The Obama years: World arms sales up 14 percent in past 5 years.

The Obama years: World arms sales up 14 percent in past 5 years. (DailyStar).

A Swedish think tank says global arms exports increased 14 percent during the five years to 2015, with the U.S. retaining top position after its sales grew 27 percent from the previous five-year period.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says sales from the next biggest exporters, Russia and China, also increased but fell for numbers 4 and 5, France and Germany.

The top five exporters accounted for 74 percent of all arms sales, with the U.S. and Russia supplying a total of 58 percent.

The think tank said in its report Monday that China saw the largest growth during the five-year period of 88 percent.

The five biggest weapons importers were India, Saudi Arabia, China, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.

Video - Obama: "Maybe it's time for mandatory voting?"

"CHANGE" - 35 Percent in U.S. Facing Debt Collectors!

"CHANGE" - 35 Percent in U.S. Facing Debt Collectors! (ABC).

More than 35 percent of Americans have debts and unpaid bills that have been reported to collection agencies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Urban Institute.

The study found that 35.1 percent of people with credit records had been reported to collections for debt that averaged $5,178, based on September 2013 records. The study points to a disturbing trend: The share of Americans in collections has remained relatively constant, even as the country as a whole has whittled down the size of its credit card debt since the official end of the Great Recession in the middle of 2009.

The delinquent debt is overwhelmingly concentrated in Southern and Western states. Texas cities have a large share of their populations being reported to collection agencies: Dallas (44.3 percent); El Paso (44.4 percent), Houston (43.7 percent), McAllen (51.7 percent) and San Antonio (44.5 percent).


Almost half of Las Vegas residents— many of whom bore the brunt of the housing bust that sparked the recession— have debt in collections. Other Southern cities have a disproportionate number of their people facing debt collectors, including Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee; Columbia, South Carolina; and Jackson, Mississippi.

"CHANGE" - Washington State starts legal pot sales Tuesday.

"CHANGE" - Washington State starts legal pot sales Tuesday. (RT).


Only 20 stores have received permits to sell just-for-fun cannabis, and they will welcome their first official customers as soon as Tuesday. Store owners are allowed to sell marijuana from 8 am Tuesday, but which of the stores will be up and running then is not yet clear.

So far, Cannabis City is the only recreational marijuana store that’s ready to open in Seattle, AP reported.
To handle potential crowds of customers, its owner James Lathrop has hired an events company. For their comfort there will be a food truck and free water arranged and a portable toilet, especially if people have to wait in line.

He planned to hold off on opening his store until noon Tuesday.
“Know your audience: We're talking stoners here,'' he said. “I'd be mean to say they need to get up at 5 am to get in line.''

It is already known that Alison Holcomb, the lawyer who drafted Washington State’s legal marijuana law, will be among the first customers at Cannabis City.
“No one thought legalization could happen in our lifetime,” she said. “I think this is going to be a little overwhelming for me.”

Lathrop plans to start his business with an initial supply of 10 pounds (4.6 kilograms) of dope. He says he may limit purchases to ensure everyone can go home with at least a 2-gram package.


The law allows customers to buy up to 1 ounce (28 grams) of marijuana. They also can buy up to 16 ounces (0.45 kilograms) of marijuana-infused product in solid form, or up to 72 ounces (2 kilograms) of marijuana-infused product in liquid form.

 State regulators have accepted a total of 334 marijuana retail applications. However, the Washington State Liquor Control Board, which has been drafting rules and reviewing license applications, said that the majority of the applicants have not passed final inspections.

Some municipalities in Washington State have banned the retail sale of marijuana, however.
The days before the state issues license have been crazy for growers and retailers alike. Hmmmm......You get the 'Change' you voted for.......dope heads.  In the days of Rome it was 'Bread and games', now 'Dope and lies'......the decline of an Empire.

"CHANGE" - 37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High, at that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

"CHANGE" - 37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High. HT: CNSNews.

The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.

In April, the number of those not in the labor force hit a record high of 92,018,000. In May, that number declined by 9,000 to 92,009,000. Yet, the participation rate remained the same from April to May at 62.8 percent.

When President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the labor force participation rate was 65.7 percent. By the beginning of 2013, the start of Obama’s second term, it had dropped to 63.6 percent. Since January 2014, when the participation rate was 63.0,it has continued to decline, hitting a 36-year low of 62.8 percent in May.

People in the civilian noninstitutional population who did not have a job and did not actively seek one in the last four weeks are considered “not in the labor force.” The number of Americans not in the labor force has climbed by 11,480,000 since Obama took office, rising from 80,529,000 in January 2009 to 92,009,000 in May 2014.Hmmm.....Reminds me of those 'Shovel ready jobs'.

"CHANGE" - Russia may join forces with China to compete with US, European satnavs.

"CHANGE" - Russia may join forces with China to compete with US, European satnavs. (RT).

Russia and China are eyeing a number of joint high-tech projects, ranging from creation of a new long-range passenger plane to joining forces on a satellite navigation system to compete with American GPS and European Galileo.

The range of prospects was outlined on Friday by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who met Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang in Siberian Novosibirsk. Rogozin said Russia would develop cooperation with BRICS members in defiance of any possible Western sanctions.

“Our technological partnership should be directed at the countries that are close to us in mentality and which in general constitute an emerging geopolitical force that we could rely on in opposing the monopolar world. Those are BRICS countries first and foremost,” he said.

BRICS are an informal group of developing economies comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, with a combined economic and political power allowing them to defend their interests in a world dominated by US-led Western countries. Rogozin set examples of several joint projects Russia has or may have with China. The most concrete is the project for a new long-range wide-hull airliner with an estimated development cost of $7-8 billion. Russia and China have already signed a memorandum on it in May.

Rogozin’s shot was aimed at both American GPS, which was the focus of a recent fallout between Russia and the US, and the European Galileo.

He also commented on Russia’s downgrade of the work of ground stations of the Differential GPS network based in the Russian territory. This week’s move was Moscow’s response to Washington’s failure to allow deployment of similar Glonass stations in America.

“When we have 11 American GPS stations operating in Russia since early 1990s, we are entitled to expect a right to deploy similar Glonass stations in the US,” Rogozin said.

“But here we faced an obvious trend to politicize the issue. There were some statements that the Russian stations would act as some sort of spies.” He added that he hopes Washington would change its mind and seek a compromise by September 1.Read the full story here.

Into the Fray: My prediction – coming true with chilling precision.

Into the Fray: My prediction – coming true with chilling precision.(JPost). By MARTIN SHERMAN.

A political tsunami is building that is threatening to wash away almost half a century of Zionist endeavor.

On Saturday night, the boycott of Israel gained an impressive new level of mainstream recognition in this country. Channel 2 News, easily the most watched, most influential news show here, ran a heavily promoted piece… on the boycott in its 8 p.m. primetime program. 

The piece was remarkable not only for its length and prominence, but even more so because it did not demonize the boycott movement, it didn’t blame the boycott on anti-Semitism. 

Instead, top-drawer reporter Dana Weiss treated the boycott as an established, rapidly growing presence that sprang up because of Israel’s settlement policy and whose only remedy is that policy’s reversal. 

– Larry Derfner, Boycott goes primetime in Israel, January 19.

There is, in fact, a groundswell of “elite” (read: Leftist) opinion building in favor of unilateral Israeli withdrawal in the West Bank.

– David Weinberg, The Impatient Israeli Political Left, January 28.

Last June, I published a column, “My prediction: Please help prove it wrong,” in which I warned that “A determined domestic thrust is under way to compress Israel back into its precarious pre-1967 frontiers, imperilling the viability of Jewish sovereignty.”

Three emerging threats.

Elaborating on my “strong premonition of dire things to come,” I predicted the emergence of three pernicious and interconnected processes, now materializing with alarming speed before our very eyes.

1. I forecast that the issue of anti-Israel sanctions would be raised with increasing intensity and frequency in the public discourse, and the threat, allegedly because of continued construction (indeed, existence) of Jewish communities across the pre-1967 lines (a.k.a., pejoratively, “settlements”), would be featured with increasing prominence in the mainstream media.

2. I then cautioned that, as a result of this, soon a wide-ranging campaign would be launched against the “settlers,” singling them out as the fundamental cause of the sanctions and casting blame on them for inflicting international isolation and economic pain on the rest of the country.

3. I warned that, as it becomes ever-more apparent that the impasse between Israel and Palestinian Arabs cannot be resolved consensually, Israel’s leaders will begin to capitulate under the perceived pressure of sanctions and embrace the idea of unilateral withdrawal from Judea-Samaria. Since coercive eviction of large numbers of Jews resident in the evacuated areas would be operationally infeasible and politically untenable, I foresaw the adoption of a policy of “benign” abandonment. This would mean that Jewish residents/communities would be left to the tender mercies of some prospective Palestinian regime.

Writing on the wall?Read the full story here.

Video - Flashback 2002 - New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz glorifies Osama bin Laden he "deserves respect".

Video - Flashback 2002 - New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz glorifies Osama bin Laden he "deserves respect".

AG Holder To prohibit religious profiling in terror cases

New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.
    
The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s failure to examine Obama’s extremist ties and radical roots.
    
In addition, the new images raise questions about the possible motives of the Obama administration in its infamous decision to drop the prosecution of the Panthers for voter intimidation.
    
The images, presented below, also renew doubts about the transparency of the White House’s guest logs–in particular, whether Panther National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz is the same "Malik Shabazz" listed among the Obama administration’s early visitors.

It is true that then-Senator Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton were also in Selma at the same event.  But the Panthers explicitly came to Selma to support Obama, as Adams details in Injustice.
    
They spoke with Obama at the podium shown above, and departed together with Obama for the main march itself, as shown by this grainer image captured from YouTube:

Obama seems not to be reviled by the Panthers in any of the video or photographs. And Obama’s own campaign website would post an endorsement by the New Black Panther Party in March 2008. As Adams writes in Injustice:
    

Somehow, the fact that the future President of the United States shared a podium with leaders of the New Black Panthers, marched with them, and received a public, formal greeting from their party has vanished from the history of Obama’s campaign. Apart from [Juan] Williams’ single dispatch, no other media outlets ever reported it.
    

After NPR initially reported that the Panthers were present at the event with Obama, subsequent reports from Selma omitted any mention of the hate group appearing with the future president.
    
Had any of Obama’s opponents appeared at an event with the KKK or Aryan Nation, The New York Times would have had to double its ink buy.
    
Obama’s appearance does much more than expose mainstream media hypocrisy. It also exposes an association between a vile racist organization and a future President of the United States. Only the degree of association is subject to debate.
    
And only a few voices outside the mainstream media have continued to press the Obama administration about its past and present ties to fringe groups.
    
I have been calling for the White House to disclose which Malik Shabazz visited the private White House residence on July 25, 2009, two months after the DOJ voter intimidation case was dismissed. So far, the White House has refused to do so, leaving open the question of which "Malik Shabazz" appears in visitor logs released to the public.

Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed.

Also present was the Panthers' "Minister of War," Najee Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers with AK-47’s and then mocking their widows in this video (7:20 – 8:29).
Source.Hmmmm.....'The Truth will set America free'

"CHANGE" - First impressive images of China’s Aircraft Carrier Battle Group

"CHANGE" - First impressive images of China’s Aircraft Carrier Battle Group.HT: The Avionist.

Images of China’s aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships were released by the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy) to celebrate the battle group’s first successful deployment.

Along with Liaoning, 10 more warships took part in the parade (which reminds the American ones): three destroyers, three frigates, three submarines and an amphibious assault ship. A total of eight jet fighters overflew the BG during the return leg of the cruise to Qingdao home port on China’s east coast.

But, as pointed out by defense journalist David Axe on War is Boring, the shots reveal the weaknesses in Chinese naval organization.

"CHANGE" - The Country Posing The Greatest Threat to Peace as 2013 Ends is Obama's AMERICA.

"CHANGE" - The Country Posing The Greatest Threat to Peace as 2013 Ends is Obama's AMERICA.(CNSNews).

The past year witnessed bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, turmoil in Egypt, anarchy in Central Africa, threats by a nuclear-armed North Korea and Chinese military posturing, but as 2013 ends a global poll finds that the country seen as representing the greatest threat to peace today is ... the United States.

Not only did the U.S. top the list with an aggregate of 24 percent, but the runner-up threat country, Pakistan, was way behind at eight percent. China was third at six percent, followed by North Korea, Iran and Israel at five percent each.

The survey of opinions across 65 countries by pollster Win/Gallup International recorded some of the strongest anti-American sentiment, predictably, in countries widely regarded as rivals, led by Russia (where 54 percent of respondents said the U.S. was the greatest threat to peace) and China (49 percent). 

But the view that the U.S. poses the greatest threat to peace was also strongly held in some purported U.S. allies – such as NATO partners Greece and Turkey (45 percent each), and Pakistan (44 percent), which is also a top recipient of U.S. aid.

Two other countries where strongly negative opinion of the U.S. was found were Bosnia, a candidate for European Union membership (49 percent), and, closer to home, Argentina (46 percent).

Elsewhere in Latin America the U.S. topped the list of threats to peace for a significant number of respondents in Mexico (37 percent), Brazil (26 percent) and Peru (24 percent).

Among Islamic countries polled, the U.S. and Israel generally vied for the top place as world’s greatest threat: Algerian respondents picked U.S. (37 percent) followed by Israel (22 percent); Indonesians named the U.S. (34 percent), followed by Israel (27 percent), as did Malaysians – the U.S. (25 percent), then Israel (22 percent). For Iraqis the greatest threat came from Israel (24 percent), then the U.S. (21 percent); Lebanese selected Israel by a large margin (41 percent), followed by the U.S. (23 percent), as did Moroccan respondents – Israel (45 percent), then the U.S. (17 percent), and those in Tunisia – Israel (38 percent), followed by the U.S. (27 percent).
Neither Iran nor Egypt were among the countries polled by Win/Gallup International. Read the full poll results here.

"RESET" - 'Nuclear train' returns: Russia to deploy rail-based missiles to counter US 'Prompt Global Strike'

"RESET" - 'Nuclear train' returns: Russia to deploy rail-based missiles to counter US 'Prompt Global Strike'.(RT).

“A Defense Ministry report has been submitted to the president and the order has been given to develop a preliminary design of a rail-mounted missile system,” the commander of the Strategic Missile Force, Lt. Gen. Sergey Karakayev, said Wednesday, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

General Karakayev compared a potential power of a “nuclear train” with several missiles to a division of stationery silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.
“Our missile officers are frustrated that we don’t possess such a system today,” Karakayev said Wednesday. “When the Supreme Commander-in-Chief [President Vladimir Putin] asked me about it, I expressed full support in the railroad-based missile systems.”

Russia used to possess the intercontinental ballistic missile system RT-24 Yars (NATO designation: SS-24 Scalpel) disguised as an ordinary freight train, inherited from the Soviet Union. With Russia’s extremely vast railroad system, detection and preemptive destruction of that system was extremely difficult.

“We see the future missile as solid-fueled, with multiple warheads – with RT-24 Yars as a prototype. We are talking of modifying missiles that are to weigh 47 tons. To compare, a missile in the old nuclear train weighed 110 tons,” Karakayev said.

Within the framework of the START-II nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US, signed by President Boris Yeltsin and his US counterpart, George H. W. Bush in 1993, the SS-24 Scalpel system was decommissioned and all launching platforms were destroyed by 2007.

The ‘New START’ treaty signed by presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama in 2011 does not limit the use of railway-based systems, so in 2012 Russia reconsidered development of a new version of a railway-based strategic missile system.

One year later, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced the new railroad missile system would be developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology – the same institute that developed the sea-based Bulava nuclear missile for the latest generation of Borey-class submarine strategic nuclear missile carriers.

The Institute is expected to present a blueprint of the system within the next six months.

The project is aimed at countering the threat posed by the US Conventional Prompt Global Strike concept. This concept implies destroying stationary targets with hypersonic missiles armed with conventional warheads in any part of the planet within an hour of receiving an order.

A constantly moving “nuclear train” is viewed as a hard target for that still-being-developed system.

Last week, Russia’s Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the Russian military and defense industry, called America’s Conventional Prompt Global Strike concept “the most important new strategy being developed by the United States today.” Rogozin warned that in case Russia becomes a target of such a strike, “in certain circumstances we will of course respond with nuclear weapons.”

Recently, Rogozin also announced that Russia was developing strike hypersonic missiles itself.Hmmmm.....Welcome to the "Changed Obama World"...... the Obama legacy to your children and grandchildren.

Obama 'Admin' now starting to Target 'Canada’s snowbirds' with Taxes.

Obama 'Admin' now starting to Target 'Canada’s snowbirds' with Taxes. HT: Yahoo.

With the weather getting colder, now’s the time for Canadian snowbirds to start preparing to head south of the border for the winter. They need to bring with them a keen awareness of all the potential tax hits they might face.

For starters, proposed legislation in the U.S. could have serious tax consequences for Canadian visitors. Under the current rules, those who spend more than 182 days out of 365 days in the calendar year, or more than 120 days per year on average over a three-year period, may be considered a U.S. resident for tax purposes.

The new JOLT Act, (Jobs Originated through Launching Travel), would allow Canadian retirees to spend up to 240 days each year in the U.S. without a visa. But snowbirds who spend that long in the U.S. may be required to pay U.S. income and estate taxes.

To avoid U.S. taxation, IRS form 8840 (Closer Connection Exemption Statement for Aliens) needs to be filed annually with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Not filing it could result in a US$10,000 fine.

There are several other possible tax implications. Those with a bank account in the U.S. need to know that interest earned on deposits could be subject to taxation. They should complete IRS form W8-BEN (Certificate of Foreign Status) with the U.S. financial institution to avoid possibly having 30 per cent of any interest earned withheld and sent to the IRS.

Tax considerations come into play if you own property in the States, too. If you sell, a withholding tax of 10 per cent of the gross sales price is normally payable under the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act.

A government regulation stipulates that, if you own an American property when you die and your worldwide assets are worth more than US$2million, that property is subject to a 45-per cent estate tax.

“It is entirely possible they [the U.S. government] will also charge beneficiaries of the property a gifting fee,” Laing says. “So owing a U.S. property technically can expose your entire worldwide estate to the U.S. government. That’s shocking to most people.”

What it all comes down to is knowing the facts to avoid getting fleeced.

“A lot of Canadians who are savvy get tax advice from a U.S. lawyer and a U.S. financial planner, people who are experts in cross-border taxes,” Gray says. “If you don’t structure things properly, you could end up having to pay tax in both countries. There are U.S. and Canadian federal taxes and state taxes. Everything is in the fine print.”Hmmmm........"CHANGE".Read the full story here.

Iran: A young woman hanged in Mashhad, June 2013 ..'CHANGE'......."No More Public Hangings" in Iran

Iran: A young woman hanged in Mashhad,  June 2013 ..'CHANGE'......."No More Public Hangings" in Iran. (NCR)

NCRI - A young woman was hanged on Sunday, September 29 in the city of Mashhad in Iran. 

In the past few days, at least 5 women have been executed in different cities across the country.
Most of these women are accused of drug related charges.
From September 24 to 26, simultaneous with Hassan Rouhani's absurd shows in New York, the anti-human clerical regime’ henchmen executed 21 prisoners, including four women, in various cities of Iran.

Hmmmm......Mysterious Iran....'Hidden' imams, Hangings and Nuclear arms program.

Flashback June 2013 MFS : Iran to halt public executions.....they will be hidden like the nuclear arms progam.

Revolving Door: Top Time Editor Taking State Department Job With John Kerry.

Revolving Door: Top Time Editor Taking State Department Job With John Kerry. HT: Newsbusters.By Tim Graham.

Politico and Capital New York are reporting that Time managing editor Richard Stengel is stepping down from his news magazine job to join the Obama administration at the Department of State.
It’s not as powerful a job as held by Time’s Strobe Talbott, who became Bill Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State. It’s the post of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, "which includes communications with international audiences, cultural programming, academic grants, educational exchanges, international visitor programs, and U.S. Government efforts to confront ideological support for terrorism," according to the State Department's website.
This is a prime job for the “revolving door” between media and government. Stengel will replace Tara Sonenshine, a former ABC producer for Ted Koppel at Nightline. Before that, the position was occupied by Judith McHale, a former chief executive of Discovery Communications.
“Senior U.S. officials confirmed that Stengel is in line for the position” and “Nancy Gibbs, Time's deputy managing editor, is expected to succeed him, sources said.”
This is the same Nancy Gibbs who compared Obama to Jesus Christ after the 2008 election: "Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope." She clearly could have been hired by this administration as well.

"CHANGE" - IMAM Mahdi Association of Marjaeya’s 5th Annual Puberty Party in Detroit.

"CHANGE" - IMAM Mahdi Association of Marjaeya’s 5th Annual Puberty Party in Detroit.Source:ABNA.

Michigan, Detroit (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - For the fifth year in a row, IMAM Mahdi Association of Marjaeya (I.M.A.M.) celebrated its Takleef (puberty) Party in Detroit. 21 girls had the privilege to wear the Islamic headscarf.

There were moments of pride and happiness between the parents, relatives and loved ones and Muslims in the Detroit area, on Sunday, June 22, 2013. The ceremony included a special workshop to teach the young women about their responsibilities of the hijab (veil) and the establishment of prayer. Gifts were also presented along with honorary certificates of pride for them. IMAM has also honored the ceremony’s founder and its Director Mona Chaib, who is making great efforts each year for our girls.

The ceremony had sponsored Sayyid M B Kashmiri, where he presented the prizes to the girls, and delivered a speech on the occasion. He touched on key points, which include community challenges and risks that we must pay attention to, including the risk of losing the Shiite Muslim identity; the hijab itself is an honor and a symbol of pure women in Islam, and should be worn with pride. He also spoke about the risk of damaging the demographic face of the followers of Ahl al-Bayt creating peace and a great help to bring thousands of refugees, including a large number of extremists who were carrying arms in the Middle East to Dearborn area.

So the higher authorities of the state think carefully before approval and make it easier for them to enter such a region; for the conflict is possible and could lead to instability and chaos in the area, which one does not want our country and our society. Finally, Sayyid Kashmiri concluded with Supplication to save the community and country from all evil extremists.

"CHANGE" - 15-year-old California girl Declares the Holocaust a Hoax, Submits a report for a Public school project and gets an A.

"CHANGE" - 15-year-old California girl Declares the Holocaust a Hoax, Submits a report for a Public school project and gets an A.(YouTube).
A 15-year-old girl from Southern California who attends a public high school tells the story of how she recently became aware of questions concerning the holocaust. After hearing the establishment's version of the 'shoah' in her history class for weeks along with persistent rumors that Obamacare included provisions for microchipping all Americans, she was very upset at all the frightening and traumatizing details. But then she had an encounter which led her to question what she had been taught, and decided to conduct her own investigation.

Upon completion of her research, she decided to submit a report for a school project in an elective class she was taking for extra credit. She titled it 'Holohoax,' and got an A on the report! 
Unfortunately for the regime, the widely accepted version of the 'holocaust' which has been passed down for generations and constantly promoted through Hollywood propaganda films is not enough to brainwash the youth, who are increasingly thinking for themselves, outside the box. Hmmmm......It's a pity in some countries in Europe Holocaust Denial can get you Years of re-education in Prison.

Pakistan - Cleric Dr Qadri invites Imran Khan to join his sit-in

Pakistan - Cleric Dr Qadri invites Imran Khan to join his sit-in.(ET).

ISLAMABAD: “If the change does not come now, it will not come after the election either,” says Dr Tahirul Qadri, the Minhajul Quran International chief who, along with tens of thousands of his supporters is staging a sit-in outside Parliament House.

In an exclusive interview with Express News, Dr Qadri also invited Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan to join his dharna.
He said that the Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaaf was like his party as they also wanted change. “I invite Imran Khan to join long march so the forces wanting change can unite.”
Dr Qadri further said that the Supreme Court verdict had justified his movement, adding that the rulers would have to surrender in a day or two.
He was referring to the court’s order calling for the arrest of all accused in the rental power plants case, including Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.
The cleric said that if it were any country other than Pakistan, the prime minister would have resigned even before the court’s decision.
He further said that his struggle was against “fraud democracy”. “People of our nation have been slaughtered as if they were goats or sheep,” he said.
Talking about his ongoing sit-in outside Parliament, the Minhaj-ul-Quran International chief said that his workers were fired upon when they tried to remove containers from the roads and called for those responsible to be arrested.
“When our long march is peaceful, why they are erecting barriers?” he asked. Dr Qadri further said the people who had come to support his mission had come with their free will.Hmmmm....Qadri seems to have found his 'wicket'.Read the full story here.

Related: Pakistan - Imran Khan: "I will order air force to shoot down drones."

"CHANGE" - U.S. senator calls for gradual cut in aid to Israel

"CHANGE" - U.S. senator calls for gradual cut in aid to Israel.(DS).By Aron Heller. JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul on Monday called for a gradual reduction of American foreign aid, delivering the message in an unlikely venue - since Israel is among the top recipients of American assistance.
Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, told reporters that the U.S. can't afford to keep borrowing money and then handing it out to others, even to allies like Israel.
"It will harder to be a friend of Israel if we are out of money. It will be harder to defend Israel if we destroy our country in the process," he told the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, an Israeli think tank. "I think there will be significant repercussions to running massive deficits ... you destroy your currency by spending money you don't have."
Paul, a longtime opponent of foreign aid, acknowledged he was expressing a "minority opinion" and doubted Congress would end foreign aid in his lifetime. "It's unlikely anything changes, but I think it is worth discussing," he said during his first trip to Israel.
Israel gets about $3 billion a year in military aid from the U.S.
Paul insisted Washington should first cut aid to countries with strained ties to America, such as Pakistan and Egypt, and only later wean Israel off aid. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously stated he was interested in doing that.
Paul said the aid, used in large part by Israel and Egypt to buy U.S. weapons, was creating an arms race in the Middle East that could ultimately harm Israel, not help it.
"I'm concerned that some of the weaponry that we are currently giving to Egypt may one day be used against Israel," he said.
Most American military assistance to Israel must be spent on U.S.-made equipment, providing a boost to the military industry there.
Paul suggested Israel would actually benefit from less aid, saying it would enhance its sovereignty by not having to approach the U.S. "on bended knee" when making its own decisions.
"I don't think you need to call me on the phone to ask permission for what you want to do to stop missiles from raining down on you from Gaza," he said. Read the full story here.

"CHANGE" - U.S. is Only Developed County where Younger Generation will Receive Less Education than their Parents.

"CHANGE" - U.S. is Only Developed County where Younger Generation will Receive Less Education than their Parents.(AG).The expectation that young Americans will always be better educated and more successful than their parents is no longer true.
A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says the United States is now the only major economy in the world where the younger generation will not surpass the preceding generation in terms of schooling.
Andreas Schleicher, special adviser on education at the OECD, told the BBC News: “It’s something of great significance because much of today’s economic power of the United States rests on a very high degree of adult skills—and that is now at risk.”
Today, only about 20% of young adults will reach a higher level of education than their parents, a rate that’s among the lowest rates in the developed world, according to the OECD. Schleicher says that a major problem in the U.S. is that the skyrocketing cost of going to college has created a barrier for many young Americans who do not come from wealthy families.-Noel Brinkerhoff. Hmmmm......"Leading from Behind?"

"CHANGE' - 6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day.

"CHANGE' - 6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day.(CNS).By Penny Starr.It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website. In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day. The website allows visitors to find and comment on proposed regulations and related documents published by the U.S. federal government. "Help improve Federal regulations by submitting your comments," the website says. The thousands of entries run the gamut from meeting notifications to fee schedules to actual rules and proposed rule changes. In recent days, for example, the EPA posted a proposed rule involving volatile organic compound emissions from architectural coatings: “We are approving a local rule that regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act),” the proposed rule states. “We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.”Read the full story here.