(RFA Chinese) Human Rights Activists Petition the White House
to Stop Suppressing Taiwan and her National Flag
Flashback: In 2008 then presidential candidate Sen Barack Obama promised his Marxist counterparts before and after the election that he would continue to support the ‘One China Policy’ of totalitarianism for U.S. ally Taiwan.
Su Changlan, China Guangdong Human Rights Activist
Image Courtesy: Ed Connelly@Twitter
(RFA) Chen Dequan says that his wife Su Changlan arrested in October and formally charged in December on the trumped up charges of ‘incitement to subvert state authority’ by the China regime following her support of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution now says that she has been denied legal counsel and family visits.
On the 19 November, ‘Women Rights in China’ reported that Su was arrested by the Nanhai Public Safety Bureau accused of ‘provocation’ her lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan has been refused permission to see her twice.
“They told me that it would be ‘inappropriate’ to release the details of the case–I wanted them to make public her state of health but they refused,” said Chen, who had made a formal request for information from the China regime and police on Su’s case.
Su’s lawyer Liu told ‘Radio Free Asia’ that Chen and the rest of the family are naturally are anxious to discover whether Su has been forced to make a confession and they are also concerned about her state of health.
On the 29 December, I wrote here about Han Ying, who has also been taken away by China regime after she publicly supported ‘Hong Kong’s Freedom Revolution’ authorities and charged with ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ and has been detained at Beijing’s Fengtai Detention Center.
On the 13 January, South China Morning Post reported ‘Umbrella Revolution’ organizers in Hong Kong, plan a new march for freedom and democracy on the 01 February, 50,000 people are expected to participate.
(LA Times) Have You Seen Comet Lovejoy? Should You Miss it
in January, It Won’t Return for 8,000 Years
Disgusting: GloZell Eats Cereal from Bathtube –Images: ABC News
(LA Times) Obama has time for a 1 hr sit down interview with GloZell but has no time to meet with Israel PM Netanyahu in March or to visit our Southern Border last year because he’s not interested in photo-ops.
Riiight…
Obama Whines, Israel PM Netanyahu Committed “Faux Pas’ by Not Clearing March Washington Trip with Them –Image: LessGovMoreFun
(AP) Obama will snub Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu (again) when he travels to Washington in March to address a Joint Session of Congress.
Obama’s Natl Security spokesperson Bernadette Meehan claimed that in keeping with “long standing practice and principle” the president does not meet with heads of state or candidates in close proximity to their elections.
Huh???
That ‘long standing principle’ sure didn’t stop Obama from meeting with Members of the Muslim Brotherhood at the White House in April, 2012 as the Washington Post reported, Members of the Muslim Brotherhood began a week long charm offensive in Washington meeting with White House Officials.
Nor from the Obama Administration calling for the Muslim Brotherhood to have a role in the political process in Egypt as Bloomberg/Businessweek reported following the overthrow of Islamic Fascist Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi as I wrote here in July, 2013 and the subsequent violent clashes between the military backed Egyptian government and the Muslim Brotherhood as I wrote here in August, 2013 that the Obama Administration were attempting to prop-up.
Could it be that Obama’s so called ‘long standing principle’ isn’t so much a ‘principle’ at all but instead another opportunity to snub Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu again as he did in 2010 and again in 2011 because Obama just doesn’t like him?
Related: Obama Meets With Anti-Israel, Pro-Hamas Groups –FrontPage
(NY Daily News) Wah, Wah, Wah — Obama Administration said Wednesday, Netanyahu Committed a ‘Faux Pas’ by Accepting an Invite from Congress Without Clearing it With Them –Image: Minutemen News
Obama’s Latest Brainstorm of ‘More Free Stuff’
Image: Joe Thompson@Twitter
(CNN) The most compelling reason to save for your child’s college education in a 529 Plan has been for the tax savings–One can sock away up to $14,000 a year according to the IRS (which one of course pays taxes on when earned) for a child’s college costs and pay no capital gains taxes on the interest when the funds are used to pay for educational costs–Well that’s the plan now unless Obama has his way.
Obama’s latest brainstorm: To strip away 529 College Saving Plans of their key tax breaks–Savings would still be tax deferred but withdrawals on any new deposits made into the 529’s would be taxed as ordinary income to the beneficiary (actually double taxed as one pays income taxes on the money earned before socking it away into a 529 account) Still, why remove the incentive to sock away money to pay for a child’s future education costs?
To the Obama Administration its all about ‘fairness’ (fair for who? Who decides what is fair? Obama?) adding that tax-free distribution of money from 529 accounts unfairly benefits high income earners.
Under Obama’s proposal, one must disincentivize college savings and investment to make children dependent on the government (taxpayers) for their future educational costs.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Senior Obama Administration official said, “Under the president’s plan, every dollar saved from consolidating and curbing inefficient tax breaks and tens of billions more–is plowed right back into higher education tax benefits for students and middle-class families. In particular, families with incomes of up to $180,000 (Obama’s latest definition of who is rich) will be able to benefit from the expanded Opportunity Tax Credit.”
This so called, ‘Opportunity Tax Credit’ provides more benefit to lower income students, in part because it pays ‘cash’ to students who don’t make enough to pay income taxes.
So let me see if I have this straight. Obama now wants to allow the government to tax (confiscate) interest earned in ‘529 College Saving Plans’ (which one has already paid federal and state income taxes on the money earned before socking funds away for a child’s future college costs) in an effort to be ‘Fair’ to lower income Americans that will qualify for an ‘Opportunity Tax Credit’ paying them tax-free cash to help pay their educational costs.
Whatever happened to Obama’s ‘firm pledge’ not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 annually?
Flashback Video: Remember in 2008 when then presidential candidate Sen. Obama claimed in Dover, New Hampshire:
“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
It sounds like its time to roll-over monies saved in 529’s while children are still young and one intends to continue to save for their future college costs for some years to come, into some other investment vehicle — Tax free municipals are looking better-and-better all the time.
(MSN) Obama SOTU: ‘With a Growing Economy, Shrinking Deficits’
Huh??? What Parallel Universe Does he Live?
At This Moment U.S. Federal Debt $18.093+Trillion –Image: WSJ
During Obama’s Watch the Federal Debt
has Exploded by $7.5 Trillion –Weekly Standard
Video Flashback: Remember in 2008 when Sen. Obama claimed adding
(WFB Video) NBC’s Richard Engle Blasts Obama’s
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