Sunday, August 28, 2016
Clinton’s State Dept. Schedule Won’t Be Released Until After Election Day | TheBlaze.com
Clinton’s State Dept. Schedule Won’t Be Released Until After Election Day | TheBlaze.com:
"The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond.
The schedules drew new attention this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far. The news agency found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives."
"The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond.
The schedules drew new attention this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far. The news agency found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives."
Washington Post: U.S. needs illegal immigrants for 'washing dishes,' 'mowing lawns'
"An editorial in the Washington Post on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump's recent comments on restricting immigration and argued that people in the country illegally are needed for menial labor.
The paper said Trump's call for a border wall and a "humane" solution to the millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are "politically and economically preposterous."
"Those include the fact that at least 8 million unauthorized immigrants are employed, most have been in this country for 15 years or longer, and typically they do jobs — tending crops, washing dishes, mowing lawns — that native-born Americans do not want," the Post said..."
Ten Minutes To Tokyo
Ten Minutes To Tokyo | PJ Media
"Depending on how you view it North Korea is either a nuisance or a growing threat to world peace.
Today North Korea fired a submarine launched ballistic missile from a port off its east coast to a point more than halfway to Tokyo.
"The missile was fired at around 5:30am (local time) from near the coastal city of Sinpo, where satellite imagery shows a submarine base to be located, and flew about 500 kilometres before splashing into the Sea of Japan, US and South Korean officials said.
The projectile landed in Japan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ), an area of control designated by countries to help maintain air security, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported."
"Depending on how you view it North Korea is either a nuisance or a growing threat to world peace.
Today North Korea fired a submarine launched ballistic missile from a port off its east coast to a point more than halfway to Tokyo.
"The missile was fired at around 5:30am (local time) from near the coastal city of Sinpo, where satellite imagery shows a submarine base to be located, and flew about 500 kilometres before splashing into the Sea of Japan, US and South Korean officials said.
The projectile landed in Japan's air defence identification zone (ADIZ), an area of control designated by countries to help maintain air security, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported."
...While there is a chance to take out land-based nuclear sites, ballistic missile submarines ensure that a retaliatory strike could still be launched before it can be found and neutralized."
...Perhaps in his heart of hearts president Obama believes there is no answer; that we are trapped between our godlike technology and our infernal human impulses.
So he just spends the time reassuring everyone, both hawk and dove, that there is nothing to worry about.
So he just spends the time reassuring everyone, both hawk and dove, that there is nothing to worry about.
In the meantime he prays to the God that liberals don't believe in and hopes for the best."
Venezuela Gov’t Doubles Down on Policies Blamed for ‘Economic Disaster’
Venezuela Gov’t Doubles Down on Policies Blamed for ‘Economic Disaster’:
"Mexico City (CNSNews.com) – The administration of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro is doubling down on policies blamed by some for the country’s massive recession and widespread shortages of food and medicines, according to a Caracas business leader.
“The government has become more radical,” Victor Maldonado, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services told CNSNews.com by phone from Caracas.
Ministers who “were talking about allowing for more freedom in the economy” have been recently fired, he noted.
“If the current government maintains its economic policies, Venezuela will not exit its current crisis and the problems will only become greater,” Maldonado.
According to the IMF, Venezuela’s economy is expected to shrink by 8 percent this year, with inflation ballooning to 700 percent.
In a dismal 2016 economic outlook for the country, the IMF cited “widespread price and other administrative controls and regulations” and a “worsening business climate...”
"Mexico City (CNSNews.com) – The administration of Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro is doubling down on policies blamed by some for the country’s massive recession and widespread shortages of food and medicines, according to a Caracas business leader.
Ministers who “were talking about allowing for more freedom in the economy” have been recently fired, he noted.
“If the current government maintains its economic policies, Venezuela will not exit its current crisis and the problems will only become greater,” Maldonado.
According to the IMF, Venezuela’s economy is expected to shrink by 8 percent this year, with inflation ballooning to 700 percent.
In a dismal 2016 economic outlook for the country, the IMF cited “widespread price and other administrative controls and regulations” and a “worsening business climate...”
Hillary Clinton’s Corruption: Clinton Foundation & Email Scandals Are Connected | National Review
Hillary Clinton’s Corruption: Clinton Foundation & Email Scandals Are Connected | National Review:
"But it was always something of a sideshow. The real question wasn’t classification but: Why did she have a private server in the first place? She obviously lied about the purpose. It wasn’t convenience. It was concealment. What exactly was she hiding?
Was this merely the prudent paranoia of someone who habitually walks the line of legality? After all, if she controls the server, she controls the evidence, and can destroy it — as she did 30,000 e-mails — at will.
But destroy what? Remember: She set up the system before even taking office. It’s clear what she wanted to protect from scrutiny: "
Was this merely the prudent paranoia of someone who habitually walks the line of legality? After all, if she controls the server, she controls the evidence, and can destroy it — as she did 30,000 e-mails — at will.
But destroy what? Remember: She set up the system before even taking office. It’s clear what she wanted to protect from scrutiny: "
Flashback: Hillary Clinton Praises Exalted Cyclops of Ku Klux Klan (VIDEO)
Flashback: Hillary Clinton Praises Exalted Cyclops of Ku Klux Klan (VIDEO)
In 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fondly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former member and Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
Clinton called Byrd “my friend and mentor” in a video message to commemorate his passing.
Via Breitbart:
History for August 28
History for August 28 - On-This-Day.com:
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828, Nancy Kulp 1921
David Soul 1943 - Actor ("Starsky and Hutch"), Scott Hamilton 1958 - Figure skater, LeAnn Rimes 1982 - Singer
1609 - Delaware Bay was discovered by Henry Hudson.
1774 - The first American-born saint was born in New York City. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized in 1975.
1830 - "The Tom Thumb" was demonstrated in Baltimore, MD. It was the first passenger-carrying train of its kind to be built in America.
1833 - Slavery was banned by the British Parliament throughout the British Empire.
1907 - "American Messenger Company" was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company's name was later changed to "United Parcel Service."
1922 - The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. The Queensboro Realty Company bought 10 minutes of time for$100.
1939 - The first successful flight of a jet-propelled airplane took place. The plane was a German Heinkel He 178.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, DC. More than 200,000 people attended.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Military Intel Confirms JW Reporting: Muslim Terrorists Entering U.S. Via Mexico - Judicial Watch
Military Intel Confirms JW Reporting: Muslim Terrorists Entering U.S. Via Mexico - Judicial Watch:
"Judicial Watch has reported for years on the critical national security threats created on the southern border by Islamic terrorists teaming up with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate and attack the U.S. As part of an ongoing investigation Judicial Watch has interviewed local, state and federal law enforcement officials as well as military sources on both sides of the border. Our reporting confirmed that ISIS has a training cell just a few miles from El Paso, Texas in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. We also verified that Mexican drug cartels are smuggling foreigners from countries with terrorist links to stash areas in a rural Texas town called Acala. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across a state road several dozen miles from El Paso."
Destroying American medicine------ObamaCare's Nasty Surprise for Seniors
ObamaCare's Nasty Surprise for Seniors | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"There are three things everyone who is on Medicare or who hopes to live long enough to qualify for Medicare should know.
...But ObamaCare is supposed to be about insuring the uninsured.
It's about health insurance exchanges and the expansion of Medicaid.
What has that got to so with the elderly and the disabled?
A lot, it turns out.
One of the most important sources of funds that are being used to pay for ObamaCare comes from cuts in future Medicare spending.
All this comes at a price, however.
These comments by the actuaries, however, have been ignored by just about everyone.
In the latest Trustees' report they appear at the very end – on page 260.
If you are a senior, you have to be really, really interested in numbers, tables and actuarial arcana before you'll ever get to the page where you learn that you may not be able to see a doctor when you need one.
Essentially, the Republicans are planning to do what the Democrats plan to do: squeeze the providers. Only the methods differ..."
"There are three things everyone who is on Medicare or who hopes to live long enough to qualify for Medicare should know.
- First, Medicare is no longer a financial nightmare in the federal government's future. For the last half century health care costs per capita have been growing at twice the rate of income, both here and abroad. This has policymakers everywhere wondering how we are going to pay the medical bills for future retirees. But no longer is that going to be a problem in the United States. At least not as long as we have ObamaCare.
...But ObamaCare is supposed to be about insuring the uninsured.
It's about health insurance exchanges and the expansion of Medicaid.
What has that got to so with the elderly and the disabled?
A lot, it turns out.
One of the most important sources of funds that are being used to pay for ObamaCare comes from cuts in future Medicare spending.
All this comes at a price, however.
- And this is the second fact you need to know. A letter issued by the Medicare Office of the Actuaries at the time ObamaCare became law warned that Medicare fees paid to doctors and hospitals will fall increasingly behind what other payers will be paying in future years – threatening access to care. That warning was repeated in the latest Medicare Trustees report, which warns that by 2040 half of all hospitals, 70% of all skilled nursing homes and 90% of home health care services will not be able to survive under Medicare's increasingly skimpy fees.
These comments by the actuaries, however, have been ignored by just about everyone.
In the latest Trustees' report they appear at the very end – on page 260.
If you are a senior, you have to be really, really interested in numbers, tables and actuarial arcana before you'll ever get to the page where you learn that you may not be able to see a doctor when you need one.
- Here is a third thing you need to know. Although Republicans have criticized the "Obama cuts in Medicare spending" as threatening access to care for the elderly, the GOP alternative essentially does exactly the same thing. The Paul Ryan budget – which was approved by almost all of the Republican members of the House – envisions a path for Medicare spending that is virtually identical to the Obama administration budget.
Essentially, the Republicans are planning to do what the Democrats plan to do: squeeze the providers. Only the methods differ..."
American Brexit?
American Brexit? Nigel Farage Joins Trump in Jackson, MS | PJ Media:
"Kellyanne Conway, Republican pollster and Trump's new campaign manager, seems to think so:
Donald Trump's campaign manager said in a British broadcast airing this week that 'undercover' Trump voters, invisible to traditional pollsters, will help the Republican win the White House in November.
'The hidden Trump vote in this country is a very significant proposition,' Kellyanne Conway told the UK's Channel 4 in a special broadcast titled 'President Trump: Can He Really Win?'
'I call it the "undercover Trump voter," but it's real,' she said.
'Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election,' Conway explained.
'It's because it's become socially desirable, if you're a college-educated person in the United States of America, to say that you're against Donald Trump...'
"Kellyanne Conway, Republican pollster and Trump's new campaign manager, seems to think so:
'The hidden Trump vote in this country is a very significant proposition,' Kellyanne Conway told the UK's Channel 4 in a special broadcast titled 'President Trump: Can He Really Win?'
'I call it the "undercover Trump voter," but it's real,' she said.
'Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election,' Conway explained.
'It's because it's become socially desirable, if you're a college-educated person in the United States of America, to say that you're against Donald Trump...'
Colorado Governor Mulls Global Warming Executive Order | The Daily Caller
"Hickenlooper’s office is considering an executive order for a “25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2012 levels in 2025” and a “35 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2012 levels in 2030,” according to a draft obtained by Politico Pro that had been circulating among “outside groups.”"
Government: New 700,000-Word Regulation is Good for You
Government: New 700,000-Word Regulation is Good for You:
"The nine-second video of two federal bureaucrats the White House posted on its blog last week was notable for something it omitted.
That something was very big — and putting it on display might not have fit with the apparent propaganda purpose of the video.
The video itself starred EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who sat side-by-side at a table.
The video starts with McCarthy and Foxx simultaneously scratching their signatures onto separate and apparently singular sheets of paper.
Eight seconds into the nine-second clip, when McCarthy has finished signing her name, she looks up and declares: "Done."
Foxx, who signed even faster than McCarthy, spreads his arms in a gesture that appears to say: That's it, folks. Then he echoes McCarthy: "Done."
So, what exactly had these two bureaucrats done?
McCarthy and Foxx published a blog text that accompanied the video on the White House website. In it, they explained that — as part of President Obama's "Climate Action Plan" — they had approved a regulation that imposes new "greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards" on vehicles ranging from heavy-duty pickup trucks to tractor-trailer combinations used to haul cargo.
...This is the liberal vision for the future:
New rules approved by bureaucrats that increase the capital costs to start, grow or maintain a business, will help save the world from climate change while saving Americans money.
Just don't let people see the actual size of the regulation."
"The nine-second video of two federal bureaucrats the White House posted on its blog last week was notable for something it omitted.
That something was very big — and putting it on display might not have fit with the apparent propaganda purpose of the video.
The video itself starred EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, who sat side-by-side at a table.The video starts with McCarthy and Foxx simultaneously scratching their signatures onto separate and apparently singular sheets of paper.
Eight seconds into the nine-second clip, when McCarthy has finished signing her name, she looks up and declares: "Done."
Foxx, who signed even faster than McCarthy, spreads his arms in a gesture that appears to say: That's it, folks. Then he echoes McCarthy: "Done."
So, what exactly had these two bureaucrats done?
McCarthy and Foxx published a blog text that accompanied the video on the White House website. In it, they explained that — as part of President Obama's "Climate Action Plan" — they had approved a regulation that imposes new "greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency standards" on vehicles ranging from heavy-duty pickup trucks to tractor-trailer combinations used to haul cargo.
...This is the liberal vision for the future:
New rules approved by bureaucrats that increase the capital costs to start, grow or maintain a business, will help save the world from climate change while saving Americans money.
Just don't let people see the actual size of the regulation."
Biden Tips Obama's Hand By Revealing President's Plans For Guantanamo Bay
Biden Tips Obama's Hand By Revealing President's Plans For Guantanamo Bay:
"King said that one fact above all is the one that maters — the number of detainees who return to their war against America.
“Seventeen percent of them have gone back to the battlefield. That means 17 percent are capable of killing Americans,” King said.
Obama is focused on closing Gitmo rather than the impact of his actions, King said.
“Again, the president seems driven with the goal of ‘getting them out,'” King said, calling the prison’s closure a “great liberal cause.”"
"King said that one fact above all is the one that maters — the number of detainees who return to their war against America.
“Seventeen percent of them have gone back to the battlefield. That means 17 percent are capable of killing Americans,” King said.
Obama is focused on closing Gitmo rather than the impact of his actions, King said.
“Again, the president seems driven with the goal of ‘getting them out,'” King said, calling the prison’s closure a “great liberal cause.”"
National Security Desk: Those Chemical Weapons Assad Destroyed? He Used Them
National Security Desk: Those Chemical Weapons Assad Destroyed? He Used Them. — The Patriot Post:
"In August 2012, Barack Obama warned Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, “A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.”
By September 2013, Obama was denying he set a red line, saying, “The world set a red line.” Translation: The line was gone.
After reports that Assad had crossed that line, Obama simply didn’t want to enforce it.
Yesterday, we reported why: Iran was ready to nuke the nuclear deal if Obama messed with mullah-buddy Assad.
Recall also that Secretary of State John Kerry made an offhand remark in September 2013 about how Assad “could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week” in order to avoid a U.S. strike.
Assad’s other enforcer, Vladimir Putin, happily took Kerry up on the foolish comment, offering a deal to oversee the destruction of all of Syria’s chemical weapons.
Predictably, that didn’t work out as Obama and Kerry might have hoped.
Yesterday, a UN investigation concluded that the Syrian military conducted chemical weapons attacks on at least two occasions — after those weapons were supposedly destroyed..."
"In August 2012, Barack Obama warned Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, “A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.”
By September 2013, Obama was denying he set a red line, saying, “The world set a red line.” Translation: The line was gone. After reports that Assad had crossed that line, Obama simply didn’t want to enforce it.
Yesterday, we reported why: Iran was ready to nuke the nuclear deal if Obama messed with mullah-buddy Assad.
Recall also that Secretary of State John Kerry made an offhand remark in September 2013 about how Assad “could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week” in order to avoid a U.S. strike.
Assad’s other enforcer, Vladimir Putin, happily took Kerry up on the foolish comment, offering a deal to oversee the destruction of all of Syria’s chemical weapons.
Predictably, that didn’t work out as Obama and Kerry might have hoped.
Yesterday, a UN investigation concluded that the Syrian military conducted chemical weapons attacks on at least two occasions — after those weapons were supposedly destroyed..."
CBO: Federal Debt to Hit $28.2 Trillion Over Next Decade
CBO: Federal Debt to Hit $28.2 Trillion Over Next Decade:
"Policies like Obamacare, tax code reduce Americans’ incentive to work
Outstanding federal debt is projected to hit $28.2 trillion over the next decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office.
At the end of this year, outstanding federal debt is expected to climb to $19.4 trillion and to rise by $8.8 trillion in the next ten years.
The federal government’s budget deficit, which is the difference between how much money the government spends and how much money it takes in through tax collection, will be $590 billion by the end of 2016, $152 billion more than the previous year.
Government spending is projected to increase by 5 percent, or $178 billion, while government revenue is projected to increase by less than 1 percent, or $26 billion.
...The White House did not respond to requests for comment."
"Policies like Obamacare, tax code reduce Americans’ incentive to work
Outstanding federal debt is projected to hit $28.2 trillion over the next decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office.
The federal government’s budget deficit, which is the difference between how much money the government spends and how much money it takes in through tax collection, will be $590 billion by the end of 2016, $152 billion more than the previous year.
Government spending is projected to increase by 5 percent, or $178 billion, while government revenue is projected to increase by less than 1 percent, or $26 billion.
...The White House did not respond to requests for comment."
The Rogue EPA's Shocking Disregard For The Law
Before long, more people will realize the EPA is an outlaw government agency with a shocking disregard for the law.Having been given sweeping and near-dictatorial powers by President Obama and the Supreme Court, the EPA has routinely exceeded its bounds and veered off into criminal behavior in some of its activities.
...Why hasn't the EPA produced the reports as required?
It says it doesn't have the money to do more — even though, as the Truth About Cars site points out, the first study cost a piddling $1.7 million, while the EPA has a budget of more than $8.2 billion.
...We wish we could say this is a one-off problem.
But it isn't.
There's a pattern of lawbreaking at the EPA that is alarming and — since the agency seems to exist out of reach of the law — even frightening..."
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