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>the Ridgewood blog : A special thanks to the Village workers

On this day the Ridgewood Blog would like to thank all the Village workers for doing such am outstanding job year in and year out .

the Staff of the Ridgewood blog

>For labor Day ,”The Communist Internationale”

The Communist Internationale (Original, with English Lyrics)

“The Socialist Party held a similar celebration of the working class on May 1. This date eventually became known as May Day, and was celebrated by Socialists and Communists in commemoration of the working man. “

Since so many of you seem to exposing these types of socialistic beliefs and sympathise with them we thought we would give you something to warm your heart on this labor day “The Communist Internationale” and remind what the effect of these beliefs led too.


Happy Labor Day for the staff of the Ridgewood blog

The Russian butchers
Just like the national socialist butchers, the international socialist butchers killed millions of innocents, men, women and little children. It is incredible that anyone still defends these monsters.

https://markhumphrys.com/soviet.html

The leaders
Leaders of the Soviet Union (also here)

Lenin (also here), 1917-24.
Lenin killed 4 million people – men, women and little children. He is the 5th greatest murderer of the 20th century (after Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Chiang Kai-shek).

The hate-filled mass murderer Lenin, with his rage against everyone decent in society, his drive to kill and destroy everything that generations of tolerant and hard-working people had built, and his staggering barbarism, set the tone for every communist regime that followed in the world.
Even today, unbelievably, there are people who openly call themselves Marxist-Leninist and openly admire Lenin.

Trotsky (also here), 1917-24.
As leader of the Red Army in Lenin’s war on the peasants, Trotsky was a mass murderer. He was Lenin’s prime henchman in the killing of 4 million innocent people – men, women and children.

Trotsky supported the killing of all political opponents of the regime – including campaigners for liberal western democracy. Trotsky supported the extermination of the bourgeoisie.

There is some justice in the fact that he was executed by Stalin in Mexico in 1940, but not much. He should have been put on trial first, and then executed.

Even today, unbelievably, there are people who openly follow this disgusting mass murderer, and see him as some kind of “alternative” to Stalin.

The Trotsky Museum in Mexico – the equivalent of a museum to Hess or Eichmann.

Stalin (also here), 1924-53.
Stalin is perhaps the most evil human being that ever lived.
Stalin killed 42 million people – men, women and little children. In all of history, only Mao could possibly have killed more.

Khrushchev (also here), 1953-64.
As head of the Communist Party in the Ukraine under Stalin, Khrushchev was a mass murderer. Indeed, he was called The Butcher of the Ukraine.

As premier, Khrushchev killed around 4 million people (see below).
He was also the Butcher of The Hungarian Revolution 1956.

Brezhnev (also here), 1964-82.
Brezhnev killed around 2 million people (see below).
He was also the imperialist Butcher of Moldova 1950-52, and the Butcher of The Prague Spring 1968.

Rudolph J. Rummel estimates 7 million dead after Stalin, mostly through camps. His estimates for the camps alone break down as:
950,000 dead 1954-5 (Khrushchev)
3.1 million dead 1956-60 (Khrushchev)
1.6 million dead 1961-70 (Khrushchev, Brezhnev)
780,000 dead 1970-82 (Brezhnev)
200,000 dead 1983-7 (Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev)

https://markhumphrys.com/soviet.html

>Labor Day : A Short History

Labor Day is a national legal holiday that is over 100 years old. Over the years, it has evolved from a purely labor union celebration into a general “last fling of summer” festival.

https://wilstar.com/holidays/laborday.htm

It grew out of a celebration and parade in honor of the working class by the Knights of Labor in 1882 in New York. In 1884, the Knights held a large parade in New York City celebrating the working class. The parade was held on the first Monday in September. The Knights passed a resolution to hold all future parades on the same day, designated by them as Labor Day.

The Socialist Party held a similar celebration of the working class on May 1. This date eventually became known as May Day, and was celebrated by Socialists and Communists in commemoration of the working man. In the U.S., the first Monday in September was selected to reject any identification with Communism.

In the late 1880’s, labor organizations began to lobby various state legislatures for recognition of Labor Day as an official state holiday. The first states to declare it a state holiday in, 1887, were Oregon, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Then in 1894, Congress passed a law recognizing Labor Day as an official national holiday.

Today, Labor Day is observed not only in the U.S. but also in Canada, and in other industrialized nations. While it is a general holiday in the United States, its roots in the working class remain clearer in European countries.

It has come to be recognized in the U.S. not only as a celebration of the working class, but even more so as the unofficial end of the summer season. In the northern half of the U.S. at least, the summer vacation season begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day.

more
https://wilstar.com/holidays/laborday.htm

>Valley Renewal : Open Letter

https://www.valleyhealth.com/ValleyRenewal.aspx?id=2024

While Valley continues to campaign and organize against the privately funded re-opening of Pascack Valley Hospital (PVH)

https://www.keepourhospitalshealthy.org/?utm_source=valleysite&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=967×91&utm_campaign=anygivenday

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Less then 120 Days to Go Until the Largest Tax Hikes in History

120 Days to Go Until the Largest Tax Hikes in History
From Ryan Ellis on Friday, September 3, 2010 11:10 AM

https://www.atr.org/index.php

In just 120 days, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:

First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief

In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011:

Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:

– The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%

– The 25% bracket rises to 28%

– The 28% bracket rises to 31%

– The 33% bracket rises to 36%

– The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care tax credit will be cut.

The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones.

Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The top capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The top dividends tax rate will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

yes there is alot more tax increases
Read more: https://www.atr.org/index.php#ixzz0yftAtGvp

>Ground Zero Mosque:The original owners of the Ground Zero mosque site mysteriously spurned dozens of higher bids before selling the prime downtown real estate at a bargain-basement price.

Mosque building owners nixed $18M offer before taking $4.8M one

By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN

Last Updated: 8:53 AM, September 5, 2010

Posted: 2:37 AM, September 5, 2010

The original owners of the Ground Zero mosque site mysteriously spurned dozens of higher bids before selling the prime downtown real estate at a bargain-basement price.

The Pomerantz family, which had owned the building since the late 1960s and fielded offers after the patriarch died in 2006, rejected at least one bid that was nearly four times what prospective mosque builder Sharif El-Gamal eventually paid, The Post has learned.

El-Gamal did offer what could be viewed as a sweetener to his $4.8 million bid in July 2009 — a job as a property manager for a son of the family, Sethian Pomerantz.

‘TEARDROP’ MAY FALL

New York developer Kevin Glodek was livid when he found out the building sold for a fraction of what he offered in 2007 — $18 million cash — and wondered whether money changed hands under the table, according to sources close to the deal.

Glodek and his partners wanted to build a 60-story condo tower with retail space on the Park Place site, had inked a purchase agreement and even had keys to the existing building, according to sources and documents obtained by The Post.

But Kukiko Mitani — whose late husband, Stephen Pomerantz, owned the property — and her brother-in-law, Melvin Pomerantz, a trustee to the estate, went silent at the end of 2007 and Glodek’s deal disappeared, sources said.

Glodek, who owns the ChefsDiet food delivery service and several Manhattan properties, declined to comment.

The property is now at the heart of one of the most divisive issues in the country — whether it should be the location of a $100 million mosque and community center. The location two blocks from Ground Zero has been called insensitive, and questions have been raised about whether extremists will help fund the project. Recent polls show that 70 percent of New Yorkers want it moved.

El-Gamal had his eye on the property for years before buying it in 2009.

He was not alone in his interest, with some 30 offers showered on the Pomerantz family in what was an overheated downtown real-estate market in 2007, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

Yet Mitani previously told The Post the building, a former Burlington Coat Factory store that was damaged in the 9/11 attacks, was a tough sell. She said she was in debt and desperate to unload it after her husband’s death and insisted she had no buyers other than El-Gamal.

read more:
https://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/mosque_was_steal_FpzwdRCdb5MdehzkDDWY3H

>Valley Renewal : Yes or No

Supporter believe that:-Valley’s expansion cannot be scaled back, nor is a split campus an option
-Valley’s expansion will have little impact on the quality of life
-The addition of 1000 parking spaces will not result in more traffic
-10+ years of construction will not be an inconvenience or put children at BF or Travell at risk
-Valley’s expansion will not strain roads, water, or other Village services
-Valley cannot provide quality care unless the expansion plans is accepted as proposed by Valley.
-Valley should have H-zone status which grants them a carte blanche for future expansion
-All other options were explored and are too expensive
-It is OK if residents properties are condemned to make way for the expansion since it will result in better traffic flow.

Opponents believe that:
-Valley should scale back it’s expansion or explore a split campus option
-Valley can provide quality health care with a more modest expansion
-Valley’s expansion will have a have a negative impact on quality of life
-Valley’s expansion will have a negative impact on property values.
-Valley’s expansion will strain Village resources, and lead to higher taxes to expand infrastructure and result in the need for more police etc.
-10+ years of construction will necessitate hundreds of daily bus trips and the movement of millions of tons of debris which will have a negative impact on quality of life and children’s education/health at local schools
-The Planning Board ignored their concerns
-The Master Plan change process and PB review was suspect

Have I left anything out

>Crazed eco-terrorist shot dead after taking hostages at Discovery Channel HQ after they ‘ignored his ideas for a TV show’

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 7:54 AM on 2nd September 2010
At least one device explodes as James Jay Lee is gunned down

Lee said he had been inspired by Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
His website urged people to stop having ‘disgusting babies’ and halt overpopulation.

He had been arrested in 2008 for protesting outside the same building

A gunman has been shot dead by police after taking a number of hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland, U.S., after his idea for a television show was rejected.

All three of James Jay Lee’s hostages managed to escape safely. At least one device appeared to explode as he was gunned down.

Lee walked into the main entrance of the building at 1pm today waving a gun and wearing what appeared to be metallic canisters strapped to his front and back.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1308138/Eco-terrorist-James-Jay-Lee-shot-dead-Discovery-Channel-HQ.html#ixzz0yQ53pl65

>Rasmussen Reports :Voters Believe that Democrats in Congress Want to Raise Taxes, Increase Government Spending

Thursday, September 02, 2010

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2010/most_voters_believe_that_democrats_in_congress_want_to_raise_taxes_increase_government_spending

Heading into the final two months of the mid-term election campaign, most voters believe that Democrats in Congress want to raise taxes and spending while Republicans in Congress want to cut taxes and spending.

At the same time, most voters believe that reducing taxes and spending would be good for the economy.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% of Likely Voters believe Congressional Democrats want to increase government spending. Only 16% believe the party wants to cut spending.

On the tax front, 59% believe that most Democrats in Congress want to increase taxes. Only 17% hold the opposite view.

As for Republicans, 51% say that most Republicans want to cut government spending and 50% say they want to cut taxes. Twenty-seven percent (27%) believe GOP legislators want to increase spending and 25% believe they want to increase taxes.

Sixty percent (60%) believe that tax cuts are good for the economy while 56% say tax hikes will hurt the economy.

Fifty-six percent (56%) believe that additional government spending will hurt the economy and 50% believe that spending cuts will help.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/august_2010/most_voters_believe_that_democrats_in_congress_want_to_raise_taxes_increase_government_spending