EU takes Britain to court over online data protection
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Thursday (30 September) said it is to take the United Kingdom to court for not fully implementing data privacy rules for online users and allowing service providers to use "behavioural advertising" based on the websites visited by web surfers.
The legal case follows complaints from UK internet users who claim to have been spammed with ads as a result of so-called deep-packet inspections revealing the patterns of their daily online activities. Despite requests made last year by the commission, London has so far failed to amend its legislation so that it complies with EU law.
Under community rules, member states need to "ensure the confidentiality of the communications and related traffic data by prohibiting unlawful interception and surveillance." Also, online users need to be asked for "freely given specific and informed consent" before being targeted by ads. Britain also has failed to establish sanctions in case of infringements and no independent authority is in charge of supervising implementation.
The current UK law authorises interception of communications not only where the persons concerned have consented to interception but also when the person intercepting the communications has "reasonable grounds for believing" that consent to do so has been given.
British authorities are punishing only "intentional interception", whereas EU law requires that members states prohibit any unlawful interception and ensure sanctions against such activity regardless of whether it was on purpose.
The original case was brought after British Telecoms (BT) angered consumers by running two secret trials of deep-packet inspection technology on broadband customers, without their consent, during 2006 and 2007.
"This is great news: [the case] showed there are big holes in the UK privacy laws. We need an official body to deal with citizens' complaints about illegal commercial interception and enforce our legal privacy rights," Jim Killock, from the Open Rights Group, a London-based pressure group campaigning for online privacy, said in a statement.
"More and more technologies can break our privacy rights. UK law needs to provide real protection," he added.
British authorities meanwhile expressed their "disappointment" over the commission's decision.
"We are planning to make changes to address the commission's concerns, and will be setting out more detail on any necessary amendments or legislation in due course," the Home Office said in a statement.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
SWEET GYPSY --- BOEING WINS ANOTHER $12 BILLION CONTRACT FOR UNITED STATES B-52'S!!!
Boeing wins 12 bln dlr contract for US B-52s
(AFP) – 22 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon awarded Boeing a contract worth nearly 12 billion dollars to help modernize B-52 weapons systems over eight years.
"The contract provides for the acquisition and sustainment activities needed to support B-52 weapon system modernization," the Department of Defense said Wednesday in a statement.
Boeing said in a separate statement that the "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract" will include several delivery orders over an eight-year period.
"This is a contracting vehicle that will allow engineering sustaining contracts, studies, production and other activities to occur in support of the B-52," the company said.
"Boeing has been maintaining and modernizing the B-52 bomber for 55 years -- including engineering services and upgrades to communication technology -- allowing the B-52 to remain a relevant weapon system in support of military missions around the world."
The B-52 was the first US long-range heavy bomber, according to Boeing. It was developed to carry nuclear weapons and adapted over the years. It has been used in missions in the Vietnam War, the 1991 Gulf War and in Afghanistan.
The current versions of the B-52 Stratofortress can be used for long-range missions and transport and can be armed with ballistic missiles that can be launched hundreds of miles from their targets.
On Tuesday, Boeing said it had been awarded a separate three-year, 5.3-billion-dollar contract with the US Navy to build 124 fighter jets.
Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing from 2012 to 2015 will deliver to the US Navy 66 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and 58 EA-18-G Growlers.
The Growler is a carrier-based electronic warfare craft that replaces the EA-6B Prowler.
Boeing's shares were up over one percent in after-hours trade on Wednesday's announcement.
Boeing is currently battling Europen rival Airbus to win a 40-billion-dollar US military project to renew its fleet of tanker planes.
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(AFP) – 22 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon awarded Boeing a contract worth nearly 12 billion dollars to help modernize B-52 weapons systems over eight years.
"The contract provides for the acquisition and sustainment activities needed to support B-52 weapon system modernization," the Department of Defense said Wednesday in a statement.
Boeing said in a separate statement that the "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract" will include several delivery orders over an eight-year period.
"This is a contracting vehicle that will allow engineering sustaining contracts, studies, production and other activities to occur in support of the B-52," the company said.
"Boeing has been maintaining and modernizing the B-52 bomber for 55 years -- including engineering services and upgrades to communication technology -- allowing the B-52 to remain a relevant weapon system in support of military missions around the world."
The B-52 was the first US long-range heavy bomber, according to Boeing. It was developed to carry nuclear weapons and adapted over the years. It has been used in missions in the Vietnam War, the 1991 Gulf War and in Afghanistan.
The current versions of the B-52 Stratofortress can be used for long-range missions and transport and can be armed with ballistic missiles that can be launched hundreds of miles from their targets.
On Tuesday, Boeing said it had been awarded a separate three-year, 5.3-billion-dollar contract with the US Navy to build 124 fighter jets.
Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing from 2012 to 2015 will deliver to the US Navy 66 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and 58 EA-18-G Growlers.
The Growler is a carrier-based electronic warfare craft that replaces the EA-6B Prowler.
Boeing's shares were up over one percent in after-hours trade on Wednesday's announcement.
Boeing is currently battling Europen rival Airbus to win a 40-billion-dollar US military project to renew its fleet of tanker planes.
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THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PASS BILL AIMED AT CHINA --- MORE & MORE DEMOCRATS ABANDON OSAMA OBAMA'S RAFT!!!
FOX NEWS ---
U.S. House passes bill aimed at Chinese yuan
Published September 29, 2010
By Doug Palmer and Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House stepped up pressure on China to let its currency rise faster, passing a bill on Wednesday that could penalize Chinese goods, as lawmakers blamed it for lost jobs in America.
The bill is likely to fan the flames of a long-running dispute with China over trade and jobs, even though passage in the Senate remains far from a sure bet.
The bill passed with solid bipartisan support just over a month ahead of mid-term elections as voters focus on the still-struggling U.S. economy and persistently high unemployment. Many lawmakers both in the House and the Senate have complained for years that China's policies create an unfair trade advantage, but this is strongest step taken yet.
The bill treats China's exchange rate as a subsidy, opening the door to extra duties on Chinese goods entering the United States, some of which are already subject to special levies.
It passed by a vote of 348-79, with 99 Republicans joining 249 Democrats to pass the bill. Five Democrats and 74 Republicans voted no.
Any vote in the Senate, however, won't come until after congressional elections on Nov. 2 when the U.S. political landscape could be greatly changed.
"China's persistent manipulation of its currency contributes to the outsourcing of American jobs and poses a very serious problem that requires real action," said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill would give President Barack Obama leverage in talks with China and "make it clear that if China wants a strong trading relationship with the United States, it must play by the rules."
The Obama administration has not taken a stance on the bill bill. But after the vote, a Treasury Department spokeswoman said the legislation reflected the "serious concerns" in Congress about China's currency practices.
"The president and Secretary Geithner share those concerns. They both have said repeatedly that China needs to allow a significant, sustained appreciation over time," she said.
Before the House vote, China's central bank reaffirmed its pledge to increase the flexibility of the yuan and improve the way it manages the exchange rate.
Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talked about China's currency and huge trade surplus with the United States on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week.
Despite the yuan's modest gains against the dollar since Beijing allowed more movement in June, International Monetary Fund economists estimate the yuan is 5 percent to 27 percent undervalued.
Representative Dave Camp, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, said he voted for the bill "because it sends a clear signal to China that Congress's patience is wearing out."
On the opposing side, Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, said he feared China could retaliate against the bill by shutting its market to U.S. farm exports, offsetting any gains in U.S. manufacturing jobs.
U.S. retailers, who source heavily from China, also expressed concern about being caught in the cross-fire.
Many lawmakers said the United States was already in a trade war with China and needed new tools to fight it.
Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat who has been one of the loudest critics in Congress of China's trade policy, said after the vote that he was ready to take up the cause in the Senate. "We plan to push our bill in the Senate when we return later this year," he said.
GLOBAL CURRENCY WAR?
China's tight leash on the yuan is under intense scrutiny as countries around the world look to export their way back to economic health, raising concerns they will intentionally weaken their currencies to gain an edge.
Japan intervened this month to weaken the yen for the first time in six years.
The House move is certain to further roil relations with Beijing, which resents the criticism and says the decision about the speed of currency reforms is its alone.
China, the largest foreign buyer of U.S. government debt with holdings of nearly $847 billion as of July, also says its big trade surplus with the United States is due to Americans saving too little and no longer making the goods China sells.
While Obama has not taken a position on the legislation, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said lawmakers worked with the White House to ensure the bill did not violate WTO rules.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress two weeks ago that Washington would work with Group of 20 nations to push China for faster appreciation but several allies expressed reluctance to join the effort. G20 leaders are set to meet in Seoul on Nov. 10-11.
ECONOMISTS DOUBT BILL WILL WORK
The House bill allows the Commerce Department to treat "fundamentally undervalued currencies" as an illegal export subsidy so that U.S. companies can request a countervailing duty to offset China's price advantage.
That is expected to encourage steel, paper and other import-sensitive U.S. industries to file more cases. The United States now has countervailing duties on less than 3 percent of its imports from China, which totaled $296 billion in 2009.
Some economists said they understood the politics of the debate but questioned whether the bill would bring back American jobs or prod China to move faster on currency reform.
"We consume a lot. The Chinese save a lot. We're going to run a trade imbalance with them," said Derek Scissors of the Heritage Foundation.
China and the United States have a difficult but vital diplomatic relationship, not least in dealing with nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea.
In recent months, Washington and Beijing have also sparred over Chinese government procurement policies, Internet censorship, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and U.S. sympathy for the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. (Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick in Des Moines, Iowa, and Susan Cornwell and Emily Kaiser in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler)
U.S. House passes bill aimed at Chinese yuan
Published September 29, 2010
By Doug Palmer and Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House stepped up pressure on China to let its currency rise faster, passing a bill on Wednesday that could penalize Chinese goods, as lawmakers blamed it for lost jobs in America.
The bill is likely to fan the flames of a long-running dispute with China over trade and jobs, even though passage in the Senate remains far from a sure bet.
The bill passed with solid bipartisan support just over a month ahead of mid-term elections as voters focus on the still-struggling U.S. economy and persistently high unemployment. Many lawmakers both in the House and the Senate have complained for years that China's policies create an unfair trade advantage, but this is strongest step taken yet.
The bill treats China's exchange rate as a subsidy, opening the door to extra duties on Chinese goods entering the United States, some of which are already subject to special levies.
It passed by a vote of 348-79, with 99 Republicans joining 249 Democrats to pass the bill. Five Democrats and 74 Republicans voted no.
Any vote in the Senate, however, won't come until after congressional elections on Nov. 2 when the U.S. political landscape could be greatly changed.
"China's persistent manipulation of its currency contributes to the outsourcing of American jobs and poses a very serious problem that requires real action," said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill would give President Barack Obama leverage in talks with China and "make it clear that if China wants a strong trading relationship with the United States, it must play by the rules."
The Obama administration has not taken a stance on the bill bill. But after the vote, a Treasury Department spokeswoman said the legislation reflected the "serious concerns" in Congress about China's currency practices.
"The president and Secretary Geithner share those concerns. They both have said repeatedly that China needs to allow a significant, sustained appreciation over time," she said.
Before the House vote, China's central bank reaffirmed its pledge to increase the flexibility of the yuan and improve the way it manages the exchange rate.
Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talked about China's currency and huge trade surplus with the United States on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week.
Despite the yuan's modest gains against the dollar since Beijing allowed more movement in June, International Monetary Fund economists estimate the yuan is 5 percent to 27 percent undervalued.
Representative Dave Camp, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, said he voted for the bill "because it sends a clear signal to China that Congress's patience is wearing out."
On the opposing side, Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, said he feared China could retaliate against the bill by shutting its market to U.S. farm exports, offsetting any gains in U.S. manufacturing jobs.
U.S. retailers, who source heavily from China, also expressed concern about being caught in the cross-fire.
Many lawmakers said the United States was already in a trade war with China and needed new tools to fight it.
Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat who has been one of the loudest critics in Congress of China's trade policy, said after the vote that he was ready to take up the cause in the Senate. "We plan to push our bill in the Senate when we return later this year," he said.
GLOBAL CURRENCY WAR?
China's tight leash on the yuan is under intense scrutiny as countries around the world look to export their way back to economic health, raising concerns they will intentionally weaken their currencies to gain an edge.
Japan intervened this month to weaken the yen for the first time in six years.
The House move is certain to further roil relations with Beijing, which resents the criticism and says the decision about the speed of currency reforms is its alone.
China, the largest foreign buyer of U.S. government debt with holdings of nearly $847 billion as of July, also says its big trade surplus with the United States is due to Americans saving too little and no longer making the goods China sells.
While Obama has not taken a position on the legislation, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said lawmakers worked with the White House to ensure the bill did not violate WTO rules.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress two weeks ago that Washington would work with Group of 20 nations to push China for faster appreciation but several allies expressed reluctance to join the effort. G20 leaders are set to meet in Seoul on Nov. 10-11.
ECONOMISTS DOUBT BILL WILL WORK
The House bill allows the Commerce Department to treat "fundamentally undervalued currencies" as an illegal export subsidy so that U.S. companies can request a countervailing duty to offset China's price advantage.
That is expected to encourage steel, paper and other import-sensitive U.S. industries to file more cases. The United States now has countervailing duties on less than 3 percent of its imports from China, which totaled $296 billion in 2009.
Some economists said they understood the politics of the debate but questioned whether the bill would bring back American jobs or prod China to move faster on currency reform.
"We consume a lot. The Chinese save a lot. We're going to run a trade imbalance with them," said Derek Scissors of the Heritage Foundation.
China and the United States have a difficult but vital diplomatic relationship, not least in dealing with nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea.
In recent months, Washington and Beijing have also sparred over Chinese government procurement policies, Internet censorship, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and U.S. sympathy for the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. (Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick in Des Moines, Iowa, and Susan Cornwell and Emily Kaiser in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler)
OSAMA OBAMA DELUDES OF UNITED STATES' MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH CHINESE IN HAWAII!!!
Gazprom: China To Sign 30-Year Pact To Take 30 BCM Gas Annually
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--China National Petroleum Corp. will agree to a 30-year contract to take 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from Russian gas exporter OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS), Gazprom said in a statement Monday.
Gazprom said it may also work with CNPC on a gas-based chemicals plant as a part of their gas trade and cooperation.
Russian and Chinese firms signed several agreements Monday in China as a part of a visit between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao.
In the gas agreement, the Chinese and Russia sides agreed to the volumes of gas to be taken, the 30-year duration of the pact, the degree to which the "take-or-pay" concept used in Europe will be applied, and the level of guaranteed payments, according to the Gazprom release.
Gazprom reiterated that the actual export contract is expected to be signed in mid-2011, with the first gas deliveries at the end of 2015. -By William Mauldin, Dow Jones Newswires; +7 495 232-9192, william.mauldin@dowjones.com
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--China National Petroleum Corp. will agree to a 30-year contract to take 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from Russian gas exporter OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS), Gazprom said in a statement Monday.
Gazprom said it may also work with CNPC on a gas-based chemicals plant as a part of their gas trade and cooperation.
Russian and Chinese firms signed several agreements Monday in China as a part of a visit between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao.
In the gas agreement, the Chinese and Russia sides agreed to the volumes of gas to be taken, the 30-year duration of the pact, the degree to which the "take-or-pay" concept used in Europe will be applied, and the level of guaranteed payments, according to the Gazprom release.
Gazprom reiterated that the actual export contract is expected to be signed in mid-2011, with the first gas deliveries at the end of 2015. -By William Mauldin, Dow Jones Newswires; +7 495 232-9192, william.mauldin@dowjones.com
GOLDMAN SACHS REDUCES STAKE IN CHINA!!!
Goldman Sachs to reduce stake in China's ICBC
(AFP) – 1 day ago
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs will reduce its stake in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in the hope of raising more than two billion dollars, a source involved in the deal said Wednesday.
The New York-based investment bank will maintain a 3.1 percent stake in the Chinese bank, the source told AFP.
The move was expected to raise 2.05 billion dollars.
Goldman Sachs bought 4.9 percent of ICBC in 2006 and today holds a 3.9 percent stake after initially reducing its holdings in June 2009 as it paid back a massive taxpayer bailout.
Goldman Sachs shares slid 0.41 percent in New York by 1425 GMT
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(AFP) – 1 day ago
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs will reduce its stake in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in the hope of raising more than two billion dollars, a source involved in the deal said Wednesday.
The New York-based investment bank will maintain a 3.1 percent stake in the Chinese bank, the source told AFP.
The move was expected to raise 2.05 billion dollars.
Goldman Sachs bought 4.9 percent of ICBC in 2006 and today holds a 3.9 percent stake after initially reducing its holdings in June 2009 as it paid back a massive taxpayer bailout.
Goldman Sachs shares slid 0.41 percent in New York by 1425 GMT
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved.
W.H.O.'S REALLY BEHIND THESE ATTACKS???
BRITISH POLICE HAVE NO BUSINESS ON AMERICA'S BORDERS...
VOTE REPUBLICAN --- WE WILL KEEP THEM OUT!
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VOTE REPUBLICAN --- WE WILL KEEP THEM OUT!
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HAVE YOU BECOME JUST ANOTHER PROGANDA TOOL FOR ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIENS ON AMERICA'S BORDERS???
E.U. begins action against France over Roma deportations
Last update: September 29, 2010 - 8:00 PM
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The European Union on Wednesday threatened to sue France over its expulsion of Roma, or Gypsies, saying that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government probably breached E.U. rules on the free movement of citizens.
The European Commission started infringement proceedings over France's expulsion this year of more than 1,000 Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria, both of which joined the E.U. in 2007.
"We have opened a procedure of infraction against France," Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said Wednesday. "It's a question of if there has been discrimination."
The commission, the 27-nation E.U.'s regulatory arm, decided to send the French government a letter of formal notice, the first step in a process that could lead to a complaint at the E.U. court.
France will conduct "a detailed analysis of the commission's letter," said a spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, who cannot be named according to ministry rules.
Sarkozy has defended the expulsions as part of an overall crackdown on illegal immigration and crime.
France's treatment of Roma -- members of an ethnic minority who are E.U. citizens -- rose to the top of the European political agenda in mid-September when Reding compared the expulsions to events during World War II. The European Parliament, the Catholic Church and newspapers including Le Monde, the Financial Times and the New York Times have denounced the policy.
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Last update: September 29, 2010 - 8:00 PM
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The European Union on Wednesday threatened to sue France over its expulsion of Roma, or Gypsies, saying that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government probably breached E.U. rules on the free movement of citizens.
The European Commission started infringement proceedings over France's expulsion this year of more than 1,000 Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria, both of which joined the E.U. in 2007.
"We have opened a procedure of infraction against France," Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said Wednesday. "It's a question of if there has been discrimination."
The commission, the 27-nation E.U.'s regulatory arm, decided to send the French government a letter of formal notice, the first step in a process that could lead to a complaint at the E.U. court.
France will conduct "a detailed analysis of the commission's letter," said a spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, who cannot be named according to ministry rules.
Sarkozy has defended the expulsions as part of an overall crackdown on illegal immigration and crime.
France's treatment of Roma -- members of an ethnic minority who are E.U. citizens -- rose to the top of the European political agenda in mid-September when Reding compared the expulsions to events during World War II. The European Parliament, the Catholic Church and newspapers including Le Monde, the Financial Times and the New York Times have denounced the policy.
BLOOMBERG NEWS
EVERYTHING'S JUST MASH & GRAVY IN THE CASE OF THE MISSING MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL HERE ON THE BORDER!!!
Friday Oct 01, 2010
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Potash wins hearing on injunction to stop BHP bid
Mathew Murphy
September 29, 2010
POTASH CORP's attempt to block BHP Billiton's $US40 billion ($41.6 billion) hostile takeover bid will play out in court on November 4 after a US Federal Court judge granted the world's largest fertiliser company access to BHP documents.
Last week Potash Corp filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Chicago, alleging that BHP had provided ''false and misleading statements'' in relation to its $US130-a-share offer and its intentions regarding its potash business.
Judge David Coar on Monday ordered a hearing on Potash's request for a preliminary injunction to block BHP from proceeding with its tender offer to be heard on November 4, before the November 18 bid deadline.
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''Unless BHP is prepared to extend the tender date, I am not going to stay discovery,'' he said.
But he also said that Potash's claim for access to a range of BHP documents, including minutes of board meetings and conversations with analysts and shareholders, was too broad. A federal magistrate has been enlisted to determine the scope of the discovery process.
In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, BHP said the suit was ''without merit'' and it would file a motion to dismiss this week.
''[This] ruling did not address the sufficiency of the complaint or the merits of the case,'' it said. ''We are pleased that the court has scheduled a hearing on November 4, well in advance of the November 18 scheduled expiration of our offer. We are gratified that the court made clear that the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc discovery proposals are excessively broad.''
A spokesman for Potash declined to comment.
Some commentators believe Potash is trying to buy time with its legal filings while its seeks a white knight to trump BHP's offer, which it describes as ''grossly inadequate''. Reports suggest Sinochem, China's largest fertiliser trader, is considering a bid to block the world's largest miner from establishing a leading position in the potash market.
BHP shares fell 23¢ to $39.43.
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Business
Potash wins hearing on injunction to stop BHP bid
Mathew Murphy
September 29, 2010
POTASH CORP's attempt to block BHP Billiton's $US40 billion ($41.6 billion) hostile takeover bid will play out in court on November 4 after a US Federal Court judge granted the world's largest fertiliser company access to BHP documents.
Last week Potash Corp filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Chicago, alleging that BHP had provided ''false and misleading statements'' in relation to its $US130-a-share offer and its intentions regarding its potash business.
Judge David Coar on Monday ordered a hearing on Potash's request for a preliminary injunction to block BHP from proceeding with its tender offer to be heard on November 4, before the November 18 bid deadline.
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''Unless BHP is prepared to extend the tender date, I am not going to stay discovery,'' he said.
But he also said that Potash's claim for access to a range of BHP documents, including minutes of board meetings and conversations with analysts and shareholders, was too broad. A federal magistrate has been enlisted to determine the scope of the discovery process.
In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, BHP said the suit was ''without merit'' and it would file a motion to dismiss this week.
''[This] ruling did not address the sufficiency of the complaint or the merits of the case,'' it said. ''We are pleased that the court has scheduled a hearing on November 4, well in advance of the November 18 scheduled expiration of our offer. We are gratified that the court made clear that the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan Inc discovery proposals are excessively broad.''
A spokesman for Potash declined to comment.
Some commentators believe Potash is trying to buy time with its legal filings while its seeks a white knight to trump BHP's offer, which it describes as ''grossly inadequate''. Reports suggest Sinochem, China's largest fertiliser trader, is considering a bid to block the world's largest miner from establishing a leading position in the potash market.
BHP shares fell 23¢ to $39.43.
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UNION TERROR LINKS???
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Union Terror Link?
Posted 09/29/2010 06:31 PM ET
Labor Raid: The FBI raids the Chicago home of a local union leader looking for terrorist connections as the union's former chief is investigated for corruption. Why are we not surprised?
Thuggery and corruption are not quite synonyms for unionism, but it gets very close when you consider the Service Employees International Union, formerly led by Andy Stern.
From being involved in fraudulent voter registration in Texas to beating up Tea Party activists outside town hall meetings in Missouri, SEIU's reputation is well-established.
Now we can possibly add a linkage to terrorism.
On Friday, the FBI searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago. Among those addresses was the North Side home of Chicago anti-war activists Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, whose home was searched for 12 hours.
The agents said they were looking for evidence relating to terrorist activity. Warrants suggested agents were looking for links between anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Mideast. An FBI statement said those investigated were suspected of activities "concerning the material support of terrorism."
The national media largely ignored the story, and the Chicago media reported it as the 1968 Democratic National Convention — anti-war activists being intimidated and investigated and manhandled by oppressive law enforcement.
Iosbaker and Weiner said the government targeted them because they've been outspoken against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. funding of conflicts abroad. That's the way local media covered it — local activists being hassled by the man.
As Warner Todd Huston over at Gateway Pundit reports, "one little fact seems to have escaped the notice of these hard-nosed journalists. Iosbaker is an SEIU union member. And not just a rank-and-file member but an official."
Iosbaker is no less than the Chief Steward for SEIU Local 73. One would think that a high-ranking union official linked to support of international terrorism would be national news, especially when our success in the war on terror abroad has caused a change in tactics and the rise of what is known as "homegrown terrorism."
The sometimes violent anti-war movement and the SEIU have a long history of linkages.
Wade Radthke, a former Students for a Democratic Society member, founded Acorn and SEIU.
Stern, also an SDS member, cut his community and union-organizing teeth with the SDS. He was trained in the tactics of radical activism at the Midwest Academy, formed by former SDS members Paul and Heather Booth.
Stern has said that if those who disagree with command-and-control government do not bow to the power of SEIU persuasion, they will bow to the persuasion of SEIU power.
Certainly Kenneth Gladney discovered this when thugs wearing purple SEIU shirts beat him up after he tried to sell "Don't Tread on Me" paraphernalia outside a Missouri town hall meeting on health care. Shades of the "Days Of Rage."
Now Stern is also under investigation by the FBI. The probe centers on a six-figure contract that Stern got for his oddly named book, "A Country That Works," that trumpets government and union power. SEIU locals, using coerced union dues, bought thousands of copies as Stern pocketed a large advance.
The FBI is also investigating Stern's role in paying money to an SEIU leader in California who allegedly did no work.
Unions were formed on the premise of helping exploited workers. Now it is the unions and their bosses, particularly the SEIU, doing the exploiting.
Union Terror Link?
Posted 09/29/2010 06:31 PM ET
Labor Raid: The FBI raids the Chicago home of a local union leader looking for terrorist connections as the union's former chief is investigated for corruption. Why are we not surprised?
Thuggery and corruption are not quite synonyms for unionism, but it gets very close when you consider the Service Employees International Union, formerly led by Andy Stern.
From being involved in fraudulent voter registration in Texas to beating up Tea Party activists outside town hall meetings in Missouri, SEIU's reputation is well-established.
Now we can possibly add a linkage to terrorism.
On Friday, the FBI searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago. Among those addresses was the North Side home of Chicago anti-war activists Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, whose home was searched for 12 hours.
The agents said they were looking for evidence relating to terrorist activity. Warrants suggested agents were looking for links between anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Mideast. An FBI statement said those investigated were suspected of activities "concerning the material support of terrorism."
The national media largely ignored the story, and the Chicago media reported it as the 1968 Democratic National Convention — anti-war activists being intimidated and investigated and manhandled by oppressive law enforcement.
Iosbaker and Weiner said the government targeted them because they've been outspoken against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. funding of conflicts abroad. That's the way local media covered it — local activists being hassled by the man.
As Warner Todd Huston over at Gateway Pundit reports, "one little fact seems to have escaped the notice of these hard-nosed journalists. Iosbaker is an SEIU union member. And not just a rank-and-file member but an official."
Iosbaker is no less than the Chief Steward for SEIU Local 73. One would think that a high-ranking union official linked to support of international terrorism would be national news, especially when our success in the war on terror abroad has caused a change in tactics and the rise of what is known as "homegrown terrorism."
The sometimes violent anti-war movement and the SEIU have a long history of linkages.
Wade Radthke, a former Students for a Democratic Society member, founded Acorn and SEIU.
Stern, also an SDS member, cut his community and union-organizing teeth with the SDS. He was trained in the tactics of radical activism at the Midwest Academy, formed by former SDS members Paul and Heather Booth.
Stern has said that if those who disagree with command-and-control government do not bow to the power of SEIU persuasion, they will bow to the persuasion of SEIU power.
Certainly Kenneth Gladney discovered this when thugs wearing purple SEIU shirts beat him up after he tried to sell "Don't Tread on Me" paraphernalia outside a Missouri town hall meeting on health care. Shades of the "Days Of Rage."
Now Stern is also under investigation by the FBI. The probe centers on a six-figure contract that Stern got for his oddly named book, "A Country That Works," that trumpets government and union power. SEIU locals, using coerced union dues, bought thousands of copies as Stern pocketed a large advance.
The FBI is also investigating Stern's role in paying money to an SEIU leader in California who allegedly did no work.
Unions were formed on the premise of helping exploited workers. Now it is the unions and their bosses, particularly the SEIU, doing the exploiting.
EXPOSING THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SEIU, UFCW, GODDARD, AND ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIENS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER!!!
Exposing the Truth Behind the Arizona Boycott
September 21, 2010
Video and Website Reveal Obama, Goddard, and SEIU’s Immigration Agenda
PHOENIX –– The Governor Jan Brewer 2010 committee launched a new video and website today dedicated to exposing the truth behind the boycott cartel working to hurt Arizona for enforcing illegal immigration laws. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) are financially supporting the boycott of Arizona and suing the state over SB1070. Click here to see the truth behind President Obama, Terry Goddard, and the SEIU’s immigration agenda:
The SEIU and UFCW actively supported President Obama in 2008 and have endorsed Terry Goddard for Governor in 2010. In a speech to the SEIU membership as a candidate for President, Obama revealed the closeness of his relationship admitting “your agenda is my agenda,” adding that he consults with SEIU on immigration issues and pledged the passage of “comprehensive immigration reform” to a resounding cheer from the crowd. Terry Goddard has announced that he supports President Obama’s immigration reform plan and refuses to reject the endorsement of the SEIU or UFCW despite their boycott of the state.
The truth behind the boycott and the support of the SEIU from Obama and Goddard is revealed in what “reform” really means to them. In June of 2009, former International Executive Vice President and current International Secretary-Treasurer, Eliseo Medina, laid out the SEIU’s view of comprehensive immigration reform as a way to generate eight million “progressive” voters to support their efforts.
“The truth is that the boycott cartel and the President are suing Arizona over SB1070 because they don’t want the law to be enforced,” said Doug Cole, Governor Jan Brewer 2010 Communications Director, “In their own words, they want to give those who have entered illegally a pathway to citizenship so they can become voters and vote for ‘progressives’ such as President Obama and other SEIU backed candidates like Terry Goddard.”
While Democratic candidates have refused to reject the endorsement, several Republican legislative candidates dropped the endorsement and even several union members across the state have ended their membership over the boycott. The Brewer campaign launched a new website today at www.StoptheBoycottCartel.com to give citizens a chance to stand against the boycott, allow candidates to show their solidarity in rejecting any endorsement, and even help employees quit the unions.
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Exclusive: Unknown DOJ Lawyers Identified
March 3, 2010 - 2:07 PM | by: Mike Levine
Tony West
Tony West
A day after a conservative group released a video condemning the Justice Department for refusing to identify seven lawyers who previously represented or advocated for terror suspects, Fox News has uncovered the identities of the seven lawyers.
The names were confirmed by a Justice Department spokesman, who said "politics has overtaken facts and reality" in a tug-of-war over the lawyers' identities.
"Department of Justice attorneys work around the clock to keep this country safe, and it is offensive that their patriotism is being questioned," said Justice Department Spokesman Matt Miller.
The video by the group Keep America Safe, which dubbed the seven lawyers "The Al Qaeda 7," is the latest salvo in a lengthty political battle.
For several months, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has led an effort to uncover politically-appointed lawyers within the Justice Department who have advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees or other terror suspects.
"The administration has made many highly questionable decisions when it comes to national security, " Grassley said in a recent statement. "[Americans] have a right to know who advises the Attorney General and the President on these critical matters."
An extensive review of court documents and media reports by Fox News suggests many of the seven lawyers in question played only minor or short-lived roles in advocating for detainees. However, it's unclear what roles, if any, they have played in detainee-related matters since joining the Justice Department.
Before joining the Justice Department, Jonathan Cedarbaum, now an official with the Office of Legal Counsel, was part of a "firm-wide effort" to represent six Bosnian-Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, according to the web site of the firm WilmerHale.
That effort brought the case Boumediene v. Bush to the Supreme Court, which reaffirmed the right of detainees to challenge their detention.
But, according to a review by Fox News, Cedarbaum's name appears only once in court records of detainee-related cases. Specifically, he's named as part of the WilmerHale legal team in a 2007 filing with the Supreme Court, and he was joined in that filing by Eric Columbus, a former WilmerHale attorney who is now senior counsel in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.
Alongside Cedarbaum in the Office of Legal Counsel now is Karl Thompson, who while working for the firm O'Melveny & Myers became one of seven attorneys to represent Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 and transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
But, according to court documents, Thompson was only part of Khadr's defense team for seven months, from October 2008 to May 2009.
More than five years before that, Joseph Guerra, now Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Justice Department, was one of five lawyers from the firm Sidley Austin to help three civil liberties groups, including the self-described "conservative" Rutherford Institute, file a detainee-related brief with the Supreme Court.
The brief urged the justices to hear the case of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who was held as an "enemy combatant" before the Bush Administration decided in 2006 to prosecute him in a civilian court..
Similarly, in November 2006, Tali Farhadian, now an official in the Office of the Attorney General, was an attorney with the firm Debevoise & Plimpton when she helped file a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, urging the federal appeals court to hear the case of Ali al-Marri, the only "enemy combatant" at the time being held on U.S. soil.
In addition, Beth Brinkmann, now Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Civil Division, was a partner with the firm Morrison & Foerster when she helped compile at least two Supreme Court briefs dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees.
In 2007, she and others co-signed a Supreme Court brief by 20 former federal judges calling for further protection of detainees' rights, and the next year she co-signed a brief by two advocacy groups, including The Rutherford Institite, urging the Supreme Court to hear an appeal from al-Marri.
The most extensive detainee-related work by a current Justice Department official, though, may have been done by Tony West, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Division.
For several years, while working in Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco office, West represented "American Taliban" Johh Walker Lindh, a move that was hotly debated after West was nominated to the Justice Department in January 2009. West wasn't confirmed until April 2009.
In a recent letter to Grassley, Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich said nine Justice Department lawyers in total previously represented terror suspects, contributed to court briefs in detainee-related cases or otherwise helped advocate for detainees.
Weich acknowledged in the letter that Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal previously represented a Guantanamo Bay detainee and that National Security Division Attorney Jennifer Daskal previously worked for Human Rights Watch, which advocates on behalf of detainees.
Weich declined to identify the other lawyers, but he insisted that no political appointee at the Justice Department "would permit or has permitted any prior affiliation to interfere with the vital task of protecting national security, and any suggestion to the contrary is absolutely false."
He also said that any suggestions of a "conflict of interest" are "an apparent misapprehension" of legal standards, adding that all political appointees have taken pledges to meet ethical standards.
Asked whether any of the seven previously unidentified lawyers now work on detainee-related issues, Miller declined to comment.
An article in The National Law Journal shows that, as recently as December, Brinkmann represented the government a defamation case that had reached a federal appeals court.
As for the two lawyers who were named by Weich in his recent letter to Grassley, Daskal has "generally worked on policy issues related to detainees" while at the Justice Department, said Weich, adding that her detainee-related work "has been fully consistent with advice she received from career Department officials regarding her [ethical and legal] obligations."
Weich said Katyal "has not worked on any Guantanamo detainee matters, but has participated in litigation involving detainees who continue to be detained" elsewhere.
Still, the video released Tuesday includes the image of a recent Investors Business Daily headline wondering whether the Department of Justice could be called the "Department of Jihad."
"Why the secrecy?" asks the video from Keep America Safe, which is run by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Debra Burlingame, whose brother was killed in the 9/11 attacks, and Bill Kristol, a Fox News contributor.
Miller suggested it all comes down to politics.
"Each of the nine people referenced in the letter filed legal briefs that are available by using something as simple as Google," he said. "We will not participate in an attempt to drag people's names through the mud for political purposes."
The Obama Administration is not the first to hire lawyers who represented or advocated for terror suspects.
Pratik Shah, an assistant to the Solicitor General hired by the Bush Administration, was part of the WilmerHale team that put together arguments for the Boumediene v. Bush case.
Trisha Anderson, an adviser in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel who was also hired by the Bush Administration, was previously an attorney at Attorney General Eric Holder's former firm, Covington & Burling, where she helped represent 13 Yemeni detainees.
Varda Hussain, an attorney hired in 2008 with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, was an associate with the Washington-based firm Venable when she helped represent three Egyptians being held at Guantanamo Bay.
"Varda has spent over 500 hours in the past year fighting to bring due process to our clients," a firm newsletter said in 2006.
VOTE FOR MR. CUMMINS!!!
September 30, 2010
4/30/2009 10:17:00 AM
Bankrupt Chrysler owes Cummins $43.9 million
Indianapolis Business Journal
Kathleen McLaughlin, The IBJ
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Chrysler LLC said in its bankruptcy filing today that it owes Cummins Inc. $43.9 million, placing the southern Indiana company among its top unsecured creditors.
A Cummins spokesman said some of that money will be covered by the U.S. Treasury Department's new Supplier Support Program, which the company entered earlier this month.
"It's our belief a large percentage of that is going to be covered," spokesman Mark Land said. "That program is working. Some of it's already coming our way."
Chrysler's bankruptcy raises big questions for Cummins, which less than two years ago counted the troubled automaker's Dodge Ram pickup as its single-largest customer.
Cummins is the exclusive provider of diesel engines for the heavy-duty Dodge Ram, and it's been working on a new light-duty line.
The company announced in 2007 that it would develop the new light-duty diesel engine for Dodge and other customers. The deal with Chrysler led to what the company called a "significant" investment in its Columbus manufacturing line.
Chrysler said in January that it would delay introduction of the 1500 Ram pickup with Cummins' new engine until 2011.
Despite the bankruptcy, Land said the company won't cancel its light-duty diesel program. "We also have other customers for that engine," he said. Cummins previously announced a deal with Nissan, and Land said the company is working on others.
Sales for the Dodge Ram declined throughout 2008, and Cummins has been preparing for the possibility of Chrysler's bankruptcy. Cummins shipped more than 66,000 engines for the Ram last year, compared with about 170,000 in 2006.
The company said in its 2008 annual report that if there are "significant" modifications to the light-duty program and it's unable to find alternative customers, it would have to take a charge against assets.
Today, Cummins reported a first-quarter profit of $7 million - down 96 percent from the same period a year ago. Revenue fell 30 percent, to $2.4 billion, and sales declined in all four of the company's business segments, with the diesel engine and components divisions taking the biggest hits.
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HELLO....MMHM...NO, I DID NOT HIRE THAT TAXI DRIVER!!!
Chicago Taxi Driver Charged With Attempting to Fund Al Qaeda
Published March 26, 2010
Raja Lahrasib Khan is seen in a Feb. 14, 2002 file photo. (chicagodispatcher.com)
Raja Lahrasib Khan is seen in a Feb. 14, 2002 file photo. (chicagodispatcher.com)
CHICAGO -- Federal prosecutors charged a Chicago cab driver on Friday with attempting to provide funds for explosives to Al Qaeda and discussing a possible bomb attack on an unspecified stadium in the United States this summer.
Raja Lahrasib Khan, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Khan spoke with another man identified in the complaint only as Individual B on March 11 and appeared to be talking about an attack on an unspecified stadium within the United States, according to the complaint.
Khan allegedly said bags containing remote controlled bombs could be placed within the stadium and then, "boom, boom, boom, boom," prosecutors said.
The balding, bearded Khan, clad in a wrinkled nylon jacket, rumpled pants and sneakers, appeared briefly before U.S. Magistrate Geraldine Soat Brown on Friday afternoon. She ordered him held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center pending a status hearing set for Tuesday.
He was represented at the initial appearance by Daniel P. McLoughlin, a staff attorney with the federal defender program. McLoughlin declined to comment when approached by reporters after the hearing but told Soat Brown that he would probably withdraw from the case and another attorney would be appointed to defend Khan.
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in the statement that there was no imminent danger to the Chicago area but "these charges, once again, affirm that law enforcement must remain constantly vigilant to guard against domestic support of foreign terrorist organizations."
The complaint said that Khan claimed while speaking with an undercover agent to be acquainted with Ilyas Kashmiri, a terrorist leader believed to be based in the tribal areas of western Pakistan who is currently charged in a federal indictment in Chicago with planning a terrorist attack in Denmark.
Prosecutors said the investigation that led to Khan's arrest was unrelated to a separate investigation that produced charges against an American citizen, David Coleman Headley, and a Canadian businessman living in Chicago, Tahawwur Rana, in the November 2008 terrorist attacks that left 166 people dead in the Indian city of Mumbai.
Kashmiri is charged in that indictment along with Headley and Rana in connection with a planned attack on the Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 that led to protests in much of the Muslim world.
Headley pleaded guilty last week to the charges. Rana has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists in Denmark and India.
According to the complaint, Khan claimed to have known Kashmiri for 15 years and said he came to believe at some point that Kashmiri was receiving orders from Usama bin Laden. Prosecutors have said that Kashmiri maintains close ties with at least one Al Qaeda leader.
The complaint said that Khan sent $950 from a currency exchange in Chicago to "Lala," a name meaning older brother and which he used in speaking of Kashmiri. It said the money was sent after Kashmiri indicated to Khan that he needed cash to buy explosives.
On March 17, Khan accepted $1,000 from the undercover agent and assured him that the money would be used to purchase weapons and possibly other supplies, the complaint said.
It said that at that time Khan discussed the possibility of sending the money to England with his son. Under the plan, he would meet his son in England, retrieve the money and proceed to Pakistan to deliver it to Kashmiri, they said.
According to the complaint, FBI agents came into contact with Khan's son at O'Hare International Airport on March 23 and that he was traveling to England with some of the money. The son was not charged with any wrongdoing.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
SCORE.......BOEING WINS THREE-YEAR, $5.3 BILLION CONTRACT WITH UNITED STATES' NAVY!!!
Boeing Wins 3-Year, $5.3B Contract With Navy
Boeing Co. (BA) won a $5.3 billion contract with the U.S. Navy from 2012 through to supply fighter and electronic-warfare aircraft.
Under the contract, Boeing will deliver 66 Super Hornets--multirole, carrier-based fighter planes--and 58 Growlers, which Boeing called the country's newest combat aircraft. The Growler conducts advanced electronic attacks from the air, according the company. Electronic warfare is a term for military action involving electromagnetic spectrum and the services--like radar and communications--that rely on it.
Kory Mathews, vice president of the programs for the two aircraft, said Boeing and its suppliers "have delivered every Super Hornet and Growler on schedule to the warfighter and on budget for the taxpayer from the first Super Hornet delivery."
Recently, the Pentagon has become increasingly unforgiving of late or overbudget projects by contractors as it tries to rein in its massive spending.
Boeing shares were up 0.5% at $64.86 in after-hours trading. Through the close, the stock has risen 19% so far this year, outperforming the broader market.
-By Joan E. Solsman, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2291; joan.solsman@dowjones.com
OSAMA LECTURES AIDES TO ABANDON SHIP --- A HARD MEDICINE TO SWALLOW!!!
Obama Lectures His Voters as White House Aides Abandon Ship
September 28, 2010
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RUSH: Well, I found out Hank Haney is not mad at me. He's just partially mad at me. He's just a little bit mad at me. But he understands that I have a full-fledged job. Sorry. I had to do that. I just can't help stirring it up. You tell me to stick to the issues, and I'm going to talk about golf.
Greetings, folks, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Can't wait to talk to you. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
I'm a little hoarse today, folks. I am fighting off successfully the full impact of the ravages of the common cold virus, fighting it off. I've had this tight congestion in there, and normally it would begin in my throat and lose my voice for a day, but it has not happened. It's a little hoarse today so just be advised and beware.
The same guy who has taken at least eight vacations in the last year is calling his own voters lethargic. Barack Hussein Imam Obama is trying to buck up the Democrat base telling them they're lethargic, "People need to shake off this lethargy, people need to buck up," Obama told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview being published on Friday. "Making change happen is hard," he said. No, it's not. It's been easy as pie. We have seen how easy it is to destroy the American private sector. It's been a year and a half. It hasn't taken that much. But it has required one thing, a Democrat Party running the show. It has required a Marxist president in charge of the Democrat Party. And the same people have been running our education system. The same people have been running the unions; the same people that have been running the cities that are broken; the same people who have been running everything that's been run into the ground, the Democrat Party, the American left. Destruction, Inc. Destruction personified. Look at the success they've had in just a year and a half, and I mean success from their perspective. It's absurd. And now we've got health care kicking in. This has to be repealed.
This is a disaster waiting to happen when it is fully implemented. Making change is hard if you got a public school education. Well, look who's been teaching people. The American left. The American left's a one-party wrecking crew. Look at this: "Americans' view of the economy turned grimmer in September amid escalating job worries, falling to the lowest point since February. The downbeat report, released Tuesday, raises more fears about the tenuous U.S. economic recovery. It also further underscores the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street; consumers' confidence fell further even as stocks rebounded in September." Now, here they are bashing Wall Street. Let me tell you why stocks are rebounding, two reasons. The Federal Reserve is buying stocks. Your average, ordinary asset manager is not the one buying stocks. The Fed is. They're trying to prop up Obama. And they're creating a bubble. This is an artificial elevation of the stock price, and at some point the bubble is going to burst.
Look, I'm sorry to be negative here. The other thing that has happened to the extent that there are stock buyers, purchasers riding the price up, it is people excited about the fact that the Democrats are no longer going to be in control of Congress come November in their minds. There are two things driving this. It's not Wall Street greed. The greed is in our nation's capital. "A tenuous economic recovery underscores the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. Consumer confidence fell further even as stocks rebounded." This is the AP. They want you to believe that Wall Street's making out like bandits. And, by the way, folks, there are people who know how to make money during economic destruction. People make money during all economic circumstances. It's the truth. The short sellers. There are people who get rich during times like this, and there are people who get rich during boom times. But the idea here that people on Main Street are in sad shape because Wall Street's in good shape is typical drivel, typical Democrat leftist drivel, as though it's a zero-sum game. We're back to the same old belief that Main Street is having everything it has stolen from it by the evildoers on Wall Street, and it is all a crock.
Remember during the Bush years we were told that if we feel like we're in a recession then we're in a recession? Guess who's made more money than anybody else in the last two years? George Soros. George Soros, who's funding the destruction of the Democrat Party, is making more money than anybody else in the last two years. And George Soros is not pledging to give his away to charity, like these idiots, Buffett and Gates are. George Soros is not pledging all this philanthropy. He's not trying to score points. He's trying to screw, and he's succeeding at it because he's bought the Democrat Party and Barack Hussein Imam Obama. Why is it shocking consumer confidence is down? Who would think that that's even possible during these rosy economic times? What do these yokels in the Drive-By Media think?
And then there is this: "U.S. Economy 'Close to a Destructive Tipping Point,' Glenn Hubbard Says. -- 'America is very close to a destructive tipping point,' co-authors Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro warn in their new book Seeds of Destruction. 'We must change how we conduct our politics and economics... or we will inevitably go the way of all once-great nations and suffer an irreversible decline.' Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, joined Dan Gross and I to discuss the 'major structural imbalances' facing America, chief among them being the government's profligate spending. Hubbard, you may recall, was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during George W. Bush's first term. As you might expect, he is a strong advocate of smaller government and lower taxes. But Hubbard and Navarro, a business professor at UC Irvine, are also harshly critical of Bush's 'gross mismanagement' of the fiscal stimulus bequeathed to his administration by President Clinton. Specifically, Hubbard chastises his former boss for the creation of a new unfunded federal mandate, Medicare Part D."
US economy close to a destructive tipping point, says Glenn Beck Hubbard. America very close to a destructive tipping point, coauthors Glenn Beck Hubbard and Peter Navarro warn in their new book Seeds of Destruction. We must change how we conduct our politics and economics or we will inevitably go the way of all great -- once-great nations and suffer an irreversible decline. Hubbard, the dean of Columbia Business School, joined Dan Gross and the author of this story, Aaron Task to discuss the major structural imbalances facing America, chief among them being the government's profligate spending. Glenn Hubbard was chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisors during the Bush first term, George W. Bush, as you might expect, he's a strong advocate of smaller government and lower taxes, but Hubbard and Navarro, a business professor at UC Irvine, are all harshly critical of Bush's gross mismanagement of the fiscal stimulus bequeathed to his administration by Clinton. Specifically Hubbard chastises his former boss for the creation of a new unfunded federal mandate, Medicare Part D.
I have to agree. Every time I ripped Medicare as the new Republican created entitlement, Tom DeLay would call, "You misunderstand. This is market reforms," he said. "This is a great entitlement." Well, it's just not something that Republicans do. It's not something Republicans do. Anyway, these guys are right on the money. The US economy is close to a destructive tipping point. Rahm Emanuel knows it. He's heading back to Chicago. Axelrod knows it. He's heading back to Chicago. Geithner knows it. He's stuck, little Timmy. Who else? Summers knows, he's heading back to Harvard. Christina Romer, she knows it, she's headed back to Berkeley. Not only is Orszag gone, he went and got married. None of the Obama team decided to show up. Nobody, no administration has had this kind of defection this soon into its first term that anybody can remember. And Axelrod even admits, I have a story, he's interviewed by Dana Milbank, the Washington Post. Axelrod is saying he's actually disappointed. He thought they were going to be able to come in and change Washington. He thought they were going to be able to come in and get rid of politics as usual just by showing up. He really says this to Dana Milbank. I don't know if he really believes it. Maybe he's one of these cowed people caught up in The Messiah who really thought just by showing up they were going to redefine the way this country worked and just by showing up they were gonna create a utopia.
There has to be a reason these people are leaving. I mean if you're enjoying what you're doing -- There's a story in the stack here, Snerdley, and it's in the Wall Street Journal about retirement and why many self-made people never retire and that's because they love their work. Retirement's not in the vocabulary. Their work is their life; their work is their enjoyment; their work is their vacation; their work is what gives them meaning as opposed to old money that inherits it and doesn't know what to do with it; doesn't know how they got it. All they think is they're better than everybody else because they inherited it. Here's the interesting thing. Axelrod is admitting to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post he thought things were going to be better, he thought things were gonna change, utopia. He doesn't use that word, it's mine. But he's leaving. He's leaving in disappointment, we're told. Or is he leaving in happiness because they've succeeded in destroying everything, so now he's out of there. He's supposed to be running to reelect but he's getting out of Dodge to do it.
All these other people, I mean they're leaving for one of two reasons: mission accomplished, or, uh-oh, ain't working out the way we thought. Now, we've all acknowledged while they are book smart, they're genuinely ignorant, devoid of common sense, real-life experience people. This might be their first taste of actual implementation without any check and balance on them of what they believe. It might be the first time that they've gone beyond just the theoretical discussions in the faculty lounge. Now, don't misunderstand. I know liberalism's been tried all over the world, but, remember, these people said we're the ones we've been waiting for. These people believe it had never been done right. These people believe it hadn't been properly funded. These people believed the Soviets, ah, they killed too many people. Mao killed too many people while being brilliant. It hadn't been done right and nobody could stop 'em. Republicans couldn't stop 'em. The media was on their side, nobody could stop 'em. They have no excuses.
In a year and a half they've implemented a tremendous amount of Obama's agenda, and it isn't working. People always ask me why are liberals so mad, why are they so unhappy? Well, face them squarely in the mirror every day. It doesn't work. To the extent that these neophytes really believe this stuff is going to create a panacea; to the extent that they really believe that equality and sameness and political correctness and government spending is going to equalize, make everybody happy, to the extent they believe that they're witnessing the utter failure of it. I mean they are learning here, government does not create wealth. Government cannot create wealth. All government does is confiscate it. That's all government does. Like I asked you yesterday, why in the world if you work someplace do you want the government to raise taxes on your employer? How does that help you? It doesn't help you when the government confiscates because they cannot create wealth. They also thought they'd be able to shut me up. That failed, too, again. So are they leaving in happiness, or are they being honest when they say they're unhappy and burned out or what have you?
Actually, folks, it doesn't matter, because what is is what is and we are at a tipping point. We're on the precipice of the destruction of the wealth-creating engine of this country. That's the American people. We're on the verge of it. The guys that write this book On the Tipping Point are exactly right. FDR, LBJ, Obama had huge Democrat majorities. How many more experiments of this sort do we need to prove what a failure they are? They have such overpowering egos. They're sitting there and saying, "Well, FDR didn't do it right. He didn't spend enough." LBJ, "Hey, he didn't do it right, he got caught up in the Vietnam War." Obama, The Messiah, they had no excuse, nobody could stop them. They're lying to themselves if they're saying the Republicans got in the way because the Republicans didn't. They've redefined how this country works. They have their boot on the neck of the private sector. They have their boot on all of our necks. They've lavished our dollars on their friends and bureaucrats. They confiscate wealth. They do not create it. Even Obama's voters know it. What was her name, Velma? Velma Hart. "I'm exhausted defending you," and this or that. She may not know it in so many words, she may not think it as I'm expressing it, but she finally figured out, "You know what, this guy can't make me rich. This guy can't get me a new house. This guy and his policies, this guy cannot enrich my life." She may not want to full-fledged admit it yet, but she knows it.
Axelrod, instead of skating out of town you need to take credit for all that you and your boss and your party have done. You need to take credit for destroying the American health care system, for destroying job creation, for destroying home ownership. This is their record in a year and a half. This is what they've done. That's why we're at the tipping point. Instead of running out of town, "Well, I gotta run Obama's reelect. Well, I gotta get back to Berkeley. Yeah, I gotta get back to Harvard. I gotta get married before she figures out I'm an absolute dork. I gotta go get married," whatever. They've done a lot. Axelrod, you have done a lot. You have changed the country and we're trying to change it back. We want our America back. This is the third time this rotgut's been tried. The New Deal, the Great Society, the war on poverty, and now European socialism under Obama, it's the third time it's been tried. It doesn't work, it hasn't worked, it isn't working, and it won't work. It's a shame I have to stop because this is a hell of a roll. And Hank Haney really isn't all that mad at me. He's a little sad.
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RUSH: Do you remember Rahm Emanuel, when these clowns first got into Washington after Obama was immaculated, maybe even before that, Rahm Emanuel said (paraphrase), "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Now what is Rahm Emanuel saying? He's saying, "A crisis is a great thing to escape from! I'm getting back to Chicago!" He's running away from a crisis. They got all kinds of crises. They've created 'em, and Rahm Emanuel, "I don't think I can make chicken salad out of this. I'm heading outta here."
I got a note from a friend. The friend says, "Hey, Rush, the ruling class are not used to being rejected like this. They've never been rejected in their lives. Obama's never been rejected, so to be rejected by the voters is quite a stunning blow to their egos." And that's an interesting point to me. You know, I'm looking at Obama, he's out there exhorting -- here he is, he and Joe Bite Me both -- I mean, these need to go read a Dale Carnegie book, or The Power of Positive Thinking. You don't win elections by wagging your finger at voters and say, "buck up," after you take eight vacations in the last two months! And Bite Me? Nobody can find any evidence any work Bite Me's been doing anyway! These guys go in front of their Democrat audience and say, "Hey, hey, hey, you guys need to buck up out there. You need to shake off this lethargy. You need to stop whining out there." Really? You need to stop whining? They're lecturing their own voters! And I'm serious about this because, at heart, Obama resents voters. I know he has this need to be loved and adored as the supreme leader. And, you know, all statists, authoritarians, do want to be loved. They find out that, as authoritarians, they're never loved; they're hated, despised, and feared, ultimately.
So I ask myself: What are they even messing around with voters for? Because at the end of the day, they resent voters. At the end of the day, the ruling class resents they even have to subject themselves to elections. And every time the ruling class loses, be they Republican or Democrat (but especially Democrat), every time they lose an election, who do they blame? John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam -- blame the voters! The voters are stupid! He did it yesterday. When they lose elections, it's the voters who are stupid. So I ask myself: Why do they want this massive outpouring of love and support? It's an impediment. You know, authoritarians hate elections. Elections are like wars: inconvenient things. They haven't gotten to the point yet where they can cancel elections -- they have to go through the motions here, make people love 'em to win elections -- but from that standpoint, that context, they probably are shocked and depressed. They are being rejected. Not used to it.
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RUSH: Here's that Washington Post story: "A Sadder but Wiser Axelrod Packs His Bags." This is Dana Milbank writing. "Well, we in the capital are relieved to know that we are not the source of Axelrod's digestive distress. But if Washington didn't take those 25 pounds off of the 6-foot-2-inch Axelrod frame, this town did take something else from Axelrod and his boss: the notion that they would arrive and that the culture of politics would change." Axelrod's depressed. "In that sense, Axelrod, who announced a few days ago that he will return to Chicago in the spring, is leaving in defeat. It's not really an electoral defeat: Though Democrats will probably experience a shellacking on Nov. 2nd... Rather, it's the notion that Obama, who declared on election night that 'change has come to America,' has failed to change Washington, a belief shared by 53 percent of Americans in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll." Has he really failed to change Washington? He hasn't, in my mind. He's grown it. Washington's expanded. It's far more involved in our lives and getting more so each and every day.
Later on in the story: "In a smart and well-timed profile of Axelrod in the current issue of the New Republic, Noam Scheiber describes an idealistic Axelrod made 'very dour,' as an administration colleague put it, by the Washington culture. The campaign he designed for Obama to run against Washington in 2008 ran headlong into the Washington dealmaking necessary to get items such as health-care reform through Congress." See, I knew it. I knew that's what upset -- these people are autocrats. To a certain extent I believe this, and I think they do, too, they showed up and just because of their presence people are going to lay down. Obama had this massive, messianic-like popularity. They got into town and whatever Obama want, it was going to happen, no resistance, no opposition. And they couldn't believe it. They simply could not believe it because the ruling class is not used to being rejected. They haven't been rejected throughout their lives. So to be rejected by voters is -- and even members of their own political class -- quite a stunning blow to their egos.
"As Scheiber wrote: 'During the campaign and the first months of the administration, it had been possible to believe Obama wouldn't have to choose between his twin goals of passing legislation and taming Washington. But, over time, a combination of structural factors (the effective 60-vote requirement in the Senate) and circumstances (a Republican Party determined to oppose him at every turn) made the choice inescapable.'" That's bogus. The Republican Party couldn't stop him at any turn. They couldn't. Not 'til Scott Brown got in there. "Obama's promise of change in Washington was a noble idea," writes Milbank, "but ultimately either naïve -- if he really thought he could fix this town -- or cynical -- if he knew he couldn't but told voters he could."
So, what is this aimless whining from Axelrod? (crying) I thought we were going to change the culture of politics when we got to done. There's more to this than meets the eye. There's more to all these people exiting than meets the eye. They are confronted with a failure that goes beyond the success they've had in destroying the private sector. They're not universally loved and adored. People don't bow down and genuflect. People want them out of town. It's gotta be a shock and this is when these kind of people get dangerous. This is when they start saying, "Why the hell do we need elections in the first place? Why the hell are we subjecting ourselves to these idiots that live in this country? Why do we have to waste our time persuading them to vote for us? Don't they know it intrinsically?" So they end up resenting all of us for their disappointments, whatever it is that depresses them. What president in our lifetimes has ever had it is easy? They talk about how hard it is. Obama had supermajorities in both houses of Congress. The opposition party couldn't stop him. He's had a press, for crying out loud, that's gonna die of anal poisoning if this keeps up. What in the world's Obama got to be disappointed about? He bows to other leaders because in his heart of hearts he thinks he should be bowed to. He's trying to show other people how he should be treated.
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RUSH: Old Barry is in Madison, Wisconsin, goes back to the old stomping grounds, had a bunch of really fun times during the campaign there. Washington Post: "Obama Looks to Reenergize Youth Vote, Get Late Democratic Surge for Midterms -- When Obama steps onto a grass quad at the University of Wisconsin on Tuesday, he will deliver a newly tailored, more personalized campaign appeal aimed at ginning up enthusiasm." Right, and he's going to do that, "Stop being so lethargic, stop whining, get out there and love me again, get out there and act like you love me again. The only thing about that might work, it's not like any of these kids has anything to do other than go to class. They don't have jobs, Snerdley. (interruption) Well, it's a good point. Who do they blame for not having jobs? Who do they blame? Look, we're talking about University of Wisconsin. Probably Bush. We'll see.
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TEA PARTY GAINS STRENGTH DESPITE THE HACKERS & HACKLERS!!!
Tea-Party Movement Gathers Strength
By PETER WALLSTEN And DANNY YADRON
The tea party has emerged as a potent force in American politics and a center of gravity within the Republican Party, with a large majority of Republicans showing an affinity for the movement that has repeatedly bucked the GOP leadership this year, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.
The tea-party movement has emerged as a potent force in American politics and the center of gravity within the GOP, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds. Jerry Seib discusses. Also, with higher car fuel-efficiency standards coming soon, Joe White discusses why we all might be driving Fiestas.
In the survey, 71% of Republicans described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea- party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections.
Already, the tea-party movement has helped to oust a number of incumbents and candidates backed by party leaders in this year's GOP primaries amid complaints that they lacked commitment to small-government principles. The poll findings suggest that the rising influence of the movement, with its push to cut spending and oppose the Democratic agenda, will drive the GOP to become more conservative and less willing to seek common ground on policy.
"These are essentially conservative Republicans who are very ticked-off people," said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.
If the Republicans win control of the House or Senate this fall, Mr. McInturff added, the survey shows "enormous amounts about how limited the interest is going to be in those new majorities to try to seek negotiation with the president or the Democratic leadership."
The poll found that tea-party supporters make up one-third of the voters most likely to cast ballots in November's midterm elections. This showed the movement "isn't a small little segment, but it is a huge part of what's driving 2010," Mr. Hart said.
The survey also found growing energy among some core Democratic voting blocs, such as African-Americans and Hispanics—a tightening that is common as an election draws closer, according to pollsters.
The GOP now holds a three-point edge, 46% to 43%, when likely voters are asked which party they would prefer to control Congress. That is down from a nine-point Republican lead a month ago.
Still, Republicans retain major advantages, including a fired-up base. Two-thirds of GOP voters say they are intensely interested in the election, compared with about half of Democrats, suggesting that Republican voters are more likely to turn out at the polls.
Read the complete results of The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
The tea party is a major driver of the so-called enthusiasm gap, with three-quarters of supporters saying they are intensely interested in the election.
President Barack Obama's ratings remain low, with 46% of Americans approving of his job performance. Half of Americans have a negative view of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, compared with 22% taking a positive view.
The findings show how the tea-party movement has grown over the past two years from a loose confederation of activist groups into a marquee brand within the GOP that has upended a number of primaries in recent months.
Those include the defeats of incumbent Republican Sens. Robert Bennett in Utah and Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, and the recent victory in Delaware's Senate GOP primary of Christine O'Donnell, who was backed by some tea-party groups. Ms. O'Donnell upset a liberal Republican, U.S. Rep. Mike Castle, who was aggressively backed by the party establishment.
The survey showed that tea-party supporters are interested in protesting "business as usual" in Washington. The most popular issue motivating them is cutting government spending and debt, followed by reducing the size of government.
South Carolina Republican Nikki Haley beat three sitting officeholders to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination in August.
Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul, which sparked unrest last year at congressional town-hall meetings and helped propel the movement to prominence, ranked fourth on the list of issues among tea-party supporters.
Republicans, the survey shows, welcome the change within the party.
"The tea party has to a certain extent scared the Republican Party," said one poll respondent, Tim Bahmer, a 44-year-old Republican and self-employed auto mechanic from Charlotte, Mich. "From what I've seen of what the tea party is saying, I think that could be the change [Republicans] could benefit from."
Another respondent, Scott Gonzalez, a 33-year-old Republican from Aurora, Ill., said some facets of the tea-party movement might be too conservative for his taste. But, he added, tea-party supporters "tend to be fiscally conservative, which I do like."
"Hopefully, it will just help both parties understand that people are more or less frustrated and they want to know where politicians are on issues," he said.
Mr. McInturff said the tea-party movement had not necessarily drawn new people into the GOP. Rather, he said, "a substantial chunk of the Republican Party is rebranding themselves."
The movement's greater strength within the party could be significant beyond 2010, as the party looks toward choosing a nominee in 2012 to challenge Mr. Obama.
One beneficiary could be former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is viewed positively by about two-thirds of tea-party supporters, making her more popular in the movement than other potential presidential candidates included in the new survey.
Slight majorities of tea-party supporters also feel positively about former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Just four in 10 feel positively about former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
The movement's power is emerging as Mr. Obama and top Democrats are trying to mobilize their base and attract independent voters by portraying tea-party-backed candidates as an extreme force within the Republican Party.
The survey suggested that the strategy could have mixed results. More than a third of independents in the survey expressed an affinity for the tea-party movement. Yet 59% of independents said they were not tea-party supporters.
Campaign 2010
* Parties Heighten Pitch to Seniors
* More Democrats Urge Broad Tax Breaks
* Obama Travels To Fire Up Young Voters
The poll found that the country's uncertain economy continues to be the overriding issue in the midterm elections.
Seven in 10 adults felt the country remains in recession. And among people who said the recession had a major impact on them and their family, more said they preferred a GOP-controlled Congress to a Democratic-run Congress. One in four adults thought the economy would get worse over the next 12 months. Of that group, two-thirds were people with an affinity for the tea-party movement.
Write to Peter Wallsten at peter.wallsten@wsj.com and Danny Yadronat daniel.yadron@wsj.com
TEA PARTY VS. SEIU ---- A SOBERING DETOXIFIER & ANTI-OXYMORONIT!!!
Tea Party Vs. SEIU
Posted 09/28/2010 06:55 PM ET
Electoral Process: The price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance, especially at the ballot box. A group of Texans who decided to get involved in local elections uncovers massive vote fraud connected to a powerful union.
Being an election judge or poll watcher is often a thankless task and one of those things that many voters have no particular interest in doing. The job is often left to party hacks and other foxes willing to guard the henhouse. Yet they are the ones who rock the cradle of democracy.
Perhaps concerned about the election shenanigans of recent years involving Acorn and bogus registrations, Black Panthers intimidating voters with nightsticks and suspicious recounts that go on and on until a desired result is achieved, as in Minnesota, Catherine Engelbrecht and 50 other Houston neighbors decided to get involved.
They volunteered to work at Houston polling places in the 2008 election cycle. "What we saw shocked us," Engelbrecht said. "There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights."
Seeing that it wasn't quite the way their old civics class textbooks said it would be, they decided to form a group, "True The Vote," which would do what governments were unable or unwilling to do: ensure that voters are alive, eligible, who they say they are and cast their ballots only once. "It was a true Tea Party moment," Engelbrecht recalls.
She and her associates collected publicly available polling data to prove that the fraudulent voting they saw was real, rampant and organized. "The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them," she said, because those were houses most likely to have fraudulent voters attached to them.
They found that most voting districts had about 2,400 of such residences if they were primarily Democratic, only 1,800 if they were Republican. When they came to one with 2,400 houses, they dug deeper with the help of 30 donated computers and countless hours of volunteer work.
One woman was found to have registered six times in one day. There were 1,597 registrations that named the same person with a variety of signatures. One person turned in more registrations in one day than was physically possible.
"Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address," according to Engelbrecht. "We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."
It turned out most of the fraudulent registrations were done by a group called Houston Votes, headed by Sean Castle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be good.
Harris County voter registrar Leo Vasquez has taken True The Votes' work and the results of his own investigation to the Texas secretary of state's office and the Harris County district attorney.
"The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic assault by the group operating under the name Houston Votes," Vasquez said.
Voter rolls are under assault nationwide by the group formerly known as Acorn, the SEIU, and others. The Secretary of State Project is a group founded and funded by George Soros and dedicated to electing people like Minnesota's Mark Ritchie to control the election machinery. It was Ritchie's suspect recounting process that put comedian Al Franken in the U.S. Senate.
"It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes" is a quote most commonly attributed to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. It could be the motto of MoveOn.org, Acorn and the SEIU.
Posted 09/28/2010 06:55 PM ET
Electoral Process: The price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance, especially at the ballot box. A group of Texans who decided to get involved in local elections uncovers massive vote fraud connected to a powerful union.
Being an election judge or poll watcher is often a thankless task and one of those things that many voters have no particular interest in doing. The job is often left to party hacks and other foxes willing to guard the henhouse. Yet they are the ones who rock the cradle of democracy.
Perhaps concerned about the election shenanigans of recent years involving Acorn and bogus registrations, Black Panthers intimidating voters with nightsticks and suspicious recounts that go on and on until a desired result is achieved, as in Minnesota, Catherine Engelbrecht and 50 other Houston neighbors decided to get involved.
They volunteered to work at Houston polling places in the 2008 election cycle. "What we saw shocked us," Engelbrecht said. "There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights."
Seeing that it wasn't quite the way their old civics class textbooks said it would be, they decided to form a group, "True The Vote," which would do what governments were unable or unwilling to do: ensure that voters are alive, eligible, who they say they are and cast their ballots only once. "It was a true Tea Party moment," Engelbrecht recalls.
She and her associates collected publicly available polling data to prove that the fraudulent voting they saw was real, rampant and organized. "The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them," she said, because those were houses most likely to have fraudulent voters attached to them.
They found that most voting districts had about 2,400 of such residences if they were primarily Democratic, only 1,800 if they were Republican. When they came to one with 2,400 houses, they dug deeper with the help of 30 donated computers and countless hours of volunteer work.
One woman was found to have registered six times in one day. There were 1,597 registrations that named the same person with a variety of signatures. One person turned in more registrations in one day than was physically possible.
"Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address," according to Engelbrecht. "We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."
It turned out most of the fraudulent registrations were done by a group called Houston Votes, headed by Sean Castle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be good.
Harris County voter registrar Leo Vasquez has taken True The Votes' work and the results of his own investigation to the Texas secretary of state's office and the Harris County district attorney.
"The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic assault by the group operating under the name Houston Votes," Vasquez said.
Voter rolls are under assault nationwide by the group formerly known as Acorn, the SEIU, and others. The Secretary of State Project is a group founded and funded by George Soros and dedicated to electing people like Minnesota's Mark Ritchie to control the election machinery. It was Ritchie's suspect recounting process that put comedian Al Franken in the U.S. Senate.
"It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes" is a quote most commonly attributed to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. It could be the motto of MoveOn.org, Acorn and the SEIU.
YES SIR, GENERAL --- YO PLAY IS NOT THE ONLY JOB IN TOWN!!!
General Mills investing $132M in expansion
By SAM STOCKARD • stockard@dnj.com • September 29, 2010
Murfreesboro’s General Mills plant is undertaking a $132 million plant expansion and adding the equivalent of 66 full-time jobs to increase yogurt production over the next year and a half, officials announced today.
The Rutherford County Industrial Development Board this morning OK’d a 10-year tax-break plan and recommended approval of a bond issue not to exceed $150 million for the effort dubbed Project Queen.
General Mills will begin expanding the plant to increase production of its popular Yoplait line in mid- to late-October and should complete the job at its Butler Drive plant in 18 months, plant officials told IDB members at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce office.
“The yogurt category in grocery stores is growing at double-digit rates,” said General Mills plant manager Pat Murphy, and the company wants to stay competitive in the market. “General Mills decided to invest in the Murfreesboro plant, which is a great thing for our employees and the community.”
The need to increase the yogurt line reflects a growing trend in healthy and active lifestyles, Murphy said, as people seek “great-tasting” snacks that are easy to carry.
Industrial Development Board members called General Mills, which employs about 850 people locally, a “great corporate citizen” that gets involved in community affairs.
“They have been a very good employer, with good wages, good benefits and good steady employment,” said IDB Chairman Jim Baker. “In this economy, any company like that, it’s great to have them expanding.”
The 10-year tax break approved by the IDB will allow General Mills to forgo $3.86 million in taxes related to site improvement, building and industrial equipment for a number of years. But according to Younger Associates’ cost/benefit analysis, tax revenue from construction, operations and property taxes over that period will be $11.6 million with a payback of the tax break in 1.68 years and a benefit/cost ratio of 3.02, which meets the board’s requirements for tax abatements.
The board’s approval of a bond issue not to exceed $150 million gives General Mills a cushion for borrowing the money through the county without worrying about exceeding its estimated project cost.
“I’m very pleased to have one of the world’s most respected food companies growing and thriving in Tennessee,” Gov. Phil Bredesen said in a Wednesday release. “This expansion is not just an endorsement of Tennessee’s business climate, but in the quality and productivity of the workforce in Murfreesboro.”
Murphy said jobs accompanying the expansion would pay an average of about $20 an hour, which would equate to $41,600 annually at 40 hours a week.
Norman Brown, chairman of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, said the county is “fortunate that we’ve had such strong partnerships, which worked together to make this project a reality.
“The state of Tennessee, the city of Murfreesboro, Destination Rutherford, TVA and Murfreesboro Electric each brought important skills to the table and helped make this an easy decision for General Mills.”
The Yoplait line of yogurt products is a $1.5 billion business for General Mills and is the nation’s leading yogurt brand. Its products include Yoplait Original, Yoplait Light and Go-Gurt yogurt for kids.
The Murfreesboro plant opened in 1979 as a frozen pizza manufacturing facility. The world’s sixth-largest food company, General Mills also includes Pillsbury, Green Giant, Cheerios and Betty Crocker. It has more than 30,000 employees worldwide and its products are marketed to more than 100 countries on six of the world’s seven continents.
— Sam Stockard, 615-278-5165
By SAM STOCKARD • stockard@dnj.com • September 29, 2010
Murfreesboro’s General Mills plant is undertaking a $132 million plant expansion and adding the equivalent of 66 full-time jobs to increase yogurt production over the next year and a half, officials announced today.
The Rutherford County Industrial Development Board this morning OK’d a 10-year tax-break plan and recommended approval of a bond issue not to exceed $150 million for the effort dubbed Project Queen.
General Mills will begin expanding the plant to increase production of its popular Yoplait line in mid- to late-October and should complete the job at its Butler Drive plant in 18 months, plant officials told IDB members at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce office.
“The yogurt category in grocery stores is growing at double-digit rates,” said General Mills plant manager Pat Murphy, and the company wants to stay competitive in the market. “General Mills decided to invest in the Murfreesboro plant, which is a great thing for our employees and the community.”
The need to increase the yogurt line reflects a growing trend in healthy and active lifestyles, Murphy said, as people seek “great-tasting” snacks that are easy to carry.
Industrial Development Board members called General Mills, which employs about 850 people locally, a “great corporate citizen” that gets involved in community affairs.
“They have been a very good employer, with good wages, good benefits and good steady employment,” said IDB Chairman Jim Baker. “In this economy, any company like that, it’s great to have them expanding.”
The 10-year tax break approved by the IDB will allow General Mills to forgo $3.86 million in taxes related to site improvement, building and industrial equipment for a number of years. But according to Younger Associates’ cost/benefit analysis, tax revenue from construction, operations and property taxes over that period will be $11.6 million with a payback of the tax break in 1.68 years and a benefit/cost ratio of 3.02, which meets the board’s requirements for tax abatements.
The board’s approval of a bond issue not to exceed $150 million gives General Mills a cushion for borrowing the money through the county without worrying about exceeding its estimated project cost.
“I’m very pleased to have one of the world’s most respected food companies growing and thriving in Tennessee,” Gov. Phil Bredesen said in a Wednesday release. “This expansion is not just an endorsement of Tennessee’s business climate, but in the quality and productivity of the workforce in Murfreesboro.”
Murphy said jobs accompanying the expansion would pay an average of about $20 an hour, which would equate to $41,600 annually at 40 hours a week.
Norman Brown, chairman of the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce, said the county is “fortunate that we’ve had such strong partnerships, which worked together to make this project a reality.
“The state of Tennessee, the city of Murfreesboro, Destination Rutherford, TVA and Murfreesboro Electric each brought important skills to the table and helped make this an easy decision for General Mills.”
The Yoplait line of yogurt products is a $1.5 billion business for General Mills and is the nation’s leading yogurt brand. Its products include Yoplait Original, Yoplait Light and Go-Gurt yogurt for kids.
The Murfreesboro plant opened in 1979 as a frozen pizza manufacturing facility. The world’s sixth-largest food company, General Mills also includes Pillsbury, Green Giant, Cheerios and Betty Crocker. It has more than 30,000 employees worldwide and its products are marketed to more than 100 countries on six of the world’s seven continents.
— Sam Stockard, 615-278-5165
AL-QAEDA-LINKED TERROR PLOT WALL-MARTING EUROPE FOILED!!!
Al-Qaeda-linked terror plot targeting Europe foiled: report
Published on 29 September 2010 - 12:33am
Intelligence agencies have disrupted an Al-Qaeda-linked plot to launch terror attacks in Britain, France and Germany, a report said, citing intelligence sources.
Militants based in Pakistan planned simultaneous strikes in London and major cities in France and Germany, Britain's Sky News television reported Tuesday, adding the plan was advanced but the attacks were not imminent.
Spy agencies had for some time been tracking the militants who were planning the attack, according to Sky.
The attacks would have been similar to commando-style raids carried out in Mumbai in 2008, intelligence sources were cited as telling the broadcaster.
The plot in Europe was uncovered after intelligence-sharing between London, France, Germany and the United States, said Sky.
The report of the foiled plot came on the same day the Eiffel Tower in Paris was evacuated following a bomb threat for the second time in a month and amid official warnings in France of an imminent terrorist attack.
When investigators discovered the plan, the US military began helping its European allies track down the organisers in Pakistan, which explains the increase in drone attacks in the country in recent weeks, said Sky.
"I am led to believe a number of these attacks were designed against the leadership of this particular plot," said Sky's foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall.
He added the plot "had an Al-Qaeda and possibly some sort of Taliban connection projecting into Europe."
The Wall Street Journal meanwhile reported Tuesday that the CIA had stepped up drone attacks against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas to try to foil a suspected terror plot against European targets.
The Journal, which cited current and former officials, said the exact nature of the plot could not be learned but it was believed to target multiple countries, including Britain, France and Germany.
Pakistani security officials have reported around 20 drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border this month, the latest on Monday killing four militants.
A top US security official last week said "increased activity" by terror groups signaled a heightened threat against Western countries, including European states.
"We are all seeing increased activity by a more diverse set of groups and a more diverse set of threats," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a US Senate hearing asked about warnings in Europe of a growing terror threat.
She added the threat was "directed at the West generally" and she would be discussing the issue with her European counterparts.
In Paris, the all clear was given late Tuesday following the evacuation of the Eiffel Tower, sparked by a phone call to the operator of the tower at 1640 GMT warning of a bomb.
On Monday, a major Paris train station was evacuated after a bomb alert that proved to be a false alarm.
© ANP/AFP
Published on 29 September 2010 - 12:33am
Intelligence agencies have disrupted an Al-Qaeda-linked plot to launch terror attacks in Britain, France and Germany, a report said, citing intelligence sources.
Militants based in Pakistan planned simultaneous strikes in London and major cities in France and Germany, Britain's Sky News television reported Tuesday, adding the plan was advanced but the attacks were not imminent.
Spy agencies had for some time been tracking the militants who were planning the attack, according to Sky.
The attacks would have been similar to commando-style raids carried out in Mumbai in 2008, intelligence sources were cited as telling the broadcaster.
The plot in Europe was uncovered after intelligence-sharing between London, France, Germany and the United States, said Sky.
The report of the foiled plot came on the same day the Eiffel Tower in Paris was evacuated following a bomb threat for the second time in a month and amid official warnings in France of an imminent terrorist attack.
When investigators discovered the plan, the US military began helping its European allies track down the organisers in Pakistan, which explains the increase in drone attacks in the country in recent weeks, said Sky.
"I am led to believe a number of these attacks were designed against the leadership of this particular plot," said Sky's foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall.
He added the plot "had an Al-Qaeda and possibly some sort of Taliban connection projecting into Europe."
The Wall Street Journal meanwhile reported Tuesday that the CIA had stepped up drone attacks against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas to try to foil a suspected terror plot against European targets.
The Journal, which cited current and former officials, said the exact nature of the plot could not be learned but it was believed to target multiple countries, including Britain, France and Germany.
Pakistani security officials have reported around 20 drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border this month, the latest on Monday killing four militants.
A top US security official last week said "increased activity" by terror groups signaled a heightened threat against Western countries, including European states.
"We are all seeing increased activity by a more diverse set of groups and a more diverse set of threats," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a US Senate hearing asked about warnings in Europe of a growing terror threat.
She added the threat was "directed at the West generally" and she would be discussing the issue with her European counterparts.
In Paris, the all clear was given late Tuesday following the evacuation of the Eiffel Tower, sparked by a phone call to the operator of the tower at 1640 GMT warning of a bomb.
On Monday, a major Paris train station was evacuated after a bomb alert that proved to be a false alarm.
© ANP/AFP
HOUSTON, THEY'RE A PROBLEM!!!
Johnson & Johnson in talks to buy Dutch biotech firm Crucell for $2.3 billion in cash
By TOBY STERLING , Associated Press
Last update: September 17, 2010 - 5:37 AM
AMSTERDAM - Johnson & Johnson said Friday it is in advanced talks to acquire Dutch biotech firm Crucell NV for euro1.75 billion ($2.29 billion), a deal that would boost the American health care product maker's vaccine business.
In a joint statement, the companies said Johnson & Johnson, which already owns a 17.9 percent stake in Crucell, intends to offer euro24.75 per share in cash for the remainder — a 58 percent premium to Crucell's closing price Thursday of euro15.70.
Shares in Crucell, whose board will recommend the offer to stockholders, jumped more than 50 percent to euro24.25 in early trading in Amsterdam.
"The companies expect that Crucell's strength in the manufacture, discovery and commercialization of vaccines would create a strong platform for Johnson & Johnson in the vaccine market," the companies said.
Johnson & Johnson, headquartered in New Brunswick, N.J., has about $64 billion in annual sales and is the world's biggest and most broadly-based health care company, with products ranging from Band-Aids and baby shampoo to contact lenses and contraceptives.
While it has a strong biotech business with its Centocor division, it's new to the vaccine market and has been looking to grow its business.
Last year it bought both its Crucell stake and an 18 percent stake in Irish biotech company Elan Corp, which is developing an Alzheimer vaccine and treatment.
Crucell's biggest-selling vaccine is Quinvaxem, which protects against five childhood diseases. But it has a number of interesting vaccines and treatments under development.
Last year it was awarded a $69 million U.S. government grant for developing a universal treatment for the flu, including strains resistant to Tamiflu — the medicine most commonly used to slow influenza infections.
Crucell, based in Leiden, Netherlands, is also working on a treatment for people infected with rabies and an HIV vaccine.
"It's a fair price, but not a top price," said Rabobank Securities analyst Fabian Smeets. He said that J&J's stake had given it the inside track in negotiating a deal with Crucell, and other big pharmaceuticals firms were not likely to launch a rival bid.
"There's always a chance, but I consider it pretty small," he said, citing change-of-control clauses that J&J has already signed with Crucell.
In addition to its vaccine business, Crucell sells a line of human cells widely used by big pharmaceutical firms as a platform for developing vaccines.
J&J bought its stake in Crucell last year shortly after Wyeth had dropped a bid for Crucell when it was itself acquired by Pfizer Inc.
Crucell Chief Executive Ronald Brus said that at the time J&J took a stake, his company hadn't wanted to form partnerships with the existing vaccine giants.
"You want to partner with the one that wants to enter the market, not the ones that want to defend their market," he said.
WHAT'S THAT --- THE SEIU IS SUPPORTING WALLMART POISONING???
Called out 20 minutes before shift at Target due to food poisoning?
Will this count as a no show, or do you think this is a circumstance that can be overlooked? There was really nothing I could do, there was no way I could go into work. I'm just afraid that this wont count as a call out. Anyone work for Target who can give me a good answer? I'm not sure how strict the company is since I've only been here for two months. They say to call in two hours before, but I got sick before having to go in.
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Not a surprise: SEIU & Wal-Mart unite behind Obamacare
By Michelle Malkin • June 30, 2009 04:32 PM
Wal-Mart announced today that it was backing Obama’s government health care plan. The discount retail giant was joined by the Service Employees International Union and the left-wing Center for American Progress. CQ reports:
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced Tuesday that it would support a mandate on businesses to help expand health care coverage, an about-face from other business interests that have strongly opposed any such requirement.
But this is not a sudden “about-face.” Wal-Mart and the SEIU, still bitter enemies on most other policy and employment matters, first joined hands on health care two years ago. The unholy alliance was forged out of mutual desperation and political expediency.
More from Forbes, USAToday. And AP:
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced its position in a letter to congressional and administration officials Tuesday. It was joined by a major labor union that sometimes has criticized Wal-Mart as stingy with employee benefits.
“We are for an employer mandate which is fair and broad in its coverage,” the letter said. “Any alternative to an employer mandate should not create barriers to hiring entry-level employees.”
That was a reference to some proposals in Congress to have employers pay the Medicaid costs of new hires. Critics say that would discourage the hiring of low-income people.
The letter was also signed by Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has more than a million members and counts more U.S. health workers than any other union. Also signing it was John Podesta, who headed Obama’s transition team and is president of the Center for American Progress.
Wal-Mart wants the union thugs off its back. Stern wants more power and publicity.
Take this marriage for what it’s worth.
***
Timothy Carney has more.
***
Amusing aside: Wonder what the Congressional Black Caucus is thinking right now? Flashback:
The Service Employees International Union has angered a number of African American House members by protesting Wal-Mart’s involvement in a Congressional Black Caucus fundraiser.
The conflict between two mainstays of the Democratic Party began after Anna Burger, SEIU secretary-treasurer, wrote caucus members “to express our disappointment that the Congressional Black Caucus has given Wal-Mart an opportunity to fashion a false image as a friend of African Americans and of working people generally.”
SEIU and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sponsored an April 27 caucus fundraiser. The union has criticized Wal-Mart’s personnel practices as anti-labor.
Caucus member Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D-Md.) described the letter as “presumptuous.”
“The attitude of the letter was that somehow we were allowing someone to do this as though we had no free will or common sense,” he said.
The CBC chairman, Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C.), said, “I couldn’t imagine them writing a similar letter to other members of Congress, Democrats, Blue Dogs [conservative Democrats], Republicans.”
Wynn and Watt argued that it would make no sense for the caucus to break off ties with Wal-Mart officials, noting that at meetings with the company caucus members have raised many of same issues of low pay, limited fringe benefits and outsourcing to China that concern labor leaders.
The dispute was first reported Tuesday by the Hill newspaper.
“As the largest employer in the world, Wal-Mart’s labor relations model is now undermining standards for all American workers,” Burger wrote in her letter to caucus members. “The average salesclerk makes below the poverty line, and a majority of Wal-Mart workers cannot afford the company’s health insurance plan. . . . Wal-Mart has forced its more than 600 suppliers to shift operations overseas to exploit workers there at even lower wages while destroying good American jobs.”
Will this count as a no show, or do you think this is a circumstance that can be overlooked? There was really nothing I could do, there was no way I could go into work. I'm just afraid that this wont count as a call out. Anyone work for Target who can give me a good answer? I'm not sure how strict the company is since I've only been here for two months. They say to call in two hours before, but I got sick before having to go in.
_________________
Not a surprise: SEIU & Wal-Mart unite behind Obamacare
By Michelle Malkin • June 30, 2009 04:32 PM
Wal-Mart announced today that it was backing Obama’s government health care plan. The discount retail giant was joined by the Service Employees International Union and the left-wing Center for American Progress. CQ reports:
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced Tuesday that it would support a mandate on businesses to help expand health care coverage, an about-face from other business interests that have strongly opposed any such requirement.
But this is not a sudden “about-face.” Wal-Mart and the SEIU, still bitter enemies on most other policy and employment matters, first joined hands on health care two years ago. The unholy alliance was forged out of mutual desperation and political expediency.
More from Forbes, USAToday. And AP:
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced its position in a letter to congressional and administration officials Tuesday. It was joined by a major labor union that sometimes has criticized Wal-Mart as stingy with employee benefits.
“We are for an employer mandate which is fair and broad in its coverage,” the letter said. “Any alternative to an employer mandate should not create barriers to hiring entry-level employees.”
That was a reference to some proposals in Congress to have employers pay the Medicaid costs of new hires. Critics say that would discourage the hiring of low-income people.
The letter was also signed by Andrew L. Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has more than a million members and counts more U.S. health workers than any other union. Also signing it was John Podesta, who headed Obama’s transition team and is president of the Center for American Progress.
Wal-Mart wants the union thugs off its back. Stern wants more power and publicity.
Take this marriage for what it’s worth.
***
Timothy Carney has more.
***
Amusing aside: Wonder what the Congressional Black Caucus is thinking right now? Flashback:
The Service Employees International Union has angered a number of African American House members by protesting Wal-Mart’s involvement in a Congressional Black Caucus fundraiser.
The conflict between two mainstays of the Democratic Party began after Anna Burger, SEIU secretary-treasurer, wrote caucus members “to express our disappointment that the Congressional Black Caucus has given Wal-Mart an opportunity to fashion a false image as a friend of African Americans and of working people generally.”
SEIU and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sponsored an April 27 caucus fundraiser. The union has criticized Wal-Mart’s personnel practices as anti-labor.
Caucus member Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D-Md.) described the letter as “presumptuous.”
“The attitude of the letter was that somehow we were allowing someone to do this as though we had no free will or common sense,” he said.
The CBC chairman, Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C.), said, “I couldn’t imagine them writing a similar letter to other members of Congress, Democrats, Blue Dogs [conservative Democrats], Republicans.”
Wynn and Watt argued that it would make no sense for the caucus to break off ties with Wal-Mart officials, noting that at meetings with the company caucus members have raised many of same issues of low pay, limited fringe benefits and outsourcing to China that concern labor leaders.
The dispute was first reported Tuesday by the Hill newspaper.
“As the largest employer in the world, Wal-Mart’s labor relations model is now undermining standards for all American workers,” Burger wrote in her letter to caucus members. “The average salesclerk makes below the poverty line, and a majority of Wal-Mart workers cannot afford the company’s health insurance plan. . . . Wal-Mart has forced its more than 600 suppliers to shift operations overseas to exploit workers there at even lower wages while destroying good American jobs.”
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