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NPR calls Washington ‘Chocolate City’: Report focusing on racial make-up leaves bitter
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wnd ^ | 2/16/11 | Joe KovacsPosted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:22:14 PM by Nachum
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin came under fire for publicly saying he wanted to rebuild his city as a “Chocolate New Orleans.”Now, a report by National Public Radio is using similar terminology, calling the nation’s capital “chocolate,” but noting a change in its flavor.
The article, titled, “D.C., Long ‘Chocolate City,’ Becoming More Vanilla,” by Alex Kellogg, opens by stating: “For decades Washington, D.C., was known affectionately as ‘Chocolate City’ to many black Americans, because it was predominantly African-American.”Most big U.S. cities are getting browner as more blacks, Hispanics and Asians move in. Washington, by contrast, fell to just 53 percent black in 2009, down from a peak of 71 percent in 1970.
That’s partly because D.C. has quickly become one of the most expensive cities in America, and one of the only cities in the U.S. where property values continue to rise despite the economic downturn.
“Excerpt Read more at wnd.com …
Kill Switch Beta: Government Blocks 84,000 Websites
Under the banner of fighting child pornography, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice knocked out 84,000 websites last week.
The websites did not host or link to child pornography as the government claims.
“As part of ‘Operation Save Our Children‘ ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names, but not without making a huge error.
Last Friday, thousands of site owners were surprised by a rather worrying banner that was placed on their domain,” reports TorrentFreak, a tech site.“Advertisement, distribution, transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography constitute federal crimes that carry penalties for first time offenders of up to 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution,” was the message visitors to the sites were greeted with after a judge signed a seizure warrant and Big Sis contacted the domain registries and instructed them to point the domains in question to a server that hosts the above warning message.
Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?
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Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?
Rolling Stone ^ | February 16, 2011 | Matt TaibbiPosted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:30:52 PM by Chunga85
Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them.Here’s how regulation of Wall Street is supposed to work.
To begin with, there’s a semigigantic list of public and quasi-public agencies ostensibly keeping their eyes on the economy, a dense alphabet soup of banking, insurance, S&L, securities and commodities regulators like the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC, as well as supposedly “self-regulating organizations” like the New York Stock Exchange.
All of these outfits, by law, can at least begin the process of catching and investigating financial criminals, though none of them has prosecutorial power.The major federal agency on the Wall Street beat is the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC watches for violations like insider trading, and also deals with so-called “disclosure violations” — i.e., making sure that all the financial information that publicly traded companies are required to make public actually jibes with reality.
But the SEC doesn’t have prosecutorial power either, so in practice, when it looks like someone needs to go to jail, they refer the case to the Justice Department. And since the vast majority of crimes in the financial services industry take place in Lower Manhattan, cases referred by the SEC often end up in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Thus, the two top cops on Wall Street are generally considered to be that U.S. attorney — a job that has been held by thunderous prosecutorial personae like Robert Morgenthau and Rudy Giuliani — and the SEC’s director of enforcement.
Excerpt Read more at rollingstone.com …
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The Miseducation of America
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The Miseducation of America
Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield ^ | Feb. 15, 2011 | Daniel GreenfieldPosted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:44:51 PM by 6ft2inhighheelshoes
The last two years have been another reminder that education is not equivalent to competence, intelligence or experience, let alone wisdom, as an administration of people who have hardly held actual jobs outside of academia have proven that they are very good at assigning blame and conducting internal rivalries, and absolutely terrible at everything else.
William F. Buckley famous opined that he would “sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University“.
We have spent the last two years being governed by Harvard faculty members, and they have done such an excellent job of it that in the future the Boston telephone directory may well replace the ballot box. Point to a few names at random and call it a day…………………..
Will SCOTUS Finally Act Like a SUPREME Court and Review the Obama Birth Mess?
We have been waiting for nearly two years for someone with authority in this country to take some responsibility for answering questions that are of the utmost importance to determine if we are a legitimate nation, under God, with law and order or are we a shiftless, drifting, wayward vessel of more than Three Hundred Million citizens that lacks the rudder and steering necessary to conduct daily legal transactions and can speak the truth?Up to this date, we have been the latter irresponsible ship of state without conscience or the necessary leaders capable of standing straight and handing down a direct decision of constitutionally accepted verity.
IOW in other words, as they say on the Internet, a bunch of spineless, truth-less, unprincipled butt-protectors reluctant to hand down a directruling that might place their jobs in jeopardy.It’s not as if someone would be required to rule on whether or not Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is factually correct or whether homosexuality is abefore or after birth affliction or abnormality.
No, those examples are particularly stressful to someone charged with ruling on them; all of what the American people are looking for in this instance is a final judicial determination as to whether or not the current occupant of the Office of President of the United States is legally qualified to serve in that office pursuant to the terms of the United States Constitution.
Patton On Communism And The Khazar Jews General Patton’s Warning (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE THREAD ROUND UP 2/16/11 to 2/22/11
IN the Old Corps there was an old saying as to as long as the troops were still bitching the morale was ok…..well i spend a good bit of my time online…and I see lately a definite slacking off of the online bitching…the folks, as 0’pinhead refers to us, are really keeping their yaps shut about/due to sumptin’!!!!!does itmean the morale is still ok?THINK AGAIN !!!!! !!!!!13 posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:30:37 AM by gunnyg “A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever…
Psyops: Is Barack Obama a CIA Trained Manchurian Candidate? (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Has Revelation’s ‘pale rider’ shown up in Egypt? (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
Possible Mexican Military Incursion On U.S. Soil
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Possible Mexican Military Incursion On U.S. Soil
http://www.krgv.com ^ | Polo SandovalPosted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:29:39 AM by WhenifhowMISSION – CHANNEL 5 NEWS is exposing what appears to be a Mexican military incursion into the United States.
It was all caught on camera. We froze surveillance video taken at the Anzalduas International Bridge.What you see is the international boundary that separates the United States from Mexico and what authorities on this side of the border seem to think is a truck packed with armed men crossing into the United States.
The video clearly shows a large military-transport vehicle drive north on the Anzalduas bridge over the international boundary.
Treasonous Congressmen Who Voted FOR The PATRIOT Act
Dear Concerned Citizen – The below is a list of the House members that voted FOR extension of the PATRIOT Act: Since the PATRIOT Act violates the U.S. Constitution by “justifying” such violation with the “need” for more “national security,” the Congressmen and Congresswomen in the above list are traitors to their Oath of Office, an oath they all took to uphold theU.S. Consitution. These people should thus bevoted out of officeas soon as possible. This data was reported………………….
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Did the United States put bounties on the heads of supposed deserters during the Vietnam War (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
WTC Hard Drives Show $100 Million In Criminal Credit Transfers Before Towers Fell
There was a sharp rise in credit card transactions moving through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers. This could be a criminal enterprise-in which case, did they get advance warning? Or was it only a coincidence that more than $100 million was rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded?Stock up with Fresh Food that las
Fox News Caught In Shocking Dirty Tricks Stunt Against Ron Paul
In a shocking act of mass public deception, Fox News attempted to skew Ron Paul’s 2011 CPAC straw poll win by representing it with footage from the previous year’s CPAC event, at which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed the result, another example of the continuing dirty tricks campaign being waged against Paul by the establishment media.
Congressman Paul replicated his 2010 victory over Mitt Romney by defeating the former Governor of Massachusetts for a second consecutive year at the annual CPAC conference.However, before anchor Bill Hemmer introduced a segment concerning the story, Fox News played a clip of the 2010 announcement of the poll results, during which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed Ron Paul’s victory, passing off last year’s footage as representative of this year’s event.
Hemmer then proceeded to state, “In the end he was the winner, probably not the reaction he was hoping for,” describing the reaction as “mixed applause and boos,” before directly asking Ron Paul if he knew who was booing him.
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