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No one can predict the future paths of those in Guantanamo, but one can be assured that the continued imprisonment of those cleared for release from Guantanamo is disastrous for the individual and for the United States.
By Ann Wright
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May 21, 2013I’m in Northern Ireland and yesterday on May 20, 2013, I spoke with several members of the Northern Ireland Parliament. With over 100 prisoners in Guantanamo on a 100 day hunger strike, the Obama administration would be wise to talk to some of them too–about the importance and legacy of hungerstrikes.
In 1981, Pat Sheehan was one of the Maze Prison hunger strikers-a hunger strike that brought huge international attention to the Northern Ireland “Troubles,” with the goal of forcing the British government to treat those imprisoned as political prisoners, not criminals. Hunger strikers demanded the right to wear civilian clothes, the right to education and recreational opportunities, freedom from work obligations, and a set of other benefits not afforded to other inmates.Pat was on the hunger strike for 55 days and still alive when the hunger strike was called off by the prisoners.
Bobby Sands became the most famous of the 10 who died during the hunger strikes when he was elected to Parliament while on the hunger strike-Francis Hughes, Raymond McLeish, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee, Michael Devine also died.
After one prisoner died from his lung punctured from a feeding tube through the throat, the British ended force feeding those on hunger strikes. The British government eventually granted most of the hunger strikers’ demands. Public opinion changed dramatically in favor of those imprisoned and on the hunger strike.
Now Pat Sheehan is a member of the Northern Ireland Parliament. The Good Friday Peace Accord brokered by the Clinton administration brought to a close, a violent chapter in British and Northern Ireland relationships. The Peace Accord allowed former political prisoners to become part of the political process.
One never knows the future of those who have been imprisoned for political crimes–after peace talks, many may become political leaders, like Gerry Adams and Pat Sheehan. No one can predict the future paths of those in Guantanamo, but one can be assured that the continued imprisonment of those cleared for release from Guantanamo is disastrous for the individual and for the United States.
President Obama would be wise to call former hunger striker and now Northern Ireland Parliamentarian Pat Sheehan!
About the Author: Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army/Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel. She also worked as a US diplomat for 16 years and served in US Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the US government in 2003 in opposition to President Bush’s war on Iraq. In 2006, she was on a delegation to Guantanamo, Cuba to challenge the US prison at Guantanamo.
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National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30 p.m. March 31, 2010
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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 21: Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman is sworn in prior to testifying before the Senate Finance Committee May 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony on the topic of on ‘A Review of Criteria Used by the IRS to Identify 501(c)(4) Applications for Greater Scrutiny.’
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)By Avalon
Intellihub.com
May 21, 2013Jeffrey Lord from American Spectator posted critical information in the IRS Scandal.
According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30 p.m. that Wednesday noon time of March 31st. The White House lists the IRS union leader’s visit this way:
‘Kelley, Colleen POTUS 03/31/2010 12:30′
In White House language, ‘POTUS’ stands for ‘President of the United States.’ The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America.
The IG report wrote it up this way:
‘April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit, suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.’
In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS ‘Determinations Unit Program agreed’ to open a ‘Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.’ As stated by the IG report.
Source: Report: IRS union chief visited White House the day before tea party targeting began
Now, with Lois Lerner, the director of the exempt organizations unit about to testify, she has stated that she:
… plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment during her expected testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Lerner announced her plans to plead the Fifth during her testimony in a letter from her lawyer, William Taylor III, to the committee. “She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” the letter addressed to Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) reads, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Since she will be pleading the Fifth, Taylor has asked the committee that she be excused from testifying. The letter from Taylor states that her testimony would “have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.”
Source: Lois Lerner, IRS Scandal Figure, Will Invoke Fifth Amendment At Oversight Hearing
One has to wonder if the IRS actions to target Tea Party Groups was at the direction of the President. The article by Jeffrey Lord of American Spectator is particularly damning and includes critical information from various sources that ties everything together.
In other words, the IRS union chief went to the White House to meet personally with the president on March 31. The union already had Executive Order 13522 behind it, issued by the President barely three months earlier. An Executive Order directing that the IRS must “allow employees and unions to have pre-decisional involvement in all workplace matters….”.
The very next day after that March 31 meeting at the White House, the IRS, with the union involved in its decision-making, was setting up its “Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party.”
Which raises the famous question from Watergate: What did the President know and when did he know it?
Source — Research
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?
Report: IRS union chief visited White House the day before tea party targeting began
Lois Lerner, IRS Scandal Figure, Will Invoke Fifth Amendment At Oversight Hearing
White House chief of staff knew of IRS report before its release
According to U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Douglas Shulman was the acting commissioner of the IRS during the time when non-profit 501(c)(4) groups, specifically conservative and republican leaning groups, were “improperly” targeted for increased scrutiny according to the name of the non-profit organization and according to the political positions of the organization.[9] In a congressional hearing held on May 21st, 2013,
Douglas Shulman denied responsibility for the policy, stating that he found out about the use of inappropriate criteria from Steven T. Miller.
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Editor’s note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering:“Honey,” said this husband to his wife, “I invited a friend home for supper.”
“What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, I didn’t go shopping, all the dishes are dirty, and I don’t feel like cooking a fancy meal!”
“I know all that.”
“Then why did you invite a friend for supper?”
“Because the poor sap’s thinking about getting married.”
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
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Wexler’s prescient work between 1958 and 1962 “On the Possibilities of Climate Control” reminds us that we are not the first generation to be involved with or concerned about geoengineering.
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Geoengineering Exposed
May 21, 2013“The subject of weather and climate control is now becoming respectable to talk about.” So began Harry Wexler in his speech “On the Possibilities of Climate Control,” given in early 1962 to technical audiences in Boston, Hartford, and Los Angeles.[i]
Wexler, who studied meteorology at MIT and served as Chief of Scientific Services at the US Weather Bureau, supported his claim by citing, among others, President John F. Kennedy’s recent speech at the United Nations proposing, “cooperative efforts between all nations in weather prediction and eventually in weather control” and the State Department’s urging of “early and comprehensive study in the light of developments in outer space of the possibility of large-scale weather modification.”[ii]
Wexler assured his audiences that he was concerned not with the long and checkered history of cloud modification leading to more-or-less localized precipitation influences, but with planetary-scale manipulation of the Earth’s shortwave and longwave radiation budget that would result in “rather large-scale effects on general circulation patterns in short or longer periods, even approaching that of climatic change.”[iii]
These effects, details later, included increasing world temperature by several degrees by detonating up to ten H-bombs in the Arctic Ocean; decreasing world temperature by launching powder into an equatorial orbit to shade the Earth and make it look somewhat like Saturn and its rings; and notably, destroying all stratospheric ozone above the Arctic circle using a relatively small amount of a catalytic agent such as chlorine or bromine.
Wexler was interested in both inadvertent climate modification, such as might be created by rocket exhaust gases or other pollution, and purposeful effects, whether peaceful or hostile.
So remember it was Wexler, about 50 years ago, who first claimed climate control was “respectable.”[iv] The stratospheric ozone story is also very significant, given that the received history of ozone depletion dates only to the 1970s and certainly does not include Wexler’s role.
Recently, I have been in correspondence with three notable ozone scientists about Wexler’s early work: Nobel Laureates Sherwood Rowland, Paul Crutzen, and National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Cicerone. They are uniformly interested and quite amazed by this story.
Let me speak first about Wexler’s credibility. Harry Wexler (1911-1962) was one of the most influential meteorologists of the mid-twentieth century. He was a graduate of Harvard and MIT, a student of C.G. Rossby (slide 2) a proponent of air mass and frontal analysis (slide 3), and Chief of the Scientific Services Division of the U.S. Weather Bureau during an era that saw the introduction of regular radiosonde ascents (slide 4), weather radar (slide 5), atmospheric atomic testing and global fallout tracing (slide 6), scientific sounding rockets (slide 7), and both NWP and GCMs (slide 8) Here is Wexler with Von Neumann, Charney, and others associated with the Institute for Advanced Study meteorology program at Princeton.
Wexler was a pioneer in satellite meteorology (slide 9). He was in charge of the TIROS program and helped Verner Suomi fly his first heat budget experiment on Explorer 7.
Wexler was head of US Antarctic programs for the International Geophysical Year (slide 10), established the Mauna Loa Observatory and supported Dave Keeling’s measurements of CO2 (slide 11), wrote on peaceful use of satellites and weather control for JFK (slides 12, 13), and planned the World Weather Watch (slide 14) which became a reality in 1963, the year after his sudden death at the age of 51. Wexler was clearly on top of his science, a leader in new techniques and technologies, and a respected international figure.
Wexler on the possibilities of ozone depletion and climate control In his 1962 speeches on climate control,[v] Wexler discussed increasing pollution both from industry and from the use of sounding rockets, and recent developments in science, including computing and satellites, that led him to believe that manipulating and controlling large-scale phenomena in the atmosphere were distinct possibilities.
Wexler mentioned rising carbon dioxide emissions as an example and cited a 1961 study by the Geophysics Corporation of America on modification of the Earth’s upper atmosphere by rockets (slide 15).
At the birth of modern computing in 1945, Dr. V.K. Zworykin, then at the RCA Laboratories in Princeton imagined a perfectly accurate machine that would predict the immediate future state of the atmosphere and identify the precise time and location of leverage points or sensitive conditions so that a paramilitary rapid deployment force might be sent out into the field to intervene in the weather as it happens—literally to pour oil on troubled ocean waters or even set fires or detonate bombs to disrupt storms before they formed, deflect them from populated areas, and otherwise control the weather.
According to Zworykin:
The eventual goal to be attained is the international organization of means to study weather phenomena as global phenomena and to channel the world’s weather, as far as possible, in such a way as to minimize the damage from catastrophic disturbances, and otherwise to benefit the world to the greatest extent by improved climatic conditions where possible.
John von Neumann, the multi-talented mathematician extraordinaire at the Institute for Advanced Study agreed, writing, “All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.” The noted oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, then a U.S. Army major, wrote to Zworykin, “In weather control, meteorology has a new goal worthy of its greatest efforts.”
All this was cited by Wexler in his speech.
While acknowledging growing technical prowess and scientific capabilities, including 100 MT bombs and earth-orbiting satellites, Wexler noted “a growing anxiety” in the public pronouncements that “Man, in applying his growing energies and facilities against the power of the winds and storms, may do so with more enthusiasm than knowledge and so cause more harm than good.”[vi]
Wexler did not intend to cover all possibilities “but just a few… limited primarily to interferences with the Earth’s radiative balance on a rather large scale [original emphasis]…. I shall discuss in a purely hypothetical framework those atmospheric influences that man might attempt deliberately to exert and also those which he may now be performing or will soon be performing, perhaps in ignorance of its consequences. We are in weather control now whether we know it or not.”
“We have for decades been releasing huge quantities of carbon dioxide and other gases and particles to the lower atmosphere. It is recognized that this atmospheric pollution may have serious effect not only on health but on global radiation or heat balance which is the cause of our present pattern of climate and weather.”[vii]
Then Wexler showed some 20 technical slides of the atmosphere’s radiative heat budget and discussed means of manipulating it. He concluded with this figure (slide 16) a grand summary of various techniques. The table lists a means of (a) increasing global temperature by 1.7 C by injecting a cloud of ice crystals into the polar atmosphere by detonating 10 H-bombs in the Arctic Ocean—the subject of his 1958 article in Science magazine; [viii] (b) lowering global temperature by 1.2 C by launching a ring of dust particles into equatorial orbit, a modification of an earlier Russian proposal to warm the Arctic, and (c) destroying all stratospheric ozone, raising the tropopause, and cooling the stratosphere by up to 80 oC by an injection of a catalytic agent such as Chlorine or Bromine.
The revisions in pencil show his newly lowered estimates of the amounts of material required. For example, that 0.1 MT of bromine would destroy all ozone in Polar regions and 0.4 MT would be needed near the equator.
Wexler was concerned (slide 17) that inadvertent damage to the ozone layer might occur if increased rocket exhaust polluted the stratosphere. He was also concerned that future near-space experiments could go awry, citing Operation Argus (nuclear blasts in near space, 1958), Project West Ford (a ring of small copper dipole antennas in orbit, 1961), and Project Highwater (ice crystals injected into the ionosphere, 1962) as recent significant interventions with unknown risks.
Purposeful damage was also not out of the question. In 1934 the noted geophysicist Sydney Chapman had proposed making a temporary “hole in the ozone layer” using a yet-to-be-identified catalytic “deozonizer.” According to Chapman, a small hole cut at a remote location might enable astronomers to make observations at ultra-violet wavelengths where radiation was otherwise absorbed by ozone.
Much more sinister and relevant to the Cold War was possible military interest in waging geophysical warfare by attacking the ozone layer over a rival nation. Seeking advice on how to cut a “hole” in the ozone layer, Wexler turned to chemist Oliver Wulf at Caltech who suggested that chlorine or bromine atoms might act in a catalytic cycle with atomic oxygen to destroy thousands of ozone molecules.
In a hand-written note composed in January 1962 Wexler scrawled the following (slide 18): “UV decomposes O3 –> O in presence of halogen like Br. O –> O2 recombines and so prevents more O3 from forming; and (slide 19) “Br2 –> 2 Br in sunlight destroys O3 –> O2 + BrO.” These are essentially the basis of the modern ozone depleting chemical reactions. Here (slide 20) is Wexler’s computation, using Manabe and Möller’s model of an 80 oC stratospheric cooling with no ozone layer.
Wexler concluded that he was not making proposals to intervene, but was involved in studying the basic equations and engineering aspects of general circulation research, including the natural behavior of the atmosphere, unintentional effects, and aspects of particular interest to the DoD. A final example of documentation in the archives—a sort of ozone depletion Rosetta stone—is Wexler’s rough note of 1962 that links Chapman 1934, Wulf, rocket fuel and ozone destroying reactions triggered by chorine and bromine as catalysts (slide 21). Under normal circumstances, Wexler would have prepared his lecture for publication, but he was cut down by a sudden heart attack in August 1962.
The documents relating to his career, especially his remarkable work on ozone depletion and climate control headed into the archives, probably not to be seen and certainly not to be re-evaluated until today. The well-known and well-documented Supersonic Transport (SST) and ozone depletion issues developed about a decade later. The idea that bromine and other halogens could destroy stratospheric ozone was published in 1974, while CFC production expanded rapidly and dramatically between 1962 and its peak in 1974.
Had Wexler lived to publish his ideas, they would certainly have been noticed and could have led to a different outcome and perhaps an earlier coordinated response to the issue of stratospheric ozone depletion. And the issue of a technological fix for climate change—geoengineering—remains very much alive today. Conclusion It is clear that Harry Wexler was well-qualified to speak authoritatively about the otherwise “nebulous” subjects of climate, climate change, and climate control.
He was on all the scientific panels and advisory boards, had access to and helped collect global climate data, understood the theoretical issues and their complexity, and promoted and advanced the latest technologies, most relevantly general circulation modeling and satellite heat budget measurements. He warned then, and we might wisely conclude today, that (slide 22): “[Climate control] can best be classified as ‘interesting hypothetical exercises’ until the consequences of tampering with large scale atmospheric events can be assessed in advance.
Most such schemes that have been advanced would require colossal engineering feats and contain the inherent risk of irremediable harm to our planet or side effects counterbalancing the possible short-term benefits.”[ix] Wexler’s prescient work between 1958 and 1962 “On the Possibilities of Climate Control” reminds us that we are not the first generation to be involved with or concerned about geoengineering.
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Whenever you walk into a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant, the first thing you’ll run into is their “Made in USA” display of all American-made products. And when I say it’s the first thing you’ll “run into” I mean that literally, because once you pass through the entrance doors, if you keep going straight, you will actually run right into this display of all American-made products.
Part of the motivation behind Cracker Barrel’s decision to have a made-in-USA-only section in its Old Country Store was because consumers and patrons kept “running into” souvenirs, gifts, trinkets, keepsakes, and knick-knacks made in other countries, and they made sure the management knew they were unhappy about it.
Among the store managers I talked to, the consensus was that the company simply felt it just wasn’t right to offer so many products with the American flag, or other American symbols on them, that weren’t made in America. And I’m pretty sure that most conscientious and concerned Americans would agree. I know that I do!
Browsing through the patriotic-theme products of Cracker Barrel’s Old Country Store, patriotic Americans can’t help but get the feeling they’ve walking into the right place. And if they’re Americans who express their patriotism through their consumer purchases, Americans who like to vote with their wallets, checkbooks and credit cards everyday not just on Election Day, then Cracker Barrel’s Old Country Store really is a dream come true.
Among the terrific variety of patriotic-theme products Cracker Barrel carries in their “Made in USA” section, you’ll find:
- United We Stand and USA baseball caps
- USA polo shirts in various color designs with patriotic design collars
- Ladies summer dress in patriotic colors (one of their best sellers, I’m told)
- Land of the Free, Home of the Brave t-shirt
- Rocking chair cushion set
- 100 percent cotton Patriotic Flag Kit
- USA Flag pin and U.S. Angel pin (yes, you can buy American flag pins made in the USA)
- Made in America aprons and kitchen towels
- United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence scrolls
- American Pride and Freedom is Not Free, But Worth Fighting For coffee mugs
- Americana candles by Woodwick
- Lodge Logic cast iron pans
- Patriotic wall hangings
- Red, White, and Blue Charms Blow Pops (and other candies)
- Slinky Spinwheels (I just put two of these in my front garden!)
- U.S. Constitution and United States jigsaw puzzles
- Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops (book) and 100 American Flags (book)
- The U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence (booklet)
- Made in America jewelry (my wife just loves her new patriotic earrings from Cracker Barrel!)
You can also shop online at www.crackerbarrel.com, where the American-made items in the Patriotic Collection part of the online store are noted by clicking the Details tab when the product you are interested in is displayed.
If you’re sitting on their front porch, relaxing while rocking in the Official Military Rockers that line the restaurant’s gracious porch, you’ll notice that even they are made in USA (other rocking chairs on the porch are assembled in USA, which means they can contain parts that are not from domestic sources).
In many ways, Cracker Barrel’s business really is synonymous with tried-and-true American values. Whether it’s treating people fairly, with dignity and mutual respect, encouraging those with the drive and talent to succeed, or giving people a fair deal at a fair price, sticking to values like these has rewarded the company with the praise and loyalty of guests. Not only do they crave their home-style cooking while dining out close to home, or traveling throughout America, they also appreciate knowing that when they stop in at one of Cracker Barrel’s 600 restaurants, the experience will be, without a doubt, a positive one.
The folks at Cracker Barrel also believe that they have an obligation to operate in a culture of mutual respect in the communities where they do business. Through their Cracker Barrel Foundation, they provide support for specific community relations efforts, like their in-school Rockin’ Reader® program, Employee Resource Groups, and employee diversity education programs.
And of course, their values are now reflected in the products they offer from truly American vendors. These vendors are pleased to have the opportunity to offer their American-made products in Cracker Barrel’s Old Country Store. If you’re a Buy American advocate, one form of mutual respect is surely worth noting: an all-American business – Cracker Barrel, selling American-made products to support other American businesses, which helps to keep Americans employed and the engine of our national prosperity churning.
This kind of reciprocal and mutual relationship is one thing that’s great about the way America is moving today, because it benefits all Americans, it’s keeping jobs, taxes, and profits within our national borders, and it’s what’s helping us continue to build a strong and proud nation.
- Signs in the sun, moon and stars by admin
Economist, columnist, radio host and international conference speaker Jerry Robinson uses his “Follow the Money Weekly” program this week to interview Pastor Mark Biltz from El Shaddai Ministries in Washington state.
Biltz has been researching the Hebrew roots of Christianity for several years and has stumbled across an amazing discovery. According to the NASA website, four total lunar eclipses are scheduled to occur on the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles and on Passover in 2014 and 2015.
He explains similar events occurred in 1492, when Catholic Spain expelled the Jews, in 1948 when the nation of Israel was established and in 1967 when the Six-Day War happened and the Jewish nation regained control of Jerusalem.
According to Biltz, the four back-to-back lunar eclipses occurring on Jewish Feast Days in 2014-2015 signify important events for the nation of Israel – and even the global economy.
Also on this week’s program, Robinson addresses the comments from some economists who now are saying that the U.S. is facing disinflation – a general decrease in the existing inflation rate.
He dissects the week’s important economic and financial news including the latest PPI and CPI figures for April.
And he explains why disinflation is important and how investors should be preparing for the Federal Reserve’s eventual exit strategy from its massive quantitative easing program.
Robinson also talks about the seven favorite stocks for the next 30 days, five major trends on which to claim a profit this decade and what technical analysis is needed for active stock trading.
Tom Cloud then joins the program to discuss the economy, including the gold and silver markets, following gold’s decline by 7 percent in just the past few weeks.
Then Jay Peroni, CFP, joins the podcast with this week’s investing idea.
Podcast is 1:18:48.
Previous podcasts:
‘This isn’t your grandfather’s economy’
Gold dropping? Why not to worry
What’s to love about gold, silver prices
Let the printing presses roll!
New challenge rattles economy’s foundation
Big Brother looking at your bank account
Currency war pushes stocks to new realms
Entitlement liabilities? Try $120 trillion
Paycheck to paycheck, and what to do about it
Germans want gold reserves returned
‘The unbelievably bogus debt ceiling debate’
Is America on the eve of a civil war?
Again? Feds printing and spending more
Why you should care about petrodollar system
The real story about the fiscal cliff
Last hurrah from a state statesman
Housing starts up, prices grow, and that’s bad?
Stock-market rally ‘flashing warning signs’
Staying afloat through global monetary flood
How to cope when the government prints money
Future of the dollar and fate of the euro
Welcome to time of unlimited currency printing
Lies, propaganda and the 2012 vote
Demise of the American war machine
16 trillion reasons why American is bankrupt
The Word from the European central bank
Learn more about Jerry Robinson’s “Follow the Money Quarterly” newsletter.
“Bankruptcy of Our Nation: 12 Key Strategies For Protecting Your Finances In These Uncertain Times.”
Jerry Robinson is an economist, published author, columnist, radio talk show host, and international conference speaker. Robinson has been quoted as an economic authority by USA Today, FoxNews and many other news agencies. His columns have appeared regularly in numerous print and web publications, including WND. In addition, Robinson is also the editor-in-chief of the popular economic newsletter, “Follow the Money Quarterly.”
- Senate panel OKs immigration bill by admin
(THE HILL) The Senate Judiciary Committee voted with a strong bipartisan majority Tuesday evening to advance comprehensive immigration legislation that would put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
The legislation raises caps on high-skilled workers and creates a new visa program for low-skilled workers.
It would allocate billions of dollars to securing the Southwestern border and tracking visas at airports and seaports around the country. It would make E-Verify mandatory for employers across the country to crack down on illegal workers and deter future waves of illegal immigration.
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