FOX News First: Aug. 22
By Chris Stirewalt
Buzz Cut:
· More benefit cuts under ObamaCare
· Obama gets Buffaloed
· NSA’s domestic dispute
· ‘Vultures’ for Hillary!
· A parrot, a glass eye and a prosthetic leg
EMPLOYERS SLASHING COVERAGE
UVA dumps spouses - The University of Virginia announced Wednesday it will stop offering health insurance to some employees’ spouses citing rising costs under ObamaCare. According to a press release on the university’s website, “Provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act are projected to add $7.3 million to the cost of the University health plan in 2014 alone.” This follows news that UPS would be dumping an estimated 15,000 from the company’s plan. Chief National Correspondent Jim Angle follows the story today.
[A new study from consultants Towers Watson says 40 percent of businesses surveyed plan to change their health plans next year in light of the law.]
Nevada union trashes ObamaCare - Nevada’s AFL-CIO passed aresolution Wednesday saying ObamaCare would, “lead to the destruction of the 40 hour work week, higher taxes and force union members onto more costly plans”
[FNC’s William LaJeunesse reports on the ObamaCare provision that exempts some 6 million American Indians from penalties under the law.]
OBAMA TURNS COLLEGE RECRUITER
Ed Henry wants to know: “The White House says the bus tour through universities and high schools is focused on college affordability. But since a new Gallup poll found young adults are least likely to say they're familiar with the health law, will he also use this swing to rally his campaign base ahead of the Oct. 1 sign up deadline?”
Welcome to Buffalo, Mr. President - President Obama travels to Buffalo today, part of a two-day economic bus tour that will take him thru upstate New York and Pennsylvania. At the University of Buffalo, Obama will pitch his “better bargain for the middle class” with a call for more education spending. In an e-mail to supporters, the President wrote, “We have to fundamentally rethink about how higher education is paid for in this country.”
Tuition spike - The Albany Times Union reports Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., scheduled to appear with the president, “…created the NYSUNY 2020 program, which raised tuition 30 percent at all SUNY campuses over five years, from $4,970 to $6,470.” According to US News and World Report, 63 percent of Buffalo University students receive some kind of need-based assistance.
Teacher union angst - The Buffalo Teacher’s Federation is fuming that their teacher’s make $20,000 less than their counterparts in other districts. Buffalo News reports, in some cases, $45,000 less. Census figures reveal the city’s 29.9 percent poverty rate.
Local schools losing ground - The president will wrap-up the day speaking at Henninger High School in Syracuse. Obama will be joined by Education Secretary Arne Duncan to tout the school’s involvement with a government program that pays the tuition for students at failing schools accepted at public colleges and participating private institutions. According to New York’s Department of Education, graduation rates in the city stand at 48 percent.
[Daniel Henninger, (no relation) writes: “The president gives essentially the same speech everywhere. In part it is a meditation on the meaning of middle class—‘Americans are gritty, resilient and work hard.’ In part it is populist paranoia.”]
Bad to worse - The Syracuse Post Standard reports students in the district are failing to meet the state’s new curriculum standards. “[O]nly 8.7 percent of third- through eighth-graders met the standard in English language arts. In math, only 6.9 percent of students met the standard.”
BAIER TRACKS: FED FLUSTER…
Bret Baier: “If anyone needs more evidence of the supercharged role of the Federal Reserve in the economy, here's another piece. Just the mere hint of different analyses of the minutes of the central bank's July meeting released yesterday sent stocks lower. That's essentially someone in analysis circles whispering, ‘You know, it looks like the Fed may really start turning off the spigot soon.’ Well, imagine what happens when the Fed does slow or stop the flood of new US dollars into the economy. Bottom line: Fed policy is a huge economic driver. At his last news conference, President Obama said picking a new Fed chairman, ‘is definitely one of the most important economic decisions that I’ll make in the remainder of my presidency.’ Many experts characterize that as a big understatement.”
GALLUP: UNEMPLOYMENT’S 30-DAY JUMP
Gallup’s latest unemployment figures show a significant jump from July’s 7.7 percent to 8.9 percent released Wednesday. Their figures also show underemployment increased from 17.1 percent to 17.9 percent in the same 30-day period.
Still stuck - NYT reports median income remains below 2007 levels.
[Watch FOX Business for the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobless claims report in the 8 a.m. ET hour.]
NSA HAD EYES ON US COMMUNICATION
Washington Examiner reports the NSA gathered over 56,000 “wholly domestic” communications before a secret court struck the program down. The revelation comes in 100 pages of documents declassified by the agency. Most are secret opinions from the FISA court; they detail major compliance problems. The NSA worked with Congress and the FISA court to correct the problem but ultimately decided it could not salvage the data collected and it was purged in 2012. Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge is taking a deep dive on the documents. To read them yourself, click here.
[Watch FOX: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner , R-Wis., who helped write the Patriot Act, discusses how he feels President Obama has abused the law in 12 p.m. ET hour.]
GRENELL: POWER A NO SHOW ON SYRIA
Newly confirmed U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power was absent from an emergency meeting of the Security Council Wednesday on a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds. Power, who has previously called the UN’s failure to intervene in Syria “a disgrace,” was reportedly traveling at the time of the meeting. Fox News Contributor Richard Grenell, a former member of George W. Bush’s UN team, wants to know where she was: “Samantha Power has been on the job exactly 19 days. In that time, she’s already traveled from New York to Los Angeles to deliver a speech. Her absence from the UN on Wednesday sends a terrible message at a time when U.S. credibility in the region is suffering.”
WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE...
Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone explains the hidden agendas behind the preservation of the dollar bill. [Hint: It’s all about the money…] “No other advanced country, so far as I am aware, uses a bill for amounts approximating a dollar. They use coins, which are longer lasting and more convenient to use in vending machines and parking meters. Coins last longer and don’t bulge up in your wallet.”
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POLL CHECK
Real Clear Politics Averages
Obama Job Approval: Approve – 44.5 percent//Disapprove – 50.5 percent
Direction of Country: Right Direction – 29.6 percent Right Track//Wrong Track – 62.2 percent
HILLARYLAND
“Vulture capitalist” cash for Hillary - Politico: “Hillary Clinton is set to be the featured attraction at the private equity firm The Carlyle Group’s investor conference next month.” Carlyle is the same kind of firm that the 2012 Obama campaign lambasted Mitt Romney for running, famously calling Romney a “vampire.”
Dean backs Hillary “at this point” - In brief interview with the Des Moines Register, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said, “At this point, I’m supporting Hillary Clinton.” Dean cut the interview short when asked about his presidential aspirations.
VOTER ID “OATH” FIGHT
Kansas and Arizona fight feds on voting - Fox News: Kansas and Arizona say a federal rule that allows voters to establish their status as citizens by simply swearing an oath won’t keep elections safe. They’re suing to overturn the rule.
HOUSE WANTS ANSWERS ON ASYLUM ABUSES
Washington Examiner: “In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., warned that foreigners, particularly from Mexico, are exploiting a law that allows those with a ‘credible fear’ of persecution in their own country to enter the U.S. … Goodlatte intends to hold hearings to investigate the issue and called on Homeland Security personnel to testify”
OFF TO THE RACES
Brown: No gov run, still pondering president and senate bids -Former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., announced on WBZ Wednesday that he will not run for Massachusetts’ governor. Brown: “From the most conservative to the most liberal Republican: if we are going to be an effective party we have to all have a voice.”
FRIENDLY FOES?
Fox News – Despite the public antagonism between the U.S. and then Soviet Union, then-President Richard Nixon chatted warmly with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the run-up to a historic summit in June 1973, according to the final installment of secret recordings released Wednesday. Future former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, then chairman of the RNC and governor of California, respectively, are also heard in the tapes. [Ed. note: Paging James Rosen!]
CHRISTIAN RESCUE MISSION
Fox News - An international relief agency plans to airlift some 3,400 Christians out of Sudan, where they face increasing persecution from the Islamist government. The Barnabas Fund, named for St. Paul’s ministry partner, has already rescued about 5,000 Christians from the embattled country. The Christians will be taken to South Sudan, a smaller nation formed in 2011 where religious freedom is better tolerated.
FROM THE READERS
“I hope you make your new service interactive. Let viewers suggest topics and write opinion pieces....like letters to the editor.” – Guy Randolph viaFoxNewsFirst@FOXNEWS.COM [Ed. note: Keep them coming.]
PLEASE REMOVE ALL PERSONAL ITEMS
NY POST: “What do handcuffs, a live parrot, bag of diamonds and underwear have in common? They're all items that have been left on planes, much to the surprise of flight attendants. That's according to a survey of cabin crew by travel website Skyscanner.com. … Other weird items discovered on board long after passengers departed include dentures, a bag of sand, a glass eye and prosthetic leg.”
AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES
“In Egypt where there are only two sides -- there's only the Brotherhood and only the military -- with wide popular support. We're not choosing either. And I think the administration's incoherence on policy is astounding” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Vultures’ for Hillary! · A parrot, a glass eye and a prosthetic leg
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Hundreds of Coptic Christians Rally Against Muslim Brotherhood In Nashville, Chant “Obama, Obama, Don’t You Care? Christian Blood Is Everywhere”
Hundreds of Coptic Christians Rally Against Muslim Brotherhood In Nashville, Chant “Obama, Obama, Don’t You Care? Christian Blood Is Everywhere”
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
More than 200 Coptic Christians demonstrated in downtown Nashville, calling for an end to the violence in Egypt.
Many chanted “Obama, Obama, don’t you care? Christian blood is everywhere,” and “Pray for Egypt” while waiving Egyptian flags.
Others, like Anour Fares, held homemade signs with messages like “We are against Muslim Brotherhood.”
Amany Shahata, who has lived in the United States for 16 years, said she feared for Christians living in Egypt, whose churches had been burned down in recent days. She and other protesters blamed the Muslim Brotherhood.
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When you lie with dogs...you get fleas! Who voted for this donkey-monkey ?
Obama’s brother linked to Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/obamas-brother-linked-to-muslim-brotherhood/
Obambo Laser Focus on his navel and next golf outing! Redline what Redline?
Syria: Nerve gas attack near Damascus kills 1,300 including women and children | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2398691/Syria-Nerve-gas-attack-near-Damascus-kills-1-300-including-women-children.html
YIKES! SIX MORE REASONS!
Short Test...
Six trivia questions to see how much history you know. Be honest, it's
kinda fun and revealing. If you don't know the answer make your best guess.
Answer all the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.
Who said it?
1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by
the few, and for the few...... And to replace it with shared responsibility,
for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
3) "(We) .....can't just let business as usual go on, and that means
something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give
up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above
5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above
6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most
profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above
Scroll down for answers
Answers
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
9/2/2005
Want to know something scary? She may be the next president if you don't
forward this to everyone that you know.
The Secret Document That Proves China Considers The United States To Be A Mortal Enemy
The Secret Document That Proves China Considers The United States To Be A Mortal Enemy Posted: 20 Aug 2013 02:55 PM PDT
The truth is that China is not like us and they never intend to be. The Chinese people do not get to choose their leaders in free elections, and the Communist Party in China never intends to allow that to happen. The Chinese people do not have freedom of speech or freedom of religion, and the Communist Party in China never intends to give the general population those freedoms. In most cases, Chinese families do not even have the freedom to have more than one child, and if a Chinese family tries to buck the system a mobile abortion van may show up at their front door. The Chinese system is horribly repressive, and in many ways it continues to get even worse. And officials in China definitely do not consider the United States to be a “partner”. Rather, they consider the United States to be a rival that needs to be vanquished. This attitude comes through very clearly in a Chinese government memo known as “Document No. 9″ that the New York Times was recently able to get a copy of…
“Document No. 9″ sounds very similar to another “anti-western Communist Party document” that was reported on earlier this year in the Sunday Times by Michael Sheridan…
Are you starting to get the picture? China has no intention of becoming more like us. In fact, Chinese officials hate our liberties and our freedoms. And the Chinese military actually considers the United States to be their “enemy-in-chief”. That is exactly how the U.S. is described in a recent paper which was drafted by the PLA’s deputy chief of staff…
In addition, some top military officials in China have even advocated using nuclear weapons against the United States first in the event of a military conflict between our two countries…
For now, China is content to trade with us because it benefits them. Chinese officials consider every interaction with the west to be part of a grand game of chess which is marching toward an inevitable conclusion, and they very much plan on being the victors. And without a doubt, China is defeating the United States on a whole host of fronts right now. The following examples are from one of my previous articles entitled “40 Ways That China Is Beating America“… #1 When you total up all imports and exports of goods, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet. #2 During 2012, we sold about 110 billion dollars worth of stuff to the Chinese, but they sold about 425 billion dollarsworth of stuff to us. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world. #3 Overall, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars. #4 China now has the largest new car market in the entire world. #5 China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet. #6 China is the number one gold producer in the world. #7 China is also the number one gold importer in the world. #8 The uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team were made in China. #9 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China. #10 The new World Trade Center tower is going to include glass that has been imported from China. #11 The new Martin Luther King memorial on the National Mallwas made in China. #12 One of the reasons it is so hard to export stuff to China is because of their tariffs. According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs. #13 The Chinese economy has grown 7 times faster than the U.S. economy has over the past decade. #14 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. #15 The United States has lost an average of 50,000manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. #16 Overall, the United States has lost a total of more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001. #17 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year. #18 China now produces more than twice as manyautomobiles as the United States does. #19 Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percentof all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States. #20 After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, General Motors is currently involved in 11 joint ventures with companies owned by the Chinese government. The price for entering into many of these “joint ventures” was a transfer of “state of the art technology” from General Motors to the communist Chinese. #21 Back in 1998, the United States had 25 percent of the world’s high-tech export market and China had just 10 percent. Ten years later, the United States had less than 15 percent and China’s share had soared to 20 percent. #22 The United States has lost more than a quarter of all of its high-tech manufacturing jobs over the past ten years. #23 China’s number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment, but the number one U.S. export to China is“scrap and trash”. #24 The U.S. trade deficit with China is now more than 30 times larger than it was back in 1990. #25 China now consumes more energy than the United States does. #26 China is now the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world. #27 China uses more cement than the rest of the worldcombined. #28 China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe. #29 There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined. #30 Today, China produces nearly twice as much beer as the United States does. #31 Right now, China is producing more than three times as much coal as the United States does. #33 China now produces 11 times as much steel as the United States does. #34 China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements. #35 China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of U.S. defense systems. #36 A recent investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services found more than one million counterfeit Chinese parts in the Department of Defense supply chain. #37 15 years ago, China was 14th in the world in published scientific research articles. But now, China is expected to pass the United States and become number one very shortly. #38 China now awards more doctoral degrees in engineering each year than the United States does. #39 The average household debt load in the United States is 136% of average household income. In China, the average household debt load is 17% of average household income. #40 The Chinese have begun to buy up huge amounts of U.S. real estate. In fact, Chinese citizens purchased one out of every ten homes that were sold in the state of California in 2011. Sadly, most of the people that will end up reading this article will not take it seriously. In fact, there will inevitably be quite a few comments left after this article mocking the idea that China considers us to be “the enemy”. A lot of Americans have been deluded into thinking that China “needs us” and that they always will. But that is not how the Chinese think. Once they have extracted as much wealth and technology from us as they want, they will have no problem turning on us. The Chinese truly believe that their system is superior to ours and that they will win in the end. Most Americans will never understand this until it is far too late. |
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