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Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal child immigrants or face arrest

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/02/medical-staff-warned-keep-quiet-about-illegal-immigrants-or-face-arrest

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By Todd Starnes
• Published July 02, 2014
• FoxNews.com

Editor's note: The contractor running the refugee camp at Lackland Air Force Base is "BCFS," not "Baptist Family and Children's Services" -- as noted in a previous version of this story.

A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.

In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution.

My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.
"There were several of us who wanted to talk about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would be arrested," a psychiatric counselor told me. "We were under orders not to say anything."

The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the BCFS, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp.

The sources say security forces called themselves the "Brown Shirts."

"It was a very submissive atmosphere," the counselor said. "Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws."

She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired.

"Everyone was paranoid," she said. "The children had more rights than the workers."

She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.

"It was not a good atmosphere in terms of health," she said. "I would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair."

A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw.

"We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country," she said. "We were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base."

Both the counselor and the nurse said their superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses.

"When they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant – 'Don't mention that. Don't say scabies,'" the nurse recounted. "But everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told don't worry about it."

The nurse said the lice issue was epidemic – but everything was kept "hush-hush."

"You could see the bugs crawling through their hair," she said. "After we would rinse out their hair, the sink would be loaded with black bugs."

The nurse told me she became especially alarmed because their files indicated the children had been transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes.

"That's what alerted me," she said. "Oh, my God. They're flying these kids around. Nobody knows that these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the truth, there's no way to control it."

I don't mean to upset anyone's Independence Day vacation plans, but were these kids transported to the camps before or after they were deloused? Anyone who flies the friendly skies could be facing a public health concern. 

The counselor told me the refugee camp resembled a giant emergency room – off limits to the public.

"They did not want the community to know," she said. "I initially spoke out at Lackland because I had a concern the children's mental health care was not being taken care of."

She said the breaking point came when camp officials refused to hospitalize several children who were suicidal.

"I made a recommendation that a child needed to be sent to a psychiatric unit," the counselor told me. "He was reaching psychosis. He was suicidal. Instead of treating him, they sent him off to a family in the United States."

She said she filed a Child Protective Services report and quit her job.

"I didn't want to lose my license if this kid committed suicide," she told me. "I was done."

The counselor kept a detailed journal about what happened during her tenure at the facility.

"When people read that journal they are going to be astonished," she said. 'I don't think they will believe what is going on in America."

So it was not a great surprise, she said, when she received a call from federal agents demanding that she return to the military base and hand over her journal.

She said she declined to do so.

"I didn't go back to Lackland," she said.

Both workers told me while they have no regrets, they want to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.

"They're going to crush the system," the nurse told me. "We can't sustain this. They are overwhelming the system and I think it's a travesty."

BCFS spokeswoman Krista Piferrer tells me the agency takes "any allegation of malfeasance or inappropriate care of a child very seriously."

"There are a number of checks and balances to ensure children are receiving appropriate and adequate mental health care," she said.

Piferrer said the clinicians are supervised by a federal field specialist from HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. She also said BCFS have 58 medical professionals serving at Lackland.

"Every illness, whether it is a headache or something more serious, is recorded in a child's electronic medical record and posted on WebEOC – a real-time, web-based platform that is visible to not only BCFS but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services," she said.

As for those brown shirts, the BCFS said they are "incident management team personnel" – who happen to wear tan shirts.

My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.

"This is just the beginning," one source told me. "It is a long-term financial responsibility."

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Not old enough to vote,
16-year-old builds money-in-politics
plug-in

By Colby Itkowitz July 3

Nick Rubin was 10 days into a month-long high school trip to China when he decided to come home this week.

And not because he was homesick or got sick of dumplings.

The 16-year-old of Seattle spent the better part of the last year building a database of members of Congress and their campaign contributors. It went live in June, and began generating considerable buzz online. He wanted to be stateside to help promote it.

Here's how it works: Once you download his plug-in, which he called "Greenhouse," you can hover your mouse over any member of Congress's name that shows up in any online story and a pop-up scorecard appears, like the one for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pictured here.

Did we mention he's 16?

"I hope they use it when reading their political news," Nick told the Loop on Thursday. "Hopefully people will learn for themselves the influence of money behind these [policy] decisions. The money story behind the news story is the real story."

Self-taught in computer coding, Nick spent 10 months building "Greenhouse" using campaign finance data available from Opensecrets.org to show what industries give to which candidates. For each politician, Nick's program also shows the percentage of the contributions that come from individuals giving less than $200.

For instance, only 4.8 percent of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) contributions are from small donors. The same goes for outgoing Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.). The motto of the site? "Some are red. Some are blue. All are green."

"Even kids my age are able to see this data and recognize it's a problem, we'll be growing up in this political system," he said. "As I went through the process and entered the information, what stood out to me is the scale of this issue."

Nick said he was inspired by a 7th grade project on "corporate personhood" and wanted to educate people about what and who influences American politics. He said he hopes that when an issue comes up in the news, like energy policy or health care, people will use his plug-in to help explain why a politician might be falling on one side or the other.

He's 16.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/07/03/not-old-enough-to-vote-16-year-old-builds-money-in-politics-plug-in/?tid=HP_

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Meet Ethan Krupp: Pajamacare boy and Organizing for Action employee.
Pajamacare boy is Ethan Krupp, an Organizing for Action employee and the subject of ridicule after OFA created a social ad encouraging everyone to sign up for Obamacare:

A group of drag queens in Louisiana has decided to use their cross-dressing talents to help promote Obamacare. Wednesday Night Tea — "a unique, interactive drag queen show held every Wednesday at Central Station in Shreveport, Louisiana" — has partnered up with the non-profit Out2Enroll to help market Obamacare to the LGBT community. Out2Enroll focuses on informing those in the LGBT community about the benefits of Obamacare and on enrolling them in insurance plans and events in cities across the country.

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Published on Jul 7, 2014

A group of black Americans speak out

A group of black Americans speak out in Support of protecting our women and children in America before worrying about the rest of the world (Raw News Video Unedited). This occurred at the Murrieta California Border Patrol Station July 4th, 2014. Debate starts around the 1:40 mark in the video. Language not approvable for younger children. Their are people chanting trying to drown out all debate and discussion. Reporter Ernie White.

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Pic: Man Greets Obama Wearing Horse Head Mask... Yeah, this really happened.

(No word yet if Obuma confused him with Michelle)

De Blasio's New York: Twelve People Shot In Five Hours Over 4th Of July Weekend

(Looks like Chicago has some competition)

Via NRO

New York City saw the most concentrated explosion of gun violence of the year over the Fourth of July weekend, with twelve people shot in just over five hours, according to the New York Post.

Saturday night through Sunday morning, shootings were reported in the The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Three people were shot fatally.

This was the third consecutive weekend in which at least a dozen people were shot in the city.

Additionally, Sunday morning in Crown Heights, a bike was thrown from a fifth-floor balcony at four NYPD officers who were busting a gunman (Four NYPD cops were walloped by a child's Barbie bike that was tossed at them from a fifth-floor balcony in Brooklyn while they were busting a gunman early Sunday, officials said.)One cop suffered a concussion, while another suffered a gash to his head.

"The atmosphere is, 'We're going to do what we want,' that 'We're going to get away with it,' " police-union president Ed Mullins told the New York Post. "There's a perception that the mayor is soft on crime. The perps' perception is that the cops are backing down."

Israeli Official: "We Will Do More Than Mow The Lawn In Gaza, We Will Scorch It"
The Myth Of Israeli Collective Punishment

(Don't mess with Israeli A.F.  Israel conducts surgical strikes while the PLO/Hamas indiscriminately shoots rockets into Israel)

Via Frontpage Mag

The most enduring critique of Israel's struggle against Islamic terrorism is the recurring accusation of "collective punishment." Every time Israelis are murdered, the Jewish State is accused of punishing Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza for the actions of a few individuals.

Israel is fighting an enemy that insists on having all the advantages of a state and statelessness with none of the disadvantages. The PLO/Hamas unity government is a state when it wants something from the United Nations or the United States, but it's not a state when it comes to taking responsibility. The Muslims who live in Gaza and the West Bank are considered citizens when it comes to having political rights, but not when it comes to taking responsibility for the consequences of their political decisions.

Their votes are to be taken seriously, but once those votes lead to war they are no longer responsible.

The Palestinian Authority is a state when it comes to its territorial claims, but not a state when it insists on open borders with Israel while claiming that any Israeli border security is a violation of its rights.

Terrorists routinely operate in such legal twilight zones, but the Palestinian Authority is unique in that it has all the structure of a state with none of the responsibilities of statehood. If Israel treats it as a state in response to acts of war, it is accused of collective punishment, even though the Palestinian Authority is the product of a collective political will and attacking it is not a collective punishment, but simply war.


EREZ CROSSING, Israel – Israel has already begun calling up thousands of reservists as it prepares for a long-ranging military operation in the Gaza Strip, according to military officials who briefed BuzzFeed.

Earlier Tuesday, Israel's security cabinet approved the use of 40,000 reservists, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that thousands more would be sent if Israel expanded its offensive into Gaza in the weeks to come.

"At the moment we have begun the calling up of reservists, and the deployment of active soldiers to the Gaza border area. We are preparing for every eventuality," said the officer, who spoke to reporters in a background briefing. He said that "wide-ranging and intense" air strikes would hit Gaza Tuesday night, in response to upwards of 60 rockets that were fired from Gaza into southern and central Israel.

"We will do more than mow the law in Gaza. We will scorch it," he said.

Support For Hillary Clinton Drops 11 Points . . . Among Democrats!!!

(Aw, how sad... a few months ago she was supposedly a lock for president, not so much these days)

Via TWS:
Hillary Clinton's tour promoting her book Hard Choices may be having an effect—though perhaps not the one the 66-year-old former secretary of state might have wanted. A new poll of the potential 2016 presidential field from Quinnipiac, conducted at the end of June, found support for Clinton among Democratic primary voters at 58 percent. That's an 11-point drop from an ABC News/Washington Post poll of the potential Democratic field—conducted in late May, before Hard Choices was released—that found 69 percent supported Clinton over any other possible Democrats.

Something Creepy This Way Comes - Creepy Uncle Sam ObumaCrappyCare Care-nival

(Whoa... Send in the clowns!)

Via Watchdog:
Creepy Uncle Sam is no longer alone in highlighting the 'creepy' side of Obamacare. He is joined by a group of carnies in a new health-care freak show.

Clowns dunk a young woman into a "high risk pool," and a knife thrower aims at a young man spinning on a wheel of surgical options.

Both of these scenes from the Creepy Carnival video are to emphasize the 'creepy' and expensive aspects of Obamacare.

"Obamacare was sold as a great deal for young Americans — but it turned out to be a creepy, intrusive and expensive government plan," the description of the video states.

The health-care freak show is part of latest anti-Obamacare ad campaign by Generation Opportunity, a conservative organization based in Virginia.

The campaign encourages young people to "opt-out" of the Affordable Care Act. But unlike other ads about Obamacare, it wasn't funded by tax dollars.

If millennials choose to opt out, Obamacare could be in trouble. Healthy young people, after all, are key to funding the exchanges.

Islamic State Seizes Iraqi Chemical Weapons Facility
Where 2,500 Rockets Filled With Sarin Are Stored

(Holy Crap... What could possibly go wrong?)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq said the Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.

Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter circulated Tuesday that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment through the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.

The Islamic State group, which controls parts of Syria, sent its fighters into neighboring Iraq last month and quickly captured a vast stretch of territory straddling the border between the two countries. Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land the extremists control.

Alhakim said as a result of the takeover of Muthanna, Iraq is unable "to fulfil its obligations to destroy chemical weapons" because of the deteriorating security situation. He said it would resume its obligations "as soon as the security situation has improved and control of the facility has been regained."

Alhakim singled out the capture of bunkers 13 and 41 in the sprawling complex 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad in the notorious "Sunni Triangle."

The last major report by U.N. inspectors on the status of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program was released about a year after the experts left in March 2003. It states that Bunker 13 contained 2,500 sarin-filled 122-mm chemical rockets produced and filled before 1991, and about 180 tons of sodium cyanide, "a very toxic chemical and a precursor for the warfare agent tabun."

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Hamas Tries To Storm Israel By Sea.... Fails Miserably

Video: Israeli Helicopter Takes Out Hamas Cell Trying To Attack By Sea

(TOASTED!  Their one last regret was that they never told their goats goodbye before they left home that morning.)

Via JPost:
IDF units intercepted a Hamas commando terrorist unit seeking to infiltrate Israel from the sea at Zikim beach on Tuesday.

The IDF Spokesman reported that soldiers killed four terrorists.

A senior security official said an IDF force was dispatched to Zikim beach after the military detected suspicious movements in the area.

The unit engaged the terrorists, and shot and struck a number of them.

One soldier was lightly injured in the exchange of fire.

Civilian eye witnesses told Channel 2 that soldiers were seen running toward the beach from the Zikim army base and firing their weapons, while a boat approached the beach firing at the beach.

Hamas's military wing the al-Qassam Brigades claimed on its twitter account to have perpetrated the attack, saying that it "stormed the Zionist naval base on the shores of the sea."

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