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October 2015

The EPA’s Water Rule Is Plugged A federal court enjoins the agency’s ‘whirlwind of confusion.’

Chief Justice John Roberts may have salvaged ObamaCare, but lower courts are proving to be more skeptical of executive overreach. On Friday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stopped the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Water Rule on grounds that it probably exceeds the agency’s legal authority.

The EPA rule, issued in May, extends federal jurisdiction over tens of millions of acres of private land that had been regulated by the states. In August a federal judge in North Dakota issued a preliminary injunction in 13 of the 31 states that have sued to block the rule, and the Sixth Circuit has now echoed that legal reasoning by enjoining the rule nationwide.

Ohio, Michigan and 16 other states challenged the rule, and a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit ruled two to one that the “petitioners have demonstrated a substantial possibility of success on the merits of their claims” and that a stay is needed to silence “the whirlwind of confusion that springs from the uncertainty” about the rule’s requirements.

Democrats Against ObamaSave Bipartisan opposition builds to Labor’s new fiduciary rule.

President Obama’s plan to reform retirement savings could more than double the cost of investment advice for many savers. That’s why Democrats on Capitol Hill are now demanding a rewrite and even Hillary Clinton still hasn’t endorsed it. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama is helping state governments compete against the private financial advisers his rule punishes.

The ostensible pitch for the Labor Department’s rule is that when savers are rolling over money from a 401(k) retirement plan into an Individual Retirement Account, they should be advised only by people committed to acting in their “best interest.” It sounds great, except serving as a “fiduciary” in this manner comes with so many rules and carries so much potential liability that few people will do it unless investors pay them a lot of money.

If costs are irrelevant, many would argue it’s in the best interest of a driver to travel in a Mercedes rather than a Chevrolet. But in the real world consumers like having options. For the typical investor, brokers provide a useful service and even if they aren’t fiduciaries they too are heavily regulated to make sure they recommend investments that are “suitable” for the client.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Becomes Twitter’s Second Largest Shareholder see note please

Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the 26th wealthiest person in the world according to Forbes, has again increased his media holdings and thus his influence by becoming the SECOND largest shareholder of Twitter. Prince Talal funds major Muslim Brotherhood organizations, including ISNA, CAIR and several MB-affiliated interfaith dialog groups. Talal was instrumental in establishing the Georgetown University Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Janet Levy

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/21509-saudi-prince-doubles-shares-in-twitter Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and his investment company have doubled their shares in Twitter, to become the microblogging site’s second largest shareholder.

A joint statement released yesterday by the prince and his Kingdom Holding Company revealed that their combined shares represent more than five per cent of Twitter’s common stock, with a market value of $1 billion. The prince and Kingdom Holding originally invested $300 million in Twitter in 2011 before the site went public two years later.

#BlackLivesMatter Riot Leader Deray McKesson Promotes Ethics of Looting to Yale Students : Jim Hoft !!!! see note please

If they fail will they be forced to take Remedial Looting????rsk

Deray McKesson and Johnetta Elzie (ShordeeDooWhop) are credited with being the founders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. The two were the lead agitators at the Ferguson and Baltimore riots.

The two Soros-sponsored leftists leave a wake of destruction behind them: hundreds of businesses looted and burned to the ground – hundreds of arrests – the destruction of minority neighborhoods.

The left rewarded their “accomplishments.”
The left loves their race agitation.
The left believes their work is not done.

The Palestinian Authority’s Spellbinding Spreadsheets by Sarah Honig

…The PA’s own paperwork shows unambiguously that tens of millions of dollars are shelled out every month to imprisoned terrorists and to their relations – at a time in which Abbas moans that Ramallah can’t make ends meet. It’s the same Abbas who poses as a frustrated peace-partner but cannot bring himself to condemn the premeditated stabbings of Israelis by his own incited henchmen. The impression he deliberately imparts is that terror convicts and/or casualties were arbitrarily and unjustly martyred. The latest crop of Abbas’s homegrown killers likewise expects to be officially celebrated as idols instead of castigated as villains.

Here clearly are comprehensive
statistics that illustrate exactly
how the PA uses its resources.

One of the most significant recent scoops came from Israel Radio’s Palestinian affairs correspondent, Gal Berger, who managed to lay his hands on actual Palestinian Authority spreadsheets that show precisely which convicted terrorist behind-Israeli-bars is subsidized and to what tune by the Palestinian Authority.

US aviator who fought for nascent state of Israel, dies at 92

After WWII, torpedo bomber pilot Leon Frankel traveled to Palestine in 1948 and flew 25 missions in the early years of the Israel Air Force.

Leon Frankel, an American aviator whose exploits fighting for the nascent State of Israel were featured in a documentary, has died at age of 92.

Frankel, who died Oct. 7 in his native Minnesota, had his exploits spotlighted in the 2014 film “Above and Beyond,” which describes the beginnings of the Israel Air Force.

Trained as a torpedo bomber pilot during World War II, Frankel took off in February 1945 from the aircraft carrier USS Lexington for the first US Navy raid on Tokyo. In a subsequent raid he was instrumental in sinking a Japanese cruiser and protecting his squadron commander, whose plane was badly damaged.

For his actions, Frankel was recognized with the Navy Cross, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, three Air Medals and two Presidential Citations.

In 1948, with the Jewish state about to declare its independence, Frankel traveled clandestinely to Israel. He joined the country’s first fighter squadron and flew 25 missions, ironically in the Czech version of Nazi Germany’s famed Messerschmidt-109.

He explained his motivation to fight for Israel in a letter last year to the Minneapolis StarTribune, responding to an Op-Ed column that labeled Frankel and his fellow volunteers as “American jihadists.”

“I could not stand idly by, with my experience, while a second Holocaust loomed, with the Arab nations telling the world they were going to destroy the Jewish state,” Frankel wrote.

Frankel later established a car dealership, married and eventually settled in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Molotov cocktail lobbed at 2 Israeli students in Midtown By Michael Gartland, Amber Sutherland and Daniel Prendergast

A Molotov cocktail was hurled at two Israeli rabbinical students as they walked in Midtown, and cops are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, said law-enforcement sources and witnesses Sunday.

The unidentified attacker hurled a glass Snapple bottle filled with some type of accelerant at Yosef Rachimi and Yisrael Gadasi, both 19, near the corner of West 37th Street and Ninth Avenue around 1:30 p.m. Friday, sources said.

“I’m in complete shock,” Rachimi told The Post through a translator Sunday. “In 2015, an explosive bottle was thrown at a Jew in the streets of New York.”

Homeland–Once Obama’s Favorite Show–Takes Hard Line on Radical Islam by Wynn Marlow

The fifth season of Showtime’s spy thriller Homeland premiered last Sunday night. Once President Obama’s favorite TV show, this episode is downright contemptuous of U.S. — read Obama’s — foreign policy as regards the Middle East and Syria in particular. For someone who refuses to utter the words “Radical Islam,” Homeland is highly unlikely to be Must See TV.

The scene that would have tipped Obama’s Palace Guard to suggest he join Michelle and the girls for an episode of Modern Family rather than watch the new Homeland involves the character Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend).

The hardened yet haunted CIA black-ops specialist is summoned before a conference table full of Intelligence brass to explain what he’s been up to in Syria the past two years.

VIDEO..AN AD FOR A COMING DOCUMENTARY MUST SEE

From e-pal Sol Sanders…..
A TRUE STORY, NOT KNOWN BY MANY . . .This short video (an ad for an upcoming documentary) holds the key to Israel ‘s survival as a nation back in May 1948. The Arab nations were within 10 miles of Tel Aviv, with a 10,000 man force, ready to totally destroy the new country of Israel
The only FOUR (4) Airplanes Israel had when the War of Independence (May 1948) began were smuggled in from Czech Republic . They were German Messerschmitt bf-109’s. They were assembled overnight in Tel Aviv and were never flight tested.

This is a short video about their pilots. Watch it. You will not be disappointed.

http://vimeo.com/54400569