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It’s
becoming more and more clear exactly why Lois Lerner refuses to testify
and answer questions regarding the IRS scandal of targeting and
harassing Tea Party and other conservative groups. It is also clear why
the IRS commissioner made the claim that it would take years to produce
the emails surrounding this scandal. According to a report by Townhall,
the collusion between Democrats, the Obama IRS and the Obama DOJ goes
even deeper than initially thought and emails obtained by Judicial Watch
shows the extreme coordination between these groups in the targeting of
Tea Party and other conservative groups. (see emails below)
Lois Lerner sent the following email to the Obama Department of Justice in May 2013.
“I
got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes Branch
at DOJ … He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s [sic] could talk to
about Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing that DOJ could piece together
false statement cases about applicants who “lied” on their 1024s
–saying they weren’t planning on doing political activity, and then
turning around and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is
feeling like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at
IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what, if any
damage this might do to IRS programs. I told him that sounded like we
might need several folks from IRS,” Lerner wrote in a May 8, 2013 email to former Nikole C. Flax, who was former-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller’s chief of staff.
“I
think we should do it – also need to include CI [Criminal Investigation
Division], which we can help coordinate. Also, we need to reach out to
FEC. Does it make sense to consider including them in this or keep it
separate?” Flax responded on May 9, 2013.
After
this email exchange, Lerner handed things off to Senior Technical
Adviser and Attorney Nancy Marks, who was in charge of setting up a
meeting with DOJ.
This news follows the revelation that the second ranking member in the House Oversight Committee, Democrat Elijah Cummings,
worked in collusion with the IRS in attacking True the Vote, a group
out of Houston who works against voter fraud. Cummings had earlier
denied any coordination with the IRS, but that denial has been proven to
be a lie.
As this news breaks, Lois Lerner is waiting to see if
the House will hold her in contempt after the House Oversight Committee
voted to hold her in contempt. TPNN
also previously reported that Lerner “referred to the Justice
Department by the House Ways and Means Committee for potential
prosecution of her actions. If convicted of the crimes for which she has
been accused, she could face 11 years in prison.”
Given the
collusion between the Obama Department of InJustice and Lerner in
relation to this IRS scandal and attack against Tea Party and
conservative groups, many do not believe that Eric Holder will act
against her. His refusal to appoint a private and independent
investigator into this scandal has been met with criticism from those on
the right side of the aisle.
Despite this mounting evidence of
collusion between Democrats, the IRS, and the DOJ, President Obama
claimed during an interview on Super Bowl Sunday that there was not a
smidgen of corruption in regards to the matter.
Four days after the head of the Internal Revenue Service
denied the agency was targeting conservative social welfare
organizations applying for tax exempt status, Rep. Bruce Braley signed a letter urging a probe into the political activities of social welfare organizations.
Braley was one of 30 Democratic members of Congress who signed the
letter, dated March 26, 2012, to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman urging
him to investigate whether “any groups qualifying as social welfare
organizations under section 501(c)(4) of the federal tax code are
improperly engaged in political campaign activity.”
Braley later – as in, ‘after the 2012 election’ – called the IRS’s
targeting of conservative groups ‘shameful.’ Which it certainly was:
but they learned it from you, Bruce! They learned it from you.
Via the Washington Free Beacon.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Eliana Benador was founder of Benador Associates. is the head
of Benador International, in Geneva, Switzerland. She is an
international strategist, adviser, opinion writer on international
affairs, speaker. Her website is www.elianabenador.com
The massacres of Sept. 11, 2001 committed by Muslim terrorists
against unsuspecting, innocent American civilians seem long gone. And,
while other attacks against humanity are remembered through centuries
with “never forget,” America’s liberal governments have decided
otherwise. Erase, delete, and forget.
Even the list
released by the FBI of the 19 Muslim Saudi terrorists, has been removed
and now only opens to a page indicating “The page does not seem to
exist…”
Not shockingly, therefore, the New York Police Department has recentlyl disbanded the police special unit that spied on Muslims.
It all fits nicely in the lines of the Obama Administration and the
ascent to power by the American left with their liberal global agenda
and its intrinsic support of Islam’s goal for world domination.
Members
of a Muslim congregation pray during a Jumu’ah prayer service at the
Islamic Society of Bay Ridge mosque on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in the
Brooklyn borough of New York. The New York Police Department targeted
this mosque as a part of a terrorism enterprise investigation beginning
in 2003, spying on it for years. The mosque has never been charged as
part of a terrorism conspiracy. Credit: AP
These agendas are closely related, one serving the other and the latter seems content in the role of mere recipient.
Until Obama’s election, not many knew that an ever-growing Muslim
presence was massively expanding. Surely many non-profits dealing on
anti-terrorism had such information but it was carefully guarded as a
source to attract donations thus the vital information was not known by
the genral public
While both President Bush had strong business and family ties with
the Saudi Arabian ruling family, they managed to navigate throughout
their terms undisturbed, had it not been for Sept. 11.
Obama’s agenda, however, has been different. His actions have
reflected a will to enable and gradually enhance the presence of key
Muslims inside his administration and in the country.
Contrary to popular belief, while Muslim Brotherhood expanded their presence on American territory,
many of their operatives did not “infiltrate” the Obama Administration.
Each of them was particularly appointed to their position.
Pro-Egyptian
military supporters gather in front of the White House August 22, 2013
in Washington, DC. The supporters denounced the Muslim Brotherhood while
giving support to General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. Credit: Getty Images
An example, Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based Islamic cleric, was appointed member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. In October 2013, Elibiary posted on Twitter: “… yes I do consider the United States of America an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution. Move On!”
At the same time, Mr. Obama and his democratic leadership and base
needed to guarantee the long-term presence of their party in American
politics.
To that purpose, the Administration has promoted the advancement of
homosexuality at a national level, as well as an audacious immigration
program which also included facilitating Muslim immigration, especially
from Saudi Arabia.
As per Asharq Al-Awsat:
“The US Consulate in Dhahran in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern
Province has revealed that it issues approximately 100 visas per day to
Saudi nationals… It added that it had issued a total of 21,000 visas
last year, including 6,000 visas to Saudi students or their family
members.”
Meanwhile, the surrendering of the legal system of the United Kingdom began in 2009, when a study claimed that at least 85 Islamic sharia courts were operating in Britain.
In his first trip abroad and barely 7 months old, Prince George
Windosr, third in succession to the British throne, is wooing his
possibly Australian subjects with his parents. Little George is unaware
of the change unraveling in his future country. English sollicitors
recently received instructions on how to draw up sharia-style wills that will penalize widows and non-believers; also, practically, disadvantaging children and women.
France has one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe. Back in December 2010, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right, equated Muslims praying outside on the streets with Nazi occupiers. The Front National won control of 11 town halls and a large district in the port city of Marseille in last municipal elections, more than double its record from the 1990s.
France’s
Kenza Drider wears a niqab , as she reads a magazine in a shop, in
Avignon, southern France, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. A ban on the
burqa-style veil, to be voted on Tuesday in the Senate, would affect
only a tiny minority of Muslim women – estimated at less than 2,000 –
making it far less controversial than France’s 2004 ban on Muslim
headscarves in classrooms, which proliferated in heavily immigrant
neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
After elections, the Front National leader has been promoting a ban on non-pork meat which would exclude hallal and kosher meat alike, in schools under her jurisdiction. This measure is also been considered in Austria, Denmark and other European Union countries.
At the same time, there is an Islamization of other European countries taking place, such as Germany, where lessons in Islam are being imparted to favor coexistence; Sweden, where massive rapes have been committed by Muslims; Belgium, where Islamists have even attacked the Belgian police; and in the Netherlands, where Islamists seem eager to grab power.
Canada, just as the United States, is another sought-after prize for
Islam. Its attractive quality of life, its high level education, expand
over a magnificent 9.9 million square kilometers. Sadly, Canada is becoming an easy prey for unstoppable Islamists.
Seemingly unrelated, in all the above mentioned countries an adjacent
development is unfolding: The reinforcement of the homosexual agenda
with its most coveted prize being instituted. We’re talking about
homosexual marriage.
In the United States, state by state have been abandoning the defense of traditional marriage in favor of gay marriage.
Picture
taken on April 27, 2013 in Paris shows plastic figurines of two men
displayed on a fake cake displayed at the Gay marriage fair in Paris.
The fair takes place four days after France’s National Assembly approved
a bill making the country the 14th to legalise same-sex
marriage. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
According to statistics, the total number of gay marriages in America is 598,791.
In France, the gay marriage
bill was signed into law by President François Hollande in May 2013.
Barely 10 days later the first French gay marriage took place. Still,
there are a majority of French until now opposing the change.
Other countries that have adopted gay marriage are Sweden, Norway,
Iceland, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and
Canada. Of Preys and Predators
As everywhere in the world, there exists homosexuality in the Muslim world, but it is surely not in the open.
In the Quran there are in no uncertain terms, time and again,
mentions and instructions on how to punish the sinners who commit
sodomy. Qur’an (26:165-166)
– “Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, “And
leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your mates? Nay, ye are
a people transgressing” From the Hadith: al-Tirmidhi, Sunan 1:152 -[Muhammad said] “Whoever is found conducting himself in the manner of the people of Lot, kill the doer and the receiver.”
Two months months ago, there was a case of arson at a popular gay night club in Seattle. The suspect was a Muslim Musab Masmari, whose motive stemmed from his “distaste for homosexual people.”
In 2009, it was reported how Islamist gangs were using the internet to track down Iraqi gays - to torture and kill them.
Mahmoud Asgari, 16, left, and Ayaz Marhoni were hanged in Iran on sodomy charges in 2005. (AP)
These cases are not the exception but the rule.
Why is the left having this dichotomy? Why are they promoting homosexuality and Islam at the same time?
Even if homosexuals believe they are succeeding, they should read the
Quran chapter on homosexuality and its punishment under the rule of
sharia.
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On
the Sunday shows, Mitt Romney accused the president of dishonesty on
health care reform, and Rand Paul said the NSA chief deserved
punishment.on.aol.com
The Obama administration's top intelligence chief issued a new directive
dictating that all intelligence agency workers are prohibited from
speaking to members of news media organization without getting
permission from their superiors, according to news reports on Monday.
The quietly promulgated directive was exposed by the Federation of
American and is believed by many observers to be a knee-jerk response to
the recent National Security Agency (NSA) scandal as well as NSA
contractor Edward Snowden's releases of classified documents.
The actual directive
was written and sent out to the intelligence community by President
Barack Obama's hand-picked Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.
The directive threatens intelligence personnel who fail to follow the
directive with the loss of their security clearances and their jobs and
even criminal prosecution.
The Obama administration
claims the rules are designed to protect the United States and its
people from the nation's enemies who would like nothing better than to
compromise U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis.
"This is quite an interesting situation: on the one hand, the Obama
administration and the Democrats continue to threaten Central
Intelligence Agency staff with criminal prosecution
for their methods of gathering information in the search for terrorist
icon Osama bin Laden; on the other hand they're telling these
intelligence officers that they cannot divulge information that may help
them to avoid convictions by the over-zealous Obama minions," said
former intelligence officer and police detective Michael Snopes.
As far as obtaining permission, the directive stipulates that in a
majority of situations, permission or authorization must be obtained
from a very limited pool within the intelligence community, usually the
top officials at the intel officer's agency.
TheFAS' secrecy news states:
So under most circumstances, an intelligence
community employee is at liberty to discuss unclassified
intelligence-related information with his or her next-door neighbor. But
if the neighbor happened to be a member of the media, then the contact
would be prohibited altogether without prior authorization.
In the aftermath of the Snowden intelligence leaks, the Obama White
House has suggested additional security measures to protect classified
information from unauthorized disclosure to the press and to the public,
and many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are eagerly awaiting
Obama's plan.
Has America morphed from the land of the free to an oligarchy? That’s what a chilling scientific study by two Princeton researchers recently concluded.
What’s an oligarchy? According to PolicyMic,
“An oligarchy is a system where power is effectively
wielded by a small number of individuals defined by their status called
oligarchs. Members of the oligarchy are the rich, the well connected and
the politically powerful, as well as particularly well placed
individuals in institutions like banking and finance or the military.”
Billionaires like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and George Soros; high
level politicians such as Barack Obama, John Boehner, and the Clintons;
and other big shots call the shots for our “democracy.” The American
voting system is for the most part just an illusion of power, a relic
from a time when public opinion mattered more than it does today.
So, in other words, the intuition of many Americans that the rich and
powerful run things is correct. No surprise there. Face it: you don’t
have to be a Princeton researcher or even a high school graduate to make
this conclusion; but what the researchers, Martin Gilens and Benjamin
I. Page, have done commendably well is put hard evidence behind our
intuitions.
The researchers looked at data from about 1,800 policy initiatives in
the years between 1981 and 2002 and compared the policy changes to
American public opinion. Government enacted laws much more often based
on what Americans at the 90th percentile of income and from major
lobbying or business groups wanted, compared to what those at the 50th
percentile of income wanted. To quote from PolicyMic again,
It’s beyond alarming. As Gilens and Page
write, “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a
minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public
policy.” In other words, their statistics say your opinion literally does not matter.
The next time you feel powerless in the midst of the political system
or wonder why a Wall Street CEO got off scot free with the authorities
while still making out like a bandit, you won’t have to just rely on
your own observations. No, you will have solid Princeton research behind
you.
What can be done? Don’t give up hope. Keep engaged with politics. Write on your blog (or even for Western Journalism),
attend political events, volunteer, and stay involved. Don’t give up
the power you do have to the ultra wealthy and the government. There is
still hope for the Republic. Powerful systems have collapsed before and
can do so again, especially given the mounds of fiat money that have
been pumped into our economy by the Federal Reserve. Don’t just get
involved politically. Prepare spiritually, financially, socially, etc.
for a potential collapse of the system. Read this article for more ideas. Check out the Sound Money Institute website,
which I edit, to learn about the economic follies of the Fed and Uncle
Sam and how you can prepare for troubled economic times.
Don’t neglect the warnings of this piece. Our beloved country, which
millions of patriotic Americans have sacrificed their lives to defend,
is being ruled by the elites more than ever. It’s time to speak up
instead of bending over. Let’s join together with the power we do have
to make a difference for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Barack Obama and Wall Street CEO Jamie Dimon Photo Credit: SS&SS (Creative Commons)
Goldman Sachs Photo Credit: Ondrej Kloucek (Creative Commons)
The views expressed in this opinion article are solely
those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed
by WesternJournalism.com.
As one travels around the world, the legacy of the
British Empire can be felt far and wide. There is a reason a majority
of the world speaks English, even if it is a second language. Great
Britain ruled on almost every continent and installed their customs and
traditions in their conquered lands. This included their court system
and respect and adherence to the rule of law.
Obviously, not everyone benefited from English rule. Great Britain
was the major colonial propagator of the human slave trade in which
Africans were carried to mainly the Caribbean and North America to work
in the sugar fields. The English masters were brutal child molesters
and murderers. There can be no way around that conclusion. The
Africans suffered greatly, along with the Indians to a lesser extent.
However, looking at the situation in an unemotional, clinical sense, one
comes to the conclusion that some good things came out of British
domination.
It is no secret that President Obama does not like the English.
Supposedly, he harbors a grudge against the British people for their
treatment of his ancestors and even closer relatives in Africa. He has
shown this contempt publicly. Upon moving into the White House, Obama
returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the United Kingdom, which had
been in the Oval Office for quite some time. When called on this
behavior by the press some years ago, the White House denied it, showing
another bust that had been in an open hallway as proof. Soon, it came
out that this bust was not the correct item; and indeed, the original
bust had been returned to England with extreme prejudice (as they say in
the James Bond movies.) A president does not lie about his actions if
he is not embarrassed of them.
The rule of law is critical to any prosperous country. A modern
developed state cannot exist and thrive without a system of resolving
disputes, controlling crime, and attacking corruption. Perhaps these
aspects of the English system are what Obama hates most. President
Obama has not been a transparent, fair, or even honest leader. He has
used agencies of the Federal government to attack his rivals. His
administration has repeatedly lied to the American people about his
intentions in order to push through a radical, left wing, socialist
agenda. He refused to enforce the law when it came to black voter
intimidation, illegal immigration, or just plain old laws he doesn’t
agree with. The scary fact is that he has not been held accountable for
these actions and has basically gotten away with it. This is due to a
corrupt, compliant press and the fact that a large section of the
American public is just plain apathetic. They have been pacified by
goodies from Uncle Sam.
Unfortunately, a society that loses respect for the rule of law in
favor of corruption, or in our case some nebulous concept of “social
justice,” cannot last for very long. It will crumble. It has happened
over and over in history. The prime example is the Roman Empire. When
the Emperor became a dictator and seized power from the Senate, Rome
became a cesspool of corruption that stole from resources needed to
defend herself as the barbarians advanced to the north. The rest was
history.
Again, if you look at the situation objectively, without political
bias or agenda, I don’t see how you can argue that the behavior of the
president or his administration has been good for America. On the
contrary, it shows a contempt for America and all she has ever stood
for. Making disregard for the rule of law “okay” in our society will
have immediate, detrimental effects to the segment of the population on
the losing end. However, it will have drastic consequences for our
children and their children as they grow up in a system where who you
know is more important than how hard you work. I fear for my country.
This election coming up is the most important in my lifetime. One hopes
the next President of the United States will graciously ask England to
return Churchill’s bust to its rightful home in the Oval Office.
Photo credit: SS&SS (Flickr)
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those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed
by WesternJournalism.com.
This is genocide. This is ethnic
cleansing. This is jihad. The world says nothing. Instead, it pursues a
vicious Islamic Jew-hating agenda of attacking Israel, the most
benevolent and humane country in the Middle East, if not the world. We
are descending into a world of savagery sanctioned by the “civilized.”
This is the world Barack Obama has made. The world’s policeman is no longer on the beat, and the savages know it.
“Nigeria Islamists kill 68 in two village attacks: witnesses,” Reuters, April 13, 2014:
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist
militants killed at least 60 people in an attack on a village in
northeast Nigeria, while a separate attack killed eight people at a
teacher training college, witnesses said.
Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of Africa’s
most populous country, split roughly equally between Christians and
Muslims, has killed thousands since launching an uprising in the
northeast four and a half years ago.
Witnesses said the gunmen attacked the village of Kala Balge, near
the Cameroon border, on Thursday, from several different quarters,
shooting sporadically as terrified residents tried to flee.
“I’m making efforts to evacuate my parents from the town,” said
Ibrahim Bukar, 35, after escaping the attack. He said he counted 60
bodies scattered around after the insurgents left. Most have since been
buried by the villagers, he said.
In a separate assault, insurgents killed eight people at a teacher
training college in the remote village of Dikwa on Wednesday, witnesses
said.
“They entered at night. They killed my brother Madu. The insurgents
shot him in front of his wife and two sons. Then they shot them, too,”
Yakubu Saleh said, choking back tears over the telephone.
President Goodluck Jonathan ordered extra troops into northeast
Nigeria last May to try to crush the rebels, the biggest security threat
to Africa’s top oil producer.
But the rebels have retreated into the remote, hilly Gwoza area,
bordering Cameroon, from where they have stepped up their campaign,
mounting deadly attacks against security forces and civilians they
accuse of being pro-government.
