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Thursday
Feb142013

48 Hours Until Thousands of Obama Protesters Converge on all State Capitols 

February 13, 2013 (MMD Newswire) -- Over 20,000 people have signed up online to attend the National Protests Against Obama (NPAO) in all 50 state capitals in 48 hours through both ALIPAC's Facebook event page and website AgainstAmnesty.com. Despite the recently documented censorship efforts by Facebook, the number of protesters planning to muster is growing rapidly!

Peaceful and racially inclusive picket style protests will take place on public sidewalks at all 50 American state capitols this Saturday, February 16, from 11am to 1pm in respective time zones.

Protest address locations and more information can be found on the Facebook invite page at https://www.facebook.com/events/4653...94260/?fref=ts

Online activists are spreading the word and encouraging like-minded citizens to join using e-mails, social media, online communities, and calls to talk radio shows.

The attendance ranks are swelling despite the fact Facebook has been caught red handed blocking ads promoting the protests, allowing pro Obama activists to deface the NPAO event page, and blocking the main event page from the search results of the Facebook search engine.

"More Americans are quickly learning that both the main stream and social media are acting as extensions of Obama's totalitarian, dictatorial, and nation dividing regime," said William Gheen, the primary NPAO organizer and President of ALIPAC. "We are proud to see so many Americans standing up and speaking out against these abuses of our political and financial systems, our citizens, our Republic, and our entire Bill of Rights."

The NPAO rallies are designed to take place legally, picket style, without permits, to test if Americans still have the right to both peacefully assemble and the right to petition government for redress of grievances. Some recent gun rights protests that sought permits were placed in locations where their attendees could not be seen by the public or lawmakers.

Protesters will be citing a host of valid concerns and complaints regarding Barack Obama's policies such as unprecedented spending and debt, Amnesty for illegal aliens orders by fiat, attempts to restrict gun rights, attacks on free speech on the web, the purchase of thousands of assault rifles for the Mexican mafia via Fast and Furious, the ridiculous cover story released during Benghazigate, the unconstitutional appointments to the Labor Board, the suspension of Habeas Corpus rights through the NDAA, and many more policy issues not related to Obama's race.

Talk radio show hosts and members of the American media are encouraged to inform more Americans about these protests before they occur and to attend these protests to speak with participants.

Contact: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)

Monday
Feb112013

Historic National Protests Against Obama Planned in 50 States on February 16

February 11, 2013 (MMD Newswire) -- Americans who oppose the destructive policies of Barack Obama will converge on all 50 state capitals this coming weekend, Saturday, February 16, from 11am to 1pm. In each respective time zone, unprecedented picket style, friendly flash mob style protests will be conducted on public sidewalks outside of state capitol buildings.

Patriotic American protesters will put the American rights of free speech, freedom to assemble, and freedom to petition our government for redress of grievances to the test. Crowds will gather without permits to picket in motion for two hours on public sidewalks within sight of our state seats of government and onlooking vehicular traffic.

Protesters will simply march in a circuit carrying American and state flags, or carrying signs protesting Obama's stance on a wide coalition of issues. All peaceful and racially inclusive organizations and American citizens who oppose Obama are welcome to attend.

A few of the issues protesters will address are Obama's unconstitutional Amnesty for illegal aliens decree, support for Amnesty legislation, support for the NDAA, efforts to curtail gun rights, out of control spending and debt, Obamacare, the Fast and Furious Scandal, Benghazi Gate, and much more!

For a complete listing of protest locations in your state and historic protest updates please visit our Facebook event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/4653...ref=ts&fref=ts

Those that do not use Facebook, can sign up for updates at http://www.AgainstAmnesty.com

These national protests are being supported by many groups and leaders with the core organizing being done by William Gheen, President of the national organization widely known in the media as Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC).

"It is time for Americans to have an unfiltered and healthy expression of their dissatisfaction with Barack Obama, and to do so in a way that both exercises our diminishing freedoms while also educating citizens and lawmakers about our valid concerns about Obama's destructive policies," said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC.

For more information or to schedule interviews in advance of the protests, please visit www.ALIPAC.us

Tuesday
Jan292013

CEI Today: Cost of regulation, Greece imploding, and 6 immigration reforms 

REGULATORY COSTS - WAYNE CREWS

Openmarket.org: How Much Does Federal Paperwork And Tax Compliance Cost?

The Office of Management and Budget, in its 2011 Information Collection Budget of the U.S. Government, estimates that 8.783 billion hours is required to complete regulatory paperwork annually, up from 7.4 billion in 2000, but down from 2009. The OMB doesn’t focus on the projecting of cost estimates for all these hours, but does allow that “if each hour is valued at $20, the monetary equivalent would be $176 billion.”  > Read the full analysis on Openmarket.org

 

> Interview Wayne Crews

GREECE IMPLODING - BILL FREZZA

Huffington Post:
Greece: How Long Until Junta?

 

Anyone who believes that the situation now spiraling out of control in Greece will end peacefully is dreaming. There is no credible plan for economic recovery. Greek GDP is imploding. Multinational corporations are pulling up stakes, sometimes selling off their Greek operations for one euro just to get out. No foreign investor in his right mind would put money into a new business there, and the local entrepreneurs who try are usually strangled in a tangle of red tape through which no amount of fakelaki can cut.

When the anarchist/communists explode and the fascist/nationalists fight back, will we see a repeat of a civil war that claimed more Greek lives than World War II?
  > View the full commentary on Huffingtonpost.com

 

> Interview Bill Frezza

> Follow Bill Frezza on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/BillFrezza

 

IMMIGRATION REFORM - DAVID BIER

Openmarket.org: 6 Ways To Improve The Senate’s Immigration Proposal


“We will ensure that this is a successful permanent reform to our immigration system that will not need to be revisited.” That’s from a statement released today from Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). The senators argue that their proposal will provide the permanent fix America’s immigration system needs, but here’s six ways it could be better.  > View the 6 proposals on Openmarket.org

> Inteview David Bier

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Monday
Dec102012

CEI Today: Senate vote on bank guarantees, Farm Bill boondoggle, and an anti-immigration group denounces CEI

SENATE VOTE ON BANK GUARANTEES - JOHN BERLAU

National Review: Conservatives: End TAG, TARP’s Subsidy to the Rich’s Bank Accounts

 

While waxing on about how Democrats want a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, including for sacrifice by “the rich,” Senate majority leader Harry Reid has apparently slated a Senate vote as early as this Monday afternoon that would throw both priorities out of balance.


The vote is on extending for another two years the Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) program — unlimited government-guaranteed deposit insurance for non-interest bank and credit union accounts, over and above the $250,000 limit for all accounts.  > View the full commentary at Nationalreview.com

> Interview John Berlau

FARM BILL & FISCAL CLIFF - FRAN SMITH


CEI.org: Taxpayers Won't Harvest Farm Bill Savings


Eleven policy and taxpayer groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, sent a joint letter today to Members of Congress urging them not to include a bloated Farm Bill as part of a deficit reduction package. As the letter notes,

“The full House hasn’t even considered a Farm Bill. Amendments will not be allowed. Only in Washington can a more than 500 page, $1 trillion bill be called deficit reduction and slapped onto legislation to deal with the real budgetary challenges of sequestration and tax hikes.”
> View the coalition letter on CEI.org


> Interview Fran Smith

IMMIGRATION - DAVID BIER


Openmarket.org: Anti-Immigration Group FAIR: Market Is Like “A Mob Without Reason, Irrational and Immoral”


Last week, Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) denounced CEI’s position on immigration. Mehlman argued new foreign workers would degrade wages and make America poorer. I responded by noting opposition on such grounds is not anti-immigrant, but fundamentally anti-people. “If fewer workers means more prosperity, then wouldn’t no workers be the ultimate prosperity?” I asked. “When have we limited the workforce enough?” > Read the full commentary on Openmarket.org

 

> Interview David Bier

 



Featuring CEI's Wayne Crews

 

Join The Atlantic on December 10 for an afternoon of panel discussions and keynote interviews focused on restoring America’s competitive edge in trade and high-wage job creation. The program will examine how the regulatory environment impacts American competitiveness by showcasing examples of effective as well as problematic federal and state policies, and studying how they can be shaped to best encourage business investment and growth. Join us to assess strategies for how best to revitalize a U.S. economy under stress at home and globally.

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Thursday
Dec062012

CEI Today: Internet sales tax, Exxon-Mobil's carbon tax, and the anti-immigration sentiment 

INTERNET SALES TAX - JESSICA MELUGIN

The Washington Times: Internet sales taxes attack states’ rights

 

Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren’t your average tax increases, but grim blueprints for government’s future relationship with the online world. Long after we’ve either swerved at the last minute or gone off the “fiscal cliff” a la “Thelma and Louise,” we’ll have to live with the harmful consequences of expanding government to every corner of the Internet.  > View the full commentary at Washingtontimes.com

 

> Interview Jessica Melugin

CARBON TAX - MYRON EBELL


Globalwarming.org: Say It Isn’t So! Exxon Supports a Carbon Tax

 

Big Oil is coming out of the closet.  Exxon Mobil confirmed earlier this month in a Bloomberg Businessweek article that they support a carbon tax. Shell and BP have signed a Climate Price Communiqué that was distributed on 29th November at the eighteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is meeting in Doha, Qatar, this week and next.


The most obvious reason why big oil and gas companies would support a huge new tax on their own products is that it would kill coal first.
 > View the commentary on Globalwarming.org


> Interview Myron Ebell

 

IMMIGRATION - DAVID BIER


Openmarket.org: Anti-Immigrant? Or Just Anti-People?

 

This Friday, Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) demonstrated exactly this contempt for the most basic fact of the market when he responded to a CEI press release that opposed a bill to reduce immigration. Mehlman scoffs at the notion that “without massive infusions of foreign STEM workers our most vital industries would wither and die.” We never argued such a thing — rather, we argued new foreign workers would expand (almost by definition) America’s industries, increasing Americans’ wealth. > Read the full commentary on Openmarket.org

 

> Interview David Bier

 

I, PENCIL

 

 

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce a new ambitious film project: an animated adaptation of I, Pencil by Leonard Read.

> View the I, Pencil short film

> Tweet about I, Pencil

 

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.