More hot air.

In 1986 Congress passed a law granting amnesty to approximately 3 million illegal immigrants. They promised the American people that in exchange for their citizenship there would be stricter border policies barring illegal immigrant’s entry. The amnesty was passed and the border security never came into effect.

Senator Ted Cruz has recognized the Democratic Party’s proposal for a new immigration reform for what it is: more hot air. In his mind and the minds of many similarly inclined politicians this proposal echoes the familiar trend of broken promises and expectations. There have been numerous methods and proposals for stopping illegal immigration, none of which have proven successful. In fact, in the minds of people like Sen. Cruz the bill will result in more damage than good. “This bill is not designed to fix the problem,” he said. “If this bill got passed into law, I guarantee in another 10, 20 years we’d be back here, except instead of 11 million people here illegally, we’d have 20 million or 30 million. And that is not a humane system.”

What is perhaps most troubling about the situation is that for decades now many Democratic politicians have utilized these flawed systems to their benefit. They understand the appeal that they have to the immigrant community. They understand that immigrants will vote for the Democratic candidate without thinking, so there are no qualms on their part to swarm our country with millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, knowing that at the vote ballots they’ll be flooded with votes from a group whose only interest in our countries politics is to allow more of their own people access through our borders. At this rate in the next 10 years this country will be a one-party system that puts the security and well-being of foreigners before their own people.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/24/ted-cruz-says-immigration-bill-isnt-designed-fix-problem

Twitter Goes On Sale

Twitter, the powerful social media platform announce that their IPO is officially going public. The social media service has become a Swiss army knife of communication. Corporations and popular media rely on this service and people spread and share the most popular buzz. Twitter is the last of it’s kind to hit the open market and is expected to hold quite a price tag. When you look at it’s social media neighbors such as LinkedIn with $32Bn, or Facebook with $108Bn.

Hundreds have invested in the social platform for multitudes of purposes, displaying it’s versatility as a political vehicle, to a marketing plot and even a beacon for news. Twitter wears many faces and has grown exponentially from its conception. “He posted: it took three years, it took three years, two months for the billionth tweet to be sent. Today it estimates 1 billion tweets are sent every 2.5 days.” tweeted Jack Dorsey as he announced the notions of joining the public game.
The growth of the popular site is what brings all of the excitement to the main stage as the markets eagerly await the arrival of the program and site.

There is currently no plan to change or alter the service when it hits the market, but the system is ever changing.

Source:
http://www.newsy.com/videos/twitter-s-going-public-what-s-next-for-the-company/

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A Way of Life Moves With a Market

With the most recent news of Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympics, things are changing in Japan. While the proposal of the move was made about fourteen years ago, it's become more prominent with Japan starting to prep for their turn to host the Olympics.

Tokyo plans on spending $4.5 billion on relocating the 78-year-old fish market to a manufactured island in three years (2016) to give a broader face-lift to Tokyo before the 2020 Olympics. The manufactured island will be more modern and climate-controlled for the fish market's distribution center. Face-to-face fish haggling will cease to exist. Many mom-and-pop like shops have already gone out of business and replaced with Japan's big-box supermarkets and fast-food chains. The plans for moving appeared doomed with the discovery of toxic contamination in the proposed new location back in 2001. This lead to the rare street protests that could be seen in Japan.

Some members of the fishing industry oppose the idea of the move because not only will it destroy tradition and ruin a high tourist attraction location.  One of the opposers to the move is Makoto Nozue, 76, who has been selling fish in Tsukiji (nicknamed for the neighborhood the fish market surrounds) for nearly six decades. He is opposed to the move because “Tsukiji is a globally known brand name and a cultural treasure. Why throw this away?”

Then there are other fish marketers who believe the move is beneficial to keep up with the times of the city's fast-food chains and supermarkets. Tadao Ban, 68, is quoted, “Without the new market, we won’t have businesses left... I grew up in this market, and have spent my life here, but I also want to have a future dream to pass down to my children.” Ban had inherited his tuna wholesale company from his father and believes this move will benefit the fish market where they hope to further slow down or stop the decline seafood.


A Way of Life Moves With a Market

Wasting Away...

We go out to restaurants.  We order our food.  We pick at our food and eat what we want.  We get full and we leave what's left there on our plate as we walk away for the evening.  But what happens to the left over food?  That food that could so easily be a meal for someone else.  Naturally, and all too often, that food goes to waste in the garbage.  I'm guilty of it.  We're all guilty of it.  However, I personally have never realized the drastic impact that this 'simple' and innocent action could have on this world and it's economy.

According to a report from France International News, "One third of the food produced worldwide is wasted, costing the global economy around $750 billion a year..."  This 'one third' of food is also equivalent to 1.3 billion tons that is turned to garbage.  When we put this into perspective, the drastic effect this will have in the future is devastating.  For example:

1. “870 million people go hungry every day” - With the human population climbing rapidly, and when there are already so many who go hungry every day, the numbers are all increasing but not adding up in a smart, economical way.  There is concern on how we will feed ourselves in the future.

2. “Each year, food that is produced but not eaten "guzzles up a volume of water equivalent to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River…” - There is already the problem of our diminishing water supply and here we find that we’re wasting so much of it in an effort to feed ourselves!  This proves that these wasteful habits are a huge contributor to more than one economic complication.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130911-third-food-wasted-costs-world-economy-750bn-un