The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
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Wells Fargo is a Bank,
Not a Center for Political Activism
by Susan Stamper Brown
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nObama's Title IX Iron 
Throughout his time in office, Barack nObama has sought means by which to unilaterally orchestrate his desired leftist transformation of American culture. One of his most effective tools has been novel use of the Title IX portion of the 1972 Education Amendment of the Civil Rights Act. nObama and team have essentially limited freedom of speech on college campuses through their radical interpretations and applications of the law. Examples of this have been seen in the administration's approach to combating problems of campus sexual assaults. The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) under nObama recently took Fostburg State University to task stating that the university's sexual harassment policy fell short of Title IX standards. The university's policy used "common sense" and "reason" as the measurement by which to establish whether or not an incident was to be identified as sexual harassment.
The OCR sees this standard of determining what constitutes sexual harassment as too limiting. So what standard does the OCR suggest as liberal enough to meet Title IX demands? For the OCR, any claim of sexual harassment is the standard — no matter how innocent or unintentional the words or actions of an accused individual may be. In other words, if sexual harassment is claimed, then it has occurred. What of due process and the concept of innocent until proven guilty? Evidentially, there is no room for these roadblocks as leftists pursue their goal of radicalized gender "equality." No wonder they're attacking "common sense" and "reason."
Having such a subjective standard for determining what constitutes sexual harassment accomplishes two things. First it helps to further the leftist narrative that America's colleges and universities are plagued with a "rape culture" beyond what conservatives would argue is one of sexually promiscuity. Secondly, it creates another convenient excuse for the government to justify dictating even more policies and practices to which schools will be bound. Another problem, more government power.
~The Patriot Post
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Income Rises — or Does It?
Allyne Caan: In news that surprised many, the latest Census Bureau report on U.S. incomes showed the largest leap in median household income since 1967, when the government started tracking it. In 2015, median household income rose 5.2%, or almost $2,800, to $56,516. While this still falls short of the 2007, pre-recession level of $57,423 (adjusted for inflation), Barack nObama was quick to claim credit: "This is all a consequence of some of the smart economic policies we've been putting in place over the last several years." Not so fast.
What nObama and Co. aren't touting is fine print from page five of the Bureau's report, which says, "The data for 2013 and beyond reflect the implementation of the redesigned income questions." How convenient. The government redesigns questions and, voila!, incomes rise — just in time for the election homestretch.
New York Post columnist John Crudele unravels some of the mystery. He explains that beginning in 2014, the Census Bureau "began to 'collect the value of assets that generate income if the respondent is unsure of the income generated.'" And the government began using "'income ranges' as a follow-up for 'don't know' or 'refused' answers on income-amount questions." What's more, the latest report compares 2015 to 2014, but already this year, household incomes have "slackened." Crudele concludes that as a result of the revised methods, "income levels reported could be noticeably higher, say 5.2 percent higher, without the actual income being 5.2 percent higher."
What's more, as The Heritage Foundation's James Sherk notes, the report measures inflation using the Consumer Price Index, which "is less accurate than other inflation estimates." Based on anecdotal evidence around the nation, that's putting it mildly.
In other words, if you start celebrating higher incomes and folks give you blank looks, there might be a reason. Furthermore, the report notes the exception to its good news is for those living outside metropolitan areas. In other words, the places where Trump has the strongest support.
Of course, nObama is trying to make this support unthinkable. While stumping for a bed-ridden liar-Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia earlier this week, nObama feigned shock at working-class Trump supporters, saying, "Really? This is the guy you want to be championing working people? This guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for working people?" (In the same speech nObama hilariously referred to liar-Clinton as the "steady" and "true" candidate.) But which of the two candidates has run a private business that actually hired people?
In reality, despite convenient Census Bureau numbers that sing "Happy Days are Here Again" — and despite claims that poverty is down, more people have health insurance, and the mythical "gender pay gap" is shrinking — folks just aren't buying it. Why? They're not seeing it in their household budgets.
The Washington Post recently rattled off a list of these "progress" indicators only to say, "Despite all of this, every single poll shows that more than six in 10 Americans feel the country is on the wrong track." In fact, the margin isn't even close — just 27% think the Ship of State is navigating rightly, while 66% think we're off course. Perhaps these polls are harder to rig than Census Bureau and nObamaCare numbers.
The Post surveyed several pollsters to learn the reasons for the pessimism (because, you know, pollsters are always right). The answers ranged from general dissatisfaction with government and lack of consumer confidence to distrust in the system and overall frustration with economic, cultural and other societal indicators. It's worth noting that nObama's fundamental transformation has extended throughout nearly every aspect of life, so these cultural considerations are as important as the economic ones.
What's going to be especially interesting for the presidential election is how voters in key swing states answer the right track/wrong track question. Income gains lag behind in some of those states.
Still, nObama is painting his visions of economic fairytales in a desperate attempt to relocate liar-Hilary Clinton to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. At that same rally in Philadelphia — which, incidentally, has a 26% poverty rate and the highest "deep poverty" rate (defined as 50% or less of the poverty rate) among the nation's 10 biggest cities — he pointed to falling poverty, rising incomes, etc., as proof of his success. He even credited himself with lowering gas prices (no, seriously, he repurposed conservative mockery, saying, "Thanks, nObama.")
liar-Clinton instead insulted Americans who feel left behind. In the same speech where she mocked the "basket of deplorables," she said, "Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but they are not America. But the other basket ... are people who feel that government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures. They are just desperate for change." That may be, but they're desperate because of Democrats' deplorable policies.
Indeed, staged rallies, empty boasting and sweeping insults aside, most Americans simply don't believe things are as grand as nObama claims. And when it comes down to trusting Census Bureau numbers or looking at their own paychecks (or unemployment checks) to gauge the landscape, Americans will always do the latter. ~The Patriot Post
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GUN GRAB – nObama Launches
Plan for UN GUN TAKEOVER
by Amy Moreno
{truthfeed.com} ~ They know they can’t do it all at once, so they do it piece by piece. It’s just like political correctness – it started out small at first and before we knew it, it had infiltrated every aspect of our lives... In his latest “piece” of GUN GRABBING nObama is launching a UN “GUN TAKEOVER” before he leaves office. He’s going to ratify a UN arms trade treaty where the MAJOR component is an international arms registry...nObama and liar-Hillary are hell-bent on disarming Americans.
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nObama Admin ‘Laundered’ U.S. Cash
to Iran Via N.Y. Fed, Euro Banks
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ A member of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing the nObama administration of laundering some $1.7 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran through a complicated network that included the New York Federal Reserve and several European banks... according to conversations with sources and new information obtained by the lawmaker and viewed by the Washington Free Beacon. New disclosures made by the Treasury Department to Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a House Intelligence Committee member, show that an initial $400 million cash payment to Iran was wired to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and then converted from U.S. dollars into Swiss francs and moved to an account at the Swiss National Bank, according to a copy of communication obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon. Once the money was transferred to the Swiss Bank, the “FRBNY withdrew the funds from its account as Swiss franc banknotes and the U.S. Government physically transported them to Geneva” before personally overseeing the handover to an agent of Iran’s central bank, according to the documents...Gees, why not hand over our treasury depart. then maybe nObama might be arrested.
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nObama’s Cash-for-Jihad Program
by Andrew McCarthy
{aim.org} ~ The nObama State Department is convinced that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his regime’s cronies are financing terrorism. How come? Well, because they conduct business in cash... In fact, in its most recent annual report on state sponsors of terrorism, State frets “that 60 percent of all business transactions in Syria are conducted in cash and that nearly 80 percent of all Syrians do not use formal banking services.” This has created a “vast black market,” the components of which are exploited by “some members of the Syrian government and the business elite…in terrorism finance schemes.” Interesting thing about that: There are only three countries on the list of state sponsors of terrorism — Syria, Sudan, and Iran. That last one is worth highlighting. Iran, after all, is not just the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism; it is also the world’s leading state sponsor of . . . Syria — providing it with lots of that cash the State Department is so concerned about...Let’s give Iran, a certified state sponsor of terrorism, billions in cash. What could go wrong?
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It’s the Marxism, Not the Birtherism
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ The Washington Post is not sloppy; it is dishonest. Forget Kenya or Hawaii as Barack nObama’s birthplace. The issue is that he was mentored by a communist named Frank Marshall Davis... who taught him that blacks had a “reason to hate” and that Christianity was the white man’s religion. Davis essentially raised nObama in Hawaii for seven years of his young life, when he was smoking dope in the “Choom Gang” and learning how to be a revolutionary. That’s why nObama left Hawaii to admittedly hang out with “Marxist professors.” Davis had taught him well. The rest is history, except that the Post and other liberal media have sanitized history in order to conceal the Marxist nature of nObama’s proposed “fundamental transformation” of America. The “birther” issue is now being used by liar-Hillary Clinton, Michelle nObama and their media allies to get black people riled up. It’s part of their get-out-the-vote drive. Not surprisingly, the Post and other media play right along with it. They realize nObama has done little for black people. So they have to demonize Trump...
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Eye-opening facts about liar-Hillary's VP pick
by Garth Kant
{wnd.com} ~ In light of liar-Hillary Clinton’s very public and seemingly serious health issues, the question has sudden urgency: Who is Tim Kaine? What kind of leader would America get in the man who would be a heartbeat away from the presidency?... The establishment media call the Democratic Party vice-presidential nominee a “moderate.” But the evidence shows the Virginia senator’s record is radical. And so is his background. How radical? For starters, Kaine’s first political mentors were Marxist revolutionaries. Since then, he has become allied with Islamic extremists. liar-Clinton’s running mate is the only member of Congress to get a zero percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. He also gets zero percent from Conservative Review... http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/think-hillarys-radical-check-out-her-running-mate/
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liar-Hillary Clinton DOES Have A Disease…
“Pseudologia Fantastica”
by Joe Messina
{lidblog.com} ~ Let me start off by saying, I don’t wish a disease or death on anyone. For those of you who really don’t have a grasp on reality, calling someone out on something doesn’t mean you’re wishing that upon them... liar-Hillary Clinton has all the signs of a “pseudologia fantastica” for instance one definition says: “it’s a condition involving compulsive lying by a person with no obvious motivation. The affected person might believe their lies to be truth, and may have to create elaborate myths to reconcile them with other facts.”...
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Assange Charges Upheld; He Releases
E-mails Confirming liar-Clinton Corruption
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
{thenewamerican.com} ~ A Swedish appeals court on Friday, September 16, affirmed a detention order issued over six years ago for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief... Assange’s legal representatives were seeking to force Swedish prosecutors to drop a rape charge made against Assange in 2010. The appeals court’s ruling upholds the warrant, promising that the prolific publisher of embarrassing e-mails will remain in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. While the court’s decision is undoubtedly demoralizing for the 45-year-old Assange, he has lately kept himself active revealing e-mails and other electronic communications by liar-Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), evincing a collusion by the candidate and the national party to rig elections and a habit of both to belittle Democratic donors and voters. In fact, over the past few days, WikiLeaks has begun to tweet a trickle of documents that amount to an October Surprise come early. The latest cache of electronic communications confirms liar-Hillary Clinton’s corruption and her desperate attempt to hide her serious health problems from the press and the people of the United States...
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1991 Barack nObama Bio: “Born in Kenya
and Raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
by Gary DeMar
{constitution.com} ~ liar-Hillary and the compliant media are doing everything they can to derail Trump’s surge in the polls and keep liar-Hillary propped up (literally). There seems to be some movement among blacks toward Trump... A five or ten percent shift in the black vote toward Trump would be significant. When things begin to go south for Democrats, they play the race card. Claiming that President nObama might not have been born in the United States is a “race card” issue. Trump raised it in 2011. This forced Hawaiian authorities to release a copy of nObama’s birth certificate, although it was not a copy of the original. It’s obvious from the historical record that Trump did not originate the birther issue. It was floating around before he took up the quest for the truth... http://constitution.com/1991-barack-obama-bio-born-kenya-raised-indonesia-hawaii/
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Dobbs – liar-Clinton Steals Trump Message
To Salvage Campaign, Hide Pro-Terrorism
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs takes note of how quickly time flies as he reminds us that there are only fifty days left until the election... That’s not a long time in his book, but that’s fifty days that liar-Hillary Clinton has to hide and pretend that she’s feeling just dandy. Fifty days she has to worry about more secrets being leaked about her criminal and unscrupulous activities. And it’s fifty days for people to realize what a despicable liar she is. “Trump is up in the polls, liar-Hillary’s down and they’re effectively tied in most of the national polls and battleground state polls. Now it’s the Democrats’ turn,” says Dobbs, “to worry about the appeal of their presidential nominee. And liar-Hillary must be worried herself, because she returned to the campaign trail channeling Donald Trump today.” Dobbs says, “Look at this Trumpian imagery,” a knockoff of the Trump plane in the background that we’ve seen on many of his campaign stops. Additionally she’s pirated some of his positions as well. Dobbs plays a clip of liar-Clinton saying that she has “long been an advocate for tough vetting,” and “let’s not get diverted and distracted by the kind of campaign rhetoric we hear coming from the other side.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-clinton-steals-trump-message/
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The Cyber Threat: Snowden—Ultimate Insider
Threat Missed by NSA Security
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ Security officials today use the politically correct term “insider threat” to describe what were once called traitors, and no one was more aggressive in pursuing them than counterintelligence types at the National Security Agency... Thus many intelligence officials saw more than a tinge of irony in NSA contractor Edward Snowden making off with 1.5 million highly classified NSA intelligence documents in May 2013 and handing them over to several anti-American journalists who seemed more interested in inflicting as much damage as possible on America’s premier electronic spying and code-breaking agency than exposing alleged wrongdoing. Until Snowden, the NSA had a reputation as one of the intelligence organizations most dedicated to protecting secrets. But the case exposed gaping holes at the agency, and a House intelligence report says gaps persist years after Snowden fled the country and holed up in Moscow...
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Wells Fargo is a Bank,
Not a Center for Political Activism
by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ If Wells Fargo was focused on bank charges and interest rates rather than political hot button issues, perhaps they wouldn’t have had to fire thousands of employees for ripping off customers and be liable for millions in fines.
In a recent press release, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] recounted that Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. will pay “the largest penalty the CFPB has ever imposed,” $185 million, because thousands of Wells Fargo employees “covertly” opened “more than two million deposit and credit card accounts,” transferring funds from consumers’ authorized accounts without their knowledge or consent, often racking up fees or other charges.”
The press release says the employees who engaged in this “widespread illegal practice” were “spurred by sales targets and compensation incentives.” “Spurred” is a little mild, considering that CNN Money reports that a “pressure cooker environment” at Wells Fargo resulted in employees engaging “in all kinds of sordid practices.”
Specifically, approximately 5,300 employees may have opened roughly 1.5 million deposit accounts, transferring funds from consumers’ accounts to temporarily fund the new, unauthorized accounts. The CFPB reports that consumers were “sometimes harmed” from insufficient funds or overdraft charges. But it seems it was a win-win for Wells Fargo for those actions apparently helped the bank meet sales goals and also helped employees earn additional compensation.
Additionally, CFPB says employees applied for “roughly 565,000 credit card accounts that may not have been authorized by consumers, leading to “incurred annual fees, as well as associated finance or interest charges and other fees.” They also issued and activated debit cards and created PIN numbers and fake email addresses to enroll unaware consumers in online-banking services.
All this, while Wells Fargo was simultaneously shoving social issues down consumers’ throats as they’ve done for years.
Last year, in response to an advertisement featuring a lesbian couple, noteworthy Evangelicals like Franklin Graham said they’d had enough and closed out their accounts. Nonetheless, Wells Fargo remained resolute in its activist stance and has the right to do so.
But individuals also have the right to put their money in banks that leave what people do in the bedroom out of the boardroom.
During an interview in 2015 with the San Francisco Business Times, Wells Fargo executive Doug Case said, “…our CEO John Stumpf very frequently will talk about LGBT inclusiveness and, talk about walking the talk…”
Walking the talk? Sure, Wells Fargo repeatedly receives high rankings from the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States, the bank’s latest scam is just one in a “string of infractions,” reports USA Today. Wells Fargo “faced or settled four key areas of litigation as of the end of 2015” including FHA insurance claims, Visa and MasterCard interchange fees, mortgage products, and order of posting overdraft fees.
So why not try walking the bank talk? Obviously, Wells Fargo has lost its focus. It is easy to do. But when a distraction sidetracks your purpose something’s got to give. Wells Fargo’s forgotten that a bank is not a social experimentation petri dish. It is a financial institution…a bank. Banks lend and borrow money and accept customers’ deposits and pay interest in return. Then they use those funds to lend to other customers. Pure and simple.
Given that 5,300 employees, not just a handful of bad actors, were fired for what boils down to identity theft for profit, Wells Fargo would be better served serving its purpose, rather than investing time and energy bartering in social and political activism.
In a recent press release, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] recounted that Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. will pay “the largest penalty the CFPB has ever imposed,” $185 million, because thousands of Wells Fargo employees “covertly” opened “more than two million deposit and credit card accounts,” transferring funds from consumers’ authorized accounts without their knowledge or consent, often racking up fees or other charges.”
The press release says the employees who engaged in this “widespread illegal practice” were “spurred by sales targets and compensation incentives.” “Spurred” is a little mild, considering that CNN Money reports that a “pressure cooker environment” at Wells Fargo resulted in employees engaging “in all kinds of sordid practices.”
Specifically, approximately 5,300 employees may have opened roughly 1.5 million deposit accounts, transferring funds from consumers’ accounts to temporarily fund the new, unauthorized accounts. The CFPB reports that consumers were “sometimes harmed” from insufficient funds or overdraft charges. But it seems it was a win-win for Wells Fargo for those actions apparently helped the bank meet sales goals and also helped employees earn additional compensation.
Additionally, CFPB says employees applied for “roughly 565,000 credit card accounts that may not have been authorized by consumers, leading to “incurred annual fees, as well as associated finance or interest charges and other fees.” They also issued and activated debit cards and created PIN numbers and fake email addresses to enroll unaware consumers in online-banking services.
All this, while Wells Fargo was simultaneously shoving social issues down consumers’ throats as they’ve done for years.
Last year, in response to an advertisement featuring a lesbian couple, noteworthy Evangelicals like Franklin Graham said they’d had enough and closed out their accounts. Nonetheless, Wells Fargo remained resolute in its activist stance and has the right to do so.
But individuals also have the right to put their money in banks that leave what people do in the bedroom out of the boardroom.
During an interview in 2015 with the San Francisco Business Times, Wells Fargo executive Doug Case said, “…our CEO John Stumpf very frequently will talk about LGBT inclusiveness and, talk about walking the talk…”
Walking the talk? Sure, Wells Fargo repeatedly receives high rankings from the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States, the bank’s latest scam is just one in a “string of infractions,” reports USA Today. Wells Fargo “faced or settled four key areas of litigation as of the end of 2015” including FHA insurance claims, Visa and MasterCard interchange fees, mortgage products, and order of posting overdraft fees.
So why not try walking the bank talk? Obviously, Wells Fargo has lost its focus. It is easy to do. But when a distraction sidetracks your purpose something’s got to give. Wells Fargo’s forgotten that a bank is not a social experimentation petri dish. It is a financial institution…a bank. Banks lend and borrow money and accept customers’ deposits and pay interest in return. Then they use those funds to lend to other customers. Pure and simple.
Given that 5,300 employees, not just a handful of bad actors, were fired for what boils down to identity theft for profit, Wells Fargo would be better served serving its purpose, rather than investing time and energy bartering in social and political activism.
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