Show Notes 05/30/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 06/2/2013

Pope leads Catholics in first worldwide 'Holy Hour'

Pope Francis led Roman Catholics on Sunday in the first worldwide "Holy Hour," in which participants prayed at the same time around the globe for those suffering from war, slave labor, human trafficking and the economic crisis.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/02/us-pope-holyhour-idUSBRE95109Z20130602

Newport shopkeeper threatened with arrest if he doesn't remove “obey our laws t-shirts”

A NEWPORT shopkeeper has been forced by police to remove a T-shirt from his shop window because they felt it “could be seen to be inciting racial hatred.”

http://sheikyermami.com/2013/05/31/newport-shopkeeper-threatened-with-arrest-if-he-doesnt-remove-obey-our-laws-t-shirts/

Mississippi school system agrees to keep more misbehaving students in class

Compelled by the U.S. Justice Department, a Mississippi school district has agreed to keep more misbehaving students in the classroom instead of suspending them, expelling them, or letting the police deal with them.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mississippi-school-system-agrees-keep-more-misbehaving-students-class

Iran terror sleeper cells are infiltrating South America

"These are sleeper cells. They have activities you wouldn't imagine. Sometimes they die having never received the order to attack," Nisman said as he presented a 500-page indictment.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/05/30/iran-terror-sleeper-cells-are-infiltrating-south-america-argentine-prosecutor/#ixzz2Uooo8ZBx

Illinois Gov. Quinn open to Great Lakes-Mississippi split to block carp
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said Saturday that separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems is the "ultimate solution" to prevent voracious Asian carp from overrunning the lakes, a potential step toward resolving a longstanding regional feud.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/02/gov-quinn-open-to-great-lakes-mississippi-split/?test=latestnews#ixzz2V6MH0Att

California Senate Approves Background Checks, Permits and Fees for Ammunition Purchases

The California Senate this week approved a collection of bills, including one (SB 53) that would require background checks, permits, and fees for the purchase of ammunition.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/california-senate-approves-background-checks-permits-and-fees-ammunition-purchases

New Energy Secretary on Climate Change: ‘I’m Not Here to Debate What’s Not Debatable’

Ernest Moniz, the nation’s new Energy Secretary, said climate change is “not debatable” in one of his first speeches on the job.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/new-energy-secretary-climate-change-i-m-not-here-debate-what-s-not-debatable 

Show Notes: 08-26-2012

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 8/26/12

A Jewish Prayer
Blessed is The Lord our God, Sovereign of the universe, who sustains the entire world with goodness, kindness and mercy. God gives food to all creatures, for God's mercy is everlasting.
http://www.godweb.org/prayer/PrayersJewish.htm

Argentina's President polls drop as debt soars
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's popularity sank to 30 percent in August, less than half of what it was a year earlier, according to a poll published on Sunday that portrayed a country worried about crime and high inflation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/26/us-argentina-fernandezpollidUSBRE87P07620120826
Ryan pleads guilty as charged for clinging to guns and religion
Stumping in Michigan Friday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a swipe at President Barack Obama’s 2008 comment regarding rural Americans.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ryan-pleads-guilty-charged-clinging-guns-and-religion

Fast and Furious official granted paid leave to work for JP Morgan
The long-awaited inspector general's report on the Justice Department's botched gun-running scheme is finished, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said on Wednesday.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fast-and-furious-atf-official-granted-paid-leave-take-6-figure-job-jp-morgan

Gritty N.J. city of Camden to scrap police department
Amid budget woes Crime-ridden Camden, New Jersey often referred to as the most dangerous city in the United States—is getting rid of its police department.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/24/camden-nj-to-reboot-police-department-by-new-year/#ixzz24hDCtV58

House Judiciary Committee Charges Administration with Falsifying Deportation Numbers
The Obama Administration justified its June 15, 2012 directive that allows illegal aliens who meet certain criteria to receive deferred action and work permits by its record level of deportations. https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/august-25-2012/house-judiciary-committee-charges-administration-falsifying-deportation-numbers.

Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year
According to a newly released DHS inspector general’s summary of its significant investigations, 318 DHS employees and contractors were arrested in 2011.
http://usopenborders.com/2012/08/child-porn-coke-smuggling-hundreds-of-dhs-employees-arrested-last-year/

EPA Levies $40,000+ Fines on Landlords Who Fail to Provide ‘EPA-Approved’ Pamphlets to Tenants
Thinking of renting or selling a home or apartment?” asks the Environmental Protection Agency. “Make sure you disclose its lead-based paint history. Mr. Wolfe Landau did not and it cost him a $20,000 fine.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-levies-40000-fines-landlords-who-fail-provide-epa-approved-pamphlets-tenants

FCC eyes tax on Internet service
The Federal Communications Commission is eyeing a proposal to tax broadband Internet service. The move would funnel money to the Connect America Fund, a subsidy the agency created last year to expand Internet access.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/245479-fcc-eyes-tax-on-internet-service

Show Notes: 05-03-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Thursday 05/03/12

What is the INH?
The predecessor of the NIH began in 1887 as the Laboratory of Hygiene. It grew and was reorganized in 1930 by the Ransdell Act into the National Institute of Health (singular at the time).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health#History

What is the INH funding?
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES TRAINING IN DRUG ABUSE RESEARCH (funding for year 2011 - $847,690) Grant given to the study of The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men WHave Sex with Men
http://traditionalvalues.org/data/sites/73/pd/_Summary%20of%20NIH%20Grants_01_FINAL.pdf

Will Border Patrol Agent Stand Trial In Mexico?
The Governor of Chihuahua announced he will ask the state to extradite the Border Patrol agent who killed a teen on the border almost two years ago.
http://usopenborders.com/2012/05/will-border-patrol-agent-stand-trial-in-mexico-2/ Obama

IRS Refunding Billions to Illegals Who Are Claiming Kids...
In Mexico Investigative television reporter Bob Segall of Indianapolis NBC affiliate WTHR TV Channel 13, was contacted by a long-time central Indiana tax preparer, who blew the whistle on a multi-billion dollar tax fraud about which the IRS has done nothing, according to the TV news show video segment that aired on Monday.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/05/beautiful-obama-irs-refunding-billions.html

Emboldened Latin America parts ways with Canada and US on Cuba and drugs
CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA- The subjects might not have been to Stephen Harper or Barack Obama’s taste, but the exclusion of Cuba and the war on drugs dominated the discussion among hemispheric leaders at the opening of the Summit of the Americas.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1161752--emboldened-latin-america-parts-ways-with-canada-u-s-on-cuba-and-drugs

Us soldier dies of rabies after dog bite in Afghanistan
A 24-year-old American soldier died of rabies after being bitten by a dog last year in Afghanistan, US health officials said Thursday following an investigation into the rare case.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/03/us-soldier-dies-rabies-after-dog-bite-in-afghanistan/?test=latestnews

Panetta: climate change national security threat
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C. http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/panetta-climate-change-national-security-threat/518336

Iran Is Making a Greater Push Into Nicaragua

Hmm...

From FNC:

Iran is establishing a Central American foothold in Nicaragua, to the alarm of some U.S. state department officials, it is being reported.

The San Antonio News-Express said Monday that Nicaragua, with the backing of its Venezuelan ally, has been forging a new partnership with Iran.

Part of that relationship comes in the form of a $350 million deep-water port at Monkey Point on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast that is to extend across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. Iran has also recently opened an embassy in Nicaraguan capital of Managua.

Click here to read the full San Antonio News-Express article.

Some state department officials are concerned that Iran's presence in Nicaragua would allow Tehran to stage strikes on American interests by deploying the terrorist group Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guard operatives already in Latin America, the Express reported.

Cargo-News Asia reported that the port, which is expected to provide connectivity to the ports in the East Coast of the United States and to Europe, could be a possible windfall for the poverty stricken country. The project is seen as an about-face for a country that has been reluctant to embrace foreign investment, it wrote.

the danger exists obviously and the threat has been made by Iran of unleashing Hezbollah on the U.S., so this is troubling.

Technorati Tags: Iran in Nicaragua, hezbollah, world news

President's Radio Address March 10, 2007

From The White House:

Audio
Transcript:

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today, Laura and I are in Latin America, where we are visiting five countries: Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico. These countries are part of a region that has made great strides toward freedom and prosperity in the past three decades. They have raised up new democracies. And they have undertaken fiscal policies that have brought stability to their economies.

Yet despite the progress we have seen, many citizens in our hemisphere remain trapped in poverty and shut off from the promise of this new century. Nearly one out of every four people in Latin America lives on less than $2 a day. Many children never finish grade school. Many mothers never see a doctor. The fact is that tens of millions of our brothers and sisters to the South have yet to see improvements in their daily lives. And this has led some to question the value of democracy.

Our Nation has a vital interest in helping the young democracies in our neighborhood succeed. When our neighbors prosper, they create more vibrant markets for our goods and services. When our neighbors have a hopeful future in their own countries, they can find work at home and are less likely to migrate to our country illegally. And when our neighbors feel the blessings of liberty in their daily lives, the appeal of radicalism declines, and our hemisphere becomes more secure.

The United States is doing its part to help our neighbors in Latin America build a better life for themselves and their families. We are helping these young democracies make their governments more fair, effective, and transparent. We are supporting their efforts to meet the basic needs of their citizens -- like education, health care, and housing. And we are increasing opportunity for all by relieving debt, opening up trade, and encouraging reforms that will build market economies, where people can start from nothing and rise as far as their talents and hard work can take them.

On Monday, I will meet a Guatemalan citizen who has experienced the power of open trade and free economies. His name is Mariano Can . Twenty years ago, he was an indigenous farmer whose land provided barely enough corn and beans to feed his family. No one in his family had ever been to college, and most of the people in his village never got past the sixth grade. And his own children's prospects for prosperity looked just as bleak.

Mariano was determined to do better for his family. So he organized an association of small farmers called Labradores Mayas. He persuaded his fellow farmers to switch their crops to vegetables they could sell overseas -- high-value crops like lettuce, carrots, and celery. Soon they were selling to big companies like Wal-Mart Central America. Today, the business he helped establish is thriving, and it supports more than a thousand jobs. It also has supported something else: a college education for Mariano's son.

Mariano is showing what the people of Latin America can accomplish when they are given a chance. We must help others like him gain the opportunity to build a better life for their families. The generosity of the American people is helping our neighbors in Latin America build free and vibrant economies. By doing so, we will increase living standards for all our citizens, strengthen democracy in our hemisphere, and advance the cause of peace.

Thank you for listening.