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NY Politicians Took Bribes to Keep Wal-Mart Out of NYC

Maybe we can take up a collection and bribe NY polticians to stop the Ground Zero mosque. That's all these corrupt pols understand. Betrayed at every turn -- and we pay for this abuse.

B’klyn pols charged with taking bribes METRO (hat tip Pamela Hall)

Two Brooklyn politicians took bribes to meddle in affairs like Wal-Mart, according to a federal sting.

State Sen. Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William Boyland, both Brooklyn politicians, were part of an eight-person group that surrendered yesterday  morning.

Kruger and Boyland are accused of taking $1 million in bribes — and then sponsoring or supporting legislation, along with directing taxpayer money and asking for favors, for people who paid.

Janice Fedarcyk, the FBI’s assistant director in charge, called the investigation “eye-opening even to seasoned investigators and prosecutors.”

Included in their illegal meddling was Kruger’s opposition of a “retail superstore” in Brooklyn — opposed by small-store retailers that the FBI said hired Kruger.

FBI agents shadowed them at restaurants and tapped their phones, catching them at “a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan” and conferring in cars near Union Square.

Defendants used “the mail” to refer to payments and “memo” to refer to checks, FBI agents said in the complaint.

Kruger could be sentenced to 60 years in prison, and Boyland faces up to 20 years in jail.

New York Magazine: "Gellerites"

In its typical elitist and out-of-touch bad-snark fashion, New York magazine reported on the Ground Zero mosque protest at the NYC Council hearings with contempt and with a little more of their inferior superiority.

Referring to the freedom lovers who showed up as 'Gellerites' demonstrates New York magazine's stiff-necked smarty-pants disconnect with the good and decent who passionately care about this painful and offensive insult at Ground Zero. This is a mass movement. These good working folks took their lunch hour to protest the hypocrisy of the altogether too powerful NYC Council. Banning smoking from parks. Banning stores from New York and from New Yorkers in need, while colluding to build a a giant stab in the eye at Ground Zero. These great Americans are fighting for individual rights; they are anything but group think. The statists and the collectivists on the other side (and in the media) are lemmings. Groupthink, group buzz words, group narrative. Think night of the living dead.

I'll never forget that when I was interviewed by Mark Jacobson of NY Magazine some months back, I said, I didn't expect much from NY magazine. I wasn't disappointed. Jacobson is your typical NY elitist. During our conversation, he lamented to me that he couldn't relate to America. That New York was really more like a "separate country." I, of course, disagreed, and said that I thought New York was very concentrated America, quintessentially so. He disagreed and said that he had nothing in  common with "these huge people in their pick-up trucks."  I said I loved them and that they were America. Certainly he wasn't.

Of course, these same elites bash Wal-Mart as well, as if these limousine liberals would ever deign to shop there. Gross. The irony is that the "Gellerites" are independent thinking fighters for freedom who stand up for what they believe. It is the paid anti Wal-Mart morons who are the bots. The professional left pay these poor tools to protest the very thing that would make their lives better. The pro-freedom patriots come out to stand against tyranny and supremacsim.

The NYC Council should be disbanded -- a referendum must be put on the ballot to remove the entire structure of quislings (with the exception Daniel Halloran, who should run for Mayor). These statist moochers and looters are sucking the blood out of every hardworking New Yorker.

New York Magazine fails to grasp the logic of why we would protest the mosque at the NYC Council hearing despite the fact that the hypocrisy is glaring. Gd Bless the American sheepdogs for braving the cold and fighting the great fight.

A Day of Wal-Mart Bashing, With a Side of Ground Zero Mosque Protests (Remember Those?) New York Magazine

New York’s City Council held a meeting on Thursday to determine how the construction of a Wal-Mart would affect the city. But first it had to revisit the last building that was supposedly going to disgrace the skyline: the ground zero mosque.

About fifteen minutes before the meeting was slated to begin, people started screaming at each other across Chambers Street. On one side, about 100 people were lined up to get in, most of them in opposition to Wal-Mart’s plan. On the other were a dozen people who were vocally opposing the Park51 Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan. Had they come to the wrong event? What the hell was going on?

As it turns out, the mosque protesters had come because Pam Geller told them to. Geller is the firebrand and figurehead who led protests against Park51 last year. On Thursday she asked all of her blog’s New York readers to join her at the City Council hearing.

A group of the Gellerites had assembled on the steps of Tweed Courthouse to discuss the unfairness of letting Muslims build a mosque but at the same time preventing capitalists from building a megastore. “Today, they are holding hearings to ban Wal-Mart, jobs, and the cheap prices from New Yorkers," Geller said. "But they are helping to erect a ground zero mosque.” As Tom Holloran, a 63-year-old who heeded Geller’s call, told Intel, “You want to ban an American store and yet you want to allow a mosque with people who killed 3,000 Americans to exist in the neighborhood?” Framed between two American flags, Geller’s people were carrying cardboard signs, one side reading “YES TO WALMART,” and the other “NO TO GROUND ZERO MOSQUE.”

Finally, the crowd on the other side of the street had somebody to scream at. “Wal-Mart’s racist and so are you!” “Mosque yes, Wal-Mart no!” “We shall overcome!” The mosque opponents responded with “Down with socialism! Down with unions!” and a stirring rendition of the national anthem. And so they went, back and forth, each side convinced that they were defending the civic fabric of New York.

But for Rose Durante, a 54-year-old from Boro Park, this wasn’t just about abstract principles — it was about keeping her job. Durante unpacks grocery trucks at the Pathmark in Boro Park and worried that if Wal-Mart comes to New York, her wages will take a hit, or, worse, Pathmark will lose business and she’ll get laid off. “People talk about the consumer and how it’s better for them. But they don’t talk about the worker,” she said.

When the hearing finally started and the crowd filed in, they learned what had been reported in the press ahead of time: Wal-Mart was a no-show. The retailer had long ago decided the City Council was a lost cause, in part because Council Speaker Christine Quinn is prone to saying things like, “To me, Wal-Mart is definitely not welcome in New York City; it is a union-busting, tax-evading, wage-correcting, job-destroying, civil-rights-abusing, food-stamps-denying multinational corporation that has no place in New York City.” It also realized that the City Council can’t actually stop Wal-Mart from moving in.

So instead of wasting time trying to win over the Council, Wal-Mart has decided to charm regular New Yorkers. It has launched a major PR campaign, including mailers, radio ads, and a social-networking strategy on Facebook and YouTube. For now, the campaign is a general one — Wal-Mart has not officially announced a proposed location (though the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York appears to be the most likely). Its purpose is to get New Yorkers used to the idea of a Wal-Mart, making the point that Target and Costco have moved in, and nobody seems to mind.

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Its first witness at the hearing was Professor David Merriman, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor who filed a report about the effect of the Chicago Wal-Mart. There is “no evidence of a stimulating effect on new businesses,” Merriman said.

But soon Council member Daniel Halloran was questioning Merriman’s research, poking holes in its methodology and the limits of its findings. Merriman was forced to conclude that his study contained no evidence of a net job loss in the Chicago neighborhood after Wal-Mart moved in, either.

Eventually, realizing nothing was going to be decided today and numbed by more than two hours of panels and questions, Daily Intel decided to leave the hearing. As we put on our coat and looked out the window, we saw the anti-mosque crew was still across the street. Representatives from Wal-Mart, the focus of the day's political theatrics, were still nowhere to be seen.

Standing Room Only in the Kangaroo Court of NYC Council Quislings: To Shop Or Not to Shop, Despots Decide

 

The NYC Council held fascist court today and it was a real eye-opener. If they could only see themselves.

What a zoo paid for the the New Yorker city taxpayer. This was not a hearing. This was tyranny. It is to Wal-Mart's credit that they did not subject themselves to this targeted inquisition. Kafkaesque does not begin to describe these obscene bullies with seemingly absolute power. The fix was in from the start.

Who do these power-mad fat-cats work for? Organized labor. The big bully in charge was Speaker Christine Quinn, and to describe her as an ogre would be kind. She presided over a council of racists and morons denouncing the success of Wal-Mart, decrying the business of business and patting themselves on the back for looking out for the welfare of their special interest puppet masters.

Outrageous. If New Yorkers had any clue what city government had to come they would be charging City Hall with pitchforks.

I had hoped to speak to their hypocrisy and imperiousness. This council of clowns (with the exception of Daniel Halloran, the lone voice of reason) has banned smoking from parks, benches and Times Square. One councilman after another spoke out against Wal-Mart, saying that blocking it was a human rights issue, and that it would lead to joblessness and discrimination.

Charles Barron is the Council Member from East New York, the city's poorest most blighted area. 87% of his constituents polled want a Wal-Mart. But this vile demagogue denounced Wal-Mart as the plantation and said that black people would never work those fields again. Equating Wal-Mart to slavery? What an insult to those who suffered as slaves. Barron blustered and spewed and looked the evil fool, and so his peers lauded him. Ayn Rand couldn't have written this.

Charles “Nehru Jacket” Barron in action (photo hat tip Pamela Hall)

This NYC Council has advocated and colluded to build a mosque at Ground Zero -- talk about endangering the welfare of New Yorkers -- and now they seek to "protect" us from jobs and cheap prices as they do the bidding of big labor communists.

I sat there for hours while these looters and moochers soiled themselves in their hate of the enemy -- Wal-Mart. Yes, all of this hooplah over a store. Mind you, K-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc., have stores in the city. 

Why not hearings investigating where the $150 million is coming from to build the Ground Zero triumphal mosque? Shameful. If they had subjected the mosque to that kind of scrutiny, it would have been disallowed months ago.

Their first "witness" was a Chicago professor who conducted a study paid for by the Woods Foundation (yes, the Bill Ayers left wing subversive organization). Need I say more? They had this tool on for an hour. Preening and querying a study that had more holes than swiss cheese.

None of these speakers noticed the irony. None of them seemed for a moment to stop and wonder why they were subjecting Wal-Mart to such intense scrutiny while greenlighting a mega-mosque at Ground Zero without even the most cursory examination of the background -- both financial and ideological -- and goals of the mosque organizers. None of them said anything about the jobs lost and the businesses closed because of the 9/11 attacks, and about the grotesque insult and injustice it would be to allow the construction of a triumphal mosque dedicated to the same belief-system that the 9/11 hijackers held right on the spot of their mass-murder. None of them said anything -- or probably knew anything -- about Islamic slavery and how it persists in some countries even today, or about the horrifying injustices against women and non-Muslims that are codified in the Islamic law (Sharia) so beloved of Imam Rauf, Imam Adhami, and the other people behind the Ground Zero mosque.

Righteous New Yorkers who came out on their lunch hour could not stay (but that was the point). Moms who need Wal-Mart could not stay and wait and speak because they had to pick up their kids after school. A good many courageous freedom fighters showed up: Rich Davis from the American Sheepdogs brought a group; Pamela Hall of the Vigilant Squirrel Brigade was there; Christopher Logan from Logan's Warning; 9/11 family member Nelly Braginsky; and so many others, all of them patriots to whom every free American owes a debt of gratitude.

As I watched and waited during this filibuster and rout, hearty souls stood out in the cold protesting the Ground Zero mosque. The professional left bused in their bots, but individuals came out and stood against the Council of quislings:

Shouts of “Yes to Walmart” on one side of the street were answered by shouts of “No to Walmart” from the other.

It was a noisy scene on Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan with opposing sign-waving groups shouting across the street at each other, a major police presence and a long, long line of people attempting to get in to the Walmart hearing at the Emigrant Savings Bank building.

A majority of those this reporter spoke with in line were in favor of Walmart coming to Brooklyn. “It means cheap prices and more jobs for us,” one couple from Brooklyn said. “Walmart’s good for struggling families like us. We want Walmart here.”

Another, a woman from Manhattan, said “Why be concerned about Walmart? Why now? The council has been allowing big chain stores in the city forever. In my neighborhood, there’s a Duane Reade on every corner. How has that been good for the small drug stores?” (more here)

 
Photo hat tip Barbara P

UPDATE: Pamela Hall has great coverage on the events at the hearing here.

Obama's Army, SEIU et al, "Targets" Wal-Mart, Poor, and a man's family

Below is a flyer targeting America's favorite retailer. Notice the target the left was decrying after the Arizona shooting. Worse, they are attacking the man doing business with Wal-Mart at his home. His home with his family. These people should be jailed. Imagine how terrified his family is.

The left incites their uneducated armies to violence and destruction. Where is their leadership denouncing such hateful rhetoric? Bloodthirsty hypocrites.

Redstate: The head of the SEIU purple people beaters attacked Sarah Palin for her target map. He feared it might incite violence.

But, that was Sarah Palin. The SEIU itself is perfectly willing to incite violence to serve its purposes.

Walmart is building a store in Washington, D.C. A company called Pratt Development is leasing land to Walmart for the store.

A group called “Wal-Mart Free DC”, a union group that has SEIU involvement, is circulating a flier with the home address of Dick Knapp, the head of Pratt Development, to send people out to protest and intimidate him.

Oh, and yes, the flier has a gun range style target on it. You can see it right here.

Back in May, you will recall, the SEIU sent out 500 purple people beaters to the home of a Bank of America Executive.

So much for a changed tone.

UPDATE: Aaron points out that the Wal Mart will replace an old Chevy dealership. The dealership would probably still be there if not for unions.

Fight this thug fascism in New York on February 3rd. More here.

Clueless and Dangerous

Check out Salon's pitiful attempt at snark (heh) at the Ground Zero Mosque protest.  They are choking on their own bile. 

The imagery of our poster (thanks to Big Fur Hat) confounds them because they do not see the hypocrisy of the Mosque going up with a 29-1 vote (including the nine abstentions), while Wal-Mart has to beg on bended knee and prove that they aren't dangerous and detrimental to NYC. We are protesting the hypocrisy and we will be there February 3rd.

The imagery means -- if Wal-Mart were Muslims,  NYC would welcome them with open arms.

One clown in the comment section didn't even know the winking smiley face is Wal-Mart's logo.

Read the Salon comments. They hate Wal-Mart like they... they...crashed planes into the twin towers and killed 3000 people.

Anti-Islam Blogger to hold pro-Wal-Mart Rally Salon

Note "obsessive anti-Islam blogger" ......... left-speak for proud American patriot and freedom lover.

Obsessive anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller is having another New York rally in support of bigotry and insanity. This time, though, there's a twist: She is still protesting the imaginary "ground zero mosque," but she also wants everyone to know that she's in favor of Wal-Mart.

The giant retail chain that has successfully held the lead in America's race to the bottom would like to expand into New York City. The City Council is against the idea. Geller, obviously, supports Wal-Mart, because liberals dislike Wal-Mart, and liberals love Muslims, and Muslims hate America, and so therefore Wal-Mart is good and loves America.

The beautiful thing about her little flier is how confusing and incoherent it is. It is anti-mosque, and pro-Wal-Mart, but the Wal-Mart happy face is wearing a veil, and there is an Islamic crescent in place of the style guide-confounding hyphen?

Also, Geller is the lady who decided to loudly boycott Dunkin' Donuts because it had an ad in which spokesperson Rachael Ray wore a scarf that resembled a keffiyeh. Surely Wal-Mart has sold something with a crescent on it at some point. Look, you can buy a Quran for $5! And there's even a Spanish version, for illegal immigrant terror anchor babies!

(Oh, wait, Geller already got mad at Wal-Mart for something Muslim-related in 2009, because she is impossible to parody. But it wasn't really their fault, because they were sued by CAIR, so she has forgiven them.)

New York is expected to get a foot of snow tonight, which should make for a really fun protest of a City Council hearing that has already been postponed.

What this loser fails to grasp is ......... everything. We are protesting the hypocrisy. Bending over for a radical building a mega mosque at Ground Zero is this desirable position. But jobs, low prices and the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers begging for Wal-Mart -- that is bad.

Not to be outdone. The Puff ho here.

The government should keep its big nose and its big ass out of both of these issues. If they stop Wal-Mart, stop the Cordoba mosque. Here's a Wal-Mart cheat sheet.

he City Council's much-anticipated hearing Wednesday on the impact of Walmart's expected entry into New York looms more as a pep rally for opponents than a sincere fact-finding inquiry.

Scheduled to testify are a professor who has concluded that Walmart puts small retailers out of business; the local union leader who has led the fight against Walmart, as well as the government affairs specialist at the grocery chain that employs his members; plus a series of community activists closely allied with labor.

Given the affair's presumed one-sided nature, Walmart is unlikely to send anyone, nor are its supporters willing to participate. So if members are interested in a fair hearing, here is a sample of questions they need to ask opponents. If they don't, the council, not Walmart, will get a black eye.

How does Walmart differ from its competitors, including Target, Kohl's, Toys “R” Us and BJ's—to name only some of the superstores that have marched into the city without opposition?

The council should find out if these chains are unionized, if they pay higher wages than Walmart and if their employee benefits are better.

Much has been made of the argument that Walmart forces out neighborhood stores. How will Walmart manage to do that when its competitors haven't? And do employees at mom-and-pop operations fare better than they would working at Walmart?

The self-styled defenders of small business should be asked if they know what kind of wages small shops pay—and especially whether they offer health benefits.

How will consumers benefit by keeping Walmart out of New York?

A related exercise for representatives of the Red Apple supermarket group would be to explain how its prices and selection compare with Walmart's.

Why do opponents think so many New Yorkers go out of their way to shop and work at Walmart?

Its suburban stores do about $165 million annually in credit card sales from city residents. The Valley Stream store, a stone's throw from the Queens border, is the No. 1 location in the country for shipments ordered on Walmart.com and picked up locally; and 1,400 city residents are Walmart employees.

Finally, and most fundamentally, on what legal basis would the City Council bar just Walmart from the city?

The federal courts might have a lot to say on this issue.

Opponents think they're putting Walmart on trial Wednesday. Actually, the council will be in the dock.

GROUND ZERO MOSQUE PROTEST FEBRUARY 3

NYC Council rescheduled their kangaroo court hearings to February 3rd -- 1pm. Mark your calendars -- tomorrow is off due to the blizzard. Be there on the 3rd.

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE

NYC COUNCIL HEARINGS BANNING WAL-MART

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET, BETWEEN BROADWAY AND CENTRE STREET

12:45PM

UPDATE: The liberals have figured it out. Well, not so much.

Anti-Mosque Protest Tossing in Walmart Just for the Hell of It The Gothamist

Remember the "Ground Zero" mosque? Yeah, we still have to listen to people rant about that in 2011. But at least the anti-mosque masses are trying to keep it fresh—their upcoming protest against the proposed Islamic community center planned for Lower Manhattan is also a pro-Walmart demonstration. Why not? It may seem like a bit of a stretch, but not if you're Pamela Geller and you know how to connect the dots that the lamestream media is too biased to point out.

Geller is calling all Walmart supporters to join her rally tomorrow [February 3[in  solidarity, because she thinks the City Council is targeting both groups. You'll recall that Council Speaker Christine Quinn—the very same Bloomberg protegee who supports the mosque—had planned to hold hearings on what might be Walmart's first NYC location (in East New York), but that hearing—which Walmart refused to attend—has been postponed because of the impending snowstorm. We assume this means Geller's protest is postponed too, but in the words of Tony Robbins, God's delays are not God's denials, and we're sure the anti-mosque, pro-Walmart coalition will be able to use this insane protest sign in the future. We certainly hope so, because "Walmart" and "Ground Zero Mosque" is an SEO match made in heaven. (Maybe "George Clooney" will film a "cat video" counter-protest!)

Manhattan maroons, a breed unto themselves. "We still have to listen to people rant" about those slaughter on 911. *Sigh* This tool probably worked downtown on that terrible day, too.

UPDATE: Wal-Mart sign ideas: thanks to  Walmart Protest Sign Contest

-Death to those who defame Walmart.

-“We don’t chop the hands off of our shoplifters”

-If we don’t allow this we won’t be able to build a Target

-WAL-MART IS A RETAILER OF PEACE

-How many New Yorkers did Walmart murder on 9/11/01?

-We stone high prices to death.

-It’s not a store.
It’s a COMMUNITY CENTER

-Build It –
or
INCITE RETAILERS all over the world!

-Ten percent off the top should mean prices, not beheading!

-Hey Bloomberg, tolerate affordability!

NYC Council Cancels Wal-Mart Hearing Due to Snow GROUND ZERO PROTEST POSTPONED

CANCELED! Protest the Ground Zero Mosque at the NYC Council of Despots

Quinn's quislings at the NYC Council have canceled their despotic hearings again to ban the largest retailer from New York City while pushing a Ground Zero mosque on innocent New Yorkers, due to the impending snowstorm.

The hearings are rescheduled for February 3rd. BE THERE!

UPDATE: HEARING CANCELLED: BLIZZARD FORCES POSTPONEMENT OF Ground Zero Mosque Protest at the NYC Council of Despots - NEW DATE FEBRUARY 3

THE NYC COUNCIL HAS CANCELLED THE HEARING AGAIN. PROTEST RESCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 3 AT 1PM, 49-51 CHAMBERS STREET

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE TOMORROW

NYC COUNCIL HEARINGS BANNING WAL-MART

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM

Tomorrow the NYC Council is meeting to continue its left-fascist government ban on Wal-Mart in NYC, despite the overwhelming poll numbers showing that 71% of New Yorkers and small business people want it. These elected officials are pushing for the Ground Zero mosque while banning jobs and cheap prices from the oppressed New Yorker, despite the overwhelming poll numbers showing that New Yorkers don't want the Ground Zero mosque. and 70% of Americans oppose the Islamic supremacist mosque.

The strongest support for Walmart came from city residents that unions and politicians claim to represent -- poor and working-class minorities: 81 percent of blacks and 77 percent of Hispanics endorsed the retailer setting up shop here. So did 73 percent of Asians and 64 percent of whites.

The positive views toward Walmart also crossed geographical, age and income demographics.

And two-thirds oppose the City Council attempting to pass a law to block Walmart. Read more  here

Wal-Mart will not be attending the hearing. I am glad Wal-Mart is staying out of this heavy-handed mafia-style government action.

“They’ve made a decision to take it to the people,” said Councilman Albert Vann, co-chairman of Wednesday’s hearing, who said that he had not taken a stand on whether he would support any Wal-Mart stores in the city. “But I would’ve liked a bit more respect for city government.”

Why should they respect a government that has no respect for its citizens? 

The Ayatollah of Bloomstan is working feverishly to erect the Ground Zero mosquestrosity. This is the madman's focus. The NY snowstorm exhibited what a bloody failure this quisling is. And NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is a shrill mosque shill.

Snow is forecast tonight (Bloomberg is holding a news conference ahead of tonight's snowstorm as we speak --  almost a decade as mayor and he still can't handle the most fundamental task. Give the conference after it snows, schmuck, not before. Oh, and try not to kill people this time.) Last snowstorm, Air Bloomberg was spotted in  Bermuda. "let them eat snow and  Ground Zero mosques!

If they don't cancel the hearing, we will be there, so watch this space. I am sure they would have cancelled, but now they hope that the snow will decrease our numbers. 14 inches forecast. If school is closed, bring your kids!

Please protest the Ground Zero Mosque at these ridiculous communist hearings. Expose the hypocrisy of the NYC Council and Bloomberg's toolbox. No Wal-Mart, but taxpayer funds for a 15-story victory mosque in a building destroyed in the 911 attacks. I do not share their death wish. They answer to the people. Not the other way around. Be there. Come with signs. Here are sign ideas.

I am glad that Walmart will not be appearing at the NYC Council hearing of totalitarian assclowns in their outrageous ban of Walmart from NYC, while advancing the goals of Islamic supremacists.

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, JANUARY 12,

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM

Wal-Mart Will Skip the Hearing NY Times

Wal-Mart will not participate. Instead, the retail giant has kicked off an intense media campaign, with direct mail, advertisements and a Web site, to get its message to New Yorkers.

“What should be clear, especially in this week’s activities, is that we are not going to be idle while others try to tell our story for us, and build that story on misinformation,” said Steven Restivo, a Wal-Mart spokesman. “We know we have a good story to tell. And quite frankly, we owe it to New Yorkers to be proactive in telling it.

In many ways, Wal-Mart’s New York City Web site reads more like that of a political campaign than that of a retail chain encouraging shoppers to sample its wares. There is a photo gallery, a newsroom and a “what others are saying” section with comments that resemble endorsements, including ones from a construction union; a spokesman for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; and a Fairfield, N.J., man named John Bond.

Wal-Mart, which was unsuccessful several years ago in its bid to open stores in Queens and Staten Island, said it had also bought airtime on over a dozen radio stations and advertising space in 30 local papers over the next two weeks, including The New York Post, The Daily News, The Staten Island Advance, The Haitian Times and Korea Daily.

 The company said it had sent fliers to residents of 10 City Council districts — none in Manhattan. Many of the districts have primarily low-income residents, and most are represented by council members who will take part in the hearings.

 Councilman Albert Vann, who represents Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights in Brooklyn and who will be co-chairman of Wednesday’s hearing, said he was not surprised to hear that Wal-Mart planned to skip it.

 “They’ve made a decision to take it to the people,” said Mr. Vann, who said that he had not taken a stand on whether he would support any Wal-Mart stores in the city. “But I would’ve liked a bit more respect for city government.”

 Other council members were more skeptical of Wal-Mart’s decision.

 City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn said: “If you’re proud of who you are, if you’re proud of your product, if you think you’re the best thing since sliced bread, why wouldn’t you come and tout it? They’re not showing up because they don’t have the stuff they say they have. They don’t have the data to refute what myself and others are saying.”

A letter to council members from Philip H. Serghini, a senior manager of community affairs for the company, asked why Wal-Mart was the only big-box store being singled out to testify, saying that the major national retailers Target, Costco, Kmart and Lowe’s all have New York locations.

“I respectfully suggest,” the letter said, “the committee first conduct a thoughtful examination of the existing impact of large grocers and retailers on small business in New York City before embarking on a hypothetical exercise.”

Of course, the NY Times failed to mention our protest, but if Rauf was going to be there, they would have produced a special section on "bridge builders and retailers -- a new era."

UPDATE: Logan will be there along with 911 family members, great American and leader of the Victory Movement, Rich Davis, American Sheepdogs too. Tea party members and other proud Americans will be there as long as the hearing is on.

January 12th NYC: Protest the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque Join the Fight

Do the right thing. Stand for what's right. Fight supremacism.

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, JANUARY 12

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM

The Ground Zero mega mosque Imam Rauf is kicking off his US mosquestrosity tour at a Hamas conspirator banquet.

The Ayatollah of Bloomstan is working feverishly to erect the Ground Zero mosquestrosity. This is the madman's focus. The NY snowstorm exhibited what a bloody failure this quisling is, bullied by organized labor and unions that did nothing the first 24 hours. 

The same malevolent power is pulling the strings behind the Wal-Mart ban, and the NYC Council is only to happy to serve its master. NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is a shrill mosque shill. She and Bloomberg's toolbox are refusing to allow jobs and lower prices in Manhattan. Who do these officials represent?

The recent release of e-mails revealed a close relationship between Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office and  Islamic supremacist mega mosque, Cordoba.

Ninety pages of e-mails dating back to 2009 show that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan relied heavily on City Hall for advice and assistance as they moved forward in their plans to build a mosque and community center two blocks north of the World Trade Center.

After the pair presented their vision to Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee in May, Nazli Parvizi, commissioner of the mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, ghostwrote a letter from Khan to CB1 Chairwoman Julie Menin, thanking Menin for supporting the project.

After several back-and-forth e-mails tweaking the letter, Parvizi advised Rauf to get it to Menin as soon as possible to "keep her on your good side."

Menin said she never received the letter. [Methinks she's a liar -- Atlas]

Photo: Bruce Menin, Julie Menin, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diana Taylor

Park51’s/Cordoba backers also exchanged many e-mails with Fatima Shama, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

"We need some guidance on how to tackle the opposition," Khan wrote to Shama on May 10, as the first wave of press reports about the plans flooded in.

Earlier in the year, Shama also helped secure a temporary Buildings Department permit so Rauf could continue holding Friday services in the future mosque site at 45-51 Park Place, which does not have a certificate of occupancy.

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, JANUARY 12,

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM

They're emailing each other?

Please protest the Ground Zero Mosque at these ridiculous communist hearings. Expose the hyprocrisy of the NYC Council and Bloomberg's toolbox. No Wal-Mart, but taxpayer funds for a 15-story victory mosque in a building destroyed in the 911 attacks.

I do not share their death wish. They answer to the people. Not the other way around. Be there. 

Come with signs. Here are sign ideas.

9/11 families were joined by immigrants from India, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Africa, Iran and Europe to show opposition to the construction of a mega-mosque at Ground Zero. Others flew in from overseas to speak or just to share their particular ethnic communities’ experiences at the hands of moslems.

These are parents and spouses of firefighters killed on 9/11.

Downtown by Design
Battery Park community center will be state of the art

Park51 backers aiming to build a 13-story Muslim Center near Ground Zero claim they will be constructing a much needed community center for the downtown neighborhood, yet a $73 million, 60,000-square foot community center is already under construction a few blocks away.

The Battery Park Community Center is being built within the base of two new [unintelligible] Properties high-rise residential condominium towers: the Liberty Lane and Liberty Green, now under construction on North End Avenue.

The community center project itself was designed by Hanrahan Meyers with the goal of the highest environmentally friendly Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification being overseen by environmental consultants [unintelligible].

Kevin G. Harney, principal and CFO of Stalco Construction, which is building the community center, said that while some companies find LEED work challenging, they found it “enticing,” because they have been involved in many other LEED projects.

“From air quality to debris removal, we are under strict guidelines,” Harney added. 

The community center will be housed on the street level, in a mezzanine and on two underground levels of the towers. Along with the main lobby with an atrium, the facilities will include an adult swimming pool, a children’s pool, a gymnasium and fitness center, locker rooms, a theater/auditorium, dance studios, classrooms, offices, a cafeteria, kitchen, bathrooms, and storage and equipment rooms.

Even those that are simply passersby will be drawn to the curving 550-foot long outer glass arcade wall that runs alongside two ball fields and a soccer field facing West Street just north of the World Trade Center site. The arcade wall will feature a patterned interpretation of a composition, “Water,” commissioned by composer Michael Schumacher, said Thomas Hanrahan, RA, and a partner with Hanrahan Meyers’ Partner.

“Schumacher’s composition is represented visually in the digitized form in the pattern of the glass wall,” noted Victoria Meyer, a partner with Hanrahan Meyer. “The music will be also accessible through a smartphone application that will allow visitors to hear the score simply by pointing their phones at the wall, with different sections playing a different part of the composition.”

Inside the building, the glass wall fronts two swimming pools and a gymnasium. The interiors will feature metal panel and plaster over concrete ceilings, tile flooring, along with a sports hardwood floor inside the gymnasium.

Protest the Ground Zero Victory Mosque January 12thMark Your Calenders!

BE THERE! PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE JANUARY 12TH

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, JANUARY 12

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM

The Ground Zero mega mosque Imam Rauf is kicking off his US mosquestrosity tour at a Hamas conspirator banquet.

The Ayatollah of Bloomstan is working feverishly to erect the Ground Zero mosquestrosity. This is the madman's focus. The NY snowstorm exhibited what a bloody failure this quisling is, bullied by organized labor and unions that did nothing the first 24 hours. What a difference a schmuck makes.

The same malevolent power is pulling the strings behind the Wal-Mart ban, and the NYC Council is only to happy to serve its master. NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is a shrill mosque shill. She and Bloomberg's toolbox are refusing to allow jobs and lower prices in Manhattan. Who do these officials represent?

DNAInfo:— A trove of newly released e-mails reveals a close relationship between Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s commissioners and the founders of Park51.

Ninety pages of e-mails dating back to 2009 show that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan relied heavily on City Hall for advice and assistance as they moved forward in their plans to build a mosque and community center two blocks north of the World Trade Center.

After the pair presented their vision to Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee in May, Nazli Parvizi, commissioner of the mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, ghostwrote a letter from Khan to CB1 Chairwoman Julie Menin, thanking Menin for supporting the project.

After several back-and-forth e-mails tweaking the letter, Parvizi advised Rauf to get it to Menin as soon as possible to "keep her on your good side."

Menin said she never received the letter. [me thinks she's a liar - Atlas]

Photo: Bruce Menin, Julie Menin, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diana Taylor

Park51’s/Cordoba backers also exchanged many e-mails with Fatima Shama, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

"We need some guidance on how to tackle the opposition," Khan wrote to Shama on May 10, as the first wave of press reports about the plans flooded in.

Earlier in the year, Shama also helped secure a temporary Buildings Department permit so Rauf could continue holding Friday services in the future mosque site at 45-51 Park Place, which does not have a certificate of occupancy.

PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, JANUARY 12,

49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM

They're emailing each other?

Bloomberg defines kapo.

Please protest the Ground Zero Mosque at these ridiculous hearings. Expose the hyprocrisy of the NYC Council and Bloomberg's toolbox. No Wal-Mart, but taxpayer funds for a 15-story victory mosque in a building destroyed in the 911 attacks.

I do not share their death wish. They answer to the people. Not the other way around. Be there. 

Come with signs. Here are sign ideas.

Downtown by Design
Battery Park community center will be state of the art

Park51 backers aiming to build a 13-story Muslim Center near Ground Zero claim they will be constructing a much needed community center for the downtown neighborhood, yet a $73 million, 60,000-square foot community center is already under construction a few blocks away.

The Battery Park Community Center is being built within the base of two new [unintelligible] Properties high-rise residential condominium towers: the Liberty Lane and Liberty Green, now under construction on North End Avenue.

The community center project itself was designed by Hanrahan Meyers with the goal of the highest environmentally friendly Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification being overseen by environmental consultants [unintelligible].

Kevin G. Harney, principal and CFO of Stalco Construction, which is building the community center, said that while some companies find LEED work challenging, they found it “enticing,” because they have been involved in many other LEED projects.

“From air quality to debris removal, we are under strict guidelines,” Harney added. 

The community center will be housed on the street level, in a mezzanine and on two underground levels of the towers. Along with the main lobby with an atrium, the facilities will include an adult swimming pool, a children’s pool, a gymnasium and fitness center, locker rooms, a theater/auditorium, dance studios, classrooms, offices, a cafeteria, kitchen, bathrooms, and storage and equipment rooms.

Even those that are simply passersby will be drawn to the curving 550-foot long outer glass arcade wall that runs alongside two ball fields and a soccer field facing West Street just north of the World Trade Center site. The arcade wall will feature a patterned interpretation of a composition, “Water,” commissioned by composer Michael Schumacher, said Thomas Hanrahan, RA, and a partner with Hanrahan Meyers’ Partner.

“Schumacher’s composition is represented visually in the digitized form in the pattern of the glass wall,” noted Victoria Meyer, a partner with Hanrahan Meyer. “The music will be also accessible through a smartphone application that will allow visitors to hear the score simply by pointing their phones at the wall, with different sections playing a different part of the composition.”

Inside the building, the glass wall fronts two swimming pools and a gymnasium. The interiors will feature metal panel and plaster over concrete ceilings, tile flooring, along with a sports hardwood floor inside the gymnasium.

SAVE THE DATE -- January 12th -- Ground Zero Mosque Protest

SAVE THE DATE JANUARY 12TH -- PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE AT QUINN HEARING

FORMER EMIGRANT BANK 49-51 CHAMBER STREET 

The quislings at the NYC Council canceled the ban Wal-Mart hearing on Tuesday after getting wind of our protest. Afraid of New Yorkers outraged by their hypocrisy, they canceled and rescheduled for January 12, in order to bring in their organized labor muscle, unions and other assorted communist thugs.

The idea that our taxpayer dollars are funding the prohibition of a jobs and cheap prices while this same ruling class is working vigorously to build a victory mosque at Ground Zero is symbolic of the treachery and deceit that has become SOP for our elected officials.

Fierce mosqueteer NYC Council speaker Christine Quinn strongly supports the Ground Zero mosque  and added her considerable weight to the 150 million dollar mosquestrosity when the building was being considered for landmark status (putting a kink into radical Rauf and Daisy the Kahn's imperialist aspirations.) Since the City Council had the last say in the landmarking process, Quinn's comments carried added weight and status was denied, paving the way for Mecca on the Hudson.

But Walmart scares her.

Mighty mosqueteer Christine Quinn said, “Standing by and letting Walmart come without any oversight, without any scrutiny ......" Uh, Wal-Mart needs scrutiny, but a Ground Zero mega mosque with radical ties and shady funding is not a problem. These are our elected officials. The left is systematically destroying this country. National security has become a joke.

Bombs in aisle 7 ............. 

City Council Committees Postpone Joint Hearing on Potential Walmart Impacts Brooklyn Daily Eagle

MANHATTAN — The three City Council committees planning to conduct a hearing Tuesday on Walmart’s potential impacts if it opens stores in the city have postponed it until Wednesday, Jan. 12.

First reported Friday on wnyc.org, the hearing had to be rescheduled because a larger meeting space was needed to accommodate the growing number of labor organizations, minority groups, community activists and academics interested in attending, and speaking.

lol. What sad liars.

As the Eagle reported last week, the three committees conducting the joint hearing are Small Business, Community Development and Economic Development.

 

[...]

As of yesterday, a meeting time or times had not been determined. But there will now be at least two hearings, Council Speaker Christine Quinn told wnyc.org — one focusing on Walmart’s impact on small business and a second hearing on the company’s labor practices.

Why aren't hearings being held focusing on Rauf's radical ties and incendiary rhetoric?

Said Quinn, “Standing by and letting Walmart come without any oversight, without any scrutiny would not be supporting small businesses.”

[...]

A preliminary list of invited speakers provided by Quinn’s office includes Matt Ryan of New York Jobs with Justice/Urban Agenda; Stuart Applebaum of the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union; Charles Otey of the Merchants of Third Avenue (Bay Ridge); Michelle Holder of Community Service Society; the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Queens; Alfredo Placeres of the NYS Federation of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce; Brad Gerstman and David Schwartz, co-founders of Gotham Government Relations; and Tom Angotti, professor of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College.

A veritable parade of asshats.

PHOTO: Architectural rendering of victory mosque, tumbling crosses, Jewish stars, and Pentagons.

Yeah, spit in my face and tell me it's raining. 

Meanwhile, check this out: 76% of Brooklyn Residents Want Walmart, Poll Reveals

NEW YORK CITY — A recent poll commissioned by Walmart reveals that 76 percent of Brooklyn residents say they favor Walmart coming to the city.

Additionally, the new data shows that Brooklyn residents spent $10.4 million in Walmart stores outside the city — in New Jersey and Long Island — last year.

Based on these facts, it appears Brooklyn could soon have a Walmart store. But Steve Restivo, director of community affairs for Walmart and a spokesperson, told the Eagle yesterday that, despite the rumor about a possible site in Bushwick, the company has not announced any specific plans.

“We do continue to look at small, medium and large sites across the city,” he said, adding, “In our real estate selection process, we look at underserved communities — both in terms of jobs and access to healthy and affordable food.”

As for the citywide poll commissioned by Walmart, 1,000 city residents were polled from Dec. 2 through Dec. 7, including approximately 250 (or 25 percent) from Brooklyn, according to Douglas E. Schoen, who conducted the poll.

“Walmart enjoys deep and widespread support throughout the five boroughs,” said pollster Schoen. “Through our research, we found that New Yorkers clearly believe Walmart can provide economic relief through affordable products, as well as needed jobs.”

Commented Joe Venezia, senior vice president of Walmart U.S., in a statement, “New Yorkers want Walmart and we want to make access to jobs and affordable groceries more convenient.

Venezia also noted that as the company steps up its efforts to open stores in the city, it will engage with the community to build even more support.

“We will be flexible in our approach to better understand the unique challenges New York City communities face and how we can work together towards solutions,” he said. “At the same time, we will continue to be innovative and explore new channels so our customers can shop and experience Walmart when, where and how they want.”

Walmart’s sales data tracked the spending by New Yorkers at stores outside the city during the last 12 months. and found they had spent more than $165 million —including approximately $80.2 million from Queens, $35 million from Manhattan, $23.4 million from Staten Island and $19.1 million from the Bronx as well as the aforementioned $10.4 million from Brooklyn.

Following are the key findings from the 1,000-person poll:

• Favoring Walmart coming to the city: Bronx (80 percent), Brooklyn (76 percent), Queens (70 percent), Staten Island (66 percent), Manhattan (59 percent)

• 63 percent of residents favor locating a Walmart store in their neighborhood

• 70 percent of residents agree that they should have a Walmart in the city.

Joint City Council Committee Hearing

As the Eagle reported Tuesday, a hearing to be conducted by three City Council committees — Small Business, Economic Development and Community Development — on the potential economic impacts of Walmart has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 12, at the former Emigrant Bank building across the street at 49-51 Chambers St.

* * *

Small Businesses Also Want Walmart in City

In another poll also conducted by Douglas E. Schoen, this one of 400 businesses with 50 employees or less, it was found that small business owners favor bringing Walmart to the city by a count of 62 percent to 27 percent.

Support among small retailers was weakest, with 55 percent in favor versus 36 percent against; service-oriented businesses favored a Walmart by 65 percent to 25 percent and commercial businesses were most adamant in their endorsement, at 75 percent to 19 percent.

The No. 1 reason respondents favored a Walmart in the city was because they thought it would create jobs, the survey showed.

First reported in Crain’s New York Business on Monday, this and the residential poll mentioned above, were thought to have been conducted in an effort to strike a preemptive blow to the Jan. 12 City Council hearing that is expected to be loaded with Walmart opponents.

Crain’s notes that Schoen, a prominent Democratic pollster, was selected to counter those who would argue that a Walmart poll would be biased.

Media Rewrites News: "Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest"

Media spin headline: Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest

WNYC News Headline:

Park 51 Opponents Cancel Protest 

Uh, this is the twisted asshattery of the media. The craven NYC Council canceled the hearing that we were going to protest. Nothing like rewriting the news in a manner that is void of truth or objectivity.

As noted last week, opponents of Park 51 were planning to hold their first protest in months on Tuesday. The protest was meant to be held in a committee room at 250 Broadway, during a City Council hearing on Wal-Mart. But last week, that hearing was postponed until January 12, so the Park 51 protest has also been put off. 

According to New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the new venue would be larger, due to the intense interest in Wal-Mart and whether the company will open stores in New York City.

Park 51 [Cordoba]  opponent Pamela Geller says her protest was meant to address the "hypocrisy," as she saw it, in council members questioning Wal-Mart while not questioning the idea of a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero. According to Geller, the council "caved" out of fear of anti-Park 51 [Cordoba]
 demonstrators.

"She [Quinn] said we needed a bigger room," said Geller. "I don’t believe that. I think they were afraid that we would overwhelm them -- I don’t mean that in a physical way -- and they cancelled."

The reporter, Arun Venugopal, got that wrong too. The Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, said “We needed a bigger room.”  “We heard from unions all across the city, small business leaders from across the city." I said that was a transparent lie. They needed a bigger room because we would overwhelm them. They need a bigger room because they are afraid of us.

However, Jamie McShane, a spokesman for Quinn, said he didn't know who Pam Geller was and that he hadn't been aware of any protest at the hearing related to Park 51.

Geller hadn't expected the protest to be "huge," citing the conflicting schedules of many opponents, some of whom live in other states or have day jobs. But she said the re-scheduled protest would simply take place whenever the Wal-Mart hearing is scheduled.

"Whenever it is, we'll be there," said Geller.

Read the article here.

Meanwhile, slumlord Rauf is going on a lecture tour of Harvard, Yale, the University of North Carolina and other institutions.

Sick.

January 12th is the next hearing. Freedom lovers, mark your calenders. We'll be there with IOTW's award winning signage. Announcement to follow.

NYC COUNCIL Caves, Cancels Hearing and "Hate Wal-Mart Day" Ground Zero Mosque Protest rescheduled

The New York City Council has canceled the "ban Wal-Mart hearing" that had been scheduled for tomorrow at 1pm. They caved. They were afraid the public and the nation would be made aware of their hypocrisy: no to Wal-Mart but yes to the Islamic supremacist mosque. The limousine liberals deign to deny the working class and the poor jobs and prices they can afford.

The council canceled tomorrow's hearing at the last minute, in the dark of night, and will reschedule it when no one will come and there is no notice. But we will be there.

Christine Quinn, the shameless shill for the Ground Zero mosque, told the New York Times:

The New York City Council was supposed to hold a hearing this Tuesday about a renewed campaign by Wal-Mart to open its stores in the city.

“We needed a bigger room,” the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, said. “We heard from unions all across the city, small business leaders from across the city. It’s a growing list of people.”

Liar. They need a bigger room because we would overwhelm them. They need a bigger room because they are afraid of us.

They canceled because we were coming to call them out on their hypocrisy. We will reschedule the protest when they reschedule the hearing.

Let the NYC Council be on notice: we will be there wherever and whenever.

AFDI/SIOA Rally for Wal-Mart "Love Wal-Mart Day" Yes to Wal-Mart, No to Ground Zero Mosque

_{Placards: Thanks to Big Fur Hat}

AFDI/SIOA is calling all infidel shoppers.

JOIN OUR RALLY DECEMEBR 14TH 1PM

YES TO WAL-MART

NO TO GROUND ZERO MEGA MOSQUE

250 BROADWAY, COMMITTEE ROOM 16TH FLOOR

Earlier I posted on the dangerous and deadly direction Bloomberg and his toolbox was taking us. Mayor Gloomberg and NYC Council don't want a Wal-Mart in NYC, but are whoring for the Ground Zero Victory Mega-Mosque. The NY City Council has declared December 14th, "Hate Wal-Mart Day," and will hold a witch hunt hearing against Wal-Mart entitled "When Walmart Comes to Town." We will be there to stand against the fascists. Please join us and send this to your email lists, groups, list servs, and tea party people.

AFDI/SIOA are calling on all freedom lovers, free market lovers, infidels, proud Americans, and people of conscience to stand for American values and against islamic supremacism.

While the nation's largest retailer Walmart considers opening a store in New York City, the city council has decided to take a closer look at the retailer.

On December 14, the council will hold a hearing entitled "When Walmart Comes to Town" to examine the company's impact on small businsses and local communities.  

In New York City, opposition could come from organized labor as well as city council members.

Steven Restivo, a spokesman for Walmart, said the company will provide information to city lawmakers "to help inform the discussion." At the same time, he said Walmart found the hearing "curious," as "it seems to ignore the fact that the city is currently home to hundreds of stores that are similar to Walmart" and the retailer currently has no store in the city nor has announced a specific project. 

NYC officials and the Gloomberg's administration are working overtime to erect a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero, while Wal-Mart, the nations's largest private employer, has been denied entry repeatedly. Wal-Mart was forced to drop its plans for its first New York city store. And New York was the loser for it. The lower middle and middle class was the loser for it. (More at Atlas here.)

Perhaps if Wal-Mart proposes a store with a mosque on its two top floors looking down on the hallowed ground of Ground Zero, they can get Gloomberg to ram it through and the taxpayers to fund it.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who stood behind Mayor Gloomberg while he whined that the terrorists would win if we didn't allow stealth jihadists to build a victory mosque at Ground Zero, joined a labor protest against the retailer last June, the Daily News reported.

“You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Walmart,” Quinn said at the rally, according to the News. “It’s that we don’t want companies that have led the nation in law suits being brought against them by workers. We don’t want companies that have the largest class-action in history brought against them. We don’t want companies where women are, over and over, paid less than men and not promoted. You can be very clear that I don’t want that.”

Got that?

Photo: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (C), Council Speaker Christine Quinn (C-L),  hold a press conference on Governor's Island to support the mosque being built on Ground Zero.

These clowns miss the whole point of Lady Liberty. She stands, not for the sharia, but for individual rights.

The Wal-Mart opposition movement is a political fraud. Wal-Mart has saved towns (all the way back to Bentonville, Arkansas). The anti Wal-Mart movements are dangerous. Big union backed, this represents the tendency to move toward dictatorship policy and collectivism, and away from freedom.

Have a look at this 2006 graph before this Obamaconomy:

MANHATTAN — As rumors continued to swirl about Walmart moving to the Big Apple, the City Council has scheduled a hearing for next month to debate the merits of bringing the retailer to New York, according to the council’s website.

The event, titled “When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and
Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,” is a joint hearing by the Committee on Small Business and committees on community and economic development. (We had an event, “When Radical Muslims Come to Town”)

“We’re excited to have this hearing and get all the information out in the open so it can be debated,” Bennett Baruch, deputy chief of staff to Councilwoman Diana Reyna, told Crain’s New York Monday. Reyna chairs the Small Business Committee.

The Big Box retailer, which is the country’s largest private employer, has tried several times to break into the New York market — most recently in 2005.

Walmart spokesman Steven Restivo said earlier this month that the company is once again looking at the possibility of opening a New York City store. Restivo would not confirm, though, whether they are looking at locations in Manhattan.

Public support for the store entering the city seems uncertain at best.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined a labor protest against the retailer last June, the Daily News reported.

“You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Walmart,” Quinn said at the rally, according to the News. “It’s that we don’t want companies that have led the nation in law suits being brought against them by workers. We don’t want companies that have the largest class-action in history brought against them. We don’t want companies where women are, over and over, paid less than men and not promoted. You can be very clear that I don’t want that.”

How about? “You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Muslims. We just don’t want radical Muslims celebrating over Ground Zero.”

They’re upset how Walmart treats women? But your ok with Muslim Sharia Law!

Mr. Pinko, over at IOTW, is holding a contest for the best sign copy.

New York City is holding a “Walmart” hearing on December 14th whether or not they are “allowing” Walmart to build a store in New York City.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined a labor protest against the retailer last June, the Daily News reported.

“You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Walmart,” Quinn said at the rally, according to the News. “It’s that we don’t want companies that have led the nation in law suits being brought against them by workers. We don’t want companies that have the largest class-action in history brought against them. We don’t want companies where women are, over and over, paid less than men and not promoted. You can be very clear that I don’t want that.”

New York City is allowing the Ground Zero Victory Mega Mosque to be built on the grounds of “that it’s their RIGHT to build it” but they are refusing WalMart from building a WalMart store in New York City.

The iOTW challenge:

What will your clever “protest” sign say that points out the Walmart / Ground Zero Mega Mosque hypocrisy!?

Here are some sign ideas from IOTW:

Solidarity forever
Union Akbar.
 
“If we have stuff people can afford, the terrorists win!”

“Walmart – jihad friendly” Now will you build it?

$avings/Beheadings

“Death before discounts!”
 
Knock down prices vs Knock down wives.

Death to those who defame Walmart.

Sorry, that’s what my wife would write.
 
“Death to discounts!”

We want Allahmart not Wallamart
 
Death to the infidel shoppers.
 
Price Cutter or Box Cutter?

No to killing prices
Yes to killing Americans


NO to the
CHEAP INFIDEL HELL!
YES to the
GIANT ISLAMIC CELL!

“Prayer Rugs 50% off” Now can we build?
Value of the day, used burka with minor blood stains.

Slash women, not prices !
 
Knock down prices on Sharia enforcers.
 
No to tacky Clothes
Yes to Burkas
 
We’ll chop prices, not heads!
 
“The streets will run red with American blood
AND savings!”

We roll back the prices you roll back civilization

If you build it they will crash planes into it?

Mayor Gloomberg and NYC Council, No to NYC Wal-Mart But Yes to Ground Zero Victory Mega-Mosque

The NY City Council has declared December 14th, "Hate Wal-Mart Day" Page 13 NY Post, December 2, 2010

You can't make this stuff up. While NYC officials and the Gloomberg administration are working overtime to erect a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero, Wal-Mart, the nations's largest private employer, has been denied entry repeatedly. Wal-Mart was forced to drop its plans for its first New York city store. And New York was the loser for it. The lower middle and middle class was the loser for it. (More at Atlas here.)

Atlas 2006 flashback: You Can Keep Wal-Mart out of the NYC, But you can't Keep NYC Outta Wal-Mart

Perhaps if Wal-Mart proposes a store with a mosque on its two top floors looking down on the hallowed ground of Ground Zero, they can get Gloomberg to ram it through and the taxpayers to fund it.

Once again, Wal-Mart is trying to move into Gotham, and yet again, the communists and dhimmis are protecting us from Wal-Mart while fighting to build an Islamic fortress at Ground Zero.

The hopeless, hapless Ground Zero Mosque shills at the New York Times got tough with Wal-Mart: The New York _{waste of} Times Mudslings Wal-Mart

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who stood behind Mayor Gloomberg while he whined that the terrorists would win if we didn't allow stealth jihadists to build a victory mosque at Ground Zero, joined a labor protest against the retailer last June, the Daily News reported.

“You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Walmart,” Quinn said at the rally, according to the News. “It’s that we don’t want companies that have led the nation in law suits being brought against them by workers. We don’t want companies that have the largest class-action in history brought against them. We don’t want companies where women are, over and over, paid less than men and not promoted. You can be very clear that I don’t want that.”

Got that?

Photo: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (C), Council Speaker Christine Quinn (C-L),  hold a press conference on Governor's Island to support the mosque being built on Ground Zero.

These clowns miss the whole point of Lady Liberty. She stands, not for the sharia, but for individual rights.

The Wal-Mart opposition movement is a political fraud. Wal-Mart has saved towns (all the way back to Bentonville, Arkansas).  The anti Wal-Mart movements are dangerous. Big union backed, this represents the tendency to move toward dictatorship policy and collectivism, and away from freedom.

Who are these polticians? Who elected them our wardens? Wal-Mart would provide jobs, generate tremendous sales, and offer low prices that would benefit low-wage earners greatly. Wal-Mart pays above minimum wage, has an excellent pay plan, always promotes from within, and has an excellent benefits package. And WTF is wrong with the lowest prices in town? An economy of abundance works! Not an economy of scarcity. Read Basquiat, Economic Sophisms.

Wal-Mart makes it possible for lower wage earners to purchase items they could never afford at regular store prices. Wal-Mart enhances the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Hell, all Americans.

Have a look at this 2006 graph before this Obamaconomy:

Mr. Pinko over at IOTW has the money post:

New York City Council to Debate Merits of Bringing Walmart to NYC

WTF?

Ground Zero Victory Mosque – They have a right to build there. We’ll also help pay for it.

Walmart – Offensive! Denied

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MANHATTAN — As rumors continued to swirl about Walmart moving to the Big Apple, the City Council has scheduled a hearing for next month to debate the merits of bringing the retailer to New York, according to the council’s website.

The event, titled “When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: The Effect on Small Businesses and
Communities: A Historical and Prospective View,” is a joint hearing by the Committee on Small Business and committees on community and economic development. (We had an event, “When Radical Muslims Come to Town”)

“We’re excited to have this hearing and get all the information out in the open so it can be debated,” Bennett Baruch, deputy chief of staff to Councilwoman Diana Reyna, told Crain’s New York Monday. Reyna chairs the Small Business Committee.

The Big Box retailer, which is the country’s largest private employer, has tried several times to break into the New York market — most recently in 2005.

Walmart spokesman Steven Restivo said earlier this month that the company is once again looking at the possibility of opening a New York City store. Restivo would not confirm, though, whether they are looking at locations in Manhattan.

Public support for the store entering the city seems uncertain at best.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined a labor protest against the retailer last June, the Daily News reported.

“You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Walmart,” Quinn said at the rally, according to the News. “It’s that we don’t want companies that have led the nation in law suits being brought against them by workers. We don’t want companies that have the largest class-action in history brought against them. We don’t want companies where women are, over and over, paid less than men and not promoted. You can be very clear that I don’t want that.”

How about? “You know, it isn’t that we don’t want Muslims. We just don’t want radical Muslims celebrating over Ground Zero.”

They’re upset how Walmart treats women? But your ok with Muslim Sharia Law! ROTFLMAO

The hearing will take place Dec. 14 at 1 p.m. in City Hall.

UPDATE: Rauf would never be seen in such a slum. Armaros points to this Atlas post:

As Rauf and Khan have become life style icons in fashion, fast cars and who knows what else...

Why would they support a chain which supplies small businesses and low income families with affordable food and clothing.

To these cocktail party types, WallMart is like how Paris Hilton explained it to be: "They sell walls there right?" ....

Rauf might run into one of the tenants in his derelict NJ slums -- wouldn't that be ...karma.

Wal-Mart Submits: Accommodates Muslim prayer in the Workplace

CAIR is claiming victory in yet another encroachment on our freedoms in the advancement of the implementation of sharia law.

In a craven capitulation to Islamic supremacism, Wal-Mart will accommodate Muslim prayer in the workplace. It is not for us to bend to the will of Islam.

Mind you, it is not necessary for a Muslim to prayer at a certain time. These actions are merely devices in which to impose Islam on non-believers. Prayer is not required on a strict schedule and Muslim prayers are commonly “made up” after work or school. This is true even in Muslim countries, i.e., Iran.

.... prayer is not required on a strict schedule and Muslim prayers are commonly “made up” after work or school in Islamic countries including Iran, I decided to investigate the facts behind Islamic Law, foot baths and prayer requirements.

[...] Islamic authorities agree that foot baths are not required to fulfill their washing rituals prior to prayer and that provisions have been clearly defined. According to Islamic Law, you have a symbolic washing alternative or you can wash in one location and pray at another and this one washing can last you through an entire days prayers. (more here)

Muslim footbaths in airports and universities, Muslim cab drivers who refuse to take passengers with dogs or alcohol, prayer times in public schools, prayer times in the work place, colleges forced to have separate swimming times for Islamic men and women so not to offend Muslims............ this is how you lose your country this is all part of the "the project" - Islamic invasion of America: The 20 Point Plan

These "initiatives "are to impose their will upon us, not to honor ironclad religious responsibilities.

Walmart Rehires Fired Muslim Worker (Star Tribune)

A major retail chain has rehired a fired Muslim employee in the Twin Cities and is now accommodating his right to pray in the workplace, an Islamic civil rights organization in Minnesota is reporting.

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Monday that Walmart agreed to the accommodation after CAIR-MN intervened on behalf of employee Abdi Abdi, who was fired from his job in February as a stocker and loader at the Woodbury store.

CAIR-MN says that Abdi, a four-year employee with Walmart, was let go for violating a new supervisor's ban on prayer during work breaks. A previous supervisor had allowed him to perform his daily prayers, the organization said.

Abdi was rehired last month at a Walmart in St. Paul and is now allowed to pray during breaks, following negotiations between CAIR-MN and local and national representatives of Walmart, the St. Paul-based rights group said.

"We appreciate Walmart's handling of this case and its willingness to accommodate the religious practices of employees," CAIR-MN Civil Rights Coordinator Zahra Aljabri said.

Abdi was rehired at the Walmart in the Midway area of St. Paul because it is closer to his home, his wife works there and managers at that store are "more familiar with the prayer schedule," Aljabri said. "At least a dozen" Muslims work at the Midway Walmart, she said.

As part of the agreement, Walmart has agreed to send about 10 of their employees for diversity training next month that CAIR-MN is conducting, Aljabri said.

WALMART SAW THE LIGHT! BABY DAWAH OFF THE SHELVES

WAL-MART IS THE LIGHT! Atlas says: Shop Wal-Mart this season. Wal-Mart Managers have responded to moms please to remove the Mattel doll that is brainwashing little girls.

OTOH, Target said NO. Target TARGET and boycott the dhimmis and Islamic enablers at Target.

 

MATTEL COVER-UP; SCRUBBING DAWAH DOLLIE, "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

COVERUP! MATTEL'S ISLAMIC SKULDUGGERY: SWITCHING THE AUDIO

BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

Parents complain to U.S. Agencies About Mattel “Islam is the Light” Doll 12/02/08

December 16, 2008 - Washington, DC:  Wal-Mart managers are removing the Mattel doll that says "Islam is the Light" from store shelves, according to reports from parents and the media across the U.S. and Canada, as well as Wal-Mart employees.   Many Wal-Mart managers have removed the controversial doll in the last two weeks, and others are removing it as soon as parents ask.

The Moms Ask Mattel for Accountability (MAMA) campaign to remove the doll began in late November on "Black" Friday, the year's biggest shopping day.  The national MAMA campaign started as a response to parent concerns about the Mattel/Fisher Price "Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo Doll."  The majority of "Little Mommy Cuddle and Coo" dolls on store shelves have an audio soundtrack that says "Islam is the Light,"  with no label or warning to parents on the doll's packaging that it advocates Islam to their young children, a practice known as "Dawa." MAMA has advised parents in the U.S. and Canada to ask retailers either to remove the doll from the shelves or to attach a label stating "NOTICE: This doll says "Islam is the light," an invitation to your child to join Islam."  MAMA is concerned that an invitation to Islam is a material risk to young girls, because of the discriminatory Islamic law known as Shariah, and wants parents informed about the doll's statement before they purchase the doll.

"Parents are reporting that most Wal-Marts have already removed the doll, or immediately remove it when asked," said Denise Lee, founder of Moms Ask Mattel for Accountability.  "And TV and newspaper stories are reporting the same policy changes.   MAMA applauds Wal-Mart for taking the lead here in responding to parents' concerns, especially over the Christmas season."

Wal-Mart staff at the Wal-Mart customer "Urgent Assistance" complaint phones were helpful and frank about customer complaints about the "Islam is the Light" doll.  Lee spoke with Wal-Mart "Urgent Assistance" employee Ben Werkheiser, who said  "We have received quite a few complaints from customers." Werkheiser stated that removal of the dolls is "more or less left up to individual stores' decisions," and when asked if the dolls had been removed from most Wal-Mart stores answered  "Yes, they've pulled them because people complained about it. We are mainly responding to customers' complaints. The dolls in most of our Wal-Marts have been pulled."   Fellow Wal-Mart employee Maria McDonald stated "We have had many complaints with the doll...the calls we are getting are from customers. I personally have received a lot of calls from customers."

Wal-Mart employee Werkheiser offered advice to customers: "Contact store managers and let them know what's going on. Have them listen to the doll.  Customers can call the home office, 1-800-WALMART."  Although the Wal-Mart corporate office declined our request to provide an official policy statement,  MAMA spokesperson Lee said: "The facts speak for themselves - Wal-Mart is saying YES! to parent requests for removal of the "Islam is the light" doll from the shelves."

A TALE OF TWO TOY STORES....

On the other hand, MAMA's requests to Target to remove the doll - or attach a label stating that it says "Islam is the Light" - met with a NO!

Amy Reilly of Target's Media Relations office called Lee and directed parents "To talk to Mattel if you have any issues with the doll." Reilly carefully stated, "We have not had a national recall on those dolls."  When told of parents concerns about the doll Reilly stated, "The doll is a well selling doll." She said, for anything else "I would continue to try reaching Mattel."

"The difference is clear between two responses to parents' concerns," said Lee.  "Wal-Mart is trying to help parents, and leaves the decision up to their managers.  It appears from all the Target cases that parents have sent us (see "Cases" at www.labelthatdoll.com ), that Target refuses to take action in response to consumer complaints, and local Target store managers aren't permitted to respond to their local community. "

"The question is what will Target, Wal-Mart and other retailers do on December 26, when all those parents who bought that 'well selling' doll  try to return it because it says 'Islam is the light' ?" Lee said.

Lee noted that individual Kmarts have also been reported in the media as removing the dolls, but no nationwide policy has been released.

I LOVE WAL-MART

The great American company (reviled by the left, of course) The hatred of the good for being good.

$796: The price of a Phillips 32’ Widescreen LCD HDTV on Walmart.com

$39.96: The price of a South Shore Cocoa Night Table on Walmart.com

$0: What it costs to ship both to your local Wal-Mart store using Wal-Mart’s expanded Site to Store program.

$5 million: What working families have saved in just the first 4 months of the limited service.

The limo liberals would have them eat cake! But no plasma or adffordable furniture, or electronics for the "poor." Luxury jets for them, eat shit and die for the rest of us. Just tax, tax, tax.  I ask you who is clothed, fed, and taken care of from cradle to grave. SLAVES!.I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. (Ayn Rand)

SAVE WAL-MART FROM THE LIBTARDS!

UPDATE: Ans writes:

The left does favor inexpensive luxuries for poor people. Goods enter  this market by being stolen. A stolen TV is much cheaper than a new  one at Wal-Mart.

Felons are an important part of the left wing base.