Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, May 15, 2012


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William R. Barker said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299918/censored-race-war-thomas-sowell

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might sound like news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. +

But it wasn’t.

Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by young black gangs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls, or in other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles, and other places across the country. Both the authorities and the media tend to try to sweep these episodes under the rug.

In Milwaukee, for example, an attack on whites at a public park a few years ago left many of the victims battered to the ground and bloody. But when the police arrived on the scene, it became clear that the authorities wanted to keep this quiet.

One 22-year-old woman, who had been robbed of her cell phone and debit card, and had blood streaming down her face, said, “About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn’t listen to us, they wouldn’t take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating.”

The police chief seemed determined to head off any suggestion that this was a racially motivated attack by saying that crime is color-blind.

Officials elsewhere have said similar things.

A wave of such attacks in Chicago were reported, but not the race of the attackers or victims.

Media outlets that do not report the race of people committing crimes nevertheless report racial disparities in imprisonment and write heated editorials blaming the criminal-justice system.

What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over.

Asian-American schoolchildren in New York and Philadelphia have for years been beaten up by their black classmates. But people in the mainstream media who go ballistic if some kid says something unkind on the Internet about a homosexual classmate nevertheless hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil when Asian-American youngsters are victims of violence.

May 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1973:the-fed-mend-it-or-end-it&catid=62:texas-straight-talk&Itemid=69

* BY THE HONORABLE - AND USUALLY RIGHT - CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R-TX)

Last week I held a hearing to examine the various proposals that have been put forth both to mend and to end the Fed. The purpose was to spur a vigorous and long-lasting discussion about the Fed's problems, hopefully leading to concrete actions to rein in the Fed.

The Federal Reserve System is the collusion of big government and big business to profit at the expense of taxpayers.

The Fed's bailout of large banks during the financial crisis propped up poorly-run corporations that should have gone under, giving them a market-distorting advantage that no business in the United States should receive.

The recent news about JP Morgan is a case in point. JP Morgan, a recipient of $25 billion in bailout money, recently announced it lost another $2 billion. If a corporation shows itself to be a bottomless money pit of "errors, sloppiness and bad judgment," the Fed shouldn't have expected $25 billion in free money to change that or teach anyone a lesson in fiscal discipline.

Several reforms for the Fed were discussed at the hearing. One was a call for the full employment mandate to be repealed, in order to allow the Fed to focus solely on stable prices.

(*STANDING OVATION*)

Another reform calls for changes to the composition of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Still another proposal was for outright nationalization of the Fed or of its functions.

But if what the Fed does now is bad and inflationary, allowing the Treasury to print and issue money at-will would be even worse, and could possibly lead to a Weimar-like hyperinflation.

The problems and advantages of the gold standard were discussed at the hearing.

The era of the classical gold standard was undoubtedly one of the greatest eras in human history. For a period of several decades in the late 19th century, the West made enormous advances. However, the gold standard was still run by government. The temptation to suspend gold redemption reared its head again with the outbreak of World War I. Once the tie to gold was severed and fiscal restraint thrown to the wind, undoing the damage would have required great fiscal austerity. Instead, the Western world proceeded to set up a gold-exchange standard which lasted not even a decade before easy money led to the Great Depression.

While returning to the gold standard would certainly be far better than maintaining the current fiat paper system, as long as the government retains the power to go off gold we may end up repeating the same mistakes.

The only viable solution is to get government out of the money business permanently. The way to bring this about is through currency competition: allow parallel currencies to circulate without receiving any special recognition or favor from the government.

Fiat paper monetary standards throughout history have always collapsed due to their inflationary nature, and our current fiat paper standard will be no different.

It is imperative that the American people be educated on the dangers of the Fed and the importance of restoring sound money. The laying of the groundwork must begin today, so that the American people will be prepared for the day when the mirage the Fed has created evaporates completely. The full hearing footage is available on my website and I would encourage every American to take a look.

May 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-medical-report-sheds-light-injuries-trayvon/story?id=16353532#.T7LYwVI1PHs

A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a "closed fracture" of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.

* WELL, WELL, WELL... NOT THE STORY THE PRESS SHARED IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS AFTER THE INCIDENT!

Moments after the shooting Zimmerman told eyewitnesses he shot Martin in self defense. He later told officers his head was being pounded into the pavement and that he feared for his life, but that it was only when Martin seemed to reach for the gun wedges in his waistband that Zimmerman drew his weapon and fired directly into Martin's chest - killing him.

A neighbor told ABC News that the day after the shooting he saw Zimmerman as he spoke to officers outside his home. He too recalled seeing black eyes and significant swelling - as well as a bandage over his nose.

The medical notes may bolster Zimmerman's claim that he acted in self-defense because he was being attacked.

* YA THINK...?!?!

The record shows that Zimmerman also suffered bruising in the upper lip and cheek and lower back pain. The two lacerations on the back of his head, one of them nearly an inch long, the other about a quarter-inch long, were first revealed in photos obtained exclusively by ABC News last month.

In addition to his physical injuries, Zimmerman complained of stress and "occasional nausea when thinking about the violence." But he was not diagnosed with a concussion. The doctor noted that it was "imperative" that Zimmerman "be seen with [sic] his psychologist for evaluation."

Zimmerman declined hospitalization the night of the shooting, and then declined the advice of his doctor to make a follow-up appointment with an ear nose and throat doctor.

The morning after the shooting, on Feb. 27, Zimmerman sought treatment at the offices of a general physician at a family practice near Sanford, Fla. The doctor notes Zimmerman sought an appointment to get legal clearance to return to work.

* YEAH... WHAT A TERRIBLE GUY... WANTING TO GO BACK TO WORK TO SUPPORT HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY.

* LISTEN. MAYBE SOMETHING WILL SHOW UP TO CHANGE MY READING OF THIS WHOLE MESS, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS ZIMMERMAN GUY DESERVES THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. HE WAS PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH BECAUSE HIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAD BEEN RECENTLY - AND REPEATEDLY - A TARGET OF CRIMINALS. THERE'S NO EVIDENCE MARTIN WAS A CRIMINAL, BUT NOR IS THERE EVIDENCE THAT ZIMMERMAN WAS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. THIS COMES ACROSS AS SIMPLY A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY FOR ALL CONCERNED. WRONG PLACE... WRONG TIME... WRONG CIRCUMSTANCES... AND THINGS JUST ESCALATED OUT OF CONTROL WITH TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES.

May 15, 2012 at 6:41 PM

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