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Occupy Wall Street Article on the Economy
The “Money Changers” are Alive and Prospering in 2016 America. Watch Heist – Who done it on the Economy for the Who, What, When, How and Why!
See how corporate over-reach orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, tax policies favoring businesses/wealthy and money in politics.
Heist: A Who Done It On The Economy? is the 28 minute documentary the Establishment don’t want you and your friends to see before voting in the upcoming primaries/caucuses!
It traces the 2008 worldwide economic collapse to the August, 1971 Powell Memo, that called for a money-driven makeover of the U.S. government by big business through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups.
Powell Memo is the smoking gun of the class war dividing Americans, today.
Goodings Grove teacher wins Favorite Teacher Award
News Release
Homer CCSD 33C
Goodings Grove Luther J. Schilling William E. Young William J. Butler
Hadley Middle Homer Jr. High
Contact: Charla Brautigam, Communications/Public Relations Manager
cbrautigam@homerschools.org | 708-226-7628
For Immediate Release:
March 23, 2016
Goodings Grove teacher wins Favorite Teacher Award
A Goodings Grove teacher has received one of the biggest compliments possible.
Jessica Eier, who teaches fourth grade at Goodings, was named recipient of this year’s Favorite Teacher Award by the Homer Glen Junior Woman’s Club.
She was nominated by a student who wrote an essay about his/her favorite teacher.
Homer School District 33C students in grades 1-6 were invited to submit essays of 200 words or less telling the Homer Glen Junior Woman’s Club what makes their teacher outstanding.
“Everyone has a favorite teacher,” they were told. “Take advantage of this opportunity to acknowledge that special teacher who has inspired you. Simply write an essay of 200 words or less and explain the lasting impression this teacher has made on you.”
Students were asked to use examples of how their teacher has helped them make positive choices, develop their talents and skills, or reach their goals.
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Do we want a country your 11 year old is not free to argue merits of his diet in the typical language of an 11 year old to his peers
This all started with Michelle Obama, go figure non elected wife of the worst President we had and will probably ever have. This is similar to the Universal Conductivity tax on phones pushed by Candidate Al Gore. Law by liberal consensus.
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Comments by Ed Ronkowski 3/23/2016
The United States is increasingly divided up in two camps who have different visions for the future. One camp sees that essential freedoms and a way of governing follow the U.S. Constitution the way our founding fathers wanted that document to work. The other camp believes that big brother government knows what is best for people and that everything is subordinate to their goals. The latest example of the Big-Government-Can-Do-What-It-Wants came to light this week when the New Jersey thought police punishing an 11 year old for espousing a view that eating meat is good for you. Pursuant to New Jersey state law, the township school employs 10 Anti-Bullying Specialist which investigated the 11 year olds discussion of the medical benefits of a vegan diet and found him guilty of bullying and issued him lunch time detentions. An administrative Judge upheld the findings.
Well Steve Balich and I would probably being doing life if we grew up in New Jersey Liberal’s Utopia no-speech-against-the-lastest-liberal fad. I didn’t believe this was true when I first read it. Here are the links:https://authoritynutrition.com/top-5-reasons-why-vegan-die…/
Student punished for criticizing vegetarian
The story involves a New Jersey sixth-grader who ran afoul of the state’s Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act after he poked fun at a vegetarian classmate. (For you folks on the professional barbecue circuit, a vegetarian is someone who abstains from pork butts.)
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“Vegetarians are idiots,” the youngster declared. “It’s not good not to eat meat.”
The 11-year-old, identified in court documents as C.C., went on to tell K.S. (the vegetarian) that “he should eat meat because he’d be smarter and have bigger brains.”
The vegetarian child reported the incident to officials at Lower Middle School in Montgomery Township.
At that point, the school’s anti-bullying specialist launched an investigation to determine if the meat-lover had “committed an act of harassment, intimidation or bullying.”
By the way – Montgomery Township employs ten anti-bullying specialists. Ten.
The school district’s investigation determined the youngster’s anti-vegetarian comments “were reasonably perceived as being motivated by a distinguishing characteristic between the two boys, namely vegetarianism, which substantially interfered with the rights of K.S. and had the effect of insulting or demeaning him.”
Instead of being forced to eat tofu or fermented soy, the child was slapped with five lunch time detentions.
Volokh, who also teaches free speech law at UCLA School of Law, weighed in – calling the punishment “modest.”
“Once the law calls such speech ‘harassment,’ ‘intimidation’ or ‘bullying’ in one area, it’s easy for these labels to be applied in other areas as well, especially because the labels are so ill-defined and potentially so broad,” he wrote.
The 2014 vegetarian smack down landed in the lap of an administrative judge after the local board of education affirmed the school’s findings.
On March 7, an administrative judge also upheld the local school’s handling of the matter.
This is what our nation’s public school system looks like, folks.
Are students no longer allowed to opine on the virtues of pork chops or chicken-fried steak?
Are those who dine on butter beans and rutabagas so feeble they can’t handle some good-natured ribbing?
And why does a school district need to employ 10 anti-bullying specialists? Do unkind comments made by an 11-year-old really rise to the level of an official investigation?
I will concede that vegetarians are not idiots. Perhaps unfortunate would be a better description.
But based on my reading of the events in New Jersey – the only idiots are the township’s anti-bullying specialists.
Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is “God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values.” Follow Todd on Twitter@ToddStarnes and find him on Facebook.
90 suicide bombers potentially roaming Europe
Report: 90 suicide bombers potentially roaming Europe
The jihadi who masterminded the November Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, informed a friend he commanded 90 “kamikaze-in-waiting” terrorists who entered into Europe under the pretense of migrants and refugees, a leaked international police report reveals.
The report leaked to The New York Times poses as a serious problem after three explosions claimed by the Islamic State in Brussels Tuesday left at least 31 dead. The report details Abaaoud telling his friend he and 90 jihadis all got into Europe by hiding among the flood of migrants.
“Abaaoud clearly presented himself as the commander of these 90 kamikazes-in-waiting, and that he had come directly to France in order to avoid the failures they had experienced in the past,” The New York Times reports.
The Daily Caller reports:
Abaaoud was killed in a police raid on his residence in November, and another Paris attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was captured in Brussels last week. Abdeslam told interrogators he was “ready to restart something from Brussels,” Belgium’s Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said after his capture,reported ABC News.
Investigators found “a lot of weapons” and “a new network” of at least 30 terrorists in Brussels, Reynders said, adding: “We have found more than 30 people involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris, but we are sure that there are others.”
The network of kamikazes-in-waiting illustrate a dark picture for Europe, where more suicide attacks are expected to occur. Information sharing has been a challenge for the EU which has lead to many jihadis flying under the radar.
“We don’t share information,” former head of French intelligence Alain Chouet told the New York Times. “We even didn’t agree on the translations of people’s names that are in Arabic or Cyrillic, so if someone comes into Europe through Estonia or Denmark, maybe that’s not how we register them in France or Spain.”
The report also states that a lack of border controls played a big role in allowing the terrorists to move freely around Europe, without arousing suspicion. As of now, there are no large efforts to increase border controls and information sharing between European countries.
(H/T: The New York Times)
Balich addresses Homer Township Property Tax Referendum at Homer School district 33C
The express Will of the people is loud and clear after the 87% voter mandate telling local taxing districts to ask citizens with a Referendum before raising the Property Tax Levy. Increased taxes bring down the value of property, and raise the cost of rent for business which passes it on to the consumer. The more important consequence of increased taxes is less disposable income for families, forcing mothers and fathers to take on more hours or a second job to make ends meet. I mad it very clear I will expose publicly in newspapers and blogs the names of board members who defy the express will of the people.
Steve Balich 815 557-7196
Common Core Math, Communism & UIC Trump Protests
North Korea Conducts Land Test of Sub-Launched Missile
North Korea Conducts Land Test of Sub-Launched Missile
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North Korea conducted a ground-test last week of its new KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, defense officials said.
The missile test March 16 involved a “pop-up” or “ejection test” of the developmental SLBM from a canister ashore at the Sinpo shipyard, located on North Korea’s east coast where the KN-11 is being developed along with the Gorae-class missile-firing submarine.
It was the second recent test of this sort, following a Dec. 21 ejection test, and was the first SLBM test since the United Nations imposed tougher sanctions on Pyongyang.
At the Pentagon, spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban said: “We’re not going to comment on matters of intelligence.”
The test appears to violate a recent UN Security Council resolution, No. 2277, which on March 5 tightened economic sanctions on North Korea in an effort to block development of nuclear arms and nuclear missiles.
The new resolution states that a 2015 SLBM missile ejection test violated earlier UN resolutions aimed at curbing both nuclear and missile programs sponsored by the Pyongyang regime.
“All such ballistic missile activities contribute to [North Korea’s] development of nuclear weapons delivery systems and increase tension in the region and beyond,” the resolution says.
The earlier ejection test was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon on Jan. 5.
The new UN resolution followed North Korea’s underground nuclear test on Jan. 6 and missile test on Feb. 7.
North Korea attempted an underwater flight test of the new KN-11 on Nov. 28 that severely damaged the launching submarine. Officials said the Gorae sailed back into Sinpo from a position in the Sea of Japan listing at a 40-degree angle as a result of internal damage from the failed SLBM launch.
Disclosure of the SLBM test comes as North Korea on Monday fired five short-range ballistic missiles and has threatened to conduct further nuclear and long-range missile tests in defiance of international pressure.
Urban, the Pentagon spokesman, said five short-range ballistic missiles were fired in the latest missile test firing by North Korea.
“We closely monitor North Korean military activities and the situation on the Korean Peninsula,” Urban said. “Launches using ballistic missile technology are a clear violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions. We call on North Korea to refrain from actions that further raise tensions in the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its international commitments and obligations,” he said.
South Korean media said the five missiles were launched near the city of Hamhung and flew about 124 miles into the sea.
North Korea has been steadily escalating military provocations in response to the new UN sanctions and in response to large-scale U.S. and South Korean military exercises now underway in South Korea.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye also warned Monday that Pyongyang could carry out additional military provocations and urged the country to remain vigilant. “Now is a very crucial time for the future of the Korean Peninsula,” she said during a meeting with aides at the presidential office in Seoul.
North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un vowed in recent days that his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test blast and fire several kinds of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Two days after last week’s SLBM ejection test, North Korea fired two medium-range Nodong ballistic missiles. The road mobile Nodongs were fired from the country’s east coast, and one traveled about 500 miles before falling into the sea. The second missile blew up in flight.
U.S. military and civilian intelligence agencies have stepped up monitoring of North Korea in anticipation of further provocations.
Among the possible coming provocations, according to defense officials, are North’s Korea’s first flight tests of either the KN-08 road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, or the new intermediate-range Musudan missile. Both missiles have been fully developed but have not been flight tested.
There are also indications the North may conduct another underground nuclear test.
“There are a lot of signs that something is going to happen,” one official said.
Japan’s Fuji television reported Friday that a U.S. Air Force Cobra Ball reconnaissance aircraft was deployed to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa as part of stepped up monitoring of North Korean missile launches.
The Pentagon’s most recent annual report on the North Korean military said the rogue nation’s development of SLBMs aims at creating multiple delivery systems for nuclear weapons.
“North Korea’s pursuit of a submarine-launched ballistic missile capability also highlights the regime’s commitment to diversifying its missile force, strengthening the missile force’s survivability, and finding new ways to coerce its neighbors,” the report said.
In addition to the SLBM, North Korea’s long-range nuclear-capable missiles include the Taepodong-2 and the KN-08.
“The KN-08, an IRBM, and an SLBM have not been flight-tested and their current reliability as weapon systems would be low,” the Pentagon said.
The report said North Korea attempted a flight test of its SLBM in November “but it ended in failure.”
“North Korea is committed to developing a long-range, nuclear-armed missile that is capable of posing a direct threat to the United States,” the report said.
Defense officials said the development of the KN-11 SLBM remains a high-priority missile development program and the weapon could be fielded in the next two years.
A Washington research institute, 38 North, published satellite photographs last week revealing continued work at Sinpo on both the KN-11 and the Gorae.
The photos indicate that a removable tower was moved to a test stand capable of supporting a rocket engine, missile or launch tube and then later removed. A report said the test stand is a sign that North Korea could “quickly conduct a pop-up test” of a missile.
The report said unspecified work on the Gorae submarine over the past two months was completed.
North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un was photographed by state-run media on Sunday observing large-scale North Korean military exercises.
Last week, North Korean media showed Kim with a metal sphere—purportedly a missile-sized nuclear warhead. He was also photographed at a test of a metal shield that would reportedly be used to protect nuclear warheads from the heat of reentry into the atmosphere after launch through space on a ballistic missile.
Hannity: If GOP steals the nomination I'M out
Echoing a sentiment shared by millions of Republican primary voters across the country, conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity essentially placed the GOP establishment on notice during his Wednesday program.
The popular host was speaking about the not-so-secret plan that the party elites intend to try and use a “brokered” convention to more or less steal the nomination away from front-running candidate Donald Trump should he fail to garner the required number of delegates beforehand.
Hannity then proceeded to voice his extreme displeasure with the idea, even suggesting he would abandon the party if it came to that.
Hannity asked rhetorically, “Are they going to cut their nose to spite their face?”
“You know, if they are going to be that self destructive, and if they’re going to pout, and if they’re going to pick up their little toys, and they’re going to go home like a bunch of babies, they will destroy, there will be no Republican Party at the end of this,” Hannity proclaimed.
“Because if they’re successful, guess what? Cruz and Trump supporters are walking out,” he stated. “And, I’m walking out with them.”
This is a threat that the GOP establishment should take seriously, as Hannity remains fairly influential among the more conservative base of the party.
To be sure, Hannity makes it clear every chance he gets that he isn’t a registered Republican and is not a member of the party, but there is no doubt that he is on the right side in the fight against the radical progressives and liberals of the Democrat party that have set our nation on the path to socialist destruction.
Losing the support of an ally like Hannity, not to mention the millions of voters who will blow a parting kiss to the party if the party elders attempt any shenanigans at the convention to stop Trump or rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, would be nothing short of devastating, potentially even unrecoverable for the once “Grand” Ol’ Party.