What’s interesting in the news today?
1. The internet is about to transform into Obamanet.
From ComputerWorld “Congressional Republicans are demanding to know how much the White House influenced the Federal Communications Commission while the agency crafted net neutrality rules.
The FCC has until Monday afternoon to produce unredacted email messages, focused on net neutrality rules, between FCC staff and officials with the Obama administration, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a letter to the FCC Friday. The Utah Republican is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.”
Chaffetz’s committee is “investigating the potential involvement of the White House” in the creation of proposed net neutrality rules that the FCC is scheduled to vote on next Thursday, he said in the letter. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose regulations that would reclassify broadband as a regulated telecommunications service instead of a lightly regulated information service.
An FCC spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for a comment on Chaffetz’s letter.”
Of course they didn’t respond. They’re too busy meeting with “activists,” ‘cuz that’s what community organizers do.
More on that here, from TheDailyCaller
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2. DHS would like you wing nuts to know that you’re more dangerous than ISIS.
From HotAir “The Department of Homeland Security has a lot on their hands lately. It seems as if some days they don’t know where to look first when dealing with a variety of threats. Whether it’s al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram or sympathizers for any of a variety of terrorists groups, they are dealing with a dangerous world. But for some reason, CNN reports that the big threat this year is probably… sovereign citizens.
On second thought, maybe that whole defunding the DHS thing isn’t looking that bad.
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists and comes as the Obama administration holds a White House conference to focus efforts to fight violent extremism.
Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.
The Homeland Security report, produced in coordination with the FBI, counts 24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010.”
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3. Bill Whittle nails it, again.
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4. Does Muslim immigration pose a serious national security threat?
From InvestorsBusinessDaily “France, Belgium and now even liberal Denmark regret letting in so many immigrants from Muslim countries. Their swelling Islamic communities have become breeding grounds for terrorists. So why is the U.S. opening the floodgates to foreign Muslims?
The threat Muslim immigrants pose to homeland security was not addressed during the White House’s three-day summit on terrorism. Instead, Vice President Joe Biden assured Muslim groups gathered during one session that the “wave” of Muslim immigration is “not going to stop.” Wave? More like a tsunami.
Between 2010 and 2013, the Obama administration imported almost 300,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations — more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period.”
“Many of the recent Muslim immigrants are from terrorist hot spots like Iraq, where the Islamic State operates. From 2010-2013, Obama ushered in 41,094 Iraqi nationals from there.
Now the State Department says it will quadruple the number of refugees brought here from Syria, where IS is headquartered.”
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5. Meanwhile on the southern border…..
From CNSNews “”We all saw what happened on the Texas border last summer, but we need to understand that the problem is not going away,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told CBS’s “Face the Nation” with Bob Schieffer on Sunday.
“Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized. And so we have an ongoing problem on the border that Congress must step up and solve.”
All told in fiscal year 2014, U.S immigration officials removed 213,719 individuals apprehended while attempting to unlawfully enter the United States.)
Schieffer reminded Abbott that there are some 800,000 illegal aliens living in Texas right now.”
Oh, and DHS is requiring caretakers of unaccompanied illegal children to provide them with abortion inducing drugs. Nice huh?
Also from CNSNews “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is advancing federal regulations that require federally funded organization caring for illegal alien minors who are in the United States without their parents (Unaccompanied Children or UC) and who may have been sexually abused access to “emergency contraception” services.
“Emergency contraception” includes abortion-inducing drugs.
These care providers currently include Catholic and other faith-based organizations that oppose abortion, according to the Center for Family and Human Rights or C-FAM, a Catholic advocacy group.
The Interim Final Rule was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 24, 2014, and was open to public comments until today, Feb. 23, 2015. Providers must comply with the rule by June 24, 2015, according to the Federal Register.”
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6. Nuclear armed Iran. Scary thought, but that’s the Obama plan.
From YahooNews “Edging toward a historic compromise, the U.S. and Iran reported progress Monday on a deal that would clamp down on Tehran’s nuclear activities for at least 10 years but then slowly ease restrictions on programs that could be used to make atomic arms.
Officials said there were still obstacles to overcome before a March 31 deadline, and any deal will face harsh opposition in both countries. It also would be sure to further strain already-tense U.S. relations with Israel, whose leaders oppose any agreement that doesn’t end Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to strongly criticize the deal in an address before Congress next week.
Still, a comprehensive pact could ease 35 years of U.S-Iranian enmity — and seems within reach for the first time in more than a decade of negotiations.”
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Wandering Views 
Each of these things, taken alone present an individual problem
Taken together, we see a largely successful attempt by Obama and Jarrett to bring this country to it’s knees.
And to our knees we need to go.
And we will be there before it’s over.
I have been there for some time. God didn’t answer my prayer for 2012, but he did for 2014.
The 2016 election is crucial. I am not praying for a party, but for the country.
We need a man with a vision and a backbone.
I don’t see that in Jeb.
It may be that God wants to take the US out of the calculations with respect to Israel.
The battle of Zechariah 12 cannot happen as long as the Sixth Fleet is in the Eastern Mediterranean. We may be fighting China when this happens.
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1. Proponents of net neutrality aren’t fooling anyone. Anytime that the govt regulates something, it finds a way to generate revenue from the activity. The feds can claim to have an interest in protecting the rights of consumers all they want, but, ultimately, the purpose of regulation is to suck up more $ for the govt. The FCC’s track record with cell phone service companies is a prime example.
The FCC’s initial regs may not call for new taxes, but the feds spit out new regs daily as if they were going out of style – 21K new regs comprising 75K pages in 2014 alone. Everyone who has half a brain – or isn’t being intentionally dishonest – knows that the feds will eventually get around to taxing Internet service providers, ie imposing service fees, which will then be passed on to consumers. This allows the govt to maintain a degree of separation between you and the real source of rate hikes. That leads to price fixing, as the govt, reacting to consumer complaints (or, in some cases, ginning up a non-existent problem and using it as an excuse to pass more laws/regs), places caps on the amount of the charges service providers can impose on customers. That only benefits the larger companies – the AT&Ts and Time Warners of the world – whose size allows them to absorb the additional costs, knowing they’ll be able to crowd out their smaller, more efficient, more innovative competition and capture an even bigger share of the market.
Net neutrality’s inevitable result is govt-created, -sustained and -protected monopolies, all beholden to legislators & regulators.
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The reason agencies are created is to pass onerous regulations and restrictions without submitting them to debate in Congress.
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Prayers
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/24/world/isis-syria-iraq/index.html
(CNN) Assyrians in northeastern Syria villages awoke Tuesday to ISIS militants at their doors, with the Islamist extremists abducting scores from the Christian group and forcing hundreds more to run for their lives, an advocate said.
The ISIS fighters bust past a few men guarding the village of Tal Shamiram around 4 a.m. (9 p.m. ET Monday) and abducted children, women and the elderly, said Usama Edward, the founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network.
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Tychicus,
You got that right. Some opponents say it could increase taxes and fees by 11 billion a year. With Democrats, it’s always a money grab sold as helping the average Joe, but it won’t. Ever.
Democrats insist it won’t, yet they won’t let anyone see the actual regulations. Some FCC commissioners have seen it, and aren’t big fans.
Dems are pulling the ObamaCare “you have to pass it to see what’s in it” move, and we all know how that turned out. If they’re hiding it, and they are, there’s a reason for it.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/republican-fcc-commissioner-public-is-being-misled-about-net-neutrality-plan-20150210
“The Federal Communications Commission is misleading the public about its 332-page plan to regulate the Internet, a Republican member of the commission said Tuesday.
The net-neutrality plan could in fact open the door to new fees and taxes, as well as government control over the prices that Internet providers charge their customers, Commissioner Ajit Pai told reporters.
The claims echo attacks from Republicans on Capitol Hill, who are also scrambling to thwart the new regulations. Committees in the House and Senate have launched investigations into whether President Obama inappropriately influenced the FCC’s decision, and Republican lawmakers are working on their own alternative net-neutrality legislation to override FCC action.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who unveiled his plan last week, has denied that it would impose new fees or regulate prices. But it’s difficult to determine who is right, because the commission won’t release the actual text of the regulations until after it approves them on Feb. 26.
“I believe the public has a right to know what its government is doing, particularly when it comes to something as important as Internet regulation,” Pai, one of two Republicans on the five-member commission, said. “I have studied the 332-page plan in detail, and it is worse than I had imagined.”
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Abortion and debauchery, Obama’s 2 favorite exports…..
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/special-envoy-lgbt?utm_content=buffer2ba39&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
“The United States named its first international envoy for gay rights Monday, tasking a veteran diplomat with leading U.S. efforts to fight violence and discrimination against LGBT individuals overseas.
Randy Berry, currently the consul general in the Netherlands, will promote human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, Secretary of State John Kerry said. A longtime foreign service officer, Berry has served at U.S. posts in Bangladesh, Egypt, Uganda and South Africa, and speaks Spanish and Arabic.
“Defending and promoting the human rights of LGBT persons is at the core of our commitment to advancing human rights globally — the heart and conscience of our diplomacy,” Kerry said in a statement. He cited overturning laws that still criminalize same-sex activity in more than 75 countries as a specific priority.
The State Department has said it planned to appoint an openly gay diplomat to the post.
Long in the works, Berry’s appointment as a special envoy is the latest move by the Obama administration to make LGBT rights a prominent part of its human rights efforts around the world. In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared during a speech in Geneva that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” And earlier this year, the White House for the first time included human rights protection for LGBT people in its formal national security strategy.”
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The Peace Corps have been used in this same way for years. One worker in 2011 was charged with that task, frustrated because she got no leverage with the Nicaraguans.
“What do they really want?” I asked.
She shrugged. “Clean water, immunization a for their children.”
Aghast, I asked, “why don’t you help them with what they could really use?”
That wasn’t how she was funded.
What a waste.
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Donna,
Here’s another needing prayers. 😦
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-woman-missionary-kidnapped-in-central-nigeria/ar-BBhUYFj
“An American woman working as a Christian missionary in Nigeria was kidnapped overnight, the website of the Free Methodist Church and a security source said on Tuesday.
“Early this morning we received a report that Rev. Phyllis Sortor, our missionary in Nigeria, was abducted from the Hope Academy compound in Emiworo, Kogi State, Nigeria by several persons,” the church said.
Nigeria is one of the world’s worst country’s for kidnapping, a major criminal enterprise that makes millions of dollars a year.”
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“Randy Berry, currently the consul general in the Netherlands, will promote human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, Secretary of State John Kerry said. A longtime foreign service officer, Berry has served at U.S. posts in Bangladesh, Egypt, Uganda and South Africa, and speaks Spanish and Arabic.”
Since he speaks Arabic, his first assignment should be Saudi Arabia.
🙂
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Shudder. A FB acquaintance posted a link to the story (the kidnapping of 150 Chriistians) with a jokey headline about “Hey, neighbor, where are you ‘headed’?” and then comments from others about how they’re going to BBQ and bake Christians, about stupid enough to follow an ‘imaginary’ God, etc.
Hilarious, isn’t it? 😦 And, yes, these appear to be adults.
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These people don’t realize that they are adding to their wrath account for the day of judgment.
Romans 2:5
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That’s horrible, Donna!
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I know, what’s wrong with people? These guys are 30ish, one (a community member I don’t know personally, but we have a lot of ‘mutual’ friends & he asked me to be friends on FB some time ago, I’m not a big fan of most of his posts) is an aspiring actor — the other guy apparent is one of his equally misguided friends. 😦
But seriously — even if you privately thought these things, who would have the incredible bad taste to joke on a public forum about such a thing? I don’t get some people. I understand not being a believer and thinking religious people are loopy — but the total lack of respect in a situation like this just perplexes me. So sad.
And scary.
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This info is worth everyone’s attention. Where
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