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Utah to seize own land from government, challenge federal dominance of Western states


 

 

By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times –

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/3/utah-to-seize-own-land-from-government-challenge-f/#ixzz3KyBJ9BMj 

‘Transfer of Public Lands Act’ demands Washington relinquish 31.2 million acres by Dec. 31

In three weeks, Utah intends to seize control of 31.2 million acres of its own land now under the control of the federal government. At least, that’s the plan.

In an unprecedented challenge to federal dominance of Western state lands, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert in 2012 signed the “Transfer of Public Lands Act,” which demands that Washington relinquish its hold on the land, which represents more than half of the state’s 54.3 million acres, by Dec. 31.

“That’s what you do any time you’re negotiating with a partner. You set a date,” said Mr. Ivory. “Unfortunately, our federal partner has decided they don’t want to negotiate in good faith. So we’ll move forward with the four-step plan that the governor laid out.”com01

In other words, there won’t be any escorting of federal officials by state troopers to the eastern border. Instead, he said, state officials will proceed with a program of education, negotiation, legislation and litigation.

“We’re going to move forward and use all the resources at our disposal,” said Mr. Ivory, who also heads the American Lands Council, which advocates the relinquishing of federal lands to the control of the states.

With the 2012 law, Utah placed itself on the cutting edge of the heated debate over public lands in the West. The federal government controls more than 50 percent of the land west of Kansas — in Utah’s case, it’s 64.5 percent, a situation that has increasingly resulted in tensions across the Rocky Mountain West.com02

Those in favor of the state taking control of federal lands were buoyed by a report Monday that concluded the idea was financially feasible. Entitled “An Analysis of a Transfer of Federal Lands to the State of Utah,” the 784-page analysis found that Utah was capable of managing that property, now under the control of the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service.

“I expect that public discussion will be well served by this report. It shows the complexities and connections between Utah’s robust economy and the great quality of life Utahans enjoy,” Mr. Herbert said in a statement.com03

The report, conducted over 18 months by analysts at three state universities, found that Utah would incur an additional $280 million in costs to manage the lands, but would bring in some $331.7 million in royalties from mineral resources development, mainly oil and gas. Currently Utah receives only half the royalties from drilling that is allowed on federal lands inside its borders.

The study also found that while small amounts of federal ownership could stimulate economic growth in counties, such management becomes a “drag” on most counties after they reach 40 percent to 45 percent ownership, adding that, “twenty of Utah’s 29 counties exceed this threshold.”

“The findings of this report confirm that the state is more than capable of taking on the management of these lands,” said Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, in a statement. “This data will be a helpful resource as we continue to work toward resolving some of the biggest challenges facing public lands policy in the state.”

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On the other side of the debate is the environmental movement, led by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, which argues that transferring federal lands to state control “makes it harder to protect Utah’s wild lands for all Americans.” Washington, environmentalists argue, is a better steward of Utah’s natural riches than Salt Lake City.energy-2014-AEA-600

Staff attorney David Garbett argues that the report shows Utah would be unable to afford managing the federal lands without selling them or subjecting them to heavy development.

“When will the legislature realize that the public does not want to see the Wasatch Mountains barricaded with ‘No Trespassing’ signs, the Book Cliffs lost to tar sand strip mines or Arches National Park ringed with oil and gas development?” he said in a statement.com04

The group launched a radio and television campaign this week aimed at drumming up opposition to the plan, describing it as a “land grab.” The ads allege that managing the lands would be so costly that Utah would be forced to sell or lease them to private developers.

“But that means Utahans would lose access to the lands that formed our heritage,” says the television ad, which shows people fishing and horseback riding. “Seizing public lands: A bad idea we can’t afford.”Partyof Deceit Spin and Lies

Mr. Ivory dismissed the attacks as “fear tactics,” pointing out that the law includes only lands designated for multiple use — in other words, economic development — and not national parks or national monuments.

“They’re trying to get people to think that the sky is falling, and it’s just not,” Mr. Ivory said. “In fact, Utah passed the only state wilderness act so that, as the lands are transferred, we designate the unique heritage sites as state wilderness to be protected under the guidelines the state establishes.”

He pointed to the report, which he says shows “clearly Utah can afford to do this without selling off any land. None of that is contemplated.”

“These are tactics by those who just want to keep making money by suing the federal government,” Mr. Ivory said, referring to environmental groups.

He pointed out that transferring federal lands to state control has the support of the American Farm Bureau, the National Association of Counties and the Republican National Committee. A half-dozen Western states are expected to consider similar proposals in next year’s legislative session, while bills have been introduced in Congress to support the idea.

Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar slammed the Utah legislation in 2012, saying it “defied common sense,” and accused lawmakers of playing politics.

As far as Mr. Ivory is concerned, however, shifting management to the states would be far preferable than keeping the lands under the increasingly tight control of the federal government.

“Under increasing federal control, access is being restricted. The health of the land is diminishing horribly. And the productivity is depressed,”Mr. Ivory said. “This is the only way to get better access, better health and better productivity.”

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8 Unbelievably Heartbreaking Quotes From Women Who Aborted Their Babies


by Nancy Flanders | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.lifenews.com/2014/12/03/8-unbelievably-heartbreaking-quotes-from-women-who-aborted-their-own-babies/

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(LiveActionNews) — We as a society are constantly bombarded with the pro-choice rhetoric that abortion is sometimes necessary. We also hear the words of post-abortive women like Cecile Richards who will say that their abortions were the right thing to do. But whether they are stuffing down their emotions or just plain lying, abortion is never a happy ending.

It kills a child and leaves a mother to live the rest of her life with the knowledge that she took her child’s life. Nothing brings that pain to light better than the words directly from the mouths of everyday post-abortive mothers who are ignored by the major media outlets. Unlike Richards, these women have nothing to gain from sharing their stories. They only hope to help other mothers choose life.

Lori Nerad, Former National President of Women Exploited by Abortion:

“Two weeks after the abortion, I went into labor. I staggered into the bathroom. And there, with my husband beside me, I delivered a part of my baby the doctor had missed. It was the head of my baby. . . I’ll wake up in the middle of the night, thinking I hear a baby crying. And I still have nightmares in which I am forced to watch my baby being ripped apart in front of me. I simply miss my baby. I constantly wake up wanting to nurse my child, wanting to hold my child. And that’s something the doctor never told me I would experience.”Third of our generation

Abby Johnson, Founder of And Then There Were None:

One day in the car, my daughter (out of nowhere) asked if someday she would be able to see her siblings in Heaven. I asked her what she meant…honestly, hoping that she was not talking about my own two abortions. She said that she knew I had two abortions and she wanted to know if she would ever get to meet those babies because she said, “in my heart, I miss them.” I never knew I would pass that sort of heartbreak on to my children.

When I had my abortions, I never thought about how it would affect others. I didn’t think about my future children. I never thought about how I would have to explain my selfishness to them.

My abortions live in me, and unfortunately, they live in them. ”Ki;lling a baby with poison

Ashley Granger, Wife, mother, sonography student:

“Now that my son is 4 years old, I sometimes look at his sweet face and wonder what features my other child would have had. I still have dreams about holding him or her and it makes me so deeply sad to think that I have robbed my son of a sibling. Why not just try and conceive a sibling for him today you may ask? Well, I would love to but my husband and I have been struggling with infertility for two and half years. I never once dreamed that I wouldn’t be able to conceive when I wanted to! Every night my sweet boy prays to God for a sibling and every time I hear those precious prayers my heart aches over what I did. Because in retrospect an abortion isn’t an easy fix or a solution to a problem….it is the problem, and it leaves a lasting effect on generations to come.” Eagle Eggs

Katrina Fernadez, Catholic humor writer at Patheos:

“I killed two of my children, robbed my parents of grand-children, and murdered my son’s siblings. These abortions directly caused a medical condition known as incompetent cervix which resulted in the premature birth of another son who died after a week long struggle in the NICU in 2001. The suffering I’ve endured and caused others is immeasurable and the guilt almost drove me suicidal. I am a coward in every way.”National death rate percentages

Addie Morfoot, mother, writer:

“Ross likes to tell me that Annie is our son’s guardian angel, but that idea scares me. Do I want my son’s protector to be someone whose mother gave her up? Ended her existence prematurely?  She must be so mad, disappointed and hurt. So I keep her ultrasound images, along with a Hallmark “It’s a Girl!” card that my best friend sent, along with a Christmas tree ornament engraved with Annie’s due date, which my parents gave me the week I found out I was pregnant, locked away in a closet far from my son’s bedroom. […] But Annie still haunts me. When her due date rolls around, or when our son has a bad cough, or with the birth of my sister’s baby girl — I think of Annie. And once every year — on her birthday — I let myself cry. I think about how it would feel to hold her in my arms. And then I ask her to please understand that I did what I thought was best for my child.”Mary-Planned-Parenthood

Beatrice Fedor, Member of the Silent No More Campaign:

“I flushed my baby in the toilet and it was horrifying. And it didn’t help me to graduate. It’s been nineteen years and to this day, I don’t have a degree. […] Seven years later, I got pregnant again. The father was twice my age and he was abusive. Abortion was the quick fix solution to protect myself and my baby from the abuser. So I went to a clinic and in great anxiety, I was put to sleep. When I woke up with blood on my legs, I burst into tears and I was inconsolable. I sank deeper and deeper into depression and suicidal thoughts.

Then, I met my husband and he brought Jesus into my life but I was still hurting. When I was pregnant with our first child, my abortions resurfaced and the guilt was overwhelming. I went to counseling and I started to heal. Later, I attended a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat and finally, I was able to forgive myself and find peace.

Abortion promised to free me from two crisis situations and instead, it has nearly destroyed me. But there is hope for all those who are hurting and it is for them that I am Silent No More.”prolifewomen20

Jewels Green, former abortion clinic worker and public speaker:

“[…]January 6, 1989, at 9 1/2 weeks gestation, I had an abortion. It nearly killed me. No, not the surgical procedure, the psychological aftermath. I attempted suicide three times after my abortion and finally ended up in an adolescent psychiatric ward of a community hospital for a month to recover. […] Working in the autoclave room was never, ever easy. I saw my lost child in every jar of aborted baby parts. One night after working autoclave my nightmares about dead babies were so gruesome and terrifying and intense I met with the clinic’s director to talk about my feelings. She was very understanding, open and honest, and painfully forthright when she told me, “What we do here is end a life. Pure and simple.”12-weeks_feto-3d-620x293

Brice Griffin, Founder, Charlotte Center for Women

“After napping [after the abortion] I was raring to get back out to the bar scene. There was not enough whiskey in DC to satisfy me that night, or any night for many months following. When I woke up the morning after my abortion, Brian asked how I slept. I said, ‘Like a baby.’ He said, ‘You mean like a baby KILLER?!’ […] For months after that, I knew nothing except that I wanted to die. Death was the only certain escape from the horrific pit that had formed in my soul. I begged for therapy. I screamed for help. But only inside. How could I admit what I had done?

So I buried it. No one else needed to know. No one else needed to judge me as harshly as I had come to judge myself.

I trudged through several more years, feeling happy at times and doomed at others. One day I was running and listening to a homily by Fr. Larry Richards about Confession. He said (loosely), “If you’ve had an abortion, confess it. Your child is praying for you in Heaven.” My chest heaved with uncontrollable sobs and I ran home to arrange an appointment for Confession with my dear Priest. There in the confessional, heaving with sobs once more, I truly expected to be struck by lightning. I now sat there acknowledging that I was guilty of the worst sin possible, murder. My dear Priest smiled and handed me a box of tissues and said, ‘God is so happy you are here. You will be forgiven, but you need healing.’ He then proceeded to tell me about Rachel’s Vineyard, a ministry aimed towards healing from abortion.”hobbylobby25

These are just eight of the women who are speaking out about the aftermath of their abortions. Lifetimes of pain and regret. Lifetimes spent yearning for a child they will never get to hold. Due dates come and go and always bring about another year of remorse. Abortion isn’t something someone does one day. It lasts a lifetime.

LifeNews Note: Nancy is a work at home mom who writes about parenting, special needs children, and the right to life. She is the lucky mother of two spirited little girls, one who has cystic fibrosis, and she spends any free moment she can find fundraising for a cure for CF. You can read her personal blog at www.ChronicAdmissions.com. Reprinted from Live Action News.

 

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Today’s Politically INCORRECT Cartoon


No Justice And No Peace

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/no-justice-no-peace/

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Holder Goes Full-Scale Hamas: Cops Are Occupying Force in Neighborhoods of Color


Listen to it ButtonRush Limbaugh of the Rush Limbaugh Radio Broadcast

December 02, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/12/02/holder_goes_full_scale_hamas_cops_are_occupying_force_in_neighborhoods_of_color

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: This is really fascinating what’s being attempted here in St. Louis and in Ferguson.  It’s not by any means the first time, but this is the most brazen that I can recall.  We have an event that happened.  We’ve had hours, days, weeks of evidence and testimony. It’s been corroborated. The liars were discovered and thrown out. We know what happened.  Yet that wasn’t the desired result, and so that result doesn’t count and it’s being rebuilt into a new problem, and the problem in St. Louis is the cops.

The problem in Ferguson is the police.  If you doubt me, listen to what Eric Holder said.  This is more outrageous than what Obama said, ’cause Holder takes Obama’s comments… Basically what Obama said is that Ferguson demonstrates racism is everywhere in America and now he, Obama, is on the case and he’s finally gonna deal with this and he’s gonna end it.  But Eric Holder decided to add to or to build on Obama’s claim that Ferguson demonstrates that racism is everywhere.

Here’s what Holder said:  “Problems we must confront are not only found in Ferguson; the issues raised in Missouri are not unique to that state or to that small city.  We are dealing with concerns that are truly national in scope and that threaten the entire nation.”  What happened here?  Again, they want to make it look like this happens every day, multiple times a day.  They’re painting a picture here that innocent young blacks are assassinated by cops who are hunting.

Multiple times.

“It happens frequently, and this is the last straw.  We’re not gonna put up with this any more,” even though it’s rare.  It doesn’t happen with anywhere near regularly, which is one of the reasons why this one made such news.  But, anyway, the truth has been learned, and it’s not what was desired. So Eric Holder says, “In the coming days, I will announce the updated justice department guidelines regarding profiling by federal law enforcement.’  

“This will institute rigorous new standards and robust safeguards to help end racial profiling once and for all,” and here is the money quote: Our police officers cannot be and cannot be seen as an occupying force, disconnected to the communities that they serve.”  So Eric Holder has now gone full-in Hamas.  Cops are now an occupying force.  Cops are not peacekeepers.  Cops do not keep the order. com03police_state

Cops do not protect the innocent and property. 

The cops are an occupying force in neighborhoods of color all over the country.  “Problems we must confront are not only found in Ferguson…”  Isn’t it interesting that that’s the exact way this bunch talks about Israel, folks?  They talk about Israel as an occupying force with Hamas and other terrorist organizations being the victims, and the Israelis are the mean-spirited, extremist, racist occupying forceEvil is Good

Now Eric Holder has gone all-in with the cops being the same thing, and he wasn’t finished.  Eric Holder said, “Problems exposed by Ferguson threaten the entire nation.”  He was speaking at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  He said, “The nation needs to confront the broken relationship between group after group in this country.”  Now, let’s see.  What’s happened here in the last six years? Liberalism a mental disorder

Gays got gay marriage, Hispanics got amnesty for illegals, and African-Americans apparently are gonna be able to riot without anybody stopping them if they want to.  Apparently they’re gonna be able to engage in civil disobedience and the excuse is gonna be offered, “Well, it’s just their feelings. The president said they don’t feel right, they don’t feel welcomed.  They don’t feel like they’re part of the community.” 

We all got screwed with Obamacare, so everybody’s getting something from this Regime.  The problems of Ferguson Missouri are radical leftists in the government and the media distracting from the destruction of free market separation of powers. So, yes, problems exposed by Ferguson do threaten the entire nation, but not in the way Obama and Holder are discussing.  Now, I have here, you might think, an unrelated story.  I want you to listen very carefully.  This is from the Wall Street Journal.

Let me read to you the headline.  The story’s from yesterday.  Spree of Newark Violence Spurs Action by Mayor, Police.”  Listen very carefully, folks. “Newark, New Jersey, officials on Monday vowed a crackdown on violence after a bloody Thanksgiving weekend that left three dead and multiple people injured in 11 shootings. Mayor Ras Baraka said in a news conference, ‘Our mind-set is it’s an emergency here in our city. 

“‘This is the first time we’ve had all these shootings to this extent: 11 shootings, three dead, multiple injuries.’  The spate of violence illustrated a broader challenge for Newark, which has long been one of the state’s most dangerous cities.  But the long Thanksgiving weekend brought a level of gun violence Newark hadn’t seen in some time, Mr. Baraka said.  Officials said they were worried about losing gains made against crime earlier in the year now.”

Now, you say, “Okay, what’s the big deal, Rush?” 

Well, hang on here.  In the first place, no protests are being planned for the three dead over the Thanksgiving weekend.  The president and Eric Holder haven’t talked about this at all.  We have three people dead, 11 shootings.  There is no talk of problems in the community.  There’s no talk of needing to sit down and have a confab at the White House to figure out what went wrong and how to fix this.  But if you read the rest of the story in the Wall Street Journal, do you know what the reaction from the leaders in the community is?

Do you know what their solution to the problem is?  (pause)  Take a guess.  (pause)  Everybody’s calling for more cops.  Everybody is calling for more police!  The Obama administration in Ferguson and in St. Louis are trying to portray the police as the problem. 

  • The police did not burn down anybody’s building. 
  • The police did not destroy anybody’s business. 
  • The police did not rob a convenience store. 
  • The police didn’t get in a fight with themselves and try to abscond a weapon and use it against each other. 

None of that happened.

So the Regime in Ferguson is trying to blame everything that went wrong on the cops.  In Newark, three people were dead on Thanksgiving Day, 11 shootings, and what everybody there is demanding is more police.  They’re gonna send in more police.  Governor Christie is even gonna send in state highway patrol troopers.  The police are gonna bunker into Newark to protect innocent bystanders from being gunned down in the streets.

Now, wait a minute.  How does that jibe with what we’re being told about what went on in Ferguson?  How can you have three people dead, 11 multiple shootings, and the solution in Newark is the cops?  The solution is more cops.  The solution is more armed troops and uniformed cops to come in and keep the peace and protect things.  In Ferguson, it seems to be just the exact opposite;

  • The problem is the cops. 
  • The citizens don’t feel right. 
  • The problem’s the cops.
  • The problem’s the grand jury.
  • The problem’s everybody else. Liberalism a mental disorder

I thought, if you listen to Eric Holder, the police are an occupying force, in every community.  The problems we must confront are not found only in Ferguson.  The issues raised there are not unique to that state or small city.  Our police officers cannot be and cannot be seen as an occupying force disconnected to the communities that they serve.  I would bet you that before this happened in Ferguson they were not seen that way.  I bet they were not seen as an occupying force.  I bet they’re not seeing that way in too many places.

But in Newark, and you know it’s a Democrat state, and it’s a Democrat mayor, and it’s a Democrat everything, they’ve got out-of-control gun rampage, and the call, the solution is for more cops.  Pull quote from the story:  “Bashir Akinyele, a teacher who works for the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition, said many of the problems stem from poverty and broken families. The unemployment rate is more than 10%, higher than in much of the country, even as the city’s downtown has teemed with new development.” Actually mentioned the true source of the problem:  broken families, unemployment.AMEN

Too bad we can’t work on those to fix, isn’t it?  Why, they’ve actually even identified the problem in Newark:  broken families, unemployment, the Obama economy.  Too bad we’re unable to talk about that.  No, no.  We can’t even get to the root cause because we’re in the process in Ferguson of obliterating the truth, and we’re gonna use everything we can. We’re gonna use Al Sharpton, we’re gonna use the media, we’re gonna use the St. Louis Rams, we’re gonna use whatever we can to rewrite the truth using the power we have to do it.  And we’re gonna portray the cops everywhere as an occupying force, except Newark, where more of them are needed to stop rampaging murderers.

Back after this.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH:  Just a reminder to every police officer in this country, you are being watched, and I’m very serious about this.  Rich Lowry had it right in his column today.  You cops had better keep a sharp eye, because the powers that be are looking to find another cop they can accuse of racial assassination and railroad indict, and convict.  They lost on this one.

Police officers in this country are in dangerous jobs at great risk right now because they have a target on them.  They have a bull’s-eye that is being painted, that’s being drawn by the highest positions of power in this country.  It’s a very dangerous circumstance, very dangerous situation taking place here, folks.  And the cops right now are in the crosshairs of the most powerful forces in this country. com04

They failed to get what they wanted in Ferguson.  They’re gonna find a way. They didn’t really get what they wanted out of Florida and the “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman and all that. They didn’t get what they wanted in the Duke lacrosse case.  They really want a win.  And the cops are the focus, the target for that next win.  Partyof Deceit Spin and Lies

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Audit: Taxpayer dollars paid for eco group’s $25G Christmas party, and more


 

Published December 03, 2014 / FoxNews.com

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/03/audit-taxpayer-dollars-paid-for-eco-groups-25g-christmas-party-and-more/

$25,000 for a Christmas party. 

$11,000 for premium coffee services. 

Millions more for questionable construction costs. 

All this was billed to taxpayers by an obscure federally funded science group, according to a scathing new inspector general report.

The audit, conducted by the National Science Foundation inspector general and the Defense Contract Audit Agency, detailed spending by the Colorado-based National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The nonprofit, designed to operate a network of ecological observatories across the continent, is solely funded by the National Science Foundation. Leftist Religion of Nature Worship

The report found that spending at the group has gotten out of control.

“Given the present lack of controls, there is virtually no accountability over the contingency funds … NSF does not have sufficient safeguards over the significant and unsupported contingency costs included in NEON’s award budget,” the report said.

The report, and the spending, was the subject of a House science committee hearing Wednesday morning.

Among the spending was a slew of items billed to the National Science Foundation between mid-September 2012 and mid-April 2013, under a so-called “management fee.” They included;

  • the lavish Christmas party,
  • the coffee services,
  • $3,000 for alcohol-fueled Board of Directors dinners,
  • $3,000 for T-shirts and more.
  • It also included $112,000 for lobbying, according to the report. According to a whistle-blower document, the Christmas and holiday party costs included more than $12,000 for expenses at a Westin.

“Why did NSF allow this to happen?” Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Wednesday at the hearing. “The NSF needs to be held accountable for how they spend taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars.” com01

Though it wasn’t in the IG report, Smith also alleged trips to a “high-end resort in France.” 

Asked for comment, an NSF spokeswoman said the agency has initiated a review of “management fee policies and controls.” com02

“Consistent with government-wide regulations that govern audit resolution, NSF has policies and procedures for resolving and following up on and recommendations contained in audit reports issued by the Office of the Inspector General,” the spokeswoman said, adding the agency will post its final decision online.

NEON Board Chairman James Collins also defended the organization. “NEON, Inc. has always spent all funding in strict compliance with our understanding both of the guidelines provided to the organization and the law,” he said in a statement. Really with logo

The audit stemmed from concerns dating back to 2012 over a NEON construction budget, where more than $150 million in costs were questioned. 

This is not the first time the NSF has come under scrutiny for its spending.

In 2011, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., released a report on wasteful spending at the NSF, identifying more than $1.2 billion in losses from waste, fraud, duplication and mismanagement.

This included;

  • an $80,000 study on why the same teams always dominate March Madness;
  • $1 million for an analysis of how quickly parents respond to trendy baby names;
  • $2 million to figure out that people who often post pictures on the Internet from the same location at the same time are usually friends;
  • and $581,000 on whether online dating site users are racist. Really with logo

Fox News’ Doug McKelway and FoxNews.com’s Judson Berger contributed to this report.

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The is a Real “Praise the Lord” Story.


People Are Supporting Darren Wilson In An Incredible Way That Will Drive Race Baiters Crazy

Posted by Norvell RoseDecember 2, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site:http://www.westernjournalism.com/online-donations-darren-wilson-pour-ex-cops-legal-safety-woes-loom-large/#rkkFFYbSxMI87HAO.99

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Online crowdfunding is proving to be both a comfort and a source of substantial funds for Darren Wilson.

After resigning from the Ferguson, Missouri, police force without severance pay, Wilson apparently has no job prospects; and he still faces all sorts of daunting challenges — both legal and safety-related — despite not being indicted by the grand jury in the August death of Michael Brown.

But Darren Wilson and his new wife will reportedly be receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from online donation efforts organized by an anonymous supporter. In fact, according to a post on dailymail.co.uk, the amount of money pouring in from crowdfunding could soon exceed $1 million.AMEN

The woman who founded the movement to support Darren Wilson has spoken out and revealed that the Ferguson police officer could have a $1 million war chest.

The supporter said that she knew of at least $500,000 from two donation funds set up in his name but that was a ‘conservative estimate’ – and the total could be seven figures.

Shortly after then-officer Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in a confrontation on a residential Ferguson street, other crowdfunding sites were launched that reportedly raised a good deal of money for Wilson before the sites were shut down as violent protests over the killing intensified.

It’s likely that Darren Wilson will need whatever money can be raised on his behalf for more than everyday living expenses. Not only is Eric Holder’s Justice Department continuing its investigation into whether civil rights charges will be filed against the former Ferguson cop, but the parents of Michael Brown have indicated they may sue Wilson in civil court.

The effort to secure online donations for Darren Wilson is not the only crowdfunding initiative related to the Ferguson shooting and the resulting unrest, which included well documented vandalism, looting, and arson.

A downtown Ferguson bakery, Natalie’s Cakes and More, which was badly damaged during the rioting, has reportedly received over a quarter-of-a-million dollars in donations from hundreds of supporters.

Plus, there’s an online effort to raise money for an independent film about Ferguson and race relations in America. With a crowdfunding site set up at indiegogo.com, the project is billed as a “response to the growing problem of racial disparity due to the ongoing dehumanization of black men.”

Currently, the effort to crowdfund “American Race” has not been nearly as successful as either the Darren Wilson donation initiative or the bakery project. Supporters wanting to see the film made have pledged only about $6500 — a quarter of its $25,000 goal.

 

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About Those ObamaCare Death Panels


Posted by Michael BeckerMichael BeckerDecember 2, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://joeforamerica.com/2014/12/about-those-obamacare-death-panels/

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ObamaCare! 

The centerpiece of Barack Obama’s Presidency.  It was going save every family $2,500 per year on their health insurance.  That was a promise with a quick expiration date.  It was going to make sure everybody got the medical care they needed.  Looks like that one isn’t working out so well either.

As a flashback, here’s the President talking about the cost of health insurance relative to your cell phone bill.

We’re guessing the President will using his bully pulpit to get cell phone companies to raise their rates.vid01

Then there’s the other thing, everybody getting health care.  Not “health insurance,” “health care.”  Gallup took a look at the state of health care today;

Thirty-three percent of Americans have delayed medical treatment for themselves or their families because of the costs they’d have to pay, according to the survey. Obamacare, of course, had promised that it would help make health care more affordable for everyone, but the number of people who can’t afford a trip to the doctor has actually risen three points since 2013, before most Obamacare provisions took effect.

The hardest-hit: the middle-class. Americans with an annual household income of between $30,000 and $75,000 began delaying medical care over costs more in 2014, up to 38 percent in 2014 from 33 percent last year; among households that earn above $75,000, 28 percent delayed care this year, compared to just 17 percent last year.Complete Message

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Part of the problem is an ongoing shift towards higher deductibles and out-of-pocket costs, while health insurance premiums continue to rise all the same.A-Real-Stinkburger

Remember, ObamaCare was going to “bend the health care cost curve down.”  That’s not happening, and the impact of higher deductibles wipes out any potential benefit of lower premiums, although we don’t know anybody whose premiums have gone down, the deductibles just keep going up.

The bottom line is that a few more people are covered by insurance, but the costs of using that insurance are so high, they don’t Add that to the expansion of Medicaid, coverage for the “poor” that is covered primarily by the states, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster both from a cost covered by taxpayers perspective and people actually getting the health care they need.Stop Obamanomics

Think of it as a mechanism to finally prove Sarah Palin wrong about death panels.  The government won’t need death panels, we’ll take care of that ourselves by delaying critical care because they’ve jacked up the deductibles so high.Death Panel-Someone-live-someone-dies-300

 

Michael Becker

About the Author; Michael Becker

Michael Becker is a long time activist and a businessman. He’s been involved in the pro-life movement since 1976 and has been counseling addicts and ministering to prison inmates since 1980. Becker is a Curmudgeon. He has decades of experience as an operations executive in turnaround situations and in mortgage banking. He blogs regularly at The Right Curmudgeon, The Minority Report, Wizbang, Unified Patriots and Joe for America. He lives in Phoenix and is almost always armed.
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Today’s Politically INCORRECT Cartoon


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Obama Dealt Major Setback in Closing Guantanamo


Monday, 01 Dec 2014 07:17 PM

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.Newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-Congress-Guantanamo/2014/12/01/id/610408/#ixzz3KnQs64u2

President Barack Obama’s 5-year-old campaign to close the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered a major setback as lawmakers finalizing the annual defense policy bill rejected steps toward shuttering the facility.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Monday that the final bill omits a provision giving the president the authority to transfer terror suspects to the United States if Congress signs off on a comprehensive plan to close the prison.

Levin had pushed for the authority and hailed it in May as creating “a path to close Guantanamo.” With lawmakers rushing to complete the defense bill in this month’s lame-duck session, Levin said proponents were unable to prevail.

“Our language … (on Guantanamo) … will not be in,” Levin said.

The House and Senate are expected to vote and overwhelmingly approve the sweeping policy bill in the coming days, sending it to Obama.

The president has pushed to close the post-9/11 prison since his inauguration in January 2009. He has faced strong resistance from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress who don’t want terror suspects housed in U.S. facilities and have warned of suspects returning to the fight when they are transferred back to their home countries.

In its version of the defense bill in May, the Senate Armed Services Committee included a provision that would authorize the transfer of terror suspects to U.S. soil “for detention, trial and incarceration, subject to stringent security measures and legal protections, once the president has submitted a plan to Congress for closing Guantanamo and Congress has had an opportunity to vote to disapprove that plan under expedited procedures.”

The House version of the defense bill prohibited the transfer to U.S. soil, and Republican and Democratic lawmakers who have repeatedly and successfully fought White House efforts to move detainees prevailed in the final version of the defense bill.

Currently, the prison holds 142 men, including 73 already cleared for release.

Last month, the Pentagon said it sent a Saudi citizen who has spent the past 12 years detained at Guantanamo to his homeland. The transfer of Muhammad al-Zahrani was based on the conclusion of a U.S. government board that has been re-evaluating the need to continue holding some of the men as prisoners.

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White House: Obama Will Shut Down Gov’t if Congress Defunds Exec Amnesty


 

1 Dec 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/01/White-House-Obama-Will-Shut-Down-Gov-t-if-Congress-Defunds-Exec-Amnesty?utm_source=e_breitbart_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+December+2%2C+2014&utm_campaign=20141203_m123379453_Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+December+2%2C+2014&utm_term=More

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest is warning that President Barack Obama would veto any spending bill that prohibits federal funds from being spent to enact Obama’s executive amnesty. That means Obama is willing to shut down the government to preserve his executive amnestyExecutive orders

When asked if Obama would veto a bill that prohibits federal funds from being spent to enact his executive amnesty, Earnest simply replied: “yes.”

When asked if that would mean Obama is willing to shut down the government if Congress passes a funding bill that would “tie the president’s hands” on executive amnesty, Earnest spun and said, “I actually don’t believe that members of Congress are going to be willing to go along with an effort to shut down the government over the president’s executive action on immigration.” Congress must pass a new spending bill by December 11.com 09

Earnest was not as clear about Obama’s intentions before Obama announced his executive amnesty. On November 20, Earnest was asked, “So you don’t rule out the President signing into law something that would undo the very thing he’s going to announce tomorrow night?” He responded then, “Well, I think that seems–I think we’ll have to sort of evaluate for ourselves what sort of proposals Republicans put forward, so I wouldn’t want to hazard a guess at this point. But it won’t surprise you to hear proposals that are floated like that certainly would not be among the kinds of proposals we’d support.”Liberalism a mental disorder

House conservatives are reportedly working on legislation that would ensure “no part of any appropriation” could be used to enact Obama’s executive amnesty. Last week, the Congressional Research Service sent a letter to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reporting that Congress does have the ability to restrict expenditures by an agency.

VIDEO: Ferguson Protesters Crash Christmas Tree Lighting, Traumatizes Children’s Choir and Makes Them Cry


November 29, 2014 By

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In a disgusting video that depicts protesters parroting the fictitious “hands up- don’t shoot” narrative coined after Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, a swarm of protesters crashed a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at a Seattle mall and in doing so, traumatized a children’s choir who had come to sing.
 
The video depicts useful idiots pushing the “cops are racist” rhetoric and chanting throughout the Westlake Center in Seattle, Washington, to demonstrate their solidarity with the rioters in Ferguson who have looted and committed arson in the quest for supposed social justice.
Many leftist supporting the false narrative surrounding Michael Brown’s death called for a boycott of Black Friday and this group crashed the mall where a youth choir filled with children between 7 and 10 years of age were singing.
The boys and girls were terrified and some clung to chaperones and/or cried at the sight of the forceful crowd.
Seattle journalist Mark Wright noted on his Facebook page:
“Some of you may know that tonight’s tree lighting at Westlake Center was cut short by protesters. I feel really bad for a group of children from the 5th Avenue Theater. They came tonight, excited to sing. When the protesters overtook the balcony, the children were absolutely terrified. I helped usher them to the far end of the balcony where they would be safe. They huddled with their chaperones and each other, some of them crying, until police got the protesters out of there. As a journalist, I’m absolutely in favor of the right to free speech. This was not free speech tonight. The protesters appear to simply want to disrupt, and in doing so, traumatized some beautiful young kids.” 
Even obnoxious speech should be protected; however, there seems to be a crusade by the left that hinges no on provoking a conversation about perceived social inequalities, but that instead hinges on making noise for attention without any real substance behind the rhetoric.

What does crashing a Christmas Tree lighting have to do with racism in America?

Answer: not a damn thing.

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VIDEO: Radical Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan has a Chilling Warning for America


November 30, 2014 By

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As the violent protests of those who believed that Officer Darren Wilson should have been indicted for the shooting death of Michael Brown heat up, businesses have been forcibly shut down, major roads and highways have been blocked, and police, as well as civilians, have been attacked. Now, according to Louis Farrakhan, the radical leader of the Nation of Islam here in America, that is just the beginning. He has made a threat against America if angry and bitter protesters do not get their way.

Speaking at Morgan State University, a predominantly black college located in Baltimore, Maryland, Farrakhan continued to stir the civil unrest and encouraged attacks against whites by blacks.

The Daily Caller reports that Farrakhan stated that the violence occurring throughout the country is justified in retaliation to the grand jury decision to not indict Officer Wilson. Peacefulness, Farrakhan asserts, is only in the interest of ‘white folks.’ To uproarious applause from the state college, he added, “We going to die anyway. Let’s die for something!”

Although Americans are constantly told that the violent actions of such Muslim groups such as ISIS, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood are not indicative of all Muslims, that they are the actions of extremists, Farrakhan’s incendiary language aligned with that of his Muslim brethren calling for violence. He said, “As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us. But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!

As he continued with his violent, racist rant, Farrakhan was critical of Obama and Holder stating that violence is not the answer. In response he called for parents to teach their children how to throw molotov cocktails and demonstrated himself how to do so.

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Obama Hosts a Meeting of Race Hustlers


Posted by Michael BeckerDecember 1, 2014

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We know, you’re shocked.  We were certainly shocked.  President Obama, the same guy who said, “If I had a son, he’d be a gangsta wannabe punk just like Trayvon…” is holding not one, not two, but three meetings today in Washington about Ferguson and the state of race relations in the US.  He’s doing that at the same time prominent members of the race hustler black community are threatening “more Fergusons.”com 08

According to the White House schedule, the first afternoon meeting will be a talk with members of Obama’s Cabinet “to discuss federal programs and funding that provide equipment to the state and local enforcement agencies.” Vice President Joe Biden will also be in attendance.

Obama is then scheduled to meet with local and national civil rights leaders.Sharpton Jackson 01

The third session will take place among elected officials, law enforcement officials and community and faith leaders “to discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country.”

Federal programs and funding.  Let’s see.  We’ve already spent $22 trillion on the “War on Poverty” and poverty is at the same level today it was when Democrats and a group of stupid Republicans decided the federal government could eliminate poverty.  “Midnight basketball for all!!” perhaps?

So far the federal government has destroyed the black family, consigned generations of young black men to grow up in “single parent homes” without fathers, and is shocked when those young black men – and little kids these days – turn to street gangs for role models.  We would suggest cutting off welfare, remove the incentive to have children out-of-wedlock and work to eliminate “single parent homes,” because a “single parent home” is not a “home” it’s just a “crib.”  Somehow I doubt that the guy who will leave office leaving American taxpayers (a dying breed) $20 trillion in debt is going to care about our opinion.

We love the single line treatment for the second meeting, “Obama is then scheduled to meet with local and national civil rights leaders.”satisfied people

He’s not meeting with “civil rights leaders” he’s meeting with a room full of race hustlers whose lifestyles depend on events like Ferguson and a compliant media willing to allow them to make up their own set of facts.  Frankly, if you want to improve race relations in the US, the President should arrest them on charges of domestic terrorism and ship them to Syria to work on the racial and religious problems in the Muslim world.  They would fit right in.Pro Race Baiters

And last but not least, he’s going to get the cops and robbers together to make peace.  Probably over a beer.

How about we start with the admission that Trayvon Martin was a gangsta wannabe punk who was in the process of murdering George Zimmerman when Zimmerman, in self-defense, shot and killed him.  Like the jury ruled.  It’s called due process and the rule of law.

After that, we could all agree that the gentle giant, Michael Brown, attacked a police officer after robbing a store and assaulting the owner.  He tried to take the officer’s gun and when he couldn’t get it he ran.  When the officer gave chase Brown turned on him and charged him and officer Wilson, defending himself from a man twice his size, shot and killed him.  There were seven black witnesses who corroborated that account, as did the physical evidence.  A mixed race grand jury found no reason to indict Wilson.  Again, due process and the rule of law.

Here’s the problem with race relations.  Charles Ogletree on Meet the Press.

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Ogletree wants his own set of facts.  Trayvon was murdered, Michael Brown was murdered.  White cops, and white people in general are responsible for dead black kids.  Ogletree, and the race hustling community in general, will not address the fact that over the last 10 years the ratio of blacks killed by other blacks outnumbers the blacks killed by cops by 50 to 1. 

That’s a consistent ratio across the nation.  But God forbid we talk about that.

Maybe President Obama will bring that up today, we’re sure some midnight basketball will fix the problem.

 

 

 

 

 

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WND – http://www.wnd.com – Is new ‘Exodus’ movie actually blasphemous?


Posted By -NO AUTHOR- On 12/01/2014

Article republished from WND: http://www.wnd.com

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exodus-ridley-scott-christian-bale-600An organization that criticized the movie “Noah” for failing to relate to religious believers, says the coming movie based on the biblical book of Exodus will be an issue on which Christians, Jews and Muslims can agree.

But that won’t be good for the makers of “Exodus: Gods and Kings.”

“The portrayal of God as a willful, angry and petulant child in ‘Exodus’ will be a deal breaker for most people of faith around the world,” said Chris Stone, the founder of the North Carolina-based consumer advocacy group Faith Driven Consumer.com 02

“Christians, Jews and Muslims alike see this story as foundational and will find this false portrayal and image of God to be deeply incompatible both with scriptures and their deeply held beliefs.”com 03

Stone said Ridley Scott is “an established director who can essentially make whatever film he wants, but when he creates a film based on a pivotal biblical story and renders it significantly unrecognizable, the marketplace will respond negatively.”Really with logo

He said Darren Aronofsky’s $125 million epic “Noah” “left untold millions on the table,” because it “failed to be faithful.”

Rather than learning from Aronofsky’s  mistake he said,” it seems that Mr. Scott, with his own larger, $200 million epic, has elected to double down.”

Faith Driven Consumer, which describes itself as an advocate “for more than 41 million consumers who spend $2 trillion annually,” said “Exodus” comes to consumers in the final phase of 2014′s “Year of the Bible Movie.”Evil is Good

In the movie, God speaks through a young boy, Malak, played by 11-year-old Isaac Andrews.

As a brand strategist, viewing it from the consumer’s perspective, I find many of Scott’s choices to be inconsistent with what the market wants. This is especially true given the significant untapped demand for these types of films – this one in particular,” said Stone.com 04

“Evidently the filmmakers have a goal other than maximizing the film’s appeal and its monetary success,” he said of the decision to cast an 11-year-old boy as God.com 05

The New York Times called the portrayal of God as a child “‘Children of the Corn’ terrifying,” alluding to a famed horror film.

The group points out that recent polls show 68 percent of the American public is unlikely to see the movie if it’s not biblically accurate.

The movie, which features plagues, waves, tornadoes, boat-chomping crocodiles, 400,000 digital Hebrew slaves and more, according to the Times, “preserves the awful severity of the Old Testament God – one who commands and demands.”com 06

Stone’s group, Faith Driven Consumer, educates, equips and motivates “Faith Driven Consumers” to action in the marketplace of goods, services and ideas, offering resources for making more faith-conscious decisions, including reviews of companies and entertainment products.

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WND reported earlier the film, starring multiple Oscar-award winning actors and actresses, including  Christian Bale Ben Kingsley, was raising concerns over whether it would be biblical.com 07

The earlier “Noah” also boasted big-name talent and a blockbuster budget but took wild liberties with its biblical source material. By its director’s own admission, “Noah” was twisted into a tale far more about environmentalism than the judgment and mercy of God.

Consequently, Christians – who make up the majority of film-goers in America – largely panned the movie, and “Noah” required international ticket sales to avoid losing tens of millions of dollars.

“Our research shows that accuracy is a key to attracting people of faith,” said Stone, a certified brand strategist. “Biblical accuracy and compatibility with the story they know and why that story exists is very important. Any time you stray from that, you limit and narrow your audience.’

“And if you narrow your audience by eliminating a large group of people inherently interested in your story,” Stone told WND, “it’s going to affect your result.”AMEN

Earlier this month, Christianity Today reported Christian Bale, who plays the part of Moses, told reporters in Los Angeles he has a gritty vision of the biblical hero.

“I think the man was likely schizophrenic and was one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life,” the actor said of Moses. “He’s a very troubled and tumultuous man who fought greatly against God, against his calling.”

Stone said at the time: “If Bale’s point of view is that Moses was ‘schizophrenic and barbaric,’ that has to have impacted his portrayal.’

“If I see that as a Christian, as a faith-driven viewer, I will sense – as I did in ‘Noah’ – the subtleties of the shift between the biblical story and the Hollywood interpretation. It’s going to impact my interest in seeing it, or if I do see it, whether I like it or not and whether I share that in a positive light with others. Word of mouth is a significant driver of box office success,” Stone said.

“What I think is even more telling, although subtle, is Ridley Scott saying neither Moses nor God caused the parting of the Red Sea, but it was an earthquake,” Stone said. “The story of Exodus was a battle, not between Moses and Pharaoh, but between God and Pharaoh and his (little “g”) gods. This was a spiritual battle.’

“But if you look at the trailer and what Ridley Scott has been saying, they’re making an epic, ‘good guy versus bad guy,’ big battle, mega blockbuster,” Stone continued. “Audiences of faith may look at it and think, ‘This is my story, but it doesn’t look anything like my story,’ and that’s going to cause Christians, Jews and Muslims to pause. The three major world religions may say, ‘That’s not my story.’ And that will be a problem for ‘Exodus.’”com 03

Faith-driven consumers make up, according to American Insights polling, 17 percent of the adult population in the U.S. Among this group, 96 percent say their faith has a major influence on their entertainment choices. Faith-driven consumers, the stats indicate, are also more likely to recommend a movie than the wider Christian market and more likely to discourage others from watching a movie that conflicts with their values.

Significantly, 84 percent of faith-driven consumers rate how a movie reflects the Bible as “very important,” while only 51 percent of the wider Christian culture rates biblical accuracy the same.

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Exclusive: FBI warns of ‘destructive’ malware in wake of Sony attack


By Jim Finkle, BOSTON Tue Dec 2, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/us-sony-cybersecurity-malware-idUSKCN0JF3FE20141202

An entrance gate to Sony Pictures Entertainment at the Sony Pictures lot is pictured in Culver City, California in this April 14, 2013 file photo.   REUTERS-Fred Prouser-Files
An entrance gate to Sony Pictures Entertainment at the Sony Pictures lot is pictured in Culver City, California in this April 14, 2013 file photo.
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BOSTON (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Cybersecurity experts said the malicious software described in the alert appeared to describe the one that affected Sony, which would mark first major destructive cyber attack waged against a company on U.S. soil. Such attacks have been launched in Asia and the Middle East, but none have been reported in the United States. The FBI report did not say how many companies had been victims of destructive attacks.

“I believe the coordinated cyberattack with destructive payloads against a corporation in the U.S. represents a watershed event,” said Tom Kellermann, chief cybersecurity officer with security software maker Trend Micro Inc. “Geopolitics now serve as harbingers for destructive cyberattacks.”98525245-china-cyber-spyingThe five-page, confidential “flash” FBI warning issued to businesses late on Monday provided some technical details about the malicious software used in the attack. It provided advice on how to respond to the malware and asked businesses to contact the FBI if they identified similar malware.

The report said the malware overrides all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up.

“The overwriting of the data files will make it extremely difficult and costly, if not impossible, to recover the data using standard forensic methods,” the report said.96413915-cyber-attacksThe document was sent to security staff at some U.S. companies in an email that asked them not to share the information.

The FBI released the document in the wake of last Monday’s unprecedented attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which brought corporate email down for a week and crippled other systems as the company prepares to release several highly anticipated films during the crucial holiday film season.

A Sony spokeswoman said the company had “restored a number of important services” and was “working closely with law enforcement officials to investigate the matter.”

She declined to comment on the FBI warning.300dpi rgb jpg 11"x7.61"

The FBI said it is investigating the attack with help from the Department of Homeland Security. Sony has hired FireEye Inc’s (FEYE.O) Mandiant incident response team to help clean up after the attack, a move that experts say indicates the severity of the breach.

While the FBI report did not name the victim of the destructive attack in its bulletin, two cybersecurity experts who reviewed the document said it was clearly referring to the breach at the California-based unit of Sony Corp (6758.T).

“This correlates with information about that many of us in the security industry have been tracking,” said one of the people who reviewed the document. “It looks exactly like information from the Sony attack.”anonymous-sony-cyber-attack

FBI spokesman Joshua Campbell declined comment when asked if the software had been used against the California-based unit of Sony Corp, although he confirmed that the agency had issued the confidential “flash” warning, which Reuters independently obtained.

“The FBI routinely advises private industry of various cyber threat indicators observed during the course of our investigations,” he said. “This data is provided in order to help systems administrators guard against the actions of persistent cyber criminals.”

The FBI typically does not identify victims of attacks in those reports.

Hackers used malware similar to that described in the FBI report to launch attacks on businesses in highly destructive attacks in South Korea and the Middle East, including one against oil producer Saudi Aramco that knocked out some 30,000 computers. Those attacks are widely believed to have been launched by hackers working on behalf of the governments of North Korea and Iran.north korea cyber blitz

Security experts said that repairing the computers requires technicians to manually either replace the hard drives on each computer, or re-image them, a time-consuming and expensive process.

Monday’s FBI report said the attackers were “unknown.”

Yet the technology news site Re/code reported that Sony was investigating to determine whether hackers working on behalf of North Korea were responsible for the attack as retribution for the company’s backing of the film “The Interview.”Sea of Fire

The movie, which is due to be released in the United States and Canada on Dec. 25, is a comedy about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as “undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war” in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June.

The technical section of the FBI report said some of the software used by the hackers had been compiled in Korean, but it did not discuss any possible connection to North Korea.

(Reporting by Jim Finkle. Additional reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Ken Wills)

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Obama poised to pick Carter as Pentagon chief


By Justin Sink12/02/14

President Obama appears poised to nominate former Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to lead the Pentagon.

Carter has been considered among the top candidates for the job since Chuck Hagel announced last week he was resigning, and other top candidates — including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, former Pentagon official Michèle Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) — have removed their names from consideration in recent days.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday that Carter is “on the short list” and declined to name any other candidate under consideration.

While Earnest would not confirm that Carter was the choice, he say he had served “ably” in his prior position at the Pentagon.

“He’s somebody that certainly deserves and has demonstrated strong bipartisan support for his previous service in government,” Earnest said. “He is somebody that does have a detailed understanding of the way that the Department of Defense works.”

Earnest went on to note that Carter had been confirmed by unanimous consent in 2011, saying it was an indication he had “succeeded in the past winning strong bipartisan support.”

Earlier Tuesday, CNN reported that Carter would be the choice, barring any last-minute complications.

White House officials declined to comment on the CNN report, although members of the administration have previously acknowledged that Carter was among the names being considered.

“We have no presidential personnel announcements at this time, and we’re not going to speculate on any decisions before the president announces one,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz.

Although attention has focused on Carter, former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell also are thought to be in the running for the job.

But a major selling point for Carter, who was the Defense Department’s No. 2 official from 2011-2013 and previously oversaw the Pentagon’s sprawling procurement operation, could be early signals of support from Republican lawmakers who will be important to his nomination.

“It’d be good,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. “He’s always performed well; he’s not going to be as much of a political person as somebody might be.”com 01

Inhofe said that, if Carter was nominated, “it should be an easy confirmation.”

Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called Carter “a good guy” but said he hoped the next Defense Secretary would be able to stake out more independence from the White House.

“The first thing they do in the morning is call the White House, he says do something, they say, yes sir, and go do it,” McKeon said. “Regardless of the situation or what is best to do.”Really with logo

White House officials said Hagel’s exit came amid concern he was not best equipped to lead the Pentagon’s efforts to combat the rising threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But Hagel also reportedly struggled to break into the president’s inner circle, and multiple reports suggested simmering tension between the Pentagon and the president’s national security staff.

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— Kristina Wong and Martin Matishak contributed to this report, which was updated at 1:50 p.m.

 

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Amazon’s Fulfillment Center

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Creepy, but efficient and very cool!

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Today’s Politically INCORRECT Cartoon


A Dream to A Nightmare

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/dream-nightmare/

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As ISIS Attempts to Recruit Black Men in Ferguson, It Appears As if Obama’s Buddy Beyonce is Helping


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During the initial weeks following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, a chilling sign was seen behind CNN’s Jake Tapper as he reported from Ferguson. A man was holding a sign that read “ISIS here.” Since the announcement last week that the grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in that shooting, ISIS has ramped up their efforts to recruit black men out of Ferguson. Therefore, it is a bit shocking that Beyoncé, one of the biggest stars in the music industry, would film a video that could be construed as both propaganda for ISIS and for the violent rioting in Ferguson.

In a promo for her Superpower duet with Frank Ocean, Beyoncé sported a niqab, a Muslim headdress for women, along with an outfit not even fit for a club, that no Muslim woman could ever wear. Her short skirt is paired with a short mid-drift bearing top that also exposes the lower part of her breasts.
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The singer, who appeared on this year’s Grammy’s with the word FEMINIST behind her as she performed a sexual act with a chair wearing a scantily clad outfit while her husband, Jay-Z watched, was criticized by both Muslims and feminists on Twitter.

Karesa Warner said on Twitter, “Dear Beyoncé: Do you think you’re going to get away with wearing a version of Islamic head-dress, niqab, while promoting your Demonic music?”

Dina said, “Quoting our holy Quran and dressing in a niqab isn’t a fashion statement you dumb beyonce.”

Feminists also chimed in chastising Beyoncé for her hypocrisy in wearing the niqab.

Dana Yager said, “Sorry, Beyonce. Probably not in the best interest for women’s rights to make the niqab fashionable. Just sayin’.”

In watching this video, given the volatile situation in Ferguson, including massive destruction of personal property, and the Muslim terrorist group ISIS actively recruiting blacks in Ferguson via social media, one has to wonder what exactly is Beyoncé trying to accomplish? com 02

WATCH the Ferguson rioting style video, which also appears to promote Islam, promoted by Beyoncé.
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Terror Plot Uncovered: al Qaeda Planning Large Scale Terrorist Attack Using Commercial Airplanes around Christmas


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Imperial Islamic President ObamaIt was just before Christmas in 2001, on December 22 to be exact, that Richard Colvin Reid, a British National who had converted to Islam while in prison, attempted to detonate a bomb in his shoe while aboard a plane headed from Paris to Miami. Colvin had become ‘radicalized’ and even trained with al Qaeda. Now, just over 3 weeks away from Christmas, there are threats once again that al Qaeda is planning another large scale, coordinated terrorist attack using airplanes. Their targets this time are major European cities, including London.

The UK Express  reports that the plot was discovered two months ago. The plan reportedly involves smuggling a bomb aboard the plane using carry on luggage. Officials are considering a ban on carry-on luggage, as well as a ban on having cell phones and other electronics on the plane in response to this potential attack.

An airport security source told the Express, “We’ve been told that five planes are being targeted in a high-profile hit before Christmas. They’ve been waiting for the big one.”

London has a high Muslim population and a man known as Jihadi John, the individual who beheaded three Americans and one Brit, is from London. The city also had a terrorist attack on its soil in 2013 when two Muslim converts, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, murdered and nearly decapitated soldier Lee Rigby.

With British jihadis returning from fighting alongside the Muslim terrorist group ISIS, officials are taking this threat seriously. The security official added, “The threat is aimed at Europe. The U.S has improved their security over the summer but we have not. Everyone is expecting something catastrophic very soon”.

In a speech earlier this week, Home Secretary Theresa May warned that numerous Islamic militants were looking to attack the UK.

She said: “Now the threat is more diverse in terms of the number of groups out there who will be looking to carry out attacks in the West.

“It’s also more diverse in that not everybody’s affiliated to a particular group – some are self-starting groups and you do have individuals, perhaps the “lone wolves” or the volatile individuals.

‘We have to look across the board at all sorts of threats that are out there.”

A former Home Office risk advisor in the UK, Dr. Leivesley, also said that there are concerns about female terrorists and men radicalized recently who do not fit the typical profile, but are blonde, blue-eyed, and white. She stated, “They see themselves at the forefront of attempts to change the world and are represent a very dangerous tool for the terrorists.’

“These sleepers will have been from ordinary and not very religious families and not only is the threat from them here but also when they return battle hardened from Syria and Iraq.”

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Feds Enable Arsonists, Target Oath Keepers Protecting Ferguson Businesses


by Mikael Thalen | Infowars.com | November 30, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.infowars.com/feds-enable-arsonists-target-oath-keepers-protecting-ferguson-businesses/

 

Feds Enable Arsonists, Target Oath Keepers Protecting Ferguson Businesses
Feds tell police to stop “domestic terrorists” providing free security

Police in Ferguson, Missouri, have been pressured by the federal government to stop members of Oath Keepers from guarding local homes and businesses targeted by arsonists.

Oath Keepers, an organization consisting of former and current military, police and first responders, dispatched several members to Ferguson the day after the Grand Jury announcement to provide free security to those in need.

Almost immediately after receiving praise in a local paper for protecting vulnerable residents, Oath Keepers standing watch on top of a locally-owned bakery witnessed a three-man sniper team exiting a silver Suburban on the ground below.

The three men were then seen setting up sniper hides in a nearby building before aiming their rifles directly at the group. Across the street, on top of the fire hall, a seperate sniper team began setting up as well.

A Missouri Oath Keeper named Sam Andrews, who spoke briefly with Infowars, immediately called Unified Command to find out why snipers had taken up an aggressive position against them.

According to Andrews, local police, a large portion of which have been supportive of the Oath Keepers, were completely unaware of the feds movements.

Shortly after, a St. Louis County police officer appeared on scene and began telling Andrews that business owners wanted them off their roofs.

After calling the store owners, Andrews and his team quickly confirmed that no such request was ever made. That is when the officer admitted that his chief was being pressured by the feds to keep Oath Keepers from protecting buildings.

Further reports revealed that the feds had told police earlier that day that Oath Keepers were “domestic terrorists,” an unsurprising claim given the federal government’s baseless targeting of the group. com 01

The owner of a Chinese restaurant receiving free protection was reportedly confronted by federal agents also and told to kick the Oath Keepers out.

Failing to remove the businesses’ and homes’ much needed protection, other officers began telling Andrews that his group was in violation of state law. Police claimed the group needed to posses security licenses, despite the fact that the law only applies to paid security, not volunteers.

“We’re volunteers. We read the statute. We had three attorneys read the statute,” Andrews told Infowars.

Andrews began speaking with other volunteers not affiliated with the Oath Keepers, including a group of young Ferguson residents protecting a local gas station, and learned that none had been approached or told to obtain licenses by police.

Stewart Rhodes, founder and president of Oath Keepers, told Infowars that the American people are being presented with a false choice by those running the show in Ferguson. Partyof Deceit Spin and Lies

“They want to create a false paradigm… They are presenting a false choice between lawlessness, looting, arson, assault, murder on the one side, unrestrained, or a hyper-militarized police state on the other,” Rhodes said. “They are failing to do the intelligent thing and protect businesses without trampling on rights.”

Rhodes’ remarks cause even more concern in light of comments made by Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, who accused President Obama of ordering a National Guard stand down as Ferguson businesses burned to the ground last week. group imperial obama

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles also stated that his request for National Guard help was turned down by Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat ally of the President. Liberalism a mental disorder

Andrews and the other volunteers, who even spent Thanksgiving pouring water on rooftops in case arsonists and rioters returned, are now shifting tactics in order to continue protecting life, liberty and property in Ferguson.

Watch: November 27 interview with Stewart Rhodes and Sam Andrews on the Oath Keepers experience in Ferguson

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Written by Doug Giles on November 30, 2014

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://clashdaily.com/2014/11/jesus-rioters-dare-black-ministers-read-church/

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Last week, as I was watched the Ferguson fiasco go down, I kept bouncing back and forth between CNN and MSLSD to see how the Left was pitching this massive destruction of personal and private property on behalf of the “innocent” and “gentle giant”, Michael Brown.

Both networks had black ministers on throughout the week that basically justified the riots. Yes, some pooh-poohed the extreme acts of violence, however several of them didn’t really crap on the “protestors”.

Chief amongst the “ministers” who didn’t seem to care what chaos was created was the Reverend Al Sharpton and his spirit-twin the Reverend Jesse Jackson.Liberalism a mental disorder

As I watched these “men of God” cheerlead this mess, I started thinking to myself, “Self … what Bible do they read? … ‘The Race-Baiters Grievance Edition?’ “; because no one who’s ever traipsed through an unadulterated New Testament would think that such mayhem, for such a flimsy — no … farcical — reason is remotely justifiable.  That is if, and that’s a big “if”, Jesus is the standard for a person’s behavior.

Indeed, if one read just a smidgen of Jesus’s teachings they would quickly deduce that if Christ were the blueprint for the believer, then the behavior of these looting morons is contemptible and worthy of a true minister’s rebuke and wide spread public condemnation.  But, eh … not so much for the likes of the Reverend Sharpton and Jackson, which left me thinking that they must revere something else other than the Jesus of The Gospels because the Christ of the Scripture wouldn’t back their race-baiting and destructive behavior or anyone that fans those hideous flames.

That said, please allow me to inject at this juncture that Jesus was not above kicking some butt and breaking stuff if need be.  Look, Jesus was no wussy.  For example, one of the first snapshots we have of Jesus in John’s account of his ministry was his turning water into wine and cleansing the temple, two things the teetotalers and the timid would not like being in the sacred text.

Check it out in John 2:13-17:

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

And here’s Matthew’s account of Jesus’ opening up a can of whup ass: Matthew 21: 12 “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you make it a den of robbers.’ “

Let’s break it down, shall we?

First off, please take note of the offense that got Jesus in a bad mood: Religious hucksters had turned God’s house into a cash cow for religious goobers.  In other words, it was a clear-cut, irrefutable offense, with empirical evidence, that got Christ’s dander up.  Ponder that nugget before you burn down an innocent couple’s grocery store, por favor.

This lead, as stated, to Jesus’ going postal on the place.  But what I’d like to point out was how Jesus released his rage as an example to us schleps that follow his lead, if and when it comes to dusting up against some true injustice.  Are you ready? Well, alrighty then.

Herewith are the various particulars regarding how the Holy One rolled.

  1. Jesus made a whip, which screams to moi, that he was patient and methodical and it wasn’t belligerent, out of control, frenzied rage he sported.
  2. Jesus only vandalized the evil SOBs’ stuff that were desecrating God’s house.  Please note, he didn’t morph into a crazy vandal.
  3. Jesus didn’t steal their stuff after condemning their actions. Hello!
  4. Jesus had a clear biblical mandate that God’s house was to be a house of prayer and that zeal for its purity drove his legit wrath.
  5. Jesus, didn’t cleanse the temple incognito. He wasn’t anonymous.  He wore no weird mask, or a bandana over his face, or a hoodie and shades. People who do that are nutless wonders.  If you’re so bold and so in the right, then like Jesus, represent … stand up and be counted.
  6. Jesus didn’t make a living off grievance based temple-tossing.  He didn’t form a non-profit that went around making life miserable for everyone he thought sucked.  Also, he acted alone, without some massive posse and there are only two examples of him ever engaging in such acts.
  7. Jesus never said to his disciples lets “burn this bitch down”.  Please note, he also didn’t call them “mother—kers” as his wrath was bridled.

And that, my little children, is how Christ threw a holy fit.  Anything else is … well … uh … un-Christlike and must be repented of and condemned especially by “reverends” who lead the flock of God, of which I bet the majority of the Ferguson protestors go to church. So I’m a thinkin’ the aforementioned should apply.

Finally, for the slow amongst us who claim Christ as their captain please note in Jesus’s example of opening up a can of whup ass that …

  • There was no stealing.

  • There was no arson.

  • There was no stoking of a phony revolt based on lies. Empirical evidence drove Jesus’ cleansing of the temple.

  • There was no labeling of the folks as “Jewish-devils.”

  • There was no unnecessary destruction of property.

  • There was no inciting to riots.

  • He didn’t do it in defense of some teenaged criminal.

  • He didn’t threaten to rape and/or murder his enemies’ women and kids.

  • And he wasn’t impulsive in his anger and reduced to animalistic destruction.

Jesus was an example on how to deal with egregious wrongs without losing one’s holy head.

Now, here’s my challenge to my black brethren: I dare black ministers to read this in their churches.DO NOT JACKASS

Oh, and one more thing: the only religion that allows for the kind of destruction and chaos that we witnessed this past week in Ferguson and other places is Islam and not Christianity.   So you might ought to think about either converting to Islam or repenting for missing Christ’s example by a flippin’ mile.  Amen.

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Conservative leaders gang up to block Jeb Bush, say he opposes Reaganism


By Paul Bedard | December 1, 2014

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Conservative leaders who had a hand in key Republican victories including Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the Contract with America and the birth of the Tea Party, are ganging up to oppose a Jeb Bush presidential bid, declaring him easier to beat than Bob Dole or John McCain.

“I don’t know of any conservatives who are supporting him,” said Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.

“Jeb is a very good moderate Democrat,” added top-rated talk radio host Mark Levin. “He’s very boring. He doesn’t elicit excitement and energy outside a very small circle of wealthy corporatists and GOP Beltway operatives. Time to move on.”

RELATED: Jeb Bush navigates the Common Core tripwire ahead of 2016

The criticism of Bush, a media darling and leading centrist GOP potential presidential candidate, took off when Phyllis Schlafly updated her 50-year-old conservative manifesto, A Choice Not an Echo, with a slap at Bush.

In her latest revision, provided to the Washington Examiner, she wrote: “Do you get the message that the media buildup for Jeb Bush has begun and that the 2016 Republican National Convention may nominate another establishment loser, the next one in line? But it doesn’t have to be.”

RELATED: Bush family rewrites its legacy at pivotal time

Many conservatives are critical of Bush’s support for Common Core educational standards and immigration reform.

But his biggest hurdle may be his last name.

“The objection so many Reaganites have to another Bush is because he is another Bush,” said Reagan biographer Craig Shirley. “He, too, has an alarming belief in centralized authority. From the standpoint of history, the Bush family got their start in 1980 opposing Reagan and Reaganism, as they continue to do today.”

RELATED: George W. Bush on his brother Jeb: ‘I hope he runs’ in 2016

“We just don’t trust him,” said Viguerie, who favors Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. “Conservatives are going to be very, very critical of Jeb, not only for the sins of the father and brother, but also for his own views.”

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.

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