Sometime I Wonder

By Annie Apple

Sunday has come and gone. And while browsing the sale fliers. I noticed some ads for earth-day tees, made from recycled soda bottles.Which is great I’m all for it. BUT along with the earth-day shirts were the recycled tees with a popular cola company Logo and it got me thinking.

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Congress Wants To Increase The Number Of Guest Workers And Lay Off The American Workers

While Americans are being laid off, Congress considers expanding visas for foreign workers to fill those jobs!

Dear FAIR Member,

Right now, businesses are hiring tens of thousands of foreign H-1B workers at the same time that similarly qualified American workers are being laid off (or not hired)! Yet, members of Congress and big business want to import more cheap labor and increase the number of guest workers at the expense of the American worker.

Last week, just days after Bill Gates sat before Congress requesting an increase in the H-1B visa program, Congress responded by introducing several pieces of legislation that would increase the H-1B visa cap.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“The existing number of visas is more than ample for the nation’s needs. Contrary to industry claims, the perennial exhaustion of the H-1B visas due to the cap more than likely reflects widespread preference for lower-paid workers and lax enforcement of program rules, not an insufficient supply of visas to meet a deficit of highly skilled U.S. workers.“

-John Miano, Founder, The Programmers Guild
Low Salaries for Low Skills: Wages and
Skill Levels for H-1B Computer Workers, 2005
Center for Immigration Studies, Backgrounder, April 2007

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

An increase in the H-1B visa program is outrageous considering the Labor Department recently announced that the U.S. economy had lost 63,000 jobs and the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to stabilize the economy.

The notion that these visas are for “highly skilled” workers is a myth. About half of these visas are used for foreigners with no more than an undergraduate degree. The use of the H-1B visa is just another way for businesses to drive down wages while padding their pockets.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled [foreign] workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income.“

-Alan Greenspan
Let More Skilled Immigrants In
Bloomberg News account in Boston Globe, March 14, 2007
(The context of this remark was addressing how
to combat growing income inequality in the United States).

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Of the 65,000 H-1B visas granted each year, Microsoft used less than 1,000 in 2007; the largest percentage went to Indian firms operating in the United States that outsource their labor to other countries.

We cannot allow special interests to influence Congress at the expense of the American worker.

	Help FAIR educate members of Congress about the truth behind the H-1B program and protect the American worker.
	Call your representatives and tell them you oppose any increase in the H-1B, or any guest worker, program and that in an economic downturn they should be protecting American jobs.

It is urgent you act now. Big business has already started to lobby House members to increase the visa cap and reinstate unused visas from past years. Bills have been introduced and House members could start action on these measures as soon as this week.

Sincerely,

Dan Stein, President

P.S. you can also mail your tax-deductible contribution to FAIR at 25 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 330, Washington, D.C. 20001

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Tagged: Alan Greenspan, American workers, Bill Gates, Congress, FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), Foreign Companies, foreigner workers, H-1B Visa, Labor Department, undergraduate degrees.

Wow!! This guy is as must read…

Huge hat tip over to B.C., Imperial Torturer for introducing to me to “Snoop” of Political Party Poop.

Snoop has gone and confused the issues with the facts.

Or when poor black families continued to be saddled with inferior schools for the first half of the twentieth century, in 1957, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, faced with Southern Democrat defiance of federal school desegregation regulations, sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the rules. Following this crisis, Eisenhower endorsed and pushed through Congress the Civil Rights Bill of 1957, the first civil rights legislation passed since the Civil War era. The legislation passed despite Southern Democrat resistance.

However deception is how Negroes operate. One black blogger accessing whether or not black people were indeed becoming more enlightened by the deceit and corruption of the Democratic Party said this:

The danger lies, not in mass Black defections from the Democrats, but in Republican efforts to dissuade from voting “younger and weaker self identifying Democratic African Americans… a cohort that is increasingly open to Republican negative messaging about Democrats.”

Think about that for a minute. Go to the photo collage I have below highlighting some of most corrupt ignorant ass Negro politicians on the planet and ask yourself why would Republicans need to spend any time “falsely” injecting negative messaging of Democrats when idiot Negros are perfectly willing display their colossal ignorance to the world!

You must go and read the whole thing for yourself! Make sure to add Snoop to your RSS feeds!

 

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More Democrat ‘Aid And Comfort’ To The Enemy

The Patriot Perspective – Mark Alexander

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.” -John Stuart Mill

Aid and comfort to the enemy

More Democrat ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy

By Mark Alexander

From the “keen sense of the obvious” department at Harvard University, researchers at the Kennedy School of Government reported this week what anyone with a lick of common sense already knew: When Democrats and their Leftmedia instruments of propaganda openly condemn Operation Iraqi Freedom, they embolden our enemy.

The research team determined that the more strident the political dissention of OIF reflected in U.S. media stories or polls (read: “Pollaganda”), the more frequent were attacks against civilians and U.S. military forces in Iraq. Notably, in areas with greater access to international news media, the quantifiable increases were greater.

The report, “Is There an ‘Emboldenment’ Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq,”, concludes that attacks increased between seven and ten percent following “high-mention weeks,” like the two before the November 2006 midterm elections, when Leftist political rhetoric was at full steam.

Since the onset of hostilities with Jihadistan, and particularly in the wake of 9/11 and our military response (OEF and OIF), I have written a few pointed essays about how Democrats and their Leftmedia minions lend support to our enemy with political fodder designed to appeal to their Leftist constituency.

Of course, there is a distinction between constructive criticism and traitorous rhetoric, but in time of war one must choose words to express dissent very carefully. In this respect, some notable Democrats have been reckless to the point of treason.

Until the current presidential campaign, the benchmark for spewing anti-American rhetoric against OIF was established by John Kerry, whose ‘04 campaign modus operandi went well beyond thoughtful dissent about OIF. He even poked fun at the competence of our warriors, claiming they were “stuck in Iraq.”

Of course, Kerry had plenty of experience providing aid and comfort to the enemy, beginning with his infamous anti-American activities during the Vietnam War, with his comrade “Hanoi” Jane Fonda.

Who better than General Vo Nguyen Giap, supreme leader of the North Vietnamese Army, to outline how Kerry and the Leftmedia embolden the enemy. In a 1989 interview with CBS, Giap recalled: “We paid a high price [during the Tet offensive] but so did you [Americans]… not only in lives and materiel. Do not forget the war was brought into the living rooms of the American people… The most important result of the Tet offensive was it made you de-escalate the bombing, and it brought you to the negotiation table. It was, therefore, a victory… The war was fought on many fronts. At that time the most important one was American public opinion.” (emphasis added)

In ‘04, Kerry was joined in his efforts to embolden Iraqi insurgents by a cadre of congressional Demo-gogues who continued to spew traitorous rhetoric.

A year ago, I participated in high-level security briefings with CENTCOM and SOCOM commanders, one of whom discussed the topic “Media as Terrain” -how our adversaries use the media as a battleground.

Shortly after that briefing, I penned an essay that pointedly condemned Democrats for aiding and abetting the enemy. In “Memo to the American Media from Sheikh Muhammad al-Zawahiri,” I focused on a most revealing quote: “I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media.” That quote was part of an intercepted and authenticated communiqué from Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant to the now-departed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Read that quote again, and let it sink in.

Yet Democrats and their media organs continue to crank out cover stories like “We’re losing” from Newsweek.

Indeed, Islamist leaders must be thrilled by the support they receive from America’s “useful idiots,” those card-carrying apologists for a socialist political and economic agenda-essentially, advocates for Marxist-Leninist-Maoist collectivism.

Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution notes: “Treason against the United States, shall consist in… adhering to [our] enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”

When I raised my hand in preparation to serve my country, the oath I took was to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic… So help me God.”

According to General Giap, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and now researchers at Harvard, there is plenty of evidence that Demo-gogues and their Leftmedia talking heads have provided ample “aid and comfort” to the enemy.

There is already a petition to prosecute John Kerry for treason. Perhaps it is time to add a few more Demos to the list, starting with Kerry’s lapdog, Barack Obama.

Quote of the week

“Some Democrats… are playing politics with [Iraq] and they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy.” -President George W. Bush

On cross-examination

“There ought to be no question that declaring defeat in Iraq will encourage every terrorist organization and nation state that means us harm. Defeat will not be the end of it; it will be the beginning of the end of us. Whatever political victory politicians might achieve by sustaining themselves in office will be lost to terrorists who will make sure that those who think they are secure in their congressional seats will face the ultimate insecurity in their homes and offices. Remember, the 9/11 airplane hijackers would have destroyed the Capitol Building were it not for the surge of the brave passengers on United Flight 93. Why is this so difficult for them to understand? It isn’t difficult and it pains me to say it, but too many politicians would mortgage the nation’s future in exchange for a few more years in office.” -Cal Thomas

Open query

“The question occurs: Will it take some further, even more catastrophic attack here at home-an attack made more likely by the irresponsible behavior of today’s agitators-to silence their defeatism and reunify the country behind a necessary program for victory?” -Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Read more excellent articles here > The Patriot Post.US

Tagged: “Hanoi” Jane Fonda, aiding & abetting, American public opinion, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Barack Obama, CENTCOM, common sense, constructive criticism, Demo-gogues, dissent, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Harvard University, irresponsible behavior, Jihadistan, John Kerry, Leftmedia, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Pollaganda, propaganda, SOCOM, traitorous rhetoric, Treason, Vietnam War.

More on the Censored Video “Fitna” that Explains Islam

Please note: We are NOT encouraging a Witch Hunt aimed at the majority of Muslim Believers. We are aiming at the 5% to 10% Worldwide that condone terrorism – the Radical Islamists!

Please see our recent post: “Safe at Home” Interviews Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
He is a moderate Muslim who has been fighting against Radical Islam.
We can learn a lot from him and the others like him.

The MSM mostly ignores this vital group of dedicated Men and Women.
It’s up to us Bloggers to spread the truth.

A few of Dr. Zuhdi’s quotes:

“The only Muslims we should lift up and help and do photo-ops with are the liberty-minded Muslims.“
“I refuse to hand over the mantle of religion to the Islamists. It’s not theirs and it’s not mine either. It’s God’s – just as it is for other faiths.
Similarly, the President shouldn’t hand over the mantle to Islamists who cloak their politics in religion.”

Please reaad the rest of this eye-opening article here:
“Safe at Home” Interviews Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
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More on the Fitna Video

Fitna is a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom Dutch parliament. The movie offers his views on Islam and the Qur’an. The film’s title comes from the Arabic word fitna which is used to describe “disagreement and division among people”, or a “test of faith in times of trial”. Fitna (PVV) in the was released to the Internet on 27 March 2008 Quote from Wikipedia

[I for one admire this man's bravery. Where are the brave souls in this much larger country of ours? ---ed]

Arutz Sheva Posts Censored “Fitna” Movie Explaining Islam
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Now on Arutz Sheva: Fitna, the controversial and censored movie by Geert Wilders that aims to energize the West into fighting back against its mortal enemy.
Fitna: The Movie

Click to start video in external player Arutz 7 Video

The movie, which shows the Western world some of the aims and means of its latest mortal enemy, extremist Islam, was banned first by the internet registrar Network Solutions and LiveLeak. The full version can now be seen in full on Arutz Sheva. Arutz-7 provides this service in order educate the Western world as to the dangers facing non-Muslims and Western democracies all around the world.

The movie ends with a call for Europe to defeat Islamic ideology, just as it defeated the threats of Nazism and Communism in the past…

Read More at Arutz Sheva

• The US Media has show little interest in this controversial story, unlike the News media in Europe.

The Washington Post had a Reuters story which had only 1-1/2 sentences about the film’s content.
Later it ran an Associated Press story dealing with the reactions to the movie, with nothing about its content

The New York Times only reported it on Thursday.

We Have a bunch of “chickens” newspapers here.

• As for Bloggers and Websites: Most of following have the Fitna Video on site or Links.

Jihad Watch wrote in Feb: I wonder if Wilders is aware that Qur’an 8:39 says, “And fight them until there is no more fitna.
“Dutch MP says anti-Islamic film set for broadcast in March,” from AFP (thanks to Michelle Malkin).

And Jihad Watch wrote yesterday: Jihadist cleric Omar Bakri: Fitna “could be a film by the Mujahideen”
Preeeeeee-cisely. The formerly UK-based jihadist hits the nail on the head: for all the rage from Muslims about how Fitna “links Islam with violence,” that link has already been made by the jihadists, who never aroused any significant rage among their peaceful brethren. The jihadists quote Qur’an to justify their actions — it wasn’t Geert Wilders who had to go hunting in the Qur’an for verses that matched those actions.
Yet in all the furor over the film, from the EU, the UN, the OIC, and everyone else, no one seems to have picked up on that point.

Freedom Eden: “We have never learned to be intolerant toward people who are intolerant toward us, toward cultures that are intolerant toward us,”Geert Wilders said in a recent Associated Press interview.

The Northeast Intelligence Network: Fitna – the movie: Excellent & accurate

Pat Dollard’s Bash remarked: “Fitna” Is Here, Bitches
Geert Wilders’ film shining a light in a dark place is here to stay. Come in and watch.
“Fitna” is permanently up on our site: Bring it, you miserable pedophile-worshipping piglet pukes… we will NEVER bow to your bullshit yappity yapping.

American Thinker: Fitna the movie defeating Islamic censorship
By Andrew Walden
… the new film Fitna, must be pulling in internet viewers by the tens of millions.
…It is Islamic violence which threatens Holland and all of Europe. Exactly as in the 1930s, it is the weakness of European leaders which allows the threat to grow. Just as the League of Nations refused to stand up to fascism in pre-WW2 Europe, the United Nations grovels before Islam today. …
… Wilders is risking his life in order to bring this message to the world.
To view it and even more important — to publicly show it — defeats the Islamist claim that the West, unlike some of its leaders, is prepared to submit to Islam.

H/T to FSM

Power Line: Fitna Lives
Death threats by proponents of the religion of peace have led to the removal of the Geert Wilders film “Fitna” from LiveLeak’s servers that we linked to yesterday. In a kind of “I am Spartacus” response, numerous sites have reposted the video.

Atlas Shrugs: Also has FITNA, the movie.
Islam is number 1. So says the Vatican. I guess if you ban all religions, kill non-believers, terrorize your populations with beheadings, clititorectomies, stonings, hangings etc, insist on convert or die, treat your women like breeders and chattel, that this is bound to happen.

Gates Of Vienna: Fjordman Reviews “Fitna”
I liked it. It is impressive how much they managed to squeeze into just 15 minutes. I notice several of the comments at Jihad Watch say Geert Wilders could have made it worse. Yes, he could. He left out quite a few things, but what he kept was authentic and bad enough.

Forum for Christians & Messianic Jews: Pull sites from Network Solutions over Fitna ban
Only a demon or fallen angel would insist its followers make never ending war on non-believers, as this impersonal “god” Allah does. 1 in every 55 verses in the Qur’an (aka: Koran) incites Muslims to make war on non-Muslims. The Qur’an, is in fact a satanic blueprint for the art of deception, doubletalk, double-dealing and treachery. The word love is conspicuously missing from the Muslim Qur’an.

Plus there are many more. You should be able to find a site to view or download this important movie, even if the plug is pulled on some networks & blogs.

At least the Bloggers have courage, including PA Pundits and 7.62 Justice.
—Al

Yes Muhammad Had Sex with a 9 Year Old Girl, at least she wasn’t a slut like your kids!

I’ve seen this clip before, but maybe some of you haven’t. Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-’Ubeid’s argument boils down to admitting Mohammad had sex with his 9 year old wife Aisha…

[We need ot examine our beliefs and lifestyles that give so much more ammunition to our enemies today than we did in the 50's. Be amazed at how the world perceives us. ---Al]

from mypetjawa.mu.nu

posted with vodpod

See more at: The Jawa Report

Fitna Video Pulled From Liveleak

Please note: We are NOT encouraging a Witch Hunt aimed at the majority of Muslim Believers. We are aiming at the 5% to 10% Worldwide that condone terrorism – the Radical Islamists!

Please see our recent post: “Safe at Home” Interviews Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
He is a moderate Muslim who has been fighting against Radical Islam.
We can learn a lot from him and the others like him.

The MSM mostly ignores this vital group of dedicated Men and Women.
It’s up to us Bloggers to spread the truth.

A few of Dr. Zuhdi’s quotes:

“The only Muslims we should lift up and help and do photo-ops with are the liberty-minded Muslims.“
“I refuse to hand over the mantle of religion to the Islamists. It’s not theirs and it’s not mine either. It’s God’s – just as it is for other faiths.
Similarly, the President shouldn’t hand over the mantle to Islamists who cloak their politics in religion.”

Please reaad the rest of this eye-opening article here:
“Safe at Home” Interviews Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
—ed

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THE CONTROVERSIAL DUTCH DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ISLAM AND ITS LINKS WITH TERRORISM WAS RECENTLY PULLED FROM LIVELEAK AND IS BEING HID BEHIND SOME ‘18 YR AND OLDER’ SECTIONS OF SOME SITES. COMMON CENTS HAS IT HERE:

“Fitna pulled from Liveleak; This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net”

Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove ‘Fitna’ from our servers. This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realized LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one. Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture. We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high.

KUDOS to “Atlas Shrugs” for this video. Please spread the word…

Fitna the Movie Geert Wilders’ film (English)
by groepwilders

Tagged: Atlas Shrugs, British media, COMMON CENTS, Fitna, Freedom Of Speech, Islam, Liveleak, Terrorism, threats.

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 4)

EMISSIONS TRADING AND CARBON FOOTPRINTS

By TonyfromOz

The environmental debate stemming from Kyoto is emotive and different people see it in different ways.
It’s about science, politics, marketing, but mostly though, it’s all about money, probably the biggest factor in the overall picture. Because talking about money seems grubby, distractions are needed to make it all seem palatable. One of those distractions is psychology, and in this part on emissions trading I’ll try to show you why.

We have an overseas airline here in Australia providing internal flights. It introduced the novel idea that for an optional small extra on top of your airline ticket, they would guarantee that your flight would be carbon neutral. If you pay that extra, then someone plants a tree to renew the carbon emitted as your part of that flight.
The psychology is that if you pay that extra, then you have the satisfaction of feeling a little better, in that you are not really harming the environment.

The engines still run throughout the flight burning fossil fuel, whether every seat is full or you are one of only a few passengers, and not everybody will pay the extra, because more often than not, the budget is tight, or the money could be better used than on something so ephemeral.
Where the psychology comes in is here. For the whole flight to be carbon neutral, every seat needed to be full, every passenger needs to pay the extra levy, there needed to be no head wind to consume extra fuel, the weather needed to be optimal so there was no holding at the other end. If every one of these factors was not in place, then the environment was harmed by that flight. Which part of that flight did the extra levy on your single ticket pay for. Did it include the manufacture of that plane extrapolated out over the life of the plane, and just what part of carbon neutral was actually included in the makeup of everything that went toward that flight, the overall carbon footprint for that flight.

It’s more complex that planting a tree to replace your part of the fuel used for that flight.
The point here is that there was an emission for the flight but because you as one person paid that extra, then it is okay. See the point. The emission still happened.
So then, let’s look at Carbon.
Much is made of the term ‘carbon footprint’.
It’s more than just what belches out of the top of those smoke stacks at the big power station.

In my personal explanation, I mentioned that I was going to compare Pennsylvania with Malawi, a Country in Africa because of the relative size and population similarities.
Consider a family in Pennsylvania and a family in Malawi.
Father, Mother, two children.

In Malawi, the father works on food production, and Mother stays at home. They live on the poverty line. The eldest child might go to school. The youngest is looked after by mother at home. The home is not connected to electric power. They have no transport, and the absolute minimum to sustain life.

In Pennsylvania, that family lives in a three-bedroom house. It has electricity and a conservative amount of appliances, heating for the cold Winters, and maybe air conditioning for the Summer. Dad has a Dodge Nitro as the main family car, just the standard V6 version, a car of middling size for the family’s main people mover when they all go places as a family. He works in manufacturing and drives to work every day.

Mum works in IT, and has an older four cylinder Camry. She takes the eldest to school, the youngest to child care and then to work in an office block. The car is an economic choice, not out of respect for the environment, but the economic fact that gas is nearly $3.00 per gallon, and the Camry does all she wants it to do at the cheapest price for original outlay, and day to day running costs
She shops once a week for groceries. Weekends, the eldest has little league and occasionally they visit their parents who live close by, just your average family.
Their carbon footprint is probably a hundred times that of the family in Malawi. Not because they have a steel mill in their back yard, but just because of the way life is lived in those two countries.
Carbon usage is in everything you look at.

Consider the coffee mum and dad in Pennsylvania have before work. The coffee was planted, and then cropped, transported to market, and then transported to the dock, shipped to the US, transported to the manufacturer and processed into powder. It was bottled, the glass also going through a similar process to have it made. The jar of coffee was packaged and then transported to the supermarket. Mum lifts it off the shelf in a well lit store that people have driven to for work purposes. The checkout person packs it into a fossil fuel produced plastic bag with all the other groceries, also with the same amount of energy going towards their production. It goes into the trunk in the Camry, then home, and into the cupboard. Removed from the cupboard, a spoon of coffee goes into the cup, boil the jug, water in the cup, milk from the fridge, the milk also having undergone processing, sugar also processed, and when the coffee is finished, the cup is placed into the dishwasher. Every step uses carbon in some tiny way, all adding up, so look around you at everything you do.

Carbon. Not just out of those chimney stacks, and car exhausts.
You’re using carbon not to destroy the environment, but as part of everyday life in Pennsylvania.
Refer back to the person paying the extra for the plane ticket so that someone somewhere plants a tree on their behalf. That person feels good in that they have not harmed the environment. However the environment was still harmed. See the point. That person still took the flight that burned the fossil fuel adding carbon into the environment.
The same applies for the Pennsylvania family. They don’t even realise that what they do as part of living their life harms the environment. They’re not going to change the way they live.

The same also applies on the larger scale.

[Bold Emphasis mine. ---ed]

Tagged: Africa, air conditioning, Australia, car exhausts, Carbon Footprints, carbon neutral, chimney stacks, coffee, electricity, Emissions Trading, Environment, fossil fuel, heating, Kyoto Protocol, Malawi, marketing, money, Pennsylvania, plastic bag, Politics, poverty, psychology, science.

Big News: Haditha Marine Finds Charges Dropped

Breaking from Newsmax.com

Court Martial Charges Dropped Against Marine

Editor’s Note: Newsmax readers have donated more than $500,000 for the legal defense of three Marine heroes charged with crimes related to an engagagement in Haditha, Iraq. So far, with your help, two of the Marines have been cleared. One remains to be Court Martialed.

Please continue to show your support for these Marines – Read Chris Ruddy’s Urgent Letter – Go Here Now.

Tagged: American heroes, Court Martialed, Haditha Marines, Iraq, Kilo Company Marines, Lance Corporal Stephen B. Tatum, Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, Time magazine.

2008 Congressional Pig Book – $17.2 billion In Pork

For Immediate Release Contact:
Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334
Alexa Moutevelis 202-467-5318

** Media Alert **
Congressional Pig Book Out April 2

(Washington, D.C.) – Save the date! The little pink book that makes politicians squirm is back. The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) will release the 2008 Congressional Pig Book at a news conference on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 9:30 a.m.

The Congressional Pig Book is an annual report on pork-barrel spending in the federal budget. The 2008 Pig Book features a complete database of pork projects and profiles the most egregious examples from the Appropriations Acts. In fiscal 2008, pork-barrel spending ballooned to 11,610 projects costing $17.2 billion. Speakers will discuss the current state of earmark reform and what more needs to be done to stop Congress from returning to its piggish ways.

Who: Council for Citizens Against Government Waste
What: 2008 Congressional Pig Book release
When: Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at 9:30 a.m.
Where: National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20045
13th Floor, First Amendment Lounge

Scheduled to join CCAGW President Tom Schatz are Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), and Reps. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Tom Price (R-Ga.), and Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Invited speakers guests include Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Reps. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), John Campbell (R-Calif.) and John Shadegg (R-Ariz.).

CCAGW’s mascot, PigFoot, will be on hand to entertain along with the live pigs Winnie and Dudley. Food and beverages will be served.

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.

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Tagged: and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Congress, Congressional Pig Book, federal budget, John Campbell (R-Calif.) John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), National Press Club, Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), PigFootCitizens Against Government Waste, Pork, Pork-barrel Spending, Reps. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Reps. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Tom Price (R-Ga.), Tom Schatz.

Paper Tigers?

When I first drew this cartoon both characters were frowning all the way through. And the cartoon just did not seem funny …so I played with the “mouths”, first giving the mustached guy a gloating smile in panel two, then a straight mouth in panel three, and finally the “realization” face in the last panel. But it still didn’t seem to work. I then took the frowns which were on the face of the blond guy and literally turned them upside down …establishing that the (dumb?) blond guy is just answering a hypothetical question. Funny at last.

So did it work for you? Did it make you laugh? Even though it carries the subliminal message of growing Western dependency on a cruel, massive totalitarian state as supplier of goods for our creature comforts? And do you think that the powerful nations of the West have become “paper tigers”?

Nu?

Read More Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen

Tagged: China, Communism, Democracy, economy, Europe, totalitarian state, U.S.A.

Tanker Refueling Aircraft Contract Controversy

Public Service Announcement

The United States Air Force is Under Attack!

Our military men and women need your help!

The uniformed men and women of the U.S. Air Force deserve the best technology in order to perform their missions. However, our military has been operating strategic flights with Eisenhower era tanker refueling aircraft that need to be replaced.

Recently, the U.S. Air Force selected an American company, Northrop Grumman, to build America’s new tanker. The company will be using 230 companies across America in 49 states– companies that will employ thousands of Americans– to support this vital project.

Despite our troops’ urgent need for new tankers, the losing company in the competition, Boeing, is now protesting the contract award and their friends in Congress are doing everything possible to delay the process and reverse the decision.

What Boeing is doing is wrong — wrong for the U.S. Air Force and wrong for our military men and women.

Our military men and women need your help!

Our friends at Citizens Against Government Waste have been actively engaged for six years in making sure that this tanker project is awarded through a fair and open competition. They are convinced the process was just that — open and fair, resulting in the best company winning the contract.

You need to tell your US. Senators and Representative to stop the delay! Our troops need the tanker now!

Boeing and its congressional friends are doing everything they can to obstruct, delay and reverse the process.

Today, for example, Boeing took out a full page color advertisements in dozens of newspapers across America with the title “The Tanker Decision. Why It Doesn’t Add Up.” The text of the advertisement was nothing more than a laundry list of inaccuracies that have been part of their nationwide misinformation campaign about why they lost the competition to build the nation’s next version of the aerial refueling tanker. Frankly, the ad was so erroneous and misleading we don’t want to dignify it with a response.

However, Citizens Against Government Waste has closely watched this contracting process for a long time, and they’re mindful of the fact that the only reason Northrop Grumman was allowed to bid on– and win– the contract in the first place is that Boeing’s original tanker lease arrangement with the Air Force was fraudulent, could have over charged U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars, and resulted in a senior Boeing official going to jail on corruption charges.

With that in mind, here are the REAL facts Boeing won’t tell you in its advertising:

1) The United States Air Force award was based on five criteria and Northrop Grumman won on four out of the five and tied in one category.

2) The competition was transparent and open. Both Northrop Grumman and Boeing praised the USAF for the fairness of the competition before the award was announced. Boeing only complained after they were not selected. In other words, they were for the fairness of the competition before they were against it.

3) Northrop Grumman is an American company and the estimated 48,000 jobs involved in the project are based in the United States.

4) No U.S. jobs are outsourced overseas. Period.

5) No U.S. military technology is exported, either. Period.

If you are as outraged by Boeing’s activities as our friends at Citizens Against Government Waste, please click the link below, so that you can send a letter to your elected officials telling them that Northrop Grumman won the deal fair and square.

Go here and tell your Senators and Representative to allow the process to proceed, unhindered by politics. Don’t they at least owe our troops that much?

STOP THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. AIR FORCE!!

Sincerely

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Basra: A Look Into A Democratic Future

If you want to see how the proposed Obama/Clinton withdrawal of troops from Iraq is going to go; you need not look any farther than the current events in Basra.

Captain Ed over at Hot Air nails it this morning:

The fighting that has erupted in Basra should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the course of the war in Iraq. While the US has spent the last year increasing force size in western Iraq and more aggressively challenging militias in Baghdad, the British have become more passive in Basra and have significantly reduced their footprint to one-tenth of their original commitment. That has made them almost invisible in the south, and since the Iraqi Army did not have a large enough presence there either, the British reduction allowed competing Shi’ite militias to take control of the area.

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The British took the wrong tack in the south, and the results have been plain for at least two years. Instead of remaining in control of Basra and keeping order until Iraq could build their new security forces, their reduced footprint created a vacuum for order that the militias were only too happy to fill. The Sadr Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigades started seizing control of the streets in 2004, when the British reduced their forces to 8600 troops, and they have only strengthened their grip while the British retreated further. The Washington Post noted the problem last summer, as the surge began showing signs of ending the sectarian strife everywhere else.

The fighting in Basra now was inevitable at some point. Baghdad couldn’t allow a major city like Basra to operate outside its control forever. Instead of an orderly transition from Coalition to Iraqi security control, as is happening in the West, the Maliki government now has to take Basra by force — while the rump of British power sits in its bases, unable to contribute at all to security any longer. Whether Maliki decided to do this next week or next year, the fight in Basra had to happen at some point in order to apply the rule of law throughout Iraq.

That’s why this isn’t a collapse of the American surge, but a demonstration of the folly of premature withdrawal. The lack of fortitude on Iraq left a vacuum that created bigger problems and more serious fighting than tenacity did. Had we listened to the war’s critics in 2005 and 2006, gangsters would have swallowed the entirety of Iraq, and we would have a second Somalia in southwest Asia.

You can’t live life on faith, hope, and pixie dust. The fact is that we need to be in Iraq for several more years. If we do it right we can limit causalities and have our mission/presence in Iraq become similar to our presence in Korea. However, if we pull out early, we risk and encourage disaster.

Americans Paying Rent For Terrorists?

CRC Open Sources

W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Director, Counterterrorism Research Center

In this week’s CRC Open Sources we link to a piece by Aaron Klein – “Americans paying rent for terrorists?” -at WorldNetDaily:

“Just days after it was announced the U.S. would transfer $150 million directly to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ government, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, the declared military wing of Abbas’ Fatah party, were told they would receive cash grants, WND has learned.

“According to Palestinian militant sources familiar with the issue, earlier this month, 20 members of the Brigades leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah complained to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad they did not have enough money to pay their bills, including, for many of them, rent for their apartments.

“Last week, according to the informed sources, Fayyad told the complaining Brigades leaders he would provide them with a one-time grant of $3,000 each, or $60,000 to the Ramallah-based Brigades leadership.”

It’s troubling enough that the American taxpayer has created – and for years, funded – this generationally dependent welfare state in our own country: Now it appears we are footing the bill for international terrorists.

• Americans paying rent for terrorists?
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Tagged: Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah, Jr., Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas, Terrorists, W. Thomas Smith.

KYOTO – A Personal Explanation

KYOTO. A PERSONAL EXPLANATION

By TonyfromOz

Sometimes, something like this can tend to look like what is called a rant. That’s why I added the words ‘A PERSPECTIVE’ after the heading.

What I hoped to do was to start somewhere close to a starting point and then work my way through it. I’ve seen some cases of people just grumbling away at something big like this, and it sort of just peters out with that unresolved grumble. What I really wanted was to work through the matter, and to hopefully explain some possible resolutions and in so doing emphasise that there is no easy solution, as some would have you believe.

To that end I wanted to explain the protocol, explain the implications, explain what is happening now, and then to attempt to explain any remedies, and just what that might entail.

By its very nature, it’s complex at every step along the way, so my task is to try and make something so complex seem almost understandable

Why should any credence be attached to what I have to say on the matter?

I spent more than 25 years in the Air Force as an Electrical Tradesman, the last 6 years teaching subjects in that trade to new tradesmen, and a further 2 years as the senior non commissioned electrical examiner for that trade. I taught 15 of the 35 subjects and was the senior instructor for four of them, mainly the generation of electricity, electrical technology, (a math based subject for theoretical electrical technology) and some of the complex electronic subjects and electrical componentry, both theoretical and practical subjects alike, the practical subjects including soldering, a subject sounding so simple and yet one of the longest on the roster being divided into three sections of three weeks each, so it’s more than just holding a hot iron to join two metals. (That simple word soldering sounds so simple, yet in actuality, is so incredibly complex when it comes to tiny and fragile electronics, so just think tiny printed circuit boards.) I also taught both theoretical and practical house wiring subjects, again something more complex than you might imagine. Now, maybe some of you might see just how much we do take something seemingly simple as electricity so much for granted.

With regard to what I have so far given you all to read, I might even go so far as to suggest that the gloss may have faded because it might seem that I’m stretching it out, but that is not the intent.

The simple thing goes like this.

Greenhouse gases are destroying that environment.

Kyoto is designed to save the environment.

There are huge polluters out there who need to stop destroying our environment.

Someone has to pay for it.

You need to stop polluting.

Replace current practice with new practice. (How easy it is to just say that)

New practice. Look up. Free energy forever from the Sun.

The complexities of those bland one liners lead us to believe this is something we can do in the short term, because for people to understand, complexities need to be broken down into simplicities. People will naturally believe the simplicities, and the other sides complexities are brushed off as ‘agendas’ from those who want the status quo to remain as it is.

So the whole thing gets ‘wedged’, and then politicised.

Perspective is needed, and I won’t claim to provide the answers, because I can’t. What I can do is to simply explain how complex it really is, so that anyone still reading can see both ends of the one story, and then decide their own stance on the matter.

In the next two pieces I’d like to talk about the carbon aspects.

After that I’ll have two pieces on current electricity production.

After that, I’ll have two and maybe more pieces on alternative ways of electricity production, and the implications of that.

I understand that it all may sound dry, but what infuriates me is people pointing to alternatives as if it’s just a matter of hey presto, free power for all, when the actuality is something completely different.

To that end, I’m going to do a comparison. Because this Forum deals with matters mainly based around Pennsylvania, then I’m going to use Pennsylvania as part of that comparison. Some might suspect that an Australian might know little of Pennsylvania and that is true, I can however base what I have on generalities and then research the facts that I do use. Some might also suspect that I’m using Pennsylvania, because of the Three Mile Island facility, but, and here it even surprised me, when I was checking the list of (wait for it) 177 power plants in Pennsylvania, there was Three Mile Island, so even though I knew the story, it was detached from someone in far off Australia.

For the other part of the comparison, I’ll be using a country in Africa called Malawi.

Why that Country you ask?

Because Malawi is very close to the same area and with the same population as Pennsylvania.

The Country Malawi is in sub Saharan Africa in the Great Rift Valley. It was originally called Nyasaland mainly because it borders the third largest lake in Africa, Lake Nyasa, now called Lake Malawi. It is in the general area of the lower middle right side of that continent as you look at the map of Africa, and borders Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia.

I haven’t used this Country for any reason other than the size and population similarities.

So, I hope that you all don’t stop reading because it’s difficult to comprehend, or even because I’ve gone on for too long, because something like this is more important than to trust it to the radical side of the environmental debate.

I don’t pretend to be an expert, but just some little guy who knows a little about what he’s talking about and wants to share a perspective.

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight

Tom McLaughlin

We’re the good guys. They’re the bad guys. It’s really that simple, but Americans don’t know it and that’s why we’re in danger of losing this war. Many hear that we’re the bad guys and our enemies are justified. Most recently it was Barack Obama’s minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preaching “White America” got what it deserved on September 11th. Before him, it was former University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill who called the 3,000 victims “Little Eichmans” after the Nazi murderer. Before him, University of New Mexico Professor Richard Berthold taught that: “Anyone who can bomb the Pentagon has my vote.”

Others scoff at my good guys/bad guys synopsis, insisting it’s not that simple. According to them, there is no good/bad, right/wrong. Everything is gray. Everything is relative, and they believe that anyone who sees this war as I do is unintelligent at best and a warmonger at worst.

Still others insist that, while it may seem wrong that radical Muslims want to kill us, they’re following the dictates of their culture and we cannot condemn them because all cultures are equal. Ours is no better than theirs. When we fight back, we make Islamofascists angrier, producing more terrorists.

Then there are the pacifists with bumper stickers professing “War is Not the Answer” no matter what the question – even if the question is, “How can we stop those proclaiming ‘Death to America’ from killing us?”

Liberals embrace some combination of the above, constantly reinforced by a Mainstream Media reporting only when the war is going badly for us. It’s no wonder America is divided. Clearly we’re losing the propaganda war, which is becoming the most important theater in our struggle against radical Islam. We haven’t even begun to fight it.

Soldiers think propaganda isn’t as important as winning battles on the ground, but our reasons for fighting are vital to civilians who sustain the war. Soldiers offer themselves to be killed as sacrifices because they believe our country is more important than they are. Their home, family, land, and way of life are worth dying for. They know enemy soldiers think this way too, but our soldiers must be ready to kill them because they would impose their way of life on us. American soldiers and the people back home must both believe our way of life is better than our enemy’s. We must believe it so strongly that we’re willing to kill and die for it, but too many Americans don’t – not because it isn’t true, but because they don’t know what’s at stake.

Our enemy is winning the war of ideas because they have no opposition. Propagandizing doesn’t mean telling lies the way our enemy does, it means making our case. It’s teaching Americans what our enemies want to do to us. It’s outlining the choices the world has to make, including people in Iran, Syria, and every other country supporting terrorism. Do you want to live under Sharia Law or not? Do you want schools teaching your children to become suicide bombers? Decide. Then take a side. There’s no middle ground.

We fought an effective propaganda battle during World War II when General George C. Marshall asked Hollywood Director Frank Capra to make propaganda films. Capra hesitated because he made comedies and dramas. Could he make a documentary? Should he? Capra saw Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will as a brilliant Nazi propaganda film and wondered, “How can I possibly top that?” Well he did. He used our enemy’s own propaganda to show American soldiers and civilians what we were up against.

Today, we need to do exactly what Capra did and use Islamofascist propaganda against them. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) collects Islamofascist films from the Palestinian Authority, and Iran and the terrorist groups it supports like Hamas and Hezbollah that are then used to brainwash children into becoming suicide bombers. We must saturate the world with these films to shine light on what Islamofascists are: a megalomaniacal death cult. Perhaps it will moderate Muslims enough that they will summon the courage to publicly condemn the radicals perverting their religion.

Our enemies propagandize so effectively that, although they shoot rockets into Israel every single day, the world sees them as the victims. Hamas terrorists know Israel must kill civilians to take out their rocket launchers and this generates more grist for the propaganda mill. And when it threatens to stop supplying electricity, fuel and water to the very people trying to kill them, Israel is condemned! Can propaganda be any more effective than that? I don’t see how.

Obsession is a terrific, privately-produced example of what could be done if our government ever gets serious about fighting the propaganda war. They’d better not wait much longer, though, or the good guys will indeed finish last.

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Tagged: Americans, General George C. Marshall, IslamoFascists, Israel, Jeremiah Wright, MEMRI, propaganda war, pacifists, Propagandizing, Richard Berthold, sacrifices, sharia law, Ward Churchill, warmonger, World War II.

Olympic Flame

Just about everything you’d like to know about the Olympic Torch Relay can be found at the Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Torch Relay.

You could protest China’s occupation of Tibet by not clicking on the above link. But do you think that some Communist Chinese official is checking their hits?

How is this whole controversy going to play out? Will there be a boycott?

Nu? So what’s your opinion?

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The 2008 Summer Games: Breaking Out the Fine China

The 2008 Summer Games: Breaking Out the Fine China

Satire by Shawn Goodwin

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, China from August 8th through August 24th and already there is a whirlwind of controversy afoot. Apparently, many of the member nations are just now realizing that China treats human rights in much the same way as Lindsay Lohan does her liver.

This realization has resulted in a Chinese Fire Drill consisting of denials, threats, and all-around backpedaling from everyone involved. The Chinese foreign ministry states the Tibetan violence is an internal problem that has been contained, and then the ministry sends more troops to the province. Product sponsors have expressed concern over the crackdowns on freedom, and then state that they do not want to force their beliefs on the Chinese people. Human rights organizations are exposing China’s crackdown of the Tibetan cry for freedom, but instead of applying pressure to the PRC, they are appear to be more worried about the Darfur genocide.

Interestingly, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir recently quipped, “Sure, my country is embroiled in continuous violence and obvious genocide, but hey, at least we’re not China!”

While the international media is focusing its attention upon the Chinese rights violations, another despicable piece of chicanery has slipped through their fingers; namely, the camouflage of violations within the athletic events themselves. Here are a few recently exposed examples:

Lighting the Olympic Torch. The universal symbol of the Olympic Games, The Olympic Torch, is to be lit on March 28th in Olympia, Greece. While the Torch Relay and its route has been well publicized, China’s “modification” has not. Unbeknownst to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), when the torch crosses the Chinese border, it will be quickly and quietly extinguished, then relit with a bonfire of banned books.

50-Meter Dash to Unrestricted Internet Access. Most of the world’s websites can make the notorious claim that they have been “Banned in China.” The communist government is not high on the whole free speech fad, so Internet access is severely limited. The arrival of the Olympic Games has forced the Chicoms to do things they would normally avoid, like celebrate the “genius” of Jackie Chan. It has also forced them to grant the winner of the 50-meter dash unrestricted access to the Internet . . . for three minutes.

Eggshell Marathon. This is one of the few events where athletes are not the sole competitors. During the marathon, journalists carefully walk the fine line between accurate reporting and state mandated oversight. But watch your step, Johnny Typewriter; one wrong opinion can cost you the gold . . . and your exit visa.

Judo. The Tibetan “problem” has caused the Chinese government a lot of grief in recent weeks, and its constant media exposure is compounded with the ongoing Taiwanese freedom issue. China’s propaganda minister has found the solution: Olympic athletes will compete against the uppity Tibetan monks. The monks will be bused into the Olympic village, dressed as fellow competitors, and then paired off against some of the greatest Judo masters in the games. The Chinese will easily defeat the monks, and thus improving their chances of winning a medal, and the self-righteous Tibetan “troublemakers” will be brutally beaten in front of the world. Tibetan problem solved.

Pole Vault to Freedom. The Chinese secret police has detailed records of the athletes who have not toed the Party line. In a stunning moment of generosity, the Party will be adding those ungrateful men and women to the pole vault team with this promise: if they can successfully vault the apparatus, they will win their freedom. Unfortunately, the apparatus has been changed from the ten-foot pole to The Great Wall.

Swimming. Dissent needs to be eradicated from the minds of the Chinese citizens, and what better way to do that than with visual aids? In that vein, China’s swim team has created an innovative new swimsuit, guaranteed to make Party leaders smile. The new mandatory uniform can be fitted with camouflaged leg irons for those athletes who have been outspoken about their country’s human rights record. The best part of the plan is that the competitors will not realize the leg irons have been added until they hit the water. For the Politburo, the policy is win-win.

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is an opportunity for China to gain worldwide acceptance. Considering the country’s recent dalliances into censorship of the media, suppression of rights, and oppression of the weak, the Chicoms will need Ty Pennington to give them an Extreme Makeover before August.

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Cops Beat Peaceful Tibetan Protesters IN AMERICA

We don’t want to offend the Chinese do we?
Or are we showing solidarity with our Chinese Comrades?
Or is it the U.N. that we fear?

After all they do make cheap products for us, even though some are dangerous and some even deadly.

And since the Clinton’s sold them highly sophisticated missile guidance systems that allow them to hit the USA with Pin-point accuracy, we had better keep on their good side! Isn’t that right?

After all what are a few, or a few thousand, Human Rights Violations?
Especially between “Friends” (or is it Fearsome Enemies?).

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Tagged: Chinese, Clintons, Human Rights Violations, missile guidance systems, Tibetans, U.N.

LiveLeak.com – Cops Beat Peaceful Tibetan Protesters IN AMERICA

Video footage of New York cops clubbing and arresting peaceful Tibetan protesters who were merely walking down the street has gone relatively ignored beyond Youtube.

While stories emerge out of China every day of police beating and killing Tibetan protestors in the streets, the same sort of behavior by cops in America tells its own story.

The footage was shot at a free Tibet peaceful assembly in New York on the 14th of March.

It shows the protestors holding flags and signs and peacefully walking down the street towards the UN building in the Turtle Bay neighborhood only to be accosted by police officers with batons…

“Look at these cops, clubbing people in front of the UN, unbelievable, protesting to free Tibet, cops clubbing people in their legs on the sidewalk, in front of the UN in America, unbelievable, this is not China.” the American cameraman announces in disbelief.

…The officer identified as Serano then forces the cameraman away from the melee, telling him to shut the camera off and that he will not talk to him because he may be a reporter.

Several officers then follow the cameraman asking him about his recording of the incident.

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