Sunday, September 30, 2012

Immigration and its Link to the Swing States' High Unemployment ...

By Joe Guzzardi, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow. Guzzardi's Op-eds about California social issues have appeared in newspapers throughout California and elsewhere for 15 years., September 29, 2012 (11 hours ago)

A recent CAPS homepage feature story revealed that in August five of the 10 states considered pivotal in the U.S. presidential election lost jobs. Unemployment increased in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin. In the other five crucial states?Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and Virginia, the unemployment statistics either remained unchanged or increased fractionally. The ten states represent 115 electoral votes. [Jobless Rates Rise in 5 of Ten Campaign Swing States, by Michelle Jamrisko and Alex Kowalski, Bloomberg News, September 21, 2012]

In the weeks leading up to November 6, there have been and will be so many polls offering so many different perspectives that they defy comprehensive analysis.

But one constant remains. Immigration?s adverse impact on American unemployment will be an unmentionable for the incumbent president Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney. Even voters in Nevada, the nation?s? most beleaguered state with its 12.1 percent unemployment, will not hear a single word about immigration unless its boilerplate, debunked stuff about ?doing jobs Americans won?t.?

As?grim as the widely published Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment data is, the more telling U-6 rate is appalling.? The BLS defines U-6 as total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force.

For the swing states, the U-6 rate is Iowa (10.5 percent), New Hampshire (11.2), North Carolina (17.5), Wisconsin (13.3) and Nevada (22.1).

According to the U.S. Census Bureau?s latest data, Nevada?s Hispanic population is 27.1 percent. Any time a demographic representation is as high as Nevada?s, American workers will suffer. Many Americans would eagerly work in Nevada?s hospitality industry, if offered the opportunity.

A Center for Immigration Studies report found that from 2000 to 2010, all of the net employment gains went to immigrant (legal and illegal) workers. Fewer native-born workers were employed in 2010 than in 2000, despite a 13.5 million increase in native-born workers during that time. Despite all evidence which proves that adding nearly 1 million legal immigrants annually to the work force devastates Americans, immigration remains the third rail on the campaign trail.

Even the administration?s staunchest supporters paint a grim employment picture for years to come. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich summed it up this way:

?Since the start of the Great Recession [through March, 2010], the economy has lost 8.4 million jobs and failed to create another 2.7 million needed just to keep up with population growth. That means we?re more than 11 million in the hole right now. And that hole keeps deepening every month we fail to add at least 150,000 new jobs, again reflecting population growth?.Bottom line: This is no jobs recovery.?

Perhaps the most curious thing about the candidates? failure to mention immigration is that mainstream Americans like the idea of limiting it. A CNN/ORC International poll found that 75 percent favor Arizona?s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Law (SB 1070).

Nevertheless, Republicans and Democrats alike persist in their efforts to force more immigration onto struggling Americans.

Source: http://www.caps-blog.org/articles/2012/09/29/immigration-and-its-link-to-the-swing-states-high-unemployment/

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US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? U.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that garners little public interest at home as the United States prepares to withdraw most of its combat forces by the end of 2014.

The toll has climbed steadily in recent months with a spate of attacks by Afghan army and police against American and NATO troops, and questions about whether allied countries will achieve their aim of helping the Afghan government and its forces stand on their own after most foreign troops depart in little more than two years.

A U.S. official confirmed the latest death Sunday, saying that an international service member killed in an apparent insider attack by Afghan forces in the east of the country late Saturday was American. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the nationality of those killed had not been formally released.

A civilian contractor with NATO and at least two Afghan soldiers also died in the attack, according to a coalition statement and Afghan provincial officials. The nationality of the civilian was not disclosed.

At least 1,190 more coalition troops have also died in the Afghanistan war, according to iCasualties.org, an independent organization.

According to the Afghanistan index kept by the Brookings Institution, 40.2 percent of the deaths were caused by improvised explosive devices, with the majority of those after 2009 when President Barack Obama ordered a surge of 33,000 troops to combat heightened Taliban activity. According to the Washington-based research center, the second highest cause, 30.6 percent, was hostile fire

Tracking civilian deaths is much more difficult. According to the U.N., 13,431 civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict between 2007, when the U.N. began keeping statistics, and the end of August. Going back to the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, most estimates put the number of Afghan deaths in the war at more than 20,000.

The number of American dead reflects an Associated Press count of those members of the armed services killed inside Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion on Oct. 7, 2001. Some other news organizations use a count that also includes those killed outside Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the global anti-terror campaign led by then-President George W. Bush.

The 2001 invasion targeted al-Qaida and its Taliban allies after the Sept. 11 attacks, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives in the United States.

Victory in Afghanistan seemed to come quickly. Kabul fell within weeks, and the hardline Taliban regime was toppled with few U.S. casualties.

But the Bush administration's shift toward war with Iraq left the Western powers without enough resources on the ground, so by 2006 the Taliban had regrouped into a serious military threat.

Obama deployed more troops to Afghanistan, where casualties increased sharply in the last several years. But the American public grew weary of having its military in a perpetual state of conflict, especially after the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq at the end of last year. That war, which began with a U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to oust Saddam Hussein, cost the lives of nearly 4,500 U.S. troops, more than twice as many as have died in Afghanistan so far.

"The tally is modest by the standards of war historically, but every fatality is a tragedy and 11 years is too long," said Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings. "All that is internalized, however, in an American public that has been watching this campaign for a long time. More newsworthy right now are the insider attacks and the sense of hopelessness they convey to many. "

Attacks by Afghan soldiers or police ? or insurgents disguised in their uniforms ? have killed 52 American and other NATO troops so far this year.

The so-called insider attacks are considered one of the most serious threats to the U.S. exit strategy from the country. In its latest incarnation, that strategy has focused on training Afghan forces to take over security nationwide ? allowing most foreign troops to go home by the end of 2014.

Although Obama has pledged that most U.S. combat troops will leave by the end of 2014, American, NATO and allied troops are still dying in Afghanistan at a rate of one a day.

Even with 33,000 American troops back home, the U.S.-led coalition will still have 108,000 troops ? including 68,000 from the U.S. ? fighting in Afghanistan at the end of this year. Many of those will be training the Afghan National Security Forces that are to replace them.

"There is a challenge for the administration," O'Hanlon said, "to remind people in the face of such bad news why this campaign requires more perseverance."

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Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and researcher Monika Mathour in Washington contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-military-deaths-afghanistan-hit-2-000-063934010.html

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Communication Items You'll Want Before TSHTF ? Part 2

Dan & Sheila
Surviving Survivalism
September 28th, 2012
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Read?Part 1 here

Radio Receivers

We own a used Grundig Yacht Boy 400 and recommend it highly. These were made in the 1990s, but are still ?state-of-the-art?. The CCI radio company sells a clone of this model today. Good used Grundigs can be found on ebay in the $50 to $100 range. The YB400 has some great features:

  • AM/FM and Shortwave bands
  • SSB receiver
  • Tuning Scan
  • 40 Channel Memory
  • Light
  • Alarm
  • Sleep Timer
  • Two Time Zones

We consider it the best AM portable receiver made. At night we can listen Coast to Coast A.M. on stations from Los Angeles CA, San Antonino TX, Omaha NE, or Denver CO and even Detroit MI and Chicago IL at times, all sounding clear from here in New Mexico.

Our Yacht Boy 400 receives from 55 Kilohertz through 30 Megahertz, covering the entire HF (high frequency) band. In a time of crisis, shortwave may be the only radio signal out there. It may come in real handy when we can?t depend on the Internet to know what is going on.

WWV is the international time standard hack that can be found on the following shortwave frequencies:

  • 2500 khz
  • 5000 khz
  • 10000 khz
  • 15000 khz
  • 20000 khz

WWV also allows you to check space weather as well as satellite environment (interference). We can use these frequencies to gauge the effect of solar activities on our radio communications. WWV has a very strong signal. For most it will be received as a strong S 8 to 10 signal strength. But in the event of adverse solar activities even these stations can become covered up with static and noise. So if you are trying to receive a certain station and are having difficulties, check WWV to see if their signal is coming though alright, or if it is covered up with static. In that case, the sun is most likely the cause of your problems or (an EMP blast).

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Communications Radios

?Family Radio Service? (FRS) and ?Business Radio Service? (BRS) are the frequencies for the common walkie-talkies you see. They often say that they have an 8 mile range, however, most of these radios have a hard time transmitting further than 2 miles. Not everyone lives in a laboratory environment. The 8 mile range estimates take into account ?line of sight? factors only. If you can see the other party that you are trying to communicate with, you can talk to them. We don?t live in a flat world without a horizon and without trees, buildings, mountains, etc. Because of this, these radios are over rated and can only be used for close-up communications (typically less than 3 miles at best).

They certainly can be useful if your community uses them in a small area (40 acres or less).

The Business Radio Service does include base radios, which have more power than family radios. You can add an external antenna on a mast high above the ground to stretch their effectivity (up to 10 miles).

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Scanners

The I-Com IC-R5 pocket scanner is a handy radio to own. These are available in US models and overseas models. The FCC gave the I-COM company a license to sell this receiver in the U.S. ONLY IF CERTAIN FREQUENCIES WERE BLOCKED OUT!

With this in mind the best place to buy one is on Ebay. There are sellers on ebay from other countries such as Japan who sell UNBLOCKED IC-R5?s and IC-R7?s. These ebay listings will be explicit. It will say it is a Japanese model and does not have any blocked frequencies. The IC-R5 can scan from 30 kilocycles to 1400 megahertz (1.4 Gigahertz). Within these frequencies are the following things you may find interesting to listen to.

For entertainment purposes only, here are some of the stations you can listen to that are hard to find frequencies:

  • fbi tactical 167.400 fm
  • fema 138.400 fm
  • fema 138.5750 fm
  • fema 139.9500 fm
  • fema 155.340 fm
  • army civil disturbances 34.9000 ssb
  • fema 130.0500 fm
  • fema 139.1000 fm
  • fema 138.2250 fm
  • fema 139.4500 fm
  • fema 140.0250 fm
  • fed disater network 170.2000 fm
  • border patrol 163.6750 fm
  • border patrol 163.7250 fm
  • border patrol 163.7750 fm
  • bp 164.1150 fm
  • bp 165.8500 fm
  • bp 165.9250 fm
  • natl emerg weather svc (news) 173.1875 fm
  • news 167.9750 fm
  • news 169.8750 fm
  • news 167.9250 fm
  • fed disaster net 170.2000 fm
  • fema 5.210 ssb
  • fema 10.493750 ssb
  • fema 4.7250 ssb
  • fema 139.350 fm
  • fema 143.0250 fm
  • fema 143.2500 fm
  • fema 167.9750 fm
  • blm 169.6500 fm
  • forest svc 170.5250 fm
  • omaha sac 11.17500 ssb
  • norad 13.2000 ssb
  • norad 15.0150 ssb
  • omaha sac 4.7250 ssb
  • norad 6.7400 ssb
  • air force bomber eam 4.743750 ssb
  • eams 6.71250 ssb
  • eams 6.7400 ssb
  • eams 8.993750 ssb
  • eams 11.1750 ssb
  • eams 13.2000 ssb
  • eams 15.0150 ssb
  • norad 228.6000 fm
  • norad 228.9000 fm
  • fema 5.2100 ssb
  • fema 16.9500 ssb
  • fed emerg task force 165.23750 fm
  • task force 169.4500 fm
  • fbi tactical 167.21250 fm

To find local frequencies, check out http://www.radioreference.com/

Emergency Action Messages are the encoded radio traffic between NORAD and SAC with the nuclear bomber fleet, like in the movie?Fail Safe.

With Fusion Centers operating, the radio traffic is mostly digitized and scrambled. But you will notice that when they are ?working together? the scanner?s frequencies will all seem to light up at the same time. By this I mean you?ll notice you local sheriff/state police/ local cops/ FEMA/DHS/Border Patrol/FBI, etc., all going encrypted and all talking at the same time.

The Fusion Centers work with the local authorities, so when you hear this it usually means that there is a VIPER team closing down some road to perform unwarranted stops and searches under the guise of (take your pick) sobriety check points, looking for seatbelt terrorists, looking for insurance terrorists, etc.

If the local VIPERS are not encrypted, you will hear things like the officer waiting for a ?29 check?. This means they are checking to see if there are any outstanding warrants for that driver. When you hear this you will also hear things like ?we?re set up at mile maker __?. If you don?t want to have to claim your right under the 4th?amendment with these VIPER TERRORISTS, then stay away.

Suffice to say that if you hear a lot of cross agency traffic, it?s nearly a sure bet that a VIPER team is out making sure that the country is safe for their brand of freedom.

Creating a Radio Round Robin: With the right equipment a group of people could create a a ?radio round robin?. this is when a group of people has a specific place on the radio to meet on a regular basis. For example, let?s say there are 6 people in your round robin and you all decide to meet on Saturday mornings on CB channel 40, 27.405 Mhtz, LSB (lower side band) (or CW for RTTY ? look for an upcoming article on that!) and exchange news with each other. It?s not a question of ?IF? TPTB will shut the internet down it?s ?WHEN?? The purpose of these articles it to create awareness in becoming independent of the internet and become your own beacon of news by maintaining contact through the coming difficulties. Having a group of people from diverse places is also important. Then one of the round robin group can relay a message from one station who can?t be heard to a station that can? maintain contact with both stations.

Coming up in Part 3???More on RTTY,? Round Robins and Slow-Scan TV.

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Contributed by Dan & Sheila of Surviving Survivalism.

Dan & Sheila are the authors of Surviving Survivalism ? How to Avoid Survivalism Culture Shock, and hosts of the podcast Still Surviving with Dan & Sheila. For questions about space in their Intentional Survivalist Community or other survivalist issues, they can be reached at surviving@lavabit.com.


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