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IS PRESIDENT OBAMA COMPETENT TO PROTECT THE AMERICA AND AMERICANS?

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What is the truth about Benghazi and do American citizens have the right to know what the government is doing in their name?

There is little doubt in my mind that President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, and their cadre of progressive socialist democrats will do or say anything to hide the reality of Benghazi, even if it meant lying to the American public.

It appears that the Benghazi compound where Ambassador Stevens met the Turkish Consul General in the last hours of his life was not an embassy nor a consulate, but appears to be a waypoint in a joint CIA/State Department operation to provide military-grade weaponry to Syrian rebels via a Turkish connect. And, that the attack on the facility – the one explained as a spontaneous protest over a little-seen video – may have been a planned and coordinated attack by terrorists to thwart the transfer of weapons.

Suspicions …

Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador’s Benghazi visit?

A mysterious Libyan ship -- reportedly carrying weapons and bound for Syrian rebels -- may have some link to the Sept. 11 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Fox News has learned. 

Through shipping records, Fox News has confirmed that the Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means "The Victory," was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun -- 35 miles from the Syrian border -- on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants. 

On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time.

The cargo reportedly included surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, RPG's and Russian-designed shoulder-launched missiles known as MANPADS. 

The ship's Libyan captain told the Times of London that "I can only talk about the medicine and humanitarian aid" for the Syrian rebels. It was reported there was a fight about the weapons and who got what "between the free Syrian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood." <Source>

And now the DebkaFile is reporting …

DEBKAfile Special Report

For the first time in the Syrian war, opposition forces are receiving substantial quantities of heavy weapons including tanks and antitank missiles, from the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, DEBKAfile reports. The opposition has begun winning battles in the north (Idlib) and the south (Quneitra region opposite Israeli border) as the balance of strength shifts away from the Syrian army.
At the same time, since most of these rebel groups are associated with al Qaeda, Assad's fall if it is achieved may well consign Syria to radical Islamist rule.

Bottom line …

How can we trust a detached President if he ceded authority to Hillary Clinton to run the Libyan operation and she totally screwed it up? How could the American people ever accept an incompetent liar mired in personal and political corruption as their President?

What would the American people say if they found that their government, possibly unconstitutionally, illegally and criminally, provided aid and comfort to our enemies – namely a branch of the al Qaeda terrorists who planned and executed the 9/11 terrorist attack on our nation? What would be the culpability of Western nations is assisting in the overthrow of Assad and promoting the type of ethnic cleansing that would condemn all non-Sunni Muslims to death?

There is little or no doubt that the muddle in the Middle East is being acerbated by the Obama regime, seemingly run by civilians such as Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes, and other Obama loyalists who lack any sense of history, propriety, and condition their actions based on domestic politics. 

What game is being played? Secretary of State John Kerry and his effete minions in the State Department appear to be submitting to Iran’s nuclear demands; while at the same time our government is providing military support side-by-side Iran in Iraq to defeat ISIS. And, then there is Iran and Russia standing by Assad – who appears to be the one who has protected minorities in Syria.

It appears that the forces of darkness, including our fake friends in the Middle East, are engaging in a massive sectarian war and a war to preserve their own corrupt power bases. To this extent, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Arab nations are willing to turn a blind eye, and possibly provide assistance, to Israel if they choose to degrade Iran’s nuclear  capabilities using a military option.

But, can we trust our government under the Obama Administration? An Administration that openly attacks law enforcement, sides with black thugs, and opens the door to an invasion of our nations in violation of our national sovereignty. Saying or doing anything to build a groundswell coalition of the disaffected hyphenated-Americans to eke out a progressive socialist democrat victory in 2016. Something stinks. Something is corrupt. And, something is totally and completely out of control.

We are so screwed.

-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


TO THE POP-UP SCAMMERS AT WWW.ISP-SURVEY.COM ...

I do not appreciate your unwanted and unrequested pop-ups purporting to be a survey of my ISP …

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I do not appreciate the phony-baloney survey …

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I do not like your “fine print” legal notice …

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And, I do not like your “douchey” free offers that look suspiciously like a method to harvest my credit card …

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And watch the fine print in that pop-up …

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Bottom line …

Beware of surveys that offer you free gifts with inflated values and then ask you to pay a small shipping fee. In my book, if you have to pay anything … it isn’t free!

These are the type of dickwads who give legitimate market researchers a bad name. 

-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


TERRORISTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: PROGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WANT FOREIGN CASH

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How many people know that the fifth President of Egypt, a chemical warfare specialist, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood actually spent significant time in Southern California, as a student and then later as a professor?

Mohamed Morsi who served as the fifth President of Egypt, from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013, when he was removed by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after the June 2013 Egyptian protests and the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

In the late 1960s, he moved to Cairo to study at Cairo University, and earned a BA in engineering with high honors in 1975. He fulfilled his military service in the Egyptian Army from 1975 to 1976, serving in the chemical warfare unit. He then resumed his studies at Cairo University and earned an MS in metallurgical engineering in 1978. Morsi then earned a government scholarship that enabled him to study in the United States. He received a PhD in materials science from the University of Southern California in 1982.

While living in the United States, Morsi became a lecturer at the California State University, Northridge, and was Assistant Professor from 1982 to 1985. Morsi, an expert on precision metal surfaces, also worked for NASA in the early 1980s, helping to develop Space Shuttle engines.

In 1985, Morsi quit his job at CSUN and returned to Egypt, becoming a professor at Zagazig University, where he was appointed head of the engineering department. Morsi was a lecturer at Zagazig University's engineering department until 2010.

Morsi was sworn in on 30 June 2012, as Egypt's fifth President, succeeding Hosni Mubarak, who left the office of the President of Egypt vacant after being forced to resign on 11 February 2011.

As president, Morsi granted himself unlimited powers and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts, stating that he would protect the nation from the Mubarak-era power structure, which he called "remnants of the old regime" His regime was overthrown Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after the June 2013 Egyptian protests and wasthe 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

He was tried for murder, terrorism, and corruption and is serving a 20-year jail sentence with more charges pending. <Source>

While most jihadis may be rag-tag ignorant civilians, the same cannot be said of its leadership; many of whom are middle- to upper-class, well-educated, and with resources at their disposal.

How a man can go from living life in laid-back Southern California, a land of freedom and openness, to head a fanatical repressive government that wants to destroy America is beyond belief. That is, unless he was specifically sent to the United States to obtain the type of first-class education that would advance a foreign government’s cause.

Across town at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) …

UCLA’s Embarrassment: Prof. Abou El Fadl

The once-promising career of UCLA law professor Khaled Medhat Abou El Fadl has faded over the past decade. Gone are the pleasures of glowing attention of the media, the invitations to join important government bodies and to offer expert testimony at high-profile trials.

It’s not clear that this downward spiral resulted solely from my 2004 article demonstrating him to be a “stealth Islamist,” but that exposé, read more than 30,000 times, surely diminished his stature. In it, I showed how, despite Abou El Fadl’s once-vaunted reputation as a moderate Muslim, he wants Muslims to live by Islamic law (the Shari’a), the law that among other things endorses slavery, execution for apostasy, and the repression of women, and which treats non-Muslims as second-class citizens. “Shariah and Islam are inseparable,” he has written, “and one cannot be without the other.” In a revealing passage, he confesses that his “primary loyalty, after God, is to the Shariah.” <Source>

And in Orange County at UCI (University of California, Irvine) …

UC Irvine’s ‘Islam Awareness Week': A CAIR Convention

The Muslim Student Union (MSU) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is holding its 2013 “Islam Awareness Week 2013” from January 22-25. Although the program is billed as one “dedicated to encouraging dialogue, dispelling misconceptions, and bringing thought-provoking content to the entire campus community on topics related to Islam,” it is little more than another link in the historical chain of Islamist-influenced events that the MSU has sponsored over several years. The disturbing list of speakers on this year’s roster says volumes about the MSU’s pernicious influence on campus and its Muslim Brotherhood origins.

Speaking about freedom of speech will be Hussam Ayloush. Ayloush is the head of the Southern California chapter of the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) case where five defendants were convicted of financing terrorism. In October 2000, Ayloush was a guest speaker at an event where the president of the UCLA branch of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) led a crowd of demonstrators in chants of “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!” in front of the Israeli consulate. Ayloush was soliciting funds for the HLF at the time. <Source>

Irvine 11 Verdict: Muslim Students Guilty Of Disrupting Speech

A California jury found 10 Muslim students guilty Friday of disrupting the Israeli ambassador's university speech about U.S.-Israel relations, a case that stoked a debate about free speech.

The jury also convicted the students of conspiring to disrupt Ambassador Michael Oren's speech in February 2010 at the University of California, Irvine. They were charged with misdemeanor counts after standing up, one by one, and shouting prepared statements such as "propagating murder is not an expression of free speech." <Source

It appears that California’s esteemed educational institutions have become more tolerant of free speech in the guise of academic freedom as long as it is along the lines dictated by the progressive socialist democrats and has little or nothing to do with conservatives who are routinely shunned and shouted down. There is little or no doubt that the University is becoming a magnet for Islamic radicals and a platform for the promotion of Islamic causes. Perhaps not so curious for a University that receives significant government funding under the pro-Islam, anti-Israel Obama Administration. And, not so curious as the University President is former Governor of Arizona and the former Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama.

I am not the only one wondering about the radicalization of the University of California and its sister, the California State University system …   

Are anti-Semitism, out-of-state tuition linked?

There is no doubt dependence on the higher tuition paid by out-of-state and foreign students has become established policy at the University of California. Now some believe this may be leading to the unintended consequence of an upsurge of anti-Semitism on campuses like Berkeley, Davis, UCLA and Riverside.

Between 2001 and 2013, the number of UC graduate students from Iran — where a mantra in public schools reportedly has students daily reciting “Death to America, Death to Israel!” — rose from six to 113. Plus, last fall’s enrollees included 74 undergraduates from Saudi Arabia, 53 from Turkey and 51 from Pakistan, to name a few countries where anti-Semitism is common.

There is no doubt that as the number of foreign students at UC has risen, with administrators exploiting the $23,000 annual difference between out-of-state tuition and what California residents pay, the so-called BDS movement (boycott, divest and sanction) against Israel has become more active on many campuses. Student governments at Berkeley, UCLA and Davis all have voted to demand that university regents and faculty boycott Israel, divest from companies doing business there and set up economic sanctions against it. There was a similar vote at Stanford University this spring.

No one asks their nationality at demonstrations, but almost invariably, campus BDS leaders have Muslim-oriented names. So far, no university governing board has bought into their demands.

Students conducting anti-Israel rallies and demonstrations deny anti-Semitism, although their efforts have included checkpoints on some campuses where camouflage-clad students toting mock-up machine guns stopped and frisked anyone they thought looked Jewish.

And outright anti-Semitism has followed quickly after heated debates over the anti-Israel student senate votes. At UCLA, student government members questioned the ability of a Jewish student to serve impartially on a judicial board and voted her down. Later, they were shamed into reversing that vote.

At Davis, vandals defaced a Jewish fraternity house with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti shortly after the BDS debate. A few weeks after the debate at Stanford, swastikas were swabbed onto the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, not a Jewish one, and two other residences.

The pro-Israel organization Stand With Us reports most on-campus anti-Israel activity is organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, a national group with local chapters. “It is coordinated nationally and we think the funding comes from abroad,” said Roz Rothstein, CEO of Stand With Us. Christians United for Israel, composed mostly of evangelicals, calls what’s happening “a dark movement” that “bullies and intimidates Jewish students.”

Source: Are anti-Semitism, out-of-state tuition linked?

Bottom line …

Where many might say that this is Islamophobia at work, I would counter with, “Why would you invite your enemies to form a fifth column, dedicated to the destruction of your country and its institutions from within?”

As we saw from the averted mass murder attempt in Garland, Texas, the Muslim perpetrators had links to a mosque with significant funding from overseas and tangential connections to terrorism.

Phoenix Mosque Caught Lying About Ties to Texas Would-Be Jihadist Killer

After two attendees of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix (ICCPA) were killed in a gunfight Sunday night in Garland, Texas, outside a facility where a “Draw Muhammad” contest was being held, the leaders of the mosque have given conflicting stories about the relationship the two had with the place of worship.

Most of the conflicting accounts have come from mosque president Usama Shami, who has been regularly featured in multiple press reports following the events Sunday evening. Most of his statements have been attempts to distance the mosque from the two would-be terrorists. <Source>

Phoenix [Arizona] mosque is a familiar FBI target

In 2008, the FBI arrested Akram Musa Abdullah, a 54-year-old Palestinian living in Mesa. Agents raided his house and hauled out a truckload of evidence, and in interviews asked him if he had raised money for the Holy Land Foundation, a group that supported Palestinian charities but also funneled money to Hamas and Hezbollah, according to claims the Bush administration made when it outlawed support for the Holy Land Foundation. Abdullah told agents he'd never raised money for the group, and prosecutors accused him of lying to a federal agent in a terrorism-related case. A year later, Abdullah entered a plea agreement and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Simpson was fatally shot Sunday along with his roommate and one-time employer, Nadir Soofi as they tried to unleash an attack on a contest mocking the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas.

Less shocking to Valley Muslim leaders was that the men once attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, along Interstate 17, or that FBI agents are contacting other members of the mosque to learn about Simpson and Soofi. <Source

You might think that the former Governor of Arizona, the former head of the Department of Homeland Defense, and the current President of the University of California might be on the lookout for Muslims who do not wish America well or who want to promote their radical causes?

Why we continue to allow the almost free flow of traffic between the United States and Iran – as well as other Muslim states while we are at war with terrorism and our allies, especially Saudi Arabia, seem to be up to their necks in covert domestic actions in the United States.

I am still waiting for the 9/11 report section on material foreign involvement to be declassified so that Americans have a better understanding that some have welcomed our enemies into our house and profited from their access. And, how many people know that the Saudis have financed a worldwide system of mosques to teach their form of radical Islam – Whabbism?

Is there any question why the progressive socialist democrats want to disarm law-abiding citizens? And why is the media going soft on black nationalist groups -- most of whom involved Black Muslims?

We are so screwed.

-- steve 


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


YAWN: ANOTHER APOCALYPTIC GLOBAL WARMING ANNOUNCEMENT

It is quite fashionable to use computer models to generate dramatic and apocalyptic forecasts that have activists demanding onerous and costly public policies that must be implemented on an emergency basis to avoid a future planetary emergency …

Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

Their latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.

Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss. Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.

Remarkably, this stunning low point was not even incorporated into the model runs of Professor Maslowski and his team, which used data sets from 1979 to 2004 to constrain their future projections.

"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.

"So given that fact, you can argue that maybe our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."

Using supercomputers to crunch through possible future outcomes has become a standard part of climate science in recent years.

Former US Vice President Al Gore cited Professor Maslowski's analysis on Monday in his acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.

Source: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'

Whoops! The above report is dated December 12, 2007.

Al Gore – Another Progressive Profits from Phony Sciencegore

Here is today’s report …

NOAA Says The Arctic Will Be ‘Ice-Free’ In 25 Years

Climate scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are warning the Arctic may be ice free by the summer by 2040 due to global warming.

Scientists sounded the alarm on a Wednesday press call that comes after the north pole hit record low winter sea ice coverage in February. NOAA’s warning of an ice-free Arctic are consistent with warnings given by other researchers over the past few years.

Scientists warned that Arctic ice will melt faster as temperatures grow hotter, which they warn is harming the region’s ecology — zooplankton are losing fat content which could harm fish in the area that feed on these organisms.

Source: NOAA Says The Arctic Will Be ‘Ice-Free’ In 25 Years | The Daily Caller

The truth …

  1. The models are incomplete and do not faithfully model all of the physical processes and interactions involved in climate change.
  2. Parametric assumptions that are used to produce the model’s results are often outside of observational norms.
  3. The input data is under investigation as there are some cases when statistical manipulation of the raw data to compensate for missing or grossly erroneous data has produced what appears to be a natural warming bias where none exists, or exaggerates the existing trend.
  4. What is being reported is temperature anomalies, the difference between the actual measurement and a baseline computed for a timeframe that is significantly shorter than the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years involved in climate cycles.
  5. Many models do not correctly provide for nature’s self-regulating mechanisms. In one exchange between myself and a noted climate scientist on the subject of ENSO ( El Niño/La Niña Southern   Oscillation) he mentioned that the two ENSO states canceled each other out in longer terms and, as such, did not affect his longer term projections. Of course, ENSO, drives significant extreme weather events.
  6. Many climate models have been falsified by their inability to predict or acknowledge the 18+ years of virtually no global warming, with the scientists unable to explain why the atmospheric carbon dioxide is rising, but is decoupled from rising temperatures. Perhaps because they do not want to acknowledge that atmospheric carbon dioxide lags temperature rise by hundreds of years and is thus cannot be considered causal.
  7. So much money is washing through the climate community, its institutions and its researchers, that nobody wants to upset the golden goose by falsifying current research or suggesting that nature is cyclic and beyond man’s ability to influence on a significant scale.

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Bottom line …

The environmental movement has been deeply infiltrated by socialists and communists who want to use science to allay the fears of a political movement that historically devolves into corruption and totalitarianism. It is not about pollution, it is about driving political policies that promote a socialist “big government/centralized planned” agenda.

It is not about pollution and the health of local inhabitants – if it was, how do you explain how gross polluters purchase government-approved indulgences from the Wall Street Wizards and continue to pollute and affect the locals while allegedly helping the planet’s health in the rainforest?

The only nature that is currently being manipulated by man is human nature … in favor of politicians and their special interests and not for beneficial purposes for mankind.

-- steve  


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


POLICE TORTURE BLACKS IN OBAMA'S CHICAGO: THE TRUTH THAT DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW …

Somehow the progressive socialist democrats have managed to convince blacks that they are the party the supports civil rights … in spite of the fact that it was democrats that founded and ran the KKK – and that prominent democrats serving in Congress were associated with the KKK. Conveniently ignoring the fact that the true champions of civil rights were republicans.

Now we see that one of the most progressive democrat cities in the nation has a dark history of torturing blacks and others under the governance of progressive socialist democrats.

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Will Barack Obama weigh-in on Chicago blacks being tortured by democrats while being governed by democrats?

A group of rogue cops known as the 'Midnight Crew' tortured dozens of people for decades — and now Chicago is paying millions for it

Chicago will pay a total of up to $5.5 million to dozens of people tortured by the city's police in the 1970s and 1980s and make other reparations such as a memorial to torture victims under an ordinance approved by the city council on Wednesday.

The ordinance also calls for the city to provide psychological counseling, job placement aid and other services to torture victims.

During this era of brutality, disgraced Chicago police Commander Jon Burge ran a group of rogue detectives known as the "Midnight Crew." From 1972 to 1991, under his leadership, the Guardian reports, they allegedly tortured 120 people, mostly African American residents of Chicago's impoverished South Side. Those in custody were allegedly subjected to electric shocks, beatings, and even faux-Russian roulette, according to the Chicago Tribune

Burge was fired in 1993 (although not directly as a result of the violence) and later convicted of lying about police torture in testimony he gave in civil lawsuits.

Chicago and Cook County already have paid about $100 million in settlements and verdicts for lawsuits related to Burge's actions.

Source: Chicago will pay millions to people tortured by the city's police in the 1970s and 1980s

And ever the story above does not even begin to tell the whole truth …

Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years

Like Al Capone's prosecution for tax evasion, Burge could only be prosecuted for lying about what he and his men did, not for the deeds themselves. He was sentenced to the maximum term of four and a half years, and ended up serving three and a half before being released to a halfway house—a stark contrast to the fates of his victims, many of whom received death sentences or life in prison on the basis of confessions that were tortured from them.

Despite his felony conviction, Burge continued to collect his pension (now at $54,000 per year) while serving his time, and the Illinois Supreme Court recently decided four to three that he may continue to do so in the future. But the nearly $700,000 that Burge has already collected is little compared to what Chicago, Cook County, the State of Illinois and federal taxpayers have already expended as a result of the Burge torture scandal.

The total financial damage to taxpayers as a result of the torture of over 100 black men that Burge oversaw, and the ongoing payouts to his collaborating officers, now exceeds $120,000,000, and will only keep growing.

Chicago has spent more than $20,000,000 to provide legal defense to Burge and his men in the numerous civil damages suits brought against them over the years. Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois have paid out more than $66,000,000 in settlements to compensate the Burge torture survivors who were wrongfully convicted on the basis of false confessions. The city, county, state and federal governments have spent more than $15,000,000 investigating and prosecuting Burge. And his cabal of officers has received $22,000,000 in pensions to date. <Source>

It was a Republican Governor, Illinois Governor George Ryan who declared a moratorium on death penalty executions in Illinois in 2000 and to clear the state's death row in 2003 because of these forced confessions.

What did the progressive socialist democrat and race-baiter, Jesse Jackson, have to say?

[September 14, 2013] Reverend Jesse Jackson calls an apology from Mayor Emanuel a welcome gesture but he wants more done about the torture tied to Chicago police commander Jon Burge.

On Wednesday, Mayor Emanuel called the scandal a "dark chapter" in the city's history. His remarks came after the city council approved a $12.3 million settlement with two men who said they were tortured by police.

Saturday Jackson called for a "truth and reconciliation commission" saying if it was good enough for South Africa it is good enough for Chicago.

"Because Jon Burge was in charge, he was the commander," Jackson said. "He did not do this alone. Other police witnessed Jon Burge torturing these men."  <Source>

What he didn’t say is more important. Calling for everyone above the commander, including politicians, to step down, forfeit their pensions, and give a full accounting of their actions. Not get a mass absolution as in South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commission. He didn’t even wonder why higher-ups were not prosecuted, including the police officials tied to the Mayor’s office.

Bottom line …

This is not to say that all police are corrupt, hostile, and racist – only that the progressive socialist democrats and their unions have a history of covering-up political malfeasance and criminal wrongdoing for political purposes.

You wonder why nothing in Chicago’s inner city seems to have improved under the progressive socialist democrats – and here you have it. Political corruption and special interest dealing. The more money you hand the politicians, the more money they steal, use to purchase votes, and to cover-up their malfeasance and criminality.

Are Blacks really that ignorant that they can’t see that the progressive socialist democrats – the very ones agitating for a socialist-style revolution – are the ones that have oppressed them? Do they not think it morally corrupt that their so-called reverends and ministers accept “walking around money” from the corrupt politicians in order to lead them astray.

You can’t trust the progressive socialist democrats or their unions and special interests. Chicago and Cook County are mired in a history of political corruption, thuggery, and oppression. And, President Obama has kept mum on his selected home city. I wonder did his pals; his spiritual mentor, the noted anti-America, anti-White, anti-Semite Reverend Jeremiah Wright weigh-in? How about Minister Louis Farrakhan and his paramilitary Nation of Islam?

Remember this at the voting polls.

-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


THE SOCIALIST COMPARISON THAT THE DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT YOU TO SEE ...

There is little or no doubt in my mind that the progressive socialist democrats have taken a sharp turn leftward and has become the neo-Communist party in America. Far from the democrat party of my parents, and almost unrecognizable to anyone of a certain age.

Now that committed socialists like Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders are being touted by the progressive socialist democrats as representative of the liberal viewpoint in America, it is helpful to take a look at their platform and not so hidden agenda.

First, they want to grow the party in terms of political power and financial backing; becoming the perpetual party in power, much like the progressive socialist democrats in California. Second, they want to control America’s economy and its labor force. And third, they want to diminish America’s military and influence on the world stage. These are the very same people prone to blaming America’s history or racism and colonialism for much of the social ills of America and the difficulties in the world today.

So what does this committed socialist really want?

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    1. Rebuilding Our Crumbling Infrastructure
    2. Reversing Climate Change
    3. Creating Worker Co-ops
    4. Growing the Trade Union Movement
    5. Raising the Minimum Wage
    6. Pay Equity for Women Workers
    7. Trade Policies that Benefit American Workers
    8. Making College Affordable for All
    9. Taking on Wall Street
    10. Health Care as a Right for All
    11. Protecting the Most Vulnerable Americans
    12. Real Tax Reform

Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward

As we saw with the economic stimulus and those “shovel ready jobs” to rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, most of the money was funneled into local and state governments to shore-up their crumbling finances and to provide financial support to the unions and special interests.

As we are seeing with those that are attempting to reversing climate change, man’s contribution to global warming is barely perceptible when measure against nature’s normal variability. And, that programs designed to combat climate change are little more than special interest boondoggles that benefit politically-connected special interests. Billions are flowing from the taxpayers to political channels and nature continues to do what nature wants.

Creating worker co-ops is an interesting concept because we can see how running any significant company by committee leads to corruption and a downward spiral. If socialism worked, East Germany would have far surpassed the productivity of West Germany and the Berlin Wall would have been necessary to keep workers from rushing to the East to secure good paying jobs and generous social benefits.

Why would anyone want to grow a trade unions that rewards seniority over merit, the status quo over innovation, thuggery over discussion, and produces work rules that insure higher costs and longer completion times by breaking a one-person task into a multi-person task performed by different craft members? Look at what the unions did to industries in America – forcing them into bankruptcy or into moving their production offshore. There is no rational case that can be made for trade unions with today’s legal protections of the workers. There can be no rational case to be made for a public employees union which pushes the taxpayer/citizen away from their rightful seat at the table and which institutionalizes political corruption. Unions, being a socialist creation that supports the collective over the individual, seems to exclusively support the progressive socialist democrats over the conservatives.

You cannot raise the minimum wage without disrupting our economy and decreasing the number of jobs allocated for entry-level workers or even high-school students. Who will pay for that $15 hamburger? Who wants to pay a waiter $30,000 or more. Entry-level jobs were never meant to support families of four.

For those who want equal pay for equal work, why not ask about the pay disparity in the White House or the Clinton Foundation. People are paid what they are worth to the enterprise. If women were as competent as their counterparts and all costs being equal, why are there more men in the workforce?  Why would anyone pay inflated wages if they could get the same level of performance at a cheaper level?

When socialist speak of trade policies, they are speaking of restrictions and tariffs that protect union workers from a larger competitive trade environment. When the union costs were added to a domestic vehicle, it instantly became uncompetitive in the global market. The progressive socialist democrats are all about subsidies and penalties … and their enforcement of “fairness” and equality – which is not even remotely fair and equal.

The government has taken over the financing of college educations and has made almost as big of financial mess as when the progressive socialist democrats interfered in the mortgage markets. On a lesser scale, if unions were so great, why are we turning out another generation of ill-educated functional illiterates that can barely make change or speak in coherent full sentences?

For those who suggest they are taking on Wall Street, the progressive socialist democrats seem to run to Wall Street billionaires and hedge fund managers for campaign financing. Can these wealthy people be actually purchasing access and political immunity from criminal actions that they are currently undertaking? If the progressive socialist democrats were serious, why are there no functional usury laws and people are downing in credit card debt?

Healthcare as a right. Nothing needs to be said about a single-payer government-controlled system that has been said in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – neither description which is universally true. One might notice that the dysfunctional healthcare scheme in California is almost bankrupt and mired in political corruption and malfeasance.

Protecting the most vulnerable is little more than a code phrase for increased social welfare support systems and a reason to grow government even larger.

Real tax reform starts with recognizing that the tax code was created by political corruption and the needs of the special interests.

Bottom line …

Want to see what decades of progressive socialist democrat governance buys you … look at Baltimore, Maryland, Detroit, Michigan, or Oakland, California and ask yourself if you want to share the misery in a socialist system?

-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


PAMELA GELLER: ATTACKING THE MESSENGER RATHER THAN ATTACKING THE ENEMY

 Donald Trump questions Pamela Geller’s motives in televised comments …

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DONALD TRUMP: I watched Pam prior, and it looks like she's just taunting everybody.

What is she doing?

Drawing Mohammed and it looks like she's taunting people...

What are they doing drawing Mohammed?

Isn't there something else they can draw? They can't do something else? They have to be in the middle of Texas and on Mohammed?

You know, I'm one that believes in free speech, probably more than she does. What's the purpose of this? She's taunting them...

I don't know, maybe she likes risk. What the hell is she doing?

When in comes to political matters, I have little or no respect for Donald Trump who is the epitome of the one-percenters who exemplify so-called white privilege and conspicuous consumption. Other than the fact that he is a self-promoting blowhard that almost never accepts blame for adverse consequences with his companies or his relationships, he does not seem to understand what just happened.

Pamela Geller proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Islamists, no matter where they might be located, have become radicalized to the point where they have zero religious tolerance and zero tolerance for free speech when it concerns religious matters. That makes Islamists a clear and present danger to the United States, its citizens everywhere, and our allies worldwide.

Bill O’Reilly … 

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Talking Points Memo: Defeating the Jihad by Not Being Dumb by Bill O'Reilly (May 5, 2015)

Mr. Trump is correct.  By setting up a contest and awarding $10,000 for a depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, the American Freedom Defense Initiative spurred a violent attack.

That was not smart, even though the group has its supporters.

Mike, I'm withholding his last name, in Fairbanks, Alaskawrote:

"Megyn Kelly was completely right and you are completely wrong, O'Reilly.  An event like this should be held daily.  If the Muslim world doesn't like it -- tough."

Insulting the entire Muslim world is stupid, Mike.

It does not advance the cause of liberty or get us any closer to defeating the savage jihad.

Megyn Kelly …

Megyn Kelly has it absolutely right.

“I say this to Bill. The relevant question is not did those under attack say something offensive. The relevant question is what do we do about a group that wants to kill us for exercising our constitutional rights.”

"Here's the issue. When people exercise their First Amendment rights,  and two jihadis show up to murder them; the relevant question at that time is not what were they saying. The relevant question is what are we going to do about this group of people that want to murder us because we believe in free speech and the First Amendment?"

The common sense worldview of Rich Lowry …

Jihad comes to Texas — many blame the victim

In today’s circumstances, criticism of Islam is at the vanguard of the fight for free speech, since it is susceptible to attack and intimidation by jihadists and calls for self-censorship by the politically correct.

“Yes, but . . .” defenses of Geller don’t cut it.

She had a perfect right to do what she did, and it’s a condemnation of her enemies — and confirmation of her basic point about radical Islam — that the act of drawing and talking elicited a violent response.

If cartoons of Mohammed may seem a low, petty form of speech, they are only the fault line in a deeper clash of civilizations.

A swath of the Muslim world doesn’t just want to ban depictions of Mohammed, but any speech critical of Islam. <Source>

The politically correct, those who would bow to political pressures and disarm law-abiding citizens, leaving them vulnerable and cowering under attack by criminals, crazies, and yes, jihadis, are the ones we must fear the most. Those who would surrender our Constitution in order to achieve a temporary peace and the impression of of a non-existent safety. These are the same people who claim, “it’s for the children” and decry the poor state of today’s education – and yet refuse to contain or control the unions that make it nearly impossible to fire a pedophile in the school system lest it upset the union.

Bottom line …

What other religion  today riots, loots, burns, maims, tortures, and kills if you do not accept their message of intolerance?

There are many who first honor the First Amendment and agree that Pamela Geller was in her rights to hold her contest and meeting; and then in the next breath, question the wisdom of provoking Muslims. Missing the entire point, that Muslims will use indecision to take a firm stand against a toxic religion as a sign of weakness and continue their terrorist activities.

Remember, the purpose of terror is to scare the bejesus out of ordinary people in order to pressure politicians into ceding political power to the enemy and following their dictates. If you were to listen to Donald Trump or Bill O’Reilly, they have already won.

Can you imagine responding to this threat if the progressive socialist democrats managed to disarm law-abiding Americans and they were forced to rely on the very type of police force that sat idle and watched Baltimore burn because the mayor was afraid to take decisive action for political reasons?

We are so screwed.

-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


Arrogant Hillary Clinton to Testify in May -- Will the Progressives Try to Play-Out the Clock?

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Is the plan to run-out the clock on the Benghazi and email inquiry?

It appears that Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, has responded to Trey Gowdy’s request to testify before his House Select Committee on Benghazi on two separate occasions; once to elicit facts about the circumstances surrounding Benghazi, and once to elicit facts concerning the lack of Benghazi e-mails due to Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server to process all of her official State Department emails as well as those of her top advisors.

However, it also appears that Kendall has tried to limit the official inquiry by saying his client would testify only once on both topics; “On such day, she will stay as long as necessary to answer the Committee's questions, but will not prolong the Committee's efforts further by appearing on two separate occasions when one will suffice."

Considering that the Committee’s minority members are virulent supporters of Hillary Clinton and are likely to bloviate about Clinton’s service as the Secretary of State, ask extremely generalized and convoluted questions, and engage in disruptive behavior to limit substantive questioning by Chairman Trey Gowdy, it appears that the Committee’s work may be thwarted by Clinton and her supporters.

Committee members …  

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Republicans

  • Chairman, Trey Gowdy (SC) 
  • Susan Brooks (IN)
  • Jim Jordan (OH)
  • Mike Pompeo (KS)
  • Martha Roby (AL)
  • Peter Roskam (IL)
  • Lynn Westmoreland (GA)

Democrats

  • Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD)
  • Adam Smith (WA)
  • Adam Schiff (CA)
  • Linda Sanchez (CA)
  • Tammy Duckworth (IL)

Partisan politics may trump legitimate Congressional inquiry …

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According to CNN, Ranking Member Elijah Cummings has already stated: “"Trey Gowdy should take 'yes' for an answer and finally schedule the hearing," and “dragging out this process further into the presidential election season sacrifices any chance that the American people will see it as serious or legitimate."  

Democrats' Benghazi warrior

The House GOP took the unexpected step recently of voting to create a special committee to further probe the controversial events in Benghazi. Democrats’ hopes of rendering the panel ineffective rest largely on Cummings’ shoulders.

Democrats long debated whether to appoint their own members to the panel and thus justify its existence. But Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ultimately decided it would be better to have access to the panel’s documents and witnesses. Given that line of thinking, it only made sense to appoint a tested Democrat as the ranking member.

A source close to the decision said there was “never any question in [Pelosi’s] mind” that if Democrats were going to serve on the committee, Cummings would be her ranking member.

On Oversight, the Marylander has served as Democrats’ foil to the fiery, headline grabbing Issa. Democrats widely credit Cummings as being instrumental for scoring political wins against zealous Oversight Republicans. <Source>

Elijah Cummings: Trey Gowdy lied about Hillary Clinton testimony

Ranking Member Elijah Cummings of Maryland said he agreed to a request from South Carolina's Gowdy in September to ask Clinton if she would speak to the committee. Cummings said Clinton quickly agreed to testify in a public hearing as early as December, and that he told the South Carolina lawmaker this in October.

Gowdy, in a TV interview Wednesday, suggested otherwise, saying he was glad to hear that Cummings had “changed his mind” to help him secure Clinton as a witness.

“In December he was not saying that,” Gowdy said. “But I do welcome his change of heart.”

Cummings called Gowdy’s statements about Clinton's willingness to speak under oath “inaccurate.” <Source>

A full and complete accounting is unlikely …

We have already heard allegations that Clinton’s Chief of Staff, one of those using Clinton’s email server, may have engaged in removing documents from official State Department archives prior to the meeting of the Accountability Review Board that was empaneled to review the circumstances surrounding Benghazi. Chaired by someone who had ties to the Clintons and who conveniently did not interview Hillary Clinton, the ranking State Department member responsible for Benghazi and who openly lied to the American people about a video and a spontaneous demonstration although she apparently knew it was a terrorist attack.

What makes anyone believe that Hillary Clinton will be forthcoming about what happened at Benghazi and why her tenure at the State Department was filled with unusual behavior that is inconsistent with State Department policies.

Bottom line …

The most serious question that may never be asked in open session is why our Ambassador was in Benghazi and was their a covert operation to provide military-grade weaponry to Islamic fundamentalists via Turkey – and was that the reason that Ambassador Stevens met with the Turkish Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin in the hours before the attack on the compound – which was neither an embassy nor a consulate.

Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador’s Benghazi visit?

Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means "The Victory," was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun -- 35 miles from the Syrian border -- on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants.

On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time. 

Although what was discussed at the meeting is not public, a source told Fox News that Stevens was in Benghazi to negotiate a weapons transfer, an effort to get SA-7 missiles out of the hands of Libya-based extremists. And although the negotiation said to have taken place may have had nothing to do with the attack on the consulate later that night or the Libyan mystery ship, it could explain why Stevens was travelling in such a volatile region on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. <Source>

That Hillary Clinton has demonstrated a pattern and practice of self-serving corruption, lying, and mired in cronyism and scandal makes her unfit to service in any public office that requires integrity, honesty, and American values. The fact that the progressive socialist democrats can even consider her a viable candidate is to demonstrate that they have become the neo-Communist party in America.

-- steve  


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


THE CLINTONS ARE INCAPABLE TO TELLING THE TRUTH WITHOUT WEASEL WORDS …

Even though Bill Clinton is unable to practice law,  he continues to parse words …

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Then – with respect to sex with Monica Lewinsky …

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true." ~ Bill Clinton

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Now – with respect to the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising …

"There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American government policy." ~ Bill Clinton

Because if it was done “knowingly” and with intent … it might be a criminal act.

Bottom line …

Do we really want another Clinton in the White House?

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-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


CALIFORNIA WANTS ME TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE WHILE PICKING MY POCKET ...

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California is truly Alice in Wonderland territory …

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” ~ Lewis Carroll,

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Look for a Climate Credit from the State of California on Your April Utility Bill

This month your electricity bill will include a credit identified as the "California Climate Credit." Twice a year, in April and October,* your household and millions of others throughout the state will receive this credit on your electricity bills.

[Ignore the fact that your electricity costs significantly more than it should because of the mandated use of “green energy” which is unreliable and extremely costly – especially with the subsidies to companies who would bankrupt themselves if they were forced to compete in the marketplace.]

The Climate Credit is a payment to Californians from a program designed to fight climate change by limiting the amount of greenhouse gas pollution that our largest industries put into the atmosphere.

[Ignore the fact that the greatest greenhouse gas is water vapor (clouds) over which the state has no control. Ignore that man’s climate signal is barely discernable in the noise of climate’s natural variability.]

This program is one of many developed as a result of landmark legislation called the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which puts California at the forefront of efforts to battle climate change. Other programs under this law increase clean, renewable forms of electricity, promote energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and require cleaner fuels and more efficient cars and trucks.

[California is pissing in the wind – attempting to mitigate global warming when there is no proven way for affecting a cyclical climate that involves long-term cycles of hundreds and thousands of years. The only thing California managed to do is to destroy their own economy and force productive individuals and companies to move elsewhere to avoid California’s corrupt socialist government.]

Together, these programs will aid in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat in the atmosphere - helping to clean the air and protect our food, water, and public health, as well as the beauty of our state.

[If this were literally true, there would be measurable heat islands created in the upper atmosphere. No atmospheric heat islands have been found with any of the measurement technology in use that would correspond to greenhouse gas emissions. What about these programs that promote public corruption?]

The Climate Credit is designed to help you join with California in its efforts to fight climate change and clean the air. You can use the savings on your electricity bills however you choose, but you can save even more money by investing the bill savings from your Climate Credit in energy-saving home upgrades, including more efficient lights and appliances. You can find more information and receive rebates for these and many other energy-efficient choices for your home at www.EnergyUpgradeCA.org/ credit.

[The savings are implied as they are a reduction in your electricity bill and not something you can freely spend. Rebates you say – you mean you are using my money to allow my neighbor to upgrade their kitchen, bathroom, and laundry. Can you say wealth redistribution. Can you say financially coercive behavior modification like that recommended by socialist Cass Sunstein.]

California's greenhouse gas reduction programs provide a range of powerful solutions to help slow climate change, one of the greatest challenges facing society. By gradually reducing emissions each year and moving to cleaner forms of energy, we are taking an important step to preserve the health and prosperity of our state for generations to come.

[Remember, global warming is a hypothesis that exists only in computer models – and which do not reflect the past 18+ years of little or no warming.  There are no powerful solutions that can mitigate the power of nature. And, truth be told, it is not about pollution, climate change, or a better life – it’s about politics, money, and the special interests like the utilities. If it was about pollution, why do they allow gross polluters to continue polluting by purchasing government-approved climate indulgences from the Wall Street Wizards. And, as for cleaner gas, has anyone noticed the manipulation of energy prices caused by special blends of gas?]

*Billing periods vary by utility and may not always coincide with a calendar month. If you don't see a Climate Credit in the bill that arrives in April, it will appear in the bill you receive in May.

The CPUC regulates privately owned electric companies and serves the public interest by protecting consumers and ensuring the provision of safe, reliable utility service and infrastructure at reasonable rates, with a commitment to environmental enhancement and a healthy California economy. For more information about our work contact us at: [email protected], 800-253-0500, or visit www.cpuc.ca.gov

I think I would be more thrilled with a missive that explains why the California consumer is getting stuck with billions of dollars in decommissioning expenses for a private utilities failed nuclear generation program after the utility attempted to increase the plant’s capacity by designing a defective heat-exchanger that failed and caused the leakage of radioactive water. Why is the utility not taking a hit? Why are their executives and shareholders not paying for the failure of their asset? And, why might these same executives and shareholders be entitled to benefit from the settlement of a massive lawsuit against the heat exchanger’s manufacturer?

And, as for the California Public Utilities Commission itself …

Report of Malfeasance and Institutional Corruption at the California Public Utilities Commission (07 January 2015) 

Malfeasance has spread into the bone marrow of California government. The malfeasance of California’s government is illustrated by the corruption at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which operates under the Governor of the State of California.

The CPUC has 1,000 staff positions and a budget of $1,332,214,000. Under Public Util. Code § 431, the CPUC annually determines a fee to be paid by “every electrical, gas, telephone, telegraph, water, sewer system, and heat corporation and every other public utility providing service directly to customers or subscribers and subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission to produce a total amount equal to that amount established in the authorized CPUC budget for the same year, including adjustments for increases in employee compensation and an appropriate reserve to regulate public utilities.

Michael Peevey, President of the CPUC, was forced to step down in the face of a judge-fixing scandal. Another CPUC Commissioner has been exposed by his own emails to have been compromised by the utilities he is charged with regulating.

The corruption and malfeasance identified in this report is integral to the ways and means the CPUC has come to operate. The departure of Peevey does not cleanse the bad practices; it may, in fact, create the false impression and diminish the energy behind CPUC reform.

The failure of the CPUC to protect ratepayers in the San Diego fire, San Bruno explosion, and San Onofre radiation leak and plant closure are “storm warnings” that the CPUC cannot be counted on to protect the people of California.

Source: Report of Malfeasance and Institutional Corruption at the California Public Utilities Commission 

Bottom line …

California is the model that proves that a government run by progressive socialist democrats is corrupt, malfeasant, and totally unsustainable if not for ever-increasing amounts of money from taxpayers and others. And, when this money runs out, the government is left with guns to protect themselves against the revolution that our forefathers believed that they were forestalling when they wrote the Constitution.

Never have we seen such massive political corruption in a single party … and one that promises to spread the misery if it prolongs the foreign and domestic policies of the progressive socialist democrats.

We are so screwed.

-- steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS