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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP- activist - voteforamerica@gmail.com
"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."
Corporate greed and the love for power and money are evil.
We will reclaim control of our own country. United we stand defending our freedom and our economic prosperity.
Fellow Americans, it is time to change this political and social economic paradigm. We know our work and the years we labor to build our country; we endure wars and economic hardship, but we cannot continue this path of self-destruction and tolerate this wicked Washington network of collaborators who call themselves the United States Government. http://howtheworldreallyworks.info/
This is the truth and no matter what we do, we cannot change all the things we done. Our blind trust in our government made us part of all this historical events of criminal activities that our government was engage under the pretense promoting democracy, human rights and freedom. What we have discovered is that they are a bunch of sociopaths and sycophants that their main objective are the world’s control of natural resources and humanity; they are impostors of moral leadership with an ideology of criminal attitude that the means justified the ends. Our country’s leaders are criminals, killers without conscience or remorse they have not value for human life and humanity, we are all expendable and they will kill us if they can benefit by doing so.
We know that we live where Satan’s throne is, but we have the power to change all this because our principles and faith in God all mighty, we have hold fast to his name and have not denied our faith in our Lord Jesus; we realize how far we have fallen, we must repent, and do the work that needs to be done to re-store our moral leadership in our country. Do not be afraid of anything, they will throw some of us into prison, we may be tested, and we will face an ordeal for a time but remain faithful until we get our freedom and an honorable place in the world community.
The authority and power to reclaim our country comes from our Father and his son our Lord Jesus; The king of all kings, the true ruler of this world and to him we will give our life if need be for social justice, the respect for life and human dignity. This is our land and we will embrace all human beings, no matter their race, color or national Origen, we are our brother’s keeper’s promoters of freedom, moral character and principles. We love, trust, respect and defend our fellow man; we believe that all man are created equal. “WE ARE AMERICANS”
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Congress gives the power to corporate American to control Washington.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-powers-and-abuses-of-americas-mega-corporations/5371901
Corporate world’s Predators
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Transnational_corps/Earth_Predators.html
Corporations: Our Natural Predators
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/corporations-our-natural-predators-5650
Multinational corporations are not paying U.S. taxes.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/top-10-worst-tax-avoidance-corporations
329,745 died in the Iraq and Afghan wars, The Bush war for oil.
American corporate gets rich while the killings continue.
Blood and oil
The Iraq War Exposed -The Bush deception and betrayal.
The clerics do not mention this story from Muhammad’s conquest of Khaybar: “Kinana b. al-Rabi`, who had the custody of the treasure of B. al-Nadir, was brought to the apostle who asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was. A Jew came (T. was brought) to the apostle and said that […]
Sajida al-Rishawi was on death row “in Jordan for her role in a 2005 Al Qaeda attack on three hotels in the capital of Amman that killed 60 people, The Associated Press reports. She was arrested after her suicide vest of explosives didn’t detonate.” The Jordanians are promising a strong response to the Islamic State’s […]
Ah, Sami, you Rumpled Academic you, we hardly knew ye. If only I had known about the farewell dinner at the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque; I would have dropped everything to be there. Longtime Jihad Watch readers will remember Al-Arian, who for years was a darling of the Leftist intelligentsia. In March 2002 Nicholas Kristof went […]
GWU Panel Surprisingly Acknowledges Resurgent Jihadism by Andrew Harrod Noting a “resurgence of various . . . jihadist movements,” George Washington (GW) University’s Marc Lynch, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, opened a January 22 GW panel on “New Challenges for Islamist Movements.” The panel highlighted the Middle East’s growing and well-organized Islamist […]
The Multicultural Madness of Theresa May by Paul Weston Western politicians have got themselves into a bit of a pickle over the violent rise of Islam both globally and within the once Christian West. Just as it would be difficult for a scientist to conduct experiments related to oil and water without first accepting the […]
“Maguire appeared in a polished propaganda video in December urging Muslims to launch indiscriminate attacks against Canadians.” And more are certainly coming. “Police announce charges against alleged IS recruiting cell,” by Rob Gillies, Associated Press, February 3, 2015: TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police on Tuesday arrested one man who they say was part of an […]
The video of the burning of the Jordanian pilot is entitled, “Healing the Believers Chests.” That’s from the Qur’an: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you over them, heal the breasts of Believers.” (Qur’an 9:14) Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who years ago tried to murder students at […]
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/3/15) — Later today, representatives of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and other national and local leaders who believe in national defense and human rights will hold a news conference near the headquarters of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, to condemn […]
The video is entitled, “Healing the Believers Chests.” That’s from the Qur’an: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you over them, heal the breasts of Believers.” (Qur’an 9:14) Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who years ago tried to murder students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel […]
As this savagery becomes more common, more frequent, more aggressive, the leaders of the free world issue soothing lies about how its guiding ideology is limpid and completely unconnected with any of the barbarity perpetrated in accord with its teachings. That is hardly a path to victory. “Islamic State supporters post photos purportedly showing Jordanian […]
GWU Panel Surprisingly Acknowledges Resurgent Jihadism
by Andrew Harrod
Noting a “resurgence of various . . . jihadist movements,” George Washington (GW) University’sMarc Lynch, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, opened a January 22 GW panel on “New Challenges for Islamist Movements.” The panel highlighted the Middle East’s growing and well-organized Islamist dangers with a refreshing minimum of politically correct Islamic apologetics before an audience of about forty.
Graduate international relations students in the audience corroborated a reporter’s impression that Brigham Young University political science professor Quinn Mecham was the most intriguing panelist. Using the Fund for Peace’s Fragile States Index, he evaluated the Islamic State’s (IS) “trajectory of increasing stateness,” ranking it as merely the seventeenth most failed state in the world, more stable than such countries as Afghanistan or Yemen. He observed that the IS’s “multiple large revenue streams,” such as oil and taxation, are the “envy of many poor states.”
Mecham warned that the IS could “become the only [government] game in town” in certain areas, attracting locals longing for stability with “institutional realities that become the norms of governance.” The IS provides social services “reasonably well” and its “domestic security is often quite strong” under a “semblance of rule of law.” This, however, depends upon “which end of that rifle you are on” amidst the sharia law and “sectarian cleansing” that identifies IS as a “deeply distasteful terrorist group.”
Mecham described the IS as the “biggest start-up in the Arab world,” offering a “real career opportunity” for the cruelly faithful to “build something interesting.” Interviewed after the panel, Mecham discussed his unorthodox presentation of the IS as a “technology disruptor” that’s theologically “audacious . . . different, and innovative.” “People are getting excited about it, even though it’s a high risk project,” he added, employing Silicon Valley terms for the IS’s marauding, fanatical barbarians.
Such enthusiasm cast doubt on Mecham’s assertion that the IS has no “traditional Islamic credentials.” He alleged that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “is considered to be a ‘nobody’ by everybody” among Islamic scholars, incapable of declaring a caliphate. Yet the terrorist leader has a doctorate in sharia law from an Iraqi Islamic university.
Under further questioning, however, Mecham explained why the IS is “not being 100 percent laughed out by everybody.” He noted that the IS’s June, 2014 caliphate declaration spends “a lot of time” justifying its “Islamic legitimacy,” with one of its “main arguments” being that the group “now had sufficient momentum in territory and resources” to “pull this off.” A “sophisticated response” from IS supporters would be that “this is where the action is” or, in other words, while “everyone talks a good game, no one does anything” to establish a caliphate; therefore “my Islamic duty” is here. After the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) overthrow in Egypt “there seems to be no other path,” Mecham observed. Islamic theological arguments about necessity or darura and a jihad-caliphate imperative overriding normally applicable standards might then apply.
Cambridge University doctoral candidate Raphael Lefevre deepened the panel’s pessimistic prognosis by noting that the “rise of extremism . . . extends well beyond” Iraq and Syria into Lebanon. The IS and the al-Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front have both widened their operations and “are clearly on the rise” among a “growing number of Sunnis.” He pointed out that such “hardline Islamist groups” and their Shiite counterpart Hezbollah, the “most influential actor in Lebanese politics,” are both “very gifted” in the “Middle Eastern practice” of providing social services.
Lefevre described how IS influence extended to the MB in a mutually antagonistic, yet “very tricky” relationship. “Ideologically confused” younger MB members have chosen to join the IS, given MB’s “ideologically blurriness” on when and how the new caliphate should come into existence, implicitly suggesting a MB/IS radical affinity. Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies professor Khalil al-Anani added that the IS “is really inspiring” for Islamists reeling from the “unprecedented crisis” of Egypt’s “very comprehensive, brutal strategy . . . to defeat the Brotherhood, if not to end it.”
The Rhodes Scholar, doctoral candidate, and Tunisia expert Monica Marks tried, but failed, to brighten the panel’s uniformly gloomy outlook. She complained of a “notable uptick” in the media’s conflating of “Islamism with violent terrorism.” The “very flexible, fluid word” Islamist “often confuses, rather than clarifies,” she claimed, encompassing a wide range, from “al-Qaeda” to Oxford University professor “Tariq Ramadan.”
Marks declared Tunisia’s jihad-supporting Ennahda Party the “most Islamic lite” of the Islamist movements. She added that likening Ennahda to European Christian Democrats or the Republican Party, rather than the IS or MB, “might be more fruitful comparisons.” Her description of the party’s “civilizational project” as packaged in “very fluid, long-termist [sic] rhetoric,” though, was eerily reminiscent of the MB’s American “Civilization-Jihadist Process.” She also acknowledged that many secular Tunisians do not share her optimistic distinction among Islamist groups and consider “Islamism . . . the biggest threat.” What do these natives know as opposed to Ennahda apologist Marks?
The GW panel demonstrated that groups such as the IS and Hezbollah, for all of their brutality, have exhibited a sophisticated ability to conduct military-governmental operations and to garner support. While Marks and other apologists may try to distinguish between Islamists such as the IS, MB, and Ennahda, critical observers note differences over means, not ends. Western leaders may condemn Muslim atrocities as the work of a few crazed renegades, but the panel established that there is a method to the madness of instituting Islam’s divine dictates of sharia law.
Andrew E. Harrod is a freelance researcher and writer who holds a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a JD from George Washington University Law School. He is a fellow with the Lawfare Project; follow him on twitter at @AEHarrod. He wrote this essay for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.
The Multicultural Madness of Theresa May
by Paul Weston
Western politicians have got themselves into a bit of a pickle over the violent rise of Islam both globally and within the once Christian West. Just as it would be difficult for a scientist to conduct experiments related to oil and water without first accepting the fact that They Just Don’t Mix, so it becomes similarly difficult for politicians to talk rationally about the predictable outcome of trying to mix together monocultural Islam and multicultural nothingness – without succumbing to some form of inevitable mental breakdown.
When we wilfully refuse to believe basic facts, such as the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islam, we retreat into fantasy or outright lies in order to deny the bleeding obvious. Highly educated men and women with PHD’s and Master’s degrees thus find themselves talking utter nonsense when it comes to Islam, simply because of their Politically Correct refusal to accept the awful, ghastly reality of Islam’s rigid belief system.
The pathologically irrational behaviour of British Home Secretary Theresa May is just such an example of the insanity that ensues when liberals pontificate upon Islam. She made a speech recently at the Conservative Party Conference which was so riddled with platitudes, contradictions, lies and fantasies that had it been submitted it as an end of term paper, she would have been laughed out of a school for slow learners let alone Oxford University from where she inexplicably graduated.
Some choice quotes from her speech are as follows:
Theresa May (TM): “All British people – including British Muslims – are free to practise their faith, and wear whatever clothes they choose….We know the overwhelming majority of British people want to be free. Free from danger. Free from fear. Free from prejudice. Free from discrimination. Free to practise their religion. Free to observe their cultures and traditions. Free to dress as they like. Free to be educated as they choose. Free to work where they wish. Free to live with whom they love. Free to raise their families as they see fit. Free to get on with their lives. We must not become a society where these things are no longer possible.”
Memo to TM: Here is the oil and water bit darling, which appears to have sent you clean over the edge of sanity. If I understand it correctly, you want Muslims to freely practice their faith, culture and traditions….such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), forced marriage, honour violence, the death sentence for apostasy etc – none of which you personally or politically/professionally agree with and have passed laws against – even as you state we must not become a country where Muslims are unable to observe their culture and traditions…..It comes as no surprise these varied contradictions of yours have caused an apparent short circuit in your cranial cortex.
TM quote: “We need to defeat the ideology that lies behind the threat. The extremists believe in a clash of civilisations – a fundamental incompatibility between Islamic and Western values, an inevitable divide between “them and us”. They demand a caliphate, or a new Islamic state, governed by a harsh interpretation of Shari’ah law. They utterly reject British and Western values, including democracy, the rule of law, and equality between citizens, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, religion or sexuality. This hateful ideology has nothing to do with Islam itself. And it is rejected by the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Britain and around the world. Let the message go out that we know Islam is a religion of peace and it has nothing to do with the ideology of our enemies. Let us stand side by side with the British Muslims who are coming together and saying “not in my name”.
Memo to TM: What is this mysterious ideology that we need to defeat? Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism? Scientology? Zoroastrianism? Here’s the thing Theresa, could it just possibly be Islam? If it is not Islam, then what exactly is this invisible, threatening ideology which knows no name? Also, what is a “harsh interpretation” of Sharia law? Sharia law is Sharia law. It Just Is. Period. And why do you say this is rejected by an overwhelming majority of British Muslims when 40% of British Muslims do actually want to live under sharia law? Finally, who are these British Muslims you claim are stating Not In Our Name…. because I haven’t seen them out on the streets. Seriously, where are they, you foolish, dangerous, vapid, disingenuous woman?
TM quote: “ISIL are just one of the terrorist threats we face. There is Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, like-minded groups in Libya, Al Shabaab in East Africa, terrorist planning in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and home-grown extremists, who, like the 7/7 bombers, were radicalised here in Britain. Last year, Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered by Islamist extremists in London. Dealing with those threats requires a deep understanding of what is going on in the world.”
Memo to TM: What is going in the world, babes, is the rise of pure, unadulterated Islam. Unfortunately for Britain, your “deep understanding” of Islam amounts to your oft repeated platitude of Islam is a religion of peace (© all Western politicians) which is simply not true – see one weeks’ worth of news stories today if you cannot be bothered to read a history book. Honey bunch.
TM quote: “…there are no simple answers. We can’t go around the world trying to re-make it in our own image. We can’t just remove dictators and assume that liberal democracy will follow.”
Memo to TM: But isn’t this exactly what you have done? You backed the “Arab Spring” and the overthrow of Gaddafi. You wanted to depose Assad in Syria. Grown-ups (right-wing fascists, racists and Islamophobes….) told you it would end in tribal chaos and war. Which of course it has because This Is The Reality Of Islam. Really Theresa, how is it possible you are a high ranking politician?
TM quote: “When you look at what is going on across the Middle East, there is a battle raging for the heart and soul of Islam itself. And it is not for Britain, or any other Western power, to try to resolve it. Only the many peoples of the world’s Muslim countries can determine their future….we have to disentangle our own national interest from the struggle that is going on in the Middle East and across the Muslim world……..that judgement will sometimes be difficult to make. But in the case of ISIL the danger is clear. That is why it’s right that we are part of the international coalition dedicated to ISIL’s destruction.”
Memo to TM: Britain and other Western powers should not interfere in this ongoing Islamic catastrophe but on the other hand we should interfere in this ongoing Islamic catastrophe? You are a Home Secretary Ms May, you are not an altogether stupid woman, so please tell me how any logical, sane, rational person could make any sense at all of your surreally contradictory witterings?
TM quote: “I am going to talk to you about the deadly terrorist threat we face. David Haines was a tireless humanitarian worker who helped Muslims….not just in Syria….but in Bosnia, South Sudan and Libya…. he was murdered by terrorists, simply for being British. The terrorists who murdered David Haines like to call themselves the Islamic State. But I will tell you the truth: They are not Islamic. And they are not a state. Their actions have absolutely no basis in anything written in the Quran.”
Memo to Theresa May (TM): They are Islamic and they are following Mohammed’s teachings to the letter: “I have been ordered to fight all men until they testify there is no God but Allah…Strike terror into the hearts of the disbelievers, smite at their necks….etc.” This Is Simply An Unarguable Fact Ms May And You Are Engaging In Dishonest Fantasy.
TM quote: “Here in the city of Birmingham, local people know the problem only too well. Because it was here that extremists infiltrated state schools and sought to impose a hardline curriculum on children. Across the country, there are concerns about the way Shari’ah law is being applied, the way women are told to live and the intolerant attitudes shown to people of different beliefs and ways of life. ….we must be clear to people that the United Kingdom is a great place to live….we celebrate different ways of life, we value diversity, and we cherish our freedom to lead our lives as we choose.”
Memo to TM: Are you utterly insane? You cannot state we celebrate different ways of life and value diversity whilst at the same time complaining about people because they lead different lives in line with the “diverse” values of 7th century Arabia. The whole point of diversity is “difference” sweetie-pie! This is as foolish as stating you value the diversity entailed in living with peckish lions and then complaining about their illiberally carnivorous behaviour when they unsurprisingly eat you. You can celebrate British values or you can celebrate Islamic values. You cannot, you simply cannotcelebrate both! A five year-old would understand this basic fact. Why cannot you?
I have to ask you, in all seriousness Ms May, are you A) Suffering from a form of mental illness? B) Both remarkably stupid and illogical? C) A coward? D) A traitor? E) A typical careerist politician engaging in lies and deception in order to ensure the inevitably violent racial/religious break-down occurs only after you have retired somewhere safe with your gold plated pension?
And a final question, Home Secretary May: When our politicians refuse to recognise reality, is it likely that reality will just disappear, or will it remain to devour our children?
Paul Weston is Chairman of the British political party Liberty GB.
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), pursuant to FBI orders, grounded the aircraft that Florida Family Association paid to pull a banner around MetLife Stadium on September 28, 2014. The banner stated AIG SPONSORS JIHAD TV. The FAA lost the control tower audio recording of this act of censorship after receiving a Freedom Of Information Act request. However, the FAA provided a written account of the event in which they stated in part “The Front Line Manager (FLM) disclosed he could not recall ever requesting any other aircraft to leave the area.” The FBI has not provided a reason as to why their agency commanded the FAA to order the grounding of the aircraft.
Florida Family Association hired Aerial Messages, Inc. to fly a banner stating AIG SPONSORS JIHAD TV before the Detroit Lions vs. New York Jets game on Sunday, September 28, 2014 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at the MetLife Stadium in New York. The Los Angeles Times reported on August 15, 2013 that “some derisively label the network ‘Jihad TV.’”
FBI commands FAA to ground (censor) Florida Family Association aircraft with banner. Remy Colin, owner of Aerial Messages, Inc., informed Florida Family Association on September 29, 2014 that the FAA tower had ordered the aircraft carrying the AIG banner to land after it had been in the air approximately three hours. Mr. Colin stated that his Aerial Messages’ associate in New York informed him that an FBI agent outside of the jurisdiction of MetLife Stadium had instructed the FAA tower to order the aircraft to the land. The Aerial Messages’ associate pilot informed Mr. Colin that comments attributed to the FBI agent made reference to a discussion that the agent allegedly had with an AIG official.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made for recording of FAA controller conversation with pilot. Remy Colin filed a Freedom of Information Act request on September 30, 2014 for the audio recording of the conversation which took place on September 28, 2014 between the FAA tower and his pilot. Tessa Berry responded to Mr. Colin with an email on October 3, 2014 which stated in part: This letter acknowledges receipt of your FOIA request dated September 30, 2014, concerning NR8094D (94D) ATC recordings over the Met Life Stadium in New York from 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM Sunday the 28th of September 2014. Tessa Berry is FOIA Coordinator, FAA, ESA Administrative Services Group, Management Support Team.
FAA lost the recording of the FAA control tower conversation with pilot. Stacy M. Thomas called Remy Colin the morning of November 21, 2014 to inform him that the recording of the FAA control tower conversation with Aerial Messages’ associate pilot from September 28, 2014 was missing. Stacy Thomas offered to have FAA personnel meet with the FAA Front Line Manager at the airport control tower and prepare a written account. Stacy M. Thomas is a FAA Management & Program Analyst, Administrative Services Group, Management Support Team, AJV-E52. The FAA formally replied by certified mail with letter dated December 23, 2014 which stated in part “A records search was conducted at Teterboro and Newark (EWR) Airport Traffic Control Towers. EWR does not have any information, therefore, they have no records responsive to your request.”
FAA letter confirms FBI ordered the censorship of aircraft banner. Elizabeth L. Ray, FAA Vice President, Mission Support Services, wrote a letter on December 8, 2014 which provided a summary of the FBI’s censorship.
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Florida Family Association asked the FBI to explain why their agency ordered the FAA to ground the aircraft. Florida Family Association emailed a letter on September 30, 2014 to George Venizelos the agent who is in charge of the FBI New York Field Office and a letter to Newark Special Agent Aaron Ford who is in charge of security at MetLife Stadium. (The email addresses to which these letters were sent are no longer valid or no longer accepting certain emails.) Florida Family Association faxed a letter on December 18, 2014 to Mr. Bob Gibson, Chief Division Counsel of the FBI Newark Office and a letter to FBI Newark Special Agent Aaron Ford who is in charge of security at MetLife Stadium. All of the letters stated in part “Why did the FBI order our aircraft with banner message to land?”
FBI NON-response. None of the three FBI officials responded to the letters from Florida Family Association. The FBI has provided no explanation for grounding the plane. The FBI mailed Florida Family Association a form letter dated January 9, 2015 stating that they have received a FOIPA from Florida Family Association and are “researching” the matter.
Florida Family Association did not receive the written response from the FAA until December 16, 2014. The FBI was given four weeks to respond before making this act of censorship public.
Florida Family Association flew the same style banner last year without incident. Florida Family Association hired Aerial Messages, Inc. to fly a banner stating PROCTER & GAMBLE SPONSORS JIHAD TV before the Green Bay vs. Cincinnati game on Sunday, September 22, 2013 from 9 am to 1 pm. Unlike AIG, Procter & Gamble stopped advertising on Al Jazeera America the week after the aircraft pulled the banner.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has extended their censorship favoring Islamists beyond their agency to the private sector. In February 2012, the FBI cowered to the pressure from Islamist groups by removing 876 pages and 392 presentations from their educational resources because the materials were offensive to Islamists. In 2013, the FBI cowered again to Islamist groups by stopping their Most Wanted advertising campaign which helped the agency gain information regarding the whereabouts of dangerous terrorists. Now the FBI is censoring the private sector’s criticism of American corporate sponsorship of Islamist television.
The FAA Front Line Manager’s (FLM) statement that “he could not recall ever requesting any other aircraft to leave the area” unmistakably means the federal government censored Florida Family Association. Did an AIG official ask an FBI official to ground the plane? Could the FBI also have deleted the audio recording of the conversation between the control tower and pilot given the FAA’s finger pointing letter?
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By Sussanah George. When Gaith Mohammed, a young man in his twenties with a degree in accounting, went to see “American Sniper” during its opening week at Baghdad’s Mansour Mall, he says the theater was full and rowdy.“Some people watching were just concentrating, but others were screaming ‘F*ck, shoot him! He has an IED, don’t wait for permission!!’” Mohammed laughed, recounting the film’s many tense scenes when US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Cooper, radios in for authorization to take out a potential threat in his crosshairs . . .
Mohammed says one of the film’s opening scenes, when Kyle spots a woman and child who appear to be preparing to attack US troops during the initial invasion of Iraq, had the entire audience on the edge of their seats.
“When the sniper was hesitating to shoot [the child holding the RPG] everyone was yelling ‘Just shoot him!’” he said. (Read more about the reaction in Baghdad HERE)
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By Adam Kredo. The State Department admitted on Monday that it misled reporters about a recent delegation of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and allies who were hosted for a meeting with officials at Foggy Bottom.
State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki claimed last week that the controversial delegation of key Brotherhood leaders and allies had been “organized and funded by Georgetown University.”
However, the university denied this is the case when reached by the Washington Free Beacon . . .
The meeting between the Brotherhood allies and the State Department sparked controversy in Washington and Cairo, where Egyptian government officials expressed anger at the Obama administration for hosting representatives of a group they consider to be terrorists.
The State Department meeting was attended by a deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor and other State Department officials. (Read more about the meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood HERE)
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I'm guessing the vast majority of you who came here reading the headline are extremely curious as to how an administration seemingly hell-bent on protecting the reputation of Islam could openly call for the ideology to be banished. It's true the White House just released a statement claiming the Islam ideology should be banished. The part that I left out of the headline is that the White House just doesn't admit that Islam is the ideology that should be banished.
Here's the White House statement in full.
Today, we join the people of Jordan in grieving the loss of one of their own, First Lieutenant Moaz al-Kasasbeh, cruelly and brutally killed by ISIL terrorists. On behalf of the American people, I offer my deepest condolences to Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh’s family and loved ones, to the brave men and women of the Jordan Armed Forces, and to King Abdullah II and the people of Jordan.
Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh will forever personify the bravery of a true son of Jordan, one who honored his family and country by his seven years of military service. Along with his compatriots and other Arab and international members of the coalition, Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh was in the vanguard of the effort to degrade and defeat the threat posed by ISIL.
Lieutenant al-Kasasbeh’s dedication, courage, and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe. As we grieve together, we must stand united, respectful of his sacrifice to defeat this scourge. Today, the coalition fights for everyone who has suffered from ISIL’s inhumanity. It is their memory that invests us and our coalition partners with the undeterred resolve to see ISIL and its hateful ideology banished to the recesses of history.
Bold emphasis mine.
As I posted earlier, Obama refuses to admit that the "Islamic State" is, in fact, Islamic in his statements about the terror murder of a Jordanian pilot.
Let's look at some facts here.
So yes, if Obama is calling for the end to the ideology behind ISIS, he is, in fact, calling for an end to Islam. Of course we all know that's not what he really wants.
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A review of public records in New York and Delaware has revealed that every business started by Al Sharpton has been shut down in at least one jurisdiction for failure to pay taxes.According to National Review Online, the records of Sharpton’s organizations are “copious, confusing, and sometimes outright bizarre; and together, they depict persistent financial woes for Sharpton, who also personally owes New York State nearly $596,000, according to active tax warrants.”
Bernadette Schopfer, the director of taxation at New York’s Maier Markey & Justic, a certified public-accounting firm that has had no dealings with Sharpton, stated:
He clearly appears — based on the information that’s available to us — to have a history of noncompliance with tax obligations. It appears that [Sharpton] does not file [taxes for his businesses], and then opens up something else. At all the entities we see he has opened up, he has not been compliant with the obligations of the owner of a business. . . . He’s either willful in his behavior, or he’s just sloppy.
Sharpton’s first company, Raw Talent, picked up a lot of tax debt and finally dissolved in 2002 for failure to pay taxes.
Revel Communications, his second company, started in 1999. It either failed to file or pay taxes from 1999 to 2002.
He also started another for-profit entity, Sharpton Media Group. A spokeswoman for National Action Network, Sharpton’s non-profit organization, stated that Sharpton Media Group ceased to operate after a tax settlement. (Read more about the Sharpton business being shut down HERE)
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The GOP-House voted Tuesday evening to fully repeal Obamacare, sending the bill to a Republican Senate that seems likely to at least try to pass it in the coming weeks.There was little doubt the bill could pass in a House with a stronger Republican majority, and it passed easily 239-186.
Republicans have held full Obamacare repeal votes in every session of Congress, and have won the support of just a few Democrats. This time around, no Democrats voted with Republicans, and three Republicans voted against the bill: Reps. Bob Dold (Ill.), John Katko (N.Y.), and Bruce Poliquin (Maine).
The debate and vote gave both parties a chance to run through their usual arguments for and against the law. Republicans said said the law is leading to higher healthcare costs and less choice for Americans who have seen many of their insurance plans canceled because they don’t meet new standards under the law.
Republicans also said a repeal is needed so Congress can start over and build a new reform plan that gives people more choice. (Read more about the vote to repeal Obamacare HERE)
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(city-journal.org) - Steven Emerson, the expert on terrorism, has caused a sigh of relief among the bien pensants of the Western world. By making inaccurate and false claims on Fox News, he has enabled them to pour righteous scorn on him and thereby avoid thinking about uncomfortable social realities.
Emerson claimed that Birmingham, the second-largest city in Britain, was “totally” Muslim. In the last census, in 2011, 21.8 percent of the city’s inhabitants said that they were Muslim. This percentage is likely to rise because of higher birth rates among Muslims, immigration, and the departure of white Christians. Residents of Birmingham who identified themselves as “white British” declined by 11 percent between 2001 and 2011, while the “white Irish” declined by 33 percent. The proportion of Christians would have decreased further had it not been for the arrival of Eastern Europeans. Meanwhile, the Muslim Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations increased over those ten years by 40 and 50 percent, respectively, and the Arab population rose to 1 percent from zero percent. Whether this matters, whether it fills you with joy or apprehension, or leaves you indifferent, depends upon your political outlook—and perhaps on where you live.
Since ethnic and religious groups are not scattered evenly throughout Birmingham, moreover, the population in some areas is overwhelmingly Muslim. Emerson referred to some of these areas as “no-go zones.” White women report being verbally abused there, as sluts ex officio as it were, though it would not be true to say that any of the areas are truly “no-go.” One, for example, is notable for its profusion of small, cheap, and good restaurants, patronized by the rest of the population. No part of Birmingham is as cut off from the rest of the city as are some of the banlieues of Paris. Physical (if not social) mixing of populations is evident.
In Britain, Muslim populations like those in Birmingham have relatively poor educational attainment and high rates of youth unemployment, crime, and imprisonment. This is not likely the result of discrimination, because Hindus and Sikhs, present also in large numbers, have lower rates of youth unemployment than whites and much lower levels of crime than whites. The Sikhs have the second-highest average household wealth when such wealth is broken down by religious affiliation. Sikh households are richer than Christian ones; Muslim households are much poorer. The causes of this disparity are a matter of speculation, and of course, group characteristics don’t apply to every individual.
Because of their high rates of consanguineous marriage, Muslim children have relatively high rates of serious genetic conditions, about which a kind of omertà has long prevailed, though it is not uniquely medical. In my experience, school inspectors never inquire as to why Muslim girls go missing from school for long periods, though I have known white parents prosecuted because their refractory adolescent child failed to attend school as the law required for only short periods. The same kind of omertà was surely one reason for the shameful disregard shown by the police in Rotherham of the systematic sexual abuse of young white girls by Muslim men there—though whether the police were more afraid of Muslim reaction or accusations of racism in the liberal press is uncertain.
Forced marriage (very different from arranged marriage) is common among the Muslims, though it is difficult because of social secrecy to estimate just how common. Certainly I was able to recognize a pattern among my young Muslim female patients, down to the withholding of their passports when they returned “home” to Pakistan, aged between 15 and 20, to marry their first cousin in their “home” village. Resignation to their fate merged by degrees into consent; all of them knew of honor killings of young women such as themselves, which exerted the same psychological effect as lynching did on blacks in the American South.
Supposedly to placate Muslim sentiment, local authorities have sometimes agreed to or imposed measures worthy of an apartheid regime. For example, the Birmingham Central Library provided women-only tables, in practice for the use of Muslim women. I don’t know whether this gesture came in response to a request or was an anticipatory cringe; the argument in its favor would almost certainly have been that without such separate facilities Muslim women would not have been allowed by their males to use the library at all. It is unlikely that such an argument would have succeeded for any other religious or social group, and indeed it would have provoked feminist ire, in this case notably absent, presumably because of fear.
In France, the problems are both similar and different. France is de jure secular, Britain only de facto. This difference leads to opposing views on such matters as the wearing of the veil. The relative inflexibility of French labor laws virtually guarantees a higher unemployment rate, though not necessarily a lower income, among youth of the lowest social class. The geographical and social origins of most of France’s Muslims are different from those of Britain’s: North African rather than Indian subcontinental. Since the fate of immigrants depends on what they bring with them as well as their reception in their new country, and since Islam, whatever its claims, does not exhaust a people’s cultural characteristics, differences are only to be expected.
But similarities are also striking: for example, low levels of educational achievement and high rates of youth unemployment and crime (60 percent to 70 percent of French prisoners are Muslim, on some estimates, and this is unlikely to be the result of prejudice alone, even if such prejudice exists). These are not characteristic of other immigrant groups, for example the Vietnamese.
While some of the banlieues of Paris and other big cities are relatively cut off from their metropolises, as were the townships of South Africa, it would be an exaggeration to call them no-go areas—even if that is what some of the criminal youth would like them to be, so that they can get on with their domination and trafficking with more impunity than they already enjoy. Schools and other state or public institutions remain in these areas. The police and the fire brigade may sometimes be stoned by the grateful recipients of their services, but they are not totally absent. They are therefore not extra-territorial in the most literal sense. Other European countries—Belgium and Sweden, for example—have not dissimilar problems.
But of course the most worrying aspect of the situation is the attraction of jihadi ideology for young Muslims. It is impossible to gauge exactly the degree or strength of support for it: opinion surveys are all but useless. The least one can say, however, is that jihadism attracts both those with bright and dim futures, and according to official calculations, some 2,200 youthful jihadis from France, Britain, and Belgium alone have gone to Syria. This is a far more than sufficient pool of murderous religious ideologues to cause untold havoc in Europe.
By his inaccuracy, distortions, and exaggerations, however, Steven Emerson has provided a convenient and enjoyable distraction for his critics, an excuse for them to indulge in displacement activity, like mice that lick their paws when faced by a cat. It is easier to mock him than to suggest the correct way to deal with the threat of Islamism. It is easier and more fun for the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, to sue Fox News (for what, exactly?) than to improve life in the largely Muslim banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois. Here is a resident’s testimonial to that suburb of Hidalgo’s city: “A piece of advice: come armed! What I like about Clichy-sous-Bois? No need to look for public toilets. They are under the sky, in the buildings. What don’t I like about Clichy-sous-Bois? What can I say . . . No, it would take too long. I’m going to vomit.”
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I've been receiving invites to help support Gov. Scott Walker in his presidential bid.
I'm sorry I can NOT. Here is my previous post:
I am not happy with Scott Walkers choice to run for President. He has a Job to Do Here in Wisconsin and a much better chance of accomplishing what he NEEDS to do here in Wisconsin than he does as a Presidential Candidate. Even if he was able to get elected I believe his time would be better spent as the Gov. that introduced ACT 10 here in Wisconsin and then proceeded to do what he promised to do right here! Unless he's just trying to cash out.. I've already written that I am concerned that our beloved Gov. Walker is more concerned with political expediency as his priority over political conviction.
I used to end this by saying TELL SCOTT WALKER TO NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AND GET IT RIGHT HERE IN WISCONSIN FIRST Now that it's too late for this I am now asking Gov Walker. Why are you not Actively Opposing Common Core?, What is your Official Position on amnesty? What is Your Official Position on Right To Work? Please give us Voters a Clear and Honest Answer?
By: Juan Reynoso, WTP- activist - voteforamerica@gmail.com
"Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."
Free Trade destroyed one century of American's job protection and broadly share prosperity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlobZginDo
Ronald Reagan's ideology for Americans prosperity created this reckless free-trade policy and the creation of American predator corporatism that destroyed millions of America's jobs. We must return to The American policy and strategic, that made American great and stops this driving unconditional greedy predator corporatism that made American workers this class of economic slaves and demises the dignity, determination and self-worth of the American worker.
Fellow Americans it's time to face this issue of free trade and globalization, the brutal truth about the enslavery of the American working class and the destruction of the American economic by this predator corporate monster created by the financial system with the collaboration of the whores that we elected to office; must be face and deal with. Even with the low gas prices, the high price on our food, housing cost and our private and national debt; our tradition of free enterprise, good jobs and our quality of life broadly shared prosperity will be over.
The truth is that our American job machinery has been destroyed by this reckless free-trade policies and the globalization agenda of the elite of the financial system, predator corporatism, the IMF, the WTO and the Washington whores that sell out and collaborated with these greedy sycophants to control the world economic and help them to establish the one world order, not for the benefit of humanity, but for their own benefit. The fact is that income inequality is growing in favor of the 1% that controls our government at our expenses and our economic slavery.
The fact is that corporate American control Washington, the free trade agreements are an acceleration to pursue a globalized economic; this policy is the major factor in American's increasing income, wealth and class inequality, our rising indebtedness, community abandonment, the fragmentation of our families, the rising in crimes and the demise of our moral principles and values are the result of this class inequality that can impact on our national security.
The Good news is that our God is a God of purpose, this economic will collapse and the most affected are going to be the greedy that created this economic mess in the first place. This global order of free trade is about to crumble, is a matter of time; the stimulus strategy to fix this economic crisis is not working and will not work, our trade deficit will makes this economic collapse a certainty. The economic stimulus benefit most foreign countries since we do not manufacture most of what we consume and we have to import about 90% of the consumers items in our country creating a trade deficit and benefiting the foreign countries wages. As American industrial decline, Washington respond with more stimulus and cheap money leading our country to an ever increasing of private and national debt..
The solution is simple. American needs to start manufacturing what we consume and balance our trade deficit, jobs created in the service sector will not fix this economic crisis. We need to focus on all the elements that make an economic to be self-sufficient and a foreign trade system of cooperation and mutual benefit. Predator corporatism and exploitation should end and a tax reform to end this concentration of wealth should be implemented. Becoming rich or being rich it is not a crime; what is a crime are being a predator and an exploiter of the poor countries and getting rich at the expenses of humanity. God will punish corporate American and take their wealth, demise their power and give it to the people. The rich people don't create jobs, we the people create jobs. We are the consumers the 99% that make the real economic.
Corporations and the business community must pay the people a living wages and put our country first. Greed and the love of money, is a sin and corporate American will be accountable for their sins; it is God's law.
Globalization and free trade created a concentration of wealth that benefit the world elite and the multinational corporations, but impoverished the working people creating a system of poverty and cutting the purchasing power of the people, the government choice to deal with this problem facilitate a credit system that place people in debt creating a financial bubble and compounding the economic crisis to the point of no return. An economic catastrophe is coming and is a matter of time that this multiple bubbles will burst and the whole world will feel the impact of this economic crash.
Fellow American do not despair be calm; because God is in our side; after the storm it will be calm and a new American will be born. An American that is just and prosperous, with principles and high moral character. Americans “Trust in God”. We the people are the solution, remember we the people create jobs, not the rich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g
Free trade and WTO destroyed American’s jobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2VSQctjuow#t=235
China trade proposal wins support
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/11/china-free-trade.html
The American whores continuing the wholesale of American’s jobs.
The GOP NEOCON whores that wholesale Americans jobs through free trade
Four months ago, America's King Midas in Reverse crowed about the fruits of his triumphant foreign policy in jihad-infested Yemen. A "light footprint" approach to counterterrorism operations, he claimed, was the most effective path to stability. In addition, nObama has shoveled nearly $1 billion in American tax-subsidized foreign aid to Yemen.
Four months later, Iran-backed Shia rebels seized a Yemeni presidential palace. The president and his entire cabinet tendered their resignations on Thursday, creating a vacuum that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is ready and eager to fill. ISIS is gaining its own Sunni foothold in the Muslim terror-breeding ground. And while the JV team at the State Department dithers with hashtag games and selfies, adults at the Pentagon want to evacuate U.S. embassy personnel and other Americans before it's too late.
It would be bad enough if the current crisis were merely the result of incompetence and negligence. But nObama's disastrous Yemen policy reflects his radical leftwing administration's deep-rooted ideological sympathies for our enemies.
This is, after all, the man who wrote immediately after 9/11 that the well-funded and highly educated murderous hijackers' hatred grew "out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair." nObama's pussyfoot strategy against jihadists was a direct rebuke to the supposed "cowboy" approach of George W. Bush, whom progressives blame for radicalizing poor, oppressed Yemenis. President Huggy Bear won a Nobel Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" and outreach to the Muslim world.
But what the kumbaya crowd refused to acknowledge is this: The Yemen-based jihadist network, like the worldwide Islamic terror movement, has been at war with us for years -- long before the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, long before 9/11, long before the global onset of Bush Derangement Syndrome. This coming October, America will mark the 15th anniversary of the U.S.S. Cole bombing in the Yemeni port of Aden, which took the lives of 17 American crewmembers.
Fifteen years.
In February 2009, nObama met with Cole families and promised them justice. Then, he betrayed them by ordering the Justice Department to abandon the death penalty case assembled against al-Qaida mastermind and chief Cole bombing suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri under the Bush administration. Only after a public uproar did nObama reinstate the charges. He's dragged his feet on the trial ever since, but found the time to release five Yemeni Gitmo detainees just last week. Another half-dozen went home at the end of last year. And until this week, nObama had planned to fly another 47 back to their volatile homeland.
All this despite five years of revolving-door Gitmo recidivist activities in Yemen -- and with knowledge of Yemen's terror training of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the jihadist who attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day in 2009.
The Yemen chaos didn't happen overnight. The White House has allowed jihad to fester there from Day One. Reminder: In late January 2009, the U.S. Embassy in Yemen came under gunfire. American diplomatic staff had been warned of a pending attack. That same month, two former Yemeni Gitmo detainees, Said Ali al-Shihri and Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi, released a video publicly recommitting to "aid the religion," "establish the rightly guided caliphate" and "fight against our enemies" after undergoing terrorism "rehab" in Saudi Arabia.
Why has nObama so wantonly aided and abetted our enemies? Appeasement of the international human rights crowd and agreement with the soft-on-jihad lawyers infesting his own Justice Department. As I've reported previously, Attorney General Eric Holder's law firm, Covington and Burling, provided dozens of dangerous Yemeni Gitmo detainees pro bono legal representation and sob-story media relations campaigns. At least nine nObama DOJ appointees represented or advocated for Gitmo denizens before taking positions in our government.
By words and action, the nObama White House has demonstrated that its primary allegiance lies not with protecting Americans, but with coddling jihadists (with a drone killing tossed in here and there, of course, to ward off critics and maintain political viability). If the nObama administration exerted as much energy combating Yemeni jihadists as it did waging war on the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the Yemen capital might still be standing.
Conveniently, the political football-spiking White House left any mention of Yemen out of the State of the Union address. This is nObama's own version of DeflateGate. Pfffffffffft.
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“Every consideration that can influence the human mind, such as honor, oaths, reputation, conscience, the love of country, and family affections and attachments, afford security for their fidelity.” –John Jay, Federalist No. 64, 1788
Upon securing the Democrat presidential nomination in 2008, Barack Obama declared that future generations would mark the occasion as “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Now, the president has signed an executive order dictating that every federal project must now take into account the flooding that would come about due to global warming. This order was inevitable after the Senate’s vote that showed all but one senator believed climate change is happening – although not necessarily man-made. Jerry Howard, CEO of the National Association of Home Builders, warned that “any reforms must preserve the strong partnership between state and local governments so that they, not the federal government, retain primary authority over land use decisions.” But Obama doesn’t care about federalism. He’ll take this executive order to Paris later this year for the UN meeting to craft a treaty on climate change as further evidence that he, Barack Obama, can stop the rising tide. More…
The Obama administration appealed to a higher power this week when a delegation from the Environmental Protection Agency traveled to Vatican City to meet with members of the Holy See and establish a mutual stance on climate change. Pope Francis has been somewhat liberal in his comments on poverty and culture, and now the EPA sees an opportunity to score political points with its crusade against global warming. The National Catholic Reporter writes that, before the visit, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said, “I want [the pope] to know that the president is aligned with him on these issues [of climate change] and that we are taking action in the United States. … One of the challenges that I think we face in the U.S. is that climate change is very often viewed as a political issue. … I think we need to get this out of the political arena and get it back to the arena we work most effectively on: What’s right for our kids, for our families, for public health, and what solutions do we bring to the table that are going to address those?” If nothing else, this illustrates that, in the eyes of McCarthy and her fellow warmists, climate change is not a question of policy; it’s one of religion. More…
While the jihadists bitterly cling to their bombs and religion, the White House continues its holy war to wipe out Islamic heretics. Barack Obama declared that the War on Terror is not a war against religion – not one he recognizes at least. “I think that the way to understand this is there is an element growing out of Muslim communities in certain parts of the world that have perverted the religion, have embraced a nihilistic, violent, almost medieval interpretation of Islam,” he pontificated. “And they are doing damage in a lot of countries around the world.” Yet the militant Islamists themselves are not nihilistic about their faith. Richard Reid, who is sitting out a lifetime prison sentence, tried to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 in December 2001, but his shoe bomb wouldn’t light. Recently, he wrote from prison that he has “some tactical regrets” over the dud bomb. “However,” he continued, “at the same time I also believe that it wasn’t supposed to happen, not because it was displeasing to God … rather because it was not either my time to die nor that of those on the plane with me, and he had other plans for me which include my staying in prison and other matters which I may not be aware of as of yet.” But remember: Reid’s attack has nothing to do with Islam.
The Islamic State’s unfettered expansion in the Middle East has all but vanished, at least for now. Unfortunately, the White House takes this to mean victory is commensurate with a geographic stalemate. By Barack Obama’s logic, an acquiescent foreign policy is justified by self-convincingly belittling our enemies to a nominal threat. “What I do insist on is we maintain a proper perspective and that we do not provide a victory to these terrorist networks by over-inflating their importance and suggesting in some fashion that they are an existential threat to the United States or the world order,” the president told CNN’s serial plagiarist Fareed Zakaria. No doubt al-Qaida operatives are nodding in agreement. Obama explained that keeping terrorism in a proper perspective “means we don’t approach this with a strategy of sending out occupying armies and playing Whac-a-Mole wherever a terrorist group appears because that drains our economic strength and it puts enormous burdens on our military. What’s required is a surgical, precise response to a very specific problem.” The wildfire-like spread of jihadi fundamentalism demonstrates exactly why all radical Islamists pose an existential threat, regardless of size. ISIL may represent the early onset of a small, albeit vicious, cancer, but that doesn’t mean the remedy is letting it take its course. Because by the time it matures, it’s too little, too late.
Al Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network, isn’t the only organization of his that owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. An investigation by National Review shows that every for-profit enterprise the race baiter has started is on the financial rocks because of – you guessed it – taxes. The state has shut down his businesses. Liens were placed against him for owing tens, sometimes hundred of thousands of dollars. He is constantly late when he files his taxes for NAN. A former aide of Sharpton’s, Carl Redding, told National Review, “What he’s doing is negligent. … Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believe that Sharpton has become so powerful it’s diluting everything about him. The African-American community doesn’t trust Sharpton anymore. He’s living in a fantasy world if he thinks he has credibility.” Sharpton has become a man wearing a borrowed Rolex. And he’s supposed to be the shining spokesman for blacks in this nation? More…
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Reforming the corporate tax structure in the United States has been a long time coming. Both parties agree it is sorely in need of an overhaul, but the change Barack Obama has in mind is not one that will help our economy. In fact, it’s nothing but piracy on the high seas.
Obama’s 2016 budget proposal includes a plan to force corporations to pay a 14% tax on accumulated overseas profits. In the past, businesses earning money overseas were able to defer taxes on those profits until the money was brought back to the U.S. This new 14% tax does away with that practice.
The second part of Obama’s one-two punch proposes a 19% minimum tax on foreign profits. Companies that reinvest foreign profits directly into the U.S. would be exempt fromwalking the plank the additional penalty.
This is all part and parcel of Obama’s call for “economic patriotism” – defined as paying what he deems is a “fair share” of taxes.
The president claims his corporate tax proposal is necessary to help fund badly needed infrastructure investment to the tune of $478 billion over six years. He wants multinational corporations to cover at least $238 billion of that tab.
Republicans have expressed interest in more infrastructure spending, and it may be one of the few points of agreement they have with the president’s $4 trillion budget plan. Such spending can upgrade America’s roads and bridges, ports and railroads, as well as create more jobs.
But Obama’s corporate tax hike is not the way to pay for it. “Changes to our tax code just to fund more spending by our already bloated government is not the way to boost our economy and encourage job creation,” said Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH).
Higher taxes on corporations won’t encourage investment in the U.S. or motivate those companies to bring that money back home. The federal government’s corporate tax rate is already 15 points higher than most of our global competitors. The U.S. is also the only nation that taxes foreign income on our own companies. With a corporate tax policy like this in place, it’s no wonder the U.S. has been losing its competitive edge.
Obama claims he’s doing companies a favor by charging a 14% tax on earnings not yet repatriated rather than what current law demands. The profits he’s looking to plunder, however, have not specifically been earmarked for U.S. investment, so, according to current law, they should not be taxed at all.
The White House says the suggested rates in the president’s proposal are still open to debate. “When people are putting out numbers, you’re opening up a process for negotiation,” said Gene Sperling, liberal economic guru and former top economic adviser to Obama. The president will negotiate? Right, and we have oceanfront property in Arizona to sell him.
The truth is, Obama sees a glut of cash and he wants to get his hands on it. U.S. companies have accumulated foreign profits in excess of $2 trillion. To a statist pirate like Obama, that’s a lot of booty just begging to be confiscated.
Obama’s corporate tax “reform” is a mask to hide further government plundering in the private sector. As for using it to balance out spending, when has the federal government ever been concerned about that? With an $18 trillion debt and a 2016 budget that includes a 7% spending increase, does it really matter if an additional $238 billion in spending goes unfunded?
Real corporate tax reform would overhaul the system to make the U.S. more competitive in overseas markets. It would encourage multinational corporations to bring profits back home and invest in infrastructure and job creation, things Obama supposedly cherishes. It might even end the practice of taxing foreign profits altogether. Real reform would help shore up the economy that, despite platitudes and projections, is far from stable. Democrats lauded Obama’s handling of the economy in the third quarter of last year when GDP grew by 5%. They were quieter in the fourth quarter when that growth dropped to 2.6%.
Obama claims, “This country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”
But that’s not the policy he’s followed since taking office. Every one of the seven budgets the president has submitted to Congress included massive deficit spending backed by sharp, punitive tax hikes on the same individuals and corporations. If everyone is supposed to be playing by the same rules, then why is Captain Obama picking winners and losers from his pirate ship?
If there’s one thing on which Barack Obama is consistent, it’s taking credit for the success of policies that weren’t actually his. Recall his boasts about wiping out al-Qaida, the boom in U.S. oil production and boosting job creation while ending the recession. In the latter case, it turns out it was the end of one of his polices that had a significant role in creating jobs in 2014.
In 2008 and 2009, the narrative was that the government needed to pump billions of dollars into the economy in order to fix it. Leftist central planners hailed this Keynesian approach as the answer to America’s economic woes. We witnessed cash for clunkers, the auto bailout, and, of course, the “stimulus.”
Part of that near-trillion-dollar boondoggle was the lengthy extension of unemployment benefits. The Wall Street Journal notes that before the stimulus states would typically offer unemployment benefits that would expire after 26 weeks. Under the Pelosi Congress, those benefits were extended an additional 53 weeks, but that apparently wasn’t enough, so Congress created a 20-week bonus program on top of that. This lavish giveaway granted almost two years' worth of unemployment compensation to qualified individuals.
In December 2013, Obama refused to work with the GOP-led House on unemployment reform, so the House let the unemployment extensions expire. Predictably, the president blasted cruel Republicans for denying people the opportunity to pay rent or buy food. Obama deemed it nearly impossible for millions of Americans to make it on their own without long-term assistance from government.
Yet according to a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), “1.8 million additional jobs were created in 2014 due to the benefit cut. Almost 1 million of these jobs were filled by workers from out of the labor force who would not have participated in the labor market had benefit extensions been reauthorized.”
However, other economists found the methodologies used to arrive at the 1.8 million jobs estimate inaccurate, and they contend that one policy change cannot account for that many jobs. Dr. Salim Furth, a senior policy analyst in macroeconomics at the Heritage Foundation, suggests, “Despite the promising macro statistics, the new paper struggles to accurately measure the impact of unemployment insurance.”
What does this mean and why does it matter?
According to Dr. Furth, there is a cost-benefit aspect of unemployment insurance. “The macroeconomic costs to unemployment insurance come from the demand side. Employers have a narrow benefit from each marginal hire, so hiring can respond a lot to a small shift in wages. Unemployment insurance gives potential employees more bargaining power, raising the equilibrium hiring wage a little, but lowering the equilibrium number of hires a lot.”
While the GOP’s decision to end the perpetual extension of unemployment benefits certainly wasn’t the single cause of an increase in jobs in 2014, there is no doubt a correlation in the number of people now in the workforce.
If people are paid not to work for an extended period of time, it creates a disincentive to find a job. While those who are hired for a job paying below what they want to earn may not like it, at least they are working and at least they have the opportunity to move up or move on to something else rather than staying on the taxpayer dole.
James Madison, the author of our Constitution, once said, “Charity is no part of legislative duty of government.” This is an incredibly difficult and seemingly heartless argument to make today. The vast majority of Americans either do depend or have depended on some form of the “safety net,” or they at least advocate its continuance.
The best practical solution then is to push policies that promote the general welfare rather than provide for it – which is exactly what ending the extension of unemployment benefits has done for many Americans.
Unemployment insurance can ease the pain of someone losing their job. However, relying on it for too long during a time of recession leads to a longer and slower recovery.
Obama and those around him who subscribe to a centrally planned economy tend to really mess things up rather than make them better. One can only imagine what our economy would be like if the central planners would let go of the reins.
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Author James Thurber (1894-1961): “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
Columnist Thomas Sowell: “Putting together a successful model – of anything – is a lot more complicated than identifying which factors affect which outcomes. When many factors are involved, which is common, the challenge is to determine precisely how those factors interact with each other. That is a lot easier said than done when it comes to climate. Everyone can agree, for example, that the heat of the sunlight is greater in the tropics than in the temperate zones or near the poles. But, the highest temperatures ever recorded in Asia, Africa, North America or South America were all recorded outside – repeat, OUTSIDE – the tropics. No part of Europe is in the tropics, but record temperatures in European cities like Athens and Seville have been higher than the highest temperatures ever recorded in cities virtually right on the equator, such as Singapore in Asia or Nairobi in Africa. None of this disproves the scientific fact that sunlight is hotter in the tropics. But it does indicate that there are other factors which go into temperatures on earth.”
Columnist Cal Thomas: “The greatest warning against trusting politicians to improve a nation’s virtue comes from King David. When he had all the power his theocracy could offer him in ancient Israel, he wrote, ‘Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.’ (Psalm 146:3 NIV). … What does true faith look like? The apostle James wrote to believers: ‘Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.’ (James 1:27, New Living Translation) Unfortunately, politicians can’t raise money on that agenda and the likelihood of one getting elected on such a platform in our day is nil. But by embracing ‘true religion,’ one ultimately affects the social order in ways that the political system is incapable of doing. This is not to say people shouldn’t pray for those in authority, including those for whom they did not vote, because Scripture commands believers to do so. It is to say conservative Christians who salivate when politicians speak their ‘language’ should heed King David’s warning and the statement about the two kingdoms.”
Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest: “The president has convinced the public that the White House beer is made from Michelle’s garden ingredients. The beer will be named Nonetheweiser.”
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