Update
My friend John Payne flew in today for a VA check up.
Between picking up John and Rehab this morning, the day was pretty busy. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Important: Bill Clinton’s foundation cashed in
as Sweden
Bill Clinton’s foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in
donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened its thriving business
with Iran ,
according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times. The
Swedish entity, called the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse,
was never disclosed to or cleared by State Department ethics officials, even
though one of its largest sources of donations was a Swedish
government-sanctioned lottery. As the money flowed to the foundation from Sweden , Mrs. Clinton’s team in Washington declined to blacklist any Swedish firms
despite warnings from career officials at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm that Sweden was
growing its economic ties with Iran and
potentially undercutting Western efforts to end Tehran ’s rogue nuclear program, diplomatic
cables show. (Forget profiteering. What constitutes treason x2? --Barb)
The most transparent person in politics: Campaign
Reporters Told There Will Be ‘NO Opportunities To Interview Hillary Clinton.’
By Chuck Ross
Excerpt: Reporters attending a Hillary Clinton speech in Houston on Thursday must
remain within the confines of barricade and will not have a chance to interview
the Democratic presidential nominee, they were informed in a note with big,
bold red letters. “There will be NO opportunities to interview Hillary
Clinton,” a press blast from Texas Southern University reads. “Her speech will
be her interview.”
Former White House
Aide: ‘Hillary Is a Money-Hungry Hypocrite – Looking Awfully Haggard These
Days’
Excerpt: Yes, Kathleen Willey just went there. We already
knew this though. Kathleen Willey, the former White House aide who claims
President Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1993 during his first term,
now suspects the former president suffers from dementia, and calls Hillary
Clinton a “money-hungry” hypocrite who looks “awfully haggard” and is the
“worst role model for a wife and a mother and a politician.”
21 New ‘Clinton
Excerpt: Prior to the release of the New York
Times bestselling investigative exposé Clinton
Cash by Government Accountability
Institute President and Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Peter
Schweizer, Hillary Clinton and her supporters claimed she was among the most
vetted political figures in America—a candidate about whom everything was
known. Yet as media outlets across the ideological spectrum have confirmed and
verified the book’s explosive revelations about Clinton ’s tenure as Sec. of State and the
influx of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign sources into the Clinton
Foundation, the nation has learned much it did not know. Subsequent reporting
by national news outlets has expanded on the book’s findings using its
investigative methodology.
Hillary to Voters: Go
to the End of the Line. By Christopher
S. Carson
Excerpt: This week Hillary Clinton, when confronted by an
adoring supporter for an autograph while in a receiving line in New Hampshire , haughtily
instructed the woman to “go to the end of the line.” This trait of royalty
hasn’t been adding to Hillary’s favorability ratings, particularly when the
current trend-lines have been bad for her. According to this week’s CNN/ORC
poll results,
despite her overwhelming dominance amongst the Democratic primary voters, of
whom 60% say they will vote for her, Hillary’s negative ratings have soared to
their highest level in 15 years.
Professors created
Excerpt: “Things have changed since I started teaching,”
Schlosser writes. “The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to
put this, but my students sometimes scare me — particularly the liberal ones.”
In the past, Schlosser says, he had a limited ability to confess his own
political leanings in a class discussion, and he had no worries about exposing
students to challenging texts and ideas if he thought it was appropriate for
the class. Today, however, the danger is very real, especially for professors
who haven’t received tenure yet.
Excerpt: For the three tiny Baltic republics of Estonia , Latvia ,
and Lithuania ,
the situation is particularly unnerving. Russian fighter jets based in Kaliningrad can be over
Baltic airspace within minutes of takeoff, leaving hardly any time for air
traffic controllers to respond. And many Russian military planes fly with their
electronic transponders, which make them easy to track, switched off. With no
sign of the confrontation between Russia
and the West over Ukraine
coming to an end, what most frightens the peoples of Estonia ,
Latvia , and Lithuania is
not war by design but war by accident.
Excerpt: In the latest of many flagrant examples of how tax
dollars are wasted, government-issued credit cards were used by Department of
Defense (DOD) employees to make more than $4 million in personal charges,
including at casinos and strip clubs. During a one-year period the agency
charged 20 million transactions for $3.4 billion on government credit cards,
according to a DOD Inspector General report issued
this month. About $3.2 million of it was spent at casinos and nearly $1 million
on personal expenses, including about $100,000 at strip clubs by 646 card
holders. The casino charges were made through 4,437 transactions by 2,636
charge card holders, according to the report which breaks down expenditures by
military branch.
CNN Poll: Americans
Lack Faith In Obama On Illegal Immigration, ISIS ,
Government Surveillance
Excerpt: President Obama’s polling numbers are extremely low
on hot political issues such as illegal immigration, the fight against Islamic
State terrorism and government surveillance. In a CNN poll published today, only 36 percent approve of
Obama’s actions on illegal immigration, 32 percent support his fight
against ISIS , and 29 percent support his
positions on government surveillance. Obama’s approval ratings on illegal
immigration are down four points from February, as his executive actions have
bogged down in the courts. ("Immigration efforts bogged down in
courts." How about, found to be illegal and unconstitutional repeatedly by
various courts and judges? The "folks" aren't enjoying their
transformation to a Soviet-style, command economy, soon-to-be-Muslim-dominated
country governed by Shari'a? Wait until the thousands of Muslim (only, not
Christian) immigrants are unloaded in the West and various other communities,
dumped on the "folks" to pay increased taxes and federal regulatory
fees to cover increased numbers burdening the already overstressed system,
packed to implosion by the Regime's seven years... or else. --Barb)
Poll: Americans Now Like George W. More Than Obama. By Cortney O'Brien
Excerpt: The inevitable has
happened. Bush is seen in a favorable light by 52 percent of those surveyed,
compared with 43 percent who still view the 43rd president unfavorably.
Americans are split on Obama, with 49 percent responding favorably and
unfavorably.
The Most Transparent Administration in History: Mainstream
Media Tells House Oversight Committee to Begin Jailing Members of Obama
Administration. By Steven
Ahle
Excerpt: The House Oversight Committee heard from the
mainstream media today and no one would have expected the things they were saying.
They were loud. They were mad. They were demanding that members of the Obama
administration go to jail for disobeying the law. One of the most vocal critics
of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as defined by the Obama administration
was David McCraw, the assistant general counsel of the New York Times. McCraw
said that the Obama administration stalls and stalls and the only way to get
them to comply with the law is to sue them, which is a waste of taxpayer's
money. (Two are better than one in demonstrating how really awful the record of
this Administration has been in holding back from toeing the line on a law well
established and widely known, the defiance of which is essentially serious
lawbreaking and a demonstration of total arrogance of power. If the Bush
Administration had a record this bad, the screaming would have gone to the moon
and back long, long ago, and by now there'd be demands for impeachment. Everyone
should understand how bad this is, and that it's something that should offend not
conservatives, but Americans. --Del )
Obama Pummeling
Freedom Of Information Act
Excerpt: Reporters are renowned for swapping war stories,
but they came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to tell horror stories about
trying to use Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, requests to get the truth
from the federal government. Testifying before the House Oversight Committee,
five-time Emmy award-winning investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson described
receiving FOIAs with everything redacted (blacked out) but the address line.
Interesting, headline oversells: ‘Cure For Terminal
Cancer’ Discovered In Israel
Excerpt: Clinical trials of a new drug cocktail have been
shown to cure 58 percent of terminally-ill patients by shrinking cancerous tumors
or eliminating them altogether. The scientific community is hailing this
discovery as a major breakthrough in cancer research. The new cocktail is a
form of immunotherapy, a relatively new class of drugs that harness the body’s
immune system to extinguish fatal tumors. Israeli researcher Prof. Jacob
Schachter, who took part in the development of the drug and in the recent
clinical trials, told Israel ’s
Channel 10 that the newfound drug cocktail could serve as the basis of
treatment for many types of cancer, potentially replacing chemotherapy. “It’s
an explosion,” he said. (Comment on the article: In corresponding news,
Palestinians have discovered that if you strap explosives onto mentally
retarded children and send them into Jewish pizzerias, the Congress of the United States
will give you $1 billion annually. Israel is the epicenter of human
technological evolution. The Muslims invent new ways to gang rape six year old
infidels. This is the most obvious morality play ever, so naturally the world
sides with the bad guys.)
Watch NASA Test Its
Flying Saucer Live On Thursday
Excerpt: NASA is offering the world the opportunity to the
watch the launch and test flight of its latest prototype vehicle on
Thursday – a flying saucer. The space agency is hoping to test its Low
Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project, weather permitting, at 1:30
p.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. PDT/7:30 a.m. HST), when the craft will be carried
aloft by a large weather balloon. The test was originally scheduled for Tuesday and
then for today, but was postponed both times due to “unfavourable
conditions”.
Excerpt: South Carolina police
arrested a man Monday night after a stray dog was found with
electrical tape around its muzzle last week....Caitlyn, a 15-month old
Staffordshire mix and well-known stray in her North Charleston neighborhood, showed up
at a home with her mouth tightly bound shut. Animal Society veterinarian Lucy
Fuller initially said the dog was in critical condition because the tape cut
off blood flow to her tongue. (Let's see...would it be justice to tape HIS
mouth shut or better, yet, tape his arsehole shut? --Barb)
Obama IRS
Political Appointees Protected Tea Party Probe Requests. By Ethan
Barton
Excerpt: A special internal committee was set up by senior
IRS officials after information requests from Congress and “other investigative
bodies” asking the IRS to investigate conservative and Tea Party non-profit
applicants were sent to the federal tax agency’s two Obama White House
political appointees. Mary Howard, the IRS’s director of privacy, governmental
liaison and disclosure division, told the House Committee on Oversight and
Government reform Wednesday that she never saw any of the information requests
because the requests were forwarded to the special committee. Howard is also
the tax agency’s chief Freedom of Information Act officer. “I think Lois Lerner
was just the tip of the iceberg,” Howard said.
Former RI Gov.
Lincoln Chafee, one-time Republican, declares 2016 Democratic candidacy
Excerpt: Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee entered the
2016 presidential race Wednesday as a Democrat, casting himself as an anti-war
candidate who opposed the invasion of Iraq back when challenger Hillary Clinton
supported it. "We must deliberately and carefully extricate ourselves from
expensive wars," Chafee told a half-full law school classroom at George Mason
University in northern Virginia . "We need
to be very smart in these voluble times overseas." Chafee, a one-time
Republican so moderate — and some say so opportunistic — officially left the
GOP in 2007 and was later elected governor of Rhode Island as an
Independent. (Chafee's father John, was a moderate Republican and a heroic
Marine Company Commander in Korea .
Link is not made of the same stuff. ~Bob)
Excerpt: A CNN panel on Caitlyn Jenner got pretty
heated tonight after Crystal Wright said she wasn’t impressed with
Jenner’s publicity-heavy gender transition. Transgender reporter Zoey Tur
wasn’t impressed with how Jenner’s transition looks like the “rollout of a
product,” but Wright went a lot further, saying, “Bruce Jenner is doing this
from Bruce Jenner… I don’t think it’s good for the transgender community.”
“What’s next?” she asked. “Black people, we’re going to all of a sudden start
bleaching our skin because we don’t like being black?” (I've basically ignored
the Bruce/Catlin Jenner thing, and think the media should too. I have no
interest and what he/she does is none of my business. ~Bob)
Negligence: IRS Was Warned About Potential Hacking of
Sensitive Taxpayer Information, Did Practically Nothing. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: Information and testimony given by Inspector
General Russell George revealed the IRS was given multiple warnings and
recommendations about how to prevent an attack or breach. The IRS failed to
implement all of the recommendations given.
Excerpt: This is actually a problem throughout Europe , where birth rates are tanking, populations are
aging, workforces are dwindling, and economies are being bent to the breaking point.
Let's not forget another looming problem in Europe —the
reality of who is having babies. Muslims. If you think the threat of
Sharia law and jihadi terrorism are issues now, just wait until Muslims
completely overrun Europe by the sheer force
of population attrition. It’s a simple fact. This is not a crazy conspiracy
theory. It’s happening before our very eyes. Muslims are reproducing in Europe and Europeans are not. It doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to figure out how that scenario works out in the end. (Not just Europe . The birth rate for native born Americans is below
the 2.1 live births per woman needed to keep the population stable. ~Bob)
Who will do what it takes to keep us safe? By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: In the aftermath of the vote on the USA Freedom
Act, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) issued a statement that read: “Unfortunately,
weak presidential leadership combined with a politically motivated
misinformation campaign have now left the American people less safe than we’ve
been at any point since the 9/11 attacks.” He added: “The failure to renew the
expiring components of the PATRIOT Act was a mistake. The ‘USA Freedom Act’
weakens U.S.
national security by outlawing the very programs our intelligence community and
the FBI have used to protect us time and time again. A major challenge for the
next president will be to fix the significantly weakened intelligence system
that the current one is leaving behind.”
The College Board's Sabotage of American History. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: A stellar group of American historians and
academics released a milestone open letter yesterday in protest of deleterious
changes to the advanced placement U.S. history (APUSH) exam. The
signatories are bold intellectual bulwarks against increasing progressive
attacks in the classroom on America ’s
unique ideals and institutions. Moms and dads in my adopted home state of Colorado have been
mocked and demonized for helping to lead the fight against the anti-American
changes to APUSH. But if there’s any hope at all in salvaging local control
over our kids' curriculum, it lies in the willingness of a broad coalition of
educators and parents to join in the front lines for battles exactly like this
one. As the 55 distinguished members of the National Association of Scholars
explained this week, the teaching of American history faces “a grave new risk.”
Liberals Can’t Tell
the Difference Between ‘Satire’ and News, and GOP Presidential Campaigns Are
Paying the Price. By Jim Geraghty
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419224/liberals-cant-tell-difference-between-satire-and-news-and-gop-presidential-campaigns?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419224/liberals-cant-tell-difference-between-satire-and-news-and-gop-presidential-campaigns?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign
Excerpt: Of course, all of these quotes are fake. They come
from a “satirical” Facebook page, “Stop the World, the Teabaggers Want Off.”
But that hasn’t stopped more than a few liberals from enthusiastically sharing
graphics featuring the imaginary incendiary comments, and stirring themselves
into the attendant froth of outrage. The site declares itself to be “for
entertainment purposes only,” and that may be true — if you’re the kind of
person who devours made-up, outrageous quotes from conservative politicians for
fun.
Rising Dragon News
China: End Denial About Tiananmen
Massacre. Crackdown on Dissent Persists On 26th Anniversary
Excerpt: The Chinese government should finally acknowledge
and take responsibility for the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in June
1989, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should release activists
jailed for commemorating the occasion along with all others imprisoned in China for the peaceful
exercising of their political views. “Twenty-six years ago, the Chinese
government decided that violent repression was the appropriate response to
peaceful protest,” said Sophie
Richardson, China
director. “Until the government acknowledges its actions and provides redress
to the many victims and their families, there is no safeguard that future
protests won’t provoke a similar reaction.”
Gun News
SCSO: Wounded man
shows up at hospital after homeowner fires shots
http://www.timesnews.net/article/9088059/scso-wounded-man-shows-up-at-hospital-after-homeowner-fires-shots
http://www.timesnews.net/article/9088059/scso-wounded-man-shows-up-at-hospital-after-homeowner-fires-shots
Excerpt: When officers arrived, the 70-year-old homeowner
stated he was awakened by someone shining a light in his bedroom window. He
then observed a man standing outside. The male suspect then broke the bedroom
window and started to climb inside. The homeowner told officers that he then
grabbed a pistol and fired it at the suspect, causing the man to fall back.
Smoke shop worker fatally shoots alleged robber
Excerpt: The owner said his employee who pulled the trigger
is a veteran who served in Afghanistan .
He has certainly dealt with stress before, but he said what happened last night
was still a shock because it was so unexpected. The employee and a customer
were inside the store just before closing around 10 when four young men in
their older teens or early 20s pulled up in an SUV. He said the driver stayed
behind the wheel while the other three ran in with their faces covered -- two
with duffel bags and the third with a gun. Before that man could get off a
shot, the owner said his employee pulled out a 9 mm pistol and shot him twice,
once in the chest and once in the stomach.
Excerpt: Police say a homeowner shot and wounded an intruder
early Monday morning.
The intruder was shot in the hip, according to a relative
who asked not to be publicly identified. The relative said the homeowner is a
Navy veteran with a concealed carry permit. That man's wife and four children
were inside the house when a burglar alarm went off in the garage.
Race Card News
http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/madison-police-exonerate-officer-in-tony-robinson-shooting/article_0fa8498b-74a8-521a-9999-a9ecf4421c28.html
Excerpt: he Madison police officer who fatally shot
19-year-old Tony Robinson has been cleared of wrongdoing by a departmental
review. Police announced Wednesday that Officer Matt Kenny has been exonerated
in the internal investigation of his actions in the March 6 shooting inside a Williamson Street
apartment home. Kenny was cleared of criminal charges for the shooting three
weeks ago, after Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Kenny's use
of deadly force against Robinson was lawful. Ozanne's decision was based on an
investigation of the shooting led by state authorities.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
'It's Working:' More Hefty Obamacare Premium Hikes On the
Way. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: Hold onto your wallets ... many insurers want to
substantially hike rates on Obamacare policies for 2016. Many are
proposing double-digit premium increases for individual policies, with some
companies looking to boost rates more than 60%, according to a list posted
Monday by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In Florida , for instance,
United Healthcare (UNH) wants to raise the rates of plans sold on the Obamacare
exchange by an average of 18%. Individual policies available outside the
exchange through United Healthcare or through a broker would go up by 31%, on
average, with hikes as high as 60% for certain plans in certain locations. In Texas , insurer Scott
& White is looking for a 32% increase for exchange-based plans, while
Humana (HUM) is asking for an average 30% boost for its exclusive provider
organization policies, which generally cover only in-network services.
Truth or Dare:
Crunch-time for Obamacare. By Dr. Don
Racheter
Excerpt: Having been fully in effect since January 1, 2014,
Obamacare is experiencing a “crunch-time” of Truth or Dare alternatives. Supporters
of the new system appear unwilling about the growing costs of Obamacare
and how it has an unsustainable design. People who had never paid anything into
the system prior to signing up are now undergoing organ transplants, by-pass
surgeries, and other very expensive procedures. Overall costs are going up –
not down as promised – and this will result in everyone’s premiums going up in
the future.
Undocumented Democrat News
The border surge, a
year later: Tens of thousands of immigrant children remain in limbo
Excerpt: This is the first in a series of articles, one year
after the surge of unaccompanied undocumented minors who crossed across the
U.S.-Mexico border, examining the effects it has had on communities, schools
and children themselves. More than a year since arriving in the United
States, the finally came for 16-year-old Saul Martinez Ortiz to learn whether
he could call America his home — or, be ordered to return to his native El
Salvador. A tall, thin soft-spoken boy who’s made painstaking efforts to learn
English, Saul is one of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who in
recent years have made the perilous 1,500-mile journey from Central America,
handed off from smuggler to smuggler until they cross the Mexican border and
become the responsibility of the United States .
"You're Greener than Gore" News
EPA Chief: Just Trust
Us On Climate Science
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/03/epa-chief-just-trust-us-on-climate-science/
Excerpt: Americans are just going to have to trust the EPA’s 44 years of experience dealing with environmental issues when it comes to figuring out ways to cope with man-made global warming, says the agency’s chief. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told Big Think in an interview that while there are limits to how much the federal government can do for issues like global warming, the public needs to trust how the EPA translates the “complicated” science into real-life actions. (So complicated that the models and predictions keep turning out wrong. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Americans are just going to have to trust the EPA’s 44 years of experience dealing with environmental issues when it comes to figuring out ways to cope with man-made global warming, says the agency’s chief. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told Big Think in an interview that while there are limits to how much the federal government can do for issues like global warming, the public needs to trust how the EPA translates the “complicated” science into real-life actions. (So complicated that the models and predictions keep turning out wrong. ~Bob)
Intellectual Dishonesty. By Walter E. Williams
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/06/03/intellectual-dishonesty-n2006462?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Excerpt: President Barack Obama's stance, expressed in his
2014 State of the Union address, is that the debate is settled and climate
change is a fact. Obama is by no means unique in that view. Former Vice
President Al Gore declared that "the science is settled." This
"settled science" vision about climate is held by many, including
those in academia. To call any science settled is sheer idiocy. Had mankind
acted as though any science could possibly be settled, we'd be living in caves,
as opposed to having the standard of living we enjoy today. That higher
standard of living stems from challenges to what might have been seen as
"scientific fact." According to mathematician Samuel Arbesman's book,
"The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date,"
many ideas taken as facts today will be shown to be wrong as early as five
years from now.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Until Friday, when the 22-year-old's life was cut
short by a suicide bomber outside of a mosque in Dammam in
eastern Saudi Arabia .
ISIS claimed
responsibility for the attack, its second on a Shiite mosque in as many weeks. The
blast also killed Jalil's brother, Mohammed, and their cousin, Alarbash's
father, speaking in Arabic, said in a video posted Saturday. The elder Alabash
said the trio volunteered as security guards at the Al-Anoud Mosque, located in
a predominantly Shiite neighborhood, and that they died "heroes"
because they prevented the suicide bomber from getting inside, where scores of
Shiite Muslims were worshiping at the time.
Excerpt: The video features heavy gunfights between Iraqi
Security Forces and jihadists. Several technicals are shown to have been used,
as well as several rocket-propelled grenades (RPG’s) and SPG-9’s. One scene
features an Islamic State sniper firing on Iraqi military positions near the
town. The video also shows the deployment of a suicide bomber identified with
the moniker “Turkistani,” which usually denotes individuals of ethnic Uighur
origin. A large portion of the video is reserved for highlighting of the
“spoils” gained in the fighting. Numerous Humvees, cargo trucks, fuel tankers,
and US-made MRAPS are shown to have been captured by the Islamic State.
Egyptian Historian:
Drop the Palestinians, Normalize With Israel
Excerpt: A prominent Egyptian historian took to national
television last week to make an unusually open and robust case for Egypt to "drop the Palestinian cause
and normalize relations with Israel ."
In a lengthy interview with Egypt's Mehwar TV on May 28 - segments of
which were translated by MEMRI - historian Maged Farag insisted it was time for
Egyptians to leave "the old ideology and cultural heritage on which we
were raised" - namely, rabid anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism - in favor of
a more rational focus on Egypt's own national interests. (Here is an unusual
Egyptian. He acknowledges that the Palestinian leadership has no interest in a
peace deal with Israel .
Therefore, he concludes, that Egypt
should not be held hostage to a policy that is not in its interests. He calls
for a warm peace based on a mutuality of interests. Realism and reconciliation
can be good things. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Islamists Use Boston
Excerpt: A Boston
police officer and an FBI agent shot and killed a man Tuesday morning,
saying he lunged at them with a military style knife when they tried to
question him.
Usaama Rahim reportedly was under surveillance by a Joint
Terrorism Task Force investigating his possible sympathies with Islamic State
[ISIS] terrorists. Despite a lack of verified information, social media lit up
almost immediately with claims that Rahim was merely waiting for a bus when he
was shot in the back, and was on the telephone with his father when he was
killed. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) used its Facebook page
to promote a baseless theory that Rahim was gunned down in cold blood, and the
terror investigation is a fabrication to cover that up.
US officials warn no
way to monitor ISIS ' online encrypted messages
Excerpt: With ISIS distributing its propaganda and
recruiting messages to as many as 200,000 people on social media worldwide, U.S.
officials warned Wednesday there is no way to monitor their online encrypted communications.
The officials, appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, said
while there are only several thousand hardcore ISIS propagandists, technology
was complicating efforts to monitor them.
Boston terror
suspects plotted to behead police officers, source says
Excerpt: The man shot and killed Tuesday by Boston police
was plotting with another suspect to behead a cop, a law enforcement source
told FoxNews.com The dead suspect, 26-year-old Usaama Rahim, was under
surveillance by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is comprised of state,
local and federal law enforcement agents, when he was shot at about 7 a.m. near
a CVS in the city's Roslindale neighborhood, when he brandished the blade at
police. Later Tuesday, authorities arrested another suspect, David Wright, in
connection with the case, police said.
In Boston
Excerpt: Virtually everything Islamist activists in the United States claimed about Tuesday's fatal
shooting of terror suspect Usaama Rahim in Boston appears to have been debunked within
24 hours. Authorities say they shot Rahim, 26, after he repeatedly lunged at
them with a military-style knife as they tried to question him. The skepticism
was fueled by online posts by Rahim's brother, Imam Ibrahim Rahim. His claims,
which fueled the immediate and reflexive condemnation of the Boston police and FBI,
turned out to be wrong. Usaama Rahim was not shot in the back. He was not on
the telephone with his father when he was shot. Law enforcement did back up and
give Rahim several opportunities to end the confrontation peacefully.
Excerpt: US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed
that “more than 10,000″ Islamic State fighters and commanders have been killed
since the air campaign in Iraq
began in August 2014 and subsequently in Syria in September 2014. If true, US
intelligence estimates on the strength of the Islamic State are grossly
underestimated.
Excerpt: Four days after the Islamic State launched
a sudden assault on towns and villages in Syria ’s
northern Aleppo
province, the heavy fighting continues. Not only is the Islamic State battling
a consortium of rebel groups and jihadists in
Aleppo, the “caliphate” is attempting to push into the predominately Kurdish
city of Hasakah, which is the capital of the northeastern province with the
same name . Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s men began to attack Hasakah several days
ago, with the Syrian state-controlled news agency, SANA , claiming that the jihadists’
plans had
been thwarted by regime loyalists. However, the Islamic State
regrouped and began
a new round of fighting in the last twenty-four hours.
Excerpt: ‘Sorry, I’ve got to go–bye’ seems to be the mindset
of the Obama administration regarding using ground troops to fight ISIS . The aversion to redeploy troops to Iraq isn’t new.
But as airstrikes
have shown to be ineffective in curbing the Islamic
State’s expansion, a small contingent of troops should at least be on the
table. Nevertheless, President Obama’s goal appears to be not letting that
question become too intense, hoping to “run out the clock” on him being forced
to decide on that option in the remaining months of his presidency. At the same
time, that mindset shows–at least on some level–that the administration knows
that some ground forces might be needed; they just don’t want to be in office
when that time comes.
SHARIA IN BRITAIN
Excerpt: This is unreal. And this is what will happen here
if we continue to bow down to political correctness and appease the Religion of
Perpetual Rage
CAIR Leader Ahmad
Saleem Arrested in Major Child Sex Trafficking Ring Bust, Sex with Children as
Young as 10
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/cair-leader-ahmad-saleem-arrested-in-major-child-sex-trafficking-ring-bust-sex-with-children-as-young-as-10/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/cair-leader-ahmad-saleem-arrested-in-major-child-sex-trafficking-ring-bust-sex-with-children-as-young-as-10/
Excerpt: The UK
child sex trafficking gangs we have come to America . CAIR leader
Ahmad Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator, was also one of the men arrested.
Investigators said the men all went to a home in Clermont with the hopes
of having sex with a child. The car Saleem traveled in had a license plate that
said, "Invest in children," according to investigators. I am sure
Ahmad Saleem believes he is following in Muhammad's footsteps. Muhammad's
favorite wife Aisha was 6 when he married her.
Important: Assad’s Forces May Be Aiding New ISIS Surge. By Anne Barnard
Excerpt: Building on recent gains in Iraq and Syria, Islamic
State militants are marching across northern Syria toward Aleppo,
Syria’s largest city, helped along, their opponents say, by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. In the
countryside northeast of Aleppo on Tuesday,
Islamic State fighters fought rival Syrian insurgents amid fears that the
Islamic State was positioning itself to make Aleppo its next big prize. Syrian opposition
leaders accused the Syrian government of essentially collaborating with the
Islamic State, leaving the militants unmolested as they pressed a surprise
offensive against other insurgent groups — even though the government and the
Islamic State are nominal enemies — and instead striking the rival insurgents.
( In nearly a year of fighting ISIS the United States has offered tepid,
just-in-time support to those fighting the Sunni-based militants, and at times
has appeared to actually allow ISIS to take new territory—all while also
negotiating a new alliance with Shiite Iran. Perhaps President Obama sees his
determination to no longer fight in the Middle East ,
shared by most Americans, meeting the realpolitik secular drift at the State
Department, which turns a blind eye to the religious dimensions of the conflict
and attendant atrocities, as a way to achieve parity in the region. The likely
end result: a powerful Sunni caliphate state (with support from Turkey and
Saudi Arabia) stretching from the Levant to the Iranian border that in this
line of thinking would check both Israel and Iran, while appearing to leave
existing U.S. alliances in place. This takes remaking the Middle
East , something previous presidents have dreamed of, to a whole
new level. --Mindy Belz)
All Islamic Extremism
is Unacceptable. By Tarek Fatah
Excerpt: On Sunday, over 700 Canadians braved unseasonal
cold and non-stop rain for four hours outside an Islamic centre north of Toronto . They came to
protest a bizarre celebration honouring the life and deeds of the late Iranian
theocratic dictator, Ayatollah Khomeini.
There were politicians from the left to the right, writers,
poets, artists, former prisoners and exiles, grandmothers, refugees, victims of
torture. They were mostly Iranian Canadians, but also Pakistanis, Jews, Kurds,
orthodox Muslims, Marxists and Monarchists.
How Islam in America
Excerpt: What is Islam? The obvious dictionary definition
answer is that it’s a religion, but legally speaking it actually enjoys all of
the advantages of race, religion and culture with none of the disadvantages. Islam
is a religion when mandating that employers accommodate the hijab, but when it
comes time to bring it into the schools, places that are legally hostile to
religion, American students are taught about Islam, visit mosques and even wear
burkas and recite Islamic prayers to learn about another culture. Criticism of
Islam is denounced as racist even though the one thing that Islam clearly isn’t
is a race.
Excerpt: Good thing Mohamed N. was removed from his position
as a “guardian of the peace.” Surely the architects of today’s Brave New Europe
have much better things in store for such a forthright and enterprising young
man. Watch for him to turn up as again as an EU “multiculturalism” authority,
or a bishop or something.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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