Saturday, December 17, 2011

The Islamist Lobbies in Washington

New post on Creeping Sharia

The Islamist Lobbies in Washington

via Islamist Lobbies' War in Washington on Arab and Muslim Secularists » Publications » Family Security Matters. One of the most devastating oppressions against the Middle East region's civil societies and the Arab spring is not fought by weapons in the Middle East, nor is it led by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Bin Ali, Saleh or Assad. [...]

Greens

A public conversation with Green Party Presidential Candidate, Dr. Jill Stein and journalist, Matt Rothschild of The Progressive magazine.

Watch here:
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Friday, December 16, 2011 at 6:30 PM Eastern Time, 5:30 PM Central Time, 3:30 PM Pacific Time

Live from UW-Madison Memorial Union, Madison, WI
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Take advantage of this opportunity to hear Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein address questions posed by crusading journalist Matthew Rothschild, followed by public discussion.

Fwd: Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012

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From: Rick Blaine <rblaine@ownmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Subject: Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012
To:

Paul B. Farrell

Dec. 13, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EST

Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012

Commentary: Market crash, political gridlock, revolution, new class wars

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Fasten your seat belts: 2011 was far worse than expected. Our earlier predictions for America's Worst Decade just got worse.

As financial historian Niall Ferguson writes in Newsweek: "Double-Dip Depression … We forget that the Great Depression was like a soccer match, there were two halves." The 1929 crash kicked off the first half. But what "made the depression truly 'great' …began with the European banking crisis of 1931." Sound familiar?

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Yes, huge warnings: But America's deaf. In denial. When we predicted the 2011-2020 "decade from hell" we didn't see the big macro events dead ahead: Arab Spring virus that's now Occupy Wall Street, promising to explode into an even more powerful force in 2012 … war on the middle class … widening inequality gap. … Washington gridlock … the Super Rich's blind resistance to all new taxes.

As Ferguson puts it: "To understand what has been happening in our own borderline depression, you need to know this history. But hardly anyone does." Get it? America's already in a "borderline depression," and virtually nobody gets it. American leaders are dummies about history. Worse, nobody may be able to stop our depression from turning "great."

Investors beware: Please, protect your assets: "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." We've already forgotten the lessons of the 2008 disaster. No wonder we're doomed to repeat the mistakes of the 1930's triggering the Second Great Depression. Soccer anyone?

More bad news for 2012: from Gross, Grantham, Shilling and Stiglitz

Ferguson's in good company with his dark forecast. Pimco's Bill Gross asks rhetorically: "Where is the euro headed? More than likely down, perhaps significantly." Gross warns of a "terrifying situation" where "the euro may fall … and take the U.S. recovery with it."

Then there's Jeremy Grantham, whose GMO firm manages $100 billion. He predicted the 2008 crash a couple years in advance. Predicts 'Seven Lean Years" ahead, till 2016, the end of the next presidential term. Now, in his latest newsletter he feels "sadly … vindicated by my 'seven lean years' forecast." The world "will not easily recover from the current level of debt," as our self-destructive American and European leaders have "permanently slowed their GDP growth."

More bad news: As we close out the first year of the "Worst Decade in American History," economist and long-time Forbes columnist Gary Shilling just issued his semi-annual outlook: "Global Recession Likely" in 2012. OK, the best he can say is that this one "will be milder than the 2007-2008 nosedive." Of course, you've already forgotten those pains, right?

And over at Vanity Fair, Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz also reexamines the dark history of the Great Depression, warning that in our ignorance of history we're missing a fundamental economic "shift in the 'real' economy," missing what will generate future jobs, just as we did back in the '30s. Yes, we "risk a tragic replay" of the Great Depression.

10 predictions for America's Worst Decade Ever

Over the past decade we predicted the 2000 crash, the 2008 meltdown, the short-lived 2009 rally. Future historians will look back on the 2011-2020 decade as America's Worst Decade. Worse than the 1930s Great Depression. Totally predictable. Totally denied.

So here's an update of the 10 predictions of a chain reaction of events that are building to a critical mass, will consume America in what economist Joseph Shumpeter called "creative destruction" that will eventually, after cleansing the greed from America's toxic capitalism, trigger a renewal of the American Spirit, as happened in the Great Depression.

Here's how all this will generally unfold in the coming decade:

2011. Super Rich keep spending billions to control Washington

The conservative takeover of America's democracy the past three decades became total and complete last year when an activist Supreme Court overturned long-established legal precedent giving soulless corporations — whose sole allegiance is to wealthy shareholders — the same inalienable rights as humans, accelerating their quest for absolute power. Hopefully Senator Bernie Sander's proposed 28th Amendment will change that, but doubtful.

2012. Super Rich solidifies absolute power over our political system

That Supreme Court decision legalized political bribery. Now, billions pass through lobbyists to politicians with one goal: A promise that politicians vote for their special interests. Our middle class is in a rapid trickle-down into third-world status. The inequality gap steadily widens. Doesn't matter who wins the 2012 race. Democracy is systemically corrupt by money. Obama, Mitt, Newt, all pawns of the system.

2013. Global population bubble exploding, rapidly wasting resources

America's Conspiracy of the Super Rich drains trillions from middle-class taxpayers. They see the global population growth explosion of 100 million annually not as exhausting the world's scarce resources, but as a tool to get richer through free-market capitalism and globalization. They ignore the tragedies as global population climbs to 10 billion, fail to hear the warnings of environmentalists like Bill McKibben that it may "be too late. The science is settled, the damage has already begun," we can't save the planet.

2014. Pentagon's global commodity wars accelerate toward 2020 peak

At the outset of the Iraq War, Fortune analyzed a classified Pentagon report predicting "climate could change radically and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues." And billions of new people will spread unrest worldwide as "massive droughts turn farmland into dust bowls and forests to ashes." Another history lesson forgotten: "An old pattern could emerge; warfare defining human life." Yes, in denial politicians chose war and catastrophes over cooperation.

2015. Gilded Age globalization explodes America's Global Empire

About the time of the Pentagon's prediction of WWIII in 2020, Kevin Phillips warned in "Wealth & Democracy:" "Most great nations, at the peak of their economic power, become arrogant and wage great world wars at great cost, wasting vast resources, taking on huge debt, and ultimately burning themselves out." Similarly, Ferguson, warns in "Colossus: The Rise and Fall of The American Empire," that we are in denial, thinking "about the political process in seasonal, cyclical terms."

2016. Reaganomics capitalism self-destructs, crashes, bank bankruptcies

"But what if history is not cyclical and slow-moving but arrhythmic," asks Ferguson. "What if collapse does not arrive over a number of centuries but comes suddenly," too rapid to respond in time. True to form, a new conservative president will keep ignoring the lessons of history. And, as Jared Diamond's warns in "Collapse:" "One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations share a sharp curve of decline … demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches its peak in population, wealth and power."

2017. Class war and revolution: Rich class loses big, surrenders

Warren Buffett saw the revolution long ago: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." But by the 2016 presidential election, political rage explodes into a new American Civil War over inequality. The gaping income gap pops a bubble, causes economic collapse. Riots spread preventing another massive bailout of our too-greedy-to-fail banks. New depression ignites class rebellion.

2018. The Fed and Wall Street banks collapse, Glass-Steagall reinstated

Diamond warned us: Leaders need "the courage to practice long-term thinking, make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis proportions." Instead, they fail to act boldly, delay. History tells us leaders act in short-term self-interest, not long-term public interests, especially politicians backed by billionaires who see only quarterly earnings, year-end bonuses, next election.

2019. Global commodity wars spread, killing millions, wasting trillions

Over half our federal budget goes to the Pentagon's war machine, limiting America's domestic priorities. Predictably, new commodity wars are ignited by an accelerating global population versus a decline in the world's scarce resources. That also forces a total rethinking of the balance between spending to protect against external enemies and a rapid deterioration of domestic programs: employment, education, health care, retirement.

2020. America's first woman president, patriarchal dominance is dead

By the end of the decade, it is finally obvious that patriarchy — male dominance of leadership roles in philosophy, economics, politics and culture throughout history — has failed our civilization, bringing the world to the brink of total destruction.

Why do male leaders consistently fail us? Jeremy Grantham brilliantly captured that fundamental flaw in our nation's character a few years ago: Male leaders are actually quite emotional, myopic and "impatient ... management types who focus on what they are doing this quarter or this annual budget." But true leadership "requires more people with a historical perspective who are more thoughtful and more right-brained."

Unfortunately, "we end up with an army of left-brained immediate doers." And that guarantees "every time we get an outlying, obscure event that has never happened before in history, they are always to miss it."

Worse, today's male brain is so rigidly hard-wired in short-term myopia, it quickly forgets history's most recent lessons, like 2008. As a result, our males leaders "collectively miss even totally obvious events that happen over and over in history."

Class war? Or Gender War? By 2020 we'll have an answer, but by then it may be too late.

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Re: Muslins boycott Jewish products --Brilliant

the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.
---
hogwash ...
Many Israelis claim that a jew named Jacob invented the cell phone.
They are insistent they invented the cell phone and text messaging,
things invented in the U.S.A. by Americans.

The modern cell phone originated with Martin Cooper who was from
Chicago and not listed as jewish. The underlying technology that makes
cell phones possible, hexagonal cells for mobile phone base stations,
were invented through a joint effort between AT&T and Bell Labs.

On Dec 16, 10:01 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ** **
>
> ****
>
> * *
>
> * *
> Muslims Boycott Jewish products ..........Brilliant****
>
> * *
>
> * *
> *
> ------------------------------
> *
>
> * *
>
> * *
>
> *A short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged
> the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with
> the Jewish people.
>
> In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his
> heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:
>
> "Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a
> Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has
> Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim
> suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will
> be using the method of a Jew named Neissner
>
> "A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a
> Jew, Ludwig Traube.
>
> Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery
> of the Jews, Widal and Weil.
>
> If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research
> by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and
> Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.
>
> Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar
> Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.
>
> Arabs must do likewise with thei psychic ailments because Freud, father of
> psychoanalysis, was a Jew.
>
> Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the "Schick"
> reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.
>
> "Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit
> treatment of ear and brain damage, work of jewish Nobel Prize winner,
> Robert Baram.
>
> They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis
> because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.
>
> "Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of
> Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman invented the wonder drug against
> this killing disease.
>
> Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by
> dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of
> many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.
>
> "In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain
> afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus,
> Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud
> to obey the Islamic boycott."*
>
> * *
>
> *Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the
> cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.
>
> Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims
> made?*
>
> * *
>
> =****

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Re: 2011.10.28 DETROIT - MODEL FOR THE FUTURE? - NOT!

I understand the threat that Islam and its
leadership poses to the world.
---
yeah, sharia law and governance ... I get it
imo - our legal system shouldn't use sharia or any other religious
law. The USA is a secular nation.
That many european and middle eastern countries, like Israel and
India, do is their business

Again, Dr. Paul indicated last night that
he doesn't understand this threat.
---
he understands the difference between a potential threat, a real one
and a fear of islam.
We are being invaded every day by foreign hispanics from the south and
you're worried about the muzzies?

There was one comment he made about how
Islam doesn't attack Switzerland or Sweden......I broke out laughing!
----
the statement:
Rep. Paul stressed that Santorum's claim that Islamic theology is
founded upon killing everyone is not based in reality: "To declare war
on 1.2 billion Muslims and say all Muslims are the same, this is
dangerous talk. Yeah, there are some radicals. But they don't come
here to kill us because we're free and prosperous. Do they go to
Switzerland and Sweden? I mean, that's absurd. If you think that's the
reason, we have no chance of winning this. They come here and they
explicitly explain it to us. The CIA has explained it to us. They said
they come here and want to do us harm because we're bombing them."

S&S do get attacked by terrorists, like many countries, but
Switzerland does not send troops to intervene in other nations.
Switzerland does not spend tens of billions of dollars yearly to fund
dictators around the world, nor did Switzerland donate hundreds of
billions of dollars to the Warsaw Pact through bank "loans."
Switzerland does not send billions of dollars worth of weaponry every
year to the warring tribes in the Middle East . Switzerland has no
enemies. Yet the Swiss are armed to the teeth and dug into every hill
and under every building.

US policy is the evil-parallel-universe inverse of the Swiss. The US
intervenes everywhere, spies on everyone, supports every faction in
every dispute. We have as many enemies as there are disputatious
people in the world. Yet we spend more effort on disarming our own
airline pilots and other law-abiding citizens than on providing
shelters for our children against nuclear, chemical, or biological
attack. We have an expensive conventional army, and quite a few aging
offensive nuclear weapons.

In a perfect world, Dr. Paul's logic is.....Logical. Unfortunately,
Dr.
Paul is just flat out naive regarding foreign policy and world
affairs.
---
naive about what?
His opinion, like that of many Americans, is that our occupation and
interference in their government is the cause of their disdain or
hatred. Your camp, however, thinks that it's because they hate our
freedom and success and are trying to rule our nation. One has to only
look at the actions of the US military to see who is trying to rule
who.

I am rushed this morning, but I will follow up with examples of what I
speak of, and attempt to demonstrate why the term "Neo-Con" is so
misplaced by Ron Paul and his misinformed supporters.
---
it's not misplaced ... it's accurate
the term and members have changed over time a bit but
'neoconservatives' currently includes those who support spreading
democracy at the end of a gun, support israel, and want to keep any
potential national adversary in the cross-hairs so they can feel safe
while plundering resources and replacing leaders, regardless of the
failure of the policy.

On Dec 16, 8:44 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good Morning PlainOl,
>
> Your Wiki article is thoughtful, and usually I don't use Wiki for examples
> of political theory.
>
> I have no hatred of Islam. I have studied Islam, long before the
> September 11, 2001 tragedy, and I understand the threat that Islam and its
> leadership poses to the world. Again, Dr. Paul indicated last night that
> he doesn't understand this threat. There was one comment he made about how
> Islam doesn't attack Switzerland or Sweden......I broke out laughing!
>
> In a perfect world, Dr. Paul's logic is.....Logical. Unfortunately, Dr.
> Paul is just flat out naive regarding foreign policy and world affairs.
>
> I am rushed this morning, but I will follow up with examples of what I
> speak of, and attempt to demonstrate why the term "Neo-Con" is so
> misplaced by Ron Paul and his misinformed supporters.
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Again, I don't think you know what a NeoCon is.
> > ---
> > I do and you have already admitted that you don't
> > here's a primer ... read it thoroughly
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
>
> > You have been filled
> > with such hatred and misinformation
> > ---
> > cite specific hatred
> > you're the one with a hatred for islam ... a religion with just as
> > many kooks as xianity and judaism
>
> > On Dec 14, 5:04 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Again, I don't think you know what a NeoCon is. You have been filled
> > > with such hatred and misinformation, that you wouldn't know the truth if
> > it
> > > hit you right square in the ass.
>
> > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, plainolamerican
> > > <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > > Your views on isolationism,
> > > > ---
> > > > I don't advocate isolationism ... but you do advocate imperialism
>
> > > > extremism,
> > > > ---
> > > > exemplified by the US invasion of the middle east
>
> > > > and anti-semitism are noted.
> > > > ---
> > > > you're accusation has been noted ... so has has your allegiance to the
> > > > imperialist warmongering zionist neocons
>
> > > > On Dec 14, 2:02 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Your views on isolationism, extremism, and anti-semitism are noted.
>
> > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM, plainolamerican <
> > > > plainolameri...@gmail.com
>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > there is no socialist-elitist Democrat who is
> > > > > > going to bring prosperity to any community, State, region or on
> > the
> > > > > > federal level
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > agreed
>
> > > > > > then there's the waste of our nation's wealth and soldiers on other
> > > > > > countries (interventionism) at the hands of the republicans and
> > > > > > democrats
>
> > > > > > vote for Ron Paul and rebuild America as a powerhouse, without
> > > > > > imperialist warmongering
>
> > > > > > On Dec 14, 9:57 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > The bottom line, is that there is no socialist-elitist Democrat
> > who
> > > > is
> > > > > > > going to bring prosperity to any community, State, region or
> > on the
> > > > > > > federal level. The socialist-elitist Democrats have not brought
> > any
> > > > new
> > > > > > > ideas or thoughts to the table in over seventy years. It is a
> > broken
> > > > > > down
> > > > > > > simplistic, "Help Your Fellow Man" theory that again, is broken
> > and
> > > > will
> > > > > > > not work in any Nation, State or community. It has failed
> > > > miserably,
> > > > > > but
> > > > > > > yet socialist Elitist Democrats, (*e.g.;* they are either
> > Moonbats
> > > > or
> > > > > > > they are Anti-American, one of the two and there is no other
> > > > explanation
> > > > > > > for anyone being a Democrat anymore) continue to believe that
> > > > Marxism,
> > > > > > > Maoism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Communism, et. al, are all
> > really
> > > > > > > wonderful systems of social, economic and political justice, we
> > just
> > > > > > > haven't had the right folks implementing these systems yet.
>
> > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:50 AM, <drob...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > > > > > The corruption and devastation certainly became palpable with
> > > > Coleman
> > > > > > > > Young, but let's not forget the contribution from Jennifer
> > > > Granholm and
> > > > > > > > Kwame Kilpatrick.
>
> > > > > > > > ------------------------------
> > > > > > > > *From: *"Keith In Tampa" <keithinta...@gmail.com>
> > > > > > > > *To: *politicalforum@googlegroups.com
> > > > > > > > *Sent: *Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:42:24 AM
> > > > > > > > *Subject: *Re: 2011.10.28 DETROIT - MODEL FOR THE FUTURE? -
> > NOT!
>
> > > > > > > > Frosty Woolridge hit the nail on the head in this column.
> > Thanks
> > > > for
> > > > > > > > sharing Travis. I hope everyone takes the time to read the
> > column.
>
> > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > >> ** **
>
> > > > > > > >> A quick check of google, indicates that Detroit has NEVER
> > had a
> > > > > > > >> conservative mayor!****
> > > > > > > >> ------------------------------
>
> > > > > > > >> ** **
>
> > > > > > > >> Don't think this could not happen elsewhere.****
>
> > > > > > > >> ****
>
> > > > > > > >> *DETROIT** - A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE?* ****
>
> > > > > > > >> [image:
> > > > cid:ECB352C5B1944AEFB58352952FC313C3@ownerPC]
> > > > > > > >> Frosty Wooldridge *(born 1947)* is a US journalist,
> > > > > > > >> writer, environmentalist, traveler.****
>
> > > > > > > >> DETROIT
> > > > > > > >> By Frosty Wooldridge****
>
> > > > > > > >> For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in
> > Detroit,
> > > > > > Michigan.
> > > > > > > >> I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun
> > > > play,
> > > > > > > >> drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human
> > depravity. I
> > > > > > watched
> > > > > > > >> entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on
> > > > > > buildings,
> > > > > > > >> cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!****
>
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA2.1312373...@aol.com]****
>
> > > > > > > >> Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and
> > ignored it.
> > > > > > Tens
> > > > > > > >> of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on
> > > > federal
> > > > > > > >> welfare, free housing, and food stamps!****
>
> > > > > > > >> *With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed 8 to
> > 10
> > > > and in
> > > > > > > >> one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the
> > Detroit
> > > > > > Free
> > > > > > > >> Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.*****
>
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA3.1312373...@aol.com]****
>
> > > > > > > >> A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom
> > > > wanted.
> > > > > > I
> > > > > > > >> saw Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit . If
> > you
> > > > give
> > > > > > > >> money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking
> > money
> > > > for
> > > > > > doing
> > > > > > > >> nothing.****
>
> > > > > > > >> Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in
> > America,
> > > > > > outside
> > > > > > > >> of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its
> > knees... He
> > > > set
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > > >> benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a
> > black
> > > > man,
> > > > > > he
> > > > > > > >> said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA4.1312373...@aol.com]
> > > > > > > >> You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black
> > city
> > > > > > with 67
> > > > > > > >> percent African-Americans.****
>
> > > > > > > >> As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from
> > teaching
> > > > > > math
> > > > > > > >> and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my
> > van
> > > > for a
> > > > > > new
> > > > > > > >> life in another city or state.****
>
> > > > > > > >> Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today.
> > At
> > > > the
> > > > > > > >> same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city
> > for
> > > > the
> > > > > > > >> free government hand outs, so much so, that Muslims number
> > over
> > > > > > 300,000.
> > > > > > > >> Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in
> > > > Detroit.
> > > > > > > >> As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA5.1312373...@aol.com]
> > > > > > > >> As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally,
> > > > unlawful
> > > > > > > >> Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much
> > > > > > shoplifting
> > > > > > > >> that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city
> > > > locations.
> > > > > > You
> > > > > > > >> could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit
> > may
> > > > be
> > > > > > one of
> > > > > > > >> our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total
> > > > > > separation
> > > > > > > >> from America.****
>
> > > > > > > >> Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a
> > new
> > > > > > American
> > > > > > > >> Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid
> > for by
> > > > > > Saudi
> > > > > > > >> Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76
> > percent
> > > > last
> > > > > > June,
> > > > > > > >> according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more
> > > > foreign
> > > > > > > >> countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city
> > features
> > > > a 50
> > > > > > > >> percent illiteracy rate and growing.
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA6.1312373...@aol.com]
> > > > > > > >> Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry
> > > > vacated the
> > > > > > > >> city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of
> > Detroit:
> > > > > > How a
> > > > > > > >> great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the
> > > > writer's
> > > > > > > >> description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by
> > a
> > > > > > hurricane,
> > > > > > > >> and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about
> > it,"
> > > > > > > >> Said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread
> > brush
> > > > > > fires
> > > > > > > >> across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night."
> > > > > > Earthquake,
> > > > > > > >> tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the
> > > > city
> > > > > > that
> > > > > > > >> was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of
> > the
> > > > > > country
> > > > > > > >> might take notice.
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA7.1312373...@aol.com]
> > > > > > > >> But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and
> > slipping
> > > > > > rapidly,
> > > > > > > >> has had no such luck.****
>
> > > > > > > >> Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to
> > remove
> > > > it
> > > > > > from
> > > > > > > >> the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the
> > past
> > > > year
> > > > > > > >> emanated from its signature industry brought more attention
> > to the
> > > > > > auto
> > > > > > > >> executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long
> > > > been
> > > > > > > >> victimized by their dreadful decisions making.
>
> > > > > > > >> [image: cid:X.MA8.1312373...@aol.com]
> > > > > > > >> As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees,
> > no
> > > > > > amount of
> > > > > > > >> federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks
> > and
> > > > > > illegality
> > > > > > > >> permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death
> > from
> > > > the
> > > > > > seat
> > > > > > > >> of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of
> > > > every
> > > > > > sector
> > > > > > > >> of decaying Detroit.****
>
> > > > > > > >> "By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support.
> > > > Detroit 's
> > > > > > > >> treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide
> > the
> > > > > > barest
> > > > > > > >> municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which
> > six
> > > > years
> > > > > > ago
> > > > > > > >> was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a
> > philanthropist's
> > > > > > offer of
> > > > > > > >> $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high
> > schools,
> > > > is
> > > > > > in
> > > > > > > >> receivership.****
>
> > > > > > > >> The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved.
> > Three
> > > > > > years
> > > > > > > >> after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that
> > city
> > > > hit
> > > > > > a peak
> > > > > > > >> of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%.
> > That's
> > > > worth
> > > > > > > >> spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent. ****
>
> > > ...
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