I have been kicked out of better places than this is the slightly pathetic thing to say as you leave. If it happens once it happens. Twice might be bad luck. Thrice starts to sound like a habit. When it gets to dozens there have to be reasons, good reasons. There are 109 Locations whence Jews have been Expelled since AD 250 The records are out there in the history books. It just out of fashion to notice these things. If you do take notice you are liable to get abused for your pains. From some people it is a compliment. Here are two sources on the reasons: Context of Jewish Problems.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” Auric Goldfinger Source>>>
ROCKDALE - A Central Texas company is shutting even more doors, laying off more employees. Metal producer Alcoa will announced Tuesday its plans to close its three remaining potlines at its Rockdale facility, effectively laying off 660 additional employees. The company will continue to operate its aluminum atomizer as well as its anode operations, keeping 140 employees. Alcoa announced that the layoffs will have their largest impact in late November and early December. Source>>>Related>>>
Since the 1990s, federal agents have reported systematic communications security breaches at the Department of Justice, FBI, DEA, the State Department and the White House. Several of the alleged breaches, these agents say, can be traced to two hi-tech communications companies, Verint Inc. [formally Comverse Infosys] and Amdocs Ltd., that respectively provide major wiretap and phone billing/record keeping software contracts for the U.S. government. Together, Verint and Amdocs form part of the backbone of the government’s domestic intelligence surveillance technology. Both companies are based in Israel — having arisen to prominence from that country’s cornering of the information market — and are heavily funded by the Israel government, with connections to the Israeli military and Israeli intelligence [both companies have a long history of board memberships dominated by current and former Israeli military and intelligence officers]. More>>>>
In other words if the people do not back it there will be an economic collapse. Why? Because the very people who are asking for the bailout are the very people who print your money, the very same who tax you for everything they can. Then they create new ways to tax you, so they can come up with new ways to bring this nation down. You notice how they took a “holiday”. This gave them time to revise it so they can suck more money out of US.
“This is no longer just a Wall Street crisis. It’s an American crisis, and it’s the American economy that needs this rescue plan,” Obama told about 12,000 people at a rally at the University of Nevada at Reno. Obama said Congress should put aside politics — he didn’t mention GOP rival John McCain by name during his remarks — and should act on the legislation quickly.
“To the Democrats and Republicans who opposed this plan yesterday, I say: Step up to the plate and do what’s right for this country,” he said. “And to all Americans, I say this: If I am president of the United States, this rescue plan will not be the end of what we do to strengthen this economy. It will only be the beginning.” Source>>>
Federal agents have spent three weeks sweeping the state for illegal immigrants in what they lauded as the largest fugitive operation ever in California. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 1,157 people in the country illegally.
Many ignored deportation orders or were criminal illegal immigrants. ICE estimates that there are now about 560, 000 illegal-immigrant fugitives in the U.S. SOURCE>>>
Tens of thousands of people are queuing at Zimbabwean banks in a desperate bid to withdraw cash before its value evaporates. Crowds of savers lined up to remove their money after the daily bank withdrawal limit was raised to 20,000 Zimbabwean dollars - about 17 pounds or $35.00.
The previous $1,000 limit was barely enough to buy a newspaper. Official inflation has hit 11 million per cent and the central bank issued higher denomination banknotes to tackle the cash shortage. SOURCE>>>>
Economist Dean Baker on the present financial debacle: Baker is co-director of the Centre fo Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), “an independent, nonpartisan think tank” in Washington (www.cepr.net). His most recent book is “The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.” Peter Costantini spoke with Baker by telephone on Sep. 24, 2008.
PC: On TV, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson comes off as a straight shooter you could sit down and have a beer with. These are qualities we prize in choosing presidents and deciding to go to war. Why shouldn’t we trust him and round up the 700 billion dollars he’s asking for to an even trillion? — DB: I don’t mean to impugn Paulson’s integrity, but the guy was the CEO of Goldman Sachs. The people he is bailing out are his friends, his colleagues. We don’t hand anyone a blank cheque, but particularly not someone who comes from his background.
PC: In the long term, what regulations need to be put into place to fix these markets? — DB: First lets back up a step. The Federal Reserve board allowed the housing bubble to grow. The bubble could have been easily attacked, but [Fed chief] Alan Greenspan made the decision not to. If he had, you wouldn’t have had a lot of these problems SOURCE>>>>
While most Americans are biting their nails, waiting to see what will happen to the U.S. economy, the Congress has found time to take a break for the all important Jewish holiday. If this does not tell you what is most important to our “ruling elite” what will? We lost a Trillion dollars yesterday, the worst loss in history, yet they can take a break to celebrate their Hebrew holiday.
At the time of this writing, the U.S. House and Senate are poised to pass
a $700 billion bailout to Wall Street. At the behest of President George
W. Bush, the U.S. taxpayers are going to be on the hook for what can only
be referred to as the biggest fraud in U.S. history.
Virtually our entire financial system is based on an illusion. We spend
more than we earn, we consume more than we produce, we borrow more than we
save, and we cling to the fantasy that this can go on forever. The glue
that holds this crumbling scheme together is a fiat currency known as the
Federal Reserve Note, which was created out of thin air by an
international banking cartel called the Federal Reserve. Read more »
If you listen only to the big news media you would believe your only choice for the 2008 Presidential election was the pick of the litterbox, between McCain and Obama. You do however have a choice, and there are other candidates. Chuck Baldwin vows to shut the border down, this is his main campaign goal, and I think he is worth thinking about. More>>>
An Afghan policeman opened fire on U.S. troops inside a police station in eastern Afghanistan, killing an American soldier and wounding several other people, officials said Monday.
U.S. forces then killed the policeman that opened fire.
The shooting took place Sunday in Paktia province after American troops and Afghan police brought militant suspects to the station. An officer already at the station then opened fire, a NATO official said on condition of anonymity because the information wasn’t supposed to be released publicly. Source>>>
WASHINGTON — Two sex assaults and an armed robbery that occurred in the past week on or near American University’s campus are being investigated by police.
The most recent incident was the armed robbery, which occurred at the corner of Nebraska Avenue and Van Ness Street at about 4 a.m. on Sunday.
A student and another person were walking in the area when they were approached by three men, police said. Two of the men stood in front of the victims while a third man stood behind them. One man demanded one of the victims’ purse, police said, and when she refused, another man tried to grab it from her. The woman then attempted to pull away from the robber and he pulled a gun and pulled the trigger. However, the gun did not discharge. A Department of Homeland Security officer then heard the commotion and approached, but the robbers fled the scene. Neither victim was hurt. Source>>>
LUSBY, Md. — Two girls’ bodies were found in a freezer in Lusby home after a third girl jumped from a second-story window Friday to escape her adopted mother, according to the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office.
A 7-year-old girl was left unattended in a locked room at the home on Buckskin Trail, investigators said. After jumping from the window, she was found by residents on Pawnee Trail, who called the sheriff’s office. The girl appeared to be extremely abused and neglected and is receiving treatment at Children’s Hospital.Friday night, the 7-year-old girl’s adopted mother, 43-year-old Renee Bowman, contacted the sheriff’s office about her missing daughter, authorities said. She confessed to beating the girl with a hard-heeled shoe and was arrested, investigators said. Source>>>
The other night American television entertained the masses by presenting a debate between two men vying for the most powerful position on earth. It took only a few minutes to realize nothing much has changed. Sadly, the only change Americans will see is more taxes, more government, less freedom and the eradication of its rich White-European heritage which is being dismantled in order to accommodate the force-fed notion, that we must diversify our great nation so that other racial groups will have a chance to ‘make-it’ — Like our fore-fathers had everything handed to them on a silver platter!
The Democratic presidential nominee claimed the other day that the failed economic policies is President Bush’s fault. Barack Husein Obama said: “we also have to recognize that this is the final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by George Bush…that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down.”
Well, here is an article that was written in September 1999, during President Clinton’s watch. The headline reads “Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lenders,” written by Steven H. Holmes. The article also mentions Franklin D. Raines, who at the time was Fannie Mae’s chairman and executive officer. Today Mr. Franklin D. Raines is the senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign.
– In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. Fannie Mae, the nations biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people… Demographic information on these borrowers are sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the sub-prime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 % of loans in the conventional market. Home ownership has, in fact exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990’s. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African-Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by 46.3 per cent. FULL ARTICLE>>>>
Barack Obama has finally made his long-awaited pilgrimage to Israel, a rite of passage that no aspiring American politician, let alone a presidential candidate, can afford to miss or ignore. There (or rather here), Obama uttered all the politically-correct words that Israeli leaders and especially Israel-firsters back home would want to hear.
He called the creation of Israel in Palestine in 1948 a “miracle,” utterly ignoring the near obliteration of Palestine and expulsion to the four corners of the world of the vast bulk of its indigenous Christian and Muslim inhabitants.The presidential hopeful told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that “I have come to communicate to you my fervent support for Israel.” Of course, he mentioned absolutely nothing about the Israeli campaign of murder and terror against Gaza, particularly the year-long harsh blockade of the coastal enclave’s estimated 1.5 million inhabitants, which has killed and maimed thousands of innocent men, women and children whose only “crime” is that they had dared elect a government the Bush administration and Israel didn’t like.Predictably, Obama lashed out at Iran, saying that “a situation in which Iran was capable of making nuclear weapons would be “game-changing” and would have repercussions across the world.
Again, he utterly and totally ignored Israel’s estimated 300 nuclear warheads, as if even alluding to this well-known fact was an earth-shaking taboo. Source>>>
The Service Employees International Union has accused the head of its largest California local of misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in an alleged corruption scheme that included payments to firms owned by his relatives and expenditures on his Hawaiian wedding and a Beverly Hills cigar club. Tyrone Freeman has been removed from the payroll of the Los Angeles-based local and faces formal dismissal pending an internal hearing, a union spokeswoman said. Freeman went on paid leave last month, following disclosures by The Times about the local’s spending practices. Source>>>
The House vote was expected to be close for the $700 billion rescue plan, but the chance of it passing was put in peril when 132 Republican members of the House voted against it. Only 66 Republicans voted for it.
The impact of the vote was felt even before the voting was concluded. The DOW plunged as the votes were being counted and it was apparent that passage was unlikely. As the voting continued the Dow plummeted to 700 points, then recovered. The GOP rebuff came despite serious lobbying by President Bush and his top team. Bush went on television early today to encourage Congress to vote for the package and to give lawmakers cover with angry voters back home. Source>>>
The National Football League refused to include a print ad recruiting U.S. Border Patrol agents in its 2007 official Super Bowl program because they were uncomfortable with “the sensitive political nature” of the spot, according to a league spokesman. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Border Patrol, had offered to pay for the advertisement, which was part of a campaign to boost the number of agents by 18,000. But money wasn’t the issue, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told ABC News.
The ad “was specific to border patrol and mentioned terrorists,” he said. “The game was in Miami, where [immigration] is a sensitive political issue. It made us a little bit uncomfortable.” Aiello said the league’s discomfort stemmed from the ad’s mention of terrorism in a program for the high-profile event as well as how it intertwined terrorism and immigration. The league told DHS it would be willing to run a more generic recruiting ad but never received a response to the offer. Source>>>
A federal grand jury indictment alleges the former executive director of the CIA, Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, was corrupted by lavish vacations in Hawaii and Scotland, expensive meals, a $2,300 cigar humidor and a promise of future employment. The indictment, returned today in San Diego, says Foggo “used his seniority and influence within the CIA” to steer a lucrative CIA contract to a shell company secretly owned by Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor and longtime friend of Foggo. Source>>>Related>>>
The voters have spoken in Austria, and for the first time neither of the country’s two largest parties managed to attract more than 30 percent of voters. It was the far-right parties that benefited from the electorate’s frustration with the grand coalition’s political shennanigans. Continued>>>
“The second area whereby God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society is in the economic area. The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It’s high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That’s what we are waiting for. That’s part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the — you know — if you look at the Israelites, that’s how they work. And that’s how they are, even today. When we will see that, you know, that the top transporters (?) in the lands, we see, you know, the bankers, we see the people holding the parts (?), they are believers, we will not have the kind of corruption that we are hearing in our societies.”
Michelle Obama’s job at the University of Chicago Medical Center included responsibility for a program to steer the uninsured away from its emergency room. The wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is now on leave from her position. She was earning $317,000 a year as vice president of the hospital. Some top Obama advisers are also involved with the Urban Health Initiative, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Dr. Eric Whitaker took over the program when the hospital hired him in 2007, and the hospital contracted with a company owned by David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s top strategist, for a public relations campaign. Source>>>
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief executive of the failed savings and loan Washington Mutual Inc could get $13.65 million for the 18 days he was on the job, a regulatory filing shows.
Alan Fishman was awarded a $7.5 million signing bonus when he joined the Seattle-based thrift on Sept 7, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
His employment agreement also provided for a $6.15 million lump sum payment as severance if he were terminated without cause, the filing shows.
Washington Mutual hired the former chief executive of Brooklyn, New York-based Independence Community Bank Corp to help the thrift rebound from soaring mortgage losses. Source>>>
MARION BARRY, FORMER D.C. MAYOR: Let me say, Bill, I’m not speaking for the Obama campaign or for Senator Obama. Two, Reverend Wright was just a tiny bit of what I asked my director to talk about. I think the press has been more interested in making news rather than reporting news. I’m glad you said you were finished with it. I am, too. I think Senator Obama has been very brilliant and comprehensive in his answers and, therefore, you know — I would say this though: I did see you show Reverend Wright’s home and cars and…O’REILLY: You bet.
BARRY: …imply that this is what you get for being a hatemonger and unpatriotic, not saying that Reverend Wright is pastor of a 8,000-member church. More than likely he gets more than six figure salary and the church probably provides his home. That’s besides the point. Source>>>
A Gainesville woman who worked at a local Wachovia Bank branch has been arrested on charges related to the theft of $695,208 from the bank since November, according to an arrest report filed by the Gainesville Police Department.
Letica Renita Risby, 29, of 2322 NE 10th Terrace, was charged Friday with scheme to defraud and grand theft from the Wachovia at 3838 NW 13th St., where she was the vault manager, the report stated.
The theft came to light when Wachovia conducted an internal audit and discovered that the money was missing.
Detectives questioned Risby no Friday and she reportedly confessed to stealing the money on various occasions dating back to Nov. 1, 2007.
The report states that Risby told investigators she would move money from the vault to teller drawers that were not occupied. She would later take the currency from the teller drawers for her personal use, sneaking it out of the bank under her clothing. Source>>>
Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s ex-pastor, has been on a tour going around America trying to defend his controversial statements that most Americans have heard and found very disturbing. He has, in the process, made some more incendiary statements, digging a hole for himself that is even deeper than it was just four short days ago. At the National Press Club in Washington DC, he defended his “chickens come home to roost” statement about 9/11 saying, “You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you.” He defended his damnation of America and his accusation that the U.S. government had created AIDS to decimate the black population: “I believe our government is capable of doing anything.” Source>>>
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) _ As a heavily armed U.S. destroyer patrolled nearby and planes flew overhead Sunday, a Somali pirate spokesman told The Associated Press his group was demanding a $20 million ransom to release a cargo ship loaded with Russian tanks. The spokesman also warned that the pirates would fight to the death if any country tried military action to regain the ship, and a man who said he was the ship’s captain reported that one crew member had died.
Pirates seized the Ukrainian-operated ship Faina off the coast of Somalia on Thursday as it headed to Kenya carrying 33 Russian-built T-72 tanks and a substantial amount of ammunition and spare parts. The ordnance was ordered by the Kenyan government. The guided missile destroyer USS Howard was stationed off the Somali coast on Sunday, making sure that the pirates did not remove the tanks, ammunition and other heavy weapons from the ship, which was anchored off the coast. Source>>>
President Peres of Israel yesterday met for the first time with Governor Palin and with Senator McCain, who called the veteran Israeli statesman “my old friend.” The warm handshake and exchange of broad smiles occurred during an international gathering known as the Clinton Global Initiative, hosted by President Clinton. “I wanted to meet you for many years,” Ms. Palin told Mr. Peres, according to an aide to the president. “The only flag at my office is an Israeli flag,” she was quoted as saying, “and I want you to know and I want Israelis to know that I am a friend.” Source>>>
DETROIT - The Classic Creations barber shop sits empty, surrounded by drunks and shuttered storefronts just two blocks from the manicured lawns of Grosse Pointe Park. The contrast isn’t lost on LaVar Anthony, a young barber who speaks in riddles of race, class and politics. What’s already understood,” he says without looking up from his Ebony magazine, “don’t need to be explained. “But when it comes to race, what is understood? And what is misunderstood?And how can it be that in 2008 — 143 years after slavery was abolished, decades after the