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tonight we're on the ground in israel and gaza on the hill, david petraeus under heavy cover tells congress about the attack in benghazi, what he knew, when he knew it and why the u.s. first told the world what it did. and 18 days since the devastation on the east coast. scenes of utter devastation we have not seen until now. and it is the end of the line for a guilty pleasure in america. but how did it come to this? nightly news begins now. good evening, it worries them enough that israel's tanks appear ready to roll into gaza, and the skies have been raining rockets there for several days. perhaps the larger worry, both sides in this escalating fight have powerful friends that are getting involved and taking sides, like egypt, friend of hamas, and the united states,
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which tonight is sending naval vessels offshore in case americans need to get out of there. it has been another day of explosions and air raid sirens. it remains a situation on the edge. we have two reports tonight. our richard engel is in gaza, we want to begin, though, with martin fletcher in tel aviv. >> reporter: good evening, they met on the agenda escalating in gaza and a possible ground invasion. the militants are challenging israel, by firing rockets where they never fired them before. a complete surprise, jerusalem, israel's capital, was attacked for the first time today. this picture on the internet, two rockets fired from gaza fell harmlessly outside the city. tel aviv, too, for the second
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time in two days in two days, the second time the rocket fell in the sea. hamas showing its back has not been broken. there is no rest for the south, either, even while burying the dead from yesterday's raid that killed three people. mourners went into panic, at yet another siren warning for yet another rocket attack from gaza. there is a sharp spike in violence, 100 in the week before this outbreak, and 500 the last three days. the goal of israel's air and sea assault on gaza is to stop the rockets. it is not working. so what is next? we are prepared to escalate in a big way, says israel's prime minister. when the israeli leaders say they will do anything, whatever it takes, this is what they mean. they are together on the border, ready to invade. 16,000 reserve soldiers reported to their units today.
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israelis have long seen gaza as a war ready to happen they are waiting for the stranglehold on the south. and tonight, the government may call up reserves, more than 30,000 troops than the u.s. has in afghanistan. martin fletcher, on the israel-gaza border. nbc news >> reporter: i'm richard engel in gaza, this palestinian enclave was under attack today. the interior ministry took hits, as did the rocket launchers, so far israel has been using surgical strikes they targeted individuals. a hamas field commander was killed today. but civilians are dying, too. why is this happening now? hamas is challenging israel with rockets, confident it has real support in the region after the arab spring revolutions. visiting gaza today, the
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egyptian prime minister, a show of support that would never have happened under mubarak, egypt, the revolution will spare no effort to stop this aggression, he said. he held a child, killed, according to the officials, moments earlier. egypt must balance its support of hamas with need for good relations from washington, and billions in aid. like egypt, they are from the muslim brotherhood, they are trying to channel the power that toppled arab strongmen to topple israel. there were demonstrations today supporting gaza, in yemen, lebanon, turkey and egypt. also different today, hamas has more weapons, including tanks, some are from iran. others taken from egypt, libya, after the fall of moammar gadhafi. but hamas remained vastly out-gunned by israel this is a big gamble for hamas, and many are paying with their
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lives. most are off the streets, we can hear the air raid drones, the inflaming the entire region. >> all right, richard engel in gaza tonight. one more thing, look at how social media has come into play. for israelis who follow twitter the israeli army is posting real time warnings when missiles are in the air, heading their way. hamas is also using twitter, but in this case, showing the rocket, netanyahu, and the message, sorry, we have been humiliated in this country, david petraeus snuck in and out of capitol hill today like a star witness at a hearing, which in fact, he was. the former four-star general, former cia director until a week ago tonight was hidden from view
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as he testified in secret about his old job and what he knows about what happened in benghazi, libya, on 911 of this year. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: good evening, hearing from petraeus was so critical, not only because he ran the cia, but he was the only top official to visit libya after the attack. his briefing, amid his personal crisis, has helped lawmakers better understand what the intelligence community knew and when they knew it. leaving home before dawn, david petraeus's trip to capitol hill was carefully cloaked to keep the former spy chief out of view, waiting cameras, blocked by law enforcement to "spare him," from media exposure. >> i apologize, but there is a lot of suffering going on. >> reporter: during the top secret briefing, lawmakers say petraeus made clear that the cia immediately believed that
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terrorists, and not protesters, were directly responsible for the assault that killed chris stephens and three others. today, a new explanation for why the white house had pointed to a new anti-muslim video, when susan rice appeared three days after the attack. >> our current assessment was what happened in benghazi was a spontaneous reaction. >> reporter: both democrats and republicans said the cia assessment of terrorism was classified. and that is why that was not included in the official talking points rice was given. >> and she did entirely the responsible thing in answering questions based on what was unclassified, and agreed to by the entire intelligence community. >> reporter: early drafts of those talking points had included more details. senior u.s. officials say a decision was made to keep the role of terrorists secret because of the legitimate issues.
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>> the initial talking points were much more specific about the involvement final one said indications of extremists. >> reporter: petraeus was among the officials who signed off on the talking points. but lawmakers say he didn't explain exactly how or by whom the final decision was made. so democrats defend susan rice saying she was simply limited in what she could say publicly, even if the government new more. republicans who are so critical of her say she should have known there was an al-qaeda link, and should have been more careful in saying that a video was involved. kelly o'donnell on the hill tonight, thank you >> and more about the fiscal cliff looming at the end of the year. the president's first meeting with congressional leaders got off to an optimistic start. which is good because they have six weeks to fix it before it happens. and taxes go up senate majority leader reid said they would work to come up with a deal. house speaker john boehner says he thinks they will have a solution before the end of the year. and there are new details
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about the woman, jill kelley, at the center of the scandal that brought down general petraeus. as nbc's andrea mitchell reports jill kelley's connections went beyond the social elite and tampa, all the way to the white house. >> reporter: jill kelley and her twin sister met at the white house, touring it on november fourth with their families, two days before general james clapper, the director of national intelligence was even told about the petraeus scandal. jill kelley mentioned the visit in an e-mail, saying i was at the white house with my friends in the administration this weekend. the stress was surreal. white house officials say the kelley sisters were invited by a staffer who may have met at the air force base. jill kelley was bipartisan in her outreach, she and her sister dropped in on a fundraiser for marco rubio two years ago. they did not pay, sources said, just arrived and soon left.
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in an e-mail last march, jill kelley said she was trying to carrying out a threat to deep fry the quran, saying i have an e-mail getting this dealt with. records show paula broadwell also visited the white house complex at least twice for meetings on afghanistan in the executive office. >> i believe that paula broadwell was at one white house meeting that i also attended. but i think and i have always maintained that she has been a serious analyst on this problem. >> reporter: david petraeus, before testifying today, apologized to congress members for his behavior. >> he was very sorry that this incident occurred and that anything that occurred with respect to his personal situation had nothing to do with his -- the way he handled benghazi. >> reporter: in other e-mails released by the city of tampa. jill kelley told the mayor this week that her family has been put through the ringer, that her kids are scared and need their home back.
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>> andrea mitchell in our d.c. news room tonight, thank you. a horrible accident in midland, texas, yesterday has claimed the lives of four u.s. military veterans, including a two-time purple heart recipient from the iraq war. it happened during an event to honor the veterans. our report tonight from nbc's janet shamlian. >> reporter: a scene in midland, a celebration of american heroes turns tragic, as two flat-bed trailers, part of a parade honoring the veterans went across the track. witnesses say the arm lowered and a train slammed into the trailer. >> i couldn't believe what i saw, as the arm came down, i heard the horn but it hit it within three seconds. >> reporter: sixteen were hurt, and four veterans who survived the battlefield lost their lives on the street. army sergeant major, gary stouffer, lawrence boivin, and
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sergeant michael joshua believed to have sacrificed his life for his wife, daylyn, when he pushed her from the trailer just before the impact. >> it was chaos, loud, noisy, people were panicking. >> reporter: the parade was just blocks from going through a banquet where hundreds were waiting. they have collected video from the train and the escort car. >> we just continue to pray together. >> reporter: as a heartbroken community mourns the heroes that fell here at home. overseas heroes janet shamlian, nbc news, midland, texas. one day after the big settlement between the government and bp over the worst oil spill in u.s. history, another platform exploded in the gulf of mexico today south of grand isle, louisiana, 11 were injured, two taken to the hospital. two, sadly were missing tonight. this is a production platform, not drilling. and so the coast guard says the
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oil spillage is minimal. and still ahead, some giant brand names in this country, are they all about to go away? and later, all grown up, ready to report to duty. there is something about this particular recruit that makes his story special.
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back now with a sign of the economic times. the folks who run hostess have not been able to come up with a deal with thousands of union workers, so they say tonight they're closing up shop, leaving workers out of a job and leaving americans without their wonder bread and twinkies, and all the other hostesses that they make. our report tonight from kevin tibbles. >> reporter: if there ever was an icon for our fast-food nation, this is it. in all of its shrink-wrapped, smushy glory. the twinkie and the rest of the hostess snack cake family, along with favorites like wonder
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bread, are poised to go the way of grandmother's jello mold. ceo gregory rayburn told savannah guthrie it is the end of the road after 82 years. >> is this really it? >> no, it is over. >> reporter: so this is it >> reporter: 18,000 workers, many of whom are already on strike stand to lose their jobs. >> you know, it breaks my hearts >> the twinkie will exist, in perhaps nostalgia only, perhaps the best known casualty of america's move towards healthier food. >> reporter: urban myths suggest that twinkies have a shelf life of forever, perhaps even a prize find for future scientists. in fact, the shelf life is just under a month. although this super bowl ad has a chevy and a certain cake surviving the apocalypse. and way, way in the future, the
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perfectly preserved twinkie is unwrapped for this insect buddy. while at america's dog in chicago, they're still deep-frying twinkies for the not so faint of heart. some are even working with them from all over, they are stocking up. from mississippi to chicago, the people are stocking up. >> they were just buying it off the shelf like crazy, they know it wouldn't be around. >> reporter: some say twinkies may last forever, but may all be eaten up first. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago and close friends wonder how they will ever put their seaside neighborhood back together again.
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tonight, we want to head back to the jersey shore to check in on the staggering storm damage. if you have seen our coverage you probably have noticed it is the modest towns where the
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damage has been most shocking. people go there and live there for the jersey shore life. it is not the hamptons or malibu, it is close neighbors and cottages. and these days it is hard to imagine how it will be the same. it has been 18 days and folks just now are able to see the damage. nbc's stephanie gosk was there. >> reporter: these people on the jersey shore, three neighbors, their houses are totally gone. >> i got some ground here. >> my grandfather had a house for 60 years. and it was our future. but -- but it is also my past. >> this is the handle to our stove. how hard this is today. it is devastating. i don't know what else to say. the idea of rebuilding doesn't even seem responsible right now. >> reporter: people here are
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just trying to understand the scope of the destruction. this house is obviously off its foundation. this is also the second floor. >> even if you could wave a magic wand and everything is going to be put back, it is going to be years before some of that comes back. i worked on the boardwalk growing up. you know, i can walk the seaside. that is a steel beam, there is wood on the outside, but it is bent like crazy. to see this, it is a big path, my friend, jo, i have known him my whole life. his whole house is gone he is digging for his safe right now. >> reporter: tell me what you're hoping to find right now. >> a safe, with family memorabilia, pictures of my parents, just, you know, my eagle scout award. every one of these houses, you're family.
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and you all hang out on the beach together, and you watch your kids grow, and you watch the grand kids grow. and it is -- you know, you got your memories. >> reporter: stephanie gosk, nbc news on the jersey shore. >> tough to watch, and up next here tonight, the few, the proud, the dogs who are chosen to serve. and a special one from among their ranks. a story we have been following.
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we leave you this friday night with a story of a friend we have watched grow up over the past 18 months. dolan was just a puppy when we started to follow him through the tsa bomb detection program in san antonio, texas. now, he is ready to duty, wearing a vest and carrying on the process. here is nbc tom costello. >> reporter: it was 18 months ago when we first met dolan and his playmates at the boot camp, that trains these noses to sniff out explosives. but something about this puppy made him special. he was the 500th puppy to go through the tsa program. and every dog is named after one of the 3,000 people who died on 9/11.
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>> i can't even tell you what an honor this is for me. >> reporter: dolan was named after lisa dolan's husband, navy captain bob dolan, who died in the pentagon on 9/11. on the today show, lisa met puppy, dolan, for the first time >> hello, baby. >> reporter: 18 months later, dolan is all grown up. and with his handler, now ready to graduate from the tsa's bomb detection academy. >> good, good, over here. >> reporter: a big day for which lisa and daughter, rebecca, have driven all the way to san antonio. >> hello, baby, do you remember me? >> reporter: so what is it like to see him all grown up? >> it is just wonderful, wonderful. i know now that he is going to go out there and he is going to work. >> reporter: sniffing for bombs is a big game for the tsa dogs, but almost half the puppies in the program wash out. not dolan, now he is leaving the
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training terminal here in texas and headed for a new assignment in maui, and heading there with two of his classmates. handler frank diangelo is going with him. >> every time i hear the name, dolan, i think of you. >> reporter: for her dad, who was a technician, it all came full circle. >> i am really proud when i tell people that he was the bomb guy, i think it is great he is continuing the legacy. >> reporter: a continuation of sacrifice that lives on in dolan, tom costello, nbc news, san antonio. >> just a good dog, everywhere. that is our broadcast on friday night. thank you for joining us, i'm brian williams, we of course hope to see you right back here on monday. in the meantime, please have a good weekend. good night.
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it looks similar to this one although it was all silver. it had wires coming from here and here and the wire here sort of looked like the end of a telephone cord. now tsa spotted the watch here at terminal 2 here at oakland international airport. now
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New future for Bristol Virginia-Tennessee?
In 2011 Bristol-Tri-Cities was ranked number 5 in the 10 poorest cities in America by www.DailyFinance.com.
- Added Dec. 17, 2016
- How Mass Immigration Hurts Blacks Workers the Most
- President Obama and Silicon Valley Oligarchs Destroy Workers
- Rich White Democrats Screwing Millennials in New York City
- India's Visa Fraud Worker Replacement Racket
- Why All Illegal Aliens Must Be Deported
- Florida Schools Struggle with Failing Minority Students
- Intelligence, Crime, and Tampa Florida
- New York City Sanctions Immigration Fraud, Crime
- Johnson City Tennessee Arrests December 2016
- Johnson City Tennessee Arrests October 2016
- Johnson City Tennessee Arrests June 2016
Another $350,000 Wasted on Passenger Rail Study
The Bristol Train Station was a worthless project costing taxpayers $6 million and ten years to renovate. Finished in 2008 it has produced nothing of value in either jobs or economic development. They have been lobbying for years to get AMTRAK to come to Bristol, itself a massive waste of tax dollars. See $350,000 Wasted on Passenger Rail Study
Above is the $8 million Bristol Virginia Energy Research Center another empty building producing nothing. See Green Energy Boondoggle in Bristol Virginia.
When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good. -- Steve Brill
Rod Dreher, a senior editor at The American Conservative to quote on "mainstream journalists",
"The people who run American journalism, and who staff the newsrooms, think of themselves as sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and, culturally speaking, on the right side of history... (are) interested in every kind of diversity, except the kind that would challenge their own prejudices. Those include, bigotry against conservative religion, bigotry against rural folks and bigotry against working-class and poor white people."
Ref. Oct. 18, 2016 The Post-Trump Media by James Taranto WSJ
2016 has proven the mainstream press completely corrupt including the Bristol Herald Courier my local newspaper - I terminated my subscription of 24 years. They are the "fake news" more interested in propaganda than supplying facts. Wikileaks has exposed the mass collusion between Democrats and the press lap dogs. Wall Street scumbags have also been in on this as well. This is why we need alternative news sites such as this and many others. Before believing anything CHECK YOUR SOURCES! Get an education!
Many news stories may be partially correct and often incomplete or suffer political correctness censorship and outright omissions. News reports are filled with crime reports in particular with large urban areas with high crime rates. The Chicago Tribune stated outright it censors the race of criminals after complaints on this by its readers.
They claim race has nothing to do with the story, yet as of November 2016 over 700 people have died due to violence in the City most of the victims minorities. But on the other end the media claims police racism because so many minorities are arrested, while censoring vital information proving the arrests are based on mass criminal behavior by these very "victims" of racism. Thus their reporting is not news, but propaganda designed to push a political position friendly to the left wing racists in the Democrat Party looking for votes.
Immigration and climate change are two of the most distorted and propagandized subjects out there. One will have to research multiple publications and put the information together. Subjects such as climate belong under earth science - ecology is a social science not a hard science and in particular social sciences have no relation to real science and poisons it on college campuses. It's difficult for the average person to deal with that subject without a science background.
Hatred of Political Correctness
Post election Bill Maher noted two destructive trends among fellow liberals and has warned them to repeatedly on this. "Political correctness bullshit" and refusal to deal with Islam. Even David Axelrod admitted scores of counties that went for Obama in two elections went for Trump, how could this be racism?
The press and ruling elite behind it depend not on facts or allowing open debate, but the authority of approved "experts", the same kinds of people that got all of the polls and the election totally wrong.
In Why Do Democrats Look Down on Voters? November 23, 2014 By Clive Crook, a liberal, says,
This syndrome of Democratic disdain, I think, has two main parts. First, liberals have an exaggerated respect for intellectual authority and technical expertise. Second, they have an unduly narrow conception of the values that are implicated in political choices. These things come together in the conviction that if you disagree with Democrats on universal health insurance or almost anything else, it can only be because you're stupid. Voters recognize this as insufferable arrogance and, oddly enough, they resent it.
Democrats who might be asking where they went wrong in the mid-term elections - not that many of them are - ought to give this some thought. The conviction that voters are stupid, however, isn't just bad tactics. It's also substantively wrong...having conservative values doesn't make you stupid, any more than having liberal values makes you smart...
Add in both parties in 2016. Virginia politicians of both parties have similar idiot attitudes towards economic development when it fails year after producing nothing, then come back with millions more based on dumb academic studies only to fail again.
Bristol Virginia still screwing taxpayers for The Falls
The infamous Falls strip mall retail development has cost Bristol residents tens of millions in corporate welfare, massive debt, plus interest, are back shaking-down more public dollars. The Falls is centered on a Cabela's store. I believe Cabela's has sold out to Bass Pro Shop whose store across the state line in Bristol, Tennessee (about five miles away) may result in a shut down. Bristol Virginia politicians are in a panic. Recently they planed to pay over $650,000 for a fake waterfall.
The Pinnacle Project centered on Bass Pro Shop has spent one quarter of the amount of Bristol Virginia scammers and has been a massive success - it has emptied the Bristol Virginia Mall and has attracted around 50 businesses, while The Falls got a Lowe's that relocated from a mile away, Cabela's, a Sheetz gas station, and a restaurant or two.
Last September these Bristol Virginia idiots borrowed another $6 million, which $3 million was going for road work. Now the City scammers are trying to pilfer $1.8 million in public transportation funds to pay for interior roads, which are private property. They are trying to make the interior roads public so developers and the Bristol City scammers won't pay the cost.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has to approve the grant and if they don't, Bristol Virginia scammers will have to pay the whole $3 million plus interest. I encourage taxpayers to contact VDOT and voice our objection to this misuse of public funds for private profit.
- Bristol Residents Paying $650,000 for Cabela's Fake Waterfall
- Bristol Virginia to Raise Taxes Layoff Workers Over Corporate Welfare
- Massive Falls Debt Leaves Bristol Virginia Near Panic
- News updates May-June 2016
- Exploding Retail Sales Hiding Government Dependency in Bristol Virginia
- Wise Virginia Call Center Won't Hire 500 New Workers
- Why We Shouldn't Trust Bristol Virginia Utilities
- Bristol Virginia Washington County loses 362 jobs May 2016
- Green Energy Boondoggle in Bristol Virginia
- More Replacement Call Center Jobs for Scott County Virginia - Ultimately
- $30,000 Public Funds Wasted in Washington County Virginia
- Gov. McAuliffe Claims New Jobs in Smyth County - Not Really
- Bristol Virginia Utilities Culture of Corruption
- Another $157,000 in Grants to be Wasted on Tourism
- Virginia Politicians Waste Another $10,000 on Failed Movie
- Added Nov. 2016:
- Bristol Herald Courier Corporate Propaganda Mill
- Yellow Press Lies About Mexicans
- Political Correctness Attacks Science
- Why Emory & Henry College Sucks
- Diversity and Multiculturalism The New Racism
- ACLU Right For Once in Tennessee - Free Tristan Rettke
- Donald Trump Bans Yellow Press
- Nuclear Power Green and Affordable
- National Press Abusing the 1st Amendment Press Protections
- Liberal Press Hates Working-Class and Poor Whites
- Stereotyping and Racism by the Yellow Press
- Yellow Press Promotes Anti-Semitism Lie
- Bristol Herald Courier Inciting Violence?
- Tri-Cities Bristol Workers Adjusted Out of Their Jobs
- Governor McAuliffe Waste, Hypocrisy
- $350,000 Wasted on Passenger Rail Study
- Crime, Vagrancy, Homelessness Dominate Bristol
- Opportunities Available Through Workforce Training
New Specialty Crop Grants for Virginia Ten projects will waste $394,000 in USDA funding
October 21, 2016 Here is another jobs program for affluent professionals and zero for working people. To quote,
RICHMOND – Ten agriculture-related projects in Virginia have been awarded $393,999 in grant funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
"As one of Virginia's largest industries, agriculture depends on quality research and data to remain competitive in the 21st century economy," said Governor Terry McAuliffe. "These USDA grants will ensure Virginia farmers continue to yield some of the best crops on the market, with 40 percent of the funding directed toward research in various aspects of food safety and quality. I congratulate these organizations and educational institutions for pursuing innovative research that will help enhance marketing opportunities and food safety for growers across the Commonwealth."
Uhh, that's what have said for numinous previous grants. Governor Terry McAuliffe when not lobbying for foreign interests and trying to restore the vote to criminals, he directs the waste and diversion of millions of state and local dollars. Here is why we have no real job creation.
2016 Election on Globalism and Immigration
The working class white and black have been hammered by destructive trade and immigration policies benefiting Wall Street Republicans in alliance with post-national Democrats obsessed by race and gender. The victory of president-elect Donald Trump is the product of a white working class revolt has many in our community hopeful. Trump was preferred by around 75% of the voters with Trump signs everywhere. The Bristol Herald Courier, a fake news site due to bias, omission of facts, and hostility towards Trump and his voters, is also part of the problem. Here is part of why we had this revolt:
For the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total number of jobs has grown a bit, but that is only because of government hiring...from July 1999, when the economy was booming and companies were complaining about how hard it was to find workers, through July of this year, when the economy was mired in the deepest and longest recession since World War II.
For the decade, there was a net gain of 121,000 private sector jobs, according to the survey of employers conducted each month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In an economy with 109 million such jobs, that indicated an annual growth rate for the 10 years of 0.01 percent...
Ref. The New York Times August 7, 2009.
But is this really true? Zero job creation in ten years? Or is it the jobs simply never went to Americans, but a massive illegal, underground labor force?
During this same period, not even counting the continuing explosion of work visas, we got 5.6 million naturalized citizens in addition to 10-20 million more illegal aliens and guest workers.
This is why American workers, even those with college degrees, are becoming a permanent underclass. American wage scales have been stagnant for decades as government and business work together to create this situation, then go off on a racism name calling binge to divert attention from the real issue.
The Richmond Times Dispatch (Nov. 24, 2016) claims illegal aliens number "more than a quarter million", but complains of a worker shortage. Yet Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe claims a $1.5 billion budget shortfall is because wage growth is so low to non-existent income tax collections are down.
Virginia has for too long depended on high paying federal jobs to float the state finances and sequestration has shown the rest of the state economy is a shambles. Yet the Trump victory riding on an abusive and unfair economic system was foretold in Virginia, but both political parties ignored the warning signs.
In 2014 David Brat, a college professor running on the Tea Party ticket, crushed house majority leader and 7 term Congressman Eric Cantor, spending only $200,000. The main issue was illegal immigration and the Republican Party's position of open borders and cheap, replacement workers.
The masses of imported illegal and legal immigrants drives down the wages of working people and supplies a cheap servant class for the affluent. Most of Virginia went for Trump, but wealthy Northern Virginia carried the state for Hillary. Time to start deportations and severe fines for criminal employers.
According to the New York Times (June 10, 2014) Cantor spent $5.4 million and while they noted the immigration issues in passing, chalked it up to he wasn't conservative enough, but missed the economic and other problems caused by mass immigration. Conservative has for too long been synonymous with Chamber of Commerce. Brat and Trump put an end to that fiction.
According to Newsmax.com (Oct. 15, 2015) open borders advocates claim illegal aliens:
In 2010, illegal immigrants paid $183 million in state and local taxes in Virginia, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. That included $109.6 million in sales taxes, $58 million in state income taxes and $15.5 million in property taxes.
The institute estimated that if the unauthorized immigrants were legally authorized to live and work in Virginia that amount would increase to $260 million in state and local taxes... If all illegal immigrants were removed from the Virginia workforce, the economic loss would be at least $11.2 billion and nearly 63,000 jobs...
First if the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy knows these people are illegal aliens why are they not being turned over to ICE? This lawlessness is so open and blatant no wonder so many are angry about it. And how much in taxes are they not paying as they drive down wages reducing tax collections even further??
This assumes the false narrative that American workers wouldn't take the jobs and pay those same taxes and even more because the wage scales wouldn't be artificially depressed. Then we wouldn't be dealing with almost $2 billion in jails, welfare, and trying to get chronic low-achievers to learn anything in school. In fact the problem of low-achieving non-Asian minorities is so bad Virginia adopted an open policy of differing education standards based on race.
Ref. Virginia New Achievement Standards Based On Race And Background, Huffington Post 8/24/2012.
While these liberal operated schools dribble on about racism, etc. they can't educate these children for whatever reason including lack of intellectual ability. That doesn't change the fact, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (www.cis.org), that over 90% of Hispanic immigrant families legal and illegal are on welfare and it's a multi-generational problem.
In addition violent crime from Hispanic gangs such as MS-13 blanket many parts of the state - with blacks these two groups account for 70-80% of the violent crime in Virginia. What's the dollar cost of all of this violent crime? Mass illegal immigration has driven millions of blacks across the nation out of the labor force and into poverty.
Virginia (officially) has almost as many illegal aliens as Arizona ranked at 10 and 9 respectively. While the Arizona illegal population is mostly Mexican, Virginia is heavily loaded towards Central America, Asians, and Muslims. Illegal alien Muslims are a huge security threat along with Chinese spying with so many government and defense agencies in the area of Northern Virginia. As a security matter we must institute immediate mass deportation of this entire population.
One Pakistani "immigrant", Aimal Khan Kasi, murdered two CIA employees and wounded three others in 1993, was later executed in 2002. Pakistan, along with Saudi Arabia, are hotbeds of Sunni (Wahhabi) terrorism. The Somali refugee that went on a stabbing spree at Ohio State University November 2016 came through Islamist Pakistan.
See Kasi Execution Carries Fear of Retaliation.
Going by critics such as Senator Jeff Sessions, he claims that we import with immigrants, illegal aliens, and work visas a staggering 2.5 million replacement workers per year, many never leave. That is 50 million people since 1996! Bear-Stearns before they went under in 2007 estimated even then the number was more like 20-30 million illegal aliens. The number of illegal aliens in Virginia could be easily 500,000 plus.
The The Underground Labor Force is Rising to the Surface report by Bear-Stearns highlights the following:
1. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States may be as high as 20 million people, more than double the official 9 million people estimated by the Census Bureau.
2. The total number of legalized immigrants entering The United States since 1990 has averaged 962,000 per year. Several credible studies indicate that the number of illegal entries has recently crept up to 3 million per year, triple the authorized figure.
3. Undocumented immigrants are gaining a larger share of the job market, and hold approximately 12 to 15 million jobs in the United States (8% of the employed)
4. Four to six million jobs have shifted to the underground market, as small businesses take advantage of the vulnerability of illegal residents.
5. In addition to circumventing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, many employers of illegal workers have taken to using unrecorded revenue receipts. Employer enforcement has succumbed to political pressure.
6. Cell phones, internet and low-cost travel have allowed immigrants easier illegal access to the United States and increased their ability to find employment and circumvent immigration laws.
That where the jobs went for over a decade. This was going on as NAFTA devastated blue collar workers along with massive automation. I believe the 30 million illegal aliens is the correct number. Bristol never recovered from the 2000 bubble, then got hit with the 2007 housing bubble.
In 2016 all of the job creation in Bristol Tri-Cities, and its considerable, is mainly low-end retail, hospitality, and call centers, many part time. Latest jobs reports from ETSU economist Steb Hipple shows continuing jobs losses in manufacturing, information systems, etc. - the better paying jobs.
Millions spent on fiber optic infrastructure promising high-paying technology jobs, but instead got low-paying call center jobs replacing other low-paying call center jobs that left.
National economic downturns hit Bristol and similar communities like a battering ram. We get hit first and largely never recover. In addition political corruption at the state and local levels in addition to hostility and disdain of the ruling class towards poor and working class whites adds to the problem.
In addition, family breakdown, drug addiction, single mothers, and lack of work ethic is also a chronic problem here.
Republicans are rabidly hostile to labor and act as a branch of the Chamber of Commerce opposed to anything considered pro-labor. Republicans in Virginia are open-borders corporate-welfare snobs and elitists. They can't get enough replacement workers to boost business profits.
Democrats are simply open border racists including the local press and the government parasite class, while all for welfare expansion, are hostile to traditional culture and harbor disdain of blue-collar and working class whites who dominate here.
Local environmentalists, many who relocated here, attack most local economic development and display livid hostility towards the coal industry that provides one of the few avenues of a middle class living to those without advanced degrees or political connections.
Let's be careful not to scapegoat Mexicans, etc. but deal with the culture of greed and corruption in American business and liberal opportunism that causes these problems. See Yellow Press Lies About Mexicans. Nearby Hamblen County, Tennessee has imported thousands of illegal aliens that have spilled across the region taking a number of low-wage jobs created here. Tennessee ICE refuses to touch them, hopefully under a Trump administration they will be removed.
So nobody gets the wrong idea here, I believe in absolute equal treatment of everyone regardless of race, etc. One's worth is based on merit, achievement, and hard work, period. Non-whites must be held to same standards and treated exactly the same as white people with the same expectations, period. There is no right to equal outcome and affirmative action is simply state-sanctioned racism. What is it about "equal" treatment or a color-blind society you don't understand? What is it about Rule of Law you don't understand?
- Illegal Immigration Success in Arizona
- Racist' Bias Censorship in the Press
- National Elite All White All Racists
- High Costs of Immigrant Housekeepers
- Intelligence Predicts Economic Social Outcome
- Remapping Class to Race to Racial Warfare
- Crime Rates Directly Proportional to Diversity
- Virginia Schools Become More Dangerous
- Defining Religion in American Politics 2016
73% percent of immigrant headed households from Mexico and Central America are on welfare, versus 17% for South Asia. Natives it's 30%. Source Welfare use by Origin.
76% of all immigrant households with children collect welfare. 51% of immigrant households with one worker collect welfare. Source Welfare and One Worker.
For established and new arrival immigrants welfare use is very high and drops little even after 21 years. Source Welfare Use over Time.
Even 30% of immigrant households with no children are on welfare! Source Immigrant Welfare No Children.
Why are we growing and expanding an underclass so affluent white people and businesses can get cheap domestic servants and wage serfs? We can never get a handle on poverty unless we stop importing poverty and creating more of it at home.
- Why Blacks Over Rely on Government Jobs
- Affirmative Action Fails Unqualified Minorities
- Immigrants Dump Relatives Off on Welfare
- Needing a College Degree for Cleaning Toilets
- Working Class-Poor Whites Excluded from Top Universities
- Liberal Failure in Seattle Public Schools
- Government Sanctioned Racism at American Universities
- Foreign Students Pushing American Students Out of College
- Haitian Criminal Murders Three after being freed from Deportation
- Minority failure in public schools isn't racial bias
- Suspending Criminal Blacks Not Racism
- 'Immigrants' Take Most of the New Jobs in Texas, Elsewhere
- Education Ruin in Michigan For Diversity
Top ten pages on this website not including my homepage:
- Origins U.S. Constitution
- Illegal Immigration Crime Invades East Tennessee
- What is Gnostic Demiurge?
- Murdering Mother Hidden Face of Honor Killing
- Apostle Paul Founder of Christianity
- An Overview of Gnosticism and the Bible
- What is New Age Religion?
- Classical Deism a Primer
- Parallel Betrayals Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring
- Nicene Creed and Truth about the Trinity
Appalachian Regional Commission Fraud and Waste
The ARC has spent countless millions in the region producing very little for the average citizen needing a good job and economic opportunity - forget badly needed services. Gov. Terry McAuliffe (Oct, 27, 2016 Kingsport Times-News) illustrates the nonsense that goes on here. $31 million will be mostly wasted under something called "federal Partnership for Opportunity and Economic Revitilazation (POWER) initiative" with $6.6 million to be porked out across a 25 county area around Southwest Virginia.
This will not produce a single job for a displaced coal mine or factory worker, but as usual is a jobs programs for affluent and connected white collar elites and social engineers. One of the most asinine I've seen is:
In Southwest Virginia, the largess includes $2.22 million to the Wise County Industrial Authority for the Virginia Emerging Drone Industry Cluster Project, intended to position five Southwest Virginia counties as "an epicenter" for drone R&D work, according to McAuliffe. The award will also assist Mountain Empire Community College to offer courses to operate drones and drone sensors for commercial and government applications.
Drones??? What drone industry? Those can be done anywhere, why in the world would such an industry locate to such a remote region? It sounds like another scam to leverage taxpayer handouts to some unknown company (they refuse to disclose who). This has gone on for years with no permanent results.
MECC established an unmanned aerial systems (UAS) segment to its programs about a year ago. On Wednesday, McAuliffe said the ARC award will train 64 new workers, leverage an additional $15 million in additional investment, and enable a private aerospace company to work on a major contract, with an eye toward the creation of 210 new and indirect jobs.
64 workers to do what and for who? Can I get a list of those jobs? In other words a government contractor getting more free stuff, if they even come here.
From MECC:
Big Stone Gap - Mountain Empire Community College will offer the region's only college credit course in drone technology this fall. AVI-195 Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems will cover the principles of building, programming and flying drones. Students will receive hands-on training in quadcopter design and construction as well as learn to fly both assisted and unassisted FPV (First Person View) quadcopters. The class will be held on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 8:45 p.m., August 31 to December 15. To register, contact MECC's Enrollment Service Office at 276.523.7474 or visit www.mecc.edu/apply.
MECC to Offer Class in Drone Technology
Big Stone Gap – Mountain Empire Community College is seeking small business owners/operators who are interested in learning more about how Unmanned Aerial Systems (drones) can be used to improve their business operations. UAVs are enabling construction, agriculture, real estate, reclamation, surveying, videography, security, EMS, and many more businesses to carry out operations more efficiently.
Businesses can utilize UAVs to offer clients new and exciting services, to attract new clientele, and to stay on top of their competition. MECC will offer a college credit course in drone technology focusing on UAV use in business operations. AVI-195 Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems will cover the UAV history, uses, design, assembly, programming, legality, mission planning and operations, maintenance, and flight. The class will be held on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 8:45 p.m. For more information, or to register, contact MECC's Enrollment Service Office at 276-523-7474 or visit www.mecc.edu/apply.
Now I get it, in a region where we have few jobs, local business will be encouraged to hire drone operators! Perhaps they can deliver pizzas by drone! Burger King might also be hiring drone operators! The only jobs this creates is for the grant recipients.
Others in the region include more than $1.4 million to the Southwest Virginia Regional Cybersecurity Initiative and include MECC, The University of Virginia's College at Wise and Southwest Virginia Community College.
That award seeks to create a certification/credential program aligned with industry needs and National Security Agency guidelines. Program goals include expanding the existing cybersecurity program at UVa-Wise via an accelerator space to assist companies to co-locate R&D activities. That project envisions training 161 new workers and retaining 110 jobs.
This is a lot like an earlier multi-million dollar IT training program that was supposed to train workers for Northrop-Grumman in Russell County that promised a thousand new jobs, but instead ended up being a few call center jobs. There is no evidence of any substantial IT employment in Russell County and information on the project, which is a state contract, is barred from public discloser.
And more of the usual tourism pork-barrel waste:
Also in Southwest Virginia, a $3 million grant will go to Friends of Southwest Virginia in Abingdon for the Building Appalachian Spring: Growing the Economy of Southwest Virginia project. The funds would develop new access points for the New River, provide a 4,000-square-foot Gateway Center to the High Knob Recreation Area in Wise and Scott counties, and create a 30-mile multi-use trail connecting Breaks Interstate Park to downtown Haysi's business district, among other tourism related projects.
Finally in Southwest Virginia, a $14,214 grant to Round the Mountain: Southwest Virginia's Artisan Network to provide grant writing assistance to raise funds for the creation of a regional craft beverage cluster to strengthen Virginia's agriculture industry and tourism in the region, and build off an extensive network cultivated by the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation.
The region is awash in fiber optic, which is a nice utility, but has had no impact they are willing to state on job creation:
Tennessee projects to share in the overall grant awards include $400,000 Erwin Utilities in Erwin for the Temple Hill and Bumpus Cove project to install 35 miles of fiber optic cable, serving 680 households and 30 businesses and help spur the needs of the tourism industry in that area.
You mean tourists will come here to use fiber optic? What do we need this nonsense for? There's already a nearby Bush cannery:
A $353,086 grant goes to the town of Unicoi for the Mountain Harvest Kitchen Incubator and Entrepreneurial Training Program. The funds will help purchase equipment for a shared use commercial kitchen where value added processing of locally harvested products will take place.
So now I can can my garden produce and sell it on the side of the road. We have several "incubators" that have produced nothing. More college professor jobs, nothing for working people:
A grant of more than $1.5 million goes to Marion County, Tenn., for the Marion County Regional Center for Higher Education Phase II & III Project, to construct a 30,000-square-foot educational facility to house new technology and industrial training programs.
A wildlife center? We already use reclaimed mine land in a number of projects, what is this supposed to prove? The 19 acres isn't worth a fraction of this money:
Among the grant awards in Kentucky, $1.8 million goes to the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation Inc. in Corbin for the Appalachian Wildlife Center Infrastructure Project. The funds will be used to provide water infrastructure at the center's future site, located on 19 acres of reclaimed mine land — as a conservation education and research facility, and feature the largest elk restoration and viewing effort in the U.S.
$1.8 million to view elk??? I can view those from my house for free. To quote government hacks:
"Each of the Virginia POWER grants announced today takes us one step closer to building the new Virginia economy," McAuliffe said. "From the tourism and agriculture industries to drone technology and cybersecurity, we must do everything we can to leverage our homegrown assets and create opportunity and economic diversification in our coalfield regions...These federal investments will enable Appalachia's coal impacted communities to continue their work developing innovative paths towards economic resilience...They will directly support the region's emerging industries that are making Appalachia America's next great investment opportunity."
What happened to the millions of previous investments in "emerging industries"? Can I see a list of those other than jobs for state agencies?
It's time to defund and end the ARC as the government waste it is.
What does all of this have in common? 1) money goes to benefit the elite, not the workers or those struggling. 2) Doesn't consider reality in the region as it exists. These ideas are based on academic studies by people that know nothing about the region or the people that live here. 3) Most programs are designed to leverage additional grants going to the same closed circle of professionals and political hacks.
- Jobs Losses Cause TVA to Raise Power Rates
- Disability the Hidden Unemployment Program
- Steel Company Jumps County Line for Government Handouts
- Poverty and Guns Doesn't Equal Gun Crime
- CityMac Another Taxpayer Fiasco
- Layoffs Corporate Welfare at Eastman Chemical
- We Don't Hire People with College
- Single Parent Problem in Southwest Virginia
Why There is No Equality in Fairfax County Virginia
In the article "Are We Equal?" by Dr. Walter E. Williams the answer is no. In today's economy beset by falling wages for marginal and unskilled workers, along with large scale family breakdown among low-achievers of all racial groups, attempts at social engineering equality is creating social chaos. See Why There is No Equality in Fairfax County Virginia
In a free society composed of unequal individuals, the drive to level the playing field is a totalitarian desire and a threat to freedom because it empowers government to confiscate the talents and earnings of some for the benefits of those it favors. The expansion of governmental power into every individual sphere whatever its justification entails a loss of freedom for all.
Since the targets of the levelers are the creators of society's wealth, an inevitable result of social justice is generalized poverty and economic decline. The desire to level the playing field is also the creator of the new racism.
People are clearly unequal in beauty, intelligence, character, upbringing, and other vital aspects of personhood that lead directly to inequalities of celebrity, power, wealth and social standing. Because these inequalities are rooted in human nature, there can never be a level playing field. Moreover, the efforts to produce one must lead (and historically have led) led to the loss of individual freedom.
This is because the field can only be made equal - and then only superficially - by governmental force as an all-powerful state takes the earned fruits of one person's labor, intelligence, and talent and distributes it to those it prefers , and does so in the name of "social justice."
Ref. Horowitz, David; Perazzo, John (2013-01-02). Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream (Kindle Locations 308-311). The David Horowitz Freedom Center. Kindle Edition.
Fake Capitalism
Most of what passes for job creation is either graft or fake capitalism. The following extract illustrates this:
Ref. Fake Capitalism by Nicole Gelinas City Journal Nov. 2016 It's not free markets that have failed us, but government distortion of them.
2016 housing subsidies of $99 billion even at artificially lower interest rates.
These subsidies have fired the growth of the housing industry. Between 1975 and 1979, the U.S. Treasury paid out $102.6 billion in mortgageinterest breaks in today's dollars.
Between 2015 and 2019, the Treasury will pay out $419.8 billion in such tax favoritism, a more than fourfold rise, nearly ten times the population increase. Interest rates in the 1970s for a mortgage was 9 percent, twice what it is today.
Taking today's lower rates into account, Washington has increased the mortgage subsidy more than eightfold. It's no surprise that mortgage debt has soared, to $9.5 trillion, from $2.6 trillion in inflationadjusted dollars in 1981. Back then, mortgage debt constituted 31 percent of our nation's GDP. Today, it makes up nearly 53 percent.
Here 50% of the economy is government checks, at the same time a substantial number of residents own their property with no mortgages.
Update July 2016: Here we go again another 180 layoffs May-July 2016. See the following:
- Related:
- Bristol Virginia Washington County loses 362 jobs May 2016
- Bristol Compressors Cuts Another 250 Jobs
- Bristol Compressors More Corporate Welfare 2015?
- How Bristol Compressors Came Back from Brink
- Europeans as Victims of (Muslim) Colonialism
- Barbary Pirates and the Muslim Slavery Industry
- Muslim Wars Against Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Muslim Terror in the Balkans
- Debunking the Myth of Colonialism and Science
- Oikophobia and Other Mental Disorders of Liberals
- St. Louis Black Youth Gunshot Death Rate Second Highest in U.S.
- How Government Exported Black Crime into Ferguson Missouri
- Crime Rates by Race in Missouri
Last is most recent.
Illegal Immigration-Crime
Mexican Crimewave in Johnson City
Local Crime 1 Local Crime 2
Local Crime 3 Local Crime 4
- Racial Employment Gap in New York is not Racism
- The Coming White Underclass
- Why Suspending Criminal Blacks from School is Not Racism
- Working Class-Poor Whites Excluded from Top Universities
- Why Crime Rates Have Little to do with Poverty
- Government Sanctioned Racism at American Universities
- Why the Racial Employment Gap in New York is not Racism
- Why the College Degree Hiring Gap is not about Race
- Liberal Racism and Failure in Seattle Public Schools
- Obama Day Baby and Unwed Mothers in Bristol
- Hispanics Won't Vote Republican
- Scientific Case for a Transcendent God
- In Defense of Classical Deism
- Obama's Science Teacher Training Initiative Politicized Science
- Fear and Loathing of Islam is not Islamophobia
- Islam Versus Deism
- Left vs Right, Montesquieu, Corporatism
- Eastern Roman Empire and Islam
- Philosophies of Islam, Greece, and the West by Turgut Ozal
- Example of Islam and science.
- Maimonides Versus Aristotle and the Jews of Spain, Thirteen Rules
- Handbook on the History of Modern Science
- Pelagius and why he was right
- Islam Versus Judaism and Christianity
- Islam to Deism: Why I became a Deist
Printed Bristol Herald Courier June 27, 2016
This is related to illegal transfer of assets from Bristol Virginia Utilities electric customers to underwrite the OptiNet telecom division. This was illegal. So far 9 people have been convicted on scores of charges and most are serving prison time.
By Lewis Loflin | Bristol, Virginia
As an early critic, I warned in 2005 about BVU being used to cross-subsidize Optinet. There was no way they could spend thousands per household, even with massive amounts of government grants, on what they were charging. Additionally, these grants were received under a false pretense of economic development.
The reason they can't figure out "Who OK'd $23.4M transfer" is closed sessions, when no records are kept. Both I and the Herald Courier tried to sit in on the BVU board meetings, only to be kicked out as they called closed session. For more than two years, I tried through the FOIA to get the minutes, ending up with pages of "closed session," meeting adjourned.
This extends to the Bristol City Council and the Washington County Board of Supervisors. Local politicians constantly appoint each other and their associates to multiple boards, all operating in secret under "closed session," making the FOIA and public accountability impossible.
What I'm shocked about is the nonsense they are being sent to jail over, when tens of millions of public dollars were squandered and wasted across this vast array of pseudo-government agencies and nonprofits.
Public dollars have no business underwriting private capitalism or shopping centers. OptiNet was built with public dollars and should remain public property. It's time to end the culture of corruption surrounding economic development projects and government grants.
Let's put citizens on these boards who are not connected to chambers of commerce or government bodies. Sever business from the government. End secrecy. Finally, force agencies, nonprofits, etc. on the government dole to do proper record keeping, including recording all meetings and making everything, including the IRS paperwork, easily available to the public. Put an end to closed sessions and force politicians to conduct public business in public.
- Summer 2015
- Tri-Cities Jobs Report Summer 2015
- Gov. McAuliffe Another Porkbarrel King
- Teaching Positions Eliminated While Raising Taxes
- Washington County Virginia Loses 300 Jobs
- Washington County Virginia Replacement Jobs
- No Corporate Welfare for Cootie Brown's Bristol Tennessee
- White's Mill still Waste of Tax Dollars
- Bristol Virginia Residents Nailed for Higher Taxes and Fees
- Bristol Compressors More Corporate Welfare?
- Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey Stabs Consumers In the Back
- Virginia Tourism Low Wage Jobs
- Bristol Spends Millions for Jobs - Gets Nothing
- Raise Minimum Wage in Bristol
- Crime is Up Across Wise County Virginia
- 58 Meth Convections Illustrate Problem in Tri-Cities
- Jails and New Laws Won't Stop Meth Epidemic
- Tobacco Commission Failure Once Again in 2014
How CGI-AMS and Northrop Grumman Failed Russell County
How Cable Ready Socialism Failed Southwest Virginia
Sprint Jumps State Line Collects Millions
U.S. Solutions Dumps Bristol Virginia for Bristol Tennessee
Travelocity Fails Dickenson County
- Updates for 2014
- More on Phil Puckett and the Virginia Tobacco Commission Scandal
- Virginia Tobacco Commission Scandals 2014
- Exposing the Virginia Tobacco Commission Part 1
- Exposing the Virginia Tobacco Commission Part 2
Jobs-Retail Reports Nothing to Celebrate
Finally got some job growth in Tri-Cities! According the Steb Hipple at ETSU 4th Quarter 2015 a great!
Regional employment grew 2.6% during the October to December period - metro employment growth at 1.5% on a year-to-year basis. The last three quarters simply represent the best regional labor market performance since the Great Recession of 2008-09.
But: Job growth was led by retail trade, leisure & hospitality, and professional & business services. Smaller job gains were reported by government, wholesale trade, transport & utilities, and education & health services. Job declines occurred in manufacturing, information services, and other services.. Employment was unchanged in financial services, and construction.
In other words the lowest paid unstable occupations. Retail sales were up 19.4% "Lower energy prices continued to keep the overall price level barely above 2014 levels." Overall, 2015 was the best year in local retailing since the Great Recession of 2008-09.
In May 2016 some are claiming we are sliding into another recession even with low energy prices and absurdly low interest rates.
Quoting futurist Ed Barlow before the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce:
"Seniors create low-wage service jobs. They tend to withdraw from working, and they generally don't create new wealth. A retirement community strategy has long-term negative economic consequences unless there is a diverse economic base of other employees around it...A significant component of your economic future in Sullivan County is recruiting Hispanics, making sure they get highly educated and integrated into the community."
Back Taxes Sought
Bristol Virginia is so broke and hungry for public dollars to feed its corporate welfare hogs they plan to go after those that owe back taxes. $1.47 million - $850,000 in real estate taxes and $600,000 in personal property taxes. Why such a panic? To quote,
"For more than a decade, the City has regularly borrowed millions against its anticipated tax collections..."
With such massive debts and irresponsible borrowing it's easy to understand why there's such a panic.
Posted April 16, 2015:
- Bristol Loses Another 185 Jobs State Workers in Poverty
- Will Bristol Virginia become a toxic waste dump with Nulife Glass?
See Growing Poverty and Job Losses in Tri-Cities VA-TN
Bristol Virginia Tri-Cities Crime 2014
Former Bristol Employer Gets $188 Million in Tennessee Corporate Welfare
The antics of Electrolux Corporation is an example of the rampant corruption of Republican Corporatism I've ever seen. They are literally paying companies to fire and downsize American workers with our tax dollars.
One critic put this deal in perspective when it closed just its Canadian operation:
So Electrolux was able to get rid of 60 workers, cut the wages of the jobs they kept by more than $4 per hour, get a more central distribution location, and a free factory courtesy of state and local governments in Tennessee.
The state also agreed NOT to sue to get the money back if Electrolux closed or failed to deliver!
Read the whole sorry story: Obscene Electrolux-Tennessee Incentive Deal Puts State at Risk by Lewis Loflin
- Local Leaders Complain to Senator Kaine - Ignore Workers
- Predominant Face of American Poor is White
- Proof Limiting Mass Immigration Helps the Working Poor
- Born Again Jobs and a Shrinking Tri-Cities Labor Force
- Prime Choice Foods Files for Bankruptcy in Bristol
- What 70 New Jobs at Columbus McKinnon?
- Another 100 Jobs Lost in Bristol Virginia with College Closure
- Bristol Metals fires 290 Workers
- 240 Phony Jobs and Corporate Welfare for Heritage Glass
- Bristol Raising Property Taxes to Pay for Corporate Welfare
- Caterpillar Plant Closure Costs Pulaski County 240 Jobs
- Arch Coal Fires Another 213 Workers - It's the tip of the Iceberg
- High Cost of the Non-Profits Industry
- Jobs Losses Cause TVA to Raise Power Rates
- Disability the Hidden Unemployment Program
- Steel Company Jumps County Line for Government Handouts
- Poverty and Guns Doesn't Equal Gun Crime
- CityMac Another Taxpayer Fiasco
- Layoffs Corporate Welfare at Eastman Chemical
- We Don't Hire People with College
- Single Parent Problem in Southwest Virginia
- No It's Not 250 New Jobs in Grayson County Virginia
- 2008 Remote Area Medical in Wise in Pictures
- Crony Capitalism Comes to Wise County
- Pinnacle Wood Products Follies in Wise County
- Obscene Electrolux Incentive Deal Puts Tennessee at Risk
- Tobacco Commission Sykes Fiasco
- Cost of Wise Inn Fiasco Soares to $12 Million
- Wholesale Plant Nursery Receives $8 Million for Energy Research
- Tri-Cities Unemployment Up 2013-2014
- 'Good Old Boys' Rake in Millions Thousands Struggle in Bristol
- Poverty Wages Class Warfare in Bristol Virginia-Tennessee
The dismal future of the working poor in this community is tied directly to a job structure hostile to working people. The shocking loss of retail sales in Bristol is proof that many have little disposable income.
- Added June 10, 2014
- Impaired Driver Faces Felony Drug Charges in Johnson City
- Another 48 People Nailed in Bristol Virginia Drug Bust
- Gang Arrested for Rape Laugh at Judge
- Break Light Leads to Drug Bust
- Virginia Republicans are Hypocrites on Welfare
- Poverty a Complicated Issue Bristol Virginia-Tennessee
J.C. Penney Slams the Doors in Bristol
Another retailer pulls out while we waste $100 million underwriting shopping malls.
J.C. Penney plans to close its Bristol Mall store as part of a nationwide effort to shutter "under-performing" stores, the company ... plans to close 33 stores in 20 states, including its 86,000-square-foot local store...This marks the second major Bristol Mall anchor store to announce plans to leave. Last May, officials with Belk announced plans to replace its mall locations in 2015 with a new store in The Pinnacle retail center being developed near Interstate 81's Exit 74 in Bristol, Tenn.
Mayor Odum said losing J.C. Penney and the 50 jobs it represents makes it "vitally important" to complete (the $65 million taxpayer funded) The Falls retail center currently being developed near Interstate 81's Exit 5.
The closings are expected to idle a total of about 2,000 employees and generate a savings of about $65 million.
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- See the following:
- Clear Creek Mobile Home Park Travesty
- Bulldozing Clear Creek Mobile Home Park
- Washington County BOS fires Boss Reeter
- Looking Back at Operation Big Coon Dog
- Corporate welfare and Red Lobster
To quote the late Bill Deel, a retired English teacher from Clintwood, Virginia, "We're becoming more and more Third World here...The best and the brightest leave."
Healthcare Meltdown
Business in the region is also on the government gravy train planning on maximizing profits at public expense - nowhere is this more true than healthcare. Now it seems to have backfired.
- Tri-Cities Labor Market Report September 2011
- Pfizer Dumps Bristol Tennessee
- Old Jobs Called New Jobs is Still No New Jobs
- VA Lt Governor Gives Illegal Funding to Non-Profits
- Gates Corp. Dumps Washington County
- Alpha Building Deal Back in the News in 2012
- Washington County Commits to Buy Alpha Building in Backroom Deals
- Hunger, Alpha Coal, and the Arts in Southwest Virginia
- Plant Closings 1998-2002; 2804 Jobs Lost


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This article presents a corpus of songs recorded between 1998 and 2008, interpreted by different Zouglou bands, a neo-urban genre in Côte d'Ivoire. The songs are in Nouchi, a popular emergent language whose lexical base is French (regional popular French) to which are added elements of various indigenous languages (mainly Agni-Baoulé, Bété, and Dioula). The main themes of these songs are the evocation of and commentary on current political affairs in Côte d'Ivoire, with various commitments depending on the groups producing the songs. But these references are always made in an indirect way, within the context of a discourse of complicity, understood only by initiates. We decode the keys to the references in the songs and venture some hypotheses on the reasons for the emergence of this literature of complicity in a syncretic language, in a context in which national Ivorian identity is in fact being threatened.
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Noon ET on NBC Sports, or you can watch the livestream online by logging in via your cable-provider username and password. For hockey fans, it's a rematch of the scintillating 2010 gold-medal game between two evergreen powerhouses. For the other 97 percent of us, it's a magical brew of nationalism and revenge for not one but two overtime heartbreaks. According to Gallup, 93 percent of Americans rate Canada favorably; if they beat the U.S. again, that number could sink to the high 80s. Stakes are high.
The winner gets Sweden, which survived the Scandinavian version of U.S./Canada in the other semifinal, for the gold on Sunday. The U.S. has made it to the finals twice in the past 30 years but hasn't won it all since Miracle on Ice. While we wait, enjoy this dissection of possible shenanigans in the judging for last night's women's figure skating finals. Experts seem shocked that a Russian skater, on Russian ice, somehow outpointed Yuna Kim and Carolina Kostner, the favorites. Could there be … corruption at Sochi?
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It was so cute to watch you guys get excited about beating the Russians in 1980, a feat that Team Canada had been doing since the early 70′s. It's like watching the worst student in the class get excited about a C-… ExUrbanKevin on February 21, 2014 at 11:57 AM
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