Archive for the ‘national lawsuit funding’ Category
Performance Storytelling by Ojibway author and storyteller Richard Wagamese.
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Dr. Hany Farid, a distinguished professor at Dartmouth College and the “father” of digital image forensics, is an expert on authenticating images. His most famous analysis: a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and newspaper. Dr Farid concluded the photo was not altered. In this NIST Colloquium Series presentation, he discusses the impact that camera manipulation and alteration have caused.
Duration : 1:14:7
White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.
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Conservatives will celebrate the day, while liberals will loathe the existence of this great nation. Will liberals file lawsuits against using taxpayer funds to celebrate this country’s founding? Should we have a liberal day of loathing in like February or maybe declare Marx’s birthday as a national holiday?
No. Conservatives think America is perfect, can do no wrong. Liberals recognize the greatness of America, but realize that is isnt perfect and there is a constant need to improve this Nation to make it better. Not blindly adhere to a 225+ year old piece of paper written by an unelected group of rich elite.
Alex Jones examines the factors leading towards the Obama Administration’s intention to sue Arizona over its controversial immigration laws, an unconstitutional act of treason under the 11th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which bars the suing of states under certain circumstances.
Put these pieces of research together for yourself:
Obama administration to sue Arizona over migrant laws
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/07/obama-administration-to-sue-arizona-migrant-laws
Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
Kyl: Obama Won’t Secure Border Until Lawmakers Move on Immigration Package
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/kyl-obama-wont-secure-border-lawmakers-immigration-package
Sen. Kyl – You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmrigSgIzkg
11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – Feds, Citizens cannot sue state on behalf of other powers
http://classes.lls.edu/archive/manheimk/fedcts/echarts/11th-t.htm
Mexican Drug Cartel Sends Death Threats to Arizona County Sheriff
http://www.infowars.com/mexican-drug-cartel-sends-death-threats-to-arizona-county-sheriff/
New York National Guard Units Scan Vehicles For Gun Confiscations
http://www.infowars.com/new-york-national-guard-units-scan-vehicles-for-gun-confiscations/
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Here you’ll find comments by advocacy groups, elected officials and others regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s filing of a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s immigration enforcement law.
Read Senate Bill 1070 »
Read the Justice Department’s lawsuit »
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"As a direct result of failed and inconsistent federal enforcement, Arizona is under attack from violent Mexican drug and immigrant smuggling cartels. Now, Arizona is under attack in federal court from President Obama and his Department of Justice." — Gov. Jan Brewer.
"Arizonans are understandably frustrated with illegal immigration, and the federal government has a responsibility to comprehensively address those concerns. But diverting federal resources away from dangerous aliens such as terrorism suspects and aliens with criminal records will impact the entire country’s safety. " — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
"The Obama Administration has not done everything it can do to protect the people of Arizona from the violence and crime illegal immigration brings to our state. Until it does, the federal government should not be suing Arizona on the grounds that immigration enforcement is solely a federal responsibility." — U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain, R-Ariz.
"It is disappointing to see the federal government choosing to intervene in a state statute instead of working with Arizona to create sustainable solutions to the illegal immigration issue that our state and country so desperately need." — Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard.
"Gov. Jan Brewer cannot be permitted to pervert federal policy priorities and obstruct national progress all in the name of political pandering." — Thomas A. Saenz, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund president and general council.
"It’s just so outrageous. it’s just an absolute insult to the rule of law." — Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, the legislation’s chief sponsor.
"Arizona’s new law will likely spawn a patchwork of new immigration laws around the country. This isn’t an optimal approach. However, the response cannot be a patchwork of federal challenges — it needs to be comprehensive immigration reform." — U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
"The impact of illegal immigration on Arizona’s well-being cannot be denied. But to require local police to act as immigration agents when a lack of local resources already makes enforcing criminal laws and ordinances a challenging proposition, is not realistic. " — Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor.
"This lawsuit is a sideshow, distracting us from the real task at hand. " — U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz.
"Mexico expresses its approval of the decision by the United States government to seek to block the implementation of the SB1070 law. The Mexican government repeats that it recognizes the sovereign right of all countries to adopt laws and public policies within their territories. But when a measure like SB1070 potentially affects the civil and human rights of thousands of Mexicans, the Mexican government has an obligation to protect the rights and dignity of its compatriots." — Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department.
" Our country needs a federal solution to this problem, not a chaotic hodgepodge of 50 different state immigration policies." — U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairwoman.
"For President Obama to stand in the way of a state which has taken action to stand up for its citizens against this daily threat of violence and fear is disgraceful and a betrayal of his Constitutional obligation to protect our citizens. " — U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ranking minority member.
"This is exactly the right time for our federal government to send a message about the importance of fairness and equality under the law." — U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz.
"While the president acknowledged last week that Arizonans are justifiably fed up with inaction, filing a lawsuit is counterproductive to his statements of appealing to the American people’s highest ideals to create a sensible and workable immigration policy. Arizonans are tired of the grandstanding. Political posturing on this issue has to end." — U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Ariz.
"The administration’s lawsuit is a cannon shot across the bow of other states that may be tempted to follow Arizona’s misguided approach. "— Lucas Guttentag, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project director.
"If the president wants to make real progress on this issue, he can do so by taking amnesty off the table and focus his efforts on border and interior security." — U.S. Sen. Mitchell McConnell, R-Ky., S
Now that Obama is getting a La Raza member appointed to the supreme court he feels he can win letting all the illegals into the country. I just don’t understand why we are fighting in other countries for democracy while loosing ours. When will the military wake up and protect this country?
President Barack Obama’s emissaries are expected in Arizona today to meet with Gov. Jan Brewer.
When they arrive, I hope she has some suitable gifts on hand to welcome them to the Grand Canyon State. A bola tie perhaps, and maybe one of those handy scorpion paper weights.
And definitely a bill for $750 million.
This week, it’s widely expected that the United States of America is going to sue the state of Arizona. It seems we rank right up there with Osama bin Laden and British Petroleum as enemies of the state.
So I’m thinking we ought to return the favor.
For a couple of months now, we’ve been the nation’s punching bag as politicians across the country have proclaimed us the spawn of Hitler, given this state’s embrace of Senate Bill 1070. It doesn’t help when Russell Pearce pops up on TV every other day, talking about alien invasions.
Me? I don’t like SB 1070. It opens the door to profiling and even if it didn’t, it just seems silly for the cops to be chasing around town busting landscapers while heavily-armed drug smugglers march through our deserts and into our neighborhoods. But I understand the frustration that led a majority of this state’s residents to look to people like Pearce for answers, because the feds seem far, far away from Arizona – both in mileage and mindset.
These days, even Janet Napolitano – who just two years ago was asking her precedessor over in Homeland Security
to leave National Guard troops at the border – is repeating the new mantra that the border is more secure than it’s ever been. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Land Management is posting signs in the Sonoran Desert National Monument about 80 miles south of Phoenix, warning visitors about drug and human traffickers passing through the area.
I remember the good old days when then-Gov. Napolitano was sending bills to the Justice Department asking to be reimbursed for the hundreds of millions of dollars Arizonans pay to house illegal immigrants who are in our prisons because the feds aren’t doing their job.
“Arizonans already pay a high price for illegal immigration,” she wrote in a 2005 letter accompanying an invoice. “I’m demanding that the federal government live up to its obligations and stop pushing the burden onto the taxpayers of Arizona.”
I don’t think she ever got much response out of the Bush administration and Team Obama doesn’t seem any more inclined to pay its bills. In fact, Obama last year recommended eliminating funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which is intended to reimburse states for their costs associated with jailing illegal immigrants. In the end, Congress defied him and allocated $300 million to the program.
In Arizona, 6,100 of the state’s 41,000 prison inmates are here illegally, according to Tasya Peterson, a spokesman for Brewer.
The last time the feds kicked in to help, she said, was in 2008. According to figures provided by the state, it cost Arizona $120.4 million to incarcerate illegal immigrants that year, not counting the expense of arrest and prosecution. The feds picked up about 10 percent of the tab: $12.8 million, leaving Arizona taxpayers to shoulder the rest of a burden that exists because the federal government can’t – or won’t — do its job.
Brewer last week informed Obama that we are now shelling out $150 million a year to incarcerate illegal immigrants.
Instead of our own government suing us this week – what, five lawsuits over SB 1070 isn’t enough? — perhaps the Justice Department might like to conserve its resources and pay its bills which, in Arizona, are long, long past due.
According to Brewer’s office, the feds now owe us $750 million to cover prison costs dating as far back as 2003.
Who knows? Maybe Obama’s staffers will be bringing a pile of gold today when they meet with Brewer, to satisfy their debt. If not, were I governor I might be inclined to toss in one more gift for Obama’s staffers to deliver to the White House … a summons.
Maybe it’s time for us to file a lawsuit of our own.http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LaurieRoberts/87766
The way this admin. has handled this whole problem leads me to believe Obama did indeed tell Senator Kyl he wasnt going to enforce the border because it would hurt support of immigration reform (read:amnesty).
I’d like to add a lawsuit for negligence. Its the gov’s job to protect states from invasion, reconquista, whatever you want to call it, not sue them when they ask for help.
AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine makes a passionate address about the desperate situation of First Nations communities to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, May 15, 2007. Fontaine talks about the Conservative government reneging on the Kelowna Accord; 1100 outstanding land claims, and the attempts First Nations people have made to work with the Canadian government to resolve land claims and other issues. “How can we make this right for Canada? What can we do together to create the kind of country that we all deserve to live in?… Our people will simply no longer be put off… or dismissed as second-class citizens or an afterthought…. Canadians, we know, want these issues resolved fairly and justly.”
“What did we do? What wrong did we do to Canadians? What harm did we inflict on people? What do they expect from us?… We’ve tried every approach, we’ve tried to do better, not just for First Nations people but for all Canadians.” (Part 3 of 4.)
Part 1: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3KsWu9q1M
Part 2: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz4fGnRSLSs
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIiPgWiKKU
Duration : 0:9:55
by manipulating Gov. funds?
http://american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man
This article is long & written in a verbally difficult way for most people to grasp, so I summarized main ideas here:
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Title IX has been effective in promoting women’s participation in sports, it has also caused serious damage, in part because it has led to the adoption of a quota system. Over the years, judges, Department of Education officials, and college administrators have interpreted Title IX to mean that women are entitled to “statistical proportionality.” That is to say, if a college’s student body is 60 percent female, then 60 percent of the athletes should be female.
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To avoid government harassment, loss of funding, and lawsuits, they have simply eliminated men’s teams.
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That kind of calibration could devastate academic science.
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But unfortunately, in her enthusiasm for Title IX, Rolison is not alone.
On October 17, 2007, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology convened to learn why women are “underrepresented” in academic professorships of science and engineering and to consider what the federal government should do about it.
Brian Baird, the Washington-state Democrat who chairs the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, looked at the witnesses and the crowd of more than 100 highly appreciative activists from groups like the American Association of University Women and the National Women’s LawCenter and asked, “What kind of hammer should we use?”
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For the five male, gray-haired congressmen, the hearing was a happy occasion—an opportunity to be chivalrous and witty before an audience of concerned women, and to demonstrate their goodwill and eagerness to set things right. It was also a historic occasion…..
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In 2006 the committee released a report, “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering,” that claimed to find “pervasive unexamined gender bias.” It received lavish media attention and has become the standard reference work for the “STEM” gender-equity movement (the acronym stands for science, technology, engineering, and math).
At the hearing, Shalala warned that strong measures would be needed to improve the “hostile climate” women face in the academy. This “crisis,” as she called it, “clearly calls for a transformation of academic institutions….Our nation’s future depends on it.”
Shalala and other speakers called for rigorous application of Title IX and other punitive measures. Witness Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stressed the need to threaten obstinate faculties with loss of funding: “People listen to money…. Make the people listen to the money talk!”
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“We don’t accept biology as destiny…. We vaccinate, we inoculate, we medicate…. I propose we adopt the same attitude toward biological sex differences.” Said feminist Virginia Valian. In other words, the ubiquitous female propensity to nurture should be treated as a kind of disorder or disease
In 2001, the NSF awarded Valian and her Hunter colleagues $3.9 MILLION to develop equity programs and workshops for the “scientific community at large.” Should Congress pass the Gender Bias Elimination Act, which mandates workshops for university department chairs, members of review panels, and agency program officers seeking federal funding, Valian will become one of the most prominent women in American scientific education.
The NSF has an annual budget of $5.9 BILLION devoted to “promoting the progress of science” and “securing the national defense.” It is not easy to understand how its ADVANCE program or its deep association with Virginia Valian is serving those goals
[ In short Gov. Research fund now being split in 51/49 along the gender line rather than merit. PLUS, numerous funds for women researchers where men researchers would not get.
Few academic scientists know anything about the equity crusade. Most have no idea of its power, its scope, and the threats that they may soon be facing. The business commu nity and citizens at large are completely in the dark. This is a quiet revolution. Its weapons are government reports that are rarely seen; amendments to federal bills that almost no one reads; small, unnoticed, but dramatically con sequential changes in the regulations regarding government grants; and congressional hearings attended mostly by true believers.
American scientific excellence is a precious national resource. It is the foundation of our economy and of the nation’s health and safety. Norman Augustine, retired CEO of Lockheed Martin, and Burton Richter, Nobel laureate in physics, once pointed out that MIT alone—its faculty, alumni, and staff—started more than 5,000 companies in the past 50 years
I don’t feel "entitled". I am where I am through studying hard, missing out on much of a social life for 6 years, and from working 60+ hours a week at my job. I’ve never participated in any pro-woman scholarship or entitlement, that I know of anyway. When I started in my engineering classes, I was the only woman there. There were tests and prerequisites to get into it, and many people, many of them women, were turned away.
I think that women have been held back throughout history, but I don’t think that giving us preference is the way to go. I like to know that I’ve accomplished what I’ve done without any special treatment.
North Carolina, one of 16 state finalists in Phase 1 of Race to the Top, made a presentation on its application to peer reviewers on March 16-17, 2010.
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