Critics: Scientists Blowing Smoke on ‘Chemtrail’ Study

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New scientific data claiming to prove once and for all that “chemtrails” left in the sky by commercial jetliners are mere water vapor is not convincing those who believe something more nefarious is at work in the skies overhead.

Nearly 17 percent of people in an international survey said they believed the existence of a secret government program to spray harmful contaminants into the atmosphere from airplanes. They call them “chemtrails” or ‘”covert geoengineering,” and many websites show purported evidence of widespread chemical spraying linked to harmful impacts on human health and the environment.

The charges led to the first peer-reviewed study published on the subject, and a panel of 77 scientists found they are not the result of governments covertly conducting experiments on the public, WND reported earlier this week . . .

Rather than “chemtrails,” say the researchers, they are actually “contrails,” which is short for condensation that produces water vapor that freezes around aerosols in the aircraft exhaust.

The scientists said they didn’t expect their research to convince the “diehards” who believe in government “conspiracies” but rather sought to provide data for those who hadn’t formed an opinion on the issue. (Read more from “Critics: Scientists Blowing Smoke on ‘Chemtrail’ Study” HERE)

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Confirmed: Obama Lied About Paying Ransom to Iran for Hostages!

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Breaking news from the Associated Press indicates that the State Department has confirmed the $400 million cash payment to Iran was in-fact contingent on the release of American hostages.

The Obama administration had previously claimed that a $400 million cash payment made to Iran in January was unrelated to the release of American hostages in Iran.

President Obama held a press conference earlier this month in which he explicitly denied paying ransom for hostages.

But this new report raises the question, why did Obama lie? (For more from the author of “Confirmed: Obama Lied About Paying Ransom to Iran for Hostages!” please click HERE)

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Trump’s New Campaign Manager Pushed the GOP to Support Amnesty

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This week, Donald Trump rolled out his campaign team v3.0. While being very careful to say Putin ally Paul Manafort was keeping his position as campaign chairman, Trump rolled out two new senior hires. Breitbart Chairman Steve Bannon, and pollster Kellyanne Conway. Both bring some baggage to the campaign that may make Trump supporters’ heads turn. Of the two, Conway’s stance on immigration is the larger concern.

For Trump and his supporters, Goldman Sachs has been a favorite target throughout the campaign. The attacks reached a fevered pitch when focused against Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, who used to work at the company. With his hire of Bannon, Trump has turned over the running of his campaign to a former Goldman Sachs banker.

Conway’s past work strikes further to the heart of Trump’s campaign, though. After the Gang of Eight amnesty bill was passed in the US Senate and sent to the House of Representatives, there was a strong push by lobbyists to get the House to act on the legislation. A strong part of that push was lobbying by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-amnesty group FWD.us. Conway was part of that effort, as CNN reports.

Kellyanne Conway, who was named Trump’s campaign manager Wednesday morning, co-authored a 2014 polling memo for the pro-immigration group FWD.us touting the benefits of a sweeping overhaul bill that would have created a 13-year pathway to citizenship for roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants.

The memo, which was signed by Conway and 15 other GOP pollsters, argued that “most Americans don’t believe deportation is a viable policy” and that there is an “overwhelming consensus” for “some kind of legalization” for people in the United States illegally. The pollsters made the case that there is “broad support” for the bill that Trump now strongly opposes but Hillary Clinton supports.

“Supporting this new immigration reform proposal should be good electoral politics for Republicans,” the memo said.

While conservatives, like Sen. Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (C, 78%), were fighting against amnesty for illegals and the Gang of Eight bill, Trump’s new campaign manager was siding with the “masters of the universe” and pushing amnesty. The “key takeaways” of Conway and her colleagues were meant to make it easier for House members to squish on the issue of amnesty.

Conway’s position in 2014 is evocative of Trump’s in 2013. During the debate over the Gang of Eight legislation, Trump told a gathering of DREAMers, per NBC Latino, that they had convinced him to support amnesty for the children of illegal immigrants. This is a position he purportedly no longer holds.

In 2013, Trump also offered support for amnesty after the border was secured, which was the position of those pushing the Gang of Eight legislation.

Trump’s new campaign manager ran cover for the big corporations and establishment pushing on amnesty for illegal immigration. It makes one wonder what Trump supporters think of that. (For more from the author of “Trump’s New Campaign Manager Pushed the GOP to Support Amnesty” please click HERE)

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TOP 6 HILLARY EMAILS WE’VE YET TO SEE: Strangely, the Obama Administration is Stonewalling Them

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The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood offers an intriguing list of Clinton scandal emails that have yet to be released:

#6: Bill Clinton’s speech schedules: “The State Department has stonewalled a pair of FOIA requests for schedules related to the highly-paid speeches Bill Clinton delivered while his wife served as secretary of state … But the agency is arguing that Bill Clinton’s activities are not subject to disclosure because he was a private citizen during Hillary Clinton’s State Department tenure, even though his activities had enough relevance to her team that they regularly ended up in official inboxes.”

#5: Hillary Clinton’s meeting schedules: “In its FOIA lawsuit, the Associated Press demanded all of Hillary Clinton’s planning material after a review of the schedules initially provided to the news outlet found dozens of donor meetings that were omitted from her official calendar.”

#4: Trans-Pacific Partnership correspondence: “…the State Department has moved to conceal the records of her correspondence about TPP until late November — just weeks after the presidential election… As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton referred to the nascent agreement as the “gold standard” of trade deals before disavowing that support years later while on the campaign trail.”

#3: Deleted emails: “FBI Director James Comey testified in early July that his agents had recovered thousands of work-related emails from Hillary Clinton’s server that the former secretary of state did not not provide in 2014, when she said she provided all official communications.”

#2: Huma Abedin’s emails: “Hillary Clinton faced fresh scrutiny of her interactions with contributors to the Clinton Foundation last week when Judicial Watch released emails provided to the State Department by Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff… For example, the emails made public last week revealed a series of instances in which Clinton Foundation donors sought favors from or an audience with Hillary Clinton’s team in the early months of her time in office.”

#1: FBI investigative files: “Comey accused Hillary Clinton and her aides of engaging in “extremely careless” communications that involved classified material. Notes and testimony from his investigation could pose further problems for the former secretary of state as she tries to characterize questions about the probe as asked and answered.”

Only the most ignorant of partisan ideologues could possibly believe that Hillary’s private email server, her illegally deleted emails, her mishandling of classified information, and her serial lies about the entire matter were anything but an attempt to cover up criminal activity. (For more from the author of “TOP 6 HILLARY EMAILS WE’VE YET TO SEE: Strangely, the Obama Administration is Stonewalling Them” please click HERE)

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Security Officials Consider National Hacking of Voting Machines Extremely Unlikely. Here’s Why.

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(Editor’s note: although presented with incontrovertible evidence, one of the so-called experts quoted in this article ignored the wide-spread fraud in Alaska’s 2010 Senate election where thousands of ballots were fraudulently submitted to the state’s Division of Elections. With the news today of even more Alaskan fraud, we should read the below conclusions with a very skeptical eye.)

Successful computer hacks at major federal agencies, large corporations, and the Democratic National Committee have sparked concern that clever infiltrators from outside the country might attempt to tinker with the 2016 election results.

The Department of Homeland Security asserts there is no credible cyberthreat to the 2016 election results, and state election officials and other experts concur that a grand scale hack is extremely unlikely—at least on a national level.

“Recent high-profile hackings and concerns about the integrity of the vote have been on the front page more than once,” Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said in a press conference Wednesday.

Merrill, also president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, added:

It’s highly improbable at best that a national election could be hacked. First of all, there is no national system of elections. Our election system is extremely decentralized, It is run [individually] by all 50 states and within those states, the counties are really responsible.

There was a strong push for internet voting, Merrill said, but that’s not something elections officials around the country found prudent.

“We had pressure to do internet voting, then something happens like Target getting hacked, and people say that’s not such a good idea.”

The absence of a national hack threat doesn’t mean zero risk. CBS News reported on a $15 magnetic device, available online, that can be used on individual electronic voting machines. Someone who is knowledgeable could insert the card, reset the machine, and vote more than once.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation who studies election issues, noted that even at a single polling place, none of the machines are networked. Thus, the scale of the threat is likely less than other voting fraud activities.

“The threat of hacking is greatly exaggerated,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal in an interview. “It could be a problem with individual voting machines, but individual electronic voting machines are not part of any national network.”

Nevertheless, lawmakers and commentators raise the possibility, particularly after allegations that the Russian Federal Security Service was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in what Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said might be an attempt to try to manipulate the U.S. election.

“If these reports are accurate, such an intrusion raises concerns about the ability of foreign actors to interfere in the American political process during the upcoming election, including through cyber attacks targeting electronic voting machines or the information technology of state and local election officials,” Carper, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in an Aug. 8 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

Carper’s letter noted that in 2004 the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team identified vulnerabilities in voting machines that “would allow malicious actors to modify vote totals.”

And, he wrote, the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois in 2011 and the Virginia State Board of Elections in 2015 issued reports that “identified issues that left certain electronic voting machines vulnerable to physical or wireless intrusion without detection.”

Carper also said the CIA found that bad actors were attempting to manipulate election outcomes in other countries.

Johnson hosted a conference call Monday with the National Association of Secretaries of State, offering assistance from his department as well as from the Justice Department and the Commerce Department’s National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

In a readout of the call, homeland security officials said:

While DHS is not aware of any specific or credible cybersecurity threats relating to the upcoming general election systems, Secretary Johnson reiterated that DHS, the Election Assistance Commission, NIST, and DOJ are available to offer support and assistance in protecting against cyberattacks.

Johnson told the state election officials that homeland security officials would consider designating voting machines as “critical infrastructure,” a national protection category given to 16 sectors including energy, emergency services, and food supply that the nation depends on to function. The readout added:

As part of the ongoing effort, the secretary also announced that DHS is convening a Voting Infrastructure Cybersecurity Action Campaign with experts from all levels of government and the private sector to raise awareness of cybersecurity risks potentially affecting voting infrastructure and promote the security and resilience of the electoral process.

In a statement Aug. 5, the National Association of Secretaries of State insisted a major hacking effort is extremely unlikely, but that officials should make other efforts to protect the aging electronic machines.

“A national hacking of the election is highly improbable due to our unique, decentralized process,” a statement by the association said. “Each state and locality conducts its own system of voting, complete with standards and security requirements for equipment and software. Most states publicly conduct logic and accuracy testing of their machines prior to the election to ensure that they are working and tabulating properly, then they are sealed until Election Day to prevent tampering. Furthermore, electronic voting machines are not internet-based and do not connect to each other online.”

Still, voices on both the right and the left raised concerns.

The conservative editorial board of Investor’s Business Daily called hacking “a very realistic concern, one that has been raised for years, and if it were to happen, it could have a huge impact, since around 4 in 10 voters will be casting ballots using electronic voting machines this year.”

The editorial added: “The real risk isn’t that Russians or some other foreign government will hack our elections. It’s that homegrown partisan hackers will do so to affect the results in key districts or states.”

Changing results isn’t the only goal for a cyberattack, Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the democracy program at the left-leaning Brennan Center for Justice, wrote in an op-ed for NBC News:

The threats to the integrity of our elections go beyond potential hacks to change the vote count on polling place machines. Attackers could attempt a ‘denial of service’ attack, where machines simply crash more often. In those cases, voters could be forced to wait in line for hours while technicians work to fix machines or replace them. Many would give up and never vote. Alternatively, the systems could be attacked after voting is complete, when results from individual machines are tallied at a central location.

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The Truth About How Many Americans Are Living on Less Than $2 a Day

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Over the last 20 years, welfare reform has reduced poverty trends, national welfare experts say.

President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996. This comprehensive, bipartisan welfare reform act contains work requirements and supports families moving from welfare to work.

After the law went into effect, welfare rolls dropped by 60 percent, employment among low-income Americans rose, and poverty rates for single mothers dropped to historic lows.

“The official poverty rate, this would be about $17 per day per person, drops dramatically after welfare reform,” Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said Tuesday during a lecture at Heritage.

Rector, who played a key role in writing the original Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) legislation 20 years ago, says there has been a downward trend in official poverty levels. He says that both regular poverty and deep poverty are trending downward and there has been a reduction in dependency.

In Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer’s book “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,” Edin and Schaefer allege that 4 percent of all families with children live on less than $2 per person per day and that poverty is on the rise.

Of about 273,000 observations in a government survey collected over a 30-year period, researchers found 61 instances of families spending less than $2 per person per day. Extreme poverty levels of $2 per day per person are consistent with poverty standards in Third World nations.

Heritage’s Rector said of the book’s conclusions:

When you look at the survey data that is being used to proclaim that children live with less than $2 per day, the actual living conditions in those families in no way resembles anything that would be considered extreme deprivation. … When you look at consumption, you see that these families are spending over $20 for every dollar of income. When you look at over 30 years of consumption data, you can virtually find no families whatsoever that spend less than $2 per day.

Only 1 percent of Americans in the government data said they didn’t have enough food to eat.

“The reports of the death of welfare are greatly exaggerated,” Bruce Meyer, McCormick Foundation professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, said Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation.

Meyer says that those at the bottom of the economic ladder are better off than when welfare reform passed.

Looking at consumption data gives you a better idea of people’s living standards than income data, Meyer said.

“Statements about a rise in extreme poverty are based on faulty data and should be dismissed,” Meyer said. “Conservatives should acknowledge that our programs have reduced deprivation, but liberals should acknowledge that we are spending more and more and not always spending it well.”

Almost 90 percent of Americans agree with the idea that welfare beneficiaries “should be required to work or prepare for work in exchange for receiving benefits,” according to recent polling from The Heritage Foundation.

Moving forward, Heritage’s Rector says that the same principles from welfare reform should be taken and applied more broadly to other programs. (For more from the author of “The Truth About How Many Americans Are Living on Less Than $2 a Day” please click HERE)

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‘Crooked Hillary’ Is Using Illegal Aliens to Help Her Win the Presidency

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Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton is actively recruiting illegal immigrants to volunteer for her campaign for president.

Specifically, the campaign is looking for so-called “DREAMers,” individuals who were brought into the country illegally as children and are not allowed to vote.

Recall that the DREAM Act was a bill designed to grant these individuals amnesty. It was rejected by the Senate in 2009. In 2012, President Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an unconstitutional executive order that granted de-facto amnesty to illegal immigrants who fit the criteria of the DREAM Act. Obama succeeded in granting over 600,000 illegal immigrants two-year work permits and exemptions from deportation.

Now Hillary Clinton’s campaign is using these “DREAMers” to get her elected president, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

The program is called “Mi Sueño, Tu Voto” (“My Dream, Your Vote”). The aim is to get DREAMers to encourage others to register to vote for Hillary Clinton on the basis of her immigration policy. The program launch coincides with the four-year anniversary of the implementation of DACA, which Clinton says she will extend in addition to expanding the rights of undocumented immigrants, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

“DREAMers have played a pivotal role in our campaign, advocating for families who constantly live in fear of deportation – so we’ve created a program that aims to turn these stories into action. We founded this program on the premise that, one by one – through friends, families, co-workers or classmates – DREAMers’ futures would be considered on Election day,” Lorella Praeli, Clinton’s national director of the Latino Vote, said in a statement to The Hill.

Clinton is looking to capitalize her opponent Donald Trump’s unpopularity with Latino voters. A record 27.3 million Latino voters will be eligible to vote in 2016.

Among Clinton’s proposals on immigration is a promise to fast-track comprehensive immigration reform with amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens within the first 100 days of her presidency. She has pledged to uphold Obama’s illegal DACA and DAPA executive actions and to expand Obamacare to include tax-payer subsidized health-insurance for illegal aliens.

In contrast, her Republican opponent Donald Trump has proposed cracking down on illegal immigration by tripling the number of ICE officers, imposing a nationwide e-verify program to ensure employers cannot hire illegal immigrants, deporting criminal aliens, defunding sanctuary cities, enhancing penalties to individuals who overstay their visas, and ending birthright citizenship.

In the past, Trump voiced his opposition to amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the United States, explaining in 2013 that “every one of those 11 million people will be voting Democratic.”

It seems Hillary Clinton isn’t waiting for them to vote. (For more from the author of “‘Crooked Hillary’ Is Using Illegal Aliens to Help Her Win the Presidency” please click HERE)

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Tim Kaine Once Said Cheating Politicians Should Resign—Including Bill Clinton

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Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal—at least, that’s a view Tim Kaine once held.

Kaine’s remark—reported 14 years ago in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the aftermath of a state-level sex scandal—hasn’t drawn any attention thus far in the 2016 presidential cycle. But it suggests Hillary Clinton’s running mate at one point harbored reservations about the integrity of the man poised to become the country’s first first gentleman.

Kaine commented on the Lewinsky scandal in 2002, when allegations of sexual harassment had rocked the Virginia House of Delegates. The speaker of the house, Vance Wilkins, was a Republican power broker who had just helped his party flip the House and build its majority after Democrats had historically controlled the chamber . . .

The Post’s report caused an immediate firestorm, and top Republicans called for Wilkins to resign. Jerry Kilgore, then the state’s attorney general and top-ranking elected Republican, joined the chorus.

The Post’s report caused an immediate firestorm, and top Republicans called for Wilkins to resign. Jerry Kilgore, then the state’s attorney general and top-ranking elected Republican, joined the chorus. (Read more from “Tim Kaine Once Said Cheating Politicians Should Resign—Including Bill Clinton” HERE)

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Black Lives Matter Wants to Dismantle Police Forces, and Now They Have $100 Million to Do It

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Black Lives Matter, which is trying to grow from a street-level movement to a political powerhouse, has just received pledges of cash most organizations only dream of: more than $100 million from foundations eager to join the bandwagon for social justice — and a whole lot more.

The money comes from the Ford Foundation, Borealis Philanthropy, George Soros and the Center for American Progress, but the direction of all that money (and power) is to radically disrupt American politics — and to dismantle our nation’s police forces.

This isn’t hyperbole. This comes from Movement Strategy Center, the group spearheading the direction of all that money for the Black-Led Movement Fund.

From their grounding document:

To create communities of care and safety we need to move simultaneously to end racialized and gendered inequality. The anti-black/anti-human violence at the heart of our police and military is there to defend and maintain our system of economic inequality. Ending violence and inequality must happen together.

We need to send the police home and start over. These institutions can not be incrementally reformed. They need to be disarmed and disbanded. Community needs to take charge of community safety.

What do we do when the real solution is clear but seems impossible?

We turn to movements make the impossible possible.

In one place.

Then in many.

Then everywhere.

#RevolutionInValues
#DisarmThePolice
#DismantleThePolice
#WeAreAllBetterOffWithoutThem
#CommuntySafteyThroughCareAndCommunitySolutions

Take a moment and review those hashtags. “We are all better off without them.”

Remember Dallas? Remember Baton Rouge? The men who put their lives on the line, the black cop who had the heartbreaking FB post days before he was shot for being a cop?

Police reform is possible. Dallas shows that. Calling for an end to the police, to the military, to any sort of defense against evil, is nothing short of suicidal.

In addition to BLM’s anti-police agenda, the group has called Israel an “apartheid state” guilty of “genocide.” It’s a move that may cause a deep rupture between the group and progressive Jews who agree with BLM’s domestic aims but see the official BLM platform as promoting anti-Semitism.

As Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz writes in The Jerusalem Post, “To support an organization or movement that promotes anti-Semitism because it also supports good causes is the beginning of the road to accepting racism. Many racist groups have also promoted causes that deserve support.”

Dana Beyer at Huffington Post wrote that

the Jewish community is the best ally the black community can have … Throwing a wrench into that relationship, as happened fifty years ago, out of pique, spite, anti-Semitism or some legitimate grievances, will do no one any good. Tying the BLM movement to any foreign issue, let alone the sole Jewish state on the planet, is plain stupid. Doing so in support of a community which includes terrorist members who enslave Africans is suicidal.

It may be poor policy, but a group so radical as to call Israel genocidal has declared America’s criminal justice system irreparably broken. Now that they have more money than almost any other political group, we’ll see what they do with it. (For more from the author of “Black Lives Matter Wants to Dismantle Police Forces, and Now They Have $100 Million to Do It” please click HERE)

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Hillary Exhausts Herself Addressing Massive Crowd of 100, Takes Week Off

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Hillary Clinton just wrapped up her one public appearance for the day, and she has nothing else scheduled until Sunday.

With 83 days to go, what’s she doing for the next 96 hours?

She just held a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, where she struggled to fill a high school gymnasium — if it wasn’t for hundreds of students.

But according to the schedule tracking website HillarySpeeches.com, she doesn’t have another event announced until Sunday, when she’ll make a Massachusetts fundraising appearance with Cher.

She apparently is prone to exhaustion, which may be why she has no events planned. (Read more from “Hillary Exhausts Herself Addressing Massive Crowd of 100, Takes Week Off” HERE)

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