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The decline of the entertainment industry is all around us. Movie ticket sales have dropped sharply even with inflated numbers from IMAX and 3D movies. Network viewership has declined even more dramatically leaving big three letter networks with numbers that look more like cable. Even the music industry is a ghost of its former self.

The entertainment industry has done its best to disguise this state of affairs with glamor and big numbers. More money is invested in bigger budget projects than ever before, and some of those projects yield incredible sales numbers, but the occasional megahit can’t disguise the overall decay of the basic business model as more and more money has to be spent to draw in a declining base. It now costs more to promote a successful movie, show or performer than it takes to produce the creative content. The hundreds of millions of dollars that used to go into product development go into sales now. And the sales look good until you start taking a close look at the big picture and the bottom line. No matter how big the hits are, overall ticket sales are down, television viewership is down and there is no relief in sight.

The industry has blamed the Internet, and while technology has historically played a role in eclipsing and destabilizing technology linked entertainment business models, which movies, television and the music business certainly are, it’s an insufficient explanation. The Internet is a source of creative chaos, but the source of the entertainment industry’s woes come from inside its own gates.

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/president-obama-s-myopic-view-of-the-muslim-brotherhood?render=print#print

Special thanks to Jeffrey Hochman, a former American police sergeant now living in Israel, for his invaluable help in acquiring intelligence reports regarding terrorist groups.

President Barack Obama’s view of the Muslim Brotherhood is based on his — and his advisors’ — apparent rationale that the Islamist group is reformed and much more like the American and European models of pluralistic societies.

However, experts on Islam and terrorism claim that the Muslim Brotherhood’s — and the radical Salafists — dominance of the Egyptian government, by virtue of its recent parliamentary election victories, will eventually lead to the imposition of Sharia law on Islamic Arabs and jihad against infidels.

“Nothing the Obama administration is trying to do through its aggressive overtures, including recent high-level meetings with Muslim Brotherhood officials, will change that fact. Jihad is embedded in its history, as evidenced by the violent Islamic jihadist organizations such as Hamas that it spawned. And let’s not forget that it was the Muslim Brotherhood that gave Osama bin Laden’s former deputy and current leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, his start,” said attorney and World Net Daily investigative journalist Joseph Klein.

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Belmont—Fishtown-7250

“Worst of all, a growing proportion of the people who run the institutions of our country have never known any other culture. They are the children of upper-middle-class parents, have always lived in upper-middle-class neighborhoods and gone to upper-middle-class schools. Many have never worked at a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day, never had a conversation with an evangelical Christian, never seen a factory floor, never had a friend who didn’t have a college degree, never hunted or fished. They are likely to know that Garrison Keillor’s monologue on Prairie Home Companion is the source of the phrase “all of the children are above average,” but they have never walked on a prairie and never known someone well whose IQ actually was below average.”

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287424/obama-skirts-democratic-process-andrew-c-mccarthy

Obama Skirts the Democratic Process
The president has exceeded his powers, and the GOP won’t stop him.

President Obama has fulfilled a second Tom Friedman fantasy — the first being that he is, in fact, President Obama. “I have fantasized#…#that, what if we could just be China for a day,” the New York Times star columnist gushed for his ponderous fellow travelers on Meet the Press. “I mean where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions.”

It was May 2010, not long after Obama and a Congress dominated by Democrats had rammed through Obamacare, the most sweeping government usurpation of private industry and individual liberty in American history. Soon they’d be adding Dodd-Frank’s paralyzing intrusion into the financial sector. Yet, despite the shock and awe of hope and change, here was the Progressive Poobah, grousing that “my democracy” was failing “to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness” as a totalitarian Communist dictatorship. After all, unburdened by our remnants of free-market competition, by the gridlock and sausage-making of two-party politics, the Chicoms produce trade and budget surpluses, state-of-the-art airports, and enviro-friendly high-speed rail. All we can manage, “on everything from the economy to environment,” Friedman complained, are “suboptimal solutions” — apparently not to be confused with the optimal Chinese menu of forced abortions, religious repression, secret police, kangaroo courts, and air you could cut with a chopstick.

#ad#Friedman is surely smiling today. So, we can assume, are other leftists, such as Peter Orszag, Obama’s former budget-overrun director, and Bev Perdue, the governor of North Carolina. Right after the midterm shellacking that swept Republicans into control of the House — a roadblock that has stymied some, but by no means all, of Obama’s transformational agenda — they said aloud what other Democrats were thinking: America’s problem is too much democracy. This week, the president solved that problem, shoving another page of the suboptimal Constitution through his made-in-China shredder.

In sum, Obama dissolved the separation of powers, the framers’ ingenious bulwark against any government branch’s seizure of supreme power — and thus the Constitution’s bulwark against tyranny. The president claims the power to appoint federal officers without the Senate’s constitutionally mandated advice and consent. He does so by claiming unilateral powers to dictate when the Senate is in session, a power the Constitution assigns to Congress, and to decree that an ongoing session is actually a recess. This sheer ukase, he says, triggers the part of the Constitution we’re keeping because he likes it — viz., the executive power to fill vacancies without any vetting by the people’s representatives.

So unemployment is down huh? Does this give President Obama something to crow about? My brilliant e-pal Jan Poller responds so well that today it’s his say…..a note to those who still support the president…

“Your beloved President and Dear Leader has now declared that he will rule by Decree. He is going to ignore Congress and ignore the constitution.

He has helped establish the Muslim Brotherhood throughout North Africa, Gaza and elsewhere. He has allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate the U.S. government in all its branches, even into the White House. He is promoting the Taliban in Afghanistan. He is allowing the Iranians to get nukes and establish bases in Venezuela so they can threaten our country.

Do remember what is happening to Christians throughout the Muslim world. Don’t forget that Iranians hang Gay men and Gay Palestinians seek refuge in Israel so they won’t be tortured and killed.

He us decimating the military so that we won’t be able to protect ourselves.

He is ruining our economy.

And you are helping him.

Shame on you.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ “Preparing for a worst case scenario by retreating back to indefensible borders is like preparing to be attacked by tying your hands behind your back and downing a handful of sleeping pills.” BAD STRATEGY Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.) has achieved a middling reputation among people who don’t know any better as the go-to organization […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ A SYRIAN PUNCHLINE The Arab League, which partially backed NATO action against Gaddafi, sent a team of observers to monitor Syria’s human rights, with the different factions pushing them one way or another. The Arab League’s word could justify all sorts of interventions which would then appear to have the backing of the Muslim […]

http://pjmedia.com/blog/seasons-in-hell-the-brutality-of-americas-modern-day-slave-trade/?print=1

Cold indifference to the plight of these women and children is what makes this exploitation possible.

Nineteen-year-old Carina Saunders of Mustang, Oklahoma, was reported missing on September 28 of 2011 though investigators found reports of people seeing her alive and well in early October. On October 13, animal welfare workers looking for feral cats found the decapitated and mutilated body of Carina in a duffel bag behind a grocery store [1]. It is believed the corpse was there several days before the gruesome discovery. Police had to initially look at her tattoos to determine an identity.

Authorities at first focused on a young “Juggalo” named Cody Perez [2], a violent ex-con who had recently pawned his set of chef’s knives and fled the area. After all, a brutal killing by a fan of the band Insane Clown Posse would just be another crime in a long list of sensational stories involving the group. But police cleared Perez after a nine week investigation with dozens of witnesses uncovered a crime that seemed to come straight out of a horror movie by a group of criminals most Americans thought were long extinct — slavers. We use the term “human traffickers” now, which sounds much more modern and urbane — as if the victims are willing cargo on some underground railroad. But the reality is that America’s modern day slave trade is as barbaric and brutal as slavery was before emancipation.

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/01/islamism_at_ucla_law_school.html

Why is Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl, a champion of sharia law, a law professor at UCLA? More

Islamism at UCLA Law School By Jamie Glazov

My guest today is George Aaron, an alumnus and graduate of the 1976 class of the UCLA School of Law. He practices Social Security disability law in Tarzana, California. He is starting a public campaign for alumni to withhold donating money to the UCLA School of Law.

Glazov: George Aaron, thank you for taking the time out to talk about your public campaign.

Tell us about this effort you are starting to convince alumni to withhold donating money to the UCLA School of Law. It is connected to Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl, a champion of sharia law, presently being a law professor at your law school, yes?

Bill O’Reilly ‘Obama Is No Hypocrite’ Jessica Rubin

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O’REILLY IS AN ARROGANT AND POMPOUS PINHEAD WITH AN OUTSIZE EGO AND PINSIZED TALENT….RSK

Last night, in his Talking Points segment, Bill O’Reilley proclaimed that “Obama is no hypocrite.” According to O’Reilley this is the case because “Obama does what he thinks is right.”

Does what he thinks is right? That makes Obama a straight shooter? How about doing one thing and saying another? How about doing the opposite of what you promise? Maybe O’Reilly buys into the progressive motto that hypocrisy for the sake of social justice is no vice.

Here area a few of Obama’s abject hypocrisies: