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presented, which is the responsibility of the author. I try not to post things
that are false, or too far a stretch, regardless of the view point, but I don’t
always succeed. As always on the Net, or in the legacy media, you must read
critically and with skepticism. ~Bob
Excerpt: In David Remnick’s long, fawning New
Yorker interview with
President Obama, most will be struck by Obama’s whine that his present
unpopularity may be due to his race (as if after four or five years the public
ignored serial 7 percent unemployment, Benghazi, the IRS corruption, the NSA
disclosures, the AP tapping, the Obamacare incompetence and dissimulation, and
suddenly woke up to the fact that they had twice elected a black president). Or
readers might find it strange that Remnick tags along with our progressive
populist to serial fundraising shake-downs at mansions of hip billionaire crony
capitalists, who, we must assume, qualify as fat cats and corporate-jet owners
of the sort who did not know that they should have long ago quit profiting and
most certainly did not build their own businesses.
Excerpt: The WFB’s Adam Kredo reports that
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, President Obama’s “moderate”
“democratically elected” negotiating partner on Iran ’s pursuit of nuclear-weapons
power for peaceful civilian purposes, is apparently on an “execution binge”:
Admonition
of An American Physicist on Japan
Excerpt:
In 1957, by order of the Economic Planning Minister, Mr. Tatsunosuke Takasaki,
I flew to America Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Too old to be given
cancer treatment: NHS is 'writing off' patients who are over 75
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544978/Too-old-cancer-treatment-NHS-writing-patients-75.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544978/Too-old-cancer-treatment-NHS-writing-patients-75.html
Excerpt: Pensioners with cancer are being written off as too
old to treat, campaigners said yesterday. They cited figures showing survival
rates for British patients aged 75 and over are among the worst in Europe . (And this is what to expect from Obamacare, the US "NHS."
--JB)
CNN’s Jake Tapper
Admits Christie Scandal Getting More Coverage than Benghazi Scandal
Excerpt: Conservative talker Hugh Hewitt had
a great interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper wherein he gets Tapper to admit that
Chris Christie (R-NJ) has gotten a lot more scrutiny on the “Bridgegate”
scandal than Hillary Clinton did on the Benghazi
scandal. We conservatives all know and understand that, but it’s nice to hear a
mainstream journalist agree to it. Now if we could just get them to do
something about the unbalanced reporting…
Muslim Nurses
Complain Washing Hands Before Medical Procedures ‘Compromises Modesty
Excerpt: Muslim nurses in the UK have finally been given what
they’ve demanded—the right to not wash their hands before medical procedures. This
ridiculous demand derived from Islamic Sharia Law compromises the
health and safety of every patient in the respective hospitals.
Smith: The USA
Excerpt: There is a certain level of dishonesty in the
common study of history. We look back at the tyrannies of the past, the
monstrous governments, the devastating wars and the unimaginable crimes, and we
wonder how it could have been possible. How could the people of that particular
generation let such atrocities come to pass?
Leaning Right
in Hollywood
Excerpt: A collection of perhaps 1,500 right-leaning players
in the entertainment industry, Friends of Abe keeps a low profile and fiercely
protects its membership list, to avoid what it presumes would result in a sort
of 21st-century blacklist, albeit on the other side of the partisan spectrum. Now
the Internal
Revenue Service is reviewing the group’s activities in connection with
its application for tax-exempt status.
Chrome Bugs Allow
Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations
Excerpt: While we’ve all grown accustomed to chatting with
Siri, talking to our cars, and soon maybe even asking our glasses for
directions, talking to our computers still feels weird. But now, Google is
putting their full weight behind changing this. There’s no clearer evidence to
this, than visiting Google.com, and seeing a speech recognition button right
there inside Google’s most sacred real estate - the search box.
Excerpt: Many reporters reflexively support unions, and
prefer not to acknowledge scandals related to them, especially at the local and
state level. Nevertheless, troubling news accounts have emerged:
Israeli officer: With
30,000 Al Qaeda fighters in Syria, Israel
Excerpt: In a special briefing to foreign correspondents
Friday, Jan. 24, a high-ranking Israeli intelligence officer, speaking on
condition of anonymity, reported that more than 30,000 al-Qaeda-linked fighters
are active in Syria, a huge increase over the 2,000 jihadis present there two
years ago. With jihadis in control of Syrian territory on Israel 's northern
borders, the high-ranking officer said “many discussions are taking place
behind closed doors about the possibility of rethinking its strategy” of
neutrality in the Syrian civil war. (Everyone should read this article as it
has great implications for more than than just Israel . While the article talks
about al-Qaeda wanting to create a caliphate in the Middle of the Middle East,
their long term objective is to also overthrow the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia and Egypt . Iran is also on
the verge of creating nuclear weapons while we sit on the sidelines and let it
happen. Nuclear proliferations will then likely occur. Once miniaturization of
nuclear warheads occur, we are all in trouble if given to terrorist, which is likely.
It seems the situation is becoming overwhelming for Israel , and I now have my doubts
they will attack Iranian nuclear facilities. Rogue Nations and terrorists seem
to be winning. --GNH)
Doctors cut from Medicare Advantage networks struggle with
what to tell patients. By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Excerpt: Thousands of primary-care doctors and specialists
across the country have been terminated from privately run Medicare Advantage
plans, sparking a battle between doctors who say patient care is being
threatened and insurers that insist they have to reduce costs and streamline
their operations. Medical associations, which describe the dismissals as the
largest in the program’s history, say the cuts are forcing some patients to leave
their doctors in mid-treatment and creating gaps in the types of medical
specialists covered in some areas.
A Simple Alternative to the ObamaCare Mandate. By John
C. Goodman
Excerpt: The health reform law is trying to force $15 an
hour workers and their employers to buy more than a million dollars of coverage
when they don't have anything like a million dollars in assets to protect.
Further, some of these families are being forced to give up"mini-med"
plans that paid the first $2,000 or $3,000 of medical bills and enroll
in plans with deductibles of $10,000 or more. Why do we need to force a family
at this income level need to pay the first $10,000 of medical costs? We don't.
NCHR: MB smuggled
arms, took part in setting fire on churches
Excerpt: The semi final report drawn up by the fact finding
committee set up by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on the acts of
violence at Rabaa and al-Nahda violence said Rabaa and al-Nahda sit ins were
not peaceful as sit inners were supplied with different kinds of arms. (That
darn YouTube video is still screwing up Obama's Mideast
policies. ~Bob.)
'You've messed with
the wrong Muslims!' CCTV images show the dramatic moment three women tried to
kidnap and rob their sister's lesbian lover during row over arranged marriage
All cultures are equally valid--except, of course, traditional
Western culture. ~Bob
Obama Eliminating
Opposing Voices by Using Dictatorial Practices
Excerpt: The Obama Administration is now so firmly in
control, it no longer feels it necessary to hide its dictatorial practices in
the elimination of opposing voices.
Excerpt: There was a time when Wisconsin was headline news. You must
remember the story? Wisconsinites elected some caveman called Scott Walker as
their governor on a platform of drowning government in the bath. He wanted to
reform the unions and bring spending under control – and the public sector came
out onto the streets to stop him. It was a kind of velvet revolution led by
teachers and social workers and the folks who shoot bears when they start
eating out of trash cans. They tried to remove Walker
from office, but that didn't work because he somehow won the recall vote,
making him the only governor in US
history to do so. And then it all went oddly quiet from the Badger state. (The
experience of Obama has shown that radical ideology untempered by practical
experience and competence has been disastrous for the country. Having a
conservative governor as our next president is the best way to ensure a
rollback of statism, competent administration, fair delivery of appropriate
services for all citizens and legal residents. I think that senators
and congressmen who have not managed anything bigger than their D.C.
staffs need more seasoning. Oratory alone is not sufficient. Able leadership
once in office is required, now more than ever before. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
MSNBC
Makes Room For Ronan Farrow. By Bill Carter
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/business/media/msnbc-makes-room-ronan-farrow-rearranging-the-schedule.html?src=twrhp&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/business/media/msnbc-makes-room-ronan-farrow-rearranging-the-schedule.html?src=twrhp&_r=0
Excerpt:
MSNBC revised its daytime lineup on Monday, opening up an hour for its
much-talked about recent hire, Ronan Farrow. The network, which will
be on a break from its usual lineup to cover the Winter Olympics starting in
two weeks, will introduce Mr. Farrow as host of the 1 p.m. hour starting Feb. 24. Mr.
Farrow, the 26-year-old son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, has already amassed
a long résumé, including being a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School
The Importance of the
Jordan Valley
Excerpt: The Israeli demand for a security presence along
the Jordan River was again raised last month in the Kerry-brokered peace talks between
Israel and the Palestinians. Its objective would be to stop Palestinian and
global jihad terrorists from infiltrating into Israeli territory and to prevent
the smuggling of rockets, explosives and other weapons which would be used by
the Palestinians to attack Israel
along its eastern border.
MEMRI: Iranian
Supreme Leader Khamenei Denies the Holocaust
Excerpt: Now, the Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI), reports that Khamenei's original statements on the
official Persian-language website proves that the Khamenei did, in fact, refer
to the Holocaust as a "myth." The investigation confirms that the
English translation on the official website is accurate, as Khamanei refers to
the "myth of the Jewish slaughter known as the Holocaust."
Unfree
Dominion. Posted by Baron Bodissey
Excerpt:
One of our Canadian readers just sent us this message: Some fairly important
news out of Canada
Fjordman: Mass
Murderer Breivik's Confession and the Media's Silence. Posted by Baron Bodissey
http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/01/fjordman-breiviks-confession-and-the-medias-silence/
http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/01/fjordman-breiviks-confession-and-the-medias-silence/
Excerpt: Fjordman’s latest essay has been published at FrontPage Magazine. Some
excerpts are below: From his prison cell, the confessed mass murderer Anders
Behring Breivik in January 2014 circulated a letter in
which he repudiated all association with the Counterjihad and anti-Islamists.
He gloated over how easy it was to fool the Western mainstream media (MSM) into
supporting his intended witch-hunt on peaceful anti-Islamists:
Excerpt: In order to standardize health insurance plans, the
ObamaCare law requires insurers to offer plans that are categorized as Bronze,
Silver, Gold and Platinum. These plans, in turn, must cover 60%, 70%, 80% and
90%, respectively, of the expected costs. The “actuarial value” of a claim is
the average amount a plan with a given set of benefits is likely to pay given a
standard population. If the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
overestimates actuarial value, which it appears that it has done, the bloated
insurance plans required by ObamaCare can be offered with higher deductibles,
copayments, and other out-of-pocket costs than would otherwise be the case. All
else equal, higher deductibles and out-of-pocket costs also enable lower
premiums.
The Arab Spring Killed the Left’s Foreign Policy. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Three years later, no one talks about the Arab
Spring. Its anniversaries pass in rioting and terror; clubs, bombs and juntas
mixing together in a bloody cocktail. Protesters die, police die and the
liberals who once claimed that the Age of Aquarius had come to the Land of the Nile have turned their faces away.
Syrian
Christians Kick Jihadi Butt, 65 of Them Left Dead on the Battlefield After
Attacking a Church.
Excerpt:
A small band of Christians have formed an army to fight and kill jihadists who
attack the holy sights of Syria
40 Years Later,
Cop-Killers Admit Murders, PBA Wants Parole Denied
Excerpt: After four decades of adamantly denying any role in
the 1971 assassination of two police officers, one of whom begged for his life
saying he had two small daughters, two members of the Black Liberation Army
have finally admitted to the murders in a transparent bid to win parole. The
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) is seeking help in
opposing parole for these two cold-blooded cop killers by asking the public to
send a letter of opposition through the union’s “Keep Cop-Killers In
Prison”website at www.NYCPBA.org.
Medicare Execs Are
Overpaying $35 Billion a Year…And They Don’t Seem to Care
Excerpt: Medicare’s Private
Fee-For-Service Plans, just one of the many entitlement programs run by the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, overpaid billers by $34.6 billion
dollars in 2013, according
to its own estimates. With an “improper payments” rate of 10.1 percent of
outlays, Medicare FFS is one of numerous government programs that wastes tens
of billions of taxpayer dollars annually yet does little to recover any of that
cash
Why Small Business Owners Are Staying Away From Obamacare
Exchanges. By Patrick Clark
Excerpt: Alex Wayne writes for Bloomberg
News today about just how slow the uptake has been. Kentucky , which garnered
praise for the launch of its state exchange amid healthcare.gov’s
rocky rollout, had enrolled just 14 companies in SHOP plans. Colorado
had enrolled 101 companies, and Connecticut
106. In New York ,
about 5,000 employees at companies with fewer than 50 workers had signed up for
Obamacare’s small business plans.
http://tundratabloids.com/2014/01/hollywood-commie-tv-tune-out-before-they-turn-you-into-a-zombie-drone.html
Excerpt: So, Breitbart alerted us this weekend to a Writers Guild of America-East
event in February, at which entertainment writers and other
intellectual luminaries – including a communications professional from the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – will meet to discuss the topic of
“The Affordable Care Act: Comedy, Drama, and Reality – Portraying Obamacare in
TV & Film.” Yes, this
workshop is about positioning Obamacare in entertainment narratives – series
TV, movies – in order to embed themes about it in people’s minds.
Dinesh D'Souza's 'America
Excerpt: D'Souza was released on a $500,000 bond on
Friday. He was asked to surrender his passport and agree to certain travel
restrictions. D'Souza's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, says
D'Souza "did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent," and
Molen says the charge against D'Souza could be an act of political
retribution for 2016, a critical look at President Barack Obama, or
an effort to stymie his next film, which is due four months before midterm
elections.
Starting the
Insurgency
Excerpt: Although fears that a witch-hunt is on will be
dismissed as tin-foil hat conspiracy theory by the MSM, that is probably the
intended effect of the administration. They would love to send a chill down
every conservative’s spine. It would be seemingly to their advantage for every
conservative activist wake up in a sweat; to regard each delivery of mail, each
peek into their email inbox with trepidation. Which administration hack would
not enjoying watching their rivals react to each knock at the door like the
summons of doom?
These are the people
who will lecture us about income inequality
http://floppingaces.net/2014/01/26/these-are-the-people-who-will-lecture-us-about-income-inequality/
It’s been reported that Barack Obama is going focus on income inequality in his SOTU speech: President Obama
will try to pump some vitality into a lackluster second term on
Tuesday when he delivers his State of the Union address. The address will
include a “healthy dose” of the income inequality message the White House has
focused on in recent weeks, according to one senior administration official familiar
with the text.
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