Ask the Expert: Putting an End to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” from AmericanProgress on Vimeo.

Why should Congress and the president repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”? How would eliminating the policy now be different from Clinton’s attempt in 1993? And what steps can the White House take to ensure a successful repeal?

                          

The above video is public service message from the website TusCandidatos.com. “Tus Candidatos” translates into “Your Candidates” and the website is aimed at informing the Mexican public about any candidate that is vying for elected office. I spoke with the founder of the website Alejandro Reyes and he described the website as a place in which candidates could “claim their profiles and add whatever information they deemed fit” to their profile page. The goal is to provide Mexican citizens eligible to vote with information about each of the candidates, as well as their campaign platforms.

In the video passersby are asked if they know who their candidates are?

                          

NOW Senior Correspondent Maria Hinojosa asks a simple question: “Is a hard-line sheriff crossing the line when it comes to immigration enforcement?”

The answer will vary greatly depending on whom you ask and what their opionion is on the hot-button issue that is; illegal immigration.

Joe Arpaio is by far the most controversial figure in the illegal immigration debate.  As the longtime sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County he has pursued an aggressive hard line against undocumented immigrants.  His tactics, his detractors would call them antics have garnered him national and international attention.

My take is that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is nothing more than a bully, a man who likes the attention and the limelight and prone to engaging in racial profiling.  I also think his days are numbered and he’ll soon be gone.

Here are some facts about Sheriff Joe:

Goldwater Institute – policy report, Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, takes a candid look at what the Sheriff’s Office is doing and provides recommendations on how MCSO and other police agencies can provide more effective and efficient law enforcement services.

“The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is tasked with the important job of keeping crime rates low,” said Clint Bolick, author of the report and Goldwater Institute litigation director. “Judged by its own statistics, MCSO appears to be falling seriously short of fulfilling its core law enforcement duties.”

Americas Voice has more facts about Sheriff Joe, the Bull Conner of our day.

                          

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

The more one reads about the financial mess Wall Street elites and our government has gotten our country into, the more I’m inclined I am of becoming an anarchist.

For a bit on the negative implications of globalization see the 2006 Charlie Rose interview of David Graeber, anarchist and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University.

How did we get to here, well Frontline did a good piece called: “Inside The Meltdown” and it’s well worth an hour of your viewing.

Tonight Frontline will follow up with “Ten Trillion and Counting”

I should warn you the more your read, the angrier you’ll get.  Matt Taibbi’s article The Big Takeover which he wrote over at Rolling Stone pretty much sums up the pent up anger most people are feeling about this financial mess.

                          

Balzac.tv is a project of Spanish blogger, Hector Milla.  Hector has been blogging about Televison 2.0 for some years now on his blog which is written in Spanish.  It’s a good read and contains a wealth of information on technology, content and television programming  delivered via the internet.

Balzac.tv: Enrique Dans entrevista a Andrew Rasiej