Monday, July 07, 2014

Are we seeing a replay of 1930 in Wall Street's secretive "Dark Pools"?

By Pam Martens

On June 2 of this year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulator of Wall Street’s broker-dealers, dropped a bombshell. For the first time, FINRA released trading data for Wall Street’s dark pools – unregistered stock exchanges that the SEC recklessly allows to trade stocks without making the bids and offers public, along with many other details.

The bombshell, that mainstream business media has yet to comprehend, was that the same mega Wall Street banks whose share prices crashed in the 2008 financial crisis are today not only running dark pools for stock trading but they’re trading the stock of their own corporate parents – to the tune of tens of millions of shares a week. Those Wall Street banks include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup.

What could possibly go wrong in this arrangement?

Two days after Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as President on March 4, 1933, he declared a nationwide banking holiday lasting to March 13 to stem a mushrooming banking panic and bank runs. The spark that ignited the accelerating panic was the collapse of the Bank of United States in 1930. At the time of its collapse, it was the fourth largest depositor bank in New York City, holding an astounding $268 million for over 400,000 small time depositors. It was the largest banking collapse in the nation’s history at that point.

The name of the bank, incorrectly suggesting it had U.S. government ties, fueled press coverage of the collapse and started other bank runs around the country.

The bank was founded by two men from the garment industry, Bernard Marcus and Saul Singer. Like the dangerous structure of today’s biggest deposit-taking banks, it had a stock trading arm, the Bankus Corp. It was through that trading unit that the bank manipulated the price of its own stock, using the money of depositors, and then used the shares as collateral for loans. Banking examiners later determined that other banks had acted similarly.

It was a clear-cut recipe for disaster that no regulator took action to preempt until, at the height of an economic collapse, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act on June 16, 1933, creating Federal Deposit Insurance for bank deposits while also banning banks taking insured deposits from owning stock trading houses.

That legislation protected a nation from the insatiable greed of stock speculators for almost 70 years until its repeal under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on November 12, 1999 under the Clinton administration and at the behest of Citigroup and other Wall Street mega banks who sold naïve editorial boards and a gullible Congress on the benefits of the one-stop banking supermarket model.

OBAMA FINALLY UNITES BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS: In Opposition to La Raza and His Illegal "Amnesty" Program

It's come to this: the radical Latino racial separatist group La Raza (which literally stands for "Master Race") is in Murrieta ready to battle U.S. citizens over control of the border.

La Raza or “The Race” which is a group of Hispanic Supremacy group has dispatched their brown beret thugs for when the buses arrive from San Diego and protesters try to block them. La Raza brown berets are ready to cause trouble the second they see something they don’t like. This could get really nasty.


Black and white American patriots are together standing against this lawless disrespect of American's sovereignty and its borders. Jim Hoft reports:

A group of black Americans spoke out in support of protecting women and children in America before worrying about the rest of the world. This occurred at the Murrieta California Border Patrol Station on July 4th, 2014.

The young man pictured [at right] said...

"If somebody brought six children to your house and you've got no job, are you going to take them in?"

"Are you going to try to find out where they came from? Are you going to try to send them back? What are we going to do for the people who are here who are starving already? Why would we add to the problem?"

The woman [at left] added...

"It’s just too much. We've already got starvation, kids walking without with... shoes."

"We are already taking that on in America."

"We don’t need other people’s kids to bring more problems.”

As Hoft reminds us, the unemployment rate for Black Americans remains abnormally high, despite the massive "Stimulus"; "Cash for Clunkers"; HAMP; HARP; HAAP; Obamacare; Recovery Summers II, III, IV and V; and countless Obama pivots to jobs.

Black and White and Latino and Asian Americans deserve better. They deserve a President who puts their interests and that of America before those of illegal aliens.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

INCOMPETENCE OR TREACHERY: You Make the Call

By Lawrence Sellin

For many, it is difficult to decide whether Barack Obama is intentionally trying to destroy the United States or that he is doing so as a consequence of some type of ideology-induced stupidity.

The damage wrought through the implementation of his absurd and impractical liberal "solutions" to national problems is readily evident.

When Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009 the national debt of the United States was $10,626,877,048,913. As of Jun 26, 2014, the debt was $17,512,592,730,102.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2007 on the eve of the recession, there were 146.6 million Americans working. Today, after six years of the Obama Administration, there are 145.8 million Americans in jobs, 800,000 below the previous peak. Since Obama came into office in 2009, 7.2 million people have left the workforce, making the true unemployment rate 8.3 percent, not 6.1 percent. Median household income is down almost $2,300 from what it was when Obama took office. Real wages are lower than they were in 1999. Growth in the first quarter of this year was a negative 2.9%, the biggest downward revision from the agency's second GDP estimate since records began in 1976.

In April, prior to the present massive and growing surge in illegal minor immigration, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Obama has created an "open borders" situation by failing to enforce U.S. immigration law. One could fairly conclude that the current crisis was a deliberate policy decision because the Obama indicated that he would expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that offers amnesty for illegal immigrant children and provides an incentive for exactly the type of mass illegal invasion we are witnessing on our southern border.

There should be little doubt that Obama's open borders policy is meant to fundamentally transform the country's demographics, produce millions of additional Democratic voters and welfare recipients and permanently undermine the national security of the United States.

Larwyn's Linx: Senator Accuses President Obama Of Actively Allowing Terrorists Into Country

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Nation

Senator Accuses Obama Of Actively Allowing Terrorists Into Country: WJ
Traffickers Exploit Obama's Permiso System of Backdoor Amnesty: AmPower
Obama Orders 290,000 Illegals to Take Up Residence Inside the US: RWN

Obama offers electoral advice to the GOP: RS
This means Warren: Obama backs challenger to Hillary: Post
Hillary Clinton’s ‘altruism’ sure seems to benefit the Clintons quite a bit: Powers

Obama regime to bring in riot squad against Murrieta protesters: Kristin Tate
Dem Rep.: Obama knew illegal immigration spike was coming a year ago: Scoop
Invasion: AmPower

Our Petulant President: Derek Hunter
General: Mexico Border Security Now ‘Existential’ Threat to U.S.: Molly O'Toole
"If I were Ted Cruz...": American Digest

Economy

Why liberals are abandoning the Obamacare employer mandate: Politico
How Many Times Will You Be Lied To?: Market Ticker
How A Spam Newsletter Caused a Bank Run in Bulgaria: Lambert Strether

Scandal Central

VA Whistleblower Reported Problems To White House, Which Leaked Complaint to VA: WZ
DHS Sec. Johnson refuses to say whether illegal immigrant children will be deported: Fox
GOP Rep: DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson 'Shameful' for 'Making Things Up': Breitbart

The House GOP Should Man Up Instead of Resorting to Political Theater in the Courts: Erick Erickson
Darrell Issa Whines Again: DOJ Is Holding Up Criminal Investigation of IRS Scandal: Nice Deb
House GOP Letter to Obama: End Policies Giving Illegal Aliens Special Treatment: NUSA

Media

ABC’s Raddatz Peddles Obama Talking Points On Border Crisis in Interview With Rick Perry: MRC
NBC Promotes Illegal Immigrant: ‘The Dream Of A New Life In America’: MRC
Princeton Student to Obama “I Want My American Dream Back”: CI

What about *your* gaffes, Hillary?: Toldjah
Boehner blasts Obama's 'flippant dismissal' of Constitution in op-ed: Hill
Dinesh D’Souza’s America: Is It Also Yours?: VictoryGirls

Obama’s 2012 straw man: Bain Capital: DTG
Despicable Jesse Ventura lawsuit against widow of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle begins Monday: Sooper
How does the Red Cross spend donor money? It’s a “trade secret”: Hot Air

World

A blazing indictment of Obama administration decisions on Iraq: Michael Barone
Fed Up With Dead Jews: Shmuley Boteach
Forgotten people: Half a million Israelis in shelters and the world's reaction...: Matzav

Radioactive Material That Could Be Used in A Dirty Bomb Stolen Off Mexican Truck: RWN
All 294 US diplomatic outposts on high alert over threats from Islamic State: JihadWatch
Before Boston Marathon bombing, bomber posed with black flag of jihad at local mosque: Robert Spencer

The United States’ global leadership has eroded: Lawrence Summers
Diplomats: Iran Nuke Talks Make Little Progress,: ABC
Dieudonne still thinks dead Jews are a laughing matter: Matzav

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

9 of 10 online accounts intercepted by NSA are not intended surveillance targets: NetworkWorld
The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers: Brian Krebs
Foxconn may replace 'iPhone 6' assembly line workers with 'Foxbot' robots: Apple Insider

Cornucopia

If 70s Moms Had Blogs...: Wide Lawns
Heart-breaking story of stolen 9/11 flag has a very happy ending on the Fourth of July: Sooper
My 30 Favorite Tweets For June of 2014: John Hawkins

Image: Three suspects confess to murdering Palestinian teen
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QOTD: "Obama’s suggestion that he is being uniquely mistreated at the hands of Republicans in Congress rings especially hollow in light of the fact that the previous Democrat occupant of the White House was literally impeached by the Republican Congress he faced in his second term. And yet Clinton was able to get roughly twice as much production out of Congress in terms of substantive legislative accomplishments in his last two years than Obama has in the previous year. The reason for this is simple: Whatever Clinton’s personal and ideological failings (and they were legion), he was not a complete failure as a leader. One of the necessary qualities of a leader is being able to convince intransigent followers to row in the same direction as you, at least sometimes. Clinton had this ability; Obama just doesn’t. Moreover, he has never from day one shown any interest in developing it or cultivating it." --Streiff

Sunday, July 06, 2014

Top General: Mexico Border Security Now ‘Existential’ Threat to U.S.

Methinks Major General Kelly may soon be entering an early and unplanned retirement.

A top United States general in charge of protecting the southern border says he’s been unable to combat the steady flow of illegal drugs, weapons and people from Central America, and is looking to Congress for urgent help.

Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command, has asked Congress this year for more money, drones and ships for his mission – a request unlikely to be met. Since October, an influx of nearly 100,000 migrants has made the dangerous journey north from Latin America to the United States border. Most are children, and three-quarters of the unaccompanied minors have traveled thousands of miles from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

“In comparison to other global threats, the near collapse of societies in the hemisphere with the associated drug and [undocumented immigrant] flow are frequently viewed to be of low importance,” Kelly told Defense One. “Many argue these threats are not existential and do not challenge our national security. I disagree.”

...Gen. Kelly says the poverty and violence prompting the migration have created a real threat to U.S. national security. Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have the first, fourth and fifth-highest homicide rates in the world and “have left near-broken societies in their wake,” he said.


Comforting, ain't it?


Hat tips: Hot Air and BadBlue Real-Time News.

DELIGHTFUL: 90% of online accounts intercepted by NSA weren't targets; program expanded dramatically under Obama

"Ms. Smith", writing at Network World, offers us an incisive summary of the latest Snowden revelations.

Although NSA officials were not sure about what all documents Edward Snowden took with him, they’ve changed their tune a few times after some new leak proves their previous proclamations to be false…like when former NSA Chief Keith Alexander admitted to lying about phone surveillance stopping 54 terror plots. Despite a year of NSA officials claiming that Edward Snowden had access to reports about NSA surveillance, but no access to actual surveillance intercepts, that ends up being lie too.

Snowden gave the Washington Post a sampling of actual intercepted communications; after months of reviewing about 160,000 intercepted emails and instant messages and 7,900 documents taken from over 11,000 online accounts, the Post said nine out of 10 account holders in the large cache of intercepted communications were not even surveillance targets. In fact, the collateral damage is astounding. The Post reported:

Nearly half of the surveillance files, a strikingly high proportion, contained names, e-mail addresses or other details that the NSA marked as belonging to U.S. citizens or residents. NSA analysts masked, or “minimized,” more than 65,000 such references to protect Americans’ privacy, but The Post found nearly 900 additional e-mail addresses, unmasked in the files, that could be strongly linked to U.S. citizens or U.S. residents.

The intercepted communications were collected from 2009 to 2012, during President Obama’s first term; under the President, formerly a “constitutional law professor,” the Post noted that the NSA’s domestic collection program underwent a “period of exponential growth.” Interestingly, a research paper released last week explained how the government can exploit legal and technical loopholes in order to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans...

LA Times: Drug Cartels and Obama Administration Actively Collaborating to Profit from Illegal Immigration

When even The Los Angeles Times dares to speak truth to power, you know things have gotten completely out of control. Such is the situation on our southern border, where tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have swarmed into our country seeking an "Obama Amnesty".

And the interests of Mexico's powerful drug cartels and the White House are aligned in this endeavor. For the former, the motivation is cash. And for the Obama administration, the reward is the promise of votes in the form of a veritable panoply of new Democrat voters, largely uneducated, dependent upon the state for subsistence, and completely unfamiliar with America's history, culture, and traditions.

Brian Bennett reports.

President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.

But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.

The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request...


...The previously unavailable deportation data are likely to fuel the political debate over whether Obama administration policies are partly responsible for the 52,000 children and teens who have surrendered to or been caught by Border Patrol agents since last October, spurring fresh concerns about U.S. border security and immigration law.

...Organized crime groups in Central America have exploited the slow U.S. legal process and the compassion shown to children in apparent crisis, according to David Leopold, an immigration attorney in Cleveland.

He said smugglers, who may charge a family up to $12,000 to deliver a child to the border, often tell them exactly what to say to American officials.

"The cartels have figured out where the hole is," he said.

Did you ever think you'd see the day when the Democrat Party, the White House, and the Mexican drug cartels would all be working hand-in-hand to dismantle the United States? Well, that day has arrived.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: 7 reasons to be hopeful about America’s future

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Nation

7 reasons to be hopeful about America’s future: Dustin Hurst
Obama Orders 290,000 Illegals to Take Up Residence Inside the US: RWN
The Left’s Hobby Lobby Doublethink: Ed Driscoll

Liberty: the road not taken: John Hayward
The Lawyers Behind the Lawsuit against Obama: Ian Tuttle
Boehner Is Bringing a Whistle to a Gunfight : Andrew C. McCarthy

ABC: "Do nothing" Senate? Reid protecting Democrats from hard votes: John Lott
The 26 Most American Comebacks In The History Of The World: BuzzFeed
Yes, We Can: DML Daily

5 Arrested in Murrieta as Demonstrators Await Buses of Immigrants: KTLA
Murrieta immigrant detainee protests keep growing: LA Times
Border Agent Contracts Scabies After Handling Undocumented Immigrants: NBC

Economy

Independence in 1776; Dependence in 2014: Chris Edwards
Tipping Point: Most Americans Now Receive Government Benefits: Forbes
The Obamas Travel Tab: Over $44.35 Million In Taxpayer Cash: DC

Scandal Central

Bikers rally to ‘Free our Marine’ Andrew Tahmooressi from Mexican prison: Scoop
Obama's Border Crisis: Rich Lowry, Politico
Voter fraud probe in Minnesota state legislature (Democratic) primary.: Moe Lane

Climate & Energy

Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high: Daily Mail
Pause Hits 17 Years, 10 Months: Cove
Will EPA's Increased Politicization Scuttle Long-Term U.S. Energy Boom?: Morris Beschloss

Media

GE-Sponsored Site Accuses Israel of War Crimes: WFB
And now a word from United States’ chief executive troll: Real Revo
You Think I’m Mean? Well, Cry Me a Rivers...: MOTUS

Behind that "Hillary Clinton Says She’s Donated All University Speaking Fees" headline: Ann Althouse
Idiot Dana Milbank: Losing The Senate Would Be Good For Obama Or Something: Cove
New Documentary “We Ride to DC” Blows Lid Off Mainstream Media’s Agenda: Leah Barkoukis

World

The Growing Shadow of ISIS: Dr. Rich Swier
U.N. Slams Australia's Tough New Border Laws: Breitbart
Iran: Muslim cleric, university professor says Jews use sorcery to undermine the Islamic Republic: JihadWatch

Obama Will Be Remembered As Radical Islam’s Enabler: Sara Noble
How Obama Lost the Middle East: Victor Davis Hanson
State Department keeps ignoring Marine in Mexican jail, but finds the time to criticize Israel: Scoop

ISIS Occupies Cathedrals in Mosul – Replace Crosses With Islamic Flag: GWP
Unbelievable! ISIS Terrorist Supporters Hold Rally Today in Holland: GWP
Taliban launch rocket attack on Kabul oil tankers: BBC

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Facebook Mood Manipulation: 10 Bigger Problems: InfoWeek
The house that Google built: what the Nest API means for you: TechRadar
15 Most Useless Workouts Ever: Workout Plan

Cornucopia

Blake Carter, former Navy defensive back, dies at 27: Bill Wagner
First Lady Michelle Angry At Being Portrayed As “Angry”: Big Hairy News
Why Obama's Columbia Years Went AWOL: JOM (October, 2008)

Image: FDNY firefighter dies fighting blaze in Brooklyn high-rise after becoming trapped
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QOTD: "We haven’t had anything resembling a free market in medicine, or health insurance, in decades. It was government interference that screwed things up enough to make ObamaCare politically feasible. It is highly unlikely that the market-distorting concept of “employer-provided insurance” would ever have existed, absent wage controls that forced employers to offer benefits instead of pay. Imagine what both insurance and medicine might cost, if they were shaped by the sort of consumer forces that fill our store shelves with inexpensive high-quality goods. How complicated of an insurance system would we need, if free-market competition made everything cheap and simple enough?" --John Hayward

Saturday, July 05, 2014

"The EPA Is Nuts"

By Mike Buffington

Farmers are up in arms around the country over a proposal by the EPA to extend the federal government’s control over water.

Since 1972, the federal government has had control over “navigable waters” in the nation. That was later expanded to include wetlands near such rivers.

Now the feds want to expand the definition to include such things and ditches, farm ponds and places that only have water as runoff during heavy rain.

It’s another crazy plan by the federal government to extend its reach even further into our economy and daily lives. Bureaucratic regulations are now swamping many industries, especially those that produce energy and power needed to fuel our economy.

The move to extend the power of the federal government into farm ditches is another example of this overreach. But the nation’s agricultural interests would have a better argument against the proposed rule if it weren’t already so tied at the hip with the feds. Through a slew of federal programs, the nation’s largest corporate agriculture companies are getting billions of taxpayer dollars in the form of subsidies. The American Midwest is awash in federal money going to large farm interests.

They may have one hand out trying to block this new water rule, but at the same time they have the other hand out asking for cash. Not a pretty picture for the American taxpayer no matter how you slice it.


Read more at Barrow Journal

Some dude flew a drone into the middle of a bunch of detonating fireworks and this is what it looked like

I seldom have time to sit through entire videos, but this one is really cool.



Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Top 10 Images Spotted on Twitter Yesterday, the #4thOfJuly

Lotsa good stuff in the stream yesterday and I was lucky enough to grab a handful or two:


Larwyn's Linx: Some Dare Call It Fascism

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Nation

Some Dare Call It Fascism: Liberty's Torch
The Town Where Obama's Illegal Alien Partners Hit a Human Wall: AmPower
Ten quotes: Obama’s journey from ‘yes we can’ to ‘so sue me’: Peter Sullivan

Welcome to Your Government-Provided Health Care Utopia: Ace
Feds Threaten Journalist With Prison Over Report On Illegals: Kit Daniels
Murrieta: Americans arrested to make way for illegal immigrants: Renee Nal

Texas Congressmen React After Visiting Border Crisis Epicenter: Breitbart
I’m A Conservative And They Lied When They Said I Hate You: John Hawkins
Proposed Texas School Textbook Destroys Declaration of Independence: TR

Hillary's Authenticity Problem Could Cost Democrats the Election: John Sexton
Rick Perry Or Ted Cruz For 2016?: RWN
Nevada Woman Dies After Suing Over Delayed Obamacare Coverage: Signal

Economy

Happy Dependence Day: Karl Denninger
The Kids are Alright: Living in Dorms counted as Living in Parents' Home: CalcRisk
Chicago taxpayers owe $1MM for gun rights case city lost: Marathon

Scandal Central

A Timely Reminder—What did the President Know…?: Roger Aronoff
V.A. employee: They had us stop work on V.A. applications so we could work on Obamacare: Unyielding
Fireworks at Supreme Court over emergency injunction applied against “accommodation”: Hot Air

Climate & Energy

Astronaut Calls Global Warming Hoax “Biggest Fraud in the Field of Science”: MB
High court is right’s backstop: Niall Stanage, The Hill
EPA: We're seeking to reduce regulation: Baxter Bulletin

Media

Peggy Noonan: Our Deeply Strange President Has Given Up and Checked Out: Ace
Congressman: Obama created crisis at border to create new voters and overwhelm the system: Scoop
Murrieta: Star Illegal Alien Supporter Used Racist Anti-White Slurs During Counter-Protest: GWP

My Fourth Of July Post: Knuckle Draggin'
MSNBS Likely Shocked About Results of Second Amendment Polls on Their Website: GSL
Gender Theory: Beyond Parody: R.S. McCain

World

It’s Not the Occupation, It’s Islam: Daniel Greenfield
Why Do Terrorists Target Children? A guest post by the distinguished historian Prof. Anna Geifman: Spengler
Just In Case You Forget What Barbarians They All Are.... Money or Not: American Digest

The eternal allure of the Caliphate: Molly Guinness
Jews attacked at entrance to Qalansawe, car torched: Israpundit
More rockets hit Israel, clouding Egyptian-mediated ceasefire efforts: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Are we mad to have let a maverick scientist create a virus that could wipe out 400 million people?: Daily Mail
Moto 360 Release Date, Price & Specs: All You Need To Know: KnowYourMobile
Jason Calacanis: Google's Matt Cutts Killed Mahalo & Wants Revenge: SEO Roundtable

Cornucopia

The Value of Veterans as Innovators: James L. Herdt
America: Ace
Stressed at work? Meditating really does work - and you'll see a difference in just three days: Daly Mail

Image: US Rep Juan Vargas (D) CA-51 calls for arrests of demonstrators who interfere with federal agents
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QOTD: "There can be no peace until Muslims understand that the Mohammedan conquests were a genocidal atrocity that destroyed entire peoples and cultures. Only then can they honestly condemn ISIS for trying to repeat those atrocities. And only then will they be able to live in peace with the rest of the world." --Daniel Greenfield

Friday, July 04, 2014

ISIS, LATEST MISUNDERSTANDERERS OF ISLAM, NOW IN GAZA STRIP: Publicly Threaten Jews With Holocaust 2.0

Two stories on the front page of BadBlue News caught my eye, both involving the Al Qaeda offshoot group known as ISIS.

1. ISIS Already in Gaza Strip:
Hamas seems to be losing control of the dozens of terror cells in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas prevented local journalists from covering the ISIS rally in the Gaza Strip last month as part of its effort to deny the existence of ISIS in the Gaza Strip. But Hamas seems to be trying to cover the sun with one finger.

The Gaza Strip is no longer only a threat to Israel, but also to Egypt. The only way to confront this threat is through security cooperation between Israel and Egypt.

2. ISIS Threatens Holocaust Against Jews:
A Twitter post Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now calling itself the Islamic State (IS), has promised a Holocaust against the Jews.

"The Real Zionist Holocaust is Predicted in the Hadiths! The Hour [resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the tree will say: "Oh, Muslim, servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, kill him! THE PROMISED Holocaust," the terrorist group's Islamic State Media a graphic posted on its @ISIS_Conquests's Twitter account said.

This hadith has proven popular with Islamic extremists of all stripes, ranging from IS to Hamas – and even on television in the Middle East ... Anti-Semitic propaganda has played an important role in the terrorist group's recruitment effort. Its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, placed Jews on the side of evil in a speech posted Tuesday on the Internet in which he called on Muslims to join him.

"O ummah of Islam, the world today has been divided into two camps and two trenches … The camp of Islam and faith, and the camp of kufr (disbelief) and hypocrisy … all being led by America and Russia, and being mobilized by the Jews," al-Baghdadi said.

In another such video released on Twitter, IS told jihadists to "Break the crosses and destroy the lin­eage of the grand­sons of mon­keys."

Click the image to enbignify.

Not to worry, however: only half a year ago, our heroic president called this virulent strain of Al Qaeda "a JV team". That was right before they successfully invaded large swaths of Syria and Iraq. In which case, I'd hate to see the Varsity.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.

Top 6 Concept Photos of Apple's Forthcoming iWatch

I'm not an Apple guy. My smartphone is an Android and, because of its impressive battery life, I get to make fun of my zombie-like, iPhone-addicted friends and family.

Zombie-like, because they always seem to be wandering around aimlessly, murmuring "anyone have an iPhone charger?". Based on my observations, the average battery life of an iPhone is roughly equivalent to my attention span. I thought the point of a wireless device was not to have to have a wire attached to it?

Anyhow, Apple's forthcoming iWatch is generating a lot of interest and I've seen -- courtesy of BadBlue Tech News -- a lot of neat concept photos of how it might look. Here are six that caught my attention.

6. 9to5Mac - a Movado-style luxury watch:


My take: clean, but not exactly sexy or innovative in appearance.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Child Refugees: an Alinskyite Campaign of Manufactured Crisis

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Nation

Obama's Child Refugees: an Alinskyite Campaign of Manufactured Crisis: AmPower
Colorado DMV Site Crashes as Illegals Allowed To Get Driver’s Licenses: WZ
Obama Refuses To Visit Border While He’s In Texas For Fundraiser: WZ

An immigrant surge en route to a Third World USA: Wesley Pruden
Obama's Border Patrol: Taxpayer-Funded Coyotes: Rush
DPS: Cartels helping immigrant children enter US illegally: El Paso Times

San Diego Border Patrol: Airplane of Illegals Arriving Every 72 Hours: Breitbart
Resentment Behind The Waning Patriotism Of Liberal Americans: Jonah Goldberg
Open Borders: TB Outbreak in Sacramento is America’s Future: Cleo Eiben

Ronald Reagan on the 4th of July: MRC
The Lasting Relevance of the Declaration: Scott Rasmussen
Supreme Court ruling revives ObamaCare backlash: Jim Angle

Economy

'Exploding' Disability Roles Have Become 'Permanent Welfare': Breitbart
HHS releases 1,296 pages of regulations ahead of holiday weekend: Exam
Is Christine Lagarde the Most Dangerous Woman in the World?: ZH

Scandal Central

Vet Dies 500 Yards From ER While Waiting For Ambulance To Arrive: RightPundit
Border Patrol: Obama aiding, abetting, facilitating smuggling of illegals: Scoop
‘Costs Are Staggering’: Democrat Judge Forces Dallas To House 2,000 Future Democrat Voters: Pat Dollard

What a Woman Found Outside a Texas Walmart Should Alarm You: MadWorldNews
Coming to a bus station near you - or Murrieta: HyScience
Pro-Cochran PAC hit with FEC complaint over $250K loan: Clarion-Ledger

Media

Only CBS Covers New Poll Labeling Obama as the 'Worst President' Since WW II: MRC
‘La Raza’ President calls anti-illegal protesters ‘extremists,’ ‘appalling’ and ‘outrageous’: Scoop
Hillary Clinton disses USA, taking plans for the 4th of July elsewhere: BPR

World

White House debating whether to ally with… God help us… Syria.: Moe Lane
RECOMMENDED READING: “Al-Arian Contempt Case Dropped”: Global MB Watch
Finding a patsy in Benghazi: Times

ISIS’s Chilean spokesman: Fausta
Feds Hand Out Border Pass To Mexican Snitch: TSG
Obama negotiated for release of Bowe Bergdahl, won’t do same for 72-Year-old U.S. contractor: Unyielding

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Qualcomm to boost wireless performance to gigabit levels with Wilocity acquisition: ExtremeTech
Happy birthday boson! Six outstanding Higgs mysteries: NewScientist
A Social Generation Comes of Age at the World Cup: Clickz

Cornucopia

Louis Zamperini And Memorial Day: Cal Thomas
Fourth of July 2014: “A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”: MOTUS
Epidemic Deaths in U.S. Caused by Abortifacient Deprivation: Cube

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QOTD: “To pick up on Charles [Krauthammer]'s point, there were studies that did show that extending unemployment benefits would actually add a percent to unemployment rate and that's possibly been proven now... The other question, though, when you look at labor participation being so low, that you have to look at the disability roles, which are exploding. And disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness, or mental issues, or pain issues. And there's this explosion of law firms on daytime TV advertising on places like Fox that will help you get disability. And yet you have to wonder if you likewise clamp down on disability, if you might see some of the people go back into the work force because, again, it's enforced poverty. You are stuck in -- you are ghettoized in a level of poverty whereas a job has the potential to increase your income, disability does not.” --Nina Easton

Thursday, July 03, 2014

ANATOMY OF A CONSPIRACY: Graphic Illustrates the IRS-FEC-DOJ-Senate-Obama Collusion to Target Political Opponents

The government watchdog group Judicial Watch is the unsung hero of the 2014 election cycle. It was JW -- not John Boehner's feckless hodgepodge of committees -- that uncovered the true depth of the IRS scandal. It was JW -- not Darrell Issa's bumbling Oversight Committee -- that discovered every critical email related to the felonious plot to target Democrats' opponents.

As a handy guide, JW has created an awesome graphic and timeline:


For a helpful tabular version, please see BUSTED: The Complete IRS Scandal Timeline in Spreadsheet Format.


GOOD NEWS: Obama Seeks Alliance with Iran and Syria to Combat the ISIS Threat He Helped Create!

It seems like only months ago that President Obama was drawing a "Red Line" regarding Bashar Assad's Hitler-esque use of chemical weapons.

And now, his administration is reported to be considering an alliance with the Syrian dictator thanks to a complete foreign policy meltdown in Iraq.

There’s a battle raging inside the Obama administration about whether the United States ought to push away from its goal of toppling Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and into a de facto alliance with the Damascus regime to fight ISIS and other Sunni extremists in the region.

As President Obama slowly but surely increases the U.S. military presence on the ground in Iraq, his administration is grappling with the immediate need to stop the ISIS advance and push for a political solution in Baghdad. The 3 1/2-year grinding civil war is Syria has been put on a back burner for now. Some officials inside the administration are proposing that the drive to remove Assad from power, which Obama announced as U.S. policy in 2012, be set aside, too. The focus, these officials argue, should instead be on the region’s security and stability. Governments fighting for survival against extremists should be shored up, not undermined.

A "political solution" to a Jihadist group so extreme (ISIS) that Al Qaeda cut ties with them? Good one. That's some quality Comedy Central material right there.

“Anyone calling for regime change in Syria is frankly blind to the past decade; and the collapse of eastern Syria, and growth of Jihadistan, leading to 30 to 50 suicide attacks a month in Iraq,” one senior Obama administration official who works on Iraq policy told The Daily Beast.

In effect, the American government has been in a limited partnership with the Assad regime for almost a year. The U.S., Russian, and Syrian governments made a deal last September to destroy Assad’s stockpile of chemical weapons—and relied on Damascus to account for and transport those weapons, in effect legitimizing his claim to continued power.

As far back as last December, top White House officials, including Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken, have suggested that the rising threat of extremism was creating a “convergence of interests” between the U.S., Russia, and its allies in the Iranian and the Syrian governments to come to a political deal before the Islamists became too powerful.

Interesting. I hadn't realized the U.S. has allies in the genocidal Syrian regime and its Iranian puppet-masters who have pledged to wipe the Great Satan (the U.S.) and the Little Satan (Israel) from the face of the Earth. Partners!

Of course, sensible folks have yet to talk sense into the Obama administration.

... “The people who think Bashar al Assad’s regime is the answer to containing and eventually eliminating the Islamic-based threat do not understand the historic relationship between the regime and ISIS. [They] don’t understand the current relationship between Assad and ISIS and how they are working on the ground together directly and indirectly inside Syria,” Robert Ford, the recently departed U.S. ambassador to Syria, told The Daily Beast. “The people who think Assad’s regime survival is essential have not explained how his survival would solve the problem of extremism in Syria.”

Oh, it gets better.

Some administration officials are also suggesting that Iran could be a partner in a post-war Syria, helping to ensure security there during a transition period, after which Assad would negotiate his own departure.

When it comes to this administration, one has to ask: is it incompetence or evil?

As an aside, The Daily Beast's Eli Lake and Josh Rogin should be running neck-and-neck in the Pulitzer competition this year, but given that they both speak truth to power, the odds of their seeing such an award are roughly akin to me being able to sneak a pizza out of Michael Moore's mansion.


Hat tip: Moe Lane.

FOREIGN MEDIA REVEAL: Obama Administration's Lawless Policies Responsible for Child Refugee Crisis

Americans are increasingly forced to turn to foreign media to find out what's actually happening in their own country. Vintage media appears useful only insofar as the news consumer wants to hear the Obama administration's latest talking points. As for actual facts?

When it comes to dissecting the true reasons for the Obama Refugee Crisis on the southern border, for instance, we discover Malaysia's The Star, where Reuters' Jose Cortes offers us the straight scoop.

Executive summary: while the cartels are responsible for spreading rumors about “permisos,” “permits,” or free passes for those who make it into the United States, the author of that notion is Obama himself.

Driven from home by threats of gang violence and extortion and drawn to the U.S. by hopes of education and opportunity, Carlos, a 15-year-old from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is stuck in southern Mexico, living in a shelter and trying to figure out how to get to California.

He says he has an uncle there, who told him that in America he can go to school and find a job. He says that back in Honduras there's a local gang that wants to kill him. He's thinking of climbing on board "La Bestia", or "The Beast", one of the freight trains that carry thousands of illegal immigrants north through Mexico.


Speaking last week from the rail yards in the town of Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Carlos is one of the thousands of young people hoping to reach the U.S. from their impoverished and violent homes in Central America. In the eight months ended June 15, the U.S. has detained about 52,000 children at the Mexican border, double the figure the year earlier. There's no telling how many have gotten through...

...Some combination of hope and fear is driving these children, but the hope side of it is probably illusory. Human traffickers are spreading rumors that illegal immigrants will receive permits to stay in the U.S, while some news stories published in Central America reinforce the idea that children who make it to the U.S. will be treated leniently...

...In fact, there have been some policy changes in the past few years that may be fuelling the rumour mill. In 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave immigration officials discretion to weigh various factors in apprehension, detention, and deportation, particularly in the case of children.

And in 2012, Obama's administration said young immigrants who had been in the United States since 2007, and never been convicted of a felony among other requirements, could apply for a two-year authorization to stay and work in the country.

Donald Douglas concludes his analysis with more candor than is legally approved for antique media:

A humane presidential administration would take decisive action to protect these children. Migrants would be turned back at the border. The U.S. government would rebuke Mexico for its callous porousness, and the State Department would be warning foreign government of sanctions for encouraging their citizens to flood the American Southwest.

Of course, none of this is happening, because the Obama White House is mounting a demonic Alinskyite campaign of manufactured crisis, putting untold alien migrant lives at risk, to say nothing of the dozens upon dozens of American communities now fearing for their safety and trying to protect themselves from Third World diseases.

Of course, a humane administration wouldn't have sent thousands of assault weapons to the Mexican Cartels, or gone to sleep while ignoring cries for help from an Ambassador's mission in Libya, or used the IRS to target its political opponents, to name but a few.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The masks–and gloves–are off

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Nation

The masks–and gloves–are off: Cold Fury
The Case for a Boring Man : Kevin D. Williamson
One Supreme Court Justice Away From Anarchy: Sara Noble

Declarations Of War Part 3: The Trumpets Have Sounded: Liberty's Torch
Drug Cartels Threaten Ranchers, Use Children To Invade The US: Sara Noble
WH: No change to immigrant surge strategy: Justin Sink

America’s DNA: ‘The Federalist Papers’: Cal Thomas
Rangel: Tea Party Like Confederate Dixiecrats: Breitbart
Thad Cochran Conference Call Descends Into Chaos: Roll Call

Economy

Today's Meme: Obama Is Giving Up: Ace
School board president rips Michelle O over lunch program: EAG
Michigan Workers Discover Obamacare Means Impoverishment: Outcast

Scandal Central

Sen. Cruz Releases 5th Report On Obama Regime’s Exec Overreach: Nice Deb
McDaniel campaign now has 4900 double votes for Cochran: FAM
McDaniel says NEW allegations of fraud against Hinds county GOP chairman: Scoop

Media

Dear Emptyheaded Left Wing Writers: Ace
Rush: You Can’t Dump Your Dog on the Street – But Can Dump 50,000 Kids From Central America: GWP
George Takei on Hobby Lobby: What If a Muslim Chain Imposed Sharia Law?: PJM

Newspaper Apologizes to Readers For Endorsing Obama in 2008: Cassy Fiano
MSNBC's Deutsch: Hobby Lobby Case Is No 'War On Women', But We 'Can Make It About That': TR
The funniest tweets from low-information voters you will ever see!: YC

World

Three Funerals.. And The End of The Beginning: Joshua
The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Walid Phares
UK: Fundamentalist Fun and Games: Samuel Westrop

Obama Seeks An Escape From The Middle East: Victor Davis Hanson
Chinese Military Creates High-Level Cyber Intelligence Center: WFB
‘We will take Spain back’: Syrian jihadists: Pamela Geller

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

It Would Be Amazing if This iWatch Concept Was Real: Gizmodo
All the solid surfaces in the solar system stitched in one brilliant map: Gizmodo
Nine Things Digital Leaders Do: CIO Insight

Cornucopia

Obama's Brownshirts: "It's not fascism when we do it!": Cube
Freedom: It’s a Generational Thing: MOTUS
The bikini top from Chicago that went viral: ChiBiz

Image: ‘We will take Spain back’: Syrian jihadists
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "Barack Obama has been anything but boring. “May you live in exciting times” may be a fake Chinese curse, but the wisdom communicated therein is real. Thought experiment: Consider the presidency of Barack Obama from the point of view of the sort of person who is likely to support such men. Having vanquished George W. Bush, he has now given us: a military mess in Iraq complete with the deployment of U.S. troops and a mission that is probably unachievable; the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and its reversion to a jihadist safe haven; an economy that is shrinking significantly and probably is dipping back into recession; a defense and intelligence apparatus that is abusing its powers and the trust of the American people in ways that are not obviously related to defeating terrorist plots; millions without health insurance; millions out of work; corruption in our public institutions, ranging from the IRS to our universities; a self-aggrandizing political elite that is busy enriching itself through the vulgar exploitation of political connections while incomes for ordinary Americans stagnate or decline; etc. There has been a great deal of excitement, but if you voted for Obama because you were angry about the wars, the surveillance state, and the economy, things aren’t looking any better at all." --Kevin D. Williamson

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Obama's Self-Described "Brown Shirts": We'll Jail Anyone Who Tells Public About Illegal Alien Disease Crisis

To help manage his manufactured refugee crisis on the southern border, President Obama has installed a security force that -- seriously -- refers to themselves as "Brown Shirts". Furthermore, they've threatened doctors and nurses who are treating disease-ridden illegal aliens with imprisonment if they tell the public about what they've seen in the Obama concentration refugee camps.

Todd Starnes explains in his detailed summary ("Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest"):

A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.

In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution...

...The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the BCFS, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp... The sources say security forces called themselves the “Brown Shirts.”

“It was a very submissive atmosphere,” the counselor said. “Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”

She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired... “Everyone was paranoid,” she said. “The children had more rights than the workers." ... She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.

...A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw... “We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country,” she said.

Not to worry, my friends. Jeb Bush says they're bringing all of these diseases to the United States for noble reasons. So just ignore the outbreaks of contagious, deadly diseases from the Third World.


Hat tip: The People's Cube.