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HEALTH NEW NEANDERTHAL STUDY HELPING SCIENTISTS FIND OUT WHAT ‘MAKES HUMANS HUMAN’

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Obama's Gay high school pot dealer thanked for 'good times' beaten to death with a hammer by his gay lover

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Obama's Brother Declares Death to Israel

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You say lateral frontal pole, I say that little devil/angel that whispers in my ear Without recognising it, Oxford scientists appear to have located the consience

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Attorney General Eric Holder can't explain constitutional basis for Obama's executive orders

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INTERVIEW Mott the Hooples Ian Hunter on being at the MOJO Awards

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Chinese Military to Overtake U.S.

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Newborn Lebanese Baby "Joins" Hizbullah

MEMRI via  The Times of Israel 
 

Little baby Mahdi, a pudgy-faced Lebanese newborn who can still barely open his eyes, was destined to become a Hezbollah warrior from the moment he first entered this world.

“It’s a boy!” a balloon in the hallway of the Rasul Aatham hospital in Beirut proudly exclaims. But, snoozing in his bed, Mahdi is dressed as a fighter: In a video posted by Hezbollah-owned news channel al-Manar earlier this week, Mahdi is seen in a tiny military-style camouflage uniform only slightly too large for an infant of his stature. A hat bearing the Shiite organization’s emblem keeps his head warm.

“Nothing could be better than him becoming a soldier for the Imam Mahdi [the prophesied redeemer of Islam],” his mother, dressed in traditional black Middle Eastern garb, tells al-Manar in the video, according to a translation posted by MEMRI, an Arab news watchdog.

According to the al-Manar report, as a token of appreciation, Mahdi’s family had all hospital bills waived and was granted a golden necklace engraved with the name of the Prophet Muhammad.

“[He] reflects the continuation of the path of the Islamic resistance, one generation after another,” Mahdi’s mother says of her tiny baby in the video.

The Last Generation of the West and the Thin Strand of Civilization by Victor Davis Hanson

Had the Greeks lost at Salamis, Western civilization might easily have been strangled in its adolescence. Had Hitler not invaded the Soviet Union, the European democracies would have probably remained overwhelmed. And had the Japanese just sidestepped the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, as they gobbled up the orphaned Pacific colonies of a defunct Western Europe, the Pacific World as we know it now might be a far different, far darker place.

I am not engaging in pop counterfactual history, as much as reminding us of how thin the thread of civilization sometimes hangs, both in its beginning and full maturity. Something analogous is happening currently in the 21^st-century West. But the old alarmist scenarios — a nuclear exchange, global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps, a new lethal AIDS-like virus — should not be our worry.

Rather our way of life is changing not with a bang, but with a whimper, insidiously and self-inflicted, rather than abruptly and from foreign stimuli. Most of the problem is cultural. Unfortunately it was predicted by a host of pessimistic anti-democratic philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and Spengler. I’ve always hoped that these gloom-and-doomers were wrong about the Western paradigm, but some days it becomes harder.

Over 90 million Americans who could work are not working (the “non-institutionalized” over 16). What we take for granted — our electrical power, fuel, building materials, food, health care, and communications — all hinge on just 144 million getting up in the morning to produce what about 160-170 million others (the sick, the young, and the retired who need assistance along with the 90 million idle) consume.

Every three working Americans provide sustenance for two who are not ill, enfeebled, or too young. The former help the disabled, the latter take resources from them. The gang-banger has only disdain for the geek at the mall — until one Saturday night his liver is shredded by gang gunfire and suddenly he whimpers (who is now the real wimp?) that he needs such a Stanford-trained nerd to do sophisticated surgery to get him back in one piece to the carjackings, muggings, assaults, and knockout games — or lawsuits follow!

Given that the number of non-working is growing (an additional 10 million were idled in the Obama “recovery” alone), it is likely to keep growing. At some point, we will hit a 50/50 ratio of idle versus active. Then things will get interesting. The percentage of workers’ pay deducted to pay for the non-working will soar even higher. So will the present redistributive schemes and the borrowing from the unborn.

We forget that the obligations of the working to care for the 70-80 million who genuinely cannot work become more difficult, when the 90 million who can work for all sorts of reasons won’t. Note the theme of this essay: the more in humane fashion we provide unemployment insurance, food stamps, subsidized housing, legal advice, health care and disability insurance, the more the recipients find it all inadequate, inherent proof of unfairness and inequality, and always not enough.

Much of the Modern University Output Coarsens American Life
We will hear even more shrillness about “fairness” and “equality.” The more government support, all the more will grow the sense of being shorted. When someone idle receives a free iPhone, he doesn’t thank government for its magnanimity. More likely, he damns it for allowing someone else the ability to purchase an updated, superior model. I have talked to several students about their iPhones; so far not one has said, “Wow, I have more computer and communications power in my palm than a multi-millionaire had just 15 years ago.” Mostly they wished they had an updated version like someone better off.

An indebted and crippled U.S. has so far survived the second decade of the 21^st century largely due to some ingenious engineers and audacious workers who revolutionized the gas and oil industry, at a time when wind and solar merely amused us, when our enemies considered us ripe for perpetual petro-blackmail, and when our wherewithal to pay for more imported energy was increasingly questionable.

A very few people are saving very many. But how thin the strand of civilization hangs — given that the forces of our modern Lotus Eaters (every bit as dangerous in their postmodern imaginations as the Cyclopes are in their premodern savagery) have stopped the Keystone Pipeline, stopped most federal leasing of new gas and oil finds, and are trying to regulate fracking and horizontal drilling out of existence where it might be most vital to the U.S. — as in the Monterey Shale formation in California.

How ironic is the Sierra Club Bay Area grandee who finds light when he flips on his office switch, and would find no light were his utopian ideas about wind, solar, and biomass to come to full fruition. Only what he despises — radioactive uranium, messy drilling rigs, and unnatural dams — for now continue to bring him what he must have. Again, the theme: the more the green activists empty reservoirs to save a bait fish, or stop fracking, or prevent salvage logging, the angrier they sigh that it is not enough and the more they must count on someone ignoring them to provide them with what they must have.

The universities were the great backbone of the West, from the Academy and Lyceum to medieval Pisa and Oxbridge to the great 18^th- and 19^th-century founding of American campuses. Not necessarily any longer. Too many are bankrupt morally, economically, politically, and culturally.
The symptoms are terrifying: one trillion dollars in student debt (many of these loans accruing at higher than average interest rates and even before students have graduated); a small Eloi class of rarefied elites who teach little and write in runes that no one can decipher;  a large Morlock class of part-timers and oppressed lecturers who subsidize the fat and waste of the tenured and administrative classes; graduates who are arrogant but ignorant, nursed on –studies ideology without the liberal arts foundations to back up their zeal; and a BA/BS brand that no longer ensures better-paying jobs, if any jobs at all.

In sum, apart from the sciences and medicine, most of the university coarsens rather than enlightens American life.

The current campus is unsustainable and we are beginning to see its decline, as online courses and for-profit tech schools usurp its students. The liberal arts are not nurtured and protected for another generation in the university. Instead, their umbilical cords have become cut with the cleaver of race/class/gender no-nothingism. Again the theme: the more bloated, exploitive, and costly the university, the more it lashes out it that it is short-changed, the victim of philistine budget cuts, and the last bastion of civilized life.

Civilization Seems to Be Losing

Popular culture is likewise anti-civilizational. Does anyone believe that Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, and Lady Gaga are updates to Glenn Miller, jazz, Bob Dylan and the Beatles? Even in the bimbo mode, Marilyn Monroe had an aura that Ms. Kardashian and Ms. Hilton lack. Teens wearing bobby socks and jeans have transmogrified to strange creatures in our midst with head-to -oe tattoos and piercings as if we copied Papua New Guinea rather than it us. Why the superficial skin-deep desire to revert to the premodern? When I walk in some American malls and soak in the fashion, I am reminded of National Geographic tribal photos of the 1950s.

Again the theme: the more we borrow to provide iPads to our supposedly deprived youth, the more in theory they can access in a nano-second the treasures of their culture and heritage, and in fact the more likely it is that they have no clue what Gettysburg was, who Thomas Jefferson was, or who fought whom over what in World War II. Our managers in education, terrified of confronting the causes of ignorance, believed that the faster youths could transmit nothingness, the more likely they might stumble onto somethingness.

The fourth-century Greeks at the end pasted silver over their worthless bronze coins — “reds” being the protruding noses and hair of the portraiture that first appeared bronze-like, as the silver patina rubbed off. The bastardization of the currency fostered many books on Roman decline. More worthless money for more people was a sign of “crisis” — analogous to our own quantitative easing and $17 trillion in debt.

Once more the theme here is not just that we are insolvent, but that we are so insolvent that it is now a thought-crime to talk of dissolution, bankruptness, and irresponsible spending — all damned as symptoms of “callousness” to the poor, proof of “social injustice”, and “obsessions” with deficits. The medicine of austerity always becomes worse than the disease of profligacy.

What do I mean about the “thinning strand of civilization”?

A shrinking percentage of our population feeds us, finds our energy, protects us, and builds things we count on. They get up each morning to do these things, in part in quest for the good life, in part out of a sense of social obligation and basic humanity, in part because they know they will die if idle and thrive only when busy, and in part simply because “they like it.”

We can stack the deck against them with ever higher taxes, ever more regulations, ever more obligations to others, and they may well continue. But not if we also damn them as the “1%” and call them the agents of inequality and the fat cats who did not build what they built or who profited when they should not have.

You cannot expect the military to protect us, and then continually order it to reflect every aspect of postmodern American sensitivity in a risky premodern world. Filing a lawsuit to divert a river’s water to the sea during a drought is a lot easier and cleaner than welding together well-casings at sea. Last week, an off-duty armed correctional officer in Fresno intervened in a wild carjacking, shooting and killing the gang-member killer and thus limiting his carnage to one death and two woundings rather than five or six killings — at the very moment Harvey Weinstein — of guns-blazing Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction fame and profits — promised to destroy the NRA. These contrasts say everything about the premodern, the postmodern and the innocent who pay the tab in-between.

Each day when I drive to work I try to look at the surrounding communities, and count how many are working and how many of the able-bodied are not. I listen to the car radio and tally up how many stories, both in their subject matter and method of presentation, seem to preserve civilization, or how many seem to tear it down. I try to assess how many drivers stay between the lines, how many weave while texting or zoom in and out of traffic at 90mph or honk and flip off drivers.

Today, as the reader can note from the tone of this apocalyptic essay, civilization seemed to be losing.

Locklear: Asia-Pacific is Becoming ‘Most Militarized Region in the World’

American allies and potential adversaries in the Pacific are busily amassing formidable stockpiles of advanced military hardware, just as American commanders are doubling down on U.S. presence in the region.

Aside from China’s aggressive efforts to buildup its military arsenal, countries like Japan, Australia and Singapore are quickly following suit, Pacific Command chief Adm. Samuel Locklear said Thursday.

As a result, the seas and skies of the Asia-Pacific is rapidly evolving into “the most militarized region in the world,” the four-star admiral told reporters at the Pentagon.

The state of Wisconsin’s unemployment rate is “rapidly falling” and the government’s budget ended the year with a $912 million surplus, Limbaugh explained. He says the dramatic turnaround is due in large part to the conservative policies of Gov. Scott Walker.

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Utah Police Obtain Grenade Launchers, Riot Gear From Feds

For the past five years, the Pentagon has equipped dozens of Utah police departments with a wide variety of military equipment commonly used in riot response such as the aforementioned grenade launchers, M14s, M16s and mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles through the Excess Property 1033 Program, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

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Swarms of drones next attack on the 4th amendment

Swarms of drones could be the next frontier in emergency response Nidhi Subbaraman NBC News

Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years

In a memo to clients provided to Secrets, David John Marotta calculates the actual unemployment rate of those not working at a sky-high 37.2 percent, not the 6.7 percent advertised by the Fed, and the Misery Index at over 14, not the 8 claimed by the government.

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Are Hollywood Celebs Disappointed With Obama?

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WATCH: CNN CREW ROUGHED UP BY CHINESE COMMUNIST POLICE: SURPRISED?

A CNN crew led by network correspondent David McKenzie covering the trial of a human rights activist in Beijing was roughed up by Chinese police, had their camera broken and were hauled away in a police car. However, the Chinese police failed to destroy the crew's video tape of the incident.

LIBERAL ICON URGES OBAMA IMPEACHMENT

'The most destructive, dangerous president we've ever had'
Nat Hentoff, one of the nation's staunchest civil libertarians, has urged impeachment for:

The most well-known examples of Obama changing or issuing laws with the stroke of a pen by issuing executive orders include:

• Delaying the employer mandate in Obamacare

• Changing the types of plans available under Obamacare

• Ensuring abortions would be covered under Obamacare

• Enacting key provisions of the failed Dream Act to halt deportations of illegal immigrants

• Enacting stricter gun-control measures

• Sealing presidential records

• Creating an economic council

• Creating a domestic policy council

• Changing pay grades

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/liberal-icon-urges-obama-impeachment/#H87jVzjgfwYsFlVg.99

China Exports Pollution to U.S.

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RIP Freddie "Fingers" Lee, Ian Hunter

Freddies FUNERAL :
Wednesday, January 22,(2014)
At: "Saint Mary's" Church,Blackhill Consett
County Durham (North-England)
at: 1.15 p.m.(13.15 hours )
English-Time (!)

Statement from Ian on Freddie's passing:

"I’m so sorry.

Fred, Miller Anderson, Pete Phillips and I had some great times back in the day. Fred was a character. He told me he started with Sutch on ten bob a week AND he had to drive the van. We starved together in Germany – van broken down – club owner not paying us – but we got to play for hours every night and that was the buzz. Somehow disasters were averted and we’d make it back.

I always felt bad for Fred. He was – quite naturally – Jerry Lee Lewis’s twin. Same range, same power on the keyboards, same arrogance and he could be really funny – same love of American Country music – he would often sail into a song the band had never heard of. Fred loved the raw original beginnings of Rock ‘n’ Roll and remained staunchly loyal to it during a long, successful career. He had a lot of fans in Europe and never seemed to stop working – music was his life.

We all went off and did different things, but I’ll always be grateful to Fred for giving me a little hope at a time when I thought the factory was my only future.

I’ll always remember him saying to me “You’re a good songwriter – but don’t ever try to sing.” He was probably right!!!

Rest In Peace, Freddie.
Condolences to all.
Ian Hunter
January 13, 2014
Connecticut, USA"

In March 1964, Ian chanced upon Freddie 'Fingers' Lee in a pub. Ian knew of Freddie, having seen him play with Screaming Lord Sutch's backing band, the Savages. Ian asked Freddie to join The Shriekers as pianist and front man, and Ian switched over to bass. The reconstituted Shriekers - Lee, Hunter, Marriott, and Coulter - played the Midlands circuit in 1964 and 1965, and also traveled regularly to Germany to play in Hamburg, Keil, and Duisburg. At some point in 1965, The Shriekers travelled to Regent Sound in London to record The Friendly Undertaker, which was credited to Freddie 'Fingers' Lee as a solo artist.

1964, Freddie Fingers Lee and the Shriekers

Death of Consett's own Jerry Lee Lewis

Irish Muslim Convert Beheads, Dismembers His Mother in Honor Killing Inspired by the Quran: “he believed very strongly in the morals of the Koran”

Friend claims James Dunleavy murdered mum in ‘honour killing’ because he felt she’d shamed family,” Daily Record, January 20, 2014

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Muslim Brotherhood Islamists Waved Through Airport Security, Americans Detained

IPT Exclusive: Records Prove MB Delegates Skipped Airport Inspections Newly released records confirm a 2012 Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) report that the State Department cleared the way for a visiting delegation of Muslim Brotherhood officials to enter the country without undergoing routine inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. The records, marked "sensitive but unclassified," were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. They offer few details. The State Department released a one-page document labeled "Compiled References to MB Delegation Arrival and Departure" containing four separate communications between March 30 and April 16, 2012 about the Brotherhood delegation. It is not clear who wrote them or who received them. Investigative Project on Terrorism

Green Fade-Out: Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals

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Leahy Says Gov't Should Stop Controlling People

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LATINA ACTRESS BANNED SINCE APPEARING IN CONSERVATIVE CAMPAIGN AD

SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE HAPPENED TO FAMOUS LATINO ACTRESS SINCE APPEARING IN CONSERVATIVE CAMPAIGN AD

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Michigan: Catholic College Establishes Prayer Room For Muslims

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Thousands of European Muslims join jihad in Syria, Sudan, Somalia GLOBAL JIHAD 2014

Thousands of European Muslims join jihad in Syria, Sudan, Somalia GLOBAL JIHAD 2014 5 Comments Read more: http://pamelageller.com/atlas_shrugs/2014/01/thousands-of-european-muslims-join-jihad-in-syria-sudan-somalia.html/#ixzz2qrLB5KS9 Follow us: @Atlasshrugs on Twitter | pamelageller on Facebook

Chick-fil-A, 21 January

You'll be "happy, happy, happy" on Tuesday, January 21. That's when liberty-loving Americans from all across the country will unite at local Chick-fil-A restaurants for a day-long celebration of free speech and good food.

Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to give himself in: “When I surrendered, the past seemed like a dream"

The Independent When Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda stumbled out of the Philippine jungle in 1974, the world had been transformed beyond his imagination. The American enemy he fought against had become a military ally of the country he fought for. Japan had been transformed from pariah militarist state to peaceful superpower. One of the few things than remained unchanged was Onoda himself.

Dancing Bald Dog Rescue

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COURT: BLOGGERS HAVE FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS, AP

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by an Oregon bankruptcy trustee against a Montana blogger who wrote online that the court-appointed trustee criminally mishandled a bankruptcy case.

States in the Worst Fiscal Condition

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Working Paper

The Ancient Domes of Jerusalem, Not Al Aqsa

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Message by “Arab Nazi” Threatens Jews with Torment Worse Than the Holocaust

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Obama Fiddles While Benghazi Burns: Timeline

Ominous warning: Admiral concedes U.S. losing dominance to China, Washington Times

Commander of Obama’s Asia pivot eyes military posturing by China

NSA Official: 'We Are Now a Police State'

Last year, high-ranking NSA official Bill Binney said, “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.” Now, Binney says that the U.S. has already become a full-blown police state. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/nsa-official-we-are-now-police-state#sthash.LOUz0Dxo.yVnDT9Tk.dpuf “This is a total corruption of the justice system not only in our country but around the world. The source of the info is at the bottom of each slide. This is a totalitarian process – means we are now in a police state.” - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/nsa-official-we-are-now-police-state#sthash.LOUz0Dxo.yVnDT9Tk.dpuf

GALLUP: OBAMA SLIPS BACK TO 30S...

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Fed-Up Mother Tackles Common Core in Viral Video: ‘Parents Have No Voice’

Karen Lamoreaux, an Arkansas parent who appeared in a viral video tackling some of the issues associated with the Common Core, appeared on the Glenn Beck Program Wednesday to discuss the “dumbing down of American kids.”

AUDIO: Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza’s Phone Call Made 1 Year Before Sandy Hook Massacre

The New York Daily News recently obtained audio from a radio call Lanza reportedly made in which he compares the violent attack of a domesticated chimpanzee to “a teenage mall shooter.” The Daily News reported that the audio was confirmed to be Lanza by two people who knew him.

If it is in fact Lanza, he called to the University of Oregon’s radio station KWVA 88.1 FM on Dec. 11, 2011, and identified himself as “Greg.”

On the “Anarchy Radio” show hosted by John Zerzan, Lanza complimented Zeran’s writing and brought up what he called “an old news story…that seems relevant to your interests.” The topic was Travis the chimpanzee, a domesticated animal who lived with a family in Connecticut for more than a decade before he violently attacked a neighbor in 2009.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/16/audio-adam-lanzas-eerie-phone-call-made-1-year-before-sandy-hook-massacre/

Muslim Jew-Hatred in Germany: Bonn Imam tells 13 year old boys to cut off heads of chicks in prep for decapitating Jews

Muslim Jew-Hatred in Germany: Bonn Imam tells 13 year old boys to cut off heads of chicks in prep for decapitating Jews

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NSA COLLECTS 200 MILLION TEXT MESSAGES PER DAY

NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep • NSA extracts location, contacts and financial transactions • 'Dishfire' program sweeps up 'pretty much everything it can' • GCHQ using database to search metadata from UK numbers

Keystone Pipeline Energy

Obama Promises to Violate Constitution

Obama to Dems: I'll act with or without Congress

Obama has told Senate Democrats he plans to use his executive authority to act in 2014 when Congress stands in his way.

China’s Treasury Holdings Climb to Record in Government Data

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-15/china-s-treasury-holdings-rose-to-record-in-november-data-show.html

Meet Blackphone, A Highly Secure Device Perfect For Paranoid Sext Fiends

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Helicopter Over Baltimore To Monitor Radiation

CBS Baltimore

Crime study: Handguns, not 'assault rifles,' used in most mass shootings

Instead, according to James Alan Fox, author and criminology professor at Northeastern University, mass shootings have remained stagnant over 34 years, averaging 20 a year, and few were committed by the type of berserk psychos portrayed by the media. “Public discourse is grounded in myth and misunderstanding about the nature of the offense and those who perpetrate it,” he writes in the journal “Homicide Studies.” He added: “Without minimizing the pain and suffering of the hundreds of those who have been victimized in recent attacks, the facts clearly say that there has been no increase in mass shootings and certainly no epidemic.” Washington Examiner

Obama Promises to Violate the Constitution

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Border-patrol drones being borrowed by other agencies more often than previously known

Washington Post

NSA Radio Pathway into Unconnected Computers

NYT

Heritage Foundation, America No Longer Economically Free

World economic freedom has reached record levels, according to the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, released Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. But after seven straight years of decline, the U.S. has dropped out of the top 10 most economically free countries. WSJ.com

The Benghazi Transcripts: Top Defense officials briefed Obama on ‘attack,’ not video or protest

Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.

NSA Data Have No Impact on Terrorism: Report

“Our investigation found that bulk collection of American phone metadata has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism and only the most marginal of impacts on preventing terrorist-related activity, such as fundraising for a terrorist group,” Peter Bergen, director of the foundation’s national security program, said in a statement. Bloomberg Politics

Petition for Troops to Commander Homes

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Mystery of Alexander the Great's death solved? Ruler was 'killed by toxic wine' claim scientists

A leading toxicologist has said that Alexander the Great may have died after drinking wine made from a poisonous plant that would have cause a slow and painful death

The tide is rising for America’s libertarians By Edward Luce

The new spirit in a rising climate of anti-politics has become an attitude, rather than a movement

DOE Plugs Energy Rating for Homes, Similar to MPG Rating for Cars

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Cell Phones 18 Times Dirtier Than Public Restrooms

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China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation, The Guardian

China had already become the world's largest exporter of goods in 2009. China had already become the world's largest exporter of goods in 2009.

U.S. war gains in Iraq now lost or threatened

A nation once seen as a great hope in the Middle East is unraveling, as al-Qaeda sinks its teeth in, and a bloodied America wonders what could have been. The cities of Fallujah and Ramadi captured this past week by al-Qaeda had been liberated during the Iraq war in the bloodiest combat U.S. troops had seen since Vietnam. The victory left the Iraqi insurgency beaten and humiliated in Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni Muslim homeland that Osama bin Laden himself had claimed would be a graveyard for the hated Americans. If al-Qaeda reasserts control of Anbar, it will be able to boast of defeating the "Great Satan" while establishing a haven from which to make more trouble: pouring fighters into Syria, threatening the borders of Lebanon and Jordan, and linking up with insurgents in Arab Gulf nations friendly to the United States. That would have provided a base from which to strike al-Qaeda in its backyard and counter Iranian influence in the region, analysts say. Case in point: The United States still has 40,000 troops in Japan and 54,000 in Germany a half-century after World War II ended. U.S. commanders under Obama recommended keeping 20,000 troops in what was deemed a more volatile area of the world. Commanders said a robust troop presence would help Iraqi forces keep a lid on violence and allow the U.S. to keep tabs on al-Qaeda. Obama rejected the idea, Kagan said.

More Women Not in the Labor Force

More Women Not in the Labor Force

World War II Time Lapse Video

Here’s the video’s legend (from the video’s description): Maroon: Axis Power members, their dependencies/colonies, and annexed lands. Burgundy: Areas militarily occupied by the Axis Powers. Red: Axis puppet states. Pink: Axis gains during that day. Blue: Allied powers and areas occupied by the allies. Light blue: Allied gains for that day. Purple colors (left to right): Finland, occupied by Finland, and Finnish gains that day. Dark Green: The USSR before it joined the allies and annexed lands. Green: Areas militarily occupied by the USSR before it joined the allies. Light Green: Soviet gains for that day. And here are some key dates to watch for (list courtesy i09): September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland (watch the Soviets move in to take their half starting September 17) April 9, 1940: Germany invades Norway May 10, 1940: Germany invades France April 6, 1941: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece June 22, 1941: Germany invades Soviet Union November 25, 1941: The Battle for Moscow July 3, 1942: Sevastopol falls to Germany October 23, 1942: Battle of El Alamein begins January 31, 1943: German surrender at Stalingrad March 15, 1943: Germans retake Kharkov May 12, 1943: Surrender of Axis forces in North Africa July 10, 1943: Allied landings in Sicily (Operation Husky) June 4, 1944: Rome captured by Allies June 6, 1944: Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) August 15, 1944: Allied landings in South of France August 25, 1944: Paris liberated January 17, 1945: Soviets capture Warsaw April 13, 1945: Soviets capture Vienna April 23, 1945: Soviets enter Berlin http://youtu.be/WOVEy1tC7nk

Elvis Has Not Yet Left the Building

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WOMAN WHO RELEASED OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE DIES IN PLANE CRASH

INCREDIBLE NEW FOOTAGE SHOWS PLANE CRASH THAT KILLED WOMAN WHO RELEASED OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE Theblaze.com

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Stop Government, Promote Jobs, Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas

You have seen firsthand the benefits that Marcellus Shale gas production has brought to Pennsylvania. It is supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs — something that’s being felt in every corner of the state. Now, Pennsylvania is considering new regulations that contain some provisions that could have a negative impact on industry operations. Energy Citizens need to speak up and let regulators know that they support environmental safeguards, but there needs to be a balance between environmental protection and industry development. Tell Pennsylvania regulators that you support natural gas development! Changes to Pennsylvania regulations governing oil and gas drilling could have a huge impact. Since 2008, the natural gas industry has paid over $1.7 billion in taxes to the state. It has provided over $400 million in revenue to communities throughout Pennsylvania through the natural gas impact fee. And, of course, it is supporting good-paying jobs that didn’t exist before Marcellus Shale production began. Energy citizens.org

Regime Admits Islamists of Al Qaeda Behind Benghazi

For the first-time ever today, the U.S. State Department identified specific Islamisterrorist groups behind the deadly attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The official announcement comes one day before the 16-month anniversary of the eight-hour assault that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, information specialist Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. It also further exposes as false the Obama administration’s “cover story” that the terror attacks were a spontaneous response to an obscure anti-Muslim video. Here’s an excerpt from today’s statement: "Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi and Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah have been involved in terrorist attacks against civilian targets, frequent assassinations, and attempted assassinations of security officials and political actors in eastern Libya, and the September 11, 2012 attacks against the U.S. Special Mission and Annex in Benghazi, Libya." What may be even worse is that the State Department also says, "Members of both organizations continue to pose a threat to U.S. interests in Libya." So, not only is no one in custody 16 months after the murderous assault, but those same terrorists STILL “pose a threat.” The State Department identified two of those terrorists in their announcement today. According to FOX News, one of them “has historic ties to the Al Qaeda network” and even trained under Osama bin Laden.

92 Million Americans Not in the Labor Force

People Not In Labor Force Soar To Record 91.8 Million; Participation Rate Plunges To 1978 Levels Zerohedge

EXCLUSIVE–REP BRIDENSTINE: OBAMA’S POLITICS OF WAR CANNOT CONTINUE IN AFGHANISTAN

As a Navy pilot who flew combat missions in Afghanistan (2002) and Iraq (2003) and now as a Member of Congress, I cannot react to the news of Al Qaeda in Iraq’s resurgence in Fallujah and Ramadi with anything but frustration and anger. Frustration – because so much American blood was spilled wresting these cities from insurgents. Anger – because the Obama Administration put ideology and politics above the national interest. Our policy in Afghanistan must be more responsible than our policy in Iraq.

Religious Less Sick Than Others

Religious people take fewer sick days and are less anxious because spirituality 'offers a buffer against the strains of modern life' People who are religious are less likely to be stressed at work They are also less likely to be depressed or exhausted They are more likely to feel that their life has meaning Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2536433/Religious-people-fewer-sick-days-anxious-spirituality-offers-buffer-against-strains-modern-life.html#ixzz2q0G9AgCs Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever in Middle East

(CNN) -- From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles across the heart of the Middle East, according to English and Arab language news accounts as well as accounts on jihadist websites. Indeed, al Qaeda appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history.

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Congress Is Now Mostly A Millionaires’ Club

For the first time, more than half of congressional lawmakers are worth at least $1 million Read more: For the First Time, the Majority of Congress Are Millionaires | TIME.com http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/09/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-club/#ixzz2pwVq6Oop

That’s rich: Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record

The Washington Times

Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under Obama.

Although the president often rails against income inequality in America, his policies have had little impact overall on poverty. A record 47 million Americans receive food stamps, about 13 million more than when he took office.

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Gates on Billary: Thumbs down on Iraq

In a new memoir of his time as secretary of defense in the Obama administration, Gates writes: “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”

Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”

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Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

The New York Times

US FORMS MILITARY PARTNERSHIP WITH IRAN FOR FIRST TIME

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Is it 1914 all over again? We are in danger of repeating the mistakes that started WWI, says a leading historian

The Independent

People sign Petition to Support Obama's Choice of Karl Marx in the White House

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FBI Drops Law Enforcement for National Security

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Power Vacuum in Middle East Lifts Militants

This is the result of Obama's failed Middle Eastern outreach policies.

Elite of Ancient Pompeii Dined on Sea Urchin, Giraffe

LiveScience

EVERLY BROTHERS’ SINGER PHIL — WROTE LEGENDARY HITS IN ’50S AND ’60S WITH SIBLING DON — DIES AT 74

US HERE ARE THE RIGHTS YOU HAVE WHEN INTERACTING WITH A POLICE OFFICER IN ONE DETAILED INFOGRAPHIC

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Al Qaeda Takes Fallujah, Again

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Americans Sabotage F-35s with Chinese Junk Parts

Exclusive: U.S. waived laws to keep F-35 on track with China-made parts

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U.S. Seeking al Qaeda Terrorist Linked to Benghazi Attack

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ANTI-COMMUNIST ICON BLASTS OBAMA ON ‘FAILED’ MORAL LEADERSHIP: ‘IT’S A DANGEROUS SITUATION’

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American Taxpayers Redistribute Wealth for Fiat in Italy

At the beginning of 2014, Detroit may be bankrupt, but they’re cheering the five-year-old U.S. auto bailout in Italy. That’s because after being the beneficiary of billions in U.S. taxpayer largesse, Fiat, the leading Italian auto company, is going to buy its final stake in Chrysler from that other big bailout recipient, the United Auto Workers (UAW).

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Obamacare mandate takes effect; court’s move on contraception clouds milestone

Obamacare’s authors included the annual penalty to ensure enough healthy Americans enter the market and pay premiums to offset the costs incurred by those with pre-existing conditions who no longer can be denied insurance coverage.

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