ps: None of this stuff is reported by the main stream media.
And while that is going on we have this:
A perfect storm of special interests have hijacked U.S. immigration law.
by Victor Davis Hanson
No
one knows just how many tens of thousands of Central American nationals — most
of them desperate, unescorted children and teens — are streaming across
America’s southern border. Yet this phenomenon offers us a proverbial teachable
moment about the paradoxes and hypocrisies of Latin American immigration to the
U.S.
For
all the pop romance in Latin America associated with Venezuela, Nicaragua, and
Cuba, few Latinos prefer to immigrate to such communist utopias or to socialist
spin-offs like Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, or Peru.
Instead,
hundreds of thousands of poor people continue to risk danger to enter
democratic, free-market America, which they have often been taught back home is
the source of their misery. They either believe that America’s supposedly
inadequate social safety net is far better than the one back home, or that its
purportedly cruel free market gives them more opportunities than anywhere in
Latin America — or both.
Mexico
strictly enforces some of the harshest immigration laws in the world that
either summarily deport or jail most who dare to cross Mexican borders
illegally, much less attempt to work inside Mexico or become politically
active. If America were to emulate Mexico’s immigration policies, millions of
Mexican nationals living in the U.S. immediately would be sent home.
How, then, are tens of
thousands of Central American children crossing with impunity hundreds of miles
of Mexican territory, often sitting atop Mexican trains? Does Mexico believe
that the massive influxes will serve to render U.S. immigration law
meaningless, and thereby completely shred an already porous border? Is Mexico
simply ensuring that the surge of poorer Central Americans doesn’t dare stop in
Mexico on its way north?
The media talks of a
moral crisis on the border. It is certainly that, but not entirely in the way
we are told. What sort of callous parents simply send their children as pawns
northward without escort, in selfish hopes of soon winning for themselves
either remittances or eventual passage to the U.S? What sort of government
allows its vulnerable youth to pack up and leave, without taking any
responsibility for such mass flight?
Here in the U.S., how
can our government simply choose not to enforce existing laws? In reaction,
could U.S. citizens emulate Washington’s ethics and decide not to pay their
taxes, or to disregard traffic laws, or to build homes without permits? Who in
the pen-and-phone era of Obama gets to decide which law to follow and which to
ignore?
Who are the bigots — the
rude and unruly protestors who scream and swarm drop-off points and angrily
block immigration authority buses to prevent the release of children into their
communities, or the shrill counter-protestors who chant back “Viva La Raza”
(“Long Live the Race”)? For that matter, how does the racialist term “La Raza”
survive as an acceptable title of a national lobby group in this politically
correct age of anger at the Washington Redskins football brand?
How can American
immigration authorities simply send immigrant kids all over the United States
and drop them into communities without firm guarantees of waiting sponsors or
family? If private charities did that, would the operators be jailed? Would
American parents be arrested for putting their unescorted kids on buses headed
out of state?
Liberal elites talk down
to the cash-strapped middle class about their illiberal anger over the current
immigration crisis. But most sermonizers are hypocritical. Take Nancy Pelosi,
former speaker of the House. She lectures about the need for near-instant
amnesty for thousands streaming across the border. But Pelosi is a
multimillionaire, and thus rich enough not to worry about the increased costs
and higher taxes needed to offer instant social services to the new arrivals.
Progressives and ethnic
activists see in open borders extralegal ways to gain future constituents
dependent on an ever-growing government, with instilled grudges against any who
might not welcome their flouting of U.S. laws. How moral is that?
Likewise, the CEOs of
Silicon Valley and Wall Street who want cheap labor from south of the border
assume that their own offspring’s private academies will not be affected by
thousands of undocumented immigrants, that their own neighborhoods will remain
non-integrated, and that their own medical services and specialists’ waiting
rooms will not be made available to the poor arrivals.
Have immigration-reform
advocates such as Mark Zuckerberg or Michael Bloomberg offered one of their
mansions as a temporary shelter for needy Central American immigrants? Couldn’t
Yale or Stanford welcome homeless immigrants into their now under-occupied
summertime dorms? Why aren’t elite academies such as Sidwell Friends or the
Menlo School offering their gymnasia as places of refuge for tens of thousands
of school-age Central Americans?
What a strange, selfish,
and callous alliance of rich corporate grandees, cynical left-wing politicians,
and ethnic chauvinists who have conspired to erode U.S. law for their own
narrow interests, all the while smearing those who object as xenophobes,
racists, and nativists.
How did such immoral
special interests hijack U.S. immigration law and arbitrarily decide for 300
million Americans who earns entry into America, under what conditions, and from
where?
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And the one thing that everybody has an interest in but knows little about is money and banking!
Posted on July 6, 2014 by Ellen Brown
Mortgage debt overhang from the housing bust has meant lack of middle-class spending power and consumer demand, preventing the economy from growing. The problem might be fixed by a new approach from the Fed. But if the Fed won’t act, counties will, as seen in the latest developments on eminent domain and litigation over MERS.
Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts wrote on June 25th that real US GDP growth for the first quarter of 2014 was a negative 2.9%, off by 5.5% from the positive 2.6% predicted by economists. If the second quarter also shows a decline, the US will officially be in recession. That means not only fiscal policy (government deficit spending) but monetary policy (unprecedented quantitative easing) will have failed. The Federal Reserve is out of bullets.
Or is it? Perhaps it is just aiming at the wrong target. Continue reading
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Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts wrote on June 25th that real US GDP growth for the first quarter of 2014 was a negative 2.9%, off by 5.5% from the positive 2.6% predicted by economists. If the second quarter also shows a decline, the US will officially be in recession. That means not only fiscal policy (government deficit spending) but monetary policy (unprecedented quantitative easing) will have failed. The Federal Reserve is out of bullets.
Or is it? Perhaps it is just aiming at the wrong target. Continue reading
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Posted on July 3, 2014 by ErnieM
A flood of foreclosures in neighborhoods, cities and towns can cause everyone’s real estate equity to plunge. Some towns would like to step-in to protect their communities, but they can’t get the mortgage notes written down to affordable levels for contractual reasons. The solution: use eminent domain to claim the properties for the municipality, then renegotiate them on behalf of struggling homeowners. Ellen talks with the pre-eminent legal mind behind the emerging eminent domain stratagem, Cornell professor Robert Hockett, whose idea has been catching on in towns across America, including some of the biggest.
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Ann Pettifor on Why the 100% Reserve Solution Is a Bad Idea
Posted on June 28, 2014 by Ellen Brown
Ann Pettifor has written an excellent rebuttal to the full reserve banking solution proposed by Professor Richard Wolf and Positive Money, who are in most ways her allies. Her entree is the Bank of England’s recent acknowledgment that banks create the money they lend. She writes:
Out of thin air – Why banks must be allowed to create money
Yves Smith has also commented, here:
Why Banks Must Be Allowed to Create Money
Because I am a vocal critic of the private finance sector, many assume that I would agree with Wolf and Positive Money on nationalising money creation. Not so. I have no objection to the nationalisation of banks. But nationalising banks is a different proposition from nationalising (and centralising) money creation in the hands of a small ‘independent committee’.The full article is here:
Out of thin air – Why banks must be allowed to create money
Yves Smith has also commented, here:
Why Banks Must Be Allowed to Create Money
Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree
by Ellen Brown
When the US Federal Reserve bought an 80% stake in American International Group (AIG) in September 2008, the unprecedented $85 billion outlay was justified as necessary to bail out the world’s largest insurance company. Today, however, central banks are on a global corporate buying spree not to bail out bankrupt corporations but simply as an investment, to compensate for the loss of bond income due to record-low interest rates. Indeed, central banks have become some of the world’s largest stock investors.Finance is the new form of warfare – without the expense of a military overhead and an occupation against unwilling hosts. It is a competition in credit creation to buy foreign resources, real estate, public and privatized infrastructure, bonds and corporate stock ownership. Who needs an army when you can obtain the usual objective (monetary wealth and asset appropriation) simply by financial means? — Dr. Michael Hudson, Counterpunch, October 2010
Central banks have the power to create national currencies with accounting entries, and they are traditionally very secretive. We are not allowed to peer into their books. It took a major lawsuit by Reuters and a congressional investigation to get the Fed to reveal the $16-plus trillion in loans it made to bail out giant banks and corporations after 2008.
What is to stop a foreign bank from simply printing its own currency and trading it on the currency market for dollars, to be invested in the US stock market or US real estate market? What is to stop central banks from printing up money competitively, in a mad rush to own the world’s largest companies? Continue reading
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – Where They Hid Our Civic Treasure and How We Can Get Our Hands On It
Posted on June 10, 2014 by Ellen Brown
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – Where They Hid Our Civic Treasure and How We Can Get Our Hands On It
One of the best kept deceptions within common civic parlance is that our cities, states and communities are “broke” – a meme perpetuated by a lack of public knowledge about what governments do with their money and a highly profitable investment industry that uses those funds for substantial private profits that suck outrageous sums out of our common wealth. Continue reading
One of the best kept deceptions within common civic parlance is that our cities, states and communities are “broke” – a meme perpetuated by a lack of public knowledge about what governments do with their money and a highly profitable investment industry that uses those funds for substantial private profits that suck outrageous sums out of our common wealth. Continue reading
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – The Dollar’s Global Dance of Debt –
Posted on June 10, 2014 by Ellen Brown
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – The Dollar’s Global Dance of Debt –
The status of the dollar as global reserve currency is being threatened by new international monetary powerhouses and the limitations of its debt-based control. This week, Ellen speaks with Mark Pash of the Center for Progressive Economics, who believes that issuance of currency as debt has outlived its usefulness and should be replaced with a credit-based model that covers basic human needs prior to personal accumulation of additional affluence. Ellen also speaks with Mike Krauss on petro-dollar politics upending America’s hold on global trade as the reserve currency. On the Public Banking Report, co-host Walt McRee talks with John Leonard of the PA Project about new public banking initiatives in one of America’s abandoned industrial centers, western PA, and the promise that public banking agencies may offer to reviving the economy that region.
The status of the dollar as global reserve currency is being threatened by new international monetary powerhouses and the limitations of its debt-based control. This week, Ellen speaks with Mark Pash of the Center for Progressive Economics, who believes that issuance of currency as debt has outlived its usefulness and should be replaced with a credit-based model that covers basic human needs prior to personal accumulation of additional affluence. Ellen also speaks with Mike Krauss on petro-dollar politics upending America’s hold on global trade as the reserve currency. On the Public Banking Report, co-host Walt McRee talks with John Leonard of the PA Project about new public banking initiatives in one of America’s abandoned industrial centers, western PA, and the promise that public banking agencies may offer to reviving the economy that region.
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And if the following suggestion doesn't burn a hole in your wallet just step on the gas the next time you drive:
Democrat Congressman: Tax Drivers For Every Mile They Drive
And if the following suggestion doesn't burn a hole in your wallet just step on the gas the next time you drive:
Democrat Congressman: Tax Drivers For Every Mile They Drive
Jake Hammer at Pat Dollard
(CNSNews.com) – While the House and the Senate this week issued measures intended to temporarily replenish the Highway Trust Fund before it runs out of money next month, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) ended the week by proposing to hike – then abolish – the federal fuel tax and replace it with a per-mile “fee.” ...continue reading here
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Since when did it become a crime to be patriotic?
Veteran Faces Foreclosure For US Flag In His Flowerpot
Larry Murphree speaking with Fox 30. A Florida veteran, Larry Murphree of Jacksonville, must live in the communist section of Jacksonville. He was fined $8,000 and might lose his home because of an unobtrusive flag in a flower pot on his stoop. US flag causing a lot of trouble for one veteran who served…
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