tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472333114350627332024-02-18T21:39:50.463-08:00Right Side of Left CoastVladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.comBlogger2109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-82100450699898151692018-11-18T18:42:00.007-08:002018-11-18T18:42:26.308-08:00Democrats Release Tax Hike Plan<br />
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UNITED STATES - MARCH 07: From left, Senate Minority Leader Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y., Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.,
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., conduct a news
conference with other Senate democrats to unveil a plan to improve the
nation's infrastructure on March 07, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ
Roll Call)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week, <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/senate-democrats-tax-cuts-infrastructure-392523" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/senate-democrats-tax-cuts-infrastructure-392523" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Congressional Democrats</a> released a detailed tax hike plan that they <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://thehill.com/policy/finance/377180-senate-dems-propose-rolling-back-tax-cuts-to-pay-for-infrastructure" href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/377180-senate-dems-propose-rolling-back-tax-cuts-to-pay-for-infrastructure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">promised to implement</a>
if given majority control of the House and Senate after the 2018
midterm elections. So much for the crocodile tears about the deficit--<a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/goptaxscam-delivers-billions-to-corporate-executives-and-wealthy-shareholders-while-middle-class-workers-are-left-behind" href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/goptaxscam-delivers-billions-to-corporate-executives-and-wealthy-shareholders-while-middle-class-workers-are-left-behind" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Democrats want to raise taxes</a> not to reduce the debt, but rather to spend that tax hike money on boondoggle projects.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you might expect, <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-tax-cuts-are-unpopular-and-should-be-lifted-to-pay-for-infrastructure/article/2650925" href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-tax-cuts-are-unpopular-and-should-be-lifted-to-pay-for-infrastructure/article/2650925" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hold onto your wallets</a>. Here are the details:</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Increase the top marginal income tax rate from 37 percent to 39.6 percent.</strong>
This nearly 3 percentage point increase in the top personal rate is not
only a hike in the top bracket levy, but it's also a direct tax
increase on small and mid-sized businesses. The 30 million companies
which are organized as sole proprietorships, partnerships, Subchapter-S
corporations, and LLCs pay their business taxes on their owners' 1040
personal tax returns. Hiking the top tax rate is a small business tax
increase.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Increasing personal income taxes would be particularly unfortunate
since workers are now seeing the results of lower rates in their
paychecks. Thanks to the new <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2018-withholding-tables-now-available" href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2018-withholding-tables-now-available" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IRS withholding tables</a>,
in February of this year over 90 percent of workers saw higher take
home pay in the form of fatter direct deposits (for a humorous spectacle
of the New York Times desperately trying to get people to down-talk
their bigger paychecks, <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/us/politics/tax-cut-offers-working-class.html" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/us/politics/tax-cut-offers-working-class.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>).
They will continue to see those bigger paydays for as long as the tax
rates in law remain in effect. This higher tax home pay is a down
payment on a lower tax liability. Typical families of four should see
their <a data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2018/01/22/new-tax-withholding-tables-are-a-down-payment-on-big-middle-class-tax-cuts/#320ece8c248a" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2018/01/22/new-tax-withholding-tables-are-a-down-payment-on-big-middle-class-tax-cuts/#320ece8c248a" target="_self">federal income tax decline</a> from $2000 to $4000, depending on their income level and number of children.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Increase the corporate income tax rate from 21 percent to 25 percent.</strong>
Up until this year, the United States labored under the highest
corporate income tax rate in the developed world. As a result, jobs and
capital were fleeing America for more normal tax rates that could be
found in tax havens like France and China (saracasm font very much
activated). Finally, after many years of bipartisan consensus that the
U.S. corporate rate had become an impediment to attracting new jobs and
investment, Congress cut the rate all the way from 35 to 21 percent.
Even doing that only puts us in the <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://taxfoundation.org/us-corporate-income-tax-more-competitive/" href="https://taxfoundation.org/us-corporate-income-tax-more-competitive/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">middle of the pack</a> of developed nations, but that's a heck of a lot better than dead last.</span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-36210574869346039402018-11-18T18:14:00.013-08:002018-11-18T18:14:50.308-08:00Muslims Launch Hundreds of Missiles at Israeli Civilian Targets - Media Ignores to avoid damaging Islam's image <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">November 13, 2018 Breaking News: Hamas declared war against Israel by
launching hundreds of missiles at civilian targets in Israel. </span></span><br />
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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis (Jews and Christians, mostly women and
children) are hiding in bomb shelters as heavy barrages of rockets are
fired at civilian population in Israel. </span></span><br />
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Most of the rockets intercepted by the missile defense system, Iron Dome. </span></span><br />
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This is the reality of daily life for thousands of Israelis within rocket range of terrorists in the Gaza Strip. <br />
Where is the wall-to-wall international coverage? Why isn't this making headline news? </span></span><br />
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The rockets and mortars are the latest escalation of violence by Hamas
following weeks of Hamas-led violent riots at the Gaza-Israel border. </span></span><br />
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Where is the world's outrage? Where is the UN now? Where are the protests? </span></span><br />
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The Western world is silent wh</span><span style="font-size: large;">en Islamic terrorists attack Israel, but screams when Israel defends itself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> British Taxpayers Give $220 Million to Fund Islamic terrorism – in other
words, the British Government steals $220000000 of taxpayers money to
fund The Palestinian Authority which pays salaries to Muslim terrorists
who carried out terrorist attacks "in the name of Allah". </span></span><br />
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The more people they killed the more money they get at the expense of the Australian taxpayers. <br />
The Palestinian Authority is about to lose its terrorism financing from USA, Canada, UK and Australia. <br />
Every year Billions of dollars of American, Canadian, British and Australian taxpayers' money go to the Palestinian Authority. <br />
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PAID TERRORISTS NEARLY $350 MILLION IN 2017 ,
Worth 7% of its budget and an astonishing 50% of its foreign aid
receipts. <br />
The Palestinian Authority pays $580 per month to Muslim terrorists who are sentenced to three to five years in prison. <br />
The Palestinian Authority pays terrorists who are sentenced to 20 years
or more in prison 2835$ per month – in other words, those who committed
more severe crimes and were involved in killing Christians or Jews get
five times More money each month for the rest of their lives. <br />
Western countries must stop funding the Palestinian Authority. </span></span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Liberals and leftists in the West use the made up term "Islamophobia" to portray anyone who criticizes Islam as a racist. </span></span><br />
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Terrorists all over the world carry out terror attacks "in the name of Allah". </span></span><br />
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They justify their violence by quoting verses from the Quran. <br />
Islamophobia is a made up word created specifically to silence debate. </span></span><br />
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Liberals and leftists ignore the fact that it is an ideology that has nothing to do with race. <br />
Islamophobia is a neologism created to silence any possible debate about
the problems Islamic extremism has got with modernity, with the
intention of using the collective post-colonial "guilt" to exempt a
particular set of beliefs from scrutiny, analysis and criticism. <br />
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It's a buzzword used in an attempt to silence anyone, whenever had legit questions or criticisms about the religion. <br />
It is not a race. It's a religion. </span></span><br />
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There is an attempt in the West to impose a sharia-blasphemy law to criminalize criticism of Islam. <br />
It started when Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries tried to pass a UN
resolution to force Western states to criminalize criticism of Islam. </span></span><br />
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The Parliament in Canada passed "Motion-103" to condemn the so-called
"Islamophobia (Fear of Islam)" in a preparation for a blasphemy law in
Canada. </span></span><br />
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Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-42078970161369526772018-11-18T18:02:00.007-08:002018-11-18T18:02:18.830-08:00Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Wins Near-Billion Dollar California ‘High Speed Rail’ Contract<br />
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Joe Albero at <a href="mailto:alberobutzo@wmconnect.com">alberobutzo@wmconnect.com</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>To the surprise of absolutely no one
familiar with the ways of Corruptifornia, the one-party state completely
in the hands of the Democrats, a consortium whose lead firm is
controlled by Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, was
awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of the
first phase of the so-called high-speed rail line to link San Francisco
and Los Angeles. Those paying attention to the project call it the
“half-fast” rail line because it will share trackage with conventional
commuter rail trains in the sprawling Los Angeles and San Francisco
areas, lowering its average speed to levels achieved by American
railways a century ago.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/dianne_feinsteins_husband_wins_nearbillion_dollar_california_high_speed_rail_contract.html#ixzz3UwxjvqPn">Read More</a></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>Editors note: </b>This was originally posted in January of 2017.</span> </span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-74915995890001775072018-11-18T17:45:00.006-08:002018-11-18T17:45:21.434-08:00 CA Governor Jerry Brown sets aside $15 million for illegal aliens facing deportation while CA burns<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://abc7.com/news/california-budget-includes-%2415m-to-help-those-facing-deportation/1995279/" target="top">ABC 7 Reports</a> <span style="color: black;">Gov.
Jerry Brown has set aside an extra $15 million in the state budget to
expand legal defense for people battling deportation. This brings the
total of the state government's financial aid for those in the country
illegally to approximately $33 million. </span><span style="color: black;">Under the </span><a href="http://abc7.com/news/gov-brown-more-spending-for-schools-child-care-in-ca-budget/1980924/">revised budget Brown released last week</a><span style="color: black;">, the one-time </span><a href="http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2017-18/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf">$15 million cash infusion</a><span style="color: black;"> was
described as going toward further expanding "the availability of legal
services for people seeking naturalization services, deportation
defense, or assistance in securing other legal immigration status." </span><span style="color: black;">Immigrant
rights groups and lawyers are hailing the move, saying the increase in
funding is a sign that California is committed to protecting families.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">So while California burns to the
ground oddly where the proposed California high speed rail just happens
to be proposed, Governor Jerry Brown of California in his last weeks of
being governor has now handed over 15 million to illegal aliens facing
deportation. This new 15 million dollars towards legal fees for illegal
aliens facing deportation is now totaling 33 million dollars for the
legal funds of illegal aliens facing deportation, and none of this money
is going towards disaster relief for the California wildfires...Where
the number of dead is quickly approaching 100.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> Democrats put illegal aliens
before American citizens, well here is your proof...And Democrats who
voted for Governor Jerry Brown are also suffering from the California
wildfires. California's governor Brown is handing another $15 million to
illegal aliens, and Republicans and Democrats suffering with the
California wildfires if they are wild are getting nothing.</span></span></span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-84010026319693675212018-11-18T17:15:00.008-08:002018-11-18T17:15:39.145-08:00‘DREAMER’ Raped His One-Month-Old Daughter, Left Her With 45 Broken Bones<br />
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<span class="posted-on"><a href="http://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/crimes-against-children/dreamer-raped-his-one-month-old-daughter-left-her-with-45-broken-bones/" rel="bookmark" title="8:22 am">October 16, 2018</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">WACO, TX (<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patricio-medina-texas-waco-mclennan-rape-of-baby-meth/">CBS News</a>)
– A Texas man was sentenced to 244 years of prison time for the rape of
his then 38-day-old daughter while in a meth-induced haze, CBS
affiliate KWTX-TV reports. Jurors convicted <strong>Patricio Medina,</strong> 27, on multiple counts for sexually assaulting his newborn in March 2014. </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The child suffered 45 broken bones and other injuries</strong>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Medina, 27, was <strong>found guilty last Wednesday on one count of
aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 6, two counts of
injury to a child and two counts of endangering a child</strong>. A day later jurors decided on an 80-year sentence and $10,000 fine on the aggravated sexual assault of a child count,<strong> two 80-year sentences</strong>
and $10,000 fines on the injury to a child counts and two 2-year
sentences for child endangerment, according to the McLennan County
District Attorney’s Office. </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The jury’s verdict ensures that this toddler and all children will
be safe from this predator for the next 80 years,” Assistant McLennan
County District Attorney Gabrielle Massey said in a statement. Medina
must serve the full 80 years of the sentence for aggravated sexual
assault of a child.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <strong>doctor discovered the child’s injuries from the attack during the girl’s five-week checkup</strong>,
KWTX-TV reports. A jailhouse informant testified that Medina admitted
he sexually assaulted the baby while high on methamphetamine.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The baby’s mother, Lisa Montoya, also testified. She pleaded guilty to two counts of endangering a child.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Medina, who was first indicted in November 2015, had been jailed in lieu of $225,000 bond.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Thanks to the work of CPS and Waco PD Crimes Against Children, the
horrific first five weeks of this child’s life will not prevent her from
having a safe and happy future,” Massey said.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>An unrelated family adopted the victim and her two siblings</strong>. The girl is now 4 and is doing well, Massey said.</span></span><br />
Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-61370190571567001862018-11-08T18:56:00.005-08:002018-11-08T18:56:50.427-08:00Christian woman was executed by acid in Pakistan for being non-Muslim<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liberals and leftists in the West use the made up term "Islamophobia" to portray anyone who criticizes Islam as a "racist". </span></span><br />
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Radical Muslim terrorists all over the world carry out terror attacks "in the name of Allah". </span></span><br />
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They justify their violence by quoting verses from the Quran. <br />
Islamophobia is a made up word created by the Muslim Brotherhood specifically to silence debate. <br />
Liberals and leftists ignore the fact that Islam is an ideology that has nothing to do with race. </span></span><br />
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Islamophobia is a neologism created to silence any possible debate about
the problems Islamic extremism has got with modernity, with the
intention of using the collective post-colonial "guilt" to exempt a
particular set of beliefs from scrutiny, analysis and criticism. </span></span><br />
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It's a buzzword used in an attempt to silence anyone, whenever had legit questions or criticisms about the religion. <br />
Islam is not a race. It's a religion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is an attempt in the West to impose a sharia-blasphemy law to criminalize criticism of Islam. <br />
It started when Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries tried to pass a UN
resolution to force Western states to criminalize criticism of Islam. </span></span><br />
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The Parliament in Canada passed "Motion M-103" to condemn the so-called
"Islamophobia (Fear of Islam)" in a preparation for a blasphemy law in
Canada. </span></span><br />
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According to the sharia blasphemy law anyone who criticizes Islam or the Prophet Muhammad should be killed. </span></span><br />
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Under Sharia blasphemy law in Saudi Arabia and Iran Muslims are executed if they are accused of blasphemy. <br />
In Pakistan, the situation is even worse, radical Muslims use the blasphemy law to persecute the Christian minority. <br />
Is this the law the liberals in the West want to adopt? </span></span><br />
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LIES GO TO DIE – Evidence discovered shows British Protectorate of East
Africa recorded Obama’s birth records before 1963 and sent returns of those
events to Britain’s Public Records Office and the Kew branch of British
National Archives.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Editors note: The records alluded to in this
story were discovered through a May, 2012 search through BMD Registers, a
BNA partner site, using the search term "Obama". Corroborating evidence
through public sources only implicates the identity of those involved but
does not explicitly prove their identity in the absence of the availability
of original documents.)</span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Dan Crosby<br />
of The Daily Pen </span></span></div>
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<b>KEW, SURREY, GB</b> – The last place anyone would think to look for a
birth record of someone claiming to be a “natural born” U.S. citizen is
Great Britain. The very inclusion of the Article II eligibility mandate in
the U.S. Constitution was explicitly intended by the founding fathers of
America to prevent a then British-born enemy usurper from attaining the
office of the U.S. presidency and thereby undermining the sovereignty of the
newly formed nation. <br />
In the absence of honor, courage and justice on the part of those serving in
the U.S. Congress and Federal Judiciary, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold
Case investigative group has concluded the only law enforcement analysis of
the image of Obama’s alleged “Certificate of Live Birth” posted to a
government website in April, 2011 and found it to be the product of criminal
fraud and document forgery. <br />
The seeming endless evidence against Obama has now taken investigators to
the foreign archives of Great Britain wherein it has been discovered that
vital events occurring under the jurisdiction of the British Colony in the
Protectorate of East Africa prior to 1965 were recorded and held in the main
office of the British Registrar in England until 1995 before being archived
in the BNA.<br />
It now appears the worst fears of the U.S. Constitution’s framers were well
founded as investigators working on behalf of the ongoing investigation into
the Constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama have found yet another lead
in a growing mountain of evidence within the public records section of the
British National Archives indicating the occurrence of at least four vital
events registered to the name of Barack Obama, taking place in the British
Protectorate of East Africa (Kenya) between 1953 and 1963, including the
birth of two sons before 1963. <br />
Recall, investigative journalists working for Breitbart.com have already
discovered biographical information published by Barack Obama’s literary
agent in which he claimed he was born in Kenya. Prior to Obama’s
ensconcement to the White House, many international stories also stated that
Obama was Kenyan-born as did members of Kenya’s legislative assembly. Since
then information on Obama’s ties has been curtailed by government officials
as the Obama administration has coincidently paid nearly $4 billion dollars
for capital projects in Kenya. <br />
Also, the presence of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, cannot be accounted for
from February, 1961, the alleged month of her marriage to Obama, until three
weeks after the birth of Obama II in August, 1961 when she allegedly applied
for college courses at the University of Washington. Theories about her
whereabouts have included that she participated in the Air Lift America
project as an exchange student and traveled to Nairobi as one of many recent
highschool graduates (see AASF Report 1959-1961). </span></span></div>
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The record of birth of a second son prior to Kenyan independence is
significant because biographical information about Obama’s family indicates
Obama Sr. fathered only one other son prior to Obama II’s birth. </span></span></div>
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The books containing hand written line records of vital events attributed to
Obama are contained in Series RG36 of the Family Records section in the Kew
branch of the BNA. The hand written line records first discovered in 2009,
indicate several events were registered to the name Barack Obama (appears to
be handwritten and spelled “Burack” and “Biraq”) beginning in 1953 and
include two births recorded in 1958 and 1960, a marriage license
registration in 1954 and a birth in 1961. Barack Obama is said to have died
in 1982 and had married at least once more in Kenya and had at least one
more child in 1968, but no record of these were found in the BNA because,
according to the Archives’ desk reference, the events occurred after Kenya
achieved independence from British colonial rule in 1963. </span></span></div>
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To date, Barack Obama II is the only known alleged son of Obama Sr. born
after 1960 and before the independence of Kenya became official in 1963.
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A request for information from the BNA on the specification of birth
information contained in the series of thousands of logs indicates that only
vital events registered in Kenya’s Ministry of Health offices were recorded
in the registration returns and were placed in the National Archives care
before they reached 30 years old (the law was amended to 20 years after
creation in 2010). </span></span></div>
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The line records do not specify the identity or names of the children, only
gender. However, the line records are associated with index numbers of
actual microfilm copies of certificates, licenses and registration
applications filed in the archives. According to researchers, Obama’s line
records were discovered in Series RG36, reference books. Not surprisingly,
when researchers specifically requested access to the relevant microfilm for
the Obama birth registrations, they were told that the records were
currently held under an outdated “privileged access” status, meaning
researchers were denied access under Chapter 52, Sections 3 and 5 of the
British Public Records Act of 1958. </span></span></div>
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However, evidence shows these records were available for public access
before August of 2009, the approximate date of arrival of Hillary Clinton in
Great Britain during her trip to Africa that year. <br />
<a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/access-to-public-records.pdf">
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/access-to-public-records.pdf</a>
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Several sources show that Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a sudden
visit to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British agency
which oversees Public Records Archives from colonial protectorates, to speak
with the Chief Executive of the Archives in early August of 2009. African
news agency expressed surprise at Clintons arrival since she did not
announce her intentions of stopping in Great Britain before embarking on her
two week trip to Africa. </span></span></div>
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<b>OBAMA’S FATHER FAILED TO INCLUDE BIRTH OF “SON” ON INS APPLICATION </b>
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For someone who wanted to remain in America, it’s difficult to imagine any
reason why Barack Obama’s alleged father, Barack the elder, would omit the
birth of an “anchor baby” son on an application to extend his visa, just
days after the birth occurred, unless…<br />
The American people were told by Barack Obama, unequivocally, that his
father was a former goat herder from Kenya. However, INS documents filed in
the very same month after Obama’s birth suggest the goat herding elder Obama
didn’t “get the memo” that he was a daddy. <br />
On August 31st, 1961, just weeks after Obama’s birth was allegedly
registered in a regional office of the Hawaiian Health Department, Obama the
elder neglected to name is newborn son on an application for extension of
his temporary visa to stay in the U.S. </span></span></div>
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Obama’s omission of the birth is astonishing and illogical given the fact
that the acknowledgement of the birth would have fortified Obama’s
application for an extension. The INS has long been more willing to extend
the visa of a foreign parent of children born in the U.S., especially when
the other parent is an American citizen. <br />
Despite the recent release of a documentary film “Dreams From My Real
Father” presenting evidence that Barack Hussein Obama is not the biological
father of the younger Obama, the elder Obama is the man named as the father
on the digital image of Obama’s alleged 1961 “Certificate of Live Birth”
which was posted to the internet by the administration in April of 2011. The
document image has since been forensically examined by law enforcement
investigators and determined to be a digitally fabricated forgery using
Adobe software.</span></span></div>
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<b>THE UGLY TRUTH </b><br />
However, the sad and pathetic truth about Obama’s covert natal history and
his illegitimacy lies at the bottom of a sordid pit of lies surrounding the
paternity of his birth. Doubts about his identity, his eligibility, his
intentions, his honesty and his honorability as a man stem from what appears
to be an ugly truth about his mother’s probable sexual involvement with
multiple men associated with the radical socialist movement in 1960’s
Hawaii.<br />
Obama and his horde of abettors defend an improbable narrative about his
identity. The veracity of this narrative has been damaged under the weight
of a steady stream of crushing evidence demonstrating more than 180
disparities and contradictions to Obama’s claims of natal legitimacy as
president. </span></span></div>
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If Obama’s cause as a usurper of power is to avenge his father’s culture, he
made the worst possible error in lying about who he is. Vintage America is
on to him. Their instincts are slowly turning Obama’s fantasy of a socialist
utopia for those he believes are humanity’s offended into a laughingstock.
By building his vision for America on clay feet of lies about his who he is,
he has undermined any intention of doing something good and right. He is not
to be trusted. </span></span></div>
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Moreover, Obama is learning the painful lesson that a message of “Hope and
Change” means something vastly different to vintage America, the most
powerful and affluent culture in human history, when that message has been
proven to come from someone as audaciously dishonest and deceptively
calculating as this son of otherness. </span></span></div>
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Recall, in 2011, it was reported by The Daily Pen after an investigation of
the State of Hawaii’s birth statistics collection protocols and vital
records history that birth certificates are often amended after the birth
while the original paper document is sealed under strict confidentiality
rules when the identity of the father is either determined after birth or
when the father named on the new version of the certificate has adopted or
assumed paternal responsibility for the child.</span></span></div>
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In the latter case, the original birth record may not contain the biological
father’s name because the mother does not provide it, or it may list
paternity as “unknown”, but this version is kept confidential under HRS 571.
In some cases, the biological father may not even know he is the father if
the mother has had more than one sexual partner prior to the pregnancy.
There was no DNA test in 1961, however the 1961 Vital Statistics of the U.S.
Report shows there were more than 1000 such “illegitimate” births reported
in the state of Hawaii during that year, about 1 in 17. </span></span></div>
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Therefore, the paternity of the child at the actual time of the birth is not
disclosed while the new amended certificate is upheld as the original
version displaying the name of the newly identified or adoptive father as
indistinguishable if different from the biological father. This law is meant
to protect the child from stigmas resulting from illegitimacy, rape, incest
or adultery. Under these circumstances it is not possible to know the
paternal status of a child at birth unless the original birth record is made
accessible by authorized persons under Hawaiian law.</span></span></div>
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However, notations indicating that a certificate contains updated paternal
information would be typed or printed in the lower margin of the new
certificate, below the signature section. This lower margin of the image of
Obama’s certificate has been shown by computer experts to be concealed by
forgers using a “clipping mask”. A clipping mask is a feature available in
Adobe software which limits the viewable area on a document image through
which only selected information can be seen. In the case of Obama’s forged
certificate, the information we have been allowed to see within the frame of
the clipping mask may merely reflect an amended birth record while
concealing notations of the amendments which exists in the lower margin
outside the frame of the clipping mask. <br />
Regardless of any level of truth about any individual piece of information
in the image, overall, the final image is the product of criminals and
liars. </span></span></div>
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If Obama is not the biological father, or if paternal information is listed
on the original certificate as “unknown”, the state of Hawaii keeps this
information secret until a court orders the documents to be released for
discovery purposes in determining Obama’s eligibility. Thus far, courts have
lacked courage to uphold the Constitution thereby propagating the greatest
political fraud in American history. Judges are simply washing their hands
of the issue by refusing to even consider actual evidence against Obama,
denying citizens of justice and their Constitutional right to a redress of
grievances, because they simply do not have the courage to face the legal
crisis such a revelation would cause. </span></span></div>
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Cowardly judges refuse to allow any exposure Obama’s actual natural born
identity and, in their dereliction, have conjured a legal fantasy filled
with pressurizing wrath in which a candidate’s eligibility for president is
not only declared legally uncontestable but is also automatically
preeminent. In allowing this, judges have allowed a dangerous precedent in
which any foreign invader can covertly usurp the power of the U.S.
government simply by lying about their citizenship status and hiding
documentation with the help of the American media and a complicit legal
system. </span></span></div>
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<b>THE MARRIAGE SHAM </b><br />
On his application, when asked the name and address of his spouse, it
appears Obama may have first written the name of his actual wife in Kenya
before blacking it out and writing “Ann S. Dunham”. <br />
Despite evidence indicating that Obama was simultaneously married to a woman
in Kenya, it is suspected that he claimed to be married to Dunham in order
to use the marriage as leverage to remain in the U.S. There is no evidence
or testimony that Obama ever loved Dunham or that the two had ever been
engaged. The two did not live together before or after being married and
there were no letters, no ring, no announcement or, most importantly, no
legal marriage registration with the State of Hawaii. <br />
Despite a complete void of documented proof of the marriage, it appears
Dunham was granted a statutory divorce from Obama in 1964. However, images
posted of the court documents from the decree contain no original documented
proof of a marriage or legal documents showing that Obama was the father of
Dunham’s child. A review of the court documents shows that at least one
document, perhaps an original birth certificate for baby Obama, was missing
from the numbering sequence.</span></span></div>
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<b>THE INS’ PERSPECTIVE</b> <br />
Being legitimately married to a U.S. citizen would be a benefit toward
allowing a foreign spouse to remain the U.S. However, no marriage license
application or public announcement has ever been found to indicate that
Obama and Dunham were ever married or that Obama had even divorced his
Kenyan wife prior to an alleged wedding with Dunham. This fact supports the
contents of memos from college and INS officials who expressed doubts about
the legitimacy of Obama’s relationship with Dunham, even questioning the
motive of such a union between a teenage woman and a foreign student facing
visa expiration just days after the birth of her child. </span></span></div>
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From the perspective of an INS agent, the circumstances surrounding Obama’s
relationship with Dunham would have raised suspicions. Immigration fraud was
rampant during Hawaii’s foreign birth accommodation era in the 1960’s.
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Since Obama was a foreigner wanting to extend his temporary visa, the INS
certainly understood that by claiming a marriage to Dunham, it would promote
INS approval of an extension, but in Dunham’s case there was an added risk
to the relationship for Obama…she was pregnant. </span></span></div>
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It appears, from the contents of documents in Obama’s INS file, when pressed
by INS agents and school officials on the actual validity of his
relationship to Dunham and baby Obama, having certainly been advised of
legal ramifications for lying, he refused to name Obama as his child but
maintained that he was married to Dunham. This indicates that Obama was
either not certain if he was the biological father, or that he knew he
wasn’t. </span></span></div>
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Under child protection laws in many states, including Hawaii, when the
biological father is deceased or unidentified by the mother, the man who is
married to the mother at the time she gives birth automatically becomes the
father named on the official birth certificate until it is proven in court
that he is not the biological father. “Mandatory Legitimacy” applies even if
the birth is the result of adultery, when the mother is married at the time
of birth, until paternity is successfully contested. Today, DNA testing
allows for conclusive determinations about paternity, but in 1961, it was
more difficult to determine paternity. Hawaii’s child welfare statutes
indicate the “statutory” father’s name on the certificate may be removed by
court order, if paternity is successfully contested, after a judge has
decided the case in the interest of the child’s welfare. This law is
intended to protect the child if the mother dies.</span></span></div>
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<b>DELUSIONS OF LEGITIMACY</b><br />
Government officials in Hawaii, including Governor Neil Abercrombie, Lt.
Governor Brian Schatz and former Hawaiian elections official, Tim Adams have
all indicated that they could find no original record of Obama’s alleged
birth in any hospital in Hawaii in the course of their duties to verify his
eligibility. The absence of verifiable birth documentation was so apparent
that Schatz, serving as the chairman of the Democrat Party of Hawaii in
2008, refused to certify that Obama was indeed constitutionally eligible to
hold the office of president when he submitted the Official Certification of
Nomination of Obama. Schatz deferred the responsibility to Nancy Pelosi and
DNC, and then Chair of the Hawaiian Elections Commission, Kevin Cronin.
Cronin resigned suddenly after controversy surrounding his decision began to
strain his relationship with the commission. </span></span></div>
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Ignorance, lies and lack of understanding about the difference between a
medically verified birth and a legal registration of birth has confused the
public about Obama’s natal history and eligibility. <br />
Liars and abettors in media and government, drudging on behalf of the Obama
administration, have anchored their Alinsky-style ridicule of those
questioning Obama’s eligibility in a delusion that he must be legitimate
because his birth was announced in two Hawaiian newspapers. </span></span></div>
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The elder Obama’s name appears as the father of a newborn son in images of
two birth announcements appearing in two Honolulu newspapers on August 13th
and 14th, 1961. Birth announcements in Hawaii in 1961 were published
automatically from a birth registration list provided directly to the papers
by the Hawaiian Department of Health. The notifications of births provided
to the Health Department, however, were not only the product of information
provided by hospitals and doctors, alone. </span></span></div>
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The distinction between the information used by the hospital to create a
“Certificate of Live Birth” and the information used by the Department of
Health to create a birth registration is that information used to create
birth registrations were allowed to be submitted from anyone possessing
credible information about the birth, including family members, witnesses or
attendants, regardless of the actual location of the birth. Contrarily, the
information on a “Live Birth” record must be verified and attested by a
licensed medical doctor qualified to determine the characteristics of a live
birth event. This is important in cases when a distinction was needed
between a “still birth” and a baby that may have been born alive but then
died upon delivery. In the latter case, both a birth certificate and a death
certificate are required while a still birth requires only a death
certificate because of the definition of a live birth under HRS 338-1.
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Hawaii has a long history of allocating foreign births to the mother’s
claimed Hawaiian residence regardless of the actual location of the birth,
which was in compliance with guidelines established by the National Center
for Health Statistics in order to accurately attribute data from births with
decadal Census figures. Unfortunately, these vital statistics reporting
guidelines are not conducive with determining the natural born status of the
child. </span></span></div>
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For example, the Bureau of Census in 1961 counted all residents by county
regardless of their temporary absence at the time of the Census when the
Census worker was able to identify residents of a county through the
information provided by others. This applies even today. <br />
Therefore, beginning in as early as 1933, it was determined that births must
be accounted the same way for all usual residents regardless of the mother’s
location at the time of the event when that resident mother intended to
return to that county. In Hawaii, if a child did not have an official
certificate prior to the mother’s return, the local Health Department was
obligated to provide one under the Model State Vital Statistics Act of 1942,
Section 8 of Hawaii’s Public Health Regulations and HRS 338. </span></span></div>
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The impact of population figures on the Hawaii’s economy and agency
resources was very significant in 1961. The accuracy of the Census takes
precedence over the accuracy and veracity of vital statistics in the U.S.
Vital statistics are reported annually, but the Census only occurs every ten
years which means there is large volume of population which goes untracked
between Census years. If births and deaths were not allocated to the
residents of each county, regardless of the location of the vital event, the
results would cause large disparities when compared with the Census data.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="drop">I</span>n January 2015 a group of Haitians surrounded
the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation. They chanted slogans,
accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of having robbed them of “billions of
dollars.” Two months later, the Haitians were at it again, accusing the
Clintons of duplicity, malfeasance, and theft. And in May 2015, they
were back, this time outside New York’s Cipriani, where Bill Clinton
received an award and collected a $500,000 check for his foundation.
“Clinton, where’s the money?” the Haitian signs read. “In whose
pockets?” Said Dhoud Andre of the Commission Against Dictatorship, “We
are telling the world of the crimes that Bill and Hillary Clinton are
responsible for in Haiti.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haitians like Andre may sound a bit strident, but he and the
protesters had good reason to be disgruntled. They had suffered a heavy
blow from Mother Nature, and now it appeared that they were being
battered again — this time by the Clintons. Their story goes back to
2010, when a massive 7.0 earthquake devastated the island, killing more
than 200,000 people, leveling 100,000 homes, and leaving 1.5 million
people destitute.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The devastating effect of the earthquake on a very poor nation
provoked worldwide concern and inspired an outpouring of aid money
intended to rebuild Haiti. Countries around the world, as well as
private and philanthropic groups such as the Red Cross and the Salvation
Army, provided some $10.5 billion in aid, with $3.9 billion of it
coming from the United States.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Haitians such as Andre, however, noticed that very little of this
aid money actually got to poor people in Haiti. Some projects championed
by the Clintons, such as the building of industrial parks and posh
hotels, cost a great deal of money and offered scarce benefits to the
truly needy. Port-au-Prince was supposed to be rebuilt; it was never
rebuilt. Projects aimed at creating jobs proved to be bitter
disappointments. Haitian unemployment remained high, largely undented by
the funds that were supposed to pour into the country. Famine and
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Haitians were initially sympathetic to the Clintons. One may
say they believed in the message of “hope and change.” With his
customary overstatement, Bill told the media, “Wouldn’t it be great if
they become the first wireless nation in the world? They could, I’m
telling you, they really could.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I don’t blame the Haitians for falling for it; Bill is one of the
world’s greatest story-tellers. He has fooled people far more
sophisticated than the poor Haitians. Over time, however, the Haitians
wised up. Whatever their initial expectations, many saw that much of the
aid money seems never to have reached its destination; rather, it
disappeared along the way.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Where did it go? It did not escape the attention of the Haitians
that Bill Clinton was the designated UN representative for aid to Haiti.
Following the earthquake, Bill Clinton had with media fanfare
established the Haiti Reconstruction Fund. Meanwhile, his wife Hillary
was the United States secretary of state. She was in charge of U.S. aid
allocated to Haiti. Together the Clintons were the two most powerful
people who controlled the flow of funds to Haiti from around the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of the Clintons.</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Haitian protesters noticed an interesting pattern involving the
Clintons and the designation of how aid funds were used. They observed
that a number of companies that received contracts in Haiti happened to
be entities that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation. The
Haitian contracts appeared less tailored to the needs of Haiti than to
the needs of the companies that were performing the services. In sum,
Haitian deals appeared to be a quid pro quo for filling the coffers of
the Clintons.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For example, the Clinton Foundation selected Clayton Homes, a
construction company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to
build temporary shelters in Haiti. Buffett is an active member of the
Clinton Global Initiative who has donated generously to the Clintons as
well as the Clinton Foundation. The contract was supposed to be given
through the normal United Nations bidding process, with the deal going
to the lowest bidder who met the project’s standards. UN officials said,
however, that the contract was never competitively bid for.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Clayton offered to build “hurricane-proof trailers” but what they
actually delivered turned out to be a disaster. The trailers were
structurally unsafe, with high levels of formaldehyde and insulation
coming out of the walls. There were problems with mold and fumes. The
stifling heat inside made Haitians sick and many of them abandoned the
trailers because they were ill-constructed and unusable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Democratic senator Kamala Harris joked about killing President Trump and
members of his administration in a Thursday appearance on <em>The Ellen Degeneres Show</em>.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump,
Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be?” DeGeneres asked Harris
during a series of random, mostly cheery questions she read from cards.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harris made a displeased face and asked Ellen, “Does one of us have to come out alive?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She laughed loudly for a minute as the audience joined in with cheers and laughs. Even the show’s host joined in the mirth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservatives took Harris to task over the comment, some asking what
the reaction would have been if the men Harris joked about had made the
same joke about her.</span></span><br />
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<em>The Long Con: Along with France’s <span class="js-about-item-abstr">Nicolas Sarközy, British PM </span>Tony Blair was tasked with setting up Libya for the country’s eventual take-down in 2011.</em><br />
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<span class="post-comments"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>In 2011, led by the UK, France and the US, NATO undertook a
concerted plan to decapitate and collapse the state of Libya. This plan
was not hatched overnight and took years to prepare. The damage and
destruction wrought upon the North African state will be felt for
generations to come. </strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those NATO member states who carried out this criminal act are now finishing off the caper through the theft of Libya’s assets.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not by accident, or some random case of embezzlement, rather,
the western policy of ‘freezing assets’ of those countries they are
targeting for destabilization or regime change is simply a prelude to
stealing them.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><a href="https://www.rt.com/business/442650-gaddafi-frozen-assets-investigation/">RT International</a> reports…</em></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Prosecutors are investigating whether Belgian banks paid out
interest and dividends on accounts frozen under UN sanctions in 2011
after the ouster of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up to €5 billion ($5.7 billion) could have been disbursed to people
controlling Libyan accounts, including militia groups in the country
which stand accused of human rights abuses, according to a report by
public broadcaster RTBF which cited an unidentified source.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RTBF said that when the UN agreed to freeze deposits held by
Gaddafi’s administration abroad, Belgium had done so but had not halted
payments of interest and dividends.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With NATO’s intervention in 2011, the UN introduced sanctions against
the Libyan government’s assets, effectively seizing roughly $67 billion
from the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), held across Europe and
North America. In the EU, national governments froze only the original
amounts, while the interest and dividends earned after 2011 remained a
liquid asset.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told reporters on Tuesday he
had not been involved in the decision to unblock interest on deposits.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>“This [decision to unblock funds] is the responsibility of the
Finance Ministry. I have not headed it since December 6, 2011, and have
not made any decisions on this matter,”</em> Reynders said, recalling
that the permission to partially unfreeze Libyan accounts was issued by
the kingdom’s treasury in October 2012, when the Finance Ministry was
headed by Steven Vanackere.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/363525-western-leaders-gaddafi-libya/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">READ MORE: From ‘mad dog’ to ‘model’ and back: How West changed its mind on Libya’s Gaddafi</a></strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The United Nations is also investigating the alleged embezzlement of
billions of euro that disappeared from the Gaddafi accounts, according
to Belgian MP Georges Gilkinet.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>“UN documents confirm that Belgium failed to comply with a UN resolution on freezing Libyan assets,”</em>
Gilkinet told RTBF, adding that he had only received fragmentary
information from Belgian authorities. The politician said it is
necessary <em>“to clarify the situation, which may lead to a big
scandal, because hundreds of millions of euros were sent to unknown
individuals in Libya.”</em></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An investigation, by Brussels-based European affairs weekly Politico, discovered in February <em>“big, regular outflows of stock dividends, bond income and interest payments,”</em> from the Gaddafi-linked funds kept in Belgium, suggesting a <em>“loophole in the sanctions regime.”</em></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red;">READ MORE LIBYA NEWS AT:</span> <a href="http://www.21stcenturywire.com/tag/libya">21st Century Wire Libya Files</a></strong></span></span></div>
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Francisco will become the first city in California and one of only a
handful nationwide to allow noncitizens to vote in a local election next
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Francisco in November will become the largest city in the nation to
allow noncitizens the chance to vote in a local election, making the
city once again a flashpoint in the debate about immigration.</span></span></div>
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including those without legal status, will be allowed to vote only in a
school board race and just a little more than 40 have registered to
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the decision carries major symbolic force and has become the latest
punching bag for conservatives who already are using California’s
efforts to protect people in this country illegally from President
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has gone further than any other state in offering opportunities to
those here illegally, including providing special driver’s licenses,
college tuition breaks and child healthcare. Voting has been a more
sensitive topic, but experts said it fits both the larger political
trends in California as well as the conservative backlash.</span></span><br />
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States and that change is being done extralegally somehow,” said Louis
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s
no surprise San Francisco’s action will further rally conservatives,
who are also using the exodus of thousands of Central Americans headed
to the U.S. border en masse as an issue, said Robin Hvidston, executive
director of We the People Rising, a Claremont organization that lobbies
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Noncitizen
voting is a very contentious issue,” Hvidston said. “The move to extend
voting rights to those illegally residing in San Francisco has the
potential to backfire among citizens with a moderate stance on illegal
immigration.”</span></span><br />
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the last week, alt-right publications, anti-illegal immigration
activists and nationalist online chat rooms have grabbed on to the
issue. A tweet posted this week by World Net Daily to promote a story
about the election reads: “The gates have now been opened to letting
non-citizens to vote. Is this the beginning of the end?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservative Assemblyman Travis Allen chimed in, tweeting: “****ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NOW VOTING in <a data-mentioned-user-id="11347122" href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom">@GavinNewsom</a>'s
San Francisco**** Non-citizens now ‘eligible’ to vote in November's
local election due to Democrat ordinance. The CA Democrat Party has gone
too far. It's time we TAKE BACK CALIFORNIA!!”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shamann
Walton, a San Francisco Unified School District commissioner who
introduced a resolution to the school board in support of the measure in
2016, said he doesn’t buy into the rhetoric from the right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
San Francisco Unified School District doesn’t keep track of how many of
its students or parents are noncitizens. The district website reports
that 29% of its 54,063 students are English-language learners — an
indication of the size of the district’s immigrant population. An
estimated 35,000 people without legal status live in San Francisco,
according to a 2017 Pew Research report.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
city’s voters approved the measure two years ago during the same
election as Donald Trump’s presidential victory that would lead to an
immigration crackdown and intensified rhetoric against people living in
the country illegally.</span></span><br />
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a result, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance in
May requiring a notice to be included with every registration affidavit
and other election material that informs voters that their information
could reach U.S. immigration officials, said John Arntz, director of San
Francisco’s Department of Elections.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I
share the same fear [as] our undocumented residents,” Walton said. “I
don’t expect people to rush to the polls and give the federal government
the opportunity to attack our city residents.”</span></span><br />
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of Tuesday afternoon, 42 noncitizens had registered to vote in the
local election, Arntz said. The registration deadline was Monday, but
the state also allows people to conditionally register and vote on
election day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noncitizens
who register to vote in the school board race must give their name,
address and date of birth. They can't vote in state or federal elections
and are listed on a separate roster from U.S. citizens. Noncitizens are
given a ballot with only the school board contest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noncitizen voting has been an issue for the last several years, especially in communities with large immigrant populations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Advocates
who support giving noncitizens the right to vote in local elections
have said it gives this population more of a stake in their communities.
Voter apathy is high in some of these areas, a condition that can allow
corruption to run rampant, as shown in the Southern California city of
Bell, which was marred by scandal and criminal convictions of city
leaders nearly a decade ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Los
Angeles and Orange counties are home to an estimated 1 million people
who are in the country illegally, according to a 2017 Pew Research
Center study. In California, it’s about 2.35 million.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San
Francisco’s expansion of voting rights follows similar actions in
several other cities, said Joshua A. Douglas, a professor at the
University of Kentucky College of Law who specializes in election law
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For
years, Takoma Park in Maryland has allowed noncitizens to vote in all
city elections. Two years ago, the Hyattsville City Council in the same
state unanimously voted to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections,
Douglas said.</span></span><br />
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Massachusetts towns, such as Amherst and Cambridge, have passed
resolutions to support noncitizen voting in local elections, though the
changes haven’t gone into effect. They are still waiting for approval of
state lawmakers, he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Noncitizen
voting was not considered at all that radical until a backlash during
post World War I,” Douglas said. “It was really the anti-immigrant
sentiment that pulled back against noncitizen voting.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever
since the nation’s founding up to the 1920s, many states allowed
noncitizens to vote in all elections. States amended their laws to take
away voting rights in the aftermath of World War I. Still, noncitizens
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now, it seems, San Francisco’s move turned out to be largely symbolic.
Walton said the resolution was supposed to lead to real change. He said
he never imagined the American people would elect Trump, who has been so
stridently against both legal and illegal immigration. But, Walton
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will not always be president,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll have leaders
who are inclusive and really believe that if you are a resident of this
country, you should have the same rights as other people. I’m looking
forward to a time when our families will have a bigger voice.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 29-year-old self-described socialist who has become known as the “</span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-becomes-the-sarah-palin-of-the-left/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarah Palin of the Left</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” has used her new national voice to stump for left-wing challengers to establishment Democrats in primaries across the country.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the fresh face of the progressive
left heads to Washington, here’s a look back at some of the
congresswoman-elect’s hot-button statements made in media appearances
along the campaign trail.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>1. Capitalism in the Crosshairs </strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” said Ocasio-Cortez in an</span><a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">
on PBS’ “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” in July when pressed on why
the unemployment rate was low in a capitalist system. “Unemployment is
low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely
feed their kids.”</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ocasio-Cortez continued to argue the days of capitalism are numbered:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And so I do think that
right now we have this no-holds-barred, Wild West hyper-capitalism. What
that means is profit at any cost. Capitalism has not always existed in
the world, and it will not always exist in the world. When this country
started, we were not a capitalist [nation], we did not operate on a
capitalist economy. </span></span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>2. Backpedaling on Israel</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the same interview, Ocasio-Cortez also referred to the situation in Palestine as an “occupation” by Israel. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Hoover asked Ocasio-Cortez to
clarify her position after pointing out the term “occupation” was
controversial, Ocasio-Cortez, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in
economics and international relations from Boston University, struggled
to explain her comment. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am not the expert on geopolitics
on this issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “You know, for me, I’m a firm
believer in finding a two-state solution on this issue.”</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>3. Explaining the Extinction of the Middle Class </strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In another </span><a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/08/08/ocasio-cortez-upper-middle-class-doesnt-exist-anymore-america"><span style="font-weight: 400;">interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,
speaking with former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett on the liberal
podcast “Pod Save America,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed the “upper-middle
class doesn’t exist anymore.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ocasio-Cortez was discussing the political ideology of the country’s different socioeconomic classes when she made the claim:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think that politically,
this upper-middle class is probably more moderate, but that
upper-middle class doesn’t exist anymore in America, and thanks to the
continued deregulation of Wall Street, thanks to the continued gutting
of working- and middle-class people, we need stronger champions.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, both the</span><a href="https://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-incomes-upper-middle-class"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Urban Institute</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the</span><a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/the-us-middle-class-is-disappearing-into-the-upper-middle-class-but-theres-more-to-the-story/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">American Enterprise Institute</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have presented evidence showing the upper-middle class is actually growing.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>4. A Simple Payment Plan for Progressive Medicare </strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked in an</span><a href="https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1058494889430786048"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">interview</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">
with Jorge Ramos last week about how to pay for Sen. Bernie Sanders’,
I-V.T., “Medicare for All” proposal, which Ocasio-Cortez has put at the
center of her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez responded, “You just pay for it.”
She continued: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People often say, how are
you gonna pay for it? And I find the question so puzzling because, how
do you pay for something that’s more affordable? How do you pay for
cheaper rent? How do you pay for—you just pay for it.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this election cycle,
Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats like Tallahassee Mayor
Andrew Gillum, who lost the Florida gubernatorial race, have claimed
Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan would save the country $2 trillion if
implemented, but the claim has been </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/08/07/democrats-seize-on-cherry-picked-claim-that-medicare-for-all-will-save-2-trillion/?utm_term=.41bd8f406498"><span style="font-weight: 400;">criticized</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by fact-checkers as inaccurate. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, a study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/study-medicare-for-all-bill-estimated-at-32-6-trillion"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shows</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the plan would cost more than $32.6 trillion over 10 years, requiring historic tax hikes.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>5. Comparing Climate Change to World War II </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-nazi-germany-sebastian-gorka-global-1180175"><span style="font-weight: 400;">speech</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">
on her economic plan, Ocasio-Cortez likened combating climate change to
the challenge posed by Nazi Germany in World War II, surmising the
United States confront the issue with the same amount of resources.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So we talk about existential
threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to this
country was around World War II, and so we’ve been here before and we
have a blueprint of doing this before,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What we had was an
existential threat in the context of a war. We had a direct existential
threat with another nation, this time it was Nazi Germany, and the Axis,
who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, as an enemy. And
what we did was that we chose to mobilize our entire economy and
industrialized our entire economy and we put hundreds if not millions of
people to work in defending our shores and defending this country. We
have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100 percent renewable
energy, and that’s just the truth of it.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>6. Shutting Down Debate on Fossil Fuels </strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-theres-no-debate-that-fossil-fuel-production-should-stop"><span style="font-weight: 400;">According</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">
to Fox News, Ocasio-Cortez declared at a campaign fundraiser there was
“no debate” that fossil fuel production should be stopped.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There’s no debate as to whether we should continue producing fossil fuels. There’s no debate,” Ocasio-Cortez said.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>7. Carrying the ‘Organizer’ Torch to Washington</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked by Chris Hayes on MSNBC
about what she plans to do once she gets to Congress in two months,
Ocasio-Cortez struggled to develop a coherent response and failed to
offer any specifics. Instead, Ocasio-Cortez delivered this</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2NsZ2NiC_k"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">message</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on air:</span></span></span><br />
Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-55227704505305433422018-11-07T19:18:00.006-08:002018-11-07T19:18:09.709-08:00Illegal Alien Abused 3-Year-Old Girl, Pimped Her Out To Other Illegal Aliens<br />
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From "Concerned American" <span class="posted-on"><a href="http://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/crimes-against-children/illegal-alien-abused-3-year-old-girl-pimped-her-out-to-other-illegal-aliens/" rel="bookmark" title="10:12 pm">October 25, 2018</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MESA, AZ (<a href="http://ktar.com/story/2272327/mesa-man-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison-for-abusing-3-year-old-girl/?fbclid=IwAR0osotoOJRy-ANObTRJBPHSiWkzDXg0HYH6RjgNvxb7zKX1u9ruMOcvPrM">KTAR</a>) – A Mesa man was expected to spend the next three decades behind bars for abusing a 3-year-old girl, it was announced Tuesday.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maricopa County Judge Warren Granville sentenced <strong>Fransico Javier-Rios Covarrubias</strong> to 35 years in prison for <strong>two counts of kidnapping and three counts of attempted child abuse</strong>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Covarrubias was also sentenced to lifetime probation for his crimes. He pleaded guilty to the charges in August.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“When an adult causes harm to a child like this, violating both the
trust and innocence of a child, they must be held accountable for their
depraved actions,” Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said in a
statement.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This office is committed to aggressively prosecuting offenders who
abuse the most innocent and defenseless among us, ensuring they are sent
to prison where they belong.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Covarrubias was arrested in 2016 after officers received reports that a young girl was being severely abused — and possibly <strong>offered to other men for sexual abuse</strong> — by her caretaker.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Officers found the girl in a trash bag in a closet. Her
wrists and ankles were bound with duct tape, which was also found over
her mouth</strong>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girl had multiple bruises and injuries and had been left in a heavily soiled diaper for some time.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was taken to a local hospital, where <strong>she was found to be
malnourished and dehydrated and had extensive injuries from being left
in soiled diapers and possible sexual abuse</strong>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The girl also could not communicate and could barely stand.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Covarrubias told officers that he left the girl in the trash
bag so her soiled diaper would not ruin his apartment and that he kept
her bound in the closet so she would not get out when he had people over</strong>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had been watching the girl, who was the daughter of a previous co-worker, off and on for months.</span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-3945992581903883522018-11-02T22:19:00.007-07:002018-11-02T22:19:31.486-07:00European Court Rules Against Free Speech; in Favor of Islam<br />
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<a href="https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/itemlist/user/15482-jamesmurphy" rel="author">James Murphy </a></span><a href="https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/itemlist/user/15482-jamesmurphy" rel="author"></a><span class="itemAuthor"><a href="https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/itemlist/user/15482-jamesmurphy" rel="author"><span class="itemDateCreated">Monday, 29 October 2018 </span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Europe took another step toward sharia law last Thursday when it
ruled that an individual’s right to free speech did not extend to
"insulting" the Prophet Mohammed. The European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR) upheld the conviction of an Austrian woman who was fined for
relating scripturally based behavior of the prophet to pedophilia.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Austrian woman, known only as E.S., said during two seminars in
2009 that the Prophet Mohammed’s marriage to six-year-old Aisha at a
time when the prophet would have been in his 50s was akin to pedophilia.
The Koran states that the marriage was not consummated until Aisha
reached the age of nine.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E.S. reportedly told the seminar attendees, “Muhammad liked to do it
with children,” and also stated, “A 56-year old and a six-year-old …
what do we call it, if it’s not pedophilia?”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The defendant argued that her comments fell within her right to free
expression and that religions must be able to allow some criticism of
their teachings. She further stated that the comments were not meant to
defame Mohammed but to ignite public debate.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E.S. was originally found guilty in a Vienna court in 2011 and
ordered to pay a €480 ($547) fine. An Austrian appeals court upheld the
original decision.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the ECHR ruling: “By accusing Muhammad of pedophilia, [E.S.] had
merely sought to defame him, without providing evidence that his
primary sexual interest in Aisha had been her not yet having reached
puberty or that his other wives or concubines had been similarly young.
In particular, [E.S.] disregarded the fact that the marriage with Aisha
had continued until the Prophet’s death, when she had already turned
eighteen and had therefore passed the age of puberty.”</span></span><br />
Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-10592939522411251442018-11-02T21:48:00.005-07:002018-11-02T21:48:20.268-07:00Linda Sarsour Asks Muslims To Form "Jihad" Against Trump, Not To Assimilate<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activist
Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the 2017 women's march against Donald Trump,
called for a "jihad" against the president at the Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA) convention in Chicago over the weekend. Sarsour was
a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.<br />
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Sarsour is a supporter of the BDS movement against Israel and opposes bans of sharia. She also is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linda+sarsour+msnbc">somewhat frequent MSNBC guest</a> and has appeared on <i>The Rachel Maddow Show</i>.<br />
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"I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities
that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad. That we are
struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East
or in the other side of the world, but here in these United States of
America where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes
reigning in the White House," Sarsour said.<br />
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"Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community,
it is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority," she
said. "Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make
sure our women are protected in our community."<br />
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"Our top priority and even higher than all those other priorities is to please Allah and only Allah," Sarsour declared.<br />
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Ben Jacobs of <i>The Guardian</i> tweeted Sarsour "was a vocal surrogate for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary and a DNC delegate."</span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-4459056368808850662018-11-02T19:58:00.000-07:002018-11-02T19:58:00.425-07:00Obama To Americans: You Don't Deserve To Be Free<br />
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<span _ngcontent-c24="" class="short-bio">defend laissez-faire capitalism, using Ayn Rand's Objectivism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">President Obama's Kansas speech is a remarkable document. In calling
for more government controls, more taxation, more collectivism, he has
two paragraphs that give the show away. Take a look at them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">there is a certain crowd in <a data-ga-track="InternalLink:http://www.forbes.com/washington/" href="http://www.forbes.com/washington/" target="_self">Washington</a>
who, for the last few decades, have said, let's respond to this
economic challenge with the same old tune. "The market will take care of
everything," they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more
taxes--especially for the wealthy--our economy will grow stronger.
Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do
really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to
everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn't trickle
down, well, that's the price of liberty.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, it's a simple theory. And we have to admit, it's one that
speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too
much government. That's in America's DNA. And that theory fits well on a
bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here's the problem: It doesn't work. It
has never worked. (Applause.) It didn't work when it was tried in the
decade before the Great Depression. It's not what led to the incredible
postwar booms of the '50s and '60s. And it didn't work when we tried it
during the last decade. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it's not as if
we haven't tried this theory.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though not in Washington, I'm in that "certain crowd" that has been
saying for decades that the market will take care of everything. It's
not really a crowd, it's a tiny group of radicals--radicals for
capitalism, in Ayn Rand's well-turned phrase.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The only thing that the market doesn't take care of is anti-market
acts: acts that initiate physical force. That's why we need government:
to wield retaliatory force to defend individual rights.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Radicals for capitalism would, as the Declaration of Independence
says, use government only "to secure these rights"--the rights to life,
liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. (Yes, I added
"property" in there--property rights are inseparable from the other
three.)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's the political philosophy on which Obama is trying to hang the
blame for the recent financial crisis and every other social ill. But
ask yourself, are we few radical capitalists in charge? Have radical
capitalists been in charge at any time in the last, oh, say 100 years?</span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-68950143250265804302018-10-04T19:53:00.003-07:002018-10-04T19:53:15.436-07:00Maxine Waters Charged with Three Ethics Violations<br />
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House ethics committee today released three charges of ethical
wrongdoing against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
charges relate to whether Waters gave inappropriate assistance to a
bank to which she had personal connections in getting federal bailout
money. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The committee says Waters organized a meeting in 2008
between Treasury officials and executives from OneUnited Bank, where her
husband was once a board member and had large investments. The bank
received $12 million from the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief
Program. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first charge against Waters states she violated a
House rule that members must "behave at all times in a manner that shall
reflect creditably on the House." Waters should have instructed her
chief of staff to stop assisting OneUnited once it became clear she
should not be involved in helping the bank, but she failed to do so, the
charges state. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her staff's "continued involvement in assisting
OneUnited created an appearance that [Waters] was taking official
action for [Waters'] personal benefit, which did not reflect creditably
on the House," the charges state. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waters was also charged with
violating the "spirit" of the House rule that prohibits a member from
receiving compensation for exerting improper influence from her position
in Congress. Waters' husband's investments in OneUnited constituted
compensation, according to the charges. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The congresswoman was also charged with violating the Code of Ethics for Government Service. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waters,
who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, has defended her
request for the meeting between Treasury officials and OneUnited
executives as part of her efforts to advocate on behalf of
minority-owned businesses. She maintains she is <span class="link"><a data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-raps-rep-maxine-waters-on-ethics-charge/" target="_blank">innocent</a></span>
of any wrongdoing and would rather face a public trial before the
ethics committee this fall than admit to any of the charges against her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">House Democrat Charlie Rangel was also <span class="link"><a data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ethics-committee-13-charges-against-charlie-rangel/" target="_blank">charged with multiple ethics violations</a></span> this summer and will stand trial before the committee in the fall. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>PHILADELPHIA – July 8, 2018 –</strong> Tommy Robinson,
the imprisoned English counter-Islamist activist, journalist, and book
author, justifiably titled his autobiography <a href="https://mail.twc.com/do/redirect?url=https%253A%252F%252Fmeforum.us12.list-manage.com%252Ftrack%252Fclick%253Fu%253Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%2526id%253D529371ef76%2526e%253D90657f6dc8&hmac=59ef2cb212eff7e8564a37b86c5c1e78" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em>Enemy of the State</em></a>, for he has long been a target of the U.K. authorities impatient with his criticism of Islamism.<br />
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The Middle East Forum (MEF) is helping Robinson in his moment of danger. It does so in the context of its <a href="https://mail.twc.com/do/redirect?url=https%253A%252F%252Fmeforum.us12.list-manage.com%252Ftrack%252Fclick%253Fu%253Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%2526id%253Db8bbe552c2%2526e%253D90657f6dc8&hmac=5b73989750e18ade808d5ca047082670" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Legal Project</a>
which since 2007 has defended activists, journalists, politicians, et
al. who face harassment, fines, or imprisonment because of their views
concerning Islamism and related topics.<br />
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MEF is sponsoring and organizing the second “Free Tommy Robinson”
gathering in London on July 14. MEF previously provided all the funding
and helped organized the first “Free Tommy Robinson” event held June 9
in London.<br />
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MEF, along with a coalition of UK advocacy groups and international
figures will assemble to advocate for Mr. Robinson’s release and demand
greater protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press in
the United Kingdom. MEF is arranging for U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar
(Republican of Arizona) to travel to London to speak alongside the Dutch
political leader Geert Wilders, and others.<br />
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The latest incident began on May 25 with Mr. Robinson reporting on a
rape-grooming trial involving Muslim defendants in Leeds, England, for
which he was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to 13 months prison,
and jailed – all in the course of a few hours. To make matters worse, he
was tricked out of the right to confer with counsel. Now, he has been
moved to historically <u><a href="https://mail.twc.com/do/redirect?url=https%253A%252F%252Fmeforum.us12.list-manage.com%252Ftrack%252Fclick%253Fu%253Db7aa7eddb0f2bb74bfa4f6cb5%2526id%253Dac3a65a923%2526e%253D90657f6dc8&hmac=b5c7e5ad8384ca979b73361b49043813" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2baadf; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">violent</a></u> Olney prison, where he is a potential target of Islamist gangs.<br />
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“The police allow rape gangs to operate for decades but swoop down
within minutes on Tommy Robinson for a peccadillo,” notes Forum
president Daniel Pipes. “We worry that his life is now in immediate
peril.”<br />
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Forum director Gregg Roman adds: “Western democracy requires a robust
public discussion of Islam – including terrorism, terrorist funding,
Islamism, immigration and related matters – not its suppression. No
matter one’s views of Mr. Robinson, all decent people must support his
right to discuss controversial matters without fear of arrest, secret
trial, and imprisonment.”<br />
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The Middle East Forum is aiding Mr. Robinson’s defense in three main ways: </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Legally</em> – By using Legal Project monies to fund his legal defense.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Diplomatically</em> – By bringing foreign pressure on the UK government to ensure Mr. Robinson’s safety and eventual release. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Politically</em>
– By organizing and funding the 25,000-person “Free Tommy” London rally
on June 9 and now the July 14 protest, also taking place in London.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/russia/">Russia</a> threatened retaliation Monday after news that <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/poland/">Poland</a> wants a permanent U.S. military base within its borders and is willing to pay up to $2 billion for the facility.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The proposal for an American base touched off a rhetorical firestorm between <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/moscow/">Moscow</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/warsaw/">Warsaw</a>, as leaders from both sides traded threats and cast a fresh spotlight on simmering tensions in Eastern Europe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. officials had no immediate comment on the Polish plan, but <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/moscow/">Moscow</a> seized the opportunity Monday — on an otherwise quiet Memorial Day in <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/washington/">Washington</a> — to push back hard against potential attempts by the Trump administration to bolster the U.S. military presence in the region.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“These
expansionist steps, certainly, result in counteractions of the Russian
side to balance the parity which is violated every time this way,”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters in <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/moscow/">Moscow</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>AB 2943 prohibits individuals, whether a pastor, clergy, or
licensed therapist, from: advertising sexual orientation change efforts,
offering to engage in sexual orientation change efforts, and engaging
in sexual orientation change efforts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Under this bill, a person, an organization, including a
church who is paid for goods or services cannot engage in any
practice-including pure speech-that tells someone that they can overcome
unwanted same-sex attraction or gender identity confusion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Contrary to what proponents are claiming, AB 2943 bans the
sale of books expressing Christian beliefs about sexual morality. It
includes anyone who speaks or offers a book with regards to
advertisement. Some examples of the books that would be banned under
this legislation include: <em>When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement</em>, <em>By God's Design: Overcoming Same Sex Attraction</em>, and <em>The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality</em>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) states, "At its core, AB
2943 outlaws speech, whether offered by a licensed counselor, a
best-selling author, or even a minister or religious leader. It targets a
specific message-that an adult who is experiencing unwanted same-sex
attraction or gender identity confusion can find help to address those
issues-for censorship. The breadth of this censorship is staggering. "</span></span></span></div>
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<li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>A licensed counselor could not help
a married mother of three who is experiencing unwanted attraction to a
close female friend or confusion over her gender identity overcome those
feelings;</span></span></span></li>
<li style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>A religious
ministry could not hold a conference on maintaining sexual purity if the
conference encourages attendees to avoid homosexual behavior;</span></span></span></li>
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bookstore (including online bookstores like Amazon) could not sell many
recently published books challenging gender identity ideology and
advocating that these beliefs should be rejected by society; and</span></span></span></li>
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pastor paid to speak at an event addressing current social topics could
not encourage attendees that they can prevail over same-sex desires or
feelings that they were born the wrong sex.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><em>“<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Communists have been consistent in their demands for the church
restitution law to be revised and for the money to be taxed. It is one of
our key conditions in return for tolerating this government. If this
condition is not fulfilled it would create a huge problem since our members
and supporters consider it of immense importance.”</span></span></em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As efforts to form a new minority coalition government of the ANO party and
the Social Democrats tolerated by the Communists reach their final stage,
the Communist Party has been milking the situation to its best advantage.
After rocking the boat over the country’s foreign missions, the party now
says that unless its bill on taxing Church restitutions passes through the
lower house the two parties can look for support elsewhere</span></span><br />
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<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Communist Party leader Vojtěch Filip (center), photo: ČTK/Kamaryt Michal" height="267" src="http://img.radio.cz/7dmBLCGVo9Sqe4-gNwP0X8J7NDM=/fit-in/280x280/1527841536__pictures/ctk1806/kscm_filip.jpg" title="Communist Party leader Vojtěch Filip (center), photo: ČTK/Kamaryt Michal" width="400" /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Communist Party is experiencing an unexpected twist of fortune –
after its worst election result in years, the party is on the brink of
breaking into top-level politics with an unprecedented influence on
government decision-making.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, whose ANO party won the last general
elections by a broad margin, has struggled hard to gain partners willing to
close their eyes to the fact that he stands charged with EU subsidy fraud.
As a result, Babiš has been forced to give the Social Democrats, who also
did poorly in the last elections, a more than generous share of ministerial
posts and policy concessions and come to terms with the fact that his
government would have to rely on support from the long-ostracized Communist
Party.
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For the Communists this is an unexpected chance to make good on their
election defeat. In addition to various policy concessions in the social
field, they recently made themselves heard that they were not prepared to
tolerate the country reinforcing its presence in foreign missions –
something the cabinet had already pledged to do. In the end a compromise
was reached and last week the lower house approved the reinforcement of
Czech troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Mali by 275 soldiers this year.
However the Communists are still fighting the idea of Czech pilots taking
their turn to protect the airspace of the Baltic States in 2019 without a
UN resolution. </span></span><br />
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Then, in a Czech TV debate on Sunday, the head of the Communists’
deputies group, Pavel Kováčik, said the party would only support the
emerging minority coalition, if financial compensation paid to churches for
property seized during the communist era is taxed. This is something the
Communists have pushed for since the respective compensation agreement was
reached in 2012. Now an amendment which would level a tax on some of the
restitution money is in its second reading in Parliament and the Communists
want to ensure its smooth passage. Pavel Kováčik.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Pavel Kováčik, photo: Filip Jandourek" src="http://img.radio.cz/uY2t_JzeO_RoxJ8O_Xmrg3VQlN8=/fit-in/280x280/1460459687__pictures/c/rozhlas/politik/kovacik_pavel.jpg" title="Pavel Kováčik, photo: Filip Jandourek" />The Communists will not have to ask twice. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has
already said he considers the restitution sum overinflated by some 54
billion crowns and his party already supported the bill in its first
reading, as did the Social Democrats and the Freedom and Direct Democracy
Party.
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Given these circumstances, it would appear that the Communists are flogging
a dead horse, but in this case their newly tabled demand is likely intended
for the ears of their supporters in an effort to boost the party’s
flagging popularity, as is the statement that none of the potential
government’s future decisions can count on apriori support from the
Communists. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-73373700176623084742018-05-30T22:15:00.008-07:002018-05-30T22:15:40.500-07:00UK: Police dropped cases against 20 Muslim rape gang members in Telford, they were “too much trouble”<br />
<time class="entry-time" datetime="2018-03-20T09:17:30+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">Mar 20, 2018</time> <time class="entry-time" datetime="2018-03-20T09:17:30+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">9:17 am</time> By <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a class="entry-author-link" href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/author/samir" itemprop="url" rel="author"><span class="entry-author-name" itemprop="name">Robert Spencer</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">West Mercia’s Assistant Chief Constable Martin Evans claimed that the
cases were dropped for many reasons: “These included the fact that
there would have been a requirement for victims to give evidence in
court, furthering their ordeal.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But one of the victims said: “I was never told about these orders or
asked if I would give evidence in court against my abusers. If I had
been asked, I would have done.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In reality, the primary job of the police was to protect the gang
rapists, because they were Muslims, so that the British public wouldn’t
start to think ill of Islam and Muslims.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Claim: Police Dropped Cases Against 20 Telford Groomers Because They Were ‘Too Much Trouble,’” by Liam Deacon, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/19/police-dropped-cases-against-20-telford-groomers-too-much-trouble/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Breitbart</a>, March 19, 2018 (thanks to David):</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Three police officers have come forward to reveal how
cases against Telford rape gang members were allegedly dropped because
pursuing court orders was considered “too much trouble”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One officer was said they were “horrified” by the decision and another claimed the scale of the abuse was “huge”, after a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/11/mirror-revealed-police-failed-act-1000-girls-beaten-pimped-raped-even-killed-40-years-britain-worst-grooming-scandal/">probe</a> by journalists suggested there could be as many as 1,000 victims in the small town.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A least one of the police whistleblowers was prompted to come forward after the BBC <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/15/bbc-police-play-down-telford-child-rape-scandal-slam-unhelpful-headlines/">promoted</a> the views of Superintendent Tom Harding, of West Mercia Police, who argued the numbers had been “sensationalised” by the media.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Furthermore, a mother of one of the victimised young girls who died
in circumstances linked to the scandal claims nothing was done after she
handed police a three-page list of potential suspects.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fresh revelations, <a class="x5l" href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worst-ever-sex-gang-case-12207723" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">reported</a> by the <em>Sunday Mirror</em>, come as West Mercia Police confirmed a number of victims have come forward in the wake of recent media coverage.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Authorities have already been accused of failing to act, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/13/telford-grooming-gang-whistleblowers-punished-silenced-lost-jobs/">including</a> ignoring
girls found in cars with older men, girls giving birth at 14, and
children being given the morning after pill several times a week. There
were also claims of a “cover-up” after a police chaplain was suspended
for whistleblowing and a police-funded charity forced a worker out of
her job after she tried to speak up.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, another police whistleblower said the estimate of 1,000 victims
could be accurate. “I don’t think it’s beyond the realms of possibility
at all,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised. It was the tip of the
iceberg.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another added: “Two senior officers had a conversation about going
for Sexual Risk Orders. It would have meant they would be monitored by
the police. It can be effective with a low reoffending rate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The question was, should we apply for 20 or 25 of these orders? The
view from the senior officer was it was too much trouble. A lot of us
were horrified when they didn’t want to do that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It would have been a lot of work but what price do we put on protecting these kids?”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They also expressed frustration that so few of the attackers,
predominantly of the town’s Pakistani Muslim community, were put behind
bars.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The officer said: “At one point we had 70 cases and one victim had
close to 100 offenders. Many officers were frustrated because the CPS
was treating the cases as separate when we knew they were linked.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, West Mercia’s Assistant Chief Constable Martin Evans denied
that workload was the reason cases had been dropped: “These civil orders
were seriously considered and the decision not to pursue them was for a
number of reasons.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“These included the fact that there would have been a requirement for
victims to give evidence in court, furthering their ordeal.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Other measures were put in place to make sure those considered a
potential threat were closely monitored and reviewed and this continues
to be the case.”</span></span><br />
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One of the abused girls hit back, telling the <em>Mirror</em>: “I was
never told about these orders or asked if I would give evidence in
court against my abusers. If I had been asked, I would have done.”</span></span>Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-91276998925624704432018-05-30T20:25:00.011-07:002018-05-30T20:25:32.172-07:00EU Unveils Plans to Punish Patriotic Eastern Nations Who Oppose Mass Muslim Migration and Brutal Sharia Laws<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">EU Unveils Plans for ‘Drastic’ Funding Cuts to Patriotic Eastern Nations</span></h3>
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/30/eu-cuts-funding-patriotic-nations/">By Virginia Hale, Breitbart,</a> May 30, 2018:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Patriotic Visegrád nations in the east will each see their regional
funding from Brussels slashed by around a quarter under new European
Union (EU) budget rules which reward the intake of third world migrants.</span></h4>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Presented by the European Commission on Tuesday, the draft budget for 2021-2027 proposed what <em>New Europe</em> <a class="x5l" href="https://www.neweurope.eu/article/commission-increases-cohesion-funding-south-slashes-support-eastern-europe/" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">describes</a>
as “drastic” cuts in cohesion funds to Central Europe, with Poland,
Hungary, and the Czech Republic each set to see a reduction of just
under 25 per cent.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">The plans would see Brussels shift the criteria for allocating the
€373 billion pot — which is aimed at boosting the economies of poorer
nations — away from GDP per capita and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/24/eu-cut-funds-patriotic-nations-values/">towards</a> so-called EU “values” including migration and environmental policy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senior EU figures have repeatedly insisted that every nation in
Europe must agree to allow large numbers of third world migrants to
settle within its borders, asserting this to be a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/25/third-world-migration-central-eu-values/">core feature</a> of belonging to the bloc.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opponents of Eastern European hesitance to follow in the so-called
multicultural footsteps of their Western neighbours, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, have both previously
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/18/macron-eu-enforce-liberalism-bloc/">suggested</a> the distribution of EU funds should be linked to the number of asylum seekers that countries host.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just days prior to Italian President Sergio Mattarella’s shock <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/27/sabotage-italian-president-blocks-eurosceptic-coalition-govt-populist-leader-impeachment/">rejection</a> of a populist coalition government backed by voters, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/17/eu-fortress-mass-migration-stay/">said</a> he was confident Italy’s borders would remain open, despite the rejection of mass migration at the polls.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Disregarding the widespread anger felt by Italians at the continuing
arrival of hundreds of thousands of Africans, he said that the country’s
migration policy “will continue on the road travelled until now”,
insisting Italy must continue playing its “very important role in
Europe” as an entry point for the world’s migrants. </span></span><br />
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Vladimir Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08513421273433790675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547233311435062733.post-49783563814068481072018-05-27T22:03:00.011-07:002018-05-27T22:03:46.898-07:00Police Seek ‘Asian’ Man After Teen Suffers ‘Horrific’ Alleyway Rape in Small English Village<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Police have launched a manhunt for an ‘Asian’ man after a teenager in a small Buckinghamshire village was raped in an alleyway.</span></span></h2>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The victim was standing in an alleyway in Hazlemere, an English
village known to date back more than 800 years, at around 8 p.m. on
March 15th when a stranger grabbed her and proceeded to rape her, police
said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Appealing for information from the public on Friday, Thames Valley Police <a class="x5l" href="https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/witness-appeals/e-fit-released-connection-rape-high-wycombe/" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">released</a>
an e-fit of the attacker, described as “an Asian man, around thirty to
forty-year-old, short and of large build, with a tattoo on his forearm.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Investigating officer Detective Constable David Mitchell of Force CID
based at High Wycombe said: “We have been conducting a thorough
investigation into this horrific offence and the victim is being
supported by specially trained officers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“As part of this investigation, today we are releasing an E-fit of
the offender and would ask anyone who recognises him or someone matching
his description to please come forward and call 101.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
“<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a serious offence and we have been carrying out house to
house enquiries, as well as reviewing any available CCTV and collecting
witness statements,” he said.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Despite a small population of just over 9,000 people, a number of
famous figures including left-wing television personality James Corden,
aircraft and aviation designer Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, and Nobel
Prize-winning chemist Sir William Ramsey have hailed from Hazlemere or
called the village home.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the council <a class="x5l" href="http://www.hazlemereparishcouncil.org.uk/local-information/hazlemere-history/" rel="noopener external" target="_blank">notes</a>
that a prisoner of war camp was constructed in the parish after the
outbreak of the Second World War and later used as temporary
accommodation for refugees escaping the conflict in Europe, it is
unclear how or when groups of non-European migrants may have come to
live in the village.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On Friday, police in Plymouth <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/26/manhunt-after-foreign-man-rapes-male-student-in-plymouth-england/">appealed</a>
to the public for help with an investigation into a similar attack, in
which a black man with an accent “similar” to Jamaican dragged a teenage
male student down an alleyway and subjected him to what officers
reported was an “oral rape”.</span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Francisco has been declared one of the world’s filthiest
slums, with conditions dirtier than slums found in third world nations
such as Kenya or India.</span></span></strong><br />
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="San Fransisco voted world's filthiest slum" src="https://cdns.yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/san-fransisco-third-world-hellhole-678x381.jpg" title="San Fransisco voted world's filthiest slum" /> </span></span></strong><br />
<br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to an NBC investigation, great swathes of the city are covered
in feces and needles, as hospitals overflow with patients that have
fallen ill due to the contamination.</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Diseased-Streets-472430013.html">NBC</a>
reports: How dirty is San Francisco? An NBC Bay Area Investigation
reveals a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout
downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of
the city – the more than 20-mile stretch includes popular tourist spots
like Union Square and major hotel chains. The area – bordered by Van
Ness Avenue, Market Street, Post Street and Grant Avenue – is also home
to City Hall, schools, playgrounds, and a police station.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the Investigative Unit photographed nearly a dozen hypodermic
needles scattered across one block, a group of preschool students
happened to walk by on their way to an afternoon field trip to citiy
hall.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We see poop, we see pee, we see needles, and we see trash,” said
teacher Adelita Orellana. “Sometimes they ask what is it, and that’s a
conversation that’s a little difficult to have with a 2-year old, but we
just let them know that those things are full of germs, that they are
dangerous, and they should never be touched.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In light of the dangerous conditions, part of Orellana’s
responsibilities now include teaching young children how to avoid the
contamination.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>‘There’s Poop in There’</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The floor is dirty,” said A’Nylah Reed, a 3-year-old student at the
preschool, who irately explained having to navigate dirty conditions on
her walks to school.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“There is poop in there,” she exclaimed. “That makes me angry.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kim Davenport, A’nyla’s mother, often walks her daughter to the
Compass preschool on Leavenworth Street in San Francisco. She said she
often has to pull her daughter out of the way in order to keep her from
stepping on needles and human waste. “I just had to do that this
morning!”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Investigate Unit spent three days assessing conditions on the
streets of downtown San Francisco and discovered trash on each of the
153 blocks surveyed. While some streets were littered with items as
small as a candy wrapper, the vast majority of trash found included
large heaps of garbage, food, and discarded junk. The investigation also
found 100 drug needles and more than 300 piles of feces throughout
downtown.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Reports to 311 of Needles and Human Waste in San Francisco Have Steadily Risen Since 2008</strong></span></span><br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-165778" data-wp-pid="165778" height="593" src="https://cdns.yournewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/dirty-san-fran.jpg" width="1452" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Dried Feces can Lead to Airborne Viruses</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“If you do get stuck with these disposed needles you can get HIV,
Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and a variety of other viral diseases,” said
Dr. Lee Riley, an infectious disease expert at University of California,
Berkeley. He warned that once fecal matter dries, it can become
airborne, releasing potentially dangerous viruses, such as the
rotavirus. “If you happen to inhale that, it can also go into your
intestine,” he said. The results can prove fatal, especially in
children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Riley has researched conditions across the poorest slums of the world. His book titled, “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-bMwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=dr.+lee+riley+slum+health&source=bl&ots=xmPhUcYNN9&sig=ua86wfE1BUMSMwmrwdhlA8S2Bgc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMgJ2yk7DZAhVW82MKHTadAxIQ6AEIZTAJ#v=onepage&q=dr.%20lee%20riley%20slum%20health&f=false">Slum Health</a>,” examines health problems that are created by extreme poverty.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>San Francisco Compared to Some of the Dirtiest Slums in the World</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Based on the findings of the Investigative Unit survey, Riley
believes parts of the city may be even dirtier than slums in some
developing countries.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or
Kenya or India,” he said. He notes that in those countries, slum
dwellings are often long-term homes for families and so there is an
attempt to make the surroundings more livable. Homeless communities in
San Francisco, however, are often kicked out from one part of town and
forced to relocate to another. The result is extreme contamination,
according to Riley.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <strong>We Aren’t Addressing the Root Cause’</strong></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable,” said Supervisor Hillary
Ronen. “We’re losing tourists. We’re losing conventions in San
Francisco. All of this is happening because we aren’t addressing the
root cause, which is we need more temporary beds for street
homelessness.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ronen believes San Francisco has been too focused on permanent
housing for the homeless and that the city has neglected to provide
enough temporary shelter, which can provide the homeless a respite from
the streets. The city currently has about 2,000 temporary beds. Ronen,
however, believes an additional 1,000 are needed, at a cost of about $25
million.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We need to find a source of revenue,” said Ronen. “Whether that’s
putting something on the ballot to raise business taxes or taking a look
at our general fund and re-allocating money towards that purpose and
taking it away from something else in the city.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>‘Human Tragedy’ in San Francisco</strong></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Until the problem is fixed, Mohammed Nuru, the Director of the Public
Works Department, is charged with the towering task of cleaning the
streets, over and over again. “Yes, we can clean, he said, “and then go
back a few hours later, and it looks as if it was never cleaned. So is
that how you want to spend your money?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://sfpublicworks.org/about/budget">The 2016-2017 budget</a>
for San Francisco Public Works includes $60.1 million for “Street
Environmental Services.” The budget has nearly doubled over the past
five years. Originally, that money, was intended to clean streets, not
sidewalks. According to city ordinances, sidewalks are the
responsibility of property owners. However, due to the severity of the
contamination in San Francisco, Public Works has inherited the problem
of washing sidewalks. Nuru estimates that half of his street cleaning
budget – about $30 million – goes towards cleaning up feces and needles
from homeless encampments and sidewalks.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A single pile of human waste, said Nuru, takes at least 30 minutes
for one of his staffers to clean. “The steamer has to come. He has to
park the steamer. He’s got to come out with his steamer, disinfect,
steam clean, roll up and go.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Asked if he’d be willing to give up part of his budget and allocate
it to more directly addressing the homeless problem – which would likely
alleviate his cleaning problem – Nuru said, “The Board of Supervisors,
the mayor – those are decisions that they need to make.” He added, “I
want to continue cleaning and I want to be able to continue to provide
services. The Public Works Department provides services seven days a
week, 24 hours a day.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ronen acknowledges that finding the money to provide 1,000 additional
beds for the homeless may very well take years. The city is planning on
opening three new Navigation Centers for homeless people by the summer,
but two centers will also be closing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“We’re not going to make a huge dent in this problem unless we deal
with some underlying major social problems and issues,” she said.
“There’s a human tragedy happening in San Francisco.”</span></span><br />
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