Thursday, March 10, 2016
BREAKING: Netanyahu Humiliates Obama in Front of Whole World... Issues MASSIVE Insult
BREAKING: Netanyahu Humiliates Obama in Front of Whole World... Issues MASSIVE Insult:“We were looking forward to hosting the bilateral meeting, and we were surprised to first learn via media reports that the prime minister, rather than accept our invitation, opted to cancel his visit,” a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Ned Price, stated.
What a surprise … the White House learned about something major from media reports again."
If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would be Among the Poorest States
If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would be Among the Poorest States | Mises Wire
The battle over the assumed success of European socialism continues.
Many European countries like Sweden have gained a reputation as being very wealthy in spite of their highly regulated and taxed economies.
From there, many assume that the rest of Europe is more or less similar, even if slightly poorer.
But if we look more closely at the data, a very different picture emerges, and we find that the median household in the US is better off (income-wise) than the median household in all but three European countries.
Worse than Mississippi?
Last year, a debate erupted over how Britain would compare to individual US states.
In the UK Spectator, Fraser Nelson explained "Why Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi."
A week later, TIME shot back with an article titled "No, Britain Is Not Poorer than Alabama."
The author of the TIME article, Dan Stewart, explained that, yes, Britain is poorer than many US states, but certainly not all of them. (See below to confirm that the UK is, in fact, poorer than every state.)
...The nationwide median income for the US is in red. To the left of the red column are other OECD countries, and to the right of the red bar are individual US states.
These national-level comparisons take into account taxes, and include social benefits (e.g., "welfare" and state-subsidized health care) as income.
Purchasing power is adjusted to take differences in the cost of living in different countries into account.
Since Sweden is held up as a sort of promised land by American socialists, let's compare it first.
We find that, if it were to join the US as a state, Sweden would be poorer than all but 12 states, with a median income of $27,167.
Median residents in states like Colorado ($35,830), Massachusetts ($37,626), Virginia ($39,291), Washington ($36,343), and Utah ($36,036) have considerably higher incomes than Sweden..."
The battle over the assumed success of European socialism continues.
Many European countries like Sweden have gained a reputation as being very wealthy in spite of their highly regulated and taxed economies.
From there, many assume that the rest of Europe is more or less similar, even if slightly poorer.
But if we look more closely at the data, a very different picture emerges, and we find that the median household in the US is better off (income-wise) than the median household in all but three European countries.
Worse than Mississippi?
Last year, a debate erupted over how Britain would compare to individual US states.
In the UK Spectator, Fraser Nelson explained "Why Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi."
A week later, TIME shot back with an article titled "No, Britain Is Not Poorer than Alabama."
The author of the TIME article, Dan Stewart, explained that, yes, Britain is poorer than many US states, but certainly not all of them. (See below to confirm that the UK is, in fact, poorer than every state.)
...The nationwide median income for the US is in red. To the left of the red column are other OECD countries, and to the right of the red bar are individual US states.
These national-level comparisons take into account taxes, and include social benefits (e.g., "welfare" and state-subsidized health care) as income.
Purchasing power is adjusted to take differences in the cost of living in different countries into account.
Since Sweden is held up as a sort of promised land by American socialists, let's compare it first.
We find that, if it were to join the US as a state, Sweden would be poorer than all but 12 states, with a median income of $27,167.
Median residents in states like Colorado ($35,830), Massachusetts ($37,626), Virginia ($39,291), Washington ($36,343), and Utah ($36,036) have considerably higher incomes than Sweden..."
Black Lives Matter Organizer Posts Guide To Riotwear…In Arabic - Breitbart
Black Lives Matter Organizer Posts Guide To Riotwear…In Arabic - Breitbart:
"A Black Lives Matter activist who was part of the Ferguson riots posted a visual guide to urban riot wear in both English and Arabic on Twitter."
"A Black Lives Matter activist who was part of the Ferguson riots posted a visual guide to urban riot wear in both English and Arabic on Twitter."
The doctored science of global warming
EDITORIAL: The doctored science of global warming - Washington Times
"Pure science undertaken for science’s own sake is as rare as a rainbow.
It’s certainly scarce in Washington, where the quest for knowledge is vulnerable to the bias of politics.
Skeptics of President Obama’s climate change agenda say they see new evidence of fraud.
If administration officials are colluding with scientists to cook the evidence, such as it might be, to demonstrate that the planet is warming, the skeptics deserve everyone’s thanks.
Whistleblowers within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) complained last year that a major study by agency researcher Thomas Karl, refuting evidence of a pause in global warming, had been rushed to publication.
The implication was that the study was coordinated with Obama administration officials to add to the urgency of the president’s climate change agenda in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
...Data consist of facts, and facts can be cherry-picked to yield a desired effect.
In the NOAA study, researchers found that ocean temperatures measured by ships were warmer than those recorded by buoys anchored in place, and scientists “developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements.”
Ship’s engines, however, can heat nearby water and produce false readings.
...The argument was the basis for the Paris climate change agreement, endorsed by nearly 200 nations. If documents were to emerge suggesting temperature data was doctored to reach an expedient conclusion in the NOAA study, and if White House officials were part of such a scheme, that would be proof that science had been recruited to serve politics.
...EPA officials quietly schemed with environmentalists to write regulations reinforcing their shared climate change agenda.
The agency has denied the accusations..."
"Pure science undertaken for science’s own sake is as rare as a rainbow.
It’s certainly scarce in Washington, where the quest for knowledge is vulnerable to the bias of politics.
Skeptics of President Obama’s climate change agenda say they see new evidence of fraud.
If administration officials are colluding with scientists to cook the evidence, such as it might be, to demonstrate that the planet is warming, the skeptics deserve everyone’s thanks.
The implication was that the study was coordinated with Obama administration officials to add to the urgency of the president’s climate change agenda in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
...Data consist of facts, and facts can be cherry-picked to yield a desired effect.
In the NOAA study, researchers found that ocean temperatures measured by ships were warmer than those recorded by buoys anchored in place, and scientists “developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements.”
Ship’s engines, however, can heat nearby water and produce false readings.
...The argument was the basis for the Paris climate change agreement, endorsed by nearly 200 nations. If documents were to emerge suggesting temperature data was doctored to reach an expedient conclusion in the NOAA study, and if White House officials were part of such a scheme, that would be proof that science had been recruited to serve politics.
...EPA officials quietly schemed with environmentalists to write regulations reinforcing their shared climate change agenda.
The agency has denied the accusations..."
Meghan McCain Rips Obama’s Handling of Islamic State: ‘There’s Blood on This Administration’s Hands’ | Video | TheBlaze.com
Meghan McCain Rips Obama’s Handling of Islamic State: ‘There’s Blood on This Administration’s Hands’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:"Syndicated radio personality Meghan McCain believes the Obama administration has “blood on their hands,” saying on Fox News’ “Outnumbered” Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East has failed.
The five-member panel was discussing the mounting pressure on the administration to label the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East by the Islamic State and other terrorist groups “genocide.”
6 Time Felon Killed In Shootout By 13 Year Old During Home Invasion -
6 Time Felon Killed In Shootout By 13 Year Old During Home Invasion
"A brave 13-year-old Ladson boy fended off two hardened felons who were attempting to break into his house by using his mother’s gun to protect himself while home alone.
The boy saw the men breaking into the back of his home, “at which time he feared for his safety” and grabbed his mother’s gun, the document states.
He began firing at them, and the Sheriff’s office reported that they returned fire.
In a heated shootout, he shot Brown three times, and Bennett drove him to the hospital where he later died.
The gray Chevy Sonic they were driving had bullet holes in it from the boy chasing them, the affidavit states.
Where is the media coverage of this brave young man.
Without the protection of his mothers gun the boy, and probably his mother when she got home, would both be dead..."
"A brave 13-year-old Ladson boy fended off two hardened felons who were attempting to break into his house by using his mother’s gun to protect himself while home alone.
The boy saw the men breaking into the back of his home, “at which time he feared for his safety” and grabbed his mother’s gun, the document states.He began firing at them, and the Sheriff’s office reported that they returned fire.
In a heated shootout, he shot Brown three times, and Bennett drove him to the hospital where he later died.
The gray Chevy Sonic they were driving had bullet holes in it from the boy chasing them, the affidavit states.
Where is the media coverage of this brave young man.
Without the protection of his mothers gun the boy, and probably his mother when she got home, would both be dead..."
History for March 10
History for March 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Claire Booth Luce 1903, Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger"), Dean Torrence 1940 - Singer (Jan & Dean)
Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress, Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast, Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol"
0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1953 - North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
Claire Booth Luce 1903, Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger"), Dean Torrence 1940 - Singer (Jan & Dean)
Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress, Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast, Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol"
0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1953 - North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
LIBERTY REVIEW
LIBERTY REVIEW:
http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/03/striking-match-by-tammy-derouin-level.html
Hate, racism and phobias of all types imaginable are being
created to cause chaos. Using the phrase
“political correctness” is a default excuse.
It’s used by our enemies, both foreign and domestic, to gain control of
a once independent thinking people.
What kind of society have we become? We have allowed one person, one
administration, to put us on a suicidal path. People are beginning to following
the example of the administration by acting on their own to promote unrest.....
http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/03/striking-match-by-tammy-derouin-level.html
Striking A Match
By Tammy Derouin
The level to which our country has sunk is appalling. We embrace hate, death and deceit. Those who break the laws, disregard rules,
assist those who want to destroy us and spend more time lying than breathing,
are elevated to higher positions in our government. The people they deceive are the very people
who reward them. Many have allowed themselves to be conned into
believing that wrong is now right. How
else do you explain such backwards behavior?
Hate, racism and phobias of all types imaginable are being
created to cause chaos. Using the phrase
“political correctness” is a default excuse.
It’s used by our enemies, both foreign and domestic, to gain control of
a once independent thinking people.
Civil disorder is being encouraged and fueled from the
highest levels of our government.
Problems that either didn’t exist, or only existed on a small scale,
have been repackaged and sold to strike a nerve. But, it doesn’t end there. Striking a nerve leads to striking a
match.
Great link-Lots of info here-----2016 Primary Results and Calendar
2016 Primary Results and Calendar - The New York Times:
"The 2016 primaries and caucuses have begun.
Candidates will seek to win delegates in each state’s contest to capture their party’s nomination for the presidency. "
"The 2016 primaries and caucuses have begun.
Candidates will seek to win delegates in each state’s contest to capture their party’s nomination for the presidency. "
Mizzou officials are so sick of black student activists they start hiding from them
Mizzou officials are so sick of black student activists they start hiding from them - The College Fix:
Diversity chief says Spike Lee-endorsed protest is ‘unfair’
Concerned Student 1950 is wearing down everyone who comes into contact with the University of Missouri racial-protest group—even the hunger-striker who brought it to fame.
Mizzou’s new leaders are denouncing the group for a protest it held Monday, joined by film director Spike Lee, against the very diversity program in which the group is participating.
Jonathan Butler, the grad student whose hunger strike prompted the Mizzou football team to go on strike, also announced he’s exited the group partly for the sake of his health.
First smart thing he’s done all year
Although “The Working Group” racial task force conceived by Mizzou’s new diversity chief has met just three times since its February launch, Concerned Student 1950 is writing it off completely.
The group met on campus shortly before noon Monday with director Lee to protest the new committee, but it had trouble finding administrators willing to hear the activists.
...“A lot of people don’t see that we are trying to reach out, and they shut the door on us all the time,” Imani Simmons-Elloie, a member of the group, told Columbia Daily Tribune after the demonstration. “We’re the black kids that are crying wolf to everybody else.”...
Diversity chief says Spike Lee-endorsed protest is ‘unfair’
Concerned Student 1950 is wearing down everyone who comes into contact with the University of Missouri racial-protest group—even the hunger-striker who brought it to fame.
Mizzou’s new leaders are denouncing the group for a protest it held Monday, joined by film director Spike Lee, against the very diversity program in which the group is participating.
Jonathan Butler, the grad student whose hunger strike prompted the Mizzou football team to go on strike, also announced he’s exited the group partly for the sake of his health.First smart thing he’s done all year
Although “The Working Group” racial task force conceived by Mizzou’s new diversity chief has met just three times since its February launch, Concerned Student 1950 is writing it off completely.
The group met on campus shortly before noon Monday with director Lee to protest the new committee, but it had trouble finding administrators willing to hear the activists.
...“A lot of people don’t see that we are trying to reach out, and they shut the door on us all the time,” Imani Simmons-Elloie, a member of the group, told Columbia Daily Tribune after the demonstration. “We’re the black kids that are crying wolf to everybody else.”...
Obama DOJ Too Conflicted to Handle Hillary Email Probe, Former U.S. Attorney Says | TheBlaze.com
Obama DOJ Too Conflicted to Handle Hillary Email Probe, Former U.S. Attorney Says | TheBlaze.com:
"Further, the Washington Post reported that Clinton wrote 104 email messages that the government says are classified.
Of the emails released, 2,101 were classified in some form. Of those, 44 were classified as secret and 22 were classified as top secret.
Whitaker believes the immunity deal is a very serious matter.
“You have the concentric circles of an investigation where you work from the outside in,” Whitaker said. “This tells me they’ve collected all of the physical and other evidence that they could without talking to folks and now they are working to the middle and this gentleman who set up the private email server, I think, is going to have a lot of key evidence that they couldn’t otherwise obtain.”
Immunity deals come when someone has exposure to criminal charges."
"Further, the Washington Post reported that Clinton wrote 104 email messages that the government says are classified.Of the emails released, 2,101 were classified in some form. Of those, 44 were classified as secret and 22 were classified as top secret.
Whitaker believes the immunity deal is a very serious matter.
“You have the concentric circles of an investigation where you work from the outside in,” Whitaker said. “This tells me they’ve collected all of the physical and other evidence that they could without talking to folks and now they are working to the middle and this gentleman who set up the private email server, I think, is going to have a lot of key evidence that they couldn’t otherwise obtain.”
Immunity deals come when someone has exposure to criminal charges."
Nebraska: Lutherans, Somalis, meatpackers, mosques (and controversy) in small town America
Nebraska: Lutherans, Somalis, meatpackers, mosques (and controversy) in small town America « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
This is a story from late last month that should be nothing new to readers who have followed this blog since 2007. We probably have 100 posts on this same subject, namely meatpackers working with the help of refugee resettlement contractors to spread Islam throughout the heartland. LOL! Someone could write a book!
This is a story from late last month that should be nothing new to readers who have followed this blog since 2007. We probably have 100 posts on this same subject, namely meatpackers working with the help of refugee resettlement contractors to spread Islam throughout the heartland. LOL! Someone could write a book!
Meatpackers changing the face of the American heartland, here in Lexington, Nebraska.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington,_Nebraska
The story about a clash in Lexington, Nebraska about the location of a new Somali mosque is the subject of this lengthy report from the Omaha World-Herald late last month. (Sorry, just getting around to it now!).
Reporter Paul Hammel begins with this:
LEXINGTON, Neb. — The old Longhorn Laundry is an unlikely place for a showdown over the First Amendment.
You could easily miss the nondescript concrete building on a quiet downtown corner of this old cow town.
But ever since a group of Somali workers from the local meatpacking plant spread out a sea of Persian rugs in the expansive former laundry and began holding Muslim prayer services five times a day, there has been controversy.
City officials maintain that mosque leaders are ignoring local zoning laws and thumbing their noses at requirements for building permits and fire-code inspections.
They insist that the flap is about a lack of parking, not a denial of religious freedom, and that it wasn’t spurred by “Islamophobia.”
The attraction is employment at Tyson Foods:
African Muslims, mostly from war-torn Somalia, started arriving in the mid-2000s. Census estimates put the number of Somalis in Lexington at 769 in 2014 — a 40 percent increase from 2000. Local Somalis and those who work with them say there actually may be 1,500 or more living in the community.
Across Nebraska, census estimates show 2,100 Somali-born residents clustered in Omaha and Lincoln, and near meatpacking plants in Grand Island and Madison, as well as Lexington.
Read the whole thing, it is well worth it. Hammel interviewed many of the players in the drama, including the Lutheran resettlement contractor out of Omaha.
We also have many posts here at RRW about the controversy with Somalis in Grand Island, NE over the years. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/?s=Grand+Island+Nebraska
What do the numbers look like?
To get an idea of what has been going on in Nebraska and because I wanted to know if Lexington’s Somalis are so-called ‘secondary migrants,’ I had a look at the US State Department data base and learned that since Obama was elected, Nebraska has ‘welcomed’ 6,716 refugees and the numbers have been increasing each of those years.
Most of the refugees (seeded in Nebraska by federal ‘church’ contractors) are Burmese or Iraqis, but of course Somalis have been resettled as well. (There are small numbers of Muslim Burmese and the largest group of Iraqis we admit to the US are Muslims. Somalis are virtually all Muslim.)
The largest numbers went to Lincoln and Omaha, but I was surprised to see that the Lutheran agencies operating in the state placed 33 Somalis directly in Lexington which is well over a hundred miles from any resettlement office (unless one of the federal contractors has set up a subsidiary office way out Interstate 80 in Lexington). The larger numbers of Somalis reported are indeed ‘secondary migrants’ (resettled in another state who then moved to Nebraska for meatpacking work.) I’ll look into this further…..
See what we have reported about Nebraska over the last few years by clicking here."
Girl Tells Doc She's Being "Tracked"... He Thinks She's Nuts Until Chilling X-Ray Comes Out
Girl Tells Doc She's Being "Tracked"... He Thinks She's Nuts Until Chilling X-Ray Comes Out:"However, in this case, the patient wasn’t just a paranoid nut believing the government had hidden a transmitter in her head. She was a victim of sex trafficking, and the doctor who treated her is so afraid for his safety he would only use the name Dr. A when he talked to NPR, which also concealed the name of his hospital."
‘A New World-Wide Debt Bubble’
‘A New World-Wide Debt Bubble’ - world news - canmua.net:
"The Federal Reserve has been trying to prevent deflation, writes George Melloan, but the federal government has been “engineering its cause, excessive debt.”
And it’s not just our government.
Global debt of all types has soared above 300% of GDP, notes Mr. Melloan.
Near-zero interest rates not only enabled government spending but also “encouraged consumers and business to releverage.
Cars are now financed with low or no-interest five-year loans.
With the 2008 housing debacle forgotten, easier mortgage terms have made a comeback.
Corporations also couldn’t let cheap money go to waste, so they have piled up debts to buy back their own stock.
Such ‘investment’ produces no economic growth, but it has to be paid back nonetheless.”"
"The Federal Reserve has been trying to prevent deflation, writes George Melloan, but the federal government has been “engineering its cause, excessive debt.”
Global debt of all types has soared above 300% of GDP, notes Mr. Melloan.
Near-zero interest rates not only enabled government spending but also “encouraged consumers and business to releverage.
Cars are now financed with low or no-interest five-year loans.
With the 2008 housing debacle forgotten, easier mortgage terms have made a comeback.
Corporations also couldn’t let cheap money go to waste, so they have piled up debts to buy back their own stock.
Such ‘investment’ produces no economic growth, but it has to be paid back nonetheless.”"
Monsters!-----Disturbing ISIS Video: We Will Attack America 'Very Soon'
Disturbing ISIS Video: We Will Attack America 'Very Soon'
The Islamic State produces another despicable, highly-graphic video.
It warns Barack Obama it will strike against the U.S. in the same way it hit Paris.
“We will kill, slaughter and burn your people.
Inshallah, we will attack you very soon.”
That’s the dire warning to Americans in a just-published video from the ‘Islamic State Supporters’.
The narrator invokes the Paris attacks of 2015 and warns U.S. President Barack Obama he can expect the same treatment in the homeland.
As is customary, the video ends with a beheading.
However, this time the chilling conclusion is more graphic than in many previous ISIS films.
Not only does one witness the entire process but as the main executioner beheads his Syrian victim, he stops mid-cutting and stares menacingly at the camera for several seconds to make sure there is no room to misunderstand his intentions.
The narrator speaks in English but sometimes the words are difficult to understand so we at Clarion have added subtitles.
WARNING: This video includes highly-graphic, disturbing images:
http://video.clarionproject.org/2016/ISIS-warning-to-America-GRAPHIC.mp4
The Islamic State produces another despicable, highly-graphic video.
It warns Barack Obama it will strike against the U.S. in the same way it hit Paris.
“We will kill, slaughter and burn your people.
Inshallah, we will attack you very soon.”
That’s the dire warning to Americans in a just-published video from the ‘Islamic State Supporters’.
The narrator invokes the Paris attacks of 2015 and warns U.S. President Barack Obama he can expect the same treatment in the homeland.
As is customary, the video ends with a beheading. However, this time the chilling conclusion is more graphic than in many previous ISIS films.
Not only does one witness the entire process but as the main executioner beheads his Syrian victim, he stops mid-cutting and stares menacingly at the camera for several seconds to make sure there is no room to misunderstand his intentions.
The narrator speaks in English but sometimes the words are difficult to understand so we at Clarion have added subtitles.
WARNING: This video includes highly-graphic, disturbing images:
http://video.clarionproject.org/2016/ISIS-warning-to-America-GRAPHIC.mp4
Water utilities serving American cities use tests that downplay contamination
Water utilities serving American cities use tests that downplay contamination | Environment | The Guardian:
Guardian analysis reveals millions of customers were asked to used testing method condemned by the EPA which may flush out detectable lead content
Water utilities in some of the largest cities in the US that collectively serve some 12 million people have used tests that downplay the amount of lead contamination found in drinking water for more than a decade, a Guardian analysis of testing protocols reveals.
In the tests, utilities ask customers who sample their home’s water for lead to remove the faucet’s aerator screen and to flush lines hours before tests, potentially flushing out detectable lead contamination.
The distorted tests, condemned by the Environmental Protection Agency, have taken place in cities including Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Columbus, Ohio.
The improper screening could decrease the chance of detecting potentially dangerous levels of lead in water, the EPA has said.
The analysis comes on the heels of an EPA letter, which repeated earlier warnings to utilities not to use such methods, and Guardian reporting that revealed water customers in “every major US city east of the Mississippi” could be drinking water tested using questionable methods.
...It was in 2006 that the EPA first issued guidance advising against test practices that scientists call deceptive, including removing aerators, pre-flushing lines and using small-necked bottles to collect samples.
That year, the agency said removing aerators could result in improperly lowering lead in water samples..."
Guardian analysis reveals millions of customers were asked to used testing method condemned by the EPA which may flush out detectable lead content
Water utilities in some of the largest cities in the US that collectively serve some 12 million people have used tests that downplay the amount of lead contamination found in drinking water for more than a decade, a Guardian analysis of testing protocols reveals.
The distorted tests, condemned by the Environmental Protection Agency, have taken place in cities including Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Columbus, Ohio.
The improper screening could decrease the chance of detecting potentially dangerous levels of lead in water, the EPA has said.
The analysis comes on the heels of an EPA letter, which repeated earlier warnings to utilities not to use such methods, and Guardian reporting that revealed water customers in “every major US city east of the Mississippi” could be drinking water tested using questionable methods.
...It was in 2006 that the EPA first issued guidance advising against test practices that scientists call deceptive, including removing aerators, pre-flushing lines and using small-necked bottles to collect samples.
That year, the agency said removing aerators could result in improperly lowering lead in water samples..."
U.S. Soldier Gave This Secret Signal To Warn Us About Hillary, But No One Listened | The Proud Conservative
U.S. Soldier Gave This Secret Signal To Warn Us About Hillary, But No One Listened | The Proud Conservative:"On the hills of a story surfacing about Hillary Clinton claiming to have tried to join the Marines but was rejected due to sexism (shocking allegation, right?), there is a story that you will overlook if you aren’t careful."
Bank CEO reveals how Obama administration shook him down
Bank CEO reveals how Obama administration shook him down | New York Post:
The former CEO of Ally Financial Inc. says the Obama administration abused its power by holding the bank’s business hostage in order to coerce a record settlement of “trumped-up” racism charges and push profit-killing new regulations on the entire auto-lending industry.
The huge $100 million deal has spooked several other major lenders into resolving similar race-bias charges and offering below-market rates to minorities for car loans.
Michael A. Carpenter, who helmed Detroit-based Ally from 2009 to 2015, complained in an exclusive interview that Obama’s powerful consumer watchdog agency threatened to derail the bank’s efforts to obtain key regulatory approvals if it didn’t agree to settle the allegations out of court.
“To be strong-armed by a regulator was inappropriate to say the least,” he said.
“They absolutely knew they had tremendous leverage over us.”
Since the 2013 deal, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has accused the industry’s biggest lenders of ripping off black and other minority customers by charging them higher interest rates than whites.
But Carpenter says there’s no merit to the accusations.
He suggests they’re merely a means to a political end: forcing car dealers to abandon discretionary pricing and equalizing credit outcomes, regardless of borrower creditworthiness.
He warns moving to flat-rate financing, as the administration wants, would limit the industry’s ability to make a profit and cover risk and would be like “signing our own death warrant.”
Read on!
The former CEO of Ally Financial Inc. says the Obama administration abused its power by holding the bank’s business hostage in order to coerce a record settlement of “trumped-up” racism charges and push profit-killing new regulations on the entire auto-lending industry.
The huge $100 million deal has spooked several other major lenders into resolving similar race-bias charges and offering below-market rates to minorities for car loans.Michael A. Carpenter, who helmed Detroit-based Ally from 2009 to 2015, complained in an exclusive interview that Obama’s powerful consumer watchdog agency threatened to derail the bank’s efforts to obtain key regulatory approvals if it didn’t agree to settle the allegations out of court.
“To be strong-armed by a regulator was inappropriate to say the least,” he said.
“They absolutely knew they had tremendous leverage over us.”
Since the 2013 deal, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has accused the industry’s biggest lenders of ripping off black and other minority customers by charging them higher interest rates than whites.
But Carpenter says there’s no merit to the accusations.
He suggests they’re merely a means to a political end: forcing car dealers to abandon discretionary pricing and equalizing credit outcomes, regardless of borrower creditworthiness.
He warns moving to flat-rate financing, as the administration wants, would limit the industry’s ability to make a profit and cover risk and would be like “signing our own death warrant.”
Read on!
History for March 9
History for March 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Amerigo Vespucci 1454, Mickey Spillane 1918 - Author, Yuri Gagarin 1934
Mark Lindsay 1942 - Singer (Paul Revere & the Raiders), Linda Fiorentino 1960 - Actress, Juliette Binoche 1964 - Actress
1820 - The U.S. Congress passed the Land Act that paved the way for westward expansion of North America.
1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia fought to a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1916 - Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico. 17 people were killed by the 1,500 horsemen.
1936 - The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections would be arrested.
1959 - Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.
1964 - Production began on the first Ford Mustang.
1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1977 - About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington, DC. They killed one person and took more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later.
Amerigo Vespucci 1454, Mickey Spillane 1918 - Author, Yuri Gagarin 1934
Mark Lindsay 1942 - Singer (Paul Revere & the Raiders), Linda Fiorentino 1960 - Actress, Juliette Binoche 1964 - Actress
1820 - The U.S. Congress passed the Land Act that paved the way for westward expansion of North America.
1862 - During the U.S. Civil War, the ironclads Monitor and Virginia fought to a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1916 - Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico. 17 people were killed by the 1,500 horsemen.
1936 - The German press warned that all Jews who vote in the upcoming elections would be arrested.
1959 - Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.
1964 - Production began on the first Ford Mustang.
1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1977 - About a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington, DC. They killed one person and took more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later.
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