No 802 “En mi
opinión” Noviembre 24, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
Report: Israel Considering Military Action Against Iran
As the deadline for nuclear talks between the P5+1 powers and Iran looms
on Monday, Israel is warning it might use military power if a deal doesn't meet
with its approval, The Jerusalem Post reports.
"Current proposals guarantee the perpetuation of a crisis, backing Israel into a corner from which military force against Iran provides the only logical exit," the Post quoted Israeli government sources as saying.
The current proposal would restrict Iran's nuclear program for 10 years and cap its ability to produce weapons-grade material, the Post reported. The agreement would require Iran to give its material to Russia to be converted to peaceful use and would call for stringent inspections.
"Current proposals guarantee the perpetuation of a crisis, backing Israel into a corner from which military force against Iran provides the only logical exit," the Post quoted Israeli government sources as saying.
The current proposal would restrict Iran's nuclear program for 10 years and cap its ability to produce weapons-grade material, the Post reported. The agreement would require Iran to give its material to Russia to be converted to peaceful use and would call for stringent inspections.
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But Israel is wary of the proposal, with an Israeli official noting, "our intelligence agencies are not perfect."
The official pointed out that Iran's nuclear facilities in Natanz and Qom were not known of for years.
"And inspection regimes are certainly not perfect," the official said. "They weren't in the case in North Korea, and it isn't the case now – Iran's been giving the [International Atomic Energy Agency] the run around for years about its past activities."
Critics of the deal in the United States also have pointed to Iran's past broken promises.
The Post said that members of P5+1 have indicated they may be willing to forgo a requirement that Iran fully disclose secret weapons work. The P5+1 is made up of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany.
Israel's biggest issue with the deal is its "sunset clause,"
the Post reported.
"You've not dismantled the infrastructure, you've basically tried to put limits that you think are going to be monitored by inspectors and intelligence," the Israeli official told the Post. "And then after this period of time, Iran is basically free to do whatever it wants."
The Obama administration denies that charge, telling the Post by email, "following successful implementation of the final step of the comprehensive solution for its duration, the Iranian nuclear program will be treated in the same manner as that of any non-nuclear weapon state party to the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] – with an emphasis on non-nuclear weapon."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military force against Iran multiple times since 2009, and even sought authorization from his cabinet in 2011, the Post reported.
Israel has bombed suspected nuclear facilities in the past. In 1981, an Israeli airstrike took out a nuclear facility being built near Baghdad, Iraq, and in 2007 another airstrike hit a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
Netanyahu, in an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week," reiterated his warning that Iran is working on an intercontinental ballistic missile. He has said in the past that the West should be just as concerned as Israel because Iran would not need an ICBM to hit Israel – only Europe or the United States.
"You've not dismantled the infrastructure, you've basically tried to put limits that you think are going to be monitored by inspectors and intelligence," the Israeli official told the Post. "And then after this period of time, Iran is basically free to do whatever it wants."
The Obama administration denies that charge, telling the Post by email, "following successful implementation of the final step of the comprehensive solution for its duration, the Iranian nuclear program will be treated in the same manner as that of any non-nuclear weapon state party to the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty] – with an emphasis on non-nuclear weapon."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened military force against Iran multiple times since 2009, and even sought authorization from his cabinet in 2011, the Post reported.
Israel has bombed suspected nuclear facilities in the past. In 1981, an Israeli airstrike took out a nuclear facility being built near Baghdad, Iraq, and in 2007 another airstrike hit a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
Netanyahu, in an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week," reiterated his warning that Iran is working on an intercontinental ballistic missile. He has said in the past that the West should be just as concerned as Israel because Iran would not need an ICBM to hit Israel – only Europe or the United States.
"If for any reason the United States and the other powers agree to
leave Iran with that capacity to break out, I think that would be a historic
mistake," Netanyahu told ABC.
Meanwhile, The Associated Press reports that the United States is asking to extend the talks as Monday's deadline is approaching with little hope for a deal.
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Meanwhile, The Associated Press reports that the United States is asking to extend the talks as Monday's deadline is approaching with little hope for a deal.
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Revealed:
Obama Met Secretly With Ferguson Protesters And Told Them Something
Unbelievable
"A number of the high-profile
protesters met secretly with President Obama..."
Tensions
in and around the troubled town of Ferguson, Missouri, are rising sharply in
anticipation of the release any day now of the grand jury report on the police
shooting that left Michael Brown dead of multiple gunshot wounds.
Responding
to calls from protest
organizers, many
outsiders have been gathering in the St. Louis area, planning their
response to what some believe is the likely outcome of the grand jury’s lengthy
investigation — no indictment of police officer Darren Wilson.
Now
it’s been revealed that on November 5th — the day that Democrats
fully realized the midterm elections were a blowout of their party — a number
of the high-profile protesters met secretly with President Obama and MSNBC host
Al Sharpton. From The
Daily Mail:
“It was a
meeting the Gateway Pundit notes was not included on the president’s daily
schedule.
“Sharpton
told the [New York] Times that Obama urged the group to ‘stay on course.'”
While
that previously undisclosed meeting may have been the first time Obama himself
met with protest organizers — in a role reminiscent of his community organizer
days — it certainly wasn’t the only time a top-level Obama official made a
point of getting together with those demanding an indictment of white cop
Darren Wilson.
In
August, Attorney General Eric Holder personally went to Ferguson with top
Justice Department officials to talk with community leaders protesting the
Brown shooting. As reported on time.com:
“Holder,
who was joined in Ferguson by Acting Assistant Attorney General Molly Moran and
other Justice Department officials, expressed gratitude to those working in the
area to keep tensions cool amid the daily protests.
“During
brief statements on Wednesday, Holder said he understands the mistrust for law
enforcement the people of Ferguson have expressed while also sharing personal
interactions he has had with officers throughout his life.”
The
county seat of Clayton, Missouri, where the grand jury is considering the case,
has been targeted by protestors who vow to shut down the city should Wilson not
be indicted on criminal charges for the Brown killing.
“Many
residents and officials in the region fear another wave of rioting similar to
the one in August that led to the burning out of multiple businesses if the
grand jury decides not to charge Wilson.
“‘We are
bracing for that possibility. That is what many people are expecting. The
entire community is going to be upset,’ if Wilson is not indicted, said Jose
Chavez, 46, a leader of the local Latinos en Axion group.
And
as noted at thegatewaypundit.com, agitators getting ready to take to the
streets once again are not ruling out more violence and looting of the kind
that followed Michael Brown’s shooting death.
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The protests in Ferguson, Mo., on Friday
night grew larger than previous days’ gatherings of protesters, despite
the rain and cold weather. Police officers used a megaphone to ask protesters
to leave the street outside the Ferguson Police Department or they would be
arrested. In this video, protesters responded by chanting ”F— the police”
and shouting “We don’t give a f— about your laws like you don’t give a f— about
our lives.” Warning: Video contains foul language.
Protesters then moved to West Florissant
Street and blocked traffic in front of a McDonald’s restaurant and chanted,
“Who shut sh– down? We shut sh– down!” Warning: Video contains foul language.
The employees working inside of the 24-hour
McDonald’s restaurant were so frightened that they locked the doors and
temporarily closed the store until protesters moved down the street.
The protesters meanwhile did not seem nearly
as concerned about potential violence, and some even brought their children to
help block traffic.
A grand jury’s decision to indict police
officer Darren Wilson, who is suspected of shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown,
could come at any moment. Residents and law enforcement alike are preparing for a worst-case scenario that could include
the loss of life as a result of violent protests.
Republican
House Hires This Liberal Law Professor To Sue Obama…Libs Loudly Cry Foul
House
Speaker John Boehner has hired prominent...
To
many observers of politics or the law, this might seem to be a strange
brew indeed — the “odd couple” pairing of Republican Speaker John Boehner
with liberal law professor Jonathan Turley in the House’s ObamaCare lawsuit
against the president for whom Turley has said he voted.
Confused?
Let’s check the facts.
House
Speaker John Boehner has hired prominent constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley
to lead the legal team in going after President Obama in court on behalf of the
House of Representatives.
As
the Washington Examiner explains, Turley will represent the House in
its lawsuit against Obama’s unilateral, and potentially unconstitutional, move
to delay implementation of a key Obamacare provision requiring large firms to
offer healthcare coverage to their employees.
“Professor
Turley is a renowned legal scholar who agrees that President Obama has clearly
overstepped his Constitutional authority. He is a natural choice to handle this
lawsuit,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said.
“Boehner…has
not ruled out expanding the lawsuit to include a challenge to Obama’s promised
executive order to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants. For now,
however, the lawsuit remains focused on Obamacare.”
Considering
Turley’s recent criticism of what he views as the dangerous overreach of a
power-hungry president — criticism expressed in testimony before Congress
— his involvement with the House suit against Obama shouldn’t be that much of a
surprise.
A
self-described liberal who says he voted for Obama and even supports
nationalized health care, the George Washington University Law School Professor
nonetheless believes the president has often exceeded his authority.
Via huffingtonpost.com, we learn that Turley posted why he took on
the current case against the president whom he helped to elect on his
blog:
“Unilateral,
unchecked Executive action is precisely the danger that the Framers sought to
avoid in our constitutional system. This case represents a long-overdue effort
by Congress to resolve fundamental Separation of Powers issues.
“In that
sense, it has more to do with constitutional law than health care law.”
Notably,
in the same Huffington Post article, liberal angst over Turley’s new alignment
with Boehner and the GOP House is on full display:
“Democrats
quickly criticized the hire on Tuesday, noting Turley’s many appearances on Fox
News, where he frequently criticizes the administration on health care and
immigration reform.
“‘Even for
$500-per-hour in taxpayer dollars, Speaker [John] Boehner has had to scour
Washington to find a lawyer willing to file this meritless lawsuit against the
President,’ said Drew Hammill, spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.).
“‘Now,
he’s hired a TV personality for this latest episode of his distraction and
dysfunction.'”
Of
course, liberal Democrats and their supporters in the media were more than
happy to feature and fawn over Jonathan Turley in numerous appearances on MSNBC
when his criticisms aligned with theirs.
“…Turley
has a strong libertarian streak and sometimes infuriates the left with a
contrarian position.[10] For instance, he has said, “It is hard to read the
Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun
ownership to be an individual right.”
Amenper: El problema histórico de
los Negros en Estados Unidos
El problema de los negros en Estados
Unidos es algo difícil de explicar. Parece
algo extraño que a través de los siglos, en una democracia como la americana,
no se haya podido lograr una igualdad racial.
No podemos decir que en Cuba la
tuviéramos, pero estuvimos mucho más cerca que en los Estados Unidos, y en una
Cuba republicana sin Castro, se hubiera progresivamente logrado, porque se veía
avanzar.
He sido un testigo de esta situación
en los Estados Unidos, por la historia que he estudiado y por lo que he
vivido bajo dos etapas diversas de la desigualdad racial. No se ha
podido lograr nada en Estados Unidos, el problema negro ha sufrido bien
definidas etapas de diversidad racial entre negros y blancos y la desigualdad
persiste.
Primera etapa, la esclavitud, con los negros abajo, en esa
perversa institución de la esclavitud que existía en aquella época en todo el
mundo. Hubo diferentes razas esclavizadas, blancos europeos, chinos
encomendados en Estados Unidos y latinoamerica, hubo esclavos de todos colores,
pero los más abundante fueron los negros que se esclavizaban entre sí en Africa
y se vendían a los blancos esclavistas que los exportaban a Ámerica.
Cómo una reacción lógica a la
injusticia de la esclavitud vino la emancipación, con una etapa de calma
después de la guerra civil, durante la presidencia de Andrew Johnson.
Pero después surgió la segunda etapa en el sur, con la reconstrucción, una etapa en
que los negros con complicidad política de los norteños abusaron de los
blancos.
La película “The birth of a Nation”
enseña este momento en la historia. Hoy
se determina que era una película racista, pero lo que enseña es la realidad
del principio de la época de la reconstrucción, quizás exagerada, pero es una
manera de ver cómo se sentía el pueblo sureño en aquella etapa.
Si no lo conocen en estos tres
enlaces pueden tener una idea de la trama que representa el problema racial en
el sur en 1915, representado en la película, durante la reconstrucción más de
una década después de la guerra civil.
El último enlace les da una
percepción de los diferentes puntos de vista raciales y sociales.
Pero lo que podemos ver es
algo que sucedió y no se habla hoy en día. Los negros durante la reconstrucción
ocuparon cargos en las cámaras legislativas como aparece en la película, antes
de que llegara la segregación.
Por reacción surgieron las guerrillas sureñas, con
milicias como los del KKK y otros, que se impusieron creando la tercera etapa,
que fue la segregación, esta tercera etapa dejó a los negros abajo,
discriminados por las leyes
“Jim Crow” que representan la tercera etapa, la segregación..
Por reacción por las injusticias de
la segregación, hubo la lucha de los negros del sur por sus derechos civiles.
Con la ayuda del norte y por sus luchas, lograron terminar con las injusticias
de la segregación.
Cómo en la etapa de la emancipación
hubo una etapa pacífica, pero después vino, también por intervención política, el racismo a la inversa... la cuarta etapa.
Progresivamente hemos visto a los
negros tomar privilegios de las leyes de derechos civiles para tomar
privilegios sobre los blancos. Un presidente negro no ha logrado la
igualdad racial, al contrario, la ha incrementado, la división racial entre
negros y blancos es peor que antes de tener un presidente negro.
Esta cuarta etapa pudiera llevar a
una posible quinta etapa, en que los negros se vean de nuevo discriminados por la reacción de los blancos ante
sus acciones.
Lo que está pasando en Ferguson es
el cómo un forúnculo en el cuerpo de la nación. El punto blanco del forúnculo está en
Ferguson, y está a punto de explotar, soltando toda la materia putrefacta en
forma de motines raciales que traerán una inestabilidad política y racial y la
reacción de los blancos ante estos hechos.
Lo único que lo pudiera prevenir
sería que los tribunales ante el chantaje cedan y declaren culpable a un
inocente. Esto no resolvería el problema, sólo lo dilataría hasta el próximo
incidente.
La irracionalidad de los militantes
negros es tan evidente que no admite excusas. ¿Cómo se va a chantajear al poder
judicial para decirles lo que tienen que determinar en las cortes? ¿Cómo se
puede exigir, que si no declaran culpable al blanco, pagarán las consecuencias
como motines?. Esto sólo se puede considerar como un abuso racista por parte de
los militantes negros hacia los blancos. Y al final, los negros serán los más
perjudicados.
Viví personalmente la tercera etapa del abuso al negro por la segregación, y la cuarta etapa del abuso de negro de los derechos civiles estableciendo una discriminación racial a la inversa, y me parece que quizás vea la quinta etapa nacer si se producen los anunciados motines.
Viví personalmente la tercera etapa del abuso al negro por la segregación, y la cuarta etapa del abuso de negro de los derechos civiles estableciendo una discriminación racial a la inversa, y me parece que quizás vea la quinta etapa nacer si se producen los anunciados motines.
Los negros no lograrán nada con los
motines como no sea algo de muerte y destrucción, pero cuando se calmen los
ánimos, puede ser que queden de nuevo abajo por la reacción de los blancos.
El balance de la igualdad de negros
y blancos, nunca se podrá lograr mientras sigan predicando por agendas
políticas la diversidad racial y la lucha de clases disfrazada de lucha de
razas.
Es un problema político, no racial,
pero se manifiesta en el racismo por ambas partes y América seguirá siendo una
nación dividida hasta que no haya un movimiento cívico que establezca la
verdadera igualdad ciudadana. Porque una acción siempre trae una
reacción, y si no se detienen las acciones la historia de etapas de
desigualdades raciales nunca acabará..
Amenper: Vigencia Moderna de
“La Republica” de Platón
¿Está nuestro
mundo dirigiéndose hacia un futuro de más democracia? ¿O estamos presenciando
el ocaso de la misma?
Desde la cuna
de la civilización, cómo una premonición, los filósofos griegos vieron los
peligros de la formación de la tiranía dentro de una democracia.
El filósofo
griego Platón hizo una famosa advertencia: "De la democracia surge por
naturaleza la tiranía, y la más agravada forma de tiranía y esclavitud sale de
la forma más extrema de libertad" (La República, Libro VIII). ¿Es acertada
esta advertencia? ¿Y estará empezando a ocurrir así en los Estados Unidos?
La larva de la
tiranía crece en las entrañas del régimen democrático desde el mismo día de su
nacimiento, precisamente porque otorga a los ciudadanos voz y voto sobre todos
los problemas de la ciudad (léase sociedad), explica el filósofo griego.
Como ninguno es
capaz de entender absolutamente todos esos problemas –porque son disímiles y
complejos– las democracias tienden a delegar la solución de aquellos temas a
personajes que, utilizando sus grandes habilidades retóricas, engañan a los
ciudadanos, ofreciéndoles soluciones aparentemente buenas. Pero lo que ocurre
en realidad, argumenta Platón, es que esos líderes apelan a los sentimientos y
no a la razón de los ciudadanos, alimentando en ellos pasiones negativas, como
el odio, la lucha de razas y clases y privilegios sin el fruto del trabajo, lo
cual en realidad es un tipo de ambición desmedida.
El futuro
dictador utiliza a los ciudadanos que lo apoyan como ejército personal para
atacar a cualquiera que se oponga a sus designios. También lanza acusaciones
inescrupulosas, insulta y enjuicia a cualquiera que tenga ansias de libertad,
explica el filósofo griego.
Pero el tirano
muestra sus verdaderos colores solo cuando el dinero –que antes se repartía a
manos llenas– comienza a escasear. Para conseguir fondos, el dictador empieza a
imponer contribuciones (impuestos) cada vez más onerosas al pueblo, explica
Platón. Ahí es cuando su popularidad comienza a declinar y cuando el tirano se
convierte en una figura aún más autoritaria.
Sólo entonces
el pueblo entenderá qué clase de hijo ha encumbrado en el poder; sólo en ese
momento se dará cuenta que la liberación del yugo de los ricos que tanto había
ofrecido el político electo se ha convertido ahora en un nuevo yugo, esta vez
impuesto por el tirano que un día el mismo pueblo eligió, creyendo que él sería
su única salvación.
Esto de que
habla Platón no es el tradicional debate entre el Estado versus el mercado,
sino más bien entre el desarrollo autoritario versus el desarrollo en libertad.
Esta corriente
de pensamiento proviene todo individuo –los hay socialistas, conservadores y de
otros colores– que añora llegar a concentrar poder político para imponerle a
toda la sociedad decisiones íntimas: desde lo que podemos fumar y dónde, hasta
lo que debemos comer y lo que nuestros hijos deben aprender en las escuelas.
Se están
produciendo cambios geopolíticos masivos, la tecnología moderna ha facilitado
la comunicación de las culturas, y la influencia de una cultura foránea que
luce más atractiva que nuestra cultura tradicional. Nos hablan de
complicadas fórmulas para el bienestar para todos.
Pero detrás de
esas complicadas fórmulas está ese desprecio por el derecho que tiene cada
individuo a elegir sobre la mayoría de los aspectos de su vida, acompañado de
una arrogancia de poseer un conocimiento superior de lo que les conviene a
otros. Esto contrasta con la confianza que tenía Hayek en “los esfuerzos
independientes y competitivos de muchos”, su respeto por el derecho de las personas
a planificar sus propias vidas y la humildad de reconocer que los conocimientos
que alguien pueda tener siempre son limitados, sin importar cuántos títulos se
hayan obtenido.
Creo que lo que
nos expone Platón en “La Republica” no necesita mucha explicación o estudio,
simplemente levantar los ojos del libro y mirar a nuestro alrededor.
Giuliani: 93 Percent of Blacks Are Killed by Blacks
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says that the media focusing on
the Ferguson, Missouri grand jury should spend more attention on why white
police officers are in black neighborhoods to start with.
"I find it very disappointing that you're not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks," Giuliani said Sunday on "Meet the Press."
The case of white police officers killing blacks are the exception rather that the rule, he said.
"We are talking about the significant exception," Giuliani said.
"I find it very disappointing that you're not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks," Giuliani said Sunday on "Meet the Press."
The case of white police officers killing blacks are the exception rather that the rule, he said.
"We are talking about the significant exception," Giuliani said.
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But a very heated author and professor Michael Eric Dyson said Giuliani was drawing a "false equivalency," saying that most blacks who kill other blacks go to jail and they are not sworn by the state to uphold the law.
Giuliani said 70 percent to 75 percent of crime in New York City takes place in predominantly black areas, and that's why there is a large police presence in those places.
"The white police officers wouldn't be there if you weren't killing each other," Giuliani said.
The debate was sparked by discussion of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in August. The unarmed 18-year-old was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson, sparking weeks of protests, some of which turned violent.
Giuliani says people pushing for an indictment from the grand jury
probing the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Missouri are perverting the
criminal justice system.
"This grand jury is under incredible pressure … to indict. I feel sorry for these people because they know if they walk out of that grand jury room and have not indicted they may have created a massive riot in their city and maybe throughout the United States," Giuliani said.
"To me, that kind of pressure is completely inconsistent with the American criminal justice system. And the people who are putting on that pressure should be ashamed of themselves," the former mayor said.
Fear of more unrest has led Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to declare a state-of-emergency pre-emptively.
Nixon, a Democrat, has faced criticism for that move, but Giuliani said he understood since he found himself in similar situations as mayor of America's largest city.
"I would have had a state of emergency, but I would have kept it quiet," Giuliani said. He said he would have had police on alert and placed them where they wouldn't be seen by the public so they would be ready at a moment's notice to stop any kind of violence.
"This grand jury is under incredible pressure … to indict. I feel sorry for these people because they know if they walk out of that grand jury room and have not indicted they may have created a massive riot in their city and maybe throughout the United States," Giuliani said.
"To me, that kind of pressure is completely inconsistent with the American criminal justice system. And the people who are putting on that pressure should be ashamed of themselves," the former mayor said.
Fear of more unrest has led Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to declare a state-of-emergency pre-emptively.
Nixon, a Democrat, has faced criticism for that move, but Giuliani said he understood since he found himself in similar situations as mayor of America's largest city.
"I would have had a state of emergency, but I would have kept it quiet," Giuliani said. He said he would have had police on alert and placed them where they wouldn't be seen by the public so they would be ready at a moment's notice to stop any kind of violence.
But, he added, Nixon was in a no-win situation.
"Had he not declared a state of emergency, he'd probably get criticized for not doing it," Giuliani said.
The ex-mayor said he is concerned that no one is explaining to the public that grand juries are kept secret to protect innocent people since that system has a lower burden of proof than court.
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"Had he not declared a state of emergency, he'd probably get criticized for not doing it," Giuliani said.
The ex-mayor said he is concerned that no one is explaining to the public that grand juries are kept secret to protect innocent people since that system has a lower burden of proof than court.
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Ted Cruz: Obama Essentially 'Counterfeiting Immigration Papers'
Sen. Ted Cruz continued his attack Sunday on President Barack Obama's
executive order granting legal status to up to 5 million illegal immigrants,
saying that the presidents argument he was just using prosecutorial discretion
is "just simply nonsense."
"For 4 to 5 million people here illegally he's promising to print up and give work authorizations," the Texas Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "Essentially, he's gotten in the job of counterfeiting immigration papers."
"For 4 to 5 million people here illegally he's promising to print up and give work authorizations," the Texas Republican said on "Fox News Sunday." "Essentially, he's gotten in the job of counterfeiting immigration papers."
Cruz said the order goes beyond the 5 million specified, and actually
extends to nearly all the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the
country. He said a memo he sent to Homeland
Security instructs the department not to enforce immigration laws except
against violent criminals and a few others.
Cruz was asked about his call for Congress to fight Obama's plan by funding each agency through individual bills and attaching a rider to not fund Homeland Security until Obama reverses his executive order.
Cruz was asked about his call for Congress to fight Obama's plan by funding each agency through individual bills and attaching a rider to not fund Homeland Security until Obama reverses his executive order.
Obama would be expected to veto such bills, which brings back the
specter of a government shutdown.
"You're willing to shut down departments and you're willing to take the backlash?" host Chris Wallace asked. "I mean, it didn’t work very well with Obamacare, sir."
Cruz, who led the budget fight against Obamacare in October 2013 that was blamed for the two-week partial government shutdown, responded that the media was wrong then and is probably wrong now.
Pundits, even those from the conservative side, predicted Cruz's budget fight would cost Republicans seats in the House and Senate. Instead, Cruz pointed out, the GOP gained seats in both houses and took control of the Senate.
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"You're willing to shut down departments and you're willing to take the backlash?" host Chris Wallace asked. "I mean, it didn’t work very well with Obamacare, sir."
Cruz, who led the budget fight against Obamacare in October 2013 that was blamed for the two-week partial government shutdown, responded that the media was wrong then and is probably wrong now.
Pundits, even those from the conservative side, predicted Cruz's budget fight would cost Republicans seats in the House and Senate. Instead, Cruz pointed out, the GOP gained seats in both houses and took control of the Senate.
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Michele Bachmann Is About To Take On Obama, And She Needs America’s Help
“We
need to have your viewers..."
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on Hannity Thursday night to urge Sean Hannity’s
viewers to get involved with defunding President Obama’s executive order on
immigration by “melting the phone lines.” Although
Congress is not currently in Washington D.C., Bachmann explained they will
be back at work from December 1st through the 11th. She invited the Fox Channel audience
not only to call their congressmen and senators, but to actually join her for a
rally at the Capitol building.
“We need to have your viewers melt the phone lines. So, I’m asking your viewers to
join us, Wednesday, December 3rd at high noon on the west steps of the Capitol. Come, rally, and then go visit
your Senator and go visit your Congressman. And
you can make the difference and we can get this thing defunded. We can do this, but we need the
viewers to come and help us.”
Bachman
was elected in 2006 to become the first Republican woman to represent
Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
Bachmann is leaving office at the end of this year. Republican Tom Emmer, who
won her vacated seat, will be the only new member of Minnesota’s congressional
delegation when the 114th Congress gets underway in January.
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Obama Claims ‘Borders Mean Something,’ Illegal Immigrants Shouldn’t Get Rewarded
Talk about trying to play both sides of the
issue. Obama says one thing, does another, but really
means something else.
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On Friday, at the Las Vegas, Nevada high
school where then-candidate Barack Obama pivoted to his “Si, Se Puede” (Yes, we
can) message in 2008, President Barack Obama celebrated his executive amnesty
in which he essentially declared, “Yes, I can.”
After announcing his executive amnesty at the
White House on Thursday evening that will give temporary amnesty and work
permits to millions of illegal immigrants, Obama went to Del Sol High School in
Nevada and became the salesman-in-chief. Obama will reportedly try to
“aggressively” sell his executive amnesty in the coming weeks across the
country, including next Tuesday in Chicago with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and
Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
He sold his executive overreach by claiming
that his executive amnesty was not “amnesty” but actually “accountability” for
illegal immigrants.
“It’s not amnesty,” Obama claimed. “What we
are offering is accountability.”
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Amenper: Pardon my
Espangli
Pero yo soy de Mayami
Soy proud de
ser Cubano de Sagua the Big, pero también soy proud to be Cubiche de Mayami.
Mayami es la
tierra del espangli, donde podemos shopear en los moles, y botear en la
bahía.
Donde
tenemos un tin de basque que son la candela, por eso le dicen los
heats.
Tenemos
restoranes donde se puede jamar lonche o diner, lo mismo anglo que cubiche,
nica,mejicano o lo que sea hasta empacharnos.
Tenemos
dulcerías que podemos comer dulces sabrosos hasta empalagarnos.
Y cuando
estamos empalagados o empachados, no hay manera de decirlo que no sea
en espangli, ¿How could you say empalagado o empachado, in yanqui?
Espangli is
good, it is easy, if we are speaking in yanqui, y no sé como decir que no
me da la “gana” de hacer algo in yanqui pues digo “no me da la gana”
in my espangli, porque hablando en espangli hablamos como nos da la gana..
En Mayami
aprovechamos lo mejor de la lengua cubiche y yanqui, con tonos ticos, nicas,
boricuas, chicanos y otras modalidades que molemos en el picadillo del
espangli.
Lo que hemos
hecho es “estrenar” una lengua, because, si no fuera así como podría decir
“estrenar” en yanqui, no sé cómo se dice.
Estreno de una
película es premiere, pero eso no es lo que queremos decir cuando estrenamos un
par de zapatos. ¿Release? no, eso tampoco es lo que queremos decir cuando
usamos algo nuevo.
Pero en
espangli es fácil, estrenar es estrenar, y estamos estrenando una nueva lengua
un language de nosotros en Mayami,
Bueno, hasta
then, see you luego.
Amenper: Barack Obama, American Caudillo
By RICH
LOWRY November 19, 2014
To think
that President Obama has taken the oath of office four times (through accidents
of circumstance, twice each time he was elected). Taking the oath must have
become such old hat that he stopped paying attention.
The
president is now on the verge, if the reporting is correct, of issuing an
executive amnesty for illegal immigrants based on an astonishingly blatant
contempt for the constitutional order that he is sworn to uphold. Where does
Abraham Lincoln go to get his Bible back?
The last 400
years of Anglo-American political history can be read as a successful effort to
establish and maintain a system tethering the executive to the law. What
President Obama is contemplating will undermine that achievement, both through
his own lawlessness and the precedent he will create for subsequent presidents
to operate by extra-legal fiat.
There are
many opponents of the president's executive amnesty, but few as eloquent as the
president himself over the years. It doesn't take a former constitutional law
professor to know that Congress writes the law and the president executes it,
even if he finds it personally distasteful.
This is
basic. The president, slightly condescendingly, said at a Univision townhall at
Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C. in 2011 that everyone was
there studying hard "so you know that we've got three branches of
government. Congress passes the law. The executive branch's job is to enforce
and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the
laws."
Thank you
for the civics lesson, Mr. President. He has gone back to the drawing board
since then. His new theory is that the president huffily demands that laws pass
and if Congress refuses, he can create a new legal dispensation to his liking.
President
Obama insisted the other day that his previous ringing statements about the
separation of powers were only in response to questions about whether he could
impose comprehensive immigration reform on his own. This is so demonstrably
false, you wonder why he even bothered. As Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post
demonstrated, the president was repeatedly asked about exactly the sort of
action he is now about to undertake.
The
president and his supporters pretend that the Immigration and Nationality Act
contains a gigantic asterisk that says, notwithstanding the elaborate legal
infrastructure set out in the law and the distinctions among different
categories of immigrants, the president can do whatever he wants.
No Congress
would ever write the law this way. And even if it did, it wouldn't pass
constitutional muster.
"The
case law," according to David Rivkin of the law firm Baker Hostetler,
"clearly recognizes that delegations of any type of legislative authority
to the president must contain some limiting principles; they can never be
open-ended. To do otherwise, would unconstitutionally transfer core legislative
powers to the president."
The
president's defenders rely on the notion of prosecutorial discretion, the
existence of which is uncontroversial. The executive doesn’t have the resources
to hunt down and prosecute every violator of our laws, and therefore has to
establish enforcement priorities.
The
Congressional Research Service did a report on prosecutorial discretion and
immigration that, for the most part, emphasizes its piddling reach. It says,
for instance, that immigration officers may use discretion to decide whom to
stop, question, and arrest; whether to issue or cancel a Notice to Appear;
whether to settle or dismiss a proceeding; and so on.
No one
heretofore has thought this leeway could be used by a president as warrant to
eviscerate an entire statutory scheme.
Again, if
the reporting is accurate, the administration will announce a class of people
numbering in the millions that can get work permits, Social Security numbers,
and legal identification, at clear variance with the laws passed by Congress.
This isn’t
prosecutorial discretion—making enforcement decisions based on limited
resources—it is affirmatively expending resources not appropriated by Congress
for this purpose to administer a new system.
Under the
Obama precedent, future presidents can use the pretense of prosecutorial
discretion to dispense with swaths of the federal code and unilaterally come up
with alternatives.
Can’t
prosecute all pot dealers? Ignore the drug laws. Can’t find every tax scofflaw
in the country? Re-write the tax code. The only limits will be the legal
imagination and brazenness of the White House at any given moment.
Prior
presidents have, in keeping with the law, provided temporary relief to foreign
nationals whose native countries have been torn by civil strife or natural
disasters. George H. W. Bush gave safe harbor to Chinese students after
Tiananmen Square in 1990. Bill Clinton did the same for Central Americans here
after hurricanes hit the region in 1998. The numbers involved were typically in
the hundreds or thousands.
All this
makes for a sound basis in precedent and the law for President Obama’s decision
to give Syrians safe harbor in 2012, as their country descended into hellish
chaos. It doesn't come close to justifying his impending executive amnesty.
The gotcha
example of George H.W. Bush granting amnesty to some spouses and children of
recently legalized immigrants in 1990 isn’t apt either, since the scale was
much smaller (only about 140,000 people took advantage of it) and Congress
voted to codify it within months.
No matter
how much the president’s defenders stretch for a legal justification and for a
precedent, the conclusion is unavoidable that no one has done this before.
President Obama is said to want to build his legacy, and he will—as a man who
is shamefully careless of his oaths and constitutional obligations.
Rich Lowry
is editor of National Review
Policia Negro Mato Joven Blanco 2 dias despues de lo de Ferguson.N
|
Dos dias despues de
los sucesos de Ferguson, un Policia Negro mato a un joven Blanco en Utha.
Mientras que lo de Ferguson ha sido reportado por la Prensa miles de
veces, la muerte en Utah permanece en SILENCIO.
¿ Quien ha visto lo
del Policia Negro ? ¿ Por Que solo se Reporta los hechos de Ferguson...Por Que
no se Reporta Utha ?
Pregunta: ¿Are Media Increasing Tensions in Ferguson ?
¿ Es la Prensa Responsible por el
Aumento de las tensiones en Ferguson ?.
WASHINGTON,
D.C. - NOVEMBER 23: Protestors march in front of the Ferguson Police Department
in Ferguson, on November 23, 2014. The U.S. awaits a grand jurys decision on
whether to bring charges against a white police officer for fatally shooting an
unarmed black teen. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) - Despite preparations for
a weekend decision in the Ferguson shooting case, the grand jurors apparently
need more time to deliberate, and the uncertainty just seemed to feed the
anxiety and speculation Sunday in
a city already on edge.
More than 3½ months have passed since police
Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael
Brown after a confrontation in the middle of a street in the St. Louis suburb.
The shooting triggered riots and looting, and police responded with armored
vehicles and tear gas.
Many in the area thought a grand jury
decision on whether to charge Wilson with a crime would be announced Sunday, based partly on a stepped-up police
presence in the preceding days, including the setting up of barricades around
the building where the panel was meeting.
The grand jurors met Friday but
apparently didn't reach a decision, and they were widely expected to reconvene on Monday, though there was no official
confirmation of that.
During church services Sunday, some pastors encouraged their
flocks not to fret.
A choir sang, "We need you Lord right
now" at the predominantly black Greater Grace Church in Ferguson. The
pastor, Bishop L.O. Jones, referred to the pending grand jury decision briefly.
"Everybody stand to your feet and tell
somebody, 'Don't be afraid. God is still in control,'" Jones said as
church members repeated after him.
The Rev. Freddy Clark of Shalom Church in
nearby Florissant told the mostly black interdenominational congregation that
"justice will be served" whichever way the decision goes, because God
will take care of it.
"None of us are pleased about what
happened," said parishioner James Tatum. "Whatever the verdict is, we
have to understand that's the verdict."
Lindsey Graham: House Benghazi Report Is ‘Full
Of Crap’
Still trying to find the truth.
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Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey
Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he believed the House
Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi report, which vindicated many administration
claims, was “full of crap.”
GRAHAM: I think the report’s full of crap,
quite frankly.
HOST GLORIA BORGER: Why? Why?
GRAHAM: The Deputy Director of the CIA when I
asked him, “Do you know who changed the talking points?” with Senator Ayotte
and McCain, and Susan Rice sitting by his side said the FBI changed the talking
points, when in came to al-Qaida. Only later did we find out through a lawsuit
that Mike Morell was deeply involved in changing the talking points, the deputy
director of the FBI, when he was sitting in front of a congressional panel and
he was asked, “Does anybody here know who changed the talking points?” He sat
silent. So the intel community through him lied.
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Lindsey Graham: New Benghazi Report 'Full of Crap'
A House committee's report released Friday that
exonerates the CIA, the military and Obama administration officials for their
response to the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, is "full of crap,"
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN Sunday.
The latest findings come from a declassified two-year investigation by the House Intelligence Committee, which looked at all sides of the incident, including claims that the White House cooked up phony talking points for then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice.
"I'm saying the House Intelligence Committee is doing a lousy job policing their own," Graham told CNN correspondent Gloria Borger on the "State of the Union" program.
The latest findings come from a declassified two-year investigation by the House Intelligence Committee, which looked at all sides of the incident, including claims that the White House cooked up phony talking points for then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice.
"I'm saying the House Intelligence Committee is doing a lousy job policing their own," Graham told CNN correspondent Gloria Borger on the "State of the Union" program.
"I'm saying that anybody who has
followed Benghazi at all knows that the [former] CIA deputy director [Mike
Morell] did not come forward to tell Congress what role he played in changing
the talking points and the only way we knew he was involved is when he told a
representative at the White House, I'm going to do a hard review of this, a
hard rewrite," said Graham.
Further, he said, while Morell had initially said the FBI changed the talking points on what had been said about the attacks, a lawsuit later revealed that Morell was more involved than he had admitted.
"Who told [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice that the compound consulate was substantially strong and significantly secured?" Graham said. "That wasn't in the talking points, but she said that."
Graham said there are still too many questions remaining about who was responsible for "the version most politically beneficial to the administration," to accept the report that was released Friday.
In a joint statement accompanying the release of the report, Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, Md., said its probe was extensive.
Further, he said, while Morell had initially said the FBI changed the talking points on what had been said about the attacks, a lawsuit later revealed that Morell was more involved than he had admitted.
"Who told [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice that the compound consulate was substantially strong and significantly secured?" Graham said. "That wasn't in the talking points, but she said that."
Graham said there are still too many questions remaining about who was responsible for "the version most politically beneficial to the administration," to accept the report that was released Friday.
In a joint statement accompanying the release of the report, Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, Md., said its probe was extensive.
But Graham countered that the document is
a "bunch of garbage...a complete bunch of garbage," with its claims,
and that it's a "good question" why Rogers, the Republican committee
chair would believe statements to the contrary.
Further, Graham pointed out reports of an email from earlier this year that showed White House White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes advising Rice to focus on a YouTube video as the cause of a spontaneous protest when she hit the talk show circuit the Sunday after the attacks.
"When Susan Rice was on television after the attack, she said on three different occasions the consulate was strongly, substantially and significantly secure," said Graham Sunday. "She gave an impression to the American people that these folks were well taken care of when it was in fact a death trap."
The report also said there is no evidence there was a stand-down order when it came to security for the Benghazi facility, an other point Graham denied Sunday.
"I can tell you that three contractors working for the agency said that they were told to wait for 20 minutes," said Graham. "This report puts all the blame on the State Department and absolves the Intelligence Committee. When the Department of Defense Committee has looked at it, the Department of Defense was held blameless."
Further, Graham pointed out reports of an email from earlier this year that showed White House White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes advising Rice to focus on a YouTube video as the cause of a spontaneous protest when she hit the talk show circuit the Sunday after the attacks.
"When Susan Rice was on television after the attack, she said on three different occasions the consulate was strongly, substantially and significantly secure," said Graham Sunday. "She gave an impression to the American people that these folks were well taken care of when it was in fact a death trap."
The report also said there is no evidence there was a stand-down order when it came to security for the Benghazi facility, an other point Graham denied Sunday.
"I can tell you that three contractors working for the agency said that they were told to wait for 20 minutes," said Graham. "This report puts all the blame on the State Department and absolves the Intelligence Committee. When the Department of Defense Committee has looked at it, the Department of Defense was held blameless."
And as a result, Graham said,
"everybody is pointing fingers to everybody else," but when the
report that came out Friday said here was "no manipulating of the American
people, that is absolute garbage."
And when the report said there is no evidence that CIA personnel misled Congress, Graham said, "I don't buy the idea that the agency did not mislead Congress because I was there when they misled me."
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And when the report said there is no evidence that CIA personnel misled Congress, Graham said, "I don't buy the idea that the agency did not mislead Congress because I was there when they misled me."
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Eric
Holder Removes Death Penalty For Four Cop Killers In Virginia
“I think justice needs to be served..."
On Friday,
United States Attorney General Eric Holder eliminated the possibility of the
death penalty for four co-defendants charged in the murder of a reserve police
officer in Virginia.
Travis
Bell (also known as Kweli Uhuru), Daniel Mathis, Shantai Shelton, and Mersadies
Shelton were indicted
in May for
murdering Waynesboro reserve police officer Captain Kevin Quick, WRIC
reported at
the time. Quick was reported missing on February 1 when he did not arrive at
his girlfriend’s residence; five days later he was found dead.
According
to The
Daily Progress, Holder
removed the possibility of the death
penalty. United
States Attorney Timothy Heaphy, who is tasked with prosecuting the case, said,
“I know the attorney general takes these cases very seriously.”
“[The
Attorney General] reviews each potential death penalty case at his kitchen
table, often late at night. I have known [Holder] for years and continue to
have great confidence in him and his judgment.”
The four
individuals, members of a street gang connected to “The Bloods”, are charged
with carjacking and kidnapping in addition to murder. They will be facing
trial May 4, 2015.
Scott
McDevitt, a resident in Waynesboro, told WHSV the murder has upset the
community, located 96 miles west of Richmond.
“I think
justice needs to be served and I think the people who committed the crime need
to pay for the crime, but deciding who lives and who dies – that’s not all
right either.”
When
appearing in federal court Friday, U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad asked if
the defendants wanted to change their pleas, but they maintained their
innocence and showed no emotion during the 45-minute proceeding.
Uhuru was
the only defendant to speak during the proceeding, saying, “I feel like it’s a
violation of my due process rights even though I haven’t done anything wrong,”
he said, referring to the treatment he allegedly receives at a local prison in
Salem, Virginia. Conrad said he would look into it and “see what I can find
out” while placing Uhuru in administrative segregation.
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“FREEDOM IS
NOT FREE”
“En mi opinión”
No 802 Noviembre 24, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R
González Miño EDITOR
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