Constitutional contempt

Walter Williams

Constitutional contempt

Where in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize Congress to force Americans to buy health insurance? If Congress gets away with forcing us to buy health insurance, down the line, what else will they force us to buy; or do you naively think they will stop with health insurance? We shouldn't think that the cure to Congress' unconstitutional heavy-handedness will end if we only elect Republicans. Republicans have demonstrated nearly as much constitutional contempt as have Democrats. The major difference is the significant escalation of that contempt under today's Democratically controlled Congress and White House with the massive increase in spending, their proposed legislation and the appointment of tyrannical czars to control our lives. It's a safe bet that if and when Republicans take over the Congress and White House, they will not give up the massive increase in control over our lives won by the Democrats.

In each new session of Congress since 1995, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., has introduced the Enumerated Powers Act, a measure "To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes." The highest number of co-sponsors it has ever had in the House of Representatives is 54, and it has never had co-sponsors in the Senate until this year, when 22 senators signed up. The fact that less than 15 percent of the Congress supports such a measure demonstrates the kind of contempt our elected representatives have for the rules of the game – our Constitution.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115607

Health Care Mandate Equivalent to Original Military Draft

Phil Gingrey, during an interview on Fox News Sunday with Peter Johnson, Jr. who noted this 'will be the first time in history the public will be ordered to purchase a product... is that Constitutional,' Johnson posed?

No, it's not Rep. Gingrey said. He further commented this is the first time this will happen or the individual will be faced with fines... it's like the original military draft and having the selective service agreement.

North American Integration Plan in Plain Sight

while the nation is focused on Fort Hood tragedy - are Hasan's actions those of a terrorist or someone with a mental disorder? while the nation is focused on Nancy Pelosi's maneuverings in the House of Representatives to bring some sort of health care bill to the floor for a vote - and the measure passed only because reportedly Rep. Sustak's bill banning funding for abortions was passed (for now). Well you get it... all the while everything else is being discussed this way and that way, our military might may be coordinated with that of other countries, a coordination which one day may result in another country's military actually entering this country to quell - what? Civil unrest?

It's glaringly obvious now, and the ball didn't get rolling under Presidents Bill Clinton or George W. Bush or President Barack Obama but actually long before them with the United States even being a signatory to create the United Nations compact.

Don't believe? Just read one book. A single book lays out the plan for world law and world government.

The title of the book: WORLD PEACE THROUGH WORLD LAW

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/World-Peace-through-World-Law/Grenville-Clark/e/9780674961814

The stated goal of the crafters of the United Nations Charter since its inception?

Right there in plain sight.

Author Clark

...World War II was also a time when Clark thought about peace. Indeed, as soon as the German Wehrmacht crunched into Poland in September 1939, Clark began to theorize about ways and means of organizing a world at peace under law. His initial effort was a pamphlet entitled A Federation of Free Peoples, and he put the matter aside as the campaign for American intervention picked up steam in 1940 and 1941. He came back to the question of the "peace" in 1944 when Secretary Stimson told him to "go home and prevent World War III."
The result was Clark's most important public undertaking, namely, the quest for world government. It began with detailed criticism of the United Nations Organization as outlined at the Dunbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences. Then came the Dublin Conference of October 1945, organized and hosted by Clark and former Justice Owen Roberts. For the next several years the retired Wall Street lawyer served as an elder statesman and unofficial leader of the United World Federalists. He wrote books and gave speeches. His collaboration with Harvard Professor Louis B. Sohn began during this period, an association that culminated in 1958 in the magisterial treatise World Peace through World Law.

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/clark_grenville.html

Read this

World Peace Through World Law: Rethinking an Old Theory and a Call for a UN Peace Force (Ranney) (2009)

http://www.globalsolutions.org/files/general/WPTL__Jim_Ranney.pdf

http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=663

Gloss over these notables

http://www.voteworldgovernment.org/books.shtml

Now the World Net Daily article

More

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/truthonline/Allbooks.html

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U.S. troops' continental insignia bears U.N. colors
Posted: November 07, 2009
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A close reading of an interview with d'Aquino published by the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Oct. 4, confirms that the creation of the SPP was not a "conspiracy theory" but a well thought-out North American integration plan launched by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Council of Foreign Relations in the United States.

The interview further confirmed President Obama wants to continue North American integration under the rebranded North American Leaders Summit, providing the North American Competitiveness Council can be recast to include more environmentalists and union leaders.

In the interview, d'Aquino traced the origin of SPP to his concerns after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 that "there was a pressing need to keep the border open for commerce while simultaneously addressing the security needs of the United States and North America as a whole."

With this goal in mind, d'Aquino reported the CCCE by 2003 "launched an agenda that we called the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative, or NASPI."

WND reported in July 2007 the term "Security and Prosperity" first was used by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives in a Jan. 23, 2003, report, "Security and Prosperity: Toward a New Canada-United States Partnership in North America."

Then, in 2003, d'Aquino took the idea to Richard Hass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115275

Cliff Kincaid

OBAMA'S AMBITIOUS U.N. TREATY AGENDA
By Cliff Kincaid
July 9, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

We may be losing jobs in our domestic economy, but opportunities are endless in the field of international law. Passage of UNCLOS would open up some well-paying jobs in the U.N.’s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

However, the largely untold story is that of corruption in the international organizations that implement and monitor these treaties. For example, the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, another of the Law of the Sea Treaty organizations, has been racked by corruption charges. Yet, the Senate has never held a hearing into these charges.

Interestingly, The International Judge book includes a favorable profile of a judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Obama may eventually decide to sign and send the ICC treaty to the Senate for ratification. This is a court which can arrest, prosecute and imprison Americans in foreign jails, in violation of our constitutional rights.

Obama is pushing UNCLOS now, but the Law of the Sea is not a partisan issue. The Republican George W. Bush Administration also pushed hard for ratification. Susan Biniaz of the U.S. Department of State explained the rationale during a July 17, 2007, appearance at the American Enterprise Institute. She explained, “I think someone said how few ships there are compared to how many there used to be. We don’t have the capacity to be challenging every maritime claim throughout the world solely through the use of naval power. And [we] certainly can’t use the Navy to meet all the economic interests.”

So rather than build more ships, we will depend on a piece of paper from the U.N. to safeguard U.S. national security. Then we will hire more lawyers to represent our interests. But there has been no coherent explanation as to how a piece of paper will deter America’s enemies or the pirates who want to board our vessels or guarantee access to ocean resources.

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska should have something to say about this. But she was persuaded to endorse the treaty two years ago. She has been asked repeatedly over the last several months to take a fresh look at the evidence against ratifying the treaty. However, she remains silent, oblivious to the concerns of conservatives in her own political party.

UNCLOS is a substitute for a strong Navy and was deliberately designed as such. The people who wrote the treaty were World Federalists such as Louis B. Sohn, who co-authored World Peace Through World Law, a blueprint for world government. This international lawyer, who mentored Harold Koh, Obama’s State Department Legal Adviser, sincerely believed that lawyers could help run the world as long as the international bureaucrats had sufficient power and resources through a strengthened United Nations. Sohn, who actually believed in a world army with nuclear weapons maintained by the U.N., saw UNCLOS as a stepping stone on the road to world government.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff330.htm

More

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/ss_politics0261_04_01.asp

Declaration of Imbecility World Health Organization

History of Pandemic H1N1 and H2N2 and H3N2 and H5N1

A must read particularly pertaining to immunity if born prior to certain years.

Got to say, after reading this, not only our government in the U.S. failed, the World Health Organization failed. That agency knew of the UK's failure to track the virus in any meaningful way, and Indonesia's situation of withholding such for testing, and did not declare a world pandemic until far too late for companies to manufacture a vaccine.

Read and ask why is the United States sending this organization any amount of resources to do nothing.

New Scientist

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1957
An H2N2 virus causes the "Asian" flu pandemic, completely displacing the H1N1 viruses that have been circulating in humans since 1918. The pandemic is fairly mild, killing 1 to 1.5 million people worldwide.

The virus is produced by a reassortment, in which human-adapted H1N1 swaps genes with an H2N2 bird flu. The new H and N surface proteins mean most people do not have antibodies to the virus, allowing it to go pandemic. However, its human-adapted genes mean it is not as lethal to humans as the 1918 virus, which came, with few changes, from birds.

People tend to mount the best immune response to the first kind of flu virus they experience. Because of this, people born before 1957, whose first experience of flu would have been the H1N1 viruses then in circulation, have some immunity to the 2009 H1N1 strain causing the current pandemic. People born after the 1957 pandemic do not have this immunity.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18063-timeline-the-secret-history-of-swine-flu.html?full=true

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...May 2009
Although swine flu seems to be spreading slowly, it is still progressing quickly enough to justify preparing for a pandemic. However, the WHO delays declaring a pandemic, partly because there is not enough evidence that the virus is spreading in the general population outside the Americas, where it originated.

New Scientist reveals that Europe is not testing people with flu symptoms unless they have recently travelled to an affected area in the Americas, or have had close contact with someone who did. As a result, Europe cannot detect spread in the general population. These restrictions may be making the pandemic "invisible" to the monitoring authorities.

As concerns mount, it transpires that many countries are poorly prepared for this scenario and that supplies of H1N1 vaccine cannot be prepared in time to catch the second wave.

June 2009
The UK and other countries change their rules and start testing people who have flu but no North American contacts. Cases of swine flu are soon detected.

On 11 June the WHO officially declares swine flu to be a pandemic. This is the signal for the vaccine industry to start making pandemic vaccine (paid for by governments), rather than conventional flu vaccine (paid for by ordinary health services).

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18063-timeline-the-secret-history-of-swine-flu.html?full=true

Marc Siegel H1N1 Government Failed

Siegel on Fox: CDC Almost all cases of flu right now are H1N1.

Not as many doses of the vaccine as originally touted, Siegel stated. FDA also didn't "approve" the latest technology in vaccine development... those have actually been "shipped overseas!"

That is interesting because the question becomes, of the latest vaccine, going unused or unprovided in U.S. did the taxpayers fund any, any of these by way of funding the production in the U.S.?...

Has the U.S. funded the companies producing the vaccine outside the U.S.?

Let's see. Federal government contracts with 5 manufacturers who've supplied the 'seasonal flu' vaccine in the past. But doesn't give some of them the ok to supply the U.S.? Why not?

We agreewith Siegel, the federal government failed to deliver.

But unfortunately, Siegel appeared to blame 'scaremongers' and lumps in with the 'out there' with those who have serious concerns because of key factors in the production.

Noted among those is the companies are exempt from litigation/lawsuits if something goes sereiously wrong in the way of 'side effects.'

Deaths, for instance, which could be directly attributed to the flu vaccine.

Another notable concern is the use of squaline and thimerosal as ingredients in particular the multi-dose vaccines.

There are additional concerns, such as mandated or forced vaccination, and oh, the declaration of a national emergency by President Barack Obama (which many could argue would lead to more than a mandate, but actual segregation of the unvaccinated.

Yet, as of today, there are not enough doses to provide the vaccine even to those who desire to take the vaccine, whichever form, single or multiple dose!

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H1N1 vaccine makers struggle with U.S. shot
One company still waiting for approval, others have production issues
updated 2:49 p.m. ET, Tues., Oct . 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - GlaxoSmithKline has yet to get U.S. government approval for its swine flu vaccine, the company said on Tuesday, while Novartis said it was still struggling to make vaccines.

A U.S. senator accused the Health and Human Services department of over-promising how many and how quickly H1N1 vaccines could be delivered, as disgruntled people lined up outside clinics across the United States seeking immunization.

The United States has contracted with its five suppliers of seasonal influenza vaccine to also deliver H1N1 vaccine, but has sharply cut initial estimates of how much will be delivered this month and next...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33494844/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33494844/

Related Not Endorsements

Flu symptoms test

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33435531/ns/health-cold_and_flu

New Scientist History

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18063-timeline-the-secret-history-of-swine-flu.html?full=true

Voting by Mail Current Concerns

We agree there are serious concerns with all mail voting as currently employed across the United States. Far more stringent voting registration regulations are necessary across the country. But not just for absentee voting. Precinct voting can be packed with ineligibles as well, with the potential for fraud when the voting registration records remain as is in some cases for decades and decades.

Meanwhile, the names of deceased remain on voting lists as well as names of persons who have long since changed address to out of state or district.

Start with as accurate a voting registration database as is humanly possible. Train and train local pollworkers and judges of election on whichever voting systems have been adopted.

It's unconscionable to have the latest in technology in elections and 'scared of the machines' like mentality among pollworkers.

Also a must in every precinct, paper ballots with optical scans. Unbelievably most PA counties have only one system, the direct recording electronic which still in PA does not have at the least the paper trail. While there is controversy over the use of "voter verified paper audit trail" - concerns over degradability, printer jams - at best the voter should be able to "view" selections on paper before casting the screen ballot.

Such is not a receipt and the voter doesn't take the paper out of the polling place.

Paper ballots with optical scanners should be available in every precinct if we're still going the way of precinct-based voting.

Voters should be afforded a choice of voting system.

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PA partial report

http://www.advancementproject.org/pdfs/Pennguidevlm.pdf

National change of address program

http://www.dos.beta.state.pa.us/dos/LIB/dos/20/12/GartnerDOS.pdf

search results

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1R2SKPB_enUS349&q=pennsylvania+voter+registration+maintenance+list+inactive&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

PA Director of Elections and Director of Voter Registration (survey)

http://epic.org/foia_docs/eac/pennsylvania.pdf

Precinct use and misuse of provisionals

http://cha.house.gov/UserFiles/227_testimony.pdf

Scandal: Inadequate Supply H1N1 Vaccine Yet Send Out U.S.

Fox News interview is the most eye-opening we've seen in our history of watching the saga of the production of the vaccine to thwart the H1N1 virus in the United States of America.

What happened to the millions - some 250 million doses expected to have been produced and readied by the time the Fall flu season rolled around?

Steve Doocy interviewed Fox correspondent and legal analyst, Peter Johnson.

Johnson indicated a little known agreement the United States had made gives some of our vaccine to other countries - some 25 million doses... Once the most vulnerable in U.S. get the vaccine, according to Johnson, then the other countries will get it under an agreement with the United Nations!

What an outrage. Isn't this nothing less than a hidden United Nations 'tax' on the citizens of the United States?

Instead of direct taxation, use a precious commodity as 'payment' to the UN?

As if we aren't giving enough in blood of our precious service men and women who are stationed under United Nations auspices in Iraq, still, even after a new administration comes into office on a so-called anti-war policy?

White House Denial Forced Mandate is Unconstitutional

The White House and Congressional Democrats (and any on-the-sidelines potential Repbulicans) who support such a mandate on individuals to purchase health care insurance, or face fines, are so far out of touch with the tenets of our nation's founding it is simply astonishing.

The Constitution guarantees our rights, our individual rights. The federal government was enabled limited powers. We possess the rights, government doesn't give rights to us.

It isn't the government's duty to force a product on to an individual. What's next?

Obama Fit 'n Trim Fast for the obese?

Obama Smoke-free patches for addicted smokers?

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White House Says No ‘Veracity’ to Argument That Forcing Individuals to Buy Health Insurance Is Unconstitutional
Thursday, October 29, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer


(CNSNews.com) – White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that there is no "veracity" to the argument that the U.S. Constitution does not authorize the federal government to force individuals to buy health insurance.

The Congressional Budget Office has said that the federal government has never before in American history forced Americans to purchase any good or service.

When the health-care bill was being debated in the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, raised questions about the constitutionality of forcing Americans to buy health insurance, which all congressional versions of the health care bill would do.

Hatch rejected the notion that the Commerce Clause--which empowers Congress to regulate commerce "among the several states"--justifies forcing Americans to purchase a product they do not want to buy. If Congress can make people buy health insurance, Hatch argued, they can force Americans to buy refrigerators or new cars.

But Gibbs said those who make this kind of argument have no federal court cases to back them up.

"I won't be confused as a constitutional scholar, but I don't believe there's a lot of--I don't believe there's a lot of case law that would demonstrate the veracity of what they're commentating on," said Gibbs.

Asked by CNSNews.com last week where specifically the Constitution authorizes Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, “Are you serious? Are you serious?"

A Congressional Research Service report concluded that requiring individuals to purchase or have health insurance could be challenged.

“Whether such a requirement would be constitutional under the Commerce Clause is perhaps the most challenging question posed by such a proposal, as it is a novel issue whether Congress may use this clause to require an individual to purchase a good or service,” the CRS reportedly says.

In 1994, when the Clinton administration attempted to push a health care reform plan through a Democratic Congress that also mandated every American buy health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office determined that the government had never ordered Americans to buy anything.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=56264

Science bulletin: 'Sun heats Earth!'
Russian research forecasts global cooling
Posted: October 27, 2009
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Habibullo Abdussamatov

In a sharp rebuke to climate alarmists who believe human-generated carbon dioxide is responsible for causing catastrophic global warming, a Russian scientist has issued what amounts to a news flash announcing, "Sun Heats Earth!"

Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, has published a paper in which he tracks sunspot activity going back to the 19th century to argue that total sun irradiance, or TSI, is the primary factor responsible for causing climate variations on Earth, not carbon dioxide.

Moreover, Abdussamatov's analysis of sun activity data has led him to conclude that the Earth is entering a prolonged cooling phase because sunspot activity is currently in a phase regarded as a "minimum."

"Observations of the sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon dioxide is 'not guilty,'" Abdussamatov wrote, "and as for what lies ahead in the coming decades, it is not catastrophic warming, but a global, and very prolonged temperature drop."

Abdussamatov's paper is featured on page 140 of a report issued this year by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, documenting more than 700 scientists who disagree over the proposition that global warming is a man-made, or anthropogenic phenomenon.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114261

Glenn Beck Laying out Road to Dictatorship

Beck appears to be on the road to a lot of what ifs that have to happen before the U.S. gets to where he believes the country is headed. He did it on his program today, and he's done it before.

Hey, we can do that too. But just knock down one what if - doesn't happen - the entirety of the theory is in dispute.

Anyway makes for interesting reading and viewing... potential warning...

July 21

409-Glenn Beck Clips 07-21-09
Seg 1-America in Transition But What Will We End Up As?

http://glennbeckclips.com/week30.htm

Glenn Beck: What system are we?
July 21, 2009 - 14:17 ET

...So the question today I have for you is what system are we? Are we capitalist anymore? Are we a socialist? Are we a communist? Are's an oligarchy? I'm going to tell you what I think we are in a few minutes...

GLENN: Okay, the next one, the last one is fascism. Listen to this one.

...PAT: A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

GLENN: Let's go back and take this one apart. I personally think we are on the road. We're not any of these right now, including capitalism. We're not any of these because we are going through a metamorphosis. We are a caterpillar in a cocoon right now. When the cocoon comes off, what are we going to be? I believe we are headed towards one of the last two: Oligarchy or fascism. Listen to you have the oligarchy. That is basically a system where, look, it's Russia. Russia's got, you know, popular elections, they do it. But everybody knows Putin runs the show. And he's living by the Russian constitution. What? He's the prime minister now. What? He had term limits. What? He's not running things. Yes, he is. You know it and I know it. And who's really running the country? Putin is the strong man making sure that business runs right. And if you are not doing the things that he wants, you are dead. More journalists die in Russia than any other country. It is a dangerous place because it is run by the uber powerful and the uber rich. Don't even think about trying to break that system up. No matter where you are, they will kill you. That's what's happening in Russia. Is that where we're headed? When the cocoon breaks? Are we an oligarchy? Or are we a fascistic state. Listen carefully.


http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/28190/

Fayette: Jobless Rate Used Pitch Technical School

A similar argument was used over ten years ago to promote the so-called economic development program crafted by state legislators back in 1998, quickly so, known as Keystone Opportunity Zones.

Basically, we need this tax-free designation for property in the area, thousands of acres, to attract "new" industry. Attract new employers, and attract newcomers such as employees who would in turn relocate in declining population areas. In turn, these CEO's would build upscale houses, and employees would relocate as well, either building anew or purchasing existing houses.

They would add to the tax base, meanwhile, the new industry would have tax exemption status on local property taxes, and other taxes and state taxes, for a 'limited' time... all would work out once the tax-free properties go back on the tax rolls.

Nice promise. Reports have not been so glowing statewide.

What's particularly egregious? The website to promote the tax-exemptions is called zerotaxes.

Yep, zero taxes.

http://www.zerotaxes.org/county_Fayette.asp

For some. Meanwhile, during the period of tax-forgiveness for some, who has to continue to pay the tax bill for new construction of schools, deficits in a city beset by fiscal problems, and a county bond arranged back in 2000?

Residential and business property owners who not only face potential fines for 'code violations' but could face loss of property for failure to meet tax obligations.

Meanwhile, the same argument is being used to promote construction of a new votech/career center.

We need the center to train local students for jobs that remain unfilled locally.

According to the Herald-Standard's report highlighting remarks of Michael Krajovic...

Jobless rate tops 10 percent

..."Just as a current example, we see a significant increase in inquiries from different companies that service the natural gas industry about our job market. There are many job opportunities that are being created now and will grow in the future. We don't have the right skill sets in some of these areas and the companies have to go outside to find workers,'' he said.

"We still need to focus on our educational system. While some improvement has been made, it's not enough. We need a new technical school so students can get the proper education to meet the employment requirements of today."...

http://www.heraldstandard.com/news_detail/article/1631/2009/october/28/jobless-rate-tops-10-percent.html

Fayette Forward 2020 County Plan

http://www.fayetteforward.org/?page_id=355

Oops, don't consider that it's more than likely the population numbers for the area will have declined after the 2010 census numbers are revealed.

Area schools have reported declines in student population.

What's also astonishing, how the 10% unemployment rate figure is being used.

Is it so bad that Fayette is actually ranked not first, not second, not even 20th, but 50th of 67 counties for jobless rate?

As important to consider, while it's certainly necessary to raise the quality of education in the area public schools, if the jobs are unfilled now, wouldn't one want to attract outsiders into the county to fill the jobs now, thus having the potential for new home construction, an increase in local population, and the potential for new 'outside the area' employees who in turn have children who would enter the schools.

We need far more substantiation than has been given that a new tech school is necessary. But it's not likely we'll be getting that anytime soon because it's a given political deals are usually made behind closed doors.

In other words, what will school districts who'd opt into a plan for a new technical school be promised this time around?

Some have been more than frustrated that the KOZs haven't exactly accomplished what was promised after ten years. School directors (and at least one county commissioner) (and at least a few members of municipality boards) have nixed the more recent KOZ extension, or some portion of it for some municipal property.

Hopefully, before school board members enter into any agreement for a new technical school facility questions will be publicly asked and adequate answers provided.


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Jobless rate tops 10 percent
October 28, 2009 02:54 AM TEXT SIZE By: JAMES PLETCHER JR.
Herald Standard
Fayette County is one of seven counties in the PMSA. The others are Washington, Westmoreland, Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler and Beaver.

Nimal blamed layoffs and job cuts in Fayette County for the increase in unemployment, rather than people bloating the labor force searching for jobs. Fayette County's labor force in September totaled 66,400 people. In August, the total was 66,300. However, the number of unemployed residents rose from 6,500 in August to 6,800 in September, according to state figures.

"Fayette County is following a pattern similar in other metropolitan statistical areas where they have had manufacturing job losses. The unemployment count in Fayette is also at its highest level since February 1992,'' Nimal said.

"This high unemployment rate certainly is a result of the global economic downturn but also the failure of our educational institutions to provide the workforce we need today,'' said Mike Krajovic, president of Fay-Pen Economic Development Council.

"It's not surprising to me to hear that the figures are going up. What is disappointing is there are still job opportunities here that are not being filled due to a lack of education or skill levels required for those positions.

"Just as a current example, we see a significant increase in inquiries from different companies that service the natural gas industry about our job market. There are many job opportunities that are being created now and will grow in the future. We don't have the right skill sets in some of these areas and the companies have to go outside to find workers,'' he said.

"We still need to focus on our educational system. While some improvement has been made, it's not enough. We need a new technical school so students can get the proper education to meet the employment requirements of today."

Krajovic continued, "From our perspective, we have the challenge to address this unemployment rate. Crossing the double-digit threshold shows there are challenges that we need to be doing everything possible to meet at the local level.

Meanwhile, neighboring county unemployment rates also rose in September. Greene County's rates were 8.4 percent in September and 8.2 percent in August. Washington County's unemployment rates also were 8.4 percent in September and 8.2 percent in August. By comparison, Greene County's September 2008 rate was 6.1 percent and Washington County's rate was 5.4 percent.

In terms of ranking among Pennsylvania's 67 counties, Fayette County had the 50th highest rate, while Greene and Washington counties both placed 17th. The highest jobless rate in the state in September was 17 percent in Cameron County and the lowest was 6.1 percent in Centre County.

http://www.heraldstandard.com/news_detail/article/1631/2009/october/28/jobless-rate-tops-10-percent.html

Related

Guide

http://www.co.fayette.pa.us/fayette/lib/fayette/an_economic_development_&_tourism_guide.pdf

Fayette employee contracts H1N1
October 28, 2009 02:54 AM TEXT SIZE By: THE HERALD-STANDARD

Fayette County employees are being asked to be cautious and stay home if they are sick after a county employee was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.

Coroner Dr. Phillip E. Reilly issued recommendations Tuesday to employees that include staying home with the flu until they are completely well, and increasing hand washing and using hand sanitizer.

Reilly's recommendations also include practicing the avoidance of hand shaking or touching, maintaining interpersonal space and keeping a reasonable distance between yourself and others.

http://www.heraldstandard.com/news_detail/article/1631/2009/october/28/fayette-employee-contracts-h1n1.html#tx_pbcomments_comment203098

IPCC Rigged Set up by Global Warming Alarmists

Glenn Beck's interview with Christopher Booker, must see/read transcript.

The Real Global Warming Disaster

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

http://www.tfa.net/the_freedom_association/2009/10/christopher-booker-on-the-real-global-warming-disaster.html

Wind farms will be a monument to an age when our leaders collectively went off their heads Last updated at 7:54 AM on 15th July 2009


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...The causes of Britain's impending energy crisis are manifold. Michael Heseltine's 1992 'dash for gas', when he closed down most of our remaining coal mines because North Sea gas was still cheap and abundant, and because its CO2 emissions were only half those of coal, was one of them.

But nothing has done more to take the politicians' eye off the ball, egged on by environmentalist groups such as Friends Of The Earth and Greenpeace, than their quite incomprehensible obsession with windmills.

For these white elephants can never produce more than a fraction of the electricity we need, and by no means always when we need it - as we saw last winter when, for weeks on end, they were scarcely turning at all.

Do politicians never look outside the windows of their centrally-heated offices to see how often the wind is not blowing?

The Government has now shovelled so much money in hidden subsidies into the pockets of the turbine companies that the 'wind bonanza', promoted on a host of fraudulent claims, has become one of the greatest scams of our age.

But if and when our lights do go out, it will be important to remember just why we got carried away by such a massive blunder.

Left with a land blighted with useless towers of metal, we shall look on those windmills as a monument to the age when the politicians of Britain and Europe collectively went completely off their heads.


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Danger Recognized Children Walking from School

It's sad, but true. children unaccompanied on a walk home from school, if only a few blocks, not only could be at risk, but actually are at risk of abduction and worse, potential murder, across the country.

Something must be done. Jane Valez Mitchell has mounted an effort to raise awareness on her program on Headline News, Issues.

Issues Transcripts

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ijvm.html

Momlogic's Julie: Last month, the New York Times ran a piece called "Why Can't She Walk to School?"

I'd like to answer that question now. Why can't my kids walk to school? Somer Thompson is the reason why. There are just too many evil, crazy people out there, and her murder is proof of that.

115 children are kidnapped by strangers each year, according to federal statistics. There are 73.7 million children in the U.S. YES, I realize that the odds are slim that the worst could happen. But tell that to Diena Thompson, Somer's mom. The odds were just as slim for her, and it happened.

It happened. And now her child is dead.

The New York Times article said that only 13 percent of kids walk or bike to school these days because parents are so anxious that something awful could happen. I'm definitely one of those paranoid parents, and Somer's heartbreaking case only makes me more vigilant...

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/this-is-why-my-kids-cant-walk-to-school-529441/

James Delingpole: EU spy devices in waste

What an interesting interview by glenn Beck of James Delingpole...

video clips of interest 10/23/09

climate change start world government

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/glenn-beck-show-october-23-2009/

Book title: Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work

http://jamesdelingpole.com/

Copenhagen: a step closer to one-world government?October 22nd, 2009

http://jamesdelingpole.com/2009/10/22/copenhagen-a-step-closer-to-one-world-government/

The Right Perspective Posts Delingpole interview about book

http://www.therightperspective.org/2009/03/29/james-delingpole-obamaland-interview/

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
James Delingpole: Genius
James Delingpole delightfully demolishes the climate change alarmists in The Daily Telegraph.

http://donalblaney.blogspot.com/2009/09/james-delingpole-genius.html

Review

http://obamanialand.com/?p=350

Glenn Beck transcript

Glenn Beck: GE Recipient of Bailout Funds but No Caps

The red phone and the fax machine didn't start buzzing on Beck's program when he noted GE had been the recipient of bailout largesse.

So here are some finds...

Washington Post

How a Loophole Benefits GE in Bank Rescue

By Jeff Gerth and Brady Dennis
ProPublica and Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 29, 2009

General Electric, the world's largest industrial company, has quietly become the biggest beneficiary of one of the government's key rescue programs for banks.

At the same time, GE has avoided many of the restrictions facing other financial giants getting help from the government.

The company did not initially qualify for the program, under which the government sought to unfreeze credit markets by guaranteeing debt sold by banking firms. But regulators soon loosened the eligibility requirements, in part because of behind-the-scenes appeals from GE.

As a result, GE has joined major banks collectively saving billions of dollars by raising money for their operations at lower interest rates. Public records show that GE Capital, the company's massive financing arm, has issued nearly a quarter of the $340 billion in debt backed by the program, which is known as the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, or TLGP. The government's actions have been "powerful and helpful" to the company, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt acknowledged in December.

GE's finance arm is not classified as a bank. Rather, it worked its way into the rescue program by owning two relatively small Utah banking institutions, illustrating how the loopholes in the U.S. regulatory system are manifest in the government's historic intervention in the financial crisis.

The Obama administration now wants to close such loopholes as it works to overhaul the financial system. The plan would reaffirm and strengthen the wall between banking and commerce, forcing companies like GE to essentially choose one or the other.

"We'd like to regulate companies according to what they do, rather than what they call themselves or how they charter themselves," said Andrew Williams, a Treasury spokesman.

GE's ability to live in the best of both worlds -- capitalizing on the federal safety net while avoiding more rigorous regulation -- existed well before last year's crisis, because of its unusual corporate structure.

Banking companies are regulated by the Federal Reserve and not allowed to engage in commerce, but federal law has allowed a small number of commercial companies to engage in banking under the lighter hand of the Office of Thrift Supervision. GE falls in the latter group because of its ownership of a Utah savings and loan.

Unlike other major lenders participating in the debt guarantee program, including Bank of America, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, GE has never been subject to the Fed's stress tests or its rules for limiting risk. Also unlike firms that have received bailout money in the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, GE is not subject to restrictions such as limits on executive compensation.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802955.html

GE Reaps Bailout Dollars

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/-gersquos-fist-in-bailout-money-/under-the-radar/

Comment

citivas
Did you even read the article? This is a Bush loophole and Obama expressly wants to close it if the Reps in Congress will let him. So how exactly is that pay for play with Obama?


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16 Million Doses Only for 300 Million Population

Only 16 million doses of the swine flu vaccine for a population estimated at 300 million.

Mother of Columbine Boy Killer Didn't Have Columbine HIstory

According to editor of "O" magazine, the mother of says: a perfect storm of circumstances. Her son may have had depression, suicidal tendencies... Sue Clibold

Bailout Banks Permitted to Reimburse Now

who has paid back government asks Joe Scarborough, how many of these... a chart of names appears on Joe's help screen...

CITI, AIG BANK OF AMERICA GOLDMAN SACHS JPMORGAN CHASE

Elizabeth Warren: some will pay it all back, more likely won't get paid back completely.

Oh really now, come on, the government had refused to let 10 big banks to leave the TARP program and forestalled the repayments!

Scarborough should have known that, but he doesn't mention.

That's lying. What a sellout.

Bye bye Joe...

Not that any bailout should have occurred to begin with. It shouldn't have. But now the Obama Administration wants to curb CEO's pay and benefits and bonuses, we have to question why when the top banks have plans in the works to payback every dime of TARP money! A few have already paid back.

What industry will be next for government bailouts and more government mandates if they accept the bailouts?

It's like a friend saying hey sure I'll loan you the money, but now I have an investment in everything you earn, and if you become solvent, you can't just pay me back, you have to forego some of your profit and do what I tell you to do.

Seriously folks, this is nothing more than a way for the government to gain more and more power.

What about the bonuses government agencies pay their employees!

The federal government is in a deficit situation. It is borrowing and spending and spending. It doesn't have enough money coming in for anything extra and one could say it doesn't really have enough to pay its own employees.

So why the bonuses in federal government?

Over at Fox at least there is some clarification. Those banks who've paid back the loans won't be subject to the rules changes.

Well, wait until tomorrow. They will all pay back.

Uh oh, too late. You signed, what's yours is ours.

U.S. Unveils New Rules on Bankers' Pay
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve unveiled Thursday a set of curbs and rules for executive compensation at banks, marking a watershed moment for government intervention in the private sector.

The Fed is proposing that it more aggressively regulate compensation practices at banks under its control, including thousands of U.S. banks as well as the American subsidiaries of overseas firms.

The central bank "is working to ensure that compensation packages appropriately tie rewards to longer-term performance and do not create undue risk for the firm or the financial system," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.

Meanwhile, the U.S. pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, announced that cash salaries for top executives at seven firms that have received significant government assistance will be limited to $500,000, and their total compensation will be cut by 50%.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125623026446601619.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&

10 Large Banks Allowed to Exit U.S. Aid Program

By ERIC DASH
Published: June 9, 2009
The Obama administration marked with little fanfare a major milestone in its bank rescue effort — its decision on Tuesday to let 10 big banks repay federal aid that had sustained them through the worst of the crisis — as policy makers and industry executives focused on the challenges still before them.

This is not a sign that our troubles are over,” President Obama said. “Far from it.”

While the announcement had been expected for weeks, the official word put the administration’s imprimatur on a corps of big banks considered healthy enough to extricate themselves from Washington’s grip.

The bank holding companies, among them American Express, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, plan to return a combined $68.3 billion. That represents more than a quarter of the federal bailout money that the nation’s banks have received since last October, when many feared that failures might cascade through the industry.

But the decision to allow the banks to exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, also ushered in a new, and potentially risky, phase of the banking crisis. Letting the lenders out now — earlier than many had envisioned, and without the industry reforms some consider necessary to prevent future crises — raises many sobering questions for policy makers, bankers and taxpayers.

The program was aimed at purchasing assets and equity from banks to strengthen them and encourage them to expand lending during a tightening credit squeeze. But after banks return the TARP money, the administration will forfeit much of its leverage over them. With that loss goes a rare opportunity to overhaul the industry. The administration’s ability to push institutions to purge themselves quickly of bad assets and do more to help hard-pressed homeowners will be diminished.

Of even deeper concern is the running trouble inside the banking industry. Despite tentative signs of revival, many banks remain fragile. Four of the nation’s five largest lenders, including Citigroup and Bank of America, were not allowed to return their bailout funds.

Some analysts worry that financial institutions that repay bailout money now may turn to Washington again if the economy worsens and losses overwhelm banks. One of the most vexing problems of the credit crisis — how to rid banks of their troubled mortgage investments — remains unresolved.

The banks are eager to escape TARP and the restrictions that come with it, particularly the limits on how much they can pay their 25 most highly compensated workers. (Even so, the Obama administration plans to propose guidelines on executive compensation for the broader industry as early as Wednesday.)

Yet even banks that return taxpayers’ money will remain dependent on other forms of government aid. Among them are enhanced deposit insurance, incentive payments to modify home mortgages and federal guarantees on bonds that banks sell to raise capital.

“They may need the government’s money to get through this storm,” Christopher Whalen, a managing partner at Institutional Risk Analytics, said of the banks. “If the banks have to come back and ask for more money in a few months, I don’t think the response from Washington will be too kind.”

Taxpayers — many of whom probably never imagined that banks would return their bailout money so soon, if ever —stand to make several billion dollars from their investment in the 10 banks. So far, the Treasury has collected about $1.8 billion in interest payments. It also might reap as much as $4.6 billion as the banks seek to expunge other government investments, known as warrants.

The first round of repayments will free up billions of dollars that the administration can then funnel to other troubled banks and companies without having to return to Congress for more money.

But homeowners and consumers are unlikely to benefit if banks repay their TARP funds en masse. Banks are giving back money that might otherwise be used to make loans.

The announcement on Tuesday underscored the stark dividing line across the banking industry. On one side are big banks now considered healthy enough to forgo their TARP money. On the other side are those considered too weak to go without it. Still, some of those weaker banks may be allowed to repay the money soon.




http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10tarp.html

Somer Thomson Disappearance May Be Found Landfill

Headline News Prime news reporting... small child's body found in a landfill...

this is another sad day in the United States. the child was simply walking home from school much the same as any other day.

Now, it's likely she is gone to us forever.

We cannot express adequately condolences.

Net the Truth Online

Heartbreaking Discovery of Child's Body in Dump

Besler said a Georgia medical examiner will conduct an authopsy.

Police, he said, secured the landfill Tuesday night and began their search this morning, scouring 100 tons of trash.

Somer vanished on her mile-long walk home from school Monday in Orange Park, near Jacksonville. The 4-foot-5 tyke had her hair in a ponytail and was wearing a purple Hannah Montana backpack and carrying a lunchbox at the time.

She had been walking with her two siblings, including a twin brother, and friend when she got into an argument with another child. Somer walked ahead of the group and was never seen again.


http://abcnews.go.com/WN/childs-body-found-dump-somer-thompson-vanished/story?id=8883485#