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Michael Savage calls for "nationalist party" with a "charismatic leader"; globalists respond - 01/06/13

Speaking on the Aaron Klein radio show earlier today, radio host Michael Savage said among other things this: "We need a nationalist party in the United States of America... [the Tea Partiers] need to restructure their party. They need a charismatic leader, which they don’t have... When you say Tea Party no one knows who the leader is because there is no leader,” he said. β€œNo man has stepped forward who can lead that party." Some notes:

Matt Yglesias thinks "Offshoring Is Fine" - 07/17/12

Matt Yglesias of Slate continues his slow, shallow descent into becoming Tom Friedman Jr. with "Offshoring Is Fine" [1].

Pete Hoekstra's Chinese "Now" ad (Debbie Spendit Now, Super Bowl, racism, stupidity, corruption) - 02/06/12

The video below (cached) is a controversial new ad from former Rep. Pete Hoekstra that ran during the Super Bowl. In it he calls his opponent for Senate from Michigan Debbie Stabenow "Debbie Spendit Now" and refers people to the site debbiespenditnow.com.

Globalist Rep. Keith Ellison: "God willing, one day the border will become an irrelavancy" - 12/22/10

The attached video has Rep. Keith Ellison saying the following around the 8:40 mark: "God willing, one day the border will become an irrelevancy." This quote wasn't taken out of context; the video below (from the Network of Spiritual Progressives Conference in June 2010) shows the full context, even if the camera operator adjusts something during that part of his speech. Ellison's appearance was to promote a bill he wrote called the "Global Marshall Plan", and part 2 ( peekURL.com/vh79wrs ) has more on that and shows him to be quite the globalist. And, note how even the crowd seems to be...

Are the American people "obsolete"? Do the super-rich no longer need Americans? - 08/04/10

Michael Lind of the New America Foundation offers "Are the American people obsolete?" (link) which basically claims that the rich (or what I think would be more accurately called the superrich) no longer really need Americans to obtain money or to defend them.

Obama admin to close office that tracks jobs lost to outsourcing - 03/04/10

Via "Obama Solution to Stop Outsourcing: Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced (No, Seriously!)" (link) comes this: Like a scorekeeper for the world, a tiny unit within the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks globalization's winners and losers, and the results are not always pretty for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have fallen faster since 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs dropped here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia. Soon, however, Americans may be spared the demoralization in these numbers: The White House wants to shutter...