When The President misleads the US Economy… In the Shadow of Social Inequality

Obama Says Income Gap Is Fraying U.S. Social Fabric

JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL D. SHEAR, New York Time, July 27, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/us/politics/obama-says-income-gap-is-fraying-us-social-fabric.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

In a week when he tried to focus attention on the struggles of the middle class, President Obama said in an interview that he was worried that years of widening income inequality and the lingering effects of the financial crisis had frayed the country’s social fabric and undermined Americans’ belief in opportunity.

If we don’t do anything, then growth will be slower than it should be.

Racial tensions won’t get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they’ve got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot

The economy is “far stronger” than four years ago, he said, yet many people who write to him still do not feel secure about their future, even as their current situation recovers.

“I will seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security

The priority, he said, should be spending for infrastructure, education, clean energy, science, research and other domestic initiatives of the sort he twice campaigned on.

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How can the American people confidently follow someone with a ideas based in falsehoods, wrapped up in threats. 

This man has the power to let the economy work itself out without any interference from the govt.  Govt doesn’t create opportunity.  It creates regulation that hinders capitalism.  Obama is the down fall of the American capital system.  Yet he threatens that if there is no equal opportunity for the minorities to get jobs when there are no jobs available.  Your legislation of Obamacare and Stimulus is the over taxation of the middle class which closes the door for opportunity for all class and races.

Mr. President get out of the way!

Judge Halts Groin Searches at Guantánamo, Calling Them Abhorrent to Muslims

CHARLIE SAVAGE; July 11, 2013, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/us/judge-halts-groin-searches-at-guantanamo-calling-them-abhorrent-to-muslims.html?_r=0

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the military to stop touching the groins of detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, when they are moved from their cells to speak with lawyers. The procedure had led some prisoners to stop meeting with or calling their lawyers.

In a 35-page opinion, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, called the searches — which included guards wedging their hands between the genitals and thighs of the detainees as many as four times when moving them to a meeting and back to their cells — “religiously and culturally abhorrent” to Muslims. He portrayed the procedure as unnecessary and intended to “actively discourage” meetings with lawyers.

He also directed the military to allow detainees who are weak from hunger strikes to meet with their lawyers in the same buildings in which they are housed

Colonel Bogdan introduced the new procedures in May, after a raid in which guards forced protesting detainees into lockdown in their individual cells. After the raid, officials said they found improvised weapons. In putting the policy into place, the colonel cited the risk of such weapons as well as the case of a detainee who committed suicide in September by swallowing an overdose of medication, raising speculation that he had hoarded the pills in his underwear.

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   The atmosphere of “we must treat those who want to kill us better than they would treat us” need to go.  The detention centers (prisons) were created to house those who have chosen to commit crimes against society.  Yet they protection overrides the soldiers who guard them from hurting other prisoner and guards.  This judge has decided that they cannot not do this… What?!?

As well as, detainees who have chosen to be on a hunger strike must be allowed to have their lawyer to come into their housing barracks.  Why can’t people choose to harm themselves without interference?  I find this act disrespecting their wishes.  Now don’t get me wrong, the guards shouldn’t give in to their demands due to the hunger strike but the detainees should get special treatment.

If you want the patients running the asylum, why don’t we put these terrorist on a island in the middle of nowhere and they figure out to protect themselves and their rights to a civil existence.

Boston bombing suspect cites U.S. wars as motivation, officials say

Wall Street Journal, Scott Wilson, Greg Miller and Sari Horwitz, 04/23/12

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boston-bombing-suspect-cites-us-wars-as-motivation-officials-say/2013/04/23/324b9cea-ac29-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNP_p

The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the attack, according to U.S. officials familiar with the interviews.

From his hospital bed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has acknowledged his role in planting the explosives near the marathon finish line on April 15, the officials said. The first successful large-scale bombing in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era, the Boston attack killed three people and wounded more than 250 others.

The officials said, the evidence so far suggests they were “self-radicalized” through Internet sites and U.S. actions in the Muslim world. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has specifically cited the U.S. war in Iraq, which ended in December 2011 with the removal of the last American forces, and in Afghanistan, where President Obama has made plans to end combat operations by the end of 2014.

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I am a believer in red flag intuition and this article is full of red flags..  

First if these two are “self-radicalized” through internet sites… we need to question their mental stability.  We as adults know that everything on the internet is not true.  But if you don’t have the mental capability to know the difference between internet and reality should they be under a doctor’s care like schizophrenics.  If these two are mentally challenged, then wouldn’t his wife, sisters and mother be aware?

Second,  Break down the cost of pressure cookers, nail, bbs, ball bearings , gun power, grenades, guns…. Wouldn’t someone in their family notice large sums of money coming out of accounts?  Or because they didn’t work, where did the large sums of money come from?

Third, Pressure cookers are big.  Wouldn’t someone ask “Hey Tamerlan, what is up with all the pressure cookers?”.  As well as the gun powder, nails, bbs and ball bearings… If that didn’t red flag, “Gee Tamerlan, why do you have grenades?”

Fourth, where do you learn to make Pressure Cooker bombs?  I don’t believe there is a book “Bomb making for Dummies” yet I could be wrong…

Fifth, if you are mad at the govt about combat in another country… When does it enter your brain, “Let’s blow up runners in a Marathon?”…. “Gee killing that child will show the US govt”  If you don’t like the US in another country, fight on the battle ground…Killing children are cowardly

Sixth, What piss poor bomber are you when you don’t research the area you plan on attacking?  In this age of technology and security, not thinking that there is a possibly cameras are not going to capture you image is a foolish mistake.   How many virgins do you get for being a bad bomber?

In my eyes, there is a group behind these two, who have educated and funded this endeavor… Yet due to the ignorant mistakes, where does the group go to a refund their money?

I’m just saying…

US pledges to double Syrian aid to $250M, rebels want more

April 21, 2013, Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/21/us-doubles-aid-to-syrian-rebels-who-want-more/

The United States said Sunday that it will double its non-lethal assistance to Syria's opposition as the rebels' top supporters vowed to enhance and expand their backing of the two-year battle to oust President Bashar Assad's regime.

Yet the pledge fell far short of what the opposition had made clear it wanted: weapons and direct military intervention to stop the violence that has killed more than 70,000 people. The Syrian National Coalition had sought drone strikes on sites from which the regime has fired missiles, the imposition of no-fly zones and protected humanitarian corridors to ensure the safety of civilians.

The Obama administration's pledged to provide an additional $123 million in aid, which may include for the first time armored vehicles, body armor, night vision goggles and other defensive military supplies.

The additional aid, which brings total non-lethal U.S. assistance to the opposition to $250 million since the fighting began, "underscores the United States' firm support for a political solution to the crisis in Syria and for the opposition's advancement of an inclusive, tolerant vision for a post-Assad Syria," he said.

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Here in America, we are fighting a war against rebels who want to kill us and our way of life.  Yet we fight our govt to keep us safe by funding border patrol, enforcing our laws and freeing the American citizens by supporting their rights to defend themselves. 

In this time of the American govt in debt up to their eye brows, they borrow money to give to another country to fight against their rebel populous.

We need to stabilize our country before we donate to another country…

Studying the Brain or Eugenics based on the brain’s function

The New York Times , 02/18/2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/science/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1361282519-Ybvl+Fu+1cop8lMrRD9cgA

The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.

The project holds the potential of paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence.

The project, which could ultimately cost billions of dollars, is expected to be part of the president’s budget proposal next month. And, four scientists and representatives of research institutions said they had participated in planning for what is being called the Brain Activity Map project.

The initiative, if successful, could provide a lift for the economy. “The Human Genome Project was on the order of about $300 million a year for a decade,” said George M. Church, a Harvard University molecular biologist who helped create that project and said he was helping to plan the Brain Activity Map project.

Scientists involved in the planning said they hoped that federal financing for the project would be more than $300 million a year, which if approved by Congress would amount to at least $3 billion over the 10 years.

The initiative will be organized by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, according to scientists who have participated in planning meetings.

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If this doesn’t freak you out… this article makes this sound warm and fuzzy yet a little info about  the Human Genome Project, they bring up these questions:

Societal Concerns Arising from the New Genetics

Project goals:

·        *   identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,

·         *  determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,

·         *  store this information in databases,

·         *  improve tools for data analysis,

·         *  transfer related technologies to the private sector, and

·         *  address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.

http://ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml

·         Fairness in the use of genetic information by insurers, employers, courts, schools, adoption agencies, and the military, among others.

Who should have access to personal genetic information, and how will it be used?

·          Privacy and confidentiality of genetic information.

Who owns and controls genetic information?

·         Reproductive issues including adequate informed consent for complex and potentially controversial procedures, use of genetic information in reproductive decision making, and reproductive rights.

Do healthcare personnel properly counsel parents about the risks and limitations of genetic 

technology?

How reliable and useful is fetal genetic testing?

What are the larger societal issues raised by new reproductive technologies?

·          Clinical issues including the education of doctors and other health service providers, patients, and the general public in genetic capabilities, scientific limitations, and social risks; and implementation of standards and quality-control measures in testing procedures.

How do we prepare the public to make informed choices?

How do we as a society balance current scientific limitations and social risk with long-term benefits?

·         Commercialization of products including property rights (patents, copyrights, and trade secrets) and accessibility of data and materials.

Who owns genes and other pieces of DNA?

Will patenting DNA sequences limit their accessibility and development into useful products?

I know this sound like a SyFy movie.  Yet from the lessons we have learn from Margret Sanger and Hilter, there are those out there who want to put us in categories and eliminate those they don’t like.  

300 electric cars destroyed by Hurricane Sandy… Natural disaster or insurance fraud?

Yuliyua Chernova  Nov 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal

“Fisker Suffers Hurricane Loss”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204755404578103180617949610.html

Electric car maker Fisker Automotive Inc. lost more than 300 of its Karma plug-in hybrids and other car makers lost thousands of new cars as a result of flooding last week at a New Jersey port due to superstorm Sandy.  As a result of flooding, 16 of its Fisker Karmas caught fire and were burned at the port.  Fisker issued a statement on Tuesday saying the fire was caused by sea-water short-circuiting a 12-volt car battery

"[The cars] are completely done," said Roger Ormisher, spokesman for the Anaheim, Calif.-based Fisker. 

He said the luxury sports cars, which sell for about $100,000 each, were insured and company doesn't expect the loss to have a material impact on its business.

But the incident adds to a string of bad news for Anaheim, Calif.-based Fisker. It is currently dealing with the bankruptcy of a key supplier, A123 Systems Inc., which builds the battery used to power Fisker's plug-in hybrid cars, and has been hurt by recalls and incidents of its cars catching fire.

The loss of 300 vehicles is significant for the startup. Fisker so far has sold some 2,000 vehicles to wholesalers and dealers as of September.

The company has raised about $1.2 billion in equity to date, from investors such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, and wealthy individuals. It had used $190 million from a 2009 federal Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Loan before the loan was frozen last year.

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Why do I feel an Obama loan in their future? 

First, 300 electric car insured for $100,000 each and the company are a partner in a bankruptcy with a electric batteries…. Hhhmm.. Can you say insurance fraud?... Why would you allow the cars to sit at port if you knew there was an impending superstorm? 

Well then why out of the 300 cars destroyed did 16 cars catch fire?  The article said the sea water  short-circuited the 12-volt car battery.  But only in 16 cars?!?!

There are so many iffy issues with this company.  When you have so many high dollar cars wouldn’t you do everything in your power to protect it.   As well as technology gave us an advance warning of the impending superstorm, so you have time to redirect the ship delivering the cars or making sure that your investment is protected. 

Or you can beg for an Obama loan….

GR Encourages Legislation to allow Neighborhood Ass. to assess property taxes on the people..

Mlive.com  08/01/12  Matt Vande Bunte

“Grand Rapids wants neighborhood funding option that Mackinac Center for Public Policy labels a tax”

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/08/grand_rapids_wants_neighborhoo.html

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The city is pushing for passage of a state bill that would allow neighborhoods in Grand Rapids and across Michigan to self-assess property owners for what a critic described as “faddish projects such as pavilions, amphitheaters, snow-melt systems and surveillance equipment.”

The Midland-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy has panned the proposed Neighborhood Enhancement Act as a tax increase. But supporters see the bill as a way for neighborhoods to invest in their own future at a time when public resources are limited.

“We must have done something right because the Mackinac Center already doesn’t like it,” said Eric DeLong, deputy city manager. “This has got support of many neighborhood associations here. If they want to do (a special assessment), they can. This is totally self-determination."

The bill would allow a neighborhood improvement district to form and levy a special assessment on property owners for several purposes. Among the permitted uses of the money: buy property for a park or improve an existing park, operate recreational programs or facilities, upgrade sidewalks and install improvements such as street lighting and snow-melt systems, build or improve public spaces such as plazas and pavilions, fund crime prevention and surveillance, enforce property maintenance code, demolish blighted buildings, pay for community planning and promotional activities, add and maintain public parking.

The bill’s primary sponsor, state Rep. Joe Haveman, R-Holland, was not immediately available for comment. State Rep. Brandon Dillon, D-Grand Rapids, a co-sponsor, said the law would permit people “to pool their resources in a particular neighborhood to have a little more control” over their own destiny.

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Ah it must be great to the right hand of the devil than to be in his path.  Neighborhood Association at 501(c)3 Tax –exempt corp. like Goodwill and the Planned Parenthood.  I live in Midtown Neighborhood Ass. and  have been banned due my disagreement with the crime prevention coordinator.  We were informed we were not allowed to participate in any Midtown activities.  When my husband complaint via email to Midtown,  they sent the police to our house on Friday of Polaski Weekend. 

Now Rep. Brandon Dillion and Grand Rapids Deputy City Manager Eric DeLong wants to give these same neighborhood ass. authority over property taxes and power to use the funds for whatever they want.

The dictatorship of Grand Rapids has maxed out income tax and property now they are encourage passing legislation allowing Neighborhood Ass. to tax the people…