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Local15news reports: The federal government has appealed a judge's decision to let Alabama's immigration law take effect.
The man who signed what many call the toughest immigration law in the country says he's not backing down. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says he's not surprised by the appeal.
"We're not talking about discrimination. We're talking about enforcing the laws. We expect the federal government to enforce the laws. Here in Alabama, we will enforce the laws," Bentley said.
http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/governor-bentley-alabama-immigration/ACDc_BAdiEKdrfbmQneexw.cspx
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The Gateway Pundit writes: Chanting
“The whole world is watching!” the Occupy DC protesters tried to storm the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum today. They pinned a guard against the wall.
The mob forced the museum to shut its doors early.
According to Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, a crowd of “about 100 to 200 people” tried to enter through the museum’s Mall entrance.
“They were carrying signs and a lot of protest materials,” St. Thomas said in a statement.
“You cannot bring that stuff into the museum under any circumstances.”
According to St. Thomas, the crowd tried to shove its way into the museum after being denied entry by security.
“One security guard was grabbed and pinned against the wall. He could not extract himself,” the spokesperson said. “Another security guard came over to help him and ended up pepper-spraying one person.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/occupy-dc-protest-thugs-pin-museum-guard-against-wall-try-to-storm-smithsoniun-video/
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Global Research opined: Obama has campaigned against restrictions on bonuses paid to executives at insurance giant American International Group (AIG) and other bailed-out firms, and repeatedly assured Wall Street that he will slash social spending, including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
The new financial disclosures reveal that top Obama advisors directly involved in setting these policies have received millions from Wall Street firms, including those that have received huge taxpayer bailouts.
[Summers is] rather typical of the Wall Street insiders who comprise a cabinet and White House team that is filled with multi-millionaires, presided over by a president who parlayed his own political career into a multi-million-dollar fortune.
Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, worked for Citigroup and received more than $7.4 million from the bank from January of 2008 until he entered the Obama administration this year. This included a $2.25 million year-end bonus handed him this past January, within weeks of his joining the Obama administration.
Citigroup has thus far been the beneficiary of $45 billion in cash and over $300 billion in government guarantees of its bad debts.
David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s top strategist and now senior adviser to the president, was paid $1.55 million last year from two consulting firms he controls. He has agreed to buyouts that will garner him another $3 million over the next five years. His disclosure claims personal assets of between $7 and $10 million.
Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, was paid $3.9 million by a Washington law firm whose major clients include Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and the private equity firm Apollo Management.
Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, made $227,155 last year from IndyMac Bancorp, the California bank that heavily promoted subprime mortgages. It collapsed last summer and was placed under federal receivership. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13208 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The UK Daily Mail wrote: President Barack Obama is making it personal in a new fundraising pitch aimed at the generosity of his supporters.
An email sent to one New Yorker read: 'Here's something you don't have in common with 15,049 other supporters of this movement who tell us they live in New York, N.Y.'
It added: 'Now's your chance to change that.'
The email then asked for a $3 minimum donation to boost the campaign to 1million contributors.
The emails, obtained by FoxNews.com, come complete with local numbers on how many of the president’s supporters have given to his campaign. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046999/President-Barack-Obama-shaming-supporters-donations-comparing-neighbours-give.html
Brad Blakeman, who served as a senior adviser to President Bush in his 2000 campaign, called President Obama’s plan a 'scare tactic.'
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American Thinker writes: It should be no surprise, then, that the Occupy Wall Street uprisings are happening. After all, such mob uprisings have historical precedent. Anarchy followed by tyranny occurs whenever weakness and a power vacuum, perceived or real, exists.
Examples from history abound, but two cases may be particularly pertinent.
The result of the incompatibility of these two entities -- on the one side, free and constitutionally established governmental and economic institutions, and on the other, the means and goals of the current radical administration and its allies -- is civil unrest to a degree scarcely seen since the Civil War.
Thus we have the Wall Street protestors, who have now been joined by the too-often thuggish labor unions, organizations which have historically have often been wedded to violence as a means of achieving what cannot be gained by bargaining or legislative and judicial process. Comforting murmurs of support from President Obama, who says he understands the frustrations of the marchers, and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi's blessing -- "God bless Wall Street protestors"-- are green-light indicators that the Democratic leadership is callously and recklessly encouraging the mobs taking over the streets of our largest cities.
It is conceivable that a combination of anarchists, labor unions, and left-leaning media could unite and utilize the unrest and chaos to derail the 2012 elections themselves, giving the administration the opportunity to suspend elections because of a national emergency. The nightmare that would ensue is almost unimaginable, as the tactics already utilized by the administration could become even more fully utilized. The erosion of the rule of law and constitutional institutions would be assured.
Thus the slippery slope to dictatorship begins. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/the_american_revolution_of_2012.html
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The LA Times reports: Republican presidential contender
Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing
Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who "play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else's” Cadillac.
On CBS, Cain suggested that the rallies had been organized by labor unions to serve as a “distraction so that many people won’t focus on the failed policies of the Obama administration.”
The banking and financial services industries aren’t responsible for those policies, Cain said. “To protest Wall Street and the bankers is basically saying you’re anti-capitalism,” he said.
“There a lot of people in America who are angry,” Newt Gingrich said. “This is the natural product of
President Obama’s class warfare.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-occupy-wall-street-20111009,0,972806.story
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[To witness a truly bizarre experience, watch the video linked to below. At a demonstration in Atlanta, every single word the speakers say is said in short groups of words and are repeated by the protesters. They voted to not let someone who came to offer his support to speak - civil rights pioneer Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). It took a full 10 minutes of this to get to the vote which eliminated his speech.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI
Townhall reports: The look on Lewis' face throughout these, um, "deliberations" is absolutely priceless. When his speaking opportunity is ultimately nixed, he just wanders off in a confused daze. Isn't the Left
awesome, Congressman? The cringe-worthy preciousness and feel-goodery of the entire episode evokes a dystopic kindergarten setting, in which every child and teacher has equal say in everything. If it weren't so laugh-out-loud pathetic, I think this video represents a snapshot of my own personal hell. I'll leave you with the latest edit to "
The People's Document," which is this incoherent movement's non-binding manifesto, of sorts. It seems they've hit on a new plan for how to run the country and distribute wealth "fairly." The good news? They (for the moment) want to eliminate all taxes except for a universal four-percent sales tax. The bad news? They want to mandate maximum salaries for everyone. Their scheme pegs a doctor's top income at $28,000 -- $500 less than "public servant" salaries:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/10/09/video_occupy_atlanta_silences_rep_john_lewis_via_jazz_hands
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Daily Caller reports: Despite his rhetorical attacks on
Wall Street, a study by the Sunlight Foundation’s Influence Project shows that President Barack Obama has received more
money from Wall Street than any other politician over the past
20 years, including former President George W. Bush.
When asked by The Daily Caller to comment about President Obama’s credibility when it comes to criticizing Wall Street, the White House declined to reply.
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Townhall 's Star Parker writes: I wouldn’t think it would be worthwhile to draw attention to the Occupy Wall Street “movement,” or its list of demands that wouldn’t pass muster in an average kindergarten class.
But if America’s president and vice president choose to talk about it, and give it credibility, then it’s news.
According to VP Joe Biden, demands such as free college, pay independent of work, a $20 minimum wage (why not $100 or $1000?), and a nation with open borders have legitimacy and “a lot in common with the tea party movement.”
President Obama sees these demonstrations against corporate America as reasonable protest toward “the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this situation to begin with.”
This should provide perspective to what our most fundamental problem is today.
We have an endangered species in America whose loss threatens our future. That species is called the American adult.
http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2011/10/10/more_from_the_culture_of_narcissism/page/full/
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