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Mark Levin Analyzes the Herman Cain Smear by Politico

Posted by FactReal on October 31, 2011

WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE OF CAIN’S ALLEGED SEXUAL HARASSMENT?
Summary of Politico’s sexual harassment story against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain: Unnamed sources, sketchy generalities, and ambiguous details such as: “There were also descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable.”
Mark Levin analyzed Politico’s hit-piece designed to destroy conservative Herman Cain:
On Monday’s Mark Levin Show: Mark discusses the claims against Herman Cain regarding sexual harassment that recently came out from Politico journalists. Mark questions the motive behind these baseless attacks and wonders where the evidence behind it is? Mark believes that this may be another liberal smear campaign against a conservative that obviously someone feels threatened by to bring this up. Mark speaks with former staff members of Herman Cain who say these charges are unwarranted and never saw anything remotely close to these allegations. Also, Karl Rove is back at attacking conservatives once again as he says that Herman Cain can’t win the Presidency.
The Right Scoop has the Mark Levin audio:
(click image for audio)

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Obama’s Pal & Terrorist Bill Ayers Teaches Radical Theory At #OccupyChicago (Video)

Posted by FactReal on October 29, 2011

MANEUVERING THE HERD OF EMPTY MINDS
Obama’s friend and domestic terrorist turned University of Illinois professor, Bill Ayers: “You should use your brilliance, your humor, your wisdom, your body to dramatize the violence that exists.” (Hat tip: The Right Scoop)

The supposed leaderless, organic and spontaneous ‘Occupiers’ looked bewitched as they listened to their radical master:

FLASHBACK: Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers
In the late 1960s, Bill Ayers co-founded the radical group Weather Underground that collaborated on a series of bombings aimed at the Pentagon, US capitol, banks, monuments and other government buildings.

Obama launched his political career in the living room of Bill Ayers.

Victim of William Ayers explains here Ayers’ terrorist past and his connection to Obama:
RELATED
- Bill Ayers Releases “Collective Statement” Of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

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Occupy Wall Street Protester Threatens to Stab Reporter in the Throat (Video)

Posted by FactReal on October 28, 2011

“He threatened to stab me in the throat with a pen. He ripped the mic out of my hand,” said Fox-NY reporter John Huddy about the OWS protester who assaulted him while reporting on the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest in New York on Oct. 28, 2011.
(Hat tip: Media Research Center)
Here is video of the OWS protester who assaulted and threatened the reporter.
(To watch video, click the image below or click here. Go to video mark 1:55)
MyFoxNY.com reported:
A protester, angered by the presence of a news crew inside Zuccotti Park Friday morning, threatened to stab Fox 5 News reporter John Huddy. Police arrested the protester. [...]

“This is somebody I’ve come across several times for the last few days,” Huddy said. “He threatened to stab me in the throat with a pen. He ripped the mic out of my hand.”

“I have a meeting with Bloomberg,” said the incoherent protester.

Cops arrested the man — identified as Dustin Taylor, 34, of Millerburg, Ohio — and charged him with grand larceny, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment, the NYPD said.

Huddy had gone into the park to find out what protesters were doing to fight the significant drop in temperatures.

Other video sources: here, here, or here.

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Obama’s Student Loans…& his Debt Collectors Plan to Harass Students

Posted by FactReal on October 28, 2011

OBAMA WANTS TO BUY YOUTH VOTE
WITH STUDENT LOAN BAILOUT

Obama wants to get re-elected and he needs uninformed and impressionable Americans to vote for him. So he is targeting college students.

Obama’ student loan bailout is just to get the youth vote: “Obama is outlining a plan to allow millions of student loan recipients to lower their payments and consolidate their loans…Young voters were an important bloc in Obama’s 2008 campaign, and student loan debt is a common concern among Occupy Wall Street protesters.”

'Occupy Wall Street' protesters want taxpayers to pay for their education

OBAMA WANTS TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR STUDENT LOANS
Obama’s student bailout plan is to buy the votes of college students…with taxpayer dollars, of course.

It is unfair to forgive student loans on the backs of waitresses and construction workers and the nearly three-quarters of Americans who didn’t graduate college. Increases in federal subsidies or student loan bailouts shift the burden of paying for college from the student—the person directly benefiting from college—to the millions of Americans who did not graduate from college.”

It also penalizes the taxpayers who have worked hard to pay off their own student loan debt—and who are still making payments—by having to pay off the student loan debt of those who took out more of a loan burden than they could handle, in some cases, to earn a degrees of questionable market value.”

OBAMA WANTS DEBT COLLECTORS TO GO AFTER STUDENTS
Obama offers student loan giveaway…while pushing plan to send debt collectors to harass students:
[W]hile Obama is out announcing these new student loan rules that make you think that he’s relaxing your repayment, remember that Obama asked Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to get your cell phone number to track you down in case you are delinquent in repaying your student loan if you owe it to the government, and the odds are you do since they took over the industry
Obama wants debt collectors to harass students:
President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government.

…The little-noticed recommendation would apply only to cases in which money is owed the government, and is tucked into the mammoth $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan the president submitted to Congress. [...]

Enabling robo-calls (to cellphones) is just going to lead to more harassment and abuse, and it’s not going to help the government collect more money,” said Lauren Saunders of the Boston-based National Consumer Law Center. “People aren’t paying their student loans because they can’t find a job.”

Whatever the impact on the budget deficit, the proposal has aligned the [Obama] White House with the private debt collection industry — frequently the subject of consumer complaints — at a time when the economy is weak, unemployment is high and Obama is embarking on his campaign for re-election. [...]

A different federal agency, the Federal Trade Commission, collects extensive records about the private debt collection industry in general.

“The FTC receives more complaints about the debt collection industry than any other specific industry,” according to an annual report to Congress, more than 100,000 in 2010.

The complaints fall into several categories, citing alleged harassment, demands for impermissibly large payments, failure to provide required consumer notice and threatening dire consequences such as jail time.

Shouldn't these OWS protesters be targeting Big University for their outrageous cost of college tuitions? (How much money did he waste on that stupid disguise?)

RELATED
- Ivy League universities and their great revenues
- Forgiving Student Loans is the second-worst idea ever

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Hollywood (Florida) Looking for Rats…to Spy on their Neighbors

Posted by FactReal on October 27, 2011

The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen
NEIGHBORS POLICING NEIGHBORS
Instead of reducing (or completely eliminating) the lavish lifetime pensions and benefits given to government employees, politicians are using the economic recession and the budget constraints as an opportunity to extend the government tentacles at the expense of our individual freedom. Liberals and useful idiots are gradually, but surely, encroaching on the rights of the individual.

In Florida, the city of Hollywood wants residents to rat out neighbors. This program is eerily similar to the Castro’s neighborhood snitch groups on every block in Cuba known as Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs). They keep watch on everybody and everything.

Castro’s neighborhood snitch groups: The CDRs

The Sun Sentinet reported:
HOLLYWOOD, FL. — This city has a solution for its shortage of code enforcers: They’re having residents rat out their neighbors.

It’s like a traditional neighborhood watch, but instead of crime, volunteers will be on the lookout for grime. And they’ll put neighbors on notice for basic problems ranging from overgrown grass and unkempt shrubs to parking on the lawn and putting trash out too early.

The trained volunteers are not authorized to issue violation notices. Instead, the notices will serve as warnings. If the issue is not resolved within seven days, then a code enforcement officer will follow up and issue “a violation on the spot,” said Maj. Joseph Healy, who brought the idea forward after reading about it in a magazine.

“We’re not trying to pick on our resident neighbors,” said Terry Cantrell, president of the civic association in Hollywood Lakes, where the initiative is being tested. “What this program is going to do is hopefully gain compliance in a gentle way without fines.”

Already, 25 people have been trained for the pilot program, the first of its kind in Broward. If all goes well, it will eventually expand citywide.

Still, it already has critics.

“It rubs me the wrong way,” said Doug Barnard, a six-year resident of the South Lakes neighborhood. “All it takes is for one nosy neighbor and life can be hell for everyone.” [...]

In an effort to protect their identities, volunteers will be assigned a number that will be known to code enforcement and noted on each notice.

“People were afraid of retribution,” Healy said. “So we try to keep it anonymous somewhat.”

Similar programs are underway in Port St. Lucie, Austin, Texas, Garden Grove, Calif., and Monterey Park, Calif., Healy said.

Vice Mayor Patty Asseff, who lives in the Lakes neighborhood, thinks the program makes perfect sense, especially when budget constraints and unfilled vacancies have dwindled the city’s code enforcement ranks from 19 to 12. [...]

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OWS MIAMI: Banker Effigy Hanged for Occupy Wall Street-themed Mural

Posted by FactReal on October 27, 2011

LEFTISTS LOVE DARKNESS
Via UK Daily Mail:
Drivers in Miami today were likely doing double takes on Wednesday as they passed what looked like a banker hanging by a noose from a telephone wire alongside a Florida highway.

To accompany his Occupy Wall Street-themed mural, the international graffiti artist known by his street name Above, took his message a step further by adding the rather life-like hanging dummy to his display…

‘I tried to clothe him and dress him up as if he was what I imiagined (sic) a Wall Street banker might wear,’ Above said to MailOnline…I think it’s my retaliation to how far Wall St, has gotten in general.

‘It is shocking to me when I look at these numbers when I see that one per cent of the people have all of the money,’ he continued.

The mannequin was hung next to a mural that he painted along the northbound side of the I-95 highway which stretches from Miami up the east coast.

Making it’s connection to the Occupy Wall Street protests, the mural reads ‘Give a Wall St banker enough rope and he will hang himself’.

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Michael Moore ($50 Million Net Worth): I’m Not Part of the 1% (Video)

Posted by FactReal on October 26, 2011

ANOTHER HYPOCRITE SOCIALIST
Michael Moore’s net worth is estimated at $50 million, but he goes around pretending to be a “man of humble circumstances” fighting against the “evil” capitalist system. Just because he wears that “blue-collar-worker” disguise doesn’t make him one and doesn’t give him authority to be the spokesman of the working class. He is just an angry elitist trying to fool people who think he is a documentary filmmaker.
(H/t: The Right Scoop)



MICHAEL MOORE BENEFITED FROM THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
Celebrity Net Worth has a summary:
Michael Moore is a controversial documentary filmmaker with a net worth of $50 million. Moore’s biggest three movies: Bowling For Columbine, Fahrenheit 911 and Capitalism A Love Story have earned over $300 million at the box office.

Fahrenheit 911 raked in $230 million in theaters and another $3 million in DVD sales. After the theaters take their traditional 50% cut, that leaves roughly $130 million. Take away marketing, production and distribution expenses and Moore is conservatively left with $80 million. Moore was able to secure a deal from Miramax which guaranteed him 27% of his film’s net revenues, or roughly $21.6 million. Michael also was entitled to 50% of the profits of Sicko which are estimated to be $17 million.

Moore is the author of several best selling books and received a $1 million advance for “Dude Where’s My Country” plus a generous percentage of the book sales.

Moore financed his first documentary Roger and Me by holding neighborhood bingo nights around his hometown of Flint Michigan. He eventually sold the documentary to Warner Brothers for $3 million.

MORE
- ‘Occupied Wall Street’ Newspaper is funded by Michael Moore, George Soros, the Tides Foundation, and Code Pink
- Michael Moore, a hypocritical union buster

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Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)

Posted by FactReal on October 26, 2011

In the Age of Obama, we hear more about government seeking informants and snitches (i.e., Obama’s snitch website or Obama’s White House seeking email informants). This is nothing new. Big-government ideologues have historically created snitch brigades to control their citizens. Meet the CDRs.
Castro’s neighborhood snitch groups: The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs)
Humberto Fontova explained what they are:
Snitching is essential to totalitarian regimes. Both Stalin’s and Castro’s Gulags were filled primarily by acting on tips from snitches. Such snitching has a snowball effect. The very fact that you’re snitching gives some people a (usually false) sense of protection from regime police because they’re assisting them. Then as more and more people get rounded up, more and more people feel threatened, so more and more of them snitch — more fear, more arrests; neighbor snitches against neighbor, cousin against cousin, even sons and daughters against parents. [...]

In the mid-1990′s, the Catholic Human Rights group Pax Christi, headquartered in Belgium, visited Cuba and secretly conducted a study on the status of the CDR’s…

“Fear is the basic instrument of (Cuban) political control,” concludes the study. “There is one CDR for every 140 Cubans. The information at the State Security’s disposal can be used to threaten and intimidate anybody. There is no place to escape the tentacles of the State. Most ordinary Cubans reported that they remained intensely wary of CDR surveillance, even while conversing in their own homes.” These CDRs keep a file on every person in their beat (usually 2 city blocks in the cities) where they list all of the comings and goings, personal contacts, etc., in the hopes of detecting any revolutionary backsliding, which can be anything from a particularly snarky comment on a regime honcho or policy to playing hooky from the latest anti-imperialist rally in the Plaza de la Revolucion. The CDRs also supervise the issuing of the monthly food ration cards to all Castro’s subjects. “Food is a weapon” famously declared Stalin’s foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov.

With a little imagination almost everyone can visualize the Communist snitch-and-survive or snitch-and-reward process. At work, we’ve all seen that insufferable brownnoser who hopes to mitigate or camouflage his incompetence or laziness by sucking up to the boss. We’ve all seen that gossipy little backstabber, that busybody shrew get promoted over their betters. Somehow after every flush of “downsizing” many of these Eddie Haskells and Mrs Kravitzes keep bobbing back to the surface.

To some extent this is human/corporate nature. All organizations favor “team players.” In the private sector these kinks are eventually straightened and the brownnosing incompetents axed. Either that, or the company goes under. There are stockholders and customers to keep happy. But under Communism this swinishness is the very essence of the system. There is only a Maximum Leader to keep happy.

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