RUTHFULLY YOURS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/07/fourth-of-july-violence-c_n_3558463.html

HELP IS ON THE WAY….THE VERY REVEREND AL SHARPTON OS MOVING THERE…”The Rev. Al Sharpton has said he plans to live in Chicago for a few months to work with neighborhood leaders on the problem.” RSK

The Windy City reached a grim milestone over the long Fourth of July weekend as the city’s homicide rate surpassed 200.

The city logged its 200th homicide of the year on Saturday when a 24-year-old man was shot to death in the 1000 block of West Maxwell Street on the Near West Side, according to RedEye Chicago.

On Saturday alone, at least seven people were injured in a single drive-by shooting that left a 48-year-old man dead. The Sun-Times reports police believe the 6 p.m. shooting in Lawndale was gang-related and connected to an earlier attack on July 4.

The weekend’s littlest victims included 5-year-old Jaden Donald and 7-year-old Christian Lyles, both shot late night on July 4 in separate incidents.

A judge denied bond on Sunday for the man accused of shooting Jaden Donald; the boy reportedly lost three organs as a result of the incident.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324399404578590503856740838.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

President Nicólas Maduro sends a message of his loyalty to Iran.

Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor wanted for leaking sensitive national intelligence, is a victim of “persecution” by “the world’s most powerful empire,” Venezuelan President Nicólas Maduro said on Friday.

Mr. Maduro offered asylum to the fugitive, who was running out of prospects. Nicaragua and Bolivia have chimed in with similar offers. What plans are afoot to spirit Mr. Snowden from his Moscow airport sanctuary—assuming he accepts refuge in Latin America—are of course secret.

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As part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent, Russian prosecutors on Friday demanded a six-year prison term on trumped-up embezzlement charges for Alexei Navalny. In a passionate, nine-minute closing speech before the court in the provincial center of Kirov and a live Internet audience, the 37-year-old Mr. Navalny showed why he has become the leader of Russia’s opposition to autocratic President Vladimir Putin.

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WHO KNEW, WHO KNOWS? BUT MAYBE THEY’LL CHANGE IT BACK TO THE ‘TRIBOROUGH’ BRIDGE….RSK

Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, but she still excites the public so much that her chest X-ray sold for $45,000. She’s the subject of 1,000 books, the inspiration for Macy’s new fashion collection, and an omnipresent icon who outstrips any living star. So why did the media ignore the stunning new evidence tying Bobby Kennedy to her death?

In recently discovered journals of Hollywood private eye Fred Otash, he wrote: “I listened to Marilyn Monroe die.” According to Otash, he had bugged Marilyn’s home and previously recorded Marilyn’s sex sessions with President John Kennedy. On the night of August 5, 1962, he listened as Marilyn had an hysterical argument with the Kennedys in which she accused them of passing her around “like a piece of meat.”

Otash wrote:

“She was really screaming and they were trying to quiet her down. She’s in the bedroom and Bobby gets the pillow and he muffles her on the bed to keep the neighbors from hearing. She finally quieted down and then he was looking to get out of there.”

Well, that’s a colorful scene, don’t you think? Worthy of a headline or two, perhaps? And yet, remarkably, the media-industrial complex shoved this ultimate A-list gossip into the same handy lock-box where they keep Obama’s college records.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/07/eliot-spitzer-comptroller_n_3558928.html

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer plans a run for the New York City comptroller’s office, according to an interview released Sunday night by The New York Times.

Spitzer resigned from the governorship in 2008 amidst a high-profile prostitution scandal. He later went on to co-host the CNN show “In The Arena,” which was later canceled by the network. More recently, Spitzer hosted “Viewpoint” on Current TV.

Speaking to the Times, Spitzer said, “I’m hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it.” He also explained what he would like to do with the position:

Mr. Spitzer, an aggressive watchdog over Wall Street when he served as attorney general, wants to overhaul the sometimes overlooked office into a more activist one, given the power the comptroller exercises over the city’s pension funds and city spending.

“The metaphor is what I did with the attorney general’s office,” he said Sunday night. “It is ripe for greater and more exciting use of the office’s jurisdiction.”

Spitzer’s jump back into New York politics coincides with the reemergence of Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who resigned his position following a sexting scandal. Weiner announced in May that he was entering the New York City mayoral race.

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577904578557700558668158.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion It’s hard to read Gertrud Kolmar’s poetry without thinking of her disappearance in Nazi Germany, along with millions of other Jews. The final line of Gertrud Kolmar’s early poem “Woman Undiscovered,” written sometime before 1933, ends with eerie prescience. “I am a continent,” she writes, “that one day soon will sink without a […]

http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/the-airbrushing-of-egypts-mohamed-elbaradei/ The press has been scrambling this weekend to keep up with the fortunes of Egypt’s Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei. First it looked like he’d been named as interim prime minister of Egypt. Then it turned out it wasn’t a done deal. Whichever way that goes, the renewed spotlight on ElBaradei is inspiring comments […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324507404578591671926459776.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On the heels of last week’s one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate to offer insurance to workers, the Administration is now waiving a new batch of its own ObamaCare prescriptions. These disclosures arrived inside […]

On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four home grown Islamic jihadists detonated four bombs, three in quick succession aboard the London Underground trains across the city. A fourth was then detonatedon a double-decker bus. Fifty-two civilians were killed in the attacks, and over 700 more were injured. The four jihadists were also killed.
The terrorists used peroxide based bombs packed into backpacks.

See the pictures from a Moslem demonstration in London on February 6, 2006.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/london-pictures.htm#.UdlOtUbD-Uk

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“Today, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.”

The Grand Inquisitor

Freedom exists by virtue of an independence from the powers that might take that freedom away. Rights exist to fence out authority from the space allotted to freedom. The more leverage the citizens have over the authorities, the more they can prevent those rights from being trampled upon.

The problem begins when people begin to assume that the rights they enjoy are inherent to the system, so that they don’t have to worry about them. As long as the system exists, so do their rights.

Many Americans assume that as long as the flag waves and everyone celebrates the 4th of July, then their rights are safe. But it is entirely possible to have an America in which the flag still waves and people still go to see fireworks on the 4th of July, and in which there are no more rights or freedoms left. This can happen when people forget what the flag means and what the 4th of July means; the symbolism of a flag composed of individual states, and a holiday celebrating the Declaration of Independence, which holds that a people may overthrow a government when it violates their rights.