tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55368720420125671732024-02-06T22:23:02.304-06:00Epictetus on Everything“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4692125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-34366819857369442102016-11-29T14:00:00.000-06:002016-11-29T14:00:25.176-06:00Vox Popoli: The recounts are irrelevant <div class="MsoNormal">
<strong> <i>Another case of “follow the money”? Now the Green Party has a list of all the gullible Leftists who might be willing to donate money to them in the future. The longer they can drag this out presumably the more money they will be able to raise. Absent election campaigns the Greens always need money to fund their day to day operating costs and lobbying efforts. Of course Stein is no doubt also in sympathy with fellow Lefties Hillary, Soros and the DNC on many issues, and, as such, believes that de-legitimizing and casting doubt on the Trump Presidency will be a good thing overall in support of the various Leftist transformational agendas.<u></u><u></u></i></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential recount. She's got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of an adoring media. But there's one thing she needs to overturn Trump's victory: a calendar.<br /><br /> Stein missed Pennsylvania's deadline to file for a voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a huge blow for Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts in the Keystone State, Michigan and Wisconsin.<br /><br /> "According to Wanda Murren, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of State," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2062752416" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Monday</span></span></span>, "the deadline for a voter-initiated recount was Monday, Nov. 21."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">All of the dark conspiracy theories about overturning the election were nonsensical. <span style="background: yellow;">Jill Stein's call for a recount was driven by one thing: money. She raised far more money than was required for the Wisconsin recount, publicly stated that all the money raised would not be used for the recount, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/801633246597545986/photo/1&source=gmail&ust=1480526590064000&usg=AFQjCNFr0iu6VMgc2lRuhEnYNQ6daj3E7w" href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/801633246597545986/photo/1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #334477;">publicly posted an incorrect date</span></a> on the Pennsylvania deadline.</span><br /><br /><i>Cobb said they only factored in Wisconsin when they first publicized their $2.5 million goal on their website. Once the campaign realized the cost of a recount for other states, they upped the goal, he said.</i><br /><br /><span style="background: yellow;">The money will be used to pay off the Green Party's campaign debt, which is to say, into the bank accounts of the staffers.</span> It would be informative to know if they knew the November 28th filing date was inaccurate when they posted it.<br /><br /> And then, there is this:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-77529271998363528012016-11-29T12:00:00.000-06:002016-11-29T12:00:07.792-06:00Vox Popoli: An endorsement of General Mattis <div class="MsoNormal">
<i><strong>General “Mad Dog” Mattis is a colorful character for certain. He could really shake up the DOD and it really needs to have the PC kicked out of it. If Mattis wants to reform the Procurement system he might run into serious opposition in two areas . 1.the DOD career bureaucracy is entrenched is used to getting it’s way over the “temp help” politically appointed leadership. 2. Much of the DOD procurement system is mandated by Federal law so only Congress can change that law. For example Army Chief of Staff GEN Milley recently expressed frustration with the glacial pace the system is moving at to procure a new “joint” handgun for all the Armed Forces. He said that the Army ought to just adopt the Glock 19, as the Army Special Operations Forces is doing for many of it’s units (SOF gets to buy what ever they think they need under law). Then he had to back off and say that he supported acting within the law. The members of Congress often benefit politically from the way the procurement system is set up, so they may not be amenable to change. On top of that, it once made sense to do it that way, only now it’s not working out to everyone’s satisfaction. So regardless of the generally dissatisfaction with the way its going now, you may have a tough sell if you wish to reform many of the particulars of the system. But who knows maybe people with the energy and drive of GEN Mattis and President Trump could make serious defense procurement reform happen.<u></u></strong><u></u></i></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, “Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.” General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles.<br /><br /> Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle. At about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2062752414" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">4 a.m.</span></span></span>, General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty.<br /><br /> He asked, “Who’s the officer of the day?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis.” And General Krulak said, “No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day today, Christmas day?” The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, “Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.”<br /><br /> General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, “No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.”<br /><br />About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, “Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day? Why do you have duty?” General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day.<br /><br /> General Krulak said, “That’s the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-25544339595924666092016-11-23T15:00:00.000-06:002016-11-23T15:00:01.890-06:00Why Reshore Manufacturing? It's The Only Way To Avoid Defective Pirated Parts | Zero Hedge <div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Reshoring the entire supply chain so it can be trusted is the low-cost solution once you add up the total lifecycle cost of a hopelessly counterfeit global supply chain.</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">There are two basic arguments against bringing manufacturing that was transferred overseas (</span></strong><em><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">offshored</span></b></em><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">) back to America (</span></strong><em><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">reshoring</span></b></em><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">):</span></strong><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">1. It's too costly<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">2. The supply chain is now in China/Asia and it's not possible to source the parts needed to bring manufacturing back to America.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">I beg to differ on both counts: <span style="background: yellow;">nothing is more costly and destructive to profits than defective, pirated parts made overseas.</span></span></strong><span lang="EN"> Counterfeits made to look like legitimate parts are highly profitable to the counterfeiter and immensely damaging and dangerous to the manufacturer and end-user.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">In a global economy burdened with massive overcapacity, the only way to maintain profit margins is to lower costs by cutting corners:</span></strong><span lang="EN"> in effect, defrauding customers by delivering deceptively reduced quantity and quality, and/or defrauding the end-producer by shipping low-cost counterfeit parts that mimic legitimate products.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Gordon Long and I discussed this systemic reality in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://youtu.be/hNfy3RwagKo&source=gmail&ust=1480008681490000&usg=AFQjCNFS_0MUuodTKmb70G0uok9Ovz1h2w" href="https://youtu.be/hNfy3RwagKo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Bankers Crippling the Global Supply Chain</span></a> (34:50).<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Bloomberg/Businessweek recently outlined the scope of fake parts and the impossibility of rooting them out of global supply chains</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">:</span></strong><span lang="EN"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-13/forget-sham-rolexes-the-real-money-is-in-fake-ball-bearings&source=gmail&ust=1480008681490000&usg=AFQjCNEQLHEwjMH9j1O298UJplLHOOt5gQ" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-13/forget-sham-rolexes-the-real-money-is-in-fake-ball-bearings" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> The Dangerous Game Behind Fake Ball Bearings</span></a>:<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Everything from shoe polish to medication to car parts is pirated. Estimates of the scale of the problem range from $461 billion -- 2.5 percent of global trade -- the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development says, to some $1.8 trillion, according to calculations last year by the International Chamber of Commerce. And while makers of luxury goods -- among the most prominent counterfeited products -- lose profit from the trade, there's little risk to consumers. In the case of more mundane stuff like bearings, forgeries can be dangerous as well as costly. </span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">"Many people believe piracy is limited to handbags and other similar products, but the more serious issue is industrial companies," said Ann-Charlotte Soederlund, co-founder of the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Network, an umbrella organization of fake-fighters around the world. "The effects can be immensely larger than the consequence of a fake handbag." </span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Knock-off building materials have been shown to catch fire. Counterfeit electronics have caused military equipment to fail. And SKF says a sham bearing in a swimming pool pump sparked a fire that burnt a house to the ground. </span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Forgeries of its products typically originate in China, often from factories where legitimate competitors make their products, Aastroem said. Workshops there buy unmarked bearings, stamp them with the SKF brand and put them in packaging designed to look genuine, the company says. From China, the bearings are shipped worldwide to customers who often believe they are buying legitimate parts. </span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">How expensive are defective products returned as a result of counterfeit parts failing?</span></strong><span lang="EN"> How costly is the damage done to brands that depend on quality for their pricing power? How expensive is it to field hundreds of quality-control personnel and investigators, all of whose efforts are the equivalent of shoveling sand against the tide?<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Gordon and I discussed the practically endless list of costly products that have to be replaced or repaired (often more than once) due to defective/ failed parts.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">What has been commoditified in the global supply chain is not quality or reliability-- what's been commoditified is pirated, defective parts that look exactly like legitimate parts.</span></strong><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">There is a solution that's a lot cheaper than shoveling sand against the counterfeit tide: bring the entire supply chain back to America</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;"> where production can be verified and the parts tested and ID'd/ labeled with technologies that cannot be counterfeited as easily as the parts.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Come home, America, is not just a political slogan: it's simply good business.</span></strong><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">If you want to lose your brand, your pricing power and your customers, by all means, rely on a global supply chain filled with defective parts that cannot possibly be detected. <strong><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Reshoring the entire supply chain so it can be trusted is the low-cost solution once you add up the total lifecycle costs of a hopelessly counterfeit global supply chain.</span></strong><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">The day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361972" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span>, is when the holiday shopping season in the United States traditionally begins and is the day when retailers (at least in the past) finally turned a profit, going from “being in the red” to “in the black.” However, in recent years, this trend has seen turned upside down, with sales on Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361973" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> slipping, as retailers offer pre-Thanksgiving deals ever earlier than in recent years to capture heavily discounted market share (think OPEC) and draw shoppers as "Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361974" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span>" no longer marks the spending peak at brick-and-mortar chains.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">According to National Retail Federation data, the number of Thanksgiving weekend shoppers has fallen by nearly a third in just the past three years to 102 million in 2015, from 147 million in 2012, not only as a result of bricks and mortar stores starting the selling season earlier but due to stiff competition form online vendors, most notably Amazon. Moreover, early holiday promotions and online shopping hurt in-store spending by more than 6 percent last year.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">As a result, participation in this year's Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361975" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> looks like it may be the worst in history: <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,639 adults showed 63%, or nearly two-thirds, did not plan to shop on Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361976" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> this year. </span></strong>Some 32% said they plan to finish about half of their holiday shopping on that day. While selling tactics are certainly a factor, <b><span style="background: yellow;">one wonders how much of decline in spending is due to lack of disposable income for the tapped out US consumer?</span></b><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">"<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">The holiday season is expanding, and Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361977" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> is no longer the kickoff for the season</span></strong>," said Natalie Kotlyar, who heads retail and consumer products at business advisory firm BDO Consumer, adding many start holiday shopping at Halloween, Labor Day or even Amazon's Prime Day on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361979" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">July 12</span></span></span>.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Still, retailers are not only not giving up but, as <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-holidayshopping-blackfriday-idUSKBN13I14W&source=gmail&ust=1480008681523000&usg=AFQjCNFlfYKfeKLoigC7Zd7KvibcH6uDAg" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-holidayshopping-blackfriday-idUSKBN13I14W" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Reuters reports</span></a>, are on the verge of panic, and have not only redoubled efforts this year to boost sales with familiar tactics but greater intensity, all of which assure even lower margins, but are rolling out the heavy artillery to draw in those consumers who will go out <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361980" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Friday</span></span></span>.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Wal-Mart has already said it will increase inventory by more than half this year and make deals typically reserved for Black Friday available online early Thanksgiving morning. Retail pricing and data analytics firm Market Track said an analysis of 15 top U.S. brick-and-mortar retailers and their Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361981" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> circular announcements online showed they were about three days earlier than last year.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">In what is shaping up to be a giant race to the bottom which may result in an unprecedented, below cost inventory liquidation, retailers have just one response: "<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">they are all trying to beat each other to the punch and starting their promotions earlier and earlier every year," </span></strong>said Traci Gregorski, senior vice president, marketing at Market Track.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;">Ironically, the reason why so few Americans will shop this year is because last year, discounts on popular products <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">deepened by 30 to 40% from Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361982" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> prices as Christmas got closer, </span></strong>according to Market Track data.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">So why rush when consumers now know that "must have" holiday item will only get cheaper?</span></em><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> </span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Mark Cohen, a professor at Columbia Business School and the former chief executive of Sears Canada said the urgency related to Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361983" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> has greatly diminished. "Consumers know great deals and discounts are available throughout the year, and prices during the holiday season will only get better if they wait," he said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Sure enough, deals have been available for several days already on websites of retailers like Target, Macy's, Kohl's, Home Depot and Lowe's Cos. Amazon.com joined with a first of its kind month-long Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361984" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span> promotion.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Some brands are getting in on the action by offering steep discounts that reduce the appeal of waiting for Black <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361985" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday</span></span></span>. Handbag maker Kate Spade is already offering 75 percent off some items, and off-price chain Saks Off Fifth has similar discounts on some clothing and shoes<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">With shopping dynamics changing by the year, and escalating discounting prevalent, retailers are in a state of chaotic flux: <b><span style="background: yellow;">the year-end shopping season spanning November and December is crucial for retailers because it can account for up to 40 percent of their annual sales.</span></b> The NRF, which has been overly optimistic at times in the past with its sales projections, expects holiday sales to grow 3.6 percent this year to $655.8 billion. The NRF will be disappointed yet again - about 70% of retailers expect sales to remain flat this year, according to telephone interviews with chief marketing officers at 100 U.S. retail firms, BDO Consumer said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;">Still, despite the changing attitudes toward Black Fruday, there will be few strategic changes from recent years: big bricks-and-mortar players like Target and Wal-Mart will still open at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2134361987" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">6 p.m.</span></span></span> on Thanksgiving.</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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While the storm intensity has diminished a bit across the United States during Thanksgiving week, several potent storm systems are forecast during the end of November and into the first part of December.<br />
"Five or six major storms will affect the nation into the second week of December," according to AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok.<br />
The jet stream, which is a high-speed river of air that occurs around the altitudes that planes fly, will amplify. The jet stream will transform from its west-to-east setup this week to a very convoluted setup next week.<br />
As this happens, storms will increase in intensity after moving inland from the Pacific Ocean, much like that which occurred for a brief time in mid-November. However, this time more than one potent storm will evolve.<br />
On average, the area from the coastal Northwest to the northern and central Rockies can expect a storm with rain and mountain snow of varying intensity every other day.<br />
"Of these half-dozen or so storms, two or three will bring drenching rain to the Southeastern and Northeastern states," Pastelok said.<u></u><u></u><br />
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The storms will gradually ease the threat of new wildfires igniting and may help to extinguish existing wildfires in the Southeast.<br />
Most of these storms will bring the potential for an inch of rain at the local level, not only in the South, but also in the Northeast. Both areas are experiencing abnormally dry to exceptional drought conditions.<br />
"One or two of the storms could strengthen quickly enough and grab enough moisture to bring some rainfall to parts of the central and southern Plains," Pastelok said.<br />
This portion of the Plains was sliding into abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions in recent weeks.<br />
The storm systems will pose hazards ranging from wintry weather to severe thunderstorms.<br />
"We expect most of the storms to track roughly from the South Central states and toward the Great Lakes and interior Northeast over the next two to three weeks," Pastelok said.<br />
A storm or two can also dip far enough to the south along the Pacific coast to bring rain and mountain snow to the Southwest, including parts of Southern California.<br />
While this track favors rain over snow in much of the Northeast, it can produce rounds of heavy snow or a wintry mix from parts of the northern Plains to the Upper Midwest.<br />
Should one of the storms track farther east, snow could be pulled closer to the coast in the Northeast.<br />
The extreme nature of the pattern could also pump enough warm and humid air up from the south to increase the chance of thunderstorms and perhaps severe weather.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-71173204509887812032016-11-23T12:00:00.000-06:002016-11-23T12:00:13.944-06:00Corps Wants to Put Silencers on a Whole Infantry Battalion <div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In a series of experiments this year, units from 2nd Marine Division will be silencing every element of an infantry battalion -- from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/equipment/m4-carbine&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNFI_xbo2LpjWxgm1-iaABHstmIXag" href="http://www.military.com/equipment/m4-carbine" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">M4 rifles</span></a> to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/equipment/m2-50-caliber-machine-gun&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNGtKn2m6DxF6ii4PjPPcxVtqVRH0Q" href="http://www.military.com/equipment/m2-50-caliber-machine-gun" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> .50 caliber machine guns</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The commanding general of 2nd Marine Division, Maj. Gen. John Love, described these plans during a speech to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/marine-corps&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNEwVqoo5kQtA_O1vejBGoHeWND-Sg" href="http://www.military.com/marine-corps" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Marines</span></a> at the Marine Corps Association Ground Dinner this month near Washington, D.C.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The proof-of-concept tests, he said, included Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, which began an Integrated Training Exercise pre-deployment last month at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/base-guide/marine-corps-air-ground-combat-center&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNEJQeRYToKQWpqotVSgvqZou89IVg" href="http://www.military.com/base-guide/marine-corps-air-ground-combat-center" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"What we've found so far is it revolutionizes the way we fight," Love told Military.com. "It used to be a squad would be dispersed out over maybe 100 yards, so the squad leader couldn't really communicate with the members at the far end because of all the noise of the weapons. Now they can actually just communicate, and be able to command and control and effectively direct those fires."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Chief Warrant Officer 5 Christian Wade, the division's gunner, or infantry weapons officer, said the Lima companies in two other battalions -- 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, and 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines -- now had silencers, or suppressors, on all their rifles, including the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/18/marine-corps-experimenting-new-service-rifle.html&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNHWsAU1QIpTP-21yU07U6nOM8QYHg" href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/18/marine-corps-experimenting-new-service-rifle.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> M27 infantry automatic rifles</span></a>. All units are set to deploy in coming months. The combat engineer platoons that are attached to these units and will deploy with them will also carry suppressed weapons, he said.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Suppressors work by slowing the escape of propellant gases when a gun is fired, which drastically reduces the sound signature. Used by scout snipers and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/special-operations&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNFMw3rXPsClCjwWA8HhbCucRleSyg" href="http://www.military.com/special-operations" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">special operations</span></a> troops to preserve their stealth, the devices are also valuable for their ability to minimize the chaos of battle, enabling not only better communication but also improved situational awareness and accuracy.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"It increases their ability to command and control, to coordinate with each other," Wade told Military.com. "They shoot better, because they can focus more, and they get more discipline with their fire."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The noise of gunfire can create an artificial stimulus that gives the illusion of effectiveness, he said. When it's taken away, he explained, Marines pay more attention to their shooting and its effect on target.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"They've got to get up and look, see what effect they're having on the enemy because you can't hear it," he said.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He added that suppressors were already in common use by near-peer militaries, including those of Russia and China.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wade said he is working on putting suppressors on the Marines' <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.military.com/equipment/m249-squad-automatic-weapon&source=gmail&ust=1480001609194000&usg=AFQjCNFUubslr4d1qx0U3R69sK8fyz3nTg" href="http://www.military.com/equipment/m249-squad-automatic-weapon" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> M249 light machine gun</span></a> and M240G medium machine gun, using equipment from Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command. The third and final objective will be the suppression of the .50 caliber heavy machine gun, he said.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">As the units conduct training and exercises with suppressors, 2nd Marine Division is collaborating with the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab to collect and aggregate data. Weapons with suppressors require additional maintenance and cleaning to prevent fouling, and the cost, nearly $700,000 to outfit an infantry battalion, might give planners pause.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">But Wade said he will continue to gather data for the next year-and-a-half, following the units as they deploy. And he expects the idea to have gained significant traction among Marine Corps leadership by then, he said.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"When I show how much overmatch we gain … it will have sold itself," he said.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-5153837792099731432016-11-22T17:00:00.000-06:002016-11-22T17:00:11.681-06:00Shocker: In Wake of Hillary's Defeat, Donations to Clinton Foundation Dry Up <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN">Who could have seen <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3954720/Donations-Clinton-Foundation-plummeted-amid-Hillary-s-failed-run-presidency.html&source=gmail&ust=1479933965330000&usg=AFQjCNEZe8fJDu4NtGBoeCYQMFuVvNZgBw" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3954720/Donations-Clinton-Foundation-plummeted-amid-Hillary-s-failed-run-presidency.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> this </span></a>coming?<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">Donations to the Clinton Foundation plummeted amid Hillary Clinton's failed presidential run, it has been revealed. The non-profit organization's latest tax filings show contributions fell 37 per cent to $108million - down from $172million in 2014, according to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://nypost.com/2016/11/20/donations-to-clinton-foundation-fell-by-37-percent/&source=gmail&ust=1479933965330000&usg=AFQjCNHZMLL-9bcq3GYFfHLNygOYPCIuCQ" href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/20/donations-to-clinton-foundation-fell-by-37-percent/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> New York Post.</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Donations fell as the former Secretary of State left the group in April last year shortly after announcing her run for the White House. Her departure also meant that <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">revenue brought in from paid speeches plunged</span></strong> from $3.6 million in 2014 to just $357,500.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The foundation became an issue during the presidential campaign when Donald Trump pledged to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate it amid pay-to-play allegations. Trump called the foundation 'the most corrupt enterprise in political history' adding, 'It must be shut down immediately.'<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;">The Clintons really did gamble everything on hoisting the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua into the White House, because the only alternative was the Big House.</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">It's not known whether Trump will keep his promise as he has since backed down in a recent interview on his vow to investigate Clinton again for her use of a private email server, calling the Clintons 'good people.' But Rep. Jason Chaffetz, head of the House Oversight Committee, has suggested that the investigation into the foundation will continue.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<br /> Billionaire investor Warren Buffett was an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, but the stock portfolio of his company, <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Berkshire Hathaway </span></strong>(BRK-A)(BRK-B), has been a major beneficiary of Donald Trump's election. <br />
The market as a whole is at record highs, but bank stocks have been some of the best performers, and Berkshire owns plenty. Here's a look at how Buffett's bank stocks have done since the election, why they've done so well, and whether they're still good buys today.<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Buffett's bank stocks</span></strong><br />
Berkshire Hathaway's stock portfolio contains several bank stocks, including large stakes in <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">American Express </span></strong>(AXP) and <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Wells Fargo </span></strong>(WFC). <br />
All of Berkshire's bank stocks have performed quite well since the election, as you can see here:<br />
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<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">American Express</span></strong></td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">151,610,700</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$67.00</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$71.00</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Bank of New York Mellon</span></strong></td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">21,136,712</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$44.03</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$47.44</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Goldman Sachs</span></strong></td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">10,959,519</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$181.48</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$210.35</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">M&T Bank Corp</span></strong></td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">5,382,040</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$124.88</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$141.26</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">U.S. Bancorp</span></strong></td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">85,063,167</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$44.92</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$49.23</td></tr>
<tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Wells Fargo</span></strong></td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">479,704,270</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$45.40</td><td style="padding: 0.75pt;">$52.82</td></tr>
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<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Holdings as of Sept. 30, 2016. Data sources: Company SEC filings.</span></em><br />
In addition, Berkshire holds warrants to buy 700 million shares of <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Bank of America </span></strong>(BAC) stock, which has climbed from $17.01 to $20.00 in the post-election rally and has been one of the top performers in the financial sector. Buffett has said that Berkshire is likely to purchase the shares just before the warrants expire, and that the investment is one that Berkshire "values highly."<br />
Including the Bank of America investment, the price gains in the chart show that Berkshire has gained a total of $7.1 billion since the election from its bank stocks <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">alone</span></em>. This is a big contributing factor to the 7.4% post-election gain in Berkshire Hathaway's stock price.<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Why have banks done so well lately?</span></strong><br />
There are a couple of election-related reasons that banks have rallied. And to be thorough, it's not just the election of Donald Trump. It's the combination of a Republican president and Republican control of both houses of Congress that is viewed as a positive catalyst for the industry.<br />
First, Trump has pledged to eliminate regulations, and few industries are as burdened with regulation as the banking industry. Trump has pledged to either ease or repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with the intention of preventing any more major financial institutions from collapsing, as well as protecting consumers. The regulations imposed by the act are costly to banks, and are seen by many as an overreaction to the crisis.<br />
Additionally, Trump's planned tax cuts and increased spending could be good for banks in several ways. One is the expectation that lower taxes will translate into more money in consumers' paychecks and bank accounts. Another is the fact that Trump's policies are pro-growth, which could lead to higher interest rates, which in turn would translate into better profit margins for banks.<br />
As banking analyst Mike Mayo said in a recent CNBC interview, "Now the industry is transitioning from defense to offense." Separately, analysts at FBR Capital Markets have said that Trump's agenda could result in the most favorable macroeconomic environment for financials since before the crisis.<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Too late to get in?</span></strong><br />
The bank stocks represented in Berkshire's portfolio are certainly not as attractive as they were a few weeks ago but could still be good buys from a long-term perspective. I doubt that Buffett will sell any of these stocks in the wake of the recent rally, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Berkshire add to some of these positions.<br />
In a nutshell, if you have a reasonably long investment time frame (say, five years or more), the effects of a Trump presidency could be many times that of this recent rally, especially if his economic growth plans have their desired effect.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Semilight",sans-serif;">The defiant president-elect tells on-air stars like Lester Holt, Charlie Rose, George Stephanopoulos and Wolf Blitzer they got it all wrong. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<br /> It had all the trappings of a high-level rapprochement: President-elect Donald J. Trump, now the nation’s press critic in chief, inviting the leading anchors and executives of television news to join him <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766765" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Monday</span></span></span> for a private meeting of minds.<br />
On-air stars like Lester Holt, Charlie Rose, George Stephanopoulos and Wolf Blitzer headed to Trump Tower for the off-the-record gathering, typically the kind of event where journalists and politicians clear the air after a hard-fought campaign.<br />
Instead, the president-elect delivered a defiant message: You got it all wrong.<br />
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Mr. Trump, whose antagonism toward the news media was unusual even for a modern presidential candidate, described the television networks as dishonest in their reporting and shortsighted in missing the signs of his upset victory. He criticized some in the room by name, including CNN’s president, Jeffrey A. Zucker, according to multiple people briefed on the meeting who were granted anonymity to describe confidential discussions.<br />
It is not unusual for journalists to agree to off-the-record sessions with prominent politicians, including President Obama, as a way to gain insights and develop relationships.<br />
But after details of Mr. Trump’s hectoring leaked <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766766" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Monday</span></span></span> in The New York Post, it seemed the meeting was being used as a political prop, especially after Trump-friendly news outlets trumpeted the session as a take-no-prisoners move by a brave president-elect.<br />
“Trump Slams Media Elite, Face to Face,” blared the Drudge Report. “Trump Eats Press,” wrote Breitbart News.<br />
Those curious to hear more of what the president-elect had to say at the closed-door session were out of luck: Although more than two dozen prominent journalists attended, many declined to comment because they had agreed to keep the proceedings off the record.<br />
Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to Mr. Trump, described the meeting in more tempered terms. “It was very cordial, very productive, very congenial,” Ms. Conway told reporters at Trump Tower. “It was also very candid and very honest.”<br />
“From my own perspective,” she added, “it’s great to hit the reset button.”<br />
Still, the encounter crystallized concerns that Mr. Trump, emboldened by his victory, may refuse to abide the traditional dynamic of a president and the journalists who cover him, a naturally adversarial relationship that is nevertheless based on some level of mutual trust.<u></u><u></u><br />
<span class="m_2336448584407412025attribution">© Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</span><span class="m_2336448584407412025caption"> The CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, center, with Lester Holt of NBC, left, leaving a meeting with President-elect Donald J. Trump <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766767" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Monday</span></span></span>. </span>Some media critics questioned why the television networks, which granted Mr. Trump hundreds of hours of free exposure during the campaign, would agree to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766768" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Monday’s</span></span></span> terms. “They learned *nothing* over past 18 months of covering Trump,” tweeted Erik Wemple of The Washington Post.<br />
Television is of particular interest to Mr. Trump, who is a keen watcher of morning shows and this past weekend tweeted his displeasure at being mocked on an episode of “<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766769" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Saturday</span></span></span> Night Live.”<br />
Coverage of Mr. Trump increased ratings and revenue at news networks, even as some executives conceded that, early in the race, the president-elect was granted too much free exposure. By the end of the campaign, Mr. Trump seemed to turn on certain networks and television journalists, in particular CNN, prompting supporters to chant anti-media slogans.<br />
Two people briefed <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766770" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Monday’s</span></span></span> meeting said that Mr. Trump seemed well versed in the networks’ ratings increase during the election and did not hesitate to bring the subject up.<br />
Mr. Trump is meeting with representatives of several news organizations this week, including The New York Times, where he is scheduled to speak <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766771" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Tuesday</span></span></span> with editors, reporters, columnists and the newspaper’s publisher.<br />
Reince Priebus, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff; Ivanka Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter; and Ms. Conway are expected to accompany the president-elect to The Times, according to a person with direct knowledge of the meeting.<br />
The meeting was organized at the request of Mr. Trump’s team, Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for The Times, said <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766772" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Monday</span></span></span>. Mr. Trump is expected to speak on the record with Times reporters and columnists; there is also a short off-the-record session planned, which Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, described as “an opportunity to discuss past and future coverage.”<br />
As a candidate, and now as president-elect, Mr. Trump has frequently attacked The Times, establishing the paper as a top target in his continuing feud with the media. Mr. Trump often refers to the<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798861300453539840&source=gmail&ust=1479909919061000&usg=AFQjCNHnqNE7KKuxZCGa_5qAZQMVg_yG7g" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798861300453539840" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> “failing’’ New York Times</span></a> and has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/donald-trump-lawsuit-threat.html?_r%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1479909919061000&usg=AFQjCNEQn7vy0FZ3jPkc2mSSAV1H_bIEFQ" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/donald-trump-lawsuit-threat.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> threatened to sue </span></a>the company for libel over an article about two women who accused him of touching them inappropriately years earlier.<br />
The Times angered Mr. Trump with some of its unflattering coverage during the campaign, including <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html&source=gmail&ust=1479909919061000&usg=AFQjCNEr3-Q3aNcVf1DR4qar-MIXP62uQw" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> reports on his taxes</span></a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?hp%26action%3Dclick%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26clickSource%3Dstory-heading%26module%3Dfirst-column-region%26region%3Dtop-news%26WT.nav%3Dtop-news%26_r%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1479909919061000&usg=AFQjCNF89GFFCBRWcDrPws4v-oGp_ff-EQ" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> his treatment of women </span></a>and his legal <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/trump-university.html?_r%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1479909919061000&usg=AFQjCNEBmZYPkg6F8x5brIZ1sWz5QA6oyw" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/trump-university.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> troubles with Trump University</span></a>.<br />
Since being elected president, he has blasted out more criticisms, using Twitter to disparage the newspaper’s coverage and to claim it had lost “thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the ‘Trump phenomena.’” (The Times disputed that assertion, saying that it had added 41,000 net paid subscriptions for its news products in the week after the election.)<u></u><u></u><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #1e6dac; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Donald Trump's German grandfather begged the prince of Bavaria not to deport him from Germany in the early 20th century, a newly uncovered letter has revealed. Friedrich Trump, who built up a fortune through restaurants and boarding houses after arriving in America as an immigrant, was born in the Bavarian town of Kallstadt.<br /><br /> But according to German newspaper Bild, he decided to return to his hometown in 1901 along with his wife, Elisabeth Christ, only to be issued with a deportation notice a few years later. It is understood the notice was issued after the German authorities discovered he had never carried out military service before emigrating to America.<br /><br /> He was therefore banned from reclaiming his citizenship, local historian Roland Paul told Bild. <br /><br /> "The American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump, currently residing in Kallstadt, is hereby informed that he is to depart the state of Bavaria, or face deportation," the notice states.<br /><br /> Mr Trump's grandfather even resorted to pleading with the prince of Bavaria not to deport him, Bild revealed, in an emotionally-charged letter. He begged the "well-loved, noble, wise and just" monarch to make an exception and block the deportation order in the note, but a court would later deny the request. The Trump family was then forced to abandon Germany for good and move back to America in 1905, when Elisabeth was pregnant with the US president-elect's father, Fred Trump.<br /><br /> The emergence of the letter has raised eyebrows in some quarters due to Mr Trump's hardline stance on immigration.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Just think. If the USA fails to repatriate millions of immigrants, it may be robbing Mexico, El Salvador, or even Nigeria of a future national leader. We can't take that risk! If even one nation is deprived of a future president, that is too many!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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The Trump-obsessed press has paid little attention to important news like a major terror trial wrapping up in Minneapolis: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/9-somali-men-in-minnesota-sentenced-this-week-on-terrorism-charges/article/2607490&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNFD0pecUoHCTfR9qXxAyoSO3zAkWA" href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/9-somali-men-in-minnesota-sentenced-this-week-on-terrorism-charges/article/2607490" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> nine Somali men were sentenced last week</span></a> in Minnesota for their jihad terror crimes. But the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/06/29/trial-10-minnesota-jihadis-guilty-ignored-media/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNH98tXN6QQ6DVqGt5uCbrzDZ-cs5g" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/06/29/trial-10-minnesota-jihadis-guilty-ignored-media/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> liberal media ignores Muslims terror trials in America</span></a> no matter what else is going on.<br />
Interestingly, the mainstream press has castigated President-elect Trump’s pick for national security advisor General Michael Flynn for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-mike-flynn-called/story?id%3D43575658&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNGRkGi3DS7SnDWKUfwcWgm8_UcEtQ" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-mike-flynn-called/story?id=43575658" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> calling Islam a “cancer”</span></a> despite numerous jihad murders in this country in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/06/12/orlando-attack-was-not-a-tragedy-but-mass-murder-jihad/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNHk_4NkWJA4eghZpxDeb3WfrQA7dg" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/06/12/orlando-attack-was-not-a-tragedy-but-mass-murder-jihad/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Orlando</span></a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vdare.com/posts/terror-prevention-means-keeping-likely-jihadists-out-of-the-country&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNEEHqd6tS1U1hCJ7IxrygHt8i_ctQ" href="http://www.vdare.com/posts/terror-prevention-means-keeping-likely-jihadists-out-of-the-country" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> San Bernardino</span></a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vdare.com/posts/senate-report-fort-hood-massacre-was-preventable&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNH9SFsPm1dbqx-2Q1a0ZQdgdYcncA" href="http://www.vdare.com/posts/senate-report-fort-hood-massacre-was-preventable" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Fort Hood</span></a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vdare.com/posts/timely-deportation-could-have-prevented-boston-terror-attack&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNERSaYEPMb9KjZxzWc4jepopJlafA" href="http://www.vdare.com/posts/timely-deportation-could-have-prevented-boston-terror-attack" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Boston</span></a>. You would think that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/09/11/911-plus-15-years-are-we-safer/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNH9d6zf7bF7YOGRUsMEp0wPxiwzWQ" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/09/11/911-plus-15-years-are-we-safer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> 9/11 never happened, given the public forgetfulness</span></a>, promoted by the press in its worship of diversity.<br />
The media ignore strong indicators of the continuing failure of Muslim immigration like the Minnesota terror trials. Somalis come here, chirping they came for “a better life,” but the young men want to go to the Middle East and Africa to kill for Allah. What happens when many more of them decide there are plenty of infidels in America to murder? For example, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/09/18/minnesota-mall-stab-spree-ends-with-nine-non-muslims-wounded/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNFm7Z_aV-gcZxTt5JxPHb05YV2C-A" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/09/18/minnesota-mall-stab-spree-ends-with-nine-non-muslims-wounded/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> nine persons were stabbed in September</span></a> in a shopping mall jihad attack.<br />
A news story from a couple months ago reported the US had admitted <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/almost-100000-somali-refugees-admitted-us-911&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNEy8SHU993-fL9mOVud_r8cJiQOEw" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/almost-100000-somali-refugees-admitted-us-911" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> nearly 100,000 Somali refugees since 9/11</span></a>. That number sounds low, since the government doesn’t like keeping count of the unfriendlies it imports against the will of the American people.<br />
Minnesota has struggled for years with assorted strategies to get Somalis to assimilate — expensive <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/03/11/minnesota-somali-youth-orgs-get-funding-for-expensive-play-dates-to-prevent-jihad/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNED2RFqFFffHaceZr9XAQ0MJn8iyw" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/03/11/minnesota-somali-youth-orgs-get-funding-for-expensive-play-dates-to-prevent-jihad/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> youth outreach</span></a>, make-work <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/04/14/minnesota-still-trying-to-prevent-jihad-with-expensive-social-programs/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNEyMZom2VDEWnZoRSoLL0rVwTYttg" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2016/04/14/minnesota-still-trying-to-prevent-jihad-with-expensive-social-programs/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> social programs</span></a>, even a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2015/05/12/minnesota-jihad-rehab-fails-as-somali-violates-terms-of-release/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNFkfBm_QxNJPk2NXYTKjbXH51U_lg" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2015/05/12/minnesota-jihad-rehab-fails-as-somali-violates-terms-of-release/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> basketball coaching scheme for one jihadist</span></a> that failed — but the Africans have shown zero interest in wanting to acculturate. They prefer their Islamic values of jihad, polygamy, Islamic supremacism and misogyny. A filmmaker interviewed Somalis in Minneapolis last year and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2015/05/30/somalis-residing-in-minneapolis-want-sharia-reject-american-law/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNHb68njSRqBNE4Ry93E2NquEZECCg" href="http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2015/05/30/somalis-residing-in-minneapolis-want-sharia-reject-american-law/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> most openly rejected the Constitution and embraced sharia</span></a> as their core belief.<br />
<i><span style="color: #993300;">The Somalis pictured below (Guled Ali Omar (sentenced to 35 years), Abdirahman Yasin Daud (30 years) and Mohamed Abdihamid Farah (30 years)) were some of the nine aspiring jihadists</span> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.startribune.com/how-the-minnesota-isil-defendants-were-sentenced/401364766/&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNE0DlGJG6G4jE8-rNk45-pL5YWpjQ" href="http://www.startribune.com/how-the-minnesota-isil-defendants-were-sentenced/401364766/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> sentenced to lengthy prison terms</span></a>.</i><br />
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766759" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">On Saturday</span></span></span>, Fox News had a brief report about the Somali sentencing, including a clip of Iraq veteran <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNFJ4dLkB2W7lo7uLGMwgBRyK-nrvQ" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Pete Hegseth</span></a> visiting Little Mogadishu in Minneapolis, where he had a hard time finding Somalis who could speak English.<u></u><u></u><br />
Don’t look for any responsibility from Somali parents or the tribe at large: they <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.city-journal.org/html/isis-twin-cities-14593.html&source=gmail&ust=1479909881432000&usg=AFQjCNHokHutFXBGUgY03d9LSVIvsr967w" href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/isis-twin-cities-14593.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">regard themselves as victims of kuffar persecution</span></a> and despise America in general.<br />
It’s good the judge at least tried to make a statement about the severity of Minnesota’s jihad problem.<br />
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<i>Prosecutors doubt remorse, and the judge warns of terror cell.</i><br />
Seeking to send an emphatic message that there is “no doubt” about the depth of terrorism recruitment in the Twin Cities, a federal judge <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766760" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Wednesday</span></span></span> sentenced the final three of Minnesota’s ISIL conspiracy defendants to the sternest prison sentences yet handed down in a Minnesota terrorism case.<br />
<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">“It’s clear, and I’ve stated it the last two days … this community has to understand that there is a jihadist cell in this community — its tentacles spread out,”</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> </span></strong>Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Davis told a packed courtroom. “Young people went to Syria and died.”<br />
Davis concluded three days of hearings by sending defendant Guled Omar to prison for 35 years, and sentencing two others — Mohamed Farah and Abdirahman Daud — to 30 years each. The three were the only defendants to plead not guilty and go to trial, where a jury in June convicted them of charges including conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States. They were also convicted of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the same charge on which six others pleaded guilty and were sentenced this week.<br />
Addressing Davis earlier in the afternoon, one of the prosecutors called Omar, 22, “not redeemable,” and said he presented a unique case because he watched his older brother leave Minnesota to join the Somali terror group Al-Shabab, then applied those lessons to advise the current group as its emir, or leader.<br />
“He was like a well that people kept going to to get … advice, and he kept doling it out,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Winter, adding that Omar “has blood on his hands” for helping two men now believed dead after reaching Syria in 2014.<br />
Prosecutors sought a 40-year sentence for Omar, while his attorney, Glenn Bruder, called for 15. Standing before the judge <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766761" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Wednesday</span></span></span>, Omar grew emotional as he said he didn’t want to continue down a “horrible path.”<br />
“I understand the seriousness of what I’ve been convicted of, and I understand that I will not be able to go home anytime soon,” Omar said as relatives sobbed nearby. “I always had energy for justice as a young man, but I lost my way.”<br />
But after passing sentence, Davis recalled Omar’s May 2014 attempt to drive away with two co-conspirators planning to cross into Mexico and fly overseas — foiled when Omar’s family intervened.<br />
“Seeing them scream and holler and take the car keys … but you continued and continued,” Davis said. “You’re charismatic, and that’s why you’re being locked up for the period that you are.”<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Jurors returned</span></strong><br /> The day was marked by somber statements from the defendants, clashes between attorneys over their authenticity, and emotional reactions from relatives and supporters gathered at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.<br />
Outside, a multiracial crowd of demonstrators gathered, waving homemade signs and chanting, “No hate, no fear, Somalis are welcome here.”<br />
Mohamed Omar, Guled’s older brother, stood nearby with a picture of his younger brother. He is on supervised release for threatening agents who arrived at his home to question Guled Omar during the FBI investigation.<br />
“My mom will probably be dead by the time he comes out,” Mohamed Omar said. “He will not get to see her. Although it’s going to hurt us, it’s not going to break us.”<br />
Seven jurors who convicted the men in June returned to see them sentenced <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766762" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Wednesday</span></span></span>. They witnessed a lengthy digression by Davis during Daud’s midday sentencing, as the judge acknowledged that his judgments were harsh, but not “an attack on the Somali-American community.”<br />
“The vast majority of Americans don’t have the slightest idea of what the Somali-Americans have gone through,” Davis said.<br />
“I do,” Daud replied. “I was throwing away the same life that they were saving.”<br />
Daud, 22, was arrested in California in 2015 after trying to buy an illegal passport and cross into Mexico. Dressed in a suit and speaking softly, he bluntly outlined his thinking before the judge <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766763" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Wednesday</span></span></span>.<br />
“I was not going [to Syria] to pass out medical kits or food to the people I believed at the time to be innocent,” Daud said. “I was going there strictly to fight and to kill on behalf of the Islamic State, your honor.”<br />
His voice breaking, Daud added: “I am certainly not being persecuted [for] my faith. And I was certainly not entrapped nor lured into doing any of these crimes.” His comment seemed to contradict a group of demonstrators outside the courthouse, who continued to argue that the young men were entrapped by the FBI.<br />
Daud’s attorney, Bruce Nestor, told Davis he believes his client poses no threat to society, but conceded: “I recognize that you cannot and will not take that risk.”<br />
Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Allyn, however, dismissed Daud’s apparent remorse as another lie.<br />
Daud, she said, “knows how to play a role. It’s just him playing a role again.”<br />
Allyn described how Daud told Abdullahi Yusuf, the youngest member of the conspiracy group, to watch terrorist videos, and provided him phone numbers of ISIL contacts in Turkey. Daud was no mere follower, she said.<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">‘A road nobody expected’</span></strong><br />In an unusual development at midday, both Daud and Farah were returned to the courtroom after being sentenced when prosecutors noted that they flashed index fingers pointed upward while looking into the gallery after their hearings. Prosecutors said the gestures symbolized “tawhid” — a tenet representing “oneness with God” — that has also been used by ISIL supporters.<br />
In his own hearing as the day began, Farah, 22, told the judge he now disavows terrorist groups and realizes that extremist organizations such as ISIL “don’t stand for peace.” A day earlier, his younger brother Adnan was sentenced to 10 years after pleading guilty in April.<br />
“We ended up on a road nobody expected,” Farah said. “Your honor, that’s the allure and the dangers of terrorism.”<br />
Mohamed Farah, the eldest of six siblings in a Somali-American family in Minneapolis, was stopped at JFK Airport in 2014 while trying to leave for Syria and was later caught on tape saying he would kill any FBI agents who got in his way. Farah also looked back at his parents and siblings in the courtroom. “For them to see me today in an orange jumpsuit is not my idea for what a role model should be,” he said.<br />
All three defendants sought sentences closer to 15 years.<br />
“These are young kids, young men, that are battling each other, one-upping each other with their level of religiosity,” said Farah’s attorney, Murad Mohammed. “In essence they radicalized each other.”<br />
Mohammed also said that, in retrospect, his client should have pleaded guilty with other co-defendants last spring before more serious charges were added to his indictment.<br />
Prosecutors pointed out that in 2014 and 2015 Farah showed every sign of being a determined ISIL soldier — trying twice to leave the United States for Syria — and that he lied repeatedly to investigators while declining opportunities to cooperate with the government.<br />
Davis, too, returned to the gravity of the crimes committed. As he had done Monday and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1291766764" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Tuesday</span></span></span>, he showed the courtroom one of the grisly ISIL recruiting videos the young defendants had watched: A 12-minute clip of one of ISIL’s most notorious propaganda pieces, concluding with the burning alive of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot in early 2015.<br />
“Understand they were watching these for hours at a time, day after day after day,” Davis said.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Grid operator RTE warned <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762964" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Tuesday</span></span></span> that it would have to take "exceptional measures" to keep the French warm this winter due to the fact that 20 of the country's 58 nuclear power plants have been temporarily disconnected for safety checkups. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">These measures may include "short power cuts in certain areas of the country in order to continue providing electricity to homes during the winter period", it said in a statement.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">And the French will be grateful for anything that can keep their homes warm, especially with recent temperatures that have already proven to be colder than usual in France, the operator noted. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Indeed, snow has already fallen in the Alps this week (and even Paris <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.thelocal.fr/20161107/snow-hits-french-ski-slopes-and-even-paris&source=gmail&ust=1479824583427000&usg=AFQjCNHiPa7TWik9zVWXd20gT3gw-9NMzQ" href="http://www.thelocal.fr/20161107/snow-hits-french-ski-slopes-and-even-paris" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> was given a dusting of snow</span> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762965"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Monday</span></span></span></a>).<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">While the power cuts aren't forecast to hit households as yet, the operator announced plans to release an app and a website early next month to let residents know how and when to save electricity in peak-demand periods. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The operator suggested that at peak times, between <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762967" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">8am and 1pm</span></span></span> and again between <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762968" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">6pm and 8pm</span></span></span>, people should lower the household temperature by one to two degrees Celsius.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The electrical shortages are predicted to occur within the first three weeks of December, the operator said, adding that it would first tackle them by increasing power imports and potentially paying industrial customers to turn off machinery.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">France's Nuclear Safety watchdog ordered the nuclear plants to be temporarily closed after weak spots were found in the steel used in the new plant at Flamanville in northwestern France.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br /> Five more <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.thelocal.fr/20161019/france-forced-to-close-several-nuclear-reactors-for-checks&source=gmail&ust=1479824583427000&usg=AFQjCNENSGL54jjR2tZweKaTzjTCd-JKhQ" href="http://www.thelocal.fr/20161019/france-forced-to-close-several-nuclear-reactors-for-checks" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> were closed late last month</span></a>. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">France is extremely reliant on its nuclear power, with around three quarters of the country's electricity coming from its nuclear power stations. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-91891124303617975702016-11-21T14:00:00.000-06:002016-11-21T14:00:14.820-06:00Kansas City mom says students targeted, attacked her daughter because of her skin color <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN">KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A metro mom feels helpless after police say her daughter was attacked at school. The mother said students are targeting her daughter because of her skin color.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Police say a 12-year-old girl was punched in the face at school by another student <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762960" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Monday</span></span></span> at the Frontier School of Excellence off 56th Street and Troost in Kansas City.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Chandis Kee said this is the second time <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762961" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">in two weeks</span></span></span> her daughter was attacked, and she said it’s because of her race.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">“About two weeks ago she reported being called racial names,” the mom said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">She said that’s about the time her 12-year-old daughter Blessyed was first attacked by two girls.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">“One pushed her and the other one pushed her and she tried to fight back, that was the end of that. They called her racial names that day,” she said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">The school confirmed “an incident happened” and said it was “quickly rectified and resolved.”<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">But Kee said <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762962" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Monday</span></span></span>, her daughter was attacked again.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">“She just started hitting me in my face area. Everything went black and every time she hit me, it was just like bursts of light. It happened so fast, and then I wondered, ‘Why would she do this?’ because I didn’t even know the girl. I’ve never seen her or ever talked to her.” Blessyed Kee said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">“My daughter got attacked. Attacked. Twice <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762963" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">in two weeks</span></span></span>,” the mom added.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">FOX 4 asked the school for an interview but the media outreach coordinator said the Dean of Discipline declined. Instead, the school sent the following email:<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Hi Megan,</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">In regards to your inquiry below, we take these situations very seriously – school safety is our priority.</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Our Dean of Discipline at the school investigated and addressed the situation. We followed our Student Handbook discipline policy which is posted on our website @ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.frontierschools.org/&source=gmail&ust=1479824586260000&usg=AFQjCNHYsaXZUNsu8YjDpWazNga_yLsWUg" href="http://www.frontierschools.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.frontierschools.org</span></a><wbr></wbr>. The handbook can be located by clicking on the “Campuses” tab and then selecting Frontier School of Excellence (South Campus) – the handbook is located in the left navigation under “About Us”.</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">This is the only information we can share.</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Thank you,</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Jennifer Watson</span></em><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">FOX 4 obtained a copy of the police report from. It describes the victim’s swollen eye, and the vice principal told police “the attack was unprovoked.”<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">“It’s been multiple times. People call me white when I’m walking down the hallway or [pointing to the playground] we were standing over there one day and someone called me a white curse word,” Blessyed said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">FOX 4 asked the school about the victim’s previous reports of racial slurs and the school said officials “had no prior references to bullying.”<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">But Kee said, “She did warn them! She did warn them they were calling her racial names in the hallway.”<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Kee said she didn’t feel reassured from school officials after either attack and now she doesn’t know what to do with her daughter.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">“The school, how are they going to reassure me that they feel safe when she warned them and they didn’t care? She did all the right things,” said Kee. "She doesn`t want to be white anymore. What do I do then? I can`t change her color. She`s white."<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Kee said the school told her girl who punched her daughter was suspended, but they wouldn’t tell her anything more, including the attacker’s name. Kee said that is frustrating because she needs to know who hit her daughter in order to request a restraining order.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<br /> MEXICO CITY – As the National Football League seeks to further broaden its international reach with <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762957" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">Monday’s</span></span></span> clash between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Texans, the match-up is already guaranteed to be the high point of the season in one regard.<br />
Azteca Stadium sits at 7,280 feet above sea level, higher than Denver’s Sports Authority Field at Mile High, which is by far the NFL’s most-elevated venue at 5,280 feet. The height, plus the atmospheric conditions of Mexico’s capital, could cause significant issues for the players.<br />
“<span style="background: yellow;">Azteca Stadium is the worst place to ever play a sporting event,” former United States national team soccer star Eric Wynalda told USA TODAY Sports.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="background: yellow;">“They (will) break a record for how many oxygen masks they have on the sidelines. The combination of being that high up with pollution is just devastating to the body.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow;">The U.S. soccer teams Wynalda played on are among many sporting visitors to the venue that have struggled desperately. The altitude of Mexico City, added to the smog that accumulates in the bowl-like natural topography that surrounds it, gives home teams a huge advantage.</span></div>
Both the Raiders and Texans are in the same position of unfamiliarity, each being coy on the measures they are using to combat the elements. Local sports medicine and respiration doctor Jorge Avendano Reyes warned that the players are in for a rough ride.<br />
“There can be headaches, dizziness, sensation of fatigue, accelerated heartbeat, hyperventilation,” Reyes said. “We can also have respiratory symptoms, when we are exposed often to the pollution.<br />
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The Azteca is an iconic venue in Mexico, the only stadium to have hosted two soccer World Cup finals. Teams familiar with the surroundings claim that the complaints of visitors are nothing but sour grapes. Yet science suggests otherwise.<br />
Reyes said bigger players such as linemen would find things more testing than leaner athletes, while adding that typical oxygen masks may do little to help aid respiration.<br />
“We’re on an equal playing field,” Texans offensive lineman Duane Brown said. “No one’s more used to the altitude than the other team, so we’re all going out there with the same struggle, if there will be a struggle.”<br />
Some players believe the slower pace of American football, rather than the constant movement of soccer, may help lessen the effects. Wynalda disagrees.<br />
“You don’t really feel it until you stop and when your heart starts to beat and tries to slow down,” Wynalda said. “You just have these moments where you click out. You almost feel like you are going to pass out. The players stop for a second, you try to catch your breath, and then it is almost like you’ve just had a very long blink, and something bad happens.<br />
“For American football I really am curious to see how these guys handle it. It is going to have a massive effect on their body. These are some big bodies out there, 300 pounds people who are trying to get oxygen into their muscles and to their brains. I think you will see a lot of delay of game penalties.”<br />
Conventional wisdom suggests that teams should either come <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762958" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">in two weeks</span></span></span> early to allow the body to adapt to the conditions – or very late to reduce the amount of time for the elements to make an impact. Given that the former option was impossible, both teams were due to arrive <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1182762959" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">on Sunday</span></span></span>.<u></u><u></u><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-54625885516821305782016-11-21T12:00:00.000-06:002016-11-21T12:00:29.800-06:00PODCAST: The Serenity Of Stoicism <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN">Frankly, as Congress has not appropriated enough money for Obama’s large refugee numbers for FY17 (already underway) because it has not acted on the budget for the upcoming year, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/a-quick-primer-for-new-readers-the-refugee-contractors/&source=gmail&ust=1479824586309000&usg=AFQjCNFXlbbIjERvWqp4r6PKUKos7CjC7A" href="https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/a-quick-primer-for-new-readers-the-refugee-contractors/" target="_blank"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">contractors</span></span></i></strong><span style="color: #1155cc;"> </span></a>like the <strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">US Conference of Catholic Bishops</span></i></strong> are looking for ways to pawn off some of their responsibilities on, in this case, an individual church.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Members of<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> St. Patrick’s Catholic Church</span></i></strong> are apparently in the process of deciding if they will take responsibility for <strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">five</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> </span></em>(most likely Muslim since <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/over-1000-syrians-seeded-throughout-america-in-last-3-weeks-99-muslim/&source=gmail&ust=1479824586309000&usg=AFQjCNEVbBUd7Ih8Pd_U2fiEVvEhYFFATw" href="https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/over-1000-syrians-seeded-throughout-america-in-last-3-weeks-99-muslim/" target="_blank"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">99% of the Syrians entering the US now are Muslims</span></span></i></strong></a>) families. (I saw this story almost a week ago, so maybe they have already decided.)<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">US Conference of Catholic Bishops attempting to get the most bang for their federal bucks by not opening an office while turning over responsibility for Syrian families to a specific church.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;">This is a huge undertaking. I watched as a church near where I live in 2007 took on the responsibility for <strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">one</span></i></strong> family and it was an enormous chore that didn’t end well.</span><span lang="EN"> My local story is a long story, but members of St. Patricks must be prepared for many duties not the least of which is shuttling refugees in their own cars to myriad appointments (doctors, schools, social service departments) and often to jobs for months (one of the first things volunteers ultimately become weary of!).<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;">And,<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"> one of the other things that volunteers tire of is the lack of appreciation some ethnic groups of refugees show for volunteers.</span></i></strong> I can’t say that will happen here, but the fun and excitement of taking care of Africans and Middle Easterners wears thin when the refugees act entitled.</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">One more thing before I get to the story: Hudson, Wisconsin is on the border of Minnesota. Normally a federal contractor has an office within a hundred miles of where it places the refugees, but the three offices maintained by the Bishops in Wisconsin (Greenbay, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee) are all hundreds of miles away. However, the USCCB office in St. Paul, Minnesota is only 18 miles from Hudson so I assume that out-of-state office will be sending the federal money to St. Patrick’s. <span style="background: yellow;">My first thought is that the USCCB is now making decisions from over the border in Minnesota for what happens in another state.</span><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/4156505-st-patricks-church-asked-assist-refugee-resettlement&source=gmail&ust=1479824586309000&usg=AFQjCNFZMmhs7em5h9BWHSxmXH7IexXEzw" href="http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/4156505-st-patricks-church-asked-assist-refugee-resettlement" target="_blank"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Here is the news</span></span></i></strong><span style="color: #1155cc;"> </span></a>from the <strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Hudson Star-Observer</span></i></strong>:<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<strong><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Rev. John Gerritts and St. Patrick’s Church received a call from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for the parish to assist with the resettlement of five Syrian refugee families from a camp in Turkey to Hudson</span></i></strong><span lang="EN">. The church has not yet made a decision.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">The conference is one of several organizations that helps with the federal government’s refugee resettlement program. Through the program, the U.S. will admit 85,000 refugees this year [<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">reporter has it wrong, that was FY16, the number for FY17 is 110,000—ed</span></em>] , according to the U.S. State Department.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">These five refugee families have been vetted by the government and approved for resettlement in the United States, a process that can take between 18 and 24 months, Gerritts explained.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">Hudson is right across the state line from a huge resettlement area (mostly Somali refugee resettlement) in Minnesota.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">“It’s quite thorough and lengthy,” Gerritts said. “They are fully approved to move here. This is working through the government.”<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Hudson was selected as the families’ new home because they indicated they had a relative in Hudson during the vetting process. [<em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">One relative and five families are coming? Sounds fishy—ed</span></em>]<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Whether or not these five refugee families come to Hudson is not up to the church, as they have already been approved by the federal government. Instead St. Patrick’s is being asked to be a resource to spearhead the resettlement.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<strong><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Usually, after a location for resettlement is determined, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will reach out to an agency in the area that specializes in resettlement. The Hudson community does not have an agency like this, so instead St. Patrick’s has been asked to assist.<u> St. Patrick’s is one of the first parishes in the country who have been asked to take on this role.</u></span></i></strong><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<strong><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif;">St. Patrick’s would not bear any of the financial cost for these services. The church would be responsible for disbursing the government funding provided for refugee resettlement.</span></i></strong><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></h3>
<span lang="EN">For the full story, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/4156505-st-patricks-church-asked-assist-refugee-resettlement&source=gmail&ust=1479824586310000&usg=AFQjCNEIF9Jqy26hIhhdn36OfCuW-VOq2Q" href="http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/4156505-st-patricks-church-asked-assist-refugee-resettlement" target="_blank"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">go here</span></span></i></strong></a>.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow;">LOL! Parishioners at St. Patrick’s better get that in writing and the town of Hudson’s elected officials are presumably being briefed because there will be many costs to local taxpayers!</span><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">For new readers in Wisconsin, see our ‘Ten things your town needs to know’ by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/ten-things-your-town-needs-to-know-when-if-welcoming-refugees-for-the-first-time/&source=gmail&ust=1479824586310000&usg=AFQjCNFhEV38k8eSDnteS_0m9D7AjK_hMA" href="https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/ten-things-your-town-needs-to-know-when-if-welcoming-refugees-for-the-first-time/" target="_blank"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">clicking here</span></span></i></strong></a><span style="background: yellow;">. It is not just one Catholic parish that will be impacted by the decision, but the whole town! If you don’t like what is happening be sure to let Speaker Paul Ryan hear from you!</span><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-48890429760358588532016-11-21T10:00:00.000-06:002016-11-21T10:00:12.889-06:00Colin Kaepernick has never registered to vote in any election <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Colin Kaepernick raised eyebrows last week when he revealed that he did not vote in the presidential election amid a football season in which his <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article98300877.html&source=gmail&ust=1479824586344000&usg=AFQjCNGhgm8qe2fs9pYq_MTav8FgkK4TSw" href="http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article98300877.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> protest of racial inequality</span></a> gained national attention. In fact, it would have been problematic if he had. The Sacramento Bee found that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback has never been registered to vote.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Kaepernick, who was raised in Turlock, turned 18 in 2005, but he has not registered to vote in California at any point in the last decade, according to records maintained by the California Secretary of State. He also did not register in Nevada while he attended the University of Nevada, Reno, from 2006 to 2010, according to the Washoe County Registrar of Voters.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">That means he missed presidential elections in 2008 and 2012 – when Democrat Barack Obama was elected president – in addition to a variety of state and local elections in other years.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Attempts to reach Kaepnernick were unsuccessful. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/sport/49ers-qb-colin-kaepernick-explains-why-he-didnt-vote/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1479824586344000&usg=AFQjCNFCU0ZmY5ll9bTUjG8EVlbWk4MI2A" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/sport/49ers-qb-colin-kaepernick-explains-why-he-didnt-vote/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Speaking to reporters</span></a> on Sunday, Kaepernick said he did not care who won the 2016 election and it would have been “hypocritical of me to vote” for either President-elect Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“I said from the beginning I was against oppression, I was against the system of oppression,” Kaepernick said. “I’m not going to show support for that system. And to me, the oppressor isn’t going to allow you to vote your way out of your oppression.”<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Kaepernick’s protest began in August, when he refused to stand during the national anthem because he refused to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Other athletes have since joined in the gesture, though it has also generated intense backlash, including from Trump himself, who called it “a terrible thing” and suggested Kaepernick <span style="background: yellow;">“find a country that works better for him.”</span><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Obama spent the last few months ignoring his job as president while campaigning every day for Hillary to win his third term. Now that the voters elected Trump and rejected him, Obama is touring Greece, Germany, Italy, and Peru. While in Greece, he <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/obama_takes_one_more_overseas_vacation_on_the_taxpayers_dime_comments.html&source=gmail&ust=1479824586561000&usg=AFQjCNGEvwj34dIUjPQmU0C6lWY3xtVXQg" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/obama_takes_one_more_overseas_vacation_on_the_taxpayers_dime_comments.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> attacked Americans</span></a> who voted for Trump by labeling them as voting for the "dark side" of populism.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/politics/obama-europe-germany-angela-merkel/&source=gmail&ust=1479824586561000&usg=AFQjCNHuTucb_zrRNos94PMtmVRq8V-wOA" href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/politics/obama-europe-germany-angela-merkel/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> Obama said</span></a>:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Obama, with his outsized ego, is lecturing Trump on how to act as president. He is lecturing that Trump must unify the country and gain the trust of those who did not support Trump. Obama ignored the separation of powers to bypass Congress by issuing executive orders and agency regulations. He bragged that he had a pen and a phone to issue executive orders. Think of the DREAM Act to defer deportation of illegal aliens brought here as children, passing Obamacare with only Democratic votes on a parliamentary trick by Harry Reid to avoid the filibuster, calling the Iran deal an agreement instead of a treaty to avoid the two-thirds vote in the Senate, and amending Obamacare with waivers and executive orders and agency regulations.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Obama did his best to divide Americans by race and income. He did not attempt to gain the trust of Republicans; he attacked, mocked and ignored them.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He told Republicans that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D25HN1kZtRIw&source=gmail&ust=1479824586561000&usg=AFQjCNErDn4ziD7ECkZqZV_KBCyS9xgS-A" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25HN1kZtRIw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">he won</span></a>, so Republicans need to get in the back of the bus.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He told Senator McCain during the Obamacare debate that he won, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DCXudI0ibo-k&source=gmail&ust=1479824586561000&usg=AFQjCNFAhgIpK9Eq-kbQw-kaiOzubu-LRQ" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXudI0ibo-k" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">the election was over</span></a>, and that was that.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Obama attacked Trump as a racist endorsed by the KKK and unfit for the presidency. Now Obama is desperate to salvage his legacy, so he attempts to act as a wise and experienced statesman.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trump is showing class by ignoring Obama. Let him talk – nobody now cares what he says.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trump ran an "unconventional" campaign because he fought back against the lies of the Hillary campaign and its cheerleaders in the MSM and challenged the debate moderators. He worked much harder than Hillary in the battleground states by making more appearances and rallies than Hillary. He took his message directly to the voters with "yuuuge" rallies and social media.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Trump is in New York at Trump Tower, taking calls from Putin and Netanyahu and meeting with the Japanese prime minister. Trump is meeting with his rivals, such as Cruz and Romney, acting presidential. <span style="background: yellow;"> Meanwhile, Obama is doing a useless overseas trip, craving attention to remain relevant, and alternating between criticizing Trump voters and offering advice to Trump.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instead of lecturing Trump, Obama should lecture the anti-Trump rioters to obey the law and knock off the rioting. Then he should tell the snowflakes and delicate flowers who are seeking therapy, missing school, and crying because Trump won to grow up and support Trump to unify our country.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Obama is irrelevant. Trump is president. Putin and Bibi know it.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The mainstream media and the Democrats brought every weapon they had to the fight against Stephen K. Bannon — and, by extension, Donald Trump, and 61 million deplorables.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">For the first 24 hours, they had total control of the debate, and near-total control after that. They defined Bannon, and Breitbart, as antisemites, white nationalists, neo-Nazis. Who could survive that?<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">And yet Trump did not waver, and the Republican Party did not bend, and the conservative media did not break.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">This time, there were no betrayals — no political leaders who tried to help themselves by abandoning the victim of an entirely false and unjustified attack.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Even most of Bannon’s critics and rivals in the conservative media declined to condemn him.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">They understood: these were lies. And they knew: if we yield now, they will never stop.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">J. Christian Adams <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/11/16/five-things-to-know-about-the-steve-bannon-smears/3/&source=gmail&ust=1479824586226000&usg=AFQjCNEtbJze_AQ-U_ICxBLsBH-Ge6xU8Q" href="https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/11/16/five-things-to-know-about-the-steve-bannon-smears/3/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> noted</span></a> at PJ Media:<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">Twenty years ago, the conservative media landscape looked very different. Bannon and others have ushered in nothing less than a revolution.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">The <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Washington Post</span></em> hardly matters at all anymore, and those legacy conservative forums matter far less. Is it a coincidence that some of them are hosting the most toxic attacks on Bannon? Perhaps.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">But you can’t help but wonder if this is more about competitive advantage being sought by the publications who mattered a lot more before Steve Bannon and other conservative media sources supplanted the dominant players from two decades ago.<u></u><u></u></span></blockquote>
<span lang="EN">What changed? What brought sudden unity and courage to a movement that had been fractured, just days before, by grudges and promises of retribution?<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Was it the glow of victory after Election Day? Was it Trump’s example, repeated so often in the campaign, of never giving up in the face of media attacks? Was it the bare-knuckle fight-back of Breitbart News? Or was it the silent, steel resolve of Bannon himself?<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Whatever the reason, it is clear that there is a new spirit in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">The GOP elephant — loud and mighty, but frightened by mice — has begun to learn from the honey badger.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">The honey badger, you see, does not care. The honey badger will fight through venom, prey on predators.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">Welcome to the age of the honey badger.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN">We. Never. Quit.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. His new book, </span></em><span lang="EN"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.amazon.com/See-No-Evil-Truths-Handle/dp/162157394X?ie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dasap_bc&source=gmail&ust=1479824586226000&usg=AFQjCNEtMLy0yQZXxC0dFqsieu2ZAu4gDQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/See-No-Evil-Truths-Handle/dp/162157394X?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle</span></a><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;">, is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://twitter.com/joelpollak&source=gmail&ust=1479824586226000&usg=AFQjCNERgsLeP5v_ZeS2OT7ge24saZmQEQ" href="https://twitter.com/joelpollak" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@joelpollak</span></a>.</span></em><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-83700390432909265292016-11-18T12:00:00.000-06:002016-11-18T12:00:12.007-06:00Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels <div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-10310797703963653782016-11-18T10:00:00.000-06:002016-11-18T10:00:25.086-06:00Criminals Breaking State and Federal Gun Laws in This State Continue to go Unchecked <div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><br /></b><span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The Evergreen State has an interesting way of doling out justice and holding citizens accountable for breaking the law: they’re ignoring gun crimes.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">This year alone, thousands of Washingtonians prohibited from owning firearms through court orders have been denied a gun purchase when their <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.king5.com/mb/news/investigations/thousands-of-gun-crimes-go-unpunished-in-washington/352511600&source=gmail&ust=1479566046042000&usg=AFQjCNF6_R20yfnLZlTVlDmq2rpHZi2hOw" href="http://www.king5.com/mb/news/investigations/thousands-of-gun-crimes-go-unpunished-in-washington/352511600" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> background check failed to clear</span></a>. Although it is both a state and federal crime for a “prohibited person” to attempt to purchase a firearm, these criminals know their actions will go unpunished.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“I’m not going to beat around the bush. We’re not going to do anything with them,” said King County Sheriff John Urquhart.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Already this year, more than 3,2oo “prohibited people” have been denied a firearm purchase. But Sheriff Urquhart said even if a background check prevents one sale, it doesn’t mean that person wouldn’t find another way to get their hands on a firearm.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“If he really wanted to do harm to that woman with that gun, he can go out and buy one on the street like that,” the sheriff said as he snapped his fingers.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #676767; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">King County Sheriff’s Office records reviewed by KING 5 and Northwest News Network show that purchases were attempted by fugitives with active warrants, felons, domestic abusers and people who violated court protection orders.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #676767; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A half dozen women who were victims in those domestic violence cases said they were too frightened to speak publicly upon learning that their abusers had attempted to purchase firearms.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #676767; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“He’s mentally ill and scary,” one woman said of the former boyfriend who stalked her. He kept a gun close at hand until the court ordered him to surrender all his firearms.<u></u><u></u></span></blockquote>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“It’s troubling. It’s deeply concerning. These are individuals who are not allowed to have a gun for a serious reason,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3219329-PDF-White-Paper-Access-to-Firearms-in-Washington.html&source=gmail&ust=1479566046042000&usg=AFQjCNEGJVeyYaL2vMZUiP4B0f3Jf2rh2A" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3219329-PDF-White-Paper-Access-to-Firearms-in-Washington.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Access to Firearms in Washington State</span></a>“, a white paper report released by the Attorney General’s office in October, recommends “follow-up and potential enforcement” of attempted purchases by prohibited buyers, an idea Private Sector Arms owner Don Teague thinks would go a long way in curtailing this pattern of criminal activity.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“Prosecute some of those guys. You put a couple of those guys on the news for trying to purchase weapons and going to jail, that will put an end to that pretty quick,” Teague said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">“That’s what makes it so concerning. It’s not because you have a parking ticket. It’s not because you were speeding. These are serious situations, DV (domestic violence) felonies – that type of thing,” Ferguson said.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sheriff Urquhart said even if could find the resources to investigate these cases, the county prosecutor’s office would not be able to handle the extra caseload. Proving once again, we have all the gun laws needed to end violence: what we are lacking is the resources to enforce them.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><u></u><u></u></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-82444806025393835102016-11-18T09:03:00.002-06:002016-11-18T09:03:28.635-06:00Stephen Hawking Sets Deadline for Humans to Leave Earth <div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-3011828108258508302016-11-17T17:00:00.000-06:002016-11-17T17:00:06.992-06:00The Two Americas of 2016 <div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5536872042012567173.post-40218989621251135062016-11-17T16:00:00.000-06:002016-11-17T16:00:04.904-06:00California Votes Still Not Counted: If We Junked The Electoral College We Wouldn’t Know Who Was President Until Thanksgiving<div class="MsoNormal">
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