According to a newly released Gallup poll, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the most-favored Republican recent newsmaker and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the least-favored–among Democratic respondents.
The poll sought to measure the favorable/unfavorable sentiments toward five Republicans Gallup believes may run for president in 2016.
Conducted June 1-4. the survey asked: [P]lease say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these people–or if you have never heard of them.” It then listed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Among Democrats, Christie had the most favorable responses. Fifty-four percent of Democrats said they had a favorable view of Christie, compared to 21 percent who had a favorable view of Rubio, 17 percent who had a favorable view of Ryan, 16 percent who had a favorable view of Paul, and 11 percent who had a favorable view of Cruz.
The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) is pressuring both House Speaker Thom Tillis (R, Mecklenburg, GRNC ****) and NC Governor Pat McCrory (R, GRNC-***) to oppose GRNC’s repeal of the antiquated pistol purchase permit system that has been in place since 1919. As part of omnibus gun bill HB 937, which contains restaurant and limited campus carry, the purchase permit law would be repealed IF the House votes to concur with Senate improvements to the bill and IF Gov. McCrory doesn’t veto it.
Felons with purchase permits
The purchase permit law slated for elimination through HB 937 was designed to grant discriminatory power to NC Sheriffs and enable them to subjectively deny handguns to whoever they consider “undesirable.” To this day, several counties abuse the permit system in ways that make it difficult for law-abiding citizens to rightfully obtain handguns.
Ironically, as documented by The Charlotte Observer, the law sheriffs defend is letting untold numbers of felons bypass background checks to buy guns. Why? Because the untrackable slips of paper issued by sheriffs after background checks can’t be repealed and are good for 5 years. Eliminating the system would mean that checks using the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) would be done at the point of sale.
Sheriffs want money & power
Beyond the power to deny purchase permits for arbitrary reasons by claiming applicants don’t have “good moral character” (whatever that means), consider the fact that currently proposed legislationwill double the fees sheriffs collect. Are Sheriffs refusing to do what’s right in order to maintain a cash cow worth millions?
Keep HB 937 from dying: Continue reading
Hassan Rouhani is elected Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani, 64, will take office as President of Iran on August 3 with the endorsement of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who Saturday congratulated him as the winner of Friday’s election by 50.7 percent in the first round of voting. Rouhani garnered 18 million ballots out of the 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters, with the help of “reformist’ sympathizers and minority communities. With the news, spontaneous celebrations spread across Iran. The president-elect told the people that his success was “a victory of moderation over extremism.”
DEBKAfile attributes Rouhani’s upset victory to an unprecedented combination of circumstances:
1. The hard-line camp couldn’t get its act together. Khamenei failed to persuade the Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran) chiefs to withdraw their candidate, Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf’s, in favor of his favorite, National Security Adviser, Saeed Jalili. So the ayatollah turned to Rouhani.
Although a solid member of the Islamic Revolutionary establishment, Rouhani looked capable of inspiring hope in the Iranian people, and using his mild personality to persuade the international community to relax some of the sanctions strangling the Iranian economy over Iran’s nuclear program.
If Obamacare’s stated goal was to broaden the health insurance market, give more options to consumers, and generally lower the cost of health insurance, courtesy of the IRS’ flawless execution of yet another unprecedented government expansion, it may be in for a tough time. Because while on paper every statist plan of centrally-planned ambitions looks good, in reality things usually don’t work out quite as expected. Case in point the news that Aetna will stop selling health insurance to individual consumers in California at the end of 2013, in advance of Obamacare’s complete transformation of the insurance market: a transformation which just incidentally may see most private health insurance firms follow in Aetna’s steps and the emergence of a single-payer system along the lines of the British National Health Service. A government-mandated and funded system which, needless to say, crushes private enterprise, and ends up costing far more for all involved than an efficient market based on individual wants, needs and capabilities constantly in flux.
But that’s ok – there is an administration which is smarter than the entire market, and a Federal Reserve which will monetize any deficit funding, and the only trade off is making the already ridiculous US federal debt ridiculouser.
For more irony we go to the WSJ which informs us that that “pullout is likely to draw attention as California has become a focus of national debate over the law’s impact. Supporters, including President Barack Obama, who highlighted the state in a recent speech, argue that it has shown the success of the health overhaul in encouraging competition and pushing down prices.”
If in some parallel socialist universe, the exit of competitors ends up boosting competition, than yes, we agree. In this one, however, things are a little… different.
For now, Aetna is just the start. A relatively small start:
Immigration Reformers and Concerned Citizens,
The University of North Carolina system is considering a reduction in the number of in-state students in order to allow more foreign students.
See Take Action below….
The same industry trade groups and large corporations that want unchecked illegal immigration are the same ones behind the scenes pushing for more foreign students. To these groups the USA is nothing more than a global marketing zone to become part of “One World”.
I think most of us are fine with foreign exchange programs in which we send one of our students abroad and they send us one. Today we are receiving three foreign students for every one we send abroad. Nationwide out of the more than 750,000 foreign students in our universities, over 125,000 are Chinese students, significantly more than we send to China at a time in which the Chinese government is attempting to steal military info and technology from the USA.
Are we paying state taxes used by the UNC system for OUR children to become better educated or foreign students? Are you willing to sacrifice your child getting an education to open up additional seats for foreign students?
Documents I recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) willfully ignored the criminal past of many DACA applicants when those facts came to light despite the agency’s best effort to forgo background checks on them altogether. Here is yesterday’s press release about it:
Real Inflation in the USA is Already a Threshold Hyperinflationary 8.7%. Witness MEGA #1.
If you are in a deeply indebted Country in the Developed or Developing World, there is now a probability that your Bank Deposits will be confiscated. First Cyprus. Now Japan. Tomorrow (Your Country?) Witness MEGA #2.
Also WARNING is the recently begun Uptrend in the U.S. Interest Rates. The U.S. 10-year yield has moved up to near 2.25% – a 50ish basis point move in the past few weeks. Any Significant Equities Takedown should temporarily halt or reverse the Uptrend. But inflation is intensifying and the weakening Treasury Securities trend is in place nonetheless. The Bond Bubble is closer to Bursting. Witness MEGA #3.
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Robert McHugh explains:
“On Friday, we got the latest phony Jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department. The BLS reported without blushing that the U.S. economy created 175,000 new jobs in May. This occurred while the unemployment rate did not change, remaining at 7.6 percent. How is this possible? The truth? According to the BLS’s own CESBD report, where they guess how many jobs were created by new businesses they think may have started that month, and then they add this estimated make believe figure to the count that gets reported to us as the new jobs number, huge fudge numbers were added to their count. In April, 2013, the BLS reported that 149,000 net new U.S. jobs were created. But, they also reported that 193,000 of these were a guess on their part of new jobs they hope were created by new business that probably started up in April. Which means the actual count showed the U.S. lost 44,000 net jobs in April (149,000 minus 193,000 fudged figure). For May, the actual count showed that the U.S. lost 30,000 net jobs (175,000 reported less 205,000 fudged figure). This helps explain why unemployment is not going down. The true new jobs created figures are vastly overstated by the BLS. The numbers they reported the past two months are pure hogwash.
From YouTube:
My HSMM-MESH node with one watt amplifier. Operates on A/C or D/C. Teletronics commercial grade 1 watt bi-directional Smart Amphttp://www.teletronics.com/amplifiers…
The box is a Orbitz sprinkler controller enclosure from Lowes at $32.
Any 2.4 GHz antenna that can handle one watt. You may opt for a directional dish.
Here is the rest of the parts list…
The question hit me like a lightning bolt as I looked in the mirror upon awaking this morning. Am I a traitor to my country, to my fellow citizens of the United States of America? Have I abandoned all sound reason and logic and lost my moral compass?
Have I somehow sold out my ideals and thereby my family, friends and fellow reporters? Apparently someone in this administration must believe I am a traitor and lost my way, for I am the target of active telephone monitoring by the National SecurityAgency (NSA), a branch of the Department of Defense and an agency tasked with monitoring foreign intelligence and communications.
As I stared in the mirror, I asked myself, “what am I missing here?” What have I done during the course of seeking out the truth to provide to the American people about what’s really going on within and outside of our government with regard to the numerous “scandals” we are learning about? Could it be that the truth is that toxic to those in power that they will go to such lengths to silence an investigative reporter?
For your perspective and understanding, I need to tell you what I’ve learned.
See additional comments on Tea Party Nation.
The Obama administration has set a goal to restrict firearms guaranteed under the 2nd amendment. Their first attempt has failed but their second attempt will focus on mental illness. Once a diagnosis of mental illness is made, the right to bear arms will be restricted or more likely, eliminated for the individual. A good example was a seminar in Raleigh, NC in May, 2013 where a panel of dubious distinction explained how mental illness evaluations should be a requirement for firearm registration.
Doctors are now asking patients if they own a firearm as part of their examinations.
Imagine trying to justify firearm ownership by people who are considered mentally ill (by the government). Which is why this will be the focus for disarming the people.
David DeGerolamo
Spare Us the Political Double-Talk Please.
Mike Scruggs
Most politicians who favor amnesty are reluctant to call it amnesty. Some definitions are needed to help see through the political hogwash. Here is a definition of U.S. immigration law amnesty:
A pardon for illegal immigrant entry or visa violations and/or willful false or misleading representations or willful concealment of a material fact regarding immigration entry and visas.
Forgoing the penalty for illegal entry is amnesty; granting a path to citizenship is not necessary for amnesty to be amnesty.
You cannot separate, however, this definition of amnesty from the normal penalty for illegal entry. I have tried to summarize the penalties described in USC Title 8 Paragraph 1325 below:
Deportation, with a 3-10 year bar against reentry, up to six months in prison (first offense), and fines (complex elaboration in Title 18) Penalties can be increased for identity theft or fraud (false or stolen social security numbers), and tax evasion or fraud.
Meanwhile let me ask those who believe illegal immigrant workers have only violated border entry or visa laws a very relevant question. What percentage of illegal immigrant workers have not committed identity theft, identity fraud (including using a bogus or stolen social security number) or tax evasion? An American citizen would probably face prison and heavy fines for committing such felonies. The Federal penalty for identity theft is 3-7 years in prison. Most states have $50,000 to $100,000 fines as well. Continue reading
We will have a meeting to discuss new leadership and current events. This will be an important meeting because of everything that is/has happened over the past several months and years. It is clear there is a line that has been drawn in the sand between the Federal Gov. and We the People. Pres. Obama has stepped way over his Constitutional duties and is attaching the citizens of the United States everyday with his actions. All the while Congress does nothing to stop him and his administration. Politicians on both sides are supporting him on Amnesty, NSA surveillance, IRS scandal, and other issues. If there was ever a time to take a stand it is now. While it is fine to meet and air our dis-like for what is happening, now is the time to take a course of action and make a plan on how to prepare for everything that is happening. I urge you to get your family and friends to come to this meeting. If they do not see what is happening to our country now they never will. It is up to you to be ready. Everything that we love and cherish about our country is being turned on its head.
Detroit will immediately stop payments on about $2 billion in debt, the city’s emergency manager announced Friday, an effort to conserve cash.
The manager, Kevyn Orr, also said Detroit will need to cut pay and pension and health benefits for city workers.
Debt holders are likely to get only pennies on the dollar.
“Financial mismanagement, a shrinking population, a dwindling tax base and other factors over the past 45 years have brought Detroit to the brink of financial and operational ruin,” said Orr.
Orr met with the city’s leading creditors behind closed doors Friday morning, presenting his preliminary restructuring plan. He said further meetings are planned with the unions representing city employees.
Evidence of chemical weapon use in Idlib
The White House, in a second statement, said early Friday said the US would provide “direct military support” for the first time to the Syrian opposition after obtaining proof that the Syrian government had used the chemical weapon sarin against rebel forces. The nature of the package was not specified. The rebels responded to this apparent evasion with a demand for anti-aircraft and other advanced arms to save them from Syrian air bombardment. The first White House statement, eagerly awaited for months, amounted to a rejection by President Barack Obama of proposals to intervene to save Aleppo and Idlib from a defeat that would give Bashar Assad a decisive victory.
It followed a special consultation on Syria by the president and his national security team, necessitated by the need for drastic action to thwart the Syrian-Hizballah offensive to capture Aleppo, Syrian’s biggest city of more than 2 million..
Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Thursday, June 13: “The president and every member of his national security team are greatly concerned by the terrible situation… and the worsening situation in Syria. As terrible as the situation is in Syria, he has to make decisions when it comes to policy toward Syria that are in the best interests of the United States.”
What Carney conveyed on behalf of the president was that while stopping the battle for Aleppo was crucially important in terms of the Syrian war, intervention was not in the interests of the United States.
Immigration Reformers and Concerned Citizens,
THE GANG OF EIGHT’S NATIONAL S.744 LEGISLATION TO GRANT AN AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will now be debated with amendments as the cloture vote passed. WE have time to stop the bill and more on that in a couple of days, but first some news which shows we really can’t trust the Gang of Eight nor the Department of Homeland Security.
The Gang of Eight among other US Senators just voted against an amendment to make sure the border would be really secure for six months before any “pathway to citizenship” (aka amnesty) could even begin to take place. Those of us who are informed know the border is only one piece of real immigration enforcement, but this vote shows they are not being honest about their real motives.
Rubio is not truthful, as he earlier said the border would be secure first. Continue reading
This takes on new meaning based on the NSA / PRISM story broke by Edward Snowden.
David DeGerolamo
Sometimes one must see to believe, in this case believe just how massive the raw demand for the shiny, barbarous relic is in China during times of relative monetary stability (in this case the Dragon Boat Festival). Now assume runaway inflation as we saw in 2011 China, which may be unleashed by something as catalytic as the PBOC once again deciding to inject liquidity in its suffocating banking system and to revive growth in the stalling economy.
June 11, ten thousand people line up in front of a gold shop to buy gold. The buyers lined up during the three day Dragon Boat Festival.
h/t Tom R
And we thought Hollywood was over the edge when they were suing 14-year-old girls for downloading Madonna songs. Ha! That was nothing!
Something called The IP Commission Report (subtitled A Report Of The Commission On The Theft Of American Intellectual Property) just crossed my desk. This new and very impressively produced report, authored by seven sets of hyper-impressive credentials, informs Congress that they should change US laws to go far, far beyond anything that has been authorized previously.
(To me, that means they are doing it already and want legal cover, but I’m just guessing, based on previous experience.)
The report is not exactly exciting reading, but I’ll give you the highlights:
On page 6, (by the report’s internal numbering), we get a bit of an overture – a foretaste of what’s to come. It says this:
Companies that experience cyber theft ought to be able to retrieve their electronic files or prevent the exploitation of their stolen information.
“Retrieve their electronic files” is a bit ominous, since getting them back would require breaking into remote computers. How and by whom is not discussed in this overview section; that will come later.
Page 13 gives us a very interesting insight into the general Washington mind. Here’s what it says:
Following yesterday’s “news” that the US is rerunning the Iraq invasion script has been busy collecting made up solid evidence proving the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, which it would use as a basis for yet another foreign intervention including a no-fly zone and arming the Syrian rebels (just to accelerate the passage of a Qatari natgas pipeline into Europe, bypassing Gazprom, and installing another puppet Muslim Brotherhood government in the Mid-East), the entire world waited with bated breath to learn what Russia’s response, and remember to Russia Syria is a key geopolitical outpost and critical national interest, to US allegations would be.
The wait was short-lived. As Novosti reports at least someone, somewhere has had the guts to call out this farce of an intervention from an official standpoint: “A US government report concluding Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, crossing what US President Barack Obama has previously described as a “red line,” is a fabrication, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday. “Information about the usage of chemical weapons by Assad is fabricated in the same way as the lie about Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.” Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, said on Twitter.
The truth-telling continues:
President Obama “is going the same way” as former President George W. Bush did then, Pushkov said.
Pushkov is known for also being quite a truth-teller in the past. From June of 2012:
1. They plan to use these license-permits for civic and commerce interaction.
2. Note the incarceration – They want legal law abiding citizens to pay for THEIR incarceration!
Maureen W
Points from the Progressive Pulse:
The time for Obama to pull out his false flag and start World War III may be here. The following story details the White House statement that Syria has crossed “Obama’s so-called red line”. It was just last month that the United Nations found that the rebels were the ones using chemical weapons.
Is anyone surprised? The president has been reticent on Benghazi, the IRS scandal, PRISM and Fast & Furious. Which scandal will bring him down? If he can successfully take us into WW III, he will bring the entire country down. Obama is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda in Syria. Which side should we support? The answer is simple: neither.
David DeGerolamo
The White House said Thursday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against opposition forces, crossing President Obama’s so-called red line.
Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes said the assessment meant the administration would respond but would do so “on its own timeline.”
“The President has been clear that the use of chemical weapons — or the transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups — is a red line for the United States, as there has long been an established norm within the international community against the use of chemical weapons,” Rhodes said in a statement.
“Our intelligence community now has a high confidence assessment that chemical weapons have been used on a small scale by the Assad regime in Syria. The President has said that the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus, and it has.”
In a free society the government is supposed to be open and transparent while the citizens enjoy privacy. What, then, do you call a society where the government is ultra secretive and all citizens are spied on by the state?
Establishment pundits are frantically attempting to make the NSA spy scandal story about whether the whistleblower is a hero or a traitor instead of debating the real issue — whether broad government spying on U.S. citizens violates their Constitutional rights.
This divide-and-distract strategy has long been used to protect the real criminals to a free society. Some officials are taking the extreme position that the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, committed treason by releasing proof of what most Americans already suspected, that their every move is being spied on by their government.
These officials, like Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), also happen to be the staunchest advocates for destroying the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment in particular. Snowden broke a corporate disclosure contract; these officials broke their oath to the Constitution. Who are the real traitors here?
From YouTube:
Appearing on Fox News’ America Live this afternoon, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called for the prosecution of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald for his reporting on the classified National Security Agency information given to him by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Republican congressman also likened Greenwald’s reporting to a hypothetical situation wherein World War II-era reporters had revealed the time and date of the so-called “D-Day” invasion, suggesting he believes the Guardian reporting is tantamount to treason.
“Not only did [Greenwald] disclose this information, he said he has names of CIA agents and assets around the world and threatening to disclose that,” King said when asked by host Megyn Kelly why he wants to prosecute the reporter. “I think [prosecuting reporters] should be very targeted and very selective and a rare exception. In this case, when you have someone who discloses secrets like this and threatens to release more, yes, there has to be legal action taken against him.”
He then asserted: “This is a very unusual case with life-and-death implications for Americans.”
From YouTube:
Robert Mueller could offer no information under questioning from Rep. Jim Jordan about the investigation into the IRS for its targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exemption.
Former Department of Justice prosecutor Larry Klayman has filed a $3 billion class-action lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia against President Obama, Eric Holder, Director of the NSA Keith Alexander, the CEO of Verizon, the NSA, Verizon Communications, the Department of Justice, and the judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Robert Vinson who rubber-stamped the illegal NSA spying program for violating Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights, Plaintiffs’ reasonable expectation of privacy, free speech and association, right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process rights.
The suit specifically alleges the defendants violated the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments of the US Constitution, and is an outrageous breach of privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the due process rights of American citizens.
Any Verizon Communications customer is welcome to join the $3 billion class action suit.
h/t Tom R
Rep. Sensenbrenner questions Robert Mueller on the role of the FBI’s surveillance on people under the Patriot Act.
Having worked many nights alone in the emergency room, I can’t recount all of the instances of sexual assault entering the doors with the victims usually being female. I quit doing house calls as a physician after finding myself in a couple of potentially compromising environments where my safety was at issue. Many males and females are also being abused whether by pedophiles, sick group leaders with access to vulnerable young people and unfortunately by those being allowed to hide cloistered in the church.
The comments of Senator John McCain in reference to the need for women interested in the military to reconsider this option after learning of the 26,000 assault cases reported is tragic. Women should be able to be or do whatever is within their realm of talents and capabilities without concerns about untoward sexual advances.
NC Renegade encourages everyone to become self sufficient and continue education in all forms of safety and preparedness. The best overall site for this topic is Survival Blog by James Wesley Rawles. We strongly encourage you to visit this site and take advantage of its broad knowledge base.
Another excellent resource is Prep Tips.
