November 2nd, 2010, is fast upon us. This message from Dr. Thomas Sowell is powerful and I implore you to listen to all ‘5’ chapters and to share them with as many of your friends as you can. The direction of the United States based on a political shift from free market, capitalism, to social justice, progressivism, will lead take United States rapidly to mediocrity.
Listen, enjoy, understand and share these clips with your friends, family and neighbors.
Yours In Truth ;-) Shelly
I watched the rally from beginning to end. This is what I heard and have taken away from the rally:
.."This great Nation is only great when we stand together, with God's grace, to live for and up to the Divine Providence all humans are blessed with".
It has always been within our power to be great. Thank you to Glenn Beck and all of the facilitators of this event, to remind us of this simple message.
Yours In Truth ;-)
With friends like George Soros and the multitude of anti-American organizations he’s subsidized; “Who Needs Enemies?”
Yours In Truth ;-) Shelly
George Soros has slashed the amount of money he is willing to gamble on the fortunes of the US stock market in the second quarter as market volatility increased.
By James Quinn
Published: 7:08PM BST 17 Aug 2010
George Soros' fund has approximately $25bn under management
Photo: Reuters
The legendary investor's Soros Fund Management – which has approximately $25bn (£16bn) under management – reduced its equity investments by 42pc to $5.1bn by the end of June, down from $8.8bn at the end of March.
The asset allocation decisions were made during a period in which the Standard & Poor's 500 index – the broadest US equity index – fell 12pc.
Gone are Soros's investments in Petrobras, Brazil's oil giant, with investments in bellwether stocks such as Wal-Mart, JP Morgan Chase and Pfizer drastically reduced, cut by 99pc, 97pc and 95pc respectively.
Of those equities that do remain, the fund's holding in a gold exchange traded fund constitutes his largest investment, some 13pc of the equity portfolio, worth $638m.
Although neither Mr Soros of his fund typically do not explain their quarterly investment decisions, it is likely some of the money has been shifted into government bonds, as well as investing in commodities and other safe havens.
The quarterly report – filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission – details investments only in US-traded shares and related derivatives, and the fund does not have to detail overseas shares or cash or commodities held.
This story has been going on for the past 50 years. Through the false guise of humanity we have been led to believe that it is more important to learn and understand the life cycle of the salmon from frye to fish, than it is to understand the life cycle of a human from birth to death. Humans have an innate drive to survive and if left to their own resources they will do so. Education is right to remind us that within this will to survive we must maintain moral integrity, in order to survive as a society. The fault here is that this has become about nature above humans and our natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of property through work. This article epitomizes that philosophy.
Yours In Truth ;-) Shelly
August 24, 2010 10:59 AM PDT
Otellini's remarks during dinner at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum here amounted to a warning to the administration officials and assorted Capitol Hill aides in the audience: unless government policies are altered, he predicted, "the next big thing will not be invented here. Jobs will not be created here."
Intel CEO Paul Otellini, who warned this week that the U.S. faces a huge tech decline.
The U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business, Otellini said, that there is likely to be "an inevitable erosion and shift of wealth, much like we're seeing today in Europe--this is the bitter truth."
Not long ago, Otellini said, "our research centers were without peer. No country was more attractive for start-up capital...We seemed a generation ahead of the rest of the world in information technology. That simply is no longer the case."
The phenomenon of technology executives advancing dismal predictions and offering pointed critiques of Washington politicking isn't new, of course.
For instance: In 2005, midway through the Bush administration, Microsoft's Bill Gates told a Washington audience that curbs on immigration and guest workers would provide a boost to research institutions in China and India. A year earlier, then-Intel CEO Craig Barrett warned that the U.S. must dramatically improve its education system.
That never happened. Nor did politicians follow Gates' advice to rethink laws that led to foreign engineers being kicked out of the country as soon as they finish their degrees.
And now, six years later with no significant reforms, it should come as no surprise that the predictions have become more dire.
Deep in a 'Do' loop
Otellini singled out the political state of affairs in Democrat-dominated Washington, saying: "I think this group does not understand what it takes to create jobs. And I think they're flummoxed by their experiment in Keynesian economics not working."
Since an unusually sharp downturn accelerated in late 2008, the Obama administration and its allies in the U.S. Congress have enacted trillions in deficit spending they say will create an economic stimulus but have not extended the Bush tax cuts and have pushed to levy extensive new health care and carbon regulations on businesses.
"They're in a 'Do' loop right now trying to figure out what the answer is," Otellini said.
As a result, he said, "every business in America has a list of more variables than I've ever seen in my career." If variables like capital gains taxes and the R&D tax credit are resolved correctly, jobs will stay here, but if politicians make decisions "the wrong way, people will not invest in the United States. They'll invest elsewhere."
Take factories. "I can tell you definitively that it costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States," Otellini said.
The rub: Ninety percent of that additional cost of a $4 billion factory is not labor but the cost to comply with taxes and regulations that other nations don't impose. (Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers elaborated on this in an interview with CNET, saying the problem is not higher U.S. wages but antibusiness laws: "The killer factor in California for a manufacturer to create, say, a thousand blue-collar jobs is a hostile government that doesn't want you there and demonstrates it in thousands of ways.")
"What I have to say in this book is not the arrogance of unsolicited advice. It is the experience and counsel that so many young people have questioned me about through all-night sessions on hundreds of campuses in America. It is for those young radicals who are committed to the fight, committed to life."In the first chapter's opening paragraph, Alinsky writes,
"What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away".[1]Outlining his strategy in organizing Alinsky writes:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."[2]For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting whatever he believed to be wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a situation, they stop thinking about it.
The votes are in and the work has just begun. Now it’s time to get behind the candidate of your choice and bring them across the finish line. Even if your primary candidate didn’t make it to the general election in November, YOU need to educate yourself on the remaining candidates and help get them elected. They need money, but most of all they need US not to stay silent and expect that everyone is as involved as you are. Get out there and doorbell, participate in a Get-Out-the-Vote reminder call, put out signs in support of your candidate or help to find property to put them up, have a neighborhood coffee, write letters to the local newspaper editorial, blog, facebook and tweet. If you have other thoughts on creative ways to spread the word, you can be part of the solution, too!
Yours In Truth ;-) Shelly
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Last updated on 8/20/2010 8:13 AM
United States, U.S. Senator (Partisan office, 6-year term) Statewide
(Prefers Republican Party) 8,221 votes (0.66 %)
(Prefers Centrist Party) 2,861 votes (0.23 %)
(Prefers Democratic Party) 4,092 votes (0.33 %)
(Prefers Democratic Party) 5,232 votes (0.42 % )
(Prefers Republican Party) 31,879 votes (2.56 %)
(Prefers Republican Party) 5,735 votes (0.46 %)
(States No Party Preference) 10,362 votes (0.83 %)
(Prefers Republican Party) 155,578 votes (12.49 %)
(States No Party Preference) 2,416 votes (0.19 %)
(Prefers Democratic Party) 577,966 votes (46.41 %)
(Prefers Democratic Party) 9,721 votes (0.78 %)
(Prefers Republican Party) 1,806 votes (0.14 %)
(Prefers Republican Party) 415,395 votes (33.36 %)
(Prefers Democratic Party) 10,041 votes (0.81 %)
(Prefers Reform Party) 3,945 votes (0.32 %)
Total Votes
1,245,250 votes (100.00%)
