Tuesday, February 24, 2015
The 72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents
Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents.
At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly. The government applied that label to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists. But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term “terrorist” is being applied to large groups of American citizens.
And if you are a “terrorist”, that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay. So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as “potential terrorists”, please don’t take it as a joke. The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them. And right now large groups of peaceful, law-abiding citizens are being ruthlessly demonized.
Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents. To see the original source document for each point, just click on the link. As you can see, this list covers most of the country…
15 Photos From Iran's Revolution Day 2015 Demonstrations You'll Never See In Legacy Media #Obama #Nukes
Revolution Day 2015 In Iran: A Regime-Organized Display Of Hatred For U.S., Obama
On February 11, 2015, the Iranian regime marked the Islamic Revolution's 36th anniversary. Regime spokesmen, and first and foremost Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, emphasized in processions and speeches the anti-American character of Revolution Day, the Iranian regime's hatred for the United States and its yearning for America's downfall. Regime spokesmen motivated the public to participate in processions in which the regime's top leaders, including the heads of the pragmatic camp took part.
With nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in an attempt to reach an agreement soon in the background, the displays of hatred towards President Obama, depicted as hanging from a gallows, and towards Secretary of State Kerry, who was shown as a devious fox were prominent...
NEWLY REVEALED PENTAGON DOCUMENTS: Why, Yes, the White House Lied to Everyone About Benghazi
Scandal: Heavily redacted documents show a military response had been drafted in answer to the Benghazi terrorist attack by a group supporting "an Islamic state" in Libya. It also showed the attack wasn't inflamed by a video.
It's taken Judicial Watch two years to obtain from the most transparent administration in history the 486 pages of documents pertaining to the military response to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on our Benghazi diplomatic mission. They confirm what we have said repeatedly, that the Benghazi tale spun by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was indeed a lie agreed upon.Despite heavy redaction, they show that the real "JV team" — a term applied by Obama to the deadly Islamic State — resides in the White House. The papers reveal, for instance, that at one point the military relied on a photo from a Twitter post to determine the status of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed with Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith in the first of two attacks.
Several hours later — hours during which a rescue or support attempt arguably could have been made — terrorists killed CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty.
The documents confirm the administration lied in insisting the attacks were nothing more than a spontaneous protest over a video offensive to Muslims — protests that escalated to the point participants spontaneously pulled out their mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
Larwyn's Linx: ISIS Threatening To Use The Immigration Weapon To Conquer Europe
Nation
ISIS Threatening To Use The Immigration Weapon To Conquer Europe: VDAREThe President and ‘Violent Extremism’: Dennis Prager
The Ultimate failure of Barack Obama: DTG
Tyranny and America’s moral decline: Personal Liberty
Museum of Islamic Jew-Hatred to Open in Washington DC: Pamela Geller
Secrecy around police surveillance proves case’s undoing: Ellen Nakashima
McConnell Flashes His Yellow Belly: Leon Wolf
Giuliani Versus Obama: Thomas Sowell
The Media’s Slimy Assault on Gov. Walker: David Limbaugh
Hillary's 'Quack' Health Adviser Has Scientific Community Worried: TR
Stop Playing Useful Idiot for the Press-Democrat: Leon Wolf
Senate Democrats Show Limits of GOP Control: Roll Call
Economy
Hillary Clinton’s War on Women: WFBActivist NJ judge: greedy unionistas get their pensions no matter what: WyBlog
Warren Joins Obama: They're Coming For Your Retirement Accounts: Roll Call
Scandal Central
ABCs of IRS Mess; Justice Dept. Is Tainted Too: PostDemocratic Big Data shop Catalist accused of violating election law: Moe Lane
Beheaded IS Captive Kayla Mueller's Brother: Obama's Bergdahl Swap Raised Price of Terror Ransoms : Ace
Climate & Energy
Bill Nye, the Anti-Semitism Guy: AceGuess Who Scored Higher On Science Quiz: ‘Warming Mongers’ Or Skeptics?: Tammy Bruce
Feeling cold? Be glad it's not 1815: MacLean's
Media
Non-Wisconsinites, I need to explain something about Scott Walker to you that you are missing: Ann AlthouseNewsmax Pledged $1 Million to Clinton Foundation: Daniel Halper
Shocking CNN headline could be a sign of the apocalypse: Twitchy
WaPo: Administration’s Past Assurances Raise Questions about Iran Deal: The Tower
Review BROWN PEOPLE: Hispanic Politics in the Disunited State of Amigos: Leslie Eastman
Freedom Center Launches ‘Jew Hatred on Campus’ Campaign: FPM
World
The Worst Possible Outcome: AmIntAn American about face, into the arms of Iran: Hayom
The Mossad's 'true assessment' of Iran's nuclear program?: Matzav
Hope Dies Last: The XX Committee
When Kremlin Trolls Attack: The XX Committee
Paralyzed By Ukraine, Dumbfounded by Russia: NatlJrnl
France deploys carrier to Persian Gulf to fight jihadists: Times of Israel
Kerry, Zarif to meet for second day of nuclear talks: Times of Israel
Top Iranian negotiator threatens to leave nuke talks: Times of Israel
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Emotional Design Fail: I'm Divorcing My Nest Thermostat: Kara PerniceCT scan finds mummified monk inside 1,000-year-old Buddha: Michelle Starr, CNet
Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu: CIO
Cornucopia
Mall Threat: MBThe Incredible Lightness of Being in Hollywood: MOTUS
We live-designed the most meme-worthy Oscar moments: USA Today
Image: Ace
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QOTD: "Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that Americans should be “particularly careful” shopping at malls this weekend following a specific terrorist threat.
Terrorist group al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, which included mention and images of the Mall of America in Minnesota." --New York Post
Monday, February 23, 2015
OBAMA WAS RIGHT: Muslims woven into the fabric of our national history (he just forgot the word "fighting")
President Obama has continually asserted that Islam was “woven into the fabric” of the United States since its founding. Obama claims that Muslims have made significant contributions to building of this nation. The claim is laughable to anyone who has studied US history. Historian David Barton spoke to Glenn Beck and tore the president’s claims apart.
Barton found the first real contribution any Muslim made was in 1856 (80 years after the founding) when then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis hired one Muslim to help train camels in Arizona. Not exactly a resounding contribution, since the plan to fight Native Americans via camelback was soon dismissed.
But Muslims did have an influence on early America, and that influence was one of a foe. After winning its independence from England, American vessels no longer enjoyed British protection. France, dismayed that the US would not aid it in its war against England, also ceased protection of American ships. The result led to American vessels being raided and plundered by Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast.
After agreeing to pay 10% of the new nations dismal GDP in exchange for passage, attacks continued. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were sent as representatives to mediate the problem. It was there that they discovered that the Islamic law the pirates followed made it their duty to attack non-Muslims.
Obama's Mysterious Mentor "Frank" Resurfaces
Yesterday’s news became big news on the Fox News Channel last week when former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought up the name of President Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. It was almost seven years to the day when we published our seminal piece about Davis, “Obama’s Communist Mentor.”
Davis was a member of the Communist Party and a suspected Soviet espionage agent. He was included in the FBI’s security index, meaning that Davis could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency. The FBI file on Davis documents his anti-white and pro-Soviet views, infiltration of the Hawaii Democratic Party, and other activities.Davis also wrote an autobiographical and pornographic sex novel, Sex Rebel, disclosing that he had sex with a young girl and engaged in shocking and bizarre sexual activities.
Giuliani’s public identification of Davis and discussion of his role in grooming a young Barack Obama marks the first time, in my memory, that a top Republican has ever mentioned the Davis-Obama relationship. It was done in the context of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly of questioning how Giuliani could dare ask whether Obama loves America.
If the Republicans had brought this up during the 2008 campaign, Obama might have been defeated and the country could have been spared the last six years of “progressive” hope and change. The Davis-Obama relationship is something so damaging and corrupt that its public airing would have raised questions about the Democratic Party’s vetting of Obama and the direction of the Democratic Party itself.
COMFORTING: Mall of America Protected from Jihadist Terror Attack by Sternly Worded Gun-Free Zone Signs
A Somali affiliate of al Qaeda has called for attacks against Western shopping malls, which they see as soft targets. The call for attacks was seen in a video celebrating the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
“If just a handful of mujahedeen [militant jihadists] fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, just imagine what the dedicated mujahedeen could do in the West to American or Jewish shopping centers across the world,” a masked gunman says toward the end of the video. “What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London’s Oxford Street?”
England is notorious for the number of radicalized Muslim immigrants that are in the country, as is Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a large population of Somali Muslims has been imported and resettled by the American government. Edmonton, Canada, also has a significant population of Somali Muslim immigrants from which jihadis are being recruited.
The threats seem credible, but as people are banned from carrying firearms in all three locations, the “gun free zone” signs may provide some protection.
Virtually all of Canada and England are Gun Free Zones, as self defense is not considered a valid reason for citizens to carry guns in those countries. But a crucial difference exists in the United States. The malls in Canada and England lack the protection of gun free zone signs. In comparison, the Mall of America, in Minneapolis, has particularly large and prominent gun free zone signs, as shown above.
While gun free zone signs have failed in a number of locations, it may be that they were not large enough or prominent enough. John Lott, an academic who has studied these shootings, makes this statement.
GREAT JOB, GOV. KASICH: More than two-thirds of Ohio's "Obamacare enrollees" are actually on Medicaid
More than two thirds of the Ohioans insured under Obamacare are covered by the law’s optional Medicaid expansion.
A total of 234,507 Ohioans have selected a private insurance policy through the federally run Obamacare exchange at HealthCare.gov, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported Wednesday.
As of January, enrollment in Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Obamacare Medicaid expansion was 492,121. For every Ohioan choosing an Obamacare exchange plan, two have enrolled in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.Millions of private health insurance policies nationwide were canceled as a result of Obamacare, but state and federal officials have not disclosed how many of the Ohioans covered under Obamacare were previously insured.
Because Medicaid reimbursement rates to care providers are so low, nearly 40 percent of Ohio State Medical Association doctors surveyed last year said they planned to accept fewer Medicaid patients in 2015.
Ohio Medicaid beneficiaries currently pay no premiums, and — assuming they can find a doctor — they receive the same “minimum essential benefits” Obamacare requires for policies sold at HealthCare.gov.
The exchange offers premium subsidies to Ohioans whose income is between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line. Medicaid expansion coverage extends to 138 percent of the poverty line.
Actual exchange enrollment is likely lower than reported by the Obama administration. HHS figures are inflated by including individuals who choose an exchange plan but never pay a premium, Forbes editor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Avik Roy explained in a Wednesday story.
Larwyn's Linx: Illegal Aliens Unhappy with Shortage of Bilingual Doctors
Nation
Illegal Aliens Unhappy with Shortage of Bilingual Doctors: Pedro GonzalesIt Doesn’t Matter One Bit What Obama Thinks ‘True Islam’ Is: Andrew C. McCarthy
Barack Obama and Islam: An Ongoing Saga: Daniel Pipes
Somalis in Minnesota are a Terror Threat to Mall of America: Daniel Greenfield
Homeland Security Cautions Americans Shopping at Malls: BuzzPo
DHS Secretary Confirms Need For Regular Concealed Carry: Bob Owens
The Media: When You Attack Obama, You’re Attacking Them: Jay Caruso
Reform Muslims banned from Obama 'Conference on Violent Extremism': AT
Resistance to Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country: MB
Top Amnesty Advocate Suggests Jeb Better Than Hillary On Amnesty: Breitbart
Rep. Janice Hahn (D, California-44) bails out of Congress: Moe Lane
Big Government and Fat Taxes: RWN
Economy
Bad News: 401(k)s Are Racist, Or Something: WZTell Congress to stop Department of Labor bullying: RS
The gender wage gap myth: Christina Hoff Sommers (2014)
Scandal Central
Despite Court Ruling, Obama still Pushing ahead with Amnesty: RSHabitat For Humanity Builds Luxury Beach House For NJ Politician: Chris Wysocki
Illegal Aliens Committed 500 Child Sexual Assaults in North Carolina During January: UFP
Climate & Energy
NYT Smears Scientist Willie Soon for Telling the Truth About 'Global Warming': BreitbartDangerous cold snap leaves at least 20 dead in U.S. — and it's not over yet: Mashable
Freighter On Lake Erie Overcome With Global Warming: iOTWreport
Media
Ranting About Rudy: Giuliani’s criticism of Obama has sparked fury—because it rings true: Fred SiegelAll the President's Bootlickers: Erick Erickson
“A Tree and Its Fruit”, Gov. Scott Walker and Barack Obama’s Faith: RS
President Franklin Delano Obama Addresses the Threat of 1930s Violent Extremism: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama 6X More Delusional Than Bush – Google Results: Sara Noble
Mail Call From a Leftwing Journalist: Erick Erickson
INSIDERS: AL Sharpton To Be Fired As MSNBC To No Longer Be Leftist Network: WAW
The Oscars are too black: Kevin Jackson
15 of the funniest memes from the Oscars, including Lady Gaga glove-mania: Mark Francescutti
World
Find the ‘Countering Violent Extremism Summit’ at the Intersection of Islamists and Leftists: Andrew C. McCarthyThe Muslim Takeover of West Bengal: Janet Levy
Libya: Islamic State Burns "Non-Islamic" Musical Instruments: Clarion
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Five Best Weather Web Sites: LifeHackerNBCU research chief: Change in millennial viewing behavior is 'stunning': FierceCable
Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu: Agam Shah, CIO
Cornucopia
Palate cleanser-Feel good story of the day : AceWhat was the most amusing part of Sean Penn’s Oscars green card ‘joke’ kerfuffle?: Twitchy
TOP FIVE WORST THINGS Sean Penn Has Ever Said or Done: GotNews
Image: Urban Onions: 1942
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QOTD: "We should, [Obama] said, be listening to, instead of the terrorists, “Muslim clerics and scholars” who “push back on this twisted interpretation” and assure us “that the Koran says, ‘Whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind.’”
The Koran does indeed say that, in Sura 5:32. Yet, in the very next verse, conveniently omitted by Obama (5:33), it goes on to say:
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land, is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: That is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter.
That puts a somewhat different cast on the whole “whoever kills an innocent” theme, wouldn’t you say?" --Andrew C. McCarthy
Sunday, February 22, 2015
The 12 Top #JobsForISIS
#JobsForISIS was trending nationally this week, after State Department spokesman Marie Harf said the solution to stopping ISIS is not by killing them, but by giving them jobs.
The U.S.-led coalition is killing ISIS members, Harf said Monday night on MSNBC. “But we cannot win this war by killing them. We need to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs, whether …”
MSNBC host Chris Matthews interrupted Harf to point out “there’s always going to be poor Muslims.”
But Harf doubled down, arguing the U.S. should “help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.”
Here are twelve jobs Twitter users suggest the U.S. offer ISIS to stop them from beheading people:
1. Wal-Mart Greeter
#JobsForISIS pic.twitter.com/vY9t0lVrpa
— Rick Gemi (@Rick_Gemi) February 17, 2015
2. Personal trainers
Frantic media try to gin up Scott Walker controversy while refusing to ask serious questions of Democrat candidates
How do you know that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has taken at least temporary custody of frontrunner status in the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016? Beyond, of course, the polls that show him rocketing to the front of the pack in critical early primary states like Iowa? The political press is coming down hard on him and his nascent campaign.
After three unambiguous statewide victories in a Democratic state in just four years, Scott Walker is thoroughly vetted. If there were skeletons in his closet, the media and the myriad opposition researchers scrutinizing his past would have found them by now.
...So, the press has taken a keen interest in catching Walker in unflattering moments or making hash out of otherwise minor controversies... You will perhaps not be surprised to learn that Walker has disqualified himself from serving as the President of the United States twice in less than one week, at least according to the Beltway media ... When the Wisconsin governor was inexplicably asked by The Washington Post whether or not he believed that Barack Obama was a Christian, Walker stepped on a landmine when he answered, “I don’t know.”
Back in the little land I like to call "the part of America not in D.C.", Walker's comments are of no import whatsoever.
That is not the case for three questions every Democrat presidential candidate must be forced to answer, as suggested by William A. Jacobson.
1. Should Joe Biden stop touching women without consent?
2. Is Elizabeth Warren Native American? Our current VP is a serial groper, and the 2016 frontrunner takes Al Jazeera's funny money under the table. No question material there!
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 21, 2015
3. Is it okay that Bill Clinton participated in [sex/orgy] vacations with a pedophile? Every Democrat must express an opinion on whether @SenWarren is Cherokee http://t.co/H1V24MqQAc cc: @seanmdav
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) February 22, 2015
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein flew Bill Clinton to his private sex island b/c he owed Bill "a favor." Nobody asks Hillary about that.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 21, 2015
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for some intrepid reporter (pah!) to broach one of these completely valid and legitimate questions. Instead, we'll have to brace ourselves for more faux controversies as Scott Walker answers "I don't know" to a series of questions about the opinions voiced by other people.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Giuliani hits a nerve
Leadership: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," candidate Barack Hussein Obama said on Oct. 30, 2008, just before his election as our 44th president. Was it just rhetoric?
Many no doubt thought it was, chalking it up to boilerplate election-eve hot air. But now are we seeing — some would say tragically — what he meant.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is being raked over the coals for saying he doesn't really believe the president loves America, and he probably didn't do himself or the Republican any favors by saying that. Democrats seem to be having a field day with his blunt remark.
But can the case be made? If you love something, do you seek to fundamentally transform it while endlessly summarizing its flaws?
This is the president, after all, who sat for two decades in the pews of Trinity United Church, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ranted that we should be saying not "God Bless America" but "God damn America" and that 9/11 was just one of America's chickens "coming home to roost."
The record does not show Obama ever walked out in protest, but it is recorded that Wright married the Obamas, baptized their daughters and is credited with the title to Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope."
Larwyn's Linx: Why the Left loves Islam
Nation
Why the Left loves Islam: Matt BrackenCrying Koch vs. Hillary’s Foreign Sugar Daddies: LI
Poll Reveals The Lawlessness of Democrats : Publius
The End Run: Fred Barnes
Obama On Path To Imperial Presidency: Debra Saunders
Obama: Republicans are trying to 'bamboozle' ordinary Americans: Brian Hughes
Senate Democrats Choosing Illegal Immigrants Over Border Patrol Agents: Signal
The Washington Post played ‘gotcha’ with Scott Walker (and lost): LI
Prices, Paul Krugman, and Consistency: Coyote
Jeb Bush opts to enter the lion’s den at CPAC.: Moe Lane
Awaiting Our Next George Washington: Thomas Purcell
Minneapolis police "officer was the intended target": CNN
Economy
Loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs: Michael HiltzikNaton of Truck Drivers: TBP
Victory for post-Quinn Illinois: Caterpillar to remain in Peoria: Marathon
Scandal Central
Obama kept reform Muslims out of summit on extremism: Charles HoskinsonObama’s DHS Warns Right Wing Terror Threat Greater than ISIS, Hamas-CAIR Celebrates: Geller
Marie Harf Wrote Thesis on How Conservative Support for Israel Complicates US Foreign Policy: DC
Climate & Energy
GOP investigates NASA's climate data tampering: DCA Test Of Nevada's Solar Tower Project Torched Over A Hundred Birds : io9
China’s Torrid Middle Eastern Affair: Rachel Marsden
Media
Henry Reminds Earnest that Obama Called Bush “Unpatriotic”: Keith KofflerWashington Post Blogger Attempts to Vilify G.O.P. as ‘Islamophobic’: BlurBrain
One School District’s Turmoil Over Illegal Alien Students: Sara Noble
World
Navigating the Iran endgame: Rich BaehrWaPo Wakes Up, shocked at reality: Extrano's Alley
We are one town away from a proxy war between Russia and the US: James Forsyth
O Beautiful, For Specious Guys...: Mark Steyn
Islam and Norway's Leaking Fish Tank: Bjorn Jansen
Je Suis Brigitte: Brigitte Bardot On Trial Again for Insulting Muslims: VDARE
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
New Google Now card shows gas stations on your route: AndroidAuthorityStrategic Defense: Military Uses of the Moon & Asteroids (1983): Wired
How I helped take a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and got it acquired by Google: TNW
Cornucopia
Funny Or Die? Every vote matters.: MOTUS'Mr. K,' Datsun pioneer and father of the Z car, dies at 105: Automnews
Closing arguments heard at Arab American Marine's court-martial: David Zucchino
Image: Attn. Marie Harf: Islam Yaken left his middle-class home in Egypt to join the Islamic State in Syria
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QOTD: "The administration's pique over the invitation [of Netanyahu] has carried over to Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, both of whom have found some foreign country to visit that day. Of course, the president and the secretary of state will not meet with Netanyahu during his visit, nor will any top ranking official attend the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference where Netanyahu will also speak. In conclusion, at this point the administration will meet with Iranian officials at any time, and in any place the Iranians demand, but with Israeli leaders, not at all. " --Rich Baehr
Saturday, February 21, 2015
STUNNING: Huffington Post Lies to Americans; Claims Uncomfortable Facts About Illegal Aliens are Now "Myths"
Most economists see immigration policy as a matter of trade-offs. No matter which policy we choose, there will always be winners and losers, and our political values help us decide how to weigh those competing interests. For some advocates of mass immigration, however, there seems to be no recognition of trade-offs at all. They have developed talking points that falsely portray immigration as a win-win for everyone involved.
Take Roque Planas's list of supposed "myths" about immigration recently featured in the Huffington Post. Mr. Planas asserts that, contrary to "myth", immigrants do not actually drive down the wages or decrease job opportunities for native-born workers. It's a strange argument. After all, for those who tout the economic benefits of low-skill immigration, downward wage pressure is a feature, not a bug. Immigrants drive down the prevailing wage, thus decreasing the cost of production and lowering the prices of goods and services. If immigration did not drop the wages of some workers, then costs would not be lowered, natives could not benefit, and one would wonder why Mr. Planas and his allies want to expand immigration at all.In truth, there is an economic trade-off here: Consumers and owners of capital benefit from low-skill immigration, while low-skill workers suffer. As noted above, how we weigh those competing interests depends on our political values. Pretending the trade-offs do not exist will not help us come to any reasonable conclusions.
BUT... BUT... WARMING: NASA photo captures U.S. record breaking cold and snow from space
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer. In addition to the snow cover, Arctic and Siberian air masses have settled in over the Eastern U.S. triggering many record low temperatures in many states.
On Feb. 19 at 16:40 UTC (11:40 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured a picture of the snowy landscape. The snow cover combined with the frosty air mass made the eastern U.S. feel like the inside of freezer. The MODIS image was created at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
On the morning of Feb. 20, NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) noted, “There were widespread subzero overnight lows Thursday night (Feb. 19) extending from Illinois to western Virginia, and numerous record lows were set. Bitterly-cold arctic air is setting numerous temperature records across the eastern U.S. and will keep temperatures well below normal on Friday (Feb. 20).”
If anthropogenic global warming happened to be true (hint: it's not), it would be a good thing since it appears we face a new and impending Ice Age.
"The Only Way You Can Delete This NSA Malware Is to Smash Your Hard Drive to Bits"
Most interesting of all is NLS_933W.DLL, which -- in my view -- represents the "Holy Grail" of malware.
The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehouse of capabilities within the attack platform.
The only way to remove nls_933w.dll #TheSAS2015 #EquationAPT pic.twitter.com/zfVE1kKyha
— Fabio Assolini (@assolini) February 16, 2015
By extending its reach into hard drive firmware, for example, this espionage gang had perpetual persistence on compromised machines. No matter of clean-up efforts could scrub module nls_933w.dll from hardware. None.
“This is an ultimate persistence mechanism, and it has the ultimate resilience to removal. This is a next level of persistence never seen before,” said Vitaly Kamluk, principal security researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team...
Matthew Braga offers some additional detail:
Larwyn's Linx: The Obama Administration Finally Finds ‘Terrorists’ It Can Hate — You
Nation
Obama Administration Finally Finds ‘Terrorists’ It Can Hate — You: Michael WalshALERT: DHS still preparing for executive amnesty: LI
Obama to seek emergency order restarting immigration programs: The Hill
Our Secret Weapon In the War with ISIS: Racism: Ace
State Dept.: ‘The Solution To Violent Extremism Begins in Your Community’: Tatler
Terrified Obama Admin Plotting Ways To Undercut Netanyahu’s Visit: WZ
Hillary Clinton Exposed, Part I: Corrupt and Clueless: TBP
The Lost Republic Diaries – Part II: Camp o' the Saints
ATF and EPA quietly working on gun control with ammunition bans: Allen West
Paranoid Much? NYC Municipal ID Law Has ‘Tea Party Destruct’ Clause: JWF
The Ferguson protest movement: Ripe For The Plucking.: RS
Race for Chicago mayor splitting Democrats apart over economic issues: WaPo
Economy
The Economy’s Worst 8-Year Run in 62 Years: Tom BlumerThe End of Public-Employee Unions?: Garrett Epps
Sorry Obama, Harvard study: poor Muslims LESS likely to be terrorists: Scoop
Scandal Central
Obama’s DHS Suddenly Warning That ‘Right-Wing Extremist Groups’ More Dangerous Than Muslims: RWNObama Didn’t Invite FBI Chief to ‘Extremism Summit’ But He DID Invite Russia’s Security Chief: RWN
The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation: WFB
Climate & Energy
Global Warming Freezes More Ice On Great Lakes Than In All of Recorded History: Ace120-year-old record low broken in D.C., one of many today and in the past week: WaPo
UN Climate Chief Accused Of Sexual Harassment: Jerome Hudson
Media
Left mad the Right’s noticed that entire ‘ambivalent about America’ thing Obama does: Moe LaneSoros’ $10 Million Funds Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia’: MRC
Bill O'Reilly is accused of making up war stories, having his own 'Brian Williams problem': The Week
Mark Levin: Obama ‘No Defender Of Muslims,’ Reads Anne Frank’s Diary Aloud: PPD
Historian Rips Obama’s Claim: ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding’: Blaze
Rudy is Right: Ace
World
Why the West is Losing: The XX CommitteeTerror Strikes Copenhagen: "It Is the Danes' Fault": Lars Hedegaard
Obama Has Egypt in His Sights Not ISIS: Sara Noble
Iran prepares to attack Northern Israel: James Lewis
Report: Iran has direct military presence on Israel's borders: Hayom
Senators Fuming Over CENTCOM Revealing Mosul Offensive Strategy to Reporters: Tatler
ISIS is Islamic, and Obama’s Failure to See This is a Disaster: Keith Koffler
The Ideological Islamist Threat: WSJ
Islamism and Obama’s Dangerous Flight from Reality: Peter Wehner
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)
Spies Can Track You Just by Watching Your Phone’s Power Use: Andy GreenbergThe world’s most sophisticated hackers made a surprisingly stupid mistake: Fusion
Watch what castAR's projected augmented reality can do: Engadget
Cornucopia
From Foggy Bottom to Foggy Top: MOTUSDone deal: Floyd Mayweather will fight Manny Pacquiao on May 2: Kevin Iole
This Is Why, In Short, I REFUSE To Innovate: Karl Denninger
Image: Dubai skyscraper catches fire; no one killed
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QOTD: "Analogies to Adolf Hitler are hazardous, but some appear obvious in the case of Vladimir Putin. In the first place, Hitler was shaped profoundly by the collapse of Imperial Germany in 1918, just as Putin was by the demise of the USSR in 1991. Both men viewed the state they served ambivalently — Hitler wasn’t much of a monarchist and Putin wasn’t a diehard Marxist either — but defeat was a life-changing ordeal that created new political and social realities which, in time, Hitler and Putin exploited masterfully.
From 1918, Hitler took the lesson that Germany needed moral rearmament more than anything else since, in Nazi telling, collapse at the end of the Great War was caused by moral shortcomings more than military defeats. Thus Hitler’s famous line that, though he was a socialist, he had no need to nationalize German factories because “I shall nationalize the people.” Similarly, Putin considers that the sudden implosion of the USSR was not due to economic or military weakness, rather to loss of faith in the Soviet system. Such a withering away of national morale, and therefore of the state itself, is something Putin will not have happen on his watch. Hence the emphasis on nationalism, unity, propaganda, and religious imagery to bind citizens to the state — which makes a better motivator of average Russians than Marxism-Leninism ever was — as in venerable Muscovite tradition.
Also like Hitler did in the mid-1930’s, Putin in a few months has managed to overturn European diplomacy, through clever and cautious use of force, remaking it in his own, tough image (though Berlin, Paris, and Washington, DC, haven’t quite realized this yet). By re-writing the rule-book of international relations, recasting it in terms of force and will, Hitler and Putin alike created a new diplomatic reality, despite their own weakness, that bears little resemblance to the happy never-never-land of conferences, summits, heated debates over beef subsidies, and cocktail parties that polite Europeans thought constituted statecraft. That naive vision has been steamrolled by the Kremlin over the past year, as surely as Ukrainian volunteers have been crushed under Russian tank treads." --The XX Committee
Friday, February 20, 2015
Virginia Dem Party Chair Arrested for Trying to Hire Hit Man to Kill Girls He Molested
The former Chairman of the Falls Church, Virginia Democrat Party who has been charged with sexually molesting two young girls is now also accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill the young girls before they could tell police their story.
Loudoun County prosecutors say that Democrat Michael Gardner, who is about to stand trial for the molestation charges, tried to find a hit man while in prison.
In a letter, received by authorities last month, the inmate told Gardner that he knew someone who could “help with ._._. the ‘3 problems’ you have pre-trial,” according to a motion filed by the prosecution on Thursday, allegedly referring to the two girls and a unspecified third issue. The letter was sent from the inmate in response to “multiple and specific conversations” Gardner allegedly had with the inmate, according to court papers.
Loudoun County prosecutor Nicole Wittmann said she did not know whether Gardner contacted a hit man.
Gardner was convicted in 2012 of molesting two girls, who were 9 and 10 at the time, during a slumber party for his daughter’s 10th birthday.
He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Then his conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court, which said the trial judge improperly stopped Gardner’s defense attorney from asking character witnesses about Gardner. He was granted a new trial.
If Gardner happened to be a Republican, he would dominate the national news for at least a month.
Read more Warner Todd Huston at PubliusForum.com
GLOBAL WARMING EMERGENCY: Hundreds of locations reach or exceed 120-year low temperature records
Some highlights:
• Siberian Express Grips Midwest, Northeast, South; Four Cities Set All-Time Record Lows
• Record cold continues; next week could be colder
• Great Lakes “likely to have the most ice since records began,” says meteorologist
Hat tip: Drudge.
JUST RANDOM FOLKS: FBI documents reveal 22 Islamist enclaves are operating in the U.S.
Jihad Enclaves: With names like Islamberg and Mahmoudberg, some 22 of what the FBI calls "enclaves" have been established across the U.S. by a group linked to a Pakistani militant group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra.
The specter of 21 Christians being murdered "on the shores of Tripoli" in Libya where U.S. Marines first encountered Muslim forces — the Barbary pirates — and threats by the Islamic State against Rome show how President Obama's "JV team" has metastasized as a global threat.And, yes, it can happen here.
The Islamic State is encouraging attacks on infidels in the West like the one in Moore, Okla., where office worker Colleen Hufford was stabbed and beheaded.
Lost in the debate about the threat of Islamic terrorism is that the "home-grown" and "lone wolf" terrorists IS seeks to enlist already walk among us.
They may find aid and comfort in a network of what might be called training camps established by a group called Muslims of the Americas (MOA), a group that has been linked to the Pakistani militant group Jamaatul-Fuqra, whose members are devoted followers of Pakistani extremist cleric Mubarak Ali Gilani.
Ryan Mauro, national security analyst for the Clarion Project, a nonprofit organization that seeks to educate the public about the threat of Islamic extremism, reports, based on FBI documents the group has obtained, the existence of a 22nd MOA paramilitary training camp in Brazoria County, Texas.



















