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Obama Says America Is Not a Banana Republic and We Have to Pay Our Bills …  What Do Experts Say?

America’s top liberal communications expert is George Lakoff.  Professor Lakoff (who we’ve previously interviewed) points out that when a politician says “Not X”, people usually think of X:  Continue reading “Obama’s “I Am Not a Crook” Moment”

White House Dossier – by Keith Koffler

I don’t know, mainly I’m putting this up because it was amusing and I thought you’d enjoy it. But there is a larger point.

The news business has sunk to an abysmal depth. Nobody has any money, competition is fierce, and corners are cut everywhere you can find them. “Reputable” news organizations take one source and run a major story on the information as if they were sure it was fact. The old news saying – If your mother says she loves you, check it out, is a quaint anachronism.  Continue reading “Jon Stewart Roasts CNN’s Navy Yard Coverage”

Before It’s News – by Alton Parrish

The most powerful typhoon of 2013 was passing between northern Philippines and southern Taiwan on Sept. 19. When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Usagi, infrared data showed a large area of powerful thunderstorms and heavy rain surrounding the center while NASA’s TRMM satellite measured that heavy rainfall from space.

Super-Typhoon Usagi is a monster storm that according the Joint Typhoon Warning Center is headed for a landfall near Hong Kong on Sept. 22 around 1200 UTC/8 a.m. EDT/8 p.m. local time Hong Kong.  Continue reading “Category 5 Hurricane: Satellite Images Of Super-Typhoon Usagi Passing Philippines And Southern Taiwan”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: We are all well aware of the prophecy concerning the destruction of Damascus in Isaiah 17:1. Now let us read Jeremiah 49:23-27,

 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.  Continue reading “7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn’t See on American TV”

Maryland Parent Manhandled, Arrested While Speaking Out Against Common Core at Public ForumThe Blaze – by Jason Howerton

A parent in Towson, Md., was arrested Thursday night at a public forum after vocally expressing his concerns about the Baltimore County School District’s plan to use Common Core standards in its curriculum.

Robert Small, a concerned father, was forcefully removed from the meeting by a police officer after he interrupted Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance during the question-and-answer portion of the forum.  Continue reading “‘Is this America?’: Parent Manhandled, Arrested While Speaking Out Against Common Core at Public Forum”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

A college Associate professor David Warner Guth, who holds a master’s degree in journalism, from the University of Kansas sent out a tweet on Monday that has caused quite the controversy, calling for the deaths of NRA members’ children in saying “The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you.”   Continue reading “Professor Calls For Murder Of NRA Members’ Children”

The Electronic Intifada – by by Ali Abunimah

The Electronic Intifada received this photo from a diplomatic source, said to show French diplomat Marion Castaing on the ground as she is manhandled by armed Israeli occupation soldiers.

The incident occurred in the village of Khirbet al-Makhul in the occupied West Bank earlier today when Israeli occupation forces violently prevented European diplomats from delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians, as Reuters reported:   Continue reading “Photo: French aid convoy diplomat dragged on ground by Israeli soldiers”

Investment Watch

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says the current situation on the financial markets as worse than before the Lehman bankruptcy. The warning of the BIS could be the reason why the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to continue indefinitely to print money: Central banks have lost control of the debt-tide and give up.

The decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to continue indefinitely to print money (here ) might have fallen on “orders from above”.   Continue reading “BIS: The Most Powerful Bank In The World Announces The Crash”

Mayor Bloomberg says he’s not concerned about city’s income inequality because it means that super wealthy want to live in New York. ‘I we could get every billionaire around the world to move here, it would be a Godsend,’ he said.Daily News – by Mara Gay

If only there were more billionaires.

“They are the ones that pay a lot of the taxes, and we take the tax revenues from those people to help people throughout the entire rest of the spectrum.”

Bloomberg, whose $32 billion net worth puts him 10th on the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people, has talked up the value of billionaires before.   Continue reading “Mayor Bloomberg: Stark differences between the city’s rich and poor are largely because so many billionaires want to live in New York”

Before It’s New – by Mort Amsel

Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by a plane on 9/11 but collapsed at free-fall speed later that day.    Continue reading “UK Man Wins Court Case Against BBC For 9-11 WTC 7 Cover Up”