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Obama will nominate Navy Vice Adm. Rogers to head NSA

Obama will nominate Navy Vice Adm. Rogers to head NSA


The Obama administration announced Thursday that it will nominate Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers to become the next director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command.
A White House official said in a statement that current NSA official Rick Ledgett, who led the administration’s task force responding to leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, will also be nominated to the deputy leadership of the agency.
A 30-year Navy veteran, Vice Adm. Rogers is trained as a cryptologist, presently heading the Navy’s cyberwarfare program.
His nomination sets the stage for a potentially fierce confirmation battle in the Senate, where lawmakers have ramped up scrutiny of the NSA since the scope of its spying activities on U.S. citizens were exposed last spring in leaks to the media by Mr. Snowden.
If confirmed, Vice Adm. Rogers will suceed Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the NSA’s director since 2005. Mr. Ledgett would replace NSA Deputy Director John C. Inglis, who retired from the agency this month.
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper praised the announcements Thursday evening, but made no reference to the Snowden leaks.
Vice Adm. Rogers is “highly respected throughout the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense,” Mr. Clapper said in a statement.
“I worked with Mike when I was the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and he was the director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Mr. Clapper said. “He is a dedicated career intelligence officer who deeply understands signals intelligence and cyber operations, which makes him uniquely qualified to lead the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command missions.”
“I would also like to congratulate Richard Ledgett on his appointment to serve as the NSA deputy director,” Mr. Clapper said. “Rick was the first ODNI national intelligence manager for cyber, and has had a remarkable career in signals intelligence.”
“His keen insight of the entire intelligence enterprise will serve the NSA and the Intelligence Community well.”
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Mysterious Moon Base Discovered? Not So Fast.

By Ernie Mastroianni | January 30, 2014 1:12 pm
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Earlier this month, when a few high-traffic news websites reported a strange object or wedge-shaped craft on Google Moon, I was skeptical. Surprised, too, because when I opened the application, there it was, a distinct V-shape of bright lights inside a tiny crater on the moon’s far side. It did not look natural. I marked its location at 142 degrees and 34 minutes east and 22 degrees 42 minutes north, at the edge of Mare Moscoviense.

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Websites run by the Houston Chronicle, the Mail Online, and the New York Daily News all sourced their reports to the Youtube video by Wowforreel, whose channel offers generous helpings of UFO-related fare.  The video of the V-shaped anomaly has drawn more than 1.4 million viewers and national advertising. Surely this was an alien chaser’s dream come true. AnomalyWebsitesR
But this is no home-grown digital spoof.  The anomaly is there, in a small corner of a high-resolution image that Google credits to JAXA, the Japanese space agency whose Kaguya spacecraft took the photo. Either everyone was in on this—or more likely, my astrophotography experience told me, these are digital imaging artifacts.

Lots of Lights

Taking a wider look at the Kaguya photo, I noticed small lights in the shadows of dozens of small craters.  The lights were arranged in circles, lines, arcs and clusters, all deep inside black lunar shadows. And they were everywhere. If these are alien craft, we’re in for a major invasion.
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I contacted Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, where the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera is managed. The spacecraft has photographed nearly the entire surface of the moon in sub-meter resolution.
The LROC images are online and publicly available. All the old Apollo lunar landing craft are visible, and you can even see tracks made by the lunar rovers. In short, it would be hard for a large wedge-shaped craft to escape detection under such scrutiny.

Moon Truth

That opinion is shared by Mark Robinson, a geologist, planetary scientist and the LROC’s principal investigator. Robinson and his colleague Jeff Plescia directed me to a close-up photo of the crater, taken by the LROC under better lighting. On the crater’s floor is nothing but rocky rubble and moon dust.
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Mick West, who runs the debunking website Metabunk.org, also convincingly argues that the object is a digital byproduct.
“The answer is that Google stores multiple resolution image tiles, and uses a different set of tiles depend on how much you are zoomed in,” West explained. “The higher-resolution tiles have some filters applied to them, to make them seem sharper. Unfortunately it seems these sharpening filters have created some noise along the boundaries between light and dark regions, and that is what has created these dots.”
In the case of the mysterious V-shaped object, the crater’s adjacent bright rim is also V-shaped, which the dots dutifully follow.  So no, a few simple digital artifacts arranged in neat rows are not evidence of a wedge-shaped spacecraft—but are perhaps proof of how easy it can be to see things that we want to see, while ignoring what is really there.
Ernie Mastroianni is Discover’s photo editor and an avid astrophotographer.

The Massacre of Muslims in Burma continues, with over 1000 killed in cold blood yesterday, without any media interest! Please share to awaken the conscience of Humanity!

The Massacre of Muslims in Burma continues, with over 1000 killed in cold blood yesterday, without any media interest! Please share to awaken the conscience of Humanity!
الإبادة الجماعية لمسلمي بورما على أيدي البوذيين متواصلة ، مجزرة الأمس ذهب ضحيتها ١٠٠٠ مسلم في ظل تعتيم إعلامي كامل .. انشروا هذا الخبر ! أيقظوا الضمائر النائمة !

Rep. Steve Stockman: ‘I’m considering filing Articles of Impeachment’ on Obama

Rep. Steve Stockman: ‘I’m considering filing Articles of Impeachment’ on Obama







Rep. Steve Stockmam — who’s running a race for the Senate seat currently held by John Cornyn — couldn’t even make it through the entire State of the Union speech without losing his cool over President Obama.
“You see,” he said, The Blaze reported, “I walked out of Obama’s State of the Union address.”
His reason?
Obama’s defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution’s restrictions on government power while doing it,” Mr. Stockman said, adding that he had to leave after “hearing how the president is further abusing his constitutional powers. I could not bear to watch.”
Mr. Stockman said Mr. Obama has repeatedly broken his oath of office to uphold the Constitution, and in response, he’s seriously mulling legal action.
“I’m considering filing Articles of Impeachment against Barack Obama,” he wrote on his website, as reported by The Blaze.
This isn’t the first time the Texas congressman has broached the issue.
“Last year, I said I would consider impeachment as a last resort to stop Obama’s abuse of power,” he said, The Blaze reported. “And quite frankly, we’re running out of options.”
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Obama Regime promoting social engineering in neighborhoods

Obama Regime promoting social engineering in neighborhoods


The Obama Regime's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is now promoting, on the basis of “diviersity,” a plan of social engineering of neighborhoods. The policy is titled “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing,” and as reported by Fox News, “It will require HUD to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every single neighborhood and try to remedy it.”
Obama's HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan raised questions, in a speech before the NAACP convention in July, when he said, “Unfortunately, in too many of our hardest hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, the life chances of that child, even her lifespan, is determined by the zip code she grows up in. This is simply wrong.”
The comments raised questions about not what they might find wrong, but what the “remedies” at that will be used to make neighborhoods conform to the Regime's “diversity” standards. Fox News further reports, “Data from this discrimination database would be used with zoning laws, housing finance policy, infrastructure planning and transportation to alleviate alleged discrimination and segregation.”
Logically, would this mean Caucasians trying to purchase a home, in a neighborhood that the Regime deems to be too Caucasian already would be denied financing to buy a house there, or zoned out of buying a house there (wouldn't that be discrimination?) or other actions would be taken by the government to steer them into buying a house in another neighborhood instead? There are many such questions like that, raised by this kind of policy.
What this policy is a result of, is the resentment of many former residents of cities that moved the suburbs for a better way of life, to escape from the crime, poverty, drug dealing, and failed government schools of the inner cities. Those are directly, as can be seen with the bankruptcy and failure of Detroit, the result of the policies of the left. Now in the name of “diversity,” the leftist Regime in power now seeks to re-impose exactly what most of those people in the suburbs escaped from, on them again. When will people learn that this is what the left is all about, imposing their will on everyone else who doesn’t wish to live that way, and stop voting for liberal Democrats?
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Immigration officials warn of amnesty ‘overload’


Immigration officials warn of amnesty ‘overload’


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The officers who would be charged with approving millions of applications from illegal immigrants for legal status warned Congress this week that they can’t handle the workload, and said the change would guarantee criminals and others would be approved to remain in the country.
In a letter to House Republicans, who are planning to announce principles Thursday that would include legal status for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S., the labor union that represents U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers and adjudicators predicted it would be a disaster.


“There is no quality here, only quantity,” said Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council. “USCIS is not equipped to handle this workload, and due to political interference in its mission, is not empowered to deny admission to all those who should be denied due to ineligibility. We have become a visa clearinghouse for the world, rather than the first line of defense for a secure immigration system.”
Mr. Palinkas went on to say that any proposal that pushes millions of applications through would “overload the system.”
The letter was addressed specifically to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican whose panel has jurisdiction over most of the key questions surrounding immigration policy.
While the law enforcement side of the immigration issue has gotten the most attention, analysts have warned that a major test for any legalization program would be whether the government bureaucracy could process the millions of applications.
Key questions include what documents would be accepted to prove someone meets the criteria for legal status and whether adjudicators would interview every applicant, which would take longer but would be more likely to weed out criminals or fraudulent applications.
Obama administration officials have said they would be ready if and when Congress orders them to begin processing.


They point to President Obama’s non-deportation policy for young adults, imposed last year, which granted tentative legal status to at least 400,000 illegal immigrants in its first year, as a test-run for a broader legalization.
The new union warning letter, however, indicates that the rank-and-file officers who make the judgments have less confidence that the system will be ready.
House Republicans are gathered at a retreat in Maryland on Thursday to talk about how to proceed on immigration. Party leaders want to pass bills that would grant some form of legal status to most illegal immigrants, and would grant a specific path to citizenship to young illegal immigrants.
The Senate passed a more generous bill last year that would grant a full specific pathway to citizenship to most illegal immigrants.
Mr. Palinkas asked for House Republicans to consult with his union before drawing up any final plans. He and the leaders of the unions representing the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers have made similar requests to both the House and Senate.
Mr. Palinkas also took specific aim at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who has pushed for a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants, known as “Dreamers.” Mr. Palinkas took issue with Mr. Cantor saying that granting them citizenship was in line with the founding principles of the U.S.
“If this were true, that would mean that all future Dreamers have a right to amnesty, as every immigration law is bypassed and permanently void. I hope, as the top member of the Judiciary panel, you would reject this language without hesitation,” Mr. Palinkas said in his letter to Mr. Goodlatte.
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House leaders sell immigration blueprint

House leaders sell immigration blueprint

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CAMBRIDGE, Md. — The House Republican leadership is trying to sell their colleagues on a series of broad immigration principles, including a path to legal status for those here illegally.
Speaker John Boehner’s leadership team introduced the principles at their annual policy retreat here. Top Republicans circulated a tightly held one-page memo titled “standards for immigration reform” toward the tail-end of a day that include strategy conversations about Obamacare, the economy and the national debt.

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In the private meeting where the language was introduced, Boehner (R-Ohio) told Republicans that the standards are “as far as we are willing to go.”
(PHOTOS: House Republican retreat)
“Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that for her caucus, it is a special path to citizenship or nothing,” Boehner said, according to a source in the room. “If Democrats insist on that, then we are not going to get anywhere this year.”
Boehner said the standards represent “a fair, principled way for us to solve this issue.”
The strategy marks a shift for House Republicans. In 2013, Boehner’s chamber ignored the bipartisan immigration reform bill passed by the Senate. But toward the end of last year and early this year, Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) began hashing out this approach to rally Republicans toward reform.
“It’s important to act on immigration reform because we’re focused on jobs and economic growth, and this is about jobs and growth,” Boehner said in his pitch in the closed meeting. “Reform is also about our national security. The safety and security of our nation depends on our ability to secure our border, enforce our laws, improve channels for legal entry to the country, and identify who is here illegally.”
(PHOTOS: Immigration reform rally on the National Mall)
Embracing legalization is a modest change for Republican leaders — some of them signaled openness to the idea last year. For a Republican Party that advocated “self-deportation” as recently as 2012, it’s a massive shift.
Some Republicans fear of the political fallout from immigration reform, but the proposal suggests GOP leaders are taking the long view: Republicans need to woo the booming Hispanic population to stay relevant.
At the private meeting where the proposal was unveiled, lawmakers talked about their distrust that President Barack Obama will enforce the law, according to sources inside of the room. Ryan and Boehner spoke in favor of the effort, but high-profile conservatives like Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) were more suspect of the reform push.
“Nobody, even those who want to get this done, trusts the president,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) said in a phone interview Thursday evening. “And I understand it, because I don’t either.”
(Also on POLITICO: Nancy Pelosi’s tough times)
But legislation on some of the key components of the principles, most notably the legalization part, have not been released and it remains to be seen how the full set of principles are received by rank-and-file House Republicans — many who have been skeptical of acting on immigration reform this year.
The principles stress that undocumented immigrants will have to go through the current immigration system and complete several prerequisites. Criminals will not be eligible for legalization.
“These persons could live legally and without fear in the U.S., but only if they were willing to admit their culpability, pass rigorous background checks, pay significant fines and back taxes, develop proficiency in English and American civics, and be able to support themselves and their families (without access to public benefits),” according to a draft of the document.
A broad swath of pro-reform groups — from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the liberal-leaning America’s Voice — welcomed the principles. But one concern already being raised by Democrats and immigration reform advocates off Capitol Hill is language in the principles that call for “specific enforcement triggers” to be in place before undocumented immigrants can get on the legalization track.
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That section is meant to make sure that the Obama administration — and future presidents — enforce any immigration laws that Congress may pass. One of the most prominent immigration actions from Obama has been halting the deportations of young undocumented immigrants who qualify, known as Dreamers — a move that was done without the blessing of Congress.
But Democrats and advocates worry those “triggers” will be overly restrictive — preventing millions of undocumented immigrants from beginning the process to become legalized.
“It leaves them vulnerable to deportation for God knows how long,” Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy for the pro-reform U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an e-mail.
Ana Avendaño, the director of immigration and community action for the AFL-CIO, also called the trigger issue a “serious concern” for the labor group. In a statement, the AFL-CIO called the principles “flimsy.”
(Also on POLITICO: John Boehner blasts Barack Obama on trade)
The leadership’s principles do treat young undocumented immigrants differently, however. House Republican leaders declared that lawmakers should give a pathway to legal residence and citizenship for young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children.
“For those who meet certain eligiblity standards, and serve honorably in our military or attain a college degree, we will do just that,” the document says.
The blueprint is also silent on whether the broader undocumented population will ever be able to apply for permanent residency — and eventually, citizenship — by using pathways that currently exist for all immigrants. The principles rule out a so-called “special” pathway to citizenship — meaning a separate track for undocumented immigrants that isn’t available to other immigrants.
The document — drafted by leadership with input from key GOP lawmakers who have been working on immigration — also makes clear that the House will not negotiate with the Senate on its comprehensive bill. In fact, GOP leadership has already begun laying out the differences between the House’s approach and the Senate’s bill.
“The problems in our immigration system must be solved through a step-by-step, common-sense approach that starts with securing our country’s borders, enforcing our laws, and implementing robust enforcement measures,” the document’s preamble reads.
The pathway outlined in the principles does not open up until the nation’s borders are secure. Securing America’s borders has long been a major issue for House Republicans — but how that can actually be accomplished was a major issue in passing the Senate measure.
The document lays out policies beyond legalization. Republicans want to implement a biometric system to track those in the nation on a visa. The GOP wants to implement a “workable electronic employment verification system.” And the principles also call for an overhaul to the legal immigration system that’s focused on economic needs, rather than family ties.
The one-page list of principles has been one of the most hotly anticipated documents in recent memory. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), one of several key senators who led the immigration reform process in that chamber, said with the House GOP leadership’s overhaul blueprint, “the door is open.
“While these standards are certainly not everything we would agree with, they leave a real possibility that Democrats and Republicans, in both the House and Senate, can in some way come together and pass immigration reform that both sides can accept,” Schumer said.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), another member of the so-called Senate Gang of Eight, praised House Republicans on moving forward on immigration reform by releasing their principles.
“And if [Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)] hadn’t gotten control of his conference, this wouldn’t have happened,” McCain said. “So maybe there is a silver lining in the shutdown … I’ve been digging for that pony for a long time.”
Manu Raju contributed to this report from Washington and Seung Min Kim reported from Washington.

Feds Shut Down Entire Police Department to Overpower Constitutional Chief

Feds Shut Down Entire Police Department to Overpower Constitutional Chief

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It’s official, the federal government is now the  enemy of the very constitution that gives them their jobs.
A New Mexico police chief along with his entire department  has been placed on administrative leave for the crime of attending a Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), and signing a pledge to uphold his oath to the constitution of the United States of America which he already took when he became a Police officer.
Update Jan 30 2014 7:15 pm: We spoke with Sheriff Richard Mack personally several times today about this story, and he assured us that these are the facts of what happened to police chief Harger. Sheriff Mack also put us in contact with police chief Shane Harger, and we personally spoke with him today, and he confirms the story to be true. Police Chief Harger will be coming on the Pete Santilli show in the coming days, and it could be as soon as tomorrow, so please stay tuned to the Pete Santilli Show for coming updates on this very important story.

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TSA Harasses Shane Harger, Constitutional Chief of Police Placed On Administrative Leave,  Chief Told To Disband Entire Police Department
Police Chief Shane Harger of the Jemez Springs, NM Police Department was placed on administrative leave and ordered to disband his police department today.
Harger returned from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Convention on Monday, January 27, 2014 with a sense of knowing that, he as well as 38 other peace officers, shared the commitment to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from enemies both foreign and domestic. He and the other 38 men and women signed the Resolution of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (see below).
The following morning, Harger was informed by Sheriff Douglas C. Wood of Sandoval County, New Mexico, that Harger was to dismantle the Jamez Springs Police Department.
Jemez Springs, NM is a tourist destination. With a population of 252, the police department enjoys ten part-time officers and volunteers with many working about 8 hours per month.
The story unfolds: Traveling by commercial airlines from Albuquerque, NM to LasVegas,NV, Harger was asked by TSA to show his credentials. Minutes later a man flashed a badge claiming to be a federal agent (agency unknown) also demanding to see Harger’s credentials.
Harger was told that he was a person of interest, and the federal agent wanted to know where he was going and why. Bear in mind, no one is required to provide this information under these circumstances.
Harger said that the federal agent told him that the he, the federal agent, was paid to be suspicious of everyone.
Harger informed the federal agent that he was traveling to attend the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Convention in LasVegas.
Harger was detained for thirty-five minutes – his detention was video recorded but not made available to Harger.
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15 Dreadfully Treasonous Words In Obama’s Speech

15 Dreadfully Treasonous Words In Obama’s Speech

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Obama huffed… and he puffed… and he, well, blew nothing down.
He moved nothing forward.
All that our once-mighty leader’s State of the Union address showed was how completely irrelevant he’s become.
In fact, the president began by practically admitting that his legislation is dead on arrival because of how unpopular he is with Congress.
But the problem isn’t Congress… You see, if his agenda was popular with the voters, Congress would be falling all over itself to pass it. Congress follows the voters, and the voters don’t want any more of what Obama’s selling.
Heil, Obama!
During his first two years in office, Barack Obama controlled all three branches of government. He had unprecedented approval, and he used the opportunity to pass several highly unpopular bills. Unfortunately for the president, those bills have gone on to define his legacy.
The most destructive to middle class finances – and the president’s popularity – has been the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
You see, the Affordable Care Act was a gigantic political mistake. Obama allied himself with then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid to pass a bill with no Republican support whatsoever, rather than working toward a healthcare reform plan with bipartisan backing.
With that single act, Obama polarized the nation… and he hasn’t looked back since.
To this day, he continues to poison the body politic; and his newest plans – debuted to a national audience during the State of the Union – will cause even more division.
Since he can’t get anything done by working with others, Obama has decided to declare himself dictator and attempt to pass laws by executive order. His borderline treasonous words were, “Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation…that’s what I’m going to do.”
I can’t help but be reminded of Hitler’s transition from the elected Chancellor of Germany to complete dictator, ruling by decree. Yet even that comparison isn’t entirely accurate. In 1933, the Reichstag passed a law and gave Hitler his power. Obama has simply decided to usurp his.
A Year of Inaction
Thankfully, though, the United States today isn’t like Germany in 1933. And despite Obama’s attempts to rule by executive order, I believe we’re actually witnessing the opposite – the disintegration of his power.
He can command all he wants; but without Congress’ backing, I doubt that states and local governments are going to listen to the president. In fact, his irrelevance may actually be highlighted by his decrees. But he’s going to try anyway.
Obama’s first decree will attempt to fix global warming. Amusingly, while he was speaking about global warming, nearly half of the country was huddled together fighting the abnormal cold.
Suffice it to say that the president’s rhetoric is badly out of touch with reality.
He actually stood before Congress and had the mendacity to call Obamacare a success! Just to recount, the first goal of the Affordable Care Act was to increase insurance coverage… and more people have lost insurance than have gained it under Obamacare.
The second goal was to make insurance affordable… yet insurance is more unaffordable now than at any time in our history.
Still, Obama blithely encouraged the people who were watching the State of the Union to sign up. Not surprisingly, he failed to mention the myriad problems with healthcare.gov, including security and inaccuracy concerns that have been well documented.
His grand flourish was to call for a “year of action.”
But I predict that, one year from now, when we’re once again subjected to an excruciatingly painful address, no significant legislation will have been signed by Obama.
If he actually does try to rule by decree, the courts will annul his diktats, one by one, until anything without a basis in existing legislation will be ruled unconstitutional.
Because Obama doesn’t have the character, personality, and charisma to move the nation to action, 2014 is more likely to be remembered as the year of inaction. He is untrusted, untalented, and ineffective as Commander-in-Chief.
He will be even worse as Dictator-in-Chief.

This commentary originally appeared at CapitolHillDaily.com and is reprinted with permission. 

Holder gets pounded in hearing by Senate heavyweights Lee, Cruz

Holder gets pounded in hearing by Senate heavyweights Lee, Cruz

Two Republican heavyweights put Attorney General Eric Holder through the wringer Wednesday, as Sen. Mike Lee grilled Holder on the constitutional basis for President Obama’s use of executive orders, while Sen. Ted Cruz demanded Holder name an independent investigator to probe the IRS harassment of conservative groups.
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Under questioning by Lee, Holder was forced to acknowledge he couldn’t explain what legal standard covered one of Obama’s most controversial executive orders – the one delaying the requirement that employers provide insurance coverage for full-time workers or face fines.
The Utah Republican, who had clearly done his homework before quizzing Holder, said Obama’s exercise of executive orders – and his boast during Tuesday’s State of the Union address that he is planning more – had “usurped an extraordinary amount of authority within the executive branch.”
Under a pounding by Cruz, Holder claimed there is reason to question whether an investigation of the Obama IRS by an attorney known to be an Obama supporter and donor should be viewed as impartial.
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The Texas Republican wasn’t buying it.
“In my view, the integrity of the Department of Justice has been severely compromised,” Cruz told Holder. “Predecessors of yours in both parties, Democrat and Republican, when faced with serious charges of abuse of power for partisan gain have made the right decision and appointed special prosecutors.”
“I would call upon you to carry out the tradition of independence that attorneys general have honored that office with for centuries and protect the integrity of the Department of Justice,” he told Holder. “Given the political sensitivities, given the fact that individual citizens believe they are being persecuted by the federal government for partisan reasons.”
Check out Cruz taking on Holder here. Lee’s tangle with Holder is below.
Watch Lee take Holder to law school here.
JUNE 2013: THE TRUTH IS FINALY OUT...


NSA Whistleblower: Obama Took Down General Petraeus with NSA Surveillance Program:

William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades, said the David Petraeus sex scandal wase xposed using illegal surveillance of his email.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/06/07/NSA-Whistle-blower-Obama-Took-Down-General-Petraeus-With-Surveillance-Program
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Mozaffar Khazaee: Bumbling Spy or Disgruntled Employee?


Mozaffar Khazaee: Bumbling Spy or Disgruntled Employee?
Last week the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut unsealed a criminal complaint against Mozaffar Khazaee, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen charged with attempting to transport sensitive technical data related to the U.S. Military’s Fifth Generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, on November 26, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents from an Outbound Enforcement Team inspected a shipment destined for Iran which had been labeled “House Hold Goods” on the Shipper’s Export Declaration. Among the 44 boxes contained in the shipment, were two crates containing thousands of pages of technical documents including technical specifications, diagrams, and blueprints for the F-35 engine program. Apparently Khazaee, who became a naturalized citizen in 1991, had been laid off from his job at defense contractor Pratt &Whitney in August and for unspecified reasons decided to take the F-35 material out the door with him. He was arrested on January 9 at Newark airport just before boarding a Frankfurt-bound flight that would have eventually taken him to Tehran.
While the initial charge filed against Khazaee is a violation of 18 USC 2314, which prohibits the interstate transportation of stolen property, footnote 1 of the affidavit indicates that it’s likely that he’ll face a host of additional charges for violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). At the very least it seems clear that Khazaee actions constitute a violation of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR) 31 CFR § 560.203, which prohibits transactions designed to evade sanctions and attempts to violate any provision of the ITSR, in the case the § 560.204 prohibition on exportation of goods, technology, or services to Iran. It should also not be difficult for prosecutors to prove that Khazaee’s actions constitute a “willful” violation as required for criminal charges by each statute – the documents recovered by CBP were reportedly labeled with “Export-Controlled” and “ITAR-controlled” warnings. Furthermore, at the conclusion of his employment Khazaee was required to sign a separation agreement which required him to surrender all materials.
Predictably, though not without good reason, questions were raised whether this is the result of a calculated attempt by Iranian intelligence to steal highly sensitive U.S. military information. If so, Iran might want to reassess how it handles it sources because Khazaee’s lack of tradecraft was something to behold. Simply labeling his shipment’s final destination as Iran would be seen as a red flag by CBP and vastly increase the odds of, if not guarantee additional screening. He also used his own name on the shipping documents and used personal checks to pay the freight forwarder. Travel documents did show however, that Khazaee had traveled to Iran five (5) times in the past seven (7) years.
From the information currently available it seems more likely that a freshly laid-off Khazaee thought that the documents could be of value and decided on his own to try and get them to Iran to sell at a later datet. If, however, it surfaces that Khazaee did indeed have ties to Iranian intelligence, the amateurish nature of the plot suggests Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) might need to train its handlers better.
Of far more concern is the fact that a terminated employee was able to simply walk out the door of a U.S. defense contractor with thousands of documents containing some of the United States’ most sensitive defensive information. Apparently, even in the age of Edward Snowden, some still require additional lessons in the importance of data security. One hopes that coverage going forward will focus as much on Pratt & Whitney failings as on Mr. Khazaee’s ties to Iran.
The author of this blog is Erich Ferrari, an attorney specializing in OFAC matters. If you have any questions please contact him at 202-280-6370 or ferrari@ferrariassociatespc.com.
This post was guest written by Samuel Cutler, Policy Advisor at Ferrari & Associates, P.C. If you have any questions please contact him at 202-280-6370 or cutlet@ferrariassociatespc.com.
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Money from Vienna allegedly sent to finance Islamic extremist fighters training centres in Bosnia

Money from Vienna allegedly sent to finance Islamic extremist fighters training centres in Bosnia

Austrian Times Online News 25 November 2013
Fighters for different wars around the globe were trained in three remote Bosnian villages, reports Glas Srpske, the paper in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The paper claims the money to finance this training has in recent months arrived from Vienna, the capital of Austria.
The same source insists that Islamic militants were trained in central villages of Gornja Maoca, Gornja Dubnica and Osve.
Not going into details, Glas Srpske insists that the money was donated by Turkish origin Foundation for Human Rights, Freedom and Humanitarian Aid.
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WE HAVE ASKED FOR INFORMATION THROUGH THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT... AND ARE GETTING NO ANSWERS. OTHERS HAVE TOO... SO WE ARE TAKING TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPOSE THIS HOAXTER BITCH AND HER KENYAN BOSS!!

WE HAVE ASKED FOR INFORMATION THROUGH THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT... AND ARE GETTING NO ANSWERS. OTHERS HAVE TOO... SO WE ARE TAKING TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPOSE THIS HOAXTER BITCH AND HER KENYAN BOSS!!
Why does President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett have Secret Service protection?
It turns out that some of her colleagues inside the White House are skeptical that actual, specific threats resulted in Jarrett’s protection.
“While a high-profile White House official — especially an African-American/Iranian Born Communist Sympathizer woman whose father was best friends with Frank Marshal Davis.. Obama's mentor... a woman, such as Jarrett — could legitimately be considered a more likely target than most, several West Wing officials I spoke to were dubious there had been any special threats against her,” writer Mark Leibovich reported in “This Town,” a new book on Washington.
The Daily Caller reported that in a largely unprecedented move, Jarrett and David Axelrod, another senior adviser who has since left the White House, were being driven to work by government drivers and that Jarrett had been made a “protectee” of the Secret Service.
Jarrett has refused to discuss why she has been assigned Secret Service when questioned by reporters.
In April 2012, The Daily Caller filed a Freedom of Information Act request for details from the Department of Homeland Security about the cost of Jarrett’s protection. That request has not yet been fulfilled.
Leibovich reported that Jarrett finds questions about the rationale for her protection “ridiculous and offensive.” The adviser declined to speak about the arrangement with him.
THIS IS BULLSHIT...
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS....
TIME FOR REVOLUTION..

Russia Has Cheated on Nuclear Treaty, U.S. is Said to Admit in Closed Briefings

Russia Has Cheated on Nuclear Treaty, U.S. is Said to Admit in Closed Briefings oh yeah like obama hasnt

Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatchev, left, as they signed the  Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in Washington in December 1987. The Obama administration last year reportedly informed lawmakers in a classified session that Moscow was violating the pact (AFP/Getty Images). Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatchev, left, as they signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in Washington in December 1987. The Obama administration last year reportedly informed lawmakers in a classified session that Moscow was violating the pact (AFP/Getty Images).
Senior Obama administration officials informed congressional lawmakers in a closed-door 2012 briefing that Russia was not abiding by a bilateral arms control accord that bans the fielding of intermediate-range missiles, the Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty required both Russia and the United States to eliminate all of their nuclear and non-nuclear ballistic and cruise missiles with maximum flight distances between roughly 300 miles and 3,400 miles. Russia's testing of the SS-25 mobile intercontinental ballistic missile and of the new-model RS-26, optimized for penetrating missile defenses, may have raised the concerns about violating the accord's range restrictions, according to the website. However, the alleged focus of the cheating remains secret.
Last November during a classified session, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs Madelyn Creedon and acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Moscow was in breach of the INF accord, according to the report, which cites two unnamed U.S. officials who were at the briefing.
Then-Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) blasted the reported treaty transgressions: "If we're going to have treaties with people, we've got to adhere to them," he was said to have groused.
"We're not going to pass another treaty in the U.S. Senate if our colleagues are sitting up here knowing somebody is cheating," said Kerry, now secretary of State, according to two officials with access to the classified record of the briefing.
Twelve Republican senators are backing an amendment to their chamber's fiscal 2014 national defense authorization bill that would require the State and Defense departments to brief Congress on compliance issues related to the INF pact.
"The administration's been candid with Congress about a range of countries where we have ongoing treaty compliance issues ... and that includes concerns we have raised with Russia," an anonymous Obama official told the Daily Beast. "Determinations about non-compliance are made after a careful process, but Congress is in the loop."
Senator James Risch (R-Idaho), who sponsored the amendment to the NDAA bill, is one of several senators reportedly blocking Gottemoeller from being confirmed to the position of undersecretary of State. Sources told the Daily Beast that Gottemoeller is also in the running to become the next U.S. envoy to Russia.

U.S. to NATO: Russia May Have Violated Arms Control Pact

U.S. to NATO: Russia May Have Violated Arms Control Pact

Then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at a December 1987 summit in Washington. The United States reportedly has briefed NATO officials that Russia's recent testing of a cruise missile may have breached the accord.
Then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at a December 1987 summit in Washington. The United States reportedly has briefed NATO officials that Russia's recent testing of a cruise missile may have breached the accord. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)
The United States has shared with NATO its concern over Russia's testing of a new missile that may have violated a bilateral 1987 nuclear arms treaty.
On Jan. 17, Acting U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller in a closed-door meeting in Brussels told alliance member states that Russia was conducting flight trials of a land-based cruise missile in possible breach of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the New York Times reports.
The arms control pact required the Soviet Union and the United States to dismantle all of their ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 300 and 3,400 miles, and to cease testing, manufacturing and stockpiling such weapons.
U.S. officials think the Russian military started testing the missile as far back as 2008, according to the report. Since last May, Gottemoeller has discussed the tests repeatedly with Russian officials, who say they have looked into the issue and do not see it as a concern. Thus far, the United States has refrained from officially accusing Moscow of being in breach of the accord.
President Obama would like to hold new strategic arms control talks with Russia, so his administration has been searching for a solution to addressing concerns over the medium-range missile treaty issues. The aim has been to keep the accord in place and not sour Moscow on new nuclear-reduction negotiations.
"The United States never hesitates to raise treaty compliance concerns with Russia, and this issue is no exception," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. "There's an ongoing review process, and we wouldn't want to speculate or prejudge the outcome."
Unidentified officials told the Times it was obvious the missile trials violated the accord. A number of Republican lawmakers also have raised the issue with the White House, calling for the United States to take a harder line with Russia. The issue has been used by some GOP members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to stall Gottemoeller's nomination to take over permanently as undersecretary of State for arms control.
Russia has hinted it might withdraw from the treaty. Sergei Ivanov, chief of staff for President Vladimir Putin, last June said: "We've signed the agreement, we will obey it. But that could not last forever."