Trump later told a New York Times reporter that he remembered that on that occasion no one mentioned the name of 85-year-old Othmar Ahmann, designer of New York's famous bridges for more than 50 years. "I realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," he told the Times. "I don't want to be anyone's sucker.""
Monday, September 28, 2015
Is there any historical precedent for Donald Trump?
Is there any historical precedent for Donald Trump? | Washington Examiner:
"In November 1964, a crowd of 5,000 attended the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world. Presiding were New York Mayor Robert Wagner, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and transportation and parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a teenager named Donald Trump.
Trump later told a New York Times reporter that he remembered that on that occasion no one mentioned the name of 85-year-old Othmar Ahmann, designer of New York's famous bridges for more than 50 years. "I realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," he told the Times. "I don't want to be anyone's sucker.""
Trump later told a New York Times reporter that he remembered that on that occasion no one mentioned the name of 85-year-old Othmar Ahmann, designer of New York's famous bridges for more than 50 years. "I realized then and there that if you let people treat you how they want, you'll be made a fool," he told the Times. "I don't want to be anyone's sucker.""
Two Republican Presidential Candidates Practically Even at Top of New Poll | TheBlaze.com
Two Republican Presidential Candidates Practically Even at Top of New Poll | TheBlaze.com:
"Donald Trump and Ben Carson are pretty much dead even at the top of the Republican field vying for the 2016 presidency, NBC News reported Sunday, citing its new poll with the Wall Street Journal."
"Donald Trump and Ben Carson are pretty much dead even at the top of the Republican field vying for the 2016 presidency, NBC News reported Sunday, citing its new poll with the Wall Street Journal."
Dirty kids are healthy kids
Dirty kids are healthy kids | Pork Network:
"Squeaky clean and always sick.
You’re armed with an arsenal of hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes.
On a mission to protect your kids from a world full of germs.
But have they had their daily dose of dirt?
It just might be what the doctor ordered, according to the latest in the hygiene hypothesis.
Where less exposure to germs leads to a greater risk of allergies and asthma.
No one wants that.
But there’s an easy fix.
Visit a farm.
Feed the cows.
Get your hands dirty.
And take a deep breath of fresh air.
It’s the farm effect.
Working with livestock, stirring up the dust and drinking from the water hose.
It exposes farm kids to good bacteria.
Building up their immune systems.
And lessening their chances for getting sick.
But one dose won’t do the trick.
Exposure to germs at a young age, and often, is why this works.
That means the old adage “a little dirt don’t hurt” has some science to back it up.
And healthy farm kids are the proof.
So swap screen time for farm time.
And mingle with the good “bugs.”"
"Squeaky clean and always sick.
You’re armed with an arsenal of hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes.
On a mission to protect your kids from a world full of germs.
But have they had their daily dose of dirt?
It just might be what the doctor ordered, according to the latest in the hygiene hypothesis.
No one wants that.
But there’s an easy fix.
Visit a farm.
Feed the cows.
Get your hands dirty.
And take a deep breath of fresh air.
It’s the farm effect.
Working with livestock, stirring up the dust and drinking from the water hose.
It exposes farm kids to good bacteria.
Building up their immune systems.
And lessening their chances for getting sick.
But one dose won’t do the trick.
Exposure to germs at a young age, and often, is why this works.
That means the old adage “a little dirt don’t hurt” has some science to back it up.
And healthy farm kids are the proof.
So swap screen time for farm time.
And mingle with the good “bugs.”"
With Pope’s Help, U.N. Bypasses Congress on Global Socialism
With Pope’s Help, U.N. Bypasses Congress on Global Socialism
Pope Francis didn’t make the list of “Eminent Persons” assembled by the U.N. Secretary General to plan the “global development framework” for the world beyond 2015 and culminating in 2030.
But the pope didn’t need to be on the list.
After all, the Vatican has endorsed the anti-capitalist “sustainable development” agenda that is being voted on by the nations of the world at the U.N.
However, the American people, through their elected representatives, have had absolutely no input in developing this new global agenda which President Obama will implement without the input or approval of Congress.
...In his speech to Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis once again demonstrated his pro-Marxist tendencies, hailing the work of Dorothy Day, an American convert to Catholicism who never renounced her pro-Marxist views but has been described by the media as just an activist for “social justice.”
She was a founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and was the subject of a 581-page FBI file for her connections to communists and communist groups.
Nevertheless, at the White House on Wednesday and appearing with President Obama, Pope Francis specifically reaffirmed his support for the U.N.’s “sustainable and integral development” model from his “Laudato Si” encyclical.
...The pope says nice things about the poor, but the practical result of ditching capitalism for socialism will be more poverty, suffering, and death.
Pope Francis didn’t make the list of “Eminent Persons” assembled by the U.N. Secretary General to plan the “global development framework” for the world beyond 2015 and culminating in 2030.
But the pope didn’t need to be on the list.
After all, the Vatican has endorsed the anti-capitalist “sustainable development” agenda that is being voted on by the nations of the world at the U.N.
...In his speech to Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis once again demonstrated his pro-Marxist tendencies, hailing the work of Dorothy Day, an American convert to Catholicism who never renounced her pro-Marxist views but has been described by the media as just an activist for “social justice.”
She was a founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and was the subject of a 581-page FBI file for her connections to communists and communist groups.
Nevertheless, at the White House on Wednesday and appearing with President Obama, Pope Francis specifically reaffirmed his support for the U.N.’s “sustainable and integral development” model from his “Laudato Si” encyclical.
...The pope says nice things about the poor, but the practical result of ditching capitalism for socialism will be more poverty, suffering, and death.
Hillary Clinton vs. FOIA - WSJ
Hillary Clinton vs. FOIA - WSJ:
"The Clintons are street fighters, and over their scandal-plagued years they have mastered outwitting the press, Congress, the Justice Department, even special prosecutors. But the reason Mrs. Clinton isn’t winning her latest scandal is because she faces a new opponent—one she can’t beat: the Freedom of Information Act."
"The Clintons are street fighters, and over their scandal-plagued years they have mastered outwitting the press, Congress, the Justice Department, even special prosecutors. But the reason Mrs. Clinton isn’t winning her latest scandal is because she faces a new opponent—one she can’t beat: the Freedom of Information Act."
No more forced union dues for UAW autoworkers in 3 Midwest states
No more forced union dues for UAW autoworkers in 3 Midwest states - Watchdog.org:
"MADISON, Wisconsin — The United Auto Workers may extend its current contract with the Big Three automakers, but that doesn’t mean UAW-represented employees in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana have to continue to pay union dues.
The UAW recently announced it will extend the expired four-year contract, which ended last week, on an “hour-by-hour basis” while the sides continue to negotiate a new pact.
While the UAW temporarily extends its contract with the Big Three automakers, compulsory union membership has ended for union-represented employees in three Midwest states.
But the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation wants workers to know the extension doesn’t change the fact Big Three employees in new right-to-work states in the Midwest may now opt out of compulsory union membership.
“UAW officials can say what they want, but they no longer have the legal authority to require Big Three employees in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana to pay union dues as any ‘extended’ contract is now fully covered by state Right to Work laws,” Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, said in a statement..."
"MADISON, Wisconsin — The United Auto Workers may extend its current contract with the Big Three automakers, but that doesn’t mean UAW-represented employees in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana have to continue to pay union dues.
While the UAW temporarily extends its contract with the Big Three automakers, compulsory union membership has ended for union-represented employees in three Midwest states.
But the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation wants workers to know the extension doesn’t change the fact Big Three employees in new right-to-work states in the Midwest may now opt out of compulsory union membership.
“UAW officials can say what they want, but they no longer have the legal authority to require Big Three employees in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana to pay union dues as any ‘extended’ contract is now fully covered by state Right to Work laws,” Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, said in a statement..."
Brave gals. A gun mighta helped-----Sisters fight off attacker who tried to kill them in home
Sisters fight off attacker who tried to kill them in home - NY Daily News
Two sisters who fought off a man who tried to kill them in their Salt Lake City home said their bond saved them.
Bre and Kayli Lasley took turns tackling the man, who police identified as Robert Berger, after he snuck into Bre's bedroom in Salt Lake City late Tuesday night.
As Berger repeatedly stabbed Bre, a police officer arrived and shot him dead.
Bre, 27, was working on her computer and listening to music around midnight when she heard a man whisper near her window, which she had left open about an inch to cool down her first-floor bedroom.
She thought it was a commercial playing from her laptop and dismissed the noise.
But 10 minutes later, she couldn't ignore it.
"I heard his voice and he just said, 'Hey girl, I'm coming in," Bre told the Daily News Saturday.
Berger, standing 6'2", got inside after opening the heavy window using a broom while standing on a chair, police said.
"He said, 'You either cooperate with me or I'm going downstairs to get your little sister,'" Bre said. "He put his left hand over my mouth and started punching me in the stomach..."
Read on.
Protect yourself or pay the price.
Two sisters who fought off a man who tried to kill them in their Salt Lake City home said their bond saved them.
Bre and Kayli Lasley took turns tackling the man, who police identified as Robert Berger, after he snuck into Bre's bedroom in Salt Lake City late Tuesday night.As Berger repeatedly stabbed Bre, a police officer arrived and shot him dead.
Bre, 27, was working on her computer and listening to music around midnight when she heard a man whisper near her window, which she had left open about an inch to cool down her first-floor bedroom.
She thought it was a commercial playing from her laptop and dismissed the noise.
But 10 minutes later, she couldn't ignore it.
"I heard his voice and he just said, 'Hey girl, I'm coming in," Bre told the Daily News Saturday.
Berger, standing 6'2", got inside after opening the heavy window using a broom while standing on a chair, police said.
"He said, 'You either cooperate with me or I'm going downstairs to get your little sister,'" Bre said. "He put his left hand over my mouth and started punching me in the stomach..."
Read on.
Protect yourself or pay the price.
China’s Planned City Bubble Is About to Pop—and Even You’ll Feel It
China’s Planned City Bubble Is About to Pop—and Even You’ll Feel It | Newgeography.com
Seven years after the last housing debacle devastated the world economy, we may be on the verge of another, albeit different, bubble.
If the last real estate collapse was created due to insanely easy lending policies aimed at the middle and working classes, the current one has its roots largely in a regime of cheap money married to policies of planners who believe that they can shape the urban future from above.
This time, the potential property blowout has roots in large part outside the United States.
Many of China’s current problems, in fact, can be traced in part to its unhealthy inflation of real estate values spurred by a drive to increase urbanization and density.
...The payback for ignoring the market could be imminent.
In Boston, demand for space in expensive residential buildings—where a 500-square-foot studio in the Fenway Park area starts at $2,700 a month, and new two-bedrooms stretch into the $7,000s—may be headed toward a glut.
Sound familiar?
Even some ascendant markets like Nashville, where apartment construction is growing more than 3 percent annually, appear to be on the way to being overbuilt.
If there’s a downturn in tech, which seems likely in the next year or so, expect San Jose, Raleigh, and Austin to start seeing a decline in rents and greater competition for tenants.
As we can see in China, Australia, Canada, and now at home, planners’ hubris about what is best seems to lead inevitably to a new real estate bust.
What we don’t need is not so much more pack and stack housing, luxury units, and absentee owners but a return to an updated version of Levittown or Lakewood.
This would help middle class families and would supercharge the economy, producing three times as many jobs as multifamily construction.
It’s about time for the political class to acknowledge that, in most cases, people know what they want better than those who claim to know best.
That’s as true in Beijing or Shanghai as it is in Sydney, Toronto, or Los Angeles.
Seven years after the last housing debacle devastated the world economy, we may be on the verge of another, albeit different, bubble.
If the last real estate collapse was created due to insanely easy lending policies aimed at the middle and working classes, the current one has its roots largely in a regime of cheap money married to policies of planners who believe that they can shape the urban future from above.
This time, the potential property blowout has roots in large part outside the United States.
Many of China’s current problems, in fact, can be traced in part to its unhealthy inflation of real estate values spurred by a drive to increase urbanization and density.
In Boston, demand for space in expensive residential buildings—where a 500-square-foot studio in the Fenway Park area starts at $2,700 a month, and new two-bedrooms stretch into the $7,000s—may be headed toward a glut.
Sound familiar?
Even some ascendant markets like Nashville, where apartment construction is growing more than 3 percent annually, appear to be on the way to being overbuilt.
If there’s a downturn in tech, which seems likely in the next year or so, expect San Jose, Raleigh, and Austin to start seeing a decline in rents and greater competition for tenants.
As we can see in China, Australia, Canada, and now at home, planners’ hubris about what is best seems to lead inevitably to a new real estate bust.
What we don’t need is not so much more pack and stack housing, luxury units, and absentee owners but a return to an updated version of Levittown or Lakewood.
This would help middle class families and would supercharge the economy, producing three times as many jobs as multifamily construction.
It’s about time for the political class to acknowledge that, in most cases, people know what they want better than those who claim to know best.
That’s as true in Beijing or Shanghai as it is in Sydney, Toronto, or Los Angeles.
Obama Lied Again: He Said He’d Cut Healthcare Premiums to $2,500, But They’ve Soared to Nearly $5,000 | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Obama Lied Again: He Said He’d Cut Healthcare Premiums to $2,500, But They’ve Soared to Nearly $5,000 | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
"When our liar in chief first came to office he claimed that he was going to “fix” the healthcare system. Then, when he began to sell Obamacare he promised that all of our insurance premiums would be about $2,500 annually. But now we find that this liar missed it again. Premiums have soared to nearly $5,000 a year under his regime."
"When our liar in chief first came to office he claimed that he was going to “fix” the healthcare system. Then, when he began to sell Obamacare he promised that all of our insurance premiums would be about $2,500 annually. But now we find that this liar missed it again. Premiums have soared to nearly $5,000 a year under his regime."My God, what a hero!-----B-29: Phosphorus burned through his flesh to the bone. His body on fire, he stumbled into the cockpit
B-29: Phosphorus burned through his flesh to the bone. His body on fire, he stumbled into the cockpit:
"...Erwin was afraid the bomb would burn through the metal floor into the bomb bay.
Completely blind, he picked it up and feeling his way, crawled around the gun turret and headed for the copilot’s window.
His face and arms were covered with ignited phosphorus and his path was blocked by the navigator’s folding table, hinged to the wall but down and locked.
The navigator had left his table to make a sighting.
Erwin couldn’t release the table’s latches with one hand, so he grabbed the white-hot bomb between his bare right arm and his ribcage.
In the few seconds it took to raise the table, the phosphorus burned through his flesh to the bone.
His body on fire, he stumbled into the cockpit, threw the bomb out the window and collapsed between the pilot’s seats.
The smoke cleared enough for Simeral to pull the B-29 out of a dive at 300 feet (91 m) above the water and turn toward Iwo Jima, where Erwin could be given emergency treatment.
His crew members extinguished his burning clothes and administered first aid, but whenever Erwin’s burns were uncovered, phosphorus embedded in his skin would begin to smolder.
Although in excruciating pain, he remained conscious throughout the flight and spoke only to inquire about the safety of the crew.
Once at Iwo Jima, medical personnel didn’t believe he would survive..."
"...Erwin was afraid the bomb would burn through the metal floor into the bomb bay.
Completely blind, he picked it up and feeling his way, crawled around the gun turret and headed for the copilot’s window.
His face and arms were covered with ignited phosphorus and his path was blocked by the navigator’s folding table, hinged to the wall but down and locked.The navigator had left his table to make a sighting.
Erwin couldn’t release the table’s latches with one hand, so he grabbed the white-hot bomb between his bare right arm and his ribcage.
In the few seconds it took to raise the table, the phosphorus burned through his flesh to the bone.
His body on fire, he stumbled into the cockpit, threw the bomb out the window and collapsed between the pilot’s seats.
The smoke cleared enough for Simeral to pull the B-29 out of a dive at 300 feet (91 m) above the water and turn toward Iwo Jima, where Erwin could be given emergency treatment.
His crew members extinguished his burning clothes and administered first aid, but whenever Erwin’s burns were uncovered, phosphorus embedded in his skin would begin to smolder.
Although in excruciating pain, he remained conscious throughout the flight and spoke only to inquire about the safety of the crew.
Once at Iwo Jima, medical personnel didn’t believe he would survive..."
History for September 28
History for September 28 - On-This-Day.com:
Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher, Ed Sullivan 1902, Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909
Arnold Stang 1925, Brigitte Bardot 1934, Mira Sorvino 1967
1687 - The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1789 - In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin." The fixed-date for Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, was established on December 26, 1941.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher, Ed Sullivan 1902, Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909
Arnold Stang 1925, Brigitte Bardot 1934, Mira Sorvino 1967
1687 - The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1789 - In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin." The fixed-date for Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, was established on December 26, 1941.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Cruz: Beware Boehner’s shady deals with Obama
Cruz: Beware Boehner’s shady deals with Obama:"Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s hovering in the middle of the Republican pack for president in recent primary polls, sent out a mocking message about John Boehner’s announced resignation to a crowd of Values Voter Summit attendees – but then quickly wondered if a shady motive had prompted the speaker’s departure."
Dr. Carson Is Right About Islam
Star Parker: Dr. Carson Is Right About Islam — The Patriot Post:
"Is Islam consistent with the American value of freedom?
...Let’s just look at how Muslims run their own affairs in their own countries.
According to the Pew Research Center, there are 31 nations in the world with Muslim populations of 90 percent or more.
Freedom House in Washington, D.C., rates nations around the world according to freedom.
They rate according to civil liberties and political rights.
Nations are broken down into three categories: free, partly free, and not free.
Of the 31 nations that are more than 90 percent Muslim, how many are rated free?
Two.
It seems pretty clear that freedom fares not so well in the Muslim world.
How about the Constitution?
The Constitution is not a value-free operating manual.
The reason the founders created it was to preserve American values.
They were quite clear about this in the preamble to the Constitution.
The preamble says: “We the people” establish the Constitution to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
I spend much of my time reading the Bible so I can be a good Christian.
I don’t feel it is my responsibility to read the Quran and get into the business of trying to understand what Muslims believe.
My measuring stick can only be how Muslims behave.
And the evidence is overwhelming that Islam does not produce behavior consistent with the American value of freedom, the core value our constitution exists to preserve.
It is perfectly constitutional to elect someone with values that will destroy America.
It’s just not a very good idea to do it.
When Ben Carson says he “would not advocate putting a Muslim in charge of this nation,” only someone who does not care about the future of this nation would question the power of his logic."
"Is Islam consistent with the American value of freedom?
...Let’s just look at how Muslims run their own affairs in their own countries.
According to the Pew Research Center, there are 31 nations in the world with Muslim populations of 90 percent or more.
Freedom House in Washington, D.C., rates nations around the world according to freedom.
They rate according to civil liberties and political rights.
Nations are broken down into three categories: free, partly free, and not free.Of the 31 nations that are more than 90 percent Muslim, how many are rated free?
Two.
It seems pretty clear that freedom fares not so well in the Muslim world.
How about the Constitution?
The Constitution is not a value-free operating manual.
The reason the founders created it was to preserve American values.
They were quite clear about this in the preamble to the Constitution.
The preamble says: “We the people” establish the Constitution to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
I spend much of my time reading the Bible so I can be a good Christian.
I don’t feel it is my responsibility to read the Quran and get into the business of trying to understand what Muslims believe.
My measuring stick can only be how Muslims behave.
And the evidence is overwhelming that Islam does not produce behavior consistent with the American value of freedom, the core value our constitution exists to preserve.
It is perfectly constitutional to elect someone with values that will destroy America.
It’s just not a very good idea to do it.
When Ben Carson says he “would not advocate putting a Muslim in charge of this nation,” only someone who does not care about the future of this nation would question the power of his logic."
EPA: $1 trillion water investment needed for American population growth | MLive.com
EPA: $1 trillion water investment needed for American population growth | MLive.com: "MICHIGAN - A new Associated Press project is highlighting the problems plaguing America's drinking water infrastructure, which is not aging gracefully.
Most people take the liquid on tap for granted, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects it will cost $384 billion over 20 years just to maintain the nation's existing drinking water infrastructure.
Replacing pipes, treatment plants and other infrastructure as well as expanding water systems to handle population growth could cost as much as $1 trillion.
Without that investment, industry groups warn of a future with more infrastructure failures that will disrupt service, transportation and commerce.
Michigan residents have seen these troubles firsthand in cities like Detroit, Bay City and Flint, the latter of which is now dealing with increased lead levels in drinking water after switching to the Flint River as a source last year.
Officials say the corrosiveness of river water on pipes is greater than Lake Huron water, which had been used for 50-plus years."
Most people take the liquid on tap for granted, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects it will cost $384 billion over 20 years just to maintain the nation's existing drinking water infrastructure.Replacing pipes, treatment plants and other infrastructure as well as expanding water systems to handle population growth could cost as much as $1 trillion.
Without that investment, industry groups warn of a future with more infrastructure failures that will disrupt service, transportation and commerce.
Michigan residents have seen these troubles firsthand in cities like Detroit, Bay City and Flint, the latter of which is now dealing with increased lead levels in drinking water after switching to the Flint River as a source last year.
Officials say the corrosiveness of river water on pipes is greater than Lake Huron water, which had been used for 50-plus years."
Officials Confirm ‘Very Concerning’ Action U.S.-Trained Forces Took Upon Entering Syria | TheBlaze.com
Officials Confirm ‘Very Concerning’ Action U.S.-Trained Forces Took Upon Entering Syria | TheBlaze.com:"U.S. Central Command said it was notified Friday afternoon that U.S.-trained Syrian forces deployed to fight the Islamic State surrendered much of its coalition-issued equipment to a suspected Al Qaeda group upon entering Syria."
Obama's Junior Varsity Team ISIS Is Planning "Nuclear Tsunami"
Report: Obama's Junior Varsity Team ISIS Is Planning "Nuclear Tsunami" - The Gateway Pundit:
** The jayvee team hopes to wipe out hundreds of millions in a nuclear attack
Israel National News reported:
A veteran German journalist who became the first to gain access as an embedded reporter with Islamic State (ISIS) revealed the jihadist terror group plans to bring nuclear annihilation across the globe.
The journalist, Jurgen Todenhofer (75), released his findings in a book called “Inside IS – Ten Days in the Islamic State,” reports the UK’s Daily Express on Friday.
Todenhofer, who previously was an MP in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party before turning to journalism in 2000 as a war reporter, spent ten days with ISIS.
He was overseen during his visit by “Jihadi John,” the ISIS terrorist from the UK named Mohammed Emwazi who gained fame in gruesome beheading videos.
According to the journalist, the West is unprepared for ISIS.
He writes that “the terrorists plan on killing several hundred million people.
The west is drastically underestimating the power of ISIS...”
** The jayvee team hopes to wipe out hundreds of millions in a nuclear attack
** ISIS claims it is “infinitely” closer to buying nuke and smuggling it into the United States
** The terror group controls territory larger than than the United Kingdom
** Barack Obama says he has no strategy to defeat the terror groupA veteran German journalist who became the first to gain access as an embedded reporter with Islamic State (ISIS) revealed the jihadist terror group plans to bring nuclear annihilation across the globe.
The journalist, Jurgen Todenhofer (75), released his findings in a book called “Inside IS – Ten Days in the Islamic State,” reports the UK’s Daily Express on Friday.
Todenhofer, who previously was an MP in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party before turning to journalism in 2000 as a war reporter, spent ten days with ISIS.
He was overseen during his visit by “Jihadi John,” the ISIS terrorist from the UK named Mohammed Emwazi who gained fame in gruesome beheading videos.
According to the journalist, the West is unprepared for ISIS.
He writes that “the terrorists plan on killing several hundred million people.
The west is drastically underestimating the power of ISIS...”
Important read. Read it all. Twice!-----The Volkswagen Scandal: Driven By Moral Hazard Of Bailouts
The Volkswagen Scandal: Driven By Moral Hazard Of Bailouts
Volkswagen's bombshell admission that it cheated on US emissions testing has become the latest in a string of auto industry scandals driven by the moral hazard of bailouts.
...In January of 2014, President Obama took a moment out of his state of the union address to celebrate an automotive guest of honor: freshly minted General Motors CEO Mary Barra. For Obama, Barra represented a two-fer: not only was her presence an opportunity to boast about his decision to “save Detroit,” the fact that she was the first female CEO of a major automaker helped Obama make the case that his rescue had imbued the industrial giant with a new spirit of equality and meritocracy.
But less than a month later, Barra announced that GM would begin recalling vehicles with an ignition switch that had been turning off vehicles and disabling airbags for a decade, with fatal results.
...Barra fired 15 employees for their roles in the scandal, but refused to state that they would not receive severance pay, which strongly suggested that they had.
This, along with her symbolic power as a representative of “The New GM,” allowed her to insist that GM was acting with transparency and accountability even as they clearly were not.
The Valukas Report was taken as gospel, by representatives and the media alike, with few questioning the fact that GM had an ongoing business relationship with Valukas’s firm, Jenner and Block.
And when the Department of Justice announced GM’s settlement of criminal charges, it cited the Valukas Report as evidence of GM’s “cooperation” which justified its sweetheart deal.
Though GM had admitted that its decade-old defect had caused 124 deaths and hundreds more injuries, no individual executives were charged, the firm paid just $900 million in fines, and deferred prosecution kept GM from becoming a corporate criminal.
...The contrast between GM’s generous treatment at the hands of authorities and the media and the brutal attacks on Toyota were enough to demonstrate a double-standard.
For its non-defect, officially linked to zero deaths, Toyota paid $1.2 billion and received universal opprobrium from regulators and congress.
For its decade-old defect, which it admitted had killed or injured nearly 400 Americans, GM paid just $900 million and received praise from prosecutors and the media for its cooperation and accountability...
...VW’s concession to this tactic has resulted in a level of public outcry and potential regulatory and legal repercussions that easily rivals GM’s, despite the fact that not a single death or injury has been tied to the scandal.
The EPA is threatening a fine that is capped at a whopping $18 billion,
...Is Killing People Worse Than Emissions Cheating?
Once again we are confronted with an incredibly selective moral outrage aimed at a single, targeted automaker.
Only this time, the difference is that the total lack of moral outrage about GM’s serial killer-eclipsing death count is still ringing in our ears.
...With our sense of moral clarity so muddled by the Obama administration’s various adventures in auto industry protectionism-by-regulatory-scandal, the public no longer seems able even to accept the modest proposition that killing people is worse than cheating on an emissions testing regime that invites gaming and abuse both in theory and practice..."
Volkswagen's bombshell admission that it cheated on US emissions testing has become the latest in a string of auto industry scandals driven by the moral hazard of bailouts.
...In January of 2014, President Obama took a moment out of his state of the union address to celebrate an automotive guest of honor: freshly minted General Motors CEO Mary Barra. For Obama, Barra represented a two-fer: not only was her presence an opportunity to boast about his decision to “save Detroit,” the fact that she was the first female CEO of a major automaker helped Obama make the case that his rescue had imbued the industrial giant with a new spirit of equality and meritocracy.
But less than a month later, Barra announced that GM would begin recalling vehicles with an ignition switch that had been turning off vehicles and disabling airbags for a decade, with fatal results.
...Barra fired 15 employees for their roles in the scandal, but refused to state that they would not receive severance pay, which strongly suggested that they had.
This, along with her symbolic power as a representative of “The New GM,” allowed her to insist that GM was acting with transparency and accountability even as they clearly were not.
The Valukas Report was taken as gospel, by representatives and the media alike, with few questioning the fact that GM had an ongoing business relationship with Valukas’s firm, Jenner and Block.
And when the Department of Justice announced GM’s settlement of criminal charges, it cited the Valukas Report as evidence of GM’s “cooperation” which justified its sweetheart deal.
Though GM had admitted that its decade-old defect had caused 124 deaths and hundreds more injuries, no individual executives were charged, the firm paid just $900 million in fines, and deferred prosecution kept GM from becoming a corporate criminal....The contrast between GM’s generous treatment at the hands of authorities and the media and the brutal attacks on Toyota were enough to demonstrate a double-standard.
For its non-defect, officially linked to zero deaths, Toyota paid $1.2 billion and received universal opprobrium from regulators and congress.
For its decade-old defect, which it admitted had killed or injured nearly 400 Americans, GM paid just $900 million and received praise from prosecutors and the media for its cooperation and accountability...
...VW’s concession to this tactic has resulted in a level of public outcry and potential regulatory and legal repercussions that easily rivals GM’s, despite the fact that not a single death or injury has been tied to the scandal.
The EPA is threatening a fine that is capped at a whopping $18 billion,
...Is Killing People Worse Than Emissions Cheating?
Once again we are confronted with an incredibly selective moral outrage aimed at a single, targeted automaker.
Only this time, the difference is that the total lack of moral outrage about GM’s serial killer-eclipsing death count is still ringing in our ears.
...With our sense of moral clarity so muddled by the Obama administration’s various adventures in auto industry protectionism-by-regulatory-scandal, the public no longer seems able even to accept the modest proposition that killing people is worse than cheating on an emissions testing regime that invites gaming and abuse both in theory and practice..."
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