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CORRUPTION in LA RAZA MEXIFORNIA - JOSE RIGABERTO SANCHEZ CAUGHT! LA County Sheriff's Deputy Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape, Soliciting Bribes « CBS Los Angeles
LA County Sheriff's Deputy Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape, Soliciting Bribes « CBS Los Angeles
HEY, JOSE RIGABERTO SANCHEZ IS A MEXICAN! WHAT DID THEY EXPECT???
PALMDALE (CBSLA.com) — A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was arrested Monday on suspicion of rape and soliciting bribes, among other crimes, according to authorities.
Jose Rigaberto Sanchez, 28, a seven-year veteran of the force, was taken into custody at his home around 5:30 p.m. on 11 felony counts, including sexual penetration under the color of authority, rape under fear or duress, and soliciting a bribe from alleged victims. He's being held on $1.4 million bail.
THE LA RAZA "THE RACE" INVADERS:
AMERICA vs MEXICO: CLASHING CULTURES
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/02/obamas-amnesty-and-la-raza-child.html
Illegals cheat, distribute drugs, lie, forge documents, steal and kill as if it's a normal way of life. For them, it is. Mexico's civilization stands diametrically opposed to America's culture.
The legal age of sexual consent in Mexico is 12 years old. Sex with children at this age and younger is socially acceptable in Mexico. For example: A Mexican Lopez-Mendez pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a 10 year old girl in West Virginia.
The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/09/illegal-crime-tidal-wave-by-heather-mac.html
Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD's rule against enforcing immigration law.
The LAPD's ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These "sanctuary policies" generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
Such laws testify to the sheer political power of immigrant lobbies, a power so irresistible that police officials shrink from even mentioning the illegal-alien crime wave. "We can't even talk about it," says a frustrated LAPD captain. "People are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics." Another LAPD commander in a predominantly Hispanic, gang-infested district sighs: "I would get a firestorm of criticism if I talked about [enforcing the immigration law against illegals]." Neither captain would speak for attribution.
But however pernicious in themselves, sanctuary rules are a symptom of a much broader disease: the nation's near-total loss of control over immigration policy. Fifty years ago, immigration policy might have driven immigration numbers, but today the numbers drive policy. The nonstop increase of immigration is reshaping the language and the law to dissolve any distinction between legal and illegal aliens and, ultimately, the very idea of national borders.
It is a measure of how topsy-turvy the immigration environment has become that to ask police officials about the illegal-alien crime problem feels like a gross faux pas, not done in polite company. And a police official asked to violate this powerful taboo will give a strangled response—or, as in the case of a New York deputy commissioner, break off communication altogether. Meanwhile, millions of illegal aliens work, shop, travel, and commit crimes in plain view, utterly secure in their de facto immunity from the immigration law.
I asked the Miami Police Department's spokesman, Detective Delrish Moss, about his employer's policy on lawbreaking illegals. In September, the force arrested a Honduran visa violator for seven vicious rapes. The previous year, Miami cops had had the suspect in custody for lewd and lascivious molestation, without checking his immigration status. Had they done so, they would have discovered his visa overstay, a deportable offense, and so could have forestalled the rapes. "We have shied away from unnecessary involvement dealing with immigration issues," explains Moss, choosing his words carefully, "because of our large immigrant population."
Police commanders may not want to discuss, much less respond to, the illegal-alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling. Some examples:
• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.
• The leadership of the Columbia Lil' Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.'s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.
Good luck finding any reference to such facts in official crime analysis. The LAPD and the L.A. city attorney recently requested an injunction against drug trafficking in Hollywood, targeting the 18th Street Gang and the "non–gang members" who sell drugs in Hollywood for the gang. Those non–gang members are virtually all illegal Mexicans, smuggled into the country by a ring organized by 18th Street bigs. The Mexicans pay off their transportation debts to the gang by selling drugs; many soon realize how lucrative that line of work is and stay in the business.
Cops and prosecutors universally know the immigration status of these non-gang "Hollywood dealers," as the city attorney calls them, but the gang injunction is assiduously silent on the matter. And if a Hollywood officer were to arrest an illegal dealer (known on the street as a "border brother") for his immigration status, or even notify the Immigration and Naturalization Service (since early 2003, absorbed into the new Department of Homeland Security), he would face severe discipline for violating Special Order 40, the city's sanctuary policy.
The ordinarily tough-as-nails former LAPD chief Daryl Gates enacted Special Order 40 in 1979—showing that even the most unapologetic law-and-order cop is no match for immigration advocates. The order prohibits officers from "initiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a person"—in other words, the police may not even ask someone they have arrested about his immigration status until after they have filed criminal charges, nor may they arrest someone for immigration violations. They may not notify immigration authorities about an illegal alien picked up for minor violations. Only if they have already booked an illegal alien for a felony or for multiple misdemeanors may they inquire into his status or report him. The bottom line: a cordon sanitaire between local law enforcement and immigration authorities that creates a safe haven for illegal criminals.
L.A.'s sanctuary law and all others like it contradict a key 1990s policing discovery: the Great Chain of Being in criminal behavior. Pick up a law-violator for a "minor" crime, and you might well prevent a major crime: enforcing graffiti and turnstile-jumping laws nabs you murderers and robbers. Enforcing known immigration violations, such as reentry following deportation, against known felons, would be even more productive. LAPD officers recognize illegal deported gang members all the time—flashing gang signs at court hearings for rival gangbangers, hanging out on the corner, or casing a target. These illegal returnees are, simply by being in the country after deportation, committing a felony (in contrast to garden-variety illegals on their first trip to the U.S., say, who are only committing a misdemeanor). "But if I see a deportee from the Mara Salvatrucha [Salvadoran prison] gang crossing the street, I know I can't touch him," laments a Los Angeles gang officer. Only if the deported felon has given the officer some other reason to stop him, such as an observed narcotics sale, can the cop accost him—but not for the immigration felony.
Though such a policy puts the community at risk, the department's top brass brush off such concerns. No big deal if you see deported gangbangers back on the streets, they say. Just put them under surveillance for "real" crimes and arrest them for those. But surveillance is very manpower-intensive. Where there is an immediate ground for getting a violent felon off the street and for questioning him further, it is absurd to demand that the woefully understaffed LAPD ignore it.
The stated reasons for sanctuary policies are that they encourage illegal-alien crime victims and witnesses to cooperate with cops without fear of deportation, and that they encourage illegals to take advantage of city services like health care and education (to whose maintenance few illegals have contributed a single tax dollar, of course). There has never been any empirical verification that sanctuary laws actually accomplish these goals—and no one has ever suggested not enforcing drug laws, say, for fear of intimidating drug-using crime victims. But in any case, this official rationale could be honored by limiting police use of immigration laws to some subset of immigration violators: deported felons, say, or repeat criminal offenders whose immigration status police already know.
The real reason cities prohibit their cops and other employees from immigration reporting and enforcement is, like nearly everything else in immigration policy, the numbers. The immigrant population has grown so large that public officials are terrified of alienating it, even at the expense of ignoring the law and tolerating violence. In 1996, a breathtaking Los Angeles Times exposé on the 18th Street Gang, which included descriptions of innocent bystanders being murdered by laughing cholos (gang members), revealed the rate of illegal-alien membership in the gang. In response to the public outcry, the Los Angeles City Council ordered the police to reexamine Special Order 40. You would have thought it had suggested reconsidering Roe v. Wade. A police commander warned the council: "This is going to open a significant, heated debate." City Councilwoman Laura Chick put on a brave front: "We mustn't be afraid," she declared firmly.
But of course immigrant pandering trumped public safety. Law-abiding residents of gang-infested neighborhoods may live in terror of the tattooed gangbangers dealing drugs, spraying graffiti, and shooting up rivals outside their homes, but such anxiety can never equal a politician's fear of offending Hispanics. At the start of the reexamination process, LAPD deputy chief John White had argued that allowing the department to work closely with the INS would give cops another tool for getting gang members off the streets. Trying to build a homicide case, say, against an illegal gang member is often futile, he explained, since witnesses fear deadly retaliation if they cooperate with the police. Enforcing an immigration violation would allow the cops to lock up the murderer right now, without putting a witness's life at risk.
But six months later, Deputy Chief White had changed his tune: "Any broadening of the policy gets us into the immigration business," he asserted. "It's a federal law-enforcement issue, not a local law-enforcement issue." Interim police chief Bayan Lewis told the L.A. Police Commission: "It is not the time. It is not the day to look at Special Order 40."
Nor will it ever be, as long as immigration numbers continue to grow. After their brief moment of truth in 1996, Los Angeles politicians have only grown more adamant in defense of Special Order 40. After learning that cops in the scandal-plagued Rampart Division had cooperated with the INS to try to uproot murderous gang members from the community, local politicians threw a fit, criticizing district commanders for even allowing INS agents into their station houses. In turn, the LAPD strictly disciplined the offending officers. By now, big-city police chiefs are unfortunately just as determined to defend sanctuary policies as the politicians who appoint them; not so the rank and file, however, who see daily the benefit that an immigration tool would bring.
Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city's sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to "terrorize people." Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.
Citizen outrage forced Mayor Michael Bloomberg to revisit the city's sanctuary decree yet again. In May 2003, Bloomberg tweaked the policy minimally to allow city staffers to inquire into immigration status only if it is relevant to the awarding of a government benefit. Though Bloomberg's new rule said nothing about reporting immigration violations to federal officials, advocates immediately claimed that it did allow such reporting, and the ethnic lobbies went ballistic. "What we're seeing is the erosion of people's rights," thundered Angelo Falcon of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. After three months of intense agitation by immigrant groups, Bloomberg replaced this innocuous "don't ask" policy with a "don't tell" rule even broader than Gotham's original sanctuary policy. The new rule prohibits city employees from giving other government officials information not just about immigration status but about tax payments, sexual orientation, welfare status, and other matters.
But even were immigrant-saturated cities to discard their sanctuary policies and start enforcing immigration violations where public safety demands it, the resource-starved immigration authorities couldn't handle the overwhelming additional workload.
The chronic shortage of manpower to oversee, and detention space to house, aliens as they await their deportation hearings (or, following an order of removal from a federal judge, their actual deportation) has forced immigration officials to practice a constant triage. Long ago, the feds stopped trying to find and deport aliens who had "merely" entered the country illegally through stealth or fraudulent documents. Currently, the only types of illegal aliens who run any risk of catching federal attention are those who have been convicted of an "aggravated felony" (a particularly egregious crime) or who have been deported following conviction for an aggravated felony and who have reentered (an offense punishable with 20 years in jail).
That triage has been going on for a long time, as former INS investigator Mike Cutler, who worked with the NYPD catching Brooklyn drug dealers in the 1970s, explains. "If you arrested someone you wanted to detain, you'd go to your boss and start a bidding war," Cutler recalls. "You'd say: 'My guy ran three blocks, threw a couple of punches, and had six pieces of ID.' The boss would turn to another agent: 'Next! Whaddid your guy do?' 'He ran 18 blocks, pushed over an old lady, and had a gun.' " But such one-upmanship was usually fruitless. "Without the jail space," explains Cutler, "it was like the Fish and Wildlife Service; you'd tag their ear and let them go."
But even when immigration officials actually arrest someone, and even if a judge issues a final deportation order (usually after years of litigation and appeals), they rarely have the manpower to put the alien on a bus or plane and take him across the border. Second alternative: detain him pending removal. Again, inadequate space and staff. In the early 1990s, for example, 15 INS officers were in charge of the deportation of approximately 85,000 aliens (not all of them criminals) in New York City. The agency's actual response to final orders of removal was what is known as a "run letter"—a notice asking the deportable alien kindly to show up in a month or two to be deported, when the agency might be able to process him. Results: in 2001, 87 percent of deportable aliens who received run letters disappeared, a number that was even higher—94 percent—if they were from terror-sponsoring countries.
To other law-enforcement agencies, the feds' triage often looks like complete indifference to immigration violations. Testifying to Congress about the Queens rape by illegal Mexicans, New York's criminal justice coordinator defended the city's failure to notify the INS after the rapists' previous arrests on the ground that the agency wouldn't have responded anyway. "We have time and time again been unable to reach INS on the phone," John Feinblatt said last February. "When we reach them on the phone, they require that we write a letter. When we write a letter, they require that it be by a superior."
Criminal aliens also interpret the triage as indifference. John Mullaly a former NYPD homicide detective, estimates that 70 percent of the drug dealers and other criminals in Manhattan's Washington Heights were illegal. Were Mullaly to threaten an illegal-alien thug in custody that his next stop would be El Salvador unless he cooperated, the criminal would just laugh, knowing that the INS would never show up. The message could not be clearer: this is a culture that can't enforce its most basic law of entry. If policing's broken-windows theory is correct, the failure to enforce one set of rules breeds overall contempt for the law.
The sheer number of criminal aliens overwhelmed an innovative program that would allow immigration officials to complete deportation hearings while a criminal was still in state or federal prison, so that upon his release he could be immediately ejected without taking up precious INS detention space. But the process, begun in 1988, immediately bogged down due to the numbers—in 2000, for example, nearly 30 percent of federal prisoners were foreign-born. The agency couldn't find enough pro bono attorneys to represent such an army of criminal aliens (who have extensive due-process rights in contesting deportation) and so would have to request delay after delay. Or enough immigration judges would not be available. In 1997, the INS simply had no record of a whopping 36 percent of foreign-born inmates who had been released from federal and four state prisons without any review of their deportability. They included 1,198 aggravated felons, 80 of whom were soon re-arrested for new crimes.
Resource starvation is not the only reason for federal inaction. The INS was a creature of immigration politics, and INS district directors came under great pressure from local politicians to divert scarce resources into distribution of such "benefits" as permanent residency, citizenship, and work permits, and away from criminal or other investigations. In the late 1980s, for example, the INS refused to join an FBI task force against Haitian drug trafficking in Miami, fearing criticism for "Haitian-bashing." In 1997, after Hispanic activists protested a much-publicized raid that netted nearly two dozen illegals, the Border Patrol said that it would no longer join Simi Valley, California, probation officers on home searches of illegal-alien-dominated gangs.
The disastrous Citizenship USA project of 1996 was a luminous case of politics driving the INS to sacrifice enforcement to "benefits." When, in the early 1990s, the prospect of welfare reform drove immigrants to apply for citizenship in record numbers to preserve their welfare eligibility, the Clinton administration, seeing a political bonanza in hundreds of thousands of new welfare-dependent citizens, ordered the naturalization process radically expedited. Thanks to relentless administration pressure, processing errors in 1996 were 99 percent in New York and 90 percent in Los Angeles, and tens of thousands of aliens with criminal records, including for murder and armed robbery, were naturalized.
Another powerful political force, the immigration bar association, has won from Congress an elaborate set of due-process rights for criminal aliens that can keep them in the country indefinitely. Federal probation officers in Brooklyn are supervising two illegals—a Jordanian and an Egyptian with Saudi citizenship—who look "ready to blow up the Statue of Liberty," according to a probation official, but the officers can't get rid of them. The Jordanian had been caught fencing stolen Social Security and tax-refund checks; now he sells phone cards, which he uses himself to make untraceable calls. The Saudi's offense: using a fraudulent Social Security number to get employment—a puzzlingly unnecessary scam, since he receives large sums from the Middle East, including from millionaire relatives. But intelligence links him to terrorism, so presumably he worked in order not to draw attention to himself. Currently, he changes his cell phone every month. Ordinarily such a minor offense would not be prosecuted, but the government, fearing that he had terrorist intentions, used whatever it had to put him in prison.
Now, probation officers desperately want to see the duo out of the country, but the two ex-cons have hired lawyers, who are relentlessly fighting their deportation. "Due process allows you to stay for years without an adjudication," says a probation officer in frustration. "A regular immigration attorney can keep you in the country for three years, a high-priced one for ten." In the meantime, Brooklyn probation officials are watching the bridges.
Even where immigration officials successfully nab and deport criminal aliens, the reality, says a former federal gang prosecutor, is that "they all come back. They can't make it in Mexico." The tens of thousands of illegal farmworkers and dishwashers who overpower U.S. border controls every year carry in their wake thousands of brutal assailants and terrorists who use the same smuggling industry and who benefit from the same irresistible odds: there are so many more of them than the Border Patrol.
For, of course, the government's inability to keep out criminal aliens is part and parcel of its inability to patrol the border, period. For decades, the INS had as much effect on the migration of millions of illegals as a can tied to the tail of a tiger. And the immigrants themselves, despite the press cliché of hapless aliens living fearfully in the shadows, seemed to regard immigration authorities with all the concern of an elephant for a flea.
Certainly fear of immigration officers is not in evidence among the hundreds of illegal day laborers who hang out on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York, in front of money wire services, travel agencies, immigration-attorney offices, and phone arcades, all catering to the local Hispanic population (as well as to drug dealers and terrorists). "There is no chance of getting caught," cheerfully explains Rafael, an Ecuadoran. Like the dozen Ecuadorans and Mexicans on his particular corner, Rafael is hoping that an SUV seeking carpenters for $100 a day will show up soon. "We don't worry, because we're not doing anything wrong. I know it's illegal; I need the papers, but here, nobody asks you for papers."
Even the newly fortified Mexican border, the one spot where the government really tries to prevent illegal immigration, looms as only a minor inconvenience to the day laborers. The odds, they realize, are overwhelmingly in their favor. Miguel, a reserved young carpenter, crossed the border at Tijuana three years ago with 15 others. Border Patrol spotted them, but with six officers to 16 illegals, only five got caught. In illegal border crossings, you get what you pay for, Miguel says. If you try to shave on the fee, the coyotes will abandon you at the first problem. Miguel's wife was flying into New York from Los Angeles that very day; it had cost him $2,200 to get her across the border. "Because I pay, I don't worry," he says complacently.
The only way to dampen illegal immigration and its attendant train of criminals and terrorists—short of an economic revolution in the sending countries or an impregnably militarized border—is to remove the jobs magnet. As long as migrants know they can easily get work, they will find ways to evade border controls. But enforcing laws against illegal labor is among government's lowest priorities. In 2001, only 124 agents nationwide were trying to find and prosecute the hundreds of thousands of employers and millions of illegal aliens who violate the employment laws, the Associated Press reports.
Even were immigration officials to devote adequate resources to worksite investigations, not much would change, because their legal weapons are so weak. That's no accident: though it is a crime to hire illegal aliens, a coalition of libertarians, business lobbies, and left-wing advocates has consistently blocked the fraud-proof form of work authorization necessary to enforce that ban. Libertarians have erupted in hysteria at such proposals as a toll-free number to the Social Security Administration for employers to confirm Social Security numbers. Hispanics warn just as stridently that helping employers verify work eligibility would result in discrimination against Hispanics—implicitly conceding that vast numbers of Hispanics work illegally.
The result: hiring practices in illegal-immigrant-saturated industries are a charade. Millions of illegal workers pretend to present valid documents, and thousands of employers pretend to believe them. The law doesn't require the employer to verify that a worker is actually qualified to work, and as long as the proffered documents are not patently phony—scrawled with red crayon on a matchbook, say—the employer will nearly always be exempt from liability merely by having eyeballed them. To find an employer guilty of violating the ban on hiring illegal aliens, immigration authorities must prove that he knew he was getting fake papers—an almost insurmountable burden. Meanwhile, the market for counterfeit documents has exploded: in one month alone in 1998, immigration authorities seized nearly 2 million of them in Los Angeles, destined for immigrant workers, welfare seekers, criminals, and terrorists.
For illegal workers and employers, there is no downside to the employment charade. If immigration officials ever do try to conduct an industry-wide investigation—which will at least net the illegal employees, if not the employers—local congressmen will almost certainly head it off. An INS inquiry into the Vidalia-onion industry in Georgia was not only aborted by Georgia's congressional delegation; it actually resulted in a local amnesty for the growers' illegal workforce. The downside to complying with the spirit of the employment law, on the other hand, is considerable. Ethnic advocacy groups are ready to picket employers who dismiss illegal workers, and employers understandably fear being undercut by less scrupulous competitors.
Of the incalculable changes in American politics, demographics, and culture that the continuing surge of migrants is causing, one of the most profound is the breakdown of the distinction between legal and illegal entry. Everywhere, illegal aliens receive free public education and free medical care at taxpayer expense; 13 states offer them driver's licenses. States everywhere have been pushed to grant illegal aliens college scholarships and reduced in-state tuition. One hundred banks, over 800 law-enforcement agencies, and dozens of cities accept an identification card created by Mexico to credentialize illegal Mexican aliens in the U.S. The Bush administration has given its blessing to this matricula consular card, over the strong protest of the FBI, which warns that the gaping security loopholes that the card creates make it a boon to money launderers, immigrant smugglers, and terrorists. Border authorities have already caught an Iranian man sneaking across the border this year, Mexican matricula card in hand.
Hispanic advocates have helped blur the distinction between a legal and an illegal resident by asserting that differentiating the two is an act of irrational bigotry. Arrests of illegal aliens inside the border now inevitably spark protests, often led by the Mexican government, that feature signs calling for "no más racismo." Immigrant advocates use the language of "human rights" to appeal to an authority higher than such trivia as citizenship laws. They attack the term "amnesty" for implicitly acknowledging the validity of borders. Indeed, grouses Illinois congressman Luis Gutierrez, "There's an implication that somehow you did something wrong and you need to be forgiven."
Illegal aliens and their advocates speak loudly about what they think the U.S. owes them, not vice versa. "I believe they have a right . . . to work, to drive their kids to school," said California assemblywoman Sarah Reyes. An immigration agent says that people he stops "get in your face about their rights, because our failure to enforce the law emboldens them." Taking this idea to its extreme, Joaquín Avila, a UCLA Chicano studies professor and law lecturer, argues that to deny non-citizens the vote, especially in the many California cities where they constitute the majority, is a form of apartheid.
Yet no poll has ever shown that Americans want more open borders. Quite the reverse. By a huge majority—at least 60 percent—they want to rein in immigration, and they endorse an observation that Senator Alan Simpson made 20 years ago: Americans "are fed up with efforts to make them feel that [they] do not have that fundamental right of any people—to decide who will join them and help form the future country in which they and their posterity will live." But if the elites' and the advocates' idea of giving voting rights to non-citizen majorities catches on—and don't be surprised if it does—Americans could be faced with the ultimate absurdity of people outside the social compact making rules for those inside it.
However the nation ultimately decides to rationalize its chaotic and incoherent immigration system, surely all can agree that, at a minimum, authorities should expel illegal-alien criminals swiftly. Even on the grounds of protecting non-criminal illegal immigrants, we should start by junking sanctuary policies. By stripping cops of what may be their only immediate tool to remove felons from the community, these policies leave law-abiding immigrants prey to crime.
But the non-enforcement of immigration laws in general has an even more destructive effect. In many immigrant communities, assimilation into gangs seems to be outstripping assimilation into civic culture. Toddlers are learning to flash gang signals and hate the police, reports the Los Angeles Times. In New York City, "every high school has its Mexican gang," and most 12- to 14-year-olds have already joined, claims Ernesto Vega, an illegal 18-year-old Mexican. Such pathologies only worsen when the first lesson that immigrants learn about U.S. law is that Americans don't bother to enforce it. "Institutionalizing illegal immigration creates a mindset in people that anything goes in the U.S.," observes Patrick Ortega, the news and public-affairs director of Radio Nueva Vida in southern California. "It creates a new subculture, with a sequela of social ills." It is broken windows writ large.
For the sake of immigrants and native-born Americans alike, it's time to decide what our immigration policy is—and enforce it.
ANOTHER LA RAZA RAPE
TEXAS – UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION.
A DOZEN MEXICAN ILLEGALS GANG
RAPE A 13 YEAR OLD CHILD FOR HOURS.
THESE ARE THE ANIMALS THAT JUMP OUR BORDERS TO LOOT OUR JOBS, WELFARE AND VOTE DEM!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/mex-infested-texas-really-want-amnesty.html
THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE in AMERICA - President Barack Obama Promises Mexico the Amnesty Hoax or Continued Non-enforcement
Why the Federal Government Can't End Illegal Immigration… HOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INVITED MEXICO TO INVADE AND LOOT, AND PAID FOR THEIR OWN LA RAZA OCCUPATION:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/does-our-government-really-invite.html
DAILY THOUSANDS OF MEXICAN CRIMINALS POUR OVER U.S. BORDERS for OBAMA'S AMNESTY HANDOUT TO LA RAZA
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: No Legal Need Apply!
JUDICIAL WATCH on OBAMA'S SABOTAGE of HOMELAND SECURITY
"This appears to be part of the Obama Administration's bigger plan to blow off Congress by using its executive powers to grant illegal immigrants backdoor amnesty."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/04/amnesty-obamas-promise-to-his-party.html
JOBS? OBAMA'S PLAN IS CALLED AMNESTY!
OBAMA'S ENDLESS ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER: Joe Legal vs Jose Illegal – Joe still gets the tax bills to pay for Jose's "free" anchor baby welfare and emergency room healthcare!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/03/assualt-on-american-worker-joe-legal-vs.html
The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.
A DOZEN MEXICAN ILLEGALS GANG RAPE A 13 YEAR OLD CHILD FOR HOURS.
THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO'S INVASION, OCCUPATION, LOOTING, WELFARE STATE, VIOLENCE, RACISM and CRIME TIDAL WAVE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-devastating-cost-of-mexicos.html
How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy
Immigration's bottom line has shifted so sharply that in a high-immigration state like California, native-born residents are paying up to ten times more in state and local taxes than immigrants generate in economic benefits.
WALL STREET BOUGHT CRONY KING Obama to propose 'grand bargain' on jobs, corporate tax rates - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com
Obama to propose 'grand bargain' on jobs, corporate tax rates - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com
HOW OBAMA and HIS LOOTING WALL STREET BANKSTERS destroyed the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS and then handed us the tax bills for all their crimes
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-president-barack-obama-masterminded.html
BARACK OBAMA - THE MAN THAT BOUGHT A PRESIDENCY WITH A PACK OF CON JOBS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS' LOOT and THE VOTES OF ILLEGALS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-did-barack-obama-con-us-so-long.html
"Right now, the president has nothing but problems. He is universally despised on Capitol Hill — as much by Democrats as Republicans."… BUT HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER CRONIES AND LA RAZA STILL SUPPORT OBAMA. BUT THEN THEY ARE WHO HE REALLY SERVES!
Zogby: Obama is on the verge of failure
BY: PAUL BEDARD
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/06/zogby-fall-of-barack-obama-man-mexico.html
Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that dithering in the White House has President Obama losing control of his agenda and administration.
THE 1% LOOTERS - New York City public housing tenants protest plans for luxury development
New York City public housing tenants protest plans for luxury development
OBAMA'S CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS STILL LOOTING THE NATION! Hedge fund SAC indicted for insider trading
Hedge fund SAC indicted for insider trading
THESE BANKSTERS ARE ALL MAJOR DONORS TO WALL STREET SLUT BARACK OBAMA!
Despite the criminal indictment of SAC, Bloomberg News reported this week that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan are "still providing trading and prime brokerage services to the hedge fund." SAC's systematic criminality is a matter of perfect indifference to these firms, who are themselves engaged in the same types of activity on a daily basis.
CRONY CAPITALISM ...the rise of Barack Obama and the fall of America!
OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA -WHY WALL STREET, ILLEGALS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS and the 1% LOVE HIM, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE SHAFT TO PAY FOR HIS CRONY CAPITALISM
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/obamas-looting-of-america-crony.html
CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm separating the rich and super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than 11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of the Obama "recovery"—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually shrank.
Meanwhile, Obama is pressing forward with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the next fiscal year, to slash $400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from Social Security… AS WELL AS WIDER OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
The goal of the Obama administration, working with the Republicans and local governments, is to roll back the living conditions of the vast majority of the population to levels not seen since the 19th century, prior to the advent of the eight-hour day, child labor laws, comprehensive public education, pensions, health benefits, workplace health and safety regulations, etc.
In response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy.
Obama touts economic "recovery," steps up assault on workers
One day before President Barack Obama kicked off a speaking tour aimed at presenting himself as the champion of a "thriving middle class," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made clear that the administration would provide no federal funds for the city of Detroit.
The city's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, threw the city into bankruptcy last week in order to shred city workers' pensions and health benefits and dismantle basic public services. In reply to questions from the press, Carney on Tuesday declared that the administration "is absolutely not" planning to provide financial assistance to the city, adding that the question of Detroit's debt obligations would have to be decided by "local leaders and creditors."
Detroit's "local leaders"—including Orr, Detroit Mayor David Bing and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder—have been in continual contact with the Obama administration to coordinate their offensive against the working class. The bankruptcy of the former auto capital of the world will be used as a precedent to mount similar attacks, using unelected officials such as Orr and the bankruptcy courts, against workers' pensions and health benefits in cities across the country.
Carney's statement underscores the duplicitous character of Obama's "jobs" speaking tour, which begins Wednesday with an appearance in Galesburg, Illinois. The White House will use the tour to posture as a defender of the "middle class," even as it carries out sweeping attacks on social programs and the pensions and health benefits of public-sector workers, and hundreds of thousands of federal workers begin to lose one day's pay a week as a result of furloughs imposed as part of "sequester" spending cuts.
Obama's renewed public focus on economic issues, like virtually every move the administration makes, is largely dictated by political calculations of the most cynical sort. The aim is to divert attention from the revelations of massive illegal spying by the government on the American people and the unpopular international manhunt and persecution of whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Obama has adopted the catchphrase of "growing the economy from the middle out," as opposed to the "winner-take-all approach" approach of the Republicans, as White House spokesman Jay Carney put it. With characteristic contempt for the intelligence of the public, Obama and his political handlers are seeking to conjure up vast differences in economic policy between the Democrats and Republicans, even as the two parties work hand in glove to impoverish the working class.
The administration's insistence that it will not provide financial assistance to Detroit and its approval of Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's plans to slash the pensions and health benefits of Detroit city workers represent a continuation and escalation of a policy dictated by the corporate and financial elite.
The White House has already made clear that Obama will not advance any significant proposals to address mass unemployment and worsening poverty in his speech in Galesburg Wednesday. Instead, he will take the opportunity to praise his administration's track record on the economy.
Any so-called "jobs" measures he does propose will be tailored to the interests of big business, including tax cuts and subsidies for corporations.
During Tuesday's press conference, Carney bragged about the Obama administration having created 7 million jobs since the start of the economic "recovery." This ignores the fact that the working age population has grown by 9.4 million during this time. The labor force participation rate has fallen every year of the Obama's administration.
The Obama "recovery" has in four years failed to recoup the jobs lost since 2008 by some 2 million. The National Employment Law Project reported last year that while the majority of the jobs lost during the 2008 crash were middle-income, 58 percent of new jobs created during the "recovery" were low-wage, paying between $7.69 and $13.83.
But while the economic situation for millions of people remains disastrous, life has never been better for the social layer Obama really represents. The speculators, swindlers and Wall Street mafia are, thanks to Obama's economic policies, enjoying record stock values and record profits. CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm separating the rich and super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than 11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of the Obama "recovery"—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually shrank.
Meanwhile, Obama is pressing forward with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the next fiscal year, to slash $400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from Social Security.
In response to the ruthless assault of the financial oligarchy, spearheaded by Obama, the working class must advance, no less ruthlessly, its own policy. We call on workers and young people to join the Socialist Equality Party and take up the struggle to break the power of the corporate and financial elite and reorganize society on the basis of social need, not private profit.
Andre Damon
THE 1% PRESIDENT THAT BANKROLLS MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS - Obama rejects federal aid for Detroit
Obama rejects federal aid for Detroit
YOU DON'T FOOL ANYONE OBAMA... YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A BANKSTER-OWNED SLUT FOR WALL STREET INTERESTS AND THE FIRST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST MEXICO ELECTED!
Detroit will serve as a model for using unelected officials, such as the Wall Street bankruptcy lawyer Orr, and the medium of the bankruptcy courts to rip up agreements and gut the pensions and health benefits of millions of workers. Detroit marks a new stage in the assault on the entire working class.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew made the round of the news interview shows Sunday morning and pointedly declared that Detroit had to resolve its own problems through the bankruptcy court. On ABC News' "This Week" program, he said that "when it comes to the questions between Detroit and its creditors, that's really something that Detroit is going to have to work out with its creditors."
Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" program why Detroit was receiving different treatment than the Wall Street banks and the auto companies, Lew said the situation was different at the time of the bank bailout because the entire US economy was hanging in the balance. "The situation in 2009, 2010 was unique, and it's something that hopefully we never see again," he declared.
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Facts of Michael Jordan
Birth Date : February 17, 1963
Birth Place : Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Married With : Yvette Prieto
Horoscope : Aquarius
Net Worth : $2.2 Billion
Height : 6.6 ft
Eye Color : Dark Brown Eyes
Father Name : James R. Jordan Sr.
Mother Name : Deloris Peoples
Michael Jordan may be a former basketball game player happiness to America. he's conjointly recognized as "Air Jordan", or "His Airness".
He is also popular for the best jocks of all time by accumulation as mentioned on the official NBA website.
Michael Jordan: Age, Parents, Siblings
The basketball player was born as Michael Jeffrey Jordan in Brooklyn, big apple to James and Deloris on seventeenth February 1963. He served within the electrical and serious instrumentation business whereas her mother in a bank.
Moreover, their family consisted of 4 different youngsters particularly James R. Jr., Larry, Deloris, and Roslyn. Later on, they settled in Wilmington, North Carolina. Another, he learned to be tireless and freelance through his oldsters throughout his childhood.
His position is Yankee and quality is African-American.
On talking regarding his education history, he joined Wilmington's 'Emsley A. pedagogue High School. The 'University of North Carolina' offered him a scholarship supported his performance in basketball at the ultimate moment.
He received graduation in cultural earth science from that university.
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Michael Jordan: Profession and Career
Firstly, Michael Jordan left the university with the aim of attending the 'NBA Draft' in 1984. However, Team 'Chicago Bulls' selected the young jock when 'Houston Rockets' and 'Portland Trail Blazers' elect players surface-to-air missile James Bowie and Muhammadan Olajuwon, respectively.
He then became in a veryll|one amongst|one in every of} the elements of a gold medal-winning team including players like Steve Alford, surface-to-air missile Perkins, and patron saint Ewing within the 'Summer Olympics' control in 1984.
Additionally, Jordan tested his courage marking an above-average ppg of 28.2 as an area of 'Chicago Bulls', a team that had no such luck with the conclusion throughout 1984-87. Another, the young jock created two hundred steals and one hundred blocks in a single season, is the primary to try and do this in the history of 'NBA'.
Furthermore, Jordan helped the 'Bulls' pass with flying colors the playoffs and reach the 'Eastern Conference' finals within the next season of 1990-91. He all over again became a member of the "dream team" in the 'Summer Olympics' of 1992.
In addition, the jock appeared in 3 seasons of the 'NBA' championship. He was able to beat, 'Utah Jazz' and 'Seattle SuperSonics' in the 2 championships throughout 1995-98. Besides, Jordan took retirement from the sport on Jan 13, 1999. However, came because of the President of Basketball Operations the subsequent year for team 'Washington Wizards.
Moreover, he appeared in his final 'NBA All-Star' match in 2003 against 'Philadelphia 76ers'. Another, he established his own bike sports team particularly 'Michael Jordan Motorsports' in 2004 when he was far away from his post of President with the 'Washington Wizards'.
This gifted player has earned completely different NBA awards, as well as 'Defensive Player of the Year', 'Rookie of the Year', 'Slam Dunk Contest Champion' throughout 1984-88. He conjointly has received the entitle as 'NBA Champion' on varied occasions.
He received the medallion as a member of the winning team within the 'Summer Olympics' in 1984. Another, varied magazines, including 'ESPN Sports', and 'SLAM' have stratified him together of the best sports personalities. 'North geographic region deposit of History', and 'Naismith Memorial' has enclosed him within the 'Hall of Fame'.
Michael Jordan: Salary and Net worth
The player has a colossal quantity of pay that he received from his career however presently unknown. His net worth is calculable to be 2.2 billion bucks as of 2020.
He is additionally related to brands like Nike, Gatorade, Wheaties, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, Ball Park Franks, Rayovac, Hanes, and MCI.
This player features a mansion in Jupiter, Florida, and he also owns a jet worth $50 million.
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Michael Jordan: Rumors and Controversy
He has maintained his personal life and unbroken his life aloof from the media. Thus, there are currently no records and knowledge obtainable relating to his rumors and controversy.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight
The jock Michael Jordan is vi feet 6 inches tall with a body mass of ninety-eight kg. He possesses brown eyes and a bald head.
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Jordan may be active on Twitter and Instagram however not on Facebook. He has got around 46.9K followers on Twitter whereas 18.3M followers on Instagram.
Michael Jordan is a married person. He tied a knot with Juanita Vanoy in Gregorian calendar month 1989 and had been blessed 2 sons, Jeffrey Michael and Marcus James, and a daughter, Jasmine.
The couple filed for divorce on Jan 4, 2002, citing hostile differences, however, reconciled shortly thereafter. They, once more and again, filed for divorce and were granted a final decree of dissolution of the wedding on Gregorian calendar month 29, 2006, commenting that the choice was created "mutually and amicably".
Then, he planned to his old girlfriend, Yvette Prieto, Cuban-American model on Christmas 2011. They tied their knot at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church on Gregorian calendar month 27, 2013.
Prieto gave birth to monozygous twin daughters named Victoria and Ysabel on February 11, 2014.
The couple now could be living a contented life with no signs of rumors and divorce.
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TIFF 2021: Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over Review
by Victor Stiff | September 16, 2021, 4:46 pm
Dionne Warwick has the voice of an angel and the personality of your favourite auntie after three shots of gin. She's an artist who never holds back; not on stage, not in interviews, and certainly not on Twitter. So who better to profile in a retrospective than this talented and glamorous musical queen?
Directors Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner's biographical documentary Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over takes viewers through the pop and R&B star's illustrious career. Most importantly, the film honours Warwick as a pioneer who ploughed through racial and cultural barriers to set a new precedent for black excellence.
Don't Make Me Over is as by-the-numbers as documentaries get. What elevates it above similar docs is its dazzling star and its soul-rocking archival material. Warwick features prominently throughout the doc, speaking directly to the camera and talking us through clips. If you've never experienced a Warwick interview, let me tell you, it's a sight to behold. Warwick always calls it as she sees it, but her harsh words come from a place of love. Auntie Dionne just wants to see people strive to be better.
Wooley and Heilbroner wrangled an all-star cast of interview subjects, including former President Bill Clinton. The film features legendary musicians (Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Elton John), industry moguls (Clive Davis, Berry Gordy), and artists influenced by Warwick's career (Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg). You couldn't ask for a better collection of interviewees. They're long-time entertainment industry pros who spent their careers giving interviews, so they know how to play to the camera.
One standout segment has Snoop Dogg talking about Warwick's feelings on gangsta rap. Back in the '90s, Warwick disapproved of how the genre disrespected women, believing it sets an awful example for kids. So Warwick invited a group of rappers (including Snoop) to a 7AM summit at her home, where she dared them to speak to her like the women on their records. Yikes!
The film does an excellent job contextualizing the challenges Warwick faced breaking into the industry. The thought of mainstream success wasn't even on the table for a black woman born in 1940. Warwick, who started out touring the Chitlin' Circuit, recounts the brutality of the Jim Crow south, sharing stories of being shot at, forced out of towns, and hounded by cops.
Entertaining crowds of knuckle draggers put the singer in dangerous spots, and her defiant attitude didn't make life any easier. Sam Cooke pulled Warwick aside before performing in a segregated room that was literally split down the middle. He warned her never to turn her back on the white audience. Instead, Warwick stepped on stage, turned her back to the white folks and performed for the people who looked like her.
Countless black artists got their start in that era, but couldn't break into the mainstream. Warwick had the perfect combination of talent, drive, and confidence to thrive, even as white America stifled black voices. Warwick's first European album even featured a blonde-haired white woman on the cover. Despite the bait and switch, Warwick still toured Europe and wowed those misinformed fans. Her talent was undeniable.
Warwick is the definition of a trailblazing artist. She forged a pathway to mainstream success for the next generation of black artists. The film dives into how the star's crossover appeal earned her flack in the black community. African Americans accused her of not being black enough, even as she took crap from racists fighting to suppress black culture.
My favourite part of any musical doc is the moment I catch an artist cooking up new music. There's something magical about seeing a musician toiling away and then stumbling into something great. Don't Make Me Over captures one such instance between Warwick and frequent collaborator Burt Bacharach, two hall of fame talents at the top of their game. You're witnessing pop music's version of Jordan soaring through the air for a thunderous dunk. Even if you've witnessed this process a thousand times in a thousand docs, it's never felt this soulful and elegant. This all-too-brief sequence alone is worth the price of admission.
Speaking of magic moments… If I'm watching a Dionne Warwick movie, I don't want the directors overthinking it. At some point they need to step out of the kitchen to let the chef cook. In this case, let the goddess sing. Don't Make Me Over features a handful of moments when the narrative stops so you can sit back and watch Auntie Dionne do her thing. Watching her perform, I realized how badly we need a pristinely remastered Dionne Warwick concert movie. Something similar to Alan Elliott and Sydney Pollack's 2018 Aretha Franklin concert film Amazing Grace. For now, I'll settle for Don't Make Me Over's handful of glorious snippets.
The directors don't gloss over Warwick's career low points. The film briefly touches on the singer's late-career financial woes and her time as the face of the Psychic Friends Network. Ending the story on a high note, Don't Make Me Over pivots to Warwick's activism, specifically her generous contributions to the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
Heilbroner and Wooley pack their film with everything you want from a musical documentary: fantastic music, a one-of-a-kind star, and deep-cut stories from family and friends. It's an inspiring tale of overcoming the odds, filled with beautiful music and prudent life lessons along the way. Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over is a joyful celebration of a generational artist's life and career and one hell of a reason to go to the movies.
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TIFF 2021: Official Competition Review


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Los Angeles Clippers forward Norman Powell, right, drives as Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday,…
Los Angeles Clippers forward Norman Powell, right, drives as Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Murray's early exploits lead Nuggets to rout of Clippers
Posted: Jan 5, 2023 / 10:32 PM MST
DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray sparked Denver early by scoring 13 of his 18 points in the first quarter, and the Nuggets led by as many as 43 in cruising to a 122-91 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night.
The Nuggets picked the perfect time to turn in one of their best performances of the season. In a nationally televised game, Denver was pushing the pace and showing why the team is tied with Memphis for the top spot in the Western Conference. The Nuggets shot 50.6% from the floor and finished with 28 assists.
It wasn't even Nikola Jokic doing most of the damage, either. The two-time reigning NBA MVP had 12 points, six rebounds and nine assists before taking the fourth quarter off.
Murray was one of seven Denver players to finish in double figures. He hit four of the team's 14 3-pointers.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope helped fuel a 19-0 run in the second quarter to turn the game into a rout.
Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and the rest of the Clippers had an off night shooting as they dropped their fourth straight game. They shot 37.4% from the floor, including 5 of 37 from 3-point range.
Leonard finished with six points while George, playing with a sore hamstring, had three. Neither played in the second half and they were a combined 3 of 16 from the field.
None of the Clippers starters scored in double figures. Norman Powell led Los Angeles with 13 points.
Murray set the tone early with his 13-point opening quarter on 5-of-6 shooting. The dynamic point guard is off to an up-and-down start as he works his way back from a torn ACL that caused him to miss last season.
On the plane ride home from a loss in Minnesota this week, Nuggets coach Michael Malone sat next to Murray for a heart-to-heart chat.
"It was me just trying to reach out to a player and show him support," Malone said. "That's just the relationship that Jamal and I have. Constant communication, collaboration."
Clippers: F Nicolas Batum sat out with a sprained left ankle. … G John Wall was inactive (left knee injury management).
Nuggets: Vlatko Cancar had 15 points and 12 rebounds off the bench. … Bones Hyland scored 16.
Clippers: At Minnesota on Friday night.
Nuggets: Host Cleveland on Friday night.


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Q: Reset column index in Pandas to 0,1,2,3...? How do I go about resetting the index of my dataframe columns to 0,1,2,3,4?
(How come doing df.reset_index() doesn't reset the column index?)
>>> data = data.drop(data.columns[[1,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19]], axis=1)
>>> data = data.drop(data.index[[0,1]],axis = 0)
>>> print(data.head())
             0         2    3    4    20
2  500292014600       .00  .00  .00  NaN
3  500292014600    100.00  .00  .00  NaN
4  500292014600  11202.00  .00  .00  NaN
>>> data = data.reset_index(drop = True)
>>> print(data.head())
              0         2    3    4    20
 0  500292014600       .00  .00  .00  NaN
 1  500292014600    100.00  .00  .00  NaN
 2  500292014600  11202.00  .00  .00  NaN

A: Warning: This method has serious potential side effects and should probably not be used - see comments!
Try the following:
df = df.T.reset_index(drop=True).T

A: Try replacing the column names:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import pandas as pd

>>> my_data = [[500292014600, .00, .00, .00, np.nan],
              [500292014600, 100.00, .00, .00, np.nan],
              [500292014600, 11202.00, .00, .00, np.nan]]
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(my_data, columns=[0,2,3,4,20])
>>> df
              0        2    3    4  20
0  500292014600      0.0  0.0  0.0 NaN
1  500292014600    100.0  0.0  0.0 NaN
2  500292014600  11202.0  0.0  0.0 NaN

>>> df.columns = range(df.columns.size)
>>> df
              0        1    2    3   4
0  500292014600      0.0  0.0  0.0 NaN
1  500292014600    100.0  0.0  0.0 NaN
2  500292014600  11202.0  0.0  0.0 NaN

A: In pandas, by index you essentially mean row index. As you can see in your data, the row index is reset after drop and reset_index().
For columns, you need to rename them, you can do something like
data.columns = [ 0,1,2,3,4]

A: I realize there is no answer that can easily be used in a pipeline/method chaining (except the double transpose, but this is a waste of computing in my opinion and has the downside of messing up the dtypes).
One can use set_axis:
df.set_axis(range(df.shape[1]), axis=1)

Used with pipe for method chaining:
df = (pd.DataFrame('x', columns=list('ABCD'), index=range(2))
        .pipe(lambda d: d.set_axis(range(d.shape[1]), axis=1))
     )

output:
   0  1  2  3
0  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x

A: If you have numpy imported with import numpy as np
simply set the columns to zero based indexes with data.columns = [np.arange(0,data.shape[1])]

A: Pure Python Implementation
We enumerate the columns of the dataframe to create an array of items. Then we map the function reversed to each item in the array. Lastly, we create and input the dictionary as the parameter columns in the data frame object method rename.
columns = dict(map(reversed, enumerate(df.columns)))
df = df.rename(columns=columns)
df.head()

Results:
              0        1    2    3   4
0  500292014600      0.0  0.0  0.0 NaN
1  500292014600    100.0  0.0  0.0 NaN
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How come when i use df.reset_index the index of my columns is not reset?

The column "index" is really more of a column title. It's possible that someone may using the "index" as a meaningful title. For example, perhaps they represent "Trial 1", "Trial 2", etc., so you wouldn't want to re-index it automatically and lose the significance.

How do I go about resetting this index to 0,1,2,3,4?

To reset the column indexes:
df.columns = range(df.columns.size)

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The Foundation funds educational projects, programs, technologies and initiatives which are not typically within the parameters of the school system's budget. The Foundation is operated and controlled as a non-political entity independent of both the Board of Education and the Wallingford Public Schools, is not funded by any state or municipal governmental budgets. The Foundation is recognized as a 501(c)(3) Public Charity and is a certified non-stock cooperation in the State of Connecticut, and is a member of the Connecticut Consortium of Education Foundations.
The Wallingford Education Foundation is a non-profit, community-based partnership supporting educational innovation and excellence in our town.
The Wallingford Education Foundation empowers ideas and enhances educational experiences for students, educators and community members. It provides financial support outside the education budget that is aligned with the goals and focus areas of the District's strategic plan.
Funds in the amount of approximately $156,700 raised by the Foundation have enabled it to provide annual Educational Impact and Professional Development grants for programs initiated by exceptional school teachers. These grants are typically between $500-$5,000 and are not renewable. Perhaps our greatest achievement to date, the educational impact grants, have enable thousands of students to participate in a more fulfilling educational experience.
The Foundation has done two signature projects. The first donation in the amount of $28,000 was Cook's Table Restaurant at Lyman Hall High School. The Foundation's donation helped to provide restaurant- grade kitchen equipment, furniture, linens, tableware and more. The second signature project was the digital restoration of the Mahan Planetarium and Learning Dome at Sheehan High School. The Foundation raised over $110,000 with donations, fundraisers, grants, and corporate sponsors. This premier facility will be used by Wallingford students and residents, as well as students and residents from other communities.
In February, 2005 the Foundation received a sizeable gift from the Estate of William Giordano, Sr. for the purpose of providing a scholarship to graduating seniors from Sheehan and Lyman Hall High Schools. The William Giordano Sr. Scholarship is funded by the Foundation, and administered by the Wallingford Public Schools. Students are encouraged to contact the Guidance Departments at each high school for more information.
The Foundation awards two scholarships each year to graduating seniors through the William Giordano Memorial Scholarship Fund.


Time: Just how do you want to spend it?
Geographic location. Career direction. Interpersonal relationships. There's a lot in life that can be negotiated, however, time will never make the list. After all, we only have so much to divide up in a variety of different ways. I know who and what matters to me; I'm focused. It probably has something to do with my personality type. Moreover, it has a bit to do with something my father said to me as a teenager: "John, people make time for what's important to them." He's right. Now, I want the people I love to know what they mean to me, and this is reflected, in part, by the time that I make for them. I never want anyone to wonder about how much I care. The older I get, the more I think about the fact that I won't be here forever. You know, everyday behavior says a lot about a person's values and priorities. The more responsibilities and/or diversions that you have, the less invested you can be in anything you do. I've long believed that the people who claim to be everywhere are really nowhere because it's simply impossible to effectively divide one's time, attention, and/or energy between a variety of different obligations. In the end, someone is going to be shortchanged, and, let's face it, nobody likes feeling penciled in. Do you? I don't. Ah, but there's a solution to this problem: be honest with yourself and exercise the power of individual choice by focusing on who and what is truly central to your life.
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Have you been looking for Places that give you goosebumps seeing the natural beauty .You feel astonished with just a glimpse of Mountain or hills .Seeing a wild animal makes you go crazy . Then Portland is the place to go !
In Portland, there is an abundance of thriving sceneries that make your heart crave for more.
Here I present 6 places to visit in Portland , Oregon that give you excitement and let your emotions burst out !
#1 Mount Hood is the most glorious places to visit in Portland ,Oregon. It is Oregon's highest peak. In and Around Mt hood, adventure is overloaded from historic lodges to unbeatable slopes and varieties of food options to satisfy your craving for delicious food.
About 90 minutes from Portland is the historic Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, which has ski rentals through the summer months.
Its series of glaciers make skiing possible year-round. Try "skinning," or ski touring up the mountain on backcountry skis and pack a picnic lunch to enjoy among the alpine rocks.
Surfing at Oregon coast is the most beautiful feeling ever. There are various spots across the Oregon coast for both the beginners and Veterans.
Whether you go for the surfing or the sunset, Indian Beach in Ecola State Park is one of the most beautiful spots along the Oregon coastline.
This Seaside spot is protected from the south wind and is a popular spot for Surfing classes.
Short Sands beach is located in Smugglers Cove, part of Oswald West State Park. Park your vehicle at one of the trailheads on Highway 101 and wander out the the ocean.
Pacific City is perfect for Beginners to practice and view the gorgeous Chief Kiawanda Rock.
Otter Rock is famous for the Otter Rock and Roll youth surf contest, as well as the Devil's Punchbowl rock formation.
Agate Beach is located on the south side of Yaquina Head,near Newport and is protected from the north wind.
Distance : Twenty minutes east of Portland, there are diverse range of waterfalls.
Today, a tour of the Columbia River Gorge waterfalls can be done by car or by hiking trails, but you can't really get the full experience unless you do both – there are too many good falls to hike through in one adventure, and too many good falls that you can't see by car.
Latourell Falls – The first major waterfall driving east into the Gorge, Latourell Falls cascades 224 feet and can be accessed easily from a short trail that leads to a viewpoint, as well as slightly longer treks to the base and top of the waterfall.
Bridal Veil Falls – Keep driving east on the Historic Columbia River Highway to find Bridal Veil Falls, a beautiful waterfall that drops 118 feet in two tiers. A short third-mile pathway leads to the falls.
Wahkeena Falls – Just down the historic highway from Multnomah Falls, the misty Wahkeena Falls can be found a short walk up a paved trail from a small parking lot. Hikers can continue up along the Multnomah-Wahkeena Loop trail.
Multnomah Falls – The tallest waterfall and most popular natural destination in Oregon, Multnomah Falls is truly a magnificent sight. Water from Multnomah Creek drops a whopping 635 feet in two tiers, crossing beneath the iconic Benson Bridge on its way. It's absolutely an Oregon treasure but, no, it's not the second tallest waterfall in the U.S.
Horsetail Falls – Considered to be "the epitome of the horsetail form" by the World Waterfall Database, Oregon's own Horsetail Falls is a must-see on any Columbia River Gorge trip, found along the Historic Columbia River Highway just east of the Oneonta Tunnel.
Starvation Creek Falls – Located on the far eastern side of the Gorge, Starvation Creek Falls is one of the most accessible waterfalls in the area, and is ironically a great spot to stop for lunch (though the "starvation" name came from a very real pioneer crisis). It's well known as a rest stop, but the spectacular 227-foot waterfall is well worth it on its own.
Drive an hour and 20 minutes east of Portland through the Columbia River Gorge to reach the Rowena Plateau.
Rowena plateau is a transition zone between the wet Pacific Northwest and dry Oregon desert, hence supports a variety of plant life—including a number of stunning wildflower species, which bloom each spring.
On windy days, plateau hikes make for the perfect vantage point to watch kite-surfers in the river below.
Also never forget to take "The hairpin turn " .
In Portland , Haystack Rock is a massive vertical column of stone or "sea stack" extending out of Cannon Beach.
Distance : Just 90 minutes from downtown Portland, it's an impressive place to watch a Pacific Ocean sunset.
In the summer, its the best place to spot the exotic orange-beaked Tufted Puffin, which nests on the rock.
Distance : About an hour south of Portland lies the spreading wine country of the Willamette Valley.
Chehalem Mountains region has the best track wine tastings.
Tualatin National Wildlife Refuge is also on the way for awesome scenery and wildlife .


DB Briefs: Danger of a deteriorating social mood / China's shifting economic sands / Is bank recapitalization the answer?
Dominant Social Theme: Everything is OK and don't you worry. The elites know how to handle the economy, and you will retire rich, even if you don't think so now.
Free-Market Analysis: The writer of this article, Peter Atwater, has hit upon a kind of anti-meme. He believes that "Everything we [in the West] need to do for long-term economic, if not societal, success and stability comes with very severe short-term consequences." And thus it has not been done. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's monetary stimuli are not the answer, he argues. More radical solutions are required. What is necessary is a severe reinforcement of economic "chastity." Banks must be strengthened; nations must cease to spend; citizens must accept austerity.
Of course, this is a power elite theme of itself: that the larger world (and Western) economy is an irresponsible one and that the West's leadership has proven inadequate to the task. Here at the DB, we disagree. The issue is not austerity or cost-cutting. Responsible leadership in our view is that which demands an end to the elite's ruinous central banking economy and a return to some sort of competitive money, which would inevitably feature silver and gold.
Somehow, despite Atwater's concerned gloom, we don't sense he's ready for the really radical reconfigurations necessary to build healthy economies. He apparently feels that reshuffling the proverbial deck chairs is a revolutionary act.
Dominant Social Theme: Don't worry about China. This is one powerful and far-sighted country.
Free-Market Analysis: This article in the Telegraph about China is an interesting one because unlike many mainstream articles it dares to ask the question whether the "Chinese Miracle" is nothing but hype and the proverbial madness of crowds.
We've been writing about the demise of the Chinese Miracle for several years now. And articles like this one only reinforce our conclusions. China's old communist leaders simply don't know what to do. They've thrust China into the modern era, but in a manipulative and controlled way (see Sino-Forest Corp.) that is merely storing up problems for the future. Eventually, the dam is likely going to break – metaphorically and in reality. The catastrophic results may shake the world.
Is bank recapitalization the answer?
Dominant Social Theme: Strengthen the banks to strengthen the EU.
"We are in a dangerous new phase. The stakes are clear: we risk seeing the fragile recovery derailed, so we must act now," she said. "Banks need urgent recapitalisation. If it is not addressed we could easily see the further spread of economic weakness to core countries, even a debilitating liquidity crisis. The most efficient solution would be mandatory substantial recapitalisation," she said.
Lagarde is a lawyer by training, so perhaps we should give her the benefit of the doubt. But such warnings are merely part and parcel of a larger elite charade in our view (and Lagarde now works directly for the elite). The "reserves" a bank holds in the modern era are nothing but paper certificates. It is difficult to see how holding more or fewer of them contributes to a bank's solvency.
If she were to demand that banks hold gold or silver reserves, we would be more impressed. But that would be too sensible. Instead, she will no doubt continue to offer this sort of nonsensical rhetoric. In the age of central banking, a bank's solvency is far more dependent on the largesse of central banks.
If Lagarde were truly sincere about bank recapitalization, she would examine the linkages between central bankers and their commercial banking brethren. Those with the strongest relationships would been seen as having the healthiest banking prospects. No doubt, this is an overly cynical recipe. But it is a realistic one.
1. Israel- This Anglo-American beach head into the Middle East was first conceived by the most powerful family in the world,the Rothschilds, in 1917. The Balfour Declaration said that there will be a Zionist Israel years before World War Two and the eventual establishment of Israel. Israel has not been a good neighbor to its Muslim nations and has always had the two biggest bullies on the block at its back. When the dollar collapses, the United States will have much too much on its plate both domestically and internationally to worry about such a non-strategic piece of land. This will leave Israel very weak at a time when tensions will be high. This very thin strip of desert land will not be able to withstand the economic reality of importing its food and fuel or the political reality of being surrounded by Muslims.
2. Southern California- The land of Fruits and Nuts turns into Battlefield Los Angeles. Twenty million people packed into an area that has no water and thus food is not good to say the least. Throw on top of the huge wealth disparities and the proximity to a narco state and this does not bode well. We have seen riots for Rodney King, what will happen when the dollar is destroyed and food and fuel stop coming into this area? People will get desperate and do crazy things, especially when a huge proportion of its citizens are on anti-depressants. If food and fuel cannot get in, what about Zolfot? At a time when the world is falling apart, they lack the ability to deal with this new paradigm. If people come off of these drugs too fast they suffer psychotic breaks and you will have thousands of shootings or suicides.
3. England- The Land of the Big Brother and former Empire of world wide slave and drug trade will suffer heavily. The stiff upper lip that their the British Elite ingrained into their sheeple will not work any more as the British population explodes. The human character will sacrifice and unite for a foreign enemy, but not if the enemy has always been the Elite. The Anglo-American Empire may pull off another false flag to distract its population on another Emmanuel Goldstein like in 1984, but I feel this collapse will happen before they pull it off. This will make all eyes point at the British Elite as solely responsible for this catastrophe. We have seen massive riots for soccer matches with hooligans. What will happen when this island with very little food and fuel gets cut off?
4. New York City- Another large urban area living too high on the dollar hog. NYC is the area I moved out of in 2008. There is little doubt that all of the wealth in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is derived from Wall Street wealth. The savings and investments of the whole nation and much of the world flows through this financial capital. As the world wakes up to the massive financial fraud, this will lead to the destruction of capital like we have never seen before. This will have tremendous effects on the regional economy as people (perhaps owning very expensive cars) suddenly wonder where their next meal is coming from.
5. Washington D.C.- The political collapse of the Federal Government will wreak havoc on the hugely inflated local economy. As more and more states find it necessary to assert their natural control, the Federal Government will suddenly lose power and importance as the whole world suffers from a Global Hurricane Katrina. The money that they create and spend will become worthless and the government minions' pensions will evaporate. Millions that once relied on the ability to force others to send their money to them will learn that the real power has always been at the most local level. Massive decentralization will be the answer to globalization gone mad. Local families and communities will forgo sending money and power out of their community as they will care about their next meal and keeping warm.
To sum up,those areas that have lived highest on the hog in the dollar paradigm will most likely be the worst places to live when the dollar collapses. Many of you will find this article of passing interest, but rest assured this dollar collapse is coming. It is a mathematical inevitability. We will not be as fortunate to muddle through this collapse like we did in 2008 when it was a corporate problem. This time around, it is a national and global problem. The global Ponzi scheme has run out of gas as the demographics decline, as cheap abundant oil declines, as hegemonic power declines. This comes at a time when we reach the exponential or collapse phase of our money. The Irresistible Force Paradox says, "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?" We are about to find out,when infinite money hits a very finite world.
THE YEAR WAS 2002, AND WHILE THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WERE COMPLETELY OBSESSED WITH THE SO-CALLED "War On Terror" and other devices of distraction, something much more real and decidedly prophetic was going on in our southern hemisphere. Argentina was in the midst of total collapse, driven by banker fraud and extreme currency devaluation in tandem with government mismanagement and corruption. First, cities exploded with rioting and violence as Argentinian police and military attempted to crush all dissent. Soon after, displaced refugees from population centers along with roving bands of thieves flooded into the countryside, wiping out isolated farms, murdering families, and hunting down any small group of survivors weaker than themselves and flush with supplies. The authorities (and I use the term loosely) were too busy trying to suppress civil protests to bother protecting those who were caught unprepared.
I and most other Americans have never personally lived through such a collapse, though some would be preppers rather boldly claim to be experts on surviving these specific kinds of catastrophes. I am not an expert, and neither is anyone else who has not experienced a collapse first hand. However, we CAN learn from the experiences of experts; those people who lived through the Great Depression, the Argentina crisis, the implosion of Bosnia, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the ongoing breakdown in Greece, etc. We can analyze their successes, and their failures, and devise solutions based on that which actually WORKED, instead of the random theories of people who can only guess at what life is like in the thick of hell.
One solution that has consistently been adopted and applied by numerous societies across the globe in the face of a stratum of different calamities is the art of community building. This strategy has proven itself over and over again regardless of catastrophic conditions. It is not theory. It is not debatable. Community networking has been proven time and again as a means of subsisting safely during depression, hyperinflation, mass hysteria, despotism, martial law, and even widespread war. Unfortunately, it is a methodology that has gone mostly ignored by many Americans, even those who are well aware of impending economic danger.
I'll be the first to admit that some people are unreliable if not downright pathetic. On top of this, many in our culture find it necessary to exaggerate their abilities or their resolve until they are faced with an actual crisis, and then they fold like a wet blade of grass. Counting on such men is a waste of time and energy, not to mention, dangerous. Certainly, every prepper should have the ability to make it on his own, at least for a short time, in a collapse environment, and anyone who does not have that option is in some serious trouble.
I write a lot about "dangerous assumptions", almost to the point of feeling ill, because most if not all of America's problems are either caused or exacerbated by them. We presume too much too often, and it always comes back to bite us. Presuming that one will never be forced into a situation where he might have to survive alone for a time is foolish. There is no guarantee that we will always have others to fall back on, or that we will never be driven from our homes. On the other hand, it is equally foolish to presume that you will not face even worse circumstances while you are on your own. Unless you have the ability to go for weeks without sleep, and to be alert to every conceivable detail at every conceivable moment, it is insane to CHOOSE lone wolf survival over community and mutual defense. Its good to have the ability to go solo, but if you want to actually make it through a collapse similar to that which occurred in Argentina or worse, eventually you will have to work with others. This is not my opinion, it is a fact made concrete by numerous economic disasters around the world.
I'm not sure where this nonsensical theory came from, but it definitely didn't get started by anyone who has actually lived through economic implosion. The root of this strange position is that organizing networks of people for trade and for defense makes you a visible "target" for a corrupt government. At least, that's the argument. It may be true that more focused groups of liberty minded people are indeed placed on lists, and singled out for surveillance or media ridicule, however, we need to apply some logical thought here.
See, things are good! China is in a good shape, Europe is recovering and America has the political will to deal with its problems. Recovery is on the way. No problem!
We are not convinced by the endless stream of happy talk that emanates from the mainstream media these days. Our view is less benign. From what we can see, the world is descending into a kind of controlled (or uncontrolled) Great Depression. It's taking time but the arc is clear.
This article will illustrate yet again how mainstream media covers the world – China in particular – and why the reality is so much different. We regularly observe that the world's conversation is organized via the Anglosphere elites' "dominant social themes." These fear-based promotions are intended to strip wealth and prosperity from the middle class in order to increase control of globalist institutions. But the Anglosphere elites also work via OMMISSION. That is, in addition to advocating fear, they actively encourage ignorance.
We are well past considering it to be coincidence. The world's economy is a kind of planned madhouse. Those in power have inflicted upon it scores of central banks – all busily printing/creating money from nothing at the push of a button. Those who run these central banks are well aware of their ruinous disposition. They understand fully the boom bust cycle that brings bankruptcy and hopelessness to so many. But one does not ever acknowledge this. If one works within the system, one is not supposed to.
Mainstream media coverage provides us with a disparate view: Each element of the puzzle is treated incidentally. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes bad. But … somehow … the Western world's economic situation continues to erode.
What is the result? Sooner or later, planned or not, the conclusion shall be reached. It will presented as a coincidental fait accompli, a solution that has occurred quite by accident, an evolution that seems inevitable but was not in any sense (so we are to believe) preordained: What is to be the apex of all this? A shiny new world order, perhaps, complete with a global currency.
In the meantime we are not supposed to notice the truth. Not ever. And what are the over-riding sub-dominant social themes when it comes to the world's non-existent economic recovery? In no particular order … Europe's crisis is being dealt with; America is on the rebound; the BRICS are healthy and China continues to expand at a rapid pace while controlling inflation. If you believe this, dear reader, we have a bridge to sell you in downtown Brooklyn, NY.
There is ample evidence that none of this is as it seems. The US is broke. Involved in an ever-spreading war on terror, American political and corporate elites can't agree on how to confront an impending national default. In Brussels, powerful Eurocrats are meeting for the umpteenth time to deal with a sovereign crisis that never seems to go away.
Price inflation? China and the BRICS generally continue to announce that price inflation is under control: Every month the leaders of these countries assure it is so, while continuing to put into place Draconian price-fixing policies to control what is already controlled. It IS controlled. They tell us so.
In fact, America is staggering; it is finally retreating from its horrible wars not because the military-industrial complex wants to, but because it has to. The Pentagon, like the rest of the country, is broke. Europe is broke, too. And China has printed so much money that it has had to forbid people from buying and selling real estate.
There are more problems. Japan is reeling from a devastating earthquake. Russia is collapsing into a morass of corruption leavened only by additional "terrorism" and Africa faces devastating drought accompanied by "food insecurity" that threatens starvation for tens of millions.
Listen to the mainstream media and none of the above is placed into perspective. The reporting is serial and disconnected. In many cases it is determinedly optimistic. It wouldn't do for elite media to admit the truth. The idea that the Western dollar reserve system basically died in 2008 and only the injection of some US$50 TRILLION around the world has saved the system from complete collapse is not an acceptable epiphany.