The Dollar, The Dollar, That's all we hear about lately...Who we trying to kid? It's worthless!

Source: RawStory.com




Top Chinese Official Signals Move Away From Dollar



The Chinese are becoming increasingly wary of the growing supply of U.S. dollars, leading the head of the nation’s green energy initiatives to signal a move away from dollar reserves and toward, gold, euros and yen, according to a published report.

“We hope there will be a change in monetary policy as soon as they have positive growth again,” said Cheng Siwei, former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee, according to The Telegraph.

He added: “If they keep printing money to buy bonds it will lead to inflation, and after a year or two the dollar will fall hard. Most of our foreign reserves are in US bonds and this is very difficult to change, so we will diversify incremental reserves into euros, yen, and other currencies.”

Siwei also noted that China is especially interested in purchasing gold, but will move methodically in that arena so as not to agitate the market.

“To the degree that they sell dollars and buy gold, Yen or Euros, there can only be downward pressure on the U.S. dollar,” noted Edward Harrison with economic analysis publication RGE Monitor.

“One cannot rely on the words of one Chinese official to represent policy makers in China,” he added. “And Cheng never said the Chinese are now actively diversifying away from the U.S. dollar. Nevertheless, Chinese officials have been talking along this dollar bearish line for months now and I tend to believe their words will lead to action.”

However, some believe China has already begun this diversification.

“[Siwei's] comment captures exactly what observation of gold price action suggests is happening,” opined Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in a Telegraph op-ed. “Every time it looks as if the bullion market is going to buckle, some big force steps in from the unknown.

“Investors long-suspected that it was China. We later discovered that Beijing had in fact doubled its gold reserves to 1054 tonnes. Fait accompli first. Announcement long after.”

Business Insider added: “It’s going to be slow, and the country is loathe to buy too heavily, else it distorts the market more than it would like, but over time it will keep accumulating the shiny metal.”

On Monday gold exchange rates hit a six-month high at $995.19 an ounce, with some predicting the metal may appreciate over and above the $1,000 mark very soon.

“The underlying factor is still the dollar,” said Dan Smith, a UK-based Standard Chartered Plc analyst, according to Bloomberg News. “If we do see a break in the dollar, it could be one of the triggers to take gold higher.”

Sunday, central bank supervisors from all the world’s most powerful nations agreed, at America’s behest, to strengthen the “Basel II” framework for international commerce and increase currency liquidity in all member nations. They also agreed to empower “global supervision” of financial industries, which they said will ultimately result in markets with greater resistance to economic stress.

China has over $2 trillion in U.S. dollar reserves.

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The American Movement...comes with a good recommendation!

This video recommended by Alex Dee

ps: Storm'n Norm'n made a tea party video...check it out here Montgomery Tea Party

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The End Of U.S. - Mr. Hooben's ideas are now being widely discussed among local experts.

Not too long ago I mentioned in one of my emails that the closer the time line approaches my prediction for civil unrest the more I want to extend that line but by the same token the closer it gets the more real it appears. Others are hinting at the collapse of our economy and of course the end of all is not too far behind. We have the Chinese laughing in our faces (see America Begs China for Money—and the Chinese Laugh!) and saying true things about our ineptness (see Quote of the Day). Ineptness comes from poor leadership of which we have none...you say what! Oh, that guy call Obama, he's no leader. He's just a tool of the New World Order(NWO)...you know them by Carter, Bush, Clinton, Kerry, Kissinger, Brzezinski...whoa, did that last guy throw you off a bit? Brzezinski and roughly five-thousand others around the world are the NWO. They are in control. They are the politic elite! (Hear Brzezinski mention them here.) Obama is just the next fool in line before total devastation. And for all you who believed Obama when he said, "America is no longer a Christian nation." will one day soon find yourself screaming, "Oh my God!" "What the hell happened?" Not a one of you will be saying, "Oh my Allah!"
Meanwhile I came across the following story from the Wall Street Journal that more or less announces that which I've been saying all along...all except for the new demarcation lines (see map in article) once we are divided. I don't believe that for a moment! The American people are too smart and will revolt before they let that happen. ~ Norman E. Hooben (ps: I've taken the liberty to inject a video where appropriate to solidify the Professor's statement. Also, I had made earlier predictions but the last one was here: A Glimpse At History And A Prediction)

If Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End Of U.S.

By ANDREW OSBORN

MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.

Igor Panarin

In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger."

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations.

But it's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories.

A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Mr. Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire.

"There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he says. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia." Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

In addition to increasing coverage in state media, which are tightly controlled by the Kremlin, Mr. Panarin's ideas are now being widely discussed among local experts. He presented his theory at a recent roundtable discussion at the Foreign Ministry. The country's top international relations school has hosted him as a keynote speaker. During an appearance on the state TV channel Rossiya, the station cut between his comments and TV footage of lines at soup kitchens and crowds of homeless people in the U.S. The professor has also been featured on the Kremlin's English-language propaganda channel, Russia Today.

Mr. Panarin's apocalyptic vision "reflects a very pronounced degree of anti-Americanism in Russia today," says Vladimir Pozner, a prominent TV journalist in Russia. "It's much stronger than it was in the Soviet Union."

Is this anti-Americanism very pronounced?

Mr. Pozner and other Russian commentators and experts on the U.S. dismiss Mr. Panarin's predictions. "Crazy ideas are not usually discussed by serious people," says Sergei Rogov, director of the government-run Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, who thinks Mr. Panarin's theories don't hold water.

Mr. Panarin's résumé includes many years in the Soviet KGB, an experience shared by other top Russian officials. His office, in downtown Moscow, shows his national pride, with pennants on the wall bearing the emblem of the FSB, the KGB's successor agency. It is also full of statuettes of eagles; a double-headed eagle was the symbol of czarist Russia.

The professor says he began his career in the KGB in 1976. In post-Soviet Russia, he got a doctorate in political science, studied U.S. economics, and worked for FAPSI, then the Russian equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency. He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are "classified."

In September 1998, he attended a conference in Linz, Austria, devoted to information warfare, the use of data to get an edge over a rival. It was there, in front of 400 fellow delegates, that he first presented his theory about the collapse of the U.S. in 2010.

"When I pushed the button on my computer and the map of the United States disintegrated, hundreds of people cried out in surprise," he remembers. He says most in the audience were skeptical. "They didn't believe me."

At the end of the presentation, he says many delegates asked him to autograph copies of the map showing a dismembered U.S.

He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in.

California will form the nucleus of what he calls "The Californian Republic," and will be part of China or under Chinese influence. Texas will be the heart of "The Texas Republic," a cluster of states that will go to Mexico or fall under Mexican influence. Washington, D.C., and New York will be part of an "Atlantic America" that may join the European Union. Canada will grab a group of Northern states Prof. Panarin calls "The Central North American Republic." Hawaii, he suggests, will be a protectorate of Japan or China, and Alaska will be subsumed into Russia.

"It would be reasonable for Russia to lay claim to Alaska; it was part of the Russian Empire for a long time." A framed satellite image of the Bering Strait that separates Alaska from Russia like a thread hangs from his office wall. "It's not there for no reason," he says with a sly grin.

Interest in his forecast revived this fall when he published an article in Izvestia, one of Russia's biggest national dailies. In it, he reiterated his theory, called U.S. foreign debt "a pyramid scheme," and predicted China and Russia would usurp Washington's role as a global financial regulator.

Americans hope President-elect Barack Obama "can work miracles," he wrote. "But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles."

The article prompted a question about the White House's reaction to Prof. Panarin's forecast at a December news conference. "I'll have to decline to comment," spokeswoman Dana Perino said amid much laughter.

For Prof. Panarin, Ms. Perino's response was significant. "The way the answer was phrased was an indication that my views are being listened to very carefully," he says.

The professor says he's convinced that people are taking his theory more seriously. People like him have forecast similar cataclysms before, he says, and been right. He cites French political scientist Emmanuel Todd. Mr. Todd is famous for having rightly forecast the demise of the Soviet Union -- 15 years beforehand. "When he forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1976, people laughed at him," says Prof. Panarin.

Write to Andrew Osborn at andrew.osborn@wsj.com

And this was sent to me earlier ...

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Subject: Fw: A Russian Analyst's Perspective on America

From a friend who is retired military and Civil Service. Another voice heard, time will tell. Glad I had a few retirement years. The Fall Of America Russian Professor Igor Panarin has stated that certain events that are occurring in the United States is actually confirming his doomsday forecast for the US: collapse. Igor Panarin, doctor of political sciences and professor of the Russian Diplomatic Academy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters and journ alists, after unveiling his new book, that the United States is in the beginning of its demise and that its collapse could occur within the next two months, according to Russia Today. 'Obama is “the president of hope”, but in a year there won’t be any hope. He’s practically another Gorbachev he likes to talk but hasn’t really managed to do anything. Gorbachev at least had been a secretary of a regional communist party administration, whereas Obama was just a social worker. His mentality is totally different. He’s a nice person and talks nicely – but he’s not a leader and will take America to a crash. When Americans understand that – it will be like a bomb explosion.' For more than a decade now, Panarin has been forecasting the collapse and disintegration of the United States and, like many economic analysts these days such as Jim Rogers and Peter Schiff, the utter devaluation of the US Dollar. Last year he stated, according to a report by Rianovosti, 'The dollar is not secured by anything. The country's foreign debt has grown like an20 avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.' Also, the recent Japanese elections further show, at least to Panarin, that the financial disaster is imminent in the United States. As well, China would dump the US dollar in massive amounts and the Russian Federation would begin to sell their oil and gas for Roubles. 'Today I received another confirmation that the collapse of the dollar and the US is inevitable. Japan’s Democratic Party won the election, and I’d like to remind you that its leader [Yukio Hatoyama] has the snubbing of the dollar among his economic plans. In plainer words, he plans to transfer Japan’s monetary reserves from US dollars into another currency. The move will seriously accelerate the dollar’s exchange slump as early as this November. Disintegration will follow shortly.' In another frightening prediction for America, he sees the US separating into four parts, quite similar to the Civil War in 1865, 'The Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large20Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.' Panarin thinks the east coast will be taken over by the European Union, the Pacific coast will be controlled by the Chinese, northern and mid-west states will be dominated by Canada and the south will be owned by Mexico. 'In my opinion, the probability of the US ceasing to exist by June, 2010 exceeds 50%. At this point, the mission of all major international powers is to prevent chaos in the US.'

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"Also, the IRS isn't necessarily great at doing what it does already. How is it going to determine whether 300 million people have health insurance?"

Obama's health-care will expand the power of the IRS, which will punish those who do not have an "acceptable" insurance plan, give tax credits to subsidize insurance costs, and enforce rules on those who want to opt out. If you like the IRS now, you will love it in the future!

Health Care Reform Means More Power For The IRS

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent

A sign identifies the Internal Revenue Service building on Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., Jan (Bloomberg: Dennis Brack) (Bloomberg)

There's been a lot of discussion about the new and powerful federal agencies that would be created by the passage of a national health care bill. The Health Choices Administration, the Health Benefits Advisory Committee, the Health Insurance Exchange — there are dozens in all.

But if the plan envisioned by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats is enacted, the primary federal bureaucracy responsible for implementing and enforcing national health care will be an old and familiar one: the Internal Revenue Service. Under the Democrats' health care proposals, the already powerful — and already feared — IRS would wield even more power and extend its reach even farther into the lives of ordinary Americans, and the presidentially-appointed head of the new health care bureaucracy would have access to confidential IRS information about millions of individual taxpayers.

In short, health care reform, as currently envisioned by Democratic leaders, would be built on the foundation of an expanded and more intrusive IRS.

Under the various proposals now on the table, the IRS would become the main agency for determining who has an "acceptable" health insurance plan; for finding and punishing those who don't have such a plan; for subsidizing individual health insurance costs through the issuance of a tax credits; and for enforcing the rules on those who attempt to opt out, abuse, or game the system. A substantial portion of H.R. 3200, the House health care bill, is devoted to amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in order to give the IRS the authority to perform these new duties.

The Democrats' plan would require all Americans to have "acceptable" insurance coverage (the legislation includes long and complex definitions of "acceptable") and would designate the IRS as the agency charged with enforcing that requirement. On your yearly 1040 tax return, you would be required to attest that you have "acceptable" coverage. Of course, you might be lying, or simply confused about whether or not you are covered, so the IRS would need a way to check your claim for accuracy. Under current plans, insurers would be required to submit to the IRS something like the 1099 form in which taxpayers report outside income. The IRS would then check the information it receives from the insurers against what you have submitted on your tax form.

If it all matches up, you're fine. If it doesn't, you will hear from the IRS. And if you don't have "acceptable" coverage, you will be subject to substantial fines — fines that will be administered by the IRS.

Under some versions of health reform now circulating on Capitol Hill, the IRS would also be intimately involved in how you pay for insurance. Everyone would be required to buy coverage. The millions of Americans who can't afford it would receive a subsidy to pay for it. Under the version of the plan currently under negotiation in the Senate Finance Committee, that subsidy would come through the IRS in the form of a refundable tax credit. Under the House plan, the subsidy would come directly from the Health Choices Administration.

In either scenario, the IRS would be the key to making the system work. Before you could receive any subsidy, whether through the IRS or not, the Health Choices Administration would have to determine whether you are eligible for it. To do so, the bills under consideration would give the Health Choices Commissioner the authority to demand sensitive, confidential information from the IRS about individual taxpayers. The IRS would have to provide it.

Under current law, it is a felony for a government official to release taxpayer information in all but the most limited of circumstances. One such exception is for law enforcement; the IRS is allowed to give taxpayer information to prosecutors in criminal cases. The information can also, in some instances, be released to the Social Security Administration and the Veterans' Administration for the determination of benefits. The health care bills would change the Internal Revenue Code to permit the IRS to give similar information to the vast, new health care bureaucracy.

That means the personal tax information of millions of Americans would enter the system whether they want it to or not. "There's a mandate to buy insurance," says one Republican House aide. "You have to buy it. You have millions of people who can't buy it without a subsidy, so they will have no choice but to accept the subsidy in order to buy insurance, and then the Health Choices Commissioner will have access to their tax records."

"How many hands would this information go through?" asks a GOP source in the Senate. "What are the quality controls? This increases the risk of misusing this information."

Some versions of the bill even permit the release of confidential taxpayer information for decidedly less pressing reasons. In H.R. 3200, the IRS would be required to provide taxpayer information to the Social Security Administration for the purpose of helping Social Security officials find qualifying seniors who can then be encouraged to enroll in the prescription drug program. "There is no precedent for using taxpayer information for the purpose of identifying people to go out and advertise to them," says the House expert.

So far, there has been little substantive public debate about the integral role of the IRS in nearly every aspect of the various national health care proposals. But people who are closely involved with the process are deeply concerned about what they view as a massive, and in some senses unprecedented, expansion of the Internal Revenue Service.

First, they wonder whether the IRS can handle the new demands. "There is a sense at the IRS that their purpose is to collect revenue and not to implement all sorts of other programs," says a second Senate GOP aide. "Also, the IRS isn't necessarily great at doing what it does already. How is it going to determine whether 300 million people have health insurance?"

Second, they are concerned about anticipated abuse of the system. "You're going to have lots of fraud," says the House source. "People claiming lots of affordability credits or refundable tax credits. The IRS is not going to have the resources and expertise to police this stuff."

Finally, there is a third concern, more fundamental than questions of whether the IRS can handle the job: Should the IRS be involved in health care enforcement in the first place? As seen in the town halls across the country in August, many Americans are concerned about the coercive nature of the proposed national health care system. Handing the IRS the power to monitor every American's place in the system worries them even more.

Backers of the Democratic bills are betting that the handouts involved — giving people money to buy health insurance — will outweigh concerns about privacy and coercive government. Perhaps. But before Congress makes any decision on national health care, voters should know just what it will involve.

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"...it is easier to kill a million people than control a million people." Obama's foreign policy advisor says

Update September 2011 ~ Apparently the Chatham House in London took the speech off their website.  I listened to the entire speech when it was first posted a few years ago and although I downloaded it in it's entirety most people are more concerned with the 'kill-a-million-people' quote so someone else was kind enough to edit out most of the speech...here it is here and if you want to cut to the chase fast forward to approximately seven minutes into the recording...

Brzesinski's speech can be heard here: Download mp3 (Note: You can learn a lot by listening to the speech which was made at the Chatham House in Great Britain...notorious for it's connection to un-balanced foreign policy advisors such as Brzesinski. Also note his reference to the politic elite (just over 20 minutes into the recording) where he lauds VP Biden for being recognized by the elite in which Brzezinski is a member. Further on (about 43 minutes and 15 seconds) Brzezinski states, "Americans are woefully undereducated in foreign policy" ...that is woefully out of order! Americans do not agree with your foreign policy Mr. Brzezinski! You are woefully on the wrong side! ~ Norman E. Hooben

New World Order architect, Zbigniew Brzezinski, says it is
easier to kill a million people than to control a million people. Many are alarmed at that statement but for the wrong reason.

Analysis by G. Edward Griffin, 2009 August 29

On November 17th, 2008, Zbignew Brzezinski, a New World Order architect and a founder of the Rockefeller-controlled Trilateral Commission, addressed Chatham House, (the British counterpart of the American Council on Foreign Relations) and said: "I once put it rather pungently, and I was flattered that the British Foreign Secretary repeated this, as follows: ... namely, in early times, it was easier to to control a million people, literally it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill than to control...."

When this statement arrived on the Internet a few months later, it was widely circulated with shock and alarm. It certainly was an attention getter, and it was assumed by many to be proof that Brzezinski and his fellow New World Order elitists were calling for the killing of millions of people. Fortunately, some of the news sources carried a link to the audio recording of his speech, so it was possible to listen to his entire presentation to see if he really did say what was attributed to him. Unfortunately, not many of the Internet dispatchers took the time to listen. If they had, they would have realized that Brzezinski was merely making an honest and accurate assessment of historical fact. Like it or not, in modern times it is easier to kill than to control a million people. So, why the hoopla?

That, however, is not the end of the story. When we carefully listen to the rest of this speech, we realize Brzezinski is saying that control of the masses is the real objective of the New World Order, and he is lamenting the fact that it is so difficult now that almost every nation and culture has become politically aware. He recalls those days-gone-by when this was not so, when the masses neither knew nor cared about politics and could be controlled simply by force of arms and economic coercion. Under those conditions, controlling people was easier, he says. Now, however, when almost everyone believes they should participate in their own political destiny via the vote, the process has become much more difficult.

He is, of course, entirely correct in that assessment. Although he did not elaborate, he could have continued by reminding this elite audience of facts they know so well: that now it also is necessary to control the media, the educational system, the leadership of all major political parties, and even the systems by which ballots are counted in order to keep the masses content with the illusion of determining their own political destiny.

He devoted the balance of his speech primarily to the concept that the United States should and will continue to be the leader among nations in the solving of all international problems, including economic problems, but always within the context of strengthening global governance and building a global monetary system. It was the CFR/Chatham House mantra that is the norm for such gatherings.

Even though Brezinsky is not here calling for the killing of a million people, when he does discuss that option, there is a remarkable coldness about his words. Like all collectivists, he is academically dispassionate when it comes to the sacrifice of human life and freedom so long as it can be theorized to be for the greater good of society - or, in this case, the New World Order.

His speech can be heard here. (Cached)

Related story (see video below)

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Interesting Study: Who hates whom the mostest? Are you in any danger? ...check the charts!

The interesting synopsis of an Islamist threat against the western world or as the article says, "the greatest danger to civilization" led me to this "Whom hates whom the mostest" article where the numbers depicted on the charts (see below) should disturb even the least of the feint of heart. Although on a personal observation I would place the numbers reflecting the growth of Atheists directly proportional to that of Humanists who are not mentioned. At this point in time we could use the two terms interchangeably. They call themselves Humanists to avoid any identification or reference to God or gods. ~ Norman E. Hooben

Muslim Threat Index [also interesting charts ~ Norm]
Posted on September 2, 2009 10:42 PM

For the average infidel in the western world it is extremely difficult to determine which of the 48 Muslim Majority countries in the world represents the greatest danger to civilization. Afghanistan has the Taliban, Lebanon has Hezbollah, Egypt has Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Algeria has the 'the al-Qaeda Organization of the Islamic Maghreb,' Iran is looking to get nuclear weapons, Pakistan already has the bomb, which countries should we be worried about?

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Who hates whom the mostest? (aka: better be an atheist...)

Source: The Battle Of Tours

Over at Planck’s Constant Blog, fellow grey-beard Bernie has come up with a “Muslim Threat Index”. Good one, Bernie!

No surprises in Pakistan being at the top of the danger league, though perhaps surprising that it’s by such a large margin a greater potential threat than the next on the list Nigeria. I was also surprised – though perhaps fellow Aussies may not be – by Indonesia’s being so high on the threat list.

I can hear all the criticisms of this “Threat Index”, from “you can’t be serious” to “it’s not nuanced enough” and so forth. My view: it’s been done with enough care and with enough factors to make it a useful reference. No doubt it can be improved (“nuanced”) but meantime it’s useful and I commend it, even unto the “government security agencies”…. I know about them from times past and their threat assessments were often nuanced to pabulum…

I’ve just done my own Index: the “Discrimination Index”, aka the “Victimhood Index”. It came about because of the claims we hear from Muslim spokespersons whenever there’s some outrage committed by their co-religionists, that they fear a “backlash” against Muslims. Some of the more egregious examples are: after the Mumbai bombing and the murder of the Jewish leader and his pregnant wife, what we heard from Muslim commentators was concern for the safety of Muslims. And most recently, the Rifqa Bary case, about which I wrote here. There is less concern for Ms Bary’s safety than for the alleged backlash against Muslims that the publicity of the case might entail.

So, is it true that Muslims are discriminated against disproportionately to their numbers in society? To calculate that I got the numbers of Hate Crimes in the US against each religion, and the percentage of those religions in the total population (refs below). Divide hate crime per religion by that religion’s percentage in the population: if the answer is 1 (one), then that religion is experiencing hate crime in proportion to its share of the population. A figure higher than 1 (one) means they’re being disproportionately targeted by hate crimes.

These are the results:

Crimes against:	% of crimes	% of population	Discrimination Index
Jews	69.2%	1.2%	57.67
Muslims	8.7%	0.6%	14.50
Catholics	4.3%	25.0%	0.17
Protestants	4.1%	51.0%	0.08
Atheists	0.5%	15.0%	0.03
Other	9.1%	8.0%	1.14

So: yes, Muslims are disproportionately targeted while we Atheists get off almost scot-free. But way more discriminated against are the Jews, by a factor of 57 versus the base of 1 (one) and four times more than Muslims are. I know there are

anti-anti-Semitism lobby groups; but we do not hear from them nearly so often as we do from the Muslim ones. Why is that? Given that they are way more disproportionately targeted?

What is surprising perhaps, given their co-religionists insistence on attempting to kill infidels, is that the number of hate crimes against Muslims is actually so low: just 141 in 2007. (and btw, Daniel Pipes has shown elsewhere that many of the crimes against Muslims were “manufactured” by the Muslim bodies such as CAIR; but we’ll leave that for the moment).

Another interesting point: the fastest growing belief 1990 to 2008 was Atheism. Islam was fifth fastest growing, after Atheism, Buddhism, Born-again Christians, and non-denominational Christians. Interesting, when we hear so often from Islamic sources, that Islam is the fastest growing religion.

And what about the total number? According to the stats, the number of Muslims in the US is 1.8 million. That’s way less than Muslim lobby groups quote: most often they say 5 to 7 million Muslims in the US. Hmm….. the less the size of the group, the less is your clout. I wonder why they exaggerate by nearly 300%...

US population	305,000,000	2008/1990 Growth
Jews	3,660,000	14.6%
Muslims	1,830,000	156.0%
Catholics	76,250,000	24.3%
Protestants	155,550,000	10.4%
Atheists	45,750,000	204.0%
Other religions	24,400,000	0 to 300%

References:

1. FBI Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, from the Uniform Crime Reporting Progam, FBI, 2008.

2. Demographics: Statistics of Religion in the US from the American Religious Identification Survey, 2008, and on the Population, from the US Census Department, Feb 2009.

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According to this poll, I'd say there's "Hope" for a "Change" in both Congress and the White House!

Are Government Bailouts Good For America?

...and just a few other questions.

Here are the results! The Total Number of people who voted in this poll: 607,445
1	Who is most to blame for America’s current economic crisis?
		66% voted: Clinton Administration and the Democrats in Congress 12% voted: The Bush Administration 3% voted: Wall Street 15% voted: Banks and sub-prime lenders 2% voted: Real estate and mortgage professionals 0% voted: Investors 1% voted: Home buyers
2	Do you agree government bailouts are the answer to America’s financial crisis?
		7% voted: Yes 89% voted: No 5% voted: Undecided
3	Do you believe the American taxpayers should have to foot the bill for our financial systems mistakes?
		7% voted: Yes, we have to or we’ll end up in a prolonged recession or worse a depression. 22% voted: No, America is too far in debt already. 69% voted: Absolutely not, the American people should never be responsible for bailing out the private sector. 2% voted: Undecided
4	Do you believe the government bailouts will ultimately rescue our country's financial system?
		8% voted: Yes 86% voted: No 6% voted: Undecided
5	Do you believe Barack Obama was the best choice to handle the country's future economic policy?
		12% voted: Yes 85% voted: No 2% voted: Undecided

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Message To Congress...shape up or ship out!

In or Out 2010: The 5 Pledges

To Congress, The 5 Pledges

1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.

2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during a difficult economic times, therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.

3. I believe more than four decades of US dependence on foreign oil is a travesty, therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas and coal as necessary.

4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why. I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity power over US citizens.

5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.

Van Jones Out! ...Will this lead to the fall of the ObamaNation? "Hope" so!

Comment from antichristbho Maryland [Sep 6, 2009 5:15:36 AM]

"Thank you Glenn Beck!!! Also thank WorldNetDaily.com for exposing this anti-white racist fraud. Now, all we have to do is keep the pressure on until Obama and his whole cabinet of radicals resign, then we can get this country back on the right track."

Van Jones Resigns, Glenn Beck Wins Fight

Posted Sep 6, 2009 by ■ Johnny Simpson

From mywaynews via Drudge comes the shocker that President Obama's embattled 'green jobs' czar, Van Jones, has resigned his White House post amid swirling and growing controversies over Mr. Jones' past statements and associations. Videos of Mr. Jones' calling Republicans "a**holes" and associating with or espousing radical far left and Communist causes have gone viral. Read more here

The way other headlines read:

From Huffington Post - Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp: Van Jones Resigns

From Fox News - Obama 'Green Jobs' Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy

From CBS News - Van Jones Resigns As White House Advisor

From GlennBeck.com - Obama's radical 'green czar' Van Jones resigns

And this from Op Ed News a liberal blog - "Perhaps it wouldn't have come to this if the Obama administration had made a clear statement backing Jones. Instead, Glen Beck and the right wing get to claim a major victory in taking out a rising progressive star."

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Florida Is Losing It...in more ways than one!

This would probably be a good time to put in a plug for Alabama. Alabama is, to the best of my knowledge, the one and only place that treats retirees with the most respect in the way of taxes. What do I mean by that you ask? Heck, I'm retired and do not pay a single red-dirt cent in taxes! Kinda, the way it should be don't ya think? Ya work all yer life, and fer what? Move to Florida and pay more taxes? When ya'all are tired of dat der white stuff in the streets up north and don't want to pay the neighbor to plow yours out of the drive way, it's time to head south to Alabamy...besides they got great football here! ~ Norman E. Hooben

Florida Exodus:

Rising Taxes Drive Out Residents

By TIM PADGETT / MIAMI Tim Padgett

There are many things public officials probably shouldn't do during a severe recession, but no one seems to have told the leaders in Florida about them. One thing, for instance, would be giving a dozen top aides hefty raises while urging a rise in property taxes, as the mayor of Miami-Dade County recently did. Or jacking up already exorbitant hurricane-insurance premiums, as Florida's government-run property insurer just did. Or sending an army of highly paid lobbyists to push for a steep hike in electricity rates, as South Florida's public utility is doing.

And you wonder why the Sunshine State is experiencing its first net emigration of people since World War II. (See pictures: "Florida's Paradise Lost.")

A few years ago, journalists - citing the chasm between Miami's high cost of living and its low level of income - began predicting that South Florida and its perpetual population-growth machine would soon face the unthinkable: a falling head count. Now it's official. The region - Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties - lost 27,400 residents between 2008 and 2009, while Florida as a whole lost 58,000. That's not exactly a mass exodus for a state of 18 million; but it's the first net outflow in 63 years for a state that considers itself the new California. "It's difficult for the working middle class to justify living here," Mike Jones, president of the Palm Beach County Economic Council, conceded to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "As much as they may love the sunshine, as you squeeze them out, they may find it in their best interests to move."

Jones gets it, but residents are starting to question whether the rest of their leaders do. Homeowners, especially in Broward and Miami-Dade, have been falling out of their flip-flops in recent days as they open their preliminary property-tax notices to find increases of 15% or more. That's sizable in a low-income region where the median property-tax bill is already some $3,000, and it's doubly frustrating given that property values have slid by some 25% during Florida's housing bust. Residents have barely digested the recent news that their hurricane-insurance premiums, which can top $5,000 a year for most South Florida homes, will rise 10% a year for the next three years (vital, officials claim, for handling claims from the next big storm). And their public utility, Florida Power & Light (FPL), is lobbying the state for a 30% rate hike (vital, FPL execs insist, for upgrading infrastructure). "It all seems out of control to people here at the time when they can least absorb it," says Dr. Jose Valladares, president of the conservative Fair Property Tax for All in Miami-Dade. (Read about Florida's property-tax revolt.)

Granted, most local governments often have to raise taxes when they're staring at fiscal craters like the $427 million shortfall in Miami-Dade's proposed $7.83 billion budget. But the less than sunny mood in Miami-Dade is made darker by the feeling among most residents that their fiscal jam is not just a result of falling revenue, but also years of profligate mismanagement. The final determination on their property taxes will be made soon by the Miami-Dade County Commission - a feckless, corruption-tainted body, many of whose members ran up hundreds of thousands of dollars in police overtime costs recently by using cops as their personal chauffeurs. (None of the commissioners face any sanctions for it.)

Residents were further outraged last week when the Miami Herald reported that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, one of the few Miami politicians with a reputation for probity, had raised the salaries of his chief of staff and other top lieutenants this year as high as 15% while calling for a 5% pay cut for county workers. Alvarez spokesperson Victoria Mallette says the raises resulted from a 2007 referendum that gave Miami-Dade's mayor, until then a relatively weak post, broad new powers that in turn thrust heavier duties on his staff. She also notes that Alvarez actually cut his office's budget last year by almost 15% and that he helped build an $80 million reserve fund. Still, a Herald editorial called Alvarez's raises "irresponsible." Watchdogs like Valladares complain that Miami-Dade's bureaucracy, like so many local governments in this decade, got too bloated during the economic boom. The County Commission, for example, has a staff of more than 200 serving only 13 commissioners - and yet it still managed to screw up tasks like its oversight of Miami-Dade's scandal-plagued housing agency.

Many Americans find it hard to feel sorry for Valladares and all the other Floridians who pay no state income tax. Floridians are indeed guilty of an arrogant belief that living in "paradise" should be a birthright as cheap as gassing up an SUV. It was, until Florida's relentless and miserably planned growth spawned problems that the peninsula is struggling to handle, including skyrocketing property taxes and hurricane-insurance premiums. Governor Charlie Crist has tried in recent years to rein in those twin vampires, but together they can still exceed what folks in many other states pay for state income tax, local property tax and homeowner's insurance combined. And whereas high-cost states like New York, California and Illinois also have some of the country's highest median incomes, Florida's is in the bottom half.

In a state that worshipped condo-flippers as great entrepreneurs, it was all a house of cards waiting to be blown down when the housing bubble burst. Now that it has happened, those Floridians who haven't left the state had hoped their officials might change the way they do things - or at least not attend a Kentucky Derby party hosted by the same FPL honchos lobbying them for a rate hike, as a Florida Public Service Commission director has admitted to doing a few months ago. But if Miami and Florida officials can't get their acts together, they can probably expect even lower head counts in the years to come.

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