The NSA’s stunning 9/11 failure: How big-money contractors made us more vulnerable to attack

The NSA’s stunning 9/11 failure: How big-money contractors made us more vulnerable to attack - Salon.com:
"Bill Binney developed a system that might have prevented 9/11.
But it was canceled in the weeks before
...A top NSA mathematician, Binney had rolled out a sophisticated metadata analysis system called ThinThread, only to have it canceled less than a month before 9/11.
Top executives at the agency had decided a clunky program called Trailblazer, contracted out to the intelligence contractor giant SAIC, would be NSA’s future, not the cheaper, more effective and privacy-protective ThinThread.
...“While I was in there trying to look at the material on my computer, the president of the contracting group that I had working on ThinThread came over to me and said that he’d just been in a contractor meeting” with a former top SAIC official who moved back to NSA, supporting Trailblazer.
The contractors, it turns out, were warned not to embarrass companies like SAIC, which (the implication is) had just failed to warn about the biggest attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor.
“Do not embarrass large companies,” the former SAIC manager, according to Binney, said to the other contractor.
“You do your part, you’ll get your share, there’s plenty for everybody.”
Stay quiet about the failures that led to 9/11, and you’ll be financially rewarded..."
Read on and get ANGRY!

The 47 Clinton Friends Who Mysteriously Turned Up Dead (Pt.1)

The 47 Clinton Friends Who Mysteriously Turned Up Dead (Pt.1)
"Funny things always happen to Bill and Hillary Clinton, friends have this nasty habit of turning up dead. 
We all gotta go sometimes, but the Clinton’s buddies seem to go under weird circumstances (and many by suicide).
My friend Tami Jackson has compiled a list and description of 47 Clinton friends whose deaths seemed a bit odd.
We will share them over the next few days.
Below are the first ten.
1. JAMES MCDOUGAL

Holi crapoli, this is a BIG list!

Clinton Foundation is a “charity fraud” that allows foreign interests to legally bribe Hillary Clinton

Clinton Foundation is a “charity fraud” that allows foreign interests to legally bribe Hillary Clinton:
"...Ortel’s reports note that contributor disclosures from the Clinton Foundation don’t match with individual donors’ records, the WFB noted, while he further argued that the foundation is out of compliance with some state laws pertaining to fundraising registration, auditing rules and disclosure requirements.
In recent days Ortel began releasing his findings in the first of a planned 40 reports on his website. Of the foundation, Ortel alleges, “this is a charity fraud.”
“Starting almost 20 years ago in 1997, the Clinton Foundation spread its activities from Little Rock, Arkansas, to all U.S. states and to numerous foreign countries without taking legally required steps to function and solicit as a duly constituted public charity,” wrote Ortel, in a letter posted on his website.
...“The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed,” one source said.
In other words, besides examining whether Clinton violated laws governing the handling of classified materials, FBI investigators are analyzing whether she used her office as the top U.S. diplomat as a fundraising vehicle for her and her family’s foundation..."

The State Dept. Still Has No Idea Why Portion of Iran Deal Briefing Video Mysteriously Vanished | TheBlaze.com

The State Dept. Still Has No Idea Why Portion of Iran Deal Briefing Video Mysteriously Vanished | TheBlaze.com:

"The State Department continued to remain unsure Friday why video of a reporter grilling an agency spokesperson was edited out of a 2013 briefing video.

“Have you guys come to a determination of how exactly this happened?” Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked at the daily briefing.

“No, we haven’t, Matt,” spokesman John Kirby said."

U.S. debt dump deepens in 2016

U.S. debt dump deepens in 2016 - May. 16, 2016:
"Central banks are dumping America's debt at a record pace.
China, Russia and Brazil sold off U.S. Treasury bonds as they tried to soften the blow of the global economic slowdown.
They each sold off at least $1 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds in March.
In all, central banks sold a net $17 billion.
Sales had hit a record $57 billion in January.
So far this year, the global bank debt dump has reached $123 billion.
It's the fastest pace for a U.S. debt selloff by global central banks since at least 1978, according to Treasury Department data published Monday afternoon.
Treasuries are considered one of the safest assets in the world, but some experts say a sense of panic about the global economy drove the selloff.
"It's more of global fear than anything," says Ihab Salib, head of international fixed income at Federated Investors.
"There's still this fear of 'everything is going to fall apart.'"

Socialism Is Dying Everywhere from Europe to South America - Except in the US

Socialism Is Dying Everywhere from Europe to South America - Except in the US
In Socialist Venezuela they’re now eating pigeons, cats and street dogs for sustenance.

The food lines start at 5 AM in Venezuela.

So leave it to American leftists to push this failed, evil doctrine in the United States.
Investor’s Business Daily reported:

Socialism: Around the world, nations that have been foolish enough to adopt socialist policies either collapsed or are well on their way to doing so. Why, then, are so many in the U.S. enthralled with the idea?

A quick look at the world’s countries in direst economic shape reveals that many, if not most, have one thing in common: They rely on top-down socialist control, rather than free markets, to run their economies. The former, history amply shows, are doomed to fail. There are no long-term socialist success stories. None.

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History for May 16

History for May 16 - On-This-Day.com
William Seward (William Henry Seward, Sr.) 1801 - Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, Henry Fonda 1905 - Actor, father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, Studs Terkel (Louis "Studs" Terkel) 1912 - Author, historian, actor, broadcaster


Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919 - Musician, Billy Martin (Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr.) 1928 - Baseball player and manager, Debra Winger 1955 - Actress


1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.


1879 - The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England set up the Afghan state.


1929 - The first Academy Awards were held in Hollywood.


1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.


1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.


1969 - Venus 5, a Russian spacecraft, landed on the planet Venus.


1985 - Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.


1987 - The Bobro 400 set sail from New York Harbor with 3,200 tons of garbage. The barge travelled 6,000 miles in search of a place to dump its load. It returned to New York Harbor after 8 weeks with the same load.

CNN’s Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Clinton’s Email Claims — See What He Found Out | Video | TheBlaze.com

CNN’s Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Clinton’s Email Claims — See What He Found Out | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"CNN anchor Jake Tapper teamed up with FaceCheck.org to examine Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s claims about her private email server — and the results weren’t pretty.

Tapper first checked on the validity of Clinton’s claim that she was “absolutely permitted” to use a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state."

Mystery train: Climate activists in Albany fight environmental racism by blocking unseen locomotive

Mystery train: Climate activists in Albany fight environmental racism by blocking unseen locomotive – twitchy.com:
At the first Democratic presidential debate, CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked the candidates to name the greatest national security threat to the United States. Bernie Sanders’ answer was climate change, and if you’re willing to investigate his website, you’ll find it addressed everywhere, including under “Racial Justice,” where he decries “environmental violence being inflicted on people of color.”

Sanders certainly isn’t the only progressive to argue that racism and climate change are intertwined. 
You might not have known that climate activists are currently observing Break Free, a “two-week global wave of escalated action to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground.”

On Saturday, protesters in Albany, N.Y., united to stop the bomb train, “the presence of which is an act of environmental racism, class prejudice, and an illegal breach of the public trust.” 
What’s a “bomb train”? 
It’s a train carrying explosive crude oil, often through residential areas.

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What happens when a Muslim girl is expected to shower with a male who thinks he is a girl?

Comment worth noting: What happens when a Muslim girl is expected to shower with a male who thinks he is a girl? « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
From domstudent11:

Here’s what baffles me: at the same time that Obama is suing North Carolina for it’s “bathroom” law and trying to bully schools into mingling boys and girls in bathrooms and locker rooms, he is “importing” thousands of Muslims who would find it permissible to attack a non-relative male seen with any of their women.

What does he think will happen when Muslim girls are forced to shower with males who “think” they are female?

What does he think will happen when a Muslim husband sees a man (who “feels” like a woman) following his wife into a public restroom?

The only solution I can see is that public facilities and schools will be expected to provide an additional bathroom/locker room for Muslim girls only. Muslim boys would be free, of course, to share the facilities with infidel girls (if they are feeling like girls on any given day). Fair isn’t it?  Other suggestions?

This post is archived in our ‘Comments worth noting’ category, here.

Afterthought: Where is CAIR on Obama’s bathroom policy?

Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million | Dinesh D'Souza

Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million | Dinesh D'Souza:

"A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.

As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole.

“These regimes are buying access."

Advice from our Islamic "friends"-----Mirror of the Middle East | Saudi Arabia releases video on National TV teaching husbands how to beat their wives

The Watchdog - Mirror of the Middle East | Saudi Arabia releases video on National TV teaching husbands how to beat their wives:
The national television of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has aired a video, in which a self-styled Islamic family doctor is seen teaching men in the country how to ‘properly’ beat their wives.
 The video is believed to have been aired in the country in early February, 2016.
The Kingdom’s government is said to have approved the video, and that is why it was given airtime on national television.
After airing the video in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government released the controversial video in the United States via the Washington DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute, in April 2016. Women activists group describe the video as nothing less than infuriating.
 The content of the video features the doctor who is said to specialize in therapy; Khaled Al-Saqaby teaching men how to ‘properly’ beat their wives if their [wives] disobey them.

Seattle University Students Talk Gender

Seattle University Students Talk Gender | The Daily Caller
"A new video shows Seattle University students struggling to say how men and women are different, if they’re even different at all.
The Family Policy Institute of Washington released a video this week where it interviewed  students at Seattle University about gender identity and transgender bathrooms.
The students soon struggle to explain how gender is actually fluid … kinda.
“I don’t think there is really any one way to distinguish between a man and a woman, and I don’t think it’s necessary,” one student says.
In the video, a female student is asked if there is a difference between men and women.
She answers, “Umm, no? yes? I mean …”
A different students says, “In general, yes, but I don’t know why I think that.”
“Umm … possibly?” another students answers.
President Barack Obama issued a sweeping demand Friday saying all public schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice.
Meanwhile, North Carolina and Mississippi are embroiled in lawsuits over their respective LGBT laws.
In the state of Washington, activists are trying to get signatures on a petition to put the transgender bathroom issue on the ballot in November.
In the video, one student answers the question of whether people should even have the label “male” and “female” at all.
“I don’t think so,” she says. “I think that its, again, a social construct of this binary that we are given at birth.”
WATCH:

The same group released a different video in April where college students have trouble saying how a white man is not an Asian woman."

Lunch video-----Tribute to our fallen allied heroes

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White House Spox Says Obama Admin’s Transgender Bathroom Directive Is Just ‘Guidance,’ Not a ‘Threat’ | TheBlaze.com

White House Spox Says Obama Admin’s Transgender Bathroom Directive Is Just ‘Guidance,’ Not a ‘Threat’ | TheBlaze.com:

"However, the letter also warned schools they could risk losing federal funding or be at risk of lawsuits if they refuse to follow the guidelines laid out in the directive. The letter stated:

“As a condition of receiving Federal funds, a school agrees that it will not exclude, separate, deny benefits to, or otherwise treat differently on the basis of sex any person in its educational programs or activities unless expressly authorized to do so under Title IX or its implementing regulations. The Departments treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for purposes of Title IX and its implementing regulations.”

Intel CEO Says Reports of the Death of Moore's Law Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Intel CEO Says Reports of the Death of Moore's Law Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - ABC News
"...CEO Brian Krzanich said he still believes Moore's Law, the rule that predicts explosive growth in computer power, will continue to hold true.
In 1965, Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, predicted that the number of tiny electrical switches that could be placed on a computer chip, called transistors, would double approximately every two years at a roughly fixed cost. 
..."In my 34 years in the semiconductor industry, I have witnessed the advertised death of Moore’s Law no less than four times..."
...IBM showed off a prototype chip last year that was hailed as a technological breakthrough for the tiny transistors -- electrical switches that help power a computer -- that have been made so thin they're 1/10,000th the width of a human hair.
-- could allow as many as 20 billion transistors to be placed on a chip the size of a fingernail and is half the size of the current 14 nanometer standard, company officials said.
A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter."

TSA computer error at Phoenix airport sees 3,000 bags lost in one day

TSA computer error at Phoenix airport sees 3,000 bags lost in one day | Daily Mail Online
The mountain of THREE THOUSAND bags lost in just one day at Phoenix airport after TSA computer error meant every piece of hold luggage had to be searched by HAND

• 'Technical issues' caused massive delays in baggage screening at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona Thursday
• Normally, all but 10 percent of bags are automatically screened, TSA said
• With the automatic screening system down, bags started to pile up 
• Sixteen airlines fly in and out of Sky Harbor, which is one of the nation's busiest airports 

‘We’re running a f—ing casino’: Politician tells all in manifesto

‘We’re running a f—ing casino’: Politician tells all in manifesto | New York Post:
"An anonymous congressman has dropped a bombshell election-year book that confirms why Americans hate their national government and have rallied to anti-establishment presidential candidates like Donald Trump.
The veteran politician lays bare a rotten and corrupt Congress enslaved by lobbyists and interested only in re-election in an anonymous, 65-page manifesto called “The Confessions of Congressman X.”
“Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver,” he admits. “But what the hell? It makes them happy hearing it . . . My main job is to keep my job.”
The House member — a Democrat who is either still in Congress or served sometime over the past two decades — says more time is spent fundraising than reading bills and calls Washington a “sinkhole of leeches.”
...“I contradict myself all the time, but few people notice,” X says.
“One minute I rail against excessive spending and ballooning debt. 
The next minute I’m demanding more spending on education, health care, unemployment benefits, conservation projects, yadda, yadda, yadda.”
...“Business organizations and unions fork over more than $3 billion a year to those who lobby the federal government.
Does that tell you something?
We’re operating a f–king casino,” he says..."

‘We Will Not Be Blackmailed’: Conservatives Slam Obama Admin. After Transgender Bathroom Directive to Public Schools | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘We Will Not Be Blackmailed’: Conservatives Slam Obama Admin. After Transgender Bathroom Directive to Public Schools | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“This attempt to bully our local schools into submission to the Obama Administration’s agenda is shameful and a gross abuse of the federal government’s power,” Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) said. “It has nothing to do with compassion for minority student populations and everything to do with political opportunism for the next election.”

Video shows woman beaten on city street while crowd watches

Video shows woman beaten on city street while crowd watches | WTXF:
"PHILADELPHIA (WTXF) An alarming video of a woman being beaten on a city street while a crowd of people watches came to us by a Fresco News user.
..."The guy was actually on top of the girl-- just beating on her," the witness told FOX 29.
The woman is on the ground and you can see the man repeatedly slapping and punching the victim.
"I did hear a commotion earlier.
I didn't pay no mind and then I came out and the guy was on top of the girl," the witness explained.
The witness who shot the video says the beating went on for some time. 
He says maybe 20 to 30 minutes.
"Did anyone try to help the woman?," FOX 29 asked,
"No one, just bystanders, smiling laughing. Just standing around like a normal day, like nothing was even happening," the witness said.
You can see from the video that no one tries to intervene or help the woman.
People are on their cell phones and just watching her being beaten.
We don't know if they were possibly afraid for their own safety.
We do know someone on the block did call police.
"I didn't want to jump in and be a hero and just get hurt you know. It's bad out here," the man said..."

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