[Daily Caller] More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The Department of State funded a Peace Corps program created by Dr. Vanessa Kerry and officials from both agencies, records show. The Peace Corps then awarded the money without competition to a nonprofit Kerry created for the program.
Initially, the Peace Corps awarded Kerry’s group ‐ now called Seed Global Health ‐ with a three-year contract worth $2 million of State Department money on Sept. 10, 2012, documents show. Her father was then the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, which oversees both the Department of State and the Peace Corps.
Seed secured a four-year extension in September 2015, again without competition. This time, the Peace Corps gave the nonprofit $6.4 million provided by the Department of State while John Kerry was secretary of state.
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First Manchin's daughter now Kerry's kid.
I'd like to see one of Bernie's old staff create a list of the children of the Washington Elite who have been enriched since BO has been president.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Politico touted as "HOT AUDIO" HBO star Bill Maher making jokes about Donald Trump being assassinated. Well, it was sort of a joke. It had that Maher edge ‐ as in, "seriously, shouldn’t we shoot Trump before he gets elected?" Judging from the giddy reaction from Maher-loving liberals, could we call it "bloodlust"?
Maher was doing a standup comedy set at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, and he admitted, "I’m nervous. And I saw the headline today -- "Race tightening. Trump ahead in Ohio and Florida." If this race is even the week before the election, somebody is going to have to go out there..."
He paused for effect, then said in a low, growly voice: "Why do you think they let Hinckley out?"
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Very funny, Bill. Turnabout is fair play, what about Hinkley assassinating you? Pretty good joke, eh? Watch your six. Frigging moron.
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Assassination ? Where does it stop? Once it begins then its a game anyone and everybody can play.
Everybody has a List. And there are professionals available.
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When you're the ones without the 300 million (+) guns, you might not want to joke about something along the lines of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. That didn't turn out so well for most of the 20th Century for the inhabitants of Europe.
[LATIMES] With little fanfare or signing message, Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... on Monday signed historic legislation that will expand overtime pay for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, farmworkers.
"We are letting the signature speak for itself," said a spokesperson for Brown.
AB 1066, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), calls for a phase-in of new overtime rules over four years, beginning in 2019.
It will lower the current 10-hour-day threshold for overtime by half an hour each year until it reaches the standard eight-hour day by 2022. It also will phase in a 40-hour standard workweek for the first time. The governor will be able to suspend any part of the process for a year depending on economic conditions.
The measure comes after intense showdowns on the floor of the Assembly, where a similar proposal died in June, a few votes short of the majority it needed to pass.
The United Farm Workers of America, which sponsored the bill, says it addresses an injustice first inflicted on farmworkers nearly eight decades ago. In a critique similar to those used by opponents of increasing the minimum wage, opponents argued it could backfire on farmworkers, saddling farmers and growers with higher costs and forcing them to limit work hours and hire more employees.
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This is not the 1930s mom and pop farms anymore. The theory of the mom and pop farms is that some wages are taken in your own product of food. Not necessarily the situation today. Why is a farm worker's labor worth less than any other worker?
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Cheaper to send inspectors to Mexico than employing or importing illegals and paying the social/education welfare costs of them here. The farming industry has simply been covering the cost of farm labor by shifting it on to the taxpayer for generations to make up for low wages. At least slave holders had to cover the cost of housing, clothing and food to keep their 'property' alive.
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When I was in Portland, Oregon in 1990 I lived in a motel outside Portland. There were a lot of Mishtex living there as migrant farm workers. They didn't consider themselves Mexicans. Wonderful people and every Saturday after work they brought out the grills and propane cookers and had a fiesta. There was beer but no one got drunk. All the children had a great time. I was invited to participate. Most could speak English but their Spanish was not high school Spanish and was difficult to understand. They also spoke a native language that was probably close to Aztec.
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Since most farm laborers are being paid under the table all this will do is drive legal farm workers out of business in favor of illegals and machines.
[Bizpac Review] After Hillary Clinton collapsed Sunday in New York City and reemerged about an hour and a half later from her daughter's apartment, conspiracy theorists began to circulate a rumor that they weren't the same person.
It was hard for some to marry the two images of Clinton, one of her limp body being dragged into an SUV and whisked away from the ceremony and the second of a chipper, spry woman posing for pictures with a child and telling reporters she was "feeling great."
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Saline IV to rehydrate, oxygen mask, cough suppressant, possibly a double espresso or half a Ritalin... she'd be fine to stride between the door of the building and the van. After that she could put the passenger seat back, close her eyes, and breathe O2 between coughing fits until they arrived wherever they were going.
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I don't believe it was a body double (I suspect she ditched her Kevlar and got a shot of adrenaline or something) but the secret service certainly kept their distance when she came out of Chelsea's apartment. That seems unusual.
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Slightly different angle of the body to the camera can make lots of thing seem slightly different. I don't see anything in the pictures at the link that I find convincing.
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Ok so was it her body double this time or not? Who care, the truth is that she has one. Everyone is scrapping over if it was her or not, but the mere fact she has and uses one causes alarm.
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Has anyone ever had a worse 72 hours on the campaign trail than Hillary? I’m sure people can come up with some nominees, and in a separate post I’ll go over the Clintons’ amazing political survival skills. But some of the memes and images pouring forth can’t wait until Saturday, so herewith a special Monday edition of the Week in Pictures:
[Daily Caller] Hillary Clinton's fainting episode at a 9/11 memorial Sunday morning was preceded by months of Matt Drudge, the proprietor of the Drudge Report, claiming that Hillary’s health is worse than she lets on to the public.
Video of the incident shows Clinton going limp before being carried into a van by Secret Service agents. The Clinton campaign first downplayed the incident as "overheating," before later blasting out a note from Clinton’s doctor saying she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
Drudge again called attention to Clinton's health last week after she had a severe coughing fit last Monday that lasted almost two minutes. (RELATED: Hillary Has A Nearly 2 Minute Long Coughing Fit [VIDEO])
On Tuesday, Drudge tweeted out a picture of the Clinton press pool that had been photoshopped to portray the reporters wearing surgical masks. The Drudge Report prominently featured stories on Clinton’s coughing episode the same day, earning criticism from the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza.
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If there's something strange in you neighborhood
Who you gonna call? (drudgebuster)
If there's something weird
And it don't look good
Who you gonna call? (drudgebuster)
#5
Odd that, I have been reading British newspaper articles on her health since the campaign started. And yes, many were run on the Drudgereport. Wonder where 'our' media was all this time?
#6
IIRC the Hillary! campaign spent some time making the press do stupid human tricks, and after the fawners were separated from the reporters, and the reporters sent home, the message was clear.
[BLOGS.WSJ] The past three days have been tough ones for Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Quincy Adams ... . They also may have produced the best we’ve seen from Donald Trump.
After it was reported that Mrs. Clinton had criticized "half" of Trump supporters as "the basket of deplorables," Mr. Trump did not lash out with the sort of fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... name-calling to which voters have become accustomed from him. Instead, he tweeted that "Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of amazing, hard working people" and that "While Hillary said horrible things about my supporters, and while many of her supporters will never vote for me, I still respect them all."
Typically, Mr. Trump’s words and actions reflect his go-for-the-jugular mentality. But in recent days he has shown what is for him remarkable restraint. After Hillary Clinton left a Sept. 11 commemoration ceremony in Lower Manhattan early on Sunday, a bystander’s video showing her needing assistance to get into her vehicle went viral. Her campaign did not speak about what had happened for more than an hour and initially said only that she had become overheated and dehydrated. Later, it disclosed that Mrs. Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. It would have been easy for Mr. Trump to lash out, raising the conspiracy theories about Mrs. Clinton’s health that had taken on new life this summer.
Instead, Mr. Trump has taken the high road. Asked about Mrs. Clinton’s health Monday morning, Mr. Trump said, "I hope she gets well, and gets back on the trail, and we’ll be seeing her at the debate."
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He knows he does not want to run against anyone else for sure, but he did do good with this.
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Typically, Mr. Trump’s words and actions reflect his go-for-the-jugular mentality. But in recent days he has shown what is for him remarkable restraint.
No need to go for the jugular. Just hang back and wait for her to bleed out.
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Trump's restraint is not "unusual" if one recognizes that his behavior is classically Jacksonian. Per Walter Russel Mead, Jacksonians religiously follow a "Tit for Tat" strategy: fight honorably in response to honorable fighting, and you will be rewarded with honorable behavior, fight despicably, and expect to pay dearly.
What happened to Shrillary was unfortunate, but it was NOT an attack on Trump, so he did not "attack". Shrillary's "Deplorable" comment was not directed at Trump, but at his followers, so he responds in a way different than if he would be attacked personally.
We desperately need a Jacksonian president at this time, and I see this as proof that, once sworn in, he'll live up to the responsibilities inherent in the Office and do what it takes to defend us, and allow our military to respond to any and all aggressions against us in a manner that would deter others in a satisfying way.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Sunday that she would not have ordered the liquidation of al Qaeda founder and 9/11 criminal mastermindthe late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... "I think liquidations ... they’re against international law to start with and to that effect, I think I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden but would have captured him and brought him to trial," Mrs. Steintold The Des Moines Register before her first campaign appearance in Iowa marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
During her speech, she said the attacks "provided a pretext for the wrong wars, which have only gotten us into more trouble."
"What we should have done is declare a crime against humanity and pursued it, pursued the attackers and gotten the intelligence about who was behind this," Mrs. Stein said.
She also criticized U.S. foreign policy following the 9/11 attacks and called both Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... and Donald Trump "warmongers."
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Bring in Binny, ya say, Jill? You and whose army?
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[Free Beacon] New admissions by the Obama administration that American officials physically handed some $1.7 billion in cash to the Iranian government are fueling a congressional investigation into still-hidden details surrounding the deal, according to congressional sources and previously unreported-on letters seen by the Washington Free Beacon.
Lawmakers now suspect the Obama administration may have dealt with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and officials from its intelligence ministry when carrying out the cash exchange, which coincided with the release by Iran of several U.S. hostages.
The Obama administration recently disclosed to Congress that U.S. officials participated in the handoff of at least $400 million to Iranian officials, but has withheld key details about which parts of the Iranian government assumed control of the cash, according to discussions with multiple sources familiar with ongoing congressional investigation.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter told the Free Beacon it is possible IRGC members participated in the exchange, raising new questions about the Obama administration’s dealings with an organization directly responsible for facilitating terrorism and killing U.S. citizens.
"On January 17, Treasury disbursed the payment to an official from the Central Bank of Iran, for transfer to Tehran," according to a letter from the Treasury Department to Congress. "The funds were under U.S. Government control until their disbursement pursuant to the settlement."
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Worthless, and gutless.
The current Republicans have no balls. They should be challenged at every turn as to "When are you going to do *anything* about it?".
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Sounds good Crusader. Call them and tell them what you want done. Sunday I left messages for two Republican Senators and two Republican House members demanding an investigation of our Commander in Chief for being on the golf course and refusing calls for two days when Special Forces needed his approval for a hostage rescue. A lost opportunity to save two American lives.
CALL THEM...
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ValJar wants to get her country all the money she can before she leaves office!
[Fox] Long before Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) became a prominent NeverTurmper, he appears to have been a favorite Republican among the Clinton camp.
According to emails obtained by Citizens United through a Freedom of Information Act request and first given to LifeZette, Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band referred to Graham as the "bff" of longtime Hillary Clinton confidante Huma Abedin in November 2009.
At the time, Band was traveling with former president Bill Clinton to a conference in Israel and mentioned in an email to Abedin, then the deputy chief of staff at the State Department, that Graham was at the event.
"So funny! Tell him hi," Abedin replied.
"Lindsey said with all due respect I don't measure up to Huma," Band wrote.
"After talking with the Muslim Brotherhood, I was struck with their commitment to change the law because they believe it's unfair," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who was traveling with Mr. McCain. Mr. Graham and other lawmakers praised the Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party won a plurality of nearly 50% of the seats in Parliament, as a strong potential partner for the future of U.S. relations with Egypt.
That marks a dramatic change from several months ago, when some Republican politicians reacted warily to the Brotherhood's rising clout. In April 2011, Mr. Graham said he was suspicious of the Brotherhood's "agenda," and that "their motives are very much in question."
[CNSNEWS] Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says he "just recently" asked the Border Patrol "to focus" on illegal immigrants coming from "other hemispheres," including the Middle East.
"In terms of the Southwest border, I just recently asked for them to focus on immigrants coming illegally from other hemispheres, from the Middle East and so forth, to detect them and block them before they even get to the homeland, working with governments in South America, Central America to prevent that from happening," Johnson told "Fox News Sunday."
"You're correct that we're seeing illegal migrants coming from Africa, coming from the Middle East," Johnson told host Chris Wallace. "And we're doubling down on preventing that happening before they even reach the Southwest border."
Useful statistics can be seen at the link.
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Its only *15* YEARS after 9/11.
Why in the hell do we pretend these kind of remarks are "ok"? Why in the hell isn't there a firestorm when it comes to *Dereliction of duty*?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Daily Caller] More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Politico touted as "HOT AUDIO" HBO star Bill Maher making jokes about Donald Trump being assassinated. Well, it was sort of a joke. It had that Maher edge ‐ as in, "seriously, shouldn’t we shoot Trump before he gets elected?" Judging from the giddy reaction from Maher-loving liberals, could we call it "bloodlust"?
Jerry 
[Bizpac Review] After Hillary Clinton collapsed Sunday in New York City and reemerged about an hour and a half later from her daughter's apartment, conspiracy theorists began to circulate a rumor that they weren't the same person.
[BLOGS.WSJ] The past three days have been tough ones for 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Sunday that she would not have ordered the 
[Fox] Long before Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) became a prominent NeverTurmper, he appears to have been a favorite Republican among the Clinton camp.
