Thursday, September 15, 2016

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How a smartphone camera changed the discussion on Clinton's health | TheHill

How a smartphone camera changed the discussion on Clinton's health | TheHill:

"He proceeded to upload the video onto his Twitter feed, which can serve as everyone's own newsroom. As of Tuesday, more than 11 million people have viewed his Tweet, and at least hundreds of millions more worldwide have seen the video via broadcast outlets and other forms of social media such as YouTube and Facebook.

Gazda joins the growing list of citizen journalists armed with a camera and his or her own broadcast station via Twitter, YouTube, Facebook or all of the above. And if he wasn't there at that moment, you can rest assured Clinton's communication team would have been spinning the "nothing-to-see-here" line and most of the media would be spinning along a much different, muted tune. "

Illegal Immigrants Accounted for Nearly 37 Percent of Federal Sentences in FY 2014

Illegal Immigrants Accounted for Nearly 37 Percent of Federal Sentences in FY 2014 - Breitbart: "While illegal immigrants account for about 3.5 percent of the U.S population, they represented 36.7 percent of federal sentences in FY 2014 following criminal convictions, according to U.S.
Sentencing Commission data obtained by Breitbart News.
According to FY 2014 USSC data, of 74,911 sentencing cases, citizens accounted for 43,479 (or 58.0 percent), illegal immigrants accounted for 27,505 (or 36.7 percent), legal immigrants made up 3,017 (or 4.0 percent), and the remainder (about 1 percent) were cases in which the offender was either extradited or had an unknown status."

Budget Basics: Who Pays Taxes?

Budget Basics: Who Pays Taxes? | pgpf.org
"Americans pay many types of taxes
One of the biggest misconceptions about the U.S. tax code is that a large portion of Americans do not pay federal taxes. 
Although it is true that the bottom 40 percent of income earners pay no individual income tax, they face payroll taxes if they are working. 
In fact, about 90 percent of American taxpayers pay more in payroll taxes than in individual income taxes. 
Payroll taxes, which help to finance Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment benefits, are the second largest source of federal revenue, and make up about one-third of total receipts annually. Payroll taxes are deducted from workers’ paychecks through a line item called FICA, which stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act."
Share of Federal Taxes Paid by Income

Romeo and Juliet and Sexting: 17-Year-Old Faces Child Porn, Assault Charges for Consensual Sex with Girlfriend

Romeo and Juliet and Sexting: 17-Year-Old Faces Child Porn, Assault Charges for Consensual Sex with Girlfriend - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"After being arrested, I was suicidal and hopeless," Austin Yabandith, a 17-year-old from Superior, Wisconsin, recalls. 
"As of right now, I am just hoping for the best and preparing for the worst."
The "worst" would be pretty bad. 
After discovering indecent photos of Austin's 15-year-old girlfriend on his cell phone—as well as a video of the couple having sex—authorities charged him with sexual assault of a child, sexual exploitation, and possession of child pornography. 
The sexual assault charge is considered a Class C felony, and carries a maximum (though unlikely) sentence of 40 years in prison. 
One might argue that a sexual predator deserves such a fate. But Austin isn't a sexual predator. He didn't assault anyone, or send child porn. 
By one important measure, he is a child himself: the age of consent in Wisconsin is 18, which means Austin is technically under-age, just like the girlfriend he is accused of exploiting. 
But Wisconsin's sex offender laws contain a curious quirk: 17-year-olds can be charged as adults—even though the law considers them to be children and incapable of consenting to sex. 
It's an absurd contradiction that calls to mind the prosecution of North Carolina 17-year-old Cormega Copening, who faced third-degree sexual exploitation charges for taking inappropriate photos of a minor. 
The teen was charged as an adult, even though he was one of the minors in question—some of the pictures were ones Copening had taken of himself.
Austin's situation is worse. 
Much worse..."
Read on!

Ron Maxwell: Hillary's Totalitarian Moment

Ron Maxwell: Hillary's Totalitarian Moment:

"The dehumanization and objectification of political adversaries as preparation and justification for mass murder came into sharp focus as an effective weapon during the French Revolution.
The specific insults morph to fit the circumstances and the times, but each insult is designed to have the same effect — to dehumanize and to objectify a group of people in opposition to the dominant group that has seized power and the legal mechanisms of the State.

Here is a partial list of the defamatory names of condemnation as utilized by tyrannical regimes as well as the fate meted out to people branded as such:"

Ivy Leaguer Brought To Tears By Trump Chalking [VIDEO]

Ivy Leaguer Brought To Tears By Trump Chalking [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller:
"Conservative activist James O’Keefe visited Columbia University’s campus in late August and brought a student to tears by showing his support for Donald Trump in chalk and cardboard bricks.
“I’m scared that you guys even think this,” a female Columbia student told O’Keefe in a video first obtained by The Daily Caller.
O’Keefe replied, “What do you mean?”
The student got distraught and said, “I don’t want my future to be this!” 
She later said, “You don’t have to make a wall. You don’t need a man like this!...”

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History for September 15


History for September 15 - On-This-Day.com
James Fenimore Cooper 1789, William H. Taft (U.S.) 1857, Robert Benchley 1889


Agatha Christie 1890, Oliver Stone 1946, Tommy Lee Jones 1946
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1916 - During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields.


1923 - Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities.


1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.
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1935 - The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
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1940 - The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain.
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1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.


1950 - U.N. forces landed at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul.


1982 - The first issue of "USA Today" was published.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/09/constitution-day-by-tammy-derouin.html

Constitution Day

By Tammy Derouin

Throughout history there have been many important events.  Events, for better or worse, must be remembered to either prevent such atrocities from reoccurring or to commemorate an achievement which would forever change the path of mankind. 

Man’s exodus out of darkness has been a long and brutal journey.  Enslavement of the people by the governing establishment was, and in many cases still is, common place. Tyranny is readily available in many forms.  A dictator or a monarch may be the first examples which come to mind.  Tyranny also exists when religion is used to promote an ideology; a political agenda.  This is probably the most dangerous because many will deny or ignore the atrocities committed by such factions out of fear.  Falling for such tactics only pacifies the enemy, making them stronger. 

When extraordinary events take place they should be remembered and commemorated. By forgetting the importance of such events, by not educating our posterity and by taking our achievements and advancements for granted, we lose the ground which so many gave their lives to secure and protect.  When we do not know our history and the events which allowed man to live free, we willingly descend back into darkness.

History is brutal but it’s necessary to understand if we wish to remain free. A key factor for controlling and oppressing people is withholding information and preventing the population from learning. Lack of knowledge creates the perfect environment to manipulate the thinking process of those, the powers that be, wish to control. 

To claim transparency...... 

News - Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics

News - Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics | Heartland Institute:
"The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change and ending the use of fossil fuels.
The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform, approved at the party convention in July, calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change.
Image result for Democratic Party’s 2016 platform global warmingOn page 45 of the platform, the Democratic Party agreed, “We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis. 
We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations, to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II.”
The platform states climate change is an “urgent and severe threat” and calls for an 80 percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions below 2005 levels by 2050 and getting 50 percent of the nation’s electric power from “clean energy sources” by 2025.
The platform also adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies for skeptical statements they’ve made concerning the causes and consequences of climate change..."
Read on!

Michigan’s Quiet Success in Containing Retiree Health Care Costs

Michigan’s Quiet Success in Containing Retiree Health Care Costs [Mackinac Center]:
"It’s not news that government employee pension systems across the nation have promised retirees billions in pensions and not saved enough to make good on those promises.
But a related problem could pose an even greater risk to taxpayers: lifetime health insurance benefits provided through these systems.
Michigan may be showing governments across the country the way to resolve the fiscal challenge, however.
Without much fanfare, the state and many local governments have stopped offering new employees open-ended post-retirement health insurance benefits. 
In doing so, they have contained their exposure to ever-increasing premiums that could one day threaten their solvency.
Governments have tended not to set aside money to pay for those benefits as employees work, but rather pay the insurance premiums as they come due.
This means today’s taxpayers are paying payroll expenses incurred by government employees years or even decades in the past.
This is both unfair and imprudent.
If such coverage is offered at all, a better course would be to place money in a health insurance trust fund as the benefits are earned, just as pension contributions are deposited annually into pension funds.
Such prefunding is what governments are supposed to do with pensions. 
Most have fallen short, though. 
The latest Pew report tallies nearly $3.7 trillion in pension liabilities that governments acknowledge; stricter pension assumptions can inflate this figure.
Governments have saved $2.8 trillion to pay for pensions, leaving $934 billion in unfunded liabilities.
The retiree health insurance is a smaller, $627 billion gap, but fewer dollars have been set aside to pay these future benefits. 
The size of this gap is even more uncertain than that for pensions, given the employers’ exposure to rising health care costs and premiums..."

Technician Who Deleted Hillary's Emails Pleads The Fifth | The Daily Caller

Technician Who Deleted Hillary's Emails Pleads The Fifth | The Daily Caller:

"Two employees for the tech firm that managed Hillary Clinton’s private email server invoked their Fifth Amendment rights in a House hearing on Tuesday.

Paul Combetta and Bill Thornton both appeared in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for a hearing to examine the preservation of Clinton’s State Department emails.

Both technicians work for Platte River Networks (PRN), a Denver-based tech firm that Clinton hired in 2013 to manage her private email setup."

15% Over Target: 11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already; 0.46% Are Christians

15% Over Target: 11,491 Syrian Refugees Admitted Already; 0.46% Are Christians:
(CNSNews.com) – With three weeks of the fiscal year to go, the Obama administration has exceeded its Syrian refugee admission target by 15 percent, with 11,491 resettled in the United States as of the beginning of this week.
Since President Obama’s goal of 10,000 Syrian refugee admissions in FY 2016 was achieved on August 29, the number continues to pick up steadily.
August ended with a new monthly record of 3,189 Syrian refugee arrivals, and a further 751 have been ushered in so far in September: 749 Sunni Muslims; two Catholic Christians.
State Department Refugee Processing Center data show that of the now total 11,491 arrivals this fiscal year, the vast majority – 11,300, or 98.33 percent – are Sunnis.
Just 54 of the 11,491 – 0.46 percent – are Christians. 
...Obama has yet to announce plans for refugee admissions from Syria for the new fiscal year – although the administration did announce earlier that global admissions would rise from 85,000 in FY 2016 to 100,000 in FY 2017..."

Search violent crime changes by Michigan county

Search violent crime changes by Michigan county | MLive.com:
"Violent crime in Michigan has gone down over the past eight years, statistics from the Michigan State Police show.
Annual violent crimes fell from 46,380 to 35,123 offenses in Michigan between 2008 and 2015. Those crimes include including murder and non-negligent manslaughter, criminal sexual conduct involving penetration, robbery and aggravated/felonious assault.
Search the database MLive created using MSP data for violent crime rates from 2008 to 2015.
You can see the number of violent crime incidents recorded, by county.
Crime rates are based on the number of offenses per 100,000 people. "



Lunch video-----Hillary Clinton's Illness Revealed

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The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson:

"The Takeaways

The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because:

The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.
An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn’t examine them.
2 BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn’t have their SIM or SD data cards.
13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn’t examine them.

Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn’t examine them.
After State Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review them.
After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her then-server “PRN” with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.
Also after the subpoena, backups of the PRN server were manually deleted."

...... And the list goes on and on and on...

Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades | Ars Technica

Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades | Ars Technica
"Harvard researchers got hefty sums to downplay role of sweets in heart disease."
Image result for settled science Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they’d downplay the links between sugar and heart disease in a prominent medical journal—and the researchers did it, according to historical documents reported Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
One of those Harvard researchers went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where he set the stage for the federal government’s current dietary guidelines.
All in all, the corrupted researchers and skewed scientific literature successfully helped draw attention away from the health risks of sweets and shift the blame solely to fats—for nearly five decades.
The low-fat, high-sugar diets that health experts subsequently encouraged are now seen as a main driver of the current obesity epidemic..."

Republican lawmakers upset Detroit's worst schools temporarily exempted from closure

Republican lawmakers upset Detroit's worst schools temporarily exempted from closure | MLive.com:
"Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature are disappointed Gov. Rick Snyder's office is interpreting the $617 million Detroit schools rescue package as preventing the state from shuttering any of the district's lowest performing schools until 2019.
House Speaker Kevin Cotter and Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof say prohibiting school closures is not in the spirit of the accountability measures built into the law.
"As a simple matter of common sense, it cannot be said with a straight face that the Legislature intended for the worst-of-the-worst schools in Detroit to remain open," Cotter, R-Mt. Pleasant, said in a statement.
"This mistaken interpretation would also require failing charter public schools to be closed while failing traditional public schools are allowed to persist and drag down class after class of Detroit students, which is an absurd conclusion."
The discussion on the fate of Detroit's struggling schools came on the same day the state School Reform Office released the 2015 list of the worst performing schools in the state.
Forty-seven of the 124 schools on the list are Detroit public schools..."

This Is The Most CONVINCING Diagnosis Of Hillary Clinton I've Seen Yet

This Is The Most CONVINCING Diagnosis Of Hillary Clinton I've Seen Yet:

"With all the falling, coughing, pneumonia, decision fatigue and all around bizarre behavior exhibited by Hillary Clinton, one has to wonder. What’s REALLY going on with her? Sure, her campaign can blame her various “medical episodes” on weather or allergies (even if that was the case, it proves she lacks the stamina to be POTUS), but we all know there has to be something more to it.

Dr. Ted Noel, former Director of the NovaMed Surgery Center in Orlando, recently released a video, making a very convincing argument that Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s disease."



Must read of the day!-----The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson

The Clearest (No Spin) Summary of FBI Report on Hillary Clinton Email | Sharyl Attkisson:
The Takeaways. The Players. The Timeline.

The Takeaways

The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because:
  • The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.
  • An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn’t examine them.
  • 2 BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn’t have their SIM or SD data cards.
  • 13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn’t examine them.
  • Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn’t examine them.
  • After State Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review them.
  • After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her then-server “PRN” with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.
  • Also after the subpoena, backups of the PRN server were manually deleted.
Even though the FBI did not have a complete record of Hillary Clinton’s emails on three unclassified personal servers, it found:

  • 2,093 emails State Dept. currently classifies as Confidential or Secret. (State Dept. did not address what their classification was at the time they were sent.)
  • 193 emails (81 separate email conversations) that were classified at the time they were sent, ranging from “Confidential” to “Top Secret/Special Access Program.”
  • 68 of the 81 email chains remain classified today.
  • 8 were Top Secret.
  • 37 were Secret.
  • 36 were Confidential.
  • 7 were Special Access Program.
  • 3 were Sensitive Compartmentalized Information.
  • 36 were Not Releasing to Foreign Governments.
  • 2 were Releasable Only to Five Allied Partners.
  • 12 of the suspect email chains were not provided by Hillary’s attorneys. The FBI found them other ways.
  • The email chains contained classified information from 5 other agencies: CIA, DOD, FBI, NGA and NSA. 
  • Read on!!

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Planned Parenthood Honors Hillary Clinton with Margaret Sanger Award - Susan B. Anthony List

Planned Parenthood Honors Hillary Clinton with Margaret Sanger Award - Susan B. Anthony List:
"On Friday, March 27th (2009), Secretary of State Clinton accepted the Margaret Sanger Award at Planned Parenthood Awards Gala. The Margaret Sanger Award is named for Planned Parenthood’s founder, a noted eugenicist.
In accepting this ‘honor’ Hillary Clinton praised Sanger’s “vision”, defended the Obama Administrations funding for international groups that promote abortion, and advocated for more U.S. tax payer funding to go to “family planning” organizations at home and abroad.
Here are some telling excerpts from Secretary Clinton’s acceptance speech:
I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision…taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions, I am really in awe of her. 
And there are a lot of lessons that we can learn from her life and from the cause she launched and fought for and sacrificed so bravely...”"