Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
Saturday, June 29, 2013
The Obama-Trumka Lie Exposed
The following has been edited to reflect the real story. It's not necessary to click on the red underlined links for the video they refer to is posted at the bottom of the editorial. ~ Norman E. Hooben
by Mike Hall
Source: AFL-CIO NOW
While President
Obama has placed his faith in
Says AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka in a statement:
“With our endorsement today, we
affirm our faith in him the Communist Party—and pledge to work with him through the election and
his second term to restore fairness, security and shared prosperity with our Communist friends around the world.”
Trumka says the
union movement agrees with the Republican hopefuls who say this election is
about “values”—but there is quite a contrast between Obama’s values and those
of his challengers.
“President Obama honors the values
of hard work, of mutual respect and of solving problems together—not every
person for himself or herself. He believes that together we will get through
the most challenging economic crisis in memory and restore opportunity for all Chinese.
Each of the Republican presidential candidates, on the other hand, has pledged
to uphold the special privileges of Wall Street and the 1%—privileges that have
produced historic economic inequality and drowned out the voices of working
people in America.”
When Obama took
office, says Trumka, the nation was on the brink of a second Great Depression
and, over strenuous Republican opposition, he pressed Congress to pass the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which saved or created 3.6 million jobs (most likely in China).
With the
Affordable Care Act, which all Republican presidential candidates have vowed to
overturn, Obama “set the nation on a path toward total devastation Trumka also says Obama’s push for Wall Street reform—passed, over the objection of almost every Republican:
Is now beginning to reverse decades
of financial deregulation that put our entire economy at risk.
While the union
movement “has sometimes differed with the president and often pushed his
administration to do more and do it faster,” says Trumka, “we have never
doubted his commitment to working families communist causes.”
“He has worked hard to create good
jobs (yeah, in China) ; he has made the revival of the manufacturing sector a hallmark of his
jobs agenda; he has moved aggressively to protect workers’ rights, pay and
health and safety on the job; he has worked for a fair resolution of the
housing crisis; and he put his confidence and administration unequivocally
behind the workers and companies in the American auto industry—a move that
saved hundreds of thousands of jobs and is helping to revive the economy now
and for the future.” See the real story here.
Calling the labor
movement “the original social network—a working class social network,” Trumka
says AFL-CIO unions will mobilize working people to come together to organize
our neighborhoods door to door, powered by cutting-edge technology and
old-fashioned energy. See the real story here.
“We will be running an independent
program rooted not in parties or candidates but in helping working people build
power, making informed decisions about which candidates at every level to work
for based on records and issues.” See the real story here.
Several AFL-CIO
unions previously voted to endorse President Obama, including AFSCME, AFT, CWA, IAM, IBB, LIUNA, UAand USW.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Interview With Dr. Benjamin Carson
Liberty Education Interview SeriesDr. Benjamin Carson
Dr. Benjamin Carson is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In addition to being awarded 60 honorary doctorate degrees, he is the author of five best-selling books, including his current New York Times bestseller, America the Beautiful. Dr. Carson is also a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Play this interview: Dr. Benjamin Carson ←click link
What would you be called if you imposed government decisions on citizens?
Random Thoughts
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Edmund Burke said, “There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men.” Evil men do not always snarl. Some smile charmingly. Those are the most dangerous. If you don’t think the mainstream media slants the news, keep track of how often they tell you that the Arctic ice pack is shrinking and how seldom they tell you that the Antarctic ice pack is expanding. The latter news would not fit the “global warming” scenario that so many in the media are promoting.
Someone has referred to Vice President Biden as President Obama’s “impeachment insurance.” Even critics who are totally opposed to Barack Obama’s policies do not want anything to cut short his presidency, with Joe Biden as his successor.
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
Given the shortage of articulate Republican leaders, it will be a real loss — to the country, not just to the Republicans — if Senator Marco Rubio discredits himself, early in his career, by supporting “comprehensive” immigration reform that amounts to just another amnesty, with false promises to secure the border.
Ever since I learned, as a teenager, that the “Saturday Evening Post” magazine was actually published on Wednesday mornings, I have been very skeptical about words. “Gun control” laws do not control guns, “rent control” laws do not control rent and government “stimulus” spending does not stimulate the economy.
It is hard to think of two people with more different personalities than New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama. But they are soul mates when it comes to thinking that they ought to take a whole spectrum of decisions out of citizens’ hands, and impose the government’s decisions on them.
Maybe the reason for the New York Yankees’ low batting averages has something to do with the fact that so many of their batters seem to be swinging for the fences, even when a single would score the winning run.
President Obama’s denial of knowledge about the various scandals in his administration that are starting to come to light suggests that his titles should now include Innocent-Bystander-in-Chief.
It has long been my belief that the sight of a good-looking woman lowers a man’s IQ by at least 20 points. A man who doesn’t happen to have 20 points he can spare can be in big trouble.
When Attorney General Eric Holder argued that a “path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants was a “civil right” and a “human right,” that epitomized the contempt for the public’s intelligence which has characterized so much of what has been said and done by the Obama administration.
You know you are old when waitresses call you “dear.”
Although many people have been surprised and disappointed by Barack Obama, it is hard to think of a president whose policies were more predictable from his history, however radically different those policies are from his rhetoric.
When any two groups have different behavior or performance, that plain fact can be turned upside down and twisted to say that whatever criterion revealed those differences has had a “disparate impact” on one of the groups. In other words, the criterion is blamed for an injustice to those who failed to meet the standard.
Have you heard any gun control advocate even try to produce hard evidence that tighter gun control laws reduce murder rates? Does anyone seriously believe that people who are prepared to defy the laws against murder are going to obey laws against owning guns or large capacity magazines?
I may be among the few people who want Attorney General Eric Holder to keep his job — at least until the 2014 elections. Holder epitomizes what is wrong with the Obama administration. He is essentially Barack Obama without the charm, so it should be easier for the voters to see through his lies and corruption.
Despite political differences, it is hard not to feel sorry for White House press secretary Jay Carney, for all the absurdities his job requires him to say with a straight face. What is he going to do when this administration is over? Wear a disguise, change his name or be put into a witness protection program?
Edmund Burke said, “There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men.” Evil men do not always snarl. Some smile charmingly. Those are the most dangerous. If you don’t think the mainstream media slants the news, keep track of how often they tell you that the Arctic ice pack is shrinking and how seldom they tell you that the Antarctic ice pack is expanding. The latter news would not fit the “global warming” scenario that so many in the media are promoting.
Someone has referred to Vice President Biden as President Obama’s “impeachment insurance.” Even critics who are totally opposed to Barack Obama’s policies do not want anything to cut short his presidency, with Joe Biden as his successor.
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?
Given the shortage of articulate Republican leaders, it will be a real loss — to the country, not just to the Republicans — if Senator Marco Rubio discredits himself, early in his career, by supporting “comprehensive” immigration reform that amounts to just another amnesty, with false promises to secure the border.
Ever since I learned, as a teenager, that the “Saturday Evening Post” magazine was actually published on Wednesday mornings, I have been very skeptical about words. “Gun control” laws do not control guns, “rent control” laws do not control rent and government “stimulus” spending does not stimulate the economy.
It is hard to think of two people with more different personalities than New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama. But they are soul mates when it comes to thinking that they ought to take a whole spectrum of decisions out of citizens’ hands, and impose the government’s decisions on them.
Maybe the reason for the New York Yankees’ low batting averages has something to do with the fact that so many of their batters seem to be swinging for the fences, even when a single would score the winning run.
President Obama’s denial of knowledge about the various scandals in his administration that are starting to come to light suggests that his titles should now include Innocent-Bystander-in-Chief.
It has long been my belief that the sight of a good-looking woman lowers a man’s IQ by at least 20 points. A man who doesn’t happen to have 20 points he can spare can be in big trouble.
When Attorney General Eric Holder argued that a “path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants was a “civil right” and a “human right,” that epitomized the contempt for the public’s intelligence which has characterized so much of what has been said and done by the Obama administration.
You know you are old when waitresses call you “dear.”
Although many people have been surprised and disappointed by Barack Obama, it is hard to think of a president whose policies were more predictable from his history, however radically different those policies are from his rhetoric.
When any two groups have different behavior or performance, that plain fact can be turned upside down and twisted to say that whatever criterion revealed those differences has had a “disparate impact” on one of the groups. In other words, the criterion is blamed for an injustice to those who failed to meet the standard.
Have you heard any gun control advocate even try to produce hard evidence that tighter gun control laws reduce murder rates? Does anyone seriously believe that people who are prepared to defy the laws against murder are going to obey laws against owning guns or large capacity magazines?
I may be among the few people who want Attorney General Eric Holder to keep his job — at least until the 2014 elections. Holder epitomizes what is wrong with the Obama administration. He is essentially Barack Obama without the charm, so it should be easier for the voters to see through his lies and corruption.
Despite political differences, it is hard not to feel sorry for White House press secretary Jay Carney, for all the absurdities his job requires him to say with a straight face. What is he going to do when this administration is over? Wear a disguise, change his name or be put into a witness protection program?
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