Sunday, May 09, 2010

Your Tax Dollars At Work: 'Professor' Rallies Students for an Armed Revolt Against 'Occupied Mexico', eh, I mean the United States of America

Have you seen this UCLA "professor", captured on tape inciting students to overthrow the U.S. government in pursuit of a master race? [Update -- better yet, this gentleman is reportedly a high school teacher who happened to be rallying his troops at UCLA when caught on camera. See below for details]

I want to start by saying that the young man who spoke a little while ago is one of my students! Our people will need strong leaders for years and years to come. (applause)

As a Revolutionary Mexican Organization here, we understand... it's not just about Mexico, it's about the global struggle against imperialism and capitalism! (applause)

We know that all of that is happening in the context of where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico! (applause)

The message that we bring is that we want to bring more of a revolutionary context to this. Why is that these people... these frail, racist white people want to keep us out of this country? It's not simply because the color of our skin, it's not simply that they just want to exploit us, let me tell you why: because on this planet right now, six billion people... at the forefront of the movement is La Raza (the race)...

...We have nine... nine... governments right now and they know something that a young Argentine named Che Guevara said... it was called the domino theory... and he knew that every single country would launch revolutionaries one after the other after the other!

So what do they fear? They know that every single country... they know that we no longer fall to these lies called borders... they know that the Salvadorans, the Guatemaleans, the Ecuadoreans, the Mexicanos, there's no damn difference, we are all one people. So with that in mind, we see ourselves -- all of us here -- as The Northern Front of a Latin American Revolutionary Movement!

There are over 40 million of our people north of the Rio Grande. That means to them there are over 40 million potential revolutionaries north of the border! Inside the belly of the beast! So when you think why do they want to kick us, our people, out -- that's why! Because they know that we now know the truth, they know we are La Raza, we are professionals, we are educators, we are revolutionary students, what does that mean?

We are not just a regular culture any more! We are a culture of revolutionary spirit! And that's the fear! (applause)

That being said, I want to leave you with this... as a revolutionary context, let's be clear about one thing... our enemy is not the Minutemen... our enemy is not the Minutemen... because the Minutemen have not killed over 4,600 people at those borders... our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chavez has... our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Africa poor... our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Asia poor... our enemy is Capitalism and Imperialism! (applause)

I'll finish with this... if we are serious about making change... if you are serious about making change, let me tell you... the struggle will go on for many more years after we leave UCLA... what you do 24 hours a day, as a professional revolutionary, that will lead our people to liberation!

These people luxuriate in the most magnificent society ever created and they use the comforts, the wealth, the capital they accumulate to undermine the very structure that enriches them.

I don't see any "militias" preaching the subversion and overthrow of the U.S. government -- I see left-wing crackpots like this Hitler-wannabe doing so. But, please, no one tell the media or Janet Incompetano. We wouldn't want to spring any surprises on them, what with SUV's smoldering in Times Square and all.

It's time to start prosecuting, convicting and imprisoning people like this for sedition, treason, you name it. Just listen to the tape and tell me you don't hear Adolf Hitler, circa 1933, screeching about a master race.


Update: At Gather, this nutcase is reported to be Sanchee H.S. history teacher Ron Gochez at a La Raza Rally held at UCLA. Contact information is available at the link. You can also rate Ron Gochez' teaching performance if you wish.

There is a Santee Falcons Contact Form for the school; Richard J. Chavez is the principal and the main number is 213-763-1000. The LA Unified School District Superintendent is Ramon Cortines and the main number is 213-241-1000.

You can report waste and fraud at the Office of the Inspector General by calling 213-241-7778. Given the fact that Santee's California Standardized Testing results are dismal -- 13% proficient at English, 3% proficient at math, 11% proficient at science, and 8% proficient at History (Gochez' specialty) -- I'd say that there's plenty of waste and fraud in the system.

Update II: Here's the loathsome Gochez threatening to go on a hunger strike (because of budget cuts).

Based upon his pudgy face, I'm guessing Gochez' hunger strike lasted about eighteen minutes.

Update III: American Power tracks down more delightful information.

...the guy's a rabid anti-Semite. In 2002, he published a Letter to the Editor, at SDSU's Daily Aztec, entitled "The Jewish-owned media continue to blind the masses with propaganda to keep them in fear." The letter's been taken down, but not the responses to it. For example, here's Tevia Schriebman, Jewish Student Union President:
I am writing in response to Ron Gochez's letter to the editor. His empty words are filled with racist remarks and lies. As the President of the Jewish Student Union at SDSU, I take personal offense at his comments and beliefs that "Jewish-owned media continues to blind the masses with propaganda to keep them in fear." This lie is the language of hate speech perpetuated by anti-Semitic groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
And check the link. Schriebman's not alone in denouncing Gochez's racist bigotry.

And it's not as if Ron Gochez's anti-Jewish diatribes were a matter of youthful indiscretion. He's cited as the lead organizer and contact person for an event in January 2009, "
Raza in Solidarity with Palestine - Saturday, January 17th, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - At Centro Cultural Francisco Villa - 2100 Maple Ave. LA - END the OCCUPATION NOW!



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Saturday, May 08, 2010

Crony Capitalism: Did Warren Buffet Get a 'Heads Up' That Rating Agency Moody's Had Been Served by the SEC with a 'Cease-and-Desist' Warning?

Legacy media has been so busy labeling conservatives 'racists' because they oppose Grecian-formula governance that they've missed, oh, a few hundred really important stories this year. Like that which Tyler Durden just unearthed: Moody's Investors Service (MIS) received a 'Wells Notice' on March 18, 2010, which means the SEC is commencing 'cease-and-desist' proceedings against the rating agency.

Well at least it took Moody's under two months to report this massively material development, which while we are not positive on how to read the C&D action on the NRSRO registration, could mark the beginning of the end for the rating agency. If the firm is enjoined from providing additional rating research should the SEC action find fault and proceed with a lawsuit, it would mean game over for the business.

Durden goes on to speculate that he wouldn't be surprised to find out that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway -- a major investor in Moody's -- had begun cashing chips in ahead of the public finding out this disturbing news.

Well, in March, starting on the very date of the notification, it would appear that Berkshire and other insiders began selling.

After 3/18 and for the next two weeks, Berkshire dispensed with over $30 million in Moody's stock. Moody's CEO and Chairman Raymond W. McDaniel also sold off $2.9 million on March 18th.

In fact, since the summer of 2009, Berkshire has dispensed with around half a billion dollars worth of Moody's, whittling its total shares from 40 million to 30 million. So I've got a whole bunch o' questions:

Did Buffett, a noted Obama supporter, get a nod from the SEC regarding what was going down?

• What motivated McDaniel to sell a good chunk of his shares the very day that the SEC served its intent to C&D?

• Why didn't Moody's disclose this quite material news from the get-go?

• And is anyone, anywhere, going to investigate this foul-smelling skulduggery?

Inquiring minds want to know. But, please, no one tell the legacy media. Democrat crony capitalists could be exposed to the daylight, and we know that our beloved "pro journalists" oppose that sort of thing. Because it's racist.


Internal AT&T presentation: we'll save $4.1 billion a year if we drop all employee health care benefits

You know how President Obama relentlessly marketed his health care takeover with the slogan 'If you like your current health care plan, you'll be able to keep it™'?

Here's a news flash that you won't see in the legacy media: he lied.

Someone inside AT&T leaked an internal Powerpoint presentation that measured the financial impact of DemCare.





AT&T estimates that it can save upwards of $4 billion annually by dropping health care coverage and paying the penalty tax instead.

They'd be foolish to keep their health care benefits and, in fact, shareholders should demand the company capture that income and return it in the form of increased dividends and R&D.

Like the Soviet central planners of a bygone era, today's Democrats are marching us into an abyss of unintended consequences for our entire health care system. They're pushing us, shoving us, against our will, over a cliff of fiscal irresponsibility. They're killing a legacy of prosperity that we could otherwise bequeath to subsequent generations.

The modern, hard left Democrat Party leadership is intentionally trying to destroy the Republic: open borders, votes for felons, statehood for Puerto Rico -- using any and all means to gain the votes necessary to stay in power, no matter how catastrophic the effects are on the country.

As someone told me a while back: it's November or never.


Hat tip: William Teach.

Larwyn's Linx: 'We Love for You to Fly -- and it Shows!'

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Nation

'We Love for You to Fly -- and it Shows!': Malkin
GOP to insist on 10th Amendment: Times
Mosque Just Steps Away From Ground Zero Approved: GWP

Gov. Brewer Strikes Back: NiceDeb
Pelosi: Cheaper to treat teen drug abuse than seal border: RWN
A Tale of Two Car Bombs: AT

Economy

Greece is in flames, but you can smell the smoke here: RCP
Expanding On The Crash Yesterday: NBBO: Denninger
They're coming for your retirement savings next: RWN

Companies consider dropping health coverage en masse: RWN
The Center Cannot Hold: Insider
Meet the Unemployable Man :WSJ

Climate & Energy

Clash of the Titans: Endangered Tortoises vs. Solar Power: QR
No wonder the Left loves wind power: GWP

Media

Ace on Newsweek: Ace
War Tourist: Crittenden
Racist and Misogynistic Haters, by Paul Krugman: LegalIns

Andrew Breitbart: 'The Left is, in Essence, the Media': LSN
'Vote for the Crook. It's Important.': AT
JHE Troubled by Angry Rhetoric: Denny

Palin is not part of any club: Backyard
The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism: AT
Utah students have degrees withheld over newspaper gag: Mediaite

World

What’s the difference between Israel and North Korea?: Protein Wisdom
Time to plan for war: JPost
Our National Security Policy: Hope Their Bombs Don't Work: Coulter

Alaina Podmorow Is To Laura Sjoberg As Joe The Plumber Is To Obama: RSM
Obama’s Fine With Iranian Seat on UN Women’s Rights Commission: RWN
Maoists Determined to Ruin Yet Another Country: NewsReal

SciTech

We're in the best of hands: Treasury websites hacked: AVG
Google Gives Search Results a Makeover: CNet
Neanderthal genome shines light on human evolution : CNN

Cornucopia

Is that all you have?: DPU
Harry Reid and a Cactus: Parkway
Is This High School Athlete Faking His Identity, An Illegal Immigrant, Or Both?: Mediaite

Image: Spiegel.
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QOTD: "In a bit of macho posturing this week, Obama declared that -- contrary to the terrorists' wishes -- Americans 'will not be terrorized, we will not cower in fear, we will not be intimidated.'

...it would be a little easier for the rest of us not to live in fear if the president's entire national security strategy didn't depend on average citizens happening to notice a smoldering SUV in Times Square or smoke coming from a fellow airline passenger's crotch. -- Ann Coulter


Friday, May 07, 2010

It's 'National Offend a Feminist Week'!

Note sure if it really is the week where Americans are legally required to offend radical feminists, but I'm game.




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Welcome to Athens, New Jersey: State Public Sector Unions Claim That Having to Pay 1.5% for their Health Care is 'Unconstitutional'

If Europe's economic meltdown hasn't convinced you that massive public sector unions lead to fiscal catastrophe, may I present Exhibit B? In New Jersey, the public employee unions are outraged that having to pay 1.5% of their salaries towards their health care benefits is 'unconstitutional'. On a salary of $80,000, that comes to $46 (pre-tax) per two-week pay period. And they refuse to pay it.

Governor Christie has vowed to press ahead with additional pension and health benefits changes for public workers despite two lawsuits challenging reforms he recently signed into law... Despite blowback from the unions, the new Republican governor promised to push for other reforms. They include a proposed 2.5 percent cap on local spending and property tax increases modeled on a Massachusetts law.

...Christie was swept into office on a wave of voter discontent over soaring property taxes, which average $7,300 per homeowner per year, the highest in the country.

...Christie has promised to stabilize — then reduce — New Jerseyans' tax burden. But to do it, he says he needs labor concessions and cost-cutting reforms that his Democratic predecessor, Jon Corzine, was unable to achieve... New Jersey's pension system is underfunded by about $46 billion and could one day be insolvent unless fixes are made.

The state's largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, filed a lawsuit Wednesday to halt the reforms Christie signed last month. The state's police and firefighters unions filed a similar suit last week.

The unions claim the law requiring them to contribute 1.5 percent of their salaries towards health care benefits "interferes" with collective bargaining and is unconstitutional. NJEA's suit charges that the mandatory contribution amounts to an illegal salary reduction.

America's public sector unions and the Democrat Party -- but I repeat myself -- are propelling the country into an economic abyss.

Has any "journalist" asked President Obama why Greece is melting down?

Could one of our legacy media "reporters" look into the reason the bankrupt European Utopias, with their socialized medicine, their open immigration policies, and outrageous public sector unions, are the exact models for this President and this Congress?

Might Katie Couric or Brian Williams devote a 180-second background segment to the ties between Europe's strain of Socialism and its current economic condition?

I know, I know. I'm a dreamer. Real journalism has been delegated to true reporters like Malkin, Breitbart, Tapscott, Reynolds, Riehl, Hoft, York, Hanson, Morrissey, and the like.


It's the Obama Recovery! Removing Census Jobs and Other Chaff From Employment Numbers Reveals That Only 36K Jobs Were Added Last Month

The New York Times breathlessly reports the new 9.9% unemployment number as wonderful news, proclaiming that the "Economy Gains Impetus as U.S. Employers Add 290,000 Jobs!"

The world's dumbest blogger, in lockstep with the Times, joins the chorus, stating that "today’s numbers are actually good in the sense of 'consistent with the unemployment rate falling.'"

The Glute-master parrots the Times' spin with "today's jobs report [is] excellent."

Back in the little land we like to call reality, the numbers remain grim, while the Democrat-led malaise in California, Illinois, Michigan and New York is literally devastating entire communities. Tyler Durden's headline reads, "Fake +290K Payrolls "Added", Real Number Is 36K After Census And Birth-Death, Unemployment Goes Back To 9.9%, Underemployment At 17.1%"

Of the 290,000 jobs "added", census workers totaled 66,000 while the "Birth-Death Model" (the mathematical method by which the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates eligible workers) added 188,000 "jobs".

Unemployment is at 9.9% and the underemployment rate is 17.1%. Feeling stimulated yet?


Larwyn's Linx: Obama resorts to a familiar tactic -- race-baiting

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Nation

Obama resorts to a familiar tactic -- race-baiting: York
America's Lenin? Joel Rogers and the Obama Movement: NewZeal
Whoopi: Without Abortion Parents Just Kill Kids Later: RWN

White House pulled Times Square bomber from terror list: GWP
Kids punished for wearing U.S. flags on Cinco de Mayo: Zombie
NAACP Opposes Bill Outlawing Racially Motivated Abortions: BlogProf

Economy

Big Corporations: We're Giving Up Health Coverage: GWP
Warning: Card Check Isn't Dead: WashExam
Jim Cramer saves the market: Insider

Sen. DeMint: 'US Taxpayers funding Greek bailout!': ZH
Waxman’s Unintended and Intended Consequences: RedState
Harry Reid carrying Wall Street's love child: WashExam

Climate & Energy

American Fossil Fuels: The New Alternative Energy Source: AT
Farmers Find Hayseed (Really) Solution to Oil Spill: Langbert
Chevron Request for ‘CRUDE’ Footage Approved: BMW

Media

The Fundamental(ist) Imbalance: Anchoress
The Sacrifice and the Reckoning: Sleepwalking: AmDigest
The Appalling Media Double Standard on Reporting Political Violence: PJM

Courage: Comedy Central developing Jesus Christ cartoon: IBA
Iron Man 2: Love Letter to Ronald Reagan?: PJM
Liberal Argument Playbook: RWN

World

Huge National Debts Could Push Euro Zone into Bankruptcy: Der Spiegel
Arizona Reconsidered: Halls of Macademia
Congressman Cao Shoots Down Vietnamese Government: Kesler

Report: White House working months on a plan to force Israel to give up its nukes: GWP
Conservatives Winning British Elections Over Labour and Lib Democrats: GWP
Russia killed Kaczynski with electromagnetic weapons – Romanian Global News: Pirweli

SciTech

Free Software and Tech Progress: AT
Microsoft to fix holes in Windows, Office: CNet

Cornucopia

I'm Dying: The Old Jarhead
The Young Bureaucrats Behind the Nazi Terror: Der Spiegel
Rest Easy, America: the TSA is On the Job: Powers

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QOTD: "We are, right here and right now, in America, on the edge of what is happening in Greece. I know you're not being told this on ToutTV, but it is nonetheless true. Look around you; Illinois cannot even buy ammunition from some vendors for their State Police because they haven't paid their suppliers, who are now in turn refusing orders." -- Karl Denninger


Thursday, May 06, 2010

Subtlety



Hat tip: Autospies.

Lost 1995 Obama interview surfaces: the young 'civil rights lawyer' predicted the economic fall of America and--wait for it--decried racial politics

In 1995, The Crisis magazine interviewed Barack Obama for a two-page feature article on growing up as a mixed-race American.

The magazine was founded by the legendary W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP. In the nineties, it focused on civil rights and politics as it approached a century of publication.

In 1995, author Eric Clark interviewed the young Obama, who was labeled an author (he had just published Dreams from my Father) and a civil-rights lawyer. He had recently achieved some notoriety through his election to the post of President of Harvard Law Review.

CRISIS: Having lived abroad, in Indonesia, how do you think that helped shape your views on race?

OBAMA: It made me realize that racism was an extension of other abuses of power. Living there you learned people can find excuses other than race to oppress each other.

CRISIS: Will race relations get better?

OBAMA: Not in the short term. We're moving out of a period of American preeminence on the world economic stage. Global competition means increasing economic uncertainty for the majority of Americans, black and white. Unfortunately, politicians in this country find it convenient to define these problems in racial terms -- affirmative action, immigration and so on. It's always easier to organize people around tribe than around principle.

The entire interview can be read below (click to enlarge or here to view the original).


It's clear that Barack Obama has never believed in American exceptionalism. Consider his prediction that the American economy would soon be superseded by other countries. That belief betrays Obama's fundamental misunderstanding of economics.

Economics is not a zero-sum game. America has, within the last two centuries, raised the world out of the miasma of colonial technology into an era powered by computers, medical miracles and instantaneous global communications. America represents the most magnificent society ever seen on the planet, not because it's stealing food out of the mouths of the poor, but because it provides the most opportunities. And that structure is facilitated by the Constitution, despite its recent perversions and breaches by the Statist Democrats.

As for racial divisiveness, his statement that, "politicians in this country find it convenient to define these problems in racial terms" rings hollow.

You mean racial terms like this?

Just days ago, President Obama appeared in a "Vote 2010" video, distributed by his political action wing Organizing for America, which serves as a stark appeal to blacks and Latinos -- specifically -- for their votes in November.

This 1995 interview reinforces a couple of simple truths: Barack Obama has always been an economic illiterate as well as a hypocrite. The combination is dangerous.

Vote accordingly in 2010.