tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76279993020960168902024-02-19T02:23:54.001-08:00DemocracyKorpseAbsolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-85049831161771504142012-10-08T18:22:00.001-07:002012-10-08T18:22:18.490-07:00Your Kid Doesn't Need To Be Educated...He Needs To Be Indoctrinated!There are many things one can expect from a Barack Hussein Obama diatribe. The first thing you'll notice is a whole lot of mumbling and stuttering, much like a poor soul suffering a mini-stroke. The second is the occasional phoney-baloney "Malcolm X voice" (H/T Ann Coulter) if he's PO'ed about something. (You know, things like FOX News, no more chicken poodle soup, Benjamin Netanyahu, a lousy day at the links, that sort of thing.) The third thing you'll notice is his incessant cheerleading for federal interference in education, Constitution be damned.<br />
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This cheerleading happens in almost every one of his rants. It doesn't matter if the subject is visiting all 57 states, telling Catholic organizations to shut the hell up already and pay for the condoms, or that the so-called "Arab Spring" is spontaneous eruption of Jeffersonian Democracy, you can bet the farm that Chairman Obama is going to somehow going to manage to mention how We the People need to "invest" more in our inefficient, union-infested, government-run schools.<br />
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Now why is that ?<br />
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One is tempted to say that our Kenyan Dictator needs to keep the various teacher unions happy so they keep filling his campaign coffers full. That's true, but only to a certain point. Teacher unions have nothing to do with education, they're all about leftist commie politics and supporting commie leftist politicians. Albert Shanker, founder of the United Federation of Teachers and president of the "American" Federation of Teachers, once famously quipped, "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children."<i><i> </i>In other words, the teacher unions will back any misfit or malcontent that runs for office with a -D after their name. </i>It doesn't really matter if they're functionally illiterate like Joe Biteme, all that matters is that they're a member of the Democrat party in reasonably good standing. All that matters to teacher unions is keeping the gravy train of bloated benefits and pensions going. (A great example of this are the recent teacher strikes in Chairman Obama's own backyard. If you'll note, the teachers didn't give a crap that the Chicago school system struggles mightily to graduate 60% of its students. All they cared about about was making sure they got a bigger share of their neighbor's paycheck. When the strike ended, the teacher unions dutifully reattached to their collective lips to Rahm Emanuel's creepy ballerina ass.)<br />
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So then why does Barry keep up this charade, especially if it's something many teachers could care less about ? <br />
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It's all about indoctrination of the young, just like the <i>Kosomol </i>of the Soviet Union or the <i>Hitler Jugend</i> of Nazi Germany.<br />
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Let me repeat that so there's no misunderstanding whatsoever: It's all about indoctrination of the young. Our Dear Leader wants to indoctrinate your children. This is why he keeps insisting that the federal role in education keeps getting bigger and bigger, much like the deficit. Uncle Sam doesn't want you, he wants your children.<br />
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The Department of Education, under Obama sycophant Arne Duncan, is as political as it gets.<br />
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"June is LGBT Pride Month, and to kick off the month, and as part of ED’s <a href="http://www.ed.gov/blog/tag/student-voices/">Student Voices Sessions</a>,
the Secretary met with eight students from the Gay, Lesbian and
Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network
to hear directly from the students about their experiences and to
discuss bullying and possible solutions."<br />
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http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/06/lgbt-students-give-secretary-duncan-homework/<br />
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No, I'm not for bullying in our schools, but I sure don't like idea of the Federal Leviathan telling my children that the perversion of homosexuality is OK in contradiction of what I teach them at home. I also think that the schools themselves are more than able to stop bullying on their own. No one needs Big Brother's guidance on handling such situations.<br />
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Ah, but there's more:<br />
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" 'You are all partners and allies in reforming public education,'
Secretary Arne Duncan said last week at the National Action Network’s
14th Annual Convention in Washington. 'An excellent education for very
child is a moral and civic imperative, as well as an economic one. This
issue is even bigger than education—it is an issue of social justice and
economic security,' [Education Secretary Arne] Duncan said.<br />
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One takeaway from the conference is that the civil rights community
has a long and distinguished history of taking courageous action to
drive social change, and it will take collective will to make a
difference in boosting the nation’s graduation rates and turning around
our low-performing schools. 'Without equality in education there will
never be equality in society. We have to do what’s right for our
children and make education a priority,' said Rev. Al Sharpton [noted anti-semite, anti-white racist, and current host on PMSNBC] of the founder
of the National Action Network.<br />
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Secretary Duncan explained that 'we have to have a strategy to build
an economy that will last—and education is the centerpiece of it.'
Duncan praised groups like the National Action Network for their work
with communities, and said that 'we need to keep fighting together for
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http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/04/duncan-enlists-sharptons-civil-rights-network-in-education-reform/<br />
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Don't worry, greenies, you weren't left out. The Department of Education luvs you, too!<br />
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"Two weeks from today, Secretary Duncan will take the stage at the <a href="http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/index.php">Green Schools National Conference</a>
in Denver, providing a high note at what is fast becoming the largest
annual meeting of the green schools movement. The Secretary and other
distinguished speakers, including Deputy Undersecretary for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture Janey Thornton, mayors from several cities,
and business leaders representing companies from <a href="http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/keynote_speakers.php">Stonyfield Farm</a> to <a href="http://www.greenschoolsnationalconference.org/featured_speakers.php">Siemens</a>,
will address the green schools movement and how it can strengthen our
economy, revitalize our schools and ensure access to green school
benefits for all.<br />
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The Secretary’s appearance and the growing popularity of this conference
signal a new milestone in green schools, coinciding with the inaugural
year of <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/programs/green-ribbon-schools/index.html">U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS)</a>
program. ED’s new Environmental Justice Strategy explains how ED-GRS is
just one initiative supporting a goal at the very heart of ED’s
mission: assuring equal educational opportunity for every student.
ED-GRS, among other initiatives, helps suggest ways to address the
adverse health and environmental conditions that disproportionately
affect student achievement among minority and low-income populations."<br />
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http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/02/a-green-revolution-for-all/<br />
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Ladies and gentlemen, I can't begin to describe how dangerous this is. If one only takes one lesson from history, it should be the fact that national governments and children are a terrible mix. The Soviets turned children against their parents. The Nazis not only turned children against their parents, they turned them into cannon fodder at the end of World War II. Is that what you want for YOUR children ?<br />
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On that cheery note, I leave you with this equally cheery note from George Orwell's <i>1984:</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must
lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be
watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all
children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means
of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into
ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency
whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary,
they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the
processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles,
the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort
of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards,
against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors,
saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over
thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for
hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph
describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the
phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and
denounced its parents to the Thought Police."</span><br />
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<br />Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-44391691299025875152012-10-05T08:52:00.002-07:002012-10-05T08:52:53.421-07:00Another Commie Skeleton Falls Out Of Obama's ClosetRecently, the <i>Daily Caller</i> released an unedited video of America's First Foreign Born President, Barack Hussein Obama, giving a speech (in what Ann Coulter accurately calls his "Malcolm X voice") at Hampton College in 2007. In this video, the future Chairman Obama yapped about a lot of things, from accusing the US government of letting black folks suffer during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to how wonderful Jew hater Jeremiah Wright is. In short, it was a glimpse into the evil and hatred that makes up the former Barry Soetoro.<br />
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Now, for most Conservatives, much of what was revealed wasn't news. While most of us had never seen the video, we all knew that Obamugabe hated whites and had plenty of proof to back it up, ranging from Obama calling his own grandmother a "typical white person" to calling the Cambridge police stupid for locking up angry black radical Henry Louis Gates. We already knew that the Kenyan Usurper thinks America is "Amerikkka", so for many of us, it was somewhat validating, but still old hat. <br />
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However, one part of the speech really sticks out like a sore thumb:<br />
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“We need to give our young people some real choices out there so they
move away from gangs and violence and connect them with growing job
sectors. That is why I am also going to create a 5-E Youth Service
Corps. The ‘E’s’ stand for energy efficiency, environmental education
and employment. This program would directly engage disconnected and
disadvantaged young people in energy efficiency and environmental
service opportunities to strengthen their communities while also
providing them with practical skills and experience in important and
growing career field.”<br />
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329157/most-controversial-quotes-obamas-hampton-university-speech-eliana-johnson<br />
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<i>On the surface, this looks like another government boondoggle at best or another worthless promise made by a pandering politician at worst. No biggie, right ?</i><br />
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Not quite, Dear Reader. What we have here is a call for <i>Komsomol</i>-like indoctrination (and ultimate corruption of) young people. As has been proven countless times, the so-called "green" movement has nothing to do with saving the environment, it has everything to do with the redistribution of wealth, just like everything else the Progressivik movement has inflicted or wants to inflict upon on the American people. But that's not the scary part of all this. The scary part of all this is the fact that it's already happening, with no input or authorization from CONgress.<br />
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<i>Whatchoo talkin' about, Willis ?</i><br />
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From the America-hating commies at the Environmental Protection Agency, as part of their "Environmental Justice" strategy (<i>Emphasis</i> added where appropriate) : <br />
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"EPA Region 1, together with state, county, city, non-profit, and
community organizations, is working with several communities in
Bridgeport [Connecticut] on a series of environmental justice issues affecting human
health and the ambient environment. The Project was designed to expand
collaboration among a range of diverse stakeholders in order to solve
some substantial environmental issues. Region I has programs designed
to improve indoor air quality, encourage green jobs in the community,
increase recycling rates, and reduce asthma and toxic exposure in
schools and homes. The region awarded $100,000 to support the
programming. The Region awarded $25,000 to the Bridgeport Board of
Education and the City of Bridgeport to pilot a paper recycling program
at two local schools. <i>The Connecticut Coalition for Environmental
Justice , a community based organization, will coordinate a community
fair focused on asthma, bringing together city organizations working on
asthma and healthy homes to effectively share resources.</i><br />
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<i>Green jobs and youth development have been critical
program elements.</i> To attract young people into water industry careers,
EPA New England worked with the Connecticut Section of the American
Water Works Association, the Water and People Program, and the public
schools to establish a Water Boot Camp. These groups are leading the
way in connecting with youth to teach them about water resources and
prepare them for green jobs in water operations. Groundwork Bridgeport
will train and develop 20 Bridgeport youth water resource protection
advocates, mark 600 street drains indicating that they drain into Long
Island Sound and must be kept clean, and <i>organize </i>four neighborhood
meetings for residents and local businesses about how they can protect
water resources. <i>The City’s Workplace, Inc. jobs training program is
devising training for inner city youth to receive waste water and
drinking water handler certifications.</i> Beyond the water projects, the
region facilitated Greenscaper Training at Bridgeport’s Beardsley Zoo.
The training focused on vegetated rain gardens as a way to control
stormwater runoff."<br />
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http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/grants/ej-showcase-r01.html<br />
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<i>What in the hell is "Environmental Justice" ?</i><br />
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There are two possible answers to that question, Dear Reader. One is propaganda from the Bloated Federal Leviathan and the other is the truth. Let's look at both:<br />
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"Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement
of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with
respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of
environmental laws, regulations, and policies. EPA has this goal for all
communities and persons across this Nation. It will be achieved when
everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and
health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a
healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work."<br />
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http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/index.html<br />
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And now, the truth, from former UNELECTED "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones, with <i>emphasis </i>added where appropriate:<br />
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<strong>"Mother Jones:</strong> Can you briefly explain what 'environmental justice' means to you?</div>
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<strong>Van Jones:</strong> <a href="http://www.greenforall.org/" target="_blank">Environmental justice</a>
is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate
environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental
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<strong>MJ:</strong> What's the relationship between environmental justice and sustainability?</div>
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<i> Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we
have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice
zones were put where poor people live. It would never have been allowed
if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's
neighborhoods; we'd have had a sustainable economy a long time ago. </i>We'd
have had a clean and green economy a long time ago. It's the <i>
environmental racism </i>that allowed the powerful people in society to turn
a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that
got us to this point. So there's a direct relationship between
environmental racism and the lack of sustainability of society as a
whole. We were the canaries in the coal mines, crying for relief. Now
finally the consequences are affecting everyone, with global warming and
everything else. The other thing is that the environmental justice
agenda is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal
protection from environmental bad. <i>Now we are also demanding equal
opportunity and equal access to environmental good. We don't want to be
first and worst with all the toxins and all the negative effects of
global warming, and then benefit last and least from all the
breakthroughs in solar, wind energy, organic food, all the positives. We
want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the
benefits of the transition to a green economy."</i></div>
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<br />Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-21091946371078348862012-09-25T00:26:00.001-07:002012-09-25T00:26:48.778-07:00Mother Russia JonesRecently, the commie pig droppings at <i>Mother Russia Jones </i>magazine published a video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney being 100% honest about why so many people support Jew hater Barack Hussein Obama---they get all kinds of "free" crap paid for by some working stiff against his will. The arrogant and lazy media rejoiced and sang hosannas. Obama was now safe. To them, Romney was outed as an evil robber baron who wanted to turn the poor into Soylent Green and there was no way for him to possibly best their lord and savior after this "shocking" revelation.<br />
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Before we get into this, perhaps we should learn exactly what <i>Mother Russia Jones</i> actually is. (Trust me, folks, I ain't picking on some elderly nun.) From <i>Discover the Networks:</i><br />
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"Mother Jones is a bimonthly magazine and website named for socialist
'union organizer' Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones (1830-1930). It prides
itself on continuing her pursuit of socialist 'social justice' by doing
investigative reporting that mostly targets corporations, capitalists,
private property, and Republican political officeholders.<br />
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Well-known
leftist editors and writers on this magazine's masthead include Todd
Gitlin, Molly Ivins, Bill McKibben, Richard Rodriguez, William Saletan,
Orville Schell, Eric Schlosser, and Amy Wilentz. <br />
Mother Jones
began taking shape in 1974 when theWatergate scandal was demonstrating
how investigative reporting could weaken and oust a Republican President
elected by an overwhelming majority. Its genesis was a failed attempt
to save the reigning radical magazine of the day, Ramparts. Ramparts
editor David Horowitz had put together a team consisting of labor
journalist Paul Jacobs, leftist entrepreneur Richard Parker, and leftist
millionaire Adam Hochschild to take over Ramparts from its retiring
editors, Horowitz and Peter Collier. When the trio had a falling out
with Ramparts staffers, they elected to leave and create their own
magazine, which became Mother Jones.<br />
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The magazine was launched in February 1976.<br />
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Jones focuses heavily on the evils of capitalism and the alleged
desirability of government control over business. On a global level, the
magazine reserves its harshest condemnations for the U.S. and Israel,
and is staunchly supportive of Marxist regimes like Fidel Castro's
Cuba."<br />
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6959<br />
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<i>So, in other words, Mother Jones is just a nice bunch of "social justice" activists</i> <i>who really, really care about the poor and just can't wait to pay their taxes every April 15th ?</i><br />
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Well not exactly, Dear Reader. They're a 501(c)(3) organization. <i>Mother Russia Jones</i> pay no taxes despite raking in millions from ads in their print magazine and crappy little website.<br />
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<i>Hey! What ?! </i><br />
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"To be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code, an organization must be organized and operated exclusively for
exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3), and none of its earnings
may inure to any private shareholder or individual. In addition, it may
not be an action organization, i.e., it may not attempt to influence
legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not
participate in any campaign activity for or against political
candidates."<br />
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http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=96099,00.html<br />
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<i>So, wait a minute....If Mother Jones pays no taxes, what do they do with the money they earn ?</i><br />
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That's a great question, Dear Reader. What exactly does <i>Mother Russia Jones</i> do with the money that they're not using to pay their "fair share" ? After all, according to Chairman Obama, we all need to pay our "fair share" to build bridges to nowhere, subsidizing lazy teachers, and the rest of the indignities our bloated leviathan of a federal government deems necessary to inflict upon its victims, the embattled taxpayers, on a daily basis.<br />
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<br />The first thing <i>Mother Russia Jones</i> does is pay the homosexual agenda pushers and drug addicts who run the place really, really well. According to charity watchdog <i>Charity Navigator</i>, <i>Mother Russia Jones </i>publisher and president John Harris was paid $101,976 in fiscal year 2010. Editor in chiefs Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein were paid $166,423 and $161,684 respectively in 2010. CFO and COO Madeleine Buckingham didn't do all that shabby either, raking in a cool $155,987.* Who knew being a leftist mouth breather paid so well ?<br />
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The next thing they do is violate the very IRS code that makes them tax exempt. If you'll recall from the above definition, 501(c)(3) organizations like <i>Mother Russia Jones </i>aren't supposed to involve themselves in partisan politics or push political agendas. But for the most part, partisan politics and pushing political agendas is all that <i>Mother Russia Jones</i> does.<br />
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Here's a few examples of what <i>Mother Russia Jones </i>attempts to pass off as unbiased journalism:<br />
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"Nate Silver has an epic post today about late September polls from
past years and how well they predict the eventual winner of a
presidential race. Here are the highlights:
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<li>Obama is currently up by 3.7%. No candidate in the past 50 years has lost a lead that big.</li>
<li>No candidate with more than 47% of the vote in late September has <em>ever</em> lost. Obama is currently at 48.3%.</li>
<li>Big changes in the final month aren't impossible, but they've gotten rarer in the past 20 years.</li>
<li>It's not true that undecided voters tend to break for the challenger in the last few weeks of a race."</li>
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"In every way that they <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/us/politics/obama-exploits-familiar-junction-of-policy-and-politics.html">can control</a>,
the Obama people have simply been smarter. Take those conventions: in
each of them, the presidential candidate was introduced by a well-known
figure who went on stage and ad-libbed. One was an <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/video-watch-the-entire-clint-eastwood-speech-at-the-rnc/">82-year-old guy</a>
talking to an empty chair (and I still thought he was the best thing
the Republicans had to offer, including his shout-out about withdrawing
all our troops from Afghanistan) and the other was... well, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5knEXDsrL4">Bill Clinton</a>.<br />
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It wasn't even a contest. As for the upcoming <a href="http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-debate-schedule/2012-presidential-debate-schedule/">debates</a>,
if you think Romney can outduel Obama without wandering in among the
thorns, I have a Nigerian prince I'd like to introduce you to. In other
words, it should really all be over except for the usual shouting and
the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/05/will-republicans-vast-super-pac-money-advantage-swing-the-election.html">gazillions of dollars</a> of attack ads that will turn swing-state TV screens into a mind-numbing blur of lies."<br />
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I'd continue, but you're a smart cookie, Dear Reader. I'm sure you get the drift. (This is just a sampling from 9/24/12, mind you.)<br />
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Here's the bottom line, folks. If Mitt Romney is serious about winning the White House, he needs to take the gloves off and put the brass knucks on. (Yes, verbal brass knucks.) He has to call Obama exactly what he is, a Jew hating, Catholic persecuting, a Jihadi sympathizing, homosexual agenda pushing, dog-eating, race baiting, commie piece of human garbage. It's pretty obvious that Obama and his sycophants at <i>Mother Russia Jones</i> are playing for keeps, using every trick in the Book of Lies to keep their little scam going. Is it too much to ask that Romney uses the truth to save America ?<br />
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<br />Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-87768775434349165222012-09-09T09:22:00.001-07:002012-09-09T09:37:45.421-07:00Another Question To Be AskedThe Romney campaign, tearing a page out of the Reagan playbook, often asks, "Are you better off than you were four years ago ?" It's a magnificent question and just as relevant as it was during the 1980 Massacre. But there's something that should be added to that very important question:<br />
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"Will you be better off four years from now if Obama gets another term ?"<br />
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It's a fair question, really.<br />
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The American economy has become an utter disaster. Unemployment is at 8.1 %, with the rate only dropping because thousands have given up looking for work. (Currently 23 million are out of work.) Gas prices have doubled since Chairman Obama flubbed his oath of office during the 2009 Coronation. Food prices have gone through the roof and the threat of Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation looms with every phony dollar the Federal Reserve prints. The US is currently $16 trillion dollars in debt and that figure will only get worse when Obamacareless, the largest tax hike in human history, has been fully inflicted on the American people.<br />
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Things aren't much better on the national security side of things, either. Sure, Osama bin Laden is out of the game, but we're not any safer, not by a long shot. Under the Obama administration/circus, only dumb luck prevented hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans from being killed by the Times Square bomber and the Underwear Bomber. While the Department of Homeland Security was looking into the dangers of "right-wing extremism", it ignored the relationship between al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awaki and a US Army major named Nidal Hassan, who promptly went on to shoot up Fort Hood in the name of Allah. The war in Afghanistan has become a quagmire, not through any fault of the troops, but because Chairman Obama has treated it as if it were just another government program. While our Dear Leader was bombing Libya for no reason, Islamonazi Iran has gotten closer to acquiring nuclear weapons.<br />
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If you're living in a border state, things certainly haven't gotten any better in the last four years, nor will they in the future. Arizona ranchers are being attacked on their land by illegal aliens, much like the way Afrikaner farmers are being attacked in South Africa. The city of Phoenix has become one of the kidnapping capitals of the world, thanks to illegal immigration and the criminal element it brings. What was Chairman Obama's answer to this mess ? Amnesty, without any input from CONgress, and arming Mexican drug cartels with Operation Fast and Furious.<br />
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As far as social issues go, religious persecution has become the norm. The Democrat party has made it perfectly clear that believing Christians and Jews are not welcome in the utopia that they're trying to build by booing God and Jerusalem at the convention. Maximum Leader Obama's Department of Health and Human Services has demanded that Catholic institutions pay for birth control through an unconstitutional mandate. Failed Messiah Obama said on record that it would better if Israel shrunk down to its indefensible 1967 borders. Obama sycophants Boston mayor Tom Menino and Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel tried to vilify Chick fil-a and its CEO Dan Cathy for correctly stating that homosexual "marriage" is an affront to God. At this rate, one can only wonder if lions and blood thirsty crowds are around the corner.<br />
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As of this writing, Obama's shills in the arrogant and lazy media have manufactured a small four point lead over Mitt Romney in many polls. Now, I'm no high powered GOPe political consultant, and I know the debates are around the corner, but the Romney campaign needs to cut out the "he's a nice guy" crap and start fighting the good fight or grandchildren will be asking their grandparents "Was there ever a time when we were better off ?"<br />
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Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-22825567423246373602012-08-18T03:58:00.005-07:002012-08-18T19:38:43.144-07:00What Will The End Of The United States Look Like ?As we stand at the edge of complete economic, political, and social disaster as a nation, I can't help but wonder what the end of the United States will look like. Will it look like Weimar Germany, with its hyperinflation and street battles between socialists (Yes, the Nazis were socialists) and communists ? Will it look like Greece, a bankrupted social democracy with absolutely no chance of ever righting the ship ? Will it look like the mindless mass murders that were the hallmarks of the French and Russian Revoulutions ?<br />
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An argument can be made for each of the examples I've listed above. With the Federal Reserve printing money like there's no tomorrow, the hyperinflation and resulting chaos of the Weimar Republic is certainly possible. With 100 trillion dollars in unpaid liabilities due to entitlements, the United States certainly has a chance to become Greece. With the constant attacks on Christianity and Judaism by the Anti-God Left, a French Revolution of sorts on American soil is certainly possible, and as Occupy Wall Street showed in its own incompetent way, a violent Russian Revolution of sorts on American soil may be in our not-so-distant future.<br />
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Or could we become post-apartheid South Africa, a relatively wealthy and modern country heading to utter collapse due to racial violence, an out of control leftist government, and a non-existent immigration policy ?<br />
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Before we get started, let me make something crystal clear. The fall of apartheid in South Africa was one of mankind's better moments. Apartheid was an inhuman, vile system. As Ayn Rand pointed out in the <em>Virtue of Selfishness:</em><br />
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"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.<br />
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Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its <em>content</em>) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.<br />
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Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination."<br />
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Apartheid wasn't a creation of the Right. Like every other social illness of the 19th and 20th centuries, apartheid was a creation of the Left, much like segregation in the South. <br />
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"<span class="initcap">T</span>he now-defunct apartheid system of South Africa presented a fascinating instance of interest-group <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Competition.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">competition</span></a></span> for political advantage. In light of the extreme human rights abuses stemming from apartheid, it is remarkable<span id="CEE_pg_15"></span> that so little attention has been paid to the economic foundations of that torturous social structure. The conventional view is that apartheid was devised by affluent whites to suppress poor blacks. In fact, the system sprang from class warfare and was largely the creation of white workers struggling against both the black majority and white capitalists. Apartheid was born in the political victory of radical white trade unions over both of their rivals. In short, this cruelly oppressive economic system was <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">socialism</span></a></span> with a racist face."<br />
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Apartheid was basically begun as a system to protect white union miners from competition from black non-union miners in the early 1900's. (In other words, they have the same racist origin that American unions do.) The National Party government that made apartheid the law of the land in South Africa was a socialist/fascist dictatorship. (One of the battle cries of the apartheid regime was "Workers of the world unite, fight for a white South Africa!")<br />
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After the election of Nelson Mandela (a murdering terrorist, despite the accolades heaped on him by the arrogant and lazy mainstream media) in 1994, South Africa began to crumble. Mandela's party, the African National Congress (ANC), wasn't at all interested in building the "Rainbow Nation" that he so waxed so eloquently about. It was a Marxist party hell bent on retribution and the redistribution of wealth. (As an aside note, the National Party ended up merging with the ANC. Collectivists of a feather always flock together.)<br />
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A new South African Constitution was written by the ANC which institutionalized the redistribution of wealth. Instead of being a charter of negative liberties like the US Constitution, the South African Constitution was intended to be a license for the South African government to do whatever it wanted for the "common good" of the people. For example, from the South African Constitution:<br />
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No provision of this section may impede the state from taking legislative and other measures to achieve land, water and related reform, in order to redress the results of past racial discrimination, provided that any departure from the provisions of this section is in accordance with the provisions of section 36(1)."<br />
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In other words, property rights and indiviual sovereignty in South Africa no longer exist. For example, an Afrikaner farmer could lose his farm because of the actions of a long-dead distant relative. This is a complete and total breakdown of the civil society, since it punishes individuals for for the actions of others.<br />
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The South African Constitution also guarantees that all citizens have the right to housing, food, water, public assistance, a healthy environment, and secondary education, much like the old Soviet Constitution. Also like the old Soviet Constitution, it didn't produce a utopia, it produced a dystopia. No government is capable of such largesse, it simply isn't humanly possible, even for a relatively wealthy nation like South Africa. Anger and hatred became (particularly against the white Afrikaner minority) became the norm. Roving gangs of black youths, egged on by ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, began terrorizing Afrikaner farmers. The reasoning behind it was this: If the government can't give it to us fast enough, we'll simply take it because we have a right to it. (Since 1994, over 3000 Afrikaner farmers have been murdered. The vast majority of these crimes aren't investigated by police and are chalked up to common criminals.)<br />
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is where America is heading. Like South Africa, we have a government that is more interested in the redistribution of wealth than anything else. The attacks on ranchers in southern Arizona by rampaging illegal aliens from Mexico may not have had tragic the loss of life that the attacks on Afrikaner farms have had, but the situations are certainly similiar. We've already seen how the entitlement mentality creates poverty and crime in our inner cities. How much longer until that situation devolves into shanty towns ? As far as racial tensions go, they're only going to get worse with leftist race baiters like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson running amok.<br />
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Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-14324252043454002152012-08-17T10:50:00.000-07:002012-08-17T10:50:32.640-07:00Wacist, Wacist, Wacist!Since the failed presidency of JFK, the moonbats of the Ignorant Left have pushed the narrative that Conservatives are a bunch of Archie Bunker-like racists while spewing intellectual vomit like this:<br />
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Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-14015834429601112562012-08-16T16:49:00.000-07:002012-08-16T16:49:54.405-07:00Are You Ready For ANOTHER Solyndra, Patriots ?<i>Is jy gereed vir 'n ander Solyndra, patriotte?</i><br />
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From the Export-Import Bank of The United States:<br />
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"JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) and the Industrial Development Corp. of South Africa Ltd. (IDC) today signed a Declaration of Intent (DoI) to help advance the South African government’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and the South African Renewable Initiative (SARi). Under the agreement, Ex-Im Bank will assist in financing up to $2 billion worth of U.S. technologies, products and services to South Africa’s energy sector, with an emphasis on clean-energy development.<br />
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Established in 1940, the IDC is a South African national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development. It is owned by the South African government under the supervision of the Economic Development department. The IDC's primary objectives are to contribute to the creation of balanced, sustainable economic growth in South Africa and on the rest of the continent. <br />
Ex-Im Bank is open in over 180 countries and has identified nine key markets that offer great potential for U.S. exports. South Africa was chosen as one of these markets due to the size of its economy and close trading and investment ties to the United States. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa and the 29th largest economy in the world. Its GDP growth rate is expected to be 2.2 percent in 2012 and 2.7 percent in 2013.<br />
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"The Export-Import Bank provides taxpayer-subsidized loans to U.S. exporters. The bank’s charter will expire at the end of May. President Obama supports a four-year extension and, further, wants to increase the bank’s $100 billion loan limit by an additional $40 billion.<br />
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Speaking last week at Heritage, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) said the bank should be completely abolished. His legislation, the Export-Import Bank Termination Act, would end this form of corporate welfare. <br />
'[The Ex-Im Bank] basically provides government-subsidized, essentially loans, low-interest payments, and all the rest to foreign corporations that receive exports from American companies,' Amash explained. 'It’s the kind of corporate welfare we should do away with. We should have a free-market system; taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for subsidized loans to anyone. I see it as just another Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in the making and I have a bill to end it.'<br />
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Supporters of the extension claim there is greater demand for the bank’s services because of combined effects of the collapse of the financial markets in 2008 and 2009 and the European debt crisis. Critics, however, complain that expanding the bank’s loan limit in this environment is asking for a repeat of Fannie and Freddie. Even at its best, the bank just picks winners of a few exporters and hopes there are no losers."<br />
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Give yourself a gold star, Dear Reader! You're right! This is not a good thing. In fact, it's about as good as a long term stay in a Turkish prison. The Export-Import Bank has loaned YOUR money to the likes of Pemex (the state oil company of Mexico) and Petrobras (the state oil company of Brazil). Think about that as you pay $3.80 a gallon at the pump. (Just make sure you haven't eaten in the last hour before doing so. The author bears no responsibility if you blow chunks in your car.)<br />
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But don't worry. You may be getting screwed, but at least someone is making money. That person is...wait for it...wait for it...<br />
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<big>Yep! The Fuhrer himself, George $oros, has made a killing from this type of Crony Capitalism.</big><br />
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"His New York-based hedge-fund firm, Soros Fund Management LLC, sold 22 million U.S.-listed common shares of Petrobras, as the Brazilian oil company is known, according to a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Soros bought 5.8 million of the company’s U.S.-traded preferred shares. <br />
Soros is taking advantage of the spread between the two types of U.S.-listed Petrobras shares, said Luis Maizel, president of LM Capital Group LLC, which manages about $4 billion. The common shares were 21 percent more expensive than preferred today, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. <br />
Petrobras preferred shares have also a 10 percent additional dividend, said William Landers, a senior portfolio manager for Latin America at Blackrock Inc.<br />
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'Given that there will most likely never be a change in control in the company, I see no reason to pay a higher price for the common shares.' Brazil’s government controls Petrobras and has a majority stake of voting shares."<br />
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/18/good-news-obama-backs-off-shore-drilling/<br />
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Angry yet ? No ? Well, I'm just gonna have to try harder. Fred Hochberg, the chairman of the Export-Import Bank is as dirty as they get. <br />
From the <i>Washington Compost</i> :<br />
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"Hochberg is a longtime Democratic Party donor and was among the overnight guests in the Clinton White House. He was a bundler for both Hillary Clinton and Obama in 2008. During the 2008 election cycle, he donated more than $108,000, almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and the party. Hochberg was appointed by Clinton as a deputy and acting administrator of the Small Business Administration and ran that agency's transition effort under Obama. He has served as dean of the New School for Management and Urban Policy and on the boards of several public agencies, charitable organizations and private companies."<br />
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And guess what ? The openly homosexual Hochberg flew through his Imperial Senate confirmation vote to head up the Export-Import bank. In fact, it was unanimous. (Way to go, Team -R. Way to go. Your courage is inspiring. /sarc) Now, at this point, I thought we'd be done with Fuhrer $oros, but I'm loaded with caffeine, and Bing is just so darn easy to use. (Memo to the bottom feeders in the arrogant and lazy mainstream media: Give it a try one day. Maybe, just maybe, you'll outscoop me one day. I doubt it, but why not give the old college a try ?)<br />
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When he's not doing the Crony Capitalism thing, Fred Hochberg likes to be a left-wing nutjob. He was a former board member of the Human Rights Campaign, a radical LGBT "rights" group. In 2008, it received $200, 000 from the $oros funded Open Society Institute. (H/T Discover the Networks ). In fact, the Human Rights Campaign is filled with raving left-wing commie lunatics.<br />
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"Meanwhile, other HRC personnel maintain close ties to all manner of leftwing political figures and activist groups: <br />
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Darrin Hurwitz served as in-house legal counsel for America Coming Together.<br />
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Terry McGuire worked with the New Mexico League of Conservation Voters on behalf of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.<br />
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Susanne Salkind was a regional field manager for NARAL Pro-Choice America.<br />
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Christine Sloane has held positions with Greenpeace USA and NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina. <br />
David M. Smith was communications director for Senator Ted Kennedy.<br />
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Given the fact that the Export-Import Bank is infested with leftist corruption, it's no real surprise that it would bend over backwards for the communist African National Congress government that's running South Africa into the ground. (Regardless of what the lapdogs in the arrogant and lazy mainstream media would have you believe, South Africa simply traded one tyranny for another when the socialist Nationalist government, which instituted Apartheid, fell and was replaced by the ANC, who at one point had death camps---I'm sorry---"reeducation camps" in Angola. I throw up a little in my mouth every time some lib journalist calls Nelson Mandela a "civil rights activist".)<br />
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In fact, Genocide Watch (not exactly a right-wing outfit) had this to say about the deteriorating conditions in South Africa:<br />
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"After many years when such songs were no longer sung, in 2010, prominent members of the ANC Youth League, in particular Julius Malema, President of the ANC Youth League, openly sang the 'Shoot the Boer' song at ANC Youth League rallies. Not only did revival of the song strike fear into the hearts of Boer farmers, but it has actually been sung during attacks on white farmers. It is an incitement to murder white Afrikaner farmers. Over 3000 white farmers have been murdered since 1994. The South African police have not made investigation and prosecution of these farm murders a priority, dismissing them as crimes by common criminals.<br />
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The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons. Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings. A recent outbreak of violent farm invasions has led to casualties among white South Africans. The farm invasions are direct results of calls by Julius Malema and his Deputy, Ronald Lamola for whites to give up their land without compensation, or face violence by angry black youths 'flooding their farms.' "<br />
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In other words, South Africa is about to turn into Zimbabwe. Just ask South African president (and wannabe genocidal dictator) Jacob Zuma. Again, from Genocide Watch:<br />
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"President Jacob Zuma sang 'Shoot the Boer' at the ANC Centenary Celebration event in January of 2012. He claimed that its use at the ANC Centenary was not intended as hate speech, but rather to commemorate the struggle against apartheid. Despite President Zuma’s proclaimed intent, his singing of the song may be contributing to an increasingly hostile environment that threatens the safety of white South Africans. The number of murders of Boer farmers has increased each month in 2012."<br />
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Ladies and gentlemen, should our tax dollars be going to maniacs like this ? Would this be any different than handing billions of dollars to Idi Amin, or Papa Doc ? I'll freely admit that I'm somewhat biased since I have some<i> Afrikaner bloed</i> in me, but c'mon! How much more blatant does this need to be ? (I'm also a proud Zionist Jew in addition to being a natural born American Conservative. Needless to say, I'm probably the most politically unacceptable human being on God's green and cooling Earth. Oh, how I relish it!)<br />
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Aside from the fact that "green" energy is nothing more than commie snake oil and that there's a very good chance the loan will never be repaid since South Africa is drifting closer and closer to civil war, South Africa doesn't even need the money. If it wanted to waste billions on solar panels, it could use its own money. South Africa is the fourth largest gold producer in the world and its fifth largest diamond producer. The only reason South Africa is "poor" (compared to the United States, but certainly not when compared to the rest of Africa) is its government. The Apartheid Nationalist government was a collectivist nightmare and the African National Congress is even worse. <i>South Africa has never had a true free market economic system and the end result of that is its current societal anarchy. This is why We the People have to fight tooth and nail to preserve it.</i><br />
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Back to our original question:<i> Is jy gereed vir 'n ander Solyndra, patriotte?</i> (Translation from Afrikaans to English: Are you ready for another Solyndra, patriots ?) Answer: Nope, especially when it involves money taken from me by force, using it to enrich Crony Capitalists, and having it handed to genocidal maniacs.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-13085211131899514002012-08-04T20:32:00.000-07:002012-08-04T20:32:07.109-07:00You...You...Right-Wing Hate Monger, You!"You....You...Right-Wing Hate Monger, You! Why don't you and your Klan buddies go iron your sheets! The only reason why you and your Nazi friends in the Tea Party hate Obama so much is because he's black!"<br />
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If you don't hear this crap at least once a day as a Conservative, you're simply not fighting the good fight. Like all real Conservatives, if I got a dollar every time I was called a racist for believing in limited Constitutional government, I'd be a millionaire with a Swiss bank account, sort of like DNC Chairthing Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Sadly, the rules don't work that way, and being called a wascally wacist is one of the many indignities I'm forced to endure every day, just like most of you out there.<br />
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Now, I could recount the racist beginnings of the Progressive Bowel Movement to disprove the above nonsense. I could bore the socks off of you talking about how Margaret Sanger envisioned family planning (AKA--The Pro Death Movement) as a way of exterminating blacks. Heck, for that matter, we could talk about Woodrow Wilson segregating the military as well. For those who like their racism more recent, we could talk about Bull Connor and Orval Faubus, two proud segregationists and two proud members of the Democrat Party. Uh-oh! I'm not bringing enough diversity to my roll call of leftist racism, so if I know what's good for me, I better not forget to mention Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson or Al "Crown Heights" Sharpton. If we really wanted to get controversial, we could even discuss Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela singing "Kill the Farmer, Shoot the Boer". (No, I didn't forget our dog-eating, homosexual agenda pushing Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama. Why must everything be about that asshole, anyway ?)<br />
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I could do all of those things, but I don't feel like writing a book report about Jonah Goldberg's <i>Liberal Fascism</i> or Ann Coulter's <i>Demonic.</i> They're great books and among my all time favorites, but I thought for this column, we'd go in a different direction. Let's see, oh, I don't know, what Tom Metzger, director of the White Aryan Resistance thinks about the Conservative Movement, Conservatives, and the Right in general.<br />
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And awaaaaaaaaay we go, from a 2005 interview on <i>Resist.com:</i><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>"</b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>Interviewer:</b></span><b><b><span style="color: red;"> Let's get it straight. Is White Aryan Resistance a right wing organization? Do you identify yourself with the right wing movement?</span> <br />
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<b><b><span style="color: red;">"Interviewer: [T]hey mislead their followers" you said. What do you mean by 'misleading'? Convincing the members of their organizations that two plus two equals five?</span> <br />
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<b><b>Metzger: They do the same old failed things over and over never winning anything. They waste time with uniforms and flags and rallies. I promote revolution against the<i> Capitalists</i> and the Social Marxists." [Talk about <i>doublethink!</i> What a maroon!]</b></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>"Interviewer: </b></span><b><b><span style="color: red;">There was once a group named "Knights of Freedom" whose leader was Decker and his original name is Greenbaum. As far as I can see his group [of] hard core NEO Nazis does not exist, but I would like to ask you why the Jews join our movement? Were there other Jews who joined to movement beside Knights of Freedom? </span> <br />
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Metzger: That's not strange at all. The Jews tried to join Hitler. One was even in the first few that joined. The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first. The group you mentioned was just another Hollywood Nazi style group. There are dozens of them in this country. Uniform freaks, malcontents, father fetishes and even homosexuals. <i>They don't even know that National socialism was a leftist idea. Here they sound like National capitalists. </i>They love To dress up and march around while the police save them every time. They never think of clever ways to beat their opposition in the shadows. They always stand up and say HIT ME!! It's so embarrassing. When I did it in the 70's and 80's we crushed the communist [More <i>doublethink!</i>] race mixers. We beat them bloody and were never arrested or saved by police. In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others."</b></b><br />
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I know that earlier in this column that I didn't want to talk about our dog-eating, homosexual agenda-pushing, Catholic persecuting, Jew-hater in Chief Barack Hussein Obama, but he's a hard guy to ignore, especially since he's destroying the Free World. Once again, here's Tom Metzger, giving his opinion on the First Foreign Born President:<br />
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"The corporations are running things now, so it’s not going to make much difference who's in there, but McCain would be much worse. He’s a warmonger. He’s a scary, scary person--more dangerous than Bush. Obama, according to his book, <i>Dreams Of My Father</i>, is a racist and I have no problem with black racists. I’ve got the quote right here: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s white race.' The problem with Obama is he’s being dishonest about his racial views. I’d respect him if he’d just come out and say, 'Yeah, I’m a black racist.' I don’t hate black people. I just think it’s in the best interest of the races to be separated as much as possible. <i>See, I’m a leftist. I’m not a rightist. I hate the transnational corporations far more than any black person." </i><br />
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<em>Chris Collinsworth (during the replay): Big time hustle here, Al. Tuck was all tangled up here with number 79, right tackle Todd Herremans, and he ran down the Eagles' fastest player from behind. Tuck doesn't know the meaning of the word "quit", Al. Uh-oh! Here's a flag!</em><br />
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<em>Al Michaels: Let's get the call from Ed Hoculi.</em><br />
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<em>Ed Hoculi: Holding, number 79 offense! 10 yard penalty, repeat second down. When New York takes possession, they too will be penalized 10 yards. Holding will no longer be tolerated by this officiating crew for the remainder of this game. We have to take a stand somehow.</em><br />
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<em>Al Michaels: What the---(shuffling papers)----I'm stunned. I've never heard of such a call. Can we---Can we get the NFL---This makes no sense whatsoever. I'm speechless.</em><br />
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The above hypothetical seems pretty stupid, right ? After all, it was the Eagles who broke the rules, not the Giants. Common sense dictates that that the guilty party should be punished for their infraction. Even if you're not a football nut like I am, you would instantly recognize that the referee in the hypothetical, Ed Hochuli, was being grossly unfair to the Giants. In other words, it's a 2+2=4 situation for most folks.<br />
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Note that I said "most folks". There's one group that would think the above hypothetical is perfectly acceptable: Liberals, or as I like to call them, Those Without A Functioning Cerebral Cortex.<br />
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A great example of this is their calls for strict gun control in the wake of the "Batman" shooting in Colorado. Before the families of the victims had a chance to catch their breath, the liberal "intelligensia" sprung into action, demanding action. Imperial Senator Diane Frankenfeinstein (H/T Mark Levin) went on the FOX Neocon Channel (FNC) to run her fat mouth about the "Assault" Weapon Ban of the 90's. Michael Bloomturd (H/T Mark Levin) certainly didn't miss out on his chance to talk up the Police State on <em>Deface the Nation, </em>and neither did <em>Deface the Nation's </em>host, Bob Schieffer. Reliable RINO Bill Kristol also put his two cents in as well, calling himself a "squish" on gun control. Bill Moyers lived up to his billing as the World's Biggest Liberal Hack On The Public Dole and said that the NRA is an "enabler of death -- paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a scorpion". (All five of his viewers were impressed by his poetic verse, I'm sure.) Needless to say, this Sunday's news shows were even more unwatchable than usual. All were using the same 2+2=5 logic that was used in the above hypothetical.<br />
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Ladies and gentlemen, I know you've heard this a thousand times before, but it's worth repeating a thousand more times: <em>Gun control and gun laws only punish law-abiding citizens.</em> Criminals, by their very nature, couldn't care less about the rule of law. They're simply going to get their guns on the street or wait around for another Fast and Furious-like screw up. It's that simple---and that deadly.<br />
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We the People can't let these morons continually spew their nonsense unchecked. The Right to Bear Arms is a precious gift from God Almighty Himself. Once it's gone, it will be gone forever. I don't know about you, but I don't think Those Without A Functioning Cerebral Cortex should be the sole arbiters of what is and what is not the correct method of protecting my family and my home. Just sayin'.<br />
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(PS---Ed Hochuli is one of the finest referees in the NFL. The only reason why I picked him for my hypothetical is the fact that he's probably the best known official in the NFL. Please Ed, whatever you do, don't hold this against my Giants.)Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-33197742542775160302012-07-21T16:48:00.004-07:002012-07-21T20:38:08.245-07:00Which Nelson Mandela Did Chairman Obama Congratulate, Anyway ?From the leftist hacks at <em>Politico:</em><br />
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Well, to be perfectly blunt and honest, that's not exactly news. Many American presidents have paid tribute to the South African civil rights leader. That's nothing new. But with Chairman Obama and his questionable (to say the very, very least) background, one has to ask: Which Nelson Mandela did Barack Obama admire ? Was it the the civil rights leader who, along with FW de Klerk, helped end apartheid ? (Which was a creation of the South African mining unions to protect white workers from competition from black workers, by the way. In other words, South African unions have the same origin as "American" unions do.) Or, does he admire this Nelson Mandela:<br />
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"It is not given to a leader of one political organisation in a country to sing praises to the virtues of another. But that is what I intend to do today. <br />
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It is a relationship that has detractors in abundance; a relationship that has its prolific obituary scribes. But it is a relationship that always disappoints these experts. Because it was tempered in struggle. It is written in the blood of many martyrs. And, today, it is reinforced by hard-won victory. <br />
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On behalf of the African National Congress, I wish to thank you most profoundly for the invitation to take part in this the 9th Congress of the SACP. I bring you the organisation's greetings as well as my own. I should also apologise for not attending the opening of the Congress, due to unforeseen developments. "---Nelson Mandela in 1992<br />
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It's question that should be asked, consequences be damned. I know there will be some who scream racism at the top of their lungs for even daring to ask this question, but it's my recollection that our Dear Leader (in no particular order):<br />
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Here's an even better question, and yes, it's quite controversial, but what the hell: Did Commander Zero give a shout out to the Nelson Mandela who talked about racial harmony, or did he give a shout out to the Nelson Mandela who palled around with Jew haters like Yasser Arafat ? A reasonable question, when you consider the fact that Obama himself thinks it would be just ducky if Israel went back to its indefensible 1967 borders. Or maybe we should ask if Obama admires the Nelson Mandela who trained in Algerian terrorist camps, instead of the one who jibber-jabbered about peace. ( <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=759">http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=759</a> ) Enquiring minds want to know since Obama welcomed members of the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House and the State of Confusion Department's Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has direct connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. <br />
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Perhaps Barry is a big fan of the Nelson Mandela who sings songs like "Kill the Farmer, Shoot the Boer". (The fight song of the African National Congress.) After all, Comrade Obama has made it abundantly clear he's not a big fan of whites. He:<br />
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Hmmmmm. The original question still remains.Which Nelson Mandela did Chairman Obama congratulate ? Yoo-hoo! Lazy and arrogant mainstream media! Wanna take a crack at this question ? How about you, GOP-E cowards in the Romney campaign ?<br />
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Ah....the sweet melody of crickets......Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-27852195188063709802012-07-19T20:40:00.000-07:002012-07-19T20:40:35.576-07:00A Marxist Inspired GenocideThat No One Seems To Care About<em>Waarom het niemand omgee vir die Afrikaner-volksmoord in Suid-Afrika?</em><br />
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When the Apartheid system in South Africa fell apart in 1994, the world rightfully cheered. Apartheid was a vile, racist system that robbed men of their God-given individual rights. Apartheid was a big government system created by leftists that kept black Africans, Asians, and those of mixed race in a state of perpetual misery and poverty. To say that Apartheid was one of mankind's ugliest inventions, would be an understatement at very least.<br />
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That's correct, dear reader. Apartheid, much like segregation in the South, was a grotesque creation of leftists. As economist Thomas Hazlett wrote:<br />
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"<span class="initcap">T</span>he now-defunct apartheid system of South Africa presented a fascinating instance of interest-group <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Competition.html">competition</a></span> for political advantage. In light of the extreme human rights abuses stemming from apartheid, it is remarkable<span id="CEE_pg_15"></span> that so little attention has been paid to the economic foundations of that torturous social structure. The conventional view is that apartheid was devised by affluent whites to suppress poor blacks. In fact, the system sprang from class warfare and was largely the creation of white workers struggling against both the black majority and white capitalists. Apartheid was born in the political victory of radical white trade unions over both of their rivals. In short, this cruelly oppressive economic system was <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html">socialism</a></span> with a racist face."<br />
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Apartheid's origin comes from two places: Racism and the fears of tradesmen being replaced by black workers. (Kind of like the "American" unions of old, huh?) As professor Hazlett writes:<br />
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White workers feared the large <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Supply.html">supply</a></span> of African labor as the low-priced competition that it was. Hence, white tradesmen and government officials, including police, regularly harassed African workers to discourage them from traveling to the mines and competing for permanent positions. Beginning in the 1890s, the Chamber of Mines, a group of employers, complained regularly of this systematic <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Discrimination.html">discrimination</a></span> and attempted to secure better treatment for black workers. Their gesture was neither altruistic nor founded on liberal beliefs. Indeed, the mine owners often resorted to racist measures themselves. But here they had a clear economic incentive: labor costs were minimized where rules were color-blind. This self-interest was so powerful that it led the chamber to finance the first lawsuits and political campaigns against segregationist legislation.<br />
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Nonetheless, the state instituted an array of legal impediments to the promotion of black workers. The notorious Pass Laws sought to sharply limit the supply of nonwhite workers in 'white' employment centers. Blacks were not allowed to become lawful citizens, to live permanently near their work, or to travel without government passports. This last restriction created a catch-22. If passports were issued only to those already possessing jobs, how was a nonwhite to get into the job area to procure a job so as to obtain a passport? Nonwhites also were prohibited from bringing their families while working in the mines (reinforcing the transient nature of employment).<br />
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Each restriction undercut the ability of blacks to fully establish themselves in the capitalist economy, and hence<span id="CEE_pg_16"></span> to compete with white workers on equal terms. Confined to temporary status, blacks were robbed of any realistic chance of building up the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/HumanCapital.html">human capital</a></span> to challenge their white bosses directly in the labor market.<br />
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Yet even on this decidedly unlevel playing field, the profit motive often found ways of matching white capitalists with black workers. Whites formed <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a class="blue" href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/LaborUnions.html">labor unions</a></span> in the early 1900s to guard against this persistent tendency, and the South African Labour Party (SALP) was formed in 1908 to explicitly advance the interests of European workers. The SALP and the unions with which it allied, including the powerful Mine Workers’ Union, were all white and avowedly socialist; the British Labour Party formed the model for the SALP. These organizations opposed any degradation of 'European' or 'civilized' standards in the workplace, by which they meant the advancement of blacks willing to undercut white union pay scales."<br />
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From there came the "Colour Bar", from the "Colour Bar" came Apartheid in 1948 with the election of the National Party, which had thrown its hat in with scumbag socialists chanting "Workers of the world unite, and fight for a white South Africa!"<br />
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Again, let me be clear on this matter so there's no misunderstanding whatsoever: The end of Apartheid was one of mankind's better moments. But sadly, tyanny in South Africa didn't die with Apartheid. It simply changed its moniker. Instead of the racist socialists in the National Party running the show, the racist Marxist-Leninists of the ANC were running the show. In no time at all, communist-inspired black on white violence had spread throughout South Africa.<br />
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"The <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/african_national_congress/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about African National Congress">African National Congress</a> has been South Africa’s governing party since the Presidency of Nelson Mandela 17 years ago, following the end of white minority rule and apartheid. In the years under apartheid, hate speech was used by both supporters and opponents of the apartheid system to stir up their followers. When racial tensions in South Africa ran high, the song 'Kill the Farmer, Shoot the Boer' was a revolutionary song of the anti-apartheid movement. However, it is an illustration of the long-term impact that such de-humanizing language can have.<br />
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After many years when such songs were no longer sung, in 2010, prominent members of the ANC Youth League, in particular Julius Malema, President of the ANC Youth League, openly sang the 'Shoot the Boer' song at ANC Youth League rallies. Not only did revival of the song strike fear into the hearts of Boer farmers, but it has actually been sung during attacks on white farmers. It is an incitement to murder white Afrikaner farmers.<br />
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Over 3000 white farmers have been murdered since 1994. The South African police have not made investigation and prosecution of these farm murders a priority, dismissing them as crimes by common criminals. The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons. Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.<br />
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A recent outbreak of violent farm invasions has led to casualties among white South Africans. The farm invasions are direct results of calls by Julius Malema and his Deputy, Ronald Lamola for whites to give up their land without compensation, or face violence by angry black youths 'flooding their farms.'<br />
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In response to Julius Malema, the Freedom Front (FF) cited Section 16.2c of the South African Constitution, which restricts freedom of speech rights by excluding as unprotected speech 'advocacy of hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and incitement to cause harm.' The FF contended that Malema’s singing of the 'Shoot the Boer' song was hate speech and therefore a human rights violation. Acting Judge of the South Gauteng High Court, Leon Halgryn declared that the song is hate speech, and it is unconstitutional to either utter or sing 'dubul’ibhunu' ('shoot the Boer.') He issued an injunction against Malema, ordering him to no longer sing the song. The phrase is now considered hate speech.<br />
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Despite President Zuma’s proclaimed intent, his singing of the song may be contributing to an increasingly hostile environment that threatens the safety of white South Africans. The number of murders of Boer farmers has increased each month in 2012.<br />
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For ten years, Genocide Watch has been the only international human rights group willing to declare an Alert about the high murder rate of Boer farmers, perhaps because it is not 'politically correct' to defend the rights of people who once supported apartheid. Genocide Watch is opposed to all forms of racism, from whatever the source. The President of Genocide Watch actively supported the anti-apartheid movement in constitutional consultations with the United Democratic Front when he was a Fulbright Professor of Law in Swaziland. He has visited South Africa several times since and will soon visit again."<br />
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Now, let's go back to the original question:<br />
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Perhaps <em>Genocidewatch</em> is right and it's simply "politically incorrect" to defend those who supported Apartheid. The theory certainly has some merit, especially when you consider the fact that most journalists are leftist frauds, no matter what country they come from. There's one theory, and it has plenty of legs. But that's just half of the story.<br />
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The big reason that the dead-enders in the press are ignoring the <em>Afrikaner-volksmoord in Suid-Afrika </em>is the fact that it's a Marxist inspired genocide. From beginning to end, the above tale shows how leftism corrupts and destroys nations. This narrative doesn't agree with the liberal point of view that Marxism brings Utopia and thus it will be ignored.<br />
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When this madness strikes the US, will they report on it then ?Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-89894098324231979912012-07-10T22:52:00.000-07:002012-07-10T22:52:38.513-07:00Commie Faggot Liberals Not Born In Kenya Say The Darndest Things!“I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.” ---Secretary of Education Arne Duncan<br />
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"We accept the view that in many domains, resources should be redistributed from rich nations and rich people to poor nations and poor people. Such redistribution might well increase aggregate social welfare because a dollar is worth more to a poor person than a wealthy one." ---UNELECTED "Regulatory Czar" Cass Sunstein (with Eric Posner) in 2008<br />
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"A legislative effort to regulate broadcasting in the interest of democratic principles should not be seen as an abridgment of the free speech guarantee."---UNELECTED "Regulatory Czar" Cass Sunstein<i>, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, The Free Press, 1995, p. 92</i><br />
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"...listen, you've got the perfect storm building. You've got all the passion around Trayvon, and what a horrible injustice that was. And it turns out you can draw a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/06/Van-Jones-Koch-Bros-To-Blame-For-Trayvon-Shooting#" id="_GPLITA_3" in_hdr="null" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=VVM6MjI0MTc6MTQ3OTpkaXJlY3QgbGluZTpjNzc1ZWMxNGM2ODk1ZjU2MWU0ZTU2NzFhOGY0MjI3NDp6LTEyMDktMzg2MDI6d3d3LmJyZWl0YmFydC5jb20%3D" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">direct line</a> back to the Koch brothers, you can draw a direct line back to to mainstream corporations..."--- FORMER UNELECTED "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones<br />
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"Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where<i> poor people live. It would never have been allowed if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's neighborhoods</i>; we'd have had a sustainable economy a long time ago. We'd have had a clean and green economy a long time ago.<em> It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point. So there's a direct relationship between environmental racism and the lack of sustainability of society as a whole. We were the canaries in the coal mines, crying for relief. Now finally the consequences are affecting everyone, with global warming and everything else. The other thing is that the environmental justice agenda is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good. We don't want to be first and worst with all the toxins and all the negative effects of global warming, and then benefit last and least from all the breakthroughs in solar, wind energy, organic food, all the positives. We want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the benefits of the transition to a green economy." </em>---Former UNELECTED "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones<br />
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"Of course, the freedom of the individual must be made compatible with the public interest and the freedom of other individuals.<br />
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<div>"The Constitution is no longer in line with our expectations regarding the role of the people in selecting the president. Yet several previous attempts to eliminate the Electoral College through a constitutional amendment have failed, scuttled by the difficulty of the process itself and the tyranny of small-state logic.</div><div><br />
Fortunately, a constitutional amendment is not necessary. Rather than dismantling the Electoral College with an amendment, we can use the mechanisms of the Electoral College itself to guarantee popular election of the president.</div><div> </div>To understand how the proposal works, one needs to understand two basic principles. First, that state legislatures are basically unfettered in how they choose to appoint electors. And second, that groups of states can enter into binding agreements with one another in the form of so-called interstate compacts. There are many examples of such compacts, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the interstate agreement that guarantees a driver points on a Virginia driver license when he or she speeds in Maryland.<br />
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<div>Under the proposed National Popular Vote compact, state legislatures would agree to choose electors who promise to support the winner of the nationwide popular vote. For example, if a Republican were to win the overall national popular vote, even if New Yorkers favored the Democrat, New York's Electoral College votes would go to the Republican. The compact will go into force when states representing 271 Electoral College votes have entered into it to guarantee that the winner of the popular vote will become president." ---Jonathon $oros, Der Fuhrer's son</div><div> </div><div><br />
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Every American <em>deserves</em> to have a clean, safe and healthy environment. Today, we understand better than ever before that our health is not only dependent on what happens in the doctor’s office but is determined by the air we breathe, the water we drink and the communities we call home. Over the past two years, the Administration and our agency have taken unprecedented steps to ensure strong protection from environmental and health hazards for all Americans. <br />
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There’s nothing more important than health. When we live longer, healthier lives, we have more time to do our jobs, <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/environmentaljustice/strategy.html#" id="_GPLITA_2" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=VVM6MTk1MjI6MTQ3OTp2b2x1bnRlZXI6NzE1ZmMzYjE3N2Y5ZTYyNTllNzUxM2ZhOWI4NTY2ZWI6ei0xMjA5LTM4NjAyOnd3dy5oaHMuZ292" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">volunteer</a> in our neighborhoods, play with our children, and watch our grandchildren grow up. Health is the foundation of our country’s prosperity.<em> Healthy adults are more productive workers, healthy children are better students and healthy families can make bigger contributions to their communities. </em>[How....Stalinist of her to say.]<br />
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<em>The Affordable Care Act, the health reform law of 2010, includes a new community transformation </em><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/environmentaljustice/strategy.html#" id="_GPLITA_1" in_hdr="null" in_rurl="http://www.textsrv.com/click?v=VVM6MTk3Mjc6MTQ3OTpncmFudCBwcm9ncmFtOmRjMWU5MWU4YzQwYTAwNDk5ZDIwNGZhYmJhZTA1NTU0OnotMTIwOS0zODYwMjp3d3cuaGhzLmdvdg%3D%3D" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance"><em>grant program</em></a><em> that builds on the Economic Empowerment Zone model. By promoting healthy lifestyles, especially among population groups experiencing the greatest burden of chronic disease, these grants help improve health, reduce health disparities, and control health care spending. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made 61 awards, totaling approximately $103 million, to state and local government agencies, Tribes, and territories, and to non-profit organizations.</em> Several awardees are planning to focus on expanding efforts to address healthy and safe physical environments. [And this is Constitutional how, Benedict Roberts ? This isn't a tax, it's social engineering.]<br />
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<em>With the release of our Strategy and Implementation Plan, we are renewing our commitment to working with our Federal partners to promote environmental justice. </em>Equally important, we are reaffirming our commitment to work with communities who are eager to get involved in this effort. <em>We look forward to this collaboration as we continue to focus on building safe and healthy communities. </em>["I have a bad feeling about this!"--Han Solo]<br />
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Before we continue, I think we should review exactly what "environmental justice" actually is.<br />
Here's the official Federal Leviathan version:<br />
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"Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies'. Executive Order 12898, <em>Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-income Populations</em> requires each Federal agency to 'make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations.' The Executive Order also states that 'each Federal agency responsibility set forth under this order shall apply equally to Native American programs.' "<br />
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No, that didn't make any sense to me, either. Let's ask the expert, Van Jones.<br />
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<em>Heywaitaminute! Van Jones ? Isn't he---</em><br />
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That's right. That's the same Van Jones that Glenn Beck outed as a commie, and that's the same Van Jones who used to be Chairman Obama's "Green Jobs Czar" until he was quietly fired on a moonlit Friday night. <br />
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"Mother Jones: Can you briefly explain what 'environmental justice' means to you? <br />
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Van Jones: Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits."<br />
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Vannie, Vannie, Vannie. You're holding out on us! Let's try that again, but this time, give us that old, tired commie pinko self-righteous victim rhetoric:<br />
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"MJ: What's the relationship between environmental justice and <i>sustainability</i> ? <br />
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VJ: Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where<i> poor people live. It would never have been allowed if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's neighborhoods</i>; we'd have had a sustainable economy a long time ago. We'd have had a clean and green economy a long time ago.<i> It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point.<i> So there's a direct relationship between<i> environmental racism</i> and the lack of sustainability of society as a whole.<i> We were the canaries in the coal mines, crying for relief.</i> Now finally the consequences are affecting everyone, with <i>global warming</i> and everything else. The other thing is that the environmental justice <i>agenda</i> is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good. We don't want to be first and worst with all the toxins and all the negative effects of global warming, and then benefit last and least from all the breakthroughs in solar, wind energy, organic food, all the positives. <i>We want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the benefits of the transition to a green economy.</i>"</i></i><br />
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<a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/10/qa-van-jones">http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/10/qa-van-jones</a><br />
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<em>So in other words, "environmental justice" is a ---</em><br />
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A "green" version of "social justice", yes. And, as we all know--<br />
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<em>"Social Justice" is nothing more than a polite word for--</em><br />
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Marxism.<br />
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<em>I really wish you'd stop interrupting me, it's--</em><br />
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Rather rude ? Don't worry. I won't do it anymore. The gag's done.<br />
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All kidding aside, this is some pretty serious stuff. What exactly does <em>Frau </em>Sebelius' plan entail ?<br />
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"To update the 1995 HHS EJ Strategy, HHS created an Environmental Justice Strategic Planning Committee, composed of representatives from agencies and offices across HHS. The Committee reviewed past and current environmental justice programs and accomplishments to glean lessons learned and build upon successful strategies and activities. HHS also engaged multiple stakeholders during the strategic planning process in order to hear community and other stakeholder concerns, discuss best practices and model programs, and learn about ongoing and emerging environmental justice issues impacting Americans.<br />
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The 2012 HHS EJ Strategy provides direction for HHS efforts to achieve environmental justice as part of its mission by: (1) identifying and addressing disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects on low-income populations and Indian Tribes, and (2) encouraging the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of affected parties with the goal of building healthy, resilient communities and reducing disparities in health and well-being associated with environmental factors. Driven by public input and HHS support, the strategy maintains the following three guiding principles:<br />
<ul><li>Create and implement meaningful public partnerships</li>
<li>Ensure interagency and intra-agency coordination</li>
<li>Establish and implement accountability measures</li>
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On the basis of the guiding principles, the 2012 HHS EJ Strategy is organized into four strategic elements; (1) Policy Development and Dissemination, (2) Education and Training, (3) Research and Data Collection, Analysis, and Utilization, and (4) Services. The 2012 HHS EJ Strategy reflects new and ongoing actions that are underway or planned for the near term. Each strategic element is aligned with targeted goals, strategies, and actions to be undertaken by HHS. The heightened coordination within and outside of HHS and the engagement of communities and other stakeholders will facilitate the implementation of the 2012 HHS EJ Strategy and support the realization of the vision."<br />
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<a href="http://www.hhs.gov/environmentaljustice/strategy.html">http://www.hhs.gov/environmentaljustice/strategy.html</a><br />
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Well, isn't that just ducky ? What will the <em>aktion</em>--er, uh, plan look like ?<br />
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(<em>Emphasis</em> added where appropriate. Snarky comments are in [brackets].)<br />
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<div align="center"><em>"Strategic Element I: Policy Development and Dissemination</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Goals</u></div><ol><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Strengthen the application of health and environmental statutes and policies in minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Identify and address, as appropriate, human health or environmental effects of HHS programs, policies, and activities on minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Support and advance a 'health in all policies' approach that protects and promotes the health and well-being of minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures.</em></li>
</ol><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Strategies</u></div><ol type="A"><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Integrate environmental justice principles and strategies into the implementation of key statutes and policies that may impact minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Incorporate environmental justice principles and strategies into consideration of emerging issues that may disproportionately impact minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Provide consultation and/or partner with other Federal departments, where appropriate and feasible, on environmental policies, programs and initiatives that may impact health and well-being, <em>with particular attention to minority and low-income populations and Indian Tribes.</em></li>
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<div align="center"><em>Strategic Element II: Education and Training</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Goals</u></div><ol start="1" type="1"><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Educate communities, workers, the general public, health professionals, human services providers and the HHS workforce about environmental justice and environmental health to empower them to actively participate in the development and implementation of programs, policies and activities impacting and serving minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures.</em> [In layman's terms, this means propaganda.]</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Build a health workforce prepared to prevent and diagnose conditions associated with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures and to provide high quality, <em>culturally competent</em> care. [????]</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Strategies</u></div><ol start="1" type="A"><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Educate the public, especially in communities with minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures, about environmental justice, environmental hazards, and healthy community environments. </em>[Again, this means more propaganada.]</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Enhance health professionals’ and human services providers’ education and training in environmental health and environmental justice.</em> [Time to indoctrinate the docs!]</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Increase the knowledge and understanding of health and environmental justice across HHS agencies and among HHS employees.</li>
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<tr><td><div align="center"><em>Strategic Element III: Research and Data Collection, Analysis, and Utilization</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Goals</u></div><ol><li style="text-align: left;">Strengthen research and advance data collection on the health and environment of minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Empower the public to participate in the development and implementation of HHS policies, programs, and interventions by improving access to data and research findings on the risks of adverse environmental exposures.</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Strategies</u></div><ol start="1" type="A"><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Increase the involvement of minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures in research and in data collection and utilization, and communicate findings to stakeholders.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Identify and characterize environmental and occupational factors that have disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Bolster the efforts of HHS, state, local, territorial, and tribal agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations, to collect, maintain, and analyze data on disproportionately high and adverse environmental and occupational exposures and on health effects in minority and low-income populations and Indian Tribes.</li>
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<tr><td><div align="center"><em>Strategic Element IV: Services</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Goals</u></div><ol><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Improve access to and quality of care and services for minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Advance the economic potential and social well-being of minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures</em>.</li>
</ol><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Strategies</u></div><ol type="A"><li style="text-align: left;"><em>Increase the capacity of health professionals delivering care and services to minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures to prevent, diagnose, and treat medical and behavioral health conditions associated with adverse environmental exposures.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Identify minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures, as well as the physical and behavioral health conditions and concerns of communities affected by these exposures.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Provide technical assistance and information resources to minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures in order to empower communities to address identified health and human services needs.</em></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><em>Provide funding opportunities and technical assistance to advance the economic potential and social well-being of minority and low-income populations and Indian tribes with disproportionately high and adverse environmental exposures."</em></li>
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And this is another reason why the end is nigh.<br />
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The Doomday Clock is at 11:59:00.<br />
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Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock......Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-60257809981612232552012-06-16T21:18:00.000-07:002012-06-16T21:18:28.708-07:00The Three "S" 's of "American" Lib-ismThe theory of "American" lib-ism can be summed up in three words: socialism, sodomy, and surrender.<br />
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No, really, I promise. It's that simple. I dare say it's like stating two and two make four.<br />
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Ever since the first progressiveviks slithered out of the primordial soup of failed European political theories, their focus, when they're not high on some drug or another, has been to promote socialism, sodomy, and surrender. Every program, every speech, and every street agitation ranging from Woodrow Wilson's War Socialism to Chairman Obama's Hopey-Changey crap has had either the redistribution of wealth, the institution of sexual deviancy (particularly homosexuality) as an accepted practice, or surrender of various kinds at its heart.<br />
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Now, not every lib mastermind (H/T Mark Levin) did things the same way or had the same emphasis on the above doctrine. The vile Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Dictator Roosevelt had their emphasis on the redistribution wealth and the surrender of individual liberty.Wilson had his War Socialism and FDR enslaved the American people to his social security program. Both jailed and harassed dissenters. Harry Truman allowed the Soviet Union to have eastern Europe. Lyndon Johnson did his redistribution of wealth thing with the Not-So-Great Society. Jew hater Jimmuh Carter surrendered to the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Soviet Union, and anything else he could find. Bill Caligula's focus was on sexual deviancy, but luckily for the rest of us, it was on his own sexual deviancy. <br />
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As evil as the above blobs of filth have been, none of them, and I do mean none of them, can hold a candle next to our dog eating Homosexual Agenda Pusher In Chief, Barack Hussein Obama (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm! H/T El Rushbo.) Unlike his lib predecessors, he's able to multitask. Chairman Obama has pushed socialism, sodomy, and surrender all at the same time, while finding plenty of time for golf, schmoozing with Hollyweird celebs, and persecuting Catholics. (There are even reports of Obama doing all three while juggling a hammer, a sickle, and an Occupier's sleeping bag, but those reports remain unsubstantiated. We'll just have to wait for another White House leak to find out.)<br />
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Don't believe me ? Think about it: The Stimulus Plan ? Socialism. Obamacareless ? Socialism and the surrender of the individual rights. The unconstitutional attack on Libya ? Socialism. (We the Taxpayers paid for the Muslim Brotherhood's revolt against Qadaffi Duck, whether we liked it or not.) The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ? An obvious shout-out to sodomy. We could go on and on with all of Barry's crimes against the Republic, and find that every one of them has its roots in either socialism, sodomy, and surrender.<br />
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Needless to say, this makes our Dear Leader the most wretched villain in American history. Yeah, I said it and I'm not taking it back. Chairman Obama has done almost fatal harm to the Republic. His various schemes and plots have brought us to brink of economic, political, and social disaster. The Doomsday Clock is at 11:58:59, to be sure.<br />
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There is, however, a way out.<br />
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I can write blog after blog along with countless others. Rush Limbaugh can make fun of liberals as much as he wants. Mark Levin can have as many on-air explosions as he wants. (Definitely not shots at El Rushbo or The Great One. They're personal heroes, and there's no way in hell I'm putting myself on their level. They're artists and I'm doodling on my napkin at Denny's.) But in the end, it's preaching to the choir. The leaders of the Republican Party need to step up to the plate for a change and call "American" Lib-ism what it is: a devotion to socialism, sodomy, and surrender. The Weeper of the House, Mitch McConman, and Willard need to stop worrying about being popular with the misery pimps and dead-enders in the arrogant and lazy mainstream media and start fighting the good fight. I know they're terrified of being the subject of a Moron Dowd column in the <i>New York Slimes</i>, but this can't be about them anymore. The vast majority of Americans have had more than enough of self righteous windbags telling them what to think, what to do with their private property, and what to believe. They're looking for leaders who will call a spade a spade, no matter how many times they're demonized as racists, homophobes, water carriers for the so-called rich, extremists, blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda, 2+2=5. The No Longer Silent Majority wants competent leadership for a change because it knows that competent leadership will save the United States of America from the horror of socialism, sodomy, and surrender.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-7572746814239348492012-06-12T21:08:00.001-07:002012-06-13T00:08:06.695-07:00Those Who Live In Eco-Friendly Glasshouses.....Recently, our dog eating and homosexual agenda pushing president, Barack Hussein Obama, decided to make protecting the jobs of teachers, firemen, and cops his number one goal. Now I know, just as well as you do, that the Constitution says nothing about the federal government hiring teachers, firemen, and cops, but let's play Barry's little game, shall we ? (In other words, we're going to do the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals Shuffle and pretend that the Constitution doesn't exist.)<br />
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Ready ? (Oh, and all of you RINO hangers-on in the Romney campaign? You might want to take some notes. This is how you attack a political opponent. All of that "He's a nice guy" Sit-Down-When-They-Pee-GOP-E crap isn't going to win squat, but I digress.) Here we go:<br />
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According to those whacky "right wingers" at ABC News, Chairman Obama and the Wookie he's married to reported in their 2011 tax return that they made $789,674 dollars. They paid $162,074 in federal taxes. For those of you keeping score at home, this means the "1%er" Obamas had an effective tax rate of 20.5. ( <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/president-obamas-secretary-paid-higher-tax-rate-than-he-did/">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/president-obamas-secretary-paid-higher-tax-rate-than-he-did/</a> ) In other words, the Hypocrite In Chief took full advantage of deductions he claims he doesn't need, because without them, Barry would have been in the highest tax bracket (35%) and would have paid $276,386 in federal taxes. <br />
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This means that $114,312 of "Obama money" didn't go into the federal coffers. Gee, I wonder, wouldn't that $114,312 have saved some fireman's job ? Wouldn't it have saved two mid-level teachers' jobs ? Wouldn't that $114,312 saved a police officer's job ? I know Barry doesn't like cops because he likes to call them stupid, as he did with the Cambridge PD, but c'mon! Where's the compassion ? Hey, for that matter, how much birth control could the $114,312 bought for Sandra Fluke and her moral-deficient friends ? How many "free" school lunches could the $114,312 have bought ? How many welfare recipients are being forced to do without because Premier Obama wanted to be a cheapskate ? Anyone in the arrogant and lazy mainstream media care to take a crack at this question ? How about you, sissies in the Romney campaign ? Wanna give it try ? No, I'm sorry, I can't hear you over these blasted crickets.<br />
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Those who live in eco-friendly glass houses......Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-91872690421991432492012-06-10T22:21:00.000-07:002012-06-10T22:21:32.659-07:00Absolutely Nobama's Favorite TunesHere's a collection of my favorite tunes. Why ? Who cares ?! Sit back and enjoy!<br />
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</div>Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-50178111280796160442012-06-07T08:10:00.001-07:002012-06-07T08:14:17.882-07:00The Individual Finally WinsScott Walker's win in Wisconsin was magnificent for many reasons. Big Labor was given a fatal blow. Our homosexual agenda pushing president was handed another stinging rebuke. The Sit-Down-When-They-Pee-GOP-E saw that sticking to Conservative values can lead to landslide victories, even in the birthplace of the Progressivik Movement. If I wasn't so darn manly, I'd say I got a thrill up my leg. (Or is that diabetic neuropathy ? Maybe the death panels will let me find out if they deem me worthy of life, but I digress.)<br />
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Most of important of all, the individual won.<br />
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You see ladies and gentlemen, the true message of the Wisconsin Massacre was this: <em>Get your damn hands out of my pockets, already.</em> This vote proves that people have had enough of funding <em>other</em> people's lavish health care and retirements. This vote proves people have had enough of being called selfish because they want to keep more of the money they earned. This is a good thing. This proves that the reports of the death of Rugged Individualism have been greatly exaggerated.<br />
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We are winning, folks. The Dorky Left can have all the commie rallies they want. They can trash as many state capitols as they want. They can "Occupy" whatever they want. They can wander around chanting "Hope and Change" like malfunctioning automatons as much as they want. But when push comes to shove, America is a center-right country, much to to the chagrin of our Leftist Oppressors.<br />
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Now this doesn't mean we can sit on our laurels. Far fom it. We the People must still actively fight They the Progressiviks. Every time the Raised Fist of Socialism appears, we have to beat it down. (Politically, of course.) Granted, it can be as frustrating as a game of Whackamole, but it can and must be done. Once freedom is lost, it's gone forever. Yes, this is a victory we should cherish, but we should always remember that we're on the edge of complete political, economic, and social disaster as a nation. This is a battle that must be fought, but as we can see, it's clearly winnable.<br />
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All we need is a few good individualists.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-73581711922707232482012-05-27T22:38:00.001-07:002012-05-27T22:54:10.958-07:00No One Watched The Watchmen, So One ReturnedHey there, True Believer! It's Short Story Fiction time here at DemocracyKorpse! Take a break from looking for black helicopters and enjoy this short story inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' <i>Watchmen</i>. If you haven't read it, make it a point to do so. It's a life changer, and if you're a Right Wing Extremist like me, it'll be right up there on your list of favorites along with <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> and <i>1984.</i> Keep in mind that this is <i>fiction, </i>so<i> </i>there's no need to report me to DHS.<br />
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In the end, the release of Rorschach's journal by the <i>New Frontiersman </i>didn't mean a fucking thing. Not one fucking thing. Even the threat of invasion by little green men, real or imagined, wasn't going to stop man from hating his fellow man. It was as if "Love thy neighbor" was replaced by "Denounce your neighbor before he denounces you."<br />
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Two days after the journal was printed by the <i>New Frontiersman</i>, an angry mob stormed the place, killing everyone in the place while the NYPD looked on and did nothing. The mob apparently thought the paper was some sort of Pierre Laval-like traitorous operation working with the "aliens". Forty people died that day and no one gave a fuck. The unity of mankind was all that mattered. We were at war with a power that even Dr. Manhattan couldn't have stopped, or so we were led to believe. There was no room for "traitors" under these circumstances. This was the first sign of trouble, but it's minor compared to the rest.<br />
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The real trouble began when trillionaire Adrian Veidt defeated Republican Ronald Reagan in '88 by the largest landslide in American history. Veidt managed to win every state in the Union and every electoral vote as well. During his victory speech, Veidt renamed the Democratic Party the Unity Party. In the months that followed, the few remaining Republicans in Congress switched to the new Unity Party, giving Veidt dictatorial power over the government. Even former president Richard Nixon and his favorite crony, Pat Buchanan, lent their support to the growing fascism. In fact, Buchanan was quoted as saying, "This is the dawn of a new America and the dawn of a new world. God help anyone who gets in its way."<br />
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By the end of Veidt's first year as president, he and his lapdogs in Congress effectively gutted the First Amendment. In 1989, the First Amendment was rewritten by amendment to make criticism of the government or creating dissent a crime. Given our "vulnerability" to another attack by "aliens", the prostitutes in the press helped Veidt sell this load of commie faggot crap to the American people. Within the blink of an eye, neighbors were turning in neighbors to the fascists at the Unity Commission. Made a racist joke ? Off to the Commission you went. Gave that asshole who cut you off the finger ? Better hope he didn't write down your plate number or some cop didn't see it. Seen making the Sign of the Cross in public ? Uh-oh. That's not allowed, either. Religion creates dissent and is therefore banned. Remember, it's all about unity, whether you like it or not. Oh, you're not a member of the Unity Party ? Fuck you, there are no other parties. They were banned by Veidt's Amendment.<br />
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By the time 1992 rolled around, the Constitution was pretty much gone. Congress was renamed the "Council" and its 535 members were replaced by a board of ten experts, some from academia, some from the scientific community, and some from industry. We weren't given their names, and quite frankly, no one had the balls to ask who they were. Journalism was replaced by the daily propaganda vomited from the Committee of Public Information. In late 1993, <i>Herr Veidt</i> decided that child rearing was too big of a job for the unwashed masses. Thus, he and his Council decided that all children under the age of six would be raised by the state. Possession of a firearm became punishable by death, as was possession of unauthorized literature, like the Bible.<br />
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The funny thing about the above is the fact that that Veidt stopped using the "unity against the alien invasion" excuse for his various crimes against humanity and decency. In fact, after '93, it was never mentioned again by the government. It had outlived its usefulness. The public forgot about it as well. The simple task of living left little time for worrying about an invasion by little green men. The famine and outbreaks of typhus in 1994 saw to that. (Interesting note: It is now illegal to own a telescope or even discuss the "alien invasion".)<br />
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To combat the growing famine and pandemic outbreaks, Veidt decided that it was in the best interest of the Unity States to reduce its population. Thus, he <i>sold</i> California to Red China in '95. He also ordered that any child born in the Unity States of America had to be free of any genetic defect. All pregnant women were given constant tests to make sure their baby was worthy of birth. If there was even a slight hint of trouble, the baby was aborted, as were twins. Any children with any form of defect were euthanized in the government's child rearing institutions. The elderly and the infirm were also rounded up by Veidt's stormtroopers and were summarily euthanized. By 1996, it was a rare event to see anyone over the age of sixty or anyone in a wheelchair. It got to the point that people were afraid to go to a doctor, for fear of what he might find. As a result, the typhus outbreak got worse. It has been estimated by the Committee of Public Information that six million have died from typhus, but no one keeps count of how many were given "mercy killings" Veidt and the rest of his commie faggots are responsible for.<br />
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As I prepare for my new life with my new face, I promise to find out that number and make it known. Sure, there's a good chance I'll be caught and executed. There's a good chance that I'll fail completely. I understand that. Like my predecessor, I have no illusions about the inhumanity of man. That's okay. It's shitloads better to die a free man than to die as a slave.<br />
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I am Rorschach reborn.<br />
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"I think the Republican Party's been taken over by the Tea Party...This is the <strong>tail wagging the dog</strong>." —Vice President Joe Biden (5/6/2012)<br />
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Now of course, this verbal lunacy was overshadowed by our supposedly Catholic vice president's cheer leading for homosexual marriage. (And rightfully so, since homosexual marriage is as evil as it gets.) However, this statement deserves examining as well, since it shows that Bite Me is lacks the mental capacity of a paramecium.<br />
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First of all, the statement shows that Bite Me has no idea exactly what the Tea Party is. The Tea Party isn't just filled with Conservatives. Many libertarians are also Tea Party members. Many Tea Party members are independents. Some hate the GOP with a passion, some are diehard Republicans. Some are even Democrats and who refuse to jump into Lake Commie with Chairman Obama. (More on that in a second.)<br />
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Secondly, the statement is wildly untrue. If Bite Me was correct, odds are Mitt Romney wouldn't be the Republican candidate. Someone like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, or Allen West would be. This isn't a shot at Romney, this is reality. Romney simply doesn't fit the mold of what the Tea Party was looking for as a replacement for the evil Chairman Obama.<br />
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Most importantly, the above statement shows how blind (and or complicit) Bite Me has become to the Progressivivik rot that has destroyed the Democrat Party. Would Harry Truman or JFK fit into today's Democrat Party ? No way in hell. Granted, I dislike both Truman and JFK intensely, but I can't see either one of them publicly cheering for Occupy Wall Street or calling America "arrogant and dismissive" in a speech on foreign soil like Chairman Obama has. (I can, however, see them doing both in a private setting. Both Truman and JFK were collectivists at heart and it does us no good to think otherwise.) Truman and JFK may have been lousy presidents, but I just don't see them publicly embracing the anti-Americanism that has taken root in the Democrat Party the way Bite Me and Chairman Obama have.<br />
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We are on the edge of complete political, social, and economic disaster. I can't gussy it up and I can't make it sound palatable.<br />
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God help us all.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-48625218114458428292012-05-01T22:09:00.001-07:002012-05-03T18:22:34.580-07:00What's the Department Of No Labor Up To These Days ?In today's episode of "My Government Scares The Crap Out Of Me", let's take a look at the Department of Labor's "environmental justice" program. First, before we get started, I thought it would be really, really swell to hear from an expert on "environmental justice". So, without further ado, I bring you Chairman Obama's former "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones. Take it away, Vannie!<br />
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"Mother Jones: Can you briefly explain what 'environmental justice' means to you? <br />
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Van Jones: Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits." <br />
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Spare us, Vannie. What does the term "environmental justice" <i>actually</i> mean ? (<i>Emphasis </i>added where normal people would exclaim, "Huh? What the fuck?!")<br />
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"Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where<i> poor people live.</i><i> It would never have been allowed if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's neighborhoods; we'd have had a sustainable economy a long time ago. We'd have had a clean and green economy a long time ago. It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point.</i> So there's a direct relationship between environmental racism and the lack of sustainability of society as a whole.<i> We were the canaries in the coal mines, crying for relief.</i> Now finally the consequences are affecting everyone, with global warming and everything else.<i> The other thing is that the environmental justice agenda is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good. We don't want to be first and worst with all the toxins and all the negative effects of global warming, and then benefit last and least from all the breakthroughs in solar, wind energy, organic food, all the positives. We want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the benefits of the transition to a green economy.<i>" </i></i><br />
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<h2>"Executive Summary</h2><i>President Obama has extended the call for federal agencies to renew their commitment to Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice is identifying and addressing, as appropriate, the disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of programs, policies, and activities on minority, tribal, and low-income populations.</i> Environmental Justice in the Labor context is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, income, or education level, with respect to development, implementation, and enforcement of employment laws, regulations, programs, and policies.<br />
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The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) continues to pursue Environmental Justice as a part of our efforts to protect the health, and safety, and promote the training of workers, including low-income, minority, and Native American workers. The Department's Environmental Justice Strategy is in line with the mission of the Department and the Secretary's vision for the future: <i>Good Jobs for Everyone</i>. This vision includes ensuring that workplaces are safe and healthy; <i>helping workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle-class jobs; and helping middle-class families remain in the middle class. </i><br />
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The Department's Environmental Justice Strategy focuses on agencies directly involved with worker training, health and safety issues, and measurement —the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Civil Rights Center (CRC), the Employment Training Administration (ETA), the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers (ORACW), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD). <i>This document describes how each of these agencies pursues Environmental Justice with programs that protect the health, safety, equity, and security of low-income, Native American, and minority workers. </i>[In other words: Screw you, Whitey.]<br />
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The Department is committed to pursuing Environmental Justice and the work of the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice. This Environmental Justice Strategy represents the next step forward in the partnership with the public and other government agencies toward achieving our Environmental Justice goals.<br />
<h3>Vision Statement</h3>Ensuring the training, health, and safety of workers, including minority, Native American, and low-income workers, is at the heart of much of the Department’s activities. In pursuit of Environmental Justice, the Department will continue to pursue effective and efficient goals and strategies and engage public participation and trust.<br />
<h3>I. Introduction</h3><ol type="A"><li><b>Overview</b><ul class="item-nested"><li>On February 11, 1994, Executive Order 12898 (EO 12898) was issued, which tasked several federal agencies with making Environmental Justice (EJ) part of their mission. The agencies were directed to do so by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, the disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority and low-income populations.</li>
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<ul class="item-nested"><li>President Obama, through the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG), has renewed the commitment to Environmental Justice. In August 2011, agencies listed in EO 12898 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which, among other things, commits agencies to publish an updated EJ strategy.</li>
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<ul class="item-nested"><li>The Department publishes this draft Environmental Justice Strategy as part of its renewed commitment to the goals of EO 12898 and the work of the EJ IWG.</li>
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<ul class="item-nested"><li><i>The Department views Environmental Justice from a workplace training, health, and safety perspective. The Department's Environmental Justice Strategy focuses on agencies directly involved with worker training, health, and safety issues and measurement — the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Civil Rights Center (CRC), the Employment Training Administration (ETA), the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the Office of Recovery for Automotive Communities and Workers (ORACW), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD).</i></li>
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<ol type="A"><li><div class="item-nested">Environmental Justice in the Labor context is fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, income, or education level, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of employment laws, regulations, programs, and policies. Fair treatment means ensuring that all persons enjoy the same degree of protection from workplace safety and health hazards.<i> Meaningful involvement is when all stakeholders have informed participation in decision making that could affect their places of work. Traditionally, many minority, low-income, and tribal communities have lacked access to the required information and technical advisers to be informed participants with respect to various risks that accompany numerous workplace activities.</i></div></li>
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</div><div class="item-nested">Department of Labor Environmental Justice principles:</div><ul class="item-nested"><li>Meaningful public participation</li>
<li>All populations share in (and are not excluded from) the benefits of agency programs and activities affecting human health and safety</li>
<li>Tribal consultation</li>
<li><i>Fairness, equity</i> and non-discrimination</li>
<li><i>Language access</i></li>
<li>Transparency and accountability</li>
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<li><b>Relationship of Environmental Justice to Agency Mission and Agency Strategic Plan Goals or Objectives</b></li>
</ol><div class="item-nested"></div><i>This Environmental Justice Strategy, which aims to identify and address disproportionate workplace safety or health effects on minority, tribal, and low-income populations, is consistent with the Department's Strategic Plan, which provides a roadmap for continuing to meet the workplace and economic challenges of the Nation.</i> It is also in line with the mission of the Department and Secretary Solis's vision for the future: <i>Good Jobs for Everyone</i>. The Department's vision of a good job includes the following:<br />
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<ul class="item-nested"><li>Good jobs increase workers' incomes, narrows wage and income inequality, and provides workplace flexibility for family and personal care-giving;</li>
<li><i>Good jobs help workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the labor market find a path into middle-class jobs, and help middle-class families remain in the middle class; </i>[But never a rich entrepreneur, AKA--- the backbone of the American economy.]</li>
<li>Good jobs ensure workplaces are safe and healthy, and assure workers a voice in the workplace;</li>
<li><i>Good jobs break down barriers to fair and diverse workplaces so that every worker's contribution is respected;</i></li>
<li>Good jobs foster <i>fair </i>working conditions in the global marketplace;</li>
<li><i>Good jobs provide opportunities to acquire the skills and knowledge for the jobs of the future — like green jobs;</i></li>
<li>Good jobs facilitate return to work for workers experiencing workplace injuries or illnesses for those who are able to work and provide sufficient income for those who are unable to work;</li>
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<li><i>Good jobs provide health benefits and retirement security.</i></li>
</ul><ol type="A"><li>Previous Environmental Justice Strategy <div class="item-nested">In response to the issuance of EO 12898, the Department issued its Environmental Justice Strategy in 1995. The Department viewed Environmental Justice from a workplace health and safety perspective. To that end, OSHA and MSHA developed their own Environmental Justice strategies and BLS completed an analysis of its data to identify disparities in the risks of occupational injuries and fatalities faced by workers of differing race, ethnicity, and income.</div><div class="item-nested">In 1998, the Department's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy (OASP) began a partnership with the Washington Navy Yard that resulted in the formation of Bridges to Friendship. Bridges to Friendship was a community-based, sustainable development partnership composed of community organizations, businesses, D.C. government agencies, and federal government organizations that came together to contribute to the revitalization of Southeast and Southwest Washington, D.C. This alliance was focused on enhancing the quality of life and preserving the natural and cultural heritage of the area by promoting economic development and environmental protection. In particular, the partnership strove to use existing resources in new ways and support existing community efforts with new allies. This partnership lasted until 2008 and the development plan that began with Bridges to Friendship was adopted by the D.C. government as the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative.</div></li>
<li><div class="item-nested"><i>OASP also worked on an "envirojobs" program from 2000 to 2004 that focused on all facets of environmental training with a large segment of training focusing on abatement in construction, brownfields, superfund sites, etc. "Envirojobs" were a precursor of what are now called "green" jobs.</i> </div></li>
</ol><h3>II. 2012 Department of Labor Environmental Justice Strategy</h3><ol type="A"><li><b>Development of the Department of Labor Environmental Justice Strategy </b><div class="item-nested">The 2012 Department of Labor Environmental Justice Strategy is the product of past and present efforts of the Department, public engagement, and collaboration with other federal agencies. Using the Department's original, 1995 strategy as a starting point, this strategy builds on past efforts and includes the Department's ongoing work to train workers and protect the health and safety of workers in minority, tribal, and low-income communities. </div><div class="item-nested">The Department launched an internet portal to engage the public concerning the development of its Environmental Justice Strategy and collect public comment and ideas. The Department also reviewed Environmental Justice strategies of other agencies in preparing its own.</div><div class="item-nested">As a result of these efforts, this Strategy reinforces the Department's strategic plan to ensure Good Jobs for Everyone. </div></li>
<li><b>Environmental Justice Strategy Goals</b><div class="item-nested"><i>The Environmental Justice Strategy will:</i></div><div class="item-nested"><i><u>Goal 1</u>: Identify and address programs, policies, and activities of the Department that may improve the training, health, and safety of workers in minority, low-income, and tribal populations.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><u>Goal 2</u>: Expand research and analysis of data relating to work environments of minority, low-income, and tribal populations.</div></li>
<li><b>Agency-Wide Efforts that Advance Environmental Justice</b><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Encouraging Public Participation and Outreach</u></b></div><div class="item-nested">Agencies within the Department will continue to meet with stakeholders and hold public hearings at venues where affected workers are located, produce public documents that are concise and understandable, and translate crucial documents. The Department has participated in several Environmental Justice meetings with stakeholders hosted by the EJ IWG. Regional representatives from OSHA and MSHA provided information about the Department's programs and responded to questions from stakeholders. The Department, along with other members of the EJ IWG is considering suggestions and input from stakeholders.</div><div class="item-nested"><i><b><u>Compliance Assistance</u></b> </i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>Agencies within the Department will continue to provide technical assistance to employers and employees. For example, employers operating small businesses can request free on-site consultation services from OSHA on how to detect and correct serious hazards at their worksite. Small businesses that take advantage of this free service improve workplace safety and health conditions for their workers, including minority and low-income workers.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Outreach</u></b> </div><div class="item-nested">The Department provided two opportunities for the public to comment on the development of the Environmental Justice Strategy through the use of an interactive website (<a href="http://www.dol.gov/cgi-bin/leave-dol.asp?exiturl=http://dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com&exitTitle=dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com">http://dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com</a>). The first opportunity sought input on the general themes and process for developing the strategy. The second opportunity requested comment on the draft strategy. The website provided a forum in which the public could provide suggestions both on the substance of the strategy and the means of engaging the public on EJ issues. </div><div class="item-nested">On December 28, 2011, the Department published a Request for Comments in the <i>Federal Register</i> seeking public input on its draft EJ strategy. (76 FR 81541). The notice invited the public to provide input using the Department's interactive website created specifically for this purpose. </div><div class="item-nested">In addition to the <i>Federal Register</i> notice, the Department engaged in a variety of activities to encourage public involvement and dialogue. The Department's outreach offices, including the Office of Public Engagement and Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, coordinated efforts to ensure the full range of Department stakeholders were aware of the opportunity and mechanism for providing comments. The outreach effort encouraged national organizations to publicize the opportunity for public comment with their local affiliates, chapters, and networks, thus multiplying outreach capacity. In addition, the Department participated in a stakeholder outreach call organized by the EJ IWG. </div><div class="item-nested">In response to the public comments received from these stakeholders, the Department of Labor is issuing this final Environmental Justice strategy document. The final EJ strategy for DOL incorporates references to the EJ-related initiatives that have been undertaken by the CRC and the WHD, includes an expanded discussion of the Department's public outreach activities, and provides additional information concerning data collection by BLS. <i>The Department will continue to engage businesses, including small businesses and other regulated entities, labor organizations, faith-based communities, and the general public as part of its ongoing effort to promote Environmental Justice.</i></div></li>
<li><b>Department of Labor Program Efforts that Advance Environmental Justice</b><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Bureau of Labor Statistics </u></b></div><div class="item-nested">BLS is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. BLS provides products and services that are objective, timely, accurate, and relevant.</div><div class="item-nested">The BLS collects several sets of data that together can help identify disparities in the workplace safety and health environments faced by workers of different income, race, and ethnicity. The BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) provides annual, national information about non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses, including by race, ethnicity, industry, and occupation. The BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) supplies similar data on fatal work-related injuries and includes fatality information according to country of birth. Both the SOII and CFOI report the number of workplace injury and illness cases experienced by different groups of workers, as well as the rate of occurrence of these cases per hundred, ten-thousand or one-hundred-thousand workers.</div><div class="item-nested">In addition to information on worker characteristics, both the SOII and CFOI contain data about case circumstances, including the nature of the case (e.g., fracture), the body part affected, the event (e.g., fall), and source (e.g., floor) and, for non-fatal cases, the median number of days away from work for recuperation. The latter is a measure of the severity of a non-fatal workplace injury or illness. These case circumstances can be used to identify race, ethnicity, and income disparities in the severity and occurrence of types of workplace injuries and illness.</div><div class="item-nested">Neither of the BLS workplace injury and illness data sources supplies information on job risks by the income levels of workers. However, other BLS sources, including the Current Population Survey (CPS) and Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program, tabulate income (CPS) and earnings (OES) by occupation that can be matched to the workplace injury and illness data. Together, these data can indicate the riskiness of various occupations by income and earnings level.</div><div class="item-nested">As part of the Department of Labor Environmental Justice Strategy, BLS will analyze and report the incidence rate and severity of non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses and the rate of fatal injuries according to workers' occupation, race/ethnicity, and income/earnings level. </div><div class="item-nested">Additionally, for the first time, BLS has produced estimates for seven specific groups of Asian Americans from the Current Population Survey, including Asian Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese and Other Asians. The data covered labor force participation, employment and unemployment for each of these groups from 2003 through 2010. Since the sample size for these groups was quite small, BLS also combined data for several years to produce additional estimates for a variety of demographic characteristics, including age, sex, educational attainment, nativity and citizenship status. These estimates were published in the BLS <i>Monthly Labor Review </i>(available online at <a href="http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/11/art1full.pdf">http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/11/art1full.pdf</a>).<i> BLS has also requested that the Census Bureau investigate the possibility of including on the public-use CPS microdata file a variable to identify these seven Asian American groups. These estimates greatly enhanced the information that policymakers and researchers have available to understand the labor market situation for the Asian American population.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Civil Rights Center</u></b> </div><div class="item-nested">The CRC enforces the civil rights laws that protect applicants to, and employees and customers of, programs that receive certain types of Federal financial assistance — primarily programs provided through the nation's One-Stop Career Center system for delivering employment-related training and services. These programs include such significant examples as the Employment Service and Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs, as well as Job Corps, Indian and Native American programs, and the National Farmworker Jobs Program.</div><div class="item-nested"><i>CRC's main role in supporting DOL's Environmental Justice Strategy is to make sure that these programs provide equal opportunity for members of minority and tribal populations, and that the programs provide meaningful access for people with limited English proficiency (LEP).</i> Although Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the enforcement vehicle on occasion, CRC's Environmental Justice-related actions are typically brought under section 188 of the Workforce Investment Act. Through its published guidance and training efforts, CRC has explained how to assess the needs of the relevant LEP population, balance those needs against the nature and importance of a given program, and decide what steps must be taken to ensure meaningful access to that program for LEP persons. </div><div class="item-nested"><i>CRC also investigates complaints alleging denial of such access, and initiates its own compliance reviews of recipients to ensure that they are providing services and information in appropriate languages other than English. The current CRC initiative most directly connected with the Environmental Justice Strategy is a recently-launched series of compliance reviews of State unemployment insurance (UI) programs to determine whether their electronic filing systems unlawfully exclude LEP persons.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Employment and Training Administration</u></b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>ETA administers federal job training and worker dislocation programs, federal grants to states for public employment service programs, and employment insurance benefits with the goals of enhanced employment opportunities and business prosperity. </i>The mission of ETA is to contribute to the more efficient functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high-quality job training, employment and labor market information, and income maintenance services primarily through state and local workforce development systems. ETA's vision is to promote pathways to economic advancement for individuals and families working to achieve the American Dream. </div><div class="item-nested"><i>ETA's main role in supporting the Department's Environmental Justice Strategy is to ensure that minority, tribal, and low-income individuals, who have multiple barriers to employment, obtain access to the training needed to secure good, safe jobs. ETA's recent activities related to Environmental Justice are described below.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>Job Corps </b></div><div class="item-nested">Job Corps, ETA's residential job training program for at-risk youth, serves more than 60,000 young people, ages 16 to 24, per year. The majority of participants are economically disadvantaged youth who dropped out of high school. The mission of Job Corps is to teach participants the relevant skills needed to become employable and independent and help prepare them for success in life by securing meaningful jobs or opportunities for further education. Job Corps offers a variety of career training opportunities in various occupations and industries, including health care, automotive, advanced manufacturing, culinary arts, and the building trades. </div><div class="item-nested"><i>Boosted by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding as well as earlier requirements for resource conservation in Federal facilities, Job Corps has instituted a number of measures in recent years to 'green' its job training programs as well as its facilities.</i> <i>The majority of the ARRA funding to Job Corps was used for rehabilitation, modernization (especially of classrooms and training labs), and repair of Job Corps facilities while meeting sustainable building standards. ARRA funding was also used to incorporate 'green' training elements into the automotive, advanced manufacturing, and construction trades at Job Corps centers nationwide and to pilot three new "green" training programs at selected Job Corps centers: Solar Panel Installation, Weatherization, and SmartGrid.</i> Because of these initiatives, <i>Job Corps now offers employers a group of highly employable young people who are at the forefront of 'green' industry practices.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>YouthBuild </b></div><div class="item-nested">The Department of Labor's YouthBuild program funds competitive awards to organizations that include a variety of community and faith-based organizations, housing authorities, workforce investment boards, community colleges, and school systems. The YouthBuild program targets out-of-school youth ages 16 to 24 and provides an alternative education pathway that provides youth with a high school diploma or GED credential and promotes advancement to post-secondary education or employment. YouthBuild participants include youth who have been adjudicated as youth offenders, are in or aging out of foster care, are disabled, have one or both parents incarcerated, are a minority youth, or are low income.<i> As part of the YouthBuild program, young people not only receive academic instruction but also receive occupational skills training while building affordable housing for their communities.</i> This community involvement strengthens participants' commitment to their communities and ensures that the program's positive impact endures long after individuals graduate. YouthBuild serves approximately 7,000 youth per year. </div><div class="item-nested"><i>The majority of YouthBuild programs have incorporated green building into their construction training. As part of this training, participants learn about environmental issues that affect their communities and how they can provide leadership in this area. Many of their community service learning projects are environmentally focused. For example, Casa Verde Builders in Austin, Texas is a 'green' jobs training service program teaching youth, ages 17 to 24, cutting-edge, "green" construction techniques. Over 150 participants have built energy-efficient, affordable homes in East Austin for first-time homebuyers.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b>Pathways Out of Poverty Grants </b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>Many individuals living below or near the poverty level face a unique set of challenges that make the job market particularly difficult. These individuals may lack basic literacy and job readiness skills and may face other barriers to employment, such as the need for childcare or transportation. To</i> help individuals meet these challenges, ETA has invested approximately $150 million in ARRA funds for the Pathways Out of Poverty grants, which integrate training and supportive services into cohesive programs to help <i>targeted populations </i>find pathways out of poverty and into economic self-sufficiency through employment in energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. <i>These grants are part of the $500 million in ARRA funds designated for 'green' jobs training projects that prepare workers for careers in these industries.</i> </div><div class="item-nested">Projects funded by these grants target high-poverty geographic areas identified by the U.S. Census Bureau. Program components include: targeted recruitment and referral strategies; integration of basic skills and work-readiness training with occupational skills training; supportive services to help participants overcome barriers to employment; and training provided at easily accessible times and locations.</div><div class="item-nested"><i>Grants ranging from approximately $2 million to $8 million each were awarded to eight national nonprofit organizations with networks of local affiliates and to 30 local public organizations or private non-profit organizations. All the grant projects are being implemented at the community level by partnerships that include nonprofit organizations, the public workforce system, the education and training community, employers and industry organizations, and labor organizations. As of September 30, 2011, the latest period for which data are available, over 19,800 participants had been served through these grants.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>Indian and Native American Programs</b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>The WIA Section 166 program provides employment and training grants to Indian tribes, non-profit tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities and Native Hawaiian organizations for the purpose of providing employment and training services to low-income and unemployed Native Americans in order to 1) develop more fully the academic, occupational, and literacy skills of such individuals; 2) make such individuals more competitive in the workforce; and 3) promote the economic and social development of Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities in accordance with the goals and values of such communities.</i> [Screw you, Whitey. You'll pay for it and like it.]</div><div class="item-nested">The program operates an Adult Comprehensive Service Program and Supplemental Youth Service Program. </div><div class="item-nested"><b>National Farmworker Jobs Program </b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>The National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) is a nationally directed program of job training and employment assistance for migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs). It is authorized by Congress in the WIA, Section 167, to counter the impact of the chronic unemployment and underemployment experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>ETA provided $78,410,000 in NFJP grants in 2010 and NFJP grantees served over 18,000 participants. The program provides funding to community-based organizations and public agencies that assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers</i> [AKA---illegal aliens.]<i> and their families attain greater economic stability. </i>It assists farmworkers acquire new job skills in occupations that offer higher wages and a more stable employment outlook. In addition to skills training, the program provides supportive services that help farmworkers retain and stabilize their employment in agriculture. The NFJP also facilitates coordination of services through the One-Stop Career Center system for MSFWs so they may access the other services of the workforce system.</div><div class="item-nested"><b>Green</b><b> Capacity Building</b><b> Grants </b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>ETA invested approximately $5 million in ARRA funds for grants to build the capacity of DOL-funded training programs to provide training for entry-level positions leading to career pathways and/or additional training in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. ETA awarded 62 of these capacity-building grants, ranging from $50,000 to $100,000. The awardees include existing operators of ETA-funded programs for targeted populations, including the Indian and Native American program, the National Farmworker Jobs Program, YouthBuild, the Prisoner Reentry Initiative and Youthful Offender grants.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>2010 Gulf Oil Spill Response </b></div><div class="item-nested">National Emergency Grants (NEGs) temporarily expand the service capacity of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Dislocated Worker training and employment programs at the state and local levels by providing funding assistance in response to large, unexpected economic events which cause significant job losses. NEGs generally provide resources to states and local workforce investment boards to quickly reemploy laid-off workers by offering training to increase occupational skills. In response to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, ETA awarded $27 million in NEGs to the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi to support the reemployment of workers impacted by the oil spill. <i>Because these workers included many Vietnamese immigrants with limited English proficiency, services funded with these NEGs included culturally appropriate outreach, case management, and training provided by bilingual staff.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>Community Health Worker Training </b></div><div class="item-nested">Community health workers (CHW), also known in Spanish as <i>promotoras </i>or <i>promotores</i>, assist individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors, particularly in areas where substantial health hazards exist. BLS officially recognized this occupation by adding it to its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system in 2010. <i>Occupational growth for CHWs is projected as communities seek to build effective linkages with the health care system to provide health education and information, advocate for underserved individuals to receive appropriate services, and build the capacity of the community in addressing health issues.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><i>Using ARRA funding, ETA awarded $1.1 million in grants to the states of Florida and California to design pilot projects that explore approaches to supporting and training CHWs. The pilot projects are operating in Tulare County, CA and Immokalee, FL, which both have large populations of migrant and seasonal farmworkers with limited English proficiency. In the Florida pilot, the promotora staff training approved by the local workforce investment board includes pesticide safety. The program is working to develop 'career ladders' for CHWs to progress into other community health or healthcare occupations.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>Economy, Energy and Environmental Initiative</b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>ETA is also representing DOL in its interagency Economy, Energy and Environment (E-3) Initiative, with the Environmental Protection Agency, Small Business Administration, and the Departments of Commerce, Energy, and Agriculture. The E-3 Initiative is designed to spark regional E-3 projects around the country to help manufacturers become more efficient, competitive, and sustainable, including through connections to trained and skilled workers in the 'green' economy.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Mine Safety and Health Administration </u></b></div><div class="item-nested">The purpose of MSHA is to prevent death, disease, and injury from mining and to promote safe and healthful workplaces for the Nation's miners. Many mining facilities are located in rural areas among high densities of low-income people, such as those in Montana, northern Minnesota, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, West Virginia, and Kentucky. <i>MSHA's work furthers the Department's Environmental Justice agenda by protecting and significantly improving the lives of workers, including Native American, low-income, and minority workers, from health and safety hazards associated with mining.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>MSHA Inspections</b> </div><div class="item-nested">MSHA conducts a full inspection of every surface mine at least two times a year and every underground mine at least four times a year. <i>These inspections include mines located in low-income and indigenous communities. MSHA's commitment to worker health and safety means that enforcement resources are allocated to provide equitable protection for workers in the most vulnerable populations.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b>Regulatory Agenda</b> </div><div class="item-nested">MSHA's Fall 2011 regulatory agenda furthers the Department's Environmental Justice Strategy because it includes several rulemakings designed to improve the health and safety of workers exposed to the hazards associated with mining. The workers who will benefit from these improvements include workers in the mines in low-income communities in Appalachia. These rulemakings include: Examination of Work Areas in Underground Coal Mines for Violations of Mandatory Health or Safety Standards; Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust; Pattern of Violations; and Respirable Crystalline Silica.</div><div class="item-nested"><b><u><i>Office of Recovery for Automotive Communities and Workers</i></u></b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>Since its inception in 2009, ORACW's mission has been to assist communities nationwide that have been confronted with the abrupt closure of automobile manufacturing and related facilities. Many of these communities have substantial minority and low-income populations. Acting in coordination with the States and other federal agencies such as the Small Business Administration, the Environmental Protection Administration, and the Department of Transportation, ORACW has been instrumental in assisting laid-off auto workers to obtain the training they need for a new job, streamlining the redevelopment of shuttered facilities to spur economic growth, and helping affected communities develop a new vision for their economic future. One of ORACW's most significant accomplishments thus far has been its work with industry and community stakeholders to create and fund a trust for the cleanup and marketing of the 89 properties left behind in the GM bankruptcy, two-thirds of which are known to have been contaminated with hazardous waste. This innovative trust (known as the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response Trust, or RACER Trust) was formally established in March of 2011 after months of negotiations involving the federal government, 14 state governments, and the St. Regis Mohawk tribe. The RACER Trust empowers affected communities to participate in devising strategies for rehabilitating these properties and returning them to economically productive uses. </i>[Ummm....I can't find the Enumerated Power that grants the Federal Leviathan the authority to do any of this. Maybe it's just me.]<i> </i></div><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Occupational Safety and Health Administration </u></b></div><div class="item-nested">With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created OSHA to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance for both employers and employees. <i>OSHA's efforts on behalf of workers include promoting Environmental Justice through programs that improve the working conditions in industries and occupations that have large numbers of minority and low-income workers. OSHA also funds grant projects to provide training to workers in occupations populated by minority and low-income workers. </i></div><div class="item-nested"><b><i>OSHA Inspection Targeting</i></b></div><div class="item-nested">OSHA identifies high-hazard industries for targeted inspection efforts to increase its impact on improving worker safety and health in these workplaces. <i>Existing Environmental Justice data indicate that workplaces with the most dangerous jobs have a disproportionate number of minority and low-income workers. By addressing hazards in these workplaces, OSHA can assure that minority and low-income workers will not experience disproportionately high and adverse human health problems. </i>[Once again: Screw you, Whitey!]</div><div class="item-nested"><b>OSHA Outreach and Education Initiative to Reach Vulnerable Workers</b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>OSHA has a robust outreach and education initiative to provide minority and low-income workers with education and training about their workplace rights in order to enhance their ability to use their rights, such as filing OSHA complaints when there are serious workplace hazards.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>OSHA's outreach initiative includes designated Diverse Workforce Limited English Proficiency Coordinators in each of its ten regional offices. These individuals are responsible for managing OSHA's outreach and training to employers and workers in the Latino, the Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI) communities, as well as other vulnerable worker populations. </i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>Key OSHA initiatives to reach minority populations include:</i> </div><blockquote><div class="item-nested"><i>OSHA's Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers</i></div><div class="item-nested">In April 2011, Secretary Solis launched a national outreach initiative by OSHA to educate workers and their employers about the hazards of working outdoors in the heat and steps needed to prevent heat-related illnesses. If not quickly addressed, heat exhaustion can become heat stoke, which killed more than 30 workers last year. <i>Outdoor workers at risk of experiencing heat illness include a disproportionate share of minority and low-wage workers.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><i>OSHA has developed heat illness educational materials in English and Spanish, as well as a curriculum to be used for workplace training.</i> These materials have been distributed to farmworker and other outdoor worker groups throughout the country. </div><div class="item-nested">In partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), OSHA has developed a heat index smart phone application that will display the NOAA heat index at the user's location with action alerts on how to prevent heat illness on the job. Worker safety precautions are also now included in excessive heat alerts and warnings issued throughout the country, as well as on NOAA's Heat Watch page. </div><div class="item-nested"><i>Dangers in Hair and Nail Salons</i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>OSHA published a Hazard Alert on Hair Smoothing Products, and has since translated the document into Vietnamese.</i> In addition, OSHA published a new web page on salon hazards and is currently developing a new publication and web page addressing employee exposure to chemical hazards in salons. <i>The agency has also recently shared with the Healthy Nail Alliance many new products focused on worker rights that are translated into Chinese and Vietnamese, and will soon be available in Korean.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>Preventing Falls in Construction</i></div><div class="item-nested"><i>OSHA has developed educational materials and provided extensive outreach to workplaces on preventing falls which are the leading cause of death in construction. The materials are in English and Spanish — Latino workers comprise approximately 25 percent of the construction industry and are often in the most dangerous jobs</i><b><i>.</i> </b></div></blockquote><div class="item-nested"><b>Susan Harwood Training Grants</b></div><div class="item-nested">OSHA's Susan Harwood grants assist organizations in providing safety and health training, and educational programs for workers and employers. Targeted Topic Training Grants are one-year grants that support the development of quality occupational safety and health training materials and programs for workers and employers addressing workplace hazards and prevention strategies. Multi-year capacity building grants help to create more opportunities for organizations to provide training and related services to workers and employers. <i>A key target population for these grants is minority and low-income workers in high hazard industries.</i> Grants are provided to non-profit community-based organizations, unions, employer associations, and academic institutions. Targeted populations include farmworkers, construction workers, food processing workers, and salon workers. <i>Materials and training are delivered in English, Spanish, and various Asian languages, as appropriate.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b><u>Office of Workers' Compensation Programs</u></b><b> </b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>The Environmental Justice goals of the Department include providing Good Jobs for Everyone and training employers and workers to prevent hazards to worker health and safety. If injuries due to environmental hazards occur, however, the Department has programs to assist eligible workers or their dependents receive compensation. The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs administers four major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease and support the Department's Environmental Justice goals.</i></div><div class="item-nested"><b>Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation</b></div><div class="item-nested">The Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation, or Federal Black Lung Program, administers occupational disease claims filed under the Black Lung Benefits Act. The Act provides monthly benefits to coal miners who are totally disabled by pneumoconiosis arising out of exposure to respirable coal mine dust, and to eligible survivors of coal miners. Monthly payments are increased for dependents of the beneficiary. The Act also provides eligible miners with medical coverage for the treatment of lung diseases related to pneumoconiosis. Payments to beneficiaries under Part B of the Act are made by the Department of Labor out of general revenue funds, and benefits under Part C are paid by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund or by a responsible coal mine operator. </div><div class="item-nested"><i>The beneficiaries of the program, both miners and their survivors, live primarily in the coal fields of Appalachia, including Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, all of which contain high concentrations of low-income workers.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation</b></div><div class="item-nested">Part B of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) compensates current or former employees (or their survivors) of the Department of Energy (DOE), its predecessor agencies, or some of its vendors, contractors, and subcontractors, who are diagnosed with a radiogenic cancer, chronic beryllium disease or sensitivity or chronic silicosis as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium, or silica when employed at covered facilities. The EEOICPA also provides compensation to individuals (or their eligible survivors) awarded benefits by the Department of Justice under section 5 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Part E of EEOICPA compensates DOE contractor/subcontractor employees, eligible survivors of such employees, and uranium miners, miller's and ore transporters as defined by RECA for illnesses that are linked to toxic exposures in the DOE or mining work environment. Implementation of EEOICPA is a uniquely intergovernmental activity, involving the coordinated efforts of four Federal agencies.</div><div class="item-nested"><b>Division of Federal Employees' Compensation</b></div><div class="item-nested"><i>The Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) provides workers' compensation coverage to approximately 2.7 million Federal workers. The FECA also provides coverage to Peace Corps and Vista volunteers, Federal petit and grand jurors, volunteer members of the Civil Air Patrol, Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadets, Job Corps, Youth Conservation Corps enrollees, and nonfederal law enforcement officers when injured under certain circumstances involving crimes against the United States. The primary goal of the FECA program is to assist Federal employees who have sustained work-related injuries or disease by providing financial and medical benefits as well as help in returning to work.</i> </div><div class="item-nested"><b>Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation</b></div><div class="item-nested">The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) is a federal law administered by OWCP, providing medical benefits, compensation for lost wages, and rehabilitation services to employees who are injured during the course of employment, or contract a work-related occupational disease related to employment, occurring on the navigable waters of the United States, or in adjoining areas, and for certain classes of workers covered by extensions of the Act.</div><div class="item-nested">Several statutes extend the provisions of the Act to cover classes of additional workers. These include: The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which covers workers who are engaged in the extraction of natural resources of the outer continental shelf of the United States; The Defense Base Act, which provides workers compensation protection to civilian employees working outside the United States on U.S. military bases or under a contract with the U.S. government for public works or for the national defense; The District of Columbia Workers Compensation Act (repealed 1982 for new injuries) which provides compensation for disability or death resulting from certain employment in the District of Columbia; The Non Appropriated Fund Instrumentalities Act, which applies to civilian employees of the Morale, Welfare & Recreational activities at U.S. military installations.</div><div class="item-nested">Compensation and medical benefits for covered work-related injuries and illnesses include all medical, surgical, and hospital treatment, as well as the cost of travel and mileage incidental to such treatment. Covered work-related illnesses may include those resulting from exposure to hazardous noise, chemical cleaners and solvents, toxic chemicals, biological hazards, water and airborne pollutants, and others. Medical documentation is necessary to relate the injury/illness to the employment. Death benefits are provided if the work-related injury causes the employee's death.</div><div class="item-nested"><b>Wage and Hour Division</b></div><div class="item-nested">The WHD mission is to promote and achieve compliance with labor standards to protect and enhance the welfare of the Nation's workforce. Failure to pay wages guaranteed by law and misclassification of employees as independent contractors are practices that have a disproportionate and <i>dramatic impact on minority, low-income, and tribal workers.</i> WHD contributes to the Department's EJ goals through enforcement and public education efforts designed to ensure that workers are paid the minimum wage and are not misclassified. </div><div class="item-nested">The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that covered employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour as well as time and one-half their regular hourly rates for every hour they work beyond 40 per week. The law also requires employers to maintain accurate records of employees' wages, hours and other conditions of employment, and prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who exercise their rights under the law. </div><div class="item-nested">Secretary Hilda L. Solis has made vigorous enforcement of the FLSA a key priority for the Department of Labor. 'The nation's laws are for the protection of everyone who works in this country," Secretary Solis has said. 'It is appropriate and correct that vulnerable workers receive what the law promises, and that no employer gain a marketplace advantage by using threats or coercion to cheat workers from their rightful wages. <i>I have added more than 250 new field investigators nationwide — an increase of a third — to help in this effort.'</i></div></li>
<li><div class="item-nested"><i> </i>The efforts of the WHD have helped connect America's most vulnerable and low-wage workers with the broad array of services offered by the Department of Labor. <i>WHD has placed a special focus on reaching employees in such industries as janitorial work, hotel/motel services, food services and home health care. </i>[By the weirdest of coincidences, that sounds like SEIU, huh ?] The results of WHD's enforcement efforts are included in the Department's online enforcement database 2.0 (<a href="http://ogesdw.dol.gov/">http://ogesdw.dol.gov</a>)</div></li>
<li><div class="item-nested">The misclassification of employees as independent contractors is an alarming trend, particularly in industries such as construction that often employ low-wage, vulnerable workers. This practice is a serious threat both to workers <i>entitled to good, safe jobs</i>, and to those employers who comply with the law. Too often workers are deprived of overtime and minimum wages, and are forced to pay taxes that their employers are legally obligated to pay. Honest employers have a difficult time competing against scofflaws. The Department is committed to ensuring that workers receive the pay and benefits to which they are legally entitled, and to level the playing field for employers that play by the rules.</div><div class="item-nested">In 2010, the WHD collected nearly $4 million in back wages for minimum wage and overtime violations under the FLSA that resulted from employees being misclassified as independent contractors or otherwise not treated as employees. The misclassification of employees as something else, such as independent contractors, presents a serious problem, as these employees often are denied access to critical benefits and protections — such as family and medical leave, overtime compensation, minimum wage pay and UI — to which they are entitled. In addition, misclassification can create economic pressure for law-abiding business owners, who often find it difficult to compete with those who are skirting the law. Employee misclassification also generates substantial losses for state UI and workers' compensation funds. </div><div class="item-nested">The Department's Misclassification Initiative, which was launched under the auspices of Vice President Biden's Middle Class Task Force, is charged with the goal of preventing and remedying employee misclassification. As part of this Initiative, DOL has signed memoranda of understanding with state government agencies to assist in the detection of this practice. Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Utah and Washington have signed agreements with DOL as of December 2011. </div></li>
<li><b>Reporting and Accountability </b><div class="item-nested">The Department will post this final Strategy to the DOL website and the EJ IWG website. The Department will post subsequent reports concerning its Environmental Justice Strategy to its website."</div></li>
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We are on the edge of complete economic, political, and social disaster. The very fact that the document even exists, proves it. I can't gussy it up. I can't make it sound palatable. But something isn't done, and rather quickly, the America we once knew will be gone and gone for good. It's that serious.<br />
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God help us all.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-38594575404731642992012-04-25T20:28:00.001-07:002012-04-25T20:28:23.074-07:00The Creepy Left's Civil War And Our Big OpportunityFor the last couple of months, many of the pointy-headed talking heads who inhabit The Fox Neocon Channel (FNC), PMSNBC, and the Communist Newspeak Network (CNN) have been babbling about the in-fighting on the Right. Many have wondered if the GOP Establishment's Golden Boy Mitt Trotsky has been damaged by the flat out rejection of him by the GOP's Conservative base. (As of this writing, it is unknown if the Bellvue staff has allowed Tokyo Rove to have shoe laces yet.) Night after night, we've had nothing but on air hand-wringing from the likes of Ann Coulter and the rest of the GOP-E's apologists who claim that the normal and healthy debate of the Primary process would somehow derail the quest to send Chairman Obama to the lecture circuit four years ahead of schedule.<br />
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The funny part about all of this is the fact that these so-called Wizards of Smart have missed the other ideological civil war that may very well sink the Dog-Eater In Chief. The Creepy Left has its own morale problems, as the Anarchist Left and the Professional Left are now pointing their Hammers and Sickles at each other.<br />
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<b>"Occupy will come out swinging</b> <a href="http://maydaynyc.org/">May 1</a> with a General Strike in <a href="http://occupywallst.org/article/may-day/">115 cities</a> … A <a href="http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/playjazz.html">month</a> of visceral nonviolent actions will follow. We will flex our tactical muscles, dream of a new world order and <a href="http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/playjazz.html">#playjazz</a> like never before.<br />
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From Slavoj Žižek [the actual founder of the ""Occupy (bowel) movement] in today’s <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/24/occupy-wall-street-what-is-to-be-done-next">Guardian</a>:<br />
<blockquote>
<i>'The protesters should beware not only of enemies, but also of false
friends who pretend to support them, but are already working hard to
dilute the protest. </i>In the same way we get coffee without caffeine, beer
without alcohol, ice-cream without fat, they will try to make the
protests into a harmless moralistic gesture.'<br />
</blockquote>
<i>The clicktivists at MoveOn are channeling Occupy’s intensity into
legal, symbolic rallies that bolster Democratic Party campaign promises.
</i>Check out the 80 organizations backing MoveOn’s <a href="http://the99spring.com/who-we-are/">99% Spring</a>:
most of them are the same old lefty cabal that’s ruled over and stifled
the political left for the last 20 years. But there are also some
flowers among the vegetables … and we should try to get them back. Folks
like the <a href="http://ruckus.org/">Ruckus Society</a> or the <a href="http://ran.org/">Rainforest Action Network</a>
… groups whose bold civil disobedience inspired us all in the past. We
still remember how the tactical brilliance of John Sellers, a former
Ruckus Society leader, was so feared that he was preemptively arrested,
charged with 14 misdemeanors, including “possession of an instrument of
crime” – his cell phone – ha ha! – and held on $1 million bail during
the Republican National Convention protests in 2000.<br />
<br />
Hey jammers, let’s get some of these wild flowers back … Head over to the <a href="http://the99spring.com/who-we-are/">99% Spring</a>
and look through the list of affiliated organizations. Decide for
yourself which groups you respect then call them for a chat or send them
an email or a tweet. Ruckus Society is at 510-931-6339, <a href="mailto:ruckus@ruckus.org">ruckus@ruckus.org</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/Ruckusociety">@Ruckusociety</a>; Rainforest Action Network at 415-398-4404, <a href="mailto:answers@ran.org">answers@ran.org</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/RAN">@RAN</a>… Let’s nudge our friends back into the Occupy camp in time for the May Day General Strike."<br />
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"99% Spring" ? What the hell is that ?<br />
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"DATE: February 15, 2012<br />
TO: America<br />
RE: The 99% Spring</h4>
Things should never have reached this point. [Yeah, War Criminal Obama never should have been elected.]<br />
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Every day, the American Dream seems a little farther away. [Ya think ?] More of
our grandparents are being thrown from their homes. [and their Medicare is being slashed by Obamacareless] Our mothers and
fathers can’t retire because their pension funds tanked. Our brothers
and sisters are burdened by student loan debt. For our children, budget
cuts have resulted in crumbling schools, skyrocketing class sizes, and
teachers being denied the supports they need to do their best. Our
friends and family are being denied collective bargaining rights in
their workplaces and are falling further and further behind. Our
neighbors are being poisoned by pollution in our air and water. [Environmental Justice alert!]<br />
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The numbers are staggering: in recent years, millions of jobs have
been destroyed, homes foreclosed, and an unconscionable number of
children live in poverty. [In "recent years" Chairman Obama and his gaggle of psychos in the Democrat Party have been running the asylum.]<br />
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And worst of all: this is no accident. It is a result of rampant
greed—the deliberate manipulation of our democracy and our economy by a
tiny minority in the 1%, by those who amass ever more wealth and power
at our expense. [Funny how they forget about the 1%ers who are lib Dims, ya know the Nazi Pelosis of the world.]<br />
<br />
We are at a crossroads as a country. We have a choice to make.<i>
Greater wealth for a few or opportunity for many. </i>Tax breaks for the
richest or a fair shot for the rest of us. A government that can be
bought by the highest bidder, [like George $oros] or a democracy that is truly of the
people, by the people, and for the people.<br />
<br />
The choice is in our hands. This spring, we will act on that choice
and rise up in the tradition of our forefathers and foremothers. [There is no such word as 'foremothers'.] We will
not be complicit with the suffering in our families for another year.
We will prepare ourselves for sustained non-violent direct action.<br />
<br />
From April 9-15 we will gather across America, 100,000 strong, in
homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to join together in
the work of reclaiming our country. We will organize trainings to:<br />
<ol>
<li>Tell the story of our economy: how we got here, who’s responsible,
what a different future could look like, and what we can do about it</li>
<li>Learn the history of non-violent direct action, and</li>
<li>Get into action on our own campaigns to win change.</li>
</ol>
This spring we rise! We will reshape our country with our own hands
and feet, bodies and hearts. We will take non-violent action in the
spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi [Blah, blah, blah...] to forge a new destiny one
block, one neighborhood, one city, one state at a time.<br />
<br />
We know great change is possible. We inherit a history of everyday
people standing up for their own dignity, freedom, and
self-determination, shaping our direction as a country. The seamstress
in Alabama who launched a bus boycott. The farmers in New England and
Virginia who imagined we could be a free nation. The workers in Flint,
Michigan who occupied their plant to win collective bargaining rights.
The farmworkers in California who liberated our fields. The women in New
York who dreamed they could one day speak with equal voice. The mother
who stood up in Love Canal to stop the poisoning of her community. And
the students who risked their lives during Freedom Summer to register
voters.<br />
<br />
In the last year alone we watched the teachers and fire fighters of
Wisconsin stand for the rights of workers. And we joined those who
Occupied Wall Street, inspiring us to stand with the 99%.<br />
<br />
<i>We will rise this spring, because we DO hold these truths to be self
evident—that all men and women are created equal, that we are endowed by
our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. </i>[Yeah, like these commie schmucks believe that. They might as well say that they also attend Church every Sunday while they're at it.]<br />
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Will you rise with us? Can we count on you to join us April 9th to 15th to stand with the 99% for America?"<br />
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http://the99spring.com/who-we-are/<br />
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Hmmmm.....that's quite interesting. (Well, not really, but work with me here. It's not like I wrote the above corny crap, ya know.) A veritable who's who of the Professional Left are backing this nonsense. Here's the list:<br />
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"Letter Signers</h3>
<strong>Sarita Gupta</strong><br />
Jobs With Justice<br />
<strong>Bob King</strong><br />
United Auto Workers<br />
<strong>George Goehl</strong><br />
National Peoples Action<br />
<strong>Ai-jen Poo</strong><br />
National Domestic Workers Alliance<br />
<i><strong>Justin Ruben</strong><br />
MoveOn.org</i><br />
<strong>Joy Cushman & Judith Freeman</strong><br />
New Organizing Institute<br />
<strong>Liz Butler</strong><br />
Movement Strategy Center<br />
<strong>John Sellers & Andrew Boyd</strong><br />
The Other 98%<br />
<i><strong>Mary Kay Henry</strong><br />
Service Employees International Union</i><br />
<i><strong>Richard Trumka</strong><br />
AFL-CIO</i><br />
<i><strong>Van Jones & Natalie Foster</strong><br />
Rebuild the Dream</i><br />
<i><strong>Rashad Robinson</strong><br />
Color of Change</i><br />
<strong>John Wilhelm</strong><br />
UNITE-HERE<br />
<i><strong>Phil Radford</strong><br />
Greenpeace</i><br />
<i><strong>John Cavanagh</strong><br />
Institute for Policy Studies</i><br />
<strong>Scott Reed</strong><br />
PICO National Network<br />
<strong>Tracy Van Slyke & Ilana Berger</strong><br />
New Bottom Line<br />
<strong>Lawrence Guyot</strong><br />
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement<br />
<i><strong>Julian Bond</strong><br />
SNCC Legacy Project</i><br />
<strong>Leo Gerard</strong><br />
United Steel Workers<br />
<i><strong>John Stocks</strong><br />
National Education Association</i><br />
<strong>Daniel Cantor</strong><br />
Working Families Party<br />
<strong>Larry Cohen</strong><br />
Communications Workers of America<br />
<strong>Victor Sanchez, Jr.</strong><br />
United States Student Association<br />
<strong>Becky Tarbotton</strong><br />
Rainforest Action Network<br />
<strong>Randi Weingarten</strong><br />
American Federation of Teachers<br />
<strong>Brian Kettenring</strong><br />
Leadership Center for the Common Good<br />
<strong>Randy Jackson</strong><br />
UNITY<br />
<strong>Saket Soni</strong><br />
National Guestworker Alliance<br />
<strong>Bill McKibben & May Boeve</strong><br />
350.org<br />
<strong>Sharon Lungo & Megan Swoboda</strong><br />
The Ruckus Society<br />
<strong>Ian Inaba</strong><br />
Citizen Engagement Lab<br />
<strong>Patrick Reinsborough & Doyle Canning</strong><br />
smartMeme Strategy & Training Project<br />
<strong>Rachel LaForest</strong><br />
Right to the City Alliance<br />
<strong>Brigid Flaherty</strong><br />
Pushback Network<br />
<strong>Aimee Allison</strong><br />
RootsAction<br />
<strong>Drew Hudson</strong><br />
USAction<br />
<strong>Richard Hopson</strong><br />
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment<br />
<strong>Tim Carpenter</strong><br />
Progressive Democrats of America<br />
<strong>Bob Callahan</strong><br />
Change to Win<br />
<strong>Michael Leon Guerrero</strong><br />
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance<br />
<strong>Roger Hickey</strong><br />
Campaign for America's Future<br />
<strong>David Donnelly & Nicholas Nyhart</strong><br />
Public Campaign Action Fund<br />
<strong>Aaron Ostrom</strong><br />
Fuse Washington<br />
<strong>Jeff Ordower</strong><br />
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment<br />
<strong>Karen Scharff</strong><br />
Citizen Action of New York<br />
<strong>Marianne Manilov</strong><br />
Engage<br />
<strong>Bruce Klipple</strong><br />
United Electrical Workers Union<br />
<strong>Pablo Alvarado</strong><br />
National Day Laborers Organizing Network<br />
<strong>LeeAnn Hall</strong><br />
Alliance for a Just Society<br />
<strong>Leslie Moody</strong><br />
The Partnership for Working Families<br />
<strong>Teresa Cheng</strong><br />
United Students Against Sweatshops<br />
<strong>Arturo Carmona</strong><br />
Presente.org<br />
<strong>Robin McGehee & Heather Cronk</strong><br />
Get Equal<br />
<strong>Gerald McEntee</strong><br />
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees<br />
<strong>Hugh Espey</strong><br />
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement<br />
<strong>Patti Lynn</strong><br />
Corporate Accountability International<br />
<strong>Bob Nicklas</strong><br />
American Federation of Government Employees<br />
<strong>Aparna Shah</strong><br />
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote<br />
<strong>Celia Kutz</strong><br />
Training for Change<br />
<strong>Chris Gabriele</strong><br />
People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)<br />
<strong>Chris Hicks</strong><br />
Student Labor Action Project<br />
<strong>Corrine Fowler</strong><br />
Colorado Progressive Coalition <br />
<strong>Phaedra Ellis Lamkins</strong><br />
Green for All<br />
<strong>Lillian Walker Shelton</strong><br />
DC Jobs with Justice<br />
<strong>Tom Swan</strong><br />
Connecticut Citizen Action Group<br />
<strong>Sarah Weintraub</strong><br />
Vermont Workers' Center<br />
<strong>Judy Hertz</strong><br />
Midwest Academy<br />
<strong>Sondra Youdelman</strong><br />
Community Voices Heard<br />
<strong>Eric Byler</strong><br />
The Coffee Party<br />
<strong>Victor Menotti</strong><br />
International Forum on Globalization<br />
<strong>Joe Hansen</strong><br />
UFCW International Union<br />
<strong>Sulma Arias</strong><br />
Sunflower Community Action<br />
<strong>Don Carlson</strong><br />
Illinois People's Action<br />
<strong>Jennifer Ritter</strong><br />
Lakeview Action Coalition<br />
<strong>Kirsten Moller</strong><br />
Global Exchange<br />
<strong>Bob Fulkerson</strong><br />
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada<br />
<strong>Rev. Bruce Wright</strong><br />
Poor Peooples Economic Human Rights Campaign<br />
<strong>James P. Hoffa</strong><br />
International Brotherhood of the Teamsters<br />
<strong>Elspeth Gilmore and Jessie Spector</strong><br />
Resource Generation<br />
<strong>Pamela J. McMichael</strong><br />
Highlander Research and Education Center<br />
<strong>Pamela Twiss</strong><br />
TakeAction Minnesota<br />
<strong>Maura Cowley</strong><br />
Energy Action Coalition<br />
<strong>Steve Kretzmann</strong><br />
Oil Change International<br />
<strong>Will Tanzman</strong><br />
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation<br />
<i><strong>Jodie Evans</strong><br />
CODEPINK: Women for Peace</i><br />
<strong>Steve Schnapp</strong><br />
United for a Fair Economy<br />
<strong>Ethan Rome</strong><br />
Health Care for America Now<br />
<i><strong>Arlene Englehardt</strong><br />
Pacifica Radio"</i><br />
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<i> </i>http://the99spring.com/who-we-are/<br />
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As you can see, there are some heavy hitters on that list, many of them with ties to Chairman Obama. (For example, Van Jones was our Dear Leader's "Green Jobs Czar" until he was outed by Glenn Beck and quietly fired. The traitorous Jodie Evans was a bundler for His Chairmanship during the '08 Popularity Contest.)<br />
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And yet, Adbusters seems to hate the above list almost as much they hate the so-called 1%. The biting sarcasm in the first quote shows it.<br />
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Here's the point, folks: The Left is in disarray, and from the looks of it, getting desperate. The bizarre alliance of malcontents, enviro-whackos, union thugs, race baiters, and bourgeoisie socialists seems to be breaking down. They know that gig is up and that the American people have had enough of them. Most folks are tired of being called racists by snarling pseudo-intellectual Marxist college professors. Most folks are tired of having their religious values being questioned by anti-God Left. Most folks are tired of paying taxes while their neighbors do not. Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of Americans know that we're on the wrong track.<br />
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This is our time, fellow members of the Patriotic Right. If we play our cards right (no pun intended), we can set the Creepy Left back for decades while it destroys itself. All we have to do is stick to our principles. It's that easy. While all eyes are on the Presidential race, we can pack the Imperial Senate and the House with no-nonsense Conservatives who will have the testicular fortitude to override vetoes, ignore the press, and make the cuts that are necessary to ensure the United States doesn't enter the Third World.<br />
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Let's get 'er done!<br />
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<br />Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-23827777185584427222012-04-21T14:51:00.000-07:002012-04-21T14:51:13.319-07:00Yes, Obama Eating Dogmeat Matters"And away from the dinner table I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher) and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)...."---Bark Hussein Obama, writing in <em>Dreams From My Father</em><br />
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Yes, it matters. Yes, it matters a great deal.<br />
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This little quote speaks volumes. It shows just how foreign Obama truly is. It shows how foreign his upbringing was. Not only that, it also shows how much the Arrogant and Lazy Mainstream Media sucks at its job.<br />
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Now, before we get started, yes, I know that former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers may have ghost written Chairman Obama's books. However, that changes nothing. Even if Ayers ghost wrote the above quote, that doesn't mean it wasn't proofread by the future American dictator, nor does it mean that Ayers wasn't given first hand accounts about Bark's life, this incident included.<br />
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Back to the matter at hand.<br />
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This quote, among thousands admittedly far more important, illustrates just how foreign Obama's upbringing truly was and how truly foreign his thought processes are. For thousands of years, dogs have been domesticated by humans living in western civilization. Dogs (along with cats) are universally accepted as pets, but not as food. Many western cultures have outlawed the eating of dogs and cats for that purpose. It's a social more. Most folks find eating dogmeat almost as repugnant as polygamy and incest. <em>It simply isn't done by normal people with a normal upbringing.</em><br />
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But yet, in the above quote, Obama is treating it as if it was no big deal, like eating duck pate or escargot. That coudn't be further from the truth. <em>It's barbaric. </em>To a lot folks in western civilization, especially those who consider their pets part of the family like I do, this is almost like admitting that one ate Aunt Gladys for dinner. The very fact that this was included in his autobiography, when there was no real reason to do so, shows just how out of touch Bark Obama truly is with American culture.<br />
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The worst thing about it is the fact that the Arrogant and Lazy Mainstream Media isn't making more of this. I know they're doing their doggone best to make sure their Fuhrer gets another term to finish off America, but hey, just once, can't they pretend to be Americans who have a vested interest in American culture ? More importantly, as Mark Levin brilliantly asked, why isn't the Arrogant and Lazy Mainstream Media asking when Bark Obama <em>stopped</em> eating the flesh of Man's Best Friend ?<br />
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Yes, I know I should be writing about Bark Obama's countless scandals, ranging from arming Mexican drug cartels with Operation Fast and Furious to aiding the Muslim Brotherhood take control of Libya. I get it. In the grand scheme of things, this is nowhere near as important as those crimes against humanity. However, we can't lose sight of things like this. After all, snippets like this from Bark Obama's childhood <em>explain </em>why he's the asshole he is today. What's more important, it's a barometer of what kind of asshole he'll be if he gets another four years without having to worry about be reelected.<br />
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We are on the edge of complete economic, political, and social disaster. I can't gussy it up. I can't make it sound palatable. The truth is what the truth is.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-36714768532977455032012-04-19T21:23:00.000-07:002012-04-19T21:23:45.637-07:00Wanna See Socialism Up Close And Real Personal-Like ?From the deranged mind of Shaun Donovan, Chairman Obama's Housing and Urban Development <i>Reichsfuhrer</i>....er, uh... Secretary:<br />
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" September 30, 2011<br />
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DRAFT - 2012 – 2015 Environmental 1 Justice Strategy for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development<br />
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Message from the Secretary<br />
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The ongoing housing and economic crisis has touched every family in one way or another – <i>but for low-income and minority communities, it’s been particularly devastating.</i> [Lost your house ? Tough toenails, Whitey.] Not only have these communities watched as nearly two decades of economic gains were rolled back in a matter of months, but they are also uniquely vulnerable to pollution, unsafe drinking water and other environmental and public health hazards. [Yes, fellow taxpayer, this means the redistribution of wealth.]<br />
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The Obama Administration believes that all communities<i> deserve</i> the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, equal access to the Federal decision-making process, and a healthy environment where they can live, learn, and work. That’s why I’m proud that HUD was one of 17 agencies to recently sign the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898. Built on a 1994 Executive Order that directed a range of federal agencies to make environmental justice central to their missions as part of the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group, this MOU brings more federal partners to the table, adopts a charter, and provides guidance to help communities achieve better results for families.<br />
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This work builds on progress we’ve already made – particularly in areas like childhood lead poisoning, where we’ve reduced the number of children with lead poisoning by 75 percent over the last decade. But the job’s not over. Given that these hazards are most prominent in older housing stock where many low-income communities live, HUD’s engagement on this issue has been essential. <i>That’s why HUD’s 2010-2015 Strategic Plan included a commitment to improve health outcomes and promote communities that are healthy, sustainable, affordable, and inclusive.</i><br />
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<i>What makes this MOU unique is that for the first time, it recognizes that keeping our families healthy is not just about the quality of the homes themselves – but where they are located. Indeed, right now we can predict a child’s life expectancy by the zip codes he or she grows up in.</i><br />
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Major contributors to this tragedy include higher rates of childhood obesity, increased air pollution, and a lack of open space, to name just a few. <i>HUD’s 2011 Environmental Justice Strategy responds to these challenges by expanding 'geographies of opportunity.' Through our Choice Neighborhoods initiative and the sustainability grants we awarded to communities in 2010, HUD is already helping to lay the foundation for healthy, inclusive, and more sustainable communities – creating walkable neighborhoods with sidewalks, preserving and protecting parks and other open spaces, and helping metro regions reduce traffic congestion and commute times by developing comprehensive transportation and housing plans that bolster economic growth. </i>[Comrade Lenin would be proud!]<br />
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All this work reflects a core belief: that when you choose a home, you do not just choose a home. You choose a community and the choices available in that community – including how healthy and safe that community is. <i>With President Obama’s leadership and this Environmental Justice strategy, we’re committing to working together with federal, state, and local partners to ensure that every neighborhood is vibrant and safe, and provides a healthy future for our children.</i> [My future grandchildren and great-grandchildren just can't wait to pay for this!]<br />
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Shaun Donovan"<br />
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<a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=DrftHUDEnvJustStrat093011.pdf">http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=DrftHUDEnvJustStrat093011.pdf</a><br />
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Hmmmm......and what was "environmental justice" again ? Let's ask the ever-so huggable Van Jones, Chairman Obama's former "Green Jobs Czar":<br />
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"Mother Jones: Can you briefly explain what 'environmental justice' means to you?<br />
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Van Jones: Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits."<br />
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<a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/10/qa-van-jones">http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/10/qa-van-jones</a><br />
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No dice, Vannie. You can bullshit your way through the Sunday Morning Snoozefests, answering questions from automatons pretending to be journalists all you want, but you're not fooling me. I know who you are, and more importantly,<i> I know </i><i>what you are.</i> Let's try it again.<i> </i>What does the term "environmental justice" <i>actually</i> mean ?<br />
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"Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where<i> poor people live. It would never have been allowed if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's neighborhoods</i>; we'd have had a sustainable economy a long time ago. We'd have had a clean and green economy a long time ago.<i> It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point.<i> So there's a direct relationship between<i> environmental racism</i> and the lack of sustainability of society as a whole.<i> We were the canaries in the coal mines, crying for relief.</i> Now finally the consequences are affecting everyone, with <i>global warming</i> and everything else. The other thing is that the environmental justice <i>agenda</i> is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good. We don't want to be first and worst with all the toxins and all the negative effects of global warming, and then benefit last and least from all the breakthroughs in solar, wind energy, organic food, all the positives. <i>We want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the benefits of the transition to a green economy.</i>" </i></i><br />
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http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/10/qa-van-jones<br />
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I knew you had it in you, Vannie. Now go "Occupy" something, preferably in North Korea.<br />
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As we can see from Comrade Van's rant above,"environmental justice" has nothing to do with the environment or justice. It has everything to do with taking money from Citizen A by force and giving it to Citizen B. The last time I checked, this was the redistribution of wealth, a hallmark of the 20th Century political phenomenon known as "communism", which really doesn't work very well. ( Don't believe me ? Just ask the 100 million people communism murdered.)<br />
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This announcement from HUD is beyond troubling for two reasons: One, the housing market is being held together by bailing wire and spit. Two, the Federal Leviathan can't support a goldfish, let alone pay for another dystopian pipe dream. <br />
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While we're on the subject, exactly what is HUD's <i>Five-Year Plan</i>, anyway ?<br />
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"The 2010 – 2015 HUD Strategic Plan commits to accomplish the HUD mission through five core goals:<br />
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1. Strengthen the Nation’s Housing Market To <i>Bolster the Economy</i> and Protect Consumers<br />
2. Meet the Need for Quality, Affordable Rental Homes<br />
3. Utilize Housing as a Platform for Improving Quality of Life<br />
4. <i>Build Inclusive and Sustainable Communities Free From Discrimination</i><br />
<i> 5. Transform the Way HUD Does Business</i>"<br />
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http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=DrftHUDEnvJustStrat093011.pdf<br />
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"HUD’s Strategic Plan: Its Connection to Environmental Justice:<br />
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HUD’s mission, to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality,<i> affordable homes for all, clearly reflects principles of environmental justice. For HUD, strong, sustainable, inclusive communities are resilient communities that can weather the impacts of disasters and economic downturns, offer residents access to healthy living and amenities such as transportation, education, jobs, and social services, and are free from discrimination that has historically limited housing choice and relegated minority populations to low-opportunity areas.</i><br />
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These principles offer an affirmative answer to the challenges that<i> environmental justice communities face.</i> <i>By encouraging the availability of quality, affordable homes that are both hazard-free and more energy-efficient, HUD is protecting residents and our environment.</i><br />
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The 2010 – 2015 HUD Strategic Plan1 commits to accomplish the HUD mission through five core goals:<br />
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<i> 1. Strengthen the Nation’s Housing Market To Bolster the Economy and Protect Consumers</i><br />
<i> 2. Meet the Need for Quality, Affordable Rental Homes</i><br />
<i> 3. Utilize Housing as a Platform for Improving Quality of Life</i><br />
<i> 4. Build Inclusive and Sustainable Communities Free From Discrimination</i><br />
<i> 5. Transform the Way HUD Does Business </i><br />
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The FY 2010–2015 HUD Strategic Plan allows HUD to scale-up local innovations, lead the charge, and set the pace for change leading up to HUD’s 50th anniversary in 2015.<i> Each of these core goals will help HUD move forward in achieving environmental justice. </i>Particular elements of the HUD strategic plan provide greater alignment between agency goals and environmental justice. <i>Strengthening the Nation’s Housing Market (Goal 1) requires HUD to forge new relationships with federal, state, and local agencies across government silos—to assist different regions with vastly different housing needs. Likewise, Meeting the Need for Quality Affordable Rental Homes (Goal 2) requires us to provide people with the choices they need to seize opportunities for their families by streamlining the way HUD delivers rental assistance and by building partnerships that preserve housing affordability near transit and jobs. </i><br />
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<i>Under Subgoal 1 2D, Expand families’ choices of affordable rental homes located in a broad range of communities, is Strategy 6: 'Remove local barriers to the expansion of the supply of multifamily homes in strong, safe, healthy communities through incentives to state and local governments.' Strategy 6 integrates the values of residential choice and healthy communities, which are central to the Department’s statutory obligation to affirmatively further fair housing in its housing and urban development programs under the Fair Housing Act. They are central also to the equal access and equal treatment requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.</i><br />
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<i>To Utilize Housing as a Platform for Improving Quality of Life (Goal 3), HUD must make federally subsidized housing a catalyst for investments in education, health, and job training, while also leveraging the private capital needed to expand housing for the growing number of seniors and homeless Americans.</i> [In other words, the Regime is gonna take YOUR money and hand it over to someone else.] <i>By bringing to bear mixed-use, mixed-income tools to transform all housing in a neighborhood and helping communities identify and address longstanding development challenges through targeted assistance, HUD will Build Inclusive and Sustainable Communities Free From Discrimination (Goal 4)—supporting and creating geographies of opportunity that result in neighborhoods of choice, affirmatively furthering fair housing laws, and fighting the scourge of concentrated poverty. Under Subgoal 4B, Promote energy-efficient buildings and location-efficient communities that are healthy, affordable, and diverse, the Department would promote a healthy and safe living environment. This subgoal is consistent with HUD’s longstanding site and neighborhood standards under the Fair Housing Act and Title VI, which encourage investment of HUD assistance in demographically diverse and healthy areas with good access to jobs, education, services, and recreation. EJ’s emphasis on the participation of minority and low-income populations in policy making is reflected in strategies under Subgoal 4C, Ensure open, diverse, and equitable communities.</i><br />
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<i> To Transform the Way HUD Does Business (Goal 5), HUD will not only reform hiring practices and empower local decision-making, but also provide our customers with the information and technical assistance they need to better target resources and build their own capacity—taking the holistic, cross-cutting view of community development required to make the biggest difference on the ground. Goal 5 incorporates many of the dimensions of a revitalized EJ compliance effort – including education and training of HUD’s workforce, establishment of rules and systems that are responsive, open, and transparent, and a renewed focus on the customer: the men and women who experience the impact of HUD’s programs."</i><br />
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Did I miss something, or is the word "Congress" missing from the above slop ? It appears that the utopians at HUD have decided to give the Hairpiece Gang the middle finger with one hand and setting the Constitution on fire with the other.<br />
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HUD's <i>Five-Year Plan </i>is as massive as Barbara Mikuluski and as scary as watching a naked Joyless Behar shave Hitlery Clinton's chubby-wubby legs. Don't believe me ? Think I'm bloviating to hear myself bloviate ? <br />
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<li>200,000 homeowners will be assisted through<br />
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) programs.</li>
<li>400,000 homeowners will be assisted through<br />
third-party lender loss mitigation initiatives.<br />
mandated by FHA but not receiving FHA subsidy.</li>
<li>2.4 million homeowners will be assisted through<br />
joint HUD-Treasury programs.</li>
<li>For all FHA borrowers who become 30 days late,<br />
achieve a Consolidated Claim Workout ratio of 75<br />
percent, and, for those receiving a CCW, achieve a<br />
6 month re-default rate of 20 percent or less.</li>
<li>Restore FHA’s excess capital reserve ratio to the<br />
congressionally mandated 2-percent level by 2014.</li>
<li>Reduce the average residential vacancy rate in Neighborhood<br />
Stabilization Program (NSP) investment areas.</li>
<li>Interim: Reduce the average residential vacancy rate in<br />
Neighborhood Stabilization Program Round 2 (NSP2)<br />
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The following subgoals provide a roadmap for accomplishing this goal:</div><div align="LEFT"> </div></span><div align="LEFT"></div></span><div align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold; font-size: x-small;"><div align="LEFT">Subgoal 3A: </div></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Bold; font-size: x-small;"><div align="LEFT"></div></span><div align="LEFT"></div></span><div align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Book; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Book; font-size: x-small;">Utilize HUD assistance to improve educational outcomes and early learning and</span></span></div><div align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Book; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Berkeley-Book; 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Residents of these neighborhoods have limited access to transportation, face health hazards in their homes and communities, suffer from the poorest schools, and have the <em>fewest economic opportunities. In many areas, the spatial mismatch between housing and transportation investments</em></div><div align="LEFT"><em> limits access to decent employment and education opportunities for entire neighborhoods.</em></div><div align="LEFT"> </div><div align="LEFT"><em>This not only impacts the lives of residents in those communities, but the resulting need to travel greater distances to connect to these resources has a clear impact on the environment as well—from wetland and open space lost to sprawling development patterns to ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions. To address these problems, Goal 4 focuses explicitly on 'place,' on ensuring inclusivity and preparing communities for the future of their economy, environment, culture, and preparedness in case of disaster. HUD seeks to ensure—through comprehensive community development, strategic planning, enforcement, and enhanced capacity building—that all communities are livable for residents and viable in the long term. The following subgoals provide a roadmap for accomplishing this goal:</em> [Oddly enough, this is the best definition for environmental justice I've found yet. 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Oh, a "five year plan".....Just like the Soviet Union of old.....No call for concern. None at all. <br />
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Go back to your <em>American Idol</em> and <em>Top Chef</em>, citizens. Nothing to see here. Move along, proles. Move along. <br />
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And out of normal and healthy curiousity, what does the Department of No Energy's five year plan entail ?<br />
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And it goes on and on, for five more excruciating pages. I have my limits, and I'm sure you do as well.<br />
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If you have nothing better to do with your time, you can download this pdf at:<br />
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<a href="http://www.lm.doe.gov/default.aspx?id=1889">http://www.lm.doe.gov/default.aspx?id=1889</a><br />
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As we can plainly see, this "environmental justice" crap has nothing to do with the environment or justice. It's just the redistribution of wealth with a little bit of racism thrown in for good measure.<br />
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Here's what the EPA told the press (which they completely ignored) about about programs like the one illustrated above:<br />
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<h2>"Obama Administration Announces Commitments to Protect the Health of Every American/ Agencies publish environmental justice strategies designed to ensure that all communities are protected from environmental harm and benefit from federal programs </h2><br />
Release Date: 02/27/2012<br />
Contact Information: Alisha Johnson (EPA), johnson.alisha@epa.gov, Taryn Tuss (CEQ), 202-456-6998. En español: Betsaida Alcantara, alcantara.betsaida@epa.gov<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">WASHINGTON - Today, federal agencies, led by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), released environmental justice strategies, implementation plans and progress reports, outlining steps agencies will take to protect communities facing greater health and environmental risks. These strategies represent a significant step forward in the Administration’s commitment to integrating environmental justice into federal decision-making and programs in areas such as transportation, labor, health services, housing and others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">'Working together we have been able to make environmental justice a focus not just for EPA, but for agencies across the administration. Each of our federal partners plays a unique role in serving the American people, and each has a unique opportunity to ensure that our communities get the health and environmental protections they deserve,' said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. <em>'If we aspire to build an economy and a society that works for every American, we can’t allow the heaviest burdens of pollution and health threats to fall on our poorest citizens. Bringing together our federal partners to tackle these challenges is a major step toward health, environmental and economic benefits in communities across the nation.' </em>[Quick question: Where in the Constitution does it mention anything about building economies and societies ?]</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">'We know that all too often, low-income and minority families live in the shadows of some of the worst pollution, leading to higher rates of diseases and threatening the economic potential of their communities,' said Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. 'With these environmental justice strategies, Federal agencies are following through on the Obama Administration’s commitment to reduce public health threats.'</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>The Administration believes that all Americans should be able to live in healthy communities, share in the benefits of federal programs and initiatives, </em>and have a voice in the federal decision-making process. <em>Yet too often that is not the case, particularly for low-income, minority and tribal populations.</em> To make<em> progress</em> toward addressing these inequities, federal agencies have reviewed their portfolios to assess how their programs, policies, and activities may have disproportionately adverse health and environmental effects. Through this review, they have identified overarching strategies, as well as specific programs and initiatives, to reduce environmental or health hazards, ensure access to beneficial programs, and increase community participation in agency decision-making. For example:</span><br />
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<ul type="disc"><li><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration is finalizing an environmental justice circular to help grantees determine whether there are any minority or low-income populations that may be adversely affected by a transit project or decision. DOT’s Federal Highway Administration is working with the National Highway Institute to revamp their course on environmental justice and Title VI.</span> </em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The U.S. Department of Labor is translating educational materials and hazard alerts into Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese to ensure that minority workers have access to information they need to avoid environmental hazards on the job.</span> </em></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>The U.S. Department of Energy’s Pueblo Project in Los Alamos, N.M., provides four tribal governments the opportunity to run pollution monitoring programs and provide technical input on National Nuclear Security Administration decisions.</em></span> </li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is helping to provide green jobs and workforce development opportunities for veterans in minority and low-income communities.</span> </em>[This is also called the redistribution of wealth since green jobs do not exist.]</li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with communities to use Health Impact Assessments, to help proactively address the potential impacts a policy or project might have on minority and low income populations. For example, in Baltimore, MD, work is under way to evaluate the human health impact of a vacant property redevelopment program.</em> [What Enumerated Power does this come from again ?]</span></li>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">'The Department of Labor’s environmental justice strategy demonstrates our commitment to ensuring safe and healthy workplaces, and vibrant communities for the American workforce to call home,' said Secretary of Labor Hilda L.Solis. 'Environmental justice is a key component of my vision of Good Jobs for Everyone, and means making sure that the department’s programs and policies foster health, safety and adequate training for all people, including minority, low-income, and tribal workers.'</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">'At the Department of Health & Human Services we understand the important connection between our environment and our country’s health but we also know that our department cannot do this work alone.' said Secretary Sebelius. 'We look forward to our continued collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency and others to focus on building safe and healthy communities.'</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The release of these strategies and implementation progress reports is a part of a broad effort the Administration has undertaken to reinvigorate <em>the federal commitment to environmental justice. After more than a decade of inaction, the Administration reconvened the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group and engaged more than 100 environmental justice leaders at a White House Forum on Environmental Justice.</em> <em>Throughout 2011, federal agencies participated in more than 15 listening sessions across the country to learn from stakeholders how the federal government can better partner with overburdened communities to reduce environmental and health burdens. Then, in August 2011, 16 federal agencies committed to finalizing environmental justice strategies and releasing annual implementation progress reports. </em></span><br />
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God help us all.Absolutely Nobamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15248851281527520931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7627999302096016890.post-21740938986638584592012-04-07T02:06:00.000-07:002012-04-07T02:06:39.281-07:00You Have Got To Be Kidding MeWe no longer live in times that allow us to shrug our shoulders and say, "Naaaaah, that couldn't happen here". We now live in times that force us to say, "Well, I hope that's not true," as we tend to our crisis gardens and take inventory in our bomb shelters.<br />
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What I'm about to present to you is not an Alex Jones fantasy. There aren't Paultards discussing this between bong hits. This isn't a 9/11 Truther hallucination. This is a presentation of cold, hard facts. It is also a reminder of how close we are to complete economic, political, and social disaster in the United States.<br />
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In my last column, I wrote about the term <em>environmental justice. </em>For those of you who missed it, here's a quick review of what environmental justice is, courtesy of the commissars at the rogue Environmental Protection Agency:<br />
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"Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Fair treatment means that no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, governmental and commercial operations or policies. Meaningful involvement means that: (1) people have an opportunity to participate in decisions about activities that may affect their environment and/or health; (2) the public's contribution can influence the regulatory agency's decision; (3) their concerns will be considered in the decision making process; and (4) the decision makers seek out and facilitate the involvement of those potentially affected."<br />
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Yep, it's a bunch of socialist psychobabble, but what does it mean in actual terms ? Let's ask, oh, I don't know, former "Green Jobs Czar" (and admitted communist) Van Jones:<br />
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"Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where<i> poor people live. It would never have been allowed if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's neighborhoods</i>; we'd have had a sustainable economy a long time ago. We'd have had a clean and green economy a long time ago.<i> It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point.<i> So there's a direct relationship between<i> environmental racism</i> and the lack of sustainability of society as a whole.<i> We were the canaries in the coal mines, crying for relief.</i> Now finally the consequences are affecting everyone, with <i>global warming</i> and everything else. The other thing is that the environmental justice <i>agenda</i> is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good. We don't want to be first and worst with all the toxins and all the negative effects of global warming, and then benefit last and least from all the breakthroughs in solar, wind energy, organic food, all the positives. <i>We want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the benefits of the transition to a green economy.</i>" </i></i><br />
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(By the way, it also behooves us to note that 'ol Vannie is also a crony of the Fuhrer himself, George $oros.)<br />
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Crazytown, right ? You don't know the half of it. This is official US government policy. Not a law, mind you, passed by elected CONgressmen and Imperial Senators. No sirree, this madness was brought to us via Executive Order 12898 by Bill Clinton (between sexual escapades, of course).<br />
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As a result, every federal agency must take "environmental justice" into account for every action they take, regardless of cost. After all, nothing must get in the way of invented civil rights.<br />
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</div><h3>"Volume 12, Number 30</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><h2>DoD Helps Protect Human Health, Environment</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>Prepared remarks by Sherri W. Goodman, deputy undersecretary of defense for environmental security, to the National Conference of Black Mayors, St. Louis, April 25, 1997. </em><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>DoD's environmental justice strategy focuses on <em>implementing institutional changes rather than one-time projects</em> to ensure that a healthy and safe environment exists around DoD installations. DoD does not have the authority to issue grants or fund projects specifically for environmental justice. Rather, our approach is to identify opportunities within the day-to-day operations of our installations and in mission-related activities where environmental principles may be applied.<em> By integrating environmental justice issues into existing policy and through the National Environmental Policy Act, we are ensuring that DoD is meeting our environmental justice responsibilities and changing the way we do business. </em><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>The military departments have issued or are in the process of drafting guidance for use in considering environmental justice issues. <em>They are also educating and training their personnel on all aspects of environmental justice. </em>[This is also called indoctrination.]<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>We are also putting the finishing touches on a training video that explains to all DoD military and civilian personnel the requirements of the executive order on environmental justice. Our goal is to increase awareness and infuse the spirit and intent of the executive order into DoD's decision-making process from the bottom to the very top.</em> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>We are making information more accessible to environmental justice communities through the Defense Environmental Network Information Exchange, or DENIX. We added a public menu, which has information on DoD's environmental justice initiatives. The Navy also hosts an environmental justice section on their home page for news and information. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>We are also working to preserve the contribution of African Americans in the U.S. military through the Legacy Resource Management Program. </em>[Whites, Hispanics, and Asians don't serve ? Since when ?] There are four projects currently under way. They are: <br />
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<li><em>The black officer's club renovation and archival project at Fort Leonard Wood [Mo.]; </em></li>
<li><em>The Civil War African-American sailors research study; </em></li>
<li><em>A report on the historic context for the African-American military experience.</em> [Huh ? Wha--?]</li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>These projects focus on military activities, but their significance is much larger. Through these projects, we can reconstruct history and raise awareness of the role African Americans played in the U.S. military. Author Dudley Taylor Cornish said,<em> 'American military history, by the very nature of our society and the organization of our government and of our Army, is more nearly social and political history than mere military analysis.'</em> [Military analysis is what prevents us from being forced to wear burqas and speak Arabic.]<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>The executive order focuses attention on the environmental impacts on human health and the quality of life in minority and low-income populations.</em> One of the ways we meet this requirement is through the Toxic Release Inventory. TRI details the toxic releases and waste management practices of DoD installations. In the first year, DoD's toxic releases went down 30 percent. We issued the TRI last year, and the next report is due in May. For example: <br />
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<li>Robins Air Force Base, near Macon [Ga.], reported a 26 percent reduction. </li>
<li>Norfolk Naval Base, [Va.] reported a 60 percent reduction. </li>
<li>Norfolk purchased new equipment that uses water instead of chemicals to clean equipment and ship parts. The shipyard also replaced a number of paints that gave off fumes with lower-emission paints to greatly reduce the number of TRI chemicals emitted. The shipyard achieved significant reductions in TRI releases through its consistent use of the Consolidated Hazardous Material Reutilization and Inventory Management Program. The program, also called "Pharmacy" by the military services, limits distribution of hazardous materials to authorized users in small quantities only. Unused material is returned to collection centers for redistribution. These simple management steps greatly reduce the use of hazardous material and worker exposure to the material. </li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>That's just the beginning. We hope to have even greater reductions as the program progresses. By using safer alternatives to certain chemicals, we can better protect communities near our installations. <br />
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<li>San Francisco -- home of Mayor Willie Brown and the Presidio -- is another closure base which is being transformed. The Army transferred the installation property to the National Park Service in 1994. While the Army is performing cleanup activities there, the Park Service is playing a key role in the management and care of this beautiful landmark. This national treasure attracts visitors from all over the world and is a valuable asset to the city. </li>
<li><em>DoD's Office of Economic Adjustment supports the formation and operation of local redevelopment authorities to promote economic revitalization. A successful reuse plan depends on a community's ability to form alliances that should include workers, businesses, civic leaders, local government, interest groups and traditional underrepresented populations.</em> </li>
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<li><em>President Clinton's five-part Community Reinvestment Plan emphasized fast-track cleanup at BRAC bases. After almost four years, we believe the program is working because DoD works in partnership with the community, the state, local government and other federal agencies to reach the mutual goal of economic reuse.</em> </li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>Around the same time the environmental justice executive order was issued, I directed my office to find new ways to increase minority business participation in our environmental programs. As a result, the two have become intertwined, but we didn't embark on this initiative because of a presidential directive, we did it because it was an area that we wanted to improve upon. </em><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>In 1994, I issued a memo to my counterparts in the military services encouraging them to maximize opportunities for small disadvantaged businesses in DoD contracts for environmental services</em>.<em> Since environmental cleanup is one of our largest programs, a small business work group was formed to improve access by small businesses to environmental cleanup opportunities.</em> <br />
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<li>Small businesses need exposure. <em>For the past two years, we sponsored the Environmental Cleanup/Small Business Awards. Last year's recipients included a woman-owned business, Human Factors Application, Inc., and two minority business firms, Oarga Services, and the other, also headed by a woman, is Peer Consultants.</em> [Can we say "crony capitalism" ? In the infamous words of Chairman Obama, Yes We Can!]</li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em> </em></div><em>U.S. businesses received about $1.7 billion in cleanup contracts. Of that, small business received 16 percent, or $271 million; small disadvantaged business received 7.5 percent, or $128 million; and women-owned businesses received 3.5 percent, or $60 million. </em><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>(1995 Cleanup stats [statistics]: U.S. business received about $1.3 billion; small business received $194 million, or 14 percent; small disadvantaged business received $99 million, or 7.2 percent; and women-owned business received $25 million, or 1.8 percent.)</em> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Community participation in DoD's cleanup program is key to our success. We take great care to keep the public informed and involved in environmental cleanup decisions which impact them. Restoration advisory boards are our primary outlet to foster this communication. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>A RAB is a forum through which members of nearby communities can provide input to DoD's environmental cleanup program at active, closing or realigning installations and formerly used defense sites. RABs include members of the local community and representatives of the installation, the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], the state, tribal and local governments. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>It is DoD policy to have a balanced and diverse representation on a RAB to reflect the diversity of interests within a community.</em> More than 250 DoD installations are participating on a RAB. I encourage every one of you who have bases in your cities to get involved with your RAB or to work with the public affairs office on the base to determine if there is enough community interest to establish a RAB. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>As a side note, DoD is developing the Technical Assistance for Public Participation program to help community members of RABs participate more effectively in the restoration program at local installations. Through TAPP, community members will have the resources to obtain objective, independent analysis of technical cleanup issues. The Congress authorized DoD to spend $6 million for the TAPP program. We plan on having a final TAPP rule completed by the end of this year. (For more information, please visit our Web site [http://www.dtic.mil/envirodod/envirodod.html].)</em> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>In addition to RABs, another community-based partnership is with the Naval District Washington. The National Urban Tree House is a cooperative, community-based program involving natural resources education, urban forestry, outreach and research. The program includes education and outreach programs for at-risk youth living in the Anacostia-Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington. There are five research projects in progress, focusing on human and natural environmental relationships and cooperative planning research.</em> [What does this have to do with national defense ? Just curious.]<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>I wanted to touch on the role of training and how DoD is integrating environmental justice training into our own internal community through education and outreach programs. We are in the process of developing a curriculum about environmental justice for incorporation into all DoD environmental training programs and for our senior leadership. </em>[Well, at least no one was sent to a reeducation camp.] <em>In addition, DoD administers the Environmental Scholarship, Fellowship and Grants Program, which provides environmental education and training partnerships among public universities.</em> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><em>DoD is supporting environmental training to disadvantaged young adults through the Clark Atlanta University and the Minority Institution Consortium.</em> They also offer hazardous waste training courses and degree programs in environmental sciences and engineering. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>To summarize DoD's progress in implementing the executive order, we are focusing on four areas: <br />
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<li><em>Promoting economic opportunities in BRAC communities and small business opportunities for minority businesses;</em> </li>
<li>Encouraging impacted communities to participate in environmental cleanup decisions that affect them; and </li>
<li><em>Training DoD personnel and raising their awareness of environmental justice.</em>" </li>
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" 'Even as orchestrated campaigns succeed in convincing a growing number of Americans to doubt the established evidence of climate change, the Department of Defense must remain committed to continuing its science-based efforts to address the expected dramatic and far reaching impacts of climate change on the military and on national security.'<br />
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<div class="object-right"><div class="attribute-image"><img alt="Dr. Naomi Oreskes" height="133" src="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/oreskes-pic/136676-1-eng-US/Oreskes-pic_listitem.png" style="border: 0px solid currentColor;" title="Dr. Naomi Oreskes" width="130" /></div></div>That was the message of <b>Dr. Naomi Oreskes</b>, historian of science and author of <i>Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming</i>, during the opening plenary session of the annual Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop hosted by SERDP and ESTCP in Washington, D.C., November 29 – December 1, 2011. More than 1,200 <em>environmental professionals</em> from the military, government agencies, academia, private industry, and the regulatory community participated in this conference.<br />
Dr. Oreskes, who is also a Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and an Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, cited SERDP for peer-reviewed research the program first sponsored in the early 1990s, which added to the scientific evidence of climate change.<br />
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<em>Still, she cautioned that even as DoD moves forward in establishing policy and taking action on climate change, the ongoing efforts by certain groups aimed at sowing doubt among Americans and policymakers have succeeded in stalling wide-ranging federal action for the nation as a whole.</em><br />
Regarding climate change, Americans in general have 'engaged in some magical thinking,' Dr. Oreskes said. 'We’ve denied, or at least doubted, the facts. We’ve persuaded ourselves that the matter is unsettled. But as Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, ‘we may be entitled to our own opinions, but we’re not entitled to our own facts’,' said Dr. Oreskes. 'And the facts of climate change are very clear. By denying those facts, we’ve put ourselves on a collision course with our own future.'<br />
The successful efforts to spread doubt about climate change and its causes are similar to campaigns by a small group of scientists with connections in industry and politics to question the evidence linking smoking to lung cancer, CFCs to the ozone hole, and coal smoke to acid rain, Dr. Oreskes said. In <i>Merchants of Doubt</i>, Dr. Oreskes and coauthor Erik M. Conway detailed the long history of these groups’ campaigns.<br />
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'For climate change, they’ve applied the same strategy as they used for tobacco – to insist that the science related to these environmental issues was unsettled and it would be premature for the government to act,' Dr. Oreskes said. As with tobacco and its effects on public health, delaying action on climate change risks potentially devastating consequences for the environment and human health and well being.'<br />
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'This is why the facts of science still matter greatly, because we ignore the facts of nature at our peril,' Dr. Oreskes said. 'Denying them does not make them go away.'<br />
<div class="object-right"><div class="attribute-image"><img alt="Dr. John . Holdren" height="119" src="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/symposium-2011/images/holdren-pic/136668-1-eng-US/Holdren-pic_listitem.jpg" style="border: 0px solid currentColor;" title="Dr. John . Holdren" width="130" /></div></div><em><b>Dr. John Holdren</b>, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, </em>[Chairman Obama's whack job Science Czar who thinks it's a good idea to put sterilants in drinking water to control population]<em> </em>described the wide-ranging effects of climate change on the most basic aspects of life and society in his address during the plenary session.<br />
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'Without energy, there is no economy. And without climate, there is no environment,' Dr. Holdren said. 'Without economy and environment, there is no material well being, no civilized society, no personal or national security. The problem is the world is getting most of the energy its economies need in ways that are imperiling the climate its environment needs. Much greater harm is ahead unless we move rapidly to reduce the offending emissions and adapt to the changes in climate that are no longer avoidable.'<br />
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The implications of climate change for DoD are profound, Dr. Holdren said. 'The United States’ dependence on oil and greenhouse gas driven climate change both pose significant national and international security challenges,' he said.<br />
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<em>Climate change itself can have impacts on international tensions, </em>[ ???]<em> </em> Dr. Holdren explained. It can increase conflicts over scarce resources such as water, and it can have impacts on the types of missions, for example, those necessitated by instability from flows of environmental refugees. Climate change also can influence the effectiveness of troops in combat as in heatwaves or duststorms. And it can affect troop training and readiness as military installations, depending on location, are subjected to more frequent and varied weather extremes, such as storm surge, sea level rise, more intense hurricanes, or hotter and drier climate.<br />
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Regarding energy, DoD is both a major user of fossil fuels and a major emitter of greenhouse gases, Dr. Holdren noted. He praised DoD, and SERDP and ESTCP, for meeting both the energy and environmental challenges in several ways.<br />
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First, Dr. Holdren cited DoD’s extensive investment in science and technology to develop such innovations as advanced fuel systems, hybrid propulsion systems, high efficiency engines, lightweight components, and alternative biofuels for ships and aircraft. [Guess who's paying for this junk science ? You are, silly!]<br />
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<em>Second, he noted the military’s early procurement of energy efficient technologies and clean energy, which can bring down costs and make these options more available for the nation as a whole. ESTCP’s Installation Energy Test Bed initiative is a good example of early procurement, Dr. Holdren noted. Through this initiative, DoD facilities throughout the nation are being used as energy test beds for innovative technologies. These test beds are validating performance costs and environmental impacts and enabling DoD to transfer lessons learned in design procurement across services and installations.</em> <br />
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<em>Third, Dr. Holdren cited DoD’s innovation and responsible operations at installations, including the use of clean energy, energy efficient practices, and environmental stewardship. Building efficiency, he noted, can reduce costs, improve reliability, and improve sustainability on installations. DoD, through SERDP and ESTCP, also is studying advanced electric power systems, which can reduce costs, improve resilience, secure power for critical loads, and reduce carbon emissions. Examples include utility-scale distributed power, wind, solar and fuel cells, microgrids, and vehicle-to-grid power.</em><br />
<em>'In short, the defense sector is a crucial player in the Obama administration’s national strategy of innovation to address energy and climate challenges,' Dr. Holdren told Symposium & Workshop attendees. 'What you are doing in this domain is immensely important. It is the leading edge, and the White House very much appreciates it.' </em><br />
<div class="object-right"><div class="attribute-image"><img alt="The Honorable Terry Yonkers" height="163" src="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/yonkers_pic/136672-1-eng-US/Yonkers_pic_listitem.jpg" style="border: 0px solid currentColor;" title="The Honorable Terry Yonkers" width="130" /></div></div><b>The Honorable Terry Yonkers</b>, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Logistics, described during his plenary session address how SERDP and ESTCP have been instrumental in enabling the U.S. Air Force to make dramatic strides in the speed and effectiveness of environmental cleanup of harmful contaminants on current and former military sites.<br />
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'Under the auspices of SERDP and ESTCP, advanced technologies were developed that enhanced the natural degradation of some of the more troublesome contaminants,' Mr. Yonkers said. And advances in nanotechnologies, bioremediation, and chemical approaches are emerging that will help accelerate cleanup even more, he noted.<br />
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'Not only are these technologies leading to cost savings, but they are allowing us to meet regulatory standards and to close out sites and do it much more quickly,' Mr. Yonkers said. Sites that just a few years ago were projected to take 50 to 100 years to complete now are projected to be cleaned up in 8 to 10 years, he said.<br />
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Still, Mr. Yonkers acknowledged significant challenges remain for cleaning up contaminants such as chlorinated solvents and munitions at difficult sites. Regulatory agencies also are proposing stricter standards on a number of emerging contaminants. 'As we think about the future, we have to be conducting research that addresses a dynamic challenging regulatory cleanup environment with tighter standards,' he said.<br />
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Mr. Yonkers also discussed several other areas where progress has been made and challenges remain, including natural resources, sustainability, recycling, pollution prevention, and energy.<br />
The Air Force is the single largest user of energy in the federal government, he said. In FY 2011, the service spent $8 billion on energy - $6.5 billion on jet fuel, $1.1 billion to run installations, and $400 million to fuel non-tactical vehicles. Fuel costs for the Air Force for FY 2012 are projected to exceed $9 billion, he said.<br />
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<em>'At the same time we seek to reduce demand and the annual costs, we’re also pursuing energy security</em>,' said Mr. Yonkers. 'Reliable uninterrupted energy is essential in meeting our critical infrastructure needs and hence our critical missions.'<br />
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'SERDP’s charter is no less critical today than it was 25 years ago, perhaps more so,' Mr. Yonkers said. In connection with ESTCP, he further indicated that bringing that innovation to the marketplace is key.<br />
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<b>Project-of-the-Year Awards Showcase Program Successes and DoD Benefits</b><br />
<div class="object-right"><div class="attribute-image"><img alt="Projects of the Year" height="133" src="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/serdp-estcp/news-and-events/conferences-workshops/photo-gallery/projects-of-the-year/151785-1-eng-US/Projects-of-the-Year_medium.jpg" style="border: 0px solid currentColor;" title="Projects of the Year" width="200" /></div><div class="attribute-caption" style="width: 200px;">During the opening plenary session, SERDP and ESTCP announced <br />
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</div></div>Dr. Jeffrey Marqusee, SERDP and ESTCP Executive Director, and Dr. Anne Andrews, Deputy Director, presented four SERDP Project-of-the-Year Awards and one ESTCP Project-of-the-Year Award at the conclusion of the plenary session to recognize research and technology developments with significant benefits to DoD. Recipients of this prestigious honor follow. Descriptions of the award-winning projects are available at the links below.<br />
<i><b>SERDP Projects of the Year</b></i><br />
<ul><li>ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION: <a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/In-the-Spotlight-Winter/Assessing-Vapor-Intrusion-at-Chlorinated-Solvent-Sites" target="_self">Assessing Vapor Intrusion at Chlorinated Solvent-Impacted Sites<u> </u></a> (Dr. Paul C. Johnson, Arizona State University)</li>
<li>MUNITIONS RESPONSE: <a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/In-the-Spotlight-Winter/Advanced-Signal-Processing-for-UXO-Discrimination" target="_self">Advanced Signal Processing for UXO Discrimination</a><u> </u> (Dr. Fridon Shubitidze, Dartmouth College and Sky Research, Inc.) </li>
<li>RESOURCE CONSERVATION & CLIMATE CHANGE: <a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/In-the-Spotlight-Winter/Forecasting-the-Effects-of-Stressors-on-At-Risk-Species" target="_self">Forecasting the Effects of Multiple, Interacting Stressors on At-Risk Populations<u> </u></a> (Dr. Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington) </li>
<li>WEAPONS SYSTEMS & PLATFORMS: <a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/In-the-Spotlight-Winter/Reducing-Emissions-for-Jet-Engines-of-the-Future" target="_self">Combustion Science to Reduce Particulate Matter Emissions for Military Platforms<u> </u></a> (Dr. Mel Roquemore, Air Force Research Laboratory) </li>
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/In-the-Spotlight-Winter/Passive-Sampling-of-Contaminated-Sediments" target="_self">Passive Sampling to Support Remediation Of Contaminated Sediments</a><u> </u> (Dr. Philip M. Gschwend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</li>
</ul><b>Technical Program Delivers Timely Updates and Training Opportunities</b><br />
Following the opening plenary session, attendees took part in the technical program, which offered a selection of 15 technical sessions and four short courses. Technical sessions highlighted research and innovative technologies that are helping DoD address increasingly complex environmental challenges such as energy efficiency and security, emissions from gas turbine engines, controlling munitions constituents on operational ranges, <em>classification of military munitions</em>, and <em>climate change vulnerabilities and impacts.</em> <br />
<div class="object-left"><div class="attribute-image"><img alt="Technical Program Participants" height="143" src="http://www.serdp-estcp.org/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/serdp-estcp/news-and-events/conferences-workshops/photo-gallery/technical-program-participants/151837-1-eng-US/Technical-Program-Participants_medium.jpg" style="border: 0px solid currentColor;" title="Technical Program Participants" width="200" /></div><div class="attribute-caption" style="width: 200px;">Stimulating presentations encouraged audience participation and follow-on discussion throughout the technical program. (Photo by <br />
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Throughout the conference, attendees also took advantage of the many opportunities to meet with colleagues, exchange information, and tour the Exhibit Hall, which featured more than 450 poster presentations and 11 booths showcasing technologies and scientific advances from SERDP, ESTCP, and related environmental and energy research programs.<br />
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Presentations from the plenary session, technical sessions, and short courses are available at <a class="link-http" href="http://symposium2011.serdp-estcp.org/" target="_blank">http://symposium2011.serdp-estcp.org</a>. Coming soon to the web site are on-demand videos from the four short courses—Implementing Classification on a Munitions Response Project, Estimating DNAPL Source Zone Natural Attenuation, Thermal Treatment Technologies: Lessons Learned, and Field Methods to Distinguish between Vapor Intrusion and Indoor Sources of VOCs.<br />
Planning is now under way for the 2012 Symposium & Workshop to be held November 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Watch <a class="link-http" href="http://symposium2012.serdp-estcp.org/" target="_blank">http://symposium2012.serdp-estcp.org</a> for details. The Call for Poster Abstracts will be released by the end of May with abstracts due July 31.<br />
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