Friday, June 15, 2007

IMMIGRATION - MUST READ NOW

UPDATED SUNDAY 6-17-07 MUST READ NOW

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YOU MUST CALL YOUR SENATOR OR CONGRESS PERSON NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. YOU ARE LOSING YOUR COUNTRY, WE HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT. YOU MUST TELL THEM TO VOTE "NO" FOR ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS...... DO IT NOW...THE CLOCK IS TICKING FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
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LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19 (we are a declining power and have not won a major war since WW II.) Britain is down to a 25 ship Navy. They ruled the seas for 400 years. Israel is ruled by the "EREV RAV"...go to google and do a search on the erev rav. We are imploding from within.

WHEN G-D SPEAKS ABOUT THE HEAVEN LIKE IRON, THAT MEANS NO RAIN. WHEN G-D SPEAKS ABOUT THE EARTH AS BRASS THAT MEANS NOTHING WILL GROW.

READ "END OF DAYS" WRITTEN BY A TORAH RABBI AT VERY BOTTOM OF THIS COMMENTARY.

LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19
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יט וְשָׁבַרְתִּי, אֶת-גְּאוֹן עֻזְּכֶם; וְנָתַתִּי אֶת-שְׁמֵיכֶם כַּבַּרְזֶל, וְאֶת-אַרְצְכֶם כַּנְּחֻשָׁה. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.
כ וְתַם לָרִיק, כֹּחֲכֶם; וְלֹא-תִתֵּן אַרְצְכֶם, אֶת-יְבוּלָהּ, וְעֵץ הָאָרֶץ, לֹא יִתֵּן פִּרְיוֹ. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.



SECRET NEW PLAN FOR EU SUPERSTATE

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Changing: Europe

Friday June 15,2007

By Geoff Marsh for express.co.uk

TONY Blair wants to hand the European Union radical new powers in his last act as Prime Minister, it emerged today.

The Prime Minister has welcomed controversial plans to bring back the troubled EU constitution by the back door - totally bypassing the need for public referendums on sweeping new powers for Brussels.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested ditching the name "constitution" from the title and instead calling it an "amending treatyÓ - to avoid having to seek the approval of voters.

French and Dutch voters rejected the original plan - which would hand Brussels the power to represent individual countries at the UN and change national laws - two years ago.

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The British people will see right through any shabby stitch-up.
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Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague


Britain's voting rights would be reduced by a third under the scheme and our hard-won veto on European directives would be torn up. Britain could also lose the right to impose quotas on immigration.

Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "If Tony Blair thinks he can hoodwink the British people by smuggling in the rejected EU consitution under another name, he had better think again.



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Ingraham melts Snow in immigration smack

Talk-show host relentlessly quizzes White House spokesman over border


Posted: June 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


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Laura Ingraham

White House spokesman Tony Snow ran into a little more than he perhaps was expecting when he appeared on The Laura Ingraham show, as she relentlessly asked the American public's No. 1 question: What is the U.S. government doing to stop the invasion from Mexico?

"Sixty-nine percent of Americans, 85 percent of the GOP, 55 percent of the Democrats want the border enforced," said Ingraham. "Does that affect you guys, or do you guys just blow it off?"

Snow repeated, several times, the Bush administration's talking points on the issue – how the failed comprehensive immigration reform bill, which fell far short on its last test in the U.S. Senate, would secure the borders, require illegal aliens to pay a fine and require them to "keep their noses clean," and learn English.

But Ingraham, who worked as a speechwriter for two years in the Reagan administration and later served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas before launching "The Laura Ingraham Show" in 2001, wasn't letting him off the hook.

"Eight-five of the GOP doesn't like what the White House is doing on this," she said. "You're talking the base of this party."

Listen to Laura Ingraham question Tony Snow about immigration


Ingraham, after graduating from Dartmouth, also worked at the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education before serving as notes editor for Law Review. She also worked as a white-collar criminal defense attorney, and is an author, columnist and commentator.

Her latest book, "Shut Up & Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics … and the U.N. are Subverting America," is a best-seller.

She pointed out, when Snow noted that illegals probably are not creating a huge impact on job availability, that following a recent raid on a Del Monte plant in Oregon to arrest illegal aliens employed there, the plant was flooded with applicants seeking the jobs.

"Tony, why don't people believe you?" she asked. "The majority of your party, people who voted for President Bush … They see the conservative coalition dissolving before their eyes."

Snow noted that another $4.4 billion is being tossed on the table to try and win back some of the support. According to reports, the money is to be used to beef up border security and add some new efforts, such as unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor the border.

Those efforts, he said, would demonstrate a commitment to securing the border.

"You keep repeating that, but nobody believes you," she said. "Nobody buys that this administration is serious about the border."

As WND has reported, Bush already has asked the Senate to resurrect the failed immigration bill – and soon.

The plan would allow millions of illegal aliens now within U.S. borders to pay a fine and become legal. But opponents like Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., say the legislation "still unfairly burdens taxpayers, doesn't ensure secure borders and guarantees amnesty" for illegal aliens.

It had floundered in its second Senate vote, a procedural move that would have accelerated the Senate's handling of the White House-backed plan. The divided Senate refused by a wide margin to limit debate on the plan. The 45-50 vote was 15 short of the 60 votes needed to move the legislation along.

Democrats then set the bill aside and took up other proposed legislation.

Editor's note: The current edition of WND's monthly Whistleblower is a cutting-edge look at the federal government's immigration policies – and how the nation's most vexing problem can be solved. It's titled "NATIONAL SUICIDE: How the government's immigration policies are destroying America."

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WNDINVASION USA




Tancredo pulls plug on 'sanctuary cities'
Even Democrats throw support behind amendment to nix funds to local governments shielding illegals

Posted: June 16, 2007

6:30 p.m. Eastern


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Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
The eighth time was a charm for Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., when the House passed his amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill yesterday to withhold federal emergency-services funding from "sanctuary cities" that protect illegal aliens.

The 234-to-189 tally included 50 Democrats voting in favor.

"The issue has come to fruition," Tancredo told the Rocky Mountain News. "The people of the country really have spoken. It's a really good indicator of just how much closer to the people the House is than the Senate is."

Tancredo has offered the similar amendments at least seven times since 2004 and all have failed, some by wide margins.

The amendment passed yesterday does not include a definition of "sanctuary city." The Homeland Security appropriations bill now goes to the Senate.

Known for his fierce opposition to illegal immigration and the failure of the federal government to secure U.S. borders, Tancredo has focused particular criticism on local governments across the country that have declared themselves sanctuary cities, refusing in varying degrees to allow law enforcement and city personnel to inquire about individuals' legal status.

As WND reported, Tancredo cited Miami, a sanctuary city, when criticizing President Bush's views on immigration.

"People have to understand what we're talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist," Tancredo told WND in an exclusive interview. "He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that – it's an idea. It's not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where this guy is really going."

"Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country," he said. "You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country."

In the ensuing uproar following those remarks, Tancredo reiterated his position in a letter to Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida.:

"Do you not worry that Miami's 'sanctuary city' rules serve as a magnet for illegal aliens and undercut the state's otherwise sound law enforcement policies? Do you worry that a recent random community survey on 'Miami values' found that corruption was listed as the number one 'value' by residents?

In 2005, Tancredo criticized Denver's sanctuary policy after an illegal alien, who worked in a restaurant co-owned by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, was identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a police detective.

Restaurant managers told police the 19-year-old illegal had presented a resident-alien card when he applied for the job. "You could see that this card was fake," a police source close to the investigation said.

The suspect had been given three traffic citations in Denver, but federal immigration officials had not been contacted, even though his legal status could not be confirmed.

"Denver's sanctuary policy prevents local law enforcement from cooperating with federal officials on immigration matters, despite federal law which explicitly prohibits such a policy," said Tancredo, while questioning whether the mayor's restaurant had done enough to verify the suspect's legal status when he was hired.

Last year, Tancredo and other Colorado anti-illegal activists launched a campaign in Denver criticizing the city's sanctuary policy implemented eight years before by then-Mayor Wellington Webb.

It was a label Webb disputed.

"There are no ordinances, executive orders or regulations that establish a 'sanctuary policy' in Denver," the mayor's spokesperson said at the time.

"Denver's policies comply with federal law, and Denver law enforcement officers cooperate with federal officials on immigration matters. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have said Denver is not a sanctuary city, so merely erecting a misleading billboard doesn't make it true."


Courtesy: KMGH-TV, Denver

Ignoring the question of semantics, Tancredo's campaign attacked the policy through a series of billboards.

"Mr. President, Mr. Governor, Mr. Mayor – They did not die for ... ILLEGAL SANCTUARY," read one of the messages featuring three military rifles, each stuck bayonet-first into the ground and topped with a helmet.

Another declared, "Welcome to SANCTUARY CITY ... Relax, you made it! Brought to you by Executive Order 116," referring to the 1998 order barring discrimination against illegals.

Tancredo's victory in the House comes on the eve of efforts by Bush and the Senate to revive debate next week on the administration's failed immigration-reform plan. He said the sanctuary-city amendment's passage indicates the House would defeat the current immigration bill if it passes in the Senate.

"If I were Nancy Pelosi, I'd be asking if she could pass a vote on amnesty on the House side," Tancredo said. "If she lost 50 Democrats on this one, and she says she needs 70 Republicans to pass the immigration plan, this is an interesting indicator of things coming down the pike, and that the times, they are a-changing."


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Bush wants Reid to resurrect bill

Tancredo: McCain won't make English official

'Where's the Fence?' campaign hits TV

Bush slams critics of immigration bill

Only 26% favor immigration bill

Tax amnesty for illegals

'La Raza' has virtual veto over bill

Senate, White House agree on worker program

Mayor wins both GOP, Democrat primaries

$2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock

Another city joins immigration fight

City battles ACLU, feds in fight against illegals

Another town gets tough on illegals

Cities across nation crack down in illegals

Sting rounds up 25 foreigners for sex crimes

How open borders turn Americans into roadkill

ACLU probes trooper who nabbed 14 illegals

U.S. announces end of 'catch and release'

White House to back Pence reform bill

Illegal immigration sparks 'race war' in cities, prisons

Illegal aliens linked to gang-rape wave

Gang expert backs Tancredo charges

Town targets businesses hiring illegal immigrants

Mexican drug cartels take over U.S. cities

Feds arrest 2,100 in illegals sweep

Suspected illegal 'tries to rape girl'

Study: 1 million sex crimes by illegals

5 illegals face deportation after killing principal

Tancredo blasts Senate 'amnesty'

'Illegal runs red light,' kills popular principal

Illegal-alien offenders flout U.S. justice system

Illegal 'hits American jackpot' with $44,000 job, crime spree

Murder suspect – an illegal with driver's license

Illegal, 17, runs down hero cop

3 illegals beat pregnant woman

Illegal alien accused of triple homicide

Illegal alien wanted for hunter murder

'Cop-killing' illegal snagged in Mexico

Alleged cop killer an illegal immigrant


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Thursday, June 14, 2007

And Ya'akov Went on to Sukkot...(Gen. 33.17)

Normally one does not pray for war. Usually in war the righteous in this incarnation of their lives suffer with the wicked. It is a messy business. Those who build networks of chessed institutions suffer with those who plan parades of homosexuals. Those who vote for kindness to their fellow Jews suffer with those who vote for Kadima. At first glance it seems that war is bloody and unfair.

Of course, according to Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzato's classic
The Way of HaShem, the righteous suffer often to perfect their souls because of sins done or imperfections fostered in previous lives. Sometimes they just suffer for the sins of the generation so that the world itself will not be destroyed by those sins. Be that as it may, War is usually Hell.

The upcoming war that is the final battles of Gog UMagog that will probably take place some time between tomorrow, the 29th of Sivan, and when Gog W. Bush leaves office in January 2009 (Winter 5769) will be no exception to this rule. It will be bloody, lo aleynu, maybe even the bloodiest war in all of history, may Heaven spare us. Yet, the Talmud in several places tells us that in the seventh year there will be war, and when we daven the shmonah esrei (18 blessing prayer), the seventh blessing is a blessing for redemption. Why is this the case?

This is so because the war in the seventh year of Gog UMagog is really the beginning of the redemption process even though Mashiach does not show up until the eighth year. The only question becomes how do we know which year of the eight year process we are in now in the year 5767. The Al Aksa Intifada began a day and a half before Rosh HaShana 5761, and Israel was condemned by the United Nations for defending itself by a vote of 92 to 6 on Hoshana Rabba 5761.

See my article on The South Asian Tsunami . It was the beginning of Israel's agony of the last generation, our Gog and Magog agony, before Gog W. is elected later that Fall. Counting seven years leads to the conclusion that our seven years are up this summer of 5767, a year which ends in a seven. The more classic interpretation, though, of the word "shvi'is" describing the seventh year is the Shmittah (sabbatical) year which is next year 5768. Rav Kaduri ztl. is quoted as saying that the Gaon of Vilna's iterpretation of the word shvi'is is just that, the sabbatical year.

The Gaon according to the Saintly Rav Kaduri even said that the seven years of Gog U Magog would begin on Hoshana Rabbah (the seventh day of the Feast of Booths) in the first year of a shmittah cycle and would conclude in the eighth year, which is the first year of the next Shmittah cycle. The seventh year would be the year of the war. The eighth year would be the year of Mashiach's timely arrival. Therefore it is no accident that while 9/11 was a week before Rosh Hashana 5762 and while 9/11 itself was therefore on the 23rd of Elul 5761, Gog launched his air war against the Taliban in Afghanistan on Hoshana Rabba 5762, the first year of a Shmittah cycle.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

CURRENT EVENTS - MUST READ

WELCOME TO THE NO BS ZONE OF TEDDY JACOBSON

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I WANTED TO KEEP THIS SPECIFIC BLOGGER MOSTLY GUN RELATED BUT CURRENT EVENTS MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT. WE ARE IMPLODING FROM WITHIN. AMMUNITION IS SCARCE AND UP 23% IN COST AND CLIMBING AND SPECIFIC GUNS ARE VERY HARD TO FIND. ITS IN MY OPINION ALL BY DEVINE INTERVENTION. THEY CREATED "GAZASTAN" AND NOW THAT IS ANOTHER NIGHTMARE FOR US.

PLEASE READ LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19 AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHEN G-D TALKS ABOUT THE SKY BEING LIKE IRON THAT MEANS NO RAIN, WHEN G-D TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH SHALL BE LIKE BRASS OR COPPER THAT MEANS NOTHING WILL GROW. WE HAVE NOT WON A MAJOR WAR SINCE WWII.

THE KEY IS BASRA IN IRAQ, THIS IS THE TRIGGER POINT AND THERE WILL BE A SLAUGHTER FOR G-D IN BASRA AS IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 34, VERSE 6. READ IT NOW. EVERYONE WANTS TO CONTROL "BASRA", THE BRITS ARE LEAVING BASRA AND THEN THERE WILL BE NO AUTHORITY. YOU CAN NOT MAKE A THEOCRACY INTO A DEMOCRACY. THESE PEOPLE WANT A WORLD CALIPHATE GOVERNMENT TO BE CONTROLLED BY ISLAM.

STARTING JUNE 15, 2007 ACCORDING TO MY ASTROLLOGY FRIEND STACEY DEAN THERE WILL BE 3 WEEKS OF CHAOS AND ITS CALLED MERCURY RETROGRADE. THIS IS NOTHING TO TAKE LIGHTLY.

ASK YOUR SELF WHY HASN'T SHARON OF ISRAEL THE LAST WARRIOR BEEN BURIED YET, HES BRAIN DEAD. ALL JEWS MUST BURY WITHIN 24 HOURS. I AM JUST GIVING YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. WHAT IS GOING ON ??

I URGE YOU TO PREPARE FOR HARD TIMES NOW. BUY RELOADING EQUIPMENT FOR PEACE OF MIND IF NOTHING ELSE. IT WOULD ONLY COST YOU ABOUT TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A BASIC SINGLE STAGE SETUP. YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR VERY OWN AMMUNITION FACTORY.

OUR ENEMIES ARE WITHIN OUR BORDERS AND THAT IS MY OPINION. WE HAVE LEADERSHIP THAT HAS AN AGENDA AND IT DOES NOT SEEM TO INCLUDE YOU AND ME. IT REMINDS ME OF THE TOWER OF BABEL WHERE G-D STARTED TO CHANGE EVERYONES LANGUAGE. WE HAVE THAT SITUATION NOW.

I READ THE HOLY BIBLE EVERY DAY. I AM QUITE RELIGOUS.

IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 17, VERSE 1, IT SAYS DAMASCUS WILL BECOME A RUINUS HEAP AND WILL NO LONGER EXIST. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED YET.


I WILL ONLY KEEP THIS POST UP FOR A DAY OR TWO AND GO BACK TO GUN RELATED TOPICS. I SUGGEST YOU REALIZE WHAT WE FACE AND START TO PREPARE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. THE ENEMY IS WITHIN.

TJ
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Republicans abandoning Bush

NBC/WSJ poll: President’s, Congress’ ratings drop to lowest levels ever

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June 13: The country is grumpy, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which shows a 15-year low on whether Americans think the country is on the right track, and an all-time low in President Bush's approval rating. NBC's Tim Russert reports.

















15-17John Edwards campaigns in Iowa
18Hillary Clinton fundraises in New Jersey

John McCain fundraises in Boston, Mass.
18-19Duncan Hunter campaigns in South Carolina
18-20Campaign for America's Future conference in D.C.
18-21Sam Brownback campaigns in Iowa
19Special election for Georgia's 10th U.S. House district

President Bush meets with Israeli P.M. Ehud Olmert in D.C.
19-20John McCain fundraises in Florida
20Barack Obama fundraises in Youngstown, Ohio
21Joe Lieberman hosts a fundraiser for Susan Collins in Washington, D.C.

President Bush headlines a fundraiser for Jeff Sessions in Mobile, Ala.

John McCain fundraises in St. Paul, Minn.

Sam Brownback campaigns in Iowa

AFL-CIO town hall with Bill Richardson Phoenix, Ariz.

Seersucker Thursday in the U.S. Senate
22John McCain fundraises in Brookville, N.Y.
22-2675th Annual Conference of Mayors in Los Angeles
23Duncan Hunter fundraises in San Diego, Calif.
24Barack Obama fundraises in San Antonio, Texas
24-25John McCain fundraises in South Carolina
25Tommy Thompson headlines a fundraiser for New Hampshire & Vermont Republicans in Hanover, N.H.
25Hillary Clinton fundraises in Chicago
26Special election primary for California's 37th U.S. House district

John McCain fundraises in Virginia & Washington, D.C.
27Bill Richardson speaks at the Center for National Policy in D.C.

Tony Blair's last day as prime minister

John McCain fundraises in New York

Fred Thompson headlines a fundraiser for South Carolina Republicans in Columbia
28Democratic presidential forum at Howard University

John McCain fundraises in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Fred Thompson headlines a fundraiser for New Hampshire Republicans in Bedford
29Barack Obama fundraises in Minneapolis, Minn.
30Iowa Christian Alliance & Iowans for Tax Relief hold a presidential forum in Des Moines

Last day of the 2nd quarter of presidential fundraising
JULY 2007
2Nashville mayoral election

ACORN's Democratic presidential forum in Philadelphia, Pa.
7Al Gore's global warming concerts
7-12NAACP's annual convention in Detroit
8Bill Richardson campaigns in New Hampshire
AUGUST 2007
7Mississippi gubernatorial primary
11Iowa GOP presidential straw poll in Ames, Iowa
16Possible Illinois GOP presidential straw poll
19Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa
21Special election for California's 37th U.S. House district
23Indigenous Democratic Network's presidential forum in Cabazon, Calif.
31Texas GOP holds a 2008 straw poll in Fort Worth
SEPTEMBER 2007
1Texas GOP holds a 2008 straw poll in Fort Worth
7-9California Republicans' state convention
11Baltimore mayoral primary
16Tom Harkin's Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa
24Bill Clinton chairs the Little Rock Nine 50th Anniversary Gala
26-28Florida Democrats' state convention and possible straw poll
26MSNBC airs a Democratic presidential debate from Hanover, N.H.
27Republican presidential forum at Morgan State University

MSNBC airs a Republican presidential debate from Hanover, N.H.
OCTOBER 2007
2Salt Lake City mayoral primary
4Memphis mayoral election
16Special election for Massachusetts' 5th U.S. House district
20Louisiana gubernatorial primary
21GOP presidential debate in Orlando, Florida
NOVEMBER 2007
22008 Democratic presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas
6Gubernatorial elections in Kentucky & Mississippi

Mayoral primary in Houston and mayoral elections in Philadelphia & San Francisco

MSNBC telecasts a GOP presidential debate at Iowa State Univ.
10Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner fundraiser in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
17Louisiana gubernatorial runoff
JANUARY 2008
52008 Republican presidential debate in Johnston, Iowa
62008 Democratic presidential debate in Johnston, Iowa
14Iowa caucuses
152008 Democratic presidential candidate debate in Las Vegas
19Nevada Democratic caucuses
23Republican presidential debate in Florida
24Democratic presidential debate in Florida
29South Carolina Democratic primary
FEBRUARY 2008
2South Carolina Republican primary
AUGUST 2008
25-28Democratic National Convention in Denver
SEPTEMBER 2008
1-4Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul
NOVEMBER 2008
4Election Day




By Mark Murray
Deputy political director
NBC News
Updated: 7:05 p.m. CT June 13, 2007


Mark Murray
Deputy political director

WASHINGTON - As President Bush attempts to revive the controversial immigration reform bill he supports, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Republicans are abandoning the president, which has dropped his job-approval rating below 30 percent -- his lowest mark ever in the survey.

But he isn’t the only one whose support is on the decline in the poll. Congress’ approval rating has plummeted eight points, bringing it below even Bush’s. And just one in five believe the country is on the right track, which is the lowest number on this question in nearly 15 years.

Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, argues that these numbers have crossed below the political “Mendoza line,” referring to the feeble .200 batting-average mark in baseball. “With the mood of the country dropping below 20, and the president’s approval below 30, both are candidates for a sort of political Mendoza line,” he says.

In the poll, Bush’s approval rating is at just 29 percent. It’s a drop of six points since April, and it represents his lowest mark ever on this question in the NBC/Journal poll.

Democratic pollster Jay Campbell, who works with Hart, attributes this decline to Republicans. Back in April, 75 percent of Republicans approved of Bush’s job performance, compared with 21 percent who disapproved. Now, only 62 percent of Republican approve, versus 32 percent who disapprove.

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The Regime Against the Nation

Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.

The Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens, and for the businesses that have hired them -- a bill backed by La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post -- went down to crushing defeat.

Majority Leader Harry Reid fell 15 votes short (45 to 50) of shutting off debate. Like the rout of the Dubai ports deal, the victory was achieved by a firestorm of public protest, reflected in millions of phone calls and e-mails, and citizens marching to town meetings.


The capital's capitulation to the country was unprecedented and astonishing. Not two weeks earlier, the amnesty provision of the bill had been supported by more than 60 senators.

But opponents of this bill, which would reward mass criminality with mass amnesty and eventual U.S. citizenship, ought not rest.

For President Bush is coming back to resuscitate the monster, and this bill has more support in the Senate than the 45 votes it got Thursday. Some Republicans and Democrats who voted not to shut off debate are privately committed to amnesty, if they can be given political cover and face-saving amendments to take home.

Sen. John Kyl is not necessarily wrong when he says, "All we have to do on the Republican side is sit down with those who have amendments, get those amendments in a reasonable package, not too many, but enough so all of the members can say they had their chance."

Kyl reads his party right. For the GOP is the political instrument of K Street and Corporate America -- the folks who fund the party and finance the campaigns. And the No. 1 issue of Corporate America is Bush-Kennedy-McCain. For not only does it give blanket amnesty to businesses for hiring illegals, it legalizes the illegals and ensures Corporate America an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor.

The fundamental reason this bill is not dead is that its authors and backers will never quit. For this legislation is part of a larger agenda of a large slice of America's economic and political elite.

What is that agenda?

They have a vision of a world where not only capital and goods but people move freely across borders. Indeed, borders disappear. It is a vision of a "deep integration" of the United States, Canada and Mexico in a North American Union, modeled on the European Union and tied together by super-highways and railroads, where crossing from Mexico into the United States would be as easy as crossing from Virginia into Maryland. It is about the merger of nations into larger transnational entitles and, ultimately, global governance.

This immigration bill is but a piece of a great global project already far advanced. In 1993, a majority of Americans opposed the NAFTA trade deal with Mexico because they did not believe the propaganda and feared that, as Henry Kissinger said, it represented the architecture of a new world order.

More than a dozen years have elapsed. And the results? Contrary to the promises, our trade surplus with Mexico did not grow. It vanished. In 13 years, we have run $500 billion in trade deficits with Mexico. Last year's $60 billion was the largest ever. Mexico now exports more cars, trucks and auto parts to the United States than we export to the world.

What NAFTA did was enable U.S. companies to close their plants here, fire their American workers, and move their factories and jobs to Mexico, while Mexico continued to export its poor to the United States.

What is the hidden agenda of the global companies, which evolved out of what were once great American companies?

They want a limitless supply of low-wage immigrant labor and an end to penalties for hiring illegals. They want the freedom to shut factories here and move them to nations where wages are low, benefits nonexistent and regulations lax. They want to be able to move products back to the United States free of charge. They want to be rid of their American workers, but keep their American consumers.

They want to be able to go out to Asia and hire bright kids and bring them to the United States to replace middle-age U.S. workers who cost too much. They want to be able to outsource their white-collar jobs to India at a fraction of the wages they pay Americans.

It is about globalism -- and about greed. And, as the Bible says, love of money is the root of all evil. But they have a problem. The nation has begun to awaken to the reality that the vision of the global corporation and the transnational elite cannot be realized without the death of the American republic. And so they are in a fight that is long overdue.

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Hamas on the verge of controlling Gaza Strip

Two Gaza buildings taken, so Rafah; Israel accused of killing children

IMAGE: GAZA CITY SECURITY BUILDING TAKEN BY HAMAS
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Hamas militants gather outside the Palestinian Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday after it was captured from Fatah.
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Hamas militants celebrate their Gaza takeovers, while Fatah supporters retaliate in the West Bank.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas fighters overran two of the rival Fatah movement’s most important security command centers in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style.

Israel was also caught up in the Palestinian power struggle, with Hamas officials alleging that an Israeli tank shell killed four children in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. The Israeli army said it would look into the report.

The report came after Hamas also seized control of Rafah, the second of Gaza’s four main towns to fall into the Islamic militants’ hands.