Are Nervous Democrats Starting to Eye Obamacare Repeal?
On one end of the spectrum you have down-with-the-ship partisans, who continue to beat their chests about running on Obamacare in 2014. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has doubled down on this theme, and Nancy Pelosi is on board, too. Stand tall, or whatever:
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to lift an 80-year-old ban on publicizing shares of hedge funds and other businesses that issue private stock, a move that’s expected to transform how startups and investment firms raise cash.
The SEC voted to satisfy a central provision in last year’s Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, which aimed to make it easier for smaller companies to raise cash. The SEC was required to lift the restriction prohibiting hedge funds, private equity firms and other businesses from publicizing shares in private offerings, which don’t require registration with the agency….
Osama bin Laden‘s former bodyguard is now claiming that the al-Qaeda mastermind wasn’t killed by the gunshots of Navy SEALS, but by an explosive belt he was wearing at the time of the raid.
Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah says that the U.S. soldiers merely shot bin Laden in the thigh and the terrorist leader killed himself before the fatal shots could be fired.
The DailyMail notes that Abdul Fattah admitted that he was not present at the event of the ambush and is relying what he was told from one of Bin Laden’s relatives.
Once the story broke that SEAL Team 6 fatally shot Bin Laden, Abdul Fattah immediately told several news sources that this simply could not be true.
He accused President Obama of lying about how he was killed as Bin Laden vowed to blow himself up if compromised in order to avoid capture.
“Bin Laden’s body parts were cut into multiple pieces, which is similar to suicide attacks following the bombing, so as not to leave any clue to the US forces to identify him. “
According to Abdul Fattah, Bin Laden had been wearing an explosive belt for the last ten years of his life. He believes Bin Laden detonated the belt the moment he knew he was about to be killed or captured.
The United States military has yet to respond to these claims.
Dr. Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy. Credit: U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Last week, Dr. Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the nation’s 13th Secretary of Energy. Moniz was confirmed by the Senate in a unanimous vote on May 16.
Within hours of being sworn in, Moniz gave his first public address as energy secretary at the Energy Efficiency Global 2013 conference in Washington, D.C. There he remarked that “[Energy] efficiency is going to be a big focus as we go forward.” Moniz also said the U.S. needed to “reduce our dependency on oil,” citing alternative fuels, energy efficiency, electrification, and “new transportation paradigms” as key to achieving that goal.
The new energy secretary also indicated he would focus on partnering with American manufacturers to achieve the nation’s energy goals. “We want to work on convening with manufacturers to look for industrial opportunities,” he said. As an example, he pointed to the development of new wide-band gap semiconductors for power electronics, which he admitted “sounds specific” but said has huge implications for many industries
Later that same day, in a town hall meeting at the White House with other Cabinet members and with the President’s senior energy and climate advisors, he unveiled plans to boost “forgotten renewables,” meaning geothermal and small hydroelectric technologies. At the same time, he insisted that the current natural gas boom was “a boon” and indicated that it should be a bridge to renewable energy, rather than an alternative
A video of Moniz’s talk at Energy Efficiency Global 2013 can be seen below.
It’s hard to tell sometimes what’s real and what’s bluster in the world of arms development, but it’s notable nonetheless that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has publicly revealedthat Russian experts are developing robots designed specifically to minimize casualties in terrorist attacks. Oh, and also to neutralize those terrorists. What could possibly go horribly, horribly, terribly wrong?
The Russian defense industry (which Rogozin oversees) has not yet revealed exactly what these robots will be capable of or when they will be deployed, only that it is building them and that they would be able to evacuate injured soldiers and police or civilians from the scenes or terrorist attacks. They will also be able to engage terrorists at a distance without harming any hostages they might have.
Again, they haven’t said exactly how they are going to engage terrorists at a distance without harming hostages, but what’s most important here is that they’re going to. The robots are being developed alongside other anti-terror technologies, including those that can see terrorists through obstacles.
Ostensibly these robots will also be able to disperse crowds of terrorists, round up terrorists for imprisonment or questioning, or even “neutralize” terrorists that haven’t yet done anything wrong but that the Russian state finds to be potential threats. Fortunately these robots will only be used against terrorists, because if you replace “terrorist” with just about any other group of people this paragraph becomes fairly unsettling.
Nancy D’Alesandro (Pelosi) \ Miss Lube Rack 1955
Proof The Obama Administration Is Going After The Good Guys With Guns
What got us to a time when the mainstream media thinks it’s a non-story that Chicago rated dead last in federal prosecutions of gun crimes while it earned the gruesome distinction of being the murder capital of the U.S.? Why is it that the National Rifle Association (NRA), a civil-liberties group with four-million-plus members, has to call journalists out for not reporting bloody and startling facts?
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