FALLING GAS PRICES MEANS HELP TO THE CASH STRAPPED AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THESE HARD TIMES AS RELIEF HAVE BEEN BROUGHT ABOUT BY PRIVATE AMERICAN INDUSTRY INGENUITY IN DELIVERING NATURAL EARTH RESOURCE TO BEAR AGAINTST OPEC–AND NOW THAT RELIEF IS HERE THE POTUS BHO CHAOS AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO BEAR DOWN FURTHER ON THE AMERICAN CITIZEN BY THE PLAN OF INCREASING GASOLINE TAXES–THE TAX AND SPEND FOOLS JUST WILL NOT LET UP

Politicians and bureaucrats have been calling for hiking the federal gas tax since the price of gasoline began its steady decline last year. The talk of raising the tax has led 50 conservative organizations to join forces to lobby in opposition of the increase.

Among the groups fighting against the tax hike are high profile organizations such as Americans for Tax Reform, FreedomWorks the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST), Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity.

“Falling gas prices are the first significant relief many Americans have experienced in years,” AFP Vice President of Government Affairs Brent Gardner said. “Congress should let them take advantage of it rather than treating it as just another opportunity to reach into people’s pockets and take more away in taxes. Lower-income Americans deserve a break from trying times, not to be slapped with another tax that disproportionately affects them.”

Indeed, Americans are currently saving at the pump. AAA reported late last month that falling gas prices in the U.S. already saved American motorists more than $14 billion on fuel costs in 2014.

If the trend continues throughout 2015, AAA says that the number could jump to as much as $75 billion by this time next year.

http://personalliberty.com/gas-tax-drama-continues-washington/

THE POTUS BHO EXECUTIVE ACTION IN REALIZING NORMAL RELATION WITH CUBA WITH NOTHING GAINED FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE BUT GIVEN FREEDOM FOR THE CASTRO BROTHERS TO WILL ITS STRONG ARM EVEN MORE–WILL NOW MEAN CUBA TO BE REMOVED AS A SPONSOR TERRORIST SUPPORTING COUNTRY ACCORDING TO THE EYES OF THE LEFTIST POTUS BHO–WILL CONGRESS ACT TO DEFEND OF WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE FREEDOM

The Obama Administration has recently chosen to normalize relations with Cuba. In addition to establishing embassies and expanding commercial transactions, the White House has also declared that Cuba will be removed from the State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

To remove Cuba from the list would be to ignore both the Cuban government’s inherently malicious nature and the utility of terrorist designations. For over three decades, the Castro regime has directly supported organizations designated by the U.S. government as terrorist. Recent activities that warrant Cuba’s place on the list include Havana’s violations of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, leadership role in directing Venezuela’s military and intelligence, and steadfast support and intimate relationship with such countries as Syria, Iran, and North Korea. The Castro regime also continues to harbor U.S. fugitives and subsidize their livelihoods. One fugitive has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list since 2013 for killing a New Jersey State Trooper.

Removing Cuba from the list would also remove restrictions that preclude their receipt preferential foreign aid and trade benefits. Repealing the designation combined with further weakening of sanctions will not bode well for U.S. taxpayers. The regime routinely defaults on foreign loans and is guilty of the largest uncompensated theft of U.S. assets in recorded history, valued at $7 billion. Congress cannot ignore the implications of an undeserving regime’s being removed from this list.

Why the Castro Regime Cannot Be Trusted

President Obama’s new Cuba policy has been heavily criticized and rightfully so. His predecessors, both Republican and Democrat, recognized that a Cuba governed by the Castro regime will never be receptive to genuine engagement.

Previous unilateral attempts by the Carter and Clinton Administrations to reduce hostilities ended up backfiring on the U.S. In 1977, President Carter reestablished diplomatic relations by allowing each country reciprocal interest sections. The government in Havana responded shortly thereafter by sending expeditionary forces and resources to Marxist insurgencies in over a dozen African countries. The Clinton Administration for years attempted to improve relations and was rewarded by the Castro regime’s shooting down of Brothers to the Rescue flights. In what the U.S. determined to be an international act of terrorism, the Cuban military, at the order of current leader Raul Castro, shot down two American aircraft over international waters, killing three American citizens and one U.S. resident.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/01/congressional-oversight-needed-as-obama-administration-moves-to-remove-cuba-from-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-list

THE BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA VISITS THE SAUDS TO PAY THEIR RESPECT IN THESE CARTOON ILLUSTRATIONS

In the news this week: Things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things but that can be fun to talk about. For starters, Michelle Obama accompanied her husband on a quick trip to Saudi Arabia and didn’t cover her head.

http://personalliberty.com/cartoon-roundup-16/

IT TAKES DRAGGING THE DEMOCRATS TO HELP THE ECONOMY WITH CHEAPER ENERGY COST ONCE AGAIN AS THEY KICK AND SCREAM OVER THE BUILDING OF THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE AFTER 10 YEARS OF STUDY AFTER STUDY–AND THE ANTI LOW ENERGY COST POTUS BHO WILL LIKELY VETO THIS JOB MAKING PROSPECT–ANOTHER DEMOCRAT PARTY BACKED TO CREATE MORE UNEMPLOYMENT–AS THE SENATE PASSES WITH A VOTE OF 62–36 AS THE BILL HEADS BACK TO THE HOUSE FOR FINAL RECONCILIATION UNLIKE BEING BACKDOORRED LIKE WITH WHAT THE DEMOCRAT HARRY REID (D-NV) HAD DONE WITH OBAMASCARES TO GET THE PENNACLE PEN SIGNATURE IN 2010

The Senate on Thursday voted 62-36 to build the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, delivering Republicans the first legislative victory of their new majority.

Nine Democrats joined with Republicans in voting to approve the $8 billion project, five votes short of the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override a promised veto from President Obama.

The nine Democrats who voted to approve Keystone were Sens. Michael Bennet (Colo.), Tom Carper (Del.), Bob Casey Jr. (Pa.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Mark Warner (Va.).

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is traveling, missed the vote, as did Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is recovering from eye surgery.

Energy & Environment Best Sellers:

The bill now heads to the House, where Republicans are determined to act quickly to force Obama into taking what they believe will be a politically unpopular stand against a project that would carry oil sands from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/231193-senate-votes-to-build-keystone

THE RUSSIAN PUTIN CONTINUES HIS PROBING OF THE WEST WEAKNESS BEHIND AS THE POTUS BHO SEEMS TOO BUSY TO EVEN CARE TO HAVE HIS BACKSIDE PROBED IT WOULD SEEM–AS ANOTHER NUCLEAR BOMBER STREAKS ACROSS THE UK AND THE USA AIRSPACE

Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t been one to back down in response to sanctions against his country and attacks on his economy. Rather, he has stepped up not only his rhetoric, but his military activities as well.

His latest move is yet another show of force to let the West know Russia is prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect its interests.

The U.K.’s Royal Air Force scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after a pair of nuclear-capable Russian bombers flew across a busy civilian air traffic corridor above the English Channel. The bombers had their transponders turned off, British officials said, making them invisible to many air traffic control systems. The incident disrupted multiple flights – and ended with the U.K. government demanding the Russian ambassador appear at the Foreign Office to explain the actions.

This latest incident comes on the heels of similar flyovers by nuclear bombers along the west coast of the United States from Alaska all the way down to California. It has even been speculated that Russia may have tested a new weapon last year leading to a shut down of Los Angeles commercial air traffic control systems.

Earlier this morning former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that the U.S. and Russia are engaged in another cold war but warned that it could well go hot should tensions between the two nations continue to escalate.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/putin-sends-nuclear-bombers-over-english-chanel-transponders-turned-off-invisible-to-air-traffic-control_01302015

CANADA HAS ITS OWN ISIS SYMPATHIZERS–ONE WOMAN WHO TRAVEL IN AND OUT OF CANADA TO SPEND MONTHS AT A TIME IN SYRIA AND IRAQ SUPPORTING THE EXTREME ISLAMIST FACTION GIVING COMFORT AID IT WOULD SEEM–AS ONE TORONTO WOMAN LEAVES A TRAIL OF TWEETS LEAVING BEHIND HER WHERE ABOUT INFORMATION

The Toronto woman who Tweeted so sympathetically about ISIS probably had no idea that, when she left Canada late last year, she was being tracked by researchers following her movements using geocoding.

But every time she posted a Tweet, she was inadvertently giving away her location, allowing the researchers to map her as she travelled from the ISIS capital in Raqqah, Syria to the front lines in Kobani and Mosul.

“I did not see in their actions anything but the utmost of respect for me as a sister,” she wrote in Arabic from Kobani on Dec. 25. In another Tweet, she wrote: “God bless those who live on His path and who die on His path.”

By failing to turn off the locator on her cellphone, she not only left an incriminating electronic trail, she also highlighted a disturbing trend: Canadian women are increasingly involved in supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.

While most of the Canadians who have either left to join ISIS or who have been stopped by police en route are men, some are women. ISIS prohibits women from taking part in combat, so their roles are limited to serving as “jihadi brides.”

Every time a Toronto woman who Tweeted sympathetically about ISIS posted a Tweet, she was inadvertently giving away her location.

A report released Wednesday by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue said that about 550 of the 3,000 Western citizens in ISIS territory are women. The study looked at the social-media profiles of several women in ISIS, one of them a Canadian.

It found the women were motivated by extremist ideology that portrays Muslims as victims of oppression, depicts such Western countries as Canada as sinful, and claims it is their religious duty to populate the “pure” Islamic state.

“Female migrants are not just rejecting the culture and foreign policy of the West; they are also embracing a new vision for society. They hope to contribute to this society, governed by a strict interpretation of Shariah law,” it said.

Even given their limited, mostly domestic roles, the women pose a security threat. They not only support ISIS atrocities, but actively promote them online. “Perhaps the most important risk is that the female migrants can inspire others, both men and women, to carry out attacks in Western countries or to travel to Syria and Iraq.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/30/isis-sympathizers-road-to-jihad-from-canada-to-syria-to-iraq-tracked-one-tweet-at-a-time/

CHINA HAS ROBOT RESTAURANT SERVERS TO COUNTER THE SHORTAGE IN ITS LABOR FORCE AS THE NATION HAS GROWN AND EXPANDING ITS MIDDLE CLASS AND ITS SERVICE SECTOR GROWS TO SERVE THE DEMAND OF NEW ITS NEW FOUND LOCAL ECONOMY -ONE ROBOT SERVER COST $12,000 A TYPICAL WAGE FOR A PERSON WORKING FOR 2 YEARS AS A SERVER

A robot-waitress serves a customer without spilling a drop. She even says, "Here is what you ordered." The customer says the robot seems refreshing and hygienic. Another diner says, "I came as soon as I heard the have robots. I wanted to check it out."

The robots are programmed through a control panel to take the food to the designated table. They have a life expectancy of 10 years, and cost $12,000 each. That is the same it would cost to hire a human waitress for two years.

"Right now there's a labor shortage in the service industry," says restaurant owner Zhang Gengping. "When we do find people to hire, they quit right away. Robots cut our labor costs."

The robotic servers are manufactured by a company in Shenzhen. The company has been making Automatic Guided Vehicles, or AGVs, for factories for a decade. The carts roll along magnetic tape on the floor, so they can transport freight without human help.

The company thought it could use the same concept to make waitress robots. After a lot of trial and error to improve the dumpy prototype, they developed one that not only looks friendly, it also speaks. For example, they polite ask if they can pass a customer standing in front of them. It can even be programmed to speak regional dialects.

The robot has been drawing a lot of attention in the restaurant industry since it went on the market in December. In just one month, thirty robots were sold, and more than forty others were ordered.

The next generation models will also be able to take orders from customers.

"As soon as we make improvements, we get orders for the new models," says He Jianzhong, General Manager of the company. "We can't keep up with demand."

In China, the one-child policy has created a shortage of workers. Many manufacturers already use robots in production, but it's expected more companies will follow.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/insideasia/20150130.html

THE SINGLE CHILD PLANNED PARENTHOOD INSTITUTED BY CHINA AND ITS CULTURE OF 1 MALE CHILD HAS COME TO HAUNT THE NEXT GENERATION AS CHINESE BRIDES HAVE BECOME A SHORTAGE BECOMING A CRISIS–AKIN TO LEFTIST RUNNING A SOCIETY TO THE GROUND FOR CHAOS SAKE

Figures released this month show that at the end of 2014, China had 701 million men and 667 million women — a shortfall of nearly 34 million.

With 120 men for every 100 women, China’s Bridget Joneses are now male, and increasingly desperate for a date.

The country’s media has begun advertising options for foreign wives, recommending women from Japan, South Korea and even Ukraine. Men are turning to online dating, advertising themselves on billboards and even hiring professional matchmakers, psychologists and stylists to make themselves more appealing.

The race is on for boys to find their future wives. Source: News Corp Australia

Beijing News provided a helpful chart showing top destinations around the globe for China’s male singletons to find a partner. The newspaper also blamed the “export” of women overseas for the shortage of single women.

In truth, the biggest problem has been the country’s one-child policy, which led parents to abandon girls or use sex-selective abortion to guarantee a male child. Chinese hospitals have been banned from revealing a baby’s sex to the parents since 1995, but families can secretly obtain black-market sonogram tests, where blood samples are carried over the border for testing.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/shes-just-not-that-into-you-chinas-bachelors-in-crisis-thanks-to-shortage-of-women/story-fnet09y4-1227202892590

SAMSUNG AND SK HYNIX PUSHES FOR 3-D NAND MEMORY SSD, AS SOLID STATE MEMORY TAKES OVER THE SERVER CLASS HARD DRIVES AND 3-D NAND BRINGS IN THE DENSITY REQUIRED AT A COMFORTABLE LOWER COST FOR GOOGLE, HP, AND IBM SERVER CLIENTS - THE GLOBAL MEMORY CHIPS ARE CONTROLLED BY SAMSUNG, SK HYNIX AND MICRON

Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chip producer, is betting big on three-dimensional (3D) NAND flash memory chips.
These chips are used in the next-generation solid state drives (SSDs) for corporate servers and data centers.
An advantage of 3D NAND chips is they require a more relaxed geometry process than planar NAND. In one-dimensional NAND, cells run out of electrons as they scale down the micron trail.
With only tens of electrons per cell at the sub-20-nanometer-level processing technology, a NAND chip's performance is quite unpredictable.
A 3D NAND chip, in contrast, has hundreds of electrons per cell, which greatly improves memory production efficiency, density, data storage capacity and performance over existing chips.
The global memory chip market is controlled by the "big three" companies ― Samsung, SK hynix and Micron Technology.
The two Korean chip makers ― Samsung and SK hynix ― are speeding up development of 3D NAND production technology.
Industry officials said Samsung's 3D NAND flash facilities in Xian, China, were on track to improve the quality of the chips before shipping them to clients such as Google, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2015/01/133_172744.html

THE LEFTIST POTUS BHO GIVEAWAY OF AMERICAS NATIONAL SECURITY MOVES ON FORWARD–AS JP RELEASES NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN BY THE POTUS BHO AGREES TO 80% OF IRAN’S REQUEST

Israeli officials told Channel 10 on Friday that they are convinced the Obama administration has already agreed to most of Iran’s demands in the P5+1 negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
According to unnamed officials, Washington “has given the Iranians 80 percent of what they want” out of the negotiations, Channel 10 is reporting.
Jerusalem officials appear alarmed at the prospect that the United States will soon strike a deal with the Iranian regime that will leave it with a “breakout point” of months before it can gallop toward the bomb.
An Obama administration official dismissed the claims in the Channel 10 report as "complete nonsense."

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Obama-has-agreed-to-80-percent-of-Irans-demands-in-nuclear-talks-Israeli-officials-tell-Ch-10-389532

SKYMALL FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY AFTER 25 YEARS OF BRINGING IN FLIGHT MERCHANDIZE ORDER CATALOG FOR THE AIRLINE PASSENGER

Say bon voyage to a friendly in-flight travel companion for the past 25 years. SkyMall has crashed.

Last week, SkyMall LLC, which publishes the well-known in-flight catalog, and its parent company, Xhibit Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Phoenix court. SkyMall has suspended operations and fired nearly a third of its staff.

The company’s interim management says it's hoping to keep the SkyMall brand alive through a sale. But it’s difficult to see who the buyer would be considering major airlines, such as Delta and Southwest, already have canceled their deal to carry the catalog on their planes and other airlines are likely to follow as the company faces the financial abyss.

Perusing the SkyMall magazine at 35,000 feet on a flight from Los Angeles to New York, it was hard to imagine someone feeling the immediate need to spend $1,800 on an electric unicycle or $70 and on a lithograph of a drunken cat($1,200 if you wanted it on canvas). I will cop to a passing interest in the “LaserComb” that promised to regrow hair, because, well, what if it worked! But I never actually considered buying the thing.

When you consider many of the unintentionally hilarious products in its pages, it's remarkable that it stayed afloat for as long as it did.-  

I was in the minority, however, because people apparently were shopping at 35,000 feet, lots of them. SkyMall’s strategy was based on those pure numbers. It said it reached roughly 650 million passengers each year. So SkyMall negotiated deals to make it the exclusive in-flight catalog partner for numerous airlines. Ultimately its reach covered 90% of the passengers on U.S. flights. And the company’s internal research indicated that about 70% of all passengers read SkyMall on every flight.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ol-skymall-20150128-story.html

SO WITHOUT THE US ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN THE TALIBAN CAN FREE WHEEL ITS WAY TO KILLING US CITIZENS AS MORE AMERICAN BLOODS GETS HANDED TO THE POTUS BHO–HIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT HAS NO REMORSE OR WANT SAFETY FOR AMERICANS WORKING ABROAD–AS THE AGENDA TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN BECOME ANOTHER LOSING LEGACY FOR THE DEMOCRAT BHO - BENEFITING THAT THE DEMOCRAT HAVE INSTITUTED A LOSER FOREIGN POLICY

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed three American civilian contractors Thursday in Afghanistan.

On Twitter, a Taliban spokesman said the attacker had infiltrated the Afghan security forces and was working at Kabul's airport. The spokesman said the attacker had “opened fire on invaders" and was killed, the Washington Post reported.

It was not clear if he was the Afghan national who had been named as one of the dead.

The White House on Thursday characterized the Taliban as an “armed insurgency” rather than a terrorist group. Deputy press secretary Eric Schultz made that distinction based on the fact that, though the Taliban make use of “tactics that are akin to terrorism,” they are not interested in operating outside of Afghanistan.

Attacks by Afghan forces on westerners is becoming increasingly common in recent years. The uptick caused the Pentagon and NATO to increase the restrictions on how Western forces interacted with Afghan soldiers in 2012.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/231243-taliban-says-it-carried-out-deadly-attack-in-kabul

THE PUSHOVER GOP ARE AT IT AGAIN WHEN THEY GIVE AWAY THEIR BACKBONE TO STAND UP ON–THE GOP NEEDS TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT LIBERTY ,THE MANDATE THEY HAVE BEEN VOTED IN FOR AND COME HELL OR HIGH WATER THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED FOR IT BY FORCING THE AGENDA ANN COULTER EXPLAINS

The Republican leadership in Congress still hasn't held hearings on why college is so expensive, although I proposed the idea two weeks ago. Of course, it's been a month since the GOP took control of Congress, and they also haven't voided Obama's unconstitutional executive amnesty, passed e-Verify, a fence bill or the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act.
Democrats are on offense all the time, even when they've just had their legs cut off. They announce absurd agenda items and then indignantly demand to know why Republicans are refusing to deal with the free unicorn-rides proposal. Obama is a lame-duck president and, three months ago, his party was slaughtered in midterm elections. And yet, I gather that his State of the Union address consisted of a litany of insanely expensive, utterly pointless ideas.
And Republicans fall for it every time. They consider it a major victory to come back with a free-market approach to surrender.
In response to Obama's "free" community college idea, Republicans should say:We're not giving you anything, and, in fact, we're demanding answers from the entire "higher ed" establishment. You'll be surprised how liberating and fun it is to go on offense, Republicans.

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2015-01-28.html

THE LEGACY OF THE POTUS BHO WITH ALL THE MILITARY HARDWARE AND THE GREATEST MILITARY AFFORDED TO HIM–HE STILL MANAGES TO LOSE YEMEN A CLOSE ALLY OF THE USA–IT JUST GOES TO SHOW GIVE A LEFTIST LIBERAL POWER AND THE DEMOCRAT WILL SQUANDER IT AWAY–JUST LIKE IRAN WITH JIMMY CARTER

What went wrong for the U.S.-backed government in Yemen and what are the consequences for counterterrorism operations there against al-Qaida’s most dangerous affiliate? Both questions have disturbing answers.
President Obama touted Yemen just last September as a country where the U.S. “successfully” was “taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines.” Some administration officials feared Obama’s boast would haunt him, and sure enough, just over a week later, Shiite rebels from the Houthi movement seized the Yemeni capital, Saana.
Last week, after four months of relentless pressure from the Houthis and the collapse of his military, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi resigned. Yemen became another shard of the splintering Middle East. The two most powerful forces, the Iran-backed Houthis and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, are both strongly anti-American.
What happened in Yemen is not very different from the stories of other Arab nations shaken by the “Arab Spring” revolutions. Armies that had seemed strong under authoritarian rulers crumpled against insurgents. U.S. military intervention hasn’t checked the disintegration, nor has American retreat. The conclusion is so obvious we sometimes overlook it: This history is being written by the Arabs, not outsiders. Foreign assistance can help strong, broadly based governments, but not fragile, polarized ones.
Yemen looked like a place where the U.S. had learned lessons from the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion. The U.S. wanted to replace a corrupt dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, but the deal to install Hadi in February 2012 was brokered by the regional powers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. America offered military help, but with the light footprint of special forces, rather than an Iraq-style occupying army. The U.S. sought compromise through a “national dialogue” and a U.N.-sponsored constitutional process.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150130001101

DEMOCRATS HAVE NEVER HAD AN OUNCE OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY SINCE AT EVERY TURN THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TAX PAYERS MONEYS SINCE NONE OF IT IS THEIRS AND THEY CAN ROLL IN THE WE’RE IN THE MONEY–AS HILARY CLINTON LIKE THE POTUS BHO FLEECE THE TAX PAYERS FOR THEIR SPENDING PLEASURE FOR THE LEFTIST HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN YOU AND ME AS THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE–HILLARY CLINTON THE POSTER CHILD OF THE DEMOCRAT FRONT RUNNER FOR POTUS IN 2016 GOES ON THE TAX PAYERS SPENDING BINGE WITH 200 PRIVATE JETS SETTING FLIGHTS WHILST A SENATOR–THE FAT CATS ARE ROLLING IN YOUR MONEY ALRIGHT

Hillary Clinton took more than 200 privately chartered flights at taxpayer expense during her eight years in the U.S. Senate, sometimes using the jets of corporations and major campaign donors as she racked up $225,756 in flight costs.

Clinton, 67, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, reported the travel in official filings with the Senate. The records were provided to Bloomberg News by a Republican operative.

Some of the companies whose planes she used included Coca-Cola Co., Citigroup Inc. and Saban Capital Group Inc.

While the flights fell within congressional rules and were not out of the ordinary for senators at the time, they could play into the emerging Republican line of attack that Clinton’s wealth and years in government office have left her out of touch with the voters she’ll court on the campaign trail.

Republican Mitt Romney, who is considering another bid for president, took a swipe at Clinton’s suggestion to voters that “corporations and businesses” don’t create jobs when he spoke in Starkville, Mississippi, last night.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/hillary-clinton-flew-jets-on-taxpayer-funds-in-senate

SO BLACK ON BLACK KILLINGS GETS ONLY THE HONORARY NO MENTION WHEN IT COMES TO THE MSM REPORTING AS POLICE OFFICERS SHOOTING OF BLACK ASSAILANTS GETS FRONT PAGE NEWS–WHILST THE GHETTOS GET AWAY WITH MURDER AS CASES ARE NOT DEEMED HIGH PRIORITY FROM THE LIKES OF THE DOJ ERIC HOLDER NOR THE DEMOCRATS CARPET BAGGERS SINCE NOTHING TO BE GAINED FROM SENSATIONALIZING KILLINGS OF BLACKS BY BLACK GANGS AS LA WATTS BOOK REVEAL HOMICIDES IN US GHETTOS GOES UNDER COVER - CALLED GHETTOSIDE BY JILL LEOVY

The killings of unarmed black men by police in Missouri and New York have dominated recent headlines, but the slayings of black males by other blacks in the nation’s most violent ghettos still get barely a footnote.
Americans have long been complacent about these anonymous murders, many of them gang-related, most of which go unsolved. The notion that such killings are not newsworthy is reflected in the label that used to be given them by members of the Los Angeles Police Department: “NHI ― No Human Involved.”
Thankfully, that has changed, according to Jill Leovy’s riveting account of a relentless homicide detective’s investigation of a senseless 2007 killing in Watts in which a gentle and good-natured 18-year-old was gunned down after being mistaken for a target in a gang rivalry.
“Ghettoside,” a term picked up by police from a Watts gang member to describe his neighborhood, embraces both the locale of the violence and the culture and mindset that impedes police from bringing killers to justice. Terrified witnesses who cooperate with investigators are labeled as snitches and often are subject to intimidation and fear for their lives.
The hero of “Ghettoside,” veteran detective John Skaggs, cut his teeth during “the Big Years” of the early 1990s, when the number of killings was far higher than it is today. His people skills, ability to detect lies and knowledge of the folkways of the ghetto serve him well as he works to nab the killer of Bryant Tennelle.
The way solid police work cracks a case that at first seemed insolvable reads like a thrilling police procedural set in a neighborhood fraught with danger. The most gripping episodes come as Skaggs manages to persuade the girlfriend of one of the killers to testify against him and then keeps her safe and sober in the face of death threats.
An award-winning reporter and editor with the Los Angeles Times, Leovy in 2007 created an innovative blog that covered all of the city’s 845 murders that year. Most of the killings took place in ghetto neighborhoods and most of the victims were young black men.

 

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150129001332

THE AIR APPARENT POTUS BHO AGENDA KEEPS ON MOVING FORWARD EVEN WHEN POLICIES NEVER HELPS THE COMMON AMERICAN–AS THE PRICE OF THE NATURAL EARTH RESOURCE ENERGY BEING DEVELOPED BY PRIVATE INDUSTRY HAS JUMPED START THE ECONOMY THROUGH THE LOWER COST IN ENERGY PRICING FOR THE COMMON AMERICAN IN 2014–SO WHAT DOES THE DEMOCRAT POTUS MUST DO TO CURTAIL THE NEW LOWER ENERGY COSTS–RESTRICT MORE ACRES FROM ENERGY EXPLORATION 12 MILLION ACRES IN THE LARGEST LAND MASS US STATE CALLED ALASKA–THE LAME DUCK LEFTIST CHAOS JUST CAN’T STOP THE AGENDA OF CONTROLLING AMERICANS

President Obama announced Sunday he will seek congressional protection for 12 million acres of Alaska’s coastline in order to protect the land and offshore areas from oil and gas exploration.

The president said he plans to ask Congress to designate the acreage, which lies within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), as “wilderness,” thereby conveying federally protected status and forbidding development.

“Alaska’s national wildlife refuge is an incredible place: pristine, undisturbed,” the president said in a White House video. “It supports caribou and polar bears, all manner of marine life, countless species of birds and fish, and, for centuries, it supported many Alaskan native communities.

“But it’s very fragile. That’s why I’m very proud that my Department of Interior has put forward a comprehensive plan to make sure that we’re protecting the refuge, and/or designating new areas, including coastal plains, for preservation. And I’m gonna be calling on Congress to make sure that they take it one step further: designating it as a wilderness, so we can make sure that this amazing wonder is preserved for future generations.”

http://personalliberty.com/obama-extends-reach-anwr-lands-keep-oil-industry/

CAN YOU SPOT THE GERMAN SNIPERS CAMOUFLAGE IN THESE PHOTOS– IF NOT BAM

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/can-you-find-the-german-snipers-and-experts-in-camouflage-hiding-in-these-photos/story-fnpjxnlk-1227191842024

IT’S THE FREE AIRWAVES LIKE RADIO NOT THE INTERNET IS HOW NORTH KOREANS GET INFORMATION FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD–ONLY THE LEFTIST POTUS BHO CAN CLAIM ANOTHER ARAB SPRING CAN FREE THE PEOPLES OF NORTH KOREA–CONSIDER THE DEMOCRAT POTUS IS ALWAYS A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT WHEN BACKING THE WRONG HORSE IN THE RACE–WHEN FREE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FREE AND NOT SOME PROPAGANDA BS

North Korea's control of information for its hunger stricken people is starting to develop "cracks," with more people listening to foreign radio broadcasts and watching outside TV programs and movies, the U.S. human rights envoy said.
Amb. Robert King, special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, made the remark during a speech last week in Brussels, according to a transcript provided Monday by the State Department. He was addressing the European Parliament subcommittee on human rights.
"Cracks in the information blockade are starting to form," King said. "The latest study by the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors found that 35 percent of North Korean refugees and travelers had listened to foreign radio broadcasts inside North Korea, even though it is still illegal to possess a radio that can be tuned."
The envoy also said that about 85 percent of refugees and travelers abroad have seen foreign DVDs in the North and North Koreans are increasingly familiar with South Korean K-Pop and have seen movies like "Titanic" and "Bend It Like Beckham."
King lauded the EU for playing a leading role in getting a landmark resolution on North Korea's human rights record to pass through the U.N. General Assembly last year. The resolution calls for referring the issue to the International Criminal Court.
"The world will not, and cannot, close its eyes to what is happening in North Korea," he said. "Ultimately, we will judge the North not by its words, but by its actions -- the concrete steps it takes to address the core concerns of the international community, from its nuclear program to its human rights violations," he said. (Yonhap)

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2015/01/485_172488.html

MEANWHILE THE POTUS BHO ADMIN DOES THE COVER UP FOR THE KILLINGS THAT IS OF IS–AS BENGHAZI, LYBIA THE CORNERSTONE OF THE MATCH STICK THAT FREES THE CURRENT IS TO DO WHAT IS DOES BEST BY KILLING THE FREE WESTERN PEOPLE TO THEIR LIKING–AND THE POTUS BHO COVERS IT UP ALONG WITH THE HILLARY CLINTON THEN SECRETARY OF STATE WHO PUSHES THE DRUG THE VIDEO MADE ISLAM GO NUTS ON THE 911 ANNIVERSARY BACK IN 2012

Documents obtained Monday through a federal court order show State Department officials disseminated the false story that the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed a U.S. ambassador was nothing more than the violent escalation of a demonstration by Muslims against an insulting video, even though they knew it was a coordinated military-style assault.

Among the documents obtained by the Washington-based government watchdog Judicial Watch was a memo sent the day after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack to the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, by the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Command Center titled “Emergency Message to U.S. Citizens: Demonstrations.”

he Diplomatic Security Command Center, or DSCC, was well aware that the attack was carried out by highly organized and armed Islamic militia, because the DSCC was the unit that monitored the attack in real time via video transmissions from a drone.

The message is identical to the emergency message issued by the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and archived on the embassy’s website.

The emergency message reads in the first paragraph: “On September 11, 2012, violent demonstrations took place at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in damage in both locations and casualties in Benghazi. Media reports indicate that demonstrations may take place at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis on Wednesday, September 12, 2012.”

‘They knew’

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the DSCC “clearly knew in real time that a full-fledged terrorist attack was taking place on September 11 at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, and the American people deserve to be told the truth.”

“We are now into the fourth year of a massive Obama administration cover-up,” Fitton said

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3251018/posts

THE WACKY IS TERROR COMES OUT PRANCING JUST LIKE THEIR STYLE–TO KILL THE WEST IS THE NEW MOTTO–THE BAGGY HEADS THAT THEY ARE–AS ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD STAND IN WITNESS TO THEIR FORM OF GENOCIDE AGAINST YOU THE FREE PEOPLE WHILST THEY PROCLAIM NOTHING MORE THAN THE OLD METHOD OF KILLINGS PRACTICED BY DICTATORS WHOM THEY DEEM NOT WORTHY TO THEIR FORM OF EVIL–A NEW VIDEO FROM ISLAM REJOICES IN THEIR BRAND OF HATE FOR THE WAY OF THE WEST–AS THEY NOW TARGET THE EAST INCLUDING JAPAN

The Islamic State militant group has released a new audio statement calling for attacks on Western countries.
The group praised recent terror attacks in France, Australia and other countries in a speech purportedly made by its spokesperson.
But the statement posted online on Monday did not mention either of the Japanese men thought to have been kidnapped by Islamic State militants. A radio station operated by the group has reported that one of the men, Haruna Yukawa, was executed.
The audio clip said the battle against Western countries is becoming increasingly fierce. It called on supporters of the group around the world to carry out more attacks against Western countries.
It said US-led air raids have failed to defeat the group. It said Islamic State is growing strong and spreading fear in the Crusaders' countries.
The statement stressed that attacks on countries taking part in the US-led campaign against the group have become more likely.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20150127_07.html

KING 2 HEART A ROMEO AND JULIET LIKE TAKE ON THE NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN RELATIONSHIP OF A MAKE BELIEVE SOUTH KOREAN MONARCHY RULING JOSEON DYNASTY KDRAMA–WITH AN ALWAYS ROMANTIC OVERTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BALLADS FROM KIM TAYEON SNSD CALLED MISSING YOU LIKE CRAZY–STARRING HA JI WON

 

Description:

This drama is set in modern day where South Korea is governed by a constitutional monarchy. Lee Jae Ha is a handsome and materialistic crown prince that doesn't care about politics. He falls for Kim Hyang Ah, a North Korean special forces agent.

http://www.chia-anime.com/drama/series/korean-drama/the-king-2-hearts/

DRAMAFEVER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzd9WoSkJtg

THE NEW RACIST WORDS ACCORDING TO THE ATLANTA BLACKSTAR–WORDS WITH HIDDEN MEANING IT SEEMS–CAN’T SAY THEM ANYMORE I SUPPOSE

It never fails to amuse me when people who make their living peddling racial indignation work hard to associate negative characteristics with black people, blissfully unaware of how racist they are. The latest example comes from a black-oriented newspaper in Atlanta, called The Atlanta Blackstar (hat tip: Top Right News), which claims they are just alternative forms of the N-word. No kidding! The piece is titled, “The N-Word, Updated: 6 Code Words or Terms That Often Mean the Same Thing”

A favorite tactic is to claim that “code words” or else “dog whistles” are being used when negative words are used – that these bad things are rally all about blacks. The Blackstar prefers to “code word” method. Here are six alleged code words that only, in their fevered imagination, apply to black people.

“Thug”

Perhaps these geniuses are unaware that this word has its origin in India, with the Thuggeee cult. Nonetheless, they are sure that it really just means black people.

“Urban/Inner City”

I will grant you that this is a euphemism for black. I sometimes refer to the color my car as “urban,” in jest, of course. But a substitute for the N-word? Tell it to the National Urban League

“State’s Rights”

Since when is calling someone a “state’s rights” an insult? I think maybe they mean that people who embrace state’s rights do so in order to discriminate against black people.  For people who claim to be updating matters, the reference to the battles of the 1950s and 1960s, when some Southern states resisted federal civil rights laws in the name of state’s rights is awfully archaic. State’s rights is mostly about the Tenth Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights.

“Welfare and Food Stamps”

Here they go again, negatively stereotyping black people. Most welfare and food stamp recipients are white. Can’t they use Google?

“Law and Order”

I guess they don’t know that black people are disproportionately affected by crime. In any event, calling someone a “law and order type” has never in my mind been associated with the N-word. It seems as though they think black people are criminals. Talk about negative stereotyping!

“Cut taxes”

Again, “tax cutter” is not a substitute for the N-word, but they explain, “cutting taxes has long been racial code for not using tax payer money to help Black and brown people.” Here they perpetuate the stereotype of black people being dependent on government handouts.

Spot the real racists.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/youre_probably_a_racist_and_here_are_six_more_reasons_why.html

TURKEY THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY FOR JOINING ISIS ACROSS ITS BORDER WITH SYRIA- SO MUCH FOR SECURING YOUR SIDE OF THE BORDER–AS A KOREAN TEEN WHO JOINED VIA WEB CONTACT WITH THE ISLAM TERRORISTS GETS HIS WISH VIA THE TURKEY LAND ROUTE –WHICH SIDE OF TERROR DOES TURKEY CAMP IN–MAYBE THE SAME SIDE AS THE POTUS BHO CHAOS WHO ALLOWED ISIS TO GROW IN NUMBERS AS HIS POLICY OF FLEE WHILE YOU CAN FROM IRAQ STAMPED HIS LEGACY AS THE TERRORIST HAVEN OF REST

The Twitter account has been confirmed by Seoul police to be that of a South Korean teenager who went missing recently on the Turkey-Syria border.

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s international criminal investigative team confirmed the 18-year-old teen, surnamed “Kim” to be registered as “sunni mujahideen” on Twitter. The police said that Kim appeared to have exchanged tweets with Twitter users affiliated with the Islamic State (IS).

The whereabouts of the 18-year-old have been unknown since he arrived in Turkey on Jan. 10. A Turkish newspaper reported over the weekend that he had exchanged emails with IS members and crossed into Syria to join the terrorist organization.

A foreign ministry official said Tuesday that CTTV footage obtained by Turkish authorities shows Kim riding a cab with an unidentified man after meeting him in Kilis, a town on the Syria border, Yonhap News Agency reported.

Kim and the man got off near a refugee camp some 18 kilometers from Kilis.

Kim’s Twitter account shows that he frequently exchanged tweets with another Twitter user, “H. abode afriki,” referring to him as “brother,” and introducing himself as a person from Chechnya, Russia. He also expressed a hatred of feminists.

He expressed that he “wants to join ISIS” on Oct. 4 on Twitter, and later posted that that he is “ready to go to Turkey, but doesn’t know anyone,” on Oct. 9 last year, asking where he can meet “brothers.”

http://www.koreatimesus.com/missing-korean-teen-talked-about-hating-feminists-and-wanting-to-join-isis-on-twitter/

THE PHILIPINES WAR AGAINST MUSLIMS TERRORISTS TAKES A SETBACK AS 30 ANTI TERROR COMMANDOS DEAD AFTER A RAID–AS THE SO CALLED MORO ISLAMIC GROUP WHO HAD SIGNED A PEACE TREATY IN 2014 CAME OUT FIGHTING OVERWHELMING THE POLICE COMMANDOS

More than 30 police commandos were killed in a clash with Muslim insurgents Sunday in the southern Philippines in the biggest single-day combat loss for Philippine forces in many years, officials said.

The commandos had entered the far-flung village of Tukanalipao at dawn looking for a top terror suspect, but had a "misencounter" with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other insurgents, Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano town told The Associated Press by telephone.

Other insurgents in the area later joined in fighting the outnumbered police forces, the mayor said.

The Moro group signed a peace deal with the government last year.

Ampatuan, the Moro group and military officials said the police commandos did not co-ordinate their plan to enter the Muslim rebel village before sunrise, apparently resulting in the fierce fighting.

The fighting in the marshy village of corn and coconut plantations subsided after several hours when members of a cease-fire committee and foreign truce monitors intervened, Ampatuan said, adding he deployed a team of village leaders and guards, who saw more than 30 of the slain commandos scattered in the battle scene.

"What they described to me was gruesome," Ampatuan said.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/more-30-filipino-anti-terror-police-commandos-killed-141455963.html

THE UNSTOPPABLE APPLE TAKES ITS BITE OF THE LOCAL SMARTPHONE MARKET SHARE FROM SAMSUNG IN KOREA–DROPPING SAMSUNG FROM 60% TO 46% AND APPLE JUMPING TO 33% OF THE MARKET

The launch of the new products pulled up Apple’s Korean market share to 33 percent, knocking Samsung’s share below 50 percent to 46 percent.
Apple currently has a 51 percent market share in Japan, and 12 percent in China, not far behind the Chinese companies Xiaomi and Lenovo, and ahead of Samsung’s 9 percent.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150125000196

THE POTUS BHO NOR THE VPOTUS JB WILL NOT WANT TO BE PART OF THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CEREMONY MARKING THE 70TH YEAR OF THE LIBERATION OF AUSCHWITZ–TOO BUSY BURYING HIS HEAD IN THE SAND OF THE EVILS IN THE WORLD

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will represent the United States at the 70th anniversary ceremony for the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Tuesday—rather than President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden—while other countries are slated to send their heads of state.

Tuesday’s ceremony will likely be the last major anniversary where a significant number of survivors of the Nazi camp are present. About 300 are expected to attend, and most of them are in their 90s or older than 100. Nazi authorities killed 1.1 million people at the camp, mostly Jews, which was liberated by the Soviet army in January 1945.

The New York Times reported on the foreign dignitaries that would be present:

A preliminary list of those attending includes President François Hollande of France, President Joachim Gauck of Germany and President Heinz Fischer of Austria, as well as King Philippe of Belgium, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The United States delegation will be led by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he would not attend because his schedule was too crowded and because he had not received an invitation. Museum officials said no head of state had received one. Mr. Putin had attended the 60th anniversary ceremony in 2005 — it was Soviet troops, after all, who liberated the camp in 1945 — but relations between Russia and Poland have soured over the conflict in Ukraine.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-will-not-attend-70th-anniversary-of-auschwitz-liberation/

LET’S CHECK ON THE POTUS BHO VETO POWER WITH SENATOR TED CRUZ (R-TX) WITH ISIS RETURNING FROM FIGHTING ON THE LOSING SIDE AND TO MENTION THE ENEMY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RETURN BACK TO THE USA–TED CRUZ PLANS A BILL TO STOP AMERICANS WHO CHOSE TO FIGHT FOR ISIS BE BANNED FROM RETURNING TO US SOIL–THE AIR APPARENT POTUS BHO CAN’T SEEM TO LIFT THE LEFTIST PEN TO CREATE HIS LAWS TO STRIP CITIZENSHIP OF ANY ISIS SUPPORTERS SINCE KNOWING WHICH SIDE THE DEMOCRAT ROOTS FOR–BUT THEN WE MAY SEE THAT PENNACLE PEN LIFTED TO VETO THE SENATOR’S BILL

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) re-introduced legislation Friday that would strip U.S. citizenship from individuals suspected of traveling overseas to fight alongside ISIS and other known terror organizations.

“We’ve seen the grave consequence of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy unravel with respect to Iran, Russia and now Yemen,” Cruz said of the legislation. “These consequences are not confined to faraway lands. They directly threaten America and our allies.”

“That is why this week, I am re-filing the Expatriate Terrorist Act, which prevents Americans who have fought abroad for designated terrorist groups from returning to the United States,” he said. “I look forward to working with senators on both sides of the aisle on this and additional measures to secure our nation and restore America’s leadership in the world.”

Cruz first presented a version of his Expatriate Terrorist Act (E.T.A.) last year, but Senate Democrats quashed the proposal because it hadn’t been examined by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Legislation that grants the government the ability to strip citizenship from Americans is a serious matter, raising significant constitutional issues,” said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) at the time.

Cruz responded to objections against the legislation with disappointment, saying that his common-sense proposal was meant to quickly address a direct threat to the safety of American citizens.

“The question is very simple: would any reasonable person want an American who is right now in Iraq, who is right now training with ISIS, who is right now taking up arms, who is right now participating in crucifying Christians, who is right now beheading children, who [has] right now participated in beheading two American journalists, who is right now standing arm in arm with virulent terrorists who have pledged to take jihad to America — would anyone of good conscience in either party want that person to be able to come back and land in LaGuardia airport with a U.S. passport and walk unmolested onto our streets?” he said.

Cruz contends that the changing nature of global terror threats– including the increasing ease with which terror groups can reach out to and radicalize Westerners using social media — merits a new discussion about providing due process to people who leave the U.S. to join foreign radicals.

http://personalliberty.com/cruz-common-sense-americans-join-terrorists-lose-citizenship/

IS AFRICA EVER IN A STATE OF REST FROM VIOLENCE EVEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY–WHEN YOU HAVE LEADERS THAT CAN’T SUSTAIN JOB GROWTH ALL YOU WOULD GET IS CHAOS–FOLLOWING THE LEFTIST MODEL AGENDA IT SEEMS

The Democratic Republic of Congo's lower house of parliament on Saturday agreed to scrap a contested part of an electoral bill that would have enabled President Joseph Kabila to extend his grip on power and that triggered days of deadly protests.

National Assembly speaker Aubin Minaku told AFP the controversial provision that would have delayed 2016 polls by making them depend on a census would be withdrawn from the planned legislation, which lawmakers will put to a vote in coming days.

The Senate already unanimously agreed to back down on the census issue on Friday, but the National Assembly has the final word on the matter.

Anger at the proposed legislation prompted bloody confrontations between anti-Kabila protesters and police this week that left at least 40 people dead.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Saturday that it had confirmed 36 dead in protests in the capital Kinshasa, 21 of whom were fatally shot by security forces, and four dead in the eastern city of Goma.

Speaker Minaku said there had been "no question of violating the constitution" and accused the opposition of fomenting the unrest.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150124-dr-congo-parliament-drop-contested-part-election-bill-amid-unrest/

CARL’S JR SUPER BOWL AD OF FREE CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY MAYBE TOO RISKY FOR THE VIEWING EYES–BUT THEN THIS IS THE 2015 SUPERBOWL WHERE ANYTHING GOES OFF

Model Charlotte McKinney is the star of a new Carl’s Jr. ad that is scheduled to air during the Super Bowl, but the ad could be banned from airing in regions across the country because McKinney is simply too hot.

The Washington Free Beacon, a staunchly anti-censorship publication, has decided that shielding America’s eyes from McKinney, who has been hailed, by the Free Beacon, as the “next Kate Upton,” would be a terrible mistake.

http://freebeacon.com/culture/free-charlotte-mckinney/

US NAVY TRANSPORT VESSEL USNS SGT MATEJ KOCAK GROUNDED OFF THE PORT OF OKINAWA JAPAN

….The crew of the ship, which is operated by the Military Sealift Command, includes 38 civilians, 26 Marines and 67 soldiers.

High tide Thursday night did not refloat Kocak naturally, Banks said, so planners must find another way to remove the ship. Military experts on groundings were headed Friday to the scene, about six miles from the Uruma coastline, and divers were assessing the situation, officials said.

Tugboats were keeping the ship stable.

"We cannot make attempt to float the vessel with tugs before the assessment is completed," Banks said.

Floating a grounded ship depends on many factors and can be as simple as towing the ship off a ledge; or, as in the extreme case of the USS Guardian in 2013 when it struck a coral reef in the Philippines, it can mean systematically dismantling a ship at sea.

It was unclear Friday afternoon if the 821-foot ship was transiting in shallow waters, or if it was moving within generally deep waters and struck an outcropping. It was also unknown if any live coral was affected, and there were no reports of fuel leaking into the water, Banks added.

Okinawa, an island of about 1.4 million people, is home to the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan and considered strategically valuable because of its proximity to several potential flashpoints in the Asia-Pacific region.

The island is also economically dependent on drawing tourists, many of whom come to explore its warm-water reefs.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/23/crews-search-for-ways-to-free-grounded-military-sealift-command.html?comp=7000023317843&rank=10

THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOW COMPLAINING THAT THE POTUS BHO CHAOS HAS TOO MUCH EXECUTIVE POWER WITH HIS PENNACLE LEFTIST PEN WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING EXECUTIVES LAWS WITH TRADE DEALS–BUT THE SAME DEMOCRATS TURN THE OTHER CHEEK WITH ALL OTHER LIBERAL PENNACLE PEN EXECUTIVE LAW MAKING–APPARENTLY DEMOCRATS DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU CAN’T HAVE ONE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU AND THE OTHER LEFTIST HAND TO SLAP YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD–BOTH EXECUTIVE LAW MAKING IS ILLEGAL IN A CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ABIDING SOVEREIGN STATE

Congressional Democrats have strongly supported President Obama's use of executive authority — but there is one power that many don’t want him to have.

Liberals are waging a vigorous fight against Obama’s push for expanded trade power, fearing it would lead to trade deals that favor corporate interests over American workers.

Democrats and some Republicans are adamant that trade promotion authority (TPA) would give Obama’s trade team too much control over negotiations, and are making their opposition known in a barrage of press conferences on Capitol Hill.

"I have long supported President Obama. I believe he generally wants to improve the lives of working Americans,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn) after Obama asked for help from both parties on trade in his State of the Union address.

"But on the issue of trade, I will oppose the administration because unfortunately they are following the same exact policy that has failed in the past.”

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) called the president’s acknowledgment that trade deals “haven’t always lived up to the hype” the “understatement of the year.”

Democrats opposed to “fast-track” authority say it is just a way to ram through major trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and a deal with the European Union, with little congressional oversight. 

Those same Democrats have a litany of complaints about fast-track authority — they say the policy pushes Congress and the public to the sidelines, ships good-paying jobs overseas and enables bad trade agreements that erode wages.

There also is a sense from opponents on both sides of the aisle that lawmakers are ceding their constitutional authority to the White House.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/230619-the-one-power-democrats-dont-want-obama-to-have

THE POTUS DEMOCRAT BHO CHAOS LEGACY OF HELPING THE POOR BACKFIRES WHEN THERE AIN’T ANY JOBS FOR THEM–AS HOMELESS SKID ROW GROWS JUST LIKE THE GRAPES OF WRATH–AS THE AGENDA OF NO JOBS FOR YOU IS MOVING FORWARD FULL STEAM AHEAD WITH 9 MILLION NO LONGER LOOKING FOR WORK IN THE USA–AS THE SAME GOV CA DEMOCRAT BROWN SHIRT BROWN HAS DONE NOTHING–JUST LIKE BEING ON A PERMANENT HAWAIIN VACATION SPENDING TAX PAYERS DOLLARS FOLLOWING HIS MENTOR THE POTUS BHO

Evicted four months ago from their Highland Park apartment, Louis Morales and his 18-year-old stepson, Arthur Valenzuela, live half-hidden by brush along the nearby Arroyo Seco riverbed.

Morales, 49, keeps a framed bible verse and a stuffed monkey in his tent. Water hauled by bike from a park heats up on the camp stove.

Next door, their friend Johnny Salazar fixes bikes and shattered computer screens on the cheap for people who live in the neighborhood. A brother and sister Morales has known for years live up the river, and three couples stay down by the bridge.

"Everybody here is from Highland Park," Valenzuela said. "We don't allow other people."

Over the last two years, street encampments have jumped their historic boundaries in downtown Los Angeles, lining freeways and filling underpasses from Echo Park to South Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county agency, received 767 calls about street encampments in 2014, up 60% from the 479 in 2013.

Some residents believe the city is exporting its downtown homeless problem to their neighborhoods. But social service agencies and volunteers say it isn't that simple. They say that although downtown development and skid row cleanups are squeezing out some homeless people, many camps are filled with locals.

Soaring rents, closed shelters and funding cutbacks are pushing residents from neighborhoods such as Highland Park and Boyle Heights into the streets, where they cling to familiar turf.

"Homeless people, especially the mentally ill, they don't like new," said Senior Lead Officer Gina Chovan of the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast Division. "They want to stay where they know all the nooks and crannies."

Bound by court decisions, the city has largely quit breaking up homeless groups and confiscating their trash and belongings, leaving the camps to grow and multiply.

Whether homeless people are more numerous or simply more visible could be answered by the biennial tally taking place this week.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-homeless-encampments-20150125-story.html