"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
The Gang gathered to discuss Obama The Agitator. The discussion focused on how the Radical-in-Chief stirs division and hate. The Gang also unveiled The Dark Forces Behind The IRS Scandal, Obama’s Rejection of the American Dream, ObamaCare’s Doom of Destruction, and much, much more. Watch both parts below:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/obama-the-agitator-on-the-glazov-gang/
Ankara got a $3.44 billion low bid from the China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp., or CPMIEC, on a system that was bid by the U.S. and Europe at over $4 billion.
Turkey already has the U.S. Patriot system which is a missile defense system. The U.S. offered Raytheon’s Patriot missiles in Turkey’s bid for an enhanced missile defense system.
CPMIEC previously was accused of violating sanctions against Iran, North Korea and Syria.
Like the U.S., NATO has expressed concern over the deal, which Turkish Defense Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, amid much criticism, said wasn’t final, although he said Turkey would have purchased the NATO-compatible systems if they were cheaper.
“What is important for us is that the system acquired by the individual country must be able to work and operate with the systems in other countries,” said NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. “I expect that Turkey will also comply with that.”
NATO also is concerned that an integration of the two systems could lead to the leak or transfer of classified information about the Patriot system to China.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/nato-worries-about-turkeys-links-to-china/#FrVSxH6blrjYVoJQ.99
Secret Service logs show that Jackie spent a great deal more time away from the White House than at the White House. She spent almost all the steamy summer months out of Washington and, even when she was there, regularly left on Friday afternoon for their rented Virginia horse farm Glen Ora, or to go to the Kennedy family seat at Hyannis Port in Cape Cod, and did not return until Monday or later.
'The girls were led over to the President. I'll have that one, he said'
Jack never left the White House until Saturday.
Jackie was a rebel and a free spirit at heart, and the White House seemed claustrophobic.
Furthermore, she could close her eyes to what Jack was up to when she was not with him.
'It's amazing - he used to do it in front of her,' said a well-known New York debutante several years younger than Jackie.
'In New York a great friend, one of his ex-girls, organised an after-theatre party. He had obviously said to her, "Can you get me a bunch of young nice girls?"'
'I was invited and another great friend of mine was asked. The two of us were riveted so we both went. There were about four or five other friends, single girls we knew also. One by one, each of us was told, "The President would like to speak to you", and we were led over for about ten minutes.
'I wasn't as enamoured of him as other people were. I didn't think he was this great sex symbol. But what fascinated us all was that Jackie was sitting there and he actually said, ''I'll take that one."'
'I know exactly who won. She shall be nameless. This was a very shy, divine girl, Very pretty, very tall. The next time I saw Jackie was when they asked me to a party at the White House. It was the last party before he was killed.
'She was waltzing around, and he would dance with a girl for five minutes and then they would disappear up in the lift and then they'd be back in 20 minutes. We just sat there watching, my friend and I.
FHFA had sued the bank for making false statements about $33 billion worth of mortgage bonds two years ago. Reuters notes that the $4 penalty would amount to a payment of 12 cents on the dollar. That agreement is reportedly a part of the $13 billion settlement.
The bank may also be on the hook for troubled mortgage deals done by two institutions that it took over during the crisis, Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns.
Last month, JPMorgan Chase head Jamie Dimon was spotted at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington on his way to discuss terms of the settlement.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that JPMorgan reached a separate deal with the National Credit Union Administration, though the terms have not yet been revealed.
A Justice Department official could not immediately comment about the settlement.
In a stunning move that some scientists are decrying as blatant censorship, The Los Angeles Times is no longer publishing letters from those who deny climate change.
“Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page; when one does run, a correction is published,” writes Times letters editor Paul Thornton. “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans have caused climate change’ is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy.”
William Happer, a physics professor at Princeton, tells Fox News that the Times “should be ashamed of itself” regarding this decision.
“There was an effective embargo on alternative opinions, so making it official really does not change things,” adds Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism at The Rockefeller University in New York.
“The free press in the U.S. is trying to move the likelihood of presenting evidence on this issue from very low to impossible,” J. Scott Armstrong, co-founder of the Journal of Forecasting and a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, told Fox News.
When Mr. Obama, then a senator, opposed raising the debt ceiling in 2006, it was $8 trillion. Today, it has more than doubled to $17 trillion. If we are to survive this breakneck spending that has become the norm in Washington, it must be stopped and reversed. Many polls showed that Americans were fed up with both parties over the shutdown. A Bloomberg poll showed that 61 percent — 6 in 10 Americans — think that spending cuts should be tied to raising the debt ceiling. A Rasmussen survey and Fox News poll found similar results.
Americans want leaders who are willing to rein in a government that is completely out of control.
There are solutions. Perhaps we should not raise the debt ceiling without also enacting a balanced-budget amendment. Many states are forced to balance their budgets, and there is no reason the federal government cannot begin to do the same.
There is also the Penny Plan, which could balance the budget by cutting total federal spending by 1 percent each year for six consecutive years. Over a decade, overall spending would be reduced by $7.5 trillion.
There is no reason that in more immediate terms, we cannot find a firm and workable plan to balance the budget. Republicans and Democrats seem to have no problem coming together to grow the government. Why can’t we do the opposite?
We could stop giving billions in foreign aid to countries that behave more like enemies than allies so we can pay down our debt and fund priorities here at home.
We could only spend what we bring in, show some restraint and common sense, and begin following the Constitution. Our government currently does so many things that it doesn’t have the constitutional authority to do. We learned during the shutdown that nearly half of government is considered “nonessential.”
Considering the great economic burden we are leaving our children and the next generation, we should not be spending money on nonessential government services.
Washington is a mess. Not just this week and last week, but every week, month and year that we continue to spend money that we do not have, to do things that we should not do.
There were no winners coming out of what went down in Washington this week. Any future deals should result in something better than the American people, yet again, getting the short end of the stick.
…But there has always been an additional factor in the mix. Study after study has suggested that poor people are more likely than wealthy people to behave in ways that are imprudent and counterproductive. An extensive literature search shows that lower socioeconomic status is associated with a range of self-defeating behaviors, including more risk-taking (not using seat belts, for example), worse adherence to protocols (such as failing to complete a full course of a medicine) and poorer financial management (impulse buying, for example, or buying on credit, which adds considerably to an item's cost)……
….When asked to think about a minor repair, the rich and the poor performed equally well on the cognitive tests (arguing against the notion that the poor make poorer decisions because they aren't as smart). But when the repair was described as costly, performance crashed dramatically in the poor but not the rich. In other words, having to reflect on tight finances increased cognitive load for poor people.
Intrigued by those results, Mani and colleagues took their research a creative step further and studied the phenomenon of cognitive load for poor people in the real world. Seeking subjects whose income normally fluctuates radically, they decided to focus on sugar cane farmers in India. The farmers are basically paid once a year, when they sell their harvest to sugar mills, and they have to make that money last until the next harvest. The researchers measured the farmers' cognitive function before the harvest, when money was tight, and again after the harvest, when farmers had fewer money worries. Various important controls were in place, including that nutrition and the amount of physical labor were the same pre- and post-harvest. The farmers who hadn't yet harvested (and been paid for) their crops scored dramatically worse than the post-harvest farmers.
Thus, both a careful lab experiment and a superb naturalistic field study suggest that being poor brings with it cognitive challenges. Your brain has to work mighty hard if you're constantly trying to figure out how to keep your head above water, and that is likely to contribute to poor decision-making and counterproductive behavior. As if just being poor wasn't difficult enough.
The president declared, “But to all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this town has to change. Because we’ve all got a lot of work to do on behalf of the American people – and that includes the hard work of regaining their trust. Our system of self-government doesn’t function without it.”
Nonetheless, it would be exceedingly difficult to make a strong argument that the Founding Fathers regarded trust in government as necessary for self-government. In fact, they created a system of checks and balances to keep ambitions in check.
“All men having power ought to be mistrusted,” wrote James Madison to Thomas Jefferson.
“The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent,” Jefferson wrote.
THE POTUS SPEAKS:
“[N]othing has done more to undermine our economy these past three years than the kind of tactics that create these manufactured crises,” the president said accusingly.
“Deep recessions are supposed to be followed by strong recoveries, but, under Obama, the worst recession since the 1930s has been followed by the slowest economic recovery in the history of the republic. In a very real sense, there has been no recovery at all – things are still getting worse,” wrote Louis Woodhill.
Job creation also has been slow, too slow to keep pace with job losses.
Back in April, when the official unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, Forbes found so many Americans had given up looking for jobs and left the workforce, the real unemployment rate was 14.3 percent.
The CEO of the company that runs the fast-food restaurants Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s said what’s really killing job creation is Obamacare.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/count-obama-whoppers-in-debt-deal-speech/#rcdH3G6gA358H7j9.99
Speaking exclusively to CBS 3, a 15-year-old high school student, whose identity we are concealing, described a terrifying attack by a gang of at least nine teenage boys as she was leaving an Interboro High School football game Monday night.
The teenage victim described first being taunted by the attackers, who followed her down a neighborhood street, cursing and spitting at her, before she was repeatedly kicked and punched, suffering at least one blow to her head.
“It was scary, just horrible, just the worst feeling in the world,” she said. “He punched me in my back and then kicked me in the back, and then punched me in the back of my head. I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t talk. I was just straight crying.”
The victim says as at least two of the teenagers pummeled her, the others cheered them on shouting, “Come on, let’s get her!” At one point, the victim says, the gang tried to throw her under the wheels of a passing car, which swerved, narrowly missing her.
“They took me by my arm and just threw me out like I was a fishing rod. I was doubled over in pain,” she said. “Everything was just a big, giant blur.”
It's the ultimate sweetheart deal for a free-spending federal government: Wednesday night's debt deal didn't actually raise the limit on America's credit card, but instead removed it entirely until February 7, 2014.
Whether through legislative sleight-of-hand or something less sinister, the law of the land now permits the U.S. to run up new debts for 16 weeks without consequences, and forbids the Treasury Department from enforcing the debt limit that ordinarily keeps spending from spiraling out of control.
Some observers noted on Wednesday that when Congress burned the midnight oil to debate a deal that would save the U.S. from crashing through its existing $16.7 trillion debt ceiling and risking a credit default, there was no debate over exactly how far to raise it.
House and Senate negotiators only discussed how long the agreement would last.
The United States, thanks to the free-market capitalist system, creates more wealthy people than the rest of the world — by a long shot.
Constant “glitches” keep people from logging into the exchanges. Humiliating live video of reporters normally favorable to Obamacare simply giving up in frustration because they cannot sign up. Consumers who are lucky enough to get through the system are stunned to learn that their premiums have skyrocketed by thousands of dollars. One Pennsylvania mother says that she can either pay her increased premiums or pay for her kids to eat, but she can’t do both.
Extremely personal information has already leaked from the system in Minnesota. Software security experts from McAfee predict millions of identity theft victims. And one of the healthcare exchanges was forced to acknowledge that information collected from patients will be shared with law enforcement.
Tom Bevan at RealClearPolitics wondered why Kathleen Sebelius still has a job. Jon Stewart invited her onto The Daily Show and mocked that he could “download every movie ever made” before she could log onto her own website. Her home state senator called for her to resign for "gross incompetence," as exactly “zero” residents of Kansas were able to successfully enroll in the program.
The rollout has been such a nightmare that it is abundantly clear now that members of Congress really did not, as then-Speaker Pelosi admitted, even read the Obamacare bill before they passed it. In fact, the program's launch has been such an unimaginable disaster that it raises an alarming new question that would have been unthinkable amid the exaggerated claims of health utopia from three years ago: Did President Obama even read this legislation before he signed it into law?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/15/obamacare-rollout-disasster
IN NEWS that will be sweet to every dieter's ears, cutting out chocolate is more likely to make you put on weight rather than lose it.
A survey by research agency YouGov has found that 86 per cent of slimmers who carried on enjoying their favourite treats successfully lost weight.
Of the 2100 men and women questioned, those who lost the most weight had - in 91 per cent of cases - continued to eat the same amount of chocolate they normally ate before going on a weight-loss plan.
"Extensive research has proven that diets centred around food elimination are much more likely to fail," said Janet Aylott, a nutrition scientist with online calorie counting plan Nutracheck, who commissioned the YouGov survey.
"The key is to take a more relaxed approach and to have a little of what you like."
The YouGov research corresponds with previous studies which found that dieters who completely eliminate treats such as chocolate, wine and biscuits are often more likely to put on weight as they "compensate" by eating more of other foods.
One study even showed that as many as 65 per cent of those who give up all treats actually end up ballooning in weight.
But it doesn't end there - separate research has also suggested that eating chocolate may help you live longer.
Water managers Monday urged Californians to step up their conservation efforts, warning that many parts of the state could face water shortages next year if this winter proves to be another dry one.
“Use these dry conditions as a wake-up call,” said Mark Cowin, director of the state Department of Water Resources.
Officials are not ready to declare a statewide drought. And managers of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the region’s wholesaler of imported water, said they have sufficient supplies in regional storage to avoid mandatory cutbacks for at least another year.
But two dry years in a row have pushed water levels in the state’s biggest reservoirs to below normal. Lake Shasta is at 66% of the average for this time of year and Lake Oroville is at 73% of average.
More than a decade of severe drought in the Colorado River basin — the source of about a quarter of urban Southern California’s supplies — has left both Lake Powell and Lake Mead less than half full. The last two years on the Colorado have been among the driest on record in about a century of measurements.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-water-conserve-20131014,0,6674448.story
Travelers who crack jokes about the TSA’s ludicrous security procedures could face arrest, according to a new loudspeaker warning being broadcast at airports in the U.S.
While traveling through George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Matt Miller heard a security announcement repeatedly aired on the airport intercom that left him disturbed.
“You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest,” the loudspeaker message states.
These new loudspeaker warnings remind us that the TSA continues to excel at indoctrinating Americans to be well-behaved prisoners via obedience training – reminding them that they can be disappeared if they dare speak out of turn, even in a humorous way.
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-loudspeakers-threaten-travelers-with-arrest-for-joking-about-security/
France's mainstream political parties were Monday scratching their heads over what to do about a surge by the Front National (FN) after a breakthrough by-election win for the far-right party.
The ruling Socialist party and the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, face humiliating reverses in municipal and European elections next year if the FN can sustain its current standing in the eyes of an electorate thoroughly fed-up with record unemployment, rising taxes and a perceived increase in crime and insecurity.
A poll published last week suggested the FN could emerge as the best-supported party in the European elections with 24 percent of those asked declaring themselves ready to back the party led by Marine Le Pen, the daughter of FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.
http://www.france24.com/en/20131014-mainstream-baffled-french-turn-far-right
Bureaucracies in the Obama Administration have thus far published approximately 11,588,500 words of final Obamacare regulations, while there are only 381,517 words in the Obamacare law itself.
That means unelected federal officials have now written 30 words of regulations for each word in the law.
What is commonly known as the Obamacare law includes both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA). Since these bills were signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010, various agencies in the administration have published 109 final regulations spelling out how they are to be implemented.
These 109 final regulations account for a combined 10,535 pages in the Federal Register, where the government officially published them.
A secret message has reportedly been uncovered in the coding used to make the exchange website for President Barack Obama’s signature health care program — and it involves the privacy of potential enrollees.
A secret message on the new healthcare registry reportedly warns users they have “no reasonable expectation to privacy.” (Image source: Weekly Standard)
“You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system,” the message reads, according to the Weekly Standard.
“At any time, and for any lawful Government purpose, the government may monitor, intercept, and search and seize any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system,” the message reportedly continues. “Any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system may be disclosed or used for any lawful Government purpose.”
The message allegedly appears when the terms and conditions page is visible and can only be seen using an Internet browser’s “view source” tool.
