And that is all.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Floatin' Powa News Service: Who Won?
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Wooden Ships
I can see by your coat, my friend,
you're from the other side,
There's just one thing I got to know,
Can you tell me please, who won?
UN Says School in Gaza Where 43 Died Wasn't Hit by Israeli FireCenter for Strategic and International Studies Sez:
Israel did not violate war laws
The World Sez: KILL THE JEWS!
US Jewish leader sees pandemic of anti-Semitism
Pope to address Jews after bishop denies Holocaust
This I can't wait to hear.
Venezuala's Jews fear more attacks
UN suspends Gaza aid shipments
Because Hamas keeps stealing their shit.
Turkey probes Israel on war crimes in Gaza
Probe this, ya Ottoman freaks.
Abbas Seeks Greater Gaza Role
Naturally!
Ahmadinejad Sez:
Britain Suspends Glow Ballin' Office in Tehran:The British Council, a global cultural institution run by the British government, said Thursday that it had been forced to suspend its activities in Iran because of what it called “unacceptable” intimidation and harassment of its staff in Tehran.Intimidation and harassment? How......... impolite!
Iran says US must learn to be open to Iranian nuclear program
Oh yes, because anything less than suicide would be impolite!
Four Iranian Bloggers Sentenced To Prison, Lashes They must have been impolite.
Afghanistan, Iran, NATO focus of security meeting
US Can Ship Afghan Aid Through Russia, Kremlin Says
Russia, Iran Discuss Relations with US at Security Conference
Biden: US Willing to Talk to Iran
Politely, of course.
Is NATO Negotiating with Iran?
Why not? Everyone else is.
NATO, Russia argue over troop plans for Georgia regions
GEORGIA: RUSSIA PLANS THREE MILITARY BASES IN ABKHAZIA
Russia regains key air base to project power in Caucasus
Georgia Says Russian Occupation Makes Joining NATO Challenging
A little bit, yeah.
Kremlin trumps NATO
Elevated to the rank of "major non-NATO ally" by President George W. Bush , Pakistan is now deemed too dangerous for the hundreds of U.S. and NATO supply trucks that keep allied forces fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the latest attack against the NATO lifeline, 11 trucks and 13 containers were demolished outside Peshawar, near the northern end of the 600-mile route from the port of Karachi to the Khyber Pass. This followed the attack and collapse of a key bridge near the Khyber Pass, which backed up some 1,000 trucks all the way to Karachi. Normally, some 600 supply trucks a day cross the border into Afghanistan.
[SNIP]Some NATO allies have pointed out that a shorter and more efficient route would be through Turkey and Iran into Afghanistan. Besides diplomatic engagement, the Obama administration is yet to decide on a new Iranian policy. Meanwhile, the mullahs, pumped up by their successful launching of a tennis ball-sized satellite into orbit, have no intention of quitting their quest for a nuclear weapon.
[SNIP]
Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by national security adviser James L. Jones, CENTCOM Commander Gen. David H. Petraeus and Richard Holbrooke , U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, flew to Germany this weekend for the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy. Top-tier Russian and Iranian delegations were also in attendance. Offline topside conversations provided an opportunity to defuse the return of East-West tensions. Stay tuned.
Kyrgyzstan: US base closure is finalChina hails Kyrgyz decision on US airbase
NATO delegation visits Turkmenistan
Iran & Turkmenistan to Develop "Cultural Ties"
The Russian railway company, RZD, will help construct the Turkmen portion of the North-South rail transport corridor linking Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan
Clinton hopes for closer cooperation with Russia
NATURALLY!
Clinton seeks to consult Russia more on Iran
Obama Campaign Manager To Visit Azerbaijan
Really? WHY?
Azerbaijan crucial to Western hopes of increased Caspian gas exports
Cold warrior Henry Kissinger woos Russia for Barack Obama
Uccchhh....... It's "detente" season again. MFers.
Kissinger calls on US, Russia to negotiate on Nuke disarmament
Russia's Bears spread their wings over the Arctic Ocean
Russia is continuing its new series of strategic nuclear bomber long-range missions over the Arctic Ocean.
St. Vladimir Vladimirovich? Vladimir Putin has been a lot of things: a KGB officer, deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, president of the Russian Federation, prime minister.Nabucco may begin at Iranian/Georgian border
And now it appears that Russia's "national leader" is being worshiped by a group of Orthodox ascetics that believes he is the reincarnation of the Apostle Paul.
Turkmenistan, Europe plan Nabucco talks
Turkey says no link between Nabucco and EU talks
EU puts energy hopes into Turkmenistan 'black hole'
Gazprom and European Union Planning Strategic Natural Gas PipelineYou have intercourse with it, and then wonder why you are fucked.
EU, Russia Stress Goodwill
Russian Duma Official Casts Doubts On Nabucco
Regular Nabucco summit to be held in Czech Republic
Turkmen president invited to May 7 Nabucco summit in Prague
Gazprom Delays Gas Pipeline to Europe on Investment Decline
Gazprom to export less gas to Europe in 09
Gas Supply Disruptions Could Be RepeatedYa think?
Ukrainian PM speaks out against pipelines bypassing Ukraine
Bolivia, Russia to sign energy agreements
Gazprom visits Venezuela for drilling talks
Arianespace wins contract to launch two new satellites for Gazprom
Poland reflects on Communism's fall
What Mr Balcerowicz, now an internationally respected economist, does fear is what he calls "creeping statism"As well he should.
Belarus: Police "Detain Five Activists"Atroshchankau said the police searched the apartment and confiscated posters, CDs, and notebooks. Police said the detention of the activists and search operations were held due to information about a theft, but did not elaborate. The European Belarus is a campaign organized by young activists to propagate democracy and European values in the country.MOLDOVA: Communist Leader Seeks To Maintain Hold On Power
Madagascar: Police Open Fire on Protesters, Killing 23
Pepco Holdings Tops Big Spenders in Annapolis
Utility companies and associations representing retailers, real estate brokers, bankers and health interests were among the big spenders on lobbyists last year in Annapolis.Why do you care? Because Pepco was just given 5 Billion of our dollars to do unspecified things with under the blanket of the Department of Energy ... I guess that was $723,330 well spent for them.
Pepco Holdings tops a list recently released by the State Ethics Commission. Pepco spent $723,330 on lobbying from November 2007 through October. That period included a special legislative session on the budget and last year's regular session.
Row over nuclear labs shadows Obamanable Energy Dept. visitPresident Obama's visit to the Energy Department Thursday was in danger of being overshadowed by a growing row over a proposal to strip the department of one of its crown jewels -- the agency that builds and guards the nation's nuclear weapons. The White House Office of Management and Budget has asked officials to evaluate the costs and benefits of moving the National Nuclear Security Administration -- and the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories it owns -- to the Defense DepartmentEnergy Department's Chu prepares to spend
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu plans to dispense tens of billions of dollars in loans in the next year in an effort to stimulate the economy and shortcut bureaucracy at the Department of Energy.
Mexico will sell power to Los AngelesGold Man Sacks ups gold forecast to $1000/oz
Who Owns AIG? (A Continuing Saga)
S&P calls for Brics break-up
They are Scrambling for the Finish Line on Porkulater Bill
SUEEEEEE-EEEEE!
Loopholes Sap Potency of Pay Limits
SAY IT TEN TIMES, FAST!
598,000 US workers lost their jobs in January
Banks Fail in Georgia, California
IMF: Advanced Economies Already in Depression
Ya think?
Fairfield County CT 'ground zero' for Madoff scandal
Shepard Fairey, of Obama poster fame, arrested in Boston
Yes, that's his name. Dickens on Acid, I tells ya!
Truest headline of the day, the irony is none of them get why:Obama upholds Bush faith policy
THIS IS THE ACTUAL HEADLINE:
Obama launches new faith office, with abortion as an early focus
Not to be believed!
Churches hold Darwin conference
Good Lawd!
Obama’s America Is A Socialist America
1953: From the Marxist Archives ~ What Socialist America Will Look Like
Doctor loses license in live birth abortion case
But he is still not charged with MURDER. And the press calls it everything but MURDER. "live birth abortion" my ass. MURDER.
Was the Faina’s arms shipment destined for Darfur?
Nigerian Militants Attack Shell Gas Plant
Jefferson Airplane
Wooden Ships
WFRL: Cold Hard Cash
Johnny Cash
GOD's Gonna Cut You Down
You can run on for a long timeSooner or later God'll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler,
the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Well my goodness gracious
let me tell you the news
My head's been wet with the midnight dew
I've been down on bended knee
talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do My will!"
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler,
the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
You can run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Well you may throw your rock
and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's down in the dark
will be brought to the light
You can run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler,
the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Friday, February 6, 2009
WFRL: No One Alerted You...
George Harrison
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Concert For Bangladesh, 1971
I look at you allsee the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor
and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know why
nobody told you
how to unfold your love
I don’t know how
someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.
I look at the world
and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake
we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don’t know how
you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how
you were inverted
No one alerted you.
Glow Ballin' Porkulations of DOOM!
CREAM
Politician
The Fierce Urgency of Pork
By Charles Krauthammer
"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
[SNIP]
AMERICAN NABKA!
BEHOLD THE FEAR: PASS IT NOW, OR WE MAY NEVER RECOVER
Remember this?
Bush Calls Bailout Vital to Economy, Will Meet With McCain and Obama
Proposal Takes Shape in Congress, but Broad Support Is Lacking
By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 25, 2008; A01President Bush said yesterday that the credit crisis that has seized world markets could devastate the U.S. economy unless Congress acts quickly to approve a $700 billion bailout plan for the nation's financial system, a message aimed at reluctant lawmakers as much as a deeply skeptical public.
The Bush administration overpaid tens of billions of dollars for stocks and other assets in its massive bailout last year of Wall Street banks and financial institutions, a new study by a government watchdog says The Congressional Oversight Panel, in a report released Friday, said last year's overpayments amounted to a taxpayer-financed $78 billion subsidy of the firms.Obama Set to Name Economic Panel
President Obama is set to appoint on Friday a new team of outside economic advisers, led by a former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volcker, to offer independent advice to help the White House craft a response to the nation’s growing recession.
[SNIP]The group also will include Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric, and Jim Owens, the chairman of Caterpillar Inc., which announced last week the layoff of 20,000 jobs. William Donaldson, a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, will also serve on the board, along with Roger Ferguson, the president of T.I.A.A.-CREF, and Martin Feldstein, a Harvard University professor, who was the chief economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
The group also includes two leading labor officials: Richard Trumka of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and Anna Burger of the Service Employees International Union. The board, which will meet for two years, will be guided by Austan Goolsbee, an economic adviser to the president.
When he first met Obama, Volcker sat at a table with Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn and Merrill Lynch President Greg Fleming11/21/2008: Where Will GE's Jeff Immelt Be at 2 PM Today?
General Electric (GE) said last week that it will tap the FDIC for guarantees covering $139 billion in corporate debt via its finance arm. Banks are automatically enrolled in the FDIC guarantee program unless they decide to opt out. However, a group of nine large banks, including Goldman Sachs (GS), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C) and JP Morgan (JPM), had objected to certain key provisions in the Interim Rule. In particular, the nine banks, and Credit Suisse (CS), warned that anything short of an unconditional and prompt payment obligation on the part of the FDIC will place American financial institutions at a distinct disadvantage when compared to their British and European counterparts.
James W. Owens, Glow Baller Deluxe:“Nationally, my big interest quite frankly is trade and globalization,” he says. “I feel very strongly about it as a professional economist, as an American, and certainly as a chairman of a major company that participates in a global economy.”William DonaldsonHe says the United States has to win and compete in the world market in order to continue to be a great country in 2050. With only five percent of the world’s population, U.S. companies will not be able to compete in the long term by encouraging protectionist policies.
“There’s tremendous apprehension among the public, fed by and flamed by the politicians for short-term votes, which I think is a bit of a tragedy,” he says. “I think the business leadership in our country has got to speak out more forcefully and articulately about the benefits of trade, the win-win aspect of trade.”
Effective globalization also encompasses the need for a thoughtful immigration policy, which our political system seems to be fighting.
“I believe more people have been lifted out of poverty by globalization and opening markets than by the sum of all the charities by a factor of many,” he says.
As SEC Chairman, Donaldson presided over the meeting at the SEC on April 28, 2004, that was held at the request of the major Wall Street investment houses, including Goldman Sachs, then headed by future Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. The firms requested that the SEC approve an alternative to the so-called "net capital rule", or responsibility to hold regulatory capital in their brokerage units. They also wanted to avoid European Union regulation of the entire investment banking conglomerates, since the EU had agreed not to scrutinize foreign firms at the consolidated level if the SEC were to do so instead.
A 1999 law, however, put investment bank holding companies, the consolidated groups of their hundreds of subsidiaries, beyond SEC oversight. The investment banks therefore lobbied for a decision that would allow "voluntary" regulation at the holding company level by the SEC.
The Commission under Donaldson voted unanimously to change the regulation as the investment banks requested. Under the final rules the large investment banks were "subject to substantially fewer requirements," according to the adopting release.[4]
In the 2004 rulemaking, the Commission under Donaldson decided to rely on the firms’ own computer models for determining the riskiness of investments, "essentially outsourcing the job of monitoring risk to the banks themselves."[5] Donaldson and the other Commissioners who voted for the rule change were aware of the risks at the time, as indicated by the comment at the April 28, 2004 meeting by Commissioner Harvey Goldschmid. "If anything goes wrong," said Goldschmid, who supported Donaldson in voting for the proposal, "it's going to be an awfully big mess."[6] A report by the SEC Office of the Inspector General[7][8] after the near-failure of Bear Stearns stated that the standards the Commission adopted under Donaldson in 2004 were inadequate to warn of the firm's impending crisis.
The only briefing the Commission received that criticized the regulatory change prior to its adoption came from Leonard D. Bole, an information technology consultant, who found the risk models used by investors no better in 2004 than during the 1998 failure and bailout of the hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management. At the time of the rulemaking the SEC took no action to contact Bole to follow up on the briefing that he submitted.[5]
Speech by SEC Chairman William H. DonaldsonRemarks before the Caux Round Table
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 30, 2004
So, I ask myself WTF is all this "Moral Capitalism" crap he keeps referring to through the whole speech? Well, I'll tell you:
Let me start by thanking the Caux Round Table for giving me this much appreciated honor and the opportunity to speak this evening. The Round Table has done, and continues to do, important and valuable work – in the United States and throughout the world – helping to advance ethical business practices and a moral capitalism. It is an honor and a pleasure to be here.
I also want to thank John Whitehead for his generous words. Through his career in business and government John has come to embody the ideals at the core of the Caux Principles for Business. He has been a close friend for many years, and as many of you know he has had a long and distinguished career as the senior partner at Goldman, Sachs and as Deputy Secretary of State. Today, New York and the nation are fortunate to have him leading the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which has been helping to rebuild the area around the World Trade Center following the September 11th terrorist attacks. He has also served as a director of many non-profit organizations and business corporations, including Pillsbury here in Minneapolis.
Moral Capitalism is based on the Caux Round Table (CRT) Principles for Business, a code of ethics that sets consistent and attainable worldwide guidelines for how business can behave responsibly and ethically. The book shows readers how to manage market capitalism and globalization for economic and social justice and fairness, in the process improving individual lives and communities. Author Stephen Young argues that "brute capitalism" - profit-seeking regardless of effects - must give way to moral capitalism to attain widespread monetary and moral well-being. Emphasizing a cross-cultural perspective that draws on Chinese and Japanese philosophies of selflessness, Young links moral aspirations to practical, day-to-day guidelines for a profitable approach to business that is also ethical, resulting in the public good.
SO. Let's look at this Caux Round Table crapola for a minute:
CAUX ROUND TABLE:
"An international network of business leaders working to promote a moral capitalism"
"What has differentiated the Caux Round Table from its inception is that it consists of individual senior business leaders who share common values and a conviction that business should assume a leadership role in bringing positive changes in society. We seek to affect the policies and conduct not only of internationally involved businesses but also of governments and multinational institutions. We believe that sensitivity to the concerns of all stakeholders, dialogue that leads to advocacy and action, and collaboration with others are the keys to greater prosperity, sustainability and fairness in a global economy."
~Winston R. Wallin
Former Chairman, Caux Round Table and Chairman Emeritus, Medtronic Inc.
"These principles are rooted in two basic ethical ideals: kyosei and human dignity. The Japanese concept of kyosei means living and working together for the common good enabling cooperation and mutual prosperity to coexist with healthy and fair competition. "Human dignity" refers to the sacredness or value of each person as an end, not simply as a mean to the fulfillment of others' purposes or even majority prescription."Principles for NGO's
The Caux Round Table believes that social justice and better outcomes from the global modernizing and wealth-creating process called "globalization" depend on values of accountability, transparency, and stewardship being infused in all social, cultural, political and economic institutions.
The Caux Round Table has suggested certain principles of accountability, transparency and stewardship for both businesses and governments. Modern civilization, importantly however, also includes civil society. Therefore, the Caux Round Table has undertaken a project under the coordination of Dr. Harry Hummels of The Netherlands, Director of Socially Responsible Investments, ING Bank, to develop a similar set of principles for the non-governmental organizations "NGO's" that play such a vital role in the activities of civil society. To see the draft Principles for NGO's please click here.
Un-MFingHoly Caux Round GlowBalls-o-FIRE, mah Peepers!
September 2008: Feldstein was a board member of AIG and McCain's Economic Advisor:
[SNIP]
Martin Feldstein, who serves on the board of AIG, is one of McCain's top economic advisers. Earlier this month, Feldstein gushed in the Wall Street Journal over McCain's plans to cut taxes even further, and to shift healthcare costs from employers to employees in a "tax credit" scheme that many believe will solely benefit insurance companies, at the expense of workers. Since AIG is--or was--the world's largest insurance company, it stood to gain from McCain's policies.
[SNIP]
I can't tell if he WAS or still IS on AIG's board...
He is also a Director at Eli Lilly and Company....
Meantime, WTF is an Austan Goolsbee?
Goolsbee was the senior economic advisor to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign until a memo was leaked regarding a visit Goolsbee paid to Canadian officials at the Canadian consulate in Chicago in April of 2008.[23] The memorandum detailed Goolsbee's reassurances that Obama's announced intent to "renegotiate NAFTA" (the North American Free Trade Agreement) during a debate with Hillary Clinton "should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans."[24] The event was later listed in Fortune Magazine's "21 Dumbest Moments in Business 2008".[25]
“I think Austan innocently went over there, half as a professor, half as a campaign adviser,” said Obama campaign manager David Axelrod. “He’s basically a volunteer. He’s one of the economists Barack talks to. He’s not in close and constant contact with the candidate.”
Behold, The Obamanable Hamasshole
Rainbow
The Gates of Babylon
sleep with the devil
and then you must pay
sleep with the devil
the devil will take you away
$20.3 Million for the Resettlement of Radical Muslims
PRESIDENT OBAMA INVITES HAMAS TERRORISTS TO AMERICA
by Paul L. Williams, Bos Smith & Michael Travis
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.
President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims."
Few on Capital Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
The charter for Hamas calls for the replacement of the nation of Israel with a Palestinian Islamic state.
Since its formation in 1994, Hamas has been responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks, including the 2002 Passover suicide bombing. The leaders of the movement signed the World Islamic Statement of 1998 - - a document, penned by Osama bin Laden, which declared war on America and Israel.
President Obama's executive order is expected to bring hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, many with ties to radical Islam, to our shores, furthering a process that was inaugurated in 1995 by Senator Ted Kennedy and the Cedar-Hart bill.
THE OPEN GATE
In 1965, Allah in His mercy raised up Senators Ted Kennedy and Edward Celler to initiate changes in the immigration law that made it possible for millions of Muslims to make their way to the New World - - as the Christian Europeans had done in the early years of the 20th Century. The Cedar-Hart bill, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on October 3, 1965, abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in effect since 1924. In the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it barred discrimination on the basis of race, creed, religion, or national origin. America, by fiat of liberal secular humanists, was to be become a multicultural country - - a country severed from its Judeo-Christian roots.
Remaining cognizant of the common roots as the American people, our legislative had enacted stringent laws pertaining to immigration and naturalization. The Naturalization Act of 1790 stipulated that "any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States" The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited Chinese families from immigrating to the United States. The Immigration Act of 1907 reorganized the states bordering Mexico (Arizona, New Mexico and a large part of Texas) into Mexican Border District to stem the flow of immigrants into the U.S.
The Immigration Act of 1924 further limited the number of new immigrants by the establishment of a stringent quota system. The number of newcomers was now limited to 2 percent of each nationality who lived in the country not in 1924 but in 1890. The reliance of this legislation on the ethnic composition of the country before the turn of the century guaranteed that the majority of new arrivals would be from Northern Europe. Since few Italians and Eastern Europeans lived in the U. S. in 1890, the quotas for these nationalities became fixed at marginal rates and the number of new immigrants from "undesirable" regions greatly reduced. The following chart shows the effects of this legislation:
| Immigration Statistics, 1920-1926 | ||||
| Year | Total Entering U.S. | Country of Origin | ||
| Great Britain | Eastern Europe* | Italy | ||
| 1920 | 430,001 | 38,471 | 3,913 | 95,145 |
| 1921 | 805,228 | 51,142 | 32,793 | 222,260 |
| 1922 | 309,556 | 25,153 | 12,244 | 40,319 |
| 1923 | 522,919 | 45,759 | 16,082 | 46,674 |
| 1924 | 706,896 | 59,490 | 13,173 | 56,246 |
| 1925 | 294,314 | 27,172 | 1,566 | 6,203 |
| 1926 | 304,488 | 25,528 | 1,596 | 8,253 |
It is hard to conceive of an act of Congress that could be more culturally biased than the Immigration Act of 1954 and yet it received nearly unchallenged bipartisan support. Yet The New York Times editorialized: "The country has a right to say who shall and who shall not come in. . . . The basis of restriction must be chosen with a view not to the interest of any group or groups in this country . . . but rather with a view to the country's best interests as a whole."1
In 1952, The McCarran Walter Immigration Act affirmed the national-origins quota system of 1924 and limited total annual immigration to one-sixth of one percent of the population of the continental United States in 1920, or 175,455. The act exempted spouses and children of U.S. citizens and people born in the Western Hemisphere from the quota.
THE KENNEDY PROMISE
But, in 1965, Kennedy and company viewed such legislation as pig-headed and prejudicial. Few elected officials, Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina - - being one of the exceptions, dared to disagree with them. Championing the Celler-Hart bill, which called for the abolished all quotas, Kennedy, being far from prescient, said: "Contrary to the charges in some quarters, S500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any other country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. . . The charges I have mentioned are highly emotional, irrational, and with little foundation in fact. They are out of line with the obligation of responsible citizenship. They breed hate of our heritage."2
Forty years after Senator Kennedy made this pledge, Dean Steven Gillon of the Honors College at Oklahoma University assessed the results of the 1965 Immigration Act by noting: "The U. S. added at least 40 million immigrants after 1965. Before 1965, 95 percent of the new immigrants had come from Europe. After 1965, 95 percent came from the Third World. The 1965 act has transformed American society and had consequences exactly the opposite of what we were promised."3
In his speech before Congress, Senator Kennedy had said; "Our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually." The level of immigration, he swore, would remain substantially same as it was in 1965 - -156,700. This, too, proved to be woefully incorrect. The present immigrant rate exceeds 1.5 million annually. Noting this, Pat Buchanan writes:
The 1965 Cedar-Hart bill was the greatest bait-and-switch in history. Americans were promised one result, and got the opposite result that they had been promised would never happen. They were misled. They were deceived. They were swindled. They were told immigration levels would remain roughly the same and the ethnic composition of their country would not change. What they got was a Third World invasion that is converting America into another country.4
From 1965 to the present, more than half of all the immigrants to America from the Middle East and Asia have been Muslim with radical ideologies.5 Malcolm is surely smiling in his grave, for he had written:
As the Christian Crusade once went East, now the Islamic Crusade is going West. With the East - - Asia - - closed to Christianity, with Africa rapidly becoming converted to Islam, with Europe rapidly becoming un-Christian, generally today it is accepted that the 'Christian' civilization of America - - which is propping up the white race around the world - - is Christianity's remaining strongest bastion.
Well, if this is so - - if the so called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that the world Christianity has to offer - - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity. Are you aware that some Protestant theologians, in their writings, are using the phrase "post-Christian" era - - and they mean now?
1 New York Times editorial cited in Otis J. Graham, Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis (Lanham, Maryland: Rowan & Littlefield, 2004), p. 50.
2 Senator Edward Kennedy, quoted in Patrick J. Buchanan's State of Emergency (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006), pp. 238-239.
3 Steven Gillon quoted in Georgie Anne Geyer's "Immigration: The Elephant in America's Room," Universal Press Syndicate, October 2005, www:uexpress.com
4 Patrick J. Buchanan, p. 239.
5 Jane I. Smith, "Patterns of Muslim Immigration," International Information Program, U. S. Department of State, 2002.
6 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pp. 376-377.
