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Moving The Site…Again

December 7, 2008 by Duane

UPDATE: Site has been transferred to new hosting company. Blackinformant.com is now active.

This site (Blackinformant.wordpress.com) will remain online for at least a week. However, all new postings will appear over at Blackinformant.com.

I decided to go with the beta version of 2.7. So consider everything below now in play.
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In the meantime, the template for blackinformant.com will be changing a lot over the next couple of days while I decide on a new layout.

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I am looking into accepting advertising on this site. Unfortunately, WordPress.com does not allow advertising, so I’m packing up my bags and moving elsewhere.

For all of you old heads out there, continue to use blackinformant.com. You will see a short period where the domain is either down or looks different. Don’t worry, the domain name is just propagating to the new server.

SITE HAS BEEN MOVED

For you new jacks, I will keep blackinformant.wordpress.com up for about a week. During that time, all new posts will appear only at blackinformant.com.

As always, thank you for your readership.

D~

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Sunday Read

December 7, 2008 by Duane

Is Believing in God a Psychological Crutch?

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If You Didn’t Notice, Only 3 Were Being Questioned

December 6, 2008 by Duane


Why the Auto Bailout Would Be a Big Mistake
John Stossel on Why the Big Three Don’t Deserve a Taxpayer Bailout

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“But wait a second, those jobs wouldn’t necessarily be lost. Bankruptcy isn’t death. Kmart didn’t disappear when it went bankrupt. Neither did Fruit of the Loom, Texaco, Continental Airlines, Delta, or United.

They were reorganized into more efficient, sustainable businesses. Out of this creative destruction new jobs emerged.

Toyota isn’t asking for a bailout. Neither are Honda or Nissan. Yet, they all sell and build cars in America. In fact, while the Big Three were begging for your money, workers at Honda celebrated the first cars coming off their new assembly line in Indiana.

Why can Honda do it, when the Big Three can’t? Well, Gettelfinger’s union is one reason. The Big Three have to deal with strikes.

The UAW even got the Big Three to create places where longtime workers who are not needed are still paid 95 percent of their wages to just sit. They wouldn’t allow us to videotape these so-called jobs banks, but Linda Swan saw them when she worked for Ford.

“For the most part our people just sit inside and do nothing,” she said. “

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“Tens if not hundreds of thousands of jobs would be lost in the auto industry itself,” said U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.

But wait a second, those jobs wouldn’t necessarily be lost. Bankruptcy isn’t death. Kmart didn’t disappear when it went bankrupt. Neither did Fruit of the Loom, Texaco, Continental Airlines, Delta, or United.

They were reorganized into more efficient, sustainable businesses. Out of this creative destruction new jobs emerged. (more…)

And look who is pushing for the bailout?


Jesse Jackson plans rallies to support automakers

DETROIT: The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Friday he will organize rallies in several cities to urge Congress to grant aid to the struggling U.S. automakers.

“It’s time to go back to the streets for some action,” Jackson said after a press conference with minority suppliers and dealers. “We need to show the wealth and depth of pain. It’s not the Big Three execs, it’s the big 4 million jobs.” (more…)

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So Let’s Recap

December 6, 2008 by Duane

Most influential actor in Hollywood according to Forbes?

Denzel Washington

Top earning couple in Hollywood according to Forbes?

Sean Carter and Beyonce Knowles

Now this~

“Oprah Winfrey, chairman of Harpo, has been named the most powerful woman in entertainment on The Hollywood Reporter’s 17th annual Women in Entertainment: Power 100 special issue.” (more…)

Like I said in this post, “E-mail this to all the folks who say Blacks are reduced to portraying stereotypes in Hollywood…
…and slap ‘em into the 21st century.”

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O.J. Should Have Remembered What Happened The Last Time He Entered A Room With A Gun

December 5, 2008 by Duane

O.J. Simpson Sentenced to 16 Years for Hotel Robbery

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Global Warming Is The Director’s Cut Version Of Y2K

December 5, 2008 by Duane

2008 will be coolest year of the decade

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Who Said Cats Are Afraid Of Water?

December 5, 2008 by Duane

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This Is NOT The Face Of AIDS For The West. So Stop Using It!

December 4, 2008 by Duane

zz1539d1c5For years both the gay community and AIDS activists have worked hard to cover up the reality behind what spreads AIDS by using Africa as its cloak. Whenever you want to shield yourself from any criticism, use what can generate the most sympathy to your advantage–sickly African women and children who are dying of this dreaded disease.

As one who longs to see the day when AIDS is nothing more than a faded page in history, I have become fed up with the constant depictions of Africans whose hopes are tied to the sale of the next RED iPod. Yes, AIDS has been a disease that has crippled that continent, but so have many other diseases.

Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.

“The global HIV industry is too big and out of control. We have created a monster with too many vested interests and reputations at stake, … too many relatively well paid HIV staff in affected countries, and too many rock stars with AIDS support as a fashion accessory,” he wrote in the British Medical Journal in May.

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England argues that closing UNAIDS would free up its $200 million annual budget for other health problems such as pneumonia, which kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

“By putting more money into AIDS, we are implicitly saying it’s OK for more kids to die of pneumonia,” England said.

His comments touch on the bigger complaint: that AIDS hogs money and may damage other health programs.

By 2006, AIDS funding accounted for 80 percent of all American aid for health and population issues, according to the Global Health Council.

In Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda and elsewhere, donations for HIV projects routinely outstrip the entire national health budgets.

In a 2006 report, Rwandan officials noted a “gross misallocation of resources” in health: $47 million went to HIV, $18 million went to malaria, the country’s biggest killer, and $1 million went to childhood illnesses.

“There needs to be a rational system for how to apportion scarce funds,” said Helen Epstein, an AIDS expert who has consulted for UNICEF, the World Bank, and others. (more…)

England is right. The reason why AIDS has received the most funding is because it is a disease that Continue Reading »

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…and the big three have found their seat

December 4, 2008 by Duane

From my post “And The Band Played On”

“Cash accepted by ANY special interest group by ANY politician is a under the table IOU. And based on the simple fact that the Obama camp led the most expensive presidential campaign in American history, he is going to owe a lot of people.

All Obama is doing is rearranging the furniture. Unfortunately between his top campaign contributors and the recycled Clinton people he picked for his cabinet, it appears the guests are simply waiting for the furniture to stop moving to find their seat.”

Check this out.


Big Three Spending Millions On Lobbying
by Sharyl Attkisson
cbsnews.com

(CBS) As Congress mulls over a bailout for U.S. automakers, some may be thinking about more than jobs and the economy.

The auto industry spent nearly $50 million lobbying Congress in the first nine months of this year.

And people tied to the auto industry gave another $15 million in campaign contributions, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.

It’s not surprising that a lot of that money went to members of Congress from Michigan, where the auto industry is the biggest employer and politicians are passionate advocates for their constituents.

Take Sen. Carl Levin, who received $438,304 from the automotive industry. And in the House, Rep. Joe Knollenberg received $879,327. Rep. John Dingell got nearly a million from the industry. All have enjoyed generous support from the auto industry over their careers, with GM and Ford as their two top contributors. All support a bailout. (more…)

Mark my words, there will be some sort of bailout. They may call it something else, but it will be a bail out nonetheless. All we are witnessing now is the constant hopping of the big three as they get adjusted to their new seating arrangements.

When the bailout does happen, somehow this will be bundled with the 2.5 million jobs that will supposedly be saved or created.

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Skip This One Because Americans Aren’t Doing The Killing

December 4, 2008 by Duane

Yep, just relax as the self-loathing American media continues to remind us how bad we are as a nation for wanting secure borders.


Mexico Drug Cartels Send A Message of Chaos, Death
By William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service

MEXICO CITY — The death squads of the drug cartels are killing in spectacularly gruesome ways, using the violence as a language to deliver a message to society.

Increasingly, bodies show unmistakable signs of torture. Videos of executions are posted on the Internet, as taunts, as warnings. Corpses are dumped on playgrounds, with neatly printed notes beside them. And very often, the heads have been removed.

When someone rolled five heads onto the dance floor in a cantina in Michoacan state two years ago, even the most hardened Mexicans were shocked. Now ritual mutilations are routine. In the border city of Tijuana, 37 people were slain over the weekend, including four children. Nine of the adults were decapitated, including three police officers whose badges were stuffed in their mouths.

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An estimated 4,500 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2007, when Calderón flooded the border and other drug hot zones with 20,000 Mexican troops and thousands of federal agents. November was the bloodiest month so far, with at least 700 killings, according to tallies kept by Mexican newspapers. Some victims had no connection to the drug trade, police say. (more….)

You read that right. 700 murders in one month!

You already know my solution–send the Klan down there and folks will actually get mad enough to do something about it.

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