As usual, Soros is behind the scenes in pushing the wrecking ball which is destroying both America and Western Civilization. Hillary has been been his cat’s paw even before she was designated to be Secretary Of State by the newly elected Obama, (perhaps he was ordered to appoint her) . . .
Soros knows he can depend on Hillary, and her handlers, should she become too ill to function while in office. Her health matters not, the goal is to get her body into the Oval Office.
The email in the post below shows practically a direct order from Soros to then SOS Clinton as to how to handle flaring unrest in Albania in 2011. How many more “suggestions” he made can only be imagined. He was behind the Arab Spring and many other upheavals. Go here for a lengthy, updated and detailed background on this most evil man, his machinations, and connections. Scroll all the way down for his most recent undertakings . . .
Contained within WikiLeaks’ recent release of hacked DNC emails is a message from billionaire globalist financier George Soros, to Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State, that clearly reveals Clinton as a puppet of the billionaire class.
Found within the WikiLeaks’ Hillary Clinton email archive is an email with the subject ‘Unrest in Albania,’ in which Soros makes clear to Clinton that “two things need to be done urgently.” He then directs the Secretary of State to “bring the full weight of the international community to bear on Prime Minister Berisha” and “appoint a senior European official as mediator.” Revealing the influence he wields within the corridors of power, Soros then provides Secretary of State Clinton with three names from which to choose. Unsurprisingly, Clinton acquiesced and chose one of the officials recommended by Soros — Miroslav Lajcak. (Read more from “Hillary Clinton, Another Soros Puppet” HERE)
New fears are being raised for America’s security along its porous southern border as reports indicate ISIS is eyeing Mexico as a base of operations against America.
According to reports in an Italian newspaper, ISIS operative Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir has been training militants near Ciudad Juarez since 2015.
The newspaper quotes Khabir as saying the Southern Border is so easy to enter he “could get in with a handful of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a few hours.”
The article claimed that ISIS was working with Mexican drug cartels.
Further information linking ISIS with operations in Mexico came after the arrest of Erick Jamal Hendricks, who was arrested last week and charged with “conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.”
Judicial Watch, which has independently reported about the existence of the Ciudad Juarez camp, reported that Hendricks said jihadist “brothers” are just south of the U.S. border in Mexico.
Hendricks tried to “recruit people to train together and conduct terrorist attacks in the United States,” according to the government’s criminal complaint.
The Justice Department, in announcing Hendricks’ arrest, noted his connection to Mexico-based terrorists.
“Hendricks allegedly told (an ISIS source) that he ‘needed people’ and wanted to meet in person; that there were several ‘brothers’ located in Texas and Mexico; that he was attempting to ‘get brothers to meet face to face;’ and that he wanted ‘to get brothers to train together,’” according to a Department of Justice press release announcing Hendricks’ arrest.
The Justice Department said Hendricks tried to recuit an undercover FBI informant.
The press release alleges that Hendriclks told the informant to “download the document ‘GPS for the Ghuraba in the U.S.’, which … allegedly encouraged Muslims to die as a ‘Shaheed’ (martyr), to ‘Boobie trap your homes,’ to ‘lay in wait for them’ and to ‘never leave your home without your AK-47 or M16.
Despite evidence to the contrary, the Obama administration has publicly denied any existence of ISIS terror cells in Mexico. (For more from the author of “New Reports Highlight ISIS-Related Activity Along U.S.-Mexico Border” please click HERE)
The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin exploded in violence last night as the wave of chaos and civil unrest that is sweeping across America continues to intensify. At this point, many of our largest cities have become powder kegs of anger and frustration, and a full-blown riot can be set off with a single bullet. In this case, an armed suspect was shot and killed by Milwaukee police as he attempted to evade the police, and his death almost instantly set off pandemonium in the heart of the city. America is being ripped apart, and much more violence is coming. Decades of social decay and economic decline have fundamentally transformed many of our greatest cities, and tensions that have been simmering for a very long time are now being brought to a boil. Sadly, it seems quite likely that we will see even more rage, hatred and divisiveness in the months ahead.
The sudden eruption of violence that we witnessed in Milwaukee last night was absolutely stunning. Within just hours after the shooting of the armed suspect, fires were burning all over the city…
Protesters clashed with officers in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase. After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters initially could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots.
Later, fires were started at a bank branch, a beauty supply company and an auto parts store as scores of people gathered near the crime scene on the city’s north side, a grim Mayor Tom Barrett said at a news conference Saturday night. He said the unrest was driven by a social media frenzy urging people to gather in the area.
Of course police were one of the primary targets of the violence. It is being reported that at least one squad car was set ablaze, and another had a brick thrown through a window.
One prominent Milwaukee city official is blaming racial injustice for the violence. The following comes from CNN…
City Alderman Khalif Rainey said the area has been a “powder keg” for potential violence throughout the summer.
“What happened tonight may not have been right and I am not justifying that but no one can deny the fact that there are problems, racial problems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that need to be rectified,” Rainey said. “This community of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has become the worst place to live for African Americans in the entire country.”
Rainey said Saturday’s violence was a byproduct of inequities, injustice, unemployment and under-education.
“Something has to be done to address these issues,” he said. “The black people of Milwaukee are tired, they are tired of living under this oppression, this is their life.”
Without a doubt, the suffering that is going on in our inner cities is intense. Our economic infrastructure has been gutted by decades of bad trade deals, and evidence of severe social and moral decay is all around us.
But no matter how bad things are, there is never any excuse for committing random acts of violence. In addition to setting businesses on fire, it is being reported that rioters were trying to drag people out of their vehicles in order to beat them up.
How in the world does that solve anything?
Meanwhile, police all over the nation continue to be targets of violence. In a previous article, I told my readers that the number of police officers that have been shot and killed this year has risen by 78 percent compared to last year.
Well, over the past few days some more officers have been added to the list. For example, the following is an excerpt from a CNN report about an officer that was just shot and killed in south Georgia…
A police officer was shot dead while responding to a call of a suspicious person in south Georgia, authorities said.
The shooting occurred Saturday night after the officer, Tim Smith, got the call in a residential area in Eastman, special agent Scott Whitley of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations said.
While on patrol, Smith encountered the subject and exited his car. That’s when he was fatally shot, Whitley said.
And this is from a Fox News report about an officer that was shot and killed in New Mexico…
Two Ohio fugitives wanted for a murder have been arrested after authorities say one of them fatally shot a New Mexico police officer.
Dona Ana County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kelly Jameson said Saturday that 38-year-old Jesse Hanes is suspected of gunning down Hatch Police Officer Jose Chavez during a traffic stop Friday.
In addition, there was another very disturbing incident that just happened a few days ago in Arkansas. When a suspect started shooting at police officers, one was killed, one was wounded, and a police dog named Kina that got hit and ran away was just found on Saturday…
Police spokeswoman Kristin Faulkenberry told reporters the dog, named Kina, “was up and walking” when searchers found the animal Friday morning near where the shooting unfolded near Hackett, about 115 miles west of Little Rock.
The dog was shot and ran into a wooded area Wednesday when a man identified as Billy Monroe Jones opened fire on officers, killing Sebastian County Deputy Bill Cooper and wounding Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells.
Earlier today I talked to a friend of mine that works as a police officer, and he admitted that he and his wife do think about all of this violence that is being directed at the police. I suppose that it would be exceedingly difficult not to. Those that are serving their communities in this way are going to have a very tough time moving forward. At this point every single law enforcement officer in the entire nation is a potential target, and they are just going to have to find a way to deal with this new reality.
America is more divided than I have ever seen in my entire lifetime. Instead of learning how to love one another, hatred is growing by the day.
More chaos is coming, more violence is coming, and more of our cities will burn.
Things didn’t have to turn out this way, but thanks to decades of incredibly foolish decisions we will now reap what we have sown. (For more from the author of “Violence Erupts in America’s Heartland as Milwaukee Becomes the Latest U.S. City to Burn” please click HERE)
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Carlos Gutierrez, President George W. Bush’s former Secretary of Commerce, said Sunday that Hillary Clinton would make a “darn good president,” and he’ll be voting for her this fall.
“I actually think Hillary Clinton has the experience, she’s been around, she knows how the system works,” Gutierrez told CNN “State of the Union” anchor Jake Tapper.
“I would have preferred Jeb Bush, but I think Hillary is a great choice. I am afraid of what Donald Trump would do to this country.”
He said his breaking point came when Trump expressed doubts earlier this summer that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University, could preside fairly over the case because of his Mexican heritage. Trump’s comments came just weeks after he secured the GOP nomination.
“I have been a Republican,” Gutierrez told Tapper. “My inclination was to vote for a Republican. I was a Jeb Bush person. I made the switch away from Trump, it was that week of the judge … that for me did it. That’s it. I don’t want to go back to a country where, if a child has a Spanish last name, that the president, the leader of the country, is giving kids a license to bully them.” (Read more from “Bush’s Commerce Secretary Endorses Clinton” HERE)
While Republican leadership insists that the next president will nominate the ninth justice to the Supreme Court, a cadre of Republican senators is pushing a plan to confirm Merrick Garland if their party fails to take the White House this November.
The best contingency plan in case Republicans lose, supporters of the plan argue, is to confirm Garland during the lame-duck session in December before Hillary Clinton would take office in January.
Only three Republican senators have publicly committed their support to the idea so far—Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Jeff Flake of Arizona, and Mark Kirk of Illinois. All share a centrist bent.
“Obviously if we lose the election and lose the White House, then we ought to move quickly to confirm Garland,” Flake told Business Insider earlier in June. “But I don’t think my view is shared by too many of my colleagues,” he continued. “Or enough of my colleagues to do it.”
Supporters describe the plan as a form of damage control. Confirmation of Garland in December, they argue, is better than grappling with an unknown and potentially more liberal Clinton nominee in 2017.
Many members are hesitant to discuss the strategy while the presidential race unfolds. But as uncertainty increases about the outcome of that election, behind closed congressional doors more staffers are opening up to the idea.
“It’s hard to imagine getting a nominee out of Clinton who’s less liberal than Garland,” a senior GOP aide told The Daily Signal. “If you’re concerned about the balance of the court, you’re concerned about that possibility and it provides an incentive to take a serious second look at his nomination.”
Republican opposition to the nominee has remained consistent from the beginning. Hours after the Feb. 13 death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Republicans pledged to keep the seat on the high court open for the next president to fill in 2017.
Led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Republican conference has maintained a six-month blockade of Garland. Though many Republicans have met with the nominee privately, he hasn’t had a hearing in the Judiciary Committee or a vote on the Senate floor.
In order for that barricade to break, Republican leadership would have to do a complete 180. But that’s not going to happen, McConnell’s office told The Daily Signal.
“The leader has been absolutely clear,” said Don Stewart, McConnell’s spokesman. “The next president will make the nomination for this vacancy.”
Democrats insist Republicans are bluffing and they seem confident of victory. Since early February, they have forecasted a breakdown of Republican resolve, advising their political counterparts that the blockade is politically untenable.
Liberal groups have been the biggest cheerleaders for a change in Republican course. A coalition of Obama allies has kept up a steady drumbeat of messaging to encourage Republican senators to abandon their party’s blockade.
“Republicans have been going through this period of intensive posturing and it has totally hurt their credibility and their reputation as elected officials who respect the Constitution,” said Marge Baker, executive vice president of People for the American Way.
Though the GOP position seems entrenched, Baker said, it doesn’t have to be permanent. After a Democrat victory in November, she predicted “putting an end to this [blockade] from their vantage point should definitely be ‘sellable.’”
Liberals hawk Garland’s ideology, political connections, and age as selling points for Republicans. At 63 years old, he’s the most senior nominee in recent history, limiting his tenure in comparison to potentially younger nominees. And in 1997, the GOP-controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly, 76-23, to confirm Garland to his current circuit court post.
But conservatives aren’t buying the pitch for a lame-duck confirmation. They criticize the strategy as a false binary. And they insist there’s a third option.
“You can always run out the clock,” Brian Darling, a former Senate aide and current GOP operative, told The Daily Signal.
A filibuster mounted by a handful of conservatives could push the nomination into next year, Darling explained, drawing out the process in the hopes of forcing Democrats to the negotiation table.
And there’s some precedent for compelling a sitting president to back down from his nomination. Bipartisan opposition in 2005 forced President George W. Bush to withdraw the nomination of Harriet Miers.
Whether Republicans lose or maintain control of the Senate, conservatives say their strategy only requires the GOP to keep their resolve. The right could push the left to retreat by maintaining the blockade of Garland and then torpedoing the subsequent Clinton nominee.
To make that rearguard action possible, conservatives would have to win over the rest of the Republican conference when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 6.
Their pitch will be simple, a senior GOP aide told The Daily Signal. To prepare for a clash with Clinton and a national conversation about the Supreme Court in 2017, Republicans should “make sure there is no lame-duck session of Congress.”
In other words, lawmakers would need to finish their legislative work before recessing for the holidays and leave Garland’s nomination to wither on the vine. (For more from the author of “GOP at Odds Over Post-Election Vote on Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee” please click HERE)
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The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton just launched its official podcast, titled With Her.
In Friday’s debut episode, host Max Linsky interviewed Clinton about her typical day on the campaign trail.
“I wake up early,” she said, informing the host she gets up at “6:30 or so.”
Linsky inquired, “I heard a rumor that you don’t use an alarm clock.”
“No, that’s not true. That’s not true,” she repeated. “That’s another one of those rumors that people spread.”
But then Clinton waffled.
“I usually wake up before my alarm clock goes off, so technically maybe that’s right,” she said.
Clinton told Linsky she relies on her cellphone as her main alarm in the morning. “Sometimes if I’m really tired when I, you know, collapse, it’s backed up by a real alarm clock,” she said.
Linsky then asked her which ringtone she relies on to help her awake. The former secretary of state said her ringtone has to be the “most obnoxious sound that [she] can find on the ringtones” to help her get up.
“You mean that crazy siren one?” the host asked. “Yes. Exactly,” she replied.
Clinton stated she needs something that “pierces through our deepest consciousness.”
Clinton’s admission she “collapses” was seen by some as raising further questions about her health as a potential commander in chief.
Wesley Pruden of the Washington Times wrote Monday, “Her stumbling, fainting, severe coughing and moments of odd behavior on the campaign have been much talked about by the reporters following her, but this knowledge was veiled in a discreet silence, until now.”
Pruden then cited a report also questioning Clinton’s health issues over the last four years.
“The Drudge Report cited four health episodes over the years Hillary has campaigned for president: needing assistance climbing stairs this year, a blood clot on the brain in 2012, a fall while boarding an airplane in 2011 and a fall on her way to the White House in 2009,” Pruden wrote. “One of the accompanying photographs, by Reuters, shows her losing her balance while touring a substance abuse center in Charleston, S.C.”
Likewise, a recently released email from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin to another staffer said Clinton is “often confused.”
Just a week ago, Clinton stated she “short-circuited” when she was trying to clarify previously stated comments. Republican rival Donald Trump seized on her self-description, and on Saturday called her “unstable.”
A poll released Thursday found that 59 percent of voters say all major presidential candidates should release their most recent medical records to the public. (For more from the author of “Comment by Hillary Clinton Raises Further Questions About Her Health” please click HERE)
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Are we about to witness one of the largest stock market crashes in U.S. history? Swiss investor Marc Faber is the publisher of the “Gloom, Boom & Doom Report”, and he has been a regular guest on CNBC for years. And even though U.S. stocks have been setting new record high after new record high in recent weeks, he is warning that a massive stock market crash is in our very near future. According to Faber, we could “easily” see the S&P 500 plunge all the way down to 1,100. As I sit here writing this article, the S&P 500 is sitting at 2,181.74, so that would be a drop of cataclysmic proportions. The following is an excerpt from a CNBC article that discussed the remarks that Faber made on their network on Monday…
The notoriously bearish Marc Faber is doubling down on his dire market view.
The editor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report said Monday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” that stocks are likely to endure a gut-wrenching drop that would rival the greatest crashes in stock market history.
“I think we can easily give back five years of capital gains, which would take the market down to around 1,100,” Faber said, referring to a level 50 percent below Monday’s closing on the S&P 500.
Of course Faber is far from alone in believing that the market is heading for hard times. Just recently, I wrote about how legendary investor Jeffrey Gundlach is warning that “stocks should be down massively” and that he believes this is the time to “sell everything“.
And on Tuesday, Donald Trump told Fox News that the stock market is “a big bubble”…
“If rates go up, you’re going to see something that’s not pretty,” the billionaire businessman told Fox News during a Tuesday morning phone interview. “It’s all a big bubble.”
Worries that the Fed has created a market bubble have shadowed the second-longest bull market in history as the central bank has kept its key rate near zero and expanded its balance sheet by $3.8 trillion in order to pump liquidity into the financial system.
Trump actually has a vested interest in seeing the stock market go down, because that would help his chances in November.
In a previous article on The Most Important News, I explained that the stock market has indicated who would win the presidential election 86 percent of the time since 1928. During the final three months before election day, if the stock market goes up the incumbent party almost always wins. But if the stock market goes down, the incumbent party almost always loses. The only times this correlation has not held up since 1928 were in 1956, 1968 and 1980.
For the moment, the stock market is defying the laws of economics, and that is a very good thing for Hillary Clinton. But if this bubble suddenly bursts and the market starts catching up with economic reality, that is going to turn out to be very favorable for Donald Trump.
And without a doubt, the fundamental economic numbers just continue to get worse. Earlier today, we learned that productivity in the U.S. has now been falling for three quarters in a row…
Productivity, a sore spot for the U.S. economy over the past few years, has now declined in three straight quarters, according to data released Tuesday.
Productivity in the second quarter unexpectedly fell 0.5%, well below expectations, the Labor Department said. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast a 0.3% gain in productivity in the quarter.
Productivity is down 0.4% from a year earlier, the first year-over-year decline since the second quarter of 2013.
On Tuesday we also learned that real estate sales in Las Vegas were down about 10 percent in July compared to the same period a year ago, and things are not looking so good in San Francisco either. Just check out what has been going on at Twitter…
Twitter is shaking up San Francisco. It’s the city’s 10th largest employer, and second largest tech employer, after Salesforce. But it hasn’t yet figured out, despite a decade of trying, how to make money. Last October, it announced that it would lay off 8% of its workforce. A couple of weeks ago, it reported a second-quarter net loss of $107 million along with disappointing user metrics and lousy projections. Its shares have lost 74% since their miracle-IPO-hype peak at the end of December 2014.
And now Twitter is dumping nearly one third of its total office space on the San Francisco sublease market.
Las Vegas and San Francisco are both prone to huge “booms” and “busts”. So the fact that it appears that both cities are starting to move into the “bust” end of the cycle is a very ominous sign.
Conditions are changing, and now is the time to position yourself for the exceedingly challenging times that are coming. As I end this article today, I want to share with you something written by Jim Quinn. He recently went out to visit his son Kevin in Colorado for a couple of weeks, and the following is how he ended his article about that trip…
After spending a week in this stunning paradise, it’s tougher than you know to go back to my two and half hour daily round trip commute into the slums of West Philly. John Muir’s words were right 100 years ago and they are right today. I am losing precious days and my days are spent trying to make money. I’ve got responsibilities. I’ve got bills to pay. I’ve got kids to get through college. We’ve got aging parents to help. I work because I have to.
I’m not learning anything in this trivial world of distractions and iGadgets. I don’t fit into this materialistic society. I don’t do small talk. I have no patience for fools. I prefer solitude. If I can survive this despicable rat race for seven more years, I’ll be joining Kevin in Colorado and living the life I’d like to live. The sun is setting and time is slipping away. Those mountains are calling me home.
I can definitely identify with what Jim is going through, because I once experienced similar emotions.
To Jim and everyone else that hopes that someday in the future they will be able to live the lives that they would like to be living right now, I would say this…
Don’t put it off.
Seize the day and find a way to make your dreams a reality.
Things are rapidly changing in this country, and if you keep putting off the life you want to be living for too long it may end up slipping away for good. (For more from the author of “Marc Faber Issues a Stunning Warning That a Gigantic 50 Percent Stock Market Crash Could Be Coming” please click HERE)
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Everyone likes to dream. In dreams, you can fly, you can win the love of those beautiful people who won’t talk to you in real life, and the laws of the universe no longer apply. But when we confuse dreams for reality, bad things happen. You shouldn’t jump off your roof in an effort to soar through the air, and you shouldn’t pretend that the rules that govern the natural world cease to exist.
Someone should tell this to Hillary Clinton. In her speech in Warren, Michigan on Thursday, she revealed why the Democrats’ economic policies have utterly failed to revitalize the American economy over the last eight years, and also why they tend to perform so well in elections. It’s what I call the “wouldn’t it be nice if” agenda, based entirely on magical thinking and fantasies totally out of touch with the harsh realities of economics. Of course, it all sounds great to voters. Who doesn’t like to engage wishful thinking from time to time? But when put into practice, these policies not only fail to deliver the promised benefits, but make things worse for everyone in the process.
The key example of this kind of thinking in Hillary’s speech came when she asserted that every American willing to work hard should be able to find a job that will support a family. That certainly would be nice, but unfortunately that’s not how jobs work. Employers don’t hire people because they want to support families, they do so because those workers have a skill to offer that is worth something. How much that skill is worth depends on many factors, such as the price consumers are willing to pay for the final product, how cheap it would be to have a machine do the work, or how much another potential worker with a similar skill would be willing to accept for the job. Hillary thinks she can just wave her hand and dictate how much jobs pay, but she can’t control how much consumers are willing to pay. Likewise, she can’t control the costs of automation, and she can’t control competition among workers for the same position. The price system for labor regulates all of these factors to create a working market, and when you just try to set wages by decree, you break the whole machine.
Even if you don’t want to delve into the economics of it all, this idea should be obvious nonsense. Do you really think a sixteen year old getting his first job bagging groceries should be able to make enough money to feed a family of four? If that were the case, no one would ever hire grocery baggers again. We’d have to do the bagging ourselves, and young people would lose out on an opportunity to earn a few extra dollars, as well as something to put on a resumé for future advancement.
Hillary continued her agenda of childish whimsy by calling for free college tuition for everyone. Doesn’t that sound nice? Except there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, and that includes college. Professors expect to get paid for their services (they need to be able to support a family, remember?), which means that someone is going to have to pay them. It costs money to build and maintain dormitories and classrooms. Electricity, heating, furniture, books, plumbing, computers, paper — all of these things cost money. The question is, who should pay for them? It makes far more sense to have the people who desire these services, and who benefit most directly from them, to foot the bill. Hillary thinks people who don’t particularly want or profit from them to pay instead. It doesn’t take a genius to imagine what will happen to the quality of college when dissatisfied customers lose their ability to withhold funding in response to poor service. There’s also no incentive for “free” colleges to keep prices down if those prices are being paid by extorting money from an unwilling public.
Hillary didn’t stop there. She also wants government-sponsored child care, as well as government-run health care, which she asserts will strengthen competition and drive down costs, in defiance of all logic and historical precedent. Here we run into the same problems as with tuition. Her “wouldn’t it be nice” musing on free services ignores the fact that someone always has to pay. When you destroy the consumer’s ability to choose how to spend his money, you also destroy any incentive for producers to do a good job at a low cost.
This is the problem with Democrats. They refuse to acknowledge how things actually work and they have a bunch of pie-in-the-sky dreams they want to make reality. Similarly, they think the right president can just make it happen. But just as a president is powerless to change the laws of physics by decree, they are also incapable of thwarting economic reality just because “it would be nice.” (For more from the author of “Hillary’s Magical Thinking on the Economy” please click HERE)
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The NFL made a disgraceful decision, refusing the Dallas Cowboys’ request to sport the “Arm in Arm” decal in support of both the serving and slain members of the Dallas police force.
The Cowboys heard back from the NFL on Wednesday and were told by league officials they can’t wear the decal during any preseason or regular-season games, executive vice president Stephen Jones said. Jones added that the Cowboys can wear the decal during training camp practices.
“Everyone has to be uniform with the league and the other 31 teams,” Jones said after practice Wednesday. “We respect their decision.”
The Cowboys had unveiled the helmet decal to open training camp as they walked onto the field arm-in-arm with Dallas Police Chief David Brown.
Responding with class to the decision, the Dallas Police Department sent out a news release Thursday, saying the “sentiment mattered more than the results,” per The Dallas Morning News.
Some aren’t buying the NFL’s “uniformity” reasoning, as the league has made exception to their strict policy before. Most notably, they allowed not one, but three teams — the New York Jets, Giants, and the New England Patriots — to honor the victims of the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. in 2012.
Mark Levin argued the NFL simply wanted to avoid controversy.
“Let me tell you why the NFL won’t do this…because they don’t want any trouble from the Leftists!” exclaimed Levin. “We’re reaching a point where I don’t even recognize my country any more. Do you?” (For more from the author of “Hypocritical NFL Tells Dallas Cowboys They Can’t Support Police” please click HERE)
The shifting of $81 million to combat Zika is overdue and demonstrates the Obama administration has had untapped resources to fight the mosquito-borne illness, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., said.
“For over six months we have been calling on the administration to use every existing resource at their disposal to address this crisis,” Rogers said in a statement.
While the Republican House passed a Zika funding measure, Republican lawmakers have insisted that the administration has unused cash on hand to tackle the problem. However, administration officials contend this is robbing from important research in other areas, such as cancer research.
“Our calls have been met with little action, while the White House continues to cast aspersions and blame at others for lack of funding,” Rogers continued. “It is clear yet again, with the announcement today, that federal agencies do indeed have existing funds available within their budgets that can be redirected to fight Zika. This has been the case all along, and it is disappointing that it has taken this long for this action to occur.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell announced Thursday that she is transferring $34 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund the Zika vaccine, and another $47 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to continue contracting with private companies to assist in research for the vaccine.
President Barack Obama and administration officials have asked for immediate funding increases for Zika. However, Republicans in Congress have approved about $800 million less than Obama asked for, and has called on the administration to use existing resources.
Rogers actually saluted the move as needed while Senate Democrats hold up the $1.1 billion funding bill approved by the House.
“I commend the administration for finally moving forward with additional existing funding to fight this epidemic,” Rogers continued. “And, if more resources are needed, I urge the Senate Democrats and the White House to approve the legislation already passed by the House, so that these funds to prevent and stop the spread of the Zika virus can be used quickly, effectively, and responsibly.”
Obama has criticized congressional Republicans for not approving his $1.9 billion request for Zika from February. The House passed a $1.1 billion package, but Senate Democrats are holding up the legislation, complaining the bill doesn’t offer enough money and does away with environmental protections in seeking to reduce the mosquito population.
In her letter to members of Congress, Burwell complained that National Institutes of Health money is being taken away from other worthy causes in order to fund the fight against Zika.
“As you know, there has been bipartisan support for providing additional support to NIH as it is on the front lines of finding effective treatments and cures for many of our nation’s most devastating illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and others,” Burwell said. “Reallocating NIH resources is not consistent with a strategy to provided maximum support to the important work that our nation’s leading scientists are performing, but the lack of a clean, bipartisan Zika funding bill has left me no choice but to move forward with the action at this time.”
There are 7,300 cases of Zika in the United States, 972 of those are pregnant women and 15 babies have been born with Zika-related illnesses or defects, according to HHS. Zika is spread by mosquitoes, but it can also be sexually transmitted and passed from pregnant mother to child. The virus is particularly dangerous for pregnant women because it can trigger microcephaly, which is a birth defect that causes a baby’s head to be smaller than expected and its brain to be underdeveloped.
Burwell said in the letter to Congress that the NIH will still need another $196 million for fiscal year 2017 to continue the Phase II trial of the Zika vaccine. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will need another $342 million to continue working with private contractors.
“For NIH, this could involve delaying or possibly halting research work on vaccines,” Burwell said in the letter. “And for BARDA, this could result in companies that have partnered with the U.S. government to develop a Zika vaccine not having access to additional funding need to continue their work.”
This is the second shift of money. The Obama administration announced in April it was tapping $589 million in unspent Zika funds to help fight the virus. However, members of Congress raised questions after reports that only $180 million had been obligated as of July. After that, the HHS began highlighting expenditures, such as $5.1 million on Zika testing, and $16 million on a Zika birth defect registry.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blamed Republicans for blocking the funding.
“As Secretary Burwell’s letter details, Republicans’ incomprehensible inaction on Zika is forcing HHS to raid critical health initiatives just to stave off a needless and dangerous delay of Zika vaccine development,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Not only are these resources coming out of commitments to the fight against other devastating illnesses, they are nowhere near sufficient to address the Zika crisis with the seriousness it requires.”
Congress will be considering a spending bill in September that includes Zika, said Paul Winfree, director of economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation.
“It’s clear that the administration has not been forthcoming with their ability to prioritize unobligated resources,” Winfree told The Daily Signal in an email.
Winfree said the September bill will likely require an emergency designation for the Zika funding.
“Emergency designations are not intended to avoid having to pay for spending,” Winfree added. “They are intended to provide supplemental funds outside the normal appropriations process.” (For more from the author of “Obama Administration Zika Shifts Proves Money Was There” please click HERE)
