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Friday, April 4, 2014

Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.4

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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.4

This Map Shows Where Americans Trust Their State Governments

Residents in Republican-leaning states are more likely to “trust” their state governments, according to a new survey released by Gallup on Friday.

According to Gallup, in only six states do at least 70 percent of residents place either a “great deal/fair amount of trust” in their state’s government — North Dakota (77 percent), Wyoming (76), Utah (75), South Dakota (74), Nebraska (73), Texas (72), and Alaska (71).

Illinois, by far, is the worst-ranking state in the survey — only 28 percent of its residents say they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the state government. The next-lowest levels of trust come in Rhode Island (40 percent), Maine (40), Pennsylvania (46), Louisiana (48), California (49), and Maryland (49).

Here’s a map from Gallup shading the different levels of trustworthiness:

Gallup map

Gallup found that trust tends to be higher in less-populous states than in states with larger populations. Gallup said this helped to explain why red-leaning states earned more trust in the survey.

Illinois is by far the state in which residents least trust their government, which is helped by the fact that two of its most recent governors — Democrat Rod Blagojevich and Republican George Ryan — spent time in prison on wide-ranging corruption offenses.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Ukrainian women get their guns ready for Putin, with a song

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Payday Loan Companies Make Their Money By Trapping Customers In Debt

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Monday, March 24, 2014

The Senegalese Koranic Schools Accused Of Brainwashing Their Students

The Duties of American Citizens is to Protect Their Freedom from the Government

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

MtGox bitcoin exchange reopens so users can stare listlessly at their loss

MtGox bitcoin exchange reopens so users can stare listlessly at their loss
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The collapsed bitcoin exchange now lets users log in so they can look at, but not touch, their balances. By Alex Hern

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Read more about MtGox bitcoin exchange reopens so users can stare listlessly at their loss and other interesting subjects concerning NSA at TheDailyNewsReport.com

Monday, March 10, 2014

White House Tells Parents to Get Their Adult Children "Off the Couch" to Sign Up for ObamaCare

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

When it comes to war, Americans learned their lesson. Even conservatives

A pro-Russian man (not seen) holds a Russian flag behind an armed servicemen on top of a Russian army vehicle outside a Ukrainian border guard post in the Crimean town of Balaclava March 1, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Not our problem to solve.

Good.

The latest research from YouGov shows that the American public has little appetite for any involvement in Ukraine. Asked whether the international community as a whole has a responsibility to get involved in resolving the situation in Ukraine, less than a third of Americans (30%) think that what is going on in Ukraine is the world’s business [...]
Support for any US intervention to defend Ukraine against a Russian invasion is even lower. Only 18% say that the US has any responsibility to protect Ukraine, while 46% say that the US does not. Support for helping to protect Ukraine is higher among Republicans (26%) than among Democrats (13%) but just under half of both groups say that the US has no responsibility to defend Ukraine.

Neocons are desperate to reignite the Cold War, while other Republicans just want an excuse to attack the president, once a calculating dictator, now a feckless appeaser (consistency is not their strong suit). The punditry is giddy with idiot proclamations like “biggest test of Obama’s presidency” because it’s March and they’d be otherwise bored.

The reality is that this is an unfortunate flareup in a part of the world that is only tangentially relevant to US interests. And it concerns a nuclear superpower over which the United States has little direct influence. Think about it—conservatives gush over Putin’s “leadership” because he doesn’t take shit from anyone and wrestles bears! So if that’s the case, why would Putin listen to Obama? And what is Obama supposed to do, issue military threats it can’t back up, try to wield moral authority our nation lost in Iraq? Should he challenge Putin to a wrestling match?

Luckily, the American people are smarter than the idiot pundits and blood-crazed conservatives. This isn’t our problem. We are not the world’s policemen. And the last decade of war has clearly stripped the American people of any new warlust.

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When it comes to war, Americans learned their lesson. Even conservatives

Monday, March 3, 2014

Memo to Obama: This Was Their Red Line!

David Stockman
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March 3, 2014

In 1783 the Crimea was annexed by Catherine the Great, thereby satisfying the longstanding quest of the Russian Czars.

In 1783 the Crimea was annexed by Catherine the Great, thereby satisfying the longstanding quest of the Russian Czars for a warm-water port. In fact, over the ages Sevastopol emerged as a great naval base at the strategic tip of the Crimean peninsula, where it became home to the mighty Black Sea Fleet of the Czars and then the commissars.

For the next 171 years Crimea was an integral part of Russia—a span that exceeds the 166 years that have elapsed since California was annexed by a similar thrust of “Manifest Destiny” on this continent, thereby providing, incidentally, the United States Navy with its own warm-water port in San Diego. While no foreign forces subsequently invaded the California coasts, it was most definitely not Ukrainian and Polish riffles, artillery and blood which famously annihilated The Charge Of The Light Brigade at the Crimean city of Balaclava in 1854; they were Russians defending the homeland.

And the portrait of the Russian ”hero” hanging in Putin’s office is that of Czar Nicholas I—who’s brutal 30-year reign brought the Russian Empire to its historical zenith, and who was revered in Russian hagiography as the defender of Crimea, even as he lost the 1850s war to the Ottomans and Europeans. Besides that, there is no evidence that Putin does historical apologies, anyway.

In fact, its their Red Line. When the enfeebled Franklin Roosevelt made port in the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1945 he did know he was in Soviet Russia. Maneuvering to cement his control of the Kremlin in the intrigue-ridden struggle for succession after Stalin’s death a few years later, Nikita Khrushchev allegedly spent 15 minutes reviewing his “gift” of Crimea to his subalterns in Kiev in honor of the decision by their ancestors 300 years earlier to accept the inevitable and become a vassal of Russia.

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Courts Help Gays Pimp Their Sons

February 25, 2014

Divorced mothers who protect their sons from abuse by a gay father

are deemed “crazy” by the courts and denied custody and access.

When Caren Ragan, left, tried to take her son away, she was hunted

down like a terrorist and jailed. She says 2.2 million mothers have been

denied access to their sons.

“The judge told me he was a dictator and didn’t have to follow any of the laws of the USA and that my son

needed to get used to a homosexual lifestyle, and he then ordered no contact between me and my son.”

by Caren Ragan

(henrymakow.com)

The media and our government has been turning a blind eye to the plight of our children.

During my divorce I was threatened with losing custody if I didn’t agree to 50/50 custody so he could pay less child support.

I agreed for I feared my husband would hurt me after he exposed me and my unborn child to AIDS without my knowledge through sexual activities

He was a wealthy man and didn’t want to let go of control and began a campaign of psychological abuse using my child as a pawn

My 11 year old son reported that his father’s gay lover was massaging him in bed with his underwear on, and that he no longer wanted to visit his father’s house while this man was there as he gave him the creeps and hated him.

I tried to speak to father, but he said he wanted his son to get used to another man touching him, that it was natural.

My attorney brought this to judge’s attention and was immediately shutdown. Judge wrote an order stating I was a liar and she didn’t believe anything, and she wouldn’t let me or my son testify anymore even though he was 11-years-old.

My son who was a big boy started to have physical fights with his father on his days of visitation as he didn’t want to be around his boyfriend

I was called into court on two hours notice while my attorney was out of town, locked in the judges chambers, accused of being crazy. My ex and his three lawyers testified against me, and the judge wouldn’t allow me one one word in my defence.

At that point out of sheer desperation and in fear for the damage to my son as his father threatened that if he ever spoke about the massages again, his mother would go to jail and he would be put in foster care I offered to give his father custody as that was the only way I could think of protecting him from his father putting him in foster care or worse.

In the end I wasn’t found crazy, but was accused of Parent Alienation, even though the man my son was complaining about wasn’t his father, but his gay lover.

The judge told me he was a dictator and didn’t have to follow any of the laws of the USA and that my son needed to get used to a homosexual lifestyle, and he then ordered no contact between me and my son.

My son begged me to help him, so we ran away. Bounty hunters were hired; private investigators followed my entire family; all our phones were tapped; my families bank accounts were frozen, and my parents mail was censored through the police before they could receive it.

Finally in Feb 11, 2002 I was placed on FBI 10 most wanted list with Osama bin Laden.

I returned myself and my son after judge was removed from my case for bias, but it was too late, as one judge tried to protect the actions of the other judges.

I admitted to running away with my child “interference with child custody” and was told I could use a defense of necessity.

When it came time for my criminal trial the judge asked jurors back in 2006 if anyone didn’t believe in gay marriage, those who didn’t were immediately dismissed from my case. Only five women were picked, none of them having children and one man with one child.

The judge never allowed me my defence of necessity as to why I was scared for the life of my child and my life, so without hearing that important evidence or course they had to find me guilty. Again the judge was promoting a homosexual agenda, stating I had no right in deciding how my child should be raised and it was normal for fathers to touch their children sexually.

One of the jurors ended up being the best friend of the gay lover that touched my child, and the judge kept this information hidden from us. I was found guilty and given a 30 month prison sentence.

After everyone left the courtroom the judge told my lawyer and the prosecutor to make a “special deal” with me so that I would give up my appeal. Only after much convincing from my family did I give up my right to appeal. As the judge had legally erred 39 times went to jail for six months, spent four years on house arrest and was denied no contact with my son who kept asking for me.

My case is not unusual as of this writing 2.2 million moms have been ordered no contact with their children. Many of these moms came from middle to upper income, were well educated, stay at home moms and had controlling wealthy husbands who were in charge of the finances.

My son testified against me after his father actually put him into foster care in order to make sure my son would be scared to death to tell the truth. Nancy Grace did a small section on this trial, wondering why I was put on trial.

I am a libertarian and if you worry about Obama not following the law, surely this can’t be a surprise by now. Little by little our government has been trying it’s best to take control over our children. If you think losing your doctor or healthcare is bad, imagine losing your child. This is it folks our government is already starting the practices of Nazi Germany and no one wants to see it.

As my daughter who is a lawyer stated to me, why does Obama care about the children of immigrants and allow them to break the law, but a USA mother who tries to protect her own child no one is willing to ignore the law. Quite the contrary, how dare she buck the government and save her child, what right does she have.

Enclosed is a small TV interview, and my website www.protectingmychild.org. As a Jew I ask you not to ignore this story. How many more children must be devastated, harmed, sexually abused and killed before one person in the media is willing to do an investigative report?

I think our government has reached it’s tipping point.

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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Let the Elderly Have Their Weed!

Paul Feine & Alex Manning
reason.com
February 23, 2014

On February 18, 2014, Reason TV released a short documentary, “How Medical Pot Is Helping Seniors Get Off (Prescription) Drugs.” Here’s the original text:

“Talk to almost anybody over 65-years-old and there’s a list of medications that they’re taking. And very often, the side-effects from those medications are worse than the symptoms they’re supposedly treating,” says Steve DeAngelo of the Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a monopoly on the legal supply of marijuana for research purposes. Because NIDA is more focused on studying marijuana abuse than its potential benefits, researchers in the U.S. have had difficulty getting their hands on marijuana to use in their studies. One notable exception is a research project initiated by the University of California in 2000. The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research has found that cannabis may offer benefits to people suffering from pain as a result of nerve damage, HIV, strokes, and other conditions.

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Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Time Springsteen And McCartney Had Their Mikes Turned Off (VIDEO)

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

It’s alive! TN officials try to contain their own experiment

It’s alive! TN officials try to contain their own experiment
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By Chris Butler | Tennessee Watchdog

NASHVILLE — Tennessee officials evidently don’t read classic literature — specifically, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Otherwise, they could have avoided panic attacks over worries the United Auto Workers union may come to Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant.

Heck, forget Frankenstein and his monster.

If these red state politicians simply practiced the principles of a smaller, crony-capitalism-free government, they possibly wouldn’t find themselves in this predicament.

Or, at the very least, they shouldn’t have given more than $ 260 million to VW of Chattanooga — which has 3,000 workers — without at least having a stipulation that no union or works council could assert itself there.

But, as Laura Elkins, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development told Tennessee Watchdog on Friday, state officials made no such demand.

Workers at the VW plant will decide this week whether they will join the UAW.

As Tennessee Watchdog previously reported, talks between the UAW and VW workers revolve around whether the UAW should form what has thus far been known as a European-style works council, which no other U.S. automobile factory has.

Depending on who you ask, a works council is also one of two other things — a prelude to forming an actual union or no different from already having one, said National Right to Work Foundation spokesman Patrick Semmens.

A union isn’t legally required for the type of activity that goes on in works councils, at least not in the United States, according to the NRTW website.

Tennessee is a right-to-work state, meaning workers can’t be fired for not joining the UAW and paying union dues.

If it can establish itself at VW Chattanooga, the UAW would have a presence at a foreign-owned automobile manufacturing plant for the first time in more than 20 years.

The story has attracted a lot of national attention.

TO UNIONIZE OR NOT: Workers as a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., soon may be asked if they want to join the United Auto Workers labor union.

The LA Times, for instance, quotes State Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, as saying the state might not give any more incentives to VW if workers choose to unionize.

“You might argue that Watson’s position is actually a good-government one; chasing industrial investment with tax incentives smacks of crony capitalism. Throwing subsidies at the likes of VW also tilts the playing field in favor of one global competitor over the others, and a foreign one at that,” according to the Times.

“The problem for Watson is that Tennessee has already embraced this sort of government interference in the marketplace, with gusto.”

Former Chattanooga mayor and now U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican who helped bring VW to the state, has publicly criticized the UAW vote, according to TheState.com

As Tennessee Watchdog has already reported, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s office wouldn’t answer our questions about whether he tried to offer more taxpayer subsidies to VW in exchange for company officials keeping the UAW out.

According to Shelley’s novel, it didn’t take long for Frankenstein to disavow his experiment. The monster swore revenge on his creator and later caused irreparable harm to his life. In turn, the creator swore to destroy what he built.

If the UAW establishes itself in Tennessee, these same leaders, mostly Republicans, could find themselves challenged by Democrats on a larger scale.

Republican leaders may or may not see the UAW as a monster, but it is an entity that endangers their best interests.

It’s possible market forces alone might have brought VW to the state, along with the UAW, regardless — but we’ll never know. We do know state officials made the process a whole lot easier.

Tennessee leaders made this bed for themselves and now they — and unwitting taxpayers — have to sleep in it.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

GOP"s False Claims About Obamacare Blow Up in Their Face

For the right, attacks against Obamacare"s market disruption were great fun. Until it doomed their own plan. Oops!

Late last year, when conservatives everywhere were grieving publicly for each American who’d received a cancellation notice from a health insurance carrier, the smartest among them realized they had a small problem on their hands.

The wave of cancellations made for great politics, and it was a joy to watch the public’s trust in Obama crater for having promised everyone that they could keep their plans. But by turning an insurance market disruption into a political liability — and a normatively bad thing — Republicans had left themselves very little room to advance conservative health policy ideas.

The cornerstone of nearly every conservative health care reform plan is to eliminate or dramatically reduce the tax preference for employer-sponsored health insurance and use the revenues to help people pay for their own coverage. But the disruptions that would entail would dwarf the ones Obamacare is creating, and conservative wonks realized that by opportunistically attacking Obamacare, political operatives had just crafted the very attacks that could ultimately doom their own policymaking pursuits.

Writing at National Review late last year, Ramesh Ponnuru noted that in the wake of the cancelations row conservatives would have to move more gradually than they might ideally like.

“Some Republican health-care plans would run up against this same obstacle, because they, too, disrupt existing health-insurance arrangements,” he wrote. “The answer to this problem, I think, is not to abandon the idea of moving in the direction of free-market health care as an alternative to Obamacare; it’s to make that move in steps. Step one would be flattening the tax break so it no longer rewards the purchase of the most comprehensive coverage available.”

Easier said than done. Two weeks ago a trio of Republican senators introduced a plan to replace Obamacare. Conservatives everywhere, including Ponnuru and his National Review colleagues, applauded it. But its authors will seemingly have to choose between actually financing it or inviting the same severe market disruptions the GOP is now on record opposing. The plan itself called, somewhat confusingly, for “cap[ping] the tax exclusion for employee’s health coverage at 65 percent of an average plan’s costs.” Yuval Levin surmised reasonably that they meant capping it at the 65th percentile of employer plans. But either way its authors became caught in the trap their own party set for them in the fall. When questions started rolling in about market disruptions, they made a dramatic change to their white paper. The cap would now be set, vaguely, at “65 percent of the average market price for an expensive high-option plan,” presumably at the expense of revenues required to finance the plan’s coverage goals.

Then last week, conservatives boxed themselves in even further. They seized on a Congressional Budget Office report that concluded the Affordable Care Act will induce upwards of 2 million people to leave the workforce or reduce their hours — in part by severing the link between employment and health care, and in part by subjecting lower-wage workers to substantial tax penalties as they rise from poverty wages through 400 percent of the federal poverty line, at which point the law stops subsidizing coverage. It’s an inherent consequence of many means-tested benefit programs.

Conservatives were ecstatic. The misleading campaign ads — Obamacare kills jobs! — are already in production. The problem is that, due to design similarities, the Senate GOP health care plan would generate the exact same phenomena. And so Republicans will be under tremendous self-imposed pressure to maintain the link between employment and insurance and — at the very least — not to means-test the benefits of their eventual ACA alternative.

Ponnuru again: “the Coburn-Burr-Hatch bill also reduces tax benefits as incomes rise. But that’s not a necessary feature of conservative health plans…. Going forward, I hope the bill by Coburn et al is modified so it doesn’t… because there is some reason to think that these phaseouts can have pretty large effects on employment.”

In Ponnuru’s defense, he and Levin both argued for a flat benefit when the Senate GOP blueprint was first unveiled. But conservative health care guru Avik Roy forcefully endorsed the plan’s means testing — then turned around and decried Obamacare’s work disincentives after the CBO report dropped.

Conservative health policy is thus being shaped less by principle than by the right’s own anti-Obamacare opportunism. This is what happens when a political movement believes the chief duty of its policy entrepreneurs is to create the illusion that its party stands for more than just “no!” and tax cuts for the affluent.

But if avoiding easily spun CBO reports is their lodestar, Republicans have big problems on their hands, including the question of what they propose to do about Obamacare.

GOP leaders say House Republicans will likely pass an Obamacare replacement bill sometime this year. I assume this decision reflects polling data that shows full repeal is a political loser. But if they attempt to legislate, CBO will be unsparing. Between disruptions and labor supply effects, the Coburn-Burr-Hatch plan is out the window. If Republicans were hoping to use it as a basis for legislation, their own attacks on Obamacare have made that impossible. And if, like the Coburn-Burr-Hatch plan, the bill they advance is predicated upon full repeal of Obamacare, they’re going to have a million other questions to answer — about creating a massive market disruption, and killing the many jobs CBO says Obamacare will create in the near term, out of spite. (This wouldn’t be a labor supply effect, under which people retire early because they now enjoy a health care guarantee. It will actually reduce hiring demand.)

There’s an obvious path around this problem, and it’s to not insist on repealing Obamacare. But conservatives won’t stand for that. So Republicans will have to walk through fire for them.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

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