Islamic School Teacher Accused of ‘Horrific’ Sexual Abuse Against Teen Girls... (Florida manhunt)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222267/posts
The Blaze | Jason Howerton
Police are currently searching for a Muslim man suspected of sexually abusing teen girls while working as a teacher at Nur-Ul-Islam Academy in Cooper City, Florida. The victims, now adults, have filed a civil lawsuit against the school over its alleged response to the reports of sexual abuse.
Sgt. Carlos Corretjer, of the Pembroke Pines Police Department, told the Sun Sentinel that an investigation is ongoing into the disturbing allegations against Tariq Ahmad, 35. So far, officers have been unable to locate him.
Ahmad is accused of forcing two teen girls, who were aged 14 and 15 at the time, into sexual relationships. [snip]
.... and ....
Anti-Violence Activists Charged in Vicious Attack ( Pittsburgh )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221713/posts
KDKA:
Two “Stop the Violence” organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition.
Nikole Ardeno and Emanuel Velez, both 30, accused their former roommate of stealing their property, and allegedly punched and kicked him in the street until he had seizures. Arrested moments later, Ardeno was still wearing the same “Stop the Violence” T-shirt she had on the night before when she coordinated a march protesting two recent shootings, Washington Police Chief Chris Luppino said.
The victim, Joshua Magraff, also is a community organizer with the anti-violence group, and shared an apartment with the suspects until recently. [snip]
.... and ....
Santa Cruz man says ‘I hate Fox News,’ then allegedly attacks victim
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222324/posts
San Jose Mercury News | Julia Prodis Sulek
SANTA CRUZ — Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly should be outraged. It appears that someone in the liberal bastion of Santa Cruz doesn’t like the overtly conservative Fox News — imagine that! — or anyone dressing up like a Fox News reporter on Halloween, for that matter. [snip]
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Document shows feds fear airborne Ebola
WND | Aaron Klein
In a lengthy document that received nearly no media attention, a U.S. government agency has warned preliminary data shows Ebola is aerostable, meaning it can survive in the air and potentially be transmitted via airborne means. The document was released in a federal government announcement seeking research proposals from private firms ... including for the rapid disinfection of an “aerosol” version of the virus. [unquote]
[There it is — why seek an aerosol disinfection for ebola if it can’t possibly be airborne? Besides, ‘not airborne’ is a silly argument against physics anyway.]
[’News Blackout on New Ebola Tests Tightens’ will be at the bottom of this very long post.]
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— Obama’s Border Policy Fueled [another] Epidemic, Evidence Shows
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/31/obamas-border-policy-fueled-epidemic-evidence-shows/
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Woman visiting from Liberia hospitalized in Portland area being tested for Ebola (Oregon)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222029/posts
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Green jobs fading [$90 billion waste that WE predicted]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221813/posts
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Ebola response ignores history’s lessons: Risks from AIDS were discounted and thousands died
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222108/posts
Washington Times | Robert Knight
The last time we treated a deadly disease as a political problem instead of using time-tested medical precautions, we doomed many hemophiliacs to early deaths, along with hundreds of thousands of homosexual men. I was thinking about the HIV-AIDS epidemic while perusing the Obama administration’s latest rationales for rejecting mandatory, 21-day quarantines ... [snip]
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Scientists See Ebola Cases In Every Major U.S. City Possible By Year’s End
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222229/posts
The Inquisitr News / The Associated Press:
Ebola predictions are starting to pick up steam, with those in the scientific community estimating that there could be anywhere from one to 130 additional cases in the United States by year’s end. In a report from the Associated Press, scientists emphasized ...
[Will the D.isease Party permit us to call this ‘real science’?]
... and ...
Oh, by the way… those airport screenings probably don’t work anyway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222120/posts
Hot Air.com | JAZZ SHAW
... scientific studies published by the National Institutes of Health have shown that similar protocols [temperature checks and questioning] were largely ineffective during an outbreak of Swine Flu in 2009 ... [snip]
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Ebola-Quarantine Objections Are Frivolous
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222190/posts
The National Review | Andrew C. McCarthy
There is no “stigma,” and comparisons to criminal imprisonment are absurd. The first responsibility of the president of the United States is national security. In the absence of presidential leadership as ebola makes inroads in our country, state officials such as New Jersey governor Chris Christie have stepped into the security breach, taking commonsense steps to protect their citizens from the deadly virus... [snip]
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— Current Economy Review —
Magic Number Is Revealed: It Costs Central Banks $200 Billion Per Quarter To Avoid A Market Crash
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221190/posts
[Or 800 B-illion a year — close to the ‘trillion’ mark]
... and ...
‘Plunge protection’ behind market’s sudden recovery
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221193/posts
[Funnelling money overseas to hide a fake recovery.]
... and ...
Total World Debt Tops $100 Trillion...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-29/fed-pauses-printing-total-world-debt-tops-100-trillion
... and ...
National Debt to be $27 Trillion in 10 Years, Says the CBO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221214/posts
... and ...
D.C. Ranks as Most Expensive City in the Nation to Live In
[An artificial economy based on lobbyists. This is the first year that DC reached such a high mark. It used to be much smaller back before FDR and has been growing ever since.]
... but there’s one way we can begin improving things ...
GOP lawmaker seeks ‘virtual Congress’ with telecommuting plan [STOP WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3222118/posts
Jennifer Martinez:
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) wants to create a “virtual Congress,” where lawmakers would leverage videoconferencing and other remote work technology to conduct their daily duties in Washington from their home districts. [Away from corrosive DC insider-beltway.]
Under a resolution Pearce introduced on Thursday, lawmakers would be able to hold hearings, debate and vote on legislation virtually from their district offices ... Pearce believes a remote work arrangement may benefit Congress and make lawmakers more accountable to folks in their home districts.
Pearce says the resolution would eradicate the need for members to jet back and forth from their districts to Washington each weekend. This would allow lawmakers to spend more time with their constituents rather than the armies of lobbyists from K St., he argues.
“Thanks to modern technology, members of Congress can debate, vote, and carry out their constitutional duties without having to leave the accountability and personal contact of their congressional districts. Keeping legislators closer to the people we represent would pull back Washington’s curtain and allow constituents to see and feel, first-hand, their government at work,” Pearce told The Hill in a statement ... [snip!]
[A good start, I’d say.]
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DOJ’s Fast and Furious Prequel: Failed Grenade-Running Operation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221801/posts
Judicial Watch:
The Obama Justice Department endangered public safety by allowing a renowned weapons smuggler to continue working for Mexican drug cartels even after the agency had more than enough evidence to indict him, according to a federal audit made public this week. As if this weren’t bad enough, the case is all the more outrageous because it involves the same preposterous strategy the administration used in the disastrous gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious. That once-secret program allowed weapons from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. [snip]
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Purse snatcher targets 76 year old; stopped by 10 good Samaritans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222003/posts
ORANGE COUNTY — A group of good Samaritans are being credited with saving a 76-year-old woman from having her purse stolen by a 23-year-old man in Orange County. That woman was attacked in the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie grocery store on University Boulevard, near Goldenrod Road Wednesday afternoon. “I had to do something. Sitting back and watching, it wouldn’t feel right. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night, that could have been my grandmother,” said good Samaritan Kendrick Taylor. In the surveillance video, which was released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, you can see a 76-year-old... [snip]
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38 federal agencies reveal their vulnerabilities to climate change — and what they’re doing about it
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221808/posts
Washington Post:
The Obama administration published a small library’s worth of climate change documents on Friday, outlining 38 federal agencies’ vulnerabilities to global warming and how they will address them — as well as a separate and even larger set of new government-wide plans to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and achieve new targets for sustainability. In many cases, the vulnerabilities revealed are stark. The Department of Agriculture, for instance, sees “the potential for up to 100 percent increase in the number of acres burned annually by 2050” by wildfires, according to its new adaptation report. The agency notes that fire... [snip]
[If one 1/5th of that energy had been put on an ebola vaccine, we would have one now.]
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[Conservative Grafitti] Lansing Pranksters’ Street Art - LA style
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221812/posts
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/14/Ted-Cruz-Posters-Appear-in-Beverly-Hills
Michigan is about as far away from the conservative LA art activism scene as possible, but anonymous pranksters in Lansing decided to make their voice heard with posters critical of Democrat Senate candidate Gary Peters ... Lansing has never seen the kind of conservative LA art activism that brought us the famous “Ted Cruz with Tattoos” poster seen last year.
It’s very exciting to see that conservatives are beginning to understand that art is very important in communicating, and are willing to stick their necks out for principles. No one has come forward yet to take... [snip]
[Great to ‘hear’, but one small point — so we’re having guys in suits spray-painting grafitti? Or should we say that even kids on the street are ‘getting it’? The author is probably walking a political ‘non-partizan’ tightrope.]
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[$20 Billion down Federal Drain, secret “micropurchases”]
... actual headline ...
Federal Government Made $20 Billion in Secret Purchases in Recent Months
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221773/posts
I-Team review finds $30,000 in one agency’s Starbucks purchases kept confidential from public. The federal government has spent at least $20 billion in taxpayer money this year on items and services that it is permitted to keep secret from the public, according to an investigation by the News4 I-Team. The purchases, known among federal employees as “micropurchases,” are made by some of the thousands of agency employees who are issued taxpayer-funded purchase cards. The purchases, in most cases, remain confidential and are not publicly disclosed by the agencies. A sampling of those purchases, obtained by the I-Team via the Freedom... [FIOA I presume - snip]
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Update: Voting Machines Keep Changing Votes [R] into [D] [Ill & M]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221771/posts
Townhall | Katie Pavlich
In the past week we’ve see votes cast on machines in Illinois’ Cook County and in Maryland switch from Republican to Democrat due to “calibration errors.” Watchdog.org has done phenomenal work in documenting changed votes. Now, a new report from The Weekly Standard shows that votes cast in Illinois for Republicans are being changed yet again in favor of Democrats. ... So what do we do about this? If machines in different states repeatedly changed votes from Democrat to Republican, Eric Holder would have launched a federal investigation under suspicions of fraud and I doubt “calibration error” would be accepted... [snip]
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—NY intimidation of non-voters —
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Dems Send Letters to Voters: You Better Watch Your Back if You Don’t Vote, Because We’ll Know
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3221763/posts
Pundit Press | Aurelius
The New York State Democratic Committee is sending threatening letters to New York residents, threatening them that, should they not vote, they’ll know. And they’ll be talking to you soon to ask why. The letters were sent to New York Democrats and demanded that they vote. “Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the letter cautioned. “We will be reviewing voting records... to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014,” it continued, assuring the voter that the Democratic Committee would be investigating them. [snip]
[Senior citizens will fear losing Social Security, everyone fears losing health care, and union workers fear for their jobs.]
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Have New York Democrats added intimidation to their GOTV strategy?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3221759/posts
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Moon Landing Disbeliever Walks Up to Astronaut Hero in a Hotel & Gets Hit with More Than Just Facts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3222004/posts
“...renown conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel, who believes that the moon landing was faked, approached veteran moon-walking astronaut Buzz Aldrin and asked him to admit that he didn’t do what history says he did.....Not surprisingly, Sibrel continued to instigate, calling Aldrin a “coward and a liar.” Then, according to eyewitnesses, Sibrel aggressively poked Aldrin with the Bible. Then he called him a “liar,” a “thief,” and a “coward” ... That’s when Buzz Aldrin hit Sibrel so hard, he nearly sent him to the moon himself ...” [snip!]
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[Media Bias]
O’Reilly Cites ‘Stunning’ MRC Study on Nets Ignoring Midterms; Carville Tries to Dismiss It
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220115/posts
“...But this time around, the graph is far different. At this point in time, ABC News did 36 election reports eight years ago. So far this year, zero, nothing. CBS, 58 in year 2006. 14 this year. NBC, 65 eight years ago. 11 this year. Simply stunning.”
[Car-vile tries to shrug it off.]
“Carville tried to claim it was because public opinion has turned against politics in general, and because networks strive for ratings, they don’t think stories about the elections will give them adequate ratings.” — Albion Wilde
[Rebuttle to Car-vile: If they reported more on hard-hitting ebola concerns, voter fraud, illegal immigration, government waste, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the real reason for the 2008 Meltdown, the ‘green’ energy scandals, IRS witch hunt of the Tea Party, radical Islam, the visible horrors of abortion, eroding constitutional interpretation, varied perspectives of different economies, the leftist war on religion, transgender ‘rights’, et cetera — does anyone actually think their ratings would be low?]
[Newbie Tip: Newcomers to online political research might not know why we ‘bother’ with ‘media bias’ reports. Few things are more important! The reason is that how people vote is directly related to what news media they trust. D.isease Party voters trust the Alphabet Channels: A-BS, See-BS, N-BS, and as for CNN, former nicknames were ‘Clinton News Network’ and ‘Crescent News Network. Or the New York Slimes, the Washington Compost, etc.]
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CBS/Sharyl Attkisson’s Creepy Video of Her Computer [Benghazi research]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221882/posts
Former CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson — who claims the government hacked her computer, TV and phone while she reported on the Benghazi terror attack — has released a new video showing what could be evidence of the government taking over her computer.
“That very night, with [White House spokesman Eric] Schultz, [White House Press Secretary Jay] Carney and company freshly steaming over my Benghazi reporting, I’m home doing final research and crafting questions for the next day’s interview with [Thomas] Pickering. Suddenly data in my computer file begins wiping at hyperspeed before my very eyes. Deleted line by line in a split second: it’s gone, gone, gone,” Attkisson writes in her book [Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington].
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Attkisson exposes C-SPAN- White House dispute
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221752/posts
Among the juicier tidbits in the new book “Stonewalled” ... a tiff between C-SPAN and the White House. As Attkisson tells the story, C-SPAN eminence Brian Lamb interviewed President Obama on Aug. 12, 2010, for a documentary on the White House. In the session, Lamb asks Obama about the Oval Office: “What have you changed in this room?” The president responds, “We have not yet redecorated this room . . . Given that we are in the midst of some very difficult economic times ...” [snip]
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Facebook data mining for political views and ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221753/posts
“... sharing that data with ABC News and BuzzFeed.” — Politico
[Newbie Tip: You might wonder why I ‘reposted’ this. The reason is that someone took the time to make a separate ‘thread’ out of the report.]
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ACLU: Sheriffs infringing on rights of sex offenders by putting up yard signs (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221754/posts
wdsu 6 New Orleans:
Since 2006 the Plaquemines Parish [County] Sheriff’s Office has posted signs in the yards of sex offenders to keep trick-or-treaters away. The signs say “No trick, no treat, no candy. Be safe,” and include the phone number for the sheriff’s department. They do not specifically say that a sex offender lives at the home. The ACLU said the signs violate a sex offender’s right to free speech by in essence forcing them to speak. The union also said it is violating privacy rights of family members who may also live at the homes and have committed no crimes ... [snip]
[Like I posted earlier, there is a way to let states have more freedom to get away from centralized DC power. It’s the FEDERAL legal system that empowers leftist law firms like the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center. State level politicians are eager to legislate innovations like this warning sign idea, which frankly is a feeble stab at a serious problem. How about allowing states to ban child molesters? Let the liberal states take them in. I realise that such a notion would not be functional when you consider how many felons of other crimes would get booted out of all states, but it helps people think, doesn’t it?]
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Mitch McConnell willing to kill Obamacare with just 51 votes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221456/posts
[The great news about this is that republican senators have always honored the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ that you need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster threat. But Reid used the ‘nuclear option’ to ram through Ebola-Care {uh, Obama-Care} by dishonorably ignoring a filibuster threat.]
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Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221758/posts
[That’s what happens when the government meddles with the free market — law breakers get an edge over honest businesses until honest businesses are tempted to also cheat just to remain competitive. News like this is also a warning sign that more jobs will continue to be exported overseas.]
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My Two Cents reg. the Virgin Space Crash:
It was a human tragedy, and I don’t want to diminish it. But there’s a ‘teachable moment’ here as well. Private enterprize DOES take risks. When investors stake vast amounts of money on an investment like this, they dot their [i]s cross their [t]s and CROSS their fingers. The consequence in a truly free market is utter failure, a complete wash-out. So they do their absolute best.
Compare that with government funded projects. Politicians lobby for ‘soft money’ and elaborate deals that enrich them personally. In the past, they lobbied for cold hard cash they they kept in their desk drawers. It makes little difference. Other politicians are blackmailed, such as the 900 FBI files that the Clintons had raided. [Imagine how wide scale the blackmailing was then!]
Look at recent government investments. Obama invested in solar and wind with your money, not his. He invested in stimulus. Do you realize that no investment on the history of the earth is anywhere close to what he spent? Not even the richest man on earth could have invested more. In fact, I’m not sure if all the billionaires on the earth COMBINED could have invested as much. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Debt that is described as ‘astronomical’ because it’s so huge. US debt will be $27 TRIillon in ten years.
How much was the cost of this bold, daring venture that REMAINS feasible? 1/2 of 1,000th of a single trillion. A grain of sand in the USA’s economic sandbox. And if it had succeeded [or rather WHEN it will one day succeed if government doesn’t get in the way], it would be a greater achievement than anything Daddy War-Bucks Obama ever did.
[Qualifier] ... unless someone thinks that harming the Free World is an achievement.
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Hundreds of Colorado teachers banned for criminal behavior, zero for lousy teaching
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221659/posts
[Yeah, ‘aint public schools ‘great’? School choice!]
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Portugal decriminalised drugs. Results? Use by teens doubled in a decade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221656/posts
[All leftist agendas exacerbate drug abuse. Government-run education for example: no amount of money can make it better than a ‘school choice’ solution. If schools were more interesting, that would diminish drug abuse. If religion didn’t have a bulls-eye on its back, then spirituality would diminish drug abuse. I could go on-and-on about how the left corrodes everything in a comprehensive way.]
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Pentagon lashes out at ISIS war “micromanagement” at the White House
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221745/posts
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Eurozone ‘a problem’ for the world economy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221745/posts
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[FWD.us] REVEALED: THE TECH SECTOR’S PERMANENT CAMPAIGN FOR AMNESTY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221769/posts
[breitbart.com ‘outs’ “FWD.us” It’s supposed to be a pro-tech movement, but it’s actually an amnesty activism movement.]
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Welcome to Berlin, 1937 [Compared with Now]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221762/posts
PJ Media | Roger Simon
I have never in my increasingly long life felt vulnerable as a Jew in America. I never even dreamed it would happen. But it has now — with the Obama administration. Something is seriously wrong. At almost every opportunity, Obama and his minions have criticized Israel out of all proportion to the actions of the Jewish state, particularly during the recent Gaza War when there was a constant barrage of warnings from our State Department about harming civilians... [snip]
[And what political party supported him 99% of the time?]
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Dem Senate candidate starts petition to remove Reid as leader
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221776/posts
thehill.com:
South Dakota Democratic Senate contender Rick Weiland is launching a petition calling for the replacement of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as majority leader. “This is a fight I intend to continue no matter how long it takes,” Weiland said in a statement, “because it is a fight for the new leadership the Congress must have if the larger battle to drive big money out of Congress, and thus open the door to progress for all of America, is to succeed.”
[Well, what about Bone-head and Mc-Conman? Kick their keisters out of leadership too!]
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Jewish Girl Attacked in Sick New ‘Game’...Scene Descends Into Anti-Semitic Hate Fest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221779/posts
The Algemeiner:
A new ‘game’ circulating on social media inspired a group of teenagers to assault a Jewish girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and resulted in a display of hatred toward Jews upon the suspect’s arrest, local blog CrownHeights.info reported on Wednesday. The ‘game’ is called ‘What the hell are they?’ The objective is to hit someone on their feet or legs if he or she is wearing nicer shoes than you, shout “what the hell are they” and then run away. The victim, a 13-year-old student of local Chabad girls school Beis Rivkah, was approached by two girls and a boy...
[Note that this is not only anti-semitism, it starts off as a class-warfare game, learning to be violent toward people with nicer property than you have. This is cultlike indoctrination. And once people feel like violence for such a thing is normal, why not be violent toward religions you might mistrust? This is an exact parallel of the NAZIs who were, after all, socialists. Jew-bashing was only ONE part of their redistribution program. Socialism corrodes morality in every aspect, not just one.]
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Whistleblower urges external probe into EU mission in Kosovo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221784/posts
EU Observer:
Maria Bamieh, a British prosecutor at the heart of EULEX corruption revelations, says the only way to restore faith in the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo is by holding an external enquiry. The scandal erupted on Monday (27 October) when Kosovo daily Koha Ditore wrote, citing evidence from leaked EULEX documents, that senior officials colluded with suspects in criminal cases, took bribes to shut down investigations, and quashed internal EULEX probes... [snip]
[Yeah, corruption in the EU. Now consider the UN. It’s hard enough to work with freely elected nations such as the EU mess. But the UN is dominated by totalitarian regimes. We need a league of FREE nations that’s more exclusive than the UN, and that would be tough enough to unite and keep clean of corruption.]
Strange, fanged deer persists in Afghanistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221785/posts
More than 60 years after its last confirmed sighting, a strange deer with vampire-like fangs still persists in the rugged forested slopes of northeast Afghanistan according to a research team led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which confirmed the species presence during recent surveys.
[Don’t worry, it’s just Hillary.]
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Three US Citizens Shot Dead In Mexico
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221788/posts
sky:
Mexican authorities are looking into the deaths of three US citizens who were shot dead on a visit to see their father. The investigation is focused on a specialist security unit known as “Hercules”, made up of former marines and soldiers who police hot zones for crime. Nine of 40 Hercules officers, working in the violent border city of Matamoros, are being questioned over the deaths of four people, including the three US siblings. According to a witness, brothers Alex Rivera, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, arrived at their father’s house to find security personnel hitting their sister Erica, 26... [snip]
[And people wonder why/if Hispanics vote differently than we do? We might think we are cynical about government corruption and anarchy, but we don’t know the full depths of cynicism yet. Even law enforcement is out of control there. Just consider Tahmooressi — the recently released marine. That’s S.tandard O.perating P.roceedure in Mexico.]
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Congo crowd kills man, eats him after militant massacres...
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0IK1RQ20141031
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‘Grim Reaper’ attacks woman in bathroom...
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/31/grim-reaper-costume-attack-vista-home-stabbing/
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Monstrous Lake Michigan waves top 21 feet!
http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2014/10/lake_michigan_buoy_records_217.html
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Drudge Links:
CDC Purchases Body Bags...
Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak ‘catastrophic,’ cases ‘under-reported’...
CHICAGOLAND: Judge Pummeled, Beaten By Defendant In Courtroom Scuffle...
Nationwide blackout hits Bangladesh...
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How Long Can the Top 10% Households Prop Up the “Recovery”?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3221743/posts
Of Two Minds | Charles Hugh-Smith
The question of “recovery” really boils down to this: how much longer can the top 10% prop up the expansion? A flurry of recent media stories have addressed housing unaffordability, for example Why Middle-Class Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Liberal Cities ... Other stories reflect an enduring interest in the questions, ‘what is a living wage?’ and ‘what is a middle-class income?’ These questions express the anxiety that naturally arises from the sense that we’re sliding downhill in terms of our purchasing power—a reality that is confirmed by this chart ... [snip]
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[Michigan Union-Busting] The Union Told Us to “Check the Facts.” We did.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3221755/posts
The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation announced today that Brighton Area Schools and the local union “have removed illegal language from a contract in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Brighton High School teacher who said the union and district were violating his freedoms under Michigan’s right-to-work law.” The union president for the Brighton Education Association blasted the lawsuit when it was filed last week. “It would behoove Mr. Neuman and the Mackinac Center to check their facts before filing and publicizing this lawsuit that is 100 percent untrue,” Ellen Lafferty told the Livingston Daily Press & Argus.... [snip]
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OPINION: The Pentagon Comes Up Short on Climate (The Smoking Gun of Global Warming)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222322/posts
Inter Press Service | Eric Bonds
The Pentagon recently released a new report sounding the alarm on the national security threats posed by climate change. Like previous reports on the subject, this one makes clear that Department of Defence (DoD) planners believe that global warming will seriously challenge our nation’s military forces. ... [snip]
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I was too poor for an abortion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3222316/posts
The Huffington Post | Anonymous
[Oh woe is me! Oh woe is me! Bwaaaahhhh!] ... The ultrasound technician had an unreadable expression on her face, and let me know that I was further along than I had been told... [if it weren’t for hard luck, I’d have no luck at all! Oooooh!]
[I hope she reads this — Ever hear of ADOPTION? No, you’d rather kill your baby than wait it out for adoption. Poor thing, just can’t afford to kill your baby. Bwaaaahhhh!]
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News Blackout on New Ebola Tests Tightens
— My own research:
Back last Friday, it was reported that 100 in New York and over 100 in New Jersey were being monitored for ebola. Guess what? I can’t find hide nor hair of any of them being tested yet. I then asked our FRiends at the Ebola Surveillance Thread, probably the world’s top ebola news page. No one could mention a SINGLE one.
I guess all 200+ of them are in magically perfect health because I can’t find any report that any of them in either state are being tested, right?
Or maybe I missed something. I googled for an hour yesterday, asked around among some of our most active ebola posters, checked the ‘ebola’ search word. Zip zero nadda.
On the scary side, I wonder how many of them report symptoms and are NOT being tested?
How can we know? The news is blacked out....
Why AP isn’t moving stories for every suspected Ebola case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3217770/posts
Poynter | Kristen Hare
On Friday, the Associated Press posted an advisory to editors about suspected cases of Ebola, which they’re hearing of more and more. “The AP has exercised caution in reporting these cases and will continue to do so,” the advisory reads. Here’s the rest: Most of these suspected cases turn out to be negative. Our bureaus monitor them, but we have not been moving stories or imagery simply because a doctor suspects Ebola and routine precautions are taken while the patient is tested. To report such a case, we look for a solid source saying Ebola is suspected and some sense... [SNIP]
[Not until after the election?]
[At the top, I cover important political history during the Stalinist era. And then ...]
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