Once the presidential campaign started, they used stolen Social Security numbers and birth dates of real U.S. persons to set up bank and PayPal accounts."
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Robert Mueller’s Gaping Self-Inflicted WoundThe American Spectator
Robert Mueller’s Gaping Self-Inflicted WoundThe American Spectator:
"According to the indictment, in 2014 the defendants, posing as U.S. persons, contacted American political and social activists on social media sites. Using information derived from these contacts, they structured disinformation operations to be used in the upcoming presidential election.
Once the presidential campaign started, they used stolen Social Security numbers and birth dates of real U.S. persons to set up bank and PayPal accounts."
Once the presidential campaign started, they used stolen Social Security numbers and birth dates of real U.S. persons to set up bank and PayPal accounts."
The Wind Energy Fiasco, Writ Large | Power Line
The Wind Energy Fiasco, Writ Large | Power Line
"Until such time as electricity can be stored at scale, wind energy is a terrible idea.
Across the U.S., wind turbines produce electricity approximately 40% of the time. That means they are unreliable.
Since we expect the lights to go on 100% of the time, we need enough reliable energy sources–coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric–to meet peak load.
Which means that wind energy is inevitably an expensive sideshow.
Why do wind farms exist?
Solely because of government subsidies.
Warren Buffett, one of the largest wind farm investors, said:
"Until such time as electricity can be stored at scale, wind energy is a terrible idea.
Across the U.S., wind turbines produce electricity approximately 40% of the time. That means they are unreliable.
Since we expect the lights to go on 100% of the time, we need enough reliable energy sources–coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric–to meet peak load.
Which means that wind energy is inevitably an expensive sideshow.
Why do wind farms exist?
Solely because of government subsidies.
Warren Buffett, one of the largest wind farm investors, said:
[O]n wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.
If wind turbines are a bad idea, enormous wind turbines are worse.
It is not good news that GE has announced the biggest wind turbine ever.
How big is it?
A bit shorter than the Eiffel Tower.
And it is intended for offshore placement:
GE Renewable Energy will invest more than USD 400 million over the next three to five years to develop and deploy the largest, most powerful offshore wind turbine – the Haliade-X 12 MW...
This graphic puts the size of GE’s new turbine in perspective:
...My state, Minnesota, has relentlessly promoted “green” energy in the form of wind.
At least $15 billion has been spent on wind turbines and transmission lines, to virtually no effect, apart from the fact that electricity rates here have risen 23% faster than the national average.
Taxpayers and ratepayers have been fleeced, and government cronies and utilities have profited handily..."
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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, Margret Rey 1906 - Co-author and illustrator of children's books (Curious George)
Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919 - Musician, Pierce Brosnan 1952 - Actor ("Remington Steel," "Dante's Peak," "Golden Eye"), Debra Winger 1955 - Actress
1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
1963 - After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.
1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.
1971 - U.S. postage for a one-ounce first class stamp was increased from 6 to 8 cents.
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.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police do not have to have a search warrant to search discarded garbage.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Obama allies spread Donald Trump, Russia collusion stories to undermine transition - Washington Times
Obama allies spread Donald Trump, Russia collusion stories to undermine transition - Washington Times:
"“Congress should hold hearings to investigate Obama administration officials who worked behind the scenes to sabotage Trump and associates during the campaign, transition and administration,” Mr. Gordon said. “In some countries, their actions might be considered a coup attempt. And like they enjoy saying about us, ‘Let the investigation follow the facts, wherever they may lead.’”"
This Free-Market Competition State Is Producing Twice As Much Renewable Energy As California | The Daily Sheeple
"Texas produces twice as much renewable energy — including wind, solar and other types of power sources — as its heavily regulated competitor California, Forbes reports.
While the energy industry is booming in Texas, where the economy operates on free-market competition, California’s environmentally conscious regulations are financially taxing for citizens of the already expensive state and its ambitious future goals for producing renewable energy.
Texas and California were the first states in the country to introduce electricity market competition in 1996, but California changed its laws in 2001 following a massive energy crisis, which caused an 800-percent increase in electricity retail prices over the course of four months..."
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Airlines Are Quietly Cutting Corners On Costs And Pilot Experience. It Should SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU | The Daily Sheeple
Airlines Are Quietly Cutting Corners On Costs And Pilot Experience. It Should SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU | The Daily Sheeple:
"So you just bought an airline ticket.
You wanted the cheapest fare, of course, but safety did cross your mind?
For that reason, you clicked on tickets being sold by legacy airlines.
Sure, it was a few bucks more — but you figured they’ve been in business a long time.
You might have heard about an accident they were involved in – but that was years ago.
Actually decades ago.
...Over the past couple of decades, however, the familiar landscape of the airline industry has changed dramatically.
Now, smaller and lesser-known regional airlines carry roughly half of all domestic passengers for America’s “legacy” airlines.
Their airplanes are painted in the same livery as the legacy carrier(s) they code-share with, and their tickets are sold on the legacy’s website.
Passengers must read the fine print to learn that — although they purchased their tickets on American, United, or Delta’s website — they have about a 50/50 chance of being flown by an entirely different carrier.
And flown by pilots who work, not for their legacy airline, but for the code-share partner Regional airline.
So why does this matter?
After all, a pilot is a pilot — right?
Here’s where it starts to get very murky..."
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"So you just bought an airline ticket.
You wanted the cheapest fare, of course, but safety did cross your mind?
For that reason, you clicked on tickets being sold by legacy airlines.
Sure, it was a few bucks more — but you figured they’ve been in business a long time.
You might have heard about an accident they were involved in – but that was years ago.
Actually decades ago.
...Over the past couple of decades, however, the familiar landscape of the airline industry has changed dramatically. Now, smaller and lesser-known regional airlines carry roughly half of all domestic passengers for America’s “legacy” airlines.
Their airplanes are painted in the same livery as the legacy carrier(s) they code-share with, and their tickets are sold on the legacy’s website.
Passengers must read the fine print to learn that — although they purchased their tickets on American, United, or Delta’s website — they have about a 50/50 chance of being flown by an entirely different carrier.
And flown by pilots who work, not for their legacy airline, but for the code-share partner Regional airline.
So why does this matter?
After all, a pilot is a pilot — right?
Here’s where it starts to get very murky..."
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The Watergate Analogy Applies to Obama, Not Trump - The Rush Limbaugh Show
The Watergate Analogy Applies to Obama, Not Trump - The Rush Limbaugh Show:
"But what did Obama know about the mole in the Trump campaign and when did he know it? So if you really want to draw the Watergate analogy, it points right to Barack Obama. Note: None of that is being investigated. Not a single shred of it. Not a morsel of that is being investigated. In fact, I believe that this entire investigation of Trump is actually a cover-up of what the Obama intelligence community — Department of Justice, FBI — did to try to nail Trump during the campaign and to corrupt his transition period after he won the election to destroy or paralyze his presidency."
"But what did Obama know about the mole in the Trump campaign and when did he know it? So if you really want to draw the Watergate analogy, it points right to Barack Obama. Note: None of that is being investigated. Not a single shred of it. Not a morsel of that is being investigated. In fact, I believe that this entire investigation of Trump is actually a cover-up of what the Obama intelligence community — Department of Justice, FBI — did to try to nail Trump during the campaign and to corrupt his transition period after he won the election to destroy or paralyze his presidency."
How Communism Became the Disease It Tried to Cure - Foundation for Economic Education
How Communism Became the Disease It Tried to Cure - Foundation for Economic Education"From Radical Revolutionaries to Privileged Bureaucrats
...But his authority, Weber explains, does not come from others acknowledging his powers, per se.
His sense of authority and destiny comes from within, knowing that he has a truth that he is to reveal to others and then knowing that truth will result in men being set free; and when others see the rightness of what he knows, it becomes obvious and inevitable that they should follow his leadership.
Certainly Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) fit that description.
...“There is no such thing as salary or a benefice. Disciples or followers tend to live primarily in a communistic relationship with their leader . . . Pure charisma . . . disdains and repudiates economic exploitation of the gifts of grace as a source of income, though to be sure, this often remains more an ideal than a fact . . ....Let us hope that with this year marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the communist revolution in Russia mankind will learn from that tragic mistake, and come to realize and accept that only individual liberty and economic freedom can provide the just, good, and prosperous society that humanity can and should have."
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Job Security: Federal civil service employees have a 99.5 percent chance of never being fired
"The average American looking for complete job security need not look further than the non-defense federal government’s public workforce, where there is a 99.5 percent chance they will never be fired for cause according to data retrieved from the Office of Personnel Management’s FedScope.
It is nearly impossible for a federal workforce employee to be terminated for poor performance, while in the private sector these firings occur significantly more often..."
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Iranian Student Group: $100,000 Reward for Destroying U.S. Jerusalem Embassy | National Review
Iranian Student Group: $100,000 Reward for Destroying U.S. Jerusalem Embassy | National Review:
"A radical Iranian student group is reportedly offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who bombs the U.S. embassy in Israel, which officially opened Monday after being relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Iranian Justice Seeker Student Movement disseminated posters Monday calling for an attack on the newly inaugurated embassy, according to a translation of local Farsi language reports obtained by the Washington Free Beacon."
"A radical Iranian student group is reportedly offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who bombs the U.S. embassy in Israel, which officially opened Monday after being relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Iranian Justice Seeker Student Movement disseminated posters Monday calling for an attack on the newly inaugurated embassy, according to a translation of local Farsi language reports obtained by the Washington Free Beacon."
Obama admin. spied on Trump campaign more than previously known, set ‘spy traps,’ new reporting says | TheBlaze
Obama admin. spied on Trump campaign more than previously known, set ‘spy traps,’ new reporting says | TheBlaze:
"Following Kimberly Strassel’s bombshell reporting at the Wall Street Journal that alleges the FBI may have placed a spy in the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, a well-known investigative reporter dropped another bomb.
Paul Sperry, who writes for RealClearPolitics and the New York Post, reported Friday the Obama administration set spy “traps” for low-level officials in the Trump campaign.
First, what did Strassel report?"
Paul Sperry, who writes for RealClearPolitics and the New York Post, reported Friday the Obama administration set spy “traps” for low-level officials in the Trump campaign.
First, what did Strassel report?"
Sweden: Muslim leader says “We are in Sweden only to spread Islam….Sweden will be a Muslim country”
Sweden: Muslim leader says “We are in Sweden only to spread Islam….Sweden will be a Muslim country”:
“SWEDEN’S Muslim: ‘Our mission is to make Sweden Muslim,’”
Save My Sweden, May 1, 2018:
"The young Muslims who listened to Dominic Driman were educated in the basic idea of Islam: spreading religion everywhere.
It is, according to Driman himself, the only reason why humans exist.
And to the young Muslims in Sweden, the call was clear.
“SWEDEN’S Muslim: ‘Our mission is to make Sweden Muslim,’”
Save My Sweden, May 1, 2018:
"The young Muslims who listened to Dominic Driman were educated in the basic idea of Islam: spreading religion everywhere.
It is, according to Driman himself, the only reason why humans exist.And to the young Muslims in Sweden, the call was clear.
They must first organize themselves to make the Rock, otherwise known as Sweden, an Islamic country.
A film was posted on Young Muslims on the Facebook page of the Rock, but soon it was taken down. Thanks to the Swedes, the newspaper Svegot has received it.
It is a worrying message that is being spread and taught to the overwhelmingly large population of Muslim youth in Sweden.
Driman can be heard explaining in the film that the central question is, why are they (Muslims) in Sweden today?
A film was posted on Young Muslims on the Facebook page of the Rock, but soon it was taken down. Thanks to the Swedes, the newspaper Svegot has received it.
It is a worrying message that is being spread and taught to the overwhelmingly large population of Muslim youth in Sweden.
Driman can be heard explaining in the film that the central question is, why are they (Muslims) in Sweden today?
Why is there not peace in Syria and Somalia?
He believes that Allah has created these “trials” in order for Muslims to come to Sweden, among others, to “save” Sweden. He states:
“We are in Sweden, only to spread Islam.”...
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He believes that Allah has created these “trials” in order for Muslims to come to Sweden, among others, to “save” Sweden. He states:
“We are in Sweden, only to spread Islam.”...
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How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History
How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History:
"Roger Williams cannot enjoy fireworks on the Fourth of July anymore.
The 68-year-old Texan is a longtime NRA member, but these days, he can’t hunt.
Once, during a congressional committee hearing, the chairman banged a gavel — clap — on the desk, and Roger Williams fell out of his seat.
It’s been almost a year since Williams and nearly two dozen of his Republican colleagues were shot at as they were wrapping up baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 14, 2017.
...He thinks about that morning almost every day.
They were practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game, one of those cheerful bipartisan events that's becoming extinct in Washington.
It's an annual game, held for charity, where Democrats play Republicans, staffers come out to cheer their bosses on, and everyone shakes hands at the end, reporters and lobbyists looking on.
...The shooting was, Alexandria’s elected prosecutor concluded, “an act of terrorism” that was “fueled by rage against Republican legislators.”
...Those nine minutes were a near miss of modern American history, between the dark aftermath of a deadly, mass political assassination and our own reality, in which most people don’t think very often about June 14, 2017, the difference between everything changing, and almost nothing changing at all..."
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"Roger Williams cannot enjoy fireworks on the Fourth of July anymore.
The 68-year-old Texan is a longtime NRA member, but these days, he can’t hunt.
Once, during a congressional committee hearing, the chairman banged a gavel — clap — on the desk, and Roger Williams fell out of his seat.It’s been almost a year since Williams and nearly two dozen of his Republican colleagues were shot at as they were wrapping up baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 14, 2017.
...He thinks about that morning almost every day.
They were practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game, one of those cheerful bipartisan events that's becoming extinct in Washington.
It's an annual game, held for charity, where Democrats play Republicans, staffers come out to cheer their bosses on, and everyone shakes hands at the end, reporters and lobbyists looking on.
...The shooting was, Alexandria’s elected prosecutor concluded, “an act of terrorism” that was “fueled by rage against Republican legislators.”
...Those nine minutes were a near miss of modern American history, between the dark aftermath of a deadly, mass political assassination and our own reality, in which most people don’t think very often about June 14, 2017, the difference between everything changing, and almost nothing changing at all..."
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California Bill Seeks to Replace Washington or Lincoln's Birthday Holidays with 'May Day' | Breitbart
California Bill Seeks to Replace Washington or Lincoln's Birthday Holidays with 'May Day' | Breitbart:
"A Democrat California assemblyman introduced a bill seeking to make “May Day,” or International Workers Day, a state holiday that would replace President George Washington’s or President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Assemblyman Miguel Santiago’s (D-Los Angeles) legislation calls for consolidating the two presidents’ birthdays to be observed on the third Monday in February as a single “President’s Day” holiday, but it also calls for the state to observe May 1 as “International Workers Day.”
International Workers Day, also known as “May Day,” had been observed in countries under Communism for decades and was designated as an official holiday of the Soviet Union..."
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"A Democrat California assemblyman introduced a bill seeking to make “May Day,” or International Workers Day, a state holiday that would replace President George Washington’s or President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.Assemblyman Miguel Santiago’s (D-Los Angeles) legislation calls for consolidating the two presidents’ birthdays to be observed on the third Monday in February as a single “President’s Day” holiday, but it also calls for the state to observe May 1 as “International Workers Day.”
International Workers Day, also known as “May Day,” had been observed in countries under Communism for decades and was designated as an official holiday of the Soviet Union..."
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Harry Reid sent sensitive Trump collusion letter over CIA objections - Washington Times
"Then-Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid released a letter in the heat of the 2016 election alleging Trump-Russia collusion even though the CIA director at the time urged him not to, according to a person familiar with their conversation."
A new bill would allow local government to impose "Rain Tax"
A new bill would allow local government to impose "Rain Tax":
"Republican sponsored legislation in the state Senate would empower local units of government to set up a “storm-water utility” with the power to assess fees on citizens and businesses.
NFIB opposed Senate Bill 756 when it came before the Senate Natural Resources Committee telling the Committee that the bill seeks to do an end run around past court decisions that have ruled against these various local”’fee” attempts.
Courts have ruled that the fees are nothing more than local taxes imposed without a vote of the citizens within the taxing jurisdiction.
...Empowering local governments to subvert the constitutional and proper process for raising taxes, by disguising taxes as fees, undoes the hard work that the legislature and governor have done to improve Michigan’s business climate.
Companies considering expanding or locating to Michigan will be discouraged by this kind of local conduct and companies already in Michigan will avoid those localities."
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"Republican sponsored legislation in the state Senate would empower local units of government to set up a “storm-water utility” with the power to assess fees on citizens and businesses.
Courts have ruled that the fees are nothing more than local taxes imposed without a vote of the citizens within the taxing jurisdiction.
...Empowering local governments to subvert the constitutional and proper process for raising taxes, by disguising taxes as fees, undoes the hard work that the legislature and governor have done to improve Michigan’s business climate.
Companies considering expanding or locating to Michigan will be discouraged by this kind of local conduct and companies already in Michigan will avoid those localities."
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