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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: 6 Reasons to Support Ted Cruz. Reason 1 - "Moderate Candidates are Losers"

Spotted in a presentation from a conservative PAC that supports my preferred candidate, Ted Cruz.

SELF-DELUSION: The Chamberlain-Obama Comparison is Apt

By Thane Rosenbaum

There’s been a lot of talk lately proclaiming Barack Obama the second coming of Neville Chamberlain. The analogy may be facile, but it is not far-fetched. The accord just reached in Vienna, at best, only temporarily cools off Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The Iran deal will be remembered either as a masterful display of diplomacy or as a hopelessly naïve delusion.

Wishful thinking is not a sound basis for foreign policy. When it comes to Iran, the stakes are too high to gamble on good faith. Israel and Saudi Arabia have good reasons to worry. And when before have these two nations had anything in common?

Congress now readies itself for 60 days of peeking underneath the Persian carpet of this Iranian deal, while the President threatens to test his veto powers over congressional action.

Americans should be skeptical. Iran is not just a regional menace. Long-range missiles can erase complacency in an instant. The seeming vast distance on a map between Iran and the United States, in the modern world, can resemble a commuter stop. The days of trench warfare are over because there isn’t enough time to dig any of those trenches. Iran may end up convincing the United States that it needs its very own Iron Dome.

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You won’t believe the letter this fifth-grader just wrote to the government

It's stuff like this that makes me hopeful for the next generation. Brian writes, "A friend from work's daughter penned this, and she just had to show me. Thought you might enjoy."

We have a budding little capitalist and liberty-loving young lady, I think.

Related: Plunder and Deceit, by Mark Levin.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama’s Iran Deal Sounds a Lot Like Clinton’s Failed North Korea Deal

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QOTD: "People look at government with an anger and a frustration which Washington does not understand.

In a span of a few days last week, Americans witnessed Washington's glaring failure with disbelief.

First, the government admitted that Social Security numbers, fingerprints, passwords and other personal information of more than 22 million federal workers, all used to conduct background screenings, were hacked on the Obama administration's watch.

Then a whistleblower leaked an internal Department of Veterans Affairs document to the Huffington Post, showing that more than 238,000 of the 847,000 military veterans with pending applications for health care through the VA had already died.

Finally, the FBI admitted that flaws in paperwork and communications between a federal background-check worker and state law enforcement allowed Dylann Roof to buy a handgun in South Carolina, weeks before he allegedly killed black churchgoers.

No accountability, no transparency — just a pattern of bureaucratic failure that has cost lives and has fueled anger against government." --Salena Zito

Monday, July 20, 2015

“You were given a choice between war and dishonor, Mr. Obama. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

By Sara Noble

The U.N. Security Council endorsed the nuclear deal Monday morning. The statists in the U.N. have been given the power to decide the fate of the nuclear deal with no intervention by the American people thanks to the unilateral president and the Corker bill. The Corker bill allows international law to supersede our Congress and our Constitution.

The negotiations began when the President engaged in secret correspondence with the Ayatollah and his minions. Valerie Jarrett made secret trip(s) to Iran. The Logan Act suggests that this is not within his rights to engage in secret correspondence with the enemy.

The negotiations of the P5+1 were always a sham because they were always between the U.S. and Iran. China and Russia? Russia wants the U.S. to be harassed by Iran and they want to sell arms to the Iranians. China is already preparing for war against the United States with cyber as the first front. The U.K., France, Germany depend on Russia for their oil.

Lawyers involved in the negotiations and an Iranian reporter who sought asylum in the U.K. claimed that the U.S. acted as Iran’s agents throughout the negotiations.

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PASS THE POPCORN, NAHANNI: Federal judge warns State Dept. it will “have to answer for” any missing Hillary emails

Our friends at Judicial Watch have been indefatigable advocates for liberty and the pursuit of the Obama administration's many high crimes and misdemeanors (a list that exhausts one simply to read it).

In any event, using tools like Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, JW has been doggedly seeking answers with respect to Hillary Clinton's secret email server. And, as Inspectors General throughout the massive government bureaucracy have publicly stated, the least transparent administration in history is covering up everything germane to the investigation.

Namely, what exactly did Hillary Clinton promise foreign entities, international corporations, and others who were contributing to her family's foundation under the aegis of her official role as Secretary of State?

...a federal judge warned the State Department that it will “have to answer for” any destruction of Hillary Clinton email records. U. S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras made the statement at a July 9, 2015 status conference concerning a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for records about the State Department vetting of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s potential conflicts of interest (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00688)). The transcript of the July 9 court hearing is available here.
At the hearing, attorney Chris Fedeli pressed Judicial Watch’s concerns about the preservation of records, especially email records that were not part of the 55,000 pages of records turned over by Mrs. Clinton to the State Department late last year.
In response, Judge Contreras said he was also “concerned” about the preservation of these records:

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Why I find it hard to give a f***

By Karl Denninger

It's very hard for me to give a **** these days.

In fact, it's becoming nearly impossible. The reasons are many, with the most-serious being your refusal to give a ****.

You don't give a **** that the entire medical industry rips everyone off to the tune of 200, 300, 400, 500% or more of what virtually everything should cost. This is why you "need" health insurance. It is why we "need" Medicare. The practices of this "industry" in virtually every other line of business would result in the people involved going to prison for decades, yet you tolerate this daily despite the fact that it is the largest cause of bankruptcy in the United States. You cannot take your car in for an oil change or have the furnace guy come and fix your heating system in your home without being quoted a price before work begins, and were two gas stations to collude on prices the owners of both would be charged with felonies.

You don't give a **** that pharmaceutical companies literally price drugs at a half-million dollars a year -- and if you need it, you'll need it effectively forever. There are so few people who have that sort of money that this kind of pricing is by definition theft, as the only way to "afford' such a drug is to steal the money from someone else (through legal means or otherwise.) What's worse is that you let them get away with having most of the development cost of these "wonder drugs" be born through publicly-funded research; it's not even their money at risk (for the most part) when such a new drug is tested, it's yours and mine. We then wonder why so-called "health insurance" is as expensive as it is and why the stock of firms in that business such as Aetna (NYSE: AET) are up more than 500% since 2009, roughly doubling in the two years since the Obamacare "mandates, er, taxes" kicked in and stock in company that makes the drug in this example (ALXN) is up 1,000% since 2009. You, on the other hand, will be flirting with bankruptcy (if not rendered penniless, insurance or no) if you get sick.

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Larwyn's Linx: A Horrible Week for the Free World–And a Glimmer of Hope

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Nation

A Horrible Week for the Free World–And a Glimmer of Hope: Erick Stakelbeck
Chattanooga: Stop Crying, Start Getting Angry: Kim Quade
Terror USA: Ft. Hood Victim Says Obama Needs to Get his 'Head Out of His A**': RWN

Obama's rationale implodes: Prof. Abraham Ben-Zvi
Appeasement in Our Time: Jack Kelly
Here, Tell These People Something They Don't Know About Me: SDA

Chattanooga Shooter’s Mosque Fundraised on Behalf of Jihad in 2009: Kyle Shideler
Chattanooga’s Lone Wolf: Judith Miller
Suspects Wanted For Paintball Shootings On Staten Island Arrested: Mark Hirshberg

Millions and Millions of Mohammeds: Daniel Greenfield
More Than Half of New California Driver's Licenses Go to Illegal Aliens: Breitbart
Boehner and McConnell must go: David Bozell

'Proven Fundraiser' Ted Cruz Can Defeat Clinton in 2016: Breitbart
Trump campaign implodes after McCain war hero insult: JWF
Hillary So Controlling She’s Silencing Her Own Supporters: Robert Gehl

Economy

Rubio: Clinton’s Uber Criticisms Show Someone ‘Trapped In The Past’: Andrew Kugle
Walker ‘impressive’ during manufactured confrontation with illegals in Iowa: Twitchy
Two Business Owners Fight the IRS to Get Their Seized Money Back: Melissa Quinn

Scandal Central

Obama Stole His Latest Idea of Forced Housing Redistribution Straight from Marxist Handbook: Jim Hoft
Obama Has Not Ordered Flag Flown at Half-Staff for Servicemen Killed in TN Terror Attack: GWP
But Voted for Governor in 2010: Mummified MI woman Pia Farrenkopf died 6 years ago: Dan Riehl

Tyrants and Snowflakes: Clarice Feldman
Obama’s Diversity Police State and Government Mandated Racism: NoisyRm
Obama’s awesome new race database even more awesome than you imagined: Jazz Shaw

Climate & Energy

California Water Wars Escalate: State Changes Law, Orders Farmers To Stop Pumping: Tyler Durden
20 Years Without Global Warming: MB
Your Future with Smart Meters: City Power pleads with residents not to panic: fin24

Media

Paul Krugman on the minimum wage: 1998 vs. 2015: Mark J. Perry
National Swimmer's Day: iOTWreport
Terror Wins: French Magazine Attacked by Terrorists Vow ‘No More Muhammad Cartoons’: RWN

‘Rape Culture’ or ‘Libel Culture’? Lawyers for Rolling Stone Blame the Victim: R.S. McCain
Trump twist: Chris Rock said almost exact same thing about McCain in 2008 stand-up joke: BPR
John McCain was a War Hero, but he’s also a Loser and an attacker of fellow Republicans: RWN

NY Times: Now That We’ve Surrendered To Iran, Perhaps Other Issues Can Now Be Discussed: Cove
Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain: Sharyl Attkisson
An Open Secret or Hollywood’s Other Cosby Shoe: DTG

World

The prophetic video that predicted what Obama would do to Israel: Matzav
Acid Attack in Iran Targets Girls, Young Woman: Clarion
National Suicide: Yes, It Happens—Look At The Xhosas: John Derbyshire

Five Reasons Why Islam Is A Cult: Colleen Conley
Islamic State Group Releases One of Its Most Sickening Videos Yet: Sharona Schwartz
ISIS PR: ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Tells Islamic State To Stop Showing Execution Videos: Treehouse

Obama Lights Firestorm on Capitol Hill: Walter Russell Mead
Why It’s Okay to Talk about Chamberlain Right Now: Thane Rosenbaum
Barack Obama plagiarizes the Onion.: Moe Lane

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

What .01820 Bitcoin can buy today and how this trend is going to change the world: Greg Garneau
US company gives glimpse into future of government surveillance: News.com.au
Trustwave shows the business breakdown of professional hackers: Insider

Cornucopia

Netroots Nation: Where Some Lives Matter and Some Don’t: MOTUS
Video: Jewish Torah vs Muslim Quran: Torah Anytime
Huma Abedin is paid highest in US presidential campaign: Asian Age

Image: Muslim Terrorist Slips Back Into Britain After Release From US Prison
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QOTD: "If you had asked me ten years ago if there was any chance of Greece becoming a failed state within a decade, I would have said ‘No, no chance.’ But here we are. In ten years, I suspect, we’ll be marveling over all the other failed states as the rot proceeds from the outside in...

...There’s simply too much debt and too little cheap oil for there to be any other trajectory to this story. Boneheadedly, our leadership is so out-of-touch that their best response to this set of predicaments is to sacrifice the populace of an entire developed nation (for generations to come) just to keep the status quo stumbling along for a bit longer.

We need to all prepare for the inevitability that, as the rot proceeds, the people of Greece will not be the only casualties of the banks' attempts at self-preservation. They'll try to throw all of us under the bus before taking any losses themselves." --Chris Martenson

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Iran Deal Infographic

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I’ve Read the Nuclear Deal, Mr. President, and It’s Atrocious

By David Gerstman

Deal rewrites history: Iran committed no violations in the past

In his combative press conference last week to defend the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama issued the following challenge:

So to go back to Congress, I challenge those who are objecting to this agreement, number one, to read the agreement before they comment on it; number two, to explain specifically where it is that they think this agreement does not prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and why they’re right and people like Ernie Moniz, who is an MIT nuclear physicist and an expert in these issues, is wrong, why the rest of the world is wrong, and then present an alternative.

First off it’s worth noting that Energy Secretary and MIT nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz said back in April that to be effective the deal would have to include “anytime, anywhere,” inspections, so Obama’s explanation about why 24 days notice is now good enough fails to convince me.

I want Moniz to explain why he changed his position on this AND why 24 days is now acceptable. I would like Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes to explain why he walked back his comments on requiring “anytime, anywhere” inspections.

And I want a more convincing explanation than negotiator Wendy Sherman’s excuse that the term was just a “rhetorical flourish.” (If that was a rhetorical flourish, I’m curious how many other administration comments about the nuclear deal were rhetorical flourishes.)

But in that paragraph, Obama limits the grounds of questioning the deal to whether the language of the deal is insufficient to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear breakout over the course of the deal.

Here’s where I have problem. Even if the agreement was airtight, and I doubt that it is, there’s a matter of the administration’s behavior during the Joint Plan of Action, which was agreed to in November 2013. The problem is that the Obama administration has acted as “Iran’s attorney” covering for Iran’s violations of the previous agreement.

In a notable episode last month, administration officials attacked The New York Times for reporting that Iran would likely fail to reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by the June 30 deadline. In the end Iran did reduce its stockpile but not by the method prescribed and not to the form that it was required to.

The nonproliferation think tank, the Institute for Science and International Security, earlier this month, explained why the administration’s behavior in this case was troubling:

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What "Smart Meters" are really all about

"Smart meters" aren't about saving power; they're about government control. Witness the latest from Johannesburg, South Africa where authorities are pleading with residents "not to panic" when power is shut off to households that are consuming more than their fair share of electricity.

Load Limiting is a technology that enables City Power to accurately identify and ascertain household consumption in real time in relation to the available generating capacity.

The deployment of load limiting will enable City Power to remotely disconnect households that don’t comply with requests to reduce consumption, remotely using smart meters.

Households that have an excessive consumption would experience repetitive disconnections at five minute intervals for a period of 30 seconds until they have reduced their consumption to required levels.

Should they fail to abide by instructions to reduce consumption, non-compliant residents will be disconnected remotely via smart meters.

I would encourage every American to reject smart meters, no matter how tempting the incentive from your local power company.

Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News.

THE DEMOCRAT CRIME WAVE: 8,100 Criminal Illegal Aliens Released in 276 "Sanctuary Cities"

By Numbers USA

As more attention is placed on sanctuary cities and how the policy affects those communities, a new report out from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that thousands of criminal aliens sought by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been released by state and local jurisdictions with sanctuary policies.

According to the report, the 276 jurisdictions in 43 states and the District of Columbia (See map here) released 8,145 criminal aliens with detainers from ICE. Of these, 63% had prior criminal histories or were labeled a public safety concern at the time of their release. Nearly 1,900 of the released criminal aliens were arrested fro another crime within the eight month period the study looked at, from January 1, 2014, to August 31, 2014.

The report went on to document that a majority, 63%, of the criminal aliens released from state and local custody had serious prior criminal records with a quarter of them being convicted of a felony.

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SCANDAL: White House Welcomes Terror Immigration to America

By Daniel Greenfield

Tennessee is to Muslim refugees as New York is to Muslim hijacked planes. Chattanooga, the site of the latest Muslim terror attack against America, is a “preferred community” for resettlement along with Knoxville and Nashville.

Nashville was designated a “Gateway City” for Iraqis. Hundreds of Somali Muslims were dumped in Shelbyville and the Murfreesboro Mega-Mosque became national news because of its terror ties.

Over the last decade, middle Tennessee’s Muslim population tripled. The rise of Islam in Tennessee as Muslims from terror zones like Iraq and Somalia flooded its towns and cities brought hate and violence.

In Memphis, Imam Yasir Qadhi was caught on tape calling Jews and Christians filthy and declaring that Muslims can take their lives and property. Last year the FBI warned of an ISIS threat in Memphis.

This year it was Chattanooga’s turn.

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, the son of a Palestinian man and a Kuwaiti woman living in the United States, killed four marines. One of his targets, a recruiting center, was a gun-free zone. Those inside had no way to defend themselves. Their government had welcomed in the enemy and left them unarmed and helpless against his Jihad.

Obama refused to use the word “Terrorism”. Hillary Clinton claimed that the attack was “senseless violence.” But there was nothing senseless about it. It was an act of war, one of many, in a conflict that stretches back to the founding of the United States of America.

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All Hail Our Banking Overlords!

By Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity

You really have to be paying attention to see what’s truly going on these days. The keepers of the system, that is the banking elites, now openly control everything -- though you'd never know that by listening to the media.

Consider this:

Eurozone backs €7bn bridging loan
Jul 16, 2105
Eurozone ministers have agreed to give Greece a €7bn (£5bn) bridging loan from an EU-wide fund to keep its finances afloat until a bailout is approved.
The loan is expected to be confirmed on Friday by all EU member states.
In another development, the European Central Bank (ECB) agreed to increase emergency funding to Greece for the first time since it was frozen in June.
The decisions were made after Greek MPs passed tough reforms as part of a eurozone bailout deal.

How generous of the finance ministers of all those EU member states to agree to a “bridge loan” that will help Greece "keep its finances afloat". This should provide the people of Greece with a bit of breathing room, right? Maybe access to their bank accounts (finally!), perhaps?

No, not at all. Here’s what the entirety of the “”loan”” will go towards instead:

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