Wednesday, September 14, 2011
9/3-9/14
My apologies -- was sick all last week, family was sick all last week & the week before, and was away for the Labor Day weekend.
So here's everything I've been collecting since 9/3.
-EB
9/3-9/14
61-year-old Vietnam vet makes the cut as a small-college kicker
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/ football/blog/dr_saturday/ post/61-year-old-Vietnam-vet- makes-the-cut-as-a-small?urn= ncaaf-wp5703
Stunning video: Bystanders lift burning car off crashed motorcyclist
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/stunning-video- bystanders-lift-burning-car- off-crashed-motorcyclist/
Israeli Fogel family massacre update: Murderer gets 130-years behind bars
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/israeli-fogel-family- massacre-update-murderer-gets- 130-year-sentence/
NJ man gets $15.4 million for uncovering largest Medicaid fraud in history
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/nj-man-gets-15-4- million-for-uncovering- largest-medicaid-fraud-in- history/
The Fed, QE1/2/3, Debt Ceiling, Inflation, Free-Market/Stocks/Business/ Jobs, Gold/Silver, Food Supply
Federal deficit totaled $1.23T through August
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ Federal-deficit-totaled-123T- apf-1934419160.html
--Fmr. Fed Chair Alan Greenspan offers support for Paul Ryan's deficit-cut plan, says "Controlling gov't debt will be painful"
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/ article/Greenspan-Controlling- gov-t-debt-will-be-painful- 2168550.php
***Number of U.S. poor hit record 46,000,000 in 2010***
http://www.reuters.com/ article/2011/09/13/us-usa- economy-poverty- idUSTRE78C3YV20110913
--California incomes plummet, poverty rises
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/ 13/3906899/california-incomes- plummet-poverty.html
--Just a reminder of what poverty looks like in America according to "our federal family"
http://hotair.com/archives/ 2011/09/13/just-a-reminder-of- what-poverty-looks-like-in- america/
Employers stopped adding jobs in August (first time of net zero job growth since 1945)
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/august-jobs-report- released-no-jobs-added/
--Birth/death adds 491K jobs in 2011 due to "statistics"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ birth-death-adds-87k-todays- nfp-miss-491k-jobs-past-year- due-statistics
POTUS to introduce jobs plan that "doesn't need Congress"...
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/report-obama- introduces-jobs-plan-that- doesnt-need-congress/
--Jobs plan to push substantial tax relief-aide...
http://www.reuters.com/ article/2011/09/02/usa- economy-sperling- idUSN1E7811GX20110902
--Rep. Maxine Waters calls for trillion-dollar jobs program (VIDEO)
http://www.realclearpolitics. com/video/2011/09/04/rep_ maxine_waters_calls_for_a_ trillion_dollar_jobs_program. html
----**FLASHBACK: Cost per jobs created with 2009 stimulus between $196,750 thru $562,000**
http://finance.townhall.com/ columnists/jeffreeves/2011/09/ 02/cbo_cost_per_job_between_$ 196,750_and_$562,000
--"The Top 10 Recession-Proof Jobs"
http://www.businessinsider. com/top-10-recession-proof- jobs-2011-9-2011-9?op=1
U.S. Postal Service running out of cash; may default on pensions
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/ story?section=news/national_ world&id=8342285
--USPS may shut down entirely this winter..
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/ 09/05/business/in-internet- age-postal-service-struggles- to-stay-solvent-and-relevant. html?_r=1
U.S. to sue a dozen big banks over mortgages
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/ 09/02/business/us-is-set-to- sue-dozen-big-banks-over- mortgages.html?_r=2&partner= MYWAY&ei=5065
--Uncle Sam is a reluctant landlord of foreclosed homes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/ 44375023/ns/business-us_ business/#.TmWeenO1ktM
--California: Ballot proposal would BAN home foreclosures
http://businesslawdaily.net/ 2011/08/17/california-ballot- proposal-would-ban-home- foreclosures/
Europe's getting crushed amid tons of bad news...
http://www.businessinsider. com/europe-dives-on-bad-news- from-all-sides-2011-9
--Top German bank chief warns banking situation is "More Dramatic" than in 2008
http://www.businessinsider. com/kfw-bank-chief-situation- is-much-more-dramatic-than-in- 2008-2011-9#ixzz1X6UPQ6GZ
--French banking federation admits dollar shortfall
http://www.thelocal.fr/ national/20110905_1062.html
--UBS quantifies costs of Euro break up, warns of bank collapse & civil war
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ bring-out-your-dead-ubs- quantifies-costs-euro-break- warns-collapse-banking-system- and-civil-war
--20 Signs Of Imminent Financial Collapse In Europe
http:// theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ archives/20-signs-of-imminent- financial-collapse-in-europe
--REMINDER: "Here's Who Gets Crushed If Greece Goes Bust"
http://www.businessinsider. com/greece-default-contagion- 2011-09?op=1
China woos Caribbean with offer of $1 billion in loans
http://www.cnbc.com/id/ 44494281
--OpEd: "Warning For Americans: Be Safe and Stay Alert. It’s Coming"
http://www.shtfplan.com/ headline-news/warning-for- americans-be-safe-and-stay- alert-its-coming_09132011
OpEd: "Massive default is best way to fix the economy"
http://www.marketwatch.com/ story/massive-default-is-best- way-to-fix-the-economy-2011- 09-12?pagenumber=1
Big Gov't, Socialism/Nazism/ Progressivism/Communism/ Globalism, Wealth Redist.
Romney, Perry spar over Perry's assertion that Social Security is a 'Ponzi scheme'
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/romney-perry-spar- over-perrys-comment-that- social-security-is-a-ponzi- scheme/
--FLASHBACK TO 2007: MSNBC'S Tim Russert and Chris Matthews agree Social Security is "a bad Ponzi scheme" (VIDEO)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ noel-sheppard/2011/09/13/ flashback-2007-tim-russert- and-chris-matthews-agree- social-security-b
White House received emails about Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation
http://www.latimes.com/news/ nationworld/nation/la-na-atf- guns-20110902,0,7480365.story
Illinois: Chicago union leader draws lucrative $108,000 pension for a $40,000 job...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ news/watchdog/ct-met-pensions- villanova-20110902,0,1997273. story
FEC declares Rep. Gabe Giffords CAN use campaign funds for home security...
http://www.nationaljournal. com/hotline/campaign-law- watch/fec-giffords-can-use- campaign-funds-for-home- security-20110901
Five NASCAR drivers DECLINE White House invitation
http://www.sbnation.com/ nascar/2011/9/1/2399376/ nascar-drivers-decline- president-barack-obama-white- house-invitation-jimmie- johnson-2011
1 In 4 MBA admissions offices probe Facebook
http://www.allfacebook.com/ alert-1-in-4-mba-admissions- offices-probe-facebook-2011-09
WHAT OBAMACARE LOOKS LIKE:
--1.5 million Americans lose health insurance from employers, 2 million added to gov't rolls, number of uninsured rises by nearly 1 million...
http://www.washingtontimes. com/blog/inside-politics/2011/ sep/13/census-fewer-people- covered-work-health-insurance/
--U.K.: NHS makes patients wait "to lower expectations"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ health/healthnews/8741066/NHS- makes-patients-wait-to-lower- expectations.html
--New Zealand: "Warning to America on Socialized Health Care"
http://trevorloudon.com/2009/ 10/warning-to-america-on- socialized-health-care/
--Another federal judge rules against Obamacare...
http://delcotimes.com/ articles/2011/09/13/news/ doc4e6f9dc260e09380073532.txt
Economic/Ecological/Social JusticeHouse sub-committe to probe White House role in massive half-billion-dollar "green" energy loan to bankrupt Solyndra
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ solyndra-investigation-probe- white-house-role-massive- energy/story?id=14434588
--Questions raised after DOE hides costs of "green" energy projects (SunPower, First Solar, Solyndra...)
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/ stock-market-news-story.aspx? storyid= 201109011733dowjonesdjonline00 0590&title=questions-raised- after-doe-hides-costs-of- energy-projects
----Other investors in Solyndra included Wal-Mart family, George Kaiser Family...
http://www.tulsaworld.com/ business/article.aspx? subjectid=49&articleid= 20110901_222_E1_CUTLIN589741
POTUS halts controversial & costly EPA smog regulation
http://news.yahoo.com/obama- halts-controversial-epa- regulation-143731156.html
Connecticut: City considers buying homeowners plagued by flooding
http://www.wfsb.com/story/ 15452190/bristol-mayor-seeks- federal-help-for-flooded- neighborhood
Illegal Aliens, Open Borders, National Security
U.S. authorities investigate border incursion by Mexican federal police
http://www.kvia.com/news/ 29053964/detail.html
Apparently not even the toughest of state laws could have stopped "Uncle Omar"...
http://www.numbersusa.com/ content/nusablog/beckr/ september-2-2011/mad-about- pres-obamas-illegal-alien- uncle-pass-lamar-smiths-e- verify
CIA shifts focus to killing targets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ world/national-security/cia- shifts-focus-to-killing- targets/2011/08/30/gIQA7MZGvJ_ story.html
Pentagon fears listening posts from China
http://www.washingtontimes. com/news/2011/sep/1/pentagon- fears-listening-posts-from- china/
**Illegal aliens got $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year**
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ blogs/federal-eye/post/ undocumented-workers-got- billions-from-irs-in-tax- credits-audit-finds/2011/03/ 23/gIQAhtaKvJ_blog.html?hpid= z3
Caliphate/Khalifa, Shariah, Jihad
***Muslim group seeks to BAN Shari'a law in America***
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/muslim-group-seeks-to- ban-sharia-law-in-america/
("Many of us fled the Muslim world to escape Shariah law…We do not wish these laws to follow us here.")
Massachusetts: Three Islamic charity leaders convicted again
http://news.bostonherald.com/ news/regional/view/201109013_ boston_islamic_charity_ leaders_convicted_again/srvc= home&position=recent
Minnesota: School with global Muslim Brotherhood ties closes its doors
http://globalmbreport.org/?p= 4974
Colorado: Elementary school hangs Saudi flag HIGHER than American flag
http://www.greeleygazette.com/ press/?p=10886
Belgium: Radical Islamic group opens Shariah court
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/radical-islamic-group- opens-shariah-court-in- belgium/
Civil/Racial Unrest
"Culturomics" computer predicted the Arab revolutions - and now it predicts global unrest
http://www.businessinsider. com/culturomics-predict- revolution-2011-9
North Dakota: Union strikers accused of racial taunts...
http://www.chron.com/news/ article/Police-confirm-racial- incidents-at-sugar-plant- 2167980.php
Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa threatens GOP: "Let's take these son of a bitches out" (VIDEO)
http://www.realclearpolitics. com/video/2011/09/05/jimmy_ hoffa_at_obama_event_on_gop_ lets_take_these_son_of_ bitches_out.html
New Black Panther Party member teaches "black survival" tactics with guns, machetes…to kids
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/shock-video-new-black- panther-party-member-teaches- black-survival-tactics-with- guns-and-machetes-to-kids/# respond
Arrests made from Longview, Wash., union protests
http://www.chron.com/news/ article/Arrests-made-from- Longview-Wash-union-protests- 2168664.php
This Is What 'Democracy' Looks Like
Fears rise as Egypt cracks down on press
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ 06fa53cc-dd56-11e0-9dac- 00144feabdc0.html# axzz1XrkEt7bw
Jihadists plot to take over Libya
http://www.washingtontimes. com/news/2011/sep/4/jihadists- plot-to-take-over-libya/
--Shari'a to become the "main source of law" in post-revolutionary Libya (VIDEO)
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/libyan-transitional- leader-sharia-should-be-the- main-source-of-law/
Israel: Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM
http://www.reuters.com/ article/2011/09/03/us-israel- economy-protests- idUSTRE7821OS20110903
--Bibi: U.N. statehood for Palestine is like declaring the world is flat
http://www.israelnationalnews. com/News/News.aspx/144606#. TmDoV679dOd
--U.K.: Israel Philharmonic disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/israel-philharmonic- orchestra-disrupted-by-pro- palestinian-activists/
Iran: Government launching Spanish-language TV to target Latin America...
http://cnsnews.com/news/ article/iran-government- launching-spanish-language-tv- target-latin-america
--
"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." ~~ Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
So here's everything I've been collecting since 9/3.
-EB
9/3-9/14
61-year-old Vietnam vet makes the cut as a small-college kicker
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/
Stunning video: Bystanders lift burning car off crashed motorcyclist
http://www.theblaze.com/
Israeli Fogel family massacre update: Murderer gets 130-years behind bars
http://www.theblaze.com/
NJ man gets $15.4 million for uncovering largest Medicaid fraud in history
http://www.theblaze.com/
The Fed, QE1/2/3, Debt Ceiling, Inflation, Free-Market/Stocks/Business/
Federal deficit totaled $1.23T through August
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/
--Fmr. Fed Chair Alan Greenspan offers support for Paul Ryan's deficit-cut plan, says "Controlling gov't debt will be painful"
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/
***Number of U.S. poor hit record 46,000,000 in 2010***
http://www.reuters.com/
--California incomes plummet, poverty rises
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/
--Just a reminder of what poverty looks like in America according to "our federal family"
http://hotair.com/archives/
Employers stopped adding jobs in August (first time of net zero job growth since 1945)
http://www.theblaze.com/
--Birth/death adds 491K jobs in 2011 due to "statistics"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/
POTUS to introduce jobs plan that "doesn't need Congress"...
http://www.theblaze.com/
--Jobs plan to push substantial tax relief-aide...
http://www.reuters.com/
--Rep. Maxine Waters calls for trillion-dollar jobs program (VIDEO)
http://www.realclearpolitics.
----**FLASHBACK: Cost per jobs created with 2009 stimulus between $196,750 thru $562,000**
http://finance.townhall.com/
--"The Top 10 Recession-Proof Jobs"
http://www.businessinsider.
U.S. Postal Service running out of cash; may default on pensions
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/
--USPS may shut down entirely this winter..
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
U.S. to sue a dozen big banks over mortgages
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
--Uncle Sam is a reluctant landlord of foreclosed homes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
--California: Ballot proposal would BAN home foreclosures
http://businesslawdaily.net/
Europe's getting crushed amid tons of bad news...
http://www.businessinsider.
--Top German bank chief warns banking situation is "More Dramatic" than in 2008
http://www.businessinsider.
--French banking federation admits dollar shortfall
http://www.thelocal.fr/
--UBS quantifies costs of Euro break up, warns of bank collapse & civil war
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/
--20 Signs Of Imminent Financial Collapse In Europe
http://
--REMINDER: "Here's Who Gets Crushed If Greece Goes Bust"
http://www.businessinsider.
China woos Caribbean with offer of $1 billion in loans
http://www.cnbc.com/id/
--OpEd: "Warning For Americans: Be Safe and Stay Alert. It’s Coming"
http://www.shtfplan.com/
OpEd: "Massive default is best way to fix the economy"
http://www.marketwatch.com/
Big Gov't, Socialism/Nazism/
Romney, Perry spar over Perry's assertion that Social Security is a 'Ponzi scheme'
http://www.theblaze.com/
--FLASHBACK TO 2007: MSNBC'S Tim Russert and Chris Matthews agree Social Security is "a bad Ponzi scheme" (VIDEO)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/
White House received emails about Fast and Furious gun-trafficking operation
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Illinois: Chicago union leader draws lucrative $108,000 pension for a $40,000 job...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
FEC declares Rep. Gabe Giffords CAN use campaign funds for home security...
http://www.nationaljournal.
Five NASCAR drivers DECLINE White House invitation
http://www.sbnation.com/
1 In 4 MBA admissions offices probe Facebook
http://www.allfacebook.com/
WHAT OBAMACARE LOOKS LIKE:
--1.5 million Americans lose health insurance from employers, 2 million added to gov't rolls, number of uninsured rises by nearly 1 million...
http://www.washingtontimes.
--U.K.: NHS makes patients wait "to lower expectations"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
--New Zealand: "Warning to America on Socialized Health Care"
http://trevorloudon.com/2009/
--Another federal judge rules against Obamacare...
http://delcotimes.com/
Economic/Ecological/Social JusticeHouse sub-committe to probe White House role in massive half-billion-dollar "green" energy loan to bankrupt Solyndra
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/
--Questions raised after DOE hides costs of "green" energy projects (SunPower, First Solar, Solyndra...)
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/
----Other investors in Solyndra included Wal-Mart family, George Kaiser Family...
http://www.tulsaworld.com/
POTUS halts controversial & costly EPA smog regulation
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-
Connecticut: City considers buying homeowners plagued by flooding
http://www.wfsb.com/story/
Illegal Aliens, Open Borders, National Security
U.S. authorities investigate border incursion by Mexican federal police
http://www.kvia.com/news/
Apparently not even the toughest of state laws could have stopped "Uncle Omar"...
http://www.numbersusa.com/
CIA shifts focus to killing targets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Pentagon fears listening posts from China
http://www.washingtontimes.
**Illegal aliens got $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year**
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Caliphate/Khalifa, Shariah, Jihad
***Muslim group seeks to BAN Shari'a law in America***
http://www.theblaze.com/
("Many of us fled the Muslim world to escape Shariah law…We do not wish these laws to follow us here.")
Massachusetts: Three Islamic charity leaders convicted again
http://news.bostonherald.com/
Minnesota: School with global Muslim Brotherhood ties closes its doors
http://globalmbreport.org/?p=
Colorado: Elementary school hangs Saudi flag HIGHER than American flag
http://www.greeleygazette.com/
Belgium: Radical Islamic group opens Shariah court
http://www.theblaze.com/
Civil/Racial Unrest
"Culturomics" computer predicted the Arab revolutions - and now it predicts global unrest
http://www.businessinsider.
North Dakota: Union strikers accused of racial taunts...
http://www.chron.com/news/
Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa threatens GOP: "Let's take these son of a bitches out" (VIDEO)
http://www.realclearpolitics.
New Black Panther Party member teaches "black survival" tactics with guns, machetes…to kids
http://www.theblaze.com/
Arrests made from Longview, Wash., union protests
http://www.chron.com/news/
This Is What 'Democracy' Looks Like
Fears rise as Egypt cracks down on press
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/
Jihadists plot to take over Libya
http://www.washingtontimes.
--Shari'a to become the "main source of law" in post-revolutionary Libya (VIDEO)
http://www.theblaze.com/
Israel: Biggest rally in Israel's history presses PM
http://www.reuters.com/
--Bibi: U.N. statehood for Palestine is like declaring the world is flat
http://www.israelnationalnews.
--U.K.: Israel Philharmonic disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists
http://www.theblaze.com/
Iran: Government launching Spanish-language TV to target Latin America...
http://cnsnews.com/news/
--
"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." ~~ Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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