Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

ARAB SPRING! ISIS Now Operating in Gaza, Yo

Two extremist groups have pledged allegiance to ISIS and indicate they are now operating in Gaza, according to deep-web chatter mined from ISIS online forums by new media firm Vocativ.

Despite official claims from Gaza that no ISIS presence exists there, ISIS support among Gazans is growing on Twitter and YouTube.

Vocativ analysis of deep web chatter in ISIS forums suggests that the extremist Sunni organization, which has taken over roughly half of Iraq and threatens Assad in Syria, has ties with militant groups operating in Gaza.

While Hamas has dominated Gaza since 2005, dozens of rival Islamist factions operate in the strip. Over the past few weeks, two Salafist groups have pledged allegiance to ISIS and claimed responsibility for rocket fire into Israel. As Vocativ reported at the end of June, the group formerly known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis changed its name to Al Dalwa Al-Islamia—which translates to “The Islamic State.” A few days ago, on July 10, the group claimed to have fired a battery of rockets at the Israeli town of Bnei Netzarim...


...A second Salafist terror group, Ansar Al-Dalwa al-Islamia (“Supporters of the Islamic State”), boasted of its own rocket barrage one day earlier, on June 9. Neither claim of responsibility can be independently verified, however ISIS has published details about both instances of rocket fire on their forums, which is tantamount to a welcome-to-the-network embrace.

Monday, July 14, 2014

How many Central American children have to die before the Democrats decide to secure the border?

By Lee Cary


Central American children are pawns in the Democratic Party’s pursuit of political advantage through an open Southern border.

Gilberto Ramos is just one of their most recent victims.

The Guardian recently told Gilberto’s story:

Gilberto Ramos wanted to leave his chilly mountain village for the United States to earn money to treat his mother's epilepsy. His mother begged him not to go. "The better treatment would have been if he stayed," Cipriana Juarez Diaz said in a tearful interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday. When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage. A month later, his decaying body was found in the Texas desert.


Gilberto, age 15, died a pawn in the Obama regime’s pursuit of his party’s comprehensive progressive agenda that aims to open the southern U.S. border to an unhindered influx of future Democrat voters.

The Obama regime’s official complicity in promoting the flow of unaccompanied, undocumented children entering the U.S. lacks the same degree of transparency associated with the civilian deaths in Mexico due to Eric Holder’s Fast & Furious gun-running, the White House’s involvement in the IRS Scandal, and the deaths of Americans in Benghazi. 

IN MEMORIAM: The Anti-Bill Ayers

By James Simpson

Few people have heard of Larry Grathwohl, but the anniversary of his death, on July 18, 2013, is fast approaching. We lost an American hero that day, but like many, he died in relative obscurity. That we don't publicly honor such men as a matter of public policy - never mind tradition - is a stark indication of how singularly self-absorbed, careless and contemptuous of selfless sacrifice our political and media classes have become.

Larry served with the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War, and joined the Special Forces "Hatchet Force" teams. These 40 - 100 man units were sent on search and destroy missions in some of the most dangerous areas, to rescue and/or locate smaller Special Forces squads who regularly got into trouble with much larger North Vietnamese elements determined to wipe them out.

Returning from the war, he learned about activities of the Weather Underground and determined on his own to find out more about them. He subsequently became an undercover informant, first for the Cincinnati police, then the FBI. He was the only person to successfully penetrate the communist group, and his testimony might have sent two of its leaders, domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, to jail for a very long time. However, Ayers and Dohrn managed to avoid prosecution on a technicality. As Ayers later said "Guilty as Hell, free as a bird. What a great country!"

Sunday, July 13, 2014

America's Immigration Policy in Two Cartoons

Relayed by Tyler Durden:



Source: Sunday Funnies

SECRET FLIGHTS OF ILLEGALS LAND IN BOSTON: Feds Caught Lying About Increase in Refugee Transports

Not only is the Obama administration secretly flying convoys of illegals around the country, but they've officially been caught lying about it.

...Illegal immigrants are being secretly flown to Massachusetts and kept in local lockups in an under-the-radar operation that has alarmed lawmen who are raising health and security concerns amid recent spikes in detainees coming up from Texas during the latest border crisis.

“We’re all becoming border sheriffs now with these people being carted all over the country,” said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson... “The blame goes all the way up. It’s a travesty and people ought to be upset,” Hodgson said. “This is un-American and has raised the stakes to the public health and public safety threat.”

...On the receiving end of the buses from Hodgson’s facility was Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald Jr., who said he’s seen a jump in illegal immigrants arriving at his jail and had to deal with “scenarios where we’ve had 100-plus detainees coming in at the same time.”...

...After weeks of denying an increase in flights to the Bay State, federal immigration officials finally admitted this weekend that four planes filled with detainees captured at the southern border have been flown to Hanscom and Logan International Airport since April as part of a “large-scale nationwide response” to the crisis.

As Glenn Reynolds observes:

So now you’ve got Massachusetts sheriffs complaining about the feds: “The blame goes all the way up. It’s a travesty and people ought to be upset. This is un-American and has raised the stakes to the public health and public safety threat.”

UPDATE: From the comments:

Secret camps, secret movements of human cargo. Almost Orwellian or Hitleresque... Just as mysteriously as illegals suddenly appear, makes one wonder when legal citizens may start disappearing.

The bar on paranoia has certainly been raised during this era of Hope and Change.

How can this possibly be legal?

Answer: it isn't.

Gee, maybe a lawsuit will help. Not.

There is an answer. A Constitutional answer. But our Constitution demands leaders with virtue and this we do not have.


Hat tips: BadBlue News and Instapundit.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

IRS UNION BOSS COLLEEN KELLEY: The Missing Link to Obama?

By Lawrence Sellin

On March 31, 2010, the day before the Inspector General's report says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began its scheme to target tea party and conservative groups, the White House Visitors Log reveals that President Barack Obama met with IRS union boss Colleen Kelley.

In a notable feat of investigative journalism, American Spectator reporter Jeffrey Lord exposed what appears to be an unholy alliance among the White House, Democrat members of Congress and the thousands of IRS employees, who are members of the far-left, anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU).

The NTEU, which supported Obama in 2008 and 2012, through its political action committee, raised $613,633 in the 2010 cycle, giving 98% of its contributions to anti-Tea Party Democrats. In 2012, the figure was $729,708, with 94% going to anti-Tea Party candidates.

NTEU's Kelley has a long history of interaction with the Obama Administration, first meeting in the White House on January 30, 2008, a mere ten days after his first inauguration, which she described:

"We are looking for a return to what we used to call partnership. I don't really care what it's called. For me, it's about collaboration."

Think about it.

IRS union-member employees financed anti-Tea Party candidates, while in their official positions blocked, audited, or intimidated Tea Party and conservative groups and were urged to do so in letters from Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Tom Udall (D-NM), Al Franken (D-MN), Max Baucus(D-MT, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee which oversees the IRS), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Carl Levin (D-MI), as well as Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT).

RUH ROH: Federal Judge Demands Answers -- Under Oath -- From IRS As to How Emails Went "Missing"

By Judicial Watch

If there is a case study which perhaps best describes why Judicial Watch is so important and how we are different from any other organization, it is the record of success we have achieved in exposing the Obama Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, in which that powerful federal agency was used to target and harass conservative organizations.

And that success continued this week in federal court, before U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who held a hearing about the supposedly missing emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials, which were the subject of longstanding Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and a lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. IRS(No. 1:13-cv–1559)).

The emails Judicial Watch has sought since May 2013 cover portions of the same period for which the IRS on June 13, 2014, notified the House Committee on Ways and Means were lost or destroyed. Yet the IRS failed to notify either Judicial Watch or the court concerning the “lost” emails.

You’ll be pleased to know that Judge Sullivan, like Judicial Watch, demanded answers and accountability. The lawyer for the IRS, Geoffrey Klimas, suggested that it would be “appropriate” to wait until its own investigation by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) concluded before Judicial Watch or the court get any answers through discovery. Judge Sullivan was skeptical (you can review the hearing transcript here):

THE COURT: More appropriate for whom, though, for the department or the public? I mean, this is an action filed by an organization that seeks documents under the theory that the public likes to know what its government is doing, so appropriate for whom? How would delaying discovery assist this plaintiff [Judicial Watch] and the public in learning what happened here?

MR. KLIMAS: I would submit that letting the Inspector General conclude his investigation serves the public interest. The Inspector General is –

THE COURT: First of all, we don’t know who this Inspector General is; secondly, we don’t know whether his or her report is going to be public, right, right?

MR. KLIMAS: That’s correct.

THE COURT: So what’s — so let’s just stop there. Whose interest does that benefit, other than the IRS and not the public?

Judge Sullivan was not persuaded and demanded answers, under oath, from the IRS within 30 days. Here’s a squib from his court order, which you can read in its entirety here: “For the reasons stated by the Court on the record during the status hearing on July 10, 2014, Defendant IRS is hereby ORDERED to file a sworn Declaration, by an official with the authority to speak under oath for the Agency, by no later than August 11, 2014.”

Friday, July 11, 2014

Newly Revealed Contract Proves Obama Planned Border Invasion

By Investor's Business Daily

Immigration: A federal employment ad posted in January showing that 65,000 unaccompanied minors will enter the U.S. illegally shows that the administration expected this cross-border child abuse and encouraged it.

Concrete evidence has shown up proving our earlier assertion: The breach of our border by waves of unaccompanied alien children was orchestrated by the administration based on a strategy straight out of the playbook President Obama studied as a community organizer. His goal is to get his way on immigration reform by overwhelming the U.S. Border Patrol and collapsing an already weakened system.

The evidence comes in the form a government contract solicited in January by the Department of Homeland Security. The listing asked for "Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children" in expectation of the arrival of 65,000 minors on our southern border without their parents or guardians.

The operative language in the listing is the statement by DHS/Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they expect there "will be approximately 65,000" alien minors requiring assistance. This is a significant increase from the 5,000 minors who are detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement annually. It also strongly suggests not only advance knowledge of the human catastrophe about to unfold but a lack of any effort to stop it.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EPA: Now Acting as All Three Branches of Government

By Investor's Business Daily

Big Government: The EPA is now claiming the authority to bypass courts and, on its own, garnish the paychecks and attach the assets of those it accuses of violating its rules. And, as with the IRS, its hard drives also crash.

The Environmental Protection Agency's insatiable lust for power has now gone beyond being the pen and the phone for President Obama's climate change, bypassing both the Constitution and the Congress in enacting rules and regulations that the American people and their representatives did not enact or even support.

Through an announcement in the Federal Register, the agency is claiming that existing federal law allows it "to garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order." It claims such authority under the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996.

These non-tax debts are fines and penalties that the EPA has levied against alleged polluters who often are innocent — farmers, for example, making common-sense decisions in running their daily lives and businesses, who discover a ditch that they dug is now considered a wetland because rainwater occasionally fills it.

"The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority. It seems like once again the EPA is trying to take power it doesn't have away from American citizens," Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, said when he learned of the EPA's wage-garnishment scheme, according to the Washington Times.

The EPA authoritarian edicts include recently slapping a $75,000 a day — yes, a day — fine on Wyoming homeowner Andy Johnson for building a pond on his rural property to provide water for his cattle where the Six Mile Creek runs across his land.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

WELL, THIS IS A BUMMER FOR THE GUN-BAN CROWD: Murder Rates Drop as Concealed Carry Increases

The Crime Prevention Research Center has released a comprehensive analysis [PDF] of the statistical linkage between murder rates and the dramatic proliferation of concealed-carry permits. The conclusions, it goes without saying, are decidedly negative for the radical, anti-American gun-ban crowd.

...Between 2007 and the preliminary estimates for 2013, murder rates have fallen from 5.6 to 4.4 per 100,000 – a 22 percent drop in the murder rate at the same time that the percentage of the adult population with permits soared by 130 percent. Overall
violent crime also fell by 22 percent over that period of time...

...deterrence isn’t just a matter of whether states have adopted right-to-carry laws. It very much depends on the percentage of the population with permits.


...The six states that allow people to carry concealed handguns without a permit have much lower murder and violent crime rates than the six states with the lowest permit rates. Indeed, the murder rate is 23 percent lower in the states without permits. The violent crime rate is 12 percent lower. The murder and violent crime rates are also lower in the 25 states with the highest permit rates
compared to the rest of the US...

Piers Morgan hardest hit.


Hat tip: BadBlue Guns.

MAKE SURE YOU'RE SITTING DOWN: MS-13 Actively Recruiting Obama's Flood of Illegal Aliens at U.S. Shelters

By Judicial Watch

The nation’s most violent street gangs—including Mara Salvatrucha—are actively recruiting new members at U.S. shelters housing illegal immigrant minors and they’re using Red Cross phones to communicate, a Homeland Security source tells Judicial Watch.

JW has reported extensively on the crisis created by the sudden influx of mostly Central American minors that have crossed into the U.S. through the Mexican border in recent weeks. It has created havoc and will end up costing American taxpayers billions of dollars to house, process, medically treat, feed and inevitably educate the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) which are being dispersed throughout the country. They are bringing in dangerous diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis— and occupying our military bases as shelters.

As if all this weren’t bad enough, the invasion is also supplying the nation’s most dangerous street gangs with new soldiers. The Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gangs are on a recruiting frenzy at the various facilities housing the newly arrived illegal aliens, according to JW’s source. The MS-13 is a feared street gang of mostly Central American illegal immigrants that’s spread throughout the U.S. and is renowned for drug distribution, murder, rape, robbery, home invasions, kidnappings, vandalism and other violent crimes. The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) says criminal street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.

The 18th Street gang is considered the largest organized gang in Los Angeles County with about 15,000 members that operate a number of criminal enterprises throughout the region. Last year ten of its leaders were indicted for running a large-scale methamphetamine and drug trafficking business in South Los Angeles. A local newspaper report about the case says 18th Street gang leaders deported from the U.S. in the 1990s helped spread the gang across Central America and into Mexico. It’s not unreasonable to conclude that some of the members are among the tens of thousands of UACs that have entered the U.S. recently.

BORDER CHAOS: Forget Incompetence or Intention, Governor Perry, It's Fundamental Transformation

By Investor's Business Daily

Illegal Immigration: Texas Gov. Rick Perry states the obvious when he suggests that the flood of alien children coming to the U.S. from Latin America just might be a result of "ulterior motives" on the part of President Obama.

Obama is like an arsonist who sets fires to help rescue people from burning buildings. He's asked Congress for $2 billion to deal with a child refugee crisis of his own making, money that could have gone to seal the border instead of having Border Patrol agents acting as glorified baby-sitters by cooking, cleaning and even doing laundry.

A little-noted University of Texas, El Paso study, dated March 20 and titled "Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Project," found that "the biggest issue with UACs is the high maintenance that is associated with caring, feeding and clothing them." These tasks have fallen to the Border Patrol, the guardian of our borders.

It has also fallen to states like Texas, whose governor, Rick Perry, said during a U.S. House field hearing last Thursday that the feds need to reimburse Texas $500 million that the state has spent trying to pick up the federal slack in securing the border.

"We have been fulfilling a federal responsibility," Perry told the panel. "The hardworking people of the state of Texas shouldn't be shouldering that cost."

Perry also told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, "I have to believe that when you don't respond in any way that you are either inept or you have some ulterior motive."

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Single graphic illustrates President Obama's deep and impressive knowledge of the U.S. Constitution

I don't know who this Bob Gorrell fellow is, but I like the cut of his jib.


Which ties in perfectly with Bill Whittle's latest.

You can see Gorrell's gallery here.


Hat tip: LVN.

BILL WHITTLE: I want to know where you live, Mark Zuckerberg

Another riveting must-watch Firewall by Bill Whittle.


Today I want to make three points regarding the current, artificially created emergency on the southern border, as children are used as innocent pawns to force an issue in order to gain political power.

First.

President Obama has said that if congress does not act, he will, through executive order, simply dictate a solution.

Godwin’s Law states that the longer an internet discussion goes on, the likelier it is that someone will invoke the Nazis. Invoking the Nazis is considered bad form, you see – it’s a sign of desperation and hyperbolic exaggeration.

Well, I’m not going to invoke the words “Nazi” or “Hitler.”

So: shortly after assuming power, the legally appointed chancellor of Germany and the leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party was faced with a looming national crisis. The National Socialist Chancellor appeared before the democratically elected parliament of the German Republic, known as the Reichstag. This Chancellor asked them to vote on what became known as the Enabling Act of 1933. It was pretty simple, really: he asked the legislature to approve his ability to create law on his own – through what could be best described as emergency executive orders. The Reichstag approved this request by the National Socialist Chancellor of Germany, giving him the power to dictate law as he saw fit.

The constitutionally limited, democratically elected German Republic simply voted itself out of existence, and half of the representatives of the Reichstag were cheering the National Socialist leader of their own party as they did so.

Now, of course, that could never happen here – not in America. Why if an American President were to stand before congress and tell the legislative body that he would assume the power to write his own laws if they did not provide the legislation he desired – well, here in America that President would be booed and mocked and jeered out of the room – he’d be arrested and impeached. Right?

MACALLEN, TEXAS: The View From Ground Zero

Last year, on the way to Blogcon, I struck up a conversation with "Rancher X" (a more clever pseudonym would have been "The Lone Rancher", but I missed that opportunity), who owns a sizable ranch near MacAllen, Texas. That two hour conversation led to a startling article entitled "CHAOS AND CORRUPTION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: A Texas Rancher Speaks", that describes the realities of a border area that more resembles a war zone than sovereign American land.

In any event, I dropped a note to the rancher this evening that read:

How are you holding up there? Hope you and your family are all doing well. Aren't you at the nexus of all of the craziness? Would love a firsthand report if you have time.

Thanks, Doug

The response came shortly thereafter:

The City of McAllen is doing their best to get the people fed and bathed and off to a bus to somewhere else because we are one of the poorest regions and we really are saturated and can’t support long term residents who have no ability to legally work.

And if people can’t work and they are left on the streets, it will lead to more crime here.

So, we just can’t have these people wandering the streets of the border and we need them to get on the bus and on to their destinations.

With all this news coverage, for once, we are getting plenty of support sent here to help the community move the immigrants through to other regions in the USA faster.

It's great to get these people on their way to other states because we are a poor region and we want to help them get to the Midwest where people welcome them and can afford to support them in the schools and such. They need to get to wealthier communities that have more money in their school districts to set up special classes for them and housing projects to give them homes since they don’t have work permits.

The media is hyping it and the politicians are always happy to show up where their are cameras.

That’s great for the border region because a lot of federal funds are now getting sent to move the people to the interior of the country where there is more space for them.

Here on the border, we are very crowded with poor people so we just can’t absorb any more.

This sounds like someone who is resigned to an open border and is simply hoping for the best.

I urge you to read the earlier article -- "CHAOS AND CORRUPTION ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER: A Texas Rancher Speaks" -- which is a firsthand account of a rancher dealing with a tsunami of lawlessness.

The politicians in both parties who support this madness are literally endangering every man, woman and child in this country.


Tuesday, July 08, 2014

EPA Goes on Road Show to Missouri to Spread Lies and Misinformation About its Farmland Takeover

The radical leftists running the Environmental Protection Agency are once again on the warpath, this time proposing rules that will place their countless legions of bureaucrats in control of puddles, ditches, ponds, and private farmland in general.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) chief is traveling to Missouri this week to promote among farmers the agency’s proposal to redefine its jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act... The agency has faced some of the harshest backlash to the rule from agricultural representatives, who say that farmers will either have to obtain permits or be outright banned from common farming practices like digging ditches or building fences.

EPA chief Gina McCarthy says anyone who opposes the rule is a liar.

...[she] told reporters that much of the opposition to the rule relies on myths.

“Unfortunately, I think there’s a growing list of misunderstandings that have been floating around,” she said. “And so part of the reason to go down to Missouri is to clarify those issues and to try to knock down some of the misunderstandings.”

McCarthy went on to say that most of the farmers' concerns are illegitimate. Because faceless bureaucrats in Washington know more about farming than farmers.

“While there are some legitimate concerns out there with the rule and many issues that we teed up ourselves in the rule to try to seek comment, we’re hearing some concerns that really are, to put frankly, they’re ludacris,” [sic] she said.

Yes, the EPA's rules are quite reasonable (yo, Timothy Cama, it's ludicrous, not the host of Pimp My Ride). Consider one of the examples offered by Wisconsin Ag Connection:

...[F]armers harvesting hay may be exempt from needing a CWA permit only if they follow NRCS Conservation Practice Standard No. 511: four pages of criteria covering timing of the harvest, moisture content of the hay, length of the cut hay, stubble height and much more.

Yes, any farmer who opposes the thousands of pages of regulatory overreach is simply being "ludacris".

Anyhoo, there is some pushback in the Senate, which I encourage you to support.

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is trying to use a bill aimed at preserving federal lands for hunting and fishing as a vehicle to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over the nation’s lakes and rivers...

“This legislation will stop the Environmental Protection Agency from taking over all private and state water in the United States,” Emily Schillinger, a spokeswoman for Barrasso, said in a statement, adding that the rule proposed in March would “significantly expand federal authority under the Clean Water Act.”

This is nothing less than an unconstitutional and totalitarian takeover of the farming industry.

As for the rationale behind it, I simply refer you to this.

UNCLE BEN TO COSTCO: Your Virtual Book-Burning of America Has Turned Into a Real Boycott

Uncle Ben blind copies us on the following email to top executives at CostCo:

Gentlemen,

I understand (and I hope my understanding is incorrect) that Costco has directed that copies of “America: Imagine the World Without Her” written by Dinesh D’Souza be removed from its stores. I have not read the book or seen the movie, nor do I have any immediate plans to do so.

However, I am deeply troubled by any retailer refusing to sell a best-selling book for no apparent reason, except possibly because the retailer's management disagrees with the author's views. D'Souza is hardly a fringe author and his book is selling briskly on Amazon.

Costco is an excellent organization, and my wife and I enjoy shopping at its warehouses. However, we refuse to support any store that is effectively engaging in censorship or playing political favoritism in the selection of merchandise it decides to make available to its customers. Consequently, unless and until Costco changes its position (or offers a legitimate explanation for its decision), we will be taking our business elsewhere.

Best regards,

[Signed]


As an aside, America: Imagine the World Without Her is currently Amazon's #1 selling book.


The Mother of All Meltdowns

By Dan from New York:

An "incident" here and an" incident" there, to America’s eyes and its media, they all seem unconnected. But the origin of the current chaos circling the globe has a nexus - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where the man in the White House has, with malice aforethought, opened the Gates of Hell.

Buckle up friends, and say your prayers. This is going to be one for the ages.


Hamas rockets reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Floodgates open as ISIS takes over swaths of both Syria and Iraq

Iran nuclear talks: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejects pressure from West


Israel mulls Gaza ground invasion

In Deep South Texas, a Daily Tide of Poor Migrants

Yemeni Shi'ites capture city after fighting kills 200

Chicago mayor: 82 shot, 14 dead over weekend is 'totally unacceptable'

Afghan candidate rejects election results as violence escalates

Ukraine crisis: Bridges destroyed outside Donetsk

The Islamization of Belgium and the Netherlands in 2013

BBC investigation reveals Gaza pictures not what they claim to be

Libyan ex-general battling Islamist militias faces dwindling support

Editor's note: can America really survive another two-and-a-half years of this administration?


Monday, July 07, 2014

Are we seeing a replay of 1930 in Wall Street's secretive "Dark Pools"?

By Pam Martens

On June 2 of this year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulator of Wall Street’s broker-dealers, dropped a bombshell. For the first time, FINRA released trading data for Wall Street’s dark pools – unregistered stock exchanges that the SEC recklessly allows to trade stocks without making the bids and offers public, along with many other details.

The bombshell, that mainstream business media has yet to comprehend, was that the same mega Wall Street banks whose share prices crashed in the 2008 financial crisis are today not only running dark pools for stock trading but they’re trading the stock of their own corporate parents – to the tune of tens of millions of shares a week. Those Wall Street banks include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.

What could possibly go wrong in this arrangement?

Two days after Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as President on March 4, 1933, he declared a nationwide banking holiday lasting to March 13 to stem a mushrooming banking panic and bank runs. The spark that ignited the accelerating panic was the collapse of the Bank of United States in 1930. At the time of its collapse, it was the fourth largest depositor bank in New York City, holding an astounding $268 million for over 400,000 small time depositors. It was the largest banking collapse in the nation’s history at that point.

The name of the bank, incorrectly suggesting it had U.S. government ties, fueled press coverage of the collapse and started other bank runs around the country.

The bank was founded by two men from the garment industry, Bernard Marcus and Saul Singer. Like the dangerous structure of today’s biggest deposit-taking banks, it had a stock trading arm, the Bankus Corp. It was through that trading unit that the bank manipulated the price of its own stock, using the money of depositors, and then used the shares as collateral for loans. Banking examiners later determined that other banks had acted similarly.

It was a clear-cut recipe for disaster that no regulator took action to preempt until, at the height of an economic collapse, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act on June 16, 1933, creating Federal Deposit Insurance for bank deposits while also banning banks taking insured deposits from owning stock trading houses.

That legislation protected a nation from the insatiable greed of stock speculators for almost 70 years until its repeal under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on November 12, 1999 under the Clinton administration and at the behest of Citigroup and other Wall Street mega banks who sold naïve editorial boards and a gullible Congress on the benefits of the one-stop banking supermarket model.

OBAMA FINALLY UNITES BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS: In Opposition to La Raza and His Illegal "Amnesty" Program

It's come to this: the radical Latino racial separatist group La Raza (which literally stands for "Master Race") is in Murrieta ready to battle U.S. citizens over control of the border.

La Raza or “The Race” which is a group of Hispanic Supremacy group has dispatched their brown beret thugs for when the buses arrive from San Diego and protesters try to block them. La Raza brown berets are ready to cause trouble the second they see something they don’t like. This could get really nasty.


Black and white American patriots are together standing against this lawless disrespect of American's sovereignty and its borders. Jim Hoft reports:

A group of black Americans spoke out in support of protecting women and children in America before worrying about the rest of the world. This occurred at the Murrieta California Border Patrol Station on July 4th, 2014.

The young man pictured [at right] said...

"If somebody brought six children to your house and you've got no job, are you going to take them in?"

"Are you going to try to find out where they came from? Are you going to try to send them back? What are we going to do for the people who are here who are starving already? Why would we add to the problem?"

The woman [at left] added...

"It’s just too much. We've already got starvation, kids walking without with... shoes."

"We are already taking that on in America."

"We don’t need other people’s kids to bring more problems.”

As Hoft reminds us, the unemployment rate for Black Americans remains abnormally high, despite the massive "Stimulus"; "Cash for Clunkers"; HAMP; HARP; HAAP; Obamacare; Recovery Summers II, III, IV and V; and countless Obama pivots to jobs.

Black and White and Latino and Asian Americans deserve better. They deserve a President who puts their interests and that of America before those of illegal aliens.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.