Old Jarhead's Political
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Robert A. Hall
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C.Y.A.
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Eurozone Country:
Surprise! We’re Putting At Least A 6.75% Tax On Your Bank Deposits
Excerpt: People with bank accounts in Cyprus were
shocked Saturday to learn that as part of an agreement reached with
international creditors, the government has imposed a tax on all deposits to
help bail out the nation and its banks.
Important: For Everyone
Shocked By What Just Happened... And Why This Is Just The Beginning.
By Tyler Durden
Excerpt: Today, lots of people woke up in shock and horror
to what happened in Cyprus :
a forced capital reallocation mandated by political elites under the guise of
an "equity investment" in insolvent banks, which is really code for a
"coercive, mandatory wealth tax." If less concerned about political
correctness, one could say that what just happened was daylight robbery from
savers to banks and the status quo. These same people may be even more shocked
to learn that today's Cypriot "resolution" is merely the first of
many such coercive interventions into personal wealth, first in Europe , and then everywhere else.
Regulators and
Politicians Work Hard … to Protect Corporate Wrongdoing and Smear
Whistleblowers
Excerpt: When one of the most respected radiologists in
America – the former head of the radiology department at Yale University –
attempted to blow the whistle on the fact that the FDA had approved a medical
device manufactured by General Electric because it put out massive amounts of
radiation, the FDA installed spyware to record his
private emails and surfing activities (including installing cameras to snap
pictures of his screen), and then used the information to smear him and
other whistleblowers:
Government Protects
Criminals by Attacking Whistleblowers
Excerpt: For example, after the
head of the NSA’s spying program – William Binney – disclosed the fact that the
U.S. was spying on everyone
in the U.S. and storing the data forever, and that the U.S. was
quickly becoming a totalitarian state, the
Feds tried to scare him into shutting up: [Numerous]
FBI officers held a gun to Binney’s head as he stepped naked from the shower.
He watched with his wife and youngest son as the FBI ransacked their home.
…During the raid, Binney attempted to report to FBI officials the crimes he had
witnessed at NSA, in particular the NSA’s violation of the constitutional
rights of all Americans. However, the FBI wasn’t interested in these
disclosures.
Being Made an
‘Obsolete Man’ by the Modern State
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/03/obsolete-man-modern-state/
Excerpt: Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, saw our future. If you are not familiar with the series that was popular in the 1960s (156 episodes in the original series) then you are missing a great deal. A good many display an understanding of unbridled State power and the loss of liberty. “In 2013 TV Guide ranked [The Twilight Zone] #4 in its list of ‘The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.’"
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/03/obsolete-man-modern-state/
Excerpt: Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, saw our future. If you are not familiar with the series that was popular in the 1960s (156 episodes in the original series) then you are missing a great deal. A good many display an understanding of unbridled State power and the loss of liberty. “In 2013 TV Guide ranked [The Twilight Zone] #4 in its list of ‘The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.’"
Pope Pledges Good
Relations With Jews
Excerpt: Pope Francis reached out on Thursday to Rome ’s Jewish community,
saying he hoped he would be able to contribute to furthering good relations
between Catholics and Jews.
Americans Are The Most
Spied On People In World History
Excerpt: In a radio interview, Wall Street Journal
reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best at covering the surveillance
state in the US) made a simple observation that puts much of this into context:
the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than
the Stasi ever did on East Germans. Indeed, the American government has
more information on the average American than Stalin had on Russians, Hitler
had on German citizens, or any other government has ever had on its
people.
Top Banking Analyst:
Subsidies to Giant Banks Exceed $780 Billion Dollars Per YEAR
Excerpt: Preface: Bloomberg’s recent estimate that the big
banks are subsidized to the tune of $83 billion dollars per year created
tremendous controversy. But – as shown below – the real number is many times
larger. ….Whalen notes today that the big American banks get a subsidy in
excess of $780 billion dollars
per year.
Military Doesn't Need
To Worry About Climate Change
Excerpt: The commander of America 's Pacific forces says he
knows what the top security risk is in that region. No, it's not China . Nor is
it North Korea .
It's climate change. Yes, this is embarrassing. It's also an outrage. Adm.
Samuel J. Locklear III's job is to assess the military threats in the Pacific
and to defend his country from them. Not to appraise the climate. Not to protect
the environment. Not to join the ranks of the superficial who desperately want
to demonstrate their depth and earnestness by taking up trendy and politically
correct causes. (PC pressures to be "hip" and "relevant"
have gotten to the point where we actually have the guy in charge of security
in the Pacific making inane statements about Climate Change. This is depressing
to the point of being sickening. --Del )
Even Democratic Party Loyalists Starting to Wake Up to the
Fact that Obama Is As Bad As Bush … Or Worse
Excerpt: Glenn Greenwald notes that
even Democratic party loyalists are getting fed up with
Obama’s Bush-like actions: Even the most loyal establishment
Democrats are now harshly denouncing the president for his war on transparency
…. This secrecy has become so oppressive and extreme that even the most
faithful Democratic operatives are now angrily exploding with public
denunciations.
Obama's secrecy
fixation causing Sunshine Week implosion: Even the most loyal establishment
Democrats are now harshly denouncing the president for his war on transparency
Excerpt: Along with others, I've spent the last four
years documenting the extreme, often unprecedented, commitment to secrecy that
this president has exhibited, including his vindictive war on whistleblowers,
his refusal to disclose even the legal principles underpinning his claimed war powers of assassination, and his unrelenting, Bush-copying
invocation of secrecy privileges to prevent courts even from deciding the
legality of his conduct (as a 2009 headline on the Obama-friendly TPM site put it:
"Expert Consensus: Obama Mimics Bush On State Secrets").
Dr. Ben Carson at
CPAC 2013
I've just added Carson 's book
America
the Beautiful to my reading pile. ~Bob
R. Ben Carson: Obama
Trying To 'Destroy This Country'-- 'Create division, ridicule morality - those
are the very things happening'
Excerpt: "Let’s say somebody were [in the White House]
and they wanted to destroy this nation,” Carson postulated in remarks at the
Conservative Political Action Conference. “I would create division among the
people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles
that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the
nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that
those are the very things that are happening right now.”
Sheriff Joe Raids
Restaurant Chain, Arrests 11 Illegals Using Stolen IDs
Excerpt: Recent Border Patrol data suggest that the traffic
flow of illegal alien across our Southern border may be starting to shift away
from Arizona and towards Texas. Maricopa County ’s
Sheriff may be a big reason illegal aliens are increasingly avoiding the Grand Canyon State Del )
Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery
Excerpt: The most immediate is that our middle class is too
weak to support the consumer spending that has historically driven our economic
growth. While the top 1 percent of income earners took home 93 percent of the
growth in incomes in 2010, the households in the middle — who are most likely
to spend their incomes rather than save them and who are, in a sense, the true
job creators — have lower household incomes, adjusted for inflation, than they
did in 1996. The growth in the decade before the crisis was unsustainable — it
was reliant on the bottom 80 percent consuming about 110 percent of their
income. (So the favored 1% increased wealth 93% under current Regime,
while only 65% under Bush. Robbing from the poor to give to the richer? And
they voted for this after getting a freakin’ cell phone “free,” which can be
used to mobilize them into mobs and track them. --Barb. Contrary to the NYT,
saving and investing by the top earners is also vital to the economy. If they
don't save and invest, there is no money for home loans, car loans, business
bonds for expansion, etc. ~Bob.)
Sen.
Graham claims Benghazi
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/?intcmp=trending#ixzz2NobDfDmS
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/?intcmp=trending#ixzz2NobDfDmS
Excerpt: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in an extensive
interview with Fox News, alleged that the injured survivors of the Benghazi
terror attack have been "told to be quiet" and feel they can't come
forward to tell their stories -- as he urged the House to subpoena the administration
for details if necessary. The South
Carolina senator said he’s “had contact” with
some of the survivors, calling their story “chilling.” He told Fox News that
"the bottom line is they feel that they can't come forth, they've been
told to be quiet."
Cruise line: 22
passengers robbed in Mexican seaside resort
Excerpt: Twenty-two Carnival Cruise Lines passengers were
robbed of valuables and their passports during a shore excursion in the Mexico seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta , cruise officials said late
Saturday. The passengers were robbed Thursday during a guided trail excursion,
according to a statement released by the cruise line.
Woman killed, child
raped in NY mall carjacking
Excerpt: An upstate New
York man previously charged with having child
pornography cut an electronic monitoring device off his ankle before carjacking
a woman, fatally stabbing her and raping her 10-year-old daughter, authorities
said. (Good thing the mother didn't have a gun--this could have been a tragedy!
~Bob.)
Excerpt: Dear Virginia ,
Thank you for your letter which asked me if your friends are correct, if indeed
there is no Santa Claus. Dear girl, here's what I have to offer you. Virginia , your friends
are wrong. Most probably they are Republicans. They have been affected by the
skepticism about our ability to continue giving out welfare checks and unemployment
checks and Food Stamps and even free cell phones because of our $17 trillion
dollar national debt. My dear Virginia ,
your friends are blinded by math. They try to insist that 2 + 2 must always
equal 4. They are wrong sweetie. We can make 2 + 2 equal anything we wish to
make it equal. As just an example dear, I won 107% of the vote in some black
neighborhoods in Philadelphia
when no one said that's possible. I did the same thing in Cleveland
and Chicago and Baltimore
and Detroit ! All
we needed to do was to toss 200 voting auditors from the polling places, and
"voila", victory was mine!
Obama Meets
Arab-American Leaders Ahead of Israel
Excerpt: U.S. President Barack Obama met members of the
Arab-American community at the White House on Monday,
ahead of his trip to Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan,
a U.S. spokesman said….According to the AFP report, the four groups
who met Obama, including the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said
in a statement that the United States could broker "a peaceful, lasting
resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - a resolution that is essential
to long term security in the Middle East." Monday's White House
meeting, which was not included on Obama's official diary, comes four
days after the U.S. leader held similar talks with
representatives of the American Jewish community.
Paid to play:
Anti-gun group teams with UN to prep African countries for arms trade treaty
talks
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/15/paid-to-play-anti-gun-group-teams-with-un-to-prep-african-countries-for-arms/#ixzz2NmpY1FOg
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/15/paid-to-play-anti-gun-group-teams-with-un-to-prep-african-countries-for-arms/#ixzz2NmpY1FOg
Excerpt: The co-host of the gathering in the Ethiopian
capital of Addis Ababa was a multinational “civil society” network known as IANSA
, which calls itself the “global movement
against gun violence,” and aims to build a coordinated network of organizations
“to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons,” and
“make people safer by reducing demand for such weapons, improving
firearm regulation and strengthening controls on arms transfers.” U.S. members of the international network
include Amnesty International, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and
the Law Center
, which calls itself the “global movement
against gun violence,” and aims to build a coordinated network of organizations
“to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons,” and
“make people safer by reducing demand for such weapons, improving
firearm regulation and strengthening controls on arms transfers.”
Airline bomber set to
be released from prison
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/16/airline-bomber-set-to-be-released-from-prison/?test=latestnews#ixzz2NmmKMVsX
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/16/airline-bomber-set-to-be-released-from-prison/?test=latestnews#ixzz2NmmKMVsX
Now, credited for his cooperation against associates, Rashed
will be released from federal prison within days after more than two decades in
custody in Greece and
the United States .
The release does more than spring loose a convicted terrorist. It also could
deprive the government of a star witness in the event that Ibrahim, a
Palestinian master bomb-maker who authorities say orchestrated the Pan Am
attack and similar strikes around the world, is ever captured. (Per article,
“’Their ability to make bombs go off is quite extraordinary’ said Bob Baer, a
former top CIA officer who worked clandestinely in the Middle
East .” --Barb.)
House panel tells
judge: Justice's offer in Fast & Furious settlement a 'grave disappointment
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/house-panel-tells-judge-justice-offer-in-fast-furious-settlement-grave/#ixzz2NmlBW7qK
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/house-panel-tells-judge-justice-offer-in-fast-furious-settlement-grave/#ixzz2NmlBW7qK
Excerpt: President Barack Obama has invoked executive
privilege and Attorney General Eric Holder has been found in contempt of the
House for refusing to turn over records that might explain what led the Justice
Department to reverse course, after initially denying to Congress that federal
agents had used a controversial tactic called gun-walking in the failed law
enforcement operation.
Britons afraid to
challenge radical Islam, says former Obama adviser
Excerpt: British people are too afraid to offend a
"vocal and aggressive" section of the Muslim community who demand
that their cultural values are accepted by wider society, according to a former
adviser to Barack Obama.
The rich pay majority
of U.S.
CNN is stunned to find this out. ~Bob. Excerpt: Many people
think that the rich are able to weasel their way out of taxes, but they
actually pay an overwhelming majority of the taxes in the United States .
What's more, their share of the tax burden is increasing. The top 10 percent of
taxpayers paid over 70% of the total amount collected in federal income taxes
in 2010...
Excerpt: The Al Fajr Media Center, which according to the
SITE Intelligence Group is "the exclusive distributor of al Qaeda's
propaganda online," has confirmed that Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan
has indeed been killed. Husainan, who was also known as Abu Zeid al Kuwaiti,
was a top member of al Qaeda's religious committee.
Denying Islam's Role
in Terror: Explaining the Denial, By Daniel Pipes
Excerpt: Over three years after Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's
massacre at Ft. Hood , Texas Germany
seems to be very common. Yes, the great majority of Muslims are not
Islamists, and in fact they suffer at the hands of Islamists more than any of
us in the West do. Referring to the Nazis as just "terrorists" would
have been inaccurate and very silly. We need to be as open to Muslims now as we
were to Italian- and German-Americans during WW2, and certainly not treat them
as we did the Japanese-Americans. But as we did in those days look at the
Italian and German communities for those who did identify with Hitler and
Mussolini, we must look in the Muslim community for those who identify with Al
Queda and a deep hatred of the West. To ignore the reality of some
fanatics here or elsewhere in the world would be truly counterproductive. That's
what all the officers who commanded Nidal Hasan did, and the results were
massively tragic. --Del )
Look to Detroit
Excerpt: If you’d like to get a glimpse of what America would look like if President Barack
Obama got his way on everything, take a good look at Detroit .
LaPierre : “Let the
Elitists Who Scorn You Be Damned”
http://cowboybyte.com/20018/lapierre-to-cpac-let-the-elitists-who-scorn-you-be-damned/
http://cowboybyte.com/20018/lapierre-to-cpac-let-the-elitists-who-scorn-you-be-damned/
Excerpt: “In their distorted view of the world, they are
smarter than we are. They are special and more worthy than we are. They know
better than we do,” the NRA chief said, referring to political elites and
liberal media. Although freedom-loving Americans are the ones being labeled as
“crazy” in the gun control debate, LaPierre argued that insanity has consumed
the media and political class in Washington .
Obama goes hungry at
GOP lunch, royal food taster a no-show
Excerpt: Apparently, President Obama wouldn’t –
couldn’t – eat the delicious lunch U.S. Sen. Susan Collins served
Thursday, not because she’s a Republican, but because he didn’t have
a food “taster” with him. (It's not easy being king... I wouldn't
believe this, but Collins is hardly an extremist, if the quote from her is
true. ~Bob.)
US to reinforce
missile defences to counter North Korea
Excerpt: The US is to strengthen
its missile defence shield on the Pacific coast in response to North Korea's strides in
developing nuclear weapons and
threats of war, defence secretary Chuck Hagel announced
on Friday. Hagel said the US will
deploy 14 additional missile interceptors in Alaska to
"make clear to the world that the United States stands
firm against aggression". The additional interceptors will bring to 44 the
total deployed in Alaska and California , although the
numbers will not increase for four years and the defensive missiles have proved
unreliable in tests.
Telecoms firm hails 'significant
victory' as judge blocks FBI's data demands
Excerpt: The Californian telecoms company
behind a stunning legal victory that has blown a hole in the FBI's highly secretive system for
collecting US
citizens' private data has come out of the shadows for the first time and
revealed its identity. Credo, based in San Francisco ,
said it was speaking out for the first time after a federal judge ordered
the US government
to stop issuing what are called "national security letters" –
demands for data that contain in-built gagging clauses that prevent the
recipients disclosing even the existence of the orders or their own identity.
What if Catholic
bishops aren’t bluffing? By Ed Morrissey
Excerpt: Earlier this week,
Francis Cardinal George of the archdiocese of Chicago sent a message to
parishioners in Barack Obama’s home town that imposition of the
HHS mandate to fund and facilitate contraception, abortifacients, and
sterilization would force the Catholic Church to close its hospitals,
clinics, schools, and all other organizations that would otherwise have to
comply. “Two Lents from now,” Cardinal George warned, “unless something
changes, the page [listing Catholic organizations] will be blank.”
A hidden world,
growing beyond control
Excerpt: The top-secret world the government created in
response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so
unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many
people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many
agencies do the same work.
Excerpt: Now, we learn in the inspector general report that
the infamous Julie Fernandes, with the help of Deputy Becky Wertz, were
up to the same shenanigans — except this time with the purpose of recruiting
liberal attorneys because of their ideology. The pair created an ideologically
pure list of left-wing lawyers to recruit to the DOJ Voting Section, where they
had previously worked. The list excluded conservative attorneys who had left
the Voting Section in the same timeframe who also had extensive experience
litigating election cases, but left in part because of the harassment by
liberal DOJ employees.
Excerpt: What did the president know, and when did he know
it? That’s a question made classic by the Watergate scandal. Now, it is
possible to trace precisely what Obama knew and when he knew it. And it proves
that the installment of power of the Muslim Brotherhood was a conscious and
deliberate strategy of the Obama administration, developed before the
“Arab Spring” began.
It’s time to really
limit federal spending
Excerpt: The president has acknowledged there is a problem
and paid lip service to a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, but he has
shown virtually no willingness to cut spending. On the contrary, in his
recent State of the Union address
, he proposed at least $83.4
billion in new expenditures (according to the National Taxpayers Union
Foundation), and he continues to undermine the sequester. The repeated failures
of Congress and the president to address our debt problem
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prove that a mere federal statutory law isn’t going
to cut it — we need a constitutional amendment that will provide permanent
boundaries for lawmakers who have proven incapable of containing spending over
the long term. We need a balanced budget amendment, or BBA.
, he proposed at least $83.4
billion in new expenditures (according to the National Taxpayers Union
Foundation), and he continues to undermine the sequester. The repeated failures
of Congress and the president to address our debt problem
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prove that a mere federal statutory law isn’t going
to cut it — we need a constitutional amendment that will provide permanent
boundaries for lawmakers who have proven incapable of containing spending over
the long term. We need a balanced budget amendment, or BBA.
Senate Democrats
block effort to end USDA/Mexico food stamp promotion partnership
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/15/senate-democrats-block-effort-to-end-usdamexico-food-stamp-promotion-partnership/#ixzz2NiWxrAlZ
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/15/senate-democrats-block-effort-to-end-usdamexico-food-stamp-promotion-partnership/#ixzz2NiWxrAlZ
During the Senate Budget
Committee’s Thursday markup of the Senate budget resolution, Democrats
prevented an effort to block funds for the Agriculture Department’s
“partnership” with the Mexican government, which is aimed at promoting
nutrition assistance programs among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and
migrant communities in America .
In a party-line 12 to 10 vote, the Democrats on the committee rejected a
proposal to prevent funding for
such endeavors from ranking member Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, who
has spoken out against the program in recent months.(Trolling for free range
Democrats. ~Bob.)
for
such endeavors from ranking member Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, who
has spoken out against the program in recent months.(Trolling for free range
Democrats. ~Bob.)
Islamic Regime Says
'Thugs' Started U.S
Excerpt: A
mouthpiece for the rogue nation of Iran said today that the United
States was founded by a “bunch of hooligans and thugs” and that international
sanctions over Iran’s illicit nuclear program have actually benefited the
Islamic regime.
Obama names black
education czar to reduce ‘resegregation’
Excerpt:
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced the appointment of David J. Johns as
executive director of the House Initiative on Educational Excellence for
African Americans. Mr. Johns’ duties will focus on improving the
academic performance of black students,
promoting understanding and tolerance among all Americans, as well as
reducing “racial isolation and resegregation of elementary and secondary schools.”
(I have no problem with the President setting up some special program to help
Black kids do better in school, get into colleges, and achieve higher levels of
education. When the guy appointed starts talking about reversing
"resegregation" I wonder about what kind of ideas he has about
what goes on at present. Does he really think that there's some conspiracy to
keep Black kids out of school going on? --Del )
The Traumatic Shame
Disorder?
Excerpt: Going beyond the psychiatric aspects of post
traumatic stress disorder, Dr. Turner explains how the social, political, and
cultural conditions during the 1960s essentially poured "salt into the
wounds" of combat trauma experienced by Vietnam Veterans. More than any
other Veteran cohort, Vietnam Veterans suffered both direct and subtle forms of
social degradation, marginalization, and betrayal, producing a psychological
state of "irrational shame." (Certainly an interesting approach to
helping Viet Nam vets, but I
personally, and I think many others as well, have never felt a second of shame
for serving in Viet Nam .
The only shame I've felt is in regard to our politicians giving in to the
antiwar movement and cutting off the aid to South Viet Nam , which was a
horrible betrayal that led to terrible results for the people there. Mostly my
emotional response is anger about that, and about the deliberate, widespread
misinformation about the war that the media and academia spread then and ever
since. We've just seen a brand new example of it in the new book about the
"real American war" in Viet Nam, which could have been dictated by
John Kerry, casting us all again as the Mongol horde raping, torturing, and
murdering our way across the whole of the South and some other areas to boot. Just
when you think the "baby killer" yells are finally dying out, some
idiot leftist revives the whole nasty scenario. But we know the truth, and some
of us keep doing our best to get it documented and published, for the benefit
of the country's true learning, as well as to clear the names of our comrades
on The Wall. --Del.
When a 14-year-old campaign volunteer found out I was a Vietnam vet,
she asked me quite seriously why I wasn't on drugs or in prison. ~Bob.)
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