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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

19 FACTS THAT PROVE THE U.S. ECONOMY IS WORSE NOW THAN SIX MONTHS AGO

19 FACTS THAT PROVE THE U.S. ECONOMY IS WORSE NOW THAN SIX MONTHS AGO
BY MICHAEL SNYDER
SEE: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/04/19-facts-that-prove-the-u-s-economy-is-worse-than-six-months-ago.htmlrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Has the U.S. economy gotten better over the past six months or has it gotten worse?  In this article, you will find solid proof that the U.S. economy has continued to get worse over the past six months.  Unfortunately, most people seem to think that since the stock market has rebounded significantly in recent weeks that everything must be okay, but of course that is not true at all.  If you look at a chart of the Dow, a very ominous head and shoulders pattern is forming, and all of the economic fundamentals are screaming that big trouble is ahead.  When Donald Trump told the Washington Post that we are heading for a “very massive recession,” he wasn’t just making stuff up.  We are already seeing lots of things happen that never take place outside of a recession, and the U.S. economy has already been sliding downhill fairly rapidly over the past several months.  With all that being said, the following are 19 facts that prove things in America are worse than they were six months ago….
#1 U.S. factory orders have now declined on a year-over-year basis for 16 months in a row.  As Zero Hedge has noted, in the post-World War II era this has never happened outside of a recession…
In 60 years, the US economy has not suffered a 16-month continuous YoY drop in Factory orders without being in recession. Moments ago the Department of Commerce confirmed that this is precisely what the US economy did, when factory orders not only dropped for the 16th consecutive month Y/Y, after declining 1.7% from last month
#2 Factory orders have now reached the lowest level that we have seen since the summer of 2011.
#3 It is being projected that corporate earnings will be down 8.5 percent for the first quarter of 2016 compared to one year ago.  This will be the fourth quarter in a row that we have seen year over year declines, and the last time that happened was during the last recession.
#4 Total business sales have fallen 5 percent since the peak in mid-2014.

#5 S&P 500 earnings have now fallen a total of 18.5 percent from their peak in late 2014.
#6 Corporate debt defaults have soared to the highest level that we have seen since 2009.
#7 The average rating on U.S. corporate debt has fallen to “BB”, which is lower than it has been at any point since the last financial crisis.
#8 The U.S. oil rig count just hit a 41-year low.
#9 51 oil and gas drillers in North America have filed for bankruptcy since the beginning of last year, and according to CNN we could be on the verge of seeing the biggest one yet…
Shale oil driller SandRidge Energy (SD) warned there was “substantial doubt” it would survive the oil downturn. The Oklahoma City company said this week it is exploring a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
Based on its $3.6 billion of debt, SandRidge would be the biggest North American oil-focused company to go bust during the current downturn, according to a CNN Money analysis of stats compiled by law firm Haynes and Boone.
#10 According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, job cut announcements by major firms in the United States were up 32 percent during the first quarter of 2016 compared to the first quarter of 2015.
#11 Consumers in the United States accumulated more new credit card debt during the 4th quarter of 2015 than they did during the entire years of 2009, 2010 and 2011 combined.
#12 Existing home sales in the U.S. were down 7.1 percent during the month of February, and this was the biggest decline that we have witnessed in six years.
#13 Subprime auto loan delinquencies have hit their highest level since the last recession.
#14 The Restaurant Performance Index in the U.S. recently dropped to the lowest level that we have seen since 2008.
#15 Major retailers all over the country are shutting down hundreds of stores as the “retail apocalypse” accelerates.
#16 If you take the number of working age Americans that are officially unemployed (8.1 million) and add that number to the number of working age Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force” (93.9 million), that gives us a grand total of 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
#17 Since peaking during the 3rd quarter of 2014, U.S. exports of goods and services have been steadily declining.  This is something that we never see outside of a recession….
Exports-Of-Goods-And-Services-Public-Domain-460x306#18 The cost of everything related to medical care just continues to skyrocket even though our wages are stagnating.  According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year, and yet the cost of medical care just hit a brand new all-time high…
Medical-Care-Services-460x306#19 Our government debt continues to spiral out of control.  At this point it is sitting at a staggering total of $19,218,516,838,306.52, but when Barack Obama first entered the White House it was only 10.6 trillion dollars.  That means that our government has been stealing an average of more than 100 million dollars an hour from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day since Barack Obama was inaugurated….
Federal-Debt-460x306How in the world can anyone look at those numbers and suggest that everything is okay?
I simply do not understand how that could be possible.
Part of the problem is that Americans have been trained to be irrationally optimistic.  It is fine to have an optimistic outlook on life, but when it causes you to throw logic and reason out the window that is not good.
For example, you can be “optimistic” about your ability to fly all you want, but if you step off a 10-story building you are going to take a very hard fall to the ground.
Similarly, you can ignore all of the facts and pretend that our economic prosperity is sustainable all you want, but it won’t change the fundamental laws of economics.
On a personal note, I would like to thank everyone that has helped make my new book the #1 new release in Christian eschatology on Amazon.com.  I understand that a lot of my secular readers are not going to understand my fascination with Bible prophecy, and that is okay.  I felt that I needed to write this book to address some very serious errors that are being taught in churches all over America today, and I also wanted to inspire believers to face the great hardships and persecution that are coming.
Just because very difficult times are approaching does not mean that it will be time to run and hide.  My wife and I always live our lives with no fear, and when things get crazy we believe that it will be an opportunity to do even more good.  We believe that the greatest chapters of our lives are still ahead of us, and we want people to understand why they can look forward to the future even though great darkness is rising all around us.
So yes, I definitely carry a message of warning.
But I also bring a message of hope.
As we look toward the future, there is much to be concerned about, but there are also things happening that are worth getting extremely excited about.
It is when times are the darkest that the light is needed the most, and very soon light will be greatly, greatly needed in the United States of America.
Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S FRAUDULENT "CONSENT" FORM TO GET ABORTED BABY PARTS

PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S FRAUDULENT "CONSENT" FORM TO GET ABORTED BABY PARTS
Published on Apr 5, 2016
The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives recently held its first hearing on March 2 to examine the bioethics of fetal tissue harvesting and experimentation. The hearing included a review of the patient consent form used by Planned Parenthood to get permission to harvest aborted baby parts.

The Planned Parenthood form promises pregnant women considering abortion that aborted fetal tissue “has been used to treat and find a cure for such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and AIDS.” No cures for these diseases are currently available, and no current therapies for them use aborted fetal tissue.

At the hearing, Dr. Lawrence Goldstein, a scientist from the University of California at San Diego, was called by the Panel’s minority to testify in support of Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue harvesting. Dr. Goldstein is a long-time financial donor to Planned Parenthood in San Diego, and uses aborted fetal brains and other body parts from the local Planned Parenthood. Under oath, Dr. Goldstein replied to a question from Planned Parenthood supporter Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) this way:

Watson Coleman: Do you believe that anything on that form is creating an undue hardship or intimidation or misrepresentation to women who are being asked to consider whether they will donate this tissue?

Goldstein: If it’s the form that says, therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and all the rest have already been found, I agree, that’s an inappropriate statement that should not have been made on that form. I don’t know who wrote it, that would not have made it past my IRB [Institutional Review Board] either.

The Planned Parenthood fetal harvesting consent form is authored by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and provided to affiliates in its Manual of Medical Standards and Guidelines.

“Planned Parenthood’s baby parts trafficking scheme cannot stand up to independent scrutiny. When a Planned Parenthood supporter and baby parts customer admits under oath that Planned Parenthood has been fraudulently inducing patient consent, it discredits all of Planned Parenthood’s assurances that their baby parts scheme has operated legally and above-board,” notes David Daleiden, CMP Project Lead. “Law enforcement in Planned Parenthood-friendly jurisdictions should stop wasting taxpayer resources to assist Planned Parenthood in harassing citizen journalists, and should stop ignoring the evidence of real fraud, baby body parts trafficking, and criminal abortion practices right in their own backyard.”

HILLARY CLINTON REFERS TO UNBORN AS "PERSONS", BUT SAYS THEY DON'T HAVE "CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS"

HILLARY CLINTON REFERS TO UNBORN AS "PERSONS", BUT SAYS THEY DON'T HAVE "CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS" 
by HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/04/05/clinton-refers-to-unborn-as-persons-but-says-they-dont-have-constitutional-rights/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used the phrase “unborn person” when speaking about abortion, but asserted that the unborn do not have constitutional rights.
Clinton was interviewed by host Chuck Todd, who asked the candidate to provide her “straightforward position on the issue of abortion.”
“My position is in line with Roe v. Wade, that women have a constitutional right to make these moment intimate and personal and difficult decisions based on their conscience, their faith, their family, their doctor,” she replied. “And that it is something that really goes to the core of privacy. And I want to maintain that constitutional protection.”
“Under Roe v. Wade, as you know, there is room for reasonable kinds of restrictions after a certain point in time,” Clinton continued. “I think the life, the health of the mother are clear. And those should be included even as one moves on in pregnancy. So I have been—I’ve had the same position for many years.”
Todd then asked Clinton if unborn children have rights, and if so, to outline when. She replied by referring to the unborn as persons, but asserted that they don’t have rights under the U.S. Constitution.
“Well, under our laws currently, that is not something that exists. The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights,” she said.
“Now, that doesn’t mean that we don’t do everything we possibly can in the vast majority of instances to, you know, help a mother who is carrying a child and wants to make sure that child will be healthy, to have appropriate medical support,” Clinton continued. “It doesn’t mean that, you know, don’t do everything possible to try to fulfill your obligations. But it does not include sacrificing the woman’s right to make decisions.”
Following her comments, a Planned Parenthood representative took issue with Clinton referring to the unborn as human persons.
“@HillaryClinton further stigmatizes #abortion. She calls a fetus an ‘unborn child’ & calls for later term restrictions,” Tweeted Diana Arellano of Planned Parenthood Illinois Action.
Others marveled at how both Clinton and Todd finally acknowledged the personhood of the child in the womb.
“Neither [Todd or Clinton] describes an unborn baby as a ‘bunch of cells,'” wrote Gary DeMar for Constitution.org. “Hillary describes an unborn baby as an ‘unborn person.’ … Since the Constitution uses the word ‘persons,’ and Hillary acknowledges that an unborn baby is a person, therefore, unborn babies deserve the full protection of the law like any other person.”
“Unborn babies are persons deserving the full protection of the law, not because of the Constitution, but because God designates them as persons,” he said. “No authority resides in the Supreme Court to rule that an ‘unborn baby’ or an ‘unborn person’ can be killed because of a woman’s conscience, faith, family, or doctor.”
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Planned Parenthood's Fraudulent "Consent" Form to get Aborted Baby Parts
Published on Apr 5, 2016
The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives recently held its first hearing on March 2 to examine the bioethics of fetal tissue harvesting and experimentation. The hearing included a review of the patient consent form used by Planned Parenthood to get permission to harvest aborted baby parts.

The Planned Parenthood form promises pregnant women considering abortion that aborted fetal tissue “has been used to treat and find a cure for such diseases as diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and AIDS.” No cures for these diseases are currently available, and no current therapies for them use aborted fetal tissue.

At the hearing, Dr. Lawrence Goldstein, a scientist from the University of California at San Diego, was called by the Panel’s minority to testify in support of Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue harvesting. Dr. Goldstein is a long-time financial donor to Planned Parenthood in San Diego, and uses aborted fetal brains and other body parts from the local Planned Parenthood. Under oath, Dr. Goldstein replied to a question from Planned Parenthood supporter Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) this way:

Watson Coleman: Do you believe that anything on that form is creating an undue hardship or intimidation or misrepresentation to women who are being asked to consider whether they will donate this tissue?

Goldstein: If it’s the form that says, therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and all the rest have already been found, I agree, that’s an inappropriate statement that should not have been made on that form. I don’t know who wrote it, that would not have made it past my IRB [Institutional Review Board] either.

The Planned Parenthood fetal harvesting consent form is authored by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and provided to affiliates in its Manual of Medical Standards and Guidelines.

“Planned Parenthood’s baby parts trafficking scheme cannot stand up to independent scrutiny. When a Planned Parenthood supporter and baby parts customer admits under oath that Planned Parenthood has been fraudulently inducing patient consent, it discredits all of Planned Parenthood’s assurances that their baby parts scheme has operated legally and above-board,” notes David Daleiden, CMP Project Lead. “Law enforcement in Planned Parenthood-friendly jurisdictions should stop wasting taxpayer resources to assist Planned Parenthood in harassing citizen journalists, and should stop ignoring the evidence of real fraud, baby body parts trafficking, and criminal abortion practices right in their own backyard.”


NEW YORK CITY GIVING $10 MILLION TO LINDA SARSOUR, HATE-FILLED SUPPORTER OF PALESTINIAN JIHAD

Islamic supremacist Linda Sarsour says of “Islamophobes”: 

“Their job is to vilify Islam and Muslims”

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NEW YORK CITY GIVING $10 MILLION TO LINDA SARSOUR, HATE-FILLED SUPPORTER OF PALESTINIAN JIHAD
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/nyc-giving-10-million-to-linda-sarsour-hate-filled-supporter-of-palestinian-jihadrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“The Arab-American Association of New York, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit run by Linda Sarsour, was selected as one of 14 groups by the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York to receive $10 million over five years…” Linda Sarsour likes to posture as an outsider, struggling against The Man in solidarity with all the other Oppressed People, but in reality she is the quintessential establishment figure, now that the hard-Left and Socialists are firmly ensconced in the corridors of power. Her cynical and disingenuous victimhood posturing and effective clearing-away of obstacles for violent terrorists are completely mainstream these days. The real outsiders and voices of the oppressed who are fighting against authoritarians who do all they can to silence and discredit them are the foes of jihad.
Sarsour is an energetic purveyor of the “Islamophobia” myth, and has hysterically claimed that “Muslim kids” are being “executed” in the United States. She was instrumental in prevailing upon de Blasio to end legal and necessary surveillance in Muslim communities in New York. She is also a frequent visitor to the Obama White House, and has claimed that the jihad underwear bomber was a CIA agent — part of what she claims is a U.S. war against Islam.
Sarsour is also a practiced exploiter of the “hate” smear against foes of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, and has never apologized for using the Islamic honor murder of Shaima Alawadi to spread lies about the prevalence of hate crimes against Muslims in America. She is also an enthusiastic supporter of the “Palestinian” jihad against Israel. Given the general support for that jihad among Leftists, and the hard-Left tilt of the de Blasio regime in New York, it is not surprising that her hate-filled endeavors are taxpayer-funded. But it is scandalous nonetheless: a grim sign of the times.
“City gives $500K to activist at center of Palestine-Israel Twitter war,” by Rich Calder, New York Post, April 2, 2016:
City First Lady Chirlane McCray is handing over more than $500,000 to an Arab-American activist who came under fire for denouncing critics on Twitter as “Zionist trolls.”
The Arab-American Association of New York, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit run by Linda Sarsour, was selected as one of 14 groups by the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York to receive $10 million over five years to integrate mental-health services into their community programs. McCray oversees the fund.
Sarsour, a longtime ally and vote-getter for Mayor de Blasio, got into a Twitter war last October with Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, who is Jewish, when she posted a picture of a Palestinian boy clutching rocks in front of Israeli soldiers, labeling it “The definition of courage.”
After Lancman replied, “No, the definition of barbarism,” Sarsour tweeted, “The Zionist trolls are out to play. Bring it. You will never silence me.”…
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"MUSLIMS" Support "BERNIE SANDERS": LINDA SARSOUR EX. DIR. ARAB AMERICAN ASSN, NY


I Want a President Who Will Welcome Refugees
Published on Sep 12, 2015
Linda Sarsour speaks at the 9/12/15 rally in Union Square in New York City on behalf of the Syrian and other refugees


Arab American life in Brooklyn with Linda Sarsour
Published on Sep 7, 2015
Linda Sarsour talks about her Palestinian background and challenges being Arab American in Brooklyn.


Linda Sarsour - Obama Administration "Champion of Change"
"Common Enemy is White Supremacy"


Islamic Supremacist Linda Sarsour Targets 

Mentally Ill Homeless Man 

BY PAMELA GELLER
SEE: http://pamelageller.com/2014/09/islamic-supremacist-linda-sarsour-targets-mentally-ill-homeless-man-frrbobo.html/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Linda Sarsour is a rabidly anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist who wields her religion like a club to beat politicos, the media and the uninitiated into submission. I debated her on CNNhere. She is a notorious demagogue who ought to be relegated to the very fringe of society. Instead, in this morally inverted culture she is  honored by the White House as a “champion of change.”
In order to give proof to the “islamophobia” lie,  Sarsour has viciously targeted a mentally ill man who lost his sanity after seeing his mother and sister killed in a car accident when he was only 20 years old. He is a long time Bay Ridge fixture, known for his erratic behavior and pathetic outbursts.
Sarsour is going after this poor man much the way nazi goons that targeted the mentally challenged — in order to make an example of them to send a message to everyone else. Sarsour’s vicious attack on a mentally incompetent homeless man is evil.
This isn’t  proof of “Islamophobia”; it’s just the opposite. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for this “incident” proves how infrequently (if ever) this happens.
One of the members of the Brooklyn community wrote me, “I’m writing in the hopes that someone can help with this horrific situation going on in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. There is a woman by the name of Linda Sarsour. It’s an extremely long story but basically she’s taking a local white, drunk, mentally ill man and making him a scapegoat for Islamaphobia (as she calls it). He’s now being charged with a hate crime. Nevermind she’s turned the Muslims completely against all non Muslims in my small neighborhood in New York. There are countless people on Facebook trying to help this man Brian Boshell, but we don’t know where to begin. This woman Linda is apparently very influential & powerful.”
“Hate Crime? Not So, Says Brooklyn Community,” National Review, September 9, 2014
A hate crime making national headlines is debunked by the locals.
A recent incident between an Arab-American activist and a mentally ill homeless man is being distorted by the national media and left-wing activists, say residents of the Brooklyn community of Bay Ridge.
Last Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian-American Linda Sarsour allegedly had a run-in with a well-known local street person as she exited the Arab-American Association of New York’s headquarters on Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge. According to the Huffington Post, activist Sarsour “noticed a man leaning up against its storefront.” A more recent article in the Daily News says Sarsour’s alleged assailant, 45-year-old Brian Boshell, “was sleeping on the street in Bay Ridge, blocking their organization’s entryway.” Either way, an employee of the Association, of which Sarsour is the executive director, called 911; but before the NYPD arrived, the man became belligerent. He stood up and allegedly shouted, “you are cutting people’s heads off sharmoota. I’m going to cut off you head and see how your people will feel, you Arab b****.” He then threw a New York City garbage can into the street, according to a police report.
According to the Huffington Post, Sarsour and her co-worker ran across the street and called 911 again. After 45 minutes, police officers finally arrived at the scene, only after Sarsour ran into them at a bagel store. They told her that she should have called the incident an “assault” over the phone. If she had, they would have come sooner.
Sarsour, who, according to her profile on the Arab-American Association of New York’s website has been profiled by PBS, Yahoo News, and the U.K. Guardian in addition to being honored by the White House as a “Champion of Change,” is a familiar Bay Ridge community activist. She quickly took to Twitter, where she has more than 18,000 followers, to label the incident a hate crime. She also called Boshell a “bigoted drunk” on Facebook. At the time of the incident, Sarsour was on her way to a Manhattan forum about police-community relations, where she retold her story to the NYPD deputy commissioners present. A hate-crimes unit was then dispatched.

Screen Shot 2014-09-11 at 12.04.26 AMScreen Shot 2014-09-11 at 12.04.39 AMScreen Shot 2014-09-11 at 12.04.48 AMBoshell was arrested and was arraigned Monday for attempted assault as a hate crime and other counts. He is being held on $20,000 bail and faces up to seven years in prison if arrested. ABC’s Bill Ritter called the confrontation a “violent act of hate.” Headlines about the incident have included the following:
NYPD Took 45 Minutes to Respond to Hate Crime, Arab-American Says 
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Sarsour, a frequent guest on MSNBC, returned to Melissa Harris-Perry’s show Sunday to discuss the assault. In her introduction, Harris-Perry said Sarsour was subjected to racially charged threats and was apparently targeted “because of her identity.” Sarsour, who wears a hijab, recounted the experience and said of Boshell, “If he was African-American, you better believe he wouldn’t be walking in our streets right now.” The panel then discussed relations between the African-American community and the NYPD.
 Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted his condolences to Sarsour, saying that New York City will “never condone such glaring acts of bigotry and tolerance.”
 And who is Brian Boshell, the bigot so full of hatred towards Muslims and Arabs? This man.
Boshell is a mentally ill homeless man widely known in Bay Ridge for his public, incoherent outbursts, which resulted in 56 arrests and 34 minor convictions. Police are familiar with his flare-ups, which have been irksome but not dangerous. The picture above shows him sleeping in a bank on Fifth Avenue, a few blocks away from the Arab-American Association. He is known to “sleep where he falls,” as one resident put it.
The community isn’t buying the story the mainstream media and Sarsour are spinning. A 30-year resident of Bay Ridge, who requested anonymity, tells National Review Online, “Instead of an incident with a drunk man, [Sarsour] is using this as her final proof of Islamaphobia in America . . .  Brian [Boshell] has a 25-year history of outbursts . . .  There is a lot that’s questionable about her not knowing who he was.” This resident, who says she knows Boshell and his family personally, says his mental health started to decline when he was 20 years old, after he witnessed his mother and sister die in a car accident.
“Everyone knows who he is. [Sarsour] knows who he is,” a 22-year Muslim resident of Bay Ridge tells National Review Online.
Brian Doherty, a retired police officer who has lived in Bay Ridge for 20 years and whose wife went to junior high school with Boshell, said he mostly wanders around a stretch of 5th Avenue between 69th and 75th Streets. The Arab-American Association of New York sits on 71st Street and 5th Avenue. “That’s his stomping grounds,” a Bay Ridge local comments.
Another resident familiar with Boshell said he should be in a hospital for treatment of his mental conditions, not prison.
Many residents have taken to social media to express their discontent about the hate-crime charge. The hashtag #FreeBobo, a nickname for Boshell, is circulating on Facebook and on signs in local bars.
Sarsour publicly supported Al Sharpton’s recent march across the Verrazano Bridge to protest the death of Eric Garner, and her Arab-American Association organized buses to join the rally. Many Bay Ridge locals are upset at what they say is her divisive handling of the incident with Boshell. Bay Ridge has a large Arab- 


Muslim community, and the New York Times made Sarsour the lead figure in a 2013 profile and accompanying video about ethnic enclaves in New York City.
 “There is no community in New York City that has embraced Arab culture more than Bay Ridge,” Doherty tells NRO.
According to another local, “This community has lived peacefully with Arabs and this [alleged hate crime] is being used as a wedge in the neighborhood.”
Representatives from the NYPD’s hate-crimes unit will be in attendance at the next 68th Police Precinct Council Meeting on September 16th. “Anyone who feels that Boshell was railroaded should come to the meeting,” a representative tells NRO.
Doherty speculates that Sarsour is seeking attention in hope of succeeding Bay Ridge’s term-limited councilman in 2016. “She’s attempting to make it political because she has her eye on [Vincent] Gentile’s seat,” Doherty tells NRO.
The case lays open the ambiguous and often illogical nature of hate crime laws. Had Boshell merely shouted “b****” without the word “Arab” before hurling the garbage can, he would probably be facing only another misdemeanor. Some Bay Ridge residents expressed concern on social media about whether Boshell, who could be facing a seven-year sentence, would be able to handle a prison populated by gang members and rapists.
“This is a tortured definition of a hate crime,” Doherty says.
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SEE ALSO:
http://lindasarsour.blogspot.com/
http://www.arabamericanny.org/lindasarsour
https://www.whitehouse.gov/champions/giving-back-to-community/linda-sarsour
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/islamic-supremacist-linda-sarsour-on-msnbc-muslim-kids-being-executed-in-the-u-s 
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/islamic-supremacist-linda-sarsour-says-of-islamophobes-their-job-is-to-vilify-islam-and-muslims
http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2014/37/br-sarsour-beheading-threat-2014-09-12-bk_2014_37.html
http://www.heyridge.com/2015/08/an-assault-reveals-the-deep-divisions-in-bay-ridge/



OBAMA WHINES THAT IRAN IS NOT FOLLOWING "THE SPIRIT OF THE AGREEMENT"

NOT WHAT HE ANTICIPATED?
BUT DOES HE FOLLOW THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LAW & 
THE CONSTITUTION? 
ABSOLUTELY NOT, 
NOT EVEN THE LETTER 
DEAL WITH DEVILISH ISLAM GOING SOUR, DISAPPOINTS; BETRAYED BY HIS OWN KIND!
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OBAMA WHINES THAT IRAN IS NOT FOLLOWING "THE SPIRIT OF THE AGREEMENT" 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/obama-whines-that-iran-not-following-the-spirit-of-the-agreementrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“Iran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off. When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.”
And he didn’t see this coming? Did he actually think they were going to change?
“Obama: Iran not following ‘spirit’ of deal,” by Julian Hattem, The Hill, April 1, 2016 (thanks to T.):
President Obama on Friday criticized Iranian leaders for undermining the “spirit” of last year’s historic nuclear agreement, even as they stick to the “letter” of the pact.
In comments following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Obama denied speculation that the United States would ease rules preventing dollars from being used in financial transactions with Iran, in order to boost the country’s engagement with the rest of the world.
Instead, Obama claimed, that Iran’s troubles even after the lifting of sanctions under the nuclear deal were due to its continued support of Hezbollah, ballistic missile tests and other aggressive behavior.
“Iran so far has followed the letter of the agreement, but the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and businesses that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that are going to scare businesses off,” Obama said at a press conference.
“When they launch ballistic missiles with slogans calling for the destruction of Israel, that makes businesses nervous.”
“Iran has to understand what every country in the world understands, which is businesses want to go where they feel safe, where they don’t see massive controversy, where they can be confident that transactions are going to operate normally,” he added. “And that’s an adjustment that Iran’s going to have to make as well.”
Months after the U.S. and other global powers lifted sanctions against Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program, Iranian leaders complain that they have yet to reap the benefits.
“Our banking trade, our efforts to return wealth from their banks, various kinds of businesses that require financial services — all of these are still facing problems,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an address last month. “When we investigate the issue, it becomes obvious that [the banks] are afraid of the United States.”…
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Obama Bemoaning:
 Iran Obeying Letter of Nuclear Deal,
Not the Spirit