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"Taoiseach Enda Kenny makes a point to US president Barack Obama and Britain's prime minister David Cameron during a walk at the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh."

EPIC SPEECH Irish Lawmaker Denounces "Unprecedented Slobbering" Over "War Criminal" Obama

Published on Jun 19, 2013
Clare Daly asks about all the slobbering over the "War Criminal" American President and his family by Irish Government officials on the recent visit by the Obamas after the G8 summit held in Co. Fermanagh:

(Americans feel the same frustration perfectly articulated by Clare Daly. It should be noted that the Irish lawmaker is not the only one who wants Obama prosecuted for war crimes.  The Africa Muslim Lawyer Association feel the same way)
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/06/19060-south-african-muslim-lawyers-submit-request-to-arrest-obama-when-he-visits/

The Irish Times reports the following:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/daly-attacks-slobbering-over-obamas-1.1435094

Ms Daly, a TD for Dublin North, hit out at the "almost unprecedented slobbering" over the Obama family's visit. "It's really hard to know which is worst, whether it's the outpourings of the Obamas themselves or the sycophantic falling over them by sections of the media and the political establishment," she said.

"We've had separate and special news bulletins by the State broadcaster to tell us what Michelle Obama and her daughters had for lunch in Dublin, but very little questioning of the fact that she was having lunch with Mr Tax Exile himself," she said in reference to U2's Bono.

She described Mr Obama as a "war criminal", having "just announced his decision to supply arms to the Syrian opposition, including the jihadists, fuelling the destabilisation of that region, continuing to undermine secularism and knock back conditions for women".

Ms Daly said: "This is the man who is in essence stalling the Geneva peace talks by trying to broker enhanced leverage for the Syrian opposition by giving them arms – and to hell with the thousands more who'll lose their lives, or the tens of thousands who will be displaced.

"This is the man who has facilitated a 200 per cent increase in the use of drones which have killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children."

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Belgium and the Netherlands consider permitting euthanasia for children – including to relieve 'suffering for the parents'

(Once you start down the slippery slope, you go down still further...)

Via Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100222557/belgium-and-the-netherlands-consider-permitting-euthanasia-for-children-including-to-relieve-suffering-for-the-parents/

Of all the social/moral questions facing us, euthanasia is one of the toughest to draw a conclusion on. On the one hand, nobody likes to think of a patient being left to suffer. As individuals we have a right to control our own way of living and, by that logic, our own way of dying. On the other hand, there's a worry that legalising euthanasia encourages a culture of death. Sadly, the news coming out of Belgium and the Netherlands confirms the critics' worst fears.

Belgium adopted euthanasia in 2002, one year after the Netherlands, and its laws were designed to help adults riddled with "unbearable physical or mental suffering". Today, roughly one per cent of all deaths in Belgium are due to euthanasia – and the grounds on which it is carried out are becoming looser and looser. As the Telegraph recently reported, two deaf brothers opted to die after they started to go blind. They were young and their condition wasn't terminal. They couldn't bear the thought of living alone and in darkness, which is entirely understandable – but the case bends the spirit of the original law.

Now Belgium is weighing up some changes. One would allow patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's and other diseases leading to dementia to sign an agreement permitting a doctor to allow them to die when the condition enters an advanced stage – even if they appear perfectly happy and physically stable. Another reform is to allow Belgians under 18 to choose euthanasia, too. This means that children who can't drive, marry, vote or drink alcohol will be regarded as competent enough to decide whether or not they can die.

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Unbelievable: IRS To Hand Out 70 Million In Bonuses

(Holy Crap... even after all the scandal, they still flout this in our faces)

WASHINGTON (AP) — http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-senator-irs-pay-70m-employee-bonuses
Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses.

The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it's merely following legal obligations under a union contract.

The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.

Grassley says his office has learned that the IRS was to execute an agreement with the employees' union Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office.

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Lawmakers question Obama's pledge to scale back US nuclear arsenal

Read more:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/20/gop-lawmaker-calls-obama-pledge-to-scale-back-us-nuclear-arsenal-is-misguided/#ixzz2WlD7dyXb

(It is such moves that makes one believe that he does not truly have the best interests of the United States at heart)


WASHINGTON – President Obama's pledge to cut the United States' nuclear arsenal by one-third is sending the wrong message to the global community, some Washington lawmakers said Wednesday.

"Now is not the time to pursue further strategic nuclear force reductions," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said following Obama's speech in Berlin, Germany.
Inhofe was among several lawmakers who warned that cutting the country's strategic nuclear arsenal by one-third would put America at a disadvantage against countries like Russia, North Korea and Iran. Inhofe said the president's plan wrongly assumes that reducing the role of nuclear weapons would make the world safer.

"Instead, our experience has been that nuclear arsenals — other than ours — are on the rise, Russia defies us at almost every turn, efforts to curb the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran are failing, and our allies grow increasingly uneasy about the reliability of U.S. nuclear guarantees," Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said.

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Government Spends $1.5 Million To Study Why Lesbians Are Fat

(Your tax dollars are being spent on studying why lesbians are FAT.
Lol... Lord help us.  As ridiculous as this sounds, it is not a joke)

(More tax-payer money going down the drain... and POS Obuma and Congress cannot not come up with the bucks for the White House Tours)

$509K Federal Safe-Sex Study Will Text 'Gay-Lingo' to Meth Addicts
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/509k-federal-safe-sex-study-will-text-gay-lingo-meth-addicts

U.S. Spends $228K to Find Out Why Gay Kenyans Avoid Free HIV Treatment
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-spends-228k-find-out-why-gay-kenyans-avoid-free-hiv-treatment

State Department to Spend $450,000 Protecting Transgenders - Overseas
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-department-spend-450000-protecting-transgenders-overseas

Feds Spending $800,000 to Teach Responsible Fatherhood
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spending-800000-teach-responsible-fatherhood

$431,363 Stimulus Project Concludes 'Gay Fathers' Have Less Time for Sex
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/431363-stimulus-project-concludes-gay-fathers-have-less-time-sex)

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ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas Vivos Shelter and Resort mine.

That's the vision of a California man who is creating what he calls the world's largest private underground survivor shelter, using a complex of limestone caves dug more than 100 years ago beneath gently rolling hills overlooking the Missouri River.

"I do believe I am on a mission and doing a spiritual thing," said Robert Vicino, who has purchased a large portion of the former U.S. Army storage facility on the southeast edge of Atchison, about 50 miles northwest of Kansas City, Mo. "We will certainly be part of the genesis."

Before it comes time to ride out Armageddon or a deadly global pandemic, though, Vicino says the Vivos Survival Shelter and Resort will be a fun place for members to take vacations and learn assorted survival skills to prepare them for whatever world-changing catastrophe awaits.

Jacque Pregont, president of the Atchison Chamber of Commerce, said some people think the shelter plan sounds creepy or that Vicino has "lost his mind," while others are excited because they will finally get a chance to tour the property.

Atchison is known as the birthplace of Amelia Earhart and one of the most haunted towns in Kansas, Pregont said, so the survival shelter is likely to add to the town's tourism draw.

"It's quirky, and quirky gets attention," she said.

Rest Of Story: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/developer-kan-caverns-could-preserve-human-race

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America the Ugly!

by Juidth Brown
http://cnsnews.com/blog/judie-brown/america-ugly

We currently live in a nation where morality is routinely discarded and pleasure is sought and revered at all times. If anyone dares to speak out against this type of thinking, he is branded narrow-minded or intolerant. What happened to our beloved country that was founded on Christian principles? How has our nation's behavior become so appalling?

Compassion for the downtrodden, loving the sinner but hating the sin, and affirming our brothers and sisters from creation to death - these ideals have always been woven into the fabric of Christianity's salvific message to man the world over.

But recent events in the good old U.S.A. make it clear that this ethic of reaching out in love to help someone less fortunate is creaking and cracking under the pressure of government-subsidized disdain for purity and goodness.

It is astounding to learn, for example, this bit of news from Family Research Council's Tony Perkins: According to the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who led the Planned Parenthood cheering section as Kansas's governor, is taking her allegiance to new heights with the Obamacare law.

Sebelius sezs:

In an April letter to insurers, Sebelius issued a regulation ordering companies to cover Planned Parenthood clinics in their state exchange packages. Planned Parenthood, which she deems as an "essential community provider," is part of the long list of local organizations that insurers are required to partner with. (Others, Bedard says, include lesbian and gay centers, family planning clinics, and "holistic" centers.)

Further, Sebelius collaborated with the White House in preparation for June's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month" by announcing special benefits in Obamacare that will make it easier for the LGBT group to receive healthcare. LifeSiteNews reports:

[The following are] among the Obamacare provisions Sebelius said were of special value to practicing homosexuals:

Insurers can no longer impose lifetime dollar limits on health insurance coverage, and annual limits will be phased out in 2014. This is particularly important for people with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other chronic diseases requiring comprehensive, long-term care.

Starting in 2014, insurers cannot deny coverage or charge higher rates based on a pre-existing condition or because an individual is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

Insurers generally must cover such vital preventive services as HIV screening, vaccinations, depression screening, contraception, intimate-partner violence screening, and annual well-woman visits, at no out-of-pocket charge.

Healthcare.gov includes a health plan finder tool that allows consumers shopping for health insurance to filter for plans offering coverage for domestic and same-sex partners.

Such government policies subsidized by the taxpayer reflect a major shift away from common sense in deference to fundamentally disordered forms of sexual behavior—from promiscuity to same-sex relations and everything in between.

Oh sure, some companies providing the required Obamacare exchange package will balk, but chances are that they will knuckle under for fear of failing or facing financial ruin if they challenge the government.

And finally, we are saddened to report that the Obama administration has recently done a complete about-face on the question of providing, without a prescription, the morning-after pill to young girls. The Obama Justice Department is "seeking prompt Food and Drug Administration approval of all-age sales—an announcement that pleased girls' and women's rights advocates who said it was long overdue."

Imagine it: "Girls' and women's rights advocates" are pleased over the administration's decision to step aside and permit the provision of a drug to children that can abort the preborn and may cause deleterious side effects to females, no matter what their age.

Obviously, the Planned Parenthood sex-at-any-time-for-any-reason mantra has totally saturated federal health policy as well as political hacks claiming to care about women. Sebelius' actions are part of the growing force with which she and her co-workers have been empowered to pollute, debilitate, and otherwise reduce to rubble common sense in public health care policy.

There is no debate about it. Americans are funding a frontal attack on morality, freedom of religion, and the fundamental recognition of parental authority.

The Obama administration, including Sebelius—a totally pro-death Catholic—has embraced every teaching Planned Parenthood and its allies have chosen to disseminate. While Americans for the most part continue to validate the gospel of tolerance by their apathetic response to such malevolent government actions, the damage such policies are doing to the fiber of a once morally strong society is unmistakable.

America, once defined as "America the Beautiful," is fast becoming America the Ugly.

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America Loses the War on Terror

by Ben Shapiro

On Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida terrorists, on orders from their superiors based in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, flew U.S. commercial planes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. They would have targeted the White House or Capitol with a fourth plane if not for the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93. Overall, almost 3,000 Americans were murdered. Nine days later, President George W. Bush told the nation, "We condemn the Taliban regime. ... Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida."

Our war on terror is now over. It's over not because President Obama says it is, though he has implied as much over the past several weeks. It is over because we have surrendered. As of this week, the United States of America is allying with the two main forces behind Sept. 11: We are sending guns to al-Qaida in Syria, and we are entering into bilateral negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes announced last week that President Obama had decided on direct U.S. military support to the Syrian opposition. That opposition is led by al-Nusra, a terrorist group whose leader, Abou Mohammad al-Joulani, pledged fealty to al-Qaida leader Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri in April. Al-Nusra is known as the most well-organized element of the rebellion, and it has thousands of fighters opposing Iranian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Nonetheless, President Obama explained:

"the distinction I make is between extremists and those who are recognized in a 21st-century world that the way the Middle East is going to succeed is when you have governments that meet the aspirations of their people, that are tolerant, that are not sectarian."

How is an al-Qaida-centric rebellion non-sectarian and tolerant? It isn't.
The rebels recently hacked off the head of a Christian and fed him to dogs, if local reports are to be believed. But that won't stop Obama from expending American tax dollars to help the beheaders.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, President Obama is preparing bilateral negotiations with the Taliban. This the same Taliban that chopped the heads off two young boys, aged 10 and 16, for supposedly accepting food from police in exchange for information. This is the same Taliban that still embraces shariah, and still holds an American soldier, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, captive. And yet this week, the Obama administration celebrated the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar. President Obama himself said that the office opening was a great first step toward reconciliation between the Taliban and the current government of Afghanistan.

There may be no easy solutions in Syria and Afghanistan. Both countries are plagued by tribal violence and sectarian warfare. But the U.S.' decision to get involved by backing the very people who slaughtered thousands of Americans on Sept. 11 is more than shortsighted. It is a ground shift in the American government's mentality with regard to the war on terror.

For a dozen years, American troops fought to remove the Taliban from power and to cripple al-Qaida. They fought to create safe ground for American allies and hostile ground for American enemies. Thanks to the Obama administration's morally relativistic, ignorant and confused policies with regard to the Middle East, it appears that their blood may have been spilled in vain.

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When it comes to Syria, Obuma should be arrested for violating a law he himself put into effect?  That's the claim at InfoWars.com, which points out that Obama, by giving aid to al Qaeda rebels in Syria is violating the National Defense Authorization Act that ("NDAA") Obuma himself signed into law.

InfoWars: Section 1021(b)(2) of the NDAA law allows for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups engaged in hostilities against the U.S. such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

The indefinite detention provision also applies to Americans who have given "substantial support" to terrorists or other "associated groups."
http://www.infowars.com/detain-obama-under-ndaa-for-supporting-terrorists-in-syria/

The NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012 (its official title) specifies the Department of Defense's budget and expenditures.  It is, in other words, an annual budget law... except that, in 2012, it contained something a little different.  It now has "Counter-Terrorism" provisions that authorize indefinite military detention for people the government suspects are involved in terrorism.  This provision includes U.S. citizens operating on American soil.  When he signed the law, which sparked immediate civil rights concerns, Obuma issued a statement explicitly recognizing that its purpose is to help "combat the threat al-Qa'ida poses."

In Syria's long-running civil war, both parties to the war are acting as proxies for other, larger parties: Pres. Bashar al-Assad's Baathist party is a front for Iran and Hezbollah.  The rebels' opposition army has been completely co-opted by al Qaeda. Obuma has pledged to give U.S. aid (money and weapons) to the rebels.  In practical terms, this means that Obuma is aiding the terrorist group that carried out both the attack on 9/11 (2,996 people dead) and on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi (4 people dead, including an American ambassador).

Obuma's administration is trying to pretend that it can distinguish between good rebels (real freedom fighters) and bad rebels (al Qaeda members), but that's a laughable claim.  All of the evidence coming out of Syria about the rebels is that they are loyal to al Qaeda itself or to satellite organizations, and that they see themselves fighting a Holy War consistent with Al Qaeda's goals.

It's instructive to look back at Obuma's aid to Libya.  In Libya, too, Obuma provided U.S. aid (money, troops, and weapons) to the "rebels" in their fight to overthrow Qaddafi.  Those "rebels" were also loyal to or fighting alongside al Qaeda.... and when the war ended, al Qaeda didn't thank us and throw roses at our feet.  Instead, it stormed our embassy, and killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.

Churchill famously said that "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  Obuma has already gone the appeasement route in Libya and four brave Americans got eaten by the al Qaeda crocodile.  The Clown's now doing precisely the same thing in Syria.

Had Obuma gotten involved in Syria right at the beginning, before al Qaeda took over the rebels, American involvement might have made a difference.  By waiting two years, however, and then announcing that the U.S will side with the rebels, all that Obama is doing is setting us up for another al Qaeda attack... and along the way, he's violating U.S. law.  InfoWars.com is right that Obuma can be arrested for what he's done.  But they know, and I know, that nobody is going to arrest the POS President.

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Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated

Rolling Stone journalist made enemies in FBI, CIA... was it a government hit??

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/evidence-indicates-michael-hastings-was-assassinated/

Michael Hastings conspiracy theories: Web goes wild after NSA, CIA reporter killed in crash

Less than a day after the BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone reporter died in a fiery car crash at age 33, conspiracy theorists are speculating that there is more than meets the eye over Hasting's demise.

By Beth Stebner / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conspiracy-theories-abound-michael-hastings-death-article-1.1377392#ixzz2WqBMVZkJ

Reporter Michael Hastings died in a fiery auto accident in Hollywood, Calif., on Tuesday, and conspiracy theorists are saying the journalist's death could be a government hit.

Hastings died early Tuesday morning in Hollywood when his car allegedly hit a tree at high speed. The Los Angeles Coroner's office has not yet been able to officially identify the body as Hastings because it is so badly burned.

Skeptics of the official narrative have highlighted eyewitness accounts which state that Hastings' Mercedes "exploded".

Images of the vehicle appear to show more damage to the rear, around the area of the fuel tank, than the front, leading to speculation that a car bomb which ignited the fuel could have been responsible for the incident.

"No matter how you slice this particular pie, a Mercedes is not just going to explode into flames without a little assistance," writes freelance journalist Jim Stone. "Car fires in new cars happen for three main reasons — running the engine out of oil, or running the engine out of coolant, or after an absolutely huge car mangling accident, having the hot side of the battery short out against the frame before it reaches the fuse panel. And for all 3 of those normal reasons, which account for virtually all car fires in modern cars, the fire would have started in the engine compartment, progressed slowly, and scorched the hell out of the paint before ever reaching the gas tank. That clean paint is the be all tell all, Michael Hastings was murdered, and the rest is detail."

Stone also questions why a white sheet has been draped over the vehicle in the image below.

The questions surrounding the precise nature of the "accident" that killed Hastings are given more weight by the fact that the journalist had made enemies within both the FBI and the CIA.

"Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him," the official Wikileaks Twitter account announced yesterday.

Hastings "had the Central Intelligence Agency in his sights" and was set to release an article exposing the agency, according to L.A. Weekly.

The Obama administration and the Justice Department have openly claimed the authority to assassinate American citizens anywhere in the world if they are deemed a national security threat. A number of American citizens have already been killed as a result of this policy. Is it really that crazy to suggest that Michael Hastings was merely the latest victim of this doctrine?

The New York Daily News highlights the fact that Hastings had received multiple death threats before his demise.

Following his role in bringing down Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Hastings was told by a McChrystal staffer, "We'll hunt you down and kill you if we don't like what you write."

"Whenever I'd been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people, one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me," said Hastings.

Hastings was renowned for being "only interested in writing stories someone didn't want him to write — often his subjects," according to Buzzflash editor Ben Smith, adding, "He knew that there are certain truths that nobody has an interest in speaking, ones that will make you both your subjects and their enemies uncomfortable. They're stories that don't get told because nobody in power has much of an interest in telling them."

The fact that Hastings had made a plethora of enemies as a result of his hard-hitting investigative journalism has prompted a deluge of online comment speculating that the writer's "car crash" was no accident.

"Hastings' wreck might make sense on the freeway, but I doubt he'd be dumb enough to go 100 mph on Highland. He's not some dumb college kid," said one commenter on a local news site.

"A warning to other journalists to not dig too deep," another Reddit user wrote. "Stick with the party line if you want a long, happy life."

If this was an isolated incident then there wouldn't be so many questions swirling about Hastings' death. However, he's certainly not the first individual to go up against the military-industrial complex and wind up in a coffin.

Other journalists who have proven to be a thorn in the side of the establishment have met the same fate, from Andrew Breitbart who was about to release damaging pre-election information about Barack Obama before he collapsed and died in strange circumstances, to Gary Webb, the Pullitzer prize-winning author who exposed the CIA's involvement in the drug trade and subsequently committed "suicide" after apparently shooting himself in the head – twice.

More recently, Ibragim Todashev, friend of accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnev, was shot in the head six times by the FBI, who initially claimed Todashev was armed but later had to admit this was a lie. Speculation has raged that Todashev was assassinated because he had knowledge about the Boston bombings which the feds didn't want to see the light of public scrutiny.

Despite his actions, the murder of Christopher Dorner, who was burned to death by LAPD officers while hiding inside a cabin, shows that authorities will not hesitate to resort to such methods.

It's virtually inevitable that the true cause of Michael Hastings death will never be known and that the mainstream media will demonize anyone who questions the official narrative as a conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile, journalists and others who pose a threat to the military-industrial complex will continue to die in bizarre "accidents" that stink of foul play.