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FBI docs show 'cover-up' of

scumbag/liar-Hillary's email server

by wnd.com: The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch has released 422 pages of FBI documents showing evidence of “cover-up” discussions related to scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email system... within the company that managed it. A Platte River Networks email sent in December 2014 says: “Its [sic] all part of the scumbag/liar-Hillary coverup operation I’ll have to tell you about it at the party.” The documents obtained by Judicial Watch also show Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough forwarding “concerns” about classified information contained in the scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. Judicial Watch also obtained scumbag/liar-Clinton’s 2009 classified information Non-Disclosure Agreement bearing her signature. And documents show Platte River Networks’ use of BleachBit on the scumbag/liar-Clinton server to delete files. The program was downloaded on March 31, 2015, according to a computer event log. Over the next half hour it was used to delete the files on the server at a time when they were under subpoena. The October 2016 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit was filed after the Justice Department failed to comply with a July 2016 FOIA request... https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/fbi-docs-show-cover-up-of-hillarys-email-server/

Palestinian Authority Targets Students

by Khaled Abu Toameh

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ "Pro-Palestinian" activists at university campuses in the US and other Western countries have long been waging various campaigns to denounce Israel... and hold it fully responsible for the continued "suffering" of Palestinians. These activists, however, seem to care little about violations committed against the Palestinians by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank or Hamas in the Gaza Strip -- even when fellow students in the West Bank and Gaza are being targeted. In recent weeks, the PA has been waging a campaign of arrests and intimidation against Palestinian students at some of the West Bank universities. The students, according to the Palestinian Authority, are being targeted because of their affiliation with opposition groups, including Hamas. The students, in other words, are being targeted because of their political affiliations and not because of any crime they committed. Last month, the largest university in the West Bank, An-Najah University, issued a directive banning the Islamic Bloc student list from carrying out any activities on campus. The university administration did not offer any reason for the ban. The decision was announced shortly after a student list affiliated with the Palestinian Authority's ruling Fatah faction accused its rivals in the Islamic Bloc of carrying out "political activities" on campus on behalf of Hamas. The Fatah-affiliated students later closed the offices belonging to their rivals on campus...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14041/palestinians-target-students

Supposedly "Deradicalized,"

They're Sending Money to ISIS Smugglers

by Abigail R. Esman

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ He was a leader of one of Europe's largest and most dangerous homegrown Islamist terror groups, responsible for the 2004 slaughter of writer and filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam... At the time of his 2006 arrest, Dutch authorities had evidence he was planning attacks on the Dutch secret service and intelligence agency, AIVD. Seven years into his 13-year sentence, Samir Azzouz was released from prison, despite warnings from prosecutors that the former Hofstadgroep leader remained a danger. Though an ankle monitor and economic sanctions limited any potential efforts at violence, officials also set up a "deradicalization" program for him in the hope it would help him to move beyond his terrorism past. It didn't. According to an in-depth investigation by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, Azzouz, along with fellow Hofstadgroep member Bilal Lamrani, has not only continued to encourage radicals since his release, but has been raising funds for the children and wives of ISIS fighters still living in the former Islamic State. "If you know that children are dying from hunger, you help them," Azzouz defended himself to the NRC in an interview. "People who don't help, they're the ones who should be prosecuted." It is true that ISIS children now being held in Syrian and Kurdish prisons are suffering. An investigation by Der Spiegel found hundreds of children desperately in need of medical attention, often malnourished, some suffering from injuries and diseases that range from scabies and pneumonia to tuberculosis...

https://www.investigativeproject.org/7889/supposedly-deradicalized-theyre-sending-money-to

Battery Foolishness in Florida

by Norman Rogers

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The largest electric utility in Florida is proposing building the world’s largest battery to smooth the output of solar energy installations. Wind and solar energy are erratic... Output depends on when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. If only electricity could be economically stored, wind and solar would be a lot more practical, or at least, less impracticable. With storage, when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing, electricity could be stored for use when the wind or solar was temporarily dead in the water. There are two methods of storing electricity that are not entirely inadequate: pumped storage and lithium batteries. Pumped storage is best, but it requires two reservoirs at considerably different heights. That’s out of the question in pancake-flat Florida. Batteries are great for computers, cellphones and portable drills. They are even semi-practical for automobiles like Tesla’s products. But batteries are desperately expensive for smoothing out wind or solar energy. Florida Power and Light (FPL), is proposing that the world’s largest battery that will be connected to a small solar plant. The battery will be capable of storing 900 megawatt hours of electricity. It will cost about $400 million. The solar plant in question has an average output of about 15 megawatts. The battery will be able to store 60 hours’ worth of the solar output. If it is cloudy for more than 60 hours the battery will likely run flat. There are over 100 cloudy days per year in nearby Tampa Florida, so one suspects that is cloudy for more than 60 hours, or 3 days in the row, from time to time...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/battery_foolishness_in_florida.html

Why Are Democrats Kissing

The Ring Of scumbag-Al Sharpton?

by David Harsanyi

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Rev. scumbag-Al Sharpton’s fortunes have been on the upswing. A few years ago, in a Politico whitewashing of his career... we learned that scumbag-Sharpton had been transformed into the go-to civil rights guru for the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. “If anything,” Glenn Thrush noted at the time, “the Ferguson crisis has underscored scumbag-Sharpton’s role as the national black leader scumbag/liar-nObama leans on most, a remarkable personal and political transformation for a man once regarded with suspicion and disdain by many in his own party.” The former president claimed that scumbag-Sharpton was “the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden.” In the real world, of course, the only downtrodden Americans helped by scumbag-Sharpton’s activities are the ones who find themselves on the payroll benefitting from his numerous corporate shakedowns. Yet apparently scumbag/liar-nObama’s resuscitation of scumbag-Sharpton who, since 2011, has been at MSNBC, a cable news network that interminably lectures uncouth Americans on proper tone has worked. Many of the very same Democratic Party hopefuls who boycotted the tepid bipartisanship of an AIPAC conference last month could be found speaking at scumbag-Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention in New York this past week, pandering to a charlatan with a history of inciting violence and racism. Texas politician socialist-Beto O’Rourke, who this week accused 12-year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a “racist” and a false leader of Israelis, was there, obsequiously telling scumbag-Sharpton he would support a study on reparations. He wasn’t alone. Many of the people who had recently defended anti-Semite Ilhan Omar—lowlife-Kamala Harris, Elizabeth dinky-Warren, and commie-Bernie Sanders, among others—were yucking with a guy who once said, “We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”... https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/08/why-are-democrats-kissing-the-ring-of-al-sharpton/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=4fde353f11-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-4fde353f11-83771801

Demographic Difficulties

Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ Many elderly citizens in my small western Maine town of Lovell were summer people from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island who always planned to live here full time after retirement. I expect that’s true in other towns in a state where “Vacationland” is stamped on our license plates. I’m semi-retired myself and part of my income, aside from my teacher’s pension and Social Security, is from managing vacation properties here. It dovetailed nicely with teaching and I kept doing it after retiring in 2011. The small contractors I use for plumbing, excavation, carpentry, etc. tell me often how hard it is to find help — especially competent help.

Maine is the oldest state in the country, demographically speaking. According to a recent Boston Globe article: “Maine is one of only two states, along with West Virginia, where deaths now outnumber births,” and “many young people move away in search of opportunity,” further exacerbating the problem. Counties in northern Maine see declining populations while York and Cumberland counties in southern Maine are increasing by three and six percent respectively. Median age is 44 statewide. There are more people over 65 than under 18. The over 65 demographic is predicted to rise 37% by 2016 while all other age groups decline, according to the Globe.

Maine people are having fewer children and New England,according to a New York Times article, is “the least fertile region in the U.S." Without immigration, which is at record levels, regional population would very likely be declining. People I meet in the Portland area who are in their twenties and thirties are more likely to have dogs with them than children and I’ve written about that several times over the past fifteen years. Nationwide, according tolifescience.com, “there were about 60 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 [in 2017], which is 3 percent lower than the rate in 2016, and the lowest recorded rate since the government started tracking birth rates in 1909.”

Why don’t 21st-century Americans want to have children? When I looked into the problem for previous articles, opinions varied. Some young people said openly that it was selfishness — that children are expensive and require a lot of work for a long time. Some women said they wanted to avoid stretch marks and saggy breasts. Some had parents who divorced and didn’t want any of their children to go through that painful experience. Some said the earth’s environment couldn’t handle too many more people and they wanted to reduce their carbon footprint.

Catholic pundits suggest it’s a lack of hope. Young celebrities like the 29-year-old Congresswoman commie-Alexandria Occasio Cortez (D-NY) declared recently that the world will end in twelve years if we don’t take drastic steps likepassing a “Green New Deal.” That certainly lends credence to the no-hope theory for her demographic. The Catholic Church taught (I don’t know if it still does) that despair is a sin, and that suicide — the ultimate despair — is too. commie-AOC recommends that her cohort forego having children and eating meat as well because of the methane cows expel from their rear-ends. She wants us all to be childless vegetarians.

The Catholic Church’s influence with young people has seriously declined in America and in the entire western world. The liberal Pope Francis has made several public statements against abortion, but I don’t believe he’s said anything about artificial contraception. That too was declared sinful by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical: Humanae Vitae. Never have I heard a sermon on that teaching in any Catholic Church I’ve attended, it being politely ignored since its issue fifty years ago. Pope Francis has spoken out about climate change, about which he’s a fellow traveler with the Democrat Party, but nothing about the “carbon footprint” of more children — not yet at least.

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The unemployment rate is so low now that we’re essentially at full employment all across America. There are more jobs than people who want them. Although you may not believe it if you look out the window here in western Maine, summer is right around the corner. Building contractors, landscapers, restaurants, resorts, and many other businesses will be desperate for workers and we’re simply not producing them. Savvy business people are recruiting in eastern Europe and elsewhere for seasonal employees. Fewer high school or college kids want to work the way they did decades ago.

What are we to do? Some European countries offer financial incentives for women to produce more children. Maybe we can do that here too but it won’t be enough. Our culture has changed from one that encouraged couples to have children to one that discourages them. For that trend to reverse will take a very long time.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/04/demographic-difficulties.html

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