New York City’s plague of gun crime continued this weekend — with 15 people shot in the same number of hours since midday Saturday, police sources told The Post.
The shootings — including a 21-year-old man left fighting for his life after being shot in the head while sitting in a car in Sheepshead Bay early Sunday — were more in one day than the whole of the same week last year, sources said.
They capped 43 shootings so far this week — more than triple last year’s tally of 13 for the same period, sources said.
In one, a 41-year-old man identified by neighbors as Thomas Gonzalez was shot in the chest in the East Village as at least three people rode up on bicycles — firing a barrage of at least nine shots, sources said.
A neighbor at the Bracetti Plaza on East 4th Street said Gonzales had been visiting family members — and was shot just after 2:30 a.m. as he sat chatting to friends in seats near a kids’ play area.
“He’s a good man. A strong man,” the neighbor said.
Gonzalez was still talking to people after he was hit, and his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, police sources said.
Early Sunday in Brownsville, meanwhile, a 23-year-old man told cops he was shot in the right leg after accidentally bumping into someone who pulled a gun and started firing, sources said.
In Queens, at least three people were injured after a fight just after midnight in the World’s Fair Marina parking lot in Corona, source say.
A 26-year-old man was hit in the chest and arm and taken by ambulance to Elmhurst Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the sources said. Two others later came on their own to the same hospital — a 38-year-old who was also hit in the chest and a 28-year-old in the arm, the sources said, with both also thought to be non-life-threatening, the sources said.
Also in Queens, a 39-year-old man was shot in the chest just before midnight while in a car in Far Rockaway by someone who drove up in a grey SUV, sources say. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening, sources said.
Commissioner Dermot Shea has blamed bail reform and prisoner releases over the coronavirus pandemic for the alarming rise in gun crime, which has brought increased criticism for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
But a Post analysis of department data found that most people released under the criminal justice reforms or amid the pandemic had no known ties to the bloodshed — with criminal justice experts saying the cops should focus on the flow of illegal guns into the city instead of playing the “blame game.”
Former GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt extracted millions from a company founded by Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan -- and left it in dire financial straits, write Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann.Getty Images; Alamy
Jeff Bornstein could not control his emotions.
“I love this company,” began the tough-talking, hard-driving chief financial officer of one of the world’s most storied corporations.
Then he broke down in tears.
It was August 2017, less than a month after John Flannery, the brand-new CEO of General Electric, had taken the reins. Flannery and Bornstein had both devoted their entire careers to GE, like most of those present for this moment at the annual summer meeting for top executives in Crotonville, NY, a leafy campus where the company’s professionals spend months being indoctrinated in the corporation’s proud culture.
But what should have been a celebration felt more like a wake.
Days earlier, the two men had met in Schenectady to examine the books at GE Power, the century-old company’s most venerable and profitable division — and had found a dry well where they expected cash.
Power’s “solid profits … were illusory,” write Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann in “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric” (Houghton Mifflin), out July 21. “The accounting tricks that looked like profits were actually just borrowing from the company’s future earnings.”
At that earlier meeting, Flannery wheeled on his CFO and tried to tamp down his rising panic.
“Did you f–king know about this?” he demanded.
Founded in 1892 by Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan and several partners, General Electric’s corporate pedigree had been peerless. The company was a charter member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, on board at its creation in 1907 and the only one that remained there 110 years later.
GE grew from the nation’s premier power and lighting company into a behemoth. By the turn of the 21st century it was valued at $600 billion, encompassing media, plastics, aerospace, energy, digital, financial services and more.
But in the months after the retirement of Jeffrey Immelt, Flannery’s predecessor, all its apparent wealth began to evaporate.
Enlarge Image Disgraced CEO Jeffrey Immelt would travel with not one private jet but two — just in case — and would stock his planes with both lobster and steak as he drained the company’s coffers.Alamy; Shutterstock
In Flannery’s first year on the job, more than $140 billion in value vanished from GE’s stock price — bigger by far than the losses incurred by the epic collapses of firms like Enron and Lehman Brothers. GE was unceremoniously booted off the Dow.
It turned out the problems at Power were not unique. For years, GE’s profits had been a mirage built on whirlwind mergers and accounting sleight of hand. The funds that had been doled out to shareholders as fat dividends — and had covered its managers’ lavish perks and pay — had largely been borrowed on the strength of the company’s golden credit.
The book’s authors paint a damning portrait of Immelt’s 16 years at the helm of GE, where a rubber-stamp board of directors allowed him to hemorrhage money almost unchecked.
Immelt was just 45 when he ascended to the top spot in September 2001, succeeding business legend Jack Welch. A charismatic, natural-born salesman, Immelt’s boundless optimism fueled a strategy of continual expansion, as he went fad-surfing after the buzziest new ventures.
At Immelt’s urging, GE’s many arms “overpaid for businesses they didn’t understand and then [were] crushed by the market,” Gryta and Mann write.
On his watch, GE bumbled into the subprime mortgage business shortly before the 2008 crash, leading to deep losses that pushed its stock into single-digit territory. Immelt spent $14 billion on an aggressive expansion of GE’s oil and gas holdings — just as the fracking boom cratered the price of crude oil. The digital division he set up in Silicon Valley and showered with $5 billion of capital never managed to produce the machine-learning platform he touted.
The board didn’t entirely understand how GE worked, and … Immelt was just fine with that.
- from “Lights Out,” on Jeffrey Immelt’s mishandling of GE
Meanwhile, GE’s corporate structure placed Immelt at the top of its board of directors, essentially making him his own boss.
“The board didn’t entirely understand how GE worked, and … Immelt was just fine with that,” the authors write. The well-compensated board members were chosen for their willingness to cheer Immelt on — and he readily ejected directors who objected to his plans.
At the same time, GE’s established divisions were expected to meet earnings goals far removed from reality. “Under Immelt, the company believed that the will to hit a target could supersede the math,” Gryta and Mann report.
It was a recipe for a disaster. Up-and-coming middle managers knew that a missed goal could stymie their climb up GE’s ladder; division heads “didn’t necessarily know how his underlings got to the finish line and it didn’t really matter,” the authors write.
Those toxic incentives drove the debacle that Flannery uncovered at GE Power. The division made its money not on the generators and turbines it built, but on the service contracts it sold to maintain the machines.
All a manager had to do was tweak the future cost estimates on those decades-long contracts to jack up profits as needed — and to paper over real losses from unsold inventory and declining demand.
All the while, as the Wall Street Journal reported, Immelt often jet-setted around the world with two corporate aircraft — one that actually carried him, the other flying just behind as a backup “shadow plane” on the off chance that a mechanical problem might delay his busy schedule. His aircraft was rumored to stock both lobster and steak so the boss could choose his midflight meal. Over his last dozen years as GE’s CEO, Immelt raked in an estimated $168 million.
At age 61, after a 35-year GE career, Immelt announced his retirement. He had long planned to depart at the end of 2017, and the board had been conducting an internal audition process for months. But after a contentious investors conference that May, when Immelt was forced to admit that the oil unit would likely drag down GE’s annual profits, he sped up the timeline.
In August 2017, Flannery took the reins. (His CFO Bornstein, who had apparently been unaware of the fiscal games that divisions like Power had been playing, had also been on the four-man shortlist.)
It took months for Flannery to take a complete inventory. Once he did, he ripped off the bandages with a public reveal at an investors update meeting that November.
“We’ve been paying a dividend in excess of our free cash flow for a number of years now,” Flannery confessed to a crowd of stock analysts and financial reporters in Midtown Manhattan. He revealed that Immelt had spent more than $150 billion on stock buybacks that artificially nudged GE’s per-share earnings higher, burnishing the company’s image on Wall Street — but had actually borrowed to pay out dividends.
GE would miss its annual earnings target by a shocking $5 billion that year, Flannery announced — and would slice its dividend in half. It was a cold splash of reality in the face of a stock market accustomed to Immelt’s breezy promises of boundless gains. Almost all of that year’s losses stemmed from the black hole at the heart of GE Power.
The truth hurt — and sent GE’s stock price plummeting. But in the next few months, not even a wholesale housecleaning of the board and the removal of Flannery’s top deputies, including Bornstein’s ouster that October, was enough to turn the ship around.
The new board of directors voted to fire Flannery after just 14 months on the job, replacing him with the first-ever GE CEO to be trained outside its corporate culture.
New honcho Larry Culp promptly shed several divisions, including Immelt’s ruinous oil and gas venture. But GE’s slow bleed continues. In October, Culp froze pension contributions for 20,000 employees. In March, he promised to give up his 2020 salary while announcing a 10 percent layoff in the Aviation division. The company’s shares are still publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, but at less than a quarter of their former value.
Since leaving GE, Immelt, now 64, dove into venture capital, working with tech startups in California and chairing the board of a medical software company in Boston.
But he has been named in at least two shareholder lawsuits filed by angry investors who accuse him and other former GE execs of covering up its liabilities.
“GE still weighs on him,” Mann and Gryta report. “He feels misunderstood and unfairly portrayed” — and as he often reminds interviewers, he has held onto his GE shares, hoping against hope for an epic comeback.
Soon after Immelt stepped down, he published a self-congratulatory 6,000-word valediction in the Harvard Business Review titled “How I Remade GE.”
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“It will take years for GE to fully reap the benefits of the transformations,” he wrote with his signature sanguine obliviousness. “I’m confident that I’m handing over a company that will flourish in the 21st century.”
Portland antifa surround car, driver shoots his way out. Photo from social media video.
Every night for the past six weeks in Portland, Oregon, antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters, looters and vandals have turned what used to be a nice neighborhood in downtown into a war zone. Portlanders are sick of it.
The police commissioner/mayor and the new BLM-approved police chief have done little about it. The Portland Police Officers Association held a scathing news conference, issuing a no-confidence throwdown to City Hall and begging elected officials to stop defending antifa.
But next to nothing has been done by local Portland police.
Rioters Surround Car, Driver Shoots His Way Out
Now it looks as if the people are taking the matters into their own hands.
In the early hours of July 9th, a person driving a white car in downtown Portland was surrounded by rioters.
The “protesters” demanded that the driver “get off the f*cking road!”
Within seconds multiple shots were fired in the air from the car. No one was hit.
The person who took the video claims that the driver had been with the protesters drinking.
The motive for the shooting is anyone’s guess, as Portland police didn’t respond to the active shooter.
Millions of Dollars in Riot Damage to Portland
More than $23 million worth of damage has been done to downtown businesses since the antifa and BLM insurrection began in earnest.
Vandalism is everywhere. Red paint has been splashed on the steps of the downtown prosecutors’ office. Windows are boarded up. Businesses have been looted. People are afraid to come downtown even in the daytime.
Police won’t do much of anything, as antifa-watcher Andy Ngo has pointed out repeatedly.
The Left Blames Portland Cops for Inflaming Antifa
Whether police or protesters are in fact responsible for an escalation in hostilities over recent weeks is a matter of bitter dispute in Portland. Since protests began May 29, property destruction at the courthouses has been a feature of nightly gatherings. But so has violent force employed by police to protect those buildings—leading to a chicken-or-egg question of who’s responsible for showdowns where police have deployed tear gas at least 1 in every 4 nights.
Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr has begun prosecuting these antifa and Black Lives Matterterrorists who attacked federal officers in a days-long siege in which multiple agents were wounded by lobbed IED’s, rocks, bottles of urine and more.
On Friday night, antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters tried to break into the federal building again and took a hammer to the head of a federal officer.
‘Official’ Portland Supports Antifa
These six weeks of riots come on top of years of antifa and Black Lives Matter insurrection. The violence grew worse in the summer leading up to the 2016 election when journalist Michael Strickland was filming a Black Lives Matter/Don’t Shoot Portland event and antifa attacked him. Strickland was roughed up by black bloc clad antifa who called him a “racist” and ordered him off the public street where the unpermitted event was being held.
Strickland retreated to a place in the back, but when masked black bloc clad and other protesters saw him again, they began to circle him to physically throw him out. That’s when Strickland drew his legally owned and concealed Glock pistol and held them off. He was arrested and thrown in jail. He faced 50 years in prison. His ten “victims” were nearly all unnamed and described in DA’s reports as being masked, wearing a hoodie, etc. It was a disgrace.
The message that the District Attorney, ACLU, and courts were hoping to send was you that can’t defend yourself against the mob in Portland. Even terrified people whose cars are surrounded or chased by protesters have been the ones prosecuted – not the violent protesters who foment the event.
The Portland police officers union has begged elected officials to stop defending the violent protesters. That obviously hasn’t happened. The only serious prosecutions of antifa and their BLM counterparts is being done by President Donald Trump and his attorney general.
This week, demonstrators took to the streets of Anacostia, an area in Southeast Washington, D.C. where I was born, to protest the taking of black lives. But they weren’t protesting police misconduct. They were protesting the killing by gang members of an eleven year old boy and the lax policing of their neighborhood.
The boy, Davon McNeal a budding football star, was gunned down as he was leaving a Fourth of July cookout organized by his mother, an anti-violence advocate. The suspects are members of “the Crashout Gang.” Guns blazing, they were chasing people believed to be members of a rival gang. A stray bullet killed young McNeal, one of eleven people fatally shot in Washington, D.C. in the first week of July.
According to the Washington Post, the protesters want more, not less policing in their neighborhood. One mother told the Post:
Police need more presence here. They need to step it up. They’re sitting in their cars. Walk around. Where are all the police people on bicycles?
The protesters dismissed out of hand the lunatic idea of defunding the police. Said one, “of course not, that’s totally, totally wrong.”
So is a court system that doesn’t keep criminals off the street. One of the gang members arrested for the killing of McNeal had been arrested in April and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. However, a judge, Todd E. Edelman, released him from prison in May, over strong objections from the U.S. Attorneys Office, when D.C.’s prison population was reduced in response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The gangster was required to wear a GPS tracking device. Of course, he cut off the device after the shooting.
A second shooter whom the police are still seeking had been charged with illegal possession of a firearm two blocks from where McNeal would later be killed. He was free pending trial for that offense.
The demonstrators protesting the killing of McNeal and the gunfire that plagues their neighborhood vowed to keep their neighbors awake until all five of the gang members being sought for the McNeal murder are arrested. “No justice, no sleep,” they chanted.
But what good are arrests when the court system fails to keep thugs who are arrested and convicted in jail? As the D.C. chief of police said:
[The gang members responsible of killing McNeal] have a history of picking up firearms and using them. They did it again, as we have warned. There needs to be consequences for illegal firearms, and now they have taken the life of an 11 year-old boy.
There won’t be adverse consequences for illegal firearms or for their use if, as BLM and others on the left demand, the police force is slashed and the criminal justice system becomes ever more lenient. The only be consequence will be more innocent victims like Davon McNeal.
Hunter and Joe BidenTeresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA
In August 2019, Caroline Biden, 33, a niece of former Vice President Biden, was busted in Lower Merion Township, Penn., for driving under the influence and without a license, public records show. While the case is active, it’s unlikely Caroline will face much in the way of consequences — if history and Biden family rap sheets are any guide.
Her arrest, which was never made public, was at least the ninth among Joe Biden’s close family, and followed incidents involving his brother Frank, his son Hunter and his daughter Ashley. The cases — ranging from felony theft to drug possession — were all either thrown out, or resulted in light sentences with no jail time, according to a Post review of public records and published reports.
The Pennsylvania drunken-driving collar was the third run-in with the law for Caroline, who is the daughter of Joe’s younger brother, James Biden Sr. In September 2013, she was booked for allegedly hitting an NYPD officer during a full scale meltdown at her Tribeca apartment, following a dispute with a roommate over unpaid rent. The case was dismissed after Caroline agreed to anger management treatment.
In 2017, she was busted for spending more than $110,000 on a stolen credit card. A felony conviction was later tossed, and she was allowed to re-plead to the lesser charge of petty larceny as part of a sweetheart deal negotiated by her attorneys. She avoided jail time.
There is no evidence that Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, ever personally interceded on his family’s behalf — but the string of favorable outcomes has raised eyebrows.
“Eric Garner or George Floyd on the day each died could have benefited from the Biden touch,” criminal defense attorney Robert Barnes told The Post. Barnes — who is currently representing “Central Park “Karen” Amy Cooper — added that the kid gloves for Biden’s kin was “very unusual treatment when looking at the … treatment over time, geography, and kind of crime involved.”
Biden’s campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo, when asked if Biden ever made phone calls to law enforcement on behalf of busted relatives, said, “No he didn’t, and this entire story is garbage.”
The trouble for Ashley Biden, 39, started with a pot bust when she was a student at Tulane University in 1999. New Orleans police confirmed the possession arrest of the daughter of the then-Delaware senator, but no conviction was recorded in court records.
Enlarge ImageJoe and Ashley BidenDimitrios Kambouris/VF16/WireImage
Ten years later, during her father’s vice-presidency, video circulated showing a woman resembling Ashley snorting what appeared to be cocaine at a party. Joe Biden refused to comment on the reports, and there were no legal consequences.
A second misdemeanor arrest for the Biden daughter was reported in 2002 after she allegedly attempted to obstruct a police officer — making “intimidating statements” — after a bottle-throwing brawl outside a Chicago bar. The charges were dropped.
Ashley hung up the phone when contacted by The Post.
Joe Biden’s brother, Francis ‘Frank’ Biden, 66, won the prize for the most bizarre Biden family bust when he allegedly stuffed two DVDs from a Florida Blockbuster down his pants in October 2003, cops said. He was 49 at the time. He never showed up for a scheduled court hearing on the attempted theft and the state attorney declined to prosecute, according to records obtained by the Miami New Times.
He had more serious scrapes with the law. He was pinched in August 2003 for drunk driving in Fort Lauderdale, earning six months probation. He was arrested a year later for driving with a suspended license but avoided jail again by spending three months in rehab. In 1999, Biden was a passenger in a car involved in a fatal drunk-driving accident. He was found partially liable for the death of 38-year-old William Albano, and owes his family almost $1 million dollars, according to the Daily Mail.
Today, Frank Biden works as a senior advisor to the Berman Law Group. He did not respond to request for comment, but has said previously that he has been “sober for a long time.”
Enlarge ImageFrank BidenJoe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Biden’s son Hunter’s long history of drug abuse began in 1988 with an arrest for drug possession — at around the same time his father was intensifying his War on Drugs bonafides and pushing for stiffer sentences for drug users. “I was cited for possession of a controlled substance in Stone Harbor, NJ. There was a pre-trial intervention and the record was expunged,” he admitted in a disclosure after being nominated to serve on the Amtrak Reform Board in 2006.
The same year Hunter was arrested, Sen. Biden voted for the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which specifically targeted the use of crack cocaine, making it the only narcotic with a mandatory penalty for possession. Since then, however, The Post reported that Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking the rock in 2018 by staffers at Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club in Washington, D.C. He’s been in rehab at least six times for drugs and alcohol, and by his own admission spent four years addicted to crack. He is not known to have ever spent a day in jail.
THE BIDEN BUSTS
The rap sheets, and favorable court outcomes, of four Joe Biden relatives
Ashley Biden Daughter, 39 Charge: Pot possession in New Orleans in 1999. No conviction recorded. Charge: Attempting to obstruct a police officer in Chicago in 2002. Dropped.
Frank Biden Brother, 66 Charge: DUI in Florida in 2003. Six months probation. Charge: Petty theft in Florida in 2003. Dropped. Charge: Driving with suspended license in Florida in 2004. Three months in rehab.
Caroline Biden Niece, 33 Charge: Resisting arrest, obstruction of government administration, harassment in NYC, 2013. Case dismissed. Charge: Grand and petty larceny in NYC in 2017. Two years probation; restitution of $110,000 in stolen credit card charges. Charge: DUI, driving without a licence in Pennsylvania in 2019. Case pending.
Hunter Biden Son, 50 Charge: Drug possession in New Jersey in 1988. Pretrial intervention program, records expunged.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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