December 31, 2015

Texting While Walking Causing Increasing Number of Injuries




[From article]
An estimated ten percent of pedestrian injuries that land people in emergency rooms are due to distracted walking, a recent study found. That's thousands of people injured -- sometimes killed.
In San Diego, investigators believe Joshua Burwell may have been trying to take a picture of the sunset when he took a fatal fall some 40 feet off Sunset Cliffs.
"He wasn't watching where he was walking and looking more down at the device," said San Diego Lifeguard Sgt. Bill Bender.
It's a tragic example of a growing problem -- people distracted by their phones or other devices. One mall security camera captured a woman focused on her phone walk straight into a fountain.
Another video shows a man talking on his phone walk right off the train platform.
In a recent study, 78 percent of Americans said distracted walking is a serious issue.
[. . .]



While the number of emergency room visits for distracted walking injuries doubled between 2005 and 2010 to more than 1,500, Dr. Claudette Lajam, an orthopedic surgeon, believes the problem is actually much bigger.
"A lot of people don't admit that they do it," said Dr. Lajam. "It's getting worse as we have more and more features on these devices that we carry around with us that can distract us."
Researchers at Ohio State found millennials ages 21 to 25 are the most likely to be injured. And the National Safety Council says nearly 80 percent of the injuries stem from falls, estimating more than half occur at home.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangers-distracted-walking-research-national-safety-council/

CBS NEWS
December 29, 2015, 7:44 AM
Emergency room visits from distracted walking skyrocket
BEN MARGOT, AP

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-dangers-of-walking-while-texting-and-talking


Police And Soldiers in Belgium Enjoyed Orgy While City Was On Terror Lockdown



These Guys?

[From article]
Soldiers and police in Brussels held an orgy while their colleagues hunted for terror suspects, according to reports.
Eight soldiers and two female police officers allegedly engaged in lewd acts at a police station in the neighborhood of Ganshoren, just north of Molenbeek, where officers were hunting for suspects in connection with the November 13 Paris attacks, Belgian media outlets La Dernière Heure and De Standaard reported Tuesday. Brussels was on lockdown at the time of the alleged incident.

http://www.politico.eu/article/probe-into-brussels-lockdown-orgy-terror-soldiers-ganshoren-molenbeek/

Probe into Brussels lockdown orgy
Police and soldiers said to have engaged in group sex while Belgian capital was in lockdown.
By PAUL DALLISON
12/29/15, 4:28 PM CET

Howard Zinn: Civil Obedience is the Problem


USPS Carriers Get Angry and Greedy



Daniel Darby leaves Brooklyn federal court on Dec. 29.
Photo: Stefan Jeremiah

[From article]
A Queens mailman was so stressed by the number of holiday cards and gifts he was supposed to deliver this year that he simply dumped hundreds of them in the trash, court papers claim.
Ozone Park postman Daniel Darby, 25, was “overwhelmed” by the uptick in his early December mail, so he went to a neighborhood Stop & Shop the night of Dec. 2 — his first day on a new route — and bought three white garbage bags, according to Brooklyn federal court documents.
Darby then allegedly stuffed the holiday mail in the bags and dumped them in a residential garbage can. They were discovered two days later.



The cooked courier admitted to “ripping open” some of the mail “to see what it contained,” according to the criminal complaint.
He was arraigned on charges of unlawfully delaying and destroying the mail Tuesday — as was another alleged rogue postal worker.
The second mail carrier, who worked in Brooklyn, is accused of swiping about 50 gift cards from envelopes and then treating himself to $1,000 in goodies over the past year, according to court papers.


James Hayden
Photo: Stefan Jeremiah

http://nypost.com/2015/12/29/overwhelmed-mailman-tosses-hundreds-of-holiday-presents-in-trash/

Overwhelmed mailman tosses hundreds of holiday presents in trash: officials
By Priscilla DeGregory
New York Post
December 29, 2015 | 4:25pm

Sarah Palin Sells Arizona Home




Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has put her luxury Arizona mansion on the market for $2.5million which includes a lighted sports court

[From article]
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has put her luxury Arizona mansion on the market for $2.5million.
The six-bedroom estate, which boasts its own private heated swimming pool and spa, lighted sports court and even a wine cellar, is located in acres of equestrian grounds in Scottsdale.
Behind a private gated entrance, the 7971sq ft home showcases includes 6.5 bathrooms, a six car garage and offers stunning mountain views from virtually every room.
The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate bought the property in 2011 for $1.7 million.

It has been a happy time for Palin who met her newborn granddaughter, Sailor Grace on December 23, after she was born to her daughter Bristol, 25.

On Christmas Eve, Bristol used her personal blog to share a note from her mother about Sailor Grace’s birth, in which she calls the baby ‘the best gift ever!’.
The letter read: ‘Thank you, Bristol, for your strength and good heart and your love of life. The most important people in Bristol’s life were there to witness the miracle of Sailor Grace Palin’s arrival last night.
‘Thank you for sharing the miracle with Piper, Marina, and me, Bri! And we thank Todd for taking care of the rest of the family during this most precious beginning of a great new chapter!’
Sarah Palin spoke in November about Bristol's pregnancy, second chances, screwing up and the excitement of bringing another baby into the world.
'Well, the cool thing about puttin’ your faith in God is, He certainly is a God of second chances – and third, and fourth and fifth chances. I screw up all the time,' she told CBS.
Announcing the happy news on her Instagram account on Christmas Eve, the daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin revealed that she welcomed the baby on Wednesday December 23, one day before her due date.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3379538/Sarah-Palin-s-luxurious-Arizona-six-bedroom-mansion-boasts-private-swimming-pool-sports-court-wine-cellar-goes-market-2-5million.html

Sarah Palin's luxurious Arizona six-bedroom mansion which boasts its own private swimming pool, sports court and wine cellar goes on market for $2.5million
The six-bedroom estate boasts its own private heated swimming pool and spa, lighted sports court and wine cellar
Behind a private gated entrance, the 7971sq ft home showcases includes 6.5 bathrooms and a six car garage
Inside the home is finished to a high standard with luxury fittings, fireplaces, chandeliers and a media theater
The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate bought the property in 2011 but has placed it on the market for $2.5million
By Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com
Published: 18:45 EST, 30 December 2015 | Updated: 21:51 EST, 30 December 2015

[Link to video]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3379538/Sarah-Palin-s-luxurious-Arizona-six-bedroom-mansion-boasts-private-swimming-pool-sports-court-wine-cellar-goes-market-2-5million.html#v-4243569979001

Making, Keeping Friends




[From article]
They say friends are forever, but as it turns out, that old adage is actually not quite true.
More than two thirds of Americans say they have lost at least 90 per cent of the friends they had 10 years ago.
[. . .]
The poll also shows that you lose more friends when entering into a romantic relationship than when leaving one.
In fact, entering a relationship is the third biggest cause of losing friends – the top two being moving away to a new city and simply drifting apart.
[. . .]
Americans estimate that they have an average of four close friends. Sadly, eight per cent say that they have no close friends at all.
But, surprisingly, people age 55 and up are nearly twice as likely to have over 15 close friends than those between the ages of 18 and 24.
Half of us have fewer close friends than we did a decade ago, and a third think that it’s harder to make friends as you age.
Respondents voted that the hardest part of making new friends is not having enough time, followed by finding people with similar political, religious, cultural and other views, as well as social awkwardness.
[. . .]
'Friendships are important and precious, but the older we get, making and keeping friends becomes more difficult as we juggle competing priorities,' said Nicole Kryda, a spokesperson for Not 4 Dating, which helps people make platonic friends.
'But it’s comforting to know that most of us feel like we are in the same boat. And, in our experience, making new friends is actually easier than you may think,' added Nicole.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3379362/New-study-reveals-two-thirds-Americans-lost-90-cent-pals-course-decade-romantic-relationships-blame.html

Best friends for never: More than two-thirds of Americans have lost 90 per cent of their pals over the course of a decade - and romantic relationships are to blame
The survey of 1,000 people across the country also found that 55% of people have kept the same best friend for 10 years or more
8% of Americans admit to having no close friends at all
The top causes of ending friendships are moving to new cities, drifting apart, and entering into a romantic relationship
By Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 16:44 EST, 30 December 2015 | Updated: 17:02 EST, 30 December 2015

[Link to video]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3379362/New-study-reveals-two-thirds-Americans-lost-90-cent-pals-course-decade-romantic-relationships-blame.html#v-6499402371285170370


Frequent Sex Prevents Cancer In Men



More than 1.1 million cases of prostate cancer were recorded in 2012, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International. Pictured are prostate cancer cells under a microscope.

[From article]
Men who have regular orgasms - once a day - are less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, a study has found.
Regular ejaculation throughout their lives reduces the risk of the disease, scientists discovered.
The researchers, from Harvard Medical School, said they could not explain why orgasms could lower prostate cancer risk, adding further research is necessary.
However it has previously been suggested that regular orgasms may flush out cancer-causing chemicals in the prostate.
[. . .]



Another theory is that if sperm is regularly cleaned out to allow new cells to develop, it helps stop the build-up of old cells that might be more likely to turn cancerous.
The prostate is a small satsuma-sized gland located between a man's penis and his bladder.
Its main function is to produce a thick white fluid that is mixed with the sperm produced by the testicles, to create semen.
[. . .]
The Harvard study is the largest to date to examine the frequency of ejaculation and related prostate cancer risk.
The researchers found that men in the 40 to 49 age bracket who ejaculate 21 or more times a month reduced their risk of prostate cancer by 22 per cent.
This was compared to men who ejaculate four to seven times a month.
[. . .]
They found that the more frequently a man ejaculated throughout his life, the lower his risk of prostate cancer at all three of these points in time.
This was the case even when they adjusted their results to take factors such as diet, lifestyle and a history of prostate cancer screening into account.
Dr Jennifer Rider, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said the results are ‘particularly encouraging’ but should be interpreted with caution.
[. . .]
More than 1.1 million cases of prostate cancer were recorded in 2012, accounting for around eight per cent of all new cancer cases and 15 per cent in men, according to figures from the World Cancer Research Fund International.
The causes of prostate cancer are largely unknown, but the chances of developing the disease increase as a man gets older.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3379287/How-orgasm-day-slash-man-s-cancer-risk-Regular-sex-lowers-chance-prostate-tumors-20.html

How an orgasm a day can slash a man's cancer risk: Regular sex lowers the 'chance of prostate tumors by 20%'
Men who ejaculate more frequently lower their risk of the disease
Those who ejaculate 21 times a month or more cut their risk by 22%
This was compared to men who ejaculated up to 7 times a month
Theorists say orgasm flushes out cancer-causing chemicals and old cells
By Lizzie Parry For Dailymail.com and Madlen Davies For Mail Online
Published: 14:09 EST, 30 December 2015 | Updated: 02:59 EST, 31 December 2015

For Those Too Young To Know, Here's Bill Clinton's History



Bill Clinton In Heaven With Elizabeth Hurley

[From article]
Trump is obviously referring to the sexual allegations that have long swirled around Clinton, even before he became president. We’d earlier explored this question in 2014 when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrongly claimed that a half dozen women had called Clinton a “sexual predator.” But for younger voters who may be wondering what the fuss is about, here again is a guide to the various claims made about Clinton’s sex life.
We will divide the stories into two parts: consensual liaisons admitted by the women in question and allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/12/30/a-guide-to-the-allegations-of-bill-clintons-womanizing/

A guide to the allegations of Bill Clinton’s womanizing
By Glenn Kessler
December 30, 2015 at 3:00 AM

Battle of the Bills, Clinton vs Cosby




[From Article]
Subbing for Rush Limbaugh on The Rush Limbaugh Show Tuesday, conservative commentator Mark Steyn wondered why Bill Cosby is “finished” while Bill Clinton remains “beloved.”
“I mean that as a serious question, incidentally,” Steyn said. “Why is Bill Cosby finished? He was the most beloved guy.



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Mark Steyn: Why Is Bill Cosby Finished While Bill Clinton Is Beloved?
Published December 30, 2015
Fox News
By Elizabeth Preza
Mediaite

* * *

[From article]
In Cosby’s case, the answer has to do with the lovable image he projected and the powerful financial interests in keeping him in the public’s fond regard.
The very same analysis applies directly to Bill Clinton. The list of women believed to have been his sexual prey may not run to 52, but it includes:
Paula Jones
Monica Lewinsky (his subordinate)
Elizabeth Ward Gracen
Gennifer Flowers
Kathleen Willey
Juanita Broaddrick
Dolly Kyle Browning
And who knows how many underage girl on Orgy Island.
Making certain these women were not believed was Hillary Clinton’s job, and she did a capable job of it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/a_tale_of_two_bills_cosby_and_clinton.html

December 31, 2015
A tale of two Bills: Cosby and Clinton
By Thomas Lifson

December 30, 2015

Negligent Misguided Chicago Mayor Desperately Trying To Save His Behind



 

Rahm Emanuel, trained by the White House in police policy is now an expert on how to fix the Chicago Police Department. Hahaha. How many civilians will die after being tased by CPD? Will the officers be trained in how to use them? The manufacturer promotes TASERS as an alternative to deadly force. But they are used at first opportunity on pregnant women, impaired suspects all too often.

[From article]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday that Chicago police must be better trained to distinguish between when they can use a gun and when they should use a gun, after a series of shootings by officers sparked protests and complaints that police are too quick to fire their weapons.
Emanuel announced changes in police training and department policies on use of force during a news conference. He also said the Police Department will double the number of Tasers available to officers — from 700 to 1,400— as he works to restore public trust in the police force and his administration.
“Our police officers have a very difficult and dangerous job. They put their lives on the line so the rest of us can be safe. And like all of us, they are human and they make mistakes,” the mayor said. “Our job is to reduce the chances of mistakes.
“That requires us to give them the right guidance, the right training, and the right culture, to prevent abuses,” he said. “Willful misconduct and abuse cannot and will not be tolerated.”
[. . .]
Every police patrol car will be equipped with a Taser by June 1, 2016, he said.
[. . .]
Activists were skeptical Wednesday that the changes would reverse decades of problems and mistrust between Chicago residents and police.
[. . .]
Pearson’s organization believes the only way to bring true change is for Chicago to have a civilian police accountability council that isn’t appointed by the mayor.
“The people have no trust in the police. They have no trust in the mayor,” Pearson said. “The people in charge are continuing to give (some officers) a pass. It happens over and over and over again.”
[. . .]
In a statement issued over the weekend, Emanuel said he ordered Escalante and the city’s Independent Police Review Authority to review the department’s crisis-intervention team training. The program teaches officers how to respond to a person in crisis or with mental health problems, and is aimed at resolving incidents without violence.

http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/chicago-mayor-to-equip-police-with-tasers-after-shootings/

Chicago mayor to equip police with Tasers after shootings
New York Post
By Reuters
December 30, 2015 | 11:57am

Georgia Gentleman Arrested After Rape Victim Forced To Call Boyfriend, Instead Called Police




[From article]
A man who kidnapped a woman and raped her in an adult gift shop parking lot was arrested after his victim outwitted him.
Police allege Robert Giles had plotted his attack before the fact and, after abducting his victim, demanded she call her boyfriend so he could listen to the entire ordeal.
But instead, his victim called police and a quick-thinking 911 dispatcher, Deonte Smith, figured out what was going on and played along, pretending to be the woman’s boyfriend.
Police picked up the 27-year-old Giles at around 4 a.m. Monday during the rape in the Starship Novelties and Gifts car park in Atlanta, Georgia. Police say the dispatcher “might have saved her life.”
[. . .]
The 911 call was “too graphic” to be released to the public, according to police.
“It’s horrific,” Clayton County police Major Joe Woodall told WSB-TV.
“She explained to him [the 911 operator] what the perpetrator had told her, that he was wanting him to listen while she was being raped.”
“They were able to stop it right then and there and snatched him right from the car.”
WSB-TV’s Tom Jones said Smith thought “it was divine intervention that had him in that 911 call center when the call came in.”
Smith explained that if the victim had called just two minutes later, he would have been on a break. He was the only male in the call centrer at the time.

http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/rape-victim-forced-to-call-boyfriend-dials-911-instead-police-say/

Rape victim forced to call boyfriend dials 911 instead, police say
By Matt Young, News.com.au
New York Post
December 30, 2015 | 11:26am

Donald Trump Unimpressed With Bill Clinton



Donald Trump, Candidate

[From article]
“I’m [Donald Trump] going to have a meeting with the New York Times editorial board next week. They called me. I have 10 million followers on Twitter and I always call them the ‘failing @NewYorkTimes.’ ”
Yesterday when we were talking to him, he seemed less concerned with Bill Clinton than with the Union Leader in New Hampshire, which is pushing Chris Christie.
“That paper is failing,” he said. Failing — when you find a good word, keep riding it. Then he started talking about the phone call he got from Tom Brady Sunday night, after the coin toss. Too bad he went off the record about what Brady really told him.
Finally Trump stood up. The Secret Service guy started talking into his coat lapel. One of Trump’s aides handed him some ties for the Nashua speech.
“Soon,” he said, making a magnanimous motion with his hand, “we will all be in the White House together.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2015/12/carr_even_bubba_can_t_rain_on_the_donald_s_parade

Carr: Even Bubba can’t rain on The Donald’s parade
Boston Herald
Howie Carr
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Harvard University Expands Without Limit




As Harvard University grows so does its bureaucracy. Its own KSG reported on inane events resulting from large bureaucracies, which require rules for all workers. Essays on tyranny of bureaucracy explain what administrators with chronic edifice complexes are bringing to Boston.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/12/22/allston-harvard-rights-transferred/

After Land Rights Deal, Harvard Continues Allston Expansion
By JONAH S. LEFKOE and HANNAH NATANSON,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
December 22, 2015

White House Implementing Middle East Strategy Discarded By George Bush




[From article]
In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration struggled to define the enemy and to decide how to defeat it. Even though 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and the Saudis were involved in the planning and financing of the attack, President Bush allowed the Saudis to fly out of the country in the next 24 hours when all other air traffic had been shut down.
No doubt that Bush had decided to maintain good relations with the Arabs, and Saudi Arabia particularly, just as the US had done for half a century. This policy led Bush to say on Sept 17, 2011 to the Islamic world, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war,” in a speech as sycophantic as any President Obama has ever delivered.
[. . .]
And so began the bifurcation of Islam into the peaceful Muslims on the one hand and the radicals who hijacked the religion on the other.
[. . .]
By December 2011 Obama fulfilled another campaign promise to withdraw the remaining US troops from Iraq. The vacuum created undid the achievements of the surge and allowed for the rise and dominance of ISIS.
Obama also turned to Rumsfeld’s plan of regime change, which Bush declined to endorse. What Rumsfeld had in mind was to support the opposition in each country and help them depose the dictators. What Obama decided to do was to replace the dictators who were secular with the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamists.
Remember that Rumsfeld proposed his plan before the victory in Iraq turned sour. What was learned was that there is no unified opposition and no desire for democracy. Obama ignored this lesson and believed that the Muslim Brotherhood could impose itself on all the opposition thereby creating stability.
[. . .]
Gaddafi also abandoned terrorism. As a result relations with the U.S. and the EU improved considerably. He managed to rule his country well and provide for his people.
Nevertheless Obama, together with Britain, France and Qatar, decided he had to be deposed. A trumped up charge of an impending massacre was sufficient to justify military action to remove his regime and ultimately bringing about his death. Libya has not returned to stability, as the various tribes keep fighting for turf.
[. . .]
Mohammed Morsi, representing the Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president in June 30/12. He lasted a year in office until the military, headed by Gen El Sisi, the man he put in charge, took over and arrested him and once again banned the party. This did not go down well with Obama, who was counting on the Muslim Brotherhood to rule the country. Obama is working to reinstate them somehow and is not supporting El Sisi, just as he didn’t support Mubarak. El Sisi then turned to Russia and Israel, further distancing America.
[. . .]
Russia is now in charge and running the show in Syria. Obama has become a bit player. He is still mouthing platitudes in support of a peace process and a unified Syria. There is no way that Iran or Russia will agree to elections because the Alawites, who are the backbone of the Syrian regime, are only about 20% of the population. But they would agree to severing Alawite Syria from the rest. Russia wants to retain her naval base on the Mediterranean and her airfield nearby. Iran wants to keep Alawite Syria as an ally because the Alawites are Shiites and because it gives them a land connection to Hezb’allah who are also Shiites.
[. . .]
Bush promised to get rid of all terrorists and regimes that harbor them. Obama decided to take down Gadhafi, Mubarak and Assad to stop dictator-supported terrorism. But rather than support the opposition to replace them as Rumsfeld had proposed, he backed the Muslim Brotherhood, identified by Britain and others as an Islamic terrorist group. He ended up with chaos in Libya, the Egyptian army in control of Egypt, Russia now in charge of Assad, all of whom are threatened by ISIS and other Islamist groups who are fostering much more terrorism that the dictators ever did. He has put Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Sinai in the crosshairs of both Iran and ISIS. The Dictators didn’t plan to conquer the West. The Islamists do.
So far everything the Bush and Obama administrations have done has made it worse for the West. The US has not figured out who the enemy is nor how to deal with the threats.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/america_has_jumped_from_the_middle_east_frying_pan_into_the_fire.html

December 27, 2015
America has jumped from the Middle East frying pan into the fire
By Ted Belman

Journalists Misleading Voters and Taxpayers on Behalf of Wealthy Elite




[From article]
Now's the time to reread Melville. This was the Year of the Swindle. Melville's Confidence-Man depicts all the chicanery of cultural and political discourse in the U.S. today. Consider the money quotes from Melville's book alongside the biggest con games played this year.
[. . .]
Think of the middle-American everyman, someone with strong moral values but struggling. Let's call him John. He wants his country to be moral and God-fearing, but he also might need a helping hand from the government despite all his efforts to take care of his family without asking for handouts. He's the one person nobody cares about in politics. Democrats think he's a homophobic bigot, and Republicans don't consider him a "job creator."
[. . .]
Whether it was immigration, Islamophobia, gay marriage, campus rape, racial diversity, or the environment, a similar pattern played out ad nauseam in 2015. John reacts with compassion and concern when he sees suffering. He trusted authorities
[. . .]
John got swindled. If he decides to say to Hell with everyone and vote for Trump, I can't blame him. (I wish he'd vote for Cruz, but by now John probably won't trust anyone in government on anything.)
The rise of Trump has intrigued many people not so much because he reveals anything about the left, but rather because of what he reveals about the sense of betrayal people like John feel about the promises made by the Republican Party.
[. . .]
A few conservatives in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, and Washington control the right-wing media. It seems that every week this cadre unveils another aerobically cross-trained, elite-educated, and telegenic spokesperson, describing the optimistic future that ostensibly awaits us if only we could stop caring about traditional family structures, chastity, and the sanctity of life.
[. . .]
Just pretend you are okay with sodomy and abortion, and this time it will work; all those fiscally-conservative-but-socially-liberal people who've been holding out will rush into the arms of the conservative movement, and singing angels will descend from the heavens.
Perhaps nobody embodied this call for trust, and won our trust, more than Paul Ryan. And we all saw how that budget bill turned out – the biggest "achievement" in his early months as the supposed "Tea Party favorite" speaker of the House.
[. . .]
They want high taxes on other people and heightened entitlements for themselves. This deflection of concern and sacrifice coupled with a need for easy social standing is largely why they don't care about the unborn, God's commandments against sin, or the right of children to a mother and father.
[. . .]
Con games depend on illusions and bluffs. [. . .] Trump is not the problem or even a symptom. He's just the whistleblower on a sinking steamboat.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/paging_melvilles_ghost_the_top_swindle_of_2015.html

December 27, 2015
Paging Melville's Ghost: The Top Swindle of 2015
By Robert Oscar Lopez

Bill Cosby Arrested, Charged With Aggravated Assault



Chloe Goins has accused Bill Cosby (whose mugshot is seen here) of sexual assault. 
Photo: Montgomery County Office of the District Attorney via AP / AP

[From article]
Lawyers for dozens of women who have accused Bill Cosby of sex assault or attempted molestation over the past 40 years said Wednesday that their clients are grateful that a prosecutor in Pennsylvania has finally brought criminal charges against the comedian.
Attorney Spencer Kuvin represents model Chloe Goins, who alleges Cosby incapacitated her with a drink and assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2008. He said possible charges are still pending with the district attorney’s office there, but the statute of limitations will run out in the spring.
[. . .]
Cosby has denied all the allegations against him, and his lawyer called the criminal charge unjustified. Most of his accusers allege that he gave them pills or drinks that made them dizzy or knocked them out, and that he subsequently removed their clothes and raped or groped them.
Goins’ federal lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles in October, seeks punitive damages for a variety of problems she says she has endured, including mental anguish, loss of self-esteem and dignity.
The timing of the announcement of the criminal charge comes just as numerous depositions were scheduled to begin in a Massachusetts civil case against the comedian.
[. . .]
Gloria Allred, an attorney who represents 29 accusers, said it’s “unprecedented for so many women to allege that they are victims of one rich, powerful famous man.”
She added: “Some of them have been very upset that there’s never been a criminal prosecution.”

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Cosby accusers’ attorneys say women are grateful for charges
By Associated Press
New York Post
December 30, 2015 | 6:08pm

Discussion of Globalism and Nationalism,




http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/707a1500-a415-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html#axzz3vqpfXWTb

December 30, 2015 5:24 pm
Why globalisers still retain the upper hand
Debate often boils down to a war between nationalists and globalists

Middle East Migrants In Germany Recruited By Drug Cartels as Couriers, Salesmen



Bild claim that migrants are being used as cheap drug traffickers and dealers as well as petty thieves but the extent of the crimes has been hushed up by police so as not fuel right-wing debate.

Americans are fortunate this kind of abuse, increased crime by migrants, with journalists and police silence, is not happening in the United States. Oh wait. It is happening here. Oh my. Oh my.

[From article]
German officials have ordered a cover-up of crimes committed by migrants to prevent causing alarm, a local newspaper has claimed.
Asylum seekers are being recruited across the country as cheap drug dealers as well as petty thieves, says German newspaper, Bild - the biggest daily paper in the country.
The paper accused the police of covering up the extent of migrant crimes in order to stop concerns among the general population.
It also claimed asylum seekers were prepared to work for a few euros couriering drugs across the country and said they were being signed up almost as soon as they had registered as asylum seekers.
[. . .]
Migrant crime was apparently the hot topic of discussion at gatherings of police, city officials, health officials and other officials dealing with the drug problem in the city of Frankfurt.
As well as drug related crimes, asylum seekers were also being used to sell stolen goods such as mobile phones, which in many cases were sold on to other refugees.
But the paper said that all of the officials dealing with the problem had been ordered not to talk about it, as it was an extremely sensitive subject that has been forbidden to be referred to in an 'offensive manner'.
[. . .]
The reason given by the paper was to avoid alarming the general public already concerned with the vast number of asylum seekers the country has allowed in, but also to avoid providing material for right-wing extremists.
New arrivals to the country were apparently the most desirable as they did not have any formal way of complaining about what they were asked to do and rarely gave problems to the drug-dealing Mafia.
The most successful couriers are then being recruited into the Mafia and are also being used to bring in further new recruits.
[. . .]
Germany's 16 federal states plan to spend about 17 billion euros to deal with the refugee crisis next year, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3378985/Police-Germany-covering-extent-migrant-crime-claim-Bild-country-revealed-taken-1-1-MILLION-people-2015.html

Police in Germany are covering up the extent of crime committed by migrants, claim Bild... as country is revealed to have taken in 1.1 MILLION people during 2015
Asylum seekers are being recruited as cheap drug dealers and traffickers as well as petty thieves, Bild newspaper claims
But police have apparently been ordered to cover up extent of crimes so as not to fuel 'right wing extremist debate'
Shocking claim comes as Germany registered over one million migrants in 2015 - five times last year's total
Germany has taken more refugees from the Middle East and Africa than any other EU state
The country is a magnet for migrants partly because of its generous social benefits
See more on Germany's refugee crisis at www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis
By Alexandra Genova For Mailonline
Published: 12:25 EST, 30 December 2015 | Updated: 13:18 EST, 30 December 2015

Texas Muslim Charged With Arson of Mosque He Attended



Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested early Wednesday in connection with a Christmas Day fire at a Houston mosque, Dec. 30, 2015.
(Screen shot via Twitter)

[From article]
A Houston man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson at a mosque on Christmas Day, but the motive for the crime remains a mystery, with the suspect maintaining he was a regular at the mosque.
[. . .]
According to a charging instrument released by the Harris County District Clerk, Moore told investigators at the scene that he has attended the storefront mosque for five years, coming five times per day to pray seven days per week.
Moore said he had been at the mosque earlier on Dec. 25 to pray, and had left at about 2 p.m. to go home, according to authorities and court papers. Moore said he was the last person to leave the mosque and saw no smoke or other signs of fire when he departed, authorities said. He maintained he had returned to the scene after hearing about the fire from a friend.

http://video.chron.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90000&ndn.siteSection=houstonchron&ndn.videoId=30116912&freewheel=90000&sitesection=houstonchron&vid=30116912



[. . .]
Using surveillance video from multiple businesses nearby, investigators were able to identify Moore, according to records. A search warrant of his home was conducted, and investigators recovered a backpack and clothing similar to that which was seen in surveillance footage, as well as half of a two-pack of charcoal lighter-fluid bottles that seemed to match another lighter fluid bottle found inside the mosque.
A team of 30 investigators worked around the clock investigating the cause of the fire, which was found to have multiple points of origin. Moore was even interviewed by investigators at the mosque the day of the fire. He had attended services there earlier that day, according to Ruben Hernandez, chief arson investigator with the city's fire department.
[. . .]
After collecting evidence, reviewing surveillance video and executing a search warrant, the fire department's arson bureau and the ATF made a joint arrest around 1:30 am Wednesday at Moore's house, where he lives with his wife and kids, according to Hernandez. Moore was charged with first-degree arson, a felony. A motive has not been determined.
"We view arson as a violent crime," said Robert Elder, special agent with the Houston field division of the ATF, adding that arson is not just an attack on a building but "an attack on the community."
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Federal-officials-arrest-man-in-connection-with-6727623.php

Man charged with setting Houston mosque fire says he was a devout attendee
By Carol Christian and Leah Binkovitz
Updated 3:59 pm, Wednesday, December 30, 2015

http://video.chron.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90000&ndn.siteSection=houstonchron_nws_loc_sty_pp&ndn.videoId=30130786&freewheel=90000&sitesection=houstonchron_nws_loc_sty_pp&vid=30130786

Solar Flares Produce Sky Show Before New Year's Eve




[From article]
A powerful solar storm set to slam Earth today will make for stunning views of the Northern Lights just before New Year's Eve. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center said the "strong" storm could allow the Northern Lights to dip as far south as Oregon and Illinois.
NOAA classifies solar storms on a scale of one to five (one being the weakest; five being the most severe). Today's storm is forecast to be a G3 event, meaning it could have the strength to cause fluctuations in some power grids, intermittent radio blackouts in higher latitudes and possible GPS issues.
The storm is the result of a coronal mass ejection -- basically a flare of charged protons and electrons -- that burst from the sun earlier this week. Once they reach Earth, the particles interact with the planet's magnetic field to paint the sky in dazzling colors.
NOAA predicts the effects of today's storm could linger into New Year's Eve.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/powerful-solar-storm-hit-earth-years-eve/story?id=36010574

Powerful Solar Storm to Hit Earth Before New Year's Eve
By Alyssa Newcomb
Dec 30, 2015, 12:05 PM ET

December 29, 2015

White Husband of NPR Researcher Beaten By Black Gang on Washington DC Metro




Same pattern employed with all the victim groups. PR flacks publish propaganda, in venues of useful idiots. Upper classes remain immune from street violence, and provide cover for dividing ordinary voters and taxpayers into fighting factions. George Soros provides funds for PR flacks and street organizers of mass protests. These events are not spontaneous.

[From article]
[Lori] Kaplan is the Senior Director of Audience Research at NPR in downtown Washington, D.C. That is where she regularly meets her husband at the end of his evening commute on the Metro Red Line.
That is what she was recently doing when she received a text message from him: An “idiot gang” was acting belligerently in his train car, so he was going to move.
That was the last she heard from him until he got off the train: bloody, beaten, and dazed. With a broken jaw and missing teeth.
[. . .]
The reporter, a former NPR correspondent, either did not know or did not think it was important to include a description of the “idiot gang.”
Hundreds of readers of the story thought it was important -- and many mentioned their own experiences with black on white violence on the D.C. Metro.
The attackers of Kaplan’s husband were black -- as are virtually all of the violent predators on the Washington Metro. A fact the Post and NPR keep trying to ignore and wish away, even as they devote more and more space to Black Lives Matter and the omnipresence of white racism.
[. . .]
The reporter was upholding a longstanding tradition at the Post -- which at NPR is an ironclad rule -- not to report on the epidemic of black on white crime and black mob violence in Washington or anywhere else.
Or only to dismiss it as some kind of right wing talking point, if somehow race does sneak into the coverage.
[. . .]
as everyone understands, everyone who does not listen to NPR is racist and bigot.
And that is why they are supporting Donald Trump.
[. . .]
Despite these and thousands of other racial references every year on NPR, there is never any pushback. Not one host or guest asking “really?”
Not one news reader mentioning, however timidly, the enormous gap between black and white crime rates. The enormous black on white hostility that is now mainstream.
The enormous number of victims of black on white crime and violence.
The Kaplan family is far from the first family to see their carefully constructed make-believe world of relentless black victimization burst apart with a shocking dose of violence and reality.
Last year, David Ruenzel was living a life of white privilege as an Oakland schoolteacher. He knew better than most what that term meant: He helped invent it as a writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
While exercising his white privilege on a remote hiking trail in Oakland, several black people killed him.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/dc_npr_family_another_victim_of_black_violence_and_denial_.html

December 29, 2015
D.C. NPR Family Another Victim of Black Violence and Denial
By Colin Flaherty

New Book Discussion On US-Israel Relationship




[From article]
One of the most important points to be made in the book is that presidents, such as Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter, Bush 41, and Obama, were not successful when they chose to redefine the relationship with Israel in order to gain with the Arabs. Yet, those presidents who cooperated with Israel did not have the expected negative fallout with the Arab countries. Ross emphasizes in the book, “As the scope of U.S. strategic and military cooperation with Israel has grown to unprecedented levels, the U.S. presence in a number of Arab Gulf states has also dramatically increased.”
[. . .]
Regarding the Palestinians, President Obama, according to Ross, “sees them as too weak to criticize and therefore reserves his criticism for Israel. The problem is when you give them a pass it becomes difficult for them to compromise because they also see themselves as the victim. If you always give them a pass and never hold them accountable why would they change their behavior? I remember commenting, if they are too weak to be criticized, to weak to be held accountable, then they are too weak to have a state.
[. . .]
Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice on how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders, Israel, and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light. This book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the U.S.-Israel relationship.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/understanding_the_usisraeli_relationship.html

December 29, 2015
Understanding the U.S./Israeli Relationship
By Elise Cooper

Michigan Muslim Prisoners Sue Pamela Geller For Wearing A Swimsuit



Pamela Geller

[From article]
Pamela Geller has been sued by at least one, and perhaps two, Muslim prisoners in Michigan. And while Geller is no stranger to lawsuits (frequently challenging her First Amendment rights), this one’s a real doozie. Here’s the gist, as reported at Breitbart:
Muslim prisoners in Michigan filed a lawsuit against Pamela Geller for “wearing a Poke a Dot Bikini In Front of our eyes. We are offended.” They demanded their freedom claiming their civil rights were violated….

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/incarcerated_muslims_sue_pamela_geller_for_wearing_a_bikini.html

December 28, 2015
Incarcerated Muslims sue Pamela Geller for wearing a bikini
By Carol Brown

Ungrateful African Migrants Attack South African Samaritan Who Sheltered 100 Migrants




[From article]
THE good Samaritans who took onto their farm over 100 refugees displaced by this year’s xenophobic violence, now claim they have been threatened with murder by the same people they had set out to help.
Besides property being destroyed, the ­family who took in the immigrants have also been accused of not helping them to be ­relocated back home or to another country, driving a chasm between them.
[. . .]
Kind of reminds me of this:
Because they don’t have free wi-fi, a gang of African migrants in their tiny host town in Italy rioted, blocking streets, demonstrating and turning over garbage bins.
The refugees, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, have been in a villa in the Italian town of Ceranova, courtesy of the country’s taxpayers. Under Italian rules, they can not work, so they lounge about, spending their free time using Skype to call their families back home, Breitbart is reporting.
But it’s impossible to Skype without wi-fi, so they’re demanding faster service.
[. . .]
The ideology of victimology is a cancer on humanity.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/family_that_housed_100_foreign_refugees_on_farm_attacked_and_threatened_with_murder_by_their_guests.html

December 28, 2015
Family that housed 100+ foreign refugees on farm attacked and threatened with murder by their 'guests'
By Thomas Lifson

USSR Fooled The CIA Often With Double Agents




This may explain why there are so many misguided bureaucrats within the federal bureaucracy, and especially in the intelligence agencies. See extreme case of USSR deception by Kim Philby who was in charge of counter intelligence for MI6. He worked closely with James Angleton for many years. Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends, Random House, 2014. 

[From article]
“During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency bucked the law of averages by recruiting double agents on an industrial scale; it was hoodwinked not a few but many times,” writes Benjamin B. Fischer, CIA’s former chief historian.
“The result was a massive but largely ignored intelligence failure,” he stated in a journal article published last week.
The failure to recognize the double agents and their disinformation designed to influence U.S. policies “wreaked havoc” on the agency, Fischer wrote in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
[. . .]



The agency’s ability to discern false agents turned deadly in 2009 when a Jordanian recruit pretending to work for CIA killed a group of seven CIA officers and contractors in a suicide bombing at a camp in Afghanistan.
In essence, this was the agency's own fault for developing a culture that placed a higher premium on saving the feelings of its career agents rather than protecting the agency from double agents. With so much at stake, you would have thought that the CIA would have tried to prevent this kind of infiltration at all costs. But bureaucracies have their own rationale, and even where national security is concerned, the bureaucratic mindset prevails.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/former_cia_historian_agency_duped_by_massive_numbers_of_double_agents_during_cold_war.html

December 28, 2015
Former CIA historian: Agency duped by massive numbers of double agents during Cold War
By Rick Moran

US Government Publishes Website Explaining to Black Men How To Rear Their Children




This is one practice predicted by George Orwell that the government would raise children not parents. The destruction of marriage is well on its way and the government is getting ready take over rearing children.

[From article]
If you're a black father reading this, have you ever wondered whether you should spend time with your kids? The federal government thinks this question stumps a lot of you, so it has set up a website called Fatherhood.gov to give you some clues to the answer. The site doesn't explicitly say "black," but most of the photos and literature for it feature black dads.
[. . .]
4) Another web page mentions something called the "National Park Service." Apparently this organization has parks all over America! A black father could find a park and take his child to one of them! (Though hopefully not a national park like Mount Rainier, where black people don't feel welcome!)
5) The website also suggests that black dads take their kids to something called "public libraries," which apparently have a lot of books – all of which are free! There is even a link that shows black fathers how to search for these "public libraries" in their neighborhoods.
6) There is an online form where black dads are invited to take a pledge to take care of their black children. Once they fill out the form, they are pledged to take care of their kids!
7) There is even a link to a National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse Hotline, where black dads can call the government to find out how to be responsible dads. Just try not to abuse your kids while you are waiting on hold!
[. . .]
Questions for discussion:
[. . .]



3) How do mothers know to care for their kids if there is no website instructing them?
[. . .]
6) If anyone else but the federal government produced such a patronizing website for black people, how many seconds would it take for him to be labeled as racist?
7) Which is worse: the epidemic of single parenting in the black community or the federal government thinking it can be fixed by giving irresponsible black dads a website to teach them how to feel affection for their kids?
[. . .]
Thomas Lifson adds:
The sad truth is that this campaign is probably necessary. We can’t openly discuss the problems with contemporary black culture without being called racists. So the federal government ends up patronizing black males.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/fatherhoodgov_teaches_black_fathers_to_care_for_their_kids.html

December 28, 2015
Fatherhood.gov teaches black fathers to care for their kids
By Ed Straker

New York City Strippers Charged With Drugging, Stealing From Patrons, Believe The Men Deserved It



Roselyn Keo, left, and Samantha Barbash are accused of drugging and robbing rich clients who Keo says had it coming. Photo: Steven Hirsch; Facebook

[Images of other strippers embedded. Their eyes reveal how sad they are.]

[From article]
Rich Wall Streeters had it coming when they were swindled by a ring of buxom strip-club workers, one of the women involved claims.
The curvaceous crooks at the Scores strip club specifically targeted wealthy ­“a–holes,” men who were usually married and who deserved to be drugged and bilked, former dancer — and now conspiracy and fraud defendant — Roselyn Keo tells New York magazine.
Keo and accused mastermind Samantha Barbash preyed on clients who treated them badly to get revenge, Keo said.
[. . .]
The vindictive vixens preyed on doctors and Wall Street executives, spiking their drinks with MDMA and ketamine, causing them to black out.
[. . .]
The strippers felt no guilt about conning clients who disrespected them or made sexually crude requests, Keo said. “There’s something extra satisfying about persuading a man who thinks you’re trash to spend his time and money on you,” she dished.
“Preferably so much that in the end, they hate themselves. It’s like, ‘Who doesn’t have any self-respect now, mother­f–ker?’
“They all walked in ready to party. And yeah, we slipped them extra [drugs] that they didn’t know about. But all of it goes hand in hand — sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. You know?” Keo said.
Her scam fell apart last year after a New Jersey doctor Zyad Younan, claimed he’d been drugged when he racked up a $135,000 bill at Scores. A federal DEA investigation confirmed he was telling the truth.
http://nypost.com/2015/12/29/greedy-guys-deserved-to-be-drugged-robbed-scores-strippers/

Stripper says Wall Street dirtbags deserved to be drugged and robbed
By Natalie O'Neill
New York Post
December 29, 2015 | 4:17am

European Union Disintegrating. Will US Withstand Divisions?




[From article]
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, “Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent,” contained this pessimistic prognosis:
“This European superstate will not endure, but break apart on the barrier reef of nationalism. For when the hard times come, patriots will recapture control of their national destinies from Brussels bureaucrats to whom no one will ever give loyalty or love.”
The column described what was already happening.
“Europe is dying. There is not a single nation in all of Europe with a birth rate sufficient to keep its population alive, except Muslim Albania.
[. . .]



“Between 2000 and 2050, Asia, Africa and Latin America will add 3 billion to 4 billion people — 30 to 40 new Mexicos! — as Europe loses the equal of the entire population of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany.
[. . .]
Just as Europe once invaded and colonized Asia, Africa and the Near East, the once-subject peoples are coming to colonize the mother countries. And as the Christian churches of Europe empty out, the mosques are going up.
[. . .]
My prediction that European “patriots will recapture control of their national destinies,” looks even more probable today.
[. . .]
Anti-immigrant, right-wing parties are making strides all across Europe, as the EU is bedeviled by a host of crises.
Europe’s open borders that facilitate free trade also assure freedom of travel to homegrown terrorists.
Mass migration into the EU is causing member nations to put up checkpoints and close borders. The Schengen Agreement on the free movement of goods and people is being ignored or openly violated.
[. . .]



How does an increasingly multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural United States avoid the fate to which Europe appears to be headed, when there is no identifiable racial or ethnic majority here in 2042?
Are our own political and racial divisions disappearing, or do they, too, seem to be deepening?

http://buchanan.org/blog/is-the-west-disintegrating-124491

Is the West Disintegrating?
Monday - December 28, 2015 at 10:20 pm
By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Season Of Being Offended




[From article]
This is the time of year when news of people being offended by Christian symbols reaches a high point. Progressives view complaints about a “war on Christmas” as manufactured. Barack Obama commented on this in 2006:
This notion that's peddled by the religious right -- that they are oppressed -- is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.
[. . .]

 

Professor James Hitchcock has written, “Far from being neutral, the American government is now in the position of favoring unbelief over belief and irreligion over religion.” When there is media attention to their efforts and a strong reaction they tend to deny that they were establishing a new policy.
[. . .]
The chief of staff of Walter Reed National Medical Center banned family members from bringing Bibles to the facility. Col. Chuck Callahan’s memo stated, “No religious items (i.e., Bibles, reading materials and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” After the memo became public the hospital released a statement saying that it was worded “improperly” and, “We apologize for any confusion the policy may have caused.”
[. . .]



The Department of Veterans Affairs director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, banned saying God or Jesus at funerals. VA Press Secretary Josh Taylor responded, “The idea that invoking the name of God or Jesus is banned at VA national cemeteries is blatantly false.” However, this policy was observed by several witnesses, including Congressman John Culberson.
[. . .]
The national Christmas holiday is gradually being replaced by a “Winter Celebration.” However, this may be too much of a reminder of the Christian holiday. Although it is not in the United States, Winnipeg, Canada, may give us a glimpse of the future. They have replaced their annual Winter Concert with an evening of African drumming.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/tis_the_season_to_be_offended_.html

December 23, 2015
Tis the Season to be Offended
By John Dietrich

History Of FBI Created Holiday, Kwanza




Each year the national grocery chain, Shaw's, also Star Markets of Cambridge MA, includes wishes for a happy Kwanza in their weekly sales flyers. They do not print Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah wishes in those flyers. The city of Cambridge, MA drapes its staircase to the city council chambers with Happy Kwanza wishes too. Ann Coulter has it exactly right. In the Boston area it is white liberals who encourage the misguided irrational narratives of the FBI and its infantile protesters. Frustrating, that each year she and others publish histories of that made up FBI holiday. Yet it persists showing limited attention span, and absence of critical thinking among modern Americans. This is an example of the pattern of FBI abuses, which brought the founder, J. Edgar Hoover, his persona as the arsonist and the fire chief.

[From article]
I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanza-reform, and we are not that observant. Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Everett — aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. In the annals of the American ’60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the ’60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. By that criterion, Karenga’s United Slaves was perfect.
[. . .]
It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglika,” which he based on the philosophy of “Mein Kampf” — and clueless public school teachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday.
Whether Karenga was a willing FBI dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.
[. . .]
In a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the “framed” murder of two whites included: “the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department” and so on. Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence against O.J. did not “eliminate unreasonable doubt” — an interesting standard of proof.)
[. . .]
The FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga’s United Slaves shot two Black Panthers to death on the UCLA campus: Al “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.
[. . .]
The seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another invention of the Worst Generation. In 1974, Patty Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snakehead stood for one of the SLA’s revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani. These are the exact same seven “principles” of Kwanzaa.
[. . .]



Kwanzaa was the result of a ’60s psychosis grafted onto the black community with the tacit encouragement of the FBI. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves — the violence, the Marxism, the insanity.
Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, they have forgotten the FBI’s tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO.
[. . .]
Only white liberals take Kwanzaa seriously. American Blacks celebrate Christmas. (Merry Christmas, fellow Christians!)

http://humanevents.com/2015/12/23/happy-kwanzaa-the-holiday-brought-to-you-by-the-fbi-2/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Ann Coulter
 Wednesday Dec 23, 2015 3:51


December 28, 2015

Cambridge, MA Teacher Laments Testing Mandates From Feds




Waste of taxpayer funds and misguided priorities extend to several federal bureaucracies, including but not limited to the US Department of Education. The same can be said about state and local bureaucracies. But the school committee has the final authority if they are able to assert their statutory power. All too often local officials yield to state and federal officials due to the desire to receive funds otherwise unavailable or withheld. Spines are seldom found among elected officials who focus on getting re-elected rather than doing what is best for students and taxpayers. Still no mention of the role teacher unions play in making school policy. Award winning teacher John Taylor Gatto, has some ideas in his book, Dumbing Us Down.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151223/NEWS/151228310

LETTER: Where was the discussion on MCAS and PARCC?
Posted Dec. 23, 2015 at 8:42 AM
Updated at 8:43 AM
To the editor:
(Editor's note: This is an open letter to Cambridge School Committee members.)
Kathy Greeley, Erie Street

Ex-Cambridge, MA Mayor Laments "Unfair" Competition




Parking, standing and stopping laws apply to Uber and Lyft as well as other vehicles on the road, contrary to comment by ex-Mayor Galluccio. Is it legal for them to wait in taxi stands? State law limiting idling to five minutes applies to ride sharing vehicles too.

[From article]
Ride-sharing drivers can roam and troll and wait anywhere.
[. . .]
During peak travel hours, as many as four thousand Ubers sit idling, waiting for a Smartphone hit. Look around, they are everywhere: Burning gas, taking up precious parking spaces and blocking traffic while taxi drivers are parked in cab stands
If we don’t stand up for fairness now, we will be sorry later.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20151223/guest-column-uber-is-getting-free-ride

Guest column: Uber is getting a free ride
By Anthony D. Galluccio
Posted Dec. 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Sexy New Jersey Lady Arrested For Theft From Romantic Gentlemen


The Victims

Ron Zoldan, victim


Jared Siemens, victim
 

Ron Zoldan, victim

The Suspect

Alexandra Martinez, 19, the suspect

[From article]
Some of the alleged victims of a 19-year-old blonde accused of repeatedly stealing Rolex watches, iPhones and money from wealthy men she picked up with friends at bars have been identified.
Alexandra Martinez allegedly preyed on a member of family that owns a Brooklyn oil-company, the heir to a fortune made on selling fireworks and the manager of a Midtown seafood restaurant.
Martinez, of Ewing, New Jersey, who has 'Love yourself so no one has to' tattooed along her arm, has been arrested five times for stealing items and cash from her victims in hotels and their homes,
[. . .]
Martinez and a girlfriend picked up 'Prince' Ron Zoldan - whose father founded Phantom Fireworks - at a bar in August and went back to the 25-year-old's Ritz-Carlton room, the NY Post reported.
Once they were back at Zoldan's room, the women waited until he had fallen asleep and then made off with his Rolex, two iPhones, some designer sunglasses and cash, according to sources.
Zoldan, who has appeared in photographs with Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady and NSYNC singer Joey Fatone, said: 'I didn't do anything wrong... I'm single. I'm 25. Girls come and they go.'
[. . .]
Matrinez does not appear to be the only alleged thief targeting wealthy people in New York City.
Two women are suspected of stealing $750,000 worth of jewelry from New York Knicks star Derrick Williams.
The alleged thieves were caught on a surveillance camera as they left New York City club Up & Down on December 19 at around 5am to head over to Williams' bachelor pad in the city's Tribeca neighborhood.
The NYPD has described them as persons of interests in the case.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3374078/Alexandra-Martinez-s-victims-include-Ron-Zoldan-Vincent-Theurer-Jared-Siemens.html

Fireworks scion, oil-company heir and top restaurant manager all duped by the 'Rolex blonde': Wealthy victims of teen 'who stole watches and cash from men she picked up in bars' revealed
Alexandra Martinez has been arrested five times for stealing from victims
Ron Zoldan, Vincent Theurer and Jared Siemens were victims of Martinez
Zoldan's father founded Phantom Fireworks, Theurer is son of president of Brooklyn's Approved Oil Co and Siemens manages L&W Oyster Company
Martinez was arraigned Wednesday in Brooklyn on grand larceny charges
By Dailymail.com Reporters
Published: 10:49 EST, 25 December 2015 | Updated: 11:20 EST, 25 December 2015