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London Guardian | Annual off-the-record finance gathering attracts protesters from disparate groups, but they often have a similar goal in mind.

Washington Post | Outside the Jersey barriers, dozens of protesters and conspiracy theorists — convinced that Bilderberg is a global cabal that runs the world — waved signs and shouted into bullhorns.

Apparently, “tax the billionaires” is a better rallying cry for his reelection campaign than “look at my record.” Here is the list, not for the faint of heart, of Obama’s class warfare attacks.

1. Attacking capitalism

The Obama campaign is trying to make Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital an issue in the race, bemoaning how jobs were sometimes lost in the restructuring of its acquisitions. But Mr. Obama, that is how capitalism works, and it is exactly what you did during the bailout of General Motors when unprofitable divisions were shut down in order to save the larger company.

2. Tax the rich

Even as Obama spends the nation to oblivion, he is trying to make the case that taxing the wealthy will solve the country’s budget crisis. Even Nancy Pelosi is breaking with the president, saying the Bush tax cuts should be extended to those making up to $1 million, instead of Obama’s $250,000. When you’ve lost Pelosi, you’ve lost the argument.

3. Demonize corporations

No president has ever gone after the corporate world as Obama has, demonizing the banks, the oil companies, pharmaceuticals, and any entity that could actually create a job. His hypocrisy holds no bounds, as he greedily soaks up campaign donations from the same ventures he attacks.

4.Biden, the hit-man

Gaffe-machine Joe Biden apparently doesn’t have much to do as the nation’s vice president, so why not trot him out as the administration’s hit-man, where he can sharpen his boss’s anti-wealth attacks. Last Labor Day, he called Obama’s  opponents barbarians, and more recently, at a rally in Ohio, Biden ranted, “They don’t get who we are.” Oh yes we do, Mr. Vice President, and that’s why we are on the other side.

5. Unleash the unions

Big Labor provides the foot soldiers for Obama’s reelection bid and he returns the favor through appointments and policies beneficial to their interests. Union bosses have virtually set up an office in the White House, making hundreds of visits for meetings with top officials. And don’t forget the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which deploys an army of thugs to attend left-wing rallies and are not adverse to forcibly bullying its opponents.

6. Promote the Occupy movement

The president has lent his moral support to the Occupy Wall Street movement, even as the protests turned violent and the group became infested with criminal activity. He hitched his ride with the motley activists early on, saying last October the movement was a reflection of a “broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.” Spoken like the Alinsky-styled community organizer that he remains at heart.

7. Spread the wealth around

As candidate Obama famously told Joe the Plumber in 2008, he is all about wealth redistribution and since taking office his budgets have piled up trillions of dollars in deficits trying to do just that. Given a second term, this president will increase taxes every which way in order to pay for more social programs for the downtrodden, keeping an increasing number of Americans on the government dole.

8. ObamaCare’s ‘fairness’

The president’s healthcare initiative is one big class warfare gambit as he loads up on tax increases in order to subsidize the uninsured. The problem is that it just won’t work. Costs continue to rise, businesses will begin to shed their health plans, and longer waits will become normal at the doctor’s office. All out of the misguided notion of “fairness.”

9. Double-down

Even as his policies have slowed the economic recovery, created few jobs, added trillions to the national debt, put in roadblocks that curtail U.S. energy production, and destroyed the healthcare system, President Obama continues the same misguided efforts. A true revolutionary never loses sight of the ultimate goal, with the ends justifying the means, and two steps forward, one step back. Look at his annual budget request which is such a joke with its big spending, big government approach that he can’t get a single Democrat to vote for it.

10. Overheated rhetoric

No class warfare attack could be complete without resorting to over-the-top rhetoric meant to inflame passions rather than to reach a consensus. President Obama has become a master of that art, blaming “millionaires and billionaires” for all the nation’s woes in nearly every speech he gives. He reached his rhetorical zenith when he tried to portray President Reagan as a “wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior.”

In this corner, weighing 110 pounds and standing 5-feet 7-inches tall, 18-year-old pop star Justin Bieber. In the other corner, some guy who was aggressively taking his picture in a California shopping mall.

Los Angeles County police are investigating accusations that Justin struck a photographer, which, if true, would violate California Penal Code 242 even if the striking blow was, well, glancing. Detectives want you to call them if you saw the brawl or if Justin attacked you, as well.

So far Bieber is not talking.

Apparently, the photographer called the Malibu-Lost Hills Sheriff’s department last Sunday afternoon. The victim says he was “battered” by the singer, who was accompanied by his girlfriend, Selena Gomez. The victim complained of “pain” and was transported to a local hospital where he was treated and released into the custody of a lawyer who immediately contacted the media.

Now, I am certain being attacked by Justin Bieber is no laughing matter. If the guy ever got a haircut and a neck tattoo, he could look menacing. Perhaps Justin knows kung fu.

But the odds are that this is yet another shakedown generated by a loser and his sleazy attorney who will game the system hoping Bieber will throw some money at them in order to make the annoyance go away.

There are now legions of lawyers who will file lawsuits against famous and rich people for just about anything. Lawsuits cost money to defend, and the media are overjoyed to publicize any and all alleged “transgressions.” No evidence has to be provided to the press; a lurid accusation is enough. This is now an industry: Fleecing the Rich and Famous. In fact, it could be a reality show. Paging Robin Leach.

But if you really look at what’s happening, it’s despicable. Legalized extortion and blackmail are now epidemics in America. Famous people are routinely slandered, libeled, followed and menaced in public. And there’s little they can do about it. If you are a public figure and/or have money, you are a huge target and will get little sympathy from the court or from the court of public opinion.

Recently, I took three young teenagers to see the play “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Upon leaving the theater, a guy who identified himself as an “Occupy protester” was waiting for me with a camera and recorder. He began screaming nonsense. I told the guy to knock it off because he was scaring the kids. He actually yelled louder and even chased my car down the street. The girls were unnerved.

I truly wish Bieber had been with me that night so he could have smacked down that guy. I guess I could have done it, but the line of attorneys responding would have stretched from Broadway to Michigan.

We absolutely need tort reform in this country, and we need to adopt a brand-new slogan, as well: “Free Justin Bieber.”

Boston Occupier Free Press: CISPA Follows SOPA in Attacking Internet Freedom by Kendra Moyer

The Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was drafted by Representative Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) with the stated intention of protecting consumers and business owners by reducing intellectual property theft, identity theft, and perceived “cyber threats.” The bill was passed by the House of Representative in April 2012, as an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947. It has not yet come up in the Senate.

Those concerned with civil rights, privacy, and the freedom of information have expressed strong concerns about the bill.

Findlaw: First Arrest by Pilotless Drone Raises Fourth Amendment Questions:

The first American citizen to be arrested with the help of a pilotless drone in the U.S. is claiming his legal rights were violated when a drone flew overhead during a stand-off with police.

The Lakota, North Dakota, resident held police off for nearly 16 hours as he threatened to kill anyone who came on his property. (The stand-off took place over the ownership of six cows that had made their way onto the man’s property.)

The Department of Homeland Security eventually got involved. It used a drone to accurately pinpoint the man’s location on his farm. Then the arrest was made.

The novel facts of the case seem settled, but the outcome is not.

With four days to go – Walker leads by 7!

Governor Scott Walker leads by 7 points in the latest poll going into Tuesday’s recall election.
MSNBC reported:

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) enjoys a 7-point advantage over Democratic challenger Tom Barrett among likely voters in Tuesday’s recall election.

Fifty-two percent of likely voters said they would vote to retain Walker, according to a Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday; 45 percent of likely voters said they would support Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee.

The poll suggests that Walker is heading toward victory on Tuesday, which would deliver a stinging rebuke to Democrats and members of the labor community who had sought the first-term governor’s removal after he pushed a controversial bill curbing collective bargaining rights for many public employees through the Wisconsin state legislature.

Also…
The Racine Tea Party PAC is hosting a rally on Saturday, June 2nd from 10:00am to noon at Gorney Park in Racine County. This rally will be the last big protest in Racine before the recall election.

The event will feature Congressman Paul Ryan, All Patriots Media – Tony Katz, Breibart.com and CNN contributor Dana Loesch the “rock star of radio” Wisconsin’s own – Vicki McKenna, PA Tea Party Activist & Fox News Contributor – Jenn Stefano State Senator – Van Wanggaard and more. Invited guests include Lt Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and several big surprise guests.
If you are in the area please plan on attending!

With four days to go – Walker leads by 7!

Governor Scott Walker leads by 7 points in the latest poll going into Tuesday’s recall election.
MSNBC reported:

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) enjoys a 7-point advantage over Democratic challenger Tom Barrett among likely voters in Tuesday’s recall election.

Fifty-two percent of likely voters said they would vote to retain Walker, according to a Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday; 45 percent of likely voters said they would support Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee.

The poll suggests that Walker is heading toward victory on Tuesday, which would deliver a stinging rebuke to Democrats and members of the labor community who had sought the first-term governor’s removal after he pushed a controversial bill curbing collective bargaining rights for many public employees through the Wisconsin state legislature.

Also…
The Racine Tea Party PAC is hosting a rally on Saturday, June 2nd from 10:00am to noon at Gorney Park in Racine County. This rally will be the last big protest in Racine before the recall election.

The event will feature Congressman Paul Ryan, All Patriots Media – Tony Katz, Breibart.com and CNN contributor Dana Loesch the “rock star of radio” Wisconsin’s own – Vicki McKenna, PA Tea Party Activist & Fox News Contributor – Jenn Stefano State Senator – Van Wanggaard and more. Invited guests include Lt Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and several big surprise guests.
If you are in the area please plan on attending!

It’s an Obama world…
A pro-Walker Marine vet got into a few confrontations at Democrat Tom Barrett’s rally today with Bill Clinton in Wisconsin.
The Franklin Center has video.

They couldn’t handle the truth.
So, union cops were called in and dragged him out of the rally and arrested him.
They didn’t like what he was saying.

The Marine is predicting a 10 point win for Scott Walker.
I second that.

It’s an Obama world…
A pro-Walker Marine vet got into a few confrontations at Democrat Tom Barrett’s rally today with Bill Clinton in Wisconsin.
The Franklin Center has video.

They couldn’t handle the truth.
So, union cops were called in and dragged him out of the rally and arrested him.
They didn’t like what he was saying.

The Marine is predicting a 10 point win for Scott Walker.
I second that.

Tune into WMAL Saturday morning at 7 a.m. EST as Political Editor John Gizzi goes on the air to discuss the upcoming recall election in Wisconsin and its impact on the national elections this November.

Click here to listen!

Tune into WMAL Saturday morning at 7 a.m. EST as Political Editor John Gizzi goes on the air to discuss the upcoming recall election in Wisconsin and its impact on the national elections this November.

Click here to listen!

Democrats in Massachusetts are holding their convention this weekend, and they’ve got to decide if they’re ready to roll the dice on woman who either doesn’t know when to stop pushing a transparent lie, or is out of her mind.

Elizabeth Warren, who is zero percent Native American but has been making false claims of Cherokee ancestry for decades, finally snapped under the pressure of having the liberal Boston Globe frown at her, even as demands for an apology from the actual Cherokee grow more insistent.

In a phone interview with a Globe reporter on Thursday, Fauxcahontas doubled down:

“In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were hard issues,’’ Warren said. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope.

“As kids, my brothers and I knew about that. We knew about the differences between our two families. And we knew how important my mother’s heritage was to her. This was real in my life. I can’t deny my heritage. I can’t and I won’t. That would be denying who my mother was, who my family was, how we lived, and I won’t do it.’’

Asked what made her mother’s family distinctly Native American, Warren laughed and replied, “It was exactly what I said.’’ Asked again, she responded, “One side was Cherokee and the other side was Delaware. I never had any reason to doubt them. I never asked for any documentation. It’s who we were.’’

(Emphasis mine.)  This tale is so deeply seared into her memory that she has never mentioned it before, just like she didn’t say a blessed word about her alleged Native American roots when the Globe interviewed her for a 3,000-word biography last February.

Michael Patrick Leahy, who has been doggedly following the Warren saga for Breitbart.com, quickly published the 1932 marriage certificate for Warren’s parents, Donald J. Herring and Pauline Reed.  It was originally posted last week at the “Polly’s Granddaughter” blog run by actual Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes.  It turns out Warren’s parents were married about 14 miles from their listed place of residence in Oklahoma, which was in the same county where Reed’s parents resided.  The wedding was performed by the pastor of a Methodist Episcopal Church.

Reed is identified as “white” on 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census records.  Barnes dug considerably deeper into Warren’s family tree, and found not the slightest evidence of Cherokee ancestry.  Even if Elizabeth Warren’s fanciful claims of “1/32 Cherokee ancestry” were true, she’s now claiming her mother was driven to flee 14 miles so she could marry a white man, due to unbearable prejudice leveled against her for being 1/16 Native American.  Furthermore, in her Globe interview, she claimed her Indian heritage changed “how we lived,” which implies the hardships endured long after that arduous half-hour journey… but, according to her own timeline, she forgot about all of this until well after she was hired by Harvard, and began advertising herself as Native American “in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am.”

Somehow, I doubt the real Cherokee are going to be delighted with these new developments.

Democrats in Massachusetts are holding their convention this weekend, and they’ve got to decide if they’re ready to roll the dice on woman who either doesn’t know when to stop pushing a transparent lie, or is out of her mind.

Elizabeth Warren, who is zero percent Native American but has been making false claims of Cherokee ancestry for decades, finally snapped under the pressure of having the liberal Boston Globe frown at her, even as demands for an apology from the actual Cherokee grow more insistent.

In a phone interview with a Globe reporter on Thursday, Fauxcahontas doubled down:

“In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were hard issues,’’ Warren said. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope.

“As kids, my brothers and I knew about that. We knew about the differences between our two families. And we knew how important my mother’s heritage was to her. This was real in my life. I can’t deny my heritage. I can’t and I won’t. That would be denying who my mother was, who my family was, how we lived, and I won’t do it.’’

Asked what made her mother’s family distinctly Native American, Warren laughed and replied, “It was exactly what I said.’’ Asked again, she responded, “One side was Cherokee and the other side was Delaware. I never had any reason to doubt them. I never asked for any documentation. It’s who we were.’’

(Emphasis mine.)  This tale is so deeply seared into her memory that she has never mentioned it before, just like she didn’t say a blessed word about her alleged Native American roots when the Globe interviewed her for a 3,000-word biography last February.

Michael Patrick Leahy, who has been doggedly following the Warren saga for Breitbart.com, quickly published the 1932 marriage certificate for Warren’s parents, Donald J. Herring and Pauline Reed.  It was originally posted last week at the “Polly’s Granddaughter” blog run by actual Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes.  It turns out Warren’s parents were married about 14 miles from their listed place of residence in Oklahoma, which was in the same county where Reed’s parents resided.  The wedding was performed by the pastor of a Methodist Episcopal Church.

Reed is identified as “white” on 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census records.  Barnes dug considerably deeper into Warren’s family tree, and found not the slightest evidence of Cherokee ancestry.  Even if Elizabeth Warren’s fanciful claims of “1/32 Cherokee ancestry” were true, she’s now claiming her mother was driven to flee 14 miles so she could marry a white man, due to unbearable prejudice leveled against her for being 1/16 Native American.  Furthermore, in her Globe interview, she claimed her Indian heritage changed “how we lived,” which implies the hardships endured long after that arduous half-hour journey… but, according to her own timeline, she forgot about all of this until well after she was hired by Harvard, and began advertising herself as Native American “in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am.”

Somehow, I doubt the real Cherokee are going to be delighted with these new developments.

Paul Joseph Watson | Security crackdown surrounding elite confab intensifies.

Pak Tribune | India is concerned by recent NATO summit announcement that by 2014 a majority of combat troops will be pulled out of Afghanistan.

Infowars.com | Ongoing video coverage exposing the global elite and highlighting the demo in Virginia.

VOA News | NATO-led troops attempted to remove barricades in Northern Kosovo when protesters began pelting them with stones.

There’s no way for President Obama or his media allies to spin the apocalyptic May jobs report, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as even the heavily massaged “official” unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  That brings us to forty straight months of adjusted unemployment above 8 percent.

The only tiny glimmer of hope in this report is the one thing the media never wanted to report until now: the overall workforce participation rate nudged up a bit, showing a 0.2 percent gain, widely thought to represent students entering the workforce in search of summer jobs.  This leaves the American workforce considerably smaller than it was on the day Barack Obama took office.  For this reason, it would be extremely uncomfortable for the White House to suddenly discover the workforce participation rate it has been studiously ignoring for the past three years, and attempt to cite the May gain as a spot of good news.

Only 69,000 jobs were created in May.  That’s far, far below the rate needed to keep pace with population growth, and an astonishing failure to meet expectations of 150,000 jobs created – which would have given us a stagnant job market.

Furthermore, the already anemic April numbers were revised down by 38,000 jobs, which is a huge “adjustment.”  The old number was only 115,000 jobs created!  Now it’s down to 77,000, and even March was revised down by 11,000 jobs to 143,000.  Well north of 150,000 jobs are needed to keep up with population growth.

Think about the magnitude of those “adjustments” for a moment.  The three-month average just dropped from 113,000 per month to 96,000… and 113,000 was awful.  Construction took a big hit, losing 28,000 jobs in May.  It has long been known that the warm winter moved a lot of construction jobs ahead.  Also, those notorious “seasonal adjustments” are always positive during the winter, but they start becoming negative in May.  The bottom line is that the situation has always been worse than casual news consumers were led to believe.  The fudge is getting fire-hosed from these numbers.

Long-term unemployment is up, from 5.1 million to 5.4 million, making them 42.8 percent of the unemployed population.  The average duration of unemployment rose from 19.4 weeks to 20.1 weeks.  Part-time work is up, as the BLS finds people “working part time because their hours had been cut back, or because they were unable to find a full-time job.”  Average hourly earnings grew by an extremely weak 0.7 percent – another sign of the transition to an economy dominated by part-time and temporary jobs.

The population of discouraged workers, the “unemployables,” has held steady at 830,000 for a year.  The BLS defines discouraged workers as “persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.”  Just what America needs!  Let’s have four more years of it!

Among key voting demographics, Hispanic employment is up, while women, young people, and blacks remain hopelessly stagnant.

This awful jobs report comes in tandem with the downward revision of America’s GDP growth forecast, which the Commerce Department now estimates at a perilously weak 1.9 percent for the year.  Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told CNBC on Friday that he attributes this sluggish growth to “a fear of the future” among investors and executives.  Taxmageddon, the largest tax increase ever to hit American businesses and families, is a thundercloud rumbling on the horizon, ready to rain almost half a trillion dollars in new taxes on the weak Obama economy in January 2013.  As the Heritage Foundation points out, Barack Obama is utterly silent about stopping this disaster, and actively opposed to efforts at stimulating the U.S. economy by increasing our energy reserves or trimming onerous regulations.

This is an apocalyptic disaster for the Obama re-election campaign – which, you may recall, was recently trying to criticize Mitt Romney for achieving a 4.7 percent unemployment rate in Massachusetts.  That’s a level this failed President cannot even dream of.  Nevertheless, Obama promptly jetted off to an incredible six fundraisers in one day.  (Hat tip: Jammie Wearing Fool.)  Just think of all the jobs that could be created if people invested that money instead of pouring it into Barack Obama’s pointless re-election effort.

Update: Corrected a typo on the April job numbers, which should have said “revised down to 77,00 jobs,” not “revised down by 77,000 jobs.”  Since I had the 77k figure later in the paragraph, I thought it would be most efficient to edit the line to read “revised down by 38,000 jobs.”

There’s no way for President Obama or his media allies to spin the apocalyptic May jobs report, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as even the heavily massaged “official” unemployment rate rose to 8.2%.  That brings us to forty straight months of adjusted unemployment above 8 percent.

The only tiny glimmer of hope in this report is the one thing the media never wanted to report until now: the overall workforce participation rate nudged up a bit, showing a 0.2 percent gain, widely thought to represent students entering the workforce in search of summer jobs.  This leaves the American workforce considerably smaller than it was on the day Barack Obama took office.  For this reason, it would be extremely uncomfortable for the White House to suddenly discover the workforce participation rate it has been studiously ignoring for the past three years, and attempt to cite the May gain as a spot of good news.

Only 69,000 jobs were created in May.  That’s far, far below the rate needed to keep pace with population growth, and an astonishing failure to meet expectations of 150,000 jobs created – which would have given us a stagnant job market.

Furthermore, the already anemic April numbers were revised down by 38,000 jobs, which is a huge “adjustment.”  The old number was only 115,000 jobs created!  Now it’s down to 77,000, and even March was revised down by 11,000 jobs to 143,000.  Well north of 150,000 jobs are needed to keep up with population growth.

Think about the magnitude of those “adjustments” for a moment.  The three-month average just dropped from 113,000 per month to 96,000… and 113,000 was awful.  Construction took a big hit, losing 28,000 jobs in May.  It has long been known that the warm winter moved a lot of construction jobs ahead.  Also, those notorious “seasonal adjustments” are always positive during the winter, but they start becoming negative in May.  The bottom line is that the situation has always been worse than casual news consumers were led to believe.  The fudge is getting fire-hosed from these numbers.

Long-term unemployment is up, from 5.1 million to 5.4 million, making them 42.8 percent of the unemployed population.  The average duration of unemployment rose from 19.4 weeks to 20.1 weeks.  Part-time work is up, as the BLS finds people “working part time because their hours had been cut back, or because they were unable to find a full-time job.”  Average hourly earnings grew by an extremely weak 0.7 percent – another sign of the transition to an economy dominated by part-time and temporary jobs.

The population of discouraged workers, the “unemployables,” has held steady at 830,000 for a year.  The BLS defines discouraged workers as “persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.”  Just what America needs!  Let’s have four more years of it!

Among key voting demographics, Hispanic employment is up, while women, young people, and blacks remain hopelessly stagnant.

This awful jobs report comes in tandem with the downward revision of America’s GDP growth forecast, which the Commerce Department now estimates at a perilously weak 1.9 percent for the year.  Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told CNBC on Friday that he attributes this sluggish growth to “a fear of the future” among investors and executives.  Taxmageddon, the largest tax increase ever to hit American businesses and families, is a thundercloud rumbling on the horizon, ready to rain almost half a trillion dollars in new taxes on the weak Obama economy in January 2013.  As the Heritage Foundation points out, Barack Obama is utterly silent about stopping this disaster, and actively opposed to efforts at stimulating the U.S. economy by increasing our energy reserves or trimming onerous regulations.

This is an apocalyptic disaster for the Obama re-election campaign – which, you may recall, was recently trying to criticize Mitt Romney for achieving a 4.7 percent unemployment rate in Massachusetts.  That’s a level this failed President cannot even dream of.  Nevertheless, Obama promptly jetted off to an incredible six fundraisers in one day.  (Hat tip: Jammie Wearing Fool.)  Just think of all the jobs that could be created if people invested that money instead of pouring it into Barack Obama’s pointless re-election effort.

Update: Corrected a typo on the April job numbers, which should have said “revised down to 77,00 jobs,” not “revised down by 77,000 jobs.”  Since I had the 77k figure later in the paragraph, I thought it would be most efficient to edit the line to read “revised down by 38,000 jobs.”