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RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND
May 7, 2008 | 6:48 PM PST
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John Boehner - House Republican Leader
Washington, May 6 - Democrats are prepared to bring to the House floor legislation purportedly written to assist Americans impacted by the recent housing slump. But in recent days, it has become increasingly clear who this legislation is really out to serve: scam artists, speculators, and trial lawyers.
That’s right: the bill forces taxpayers to pay for a massive $300 billion bailout at the expense of innocent victims who truly need assistance and hard-working families who continue to pay their mortgage on time. And it includes language slipped-in by House Democrats at the last minute to fund a giant $35 million slush fund for trial lawyers seeking to capitalize on the housing downturn.
But the goodies for the friends of the Democratic Majority don’t stop there. House Democrats quietly tucked another giveaway into the long, complicated bill in order to benefit their political allies with virtually no prior public scrutiny or debate. Take a look at this political giveaway – “Assistance for the Raza Development Fund” – straight from the text of the bill:
(c) ASSISTANCE FOR RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND.—
(1) USE.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may make a grant to the Raza Development Fund for the purpose of providing technical and financial assistance to local non-profit organizations to undertake community development and affordable housing projects and programs serving low- and moderate-income households, particularly through organizations located in neighborhoods with substantial populations of income-disadvantaged households of Hispanic origin. Assistance provided by the Secretary under this subsection may be used by the Raza Development Fund…
(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this subsection—
(A) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
(B) $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
In short, House Democrats are expecting American taxpayers to shell out $25 million to the Raza Development Fund – an arm of the National Council of La Raza and Democratic political ally that has made its name by promoting pro-illegal immigration policies and opposing real border security.
American families are struggling with rising costs for everything from gasoline to food to mortgages. Times like these require Congress to work in a bipartisan way on behalf of the American people. But instead, this Democratic Majority has produced a bill that rewards scam artists, speculators, trial lawyers, and political allies like La Raza…all at the expense of taxpayers and homeowners who really need help. Sadly, it’s yet more example of what American taxpayers have come to expect from a broken Washington under the leadership of House Democrats.
Racist Reps.
Apr 30, 2008 | 7:52 AM PST
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Political
Illinois State Rep. Luis Arroyo Says Minutemen Shoot People At The BorderPosted by: Pro-Illegal Groups
Illinois Review
Listen to Exhibit A — Download HB2747committeehearing.wmv — and the time of question and answer between State Rep. Luis Arroyo, House Executive Committee Chairman Daniel Burke and concerned citizens Rosanna Pulido (right) and Rick Jones, volunteer representative of the Chicago Minutemen Project.
Rep. Arroyo accuses the Minutemen of “stopping illegal people at the border and shoot[ing] them” then and goes on to demean Ms. Pulido, insinuating she is a traitor to her Mexican heritage for questioning HB 2747. In its original language, HB 2747 would have expanded the amount of time illegal detainees would have with spiritual counsel (pastors and/or lay people) from two hours a month to an unlimited number of visits.
Ms. Pulido and Mr. Jones expressed the unfairness of such provisions for illegal aliens who had committed a felony and were awaiting deportation. Their concerns are valid, so much so that adjustments have been made to the bill since this hearing. HB 2747 passed committee that day with an 8 to 3 vote. Those opposing the bill in committee were Rep. Bob Biggins, Rep. Dan Brady and Rep. Jim Meyers, all Republicans.
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Luis Arroyo
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Communist Mothers!
Apr 30, 2008 | 7:48 AM PST
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Political
Elvira Continues To Abuse Her Son
WRADIO
Chicago, April 28, 2008.- “I want to be a normal boy, but I can’t said Saull, son of the undocumented Mexican Elvira Arellano, who now has been added to the fight to fight for the migrant Mexicans in the United States.
The boy of nine years of age arrived on Saturday to Chicago to participate in the events organized by the movement for immigrants, including the massive march on May 1st.
Saúl came in representation of his mother, who hid last year in a church to elude an order of deportation, until she was placed under arrest last August and deported to Tijuana.
This Monday, the child participated in a press conference with other children that integrate a campaign against the separation of families by deportations, in which he barely gave some words.
A day before been present in a religious service carried out in the Adalberto Methodist church, where he found refuge with his mother.
Saúl was quiet and evasive, and under the insistence of some in the mass media he expressed: “I want to be a normal boy, but I can’t”.
The small one, who was born and went to to the third grade in the United States, has already changed from English to Spanish as his main tongue.
That is why he resorted to Ema Lozano, his godmother and leader of the Central group Without Borders, so she can translate his words and respond to a question that a reporter in English gave him.
“He said that he should be a free boy, and not a boy that has to fight continuously to defend his mother,” stated Lozano.
Saúl recognized that it causes him to be a little nervous to participate in a massive protest as the one that is prepared for Thursday May 1 in this city.
In the scarce statements that he did, he affirmed that he felt happy to live in Mexico in complete liberty and next to his mother, as it has been for more than eight months.
More ICE Raids Please!!!
Apr 29, 2008 | 10:15 PM PST
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Political
IDENTITY CRISIS
Companies in fear of crackdown on illegals.
Fear is spreading among many L.A. companies as the federal government steps up its enforcement of immigration rules, raiding workplaces and issuing audit notices that require businesses to prove their employees are legal.
Companies in industries with high numbers of undocumented workers are re-interviewing workers, firing those who can’t produce adequate documentation and even considering importing workers from other states – all in an effort to head off enforcement actions that can close down a business.
“You look at the apparel, restaurant, construction and agriculture industries, and there’s definitely more fear among employers now,” said Josie Gonzalez, partner at Pasadena-based immigration law firm Gonzalez & Harris LLP and chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s worksite enforcement committee. . .
See the video of CEO Dov Charney in his underwear running around the plant
Jimmy Carter visits Hamas.
Apr 12, 2008 | 11:03 AM PST
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Political
Olmert Tells Carter to Take a Hike
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:29:37 am PST
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has refused to meet with Jimmy Carter.
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has turned down a request from former American president Jimmy Carter for a meeting during his visit to Israel next week. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni both said that their schedules will not allow a meeting, but an anonymous Israeli official told the Washington Times, “You draw your own conclusions.”
Is he rude or what?
Sierra Club Sellout Worse Than Ever
By Brenda Walker
[The Story So Far: VDARE.COM Democratic caucus member Brenda Walker observed the Sierra Club’s drift from genuine environmentalism from the inside, as a member starting in 1984. In the late 1990s, she became involved with a reform group, known initially as Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization (SUSPS). For her concern, particularly her tough reports in VDARE.com, she was castigated as an evil outsider and threatened with a Stalinesque expulsion from the organization. Though she recently re-registered as a Republican, in order to vote for patriotic immigration reformer Duncan Hunter in the California Presidential primary, she assures Sierra Club Central that she is still the same tree-hugging defender of borders as ever. NOW READ ON!]
The top organization allegedly protecting America’s magnificent natural heritage and vital resources does nothing of the kind.
The Sierra Club has evolved from being a nonpartisan defender of US land, water and wildlife to being left-wing globalists in plaid shirts and hiking boots, crippled by a failed ideology of progressive utopianism and a leadership increasingly corrupted by money and power.
That's bad news for our planetary home, which needs all the help it can get right now. Even if you discount the idea of climate change, the problems of pollution and resource overuse are becoming extreme.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is particularly repellant. It’s a noxious floating stew of mostly plastic trash that has accumulated somewhere between California and Hawaii, is twice the size of Texas and weighs 3.5 million tons. There's so much that cleaning it up "isn't an option"
Improved technology has spawned a level of environmental destruction unimaginable just a few decades ago. Thus factory fishing has caused the collapse of Newfoundland’s Grand Banks off Canada's east coast, once the richest fishing grounds on earth. Now the cod have been wiped out with no sign of when, if ever, they will return.
But Establishment environmental awareness is oddly selective nowadays. There’s hyper-concern with climate change in the media. But there’s almost no attention given to other issues that are more immediate, e.g. the loss of a fishery that was a major food source.
As a result of ignoring the central issue of overpopulation, both global and domestic, the Sierra Club has painted itself into an intellectual corner: It advocates ever-stricter controls on consumption—but increased population growth quickly wipes out any advantage gained by reducing resource consumption.
The Sierra Club favors an expanded nanny state to cope with rapidly expanding population and its effects. But, as author Isaac Asimov remarked, "Democracy cannot survive overpopulation... The more people there are the less one individual matters."
Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope recently bragged on his blog about his recent trip to India, which included dispensing a cash prize—a new annual award of $100,000 to be given to an Indian organization creating green livelihoods. The Sierra Club is developing its own foreign policy. Pope is spreading money around like some Chicago ward politician looking for votes and influence.
That comparison is all too inappropriate. Recent actions from the Sierra Club’s home office show a disturbing uptick in Pope's pursuit of power by suppressing democracy within the organization.
The Sierra Club has a membership of 1.3 million. Most are not engaged in its internal politics. They participate in the organization's many activities, ranging from hikes and local habitat restoration to political action. The Arizona Chapter has people getting active on right-of-way laws, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission, and many extremely boring legislative issues, but nothing at all about the biggest threat to Arizona's environment.
There is a yearly Board election where one-third of the 15 Directors are chosen. It has been a point of pride that the Sierra Club is a rare non-profit organization that has some degree of membership influence—at least on paper.
But even that pretense of democracy is increasingly battered. One sign of things to come occurred in 1999, when Sierra management sought to make referenda more difficult by more than doubling the number of petition signatures required to place an issue before the membership in the annual elections. The effort followed a bitterly fought ballot initiative in 1998 around the idea that immoderate immigration poses an environmental threat to the United States. (But the proposed changes to bylaws that would have lessened democracy went down to defeat.)
Pope and his management cronies have moved to consolidate power in several instances. Even "establishment types were horrified" at Pope's arrogance, according to one plugged-in member.
Project Renewal was launched in February to replace local committees with management-chosen activists who are presumably good at doing what they're told. [PDF]Such a basic restructure of power violates the whole foundation upon which many hard-working volunteers have participated for years. At recent count, 26 chapters had voted against Project Renewal.
Last fall, the Sierra Club joined with Pacific Gas and Electric (which supplies power to much of northern California) to distribute compact fluorescent light bulbs. P, G, and E's motive was to look good to California regulators, who will pay it a bonus if it cuts consumer energy consumption. [Utilities Amp Up Push To Slash Energy Use, Wall Street Journal, By Rebecca Smith, January 9, 2008] The bulbs do save energy, but disposing of old ones is environmentally problematic because of their mercury content. Again, the national leadership took this action on its own with no input from local chapters.
The Sierra Club agreed to endorse Clorox's new Green Works cleaning products—for an undisclosed sum. This is the first product endorsement ever in the Club's history.
Executive Director Pope was quoted defended his decision in the New York Times [Clorox Courts Sierra Club, and a Product Is Endorsed , by Felicity Barringer, March 26]:
" ‘I won't pretend it's not internally controversial; it is. But we decided it was more important to try to create this marketplace’ than to keep the peace.
“The major task, he said, was ensuring that the products' ingredients met the Sierra Club's requirements for being called ‘natural’, a term that has no federally approved definition when it comes to cleaning products.”
There is big money for product endorsements in today's green marketplace. In March, the Audubon Society signed a deal with Toyota worth $20 million to "fund conservation projects".
VDARE.com readers know that this latest Sierra money-grubbing episode is not the first. In 2005, I analyzed an LA Times story explaining the reason for Carl Pope's surprisingly shrill response beginning with the 1998 Club election where mass immigration considered by the membership. It said in part:
“[Hedge fund entrepreneur] David Gelbaum insisted that he played no role in the election. He dismissed allegations that he is calling the shots at the club in any other way.
" ‘None of that is true," he said. ‘I'm not some Svengali. I'm not that engaged.’
“But he said Pope long had known where he stood on the contentious issue. ‘I did tell Carl Pope in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they would never get a dollar from me.’
“Gelbaum, who reads the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión and is married to a Mexican American, said his views on immigration were shaped long ago by his grandfather, Abraham, a watchmaker who had come to America to escape persecution of Jews in Ukraine before World War I.
"‘I cannot support an organization that is anti-immigration. It would dishonor the memory of my grandparents.’ " [The Man Behind the Land, By Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times, Oct 27, 2004]
After putting the atavistic anti-American impulses of a wealthy plutocrat above America's environment, the Sierra Club received over $100 million from him. To protect the secret as they pursued more money, Pope and his henchmen accused insurgents of being racists for advocating the same position that had been the Club’s official policy in 1989: "Immigration to the U.S. should be no greater than that which will permit achievement of population stabilization in the U.S."
So the Clorox arrangement had its precedent. What's the big deal about a little product endorsement when Sierra management has already demonstrated it can be bought? Show Carl the money!
The Clorox deal did cause an uproar within the Sierra Club. The controversy was apparently responsible for the scandalous suspension of the entire Florida chapter:
“The biggest environmental group in the US has expelled the leaders of its Florida chapter weeks after the local activists accused the group's directors of selling out in a corporate endorsement deal with a bleach manufacturer
Sierra will receive a portion of the sales from the new Clorox products, called Green Works and made from mostly plant-based ingredients.
“However, Clorox has a history of being hit with environmental violations for its less green products – in December, just before Sierra agreed to its endorsement, the company was fined $95,000 by the US government for donating illegal Chinese pesticides to charity….”[US environmental group expels Florida chapter amid endorsement row, By Elana Schor, Guardian, UK, April 7 2008. ]
Bad luck in timing there. But more importantly, what a tawdry spectacle to see a once-honorable organization selling the good name that took a century to build. And it gets worse:
“In addition, the Sierra executive director sent a letter to activists saying the Green Works cleaners ‘have been vetted by’ the group's Toxics committee, suggesting official approval was given.
“However, Jessica Frohman, who chairs the Toxics committee, said it did not officially sign off on the products. ‘I don't want people to think we approved this when we did not,’ she said.
“After the Floridians' removal, leaders of other state Sierra chapters got a letter from national president Robert Cox [Email him] warning them not to ‘seek public media coverage’ of the fight using the group's name.”
The Scots immigrant John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892 with other friends of wilderness "to make the mountains glad."
Sadly, today's Sierra Club is welcoming foreigners who have no such love of nature, but show their disdain for America and its natural heritage by despoiling the border areas with piles of garbage as they enter illegally from California to Texas.
John Muir would be disgusted by what the Sierra Club has become.
40-hour MURDER MORATORIUM???
Apr 5, 2008 | 9:22 PM PST
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Political
'Murder Moratorium' -- 40 hours of peace
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
By Miriam Hernandez
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Can you ban murder and violence? The Los Angeles City Council is asking L.A. to proclaim a 40-hour period of peace. It coincides with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior. Will this "murder moratorium" really work?
How to slow down the homicide rate, 98 so far this year in Los Angeles alone? Too close to home for young people like Aneeka Hill.
Click in the Eyewitness News story window above to watch the accompanying video to this story.
"I am hurt by it, and I'm mad, I'm upset, I'm angry, I'm scared," said Baldwin Hills resident Aneeka Hill.
The response from community activists and the City Council: a call for a 40-hour period of peace in the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.
"A symbolic moratorium on violence and killing," said L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry.
The proposal instantly raised eyebrows. Councilman Richard Alarcon supports the objective yet asks, would gangbangers even care?
"Those people who normally kill -- if they don't respect the murder laws, why would they respect a moratorium?" asked Alarcon.
The plan calls for a candlelight vigil at MLK Blvd. and Crenshaw Blvd. The moratorium would start at 6:01 p.m., on April 4, the exact time and date of King's assassination in 1968.
"Some have said why 40 hours? If you can do it for 40 hours, no violence, why not 40 days? Why not 40 weeks?" said Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.
Curtailing crime, activists say, begins with dialogue. They recall a time eight years ago: the shooting death of Lori Gonzalez, the granddaughter of then police chief Bernard Parks. Community pressure on the young gunslingers produced a period of calm.
"We are not asking for law enforcement to step up. We are asking for the people of the community -- it's your turn to be responsible," said activist Lita Sister Herron.
Where we asked about the resolution, emotions unleashed.
"You don't give up, you keep trying," said Aneeka Hill. "But for me, I feel like I can't save the world"
"It's just love. If we can get somebody to care about the kids at a young enough age, then we can make a difference. We don't have that right now," said Hawthorne resident Julius Ward.
"Will it stop violence? Of course not. Will it stop killings? Of course not. But if just one life is saved during that period, we feel we've done our job," said Hutchinson.
Is this an effective proposal or an insult to victim's families and taxpaying citizens???
