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Hacker Begins Distributing Confidential Memos Sent To
Hillary Clinton On Libya, Benghazi Attack

Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the documents to a wide array of congressional aides, political figures, and journalists worldwide.

In a series of weekend e-mail blasts, the hacker known as "Guccifer" disseminated four recent memos to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the former Secretary of State.

The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week by "Guccifer," who has conducted similar illegal assaults against a growing list of public figures, including Colin Powell, relatives and friends of the Bush family, and a top United Nations official.

The hacker's e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office. But many of the addresses to which the Blumenthal memos were sent are good (though it is unclear whether karl@rove.com is a solid address for the Republican mastermind).

Most of the e-mail recipients were sent four separate memos that were e-mailed to Clinton by Blumenthal during the past five months. Each memo dealt with assorted developments in Libya, including the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. One memo marked "Confidential" was sent to Clinton on September 12.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/sidney-blumenthal/hacker-distributes-memos-784091

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Taxpayer-Subsidized Lab Obuma Used To Plug His Green Energy Plan
Hasn't Produced A Single Battery

Even better, the batteries were for the official car of the Obama administration, the Chevy Volt.

Speaking at Argonne National Laboratory on Friday, President Obama announced $2 million in green energy subsidies with the goal of getting U.S. cars and trucks off oil.

Argonne, a Department of Energy lab that has received more than $2 million in stimulus funds, partnered with LG Chem Michigan in 2011 to produce electric vehicle batteries, providing the manufacturer with its own patented battery design, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The batteries were supposed to power the Chevy Volt. The problem is, LG Chem hasn't produced a single battery yet.

The company received $151 million in stimulus money in 2010, which was intended to cover half the construction costs of its Holland, Mich., factory. Its other plant is in South Korea.

LG Chem was supposed to use Argonne's design to produce the Volt batteries in its Holland plant once construction was finished.  But according to a recent Inspector General report, the company's employees have been too busy playing video games to produce any batteries, despite spending $142 million.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/taxpayer-subsidized-lab-obama-used-to-plug-green-energy-hasnt-produced-any-batteries/article/2524709

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Nazi doctors: Hitler was gay, took female hormones

http://washingtonexaminer.com/nazi-doctors-hitler-was-gay-took-female-hormones/article/2517746?utm_campaign=obinsite

Newly discovered notes from a U.S. Army interview of former Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler doctors reveal that the madman had homosexual tendencies, did not sleep in girlfriend Eva Braun's bedroom, and was doped up with multiple drugs including female hormones.

Written in erratic shorthand, Army interrogator Herman Merl, a Vienna-born medical technician enlisted to interview Hitler's doctors, Karl Brandt and Theodor Morell, scribbled "Homosex" in his notebook where he sized up the mass murderer's sexuality.

He then wrote: "Eva Braun = separate rooms" before adding "female hormone - injection 50,000 units." Elsewhere he wrote, "His sexual life and intercourse with Eva Braun was told to me."

The notebooks are going up for auction later this month at one of the nation's leading sellers of historical artifacts, Alexander Historical Auctions of Chesapeake City, Md. Alexander has offered other important Third Reich relics, including a tea set from Hitler's mountain hideaway and Josef Mengele's diaries. Often the items are sold to Jewish collectors and museums.

Merl's notes further confirm other post-war interviews with Hitler's caretakers that he was "hysterical," a "megalomaniac," and suffered from several ailments, notably flatulence for which he took drugs to stop passing gas. He also suggested that Hitler had Parkinson's disease.

A previous Alexander auction included notes detailing how Hitler was shot up with bull semen. The new notes add that bull semen shots were used to regulate his level of testosterone. But proving that his doctors used many experimental treatments on Hitler was Merl's mention that the fuhrer was also receiving female hormones. Those can be used to treat various ailments, but are dangerous and often interfere with male sexual functions.

Alexander President Bill Panagopulos told Secrets that there are five notebooks for sale and he expects the sale price to be $5,000-$7,000. He noted that Dr. Morell was Hitler's primary physician and a rival of Dr. Brandt, an SS officer who also headed the Nazi euthanasia program.

Alexander's auction includes this movie poster, featuring actor Richard Basehart.

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Obuma Underwater In New Poll By 15 Points

"Oh Mohammed... where did I go wrong.  What to do, what to do."

President Obama's approval rating has fallen 8 points and his disapproval rating jumped 7 points since the beginning of the year, leaving him underwater, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll.

Some 47 percent of respondents approve of the job he's doing, while 50 percent disapprove, the poll found.

Gallup earlier this month found his three-day approval rating tumbling to its lowest level since reelection. A McClatchy Marist poll last week found his approval rating at 45 percent among registered voters, the lowest level since 2011. Quinnipiac came up with  the same result earlier this month — 45 percent — compared with 53 percent after reelection.

White House press secretary Jay Carney has said people shouldn't pay attention to the "series of polls" and pointed out that a recent Washington Post poll found his approval rating at 50 percent. Although the Post poll last week also found that has dropped 5 points since he took the oath of office in January.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/03/obama-underwater-in-new-poll-159633.html?hp=l3

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Obuma's Middle East Map Erases Israeli Territory

Obuma's Map Of Middle East Omits Jerusalem As Part Of Israel,
Erases Large Swaths Of Israeli Territory

Wishful thinking at the White House

The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before President Barack Obama's visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital.

                           

The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.[/b][/font][/size]

The itinerary on the White House website also implies that Jerusalem is neither Israel's capital nor even part of Israel.

The president's schedule lists two stops in "Tel Aviv, Israel" and one in "Amman, Jordan" but his activities in Israel's capital city are identified as taking place only in "Jerusalem" — with no country name attached. This keeps with a reluctantly-acknowledged administration policy of denying that Jerusalem is Israel's capital or even a part of Israel.

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Palestinian Mom of the Decade Dies

By Mark Steyn
March 18, 2013 12:57 P.M



Seven years ago, in my book America Alone, I noted the Hamas landslide in the 2006 Palestinian elections:

"Among the incoming legislators was Mariam Farahat, a mother of three, elected in Gaza. She used to be a mother of six but three of her sons self-detonated on suicide missions against Israel. She's a household name to Palestinians, known as Um Nidal – Mother of the Struggle – and, at the rate she's getting through her kids, the Struggle's all she'll be Mother of. She's famous for a Hamas recruitment video in which she shows her 17-year old son how to kill Israelis and then tells him not to come back. It's the Hamas version of 42nd Street: You're going out there a youngster but you've got to come back in small pieces."

"Um Nidal" passed away yesterday. Unusually for a member of the Farahat family, she expired not from firing up the old suicide belt and with body parts of dead Jews raining down on her, but, rather more prosaically, from multiple organ failure. One trusts that, reunited with mom in Paradise, her late sons won't hold it against her. Suicide for Allah "makes me happy", she famously declared. "Hepatitis for Allah" doesn't have quite the same ring.

Nevertheless, as this headline puts it, "Thousands participate in funeral of the Khansa of Palestine' Umm Nidal Farahat". Thousands. For a woman whose sole contribution to Palestinian "society" is a mound of dead sons.

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Palestinians Spray Paint Swastikas On Banner Featuring Obuma's Image, Pummel It With Shoes

Racists! 

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians have vandalized a banner bearing President Barack Obama's image just days before his visit.

The Palestinians tore down the banner, hurled shoes at it and spray painted it with swastikas. Associated Press TV video showed a taxi driving over the banner before it was set on fire in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday.

Video broadcast on Israel's Channel 10 also showed an official Palestinian Authority car driving over the banner.

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WaPo Shocked To Find Food Stamp Recipients Using Their Welfare Benefits To Buy Junk Food, Soda's

WOW... If they're shocked by the abuse of the food stamps program, I can only imagine the outrage when they find out what EBT cards are being used for.

Belly up to the ATM, boys.... drinks are on the taxpayers.

And maybe a lap dance or ten, too.

Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops
By KATE BRIQUELET
Last Updated: 10:03 AM, January 7, 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-why-should-food-stamps-pay-for-junk-food/2013/03/18/af2f4a40-8fff-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html

They're on the dole — and watching the pole.
Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.

The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the "cash assistance program," even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site.

DEMS BOTTLE UP WELFARE REFORM BILL THAT WOULD END 'SINFUL SPENDING'

NYC OFFICIALS WANT TO INVESTIGATE BODEGAS RINGING UP SUSPICIOUSLY HIGH SALES WITH FOOD-STAMP MONEY

EDITORIAL: CARD TRICKS

One EBT machine is stationed inside Club Eleven, an infamous Hunts Point jiggle joint known as much for its violent history as its girls in pink thongs.

Cops have been cracking down on the Bronx club since 2009 and shut it down temporarily in 2010. In July, five men were stabbed and two others shot outside after bouncers broke up a 4 a.m. brawl with pepper spray. The club appeared to be shuttered when The Post visited Thursday.

Club Heat, another Bronx strip club that dispenses EBT cash, is also no stranger to violence. A 33-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head outside the club in December 2011.

Critics blasted the government for turning a blind eye to welfare's sleazy money.

"This is morally scandalous," said Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "I have nothing against strip clubs, but that's not what benefits are for. I don't blame [recipients]. If you are poor, it's a crummy life and you want to have a drink or see a naked woman. I blame the people who are in charge of this."

Welfare recipients receive food stamps and cash assistance under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Both benefits are accessed through an EBT card, but only cash assistance — meant for housing, utilities and household necessities — can be accessed at ATMs.

A single-person household could receive a maximum $200 in monthly food stamps plus $158 in cash assistance. A family of four could get as much as $668 in food stamps and $433 in cash.

The food-stamp program prohibits the purchase of booze, tobacco and lottery tickets with an EBT card. But with the cash-assistance program, users can blow money on strippers or a six-pack and to tap welfare dollars from liquor stores, casinos and adult-oriented establishments.

The Post found dozens of pubs, nightclubs and tobacco shops where welfare dough was dispensed — and presumably spent.

The Boiler Room, a gay dive bar in the East Village, had $120 and $60 transactions a minute apart on Jan. 17, 2011. The bar is around the corner from a Bank of America that takes EBT cards.

West Village tobacco shop Shisha International had EBT transactions ranging from $40 to $180 in 2011. The store is near at least two EBT-friendly ATMs.

Legislative efforts to crack down on sinful spending have fallen short.

State Sen. Tom Libous (R-Binghamton) passed a bill in his chamber in June that would outlaw welfare withdrawals at gambling dens, strip clubs and other venues of vice, but the measure is gathering dust in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.

Libous is looking for a new Assembly sponsor to carry the bill in that house in the upcoming legislative session, after past sponsor George Latimer (D-Rye) was elected to the state Senate.

With only one of the city's Assembly members, Nicole Malliotakis (R-B'klyn./SI), as a co-sponsor, the bill faces an uphill battle.

The Assembly typically doesn't support welfare reform, because its more liberal members think the measures "hurt the poor," Libous said. If the bill remains stalled, the state stands to lose $120 million in federal welfare funding.

The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, signed by President Obama last February, requires states to prohibit sinful welfare spending by 2014. If they don't, they'll forfeit federal cash.

"The people who are stealing from the program are the ones I want to go after," Libous said. "Not someone who lost his job or a single mom who has to feed her kids. That's what this program is supposed to be for."

A spokesman with the US Department of Health and Human Services said states make their own rules on EBT cards.

Some states already limit where EBT cards can withdraw money.

A rep from OTDA, New York's welfare office, said the state does not choose or regulate which retailers get ATMs that handle EBTs. Instead, retailers decide whether to use an ATM that accepts welfare cards.

Additional reporting by Susan Edelman and Brad Hamilton

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Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein is disappointed that her assault rifle ban was removed from Senate gun bill... here she demonstrates her stunning lack of knowledge about gun safety and proper gun handling as she points her assault weapon at the audience with her finger on the trigger, although she has claimed to be an expert.  The child to the left is holding the weapon safely, Feinstein is not.

FEINSTEIN FOILED ON GUN GRAB

From Washington Times, Harry Reid shoots down Feinstein gun-ban bill:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein emerged from a closed-door meeting with Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday — but her ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines didn't.

Mr. Reid turned down her attempt to bring her ban on 157 different weapons and ammunition clips aboard the Democratic Party's comprehensive gun bill, Politico reported.

"My understanding is it will not be [part of the base bill]," said Mrs. Feinstein, California Democrat. "I would like to [see it moved], but the leader has decided not to do it. ... You will have to ask him [why]."

Her bill instead will have to go forth separately or as an amendment — and that means it's probably not going anywhere.

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The assault weapons ban was the most controversial of the major proposals to restrict guns that have been advanced by Obama and Senate Democrats. Because of that, it had been expected that the assault weapons measure would be left out of the initial package the Senate considers, with Democrats hoping the Senate could therefore amass the strongest possible vote for the overall legislation.

Having a separate vote on assault weapons might free moderate Democratic senators facing re-election next year in Republican-leaning states to vote against the assault weapons measure, but then support the remaining overall package of gun curbs.

Gun control supporters consider a strong Senate vote important because the Republican-run House has shown little enthusiasm for most of Obama's proposals.
Feinstein said Reid told her there will be two votes.

One would be on her assault weapons ban, which also includes a ban on ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The second would just be on prohibiting the high-capacity magazine clips.

Many Democrats think the ban on large-capacity magazines has a better chance of getting 60 votes than the assault weapons ban.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved four gun control measures this month, including Feinstein's barring assault weapons and high capacity magazines. The others would expand required federal background checks for firearms buyers, increase federal penalties for illegal gun trafficking and boost school safety money.


OK Congress, how about one or a few of you propose an amendment to this legislation that illegal possession of a gun by convicted felon anywhere in this nation becomes a federal crime punishable by a mandatory 25 years in a federal prison.

I guarantee you 100% of law abiding citizens would support that amendment.

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According to unnamed reliable sources, the White House is set to announce the formation of the Federal Bureau of "Quotations" to oversee media citations of all official White House announcements and denials of previous announcements.

In future, all media citations must fit within strictly defined classifications: unnamed, well-placed, unnamed well-placed, un-quoted, official, unofficial, official unnamed, official un-quoted, official well-placed, reliable, unnamed reliable, well-placed reliable, official unnamed well-placed, and unofficial un-quoted unnamed well-placed reliable.

The Federal Bureau of "Quotations" has set up a website to help the media and the reading public understand what the new classifications mean. An official unnamed well-placed reliable source said the site will be user-friendly, featuring a cute feline mascot named Miss Information to lead readers through the many details.

An unnamed well-placed un-quoted official didn't clarify whether, when spoken, the new entity should be pronounced as "Bureau of quote Quotations unquote" or simply stated as "Bureau of Quotations" with air quotes given at the appropriate moment. A second well-placed reliable source claimed air quotes should not be used so as not to offend the eye-hand-coordination-challenged.

When contacted, a third unofficial un-quoted unnamed well-placed reliable source denied everything, but confirmed multiple job openings at the Bureau's community-based Quotations Correctional facilities to help maintain safe, cost-efficient, and secure environment for media professionals in need of self-improvement opportunities offered to them by dedicated Quotations Correctional Officers.