CNN and MSNBC for redundant Political Verbal Goolash of no importance - at this point who cares?
By diehitze | June 10, 2008
Watching the CNN and MSNBC so-called news is a waste of time.
Each of the two networks is pouring out a spin and double talking verbal goolash about the two presidential candidates unceasingly.
Both networks ignore the facts:
The large majority of those voters have already determined who they will vote for.
The Democrats will vote Obama and the Republicans will vote McCain. There are 20o year old priorities set in stone among both parties to promote and elect their respective party candidates.
The independent voters care less for either candidate and would love to see someone on the ballot that really wanted to improve America, not their respective party.
Is all the whoopla on CNN, MSNBC about somehow influencing those independent voters?
Should I and other viewers watch the networks imbecilic efforts of political entertainment?
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Sub-Prime mortgage failures due to lack of government regulation of banking and lending
By diehitze | November 29, 2007
Bankers and lenders will continue to offset the lack of credit worthiness of borrowers with higher interest rate charges, whether it is credit cards or sub-prime mortgages.
Until our government enforces regulation of banking and lending, especially lowering of interest rates, the sub marginal lending practices of today will continue.
Historically, the large number of bank failures and the subsequent bailouts in the 80s and 90s didn’t make for better lending practices.
The Bankers and lenders are anticipating another government bailout for their failure to manage sub-prime mortgage loan practices.
“American taxpayers will again get to subsidize the Bankers and lenders “
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China Faces Rising Costs From Pollution
By razzledazzle | August 7, 2007
China Faces Rising Costs From Pollution
By ALEXA OLESEN
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — China’s smog-choked cities and contaminated waterways are leaving many people sick and unable to work, in turn fomenting unrest and threatening the country’s economic growth, an international think-tank said Tuesday in a government-requested report.
Concluding an 18-month review, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said China’s severely polluted environment has caused “significant damage to human health,” hurting the country’s prospects for continued economic expansion.
“Clearly a healthy economy needs a healthy environment,” said Mario Amano, deputy secretary-general of the Paris-based OECD, which groups 30 industrialized countries.
Amano said he had no specific figure for the cost of China’s pollution. But the Chinese government said last year that pollution cost the country $64 billion in economic losses in 2004, about 3 percent of its economy that year. It has not given updated figures.
China’s rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic growth over the last nearly two decades has resulted in some of the world’s filthiest air, soil and water.
The OECD report, citing an earlier World Bank report, said that by 2020 China will have 600,000 premature deaths a year in urban areas and 20 million cases of respiratory illness a year because of pollution. The overall cost of health damage will be equal 13 percent of gross domestic product.
Some 190 million people are estimated to be suffering from illnesses related to dirty drinking water and more than 30,000 children die every year from diarrhea due to polluted water, it said.
Lorents Lorentsen, OECD’s environmental director, said pollution-related illnesses have hurt productivity, driven up health care costs and spurred social unrest.
That is “not good for the economy,” he said.
Amano and Lorentsen spoke at a news conference attended by Zhou Jian, vice director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration or SEPA. Zhou said China would try to implement the report’s suggestions. China is not an OECD member, but the report was prepared at its request.
Farmers across the country have protested tainted water supplies and ruined farmland. SEPA director Zhou Shengxian acknowledged the unrest last week, saying the agency was receiving more environment-related petitions.
Lorentsen said China’s poor record on environmental issues threatens to damage its reputation as an exporter.
“If you have a reputation for being a polluted country, then you have a bad trademark abroad. It’s very hard to sell pharmaceuticals, to sell food and feed from a country that has a reputation for being polluted,” Lorentsen said.
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration placed restrictions on imports of Chinese farmed seafood, including shrimp, catfish, eel, basa and dace, after finding residues of drugs the U.S. does not allow in fish.
The FDA said sampling of fish found traces of the antibiotics nitrofuran and fluoroquinolone, as well as the antifungals malachite green and gentian violet.
But the toxic substances were not linked to pollution and all the restricted imports were farmed — not wild. More than half of China’s global seafood exports are farmed.
The report said China’s environmental efforts have “lacked effectiveness and efficiency,” mainly because existing regulations were not being implemented, particularly at the local level.
“Economic priorities have overridden environmental concerns,” it said.
The OECD recommended that China make the State Environmental Protection Administration a ministry-level body to give it more say in monitoring and enforcing environmental regulations.
It also said the government should be more transparent about the health impacts of pollution and allow greater “environmental democracy,” or participation from civil society, such as nongovernment groups, in cleaning up the country.
The limited availability of information on environmental health “limits the capacity of Chinese authorities and citizens to act in preventative or curative ways,” it said.
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Americans demand foreign food saftety and standards
By razzledazzle | August 7, 2007
I went shopping at the grocery store yesterday, after watching another Lou Dobb’s show on CNN. My gosh, when I started looking at my choices for foodstuffs I realized ” I don’t know who to trust or where any of this stuff is coming from”.
Recently, I read approximately 500 thousand Chinese die each year from food related illness. That would be very significant in America, but among the Chinese population of 1 billion 300 million people it’s just not that bad… to the Chinese.
Human rights issues have not been a significant issue for the Chinese within this century. Do we Americans honestly think they care any more for us?
Lou Dobbs has mentioned many times that labeling of products from other countries has become obscure and in many cases not discernible. Asian countries especially have always been noted for having no food handling safety.
In most Pacific rim/Asian countries they still dump raw sewage into the same water they wash and fish in. The Chinese have used human excrement for thousands of years as fertilizer for their crops. This practice accounts for the deaths of thousands of Chinese every year.
Americans we need to demand with no soft rhetoric that our Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commision, and Agriculture administration enforce labeling, standards and provide competent inspections of any foodstuffs coming into America from any foreign country.
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Americans must vehemently oppose any benefits for Illegal Immigrants
By razzledazzle | August 4, 2007
It is important for American Voters to vehemently oppose Illegal Immigration legislation allowing amnesty and extending benefits to them.
If Social Security benefits are extended to them, they can work in the U.S. 10 quarters only and receive full benefits including Medicare. This is bad because if they moved back to Mexico after 10 quarters of work the U.S. would send checks and extend benefits to them even in Mexico.
The Congress has now learned they cannot cram a single bill down the throats of Americans so they have altered their strategy. They intend to get it done a piece at a time.
The House of Representatives passed a bill Aug 2nd that provides for welfare and benefits to illegal immigrants. The American people for the most part are not being informed by the news media what the House is doing. All Americans are seeing is the Bridge failure in Minnesota.
Topics: Illegal Immigration | 1 Comment »
Bin Laden is DEAD!
By diehitze | August 4, 2007
The news loves the guy. He creates all kinds of headlines for them. If the news started reporting he is dead, as he is, they would lose their news worthly dark-haired infidel.
If the news did report he is dead you can bet if he were alive he’d put out a video or something that corroborates he is alive.
Bin Laden was killed in Afghanistan while hiding in a hole.
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House of Representatives - changes the vote
By domineaux | August 4, 2007
The House of Representatives is not in touch with the will of the American people.
Aug 2nd the house leadship acknowledged the votes on a critical illegal immigrant bill and then immediately turned around and change it immediately. What a sham.
This inflammed the Republicans and 17 democrats that voted for the bill.
The bill give illegal immigrants welfare rights and benefits.
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Property Owners paying for Illegal Immigration Invasion
By diehitze | July 27, 2007
The Illegal Immigration Invasion is enabled by America’s current system of taxation of Property owners to pay for local and community services.
It is common practice now for large numbers of illegal aliens to move into one house. One person has the mortgage in their name and everyone else living in the house contributes by paying rent.
There are entire neighborhoods in California and Texas that have large numbers of people living in single family residences.
In the past, illegal aliens lived in very modest neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods are saturated with multi-families living in single family residences. It has become common practice for large homes in more expensive neighborhoods to be purchased to house large numbers of illegal aliens. This has many detrimental effects to neighborhoods, the lowering of property values, increased crime and forces out people that want to live in single family residence neighborhoods.
The single family residence tax status is being eroded in such fashion, and doesn’t provide adequate basis for taxation to fund schools, hospitals, police, fire, and other local services.
Cities and counties are compelled to continue to increase the taxes on all property owners. The burden of higher taxes is already an enormous burden to single family residence owners. The Cities and counties have increased ad valorem taxes beyond reason in many cities and there is no end in sight.
Owning a home will soon be beyond the income earning ability of many true single family residence owners.
There is a similar problem with multi-family residence properties as well. Large numbers of illegal aliens live in single apartments and share rents. Multi-family property owners know of the practice, but it is so prevalent as to be impossible for many multi-family property owners to acquire tenants, if they don’t allow the practice
Property values are significantly lowered when large numbers of people live in single family apartment units. It is a self perpetuating problem, because the properties depreciate so rapidly with so many people living in the apartments. People that are looking for decent living conditions will not live in such environments with large numbers of people living in apartment units.
The taxation of these multi-family properties is based on a single family living in each apartment unit. When each apartment has large numbers of people living in the apartment units the tax basis is not adequate to acquire enough taxes to support local services.
The solution is the Cities, Counties, and Municipalities must enforce single family residency laws, or modify their residency laws to provide enforcement of single family residence status.
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Who has the authority to NOT enforce our laws?
By razzledazzle | May 18, 2007
In the United States, we currently have Federal laws and regulations;that clearly deal with illegal immigration.
Those laws were created by the highest authorities in our land. They were created and passed by our Congress and signed into law by our President. Who in our country has higher authority?
There are defined government agencies paid to enforce the laws of our country. Who in any of those agencies of government is a higher authority than the Congress and President of the United States who made those laws.
Then who has a higher authority in those agencies NOT to enforce those laws?
Our current President and Congress do not have the authority to prohibit those laws from being enforced.
Those laws are required by law to be enforced by those respective agencies established to enforce the laws of the United States.
The Congress and the President of the United States can only create new laws that would alter or abolish those previously created laws.
The FBI, ICE and other authorized enforcement agencies are bound by law and an oath to enforce Federal laws, and the Attorney General of the United States in bound by law and oath to prosecute law breakers.
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The Solution: Demonstrations on the streets
By domineaux | May 4, 2007
The peaceable way to deal with issues of social concern for most Americans is to express their views by intelligent discussions, electing competent government representatives and promote change in a decent and orderly manner.
The peaceable way to change isn't working and hasn't worked for the past sixty years.
The only way to get anything done in the way of social change in America for the past sixty years has been by rioting and demonstrations. Every major social change in America has been accompanied by demonstration and often rioting. The Illegal aliens know this and they've taken to the streets to take our country for what they want by demonstrations. The illegal aliens are not even supposed to be in our country and here they are telling us what they want and demanding we give it to them.
Where is our government? When does our government enforce our laws? These people are not legally in our country and our government does nothing. Americans are faced with an enormous social problem because of our governments continued apathy regarding the flood of invading illegal aliens.
The huge American majority that has peacefully tried to work through issues with our government at the polls is faced with an enormous problem. The elected officials pander to the people to get elected and do whatever pleases them personally after they're in office.
The American majority is going to have to take to the streets, demonstrate and demand the govenment do something about the invasion of illegal immigrants.
Our nations borders have continued to be insecure even after 9/11 and they continue to be as porous as ever. Our government knows about the problem, but persists to do nothing.
Our elected officials are ignoring the will of the American people. The only way Americans are going to get the attention of our government is the way every other entity seeking social change has accomplished their goals for the past sixty years, demonstrations on the streets in large numbers.
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