More White House Extremism: Obama Admin. Now Says We Need to DEFEND Islam

Posted by William M. Finley on January 9, 2015 at 7:47am

AMERICAN'S DO YOU NOT SEE WHAT IS GOING ON IN FRANCE! DO YOU NOT SEE THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES THEY HAVE KILL AMERICAN' AND ANYONE THAT IS NOT ISLAM
WE DO NOT NEED TO DEFEND ISLAM WE NEED TO DEFEND ARE SELVES AGAINST ISLAM AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY! WHICH OBAMA SUPPORTS

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO SEE THAT OBAMA IS A MUSLIM SUPPORT TO THE POINT OF TREASON! WHAT WILL TAKE FOR AMERICAN'S TO SEE THE TRUTH OF ISLAM HOW MANY HAVE TO BE KILL IN THEIR HOMES, OR JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET, OR OUT FOR DINNER HOW MANY OF US MUST DIE BEFORE WE UNDERSTAND WE NEED TO COME DOWN ON ISLAM IN OUR COUNTRY
THE TIME HAS COME TO DEPORT THE THREAT TO ARE PEOPLE! UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAJORITY OF MUSLIM SUPPORT SHARIA LAW AND THE CONQUEST
OF THESE WHO ARE NOT ISLAM! THIS WHAT OBAMA SUPPORTS!
PRINCIPLES FOR A FREE SOCIETY

More White House Extremism: Obama Admin. Now Says We Need to DEFEND Islam (+video)

09 Jan 2015

Barack Obama, Islam, Terrorism

by Ben Shapiro

Photo Credit: Getty Images

On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced that the Obama administration would prioritize fighting Islamophobia in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in France. Never mind that most Westerners aren’t Islamophobic, but rather “Getting-Shot-In-The-Face-For-Expressing-My-Opinion” Phobic.

The real problem, according to the Obama administration, is lack of leadership in defending Islam:

There are some individuals that are using a peaceful religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. And we have enjoyed significant success in enlisting leaders in the Muslim community, like I said, both in the United States and around the world to condemn that kind of messaging, to condemn those efforts to radicalize individuals, and to be clear about what the tenets of Islam actually are. And we’re going to redouble those efforts in the days and weeks ahead.

This, of course, is not the first time the Obama administration has discovered a duty to illuminate the inherent beauty and wonder of Islam. Over and over again, the Obama administration, in high culturally imperialist dudgeon, has attempted to explain to the world the true meaning of Islam.

(Read more about the Obama Administration saying we need to defend Islam HERE)

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Friday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 9, 2015 at 5:28am

The Front Page Cover

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

Featuring:

Bring on 2015—We’re Ready and Hopeful

Peggy Noonan

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

Here’s how it’s done - Some advice for conservatives from John Hart, who as a senior staff member, helped execute the successful GOP leadership coup of 1998. He was not impressed by the failed effort. “In contrast, today’s effort gives rebellion a bad name. It is tepid, poorly planned and pretends to be conservative but is conventional Washington politics and posturing at its worst.” -Fox News

nOBAMA TO WARN OF GAS PRICE RISE IN DETROIT GREEN CAR PITCH
Detroit News: “President Barack nObama is warning Americans that cheap gas prices won’t last indefinitely, and he’s standing by his support of small, fuel-efficient vehicles. “I would strongly advise American consumers to continue to think about how you save money at the pump because it is good for the environment, it’s good for family pocketbooks and if you go back to old habits and suddenly gas is back at $3.50, you are going to not be real happy,” nObama said in an exclusive telephone interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday, the eve of his visit to Ford’s Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne.”
Hang time - WashEx: “President nObama has invited the top four Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate to a meeting at the White House next Tuesday, as nObama tries to build momentum for his legislative agenda at the start of the 2015 congressional session.” -Fox News

Swing set - The Hill: “Senate Republicans are reaching out to about nine Democrats they see as crucial swing votes in the new Congress. With his 54-seat majority, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is six votes short of overcoming Democratic filibusters, making bipartisan support a necessity for getting most legislation to President nObama’s desk. Republicans have identified six go-to centrists: Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Warner (Va.), Tim Kaine (Va.) and Joe Donnelly (Ind.) and independent Sen. Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats. Several other Democrats, including Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Chris Coons (Del.), Tom Carper (Del.) and Martin Heinrich (N.M.), are also targets, though they are seen as riskier partners.” -Fox News

CBC will feel the Love - Daily Caller: “Utah Rep. Mia Love, who recently became the first black female Republican ever elected to Congress, joined the Congressional Black Caucus, according to a Tuesday announcement - potentially bad news for the group. Love, the former mayor of Saratoga Springs, has stated that she would likely join the CBC but would attempt drastic change from within the group, which tends to lean to the left.” -Fox News

ISLAMIST MILITANTS LEAVE NO DOUBT IN PARIS…
“The Paris terrorist attack is another stark example of the threat the Western world faces from radical Islamists of all names, acronyms, shapes, sizes, and locations – Muslim extremists who seek to impose their ‘law’ on everyone else. Today’s version involved military style terrorist commandos dressed in black, armed with AK-47s, clearly trained and moving in a coordinated fashion. Multiple reports say the terrorists yelled ‘Allah Akbar’ as they shot reporters and cartoonists in the newsroom of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, which had written satirically about Islam and published cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad. Witnesses say the gunmen yelled, ‘We’ve avenged the honor of the prophet!’ in French- before escaping.
The first public reaction from the White House was to ‘condemn this act of violence’. Pressed on why it wasn’t an act of terrorism, spokesman Josh Earnest said ‘it’s early’. ‘If it’s an act of terrorism we will condemn that too’. Then the French President put out a statement calling the onslaught a horrific act of terror. Afterwards, Earnest, appearing on Fox, adjusted and called it an ‘act of terror’. What this semantics game shows is that the White House still seems reticent to speak out against radical Islamist terrorists in the strongest terms - early and often. We all understand the ‘fog’ of the early minutes of an ‘attack’, but after a short time this seemed cut and dry. And the French certainly understood it early. We’ll see how forceful the president is about it today as he touts the U.S. economy in Detroit.” – Bret Baier. -Fox News

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This Woman has a Message, needs to be heard in America today!

(Tim Brown - sonsoflibertymedia.com) - As I post this, I realize that as soon as people see that this is a woman they will immediately not listen to what is said...I understand that sentiment as men are God’s design to lead and speak with authority to the people of God. However, men have become so feminized in our culture and particularly in the Church (just take a look at Billy Graham’s grandson as Exhibit A) that women, much like Deborah of the Old Testament, are standing up and doing what men should be doing. With that in mind, take a listen to a video I watched this morning. The speaker is Iona Locke. I don’t know Ms. Locke’s theology and I certainly don’t agree with her being a “bishop” as the Bible is clear that a bishop in the Church is to be a man (1 Tim. 3:1-7). Her theology may be horrible, but I can tell you that the meat of the words she states in this video are spot on and her message is right in line with Jesus the Christ, His apostles and His prophets. That message to a sinful people is to repent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X_rMhtedSg

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Federal Judge Halts Sheriff Joe’s Workplace Raids

(USA Today) – A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday blocking Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery from enforcing two state laws...that make it a felony for undocumented immigrants to use stolen identities to obtain work. The injunction essentially prevents Arpaio from continuing to conduct his controversial worksite raids to arrest undocumented workers and Montgomery from prosecuting them. However, Arpaio had already announced in December that he planned to disband his worksite unit at the end of January or in early February once they completed an ongoing investigation. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/05/joe-arpaio-undocumented-immigrant-raids/21311385/#sthash.3qi5lXtR.dpuf

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Amid Bowl Game Pageantry, Troubling Signs for Army Recruiting

(Sig Christenson) - When the annual All-American Bowl kicks off at noon Saturday at the Alamodome, the fans and a national TV audience will see some of the country's best high school football players and immerse themselves in pomp, pageantry and patriotic fervor...It's the Army's splashiest recruiting and marketing event. Beyond four quarters of football, it is part of a critical task of getting enough new soldiers into boot camp each year -- something that has never been easy to do and is getting harder. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/03/amid-bowl-game-pageantry-troubling-signs-for-army-recruiting.html?ESRC=army.nl

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Arson Jihad: Muslim ‘Refugee’ to US Burns Down Buildings

(Pamela Geller) - Under the Refugee Resettlement Programs, whole Muslim communities are imported into the US from jihad nations. Under this highly questionable program, the UN determines who is designated a “refugee.”...These programs are disastrous to the gateway cities designated for settlement. Lewiston, Maine is one such city. The only “refugees” the US should be bringing in are Christians and other religious minorities who are being oppressed, ethnically cleansed and murdered in Syria, Iraq and other Muslim countries under Islamic rule. But nObama has long abandoned religious minorities under Islamic rule. Instead, nObama continues to import jihad. The consequences of Muslim immigration on free societies are ruinous. http://pamelageller.com/2015/01/arson-jihad-muslim-refugee-to-us-burns-down-apartment-buildings.html/

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Hilly’s Presidential Campaign Just Got Some Major Bad News

(conservativetribune.com) - So they turned, logically enough, to Iowa, where the first major electoral event of that election — the Iowa caucuses — will take place, to find out what Clinton supporters thought about their chances next year...There was only one teeny, tiny problem with that research plan. They couldn’t find any Clinton supporters in Iowa. According to Daily Surge, Iowans are interested in learning more about Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jim Webb — really, anybody but the presumed Democrat nominee. http://conservativetribune.com/hillary-campaign-bad-news/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0

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Judge Nap Makes Massive Announcement About Benghazi

(conservativetribune.com) - Speaking last year about the subpoena power of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano told Megyn Kelly that congressional investigators could demand practically any information from practically anyone...And that, he said, is exactly what had the White House “terrified.” “The Select Committee cannot prosecute, it cannot charge, it cannot indict,” Napolitano conceded. “But it has extraordinary subpoena power.” If the nObama administration were to resist such a subpoena, the judge added, there was already existing legal precedent that suggested the courts would force compliance. http://conservativetribune.com/judge-nap-benghazi-bad-news/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0

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The ‘Equality’ Racket

(Thomas Sowell) - Some time ago, burglars in England scrawled a message on the wall of a home they had looted: “RICH BASTARDS.” Those two words captured the spirit of the politicized vision of equality — that it was a grievance when someone was better off than themselves...That, of course, is not the only meaning of equality, but it is the predominant political meaning in practice, where economic “disparities” and “gaps” are automatically treated as “inequities.” If one racial or ethnic group has a lower income than another, that is automatically called “discrimination” by many people in politics, the media and academia. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/thomas-sowell/the-equality-racket/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6fd4c3aa4a-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6fd4c3aa4a-156509103

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UCLA’s Embarrassment: Prof. Abou El Fadl

(Daniel Pipes) - The once-promising career of UCLA law professor Khaled Medhat Abou El Fadl has faded over the past decade. Gone are the pleasures of glowing attention of the media, the invitations to join important government bodies and to offer expert testimony at high-profile trials...It’s not clear that this downward spiral resulted solely from my 2004 article demonstrating him to be a “stealth Islamist,” but that exposé, read more than 30,000 times, surely diminished his stature. In it, I showed how, despite Abou El Fadl’s once-vaunted reputation as a moderate Muslim, he wants Muslims to live by Islamic law (the Shari’a), the law that among other things endorses slavery, execution for apostasy, and the repression of women, and which treats non-Muslims as second-class citizens. “Shariah and Islam are inseparable,” he has written, “and one cannot be without the other.” In a revealing passage, he confesses that his “primary loyalty, after God, is to the Shariah." http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/daniel-pipes/uclas-embarrassment-prof-abou-el-fadl/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6fd4c3aa4a-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6fd4c3aa4a-156509103

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Land of Dynasties

(JAY COST) - In mid-December, Jeb Bush announced his intention to explore a presidential bid. If he runs and wins the Republican nomination and then the election, he will be the third President Bush in 25 years...That unprecedented prospect has left many wondering: In a republic like ours, is it proper for one family to fill the executive seat so often? While we might fret about this for cultural reasons, we must acknowledge that it has not come about by accident. In fact, dynasties make a lot of sense for practical politicians. Acquiring the presidency is enormously challenging, and political dynasties ease at least some of the difficulties either in securing the nomination or in winning the general election. To put it bluntly, dynasties endure because they are politically useful. Not surprisingly, then, political dynasties have actually been quite common in American history, though not always family-based. From the early 19th century into the 20th, there were three state-based political dynasties that were even more dominant than the Bushes. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/land-dynasties_822411.html?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+01_07_15

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Iranian General: Our Ideal is the Destruction of the White House

(Reza Kahlili) - The commander of Iran’s notorious Basij forces declared Monday that the Islamic Republic’s ultimate goal is the destruction of America and Israel... “Today there is no mandate to end our fight because Iran’s greatness in the region and the repeated losses by the Zionists and America are the proof of our fight up to today,” Gen. Mohammad Naghdi said, according to Fars News Agency. “Our ideal is not [nuclear] centrifuges but the destruction of the White House and the annihilation of Zionism [Israel].” The regime’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has also called for the continuation of the fight to destroy America, saying: “This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and a need for great strides.” http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/iranian-general-our-ideal-destruction-white-house

Bring on 2015—We’re Ready and Hopeful

Peggy Noonan

(wsj.com) -How are we feeling about 2015? With what attitude are people approaching the new year? What do they expect from it?

Let’s ask.

Yuval Levin, founding editor of National Affairs, says, “Maybe you know the old joke that a Jewish optimist is one who says, ‘Surely things can’t get worse than this,’ and a Jewish pessimist is one who answers: ‘Sure they can!’ Those are the two sides of my thinking about 2015. But that said, I’m approaching the new year with hope, which is not the same as optimism. Hope is not the expectation that things will turn around for the better, but the belief that they can. It invites not passive anticipation but active repair and restoration. Our country has shown an amazing capacity to recover from setbacks because we’ve shown an ability to act on hope.”

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels says New Year’s is like opening day at the ballpark. “Optimism comes naturally, and that’s a good thing, as no other operating philosophy makes any sense,” he says. You can be “wary” about the economy, Mr. Daniels adds, “worried” about terror threats or “weary” of partisan animus, but you still return to the questions: “What nation would you like to trade problems with? What era of history would you like to move to?”

The historian Amity Shlaes, presidential scholar at The King’s College in New York, is looking forward by looking back. “The Coco Chanel Rule is worth recalling in 2015: ‘Nothing is new, it is just forgotten.’ It’s sometimes rendered as ‘Nothing is original except what is forgotten.’ ” Ms. Shlaes calls this “an astounding statement from a creator universally venerated for her originality.” She adds, “A good resolution for 2015: Humility in art. A second resolution: Cause the forgotten to be remembered.”

***

Former Florida governor and possible presidential aspirant Jeb Bush sounded joyful in an evening email. “Regarding 2015, I am very optimistic. I think the DC political process might go back to working as it has for most of our nation’s existence. Regular order! Passing a budget. Allowing amendments to bills. Allowing the ‘ Nixon to China’ moments to go forward.” He said that he is “incredibly optimistic” about “our future because of the acceleration of innovation and technology in our lives. In spite of dysfunction in Washington, we are on the verge of being an emerging nation once again . . . dynamic, aspirational and young at heart.”

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is also in an up mood. He says a confluence of factors makes 2015 “the best opportunity to help the American people through legislating” since the 1990s. “First is the new GOP majority in the Senate, which happened with voters looking for a change in partisan gridlock. Second is the accumulation of big and obvious structural problems to address, from a nonsensical tax code to a self-defeating trade policy to regulatory overreach and a fiscal time-bomb. And, finally, a realization by both parties that although the recovery may finally be here, it is leaving too many behind and these structural problems are a major reason.”

My Wall Street Journal colleague Mary Kissel says: “I feel an overwhelming sense of relief to say adieu to 2014. I’m optimistic that next year will be better—how could it be worse?” She sees the possibility for “incremental reforms in the 114th Congress. Some reform will be better than nothing.”

***

We got peppery energy pioneer and business magnate Boone Pickens on the phone from his office in Dallas.

He cleared his throat: “The media has given this goofy president a walk.”

He offered context for his mood: “What was it that did the most for the economy and got no credit? We had the cheapest energy in the world!” Also: “That’s a huge tax break for the consumer in America.”

He declared that he’s in an “upbeat” mood: “I’m a geologist and geologists are always optimistic because they drill so many dry holes, they better be optimistic.” The November election’s clear results raised his spirits considerably. “Then the goofball says ‘65% didn’t vote and those are the ones I represent!’ ”

Mr. Pickens said that, before the election, he was worried—“Have we lost America?” Asked if the country is rediscovering itself, he said, “Sure! America still belongs to America,” adding: “We have only another year of this bird to go.”

***

Legendary editor, now historian Harry Evans is bullish on 2015 because of technology. A high point in 2014: He and his book, “They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine,” were a question on “Jeopardy!” “Now I’m excited by what’s called ‘the intelligence of things,’ machines talking to machines. Just watch!”

We caught former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino in a mellow, reflective mood. What she is feeling right now is “abundance of gratitude, and gratitude for the abundance we have in America—our freedom, opportunity, conveniences.” She is thinking that from abundance and gratitude must come generosity—“being generous in thought and word to all who cross my path. The more grateful I am for the abundance available in America, the more generous I can be—which lifts my spirits and brings me more love, friends and opportunities.”

The great Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth reports, “I am feeling good about 2015,” in part because of Pope Francis . “I am looking forward to the follow-up to the phrase ‘spiritual Alzheimer’s.’ How will he top that zinger?” She’s looking forward to witnessing “the jockeying” among leaders on Capitol Hill if Francis accepts their invitation to address a joint session of Congress when he visits the U.S. this fall.

New York attorney Lloyd Green says he’s approaching the new year “extra hopefully.” At the end of a list of reasons, he adds, “Fishing. Heck, everyone should give fishing a shot. It’s about more than just the fish. There’s nothing like sunrise on the Atlantic on the open water. At that moment it lets me see the jolt of Creation, His majesty and sweep. And nothing beats fighting a fish and not knowing who is going to win.”

The writer Stephen Smith, former executive editor of Newsweek and editor of the Washington Examiner, is approaching 2015 seeing a return to social traditions. “I am heartened by the surge of young and old back to the cities, and by the radio-listening parties prompted by ‘Serial.’ People still want to be connected physically and culturally even as they connect online.”

Jeremy Shane, a Washington-based entrepreneur who has worked in energy, health and education, doesn’t characterize his attitude toward 2015, but shares some prophecies, saying that it will be “a clarifying year. The chaff will be separated from the wheat. The potentially vibrant will rise above the demonstrably decrepit, or be swallowed by it.”

We are seeing a confrontation “between new and old orders,” Mr. Shane says. Keep your eye on the anticorruption campaign in China—President Xi Jinping “will either professionalize the economic and local government elite” or not, but 2015 is the year “Xi breaks through or is neutered.” The outcome “will determine how the next 20 years go.” Another confrontation between new and old orders: “Pope Francis versus the Curia.”

Father Gerald Murray, pastor of Church of the Holy Family in New York City, sees the new year as, at bottom, another chance: “I look at 2015 as a new opportunity to make up for the wasted opportunities of the previous year. That prospect makes me glad that God has given me more time to get things right.”

Yes. Here’s to getting things right.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/peggy-noonan-bring-on-2015were-ready-and-hopeful-1420156487

Islamic Terror and the Hollande Connection

Posted by Craig Andresen on January 9, 2015 at 2:44am

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

Liberal/socialist yowler Howard Dean appeared on The Morning Joe yesterday and had a few choice words for those of us who tell the truth and calls em as we sees em.

“You know, this is a chronic problem. I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They’re about as Muslim as I am. I mean, they have no respect for anybody else’s life; that’s not what the Koran says.”

Perhaps Howard Dean was thinking of 2:1/2:6-2:10; “This Book is not to be doubted…. As for the unbelievers, it is the same whether or not you forewarn them; they will not have faith. God has set a seal upon their hearts and ears; their sight is dimmed and grievous punishment awaits them.”

Or maybe his reflections regarding the ‘religion of peace’ revolved around 8:12; “I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers,” or 9:5; “When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them,” or 9:123; “Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them. Know that God is with the righteous.”

The fact is…more than 60% of the Koran IS decidedly against non-Islamic believers and/or calls for direct violence or death to non-Islamic believers so once again, a liberal/socialist is spouting propaganda in favor of Islamic terror and Islamic terrorists.

As for those three pieces of pig vomit that wreaked havoc and death inside the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

IF IT SMELLS LIKE SHIT AND LOOKS LIKE SHIT IT USUALLY IS SHIT !

Posted by Donnie Lowe on January 8, 2015 at 3:31pm

Here are ten interesting facts you may not know about New York City’s Communist Democrat

Bill de Blasio Old Youngd

Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, Jr., on May 8, 1961.

He first changed his name to the hyphenated Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, adding his mother’s maiden name.
In 2002, he dropped the “Warren” and the “Wilhelm,” and changed his name for a second time to what it is currently, Bill de Blasio.

Bill de Blasio was the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2000.

Bill de Blasio was a fervent supporter of the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980′s, a government that was backed by the Communist Soviet Union and Cuba.

At the height of Cold War tension, while still a student at New York University, de Blasio toured the Communist Soviet Union in 1983.

His first job was in 1984 with the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice.

Bill de Blasio received a master’s degree in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the same school attended by Barack Obama.

Bill de Blasio ran Democrat New York Congressman Charlie Rangel’s re-election campaign in 1994.

In 1994, Bill de Blasio married a lesbian activist, Chirlane McCray(google Chirlane McCray confirms this). She is a black. The newlyweds honeymooned in Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba.

In 2009, de Blasio’s election campaign to be NYC’s third “Public Advocate” was supported by the pro-Communism, Working Families Party.

Both of de Blasio’s parents were communists, leading historian Ron Radosh to describe him as a “bona fide red diaper baby.” , who was elected in 2013 with a whopping 72% of the vote.

The leftist mayor is accused of fostering an environment that led to the tragic execution-style racial assassinations of two NYPD officers on Saturday.

Congress is far worse than we even imagined

Posted by Mike Travis on January 8, 2015 at 11:33am

As Americans, we have a tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt. In the case of congress, that tendency has allowed congress to lie to us for decades without fear of being held accountable for their decisions which are destroying America.

Let me be clear. Their decisions have NOT been made in the absence of the knowledge of what their decisions will inevitably cause. Their decisions have been made DESPITE them all knowing exactly what the result will be, but THEY DON'T CARE! When you hear the truth, I wonder what you will say and do, for our future and that of our descendants is at stake, so much so that if we do nothing, our country will collapse. What makes it worse is when the collapse occurs, the criminals in congress and other elected offices won't suffer for they have stolen so much money that they will simply disappear into some remote hideout while we are left to deal with THEIR criminal actions that destroyed our country.

So to what decisions do I refer? Specifically I refer to their collective, repeated, and intentional decisions to spend our hard earned dollars with absolutely NO concern for any ability to repay the debt THEY have created. Remember, they have done this INTENTIONALLY for they get reports regularly telling them the truth, but they turn right around and LIE to us so they can hide the truth from us and continue to rob and plunder at OUR expense, all the time getting huge salaries, free perks, privileges, free staff, free offices, free healthcare, etc. all the while exempting themselves from laws they force on us.

The evidence of their collective crime has been uncovered by economists who have found that BOTH parties in congress have leveraged our future and that of our children and grandchildren by making promises they cannot fulfill, all done to BRIBE the people to get their votes so they can LIE more and STEAL more. Before you dismiss this claim, I invite everyone to listen to this short video which is an interview with Dr. Kotlikoff who is an economist at Boston Univ with years of experience in this area.

https://www.amagimetals.com/info/true-u-s-debt-surpasses-200-trillion/

His conclusions are inescapable as you will see, and over 1200 economists from across the country PLUS 17 Nobel Laureates in Economics not only agree with his conclusions, but all endorse a bill that will require the government to stop lying and tell the truth about the financial nightmare THEY INTENTIONALLY created. It is their hope that by exposing their lies, Americans may have some opportunity to plan for what is coming which is the inescapable financial collapse of America.

Remember, congress has done this to us INTENTIONALLY just so they can continue to LIE, STEAL, and live a lifestyle of opulence, luxury, and privilege as decadent as any monarch ever dreamed of living, ALL done with the knowledge that THEY created this mess and that WE will be held liable to pick up the bill, while THEY sail off into the sunset with all the wealth they have STOLEN.

I don't know about you but this infuriates me like no enemy of ours could ever do, for we expect our enemies to hate us and work for our destruction. But the realization that our own government has colluded for decades to enrich themselves at our expense, to such a degree that our entire country will collapse leaving us penniless and our children penniless makes me so outraged that I would be happy to see every one of them arrested for Treason, tried, then executed for intentionally plotting and colluding to destroy America which is TREASON, by law.

Some will say I am overreacting, to which I respond what would you call it if an enemy did the same thing to us? What if an enemy destroyed our economy leaving our country in a shambles with the real possibility of tens of millions dying from lack of food, water, basic services or even dying at the hands of looters and gangs who exploit the collapse of our country? I would call that an act of open war so what is the difference, except that it is our OWN GOVERNMENT who has been at war with us for decades??

You may disagree with my conclusions to which I say you have the right, but just remember when it happens that you were warned, and remember that the traitors in both parties at every level of government who caused our collapse are off in their retreat living off the fat of OUR land and labor, while we starve and die. When you watch your children starving, it will be too late to help them so you can explain to them why they are starving. Tell them you were too busy or too cowardly to do anything to even QUESTION the traitors in government who promised they were looking out for you.

I on the other hand, intend to be as ready as I can possibly be. Meanwhile, I will continue to fight to expose them and hopefully motivate more people to wake up to the FACT that our own government is plotting our destruction while they jet about on OUR money acting like monarchs. Maybe if enough people get angry, we may be able to restore our Constitutional Republic after the traitors have been arrested and imprisoned awaiting trial. If not, then God help you all. All except the traitors who have brought us to this condition.

Thursday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 8, 2015 at 11:14am

The Front Page Cover

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

Featuring:

Epic fail: The year in verse

Andrew Silow-Carroll

"Know who you are standing with"

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

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Another hire for Hilly - Politico: “The high-dollar super PAC that plans to support a Hilly Clinton presidential candidacy is bringing on a new finance director to aid it with the daunting task of raising hundreds of millions of dollars for 2016. Justin Brennan, who worked on President Barack nObama’s 2012 campaign and also raised money for Clinton in 2008, is expected to join Priorities USA as its finance director in the coming weeks, four people familiar with the hire said.” -Fox News

SCRABBLE RABBLE
Australian Broadcasting reports that the country’s Scrabble Players Association is set to reverse the suspension of Mohammed Hegazi, who was banned from playing the board game competitively for one year. The allegations included bullying, intimidation and cheating. A court overturned the ban and ordered the group to print a retraction on Hegazi’s behalf. However the cheating allegations remained and Hegazi was ordered to pay the association’s court costs of just over $3,000. Hegazi fought the deal, though ultimately agreed to the original terms, saying “I'm a bit disappointed because the definition is not legally clear.” -Fox News

AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES…
“Republicans are going to have a chance to show how retroactively for the last six years everything has stopped in the Senate - Democrats stopped it, dinky Harry Reid stopped it and they effectively acted as a shield to make [President nObama] look as if he wasn't the one stopping stuff. Well, now he’s going to be exposed because he’s going to have to exercise the veto.” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here. -Fox News

WRECKAGE IN WAKE OF BUNGLED HOUSE COUP
WashEx: “Republican leaders on Tuesday infuriated conservatives by meting out punishment to a group of far-right GOP lawmakers who tried to oust House Speaker backstabber John Boehner. Hours after 24 Republicans voted against backstabber Boehner, GOP leaders removed two members from a key committee. By late Tuesday, Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent, both of Florida, were stripped from the powerful House Rules Committee, which governs the legislative process, including amendments and changes to bills before they reach the House floor for debate. Webster was one of three candidates who announced they were running against backstabber Boehner…But GOP lawmakers told the Examiner that others could feel repercussions, including Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., who could lose his chairmanship of a Financial Services subcommittee.” -Fox News

Mulvaney blasts bunglers - Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., took to Facebook to vent his frustrations with the bungled coup: “…the Floor of the House is the wrong place to have this battle. The hard truth is that we had an election for Speaker in November – just among Republicans. THAT was the time to fight. But not a single person ran against backstabber Boehner. Not one. If they had, we could’ve had a secret ballot to find out what the true level of opposition to backstabber John Boehner was. In fact, we could’ve done that as late as Monday night, on a vote of ‘no confidence’ in the Speaker. But that didn’t happen…and at least one of the supposed challengers to backstabber Boehner today didn’t even go to the meeting last night. That told me a lot.” -Fox News

1.

34 Taliban shadow administrators reported killed or captured

(LWJ Staff) - Afghan and Coalition forces reportedly killed or captured at least 34 Taliban shadow administrators in 2014, according to local and international media reports...Among those killed were seven Taliban shadow governors, as well as numerous shadow district administrators -- including shadow police, intelligence, and military commanders. At least one other Taliban shadow governor surrendered to Afghan authorities, in Jawzjan province in late December 2014 along with approximately 200 of his subordinates. Overall, Taliban shadow administrators were reportedly killed in 17 out of Afghanistan's 34 provinces [see first graph below]. The highest number of incidents occurred in Badakhshan and Kunar provinces, with both provinces recording a total of five Taliban shadow administrators killed in each, including their respective shadow governors. In the case of Badakhshan, two Taliban shadow governors were killed within a five-month period. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/afghan_and_coalition_2.php

2.

High Noon on the Gulf Coast: Canada, Saudi oil set for showdown

(Catherine Ngai) - As a test of wills between OPEC nations and U.S. shale drillers fuels a global oil market slump, a brewing battle between Canadian and Saudi Arabia heavy crudes for America's Gulf Coast refinery market threatens to drive prices even lower...While the stand-off between the oil cartel and U.S. producers of light, sweet shale oil has captured the limelight in recent months, the clash over heavier grades - playing out in the shadowy, opaque physical market - may put even more pressure on global prices that have halved since mid-2014. Two factors will come into play over the next few weeks: From the North, new oil pipelines will pump record volumes of Canadian crude to the southern refineries, many better equipped to process heavy crudes than lighter shale oil. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/06/us-markets-oil-saudi-osp-analysis-idUSKBN0KF10X20150106?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews

3.

U.S. Spent $65 Mil on Afghan Women with No Result

(Judicial Watch) -In the latest of many scandals involving U.S. aid for Afghan social issues, tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars have been wasted on programs to supposedly assist women in the Islamic country escape repression yet we have no idea if it’s made a difference because there’s no accountability or follow up...During a two-year period from 2011 to 2013 the U.S. blew $64.8 million on 652 projects, programs and initiatives to support Afghan women though details of how the money was spent and the effectiveness of the costly experiments aren’t available, according to a federal audit. The cash flowed through three agencies—the departments of Defense and State and the famously corrupt U.S. Agency for international Development (USAID)—and it marked the latest of many allocations for the same cause. In fact, the audit, conducted by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), discloses that the agencies spent an “additional $850.5 million on 17 projects, but couldn’t identify the specific amount of funds within the projects that directly supported Afghan women.” http://libertynewsnow.com/u-s-spent-65-mil-afghan-women-no-result/article630?utm_source=Elist&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:35652032&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20-%2001/06/2015

4.

Crude Oil Prices: The Politics, Implications, and Backlash

(Bob Adelmann) - With the price of crude dropping significantly below $50 a barrel, prognosticators have come out of the woodwork predicting drops to $40, $30, $20 a barrel, and even lower before it rebounds...Jon Ogg, writing at 247Wall St.com, noted that the precipitous drop in crude oil prices “has serious implications for consumers and companies alike,” and not all of them are unblemished blessings. On the surface the winners are consumers, who are enjoying the equivalent of a $750 annual tax cut thanks to the drop in gas prices at the pump. The ripple effect bodes well, too, for airlines, over-the-road truckers, anyone using oil to haul freight or oil or natural gas to heat their homes, oil or natural-gas fired power plants, restaurants, retailers — just about every conceivable consumer product will be impacted favorably thanks to lower energy costs. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/19852-crude-oil-prices-the-politics-implications-and-backlash?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=9f507ea408-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-9f507ea408-289778381

5.

With Democrats Out, Audit of Federal Reserve Gains Momentum

(Alex Newman) - Despite frantic opposition by the privately owned Federal Reserve and Democrat leadership in Congress, newly empowered Republican lawmakers, now in the majority in the Senate as well, plan to hold a vote on “Audit the Fed” legislation to scrutinize the secrecy-obsessed central bank...Federal Reserve bosses are already lashing out and lobbying lawmakers “forcefully” to reject efforts at congressional oversight and transparency. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and a coalition of his colleagues, though, are determined to see the bill become law this year, and congressional leadership has pledged to allow a vote. Supporters of the audit point to the central bank’s wild schemes amid the economic crisis to create trillions of dollars out of thin air and bail out mega-banks, cronies, foreign corporations, and even banks owned by hostile foreign powers. Critics of the Federal Reserve’s cloak of secrecy also cite its blatant and well-documented manipulation of markets, its distortion of interest rates leading to widespread malinvestment, its outlandish expansion of the currency supply, the steady erosion of the value of the U.S. dollar, the enabling of exploding government deficits, and much more. http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/19853-with-democrats-out-audit-of-federal-reserve-gains-momentum?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=9f507ea408-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-9f507ea408-289778381

6.

State Depart wishes ‘RIP’ to living captives of jihad terrorists

(Robert Spencer) - This epitomizes how out of touch and frankly stupid the State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away program really is. State Department analysts continue to misdiagnose the problem of the global jihad and apply solutions that only make it worse...and since the mainstream media is just as clueless and compromised, these failed analysts are never called to account for their failed policies. The year began on a rough note for the U.S. State Department’s Think Again, Turn Away anti-terror program. On January 1, the State Department used the program’s official Twitter account to tweet a photo collage accompanied by the message, “Entering 2015, taking time to honor some of terror’s many victims of 2014 and their families – RIP.” However, none of the individuals appearing in the photos are believed to be dead, but rather held captive by terrorists. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/state-department-wishes-rip-to-living-captives-of-jihad-terrorists?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=03531d7be1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-03531d7be1-123451509

7.

nObama Cuba Initiative Fears of Gitmo Naval Base Giveaway

(Bill Gertz) - President nObama’s drive to normalize ties with communist Cuba is raising new concerns among security officials and experts that the administration will give up the strategic naval base at Guantanamo Bay in deal with Havana...White House, Pentagon, and State Department officials offered assurances that the nObama administration currently does not plan to negotiate the return of the base, leased by the United States since 1903. “I’ve not been involved in any talks on normalization in the past … but it will not be on our agenda for upcoming talks,” Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson told the Washington Free Beacon, referring to discussions with the Cubans on the future of what the Pentagon calls Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-cuba-initiative-prompts-new-fears-of-gitmo-naval-base-giveaway/

8.

Youth Misery Index: nObama is killing young America’s future

(Sam Rolley) - President Barack nObama was able to sail into the Oval Office twice thanks largely to his campaign efforts to woe young, idealistic voters into believing that “hope,” “change” and...of course, massive student loan forgiveness and basically free insurance were on the horizon. Now, young people are paying for having been fooled twice as Young America’s Foundation reports that its Youth Misery Index numbers for 2014 reached a record high. The YMI is calculated by compiling information on youth unemployment, average graduating student debt (in thousands), and national debt per capita (in thousands). For 2014, the foundation reports that the YMI hit 106.5, up from 98.6 in 2013. http://personalliberty.com/youth-misery-index-obama-killing-young-americas-future/

9.

Dump backstabber Boehner movement? Just getting started

(Joseph Farah) - In the end, backstabber John Boehner even needed help from Democrats to beat off a challenge by House Republicans to his speakership. Had it not been for some 27 members, mostly Democrats, not showing up for a floor vote, he might have been denied re-election...That’s fitting, since backstabber Boehner has been a facilitator of Democrat policies since he first got the job in 2011. When House Republicans alone under his leadership had opportunity after opportunity to deny Barack nObama the borrowed money he needed to implement his radical agenda, backstabber Boehner ensured, year after year, that nObama got what he needed. http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/dump-boehner-movement-just-getting-started/

10.

nObama's fake Social Security No. back with a vengeance

(Diana West) - From the “A” section of the New York Times, Page 15, in less than 100 words, the psychosis of denial as it is hard-wired into American journalism...Fat chance. For starters, there’s that unsolved mystery of why there is a piece of phony electronic artwork on the White House website purporting to be an image of a 1961 government document attesting to the details of Barack Obama’s birth. That this is evidence of what is likely the biggest case of identity fraud in history isn’t news to American media investigating more pressing matters (e.g., the presidential golf game). Nor, it seems, is other evidence of fraud or forgery from different investigations and numerous court proceedings. But it’s not just media (exception: WND.com) that turn their collective blind eye. Relevant federal, state and local authorities (exception: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio) have consistently ignored, derided or buried all such evidence rather than carry out their legal responsibilities. And guess who is paying for his legal fees, we are. We should demand the true facts. http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/obamas-identity-fraud-and-mickey-mouse-media/

Epic fail: The year in verse

Andrew Silow-Carroll

(jewishworldreview.com) Zei Gezunt, Two thousand fourteen! Let's recap the things we have seen, From media bias to unfair attacks To Donald Sterling's rants about blacks, Or a Nobel Prize for chemistry but not between Barack and Bibi).

Operation Protective Edge Managed to insert a wedge between the world and Israel, which was blamed for overkill — A double standard that resents
when Hebrews act in self-defense.

The war ignited acts of rage That often seemed to take a page from other times in history, like Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Three except this time the streets were lined with so-called friends of Palestine.

Perhaps the war would not have mattered had not the hope of peace been tattered by bottlenecks and a lack of trust that no one seemed prepared to bust. Not Bibi, Abbas, nor Hanoi Kerry were able to get both sides back to the table.

Iran's rush, once uncontrolled, to build a nuke was put on hold by sanctions that delivered pain from Ashkezar to Zehadan. But as an end to talks came near, Tehran replied, "Sometime next year."

U.S. Jews at least could say they kept a nemesis at bay. Our top leaders found a way to deny the Street called J (Despite their claims to probity)
Membership in the C of P.

Our focus on Hamas and ISIS was diverted by a crisis in conversion set off by a rabbi with a thing for spying on the women in his shul —talk about your dirty pool!

From soda water to chickpea spread, a movement reared its ugly head to boycott all things white and blue and isolate its people, too. We pushed back with a full-court press to divest mankind of BDS.

We also took time to recall those whose murders cast a pall, from the Kansas JCC to Israel's kidnapped boys, all three, and Steven Sotloff, a writer who died for telling what was true.

And that is all the news that fits before we have to call it quits. We know that it's not Rosh Hashana, but you'll forgive us if we wanna wish you a year that's sweet and serene and see you again in 2015!

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0115/silow_carrol_epic_fail.php3

OBVIOUS, COLD, CALCULATED....STINKS!!

Posted by Rev James Mack Wesley Jr on January 8, 2015 at 10:35am

OBVIOUS, COLD, CALCULATED....STINKS!!

The Picture here bottom right is "Mrs Louis Farrakhan with Michelle Obama"

Op-Ed By: Rev James M Wesley Jr, Thursday 8 January 2015 @ 12:13 PM

OBVIOUS, COLD, CALCULATED....STINKS!! OBAMA, ERIC HOLDER,RAHM EMMANUEL,VALERIE JERROD ARE RUNNING THE STANDARD SOCIALIST GAME PLAN...WHAT THEN? BLACK PEOPLE DON'T YOU REALIZE WE ARE EXPENDABLE...AND NOTHING MORE THAN "USEFUL IDIOTS" (VLADIMIR LENIN)...SEARCH YOUR SOUL LOOK TO THE LORD AND PRAY...BECAUSE IF YOU ALLOW THIS DEMONIC OBAMA MACHINE TO "USE YOU"..IT WILL BE BECAUSE YOU "CHOOSE" TO TRUST...THIS SICK ORCHESTRATED, OVER PLAYED TRAGEDY. RUN BY OBAMA AND HIS TEAM OF PUPPET MASTERS (HIS CONTROLLERS ARE SILENT PARTNERS) THINK ABOUT IT. HE HAS CONTROL OF THE PRIMARY MAINSTREAM MEDIA, AND HOW THEY REPORT THE EVENT.,THEN MONEY AND CAMERA HUNGRY USEFUL IDIOTS AND CREEPS LIKE SHARPTON AND JACKSON...ERIC HOLDER COVERS ALL THE FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BASES (EXCEPT THE MEXICAN BOARDER OF COURSE), VALERIE JARROD ADMIN;S SHOT CALLER ,MAKING SURE ALL DEMOCRATIC REPS NATIONWIDE ARE IN LINE,AND THE AGITATOR CORPS IS BEING COORDINATED FROM CHICAGO VIA "HIS HONOR THE MAYOR'S" GOOD OFFICES, BLACK PANTHERS, AND OTHERS BY THE BUS LOAD SHIPPED INTO THE AREA.....IN THE END ALL THE WHILE THE PRIMARY STORY THAT IS GOING TO SMASH THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS UNFOLDING AT THE BOARDER...
DOMESTIC JIHADIST TRAINING CAMPS/VILLAGES...You know I've been thinking...those within our movement that have "tactical combat skills" should be "reconnoitering"...the perimeters of these sites...evaluating their defenses,and capabilities,and for the courageous infiltrate and identify command structures...face it the FBI or HOMELAND SECURITY won't...when the s---t hits the fan these should be the first priority..."sourced earth"...These camps are producing a large Islamic insurgency force that is linked up with the cells that have infiltrated across our unprotected southern boarder. The problem of the "ISLAMIC JIHAD" RUNNING TRAINING CAMPS ON U.S. SOIL IS CRAZY,BUT IN OUR FACE HERE AND NOW.

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JIHAD WATCH

Posted by William M. Finley on January 8, 2015 at 9:13am

JIHAD WATCH

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

NEW JIHAD ATTACK IN PARIS

Posted by William M. Finley on January 8, 2015 at 9:11am

JIHAD WATCH

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

New jihad attack in Paris: Muslim shoots policewoman in the back

JANUARY 8, 2015 8:48 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER11 COMMENTS

One wonders if there is any number of attacks like these that would break through the fog of willful ignorance surrounding the nature and magnitude of this threat, and move authorities in France and elsewhere to respond realistically and speak honestly about what we are facing.

Probably not.

“New terror in Paris as female police officer is shot dead and street cleaner blasted in the face as he grappled with ‘North African wielding assault rifle and wearing bullet-proof vest,'” by Peter Allen,Daily Mail, January 8, 2015 (thanks to Thomas Pellow):

A policewoman was shot in the back and killed and a hero street cleaner was shot in the face as he tried to grapple with the gunman in a second horrific attack on the streets of Paris within 24 hours.
The officer, who has not been named, died this morning after being attacked just before dawn in Montrouge, a suburb in the south of the French capital.
A street cleaner who stepped in to try and disarm the gunmen is also said to be in a serious condition, after he was shot in the face.
The shooting came less than 24 hours after the massacre at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 dead – including two police officers.
It is not known if the two attacks are linked.
France’s top security official Bernard Cazenueve said the officer hurt in this morning’s attack – reported to be a trainee – had stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started.
The gunman is believed to have been driving one of the cars.
‘There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,’ said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby.
He said the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask.
‘It didn’t look like a big gun because he held it with one hand,’ Sassi said…

France: Worst Terror Attack in Recent History (+video)

Posted by William M. Finley on January 8, 2015 at 9:04am

France: Worst Terror Attack in Recent History (+video)

07 Jan 2015

Islam, Terrorism

by News Editor

By BBC.com. Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack.

Four of the magazine’s well-known cartoonists, including its editor, were among those killed, as well as two police officers.

A major police operation is under way to find three gunmen who fled by car.

President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack “of exceptional barbarity”. . .

Cartoon from Hebdo's Satirical French Magazine

Cartoon from Hebdo Satirical French Magazine

The masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. They later abandoned the car in Rue de Meaux, northern Paris, where they hijacked a second car. (Read more about “Worst Terror Attack” HERE)
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Vast Crowds Gather Across Europe to Protest French Massacre

Crowds By Stephanie Linning and Sian Boyle. As darkness fell across Europe, tens of thousands took to the streets to show their solidarity with those killed by gunmen at the offices of satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

The scenes were replicated across France, in London and around the world with crowds holding placards bearing the slogan #JeSuisCharlie, which means ‘I am Charlie’ in French. Others were seen carrying enlarged versions of the some of the newspaper’s anti-Islamist cartoons.

Meanwhile the website of French newspaper Le Monde last night showed an interactive map of vigils being held across the world in Dublin, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, and as far afield as Tunis, Lima, Rio de Janeiro and Madagascar.

In London, hundreds of people filled Trafalgar Square at a silent vigil for those killed when masked gunmen stormed the newspaper’s headquarters. Many held pens, pencils and notebooks in the air to show their support for the journalists, cartoonists and police officers who lost their lives.

The gatherings were held as French President Francoise Hollande declared tomorrow a day of national mourning tomorrow in respect for the victims of this morning’s attack. (Read more from this story HERE)

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The Real Story on the Paris Massacre

By Steven Crowder. I’m sure that many of you have already read about this morning’s terrorist attack in Paris, killing twelve people. My thoughts and prayers are with the families and the people of France today.

It was carried out by Muslim terrorists against a satirical newspaper. That’s important to know. This wasn’t a senseless act of violence, but a pre-meditated one in the name of Allah. Yet again, this was an attack designed as a form of censorship through violence, carried out to scare all non-Muslims into silence.

No other religion does this.

It also disproves a common myth. As Americans, we’re often blamed for attacks on our own soil.

If American’s didn’t try to police the world, they wouldn’t hate us!

If we just tried to be more tolerant, Muslims wouldn’t have a reason to be mad at the U.S.!

Right. Well, what about France? The EU in general has been a beacon for multi-cultural tolerance across the globe. Sharia law has even slowly crept into many of their legal systems. I mean, how else can you slap your broad around? Granted, while France hasn’t exactly been as open-armed as England, they can hardly be seen as Team America: World Police. They’re certainly not the evil red, white and blue rednecks invading foreign countries, blowing up every brown person in sight. Because you know, that’s our thing.

Yet still, today in France, they die.

To humanity, there’s no possible justification for this. To Islamists, it already is.

The ideology of Islam is the enemy of humanity. Once you wade through the media circus today, that’s what it comes down to. France is not America. France is a tolerant, multicultural nation with an increasing demographic tilt toward Islam. Yet still, they are hated.

Evading the real issue at hand in the name of political correctness does a great disservice to not only those deceased, but to humanity.

Anytime we see a terrorist attack carried out in the name of Allah and we immediately ask their true motives… Muhammad did it first.

To read more, please visit Steven Crowder’s website HERE.

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NOTE: When writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus--the actual original names and the true nature and character of them.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Islam in France coming to America?

A law passed in 1872 prohibits the French Republic from taking a census of its citizens' race or beliefs. In 1922, the French government allowed the building of the Great Mosque of Paris. In the 1960s, France allowed the immigration of Muslim males for work-related purposes. In 1976, France passed a law allowing Muslim "immigrants" to settle in the country and bring their families from abroad. In 2002, the French Council of the Muslim Faith was established by the government, allowing extreme Islamists to anchor their power. By 2005, Islamists were rioting in the streets. The Islamic population in France is the largest in Europe, estimated by the CIA at 4.7 to 7.7 million, up to 10% of the population.

It should be no surprise that the new year starts with a terrorist act in France from the "religion of peace." This is what happens when Islam is accommodated and is allowed to grow in a Western nation. As in accordance with the Muslim Brotherhood plan for North America, France is finding first hand that Islam will destroy "your miserable house" from within. The Islamic model in France is the same colonization and settlement model that is currently being carried out in the United States. The lack of security on the borders and the support of Islam in the halls of government by the sympathetic Islamic Marxist in the White House has accelerated the Muslim Brotherhood plan in North America.

The cause and effect is not so subtle. America's leadership has quietly resettled Islamists through "political asylum" and "refugee" programs. Dearborn (Mi), Minneapolis (Mn), Houston (Tx), and many other cities are examples. Minneapolis Islamists were enough in majority to elect their very own congressman, Keith Ellison, a Sunni Muslim and disciple of Louis Farrakhan of the radical Nation of Islam. Over a decade of wars with Islamists produced hundreds of thousands of Islamic immigrants. The State Department has announced plans to resettle hundreds of thousands more in 2015. At the same time, the Islamic population in America is being recruited to fight against America by joining the Islamic State.

In practicality, the leadership in America has bowed far too often to Islam, saying that Islam is a religion of peace and that allah and YHVH are the same. This is spiritual adultery. The first commandment is: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. America, settled as predominantly a Christian nation has become a nation of many religions and beliefs. The consequences of such, especially when leaders are elected who allow the enemies of God and country to colonize, are similar to Jeremiah 51:14, "Surely, I will fill you with men, as with locusts: and they shall lift up a battle cry against you." Verse 51 says, "We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house." Indeed, France, too, was once devoutly Christian.

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Retaliation, Boehner-Style: Tea Party Rebels Stripped of Leadership, Benefits

Posted by William M. Finley on January 8, 2015 at 8:53am

AS LONG AS WE HAVE THIS KIND OF CROW FLOP GOING ON CONGRESS IS USELESS AND THE REPUBLICANS WILL NOT KEEP THEIR WORD AND
REPRESENT THE PEOPLE THEY WERE ELECTED TO REPRESENT! BOTH PARTIES HAVE FAILED IN THEIR DUTIES!
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Retaliation, Boehner-Style: Tea Party Rebels Stripped of Leadership, Benefits

08 Jan 2015

John Boehner

by News Editor

By Alex Pappas. Speaker of the House John Boehner is apparently punishing Republicans who voted against his re-election Tuesday, despite previously saying he would not do so.

Reps. Daniel Webster and Richard Nugent are both losing their seats on the House Rules Committee, Politico reported Tuesday evening. Both Florida Republicans voted for Webster instead of Boehner earlier in the day.

Such moves seem to contradict recent statements made by Boehner and his office.

We asked last week if any Republicans who voted against Boehner would be punished, spokesman Michael Steel told The Daily Caller by email: “Boehner has said publicly that there will be no retribution for ‘no’ votes.” (Read more about how Boehner is punishing the tea party rebels HERE)

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Strange Twist: Boehner’s Re-Election Assured by Mario Cuomo’s Death

By Dana Milbank. John Boehner won reelection as speaker of the House on Tuesday with the help of an unlikely ally: Mario Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of New York.

Astute readers may have noticed that Cuomo is currently deceased. He died on New Year’s Day and was buried Tuesday — and thus, quite inadvertently, did he help to stack the deck for the Ohio Republican to keep the speaker’s gavel in the 114th Congress.

Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation’s capital. He joined the Post as a political reporter in 2000. View Archive

Twenty-five conservatives — more than 10 percent of the Republican caucus — rebelled against their leader on the first day of the new Congress. It was the largest revolt against a House speaker in more than a century, and the rebels were within striking distance of the 29 votes they would have needed to deny Boehner the speakership — if all sitting members of the House voted.

But more than two dozen were missing when Congress convened at noon, a few because of snow-related travel delays but most of them Democratic members of the New York delegation who were attending Cuomo’s funeral. Because the speaker is elected based on the majority of those voting, this reduced the number of votes Boehner needed from about 218 to 205 — and the conservative rebellion fizzled before it ever had a chance. (Read more from this story HERE)

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We must seek a statesman like Ron Paul for president

Posted by Juan Reynoso on January 8, 2015 at 8:32am

By: Juan Reynoso, activist - voteforamerica@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."

The question is, who is worst the criminals that commit the crimes against humanity or the ones that know what is taken place in our country and do nothing to stop it and remain silent.

Ron Paul, the only honest candidate that was destroyed by the US News Media because he do not sale out. The NEOCON hates Ron Paul because he stands for Freedom, Honesty, and Sound Money. We are broken and pull apart by deception and betrayal; 2016 is the year of unity and the time to get our country on the right path, restore our freedom and take back our jobs and our rights to work for decent wages and our prosperity.

http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-and-a-timeline-of-cia-crimes-and-atrocities/

The “neocons” believe that American greatness is measured by our willingness to be a great power, through an unlimited global military intervention in other nations; their objective is to control and dominate regional resources to consolidate control, sufficient to generate global control and power. As American neocons continue to shape the narratives that define the permissible boundaries for U.S. foreign policy thinking, the failure to enforce any meaningful accountability on them for their role in the criminal and disastrous invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan has become painfully clear. We have become the world’s bully, the predators of many nations’ natural resources. Our integrity and honor was destroyed by the ill foreign policy of the GOP NEOCON. In any vibrant democratic system, it would be unthinkable that the neocons and the war hawks who pushed the United States into Iraq and Afghanistan a little more than twelve years ago would still be exercising control over how Americans perceive today’s events. Yet, many of the exact same pundits and pols who misled the American people then are still misleading them today, they picture themselves as the champions of Democracy, freedom and pro free enterprise system, but in reality they are the promoters of predator corporatism, free trade and globalization, they want the control of the world’s natural resources, commerce and the en slavery of the working class. The question is who is worst, the criminals that commit the crimes against humanity or the ones that know what is taken place in our country and do nothing and remain silent. America, wake up and stand united to take our country back in 2016. Let’s work for Freedom, Honesty, and Sound Money.

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Obama Refuses to Call Paris Attack ‘Islamic’

Posted by William M. Finley on January 8, 2015 at 8:30am

IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING OBAMA WOULD KNOW THAT HE AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THAT IS A TERRORIST GROUP ARE RUMP BUDDIES!
HE HAS APPOINTED THEM TO HIS ADMINISTRATION AND HIS ALWAYS SUPPORT MUSLIMS OVER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND SUPPORTS THE ISLAMIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY! OBAMA IS A LAWLESS PRESIDENT AND A TRADER TO THE OATH HE TOOK AND THE TO AMERICAN PEOPLE ALONG WITH THE DEMOCRATIC AND THE REPUBLICANS WHO AS OUR REPRESENTATIVES HAVE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN AND HAVE NOT DONE ANY THING TO STOP IT THEY REFUSE TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW!
PRINCIPLES FOR A FREE SOCIETY

Obama Refuses to Call Paris Attack ‘Islamic’ and Rush Limbaugh Brings Up President’s Birth Certificate

08 Jan 2015

Obama, Terrorist Attack

by News Editor

Obama-Islam By Jerome R. Corsi. In response to the attack on the Paris magazine that published editorial cartoons mocking Islam, President Obama reluctantly classified it as an act of terrorism while refusing to associate it with Islam.

“I strongly condemn the horrific shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that has reportedly killed 12 people,” Obama said in a carefully worded statement released by the White House press office.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attack and the people of France at this difficult time. France is America’s oldest ally and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorists who threaten our shared security and the world.”

Speaking in both French and English, Secretary of State John Kerry expressed U.S. solidarity with France against the “extremism” reflected in the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. He also took care to characterize the attack as terrorism without specifically characterizing it as “Islamic terrorism.” (Read more from “Obama Refuses to Call Paris Attack ‘Islamic'” HERE)

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Rush Limbaugh Brings Up Obama’s Birth Certificate

By Joe Kovacs. Historians are still buzzing about the 1795 Boston time capsule that was buried by American patriots Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

Among them is radio host and U.S. history author Rush Limbaugh, who said on Wednesday’s broadcast:

Because of our children’s book series, ‘Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims,’ the fact that a time capsule that was planted, if you will, by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams was opened yesterday in Boston … is uncanny news to us!
Paul Revere and Samuel Adams left a time capsule. It was found, and it was opened yesterday. It did not contain Obama’s birth certificate. Many people were thinking that it might. But it didn’t.

(Read more from this story HERE)

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Thursday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 8, 2015 at 4:22am

The Front Page Cover

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

Featuring:

The Progressive

Racial Narrative and Its Beneficiaries

Bruce Thornton

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

JEB LAUNCHES LEADERSHIP PAC
In his most direct step yet towards a 2016 White House bid, Jeb Bush will be filling paperwork today to officially launch his leadership political action committee, which will be called the Right to Rise PAC. In a statement to Fox News, a source close to the former Florida governor said, “We will celebrate success and risk taking, protect liberty, cherish free enterprise, strengthen our national defense, embrace the energy revolution, fix our broken and obsolete immigration system, and give all children a better future by transforming our education system through choice, high standards and accountability.” The Right to Rise PAC would also help pay the expenses of a burgeoning staff, polling, and finance Bush trips across the country as a possible 2016 contender. The formation of this leadership PAC as well as a separate super PAC by Bush supporters – could be used to flush other GOP potential aspirants out of the 2016 field, by essentially, flexing the formidable financial strength of Jeb’s donor network. Bush is holding a private fundraiser Wednesday, in Greenwich, Conn., and more fundraising events are planned in Florida and Washington, D.C. in the next few weeks, as are meetings with major donors. - More from Fox News here. -Fox News

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And none too soon - Reflecting the reality of 2016 frontrunner status, Jeb is already facing ramped-up scrutiny of his views on same-sex marriage. Reacting to a judge’s ruling allowing gay couples to wed in parts of the former Florida governor’s home state, he told the Miami Herald Sunday “It ought be a local decision. I mean, a state decision,” The state decided. The people of the state decided. But it’s been overturned by the courts, I guess.” NYT, citing his long time opposition to same-sex marriages, said Bush “…struck a conciliatory note on Monday, telling The New York Times that ‘regardless of our disagreements, we have to respect the rule of law.’…Gay rights leaders said they found Mr. Bush’s statement on Monday encouraging. Fred Sainz, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a group that has pushed for same-sex marriage, said that ‘most Republican politicians have been adamant in their opposition and provide no room for evolution.’ Mr. Bush ‘at least is expressing his respect for those who support marriage equality,’ Mr. Sainz said. ‘That’s a big change for Republicans.’” -Fox News

On same-sex marriage, a consistent view but changing language Buzzfeed reaches back two decades with a deep dive on Jeb Bush’s views on same-sex marriage. “Two decades ago, Jeb Bush wrote there should be no special rights for LGBT people. ‘This opinion editorial from 20 years ago does not reflect Gov. Bush’s views now, nor would he use this terminology today,’ a spokeswoman said. Jeb Bush has said gay couples shouldn’t be ‘discriminated against.’ He has argued that same-sex parents who ‘love their children with all their heart and soul’ are ‘examples to others.’ … The former Florida governor hasn’t changed his position on same-sex marriage. He opposes it, and has since he first ran for office more than 20 years ago.
But Bush’s recent, somewhat sympathetic language about LGBT rights provides a marked contrast to his early comments on the issue – more in rhetoric than policy.”] -Fox News

COWBOYS OWNER PAID FOR CHRISTIE’S PRIVATE JET FLIGHT
The New Jersey Star Ledger reports that Gov. Chris Christie’s private jet trips to watch Dallas Cowboys games were paid for by team owner, Jerry Jones. The governor’s spokesman Kevin Roberts, said, “Governor Christie attended the game last night as a guest of Jerry Jones, who provided both the ticket and transportation at no expense to New Jersey taxpayers.” Despite the criticism for his junkets and love for one of the most hated teams in his home state, Christie said he might do it again and fly to Wisconsin for Sunday’s Cowboys-Packers showdown.

-Fox News

WARREN NOT BACKING OFF HILLY WALL STREET KNOCK
WBZ: “…[We] asked [Sen. Elizabeth Warren] if her indictment [of corporate influence over Congress] included former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, a major beneficiary of Citigroup political donations over the years. ‘I’m just calling out the problem we have right now in Washington, and Citigroup is an example of these big corporations who have undue influence right there in Washington,’ said Warren. Asked if the public should be wary of Citigroup ties to Clinton and current Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who was chief operating officer of Citigroup in the years prior to the 2008 financial meltdown, Warren said: ‘The public should absolutely be wary of the influence of Citigroup and other large financial corporations and the power they wield in Washington.’” -Fox News

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Air Force Drone Program On The Verge Of Collapse

(Jonah Bennett) - An internal memo from senior officials reveals that the Air Force’s drone program is on the verge of collapse due to limited personnel just when the military is stepping up efforts against ISIS, The Daily Beast reports...The memo from Gen. Herbert Carlisle, commander of the Air Combat Command (ACC), reflects a longstanding dispute between the Air Force and the Pentagon. At a time when more drone flights than ever are needed to combat ISIS, the Air Force is struggling to keep up with demand. What’s missing is not equipment: There are more than enough MQ-1 and MQ-9 Reaper drones in stock; but the Air Force is running dangerously low on trained personnel. “It’s at the breaking point, and has been for a long time,” a senior service official told The Daily Beast. “What’s different now is that the band-aid fixes are no longer working.” http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/05/air-force-drone-program-on-the-verge-of-collapse/?advD=1248%2C48782&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D#mnetint

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Fighting Red Maps in Purple States

( Tarini Parti) - Based on the big elections in Virginia in recent years, the Old Dominion is turning reliably blue: victories by Barack nObama in 2008 and 2012, two Senate wins by Democrats in two years, and Terry McAuliffe’s triumph in between...So how is it that Republicans have a stranglehold on the state’s congressional delegation, holding eight seats to Democrats’ three? That question is at the heart of a legal battle over whether Republicans have improperly leveraged their power over the redistricting process. The outcome could have far-reaching implications because the contours of congressional districts drawn by Republican-controlled legislatures are seen as a driving reason why Democrats may be locked in the House minority until at least after the next census in 2020. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/fighting-red-maps-in-purple-states-113932.html?hp=l1_3
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2015: The Year of Diplomatic Disaster in Iran?

(Bruce Thornton) - Prognosticators from the London Times to Democratic pundit James Carville are predicting that President nObama this year will finish a deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program...With a record of foreign policy failure, nObama is eager for a seeming success, even if the agreement leaves the mullahs with the capacity to quickly build some nuclear bombs at a time of their choosing. Such an outcome would obviously be a strategic disaster, leaving this country and its regional allies vulnerable to an inveterate enemy driven by an apocalyptic ideology. nObama and his foreign policy team will bear the brunt of responsibility for this failure, as they should. In addition to displaying sheer incompetence and ignorance in his foreign policy, the president has serially sacrificed our security and interests to political needs. Time and again he has made decisions based on partisan calculations that tried to reconcile the ideological dogma of his left-wing base with the demands that something should be done about global threats. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/bruce-thornton/2015-the-year-of-diplomatic-disaster-in-iran/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=c927e03a0b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-c927e03a0b-156509103

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Hanoi John Kerry Lied: The UN Wants to Take our Guns!

(Tim Brown) - Ever since September 2013, the day Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry signed the United Nations Small Arms Treaty, I have been bothered by the complete disingenuous concern he presented and outright lies he told to those gathered to witness the signing, and the American people...Here's the video of the signing and his remarks. The first thing I thought of was that this is a former senator who is signing a three inch document, which I'm sure he has never read. This is the disingenuous part of what he is doing. Second, in discussing what the treaty is not, he declares "This treaty will not diminish anyone's freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individuals and states to obtain, possess, and use arms for legitimate purposes. Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans … to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our constitution." http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/kerry-lied-national-gun-registration-will-part-un-small-arms-treaty/

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2015: The Year nObamacare Died?

(leanrightamerica.org) - When Congress convenes on January 6th, it will have a much different makeup than it did in December. Thanks to a Republican blowout in November, the GOP has control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives...And while there is plenty of concern about where loyalties lie when it comes to Republican leadership, even establishment representatives are interested in making some headway against nObamacare. Much of the problem as it pertains to GOP opposition to the Affordable Care Act lies in the lack of an alternative. Going back to the old system is a non-starter. As much as American voters hate nObamacare, there are few convincing arguments to abolish it without replacing it with something new. Too many people would lose their health insurance, making it the kind of political third rail that no one’s going to touch. However, there are signs that Republicans are finally ready to coalesce around a conservative healthcare plan. http://www.leanrightamerica.org/uncategorized/2015-the-year-obamacare-died/

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Hilly Out? Democrats Should Beware The National Enquirer

(Roger L Simon) - Say all you want about The National Enquirer, but Democrats of all people should know the scandal rag is one of the few places that does any honest investigative journalism anymore — or even can afford to...Don’t believe me? How do you spell John Edwards? The folks at the New York Times are still trying to get that one right. Now the Enquirer has another hot story: “Bill Clinton Underage Sex Lawsuit Shocker!” It begins in the mag’s inimitable prose: Bill Clinton has been identified in a sex lawsuit involving underage girls – and the sleazy scandal threatens to blow up his wife Hilly’s bid to be president! http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/01/05/democrats-should-beware-national-enquirer/

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Hamas leader Mashaal said deported from Qatar

(Elhanan Miller) - According to a report in left-wing Turkish newspaper Aydınlık, Qatar has faced significant pressure from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to deport Mashaal...amid a diplomatic reconciliation process currently underway between the small Gulf state and the Arab world. According to CNN, citing a Hamas-run news agency, Mashaal and other Muslim Brotherhood members were most likely to head to Turkey. http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-leader-mashaal-said-deported-from-qatar/

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nObama Rolls Dice With American Lives Over GITMO Releases

(J. D. Gordon) - Yes, just like craps, such is the randomness of President Barack nObama’s gamble on releasing so many radical Islamic terror suspects from Guantanamo and hoping they don’t kill Americans and our allies...Yet sadly it’s no game, countless lives are at stake. Of the 779 detainees ever held at Gitmo, almost 650 detainees have been released. U.S. intelligence authorities report that nearly 1 in 3 are confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorism. Ex-Gitmo prisoners have become leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Ansar Al-Sharia in Libya. One became a suicide bomber in Iraq. They’ve killed Americans or our allies in each place, most notably in Benghazi. http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/05/obama-rolls-dice-with-american-lives-over-gitmo-releases/?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D

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Erdogan Grooms a New Jihad Generation

(Abigail R. Esman) - First, he promised to build a new, "religious generation." Now, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be going one step further...creating, too, a new generation for jihad...If that sounds a bit like the Islamic State, there is one significant distinction: IS leaders shape their youth by teaching them to use Kalashnikovs and knives. Erdogan is shaping children's minds. And that can be far more dangerous. This is not to say that Erdogan is himself a terrorist leader, despite his cozy relationships with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. And perhaps has has never realized the full gravity of his programs. But is there, leaving many in Turkey's Western, secular, intellectual elite to worry about their children's future. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4717/guest-column-erdogan-grooms-a-new-jihad-generation#

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America Is Abandoning the Northeast — and Heading to Texas

(Zach Noble) - Where did Americans move in 2014 — and what states did they leave behind?...A trio of moving companies has released their reports on U.S. moving patterns, and the results show a continuing exodus that’s leaving the Northeast barren and filling up states in the South and West. On Allied Van Lines’ report, Texas had a net gain of nearly 2,000 families, taking the top spot for incoming movers — for the 10th year in a row. The least attractive states: Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/06/america-is-abandoning-the-northeast-and-heading-to-texas/

The Progressive

Racial Narrative and Its Beneficiaries

Bruce Thornton

(frontpagemag.com) - A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reveals that nearly 6 in 10 people believe race relations are bad, with 23% saying they are “very bad.” The causes of these perceptions are many, including nationally publicized police killings of two black men, disorderly and violent demonstrators ignoring the facts of the cases to brand the police “racist,” a lazy media neglecting to dig up and then publicize those facts, and a president, Attorney General, and mayor of New York willing to exploit and widen racial division and consort with hustlers like Al Sharpton.

What we see at work in these events is the long established racial narrative in which endemic white racism accounts for all the ills that afflict black people. Not just individual whites harbor this original sin, but our educational, political, social, justice, and economic institutions are racist as well, favoring white people and hence conferring on them “white skin privilege.” The wide scope of racism means that no matter how well meaning towards blacks, or how socially and economically disadvantaged, individual whites cannot purge themselves of racism. Only radical transformation of all our institutions can redeem America from racism.

This fairytale regularly ignores numerous facts. The decline in black poverty, for example, calls into question the notion that there is “institutional racism” warping the economy. Thanks to postwar economic growth, the black poverty rate decreased from 87% in 1940 to 28% today. Similar improvement can be seen in the growth of the black middle class and increases in black home ownership. And the claim that blacks are shut out of the job market is hard to square with the fact that millions of illegal aliens are working in this country, and immigrant entrepreneurs are creating small businesses.

Similarly, the idea that the police are an “occupying army” targeting blacks, a cliché we heard repeatedly during the recent demonstrations over the police shootings in Ferguson and Brooklyn, is exploded by simple statistics that show about 200 blacks a year––most shot while possessing a gun or knife––are killed by police officers, while almost 6,000 a year are killed by other blacks. It’s a strange “army” that endangers itself in order to protect and save the lives of those it’s allegedly “occupying.”

Then there’s the “voter suppression” charge, the assertion that attempts by states to ensure only legal voters cast ballots really are designed to discourage black voters. The increasing numbers of black people registering and turning out to vote belie this claim, as does the much greater number of blacks holding elected office. Indeed, in 2012 the proportion of black voters turning out in the national election was greater than that of white.

The fact is, by global standards the largest number of politically free and well off blacks is in the United States. As for those blacks still mired in dysfunctional communities filled with crime, violence, unemployment, drugs, and fatherless children, those evils do not reflect white racism or a “legacy of slavery.” Rather, they can be traced to what Michael Gerson called the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” the culture of dependence and the erosion of self-reliance and self-responsibility created by government handouts and the liberal narrative of endemic white racism that demeans blacks as helpless victims incapable of improving their lives or being accountable for their actions, since through no fault of their own they are imprisoned by “institutional racism.” And don’t forget progressive government policies that inhibit economic growth, historically the great engine for improving black lives, and the culture-wide degradation of sexual mores and the collapse of traditional marriage.

So cui bono, as the lawyers say, who benefits from this narrative? The federal and state entitlement industry, of course, whose agencies and bureaucrats profit from having a permanent underclass of clients. So too the Democratic Party, which buys black votes with promises to keep the transfers and set-asides flowing. So too the racial grievance industry, that gang of activists, academics, ethnic studies professors, “diversity” consultants, and shakedown artists like Al Sharpton who use black misery as leverage for more power and pelf. So too the leftover leftists, who find in racial discord a weapon for attacking the country that kicked their cherished collectivist ideology into the dustbin of history.

Most black Americans aren’t invested in this narrative. They’re too busy working and raising their families. But let’s not forget the role this narrative plays in camouflaging the privilege of those millions of blacks who live better and have more social clout than millions of white people. By ignoring their economic advantages and brandishing their scars from alleged racist wounds, many in the black upper-middle and upper class, particularly those in education, sports, entertainment, and government, can gain vicarious victim-privilege and hence social leverage. Thus through a spurious claim to racial brotherhood, they plunder and spend the capital of black suffering many of them have never experienced. They then can enjoy a social cachet and a whiff of exotic authenticity that sets them apart from their bland white counterparts, and that gives them an air of gnostic racial wisdom embodied in the can't phrase, “It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand.”

The phoniness of this ploy can be seen in the various claims well off blacks make about their personal experiences of racism. In the 90s it was the epidemic of racist cabdrivers refusing to pick up black passengers. That one faded when research showed that many of the cabdrivers were themselves black, and were prudently avoiding the murder and mayhem they often experienced at the hands of black passengers. Then there was the “driving while black” trope, which focused on the disproportionate number of blacks pulled over for traffic violations like speeding. Department of Justice investigations ended up with sanctions imposed on states for “racial profiling.” But the study done of drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike, a much-publicized case of “profiling,” revealed that while blacks were 25% of all speeders, they were 23% of those pulled over. That is, they were underrepresented, not overrepresented, among those stopped.

More recently we have heard affluent, privileged blacks like Eric Holder, and the white father of a half-black son, New York mayor Bill De Blasio, indulge another hackneyed trope, the “talk.” This is the conversation black fathers must have with their sons in order to “train them to be very careful when they have . . . an encounter with a police officer,” as De Blasio said, lest they give a policeman a pretext for the violence incited by their racism. The irony of this claim is that if reflects just how privileged these children are, for people who grow up in the dangerous neighborhoods the police must frequent drink that wisdom in with their mother’s milk. Worse yet, it assumes that a white kid who resists arrest, fights a cop, curses him, or otherwise challenges his authority will be treated with kid gloves. I’ll have to see some hard data before I believe that. The reality is, the biggest danger to a young black man today is not a policeman, but another young black man.

No doubt some blacks have experienced rude cops or cabdrivers, or have been subjected to the other evidence of racism like those nObama claims to have experienced, such as women clutching their purses more closely in an elevator, or locking their car doors at the approach of a black man. But even if true, these slights don’t amount to “systemic racism.” They more likely reflect prejudices, many acquired through unpleasant experiences. If you want to see what real racism looks like, visit this site and peruse its collection of lynching postcards. You’ll see just how much progress has been made over the last half-century.

But facts or even common sense don’t matter when it comes to a narrative with so many beneficiaries, the biggest one being Barack nObama, who never would have become president without it. The saddest part of all this, however, is that the black people truly suffering today aren’t on that list. In the racial narrative, black lives don’t matter.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/bruce-thornton/the-progressive-racial-narrative-and-its-beneficiaries/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=202d7c5ecb-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-202d7c5ecb-156509103

Nous Sommes Tous Charlie - We Are All Charlie

Posted by Craig Andresen on January 8, 2015 at 2:29am

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

Yesterday, in Paris, an act of such barbarism as to stun even the most hardened cynic took place when gunmen, Islamic terrorists wearing ski masks, stormed in to the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine known for its lampooning of Islam and assassinated at least 12 people including two police officers and ten staff members.

The damn cowards didn’t even have the courage to show their faces.

Among the dead were cartoonists who had, over the years, lent their talents to the magazine’s pages and covers to use absurdity to combat barbarianism.

Cartoons.

That’s what all of this was over.

Cartoons.

Islam, an ideology so peaceful that it can’t stomach a few cartoons or a parody of its warped and barbaric agenda.

Islam’s ideology can issue fatwas, enact Jihad and demand the genocide of any and all who don’t accept their 7th century, pedophile leaders commands but…

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We Need A New Party

Posted by Gordon Avery on January 7, 2015 at 10:05pm

It is axiomatic that the democrats are a far, far left hopeless cause.

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The Republican party, in spite of Speaker John Boehner’s past record, shrugged it off and voted him in again for a third term as Speaker.

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The republicans will not enforce closing our borders, will not enforce the gathering and deportation of all the illegals, somewhere along the way they forgot what the word illegal means. They will not make positive moves ensuring the Keystone Pipeline from Canada. They will not hold BHO accountable for sidestepping Congress and doing anything he pleases by executive order whenever he feels like it. That makes the Republican Party as useless as the democrats.

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This country needs a new party, one that honors our Constitution and means what it says and says what it means, one that will undo all the wrongs of Obama, et al and set this country back on track, renew our footing with our allies, rebuild our armed forces so we are once again second to no one ,and bring pride back to this country and sh** can Obamacare.

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Will the Tea Party be that light of truth, that stronghold to right the wrongs? The Republican Party is made up of self serving cowards, we need a new strong and viable party to take charge in this country, let it be the Tea Party.

"Republicans Screw Americans Who Voted For Them, Again."

Posted by Rev. Paul P Waldmiller on January 7, 2015 at 6:13pm

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"Republicans Screw Americans Who Voted For Them, Again."

Posted by Rev. Paul P Waldmiller on January 7, 2015 at 6:13pm

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Wednesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 7, 2015 at 12:58pm

The Front Page Cover

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

Featuring:

We're The Needy Ones Now

Tom McLaughlin

"Know who you are standing with"

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

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GOP Sets Agenda, but Infighting Threatens Delay

Today, the newly elected 114th Congress convenes, and with it, lots of hype, ambitions, agendas and political drama. Congress will be tasked with passing legislation the president will no doubt oppose, and Republicans will have to keep the infighting to a minimum if they ever hope to stop this administration's assault on Liberty. The GOP appears to be ready to go to work, having put forth an agenda that seeks to accomplish what the 113th Congress -- derailed by then-Senate Majority Leader dinky Harry Reid -- could not. The first order of business for the House is to pass legislation expediting the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Senate is expected to follow suit, with the GOP leadership making it clear that creating jobs and increasing energy production in the United States is a must. Next on the agenda is nObamaCare. In the GOP weekly address, Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) said that the House plans to rework nObamaCare's definition of a full-time employee. The law sets the bar at 30 hours per week, but Republicans seek a return to the traditional understanding of a 40-hour workweek. Obviously, we would prefer Congress repeal the entire law, but it would be foolish to expect the president to sign legislation undoing his crowning "achievement." And some reform is going to be necessary given the possibility of the Supreme Court striking down federal subsidies. -The Patriot Post

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Tax Filers to Experience 'Joys' of nObamaCare

This year, the IRS will be fully involved in policing health insurance coverage under nObamaCare, with federal tax forms requiring for the first time that taxpayers report their health insurance status to the IRS. Filers will have to state whether they had employer-paid health insurance coverage in 2014 or received subsidies to help pay for their coverage. Those who did not have coverage face fines of $325 or 2% of taxable income. Citizens will basically be on the honor system, however, as the IRS says reduced staffing and budgets won't allow it to check up on every tax return. The IRS operating budget has shrunk by $1 billion since 2010, and it has 13,000 fewer employees -- a direct result of Republican attempts to stymie nObamaCare's implementation. The IRS says it won't reject tax returns that don't address the health insurance question, but the agency plans to exercise its audit power. Some filers may be required to file additional forms to prove their health insurance coverage or request one of the 30 different exemptions that currently exist. Open enrollment ends on Feb. 15, though, so the window for filing hardship exemptions is rapidly closing. -The Patriot Post

CAN MCCONNELL THAW THE SENATE WITHOUT GETTING SOAKED?
The 114th Congress gets underway today in a snowy Washington with all the media attention on the noisy effort by a small group of Republican foes of House Speaker backstabber John Boehner to embarrass the GOP leader by denying him a first-ballot victory in his election to a third term. But the real action is over in the other chamber, where we will see the first test of incoming Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s effort to reopen the Senate for actual legislation following years of his predecessor’s Heat Miser-style deep freeze. Note: backstabber Boehner was re-elected. -Fox News

Piped in - The first order of business in the Senate is a bipartisan bill to force the nObama administration to allow an oil pipeline from Canada to be completed. The eventual Keystone XL vote will be the first test of McConnell’s plan to revive the Senate, which seized up during the dinky Harry Reid-era,. For much of dinky Reid’s reign, even Democrats were usually forbidden to introduce or alter legislation on their own. Today marks the return to “regular order” and the first test of McConnell’s effort to thaw things out. And it comes with considerable risk. Democrats have a plan to punish McConnell for the move by not just killing the bill but bedeviling the process. There seem to be the six Democratic votes needed to advance the legislation, however dinky Reid and his presumed eventual successor, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have hopes of hopes of breaking up the bipartisan fun and protecting President nObama from having to veto the popular plan.
“I think we’ve got all 54 Republicans, looks like they’ll be original co-sponsors and more than half a dozen Democrats. The votes are there.” – Sen-elect Ben Sasse, R-Neb., on the Senate Keystone XL pipeline bill, on “FOX & Friends” this morning. -Fox News

Tougher path - McConnell is expected to preserve the biggest dinky Reid-era change: lowering the threshold for confirming presidential nominees other than Supreme Court justices from 60 votes to 51 votes. But by reassuming the old, open Senate rules that give broad latitude to all members of both parties to introduce bills and amendments, McConnell is making his job much harder. Not only will he face hijinks from Democrats, but he will give up dinky Reid’s policy of handcuffing problematic members of his own party. -Fox News

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Iran’s Occupation of Syria

(Joseph Puder) - Most people immersed in Middle Eastern affairs have heard the charge, ad-nauseam, “Israeli occupation” of the West Bank...The United Nations (UN) agencies, the European Union (EU), large segments of the American and European media, and many of the so called human rights watchdogs have been critical of Israel’s “occupation,” albeit the Jewish state has attempted to make peace with the Arab states and the Palestinians all along. Moreover, UN Security Council Resolution 242 considered the West Bank “disputed territory.” What one does not hear from the shrill chorus of the aforementioned voices is criticism of the Iranian occupation of Syria. There are no UN resolutions demanding Iranian withdrawal from Syria, or a firm U.S. government statement to that effect. This amounts to sheer hypocrisy and a double standard. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joseph-puder/irans-occupation-of-syria/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9a4d2ea604-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-9a4d2ea604-156509103

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Expect a 242% Hike in nObamacare Fines for 2015

(Floyd Brown) - nObamacare was craftily written…Benefits come first, and then the bite comes later. You see, if you remained uninsured in 2014, you would have paid a penalty of $95 (or 1% above the filing threshold)...But the fines were structured to increase over time. And 2015 is the year that average citizens will really start to feel the sting. For 2015, you’re facing a $325 fine, or a penalty that’s 2% of income above the filing threshold. http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2015/01/05/obamacare-fines-2015/

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Holder: Congress Passed No Law Making Sex Change a Civil Right

(Linda Harvey) - They did it again. The nObama Administration, specifically current Attorney General Eric Holder, has invented a new law through “memorandum,” attempting to advance sexual deviance when Congress has made no such law...Sex change is now a federal civil right, Holder declares, and Title VII can apply to fake women just like real women in situations involving alleged sex discrimination. Holder and the Department of Justice will now argue that men who dress as women are girls, too, because their confused minds say it’s so. http://barbwire.com/2015/01/05/0655-tell-eric-holder-congress-passed-no-law-making-sex-change-civil-right/

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Did the CIA Fiddle With Population Statistics about Iran?

(Daniel Pipes) - The World Factbook, described as "information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities,"...is perhaps the most prominent unclassified publication of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a major source of information. Yet, a numerical discrepancy concerning the ethnic makeup of Iran prompted me three months ago, on October 5, 2014, to send the agency a letter (via its website): http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2015/01/did-the-cia-fiddle-with-population-statistics

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Must See & Share as We are Rapidly Losing Our Culture

(Brooke McGowan) - I hesitated to share this on Viral.Buzz, as it will be considered controversial...The below video is a remarkable depiction of the demographic cultural battle we all face in the West. If anything needs to go viral, it’s this message. We are rapidly losing our western culture, it’s clearly under attack and many just don’t seem to care enough to do anything about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HoBz68-Q_8

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Saudi religious leader OKs rape of children
(F. Michael Maloof) - Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom’s top religious authority in the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, has ruled it’s acceptable for men to marry girls...so young the West would deem it nothing short of pedophilia and rape. Despite the Saudi justice ministry’s failed efforts to date to set 15 as a minimum age to marry a girl in the kingdom, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz declared there is nothing prohibiting Muslim men from marrying girls even younger. http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/saudi-religious-leader-oks-rape-of-children/

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A Conversation With Newt Gingrich

(DANIEL HALPER) - "Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sat down with Bill Kristol to discuss the 1994 Republican Revolution, when Republicans took control of both Houses of Congress for the first time in forty years...Gingrich also recalls his first political campaigns and how he began to influence Washington in the 1980s. Finally, the former speaker offers a personal take on mentors, allies, and rivals, including Gerald Ford, Jack Kemp, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton—as well as his reflections on presidents from Eisenhower to nObama. This is a must-see Conversation for anyone interested in contemporary American history and the origins of our current political landscape," writes the Foundation for Constitutional Government, the sponsor of the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNA4GgvVD04

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/conversation-newt-gingrich_822720.html?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest%20-%2001%2F05%2F15&utm_medium=email

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2014: The Year of Peak Stupidity

(Clarice Feldman) - The year just ended saw one leftist narrative after another collapse under the weight of reality, and the Republicans still sucking their thumbs, turning the other cheek, and failing to effectively respond...For decades, greenies have said we must impoverish ourselves and switch to costly, inefficient sources of energy because we are approaching “peak oil” and the world will soon run out of this valuable resource. With new sources of petroleum energy turning up almost everywhere on earth, the claim has proven hollow. In his usual colorful language, Rick Ballard characterized the left wing’s dilemma, playing off that phrase: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/2014_the_year_of_peak_stupidity.html

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The Case of Barack nObama and his Muslim Brother Malik

(Ben Barrack) - There has been a major breakthrough in the case of Malik nObama. It may also help to explain why members of Congress, mainstream media, and shockingly, even the attorneys for Tea Party groups targeted by the IRS have chosen to ignore the earth-shattering scandal involving the President’s eldest brother...This new discovery reveals a mosaic of intrigue that has never before been presented. It’s a scandal with everything… and more. What you are about to read consists of previously reported data points but now also includes a key figure that eliminates much speculation when viewed in the context of these data points – the Executive Director in whose home was formed the Foundation headed by Barack nObama’s Muslim brother, Malik. http://shoebat.com/2015/01/05/major-breakthrough-case-barack-obama-muslim-brother-malik/

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FCC Net Neutrality Vote Expected in February

(Raven Clabough) - The Federal Communications Commission announced on Friday it will be introducing and voting on new net neutrality rules in February...The proposals are sure to set off another storm of controversy as net neutrality has long been a contentious issue for those who believe in the free market and free speech. Currently, it is unclear what rules are being circulated amongst FCC officials, but the timing was expected, as the push for stronger regulations grew fiercer. The Washington Post writes, “Advocates of strong net neutrality, including President Obama, have urged the FCC to begin regulating Internet service providers using the same law it uses to oversee telephone companies — Title II of the Communications Act.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/19838-fcc-net-neutrality-vote-expected-in-february-but-will-congress-beat-them-to-it?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=48fbd0bc44-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-48fbd0bc44-289778381

We're The Needy Ones Now

Tom McLaughlin

(tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) - Missionaries from Africa are working here in Maine. What does that say about us? Well, we need missionaries to bolster our faith because it’s waning. Yes, we used to send missionaries to Africa because they were more in need than we were, but that situation has reversed. There’s a critical shortage of priests here in Maine, but not in Africa — or not in western and central Africa where Father Innocent Okozi had been working. Now he lives in Bridgton, Maine where he is pastor of St. Joseph Parish, which includes St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in nearby Fryeburg where I attend, as well as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish, which includes St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway, Maine, Our Lady of Ransom Church in Mechanic Falls, and St Mary Church, Oxford, ME, which is open only during the summer.

When I grew up in suburban Boston in the fifties and sixties, our parish alone had half a dozen priests. Now one has to cover multiple parishes here in Maine, even while church buildings are being closed down and sold off all over the state. Young men in New England and in other, more liberal parts of our country are reluctant to devote their lives to the priesthood compared to former times. Seminaries have few applicants. That’s not as much of a problem in conservative Catholic dioceses in the midwest and south, but here the shortage has reached critical levels.

Last month I had an opportunity to talk to Father Innocent about this and other topics. “There was a time when Europe and America used to send a lot of priests to Africa. That was a time when there was a vocation boom on this side,” he said. “And now, Africa is enjoying a similar thing.” Some bishops in Africa are reluctant to send their priests out, but if the Church in Rome looks at its worldwide situation, there’s more of a shortage in the United States than elsewhere, except Europe, which faces a more acute shortage than the United States.

Father Innocent cites two reasons for the shortage: families have fewer children and “their priorities have changed, a lot.” There is less openness to the spiritual life among baby boomers, but the generation following them is seeking that out more, he said. “Because they grew up in a spiritual vacuum?” I asked. “Exactly,” he said. Let’s hope he’s right about that.

He came to Maine originally for pre-doctoral work in psychology at UMO, the University of Maine Orono, and checked in with the Bishop in Portland as a courtesy. Soon he was filling in at masses in different parishes and, when he finished his studies, then-Bishop Malone asked him to stay on. He and another Nigerian priest, Father Samuel Madza, SMA were both assigned to Bridgton and Norway, with Father Innocent as Pastor. Father Innocent baptized my twin grandsons last year and Father Sam presided over my nephew’s funeral shortly after.

Christians are persecuted by radical Muslims in Nigeria. Most of the world first became aware of Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram when they kidnapped 200 girls from their school in northern Nigeria last April. The name “Boko Haram" means “western education is forbidden” in Hausa language. The girls have since been sold into slavery or forced to “marry” terrorists. It’s actions are very similar to those of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, with whom the United States had recently gone to war.

According the Gatestone Institute, “in the last four years alone, approximately 1,000 Christian churches have been destroyed by Boko Haram and its Muslim sympathizers in a nation that is approximately half Christian half Muslim.” According to Human Rights Watch, Boko Haram killed 2053 Nigerian Christians just in 2014.

Father Innocent was born the oldest of eight children. As he was studying for the priesthood during the late 1980s and early 1990s in southern Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire respectively, his family moved to the Borno State in Northern Nigeria, which has since become a major hotbed for Boko Haram depredations. His father was transferred there by the automobile dealer he worked for and his mother worked in the restaurant industry. Father Innocent visited them during his Christmas vacation and witnessed firsthand what was then just developing.

A local Muslim boy was interested in one of his younger sisters, who invited him to a Christmas service. His father was a local leader. As Father Innocent described it: “If he attended not only would his family disown him, some family members may poison him.” Then Father Okozi’s mother was warned by the meat sellers from whom she purchased beef for her restaurant that radical Muslims were planning to poison the meat, knowing that Christians purchased a lot of it during Christmas. Then there were plots to attack Catholics as they left midnight masses on Christmas Eve. Shortly thereafter, his family moved away from Borno State to a safer part of the country. “When I read about what’s going on now, I thank God they moved before things got worse,” he said.

It’s ironic that priestly vocations are booming where Christians are persecuted, and waning where they’ve gotten complacent.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2015/01/were-needy-ones-now.html

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