Thursday, July 3, 2014

TB Outbreak in Sacramento School is America’s Future Thanks To Obama’s Open Borders

TB Outbreak in Sacramento School is America’s Future Thanks To Obama’s Open Borders

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A tuberculosis outbreak at Grant Union High School in Sacramento is providing a glimpse into the new reality we will face under Hussein Obama’s open borders.
It used to be that health screenings were a common part of the immigration process, and they still are for those who respect the country and its laws enough to go through the system.
For today’s modern border-crashers, under our “if you can get here you can stay” policy, physicals are a minor consideration only for those apprehended and released. Those who are able to evade our severely understaffed Border Patrol agents can bring their infections in with them and share them with the American citizens and our families.
One student at Grant Union tested positive for TB in February, and that led to more testing which revealed four other students who were infected with active TB. The Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson, Laura McCasland, said that the three related cases are considered an outbreak.
Four of the originally discovered student’s friends and relatives also have contracted active TB, for a total nine known related cases.
Active TB, according to Olivia Kasirye, the county public health officer, is contagious if it is located in the lungs and accompanied by a cough.
The four additional students are not considered infectious, Kasirye said, adding that an outbreak such as this was not uncommon. The four additional students are receiving treatment.
Over 450 students and staff have been tested as a result of this infection and their close proximity to the initial infected student.
The frequency of discoveries and outbreaks such as this is sure to increase dramatically as those infected among the ranks of what they are calling “Central American refugees” are dispersed among our population.
Additionally, those who have an unobstructed path across the border due to the overwhelmed interdiction capacity of our preoccupied Border Patrol agents are free to bring with them unknown threats of every imaginable kind, and surely are.
Rick Wells is a conservative author who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us

The Current Genocide Of Christians That Obama Doesn’t Want You To Know

The Current Genocide Of Christians That Obama Doesn’t Want You To Know

By Theodore Shoebat

There is a current genocide of Christians that Obama doesn’t want you know about. Its happening in Iraq where the Christian population is on the brink of extinction and being completely driven out or killed. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako of Baghdad said:
This is very serious. We are losing our community. If Christian life in Iraq comes to an end, this will be a hiatus in our history.
The patriarch also made it clear that the Islamic deluge that is uprooting the Christians is the fault of America’s war in Iraq:
The Americans have been here and they made a lot of mistakes. The current situation is their fault. Why replace a regime [with] something even worse? This is what happened after 2003.
In the first time in 1600 years, there was no Christian mass services held in the Iraqi city of Mosul, as we read from one report:
The Chaldean Catholic Church’s Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, in Kurdish-governed northern Iraq, is reported as saying that for the first time in 1,600 years there was no Mass said in Mosul on Sunday June 15. This is the city taken over days before by ISIS forces.
Reports say the estimated 3,000 or so Christians still there – from about 35,000 in 2003 – all fled ahead of the militias’ takeover of control, although some families were reported to have returned. They cited lack of job prospects and shelter once they’d become internally displaced, or refugees in Kurdish Iraq.
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The Islamic cleansing of Christians is most apparent in Egypt, where cases of Muslims kidnapping Christians is increases. Just recently a Christian engineer was kidnapped at gunpoint in the Sinai, as we are informed by one report:
A group of armed masked men in Sinai kidnapped at gunpoint a Christian engineer who works at a cement factory in the Peninsula on Monday, reported state-run Al-Ahram.
Officials of the Catholic Church have also given warning of a genocide of Christians in Nigeria.
According to one report:

Catholic Church officials in northern Nigeria’s diocese of Maiduguri are warning of “genocide” against the Christian minority in the region, where daily attacks, killings and abductions by Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram are continuing unabated.
Since 2009, Christians in the country’s north-eastern states have been under siege from the well-armed, highly trained, and massively funded Islamists.
In the latest attack on Sunday 29 June, the terrorists attacked churches and villages in Borno state killing more than 30 people. The attacks occurred about 10 kilometres from Chibok town, where more than 200 schoolgirls, most of them Christians, were abducted in April and are still missing.
Four churches, including the Protestant Church of Christ of Nigeria, the Pentecostal Deeper Life Bible Church and the 1920 American missionary built Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa were destroyed. More than 2,000 people have been killed, this year alone, in the Boko Haram campaign of atrocities.
“What is worrying is the silence of government on the on-going genocide of the Christian minority,” Fr John Bakeni, the secretary of the Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri told The Tablet. “We cannot keep track or records of the attacks. It’s terrible.”
With the increasing attacks, said Bishop Oliver Doeme of Maiduguri, “the human mind could not understand what is happening in the region.”
The violence has forced many Nigerian churches to implement strict security measures such as screening of worshippers and introducing bomb detection equipment.
We should not only read about this violence, but do something about it. We must be doers of God’s work, and not just talkers of it.
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Illegal Alien Disease Epidemic – Doctors And Nurses Gagged, Threatened With Arrest if They Talk

Illegal Alien Disease Epidemic – Doctors And Nurses Gagged, Threatened With Arrest if They Talk

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The message to doctors and nurses was simple; you talk, you go to jail. That message was delivered by officers of the government security contractors hired to police the Lackland Air Base illegal alien induction facility.
Some have spoken up anyway, because the risks are so great. They say the American taxpayers and citizens have a right to know what disease epidemic risk is being brought into our nation. They were interviewed confidentially by Todd Starnes of Fox News.
The secret nature of the process is itself of concern to the whistleblowers. One psychiatric counselor said, “There were several of us who wanted to talk about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would be arrested. We were under orders not to say anything.”
The security guarding the workers is provided by “Baptist Family & Children’s Services,” a contractor hired by HHS. They are referred to by themselves and others within the facility ominously as the “Brown Shirts.”
The counselor said “It was a very submissive atmosphere, once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws.”
Upon entry to the facility all cell phones and other communication devices are confiscated and anyone caught with a phone is immediately terminated. She said, “Everyone was paranoid, the children had more rights than the workers.”
The infectious diseases that are still being brought in include measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat. Mental health and emotional conditions are also being diagnosed, and may or may not be treated.
The counselor described watching lice crawling down the hair of children she was attending to.
A former nurse calls it a “lice epidemic.” She said, “You could see the bugs crawling through their hair,” and added, “After we would rinse out their hair, the sink would be loaded with black bugs.”
That former nurse said, “We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country. We were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base.”
The counselor and the nurse both said the official position is to conceal the extent of the illnesses from the public.
The nurse describes how, “When they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant – ‘Don’t mention that. Don’t say scabies.’ But everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told ‘don’t worry about it.’”
Another problematic condition which concerned the nurse was the fact that the children were transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes. Whatever conditions they have may have been left on the seats and other surfaces and could infect others.
The counselor noticed children who she recognized as being suicidal and recommended that they be sent to a psychiatric unit. Rather than treat one boy she pointed out, he was placed with a family in America.
It was at that point that she filed a Child Protective Services report and quit her job, concerned that her license was at risk if the child later committed suicide.
The counselor says she kept a detailed journal about what is going on inside the Lackland facility and remarked, “When people read that journal they are going to be astonished. I don’t think they will believe what is going on in America.”
She reports that she was later contacted by federal agents who demanded that she return to Lackland and surrender her journal to them. She refused to do so and has not returned to Lackland.
It is Cloward-Piven in action. The nurse expressed her belief that, “They’re going to crush the system. We can’t sustain this. They are overwhelming the system and I think it’s a travesty.”
Rick Wells is a conservative author who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us

Airports on alert over Muslim plots to bring down jets with bombs implanted in the body

Airports on alert over Muslim plots to bring down jets with bombs implanted in the body

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They are devout. Respect it, you filthy islamophobes!
The UK banned Robert Spencer and me from speaking about jihad, but welcomed these hostile invaders. How’s that working out for you, Home Secretary May?
As for yesterday’s technology, the master of explosives turned his own brother into a bomb: ‘Evil genius’ created devices that can be sewn into the body and are virtually undetectable.

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“New air terror: UK airports on alert over ‘different and disturbing plots to bring down jets’ amid fears terrorists are working on undetectable bomb which could be surgically implanted in the body,” Daily Mail, July 3, 2014 (thanks to Todd)
UK airports on terror alert amid fears of attacks from Islamist extremists
Influx of sky marshals could be brought in on some transatlantic routes
New measures thought to include second checks on electronics and shoes
Passengers could face delays at departure gates due to security measures
Terror alert comes as U.S. calls for heightened precautions across Europe
It is thought new bombs could be ‘non-metallic’ or ‘surgically-implanted’
Militants in Syria may have tested devices in the war-torn country
There is growing fears UK citizens returning from conflict pose a risk
By Ray Massey, Transport Editor and Richard Spillett and Emma Glanfield
Air passengers are facing extra delays at departure gates across the UK as security staff carry out heightened checks amid fears that Islamist groups are working on an undetectable ‘stealth bomb’ which could bring down an airliner.
Increased patrols and extra precautions were brought in at terminals around the UK overnight as Britain remained on a ‘substantial’ terror alert following reports that two networks are trying to produce a new explosive.
However, the increased security measures have left thousands of passengers facing possible delays with some claiming the increased scrutiny of hand luggage and X-ray machine images has slowed the pace at departure gates.
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The increased security warnings from the Department of Transport and Downing Street today came as millions of holidaymakers prepared to embark on their summer breaks.
Although the full extent of the new security measures has not been divulged, they could include second checks on personal electronics and footwear before passengers board a plane.
It is feared Islamist groups may be putting together a ‘non-metallic’ device, which could potentially be surgically-implanted inside a terrorist’s body and be almost invisible to current security checks.
Concerns are growing over the ‘new generation bombs’ – possibly being developed by Syrian and Yemeni terrorists – which could slip past conventional detectors and may already have been tested by militants in war-torn Syria.
ABC News today quoted a US defence insider as saying the new threat is ‘different and more disturbing’ than attempted terror attacks in the past.
Travellers at London’s Heathrow said airport staff’s painstaking analysis of hand luggage and heightened security measures had slowed the pace at the departure gate at Terminal Three today.
American student Eryk Salvaggi, 35, who was due to travel on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Boston this evening, said: ‘We had to go through the same process as usual, taking belts off, electronics out of bags, no large amounts of liquids and stuff, but the security guys were paying a lot of attention to everyone’s bags and items as they went through the scanners.
‘It seemed to take twice as long for each bag to go through, I’ve never seen it done like that before and I have travelled a lot.
‘There were a lot of bags being taken aside too, when they came out the other side, for extra searches.
‘There seemed to be a lot of frisking going on too.
‘Luckily it seemed pretty quiet, there weren’t big queues. It’s a good thing it’s not the holidays.
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BREAKING: President of Zimbabwe Orders Whites Out, Executive Order Dictates Whites Can No Longer Own Land In Zimbabwe


BREAKING: President of Zimbabwe Orders Whites Out, Executive Order Dictates Whites Can No Longer Own Land In Zimbabwe



If you get your news from the Obama Administration or the U.S. State Department you probably haven’t heard about this yet. That’s because the U.S. President, a man who far too often comments on issues of racism with the purpose of stirring emotions, has not held a press conference about what might be the largest act of racism in modern history.
It is now confirmed that President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has sealed the deal as dictator and declared that whites are no longer allowed to own land in his country. He’s officially booting all white farmers and taking their land.
Via Daily Nation.
The 90 year-old old leader, who launched a violent land reform programme in 2,000 that displaced the majority of the 4,000 white commercial farmers, on Wednesday said Zimbabwe was no country for white farmers.
“There are white farmers who are still on the land and have the protection of some Cabinet ministers and politicians as well as traditional leaders,” President Mugabe said.
“That should never happen and we will deal with ministers but as for our chiefs we do not want to harass you. We do not want trouble.
“I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West (province) alone and in just a few districts that have been audited.
“We say no to whites owning our land and they should go.
“They can own companies and apartments in our towns and cities but not the soil.
“It is ours and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States.”
President Mugabe has often justified the wholesale seizure of productive farms saying he was correcting historical injustices.
This ignorant statement ignores the fact that most of these farmers, if not all of them, personally had nothing to do with any ‘historical injustices.’ This sets a dangerous precedence and it’s shameful the world’s leaders aren’t denouncing it.

Remember How Seal Team 6 Was Shot Down? Now We Could Finally Know Why Obama Is Covering It Up

Remember How Seal Team 6 Was Shot Down? Now We Could Finally Know Why Obama Is Covering It Up

In this video, we reveal this and much more...


On August 6, 2011, in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, jihadists perched on top of a building shot down a decrepit CH-47 helicopter, Extortion 17, packed with 30 Special Ops forces–most of them part of the elite SEAL Team 6. Almost immediately, facts about the attack were hushed up that included skirting away the black box. Furthermore, within hours, everyone on board was cremated, supposedly because they were burned beyond recognition. Family members of the victims have learned that virtually everything the Obama administration has revealed about the attack is a lie.
The likely reason for the coverup? The high-tech weapon used to shoot down Extortion 17, a heat-seeking missile, more than likely was supplied by none other than Barack Hussein Obama.
In this video, we reveal this and much more…
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NYC Commissar Bill De Blasio Closes Ramadan Dinner To The Press So He Can Pray With Muslim Guests…

NYC Commissar Bill De Blasio Closes Ramadan Dinner To The Press So He Can Pray With Muslim Guests…


Via Capital NY:
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press office announced this morning a dinner he is hosting at Gracie Mansion tonight for Muslims will be closed press, despite initially being listed as open.
The Ramadan Iftar dinner, according to de Blasio spokesman Phil Walzak, “was always designed to be closed but was erroneously listed as open” on the mayor’s schedule last night “due to an internal miscommunication.”
Walzak also said, “Tonight’s event is closed press because it is a sit-down dinner and there also is a praying portion. Last year and the year before this event was closed press — it historically has always been closed.” [...]
Of the guests, Walzak said, “There are 150 attending tonight, many of whom have been fasting. This includes religious leaders, community leaders, elected officials, and members of Administration.”
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Israel offers Hamas one last out before hitting hard

Israel offers Hamas one last out before hitting hard

If the rocket fire from Gaza doesn't stop within a day or two, what’s next may be the assassination of Hamas leaders and missiles on Tel Aviv.

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By Amos Harel
Published 01:41 04.07.14
Since Monday, when the bodies of the three kidnapped teens were found, the main locus of Israeli-Palestinian friction has moved from the West Bank to East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The manhunt for the suspected kidnappers continues. But the murder of East Jerusalem teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir, and the ongoing exchanges of rocket attacks from Gaza and retaliatory airstrikes have expanded the confrontation to new theaters.
Though a majority of ministers remain opposed to expanding Israel’s military operations, the balance in the diplomatic-security cabinet is fragile. Continued violent rioting in Jerusalem or casualties from rocket fire could yet lead to escalation. As always, one option is assassinating senior Hamas officials. But Hamas would almost certainly respond with massive rocket fire, including on Tel Aviv.
In the three weeks since the kidnapping, there has been a steady drizzle of rocket and mortar fire from Gaza. Israel has responded cautiously, usually with airstrikes on empty buildings. The intelligence agencies still think Hamas wants to avoid escalation. Yet the organization has begun playing a double game: It has been behind some of the mortar fire and has let other groups launch rockets.
The defense establishment opposes a large-scale operation in Gaza, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still maneuvering between this position and political pressure for action. Thus, despite the risks he might view resuming assassinations as a good solution.
On Thursday, a senior military official sent an unusual message to Hamas. “Quiet will be answered with quiet,” he told journalists hours after a rocket hit a house in Sderot. “Israel has no interest in escalation. If Hamas reins in the shooting now, we won’t act, either.”
It seems Jerusalem was thereby offering Hamas a final exit ramp. The statement included no deadline, but most likely Israel will give Hamas only a day or two to restore calm. After that, if the rocket fire continues, Netanyahu will enjoy more legitimacy at home (and also overseas) for aggressive action.
Meanwhile, Israeli rage over the teens’ murder is finding other outlets. Some are official: For instance, the policy of razing terrorists’ houses has been resumed. In other cases, the authorities seem to be turning a blind eye, as in Monday’s raids on the homes of the suspected kidnappers, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh: Ostensibly, soldiers merely forced entry by dynamiting the doors. But in practice, the damage was extensive. Finally there are the civilian manifestations: mobs assaulting Palestinian workers in Jerusalem, Facebook campaigns for vengeance and, perhaps, Abu Khdeir’s murder.
So far, there is no evidence that Hamas’ leadership either in Gaza or abroad was involved in the kidnapping. But either way, the finding of the teens’ bodies deprived Hamas of the last chance to wrest a significant achievement from the operation by negotiating over the return of the bodies. The abduction may have scored Hamas some points in Palestinian public opinion, but there were also many Palestinians who opposed killing unarmed boys. Moreover, the kidnapping undermined Hamas’ relations with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and effectively froze the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation.
Abu Khdeir’s murder altered the picture slightly, since Palestinians now have their own innocent victim – allegedly killed by a nationalistically-motivated Jew, though police haven’t yet confirmed this, saying the murder could also have stemmed from an internal Palestinian feud. Either way, the fact that it occurred at the start of Ramadan obviously didn’t help. Today’s Ramadan prayers on the Temple Mount could spark more rioting, and police are consequently beefing up their forces in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian riots in Jerusalem on Wednesday, after Abu Khdeir’s body was found, were more violent than other riots in previous years. Pipe bombs were thrown at policemen in broad daylight and masked men torched some of the light rail stations in the city’s east. Nevertheless, it’s premature to talk about a third intifada. Israel also has better control over Jerusalem than it did during the second intifada, because the separation fence prevents Palestinians from the West Bank from coming to join the violence.
Intelligence failure
Meanwhile, the investigation of the Israeli teens’ kidnapping shows that it was fairly well-planned. Someone had to obtain the stolen car, the weapons, the money and the intelligence. Avi Issacharoff reported on the Walla news site this week that the boys’ bodies were found in a fenced plot purchased by the Qawasmeh family a few months ago. In other words, the kidnappers prepared the site, or at least knew of it.
Qawasmeh and Abu Aisheh were well-known Hamas operatives who have been arrested by both Israel and the PA in the past, yet they managed to completely conceal their plot from the Shin Bet security service. That is a failure that even the agency’s success in foiling 44 previous abduction attempts can’t erase.
This was compounded by the failures of the police and the Israel Defense Forces. That five precious hours were wasted because a police hotline mishandled a call from one of the teens, Gilad Shaar, is well known. But tapes of several calls between Shaar’s father, Ofir, and other hotlines, which were published this week by Channel 10 television, expose additional snafus.
The elder Shaar first called the security hotline of the Binyamin Regional Council, the area of the West Bank where he lives, at 3:10 A.M. on Friday, June 13. Four minutes later, the hotline operator called an IDF hotline. Two hours after that, Shaar was finally connected directly to the IDF. But army sources say that only at 6 A.M. was the regional brigade commander informed. Fifteen minutes later, he was en route to the yeshiva where two of the boys studied, where he checked out the situation and became convinced the case was serious. Thus a kidnapping alert finally went out to all army units only at 7:40 A.M.
Granted, the IDF deals with many false alarms. Yet this timetable begs the question: Why did it take three critical hours to inform the brigade commander? It was already too late to save the boys, but had the army swung into action earlier, the kidnappers would have had less time to make their getaway.
This series of failures by the security services – and there are likely others that the media haven’t uncovered – obligates the prime and defense ministers to launch a serious investigation. Only thus can the problems be solved before another kidnapping occurs.

BREAKING: Lawsuit That Could Kill Obamacare to Be Decided Within Days

BREAKING: Lawsuit That Could Kill Obamacare to Be Decided Within Days

Obamacare was the president’s first big progressive project, and ever since its roll out it’s been nothing but trouble.
Aside from the massive headaches people have received from trying to sign up on the problem plagued website, millions of people who were promised they could keep their coverage soon discovered that wasn’t true.
On top of that, many states who had their own exchanges built experienced similar problems and shut the sites down, opting to use the federal one instead.
Fortunately, there’s a chance that a lawsuit due to be decided in a matter of days could be the bullet through the heart of this atrocious socialist program.
The suit calls into question the use of the term “state” in “state exchange” as a provision in the bill says that individuals who use these exchanges instead of the federal one will have subsidies to help pay for coverage.  Since so many states don’t have an exchange, this could mean millions who signed up won’t receive subsidies and could lose coverage, causing a downward spiral.
Hot Air reports:
Remember the Halbig case? If not, catch up right now by re-reading this post from January, written after a D.C. district court judge ruled in Obama’s favor. O-Care is a famously complex law but the lawsuit that could end up demolishing it is surprisingly simple. In a nutshell, there’s a line buried deep in the statutory text that says federal subsidies for insurance premiums will be available to anyone who buys a plan on “an Exchange established by the State.”
Question: Does Healthcare.gov, the exchange built by the federal government after 34 states refused to build their own exchanges, qualify as an “Exchange established by the State”? Or do only state exchanges qualify? If it’s the latter, then millions upon millions of people who’ve signed up for O-Care through Healthcare.gov since October in the expectation that Uncle Sam will be paying part of their bill are in for a nasty surprise. The only fix that’s available (unless His Majesty tries some executive gambit, of course) is for Congress to amend the statute so that subsidies are available on the federal exchange too, but what are the odds of the House GOP agreeing to that?
If the D.C. Circuit, which is set to rule any day now on the appeal of the earlier ruling, sides with the challengers against O, consumers will be forced to either come up with the money for their premiums themselves or drop their coverage. And if most of them choose to drop coverage, leading to a mass exodus of healthy people from various insurance risk pools, suddenly the White House is facing a death-spiral problem where hiking premiums on the remaining enrollees is the only way to pay for all the sick people still in the pool. That’ll lead to more dropped coverage, which means even higher premiums, and then it’s spiralmania.
The challenge was initially written off by some as a fool’s errand because there’s a lack of evidence that the Democrats who crafted and passed the Affordable Care Act intended to block subsidies on the federal exchange, which was designed as a backstop on behalf of the states. (They’ve signed a brief saying as much.) But the challengers seized on an ambiguity in the language of the statute which says the subsidies are to be provided by “an Exchange established by the State.”
“If the legislation is just stupid, I don’t see that it’s up to the court to save it,” Judge A. Raymond Randolph said during oral arguments in March.
Randolph, a George H.W. Bush appointee, said the text of the statute “seems perfectly clear on its face” that the subsidies are confined to state-run exchanges. Carter-appointed Judge Harry T. Edwards slammed the challengers’ claims as “preposterous.” So the deciding vote appears to be with George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas B. Griffith, who wasn’t resolute but sounded unconvinced of the Obama administration’s defense, saying it had a “special burden” to show that the language “doesn’t mean what it appears to mean.”
This is huge. If the court rules that the term “state” is a reference to an exchange created by individual states, it could spell the end of Obamacare.
Obamacare is a disaster of epic proportions and any action that can stop it or at least slow it down is needed to prevent the horrendous side effects of such a monstrous piece of legislation from hitting the American people.
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BREAKING: 33 Lawmakers Make Huge Stand Against Obama Over Border Crisis

BREAKING: 33 Lawmakers Make Huge Stand Against Obama Over Border Crisis

President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is causing havoc among border states who are being overrun by minors, unaccompanied by adults, crossing the border illegally.
Emergency shelters across states like Texas and Arizona are filling to the brim, as authorities are not allowed to deport these children and send them back to their families.
Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin believes Obama put this program in place to create the current crisis in hopes of using it for political advantage.
House Republicans are now calling on the President to take the crisis head on by ending this program and enforcing current immigration laws.
There are 33 GOP lawmakers who have taken a stand against the DACA program, and are hoping the pressure they put on the president will force him to take action.
via Breitbart:
In response to the ongoing flood of unaccompanied immigrant minors illegally crossing the nation’s southern border, 33 Republican congressmen, lead by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), are pressing Obama to roll back policies and perceptions that they say have helped spur the onslaught.
“As our country faces an unprecedented surge in the arrival of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at our southwestern border, we call on you to immediately end the failed policies that encourage young individuals to put themselves in peril, leave their home countries, and make a long and dangerous journey to enter our country illegally,” they wrote Wednesday in a letter to Obama.
Since October, more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors have been detained illegally crossing the southern border — many telling Border Patrol agents that they came because they believe they will be able to stay.
According to the GOP congressmen, the president must take the crisis on by first ending the DACA program — which shields certain illegal immigrants from deportation and allows them to live and work in the U.S. — “to send a clear signal to all individuals that our immigration laws will be enforced.”
Further, they call on Obama to “make an explicit public commitment that you will not support legislation that extends legal status to the newly arriving illegal aliens no matter the age.”
They also requested Obama disclose the intent of the Department of Homeland Security’s review of deportation policies.
Signatures include: Rep. Darrell Issa, Rep. Pete Sessions, Rep. Sam Graves, Rep. Lamar Smith, Rep. Blake Farenthold, Rep. Gus Bilirakis, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Tim McClintock, Rep. John Duncan, Rep. Tom Cotton, Rep Jim Bridenstine, Rep. Alan Nunnelee, Rep. Gregg Harper, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Rep. Tom Cole, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, Rep. Ken Calvert, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Rep. Virginia Foxx, Rep. Ander Crenshaw, Rep. Phil Gingrey, Rep. Rob Wittman, Rep. Ralph Hall, Rep. Roger Williams, Rep John Campbell, Rep. Steve Stockman, Rep. Dan Benishek, Rep. David Jolly, Rep. Ted Yoho, Rep. Tim Griffin.
Awesome. It’s great to see House Republicans continuing to stand up against President Obama and attempt to hold him accountable for his actions.
This mess was made by Barack Obama, and it’s his duty to take the lead in cleaning it up, and it all starts with ending the DACA program, which is the source of the problem.
Obama is obviously attempting to use this crisis as justification for passing immigration reform through executive order, once again superseding Congress. This must not be allowed to happen.
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Teenagers’ Deaths Raise Fears of Shift From Political Struggle to Blood Feud

Teenagers’ Deaths Raise Fears of Shift From Political Struggle to Blood Feud

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SDEROT, Israel — In this resilient town about a mile from Israel’s volatile border with the Gaza Strip, the streets were empty on Thursday but the residents expressed defiance as Israeli troops massed around Gaza after a barrage of rockets including three that hit homes here.
“We need to finish them off before they finish us off,” said Avichai Jorno, 34, whose bedroom was littered with debris and bathroom was destroyed by an unexploded rocket.
In Shuafat, the East Jerusalem neighborhood where a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and killed the day before, streets strewn with remnants of Wednesday’s violent protests were mostly quiet, too, but for a smallish clash with Israeli soldiers. And the boy’s family was also defiant, calling on the Israeli authorities to declare the attack an act of revenge by Jews for last month’s abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers, not the result of a family dispute.
“We want a written paper from the Israeli government saying the crime was committed on a national background, and we want the Israeli government to condemn this crime,” Ishak Abu Khdeir, the victim’s uncle, told reporters.
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Mood in Israel After Kidnappings

Mood in Israel After Kidnappings

Israelis and Palestinians are caught in another cycle of violence with little hope for a political solution.
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A familiar sense of foreboding engulfed Israelis and Palestinians, with both preparing for the possibility of another of Israel’s periodic military blitzes on Gaza, and with growing worry about a potential third intifada, or uprising, in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
But two months after the collapse of the latest round of peace negotiations, there was also a new kind of fear bubbling, a sense that these brutal crimes against young people — and the hate-laced social media campaigns surrounding them — had revealed an alarming depth of demonization and distrust on both sides.
“It could be a shift in the nature of the conflict, from political struggle to blood feud,” said Moshe Halbertal, a professor of philosophy at Hebrew University. “It’s no more the Palestinian possible state vis-à-vis the Israeli state; it’s kind of two peoples entangled in cycles of vengeance.”
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A spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas at news conference in Gaza City on Thursday. There have been conflicting accounts about the group's willingness to convince militants to hold their fire. Credit Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and analyst, said Israel’s aggressive crackdown on the West Bank — with hundreds of homes searched, mostly in cities supposedly under Palestinian control — had left “an overwhelming feeling of just this great vulnerability.”
“A lot of the problem with this place is that compassion has become quite selective,” said Ms. Buttu, who is a citizen of Israel but lives mainly in Ramallah. “I hate to say this, but all of the ingredients are there for things to get worse.”
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday sentenced four recent recruits to 10 days in military jail for joining a Facebook revenge campaign by posting pictures of themselves with signs urging Israel’s prime minister to “let us terminate the terrorists.”
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Israeli-Palestinian Clashes Escalate

Israeli-Palestinian Clashes Escalate

Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters continued in East Jerusalem as tensions remained high over the deaths of four teenagers.
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After nearly three weeks of intense activity in the West Bank, Israel’s military on Thursday turned toward Gaza, where the daily exchange of rockets answered by airstrikes threatened to explode into a full-scale operation.
With more than 40 rockets fired toward Israel in 24 hours, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, said troops were mobilizing around Gaza “to serve defensive positions and forward preparations.” But he repeatedly said that “we have no interest in escalation,” and said Gaza’s fate was in the hands of Hamas, the militant Islamic group that dominates there and that Israel blames for the kidnap-murder of its three teenagers.
“Our activities on the ground are in direct relation to what Hamas has been dealing out,” Colonel Lerner said. “We don’t want to take it further, but we will be prepared for developments.”
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In Sderot, Israel, a man looked at a home that was damaged by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza. Credit Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency
Hamas political leaders, too, have said they are not interested in escalation, but that they are having trouble persuading other militias to hold their fire, especially with Wednesday’s discovery of the burned body of the 16-year-old from Shuafat, Muhammad Abu Khdeir.
After a meeting of the Gaza factions on Thursday afternoon, masked men from the Hamas military wing declared themselves “ready for all possibilities.” Thirteen rockets hit Israel as night fell.
“We monitor the barbaric and brutal aggression by the enemy’s army in the West Bank and Jerusalem,” a Hamas fighter said through a kaffiyeh covering all but his eyes. “We promise to turn your settlements, posts, the targets that you expect and those you don’t expect into a burning coal if your leadership makes any stupid step.”
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The people of Sderot, where the first crude Qassam rockets made in Gaza fell 13 years ago, were preparing for another round, but were skeptical that Israel would take strong action. “It’s a waste of fuel,” Itzik Biton, who owns a falafel store, said of the mobilization. “They won’t do anything.”
“We were born here and we will die here,” Mr. Biton, 43, added. “The question is whether we will die of old age or from a Qassam.”
Ministers and Parliament members, insurance assessors and reporters visited Sderot, but local residents were scarce. In the midafternoon heat, a half-dozen children had the public pool — reopened this week after years’ closed for security reasons and then renovations — to themselves.
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An Israeli woman inspected the damage to a home in the border town of Sderot on Thursday after Palestinian militants fired rockets there. Credit Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Mr. Jorno’s wife, Tami, said that when the rocket alert sounded at 8 a.m. Thursday, she and a friend rushed their three small children into the safe room off the kitchen and almost immediately heard two booms. She went out to her garden with its ornamental gnomes and toadstools, sensing that one had landed close by. Neighbors pointed out the hole in her stucco wall.
Later, bomb disposal experts carried the unexploded rocket away. Debris littered the Jornos’ flowery summer bedcovers.
Shuafat was also riddled with detritus from Wednesday’s clashes. Smashed traffic lights. Overturned garbage bins. A vegetable stand in an unfinished two-story building blackened by firebombs protesters had hurled at soldiers using it as a staging area.
“Resistance lives on,” read a splash of fresh red graffiti. Next to Muhammad’s name, another said, “Palestine is free and Arab.” Most were in Arabic, but one, in Hebrew, said, “Death to Jews.”
Around 5 p.m., some 300 Palestinians threw stones at soldiers, who responded with stun grenades. But most of the day was quiet, as mourners congregated at a canopy in front of Muhammad’s house and adorned with his picture, waiting for word on when the autopsy would be complete. The funeral was expected after Friday’s noon prayer.
“It will not be a normal funeral,” said a cousin, Said Abu Khdeir, who owns a restaurant in the neighborhood. “It will be a wedding for a martyr.”
A police spokesman said the investigation was continuing and had not yet determined whether the killing was revenge or a nonpolitical crime. Wasem Abu Khdeir, 17, a cousin of Muhammad’s, said the police had questioned four of his other teenage cousins for hours on Thursday about whether they had anything to do with the crime.
Tamir Lion, an anthropologist who focuses on youth and combat soldiers, said on Israel Radio, “The state of Israel in recent years is looking for its ethos — that is to say, ‘Where are we going.’ 
“When there is no ethos, and it does not matter why, you always withdraw to the most primitive ethos — us and them,” he added. “It becomes a group that defines itself not as what it is, but what it hates.”

Arab Boy’s Death Escalates Clash Over Abductions

Arab Boy’s Death Escalates Clash Over Abductions

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Suha Abu Khdeir, center, whose son Muhammad was found dead, with relatives on Wednesday. “We don’t feel safe,” she said. Credit Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times
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JERUSALEM — The abduction and killing of a Palestinian teenager whose burned body was found in a Jerusalem forest on Wednesday further poisoned relations between Israelis and Palestinians and prompted international outrage as the police investigated the death as a possible Israeli revenge killing.
The death of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, came a day after the burial of three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and killed in the occupied West Bank last month. The killing of the teenager set off fierce riots in the ordinarily quiet and relatively well-to-do East Jerusalem neighborhood where he lived, threatening to ignite broader unrest and underlining deep fissures in Israeli society.
The abductions and killings of the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers raised the specter of individual vendettas within the broader conflict, making it all the more personal. Both sides, while angry and grieving, seemed stunned by the turn of events, in which each side sees itself as both victim and perpetrator.
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Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli border police broke out in Jerusalem on Wednesday after the kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager. Credit Mahmoud Illean/Associated Press
While Israeli officials said they were still investigating the death of the teenage Palestinian, including possible criminal motives, the killing followed passionate calls for retribution on a Facebook page named “The People of Israel Demand Revenge” that quickly gathered 35,000 “likes” and included pictures of soldiers posing with their weapons. The page was taken down after two days.
The latest killing seemed to set off introspection among many Israelis who only a day earlier nursed their grievances over the killings of the three Israeli teenagers. The justice minister, Tzipi Livni, reacted harshly to the public calls for revenge and said if Muhammad was the victim of a reprisal killing it amounted to “an act of terrorism.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday to hold accountable those who killed the three young men in the West Bank, pointing a finger at the Palestinian militant group Hamas. On Wednesday, after the body of the Palestinian teenager was found in the woods, the prime minister called on Israelis to obey the law, and asked investigators to quickly look into what he called “the abominable murder.”
Given the explosive atmosphere after Muhammad’s death, Israel found that its options for punitive measures had been narrowed for fear of inflaming the situation. Many Israelis engaged in soul-searching, recognizing that both sides in this blood feud had suffered at each other’s hands. About a thousand Israelis gathered for a demonstration in Jerusalem against violence and racism.
Secretary of State John Kerry, in a statement, strongly condemned what he called “the despicable and senseless abduction and murder” of Muhammad. He added, “Those who undertake acts of vengeance only destabilize an already explosive and emotional situation.”
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Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir was killed a day after the burial of three Israelis. Credit Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, 19; Naftali Fraenkel, 16, who also held United States citizenship; and Gilad Shaar, 16, were abducted on June 12 as they tried to hitch a ride home from their West Bank yeshivas. Muhammad was forced into a car near his neighborhood mosque, a few yards from his home in the Shuafat neighborhood before 4 a.m. as he waited for his friends to go and pray, witnesses told his parents.
“We don’t feel safe,” Suha Abu Khdeir, Muhammad’s mother, said as she sat in an upper floor of the family’s stone house, quiet and tearful, surrounded by women who had come to comfort her. “They took him from in front of our home,” she added.
Outside in the small yard, masked youths with slingshots were hurling rocks and rolling burning tires toward Israeli security forces. The forces, a short distance away on the main road, responded with tear gas, stun grenades and other means, according to a police spokesman, who said protesters had also thrown several pipe bombs.
A half-mile section of the main thoroughfare, in an area that Israel seized in the 1967 war and annexed in opposition to international opinion, was carpeted with rocks and remained closed as clashes continued throughout the day. Shelters at stops along Jerusalem’s light-rail line, which runs through Arab and Jewish neighborhoods, were smashed.
Tensions had already been running high. During the recent Israeli crackdown in the West Bank, six Palestinians were killed in confrontations with Israeli forces and about 400 Palestinians, many of them affiliated with Hamas, were arrested. Militants in Gaza fired more than 20 rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel on Wednesday. They fell without causing injury.
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Reactions to Death of Palestinian Youth

Reactions to Death of Palestinian Youth

Palestinian and Israeli officials and a relative of the slain teenager, whose body was found in a Jerusalem forest early Wednesday, discussed the kidnapping and killing.
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Sitting in an enclosed porch surrounded by male mourners, Hussein Abu Khdeir, Muhammad’s father, who owns an electrical appliance store, said he had spent eight hours with police investigators. Tired and unshaven, he said that he had not been allowed to see his son’s body, which was at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, but that investigators had identified it by matching DNA samples taken from the saliva of both parents.
“I don’t expect any results,” he said of the investigation.
Muhammad, who was studying at a vocational school to be an electrician, was the fifth of seven children, three sons and four daughters.
“I am against kidnapping and killing,” his father said. “Whether Jew or Arab, who can accept the kidnapping and killing of his son or daughter? I call on both sides to stop the bloodshed.”
Muhammad’s mother said he had been playing a computer game on a laptop with one of his brothers, then left the house about 3:30 a.m. to meet his friends for the dawn prayer that starts the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Palestinian protesters threw stones at Israeli police during clashes on Wednesday in Shuafat, a neighborhood in Jerusalem. Credit Thomas Coex/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Mahmoud Abu Khdeir, the imam of the mosque and a cousin, said the other youths left to get food for the predawn meal when a gray Hyundai pulled up and its occupants forced Muhammad into the car.
The police said they were reviewing images from security cameras along the street; Muhammad’s father showed visitors photographs, on his cellphone, that he said were from the security camera of a store near the mosque, showing two young men walking on the pavement, who he said were the kidnappers. Witnesses told him a third man was in the driver’s seat of the car.
Youths came to the house to tell Muhammad’s parents that he had been abducted. They called the police and tried to call Muhammad’s cellphone. It rang, but nobody answered.
On Wednesday, the Ynet news site posted the full two-minute recording of an emergency call one of the Israeli youths placed to the police from the car in which they were apparently shot to death. After what sound like gunshots and cries of pain, the kidnappers can be heard congratulating themselves and singing.
As funerals for the three were underway on Tuesday, hundreds of extreme-right protesters gathered in Jerusalem demanding vengeance. Chanting “Death to Arabs,” they tried to attack passers-by, who had to be extricated by the police. More than 40 protesters were arrested.
The two events exposed the extent to which parts of each side have dehumanized the other. After the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers last month, messages posted on social networks by Palestinians celebrated the capture of “three Shalits,” in reference to Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas militants in Gaza, who was eventually released in exchange for 1,027 prisoners.
A 17-year-old created the Facebook group calling for revenge for the kidnapping of the three Israelis, and an Israeli blogger, Ami Kaufman, pointed to a photograph submitted to the Facebook group by two smiling girls who held a sign reading, “Hating Arabs is not racism, it’s values!”
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority strongly condemned the killing of the Israelis. And Yoaz Hendel, a former director of communications for Mr. Netanyahu, expressed dismay after the death of Muhammad.
“It is unbelievable how a few hundred racist Jews can cause so much damage to an entire country,” Mr. Hendel wrote on his Facebook page in Hebrew. “The results of the investigation into the death of the boy are already unimportant. After pictures of the mob shouting ‘Death to Arabs,’ the damage is done.”