Specious Science and Illogical Thinking Make For Questionable Investment Atmosphere.

                           COAL!
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I have lost my shirt investing in a coal stock believing reason and logic would overcome bad science and hysteria.  I learned, to me deep regret, the black lung disease resides in The White House and is alive and well.

The amount of pollution from scrubbed coal, when balanced against the destruction of lives of coal mining families, does not equate on any level - scientific, family structure, compassion, economic sense  etc.

I doubt Labor's great and irascible John Lewis, is sleeping well in his grave.
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Not the first time Chicagoan's were unruly when it came to allowing Democracy to work. (See 1 and 1a. )

Trump may not say anything worth listening to but he has every right to say it.

The fascists who would prevent him from speaking remind me of the Colonel in "The Teahouse and The August Moon," who said of the Okinawans; 'I will teach them Democracy even if I have to kill every one of them'
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Is Hilarious above the law?  Has Atty. General Lynch hinted she is?  (See 2 below.)
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Obama has one more 'stake' he wants to cook up for Israel!  (See 3 below.)

Last night another Israeli was stabbed.  This time in his neck.  He withdrew the knife and killed his Palestinian attacker.

Abbas knows , based on the past, if you terrorize the world will press Israel to make concessions. This is the message Obama is currently sending with another dumb peace initiative and those who went before him.  It is always easier to press Democracies to give in to renegade nations.

Also, Netanyahu has given a warning which, if not heeded, will result in Hamas being bloodied once again. (See 3a below.)
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1) We Warned You: Chicago Trump Shutdown Is Just the Beginning

For the astute readers of Breitbart News, last night’s battle in Chicago may come as a shock, but it should come as no surprise.

No other news organization has documented the rise and origins of the groups behind Friday night’s madhouse as thoroughly as the team at Breitbart News. From its origins being exposed in the film Occupy Unmasked before the election cycle to covering and exposing every aspect of the new Black Lives Matter incarnation, we’ve given readers the intellectual ammunition to understand the dangerous rise of the new American left in the Obama era.

Just this week, we published two 2,500 word exposés that laid bare not just the history of deception and media collusion that made last night’s rout of Donald Trump’s rally in the Windy City possible, but we also examined the 50 years of progressive hatred that caused such an outpouring of bile on social media after the death of former first lady Nancy Reagan.

We believe that those who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it, and as we pointed out in January in a definitive piece, we both illuminated the past and predicted the future.:

Should either Cruz or Trump be the nominee, expect Black Lives Matter’s army to take to the streets and try to shut them down at every opportunity.

 For that reason, the current political season is set to be even more divisive than either of the last two election cycles, which had already set a very high bar for vitriol.

We also pointed out that Donald Trump would be the main focus of this ire, but that or any other GOP nominee would be next on the radicals’ hit list.

This is one of the reasons that Donald Trump, more than any other political candidate on the scene right now, has incurred so much of the wrath and anger of Black Lives Matter. They are keenly aware that he simply will not play their game. The other current front runner for the Republican nomination is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has already demonstrated that he is no cupcake either.

Unfortunately, last night showed weakness on the part of both GOP front runners, as Trump showed that he could be out-gamed and Ted Cruz went full cupcake.

This is not a game that’s going to be won by either brute force or blame-the-victim capitulation. The enemy here is the organized institutional left, and every single GOP candidate and surrogate needs to start educating the voters on who they are.

This is going to get worse. As I predicted in January:

As the newest incarnation of the activist Left, Black Lives Matter will not back down or rest until it is either stopped by someone gutsy enough to call them out or until it gets what it wants: a bloody revolution leading to a socialist/anarchist America.

 The one thing the left has not counted on, however, is a dogged, active conservative media culture that can bring real information straight to the American people without being filtered by Black Lives Matter’s journalism school comrades. We’re not about to let Black Lives Matter or any leftist revolutionary movement destroy America without making sure they’re fully revealed for what they are.

There’s a battle for the soul of our nation. Our founder Andrew Breitbart made that clear through his work. The team here at Breitbart is in the trenches every day, bringing you the truth that the mainstream media simply will not. That’s our WAR, and we have no plans to surrender.

Follow Breitbart News investigative reporter and Citizen Journalism School founder Lee Stranahan on Twitter at @Stranahan.

1a) The US elite abandoned the American dream – Trump is the terrifying result

Where schoolchildren were once taught to love their country and its institutions, now they are imbued with national guilt

  

Donald Trump: he has behaved like Howard Beale, the iconic charater in 'Network' Photo: Reuters

By Janet Daley

By the end of this week, we should know whether an infantile narcissist will be the Republican nominee for president of the United States. Donald Trump, who has never held elected office, who has claimed that he will build a wall along a 2,000-mile national border, and who urges American military forces to commit war crimes, seems to be motoring to the candidacy. 

There was a point, only a historical moment ago, when the Republicans seemed to have as exciting a field of talented, fresh political faces among their prospective candidates as had been seen in a generation. By contrast to the apparently certain Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton – who was encumbered by unsavory personal baggage, as well as the weight of disillusion with the Obama administration – the Republicans had an array of people with stimulating messages, interestingly different biographies and a healthy mix of ethnicity and class. Where the Democrats would be offering a tired, not very likable, overly familiar face, the Republicans had some new stars who looked plausibly like the future. 

"Confusingly, the cause of Trump’s rise is both bigger and smaller, more and less significant, than it seems..." 

  

Then there was Trump – a foul-mouthed know-nothing trying to bully and bluster his way to national ascendancy. His only message was the inchoate rage of that iconic Howard Beale character in the film Network, who found a sure-fire way to increase his news show ratings by inciting the public to rage and self-pity. And, heaven help us, it worked. 

Even if it is too late to stop this terrifying steamroller, it is very important to understand why it happened. Otherwise the mistakes that may be made in interpreting the phenomenon could be as dangerous as the thing itself. 

 Confusingly, the cause of Trump’s rise is both bigger and smaller, more and less significant, than it seems. It may be a reflection of genuine popular anger and frustration but that mood is not caused by some unique, unprecedented crisis among working and lower middle-class Americans. 

The dissatisfaction with economic and social conditions in which many voters find themselves stuck is not unheard of in the American historical experience. It’s not even new to the present generation: the contraction of US industry that produced the rust belt and the decline in secure prosperity have been ongoing for at least 30 years. If there is really a sudden uncontainable fury sweeping the population, it is not accounted for by something strange and unfamiliar. 

Of course, longstanding exasperation can suddenly snap and rise up with unexpected force. But it is more plausible to see Trump not as the longed-for messiah who dares to voice legitimate mass unease but as an opportunist rabble-rouser who is simply exploiting the various discontents and disappointments that any free society is bound to harbour. Like Howard Beale screaming “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more”, Trump has capitalized on the potential volatility of crowds. And, like many demagogues before him, he specifically exploits hatred and fear of the outsider – Mexican “rapists and drug dealers” flooding over the border, and foreign Muslims whom he will ban from the country (presumably even if they are the Egyptian and Jordanian ambassadors to the UN). Anger, of course, begets anger: a counter-demonstration that turned violent forced him to cancel a rally this weekend. 

"But if it isn’t a set of brand new economic deprivations that produces this wave of Trump mania, what then?" 

 But if it isn’t a set of brand new economic deprivations that produces this wave of Trump mania, what then? There is an argument that Obama’s ignominious foreign policy, having undermined America’s influence and leadership in the world, may be directly responsible for the success of the “make America great again” theme. This would be plausible if it weren’t for the fact that Trump openly presents himself as an isolationist who was opposed to the foreign interventions of the Bush doctrine, and who believes that the greatness of America is all about the folks at home – who are still overwhelmingly resistant to seeing more body bags return from the Middle East. 

Far from defying Putin’s aggression, he praises him as a “strong leader”, and the threat he identifies from China is not its growing military presence but its cheap exports, on which he wants to slap a tariff. President Obama may now be worried about his legacy in global terms (which is why he wants to blame everything that went wrong on David Cameron), but the US electorate is pretty happy that he withdrew from the world. In fact, Marco Rubio – the standout talent of these candidates – has almost certainly suffered because of his support for the Bush brand of American interventionism. 

 So if it isn’t economic hardship because that’s not new, and it isn’t the collapse of US foreign influence because most Americans aren’t bothered much by that – what is it that fuels this mass voters’ revolt? What, as Mr Trump would say, is going on? 

 There are two things worth mentioning, one of them big and cosmic, the other quite small and technical. The smaller one is to do with party management: after the electoral debacle that a Trump candidacy will bring, the Republicans will have to emulate the Democratic party’s system in which the grown‑up party leadership has much more control over the nomination through a system of super-delegates (congressmen, senators, party elders and governors) who are not tied by primary votes. It will become appallingly clear that the party must settle its internecine difficulties and get a grip. 

 The big, more interesting thing sometimes comes under the inadequate heading of “political correctness” but is actually far greater than any quibbles about inappropriate words. There was a time within living memory when national pride and patriotism were the stuff of everyday life in the US. Now, while American school pupils may still pledge allegiance to the flag, the innocent (or naive, depending on your point of view) love of country is no longer instilled in the children of every generation as it once was. This might not have been a bad thing – particularly from a jaundiced European perspective – had it not involved a downgrading of the invaluable education in the democratic process and institutions that went with it. 

"There was a time when Americans were taught with considerable rigour about how their government worked, and the sacred principles of their Constitution."  

There was a time when Americans were taught with considerable rigour about how their government worked, and the sacred principles of their Constitution. It started with a primary school mantra: the government has three branches – the legislature makes the law, the executive enforces the law and the judiciary interprets the law. By the end of high school, it was proper civics, which involved full-blown participation in a political project of your choice – registering voters, lobbying for a Bill, working on a candidate’s campaign. 

 Alongside this, there was the study of the great documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution (“We the people…”), the Gettysburg Address (“government of the people, by the people, for the people”). All of this was seen as initiation into what you were told unreservedly was the greatest country on earth, created and sustained by the will of its own population. With knowledge came a sense of responsibility. 

 Well, that isn’t entirely gone. But it is countered relentlessly by what many Trump supporters would see as an urban intellectual elite – and particularly an educational establishment – that is obsessed with national guilt: over slavery, and then segregation, and the treatment of native Americans, and the various excesses of American militarism. However justified that self-criticism, it has tipped over into self-loathing and left a furious electorate feeling that this is no longer the country they called their own.

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Loretta Lynch Hints Hillary Clinton is 

Above the Law

by: KELLY COHEN

Attorney General Loretta Lynch indicated Wednesday the law doesn't require the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system, even if the FBI recommends criminal charges. Lynch was asked in a hearing by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, what her department would do if the FBI were to recommend that step. "If the FBI were to make a referral to the Department of Justice to pursue a case by way of indictment and to convene a grand jury for that purpose, the Department of Justice is not required by law to do so, are they — are you?" Cornyn asked. Lynch didn't answer directly, but seemed to indicate the department has some wiggle room, and can consult with officials before deciding what to do. "It would not be an operation of law, it would be an operation of procedures," Lynch said in reply. She added the decision to pursue a criminal case would be "done in conjunction with the agents" involved in the investigation. "It's not something we would want to cut them out of the process." 

Republicans have been pushing for charges against Clinton, but at the same time, many have predicted the Obama administration would never allow the Justice Department to bring charges against Clinton for including classified and top secret information on her personal emails. Some Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, have said Clinton is desperately hoping to win the White House in order to avoid the criminal charges that could be brought under a Republican administration. - 

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3) Obama’s final arrogant, ignorant push for ‘Mideast peace’

By Benny Avni

He’s yet to resolve the rest of the chaotic and dangerous Mideast, but President Obama seems intent on ending his second term the way he started: with a push for a Palestinian state.

Both attempts were punctuated by official trips to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden.That first trip, in 2010, was marred by a scandal of biblical proportions. A low-level Israeli official approved a first stage of a future plan to extend some housing for Jews in the northern section of its capital, known (for some reason) as East Jerusalem.

Obama’s rebuke, complete with a leaked angry call between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was heard around the world. The Bam-Bibi Cold War was officially launched. It’s not over.

Biden’s current visit was marked by a Palestinian murderous rampage in several Israeli cities Tuesday. In Tel Aviv, a Palestinian knifed and injured 10 Israelis. He also killed a visiting American, 29-year-old Taylor Force, a veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The attack took place less than a mile away from where Biden was at the time.

Biden condemned terrorism and incitement and urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to do the same. Abbas, instead, expressed condolences over the death of the American — and went on to blame Israel’s policies for the terrorism (which he habitually glorifies).

Israeli police suggested Biden’s visit triggered the rampage, but no one at the White House said it was a Palestinian “slap in Biden’s face.” No one at the State Department called Abbas to express Obama’s outrage.

Instead, there’s new talk of an American push for a UN Security Council resolution that would set parameters for a future peace agreement. Obama, after all, is a great believer in the United Nations. As he told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a new interview, “multilateralism regulates [American] hubris.”

But the United Nations is also where Israel can’t get a fair shake — as even Obama’s diplomats admit. Plus, Abbas lacks the legitimacy to make a deal.

Netanyahu’s wary about creating yet another failed, hostile Arab state on his border, even as the rest of the region boils. And as we learn from Goldberg’s interview, one of Obama’s solutions for the rest of the region is that the Saudis will learn to “share” the Mideast with Iran.

Yet, that’s the same Iran that just ridiculed Obama’s nuclear deal this week with fresh testing of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. Those missiles were marked, in Farsi, “Israel must be erased from history.” And, always wary of mistranslation, the mullahs added in Hebrew: “Israel must be erased from the earth.”

When Netanyahu in the past stressed Arab enmities and Iranian threats over the need for a Palestinian state, Obama’s aides complained about him “lecturing” the president. In one such visit, Goldberg writes, Obama returned the favor: “I’m the African-American son of a single mother,” and “I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.”

Lecture for lecture. Personal history will trump existential concerns.

This week, as Israelis bled in the streets and watched how Iran’s threats are met with no more than a shrug from the international community, the White House quibbled about who should be blamed for the fact that Netanyahu passed on the opportunity for a face-to-face meeting in Washington next week with Obama.

Netanyahu likely declined because he didn’t want to lend credibility to a brewing “peace plan” — a legacy project that he believes is bad for his country.

The now-infamous Bibi-Bam war may be part of what the president sees as a “doctrine”: A courageous push back against some invisible “foreign policy establishment” in Washington. As Goldberg observes, Obama “is willing to question why America’s enemies are its enemies, or why some of its friends are its friends.”

So rather than spending the first days of his last spring in office with an Israeli leader, Obama will be in Cuba. And never mind that his plan to meet dissidents there seems to be fizzling. Instead, he’ll spend his day in Havana watching a Tampa Bay Rays game against Cuba’s national baseball team.

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Netanyahu warns Hamas after weekend of rocket fire from Gaza By TOVAH LAZAROFF PM speaks at cabinet meeting after a violent weekend in which Hamas fired four rockets into southern Israel.

Israel will not allow Palestinians in Gaza to launch rockets into Israel and Hamas must prevent such incidents from occurring, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his weekly cabinet on Sunday. He spoke after a violent weekend in which Hamas fired four rockets into southern Israel that landed in open areas without causing injury. Israel, whose stiff policy has been not to tolerate any rocket fire, retaliated by targeting four Hamas training camps. Debris from the explosions hit a home next to one of the camps killing Yassin Abu Khoussa, 10, and his younger sister Israa Abu Khoussa. "Our policy with respect to the Gaza Strip is very clear,” Netanyahu said. “Israel won’t tolerate any rocket fire from Gaza into Israel.  “The IDF will respond to such provocation. Israel holds Hamas responsible for all rocket from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Hamas is obligated to prevent [rocket] firing,” Netanyahu said. He also outlined the steps that Israel is taking to prevent Palestinians living in the West Bank and east Jerusalem from carrying out terror attacks against Israelis. One such stabbing attack last Tuesday evening in Jaffa killed an American tourist, Taylor Force, 28, and injured 12 others. Draped in an American flag, Force’s body was flown back to the United States for burial. Force was a US veteran who had survived tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had been in Israel with his graduate program at Vanderbilt University. Netanyahu told the cabinet he expected to receive a response from the Attorney General with regard to the legality of expelling the families of terrorists to Gaza. Israel is also cracking down on Palestinian media outlets that encourage incitement against Israelis and Jews, he said. Over the weekend the IDF closed an Islamic broadcast station in Ramallah, which Netanyahu said had urged violence against Israel. “This isn’t a question of freedom of the press, but of stopping incitement to murder,” Netanyahu said. The prime minister also explained that he had spoken over the phone with French President Francois Hollande and asked him to similarly stop the broadcast of such channels in France.  France did remove an Al-Aksa station from a satellite channel, but it found another avenue to broadcast its programming. “We are working in other ways to stop these broadcasts,” he said. In addition, he said, the government was pushing for a rapid legislation law to pushing those who employ and otherwise assist Palestinians who are illegally working within the Green Line. On a separate topic, Netanyahu said he had instructed the Foreign Ministry to urge the six world powers, the US, Russia, China, France, Great Britain and Germany, to stop Iranian violations of UN Security Council resolutions with respect to the firing of ballistic missiles. He did so after Iran conducted a ballistic missile test last week.

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