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HOW OUR T-BONDS "IMMIGRATED" TO CHINA
http://unemployment_crisis.tripod.com/IMMIGRATION.html
Roy Beck, a liberal progressive ... read here his classic 1996 book
"THE CASE AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: The moral, economic, social, and
environmental reasons for reducing U.S. immigration back to traditional
levels" ... even more sensible and applicable today ... click here to
download the entire nearly 400 page book for free!
Reviews of Roy Beck's book, click here!
Fannie Mae is a "government sponsored enterprise", aka a 'GSE'. Are
Mitigation Banks for Wetlands a GSE also??? Considering the WHOPPER
federal funding handouts [welfare for Big Business] to both sneaky
anti-eco Mitigation Banks, and the sly & shifty Fannie, it sure seems
so!!
What is a MITIGATION BANK and what does it have to do with military
engineers and wetland swap deals and New Orleans Reconstruction?
[Critical Habitats Inc.] MITIGATION BANKS CONSORTIUM, and Palacios
Wetland Mitigation Bank, Matagorda Texas on the Gulf Coast! --
'In-Lieu-Fee' Mitigation
-- http://www2.eli.org/wmb/backgroundb.htm
HOW CAN YOU HELP MOTHER NATURE and the Gulf Coast Victims?
Who Are Your Wetland Mitigation Bank Customers?? Not the displaced and
dissed HOMELANDERS of the Gulf Coast ... they were/are 'sitting ducks'
The following is a list of some activities in your region that will
impact wetlands and generate demand for your wetland bank.
http://www.criticalhabitats.com/about.htm
WHO MITIGATION BANKS HELP THE MOST!!
** The U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers [COE]
**Transportation development such as highway or road widenings, new
road development, parking areas
**Utilities such as oil pipeline construction, power line construction,
hydroelectric power development
**Commercial Marinas
**Commercial and industrial construction including shopping centers and
industrial parks
**Giant Residential developers
In-lieu-fee mitigation is a method for satisfying compensatory wetland
mitigation requirements. With in-lieu-fee programs, project applicants
agree to contribute mitigation fees to an approved third party that
will use these funds to implement the required compensation.
In-lieu-fee mitigation is similar to wetland mitigation banking in that
they both provide consolidated, off-site mitigation for multiple permit
recipients.
Although in theory, wetland mitigation banking provides compensatory
mitigation in advance of authorized impacts, in-lieu-fee mitigation
does not offer this benefit. Mitigation funds are collected in advance
of permitted impacts, but the funds may not be used to compensate for
permitted losses for some time. In-lieu-fee mitigation can, however, be
used to restore a variety of wetland types of varying sizes at a number
of locations, while mitigation banks frequently consolidate numerous
wetland impacts into one large site. Until 2001, there were no
standards governing approval or use of in-lieu-fee programs.
In-lieu-fee mitigation “occurs in circumstances where a permittee
provides funds to an in-lieu-fee sponsor instead of either completing
project-specific mitigation or purchasing credits from a mitigation
bank approved under the Banking Guidance.”
Source: U.S. Department of the Army, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. Department of Interior, and U.S. Department of Commerce.
Federal Guidance on the Use of In-Lieu-Fee Arrangements for
Compensatory Mitigation under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and
Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act. 2000.
BENJAMIN SHALOM BERNANKE, our new Fed Reserve Chairman, will he fix
the trillions $$$$ debt to China/Asia, and spontaneously generate new
magic bullet T-bonds for our Treasury!?? ....click on above link to see
how Fannie Mae home loan mortgages work against the US public with the
collusion of the U.S. Treasury, and how together they have gutted our
nation like a megalomaniac Bonnie & Clyde ... this strategy goes by the
name of "CARRYING TRADE," which means foreigners can borrow at cheap
rates in the United States and pump the proceeds into China.
Here is how it works! FANNIE MAE, did you know that only one US bank is
fatter and richer than Fannie Mae, our most powerful dispenser of money
[home mortgage loans] than any U.S. commerical bank, besides Citibank,
its sole superior? Fannie Mae doles out trillions in home loans which
are tied into U.S. tax dollars & the US Treasury. This includes muy
MUCHO bad home loans to illegal immigrants -- just check out Bank of
America records or hang out in a Latino neighborhood bank branch and
listen in if you can speak Spanish. When this TRILLIONS goes SPLIFF!,
where is the cash to back it up? It has all disappeared without a trace
same as our pension funds!
Our US Treasury will be under much pressure to owe up somehow at the
time of the meltdown which will come at the same time that the Chinese
Dragon starts to fly to Mars and soars the skies above our heads --
making a laughing stock of our National Reconnaissance Organization spy
satellites -- and leaving us behind financially, culturally, and
materialistically, like an overextended 7-11 store chock full o'Minnie
mouses!
CHINA -- The Chinese have been long buying up the vast bulk of our
T-bonds. Our CEOs and our Federal Reserve and our Congress have BEEN
ALL FOR IT! The Japanese yen and the British pound are not pegged to
our dollar like the Chinese yuan, so don't get your panties in a twist
fretting over the Japanese and British small island nations holding
some of our T-bonds.
The Chinese have been raking in money from this CARRYING TRADE deal and
are making a killing off of the interest we must pay them. In a
parallel universe, the Communist Chinese [suddenly in the last decade
at least] are brilliant venture capitalists and have their own mirror
image T-bond structure in their bloated Treasury, looking a lot unlike
our thin Lizzy! They got all of Europe and most of the world buying up
their own T-bonds like hot dogs on Coney Island. Funny thing is, almost
not even one Chinese elite will touch their own Chinese T-bonds. They
don't buy them! They know why! It's time for you readers to get hip
too!
Thus, funny money in our Treasury is backing up the growth of illegal
immigrant housing in the US and also the most powerful boom in China
not seen since the building of the Great Pyramids in ancient Egypt! We
are the sad losers, wasting away our very short and desperately needed
time to defeat an illusory monster in the sand dunes and Gulfs of
ancient Babylon, and doing next to nothing for our Gulf Coast wounded
here at home!
Why are we helping undocumented aliens in the USA to buy homes and cars
and SUVs and giving away our assets to the booming Chinese economy, who
today as a middle class live better than our middle class in the USA,
especially better than the dissed and neglected displaced denizens of
New Orleans. We have produced a surplus of native born PhDs in science
and engineering right here at home, for over a decade or two, and yet
our lawyers and Senators have been doling out H1-B visas to alien
scientists and engineers!
Our exports are laughable compared to Germany ... thus, do we have any
real money left in our Treasury that has not been spent on contractors
such as Halliburton and Wackenhut and KBG and Caryle Group and USIS,
just to mention a few of the insiders, with no bid contracts awash over
in Afghanistan and Iraq for these parasites. I don't think so. Prove me
wrong, make my day. When even our own unions do NOTHING to help African
Americans nor blue collar workers nor our rapidly shrinking and
vanishing middle class to stay afloat and to train to keep abreast of
new technologies, when these impotent and supplicating and feather
lined union managers can only reach out like beggars to help ONLY
illegal immigrants to organize and strike against Big Business abuses,
and not organize and assist us legals, we are in need of some new
founding fathers and a new and bolder drum and fife corps! Lace up your
boots and pump up the volume! Make some music and make yourself heard!
GW FEMA-VILLES MORE PREVALENT THAN HOOVERVILLES
GW FEMAvilles are very bad for our national health
"U.S. policy on immigration is a tragic joke," By Lou Dobbs
read the THE ADRIAN REPORT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION today!
GW "Femaville" Bush rings death knell for millions of families with
bankruptcy law --- read about it here!
Gaithersburg, Maryland legal residents deplore the state paid day
laborer site for illegal immigrants in their jobs-striken region of the
country where unemployment is high
EMERGENCY ALERT CODE RAINBOW, CODE ENIGMA
"Illegal Immigrant Language teachers arrested at top security U.S.
military base"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Indonesians and a Senegalese who worked as
foreign language instructors for elite U.S. special operations troops
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, have been arrested on immigration
charges, authorities said on Wednesday.
The Army said the three worked at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare
Center and School at Fort Bragg. Sgt. Joseph Healy, a spokesman for
Army Special Operations Command, said the three had a purely academic
role and "were not exposed to any Army special operations tactics
techniques or procedures."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the arrests were
part of an effort to remove illegal immigrants working at sensitive
U.S. sites and critical infrastructure locations such as airports,
seaports, nuclear plants, chemical plants and military bases.
ICE agents on Tuesday arrested Indonesians Nurkis Qadariah, 34, and
Sayf Rimal, 37, and charged them with possessing and using false
immigration documents and making false statements, the agency said.
They were contractors working for BIB Consultants Inc., a Florida-based
company that provides language instructors to U.S. Special Forces and
other military personnel at Fort Bragg. Criminal complaints filed
against them said they used counterfeit Resident Alien cards and
falsely claimed they were lawful U.S. permanent residents to get work
with BIB.
Authorities said there were pending deportation proceedings against
Qadariah and Rimal in New York.
ICE agents also arrested Senegalese Ousmane Moreau, 38, as part of the
same investigation and charged him with being in the United States
illegally, which will lead to proceedings to remove him from the
country, the agency said.
"Unauthorized workers who use fraudulent documents to gain work at
sensitive U.S. military installations pose a serious homeland security
threat," Jeff Jordan, the agency's assistant special agent-in-charge in
Charlotte, North Carolina, said in a statement.
"Not only are their identities in question, but they are also
vulnerable to potential exploitation by terrorists and other criminals
given their illegal status in this country," Jordan said. "Furthermore,
these individuals have access to some of the most sensitive work sites
in the nation."
Authorities said the arrests stemmed from an investigation by ICE, the
Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Army Criminal Investigation
Command and Fort Bragg security officials.
click HERE to read about IMPENDING CREDIT CARD DENIAL, ANTI-GW RIOTS in
the STREETS....regarding his April 2005 signing of the "BANKRUPTCY
ABUSE PREVENTION and CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT" ... of which 84% of all
bankruptcy filers are too poor to qualify for the new law's "mean's
test"
click here to read about Dubya's monstrously cold disenfranchisement of
the struggling middle and lower classes of USA through his bill
stripping away rights to claim bankruptcy against old credit card debts
.... this has kept our unemployment rate down from 19% to 5.6%! GW is
the loser with his signing of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and
Consumer Protection Act....another special treatment for the very rich,
the pretty rich, and the banks
THE ADRIAN REPORT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Volume 2 -- The Benjamin Shalom Bernanke edition
U.S. Treasury Bonds [T-bonds, as in CHINA] Fall on Appointment of New
Fed Chairman Benjamin Shalom Bernanke, a Republican Everyone Knew
Shalom Bernanke would get the plum Chairmanship for over a year now
.....
10-25-2005 -- U.S. 10-year Treasury notes fell the most in four weeks
as "Just Print Me Some More of them $100s" Benjamin Shalom Bernanke was
named to succeed Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman.
Treasury bonds last week made a small rally as miserably falling U.S.
stock prices enhanced the appeal of yields higher than 4.50 percent.
Still, the Treasury market is headed for its worst year of returns
since 1999.
"MISTER DEFLATION
[Our new Republican]" ... As a child, Benjamin Shalom Bernanke honed
his analytical mind by playing chess and studying Hebrew at the local
synagogue ... Shalom Bernanke argues that America's trillions of
dollars of trade deficit and debts to China, especially in regards to
our T-bonds tied to the home mortgage loan industry and Fannie Mae, are
not responsible for our woes, but rather that the disciplined European
nations, and dutiful Japan, through their diligence for maintaining
healthy savings accounts, is what put us in our empty house of cards!
President Bush announced that Chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisers Benjamin Shalom Bernanke-(R), will replace Alan Greenspan as
Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the Oval Office, October 24, 2005.
(Larry Downing/Reuters)
A Fed governor from August 2002 to June 2005, Bernanke during his first
year raised concern in speeches about the possibility of deflation, or
broad price declines that hurt economic growth. He sees disaster when
consumer prices begin falling.
Many expressed concerned about comments Bernanke made in a speech as
Fed governor that suggested he would consider actually sparking higher
inflation in order to combat the threat of deflation, or falling prices
that can cripple the economy.
BAPTISM INTO THE THIRD MILLENIUM--->
www.realdemocracy.com/debacle.htm
Fannie Mae /U.S. Treasury 4 trillion dollar imminent collapse
while China booms on our money ....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0208/S00057.htm How
HUD's mistress Ginnie Mae got reamed by PROMIS's backdoor software
-- and the resulting mortgage loan sellout of our national treasury
bonds
www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/barisheff050505pv.html
Gold Bar Hoarding
rose 38% in 2004 and gold coin fabrication rose by 7%--- this trend is
tripling in 2005
HAPPY NEW YEAR [this year dress up as chairman of the Fed Reserve, the
scariest ghost of last year!!
Says Bernanke: "The U.S. government has a technology, called a
printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it
to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost,"
Bernanke said in remarks to the National Economists Club in Washington
in November 2002.
"By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by
credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the
value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent
to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services," he said.
During that speech, Bernanke added that "prevention of deflation
remains preferable to having to cure it. If we do fall into deflation,
however, we can take comfort that the logic of the printing press
example must assert itself, and sufficient injections of money will
ultimately always reverse a deflation."
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW--The sight of hordes of Americans wading across
the Rio Grande into Mexico, on the other hand, has a piquant
quality.... CLICK NOW
What are "LIARS LOANS?"---
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
.....in the black hole supernova of internal domestic demolition of
billions and billions of taxpayers dollars lost forever in giving easy
home mortgage loans to illegal immigrants to bolster U.S. housing and
auto loan and sales markets for nearly ten years now!!! Yep ... it's
all true!
Sept. 1, 2005 -- Paul Krugman, NY Times, on ARM home mortgage loans and
the imminent explosion of the toy bubble economy, owned by the Chinese
holding our T-bonds:
"These days Mr. Greenspan expresses concern about the financial risks
created by "the prevalence of interest-only loans and the introduction
of more-exotic forms of adjustable-rate mortgages [ARMs]." But last
year he encouraged families to take on those very risks, touting the
advantages of adjustable-rate mortgages [ARMs] and declaring that
"American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage
product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage."
If Mr. Greenspan had said two years ago what he's saying now, people
might have borrowed less and bought more wisely. But he didn't, and now
it's too late. There are signs that the housing market either has
peaked already or soon will. And it will be up to Mr. Greenspan's
successor to manage the bubble's aftermath.
How bad will that aftermath be? The U.S. economy is currently suffering
from twin imbalances. On one side, domestic spending is swollen by the
housing bubble, which has led both to a huge surge in construction and
to high consumer spending, as people extract equity from their homes.
On the other side, we have a huge trade deficit, which we cover by
selling bonds to foreigners. As I like to say, these days Americans
make a living by selling each other houses, paid for with money
borrowed from China.
One way or another, the economy will eventually eliminate both
imbalances. But if the process doesn't go smoothly - if, in particular,
the housing bubble bursts before the trade deficit shrinks - we're
going to have an economic slowdown, and possibly a recession. In fact,
a growing number of economists are using the "R" word for 2006.
And here's where Mr. Greenspan is still saying foolish things. In his
closing remarks he suggested that "an end to the housing boom could
induce a significant rise in the personal saving rate, a decline in
imports and a corresponding improvement in the current account
deficit." Translation, I think: the end of the housing bubble will
automatically cure the trade deficit, too.
Sorry, but no. A housing slowdown will lead to the loss of many jobs in
construction and service industries but won't have much direct effect
on the trade deficit. So those jobs won't be replaced by new jobs
elsewhere until and unless something else, like a plunge in the value
of the dollar, makes U.S. goods more competitive on world markets,
leading to higher exports and lower imports.
So there's a rough ride ahead for the U.S. economy. And it's partly Mr.
Greenspan's fault."
E-mail: krugman@nytimes.com
The Adrian Report on Illegal Immigration -- many Liberals are dead set
against "illegal immigration" as well as Republicans !! It has crushed
our unions and shredded our labor advantages built up over a century
.....
How to interpret our Senate & House legislation the past ten
years---'illegal litering' means "THROW IT DOWN ON THE GROUND AND JUMP
FOR JOY!"
Premise: We can all disobey basic traffic laws on our highways as
"illegal drivers" and ignore litter laws in our parks and City Halls
now since our Congress and law enforcement agencies and courts do not
take "illegal immigrants" seriously either. Join in the national
emancipation and celebrate the meaningless of the word ILLEGAL in
American law, courts, and enforcement! Drive as you please and litter
to your guts delight, we are all ILLEGALS!
NEWS FLASH---"How Wall Street Wrecked Nearly All of Our PENSIONS!
We must ALL exploit these wonderful liberties!
TODAY'S MOTTO: "If you want that job, forget it, it is the job
EVERYBODY wants --but it will surely go to an illegal immigrant while
you rot....in a homeless shelter"
Immigration Invasion Costs
Hugo Salinas Price -- president of the Mexican Civic Association Pro
Silver Movement. Since the peso crisis of 1995, Salinas Price and other
outspoken peers have dedicated themselves to spreading the word about
real money. For 35 years, Salinas Price was CEO of Elektra-Mexico.
Under his leadership, Elektra grew from being a small electronics store
into a publicly traded behemoth with over 600 stores nationwide. His
work is represented in both English and Spanish here.
FREDDIE AND FANNY---they in big doodoo! Home Mortgage Loans to Illegal
Immigrants ain't Constitutional....
===>>> Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac going bankrupt [they are both
federally subsidized to the tune of near $25 BILLION dollars annually]
due to Bank of America [and many other banks too] home mortgage loans
to illegal immigrants, a blatant federal offense [illegal too, like the
recipients of the loans themselves are illegally here] and is a main
cause of the lethal hemmorhaging of your tax billions... click here and
learn!
...even Alan Greenspan woke up and is alarmed! ... click here for the
ties betweeen illegal immigrant home mortgages and Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae!
The DC Examiner's Michael Gerber reports on April 21, 2005, that the
Senate Banking Committee determined at this week's meeting that the
crisis of the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the Federal Home Loan
Banks has reached epic proportions, that the Freddie and Fannie are on
the brink of bankruptcy, and that Freddie Mac alone spends more on
lobbying than even the Zionist AIPAC lobby [found in court this week
also to have planted a spy in our Pentagon at a high level--Lawrence A.
Franklin] ... to the tune of OVER $13.5 million dollars to manipulate
legislation and mortgage bank loan enforcement laws -- Tom Delay is on
the roster of the lobbyists for the top lobbying firms representing
Freddie Mac.
click here for IMMIGRATION POLITICS IN GERMANY
Vincente Fox, dictator of Mexico not too long ago declared, "...us
Mexicans only take the jobs that not even Blacks want to do." When did
the African-Americans and the laid off factory workers and laborers and
the engineers shafted by Indians and Chinese with H1-B visas and who
are all out in the streets begging for food cause their ain't even
welfare benefits no more when you are out of luck, when did all us
natives get placed WAY BEHIND illegal immigrants in jobs and
payouts?????? Why?
Why does the Library of Congress use illegal immigrants contracted out
of New Jersey and Baltimore to do the janitorial work of Congress's
Library!?????
WE MUST OUTSOURCE THE PRESIDENT AND OUR IMPOTENT CONGRESS ---JUST THE
SAME VILE TREATMENT AS OUR OWN WORKERS DAILY RECEIVE --- ONTO A
DEAD-SLOW RIVERBOAT TO CENTRAL CHINA, PREFERRABLY MONGOLIA!!!!!!!!!!
** [C] ... click here for How U.S. soldiers are bravely defending
themselves and their families and homes from the burning flames of loan
gouging attacks on them which are approved by the VA and Congress --
our White House Staff on their bloated butts look the other way and
turn their fatty faces towards their million-dollar-baby, their well
buttered life long pensions, if for serving only one term too ...
Need a social security number? 60-Minutes shows you how.... click on
photos above!
....Illegal immigration is bad, bad, bad, for everyone.
*It enslaves those illegals with low wages, poor living conditions, and
no working rights.
*It drives down wages for low income Americans who are forced to
"compete".
*It depletes our revenues providing healthcare, and social services,
and education to illegals.
*It increases our vulnerability to attack to maintain porous borders,
intentionally!
*It makes a mockery of our laws. If we are a nation of laws, good ones
and bad ones, we must be duty bound to uphold them, and change them if
need be but not to break them!
We ought to have a comprehensive program to stop illegal immigration,
including massive border security and SUBSTANTIVE/PAINFUL/PROHIBITIVE
fines for employers hiring illegals. And we must have an effective and
policeable immigration and worker program ... for more, click on top
paragraph!
Tens of millions of Americans do not have work enough to even feel
sub-human, and so they have to stretch five or six credit cards to
house and feed themselves and their families ... without this credit,
the unemployment figures in the Dept. of Labor would CATAPULT into the
low to mid 20 percentile [22%-24%]and our social services agencies
would be swamped with legal residents begging for assistance. Now the
Congress has striken their salvation from this avoidable dog house --
with just one damning presidential signature this week these rights
--from the very few left for legal residents -- were swiftly
obliterated
.... our soldiers [many reservists] earn around minimum wage over there
in old Babylonia, and with their 'illegally' overextended combat terms,
some are on their FOURTH term in Iraq and Afghanistan, are in huge debt
and ....their families back home are near or in foreclosure proceedings
[Reservists] and lacking healthcare and medication ... they are being
bilked also by Congress-approved shark loans for vets at astronomical
fees that our Congressrats just tend to snicker about ... click above
for more.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans have been honest for over a decade
and a half about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. The big corporations love it for
cheap third world labor here at home without having to OUTSOURCE to
India [nor do they have to build extra superfactories in China for U.S.
over-consumption in addition to the many they have over there already]
.... and the Democrats dig illegal immigration for easy and dicey
free-style votes for themselves and for illegally abetting SMALL
BUSINESS OWNERS who vote for them, like the oyster farmers in
Chesapeake Bay, MD, who should not even be in business if they can't
pay their hillbilly nephews and nieces enough to farm oysters [but they
are truly the LEAST of our worries over businesses hiring illegal
immigrants... Both sides of the House have been selling out the nation
much more than her for well over a decade, BOTH Parties! Time to do
something about it? You bet!!
If illegal immigrants can work here so freely in the USA during our
worse economy since the Great Depression [we have been bleeding
trillions to the Chinese/Japanese in foreign debts for two decades and
nearing another trillion wasted as it is dumped into the
Afghan-Iraq-Oil-Grab Wars], and during a war with no domestic war
production economy, and scarcely a one or a two of all of us tens of
millions of unemployed and part time halfass-employed is ever PICKED
OVER the illegals, even when we JUMP in front of them in the HIRING
LINE!, ... these illegal scofflaws with 'no banking rights' can get...
.... DRIVER'S LICENSES [click here] thanks to the car insurance lobby
and car manufacturer's lobby, and our unions are weaker than just one
solitary decapitated maggot that can and will do NADA to help union
members and the rest of us nor resist the third world breakdown of all
our centuries old already fought for labor standards .... so, why do we
have to conform to our other laws, bro??
We should all worship the throne of illegalities ---such as littering,
jaywalking, hunting out of season, spitting in public, swilling beer in
front of city hall, driving like we always wanted to but were afraid to
break the law, and/or just not friggin paying taxes, perhaps to start
carrying small weapons for self-protection even though there are knife
and gun laws, etc. We should just scoff at these laws and follow the
precedent of the illegal immigrants, then it all makes sense in the
kind of democracy our Senators and CongressMouses are setting up for us
in our Houses! Let's all drink cans of beer on the Senate steps my
brethern, to show them our approval!
We must ALL exploit these wonderful liberties!
How Walmart is at the cutting edge of illegal immigrant labor! ...
click here
** [A] ....click here for complete story on how our Iraq War related
military families share their struggles of paying the bills, fighting
off foreclosures and creditors and bad congressionally approved
veterans loans, and finding adequate health care with no insurance....
** [B] ...click here for legal citizens aka African Americans reaction
to the new GW inspired NO BANKRUPTCY law for the impoverished --that
just swept through both sides of the House, with Deomcrats and Neo-Cons
cheering as they hold hands with their blushing fatcat lobbyists!
** [C] ... click here for How U.S. soldiers are bravely defending
themselves and their families and homes from the burning flames of loan
gouging attacks on them which are approved by the VA and Congress --
our White House Staff on their bloated butts look the other way and
turn their fatty faces towards their million dollar baby a year, life
long pensions, for serving only one term...
"When you can't understand the teacher -- A North Dakota bill asking
colleges to assess the English skills of teaching assistants kicks up a
storm of controversy"
By Stacy A. Teicher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
When Bette Grande heard her son and his friends complain that they
couldn't understand their foreign-born teaching assistants, she urged
them to sit in the front row. But when she talked with other
undergraduates at North Dakota universities, she decided that might not
be enough.
"The students ... were pretty much just being brushed off, or were told
it was up to them to accept the diversity ... or listen harder," she
says. There ought to be a law, she thought. And as a state
representative from Fargo, Ms. Grande could help make that happen. The
new law, signed in March, requires the State Board of Higher Education
to create a policy assessing the English-speaking skills of faculty and
teaching assistants (TAs). Students are also to be notified about how
complaints can be filed and resolved.
But Grande's original bill stirred up more controversy than she
expected. She says her goal always included giving more support to
international TAs, but her proposal would have removed them from
teaching roles if 10 percent of their class complained that they didn't
speak clearly. That set off alarm bells for some academics, since
research has shown that student evaluations aren't necessarily reliable
measures of a teacher's effectiveness.
It also touched a nerve because it seemed to have a punitive tone. Yes,
some university officials responded, students should be able to
understand instructors, but communication is a two-way street.
"We live in a global economy ... and here in North Dakota, we've been
doing better [in recent years] at being able to create diversity, and
perhaps this is just one of the growing pains," says R. Craig Schnell,
North Dakota State University's provost and vice president for academic
affairs. He's heard from number of students who said they were able to
work through initial communication barriers with foreign TAs and ended
up really enjoying their classes.
The university already has a policy, because lawmakers also pushed this
issue in the early 1990s. The only change, Mr. Schnell says, is that
he'll have to keep better records and report to the state. In the past
10 years, he estimates only about 10 complaints have reached him. But
he acknowledges some students may not know how to register their
concern. He's planning to involve the student government in creating
and publicizing a new system for investigating complaints.
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