HALF-FULL REPORT 07/18/14
"Murder In The Air" was the cover of Newsweek when the Kremlin shot down Korean Air 007 on Sept. 1, 1983. To this day, the Kremlin has never apologized for what Reagan termed "the savagery of their crime against humanity." Sound familiar? This morning we learned that there are recordings of pro-Russian separatists talking with a Russian GRU (military intel) colonel about their shooting down the Malaysian airliner yesterday (7/17), and that they have recovered the airliner's black box and sent it to Moscow. Putin Huilo promptly blamed Ukraine for the atrocity - while refusing to deny his mercenaries in Ukraine did it. Indeed, he denies any of his total sponsorship of the "rebellion" in eastern Ukraine. The fallout of the MH17 shootdown is that Russia economically and Putin Huilo politically are both seriously screwed... ... But when, we ask, will Zero be screwed? On Monday, the liberal paper of Capitol Hill, The Hill, helpfully answered in a story headlined: Obama The Pariah. Yet to realize just how much a pariah Zero has become, there's the feel-good story of the week, that of Peggy Joseph... ... The HFR gives three cheers for three countries this week. First is, believe it or not, for France! ... The puzzle of the week: How can such a teeny-tiny fraction of folks in the US be so fascistically powerful? ...And here's the best news of the week:
THE CLOWARD-PIVEN-OBAMA STRATEGY
Political change can be forced through orchestrated crises, wrote Richard Cloward, a Columbia University sociology professor, and Frances Fox Piven, then his research assistant, in May of 1966 in an article in The Nation magazine entitled: "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." Only about half the Americans technically eligible for benefits were on welfare rolls, they noted. If "cadres of aggressive organizers," who "create a climate of militancy" through threats of violence, could sign up everyone who was eligible, the welfare bureaucracy would be overwhelmed, would collapse, producing political and economic chaos. To restore order, political leaders would be forced to provide everyone with a guaranteed annual income, they predicted. The Nation sold 30,000 reprints. The "Cloward-Piven strategy" was born. And under Zero, it's being born anew.
THE REVOLUTION WE NEED
From the time of the Ancient Greeks, this time of year has been known as the "dog days," when the heat and humidity caused "the seas to boil, wine to turn sour, dogs to go mad, and men subject to burning fevers, hysterics, and frenzies." Much of the US is certainly not experiencing such climate misery this week, with record low summer temps from Arkansas to Minnesota. But in terms of what is happening to our country politically, economically, culturally and morally, these are indeed the Dog Days of America. And there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight. Zero, rather than backing off in the midst of his growing unpopularity and unending scandals is "just getting started," according to Bryan Preston. He's "going Soviet." Yet, the illegal, tyrannical, and unconstitutional acts of Zero's Imperial Presidency are not the cause of America's current crisis - they are the culmination of it. The Reign of Zero is simply the apotheosis of a crisis that's been building since the 1880s. The crisis we face now is a cancer that has been growing slowly and steadily for 126 years, until finally under Zero it has metastasized perilously close to terminal stage. Which means that if Zero were to vanish tomorrow, the cancer would still be there. We need radical surgery to cure it, a Revolution. It can certainly be peaceful - by no means need it be violent. For the Revolution We Need is a legal one that attacks the crisis at its foundation. So - what is the target of the Revolution We Need? It is not Zero. It is what makes him and his Imperial Presidency possible. It is what is destroying any basis for Constitutional Government. Indeed, it is eating our Constitution alive. It is a medieval atavism in modern guise. It is...
THE MANCHURIAN CONSPIRACY
The greatest conspiracy in world history is being carried out by the real-life "Manchurian Candidate": President Barack Hussein Obama. My definition of a "Manchurian Candidate" is a person who hates everything America stands for and whose goal is to win the presidency for the express purpose of destroying the greatest nation, the greatest economic system, and the greatest middle class in world history. That, my friends, describes Obama. I'm not basing it on rumors or innuendo. I'm basing it on the facts. I know liberals hate facts, but bear with me. So here are a few, which I lay out more fully in my new book, The Murder of the Middle Class: For the first time in American history more businesses are closing each day than they are starting. More Americans now receive entitlements than work full-time. There are now 70 percent more Americans collecting entitlement checks than working in the private sector (148 million "takers" vs. 86 million "makers"). The average full-time male employee now earns less (adjusted for inflation) than he did forty years ago. Twenty percent of U.S. families don't have a single member who is employed.
IS AMERICA CLINTONED OUT?
WHY THE DEATH SPIRAL OF ZEROCARE IS IRREVERSIBLE
"Inconsistencies" have been found in the data supplied by 2.9 million of the 5.45 million people (53 percent) who enrolled in Obamacare via Healthcare.gov, the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services reported in June. About 1.3 million concerned whether the applicant was a U.S. citizen, a million more whether the applicant qualified for a subsidy. About 2.6 million (89 percent) were unresolved as of the May 27. The IG report covers only applicants through Feb. 23, doesn't cover the 2.57 million (47 percent) who enrolled on state exchanges. A chart presented to the House Energy and Commerce Committee by SERCO, a contractor which handles Obamacare paperwork, showed 4.099 million "inconsistencies." It will be many months, if ever, before these can be resolved, because HHS launched Healthcare.gov without establishing a system to verify eligibility, SERCO said. People who got subsidies to which they weren't entitled will have to repay them. Up to a million could get a nasty surprise at tax time next year. This is only one of a multitude of reasons why Obamacare -- better named Zerocare -- is in an irreversible death spiral.
WILL ENTITLEMENTS KILL DEMOCRACY?
Did you know that the portion of the federal budget that Congress actually votes on (the discretionary budget) has been falling for years? The so-called "entitlements," such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and Obamacare, take a larger and larger portion of the total federal budget each year. Former U.S. Treasury economist Eugene Steuerle, now at the Urban Institute, has created a Fiscal Democracy Index, which measures "the extent to which past and future projected revenues are already claimed by the permanent programs that are now in place." In 1965, these programs claimed about 35 percent of the federal budget; now they claim about 85 percent of the budget, and they will soon claim more than 100 percent of total tax revenue. Mr. Steuerle is now out with a new book, "Dead Men Ruling," which explains how we got into the budget mess and the consequences of it. He writes:
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/11/14
Obama Huilo! I had to save this for the HFR instead of shoehorning it in to Putin Huilo! on Wednesday. And yes he is. He is not just a "hapless putz" as Andrew Klaman claims. The Obamahuilo is opening the floodgates of our border with Mexico on purpose - the purpose being revenge and spite. He wants TB and other diseases brought by illegals to spread. He wants to do damage to us more than ever, now that Americans have proved themselves not worthy of him, in having the inexcusably immoral temerity to think he's the worst US president rather than the best. As a pathological narcissist, his rejection by the American people is proof they need to be punished for not recognizing his magnificence. As Clint Eastwood put it:
THE HAMAS STRATEGY
What is Hamas doing? Hamas isn't going to defeat Israel. It isn't going to gain any territory. Israel isn't going to withdraw from Ashkelon or Sderot under a hail of rockets. So if Hamas can't win, why is it fighting? One reason is that Hamas has every reason to take heart from the responses it has received from Mr. Obama.
MICHELLE’S LOW-FAT FRAUD
Michelle Obama's Food Police are on the prowl: if you hear a knock on the door, hide the sugar bowl, the butter dish and the salt. Her campaign to force us all to eat a "low-fat" diet - called "My Plate" - is just getting started. What's happening in Tennessee is a good example. Her war on foods that are high in saturated fats, sugar and salt is all in the name of "protecting the children." Yet there is a strong possibility that the "diabesity" epidemic she campaigns against has been caused largely by the very food police whom she champions. So argues a devastating new book: The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz, an experienced journalist who spent eight years tracking down all the evidence for and against the advice to eat low-fat diets. She finds that it was based on flimsy evidence, supported by an intolerant consensus backed by vested interests and amplified by a docile press. And it made us fatter. Low-fat became a craze. It still is: look at supermarket shelves. Read Mrs. Obama's press releases. But it's all a fraud.