Currently American media CHOOSES to be stenographers with very little analysis. The exception to that is MSNBC, but, even there the analysis was rather weak. This is going to be lengthy. It actually starts in May of 2007.
My mother is 79 years old, is retired to North Carolina and has been a rock solid Democrat all her life. She has seen my father serve in local government and stood by him when he openly outed a man who wanted to bribe him for land use in our community. She is a great woman. She has raised three incredible daughters, all with careers and all that practiced birth control while she still prayed the rosary everyday. She is firm in her morality and it is reflected in her generous smile to everyone she meets. She judges no one. She states, that is God's job, not hers.
On May 2, 2007 my mother sat in front of a television while Barack Obama announced, as did Lincoln, he was running for president. She had seen him speak at the DNC convention and now she had to hear him announce.
May 2, 2007
Invoking the memory of fellow Illinoisan and the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, the first-term senator addressed thousands packed into the Springfield, Illinois, town square on a chilly day in America's heartland....
She called me immediately after hearing his announcement and asked if I saw the next President of the USA announce today. I hadn't actually. I said, "No, I haven't seen the next President of the USA announce today, do you want to tell me who that is?"
She stated Senator Barack Obama. I told her he was new to the Senate and he was going to have a tough climb against any other Democratic candidate to win the nomination. Basically, I didn't really disagree, but, I wasn't convinced. However, my mother is rarely wrong. I mean it. When she sets her mind on something it happens. At the time she was 72 years old, my father was still alive and she was energized by his announcement. She stated, "You listen to me, he is going to not only win the Presidency, he is going to win North Carolina." I never said it to her as to not thwart her excitement, but, secretly I thought she really has lost some of her objectivity. Well, history tells the tale. Barack Hussein Obama became President of the USA with the help of North Carolina voters. Amazing.
This call from my mother happened before the global economic collapse. It was at a time when most editorials in the NYTimes were about a housing concern and financial markets. Paulson was in China most of the time. It was a time when the average American didn't have a clue, but, the USA economy was beginning to falter. It was before Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in 2008. That really is rarely discussed. There were many Americans behind Barack Obama for President before there was a major shift in confidence by Republicans and Independents due to the global economic collapse. Realizing that reality, rather than the reality pumped out by Republicans making excuses for the election of Barack Obama is most notable.
I could write about a government that doesn't deal with racism among any of it's representatives, but, that isn't true of the Democratic electorate. If there are any people in this world that are color blind to ethnic differences in skin color it is many average Democrats in the USA. My mother is a prime example of that.
Now.
Realize what happened with the political rise of Mr. Steve Scalise.
December 29, 2014
By Ashley Parker and Alan Rappaport
WASHINGTON — Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, (click here) the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, a Scalise spokeswoman confirmed Monday as his party prepared to take control of both chambers of Congress.
Mr. Scalise made his remarks to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, which was founded two years earlier by David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana politician. Mr. Scalise was a Louisiana state legislator at the time.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has described the organization — which uses EURO as an acronym — as a hate group, while noting that in recent years it has “accomplished little” and serves “primarily as a vehicle to publicize Duke’s writing and sell his books.”...
He began his political ambitions at the state level in Louisiana. His ambitions ran far beyond state politics. In 2002, he attended a meeting of White Supremacists. These White Supremacists were not at a local RNC meeting or any other party in Louisiana, this meeting was in Europe. Europe. Mr. Scalise had to get on a jet, quite possibly paid for by the organization that was beginning with this meeting, and he flew a long time to Europe. This wasn't a simple hop to the other end of Louisiana, it was to Europe whereby people have the time to write a speech to deliver at the meeting they were going to attend. Many hours passed and Mr. Scalise did not ask who was sponsoring said meeting. He didn't need a staff to run any vetting process. This was a meeting developed by a long standing Grand Dragon of the KKK, David Duke. Now, let's think about that a minute.
This was a new organization in Europe of White Supremacists. Mr. Scalise was attending this first meeting. Why was he important to David Duke? Why would David Duke go through a great deal of trouble to have Steve Scalise attend an organizational meeting of a European White Supremacist group? Scalise wasn't well known yet, but, here was this American with ambitions to win at the federal level making a speech in Europe. Did David Duke want those Europeans to buy into the idea of a global victory for them? You are damn right he did.
Now, the speech. A politician doesn't go to a meeting without knowing who is hearing his speech. Why? Because he wants to relate to the people at that meeting to leave an impression they won't forget. This wasn't a stump speech for votes, it was in Europe to SPECIAL INTERESTS.
Currently, Steve Scalise has a passport that may or may not have those stamps of passage into Europe and he is denying any sincere speech to White Supremacists. He had no clue who he was speaking to, but, he flew all the way to Europe to be confused about any racists leanings. Steve Scalise is a liar and his affiliations with racists is now on the record. He is considered someone of notable promise by David Duke. FACT.
So, yesterday evening and today, Steve Scalise has been making statements to roll back the controversy which has also seen the resignation of another GOP House member guilty of criminal charges. What else happened today? Media propaganda twisted to 'fit the reality' happened today. It was one of the major networks that even stated, there is absolutely no record of Scalise having voted in a manner consistent with racism. Really?
December 30, 2014
By Jake Sherman and John Bresnehan
...But Scalise’s record in Louisiana (click here) is now being closely reviewed for any signs of racial bias. As a state representative in Baton Rouge, for example, Scalise voted twice against establishing Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a holiday. His congressional leadership office has yet to explain those votes.
And in 1997, Scalise voted against a bill to prohibit hate crimes based on race, class or sexual orientation.
Scalise's votes in the state legislature in Louisiana were extreme even to that state. The opposition vote to both those measures in the State of Louisiana were in the single digits and he was one of them. Does that mean he is a racist? Maybe. But, it tells everyone he is willing to do the work of a racist if he wins with their votes.
Why did David Duke ask him to speak in Europe? Because Scalise had demonstrated his willingness to carry their cause in his power within a legislature.
Continued in next entry.
How impoverished are these people? They use bat meat in their diets. In the past it has been the ingestion of these bats that have caused the outbreak. The past is the past and the isolation of the virus is no longer a practice to protect the world. The fact remains these people are the victim to fear and lack of resources to combat the virus. These people need a great deal of help in removing the living conditions they have come to know.
The Mumbai Attacks were 12 coordinated shootings and bombings that lead to the death of 164 people with another 308 wounded. There should be no release of any of the participants. They are murderers of 164 deaths and should serve the jail time for each and everyone of them in consecutive order. The sentence for any of these murderers should be 164 life sentences served one after the other. Any release of these men should be a matter of national security and prohibited.
December 29, 2014
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