Phyllis Schlafly

The media are absorbed with the race for the Republican presidential nomination, commenting on daily fluctuations in the polls, and predicting who will win. But why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the room — China? When Donald Trump briefly considered running for President, his straight talk about China helped him rise to the top of the Republican field. So, why aren’t the media interrogators asking other candidates any China questions?

Communist China is a tremendous national security issue. The only cut Barack Obama is willing to make in federal spending is in our military power, which means he will be ceding our military superiority to China and other hostile totalitarian nations.

While Obama is shutting down our U.S. space program, China is going full-speed ahead to achieve space dominance along with the ability to deny it to America. Space is essential to the gathering, transmission and use of information necessary to fight and win future wars.

This year China unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter plane that could pose a significant threat to our air superiority. A Chinese military milestone was passed when China’s first aircraft carrier completed its maiden voyage.

China is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers. China is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons to use against our aircraft carriers in any conflict over Taiwan.

Communist China is a huge jobs issue, and jobs is the number-one presidential campaign issue. China is a killer of U.S. jobs, not only from U.S. outsourcing but by taking thousands of construction jobs away from U.S. workers.

Despite California’s 10 percent unemployment, China will soon finish rebuilding the great San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge damaged in the 1989 earthquake. A Chinese company built the construction machinery and the 12 bridge segments in China and is installing them in California, using 3,000 imported Chinese workers (steel-cutters, welders, engineers, etc.), paid $12 a day, working 7 a.m. till 11 p.m., seven days a week, and sleeping in a company dorm.

China has already built seven U.S. schools, and has bought a large chunk of real estate in Toledo, Ohio and oil and gas fields in Texas.

China has contracts to build a 4,000-room casino in Atlantic City, and to refurbish the Alexander Hamilton bridge over the Harlem River.In Idaho, China is using a federal program that grants permanent residency to foreign nationals and special tax exemptions to foreign firms that move to the U.S. But surprise, surprise, the Chinese industries in Idaho will be staffed by imported Chinese workers.Targets of Chinese investment in New York include the New York subway system, a Metro-North train platform near Yankee stadium, luxury apartments, and major leases in the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center.

There’s even more stunning info in Phyllis’ article. Read the rest here: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2011/sept11/11-09-02.html ]]> http://www.anitacrane.com/blog/labor-day-phyllis-schlafly-on-china-and-the-jobs-crisis/feed/ 0 http://www.anitacrane.com/blog/money-thats-what-we-want/ http://www.anitacrane.com/blog/money-thats-what-we-want/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:47:56 +0000 Anita Crane http://www.anitacrane.com/?p=2962 Yeah, yeah. Money will be the No. 1 issue for most Americans when we vote in 2012, so this song  “Money (That’s What I Want)” came to mind. It was written by Motown founder Berry Gordy with Janie Bradford and Barrett Strong’s recording became a 1959 hit. Twenty years later, the Flying Lizards covered it with smashing international success and the backstory is very surprising from the way they got their unique sound to the fact they had almost NO money. Here they are, Julian Marshall, Deborah Evans and David Cunningham, plus Chris Welch, author of One Hit Wonders, which I haven’t read. First the story, then the original music video. Just a little homage to success on a shoestring budget…
Buy the way (pardon the pun), you can get the music and the book by clicking on my Amazon links to the right ->

In many ways, Joyce Shaffer is the quintessential country singer.

She grew up as the ninth child of a dirt-poor sharecropper, then married young and raised her children amid tremendous hardship.

Nevertheless, Shaffer found joy in the beauty of the rugged Colorado landscape which has been her lifelong home.

During the 1980s, Shaffer enjoyed singing with a band. Now she’s beginning a new work: writing and performing her own songs but, instead of singing about her own heartaches, Shaffer is singing an anthem for American voters.

This August, the 61-year-old grandmother and rancher will perform in Washington, D.C., warning the establishment that tea partiers and other Americans, in fear of what Barack Obama will do, are “Takin’ Back Our Country.”

“Obama is the worst thing that ever happened to this country,” said Shaffer. “And I will say it openly because if I won’t say it openly, I can’t expect anyone else to say it.”

On Youtube, reactions to “Takin’ Back Our Country” range from “Great song Joyce! I was singing right along with you. United We Stand!” all the way down the scale to “Nice song, you stupid white trash retard. Your hatred is showing… please die in a hole, you old bag.”

No matter what people say, Shaffer is upbeat. She sings for everyone who “earned their wrinkles” and strives to raise a new generation that fights for our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

(Story continues athttp://www.wnd.com/?pageId=184701)

Get Joyce Shaffer’s music at Amazon.com

Black conservative Ron Miller’s gutsy new book Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch couldn’t be more timely as the NAACP and other liberals are charging the Tea Parties with racism and – in the wake of President Obama’s election, no less – Shirley Sherrod’s husband Charles claims that black people can no longer let “the white man steal elections” and they must oust  “Uncle Toms.”

Ron Miller says that now we have millions of good and decent Americans who oppose the Obama Administration being called racists, as if half of all the people who at first approved of his performance donned white robes and hoods overnight. Disagree with the biggest spendthrift in presidential history? Racist. Hold two veteran lawmakers (Reps. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) and Maxine Waters (D-CA)) accountable for abusing the public trust? Racist. We are more divided by race than we’ve been in decades.

Thus, Ron takes on all the players of the race card in his new book, “SELLOUT: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch.” This personal, candid and compelling account of one black conservative’s journey leaves no stone unturned and lets no race baiters off the hook. He exposes the real sellouts, the black liberals and their white sponsors who’ve treated the black community like lab rats for 45 years. The experiment must end, people are dying or living without hope while black preachers and politicians line their pockets and keep the lie of racism alive.

To order a signed copy of Sellout for yourself, family, friends or neighbors as pre-election Christmas gifts, here’s the direct link: http://www.teamronmiller.com/sellout.php and it’s also on Amazon.

As Ron’s editor and contributor, I echo bestselling author Ken Blackwell in saying, “Ron offers a personal, poignant and spiritual account of a journey through the quagmire of race in America, a journey that leads to redemption for all. Challenging and conciliatory, Americans of all races will be stirred by this book.”

Sellout isn’t some dry political narrative. It’s very personal on every count because Ron Miller exposes the failed liberal experiment, he speaks to the dignity of his fellow Americans and he shares his deeply moving memoir.

Chapter 9, “Trials of Many Kinds,” is my favorite because Ron reveals what it meant to be FEMA’s chief information officer during the 9/11 crisis, the consequences of working for then-Director Joe Allbaugh, and the sometimes comical weirdness of Washington. I dare anyone to keep a dry eye while reading about Ron’s run for the Maryland legislature, his son’s love, the agony of defeat and the answer Ron received when he wailed to God asking, “Why?”

At this time in history as so many Americans fear losing everything from their rights to their businesses or jobs and homes, Ron’s faith, courage and intelligence are inspiring.

In Sellout, Ron Miller boldly discusses these topics:
-Are we truly “a nation of cowards” on race?
-How and why he became a conservative Republican
-The damage done by the liberal ‘experiment’  on the black community
-The sellout of the black church to liberal politics over God’s Word
-The chances for reconciliation between blacks and the GOP
-The black community’s defense of scoundrels
-His personal experiences with the civil rights movement and racism
-Interracial dating and marriage
-Seeking God’s will in life and politics
-Should blacks love America?
-Is the Tea Party movement racist?
-Where do we go from here?

Ron Miller is a conservative commentator who writes extensively about identity politics and the repercussions of placing race above values, emphasizing the harmful effects of liberal policies on the black community.

Ron is executive director of Regular Folks United, an organization dedicated to the advancement of liberty and our nation’s founding principles. The nine-year plus veteran of the U.S. Air Force and married father of three writes columns for RegularFolksUnited.com and other publications.

He is an outspoken advocate for free enterprise, low taxes and reasonable regulation, limited and effective government focused on national security, public safety and administering justice, traditional two-parent families and the sanctity of human life.

From 2001 to 2004, Ron Miller served in the federal government as a senior executive with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, then the Department of Homeland Security, and finally with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

So what does all that mean to Americans? A new documentary by the feisty Irish filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney explains a lot. Not Evil Just Wrong examines the human toll of bad environmental policies with leaders such as Gore’s scientific advisor, a Greenpeace founder, human rights activist Roy Innis and green celebrity Ed Begley, Jr., among others. Therefore, the husband-wife team is urging regular people and activists to think globally and act locally. Not Evil Just Wrong premiers on October 18 with a worldwide distribution plan for everyone who wants to host screenings.

In this film, Mr. Gore has his say in a series of catastrophic messages. Then we meet John Day, the attorney who represented a parent in suing the British Ministry of Education because it had decided to show all children Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. Consequently, Britain’s High Court of Justice found nine major errors. According to Day, the most egregious scientific error is Gore’s exaggeration of reports by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He says, “Al Gore gives the impression that sea level is going rise by 20 feet in the very near future. The IPCC talks about 20-feet sea level rises over millennia – over thousands of years – thousands of thousands of years. … Now that is a very disturbing misstatement of the science.”

After that revelation, we hear from scientists who say that changes in arctic ice are a natural phenomenon, certain methods of forecasting climate change are based on false data, and CO₂, the natural gas exhaled by humans and other creatures, is essential to all life. Yet there is so much more to this stunning documentary.

Filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. (Photo courtesy of Greener Horizon Films, Ltd. © 2009)

Ann McElhinney said, “We were very happy to have Al Gore in our film, but he refused to be interviewed. This is a very odd way to behave if you care about truth.”

Phelim McAleer said, “If there’s such an emergency, if the planet’s going to die in five years, then get out there. Give press conferences. Talk to people. Debate with your opponents.”

They interviewed one of Gore’s top scientific advisors, climatologist Stephen Schneider of Stanford University and the IPCC. In the 1970s, Schneider warned of an immanent and devastating manmade ice age, but now he preaches immanent and devastating manmade global warming. After the interview, Schneider withdrew permission and Stanford University lawyers threatened the filmmakers not use their footage. However, they can legally reveal what he said, so they do.

Patrick Moore is a Greenpeace founder and former member (1971-86), plus an ecologist. In Not Evil Just Wrong, he guides viewers through the science and typical tactics of environmentalists. Like other scientists in this film, Moore comes to a conclusion about the motives behind popular strategies and it is quite shocking: not because the motives aren’t obvious, but because he and others have the authority to expose them.

Donald Roberts, Ph.D., a tropical health specialist and professor emeritus of the Uniformed University of Health Sciences, discusses DDT, which is probably the best weapon against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. In 1962, marine biologist Rachel Carson released the book Silent Spring, her unproven thesis that DDT causes cancer or genetic mutation in various creatures. Subsequently, DDT was banned around the globe and Roberts says that estimates of malaria infections are as high as 800 million. McAleer said the estimates of casualties are as high as 50 million. According to BBC News, South Africa stopped using DDT in 1996 and malaria cases shot up to 65,000 in 2000, so it resumed DDT use in 2001. By 2006, the World Health Organization said South African data showed that DDT can reduce malaria transmission by 90%. Thus, the WHO enthusiastically recommended DDT for the 107 countries where malaria is endemic. But Ugandans and other Africans still plead for help. In Not Evil Just Wrong, Roberts concludes, “[T]he people who say that we don’t need DDT, I would have to assume, have an agenda that is separate from the agenda of controlling malaria, reducing death and reducing disease in vulnerable populations.”

“There’s something going on right now with the scientific method – something that’s not healthy,” said McElhinney. “We look at the DDT story and it’s very interesting what happened. The people who defended Rachel Carson, like Al Gore, continue to defend her despite the science.”

McAleer added, “We showed our film to a group of African Americans in Atlanta and they went crazy when they saw the DDT section. They were angry that they didn’t know about DDT and no one ever told them about it. They thought it was a conspiracy to keep the problem.

“The point of the DDT section is that the ban has cost the lives of 30 million-plus Africans,” he said. “CO₂ is the new DDT. We’re going through the same cycle and we’re going to affect the lives of hundreds of millions – billions – if you ban fossil fuels.”

In the film, Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, stresses that the DDT bans in developing nations are a human rights issue because people have died and, furthermore, the risk of getting malaria harms the survivors’ economies. He says, “I don’t believe that the people who oppose DDT are evil people, but they’re people who are wrong.” Innis also says, “I cannot believe that Al Gore has great regard for people – real people.”

Then there’s Ed Begley, Jr., who stars in “Living With Ed” on the Discovery Networks’ Planet Green. In Not Evil Just Wrong, Begley claims that Fiji’s poor “have nothing” and they are “very happy” to live without electricity. In reality, the squalor is heartwrenching. Furthermore, Begley would have no TV career without electricity, let alone basic necessities such as a refrigerator. Still, he gets teary-eyed over green schemes, but the filmmakers catch him admitting hypocrisy.

“I wanted to look behind the word ‘ban’,” said McAleer. “I realized that when you ban something, somebody suffers. The environmental movement opposes building dams, but that deprives people of clean water.

“The most endangered species in Africa is not the lemur, not the lion. It’s a five-year-old child in a village,” he said. “You have all these people running around trying to cure AIDS in Africa with their red ribbons, but the biggest killer is diarrhea. Try having a benefit dinner to cure diarrhea. What color would the ribbon be? It’s not very glamorous, but water treatment plants would save those people.”

Of course, water purification plants require electricity, which is usually produced with hydro dams or fossil fuels.

“We have condemned the people of Africa and Asia to pre-industrial farming. Do you want that?” McAleer asked. He said many environmentalists have similar plans for America and it’s explored in the film. In fact, the process has begun with congressional bills to burden citizens with high taxes on energy. Next, the government could ban fuels that are necessary for electricity and transportation. In other words, the wrong kind of environmentalism would kill the American way of life.

McAleer said, “There’s a theme to the environmentalist push. The answer is always stop America from growing, stop big business. But America is the last hope because your people haven’t bought the propaganda. They recognize the madness of driving jobs out of America during one of the biggest recessions.”

Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney traveled the world in their three-year quest for answers. They said, “Not Evil Just Wrong has a very large carbon footprint – we are very proud of that.”

The worldwide simultaneous screenings premier is Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 8 PM ET in homes, dorms, clubs , churches and so on. Everyone who wants to host a screening party can order the DVD, movie poster and a red carpet by clicking on the following link: Not Evil Just Wrong – the true cost of warming hysteria.

Anita Crane © 2009. All rights reserved. Available at RenewAmerica.com.