot machine.

Top Official at NJEA (New Jersey Education Association) discussing what he describes as a rigged election in Hudson County, NJ.

Monday, October 25, 2010

The Weather Underground Documentary


The 2002 documentary entitled "The Weather Underground" is now available to watch for free on YouTube. Former members of the Weather Underground reflect candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home". The documentary relates to the current world situation.

The FDA is "Out of Control"

New Jersey Teachers Gone Wild

One Little Omission: God the Creator

Obama removes 'Creator' from the Declaration of Independence


Up to :25 quite standard, oh, except for one little omission. What is the omission?


Robert Gibbs Asked Why Obama Leaves "Creator" out of Declaration of Independence


A Young Person Notices


I do not know if there is any connection to dissenting Christians but recently at least one pastor has been contacted by White House staff after he described Obama as "dangerous."

Checkpoints

Keene, N.H. checkpoint

Would Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and other Revolutionary era Founders approve of police checkpoints and warrant-less searches outside of war time invasion?


This is a checkpoint in Keene N.H. where there are random checkpoints (ostensibly for drunk drivers) or the pulling over of people without probable cause. There are those who would argue that this practice is a violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and removes the notion of “limited government.” The fact that some courts have allowed this is an example of how judges are often just another part of the government bureaucracy who do not respect the limits imposed by the Constitution nor do they recognize the limits of their office.

Would Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and other Revolutionary era Founders approve of police checkpoints and warrant-less searches outside of war time invasion? The British abused the warrant process and the King granted British troops the power to write their own warrants without the authority of a magistrate or a judge.

The activists also made a sign and stood 100 yards up from the checkpoint warning drivers of the checkpoint so they could turn off ahead of time.

It is somewhat more amusing to view the police detaining the man holding the sign while they try to think up something to charge him with, and seem frustrated when they cannot figure out a way to prevent the man from exercising his First Amendment rights.

It is important to point out that not all police believe checkpoints are constitutional nor do some judges. For many ordinary, average citizens who are pro-police they consider that police have better things to do to real crimes and to protect citizens.


Terrence Bressi went to court and won by fighting the random checkpoints.

On November 26th, I was stopped & seized for about the 50th time since the beginning of 2008. The seizure took place at an internal suspicionless Homeland Security checkpoint along Southern Arizona’s SR86 near mile post 146. SR86 is an East-West public highway located over 40 miles North of the border and never intersects the border at any point.

During the stop, Agent Gilmore admitted he knew who I was & all three agents told me I wasn’t being detained. Nonetheless, these facts didn’t stop the agents from refusing to allow me to go about my lawful business, choosing instead to escalate the encounter by requesting that I move to secondary inspection for more intensive scrutiny absent my consent or any clear suspicion.

While continuing to deny that I was being detained and refusing to allow me to leave, the agents threatened me with arrest for impeding their operations.

After close to eight minutes of being unlawfully detained, a Border Patrol supervisor eventually arrives on-scene and wastes no time in telling me that I’m free to go with no further scrutiny.

Given the circumstances surrounding this extended non-detention, the only reasonable explanation that can be attributed to the agent’s behavior is a desire to train the traveling public to be obedient to the whims of any federal agent.

Agent Gilmore's position

Dem in R.I. to Obama: Shove It


"He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I'm concerned," Frank Caprio told talk-show host John DePetro during an interview on WPRO-AM.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Retired Lt. Gen., Former Intelligence Officer Warns America About Marxism

"Marxism in America" by Lt. Gen. (Ret.) W.G. Boykin

Joe Walsh and Melissa Bean Debate: Illinois 8th Congressional District


There were no cameras allowed unless you had a “press pass”. There were roving camera enforcers that were looking for video cameras and promptly ousting them from the auditorium. The event began without a pledge of allegiance to Old Glory. So the people decided to pledge allegiance anyway.

The moderator stated that the Pledge took too long to recite so the audience was instructed that for the lack of time it would not be said: the Pledge took 12 seconds to recite. The moderator's explanation of her rules took 1:15 seconds.


The video taper was told that his Constitutional right to record the debate in a public forum at taxpayer's expense does not “apply tonight”. He was subsequently removed from the debate and barred from entering again.

Constituents Ask Why the Pledge Was Not Recited on a Taxpayer Funded Event

James Madison Urges Us to Vote on November 2nd

"Some, who have not denied the necessity of the power of taxation, have grounded a very fierce attack against the Constitution, on the language in which it is defined. It has been urged and echoed, that the power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction.”

Federalist 41, James Madison

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands;they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, everything, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress…. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”

James Madison, referring to a bill to subsidize cod fishermen introduced to the First Congress

Nina Totenberg vs. Charles Krauthammer on Juan William' Firing


NPR's Nina Totenberg appears with Charles Krauthammer on the set of Inside Washington, as he asks why NPR did not fire Totenberg along with Juan Williams. Juan made the mammoth PC mistake of saying he gets nervous on airplanes when Muslims-in-garb are on the plane. Totenberg once said the "Good Lord" must be considering Jessie Helms, and maybe Helms or his grandchildren will get AIDS. Nina escaped the crude "mobile-firing - or any firing at all, Juan didn't.

Nina Totenberg

Totenberg's actual quote from NewsBusters:

TOTENBERG: I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.

Krauthammer to Nina:

And I don't understand the inconsistency here. Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions, as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly, and she’s an honored correspondent there? In fact, they mention your status here on this show in your biography at NPR. And Juan, because he expresses his opinions, gets canned from NPR. That’s what the CEO said yesterday. In fact, the standard ought to be lower in the case of Juan because he’s an analyst, whereas Nina is a correspondent.

Totenberg responds in a manner of speaking along with other panelists. Krauthammer keeps asking why Juan Williams was singled-out, and ends with:

This is all highfalutin journalistic theory.

Most journalism today is in disarray. Andrew McCarthy points out the problem with Juan's firing is not Juan's firing. The real problem is our funding of NPR:

Why does a country that is trillions in debt, and in which people have unlimited options for obtaining information, need NPR? More to the point, why do we need to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which keeps NPR afloat?

And let's not forget the National Endowment for the Arts who gives many millions ($155M) to NPR each year, along with CPB's $400M.


Nina Totenberg, Robert Siegel Spoof Lady GaGa!

Do You Hear the People Sing? Les Miserables

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Article 4 Section 4 Constitution

League of Women Voters Says No Pledge: Audience Ignores Directions and Does It Anyway


In a debate between Joe Walsh and Melissa Bean in Illinois a patriotic event occurred.

The League of Women Voters hosted the event, but claimed there was no time for the Pledge of Allegiance before the proceedings. When someone asked why they would not allow the Pledge to be said, the moderator from the League (Kathy Tate-Bradish) harped, hemmed, and hawed for some time…until the audience just rose up against her and said the Pledge anyway.

Warns that Weather Underground networks still could be operating

FBI informant to Congress: Investigate Ayers, Dohrn now


The full series and other information has been posted online as well.

My Work Here is Done

Will Obama admit extent of Iran's role in Iraq, laid bare by WikiLeaks? Doubt It.

The N.Y. Times states that Iranian attacks continued during Obama’s first year in office, with no indication that the new regime’s policies led the Quds Force to end its support for Iraqi militants. The pending American troop withdrawals, the reports asserted, may even have encouraged some militant attacks. Obama is endangering our troops.

The import and importance of the Wikileaks make it clear that the lethal contest between Iranian-backed militias and American forces continued after Obama sought to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran’s leaders and reaffirmed the agreement between the United States and Iraq to withdraw American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Halloween

Citizens against Government Waste

U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence on Muslim Mafia


Retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, made an impassioned plea for Americans – especially Christians – to learn about the inner workings of stealth jihadists by reading "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," a book based on the covert penetration of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Evil Rich People

Obama Takes Credit for Bush Environmental Initiatives

Hot air? White House takes credit for Bush-era wind farm jobs

Cafe Owner Ordered to Remove Smell Offensive to Muslims

Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan because neighbour claimed 'smell of frying bacon offends Muslims.'

No Free Speech is Safe Today: NPR Ends Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks

The firing of Juan Williams is an assault on William’s freedom of speech, journalism and on America. This is about censorship, i.e., silencing the voices of Williams, Fox, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Americans AND the Islamization of America.

Williams dared to be honest by uttering that which is in the back of all of our minds, if only for a second, when in an airport or on a plane in the company of Muslims.

NPR’s termination of Williams puts Americans on notice that anyone who utters a word that Muslims consider offensive will be demonized and punished.

NPR who receives taxpayer dollars had no right to break Williams’ contract. Defund NPR! After all, they have George Soros who donated $1.8 million to NPR for the hiring 100 news reporters, reporters who will spread Marxist propaganda in a declaration of war against all who repudiate progressivism.

"Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

Juan Williams: NPR Fired Me For Making "Bigoted Statement"

FOX News explains how NPR reported his departure: "Juan Williams' remarks on Monday night's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor" and said they were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices and that they undermined Williams' credibility as a new analyst with NPR."

The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol: Does NPR think Juan Williams is a bigot?

"I said what I meant to say," Juan Williams said in his defense.

Megyn Kelly vs. Islamist


National Politically-correct Radio

In wake of Williams firing, Republicans want NPR funding examined

NPR’s CEO, Vivian Schiller, stated that Williams has no “journalistic rule of ethics” and that he was “not compatible with the role of a news analyst on NPR”

The high corporate tax rate in the U.S. motivates companies to move activities and related income to lower-tax countries

Cf. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63898300/

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization. Bloomberg's Melissa Long reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Google to post ancient Dead Sea Scrolls online

First century material meets 21st century technology, opening historical documents to massive online audience.

The Myth of the Moderate Muslim

Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11.

Will the Federal Reserve Cause a Civil War?

Bernanke critics are on the attack.

Lentz Same Old Dirty Tricks Politics: Pa. Democrat admits helping Tea Party candidate

Pa. Democrat admits helping Tea Party candidate

Tea Party Report by Special Interest Group: “Unless there’s something super dramatic in it, I just don’t see people’s minds being changed very much now.”

Quite spotty in the discussion of evidence. They are grasping at straws. It is obvious.

“It’s a lot to digest,” said Burdett Loomis, political science professor at the University of Kansas.

BROKE UK SLASHES 500,000 GOV'T JOBS


Spending Review: Osborne wields axe

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Frederick Douglass Republicans Can Save Our Republic


“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. ” —Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Vatican's Chief Justice: Catholic Politicians Who Support Abortion or Gay Marriage Must Publicly Repent


The culture today pushes a “cafeteria Catholicism,” whereby some Catholics pick and choose “what part of the deposit of faith to believe and practice.”

2010 Catholic High School Honor Roll Top 50

The list can be viewed here.

Obama: Dangerous to Our Military

Interview with Retired Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson on Obama, Clinton, and National Security

I think we’ve elected a man, in Barack Obama, who’s more dangerous to our military, and to the national security of this nation, than even Bill Clinton—and that pains me to say, but I believe that, to be honest and sincere, that we have elected a man more ill-equipped, more unqualified, than President Clinton. We’ve elected a man to the Presidency, at a time when we’re fighting a global ideological enemy—that is, radical Islamism and jihadism—and we’ve elected a man to be our commander-in-chief at a time when we’re fighting hot wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. The damage he’s doing to our military, at a time that we’re fighting a war, to me, is egregious.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Ian Hunter, 05 October 2010, Brighton, England, Komedia

Entrance Onstage, not a song



Sea Diver



River of Tears


Big Mouth



Flowers



Is There Life After Death from You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic



Rain from the 1981 album Short Back 'n' Sides


Sweet Jane


Shallow Crystals



Wash Us Away



Somewhere



"Somewhere" is the P.J. Proby version.

Irene Wilde



Man Overboard



Dancing on the Moon



Walking With A Mountain


Roll Away The Stone


Cleveland Rocks from You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic


All The Way From Memphis


Saturday Gigs


All The Young Dudes

Top Dem, socialists plot '1-world' scheme




http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=216593

The New American Dream

White House Under Fire Over Military Voting Flap


Critics hammer Obama administration's handling of Illinois military voting controversy

Egyptian Refugee from Islam

Black Caucus and the Tea Party

Timothy Johnson addresses the Black Caucus regarding the Tea Party

Our Favorite Original Commie: Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters’ Pro – Communist Past

Cyber Warfare Stuxnet

Facebook in Privacy Breach

Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds

Barney Frank's Boyfriend Heckles GOP Opponent After Debate


Outside of a radio debate--at WGBH--Rep. Barney Frank's (D-MA) boyfriend James Ready heckles Sean Bielat (R-MA). (source: FlemingandHayes)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

America Rising We Will Take Our Country Back


The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism." "But under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas
A Message from those that voted this disaster into office: We elected you on a promise of hope and change. We regret it. In 2010, we are taking our country back. Blue collar democrats, independents, and conservatives. We love our country. We are proud of our founders. And we will fight for our traditions. We dont want your "fundamental transformation of America."

Free Social Media Tools for Teachers

7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers

News Analysis-French Protests

The French crisis issue is discussed with experts in this edition of News Analysis. Press TV is the first Iranian international news network, broadcasting in English on a round-the-clock basis.

France has witnessed the most massive demonstrations as protesters in Paris and other large cities rallied to decry French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to increase retirement age from 60 to 62.

The strikes have closed hundreds of schools, refineries and train stations and grounded flights amid concerns that the situation could get worse.

Meanwhile, unions have promised to step up their protests in the coming days.

Gov’t Geniuses in Detroit Seek To Educate Citizens About Public Transportation


The government representative notes that she has a Masters degree in landscape architecture and regional planning which must be all that it takes.

She states: “it’s gonna take a huge effort to educate the public about the importance of public transportation.” Apparently she believes the people are too stupid to know what they need.

Black American Tea Party Members School White Leftist who asks “What Happened To Your Black African Religion”

Bill Gates Favors Death Panels

1st Amendment Curtailed in Colorado

Obama Billboard Comes Down.

Billboard Down in Colorado

America's Mom Dies

Barbara Billingsley, mother on 'Leave It to Beaver,' dies at 94.

Leave It to Beaver, "Beaver and Chuey," a moral lesson in tolerance and sensitivity. From Season 2, Episode 43: Beaver unknowingly insults a Spanish friend with a phrase Eddie taught him.

Billingsley had a sense of humor as well. She played a bit part as the jive talking passenger in Airplane.

Merkel says German multicultural society has failed

She specifically referred to recent comments by German President Christian Wulff who said that Islam was "part of Germany", like Christianity and Judaism. Her comments come on the heels of her statement that German Muslims must obey law, not sharia. "Now we obviously also have Muslims in Germany. But it's important in regard to Islam that the values represented by Islam must correspond with our constitution," said Merkel.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Ian Hunter, 14 October 2010 Bristol England 02 Academy

Mott's dudes reunite for a rock'n'roll masterclass

Somewhere & All The Way From Memphis



Roll Away The Stone, Saturday Gigs, & All The Young Dudes


Just a snippet of Dudes:


Snippet of All The Way From Memphis

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes.

Columbus Avoided the Muslim Tax Man

Sharia required the infidels to pay more so they tried to go around the Ottoman Empire.

Soldier says ordered to delete Fort Hood videos

Spc. Megan Martin stated a man to her left stood up and shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — "God is great!" — then start firing a weapon. Pfc. Lance Aviles told an Article 32 hearing that his non-commissioned officer ordered him to destroy the two videos on Nov. 5, the same day a gunman unleashed a volley of bullets inside a processing center at the Texas Army post.

Gov't: No increase for Social Security next year

Gov't: Inflation too low to merit increase in Social Security benefits for 2011.

Obama's Muslim, Polygamist Half Brother Marries Teen

Obama's half brother in Kenya says he married teen.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Ian Hunter, 07 Oct 2010, OWG Center, Dartford England (w/Oopsie Mamushka)

Gallup: 46 Percent Say

U.S. Government 'Poses Immediate Threat to the Rights and Freedoms' of U.S. Citizens

Creating Digital Comics

Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Comics by David Kapuler

Obama’s Wars

“Obama’s Wars:” Commander-In-Defeat?

Descriptive Billboard in Colorado

Handout photo shows a colorful billboard in Grand Junction, Colorado depicting US President Barack Obama as a suicide bomber, a gangster, a Mexican bandit and a gay -- with the ironic slogan "Vote DemocRAT." The poster has triggered a row in Grand Junction weeks ahead of crucial mid-term November elections.… Read more »
(AFP/Grand Junction Sentinel/Gretel Daugherty)

The Browning of the GOP

Top Conservatives Bring Color and Candor to Republican Party

Obama Insult: Blacks Probably Not Watching "Meet The Press"


Whoopi & Joy Walk Out In Protest Over Bill O'Reilly's View

During ABC's "The View," Fox's Bill O'Reilly expresses his opinion as Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walk off the set during a debate on the mosque proposed for two blocks from Ground Zero in New York. Barbara Walters apologized for her co-hosts' behavior.

Michelle Breaks the Law

No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place, within 100 feet of any polling place.

The law goes on to state: "Judges of election shall enforce the provisions of this Section" which did not happen.

First lady Michelle violated Illinois law--when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place.

She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.

"She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said.

According to a pool reporter from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES at the scene, the conversation took place INSIDE the voting center, not far from the booths.

A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official reported to the DRUDGE REPORT that Obama--a Harvard-educated lawyer although her records are sealed--may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.

Who does not know these simple rules of the law? Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

"You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

Who was the official talking about? Michelle or her husband?

O'Donnell vs. Coons, Marxist Beliefs Debate

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Anjem Choudary, Islam Not a "Religion of Peace"


Erick Stakelbeck from CBN conducted the interview.

Ian Hunter, Review, 12 October 2010, Town Hall, Birmingham England

Ian Hunter at Birmingham Town Hall

Ian Hunter, Review, 10 Oct 2010, Union Chapel, London England (w/Oopsie Mamushka)

10 Oct 2010 Union Chapel, London England w/Oopsie Mamushka)

Wash Us Away


Man Overboard


River of Tears


Ships


Michael Picasso



Ian Hunter & Rant Band - acoustic gig
Union Chapel, Islington

I Wish I Was Your Mother


Waterlow


Irene Wilde


Soul Of America


Seadiver


Sweet Jane


Roll Away The Stone


All The Young Dudes


Sweet Jane


All The Young Dudes

Obama's Financial Support: Foreign, Domestic, and Unaccounted For

51 posts categorized "Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic"

How Do You Create a Job? Richard Blumenthal vs. Linda McMahon in Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race

Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe

This is the publication of the Case Studies of Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe, published by The Pew Research Centre's Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Podcasts of the conference are available as well.

Degrees of Separation – Obama, Socialist Scholars, and the East German Spy


Trevor Loudon has done the yeoman's work in identifying the connection between the radical Left and Obama. Building on this work, the book documentation of the socialist connection has been made by Stanley Kurtz.

In June 2008 the socialist Kurt Stand wrote an essay in prison entitled “Supporting Barack Obama: A Prison-Eye View of the Presidential Campaign“:

As to Obama, I vacillated, knowing of his past activism, but not seeing enough in his Senate record or campaign approach to sufficiently differentiate himself from Edwards or Clinton…

To go back to Obama, nobody knows what he will do, but if he is able to overcome our country’s racism and actually win election we can expect some initial efforts to rein in the excesses of the Bush Administration, some measures to ameliorate the worst conditions which people are experiencing in terms of rights, in terms of insecurity…

It will be up to those who want genuine social justice to build movements that give him the possibility of pushing further; finding out then whether he will or won’t remembering that the key will not be him but us (us defined as those who worked for his election, for social justice activists, the left) and what we do, how we organize. How we use the social solidarity the campaign is developing as the basis of a renewed social solidarity. Will that be enough—no, the structural roots of the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, of neo-liberal economics, of the authoritarian aspects of our political culture won’t go gently in the night. Only, however, by working in good faith with attempts to improve what is, is it even possible to imagine the building of the necessary, broad-based, independent, radical formations able to press for deeper changes.

In sum, radicals and progressives ought to join those—including those in prison—who have already decided to back Obama, see where the campaign can take us, see what can then be accomplished.

85% Angry About the Economy Fuels Republican Advantage

GOP More PO'ed About Economy, and More Likely to Vote.

Across US, Long Recovery

Looks Like a Recession

Chinese dominate list of richest women

Oprah ranks ninth.

Americans See Children's Future Dim in Poll as 50% Pessimistic

Times are tough.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Palestinian Pop Music, MEMRI: Hamas Holiday Song Performed by Children: Give Us Our Pocket-Money to Buy Guns and Wage Jihad

MEMRI: Hamas Holiday Song Performed by Children: Give Us Our Pocket-Money to Buy Guns and Wage Jihad


Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - September 8, 2010 - 04:16

Why Foreclosure Fraud Is So Dangerous to Property Rights

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/10/why-foreclosure-fraud-is-so-dangerous-to-property-rights/

Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations: Now Accusing Political Opponents of Same

Even the Washington Post reported on Obama's foreign money during the campaign.

Largest Purchase of U.S. Energy Assets by State-Run Chinese Company

China Claims Texas Oil, Gas


Analysts expect few political or regulatory hurdles to the deal which I suppose means that no one in the Federal government thought that maybe the state-owned Chinese company might use these energy assets for their military. The company is said to increase its rig count in South Texas from 10 rigs to about 40 by the end of 2012. The Americans will be selling off its natural riches, in addition to hampering American companies with regulations, who would otherwise profit from the reserves, all in the hopes of raising cash, creating jobs, and finally getting the opportunity to buy back energy products that originally were the natural resources of the Americans.
Energy consumption in the world’s most populous nation has doubled in less than a decade, and the International Energy Agency reported in July that China surpassed the U.S. in total energy used in 2009.
China has poured some $20 billion in loans and direct investments into Brazil’s offshore oil exploration and production, for example. And last spring, the Chinese government loaned $20 billion to Venezuela to develop oil fields in its Orinoco River basin, with much of the work awarded to Chinese companies.
All this comes on the heels of an Obama-appointed 7 October panel statement which concluded that the Obama administration was slow to ramp up its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, then overreacted as public criticism turned the disaster into a political liability. The staff of a special commission investigating the disaster stated their conclusions in four papers issued by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

Obama benefited his pal George Soros by outsourcing American jobs to Brazil.

Ian Hunter, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, October 2nd 2010; 11 October 2010, The Journal Tyne Theatre, Newcastle England

Judging from this laudatory review I would imagine the reviewer really was in the audience.

Little Star, Letter to Brittania From the Union Jack


Michael Picasso


 

Roll Away The Stone

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, October 2nd 2010


Tracie on backing vocals


Boy


Sweet Jane


Walking With a Mountain/Rock 'n' Roll Queen





Letter to Brittania from the Union Jack/All The Way From Memphis





All The Way From Memphis


Roll Away The Stone/Saturday Gigs/All The Young Dudes


All The Young Dudes


Roll Away The Stone/Saturday Gigs/All The Young Dudes

Obama Promotes Chinese Communist Military

Obama issued a waiver loosening Tiananmen arms sanctions for C-130 military transports for China a day after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Chinese dissident who dedicated the prize this past weekend to the victims of the 1989 crackdown.

School District Settles WebcamGate

Settlement worth more than $600,000. As a follow-up to a story from last year, the Lower Merion School District agreed to settle after spying on their students through webcams.

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Reading since summer 2006 (some of the classics are re-reads): including magazine subscriptions

  • Abbot, Edwin A., Flatland;
  • Accelerate: Technology Driving Business Performance;
  • ACM Queue: Architecting Tomorrow's Computing;
  • Adkins, Lesley and Roy A. Adkins, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome;
  • Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations;
  • Ali, Tariq, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity;
  • Allawi, Ali A., The Crisis of Islamic Civilization;
  • Alperovitz, Gar, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb;
  • American School & University: Shaping Facilities & Business Decisions;
  • Angelich, Jane, What's a Mother (in-Law) to Do?: 5 Essential Steps to Building a Loving Relationship with Your Son's New Wife;
  • Arad, Yitzchak, In the Shadow of the Red Banner: Soviet Jews in the War Against Nazi Germany;
  • Aristotle, Athenian Constitution. Eudemian Ethics. Virtues and Vices. (Loeb Classical Library No. 285);
  • Aristotle, Metaphysics: Books X-XIV, Oeconomica, Magna Moralia (The Loeb classical library);
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