Sunday, January 31, 2016

Have some laughs on us! Michael Davis - Ford's Theater


Have some laughs on us!
 

Michael Davis - Ford's Theater


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A New Madrid Earthquake Is Coming


A  New  Madrid  Earthquake  Is  Coming  And  America  Will  Be  Shaken  Like  Never  Before

Most Americans expect the next great earthquake in the United States to come on the west coast

 

Hillary admits server contained top U.S. secrets


OBAMA  NUKES  HILLARY  -  ADMITS  SERVER  CONTAINED  TOP  U.S.  SECRETS

 

22 emails censored from public, highest levels of classification



January 29, 2016
The Obama administration leveled a devastating blow to Hillary Clinton on Friday by admitting for the first time that her personal email server contained the highest levels of classified U.S. intelligence

The White House said 22 emails from former secretary of state’s “home brew” server must be censored from public view when the State Department releases its final batch on Friday.

Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research bureaus will now try to determine if any of the emails were marked classified at the time of transmission, the Associated Press reported Friday.

Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has noted, however, that any discussion about marked or unmarked emails is a legal red herring because trained officials – like Clinton – can spot such intelligence without blatant indicators.

“It is the content that is classified – not the format it is in,” Herridge said Jan. 21, WND reported. “To suggest to people that there is somehow a big rubber stamp with ‘classified’ that’s smacked on every document is completely misleading and that’s something you only see in the movies. Mrs. Clinton knows better because she had to have special training as secretary of state because she has classification authority."

Sources told the network on Friday the emails were “too damaging” to release under any circumstances.  “The documents alone in and of themselves set forth a set of compelling, articulable facts that statutes relating to espionage have been violated,” a former senior federal law enforcement officer said.

Nearly 100 FBI special agents are attempting to determine whether Clinton violated a subsection of the Espionage Act related to “gross negligence” in handling government documents. Agents are also trying to discern whether co-mingling of the Clinton Foundation and State Department business violated public corruption laws.Clinton campaign spokesman Brain Fallon called the decision to censor Clinton’s emails “overclassification run amok."

“We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails,” Fallon said statement, AP reported. "Since first providing her emails to the State Department more than one year ago, Hillary Clinton has urged that they be made available to the public. We feel no differently today."

The White House’s acknowledgment comes just over a week since it was revealed that Clinton’s server contained “special access programs,” or SAP.  Fox exclusively obtained an unclassified letter written by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III discussing the documents.

“To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the confidential, secret, and top secret/SAP levels,” McCullough said Jan. 14 to lawmakers with oversight of the intelligence community and State Department.

According to the declarant, these documents contain information derived from classified IC element sources."

State Department spokesman John Kirby told AP on Friday there were seven email chains being withheld from the public due to the sensitive information they contain, which includes SAP.

“The documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community because they contain a category of top secret information,” Kirby said.

Department officials would not say if Clinton was the one who sent the emails, AP reported.

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/obama-nukes-hillary-admits-server-contained-top-u-s-secrets/


Some Clinton emails 'too damaging' to release

Official:  Some  Clinton  emails  'too  damaging'  to  release

State Department declares 22 Clinton emails 'top secret'

 
STATE DEPARTMENT 
DECLARES 22 CLINTON EMAILS 'TOP SECRET'!!!


Jan 30, 4:06 AM EST


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has confirmed for the first time that Hillary Clinton's home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails that contained material requiring one of the highest levels of classification. The revelation came three days before Clinton competes in the Iowa presidential caucuses.

State Department officials also said the agency's Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research bureaus are investigating if any of the information was classified at the time of transmission, going to the heart of Clinton's defense of her email practices.

The department published its latest batch of emails from her time as secretary of state Friday evening.  But The Associated Press learned ahead of the release that seven email chains would be withheld in full for containing "top secret" information. The 37 pages include messages a key intelligence official recently said concerned "special access programs" -highly restricted, classified material that could point to confidential sources or clandestine programs like drone strikes.

"The documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community because they contain a category of top secret information," State Department spokesman John Kirby told the AP, calling the withholding of documents in full "not unusual." That means they won't be published online with others being released, even with blacked-out boxes.  Department officials wouldn't describe the substance of the emails, or say if Clinton sent any herself.

Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, insists she never sent or received information on her personal email account that was classified at the time. No emails released so far were marked classified, but reviewers previously designated more than 1,000 messages at lower classification levels. Friday's will be the first at top secret level.

Even if Clinton didn't write or forward the messages, she still would have been required to report any classification slippages she recognized in emails she received. But without classification markings, that may have been difficult, especially if the information was publicly available.  "We firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails," Clinton campaign spokesman Brain Fallon said. "Since first providing her emails to the State Department more than one year ago, Hillary Clinton has urged that they be made available to the public. We feel no differently today."

Fallon accused the "loudest and leakiest participants" in a process of bureaucratic infighting for withholding the exchanges. The documents, he said, originated in the State Department's unclassified system before they ever reached Clinton, and "in at least one case, the emails appear to involve information from a published news article.  "This appears to be over classification run amok," Fallon said.

Kirby said the State Department was focused, as part of a Freedom of Information Act review of Clinton's emails, on "whether they need to be classified today." Past classification questions, he said, "are being, and will be, handled separately by the State Department." It is the first indication of such a probe.

Department responses for classification infractions could include counseling, warnings or other action, officials said. They wouldn't say if Clinton or senior aides who've since left government could face penalties. The officials weren't authorized to speak on the matter and demanded anonymity.

Separately, Kirby said the department withheld eight email chains, totaling 18 messages, between President Barack Obama and Clinton. These are remaining confidential "to protect the president's ability to receive unvarnished advice and counsel," and will be released eventually like other presidential records.

The emails have been a Clinton campaign issue since 10 months ago, when the AP discovered her exclusive use while in office of a homebrew email server in the basement of her family's New York home. Doing so wasn't expressly forbidden. Clinton first called the decision a matter of convenience, then a mistake.

Last March, Clinton and the State Department said no business conducted in the emails included top-secret matters. Both said her account was never hacked or compromised, which security experts assess as unlikely.

Clinton and the State Department also claimed the vast majority of her emails were preserved properly for archiving because she corresponded mainly with government accounts. They've backtracked from that claim in recent months.

The special access programs emails surfaced last week, when Charles I. McCullough, lead auditor for U.S. intelligence agencies, told Congress he found some in Clinton's account.
Kirby confirmed the "denied-in-full emails" are among those McCullough recently cited. He said one was among those McCullough identified last summer as possibly containing top secret information.

The AP reported last August that one focused on a forwarded news article about the CIA's classified U.S. drone program. Such operations are widely discussed publicly, including by top U.S. officials, and State Department officials debated McCullough's claim. The other concerned North Korean nuclear weapons programs, according to officials.

At the time, several officials from different agencies suggested the disagreement over the drone emails reflected a tendency to overclassify material, and a lack of consistent classification policies across government.

The FBI also is looking into Clinton's email setup, but has said nothing about the nature of its probe. Independent experts say it's unlikely Clinton will be charged with wrongdoing, based on details that have surfaced so far and the lack of indications she intended to break laws. "What I would hope comes out of all of this is a bit of humility" and Clinton's acknowledgement that "I made some serious mistakes," said Bradley Moss, a Washington lawyer specializing in security clearance matters.

Legal questions aside, it's the potential political costs that probably more concern Clinton. She has struggled in surveys measuring perceived trustworthiness and any investigation, buoyed by evidence of top secret material coursing through her account, could negate a main selling point for her becoming commander in chief: her national security resume.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLINTON_EMAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-01-29-14-48-31 

 

Detroit maker investing $16 billion in U.S.


GM Rebuffs China Criticism

Detroit maker investing $16 billion in U.S.



General Motors is investing $16 billion into its U.S. business, including plant improvements.

Stung by jibes from the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, General Motors Co. is planning to invest about $16 billion on U.S. factories and facilities through 2016, more than it will spend in China, the company said.

Last month, GM Chief Executive Dan Akerson said on the eve of the Shanghai Auto Show that planned to invest $11 billion investment for its joint ventures in China. That was an increase from a 2011 outline to spend $7 billion through 2015.

The Journal last week ran a commentary on its op-ed page titled, “Welcome to General Tso’s Motors,” saying China “is disproportionately benefiting” from the 2009 U.S.-backed bankruptcy reorganization of Detroit-based GM. The Journal’s editorial page previously has criticized the bailout. GM responded to the criticism in a letter to the newspaper.  General Motors Tonawanda Powertrain employee Tim Battaglia installs a timing chain assembly on an Ecotec I-4 engine. 

“The $11 billion in capital that will be spent in China by 2016 is coming out of our joint ventures rather than Detroit and is far less than the approximately $16 billion in capital GM will invest in the U.S. over that time,” Selim Bingol, GM vice president of public policy, said in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal.

Through its joint ventures, GM sold 2.84 million vehicles in China, its biggest market, last year and wants to boost that to 5 million by 2015. As part of its continuing investment in the Chinese market, GM expects to increase its capacity in China by 20% this year.

GM “was in China long before the economic meltdown of 2008-2009, and not one dollar of U.S. taxpayer rescue money was spent on our operations there,” Bingol said in the letter. “Our Chinese joint ventures are self-funding, meaning we require funds spent there to be generated there."

Previously, GM said it invested $8.5 billion in the U.S. since emerging from bankruptcy, including efforts to prepare for production for more fuel-efficient engines and vehicles.

GM has 43 manufacturing facilities, including 12 vehicle assembly plants, in the U.S., according to GM’s website. With its China investment, GM is increasing its number of assembly plants to 17 assembly plants, Bob Socia, the automaker’s China president, said last month. The total number of facilities in China will be 30 in 2016, GM said.

Vehicle sales by General Motors and its joint ventures in China increased 15.3% on an annual basis last month to an April record 261,870 units.

Shanghai GM and SAIC-GM-Wuling, as well as their Buick, Chevrolet, Wuling and Baojun brands, all reached all-time highs for April sales. Cadillac also set an all-time monthly sales record. GM’s sales for the first four months of 2013 were a record 1,078,243 units, an increase of 10.9% on an annual basis. Shanghai GM’s domestic sales in April were up 29.2% year-over-year to 121,559 units, SAIC-GM-Wuling’s sales in China were up 5.9% to 134,815 units and FAW-GM’s sales in the domestic market were down 0.3% to 5,124 units, GM officials said.

Buick sales in the domestic market totaled 66,923 units in April, which was an increase of 23.9% on an annual basis. The original Excelle family had sales of 25,336 units, an increase of 9.3%, while sales of the Excelle XT and GT increased 53.7 percent to 18,413 units.

Chevrolet sales in China rose 21.7 percent from the previous April to 50,559 units. Sales of the Cruze, the brand’s most popular model, were up 8.6% to 17,277 units. It was followed by the Sail, which sold 15,409 units, and the Malibu, which sold 8,786 units.

(GM invests $332 million development of powertrains. Click Here to read more.)

Cadillac sales in April were up 99.1% from last April to 4,077 units. It benefited from strong demand of 2,195 units for the SRX luxury utility vehicle and 1,802 units for the new XTS luxury sedan.

(Click Here to read about GM’s commitment to climate change.)

Shanghai GM was named “Best Car Manufacturer” at the Auto Shanghai 2013 Grand Awards. Its Ecotec 2.0-liter engine was named one of the “10 Best Engines” at the show.

Shanghai GM showcased 45 vehicles under its Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac brands, with the theme of “Innovation Driving the Future.” The all-new Buick Riviera concept vehicle had its world premiere, while the Chevrolet Cruze hatchback and Cadillac Escalade ESV made their China debut.

4 Responses to “GM Rebuffs China Criticism”

dwight mannsburden says: Niedermayer (General Tso’s Motors, which is just SO amusing) is TTAC, just about the most anti-GM, anti-domestic website around. GM should have just told him he’s an idiot and to stuff it.

Jorge M. says: GM can spin it any way they want but the bottom line is that they used U.S. tax payer LOAN money to expand in China while tax payers were defrauded out of millions of dollars GM never paid back on the LOAN. The LOAN was intended to save U.S. jobs, not create C 

Michael Strong says:   Unless you’re privy to some paperwork, I believe the message was clear: Chinese money was used to bulk up the Chinese business. The question is do you believe that? In your case Jorge, I’m guessing you do not. 

Ragtop Man says:  Isn’t China big on local content and assembly? My understanding is that opening factories to give people fresh off the farms a paying job (fancy, that) was the quid pro quo of setting up shop on the mainland.No surprise at all the straphanger media (NYT, WSJ) on the island got it wrong; it’s more newsworthy when they actually get something right.

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2471513656433144696#editor/target=post;postID=1437532074171877337
 

Montana the latest state targeted for Syrian 'refugees'


Plan  to  infuse  small  towns  with  Muslim  migrants  meets  resistance 

Montana the latest state targeted for Syrian 'refugees'


Leo Hohmann
January 9 2016 

Another big battle is brewing over Syrian “refugees” sweeping into small-town America.

Rural folks in Montana are pushing back against plans by urban 'elites' to plant hundreds of Muslims from the Third World into Helena and Missoula. They plan a protest rally at 10 a.m. Monday in front of the county courthouse in Missoula and, if the pattern holds, of similar rallies in Twin Falls, Idaho, and Fargo, North Dakota.  A contingent of pro-refugee people will show up to counter protest.  Of all the 50 states, there are only two that have not received their “share” of the nearly 1 million Muslim refugees that have been infused into more than 180 U.S. cities and towns over the past 35 years, compliments of the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.  Those states are Wyoming and Montana.  Wyoming has received only five refugees from the federal resettlement program since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and is currently not participating in the program (although Gov. Matt Mead has indicated he’d like to restart the program). Montana has only received 61 refugees since 9/11 and none since 2008.

Compare that to neighboring Idaho, which has received 10,730 refugees over the same period, according to the federal refugee database. WND reported last week that Chobani’s billionaire Muslim CEO has been working with the 'federal government' to import refugees to work in his massive yogurt plant in Twin Falls.  That has caused tensions as far out as Sand Point in northern Idaho where mayor Shelby Rognstad tried to lay out the welcome mat for Syrian refugees but was forced to retract his proposal after extreme blowback from the community, the Boise Weekly reported.

Another neighboring state, North Dakota, has been on the receiving end of 4,912 U.N. refugees since 9/11, according to the federal refugee database. Colorado has absorbed 18,122 refugees, Minnesota 37,838, Washington state 36,395, and Nebraska 9,161.

As WND has reported, Obama’s plan to import Syrian and other Muslim refugees has met spirited resistance in South Carolina, Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota and Michigan. Residents in many areas of these states have let it be known they are not on board with the progressive vision of a multicultural America. They argue, with mounting evidence, that such policies in Europe have led to rampant crime, mass rapes and terrorism.

And the multicultural vision is no longer limited to gateway cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or Miami.  Small cities like Boise, Idaho; Fargo, North Dakota; Wichita, Kansas – and now Helena and Missoula, Montana – are vying for a bigger slice of the refugee pie.

Here in “Big Sky Country” local politicians in Missoula, working with pro-immigrant NGOs, are inviting the federal government to begin sending Syrians, comparing them to the Hmong refugees who fled Vietnam’s communists in the late 1970s. They have not been deterred by the fact that 98 percent of Syrian refugees are Sunni Muslims, the vast majority of whom FBI Director James Comey admits are impossible to vet for ties to terrorism

Despite Comey’s warnings, the Missoula Board of County Commissioners sent a letter on Jan. 13 to the U.S. State Department requesting Syrian refuges. “We look forward to seeing approximately 100 refugees per year resettled in Missoula,” the letter states.  "Missoula is an ideal city for resettling refugees,” the letter continues. “Our community enjoys good schools, incredible natural beauty, and a low unemployment rate, among other factors.”

Read the entire letter Missoula commissioners sent to the Obama administration.

A group of Montanans has mobilized against the plan. They are trying to educate their state and local representatives about how the refugee resettlement program actually works, including the high welfare usage of refugees, the costs of educating children who speak zero English and the risks to national security. 

Wild-eyed lefties in the Wild West

Monday’s protest rally is not just aimed at Democrats. Citizen activists described the resistance put up by Republicans in the state Legislature as tepid at best.  “They’ve done little to help us and have basically given lip-service,” said Paul Nachman, a Bozeman activist who described Missoula as a town dominated by progressive politics, due largely to the influence of the University of Montana.  “It’s a wildly left-wing town, known around here as the Berkeley of Montana,” he said.





Nachman says the commissioners Jan. 13 letter was astonishingly naïve.  Under the resettlement program, as governed by the Refugee Act of 1980 (authored by former Sens. Teddy Kennedy and Joe Biden), local elected leaders are not afforded any control over the number of refugees the federal government sends into their communities. The feds must “consult” with state and local leaders but are not required to abide by any suggested limits on the number of refugee arrivals. Nor is the federal government bound to restrict refugees coming from any particular country, such as Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan or any other jihadist-infested country.

The flow of refugees could begin with 10 Christians from Myanmar, for instance, but quickly evolve into hundreds of Muslims from Syria or Somalia. The Obama administration claims it has carte blanche authority over how many refugees will arrive in any given town and where they will come from.

Paul Ryan’s capitulation

House Speaker Paul Ryan paid lip-service against unvetted Syrian refugees, then turned around and orchestrated an omnibus funding bill that fully funded President Obama's expanded refugee program.Obama plans to send at least 10,000 Syrians to dozens of U.S. cities and towns this year and thousands more in 2017. The program as a whole will deliver 85,000 refugees to U.S. cities in 2016 and 100,000 in 2017, all completely funded by Speaker Paul Ryan’s Congress.

House Speaker Paul Ryan paid lip-service against unvetted Syrian refugees, then turned around and orchestrated an omnibus funding bill that fully funded President Obama’s expanded refugee program.
 


Since the controversy erupted last fall over Syrian refugees, Secretary of State John Kerry’s top refugee lieutenant, Anne Richard, has repeatedly said states have “no authority” to stop the flow of refugees.

Yet, the Jan. 13 letter shows a stunning lack of knowledge on the part of the Missoula County commissioners, said Nachman, who lives in Bozeman. The commissioners seem to believe they can simply put their order in for a specific number of refugees.  “They are practically begging” for 100 refugees per year, says Nachman, a 67-year-old retired physicist. He came to Montana from Southern California in 2005 where he was involved in that state’s pitched battles over illegal immigration.

As in many small towns and rural areas, debates on controversial issues in Montana often play out on the op-ed pages of local newspapers and on talk radio shows.  Nachman has written several letters to the editor to local papers, countering what he says has been dishonest propaganda put out by representatives of pro-refugee agencies that stand to make a lot of money off of the resettlement of Syrians in Montana. One group, Soft Landing Montana, is affiliated with the International Rescue Committee or IRC, which is one of nine major contractors the U.S. government pays to resettle refugees. It wants to bring Syrians to Missoula.

Stephen MalyAnother group, WorldMontana, is less advanced in it’s plans to seed Helena with Muslim refugees. It has held three meetings at the Plymouth Congregational Church to plan a “potential refugee resettlement,” according to the WorldMontana website.
Stepehn Maly, president of WorldMontana, said “fear is our nemesis,” according to a report in the Great Falls Tribune.  Maly said the discussion of bringing Syrians into Helena has become “very noisy and loud."  He said some city officials have spoken against the idea, but he believes state officials are prepared to support the resettlements in due time.

The Jan. 21 meeting in Helena was attended by representatives from Catholic Social Services, the Helena Ministerial Association and included input from refugee bureaucrats in neighboring Idaho along with Boise Mayor David Bieter. The agenda also included a presentation by a “social justice” grant-maker from Minnesota.

Maly said he has met with federal officials to discuss refugee resettlement in Helena and was told to “go slow, be transparent and inclusive, try to avoid the snares of partisanship and politicization” and to be patient and persistent, the Tribune reported.  But the “inclusiveness” only extends to those who are willing to jump on board with the program, say opponents.

Caroline Solomon lives in the city of Big Fork in Flathead County, which is tucked away in the northwest corner of Montana. She said rural Montanans are getting stirred up and frustrated by the bare-knuckle approach of the refugee-resettlement groups. 

Montana vs. Belgium

Solomon is a member of the local chapter of ACT For America, an organization that educates the public about the dangers of creeping Shariah law. She is originally from Belgium and lived near a section of Brussels that is now infested with jihadists, several of whom were recruited by ISIS to take part in the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks.  She and her husband retired to Kalispell, Montana, in 1993 and quickly fell in love with the community.  “We have had 23 years here, and I tell you I cannot describe the way the people are here,” she said. “You get airlifted to Spokane with a medical problem, and before you know it people are in their cars driving to visit you. I could not understand that as a European. It’s like one big family. Everybody is nice. When you go shop, everybody talks to everybody. When I go back to the big city, I think I must look like a country bumpkin because I have a smile on my face. That’s why people come here."

Contrast that with the no-go zones in Europe, or the growing enclaves in Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Dearborn, Michigan, and you can see why Solomon and others aren’t warming up to the changes proposed by liberals in Missoula.  “This subject (of refugees) is now a very hot topic here,” she said. “We had over 100 people at our last meeting, and the one in December we had over 300.  “They all say ‘not in Montana.’ Well it’s time to wake up because they are coming to Montana,” Solomon said. “They are asking the government to send them. We are about 100 miles north of Missoula, but a lot of us will hopefully be going to that rally Monday."

‘Assimilation is the problem'

She stressed that she is not anti-immigrant.  “I am an immigrant. So anybody saying I’m against that is absolutely wrong. There are people who need help in a serious way. That’s what this country is all about. What makes me mad and sad is they want to bring people in without knowing who they are or what they are involved with,” Solomon said. “Our own FBI says they can’t vet them. We know ISIS is using this loophole to get people into our country. We have seen it from the attacks on Europe and San Bernardino.”"  Assimilation is the problem, she said. Neither Europe nor America is demanding that its refugees from the Middle East assimilate. And 91 percent of refugees from the Middle East were receiving food stamps between 2008 and 2013, according to data from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, while 73 percent were on Medicaid and 68 percent were receiving cash welfare assistance.

“I have a problem with people who come here as immigrants or refugees and do not assimilate. They do not want to assimilate. I would have never thought that this little part of Brussels where we used to shop would be a place where terrorists hide in a no-go zone. The younger generation of Muslims, they do not want to assimilate, and I think there are forces pushing these young people (into jihad)."  Solomon said the county commissioners in Missoula are extremely uneducated about the refugee issue.  “That letter reads like an advertisement for tourists to come to Montana,” she said. “They say how wonderful the scenery is. What’s so dangerous is, I think that’s what they believe. You know, the kumbaya crowd, and that’s why we are doing what we are doing and trying to educate them and show what is really going on."

Ad hominem attacks

While a handful of state legislators and city officials have been receptive and sympathetic to residents’ concerns, the reaction is often hostile from the community organizers, she said.  “They call us all kinds of names, like Islamophobes, and I think CAIR is behind it,” she said, referring to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “I think political correctness will destroy us. The Muslim Brotherhood, they said it in their Explanatory Memorandum (seized by the FBI as evidence in 2004 from a house in Virginia), that they will destroy us from within using immigration and political correctness as a weapon, and they are using it very aggressively at this time."

A WND report from May 2015 exposed the strategy of the refugee-resettlement industry to deride and intimidate any politician or activist who opposes its agenda to change the demographics of a town.  The report, titled “Resettlement at Risk: Meeting Emerging Challenges to Refugee Resettlement in Local Communities,” was authored by one of the nine federal contractors responsible for sending thousands of refugees to the states in return for lucrative taxpayer grants and fees. It calls for “new tools to fight back against a determined legislator or governor who has decided to challenge resettlement for political or other reasons."

Montana governor falls in line

The pro-refugee organizers in Montana have an ally in Democrat Gov. Steve Bullock, who is from Missoula and has been a vocal advocate of refugees including those from high-risk countries like Syria.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is a big supporter of refugee resettlement.
Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana.After the Nov. 13 attack on Paris in which 130 people were killed by eight ISIS terrorists, including two who are believed to have entered Europe through the ranks of Syrian “refugees,” more than two-dozen governors sent letters to the Obama administration requesting, to no avail, that the flow of refugees into their states be stopped.  But not Bullock. On Nov. 16, he issued a statement that Montana would remain open for business as usual with regard to refugees.

Solomon said she doesn’t buy President Obama’s theory that poverty is the main cause of violent extremism, or that providing jobs to disillusioned Muslims will solve the problem of global jihad.  “It’s in their book (the Quran) that they are not refugees they are migrants. They are on the hijra (migration), and Muhammad was the first one to migrate, going from Mecca to Medina and that is what’s happening, and all the pieces are falling into place,” she said. “A lot of them are not poor refugees but migrants. The migration is happening and that is what I am afraid of. They say they want 100 per year in Missoula, and the families will come and they will seed them. The first little seed is going to be planted in Missoula but then the families will come. What’s a family for them? They have multiple wives and many children."

Montana already has at least one mosque, near Montana State University in Bozeman, and several Islamic centers.  “Missoula has an Islamic Center and a very active MSA (Muslim Student Association) chapter at University of Montana,” Solomon said

The MSA was exposed as a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood in court documents filed during the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial in 2007. It has hundreds of chapters on college campuses across the U.S. and is notorious for stirring up anti-Israel sentiment and boycotts among college students.

Solomon said her ACT For America chapter met with Montana’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., last summer, and also with Texas Rep. Brian Babin, who is sponsoring House Bill 3314, which would halt all refugee resettlement until a full audit of the program can be conducted. So far House Speaker Paul Ryan has refused to promote Babins’ bill even though it has more than 80 co-sponsors.

Nachman, who fought many immigration battles in Southern California, said he, too, loves Montana. But the state has many communities that aren’t prepared for these battles and can be hoodwinked by clever pro-immigration activists. “You have a lot of naïve communities,” he said. “When I came in 2005, Montana reminded me of the Midwest in the 1950s. It reminded me of that, lost in time, sort of throw-back community, but the problems of big cities are bound to come here if we don’t fight them off.” 

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/plan-to-infuse-small-towns-with-muslim-migrants-meets-resistance/
 

FBI: Hillary, Huma prosecuted in 'slam dunk' case




Issa:  FBI  wants  Hillary,  Huma  prosecuted  in  'slam  dunk'  case

'Director would like to indict Clinton and Abedin'

Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin
Douglas Ernst
Jan 29 2016 
 
California Rep. Darrell Issa says the FBI has a “slam dunk” case against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and senior aide Huma Abedin that it’s itching to prosecute..
 
The former House Oversight chairman’s statement on Friday comes just days after former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said his contacts in the agency will “blow the whistle and go public” if Attorney General Loretta Lynch does not prosecute.
 
“I think the FBI director would like to indict both Huma and Hillary as we speak,” Issa said at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s New Hampshire campaign headquarters on Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported. “I think he’s in a position where he’s being forced to triple-time make a case of what would otherwise be, what they call, a slam dunk."
 
Approximately 100 FBI special agents are assigned to an investigation that will determine if the former secretary of state violated a subsection of the Espionage Act related to “gross negligence” in handling government documents. Dozens of agents were required to sign non-disclosure forms before examining classified information and trying to determine whether co-mingling of the Clinton Foundation and State Department business violated public corruption laws.
 
“You can’t have 1,300 highly sensitive emails that contain highly sensitive material that’s taken all or in part from classified documents, and have it be an accident,” Issa said, the newspaper reported. “There’s no question she knew she had a responsibility and she circumvented it. And she circumvented it a second time when she knowingly let highly classified material get onto emails in an unclassified format."
 
Issa’s and DeLay’s comments also follow an exclusive Fox News investigation that revealed Clinton had beyond “top secret” intelligence pass through her “home brew” email server. The network obtained an unclassified letter by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III that shows Clinton’s server contained intelligence known as “special access programs,” or SAP.
 
“To date, I have received two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the IC element to be at the confidential, secret, and top secret/sap levels,” said the Jan. 14 IG letter to lawmakers with oversight of the intelligence community and State Department.
 
"According to the declarant, these documents contain information derived from classified IC element sources.”
Issa said that FBI Director James Comey would have an uphill battle to get the Obama administration to prosecute Clinton – even with a “slam dunk” case.

“I’ve worked with both the last attorney general … and this attorney general, and I really don’t believe they’ll do it,” Issa told the newspaper. “Doing it, by definition, would end her run for president.”

California Rep. Darrell Issa says the FBI has a “slam dunk” case 
against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but he does not 
believe the Obama administration will prosecute
 
 
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/issa-fbi-wants-hillary-huma-prosecuted-in-slam-dunk-case/