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Friday, December 27, 2013
Jacque Fresco on Russia Today "Breaking the Set with Abbey Martin" August 7, 2013
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Tax take is down: OK general revenue collections drop 10 percent in August
BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS: Oklahoma state government tax revenues subject to appropriation were down in August, Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger reports. The decline resulted from taxpayers accessing exemptions and credits allowed under state law, Tax Commission analysis showed.
By Patrick B. McGuigan | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma state government tax revenue subject to appropriation (known as general revenue receipts) declined in August, but that’s not a subtle hint of bad news for the economy.
Turns out, taxpayers in the Sooner State accessed exemptions and credits to keep more of their own money.
In his monthly analysis of general revenue fund (GRF) receipts, Secretary of Finance Preston L. Doerflinger said, “This was a single-month collection anomaly rather than any reflection of Oklahoma’s economy. One month does not diminish the strength Oklahoma’s economy has shown for going on three years now.”
Doerflinger and officials at the Oklahoma Tax Commission attributed the dip in direct revenue to reduced income tax collections, which were 27.9 percent ($ 40.2 million) below last year’s level.
Doerflinger stressed the commission “is processing far more corporate and personal income tax refunds at this time of the year than it normally does, which has led to temporary distortions of income tax collections. As a result, the GRF received no corporate income tax collections in August because corporate income tax refunds exceeded corporate income tax collections.”
His staff’s release on the August data continued, “Personal income tax collections fell $ 36.2 million or 25.9 percent from a year ago due in large part to an $ 11 million increase in personal income tax refunds processed compared to the same month a year ago.”
Total revenue for state government from all sources continues to be robust, previous analyses have found. The state has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, at 5.3 percent.
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Tax take is down: OK general revenue collections drop 10 percent in August
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Attacks killed 800 Iraqis in August: U.N.
BAGHDAD |
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – About 800 Iraqis were killed in August, the United Nations said on Sunday, condemning a wave of violence in the country that has reached levels not seen since 2008.
Most of the 804 killed were civilians, targeted in shootings and bombings mainly claimed by the Iraqi wing of al Qaeda. More than 2,000 people were wounded, the U.N. figures showed.
The number of people who were killed last month was however lower than in July, when the U.N. reported that there were 1,057 victims, the highly monthly toll since 2008. Violence in Iraq was at its height in 2006-2007 when the number of people killed per month sometimes exceeded 3,000.
Nearly 5,000 civilians have been killed and 12,000 wounded since the beginning of 2013, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a statement.
In August, Baghdad was once again the most affected governate, accounting for more than a third of those killed nationwide, the U.N. said.
Since 2008 violence has decreased and a rise in oil revenues has helped to boost the economy. But eighteen months since U.S. troop withdrew, bombing campaigns have increased.
Insurgents have been invigorated by the sectarian conflict in neighboring Syria and have profited from rising political tensions in Iraq.
(Reporting by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
U.S. jobless claims data points to pickup in job gains in August
A job seeker (C) talks to an exhibitor at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver April 9, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking
U.S. jobless claims data points to pickup in job gains in August
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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Multidimensional UFo New York August 2013
self stabilising, self flying, self transforming and self lit “balloons”? lol, again, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. lead an alien up to someone, a genuine alien, and the skeptics will claim it’s a little person in a suit, or whatever. when are people going to see these for what they actually are?
thanks for the post op, some of us know what we’re looking at even if others try and ridicule us for using our eyes and brains
Multidimensional UFo New York August 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Immigration Reformers Are Winning August
Activists opposed to immigration reform were all set to spend this month putting pressure on lawmakers to kill the legislation. But it hasn’t exactly been a show of force.
Last week, the Tea Party Patriots and NumbersUSA, two groups opposed to “amnesty” legislation, heavily publicized a rally in Richmond, Virginia, featuring Steve King, the firebrand Republican congressman who recently claimed most undocumented youth are physically fit drug mules. But only a few dozen people showed up — far short of the hundreds organizers had planned for.
Journalists posted photos of a lonely-looking King under a gazebo in a mostly empty public park. A reporter for Breitbart News, Matthew Boyle, tweeted, “If grassroots wants to kill #Amnesty they have to show up. #teaparty they are not here in Richmond.”
Activists on both sides of the immigration debate had put heavy emphasis on the importance of flexing grassroots muscle during this month of congressional recess. The idea is to show Republicans in the House of Representatives, which hasn’t settled on a path forward on the issue, where the most passionate support lies. And as August winds down, the Richmond event seems indicative of the overall trend. Hundreds of immigrant advocates have appeared at rallies and town halls across the country. But the other side, the opponents, have been mostly absent.
Hundreds of reform advocates recently rallied at the Bakersfield, California, office of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House GOP whip. (A local television station put the number at “more than 1,000“; Breitbart reported it was about 400, mostly “Mexican in origin,” and noted the presence of “about two dozen counter-demonstrators.”) More than 500 pro-reform activists, including the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, and local clergy, showed up at Speaker John Boehner’s district office. The Washington Times counted about 60 pro-reform activists calling on Rep. Frank Wolf in Herndon, Virginia. They marched through the streets of Asheboro, North Carolina, and gathered alongside the Catholic diocese in Salt Lake City. In Corpus Christi, Texas, a Republican congressman, Blake Farenthold, took to Twitter to beseech opponents to show up and counter the 10,000 pro-reform petitions that activists delivered to his office.
Anti-immigration-reform groups were hard pressed to come up with evidence of similar grassroots fervor for their side. Indeed, many of the examples they cited seemed to show the opposite. A NumbersUSA organizer passed along footage from a town hall where Kansas Rep. Lynn Jenkins was asked repeatedly about immigration; all the questioners in the clip are pro-reform, but booing rumbles through the crowd as they speak. At a town hall for Rep. Karen Bass, the California Democrat is asked about an unrelated piece of legislation that would deport “illegal alien gang members” (and explains why she opposes it). In Elkhorn, Nebraska, Republican Lee Terry is asked, “Will we see a path to citizenship in the immigration bill?” as DREAM Act activists are shown in a local television report.
Anti-reform groups appear to be canceling events for lack of participation. The Tea Party Patriots once boasted of summer rallies in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Dallas; and South Carolina, but they’ve disappeared from the calendar on the group’s website. Another anti-immigration-reform group, the Black American Leadership Alliance, had planned a nine-city “We Are America Tour,” but had to drop half the stops. “Dear friends, it is with deep regret that I must inform you all that we had to drop several rallies,” an organizer wrote on Facebook, in a post that has since been removed but was spotted and preserved by the pro-reform group America’s Voice. “We were unable to get organizers for the following: Miami, FL., Chicago, IL., Roanoke, VA., and Wisconsin. The Ohio rally is still going to happen, but not under the “Tour” title. FAIR is leading that rally. That leaves us with 4 rallies. Phoenix, AZ. Richmond, VA. And rallies in Houston, and Dallas, TX. Even the rallies in Houston, and Richmond, VA, are not completely confirmed at this time.”
FAIR stands for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington-based group that opposes legal and illegal immigration. In a Washington Post article last week, the group’s communications director acknowledged being outgunned by activists for the other side. “It’s a staggering, well-financed hard push by the left and the right,” Bob Dane told the Post.
A Black American Leadership Alliance representative was unavailable for comment. The Tea Party Patriots’ national coordinator, Jenny Beth Martin, told me the disappearing rallies were not “set in stone,” so their listings were removed until they could be finalized. Martin also told ABC News that Tea Party activists are more focused on the push to defund Obamacare than on defeating immigration reform. Roy Beck, the executive director of NumbersUSA, which claims to be the largest grassroots group against citizenship for undocumented immigrants, previously told me his group was gearing up for a major August mobilization, but in an interview Monday he denied that was ever the goal. “We did not try to organize anything massive,” he said.
NumbersUSA has alerted its members to 181 past events, with 70 more scheduled for this week and 142 still to come, involving more than 100 Republican members of Congress. Members have reported back to the group that they felt they were in the majority at 90 percent of the events, Beck told me, based on the way the audience rumbled and booed.
As for the poorly attended Richmond rally, Beck acknowledged it was disappointing, but blamed the lack of turnout on a bad location choice. “We picked a spot that, it turns out, has the highest homicide rate in the city, and apparently a lot of people were afraid to come,” he said. Beck seemed to associate this danger with the African-American population: “We wanted to be there at a place where we could talk about the huge population of descendants of slavery who have never yet been part of the American Dream,” he said. “But sometimes passion and principles get in the way of practicality.”
Beck admitted that his side is not as galvanized as activists were in May of 2007, when an outpouring of grassroots anger — directed by NumbersUSA — helped derail the last immigration-reform push. But that’s because reform has less chance of passing this time, so activists are less concerned, he said. “This year, it’s very much like there’s a wildfire out there coming for your town, but everybody knows there’s a reservoir between the fire and your town, and that’s the House of Representatives,” he said. “Everybody has been told by the media the bill is dead on arrival in the House.”
In any case, Beck said, all the rallies in the world won’t do reform advocates any good if Republican members of Congress aren’t taking positions in favor of reform, and that’s not happening in a major way. McCarthy said he was for a piecemeal approach, with border security coming first. Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais, confronted by an 11-year-old girl whose father faces deportation, told her it was brave of her to speak, but “we have laws, and we need to follow those laws,” to applause from the audience. Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who as chairman of the Judiciary Committee is something of a gatekeeper for immigration policy, reiterated that he does not believe the undocumented should get a “special pathway to citizenship” not available to would-be legal immigrants.
“August is so much more important to the pro-[comprehensive immigration reform] side than to us,” Beck said. “They really had to change a lot of minds. Our job is to hold people where they are …. We’re just feeling that the line has been held.”
Advocates of immigration reform say Beck is moving the goalposts. They count 23 Republican members of Congress who have come out in support of a path to citizenship, including many for the first time this month.
“I knew we were going to do really well [mobilizing people]; I just didn’t think the other side wouldn’t show up,” said Frank Sharry, the longtime immigration-reform advocate who heads America’s Voice. “In 2007, they were formidable. You could argue they kicked our ass. They generated a huge volume of opposition to the bill, and it was a big factor in our defeat.”
To Sharry, the rapidly forming takeaway from this August’s political-organizing battle is that opponents of immigration reform are a paper tiger.
Before the recess, “there was a sense that immigration reform was going to be a hot topic, and Republicans would come back telling leadership we want no part of it,” Sharry said. “If anything, you have more and more members saying, ‘We’ve got to do this.’ That’s a surprising and welcome development.”
Sharry agreed with Beck that attendance at town halls is not the same as votes in Congress. But, he said, “I think it shows that at this point, the forces for reform — left, right, and center — are much stronger than the forces opposing reform. I think we’re more likely to come into September with momentum than they are, and that’s not what many would have predicted just a few short weeks ago.”
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August can play havoc with a president"s vacation
1 of 5. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) bike rides with his oldest daughter, Malia, while at the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury on their vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, August 16, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing
EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts |
EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) – August has a way of interfering with a U.S. president’s best-laid plans for vacation. Just ask Barack Obama. Or Bill Clinton. Or either of the presidents named Bush.
Obama, determined to take a week off from his typically grinding schedule, interrupted his holiday briefly on Thursday to condemn the killing of hundreds of people in a violent crackdown on demonstrators by Egypt’s military government.
But at the risk of a new round of criticism, Obama promptly went on to play golf after the morning statement.
On Friday, after he was briefed on Egypt by his national security adviser, Susan Rice, he was out riding bikes with his wife Michelle and two daughters.
The message to be gleaned? He will not be held hostage by world events.
It is a maxim of presidential power that the commander-in-chief is never really off. The nuclear launch codes carried by a military aide are always close at hand. Modern technology allows the president to work anywhere.
But when world events intervene, presidents must draw a careful line. They must appear confident, engaged and responsive, and not seem to be overwhelmed by crises.
August is not always kind to the president.
George W. Bush provided the type of image that presidents want to avoid when, in August 2002 while vacationing in Kennebunkport, Maine, he opted to react to a suicide bombing in Israel while at the first tee box at Cape Arundel golf course.
“I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now, watch this drive,” said Bush, who proceeded to swing away.
The image did not help a president who had received high marks months earlier for his response to the September 11, 2001, attacks, only to see them dissipate when the Iraq war turned unpopular after the 2003 invasion. With troops in harm’s way, he avoided playing golf and took up mountain biking.
His father, President George H.W. Bush, faithfully traveled to his Walker’s Point oceanfront home in Kennebunkport, where he confronted some sort of August vacation challenge nearly every year of his term from 1989 to 1993.
“What is it about August?” he once asked reporters.
Aboard his boat offshore Walker’s Point, Bush worked on the war plan to repel Iraq’s August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and adjust U.S. policy toward a “new world order” while fishing with Brent Scowcroft, his national security adviser.
Being able to deliver good news to Americans helps a vacationing president avoid bad optics.
CHANGE THE SUBJECT
In August of 1991, the elder Bush was again out on his boat when he got the word to come back and take a call from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who had just survived a short coup.
Wearing a multi-colored wind jacket that would horrify modern-day image meisters, Bush appeared before the press outside a weather-beaten building at Walker’s Point to tell the world what had happened.
“It’s been an emotional day,” he said.
Sometimes a world crisis can change the subject.
It was in August 1998 that President Bill Clinton was on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, reeling from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. On August 20, reporters were expecting him to play golf.
Instead his motorcade deposited him at the White House press filing center and he announced U.S. military strikes against “one of the most active terrorist bases in the world” in Afghanistan.
It was Americans’ first encounter with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. And whether intended or not, it provided an important diversion from the Lewinsky scandal.
“Now I am returning to Washington to be briefed by my national security team on the latest information,” Clinton said, before rushing back to Washington.
He then wasted little time getting back to his Martha’s Vineyard holiday.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Vicki Allen)
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Monday, August 12, 2013
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