If all Neal Cavuto can do is level 'Let's Pretend' at Hillary Clinton's campaign, then there isn't anything there. Everyone is waiting for the FBI findings and decisions if it will ever become public. Other than that there isn't anything to prove about Hillary Clinton emails. The American public has been treated to the ability to read emails from a Secretary of State and that is historic.

I have always found it laughable the degree people have taken this "Let's Pretend" email scandal. It wasn't possible until she came forward with her emails. Up to the point there was knowledge of a private server none of these "Let's Pretend" existed or was entertained. There was no there there.

There were no leaks. No news agency had information about a private server. None of these talking points resulted because of leaks that supposedly would kill people. Everything Hillary Clinton had on her private server was completely secure. There were no leaks. 

Now, all of a sudden FOX "Let's Pretend" is causing all kinds of problems. It is nonsense. Everything that is stated on FOX has no validity in fact. It is also sad to realize FOX has no loyalty to this country. They are loyal to merchandising for the Murdochs.

Want a war? No problem. 

The drone leaks have nothing to do with any Clinton emails.

October 26, 2015
By Margaret Sullivan 

...New details about the Pentagon’s drone war (click here) from 2011 to early 2013 were disclosed on Thursday in classified documents published by The Intercept, a national security news website. The documents included a set of briefing slides assessing Operation Haymaker, an effort to hunt down Taliban and Qaeda militants in Afghanistan from January 2012 to February 2013.

During that period, there were 56 airstrikes that killed 35 suspects. Those strikes also killed 219 people who do not appear to have been specifically targeted but were labeled “enemy killed in action,” the documents showed....

Among the USA public it is numbers that catch their attention. It is interesting because they don't demand proof of the killing, they simply are appalled that it exists at all.

FOX talked about this and Clinton emails all in the same breath. The purpose for the discussion was obvious. 

Who empowers drug cartels?

Australia's gun buyback was launched after 35 people were shot dead during the Port Arthur massacre. Photo: Channel 10

January 21, 2016
By Patrick Hatch

America's powerful pro-gun lobby group (click here) the National Rifle Association has again taken aim at Australia's gun laws, this time targeting the buyback scheme launched in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
The NRA posted a video on its official YouTube page on Thursday featuring President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton discussing Australia's gun laws....

It is about time Australia gets serious over the importation of illegal drugs.

January 22, 2016
By Nick Ralston

Organised crime groups (click here) have become so successful at importing drugs into Australia that the wholesale price being paid for ice, cocaine and ecstasy has dramatically fallen in the past 18 months.
The NSW Crime Commission says the illegal drug trade remains the main source of income for organised crime in Australia and at present illicit substances are in "plentiful supply".
Fairfax Media has learned that the wholesale price paid by Australian criminal groups to import cocaine from overseas was as high as $280,000 a kilogram three years ago. Eighteen months ago it had dropped to $240,000 a kilogram and now sells below $200,000 and as low as $180,000....

All these drugs are also part of the income to terrorist groups. It should be taken very seriously and ended. The concern of course is the safety of the officers involved in discovering the drugs and ending the enterprise of the cartels.

I am sure I don't have to remind how serious the terrorist campaigns have been in the region.

As well as the two Australian ringleaders (click here) of the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring, Indonesia executed four Nigerian men, one man from Brazil and one Indonesian. A woman from the Philippines and a Frenchman were temporarily reprieved....

The murders in paradise.
 
Veloso, aged 30, from the Philippines, was arrested in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2010 and found to be carrying a suitcase packed with 2.2kg (5lb) of heroin. Painted in court as a knowing drugs courier, she was sentenced to death. But her supporters say that poverty had made her susceptible to people traffickers, who promised her a job as a maid in Malaysia but instead made her an unwitting drug mule.
On Tuesday the woman who recruited Veloso for that job, Maria Kristina Sergio, “voluntarily surrendered” to police in the Philippine province of Nueva Ecija. She was wanted on charges of illegal recruitment and human trafficking....

There are more arrests and imprisonments in Indonesia than any other country in the world. It is an island country and due to the ease with which organized crime could operate within that geographical reality, it doesn't happen. Indonesia finds them. 

Indonesia is so successful in ending crime and bringing criminals to the weight of law that the criminals and families are pleading to be lenient. Indonesia is not a country to allow slippage in it's laws and sentences. It is quite interesting.  

The weight of Indonesian law is a shock to those arrested and tried. They never bargained for it. 

...The NSW Crime Commission said expatriate Australians are playing a major role in bringing drugs into the country.

Former Sydney resident Hakan Ayik, an associate of the Comancheros bikie gang, operates a global drug trafficking network from his native Istanbul. Former Kings Cross identity Vaso Ulic is wanted over drug imports in Australia. He is currently based in Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia....

These people are known but remain out of reach. Why?

FOX just caught themselves in their own lie.

Earlier today FOX stated, the SAP emails were mentioned in a memo of an Inspector General. That memo was seen by Congressmen and passed on to FOX.

NOW.

Such documents are not allowed to Congressmen due to higher security clearance requirements. 

The talking point now is that the information in SAP was far more grievous than first expected.

I want an investigation.

This is a great ad. I am sure every other candidate wished they thought of it first.

Bernie's campaign needs to put together an information pack or an ad or something that is exclusively assembled by African American volunteers. The minorities in the campaign should be recognized without editorial content.

Of course President Obama is not responsible for the problems of our veterans.

I'd rather not bring Sarah Palin's son into the political arena. I sincerely want him to have peace of mind his life is not a spectacle and I hope the news media does the same.

Sarah Palin (click here).

The only reason I mentioned him in the first place is because it was really obvious he was having problems with his parents away from home.

I know she is bringing her son into the spotlight of her politics, but, that is consistent from when she was running as McCain's Vice President. She often would refer to her son serving in Iraq. 

We haven't been in Iraq since 2009 in the way we were under "W." His service in Iraq does cause problems. It is a known fact. There have been many suicides and Mr. Palin's problems are typical.

It seemed to me the Palins have a degree of stability with him and that should not be sacrificed by political involvement. He is important. He is a veteran.

But, what can be said and what should be the focus is the problems of the Veterans and what that war did to them. The country will see significant indebtness, both, medically and financially for disability claims for a long time. That is the issue. How could an American president put troops into a war theater that was illegitimate, provided a platform for the rise in terrorism and compromised the readiness of our military. When realizing the number of military compromised by that war and what that does to USA readiness, the entire venture was extremely wrong and misdirected.

Here we go. Another woman from hell.

January 21, 2016
By Jodi Guglielmi

Jada Pinkett Smith (click here) has responded to Janet Hubert's critical comments about her decision to boycott the Oscars. 
After the former Fresh Prince of Bel Air star called Pinkett Smith's actions "suspect," claiming she was only skipping the awards ceremony because husband Will Smith didn't get a nomination, Pinkett Smith once again spoke out to defend herself and further clarify her comments. 
"This whole Oscar controversy isn't really about the Oscars," Pinkett Smith, 44, said in a new video shared by Entertainment Tonight. "Really, in my plea to ask all communities and people of color to take back our power is so that we can use it in all sectors of our community, and right now, specifically with African-American people, we have some very serious issues that I think we as a people have to move together on."... 

There is a real issue here and Mrs. Jada Pinkett Smith has a right to bring it to the attention of the public. She is correct to do that. I am sure she feels the pain of racism more intensely because it is her husband, but, she is absolutely correct to do it.

Will Smith is a great actor. It is a curiosity as to why he isn't more recognized for his work.

He was nominated twice for an Oscar. 2001 for Training Day and 2006 for King of Scotland.

When looking at Will Smith's achievement to date the Oscar nominations and wins are very lacking. In nearly every category of award in Hollywood and otherwise he has an interesting track record. Enviable even. But, when it comes to the Oscars, he is a blip on the screen.

This is exactly the problem.

January 21, 2016
By Detroit Free Press

Dennis Muchmore, (click here) Snyder's former chief of staff, writes an e-mail to the governor dated Sept. 25, 2015, claiming that some in Flint were turning the issue of children's exposure to lead into "a political football." He said the real responsibility for the water crisis rested with the county, city and KWA. "I can't figure out why the state is responsible except that Dillon did make the ultimate decision so we're not able to avoid the subject."

Snyder is incompetent to carry out the laws of Michigan and the fact children were having elevated lead levels in their blood is proof. Snyder has to leave that level of power.

When a sitting Governor becomes mired in politics while children are being poisoned, he is incompetent. There isn't anything else to say. If his Chief of Staff is nothing more than a political watchdog, what good is it?

The lead detection should have occurred long before it showed up in children.

Look, the reason children are tested for lead levels is because it is a method of proving and finding the source in their environment. No one expects an entire group of children to have lead levels.

The idea a water source is where the culprit is, was never suppose to exist. Lead in paint, somewhere in old housing, possibly playgrounds once used as commercial sites of business or land that children venture into that were never intended to be a playground is what people expect to find, but, water was never suppose to prove to be the source.

This is very bad news. Children are tested to be sure they are safe from lead exposure because it does such damage. These are decisions society made a long time ago. No child is suppose to grow up with any source of lead exposure. At the very most there may be a child here or a child there, but, never an entire group. 

Snyder and his staff are completely indictable in these findings. They substituted SOCIAL AND LEGAL NORMS for their own financial standards. This is complete dismantling of Michigan and federal laws. 

This is very serious and reaches right into the political standards of his administration over and above the laws of Michigan and this country. 

No one is accusing Republicans for a leak. It is the right wing media and their conspiracy expertise that is the issue here. The information being put out as fact without any real evidence is the problem. It is the media in the right wing universe playing with political fate. That is the truth. Get angry if you want, it is just too bad.

There should have never been a debate over who is responsible. There should have been action the moment the water turned into poison.

January 20, 2016
By Evan Osnos

Last July, (click here) after more than a year of public complaints about the drinking water in Flint, Michigan—water so pungent and foamy that a local pastor had stopped using it for baptisms—reporters were calling the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. The response from the department was of limited urgency. In an internal e-mail to colleagues, a spokeswoman, Karen Tommasulo, wrote, “Apparently it’s going to be a thing now.”...

The emails prove all that was on the mind of Michigan government was politics. No one took responsibility to end the danger. That is the issue.

What was Mr. Snyder thinking would come out of this emails? He was the highest form of Michigan government, the Executive Branch if you will. He had all the power to end the nightmare before it became a nightmare. He did nothing. Absolutely nothing.

This was an entire year plus. This is endangering the public, First take control of the problem and then run the investigation to find out who allowed such horrible threats to people and their children.

I'll put it this way. It should never have happened. The water causing this problem should have been tested before it ever was allowed to enter the Flint water pipes. It should have been tested immediately after it entered the Flint water pipes. The water should have been tested regularly for quality anyway. Where are those records. I want to see the records for the last two years of Flint's water department and their quality testing. 

That is interesting dialogue from the Right Wing:

...She (the Attorney General) was very WEAK on gun laws. 

...She is the voice of the President. So, when she spoke to the committee she was making the words of the President known.

A mindless woman leading the Justice Department. Perhaps that is the state of affairs of conservative women, ya think? They simply and mindlessly follow their Husbands voice and commands.

Who was it Shelby? That was amazing to hear. 

And don't question Shelby. Don't be outraged at the idea of the AG being a mindless woman unable to discern the country's laws.

Shelby is god today. Bully for him.

Here is an interesting example:

February 14, 2015

......Lynch, (click here) the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, negotiated a settlement in December 2012 with HSBC bank employees who were accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist organizations and Mexican drug cartels.

Her decision to let them walk away without criminal prosecution sparked inquiry from Sen. David VItter, R-La., and a host of questions Friday.

Lynch, nominated by President Obama to replace Eric Holder as attorney general, is already facing a rocky reception in the Senate, which won’t vote on her confirmation until March at the earliest....

A Senator uses information about a prosecution of a financial institution to bring outrage to her nomination hearing. He never takes ownership of it except to raise political outrage.

The case was about money laundering. The actual members of the drug cartel were not part of the prosecution. But, did that stop Vitter from attempting to discredit Ms. Lynch. No, everything a political game in the committees of the House and Senate.

Everyone is worried about the storms in the USA.

January 22, 2016

Washington (AP) " People (click here) throughout the eastern United States readied themselves heavy snowstorms that could bring blocked roads, power outages and canceled flights from the Appalachian Mountains to Philadelphia and maybe farther north.

The National Weather Service said in a statement Wednesday that up to 16 inches (40 centimeters) of snow could come down between Friday night and Sunday morning in the region.

Mitchell Gaines of the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said people should be prepared for strong winds, heavy, wet snow and power outages....

There are two days of demonstrations in Moldova. It borders Ukraine and is of interest to their national security.

January 22, 2016

Chisinau, Moldova (AP) " Thousands (click here) of people held an anti-government protest Thursday in the Moldovan capital, a day after the legislature approved a new pro-European government.

Protesters gathered outside government offices and Parliament in Chisinau to protest Prime Minister Pavel Filip, the former technology minister and ex-candy factory manager, who presented his Cabinet of politicians and specialists to President Nicolae Timofti late Wednesday.

It was the second straight day of protests. Scuffles broke out Wednesday between police and the protesters who stormed the Parliament, injuring 15 people, including nine police officers. On Thursday, protesters blocked a main artery in the capital as they staged a peaceful protest. Demonstrators shouted "Down with the government! We are the people!" and "Early elections!"

Moldova has been mired in political instability since 2014. Last year, Moldova had five prime ministers and there were weeks of protests about $1.5 billion that went missing from three banks prior to the country's November 2014 parliamentary election....

The Democrats need to get on with their campaigns. Bernie is not going to turn the USA into a socialism heaven and Hillary Clinton is trustworthy. The background noise of FOX and Breitbart and Talk Radio exists. 

It isn't credible information. The information exists primarily in that universe. But, if a person wants to be a fool because it feels like victory, then go for it.

Take your pick. What degree of national security credentials do you want? SAP seems to be a place where FOX settled after two previous tries.

What is a Special Access Program (SAP)? (click here)

A SAP is defined as: “a program established for a specific class of classified information that imposes safeguarding and access requirements that exceed those normally required for information at the same classification level.” Technically, SCI is a SAP. Some SAPs are referred to as “black” programs, the very existence of which can be classified.

There is a business in the private industry world to PRE-qualify for national security positions. People want to be able to say they are qualified for national security clearance when they place a resume with the government for employment. For a lot of people these terms are average conversation. 

So, what degree of classification do members of the Obama Administration cabinet have? Any and all of those classifications would apply except those that are exclusively military.

To start a scandal to destroy a presidential candidate with government credentials, pick one. If the one you pick to assign to as a beach in national security doesn't raise enough outrage to destroy the targeted candidate, then pick another one and keep on going. 

Go ahead.

Be a fool. 

Most viruses are carried by mosquito. It is why African children are given nets to sleep with. It is why there are mosquito control public health policies in the USA.

Identified in Uganda in 1947, (click here) previous outbreaks were confined to a few small areas in Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands.

But, in May 2015, it was reported in Brazil....

There are not cures for most virus. Either there are vaccines to prevent the illness when it is particularly disabling or people have to ride it out for 7 to 10 days.

Bacterial infections are far more dangerous than virus. The danger from virus is the fever a person runs when ill.

The word from FOX is that anyone wearing an ISIS t-shirt is a target. 

Therefore what? The NFL is safe?

You can buy them online. (click here)

They aren't appropriate to be sold online. Countries are at war with these tenacious murderers.

The idea of turning the USA into a socialist heaven is nonsense.

October 29, 2016
By Jack Flanagin
...Americans (click here) are quick to forget that Sanders’s much-lauded Denmark is, in fact, a capitalist economy. Danske Bank, the country’s largest financial institution, ranks among the world’s major retail banks. It generated profits of over 12.9 billion Kroner (US $1.8 billion) in 2014. Sweden is a well-known entertainment-industry powerhouse. Norway is a giant of the international energy economy. All three countries, along with fellow Northern European social democracies like Finland and Germany, consistently rank among the best countries, worldwide, in which to start and operate a business....

I never thought I'd say it is a vast right wing conspiracy, but, it really is.

To begin with this information is openly stated to be stolen. It blows my mind to realize the political right wing lives in a completely different reality. They literally build their own political reality.

FOX talking heads like Thomas Dupree, Jr. say things like, "There are all sorts of things on that server." The words aren't a lie, but, the CONTEXT it is placed within is to imply Hillary Clinton was exposing the deepest darkest secrets of the USA. It is all hot air. Complete and absolute speculate while hoping it is true.

And then to realize there is some sort of permission to spy into an Inspector General's office and find the exact memo that tells the tale is ridiculous. That isn't an indictment of Hillary Clinton, it is indictment of national security. What is anyone doing rummaging through documents in a US Inspector General's office?

With that statement the entire idea Hillary Clinton's sever betrayed the American people is bogus. Hilary Clinton has done the American people a favor to realize while all these intelligent details are open to everyone that will kill people came directly from a weakness in national security. Thank you Madam and I am sorry that information has gotten out to the world by the very national security you counted on to protect the American people. I want an investigation of FOX News to find out how they got information from the Inspector General.

There actually is a vast right wing conspiracy. I never realized it before. It starts with Breaking News and keeps on rolling. FOX could not be a legitimate source of information even if it tried. I want an investigation of how their claims of an Inspector General memo actually made it into the news.

Guess who gave Judith Miller her first job after the issues with her reporting? FOX. She was part of the inflammatory idiocy that lead the USA right into Cheney's Iraq. Judith Miller was played for a fool. It is astounding to realize how serious the context a Right Wing Conspiracy exists. They literally toy with the USA as it has no choice but to walk the path of Murdoch. I want an investigation.

January 20, 2016
By Post Editorial Board

Now the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (click here) has its anti-Clinton tentacles all the way into the Obama administration. At least, that’s the new excuse from Team Hillary on why the e-mail mess keeps getting worse.

Fox News this week got its hands on a damning letter from President Obama’s inspector-general for the US intelligence community, Charles McCullough. In it, he notes that some of the stuff the ex-secretary of state kept on her home-brewed e-mail server wasn’t just classified, but more-secret-than-top-secret stuff.

At least two e-mails were at the beyond-top-secret level of “special access programs,” or SAP.

So secret is SAP stuff that even McCullough and his aides had to get special clearance before they could view those messages.

The Clinton camp’s response: Attack!...