Thursday, October 08, 2015
History for October 8
History for October 8 - On-This-Day.com
Eddie Rickenbacker 1890, Juan Peron 1895, Paul Hogan 1939 - Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies)
Jesse Jackson 1941 - Civil rights leader, Chevy Chase 1943 - Actor, comedian, Sigourney Weaver 1949 - Actress
Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950, Darrell Hammond 1955, Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1966 - The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
LIBERTY REVIEW
LIBERTY REVIEW:
http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/10/october-7-2015-mastermind-by-tammy.html
A mastermind knows what he is doing. He knows how to control people...
http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/10/october-7-2015-mastermind-by-tammy.html
The Mastermind
By Tammy Derouin
When you attempt to make sense of insanity, you come to two
very different conclusions. The first is
nothing short of madness. After all, the
definition of insanity includes words such as foolishness, recklessness,
stupidity and lunacy. When the actions
of an individual or a group are so far detached from normal and acceptable behavior,
insanity is the only way to describe their conduct.
The second is brilliance.
When someone’s behavior or way of thinking seems odd or unusual but the
end result brings about breakthroughs and discoveries or constructive and
positive benefits, they are called visionaries.
Visionaries dare to dream and attempt the impossible despite being
labeled insane.
I think most people have good intentions. They strive to do what’s best and do not try
to harm others. Most Americans have enjoyed the benefits of living life with
little interference from the government.
Our Constitution is loaded with positive liberties. It describes what the government cannot do to
the citizens. We really should dust off
the old document and take a closer look at it.
You would be amazed at how much we’ve allowed ourselves to be violated.
A mastermind conjures up negative thoughts and is usually a
villain. Words such as architect,
instigator and organizer are used to define a mastermind. They hatch and devise plans which usually
have harmful outcomes for everyone. In
most fictional stories the mastermind is defeated. There was once a time when the United States
defeated real masterminds and those who desired to control the world. The United States cannot react appropriately
when the citizens have allowed themselves to be duped.
Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down
An electromagnetic pulse attack could potentially send our nation back to the 1800s in a single moment, but very few of us are equipped to handle life without technology. Tech guru John McAfee recently wrote an article in which he expressed his belief that 90 percent of the population would be dead within 2 years of such an attack…
Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure, would wipe out 90% of the human population of this country within two years of the attack. That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.
You may think that is an unreasonably high estimate, but it turns out that it is the exact same number that the EMP Commission used in their report to Congress back in 2008…
What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.In 2009 the congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, whose co-chairmen were former Secretaries of Defense William Perry and James Schlesinger, concurred with the findings of the EMP Commission and urged immediate action to protect the electric grid. Studies by the National Academy of Sciences, the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Intelligence Council reached similar conclusions.
So what has Barack Obama done to protect us from such an attack?
Absolutely nothing.
But there are others in the government that are very, very concerned about this threat. For example, NORAD recently moved back into Cheyenne Mountain, and the potential for an EMP attack was given as the primary reason for the move…
Fox star slams NRA, then admits: I’m a member
Fox star slams NRA, then admits: I’m a member:
"Geraldo Rivera engaged in a fiery debate with fellow Fox News "The Five" co-hosts, particularly Eric Bolling, over the issue of gun control, demanding at one point the names of all those who receive money from the National Rifle Association have their names published for the world to see – and then dropping this bombshell:"
"Geraldo Rivera engaged in a fiery debate with fellow Fox News "The Five" co-hosts, particularly Eric Bolling, over the issue of gun control, demanding at one point the names of all those who receive money from the National Rifle Association have their names published for the world to see – and then dropping this bombshell:"Why is Socialism Making a Comeback? Because People are Stupid
Why is Socialism Making a Comeback? Because People are Stupid - Eagle Rising:
"It’s easy to believe in socialism in modern America.
It’s easy to hear about everyone working together for the common good, the government making sure everyone plays nice, and free and affordable everything for everyone and think, “Well that sounds like a great idea.”
But the only reason it is so easy to believe is because we have never lived in a fully socialist country. We don’t know what socialism actually costs.
Or what it actually looks like.
There’s an interesting story about Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Soviet Union, coming for a visit to America in 1989.
He visited Johnson Space Center, but that nexus of technological wizardry didn’t turn his head.
What did turn his head was an informal visit to a local Randall’s grocery store:
About a year after the Russian leader left office, a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin’s next destination, Miami, he was despondent.
He couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.
In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits.
Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia. . . .
...The tragedy of socialism is that it destroys all the wealth in a country in an attempt to create equality.
It happened in the Soviet Union.
And in China. North Korea. Vietnam.
It’s not as if we don’t have plenty of case studies of the failures of socialism and communism.
They litter the road of history like discarded bags of half-eaten takeout..."
"It’s easy to believe in socialism in modern America.
It’s easy to hear about everyone working together for the common good, the government making sure everyone plays nice, and free and affordable everything for everyone and think, “Well that sounds like a great idea.”
But the only reason it is so easy to believe is because we have never lived in a fully socialist country. We don’t know what socialism actually costs.
Or what it actually looks like.There’s an interesting story about Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Soviet Union, coming for a visit to America in 1989.
He visited Johnson Space Center, but that nexus of technological wizardry didn’t turn his head.
What did turn his head was an informal visit to a local Randall’s grocery store:
About a year after the Russian leader left office, a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin’s next destination, Miami, he was despondent.
He couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.
In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits.
Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia. . . .
...The tragedy of socialism is that it destroys all the wealth in a country in an attempt to create equality.
It happened in the Soviet Union.
And in China. North Korea. Vietnam.
It’s not as if we don’t have plenty of case studies of the failures of socialism and communism.
They litter the road of history like discarded bags of half-eaten takeout..."
Imagine if they made airplanes-----Even Compared to Workers With College Degrees, Teachers Are Well Paid
Even Compared to Workers With College Degrees, Teachers Are Well Paid [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The new Dearborn school district superintendent Glenn Maleyko says he is worried about losing his best teachers.
Maleyko told the Dearborn Press and Guide there will be a teacher shortage, and the newspaper claims the teacher pay scale is lower than what many professionals earn with a bachelor’s degree.
But the U.S. Census data doesn’t back that claim up.
The median salary for a person with a bachelor’s degree is $50,450, according to the American Community Survey 2014 put out by the U.S. Census.
A teacher with a bachelor’s degree in the Dearborn school district and nine years of experience would earn $52,163.
The average salary of a Dearborn schoolteacher was $62,266 in 2013-14; according to the Michigan Department of Education. (The average includes many teachers who get paid more because they have more than bachelor's degrees.)..."
"The new Dearborn school district superintendent Glenn Maleyko says he is worried about losing his best teachers.
But the U.S. Census data doesn’t back that claim up.
The median salary for a person with a bachelor’s degree is $50,450, according to the American Community Survey 2014 put out by the U.S. Census.
A teacher with a bachelor’s degree in the Dearborn school district and nine years of experience would earn $52,163.
The average salary of a Dearborn schoolteacher was $62,266 in 2013-14; according to the Michigan Department of Education. (The average includes many teachers who get paid more because they have more than bachelor's degrees.)..."
Hillary's 'Gun Show Loophole' Proposal Is A Joke
Hillary's 'Gun Show Loophole' Proposal Is A Joke
In the wake of a mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced today that she would close the so-called “gun show loophole” with an executive order if she were elected president. The only problem with her gun show loophole proposal is that it would accomplish exactly nothing, because current law already covers her proposal.
For starters, the federal government already has the statutory authority to define who does and does not qualify as an individual “in the business of selling firearms.” It derives that authority from 18 U.S. Code § 921. Here’s how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) specifically defines whether an individual is engaged in the business of selling firearms and should therefore be subject to federal firearms licensee (FFL) requirements:
In the wake of a mass shooting at an Oregon community college last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced today that she would close the so-called “gun show loophole” with an executive order if she were elected president. The only problem with her gun show loophole proposal is that it would accomplish exactly nothing, because current law already covers her proposal.
Here’s how Slate described Hillary Clinton’s proposal:
What makes Clinton’s plan particularly noteworthy, though, is her suggestion that she’d be able to go it alone on at least one of the proposals if elected president: the gun show loophole.
And just how would she do that? According to her campaign, even if Congress were unwilling to act, Clinton would be able to use her executive authority to tweak the existing rules to reclassify anyone who sells a “significant number of guns” as someone “in the business of selling firearms”—a distinction that would make those high-volume private vendors who sell guns at gun shows and over the Internet subject to the same rules as larger, licensed brick-and-mortar retailers. Clinton doesn’t appear to have settled on an answer to the question of just how many guns constitutes a “significant” number, but even if her chosen definition didn’t close the loophole completely, it would at least shrink it.
Such an effort could face legal challenges in the courts and, at the very least, a guaranteed NRA-led political freakout in Washington. And, even if the effort survived both, it wouldn’t come close to ending gun violence in the United States. But for gun safety advocates and like-minded voters who are desperate for action on a problem that can feel politically impossible, Clinton’s outside-the-box plan will be a welcome start.
Slate’s Josh Voorhees characterized Clinton’s plan as “clever,” which leads me to the inescapable conclusion that neither Voorhees nor Hillary Clinton is even remotely familiar with existing federal gun laws.
Dealer in firearms — a person who devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms, but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms (18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(21)(C));
Here’s the federal statute from which the ATF derives its existing authority to define who is and isn’t engaged in the business of selling guns:.....
Contra Hillary Clinton’s campaign, “high-volume private vendors” cannot legally exist under current law.
Under the ATF’s existing definition, it is impossible to sell high volumes of firearms without triggering the definition of a dealer in firearms.
The “repetitive purchase and resale of firearms” makes you a dealer, not a private individual.
Anything other than “occasional sales” makes you a dealer, not a private individual. Unlicensed dealing is against the law.
Refusing to conduct background checks as a dealer (licensed or not) is against the law....
Read on
Under the ATF’s existing definition, it is impossible to sell high volumes of firearms without triggering the definition of a dealer in firearms.
The “repetitive purchase and resale of firearms” makes you a dealer, not a private individual.
Anything other than “occasional sales” makes you a dealer, not a private individual. Unlicensed dealing is against the law.
Refusing to conduct background checks as a dealer (licensed or not) is against the law....
Read on
Obama Tells UN Not All Terrorists Are Muslims... Here's 1 World Leader's BLUNT Response
Obama Tells UN Not All Terrorists Are Muslims... Here's 1 World Leader's BLUNT Response:"On Tuesday at the U.N. Leaders Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, Barack Obama stated that violent extremism isn’t limited to any one faith. However, British Prime Minister David Cameron had one very important clarification to make on Obama’s assertion, and it was epic."
Antidepressant Use up 400% in America
Harvard Health: Antidepressant Use up 400% in America | Intellectual Takeout
It’s no secret that a lot of Americans are taking anti-depression medication. The uptick has been so high, though, that it is raising eyebrows and questions about what’s causing it and whether or not the medicine is helping.
“Here are a few other stand-out statistics from the report on antidepressants:
It’s no secret that a lot of Americans are taking anti-depression medication. The uptick has been so high, though, that it is raising eyebrows and questions about what’s causing it and whether or not the medicine is helping.
Over at Harvard Health, the publication reports that,
“According to a report released yesterday by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the rate of antidepressant use in this country among teens and adults (people ages 12 and older) increased by almost 400% between 1988–1994 and 2005–2008.”
Harvard Health also notes,
- 23% of women in their 40s and 50s take antidepressants, a higher percentage than any other group (by age or sex)
- Women are 2½ times more likely to be taking an antidepressant than men (click here to read a May 2011 article in the Harvard Mental Health Letter about women and depression)
- 14% of non-Hispanic white people take antidepressants compared with just 4% of non-Hispanic blacks and 3% of Mexican Americans
- Less than a third of Americans who are taking a single antidepressants (as opposed to two or more) have seen a mental health professional in the past year
- Antidepressant use does not vary by income status.”
The publication then goes on to state that some will argue that the incredible uptick in anti-depressant use is the result of under-treatment of depression, while others argue that the pharmaceutical industry is “responsible for the surge in prescriptions...”
Charlatans and Sheep - Thomas Sowell
Charlatans and Sheep - Thomas Sowell - Page full:
"One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme "What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?"
Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or activity, the automatic response in some quarters is to assume that someone has prevented equality of outcomes.
This preconception of equal outcomes requires not one speck of evidence, and defies mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Even in activities where individual performances are what determine outcomes, and those performances are easily measured objectively, there is seldom anything resembling equal representation.
For 12 consecutive years -- from 2001 through 2012 -- each home run leader in the American League had a Hispanic surname.
When two American boys whose ancestors came from India tied for first place in the U.S. National Spelling Bee in 2014, it was the 7th consecutive year in which the U.S. National Spelling Bee was won by an Asian Indian.
We all know about the large over-representation of blacks among professional basketball players, and especially among the star players.
The best-selling brands of beer in America were created by people of German ancestry, who also created China's famed Tsingtao beer.
Of the 100 top-ranked Marathon runners in the world in 2012, 68 were Kenyans.
The list could go on and on. Although blacks are over-represented among professional football players, even the most avid National Football League fan is unlikely to be able to recall seeing even one black player who kicked a punt or a point after touchdown.
Should there be an article titled: "What's Holding Black Kickers Back in the NFL?"
Could it be that blacks are more interested in playing positions where there is more action and -- not incidentally -- more money?..."
"One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme "What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?"
Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or activity, the automatic response in some quarters is to assume that someone has prevented equality of outcomes.
This preconception of equal outcomes requires not one speck of evidence, and defies mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Even in activities where individual performances are what determine outcomes, and those performances are easily measured objectively, there is seldom anything resembling equal representation.For 12 consecutive years -- from 2001 through 2012 -- each home run leader in the American League had a Hispanic surname.
When two American boys whose ancestors came from India tied for first place in the U.S. National Spelling Bee in 2014, it was the 7th consecutive year in which the U.S. National Spelling Bee was won by an Asian Indian.
We all know about the large over-representation of blacks among professional basketball players, and especially among the star players.
The best-selling brands of beer in America were created by people of German ancestry, who also created China's famed Tsingtao beer.
Of the 100 top-ranked Marathon runners in the world in 2012, 68 were Kenyans.
The list could go on and on. Although blacks are over-represented among professional football players, even the most avid National Football League fan is unlikely to be able to recall seeing even one black player who kicked a punt or a point after touchdown.
Should there be an article titled: "What's Holding Black Kickers Back in the NFL?"
Could it be that blacks are more interested in playing positions where there is more action and -- not incidentally -- more money?..."
‘Do You Get How Bad It Looks?’: Hillary Clinton Repeats Three-Word Claim Several Times When Confronted on Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com
‘Do You Get How Bad It Looks?’: Hillary Clinton Repeats Three-Word Claim Several Times When Confronted on Email Scandal | Video | TheBlaze.com:"Hillary Clinton apologized for making a “choice that has resulted in this kind of situation” when pressed about her private email scandal during a “Today” show town hall event on Monday, but was more evasive when asked if she understands “how bad it looks” to the average American."
Eastern European smugglers shopping nuclear material to ISIS, other terror groups
Eastern European smugglers shopping nuclear material to ISIS, other terror groups | Fox News
"CHISINAU, Moldova – In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned.
The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium -- enough to contaminate several city blocks -- and specifically sought a buyer from the Islamic State group (ISIS).
Criminal organizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB's successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny and impoverished Eastern European country of Moldova, investigators say.
The successful busts, however, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.
Moldovan police and judicial authorities shared investigative case files with the AP in an effort to spotlight how dangerous the nuclear black market has become.
They say the breakdown in cooperation between Russia and the West means that it has become much harder to know whether smugglers are finding ways to move parts of Russia's vast store of radioactive materials -- an unknown quantity of which has leached into the black market.
"We can expect more of these cases," said Constantin Malic, a Moldovan police officer who investigated all four cases.
"As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it..."
"CHISINAU, Moldova – In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned.
Criminal organizations, some with ties to the Russian KGB's successor agency, are driving a thriving black market in nuclear materials in the tiny and impoverished Eastern European country of Moldova, investigators say.
The successful busts, however, were undercut by striking shortcomings: Kingpins got away, and those arrested evaded long prison sentences, sometimes quickly returning to nuclear smuggling, AP found.
Moldovan police and judicial authorities shared investigative case files with the AP in an effort to spotlight how dangerous the nuclear black market has become.
They say the breakdown in cooperation between Russia and the West means that it has become much harder to know whether smugglers are finding ways to move parts of Russia's vast store of radioactive materials -- an unknown quantity of which has leached into the black market.
"We can expect more of these cases," said Constantin Malic, a Moldovan police officer who investigated all four cases.
"As long as the smugglers think they can make big money without getting caught, they will keep doing it..."
History for October 7
History for October 7 - On-This-Day.com
James Whitcomb Riley 1853, Niels Bohr 1885, Henry Wallace 1888
Andy Devine 1905, June Allyson 1917, Oliver North 1943
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
James Whitcomb Riley 1853, Niels Bohr 1885, Henry Wallace 1888
Andy Devine 1905, June Allyson 1917, Oliver North 1943
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
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