I have served America dutifully and therefore, will keep my server! So there! From Whitewater to White Wash!
This from a friend and fellow memo reader: "If her lips are moving she's lying.
Btw, how the hell does the first question come from a Turk with a focus on Hilary's sex??? This from a citizen of a country in the midst of stripping its women of most of their rights??
The world is on its head. "
Unbelievable: Click here: Obama Supporters Petition to Grant Him Immunity for All Crimes He Commits While in Office - YouTube
My previous comment about Hillary's speech was written immediately after she spoke. I was snide in my brief comments which were really a conclusion. Now I would like to expand on my expressions.
First, I thought it was very clever of Hillary to soften up the crowd by talking about women rights and then following it with an attack on Republican Senators who sent a warning letter to Iran. He obviously needs to keep peace with Obama so she threw him a bone.
That her first question came from a Turkish reporter was another way to soften the oncoming blow and most of the questions were soft ball and typical of today's investigative reporters who could not detect an elephant if it crapped on their feet
As I noted in the title to this memo, we are back to square one and must relive, for those who remember, the way the Clinton's have dragged our nation from one personal dirt pile to the next - Travel-gate, cattle futures, missing billing documents, Whitewater, deaths of close associates,, bimbos, the famous blue dress, no not the Blue Boy Painting, the Marc Rich pardon and the list continues to this day with continuing campaign fund raising mis-adventures previously involving a man named Chung, and now whole nations.
This afternoon Hillary asked us to trust her and take her word on her decision about her e mail selection routine and server.
If Hillary becomes president, I suggest the presidency will simply sink to a new low in terms of the ethics of the occupant and we will have decided slime is acceptable.
It will be interesting to see what the new national level of acceptable presidential behaviour and ethics is after 8 years of Obama and Holder.
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Will Netanyahu win against Obama's efforts to unseat him as well as others worldwide. (See 1 and 1a below.)
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Once G.W was to blame but now it is Israel. (See 2 below.)
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Read it and weep or cheer. Depends on whether you are on the paying or receiving line. (See 3 below.)
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Just another day in the life of a female terrorist. (See 4 below.)
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A legal analysis from a bright, very bright, lawyer friend of mine who also is a long term friend and a fellow memo reader. (See 5 below.)
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Is ISIS imploding or will Lebanon be next? (See 6 below.)
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I am often asked who will be the Republican nominee.
It is far too early to answer with confidence but if the election were held today my choice would be the following as well as some selected cabinet members and sorely needed legislative changes:
President: Either Gov. Walker or Sen. Rubio (leaning towards Rubio)
Vice President: Carly Fiorina
V.A Cabinet Officer: Dr. Carson assuming he is given the powers he needs to do the job I believe he can.
Sec, of State: John Bolton
I would also eliminate these departments and shift anything truly important to other departments:
Depts. of Energy, Education, EPA and OSHA
I would also significantly reduce the size of the Dept of Commerce and The IRS.
Then I would go through remaining departments and reduce their personnel size by 10% and would eliminate better than 20% of the rules and regulations each department is responsible for enforcing.
The only new pieces of legislation allowed would be the overhaul of the Tax Code making it simpler, eliminate all loop holes while flattening rates etc. .
I would pass legislation that would rationalize Obamacare, making it less intrusive and costly and more effective in accomplishing its expressed goals of portability, broader coverage etc.
No new laws passed until the above is accomplished.
Realistic? No, because no appropriate political leadership and followship exists and because you cannot gore oxen. Too much resistance and money is available to finance campaigns from lobbyists and wealthy contributors with narrow agendas. Therefore, the idea of reducing the deficit is out of the question and accomplishing solving America's more serious problems is a pipe dream.
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1)
Five reasons Netanyahu can't be replaced in these Israeli elections
Time for a reality check: Isaac Herzog will not be Israel's next prime minister.
Posters of Isaac Herog, February 28, 2015. Photo by Reuters
Various media in Israel and abroad continue to speculate that Isaac Herzog could cobble together a coalition against all odds, and replace the incumbent prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. They delude themselves that it's 1999 all over again, the last time Netanyahu fell, that Herzog's chances "appear" to be higher than earlier in the election campaign, or that a unity government with a rotating prime minister is a viable scenario.
Folks, it's time for an intervention.
There is no scenario in which Isaac Herzog will be Israel's next prime minister, no matter what he declares or what the press reports.
Period.
All this talk reminds me of an interview I had as a PhD student in 2011 with a Sri Lankan civil rights activist about their civil war. I asked him about an article he had written in 2005 before the cease-fire there collapsed, in which he stated there was no going back to violence. On what basis had he made that prediction? I asked. He replied, "Wishful thinking."
I know it's harsh news, but the reality is that Herzog and company, while they are obliged to loudly declare their intention to win, have to prepare for becoming a fighting opposition the day after the election. And they should forget about the idea of being part of a unity government, which Netanyahu rejected in January, if he ever entertained it. Netanyahu went to the polls because the previous coalition was ungovernable; a unity government would be even less so.
Let's do a reality check.
1) The Israeli public is indifferent to media "scandals" about Netanyahu. Ever since he brushed off an extramarital affair while running for the Likud leadership in 1993, Netanyahu has been able to frame any publicized misstep as attempted character assassination, and enough of the public has bought it to keep him in power. The fact that Likud has steadily held around 23 seats in the polls since the whole brouhaha over his speech to Congress and Sara's bottle-gate began in January, compounded by reports about his personal expenses and the state comptroller's report on housing demonstrate his Teflon quality.
2) Security and credibility. The left was permanently discredited by the failure of Oslo, and Herzog has nothing to offer to inspire public confidence that he would bring genuine change for which it would be worth giving up the status quo. Netanyahu, meanwhile, has successfully sewed the seeds of fear, helped by the occasional terror attack or war. In the mind of the public, security is #1. Consequently, he continues to garner the highest support as "most suitable for prime minister," despite his low approval ratings.
2) Security and credibility. The left was permanently discredited by the failure of Oslo, and Herzog has nothing to offer to inspire public confidence that he would bring genuine change for which it would be worth giving up the status quo. Netanyahu, meanwhile, has successfully sewed the seeds of fear, helped by the occasional terror attack or war. In the mind of the public, security is #1. Consequently, he continues to garner the highest support as "most suitable for prime minister," despite his low approval ratings.
3) The numbers game: Since being discredited by Oslo, the true left (Labor, Meretz and the Arab parties), which never held fewer than 48 seats through the 1999 election, has never had more than 34 seats since the 2003 election. While they should break through that barrier this election, the left is still looking at no more than 41-42 seats; hardly enough to make a serious bid to reach the minimum of 61. Yet, the Joint List refuses to join any government, so even if Zionist Union wins the most seats out of any party, it will still fail to build a left-wing coalition.
4) The center-left bloc myth: This myth, more than any other, keeps alive false hopes about post-election scenarios. It grew out of Ariel Sharon's Kadima revolution, which gutted the Likud temporarily and sent it to a historic low in the 2006 election. However, once the public understood that Kadima was more than just Likud-light, Kadima collapsed and with it went the center-left bloc. Leaving out the Arabs, no conceivable center-left bloc tops even 50 seats, let alone 60. Why not? Besides the centrist Yesh Atid, the moment Zionist Union tries to corral right-of-center parties, it loses Meretz, because the right-wing parties won’t sit with this truly leftist party.
5) The political and socioeconomic status quos are still holding. The Israeli public has not voted for dramatic change except in the wake of significant blows to the status quo. The aftermath of the Yom Kippur War and the coming of age of Sephardi Jews swept Likud into power; the first intifada and the Russian wave of immigrants swung the pendulum back to Labor; and the onset of the second intifada gave Likud a comeback. Yes, Israel has fought wars in recent years, but the security situation is much more tolerable than it was during the years of the second intifada. And the economy is stumbling but unemployment is low; the stock market is high; and homeowners do not see rising housing prices as a crisis the way the media does. In short, the time is not ripe for change.
To quote Netanyahu's favorite game: check mate.
1a)
Netanyahu: There is a worldwide effort to topple Likud rule
Prime Minister Netanyahu suggested Monday to a meeting of Likud activists in Kiryat Gat that there is an international effort to remove him from power.
In a recording of the meeting obtained by Army Radio and aired on Tuesday, Netanyahu is heard saying of the current election campaign, "This a very close battle. Nothing is ensured because there is a great, worldwide effort to topple Likud rule."
Netanyahu and the Likud have suggested throughout the run-up to the March 17 election that groups such as V15, an organization advertising to remove Netanyahu from power, are being funded by millions of shekels pouring in from abroad.
Last month, the Likud asked State Attorney Shai Nitzan to probe whether V15 was breaking laws prohibiting raising too much money for parties and raising money for parties from people who are not Israeli citizens.
But Nitzan did not find a connection between V15 – which has raised huge sums abroad for its effort to unseat Netanyahu – and any particular party.
The Likud held a much-publicized press conference in early February, in which four MKs, including two deputy ministers, compared V15’s fund-raising to the 1999 non-profit organizations scandal that involved current Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog.
V15 released a statement mocking the Likud press conference after Nitzan's decision not to prosecute. “The state comptroller, attorney- general, Central Elections Committee and district court took the air out of the Likud’s spin and made a mockery out of the brown-nosing sycophants from the delusional press conference,” V15 said in a statement.
The latest Jerusalem Post poll, released Friday, found that if the March 17 election were held now, the Zionist Union would beat the Likud, 24 Knesset seats to 22.
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2)
So what radicalized an Australian teenager to become an Islamic State jihadi?
The headline from the Sydney Morning Herald is pretty explicit in its attribution to media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet this is the only mention of Israel in the SMH article:
He was particularly upset by Israel’s campaigns in Gaza.“He did express strong thoughts on what was really happening compared to what they showed us in the media,” the friend said.Mr Bilardi believed of the western media: “They lie. Twist words. Don’t say what is actually happening”.
And what of the Herald Sun, whose headline focused on the death of Jake Bilardi’s mother? There is no mention of media coverage of Israel whatsoever in that paper’s story.
Considering that Bilardi converted to Islam and then headed for Iraq (not Israel), what are we to make of the Sydney Morning Herald’s headline?
It looks like it isn’t Jihadi Jake who has an obsession with Israel. Someone at the Sydney Morning Herald has figured that an Israel angle to the story, even a circumstantial one, makes it far more attractive to an audience that has already been fed a steady diet of negative stories about Israel.
We are left with an inappropriate headline, the only purpose of which is click-bait to entice the readers.
And if media coverage of Israel is responsible for anything, it’s not the creation of Islamic State jihadis but instead the appalling rise in anti-Semitism currently sweeping the globe
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WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I hope the following 14 reasons
are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the readers gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1.
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify At :
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
< http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8>
2.
$22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food Assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify
At :
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
< http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML>
3.
$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
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4.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on Primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify
At :
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...0.HTML
< http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...0.HTML>
5.
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for Education for the American-bornChildren of illegal aliens, known asAnchor babies.
Verify
At http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
< http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>
6.
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:
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7.
30% percent of all Federal Prison Inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: https://owa.slugger.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx
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8.
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on Illegal aliens for Welfare & socialServices by the American taxpayers.
Verify
At :
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
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9.
$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal Aliens .
Verify
At :
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13.
In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to theirCountries of origin.
Verify
At : .
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14.
The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed By Illegal Immigrants In The United States ..
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The total cost is a whopping
$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH
WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
Are we THAT Stupid?
YES, FOR ALLOWING THOSE IN THE U.S. . CONGRESS TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!
4) On International Women's Day
Fatah praises female terrorist
who lured Israeli youth to his murder
as "O glorious one"
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
On March 8, International Women's Day, Abbas' Fatah party posted an image of terrorist Amna Muna, addressing her as "O glorious one," and stating that she "is always present in our hearts." Muna participated in the kidnapping and murder of 16 year-old Israeli Ofir Rahum on Jan. 17, 2001. She met the Israeli youth in an online chat room, convinced him to meet her, then drove him to Ramallah, where he was murdered by her two accomplices. She was arrested and sentenced to life in prison, but was released in the Gilad Shalit deal (details below).
Posted text: "When we speak of thePalestinian woman on her day (i.e., International Women's Day), you must be present, O glorious one, the prisoner who was exiled from Palestine toTurkey, and is always present in our hearts. Warm wishes to the women ofPalestine."
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page," March 8, 2015]
Interviewing Muna upon her release in 2011, the official Palestinian Authority daily called the terrorist "brave" and a "female fighter and leader," Palestinian Media Watch reported. A PA TV host likewise honored her and other female prisoners, stating that "without a doubt,I love you."
Amna Muna was serving a life sentence for her participation in the kidnapping and murder of Rahum, but was released in October 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas. She was deported to Turkey, after refusing to go to the Gaza Strip. In the Shalit deal, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years.
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The National Law Journal is running a story today that says that Hillary’s eschewing government email accounts in favor of a a ginned up personal email account is “technically not illegal”. The legal press -- like the mainstream press – is always running liberal leaning articles to try to make lawyers feel that the Democrats can’t be violating any laws. They obfuscate issues that would normally be black-and-white (It depends on what the meaning of “is” is…) I think in order to make lawyers feel more comfortable as agents of the state as the state becomes more and more authoritarian and the rule of law is increasingly the rule of THE LAW. As Putin is reported to have said, “For my friends, anything. For my enemies, THE LAW.”
Today’s article is probably wrong and not up to National Law Journal standards. But most lawyers don’t have time to go check the Federal Records Act. They are too enmeshed in ERISA regulations, or document discovery, or client development. Who has time to read statutes that are not going to translate into billable hours? But the lawyers would be well-served to understand why the law is subverted and weakened each time a high-ranking government official pretends that the law can be “skirted” (to use a verb that harkens back to the Clintons’ abuses.)
Today’s headline in the National Law Journal says the use of personal email was “technically not illegal.” If that were the fact at issue, that would be correct. But Clinton went out of her way to obviate the Federal Records Act, setting up a server in her house that was hackable and not protected for the most sensitive of Cabinet-level records. She muddled an aide’s name for a specially-created domain name. She never even activated a state.gov email. Put those facts in front of a jury and see whether she would spent 3 years in the slammer. Put them in front of the author of today’s article and one gets she is “not guilty” because “there was no deadline” for complying with National Archive regulations – like Hillary is just storing these emails in her home until she gets around to transferring them to the National Archive. Really? Does anyone really believe that?
Here are the real facts: The Federal Records Act, which dates from 1950, provides that “The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records … designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s activities.“ 44. U.S.C. 3101
18 U.S.C. 2071(b) says, “Whoever, having the custody of any such record …willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”
Congress went out of its way to not only provide for imprisonment, but requiring the felon’s office be forfeit and that they be “disqualified from holding any office.” I don’t think this will prevent Hillary from running – but it should disqualify her in the minds of the legal community, even if the American public does not understand why the law must be applied equally to the powerful as well as the weak.
Further, each agency has policies for document protection, and Clinton was the head of an agency. Under 36 C.F.R. Part 1236.22(b), “[a]gencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system.” (emphasis on the must added)
As “evidence” that Clinton did not break the law, this article cites Alan Morrison, a public interest professor at GWU Law School: “I don’t know of any statue under which a person can be indicted or charged for not saving something on a federal computer.” Huh. Dean Morrison’s bio on his law school website says he “worked for the Public Citizen Litigation Group, which he co-founded with Ralph Nader in 1972 and directed for over 25 years. His work involved law reform litigation in various areas including: open government, opening up the legal profession [and ] suing agencies that fail to comply with the law….” If not for partisan wagon-circling, a lawyer who worked with Ralph Nader for 25 years for open government and suing agencies for failing to comply with the law might look harder at this issue.
Clinton broke the law. Her violation was not “technical,” but pre-meditated, planned with great precision, and willful. It involved a conspiracy of a great number of aides and technical personnel. (Conspiracy to violate the law is a separate offense.) All to keep these emails out of the hands of the Archives. Or the IG. Or an investigator. But not the Russians, Chinese, or a Romanian hacker. They already have all her emails. (Let’s hope the Israelis do.)
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ISIS has announced that Lebanon will be the next state to fall under the sway of its “caliphate.” According to Beirut's Daily Star newspaper, the only reason ISIS hasn't attacked yet in force is because they haven't decided on the mission's commander.
The Lebanese army is one of the least effective in the Middle East—and that's saying something in a region where the far more capable Syrian and Iraqi armies are utterly failing to safeguard what should be their own sovereign territory.
So France is going to send a three billion dollar package of weapons to Lebanon and the Saudis are going to pay for it. It won't solve the problem any more than a full-body cast will cure cancer, but it beats standing around and not even trying.
It may seem surprising at first that Riyadh is willing to fund a Lebanese Maginot Line. Saudi Arabia is the most culturally conservative Arab country and Lebanon is the most liberal, partly because of its one-third Christian minority, but also because Lebanon's Sunni Muslims are, for the most part, Mediterranean merchants rather than isolated desert-dwellers. They've been exposed to cosmopolitan ideas and culture for centuries while most Saudis outside the Hejaz region on the Red Sea have been hermetically sealed off from the wider world and its ways for millennia.
Despite the vast cultural differences between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, the Saudis want Beirut to remain exactly as it is—a freewheeling Arabic-speaking “Amsterdam” or “Hong Kong” on the Med. The Saudis vacation there in droves when they need a break from their fanatically conservative homeland. The country is like a pressure release valve. If they were to lose it, they'd have to holiday in France where they feel profoundly unwelcome.
But aside from all that, the Saudis feel just as uneasy about ISIS as everyone else. Never mind the ideological overlap between the upstart jihadists and the Wahhabi-backed monarchy. ISIS threatens every single government in the region. It would make permanent alliances with none and conquer all if it could.The Lebanese, of course, are in far more immediate danger. They can feel ISIS' hot breath on their necks. The army has been scrapping with them along the Syrian border for some time now. A majority of Lebanon's population is either Christian, Shia, or Druze, and all three populations rightly see ISIS as a potentially genocidal threat to their very existence. Even the Sunnis, though, fear and loathe ISIS. Other than the nominal sectarian sameness—ISIS also is Sunni—Lebanon's culturally liberal Sunnis have little more in common with ISIS than the French or Italians do.
A serious invasion of Lebanon by ISIS could unleash a bloodbath that makes the civil war in Syria look like a bar fight with pool sticks and beer mugs. It would be tantamount to a Nazi invasion. Every family in Lebanon is armed to the gills thanks to the state being too weak and divided to provide basic security, but people anywhere in the world facing psychopathic mass-murderers will fight with kitchen knives and even their fingernails and teeth if they have to.The only good thing that might emerge from an attempted ISIS invasion is that the eternally fractious Lebanese might finally realize they have enough in common with each other to band together for survival and kindle something that resembles a national identity for the first time in their history.Foreign armies don't do well in Lebanon over the long term. The Israelis managed to invade and occupy a large part of the country during the civil war in 1982 and even exiled Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, but they ended up fighting a grinding counterinsurgency against Hezbollah until 2000. The Syrians invaded and dominated the rest of the country, but the biggest demonstrations in the history of the Middle East forced the Assad regime into a humiliating retreat in 2005. Those are just the most recent examples. At the mouth of the Dog River is a mural of sorts. Seventeen conquering armies carved inscriptions into the stone cliffs congratulating themselves for seizing new territory. All, Ozymandius-like, have been vanquished.
So ISIS will eventually lose if thrusts into Lebanon, but the cost could be unspeakable. Few of Lebanon's prior invaders murdered innocent people with such gleeful ferocity. If ISIS makes any headway at all in that country, the rest of us will see just how barbaric they really are when they violently encounter large numbers of people unlike themselves. And the odds that the West will get sucked even deeper into the great war of the Eastern Mediterranean will only loom larger.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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