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		<title>Will Bloomberg Ban Judges Now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bosch Fawstin]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A State Supreme Court Judge slowed down the out of control NY Nanny-Banny Mayor when he <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323826704578354543929974394.html">quashed the Mayor’s plan to ban the sale of large sugary drinks</a> in the city’s restaurants and other venues.</p>
<p>In his reaction to the decision, Bloomberg actually said:</p>
<p>“It would be irresponsible not to try to do everything we can to save lives.”</p>
<p>“People are dying every day, this is not a joke.”</p>
<p>“I’m trying to do what’s right…I’m trying to defend my children, and you, and do what’s right.”</p>
<p>I have nothing more to add except for my drawing…</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Green&#8217; Stimulus Money Funds Chinese Tech Advancement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cutting edge military technology to be sold to the People's Republic. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/green-stimulus-money-funds-chinese-tech-advancement/a123-systems-battery-pack01-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-175184"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-175184" title="a123-systems-battery-pack01" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/a123-systems-battery-pack01.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="217" /></a>While much of the American public&#8217;s attention was focused on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s congressional testimony regarding the security breaches in Benghazi, a potential breach with far more serious implications is proceeding virtually unimpeded. In December, Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/business/court-oks-sale-u-s-government-backed-a123-chinese-firm-1C7561922">approved</a> the sale of A123 Systems Inc., a bankrupt electric car battery manufacturer, to China&#8217;s largest auto parts maker. As a result, America stands on the brink of providing the communist nation with <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/23/security-concerns-grow-over-sale-us-battery-maker-to-chinese-company/">ten years</a> of American technological advances they have been unable to achieve on their own.</p>
<p>A123 Systems <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/1031251-will-johnson-controls-win-a123-s-auto-assets-in-the-auction">filed</a> for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2012, despite receiving $249 million in taxpayer funding made available in December 2009, as part of the stimulus package. Like so many of the &#8220;green&#8221; investments made by this administration, the lithium ion battery maker was unable to turn a profit. Yet they did develop solid new technology, highlighted by a battery with military applications, due to its ability to remain functional in extremes of heat and cold.</p>
<p>Last August, when the company posted an $83 million loss for the second quarter, A123 said it had <a href="http://www.a123systems.com/087cf5d5-5f36-4799-bc66-7d04f3f4a88d/media-room-2012-press-releases-detail.htm">reached</a> a &#8220;non-binding memorandum of understanding&#8221; for a loan of up to $450 million with Wanxiang America Corp., a subsidiary of Wanxiang Group, China&#8217;s largest automotive components manufacturer and one of China&#8217;s largest non-state-owned companies, to maintain solvency. If the entire amount had been given to A123, Wanxiang America would have owned an 80 percent share of the company. The Wanxiang Group is run by auto-parts titan Lu Guanqiu, one of richest men in China&#8217;s National People&#8217;s Congress. Guanqiu maintains close ties with the Communist Party.</p>
<p>Thus, the deal <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443991704577576881949308486.html">raised concerns</a> with Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee&#8217;s panel on oversight and investigations. &#8220;We need to make sure the federal government isn&#8217;t an unwitting accomplice to the theft of our own national secrets by providing [foreign-controlled companies] with multimillion-dollar government grants and loans,&#8221; he said in a statement. A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee was far blunter. &#8220;It is unfortunate Obama borrowed from the Chinese to give taxpayer money to prop up green energy companies that the Chinese are now buying,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>According to the <em>Wall Street Journal,</em> that deal (which the paper valued at $465 million) <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578169653323996378.html">collapsed.</a>  Thus, A123 continued to run short of cash, and on the same day it sought bankruptcy protection in October, A123 said it would be selling its automotive operations to Johnson Controls, a Wisconsin-based auto parts-maker, for $125 million. Johnson Controls also promised $72.5 million in bridge financing to underwrite some of A123&#8242;s debt and keep the company&#8217;s facility in Michigan, and its 800 employees, in operation. Johnson was also willing to license back to A123 &#8220;certain technology for its grid, commercial and government businesses,&#8221; according to a statement.</p>
<p>Wanxiang subsequently <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/10/Chinese-company-wins-bid-for-battery-maker-A123">challenged</a> Johnson Controls status as the primary bidder. In November, Wanxiang said it would continue to employ A123 U.S. workers and keep its plants open should their bid for the company be successful. Wanxiang America&#8217;s president Pin Ni sent a letter to A123 Chief Executive David Vieauthat to that effect. &#8220;Wanxiang has a long history as a technology and automotive company, operating in the United States to ensure plants remain productive and local U.S. employees keep their jobs,&#8221; it stated.</p>
<p>The auction began on December 6. It was over on December 8, when Wanxiang posted a winning bid of $256.6 million, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578169653323996378.html">topping</a> a combined offer from Johnson Controls and electronics maker NEC Corp. of Japan. A123&#8242;s government business <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/business/global/auction-for-a123-systems-won-by-wanxiang-group-of-china.html?_r=0">will be sold</a> to Navitas Systems, a small American energy company based in Illinois, for $2.2 million, ostensibly to alleviate concerns about transferring advanced military technology to the Chinese. &#8220;We think we have structured this transaction to address potential national security concerns expressed during the review of our previous investment agreement with Wanxiang announced in August, as well as to address concerns raised by the Department of Energy,&#8221; said A123 CEO Dave Vieau in a statement. &#8220;We believe this transaction balances those risks with A123&#8242;s obligation to act in the best interest of our creditors.&#8221;</p>
<p>Republicans <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/271969-gop-lawmakers-worry-sale-of-energy-firm-to-chinese-company-threatens-security-">expressed</a> their skepticism the following Monday. &#8220;A123’s core battery technology is used in all of their business applications and allowing the sale of one facet of the company may very well grant the buyer complete access to critical technology and intellectual property that cannot be separated among business lines,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), adding that any separation would be “technically impossible.” Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and John Thune (R-SD) echoed that assessment, contending the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) should block the sale. CFIUS <a href="http://freebeacon.com/battery-power-politics/">could</a> make a ruling by the end of this month.</p>
<p>The Department of Energy is siding with Wanxiang, claiming the military technology has been separated and sold to Navitas. Yet two former chairmen of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Democrat Ike Skelton and Republican Duncan Hunter, doubled down on the skepticism. After insisting that A123&#8242;s &#8220;unprecedented technology&#8221; is critical to our maintaining our &#8220;battlefield advantage,&#8221; the men <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/01/14/united-states-shouldnt-hand-over-battery-technology-to-china">cut through</a> the rest of the PR fog surrounding this sale:</p>
<blockquote><p>Wangxiang has sought to win approval of the deal by agreeing to split off A123 Systems&#8217; existing military contracts to an American corporation, but that is hardly reassuring. It is A123 Systems&#8217; technology that is the issue, not its contracts. The trade secrets and patents that would be controlled by the Wanxiang Group resulted from a decade of trial and error by some of America&#8217;s finest scientists, with much of the work funded by U.S. taxpayers.</p>
<p>If the Committee on Foreign Investment has any doubt about what&#8217;s going on here, it need only look at its own annual report to Congress, which it filed last month. For the first time in the history of the committee, it warned that &#8220;there is likely a coordinated strategy&#8221; underway by unnamed foreign powers &#8216;to acquire U.S. companies involved in research, development, or production of critical technologies for which the United States is a leading producer.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Barry M. Costello, a retired Navy vice admiral, commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, and a member of the Strategic Materials Advisory Council was equally <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/a123-deal-could-pose-security-risks-85914_Page2.html">blunt.</a> &#8220;The Chinese company and A123 attempted to alleviate security concerns by having a separate U.S. company purchase the existing military contracts,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;What they didn’t resolve is that the core technology will still belong to Wanxiang and is potentially available to the Chinese military&#8230;This sale has been called a &#8216;win-win.&#8217; If permitted to proceed, the Chinese and A123’s creditors will be those winners. We can’t allow U.S. national security, our soldiers and our citizens to be the losers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dean Popps, deputy assistant secretary of the Army and acting assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology under the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2013/01/25/military-suffers-with-sale-of-battery-company-to-china/">amplified</a> another concern. “You don’t want to be building a military spy satellite and be reliant on a lithium ion battery that’s made in China because you don’t make it anymore,&#8221; he warned.</p>
<p>Sadly, selling advanced technology to the Chinese is not without precedent. Back in 1998, the company Loral Space gave the Chinese a 200-page report on how to improve their missile guidance systems without telling the government, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/25/opinion/essay-the-china-connection.html">precipitating</a> a Department of Justice investigation. President Bill Clinton <a href="http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1998/Clinton-Warned-on-China-Deal/id-2bd07ee4fca1ab8dd582acdc4c926c0e">undermined</a> that investigation by granting Loral a waiver to complete the deal. This was Clinton&#8217;s second waiver regarding Loral’s business initiatives involving the Chinese. Years earlier, the president also waived State Department disapproval of such business as well. Yet Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/us/a-top-clinton-donor-says-money-didn-t-buy-approval-on-satellites.html?ref=bernardlschwartz">built</a> a six-year friendship with the president, no doubt enhanced by $1.3 million in donations to Clinton and Democrats. The years long DOJ investigation concluded in 2002, with Loral <a href="http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2002/Communications-Probe-Ends-With-Fine/id-62eacea93e837f7a8501525f7264a180">paying</a> a $14 million civil fine, the Pentagon issuing a report concluding that sensitive technology involving missiles was transferred to the Chinese and the Chinese getting a better missile guidance system that makes them a greater danger to the United States.</p>
<p>Giving them additional advanced technology with military applications&#8211;again&#8211;makes no sense whatsoever. President Obama acknowledged that reality during his inauguration speech. “We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise,” he said. Dean Popps concurred. “This highly sensitive technology should not be handed over to China,&#8221; he warned. &#8220;American taxpayers own this technology; we paid for it and, like the president said, we should claim its promise.”</p>
<p>Joseph Stalin once said, &#8220;When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.&#8221; Anyone who believes the Chinese Communist government, which as recently as last September <a href="http://freebeacon.com/white-house-hack-attack/">hacked</a> into a White House computer system used for nuclear commands, isn&#8217;t every bit the threat the Soviet Union was, is delusional.</p>
<p>The American appetite for cheap consumer goods is one thing. Aiding and abetting the military ambitions of a potential adversary is quite another.</p>
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		<title>Obama for Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president is cheaper than ever, but you still can’t afford him.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/obama_merch_729-420x0.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138159" title="obama_merch_729-420x0" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/obama_merch_729-420x0.gif" alt="" width="375" height="261" /></a>Summer is traditionally a weak shopping season, but lately the bargains just keep on coming. First there was an offer to have dinner with Obama and now a chance to have him there in your family photo. You can bid on an opportunity to wish Obama a happy birthday in person with the present that he likes best&#8230; money.</p>
<p>The prices are reasonable, and there are so many ways to buy Obama. You can play the dinner lottery or ask your wedding guests to gift to Obama. The Barack Obama website accepts all payments, Visa, Discover, Master Card, foreign donations and stolen credit cards.</p>
<p>The opportunities are endless. Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, major disasters; everything is just another reminder to give till it hurts. All you have to do is click one of the many buttons beneath the color-tuned hues of Instagram photos of Obama smiling while the country slides deeper into poverty and debt.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a reason that they call America, &#8220;The Land of Opportunity.&#8221; Sure it&#8217;s gotten a lot harder to come here and make a fortune with your own business, but buying time with the man at the top has just gotten a lot more affordable. You may not have the big wallet of a Warren Buffett or a George Soros and you won&#8217;t cash in to the tune of a few billion dollars like they did, but for 25 bucks you might end up briefly exchanging pleasantries with the man who is slowly sending you to the poorhouse.</p>
<p>The designers are working overtime digging up retro fonts that summon up the image of a more prosperous America. There are so many Obama portrait shirts that they will be filling up landfills for generations. More likely, they&#8217;ll be shipped over to the Third World, along with all the other surplus clothes that people donate once the trend has passed or they no longer fit, and, somewhere in an African village, children in the year 2021 will run around playing in &#8220;Obama 2012&#8243; t-shirts and Islamic terrorists in the Sahara will execute rebellious women while wearing &#8220;Forward&#8221; shirts.</p>
<p>You can get a &#8220;This is Change&#8221; shirt that lists all the things that Obama has done on the back, but the text is too small to read on the website, so, like ObamaCare and Obama 2012, you will have to buy it to find out what&#8217;s in it and on it.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a collar for cats that says, &#8220;I Meow for Michelle&#8221; and an 85-dollar Vera Wang tote bag with Obama inside a scrawled heart. There&#8217;s an Obama-themed dog collar, to express the relationship between the administration and its lapdogs, and a t-shirt with an all-red American flag that has a distinctly Soviet feel to it. There&#8217;s a 65-dollar polo shirt designed by rapper and Farrakhan supporter Russell Simmons; which is just a generic polo shirt with a small Obama logo.</p>
<p>A Joe Biden cup holder sits next to a knit Obama dog sweater, a silver Obama brooch, an Obama basketball jersey, an Obama University hoodie, which has a seal but no motto, along with beanies, keychains, more dog collars, water bottles, tumblers, lanyards, cuff links, duffel bags, tube socks and a dog bowl with the Obama logo inside for your dog to drink out of.</p>
<p>Obama isn&#8217;t just a politician; he is a Walmart of useless crap. A one-man Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie and Fitch and Ed Hardy with enough t-shirts, polo shirts and bandanas to outfit a small army of young men and women with more credit card limits than taste. And upstairs on the third floor of his cyberspace Target, you can find a plethora of 90-dollar reusable canvas bags from major designers that have become the stamp of consciously responsible consumption.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES – Air America Radio, a radio network that was launched in 2004 as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, on Thursday shut down abruptly due to financial woes. The network once boasted hosts such as Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, but struggled from the outset, including multiple management shake-ups, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>LOS ANGELES – Air America Radio, a radio network that was launched in 2004 as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, on Thursday shut down abruptly due to financial woes.</p>
<p>The network once boasted hosts such as Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, but struggled from the outset, including multiple management shake-ups, a bankruptcy in 2006 and sale for $4.25 million the following year.</p>
<p>Air America ceased airing new programs Thursday afternoon and said it will soon file to be liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It began broadcasting reruns of programs and would end those as well Monday night.</p>
<p>&#8220;The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America&#8217;s business. This past year has seen a `perfect storm&#8217; in the media industry generally,&#8221; the company said in a statement on its Web site.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_en_ot/us_air_america_bankruptcy">Air America Radio closing, filing for bankruptcy &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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