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Obama wants government to hire criminals

Nov06
by admin on November 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Posted In: Insanity, Unemployment

Wouldn’t you prefer to know whether a prospective employee had a criminal background? President Obama doesn’t think you should have the right to know, at least not if you’re a government hiring manager. President Obama announced he was issuing an executive order to remove criminal history questions on government job applications saying, “It’s not too late” to break the cycles of the American justice system.

President Obama told an audience of students, lawmakers, ex-offender and radical left-wing activists Monday that, “We’ve got to make sure that people who’ve paid their debt to society can earn a second chance. We can’t have the criminal justice system carrying the entire load of society’s ills.”

Obama has issued an order to federal agencies to “ban the box” and delay asking applicants about their criminal history until later in the hiring process. Activists have for years called on an end to the question at early stages of hiring, arguing that it fosters discrimination against ex-offenders who are trying to rebuild honest lives.

Isn’t it a wise move to allow potentially violent or mentally unstable persons into positions where they might cause havoc?

Obama urged Congress to follow the example of his executive action and address what he believes is an injustice.

When hundreds of thousands of innocent unemployed persons cannot find work, why not open the doors to those that have broken the law to compete on an equal basis?

The president also said that he had expanded education grant money for ex-offenders, one of several executive actions to improve re-entry programs for former inmates who often find themselves alone and unable to find housing or work. Nearly one of three American adults has a criminal record, and a 2009 study found that 60-75% of ex-offenders were jobless up to a year after release.

Yet in Obama’s America following the law is no reason for preferential treatment.

“A lot of the time that record disqualifies you from being a full participant in our society, even if you’ve already paid your debt to society,” Obama said.

Instead of shuttling mostly black, Latino and poor people through a system of cells and poverty, Obama said repairing the criminal justice system’s many parts would help create “a virtuous cycle”.

“It means less crime, it means less recidivism, it means less money spent on incarceration,” he said, noting that more than 600,000 people are released from prison each year, and that it costs about $80bn to incarcerate more than 2.2 million inmates.

In the bizarro world in which this president lives, much like the streets of Chicago, he doesn’t think keeping criminals segregated from society is necessary. As innocent people die by the scores in the streets of his home town, it isn’t necessary to take precautions to keep evil from invading our government or schools. Even the slew of shootings by mentally unstable individuals that seems like a regular part of the nightly news, this president seems oblivious to it all.

Now had the president said that he felt those convicted of white collar crimes, drug possession or non-violent crimes, perhaps there might be a smidgeon of logic to his decision. No, even drug dealers get a pass with Mr. Obama.

“Instead of peddling drugs that are destroying lives, he’s saving lives,” Obama said.

Sure, who wouldn’t want someone with a pension for selling drugs to work for, say, the TSA?

While we live in a world of his creation, where the job participation rate is the lowest since the Carter days, Mr. Obama is most concerned about giving criminal re-entry programs more attention and finding increased funding to focus more on life after prison.

Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat behind a bill to lower or eradicate minimum criminal sentences, praised Obama’s actions. The president’s steps would help “to reduce recidivism, break generational cycles of crime, and make our communities safer”, Cummings said.

The president, who is quick to blame police in nearly every instance, has for months toured the nation in a loose campaign for criminal sentencing reform.

Obama’s speech followed a weekend during which about 6,000 drug offenders were granted early releases thanks to policy changes by his US Sentencing Commission, which made the revisions retroactive to last year.

Republican senators have proven amenable to reasonable reform bills, but Obama’s opponents on the national stage have seized it as an opportunity to criticize him. Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor and a presidential candidate, has accused the president of not supporting police, saying in September that “lawlessness has been the rule of the day” under Obama.

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Obama is no friend of Israel

Oct26
by admin on October 26, 2015 at 3:07 am
Posted In: war

A shocking bit of news was reported in Friday’s Wall Street Journal revealing that the Obama Administration had been involved in covert operations against Israel to gather information and prevent the Jewish State from launching an attack against Iranian nuclear production and weapons sites.

The report states that Obama deployed an additional aircraft carrier to the region after it was found that Israeli aircraft had tested Iranian air defenses in what the U.S. government suspected was a test run for an attack on Iran’s Fordow plant. Mr. Obama sent carriers with attack aircraft on board that were directed to respond to any Israeli attacks against Iran.

If this doesn’t make it crystal clear that Mr. Obama, despite his claims to the contrary, is no supporter or Israel, then the leak by U.S. officials to the Journal that Israel was responsible for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists should seal the deal.

The same government officials that revealed the supposed assassination attempts also stated that Israel had plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites as early as 2012, but the Obama Administration pressured the Israeli government to hold off.

Mr. Obama kept the details of The U.S./Iran nuclear negotiations hidden from Israel because of strong disagreements over the extent to which Iran might, and eventually was, allowed to pursue a nuclear program in the resulting agreement. Israel had made it clear to administration officials that Iran’s abundance of energy resources made it apparent that the Islamic State had no peaceful purposes for a nuclear program.

If these revelations don’t convince the Jewish community in the U.S., that has overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party, that the interests and security of Israel are of no consequence to the President, nothing will.

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Chief of Ukrainian Administration supports Russian tobacco monopoly

Oct09
by admin on October 9, 2015 at 1:31 pm
Posted In: Corruption

The chief of Ukraine’s Presidential Administration Boris Lozhkin is backing a Russian tobacco monopolist.

Lozhkin openly supports the Russian tobacco company Megapolis, which monopolized 90 percent of tobacco product sales in Ukraine under former President Viktor Yanukovych. Megapolis under Yanukovych managed to monopolize cigarette sales on the Ukrainian market. The company signed longterm contracts for almost all products produced in Ukraine by the so-called “Big Four” – British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, Inc., Imperial Tobacco Group and Philip Morris.

Tobacco-Background.pngMegapolis sells to large and small retailers, taking a large part of the profit. Megapolis behaves in the same way monopolistic companies in the United States did during the 20th century before anti-trust laws were passed. Retail chains which do not agree with its draconian terms are shut out of the market altogether. It’s not possible on the Ukrainian market to purchase cigarettes directly from producers, according to contracts which grant Megapolis exclusive sales rights.

The Ukrainian distributor Megapolis is a subsidiary of the Russian distributor Megapolis, which controls 70 percent of the Russian tobacco market. According to Forbes, the principal owners of the group are Igor and Sergei Kesaev.

In 2013 they sold a 40 percent share in the international cigarette companies Japan Tobacco, Inc. and Philip Morris International for 1.5 billion USD. According to Forbes, a portion of the sale receipts were invested in weapons production companies and notes that this includes the “principle owner” of the Degtyarev factory which produces automatic Kalashnikov firearms (AK-47 through AK-103).

“The tobacco market is the fourth largest taxpayer and its influence on the country’s economy and domestic market is enormous.”

At the same time, when the entire world is imposing sanctions against Russia, a Russian company is exacting monopolist rent on the Ukrainian market. In addition, proceeds are directly funneled to a weapons producing Russian company, which directly supports pro-Russian separatists in an armed conflict in east Ukraine.

The interests of Megapolis in Ukraine’s political world are represented by Boris Kaufman, who has on numerous occasions been linked to the Ukraine’s Presidential Administration chief Boris Lozhkin.

Ukrainian media on several occasions earlier reported on ties between Megapolis and Yanukovych family members.

It is worth noting that the Austrian bank account of Boris Lozhkin was frozen last month. Some 130 million USD had been deposited in the account from fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Kurchenko.

Many people in Ukraine connect the fact that even after the victory of the democratic revolution in Ukraine two years ago there continues to exist a monopoly created by Russian traders of weapons with the Ukrainian partner Megapolis represented by businessman Boris Kaufman. It was namely Kaufman who was able under the previous administration to arrange protection from the family of the former president Yanukovych and with Lozhkin when he became the head of the new Presidential Administration.

Hopefully the monopolist control of the Russian company on the Ukrainian tobacco market will serve as the basis for a serious investigation by the Ukrainian Anti-Monopoly Committee and that top Ukrainian bureaucrats supporting the scheme are punished.

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