Warning About Funds For Social Security

[From article]
Now is the time for Baby Boomers to force their elected leaders to confront this issue and take action. The planned benefit reduction should be a major talking point for every 2016 presidential candidate, but somehow it is not. Why? Politicians fear confronting the truth, and they fear Americans can’t handle it.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421790/social-security-bankruptcy-statement-baby-boomers

Did You Ever Notice the Asterisk on Your Social Security Statement?
by MYRA ADAMS

July 30, 2015 4:00 AM

AIDS Research Scientist Sentenced To 4 Years in Prison, $7 million Fine, For False Statements

Dong-Pyou Han, 58
[From article]

A former Iowa State University scientist who altered blood samples to make it appear he had achieved a breakthrough toward a potential vaccine against HIV was sentenced Wednesday to more than 4 ½ years in prison for making false statements in research reports.
Dong-Pyou Han, 58, also must pay $7.2 million to a federal government agency that funded the research. He entered a plea agreement in February admitting guilt to two counts of making false statements.
Government prosecutors said Han’s misconduct dates to 2008 when he worked at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland under professor Michael Cho, who was leading a team testing an experimental HIV vaccine on rabbits. Cho’s team began receiving NIH funding, and he soon reported the vaccine was causing rabbits to develop antibodies to HIV, which was considered a major breakthrough. Han said he initially accidentally mixed human blood with rabbit blood making the potential vaccine appear to increase an immune defense against HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS. Han continued to spike the results to avoid disappointing Cho, his mentor, after the scientific community became excited that the team could be on the verge of a vaccine.
Iowa State recruited Cho in 2009, and his team — including Han — continue the research with NIH funding. A group of researchers at Harvard University found in January 2013 the promising results had been achieved with rabbit blood spiked with human antibodies.

http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2015/07/02/scientist-aids-research-fraud/

Scientist Sentenced To Prison For AIDS Research Fraud By Spiking Vaccine With Rabbit Blood
July 2, 2015 7:39 AM

CBS News Cleveland OH

U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) Explains To BLM Officials The Effect of Their Arrogance

[From article]
“Today, I wanted to take advantage of your presence here by letting you know things I’ve been hearing,” Gohmert said. “About the arrogance of people on U.S. Forest Service land and (Dept. of) Interior land – national forests - even from law enforcement, they say it’s just gotten tougher and tougher to deal with arrogant people on the national forests. Not getting access when they need it, not working with local law enforcement. And that’s been really helpful to me.”
“Some of us have been pushing for a while- let’s just dramatically cut back the U.S. Forest Service, the BLM, the Department of Interior and let each state manage the federal land within it’s boundaries.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/eric-scheiner/gohmert-blm-keep-arrogance-well-cut-your-budget

Gohmert to BLM: ‘Keep Up The Arrogance’ - We’ll Cut Your Budget
By Eric Scheiner

June 1, 2015 | 12:47 PM EDT

Congress Scrutinizes National Science Foundation Grant Priorities

Is this what the favor bank looks like? One politician votes for another politician's pork in trade for a vote on his pork? Trading votes is how legislation gets passed.

[From article]
But the Republican-led House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is scrutinizing that request and pointing to such grants as the Norway project. Congressional critics question why the NSF funded researchers to travel 4,000 miles to the Norwegian tourist community of Finnmark, particularly when Alaska is a similar destination and in the United States.
“Americans are tired of writing a blank check to the NSF to pay for foreign vacations,” committee Chairman and Texas GOP Rep. Lamar Smith told FoxNews.com. “Taxpayers’ dollars should focus on national priorities, not European excursions.”
The study was meant to look at the negative and positive impacts of tourism in the Norwegian community.
[. . .]
The study was conducted by University of Indiana professor Joseph Chen, who on Wednesday provided documents showing his findings have appeared in three peer-reviewed journals, amid questions about whether it had been published.
[. . .]
The NSF is the primary funding source for about 25 percent of all federally supported basic research at U.S. colleges and universities.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/13/gop-house-fed-agency-spending-on-european-excursion-not-science-priorities/

Rep: Feds funded 'European excursion' with $275G Norway tourism study
By Joseph Weber

Published May 13, 2015

FoxNews.com

George Soros Funds Radical Leftist Agenda

[From article]
According to Rolling Stone, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a closed-door meeting at his mayoral residence on April 2, 2015, to create the Progressive version of the 1994 Republican “Contract with America.” De Blasio called his update the “Progressive Agenda” and its stated purpose was to address “income inequality” in the U.S. A dozen far-left leaders attended the closed-door meeting, including George Soros’ son Jonathan Soros. Jonathan claims to support removing money from politics, yet hypocritically serves on several boards at the Open Society Foundations (OSF). OSF has given more than $550 million to liberal organizations.
[. . .]
The Agenda is supported by some of the nation’s most radical left-wing individuals, nearly all of whom have ties to George Soros.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/alatheia-larsen/2015/05/12/soros-backs-new-progressive-agenda-159-million?hootPostID=63a619021c718d60f4628740cc404e85

Earth to Chuck Todd: George Soros Backs New 'Progressive Agenda' with $159 Million
By Alatheia Larsen

May 12, 2015 | 12:42 PM EDT

Rural Hospitals Closing

[From article]

After 45 years of providing health care in rural western Missouri, Sac-Osage Hospital is being sold piece by piece.
Ceiling tiles are going for 25 cents, the room doors for an average of less than $4 each, the patient beds for $250 apiece. Soon, the remnants of the hospital that long symbolized the lifeblood of Osceola, population 923, will be torn to the ground.
Sac-Osage is one of a growing number of rural U.S. hospitals closing their doors, citing a complex combination of changing demographics, medical practices, management decisions and federal policies that have put more financial pressure on facilities that sometimes average only a few in-patients a day.
"Money just kept drying up," said Chris Smiley, a former operating room nurse who was the last chief executive of Sac-Osage and is now overseeing its liquidation.
A total of 50 hospitals in the rural U.S. have closed since 2010, and the pace has been accelerating, with more closures in the past two years than in the previous 10 years combined, according to the National Rural Health Association. That could be just the beginning of what some health care analysts fear will be a crisis.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/rural-hospitals-struggle-stay-open-adapt-30724015

Rural Hospitals Struggle to Stay Open, Adapt to Changes
OSCEOLA, Mo. — May 1, 2015, 1:57 PM ET
By DAVID A. LIEB

Associated Press

Russian Oil Interests Fund Opposition to Fracking, Environmental Groups

[From article]
Well, a recent report offers some useful detailed information about the role of Russia in funding the opposition to fracking by so-called Green groups.
The piece was written by investigative reporter Lachlan Markay. He reports the amazing news that a mysterious Bermuda-based company with Russian connections has been feeding tens of millions of dollars to American environmentalist groups who just happen to be virulently anti-fracking.
[. . .]
The Bermudan company is called “Klein Ltd.” Klein donated (i.e., transferred) over $23 million – in the year 2010 alone! – to American environmentalist groups that aim to halt the American fracking revolution and its expansion abroad. Klein funneled the cash to a non-profit organization called “the Sea Change Foundation,” based (where else?) in California. This amounted to 40% of the foundation’s money, please note. The Sea Change Foundation in turn shoveled the loot to anti-fossil fuel activist groups such as the Center for American Progress, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, the National Resource Defense Council, and (but of course) the Sierra Club. These environmentalist machines in turn use the pelf to fund their agitprop disinformation campaigns against fracking.
[. . .]
Klein Ltd. has a director by the name of Nicholas Hopkins. Hopkins just coincidentally is also a director of an investment company that is deeply invested in Russian oil and natural gas companies.
[. . .]
However, the purpose of this web is clear: keep the price of oil high, and keep Russia and its pals like Venezuela and Iran well-funded. All these companies are well-hidden behind walls of secrecy and an iron curtain of opacity. This Russian funding of green groups from behind a screen of secrecy is reminiscent of the Soviet campaign over decades to influence our movie industry and fund various “peace” groups.
[. . .]
In fact, this is of a piece with the long history of the Soviets funneling money to useful American idiots, from socialists and communist fellow-travelers to peace groups to now environmentalist groups.
[. . .]
It is high time for Congress to set up a joint committee to investigate the graft, corruption, cronyism, and foreign influence of the so-called green energy industries. And legislation should be crafted totally outlawing foreign money going to any organization that does any political advocacy in the U.S. That should include foundations like the Clintons’, which even now is accepting massive amounts of foreign money to help Hilary run for president.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/russian_money_and_useful_american_idiots_the_same_old_story.html

March 2, 2015
Russian Money and Useful American Idiots: The Same Old Story
By Gary Jason

George Soros Funds Protests

[From article]

Mr. Soros spurred the Ferguson protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to interviews with key players and financial records reviewed by The Washington Times.
In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.
[. . .]

In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.
[. . .]

“More than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support the people of Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national movement,” wrote Akiba Solomon, a journalist at Colorlines, describing the event.
Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race issues and is published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from Mr. Soros’s foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the activities in Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and activities.

[. . .]

Hands Up Coalition has dubbed 2015 as “The Year of Resistance,” and its outreach program strongly resembles how President Obama’s political action committee — Organizing for Action — rallies youth for its causes, complete with a similarly designed Web page and call to action.
Mr. Soros, who made his fortune betting against the British pound during the currency crisis in the early ‘90s, is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal causes and is a political donor to Mr. Obama’s campaigns. He committed $1 million to Mr. Obama’s super PAC in 2012.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/

George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action
Liberal billionaire gave at least $33 million in one year to groups that emboldened activists
By Kelly Riddell

The Washington Times

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Opposition To Paradigm Changes Is From Vested Scientific Interests

[From article]
Stephen Schneider, a highly regarded climate scientist explained the need to lie for justice to Discover magazine:
On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people, we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that, we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. … Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
[. . .]
Lomborg wrote the hugely-influential-and-therefore-despised book The Skeptical Environmentalist. An honest and by all accounts decent man and academic, Lomborg was a former hard-green environmentalist. In 1997, he set out, with the aid of some students, to disprove the work of Julian Simon, the environmental optimist. Unfortunately for Lomborg, it turned out the dragon he set out to slay was on the right side.
[. . .]
Galileo’s greatest and most-enduring enemies were not the orthodox clerics of the Church, but his fellow scientists. This was not a case of a superstitious, bureaucratic Church snuffing the light of reason. It was a case of petty and jealous men trying to use the Church to kneecap a whistleblower. If Galileo’s way of things won the day, a lot of people would have looked like fools and, possibly, lost their jobs. And, this had less to do with Copernicanism or heliocentricity than with the fact that Galileo represented the introduction of mathematics into the world of physics. Needless, to say, if you were a physicist who didn’t know jack about math and, all of a sudden, this guy was going to make math a requirement, you’d be bummed.
[. . .]
In 1597, Galileo wrote a letter to Kepler admitting that he believed Copernicus had it right, but he was afraid to admit it publicly for fear of being ridiculed by Aristotelian scientists — not persecuted by closed-minded clerics.
[. . .]
you cannot call the Galileo affair a battle between the Church and science when “science” — in its heart and ambition — was harsher on Galileo than the Church was.
[. . .]
more scientists probably have been stopped from pursuing research because “of defiance of conventional wisdom in America since World War II with its accompanying bureaucratization and politicization of science than existed in the whole of the world in Galileo’s day.”
[. . .]
Today, such institutions and associations are deeply invested in massive political and economic arrangements which require that Lomborg be wrong, if he is scientifically right.
Ultimately, the proper way to view the Galileo episode is not of a religious orthodoxy persecuting a martyr to scientific truth, but the forces of scientific orthodoxy using the state to punish a whistleblower.
[. . .]
The more-important word in the phrase “scientific community” is not scientific but community, because it is that word which reminds us that scientists are humans. And — surprise — humans are creatures of ego, jealously, and vindictiveness. Galileo himself was an egotist of the first order, which is one reason so many scientists despised him. But by shifting the blame for what happened to Galileo away from the scientific community and onto the Church, scientists — and in a sense the entire secular establishment — have absolved themselves of any culpability. This is not only unfair to the Church; it’s very, very dangerous for science, because it perpetuates a myth that the “sophisticated mind” is immune to inquisitorial zeal.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/205503/starry-enviro/jonah-goldberg

JANUARY 13, 2003 8:45 AM
Starry Enviro?
The cases of Björn Lomborg and Galileo.
By Jonah Goldberg

US Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) Outlines How To Stop White House Lawlessness

[From article]
Exit polls were unequivocal. More than 3 in 4 voters cited immigration as an important factor in their vote, believed that U.S. workers should get priority for jobs, and opposed the President’s plans for executive amnesty. These voters were right and just in their demands.
But President Obama made clear that he would attempt to void the election results—and our laws—by moving forward with his executive amnesty decree.

This decree would operate much like his unlawful “Deferred Action”: conferring work permits, photo IDs, and Social Security numbers to millions of individuals illegally present in the U.S.—allowing them to take jobs and benefits directly from struggling American workers. It is a scheme the Congress has explicitly refused to pass.
[. . .]
Congress has the power of the purse. The President cannot spend a dime unless Congress appropriates it.


http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/no-surrender-on-immigration-112766_full.html

No Surrender on Immigration
Who will protect the nation, if not us?
By SEN. JEFF SESSIONS
November 10, 2014

Court Finds Jordanian Bank Liable For Funding Terrorists Who Killed Israelis

Arab Bank's main office, pictured, is in Amman, Jordan, but it also has a branch in New York City — where a federal jury found the institution liable for funneling money to terrorists.
Photo: KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
[From article]
The mother of Steve Averbach, who was mortally wounded in the bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv, said the Arab Bank was just as culpable as the suicide bombers and she was sorry it faced only a monetary penalty and not criminal charges.
“I'm disappointed the United States didn't protect its citizens,” Maida Averbach, 76, said.


Josh Faudem, who survived a 2003 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, is shown in August outside Brooklyn Federal Court after he testified in the civil trial against Arab Bank.
Photo: BRYAN PACE/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/arab-bank-liable-israel-terror-attacks-brooklyn-jury-article-1.1948787

Arab Bank liable for terror attacks in Israel on 300 Americans, Brooklyn jury finds
After a five-week trial in federal court, the plaintiffs — bombing victims or their relatives— convinced panelists that Arab Bank either knowingly or with willful blindness transferred millions of dollars to charities controlled by Hamas and to families of suicide bombers between 2001 and 2004. Another jury will decide monetary damages.
BY JOHN MARZULLI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, September 22, 2014, 6:19 PM

* * *

[From article]
Roughly 300 victims of those terror attacks in Israel and the occupied territories sued Arab Bank for knowingly transacting with members of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
After two days of deliberation, the jury found the banking giant liable for every one of the attacks — from bus bombings to an explosion at a Sbarro pizzeria.
Jurors found the bank liable for transferring cash to operatives and handling death benefits of $5,300 apiece to families of suicide bombers from a Saudi charity group.
[. . .]
A separate trial will now be held to determine damages.
Arab Bank said it will appeal the verdict.

http://nypost.com/2014/09/22/jury-finds-bank-liable-for-suicide-bombings-in-israel/

Jury finds bank liable for suicide bombings in Israel
By Selim Algar
New York Post
September 22, 2014 | 4:46pm

US Ally, Qatar Funds Terrorists

[From article]
Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya's capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country's collapse into a failed state.
Moreover, the new overlords of Tripoli are allies of Ansar al-Sharia, a brutal jihadist movement suspected of killing America's then ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and of trying to murder his British counterpart, Sir Dominic Asquith.
Barely three years after Britain helped to free Libya from Col Gaddafi's tyranny, anti-Western radicals hold sway. How could Britain's goal of a stable and friendly Libya have been thwarted so completely?
Step forward a fabulously wealthy Gulf state that owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East.
Qatar, the owner of Harrods, has dispatched cargo planes laden with weapons to the victorious Islamist coalition, styling itself "Libya Dawn".
[. . .]
On Wednesday, the 34-year-old Emir of Qatar, who was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, took pains to deny the accusation while standing alongside Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor. "What is happening in Iraq and Syria is extremism and such organisations are partly financed from abroad, but Qatar has never supported and will never support terrorist organisations," he said.
The credibility of that denial depends partly on how you define a "terrorist organisation". Qatar has let Hamas, the armed Palestinian movement, base its political leadership in Doha since 2012. Qatar's government has funded Hamas and the previous Emir paid an official visit to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11110931/How-Qatar-is-funding-the-rise-of-Islamist-extremists.html

How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists
The fabulously wealthy Gulf state, which owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East, is a prime sponsor of violent Islamists
By David Blair and Richard Spencer
10:00 PM BST 20 Sep 2014

Grant Funds June 18, 2014 To Remove Architectural Barriers

The City of Cambridge announces grant funding

to remove architectural barriers with the Storefront Improvement Program.

Boston Bed Company

Wednesday, June 18th

9–10am

Please RSVP athttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-storefronts-for-all-campaign-launch-tickets-11770599179

Come join us at the groundbreaking ceremony for Boston Bed Company, the first Cambridge retailer to receive a 90% reimbursement for removing architectural barriers and making their Storefronts-For-All

Boston Bed Company
625 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02141

All are welcome to attend, just sign up to help us plan for the right number of people.

Boston Bed Company will host the event to showcase services available to independent businesses and property owners through the Storefront Improvement Program.  Light refreshments will be provided.  Speaking begins promptly at 9:15am and includes:

• David P. Maher, Mayor of Cambridge
• Andrew Rosenblatt, President of Boston Bed Company
• Richard Rossi, Cambridge City Manager

The Storefront Improvement Program provides technical and financial assistance to property owners or tenants seeking to renovate or restore commercial building exterior facades. The Program removes architectural barriers at the storefront entrance, improves the physical appearance of independent businesses and enhances the commercial districts of Cambridge.  This program provides:

• 90% matching grant up to $20,000 for improvements to entrance that complies with the American with Disabilities Act and the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board guidelines, including ramps, lifts, doors hardware and automatic openers, accessible parking, and signage.
• 50% matching grant up to $15,000 for other façade improvements, including better windows, paneling, architectural details and restoration of historic features.
• 50% matching grant up to $2,500 for signage, lighting and awning improvements.
• An architectural consultant retained by the City is available to provide assistance to applicants through the conceptual design stage at no cost to the applicants.

Storefronts-For-All in Cambridge, starting with Boston Bed Company!

Wednesday, June 18^th from 9-10am

625 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Military Appropriations Complex

[From article]
Early in the Cold War and in the Air Force’s existence as an independent service, during fierce inter-service competition for scarce resources, Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command, was briefed by a junior officer who repeatedly referred to the Soviet Union as “the enemy.” LeMay supposedly interrupted to say, “Young man, the Soviet Union is our adversary. Our enemy is the Navy.”

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will101513.php3#.UmBD0N00jDo

Jewish World Review
The sequester: The hammer Republicans hold
October 15, 2013
By George Will

Columbia University Tries To Change White Only Scholarship

This issue is not new. (JULIA MARSH, "‘Whites only’ Columbia $hock," New York Post, May 15, 2013) Black only scholarships exist and are protested only by a few courageous white students. Black colleges offered white only scholarships to compensate for black only grants. If universities had administrators with spines this issue would disappear by admitting that racism is not limited to white people.  

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/whites_only_columbia_hock_Dnm0d3xAOPX0dywjWHFL3L

‘Whites only’ Columbia $hock
Columbia: End it
New York Post
By JULIA MARSH
Last Updated: 2:59 AM, May 15, 2013
Posted: 1:58 AM, May 15, 2013

Defense Intellignece Agency To Grow

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241876/U-S-transform-Defense-Intelligence-Agency-massive-force-THOUSANDS-spies-world.html

U.S. to transform the Defense Intelligence Agency into a massive force
with THOUSANDS of spies around the world
Agency gets $100 million kickstart to begin program
Change will free up CIA resources by taking over more militaristic programs
Number of U.S. espionage agents will be 'unprecedented'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 14:59 EST, 2 December 2012 | UPDATED: 16:08 EST, 2 December 2012

CA Approves Funds for Illegal Aliens

Funny how public officials spend other people's money. When I was a first year law student, I ran out of money to pay my rent and expenses. I petitioned the dean for funding. He told me in 1970 before affirmative action was institutionalized that if I was black or Hispanic he could give me money but I wasn't and he couldn't. I saw students whose parents were doctors and professionals getting funding. But since I was paying my own way and was white I got nothing. As liberal icon JFK said, "Life is not fair." So why do politicians and homosexuals demand fairness? Why only for them and not white citizens too? Now they give taxpayer funds to illegal aliens. Of course this article says it is private. But today words have little meaning so private can also be taxpayer money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019096/California-governor-signs-allowing-private-aid-undocumented-students.html

California governor signs the Dream Act okaying financial aid for illegal alien students
By Katy B. Olson
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 9:38 PM on 26th July 2011

NYC Cuts Rent Funding to Homeless

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/city-may-face-increase-in-homeless-costs-report-says/?partner=rss&emc=rss

March 18, 2011, 4:00 pm
City May Face Increase in Homeless Costs, Report Says
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
New York Times