Saturday, November 17, 2012

FEMA Corps first-responders and armored fighting vehicles; private businesses may have to turn over employess personal info to unions; 5% Obamacare surcharge for meals; 353 coal-fired plants to close; and more

(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COKPqPD8

On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. While the idea of having a volunteer force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural disasters sounds great, the details and timing of this new government army is somewhat curious, if not disturbing.

The second problem with this announcement and program is its timing. Over the past two years, President Obama has signed a number of Executive Orders suspending all civil and Constitutional rights and turning over management of an America under Martial Law to FEMA. Also in that time, domestic federal agencies under DHS, including FEMA, have ordered billions of rounds of ammunition as well as the corresponding firearms. Admittedly, these new weapons and ammunition aren’t to be used in some far-off war or to fight forest fires in California, but right here on the streets of America.
Strange Armored Fighting Vehicles:
Individuals around the US have begun reporting the site of strange, new, heavily-armed FEMA fighting vehicles. What would a disaster relief agency like FEMA need with 2,500 brand new GLS armored fighting vehicles? According to the agency’s own mandate, as well as President Obama’s recent Executive Order, the answer is ‘population control’ during a time of Martial Law.
["We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." - Barack Obama   He planned to double the Peace Corps' budget by 2011, and expand AmeriCorps, USA Freedom Corps, VISTA, YouthBuild Program, and the Senior Corps.  Plus, he proposes to form a Classroom Corps, Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Veterans Corps, Homeland Security Corps, Global Energy Corps, and a Green Jobs CorpsMost of this was simply campaign promises he never intended to enact.  Here a corps - there a corps - everywhere a corps corps. American asked for another term for Obama, and here he goes fulfilling part of his agenda just one week after the election.]

What is the US federal government preparing for? And why does it feel it needs an army of brainwashed youth, millions of guns, thousands of armored fighting vehicles and literally billions of rounds of ammunition, just to provide relief to the American people during a natural disaster? Any historian will tell you it sounds more like the arming of the Hitler Youth than an army of first responders fighting forest fires and hurricanes. http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/homeland-security-graduates-first-corps-of-obamas-brown-shirts-homeland-youth/23898/

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President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering a rule that would force private businesses to turn over their workers’ personal information — such as phone numbers, email addresses, and work schedules — to union organizers.
While this rule would be intended to make it easier for union bosses to organize workers at businesses that do not have a union presence, it would also have the unintended effect of making workers vulnerable to harassment. http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/15/nlrb-chair-wants-to-force-companies-to-turn-over-employee-telephone-numbers-e-mail-addresses/
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For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COVRlDlb
[Natural news reports that for Hurricane Sandy victims, their despair has turned to anger, as the FEMA tent cities begin to resemble prison camps, with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.]  http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html
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[According to Political Outcast, as most employers will cut their work staff in order to stay in business despite the addition of Obamacare taxes, one restaurant owner in West Palm Beach has decided on a different tactic.  He will add a 5% surcharge on each diner's bill, stating it is the Obamacare surcharge.  Customers will then have two choices: they can either simply pay it and tip as usual, or they will tip a smaller percentage in order to make things square.  The servers, who are the primary Obamacare recipients, will be affected by their choice.]
customers have two choices. They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare,” Metz told The Huffington Post.

Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/business-owner-will-add-obama-taxes-to-restaurant-bills/#ixzz2COXWuVCb
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This afternoon, President Barack Obama consulted with MSNBC host Al Sharpton, who's also associated with the National Action Network (NAN), about the fiscal talks between the White House and Congress. At the same meeting, Obama also consulted with other "leaders of civil rights and civic organizations."

President Obama and Vice President Biden met with leaders of civil rights and civic organizations to discuss negotiations over how to avoid the fiscal cliff. [They are all such towering experts on finance, don't you know.  I imagine they might have suggested raising taxes on the "filthy rich" who make $250,000 to 70% and just sending the money directly to those who won't work.] http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-consults-msnbc-host-al-sharpton-and-other-civil-rights-leaders-fiscal-talks_663493.html
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Despite $15.9 billion loss, U.S. Postal Service execs see boost in pay[The raises mostly come in pension plan earnings, with the Postmaster's overall compensation coming to $512,093, compared with $384,229 in 2011, according to regulatory filings.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/15/us-postal-service-loses-159-billion/

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In a blockbuster report, John Solomon, the former Associated Press and Post reporter, has ferreted out the president’s daily brief that informed him within 72 hours of the Sept. 11 attack that the Benghazi attack was a jihadist operation.
Citing officials directly familiar with the information, Solomon writes in the Washington Guardian that Obama and other administration officials were told that “that the attack was likely carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida in the region.”
He adds:
The details from the CIA and Pentagon assessments of the killing of Ambassador Chris [Stevens] were far more specific, more detailed and more current than the unclassified talking points that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials used five days after the attack to suggest to Americans that an unruly mob angry over an anti-Islamic video was to blame, officials said. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/breaking-the-president-knew-the-truth-about-benghazi/2012/11/16/39aecaf0-3034-11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_blog.html
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A report by the liberal Union of Concerned Scientists, released (naturally) a week after the election, finds that as many as 353 coal-fired plants will close as a result of Obama's environmental rules.
Small banks disappearing: Fortune reported three days after the election that the "overwhelming conclusion" of industry analysts and consultants was that Dodd-Frank would cause thousands of small banks to disappear.


Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111612-633815-bad-economic-news-emerges-after-election.htm#ixzz2CU27wIId

 A report by the liberal Union of Concerned Scientists , released not until a week after Obama's reelection, finds that as many as 353 coal-fired plants will close now due to Obama's environmental rules.  http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111612-633815-bad-economic-news-emerges-after-election.htm 

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A county canvassing board on Friday ordered a recount of early-voting ballots in the race between U.S. Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy, hours after a judge declined to do the same. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-st-lucie-county-canvassing-board-orders-recount-of-early-ballots-in-westmurphy-race-20121116,0,1536311.story

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finds that as many as 353 coal-fired plants will close as a result of Obama's environmental rules.

Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111612-633815-bad-economic-news-emerges-after-election.htm#ixzz2CU2UqgCp
A report by the liberal Union of Concerned Scientists, released (naturally) a week after the election, finds that as many as 353 coal-fired plants will close as a result of Obama's environmental rules.

Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111612-633815-bad-economic-news-emerges-after-election.htm#ixzz2CU2BEnwP


Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, for instance, earned a base salary of $276,840, but even without a bonus or incentive payout, his overall compensation came to $512,093, compared with $384,229 in 2011, according to regulatory filings.

Read more: Despite $15.9 billion loss, U.S. Postal Service execs see boost in pay - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/15/us-postal-service-loses-159-billion/#ixzz2CTxGL4QP
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Despite nearly $16 billion in annual losses announced by the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday, all but one of the top five executives for the nation's mail service had an overall compensation increase this year, records show.
Unlike past years, when the Postal Service’s politically appointed, bipartisan board of governors awarded executives lucrative deferred compensation deals and incentive bonuses, this year’s compensation increases came mostly in the form of pension plan earnings.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, for instance, earned a base salary of $276,840, but even without a bonus or incentive payout, his overall compensation came to $512,093, compared with $384,229 in 2011, according to regulatory filings.


Read more: Despite $15.9 billion loss, U.S. Postal Service execs see boost in pay - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/15/us-postal-service-loses-159-billion/#ixzz2CTx6q9ZO
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
Despite nearly $16 billion in annual losses announced by the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday, all but one of the top five executives for the nation's mail service had an overall compensation increase this year, records show.
Unlike past years, when the Postal Service’s politically appointed, bipartisan board of governors awarded executives lucrative deferred compensation deals and incentive bonuses, this year’s compensation increases came mostly in the form of pension plan earnings.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, for instance, earned a base salary of $276,840, but even without a bonus or incentive payout, his overall compensation came to $512,093, compared with $384,229 in 2011, according to regulatory filings.


Read more: Despite $15.9 billion loss, U.S. Postal Service execs see boost in pay - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/15/us-postal-service-loses-159-billion/#ixzz2CTx6q9ZO
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While some business owners threaten to cut workers’ hours to avoid paying for their health care, a West Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant owner is going even further. John Metz said he will add a 5 percent surcharge to customers’ bills to offset what he said are the increased costs of Obamacare, along with reducing his employees’ hours.

Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/business-owner-will-add-obama-taxes-to-restaurant-bills/#ixzz2COWsUs6q
(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COULc8NX


(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COKPqPD8


While some business owners threaten to cut workers’ hours to avoid paying for their health care, a West Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant owner is going even further. John Metz said he will add a 5 percent surcharge to customers’ bills to offset what he said are the increased costs of Obamacare, along with reducing his employees’ hours.
“If I leave the prices the same, but say on the menu that there is a 5 percent surcharge for Obamacare, customers have two choices. They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare,” Metz told The Huffington Post.


Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/business-owner-will-add-obama-taxes-to-restaurant-bills/#ixzz2COMvn4di
(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COKPqPD8
(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COKPqPD8
(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COKPqPD8

Friday, November 16, 2012

The will of the people; New jobless claims soar; Obamacare repeal would save most money, A move to nationalize nation's pension system; Regualtions.gov






The Will of the People Has Spoken and America Died
The End of an Empire

By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Our Constitutional Republic died a peaceful death on November 6, 2012.
Having reached the point of no return in a comatose state after years
of progressive and illegal immigration assaults, the fabric of
conservative society is now completely unraveled and Uncle Sam’s
America is no more.

The United States of America is now relegated to the dust bin of
history as a “has been” empire. The Shining City on the Hill, the hope
of so many millions since July 4, 1776, no longer exists. What rises
from the ashes is a country that few of us will recognize, like, or
learn to accept submissively.

After 236 years of existence, a new country emerges today, run by
secular progressives who rejected our Constitution, what we stand for,
and who we are as a nation. The Supreme Court will be forever altered
after its last conservative members will be replaced by the liberal
academics who call themselves “progressives.” The rule of law will be
implemented by Executive Orders, making Congress irrelevant.

The communist motto “Forward” that resonated with so many ignorant
Americans will plunge us into many years of darkness from which we
will never be able to recover. We have proven our Founding Fathers
right, they did give us a Constitutional Republic and we were unable
to maintain it.

 
The forces of the failed communist fundamental transformation that
were driven underground in many places around the world, resurfaced
with a vengeance in the United States and have now taken over.

How long we will still have freedom of speech, movement, assembly, and
control of our private property remains to be seen. Faith and churches
will be driven underground; allowing secularism to prosper and take
deep roots among the progressives whose God is Mother Earth.
The welfare dependent Americans, unions, and illegal aliens have
chosen for the rest of us the dark path of serfdom to big government
and to socialist utopia

 
Who would have guessed that the very people who were complaining that
the government is not extricating them from disaster or giving them
the help they needed in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, would vote
for the very politicians who turned their backs on needy Americans
after the lights went dark when the political photo opportunities
ended?
Who would have guessed that Americans were as ignorant and
irresponsible as to choose fiscal destruction over fiscal sanity for
their children and grandchildren, secularism and communism over faith,
dependence over personal responsibility and self-reliance?
Americans have been protesting for the last four years the dismal
state of the economy and the direction of our country, the corruption
of our politicians, and the loss of personal and economic freedom.

Rallies in support of conservatism overwhelmed venues for Mitt Romney
while rallies for our bumbling President became scarcer and scarcer.
Yet, miraculously, at the ballot box, our President won all over the
country.
We lost seats in the Senate. Americans chose liars and cheats to be
their Senators and Representatives, rejecting those who protected the
Constitution. The candidate from Massachusetts who claimed direct
American Indian lineage to Pocahontas is now a Senator, having
defeated Scott Brown. Representative Allen West lost his seat by a
narrow margin to the infamous Patrick Murphy 
 

Americans chose high unemployment, reduction of our military,
communist indoctrination of their children, and loss of personal
freedoms unlike we have never seen before in this country.

I am saddened by the loss of millions and millions of American
soldiers who have died to preserve freedom yet we lost it on November
6, 2012. Those buried in cemeteries around the world and at Arlington
must be rolling in their graves today. We shamelessly allowed their
sacrifice of blood and treasure to go in vain. We have no honor
because we let down all the soldiers who fought in recent times and
returned home limbless with lives shattered from physical
and mental
wounds of war.

I mourn today the loss of my adopted country. I have fought hard over
the last four years to prevent its overt and accelerated destruction,
but the darker forces, stronger than many of us, have overcome concerted
efforts by millions of Americans to maintain the Republic. Mediocrity,
sloth, godlessness, dependence, cowardice, using the law selectively
or ignoring it, and hopeless corruption will define the new country.
Only God can save us now with his mercy and grace.


The 49% living on entitlements have voted a higher tax rate for the 51% who work and pay taxes. Those dependent on government entitlements are now in number large enough to keep in office, those who continue to provide the welfare they enjoy. Our values have eroded to the point that the this generation feels no obligation to work and provide for themselves. Sad….very sad…..
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The Department of Labor has announced that new jobless claims rose by a staggering 78,000 in the first week after the election, reaching a seasonally-adjusted total of 439,000. Over the past year, and in the weeks leading up to the election, jobless claims were said to be declining, dipping as low as 339,000, with the media proclaiming that they had reached the "lowest level in more than four years." Now, suddenly, the news seems far less rosy. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/15/Surprise-Jobless-Claims-Up-Over-75000

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-A Congressional Budget Office report on ways to reduce the deficit, released last week to help guide budget negotiators in the upcoming "grand bargain" talks, contains one eye-opening item. It turns out that the single biggest pot of potential deficit savings available to lawmakers is ... ObamaCare. In its list of "options to reduce mandatory spending" and cut the deficit, the CBO says that repealing ObamaCare´s massive insurance subsidies would cut federal spending by $150 billion in 2020 alone. http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/111512-633618-obamacare-offers-biggest-deficit-cuts.htm

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(NaturalNews) Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property.

For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www.alternet.org)

Stressed residents who spoke to the Asbury Park Press talked bitterly about the cold, harsh conditions in tent cities with Blackhawk helicopters buzzing overhead.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037977_FEMA_shelter_prison_camp_police_state.html#ixzz2COKPqPD8
A recent hearing sponsored by the Treasury and Labor Departments marked the beginning of the Obama Administration’s effort to nationalize the nation’s pension system and to eliminate private retirement accounts including IRA’s and 401k plans, NSC is warning.
The hearing, held in the Labor Department’s main auditorium, was monitored by NSC staff and featured a line up of left-wing activists including one representative of the AFL-CIO who advocated for more government regulation over private retirement accounts and even the establishment of government-sponsored annuities that would take the place of 401k plans.
"This hearing was set up to explore why Americans are not saving as much for their retirement as they could," explains National Seniors Council National Director Robert Crone, "However, it is clear that this is the first step towards a government takeover. It feels just like the beginning of the debate over health care and we all know how that ended up."
government takeover. It feels just like the beginning of the debate over health care and we all know how that ended up."
A representative of the liberal Pension Rights Center, Rebecca Davis, testified that the government needs to get involved because 401k plans and IRAs are unfair to poor people. She demanded the Obama administration set up a "government-sponsored program administered by the PBGC (the governments’ Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation)." She proclaimed that even "private annuities are problematic."
Such "reforms" would effectively end private retirement accounts in America, Crone warns. "These people want the government to require that ultimately all Americans buy these government annuities instead of saving or investing on their own. The Government could then take these trillions of dollars and redistribute it through this new national retirement system."
 [If he can diminish the value of preferred bonds of GM, he can surely do this, and all those  who voted for him may then be sorry they did so, and will deserve what they get.  After all, why not spread the wealth around and benefit the unions at the same time?  They were forewarned. ] http://www.nationalseniorscouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89%3Aobama-begins-push-for-new-national-retirement-system&catid=34%3Asocial-security&Itemid=62
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While some business owners threaten to cut workers’ hours to avoid paying for their health care, a West Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant owner is going even further. John Metz said he will add a 5 percent surcharge to customers’ bills to offset what he said are the increased costs of Obamacare, along with reducing his employees’ hours.
“If I leave the prices the same, but say on the menu that there is a 5 percent surcharge for Obamacare, customers have two choices. They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare,” Metz told The Huffington Post.


Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/business-owner-will-add-obama-taxes-to-restaurant-bills/#ixzz2COMvn4di
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Obamacare is going to cost all employers money. Employees and customers should be informed how much more they’re going to have to pay for “free healthcare”:
While some business owners threaten to cut workers’ hours to avoid paying for their health care, a West Palm Beach, Fla., restaurant owner is going even further. John Metz said he will add a 5 percent surcharge to customers’ bills to offset what he said are the increased costs of Obamacare, along with reducing his employees’ hours.
“If I leave the prices the same, but say on the menu that there is a 5 percent surcharge for Obamacare, customers have two choices. They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server, who is the primary beneficiary of Obamacare,” Metz told The Huffington Post.


Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/business-owner-will-add-obama-taxes-to-restaurant-bills/#ixzz2COQnWdH4

A Congressional Budget Office report on ways to reduce the deficit, released last week to help guide budget negotiators in the upcoming "grand bargain" talks, contains one eye-opening item.
It turns out that the single biggest pot of potential deficit savings available to lawmakers is ... ObamaCare.
In its list of "options to reduce mandatory spending" and cut the deficit, the CBO says that repealing ObamaCare's massive insurance subsidies would cut federal spending by $150 billion in 2020 alone. Repealing the individual mandate would save another $40 billion that year, the CBO says
No other single spending cut proposal on the CBO's list — and no tax hikes under serious consideration in Washington — comes close.


Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/111512-633618-obamacare-offers-biggest-deficit-cuts.htm#ixzz2CODfipuV
It turns out that the single biggest pot of potential deficit savings available to lawmakers is ... ObamaCare.
In its list of "options to reduce mandatory spending" and cut the deficit, the CBO says that repealing ObamaCare's massive insurance subsidies would cut federal spending by $150 billion in 2020 alone. Repealing the individual mandate would save another $40 billion that year, the CBO says
No other single spending cut proposal on the CBO's list — and no tax hikes under serious consideration in Washington — comes close.


Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/111512-633618-obamacare-offers-biggest-deficit-cuts.htm#ixzz2CODV4aiI
It turns out that the single biggest pot of potential deficit savings available to lawmakers is ... ObamaCare.
In its list of "options to reduce mandatory spending" and cut the deficit, the CBO says that repealing ObamaCare's massive insurance subsidies would cut federal spending by $150 billion in 2020 alone. Repealing the individual mandate would save another $40 billion that year, the CBO says
No other single spending cut proposal on the CBO's list — and no tax hikes under serious consideration in Washington — comes close.


Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/111512-633618-obamacare-offers-biggest-deficit-cuts.htm#ixzz2CODV4aiI
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Obama to Russia; Constitution's loss; Unfair to legal immigrants; Obama Interior Secretary threatens to punch reporter because of his question; Obama phones' part in election turnout

"US President Barack Obama has confirmed plans to visit Russia at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Russian president’s spokesman said on Tuesday," the Russian outlet reports. "Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Obama made the statement when Putin called a second time to congratulate the US president on his reelection."  [And Obama DID promise "more flexibility" after his reelection, after all. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/putin-obama-plans-visit-russia_663287.html
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Obama win is Constitution's loss

Then, President Barack Obama went far beyond his predecessor’s administration to become the most destructive uprooter of our Constitution in our nation’s history.
Growing up as a student at Boston Latin School, one of whose alumni was Samuel Adams, a firebrand of our American Revolution, I read American history with excitement. I learned how we always overcame grimly looming threats to our self-governing republic to become a beacon to the world.
But never did I even imagine that an American president, without insuring due process in a court of law, would – as Obama does – use a kill list to target suspected terrorists for assassination. So far this list has also included three American citizens. http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/obama-win-is-constitutions-loss/
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Defiant and reflective, 80-year-old Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News after winning re-election that he has a message for President Barack Obama: granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unfair to legal immigrants.

And Arpaio would like to discuss amnesty -- along with border security issues -- with Obama “man to man” directly at the White House. He would also like to reach out to Hispanic groups he said have misunderstood his intentions and bought into the negative “propaganda” about him.

“I wish the president would invite me to the White House,” Arpaio told Breitbart News. “We’ll have some wine and beer, and light up cigars.” http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/13/Exclusive-Sheriff-Joe-to-Obama-Let-s-Meet-Man-to-Man-to-Discuss-Immigration
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Daniel Jensen wasn't running from the law, he was trying to protect his home from burning up. Yet, Pinellas Park Police tasered him in the process. Jensen and his attorney say it's an excessive use of force.
Jensen was still shaken and visibly emotional as he retold what happened last Thursday evening. He said being tasered by police has not only impacted him, but it also impacted his children, who saw it all happen. 
He described the Pinellas Park Police officers actions as "brutal." He said they showed "no compassion."
"All I remember is laying in water, being electrocuted for saving my home," said Jensen. 
"They kept telling me, 'Let it go, that's what insurance is for.' That's not acceptable to me," said Jensen.
Captain Sanfield Forseth with the Pinellas Park Police Department said officers could have charged him with obstruction for not listening to an officer's orders.  http://pinellaspark.wtsp.com/news/news/151640-man-tasered-police-calls-it-brutal
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EXCLUSIVE: DEMOCRATS Might Have Won By Stealing Your Private Information

[Following is just ONE way in which the Obama campaign for several years used social media and computers to track their supporters]:

One million cell phones were also reportedly a part of the Obama campaign strategy in the state of Ohio.  The Kitchen Cabinet received reports that Obama followers received text messages with photos of ten of their own Facebook
friends who had not yet voted….asking them to contact them and get them out to the polls.
A fabulous strategy, and made even more vibrant…if Google’s and Facebooks’s illegally-obtained data was also at work.
Meanwhile the GOP, would be using 20th Century means of acquiring data, from  decaying lists of merchants, organizations, and marketers around the country.
The only question is, was it legal?
 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/google-tells-u-s-regulator-it-cooperated-on-privacy-probe.html
Obama Campaign Uses Social Media To Attract & Receive Foreign Donations http://thekitchencabinet.us/exclusive-democrats-might-have-won-by-stealing-your-private-information/
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Counting votes and more

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin

 Joseph Farrah of WND.com who used to hang out with the likes of Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn has come to the same conclusion many of us have. There is no doubt this election is in the process of being stolen. He cites similar anomalies to Nevada like Michigan, where Romney was tied with Obama the day before the election, but lost to him by 9 points. Inexplicably ALL of the conservative ballot measures and state offices were won by Republicans. It doesn’t wash. As mentioned earlier, the University of Boulder Colorado has not been off by more than 1% in predicting voting in every state during a national election since 1980. They had Romney up significantly.
But a nerve has been struck. Barack Obama Voter Fraud 2012 is a blog set up by Jedd Merill and friends simply to document all the incidents of vote fraud in this election. It’s astounding. They are getting 3,000 visitors AN HOUR at times and have over 160,000 visitors. Many who are contacting them through every imaginable means asking how they can help.
These elections are not certified yet. The only way to get this investigated, much less recounted or overturned, is through the Secretary of State of each of the five key states: Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  
Contact your city, state and national media to keep this story alive as well. (Fox News has an email just for this at voterfraud@foxnews.com) ALL the needed info is here: http://noisyroom.net/blog/
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And in Florida, the Sun Sentinel reported that election workers a week after the election said they found 963 unaccounted-for ballots – in a warehouse. “How can you lose them? This is terrible,” candidate Chickie Brandimarte told officials. Election supervisor Brenda Snipes, however, said it’s routine for various vote totals to be adjusted up until the Nov. 18 final certification.
Also in Florida, residents began demanding changes in the electoral system that handed voters chaos, frustration and delays at polling stations. The Florida League of Women Voters and other groups are demanding from Gov. Rick Scott a plan to draft reforms for the state’s elections.
A poll watcher told WND up to 10 percent of the ballots cast at a polling station in Pennsylvania reverted to a default, which gave Barack Obama a vote no matter who the voter had selected. The incident took place in the state where officials claimed Obama got a total of 19,605 votes in 59 voting divisions to zero for Mitt Romney and not far from the 100 precincts in Ohio where Obama got 99 percent of the vote, a feat not even achieved by third-world dictators. It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the selection back to default – to Obama.” 
Fox News reported that voters in Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio also said they had pushed a button on a touch-screen voting machine for Romney, but the machines recorded their vote for Obama.
At the White House website, a report in the Examiner explains, there was posted a petition seeking a recount of the race. “In one county alone in Ohio, which was a battleground state, President Obama received 106,258 votes … but there were only 98,213 eligible voters. It’s not humanly possible to get 108 percent of the vote,” the petition claims.
Fox News reported that two election judges were replaced after illegally allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots.
The Columbus Dispatch estimated that more than 20 percent of registered Ohio voters aren’t eligible. “In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population,” the report said. And, it said, in 31 other counties, registrations are above 90 percent of the population, “a rate regarded as unrealistic by most voting experts.”
Fox News also documented how Senate candidate Wendy Long, an attorney who was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recounted her voting experience. “A poll worker who was at the scanner studied my private ballot and proceeded to tell me that it was rejected because I did not ‘fill in every space.’ She then proceeded to indicate that I should mark the Democratic line all the way down.”  http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/
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A White House petition gathering force calls for citizenship to be stripped and exile for anyone who signs a petition in favor of a state's secession.
"Mr. President, please sign an executive order such that each American citizen who signed a petition from any state to secede from the USA shall have their citizenship stripped and be peacefully deported," the full petition reads.
The title of the petition is, "WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them."
As of this writing, 2,205 have signed the petition; 22,795 more signatures are needed for the issue to be addressed by the White House. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-petition-calls-stripping-citizenship-and-exile-anyone-who-signs-petition-secede_663282.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The budget deficit rose in October, the first month of fiscal year 2013, as looming negotiations over expiring tax cuts and imminent spending reductions dominated the post-election political landscape.
US budget deficit jumps 22% in October  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/budget-deficit-rises-120-billion-october-190237736--business.html
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Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday said the White House used David Petraeus’s affair to get the CIA director to give testimony about the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that was in line with the administration’s position on the matter.
Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Krauthammer said, "The sword was lowered on Election Day" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
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Two days after the election, Obama's favorite economist, Paul Krugman, set the tone for the intransigent left in a column titled: "Let's not make a deal." Boiled down, his advice to Obama was this: Don't give in to any Republican demands, even if doing so would "inflict damage on a still-shaky economy." After all, Obama would be better positioned to "weather any blowback from economic troubles."
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If there is any upside to the scandal that brought down the CIA director, it is probably that Americans have an extremely memorable reason to be careful about what they put in an email. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has exposed the techniques its cyber forensics unit uses to track down the sources of emails, and even, indirectly, has given the public a glimpse of the assumptions or thresholds they use to widen the scope of any particular investigation. Some of the details are technical, but everyone should avail themselves of the opportunity to learn about them. http://theweek.com/article/index/236326/what-the-heck-fbi
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In Ohio, Obamacare to Increase Individual Insurance Premiums by 55-85% http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/10/29/in-ohio-obamacare-to-increase-individual-insurance-premiums-by-55-85/

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Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner is sending three representatives to St. Lucie County Wednesday to try to figure out how 799 votes disappeared in Sunday’s partial recount of the tight, nationally watched congressional race bemayotween Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy.
“We are concerned whenever there is a question about the accuracy of results,” Detzner spokesman Chris Cate said Tuesday. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/state-officials-to-examine-st-lucie-recount-in-wes/nS5z2/
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Consequences of the election continue

Alan Vera of True the Vote told me [the author of the story] long ago that we have a two party system.  The Corrupt Party and the Stupid Party.  To that fact, during the weekly True the Vote webcast, Catherine Engelbrecht related a meeting she had with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, asking what the GOP would do about voter integrity.  The answer?
Nothing.  They aren’t legally able to.  (I’m not joking.)
As part of a lawsuit settlement with the Democrat Party, the Gutless Old Party agreed to NOT ENGAGE IN ANY VOTER PROTECTION INITIATIVES.  Two of the clauses read this way:
(e) refrain from undertaking any ballot security activities in polling places or election districts where the racial or ethnic composition of such districts is a factor in the decision to conduct, or the actual conduct of, such activities there and where a purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting; and the conduct of such activities disproportionately in or directed toward districts that have a substantial proportion of racial or ethnic populations shall be considered relevant evidence of the existence of such a factor and purpose;
(f) refrain from having private personnel deputized as law enforcement personnel in connection with ballot security activities.
ACORN Whistleblower Anita Moncrief added that when she spoke at the Republican National Convention, she had to submit her speech to make sure NOTHING SHE SAID COULD BE CONSTRUED AS VIOLATING THE ORDER TO NOT ASSIST VOTER INTEGRITY.
I know think the characterization “the Stupid Party” may be too kind.
Engelbrecht said to add insult to injury, the judge who signed the agreement has long since retired, but every single year comes back for the sole purpose of renewing the order for another year. http://www.politijim.com/2012/11/no-joke-gop-can-not-legally-help-stop.html
Go to the judgement and read for yourself!  : http://judicialview.com/Court-Cases/Civil-Procedure/Democratic-National-Committee-v-Republican-National-Committee/10/201975
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Executive Order -- Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council

 
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance the Federal Government's use of local partnerships to address homeland security challenges, it is hereby ordered as follows: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/26/executive-order-establishing-white-house-homeland-security-partnership-c
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Is The 29 Hour Work Week Coming As Employers Seek To Escape The Obamacare Mandate? http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/29-hour-work-week-coming-employers-seek-escape-obamacare-mandate

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Jennifer Griffin at FOX News today confirmed that the US was holding prisoners at the Benghazi annex near the consulate compound. US agents handed three prisoners over to Libyan authorities on their way out of the city on September 12. The prisoners may have been held in the compound for several days. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/fox-news-confirms-us-was-holding-prisoners-at-benghazi-annex-video/
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If your organization has a policy or practice that doesn't benefit minorities equally, watch out: The Obama administration could sue you for racial discrimination under a dubious legal theory that many argue is unconstitutional.
 
President Obama intends to close "persistent gaps" between whites and minorities in everything from credit scores and homeownership to test scores and graduation rates.
 
His remedy — short of new affirmative-action legislation — is to sue financial companies, schools and employers based on "disparate impact" complaints — a stealthy way to achieve racial preferences, opposed 2 to 1 by Americans.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-administration/2012/11/12/obama-unleash-racial-preferences-juggernaut#ixzz2C2KsyTqC
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The voters of Ohio spoke. The majority decided they wanted to stay the current path and opt out of a different direction. The current path includes Obamacare’s Healthcare Tax and the wrath that comes with it.
What wrath, you ask? This wrath.
By 2017, write the Milliman researchers, “individual health insurance market premiums are estimated to increase by 55% to 85% above current market average rates (excluding the impact of medical inflation).” Because Obamacare forces insurers to cover a buffet of benefits that they don’t have to today, the cost of insurance will go up. Another driver of higher premiums is the fact that insurers will have to cover everyone, regardless of previous health status, a change that will attract sicker enrollees at the expense of healthier ones.
Some Obamacare defenders try to argue that these cost increases don’t matter, because a slice of the low-income population will benefit from the law’s subsidies. But if you’re not eligible for subsidies, or only partially eligible, you will be exposed to the law’s dramatic increases in the cost of insurance. And remember that Obamacare has an individual mandate, which will force most Americans to absorb these higher costs. http://www.libertynews.com/2012/11/12/ohio-votes-for-obama-will-see-insurance-premiums-increase-55-85-as-result/
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White House website deluged with secession petitions from 20 states  [now 30]

On Nov.7, the day after President Barack Obama was re-elected, the White House’s website received a petition asking the administration to allow Louisiana to secede.

If 25,000 people sign the petition by Dec. 7, it will “require a response” from the Obama administration, according to published rules of the White House’s online “We the People” program.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/11/white-house-website-deluged-with-secession-petitions-from-19-states/#ixzz2C6amZmSQ
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Figurines of President Barack Obama are appearing in Nativity scenes in shops in Naples, Italy for the Christmas season. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-nativity-figurine-popular-italian-shops
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fearing An increase in capital gains and dividend taxes, many of the rich are unloading stocks, businesses and homes before the end of the year.
Wealth advisors say that with capital-gains taxes potentially going to 25 percent from 15 percent, and other possible increases in the dividend tax, estate tax and other taxes, many clients are selling now to save millions in taxes. http://www.cnbc.com/id/49792979
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- Iran's vice president said Monday that Tehran will break the `grasping hands' of newly re-elected President Barack Obama, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Mohammad Reza Rahimi also said Iran will overcome U.S.-led sanctions against the country. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAN_US?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-12-04-01-20
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It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch. http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-12/news/35069785_1_romney-supporters-mitt-romney-sasha-issenberg
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Unnamed sources tell Fox News that the CIA Annex in Benghazi held three Libyan militia members for days and that retrieving these detainees may have been a motive for the September 11th attack on the nearby US consulate.

The new reporting builds on details previously published by Fox's Jennifer Griffin and information apparently leaked by ex-intelligence officer Paula Broadwell last month. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/12/New-Report-CIA-s-Benghazi-Annex-Was-a-Detention-and-Interrogation-Site

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This Saturday, the Midwest Marxist Conference was held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The event was teeming with teachers who spoke about the new found bond between the radical socialists and their Teachers Union. The all-day event, which collected money to support Chicago Socialists and featured a communist bookstore, provided students on-campus along with the radical left community to plan the next phase in their activism. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/11/Teachers-flock-to-Northwestern-University-Marxist-Conference-journalist-booted

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In an effort to cut defense spending, the Obama Administration plans to cut health benefits for active duty and retired military personnel and their families while not touching the benefits enjoyed by unionized civilian defense workers.
The move, congressional aides suggested, is to force those individuals into Obamacare, Bill Gertz reported at the Washington Beacon.
Gertz added:
The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-to-cut-medical-benefits-for-active-retired-military-not-union-workers
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