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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
nObama Cronyism +
Your Personal Data = Trouble
Michelle Malkin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
The New Yorker takes a deep dive into the mystery of stage fright. The disease has crippled the most successful performers, and doesn’t seem to let up over time. As they write, “In a number of ways, stagefright doesn’t make sense. Laurence Olivier, when he was in his late fifties, was visited by a spell that lasted, intermittently, for five years, causing him great anguish. At the time, he was the most celebrated stage actor in England. How could he be frightened of failing? Ditto Mikhail Baryshnikov. In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, Baryshnikov was the most famous ballet dancer in the world, and he probably still is, though he ceased classical dancing some twenty-five years ago. Since then, he has built a successful career in modern dance and theatre. But he experiences terrible stagefright, and says that it has only got worse over the years.” -Fox News
The New Yorker takes a deep dive into the mystery of stage fright. The disease has crippled the most successful performers, and doesn’t seem to let up over time. As they write, “In a number of ways, stagefright doesn’t make sense. Laurence Olivier, when he was in his late fifties, was visited by a spell that lasted, intermittently, for five years, causing him great anguish. At the time, he was the most celebrated stage actor in England. How could he be frightened of failing? Ditto Mikhail Baryshnikov. In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, Baryshnikov was the most famous ballet dancer in the world, and he probably still is, though he ceased classical dancing some twenty-five years ago. Since then, he has built a successful career in modern dance and theatre. But he experiences terrible stagefright, and says that it has only got worse over the years.” -Fox News
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Pumped up Hispanic strategy - Wash Ex’s David Drucker takes a look at Bush’s push for Hispanic voters from hiring Spanish-speaking staffers to hitting Spanish language media. In a field with a lot of Hispanic ties there is stiff competition to capture these voters. But Drucker writes, “Bush appears to have the most developed Hispanic engagement strategy among Republicans.” -Fox News
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Illegal Immigrant With No ID Murders in Ohio
Barack nObama has said again and again that his immigration policies only deport the illegal immigrants who are the worst of the worst. But in prioritizing certain deportations, a Mexican who had no driver's license, green card or birth certificate allegedly murdered a 60-year-old woman, attempted to rape a 14-year-old girl, and wounded another person. Juan Emmanuel Razo was only taken into custody July 27 after a shootout with Ohio law enforcement. But here's the kicker: Immigration officials questioned Razo July 7 and decided to let him go; he had committed no crime at that point. This incident did not occur because of some local policy creating a sanctuary city — the policy that led to the murder of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco. But Razo's case is still anecdotal evidence that a tough immigration enforcement strategy might have stopped this violence. (No one said Donald Trump didn't have a point.) Now that Razo's charged with a string of violent crimes, justice demands a reckoning — and sloughing him off to where he came from is not an option. The municipal judge, Judge Michael Cicconetti, said at the arraignment, "I can't set a bond high enough. How in the hell do I even know it's him?" Indeed, how could ICE verify that Razo — if that's his real name — didn't commit a violent crime before?
-The Patriot Post
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The Planned Parenthood Videos Just Keep Coming
The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has a fourth video out this morning, and their press release gives this description: "New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ Vice President and Medical Director, Dr. Savita Ginde, negotiating a fetal body parts deal, agreeing multiple times to illicit pricing per body part harvested, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences." Ginde, who was also a featured part of the third video, says, “We’d have to do a little bit of training with the providers or something to make sure that they don’t crush” a baby's organs during second trimester abortions. She reveals that "sometimes ... someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure." Which means potentially born-alive infants. Ginde also suggests, "Putting [this harvesting] under 'research' gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing." In other words, they can avoid legal trouble. She goes on to describe talking to attorney Kevin Paul, who she says has "got it figured ... because we talked to him in the beginning, you know, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get called on,’ you know, ‘selling fetal parts across states.’” Finally, the CMP press release says, "As the buyers and Planned Parenthood workers identify body parts from last fetus in the path lab, a Planned Parenthood medical assistant announces: 'Another boy!'" Yes, another murdered and dismembered boy.
It's no wonder that Planned Parenthood is working to silence coverage in the Leftmedia, which is all too happy to oblige. People know this is so offensive they'd rather get worked up about a poached lion in Africa than dismembered children for sale. -The Patriot Post
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The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine
{Amir Taheri} ~ "The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem." This is how the blurb of "Palestine," a new book, published by Islamic Revolution Editions last week in Tehran, identifies the author... The author is "Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Husseini Khamenei," the "Supreme Guide" of the Islamic Republic in Iran, a man whose fatwa has been recognized by U.S. President Barack Obama as having the force of law. Edited by Saeed Solh-Mirzai, the 416-page book has received approval from Khamenei's office and is thus the most authoritative document regarding his position on the issue. Khamenei makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state. He uses three words. One is "nabudi" which means "annihilation". The other is "imha" which means "fading out," and, finally, there is "zaval" meaning "effacement."
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Cotton And Cruz Are Right: hanoi Kerry Is Lying About The Iran Deal
{George Rasley} ~ hanoi Kerry has been trying to sell the idea that if Congress votes down the deal the world will walk away from the current sanctions regime and Iran will be free to pursue its nuclear weapons program without hindrance... Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin has filed a report that flatly contradicts hanoi Kerry citing Audibert as the source – and he is backed-up by Democratic Rep. Lorretta Sanchez and Republican Mike Turner who met with the French official and received his shocking analysis. According to Rogin’s disputed hanoi Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions. “He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told Rogin in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.” http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20772
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Hamas: All Arabs, Attack 'All Soldiers, Settlers'
{Dalit Halevy} ~ The Hamas terrorist organization vowed attacks in response to the lethal arson in the Arab village Duma in Samaria on Friday, but just before that a senior Hamas source said his group was seeking a long-term temporary ceasefire with Israel... An Arab infant was killed in the arson and four family members wounded, in an attack the IDF has indicated may have been committed by Jewish extremists due to the presence of Hebrew graffiti at the scene. Husam Badran, a key Hamas leader in Judea and Samaria, said inresponse to the arson that "this crime has turned IDF soldiers and settlers into legitimate targets, in any location and situation." His comment comes despite the fact that the identity of the perpetrators remains unknown - and despite the fact that the terror group has constantly attacked soldiers and Jews without any "justification."
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Congress Members Frustrated by Secret Iran Nuclear Agreements
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Crucial aspects of the Iran nuclear deal remain hidden from the public, and in some instances, from the American government, Bloomberg reports... In a closed-door session with House members Wednesday, Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry revealed that two side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were reached. Kerry he neither read nor possesses the secret agreements. According to U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House Intelligence Committee who attended the closed-door session, Congress also is in the dark on these agreements. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4929/congress-members-frustrated-by-secret-iran
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Three Federal Judges Slam nObama Admin's Noncompliance
{Guy Benson} ~ A string of federal judges have been angrily slamming their gavels this month, incensed over a similar issue they're encountering... See if you can spot the trend, with a hat tip to Gabriel Malor. On the president's legally-dubious, unpopular immigration fiat: On nObama's corrupt Internal Revenue Service and its smug, unaccountable chief: Judge Sullivan is a Clinton appointee, by the way. And on the nObama State Department's noncompliance on the court-ordered timely release of Hilly Clinton's emails -- at least the ones that weren't permanently deleted: The nObama administration does not believe the rules apply to them.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/07/31/federal-judges-furious-with-obama-administration-n2032726.
Lawmakers Confirm French Diplomat Supports Rejecting Iran Deal
{Adam Kredo} ~ Two more lawmakers stepped forward on Friday to confirm recent comments by senior French national security official Jacques Audibert... who reportedly told a delegation of lawmakers in a recent meeting that a congressional rejection of the recent Iranian nuclear deal could be “helpful.” Audibert, a senior diplomatic adviser to President Francois Hollande, is said to have told Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D., Calif.) and Mike Turner (R., Ohio) in a recent meeting that congressional disapproval of the deal could be beneficial and help world powers secure more favorable terms.
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Federal Judge Orders Hilly Clinton, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills To...
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the U.S. State Department to request that Hilly Clinton and her top aides confirm, under penalty of perjury... that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other government records immediately, and describe their use of Hilly Clinton’s email server to conduct government business. The court issued the ruling late today after holding a status hearing in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information lawsuit that sought records about Huma Abedin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hilly Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit reopened last month because of revelations about Hilly Clinton’s email records. The text of Judge Sullivan’s minute order, which was issued at 5:46 pm: http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/all-clinton-records/
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Gen. Boykin, Frank Gaffney – hanoi Kerry Unfit To Negotiate Dealing
{rickwells.us} ~ Frank Gaffney asks General Jerry Boykin for his thoughts on the performance of our last two Secretaries of State, the criminal and treasonous Hilly Clinton and the lifelong anti-American agitator and foreign operative hanoi John Kerry... He asks specifically regarding the use of a private, compromised server for email by Clinton as well as the Iranian family connections of hanoi Kerry, with his daughter being married to an Iranian and the best man at their wedding reportedly being the son of hanoi Kerry’s supposed adversary in the nuclear “negotiations.” “Now, that’s just on this issue.” He then addresses hanoi Kerry’s sketchy, un-American Genghis Khan background and asks, “Is this the guy, really the guy that should be negotiating anything that deals with American national security or America’s future given his abysmal track record?” http://rickwells.us/general-boykin-frank-gaffney-john-kerry-unfit-to-negotiate-anything-dealing-with-americas-national-security/
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nObama Steps Up U.S. Training of Communist Chinese Military
{Alex Newman} ~ Even as the Communist Chinese dictatorship ruthlessly oppresses the people of China while stepping up its aggressive rhetoric, espionage, and military activities aimed beyond its borders... the nObama administration has been training Beijing’s troops in U.S. military tactics, techniques, and procedures. Critics have long opposed the high-level “mil-mil cooperation” between the U.S. Armed Forces and one of the most brutal autocracies on the planet. At least one U.S. lawmaker has been expressing concerns. But the nObama administration, which boasts of its actions and has called for even deeper military ties with Beijing, shows no signs of backing down from the highly controversial and potentially dangerous programs. This is unbelievable and yet he is cutting our military.
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Globalization of Education: Producing Green Global Citizens
{Alex Newman} ~ For years, Americans have been up in arms over the nObama administration’s unconstitutional efforts to nationalize education, primarily through Common Core... Especially concerning is the White House bribing and bludgeoning our state governments to surrender control over our schools. The outrage is still growing. But a peek beneath the surface reveals that the nationalization of American schools is actually just one component of a much broader global agenda: the globalization of education. This is being openly pushed by the nObama administration, the United Nations, UNESCO, Common Core financier Bill Gates, the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg summit attendees, and many other powerful forces. It is all public record. What do I mean by “globalizing” education? Just what the term implies: moving away from local, state, and even national control of schools into a brave new world where education policy is largely dictated at the global level. That might sound far-fetched if you’ve never done the research or get your news from the TV, but it is all essentially out in the open.
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nObama Cronyism +
Your Personal Data = Trouble
Michelle Malkin
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Ethnic community organizer-turned-Office of Personnel Management head Katherine Archuleta recklessly eschewed basic cyber security in favor of politically correct “diversity” initiatives during her disastrous crony tenure. This Beltway business-as-usual created an irresistible opportunity for hackers to reach out and grab massive amounts of sensitive data — compromising everyone from rank-and-file government employees to CIA spies.
Ethnic community organizer-turned-Office of Personnel Management head Katherine Archuleta recklessly eschewed basic cyber security in favor of politically correct “diversity” initiatives during her disastrous crony tenure. This Beltway business-as-usual created an irresistible opportunity for hackers to reach out and grab massive amounts of sensitive data — compromising everyone from rank-and-file government employees to CIA spies.
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Could it get worse? You betcha.
Could it get worse? You betcha.
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Amid increasing concerns about these massive government computer breaches, the Defense Department is expected to announce the winner of a lucrative high-stakes contract to overhaul the military’s electronic health records system this week.
Amid increasing concerns about these massive government computer breaches, the Defense Department is expected to announce the winner of a lucrative high-stakes contract to overhaul the military’s electronic health records system this week.
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The leading finalist among three top contenders is Epic Systems, a Wisconsin-based health care software company founded and led by top nObama billionaire donor Judy Faulkner. Thanks in significant part to President nObama’s $19 billion stimulus subsidy program for health data vendors, Epic is now the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health IT market.
The leading finalist among three top contenders is Epic Systems, a Wisconsin-based health care software company founded and led by top nObama billionaire donor Judy Faulkner. Thanks in significant part to President nObama’s $19 billion stimulus subsidy program for health data vendors, Epic is now the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health IT market.
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According to Becker’s Hospital Review, CVS Caremark’s retail clinic chain, MinuteClinic, is now adopting Epic’s system, and “when the transition is complete, about 51 percent of Americans will have an Epic record.” Other major clients include Kaiser Permanente of Oakland, Calif., Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, and Duke University Health System in Raleigh, N.C.
According to Becker’s Hospital Review, CVS Caremark’s retail clinic chain, MinuteClinic, is now adopting Epic’s system, and “when the transition is complete, about 51 percent of Americans will have an Epic record.” Other major clients include Kaiser Permanente of Oakland, Calif., Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, and Duke University Health System in Raleigh, N.C.
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As I’ve reported previously, Epic employees donated nearly $1 million to political parties and candidates between 1995 and 2012 — 82 percent of it to Democrats. The company’s top 10 PAC recipients are all Democratic or left-wing outfits, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (nearly $230,000) to the DNC Services Corporation (nearly $175,000) and the America’s Families First Action Fund Democratic super-PAC ($150,000). Faulkner received a plum appointment to a federal health IT policy panel in 2011. Brandon Glenn of Medical Economics noted that “it’s not a coincidence” that Epic’s sales “have been skyrocketing in recent years, up to $1.2 billion in 2011, double what they were four years prior.”
As I’ve reported previously, Epic employees donated nearly $1 million to political parties and candidates between 1995 and 2012 — 82 percent of it to Democrats. The company’s top 10 PAC recipients are all Democratic or left-wing outfits, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (nearly $230,000) to the DNC Services Corporation (nearly $175,000) and the America’s Families First Action Fund Democratic super-PAC ($150,000). Faulkner received a plum appointment to a federal health IT policy panel in 2011. Brandon Glenn of Medical Economics noted that “it’s not a coincidence” that Epic’s sales “have been skyrocketing in recent years, up to $1.2 billion in 2011, double what they were four years prior.”
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Stunningly, Epic “has the edge” on the gargantuan Pentagon medical records contract, The Washington Post reported on Monday. This favored status comes despite myriad complaints about the interoperability, usability and security of Epic’s closed-end proprietary software. Just last week, the UCLA Health system run by Epic suffered a cyber attack affecting up to 4.5 million personal and medical records, including Social Security numbers, Medicare and health plan identifiers, birthdays, and physical addresses. The university’s CareConnect system spans four hospitals and 150 offices across Southern California.
Stunningly, Epic “has the edge” on the gargantuan Pentagon medical records contract, The Washington Post reported on Monday. This favored status comes despite myriad complaints about the interoperability, usability and security of Epic’s closed-end proprietary software. Just last week, the UCLA Health system run by Epic suffered a cyber attack affecting up to 4.5 million personal and medical records, including Social Security numbers, Medicare and health plan identifiers, birthdays, and physical addresses. The university’s CareConnect system spans four hospitals and 150 offices across Southern California.
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The university’s top doctors and medical staff market their informatics expertise and consulting services to other Epic customers “to ensure the successful implementation and optimization of your Epic EHR.” Will they be sharing their experience having to mop up the post-cyber attack mess involving their Epic infrastructure?
The university’s top doctors and medical staff market their informatics expertise and consulting services to other Epic customers “to ensure the successful implementation and optimization of your Epic EHR.” Will they be sharing their experience having to mop up the post-cyber attack mess involving their Epic infrastructure?
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UCLA Health acknowledged that the hack forced it to “employ more cyber security experts on its internal security team, and to hire an outside cyber security firm to guard its network,” according to CNN.
UCLA Health acknowledged that the hack forced it to “employ more cyber security experts on its internal security team, and to hire an outside cyber security firm to guard its network,” according to CNN.
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Now another nObama crony is poised to cash in on her cozy ties and take over the mega-overhaul of millions of Pentagon and Veterans Affairs medical records to the tune of at least $11 billion.
Now another nObama crony is poised to cash in on her cozy ties and take over the mega-overhaul of millions of Pentagon and Veterans Affairs medical records to the tune of at least $11 billion.
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Can you say “Epic fail”?
Can you say “Epic fail”?
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