(CBS, 60 Minutes 6/22/03,7:00pm)
What is America's most valuable import from India? It may very well be brainpower.
Hundreds of thousands of well-educated Indians have come to the U.S. in recent decades - many to work in the computer and software industries. The best and brainiest among them seem to share a common credential: They're graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, better known as IIT. IIT has seven campuses throughout the country, and as we discovered when we traveled there last year, its students consider themselves the luckiest people in India. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports on this story which first aired March 2, 2003.
Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together, and you begin to get an idea of the status of IIT in India. IIT is dedicated to producing world-class chemical, electrical and computer engineers with a curriculum that may be the most rigorous in the world. Just outside the campus gates, the slums, congestion and chaos of Bombay are overwhelming. But inside, it's quiet and uncrowded and, by Indian standards, very well equipped. Getting here is the fervent dream of nearly every student. With a population of over a billion people in India, competition to get into the IITs is ferocious. Last year, 178,000 high school seniors took the entrance exam called the JEE. Just over 3,500 were accepted, or less than two percent. Compare that with Harvard, which accepts about 10 percent of its applicants.
“The IITs probably are the hardest school in the world to get into, to the best of my knowledge,” says Vinod Khosla, who got into IIT about 30 years ago. After graduating, Khosla came to the U.S., co-founded Sun Microsystems and became one of Silicon Valley's most important venture capitalists. He's one of thousands of IIT graduates who have made it big in the U.S. “Microsoft, Intel, PCs, Sun Microsystems -- you name it, I can't imagine a major area where Indian IIT engineers haven't played a leading role,” says Khosla. “And, of course, the American consumer and the American business in the end is the beneficiary of that.” It isn't just high tech. The head of the giant consulting firm McKinsey & Company is an IIT grad. So is the vice chairman of Citigroup and the former CEO of US Airways. Fortune 500 headhunters are always on the lookout for that IIT degree. “They are favored over almost anybody else. If you're a WASP walking in for a job, you wouldn't have as much pre-assigned credibility as you do if you're an engineer from IIT,” says Khosla.
Ninety percent of IIT students are male, and the young men we met in Bombay know they're hot commodities. Plus, the American companies love the kids from IIT. And the students view it as a ticket to another way of life. Em Rahm, one of India's leading journalists, says that because the stakes are so high, a kid starts preparing early. “By 10, you know whether you've made it--you're made for it or not,” he says. But just standing out in school won't be enough. At about 16, students enroll in a prep class where they're drilled for the IIT entrance exam. There are even pre-dawn tutoring classes – before they go to school. “I normally stay up all night and study for my exams,” says one student.
After years of preparation, students reach the day they and their families believe will make or break the future finally arrives. “On the day of the exam, my dad, my mom and my younger brother -- they all accompanied me to the center,” says one student. “I said, 'OK, now you can leave. I'll come home on my own.' But I was literally amazed when I came back out of the center and see my parents and brother still waiting for me outside the center.”
After six hours of testing, there’s an excruciating month-long wait for the results. Results are posted on the Web. And after 10 days, students receive a letter. Top rankers get their photographs in the paper. But the ranking isn't just an ego trip. The top kids get to choose which campus they want and which major. “It's a big deal in India, it is,” says Narayana Murthy, founder of the huge software company Infosys. He’s known as the Bill Gates of India. “It's very easy to lose hope in this country. It's very easy to set your aspirations low in this country. But amidst all this, this competition among high-quality students, this institution of IIT, sets your aspirations much higher.”
Murthy’s own son, who wanted to do computer science at IIT, couldn’t get in. He went to Cornell, instead. Imagine a kid from India using an Ivy League university as a safety school. That's how smart these guys are. “I do know cases where students who couldn't get into computer science at IITs, they have gotten scholarship at MIT, at Princeton, at Caltech,” says Murthy.
“When I finished IIT Delhi and went to Carnegie Mellon for my master's, I thought I was cruising all the way through Carnegie Mellon
because it was so easy, relative to the education I had gotten at IIT Delhi,” says Khosla.
Students act like entrepreneurs the whole time they're at IIT. They run everything in the dorms, which might be mistaken for cell blocks if not for all the Pentium 4 PCs. They organize the sports themselves. They even hire the chefs and pick the food in the mess halls. And unlike so many other institutions in India, they all know they're here because they deserve to be here. “There is no corruption. It's a pure meritocracy,” says Murthy.
IIT may also be one of the best educational bargains in the world. It costs a family just about $700 a year for room, board and tuition. That's less than 20 percent of the true cost since the Indian government subsidizes all the rest. While some IIT grads stay and have helped build India's flourishing high-tech sector, almost two-thirds--up to 2,000 people--leave every year, most for the U.S.
“Some people would say you're subsidizing factories, which produce largely for the higher end of the American employment market,” says Rahm. “You don't have to be crudely nationalistic to raise this question. There's a need here. There's a demand here, and these guys are simply not available.” How many of them ever come back? “Very small percentage, but my view is that we also have to work harder here to make it attractive for them to come back,” says Murthy. And Murthy is doing his part. His software company, Infosys, hires about 150 IIT graduates every year to stay and work in India. He says the brain-drain doesn't worry him. “Some of these people who have reached the higher echelons in the corporate world in the U.S., you know, they have persuaded their corporations to start operations in India, whether it's Texas Instruments, whether it's General Electric, whether it's Citibank,” says Murthy.
“I have no question that India now is benefiting significantly from the cycling of knowledge, the back and forth, no question about it,” says Khosla. And individual IIT grads are sending lots of money back home, too, but the U.S. still gets the better end of the bargain. “How many jobs have entrepreneurs, Indian entrepreneurs, in Silicon Valley created over the last 15, 20 years? Hundreds of thousands, I would
guess,” says Khosla. “For America to be able to pick off this human capital, these well-trained engineers with great minds, it's a great deal.”
this quote from John Templeton:
"The total debt of America is now $31 trillion. That is three times the GNP of the U.S. That is unprecedented in a major nation. No nation has ever had such a big debt as America has, and it's bigger than it was at the peak of the stock market boom. Think of the dangers involved. Almost everyone has a home mortgage, and some are 89% of the value of the home [and yes, some are more]. If home prices start down, there will be bankruptcies, and in bankruptcy, houses are sold at lower prices, pushing home prices down further."
The Fed set off an equity raid that has Americans deeper in debt than at any time in history. The only way out IMHO is inflation.
In recent months, efforts to recall Governor Gray Davis from office have drawn attention to the recall process in California. The recall is the power of the voters to remove elected officers before their terms expire. It was added to the state constitution in 1911, along with the initiative and referendum and other changes resulting from the Progressive movement.
Recall elections combine features of both a ballot measure and a candidate election. A question of recalling an elected official is placed on the ballot by filing petitions containing the signatures of the required number of registered voters. For a statewide officer, this is 12 percent of the number who last voted for the office, or in this case 897,158 signatures, based on the approximately 7.5 million who voted in the November 2002 gubernatorial election. As in other cases where signatures are gathered, such as to qualify initiatives for the ballot, more than the minimum number of signatures are obtained to allow for ineligible ones. The goal of recall proponents is likely to be roughly 1.2 to 1.3 million.
Proponents of the recall have 160 days for circulating petitions. Every 30 days, county elections officials certify the number of qualified signatures they have received to that point. Once the Secretary of State certifies that sufficient signatures have been obtained, a special election is set to take place within 60 to 80 days. However, if a regularly scheduled statewide election will take place within 180 days of certification, the recall election can be consolidated with it.
Thus, if enough signatures are certified for the recall of the governor by September 3, 2003, a special election must be called for a date in the fall of 2003. If signatures for a recall election are certified after that date, the election would be consolidated with the March 2, 2004 statewide primary election. Accounting for the time required for the certification process, recall proponents believe they must turn in signatures by July 16, 2003 to ensure a fall 2003 special election.
Before 1994, the only question at the recall election was whether the official should be recalled; if the recall was approved by a majority of the voters, a subsequent election was held to elect a successor. However, in November 1994 the law was amended to consolidate those two elections. Now the question of the recall and a list of candidates to succeed the official appear on the same ballot.
Candidates must file nomination papers and a declaration of candidacy 59 days prior to the election. For governor, a filing fee of $3,500 and 65 valid signatures of registered voters of the same party as the candidate are required. Candidates not affiliated with a party may submit 65 valid signatures of registered voters of any party affiliation. Candidates may apply for a fee waver by submitting additional signatures.
If the recall succeeds, the candidate with the largest number of votes is elected to the office and takes office the following day.There are no party primaries to select candidates, and no provision for a runoff if no candidate receives a majority of the vote. There is no limit on the number of candidates who can run. If there are a number of candidates running, the winner could be elected with a relatively low percentage of the vote.The proponents' statement of reasons for recall and the response, if any, filed by the official whose recall is sought are printed on the recall petitions and on the sample ballots mailed to voters.
According to a Fair Political Practices Commission fact sheet, the recall part of the election would be classified as a ballot measure, for which there are no contribution limits under the state Political Reform Act. Thus, the contribution limits of Proposition 34 would not apply either to the proponents of the recall measure or to the elected official who is the target of the recall. However, Proposition 34 contribution limits would apply to the campaigns of the candidates running to succeed the recalled official. As with other elections in California, all candidates and campaign committees have reporting and disclosure obligations under the Political Reform Act.
If a special statewide recall election is called, the cost to taxpayers is estimated at $25-35 million. If the elected official is not recalled, his or her campaign expenses are reimbursed by the state. This potential cost to taxpayers is unknown.
(ABC News,Aug. 11) ‘Total Disbelief’
Penis Removal Just Latest In Series of Surgical Mistakes, But Patients Can Protect Themselves
— After 67-year-old Hurshell Ralls went into surgery for bladder cancer, he came out of surgery missing more than he ever expected. His penis and testicles were gone.
"My wife had to hold my hand in the bed there. And she said 'Honey it's over. They got all the cancer.' And she waited a few minutes and then said 'But they had to remove your penis.' And I was one mad dude, you know," Ralls said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.
Ralls, a mechanic, says doctors never warned him or his wife that amputation of the penis and testicles might have been part of surgery before he went in for the procedure in November 1999. Ralls filed a negligence lawsuit against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, and the doctors who operated on him. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25.
"It was never even discussed. And I felt like he ought to have at least told us that this might be a possibility so that we could have talked it over even before he was admitted to the hospital," said Thelma Ralls, his wife. In a February deposition, Ralls' doctor said that he determined the cancer had spread to the penis while he was removing Ralls' bladder. Doctors did not send a tissue sample to the lab until after the surgery. A Dallas doctor who examined cell slides later found that Ralls did not have penile cancer.
マリナーズのイチローの活躍が野球の試合そのものを面白くしている。投げて良し、打って良し、走って良しと三拍子揃った選手にはちょっとやそっとではお目にかかれない。そのため年棒がヤンキーズの松井よりかなり低いのは気になる。
2003 Salary Ichiro: $4,697,000/Matsui: $6,000,000
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ESPN2: SEA@OAK Sep20Sun., 4:05 PM ET
By Tony Gwynn
Special to ESPN Insider
When August began, Ichiro Suzuki was leading the American League in hitting, but now he isn't even in the top 10. He was a leading candidate for the MVP, but not anymore.
In August, Ichiro batted .242, and his slump has deepened in September, when he's hit .212. Not surprisingly, Ichiro's troubles at the plate have corresponded with the troubles of the Seattle Mariners in the standings. Seattle once had a comfortable lead in the AL West, but that lead evaporated long ago. The Mariners now find themselves looking up at both the torrid Oakland Athletics (in the division) and the Boston Red Sox (in the wild-card race).
Ichiro makes the Mariners go. When he struggles, it's far more difficult for other guys in the lineup -- like Bret Boone, John Olerud and Edgar Martinez -- to produce. When Ichiro gets on base from his leadoff spot, he disrupts the opponent's focus with his speed on the basepaths. When he doesn't get on base, well ... you can see the results.
他国の追従を許さない科学技術力の国アメリカ。学歴社会を支える日本の教育と科学に寄与するアメリカの教育の違いが如実に現れている。もし仮にノーベル賞が日本のものだとしたら、その受賞者は東大出身に占められるだろう。「世界が一流と認める」賞を与える国はやはり日本ではありえない。
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Bush Meets With 6 U.S. Nobel Recipients (Nov17,2003 AP)
WASHINGTON - Six U.S. citizens who received a Nobel Prize this year in chemistry, physics, medicine and economics were recognized by President Bush (news - web sites) on Monday during a visit to the Oval Office. The six Americans who met with Bush after receiving the awards last month from the Royal Academy of Sciences were: _Peter Agre of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and Roderick MacKinnon, with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University in New York, for studies of tiny transportation tunnels in cell walls, work that illuminates diseases of the heart, kidneys and nervous system. _Alexei A. Abrikosov, a Russian and American citizen based at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois; and Anthony J. Leggett, a British and American citizen based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who received the physics prize. _Paul C. Lauterbur at the University of Illinois was a co-winner of the medicine prize. _Robert F. Engle, who shared the Nobel in economics with Clive W.J. Granger. The two were colleagues for decades at the University of California at San Diego.
Since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, 277 of the 661 winners — or 42 percent — have been Americans.
アメリカンフットボールの醍醐味を十分に味わせてくれる名勝負をテレビ中継で満喫。スーパーボールのチャンピオンを目指し、プレイオフが行われているが、昨日１月１０日ラムの本拠地セントルイスでラムとキャロライナ・パンサー戦があった。第１と第２クワォーターは見逃し、第３クワォーターから観戦。最終クワォーターに入ってもラムは冴えない。ここまでずっとパンサーのデフェンスに押され、ラムはなかなか得点できない。12対23で11点の差をつけられ、試合終了まで3分を残すまでになって、敗戦確実ムード一色。ラムのファンとしてはさっさと諦めてチャンネルを変え気分転換したほうが良さそうである。ところがである。ラムに攻撃権があり、エースのラニングバッグ・マーシャル・フォークがサックされそうになったクワォーターバック・バルガーから投げられた苦肉の送球をアクロバットキャッチし、ミドルフィールドまでボールを運ぶ。観客は沸き、ラムチームが勢いずく。クワォーターバックがファークにボールを集め、数回のトライの後フォークがゴールに走りこみ待望の６得点。そこから2点のエキストラポイントを決めて、3点差に詰め寄る。でも残された時間は数分。そこで成功率の高くないワンサイドキックを試み、何と相手に攻撃権を与えずして、攻撃権を奪い取る。ワイドレシーバーの果敢なキャッチにより、数回の試みでフィールド圏にボールを持ち込む。ゲーム終了にあと数セカンドと迫る。キッカーが期待どおり、フィールドゴールを決めてとうとう同点になり、正規の試合終了。観衆が沸き返る。最初に何点でもいいから得点したチームが勝つオーバータイムに入っても、目を全く離せないシーソーゲームを展開。パンサーがコイントスで最初に攻撃権をえて、やっとのことでフィールドゴール圏にボールを持ち込み、あとはキッカー次第。この試合ですでに数回フィールドゴールを決めているので、期待は高い。40ヤードからキッカーが蹴ったボールは完璧。ゴールポストのど真ん中を割って入る。ラムの負けが決まったと思ったのも束の間、パンサーチームは主審から時間遅れの反則をとられ、5ヤードバックのぺナルティーで再トライ。結局45ヤードからのフィールドゴールになり、ボールは右にわずかに外れ失敗。観客はまたまた大いに沸く。今度はラムに攻撃権が移り、数回のファーストダウンを決め、フィールドゴール圏に持ち込む。距離は５３ヤード、その距離だと60パーセントの成功率を誇るキッカーだけに、自信がある。観客が息を飲む中、キッカーの蹴ったボールはゴールのど真ん中に直進。ラムの勝利だと思うや、なんとワンヤード足らずでゴールに届かず。今度はパンサー側が両手を上げて喜ぶ。第２オーバータイムになると、攻撃権を奪い返したパンサーは、今まで見せなかったラムのデフェンスにてこずり、ボールがなかなか前に進まない。パンサーのクウォーターバックを重要な場面で数回サック。パンサーはサードダウンからのコンバージョンに失敗、パントでラムに攻撃権を渡す。ラムチームはワイドレシーバーの活躍で、数回のファーストダウン決め、ミドルフィールドまで攻撃を進める。あと10数ヤード進めばキッカーのフィールドゴール安全圏に入る。ところが何とクウォーターバックが投げたボールが、相手のアクロバットキャッチによってインターセプトされる。またまたパンサーに攻撃権が移る。ラム・デフェンスのもうひとふんばり。だがその祈りも叶わず、相手クウォーターバックの投げたボールはワイドレシーバーに上手く捕球され、タックルをかわし、一気にゴールまで駆け抜ける。ラムの負けである。ラムを応援していたので結果は残念。でも試合そのものは後半から全く目を離せない最高のゲーム。観戦した数多くのアメリカフットボールゲームの中でも、屈指のエキサイティングなゲームだった。 （This game was one of the wildest, most thrilling finishes in NFL history, and sent the sellout crowd home in stunned silence at the Rams' first playoff loss in the deafening dome.）
I came across an article about a ranking of the universities in US. There are a lot of rankings around universities, but that one took my attention because it was written from an Asian American's standing point. I hope it would be your good reference for selecting the right school to go in for further education in USA.
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25 Great Asian American Universities (www.goldsea.com/AAU/25/25.html)
Asian Americans are the biggest minority in nearly every top 50 national university in the United States. In five they are either an outright majority or a plurality. In two dozen more, Asians comprise 20% or more of the student body. For Asian American students who like the society and support of an extensive on-campus Asian community, the number and concentration of Asians is a key factor in choosing a college. For many Asian Americans, college may be the one and only time in their lives when they can enjoy the experience of being a member of a racial majority. It's an experience that often produces a radical change in perspective and self-image, even future career choices.
This list is intended as a guide for those students whose experiences have taught them that race does matter in American society and that a community's racial composition can influence one's position, status and sense of well-being.
In arriving at the rankings we considered prestige, academic standard, quality of life on campus and environs, and the ambience as well as the concentration of Asians in the undergraduate student body. We also considered the many comments offered by our readers. This list isn't exhaustive (we had trouble narrowing it down to the top 25) but we hope it will serve as a starting point in the search for your ideal Asian American University!
RANK Name/Location No. of Asian Undergrads Asian Percentage of Undergrads
Popular Majors Standards/Prestige Ambience/Quality of Life
1 UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 8,500 42% molecular bio, econ, English Highest Superb
2 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 9,200 40% psych, econ, sociology Highest Superb
3 Stanford
Palo Alto, CA 1,600 25% econ, bio, English Highest Superb
4 MIT
Cambridge, MA 1,200 28% engr, comp sci, bio Highest Very Good
5 Harvard
Cambridge, MA 1,270 19% econ, poli sci, bio Highest Very Good
6 UC San Diego
La Jolla, CA 5,600 35% biochem, psych, bio Very High Superb
7 Yale
New Haven, CT 930 17% hist, econ, bio Highest Good
8 UC Irvine
Irvine, CA 8,400 58% bio, psych, soc Very High Superb
9 Columbia
New York, NY 1,050 16% comm, edu, engr Highest Very Good
10 UC Davis
Davis, CA 7,000 36% psych, bio, biochem Very High Very Good
11 Princeton
Princeton, NJ 700 15% econ, hist, poli sci Highest Very Good
14 USC
Los Angeles, CA 3,700 25% bus mgmt, visual arts, comm High Very Good
13 Cornell
Ithaca, NY 2,340 17% engr, econ, bio Very High Good
14 UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 2,900 17% business, soc, comm Very High Superb
15 Univ of Penn
Philadelphia, PA 2,000 21% finance, econ, psych Very High Good
16 Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburg, PA 1,120 22% engr, business, comp sci Very High Good
17 NYU
New York, NY 2,900 18% bus mgmt, thtr arts, film High Very Good
18 Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD 830 21% engr, bio, inter rel Very High Very Good
19 Wellesley
Wellesley, MA 560 25% soc sci, hist, psych Highest Very Good
20 Univ of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 3,000 13% engr, psych, English Very High Good
21 Duke
Durham, NC 900 14% bio, econ, psych Highest Good
22 Univ of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 1,400 11% bus mgmt, egnr, psych Highest Good
23 UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 1,480 15% bio, psych, foreign lang High Very Good
24 Univ of Washington
Seattle, WA 5,000 23% bus mgmt, psych, Eng lit High Superb
25 Univ of Texas
Austin, TX 5,300 16% bus mgmt, egnr, bio High Good
Here are the ranking of the best colleges 2006 in USA.
I believe the most American tend to agree with that.
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America's Best Colleges 2006 by USNews
1 Harvard University (MA)
1 Princeton University (NJ)
3 Yale University (CT)
4 University of Pennsylvania
5 Duke University (NC)
5 Stanford University (CA)
7 California Institute of Technology
7 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
9 Columbia University (NY)
9 Dartmouth College (NH)
11 Washington University in St. Louis
12 Northwestern University (IL)
13 Cornell University (NY)
13 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
15 Brown University (RI)
15 University of Chicago
17 Rice University (TX)
18 University of Notre Dame (IN)
18 Vanderbilt University (TN)
20 Emory University (GA)
20 University of California – Berkeley *
22 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
23 Georgetown University (DC)
23 University of Virginia *
25 Univ. of California – Los Angeles *
25 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor *
27 Tufts University (MA)
27 U. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill *
27 Wake Forest University (NC)
30 Univ. of Southern California
31 College of William and Mary (VA)*
32 Lehigh University (PA)
32 Univ. of California – San Diego *
34 Brandeis University (MA)
34 University of Rochester (NY)
34 Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison *
37 Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
37 Georgia Institute of Technology *
37 New York University
40 Boston College
40 University of California – Irvine *
42 U. of Illinois – Urbana - Champaign *
43 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
43 Tulane University (LA)
45 Univ. of California – Santa Barbara *
45 University of Washington *
45 Yeshiva University (NY)
48 Pennsylvania State U. – University Park *
48 University of California – Davis *
50 Syracuse University (NY)
50 University of Florida *
52 University of Texas – Austin *
53 George Washington University (DC)
53 Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (MA)
55 Pepperdine University (CA)
55 Univ. of Maryland – College Park *
55 University of Miami (FL)
58 University of Georgia *
58 University of Pittsburgh *
60 Boston University
60 Ohio State University – Columbus *
60 Purdue Univ. – West Lafayette (IN)*
60 Rutgers – New Brunswick (NJ)*
60 Texas A&M Univ. – College Station *
60 University of Iowa *
66 Miami University – Oxford (OH)*
66 University of Delaware *
68 Fordham University (NY)
68 Univ. of California – Santa Cruz *
68 University of Connecticut *
71 Brigham Young Univ. – Provo (UT)
71 Southern Methodist University (TX)
71 Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
74 Indiana University – Bloomington *
74 Michigan State University *
74 SUNY – Binghamton *
74 Univ. of Minnesota – Twin Cities *
78 Baylor University (TX)
78 Clemson University (SC)*
78 North Carolina State U. – Raleigh *
78 St. Louis University
78 University of Colorado – Boulder *
78 Virginia Tech *
84 Clark University (MA) * denotes a public school.
85 American University (DC)
85 Auburn University (AL)*
85 Iowa State University *
85 Marquette University (WI)
85 Univ. of California – Riverside *
85 University of Denver
85 Univ. of Missouri – Columbia *
85 University of Tennessee *
93 Howard University (DC)
93 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry *
93 University of Tulsa (OK)
93 University of Vermont *
97 Illinois Institute of Technology
97 SUNY – Stony Brook *
97 Texas Christian University
97 University of Arizona *
97 University of Kansas *
97 Univ. of Nebraska – Lincoln *
97 University of New Hampshire *
104 University of Alabama *
104 University of Dayton (OH)
104 Univ. of Massachusetts – Amherst *
104 University of San Diego
104 University of the Pacific (CA)
109 Drexel University (PA)
109 Florida State University *
109 Ohio University *
109 University of Missouri – Rolla *
109 University of Oklahoma *
109 Univ. of South Carolina – Columbia *
115 Loyola University Chicago
115 Northeastern University (MA)
115 University at Buffalo – SUNY *
115 University of Oregon *
115 University of San Francisco
120 Catholic University of America (DC)
120 Colorado State University *
120 University of Kentucky *
120 University of Utah *
120 Washington State University *
Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Seven Days in May' are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader's imagination at best-seller level. 'What if' has always been the solid grist of fiction.
Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.
How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States ? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota ? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit ? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America ? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'?
Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya 's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa , a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile.
Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of 'racism'. Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers. Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies.
Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nations for use in Africa . Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as 'bigoted racism'; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts.
Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.
Where is the bloodhound American 'free press' who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation's reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush's 'Skull and Bones' club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work? Why haven't 'newsmen' pursued the 65 blatant lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries?
Where are the stories about this candidate's cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa ? Since when did our national press corps become weak, timid, and silent? Why haven't they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who have surrounded this 'out of nowhere' Democrat candidate or that his church re-printed the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his 'close pastor friend and mentor' met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)?
Why isn't the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world? As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barak Hussein Obama?
Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton's name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name? Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn't our media connecting the dots with Islam? Why do they focus on 'those bad American soldiers' while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as 'ethnic cleansing' instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims! There is enough strange, anti-American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter.
A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. 'The process of settlement' of Muslims in America , Akram explained, 'is a civilization jihad process.' This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in 'America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'
There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving uninformed Americans about who and what is really peaceful.
Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their intentions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of 'racist' from the left-wing Democrat crowd. Lies and deception behind a master plan - the ingredients for 'The Manchurian Candidate' or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation's White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States ?
Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability?
Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations? Change for America ?
まだ大統領選挙も終わってないのに言うのもなんだけど、今は２０１２年や２０１６年の大統領選挙が話題になっている。サラ・ペーレン VS. ヒラリー・クリントン。女性対決の大統領選。 その場合、現状では圧倒的にサラ・ペーレンに軍配が上がる。ヒラリーはアイビーリーグのお嬢様タイプで、フェミ二ズムの活動家。当選するために、ごまかしや嘘も演説の中にちらほら。国民大衆の人気は今ひとつ。一方、サラ・ペーレンはどうか。まさしく名も知らない、小さな町に生まれ育ち、何の特別優遇もなく才能と容姿で実力一本でのし上った強いアメリカ女性。不正を暴き、不正の圧力に屈しない正義感にあふれた人間像はアメリカの誰もが尊敬し、こよなく愛する人間像である。たまたまそれが女性であるに過ぎない。サラ・ペーレンはまさしく、アメリカが待ちに待っていた理想の人物である。だから今後、サラがアメリカに一大旋風をおこしても、おかしくない。アメリカ初の女性大統領が生まれるのは時間の問題とみられる。
アリとキリギリスの寓話を２００８年のアメリカ大統領選に当てはめると・・・・（近代版）。ヨーロッパに蔓延する社会主義政策と民主党を揶揄った傑作。
The Ant and the Grasshopper (thanks to Al Who)
There is an 'Old Version' and a 'Modern Version' ..Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' Al Sharpton stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & Barack Obama exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008!!
オバマ陣営の舞台裏。
Those who support Barack Hussein Obama are:
1. Osama Bin Laden
2. Al Queda
3. Iran
4. Blacks
5. Young, naïve college kids
6. Freeloaders and those who welch off SSI or Welfare.
7. Hispanics and illegal aliens
8. Anti-War/Anti-American Liberals
9. Pacifists from around the world
10. Hollywood Liberals(凡人： ハリウッドの馬鹿者たち）
Tom Hanks, Pamela Anderson, Matt Damon, Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho, Jennifer Aniston, Robert De Niro, Chris Rock: The comedian, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, George Clooney, Ben Affleck, etc,etc.
１１．メイジャーニュースメディア（NBC、CNN、NYTimesその他多数）
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Meet the Terrorist running for President
By China Confidential
Meet Barack Hussein Obama, America’s first multinational Presidential candidate….
He was born in Hawaii (maybe) and reared in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, where he was introduced to Islam and native superstitions and customs–including eating dog.
He was born a Muslim, according to islamic religious law, which traces religious identity through the father.
His father, a non-practicing Muslim, was an Arab-African from Kenya, whose left-leaning government he sharply criticized for not being sufficiently socialist.
His stepfather was a practicing Muslim, who registered his stepson at an Indonesian elementary school as a Muslim citizen of Indonesia.
As a student at Columbia University, his off-campus roommate was a Pakistani visa over-stayer who accompanied him to Pakistan and a predominantly Muslim city in India.
He was a citizen of Kenya, and probably used a Kenyan passport to enter and exit Pakistan and India.
He may still be a citizen of Indonesia, a hotbed of Muslim separatism and Islamist terrorism.
He responded to 9/11 by urging the US to restrain itself, militarily, and warning against “rounding up Arabs.”
He personally profited and was politically and financially supported by an Arab-American crook, recently convicted and jailed.
He was spiritually advised for two decades by an anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-white, Black Liberation Theology minister who blamed–and damned–the US for 9/11 only five days after the Islamist attacks, and subsequently published and distributed Hamas propaganda.
He was probably sponsored and supported during his Harvard Law School years by a notorious anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-white, black Muslim adviser to a fabulously wealthy Saudi prince.
His cousin, Kenya’s Prime Minister and opposition leader, is allied with Islamists seeking to impose Islamic religious law on parts of the African country.
The world’s Muslim masses and their tyrants and terrorists–Ahmadinejad, Khadafy, Hamas, Hezbollah–are all rooting for him to conquer the White House.
Subject: Carl Davidson and Barack Obama
Retired Geek
Location: VA
Date: Oct 3, 2008
There is an old Spanish saying.
“Tell me who you walk with, and I will tell you WHO YOU ARE!”
"I chose my friends carefully." Barack Obama, Dreams of My Father
Who is Carl Davidson - who helped organize the rally in 2002 where the featured speaker was Barack Obama?
Carl Davidson, who was one of SDS’s three elected national officers in 1968.
1) Marxist anti-war activist.
2) Former member of Students for a Democratic Society.
3) Political supporter of Barack Obama.
Carl Davidson joined Michael Klonsky in rejecting traditional politics for fringe Marxist movements. More recently, he helped organize the 2002 rally in which Obama first spoke out against the Iraq War and now serves as the webmaster of Progressives for Obama.
In 1992 Davidson became a leader of the newly formed Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.
The organization has since changed its name to the 'Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism', where Davidson remains a prominent figure.
Davidson was a major player in the Chicago branch of the 'New Party', a Marxist political coalition.
Most New Party members hailed from the 'Committees of Correspondence', 'the Democratic Socialists of America', and the militant leftist organization ACORN.
Carl Davidson first met Barack Obama through the 'New Party', which endorsed the Barack Obama in his run for the Illinois state senate in 1996. Obama had actively sought this endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers.
Surely every Marxist, Socialist and Radical cannot be wrong about Barack Obama - can they?
The names of four former top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization are listed as signatories on an online petition calling for an “independent grassroots effort” to help strengthen Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign.
The petition was initiated by Progressives for Obama, an independent organization acting to ensure the Illinois senator’s election.
Progressives includes among its ranks many former members of the 1960s radical organization Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, from which the Weathermen splintered, as well as current and former members of other radical organizations, such as the Communist Party USA and the Black Radical Congress
“We agree that Barack Obama is our best option for president in 2008, and that an independent grassroots effort can help strengthen his campaign,” states the online petition. “It can also strengthen the mandate for his programs for stopping war, promoting global justice and securing our rights, liberties, and economic well-being.
Among the names signed onto the petition are former Weathermen leaders Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis and Mark Rudd.”
I believe this all started when the government failed to try Jane Fonda and company for treason and failed to execute them.
The man suing Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee for proof of Obama’s American citizenship is outraged that his own party – rather than just providing the birth certificate he seeks – would step in to silence him by filing a motion to dismiss his lawsuit.
As WND reported, prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he’ll drop the suit.
Berg told WND the longer the DNC tries to ignore his lawsuit or make it go away – instead of just providing the documents – the more convinced he is that his accusations are correct.
Despite assertions by the Washington Post, FactChecker.org and other organizations that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains “99.99 percent sure” that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity.
Earlier last week, lawyers for Obama and the DNC filed a joint motion to dismiss Berg’s lawsuit. The fact that the DNC joined in the dismissal request has Berg fuming, believing his party’s leaders have ignored his pleas for proof in order to favor their chosen candidate over a rank-and-file constituent.
“I think it’s outrageous,” Berg said. “The Democratic National Committee should be ensuring the Democratic Party and the public that they have a qualified candidate up there. To file a joint motion is like they’re in cahoots.
“Since then, I have asked by way of press release that Howard Dean resign, because (the DNC members) are not fulfilling their duties,” Berg said.
“The DNC has a responsibility to all Democrats in this country to make sure that all of their candidates are properly vetted and properly qualified,” Berg added. “I think it’s really an outrage to the 18-plus million people who voted for Obama and the people who donated more than $425 million to him under false pretenses.”
Berg is frustrated, not only with his own party’s leadership for allegedly not investigating Obama’s background, but also with the major news outlets for failing as well.
“I should also be suing the national media and their disgrace for not properly vetting, inspecting or checking on Barack Obama.
“Look what they’re doing to Governor Palin: They’re opening up her closet doors, they’re going through everything personal, but no one has ever gone after Obama. It doesn’t make sense,” Berg said.
Obama’s website counters Berg’s claims with links to articles that affirm the validity of his citizenship and an image of a Hawaiian birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama, born in Honolulu, Aug. 4, 1961. The webpage is part of the Obama campaign website’s “Fight the Smears” section, an effort to prevent reports that Obama claims are false from disseminating as damaging rumors.
Berg acknowledges that as long as his lawsuit remains outstanding, the public will talk, and he told WND he wants Obama to quickly prove him wrong or the court to quickly prove him right.
“I’ve been on about 50 radio shows around the country,” Berg said, “and on every one I’ve put out a challenge: Barack Obama, if I’m wrong, just come forth with certified copies of these documents and I’ll close down the case.”
Berg told WND, “I’ve had 19 million hits on my website. …Those people talk to other people, now we’re up to 20, 30, 40 million people who are aware of this controversy, and it’s going to drastically affect the entire election.”
When asked what he would do if the DNC succeeded in getting his case dismissed, Berg said he would “immediately file an appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and if we don’t get a fair ruling there, immediately to the U.S. Supreme Court.“
“We’re dealing with the U.S. Constitution and it must be followed,” Berg explained. “I want the Constitution enforced; that’s my main reason for doing this.
“The real outrage is that there’s nothing in our system that provides that a candidate must provide that his qualifications are true and correct before he or she runs, and that safeguard should be put into our system by law,” Berg said.
ACORN: The Poisonous NUT That Ended Democracy in America
By Cristi Adkins Saturday, October 4, 2008
Within its shell, ACORN contains all the makings of an intriguing government political conspiracy movie: drama, injustice, organized crime, election fraud, intimidation, violence, money, lies, extortion and a presidential candidate.[1]
If you are a patriotic, middle class American who spends most of your time working for your family and enjoying your FREEDOM, you have probably not been bothered by the sounds of an ACORN dropping before now.
But, while you were sleeping peacefully at night, the roots of Socialism have broadened its reach, without determent right into the foundation of the White House.[2]
Allow me to enlighten you to the ways of a radical community action group that could impact your way of life forever.
ACORN is an acronym that stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Its mere definition contains hints of Socialism as it claims to be a group advocating for low- and moderate-income families that addresses housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and other social issues.[3]
Beneath that surface lie violence, intimidation, threats, race baiting and direct physical attacks on property, people and the legal establishment.
Without going into the myriad details, many ACORN policy proposals are widely considered to be in line with the far left wing of the Democratic Party.[4]
If you are asking yourself what could possibly be so ‘bad’ with a group that in theory advocates for low income families, then you’ve just given yourself the reason this group has been allowed to thrive in America with little scrutiny and under the radar of main street observation until now.[5]
In truth, ACORN is the most virulent, organized crime group in this decade...and it is funded by YOU.
Put simply, ACORN is ripping off the taxpayer through Congressional hand outs.[6] In fact, ACORN was recently due to receive nearly $700 million of the $700 billion dollar bailout bill until Republicans in the Senate redlined it.[7]
Allow that to sink in for a moment: $700 million from the US for an organized crime group.
Yes, ACORN has been receiving Obama campaign funding, but what’s worse is that ACORN leaders are actively extorting money from banks, mortgage brokers and Congress. To add insult to injury, ACORN is costing Americans millions to investigate all of its criminal activities across America.
And then there’s the end of the democratic process through valid elections.[8] Yes, ACORN is behind much of the rampant voter fraud.[9] ACORN has been involved with fraudulent voter registrations for years.[10] In fact, Missouri has 8 ACORN guilty pleas on record (for 2006 violations of federal voting laws) just this year. Many other states are investigating many hundreds of cases of voter fraud in their jurisdiction.[11] We have compelling evidence that ACORN has been involved in fraudulent voter registration since early in the 2007 launch of the Obama campaign.
But we don’t stop at faulty funding and voter fraud. Obama’s community organizational skills are synonymous with totalitarian tactics as its leaders use violence, intimidation, threats, racial baiting and direct physical attacks on property, persons and the legal establishment.[12] When you shed the shell, there is just no good to the group known as ACORN. It is corrupt and without any upside.
With a group like ACORN running rampant in government and shaking hands in Washington, why not legitimize the Bloods and The Crypts? They too are street gangs but they just happen to push drugs instead of bogus registrations drives and sub-prime mortgage deals.
Uncle Sam should be putting ACORN at the top of its list as internal terrorist groups, yet the red, white and blue sense of justice seems to be crumbling. Many numbed citizens just roll their eyes at groups like ACORN simply because America has unfortunately become deadened to the idea that politicians have ulterior motives, nameless agenda’s and behave unscrupulously at times.
However, the rest of this American story is without filtering or fear.
The disturbing reason more ACORN activities go un-prosecuted is because the FEC as well as the FBI have refused to open investigations out of fear of rocking the Obama campaign.[13]
The MOST disturbing fact you need to know about ACORN is that its organizers have terrorized the Federal justice and law enforcement system into NON-action.
How can one group get away with so much? Because ACORN has many Democratic backers in Congress who work tirelessly for its perpetuation and the head ACORN nut is Senator Obama.[14] In fact, Senator Obama is so entwined in ACORN it has become a career and campaign double helix in his DNA.
If you’re asking yourself what Obama has to do with ACORN, consider this:
Obama has served ACORN as its attorney, has been its direct action trainer, its mentor, its contractor, and its PRIMARY illegal campaign funder. ACORN is part of the ‘Community Organizing’ experience his evil empire would like to bring into the White House.[15]
American men and American women should be recognizing that mother freedom is on the brink of extinction with one single NUT trampling all over liberty.
Who will be left sleeping peacefully at night as the ACORN marks the beginning of Socialism in America brought to you courtesy of Barack Obama?[16] With ACORN intact or worse, empowered in the White House, American Democracy will be a legend long gone. Socialism and criminality will be the rule.
