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2681  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi mufti, but issue not black and white on: January 22, 2016, 09:04:57 PM
I guess the mufti realized that if people playing chess, they will inevitably start thinking. A wahhabi who is thinking...?!? That would be the end of the world as they know it Smiley.

I think that it might also be simply because that's something close to distraction. And they don't want anyone to be distracted from God :/

But yeah result is the same. Chess is not important by itself. But I bet they ban everything developping your mind... That's what happens with religions...


"God does not play dice", said Einstein. Allah does not play chess, according to a saudi mufti...

 Cheesy Grin Cheesy

2682  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: January 22, 2016, 06:42:08 PM



Zogby National GOP Poll: Donald Trump 45%, Ted Cruz 13%, Marco Rubio 8%...




The latest Zogby poll of national GOP voters shows Donald J Trump with a commanding lead of 45% a full 32 points higher than second place Ted Cruz.  Additionally an Arizona poll shows Donald Trump at 38% 22 points ahead

Mr. Trump polls over 40% among men (49%) and women (41%), as well as Republicans (47%) and independents (49%), conservatives (46%) and moderates (45%). Mr. Cruz scores double digits among men (10%), women (16%), Republicans (15%), independents (10%), and conservative (15%).

We tested a series of three-way races and found Mr. Trump trouncing all of his rivals — 53% to 20% for Mr. Cruz, and 11% for Mr. Rubio; 57% to 23% for Mr. Cruz, and 8% for Mr. Christie; 57% to 23% for Mr. Cruz and 7% for Mr. Kasich; 55% to 25% for Mr. Cruz, and 10% for Mr. Bush.

In a series of head-to head matchups with individual challengers for the nomination, Mr. Trump led Mr. Cruz 59% to 29%, Mr. Rubio 64% to 27%, Mr. Bush 68% to 22%, Mr. Kasich 73% to 15%, and Mr. Christie 69% to 19%.

National polls may mean less right now – and often do – before the winnowing process begins in Iowa and New Hampshire and voters actually cast ballots. But, at least for now, Donald Trump has captured the imaginations of Republican likely voters nationwide. And his support looks wide and deep. He has defied the conventional wisdom at every turn – including a bold prediction that he will win Iowa.


http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/22/zogby-national-gop-poll-donald-trump-45-ted-cruz-13-marco-rubio-8/


2683  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Europe, you reap what you sow... on: January 22, 2016, 04:45:40 PM



WATCH: ‘Angela Merkel You Have Killed Germany!’ – 16 Year Old Girl’s Migrant Fears Video That Some Claim Facebook Are ‘Censoring’






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BCrL8kDRdI




TRANSCRIPT:


Hello, you can read the newspapers but this video is about the real situation in Germany. I would like to tell everyone about this on Youtube and Facebook. I am almost 16. I would like everyone to know what is going on, what I am authentically feeling at this moment.

And I am so scared everywhere. For example, if my family and I go out together, or if I see a movie with my friends. Usually I stay at home, but sometimes I stay out until 6 pm in winter, and it is so scary. It is just very hard to live day-to-day life as a woman.

I just want to say that I am not a racist. But one day, a terrible thing happened at the supermarket. I ran all the way home. I was so frightened for my life. There’s no other way to describe it.

My aunt and her friend have said you have to grow up. Why should we, children, have to grow up in such fear? It’s not just me, my friends too. You can see on Facebook, a 17 year old attacked, a 15 year old attacked, two 12-year olds attacked, so many. It is really so sad that this is happening … because of YOU PEOPLE. Sad

I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection. We are so scared, we don’t want to be frightened to go to the grocery store alone after sunset. The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something! I cannot understand why this is happening. One day, my friend and I were walking down the street, and a group of Arabs were protesting and demonstrating. They shouted, “Allah! Allah! Allah is the one God! Kill those infidels! Allah Allah!” What should I do? Should I wear a burka? Why should I have to convert to Islam?

It’s fine if you believe in Allah, but why do you want to make everyone else believe in Allah too? I just think it would be better if there were no religion. Stop trying to make everyone else believe in your God when they do not want to.

Please, people of Germany. Do something!

When I try to tell the authorities about what has happened, they hold their hand up towards me and they say it is a problem and then ignore it. and they laugh. It is unfair. They laugh at us. They say we are dumb. They think this not only of me, but of the entire state of Germany. They don’t care about our fear. Please help us. This is an emergency! There are more and more of them.

One time in summer, the Muslims said we were sluts for walking outside in a t-shirt.

Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!

Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping hehe. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you Muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape.

The life of Germany has changed because these people cannot integrate. We give them so much help. We support them financially and they do not have to work. But they only want more babies and more welfare and more money. Men of Germany, please, patrol the streets and protect us. Do this for your women and your children. If you do that, I believe that we will have a chance.

This sort of action would be wonderful. We would be so grateful and thankful. So many thanks, if steadily, more men would come to protect us. We are so scared.

I am so upset about what Merkel has done.

Thank you, Angela Merkel, for killing Germany! I have no more respect for you, Merkel. I do not think you know what you have done. You do not see how our lives have changed. Open your eyes! Is this normal? Should I, a 16-year old who is almost 17, be so scared to walk outside my house? No, it is not normal. You have killed Germany!

This is the truth. We are no longer allowed to walk outside. We are no longer allowed to wear our clothes. We are no longer allowed to live the German life. This is the sad truth.

I think it’s about time to end this video. I believe I have given a full account from a normal person. I hope others can see this and understand.

I only want to end with one message: Men, please, help your women. Help your children. I am so scared. My friends have the same fear. We are shocked that this has happened. I hope this video can convince you, and that this terrible events can stop.



http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/22/16-year-old-girls-migrant-fears-video-keeps-disappearing-off-facebook/




2684  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bill Cosby Charged With Sexual Assault… on: January 22, 2016, 03:18:56 PM



Bill Cosby wins in Pennsylvania court; defamation lawsuit dismissed






More than 40 women have spoken out to various media outlets about allegations of sexual misconduct by Bill Cosby. Here are 25, in chronological order, who have spoken with CNN, spoken on camera about their allegations or been the subject of responses from Cosby's attorneys. Read more on the allegations and Cosby's denials.



http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/21/us/bill-cosby-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed/index.html



2685  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: January 22, 2016, 04:47:44 AM




http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/21/mike-tyson-why-i-m-a-muslim-for-donald-trump.html


2686  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: January 22, 2016, 04:44:56 AM





https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/690313350278819840


2687  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: January 21, 2016, 05:07:13 PM
What gets me about the elections and the way that things are set up is the fact that many politicians make a commit to perform a duty for the country, like Secretary of State.  Then, when the grass is greener on the election front, they drop that commitment and take up the campaign trail.  I think that anyone that quite their job to try for a new one is showing the next "employer" that they are only around until the pay is better somewhere else.  If you become something like Secretary of State and want to run for another office then either wait until your current job is done or do both at the same time.


It's worse. Harpy lost the presidency to 0bama and demanded to have a job in his administration, becoming secretary of state...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uDUnywMu0




The thing is that this is a customary way to handle yourself in government.  Many people have dropped their job as this and that to take up an election attempt.  I don't care what you did with this and that email server, I understand that there are compromises that are made to the moral framework to accomplish things for the country.  I just want to see someone with the commitment to finish out a term and then use that job record as a run for president or whatever.

If you are an American citizen you should care about what she did with the email server, simply because those records do not belong to her but to the American citizen, even if those records stay secret.

As you said it is about the character and the commitment of somebody to judge, and be judged by the same rules... She is not above the law, yet she wants to rule...


2688  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: January 21, 2016, 05:00:32 PM


Campaigner-in-Chief Bill Clinton Is Worried


Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire Wednesday, bluntly admitted how much more difficult than expected Hillary Clinton's race for the Democratic presidential nomination has become.

“This has turned into an interesting election,” the candidate's husband told a rally in Salem. “We’re fighting it out in Iowa. We’ve got a little lead that I think is solidifying and maybe growing a little bit. We’re on a home-field disadvantage here."

With less than two weeks before the first ballots of the election are cast in Iowa, Hillary Clinton, who promised that she would “work for every vote,” is having to do just that. News of endorsements withheld and renewed questions about her e-mail practices as secretary of state continued the drip-drip-drip of small setbacks that have prevented her from gaining the traction she needs to stride confidently into the first contests. Instead, she and her team seem to be trying to navigate a slippery floor.

Most of all, the Clinton campaign itself—through its stepped-up activity against her chief rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont—suggested that the once-prohibitive Democratic front-runner sees herself in a competitive battle with a septuagenarian self-described socialist.

“Hillary does not consider Planned Parenthood a member of the establishment and I don't see how anybody else could,” her husband told an audience in Concord. He was responding to Sanders' characterization a day earlier of the women's reproductive rights group that Republicans in Congress have sought to defund and that endorsed Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.  

The nation needs “not anger but answers,” the former president went on to say, taking on Sanders' efforts to portray Clinton as an insider and himself as an agent of change. “I think you should vote for her because she is the best change-maker I've ever met,” he said of his wife.

“The real issue is: Who can win the election? Who’s prepared the do the job? Who can make real change?” the former president added.

Until now, Bill Clinton has more often cast his wife as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and focused on Republicans as the enemy, while ignoring or downplaying Sanders.

But Hillary Clinton took a more aggressive approach than in the past to Sanders in Sunday's primary debate in Charleston, South Carolina. One day after her foreign policy surrogates questioned Sanders' readiness, Clinton told NPR that Sanders' comments about the Middle East are cause for “concern,” questioning his understanding of the shifting alliances in the Middle East, and emphasizing her own credentials and links to the current occupant of the White House.

“President Obama, when he was elected, immediately turned to me. He trusted my experience and my judgment,” Clinton said.

Meanwhile her campaign released new ads in Iowa and New Hampshire emphasizing her experience.


But the formidable resume that her husband alluded to, and that Clinton and her supporters hoped would make her the prohibitive favorite to become the nation's first female president, may be more a handicap than an asset in a year when voters in both parties are exasperated with the nation's financial and political establishment. In a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll taken earlier this month, 44 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers described themselves as anti-Wall Street, 43 percent described themselves as socialist, and 22 percent described themselves as politically “independent,” rather than Democrat.

In an e-mail to supporters on Wednesday, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wrote that a higher proportion of Sanders' supporters appear to be funding his campaign than hers “and that worries me.”

On the stump Wednesday night in Burlington, Iowa, the candidate herself argued that she and Sanders have substantial areas of agreement but favor different approaches. “Let’s not fight about health care. Let’s keep improving it. We can get to universal coverage,” she said. When it comes to Wall Street, she added, the Democratic field is “in a vigorous agreement but we’re not exactly seeing eye to eye.”

But, like her husband, Clinton also called out Sanders' comments on Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign, saying she was “somewhat confused” by his comments and could only wish that women's rights and gay rights were settled issues. “We have to keep working to make sure that people are not taken advantage of, are not stripped of their rights,” she said.

This all comes as polls show Clinton facing a closer-than-expected race against Sanders on Feb. 1 in Iowa and the prospect of defeat to Sanders on Feb. 9 in New Hampshire, which shares a border with Sanders' home state. Meanwhile, some voices Clinton would have liked in her corner are withholding a verdict.

Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer told Reuters on Wednesday he isn't yet ready to endorse Clinton and didn't rule out supporting Sanders, even though Steyer last May held a $2,700-a-person fundraiser for Clinton.

Nevada's Culinary Union said it will not endorse ahead of the state's Feb. 20 caucus. The 57,000-member union, an affiliate of the hotel worker union UNITE HERE, is Nevada's largest and most politically powerful.

Amid a dispute over caucus sites days before the 2008 contest in Nevada, UNITE HERE, which had endorsed Obama, ran an radio ad declaring “Hillary Clinton does not respect our people.” But the Culinary's political director told Bloomberg in August that members are “ready to learn where Senator Clinton is at today, and feel her out, without holding any grudges about what happened in 2008.”

In September, Clinton joined Sanders and O'Malley in calling for a repeal of Obamacare's so-called “Cadillac tax,” levied on the kind of generous health benefits unions negotiate. The Culinary had identified eliminating the tax in August as its top issue in the race.

And Clinton may face a new headache in the controversy over her use of private e-mail servers while she was secretary of state, after reports this week that intelligence officials identified information that was more than top secret. In the interview with NPR, she dismissed the findings as a “continuation of an interagency dispute” over when to classify information and suggested she's the victim of a politically motivated leak. “I never sent or received any material marked classified,” she said.

“I know we're in a hard fight here and I know we're running against one of your neighbors,” Bill Clinton told the crowd in Concord. “This state has been so good to me and Hillary,” he said, an indirect reference to his close second-place finish there in 1992 that earned him the nickname “The Comeback Kid” and to her 2008 primary win in New Hampshire over Barack Obama. He and Hillary both had learned “a great deal” about what's going on in America from what people told them in New Hampshire, Bill Clinton said.

He refrained from using Sanders' name, repeatedly referring instead to his wife's opponent. He hinted rather than hammered at the idea that Republicans would rather run against Sanders than Clinton. “They're good at this,” he said of Republicans. “They don't want to run against her. They have sent us a clear signal.” He also said, as if it were an acknowledged fact, that his wife is “the only person” from either party ready for the job, before asking, “So what's going on out there?” And he laid out an analysis of Americans' fears across various demographic groups about everything from wages to terrorism.

Republicans, he said, in no particular order blame “Muslims, Mexicans, President Obama” for what's wrong with the country. “Or they blame Hillary.” Meanwhile, “Hillary's opponent says this was all caused by Wall Street and billionaires,” which are “a better object of our hatred and more accurate” but also, he indicated, not entirely on point. Hillary, he said, saw the nation's difficulties since the 2008 economic collapse in large part as failures of government. He said she is committed to reforms that can win enough bipartisan support to be implemented. In contrast, he said, Sanders' newly unveiled plan for Medicare for all is “a recipe for gridlock” and “we cannot afford to waste a year or two.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-21/campaigner-in-chief-bill-clinton-is-worried


2689  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: January 21, 2016, 04:55:00 PM
What gets me about the elections and the way that things are set up is the fact that many politicians make a commit to perform a duty for the country, like Secretary of State.  Then, when the grass is greener on the election front, they drop that commitment and take up the campaign trail.  I think that anyone that quite their job to try for a new one is showing the next "employer" that they are only around until the pay is better somewhere else.  If you become something like Secretary of State and want to run for another office then either wait until your current job is done or do both at the same time.


It's worse. Harpy lost the presidency to 0bama and demanded to have a job in his administration, becoming secretary of state...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uDUnywMu0


2690  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: January 21, 2016, 04:46:50 PM



VIDEO: Six people greet Hillary in Texas — and she ignored them!



Texas is not Hillary Clinton country.

The former secretary of state made a fundraising stop in Beaumont, Texas Wednesday and KFDM reports only six people showed up at the airport to greet Clinton.

“Some people just wanted to catch a glimpse of the presidential candidate,” according to the reporter who was on hand.

But that didn’t happen. The news report shows Hillary’s motorcade driving quickly out of the airport.

She didn’t say hello or visit with anyone while at the airport,” according to KFDM.

Meanwhile, 12 News Now reports Clinton was in West Beaumont to attend a fundraiser organized by Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed.

The news station reports the campaign collected about $500,000, “making it one of the top five private fundraisers Clinton has had in this country.”

“Many of the Pakistanis at the event were pleased with Clinton’s vocal support of the Muslim religion,” 12 News Now reports.

“Talking about Muslims and favoring Muslims, so I really appreciate her whatever effort she is making against Islamaphobia, so I really think she needs to be the next President of the United States,” Aisha Zahid says.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNj2ScPW-eg


http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-six-people-greet-hillary-in-texas-and-she-ignored-them/



2691  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: January 21, 2016, 04:31:15 PM






The Specter of Donald Trump Is Haunting Davos




If Donald Trump as president of the United States is the ghost that’s stalking Davos, many among the global elite hope he’ll be banished by spring. Others see that as wishful thinking.

“I think the nominees will be Donald Trump for the Republicans and Hillary Clinton” for the Democrats, Donald Baer, a former White House adviser under President Bill Clinton, said at a panel co-hosted by Bloomberg and WPP Plc. “The next year will be a very uncertain, chaotic period.”

The prospect of Trump in the White House is ratcheting up anxiety among the 2,500 business and political leaders gathered at the Swiss ski resort for the annual World Economic Forum. With less than two weeks before voting in primaries gets under way and Trump in the Republican Party lead, those who fear a rise in protectionism and economic mismanagement are speaking out against the billionaire property developer.

“Unfortunately I do think that if there were to be a Trump administration the casualty would likely be trade,” said Eric Cantor, a former Republican House Majority Leader and now vice chairman of Moelis & Company. “That’s a very serious prospect for the world.”

‘Disaster’

Cantor said he doesn’t think Trump will make it through the primaries, a common theme among Davos attendees who nevertheless are still talking about him. Trump’s positions --like a “temporary” ban on Muslims entering the country and the building of a wall on the Mexican border -- are earning him opprobrium in the mountain resort.

He has also railed at the loss of U.S. jobs to overseas competitors, and on Tuesday said that as president he would “get Apple to start building their damn computers and things” in the U.S., instead of China. A Trump administration would be a “disaster,” according to Beth Brooke-Marciniak, global vice chair of public policy at Ernst & Young LLP and a former adviser to the U.S. Treasury in the Clinton administration.

“The globe needs the U.S. to be strong,” she said. “The U.S. is still the horse that’s pulling the cart, and more so now with the capital outflows from emerging markets.”

Populist Wave

The presidential race shows that the U.S. is not immune to the wave of populism sweeping the globe. In the U.S. case, the economy has recovered faster than other developed nations from the global slump of 2008 and 2009, and yet wages haven’t kept pace with a rebound in corporate profits. That’s helping candidates like Trump and Bernie Sanders who say the system is rigged against average Americans.

While Trump’s specter looms large, not many assume he’ll actually make it to the White House.

“I am amazed at Davos about how many people are taking Trump as seriously as they are,” said Martin Sorrell, WPP’s chief executive. “I think it doesn’t matter who the Republicans put up, I think Hillary will win.”

Sorrell said he thinks the Republican nomination will go either to Trump or to Texas Senator Ted Cruz. On Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed Trump, lending the support of a Tea Party favorite. Still, that’s not a constituency with many members in Davos.

“If you bother to read some of the serious analysis of Trump’s support, you realize that it’s a very fragile thing and highly unlikely to deliver what he needs in the crucial first phase of the primaries,” said Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University. “By the time we get to March-April, it’s all over. I think there’s going to be a wonderful catharsis, I’m really looking forward to it: Trump’s humiliation. Bring it on.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/trump-fear-stalks-davos-as-elite-pray-for-spring-reality-check




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Trump, feared by the global elite? They keep telling me he represents the global elite, yet they fear Trump, but Trump supposedly is part of their club, and yet they are fearful of him, But... But...



2692  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Europe, you reap what you sow... on: January 21, 2016, 04:15:51 PM



2693  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: January 21, 2016, 02:07:41 PM





Sarah Palin gets ready to board the most badass 757 on the planet


 Smiley


EDIT:

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Palin's Personal Photo Album From Her Travels With Trump


http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20981740_30442944,00.html



2694  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Up Like Trump on: January 21, 2016, 02:15:29 AM



The Untruth About Donald Trump







Everything he does is written in his book... How amazing



2695  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Your ideas to solve problems in our world [serious, polite and varied] on: January 21, 2016, 12:58:50 AM



#1: How to make people happy paying taxes


The reason we are all here is Bitcoin and the blockchain idea. All united and yet we could barely agree on anything. It is the same when paying taxes. Trust is what makes us believe in a very powerful centralized government... or reject it totally. We either wish our or your money be used for a cause we love or we hate knowing our money goes to making bombs, for example. Using the blockchain instead of the IRS would create an amazing source of trust and direct participation of the citizen with their cash.

Lets say you wish you could have your taxes help fixing the road across your home a bit. Now you would. Create a project on the Wilikon Happy Pay app, have an estimate of the cost. BTC5000 to fix that road the WHP app tells you. You would not only know but follow your coins all the way to that first patch of asphalt. You would also know there would not be enough fund to start the project but people directly involved in your neighborhood would be able to directly participate locally, instead of praying the big, invisible IRS gods to give you a break, all from who knows where.

Let's say you love the military and bombs. The military would put an official wallet for that new top secret UFO looking plane that is maybe not a plane at all. Obviously you would not know what it will be, but you, the citizen will have a chance to participate in making this thing happening. That would be your choice to direct a part of your taxes to something you want to be funded, from you smart phone.

There would be little need for professional lobbyists to advance any personal pet projects. You would know what, how much and when your particular project would be delivered.

Any delay would be caused by a political bug.

We would own the transparent machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuD1vzpYBfE


 Cool


2696  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Europe, you reap what you sow... on: January 20, 2016, 05:16:31 PM



Welcome to the new Germany! Germany uses cartoons to fight Muslim migrant rape epidemic









https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovvMsWOdb7s



2697  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Europe, you reap what you sow... on: January 20, 2016, 05:10:44 PM



Published on Jan 16, 2016

Geen Stijl, 18 December 2015. The video was taken by a cell phone and made by one of the pupils. It had reached the reduction of GeenStijl the same morning. The ugly event had taken place in a classroom where most pupils have a foreign Third world background. Some of them do not even speak Dutch. The fact the teacher has a broken arm did not make any difference for the African pupil (Refugee? Asylum seeker?) to trash the poor teacher over and over again. His friends (background) had encouraged the offender with Arab voiced to finish him. In the neighbouring classroom we see through the glass partition two persons who are not doing the slightest effort to help the poor man.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1u4eoZ_GRs



2698  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What's your opinion of gun control? on: January 20, 2016, 05:05:34 PM



El Chapo found with Fast and Furious .50 caliber as exec-privilege claim quashed






Remember Operation Fast and Furious? The scandal over the ATF’s botched straw-man sting has long hung over the Department of Justice and the Obama administration, thanks in large part to a bogus claim of executive privilege over the communications relating to the operation. Thousands of weapons went across the border into Mexico without sufficient tracking capabilities to retrieve them, and they wound up in the hands of the cartels. Hundreds have been found at murder scenes in Mexico, and at least one Border Patrol agent (Brian Terry) has been killed with Fast and Furious weapons.

Just how far did those weapons go? Fox News reports that they went all the way to the top of the cartels:

    A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.

    A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car, or as it was intended, take down a helicopter. …

    When agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives checked serial numbers of the eight weapons found in his possession, they found one of the two .50-caliber weapons traced back to the ATF program, sources said.

    Federal officials told Fox News they are not sure how many of the weapons seized from Guzman’s house actually originated in the U.S. and where they were purchased, but are investigating.

    Out of the roughly 2,000 weapons sold through Fast and Furious, 34 were .50 caliber rifles that can take down a helicopter, according to officials.

Jeff Dunetz reminds us of the context for OF&F:

    Emails released in 2011 revealed that ATF big shots wanted to use the illegal gun sales in operation Fast and Furious to justify a new gun regulation called “Demand Letter 3”. The new rule would require  U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or “long guns.” The fancy name, Demand Letter 3 comes from the fact that it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information. If that’s how then name projects, why didn’t they name Fast and Furious, “Asinine Project 1?”

    Fast and Furious was a sick attempt to deprive Americans of their Second Amendment rights by selling guns to Mexican Gun cartels. The program was a train wreck whose effects are still being discovered.

So why hasn’t Congress done more in the past five years to hold officials accountable for the lethal attempt to create anti-gun hysteria and pave the way for more gun regulation? In part, it’s because Congress can’t access all of the evidence from the government operation. In 2012, then-Attorney General Eric Holder requested a claim of executive privilege from Barack Obama, who granted it after e-mails showed “extensive” communication with the White House on the operation. The case has been in the courts ever since.

Yesterday, a judge denied executive privilege after more than three years of stonewalling by the Obama administration, calling their claim a little too selective, although it’s not a complete victory for Congress:

    The very information that the administration sought to deny investigators with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformhad been made public in 2012 by the Justice Department’s inspector general’s review of a Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives operation known as “Fast and Furious,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a 32-page opinion.

    The trafficking operation allowed hundreds of firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartel enforcers and prompted numerous investigations and a protracted political fight in which the House voted in 2012 to hold then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the ATF operation to the committee. The dispute prompted the committee’s court challenge

    “There is no need to balance the need against the impact that the revelation of any record could have on candor in future executive decision making, since any harm that might flow from the public revelation of the deliberations at issue here has already been self-inflicted,” Jackson wrote. “The emails and memoranda that are responsive to the subpoena were described in detail in a report by the Department of JusticeInspector General that has already been released to the public.”

House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz noted that the order didn’t give access to all of the documents sought in House subpoenas, but that “it is an important step forward.” The discovery of a .50 caliber in El Chapo’s lair provided courtesy of the Department of Justice might be another step forward in galvanizing public opinion to finally bring the sordid history of Fast and Furious completely into the light.


http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/20/el-chapo-found-with-fast-and-furious-50-caliber-as-exec-privilege-claim-quashed/


2699  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: January 20, 2016, 04:57:37 PM



Clinton Spokesman: Obama Appointed Inspector General Is Too Political





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4yWoho0Q1A


2700  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: January 20, 2016, 04:54:48 PM
I saw somewhere something about that Weiner weirdo. Some film I think about his weirdness, probably dick-selfies etc. and I guess also Hillary´s body-woman weirdness thereby.

Didn´t Hillary´s fan club plan to make that weirdo screwball governor of New York State or something back then. Their tastes are very consistent.


Yep.


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