Media Ignores Clinton's Podesta Bagging $35 Million from Putin

Media Ignores Clinton's Podesta Bagging $35 Million from Putin:
"...Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer revealing that Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s firm Joule Unlimited received millions from a Putin-connected Russian government fund.
And despite the GAI report’s wide-ranging news coverage, missing from the pack were left-wing press shops.
Among the New York Times, CNN, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, LA Times, POLITICO — not a single one has covered the bombshell revelation or reported asking Podesta for a comment on his involvement in Joule Unlimited.
This media blackout persists, oddly, after “John Podesta” catapulted to the top of Facebook North America’s treading topics list on Monday, thanks to Schweizer’s new Russia revelations.
...Do these alarming facts detailed in the 56-page GAI report not warrant a question from Hillary Clinton, a candidate seeking America’s highest office?
Of course they do..."

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Stunning Report: Obama Administration Made Secret $400M Cash Payment to Iran as Detained Americans Were Released | TheBlaze.com

Stunning Report: Obama Administration Made Secret $400M Cash Payment to Iran as Detained Americans Were Released | TheBlaze.com:

"The report states that the United States sent “wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies” into Iran on an “unmarked cargo plane.” U.S. law forbids transactions with Iran with American currency.

The U.S. and European officials who spoke to the Journal didn’t specify exactly when the airlift of cash occurred, but the Tasnim agency, “an Iranian news site close to the Revolutionary Guard,” reported that the plane landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport the same day the American prisoners were released."

Female Genital Mutilation Becoming Increasingly Common in the U.S.

Female Genital Mutilation Becoming Increasingly Common in the U.S. | The Daily Sheeple:
"It used to be that the practice of female genital mutilation was a rare occurrence in the United States. The act of “circumcising” young girls, which has no known benefits and can cause a host of lifelong medical problems, is mostly performed in African and Middle Eastern nations.
But now it’s shockingly common to find women in America who have undergone the procedure, according to a recent report published by the Government Accountability Office.
They dug up statistics provided by the CDC, which found that the number of girls and women in the United States who have undergone the procedure or are at risk, has tripled since 1990. 
In 2012 it was estimated that there were 513,000 of the these women, compared to 168,000 in 1990. “CDC attributes this change primarily to increased immigration from countries where FGM/C is practiced, rather than an increase in the occurrence of FGM/C.
...Of course, female genital mutilation is illegal in the United States, as well as most countries.
But when this procedure is done on American soil, it’s rarely reported, and perpetrators are hardly ever investigated and charged.
Even when the government has suspects, their cases pretty much never amount to anything.
The report found that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials had identified 25 people who were suspected of providing the procedure, but only 1 of them was deported.
“The remaining 24 were granted relief or protection from removal, were still in immigration proceedings, or were not issued a travel document by their home country to implement the immigration court’s final order of removal.”"

UNEXPECTEDLY: MEDIA FAILS TO REPORT GANG FIREBOMBING PARIS BUS WHILE YELLING ‘ALLAH AKBAR.’

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UNEXPECTEDLY: MEDIA FAILS TO REPORT GANG FIREBOMBING PARIS BUS WHILE YELLING ‘ALLAH AKBAR.’

As Jim Treacher would say, “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats” — and their Continental equivalent.

Tax meat until it’s too expensive to eat, new UN report suggests

Tax meat until it’s too expensive to eat, new UN report suggests - Ice Age Now:
"Meat should be taxed at the wholesale level to raise the price and deter consumption, says a new report from the UN’s International Research Panel (IRP).
This will (supposedly) save the environment and prevent global warming.
“I think it is extremely urgent,” said Professor Maarten Hajer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, lead author of the report.
“All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products.”
...Rather than taxing the meat at the retail level (in supermarkets and shops), Hajer recommended taxing it at the wholesale level.
“We think it’s better to price meats earlier in the chain, it’s easier,” said Hajer.
...“Meanwhile, Denmark is considering a recommendation from its ethics council that all red meats should be taxed,” Premack continues.
“The council argued in May that Danes were “ethically obliged” to reduce their consumption to curb greenhouse gas emissions.”...

Franklin Graham rips pope over Islamic terror

Franklin Graham rips pope over Islamic terror:

"Franklin Graham, who heads up the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the Samaritan’s Purse relief charity, has rebuked Pope Francis for saying that while the world is at war, the conflict has nothing to do with religion.

“It most certainly is a war of religion,” Graham said in a posting on Facebook."

Higher education?-----Wayne State's financial problems prompt Moody's to change outlook to 'negative'

Wayne State's financial problems prompt Moody's to change outlook to 'negative':
"As Wayne State University continues to struggle with declining enrollment, school officials are spending cash reserves at an alarming rate.
As a result, Moody’s Investors Services has assigned a negative outlook for Wayne State.
“The revision of the outlook to negative reflects the incremental weakening of Wayne State University’s fundamental credit through the spend down of financial reserves and multi-year decline in enrollment,” the report states.
...In late 2014, Standard and Poor’s also downgraded its outlook for Wayne State to negative.
Despite the downgrade, the university continued to spend money and create more debt. 
...When Wayne State dropped math from graduation requirements in June, the Board of Governors learned about it from the media.
In the past five years, Wayne State’s enrollment has fallen more than 10%, from 30,510 in 2009 to 27,222 in 2015.
...Another concern of Moody’s is the Wayne State University School of Medicine, which faces accreditation problems because of numerous violations, including a drop in minority enrollment.
The medical school’s deficit also reached $30 million this year..."

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History for August 4

History for August 4 - On-This-Day.com
Louis Armstrong 1901 - Musician, singer, Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - Sweedish humanitarian during World War II, Richard Belzer 1944 - Actor, comedian ("Law and Order: Special Victims Unit")



John Riggins 1949 - Football player, Billy Bob Thornton 1955 - Actor, Barack Hussein Obama 1961 - 44th President of the United States


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."


1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.


1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.


1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.


1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.


1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal."


1984 - Upper Volta, an African republic, changed its name to Burkina Faso.


1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/08/due-to-mid-summer-break-im-running.html

Due to a mid-summer break, I'm running a column which originally ran on March 23, 2016.

Spiral Death Spin

By Tammy Derouin

The administration wants civil unrest and the most uninformed among us are bound and determined to deliver it right to his door step.  They are clueless to the fact that they are being used to destroy the very country that acknowledges their God given rights.  They demand that their voices be heard but they will do everything in their power to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them.  This is liberal hypocrisy at its best.

The executive and his administration have worked tirelessly to divide our nation.  They never waste an opportunity to undermine or chip away at our freedoms and liberties.  Their foot soldiers are being used to deny others their God given rights.  Can you imagine the outcry if conservatives were attempting to silence liberals?  It would be a much different story.

Our rights are not a one party benefit.  This is precisely why our founding fathers created a governing system of laws, not men.  They understood that everyone is entitled to their opinions and beliefs.  Having an opinion or in many cases, facts, which differ from the ruling party is proving to be very dangerous.  Everyone has the right to speak freely and to assemble but not when it interferes with the rights of others.  We know the liberal Left would not tolerate the same malicious treatment.

Today many liberals feel safe while trampling on the rights of others.  After all, the administration turns a blind eye to their unruly behavior. They cannot see they are destroying themselves in the process. If they think they are being ignored or not being heard now, wait until their party turns on them.  They will scream foul when their rights are infringed upon.  But, will there be any rights left to claim?     

The Left demands tolerance, yet they will not tolerate anyone who disagrees with their agenda of destruction.  Our society is in a spiral death spin. We are now hearing that Republican lives don’t matter and that there will be riots if a certain candidate moves forward.  What the followers of the liberal Left fail to understand, is that the conservative side of the political spectrum is trying to preserve the freedoms and liberties of all, not just one party or group. 

You do not have to agree with Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton but, if we want to remain a free society, you need to acknowledge and defend their right to speak and believe as they wish. 

Isn’t it better to know the true ideology of a person or group?  You should always know as much as possible about an individual who wishes to represent you.  Had we demanded more information about the current executive, we may have dodged a tyrant.  As of right now, it is still your right to counter rally and challenge their ideology. You have freedom of speech and the right to assemble, as long as you do not infringe on the rights of others.  

Instead of acknowledging and tolerating that everyone has an opinion and sees things from a different point of view, the Left has aggressively begun to deny others the same rights they demand for themselves. To see so much prompting and provocation coming directly from the administration, is proof of how determined the executive is to transform our country from freedom and liberty to enslavement and dependence.

For seven years we have witnessed a blow by blow attack by the executive and his administration on our country.  He calls our Constitution a document of negative liberties. It is, however, quite the contrary.  It is a document of positive liberties; a document which recognizes the power of the people to govern and to be self-reliant.  Since that fateful day when our current executive took the oath of office, our Constitution has been under attack.  He has done everything he can to undermine our system of government and our exceptionalism, our freedom.

The fact that he was not voted out of office when we had the chance and only gained more power, proves how lost, how far off course we have drifted as a nation.  He has convinced so many that the government has all the answers. It isn’t the government’s responsibility to fulfill the needs and solve the problems facing each individual. He doesn’t believe that we can survive without his guidance and executive commands.  What will our independence cost us?  Dependency breeds tyranny. 

This administration had proven time and time again, that the only thing it is capable of flawlessly executing, is the creation of more problems.

“The Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

Thomas Jefferson

Election Officials Excuse Voter Fraud in Michigan

Election Officials Excuse Voter Fraud in Michigan | Project Veritas:
"In this video, James O’Keefe visits various polling locations in Michigan and requests the ballot of Jocelyn Benson, the Dean of Wayne State University Law School. O’Keefe is offered the ballot without ID, proving that voter fraud is easy to commit."

America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets

America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets | WIRED
THIS WEEK, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be “rigged.”
...We’ve previously discussed the sad state of electronic voting machines in America, but it’s worth a closer look as we approach election day itself, and within the context of increased cyber-hostilities between the US and Russia. 
Besides, by now states have had plenty of warning since a damning report by the Brennan Center for Justice about our voting machine vulnerabilities came out last September.
Surely matters must have improved since then.
Well, not exactly.
In fact, not really at all.
...In many cases, those dated machines were replaced with electronic voting systems.
The intentions were pure.
The consequences were a technological train wreck.
“People weren’t thinking about voting system security or all the additional challenges that come with electronic voting systems,” says the Brennan Center’s Lawrence Norden. “Moving to electronic voting systems solved a lot of problems, but created a lot of new ones.”
The list of those problems is what you’d expect from any computer or, more specifically, any computer that’s a decade or older.
Most of these machines are running Windows XP, for which Microsoft hasn’t released a security patch since April 2014.
T...he extent of vulnerability isn’t just hypothetical; late last summer, Virginia decertified thousands of insecure WinVote machines.
As one security researcher described it, “anyone within a half mile could have modified every vote, undetected” without “any technical expertise.”
...The worst part about the current state of voting machines is that they don’t even require outside interference to undo an election.
“They’re all computers.
They run on tens of thousands of lines of code,” says Norden.
“It’s impossible to have a perfectly secure, perfectly reliable computer.”
...The problem is that not every state does post-election audits.
And even some that require them by law, namely Pennsylvania and Kentucky, don’t actually use voter-verifiable paper trails, meaning they have no way to complete an audit.
That suspicion is the real danger of electronic voting systems, and especially of those that can’t be easily or effectively audited.
If you can’t guarantee that there was no tampering—which not every state can—it might not matter if any actually took place. 
In the wrong hands, the doubt itself is damaging enough."

Hillary Never Completed Security Briefings At State Dept | The Daily Caller

Hillary Never Completed Security Briefings At State Dept | The Daily Caller:

"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed no security briefings or courses on the proper handling of classified materials and how to conduct secure communications while at the Department of State, according to new Obama administration legal filings before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Flashback: The massive scale of the Clintons’ speech-making industry. …

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Flashback: The massive scale of the Clintons’ speech-making industry.

Last week, Hillary Clinton’s campaign released her most recent personal financial disclosure, detailing ways in which she and her husband earned money in 2015. Most of their income came from book royalties and giving paid speeches. Bill Clinton, for example, gave a speech to the National Association of Manufacturers in March 2015, being paid $325,000 for his time.

You probably don’t need to be reminded that $325,000 is more than most people make in a year. The median income for a family of four in 2014 was $53,657 — what Clinton made about a sixth of the way into that one speech.

And that was one of 22 speeches Bill Clinton gave last year. The NAM speech was the most lucrative, but Bill earned more than $5 million combined from those 20 days of work. Since the Clintons left the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been paid more than $150 million from speeches alone.

If journalists were doing their job, they’d be asking Hillary if Bill would still give paid speeches if she were President. Oh, wait, for that to happen, she’d have to take questions from the press.

Something Strange Emerges When Looking At A Congresswoman's Daytrading Records

Something Strange Emerges When Looking At A Congresswoman's Daytrading Records | Zero Hedge
"...While we would be the last to begrudge Ms. Chu her daytrading largesse, whether or not in possession of material, non-public inside info at time of trading - after all, if it is legal, by all means trade on inside information - something did catch our interest.

According to her public profile, the Democrat representing the 27th Congressional District, taught psychology for 20 years in an East LA Community College system, from 1981 to 2001, and reported a pension worth between $100,001 and $250,000 for those years of work. She also draws a smaller pension from serving on the Monterey Park City Council. She became a member of Congress in 2009.

In other words, a community college psychology teacher who daytrades S&P calls and puts in size up to $15,000?  Maybe she is merely "piggybacking" on her husband's net worth? Then again, maybe not. Her husband, former Assemblyman Mike Eng, is a senior partner at an immigration law firm in Los Angeles valued between $250,001 and $500,000.

* * *

And then we look at her net worth, which is where things get interesting, because this career psych professor, currently has an average net worth of $3.5 million, which according to InsideGov makes her the 103rd richest member of the House.  Chu's net worth was 3.2 times more than the average member of Congress and 4 times more than the average representative. When compared to the California Congressional Delegation, Chu had a net worth that was 3.6 times more than the average.

But most interesting is the history of Rep. Judy Chu's net worth over a short 6 year period, as shown in the chart below.

To summarize: a former East LA psychology professor (with an annual pension) started off her Congressional career with virtually nothing in the bank, and over the next 5 years, built up a net worth of over $3 million. We are curious how: it wasn't with the modest salary that members of the house collect; it wasn't from outside activities, it wasn't from her husband.

Which leaves just one possibility: her phenomenal daytrading skills, which are made even more phenomenal since her trades are exempt from regulatory oversight.

We are curious: why does Ms. Chu waste her amazing trading talent in D.C. when she could be working for Steve Cohen, or better yet, run her own hedge fund, making billions. Because if she can recreate her phenomenal 6 year return with outside capital, we would be the first in line to let her manage our money... assuming of course she can repeat her trading performance when the SEC at least pretend to care..."

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U.S. Marine and Navy Vet Sends HARDCORE Letter to Muslim Father Who Slammed Trump

U.S. Marine and Navy Vet Sends HARDCORE Letter to Muslim Father Who Slammed Trump:

"Military all across the country are defending Donald Trump. Lieutenant colonel and conservative legend Allen West had a “PERSONAL message for the Muslim father whose son was killed in Iraq”, and it is an absolute must read!

Allen West certainly wasn’t alone. Military veteran Chris Mark wrote this intense letter to Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen U.S. soldier who attacked Donald Trump at the DNC for never having sacrificed for his country.

Check it…"