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  The people who put Obama in Office TWICE!!!!
Posted by: guohua - 07-13-2016, 08:59 PM - Forum: America's Ex-President Obama - Replies (6)

Here is a picture and an article of one of many who put Obama in Office Twice because they feel Guilty for some unknown reason, They were raised to believe all White People Owned Slaves or Abused The Poor Black Man and Woman, They are just Ignorant! 
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Quote:Laurella Willis’ methods are turning heads on Chicago’s South Side, CBS 2’s Audrina Bigos reports.
“It’s very touching,” said one resident. “Especially someone who’s not colored.”
About 20 miles a day, Willis walks with the sign. She says she is sorry about “everything that’s going on in America.”
The violence, the anger, the racial tension, all of it.
“I don’t want to continue to see Black American being oppressed, and held down and killed like animals,” Willis said.
WVON Radio host Mark Wallace spotted Willis walking on 87th Street.
“No one put her up to this and she woke up and decided White America there’s a problem and we need to do something about it,” Wallace said.
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Being a Liberal is a Real Mental Disorder. JMHO

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  University Student Who Criticized Black Lives Matter Faces Expulsion, Death Threats
Posted by: guohua - 07-13-2016, 08:40 PM - Forum: Social Unrest and Justice - Replies (2)

Another Institution of Learning is making the attempt to Step On A Persons Constitutional Right To Free Expression Of Speech.
In Obama's Administration does this surprise us?

Quote:On Wednesday, July 6th, Purdue University summoned Joshua Nash to meet with the Director of Student Assistance in regards to a “comment on Facebook.” Nash believes this meeting is due to a post where he said that “Black Lives Matter is trash because they do not really care about black lives. They simply care about making money and disrupting events for dead people.”

Nash is a biology major — who is gay and refers to himself as a “dangerous faggot” in his Twitter bio, a reference to conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos — and claims he has never faced disciplinary action with his school before.
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Quote:“Attempting to silence students with subjective controversial opinions is completely and utterly absurd, and a direct attack on free speech,” Nash told me in an interview. He also says he found the disruption of a gay pride event in Toronto disrespectful to those who lost their lives in Orlando.

In addition to the reaction from Purdue, Nash found himself the target of multiple online threats from fellow students, some of whom he says called him a “dirt racist conservative scumbbag [sic],” and promised “if i ever see u on campus i am going to cut u till i see blood.” Nash reported these comments to Facebook, the university administration, and filed a police report.
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[Image: screengrab_02.jpg?w=259&quality=80&strip=info] and these supposed student who threatened his Life, what will they do to him or her? Nothing!
Quote:“I think the government and public universities are indirectly responsible for the death threats I’ve been receiving,” Nash says. “People, especially students, have been led to believe it is illegal for someone to speak out against them with words that can be seen as ‘harmful.’ … These students are so adamant about protecting their rights, protecting their feelings, that they don’t realize what they’re doing… threatening to literally kill someone.”

Shortly after Nash received the letter from his university, he posted it to social media where it went viral, gaining thousands of shares and likes. He received an outpouring of support from conservatives figures such as Milo Yiannopoulos, Mike Cernovich, and others, who have all railed against online censorship or been the target of it.

“I believe students are mad about me being a gay conservative because it’s so foreign and unheard of,” Nash says. “Most students on my campus are extremely liberal and have a hard time understanding how a gay man could be conservative. These students hold the false belief that gay people are being oppressed by conservative groups. They think of me as a traitor of sorts, I appear to be siding with the enemy.”
Nash’s meeting with Purdue’s Director of Student Assistance, Leadership, and Conduct was initially scheduled for July 19, but has reportedly been moved to August.
He's Right They are and they should be Removed and Prosecuted as Accessories.
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  North Korea Just Cut Its Last Diplomatic Channel to the U.S.
Posted by: OmegaLogos - 07-13-2016, 02:49 PM - Forum: Breaking News - Replies (1)

Explanation: Things are heating up real quickly!  tinybighuh 

North Korea Just Cut Its Last Diplomatic Channel to the U.S. [http://breaking911.com]


Quote:Shortly after North Korea threatened a “physical response” to the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea on Monday, Pyongyang announced another move likely to ratchet up tensions with the United States: severing its only diplomatic link with Washington at the United Nations in New York.


Please view source article for the full story ok!

Personal Disclosure: This article is related ...


TRUNEWS 07/11/16 Rick Wiles | West Sleeps As War Begins [http://www.trunews.com]


Its got a 1hr+ long audio file which I have yet to listen to BUT the title of the article sums up my feelings on the matter!

Whether a war with Russia over Ukraine/EU or a war with China over South China Sea or a war with North Korea over the Korean Peninsula or a Civil War within the USA over internal tensions and divisions, all of which have been festering for years if not decades, A War is coming to the West whether we like it or not so best to get prepared as you can as fast as you can.

Good Luck and may God have mercy upon us all. :smallgreenangel:

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  Something to warm One's heart !
Posted by: 727Sky - 07-13-2016, 08:36 AM - Forum: General News and Events - Replies (2)

Quote:Here's an ISIS story that will make your day!
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British Special Forces troops donned the full-length Islamic dress to sneak undetected through the ISIS' de facto capital, Raqqa, and take out their terrorist commander, U.K. Express reports. The eight-man SAS squad also eliminated several jihadi fighters after lifting up their burkas and opening fire on the stunned militants who had no time to hide from the hail of bullets. The men posed as ISIS chiefs' wives by covering themselves from head-to-toe in the traditional black burkas and managed to make their way to the group's headquarters.   Beneath [Image: download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f355986%5fAG...=yahoomail]the burkas the SAS troopers had grenades, machine-guns and enough ammo to rain hell upon the unsuspecting terrorists. 
After making their way through the town they located the house of a senior terrorist chief and relayed the location and coordinates to a US Air Force AWAC mission-control aircraft circling thousands of feet above. The American spy-plane then passed the information onto a US 'Reaper' drone, which seconds later fired a 'Hellfire' missile into the building, vaporising the ISIS commander and several of his henchmen, The Express reported. 
When jihadi militants heard the explosion they rushed onto the streets and discovered the burka-clad troopers, who took down several jihadists during a fierce gun-battle as they fought their way to safety. The SAS team were moving back to their vehicles after the missile had struck when the town went into lockdown, a source revealed. "Gunmen were on the streets stopping everyone, lining people up against the walls and threatening to kill anyone who had helped the 'spies'.  "Just as the British soldiers were getting back into a minivan several gunmen ordered them to stop," the source said.   "The troopers ignored the warnings and were about to drive off when the jihadist opened fire."  The SAS jumped out of the vehicle, lifted up their burkas and opened fire in return.   "It must have been a massive shock to the gunmen," recalled [Image: download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f355986%5fAG...=yahoomail]the source.   "One was killed instantly and two others ran off.   The firefight gave the SAS just enough time to break contact with the Isis gunmen and escape."
Shortly after the daring raid, rumours started swirling around town that the "infidels" had sent women to do their fighting rather than men, the source said. However, as we now know, it was actually eight brave soldiers with far better training and much better equipment and the result was that they struck a "severe blow" to ISIS/Daesh in the area. It definitely takes a brave man to walk straight into the pits of hell like these soldiers did, especially knowing the consequences if they were caught.  But it is interesting to see that they used Islam's own tradition to infiltrate the group, and then wreak deserved havoc. 

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  NASA shuts down live International Space Station feed as 'mysterious UFO enters Earth
Posted by: guohua - 07-13-2016, 03:05 AM - Forum: UFOs, Aliens and Universal Questions - Replies (4)

Yes you read that correctly and watch the video in the article.

Quote:The incident caused speculation online - and is not the first time NASA have been accused of tampering with the feed
Well we all know they Do and More! Airbrush and Photo Shop!
Quote:UFO spotters have raised the alarm after the International Space Station live feed cut out just as a large mysterious object appeared to enter Earth's atmosphere.
The incident occurred on July 9 and was first reported by prolific UFO hunter Streetcap1 in a video uploaded the same day.
The enthusiast did not directly imply that the object was an alien spacecraft saying: “This could well be a meteor or the like.
But he implied that the camera being turned off was slightly sinister: "What made it interesting was that the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop.”
Other enthusiasts put forward theories including one who suggested in could be the Chinese space cargo ship Tiangong-1.

This is not the first time that UFO hunters have accused NASA of cutting transmission after a mysterious UFO appeared on the live ISS stream.

A NASA spokesperson made a statement earlier in April denying allegations that NASA technicians deliberately shut down transmission when UFOs appear on the live video.
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  Clinton legal team moves to block deposition in email lawsuit Read more: http://www.
Posted by: guohua - 07-12-2016, 09:49 PM - Forum: Political News and more - Replies (2)

Come On,,, No Big Surprise, They don't want her to get caught in a Lie Under Oath!
Her Whole Life Is a About Lies, She Can't Remember The Truth.

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Hillary Clinton’s legal team said her testimony was unnecessary and superfluous in light of her questioning before the House Benghazi Committee last October.

Not if the American People Demand Real Answers, She is our Employee, we aren't her Serfs or Slaves and we should have to answer to HER!

Quote:Lawyers for Hillary Clinton are going to federal court for the first time to block efforts to force her to testify in a civil lawsuit related to her private email set-up.
Clinton's attorneys submitted a legal filing Tuesday morning in a bid to shut down a conservative group's request for an order forcing her to submit to a deposition in the midst of her presidential campaign.
Story Continued Below

Clinton’s legal team said her testimony was unnecessary and superfluous in light of her questioning before the House Benghazi Committee last October and several State Department inquiries into the issue.
“Despite this public testimony and the various investigative reports, Judicial Watch claims that it needs to depose Secretary Clinton, a former Cabinet Secretary, about six purportedly unanswered questions," the filing states. "The record, however, already answers those questions or makes clear that Secretary Clinton has no personal knowledge to provide.”
Read the Whole Article here: Source

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  20 Killed in Italy Train Collision
Posted by: Mystic Wanderer - 07-12-2016, 05:17 PM - Forum: Breaking News - Replies (2)

This is really bad news.   tinyshocked   My thoughts and prayers go out to all those people involved.
The details of how this happened aren't clear yet, and still under investigation.


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Quote:By Stephanie Halasz, Jason Hanna and Livia Borghese CNN

(CNN) -- Two passenger trains collided head-on in a rural area of southeastern Italy late Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 people, a provincial official said, and prompting authorities to ask for blood donations for an unspecified number of injured.

Pictures from the scene in the Puglia region showed both trains were on the same track about 15 kilometers south of the Adriatic Sea, apparently headed toward each other.

Images distributed by firefighters there showed the smashed remains of train cars and a large area of scattered, twisted metal at the impact site about 7 kilometers east of the city of Andria.

One train was headed from Andria to Corato, while the other was headed in the opposite direction, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Giuseppe Corrado, deputy president of the Barletta-Andria-Trani province, said at least 20 people were killed. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called for an investigation into the collision.

"There will be a full inquiry to find out who is responsible for this crash, and what has happened," Renzi told reporters Tuesday in Milan.
The rescue and recovery effort is ongoing, he added. A hospital in Andria was asking the public for blood donations for the injured through a local news website.

Renzi planned to visit the crash site on Tuesday evening, an Italian government website said.
The state-run rail company FS Group offered condolences and said both trains were operated by the private company Ferrotramviaria SpA, which runs commuter rail services in the area.

"The employees of the Italian FS Group are close to the victims' families, the wounded and colleagues at Ferrotramviaria," the FS Group said.
Details on what led to the crash weren't immediately available.
The wreck happened in a relatively remote area. Local authorities took to social media to ask for any doctors and medics in the area to go to the crash site to help the injured.

"It's not an area that's easily accessible. The closest highway is miles away," CNN contributor Barbie Nadeau said.

CNN's Dominique Heckels, Livia Borghese and Gisella Deputato contributed to this report
TM & © 2016 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.

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  One more thread about Benghazi
Posted by: 727Sky - 07-12-2016, 02:33 PM - Forum: Political News and more - Replies (1)

Quote:Here is what Col. Handley wrote in response to Panetta and Dempsey's claims there was no time to send help to Benghazi.
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Betrayal in Benghazi    Phil "Hands" Handley Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
The combat code of the US Military is that we don't abandon our dead or wounded on the battlefield. In US Air Force lingo, fighter pilots don't run off and leave their wingmen. If one of our own is shot down, still alive and not yet in enemy captivity, we will either come to get him or die trying.
Among America’s fighting forces, the calm, sure knowledge that such an irrevocable bond exists is priceless. Along with individual faith and personal grit, it is a sacred trust that has often sustained hope in the face of terribly long odds.
The disgraceful abandonment of our Ambassador and those brave ex-SEALs who fought to their deaths to save others in that compound is nothing short of dereliction-of-duty.
Additionally, the patently absurd cover-up scenario that was fabricated in the aftermath was an outright lie in an attempt to shield the President and the Secretary of State from responsibility.
It has been over three years since the attack on our compound in  Benghazi. The White House strategy, with the aid of a "lap dog" press has been to run out the clock before the truth is forthcoming.
The testimonies of the three "whistle blowers" have reopened the subject and hopefully will lead to exposure and disgrace of those responsible for this embarrassing debacle. It would appear that the most recent firewall which the Administration is counting on is the contention "that there were simply no military assets that could be  brought to bear in time to make a difference" mainly due to the unavailability of tanker support for fighter aircraft.
This is simply BS, regardless how many supposed "experts" the Administration trot out to make such an assertion.
The bottom line is that even if the closest asset capable of response was half-way around the world, you don't just sit on your penguin ass and do nothing.
The fact is that the closest asset was not half-way around the world, but as near as Aviano Air Base, Italy where two squadrons of F-16Cs are based.
Consider the following scenario (all times Benghazi local): When Hicks in Tripoli receives a call at 9:40 PM from Ambassador Stevens informing him ”Greg, we are under attack!" (his last words), Hicks immediately notifies all agencies and prepares for the immediate initiation of an existing ”Emergency Response Plan."
At AFRICON, General Carter Ham attempts to mount a rescue effort, but is told to "stand down". By 10:30 PM an unarmed drone is overhead the compound and streaming live feed to various "Command and Control Agencies" so everyone watching that feed knew damn well what was going on.
At 11:30 PM Doherty and five others leave Tripoli, arriving in Benghazi at 1:30 AM on Wednesday morning, where they hold off the attacking mob from the roof of the compound until they are killed by a direct mortar hit at4:00 AM.
So nothing could have been done, eh? Nonsense. If one assumes that tanker support really "was not available" what about this: When at10:00 PM AFRICON alerts the 31st TFW Command Post in Aviano Air Base, Italy of the attack, the Wing Commander orders preparation for the launch of two F-16s and advises the Command Post at NAS Sigonella to prepare for hot pit refueling and quick turn of the jets.
By 11:30 PM, two F-16Cs with drop tanks and each armed with five hundred 20 MM rounds are airborne. Flying at 0.92 mach they will cover the 522 nautical miles directly to NAS Sigonella in 1.08 hours. While in-route, the flight lead is informed of the tactical situation, rules of engagement, and radio frequencies to use.
The jets depart Sigonella at 1:10 AM with full fuel load and cover the 377 nautical miles directly to Benghazi in 0.8 hours, arriving at 1:50 AM
which would be 20 minutes after the arrival of Woods, Doherty and their team.
Providing that the two F-16s initial pass over the mob, in full afterburner at 200 feet and 550 knots did not stop the attack in its tracks, a few well- placed strafing runs on targets of opportunity would assuredly do the trick.
Were the F-16s fuel state insufficient to return to Sigonelli              after jettisoning their external drop tanks, they could easily do so at Tripoli International Airport, only one-half hour away.
As for those hand- wringing naysayers who would worry about IFR clearances, border crossing authority, collateral damage, landing rights, political correctness and dozens of other reasons not to act -- screw them. It is time our "leadership" get its priorities straight and put America's interests first.
The end result would be that Woods and Doherty would be alive. Dozens in the attacking rabble would be rendezvousing with "72 virgins" and a clear message would have been sent to the next worthless POS terrorist contemplating an attack on Americans that it is not really a good idea to "tug" on Superman's cape.
Of course, all this depends upon a Commander In Chief more concerned with saving the lives of those he put in harm's way than getting his crew rested for a campaign fund raising event in Las Vegas the next day. It also depends upon a Secretary of State who actually understood "What difference did it make?", and a Secretary of Defense who was watching the feed from the drone and understood what the attack consisted of instead of making an immediate response that "One of the military tenants is that you don't commit assets until you fully understand the tactical situation."
Ultimately it comes down to the question of who gave that order to stand down? Whoever that coward turns out to be should be exposed, removed from office, and face criminal charges for dereliction of duty. The combat forces of the United States of America deserve leadership that really does "have their back" when the chips are down.

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  [Wholistic Medicine] Unrefined Salts, Spinach And Seaweed!
Posted by: OmegaLogos - 07-12-2016, 10:16 AM - Forum: General Health Topics - Replies (1)

Disclaimer: I am NOT a qualified Dr, Nurse  or Nutritional expert , I just found this stuff online, ... so take everything I say with a pinch of salt [punny considering the title] and get yourself a 2nd opinion before trying any of this stuff! @yourownrisk!

Explanation: Because I am interested in herbal alchemy which requires burning the herbs to ashes to obtain the salts, I decided to get myself informed about the various salts etc so that I don't end up poisoning myself and so I did some research and found this youtube video on salt by a Dr David Brownstein ...

Salt your way to health. [part 1 of 5] 12mins





In this video the Dr focuses on bringing to light studies on wholistic medicine minerals and vitamins and shows that these studies show that the vitamins and minerals reduce major sicknesses for mere pennies a day and he asks the audience to show him big pharma drugs that do the same for the same low cost.

The studies he showed individually involved Selenium, Magnesium, Folate, Coenzyme Q10, Vitamin D & E and I looked up plants online using google that were high in those nutrients and Spinach came up every time! [You can do this yourself to confirm what I am saying.]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinach#Nutrition

[note you might have to open the nutrition chart on wiki 1st to view the data]

Spinach also has extreme levels of vitamin K.

There are 4 more videos in the series and I would simply summarize them by stating the Dr's basic premise is STAY AWAY from refined salt [bad for you] and TAKE unrefined salt [good for you because it contains minerals] and consume about 1/4 teaspoon of salt per liter of water that you drink [or are supposed to drink..its 2liters a day so that's two teaspoons of salt].

And he also talked a little about the importance of taking Iodine naturally [to which I assume he means seaweed] to combat bromine sickness and thyroid issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_seaweed

Personal Disclosure: I strongly advocate for taking natural herbal and plant remedies for health reasons before defaulting to big pharma chemicals. tinysure

So I recommend that, barring any dietary restrictions one has, that one makes a sunflower oil [high in vitamin E], unrefined salts [high in minerals], wheat flour [high in b3,b5,b6 vitamins and phosphorus, manganese and selenium minerals] dough to make a quiche base into which one puts spinach, seaweed, eggs and milk [both high in iodine] and bake a unrefined salt, spinach and seaweed super food quiche.

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If one compares those foods in the wiki spinach nutrition chart one will notice that nearly very single vitamin and mineral is covered by those ingredients.

I don't have a  proper recipe for this yet BUT I am working on it and I will post that in Rogues Rations forum when I get around to it.

Please take the time to watch all 5 videos [they are all under 12mins in length, 1 hr total] and I thank Dr David Brownstein for informing me greatly.

If anybody has any seaweed and spinach quiche recipes suggestions please post them!

If anybody has personal experience with taking unrefined salt for health reasons please post your own results!

If anybody has experience in growing spinach please post the do's and don't's of that!

Bring on the Popeye memes! tinylaughing

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  ObamaCare Is Destroying The Co-Ops It Spent Billions Creating
Posted by: guohua - 07-11-2016, 11:16 PM - Forum: Social Unrest and Justice - Replies (3)

Yes it fits right into this Topic Area, Obama had Destroyed Thousands of Peoples Lives with his Promise of,, If You Like Your Doctor YOU Can Keep Your Doctor, If You Like Your Healthcare You Can Keep You Health Care! 
How many people lost their Doctor and Health Care?
Also, How many people lost their 40 hour a week jobs and became 24 Hour a Week Workers?
All Because Of Obama.

Now read this article and Learn What You or Someone You Know Voted Twice For.
All those Billions Of Tax Payers Dollars Wasted! OH, and let us Not Forget, Obama said this was Not A Taxe!
Funny, The IRS sure did Say It Was!

Quote:After providing $2.4 billion in loans to get them started, ObamaCare is now driving several nonprofit insurance co-ops out of business. That, in turn, will leave tens of thousands of people scrambling to find other insurance, while making it unlikely that those taxpayer-subsidized loans will ever be repaid.
Of the 23 co-ops that started operations in 2014, only 10 remain, after Oregon's second co-op announced on Friday that it was going out of business at the end of the month. By year's end, Connecticut's will be out of business as well.
Most of these co-ops that failed last year simply weren't financially stable. But the recent spate of co-op failures is being driven by ObamaCare itself.
Because insurers operating in Obamacare exchanges are banned from pricing policies based on a person's health status, the government had to create an elaborate "risk adjustment" program to protect insurers who get stuck with too many sick people, by taking money from insurers that signed up mostly healthy ones.
The problem is that many of the remaining — and already financially vulnerable — co-ops just found out that they owe millions to this program.
Yes again People will be losing their health care.
Quote:Oregon's Health Co-Op, for example, had expected to get $5 million in risk adjustment payments this year, only to learn that it owed $900,000. That's despite the fact that the co-op lost more than $18 million last year.
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Finish reading the article and feel sick,,, all those people with out health care, all that money wasted.
With the Thousands of People left without Healthcare and with the Tax Payers losing Billions of Dollars, Obama should be Impeached!

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