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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/24/2014 7:50:24 PM
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Fox News Poll: Voters think IRS emails were deliberately destroyed

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/24/2014 10:46:17 PM
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Obama---embattled by his own incompetence, arrogance, and failed policies.

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/25/2014 12:14:39 PM
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Here’s How Little Chelsea Clinton Cares About Money, In Dollars: Purchases Speak Louder than Words

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/25/2014 12:19:26 PM
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The Jailbird Architect of Obama's Global Warming Plan ..................................................................................... Phil Kerpen \| Jun 24, 2014 townhall.com When President Obama announced an unprecedented effort by the EPA to strong-arm states into adopting cap-and-trade, he made the announcement not by focusing on the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but rather on the so-called co-benefits that closing coal plants will have on particulate matter, which is already tightly regulated. These purported co-benefits are based on two secret studies that have never been publicly validated. Amazingly, the architect of this co-benefits strategy is a long-time EPA staffer named John Beale, now known as federal inmate number 33005-016 and locked up for fraud at Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution. For nearly two decades, John Beale could do no wrong at the EPA even though he did no work. He flew around the world pretending to be a CIA agent and bilking taxpayers, according to his guilty plea, out of $900,000. While the media played the Beale story mostly for laughs, researchers in Senator David Vitter's office did the serious investigative work of figuring out why Beale walked on water at the EPA. What they discovered was that Beale was hired by his good friend Robert Brenner even though he "had no legislative or environmental policy experience and wandered between jobs at a small-town law firm, a political campaign, and an apple farm." And it was Beale, who became the EPA's go-to fixer, who developed the strategy President Obama is now relying on. In 1997, with a major fight over proposed ozone standards looking bleak for the EPA, Beale developed a memo that turned the tide by relying on claims of outsized health benefits from reducing particulate matter. The benefits were based on two data sets, the Harvard "Six Cities" and American Cancer Society studies. The data was already a decade old and had never been independently verified. But the secret science attached huge alleged benefits to the proposed regulation, and it was ultimately adopted. Those two studies are still secret, and still the EPA's favorite trick to get expensive regulations past the finish line. They have gone to the well 33 times, and yet the alleged health benefits from the secret studies get bigger and bigger - when they should be getting smaller, as each regulation further reducing emissions of particulate matter. Robert Brenner, the EPA policy director who hired Beale, was effusive in his praise, telling Beale in 2011 as he prepared to retire: "legislative, regulatory and international successes came when you were around to develop the strategy and make sure we all did our jobs in carrying it out. There is just no one better at it than you." Now Beale is locked up for fraud, but his secret science trick marches on. President Obama once told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board: "Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." Yet he was saying something quite different when he announced his plan to force states to adopt his cap-and-trade system. With no mention of his desire to drive up electricity prices to combat global warming, Obama instead focused on Beale's infamous co-benefits theory. "Kids being treated here all the time for asthma and other breathing problems," Obama said. "Often these illnesses are aggravated by air pollution. Pollution from the same sources that release carbon." It was pure sleight-of-hand, equivocating regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which EPA itself has concluded "do not cause direct adverse health effects such as respiratory or toxic effects" with particulate matter that is already tightly regulated. The reliance on purported co-benefits is necessary because Obama's cap-and-trade rule has no direct benefits. The EPA has 26 published indicators for measuring the impacts of global warming, but when questioned by U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted that none of the EPA's proposed regulations will have a positive impact on any of the indicators. Instead she said the regulations are just "positioning the U.S. for leadership in an international discussion." Wonderful. We're going to make electricity prices skyrocket in the hopes that it will somehow help convince China, Russia, India, and the rest of the world to sign on to a new global climate treaty. Which brings us back to Beale. President Obama is exploiting children with asthma, relying on the same two secret studies developed by criminal fraud John Beale to justify driving up energy prices for what amounts to international posturing. That's wrong.

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/25/2014 12:28:44 PM
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Bill Clinton: Why doesn’t anyone believe we were poor?

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/25/2014 1:10:44 PM
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UNLV student on Hillary's $225K speaking fee: 'That's obscene!'

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/27/2014 1:12:53 PM
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Student Leaders Ask Hillary To Return 'Outrageous' $225K School Speaking Fee...

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/27/2014 1:16:07 PM
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SHOCK STUDY: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants...

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/28/2014 12:05:54 PM
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WASHPOST: How Bill Clinton earned $104.9 million in speeches since leaving White House...

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	6/30/2014 9:28:33 PM
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Obama Plans to gut interior enforcement of immigration laws...

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	7/2/2014 1:04:14 AM
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Black GOP Candidate In Florida Faces Horrific Racism

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	7/2/2014 12:56:51 PM
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Clintons raised $2-3 billion in two decades

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	7/3/2014 12:49:25 PM
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"Clinton Inc." Raises Almost $3 Billion, And The Biggest 'Donor' Is... ZeroHedge ^ \| 7/2/2014 \| Tyler Durden "Clinton Inc. is going to be the most formidable fundraising operation for the Democrats in the history of the country. Period. Exclamation point," is how on Republican lobbyist describes the Bill-and-Hillary show and as WSJ reports, in total, the Clintons raised between $2 billion and $3 billion from all sources, including individual donors, corporate contributors and foreign governments. They have raised more than $1 billion from U.S. companies and industry donors during two decades on the national stage through campaigns, paid speeches and a network of organizations advancing their political and policy goals. Financial Services firms have been one of the single largest sources of money for the Clintons since the 1992 presidential campaign; and the couple's No. 1 Wall Street contributor, giving nearly $5 million - Goldman Sachs. (Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	7/4/2014 7:04:33 PM
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Clinton: Speaking fees 'donated' TO HERSELF ...................................................................................................... The Hill ^ \| July 4, 2014 \| Rachel Huggins Hillary Clinton on Friday defended her six-figure speaking fees, saying she's donated all the money earned from colleges over the past year to her family's foundation. “All of the fees have been donated to the Clinton Foundation for it to continue its life-changing and life-saving work. So it goes from a foundation at a university to another foundation,” she told ABC News on Friday. The former secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential contender reportedly charges about $200,000 for speaking engagements. Clinton recently drew fire from University of Nevada Las Vegas students who threatened to protest an upcoming fundraiser she's scheduled to host at the school unless she returns the $225,000 fee. When asked to respond to the students' plea, Clinton did not indicate she would adhere to their request. “It’s been my experience,” Clinton said, “That they’re not worried about my speaking or my household, they’re worried about their own. And that’s the kind of debate I think I’m furthering as I go around the country speaking.” Clinton's response comes after heightened speculation into her family's wealth as she promotes her new book, "Hard Choices." Last month, Clinton told ABC's Dianne Sawyer that she and former President Bill Clinton were "dead broke" after his presidency.

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	7/6/2014 7:49:53 PM
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To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	7/9/2014 11:10:57 AM
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EPA claims it has the power to garnish wages without court approval

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	4/9/2015 10:04:14 PM
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Political correctness is a disease, as deadly as any ever recorded in this nation. Political correctness is a psychological malady that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in cognitive dissonance and an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Like other diseases such as alcoholism or drug addiction political correctness is often accompanied by denial and strong emotional outbursts when the cognitive dissonance is exposed. Consider the danger that political correctness exposes the people of our nation to each day: A police officer neglects to stop a suspicious car for fear of profiling later a person is killed in a drive by shooting. An illegal alien is not questioned and escapes the law with narcotics that find there way in the veins of America's youth. A Muslim flies back and forth between America and Chechnya to train for terror, but cannot be questioned because of profiling. A shady terrorist slips through our grasp because he wasn't captured by the politically correct rules of engagement, resulting in the death of another young soldier. Political correctness was devised by Marxists as a means controlling narratives of their host countries; their stated objective all along has been, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Look at what devastation PC has brought to the gay and lesbian population whose lifespan is typically 25 years shorter than a strait person. Std's are out of control and gays are told to hate the disease, yet celebrate the behavior that contracts it. It is not PC to classify Homosexuality as a lifestyle. It is also not PC to question why the majority of homosexuals are products of abusive childhoods or molestation. Additionally, it's not PC to mention the high rate of lesbian violence, substance abuse, and suicide. People who disagree with homosexuality are haters, when in fact it is the act of homosexuality that is disagreed with, not the person. Christianity, in America is falling victim to political correctness where men like Robert Schuller (deceased) and Rob Bell say that men are not sinners and that there is no such place as hell. As political correctness tears through society it indoctrinates all and consumes the individual, replacing the rugged American spirit with multiculturalism and mediocrity. Schools are teaching our children that winning alienates the loser, they are dumbing down pupils to the lowest common denominator to keep the less intelligent ones self worth intact. The political correctness disease will unravel the fabric of greatness that this country has relied on for centuries, unless the individual is willing to take a stand.

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	4/9/2015 10:11:18 PM
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Google and the Obama White House, sitting in a tree? The search giant's relationship with the president stretches back to 2007 and is cozy as can be Google employees donated $1.6 million to President Barack Obama's two White House bids The company told Daily Mail Online that it has spoken with the Federal Trade Commission about antitrust concerns; it was investigated in 2011 but later let off the hook In the 2012 election, the company’s search algorithm customized results for Obama but not for Republican Mitt Romney Google execs who have left to work in the White House include Obama's chief technology officer. Hillary Clinton also poached her new tech chief from Google this week By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com 9 April 2015 When President Barack Obama dined with a dozen technology business leaders in California four years ago, it was Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt who sat at the head of the table. Obama sat on one side, between the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook pioneer Mark Zuckerberg, but the place of honor was no accident. Google executives and employees donated more than $1.6 million to Obama's two White House campaigns, and the online search giant parachuted top talent into both. One result has been a coziness with the U.S. government's executive branch that few other companies can match – marked by access for lobbyists, mentions in nearly half of Obama's State of the Union addresses, and a personnel feeder trough serving the White House with new senior hires. BEGINNING: In 2007 Barack Obama had an on-stage cameo with Google's then-CEO Eric Schmidt as part of a presidential candidate series INFLUENCE: Schmidt (far left) shared the head of the table with the spouse of a venture capitalist whose firm owned 20 per cent of Google, as President Obama dined with tech leaders in 2011 There have even been allegations that Google's up-close-and-personal relationship with the West Wing earned it a reprieve from what would have been an earth-shaking Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit. Google has insisted it never received special treatment in that case, punctuating its denials with an animated GIF of a laughing baby as a jab at the news outlet that leveled the charge. White House visitor logs suggest a different kind of story for the company whose motto is 'Don't be evil.' Employees of the Silicon Valley behemoth have been in the White House more than 230 times since Obama took office – approximately once per week. At least 190 of those meetings were with senior officials. More than 60 featured Google lobbyist Johanna Shelton. Overall, according to The Wall Street Journal, Google spent $16.8 million on lobbying last year. That's four times the amount spent by Apple, whose market capitalization is twice as big. It needed that muscle in 2011, after the FTC found Google allegedly manipulated search results in ways that favored its own for-profit products. Amazon and eBay were among the companies who complained that Google was engaging in practices that violated antitrust laws. The Journal reviewed emails showing that Google co-founder Larry Page met directly with FTC officials in late 2012 to discuss a settlement. About the same time, White House visitor logs show, Google chairman Eric Schmidt met with Obama senior adviser Pete Rouse. What made the list of Google's most-searched stories of 2014? REVOLVING DOOR? Google vice president Megan Smith left her job to become Obama's chief technology officer Lobbyist Joanna Shelton and General Counsel Kent Walker met with Jason Furman, then the newly minted chair of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. Furman followed up with a meeting with FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz. The government closed its investigation two months after Obama won re-election. READY FOR HILLARY: Stephanie Hannon, director of product management, civic innovation and social impact at Google, has become the Hillary Clinton campaign's top technology guru Google agreed to change its business practices but dodged a potential 10-figure fine – and saved the cost of litigating a years-long case that could have resulted in breaking up the company into smaller, more market-competitive units. Both Google and the FTC said at the time that there was no undue influence. Google pilloried the Journal, which first suggested a link between the company's access and the investigation's outcome, saying the meetings its executives held with administration officials involved discussions about 'everything but' the antitrust investigation. In a blog post, the company cited 'patent reform, STEM education, self-driving cars, mental health, advertising, Internet censorship, smart contact lenses, civic innovation, R&D, cloud computing, trade and investment, cyber security, energy efficiency and our workplace benefit policies.' The written defense Google published took specific aim at Journal publisher Rupert Murdoch, and included an animated GIF of a laughing baby in a high chair. But a Google spokesperson confirmed Thursday on background that company executives has talked with the FTC about unspecified antitrust concerns in the past. The spokesperson declined to be quoted or named. Schmidt is a one-man case study of the kinds of influence a multibillionare tech titan can wield in Washington when the stars align. LEFT-HAND MAN: Schmidt (right) got a prime seat at the table when newly minted President Obama met with a group of CEOs in February 2009 'EVANGELIST': Online pioneer Vint Cerf is Google's top 'Internet evangelist' and also a member of Obama's National Science Board His ascent in Obama's world began in 2007 when the future president visited Google's California headquarters for a one-on-one interview, staged for the benefit of the company's employees, then 16,000 strong. Schmidt asked him about Iran, Pakistan, and Guantanamo Bay. 'Close down Guantanamo,' Obama replied, 'restore Habeas Corpus, say no to Renditions, no to warrantless wiretaps.' The exposure was vital: Obama ended up lapping the field in fundraising in the high-tech sector. Obama offered Schmidt his choice of cabinet slots after the 2012 election – either Treasury or Commerce – and was even prepared to create a new 'Secretary of Business' position for him. He declined all three but accepted a post on the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. He continues to evangelize about both his company and the president's agenda, including 'net neutrality' regulations that have big Internet service providers up in arms. Schmidt's roots with Obama run deep. When the future president visited his campaign headquarters on Election Day in 2012, Schmidt was there overseeing final efforts to leverage 'Big Data' to nudge last-minute voters to the polls. He was by then already a donor to Obama's White House bids, contributing the maximum amount allowed by law both times. Schmidt's specialized software gave then-Senator Obama access to high-tech voter targeting algorithms that Republican John McCain couldn't match. HIGH LIFE: Google Ideas director Jared Cohen co-wrote a book with Princess Beatrice of York in 2013, three years after he left the Obama State Department to work for the search giant ELECTION KINGS: Michael Slaby (left) and Justin Vincent (right) were key architects of Obama's data-mining and voter-targeting software efforts, and both were emigres from Google And Michael Slaby, the chief integration and innovation officer af Obama For America, the president's campaign organization came over from a job as technology strategist for TomorrowVentures – Schmidt's venture capital fund. OFA also boasted former Google software engineer Justin Vincent as its senior codewriter, and former YouTube/Google lead Web developer Angus Durocher as its lead online software engineer. Google itself was accused publicly of favoring Obama's 2012 re-election campaign in a more visible way. Customized search results would appear when users typed 'Obama' into a search window, but entering 'Romney' yielded no such help. Google claimed at the time that it was the result of a computer algorithm, not human intervention. This week the president's new initiative linking global warming with public health includes a specific buy-in from Google. The company, the White House says, will 'donate ten million hours of high-performance computing' and help scientists to create 'early warning capabilities' for climate change-related disasters and related risks for diseases. Some of that work could conceivably be performed by former White House staff who have joined Google, just as the president counts several former Google executives among his advisers. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton this week hired away a top tech talent from Google for her presidential campaign-in-waiting. Stephanie Hannon, formerly Google's top dog on product management for 'civic engagement,' will help her navigate the digital waters in 2016. Poaching seasoned Google veterans is a maneuver the Obama White House has perfected. Megan Smith, a former vice president at the company, is now the administration's chief technology officer. Angus Durocher, a computer engineer who left Google to work for the Obama campaign, tweeted this photo of himself and Vice President Joe Biden when he was at work in the campaign's New Hampshire nerve center Google transforms streets into giant PAC MAN game The deputy CTO position was held for Obama's first two years by another Google emigre, Andrew McLaughlin. He left the administration in 2011 after a reprimand for sharing details of government policy matters with his former coworkers via a personal email address. Shortly after Obama moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, former Google project manager Katie Stanton became his director of citizen participation. Sonal Shah, a former Google global development chief, moved to Washington the same month to lead the White House Office of Social Innovation. And Vint Cerf, a widely acknowledged 'father of the Internet,' serves on Obama's National Science Board. Cerf has worked for Google since 2005 as a vice president and its 'chief Internet evangelist.' Read more: dailymail.co.uk

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	4/20/2015 9:57:19 PM
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"The meaning of independence in my eyes is the ability to defend yourself.” Benjamin Netanyahu

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	4/20/2015 10:01:05 PM
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US Attorney: Minnesota Has Terror Recruiting Problem ....................................................................... KSTP ^ \| 4-20-15 \| Dave Aeikens

To: Mevis who wrote (11240)	4/30/2015 8:15:32 PM
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Obama Admin. Won’t Let States Ask for Proof of Citizenship … On Voter Registration Form! .................................................................................................... pjmedia.com \| april 30, 2015 \| Joseph Vanderhulst