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Aug 6 2014

Short and to the point no more is needed!


Re-Posted from POWRRLINE
Posted on August 6, 2014 by John Hinderaker

Our Self-Absorbed President Talks About Africa Himself

Early in President Obama’s career, it was widely claimed that he was a great public speaker. I don’t think anyone would say that today. In my opinion, he is a mediocre speaker on his best days. One of the reasons for this is that no matter the topic, he is mostly interested in himself. The frequency with which he refers to himself is often noted. Here, Grabien has compiled excerpts from Obama’s speech and later Q&A at the U.S.-Africa summit. In a short time, Obama referred to himself an astonishing 97 times.

It is sad when a man dies without ever having known true love. Happily, we can be sure that this is not Barack Obama’s fate.

By the way–speaking of Africa–what is it with Democrats not being able to keep straight continents vs. countries? First Joe Biden, now Nancy Pelosi refers to Africa as a “country.” Next the continent provokes a bout of bad grammar, ostensibly from Obama:

Aug 6 2014

More Leaks on federal 4th Amentment violations!


If you don’t believe this read the book IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES by Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott

Here Comes Snowden 2.0… And How The Government Determines If You Are A “Terrorist Threat”

 Re-Post from ZEROHEDGE
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/05/2014 19:03 -0400

Moments ago CNN blasted a headline stating that the US believes there is a new, post-Snowden leaker exposing national security. Why? The reason is the following article that was released a few hours ago by the Intercept, and which is an expose on yet another classified system called Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), in which we read: “The documents, obtained from a source in the intelligence community, also reveal that the Obama Administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the terrorist screening system. Since taking office, Obama has boosted the number of people on the no fly list more than ten-fold, to an all-time high of 47,000—surpassing the number of people barred from flying under George W. Bush.” And there is Snowden 2.0.

Aside from this rather stunning revelation, we also learn the following:

  • The second-highest concentration of people designated as “known or suspected terrorists” by the government is in Dearborn, Mich.—a city of 96,000 that has the largest percentage of Arab-American residents in the country.
  • The government adds names to its databases, or adds information on existing subjects, at a rate of 900 records each day.
  • The CIA uses a previously unknown program, code-named Hydra, to secretly access databases maintained by foreign countries and extract  data to add to the watchlists.
  • 16,000 people, including 1,200 Americans, have been classified as “selectees” who are targeted for enhanced screenings at airports and border crossings.
  • There are 611,000 men on the main terrorist watchlist and 39,000 women.
  • The top five U.S. cities represented on the main watchlist for “known or suspected terrorists” are New York; Dearborn, Mich.; Houston; San Diego; and Chicago. At 96,000 residents, Dearborn is much smaller than the other cities in the top five, suggesting that its significant Muslim population—40 percent of its population is of Arab descent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau—has been disproportionately targeted for watchlisting.
  • The top “nominating agencies” responsible for placing people on the government’s watchlists are: the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • In 2013, the main terrorism database included more than 860,000 biometric files on 144,000 people.
  • The database contains more than a half a million facial images, nearly a quarter of a million fingerprints and 70,000 iris scans.
  • The government maintains biometric data on people that it hasn’t identified–TIDE contains 1,800 “BUPs,” or “biometrics of unknown persons.”
  • In a single year, the government expanded its collection of “non-traditional” biometric data, including dramatic increases in handwriting samples (32 percent), signatures (52 percent), scars, marks, and tattoos (70 percent), and DNA strands (90 percent).

Snowden 2.0 speaks:

A U.S. government official told The Intercept that as of November 2013, there were approximately 700,000 people in the Terrorist Screening Database, or TSDB, but declined to provide the current numbers. Last month, the Associated Press, citing federal court filings by government lawyers, reported that there have been 1.5 million names added to the watchlist over the past five years. The government official told The Intercept that was a misinterpretation of the data. “The list has grown somewhat since that time, but is nowhere near the 1.5 million figure cited in recent news reports,” he said. He added that the statistics cited by the Associated Press do not just include nominations of individuals, but also bits of intelligence or biographical information obtained on watchlisted persons.

So how does the US government if you are a “potential terrorist”:

Most people placed on the government’s watchlist begin in a larger, classified system known as the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE). The TIDE database actually allows for targeting people based on far less evidence than the already lax standards used for placing people on the watchlist. A more expansive—and invasive—database, TIDE’s information is shared across the U.S. intelligence community, as well as with commando units from the Special Operations Command and with domestic agencies such as the New York City Police Department.

The documents also offer a glimpse into which groups the government is targeting in its counterterrorism mission. The groups with the largest number of targeted people on the main terrorism watchlist—aside from “no recognized terrorist group affiliation”—are al Qaeda in Iraq (73,189), the Taliban (62,794), and al Qaeda (50,446). Those are followed by Hamas (21,913) and Hezbollah (21,199).

Although the Obama administration has repeatedly asserted that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula poses the most significant external terrorist threat to the United States, the 8,211 people identified as being tied to the group actually represent the smallest category on the list of the top ten recognized terrorist organizations. AQAP is outnumbered by people suspected of ties to the Pakistan-based Haqqani Network (12,491), the Colombia-based FARC (11,275,) and the Somalia-based al-Shabab (11,547).

The documents also reveal that as of last year, the U.S. had designated 3,200 people as “known or suspected terrorists” associated with the war in Syria. Among them were 715 Europeans and Canadians, as well as 41 Americans. Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, recently claimed that there are more than 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria, including more than 1,000 Westerners and roughly 100 Americans.

Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database—a watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments—more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” That category—280,000 people—dwarfs the number of watchlisted people suspected of ties to al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah combined.

In shrug chart format:

And the punchline: a dystopia in which Tom Cruise drops out of drone and shoots you before you have even done anything.

“We’re getting into Minority Report territory when being friends with the wrong person can mean the government puts you in a database and adds DMV photos, iris scans, and face recognition technology to track you secretly and without your knowledge,” says Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “The fact that this information can be shared with agencies from the CIA to the NYPD, which are not known for protecting civil liberties, brings us closer to an invasive and rights-violating government surveillance society at home and abroad.”

Much more in the full Intercept article.

But wait, because this is where it gets even more surreal.

Presenting the US disinformation propaganda bureau in its full grandure. From HuffPo:

The Associated Press dropped a significant scoop on Tuesday afternoon, reporting that in the last several years the U.S. government’s terrorism watch list has doubled.

A few minutes after the AP story, then consisting of three paragraphs, was posted at 12:32 p.m., The Intercept published a much more comprehensive article. The original article, which has since been updated and expanded, appears below:

ap story

The government, it turned out, had “spoiled the scoop,” an informally forbidden practice in the world of journalism. To spoil a scoop, the subject of a story, when asked for comment, tips off a different, typically friendlier outlet in the hopes of diminishing the attention the first outlet would have received. Tuesday’s AP story was much friendlier to the government’s position, explaining the surge of individuals added to the watch list as an ongoing response to a foiled terror plot.

The practice of spoiling a scoop is frowned upon because it destroys trust between the journalist and the subject. In the future, the journalist is much less willing to share the contents of his or her reporting with that subject, which means the subject is given less time, or no time at all, to respond with concerns about the reporting.

The government’s decision to spoil a story on the topic of national security is especially unusual, given that it has a significant interest in earning the trust of national security reporters so that it can make its case that certain information should remain private.

After the AP story ran, The Intercept requested a conference call with the National Counterterrorism Center. A source with knowledge of the call said that the government agency admitted having fed the story to the AP, but didn’t think the reporter would publish before The Intercept did. “That was our bad,” the official said.

Asked by The Intercept editor John Cook if it was the government’s policy to feed one outlet’s scoop to a friendlier outlet, a silence ensued, followed by the explanation: “We had invested some quality time with Eileen,” referring to AP reporter Eileen Sullivan, who the official added had been out to visit the NCTC.

“After seeing you had the docs, and the fact we had been working with Eileen, we did feel compelled to give her a heads up,” the official said, according to the source. “We thought she would publish after you.”

AP spokesman Paul Colford responded to questions about the timing of the stories in a statement to The Huffington Post: “Pulitzer Prize-winning AP reporter Eileen Sullivan has been covering this territory for a long time. She gathered and reported additional news today as part of her expertise on this subject.”

Not even Orwell could have foreseen the government waging such an open propaganda war…

In the meantime, don’t be cyncial of the world’s most “transparent” administration: be hopeful; after all you still haven’t been killed for a crime you never committed.

Aug 6 2014

Landslide Victory: First step to gun control nullification in Missouri


49 more states to go …

Aug 6 2014

D’oh Moonbat John Kerry Says Africa Should Not Farm To Feed Population Because It Might Create Global Warming…


The nickname Lurch is very fitting for him as he doesn’t have a brain!

Aug 6 2014

Top 7 similarities between King Hussein and the terrorist organization, Hamas….


Good work here and sadly its all true!

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by Jerry Novick, Clash Daily
Back before the Liberals had near-total control of the public education system, we used to learn critical thinking in school. One tool we use is the “compare and contrast” essay. And while these days the closest we get to publicly funded critical thinking is the “three of these things belong together” song on Sesame Street, I’ve decided to resurrect the form here to shine a light on the evil that lives in Gaza and the one that lives in our own White House.

Originally, I was going to stick to four similarities between Obama and HAMAS so as not to stretch beyond the Sesame Street model. But then I remembered that mostly Conservatives read this column, and I have confidence that they have grown well past the remedial level of mind control foisted upon them by schools that are more like babysitters than bastions of…

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Aug 5 2014

Creepy: Daily Beast Wants Corporations to Sign ‘Loyalty Oaths’ to Obama’s ‘Economic Patriotism’


Now I have heard it all this is crazy!

Aug 5 2014

President Obama Owns This – Two Illegal Aliens Murder Border Patrol Agent In Front Of His Family and Children


Hey this can’t be true — the invasion is only of 8 years old kids with teddy bears according to George Will!

Aug 5 2014

The Number of Executive Orders Is the Least Interesting Part


Re-Post from National Review By Jonah Goldberg August 5, 2014 8:46 AM

Barack Obama is constantly mocking the House lawsuit by referencing the fact he’s issued the fewest executive orders of any president over the last century. His spin squad, paid and unpaid, parrots the argument at every turn. My yell-at-the-TV gripe about this has mostly revolved around the fact that the number of executive orders has nothing to do with anything. The president could issue a hundred executive orders a day — about casual-Friday dress codes, the need to label food in the West Wing fridge, about how August 15 will hence forth be known as “Wacky Sock Day” — and no one would care. Or he could issue one executive order during his entire presidency. If that one order was about “Wacky Sock Day,” again no one would care. But if he ordered the nationalization of an industry or the rounding up of an ethnic group without trial or the shuttering of media outlets he didn’t like, that one executive order would matter more than all the others combined. He hasn’t done any of those things (though other Democratic presidents have), but the point remains: Quantity isn’t the issue, quality is.

Moreover as Andrew Rudalevige at the Washington Post makes clear, the entire issue of executive orders amounts to misdirection. The serious complaint is that Obama is abusing executive powers (which he is) not that he’s abusing executive orders (which he may or may not be). Obama is surely capable of defending himself intelligently. But he and his choir always revert to the mode that his opponents aren’t merely wrong, but that they are laughable idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about.

Anyway, the whole post is worth reading. Here’s the beginning:

There are plenty of reasons for the House not to sue the President (see here, here, here, and here). Not on the list, though: that President Obama has barely used his executive powers.

This claim was made most recently by the White House itself, when senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer spoke to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday’s “This Week.” The threat of impeachment is credible, Pfeiffer said, since the GOP is so crazed that “the House [took] an unprecedented step to sue the President of the United States … even though he is issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in 100 years.”  Or as Sally Kohn put it in a CNN op-ed, after listing executive order totals for Obama, TR, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush, “House Republicans are using taxpayer dollars to fund a lawsuit against a President who has literally done not only what every president before him has done but has done it less often . . .”

To be pedantic (I think I’m supposed to say first that I hate to be pedantic, but I’m a professor, and that would be a lie), this is both true and hugely misleading.  It is true that President Obama has issued fewer executive orders both in absolute terms, and on an order-per-year basis, than most of his recent or even recent-ish predecessors. It’s also true that executive orders can matter greatly, as with Obama’s expansion of protections for the employees of federal contractors.

And yet to equate executive orders (a formal type of presidential directive) with executive powers, as the White House and its allies seek to do, is to misdirect — to hope that the hand will be quicker than the eye. As Philip Bump has put it, the fuss is about executive actions more broadly. While Obama issued only 20 executive orders in 2013 (the lowest single-year total in more than a century), that same year he issued 41 presidential memoranda to the heads of departments and agencies, along with nine additional presidential “determinations” designed to serve as the basis for bureaucratic behavior.

Aug 5 2014

The Statistics Do Not Lie! Welfare Is the Best Paying Entry Level Job In 35 States!


If anyone thinks this is not true then go do the numbers your self, I did a few years ago and I found the same thing from a slightly different angle!

Aug 5 2014

State Universities are now looking oversea for studens with “MONEY” and forgeting their “state” students for whom the colleges were fromed!


Are you losing your state university? Illinois has

Re-Post from The American Thinker By James Longstreet August 4, 2014
 

The big business of education is forever altering the state university systems around the country.  They have become vessels of profit and enrichment for some, and are steadily distancing themselves from the citizenry of the home state.

Hiding behind diversity and internationalism, universities have moved to out of state students and ultimately the international student.  Left out are the in-state students looking for a reasonable cost of a college education from their own state university.

Why does college cost so much?  Why does a professor who gave a lecture to a 200 seat hall ten years ago cost so much more to dispense the same knowledge today?  Most of college-dispensed knowledge is static.  Math, language, economics, literature, etc change little from decade to decade.  Except for the sciences, essentially the base product remains the same.

So why does college cost so much?  Part of the answer is that in-state slots are fewer and fewer, by design. Those who do not get the tuition break for in-state residence must go elsewhere at higher costs.  The result being that a student who couldn’t get into his state university A now pays out of state tuition to state university B.  The student who resides in-state B and couldn’t get into his university now becomes an out of state student at university A.  The money game is easy to see.  Both universities, A and B, get more money.

The out of state game has now morphed to the out of country game.  It is a gold mine for universities and a blatant displacement of in-state candidates for enrollment.

Take the University of Illinois for example.  The Chicago Tribune reports that Chinese students alone will make up 10% of this year’s freshman class.  Their tuition is nearly double that of a resident of the state.  It costs an Illinois student about $35,000 each year for tuition, room and board, fees and books at the U of I. The university charges foreign students $52,000 for the same tuition, room and board, books and fees.

The resident student is being carved from the enrollments for the benefit of the money-hungry administrators.  The Tribune notes that last year the University of Illinois reaped $166 million from international students.  Does anyone really believe that enrollment policies at this school are about internationalism?  That dollar amount has tripled over the past five years.  73% of the graduating class is in-state.  A decade ago it was 90%.  Illinois State Rep. Mike Tryon, noted that the state is spending billions on universities, but the money goes to pensions and not into the classrooms.

Currently only the University of Southern California, a private school, has more international students than the University of Illinois, but they are a private institution with every right to manage their admissions policies

Why do the citizens of Illinois put up with this?  In May of 2006, “the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, pulled the plug on plans to increase its proportion of out-of-state enrollment from the (then) current 10% to 15% of the freshman class because the reaction was so negative.”  But today, 27% of the graduates are out of state or out of country and 10% of the incoming class is from China alone!  Have the wishes of the citizens been served?

Brought to you by the same school system that hired Bill Ayers.  And don’t forget, this is all for the kids and the students.  Except the kids are the heirs of the self-enriching pensioned administrators, and a good portion of the students go back to their home country.  Diversity and internationalism are fuzzy and good, especially when they double the tuition revenue stream to meet the overpromised and exorbitant pension promises passed quietly in dark rooms by nameless people years ago.