For those of you who don't follow the Ian Hunter To Tour Down Under Campaign thread :-) :-( As mentioned previously a couple of weeks ago during Record Store Day celebrations at Greville Records in Melbourne several music artists played acoustic versions of David Bowie songs. One of the artists, Tim Rogers of the excellent Australian band You Am I, included a great version of 'All The Young Dudes' in his set. He also gave Mott The Hoople a good mention during his intro. A friend, Harry Williams, filmed the performances and has posted some of them on Youtube. The Tim Rogers clip is attached. The whole video is worth watching but ATYD and Tim's intro starts at about 6.30 in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2TgBKEeRKI Tim Rogers was also interviewed on an Australian national morning TV show, 'Today Extra', yesterday talking about an upcoming David Bowie tribute show at the Sydney Opera House. His band will be playing 'All The Young Dudes' at the tribute show. Tim not only mentioned Mott The Hoople once during the interview, he mentioned them twice :-) :-) Hopefully the following link to the video works for international viewers :-) https://www.9now.com.au/today/2016/clip ... mxbv7zxysd As a little bit of music trivia for you the male interviewer is David Campbell who is the son of Australian music veteran Jimmy Barnes, the lead singer of the legendary Australian band Cold Chisel, who some of you might have heard of.
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You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion - I Am Awesome Trailer (January 2018)
You Can Be Brave
Official Trailer
Published on Jan 19, 2018“You Can Be Brave” is a feature documentary about one mother’s 15-year journey boldly fighting for her son (who has an intellectual and developmental disability) to be included in society. You will see how her perspective on disability evolved, and how she is continuing to break barriers to (dis)ABILITY inclusion. You will understand what it means to have a disability in our society, and what we as a community can do to take informed, intentional action to include people of all abilities. “My heroes are the parents of people with intellectual disabilities. They fight this fight 365 days a year, 7 days a week, all day, all night. Parents of kids with special needs are never done.” ~ Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies International “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; there is only ‘us’.” ~ Tim Shriver, Special Olympics "You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion" is an Ability Revolution, Inc. Film in collaboration with Collaborate Films. Producer & Director: Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke Cinematographer & Editor: Jaime Espiritu of Collaborate Films Music Director: Rich McCulley Narrator: Brian Shawn Title Song: Michael Riah
Original Music Featured in Film
Michael Riah Singer/Songwriter
Michael Riah is a soulful singer/songwriter who explores visceral human experiences in love and spirituality in his music. His delivery is vulnerable, yet sophisticated, raw, yet refined. Listen to Long Day, one of of the songs featured in the film.
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Post-Production Sound Engineer: Mike Manuel Production Advisor: Kenni Camota Marketing & Distribution Coordinator: Christopher Luebke www.YouCanBeBrave.com Facebook Page: You Can Be Brave Movie Twitter: @YouCanBeBrave18 Instagram: @YouCanBeBrave2018
Official Trailer
Published on Jan 19, 2018“You Can Be Brave” is a feature documentary about one mother’s 15-year journey boldly fighting for her son (who has an intellectual and developmental disability) to be included in society. You will see how her perspective on disability evolved, and how she is continuing to break barriers to (dis)ABILITY inclusion. You will understand what it means to have a disability in our society, and what we as a community can do to take informed, intentional action to include people of all abilities. “My heroes are the parents of people with intellectual disabilities. They fight this fight 365 days a year, 7 days a week, all day, all night. Parents of kids with special needs are never done.” ~ Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies International “There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; there is only ‘us’.” ~ Tim Shriver, Special Olympics "You Can Be Brave: Breaking Barriers to Inclusion" is an Ability Revolution, Inc. Film in collaboration with Collaborate Films. Producer & Director: Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke Cinematographer & Editor: Jaime Espiritu of Collaborate Films Music Director: Rich McCulley Narrator: Brian Shawn Title Song: Michael Riah
Original Music Featured in Film
Michael Riah Singer/Songwriter
Michael Riah is a soulful singer/songwriter who explores visceral human experiences in love and spirituality in his music. His delivery is vulnerable, yet sophisticated, raw, yet refined. Listen to Long Day, one of of the songs featured in the film.
Featured Song
Post-Production Sound Engineer: Mike Manuel Production Advisor: Kenni Camota Marketing & Distribution Coordinator: Christopher Luebke www.YouCanBeBrave.com Facebook Page: You Can Be Brave Movie Twitter: @YouCanBeBrave18 Instagram: @YouCanBeBrave2018
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
DOJ Says Atty. Gen. Used Alias to Conduct Official Business to Protect Security, Privacy
Illustrating how government hides information from the American public,
former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official
Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the
nation’s chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama’s second
attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth
Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records
provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to “protect
her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business
efficiently via email.”
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. “The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,” Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General’s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized “Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.” The anti-terror initiatives have also made “the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,” the letter states. SCN assures however, that “violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.” In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn’t produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama’s EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.
In Lynch’s case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration’s involvement in a United Nation’s international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.’s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a “truly groundbreaking endeavor” and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. “The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves,” Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General’s fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized “Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring.” The anti-terror initiatives have also made “the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements,” the letter states. SCN assures however, that “violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group.” In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn’t produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch’s fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch’s original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
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Villanova Gift
Villanova University announces a $22.6 million leadership gift from William B. Finneran ’63, for the advancement of its strategic plan for a renovation of the Pavilion and programmatic support for its MBB program http://www1.villanova.edu/…/…/pressreleases/2016/0420-1.htmlless
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Archbishop Charles Chaput: Faith, State, and Society in a New World
Thursday, February 22, 2018 | 4:00, Location, Connelly Center Cinema
Speaker: Archbishop Charles Chaput | Religion and Public Life Lecture
Topic: “Things to Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World”
Descrpition: We are honored to have Archbishop Chaput for our first annual Religion and Public Life Lecture. The Archbishop takes his title from the 1933 H.G. Wells novel which offers a “future history” that involves the explicit and deliberate suppression of organized religion. A good brain tease, the book is also a trigger for discussing the effects of the Cultural Revolution’s generation on the course of the country, which will be the substance of his talk.
The I-Thou of Transition
Martin Buber, the preeminent Jewish theologian, and job transitioning are never found in the same sentence but I will take the chance to do so.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
People's Permission to Enact Change
If adherents of both major political parties are so disappointed with their respective party choices why not reach across the aisle and change D.C.? What do all of us in America want?
The Founders knew there would be a time when the Federal government would be out of control and this is that time.
We do not need to wait for a president or Congress to act.
Here is your permission to act granted to you by the Founders.
“Or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress;”
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American Muslims Film Social Studies
According to their web site, IMAN (Inner-City Muslim Action Network) receives funding from the city of Chicago and the Federal government.
City of Chicago Department of the Environment
Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
United States Department of Agriculture
Should there be a separation of mosque and state as there is a separation of church and state?
Should taxpayer money be used to promote religion?
Likewise, should government agencies promote Islam?
Luby Ismail- Founder, Connecting Cultures, LLC
Clients of CC include:
Government Agencies include the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Federal Judicial Center, DC Federal Court, Food and Drug Administration, Foreign Agricultural Service, Foreign Service Institute, AmeriCorps, Brookhaven National Laboratories, African American Labor Center, Amtrak, and Freddie Mac.
Military and law enforcement clients include the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Marines Law Enforcement, the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration, the Michigan National Guard, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Aisha Rahman- Executive Director, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
Saafir Rabb II-CEO, Interculture, who is also from the Islamic Center in Baltimore, MD.
The Mosque has been an Islamist stronghold.
The mosque was led for over a decade by an Imam who justified suicide bombings in some circumstances and who helped found a mosque with ties to Al Qaeda.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)–which has been declared a terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation’s Hamas-funding operation.
Numerous members of the Baltimore Islamic Center have Islamist terror ties.
Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh
Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, a native of Sudan and former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, led the institution for eighteen years as its Imam.
Before becoming Imam there, el-Sheikh helped found the Muslim American Society, an outfit created by Muslim Brotherhood members.
In 2004, he told the Washington Post, commenting on Palestinian suicide bombers: “If certain Muslims are to be cornered where they cannot defend themselves, except through these kinds of means, and their local religious leaders issued fatwas to permit that, then it becomes acceptable as an exceptional rule, but should not be taken as a principle.”
El-Sheikh also helped found the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque, which was once led by the deceased infamous Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki.
When he left the Islamic Society of Baltimore, El Sheikh became the Imam of Dar Al-Hijrah, following Awlaki’s escape from the U.S. after the September 11 attacks.
The Dar Al-Hijrah mosque was founded thanks, in part, to a large grant from Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in the United States, which allowed for the large facility to accommodate some 5,000 Muslims.
Likewise, the associated mosque of the Baltimore Center, is connected to several Islamist terrorists.
Likewise, the associated mosque of the Baltimore Center, is connected to several Islamist terrorists.
Dar Al-Hijrah, which is located right outside Washington, D.C., is connected to several high-profile Islamic terrorists who prayed there, including Major Nidal Hassan – the Ft. Hood massacre jihadi, two September 11 hijackers, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
El-Sheikh was also the former Baltimore regional director of the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury Department later designated a specially designated global terrorist group for its support of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
While in Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency. That group’s parent organization is the Islamic African Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department says provided funds to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
After leaving Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as imam at the infamous Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church. That mosque has a lengthy roster of known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Its imam during much of the 1990s was Mohammed al-Hanooti. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people.
Dar al-Hijrah came under the control of Anwar al-Awlaki in 2001. He’s the American al-Qaeda recruiter who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. Nidal Hasan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Nov. 2009, is said to have attended the Virginia mosque when al-Awlaki served there. The pair also reportedly exchanged emails. Two of the 9/11 hijackers also attended Dar al-Hijrah during al-Awlaki’s tenure.
Should American schools promote ideas formed by Islamists, terrorists, and bigots?
Moreover, tolerance does not appear to be a virtue shared by ISB’s resident scholar, Yaseen Shaikh.
A 2013 Youtube video shows Shaikh, who previously served as imam at a mosque in Plano, Tex., speaking out forcefully against homosexuality in Islam.
Islamist sermon against homosexuality.
During an hour long diatribe, Shaikh called homosexuality a psychological disorder that has no place in Islam or society. He also lamented that gay rights groups have “hijacked” political discourse.
“This whole subject of homosexuality in the public sphere…is no longer a religious issue, unfortunately, as much as we want to use the religious card and try to defeat this, now it’s become a politicized issue,” Shaikh says in the video.
“Politicians are highly influenced by people who back them, and we find that these politicians who are calling for gay rights and marriage and supporting gay rights are lobbied and campaigned by gay activists, by gay groups. And they are throwing money at it left and right to gain some acceptance in society, to be considered normal people, to be treated normally.”
“We have to counter the efforts that are taking place elsewhere,” Sheikh says in the video, advising that “if our children are taught that [homosexuality is] okay, we have to teach them it’s not okay.”
The Baltimore center and mosque are associated with anti-homosexual prejudice, the 9/11 terrorists, and violent Islamists.Should American schools promote ideas formed by Islamists, terrorists, and bigots?
Dalia Mogahed- Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2428
Mogahed supports Islamist organizations: Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) as well.
Should American school children be taught by Islamists such as Mogahed?
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2428
Mogahed supports Islamist organizations: Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) as well.
Should American school children be taught by Islamists such as Mogahed?
Mark Sageman – Author, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the 21st Century
Eli Clifton - Co–Author, Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America
Erin Miller – Program Manager, Global Terrorism Database
Tarek Elghwary – CEO, Coexist Foundation
Imam Mohammad Magid – Imam, ADAMS Center
Tarek El-Messidi – Founder, Celebrate Mercy
Crew:
Director – Alex Kronemer
Executive Producers – Alex Kronemer, Michael Wolfe
Producer– Daniel Tutt
Producer– Jawaad Abdul Rahman
Production Coordinator – Faiza El-Hibri
UPM – Jeremy Morrison
Director of Photography – Nick Gardner, Jeremy Hall
Gaffer – Steve Scott
1st AC – Jason Remeikis, Sunil Davadanam
2nd AC – Matthew MacIntyre
Grip – Danny Balsamo, Ashley Bensel
Sound Recordist – Alex Jennings
Makeup – Jessie, D’Angelo, Christine Wasilewski
Foundation for IntelligentExecutive Producers – Alex Kronemer, Michael Wolfe
Producer– Daniel Tutt
Producer– Jawaad Abdul Rahman
Production Coordinator – Faiza El-Hibri
UPM – Jeremy Morrison
Director of Photography – Nick Gardner, Jeremy Hall
Gaffer – Steve Scott
1st AC – Jason Remeikis, Sunil Davadanam
2nd AC – Matthew MacIntyre
Grip – Danny Balsamo, Ashley Bensel
Sound Recordist – Alex Jennings
Makeup – Jessie, D’Angelo, Christine Wasilewski
Inner-City Muslim Action Network
According to their web site, IMAN receives funding from the city of Chicago and the Federal government.
City of Chicago Department of the Environment
Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
United States Department of Agriculture
Jessica Censotti - Censotti Communications IMANA Medical Relief SaveSmile Mission in Sudan Islamic Medical Association of North America
Friday, February 16, 2018
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Hillary’s Islamist Rapist: Tariq Ramadan
The radical Islamic scholar that Hillary Clinton let back into the U.S. after a lengthy ban over terrorist ties is in jail on rape charges. This week a judge in France denied bail for Clinton’s pal, Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder and Hamas funder Hassan al Banna. Ramadan, a professor at Oxford University, was arrested in Paris last week and charged with raping two Muslim women. Both women were raped in France, according to a European news report. The first one, a 40-year-old disabled Muslim convert claims Ramadan raped and beat her in the southeastern city of Lyon in 2009 and the other, a 41-year-old feminist activist, says Ramadan raped her in Paris in 2012.
A respected Swiss newspaper, Tribune de Genève, has also reported that Ramadan seduced and had sexual relations with teenage girls at a Geneva school where he once taught. The women say Ramadan told them they were special before having sex with them in the back of his car. One of the women was 14 at the time and the others were 15 to 18 years old. They say Ramadan used his authority as their teacher to seduce them. Oxford University placed Ramadan on a leave of absence after the rape allegations surfaced as well as other accusations of assault and sexual harassment. “Professor Ramadan’s teaching, supervising and examining duties will be reassigned, and he will not be present at the University or College,” reads a statement issued by Oxford in early November. “The University has consistently acknowledged the gravity of the allegations against Professor Ramadan, while emphasising the importance of fairness and the principles of justice and due process.”
As Barack Obama’s Secretary of State Clinton, a self-proclaimed women’s rights activist (her Hillary for America policy included confronting violence against women and has a section on sexual assault) went to bat for Ramadan. As part of an Obama administration effort to pursue a better relationship with Muslim communities, Clinton signed special orders to allow the reentry of two radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties had for years banned them from the United States. One of them was Ramadan. As the nation’s chief foreign affairs adviser, Clinton exercised her exemption authority to allow Ramadan and South African sociologist Adam Habib, a critic of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, back into the country. The State Department had repeatedly denied their visa claiming the men present a national security threat.
Ramadan, one of the European Muslim world’s most prominent scholars, was the better known of the two. He openly supports the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, has worked for Iran and donates money to terrorist causes. His grandfather founded the Muslim Brotherhood, an influential Islamist group that advocates terrorism against Israel and the west and is known as the parent organization of Hamas and Al Qaeda. A few months before Clinton approved his U.S. visa, a Dutch university fired Ramadan over his extremism and his work for the Islamic Republic of Iran. The move capped the beloved Muslim professor’s assessment that London subway bombers were justified in acting out against their oppressors because the “British government is helping Iraqi people to be killed.” A well-known French author who has studied Ramadan extensively said the scholar is undoubtedly an agent of radicalization.
Clinton’s special waiver allowed Ramadan to visit four American cities after being banned from the U.S. for six years. He arrived in New York for a tour that included New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit and Washington. Permitting the controversial scholar to enter the U.S. was part of a broader government mission to create a new and improved relationship—based on mutual interest and mutual respect—with Muslims around the world.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Commentary on President’s State of the Union
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Larry P. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt discuss President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address on this episode of the Hillsdale Dialogues. They highlight the effects of the modern bureaucracy on presidential speeches, as well as Trump’s statements on immigration, border security, and the American dream.
Larry P. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt discuss President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address on this episode of the Hillsdale Dialogues. They highlight the effects of the modern bureaucracy on presidential speeches, as well as Trump’s statements on immigration, border security, and the American dream.
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FISA Memo
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GMick , The memo's been released... ...and the shocking information we've learned in the past 24 hours shows the worst treason in living memory – perhaps ever – in the history of our Republic. We now know with certainty that there's a "state within a state" functioning inside our government with one destructive goal: to take down the Trump administration. Disturbing doesn't begin to cover it. So I hope you'll scroll down to read Daniel Greenfield's FrontPage Magazine article explaining the impact of the Left's efforts to destroy the Trump presidency. Sincerely,  David Horowitz The memo has been released, now it's time to release everything. February 2, 2018 Daniel Greenfield The Democrats and the media spent a week lying to the American people about the "memo." The memo was full of "classified information" and releasing" it would expose "our spying methods." By "our," they didn't mean American spying methods. They meant Obama's spying methods. A former White House Ethics Lawyer claimed that the Nunes memo would undermine "national security." On MSNBC, Senator Chris Van Hollen threatened that if the memo is released, the FBI and DOJ "will refuse to share information with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees." Senator Cory Booker howled that releasing the memo was "treasonous" and might be "revealing sources and methods" and even "endangering fellow Americans in the intelligence community." The memo isn't treasonous. It reveals a treasonous effort by the Democrats to use our intelligence agencies to rig an election and overturn the will of the voters. The only two "sources" 18 are Christopher Steele, who was funded by the Clinton campaign, and a Yahoo News article, that were used to obtain a FISA warrant against a Trump associate. That Yahoo story came from Michael Isikoff, the reporter who knew about Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky but suppressed it. It was based on more leaks from Steele which the FBI and DOJ chose to ignore. Steele's identity was already well known. The only new source revealed is Yahoo News. No vital intelligence sources were compromised at Yahoo News. And no Yahoo News agents were killed. The media spent a week lying to Americans about the dangers of the memo because it didn't want them to find out what was inside. Today, the media and Dems switched from claiming that the memo was full of "classified information" that might get CIA agents killed to insisting that it was a dud and didn't matter. Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive. On Thursday, the narrative was that the memo would devastate our national security and no one should ever be allowed to read it. By Friday, the new narrative was that the memo tells us nothing important and we shouldn't even bother reading it. The lies change, but suppressing the memo remains the goal. Rep. Nadler, infamous for securing pardons for Weather Underground bombers, got caught between narratives when he insisted that the memo was "overhyped," but suggested that it "endangers national security." "I don't think anybody will be terribly shocked by what's in the memo," he told CNN. And requested an emergency meeting of the House Judiciary Committee – a body he will head if Democrats win the mid-term elections. Calling emergency meetings is not the response to an "overhyped" and non-shocking memo. There is no legitimately classified information in the Nunes memo. But it does endanger a number of "Americans" in the "intelligence community" who colluded with the Clinton campaign against America. It endangers former FBI Director Comey, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the current FBI General Counsel Dana Boente who had previously served as the Acting Attorney General. These men and women had allegedly signed FISA applications that were at best misleading and at worst badly tainted. The Clinton campaign had enlisted figures in the FBI and the DOJ to manipulate an election. The coup against America operated as a "state within a state" inside the United States government. "The political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials," the memo informs us. But they did not reveal on the FISA application that their core evidence came from the Clinton campaign. Sources were certainly being protected. But they were Clinton sources. The memo reveals that without the Steele dossier there would have been no eavesdropping on Carter Page, the Trump associate targeted in this particular case. "Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information." But the FISA application neglected to mention that its primary source had been paid by the Clinton campaign, was unverified and would continue to be unverified. FBI Director Comey testified that he had told President Trump that the dossier was "unverified." Yet the "unverified" piece of opposition research was used as the basis for a FISA application. As Rep. Jim Jordan noted, "FBI takes 'salacious and unverified' dossier to secret court to get secret warrant to spy on a fellow American, and FBI doesn't tell the court that the DNC/Clinton campaign paid for that dossier. And they did that FOUR times." "There's been no evidence of a corrupt evidence to obtain warrants against people in the Trump campaign," Rep. Adam Schiff insisted. That's why he tried to block the release of the evidence. The evidence was unverified opposition research. Its source had been paid by the Clinton campaign. Not only had Steele been indirectly working for the Clinton campaign (when he wasn't being paid by the FBI), but he made no secret of his own political agenda to stop Trump. "In September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," the memo informs us. That's former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr whose wife was being paid by an organization hired by the Clinton campaign to investigate Trump. Ohr then passed along his wife's opposition research to the FBI. The evidence couldn't be any more corrupt than that. Steele was passionate about Trump "not being president." So were his handlers who ignored his leaks to the media until he "was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations-an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI." His previous meetings, including the one that allegedly generated the Yahoo News article, were ignored. Tainted investigations are nothing new. Law enforcement is as fallible as any other profession. But the memo reveals a snapshot of just how many top figures colluded in this corrupted and tainted effort. What drove them to violate professional ethical norms and legal requirements in the FISA applications? Top DOJ and FBI officials shared Steele's "passion," and that of his ultimate employer, Hillary Clinton, to stop Donald Trump at all costs. And they're still trying to use the Mueller investigation to overturn the election results in a government coup that makes Watergate look like a children's tea party, Former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is already under investigation. He's suspected of trying to sit on the Wiener emails until the election was over. This alleged failed cover-up triggered the Comey letter which hurt Hillary worse than a timely revelation would have. McCabe's wife had financial links to the Clintons. Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was an Obama holdover who had foolishly tried to use the DOJ to go to war with President Trump. Both Yates and Dana Boente were Obama and Holder choices. During the groundless prosecution of the former Republican governor of Virginia, Boente had declared, "No one is above the law." We'll see if that's true with everyone who signed the FISA applications. If Boente signed false or misleading FISA applications, he should be removed as FBI General Counsel. The memo is only the first crack in the wall. But it's grounds for an investigation that will expose the abuses that led to eavesdropping on Trump officials. And the motives of those who perpetuated them. A Washington Post piece suggested that just releasing the memo alone would allow Mueller to charge President Trump with "obstruction of justice." That's how badly they want to get Trump. A clear and simple fact emerges from the memo. Top figures in the DOJ and the FBI, some loyal to Obama and Hillary, abused the FISA process in the hopes of influencing or reversing the results of an election by targeting their political opponents. The tool that they used for the job came from the Clinton campaign. Using America's intelligence services to destroy and defeat a political opponent running for president is the worst possible abuse of power and an unprecedented threat to a democratic system of free open elections. We have been treated to frequent lectures about the independence of the DOJ and the FBI. But our country isn't based around government institutions that are independent of oversight by elected officials. When unelected officials have more power than elected officials, that's tyranny. A Justice Department that acts as the Praetorian Guard for a political campaign is committing a coup and engaging in treason. The complex ways that the Steele dossier was laundered from the Clinton campaign to a FISA application is evidence of a conspiracy by both the DOJ and the Clinton campaign. It's time for us to learn about all the FISA abuses, the list of NSA unmasking requests of Trump officials by Obama officials and the eavesdropping on members of Congress. We deserve to know the truth. The memo has been released. Now it's time to release everything.
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Phone Interviews
1. "Can you tell me exactly what I would be expected to do if I were hired for this position? "
This question helps to make sure you know exactly what you’re going to be doing and what is expected of you. This is a great way to make sure there are no nasty surprises waiting for you when you start. Having
your job explicitly laid out for you not only allows you to know what
you’re signing up to do, but can also help you decide if you are not
only willing to do the work…but also able!
2. "Can you walk me through a typical day here at Company X?"
Having the day laid out for you from
beginning to end is a smart way to get a quick overview of what is
expected of you outside the job description. I
was hired for a job once where all the employees were expected to
participate in a group physical activity before starting our day.
Had I not asked about a typical day I would have been completely unprepared for my first day and unable to participate. Not a great way to start out a new job!
— THE REQUIREMENTS —
3. "If I were hired for this position, would I be going through any training prior to actually starting the work?"
This is a great question to ask…especially if you are concerned about your ability to do the job. With the right training, an employee can quickly be brought up to company speed. If
no training is offered and you’re not sure you know enough to do the
job…this would also be a great time to get clarification on that.
4. "How will I be trained?"
Again, you want to make sure you’re going into the job with your eyes wide open. Training could be as simple as watching a video or reading a brochure or it could be a much more thorough and in-depth process. The point is, you want to know before you go.
— THE EXPECTATIONS —
5. "What are the performance expectations for this position? Will that expectation change the longer I am doing the job?"
This is a two part question…but knowledge is power and the more you have, the better off you are! You
want to make sure you and your employer establish early on what they
expect from you performance wise and not just for the immediate future. If this is a job you plan on sticking with for a period of time, make sure early on that you know what they want you to do and if that will change over time.
6. "Is there an employee performance review process? How often does that occur and can you walk me through a typical one?"
Again, a two part question but this
information is absolutely critical…especially if the results of those
reviews impacts your ability to advance either your career or your
position within the company.
— THE COMPANY —
7. "Where do you see the company in five years? 10?"
This question is important because not
only will it give you a sense of how stable your job might be, but the
job you take today should always be in line with your long term career
goals. The last thing you
want to do is take a job that won’t benefit you in the long run or help
advance you towards the next step on your career path. Finding out early on where the company is headed in the long term can help you plan your own trajectory.
8. "Can you tell me what the career paths are for this department and what sort of advancements I could work towards?"
This question can give you a solid idea of the mobility within the company. Again,
as we’ve said over and over again, the ultimate goal of any job you
take is to help advance you on your career path and the last thing you
want to do is take a dead end job with no hope of ever moving forward or
growing.
— THE PEOPLE —
9. "Will I be working with a team and if I am, can you tell me a little about each of them?"
This question is a MUST! The last thing you want to do is get stuck with a bunch of people you can’t stand. Finding
out early on if you’re going to be working with a good team or a
horrible team can make your decision process an easy one.
10. "Can you tell me about my direct supervisor? Is there anything I should know about working with them that will make my integration a smooth process?"
Another two-parter, but again, you’re
showing that you’re serious about doing what it takes to not only get
the job, but do the job right. It’s also a great way to get a bit of information about your supervisor. Like the rest of the people you’re going to work with…if it’s not a good match, then it might not be the job you want to take.
— THE ATMOSPHERE —
11. "Can you tell me what you love the most about working here?"
This is information you need to know! The
last thing you want to do is to work somewhere where you’re miserable
and a good way to get a feel for that is to ask the hiring manager what
it is that keeps them coming in day after day.
12. "How would you describe the working environment here? Is work done in a collaborative style or are employees more independent?"
This is a question that is going to not
only give you a good heads up on what you are potentially walking into
as far as atmosphere goes, but also lets you know what the expectations
are for your own performance. Again, two-parter, but the information you’re going to get in return is pure gold.
— THE WAITING GAME —
13. "What are the next steps in the interview process?"
This is not only a question you can ask
to show you’re interested in where the hiring process is going to go
next, it’s also a great way for you to get some reassurance. Nobody
likes waiting to hear back from a company and getting nothing…at least
this way you’re prepped for how the process will continue and what to
expect…and when.
14. "Is there anything else I can provide you with that would be helpful or questions I can answer?"
This isn’t so much a fact finding
question as it is one last opportunity to let the interviewer make sure
they’ve covered all their bases. Brownie points!
Putting It All Together
So there you have
it…not only do you now know why you should have good questions to ask
during an interview, you also know how to ask them and what to ask them.
Make sure you take the same amount of
time to prep these as you spend on the rest of your interview prep and
above all, be yourself, be genuine, be the PERFECT CANDIDATE…
Good luck!
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Friday, February 2, 2018
Trump Promotes Islam
Trump EEOC Gets Settlement for Muslim Security Guard Discriminated by Co.’s Grooming Policy
JANUARY 31, 2018
Keeping with an Obama practice of pursuing American businesses that won’t accommodate Muslims, the Trump administration sued a security company for refusing to modify its grooming standards. This constituted religious discrimination, according to the government, because the Muslim employee requested the grooming exemption in accordance with his “sincerely held religious beliefs.” In a settlement reached this month between the company and the government, the security guard gets $90,000 in damages and the firm must hire an equal employment monitor and revise its religious accommodation policies.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the bloated federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws, filed the lawsuit in December against Allied Universal in United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Allied is a national company with more than 150,000 employees that protect tens of thousands of clients across the country. The plaintiff, William Webb, was hired as a security guard to work in the San Diego area. After getting hired, he asked for the grooming exemption and the company refused. The EEOC, which filed dozens of similar lawsuits during the Obama administration, alleges in its complaint that Allied’s conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination and requires employers to make reasonable accommodations to employees’ sincerely held religious beliefs.
“The EEOC's Complaint alleges that Defendant unlawfully discriminated against Charging Party William Webb ("Webb") based on religion (Islam) in violation of Sections 701 G) and 703(a) Title VII,” according to the lawsuit. “More specifically, the Complaint alleges that Defendant failed to provide Webb a religious accommodation and discharged him based on his religion, Islam. The commission also alleges that Defendant discharged Webb in retaliation for having engaged in protected activity in violation of Section 704(a) of Title VII.” Besides doling out cash for upholding its longtime grooming policy, Allied must pay for an equal employment monitor—that must be approved by the EEOC—and provide training for all employees, supervisors and managers involved in the religious accommodation process. Among the monitor’s responsibilities is ensuring that the company “maintains and implements nation-wide an anti-discrimination, religious accommodation, and anti-retaliation policy and reporting procedure,” according to the settlement.
In a statement celebrating the victory, an EEOC attorney commends Allied for taking remedies to ensure future religious discrimination will not occur. The agency lawyer also gives notice to other companies that the EEOC will go after them if they don’t follow Allied’s lead in addressing religious accommodation issues. The press release also reminds that “eliminating discriminatory policies affecting vulnerable workers who may be unaware of their rights” is a priority of a national Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) launched in 2012 under the Obama administration. Another SEP focus is to help “immigrant, migrant and other vulnerable workers” and crack down on pay disparities that persist based on race and ethnicity. SEP was recently renewed by the Trump EEOC until 2021.
Under Obama the agency took a special interest in protecting followers of Islam by going after American businesses that refused to change longtime policies for Muslim workers. The EEOC sued a clothing retailer with a policy against head covers of any kind for religious discrimination because it would not allow a female employee at one of its stores to wear a head scarf as required by her religion. An Obama-appointed federal judge in northern California handed the administration a victory, ruling that the Muslim woman’s civil rights were violated. The EEOC also helped two Muslim truck drivers get a hefty cash settlement after being fired for refusing to transport alcohol because it violated their religious beliefs. The judge in that case, an Obama appointee in Illinois, ruled in favor of the Muslims and the Peoria-based trucking company had to pay $240,000 in punitive damages. This month’s settlement in the lawsuit against the security company indicates the Trump administration will not put an end to the deranged Obama policies.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
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