RadioActive with Steve Mitton: April 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Swine flu cases prompt calls for closing Mexican border

By CINDY CARCAMO

HUNTINGTON BEACH Bolstered by the growing number of swine flu cases, anti-illegal immigration groups in Southern California are urging members to barrage their congress members with letters and phone calls pressuring them to close the U.S.-Mexico border.

Amnesty?

By Marinka Peschmann

Senator “Chuck” Schumer (D. N.Y.) will chair a hearing on Comprehensive Immigration Reform later today, called “Can We Do It and How?” If past is prologue, with Mr. Schumer crafting immigration reform expect amnesty and a policy that may ultimately hurt America.

Academe Has Deformed Students' Character

So is the character of students shaped by our system of higher education best summarized as conformist? To a large extent, yes. The progressive left#...#is counting on a vast, quiescent consensus among the college-educated, a consensus sufficient to end the culture wars and usher in a reign of one-sided agreement on all important issues.#...#The left’s near total domination of education at all levels, including colleges and universities, has given it ample opportunity to instill its basic values. These include a settled hatred of Western civilization, an elevation of identity groups and corresponding devaluation of common humanity, and a preference for the homogeneous group over the free-spirited individual.

Censors for talk radio expected within 90 days

By Bob Unruh

The leader of a newly formed public awareness campaign to alert U.S. citizens about an effort to stifle free speech says he expects local "boards" will be assembled within 90 days to begin censoring talk radio, a move that will come as an "Arctic blast" against the expression of opinion in the United States.

Sarah Palin

By Ann Coulter

John McCain was so preposterous a candidate (at least on a Republican ticket) that Palin was responsible for far more votes than the usual vice-presidential candidate. The biggest red flag proving her popularity with normal Americans is that liberals won't shut up about her. Palin is a threat to liberals because she believes in God and country and family — all values liberals pretend to believe in but secretly detest. There's a reason there's no "Stop Olympia Snowe before it's too late!" movement.

Top Dems rebel on Specter

By Alexander Bolton

Senior Senate Democrats are objecting to the deal Majority Leader Harry Reid made with Sen. Arlen Specter, saying they will vote against letting the former Republican shoot to the top of powerful committees after he switches parties.
Several Democrats are furious with Sen. Reid (D-Nev.) for agreeing to let Specter (Pa.) keep his seniority, accrued over more than 28 years as a GOP senator. That agreement would allow Specter to leap past senior Democrats on powerful panels — including the Appropriations and Judiciary committees.

House agrees to muzzle pastors with 'hate crimes'

The U.S. House today approved a federal "hate crimes" bill that would provide special protections to homosexuals but leave Christian ministers open to prosecution should their teachings be linked to any subsequent offense, by anyone, against a "gay."
The vote, 249-175, came despite intense from Republicans who argued the measure would create a privileged class.

The Facts on Fascism

By Quin Hillyer

Since my April 2 column that compared Barack Obama's economic policies (and others) to those of Italy's Benito Mussolini, I have been denounced on the pages of the Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Toronto Star, and the New York Times (less strongly denounced there than in the others, oddly enough), and by Chris Matthews (and guests Tony Blankley and Larry Sabato) on Hardball, and also had the idea made fun of by CNN morning hosts while they played a rather tame and sober interview they had done with me on the subject.

Plunge Protection Team Attacks BofA: This Ends Now

History teaches us that economic depression and/or hyperinflations are NOT caused by banks or the money supply. Such events, whether they occured in ancient Rome, or the modern United States of America, are caused by a perception, by the People, that their leaders are lying, cheating, stealing, and cannot be trusted. The Great Depression of the 1930s, is a modern case in point. Contrary to the claims of Benjamin Bernanke, and most mainstram economists, it was NOT caused by a “credit contraction” or a “contraction in the money supply”. These were merely symptoms. It was caused by broken promises and lies.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Legal Torture: The Upturned Moral Universe of Progressives

By Miguel A. Guanipa

Millions of taxpayers are legally forced to finance this method of torture in their own country, and under the Obama administration, they now have to subsidize the lethal torture of thousands of other innocent human beings in foreign countries. And if that isn't enough reason for outrage, trained professionals who are conscientiously opposed to this gruesome practice will soon have to put aside their moral objections and provide this service lest they risk being sued by their less than satisfied patrons.

UAW Said to Get 55% Chrysler Ownership

By John Lippert and Mike Ramsey

April 28 (Bloomberg) -- The United Auto Workers union’s retiree health-care fund will own 55 percent of Chrysler LLC in exchange for cutting in half the automaker’s $10.6 billion cash obligation to the trust, people familiar with the matter said.

GW's 100 days

Historians, politicians, reporters and the American public want to get to know their new leader -- his personality, his ideas, his habits and ways of talking -- so they watch the early days very carefully.
Those crucial first 100 days can set the tone for the rest of a president's term and provide clues to what's to come in the next four years.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times

By Joseph Abrams

The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world.

Woman gets 30 days in jail for texting in court

By Bob Unruh

A Utah mother of four small children has been jailed on a judge's order to serve 30 days behind bars for allegedly sending a text message while she was watching a court proceeding.
The report comes from her father-in-law, Dennis Jackson, who told WND of the series of events that left his daughter-in-law, Susan Henwood, imprisoned.

CFR Corporate Members Get Lion's Share of Bailout Funds

by Thomas R. Eddlem

Among the “Founders,” those who give $100,000 or more to the CFR, can be found:
American Express Company: $3.389 billion TARP
Goldman Sachs: $10 billion TARP, plus a separate Federal Reserve bailout and more than $13 billion of the allotment to AIG (below)
Merrill Lynch: $45 billion through its corporate parent, Bank of America, which is also a CFR Premium corporate member, plus $6.8 billion of AIG’s bailout funds
“President’s Circle” CFR members ($60,000 or more) received the following bailout funds:
American International Group (AIG): $182 billion in total TARP/TALF funds to date
Citibank: $50 billion TARP
Morgan Stanley: $10 billion TARP
Premium members ($30,000 or more to CFR):
Bank of New York/Mellon Corporation: $3 billion TARP
Freddie Mac: Sharing with Fannie Mae $1.25 trillion — that’s $1,250 billion — in mortgage securities being purchased from the Federal Reserve Bank
Chrysler: $4 billion TARP, plus $1.5 billion TARP for Chrysler Financial

Mexican child is first swine flu death in U.S

By Maggie Fox

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 23-month-old child has died in Texas from the new H1N1 swine flu, becoming the first death in the United States from the virus, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said on Wednesday.
A Houston health official said the child was a Mexican who traveled to the city for medical treatment.

Global warming alarmists out in cold

Andrew Bolt

IT'S snowing in April.

Ice is spreading in Antarctica.

The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever.
And that's just the news of the past week. Truly, it never rains but it pours - and all over our global warming alarmists.
Time's up for this absurd scaremongering. The fears are being contradicted by the facts, and more so by the week.
Doubt it? Then here's a test.

Torture, Al-Qaeda Style

MAY 24--In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here. The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense,

FAA Memo: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic

Reporting: Marcia Kramer

In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD, the Federal Aviation Administration's James Johnston said the agency was aware of "the possibility of public concern regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes" in an around New York City. But they demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI and even the mayor's office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out.

pandemic alert level

(RTTNews) - With more countries being inflicted by the deadly swine flu virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) is more likely to raise its pandemic alert level to phase five, as it has called a third emergency meeting of its flu experts Wednesday in Geneva.The current alert level at phase four is two levels below the threshold for a full pandemic outbreak.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Two Million Americans Die

Somewhere in the basement of a government warehouse, federal employees with too little to do have come up with estimates of the what the effects of an all-out flu pandemic would be. Like most estimates, these have a significant chance of being wrong. They draw on theoretic models which cannot do much to take into account the most recent advances in science and disease control.

H1N1 VLP Vaccine

Novavax, Inc. reported preclinical study results showing that an investigational H1N1 virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine based on the 1918 Spanish influenza strain protected against both the Spanish flu and a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain. The study was conducted by scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA and Novavax under a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement.

Is swine flu a bioterrorist virus?

Michael Le Page

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, the new virus is a mixture of four different viruses: North American swine flu, North American avian flu, human H1N1 flu and a swine flu strain found in Asia and Europe. The claim of the conspiracy theorists is that this new combination could not have occurred naturally, but this is not true. Flu viruses consisting of a mixture of human, swine and bird strains have been found before. However, there is a sense in which the virus could be regarded as man-made.

World counting down to pandemic

By Tan Ee Lyn

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese virologist who helped fight SARS and bird flu warned on Monday of a possible swine flu pandemic that the most populous countries in Asia, China and India, would be ill-prepared to handle.
"We are counting down to a pandemic," said Guan Yi, a professor at the University of Hong Kong who helped trace the outbreak of SARS in 2003 to the civet cat.

WHO to raise pandemic alert level

LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation will raise its pandemic alert level to phase 4 over the deadly swine flu virus, indicating the infection can spread between humans to cause community-level outbreaks, a source familiar with the decision said on Monday. The decision came after experts held hours of emergency talks on whether to raise the alert level from phase 3 due to the outbreak, which has killed up to 149 people in Mexico and spread to the United States, Canada and Europe.

Plan to monitor all internet use

By Dominic Casciani

Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.
The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security services.

How the homosexual movement got into the Massachusetts schools.

SEE BELOW: Read their own words from 1995 speech bragging about how they tricked the Massachusetts Legislature
The homosexual movement in the public schools has always been based on lies and deception. But until the mid-1990s, they were still having difficulty getting into the schools. Then they found the key to their huge success -- what they call "re-framing the issue". As a result, they've been able to persuade the Massachusetts Legislature to budget hundreds of thousands of public dollars for programs promoting homosexuality in the public schools. And their "gay-straight alliance" clubs, which started in Massachusetts, now are in hundreds of schools from Maine to San Diego.

Dec. 1, 1996

Catastrophe

by Eric deCarbonnel

After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts. This project ended up taking a lot longer than I thought. 2009 looks to be a humanitarian disaster around much of the world

Swine Influenza (Flu)

The human swine flu outbreak continues to grow in the United States and internationally. Today, CDC reports additional cases of confirmed swine influenza and a number of hospitalizations of swine flu patients.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Chinese fakeaway: After that copycat Roller, the products that got lost in translation

By Daily Mail Reporter

Yesterday the Mail revealed that a Chinese firm has made a cut price copy of the £250,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom. But as these pictures show, there are many more well-known Western products that have been imitated in the Far East - often with hilarious results ...

Ronald Reagan Speech - 1964 Republican National Convention

PROSECUTING PATRIOTS

By Ralph Peters

Now the left wants an Inquisition for heretics who failed to share its worldview. Men and women who, in their capacity as public servants, wrestled with difficult legal issues in the course of our battle with terrorists are now to be tried and shamed because the left disagreed with their legal opinions and actions. No matter that most Americans wouldn't view the methods of our interrogators as torture when applied to hardened terrorists (despite the media's ceaseless effort to convince us otherwise). No matter that foreign leaders championed by the left use vastly more brutal techniques.

The Truth-O-Meter Says:

"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 in in a press conference.

Not every gun recovered in Mexico is submitted to the ATF for tracing. And so Obama, and others can't know exactly what percentage come from the U.S. They can only speak to the guns successfully traced by the ATF. And so we rule Obama's statement Half True.

How the Tea Partiers can make Washington pay attention.

By RANDY E. BARNETT

Here's how: State legislatures can petition Congress for a convention to propose a specific amendment. Congress can then avert a convention by proposing this amendment to the states, before the number of petitions reaches two-thirds. It was the looming threat of state petitions calling for a convention to provide for the direct election of U.S. senators that induced a reluctant Congress to propose the 17th Amendment, which did just that.

Hockey moms and capital markets

By Spengler

Why do Asian investors depend on American capital markets? Given the near breakdown of key sectors of the American market, one might expect Asians to bring their money home. Quite the opposite has happened: Asian currencies have fallen sharply against the American dollar.

Iowa judge to stop performing marriages

At least one Iowa magistrate has decided that he will no longer perform marriages, a response due in part to the Iowa Supreme Court ruling that allows same-sex couples to marry.Third District Magistrate Francis Honrath of Larchwood on Wednesday said he will not be performing marriages."The Supreme Court ruling had something to do with it, but the truth is it's not just same-sex marriage I had problems with," said Honrath, a Creighton University law school graduate who is married and has seven children.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Are you licensed to reload that ammo?

By Bob Unruh© 2009 WorldNetDaily

President Obama, who supported the handgun ban in Washington, D.C., before it was tossed by the Supreme Court, since his election has watched various proposals to ban "assault" weapons, require handgun owners to submit to mental health evaluations and sparked a rush on ammunition purchases that caused some retailers to name him their salesman of the year. Now he apparently is going after citzens who reload their ammunition.

MELTDOWN

Here we go again:

Washington pols are sticking their noses into lenders' businesses -- in this case, those of credit-card companies -- just as they pushed banks in the 1990s to make riskier mortgages.
Will the results be any less disastrous this time around?

An Islamist 'new world order'

By ELLIOT JAGER

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member-states at the Durban II gathering in Geneva is pushing for "a new world order" that would expand and impose "nondemocratic and illiberal values on the West," says the Danish editor who in 2005 commissioned and published a series of cartoons, one of which depicted the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that led to worldwide Muslim rioting.

WILLIAMS: The age of the American lust child

By Armstrong Williams

My columns and other writings have long chronicled the decline of moral values in America. However, I must admit to being absolutely shocked when I read recently that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that nearly 40 percent of U.S. births in 2007 occurred outside of wedlock.

High court hears reverse discrimination arguments

By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is weighing whether a Connecticut city's decision to scrap a promotion exam for firefighters because too few minorities passed violates the civil rights of top-scoring white applicants.
The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in a case from New Haven, Conn., that has the potential to change hiring practices nationwide. The court also was expected to issue opinions in cases argued earlier this term.

Why can't students say 'guns' in school?

BY GLENN GARVIN

Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried that the government is out to snatch their constitutional rights along with their AK-47s. 60 Minutes is the latest to have a chuckle, playing a commercial for a Washington, D.C.-area firearms show that that urges viewers to ``Celebrate the Second Amendment and get your guns while you still can!''
My own hunch is that the sheer number of Americans who own guns (the low estimate is something over 40 million) will keep their Second Amendment rights off the endangered-species list for the foreseeable future. Their First Amendment rights, however, may be another matter. Those are taking a beating these days, right in the place that's supposed to be America's rowdiest free-speech zone: college campuses.

Obama signs service bill, says volunteers needed

By ANN SANNER

WASHINGTON (AP) - Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college.
"We need your service, right now, in this moment in history. ... I'm asking you to stand up and play your part," said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago. "I'm asking you to help change history's course."

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

'Car Czar' in Pay-for-Play Scandal

By Sean Hannity

The Wall Street Journal revealed Friday that Steven Rattner is the subject of a long-running SEC investigation into a massive pay-to-play scheme. Authorities allege that several investment firms, including the one co-founded by Mr. Rattner, paid to get investments from the $122 billion New York state pension fund.

How to Handle a Bully: Nixon vs. Khrushchev

By Jeffrey Lord

The young Vice President of the United States standing up to the bullying Russian tyrant, his right index finger literally poking Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the chest.
For the rest of his political career, the photograph -- and the incident that prompted it -- would visually enshrine the world's view of Richard Nixon as the American politician who would quite literally never blink when it came to standing up to America's enemies.

Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe

By CAM SIMPSON and GARY FIELDS

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices.
The initiative, dubbed Operation Vigilant Eagle, was outlined in February, two months before a memo giving a similar warning was issued on April 7 by the Department of Homeland Security.

'How hate crimes laws forced me into exile'

By Alyssa Farah

Julio Severo, a prominent Brazilian pro-family activist, has been forced into exile because of the "hate crimes" laws that are being implemented in his native land, perhaps providing a preview of what Christians can expect in the United States should similar "hate crimes" proposals be implemented.

Tea Parties: What's Next?

by Sabrina L. Schaeffer

Americans were responding to the way an ever-expanding government threatens the country’s most basic values of virtue and liberty.
The original 1773 Boston Tea Party was held by colonists who had grown wary of the increasing centralization of British power that threatened their self-government and freedom.

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans!

By Douglas Hagmann & Judi McLeod

If you one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something that has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America.

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