Archive for January 2010

Many people in Yemen still believe that Islam forbids family planning. Bahaja al Hamily, centre, a mother of nine, says: ‘We didn’t intend it.’

SANA’A // Yemen is facing a security threat, described by one expert as a “time bomb”. It is not al Qa’eda, the Houthi rebellion in the north or the secessionist movement in the south, though its influence cuts across all three.

t is found in millions of households across the country, such as Bahaja al Hamily’s in Medinat al Layl, a slum on the outskirts of Sana’a. “We didn’t intend it,” she said. “We didn’t take in to account what we earn.”

She gestures to the skinny toddler on her arm. “I had an operation after the ninth.”

Yemen has one of the highest population growth rates in the world. According to its National Population Council, a government body, 700,000 people – almost equal to the entire population of Djibouti – are added to the country each year. Its current population of 23 million people is set to double in the next two decades.

High population growth rates are often associated with developing countries, and the ensuing youth bulge is often blamed as a factor in social instability.
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The Obama administration is preparing to handle applications from as many as 200,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants who want to live and work legally in the United States under a new immigration program unveiled last week in the aftermath of Haiti’s destructive earthquake.

The federal government will begin accepting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications on Thursday, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas, whose agency will process the paperwork.

Mayorkas was in Miami Wednesday to meet with local immigrant aid groups to South Florida to talk about the daunting task of handling the likely blizzard of applications from Haitians seeking the opportunity to remain in the United States.

Administration officials approved TPS for Haitians last week as part of an effort to help Haiti recover from the earthquake that left an estimated 200,000 people dead and about 1.5 million homeless.

The TPS designation is reserved for selected undocumented migrants from countries disrupted by natural disasters, armed conflicts or other emergencies.

Those Haitians approved will be allowed to stay in the United States for 18 months and be issued work permits to find jobs.
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“For that matter, we don’t mind if they stay here permanently”, gloated the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page after the Obama Administration took advantage of the January 12 earthquake to extend what the WSJ admits is in effect amnesty to Haitian illegals. (Increasing Haitian immigration is a long-standing but little-known Obama goal).

The WSJ went on: “Haitian immigrants as a group are among America’s most successful….” [Haitian Amnesty| A humane decision for temporary refuge in America, January 16, 2010]

Wrong, of course. Just another immigrant enthusiast myth from the folks who brought you the myth of Hispanic “family values”.

Haitian immigrant poverty rates are nearly three times those of non-Hispanic whites (immigrant and non-immigrant). Their per capita income is barely half that of European immigrants and is about one-third below that of the hundreds of millions of non-Hispanic whites. As for their lofty education levels, that myth cannot survive comparison with European immigrants who are more than twice as likely to have a BA or better.

Even more ominous, U.S.-born children of Haitian immigrants appear to lose ground relative to their parents. They suffer from lower levels of education, lower incomes, higher birth rates and higher levels of incarceration. (Similar second-generation deterioration can be seen among West Indians, another group much touted by immigration enthusiasts.)

Reporting from Berkeley - Aaron Glimme’s Advanced Placement chemistry students straggle in, sleepy. It is 7:30 a.m. at Berkeley High School. The day doesn’t officially begin for another hour. They pull on safety goggles, measure out t-butyl alcohol and try to determine the molar mass of an unknown substance by measuring how much its freezing point decreases.

In the last school year, 82% of Berkeley’s AP chemistry students passed the rigorous exam, which gives college credit for high school work. The national passing rate is 55.2%. The school’s AP biology and physics students are even more successful.

Most districts would not argue with such a record, but Berkeley High’s science labs are embroiled in a debate over scarce resources with overtones of race, class and politics.

Campus leadership has proposed cutting before- and after-school labs — decreasing science instruction by 20% to 40% — and using that money to fund “equity” programs for struggling students in an effort to close one of the widest racial and ethnic achievement gaps in the state.
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So your on a flight to Boston for business and four Islamic looking men walk into your waiting area and sit separately at opposite ends of the room: what should be going through your mind?

Most people don’t give it a second though, and likely there isn’t a problem. However, there is that off chance that there is. So what do you do, in this situation? Well, someone, if not a few people, need to go and disturb security and have them address those men.

This seems excessive surely, but America is at war with the extremist Muslims. There are actually thousand of individuals who would love to blow you and your family out of the sky for Allah and they are Muslims.

American Muslims understand this and must also understand that their motives will be questioned until the conflict is over. Recently, Sen. James Inhofe, R.-Okla., came out and openly suggested that racial and ethnic profiling be implemented.

This statement obviously got some attention especially from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Inhofe’s statement, instead of being seen as devise or discriminatory, should be celebrated as a victory for American security and embraced.

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Commission Chair Greg Chilcott

A group of “extremely concerned Ravalli County citizens” is asking the county commission and sheriff for some assurances that they are willing to execute their legal obligations.

The group presented the county officials with a questionnaire/agreement last week that included a petition signed by about 175 local residents.

The cover letter on the questionnaire said the document was designed to serve as an affirmation to county residents that the officials will abide by their oath of office and uphold both the federal and state constitution.

“Please know that the transcendent motive for this effort is to restore lawful government to Ravalli County,” the cover letter read. “That law exists, but is too frequently ignored.”

The letter was signed, “A representative of those who attached their names.”

Visit the following link to read the document: http://ravallirepublic.com/123/militia_petition/petition.pdf
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People around the world celebrate Martin Luther King Day in honor of a man who became a voice for persecuted African Americans. Less than 100 years after the Civil War, on August 28, 1963, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial steps in Washington, D.C. and delivered one of the most stirring speeches of all time. We all recognize the words:

“And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ … I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

This dream was significantly realized two years later, with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but not fully, as King’s assassination in 1968 painfully emphasized.

The debate continues over how fully Dr. King’s dream has been realized. This debate spurred first-time filmmaker Craig Bodeker to make “A Conversation About Race,” a documentary that strikes at the core of American racism.

I highly recommend this film. It will open the eyes of anyone with questions. I say this because it opened mine.
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By Paul Craig Roberts

At my annual check-up, my doctor handed me a sheet explaining the reasons for office fee increases for Medicare Patients. It is worth reporting at length.

Medicare fixes the prices for Medicare patients’ health care. All office charges for Medicare, including office visit charges, have been set by the Federal government since 1984. In real terms (adjusted for inflation), these fixed prices are less today than they were three decades ago.

During the last four years, there have been large decreases in Medicare reimbursements for laboratory services provided in-house by private physicians. Payments for in-office blood work, for example, have been cut 35 to 47 percent. Yet, a physician’s overhead continues to increase as a result of uncontrollable costs, such as property taxes, building insurance, electricity, maintenance, malpractice and workers compensation insurance.

As one result, my doctor had to close both the x-ray unit and the state and federally licensed medical laboratory on his premises. Now patients are inconvenienced by having to go to other locations for services that formerly were provided by the doctor at lower cost. A one day medical check-up is now a multiple day event and more expensive.

While Medicare payments to doctors have been cut, regulations have been increasing: “Almost every outside diagnostic procedure (CT, MRI scan, sonogram) ordered by this office now has to be pre-approved by some outside agency. Many medications are now requiring pre-approval or step therapy. Each requires filling out 1-2 pages of forms and/or two or more phone calls. This requires personnel time and therefore more cost. Consultant referrals are requiring more paperwork and time to schedule.”

My doctor has more people employed doing paperwork than he does delivering health care.

While Medicare payments for in-office services to private doctors, including those for blood work and x-ray units, were drastically cut, payments to outside corporate facilities for the same services were increased. It is obvious what is afoot. Corporate lobbies are using their whores in Congress to shift income from physician offices to corporate labs, corporate medical service providers, and hospitals that are owned by national corporations.

Legislation that cuts payments to private physicians and increases the payments to large corporate entities is intended to destroy private practice and to create in its place corporate bureaucracies in which doctors are wage slaves. The physician’s income is diverted to shareholders, CEO bonuses, and Wall Street. Health care is being replaced with health business.

As a result of the way American medicine is being reconstructed, patients will cease to have a doctor whom they know and who knows them. Important information is lost in a system of bureaucratized “health care” in which a patient sees whatever face happens to be on duty at the corporate provider. Impersonal health care thus brings a cost of its own, and its quality can be low compared to private practice. Indeed, the U.S. is creating a “health care” system that is more costly and less efficient than single-payer national health systems. But it will enrich corporations and provide play for Wall Street.

It turns one’s stomach to watch libertarians and “free market economists” defend bureaucratized impersonal health care as “free market medicine.” There is no free market present. Corporate lobbies and campaign contributions use government power to create bureaucratized monopolies that destroy medicine for the practitioner and the patient. Wall Street pushes for greater shareholder earnings, which are achieved by denying care.

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Defending the Natural Society

We are encouraged to pretend that people coming here from countries we have invaded are bringing benefits and bear us no ill will. Can you imagine what people would have said if we had been allowing 700 Germans to enter the country each month when we were at war with the Nazis? Well, 700 a month are entering from Afghanistan but contemporary elites have lost touch with reality and are trying to compel us to do the same.

The whole notion of building a multiracial society is so unrealistic and artificial that it causes perverse behaviour. The media have to constantly lie to us to make it appear that it is working, but this attempt to create an artificial society is leading to racial tension and mutual racial hatreds. The elites blame us when things go wrong but they themselves have caused it.

Many Conservatives have been more hard-line than us. During the war, the Duke of Marlborough wrote to his cousin, Winston Churchill, asking him to keep Black GIs away from white women.

Three-times British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, on 24 May 1929, said: “…that each one of us, so far as in him lies, will strive to keep these islands a fit nursery for our race.”

The natural society is organic and evolves naturally among people who belong together. The living honour the dead by passing on what they have inherited to their children, but now we are perversely having our inheritance dissipated by the elites and shared with outsiders they bring as cheap labour.

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Tonight neighbors are teaming up with police to put a stop to a string of business hold-ups and violent street robberies on the westside. “Citizens on Patrol” joined up with a group called “Good Guys Loitering” to get a handle on the random attacks.

Local 12’s Angela Ingram has their efforts to stop the violence.

Earlier this week a female cook at a restaurant had to run off two armed would-be thieves. On Thursday night,, people tired of these violent crimes met with police to take back their neighborhoods.

A concerned father makes out a police report after his son is pistol whipped and robbed. Derrick Coleman: “The next thing you know he got hit in the face with the gun and then the guy asked him for all his money and his wallet and everything else.”

Thursday afternoon, Coleman’s 19-year-old was taking his other son to at work at Elberon and West 8th. A man around the same age approached the car and asked for a light, then attacked making off with $120.
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