Clarity from Chaos

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THE NEW AMERICA

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HEY, MICHELLE: Here’s 7 Ways You & Barack Made America NOT Great

by Dan Perkins
Clash Daily Guest Contributor

As I was driving home this past weekend, I heard on the radio about the breaking news of the killing of three policemen and the wounding of three others in Baton Rouge. A great fear came over me, I found myself asking, “Is this the beginning of the American Sunset?”, “is this the end of the great experiment started by our founding fathers?”

Are there signs that the American Empire is over? After doing some research, I found 8 ways to tell if it is over, and for the most part, they come from Saul Alinsky. He told us his theory and I have found the scary facts that support the idea of the end of America.

Many of you are probably asking who is Saul Alinsky and why is he so important? Saul David Alinsky died in June of 1972, and he was a community organizer and writer before Barack Obama. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. His often quoted 1971 book “Rules for Radicals”, became the handbook for radicals including President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Alinsky received much criticism, but also gained praise from many public figures for his work. He focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across North America. In the 1950’s, he began turning his attention to improving conditions in the African-American ghettos, beginning with Chicago and later traveling to other ghettos in California, Michigan, New York City, and a dozen other “trouble spots”.

His ideas were adapted in the 1960’s by some U.S. college students including Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary wrote a college thesis on Alinsky and his goals. In 1970, Time magazine wrote, “It is not too much to argue that American Democracy is being altered by Alinsky’s ideas.” So, what did he believe?

Healthcare

Alinsky believed that Hitler was the founder of universal healthcare; he believed his collective universal healthcare concept was “racial hygiene,” the elimination of certain “undesirable” segments of the society, as life not worth living. Under the appearance of reproductive freedom, black women are committing genocide on their own people.

According to the Guttmacher Institute “abortion rates among Black women are much higher than we thought: They are four times the rate of white women.”

The highest abortion rates among Black teens occur in Texas (78 per 1,000), New York (76 per 1,000), Delaware (51 per 1,000), Michigan (45 per 1,000), Ohio (35 per 1,000) and Rhode Island (30 per 1,000).

While Black women account for 13 percent of the female population, they accounted for 30 percent of all abortions. In New York City, the number of Black abortions exceeds the number of Black live births.

Poverty

“Poor People are easier to control and will not fight back if the government is providing everything for them to live.” The Chart below shows what has been happening to the poverty level in America.

poverty

Government Debt

Increase the National Debt to an unsustainable level.” That way you are able to increase taxes to pay the interest on the debt, and this will produce more poverty by taking a larger share of household income.

debt

Take away their guns

“Remove the ability of Americans to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a Police State – total local control.”

See these:

Time to get rid of the Second Amendment?

Repeal the Second Amendment– Baltimore Sun

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Get Rid of Second Amendment 

Yes, Hillary Wants to Get Rid of the Second Amendment

Welfare

“The government takes control of every aspect of their lives (Food,
Livestock, Housing, and Income).”

welfare

Education

“Take control of what People read & listen to; take control of what Children learn in School.”

American test scores ranking along with International Test Scores:

Math

Grade 4, 12th Grade 8, 28th Grade 12, 19th

Science

Grade 4, 3rd Grade 8, 17th Grade 12, 16th

Religion

Jacqueline Martin’s research entitled “Its all about me” concludes that the decline of religion and the dramatic increase in secularism is the result of generations with a “me” focus, with little or no attention to the needs of others. She claims that the millennials with their “me focus” are now driving the decline.

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Class Warfare

Mark Hendrickson writing in Forbes magazine said:

“Those who believe in individual rights and liberty always have tended to reject the Marxian paradigm that pits the rich against the poor. Today, we hear all about this alleged class warfare. President Obama harps on income inequality, so does the IMF. French economist Thomas Piketty’s current bestseller, “Capital in the 21st Century,” echoes the same theme.

Well, I have bad news for both those on the right and those on the left: Yes, there is class warfare in America, but it’s not between the rich and poor, but between the political class and the rest of the citizenry who bear the brunt of political power and pay the price in lost liberty, property, and opportunity.”

Racial inclusiveness was a major chord in Obama’s speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and on that note, he proclaimed:

“There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America – there’s the United States of America.”

The Democratic Left funded along with George Soros MoveOn.Org, which built Black Lives Matter.

The Gallup Poll of March 2-6, 2016 reported:

In U.S., Concern About Crime Climbs to 15-Year High

Percentage of Americans who worry “A GREAT DEAL” about crime violence:

53% worry “a great deal” about crime, compared with 39% in 2014

44% are concerned about drug use, also up significantly since 2014

60% Say Race Relations Have Gotten Worse

A new Rasmussen Report national telephone survey finds that 60% of likely U.S. voters think race relations are worse since President Obama’s election nearly eight years ago. That’s an 18-point jump from 42% in late 2014 and up from 43% when we first asked the question in August 2013. Just nine percent (9%) believe race relations are better now, little changed from the previous survey, while 28% say they have stayed about the same.

The above numbers are already so overwhelming that they may not be reversible. If Hillary becomes President the balance scale of survival may well tilt towards destruction of America. More spending with no significant increase in revenue from taxes paid on increasing profits and wages may well rapidly accelerate the ultimate collapse of America.

Many Americans find it difficult to believe that we are on the brink of no longer being America. We will still be called America on the maps, but be assured we will no longer be America, at least the America I knew. As our financial resources diminish because we are taking care of more and more people from cradle to grave we become more vulnerable to foreign attacks both financially and physically.

I believe the reason for the high percentage of worry about crime and the awful race relations in America is because the people who are bound by the chains of dependency on the government feel constrained and they want more. Generations of Americans, depending on the government to survive have breed contempt for the government and those Americans who have more than they do. They have reached the point of desperation to break the chains of oppression.

Glenn Beck said recently, that America is a country of rugged individualism. I fear that Glenn may be living in the past, for the rugged I see in the future is the type of lives we may well face.

Dan Perkins is a currents events commentator who writes for: The Daily Caller.com, TheHill.com, thedailysurge.com, and Reganbaby.com. He is the author of the trilogy on radical Islamic nuclear terrorism against the United States called, The Brotherhood of the Red Nile. Dan can be heard on his weekly radio show on W4CYradio.com on Tuesdays at 8 PM Eastern

The Flipside

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“Doubling down on his feud with the Democratic Party leadership, Senator Bernie Sanders said that if elected president, he will not reappoint Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.

He made the comments during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that is set to air on Sunday. Mr. Sanders also said he was supporting Tim Canova, a law professor who has begun an insurgent campaign against Ms. Wasserman Schultz for her South Florida congressional seat. They will face off in a primary this summer.

“Well, clearly, I favor her opponent,” Mr. Sanders told Mr. Tapper. “His views are much closer to mine.”

For months, Mr. Sanders has accused the party of favoring Hillary Clinton, often calling her the “anointed candidate.”

He has criticized the party for a debate schedule that his campaign says favors Mrs. Clinton; an arrangement under which Mrs. Clinton raises money for the party; and the appointment of Clinton supporters as leaders of important convention committees.

Most recently, he and the party have sparred over what happened at the Nevada Democratic convention a week ago. There, Sanders supporters disrupted the proceedings in a fight over delegates and the state party chairwoman was later threatened. After the party rebuked Mr. Sanders for not clearly condemning what had occurred, his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, accused Ms. Wasserman Schultz of “throwing shade on the Sanders campaign from the very beginning.”

This week, Ms. Wasserman Schultz pushed back against the Sanders campaign in an interview with CNN. “We’ve had the same rules in place that elected Barack Obama,” she told the network. “These rules were adopted for state parties all across the country in 2014.”

In a statement on Saturday, she said that “even though Senator Sanders has endorsed my opponent, I remain, as I have been from the beginning, neutral in the presidential Democratic primary.”

BIO: Michael Loftus is a writer and comedian who is currently hosts the syndicated show The Flipside with Michael Loftus. The weekly late night show, currently finishing up its second season, is hosted by Michael and features a political guest each show. Michael also hosts a companion podcast called The Loftus Party. Michael is coming off of 100 episodes on Charlie Sheen’s Anger Management as well as his own special on The History Channel, American Wiseass, as well as working as a Co-Producer on NBC’s OUTSOURCED and Executive Story Editor on ABC’s GEORGE LOPEZ.

 

ABOUT: The Flipside With Michael Loftus offers a look at the other side of the news bringing a mix of stand-up comedy, topical humor, and nationally known guests to create a show that you won’t want to miss. The program stars comedian Michael Loftus, a veteran stand-up comedian who has also worked in television for many years on such shows as FX’s Anger Management starring Charlie Sheen and ABC’s The George Lopez Show. Loftus has also been featured in a full-hour special on Comedy Central and on TruTV’s The Smoking Gun Presents.

 

WEBSITE: theflipsideshow.com

RADIO: soundcloud.com/loftusparty

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TWITTER: @MikeLoftusComic

Reboot Performance Management

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“This process isn’t about things. It’s not about computer soft-ware, surveys, review forms, or process plans. No, the real key to this whole thing is people. It’s about talking to them, listening to them, engaging them, trusting them, and above all, never losing sight of the fact that the process must serve them and not the other way around.”

– M. Tamra Chandler

Reboot Performance Management from Tedious to Trans-formative: Lessons from a Talent Strategist 

It’s time to rethink performance management — or risk losing your best and brightest to a firm that does.

Old-school performance management, with its bell curves, forms, hounding emails and awkward negotiating, won’t cut it with today’s workforce. Moreover, everyone in the world of work knows it, including HR professionals. The annual dreaded rite known as the Performance Review is universally acknowledged as the least likely to engage those involved. It’s high time we rethink PM.

Enter talent pioneer M. Tamra Chandler. With decades of experience with clients from giant multinationals to small nonprofits, this award-winning consultant has an insider’s understanding of what’s broken about traditional performance management — and how to fix it. Chandler created the PM Reboot — an innovative, customizable solution for better managing talent. It’s all contained in her new book, How Performance Management is Killing Performance — and What to Do About It.

Having spent a career thinking about how to best motivate performance, Chandler offers a clear, crisp method for rebooting the paradigm. As she notes, to get inspired performance takes inspired people — and engagement is best sparked with authentic motivation, not administrative minutiae. People-centric, filled with humor, and down to earth, the approach is well suited to a multi generational, global, hyper-connected, 21st-century workforce.

How Performance Management is Killing Performance is a must for anyone interested in the junction of people and organizations. It presents tools and ideas to engage organizations and employees in the creation of something better, and practical examples that offer model routes out of the quagmire of archaic methods. Based on thorough research and solid rationale, it combines common sense with sound business strategies. Success is based on people, says Chandler: Rethinking how you manage performance will greatly benefit your bottom line.

Readers will also learn:

  • The (research-based) 8 fatal flaws of traditional performance management.
  • 8 “shake the kaleidoscope” concepts to shift your (and others’) thinking.
  • How to engage millennial employees with crowd sourcing and other social media tools.
  • Why a work culture based on need-to-know kills the urge to participate.
  • How to recruit “change champions” to support your revamp efforts.
  • The myth of “one size fits all” talent management — and how to design a solution customized to your organization and your people.

Ms. Tamra Chandler is a bona fide people maven. She’s spent the majority of her career thinking about people, researching how they’re motivated, and developing new and effective ways for organizations to achieve the ultimate win-win: inspired people driving inspiring performance. She’s also the CEO and co-founder of PeopleFirm, one of Washington State’s fastest-growing businesses and most successful women-owned firms. An award-winning leader in her field (she’s been recognized by Consulting Magazine twice as one of the top consultants in the U.S.), she is the author of How Performance Management is Killing Performance — and What to Do About It.

Strategic Empathy

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 7 Leadership Tips From an Interim CEO

Taking over a flailing, anxious company is anything but ideal circumstances for a new leader, but Interim CEOs face it all the time. It’s precisely this kind of high-pressure situation that forges strong and empathetic leadership strategies.

I’ve done it for three decades, turning around companies from agriculture (such as Styrotek) to telecommunications giants (such as ITT). As Interim leader, I have to parachute in, quickly gain trust and respect from all levels, determine a course of action, and unite everyone to stay that course — all within a limited timeframe.

It takes leadership strategies far beyond business and managerial chops, though certainly those are necessary. You can’t lead effectively without a connection to the people in the company; emotional intelligence is a must. Think of it as strategic empathy: sincerely focused on the individual, but always with the big picture top of mind.

Here are 7 tips for using strategic empathy as a leader. I learned them as an Interim CEO, but I’ll bet they bear relevance for anyone taking a leading role.

Expect anxiety.

When I walk into a company in crisis, I expect many people will be scared and angry, entirely natural given the conditions. But fear and uncertainty are fertile grounds for doubt and resistance. So act quickly to quell it, or you’ll have an entirely dysfunctional situation on your hands, where you can’t get anything done.

Let them say No.

Of course I don’t want to hear no. I want to hear yes. But as a leader, I have to be able to reach other people on an emotional level, or I’ve lost them. I also have to understand and contain my own emotions. So I hear people out, keeping my own feelings in check. When I inevitably hear no, I don’t try to counter it. I show that I respect what they think; that it’s safe to express their opinions. On a practical level, that free speech will come in handy when I’m looking for answers.

Don’t send a representative.

A perceived vacuum in leadership can have quick and devastating consequences, So make your presence known, and not by proxy. Direct contact is key. I don’t just speak to one level down, then dispatch the VPs to transmit my message to everyone else. That kind of ivory tower detachment won’t create any connection, trust or respect within the company. And unless you can build those, you’ll never get to yes.

Focus on the middle

Experience has taught me to listen to every level but focus my attention on the middle. The VPs are like the company’s elder counsel: their own survival in mind, they may just tell you what they think you want to hear. The bottom are less focused on strategic issues, but you need their confidence, trust, and input — as I found out by spending time on the floor at Styrotek. But it’s the middle managers that translate a CEO’s vision into daily practice. Without them, you can’t effectively implement change.

If you see something broken, fix it.

If you’re not leading with the goal of improving on the status quo, you’re not leading, you’re following the same flawed path. And decisive action inspires confidence. While the Interim CEO at Robinson Nugent, I joined the shipping team one day to find out why orders were frequently misdelivered. After watching one employee struggling with addresses, I took her aside — much to her relief. She had trouble reading, she told me, and added that for months, she’d been begging for a transfer to assembly. First I transferred her there, where her mechanical skills immediately shone and her wages increased. Then I fired the shipping supervisor, who should have known what was going on in his own department.

Everyone has to row the boat.

I’m steering a company back to health, but everyone has to row the boat or we’re all dead in the water. So I create an environment that encourages and rewards participation. At ITT I called a meeting with accounting and financial to discuss how to better support our revenue base. With the VPs and myself on stage before an audience of over 200 employees, I asked, “Is anyone here in sales?” My point was we’reall in sales: without satisfied customers, there are no accounts or revenue. Only one person raised her hand, but that was enough. “Great,” I said to her, “You got the message.” Then I walked into the audience to recognize her, and the whole mood shifted from disinterest to total engagement. Then we could all start getting things done.

Know the 8 out of 10 rule.

Generally, out of ten ideas, eight are unusable, but that’s the only way you get to those two good ones. And just because an individual’s title has nothing to do with the issue at hand doesn’t mean he or she doesn’t have a solution. So welcome all suggestions. While Interim CEO for a company stuck with 50 million dollars of nonmoving inventory, I held a meeting with accounting, marketing and sales, and asked for ideas. First a fellow from accounting suggested we sell the inventory at a big discount. I knew that wouldn’t work (it depended on the same channels that had already failed), but I praised the attempt, which encouraged more ideas. A new MBA suggested selling the inventory to a closeout retail chain. She wasn’t even in sales, but this was brilliant. Put together a team, I said, promising them a percentage. They sold everything.

Often, an interim CEO manages profound change under tremendous pressure. But use a unilateral, top-down leadership strategy, and you’ll lose before you even start. Instead, listen, learn, empathize, and include everyone in your strategy. If everyone is invested in a company’s survival, you’re far more likely to succeed. Remember: everyone’s got to take an oar to move that boat.

Richard Lindenmuth has been an Interim CEO in a number of industries, with business models ranging from high technology and services to heavy- and basic-industries. He has 30+ years general management experience in domestic and international operations, and is noted for his comprehensive execution skills in both high-growth and distressed environments. Lindenmuth is Chairman of the Association of Interim Executives and author of The Outside the Box Executive.

More Heaven: Because Every Child is Special

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Dr. Jo Anne White is an International bestselling and award winning, author, and has 20+ years of experience helping others reach their full potential. Jo Anne pioneered a program for the Philadelphia school system for children who weren’t allowed to attend public school until a Federal law mandated that every state in US serve these children.  More Heaven: Because Every Child is Special is based on the true story of educating these kids and the successes and challenges they faced.

Jo Anne’s other passions led her to pursue; writing, speaking, coaching and helping people find their successful path in life and business. Today, she’s the CEO and Founder of the Power Your Life Network, a broadcasting network, and the Power U Online University, both aimed at helping individuals, families, businesses and professionals grow, soar and succeed. Known globally as the “Success Doc,” Jo Anne’s also the Executive Director and Host of the popular Power Your Life TV & Radio Shows, and CEO/President of Dr. Jo Anne White Consulting Services, LLC.

“We have the capacity to manifest the inner gifts and talents within us to fulfill our own desires and pressing goals, and also help others and make a difference in their lives,” Jo Anne said. “

As her career goals shifted, she became a certified professional coach, lead generation expert, trainer, and image and branding specialist. Jo Anne also became a Therapeutic Energy Healer and was trained in several alternative modalities to enhance her skills and what she could offer to her clients.

She’s been featured online and in national and international media outlets, such as CNN.com, Good Housekeeping, More, and WebMD and made frequent guest appearances on Radio and Television Networks such as NBC, CBS, FOX, and Voice America. Dr. White was named a 2015 Worldwide Branding Top Female Executive for Professional Coaching by Worldwide Who’s Who and is featured in Women of Distinction Magazine in 2016. She’s authored and co-authored numerous books for women, men and businesses as resources for personal, professional and spiritual growth, leadership, success and empowerment. They include Amazon International Bestseller Bully Free, Mastering the Art of Success, JOY, The Self Architect and more. Keys to Conscious Business!  Bully Free was awarded a Mom’s Choice Award for Excellence in 2015, and named among the best in family-friendly media, products and services.

http://www.drjoannewhite.com/more-heaven/