While Europe struggles to keep Greece’s battered economy from dragging down other nations on the continent, 79% of Americans are at least somewhat concerned that Europe’s financial crisis will cause economic problems in the United States. That includes 38% who are Very Concerned.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 16% of U.S. Adults are not very or not at all concerned that Europe’s economic crisis will cause problems here at home.
Investors are slightly more concerned than non-investors.
As part of the international rescue response, the U.S. government is planning to provide up to $8 billion in loans intended to help stabilize the Greek economy. Only 20% of Americans, however, are in favor of the U.S. government providing loans for such a purpose.
Sixty-three percent (63%) are opposed to U.S. government loans to help stabilize the Greek economy. Another 17% are undecided.
Most financial advisers outside of Obama’s Wall Street gang are recommending investments in gold, silver and even food seeds as a barter currency in times ahead. Food seeds are probably the safest and most cost-effective means of support in any upcoming crisis, though you should look for non-modified food seeds from which you can extract seed for future farming.
Forty-percent (40%) of voters nationwide say that being a good citizen and being a patriot are the same thing. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that another 40% disagree and 19% are not sure.
Most Republicans say they’re the one and the same. Most Democrats say they’re not, and voters not affiliated with either party are split down the middle.
Voters over 50 tend to see the terms as having the same meaning, while those under 40 disagree. Forty-somethings are evenly divided.
Given a choice, 52% say they’d rather be called a good citizen, while 28% prefer being known as a patriot.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of all voters believe that volunteering for church and community groups is more important than getting involved in politics and government. In terms of being a good citizen, only 17% take the opposite view and think involvement in politics matters most.
The poll does not tell how they defined the terms “patriot” and “good citizen.”
Nazi stealth fighter recreated-InfoNIAC.com
In order to re-create the aircraft, the group of engineers from the Northrop Grumman defense-contracting corporation, decided to use the original Nazi plans and the only Ho 2-29 that managed to survive till nowadays. It is worth mentioning that the aircraft was stored in the United States government facility for over half a century. The Nazi stealth jet design resembled the contemporary B-2 bomber. It was made mainly from wood, being powered by jet engines. Initially the Nazi engineers planned to create a plane that could reach a speed of 600mph (970km/h).
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Columbia, Missouri Police Chief Ken Burton is apparently frustrated. At another press conference yesterday, a reporter asked the chief what he has learned from the international attention generated by the YouTube video of his department’s SWAT team conducting a drug raid last February.
His reply: “I hate the Internet.”
I’ll bet he does. For two-and-a-half months, Burton and his department were quiet about the raid. That’s likely because, as I wrote yesterday, the raid was really no different from the tens of thousands of similar raids conducted every year, and that are probably conducted by his own department a couple of times per week. Within days of the video hitting the web, Burton was forced to hold several press conferences, and has now laid out several reforms to the way SWAT raids will be conducted in Columbia in the future. I suppose it’s possible those reforms were brewing all along, and the timing of him announcing them after the video went viral was mere coincidence. It seems at least plausible, though, that the dread “Internet” sparked some actual policy changes, here.
Unfortunately the changes—while small steps in the right direction—still miss the point. Burton says his department will no longer conduct SWAT raids at night. They won’t conduct raids in homes where children are present. Suspects will be under constant surveillance until the raid is carried out. And raids will be conducted within a shorter period of time from when police get the initial tip about a suspected drug dealer. But the Columbia Police Department will still conduct volatile, violent, highly aggressive forced-entry raids on people suspected of consensual, nonviolent drug crimes. That is what’s wrong with the YouTube video. Changing the time of day of the raid doesn’t change the wildly disproportionate use of force.
Today at 1:30 pm Eastern time Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will host a press conference announcing the fifth Senate reinvention of “cap-and-trade” global warming legislation since 2003, the “American Power Act”. Call it the American Power Grab Act, instead, for reasons that will become obvious momentarily.
The orchestrated spectacle, with a cast expected to be in the dozens which massive alignment of special interest groups is apparently supposed to persuade you of the justness of their cause, is in fact a manifestation of all that is wrong with Washington and what Americans have become increasingly enraged by.
At this press conference, Sens. Kerry and Lieberman have both already indicated, they will insist that their scheme isn’t “cap-and-trade” because… they aren’t going to use that term this time around. Kerry has even said that “this is not an environment bill.” It seems that the public aren’t buying that argument, either, so it’s really about whatever appeals to you. Just not what it was about the previous four times they’ve tried to slip this Power Grab past you. Except that a summary of the bill makes plain it is, too, cap-and-trade. And worse. It includes billions of dollars each year in gas tax revenue to underwrite the wealth transfers these companies are so in favor of.
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