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To: R2O who wrote (14697)	3/29/2015 5:01:48 PM
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De Blasio Announces Addition Of Muslim Holidays To NYC Public Schools Calendar .................................................................................. newyork.cbslocal.com \| March 4, 2015

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	3/29/2015 5:01:59 PM
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Boycott Fail: Chick-Fil-A Opens Slew Of New Stores Nationwide… ................................................................................................................. Weasel Zippers ^ \| 3/28/2015

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	4/1/2015 2:11:16 PM
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To: R2O who wrote (14697)	4/1/2015 10:16:59 PM
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Obama's Taking It to the Streets. The Coming Explosion in Murder and Other Violent Crime. OSACStats \| April 1, 2015 \| Not John Milton Obama has declared a ceaseless war on the citizens of the United States. Obama is facilitating, cheerleading, and dispersing tides of illegals--from the most violent, crime-ridden countries in the world--into American towns and cities from sea to sea. These are excerpts from official reports of the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) of the U.S. Department of State: El Salvador 2013 Crime and Safety Report El Salvador (population 6.3 million) is rated “Critical” for crime by the U.S. Department of State. \ El Salvador is considered one of the most violent countries in the world. The criminal threat in El Salvador is unpredictable, gang-centric, and characterized by violence directed against both known associates and targets of opportunity. The leading cause of non-natural death (among U.S. citizens) is homicide. The effect and threat of violent crime in San Salvador, including the neighborhoods in which many Americans live and work, leads to isolation and the curtailment of recreational opportunities. Based on current statistics, violent crime remains significantly higher than U.S. and international rates. El Salvador has the second highest per capita murder rate in the world: 69 per 100,000 in 2012 (UNODC statistics) (by comparison the murder rate in Massachusetts, with a similar geographical area and population, was 2.6 per 100,000). El Salvador has hundreds of known gang cliques, totaling more than 20,000 members. Violent, well-armed, U.S.-style street gang growth continues, with Los Angeles' 18th Street and MS-13 ("Mara Salvatrucha") gangs being the largest. Gangs concentrate on narcotics and arms trafficking, murder for hire, carjacking, extortion, and violent street crime Guatemala 2014 Crime and Safety Report Guatemala (population 3.3 million) has one of the highest violent crime rates in Central America. The violent crime rate is considered “Critical” by the U.S. Department of State. In 2013, Guatemala reported an average of 101 murders per week. The number of violent crimes reported by U.S. citizens and other foreigners has remained high, and incidents have included, but are not limited to, assault, theft, armed robbery, carjacking, rape, kidnapping, and murder, even in areas of Guatemala City widely considered as safe, such as Zones 10, 14, and 15. Well-armed criminals know there is little chance they will be caught or punished, further driving criminal impunity. Kidnapping gangs, often connected to narcotraffickers, are a concern in both Guatemala City and rural Guatemala. Gang members are often well armed with sophisticated weaponry, and they sometimes use massive amounts of force to extort, kidnap, and kill. [S]exual assault rates were 70 percent higher in 2013 than in 2009. In most known cases, women traveling/driving alone were specifically targeted. Honduras 2014 Crime and Safety Report Since 2010, Honduras (population est. 8 million) has had the highest murder rate in the world. The National Violence Observatory, an academic research institution based out of Honduras’ National Public University, reports that the murder rate was 79 murders per 100,000 people for 2013 (for comparison, Massachusetts at 2.6 murders per 100,000), down from 85.5 murders per 100,000 people in 2012 and 86.5 in 2011. The Honduran National Observatory against Violence reported an average of 19 murders per day in 2013. Honduras has hundreds of known street gangs, totaling more than 7,000 members. Violent, well-armed, U.S.-style street gang growth continues; 18th Street Gang and MS-13 ("Mara Salvatrucha") are active. Gangs concentrate on narcotics and arms trafficking, murder-for-hire, carjacking, extortion, and violent street crime. Gangs and other criminal elements roam freely, targeting affluent areas for burglaries. Gang members are quick to engage in violence if resisted. Many of the gangs comprise unemployed youth who are street trained and do not hesitate to use deadly force when perpetrating crimes. Travelers are warned to avoid all public transportation, as it has become too dangerous for city and country commuting. There have been numerous reports of robberies involving inter-city and international buses. Passengers on public buses are frequently robbed en-route, at roadblocks, and at bus stops. Would-be muggers and gang members are known to keep to a daily schedule, riding city buses from one stop to the next, mugging and committing criminal acts with impunity Honduras osac.gov Guatemala osac.gov osac.gov El Salvador osac.gov TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Society; Click to Add Topic KEYWORDS: crime; elsalvador; guatemala; honduras; Click to Add Keyword [ Report Abuse \| Bookmark ] Guatemala (population 3.3 million) has one of the highest violent crime rates in Central America. The violent crime rate is considered “Critical” by the U.S. Department of State. In 2013, Guatemala reported an average of 101 murders per week. El Salvador (population 6.3 million) is rated "Critical" for crime by the U.S. Department of State. El Salvador is considered one of the most violent countries in the world. Since 2010, Honduras (population est. 8 million) has had the highest murder rate in the world. The National Violence Observatory, an academic research institution ... reports that the murder rate was 79 murders per 100,000 people for 2013 (for comparison, Massachusetts at 2.6 murders per 100,000). 1 posted on 4/1/2015, 9:32:14 PM by concernedcitizen76 To: concernedcitizen76 I really believe Soetoro wants America to be burning when he leave the District of Corruption for the last time in 2017. He is a 100 lb. bag of dog sht. 6 posted on 4/1/2015, 9:38:03 PM* by FlingWingFlye

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	4/1/2015 10:19:49 PM
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Corruption Scandals Led to Harry Reid’s Abrupt “Retirement” .................................................................................... Judicial Watch ^ \| March 30, 2015 \| Judicial Watch

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	4/9/2015 2:24:29 PM
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BREAKING: In Chicago, Reports of Voters Receiving Ballots Already Marked for Emanuel After a Facebook post suggested voting irregularities blew up, similar reports are emerging. BY RICK PERLSTEIN APRIL 7, 2015 inthesetimes.com <More Here> Around 10:30 this morning, Sam Dreessen, a 26-year-old unemployed DePaul University graduate (and former In These Times intern) who’s been voting in Chicago since 2006, walked into his polling place at Kozminski Community Academy on 54th and Drexel, a mostly black neighborhood in the city’s 5th Ward. He approached the election judge at the table and, like thousands of Chicagoans on this mayoral election day, received a paper ballot and a felt-tip pen. But, he says, one of the two blanks—the one you fill in to vote for Mayor Rahm Emanuel—was already filled in. Dreessen, a volunteer for Emanuel’s opponent, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, smelled a rat. “I just said to one of them, the one who gave me the ballot, ‘This has already been filled out. I want one that’s blank.’ And he acted surprised. He said, ‘I don’t know how that happened.' And he even said there had been other ballots with similar problems.’ He gave me one that was blank, and I told him more than once that they should look at all the ballots, the ones that hadn’t been handed out yet, to see if this happened.” Dreessen says he was too shocked to even take a picture. “And I thought, ‘I don’t know, this must be happening to other people.’ It just seemed to be so crude.” He reported it next to the Garcia campaign office in nearby Woodlawn, where they said they had already received similar complaints. Then he took to Facebook, where he posts under the name “Barry Lyndon.” As of 6:08, 52 minutes before the polls close at 7, his post had been shared 538 times. He also texted what happened to a neighbor of his who is a city election commissioner, Marisel Hernandez, who said she was sending investigators “right away.” I learned all this after tracking “Barry Lyndon” down and speaking to him late this afternoon. I was especially interested to confirm his story because on Facebook some Chicagoans, ever wary, feared the reports were a dirty trick from the Emanuel campaign to discourage people from voting. But no, Sam Dreessen is real and stands by his story. And similar accounts are circulating. The Garcia campaign says it has received several accounts of ballots pre-marked for Emanuel and was able to confirm one. DelMarie Cobb, spokesperson for 5th Ward Alderman Leslie Hairston, told me she personally talked with one voter who ran into the same problem voting at O’Keeffe Elementary School at 69th and Merrill—an even more heavily minority area. And she had heard similar reports from her boss this morning. (Alderman Hairston, meanwhile, a critic of the mayor, warned about the same ballot irregularity on her own Facebook page this afternoon.) Cobb also fielded a report from a person voting on an electronic machine that tried to register a vote for Emanuel every time she punched in a vote for Garcia. I have’t been yet been able to turn up any reports of irregularities favoring Chuy Garcia. (snip) <More Here>

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	4/12/2015 5:00:01 PM
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Why the Left Wants Iran to Get the Bomb frontpagemag.com Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 10, 2015 Article: Before Global Warming posters hung on the dingy walls of American classrooms, the atomic bomb was the original Great Bogeyman of the left. Nothing quite so demonstrated the madness of our war machine as our willingness to deploy weapons of mass destruction to stop Communism in its tracks. The self-righteous antics over nuclear weapons in literature, art, film, at protests and in papers are far too numerous to document. But you can still spot the occasional clunker with “One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day” or “You can’t hug a child with nuclear arms” peeling off one lopsided bumper. Just don’t expect its owner to oppose Iran’s nuclear program over its day-ruining hug-denying nature. What made nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants bad was not that they killed children, mutated fish or doomed mankind. There was nothing wrong with Plutonium or Uranium. In Iranian or Soviet hands they are perfectly good substances. It’s when Uncle Sam gets his hands on them that they go bad. Soviet nuclear weapons were never the problem. Now anti-nuclear activists are defending Iran’s nuclear program because they were never really opposed to nuclear weapons; they were opposed to America. The anti-nuclear crowd isn’t against nuclear power plants or even nuclear missiles; otherwise it would be on the front lines campaigning against Obama’s nuclear sellout to Iran, instead of supporting it. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which claims to be against everything from nuclear power to depleted uranium, cheered the Iran deal. Ploughshares campaigns against WMDs while linking up with [1] Iran’s lobby. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is on the same page. The organization’s motto, “70 Years Speaking Knowledge to Power”, communicates that it isn’t against nukes. It is against “Power”. The United States is defined as possessing that intangible quality of “Power”. Not Iran, which is a victim of American “Power”. In his New York Times interview with Thomas Friedman, Obama said that he had told his team to be sensitive to the “defensive Iran that feels vulnerable”. That’s the Iranian inner child that, according to Obama, was scarred by the United States in the past. Nukes are just its radioactive security blanket against American imperialism. Our power is the problem. Not their nukes. There is a long history of such reasoning dating back to spy-scientists like Ted Hall and Alan Nunn May passing along nuclear secrets to the USSR to prevent a US nuclear monopoly. And the May case was very nearly covered up because it would have interfered with a plan to demilitarize the bomb and bring the USSR into the club. As would so often be the case, the distinction between traitors and Democrats was that the former acted unilaterally while the latter put the stamp of considered policy on their treason. Having created an atomic crisis by helping the USSR get the bomb, the left would then spend the bulk of the Cold War denouncing the “madmen” in the Pentagon for a mass destructive stalemate that the left had sought. It was not the Pentagon which wanted to see the world balanced on the brink of destruction. It was the left which had broken the “American monopoly” that had wanted it to happen. And once it did, the left turned a crisis that it caused into its own pet cause by promoting unilateral disarmament. Having destroyed the American monopoly, it sought to leave America utterly helpless. There has never been a credible plan for a world without nuclear weapons. The only plan that has ever existed is a plan for a world without American nuclear weapons. Nuclear proliferation was one of the means of realizing that goal. A nuclear crisis brings disarmament talk to the forefront. The best possible way to promote the agenda of American disarmament is by helping Iran get the bomb. After his original inauguration, Obama talked of a “world without nuclear weapons”. But what he really meant was a world without American weapons. “As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act,” Obama said in that same speech. “We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it.” The only American Exceptionalism that Obama has ever believed in is an exceptional American guilt. As the first country to have used a nuclear weapon, against an empire that was engaged in genocide and cannibalism, America has to give up its weapons first. American nuclear weapons are tainted in ways that no other weapons are. Our nukes are bad nukes. Everyone else’s nukes are good nukes. The credibility of the other side doesn’t matter. As a dog returns to its vomit, Obama and the left eagerly tried to wrap up disarmament in a deal with Moscow despite a long history of nuclear treaty fraud. When Putin decided to take advantage of Obama’s flexibility by invading Ukraine, there was always Iran. And there has even been talk of renewing negotiations with North Korea. And why shouldn’t there be? The Iran deal is just a replay of the terrible ideas that the Clintons used to let Kim Jong-Il go nuclear. Disarmament is never the objective. Instead the negotiations invariably allow the other side to increase its arsenal and capabilities. That is what they are designed to do. The left does not believe that nuclear weapons are evil. It did not believe that Soviet nuclear weapons were evil. It does not believe that Iran’s nuclear program is evil. It believes that American power is evil. Iranian nuclear weapons are good because they weaken America. Like Soviet nuclear weapons, they undermine American power. They force the United States to “negotiate” and submit to international law. The more nuclear weapons spread, the more the “hawks” will have to realize that they have no option but to disarm the United States and put their faith in some international order to achieve peace. That has always been the endgame. Full Story

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	4/24/2015 12:35:37 PM
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Muslim Police Chief Refuses Pledge Of Allegiance, Fellow Officer Takes Action ......................................................................................................................... Live Leak ^ \| 4/24/15 With the Obama administration increasing the number of Muslim migrants into the U.S. comes the Islamization of the West — an intentional, gradual overthrow of democracy and freedom by using that same democracy and freedom that’s afforded to them. Ironically, Muslims flock to Western countries and demand the laws be changed to implement Islamic laws that are already in place in their own nations. So, why do they feel the need to create yet another Muslim country when they already have over 90 across the globe? Because their allegiance to Islam requires them to hold nothing above it, not only are Muslims compelled by Muhammad to force every nation to submit to Islamic law, they find themselves unable to commit their lives to serving an un-Islamic country, even if they are born there. image: cdn.liveleak.com This brings us to Miami Police College, where a veteran of the agency is under fire for what she chose to do during the pledge of allegiance. Fraternal Order of Police President Javier Ortiz was livid after he witnessed assistant chief of police Anita Najiy disrespecting the American flag as she refused to put her hand over her heart during the pledge of allegiance. “If you’re not pledging allegiance to the United States, my question is what country are you pledging allegiance to?” Ortiz told the Miami New Times. “Anyone who isn’t offended by that is not American, because when you become a U.S. citizen, you pledge allegiance to the .US.” Ortiz claims that Najiy failed to display the proper courtesy and etiquette that “must be exercised when wearing a law enforcement uniform.” Outraged by Najiy’s action, Ortiz sent a letter to Chief Rodolfo Llanes suggesting appropriate discipline, including her removal from a commander position. He adds that he believes Najiy’s behavior might be because of her religious affiliation, which he believes is Islam. While Ortiz says that he doesn’t care what her beliefs are, he is upset at her behavior. “The flag is a symbol of our country,” Ortiz continued. “What is the difference if I decide to light a U.S. flag on fire in a police uniform?” he said, stating that any form of disrespect towards the flag while in uniform should not be tolerated. According to the department’s code of conduct, reprimand is in order for officers who do not salute the flag. A spokesperson for the Miami Police Department has assured that the matter is “currently under review.” Police officers are not swearing allegiance to our government, officials, or even a political ideology, but the country itself. They are promising to honor our nation by defending her people, regardless of their political or religious affiliation. In fact, Najiy has taken an official oath to “protect the lives, defend civil liberties, secure the safety of fellow citizens, and they endure such risks and tolerate such inconveniences on behalf of strangers.” Just as they are reprimanded for disrespecting the badge, which is a symbol of the force, Najiy faces punishment for disrespecting the symbol of the country she has sworn to defend. So, why can’t Najiy swear allegiance to the country that affords her freedom of speech and worship? Because she has already sworn allegiance to Allah, who commands that his followers are to be an enemy of all unbelievers, especially as a nation. Not only is a Muslim commanded to never take non-Muslims as friends, they are to make war with unbelievers. How can one pledge allegiance with a nation with which they are commanded to make war? image: cdn.liveleak.com While it’s still under speculation that Najiy is actually a Muslim, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if this was the reason for her lack of enthusiasm for the symbol of our nation for which so many patriots gave life and limb to defend. If this is the case with Najiy, who is an assistant chief of police, would you really feel that she has non-Muslims’ and patriots’ best interests at heart during her service? madworldnews.com

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	6/16/2015 2:24:42 PM
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Those who oppose amnesty tend not to be heard. They are the homeowners watching dangerous men who have crossed the border glower through their windows. They are the black teenagers who can’t even get a fast food entry level job because the illegals are cheaper and more compliant. They are the legal immigrants who left places like El Salvador behind only to find its gang members in their back yard.

To: R2O who wrote (14697)	6/16/2015 2:47:03 PM
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UNC wrestling coach who criticized Title IX treatment of college men is fired ................................................. By Anne Blyth the@newsobserver.com newsobserver.com RALEIGH The UNC-Chapel Hill wrestling coach who has been a critic of how universities handle sexual assault allegations that do not go through the courts is out of a job. After 12 seasons as head coach of the UNC wrestling program, C.D. Mock was “relieved of his duties” by UNC athletics director Bubba Cunningham. Former UNC wrestling coach C.D. Mock. “I made the decision that a coaching change was in the best interest of our wrestling program moving forward,” Cunningham said in a prepared statement. “I believe a new head coach will re-energize the program and return it to the level of success I expect from all of our teams.” Mock, who coached the 2005 and 2006 teams to back-to-back ACC titles, has been the subject of much criticism lately unrelated to his 33-38 record over the past four seasons. Toward the end of last year and the beginning of this year, Mock became the subject of much criticism for personal social media posts on a blog he set up after his son, a nationally ranked wrestler at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, was accused of rape last March by a student. Criminal charges were not filed, but the case went through the Tennessee university’s judicial process. Amid a heightened national attention to sexual assault allegations on college campuses, C.D. Mock, a 1982 graduate of UNC, questioned whether the due-process rights of the men accused were being trampled. He also became a critic of the “yes means yes” standard for consent to sexual activity as a replacement for the “no means no” standard. Mock’s comments hit a nerve among many on the Chapel Hill campus that over the past several years has faced federal scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault allegations. “Let’s all acknowledge this ‘yes means yes’ idea sucks,” Mock posted on the site coreymock.net. “The idea that college kids are going to whip out cell phones and record their partner saying ‘yes’ just before sex is just stupid. “It’s only a matter of time before guys figure this out and just start arguing that ‘the girl said yes’ even if she didn’t. Now what? Now we just assume all men are lying? It’s a totally stupid idea and it will never last and until it changes many more of us will be the carnage of ‘falsely accused.’” University options Under the federal Title IX gender equity law, universities are required to have grievance procedures to respond to reports of sexual violence. The federal Violence Against Women Act requires universities to have procedures for reports of sexual violence, interpersonal violence and stalking. Students can report cases of sexual violence to the police and to the university, to both or to neither. The police can initiate a criminal investigation. A university can investigate and take disciplinary action against the perpetrator, such as suspension or expulsion. A university can also give protective help to the accuser, such as no-contact orders or housing changes. In January, university officials said they were aware of the website where Mock outlined his son’s case and his reaction to the twists and turns of the campus process related to it. “We respect the rights of all of our faculty, staff or students in exercising their First Amendment rights,” Rick White, UNC vice chancellor for communications and public affairs, said in a statement at the time. “However, their personal opinions do not reflect a university position, and it’s important that they are not mistaken for one. Mr. Mock is expressing his views as an individual and not in any official capacity on behalf of the university.” “Knew the risks”Responding to an email requesting comment Monday, Mock quoted from a blog posted the day before. “It is no big surprise that UNC fired me last week,” Mock’s said in the email and blog post. “I knew the risks and considered the possibility of this happening six months ago when I started talking about the campus rape hoax and how colleges are responding to it. I have no desire to be a martyr for the cause nor is it my intention to draw attention to me by crying ‘look what they did to poor me!’. That is not the point.” Mock tied his job loss to what he described as a growing trend of silencing “any opposition to one’s beliefs and views rather than to encourage debate.” “Was I fired because my beliefs and views differ from those of the leadership at UNC?” Mock’s blog post states. “If one believes this to be true, there should be outrage throughout the Carolina community. Certainly not because a wrestling coach was fired; but, because a major University may have taken extreme measures to silence one of it’s own who is a vocal critic on an issue that has nothing to do with that individual’s job.” Mock acknowledged that his coaching career had its “ups and downs” over the 14 years. “For the administration to publicly state that I am being fired for ‘performance’ is certainly their right, but it’s difficult to ignore the timing of this,” Mock’s blog post states. Read more here: newsobserver.com