Sunday, July 17, 2016

History for July 17

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History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com:
James Cagney 1899, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian



Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor, Lucie Arnaz 1951 - Actress, Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor


1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.


1453 - France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years' War.


1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.


1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
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1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."


1960 - Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.


1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Black Fox Guest SHREDS Al Sharpton's Post-Dallas Attack On The NRA: 'The Man Is A ...:

Black Fox Guest SHREDS Al Sharpton's Post-Dallas Attack On The NRA: 'The Man Is A ...::

"In a “Fox & Friends” appearance earlier Monday, Webb laid out the difference between the NRA and Sharpton.

“This man is a racist, he’s a race-baiter, and he wants to be in the conversation,” Webb stated.

“What the NRA advocates for is that all Americans — especially blacks in poor communities like Chicago — they need to be able to protect themselves,” Webb said. “Here’s my [NRA] card. No black requirement here. No white requirement. Al Sharpton’s an idiot. He needs to be irrelevant to the American people.”"




Drop That Red Cup! City Criminalizes College Parties

Drop That Red Cup! City Criminalizes College Parties - Reason.com
"...a new ordinance that tightens rules on loud and unruly parties which, according to Whitaker, are so bad they affect neighbors' ability to enjoy their own property...
The ordinance sounds reasonable on its face (Who wants someone peeing in their front yard?), until you look at the details.
The ordinance makes it unlawful for any person to be "present at, attend or participate in a loud or unruly gathering," and to do so in a way that "contributes" to the gathering. 
According to city code, the punishment could be hundreds of dollars worth of fines and the violation amounts to a misdemeanor.
"There are important consequences to a misdemeanor conviction or any criminal record," says Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the University of California, Irvine, Law School. "This isn't gentle by any means."
Wayne Winthers, the city attorney for Orange gave a little more insight into what contributing might mean at the city council meeting, April 12, saying "The individual has to be doing something more than just walking by at the time [...] Some indication that they are contributing to the party. 
They may be with their red cup or they're jumping up and down to the music or whatever it might be, but, something so an officer has to observe something more than just mere presence."
So holding a red cup or dancing at a loud or unruly party could mean you are guilty of a crime?
...That lack of specificity means practically anyone could be guilty of a criminal behavior..."

Refugee Protection Act of 2016 introduced by Vermont Senator Leahy « Refugee Resettlement Watch

Refugee Protection Act of 2016 introduced by Vermont Senator Leahy « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
"It is probably the same old bill he has been trying to get passed for years.  I didn’t bother looking at it.  The point I want to make here is this—the Open Borders Left never gives up!  There is no way this bill will go anywhere this year in the waning months of an election year, but this sort of thing is done because they constantly push and they constantly gin up their grassroots by doing ‘show’ bills like this.
patrick Leahy
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy one of the most important Senators pushing for MORE and MORE refugees to be admitted to the US.
Editor:
Here is a bit of information from Human Rights First about the bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California:
New York City—...The bill would improve the efficiency, fairness and effectiveness of the U.S. asylum and resettlement processes, and strengthen protection for refugees. U.S. global leadership on the protection of refugees is crucial, as demonstrated by President Obama’s decision to host a world Leaders’ Summit on Refugees on September 20, and the U.S. asylum and resettlement systems should be a model for other countries. The Refugee Protection Act of 2016 fixes many of the areas in which U.S. laws and policies are not living up to the standards the United States has set for itself and, by extension, the bar it sets for the rest of the world.
Then this is my favorite in a list of things the bill would do, revealing I believe the Achilles heel of  the UN/US State Department Refugee Admissions Program—refugees are not finding jobs and economically helping communities, but are in fact a drain wherever they are placed.  This is probably a provision to send more of your $$$ to the resettlement contractors to distribute to the refugees (I didn’t bother to look it up!):

Safeguards newly arrived refugees from slipping into poverty and supports local communities.

Continue reading here for more of what Human Rights First has to say..."
Much more on this scam.
Read on!

WH: Obama feels 'pride' over how Lynch, Comey handled Congress | Washington Examiner

WH: Obama feels 'pride' over how Lynch, Comey handled Congress | Washington Examiner:

"The president's top spokesman applauded the performances of Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey when they testified before Congress about their decision not to bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server.

Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that President Obama feels "pride and appreciation" for the public service of both Lynch and Comey."



BREAKING REPORT=> Cleveland Police Given "Stand Down" Order at RNC - Protesters to Wreak Havoc on Republicans and City

BREAKING REPORT=> Cleveland Police Given "Stand Down" Order at RNC - Protesters to Wreak Havoc on Republicans and City:
Michael Cernovich at Danger and Play has this very disturbing report today.
The Cleveland police has issued a stand down order to officers— During next week’s Republican Convention.
We know what happened the last time this stand down order was given
trump supporters beatenFar Left protesters BEAT THE HELL Out of Trump Supporters in San Jose–
Danger and Play reported:
Although the radical left has days of protests planned and has a history of protests, the Cleveland police has issued a stand down order to officers, I can exclusively report.
Remember when thugs from the left attacked Trump supporters at his San Jose rally? 
The San Jose mayor and police chief claimed it would have been “too dangerous” for officers to do their jobs by defending Trump supporters.
That same “logic” is being applied by Cleveland officials, who have given up on even trying to control the radical left.
If you’re attending the RNC, do not travel alone. 
Be street smart and travel in groups.
Police will not help you.

American Society on the Brink-VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

American Society on the Brink | National Review:
"Have we reached a point of no return?
Multicultural societies — from 19th-century Austria–Hungary to contemporary Iraq, Lebanon, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda — have a poor record of keeping the peace between competing tribes.
They usually end up mired in nihilistic and endemic violence.
The only hope for history’s rare multiracial, multiethnic, and multireligious nations is to adopt a common culture, one that artificially suppresses the natural instinct of humans to identify first with their particular tribe.
...Unfortunately, President Obama, ever since he first appeared on the national political scene in 2008, has systematically adopted a rhetoric and an agenda that is predicated on dividing up the country according to tribal grievances, in hopes of recalibrating various factions into a majority grievance culture.
In large part, he has succeeded politically.
But in doing so he has nearly torn the country apart.
Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that no other recent president has offered such a level of polarizing and divisive racial bombast. 
Most recently, without citing any facts about the circumstances of the police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, Barack Obama castigated the police and the citizenry on their culpability for racial disparity and prejudicial violence. 
“[T]hese fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. 
They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal-justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.” 
Obama did not yet know the race of the policemen involved (as in the case of Baltimore, the Minnesota shooting involved non-white officers), the circumstances that led to the shootings, or the backgrounds of either the officers or their victims.
Shortly afterwards, twelve Dallas law-enforcement officers were shot, and five of them killed, by a black assassin who declared solidarity with Black Lives Matter and proclaimed his hatred for white law enforcement..."
Read on and fear for our country.

Lunch video-----DEBUNKED: #BlackLivesMatter Propaganda Exposed Case-By-Case

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Scandal Without End: Is The Clinton Foundation A Fraud? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Scandal Without End: Is The Clinton Foundation A Fraud? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"Now, a letter circulating in Congress alleges that the Clinton family's supposed do-gooder foundation is in fact a "lawless, 'pay-to-play' enterprise that has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years."

Those are pretty tough words for a former president and his wife, who happens to be the leading candidate to be our next president. But the congressional letter, which the Daily Caller News Foundation got its hands on, was written by Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who plans on asking the FBI, IRS and Federal Trade Commission to launch a "public corruption" investigation."



1/3 SUPPORT this barbarism?!-----Many Oppose The Practice Of Female Genital Mutilation- UNICEF Figures

Many Oppose The Practice Of Female Genital Mutilation- UNICEF Figures:
"New data from the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reveals that about two-thirds of men, women, boys and girls in countries where female genital mutilation (FGM) is common say they want the practice to end.
Image result for Female Genital Mutilation-FGM involves the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
In countries with available data, 67% of girls and women and 63% of boys and men oppose the continuation of the practice in their communities.
The head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has, for the first time, described female genital mutilation as 'child abuse'.
...‘Two-thirds of people in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where female genital mutilation is common oppose the practice and want it stopped. UNICEF estimates that at 200 million girls and women alive today in 30 countries around the world have undergone female genital mutilation.’
..."Unfortunately, individuals' desire to end female genital mutilation is often hidden, and many women and men still believe the practice is needed in order for them to be accepted in their communities," she added..."

Yes. The terrorists are winning-----Celebrity Cruises | Travel Alert

Celebrity Cruises | Travel Alert:

Celebrity Cruises

June 29, 2016

Like all of you, Celebrity Cruises is aware of the bombing at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the attack.
 After reviewing all of the available information and discussions with our Global Security team in Miami, we have decided to cancel all of Celebrity Cruises’ upcoming turns in Istanbul, Turkey, and replace them with Athens (Piraeus), Greece.
This decision was made with the safety of our guests and crew at the forefront of our minds and in an abundance of caution. We realize this may have an impact on your travel plans and our team is working now on available alternative arrangements from this new port of embark and debarkation. We sincerely apologize for the impact on your cruise and will revert throughout the day with more details.  We understand how important your vacation is and we did not take this decision lightly.

Michael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge

Image result for Michael Moore Gun ControlMichael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge | Fox News: "NEW YORK – "Filmmaker Michael Moore's (search) bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night.
Police took Patrick Burke, who says Moore employs him, into custody after he declared he was carrying a firearm at a ticket counter.
Burke is licensed to carry a firearm in Florida and California, but not in New York. Burke was taken to Queens central booking and could potentially be charged with a felony for the incident.
Moore's 2003 Oscar-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" criticizes what Moore calls America's "culture of fear" and its obsession with guns."

More Proof the Fix Was in at the FBI | PJ Media

More Proof the Fix Was in at the FBI | PJ Media:

"In an unusual move, FBI agents working the Hillary Clinton e-mail case had to sign a special form reminding them not to blab about the probe to anyone unless called to testify. Sources said they had never heard of the “Case Briefing Acknowledgment” form being used before, although all agents must initially sign nondisclosure agreements to obtain security clearance.
“This is very, very unusual. I’ve never signed one, never circulated one to others,” said one retired FBI chief. An FBI agent currently on the job admitted, “I have never heard of such a form. Sounds strange.”"



Clinton to Resettle One Million Muslim Migrants During First Term

Clinton to Resettle One Million Muslim Migrants During First Term:
Image result for clinton muslims"If elected president, Hillary Clinton could permanently resettle close to one million Muslim migrants during the first term of her presidency alone, according to the latest available data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Between 2001 and 2013, the U.S. permanently resettled 1.5 million Muslim migrants on green cards. However, under Hillary Clinton’s stated proposals, Muslim immigration would grow substantially faster, adding nearly one million Muslim migrants to the U.S. during her first term alone.
Based on the most recent available DHS data, the U.S. permanently resettled roughly 149,000 migrants from predominantly Muslim countries on green cards in 2014..."

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History for July 16

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History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Ida Bell Wells 1862, Roald Amundsen 1872, Trygve Lie 1896 
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Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911, Barry Sanders 1968 


1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.







1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.


1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
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1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.


1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.


1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.







1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

Friday, July 15, 2016

5 Big Lies In Obama's Dallas Memorial Speech | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

5 Big Lies In Obama's Dallas Memorial Speech | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"In the speech, Obama tried to explain why it is that there's so much tension between blacks and the police these days (without, of course, mentioning his own role in fomenting those tensions). Here's what Obama said:"

Nice, France Attacker Identified as Mohamed Bouhlel — Here’s What We Know So Far | Video | TheBlaze.com

Nice, France Attacker Identified as Mohamed Bouhlel — Here’s What We Know So Far | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"NICE, France (TheBlaze/AP) — Police have identified the attacker who killed at least 84 in Thursday’s grisly Bastille Day massacre in Nice, France, as 31-year-old Mohamed Bouhlel (pronounced “boo-lel”).

The first photo of the suspected attacker appeared to be from his ID card."




This is only through 7/14/2016!-----List of Islamic Terror Attacks

List of Islamic Terror Attacks:
"This is part of the list of Islamic terror attacks maintained by TheReligionofPeace.com.
During this time period, there were 1268 Islamic attacks in 50 countries, in which 11664 people were killed and 14087 injured. "
(TROP does not catch all attacks. Not all attacks are immediately posted). 
DateCountryCityKilledInjuredDescription
2016.07.14PhilippinesManilop30Three off-duty soldiers are ambushed and killed by Abu Sayyaf while buying food.
2016.07.13IraqRashidiya711Seven Iraqis are laid out by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
2016.07.12IraqBaghdad1237A dozen people at a vegetable and fruit market are reduced to pulp by a Shahid suicide bomber.
2016.07.11SomaliaLanto Buro116At least eleven others are killed by a Fedayeen suicide car bomber.
2016.07.11IraqQayara90Women and the elderly are among nine members of two families dragged from their homes and executed by ISIS.
2016.07.11IraqNineveh40Four doctors are beheaded by the Islamic State.
2016.07.10AfghanistanKandahar36Three children are ripped apart by Taliban shrapnel.
2016.07.09NigeriaAbuja10A female pastor is hacked to death by Muslim radicals who left her severed head on a Bible.
This is a TINY part of the 2016 list.
Very long!
Must click link to see!

Calais migrants: Britain to build huge barrier around port amid post-Brexit chaos

Calais migrants: Britain to build huge barrier around port amid post-Brexit chaos | UK | News | Daily Express:
"BRITAIN is to build an enormous wall around the port of Calais amid a surge in migrant attempts to cross the Channel following the Brexit vote."
A vast concrete barrier will be put up as signs migrants are mobilising for a mass bid to reach the UK before we leave the EU for good.
Migrants at CalaisIt is being rushed through after the number of migrant incursions were said to have rocketed by more than sevenfold in the weeks surrounding the decision to quit the Brussels club.
The Brexit vote has caused uncertainty among migrants looking to sneak into Britain, with many fearing the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and subsequent beefing up of border security could make it more difficult.
Britain will foot the 2.7 million euro (£1.9m) bill for the towering wall, which will stand at four metres high and will stretch for more than a kilometre along the main dual carriageway to the port..."

Report: FBI agents believe 'inside deal' happened in Clinton email probe | Washington Examiner

Report: FBI agents believe 'inside deal' happened in Clinton email probe | Washington Examiner:

"FBI agents are reportedly skeptical of the law enforcement agency's decision to close the Hillary Clinton email investigation without recommending criminal charges.

Agents told the New York Post that they "believe there was an inside deal put in place" after Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton just days ahead of the FBI's announcement that its year-long probe had ended."

Here's Why the U.S. Military is in Trouble

Here's Why the U.S. Military is in Trouble:
"At a time when threats against America are growing, the U.S. military is facing a combat readiness crisis that jeopardizes its ability to protect the country...
Thornberry outlined five alarming facts caused by the readiness crisis:
  1. “The Air Force is short 4,000 maintainers and more than 700 pilots today.” It doesn’t matter how many planes the Air Force has, or how modern they may be, if they can’t fly. Without qualified mechanics to maintain the aircraft and properly train pilots to fly them, the Air Force will struggle to accomplish its mission.
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  1. “In 2015 the Navy had a backlog of 11 planes in depot, next year in [20]17 they are going to have a backlog of 278.” Readiness levels for the entire fleet have fallen as the Navy’s maintenance crews are being asked to work longer hours with less funding. More planes in maintenance mean fewer are available to meet mission requirements.
  1. “Less than one-third of the Army is ready to meet the requirements of the Defense Strategic Guidance—it’s supposed to be no less than two-thirds.” The Army is already at a historically small level, and much of what remains of the service is not ready for combat. If a major war were to break out, the U.S. Army simply isn’t ready.
  1. “Marine Corps aviation requires on average 10 hours of flight time a month and they are getting about four.” Like any skill, practice is essential. Pilots without practice make more mistakes, which become deadly when flying complex aircraft, especially when in combat. The lives of Marines are at greater risk because of these funding cuts.
  1. “Less than half of the Air Force combat forces are ready to face a peer competitor such as China and Russia.” While the U.S. military faces this readiness crisis, America’s potential adversaries are increasing defense spending and modernization efforts as U.S. spending declines. Read on!

Terror in Nice: When it comes to Terrorism, America is not a Serious Nation

Terror in Nice: When it comes to Terrorism, America is not a Serious Nation | National Review
"When the avowedly socialist Prime Minister of France, recently pilloried in the media for spending  $11,000 a month on his haircuts, can immediately say after the horror in Nice that his nation is under attack from Islamic terrorism, but the U.S. President cannot blame anything other than  “violent extremism” for the brutal terrorist attacks on our own soil, one sees how deeply unserious a country America has become.
Image result for Terrorism obamaAnd this is true not just among politicians, but in our whole public culture, which has ultimately permitted an dangerous, divisive, and shallow man as President Obama to occupy the highest office in the land.
“All of France is under the threat of Islamic terrorism,” said French President Francois Hollande in the immediate aftermath of the attack, showing more directness and forthrightness not only than the entire Obama administration, but even at many times, the Bush administration, which often preferred to talk “war on terror” without mentioning the source of the overwhelming majority of that terror. 
We’ve fallen so far that a French socialist dandy is teaching us about resolve in the face of terror, just as previously a bunch of French leftist cartoonits at Charlie Hebdo, taught the simpering cowards in our mainstream media a lesson about the true purpose of and sadly, the ultimate price that must sometimes be paid for,  defending free speech and expression..."
Read on!

Lunch video-----Private Sector vs. Public Sector

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Congressman Gives Supreme Court A Taste Of Their Own Medicine - The Political Insider

Congressman Gives Supreme Court A Taste Of Their Own Medicine - The Political Insider:

"After watching the Supreme Court engage in judicial activism to save Obamacare for the second time, House Republican Brian Babin (R-TX) has introduced a bill that would force justices and their staff to enroll in the health care plans that they’ve decided to force upon the American people."

Yes!-----Climate change department shut down by Theresa May in 'plain stupid' and 'deeply worrying' move

Climate change department shut down by Theresa May in 'plain stupid' and 'deeply worrying' move | Environment | The Independent:
"...One of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to move responsibility for climate change to a new Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
Only on Monday, Government advisers had warned of the need to take urgent action to prepare the UK for floods, droughts, heatwaves and food shortages caused by climate change.
Image result for Theresa May quotesThe news came after the appointment of Andrea Leadsom – who revealed her first question to officials when she became Energy Minister last year was “Is climate change real? – was appointed as the new Environment Secretary.
And, after former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd announced in November that Britain was going to “close coal” by 2025, Ms Leadsom later asked the coal industry to help define what this actually meant.
....Greenpeace said it was concerned that the new Government did not view climate change as a serious threat..."

Nottinghamshire Police force recognise misogyny as a hate crime

Nottinghamshire Police force recognise misogyny as a hate crime | Central - ITV News
Nottinghamshire Police has officially recognised misogyny as a hate crime. In an effort to make the county a safer place for women, the force has provided misogyny hate crime training to selected officers and staff for the past three months.
Image result for misogyny bill clintonThe force is the first in the country to adopt the separate misogyny hate crime category. Misogyny hate crime is classed under the new policy as "incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman, and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman".
Examples of incidents include:
  • unwanted or uninvited sexual advances
  • physical or verbal assault
  • unwanted or uninvited physical or verbal contact or engagement
  • use of mobile phones to send unwanted or uninvited messages
  • or take photographs without consent.
I'm delighted that we are leading the way towards tackling misogyny in all its forms.
It's a very important aspect of the overall hate crime work being conducted and one that will make Nottinghamshire a safer place for all women."
– CHIEF CONSTABLE SUE FISH..."

Extended Blackouts: Power Grid Completely Vulnerable to Sabotage: "America Could Go Dark"

Extended Blackouts: Power Grid Completely Vulnerable to Sabotage: "America Could Go Dark"
"As if there isn’t enough to worry about already, it seems there is new confirmation that our entire society is hanging by a thread.

The 21st Century is run off of electricity, and in the United States, that electric grid is woefully out of date – and that has left the country quite vulnerable. People’s daily lives depend upon reliable energy, and there are many, such as hospital patients, whose very survival depends upon electricity in the short term.

Image result for empBut in the event of a long-term outage, nearly everyone’s lives would be placed in jeopardy, as commerce, deliveries, fuel, communications and more would grind to a halt.

According to the Wall Street Journal made clear in their special report, the dated grid is completely vulnerable to attack:

The Bakersfield attacks last year were among dozens of break-ins examined by The Wall Street Journal that show how, despite federal orders to secure the power grid, tens of thousands of substations are still vulnerable to saboteurs.

The U.S. electric system is in danger of widespread blackouts lasting days, weeks or longer through the destruction of sensitive, hard-to-replace equipment.

Most substations are unmanned and often protected chiefly by chain-link fences. Many have no electronic security, leaving attacks unnoticed until after the damage is done. Even if there are security cameras, they often prove worthless. In some cases, alarms are simply ignored.

The vulnerability of substations was broadly revealed in a Journal account of a 2013 attack on PG&E’s Metcalf facility near San Jose, Calif. Gunmen knocked out 17 transformers that help power Silicon Valley; a blackout was narrowly averted. The assailants were never caught.
It isn’t just EMPs and natural disaster that poses a threat to the grid, but there is also the potential for attacks on individual power substations in the vast network of decentralized and largely unguarded power grid chain. A U.S. government study established that there would be “major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed.”

Whether by criminals, looters, terrorists, gangs or pranksters, it would take very little to bring down the present system, and there is currently very little the system can do to protect against this wide open threat. As the WSJ notes:

Federal officials have long known about the vulnerability of electrical substations. A 1990 report from the federal Office of Technology Assessment warned that “virtually any region would suffer major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed.”

[…] individual substations “if rendered inoperable or damaged could result in widespread instability,” or cascading blackouts in any of the three separate sections of the U.S. power grid.
As things stand, California is already warning residents to expect up to 14 days of blackouts during the summer due to overload in the system. Just imagine how much bigger the disaster could get if something were done intentionally.

This video shows what happened when a group of white hat hackers broke into a power station to demonstrate what they can do given the lack of security, and the potential for mischief:


Homeland Security has been engaging in drill scenarios with the private sector to prepare a response for if/when the grid does fail, but the simple truth is there would be no quick solution, and thousands or even millions of people could die in a large scale shutdown of the power system..."











Clinton doubles down on 'convenience' excuse for email server | Washington Examiner

Clinton doubles down on 'convenience' excuse for email server | Washington Examiner:

"Her legal team also called questions over whether Clinton deleted work-related emails "irrelevant."

Although Clinton has argued since March of last year that her server was set up for the "convenience" of carrying just one device for business and personal communications, FBI Director James Comey noted Clinton carried multiple mobile devices and set up several servers for her email network."


Another scam-----Mayor Duggan's nonprofit fund collects nearly $275,000

Mayor Duggan's nonprofit fund collects nearly $275,000:
"This is part of a new series intended to provide more government transparency.
Mayor Mike Duggan has collected nearly $275,000 for his nonprofit Detroit Progress Fund since February 2014.
Duggan said the fund is intended to help him pay for city-related travel, supplies and other expenses that are not funded by taxpayers.
Although Duggan is not required to disclose the donations, he volunteered to in the spirit of transparency.
Here is a searchable database of all 97 donors..."

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