What’s interesting in the news today?
1. So let me get this straight…
Your founder claims we need more foreign worker visas, yet you’re cutting 18,000 US workers?
From Breitbart “On Thursday, a week after former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates argued for amnesty and for an unlimited number of high-tech guest-worker visas, Microsoft announced it would slash 18,000 jobs.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promised his employees that “we will go through this process in the most thoughtful and transparent way possible.” Analysts told USA Today that the number being let go was “larger than expected.”
“Bill Gates, along with Sheldon Adelson and Warren Buffett, advocated removing “the worldwide cap on the number of visas that could be awarded to legal immigrants who had earned a graduate degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from an accredited institution of higher education in the United States.”
However, numerous nonpartisan scholars and studies have determined that there is a surplus – not a shortage – of American high-tech workers. Moreover, after a recent Census report found that “74% of those with a bachelor’s degree in these subjects don’t work in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) jobs,” the mainstream media may finally be catching on and taking away the high-tech industry’s “free pass.” CBS News, for instance, concluded that the Census data suggest the high-tech industry’s contention that there is a shortage of American high-tech “is largely a myth.”
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2. A new House resolution wants to send in the National Guard.
From CNSNews “Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has introduced a resolution calling on border state governors to deploy the National Guard to stop the influx of illegal immigrants, since Pres. Obama “never will.”
Announcing H. Res. 675, Rep. King called the flood of illegal immigrants a “presidential-caused crisis”:
“There is nothing in President Obama’s $3.7 billion request that secures our border. Even though this President has the power to close the border, I know that he never will. In fact, he refuses to do so.
“The American people must understand that this surge in illegals coming across our border is a presidential-caused crisis. This President’s lawless actions such as DACA have caused this nightmare. These actions clearly demonstrate that he is not bound by the Constitution and will not take seriously his obligation to defend our sovereign borders.“
Gov. Perry already is?
From TheMonitor “Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to announce he will activate the Texas National Guard at a news conference Monday in Austin, said state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen.
Hinojosa did not have details of the effort, but an internal memo from another state official’s office said the governor planned to call about 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Rio Grande Valley — at a cost of about $12 million per month.
The memo was provided to The Monitor on the condition of anonymity because the information is not yet public.
Troops are expected to enter the area gradually, building up to 1,000 after about a month, the memo said.”
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3. The strong arming from the DoJ continues. Al and Jesse must be so proud.
From TheDailyCaller “Operation Choke Point functions as a partnership between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and various other federal agencies which deal with bank regulations, specifically the Treasury and the SEC. The objective of the project is to choke-off fraudulent businesses from accessing financial services, in an effort to protect consumers.
The controversy, however, is over allegations that the DOJ is pressuring financial institutions to decline doing business with so-called “high risk” industries which line up squarely against the political leanings of the current administration. These businesses include ammunition sales, payday loans, pornography, fireworks companies, and others—24 industries in total, as listed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
“Operation Choke Point is one of the most dangerous programs I have experienced in my 45 years of service as a bank regulator, bank attorney and consultant, and bank board member. Operating without legal authority and guided by a political agenda, unelected officials at the DOJ are discouraging banks from providing basic banking services…to lawful businesses simply because they don’t like them,” said William M. Isaac, former chairman of the FDIC.
Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the legality of DOJ overreach. Letters have poured in from company owners in support of these suspicions, noting startling cases where the DOJ reportedly has directly strong-armed banks into dropping clients not engaging in fraud.”
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4. For some reason, I still doubt they get it.
From TheHill “Calls between both President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were interrupted when rocket sirens went off in Tel Aviv forcing Netanyahu to go into a bunker.
“The prime minister of Israel had to interrupt the conversation with the president of the United States to go to a shelter,” he added. “People can’t live that way.””
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Wandering Views 
The West is quickly dying, but the action is in the East.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/07/map-more-than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/
The church is growing in Asia as well as in Africa and Latin America.
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The wind blows wherever it will. … 🙂 God is on the move. Always.
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1. The skilled labor shortage is a long standing myth in Canada too. Generally it should be viewed as an attempt by business leaders to shape immigration policy for their needs and in order to depress wages.
2. From what I understand the minor children who are migrants/refugees/illegal immigrants are turning themselves in once they reach the border. Thus why the need for the national guard other than political grandstanding.
Currently reading a book “50 Children” dealing with a similar issue: Jewish children fleeing 1930s Austria. Lousy writing but the rhetoric of some of America’s political class at that time isn’t much different than today. A speech by radio priest Father Coughlin wouldn’t sound out of place.
3. Not sure if I have a problem with DofJ pressuring banks to reign in payday loans ie legal loan sharks. It would be better if the gov’t did it directly but ……….
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HRW,
“2. From what I understand the minor children who are migrants/refugees/illegal immigrants are turning themselves in once they reach the border. Thus why the need for the national guard other than political grandstanding.”
Oh I don’t know…..
Maybe they stop them before crossing and turn them back? Don’t let them in to start with. Word will spread, and the flow will stop. They seek amnesty, if they can’t get it, they’ll stop trying. I know, I know, that’s crazy talk right?
And maybe a little grandstanding is just what’s needed. Our govt isn’t stopping them, maybe they need to be shamed into it by some of the states (like Texas) who are suffering it’s effects. If the feds won’t do their job, let the state and NG do it.
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The Ukranian situation is interesting. The ultimate result will be that Russian will become more tied to Asia and less tied to the West.
Over the next 100 years, Russia and Australia will be the main suppliers of raw materials to a thriving Asia. Western Europe will become Muslim. The US will become more like Latin America and Latin America will become more aligned with Asia. HRW, I defer to your judgment on Canada.
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My thoughts on the plane crash is they’re sticking to the playbook. Never let a crisis go to waste. The Obama supporting press and the White House would rather everyone focus on this rather than the real scandals which effect millions of Americans instead of just the one who died in the crash. Putin makes a rather convenient boogey man too, no?
Meanwhile the southern border is being overrun. But look over here instead. I think I saw a Squirrel!
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Great crack by a conservative commentator today: “Obama’s like a deer caught in the headlights of history.”
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Here’s the reason Perry has ordered the National Guard to the border…
“Gov. Rick Perry is deploying up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border over the next month to combat what he said Monday were criminals exploiting a surge of children pouring into the U.S. illegally.”
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/national-international/Report-Perry-To-Deploy-1000-Guard-Troops-To-Border-267880951.html
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The good news is we have ’em outgunned.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the-demographics-and-politics-of-gun-owning-households/
For white male Texans, the question isn’t “Do you or don’t you?” It’s “How many?”
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“Conservatarianism”?
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/19/strange-bedfellows-silicon-valley-techies-like-conservative-senator-rand-paul/
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