Is this a setup? Americans flee banks for home safes

Chuck Schumer started the crash of 2008 by causing a run on IndyMac bank when he publically questioned the viability of the bank.

When the Luciferian bankster cartel wants to further it’s agenda they use their minions in the media. Are they getting ready to crash the world economy?

Is this a story being reported or a story being manufactured? If more of these stories hit the news outlets will people react by withdrawing their money from the banks and creating a collapse?

There is going to be a collapse, the nations of the world cannot pay what they owe! It is part of the plan to bring about the new world order. Is this the beginning?

More Americans Stashing Cash in Home Safes

Have Americans lost trust in banks? More folks are keeping valuables at home, whether in room-size vaults or under-bed safes.

By CHARLES PASSY

When Carlos Felipe decided to shop for the ultimate night's sleep, he headed to the New Jersey showroom of Hollandia, an Israeli manufacturer that creates custom beds running as much as $35,000. And sure enough, Felipe, a sales representative, found plenty of appealing features and options, from the adjustable bed frame powered by German-made motors to the hypoallergenic, antimicrobial latex mattress (the cover is "treated with aloe vera for a soft feel," Hollandia boasts). But the accessory that most caught Felipe's eye was designed to help him rest easy in a different way. It was a small safe, good for holding a few valuables or gold coins, ingeniously built into the base of a bed -- a modern-day answer to the idea of stashing your savings under a mattress. A duly impressed Felipe plans on using it to store his wife's jewelry and some extra cash: After all, he asks, what thief would look for such valuables in the frame of the bed itself?

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Have Americans lost trust in banks? More folks are keeping their valuables at home, whether in room-sized vaults or underbed safes. Charles Passy explains why on Lunch Break. Illustration: Emily Cooper.

In an era marked by financial turbulence, it's probably not surprising that safes have become a popular commodity, with some manufacturers, retailers and installers reporting sales increases of as much as 40 percent from a few years ago. But the bigger eyebrow-raiser is what has happened to those iconic gray-steel boxes of yore: They've undergone an extreme makeover -- or several of them. Taking the place of those old square combination jobs are a range of custom safes, from boutique showpieces to decoy models for the family den -- not to mention the truly offbeat (a hideaway lockbox resembling, ahem, a pair of men's underwear) and the seriously safe (an in-home vault with a price tag of more than $100,000). And that's not even getting into the ever-broadening array of color choices (champagne marble, anyone?) "None of our safes should be hidden in a closet," says Markus Dottling, principal at Dottling, a German specialty-safe manufacturer whose museum-worthy designs can cost more than the average American house.

One thing that isn't driving the safe boom, apparently, is crime. Indeed, U.S. burglary rates have been plunging for years. Still, experts say that many savers and investors feel a lingering sense of insecurity in their finances -- a hard-to-shake fear borne out of the jolting recession and, at times, wobbly recovery -- which is helping to spur the new safeguarding mentality. Tyler D. Nunnally, founder and CEO of Upside Risk, an Atlanta firm that researches investor psychology, says sticking tangible assets in a safe can be a natural reaction to volatility in the markets. "People dislike loss twice as much as they like gains," he says. "They want to protect what they have." Growing numbers of these fearful types simply don't trust their banks to protect them: In a Gallup poll last year, a record-high 36 percent of Americans said they had "very little" or "no" confidence in U.S. banks. (In 2008 and 2009, when the financial crisis was peaking, that figure stood at 22 and 29 percent, respectively.) And growing concern about identity theft has made some people more eager to keep their assets in a form they can see and count, says R. Brent Lang, an investment manager in Surrey, British Columbia: "By acquiring one password, someone can wipe out all your digital wealth," he says.

Still, it says something about the resilience of the American consumer's mentality that even when purchasing an item associated with all sorts of negatives (theft, fire, global economic collapse), more buyers are demanding products with a little flair. "When somebody is building a $100,000 custom closet, they don't want a safe that looks like it belongs in the back of a delicatessen," says Robert Tompkin, president of Prestige Safe, a high-end New York manufacturer. That sentiment has fed the growth of an incongruous industry, where financial paranoia meets a willingness to pursue a little luxury. When firearms collector Gary Hansen looked for a safe to store his $100,000 trove of rifles and pistols, he found out he could customize the interior so that his wife could also use it to store her jewelry -- in velour-covered drawers, no less. The cost? Around $7,500, but Hansen says the his-and-hers combo saved him from a lot of squabbling. "I knew it couldn't just be a safe for 'Gary's guns,'" he says.

If there's an irony to this safety seeking, it's that the trend makes the stewards of most people's money -- their financial advisers -- throw up their hands in frustration. "It's all based on fear and the failure to look long-term," says Mark Matson, founder and chief executive of the Cincinnati investment firm that bears his name. Matson and others find themselves stating the obvious: You can't earn anything on a $100 bill that's sitting in storage. Even advisers who are bullish on gold generally don't like bullion or jewelry because it represents the commodity in its most illiquid form; it will take at least a trip or two to the local pawnshop or jeweler to cash in those coins and bracelets. Finally, when you put your savings in a safe, you can forget about collecting insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. if it actually does get stolen.

The safe industry doesn't take exception to arguments like these -- but theirs is not to question the logic of their growing customer base. For the market in general, the sweet spot remains what you find at the local Home Depot or Wal-Mart: plain combo-lock safes that sell for as little as $50. But even in this broader segment, there's room for innovation and styling. For example, SentrySafe, the nation's category leader, has rolled out a line of pink safes in support of breast-cancer research. The company has just come off the best year in its eight-decade history, with the help of products like these and customers like Jessica Savage, an advertising executive in Rochester, N.Y. Last November, Savage bought two of the pink safes at a charity event. Her 5- and 6-year-old daughters are fanatical about the color, she explains, and she thought the safes would be a good place to store the girls' papers, such as birth certificates and passports, along with keepsakes. "I call them treasure boxes," she says.

The more valuable the treasure, the more complicated the box. For Richard Krasilovsky, owner of Empire Safe, a New York retailer that's been in business for more than a century, that means an emphasis on customization: A safe can be designed to fit into any space -- beneath a staircase, inside a closet -- with appropriate finishes and fronts (say, European ash burl wood), and interiors can be crafted to suit the needs of the buyer. There's also a steady market for James Bond worthy "diversion" or "decoy" safes -- like those fronted by bookcases or curio cabinets. Customization has its costs, certainly. Krasilovsky says a job can run $3,000 and up -- way up, especially for the small coterie of customers who want a safe that can stand front and center as an objet d'art. Need a secure place to store your cigars? Dottling, the German manufacturer, suggests its $23,000 Colosimo safe, a tabletop model that's billed as "the smallest high-security safe in the world." "It's a toy for big boys," says owner Markus Dottling.

Pessimists like precious metals collector Don Magnus, though, aren't looking for toys; they want their safes to be simple, bulky and Armageddon-ready. "I'm worried about the banks crashing," says Magnus, who's keeping his stash of gold and silver bullion in a $200 home safe, bolted to the concrete floor of his basement. By his estimate, gold will climb to $5,000 an ounce, and in a financial panic, consumers won't get access to their bank accounts for a "long period of time, if ever." After a nasty one-two punch in recent years -- a bad hurricane near his home, then the financial crisis -- North Carolina contractor Pat Brabble spent $9,500 on two plain but very large safes, including one "you could fit five people in," he says. The safes hold gold, silver and cash totaling about $7,000 in value, Brabble says. He's also holding on to about 50 bottles of Jack Daniels. "I don't drink," he says, but "if things do fall apart, I've got something I can trade with."

For their part, security experts say that a more expensive or elaborate safe is not necessarily a safer safe. Most take a dim view when it comes to "diversion" concepts, because they often rely more on trickery than on, say, state-of-the-art locks. "You don't replace security by obscurity," says Christopher Falkenberg, president of Insite Advanced Security Management in New York. Antique safes -- a hot-selling category -- pose a different issue in that they tend to be built less sturdily than high-end safes today. Guy Zani Jr., an antique safe collector and dealer in New Port Richey, Fla., who owns about 100 safes, notes that some highly prized 19th-century safes are made with wood. "You could take a fire ax and go right through the side," he says.

But modern safes have their own issues as well: For example, custom or other small-production safes often reach the market without undergoing the rigorous testing for theft and fire common to off-the-shelf models. At the same time, ratings pose other problems. Retailers say they confuse many buyers, who fail to understand that just because a safe is rated for fire, it doesn't mean it's theft-proof, and vice versa. Underwriters Laboratories, a certification group that rates safes for fire and theft protection, agrees there's a degree of misunderstanding: "People think a safe is a safe," says John Drengenberg, the group's consumer-safety director. And even a top-rated safe isn't impenetrable. As the ratings imply, all a better safe does is buy more time -- whether it's time in a fire or time at the mercy of a burglar with a crowbar.

That said, the pros in the field generally agree that you're better off safe than sorry -- and that many folks are more likely to use a safe if it's attractive. Which is precisely the way Zani, the safe collector and dealer, feels about the vault in which he stores his "mad money" (about equal to a house payment or two). It's a safe he considers a true work of art: an 1867 model with a hand-painted exterior covered in 22-karat gold leaf. Zani estimates the safe is worth $10,000. But it's also a mini-fortress, protecting his stuff behind nine layers of steel plate. (The door alone weighs 500 pounds.) "It's the difference," he says, "between buying a Lexus and buying a Dodge Dart."

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Infectious disease scare in SanFran as researcher dies from rare bacteria

This is scary. What are they doing in theses research facilities?

A healthy 25 year old is struck dead in less than 24 hours after exposure to this bacteria. What if they are weaponizing it? What if the environmental whacko’s get hold of it? What if the Luciferian bankster cartel sees it as an opportunity for depopulation?

Think that’s crazy? Take a good look at this guy:

Would he be disappointed if he came back as this weaponized bacteria instead of a deadly virus? I think not!

Infectious disease researcher, 25, dies from rare bacteria in San Francisco

By HeathPop Staff

(Credit: iStockphoto)

(CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO - A researcher at an infectious diseases laboratory in San Francisco has died of a rare bacteria strain, California health officials said, raising fears the man's friends and fellow researchers may too have been infected.

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The 25-year-old man who worked at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who has not been named, died over the weekend shortly after asking friends to take him to a hospital, the San Jose Mercury News reported Wednesday.

California Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesman Peter Melton told the paper that the man had been handling a bacteria linked to bloodstream infections at the VA Hospital's Northern California Institute for Research and Education.

Cal-OSHA was investigating the death and trying to determine if the lab followed safety protocol.

Harry Lampiris, chief of the VA Hospital's infectious diseases division, said workers at the facility are expected to wear gloves, gowns and work behind a protective "safety cabinet," or hood, while isolating the bacteria.

"His co-workers felt he was highly competent and that he was adequately supervised to do the level of work," Lampiris said.

According to the Mercury News, a state laboratory confirmed the worker was infected with the rare Neisseria meningitidis bacterial strain he had been working with for months before his death.

The bacterial strain causes septicemia and meningitis, officials said. Septicemia is an inflammation of the bloodstream that causes bleeding into the skin and organs and is believed to be the cause of the man's death. It can be spread by sneezing, coughing or kissing. Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, that can result in brain damage and death without immediate treatment.

"He left the lab around 5 p.m." Friday, said Lampiris said. "He had no symptoms at all." The man reportedly told his girlfriend two hours later that he felt sick with a headache, fever and chills. By Saturday morning his symptoms worsened with a rash and he asked to be taken to the hospital, but fell unconscious in the car and had no pulse on arrival. He died later that morning.

Meanwhile, the San Francisco Department of Public Health was trying to locate everyone who had close contact with the researcher during the time he was infected, said spokeswoman Eileen Shields.

Friends and people who worked with man, as well as about 60 health workers involved in his treatment, were being given antibiotics, Shields said.

The CDC is also helping state and local officials with their investigation.

Centers for Disease Control spokeswoman Alison Patti wrote in an email to the San Jose Mercury news, "We're not certain how this death happened, but hopefully the investigation will turn up some answers to help prevent it from ever happening again."

Contempt proceedings against Holder advance in House

Let’s hope the contempt citations go fast and furiously!

House GOP to distribute draft contempt citation against Eric Holder over "gunwalking"

By Sharyl Attkisson

Fox guarding the henhouse!

Attorney General Eric Holder, (Credit: AP)

(CBS News) Republicans on the House Oversight Committee were to take the first formal step Thursday toward contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious "gunwalking" operation, CBS News has learned.

The case for a citation declaring Holder in contempt will be laid out in a briefing paper and 48-page draft citation distributed to Democrats and Republicans on the committee. CBS News has obtained copies of both documents. In them, Republican members use strong language to accuse Holder of obstructing the committee's investigation, which is now in its second year.

Read the memo and draft version of contempt report (.pdf)

The documents allege that the Justice Department has issued, "false denials, given answers intended to misdirect investigators, sought to intimidate witnesses, unlawfully withheld subpoenaed documents, and waited to be confronted with indisputable evidence before acknowledging uncomfortable facts."

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"The Justice Department's demonstrable contempt for the congressional investigation has inflicted harm on the people of two nations seeking the truth - and very pointedly on the family of fallen Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ATF whistleblowers who now face retaliation in the wake of their own heroic efforts to expose wrongdoing," says the brief to be distributed Thursday.

For its part, the Justice Department says it has complied with the congressional investigations, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa).

"We've done twice-a-month (document) productions since last year, and the Attorney General has testified about this matter no less than seven times," a Justice official tells CBS News.

There have been at least three House contempt actions against the Executive Branch in the past 30 years.

In 1983, Congress found EPA administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford in contempt for failing to produce subpoenaed documents.

In 1998, the GOP-controlled House Oversight committee found Attorney General Janet Reno in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena on campaign finance law violations.

In 2008, the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee found former White House counsel Harriet Miers and Chief of Staff John Bolton in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors by the Bush administration was politically motivated. Congress went to federal court to seek enforcement of that contempt action, but a compromise was reached with the Executive Branch before any court decision was final.

Studying evolution leads to creation

Evolution adherents dilemmas:

Survival of the fittest: Why then do they have the audacity to claim the authority to protect other species from man? The law of evolution is the survival of the fittest. They are rebelling against their own sacrosanct theory of evolution!

Wildlife refuges: How many human communities have been uprooted and forcefully relocated for dams, roads, business ventures, etc., yet you can’t build an outhouse on your own land if an owl lives in a tree in your woods.

Pollutants: They want to classify CO² as a pollutant yet the plant kingdom couldn’t exist without it. And we couldn’t exist without the plant kingdom so we couldn’t exist without CO²!

Video: David Rives argues even science points to God

by David Rives

David Rives is known for his presentation "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" and his national lectures on Creation and biblical astronomy.

His work has been featured internationally through Faith TV, SkyAngel, Vision Forum, WND, The History Channel and more. His GPS observatory-class telescope allows David to share his passion for the heavens with others through astro-photography and astronomical events.

Obama Praises a Jewish Nazi Supporter in Jewish Heritage Month Proclamation

Continuous chaos and confusion must be integral to Obama’s reign. No one can make as many bone headed mistakes as he makes by accident, it must be part of Cloward-Piven!

by Breitbart News

President Barack Obama issued a proclamation yesterday in celebration of Jewish Heritage Month that lauded Nazi supporter Gertrude Stein, the Algemeiner reports.

Stein, who was Jewish, supported the puppet Vichy regime in France in the Second World War through her friend, historian and Nazi collaborator Bernard Fay. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently agreed to update an exhibition of Stein's work with a reference to her Nazi connections.

The White House claimed that the inclusion of Stein had been a mistake, the result of an earlier draft of the proclamation released in error. However, Algemeiner preserved a screen shot of the original proclamation, which remained on the White House website after the new press release had been drafted.

Writing in Algemeiner on May 1, addressing the museum controversy, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz summarized Stein's efforts for the Nazis:

Stein, a “racial” Jew according to Nazi ideology, managed to survive the Holocaust, while the vast majority of her co-religionists were deported and slaughtered. The exhibit says “remarkably, the two women [Stein and her companion Alice Toklas] survived the war with their possessions intact.” It adds that “Bernard Fay, a close friend…and influential Vichy collaborator is thought to have protected them.” That is an incomplete and distorted account of what actually happened. Stein and Toklas survived the Holocaust for one simple reason: Gertrude Stein was herself a major collaborator with the Vichy regime and a supporter of its pro-Nazi leadership.

According to a new book entitled Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Fay and the Vichy Dilemma, by Barbara Will, Stein publicly proclaimed her admiration for Hitler during the 1930s, proposing him for a Nobel Peace Prize. In the worst days of the Vichy regime, she volunteered to write an introduction to the speeches of General Phillipe Petain, the Nazi puppet leader who deported thousands of Jews, but who she regarded as a great French hero. She wanted his speeches translated into English, with her introduction, so that Americans would see the virtues of the Vichy regime. In that respect she was like other modernist writers, such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot who proudly proclaimed their pro-Fascist ideology, but Stein’s support for Fascism was more bizarre because she was Jewish.

Stein’s closest friend, and a man who greatly influenced her turn toward fascism was Bernard Fay, who the Vichy government put in charge of hunting down Masons, Jews and other perceived enemies of the State. Fay was more than a mere collaborator as suggested by the Met exhibit. He was a full blown Nazi operative, responsible for the deaths of many people. After the war, when the horrendous results were known to all, Gertrude wrote in support of Fay when he was placed on trial for his Nazi war crimes.

No apology from the White House has yet been reported.

Group with links to Obama honors disgraced czar Van Jones

Just another article showing the Marxist associations of president and media darling Barak Hussein Obama.

The fact that this is not bomb shell news shows to what extent the Marxists have infiltrated American media, academia, politics, and churches.

It also shows how correct Joe McCarthy was!

Anti-Glenn Beck group honors disgraced czar

• Soros-funded organization charged former Fox News host with 'anti-Semitism'

by Aaron Klein

A George Soros-funded leftist group that describes itself as a Jewish organization last night honored Van Jones at its annual dinner gala.

The Jewish Funds for Justice, or JFFJ, was the driving force behind a campaign to paint former Fox News host Glenn Beck as anti-Semitic after Beck used his show to air a special investigation into Soros.

WND previously found JFFJ is led by individuals associated with communist and socialist groups, the children of Soviet spies and a U.S. socialist organization that seeks to infiltrate the Democratic Party.

The group has been vocal in its support of the Occupy movement.

Together with the Progressive Jewish Alliance, the JFFJ held its annual “Pursuit of Justice” award gala last night. The event took place at the Paramount Studios in Los Angeles and was hosted by comedian Paula Poundstone.

The dinner honored Jones, President Obama’s infamous former “green jobs” czar who resigned after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and called for “resistance” against the U.S.

The gala also honored Steve Rohde, the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.

“Attending this event will be over 500 deeply committed, politically active, highly influential and progressive supporters which ally themselves with social justice issues. Join us!” read the JFFJ invitation.

It was Beck’s Fox News show that helped spotlight Jones’ radicalism, which was first reported by WND and by the New Zeal blog months before Beck took up the issue. The Fox News spotlight eventually led to Jones stepping down.

After Beck’s weeklong special on Soros, the JFFJ in January 2011 delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News in protest of the Soros show in which Beck referred to the billionaire as a “puppet master.” JFFJ deemed the show anti-Semitic.

JFFJ also took out full-page ads in several newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, demanding that Beck be sanctioned.

JFFJ recently had defended the Occupy movement in the face of charges it had taken an anti-Semitic tone, as WND previously exposed.

JFFJ activists also reportedly led high-holiday services last year at New York City, Boston and Los Angeles Occupy sites, including prayers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The group helped erect sukkot, or customary temporary booths, at Occupy sites during the Feast of Tabernacles.

JFFJ is led by an assortment of radicals.

The group says it is seeking to create a just, fair and compassionate America, with social and economic security for all citizens. The group believes that “by transforming leaders, we are better able to transform society” and “create a more just world.”

The group also promotes “green” jobs, immigration reform and was a champion of Obama’s health-care bill.

JFFJ is funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute.

In 2009, the Open Society provided a $150,000 grant to the JFFJ and its associated group, the Funder’s Collaborative on Youth Organizing.

In 2010, Open Society provided a $200,000 grant to last a period of two years.

JFFJ was founded by Si Khan, who serves on the board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, which seeks to aid the children of parents the group deems “targeted, progressive activists.”

“We also assist youth who themselves have been targeted as a result of their progressive activities.”

The group was founded by Robert Meeropol, whose parents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were accused of passing crucial nuclear secrets to the Soviets and executed in 1953.

JFFJ board member Amy Dean, meanwhile, has keynoted a Communist Party event and was involved with a U.S. socialist party.

She keynoted the Chicago Communist Party USA’s 22nd Annual People’s World Banquet last December. At the event, CPUSA labor secretary Scott Marshall deemed Dean’s work visionary and innovative.

Dean reportedly used the address to call for “much more” to be done “to build up the movement to ensure the Obama agenda and progressive change is advanced in Congress.”

In November 2011, Dean keynoted the seventh annual Working Class Media & Democracy Forum in St. Louis, which the New Zeal blog reports was arranged by Communist Party member Tony Pecinovsky.

Dean also was involved with the New Party, a controversial 1990s political party that sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.

WND previously reported on evidence from the party’s own newsletter listing President Obama a member of the New Party.

Also, Marxist activist Carl Davidson recalled in a 2009 WND email interview that Obama participated in the New Party. He affirmed that Obama’s views overlapped with those of his party.

JFFJ board member Janice Fine was also a New Party leader and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, another socialist group.

JFFJ board member Donna Katzin is a former activist with the Cuba Resource Center.

New Zeal reported she is a donor to the Oakland, Calif.-based Data Center, which itself has close ties to Cuba.

JFFJ’s president and CEO, Simon Greer, previously worked as a labor and community organizer and social change leader for 15 years.

Greer previously wrote that he has had the “privilege of getting to know George Soros.”

“During our conversations, he made it clear that his experience surviving the Holocaust seared a simple but profound truth in his brain,” Greer said.

WND reported JFFJ runs a Selah Leadership Program, which provides community organizing training to local leaders. As of mid-2007, more than 200 leaders from 165 organizations had gone through the program.

Past participants include Heather Booth, founder of the radical Midwest Academy, which teaches the tactics of radical 1960s community organizer Saul Alinsky.

WND was first to report that the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit on which Barack Obama served as paid director alongside Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, provided money to Midwest Academy.

WND also broke the story that the executive director of Midwest Academy was part of the team that developed and delivered a group of volunteers for Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Another past participant in JFFJ’s training program is Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor.

JFSJ was listed as an endorsing organization of the One Nation rally in Washington, D.C., in October 2010, which was meant to counter Beck’s Washington event in August of that year.

The group has worked with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

“We are proud to be associated with the work of CAIR,” declared Jeffrey Denko, JFSJ’s senior vice president.

With research by Brenda J. Elliott.

Chinese activist hung out to dry by Obama regime?

Why should they fight for this Chinese dissident’s liberty when they are working to take ours away? Check out UN Agenda 21 and see for yourself.

What do you think the new world order is about? Freedom, liberty? Think again!

What do you think Obama meant when he said he was going to transform America? Freedom, liberty? Think again! Every influence from his life has been Marxists.

HELP ME, HILLARY!

Hillary ignores...

China activist appeals to Obama...
Deal unravels...
Chen fears for life...
"We are in danger'...

Made in the USA by China?

We’ll need the busses for our sustainable communities where cars are banned under UN Agenda 21

Quisling Facilitation for RED China Continues in Idaho

Last November there was an article in the Idaho Statesman article about the Red Chinese announcing plans to build an electric bus manufacturing facility in Boise.

Zonda Group and Zonda USA sign agreement for "new energy coaches"

Zonda USA is the American name for the Red Chinese (government) corporation called (Zonda) Zhongda Industrial Group. It's interesting that Zhongda is a relatively new company - started in 1994. The following are the products they list for sale at the Zhonda Industrial Group website:

• hydraulic lift for vehicles
• paint spraying and baking booths for vehicles
• "design of workshop districts and whole maintenance designs" Our solution contains each detail for the layout of your workshop, such as office area, reception area, show room, storage area, maintenance area and the whole scheme of water, electric and gas etc.
• Car washing machine (brushes on rollers)
• Simple spray booth (frame and sheet plastic)
• Scissor car lift

But here in Idaho, they are going to build electric buses. Notice - this is an artist's rendition:

We're sure they'll be able to do it though -- because they stole the designs from the Germans:

Court deal big blow to Zhongwei, domestic bus industry

The Boise Valley Economic (Fascists) "Partnership" were just thrilled. Comrade Clark Krause was quoted as saying:

“No extravagant or big promises were made to this company from the Valley or the state,” he said. “We will make sure that Zonda gets what it deserves in terms of workforce training.”

That comment should have been a RED flag for the taxpayers and parents of Idaho because who pays for "workforce training"? You do. Does the "workforce training" ever end? No. "Workforce training" is the system designed to give free labor and subsidized wages for corporations under the guise of "training". This "training" isn't just for unemployed people who seek assistance from the State "Workforce Development" section of the Idaho Department of Labor, our high schools are being redesigned to provide the children with about an 8th grade level of socialist training - followed by on-the-job training (i.e. workforce training). But then peasants don't need to read, they just need to learn to work. And the free labor "education" continues through the two year community colleges but at the university level, the free labor system is renamed to be "research and development" - and it is heavily subsidized by the taxpayers. And then one lucky winner is selected to be the face of a start-up business at a university small-business incubator - paid for by who? You guessed... it's YOU! I bet you didn't realize the extent of your generosity.

And it gets better...

The Smart Grid is an Information Technology (IT) system overlay on top of the electric grid. The purpose of it is to allow the utility companies to manage electrical usage - and in particular peak load times. Once it's implemented, they'll be able to shut down your electrical devices and .... drum roll please.... the electric power will go to the electric charging stations for electric cars and electric buses. Ta-Da!

And you'll have to buy a battery backup system for your refrigerator and probably you'll have electric power for washing cloths at 2:00 am or so. The dryer? Build a clothes line you won't be able to afford the electric dryer anyway.

Of course, that's 5 or 6 years and about a million lies from public officials away, but the course is clear. We're moving backwards to the future.

Vicky Davis
May 2, 2012

Cops flay newspaper in Norfolk black-mob attack

Police and news division at the paper apparently wont touch racially motivated attack if it’s blacks doing the attacking!

I’ll bet all hell would have broken loose if a mob of white teens had attacked a black couple. Any takers?

'No one at the scene said it was racially motivated'

by Joe Kovacs

Marjon Rostami

Police in Norfolk, Va., are slamming the city’s newspaper for its portrayal of a mob attack by large numbers of black teenagers against a young couple in a car, a case which has sparked national outrage in the last 24 hours.

“That’s what happens when [an opinion columnist] reports the news, not bound by the facts of the case,” said Chris Amos, public-information officer for the Norfolk Police Department.

As WND reported yesterday in a story posted on the popular Drudge Report, the couple was pummeled April 14 by dozens of black teens, and the Virginian-Pilot newspaper did not report the incident for two weeks, despite the fact the victims, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami, are both news reporters for the paper.

Today, police tell WND they’re not sure if the attack was racially motivated.

“Could it have been? Yeah, it could have, I guess,” said police spokesman Chris Amos. “We certainly haven’t ruled that out, but we haven’t seen anything that jumps out at us other than someone throwing a rock at someone’s car.”

“A whole lot of racial implications have been made. We don’t know the motive of this. Race didn’t become a factor until Twitter comments later. No one at the scene said it was racially motivated. They didn’t tell us then and they didn’t hear any [comments such as] ‘Remember Trayvon Martin.’”

Trayvon Martin is the unarmed black teen who died after being shot by a community-watch captain with white and Hispanic parents, George Zimmerman, in Sanford, Fla., sparking a wave of outrage long after the incident.

Amos is critical of Pilot columnist Michelle Washington for mischaracterizing the crime in her opinion piece, as the paper still has not published a news account.

He says the victims indeed were coming home from a theater show that Saturday night, when they were stopped at a traffic light.

A crowd of black teens was on a nearby sidewalk. The Pilot columnist said the crowd was at least 100.

“We don’t have number, it’s fluid,” said Amos. “It seems like the number continues to grow, but we weren’t there. So we’re kind of at the mercy of our victims.”

Dave Forster

When a rock was thrown at the car, Forster got out of the vehicle to confront the thrower, and that’s when the beating began.

“Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim,” Washington wrote in her opinion piece. “The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. It happened four blocks from where they work, here at the Virginian-Pilot.”

“The responding officer coded the incident as a simple assault, despite their assertions that at least 30 people had participated in the attack,” Washington wrote. “A reporter making routine checks of police reports would see ‘simple assault’ and, if the names were unfamiliar, would be unlikely to write about it. In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees. Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?”

Today, police confirm the couple was indeed punched and kicked, but said neither suffered serious injuries, and refused to be brought to the hospital.

Amos says the first police unit arrived on scene within a minute of the 911 call, and the crowd was dispersed immediately by flashing lights and sirens.

He says Rostami was “very emotional” after the onslaught, but Forster “was pretty calm, cool and collected considering what he had been through.”

Amos says the paper’s account of what the responding officer told the victims is grossly inaccurate.

Newsroom of the Virginian-Pilot

The Pilot indicated Rostami “says the officer told her to shut up and get in the car. Both said the officer did not record any names of witnesses who stopped to help. Rostami said the officer told them the attackers were ‘probably juveniles anyway. What are we going to do? Find their parents and tell them?’ The officer pointed to public housing in the area and said large groups of teenagers look for trouble on the weekends. ‘It’s what they do,’ he told Forster.”

Police give a different version, as Amos says the responding officer gave the couple his business card, and he “vehemently denies the conversation reported in the Pilot.”

“Using his discretion for their further well-being and safety,” Amos explains, the officer told the victims, “‘Call me. I’ll finish the report. It’s best if you got out of here.’” Officers were simultaneously called to a report of shots fired in a nearby neighborhood.

The couple then met with the officer on Monday, April 16, to finish providing information.

When asked why this case was originally listed as a “simple assault,” Amos said, “There’s no code for a mob assault” in their reporting system. He says that information can be filled in manually in the narrative of the event. But if suspects are caught, they could be charged with mob assault by the commonwealth attorney.

“They’re facing felony charges, if we can find them and identify and if our victims can identify them,” he said.

While Norfolk does have some traffic cameras in certain locations, Amos says there is not one at the intersection where the crime occurred.

As far as his advice on how to handle a situation like that, Amos says perhaps the best thing to do is “just drive through the intersection and then call the police.”

He admits Norfolk Police are being flooded today with angry comments from citizens “about how incompetent we are, about how indifferent we are, about how unprofessional we are.”

But it’s not just the police facing public wrath.

The Virginian-Pilot is continuing to get hammered for still not doing a news report on the attack.

Shannon Muncy of Virginia Beach, says she’s “thoroughly disappointed in and disgusted by the Pilot. I will no longer read the Pilot. I will encourage all small business owners that I know to remove any advertising they may have. Once upon a time journalism meant that the journalists were out to provide the public with the truth – now it has simply become a liberal train ride. Here’s the information we think you need, and that’s all you will get. If it doesn’t tie in with the party line, it doesn’t hit the press.”

Maurice Jones

“This is wrong on so many levels,” adds Robert Fogle of Portsmouth, Va. “The Pilot in not reporting the story has proven itself not to be a media outlet, but a tabloid. Gone are the days that there was a journalistic code of ethics to report the news, not be the news, and let the reader decide. The police in their reaction proved that they have forgotten that their’s is a duty to protect and serve, not cop an attitude while intimidating the victim. And, as is par for the course, the leadership, or lack of leadership, at the police department closed ranks and provide an excuse for the incompetent actions of the officers. Lastly, city leadership, that will surely fail their citizens in not demanding an investigation, and holding the police accountable for failure and dereliction of duty.”

The Virginian-Pilot has a tie to President Obama, as its publisher since 2008, Maurice Jones, was nominated by Obama and recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be deputy secretary of HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The paper said he expected to start his new job in Washington on April 16, meaning he was still officially the Pilot’s publisher through the weekend of the Norfolk mob attack.

WND has put in calls to the Virginian-Pilot for comment on the matter.

Who cares about the beef, where’s the victory?

Not only has Obama spiked the ball but he should be flagged for excessive celebration!

After a week of “I killed Osama” Obama flies off to Afghanistan for an 11 minute campaign speech and attending photo ops and media gluts.

The Taliban celebrated with a bomb killing seven people less than two hours later.

Obama's Afghan trip: 14,000 miles for brief remarks lacking one crucial word

By ANDREW MALCOLM

Alex Wong / AFP / Getty Images

As usual with this president, Obama's trip to and speech from Afghanistan had way more to do with politics than any real substance.

Seven thousand miles, one way, is a long journey to share war remarks with countrymen that he should have and could have shared back home many months ago. Despite the administration's best backgrounding sales efforts, the document he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a meaningless basic agreement to talk later about forging a real agreement.

Nothing was essentially changed by what the media lovingly called his "secret trip" to the war zone, which was simply unannounced for security reasons.

The remarks (Scroll down for the full text, as usual) were well-written, even with literary flourishes about a new dawn coming as the president spoke at 4 a.m. Afghan time. He wanted to avoid any sense of "Mission Accomplished." And at 11 minutes, blessedly brief for the Real Good Talker.

Here's what Obama got politically from this stagecraft: Bonus public attention focused on the Osama bin Laden assassination anniversary. Photos of troops clamoring for his fist bumps. An entire day focused on him, his words and non-stop talk of the 10-year war winding down.

An entire news day, one of only 189 precious ones left before Nov. 6, not focused on Solyndras, prostitution scandals, GSA parties, $5 trillion in new national debt, no federal budget for three years running, high unemployment, sluggish growth, legal crucifixions nor Mitt Romney.

Nevermind the Kabul explosions, killing at least six, a couple of hours after his brief visit.

While Obama earned attention for a 2002 anti-Iraq war speech, the Afghan conflict has always been the "good war" in his eyes. Obama denounced President Bush's Iraq troop surge that ultimately enabled Obama to claim he ended that war, But Obama ordered two of his own, larger troop surges into Afghanistan.

Back in the hand-to-hand primary combat with Hillary Clinton in 2007-08, Obama controversially said he would bomb Pakistan if necessary to rout al Qaeda leaders. He did and they were. Just last week Obama loosened the reins on human targets the CIA could vaporize with its drones in Yemen, now emerging as terrorists' favored haunting grounds.

In the end, conservatives gave Obama more war support than his own Democrats, which neutralizes one of the GOP's traditional strong suits of national security.

But something began happening more than a year ago. Maybe you didn't notice with all the parochial D.C. bickering. But Obama and chief strategist David Axelrod did. Support for the war, initially fueled by revenge over 9/11, was waning. It still is.

Last month an ABC News-Washington Post Poll found for the first time a majority of Republicans felt the Afghan war has not been worth the cost. They join a larger majority of two-thirds of Americans who say the same.

Now, someone could suggest that had the current commander-in-chief done something, anything in the way of leadership, to explain and sell his hardline, erase-al-Qaeda stand, public support would be stronger. Had Obama made even 10% of the pretend, cross-country effort he invested in selling his DOA Buffet Rule, more Americans might have been more patient.

But Obama didn't. In fact, Tuesday night's speech from Kabul emphasizing withdrawal was his first substantive statement in eleven (11!) months. Nothing to the nation from its leader on an ongoing war for nearly one year, while finding time for 124 campaign fundraiser speeches, more golf games and vacations.

Those poll numbers were still pretty persuasive for a president who struggles to reach 50% approval in an election year. As a result, contrary to the recommendations of generals, Obama launched a significant withdrawal last year, which continues this year and has all combat troops out by the end of next year.

One little-noticed provision of the agreement Obama and Karzai signed Tuesday, however, is that American troops will remain in Afghanistan for not one, not two, not even three more years. They will be there for 12 more years, until 2024, helping. So, John McCain was correct after all about lengthy U.S. troop stationings.

In his speech last night the president noted the more than a half-million Americans who've served in Afghanistan. But in remarks that Obama wanted focused on an optimistic end to the conflict, he failed to mention the 1,957 Americans who've died there since 2001, 68% of them during his presidency. And 93 in the last 122 days.

Nor, as it turns out, could the politically-inclined president of the United States find room anywhere among his 1,556 words for the seven letters that could make his surges and all those sacrifices seem more worthwhile: "victory."