Month: February 2024

Keystone Town Hall Hears From Magnolia Women’s Center; Gets Legal Update On Election Actions

Keystone Town Hall Hears From Magnolia Women’s Center; Gets Legal Update On Election Actions — Melissa Aguilera, yesterday, Feb. 8 passionately explained the mission of the Magnolia Women’s Center at a Keystone Town Hall in Malvern, Pa.

Mrs. Aguilera, who is the center’s executive director, had two abortions decades ago in her teens and described the trauma she suffered from them. She said she doesn’t want young women to go through what she experienced. She said abortion is absolutely taking a life.

Magnolia is at 7811 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia and would be an excellent fundraising project for a church or charity.

Also speaking was a representative of the Election Research Institute (ERI) who detailed Dawn Keefer et al vs Joseph Biden et al filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

As it is a federal case it will bypass the shamelessly partisan Pennsylvania judicial system.

Ms. Keefer, who represents the 92nd District in the Pennsylvania House, and 26 other legislators say their civil rights as legislators were violated by executive orders, emails and edicts by Gov. Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania Department of State, and President Joe Biden. These violated blackletter state law — not to mention the U.S. and Pennsylvania constitutions — regarding running elections.

The ERI rep also said that E&S voting machines used in Northhampton, Cumberland and Philadelphia counties will remain despite having been found to have flipped votes last November in Northhampton County, and despite being objectively non-compliant with standards set by state law.

She also described how the Pennsylvania Department of State has issued an edict that motor voter registrations must be accepted even if driver license or Social Security numbers don’t match the name.

This again, violates blackletter state law. Counties are actually compelled to ignore it but they are guided, sheep-like, by solicitors afraid to cross Shapiro and the Pennsylvania judiciary.

Gary Heasley noted how an Ohio sheriff has said terror threats are at an unprecedented level because of our open border and that there are five cyber attacks per day on his small county by the Chinese. He also noted that America’s budget now includes $1 trillion per year in interest payments on the debt.

Heasley said that a recent Gallup poll has 43 percent of Americans calling themselves independent with those calling themselves Republicans or Democrats split at 27 percent.

When pushed as to which way they leaned, 45 percent said Republican and 43 percent Democrat.

Keystone Town Hall Hears From Magnolia Women's Center; Gets Legal Update On Election Actions

Keystone Town Hall Hears From Magnolia Women’s Center; Gets Legal Update On Election Actions

US Workers Lose Ground To Foreign-Born In January

US Workers Lose Ground To Foreign-Born In January

By Joe Guzzardi

The monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report should be called the original “fake news.” Such is the case with the January 2024 report which announced that the economy added 353,000 jobs. Each month, District of Columbia’s anonymous civil servants grind out much-anticipated jobs data that Wall Street and financial journalists latch onto as the nation’s financial health indicators. Market analysts tout the monthly data to reaffirm their existing economic beliefs, be they good or bad. The first BLS Commissioner, Carroll D. Wright, described the Bureau’s mandate as “the fearless publication of the facts.” The BLS website claims that “Just the Facts” is a core value. When asked, “Is the glass half empty or half full?” BLS responds elusively that it sees an 8-ounce glass containing 4 ounces.

A few years ago, a critic called the BLS report “the big lie” because among its other flaws the original monthly data was subject to revisions, often significant. These late changes concern Federal Reserve officials. We must make decisions in real time,” Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Christopher Waller said late last year. “Whatever data is released, that’s the data I have to use. The problem with data is it gets revised.”

Revisions, which can come more than months after initial reports are published, wouldn’t necessarily be so much of an issue if they were relatively small. However, many revisions over the past few years have been game-changers.

The January BLS report could trigger history’s biggest game-changing revision. Zero Hedge (ZH), which lists as one of its manifestos, “to skeptically examine and, where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has become” mocked the January release as a “clown show,” and as the election season heats up, fulfilling its mandate from the White House “to make the economy look double super good-good.” And, speaking of revisions, ZH noted that in January BLS conducted its “annual re-benchmarking and update of seasonal adjustment factors.” The bottom line—what was until December a decline in jobs, the BLS has now been miraculously transformed declines into gains. 

The glowing report ignored the following lay-offs as a total percentage of their workforce: Twitch, 35%; Hasbro, 20%; Spotify, 17%; Levi’s, 15%; Xerox, 15%; Qualtrics, 14%; Wayfair: 13%; Duolingo, 10%; Washington Post, 10%; eBay, 9%; Business Insider, 8%; PayPal, 7% Charles Schwab, 6%; UPS, 2%; Blackrock, 3%; iRobot, 31%; Citigroup: 20,000 employees and Pixar, 1,300 employees. This month, nearly all Sports Illustrated staffers received layoff notices from the Arena Group, devastating the 70-year-old magazine that once set the standard for sports journalism. Most staff received 90-day notices, but many were immediately laid off. 

More inconvenient truths ZH exposed: BLS reported that in January 2024, the U.S. had 133.1 million full-time jobs and 27.9 million part-time jobs. The totals may sound good but look back one year to find that in February 2023, the U.S. had 133.2 million full-time jobs, slightly more than the economy did one year later. Predictably, the job growth is in low-paying, part-time jobs, which have increased by 870,000 since February 2023 from 27.020 million to 27.890 million.

The mainstream media, which had 20,000 job losses in 2023 across broadcast, digital and print industries with more recent media layoffs that include CBC, Vice Media and others, mostly ignored the most important fact buried in the January BLS report. In January, the number of native-born workers tumbled again, sliding by a massive 560, 000 to just 129.8 million. Add to this the December data, and a near-record 1.9 million plunge in native-born workers has occurred in the past two months. Not only has all job creation in the past four years gone exclusively to foreign-born workers, but since July 2018 there has been zero job-creation for native-born workers. 

With the illegal alien invasion poised to continue throughout the remainder of Biden’s first term—eleven months—and legal permanent residents added at one million-plus annually, the labor market will expand by about two million foreign-born workers each year. The Biden administration has unlawfully given about one million aliens parole, an immigration status that includes work permission. 

Foreign-born workers displacing Americans is an ongoing and accelerating tragedy that President Biden willfully imposed on citizens. Biden’s malfeasance should provide talking points for the White House and congressional candidates that seek to remove office holders who support the status quo.

 Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org

US Workers Lose Ground To Foreign-Born In January

US Workers Lose Ground To Foreign-Born In January

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Someone Else’s Fish

Someone Else’s Fish

Someone Else's Fish

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Election Concerns Again Expressed In Delco Pa

Election Concerns Again Expressed In Delco Pa — Election concerns were again expressed In Delaware County, Pa. and County Councilwoman Christine A. Reuther again, last night, Feb. 7, angrily dismissed them.

Joy Schwartz of Drexel Hill said it is impossible for ballots to be certified at the central counting center at the Wharf in a trustworthy way. The counting center is where the mail-in ballots are processed.

Mrs. Schwartz implored these ballots be returned to precincts where the counting can be observed by poll watchers and the election workers are familiar with residents.

It is not widely known but poll watchers do not have the same rights and powers at counting centers as they do at precincts.

Mrs. noted that our security for our elections have been practically outsourced to the corporations that make voting machines and writer their softeare.

She demanded that the counting center be closed and the counting of mail in ballots be returned to precinct

Also expressing concerns about our elections was Barb Lewis of Radner specifically regarding the SURE system which is how Pennsylvania tracks registered voters.

Ms. Reuther said it was unfortunate that people still spread doubts about elections in Delaware County.

We say look in the mirror. We say it is pretty weird to fight open record requests regarding business correspondence especially when the state arbiters rule against you.

Also Carris Kocher of Concord pointed out that oaths of office are required by law at the prothonotary office. She said she looked for those of several Delaware County officials but was unable to find them.

Laws being ignored about small things is a sign that laws are being ignored about big ones.

Election Concerns Again Expressed In Delco Pa

Election Concerns Again Expressed In Delco Pa 

Could MLK’s Upland Dorm Room Become Public Place?

Could MLK’s Upland Dorm Room Become Public Place? — Delaware County (Pa) Council, yesterday, Feb. 7 approved a $10,000 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant to study turning the Old Main building on the Crozer Chester Medical Center campus in Upland into the MLK Center for Peace and Justice.

The Old Main was part of the Crozer Theological Seminary where Martin Luther King Jr. studied. His dorm room was in the Old Main.

Janet Lloyd Murphy of Middletown, whose idea the center is, gave a short presentation about the seminary before the vote.

Mrs. Murphy said the facility began as a teachers college but became a hospital during the Civil War. Union and Confederate soldiers were treated there and a Confederate soldier was actually housed in the room Rev. King would come to use.

Many of those treated had fought at Gettysburg.

Rev. King’s room is now apparently as storage space.

Mrs. Murphy has an excellent idea.

The building and surroundings are now owned by Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc. which desperately wants to get rid of them.

In other business, Council passed resolutions amending and restating the establishment of the Delaware County Heritage Commission. Council members described this as a routine bookkeeping matter.

Council also recognized February as Black History Month and American Heart Month.

Could MLK's Upland Dorm Room Become Public Place

Could MLK’s Upland Dorm Room Become Public Place

Locks Don’t Work At Delco Prison And Inmates Are Making Shivs

Locks Don’t Work At Delco Prison And Inmates Are Making Shivs — Delaware County Council, last night, Feb. 7, faced a contingent of correction officers from George Hill Prison who told them the locks on the cell doors don’t work and the prisoners are tasked with fixing them.

Which they don’t seem to be doing albeit they are making shivs from the materials they are given as per Officer Al Johnson of Morton.

Johnson, a 14-year veteran, said he has never seen it this bad. He blistered Councilman Kevin M. Madden who is on the county’s prison oversight board and has made comments to the media that conditions there were peachy.

He said suicides have increased as have assaults on staff and other prisoners

He said sexual abuse is heaped on the staff by the prisoners and the complaints are ignored by Warden Laura Williams.

Frank Kwaning, president of the Delaware County (Pa) Prison Employees Independent Union, reinforced Johnson. He also said Madden’s claims that everything was fine were false.

He said the facility is not safe for officers. When the staff makes complaints the warden retaliates against them.

He said he wants council to visit the prison and meet with staff without administrators present

Harriet Burgess of Drexel Hill said she was one of the victims of retaliation.

She had been a sergeant at the prison and was fired because she wouldn’t falsify documents, she said.

Ms. Burgess blasted Madden saying he was unfit to serve on either the oversight board or council. She also Warden Williams was not fit to serve, and that officers fear entering the cell blocks because the doors are not fixed.

She said there are thousands of OSHA violations at the prison.

When it came time for council comments, Elaine Paul Schaefer blithely thanked the correction officers for coming in but said they were wrong about conditions at the facility.

She said she knew because she used “data points”.

She then talked about the county trail system and how wonderful it was.

Madden, who was attending virtually, attempted to defend himself.

He accused Kwaning of making the claims as a union bargaining ploy. He said the prison wouldn’t let him tour without senior staff present.

One of the speakers claimed that Delco hired Warden Williams despite her being fired from Allegheny County Prison.

Madden defended her saying she had not been fired.

Whether she was fired or not it’s safe to say Allegheny County was not sorry to see her go.

Madden said the prison is much improved since the county took over from GEO Group on April 6, 2022 in response to some of the speakers pointedly saying otherwise.

The only councilmember that seemed to give a fig was Vice Chairman Richard R. Womack.

Womack said he was not going to take the correction officers at their word but that he will investigate. He said it was inexcusable for someone to be fired in retaliation for making a complaint. He said would visit the prison.

While he did not expect to be able to tour it without administration present, he would request that a union member accompany him, and that he would speak to the officers outside of the hearing of senior staff.

The officers in attendance gave him loud applause.

The growing crisis regarding the prison have been reported for more than year. The incompetence and indifference that led to the agonizing death of paraplegic inmate Mustafa Jackson did not get near the publicity it deserved.

Speakers say they expect a guard will eventually be killed.

For a story on the single moms and other parents who, last night, described abuse committed by the county’s Children and Youth Services visit here.

Locks Don't Work At Delco Prison And Inmates Are Making Shivs

Locks Don’t Work At Delco Prison And Inmates Are Making Shivs

CYS Horrors Revealed To Delco Council

CYS Horrors Revealed To Delco Council — Correctional officers appeared en masse, last night, Feb. 7 to berate Delaware County (Pa) Council, about conditions at George W. Hill Prison

And numerous parents — including several single moms — gave them horror stories about the county’s Children and Youth Services (CYS)

If the CYS stories are even half true, council should resign en masse.

Actually, the same holds true for the prison. See other story.

Regarding CYS, Rael LaPenta of Upper Chichester described the nightmare she was put through when her ex-husband sicced the agency on her.

She had custody of the children but says her ex cooked up a complaint and the county people took her son from her ignoring established protocols.

Ms LaPenta fought and was able to get him back but the removals happened twice again. Again, she fought and regained custody but the legal battles continued. She began reaching out to public officials for help including Councilwoman Christine A. Reuther. After months of trying, she finally met with her in December. Ms. LaPenta said she has since ignored her.

She asked council to intervene as they had direct oversight of the agency.

Ms. LaPenta had more to say but speakers are allowed just three minutes.

Ashley Green of Ridley Park followed her. Ms. Green is a teacher. She said she lost nine months of her child’s life along with her teaching certificate because CYS accepted allegations of abuse from the child’s father.

They placed the child in the custody of someone who was the father’s choice before she managed to get him back after nine months.

She said she had an active protection of abuse order against the father when the agency took her child.

Sharon Poole of Glenn Mills cried whe she told her story. Ms. Poole is a registered nurse. She said CYS took her son after accepting unfounded allegations from the father. While in the father’s custody they made the boy wear a dress and the father’s girlfriend abused him including penetrating his anus with her finger, Ms. Poole said.

Ms. Poole also asked the county to impose direct oversight and create a clear policy as to when children may be removed. The policy should provide detailed formal explanations to parents as to why it is happening, and what their recourses are.

“How many kids not safe in this country?” she said. “When will this change?”

Bill Ruane of Springfield said that while living Westbrook Park in Clifton Heights he called CYS when he saw a child lying on a bare bed frame amidst vomit.

He said he was told an investigator would not be able to appear for several days despite the apparent danger to the child. Apparently CYS did contact the family but nothing was done.

Anyway he and his wife had a child just before a recent Christmas and they received a surprise visit from CYS agents. They explained that they were following an anonymous report that the couple was using meth and heroin.

The Ruanes let the agents tour and consented to a swab of their mouths to test for drug residue.

They hadn’t heard back for a period and that after New Year’s the checked back and were told that the wife had tested positive for meth.

It was a false positive but obviously the claim by a government agency is terrifying.

In the Ruanes’ case, they never lost custody.

Anthony Mix (sp) of Chester told council the CYS was wrongfully taking kids

The only council member to show any sincere concern was Vice Chairman Richard R. Womack.

For more on the meeting see other stories.

CYS Horrors Revealed To Delco Council

Nana’s Attic Has Moved To Drexel Hill; Will Be Renamed

Nana’s Attic Has Moved To Drexel Hill; Will Be Renamed — Delaware County Council, yesterday, Feb. 7, hear an update regarding the Domestic Abuse Project from its executive director, Michelle Brown.

Ms. Brown noted that the Project’s thrift shop Nana’s Attic has moved from Lawrence Park in Marple to Drexel Hill where it will be called Thrift and Thrive.

Council approved a $25,000 grant for the Project.

Council unanimously approved 20 consent items. These included:

  • Buying 300 gross 12-by-16-inch American flags for Memorial Day for $35,856
  • Amending an agreement with Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson for construction inspection services for County Bridge #7 on New Road in Aston. The value of the contract will increase from $393,243.47 to $602,150.56.
  • Advertising a request for proposal for a temporary emergency shelter
  • A contract with Eastern Highway Specialist Inc. for rehabilitation of County Bridge 72 on Maple Avenue over Darby Creek connecting Clifton Heights and Upper Darby
  • A Memorandum of Understanding with Villanova University to submit their Covid-19 for housing for Covid-19 affected students to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for reimbursement.

Nicholas Penza of Aston during public comments question the agenda items regarding Villanova the Aston bridge and the emergency shelter.

He was told the university needed a government agency to make the request by federal law and the county obliged. Regarding the others, he was told the county couldn’t do a question and answer at the meeting but members could be contacted afterwards via email or by phone.

He, along with a woman who also had questions, were told the could also watch yesterday’s work session on video where the items were discussed in detail.

Nana's Attic Has Moved To Drexel Hill

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day. PsalmsAnswer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.