Ian Hunter, Falkhallen, the Black Box, Falkenberg, Sweden, 6 October 2012

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Once Bitten Twice Shy

Irene Wilde/All The Way From Memphis/All American Alien Boy

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Princeton Economist: Obama Campaign Is Misrepresenting My Study on Romney's Tax Plan

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein and Princeton economist Harvey Rosen object to Obama's characterization of their work.

Check the Math: Romney's Tax Plan Doesn't Raise Middle Class Taxes

Obama Supporters: Affirmative Action Should Have Teleprompter At Debates

Rebel Pundit caught up with supporters at an Obama for America rally in Madison, WI on Thursday. When asked if it was "fair" that the President was unable to use a teleprompter during the debates, overwhelmingly the supporters said "no.

RELIGIOUS LEADERS NATIONWIDE DEFY THE IRS

The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America.

China Advance: GPS Superior to American Technology

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Ian Hunter, 29 September 2012, ACME Studios in Mamaroneck, N.Y.

On September 29th, Ian and James Mastro recorded a short acoustic set for The Peak 107.1 at ACME Studios in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Ian and James Mastro performed ‘Just The Way You Look Tonight’, ‘Ta Shunka Witco’ and ‘Life’, which will be broadcast on Thursday October 11 at 7 PM, and rebroadcast on Saturday October 13 at 8 AM. You can listen online at The Peak.

http://www.1071thepeak.com/

Catholic Leaders Decry Islamist Attacks and Secularism

Catholic leaders gather to counter decline of faith

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII issued on May 15, 1891.

Rerum Novarum: On the Condition of the Working Classes

Main points: Promotion of human dignity through just distribution of wealth. Present inequality creates a decline of morality as shown in alcohol consumption, prostitution, and divorce. Workers have basic human rights that adhere to Natural Law, which says all humans are equal. Rights include the right to work, to own private property, to receive a just wage, and to organize into workers' associations. Employers and employees each have rights and responsibilities: while the worker should not riot to create a situation of conflict with the employer, the employer should maintain an environment respecting worker's dignity.
The church has the right to speak out on social issues. Its role is to teach social principles and bring social classes together. The state's role is to create a just society through laws that preserve rights.

Context: Much poverty. Because of the Industrial Revolution, workers are being exploited by profit-hungry employers. Public authorities are not protecting the rights of the poor.


The Industrial Revolution brought many concerns about the deteriorating working and living conditions of urban workers. Influenced by the German Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler, in 1891 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Rerum Novarum, subtitled "On Capital and Labor". This encyclical set in context Catholic social teaching in terms that rejected socialism but advocated the regulation of working conditions. Rerum Novarum argued for the establishment of a living wage and the right of workers to form trade unions.

In Rerum Novarum, Leo set out the Catholic Church's response to the social instability and labor conflict that had arisen in the wake of industrialization and had led to the rise of socialism. The Pope taught that the role of the State is to promote social justice through the protection of rights, while the Church must speak out on social issues in order to teach correct social principles and ensure class harmony. He restated the Church's long-standing teaching regarding the crucial importance of private property rights, but recognized, in one of the best-known passages of the encyclical, that the free operation of market forces must be tempered by moral considerations:

Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular let them agree freely as to the wages; nevertheless, there underlies a dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely, that wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accept harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford him no better, he is made the victim of force and injustice.

Rerum Novarum is remarkable for its vivid depiction of the plight of the 19th-century urban poor and for its condemnation of unrestricted capitalism. Among the remedies it prescribed were the formation of trade unions and the introduction of collective bargaining, particularly as an alternative to state intervention. Rerum Novarum also recognized that the poor have a special status in consideration of social issues: the modern Catholic principle of the "preferential option for the poor" and the notion that God is on the side of the poor found their first expression in this document.

Criticism of Common Core, James Madison

Research & Commentary: National ‘Common Core’ Curriculum Standards

In Federalist #10, James Madison argued that the way to prevent tyranny, including tyranny of the majority, was to disperse power throughout the country.

ISRAEL RELEASES FOOTAGE OF MILITARY SHOOTING DOWN DRONE THAT PENETRATED ITS AIRSPACE

Ian Hunter, 7 October 2012, Naken Stockholm

Naken Stockholm 2012-10-07

WINDFALL: OBAMA RAISES $181 MILLION, ONLY AROUND 2% OF DONATIONS REPORTABLE

$181 MILLION, ONLY AROUND 2% OF DONATIONS REPORTABLE

EPA Exploits ‘Children Health Month,’ Recruiting Students as Snitches

‘Energy Patrols’ at School

Islamist family pleads guilty in Koranic 'honor beating'

Libyan False Flag Operation: Intelligence officials accuse Obama of 'cover-up' in Libya

Lt. Col. Wood has told CBS News and congressional investigators that his 16-member team and a six-member State Department elite force called a Mobile Security Deployment team left Libya in August, just one month before the Benghazi assault. Wood says that's despite the fact that US officials in Libya wanted security increased, not decreased.

Intelligence officials say the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's false information was either knowingly disseminated or was directed to be put out by senior policy officials for political reasons, since the statement was contradicted by numerous intelligence reports at the time of the attack indicating it was al Qaeda-related terrorism.

Yet the Obama administration sought to keep the information from becoming public to avoid exposing what the officials say is a Middle East policy failure by Obama.

Officials said that the administration appeared to engage in a disinformation campaign aimed at distancing the president personally during the peak of the presidential election campaign from the disaster in Benghazi, where numerous warning of an attack were ignored, resulting in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other officials.

The first part of the apparent campaign, officials said, was the false information provided to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, who appeared on five Sunday television shows after the attack to say the event was a “spontaneous” response to an anti-Muslim video trailer posted online.

Officials said Rice was given the false information to use in media appearances in order to promote the excuse that the obscure video was the cause of the attack, and not the Islamic concept of jihad.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeated the false assessment of the Benghazi attack.

The final element of the campaign involved comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was the first to give a partial explanation of the intelligence when she said al Qaeda terrorists operating from Mali were possible culprits in the Benghazi attack.

The terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks is now flourishing under the Muslim Brotherhood regime of Mohamed Morsi.

Egypt was among the locations of Obama’s 2009 “apology” tour, when he criticized past U.S. policies based on what he said was “fear and anger” that prompted actions “contrary to our ideals.” He also promised “a new beginning” for the U.S. and the world’s Muslims and a radical shift in U.S. policy.

JACK WELCH REFUSES TO BACK DOWN ON UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN FIERY EXCHANGE WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS

“We had 600,000 government jobs added in the last two months. We had 873,00 jobs by a household survey — which is a total estimate — from 50,000 phone calls. Of those, 600,000 were temporary workers. Chris, these numbers are all a series of assumptions. Tons of assumptions. And it just seems somewhat coincidental that the month before the election, the numbers go one-tenth of a point below where the president started. Although, I don’t see anything in the economy that says these surges are true.”

“I have no evidence to prove that, I just raise the question,” he said.

“But you didn’t raise the question,” Matthews shot back.

“Did you talk to any economist or any people in the national income accounting world that understood how these numbers are put together before you accuse these ‘Chicago guys’ of changing the numbers?” the host asked.

Welch then repeated his position that the unemployment numbers were generated based on a “series of wild assumptions.”

Matthews then asked if he wanted to take back his accusation that the numbers were intentionally fudged.

“No,” Welch said defiantly. As Matthews grew frustrated with his guests defiance, he accused Welch of irresponsibly alleging wrongdoing by the president of the United States without probable cause. At this, Welch laughed — literally.


“It’s not funny, Jack…You’re talking about the President of the United States playing with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ numbers. This is Nixon stuff. This is what Nixon said back in the old days,” Matthews said.

“Chris, don’t lose it now,” Welch said.

“I’m not losing it. Look at my face. I’m not losing it,” Matthews said.

“Jack, do you want to take back the charge that there was corruption here,” Matthews asked again, getting the same answer.

“You don’t think it’s coincidental that we’ve got the biggest surge since 1983 in the jobs surge? Come on, Chris,” Welch said, refusing to back down. “It’s a six percent improvement in employment in two months…The numbers don’t jibe.”

He continued: “These numbers defy logic. They defy logic. We do not have a 4 to 5 percent booming economy with 873,000 people added. I mean, stop it, Chris. On the face of it, we don’t have this GDP. I love you, but you can’t get there.”

Matthews tried one more time to get Welch to walk his statement back, but it was useless. However, the guest did admit again that he has no “evidence whatsoever” of “corruption.”

Welch said he was just “raising the question for some good analysts to go look at.”

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Obama mocks financial success as ‘blind luck’

A recent video from 2005 has surfaced in which Obama claims that Americans in the private sector who have achieved financial success is due to ‘blind luck’ and a ‘generation of women doing someone else’s laundry and looking after someone else’s children to get you here.’

These statements came on September 17, 2005 at the Harvard Law School Association ‘Celebration of Black Alumni’ Award Luncheon.

He also argued, as he does now that government should play a larger role in health care, retirement and national infrastructure.

In referring to the free-market system, Obama said ‘the other side has an easier job because their argument is essentially what is, you know, labeled the ownership society is actually pretty easily articulated. It says, ‘We are all in it by ourselves….’

Longines Chronoscope: September 3, 1951 - 8 February 1952: Authors, Lawyers, Politicians, Statesmen, U.S. Representatives

Interviewees:
Princess Alexandra Kropotkin, Russian emigre, author
Charles B. Brownson, U.S. Representative from Indiana
Christian Herter, American politician and statesman
Clifford P. Case, American lawyer and politician
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American politician
Frederic René Coudert, Jr., Representative from New York

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (August 17, 1914 -- August 17, 1988) was an American politician. He was the fifth child of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sr. and his wife Eleanor.

He was a Naval officer in World War II and was decorated for bravery in the battle of Casablanca.

He graduated from Groton School in 1933, Harvard University in 1937, and from the University of Virginia School of Law in June 1940. During his graduation, his father, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave what is known as the "Stab in the Back" Speech, criticizing Italy's entry into the war.

Roosevelt Jr. served as a member of the United States Congress, representing the 20th District of New York from 1949 to 1955. In 1949, he won a special election running as a candidate of the Liberal Party of New York and later ran on the Democratic ticket as well.

He sought the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1954, but, after persuasion by powerful Tammany Hall boss Carmine DeSapio, abandoned his bid for Governor was nominated by the Democratic State Convention to run for New York State Attorney General. Roosevelt was defeated in the general election by Republican Jacob K. Javits, although all other Democratic nominees were elected. Following his loss, Eleanor Roosevelt began building a campaign against the Tammany Hall leader that eventually forced DeSapio to step down from power in 1961.

He campaigned for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 West Virginia primary, falsely accusing Kennedy's opponent, Hubert Humphrey of having dodged the draft in World War II. Kennedy later named him Under-Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the President's Appalachian Regional Commission. This post (Under-Secretary of Commerce) was given to him when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara shot down the proposal of his appointment as Secretary of Navy.

He ran for Governor of New York on the Liberal Party ticket in 1966, but was defeated by the incumbent Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller.

He served as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from May 26, 1965 to May 11, 1966.

He was senior partner in the New York law firm of Roosevelt and Freiden before and after his service in the Congress.

He also ran a small cattle farm and imported Fiat automobiles. (He was a personal friend of Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt,_Jr.

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