A little sardonic humor.
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Jefferson was one of our brightest. We could use him now. Will we choose to follow his command and words in our Declaration of Independence? (See 1 below.)
I posted this once before but believe it needs to be re-posted. (See 1a below.)
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Prager does it again. An American Muslim tells his own what their responsibility is: Islamic Terror: What Muslim Americans Can Do | PragerU
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Does Bryan Pagliano hold the key to Hillarious' political fortunes? Stay tuned. (See 2 below.)
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U.N maintains Israel is the world's greatest threat. What a pitiful amoral organization. If we had any self respect we would leave and order them out of New York. That would demonstrate leadership. (See 3 below.)
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This is more about our son and he wrote and sent me this link etc.:
Here is a link to the project that Flomio (the tech company of which
I'm a part) did for Visa and the House of Holland at London Fashion
Week this past November. We built a contactless payment terminal that
was so small and fashionable the models wore it down the runway.
People could literally use smart phones or designed jewelry to buy the
clothing directly off the runway.
Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Dick
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1)Thomas Jefferson foresaw today’s civil rebellion
By Donald Conkey
Few Americans fully realize the powerful impact the Declaration of Independence has had, and continues to have, on the governing of this free nation, called the United States of America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the initial draft of the Declaration in just 17 nights.
I emphasize nights because he attended to his convention business during the day and returned to his room to complete his committee assignment — the drafting of a document to declare our independence from England.
Few Americans fully recognize the political brilliance of this document. This document was more than the wisdom of just one man, or a group of men, it was the collected wisdom of He who Jefferson referred to in his document as the “Creator,” the “Supreme Judge of the world” and as the “divine Providence” that rules over the earth.
Students of political science realize that the timeline of a nation is often short. For Hitler, it was only 12 years — 1933 to 1945. It was longer, much longer, for the Roman Empire as it was for ancient Israel, and for many of the Chinese dynasties. And these same students are now wondering, given world conditions and a sharply divided America, if America has reached its zenith. Personally, I don’t think so. Yet America is at a crossroads and Jefferson foresaw today’s crossroads and suggested a workable solution in his Declaration.
Jefferson began his Declaration by declaring that this new nation would be founded upon two eternal laws. The first law would be “the Laws of Nature.” The second law would be “the Laws of Nature’s God.” Growing numbers believe that America is floundering today because it has ignored and currently is flouting these two eternal laws.
But in paragraph two, Jefferson laid out the basic principles of freedom: the equality of mankind and a plan for the nation to get back on track should it fail to live the two eternal laws that would make America, as was ancient Israel, a covenant nation to prevent it from ending up on the ash-heap of lost civilizations. Paragraph two begins by declaring that equality is a self-evident truth, “that all men are created equal.”
The second principle declares all mankind are “endowed by their creator with inalienable rights” of which he names but a few of the 22 basic rights of mankind. Jefferson’s third principle lays out a plan to “secure these inalienable rights” by declaring that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Jefferson declared this principle at a time when there were no governments derived from the consent of the governed — people were “subject” to the king or ruling elite.
At this point, Jefferson foresaw America today — in civil rebellion against its government. Jefferson was a brilliant scholar and had studied the governments of many nations and he knew a day would come when the federal government would attempt to re-enslave its people with excessive taxation, excessive regulations and create a welfare state that could not sustain itself financially. At this point Jefferson declared: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government …”
But Jefferson then warned the people not to change the government in haste or for “light and transient causes.” And this is where America is today, very unhappy with its government. But some believe the changes being advocated today are being done in haste. And this has widened the divide that has been created in America by the use of “political correctness” to silence the people. Now the people are fighting back — at the ballot box, as it should be.
Nevertheless many are fed up with both political parties, as Jefferson foresaw when he declared: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new guards for their future security.”
This is the source of today’s divide. The people have lost trust in their government to provide fair leadership for them. Newt Gingrich identified “the establishment” as a “secret society” of elites, in both parties, who want to control the people for their own gain.
American will continue to prosper if “We the people” vote to take back our government by having a “firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.
”Donald Conkey is a retired agricultural economist in Woodstock__________
1a)This is based on Alinsky's eight steps
From democracy to socialist society.
Obama quotes him often in his book and
Hillary did her thesis on Alinsky.
ALMOST DONE.
JUST ONE ELECTION DECIDES OUR FATE...++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2) The FBI stalks Hillary while Bill Clinton trolls Obama
ALMOST THERE!
There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist/communist State. The first is the most important.
5 OF THE 8 ARE DONE - THE LAST 3 ARE ALMOST THERE!
1. Healthcare: "Control Healthcare and you control the People"
DONE!!!
2 Poverty: Increase the Poverty level as high as possible." Poor People are easier to control and will not fight back if the government is providing everything for them to live.
DONE!!!
3. Debt: Increase the National Debt to an unsustainable level." That way you are able to increase Taxes, and this will produce more Poverty.
DONE!!!
4. Gun Control: Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a Police State - total local control.
ALMOST THERE!!!
5. Welfare: Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Livestock, Housing, and Income).
DONE!!!
6. Education: Take control of what People read & listen to; take control of what Children learn in School.
ALMOST THERE!!!
7. Religion: Remove faith in God from the Government and Schools.
ALMOST THERE!!!
8. Class Warfare: Divide the People into the Wealthy against the Poor. Racially divide. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to Tax the Wealthy with full support of the voting Poor.
DONE!!!
The bases are all covered! We are ripe.
The Clintons may sense a breakdown
- The Washington Times
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Do Bill and Hillary Clinton sense a breakdown in whatever deal they may have struck with President Obama to protect her presidential ambitions? Is whatever negotiation they may have been conducting over her email server problem and any inside information she may have on him now imploding? Or have the Clintons “won” the negotiation with Mr. Obama, freeing them to hit him publicly to get her elected?
Something has happened, which has led Mr. Clinton to openly slam Mr. Obama: ” If you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us ” he said recently. A few days later, Chelsea Clinton launched a broadside on Obamacare’s costs. A classic Clintonian one-two punch, coming just days before a report that the FBI is seeking interviews with Mrs. Clinton’s top aides, and likely Mrs. Clinton herself. Most investigations interview the target last.
What’s going on? No one knows for sure, but we have a clue.
In political scandals, sometimes it’s the person you’d least expect who says or does something that brings down the whole house of cards.
On July 16, 1973, Alexander Butterfield, former deputy assistant to President Nixon but a relatively minor White House player, revealed the existence of an Oval Office taping system to the Senate Watergate Committee and the nation. That disclosure began the denouement of the Nixon presidency.
Today, another relatively minor player may be revealing highly damaging information about someone who would like Mr. Nixon’s old job.
Former Hillary Clinton IT specialist Bryan Pagliano, a key witness in the investigation into her use of a private server, struck an immunity deal with the Justice Department and apparently has been singing. An intelligence source told Fox News that he has told the FBI a range of details about how her personal email system was set up and maintained. The source described him as a “devastating witness.”
Mr. Pagliano is a pivotal — perhaps the pivotal — key to Mrs. Clinton’s server and what was being done on and through it — and by whom.
Mr. Pagliano was in charge of server(s) since the 2008 campaign. He was paid $5,000 for “computer services” by the Clintons before he joined the State Department staff. After he started working there in May 2009, Mr. Pagliano continued to receive payments from the Clintons to maintain the server.
Mr. Pagliano can name all those who had access to the Clinton server and devices and when, and reportedly is doing so, allowing investigators to piece together an evidentiary timeline. It was emphasized to Fox News that Mrs. Clinton’s deliberate “creation” and “control” of the private server used for her official government business is the subject of “intense scrutiny.”
Mr. Pagliano can also testify to the security of the server and what was told to whom about it. Again, the server has the documents, including at least 22 top secret and above top secret ones deemed too damaging to national security to publicly release under any circumstances. That is a matter of some risk for Mrs. Clinton.
In another deeply problematic development, the FBI is focused on documents she and her aides sent rather than received, because sending them demonstrates deliberate intent much more than receiving them would. It’s been reported that over 100 highly sensitive documents originated with her.
If there are major classified emails that were sent by Mrs. Clinton, then one of my sources said “there won’t be escape from prosecution”.
Mrs. Clinton’s defense has been that she neither sent nor received anything “marked classified” at the time. This is more Clintonian parsing: documents are classified “confidential,” “secret” or “top secret.” Further, in January 2009 Mrs. Clinton signed the classified information non-disclosure agreement indicating that she understood that classified information could be marked and unmarked, and that it included verbal communications.
The Pagliano immunity deal is a piece of the puzzle. But in what way? As a general matter, DOJ does not like to grant offers of immunity unless it is assured something major in return.
A second State Department staffer, John Bentel, who managed IT security issues for the secretary’s office, has refused to answer Senate investigators’ questions about her use of the server. They are now reportedly considering a subpoena to compel his testimony.
These investigations are proceeding along multiple tracks: the FBI and two Senate committees are looking into her possible mishandling of classified material; the FBI is also examining possible violations of public corruption laws involving the co-mingling of her work at the State Department with Clinton Foundation operations. Judges continue to rule on several lawsuits involving the State Department and FOIA requests. Possible legal jeopardy surrounds her.
There is also big political jeopardy. The calendar is a problem for the FBI and DOJ. The longer the investigation goes, the more manageable it is for the Clinton campaign. An impending nomination is her greatest weapon.
To paraphrase a key Watergate query: What did the secretary know and when did she know it? Perhaps Mr. Obama and the FBI know the answer, and that has made Mr. Clinton and his wife dangerously unhappy.
• Monica Crowley is editor of online opinion at The Washington Times.
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3)You can’t make it up. UN names democratic Israel as world’s top human rights violator
According to the United Nations, the most evil country in the world today is Israel.
On March 24, 2016, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) wrapped up its annual meeting in New York by condemning only one country for violating women’s rights anywhere on the planet – Israel, for violating the rights of Palestinian women.
On the same day, the U.N. Human Rights Council concluded its month-long session in Geneva by condemning Israel five times more than any other of the 192 UN member states.
There were five Council resolutions on Israel. One each on the likes of hellish countries like Syria, North Korea and Iran. Libya got an offer of “technical assistance.” And countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia and China were among the 95 percent of states that were never mentioned.
No slander is deemed too vile for the U.N. human rights bodies that routinely listen to highly orchestrated Palestinian versions of the ancient blood libel against the Jews.
In Geneva, Palestinian representative Ibrahim Khraishi told the Council on March 24, 2016: “Israeli soldiers and settlers kill Palestinian children. They shoot them dead. They will leave them to bleed to death.” And in New York, Palestinian representative Haifa Al-Agha told CSW on March 16, 2016: “Israel…is directing its military machinery against women and girls. They are killing them, injuring them, and leaving them bleeding to death.”
Operating hand-in-glove with governments and the U.N. secretariat are the un-elected, sanctimonious NGOs, to which the UN offers free facilities and daily advertisement of “side-events.” In theory “materials containing abusive or offensive language or images are not permitted on United Nations premises.”
In practice, in Geneva the UN permitted handouts that claimed Israel “saw ethnic cleansing as a necessary precondition for its existence.” A film accused Israel of sexual violence against children and “trying to exterminate an entire Palestinian generation.” Speeches focused on the 1948 “catastrophe” in which a “settler colonial state” was established on Palestinian land.
The New York CSW-NGO scene included a film set in in the context of Israeli “oppression” and the “tear gas of my childhood,” and statements analogizing the experiences of Palestinians to today’s Syrian refugees.
Picture these real-life scenes:
In Geneva’s grand U.N. “Human Rights” Council chamber, 750 people assembled, pounced on the Jewish state, broadcast the spectacle online, and produced hundreds of articles and interviews in dozens of languages championing the results.
On the ground, Israelis are being hacked to death on the streets, stabbed in buses, slaughtered in synagogues, mowed down with automobiles, and shot in front of their children.
At the New York’s UN headquarters, 8,100 NGO representatives gathered from all corners of the globe, in addition to government delegates, and watched the weight of the entire world of women’s rights descend on only one country.
On the ground, Palestinian women are murdered and subjugated for the sake of male honor, Saudi women can’t drive, Iranian women are stoned to death for so-called “adultery,” Egyptian women have their genitals mutilated and Sudanese women give birth in prison with their legs shackled for being Christian.
Isn’t it about time that people stopped calling the U.N. a harmless international salon or a bad joke?
The poison isn’t simply rhetorical. One of the Council resolutions adopted last week launches a worldwide witch-hunt for companies that do business with Israel – as part of an effort to accomplish through economic strangulation what Israel’s enemies have not been able to accomplish on the battlefield. The resolution casts a wide net encompassing all companies engaged in whatever the U.N. thinks are business “practices that disadvantage Palestinian enterprises.”
And the toxicity is self-perpetuating. Acting at the beck and call of Islamic states and their conduit – French Ambassador Elizabeth Laurin and Council President Choi Kyonglim selected Canadian law professor Michael Lynk as the newest U.N. “independent” human rights investigator on Israel.
Lynk’s qualifications? He has likened Israelis to Nazis, and challenged the legitimacy of the state of Israel starting in 1948 as rooted in “ethnic cleansing.”
All of this played out in the same week that Europe was reeling from the Belgian terror attacks. Petrified or already vanquished, no European state voted against this onslaught of U.N. resolutions against Israel. Germany and the United Kingdom occasionally abstained, while France voted with Arab and Islamic states on all but one Council resolution.
Here we are just 70 years after World War II and Europeans believe that they can license this vitriol against the Jewish state – the only democracy on the front lines of an Islamist war against human decency – and the consequences can be contained to the Jews.
Even as the converse stares them in the face. Two days after the Brussels attacks, Islamic states rammed through a Council resolution slyly labeled “Effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of all human rights” that was actually so anti-human rights even Belgium was forced to vote against it.
As for the United States, the Obama administration has been the Human Rights Council’s most important supporter. Though the U.S. is currently in a mandatory one-year hiatus -- after serving two consecutive terms -- President Obama plans to bind his successor by running again in the fall for another three-year term that starts January 1, 2017.
Memo to Americans who are mad as hell: It's time to elicit a promise from our would-be leaders to refuse to sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council or to legitimize the United Nations.
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