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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Nation Wide Boycott:..CNN...MSNBC...ABC...CBS...NBC.




If anyone needs full copy on this please let me know..I can provide all copy of this to include the logo's and text for posting in full.

As everyone knows...The mainstream media has not been reporting the news to the american people in an honest manner for a long time now...Their advertisers want us to purchase their products..this is what pays the bills at the networks....We the people want unbiased and fair reporting from the news media..We definately are not getting that from the mentioned media outlets listed below.

The time has come to boycott these media outlets and their advertisers...We have included live links in each one of the banners listed below...Please click on the banner and contact these NON media Liars and biased government owned organizations and let them know that you do not appreciate your intelligence being insulted by their biased BS...

We need to get the word out NOW..ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!..If they do not want to report the news in a fair and unbiased way....Then we do not need them...and we certainly do not need to support those companies that pay them with their advertising dollars either.

Tell everyone you know to help with this...We CAN DO THIS!...But we all need to band together for a nationwide effort....Post this every place you possibly can and please encourage others to do so.

The following Biased NON news organizations below are not worthy of our time to watch or listen too As they can not be trusted to report news without being biased and one sided!





















These networks are biased leftwing organizations that do nothing but sponsor one agenda in american politics...They do not service what so ever to the american people in the one sided biased things they talk about!...There fore they are of no use to the american people other than to sponsor the agenda of the corrupt Leftwing extremist Barack Hussien Obama and the rest of the socialist criminals in Washington DC.

The Intelligence Report Media Group

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE



On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The Director of Communications at the White House Office of Health Reform is Linda Douglass, who worked as a reporter for ABC News from 1998-2006.

Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

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ABCNEWS Senior Vice President Kerry Smith on Tuesday responded to the RNC complaint, saying it contained 'false premises':

"ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers -- of all political persuasions -- even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.

"ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience."

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Lusty Chorus of Boos Mock Obama’s “I Have a Scheme” Speech




Mind-boggling experiment in liberal guilt abatement called Obamamania

By John Lillpop Tuesday, June 16, 2009

It seems like decades ago that the greatest nation of earth began a mind-boggling experiment in liberal guilt abatement called Obamamania.

That phenomenon essentially turned the mantle of federal power over to a young, handsome and charismatic, but tragically unqualified, black man from the streets of Chicago.

Just five months ago, the Windy City turned itself upside down in celebrating the coronation-deification of Barack Obama whose formula for CHANGE would, we were promised, fix all of the messes left by his predecessor, the unlovable George W. Bush, and all who preceded W. in mismanaging the government from the Oval Office.

From the depressed economy to the war on terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the health care crisis, failing automobile industry, illegal immigration disaster, to America’s battered image among Mullahs and communist dictators all across the globe, this Obama fellow was the answer.

So we were told.

As it turns out, Barack Obama has gone from the pinnacle of adoration and glory to being the object of lusty boos in just five short months.

Moreover, in his hometown while speaking from the presidential lectern to boot!

As reported, in part, at Breitbart:

“Barack Obama isn’t used to hearing boos.

“For all the young president’s popularity, the response he got Monday from doctors at an American Medical Association meeting was a sign his road is only going to get rockier as he tries to sell his plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

“The boos erupted when Obama told the doctors in Chicago he wouldn’t try to help them win their top legislative priority—limits on jury damages in medical malpractice cases.

“But what could they expect? If Obama announced support for malpractice limits, that would set trial lawyers and unions—major supporters of Democratic candidates—on the attack. Not to mention consumer groups.”

Still, there IS hope: Mid-term elections are but 17 months away, at which time the American people can isolate the Obamamania pandemic by removing many of his left wing co-conspirators from the US Congress!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Challenge to FOX NEWS! Report on Facts NOT Emotions

Here is somethings that are not matching the issues.

Everyone on Fox is so strongly out to attack anyone who is seeking the birth certificate.
Labeling all of who are demanding for FACTs to be disclosed on Obama and his proof he is legally entited to hold the office of Commander In Cheif according to the US Constitution...
The Fox News is labeling anyone who has being such as a VERY SMall Group of Extremists.
It is carefully placing a mirror to anyone who holds these veiws as someone who is also a "Nut Case"
That We are not entitled to hold a true concern on what impacts the current paths of Obama has taken us down to socialisim.
Fox News is also going on with the statments that lable anyone who has these ideals and are claiming now that DHS Was right by their actions without a thorough investigation into the background of the indivudial who done the acts in the Holocaust Museum.

Fox News has also labeled anyone who opposes Obama and the issues related to thge constitutional facts he is not entitled to hold the position of President and Commander in Cheif as Hating Jews and Racists!!!

If Fox News wants to go into facts I challenge FACTS.
I challenge them to begin reporting on news that was given to thiem from a woman in Israel when a File Cabinet was sold to her by the US Consulate with records of US Tax Dollars being given to the Terrorist Group Fatah youth Group.
I also challenge them to be more concise and accurate in their actual reporting when it comes to reporting facts that I know I have personally sent to Hannity and Beck as well as Col Oliver North.
If they want to report facts? Then Do it!!!
Do not hide behind a shadow of fear.
When the "Pandemic" Was an issue I showed Fox News this was a Hoax.
From Doctors! even Dr Ron Paul!!! and yet it was not reported!!!

This is not fair reporting!
It also proves a very powerful statement.
There is no truth in the News and No News in the Truth!!
I am a bit skeptical on this act of violence. I will not say that it was Government intervention into stir up a panic. But I will not refuse this as being possible.
Was it something that was a lone man? or was it something that was spured on by any government agency. US Or otherwise.
Where did he get the Ammunition ?
Where did he get the weapon?
Yet more important who is this guy?
For one Fox News already reported that he was not just any World War II Veteran. He was the Commander of a PT Boat.
This means that he was an commissioned officer during WWII.
This also suggests that he has been involved in OSS which years later became the CIA.
He is been reported as having a criminal record of going into the Federal Reserve with a weapon back in the 1950;s This was during the same time frame as when Paul Volcker was part of the Federal Reserve (1953) in NY.
It is also important to look at not just the accused background it is important to look at all the details of this matter!
This is nothing more then a smoking gun into what the Federal Government wants to do if you disagree with actions they are taking and are not part of the two party system Maybe?
My heart and prayers go out to these whom where injured. Although I am not going to sit and state that this was not something that was a clandestine operation to escalate a more dubious action that the Federal Government wants to do to control the people. Even a tactic that would be argued to seize firearms.

Here is something to look at as well.
The Man that is accused attacked a Jewish Museum. This would resemble being a possible Pro Palestine movement. If you are not for the Jews you are against them. If you are a Christian. A truely bible knowledged Christian you know that Jews are the Children of God. and you also understand that the True Jewish Sect is not the enemy it is the Government which attempts to supress and create a clandestine Unrest among peoople that is the enemy.
When you listen to the News you here all the praise of Obama visiting the Concentration Camp.
What you haven't seen though was his actual interest in this issue!
By this I mean: He didn't take his Great Uncle on the trip. He didn't even provide him a means to go As I showed in the reported interview.

What you have seen is that this Administration has been condoning the acts of Iran being allowed to have Nuclear weapons. What you have seen is Hamas has been invited to talks and commended by this Administration
What you have seen is John Kerry and others Visit Syria an enemy of not only the US but Israeal
Actions speak louder then words people.
And the actions that I have witnessed is not matching up to the short visit to a concentration camp that Obama had made a mistaken identity of being liberated with Ostwitz which was actually liberated by the Russian Army. and only after he was exposed in yet another Lie.. YES I CALL IT LIKE IT IS!!! TAKE IT OR LEAVE ME I DO NOT CARE!!!. Obama only after he found out he was using his Uncle who he never spoke to about had to ask him about his time in the Army and liberating Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

If you disagree with me it is ok! But I know the facts! and the truth sets one free!
And all who understand what the Federal Government and NWO ajenda is they also know that we must act rationally in our dissent!
But only until the Government acts against the God Given Rights. And then we must.. I repeat. MUST Stand up for our Rights with deadly force if need be.

A quote from Major General Smedley Butler
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. - War is a Racket.
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/major_general_smedley_butler_usm.htm

The Obama PAYGO Farce...And Folks This Is A Farce If There Ever Was One.



Did you ever know anyone that would repeatedly go out to the bar, drink themselves unconscious, and then wake up the next morning and promise never to drink again? That is President Barack Obama when it comes to spending. This February, after signing the largest single-year increase in domestic federal spending since World War II, President Obama held a “fiscal responsibility” summit designed to “send a signal that we are serious” at putting the nation on sounder financial footing. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank quipped at the time: “Holding a ‘fiscal responsibility summit’ at the White House in the middle of a government spending spree is a bit like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at a frat house on homecoming weekend.”

Obama completed the exact same kabuki act yesterday, calling on Congress to pass “pay-as-you-go” legislation (PAYGO) the day after he promised faster deficit spending to stimulate the economy. Commenting on President Obama’s exemption for entitlement spending in his PAYGO legislation, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas said: “This is like quitting drinking, but making an exception for beer and hard liquor.”

In theory, PAYGO sounds like common sense: Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere. In reality, PAYGO is nothing more than a political gimmick that only enables higher spending and exploding deficits. Heritage fellow Brian Riedl explains:

1) PAYGO has never been enforced

* During the 1991-2002 round of statutory PAYGO, Congress and the President still added more than $700 billion to the budget deficit and simply cancelled every single sequestration that would have enforced PAYGO.
* Since the 2007 creation of the PAYGO rule, Congress has waived it numerous times in order to add $600 billion to the deficit. In fact, the entire “stimulus” bill violated PAYGO; Congress simply ignored the rule.

2) PAYGO’s design is flawed

* PAYGO exempts all discretionary spending, and would also allow all current entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to continue growing on autopilot. It affects only new entitlements or tax cuts that may be created in the future.
* Even if PAYGO were fully enforced, entitlement spending would still grow 6 percent annually, and discretionary spending could grow without limit.

Already this year Obama expanded Medicaid liabilities by $200 billion over 10 years, and he is now pushing a public health insurance option that would cost $452 billion per year, or more than $6 trillion over a 10-year period. How does Obama plan to pay for all this new spending under his new PAYGO legislation? He doesn’t. The AP reports: “It would carve out about $2.5 trillion worth of exemptions for Obama’s priorities over the next decade. His health care reform plan also would get a green light to run big deficits in its early years.” So if President Obama does get his trillion dollar health care plan passed, you can count on another “fiscal responsibility summit” soon thereafter.

Quick Hits:

* In an unsigned opinion last night, the Supreme Court acquiesced to Obama administration claims that car companies are also financial institutions and refused to grant a stay to Chrysler’s Chapter 11 sale to Fiat.
* Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) defended his intervention on behalf of a General Motors center in his district, claiming his example will not lead other lawmakers to do the same thing.
* In the Washington Post, Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon says the Obama administration’s defense budget is “insufficient to support the national security establishment over the next five years.”
* Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) unilaterally set Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing for July 13 yesterday.
* A new study shows that trains emit more greenhouse gas over their full life-cycle than airplanes do.

Video: Obama Stimulus Hope vs Job Loss Reality

Who Is Minding The Store

Friday, June 5, 2009

Exclusive: FBI Probes Muhammad's Ties to Ohio Mosque





FBI Wants to Know If Ohio Mosque Has Link to Terror

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, PIERRE THOMAS and JACK DATE
June 4, 2009


Nuradin Abdi was convicted in 2007 of planning to blow up an Ohio shopping mall.
A suspect is in custody amid reports of homegrown terrorism.

Iyman Faris was convicted in 2003 of planning to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

Christopher Paul was convicted in 2008 of conspiring to use explosives against targets in the U.S. and Europe.

All three terrorists worshiped and socialized at a small mosque in Columbus, Ohio, and, according to David B. Smith, an attorney for Faris, were part of a larger group of jihadists and extremists who frequented the mosque.

The FBI now is investigating reports of links to that same mosque by Muslim-convert Abdulhakim Muhammad who allegedly shot and killed one soldier Monday and critically wounded another in a drive-by attack on a Little Rock, Ark., recruiting station, ABC News has learned.

According to law enforcement sources, they have received reports that Muhammad appears to have attended the mosque during a period from 2006 to 2007 when evidence indicates he resided in Columbus. It is unclear what, if any, links he had to the individuals already convicted.

However, his possible links to the mosque are one promising avenue under investigation as the government attempts to reconstruct Muhammad's path to radicalization and to establish firmly whether he acted alone in the recruiting station shooting.

The mosque, according to well informed sources, is a small house of worship that has regularly been frequented by foreigners with radical sympathies who, after their stops in Ohio, continued onward. The Imam of the mosque was not immediately available for comment.

Columbus has been identified as the jumping off point for Somalis residing in the United States, including Somali Americans, to become radicalized and then head overseas to wage jihad.

Muhammad most recently had come to the attention of law enforcement authorities following his arrest in Yemen last year while carrying a forged Somali passport.

Muhammad, 24, was the subject of a preliminary investigation by the FBI's Joint Terrorist Task Force and may have also been the subject of a prior investigation by authorities in Columbus, Ohio.

Muhammad's Travels to Yemen Scrutinized

His travels to Yemen are another promising area of investigation by the FBI and to other intelligence agencies. While in Yemen it is believed that Muhammad attended the Damaj Institute, an Islamic institute attended by a number of radicalized U.S. converts, which was once attended by John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" captured in Afghanistan.

It is unknown what role Muhammad's visit to Yemen may have played in his radicalization. His lawyer Jim Hensley told the Associated Press today that Muhammad went to Yemen to teach English to Afghan war refugees, but was jailed over problems with his visa.

Hensley said Muhammad was "tortured" and "radicalized" while in the Yemeni prison.

Prior to his drive-by shooting at the Little Rock recruiting center, Muhammad had used the Google Maps application to investigate recruiting centers in at least five other states, as well as Jewish institutions, a day care center, a post office and a Baptist Church, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security, ABC News has learned. Recruiting centers in New York, Atlanta, Louisville and Philadelphia were on a list of possible targets, based on evidence found in Muhammad's home, according to the report.

A not-for-profit group the Secure Community Network, which is known to be reliable when concerned with threats to parts of the U.S. Jewish community, expanded on the government report.

"Muhammad may have considered and conducted research on other targets in addition to the military recruiting center in Little Rock, including military sites, government facilities, as well as Jewish institutions in several cities throughout the United States," SCN, a Jewish Federations of North America initiative, reported. "Law enforcement officials have reported that Muhammad may have researched Jewish entities in Little Rock."

Muhammad, upon his arrest Monday shortly after the fatal shooting, allegedly confessed and told authorities he acted alone, according to court documents. Officials say that the FBI and the CIA are engaged in an intense effort to reconstruct Muhammad's path to extremism, taking apart his life, examining his friendships, educational records, travel within the United States and possible contacts with extremists overseas.

Though police told ABC News that a preliminary investigation indicated that Muhammad acted alone, federal authorities also are trying to determine whether others were involved in any way -- including supplying weapons, lending encouragement or support, and helping to identify a target. Although he allegedly confessed, Muhammad also has pleaded not guilty to the shooting.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off

This is one of the unions wanting to control you and your job with government permission.
The UAW is right behind them...They want to come into your place of business or your job and make you sign a card to join their unions and will try to force you into signing it...This is not acceptable practices in my book!


By Michelle Malkin
Townhall.com

"We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama -- $60.7 million to be exact -- and we're proud of it," boasted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to the Las Vegas Sun this week. The behemoth labor organization's leadership is getting its money's worth. Whether rank-and-file workers and ordinary taxpayers are profiting from this ultimate campaign pay-for-play scheme is another matter entirely.

The two-million-member union, which represents both government and private service employees, proudly claimed that its workers "knocked on 1.87 million doors, made 4.4 million phone calls … and sent more than 2.5 million pieces of mail in support of Obama." It dispatched SEIU leaders to seven states in the final weekend before the election to get out the vote for Obama and other Democrats.

Through a series of local chapter takeovers and bully campaigns to destroy the reputation of executives who refuse to submit to their will, Stern and his scandal-plagued lieutenants have consolidated low-skill service workers to create a 21st century labor empire. The ubiquitous Stern now enjoys a prominent seat at the table of every major policy discussion at the White House, including economic recovery and health care radicalization.

Obama champions the SEIU's top legislative priorities: expansive government health care (paid for with regressive sin taxes) and the "Employee Free Choice Act" to do away with private-ballot union elections in the workplace. He has SEIU-blessed bureaucrats installed in every corner of his administration to carry out the agenda.

The SEIU scored not one but two Cabinet appointees: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. The SEIU pitched in with maximum donations to Solis' first congressional campaign and lent her nearly 300 canvassers and ground troops. "I wouldn't be here, were it not for my friends in the labor movement," she gushed. Indeed, over four terms in Congress, Solis has pocketed more than $900,000 in union campaign contributions.

Former SEIU chief lobbyist Patrick Gaspard served as the Obama campaign's national political director and transition deputy director of personnel. During the 2004 election cycle, he led the George Soros-funded group America Coming Together (ACT) as national field director. SEIU poured $23 million of workers' dues money into ACT in its failed attempt to put Democratic Sen. John Kerry in the White House. Under Gaspard's tenure at ACT, the get-out-the-vote group employed convicted felons as canvassers and committed campaign finance violations that led to a $775,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission. Gaspard was appointed White House political director shortly after Election Day 2008.

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger was appointed to the president's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide advice on "boosting the sagging U.S. economy" (translation: imposing new employment regulations on companies and expanding union membership rolls).

Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects. Such regulatory favoritism limits freedom in the workplace and raises the cost of doing business.

Another measure immediately adopted by Obama requires that when a government service contract runs out and there's a new contract to perform the same services at the same location, the new contractor must retain the old workers. Mickey Kaus of the left-leaning Slate magazine dubbed the move the "Labor Payoff of the Day."

The payoffs keep coming. Last week Obama slashed the Labor Department's funding to investigate union corruption -- a welcome move for Stern, who has seen three of his handpicked deputies resign in 2008-2009 over financial scandals involving cronyism, nepotism and embezzlement.

California officials also reported last week that the Obama White House gave the SEIU an unprecedented role in negotiations over federal stimulus funds. According to the Los Angeles Times, the union lobbied the feds to withhold nearly $7 billion in stimulus money from California unless it revoked a wage cut for unionized health care workers -- which had already been approved by Democratic lawmakers as part of a budget deal forged in February. Top SEIU officials participated in a conference call last month on the issue; the Obama White House backs the union demands.

SEIU's enforcers have set aside $10 million to un-elect any of its political beneficiaries who abandon their pledges to do the union's legislative bidding. The campaign money was raised by slapping an extra $6-per-member fee on top of regular dues payments -- and funneled straight to the union's political action committee. Meanwhile, after spending a fortune to put Obama in office, the union laid off a third of its D.C. field staff (in violation of its own employment protections, according to the workers) due to … budget troubles.

The laid-off workers are collateral damage in Big Labor's pursuit of power. The only jobs guaranteed by SEIU's merger with Hope and Change, Inc. belong to the brass.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Obama Is Handing Over Our Country To The Unions


It has become increasingly clear that Obama is in bed with the unions.
He is spending OUR tax dollars to shore up the unions and circumventing bankruptsy laws to give Chrysler Corporation to the unions in a 55% ownership role....The unions who gave Obama millions of dollars in campaign contributions are cleaning up america on your dime!..

You Have Got To Be Kidding Me!..U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job

Here are some more of OUR hard earned tax dollars being wasted on people who are not even United States Citizens!...Tell me people...How much more will the tax paying americasn really take from Washington DC corrupt politicians???



By Edwin Mora


The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.

Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.

The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as "female sex workers"--or FSW--and their handlers as "gatekeepers."

"Previous studies in Asia and Africa and our own data from FSWs [female sex workers] in China suggest that the social norms and institutional policy within commercial sex venues as well as agents overseeing the FSWs (i.e., the 'gatekeepers', defined as persons who manage the establishments and/or sex workers) are potentially of great importance in influencing alcohol use and sexual behavior among establishment-based FSWs," says the NIH grant abstract submitted by Dr. Li.

"Therefore, in this application, we propose to develop, implement, and evaluate a venue-based alcohol use and HIV risk reduction intervention focusing on both environmental and individual factors among venue-based FSWs in China," says the abstract.

The research will take place in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi.

Guangxi is ranked third in HIV rate among Chna's provinces--and is a place where the sex business is pervasive, Li said.

“The purpose of the project is to try and develop an intervention program targeting HIV risk and alcohol use,” Li told CNSNews.com. “So basically, it’s an alcohol and HIV risk reduction intervention project."

The researcher outlined three components of the intervention program in the abstract for the project:

“(1) gatekeeper training with a focus on changing or enhancing the protective social norms and policy/practice at the establishment level; (2) FSW (female sex workers) training with a focus on the acquisition of communication skills (negotiating, limit setting) and behavioral skills (e.g., condom use skills, consistent condom use); and (3) semi-annual boosters to reinforce both social norms within establishments and individual skills,” wrote Li.

The doctor said the heart of the study involves “a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial among 100 commercial sex venues in Beihai, a costal tourist city in Guangxi.”

"We anticipate that the venue-based intervention program will be culturally appropriate, feasible, effective and sustainable in alcohol use and sexual risk reduction among FSWs," says the NIH grant abstract.

Li said his study is being done in China rather than the U.S. because prostitution occurs with alcohol use in the United States like it does in China, Americans will be able to benefit from the project’s findings.

“We want to get some understanding of the fundamental role of alcohol use and HIV risk,” he said. “We use the population in China as our targeted population to look at the basic issues. I think the findings will benefit the American people, too.”

Li said minimal research has been conducted on the link between alcohol use and prostitution as it relates to HIV.

“Alcohol has been a part of the commerce of sex for many, many years. Unfortunately, both global-wise (and) in the United States, very few researchers are looking at the complex issue of the inter play between alcohol and the commerce of sex,” he told CNSNews.com.

The grant is one of several “international initiatives” sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

Ralph Hingson, director of epidemiology and prevention research at NIAA, told CNSNews.com, “There are many Americans who travel to China each year and they should be made aware of the HIV problem.”

Hingson said that Americans will be able to apply the studies findings to the American situation because 1.2 million Americans are currently living with HIV.

Li’s research includes exploration, development, implementation and evaluation. Currently, the project stands at the exploration stage, which the doctor expects to last 18 months.

“The first phase is kind of an exploratory study just trying to get a good understanding of the phenomena in the population of female sex workers in China. The second phase is the program development,” the professor told CNSNews.com.

Phase two will be based on the first year of the study and on “field observations,” he added. The third phase will be the implementation and evaluation of the program.

“Prostitution is illegal in China but it exists in China," Li told CNSNews.com, “but the Chinese government and the society’s attitude towards prostitution is complicated.”

According to Li, there may be as many as 10 million female prostitutes in China with the majority raging from teenagers to those in their 20s.

“We see a lot of governmental initiatives in China, like 100 percent condom distribution promotion programs, so they deliver condoms in those (prostitution) venues," he added.

“The global literature indicates an important role of alcohol use in facilitating HIV/AIDS transmission risk in commercial sex venues where elevated alcohol use/abuse and sexual risk behaviors frequently co-occur,” Li wrote when introducing the project last November.

"We expect that the intervention will improve protective normative beliefs and institutional support regarding alcohol use and HIV protection,” he added.

The NIH proposal hypothesizes that the program will decrease "problem drinking and alcohol-related sexual risk" among prostitutes that participate.

"We hypothesize that the venue-based intervention will change and enhance the protective social norms and institutional policies at the establishment level and such enhancement, accompanied by individual skill training among FSWs, will demonstrate a sustainable effect within commercial sex establishments in decreasing problem drinking and alcohol-related sexual risk, increasing consistent and correct condom use, and reducing rates of HIV/STD infection among FSWs," says the NIH abstract.

Who Wants to Confiscate Your 401(k) And IRA? Pay Close Attention America





If you’re like most people who are planning for retirement you have been socking away your money in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) or 401(k) plan.

And when the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 14,198.10 on Oct. 11, 2007, you thought you were set. The Dow was running up. Your retirement funds were growing. Everything looked good.

Then stocks began a downward slide that turned into a cliff dive by the following spring as the full extent of the financial crisis came to light. To make matters worse, the market then showed what it thought of the efforts of Congress and the President (both Bush and Obama) to stem the crisis—it tanked.

Fast forward to March 6, 2009. Stocks hit their lows and your retirement funds had dropped by 40 percent to 60 percent.

Now your retirement years no longer look quite so rosy. You’re thinking you may have to work an additional 10 years just to build that nest egg back to October 2007 levels.

Well, don’t fret, help is on the way. The same entity that’s done such a great job of managing Social Security may soon be managing your personal retirement plan.

Congressional Democrats have been holding hearings to decide what to do to help Americans prepare for retirement. Their conclusions: It might be a good thing for the government to eliminate tax breaks for 401(k)s, IRAs and similar retirement accounts, confiscate them and convert them to universal Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRA) managed by the Social Security Administration (SSA).

Now unions are joining the bandwagon. Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), was quoted in a union publication saying that he supports a plan to centralize all retirement plans for American workers. His plan includes private 401(k)s and IRAs.

What he wants is for the government to confiscate your private retirement plan and set up a government pension system for everyone similar to the European system. And as is usual with grand government schemes nowadays, individual choice no longer applies.

The SEIU, by the way, is one of the nation’s largest labor unions and it invested heavily in getting President Barack Obama elected. Plus, the union is working with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare on the plan.

In other words, the SEIU carries a lot of clout with this President and Democrat-controlled Congress.

But the SSA hasn’t done such a great job managing Social Security. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Social Security outlays will exceed revenue in 2019, and Social Security funds will be exhausted in 2049.

So, for a 20-year-old just entering the job market who will pay into the system for 40 to 45 years, there is no hope of recovering that money when he or she retires.

There is currently no bill in committee or before Congress to set up a GRA. But the fact that it’s being discussed in committees and pushed by Big Labor should be enough to frighten you.

It’s time to consider, if you haven’t already, your financial plans for your retirement years—whether you are 20, 70 or somewhere in between. Is it time to cash it out? That’s for you to decide along with a tax or financial advisor, as the penalties for early withdrawal are oppressive.

Regardless, as the Federal Reserve prints dollar upon dollar to fund its economic stimulus Ponzi schemes, gold as an investment looks better and better.