In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and “put on your marching shoes” to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
And though he didn’t say it directly, for a second term, too.

Obama’s speech to the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus was his answer to increasingly vocal griping from black leaders that he’s been giving away too much in talks with Republicans — and not doing enough to fight black unemployment, which is nearly double the national average at 16.7 percent.

“It gets folks discouraged. I know. I listen to some of y’all,” Obama told an audience of some 3,000 in a darkened Washington convention center.

But he said blacks need to have faith in the future — and understand that the fight won’t be won if they don’t rally to his side.

“I need your help,” Obama said.

The president will need black turnout to match its historic 2008 levels if he’s to have a shot at winning a second term, and Saturday’s speech was a chance to speak directly to inner-city concerns.

He acknowledged blacks have suffered mightily because of the recession, and are frustrated that the downturn is taking so long to reverse. “So many people are still hurting. So many people are barely hanging on,” he said, then added: “And so many people in this city are fighting us every step of the way.”

But Obama said blacks know all too well from the civil rights struggle that the fight for what is right is never easy.

“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

Topping the to-do list, he said, is getting Congress to the pass jobs bill he sent to Capitol Hill two weeks ago.

Obama said the package of payroll tax cuts, business tax breaks and infrastructure spending will benefit 100,000 black-owned businesses and 20 million African-American workers. Republicans have indicated they’re open to some of the tax measures — but oppose his means of paying for it: hiking taxes on top income-earners and big business.

But at times, Obama also sounded like he was discussing his own embattled tenure.

“The future rewards those who press on,” He said. “I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.”

Caucus leaders remain fiercely protective of the nation’s first African-American president, but in recent weeks they’ve been increasingly vocal in their discontent — especially over black joblessness.

“If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House,” the caucus chairman, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, recently told McClatchy Newspapers.

Like many Democratic lawmakers, caucus members were dismayed by Obama’s concessions to the GOP during the summer’s talks on raising the government’s borrowing limit.

Cleaver famously called the compromise deal a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich.”

But Cleaver said his members also are keeping their gripes in check because “nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.”
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Still, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., caused a stir last month by complaining that Obama’s Midwest bus tour had bypassed black districts. She told a largely black audience in Detroit that the caucus is “supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired.”

Last year, Obama addressed the same dinner and implored blacks to get out the vote in the midterm elections because Republicans were preparing to “turn back the clock.”

What followed was a Democratic rout that Obama acknowledged as a “shellacking.”

Where blacks had turned out in droves to help elect him in 2008, there was a sharp drop-off two years later.

Some 65 percent of eligible blacks voted in 2008, compared with a 2010 level that polls estimate at between 37 percent and 40 percent. Final census figures for 2010 are not yet available, and it’s worth noting off-year elections typically draw far fewer voters.

This year’s caucus speech came as Obama began cranking up grass-roots efforts across the Democratic spectrum.

It also fell on the eve of a trip to the West Coast that will combine salesmanship for the jobs plan he sent to Congress this month and re-election fundraising.

Obama was leaving Sunday morning for Seattle, where two money receptions were planned, with two more to follow in the San Francisco area.

On Monday, Obama is holding a town meeting at the California headquarters of LinkedIn, the business networking website, before going on to fundraisers in San Diego and Los Angeles and a visit Tuesday to a Denver-area high school to highlight the school renovation component of the jobs package.

The black unemployment rate has just reached the highest rate ever, since the first black president reached the office, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Black unemployment is now at an astounding 16.7 percent, which is up from last month’s 15.9 percent, according to the department. The highest for black unemployment, since Obama took office, was 16.5 percent in March and April of 2010.

Its sure to say O’Reilly is on his BS again. Peep how he tries to b-little Lupe at the end of his interview about Lupe wearing shades during the interview

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlMDBAGLFI

Project Gulf Impact has been releasing a steady stream of videos about the ongoing impact of the Gulf oil disaster, and today’s is no different. It’s an interview with a former member of the temporary cleanup crews.

The worker interviewed in this video describes a cleanup organization effort that could be called effectively useless, and even counterproductive in the grand scheme of things. Workers were told nothing about the situation

My “favorite” quote from the interview comes not far in. He describes what workers were told by their temporary employers:

“He constantly kept saying, ‘It’s raining money; grab your bucket.’ He said that throughout the whole seminar… There’s free money right now… Get the free money while you can!”

From the YouTube video:

Now that cleanup crews are being let go, more and more former cleanup workers, angered and confused by the way they were treated by temp agencies sub-contracted by BP, are coming forward with stories of improper training, threats to their health, unsafe working conditions, violations of labor laws, health problems, and other harmful practices to which they were subjected.

As traditional media continues to celebrate the unlikely disappearance of the oil spilled by the Macondo 252 well, Gulf residents are becoming increasingly disconcerted by the severe neglect of corporations and government agencies involved with the spill.

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IMMIGRATION TARGETING CHILDREN THREW DORA THE EXPLORER

Thanks to The New York Times, we know that immigration is a hot topic of debate between Americans young and old, with today’s younger generation largely battling with baby boomers for supporting Arizona’s controversial law, which allows police to detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.

Now, even 7-year-olds are voicing their opinion on the issue, and with this latest spoof that’s sure to stir the melting pot, don’t be surprised if your 3-year-old starts asking questions about immigration.

A doctored picture is making the rounds of the children’s cartoon character Dora the Explorer in a mug shot with a black eye, battered lip and bloody nose. Her crime? She was arrested for “Illegal Border Crossing Resisting Arrest,” the Associated Press reports.

The Huffington Post took the spoof, created for a contest for the fake news site FreakingNews.com, one step further and “reported” that Dora, along with her cousin Diego and pet monkey Boots, had been arrested in Phoenix.

Meanwhile, 7-year-olds are getting the opportunity to grill our first lady on the issue. While at an event at a Maryland elementary school, Michelle Obama was told by a 2nd-grade girl that “My mom…she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers.” To which the first lady said, “Yeah, well that’s something that we have to work on right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right?” “But my mom doesn’t have any,” the little girl quietly replied. She looked so concerned we can’t imagine that Mom later grounded her for ratting her out to the FLOTUS.

It all just goes to show that children truly are parrots of their parents, repeating not just the curse words we occasionally let slip, but also our ideologies we think they can’t possibly comprehend.

Parrots, at least, until they grow up.

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IS HAITI’S EARTHQUAKE MAN MADE OR A NATURAL DISASTER?

Anyway, I knew from that broadcast that the broadcast was a component of a well planned operation. I notice that this earthquake caused no Tsunami damaging any Fat Cat’s ocean front property in Florida etc. And the event so helps both Obama and Clinton — when Obama is just on the brink of collapse of his political power and presidential authority.

They had the motive and the means to create this earthquake.

None of the properties or people were important to the interests that I know were responsible for the 9-11 deaths, the steering of Katrina and, yes, the December 2004 Sumatra magnitude 9 earthquake and Indian OceanTsunami where wave 100 ft high in places and at least 50 ft high along a 60 mile stretch of the coast of Sumatra –76,000 deaths and 100,000 homes destroyed.

I have put some 2005 articles below. They give my reasons for believing the Sumatra quake was the result of weaponized earthquake generation — as I am convinced the Haiti quake was too.

I have gathered some articles from 2005 that I think will shed much light on the earthquake of January 12, 2010.

(Remember, Clinton’s Sec of Defense stated five years before that both weather warfare and earthquake-making weapons already existed in hands outside the US — he did not say who — I know the weather tech is in Israeli hands.

That is all I have time for now. Read the articles below — I think you will be convinced.

One last thought — the Haiti quake is over — don’t let it distract us from economic and war atrocities still in the works — they may yet be prevented. What is needed is a world-wide repudiation of thepower , the claims upon us, and the position and wealth of Globalist international crime. If you can help the Haitians do so — but let us go after the entire global network that believes theirpower gives them the right to create disasters like this at their own caprice. Haiti was murdered as a distraction –

DON’T LET YOURSELF BE DISTRACTED FROM BRINGING DOWN THE MONEY POWER AND THE MONEY POWER’S AMERICAN POLITICIANS.

“YOU’RE EITHER WIT IT OR NOT”

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RON PAUL SAID”WE NEED TO TAKE OUT THE CIA”

Republican Congressman Ron Paul delivered a speech at the Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta over the weekend and said the Central Intelligence Agency runs the United States government and military after its coup d’etat.

Republican Congressman of Texas and 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul spoke to an audience at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta, Georgia on the weekend and said the CIA runs the US government and military after its coup on America, according to the Raw Story.

The author of “The Revolution: A Manifesto” and “A Foreign Policy of Freedom” was citing the reports of how much the CIA has been involved in air strikes against al-Qaeda threats, specifically in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In December, President Barack Obama authorized the CIA of increasing its use of unmanned military drones in Pakistan, which has killed hundreds of civilians since its dramatic increase one year ago.

Paul stated in his speech, “There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. … And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve.”

The 1988 Libertarian Presidential candidate added that since its inception after World War II, the CIA has done more harm than good and they’re a government unto themselves, “They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators … We need to take out the CIA.”