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Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 24, 2015 at 10:00am

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

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Fables, Foibles & Fibs

Burt Prelutsky

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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nObama Lied About Iranian Nuclear Breakout Times

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists might want to move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock a few minutes closer to midnight because of Barack nObama's lies over how close Iran is to nuclear breakout. For months, the official talking point of the administration has been that Iran is a year away from placing fissile material in a warhead. But the assessment of U.S. Intelligence and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always been that Iran is months away from becoming a state sponsor of terrorism armed with nukes. Now, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz admitted to Bloomberg News that Iran is spinning nearly 10,000 centrifuges and could reach nuclear breakout in two to three months. Yet even with this knowledge, nObama discouraged Israel from acting militarily and continued to send Hanoi John Kerry to craft a lousy deal with the Iranians.

The U.S. has repositioned ships in the waters off Yemen, partially because Iran is sending a flotilla to supposedly arm Yemeni rebels. Meanwhile, Iranian aircraft are buzzing U.S. naval ships. And all the while, nObama keeps insisting climate change is the gravest threat we face. More...

-The Patriot Post

Green Times for Energy Efficiency, No Thanks to Government

Are you feeling green this Earth Day? You should. The White House would have you believe our days are numbered because we've failed to enter another ice age (take a moment to shiver in the irony), but statistics suggest we're in unprecedented times — in terms of energy efficiency. But here's the kicker: Neither Earth Day nor government intervention have anything to do with our greener ways. Based on data from the Energy Information Administration, American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry writes, "In 2014, it required only 6,110 BTUs of energy (petroleum, natural gas, coal, nuclear and renewables) to produce each real dollar of GDP, which was the least amount of energy required to produce a dollar of real GDP in US history." That's even more extraordinary when you consider how much the economy has expanded. "[T]he US economy was 28% larger last year than 14 years ago, even though slightly less total energy was required in 2014 than in 2000 (98.324 vs. 98.819 quadrillion BTUs) to produce $3.5 trillion more real output," says Perry. "That would be like adding an economy about the size of Germany's to the US, but without requiring any additional energy to produce 28% more output!" And consider this even crazier statistic: It cost a whopping 15,930 BTUs in 1949 to squeeze out just $2 trillion in GDP. So next time you hear demagogues claiming we're dirtying up our planet, tell them we're living in remarkably efficient times relative to yesteryear using the same old fossil fuels. And tell them they can thank capitalist innovators for the progress. -The Patriot Post

Democrats Drop Abortion Fight for Lynch Confirmation Vote

After stalling a bill to fight human trafficking because Republicans wanted to strengthen its provisions forbidding federal funds for abortions, Democrats finally relented so the Senate could get around to its confirmation vote on Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general. To stall a bill that would help society's most vulnerable women is one thing. To stop that opposition just to get a fellow leftist into an appointed seat is another. It's surely part of the Democrats' strategy to advance in incremental steps.

"I'm glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action on this legislation so we can provide help to the victims who desperately need it," Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell said from the floor of the Senate. "As soon as we finish the trafficking bill, as I've indicated for some time now, we'll move to the president's nominee for attorney general." As Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air, the Left may spin this as a political victory, but Senate Democrats backed down from their obstructionism over "abortion rights." Meanwhile, the winds coming from Congress indicate Lynch will be confirmed — even though she supports Barack nObama's unconstitutional executive amnesty. More... -The Patriot Post

TRADING BLOWS: HILLY TRYS TO SIT OUT DEM CIVIL WAR
Nothing rankles the Democratic base like free trade, and there is a whole lot of rankling going on as President nObama looks to push past deepening Democratic objections to a trade deal. The left is irate, and the party’s presumptive nominee has even voiced concerns about provisions. But can Hilly Clinton remain cryptic on the issue that helped blow up her previous presidential bid. nObama, who pummeled Clinton for her past support of a North American trade pact detested by liberals, is now in need of her support to avoid an embarrassing lame duck episode. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote today on “fast track” legislation that would renew presidential authority to present trade deals that Congress can endorse or reject, but not amend. But many Democrats are bucking the president and could band together to block the bill. As Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid recently told reporters: “I’m not only no, I’m hell no.”
[Stop the train - A group of labor, environmental and liberal pressure groups called Coalition to Stop Fast Track is launching a seven-figure ad campaign aimed at pressuring congressional Democrats to block the nObama-backed trade deal, Politico reports.]
nObama tried to push back Tuesday, saying liberal icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren, was “wrong on this.” “I would not be doing this trade deal if I did not think it was good for the middle class,” nObama said in an NBC interview. “And when you hear folks make a lot of suggestions about how bad this trade deal is, when you dig into the facts, they are wrong.” Gulp. But what will the party’s queen bee say? This is the first visible test of the uneasy alliance between Clinton and nObama since she publicly affirmed her quest for the presidency. She has much more to say these days on Democratic policy than the president. Leaders are taking their cues from her. Will she help the president pass legislation the likes of which he once shamed her for supporting or will she let him dangle while she plumps up her standing with the base? Get some popcorn.
[Clinton rival Martin O’Malley is stridently opposed to the TPP. And while he doesn’t mention her by name, O’Malley’s camp released a video that draws a sharp distinction between the former Maryland governor’s opposition and Clinton’s cautious skepticism.]
Ummmmm - NYT: “Mrs. Clinton was the original Elizabeth Warren, her advisers say, a populist fighter who for decades has been an advocate for families and children; only now have the party and primary voters caught up. ‘I don’t know why we have this semicollective amnesia about her past positions,’ said Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress and Mrs. Clinton’s policy director in 2008. ‘She’s following no one on these issues.’”
[Clinton today presents an award for social work to Ann Dibble Jordan, wife of famous Clinton factotum Vernon Jordan at Howard University as well as awards for women in “peace and security” (named for Clinton) at Georgetown University. ] -Fox News

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nObama Admin. Seeks “Severe Sentence” for Ex-CIA Officer

(Michael Tennant) - Hoping to “send an appropriate and much needed message” to anyone thinking of leaking classified information, the nObama administration is asking a federal judge to impose “a severe sentence” on a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who was convicted of supplying a journalist with the details of a failed CIA plot to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program...Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling (shown, center), 48, was convicted in January by an Alexandria, Virginia, federal jury on nine felony counts related to his alleged leaking of information about the agency’s Operation Merlin to New York Times reporter James Risen, who included them in his 2006 book State of War. Now, having prevailed in court, federal prosecutors are asking U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema to throw the book at Sterling. Although they wrote in their sentencing memo filed Monday that Sterling’s proper sentence under federal guidelines ranged from roughly 20 to 24 years in prison, “the prosecution did not argue for a specific term of years or call for a sentence in that range,” reported Politico. “Instead, they used words such as ‘severe,’ ‘significant,’ ‘lengthy’ and ‘substantial.’” http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/20716-obama-admin-seeks-severe-sentence-for-ex-cia-officer-convicted-of-leaking?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=1c86321663-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-1c86321663-289778381

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Net Neutrality Faces Legislative and Legal Challenges

(C. Mitchell Shaw) - When the FCC reclassified the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, Chairman Tom Wheeler considered Net Neutrality a done deal...But with the legislative and legal challenges the FCC order is facing, the issue is far from settled. Mired in "governmentese" and steeped in double-talk, Net Neutrality has proven to be a tangled web of deceit. Now that the order has been entered into the Federal Register, the real battle for its fate begins. After the order was entered in the Federal Register last week, almost immediately several lawsuits (which would have been considered premature before) were filed challenging the legality of the order. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/20715-net-neutrality-faces-legislative-and-legal-challenges?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=1c86321663-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-1c86321663-289778381

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Ethiopian Orthodox Christians protesting against ISIS killing of the 30 Ethiopian Christians

Over A 100,000 Christians Rally Together To Express Their Rage

(Theodore Shoebat) - Over a 100,000 people in the Christian majority country of Ethiopia rallied together today to express their rage against ISIS’ killing of the thirty Ethiopian Christians...They cried out with all of their enthusiasm, pushing for the Ethiopian government to avenge the blood of the martyrs, crying out: We want revenge for our sons blood. The rally got so emotional that protestors began to throw stones at police officers, a violent clash ensued and 100 people were arrested by the authorities. Ahaza Kassaye, the mother of one of the Ethiopians beheaded, identified as Eyasu Yikunoamlak, said that she was quite taken by the passionate response of the Ethiopian people: We must help save our persecuted brethren. Do not be a useless and lazy servant, but be an active one. http://shoebat.com/2015/04/22/over-a-100000-christians-rally-together-to-express-their-rage-against-the-islamic-slaughter-of-the-thirty-ethiopian-christians-crying-out-we-want-revenge-for-our-sons-blood/

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World Leaders Ignore Massacre of Christians

(rickwells.us) - Lt Col Allen West agrees that Christians are under attack worldwide and notes a significant difference between the atrocities of World War Two and what is happening today...We see the horrors of beheadings and other horrendous acts in almost real time but yet the world is doing nothing. Greta Van Susteren asks his opinion as to why that is the case, why aren’t Obama, Merkel and Cameron meeting to address these horrific acts? West reminds the viewers of the Obama moral equivalency statement that Christians are riding a high horse and need to get off of it. He believes it is part of the same professions of tolerance designed to weaken our resolve and prevent action. http://www.rickwells.us/col-allen-west-violence-against-christians-around-the-world-what-it-will-take-to-make-it-stop/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6hTsJY0RM

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'It's Preposterous' That The nObama Admin Is 'Doing Iran's Bidding'

(rickwells.us) - Lt Col Ralph Peters says that the centuries-long civil war between the Sunnis and Shiites has now come to Washington DC, with the Pentagon supporting our traditional Sunni Allies and the White House and State Department pushing the Iranian cause...He describes the delusion inside the White House as “a unicorn notion that we can have a grand reconciliation with Iran.” He says the Pentagon is trying to hold together the old alliances as the administration is just abandoning them and “pressuring the Saudis to stop their bombing campaign against the Iranian backed Houthis in Yemen because the administration doesn’t want to do anything, anything to alienate Iran. And in fact it’s now to the point where it’s doing Iran’s bidding , which is one of the most preposterous situations in the history of American foreign policy.” Bill Hemmer asks, “If we’re worried about surface to air missiles going into Yemen, are we now willing to stop that?” Col Peters reminds the audience that there is a UN backed embargo against supplying the Houthi rebels, noting that the Obamabots in the State Department, Marie Harf and Jen Psaki don’t want to hear it. http://www.rickwells.us/ralph-peters-u-s-doing-irans-bidding-guarantees-this-wont-end-well-for-u-s-and-traditional-allies/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv0ak2IYs8Q

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nObama – He Wants His Legacy To Be The End Of Fossil Fuels

(rickwells.us) - Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, understands that the claims of man-caused climate change are a deliberate fraud that is being perpetrated on the American people and the world by those who want to control us...He’s even written a book on the subject, titled “The Greatest Hoax.” In the video nObama makes the false claim that “Around the world, in the aggregate, it was the warmest winter ever recorded.” He just can’t stop lying. He’s basing his claims on manipulated data and even given that, we are still below the levels of the Medieval WarmPeriod of a thousand years ago. The UN and their operatives conveniently left it out of the “science” as well as the Little Ice Age that followed it. Michael Mann’s infamous hockey stick chart would have been much less convincing if the true data had been used as input and the IPCC would never have been able to peddle their hoax as fact. http://www.rickwells.us/senator-inhofe-on-climate-criminal-obama-he-wants-his-legacy-to-be-the-end-of-fossil-fuels/

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Public Pressure Needed To Persuade Hilly Clinton To Testify

(rickwells.us) - Anyone who thinks there is not a double standard in the American Criminal “Justice” system need only look at the blatant illegalities that Hilly Clinton and her husband have gotten away with over the course of their years of public self-service...That tradition continues with her theft and destruction of public documents as well as the timid nature with which the normally aggressive Rep Trey Gowdy is approaching the issue of her testimony. Gowdy is pragmatically recognizing that his options legally are limited and is attempting to enlist the aid of the American public in pressuring the career criminal Clinton into testimony, twice. Once in private in direct relation to the documents and emails which disappeared under her “care,” and a second time in a public setting. Gowdy says, “There are lots of ways to get people to come in, a subpoena is one, but making a case publically is another.” http://www.rickwells.us/trey-gowdy-public-pressure-needed-to-persuade-hillary-clinton-to-testify-before-benghazi-committee/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ao5dbe3DuY

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nObama’s Rising BS Levels Threatening The Planet

(rickwells.us) - America’s phony illegal alien “president” announced to the small crowd of bark-gnawing loyalists attending the festivities that he “couldn’t think of a better way to spend Earth Day,” the phony non-holiday, “than in one of our nation’s greatest national treasures, the Everglades,”...parasitically preying off the American people like a blood-sucking Florida mosquito, manipulating his way into global wealth redistribution and domination. He says there are no other Everglades in the world, a stupid thing to say although it may have come as a revelation to the Kenya and Indonesia native. There is no other Mount Everest either, so what? Is he going to travel to every place that has an individual name to try to prove a point? There are plenty of other swamps with other unique names and unusual, even “endangered” wildlife for him to spend his time visiting, why not start today? Snake Oil nObama says “Part of the reason we are here is because “climate change” is threatening this treasure. Actually the treasure that is under threat is that which is appropriately, in the United States Treasury and getting his hands on it is the real reason that he’s there. http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-rising-bs-levels-threatening-the-planet-we-must-act-now-to-save-ourselves-from-him-and-the-un/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JbAiua0fg

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James Dobson: Christians soon to be 'hated minority'

(BOB UNRUH) - James Dobson hosted a panel of Christian leaders on his “Family Talk” radio show Wednesday and warned that Christians are about to face a new status in America as a “hated minority” if the U.S. Supreme Court decides, as many expect, to mandate same-sex “marriage.”... “The heart of what’s happening is an attempt to impose a new morality on all of America,” said Maggie Gallagher, a traditional-marriage advocate for 25 years. Homosexual advocates have no interest in a “live and let live tolerance,” she said. “After redefining marriage, the next thing on their agenda is to redefine Christianity.” The attitude is that if you “see something different, there’s something morally wrong with you.” Christianity, she said, “will enter a new phase, as a hated minority group.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/christians-facing-new-status-as-hated-minority/

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Clinton Foundation: Russia To Buy Control Of US Uranium (Jeff Dunetz) - It's like a game of whac-a-mole every time the Clinton team beats down one scandal, another pops up from a different hole...The latest revelation comes from the NY Times and involves a deal which enabled Russia to own about 20% of the uranium production capacity of the United States for a $2.35 million donation to the Clinton Family Foundation. According to the report a Canadian based company Uranium One, owned the uranium assets was being purchased by Russian state atomic energy agency Rosatom a deal which had to be approved by various U.S. agencies including the State Department. As the State Department was mulling of the deal, the Chairman of Uranium One donated the $2.35 million from his family foundation to the Clintons. It gets worse, not only was there much more heading into the Clinton foundation that the $2.35 but a significant portion wasn't reported. Boy, and you liberals want her as president. You have completely lost your mind. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/04/ny-times-reports-clinton-foundation.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e16632a9ee-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-e16632a9ee-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-e16632a9ee-291705165

Fables, Foibles & Fibs

(burtprelutsky.com) - If the North Korean media is to be believed, Kim Jung-un learned to drive when he was still a toddler, won a yacht race when he was nine and, as an adult, once had 11 holes-in-one during a single round of golf. And that’s the yardstick by which North Korean school kids are supposed to measure themselves.

It’s easy enough for us to laugh at such nonsense. As folk lore, it takes its place among such tall tales as lumberjack Paul Bunyan, who could clear a forest single-handed; Superman, who could stop a bullet with his teeth; and Barack nObama, who, legend has it, was a constitutional scholar.

In nObama’s latest attempts to legitimatize the illegitimate, he has pledged solidarity with Cuban despot Raul Castro and spent well over a year trying to make nice with the Ayatollah Khamenei. And let us not forget that prior to the 2012 election, nObama got word to Vladimir Putin that he intended to give new meaning to “flexibility” -- or was it “sucking up”? -- once he dusted off Mitt Romney.

The fact that he has a soft spot for the vilest men on the face of the earth shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, before even coming to Washington, his closest friends and advisors were pedophile/pornographer Frank Davis Marshall; the American-born terrorist William Ayres; the rabidly racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright; and the preeminent anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan.

To get an even clearer view of this psychopath, consider those he despises. He began by having the bust of Winston Churchill removed from his sight. Then he took an immediate dislike to Benjamin Netanyahu and has spent most of his six years in office praising Islam, while treating Israel like a leper colony.

The only Muslim he has treated with contempt is Egypt’s President el-Sisi, who, to his credit, removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power and demanded that Egypt’s mullahs speak out against the jihadists who have, in el-Sisi’s own words, hijacked Islam.

Finally, when it comes to nObama’s enemy list, one shouldn’t overlook Christians, whom he hasn’t yet forgiven for the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and, of course, insisting he abide by the limitations imposed by our Constitution.

Recently, nObama and the Ayatollah openly disagreed about the details of the nuclear deal. It figures that Iranians, the victims of a government-controlled media, believed the Ayatollah’s version. It also figures that after listening to nObama’s endless lies for the past six years, most Americans also believed the Ayatollah’s version.

Speaking of nObama’s lies, he promised to personally see to it that the V.A. would finally be treating wounded and aging veterans with the respect they deserved. However, a recent study reported that medical delays of 60-90 days are at the same level as they were when the scandal initially broke. Worse yet, the number of delays exceeding 90 days have doubled in the past year!

Once again, the facts bear out Reagan’s observation that government is not the solution; government is the problem.

♦ I recently read about a pre-WWII community in New York, where the German-American Bund intended to promote Nazism as a way of life. I take it they intended to make Yaphank, NY, a model for the rest of the country. They even had streets named Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. Before you write it off as too shocking to believe, keep in mind that at some point we’re going to see any number of streets and schools re-named in honor of Barack Hussein nObama.

♦ As you have no doubt been reading, California is suffering through one of our worst droughts in history. We don’t deserve your sympathy. For one thing, most of the country has spent the past several months dealing with cyclones, snowstorms and freezing temperatures.

But mainly we don’t deserve your sympathy because we keep electing Gov. Jerry Brown. The goofball still intends to waste billions on a train between L.A. and San Francisco. It’s a train that nobody will ever ride on because it only takes about six or seven hours to make the drive and because once you reach either city, you still need to rent a car. In the meantime, however, he hasn’t considered building even a single desalinization plant.

Everyone knows it costs a lot to remove the salt from water, but we have a state that is half desert, boasts a 700 mile coastline and suffers droughts on a recurring basis. The idea that we have billions of dollars to blow on Gov. Moonbeam’s train set and providing food and shelter for an endless parade of illegal aliens, but not a red cent to prevent the Golden State from going brown, is proof that California remains a state of mind closely resembling full-blown dementia.

How goofy is California? Let me count the ways. Over 60% of the registered voters are Democrats. nObama received 84% of the votes in San Francisco and the surrounding counties. In 2012, the techies who work in the Silicon Valley donated $720,000 to nObama’s campaign, $25,000 to Mitt Romney’s.

Finally, because even the liberal legislators in Sacramento weren’t raising our state taxes quickly enough to suit him, Brown put higher taxes on the ballot and got the thumb-sucking voters to pass the measure.

♦ As promised in a recent article, I intend to devote space every so often to replying to comments and questions from my readers in the spirit of Abigail Van Buren.

“Dear Burt: In addition to being a great writer, I think you’d have been a great reporter, psychoanalyst or politician. Ray”

“Dear Ray: You’re too kind, but I’m not cut out to be any of those things. A reporter? I much prefer providing answers to asking questions. A psychoanalyst? Don’t let the beard fool you. I don’t want to spend my time with crazy people. A politician? As I said, I don’t want to spend my time with crazy people. Regards, Burt”

“Dear Burt: What kind of people would force others to play a role in their same-sex weddings? With bakers being forced to bake and photographers being forced to take pictures, what happens if I’m invited to one of these weddings and I don’t wish to attend? Will they sue me if I don’t go? Concerned in Cape May.”

“Dear Concerned: I don’t think they can make you show up. But I suspect you’ll hear from Eric Holder if you don’t at least check the bridal registry and send a gift. Burt”

“Dear Burt: What to do? My wife is a Democrat. Anxious in Wisconsin”

“Dear Anxious: One: Does your wife look anything like an elk? Two: Is a hunting accident out of the question? Burt”

“Dear Burt: I can’t stand my wimpy husband, but if I left him, I’d miss the perks, which include a lovely mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue, a battalion of servants, free use of a military jet, a 24/7 security detail and any number of exotic vacations. Still, I’m considering getting a divorce. Disgruntled in D.C.”

“Dear Disgruntled: All things considered, I’d suggest you hold off filing until January 20, 2017. In the meantime, you can join the rest of us in counting off the days until we, too, are finally liberated from the schmuck. Burt”

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JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on April 24, 2015 at 8:27am

US kills American al-Qaeda propagandist, accidentally kills American hostage in drone strikes

APRIL 23, 2015 12:48 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER13 COMMENTS

Gadahn has been killed before, and given what the killing of Weinstein reveals about the inaccuracy of the Obama Administration’s intel, don’t be surprised if Gadahn, a self-described “revolting geek of mass proportions,” pops up again. “Warren Weinstein, Adam Gadahn Killed in U.S. Drone Strikes,” by Jim Miklaszewski, Robert Windrem and Tracy Connor, NBC News, […]

Raymond Ibrahim: Obama Breaks Promise on 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide

APRIL 24, 2015 9:59 AM BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM6 COMMENTS

As the world continues to look on in dismay at the barbaric atrocities committed against Christian minorities by the Islamic State—the self-proclaimed new “caliphate”—today, April 24, marks the genocide of Armenian and other Christian minorities by Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire—the last caliphate. Most American historians who have examined the question agree that what the Armenians experienced was […]

THE PATRIOT POST

Posted by William M. Finley on April 24, 2015 at 8:07am

Daily Digest

Apr. 24, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.” —George Washington, letter to James Madison, 1788

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Drone Killed American Hostage and Obama Barely Apologizes

In January, the U.S. drone program killed three American citizens in Pakistan, one of them Maryland doctor and al-Qaida hostage Warren Weinstein. After piecing together drone footage and intercepted jihadi communications, U.S. officials concluded that a “signature strike” killed hostages Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian. A signature strike is a drone attack where the CIA doesn’t know exactly who is on the ground, yet they take action based on suspicious activity.

Officially, Barack Obama apologized. “As president and as commander in chief, I take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren and Giovanni,” he said. “I profoundly regret what happened.” But then Obama spokesman Josh Earnest and the CIA undermined the executive’s apology by insisting Obama didn’t sign off on this particular strike. What a stark contrast to Obama’s obnoxious victory laps after Navy SEALs dispatched Osama bin Laden.

The other two Americans killed in January strikes were al-Qaida jihadists — one of them the first American convicted of treason since World War II. Yet because the strike killed hostages it raises questions about Obama’s management of the U.S. drone program itself — his signature counter-terrorism strategy. That said, it’s an effective tool that’s far more precise than conventional World War II bombing raids or coating Vietnam forests with Agent Orange, though as long as jihadis hide among civilians, avoiding civilian casualties will be difficult. And Obama isn’t doing nearly so well at it as he claims. More…

Did the IRS Intentionally Provoke Customer Service Woes?

Remember when federal agencies were ordered to intentionally manipulate the impacts of the government “shutdown” to take political advantage? The Internal Revenue Service is apparently borrowing from the same playbook. Commissioner John Koskinen testified that stringent budget cuts by Congress have hampered the agency’s ability to adequately handle certain functions, like customer service. Just recently the Treasury’s inspector general found that before March 7 nearly 4 in 10 customers who called into the agency never reached a representative — a drastic spike from the 1-in-10 ratio of a decade ago — and those that did waited an average of 25 minutes. A headline from The Hill described it as “IRS service worse than expected,” but a new report suggests the abysmal service was self-inflicted — and potentially strategically implemented.

Here’s how: “While congressional funding for the IRS remained flat from 2014 to 2015, the IRS diverted $134 million away from customer service to other activities,” reports John McCormack of The Weekly Standard. “In addition to the $11 billion appropriated by Congress, the IRS takes in more than $400 million in user fees and may allocate that money as it sees fit. In 2014, the IRS allocated $183 million in user fees to its customer service budget, but allocated just $49 million in 2015 — a 76 percent cut.” In other words, the agency could have helped more Americans with our complicated tax-filing system but instead diverted funds elsewhere (perhaps toward targeting conservative groups?). At best, it’s government inefficiency, and, at worst, the agency is caught in more malfeasance. Considering its track record, forgive us for assuming the latter. More…

Parents of Michael Brown File Civil Suit Against Ferguson

Michael Brown’s mother and father won’t stop until they see their definition of “justice” carried out. First, a grand jury declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the self-defense shooting death of their son. Then, Eric Holder’s race-baiting Department of Justice not only declined to charge Wilson on civil rights violations but vindicated his actions. Still eying the prospect of winning the legal lottery, however, Brown’s parents are going to try one more time. They filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the City of Ferguson, former police chief Thomas Jackson and Wilson. The suit seeks $75,000 and changes in the way the city conducts policing, because the Ferguson Police Department “had a custom or policy of negligently hiring and retaining officers, failing to property train and/or supervise officers in the use of deadly force,” the suit reads. The lawsuit builds off the DOJ’s report, which found the city practiced racial bias, with employees distributing racist jokes by email, for example. There are examples of the Ferguson PD seemingly abusing its power, such as one woman’s illegally parked car turning into a six-month legal battle, $1,000 in fines and six days in jail. Abusive systems should certainly be reformed. But how many times must Darren Wilson prove his innocence? More…

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS

Rubio, Walker Struggle With Immigration Footing

By Lewis Morris

Walker and Rubio

Immigration is likely to become a major issue in the 2016 presidential race, which is a good thing because the nation’s immigration policies could use some reform. Unfortunately, any attempt at discussing reform will bring bombast, pandering rhetoric and misstatements of the facts.

GOP candidates Marco Rubio and Scott Walker have already been caught up in the debate, taking heat from all sides for their recent statements. And the changing positions these two men have held on the issue hasn’t done either of them any favors.

Right now, the focus is on Barack Obama’s amnesty plan, which thankfully has been stalled in the courts. Given Obama’s habit of thumbing his nose at the Constitution and circumventing the law to suit his political needs, we can be sure the matter won’t end there. But there is a larger issue at play than just the 12 million illegals being recruited to join Democrat ranks.

Recently released U.S. Census figures reveal America is in the midst of an immigration wave unlike any the country has ever experienced. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, “Absent a change in current policy, the Census Bureau projects that in 2023 the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) will reach 14.8 percent (51 million) of the total U.S. population — the highest share ever recorded in American history.” And by 2060, one in five people in the U.S. will be an immigrant.

These are astounding numbers, and, while America is a nation of immigrants, such a large influx raises questions. What will the impact be on American workers, our schools and our infrastructure? How will we be able to assimilate all these new arrivals? What if they don’t want to assimilate? After all, the Left tells them not to. Thanks to our current lack of direction on immigration policy, there are no sure answers.

One thing is certain: The American people are concerned. Every major polling organization from Pew to Gallup and beyond indicate Americans want to see some level of restrictions on immigration. They are concerned about the impact on their ability to get jobs, the downward pressure mass immigration puts on wages, and what will happen to an entitlement system already stretched to the breaking point.

For his part, Rubio has recently voiced support for an enforcement-first immigration policy that includes an E-Verify system in which all businesses large and small would take part. But, to many conservatives, Rubio’s bona fides were sullied by his involvement in crafting the Gang of Eight’s plan that eventually turned into an elaborate mask for amnesty. Rubio originally participated because he was motivated by the idea of comprehensive immigration reform, although he walked away from it after realizing (or perhaps we should say proving) Democrats couldn’t be trusted. Piecemeal reform, starting with enforcement and border security, is really the only way to go, he now says.

CBS’s Bob Schieffer tried to catch Rubio in a gotcha moment with the question of whether a President Rubio would sign into law the Gang of Eight bill he once championed. Rubio ducked by saying, “That’s a hypothetical that will never happen,” because such a bill would never survive the House. True enough, but a simple yes or no answer that more clearly illustrated his current position could have mitigated the appearance of pandering.

Walker has similarly taken heat from all sides because of recent statements on his immigration position. In an interview with Glenn Beck, Walker asserted, “The next president and the next Congress need to make decisions about a legal immigration system that’s based on, first and foremost, on protecting American workers and American wages.”

That makes sense, and it’s in line with what the vast majority of Americans believe. However, The Washington Post accused Walker of being protectionist, and others have accused him of being a flip-flopper because he had previously suggested support for a path to legalization for illegal immigrants. Of course, his idea of legalization didn’t approach amnesty, but his position has been rather hard to pin down.

The vitriol Rubio and Walker face is due in large part to voicing the idea that legal immigration needs to be curbed and illegal immigration needs to be dealt with by enforcement before any other means. (No doubt they’re both moving Right for the primary.) While a majority of Americans, as well as a sizable number of recent immigrants, hold these views, the “enlightened” leftist elites in Washington don’t think this is the answer. And that’s only because they see a fresh block of voters who will support Democrats indefinitely if they can get them securely into the U.S.

Standing with the majority of Americans on immigration is a good start for both Rubio and Walker. But they will also need to be clearer in their messaging and remain consistent if they hope to be taken seriously.

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OPINION IN BRIEF

“Between 2001 and 2013, Bill Clinton earned more than $100 million in speaking fees, $26 million of which came from donors to the Clinton Foundation. What’s more, the foundation itself has accumulated $250 million in assets, much of it from foreign donors, The New York Times has reported. The Times … described the ‘special ethical challenge’ the foundation faced accepting huge sums of money ‘even as (Bill Clinton’s) wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.’ The Times piece focused on the possible role that cash paid to the foundation and to Bill Clinton personally might have played in a deal that handed Russia effective control of 20 percent of the United States' uranium reserves. … [I]t gave the Russians control over uranium mines and exploration in several Western states. As a result, Russia now controls 20 percent of U.S. uranium. Hillary Clinton’s campaign would like to ignore this story. But it is unlikely … that they can sweep it entirely under the rug. But who knows? Does anyone even remember that the Whitewater investigation was sparked not by sex between a president and a White House intern, but by a land deal meant to enrich then Gov. Bill Clinton and his wife?”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.” —Columbia University professor Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

Race bait: “‘Those six [Baltimore] police officers acted like a lynch mob against Freddie Gray. … The police [have] been ISIS to us. We’ve been terrorized with no accountability.” —Rev. Jamal Bryant, Empowerment Temple AME Church

Demo-gogues: “When people say this [Trans-Pacific Partnership] trade deal is bad for working families, they don’t know what they’re talking about. I take that personally. My entire presidency has been about helping working families. … I’ve got some of these folks who are friends of mine, allies of mine, saying this trade deal would destroy American working families, despite the fact that I’ve done everything in my power to make sure that working families are empowered.” —Barack Obama

Village Idiots: “At this point there has not been any evidence presented that would prompt the president or anybody at the White House to be unsettled by Secretary Clinton’s conduct as secretary of state. In fact, everyone here at the White House including the president continues to be very proud of her service to this country as secretary of state of the United States.” —Josh Earnest, denying the cloud of corruption surrounding the Clintons

Braying Jenny: “America moves forward when all women are guaranteed the right to make their own health care choices, not when those choices are taken away by an employer like Hobby Lobby.” —Hillary Clinton

And last… “A new study shows that President Obama’s new coal-plant-killing EPA rules could destroy up to 300,000 jobs. So, only marginally worse than the programs he passes to save jobs.” —Fred Thompson

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2016 - Too Many Hats in the Ring

Posted by Craig Andresen on April 24, 2015 at 3:00am

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Why are they running or, at the very least, even thinking of running?

That is the question that must be asked regarding several potential Republican presidential candidates as the time to go fishing or cut bait for 2016 is directly upon us.

Mike Huckabee…a nice enough guy and the former Governor of Arkansas has announced that he intends to announce on May 5th but why? Why would he or SHOULD he be throwing HIS hat in the ring?

He ran in 2008…he came in 2nd…soooo…he has a chance in 2016? Well…no…not at all because that 2nd place finish was such a DISTANT 2nd place it’s almost as though he never ran at all. McCain, in 2008, the establishment choice garnered some 1,378 delegates to become the nominee while Huckabee only managed to scrape together a mere 240.

In 2012…Huckabee looked good in the pre-race polling but, declined to enter the race at all so…why NOW? Is he basing his 2016 run on a distant 2008 2nd place finish and a never ran at all 2012 election?

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

Friday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 24, 2015 at 2:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Israel Installing Revolutionary

Tunnel Detection System on Gaza Border

Jack Moore

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

CLEANUP ON AISLE SIX: KOCHS NOT BACKING WALKER… YET The NYT reported that conservative industrialist David Koch all but endorsed Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for the GOP nomination after Walker gave a bravura performance to big donors at New York’s Union League Club on Monday. Then Koch and the conservative network he founded and helps fund with brother Charles, hurried to clarify. The network revealed to Politico that yes, it might play in the GOP primary process but that Walker was not necessarily the choice. Walker being branded as the Kochs’ man, especially so early, would be bad for Walker. It would also hurt the conservative network’s ability to raise money from other mega-donors who might be backing other candidates. The plan, as told to Politico, is instead to wait and hold another forum for candidates this summer like the one the network hosted in January. -Fox News

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HISPANIC DONORS EYE BUSH, RUBIO, CRUZ WashEx’s David Drucker, notes this election offers Hispanic Republican donors and bundlers “their first opportunity to support one of their own for president… The dilemma is figuring out in whom to invest:”… “In Bush and Rubio, they see candidates who in tone and policy will project a Republican Party that is more welcoming to ethnic minorities. Hispanic donors and bundlers, as interested in teaming with a winner as any other campaign financier, also see in them candidates that can beat presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hilly Clinton. Cruz is still a value-add, contributing to a cast of GOP candidates more diverse than anything the Democrats ever fielded.” -Fox News

WHEN FISH PEDICURES ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE FISH PEDICURES Reuters: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by the owner a Phoenix-area spa that ran afoul of Arizona state regulations that barred her from providing pedicures in which clients have their feet nibbled by small fish to remove dead skin. … The procedure involves customers placing their feet in a water tank filled with toothless Garra rufa fish, also known as doctor fish, which suck the dead tissue off their feet to leave them feeling softer. Cindy Vong, who has operated a nail salon in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert since 2006, introduced the treatment in 2008. She imported fish from China and remodeled her business to create a separate fish spa area. In 2009, Vong was told by the Arizona Board of Cosmetology that the treatment violated the agency's safety standards, and that she could face criminal charges.” -Fox News

1.

WH Spokesman Sneers at Senate Authority

(Bob Allen) - The Constitution gives the Senate authority to ratify treaties or not, no matter what Climate-Change-believers think...For example, during a recent White House press briefing, President nObama’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, was asked whether Congress should have a say on the agreement with China that commits the United States to reducing its carbon output over the next 10 years. Rather than taking it to Capitol Hill, however, Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry submitted our “commitment” to the U.N. In response to the questioner, Earnest said many members of Congress “deny the fact that climate change even exists. So I’m not sure they would be in the best position to decide whether or not a climate change agreement is one that is worth entering into.” Earnest’s remarks show a contemptuous ignorance of the reasons behind our Constitution. The Senate’s involvement in international agreements that obligate the United States to sacrifices and the fulfillment of promises to foreign nations is not a mindless tradition, as Earnest implies. http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/04/wh-spokesman-sneers-at-senate-authority/#

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nObama and the Media Still Hiding Immigration Agenda

(Roger Aronoff) - Once again, the nObama administration is deceiving the courts, and the American people, about its plans for amnesty for millions of current and future illegal aliens...And to make things worse, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty, for which President nObama is seeking fast-track authority, would, according to Dick Morris, writing in The Hill, “override national immigration restrictions in the name of facilitating the free flow of labor.” And in this instance, whether wittingly or otherwise, Republicans are lining up to support the President in the name of free trade. The proposed free trade agreement would undermine Congressional oversight over immigration, adding more power to the presidency, Morris argues. Pair this development with President nObama’s push to legalize illegal immigrants as U.S. residents, and this could become a dangerous policy combination. What is wrong with these Republicans supporting nObama? http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obama-and-the-media-still-hiding-immigration-agenda/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email042215&utm_medium=email

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Is U.S. Israel's Ally "When It Matters"?

(Shoshana Bryen) - Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, says the U.S. will no longer automatically exercise its veto in the UN Security Council to protect Israel...In testimony before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Power specifically declined to rule out support for resolutions on Palestinian statehood or the "peace process." "We will look to see what will advance Israel's security and what will advance peace in the region... Our objective as an administration is what can we do todefuse tensions, what will it take to get those negotiations back on track." When Committee members expressed skepticism, she replied, "We will continue to work extremely closely with Israel in New York. As you know well we have a record of standing when it matters with Israel." When, exactly, does it matter? Who decides? Apparently not Israel. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5609/israel-us-ally

4.

backstabber Boehner: President Can’t Change the Law

(fixthisnation.com) - In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures, Speaker of the House backstabber John Boehner touched on a number of issues, including the inactivity of Congress during the first 100 days...To that issue, he rejected the notion that the House has been passive, insisting that they had passed several bills that were currently awaiting votes in the Senate. But it was when the interview turned to President nObama’s executive actions on amnesty that backstabber Boehner went on the attack. “Presidents have the ability to take executive action,” he said, “but they don’t have the ability to change the law.” He said that nObama had crossed that line not only on illegal immigration but also on changes made to the Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately, this never-say-die version of backstabber John Boehner only seems to appear when there is a microphone in front of him. The president may not be authorized to change the law, but he’s certainly not being stopped by the likes of backstabber Boehner. If the name of the game was to criticize the president at every opportunity, backstabber Boehner would go down in history as the most effective Speaker to ever take office. But it doesn’t matter how many times you declare nObama’s amnesty unconstitutional if you actively fund it when pressured to do so. http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/boehner-president-cant-change-the-law/

5.

Israel Independence Day: Would nObama Recognized Jewish State Like Truman Did?

(Jeff Dunetz) - Sixty-seven years ago tonight (by the Hebrew calendar) is the anniversary of Israel declaring her independence. That independence would have been very short lived were it not for the strong will of President Harry S Truman, who became the new State’s first international supporter...Truman recognized Israel not because of any political stance, but because he thought it was the right thing to do. When Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Isaac Herzog, visited the White House after Israel declared her independence he told Truman, “God put you in your mother’s womb so that you would be the instrument to bring the rebirth of Israel after 2000 years.” If Barack nObama was president 67 years ago, Israel may very well have been cast aside in deference to the King of Saudi Arabia and the Arab League. He most probably would have tried to negate the UN Partition Plan, as most in the State Department recommended in 1948, because President nObama believes the United States should lead from behind. That wasn’t Harry Truman’s style. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/04/israel-independence-day-would-obama.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8a1fe1dd6b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-8a1fe1dd6b-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-8a1fe1dd6b-291705165

6.

SleazeBob Menendezs - 35DD Program

(Michelle Malkin) - America has an alphabet soup of visa programs for foreigners to choose from: B-1 for business visitors, B-2 for tourists, EB-5 for investors, F-1 for students, and so on. All are overwhelmed, loosely monitored and riddled with fraud and corruption...According to the recently unsealed federal indictment against him, sleazy Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., took it upon himself to add his own very special, crooked path to the U.S. Call it the 36DD Visa. The New York Post recounted this weekend how Menendez and his staff pressured the State Department to expedite the foreign tourist and student visa approval processes for a bevy of buxom foreign beauties. One of them, Brazilian actress and nudie model Juliana Lopes Leite (a.k.a. "Girlfriend 1"), had her F-1 student visa application moved to the top of the Mount Everest-high heap in 2008 as a favor to Menendez's now-indicted donor pal and accused Medicare fraudster Salomon Melgen. http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2015/04/22/sleazebob-menendezs-36dd-visa-program-n1988546?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

7.

The Tectonic Shift in Obama's Iran Policy

The Tectonic Shift in nObama's Iran Policy

(MICHAEL DORAN) - When President nObama took to the podium in the White House rose garden on April 2, his mood was victorious. With evident pride, he announced that negotiators in Lausanne had reached a “historic understanding with Iran, which . . . will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”...In truth, the negotiators had reached no understanding, historic or otherwise. nObama was celebrating something that did not exist—at least not yet. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had failed to agree on a text describing the terms of the so-called “Lausanne framework.” In its place, each issued a separate “fact sheet.” On some key issues the documents contradicted each other; on others they were entirely mute. Statements from officials did little to clarify the discrepancies or rectify the omissions. One official statement even seemed to widen the areas of disagreement. http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/04/the-tectonic-shift-in-obamas-iran-policy/

8.

Crisis in Yemen: Situation report

(Alexis Knutsen) - The Saudi Press Agency issued a statement announcing the start of Operation Restoring Hope in Yemen. The operation's objectives are to facilitate the political process in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2216, to protect civilians, fight terrorism, facilitate foreign national evacuation and international humanitarian relief efforts...respond to al Houthi military actions and prevent the use of looted weapons, and to build on ongoing efforts to interdict weapons shipments to the al Houthis and to Saleh. Saudi Arabia also announced it would provide $274 million to the UN for humanitarian relief operations in Yemen. The official end to Operation Decisive Storm may have been because of its growing unpopularity in Yemen due to civilian casualties. An April 20 airstrike targeting a suspected Scud missile base in Faj Attan, western Sana’a, killed at least 46 people, including some civilians, on April 20. The U.S. has attempted to restrain Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen. Separately, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian stated he is “optimistic” a ceasefire will be declared soon in Yemen, although separate reportingindicates that a ceasefire has not been agreed. http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/yemen-crisis-situation-reports-april-21-2015?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=042215

9.

Apocalypse Now: The al-Baghdadi Cartel

(Dawn Perlmutter) - The al-Furqan Media Foundation, the media arm of the Islamic State aka ISIS, ISIL released a high production video on Sunday April 19, 2015 depicting the ritual executions of 28 Ethiopian Christians, in Libya...The men were killed in two locations. 16 men wearing black were lined up and shot dead at point blank range by 16 militants in a desert area. 12 men wearing orange jumpsuits were ceremonially paraded along the shoreline of a beach and beheaded in front of the water. Synchronized ritual murders, particularly beheadings of multiple victims by multiple offenders, have become a distinctive signature of the Islamic State. Two months ago 21 Egyptian Christians were also simultaneously beheaded on a Libyan beach and on November 16, 2014, 19 ISIS militants ritually beheaded 19 Syrian military personnel in Syria. During the desert execution in Libya, the leader, a masked fighter dressed in black waving a pistol vowed to kill Christians if they don’t convert. He said that those who “perform prayer and pay alms” will have “their blood and property” protected by the Prophet unless Islam “dictates otherwise.” Ten weeks ago the nObama administration defended its foreign policy by claiming that ISIS was not an existential threat to the U.S. Existential is a philosophical term that basically means that ISIS is not a deadly threat to our survival. nObama is blind or just not wanting to get involved. Or is he leaving it up to the next president to act? http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dawn-perlmutter/apocalypse-now-the-al-baghdadi-cartel/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f7ea161f70-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-f7ea161f70-156509103

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Hillary Can’t Win. Or Can She?

( Bruce Thornton) - Hilly Clinton has formally announced she is running for president. Thus begins one of the most interesting and consequential political experiments in American history, one that will unfold over the next year and a half...We are going to see if a candidate for president with no real-world experience, no notable achievements, and no charisma or likability can fool 62 million voters into making her president. ome may argue that we already conducted that experiment with Barack nObama, but there are several important differences. As a candidate, nObama could at least pretend to be likable. He made all the right noises about “no blue state America, no red state America,” promised “hope and change” for an electorate reeling from two wars and the Great Recession, and sold voters the notion that he would transcend the old politics of government gridlock and zero-sum partisanship. Also, he had a nice smile and could read a teleprompter well. More important, nObama was just black enough to make voters think that by electing him they could leave behind the old racial guilt drummed into America for the last 60 years, and finally reach the sunny uplands of racial reconciliation and harmony. Thus they were already predisposed to give him the benefit of the doubt and provide him with qualities they so longed for him to possess but, as we learned, he didn’t really have. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/bruce-thornton/hillary-cant-win-or-can-she/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f7ea161f70-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-f7ea161f70-156509103

Israel Installing Revolutionary

Tunnel Detection System on Gaza Border

Jack Moore

(jewishworldreview.com) - Israel’s defence establishment has successfully tested a tunnel detection system which aims to prevent cross-border attacks by Palestinian militants, a former Israeli commander dealing with the dismantling of the tunnels has revealed.

Israeli defence electronics company Elbit Systems is cooperating with the Israeli ministry of defence to develop the world’s first detection system for tunnels built across the Gaza border, some which are used by Gaza factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, to attack IDF soldiers and conduct kidnapping attempts against Israeli security personnel.

The system, which the company promises will give “no false alarms”, allegedly uses sensors to accurately detect tunnelling activity, before the information is deciphered by a series of algorithms, revealing the location of the tunnels. The total cost and the timeframe of the project could not be confirmed.

Col. (res) Atai Shelach, the former IDF commander of the elite Yahalom unit whose focus is on destroying the tunnels, told Newsweek that the “classified” system will provide the “golden answer” to preventing tunnel attacks from Gaza militants.

“It will be solved by an evolution of technologies, intelligence and operational acts. This is the triangle,” he says in reference to preventing the tunnel raids. “We won’t find the golden answer in technology, we won’t find the golden answer in operational acts and we won’t find the golden answer in intelligence. It’s a combination and the missing link is technology.”

“As long as we can keep it quiet it’s better because it’s an operational act and to terrorists it is like water, they are looking for the hole that they can lick,” the former commander, now an IDF reservist, adds. “Sometimes me and others make mistakes and talk too much.”

The technology has already been trialled in some parts of the Israel-Gaza border and will eventually extend along the entire frontier, the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Aharonot reported. Speaking to the newspaper, Alon Shuster, chief of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council which borders eastern Gaza, said that the new technology would provide “an additional layer of security for the residents” of border areas.

The Israeli military said it launched its Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last July to destroy a vast tunnel network created by Palestinian militants for weapons smuggling purposes and cross-border attacks.

Earlier this month, Israeli analysts claimed that Hamas was preparing for the next conflict with Israel following the uncovering of an Israeli-Palestinian smuggling ring which attempted to transport high-tech equipment, such as infrared cameras and remote control security cameras - into the blockaded enclave.

In last summer’s 50-day conflict, over 2,100 Palestinians—at least 1,585 civilians of which 530 were children—were killed, according to UN and Palestinian accounts, and 72 Israelis—all but five soldiers—were killed, according to Israeli accounts. Eleven Israeli soldiers were killed by Palestinian gunmen entering into Israel via the cross-border tunnels.

An Elbit Systems representative was not immediately available for comment.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0415/israel_prepares_for_war.php3

Reported; Clintons involvement in Russian takeover of American uranium.

Posted by Michael Toon on April 23, 2015 at 9:30pm

PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 923, 924, 932-SEPT. 8, 1950, gives the President of the United States the authority to step in and stop any sale or production by any citizen or foreign entity that would infringe upon the national security of the United States. Pres. Obama has already allowed the Chinese takeover of our coal production now we find he is also allowed the Russians to take over all uranium.

It has become obvious to any thinking person that this president is bent on destroying the United States of America . He is not a patriot have some have stated . He is a traitor and must be stopped . His ignorance is no excuse for what he is allowed to happen. His racial bias has caused incidents over the United States. His failure to secure our borders and his amnesty program is reprehensible.

It is time for our representatives to start impeachment proceedings or it is time to start recalls proceedings on all our representatives .

10 Senate Republicans join in and support President Obama’s nominee, Loretta E. Lynch, as Attorney General.

Posted by Oscar Y. Harward on April 23, 2015 at 5:11pm

President Obama is proud of 10 Republican Senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joining in and supporting all Senate Democrats as our new Attorney general.

See how your State Senators voted. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00165

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114^th Congress - 1^st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00165

Vote Summary

Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation Loretta E. Lynch, of New York, to be Attorney General )
Vote Number:	165	Vote Date:	April 23, 2015, 01:37 PM
Required For Majority:	1/2	Vote Result:	Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number:	PN4
Nomination Description:	Confirm: Loretta E. Lynch, of New York, to be Attorney General

Vote Counts:	YEAs	56
	NAYs	43
	Not Voting	1

Alphabetical by Senator Name

Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Baldwin (D-WI), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Nay
Booker (D-NJ), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Capito (R-WV), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Cassidy (R-LA), Nay
Coats (R-IN), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Cotton (R-AR), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Cruz (R-TX), Not Voting
Daines (R-MT), Nay
Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Ernst (R-IA), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Nay

Flake (R-AZ), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gardner (R-CO), Nay
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Yea
King (I-ME), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Lankford (R-OK), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Nay
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
Markey (D-MA), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea

Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Perdue (R-GA), Nay
Peters (D-MI), Yea
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rounds (R-SD), Nay
Rubio (R-FL), Nay
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Sasse (R-NE), Nay
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Scott (R-SC), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Sullivan (R-AK), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tillis (R-NC), Nay
Toomey (R-PA), Nay
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---56
Ayotte (R-NH) Baldwin (D-WI) Bennet (D-CO) Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Coons (D-DE) Donnelly (D-IN) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Flake (R-AZ) Franken (D-MN)	Gillibrand (D-NY) Graham (R-SC) Hatch (R-UT) Heinrich (D-NM) Heitkamp (D-ND) Hirono (D-HI) Johnson (R-WI) Kaine (D-VA) King (I-ME) Kirk (R-IL) Klobuchar (D-MN) Leahy (D-VT) Manchin (D-WV) Markey (D-MA) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD)	Murphy (D-CT) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Peters (D-MI) Portman (R-OH) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Sanders (I-VT) Schatz (D-HI) Schumer (D-NY) Shaheen (D-NH) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-NM) Warner (D-VA) Warren (D-MA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---43
Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Burr (R-NC) Capito (R-WV) Cassidy (R-LA) Coats (R-IN) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Cotton (R-AR) Crapo (R-ID) Daines (R-MT) Enzi (R-WY) Ernst (R-IA)	Fischer (R-NE) Gardner (R-CO) Grassley (R-IA) Heller (R-NV) Hoeven (R-ND) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Lankford (R-OK) Lee (R-UT) McCain (R-AZ) Moran (R-KS) Murkowski (R-AK) Paul (R-KY) Perdue (R-GA) Risch (R-ID)	Roberts (R-KS) Rounds (R-SD) Rubio (R-FL) Sasse (R-NE) Scott (R-SC) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Sullivan (R-AK) Thune (R-SD) Tillis (R-NC) Toomey (R-PA) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 1
Cruz (R-TX)

Grouped by Home State

Alabama:	Sessions (R-AL), Nay	Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Alaska:	Murkowski (R-AK), Nay	Sullivan (R-AK), Nay
Arizona:	Flake (R-AZ), Yea	McCain (R-AZ), Nay
Arkansas:	Boozman (R-AR), Nay	Cotton (R-AR), Nay
California:	Boxer (D-CA), Yea	Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado:	Bennet (D-CO), Yea	Gardner (R-CO), Nay
Connecticut:	Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea	Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Delaware:	Carper (D-DE), Yea	Coons (D-DE), Yea
Florida:	Nelson (D-FL), Yea	Rubio (R-FL), Nay
Georgia:	Isakson (R-GA), Nay	Perdue (R-GA), Nay
Hawaii:	Hirono (D-HI), Yea	Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:	Crapo (R-ID), Nay	Risch (R-ID), Nay
Illinois:	Durbin (D-IL), Yea	Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Indiana:	Coats (R-IN), Nay	Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Iowa:	Ernst (R-IA), Nay	Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Kansas:	Moran (R-KS), Nay	Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Kentucky:	McConnell (R-KY), Yea	Paul (R-KY), Nay
Louisiana:	Cassidy (R-LA), Nay	Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Maine:	Collins (R-ME), Yea	King (I-ME), Yea
Maryland:	Cardin (D-MD), Yea	Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts:	Markey (D-MA), Yea	Warren (D-MA), Yea
Michigan:	Peters (D-MI), Yea	Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota:	Franken (D-MN), Yea	Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Mississippi:	Cochran (R-MS), Yea	Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Missouri:	Blunt (R-MO), Nay	McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
Montana:	Daines (R-MT), Nay	Tester (D-MT), Yea
Nebraska:	Fischer (R-NE), Nay	Sasse (R-NE), Nay
Nevada:	Heller (R-NV), Nay	Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:	Ayotte (R-NH), Yea	Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
New Jersey:	Booker (D-NJ), Yea	Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
New Mexico:	Heinrich (D-NM), Yea	Udall (D-NM), Yea
New York:	Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea	Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:	Burr (R-NC), Nay	Tillis (R-NC), Nay
North Dakota:	Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea	Hoeven (R-ND), Nay
Ohio:	Brown (D-OH), Yea	Portman (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma:	Inhofe (R-OK), Nay	Lankford (R-OK), Nay
Oregon:	Merkley (D-OR), Yea	Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania:	Casey (D-PA), Yea	Toomey (R-PA), Nay
Rhode Island:	Reed (D-RI), Yea	Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina:	Graham (R-SC), Yea	Scott (R-SC), Nay
South Dakota:	Rounds (R-SD), Nay	Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tennessee:	Alexander (R-TN), Nay	Corker (R-TN), Nay
Texas:	Cornyn (R-TX), Nay	Cruz (R-TX), Not Voting
Utah:	Hatch (R-UT), Yea	Lee (R-UT), Nay
Vermont:	Leahy (D-VT), Yea	Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Virginia:	Kaine (D-VA), Yea	Warner (D-VA), Yea
Washington:	Cantwell (D-WA), Yea	Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia:	Capito (R-WV), Nay	Manchin (D-WV), Yea
Wisconsin:	Baldwin (D-WI), Yea	Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Wyoming:	Barrasso (R-WY), Nay	Enzi (R-WY), Nay

CORPORATE AMERICA WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY

Posted by Juan Reynoso on April 23, 2015 at 4:54pm

By: Juan Reynoso, activist - texusa2016@gmail.com

http://anticorruptionact.org/. STAND FOR AMERICA http://www.teaparty.org/

"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."

Fellow Americans; seek the truth and let the people know. America will never be destroyed from the outside; it will be destroyed from within by our own government. The love for money is evil. The evil factors-Corporate greed bribes and corrupts our government. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves by ignorance and apathy. http://economyincrisis.org/content/greed-and-power-hungry-corporations-are-destroying-the-united-states

Fellow Americans, by the end of this year and the ending of Obama’s presidential term, Obama will inform the people of this country the end of the Dollar as the world’s currency. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank the institutions of the United Nations that control the world’s economy and place the Dollar as the world’s currency; will replace the Dollar with a new global currency. The IMF and the World Bank, share the same goal of raising living standards in the world. Their approaches to this goal are complementary, on macroeconomic issues and economic development to reduce world Poverty; to facilitate the development of countries members the IMF and the world’s Bank support capital market liberalization whish open the door for corruption and the enrichment of the oligarchs in the developing countries and the IMF investing nations. As loans capital poured in, most of the money then pours out to the hands of the ones that supported the projects; this system benefit most the rich than the poor and the working people that were obligate to pay for this debt by an increased and demands for more taxes.

The IMS and the world Banks promotion of globalization help the poor in the developing countries but contributed to the demise of jobs in the industrialize countries creating poverty and demising the economy in these countries; the most affected by this IMF and the world Banks is the US middle class and the poor, with most jobs going to foreign countries today good paying jobs are hard to get, factories jobs were replace by low paying service jobs, Americans lose their purchasing power and made great impact in the retail industries, retail stores are closing and sales are down, but no one in our government is brave enough to tell the people the truth; it is a chain reaction and all start with no jobs and low income. Americans are in complete denial and don't accept that globalization widens the gap between the rich and the poor; the truth is that worldwide, corporations do nothing except maximizing their profits. They are not interested in global poverty, income below 1$ a day, or anything; globalization in fact is the exploitation of human and natural resources for the purpose of world economy controls and the slavery of humanity.

The end of the Dollar will make our country more vulnerable than ever, it will be worse than the great depression and the economy catastrophe of 2008 that we never recover from. The main stream news media and our government is lying to us, all the economy reports are not true. We all know that wealth is created by productivity and positive balance of trade. Ronald Reagan destroy the pillars of our economy that once supported the middle class and the American working class, Reaganomics benefited the rich at the expenses of the working people; since Reagan we run a negative trade balance due to free trade and increased our national debt to benefit the oligarchs of this country cutting taxes from 70% to 28%. Obama’s policies is worse, congress give Obama a fast track policy to destroy America. Let’s face it the end of America’s economy leadership will end; we need to get ready and the best we can do today to save our money from extinction is to invest in tangible assets, pull your money from the Big Banks and if you own U.S. stocks, bonds or just cash in the bank basically paper assets in U.S. dollars, you must convert your papers Dollar into tangible assets. be aware of what could be a huge lost to you when the Dollar collapse, take action and save your family from this coming economy catastrophe.

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Reagan set the path of destruction of our country.

http://www.alternativeinsight.com/How_Reagan_Sank_America.html

Trade deficits kill American jobs

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/02/16/as-free-trade-pacts-expand-u-s-trade-deficit-soars-why-add-one-more/

Wall Street War-Making and War-Profiteering

http://www.communitycurrency.org/BushCrimeFamily.html

Global industrial a system of slavery.

http://www.academia.edu/167227/The_Global_Industrial_Complex_Systems_of_Domination

America impire. States under the US control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASSOQDQvVLU

JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on April 23, 2015 at 11:30am

US kills American al-Qaeda propagandist, accidentally kills American hostage in drone strikes

APRIL 23, 2015 12:48 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER2 COMMENTS

Gadahn has been killed before, and given what the killing of Weinstein reveals about the inaccuracy of the Obama Administration’s intel, don’t be surprised if Gadahn, a self-described “revolting geek of mass proportions,” pops up again. “Warren Weinstein, Adam Gadahn Killed in U.S. Drone Strikes,” by Jim Miklaszewski, Robert Windrem and Tracy Connor, NBC News, […]

THE PATRIOT POST

Posted by William M. Finley on April 23, 2015 at 10:55am

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Apr. 23, 2015

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TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Clinton Foundation Profited While Russia Seized U.S. Uranium

Today, Russia controls a fifth of the uranium production in the United States, according to The New York Times. Needless to say, this is the bitter fruit of the Obama administration’s foolish “Russian reset.” Thanks, Hillary Clinton. While a Russian company was taking over energy company Uranium One from 2009 to 2013, millions of dollars tied to the company’s previous owners ended up in the Clinton Foundation’s coffers. When the deal was made public, Bill Clinton was invited to speak to a Kremlin-linked bank that was promoting the stock of Uranium One. He was paid $500,000. So not only did the Clintons profit off of Russia, but Hillary did so while damaging national security in her critical position at the State Department.

Obama spokesman Josh Earnest wouldn’t deny that Clinton Foundation activity influenced the former secretary of state’s actions, saying, “I’m not going to be in a position here where every time someone raises a spurious claim that I’m going to be the one to sit down here and say it’s not true.” But the Clinton Foundation is refilling its tax returns because there were “errors.” Apparently, the nonprofit didn’t properly disclose donations from U.S. and foreign governments from 2010 to 2012 — y'know, when Clinton was secretary of state. That’s a tacit admission there’s much more here than a vast right-wing conspiracy, and the nonprofit may be the thing that finally brings Clinton’s career to a close. More…

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VA Helped ATF Seize Veterans' Guns

By now, most everyone knows about the Veterans Affairs wait-time scandal. But health care isn’t the only thing for which the VA is making our veterans wait. The Daily Caller reports, “The Department of Veterans Affairs is disarming America’s veterans by getting them placed on the FBI’s criminal background-check list. The VA sends veterans' personal medical and financial information directly to the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which can seize their guns in home raids.” Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding to know why “99.3% of all names reported to the NICS list’s ‘mental defective’ category were provided by the Veterans Administration (VA) even though reporting requirements apply to all federal agencies.” That’s a great question, and one that we’re not holding our breath for Holder to answer. Disarming the public — even veterans specifically trained to use weapons — is a key objective for the Obama administration, and they’ll use whatever means necessary.More…

Cleveland Recreates Gun Offender Registry

Thumbing its collective nose at Ohio state law, the city of Cleveland passed a battery of gun control laws April 20. Among the changes, the city plans on running a gun-offender registry, requiring residents to notify police when they sell firearms and jailing anyone for six months who doesn’t secure guns to the extent the city deems they should. The measures overreach the state’s gun laws. The editorial board of The Plain Dealer and Northeast Ohio Media Group supported the gun control ordinances. “The legislation also is a direct challenge to state lawmakers who have sought at every turn, abetted by misguided Supreme Court rulings, to deny Ohio cities their constitutionally guaranteed home-rule rights when it comes to gun laws,” the board wrote. “In 2010, the state high court overturned a Cleveland ban on assault weapons as well as city handgun registration requirements. This legislation could be challenged on similar grounds. But until then, it is law.” On April 21, Ohioans For Concealed Carry sued the city over the ordinances. “Shall not be infringed” doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room for anti-gun cities to create a patchwork of laws that make a constitutionally sanctioned act criminal in one zip code but not the next. More…

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Democrats Trade Blows Over Trade

By Allyne Caan

When Republicans disagree with Barack Obama, it’s par for the course; when Democrats revolt against their dear leader, it’s downright entertaining. Obama, who once could do no wrong, now has congressional liberals bucking his bid to push forward a free-trade agreement with 12 Pacific Rim nations via fast-track legislation.

At issue is bipartisan, bicameral trade-promotion authority (TPA) legislation, introduced last week by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI). It would give the president authority, within the parameters of certain rules, to negotiate the Asian trade agreement and present it to Congress for an up-or-down vote, no amendments allowed. Obama claims such authority is necessary to close negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-nation free-trade deal that some say would be jeopardized if the participating nations think Congress may amend the deal after terms are finalized.

But while Republicans generally favor free trade, many high-powered liberals oppose Obama and are saying “not so fast,” despite the fact that almost every president since FDR has had similar authority. One reason for the opposition could be that the powerful AFL-CIO, which,according to OpenSecrets.org, spent $1 million supporting Democrat candidates in the 2014 election cycle and an equal amount opposing Republicans, has not only come out strongly against TPA but also announced it is suspending campaign contributions to federal candidates in order to fight the White House trade plans.

Obama promised he will sign his name only “to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead.” But Democrats opposing him aren’t buying it. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), for example, said, “All evidence I’ve seen is that this hurts middle-class incomes,” and as a result he “can’t be for it.”

Former Maryland governor and potential Democrat presidential candidate Martin O'Malley alsodeclared his opposition to TPP, writing in an email to supporters, “To me, opposing bad trade deals like TPP is just common sense.”

Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who championed an Asian trade pact while secretary of state, hasn’t yet taken a public position on TPP. After all, any AFL-CIO contributions may have to outweigh whatever the Clinton Foundation brought in. Hillary’s positions go to the highest bidder.

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) believes only a quarter of Senate Democrats are with the White House. In Durbin’s words, “A fourth, hell no; a fourth, lean yes; and a big group undecided.” At least one of those “hell no’s” comes from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who said of supporting the TPA, “You couldn’t find a person to ask this question who feels more negatively about it than I do. … So the answer is not only no, but hell no.”

Also in Reid’s camp is Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who wrote a scathing oppositionto the TPP and fast-track legislation, claiming the government doesn’t want Americans to see what’s in the deal. For Democrats, that’s usually a plus (think ObamaCare), but how the arguments change when Warren tries to fight a trade deal.

Of Warren specifically, and of TPA and TPP’s detractors generally, Obama said they are “wrong on this,” adding that while “some of the information that has been getting thrown out there plays into legitimate fears that Democratic voters have, and progressives have, it’s simply not true. It’s simply not the facts.”

Come on. When have “progressives” ever cared about facts?

The Senate Finance Committee approved TPA Wednesday night by a vote of 20-6, and the bill now moves to the full Senate, where most believe it will pass. On the House side, however, the outcome is less certain, as the vote count is tighter. Some House conservatives are (understandably) hesitant about giving Obama any additional power, meaning at least some Democrat “yes” votes will be needed.

But with the intraparty fight in full swing, it’s a question all its own whether Democrats will pause long enough to cast those votes.

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OPINION IN BRIEF

FRC president Tony Perkins: “Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief Michele Leonhart [is] stepping down after a Department of Justice Inspector General’s (IG) report documented that DEA agents in Colombia had participated in ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes — in some cases hired by the very drug cartels the agents were supposed to be fighting. This comes following a similar well-publicized scandal in Colombia (where prostitution is tolerated) involving Secret Service agents, but the IG report covered problems of sexual harassment and misconduct not only in the DEA, but also in the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Meanwhile, the Defense Department continues to struggle with problems of sexual assault and pornography in the military. White House spokesman Josh Earnest insisted, ‘The president … maintains a very high standard for anybody who serves in his administration.’ Perhaps, however, what President Obama needs to do is engage in some soul-searching about his party’s unqualified affirmation of the values of the sexual revolution — namely, sex without boundaries (such as homosexuality) and without consequences (hence the necessity of abortion). If it is not permissible for the society or culture to demand sexual self-restraint from anyone, it inevitably makes it harder to demand such restraint even in the professional context of the military or law enforcement, which by now, should be very evident.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” —British statesman Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Dezinformatsia: “[V]ery few people stop to think: [Hillary] Clinton has been in our faces for 20-plus years. Where is any evidence of real corruption? I don’t mean stuff you may not have liked or that kinda looked funny. I mean actual, Rhode-Island-style, steal-a-hot-stove corruption.” —The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky in his piece, “The Clintons Still Aren’t Corrupt”

Non Compos Mentis: “[W]e do not as a country, in our culture, have any collective acknowledgment that slavery happened, that it built our economy and that every single one of us … are shaped by the legacy of racism in this country.” —Heather McGhee, president of Demos (The problem is that today’s race-baiters want us to remain slaves to the past. Some folks will never move on…)

Alpha Jackass: “Policy makers who deny basic scientific truth should also be denied penicillin, horseless carriages, [and] air time on the magic box of shadows.” —Hollywood director Joss Whedon on climate change

Demo-gogues: “[Y]ou do not have time to deny the effects of climate change. Folks are already busy dealing with it. And nowhere is it going to have a bigger impact than here in south Florida. No place else. It has to be paying closer attention to this and acknowledging it, and understanding that if we take action now we can do something about it.” —Barack Obama onEarth Day

And last… “[For Earth Day] Obama flew a jet all the way to the Everglades then rode in a massive SUV motorcade to tell you to cut carbon emissions.” —twitter satirist @hale_razor

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Thursday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 23, 2015 at 10:00am

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Manipulated or Convinced?

Mordechai Schiller

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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What if the Supreme Court Strikes Down nObamaCare Subsidies?

A major shift could be taking place in nObamaCare this June, and Republicans stand to gain big, but only if they are sure-footed. June is when the Supreme Court will announce its decision in King v. Burwell, the case regarding whether the federal government overstepped its authority in paying out subsidies to those purchasing health insurance on the federal nObamaCare exchange. But Republicans face the unpleasant specter of a legal win and a political loss. As nObamaCare is written, each state had the option to set up its own exchange through which people would buy health insurance. These exchanges were theoretically supposed to offer cheaper coverage, though we know how that went — costs went up and continue to do so. Just the same, 36 states opted not to create their own exchanges, forcing the creation and implementation of a federal nObamaCare exchange to take up the slack. And since Barack nObama needed to keep the law afloat, he arbitrarily decided that taxpayer subsidies could be paid out through the federal exchange, too. If the Supreme Court interprets the law literally, then the federal taxpayer subsidies will be wiped out. It’s plainly written in the law: no state-run exchange, no taxpayer subsidy for insurance. The immediate outcome will be that some 7.5 million people could lose their insurance. But not if Republicans act. -The Patriot Post

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ATTACKS ON AUTHOR INDICATE CLINTON CONCERN The Clinton campaign is starting up its siege engine to shut down a book that levels a damning charge against the presumptive Democratic nominee: That as secretary of state, Hilly Clinton traded favors for cash that help take her from “dead broke” to enormous wealth. As with the two most recent scandals to hit the candidate – dubious donations to her family foundation and her destruction of more than 30,000 emails from her time at the state department – the campaign is deploying far and wide to knock down the charges. This time, though, the effort is aimed at discrediting the accuser, writer Peter Schweizer. Pressed on the campaign trail, Clinton refused to answer questions about the allegations, saying instead that “distractions and attacks” were part of running for office. In Clintonese, that’s a strong indication that there’s serious concern. On Monday, campaign Chairman John Podesta told columnist Al Hunt that Schweitzer was “a former Bush operative who’s a reporter for that august news institution, breitbart.com.” Today, David Brock, the head of Clinton’s opposition research shop, went on MSNBC for an even more thorough thrashing of Schweizer, accusing him of anti-gay bigotry for a prior book about Walt Disney and alleging that Schweizer was in the employ of the Koch brothers. He then accused the New York Times of “outsourc[ing] its journalism” to Rupert Murdoch because the Times, like the Washington Post and Fox News, had been given advance access to the book to check its claims. But the focus of the Clinton effort is to discredit Schweizer, who, despite his conservative associations, has a reputation for solid reporting, worked for NBC News and has laid the wood to Republicans in the past. -Fox News

Campaign chairman shies on releasing health records - In his interview with Hunt, Podesta laid down a couple of markers: Clinton would debate her challengers and disclose her tax returns since the last run. But on health records, the top Clintoniasta stopped short. Asked if Clinton, who once famously delayed her congressional testimony on the Benghazi attacks because of a fall that left her with a concussion, a blood clot in her head and the need to wear special glasses, would release her medical records, Podesta ducked: “She'll have a release that's consistent with what a lot people have done in practice, which is people will know that she's in very good health, and there'll be reassurance from her doctors that the -- when it's appropriate.” [Podesta shrugged off questions on when Clinton would submit to her first post-announcement interview saying that she “took a few questions in Iowa.” Podesta was referring to inquires like this NBC “exclusive.”] -Fox News

Ed Henry wants to know “When will Hilly Clinton and her aides get more specific in refuting the serious allegations of quid pro quo in the new book "Clinton Cash"? As she wraps up her second campaign swing today here in New Hampshire, Clinton still has not done a single interview -- lest she be asked about the book, the Clinton Foundation, and the deleted emails. Yesterday here on the trail Clinton did, in fact, her first "press availability" where she answered questions about the book. But the answers were broad, allowing her to try and stay on message about the middle class by dismissing the charges as a "distraction" from real issues for voters. Worth noting she did not get specific about denying favors for Clinton Foundation donors -- and neither did White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who got a series of questions at the podium. But a senior adviser to Clinton told me the campaign is prepared to refute the specific allegations by author Peter Schweizer. They claim to be waiting until more details spill out around the May 5 publication date and then, the adviser promises, the campaign will "fight fire with fire" so stay tuned.” - Ed Henry. -Fox News

Clinton distances from nObama on trade deal - President nObama’s proposed trade deal has put the squeeze on Hilly Clinton as she plays up to a Democratic left angry with the deal. Clinton says she’ll be “watching closely” for a crackdown on currency manipulation and nObama should be “willing to walk away” from a deal that doesn’t protect workers and strengthen national security. In response to pushback from top Democrats, a senior White House official told Fox News Monday, “Addressing currency is a top priority of the President, and we have made significant progress in ensuring all countries play fairly….We are opposed to enforceable currency disciplines because of the risk they create to our ability to create jobs and protect our economy.” [Former President Bill Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. today on his time in public service. He is set to deliver a series of lectures at the university over the course of the next few years.] -Fox News

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Did Susan Rice Disclose Classified Info on Iran?

(JERYL BIER) - Bloomberg's Eli Lake reports Tuesday that the nObama administration kept secret until the beginning of April Iran's two to three month breakout time for a nuclear weapon, saying "the administration only declassified this estimate at the beginning of the month, just in time for the White House to make the case for its Iran deal to Congress and the public."...Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, speaking to reporters on Monday, said that the administration has held this assessment for "quite some time." Lake says that Brian Hale, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, confirmed Monday "that the two-to-three-month estimate for fissile material was declassified on April 1." However, at least one member of the administration publicly spoke about the two-to-three-month breakout time frame prior to April. On March 2, 2015, National Security Advisor Susan Rice addressed the annual AIPAC meeting and said the following. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/did-susan-rice-disclose-classified-info-iran_926279.html

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, again reported seriously wounded

(ROBERT SPENCER) - We have heard this before: Iraqi Isis Leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi ‘Severely Injured and Flees to Syria’ International Business Times, July 5, 2014...So the claim that he has been wounded turns out to be yet another false report from the mainstream media — doubtless a projection of their wishful thinking, since the Islamic State is so very inconvenient to them, posing a daily challenge to their narrative that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been Hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists.ISIS terror chief ‘believed dead’: Iraqi military confirm warlord WAS injured in US-led airstrike as speculation grows feared jihadist perished in attack,” Daily Mail, November 9, 2014 So is he really wounded this time? Maybe. Or maybe he will pop up again. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/04/islamic-states-caliph-ibrahim-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-again-reported-seriously-wounded

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First Ever West Coast Fishing Ban in Midst of Mysterious “Fish Collapse”

(survivaljoe.net) - The meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant happened a little over 4 years ago. At first, it was speculated the fallout would be catastrophic...But within a few months the world moved on and forgot about the hundreds upon thousands of gallons of nuclear waste spilling out into the sea. Now it appears the full effects of the meltdown are beginning to be noticed, and it does not look good. From Energy News we have a compilation of a few headlines showing just how bad things really are: http://survivaljoe.net/blog/first-ever-west-coast-fishing-ban-in-midst-of-mysterious-fish-collapse/

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RINO Congressman Threatens To Punch Voter Who Challenges His Lies

(rickwells.us) - Rep Steve Knight (R-CA) voted to split out the language to prevent amnesty funding from the DHS Funding bill, which removed the only leverage Congressional conservatives had in fighting the unconstitutional nObama-dictated amnesty...A group of voters confronted him on the fact that he lied to them about not voting in support of amnesty and things got a little testy. As one of those unhappy members of the RINO’s constituency pats him on the shoulder and tells him that he lied to him, the political hack goes into attack mode. He walks over to the average citizen, Mike and says, “If you touch me again, I’ll drop you’re a**, alright?” The video clearly shows that Knight has both of his own hands on Mike as he makes his threats. http://www.rickwells.us/rino-congressman-threatens-to-punch-voter-who-challenges-his-lies-pro-amnesty-vote/

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Bibi Was Right!! nObama Lied: He Knew For Years Iran's Nuclear 2-3 Months Away

(AmyElizabeth) - As in the March 2013 interview with Israeli TV embedded below (note: only the first 35 seconds are in Hebrew). Until recently President nObama had been claiming that Iran was about a year from being able to build a nuclear weapon...In October of that year when Netanyahu said Iran was only six months from a bomb nObama told the Associated Press that the U.S. estimates were that Iran was still a year plus away and indicated that he thought Bibi was over cautious: The truth is despite what he said to the American public and indeed the world, nObama knew that Iran was only 2-3 month away from being able to construct a bomb. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/21/bibi-was-right-obama-lied-he-knew-for-years-iran-was-2-3-months-from-a-nuclear-bomb/

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nObama Admits Granting Known Gang Member Amnesty Resulting In A Triple Murder

(AmyElizabeth) - On Tuesday Grassley released the letter and said it confirmed his fears, that USCIS is not being careful enough in adjudicating applications for nObama’s DACA program... “It’s no secret that USCIS staff is under intense pressure to approve every DACA application that comes across their desk, and based on this information, it’s clear that adequate protocols are not in place to protect public safety,” Grassley said. “The fact is that this tragedy could have been avoided if the agency had a zero tolerance policy with regard to criminal aliens and gang members,” he added. Rangel-Hernandez’s alleged crimes took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sen. Richard Burr (RNC) called the administration’s confirmation “chilling.” “For some time, the administration has promised Americans that those who qualify for their executive order would fully meet a set of guidelines meant to keep criminals out of our country,” Burr said Tuesday. ”We now know that isn’t true and that the agency tasked with implementing the President’s edict cannot effectively carry out the rule without compromising the safety of Americans.” http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/21/obama-admits-granting-known-gang-member-amnesty-resulting-in-a-triple-murder/

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World Bank Schemes Displace Millions of Victims

( Alex Newman) - World Bank projects dealing with everything from “carbon credits” and “development policies” to crony capitalist “business” deals have forcibly evicted and ruined the livelihoods of millions of people around the world, according to an investigation into the globalist organization’s own documents...A comprehensive review of World Bank records by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and various media outlets revealed that close to 3.5 million of the planet’s poorest people, many of them already struggling just to survive, have been forced off their land and relocated as a direct consequence of policies and projects pursued by the government-backed global lender over the last 10 years. The real figures are probably even higher. Incredibly, due to poor oversight and record keeping, it is often “impossible” to determine how many people were compensated properly — if at all — after being left homeless and destitute by the World Bank, according to researchers. The data compiled by the ICIJ, though, revealed that Asians and Africans were the most likely to be victimized. In Asia, close to three million people were left homeless or re-settled, with more than one million each in Communist China and Communist Vietnam. In Africa, close to half of a million victims were displaced by World Bank schemes — at least if its own dubious records are to be believed. Tens of thousands of victims were also identified in South America. Others came from Europe, Oceania, and North America. http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/20704-world-bank-schemes-displace-millions-of-victims?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=fbadc2041e-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-fbadc2041e-289778381

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No, nObama doesn't have authority to grant amnesty

(PAUL BEDARD) - Already under attack in courts to mapping a plan to exempt up to 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation, now the public has turned on President nObama, with the highest number ever saying that he doesn't have the legal authority to do what he wants...A new Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday said that 59 percent of voters believe the president doesn't have legal standing while just 25 percent say he does. "That's up from 52 percent in February and a high to date," said the poll analysis. Overall, 56 percent oppose the president's plan to let some illegals stay and apply for jobs. That's up from 51 percent in February. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poll-highest-ever-say-obama-doesnt-have-authority-to-grant-amnesty/article/2563380

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Taking Jihad to School – French Programs Emphasize Secularism

(Abigail R. Esman) - On a street in Paris's popular 6th Arrondissement, men in camouflage wielding Famas assault rifles patiently stand guard throughout the day. It is an unexpected sight amidst the chic designer boutiques and crowded restaurants...but one a hotel attendant nearby explains with a knowing glance: the building they guard houses an organization for Jews. This is life now in Paris after the terrorist attacks that took 17 lives in January – including four Jews, massacred at the kosher Hyper Cacher market in the hours before the Sabbath. And it isn't only here: in the Marais, long known for its Jewish population, a heavily-armed military presence has become commonplace, as France's government struggles to protect its Jews – and the rest of its population – from the murderous violence of Islamic terrorism in its streets. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4831/taking-jihad-to-school-french-programs-emphasize#

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Spurred by JW, Congress Asks for Probe Involving nObama Amnesty

(judicialwatch.org) - Propelled by Judicial Watch, Congress is calling for an investigation to determine if the nObama administration violated civil and criminal laws when it implemented the president’s controversial executive actions on immigration...It appears that the administration may have violated the Antideficiency Act, a centuries-old statute banning government officials from spending monies that have not been appropriated by Congress. In the case of nObama’s amnesty measures—known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action to Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)—multiple federal agencies may have committed Antideficiency Act violations by misspending funds that were not allocated by Congress to implement the contentious orders. http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/04/spurred-by-jw-congress-asks-for-probe-involving-obama-amnesty/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Judicial%20Watch%20Tipsheet%20(6)&utm_content=

Manipulated or Convinced?

Mordechai Schiller

Forget about facts. All that counts is the right narrative. And why the role of government isn't to govern --- but to tell the correct story

(jewishworldreview.com) - I've been noticing the word narrative in the news a lot. Taken at face value, narrative means a particular interpretation or version of a story.

More cynically, narrative is an artful way of saying "spin" — i.e., a PR-driven tangled web of information, persuasion, manipulation and deception.

Ever since great ships took to sea, sailors on long voyages would spin yarns — tell long, often fantastical tales. Other than storms, pirates, or whales, the only breaks in the monotony at sea might be singing shanties or carving scrimshaw from whale's teeth. A good yarn spinner was a valuable mate on board. Accuracy wasn't important in spinning a yarn; the longer and more imaginative, the better.

William Safire defined the current meaning of spin as a "'twist,' or 'interpretation'; when a pitcher puts a spin on a baseball, he causes it to curve, and when we put our own spin on a story, we angle it to suit our predilections or interests."

Safire compared spin to a German and Yiddish expression: kop-fardreyer — "literally 'head turner,' metaphorically 'mind twister.'"

When Safire told his future father-in-law that he worked in public-relations, he explained that his job was to modify people's "attitudes … at the introduction of persuasive arguments." His father-in-law-to-be "smacked his head and nodded ruefully, 'a Kopf-verdreher.'"

There's an old proverb: "If a fish stinks, it stinks from the head." So, to see spin in action, let's start at the top.

After the Democratic debacle of the midterm elections, President nObama took the blame for his party's political defeat. "I think there are times … where … we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we're trying to do and why this is the right direction. … So there is a failure of politics there that we've got to improve on."

He went on to say, "I think that one thing that I do need to constantly remind myself and my team of is, it's not enough just to build a better mousetrap. People don't automatically come beating to your door. We've got to sell it."

During his own re-election campaign, President nObama told an interviewer:

"The mistake of my first term … was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that's important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times."

Let's play that back: "But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people …" [emphasis mine].

That seems to mean that it is the job of the president of the United States to make up a story to inspire the people.

The truth of that story may be irrelevant. The story could be purely speculative fiction — "a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to horror to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern myth-making …" (Speculative Literature Foundation).

In other words, the job of the president is "modern myth-making."

That calls to mind an election-year Walt Kelly cartoon (The Pogo Party, 1956.)

"If you wants to git elected you gotta think up somethin' to say after you is in office so's history books'll have a big memorable homily to pester kids into memorizin' even if they don't know why you said it. …"

NOTE: This is a non-partisan column. It is not an endorsement of — nor endorsed by — any elected official, candidate, political party or PAC, nor of their supporters or opposition.

My interest is in language, not politics. The verbal abusage I'm talking about is endemic to politicians of all parties and persuasions. It comes with the territory. I pick on the president's words only because they are a perfect specimen of a verbal virus that infects information systems and wipes out memory and meaning.

Less eloquent, but more memorable, was President Richard Nixon's assertion: "I am not a crook!"

Al Capone, who was a crook, had more style. When the police grilled him about bootlegging in Canada, Capone responded,

"Canada?! I don't even know what street that's on!"

Okay, Schiller, why are you so worked up? This is old news. In 1946, George Orwell wrote, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. … Politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer."

Today, however, I fear even Orwell might agree something has changed. And not for the better.

When Watergate overflowed, the news media — led by Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein — relentlessly dug for the facts. And they brought down a president. Where are today's investigative reporters? The media today sit around and listen to the administration's stories like children at bedtime. The narrative lulls the press to sleep like a lullaby. And they join in on the chorus.

As a word-worker, I worry when the media raise the deceit ceiling … and the credit rating of words gets downgraded to junk status.

What troubles me more, though, is the co-opting of the very power of narrative. Stories help define who we are. Our first memories are of our mothers and fathers reading us stories.

The Torah is framed in stories. The Ramban (Nachmanides), based on the Midrash Tanchumah, tells us"Maaseh Avos siman labanim" — everything that happened to the Patriarchs was a harbinger for their descendants. Their actions and experiences foreshadow the future. That is why the Torah goes into the minutiae of their travels and adventures.

The word maaseh means both a deed and a story. It is the stuff of our history and our lives.

The festival of Passover is more than just matzah, maror and macaroons.

It is the Birth of the Jewish Nation. And it is the festival of stories.

"And you shall your children on that day …" The continuity of the Jewish Nation depends on our continuing to tell the story. No matter how wise or how learned you are, the story must be told — so that it shall never be forgotten. And it must be told in all its transparent, unvarnished truth: "Mit'chilah ovdei avodah zarah hayu avoseinu — At first, our fathers were idol worshippers."

Novelists, psychologists and marketers all know the power of stories — the ones we hear and, especially, the ones we tell ourselves. Marketing sage Seth Godin writes in All Marketers Are Liars — The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World:

"Marketers aren't really liars. I was lying when I named this book. … They are just storytellers. It's the consumers who are liars. As consumers, we lie to ourselves every day. … Successful marketers are just the providers of stories that consumers choose to believe."

Here's the BUT … and it's a big one: If the storyteller doesn't deliver … if the product doesn't satisfy … the spell is broken. And then the story really is just a lie.

DISCLOSURE: I know whereof I speak. I am no stranger to spin and hype. I put English on the ball for 25 years as a PR and direct marketing copywriter — including 13 years of creating smoke and mirrors direct mail sweepstakes promotions. Never hustle a hustler.

Stories are vital; they impose the structure of plot on events. They give us a frame of reference to make sense of our lives. Journalists use literary narrative technique to help us better understand the news. As Jack Hart, managing editor and writing coach at The Oregonian, wrote in Storycraft:

"Storytelling has such wide application because, at its root, it serves universal human needs. Story makes sense out of a confusing universe by showing us how one action leads to another. It teaches us how to live by discovering how our fellow human beings overcome the challenges in their lives. And it helps us discover the universals that bind us to everything around us."

When you co-opt and subvert that power, you spread confusion. And you undermine trust and caring. When stories are used to cloud — instead of illuminate — reality, our whole world becomes darker.

What happened in Egypt during the Plague of Darkness? "There was darkness across all the land of Egypt — and no man saw his friend!"

The Alter Vorker Rebbe, zy"a, commented, "The worst kind of darkness is not seeing your friend."

However, the Sages tell us, even a little light dispels a lot of darkness. So let's light a candle for the cause … and tell a story.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0415/schiller_narrative.php3

"Ten Things Christians Do To Lose Their Christian Witness"

Posted by Rev. Paul P Waldmiller on April 23, 2015 at 9:38am

Ten Things Christians Do To Lose Their Christian Witness READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT... http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2015/04/ten-things-christians-do-to-lose-their.html

Mary's Garden and Henry Ross for Congress

Posted by Lloyd Marcus on April 23, 2015 at 5:33am

For the past few months Mary and I have been working from home rather than on the road campaigning for conservative candidates. I built a container for Mary's veggie garden. How can someone be a gardener who freaks out over the sight of a worm?

My last blood test was not good. So, I have gone rogue in my battle to defeat diabetes; totally raw food. I only eat raw salmon and tuna and hearty salads. No diary. I only drink water with lemon and black coffee. No eating after 8pm. My daily sugar level has been dramatically better. I have been on this regiment for a month and a half. After 60 days, I will go for another blood test. I covet your prayers. I figure if I can get a handle on my health, I can introduce a healthy, but more normal diet and even cheat occasionally.

There was a knock at our front door. A courier handed me a package from CCC (Conservative Campaign Committee) with a memory stick inside. “Hello Mr Marcus. Your mission should you choose to accept it is Henry Ross for Congress, Mississippi. As always, should you or any member of our CCC team be caught working to send a true Tea Party conservative to Washington, the GOP will disavow any knowledge of our actions. This memory stick will self-destruct in 30 seconds.”

Okay, perhaps, it did not happen quite that way, but we at CCC proudly announce our endorsement of Henry Ross for U.S. Congress, Mississippi, District 1.

Why should you care? Folks, the only way we stop Obama and his fellow Leftist's anti-America and anti-God agenda is to replace Democrats, betrayers and spineless Republicans with rock-solid courageous conservatives; one race at a time.

Quoting CCC Executive Director, Joe Wierzbicki, “He (Henry Ross) is definitely “our guy” in terms of ideology and approach. He's a Ted Cruz-Louis Gohmert-Ted Yoho-Mark Levin type of Republican.”

Ross' bio is excellent – Former Circuit Judge, Assistant District Attorney, served in the U.S. Navy, was a member of the Navy JAG Corps, was an appointee to GW Bush's Justice Department and graduated from Ole Miss.

Far too many GOP candidates are obsessed with trying to prove to the mainstream media that conservatives are not that bad, willing to compromise and play nice with Obama and the Democrats.

What sealed the deal for me to support Henry Ross was his boldness in stating who he is, what he believes and his intentions when elected, “...bring us back to God centered limited Constitutional government, where we have rights, but we have responsibilities – responsibility to our nation and to our families. But government has responsibilities to us to follow the Constitution and not bankrupt the country.”

Patriots, please join us in helping Henry Ross win the GOP primary and the runoff. Time is short. The GOP primary is May 12^th. The special election runoff is June 2^nd.

Henry, thanks brother for stepping up. Let's get behind him folks. Go Henry Ross for Congress!

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee

Thursday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 23, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Hundreds Claim Swine Flu Vaccine

Injury From 2009 Push

Sharyl Attkisson

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

Christie connects - NJ.com: “Gov. Chris Christie sent a strong signal this past week he's working a different strategy for a likely 2016 presidential bid….[he] appears more interested in letting people ask him questions than simply giving speeches. [At the N.H. GOP summit] Christie introduced himself briefly on Friday and then jumped right into questions…the New Hampshire version of the Christie town hall was toned down, felt less orchestrated and gave more of an opportunity for the voters who play an important role in deciding the nation's next president to ask what was on their minds.” -Fox News

EMPOWERED BY MIDTERM FLIP, MANCHIN WILL STAY IN SENATE Roll Call: “Sen. Joe Manchin III will not be taking any country roads home to West Virginia any time soon. The Democratic senator announced Sunday he’s decided against seeking a return to the Mountaineer State’s governor’s mansion in 2016. That’s good news for Manchin’s fellow Democrats as an open Senate seat could prove difficult to hold in a special election. His term is not up until the 2018 cycle.” [The dean of West Virginia political journalism, Hoppy Kercheval, has the lay of the land in the state post-Manchin announcement.] -Fox News

The Clinton Pay-to-Play Foundation Unmasked

"Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hilly Rich," by Peter Schweizer, is due to hit the bookshelves soon, but Republican presidential candidates are already taking advantage. That's because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, including Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, was briefed on the book. The New York Times obtained a copy, too, and reports that the "186-page investigation of donations made to the Clinton Foundation by foreign entities ... asserts that foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clinton's State Department in return." The Times quotes a passage in which Schweizer writes, "We will see a pattern of financial transactions involving the Clintons that occurred contemporaneous with favorable U.S. policy decisions benefiting those providing the funds.

We know it's shocking to consider that Hilly Clinton's massive income and her record of "smart power" at the State Department might be tainted by these pay-to-play shenanigans, but Schweizer appears to have done his homework and provides numerous examples. Hilly's use of private email servers was problematic in large part because she was able to cover up the Clinton Foundation's dealings. No wonder she deleted tens of thousands of "personal" emails. And her response to the book is typical Hilly: It's just part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

-The Patriot Post

Earth Day's Coming, So Climate Rhetoric's Heating Up

In Saturday's weekly address, Barack nObama devoted his lecture to Earth Day, which is Wednesday, and he doubled down on global warming so we can "protect this precious planet we call home." He claimed, "[T]oday, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change. ... [T]he fact that the climate is changing has very serious implications for the way we live now. Stronger storms. Deeper droughts. Longer wildfire seasons. The world's top climate scientists are warning us that a changing climate already affects the air our kids breathe." (Earlier this month he wrongly blamed global warming for his daughter's asthma despite his old smoking habit.) To commemorate Earth Day, nObama will visit the Florida Everglades, which he called "one of the most special places in our country." He added, "But it's also one of the most fragile. Rising sea levels are putting a national treasure — and an economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry — at risk. So climate change can no longer be denied — or ignored." After all, there's still government power to gain. -The Patriot Post

Veteran Arrested for Refusing to Give up American Flag

A group of protesters at Valdosta State University had cast the American flag on the ground and were walking all over it when Michelle Manhart snatched it away from them. "It was tattered and torn, covered with mud and dirt," the former Air Force training instructor said. "I told the demonstrators that it needed to be properly disposed of." Instead, campus police led her away in handcuffs when she didn't let Old Glory go after they ordered her to. It's a situation that has kindled anew discussions over the flag code, free speech and ... pornography. See, this isn't the first time Manhart has created controversy. In 2007, she was demoted in the Air Force after she posed nude in Playboy Magazine. "This staff sergeant's alleged action does not meet the high standards we expect of our airmen, nor does it comply with the Air Force's core values of integrity, service before self, and excellence in all we do," the Air Force said in a statement at the time. According to an Air Force Times cover story, Manhart wanted to use her Playboy notoriety to launch a modeling career, and she later used the flag to cover herself in a nude photo-shoot for PETA — itself a disrespectful use of the flag, in our estimation. Yet even if she wasn't the best messenger, Manhart's intent in the Valdosta incident was honorable and any veteran who sacrificed so much to defend the flag would agree. More... -The Patriot Post

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Alabama Woman Joins ISIS, Urges Americans to Follow Her

(investigativeproject.org) - Muslim community leaders in Hoover, Ala. confirm that a 20-year-old woman left her family in November to join the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization in Syria, confirming a BuzzFeed report...The woman, identified only as Hoda, agreed to a series of interviews with BuzzFeed from Raqqa, Syria – the de facto Islamic State capital. Her father, a Yemeni native identified as Mohammed said that his daughter was "brainwashed" by IS. A series of Tweets from Hoda's Twitter account call for other Americans to join the Islamic State and commit terrorist attacks in the United States. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4830/alabama-woman-joins-islamic-state-urges-americans

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Follow Up: We Expose The VSU “Protest Group” Marching On Flag

(theconservativetreehouse.com) - Last weekend we brought to light a group of “Campus Protestors” at Valdosta State University who were marching on the U.S.A. flag...

The MSM picked up the aspect to the story where Navy veteran Michelle Manhart confronted the group, picked up the flag and subsequently found herself in a confrontation with the groups advocates and the police. (backstory)

However, despite the media interest, and with numerous media outlets seeking a larger understanding as to the cause of the incident, no-one from the protesting group would speak to the media: The group self identifies as a Black Supremacy movement seeking the elimination of all white influences upon their lives. This is the same group who supports the conspiracy theory behind the death of Kendrick Johnson; and these are the same social justice advocates who are the foot soldiers for the professionally black Grievance Industry. To better understand their position LISTEN HERE (FB Video). A more vulgar version of their screed (they didn’t know they were being recorded) is AVAILABLE HERE. Generally in the same ideological vein as the New Black Panther Party: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/21/follow-up-we-expose-the-vsu-protest-group-marching-on-flag/

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Hilly Clinton: A Fake Candidate For a Fake Era

(leanrightamerica.org) - According to a new article from the Daily Mail, Hilly Clinton’s online base of support is not nearly as rabid as it may appear at first glance. In fact, it may not be real at all...Of Hilly’s 3.6 million Twitter followers, more than half of them are little more than cyberghosts. Going by one auditing tool – StatusPeople.com – 41 percent of Hilly’s followers are completely inactive, never sending out tweets or responding to others. If that’s not red flag enough, a full 15 percent of her online fan base is completely comprised of fake accounts. That’s more than half a million “followers” that are nothing but spam accounts and bots. Of course, knowing the Democratic Party, we’ll soon see efforts made to allow those fake accounts to vote in the general election. This story may not mean much on its own – we’ve grown accustomed to taking online statistics with a grain of salt – but it is a decent enough example of how pervasive the Clinton deception is. This is a woman who walks around in a steady cloud of lies, as visible and inevitable as the one that surrounds Pigpen in the old Peanuts cartoons. And this cloud stinks every bit as much. http://www.leanrightamerica.org/uncategorized/hillary-clinton-a-fake-candidate-for-a-fake-era/

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The Unbearable Lightness of nObama’s Anti-Terror Policies

(Deroy Murdock) - When it comes to battling those who want us dead, nObama’s approach echoes that old saying among Soviet laborers: “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”...There is a pretend quality to nObama’s stance on radical Islamic terrorism. It starts with his refusal to utter that phrase, preferring the meaningless term “violent extremists.” Well, at least those words do not make America’s enemies uncomfortable. But it gets worse. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-unbearable-lightness-of-obamas-anti-terror-policies/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email042115&utm_medium=email

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Assyrian Christian women attend Mass marking the traditional Palm Sunday procession at the Assyrian church east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 29, 2015.

nObama urged to act as slaughter of Christians escalates

(Susan Crabtree) - Activists and elected officials are urging President nObama to stop slow-walking his response to the slaughter of Christians throughout the Middle East...More than 50 organizations, scholars, religious leaders and human rights advocates, along with 43 members of Congress, called on nObama Monday to fill the vacant post of special envoy for religious minorities in the Middle East and South Central Asia, which has stood vacant since it was created. The Islamic State this weekend circulated a video purporting to show the execution-style mass murders of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic terrorists in Libya. In February, the group killed 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya and have been slaughtering Christians, Yezidis and other religious minorities systematically in Iraq since last summer. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-urged-to-act-as-slaughter-of-christians-escalates/article/2563312

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nObama Lawyer Struggles to Defend Immigration Plan

(Hans von Spakovsky) - The nObama administration’s lawyer, Benjamin Mizer, the acting assistant attorney general of the Civil Division at the Justice Department, did not have an easy time in his argument last Friday before a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in the immigration lawsuit filed by 26 states...He was questioned about all of the claims being made by the government, from the administration’s argument that the states don’t have standing to file a lawsuit to the assertion that everything President nObama has done is within the administration’s prosecutorial discretion. The substantive merits of district court Judge Andrew Hanen’s Feb. 16 injunction order was not before the panel; just the government’s request that the 5th Circuit stay (or lift) the injunction while the appeal is pending. http://dailysignal.com/2015/04/21/obama-lawyer-struggles-to-defend-immigration-plans-implementation-as-case-goes-through-courts/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojuKnMZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4GSMVjI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

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nObama is losing his greatest asset in immigration push

(Brian Hughes) - The legal drama surrounding President nObama's executive action to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and issue them work permits is robbing the White House of its greatest luxury in selling the overhaul: time...nObama's unilateral action on immigration — and much of his second-term agenda — is rooted in the idea that a future president would not overturn policies that have essentially been normalized, no matter the questions surrounding their constitutionality. But it will take the administration time to put in place the most sweeping overhaul to the immigration system in decades, and the fight over his action is using up that resource. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-is-losing-his-greatest-asset-in-immigration-push/article/2563344?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2004/21/15&utm_medium=email

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Illustrative picture of a nuclear reactor. (Source: © Reuters)

Top Iranian General: Nuclear Inspectors Will Not be Permitted

(clarionproject.org) - The deputy head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps categorically rejected any international inspectors on any Iranian military bases as part of the nuclear deal...Brigadier-General Hossein Salami told Iran’s state-run Press TV “They will not even be permitted to inspect the most normal military site in their dreams.” “Visiting a military base by a foreign inspector would mean the occupation of our land because all our defense secrets are there” Salami said. “Even talking about the subject means national humiliation.” http://www.clarionproject.org/news/top-iranian-general-nuclear-inspectors-will-not-be-permitted

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A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. There had previously been reports on social media that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would make his first public appearance since his Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) changed its name to the Islamic State and declared him caliph. The Iraqi government denied that the video, which carried Friday's date, was credible. It was also not possible to immediately confirm the authenticity of the recording or the date when it was made. (REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV)

ISIS Leader ‘Seriously Wounded’ By Coalition Airstrike

(Erica Wenig) - Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been “seriously wounded” by an airstrike in Iraq, according to a number of sources, including a Western diplomat and a person connected to the terror group... “The [ISIS-linked] source said Baghdadi’s wounds were at first life-threatening, but he has since made a slow recovery,” reports The Guardian. “He has not, however, resumed day-to-day control of the organisation.” The U.S.-led coalition launched the airstrike on March 18 in the Ninevah Governorate in northwest Iraq, an area bordering Syria. At first, Islamic State advisers thought he would die and gathered to choose a new leader. http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/21/isis-leader-seriously-wounded-by-coalition-airstrike/?advD=1248%2C48782&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D

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‘All Signs and Evidence Point to the Great Global Economic Reset’

(Brandon Smith) - Since I began writing analysis for the liberty movement more than eight years ago, I have always said that we will know when the endgame of the globalists is upon us when the criminals come out into the light of day and admit to their crimes...At that moment, it will be because they no longer fear either the repercussions or their plans being obstructed. As I plan to show in this installment of my series on the hidden fiscal collapse of America, the endgame has indeed arrived. At the very least, the international elites seem to think success is within their grasp, for they now openly expose their own criminality. But they do so in a way that attempts to divert blame or to rationalize their actions as being for the “greater good.” http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-end-game-has-arrived-all-signs-and-evidence-point-to-the-great-global-economic-reset_04212015

Hundreds Claim Swine Flu Vaccine

Injury From 2009 Push

Sharyl Attkisson

(sharylattkisson.com) - An investigation I conducted in 2009 revealed that the H1N1 swine flu epidemic was far less than the U.S. government had made it out to be. I exclusively obtained lab test results from 50 states when the Centers for Disease Control refused to produce them. The results showed that most of the supposed cases of swine flu were not swine flu at all. In fact, they weren’t any type of flu.

That reality makes it all the more difficult for those who were brain damaged by the vaccine they took to try to prevent swine flu.

The British press reported in March of 2014 that UK patients who suffered brain damage after swine flu vaccination were to receive multi-million pound payouts from the government–which means taxpayers. Why are taxpayers footing the bill instead of the maker of the vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline? Under a similar arrangement that vaccine makers have in the U.S., GlaxoSmithKline would only agree to supply the vaccine if it was indemnified against any claim for any resulting injuries.

Each of 60 UK victims was expected to receive about one million pounds apiece.

“There has never been a case like this before. The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong condition and will require extensive medication,” said Peter Todd, a lawyer who represented many of the claimants, in a Sunday Times article.

The number of brain-damaged victims who filed claims is a tiny fraction of the more than 30 million people in 50 countries who received the vaccine during the 2009 outbreak. However, experts say the risk to benefit ratio of the vaccine was vastly different if swine flu was not as prevalent as advertised.

In the U.S., at least 386 swine flu vaccine injury claims were filed in special vaccine court by March of 2011. But most of them were slated to be dismissed because they had not been filed in time to meet the court’s restrictive deadline for filing a claim.

Among those in the UK who were to receive payouts for swine flu vaccine injury is a child named Josh Hadfield.

“If you make him laugh, he collapses. His memory is shot. There is no cure. He says he wishes he hadn’t been born. I feel incredibly guilty about letting him have the vaccine,” his mother Caroline Hadfield was quoted as saying in a news report.

As I reported in 2009, vastly more swine flu specimens turned out to be negative in the U.S. than were positive. For example, out of 13,704 patients believed to have swine flu in California who had specimens sent for state testing to confirm, only 2% turned out to be swine flu.

GlaxoSmithKline did not acknowledge a link between the injuries and its vaccine. However, research published in the British Medical Journal and a Finland study showed a link.

http://sharylattkisson.com/hundreds-claim-swine-flu-vaccine-injury-from-2009-push/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29

Insiders Detail Culture of Secrecy at California’s Obamacare Exchange

Posted by Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USNavy Ret on April 22, 2015 at 8:28pm

http://dailysignal.com/2015/04/21/whistleblowers-detail-culture-of-secrecy-at-californias-obamacare-exchange/

Wednesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 22, 2015 at 10:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

How to Stage a Revolution

Peggy Noonan

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

HILLY’S FABERGE EGG CANDIDACY New Hampshire is a happy place for Hilly Clinton. It was there in 1992 that her husband saved his candidacy, with her help, from the sex scandal that was about to consume it. Bill Clinton’s second-place finish was enough to keep his campaign on track. Sixteen years later, a tearful plea to New Hampshire voters helped her win there and break the momentum of upstart Barack nObama, setting up an arduous six-month battle for the nomination. On this visit, Clinton needs no comeback. There is no contest among Democrats, so far. But there is danger. With independent and moderate voters likely to be drawn to the high-octane, wide-open GOP nominating contest, the Democratic primary electorate will likely be more liberal than it was in 2012. If Clinton is going to be again denied the presidency, New Hampshire would be a good place for the revolution to begin. But so far, Democrats are falling in line. [Clinton tours Whitney Brothers, Inc., a family-owned small business, today in Keene, New Hampshire. She will participate in a roundtable discussion with employees and company leadership.] As Clinton tries to have it both ways on issues like free trade, she is counting on Democrats to indulge her. Clinton’s strategy appears to be based on an expectation that her party will continue to treat her candidacy as something rare, fragile and valuable – the Faberge egg candidate. But the handling keeps getting rougher. As the NYT reports today, a bombshell book is due out soon that makes the case that the Clintons’ massive fortune was amassed in part with the help of overseas patrons, some very unsavory. “The book, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, asserts that foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department in return.” The scandals around Clinton continue to remind Democrats what they don’t like about their presumptive nominee. [WashEx: “Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton is drawing a populist bead on lavish Wall Street pay packages as she revs up her march to the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but in some respects the fat-per-speech fee she can charge puts her far ahead of the top 10 highest-paid American CEOs.”] If at any time Democrats start taking her challengers seriously, Clinton could find herself in serious trouble. But that is a very big “if.” None so far look plausible, though former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is hovering closer to that space. Even so, she remains a prohibitive favorite. The chances, though, of Clinton having to defend her record and explain her ethical lapses in the context of a primary campaign seem to be growing steadily. Can Clinton, baggage-laden and with so many unanswered questions really avoid participating in debates? A candidate who still hasn’t answered a single tough question or spoken to any reporter a full week after declaring would appear to

be living in some denial. -Fox News

O’MALLEY: ‘CONTRASTS WILL BECOME APPARENT’ NPR: “Martin O'Malley, former governor of Maryland, says he’ll decide by late May if he’s running for president. … O’Malley is positioning himself to Clinton’s left, and even President nObama's left. He’s for a much higher minimum wage, and against a major trade deal - the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, O’Malley also said he wants to increase Social Security benefits, even though some people would pay more taxes. … Last month, he addressed a crowd in Iowa while standing on a chair. Last week, he gave a speech at Harvard. And this week, he’s in the early primary state of South Carolina. ‘I’ve been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments,’ the former Baltimore mayor said of the difference between him and Clinton. ‘I think contrasts will become apparent.’” [CBS: “‘I believe that if you have the executive experience, the ideas that can serve our nation well, and the ability to govern, you should offer your candidacy and then let the people decide. If we do that, then we can be the party that leads our country into the future,’ O'Malley said in an interview with CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday. ‘But we won’t do it unless we offer ideas for the future and break with things like bad trade deals, the systematic deregulation of Wall Street that many Democrats were complicit in and helped get us into this mess.’”] -Fox News

Webb bashes Iran deal - WashEx: “Former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., on Sunday criticized the White House’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran, saying that the administration’s negotiators had given away too much and that would create further problems in the Middle East. ‘We don't want to be sending signals into this region that we are acquiescing to the situation where Iran might become more dominant,’ Webb, a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of the U.S. Navy, said in an appearance on the CNN program ‘State Of The Union.’” -Fox News

Chaffee stays on Hilly’s Iraq war support - The Hill: “[Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s] way of making a name for himself against his newly adopted party’s frontrunner is to hit the former secretary of State particularly hard on the issue that was a liability in her failed 2008 run. ‘She needs to be asked hard questions about her Iraq war vote and her tenure as Secretary of State and where she wants to take this country,’ he told The Hill in an interview. ‘I think she’s tone deaf on some of these issues.’ Clinton and Chafee both served in the Senate during the run-up to the war, but while Clinton ultimately cast her vote in favor of authorizing troops, Chafee voted no.” -Fox News

Walker keeps it real - WaPo: “Calling voters ‘folks’ and boasting about his cut-rate suits from Jos. A. Bank, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker campaigned vigorously in New Hampshire…Walker’s brash, populist pitch was a direct shot at his better-heeled GOP rivals and the likely Democratic nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he dismissed as out of touch as well as beatable…Walker presented himself as a natural fit.” -Fox News

1.

Incompetence, Mismanagement Plague California’s nObamacare

(Sharyl Attkisson) - California’s health insurance exchange, established under the Affordable Care Act, has been held out as a national model for nObamacare. In some ways—not all of them good—it is...Whether it’s falling far short of 2015 enrollment goals or sending out 100,000 inaccurate tax forms, Covered California is struggling with its share of challenges. Now, several senior-level officials integral to the launch of Covered California—who enthusiastically support the Affordable Care Act—are speaking about what they view as gross incompetence and mismanagement involving some of the $1 billion federal tax dollars poured into the state effort. http://dailysignal.com/2015/04/20/incompetence-mismanagement-plague-californias-obamacare-insurance-exchange/

2.

UN Demanding $100B Per Year To Create Climate Change Slush

(rickwells.us) - It’s not enough that the big-eared emperor is parading around without any clothes on, he and his comrades are engaging in an orgy of power lust and greed right in front of us. Look away kids and take the dogs to the back yard. There’s no telling where this could end up...The extortionist panhandler that goes by the title of UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has been on a fundraising tour on behalf of the emergency that doesn’t exist, holding out his tin cup in the creation of the mother of all slush funds. Just like a whiny soon-to-be ex-girlfriend, Ban is taking his $100 billion dollar message of “but you promised” to anyone willing to listen and donate other people’s money in exchange for a piece of his action. http://www.rickwells.us/un-demanding-100-billion-per-year-to-create-huge-climate-change-slush-fund-obamas-on-board/

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Bribes Taken By Hilly Clinton Exposed

(rickwells.us) - Judge Andrew Napolitano addresses the latest Hilly Clinton impropriety scandal, the assertions in the book “Clinton Cash” that she accepted bribes in exchange for favorable exertion of influence or support of policies...Napolitano says that these charges of a quid quo pro are similar to those under which Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was indicted but are of a much more serious nature. He points out that the allegations are substantial enough to trigger an investigation and that they show timelines of questionable activities, including relationships between contributions to the Clinton family and favorable decisions made by Clinton. There were instances of favorable decisions being accompanied by what the Judge calls “sky high” speaking fees, in the range of $500,000 for a single speech paid both to her husband as well as Mrs. Clinton. http://www.rickwells.us/clinton-cash-bribes-taken-by-hillary-clinton-exposed-donations-in-exchange-for-official-favors/

4.

Lt Col Ralph Peters “Explains” Gen Dempsey’s Remarks

(rickwells.us) - In the introduction of Lt Col Ralph Peters host Steve Malzberg plays a clip of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) commenting on the remarks of Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Martin Dempsey...in which he takes exception to Dempsey’s remarks that “it doesn’t really matter,” what happens in Ramadi. McCain asks rhetorically what Dempsey would say to the family of those who were killed in the fight for Ramadi or to those who lost limbs. He questions how it cannot really matter that your enemy is taking a major city, as well as Gen Dempsey’s newly acquired status as the decider of what is and is not the “caliphate.” Malzberg gives Col Peters some time to tell the audience about his book and then asks him about the Dempsey remarks, saying, “General Dempsey’s remarks, how do you explain that? How does a general say that when he knows that there are people who sacrificed and died and they have people who survived them and people who have been wounded and lost limbs? I mean how does a general say that it doesn’t really matter?” http://www.rickwells.us/lt-col-ralph-peters-explains-gen-dempseys-disgraceful-performance-lapdog-ramadi-remarks/

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nObama Pentagon Caught in Major Cover-Up of Mass Murder

(Tim Brown) - On April 27, 2011, just months prior to Extortion 17 - the worst loss of life in the Afghan War, America suffered the greatest US Air Force loss of life in the War on Terror at the hands of Afghan Air Force Colonel Ahmad Gul...Now, a major bombshell has emerged regarding this incident, which has been labeled the deadliest "green-on-blue" attack in the war in Afghanistan. Investigative reporters have determined that the Pentagon covered up the fact that an Air Force colonel, who murdered several American Air Force personnel and a civilian contractor, was paid to do so.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yloZmB79rA

Thomas Creal is a top US official who was commissioned by the Pentagon as the lead forensic accountant for Task Force 2010, provided documents to For the Record, which revealed payoffs to Col. Gul.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXPDU8v_1JA

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/04/obama-pentagon-caught-in-major-cover-up-of-mass-murder-of-us-troops/

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blasted Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen, in a speech he gave in Beirut on April 17, 2015.

Why Arabs Loathe Hezbollah

(Khaled Abu Toameh) - In 2006, Nasrallah initiated a war with Israel that wrought havoc on the Lebanese, after an ambush by Hezbollah in Israeli territory that left three Israeli soldiers dead and two abducted...Now the Lebanese people are about to pay another heavy price – this time because of Nasrallah's involvement in the Syrian civil war and his strong condemnations of Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries over the conflict in Yemen. During a speech in Beirut last Friday, Nasrallah condemned the Saudi-led "aggression" against Yemen. "It is our human, jihadist and religious duty to take this stance and all the sons of this nation must reassess their responsibilities and take the appropriate stance," he said. "Intimidation or threats will not prevent us from continuing to declare our condemnation of the aggression against Yemen. The war's real objective is to restore the Saudi-American hegemony over Yemen." http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5601/hassan-nasrallah

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nObama’s Favoritism to the Mullahs

(Majid Rafizadeh) - President nObama’s insistence on easing sanctions on the Islamic Republic and pushing for a controversial nuclear deal...which would allow Iranian leaders to maintain all of their nuclear infrastructure and have a path to obtain a nuclear bomb, is leading to grave repercussions in the region. The fact that American diplomats are sitting on the same table for months, negotiating with the authoritarian leaders of the Islamic Republic, and the fact that President nObama appears to be appeasing the Iranian leaders, has provided the Islamic Republic with a powerful platform: global legitimacy. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/majid-rafizadeh/obamas-favoritism-to-the-mullahs/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1c3ca24919-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1c3ca24919-156509103

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Israel Quietly Fights Terror as PA Stands Idly By

(Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn) - Three quiet anti-terror actions by Israeli security forces last week shed more light on the Israeli-Palestinian situation than all the speeches, diplomatic pronouncements, and “expert” opinions that fill our airwaves daily...On the night of April 13, Israeli soldiers and police arrested 29 Hamas terrorists in Shechem (Nablus). Some were formerly imprisoned terrorists who have returned to their old ways; some were more recent recruits. They were planning various massacres of Jews, but since they had not yet acted, the international news media aren’t interested. Near-misses don’t count. Once again, U.S. news media are missing the big story. According to the Oslo accords, it is the Palestinian Authority, not Israel, which is responsible for acting against terrorists in Nablus. When Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin withdrew Israel’s forces from there (and the other cities where 95% of Palestinians reside), he did so with an explicit written guarantee that the PA would stamp out the terrorists in those areas. But the PA has made a mockery of its anti-terror obligations. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/moshe-phillips-and-benyamin-korn/israel-quietly-fights-terror-as-pa-stands-idly-by/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1c3ca24919-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1c3ca24919-156509103

9.

Iran to get $50 billion signing bonus for bogus agreement

(redstate.com) - That is correct. Without lifting a finger, as soon as Iran signs a deal — a deal with they are interpreting much differently than our own national security nimrods — they get access to frozen assets. What could possibly go wrong...Perhaps what we’re seeing is the rather gawky, frustrated athlete nObama fancying himself a major league owner paying a top prospect to sign a contract. Perhaps we’re seeing corn-pone-Machiavellian nObama convinced that giving Iran a nuke and $50 billion will make it a Stalinist paradise (I would say Jeffersonian but there is no evidence that nObama is big on democracy of any kind) and a firm US ally. Perhaps we’re seeing a cowardly goober nObama trying to kick this problem into the next administration. Whatever the genesis, the outcome will be the same Iran gets a $50 billion payment for doing nothing… they don’t even have to renounce terrorism. http://www.redstate.com/2015/04/20/iran-get-50-billion-signing-bonus-bogus-agreement/

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Beyond Politics: The Roots of Government Failures

(Randy T. Simmons ) - Traditional public policy and welfare economics have held that “market failures”—the presumed inability of a free market to deliver certain goods and services deemed to be in the public interest—are common and require government intervention to protect the public good...But is this actually the case? Beyond Politics carefully scrutinizes this view through the modern theory of public choice and systematically explains how government is producing a scandal of political myopia, economic stagnation, and public distrust. The book traces the anatomy of “government failure” and a pathology of political institutions. Social welfare, consumer protection, education, trade, the environment, and crime are some of the topics the book examines. http://www.independent.org/store/book.asp?id=93

How to Stage a Revolution

Peggy Noonan

(peggynoonan.com) - I saw “Hamilton” the other day. It is a masterpiece.

It’s good news for America, too.

There is nothing like it on the New York stage, and never has been. I got choked up so often I started counting how many times I tried not to weep. The man in his 20s who accompanied me also got misty, and at our show, the Easter Sunday matinee, the cast, which has been performing the musical since January, came out for their bows, and three of the major players had tears glistening in their eyes. One was the writer, composer and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who urged the audience to contribute to Broadway Cares and noted that he was seeing a lot of moist eyes.

Why did they weep? Why was everyone so moved?

Because it hits your heart hard when you witness human excellence. Because the true tale of how an illegitimate, lowborn orphan from the West Indies went on to become an inventor of America is a heck of a story. And because it is surprising yet perfect that that story is told in a hip-hop/rap/rhythm-and-blues/jazz/ballad musical whose sound is pure 2015 yet utterly appropriate to the tale.

Imagine this. Small theater, lights down, and suddenly elegant, beautiful young artists in 18th-century garb come out and create a world. Alexander Hamilton is there and he is telling you his story. “Another immigrant, comin’ up from the bottom / His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him.” Young Hamilton was alone in the world, an orphan with no connections, a self-tutored genius who had read everything and read deeply. He is ambitious, full of hunger for life, but he needs a stage. He gets himself to New York, then as now the city of ambition, and hears in the taverns of the rising American revolutionary spirit. This is his moment, his chance—“I’m not throwing away my shot”—at the richness of life, at status, meaning and acceptance. He wanted to be great. Barely arrived and Alexander Hamilton was already an American.

From that rough beginning he became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War, a major voice in the creation of the Constitution, the first Treasury secretary and inventor of the nation’s financial foundations. (You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a rap face-off over which fiscal and banking policy is best for a rising 18th-century nation.) And there is Hamilton’s private story: He is in love with two sisters, marries one, becomes enmeshed in the first American sex scandal, is blackmailed, goes public, loses his son in a duel to defend his name. In the end he too is killed in a duel by a man, Vice President Aaron Burr, whose anguish was that he was not great and would never be central to the Age of Greatness.

In a telephone interview Mr. Miranda says: “There are so many highs and lows in Hamilton’s life—tragic circumstances. Then he pulls himself up to incredible early American heights. Then he pulls himself down!” Mr. Miranda recalls that by the end of the second chapter of Ron Chernow’s biography, “Alexander Hamilton,” on which the show is based, “I fell in love. I know this guy. I know about improbability. He’s like Pip in ‘Great Expectations’—the genius, the frustrated genius, I know who this guy is.”

I asked about the tears. Those involved in the show say they are a common occurrence. “I get to live a whole life every night for two hours and 40 minutes, and the last section in particular, that Hamilton’s wife lives for another 50 years.” Elizabeth Hamilton tells the audience, in a closing soliloquy, how she spent it: doing good, founding charities to help the children in the nation her husband helped invent.

I want to get to how the show comes as a profound refreshment, as something new and startling. It isn’t only the wonderful production—the music, acting, sets, costumes, choreography, direction.

“Hamilton” is loving. It spoofs Jefferson and takes a cool-eyed look at Burr, but it shows a reverence not only for the founding of America but also for the founders themselves. You’re not supposed to do that in 2015, but in Mr. Miranda’s vision they are human beings embarked upon a great enterprise. “I wanted to present their political arguments clearly, surely, and give voice to what they were trying to do politically. But they were people. The Constitution is not the result of something written on a stone and handed down, it was the result of compromise and hard work and fights! They were all human, fundamentally flawed, and their relationships were fraught and complicated.”

“Hamilton” is modern in some new way. The women aren’t forced to adopt the usual modern scattershot bitterness at their plight. They know exactly their position in their world. They live successful, limited lives, not in an old-fashioned way but in the way that all successful persons live limited lives, because life is limited.

The personal nature of ambition is given full play. Not everything is ideology or outward exigencies. You don’t want to be great for no reason, you want to make your mark for reasons that have to do with your interior world and with the meanings you divine from life outside of and apart from it.

The show is not politically correct, but not in a way that feels forced. It seems effortless and natural, as if Mr. Miranda never heard of political correctness.

And there’s some kind of new racial alchemy in the show. Mr. Miranda is Puerto Rican, his cast is black, white and brown, and the actors get to play the parts that suit their talents, not their racial circumstance. “Hamilton” marks multicolored America seizing U.S. history and making it its own, and producing in the process a work not of all colors but of a universal American color. By respecting the American Dream and presenting it in this way, “Hamilton” says the dream is alive, everyone owns it, and if you look close you can see it playing out every day, all around you.

It is a big thing to say a play is worthy of Alexander Hamilton, but it is.

And in some way I can’t explain, it feels important that every Republican candidate for president see it, absorb it. I don’t know that Hilly Clinton absorbs much beyond strategy and tactics these days, but the young Republicans running now need to see this show. It is going to make them hopeful, and in some new way it’s going to make them grateful.

“If there’s a political takeaway,” says Mr. Miranda, “it is that it’s always been like this. The Eden in which we had no political parties lasted about six months or a year. Divisions were inevitable. We fight, we’re people, it’s messy.”

The one person in the show Mr. Miranda presents as a contemporary political character, he tells me, is Burr. “He’s the only one who leaves no paper trail, who always preserves the ability to not commit. . . . The Burr character—we know this guy.”

Another takeaway. “History is long,” says Mr. Miranda, and it matters who tells your story. “That lands with them.”

http://www.peggynoonan.com/how-to-stage-a-revolution/

JADE HELM 15 - FEMA: Hope and Change?

Posted by William M. Finley on April 22, 2015 at 10:24am

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April 21, 2015

Tim McClellan ~ Geopolitical Strategist / Journalist

Do you trust the Obama Administration? Obama is the Commander-In-Chief and the number one person in all divisions of the military. Have you wondered why Obama and the press tell us everything is improving and not to worry? Yet most people are living paycheck to paycheck. We now have government controlled, Healthcare, all Police Agencies, right down to you local Police or Sheriff.

Have your thought about why almost everyday some new program gets announced, so nothing can be discussed about the last debacle? Are you tired of the constant scandals and lies by politicians and the mainstream press. Then nobody is held accountable for anything?

If you believe anything they say you are a completely misinformed. Do you know Obama is a gay, Islamic Muslim, communist and Illegal Alien and never, ever should have been allowed to be President? He literally could not get a job as a mailman.

Have you thought about the Obama administration and Congress on how much control they have forced upon the American people? Do you have any idea of the amount of "Rights" you have lost in the past ten years? How about the handling (I should say lack of) Islam (Iran, ISIL) in the Middle East? How about the spying on Internet, cell phone and your computer being done on American Citizens?Rewarding "illegal" immigrants with free citizenship and between $12,000 to $22,000 for each and everyone of them, all while you struggle.

The multiple attempts to bring Ebola in the U.S that failed? How about whileAmbassador Steven's in Benghazi was being murdered, Obama went to bed and then golfed the next morning? Why open ties with Cuba? Why is hepurposely helping all the enemies of our oldest Ally in the Middle East, Israel?Why has Obama consistently delayed any agreement regarding nuclear weapons with the Islamic State of Iran? Why is he giving away our economic future with the TPP Agreement? Why is Obama purposely destroying the economy? Don't be fooled, we are going to experience an economic collapse of epic proportions very soon.

He is using a combination of tactics from Hitler, Islam, communism and straight out of Saul Alinsky's book The tactics in the book "Rules for Radicals" are designed to divide America, to separate the “haves” and the “have-nots”. The last study I read about this, concluded that in the U.S. 1% of the people will own 99% of the wealth. That doesn't leave a lot for the 99% to survive on. Alinsky writes in his book :

You must help the people in the community…feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. An organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives—agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate. You must fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame of fight.

Please read: Alinsky's Hit Man-Obama's Plan to Destroy America

Any real Americans blood would be boiling right about now! But you know what I have just begun to tell you want is going on and it should scare you to death! As the title implies the article is about operation JADE HELM 15 and FEMA. I have been reporting for over three years the lies and scandals, wars, conflicts, who benefits, what governments are being overthrown and the fact that we are on the list. This is just a sample there is much more as a lot of people know. This is even difficult for me to write and tell this.

About me: I have always had the ability to look at history, current events and determine the likely outcome. There is more however. I have an ability to tell when something is terribly wrong and to know things that are happening that I would have no way of knowing. I get a buzzing type feeling just under the sternum in my chest and when I get this feeling it has never been wrong. Another thing that happens to me is if there is something big going on that is wrong, I can't sleep. I haven't slept in two nights now. I have owned 13 companies and have successfully predicted the future and walked away from many deals because of the feeling, our I can't sleep. I always find out later what would have happened had I accepted the deal. It was never good. Why or how I got this gift or curse, I don't know. But I have it and use it frequently.

JADE HELM 15 is an operation supposedly in the SE United States. It is to start in mid-July to mid-September 2015. JADE stands for "Joint Assistant for Deployment and Execution." while HELM stands for Homeland Eradication of Local Militants" The #1 goal of this so-called practice is DISARMAMENT. The stated purpose is for our military to practice urban warfare. Another question that you have to ask yourself is why has the government recently purchased over 2 billion rounds of ammunition? The local Police, Sheriffs and U.S. citizens are all willing or unwilling participants. The first problem is it has already started in between ten to thirty States. Can we trust of government to tell us the truth?

You have probably heard in the news the rumors of why all these Walmart stores are closing and the police protecting the properties. You may have heard there is an underground tunnel system across the U.S.? Very strange that these events are taking place. Walmart has been working with the U.S. government for over 10 years in preparation of this. The tunnels are to move people and supplies todesignated underground, bunkers, FEMA/Walmart Camps and to the 1000's of FEMA Camps all around the country.

Do you remember the stories from a few years back about the millions of large plastic coffins? Are you aware the outdoor FEMA Camps have large, long deep ditches dug next to them? The FAA has flight restrictions over all of them so no planes can view what is happening. Remember this, I will come back to it.

You may have heard we have an economic collapse of epic proportions coming. The dollar will go away forever. The stock markets will drop 80% or so. This has come about by poor planning and policies. They press will tell you the dollar is strong and it is by comparison to most other currencies. Why? Because Europe and the European Union (EU) are buying dollars as fast as they can ahead of the collapse of the EU. By the way for the first time since WWII we are no longer the #1 economy in the world. Thank you Obama.

After the EU stops buying and the Russian's seeing weaknesses in our economy and are dumping dollars on the market to depress the value of the dollar the economic tsunami is a go. Two other factors come into play, theunbelievably overpriced stock markets and the overpriced housing market, again. The housing market got overpriced by the government keeping interest rates foolishly low and that allowed buyers to spend more for a house, because really people only really care about the monthly payment.

The economic collapse is expected by the experts to happen before the end of June 2015. This will create complete chaos, since there will be no more dollar or currency to buy anything. Everyone will fight for food, water, prescriptions, etc. Stores will be looted, people will not go to work because they won't get paid and because they want to stay with their families.

Now we have complete chaos for June and coincidentally the JADE HELM 15 operation for Martial Law start July 15th. Obama will call for Martial Law in mid to late June.They have already moved all the combat vehicles and most every other thing needed into these area already. By the way, if there is Martial Law the President stays in office until it is over. Do you think this will be over any time in the near future? I do not believe in coincidences, and never have.

You may say, well if the economic collapse doesn't happen then then we are ok. Not so, you see Obama gave himself, via "Executive Order" the ability to call for Martial Law for absolutely no reason.

By the mid-June timeframe, the military will be all over the U.S. and just in time for Martial Law. The first thing the government does under Martial Law is to go door to door and remove all weapons from the citizens. At this point we are "sitting ducks". If you do not submit to the government, then you go to a FEMA Camp. Then the mass execution of American's will happen swiftly. Why feed people you are going to kill? People will say how could this happen, why is it happening. If you have read this far you can answer those questions.

Ask yourself, why is the government and military saying this is training that they are doing before the troops are deployed overseas? We have no ability to call for Martial Law in another country. What other country are we in a conflict with that have anything like the USA? The military trains in conditions they will be fighting in. For example if they are going to be deployed to the mountains of Afghanistan they train in a mountainous area here.

The government tracks us from cell phones, computers, anything you do on the internet, gun purchases (don't fool yourself), ammunition purchases, online activities and your habits from monitoring your car's license plate locations to credit cards. This is a sample of the many ways intel is gather on you. Are you still feeling safe?

From all the information gathered the powers that be will determine if you are any sort of threat to the new country. If you are, you get the ditch or piled in with about four other bodies into the plastic coffins. I am quite sure where I will wind up.

Are you sick to your stomach yet? Mid-June is not very far away, what could we possible do to stop this. We have already lost our country and it is time to take it back! Let me tell you the only two options I see.

1) Organize very quickly. I have set up a website that will be active very soon named USAGuard.org. I am currently organizing, the Militia's, Bikers and other groups of like minded people. You can begin by sending your name NOW toUSA@USAGuard.org with your Name, City, State, Skill we will need everything, Phone Number and email address. FYI, citizens own 314 million guns, the military and police agencies own less that 2 million. Do the math.

2) What allows the government to run? Money. If everyone that is self-employed does not send in any taxes, all corporations stop paying all the many taxes they pay and the citizens raise all their deductions to 25, then the government would not be able to function. Phase two of this plan would be to overrun all Federal Buildings and take our country back. This would have to happen at the same time and that date is June 1st.

These are simplified scenarios that a lot of detail goes into the implementation, but the alternate it to literally die.

Watch this video from a retired Marine:WARNING FROM the MARINES NO TREATS JUST A PROMISE HERE IN THIS VIDEO!

I have a lot of Law Enforcement, Military, Government and Federal Agents as connections. I would especially like to hear from you. If you don't what to post a comment sent it to Tim@USAGuard.org

I strongly welcome your comments and expect a lot of emails from people that know or country can be great again.

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JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on April 22, 2015 at 9:12am

France: Muslim computer science student and his sister plotted jihad mass murder attacks against churches

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THE PATRIOT POST

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Apr. 22, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“We may look up to armies for defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored.” —Samuel Adams, Letter to Joseph Warren, 1775

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Obama Lied About Iranian Nuclear Breakout Times

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists might want to move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock a few minutes closer to midnight because of Barack Obama’s lies over how close Iran is to nuclear breakout. For months, the official talking point of the administration has been that Iran is a year away from placing fissile material in a warhead. But the assessment of U.S. Intelligence and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always been that Iran is months away from becoming a state sponsor of terrorism armed with nukes. Now, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz admitted to Bloomberg News that Iran is spinning nearly 10,000 centrifuges and could reach nuclear breakout in two to three months. Yet even with this knowledge, Obama discouraged Israel from acting militarily and continued to send John Kerry to craft a lousy deal with the Iranians.

The U.S. has repositioned ships in the waters off Yemen, partially because Iran is sending a flotilla to supposedly arm Yemeni rebels. Meanwhile, Iranian aircraft are buzzing U.S. naval ships. And all the while, Obama keeps insisting climate change is the gravest threat we face.More…

Green Times for Energy Efficiency, No Thanks to Government

Are you feeling green this Earth Day? You should. The White House would have you believe our days are numbered because we’ve failed to enter another ice age (take a moment to shiver in the irony), but statistics suggest we’re in unprecedented times — in terms of energy efficiency.But here’s the kicker: Neither Earth Day nor government intervention have anything to do with our greener ways. Based on data from the Energy Information Administration, American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry writes, “In 2014, it required only 6,110 BTUs of energy (petroleum, natural gas, coal, nuclear and renewables) to produce each real dollar of GDP, which was the least amount of energy required to produce a dollar of real GDP in US history.” That’s even more extraordinary when you consider how much the economy has expanded. “[T]he US economy was 28% larger last year than 14 years ago, even though slightly less total energy was required in 2014 than in 2000 (98.324 vs. 98.819 quadrillion BTUs) to produce $3.5 trillion more real output,” says Perry. “That would be like adding an economy about the size of Germany’s to the US, but without requiring any additional energy to produce 28% more output!” And consider this even crazier statistic: It cost a whopping 15,930 BTUs in 1949 to squeeze out just $2 trillion in GDP. So next time you hear demagogues claiming we’re dirtying up our planet, tell them we’re living in remarkably efficient times relative to yesteryear using the same old fossil fuels. And tell them they can thank capitalist innovators for the progress.

Democrats Drop Abortion Fight for Lynch Confirmation Vote

After stalling a bill to fight human trafficking because Republicans wanted to strengthen its provisions forbidding federal funds for abortions, Democrats finally relented so the Senate could get around to its confirmation vote on Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general. To stall a billthat would help society’s most vulnerable women is one thing. To stop that opposition just to get a fellow leftist into an appointed seat is another. It’s surely part of the Democrats' strategy to advance in incremental steps.

“I’m glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action on this legislation so we can provide help to the victims who desperately need it,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said from the floor of the Senate. “As soon as we finish the trafficking bill, as I’ve indicated for some time now, we’ll move to the president’s nominee for attorney general.” As Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air, the Left may spin this as a political victory, but Senate Democrats backed down from their obstructionism over “abortion rights.” Meanwhile, the winds coming from Congress indicate Lynch will be confirmed — even though she supports Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty. More…

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS

When Government Takes the Grapevine

By Jim Harrington

Raisin growers Marvin and Laura Horne have run afoul of one of those federal agencies you’ve never heard of, but it could have far-ranging consequences. The Supreme Court will soon decide the reach of federal power over food growers.

Horne, a former tax auditor, retired to raise raisins in Kerman, California, a farming community just outside Fresno. He soon discovered that he’s required to hand over a large percentage of his raisins to the federal government — specifically, the Raisin Administrative Committee, a grandchild of the price stabilization programs adopted by FDR’s “brain trust.” The original intent was arguably noble — to stabilize farm prices for people struggling to keep their farms. But as with all socialist programs, noble beginnings lead to evil ends.

Thus in 1949 when the government stopped buying massive quantities of raisins for our overseas troops, raisin prices plummeted. To correct this imbalance in the economy, the Department of Agriculture promulgated Marketing Order 989 requiring serfs, er, farmers to fork over a significant portion of their crops to the Raisin Administrative Committee, the intent being to artificially raise raisin prices.

“An elected board of bureaucrats known as the Raisin Administrative Committee decide what the proper yield should be in any given year in order to meet a previously agreed-upon price,” writesReason’s Zach Weissmueller. The committee then gives a percentage of each farmer’s crop to packers working for the committee. The raisins go into a holding vat and sit. They can’t be sold in the United States, but they can eventually be sold overseas or to school lunch programs.

Weissmueller says farmers theoretically “get a percentage of the money raised from the [confiscated] raisins, but as profit margins dwindled … so did the return to farmers. The tipping point [for Horne] came in 2003 when farmers received zero dollars in return for the 47 percent of the crop they had surrendered.”

Horne decided enough was enough. In 2002 he stopped giving up his grapes. The regulation specifies “raisin handlers,” and the Horne’s consider themselves “raisin farmers” for whom the rule doesn’t apply. The government, however, sees otherwise. One of the most annoying aspects of this sorry story is that this law should have been sunsetted long ago. Instead it was actually renewed in 1989 with some legislators voting with greased hands.

Now the government is demanding the Hornes pay at least $650,000 (some sources say $1 million) in fines and surrender 1.2 million pounds of raisins, or about four years' worth of harvest.

Outraged, Marvin decries the government’s thievery. “The hell with the whole mess,” he said, “It’s like being a serf.” Indeed it is. The Hornes and other growers tried to challenge the USDA’s seizure of their crops without payment as an unconstitutional taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment, but the USDA claimed the issue should be heard in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Instead, the Hornes took the USDA to an administrative court, but they were shot down there, too. Next they took their case to a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court and lost again. Challenging that ruling, they asked for a hearing before the entire Ninth Circuit. After hearing the case, the court surprisingly declared it had no jurisdiction in the matter. But the Supreme Court disagreed and sent it back to the Ninth Circuit to decide on the merits.

This time the Ninth Circuit almost seemed to retaliate to being challenged. They found that, as The Wall Street Journal put it, “the Takings Clause was meant to address the seizure of land, not other personal private property. And even if the government did take raisin farmers' property, the confiscation created raisin scarcity which raised raisin prices, so the Hornes were compensated for their property in that way.”

Even for the Ninth Circuit, this is a bizarre ruling. By its logic, any company could be ordered to hand over a percentage of its profits, or even its holdings. And there’s no end to this line of reasoning. No end, that is, except the crystal clear language of the Fifth Amendment: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

In the case of the Raisin Administrative Committee, its actions are unconstitutional because Congress did not create it and endow it with the powers it wielded. Beyond that, government has no power to seize the raisins without due compensation.

The Court that wrongly decided Kelo v. New London could go some way toward correcting that blatantly improper eminent domain decision. Each day brings news of yet another attack on the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, too few Americans understand what’s at stake in these cases. We’re thankful for Patriots like the Hornes who not only stood up to a bullying federal agency, but also had the strength of will and the stamina to get the case into the hands of the Supremes for the final decision. Let’s just hope the nine robed justices get it right.

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OPINION IN BRIEF

Columnist Ben Shapiro: “Headless bodies lie in the sand. Above those corpses stand the black-clad minions of ISIS, outlined against the coastline of Libya. This is the second video in three months depicting Islamic terrorists cutting the heads off of Christian captives. Bodies float in the Mediterranean Sea, face down. Twelve Christian bodies, thrown from a rubber boat by 15 Muslims. Their launch point: Libya. Approximately 700 more bodies float face down in the Mediterranean, victims of a smuggling operation gone wrong when their rickety craft sunk as it made its way to Italy. Its source location: Libya. Four American bodies in Benghazi, Libya. These are the wages of Hillary Clinton’s war. … Vox.com, a leftist outlet, points out, 1,600 migrants ‘have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.’ Why? Again, according to Vox.com, when Moammar Gadhafi ‘ruled Libya, his government had an agreement with Italy to try to intercept and turn back ships leaving for Europe. … And in the utter chaos that’s engulfed Libya over the past few years, there’s no government entity really capable of patrolling the Mediterranean.’ Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy has promoted chaos around the world. Nowhere is that better illustrated than in her signal foreign policy legacy, the collapsed state of Libya.”

SHORT CUTS

On this date in history: “In God We Trust” — Congress first authorized the official use of this phrase; it became the national motto in 1956

Non Compos Mentis: “People keep saying, ‘We need to have a conversation about race.’ This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back. And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, ‘Is it over?’ I will say yes.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison (She wants to see a white unarmed teenager get shot? Isn’t that, by definition, racism? For the record, police are more likely to kill whites than blacks.)

Dezinformatsia: “Mitch McConnell and others who are trying to obstruct climate protections will be regarded one day in the same way we think of 19th-century apologists for human slavery: How could economic interests blind them to the immorality of their position?” —Lexington Herald-Leader editorial

The BIG Lie: “It is not true that regulation holds poor people down or regulation keeps the middle class from advancing. That’s kind of patently bulls—.” —former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews estimates the regulatory state cost the economy $1.863 trillion in 2013. And we’re supposed to believe that doesn’t have any affect on economic mobility?)

Demo-gogues: “[T]here actually is probably less war and less violence around the world today than there might have been 30-40 years ago. It doesn’t make it any less painful. But things can get better.” —Barack Obama (See, his foreign policy is awesome!)

Late-night humor: “An intruder was arrested at the White House [this week] after trying to jump the fence. Authorities aren’t releasing the fence jumper’s identity, but they did say that she tore her pantsuit.” —Seth Meyers

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Wednesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 22, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Egyptian Government files suit

against Barack nObama and Hilly Clinton

Doug Book

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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After Massacre Video by ISIL, nObama Admits Faith of Victims

The Islamic State franchise in Libya released a 30-minute video over the weekend showing two separate group executions of Ethiopian Christians. If you dive into the madness and try to follow ISIL's "logic," it seems these jihadis murdered 30 people for evading the tax on nonbelievers. ISIL filmed a man who says he is a Christian and enjoys living in ISIL territory — he has not yet been killed. But that was offset by images of ISIL destroying churches, desecrating graves and the narrator of the video announcing, "Our battle is a battle between faith and blasphemy, between truth and falsehood." The nObama administration released a statement admitting that, yes, the Ethiopian Christians were killed because of their beliefs. The office of nObama's press secretary said, "That these terrorists killed these men solely because of their faith lays bare the terrorists' vicious, senseless brutality. This atrocity once again underscores the urgent need for a political resolution to the conflict in Libya to empower a unified Libyan rejection of terrorist groups." Now, if the nObama administration would only admit ISIL committed these murders because of its extreme, Islamic faith. Maybe then it wouldn't put its hope in more "political resolutions." More... -The Patriot Post

Slate Marvels at nObama's Squeaky Clean Record

Ever wondered what "nObama's Gift to Hilly Clinton" might be? Well, with that headline, Slate reporter Jamelle Bouie explains, "No modern-day president has left his potential successor a less scandal-plagued legacy than Barack nObama." Is he kidding? No, he's not, as he goes on to recount Fast and Furious, Benghazi and the IRS ... only to dismiss them entirely as not having anything to do with nObama himself. Never mind that Fast and Furious had a body count in the hundreds; "[U]nlike Iran-Contra or Clinton's impeachment," Bouie says, "none of these were consequential for nObama's presidency." If nothing else, that's a tribute to Slate and other Leftmedia rags, which have circled the wagons for nObama to a degree not seen before. Just as belittling scandals doesn't absolve nObama, ignoring other scandals doesn't mean they didn't happen. Bouie fails to mention the wait lists at VA hospitals, nObama's swap of five jihadis for deserter Bowe Bergdahl, the political favoritism in the GM and Chrysler bailout, giving billions in un-repaid loans to "green" energy companies, or letting the Black Panthers off the hook for voter intimidation. And what about leaving Libya and Yemen in anarchy, and Iraq to the Islamic State? Bouie has no use for any of that because he's too busy criticizing George W. Bush's foreign policy. As for Hilly Clinton, well, she has enough unclaimed baggage to start a retail chain, so even if nObama were clean it hardly makes her so. -The Patriot Post

Study: EPA Preparing to Slash Another 300,000 Jobs

The Environmental Protection Agency is putting the final touches on a rule requiring a 30% reduction of CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel-burning power plants by 2030. An independent analysis by The Heritage Foundation predicts "[a]n average employment shortfall of nearly 300,000 jobs," adding the U.S. may lose half a million jobs in the manufacturing sector and 45% of the jobs in the coal mining industry. As for the EPA, it says collateral damage could cost up to 80,000 jobs. But a new American Action Forum report, whose findings mirror that of Heritage, says the EPA isn't taking secondary impacts into consideration. All told, nearly 100 power plants may be taken offline, which will have major economic ramifications. "Based on American Action Forum (AAF) research ... more than 90 coal-fired power plants could be retired across the country," write Catrina Rorke and Sam Batkins. "Secondary employment impacts suggest that EPA's power plant regulation could eliminate 296,000 jobs, about the population of Cincinnati, Ohio, and more than the total number of jobs the economy created in February 2015." The writers conclude, "EPA might tout the benefits of its proposal, but the significant job losses are just as noteworthy." Indeed. Unfortunately, all that's important in the minds of this administration is, as EPA administrator Gina McCarthy explained, "We have a moral obligation to act." A very contorted moral obligation. -The Patriot Post

So It Appears a Ukrainian Oligarch Bribed Hilly Clinton...

The decision by the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation to stop accepting donations from foreign governments last week came too late to protect the front-running Democrat candidate from a serious accusation of impropriety. Not that it would have helped. The Clinton Foundation only stopped taking the money from governments — not individuals. And Victor Pinchuk, owner of a pipe manufacturing company, is just the kind person who will cause headaches for the Hilly Clinton campaign. In 2011 and 2012, Pinchuk's company made business deals with Iran, once shipping $1.7 million worth of pipe to the country. Normally, a business deal over $1 million with Iran would trigger sanctions against the company by the State Department. But Hilly Clinton was head of the department, and Pinchuk poured millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation. It was so much money that Newsweek reports he is the "largest individual contributor to the Clinton Foundation." Furthermore, Pinchuk and Bill Clinton are supposedly good friends, attending each other's birthdays. To this day, there are no sanctions against Pinchuk's Interpipe Group, even though former representative Steve Stockman called for an investigation into the company's business dealings. Pinchuk may have spent the most money, but he certainly isn't the only one to give money to the Clintons for more reasons than simple charity. More... -The Patriot Post

No 'Equal Pay' for Michelle nObama?

So-called income inequality has been and will continue to be a "war on women" theme for Democrats, who know little else but pitting one bitter constituency against a better off one. This time, Barack nObama is complaining that his wife isn't paid well enough. "Let me tell you, now, Michelle would point out first ladies get paid nothing," he said. "So there's clearly not equal pay in the White House when it comes to her and me. But before we were in the White House, I wanted to make sure Michelle got paid as much as she could. I want a big paycheck for Michelle. That wasn't a women's issue. If she had a bigger paycheck, that made us able to pay the bills. Why would I want my spouse or my daughter discriminated against? That doesn't make any sense." There are perfectly legitimate reasons for most of the slight income inequality that does exist, but it's also not nearly the problem Democrats want you to believe. Not to mention "first lady" isn't a paid or elected position. More to the point, nObama's bill-paying sob story must be a reference to Michelle's stint as vice president of the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she earned a salary of more than $300,000 in 2005 alone and nearly $900,000 between 2004 and 2008. We'd say that falls outside the experience of most middle-class Americans. But next thing you know they'll be telling us they, too, left the White House "dead broke."

-The Patriot Post

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Murderous nObama Recruits Permanent Residents of USA

(rickwells.us) - As the result of the nObama regime’s insistence on importing murderous gang members into the United States and preventing ICE and Border Patrol Agents from doing their job of protecting our nation from the infestation of MS-13 gangs...the American people now have two more life-long inmates to support. The pair of illegals plead guilty to aiding and abetting murder on federal property on April 17th. They are both young offenders so we can expect another sixty years or so of food, lodging, medical and other expenses for each of the two who should never have been in our country to begin with. The two plead guilty to murder in the death of another MS-13 illegal alien gang member in Sam Houston National Forrest in Walker County, near Huntsville, Texas. The fact that the crime occurred in a federal park, under federal jurisdiction, saved them from the death penalty. http://www.rickwells.us/murderous-obama-recruits-now-permanent-residents-of-united-states-in-federal-prison/

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“Crazy” Terrorist Super Power Iranians Given $10 Billion

(rickwells.us) - Colonel Hunt understates the obvious, saying that the recent movement of ISIS into Afghanistan means “that the war we’ve declared on ISIS isn’t working,” noting that they’ve gained territory since the U.S. bombing began...In spite of a $9 million per day price tag, we’re not stopping them. Judge Pirro asks Col Hunt what exactly is the significance of Ramadi. He points out that it is the center of Iraq but most importantly the fact that ISIS is expanding into Ramadi as we are bombing them is an indicator that the bombing is not working. She raises comments made by Joint Chief of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey, to the effect that Ramadi doesn’t make a difference, comments which Senator McCain quickly denounced. She quotes McCain as saying, “Martin Dempsey is one of the reasons that we’re in the situation we’re in today, because of his lack of either knowledge or candor (honesty) about the situation and he’s done great damage.” http://www.rickwells.us/pirro-hunt-crazy-terrorist-super-power-iranians-given-10-billion-chairman-dempsey-in-denial/

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Clintons once again put government up for sale

(Amy Miller) - The book is called Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hilly Rich—and it could be the undoing of a woman much of the country assumed would one day hold the presidency...Peter Schweizer’s latest work won’t officially hit stores until May 5, but the buzz generated by the release of advance copies already has Team Clinton on defense, and Republican heavy-hitters running offense against the financial history of the Clinton Foundation. The basic premise of the book is that during the time Clinton served as secretary of state, the Department would grant favors to foreign entities in exchange for high-dollar speaking fees paid directly to the Clinton Foundation. http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/04/money-for-something-clinton-cash-exposes-hillary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

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Military ops on U.S. soil raise martial-law fears

(Cheryl Chumley) - Jade Helm 15 is set to kick off in seven states this summer, sending Special Operations forces from all four main branches of the military onto civilian soil to conduct hostile take-over training – and civil-rights advocates are sounding the alarms...This is how the military describes it: “The nature of warfare is always changing and U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s mission is to make certain the Army’s various Special Operations Forces are trained, equipped and organized to successfully conduct worldwide special operations in support of our nation’s interests,” said command spokesman Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, in a statement to the Washington Post a few weeks ago. “Training exercise Jade Helm is going to assist our Special Operations Soldiers and leadership in refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/military-ops-on-u-s-soil-raise-martial-law-fears/

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United States Attorney Andrew Luger, right, and FBI special agent Richard Thornton explain the criminal complaint charging six Minnesota men with terrorism at a news conference in Minneapolis, April 20, 2015.

US Charges 6 for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to IS

(voanews.com) - Six Minnesota men have been charged with terrorism in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday, the latest Westerners accused of traveling or attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group...The six, whom authorities described as friends who met secretly to plan their travels, are accused of conspiracy to provide material support and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The complaint says the men planned to reach Syria by flying to nearby countries from Minneapolis, San Diego or New York City, and lied to federal investigators when they were stopped. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-officials-arrest-6-in-terror-probe/2726405.html

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Executions Surge in Iran after Nuclear Talks, Iran off U.S. Terror List

(Shadi Paveh) - After Iran's "nuclear talks," and after it was comfortably removed as a terrorism threat from the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Communities,"...the International Committee Against Executions (ICAE) reported approximately 55 executions in fewer than three weeks across Iran. According to Mina Ahadi, Founder of ICAE, various prisoners or their families had contacted her office weeks before the killings. Prison authorities, they said, had told the prisoners that they had received orders from "above" to "cleanse" a large of number of the prisoners rapidly after the P5+1 talks. The vast majority of these prisoners had been sentenced to death for non-lethal offences in trials that, according to activists, often fell dramatically short of international standards. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5583/iran-executions-surge

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Hilly Lied, Libyans Died

(Daniel Greenfield) - Hundreds of people just died because of nObama and Hilly’s illegal Libyan war...The Libyan War was based on a lie about genocide that is turning out to be real as ISIS beheads African Christians captured in Libya, as migrants claw their way abroad boats out of Libya, killing each other along the way, as a civil war between the legal government and the Muslim Brotherhood drags on. The strange thing about left-wing wars is that we don’t talk about them. The UK is debating the Libyan War, with Cameron under attack from UKIP and the left for his part in it, but in the US, it’s the forgotten war. The left has done its best to turn Benghazi into a contemptuous meme and the murder of four Americans into a joke. And there’s bound to be a meme for hundreds of migrants drowning as well. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/hillary-lied-libyans-died/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=981585d9cf-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-981585d9cf-156509103

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nObama and the Brotherhood: The Ties that Bind

(Arnold Ahlert) - In 2013, Egyptian media claimed President Barack nObama is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Leading the charge was Tahani al-Gebali, Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Egypt...He spoke on a TV program, Bitna al-Kibir, insisting there would a time when a number of conspiracies against his nation would be exposed, including why nObama’s support of the Brotherhood remained steadfast, even as they became despised by Egyptians themselves. The most damning indictment? “nObama’s brother is one of the architects of investment for the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood,” al-Gebali declared. The brother to whom al-Gebali referred is nObama’s half brother Malik nObama. He has been under investigation by Egyptian authorities for his ties to the Islamic Da’wa Organization (IDO), an entity created by the Sudanese Government. That government has been on the State Department’s list of of designated terror sponsors since 1993. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/obama-and-the-brotherhood-the-ties-that-bind/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=981585d9cf-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-981585d9cf-156509103

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Ted Cruz Answers Gay Marriage Question Brilliantly

(Frank Camp) - There’s been a recent hubbub about the way in which Marco Rubio answered a gay marriage question posed to him by Jorge Ramos. “Would you attend a gay wedding?” Rubio answered in the affirmative, but his answer is irrelevant...What is relevant is why the media—in the face of the monumental problems facing the United States—would ask such an asinine question. There’s a simple answer: the gay marriage question a gotcha question, designed to tarnish candidates. Cruz took what could have been typical, and turned it into something germane to the actual argument at hand, which is the legalization of same-sex marriage, and how it applies in the context of the constitution. He also used it as an opportunity to condemn both executive and judicial overreach. A basic gotcha question turned into a complex analysis. Ted Cruz is a man of principle, and one who has a thorough understanding of what matters. He knows what’s important regarding leadership and his vision is outside the scope of typical political gamesmanship. http://lastresistance.com/11220/ted-cruz-answers-gay-marriage-question-brilliantly-some-conservatives-upset/

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US aircraft carrier sent to block Iranian shipments to Yemen

(foxnews.com) - A U.S. aircraft carrier has been dispatched to waters off Yemen to join other American ships prepared to block any Iranian shipments to the Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen...The U.S. Navy has been beefing up its presence in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea amid reports that a convoy of about eight Iranian ships is heading toward Yemen and possibly carrying arms for the Houthis. A Navy official confirmed to Fox News that the USS Theodore Roosevelt -- along with her escort ship, the USS Normandy, a guided-missile cruiser -- left the Persian Gulf on Sunday en route for the Arabian Sea, to help enforce the blockade.

Like Iran will be scared of nObama. They could probably sail by and wave while nObama tells the Captains to do nothing.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/20/us-navy-stationing-aircraft-carrier-and-escort-ship-in-yemeni-waters-to/

Egyptian Government files suit

against Barack nObama and Hilly Clinton

Doug Book

(coachisright.com) - On March 11th, Coach is Right staff writer Ed Wood wrote the following in his CiR piece “All Quiet on the Western Front:”

In addition to raining spiteful criticism upon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…President nObama has also chosen to petulantly ignore Egyptian President General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as he demonstrates his own leadership abilities on the world stage.

For years, Egypt and Israel have been our strongest (and perhaps only) allies in the Middle East. We have given Egypt upwards of $1.5 BILLION annually, second only to Israel in foreign aid commitments.

But this was before the newly elected President nObama went to the University of Cairo in 2009 where he ignited the Arab Spring uprisings, challenged terrorists to undermine existing Middle East rulers and in particular, supported Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammad Morsi as Egypt’s next president.

Then came the fiery pictures of rioting in Cairo’s Tahrir Square which accompanied the ouster of Morsi and the installation of Egypt’s current President General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. In 2013, TIME magazine named al-Sisi their “Person of the year” as he became the first president in Egyptian history to attend the Christmas Mass and give a speech at the Coptic Orthodox Christmas service in Cairo, where he called for unity and wished Christians a merry Christmas.

But President nObama–a professed Christian—continues his petty show of displeasure with the nation which dared toss his hand-picked thug, Mohammed Morsi from office.

Wood notes that al-Sisi is a Muslim, just like 90% of Egypt’s population. However, “…he (al-Sisi) does not condone the ideology of radical Islam and has taken on the Muslim Brotherhood while “revolutionizing” Islam within his country.”

And “taking on the Muslim Brotherhood” really means something to al-Sisi and the people of Egypt. For Mohammed Morsi is still in jail and growing numbers of Muslim Brotherhood terrorists continue to join him.

Wood includes the following information from the Gatestone Institute which reports: “The Muslim Brotherhood knows that behind the scenes U.S. President nObama supports their movement, especially the branch in Egypt seeking to overthrow President Sisi. This approval from the U.S. encourages the Muslim Brotherhood to be even more determined to subvert and undermine Egypt’s stability, sabotage its economic rehabilitation, and destroy the al-Sisi regime.”

But al-Sisi and the Egyptian government have become so fed up with Barack nObama meddling in their affairs that they have filed suit against both nObama and Hilly Clinton for “conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood,” the terror organization to which Mohammed Morsi still belongs.

The complaint is said to charge that “…Barack nObama assisted the Muslim Brotherhood in crimes against Egypt and its citizens.”

Not wishing to ignore the contributions of Hilly Clinton, Egypt’s criminal complaint states that the former Secretary of State was “…found to be working with ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi’s wife, Naglaa Mahmood, in attempting to overthrow the current leader of Egypt, General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi.”

From the beginning of his administration, Barack nObama has clearly been working with the Muslim Brotherhood to reshape the nations of the Middle East into dictatorships run by the Brotherhood under the precepts of Sharia Law. In the case of Egypt at least, nObama’s Arab Spring attempt to enslave its people was thrown back in his face, along with Brotherhood thug and tool Morsi.

Kudos to the Nation of Egypt for exposing at least a few of the crimes of which nObama and Hilly are guilty.

http://www.coachisright.com/egyptian-government-files-suit-against-barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton/

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