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There is a great debate among the supporters and critics of 2017 military budget. Supporters say that Obama should have to cut down the military budget because it is better for country and nation is not liable to waste it valuable resources for imaginable enemy. Similarly, according to critics, US should have to make increments in its military budget when the danger of ISIS and Russian war aggression is growing upon the head of Americans. On the other hand, militant groups could also threaten the internal security of US bases including Randolph Air Force Base, Christi Naval Station and other...

Lula, the Ugliest Face of “the Brazilian Way of Doing Things” By Julio Severo Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is, with his socialist Workers’ Party, facing a multitude of scandals of corruption. The acts of corruption were measures to get certain results, especially financial, in spite of the laws. This is the heart of the “jeitinho brasileiro,” which is a process used to reach something desired in spite of contrary determinations (laws, orders, rules etc.). Brazilians face a confusing and inefficient bureaucracy, which affects everybody: rich and poor. The rich use their huge power and influence...

Be educated, not just entertained! Listen to The Jacki Daily Show! @JackiDailyShow In part one, Jacki finishes her interview with Mark Mathis, the film maker for Fractured, The Movie @Frac_turedmovie Jacki speak with Bill Justice, President of Landman Trends, @LandmanTrends , to discuss the state of the oil patch. Jacki also speaks with Mark Miller, chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. @IPAAaccess Only on The Jacki Daily Show! Watch Jacki's introductory video! Click on this link to the complete podcast on SoundCloud!Go to Jacki's FaceBook page and like her show! Click HERE to listen live on THE BLAZE...

Apparently I went a little nuts last night and issued an "opus". I have not read it. Based on the feedback I have received it was pretty bad. For what it is worth, my son found me on the floor beneath my desk puking. He had to use a hot glue gun to repair my breathing mask. And in fact I slept great.I deeply apologize to my FR friends, I am one of those people who go a little crazy now and then. In this case I blame a new pharmaceutical that I just started yesterday. I have discontinued it...

The Jacki Daily Show podcast for 3/7/2016Jacki gives a video introduction to this week's show! Click here to see the video! Be educated, not just entertained! Listen to the Jacki Daily Show! Jacki Daily speaks in her second part interview with Jack Ekstrom Vice President, Corporate and Government Relations of Whiting Petroleum regarding Fraccing in Colorado and the legal issues they encountered. In her second segment, Jacki speaks with Jackie Stewart of Energyindepth.org @EnergyInDepth She also speaks with Mark Mathis about his new documentary Fractured @Frac_turedMovieThis weeks podcast can be heard by clicking here!

Israel Holds Its First Homosexual Beauty Contest By Julio Severo “Israel has emerged as one of the most progressive Middle Eastern countries concerning LGBT rights, letting openly gay people serve in the military and recognizing gay marriages from other countries,” said AOL News. First Miss Trans Israel beauty pageant in Tel Aviv, Israel, March 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Thirty contestants strutted down the catwalk in skinny jeans at a Tel Aviv club on Thursday, vying for a chance to enter the first “Miss Trans Israel” beauty pageant taking place in May. Tel Aviv is today one of the...

Former Richest Man in Brazil Offers Gold Coins Worth US$ 170,000 to Afro-Brazilian Deity Yemanja in a Bid To Return to Former Glory By Julio Severo Once the richest man in Brazil, Eike Batista is claimed to have resorted to an Afro-Brazilian ritual in the hope of rebuilding his billion-dollar empire, throwing gold in the Atlantic Ocean. Eike Batista, in his former glory The flamboyant businessman, who suffered one of the largest personal and financial collapses in corporate history, tossed over 700 thousand Brazilian Reals (about US$ 170,000) in gold coins onto the waves off the coast of Rio...

THE JACKI DAILY Show! Listen live at 2PM Eastern! Now playing also on station KWEL in Midland-Odessa! The host of the Jacki Daily show has had an impressive career in energy, law, and politics.Most recently, Jacki served as General Counsel to an engineering firm specializing in energy, national security and environmental cleanup. Previously, she served many years as legal counsel on Capitol Hill to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the former Ranking Member of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, advising on the oversight of federal agencies. Prior to her career in Washington, she worked as...

Be Educated, not just entertained! Listen to The Jacki Daily Show! Jacki speaks with Robert Zubrin, author of Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism about the origins of the Green Party. @JackiDailyShow Jack Ekstrom of Vice President, Corporate and Government Relations Whiting Petroleum https://soundcloud.com/jacki-daily/the-dark-history-of-the-green-party-322016

Sen. Ted Cruz: TrevorLoudon.com vs. FR Post #28 by Liz | Victim of a Smear vs. Cruz is a fraud Website Logo: Trevor Loudon presents NEW ZEAL - Shining the Torch for LibertyEditor-in-Chief Trevor LoudonFrom Christchurch, New Zealand, Trevor Loudon has been researching the radical left for more than 30 years.< Trevor Loudon discovered the long-hidden relationship between notorious Hawaiian Communist Party member Frank After extensively researching Obama's ties to the New York and Chicago Marxist movements, Loudon began publish Excerpt From: http://www.TrevorLoudon.com/2016/02/watch-debunking-anti-cruz-myths-video/ WATCH: Debunking anti-Cruz myths (video) Submitted by renee nal on February 11, 2016 – 5:14 pm...

I hope if you've been paying attention these past few days, you're beginning to understand my position, and why I've been so forceful, consistent, and aggressive in my advocacy of it. Many of you already understood, but certainly there are many others who still need to figure it out. In just the last couple of days, Donald Trump has promised reprisals against his critics when he's elected president, pledging to "open up" libel laws so that he can punish anyone who writes "negative" or "false" stories about him. He said his critics "will have problems" when he's in power. Remember,...

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Live at 2PM! Listen to The Jacki Daily Show! The host of the Jacki Daily show has had an impressive career in energy, law, and politics. Most recently, Jacki served as General Counsel to an engineering firm specializing in energy, national security and environmental cleanup. Previously, she served many years as legal counsel on Capitol Hill to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the former Ranking Member of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, advising on the oversight of federal agencies. Prior to her career in Washington, she worked as a corporate litigator, and as an Assistant...

To Counter Turkish Threat, Russia Sends Fighter Jets to Its Base in Armenia By Julio Severo Russia has moved several MiG-29 fighters and other aircraft to its military base in Armenia, after Turkish threats of a more direct military intervention in Syria. The Russian base in Armenia is located some 40 kilometers from the Turkish border. Four Russian MiG-29 jets, a modernized MiG bomber and a transport helicopter have been dispatched to the air base near the Armenian capital Yerevan. Relations between Turkey and Armenia have always been tense, because Turkey refuses to recognize its Ottoman Empire committed a...

Trump and the Pope: a Right-Wing Populist (Today) Clashing with a Left-Wing Populist By Julio Severo In his recent trip to Mexico, Pope Francis said that that it was not right the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's attitude of surrounding the United States with a wall preventing the entry of illegal immigrants. Trump struck back by saying that the supreme leader of Catholics around the world is a shame -- evidently by his leftist stances. Francis does not want a wall surrounding the U.S. and keeping immigrants outside, but the Vatican itself is surrounded 100% by a wall preventing...

THE JACKI DAILY Show! Listen live at 2PM Eastern! Now playing also on station KWEL in Midland-Odessa! The host of the Jacki Daily show has had an impressive career in energy, law, and politics.Most recently, Jacki served as General Counsel to an engineering firm specializing in energy, national security and environmental cleanup. Previously, she served many years as legal counsel on Capitol Hill to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the former Ranking Member of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, advising on the oversight of federal agencies. Prior to her career in Washington, she worked as...

In this time of forced austerity on the United States Military, special operations are being effected by financial cutbacks placed on training. The community has to contend with "training challenges" which are impacting its ability to successfully perform missions. Training is a vital element to an effective combat unit. Obama's transformative cutback of the nation’s defense will dull the razor's edge-the Special Force community. In addition to diminished training time, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are dealing with heavy rotation schedules in the war on terror. SOF has been in country in Afghanistan since shortly after the 9-11 attacks. They have...

Homeschooling in Brazil: Where Is it Headed? Religious Trends and Esoteric Detours By Julio Severo A prominent Presbyterian blog in Brazil published, on February 5, 2016, an article about homeschooling trends in Brazil. Even though I disagree with them on conservative issues (they consider themselves conservatives, but their Mackenzie Presbyterian University, the largest Protestant university in Brazil, hires pro-abortion and Marxist professors), they were honest enough to mention me as one of the known homeschooling examples in Brazil. Another two homeschooler names mentioned, Josue Bueno and Cleber Nunes, were also reported by me back in 2008 in articles that...

Why Is the Zika Outbreak Being Used to Legalize Abortion in Brazil? By Julio Severo In recent months, because of the Zika virus, which has had a strange connection with microcephaly in unborn babies of pregnant women in several Brazilian regions, many leftist groups, including the World Health Organization, are calling for the legalization of abortion in Brazil, the world's most populous Catholic country. But push for abortion legalization is creating a backlash, particularly among the families of disabled children. Many have taken to social media apps like Facebook and WhatsApp, where more than half of Brazil's 200 million...

... Convention: State will bind delegates to the national convention at a state/territory convention. Other conventions will leave the delegation unbound. Proportional: State will proportionally allocated delegates based either on the statewide primary/caucus vote or on the combination of the statewide and congressional district votes. Proportional with Trigger: State will follow above proportional rules but allows for a winner-take-all allocation if a candidate wins a majority of the vote statewide or at the congressional district level. Hybrid: State will follow some form of winner-take-more plan (i.e.: winner-take-all by congressional district) or directly elects delegates on the primary ballot. Winner-take-all: State...