Week In Review - Top Ten News Stories You Might Not Know About
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1. Dozens Of CIA operatives On The Ground During Benghazi Attack
"Sources told CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret." – CNN
"CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.
Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings.
The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress. It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career." . . . Read More
Obama dispersing Benghazi survivors around U.S. and changing their names –YouTube
Hillary Clinton To Be Honored With American Patriot Award For . . . Wait For It . . . ‘Defending Our Nation’ – RedAlertPolitics
2. White House Progressives Create 'Nudge Squad' to Shape Behavior
"The federal government is hiring what it calls a 'Behavioral Insights Team' that will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior." –NewMediaJournal
"While the program is still in its early stages, the document shows the White House is already working on such projects with almost a dozen federal departments and agencies including the Department of Health & Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
'Behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost less, and help people to achieve their goals,' reads the government document describing the program, which goes on to call for applicants to apply for positions on the team.
The document was emailed by Maya Shankar, a White House senior adviser on social and behavioral sciences, to a university professor with the request that it be distributed to people interested in joining the team. The idea is that the team would "experiment" with various techniques, with the goal of tweaking behavior so people do everything from saving more for retirement to saving more in energy costs." . . . Read More
3. Parade Magazine Stays Mute - Political Correctness Alive And Well In America
”Oprah Winfrey Falsely Claims ‘Millions’ of Black Americans Were Lynched.” –Parade Magazine
“'You cannot be my friend and use that word around me. It shows my age, but I feel strongly about it. . . . I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree,' Winfrey said.
According to information gleaned from the archives at the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 were lynched between 1882 and 1968 — not the millions claimed by Winfrey. Of the 4,743 people lynched during that period, about one in four — 1,297 — were white.
Winfrey told Parade that young people today know 'diddly squat' about the civil rights movement. That much, at least is true." - Read More
4. Oxford English Dictionary To Change Definition Of Marriage
“The Oxford English Dictionary has said that the definition of the term ‘marriage’ will be changed to include same sex couples.” – ChristianConcern
"Language experts at the Oxford English Dictionary stated that the definition of ‘marriage’ did not change simultaneously with the law, however.
A spokeswoman for Oxford University Press said: 'We continually monitor the words in our dictionaries, paying particular attention to those words whose usage is shifting, so yes, this will happen with marriage.'" . . . Read More
San Antonio Proposal Could Bar Christians From City Council –FOXNewsRadio
Planned Parenthood Pays $1.4 Million to Settle Fraud Lawsuit –ACLJ
Liberal Media Love New Jesus Book 'Zealot', Fail To Mention Author Is Muslim –FOXNews
5. 4 In 5 In USA Face Near-Poverty, No Work
"A sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream." -USA Today
"Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
The findings come as President Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to 'rebuild ladders of opportunity' and reverse income inequality.
As nonwhites approach a numerical majority in the U.S., one question is how public programs to lift the disadvantaged should be best focused — on the affirmative action that historically has tried to eliminate the racial barriers seen as the major impediment to economic equality, or simply on improving socioeconomic status for all, regardless of race." . . . Read More
6. Illegal Convicted Of Child Porn Might Not Be Deported Due To Immigration Reform
"A Mexican national living illegally in the United States has been sentenced for extreme child pornography, but might not be deported after he serves his federal prison sentence due to possible changes surrounding comprehensive immigration reform" –Breitbart
"Ricardo Reyes was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography, specifically downloading and saving videos and images of sexual acts between children. Disturbingly, the U.S. Attorney’s Office press release stated: 'After his release from prison, if not deported, Reyes will begin a five year term of supervised release.'
The 'if not deported' phrase is not normal for a press release in a case like this. The lack of certainty that deportation will occur led Breitbart News to contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office regarding the reasoning behind the expressed uncertainty.
U.S. Attorney's Office of the District of Nebraska Criminal Chief Jan Sharp gave this response in a telephone interview with Breitbart News:" . . . Read More
Homeland Security Loses Track Of One Million Foreigners; Report Could Hurt Immigration Deal –WashingtonTimes
Sen. John McCain: Fox News Is ‘Schizophrenic,’ And Tea Party Is Negative – WashingtonTimes
7. The Chilling History Of How Hollywood Helped Hitler
"In devastating detail, an excerpt from a controversial new book reveals how the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife." –HollywoodReporter
"The 1930s are celebrated as one of Hollywood's golden ages, but in an exclusive excerpt from his controversial new book, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler (Harvard University Press, on sale Sept. 9), Harvard post-doctoral fellow Ben Urwand uncovers a darker side to Hollywood's past.
Drawing on a wealth of archival documents in the U.S. and Germany, he reveals the shocking extent to which Hollywood cooperated and collaborated with the Nazis during the decade leading up to World War II to protect its business." - Read More
8. State Department Travel Warning - Hey, Barack, I Thought You Saved Us From Workplace Violence!
“Arab-based Al Qaeda threat to Mideast, Africa, with embassies shut Sunday” –NewYorkDailyNews
"The alert extends through the end of the month and follows the agency's announcement Thursday that it would shutter embassies in the regions Sunday — the first day of the work week in Muslim lands — based on an unspecified threat.
The bulletin warns of 'the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula.'" - Read More
9. More Doctors Steer Clear Of Medicare
"Some Doctors Opt Out of Program, Frustrated With Payment Rates and Mounting Rules." -Yahoo Finance
"Fewer American doctors are treating patients enrolled in the Medicare health program for seniors, reflecting frustration with its payment rates and pushback against mounting rules, according to health experts.
The number of doctors who opted out of Medicare last year, while a small proportion of the nation's health professionals, nearly tripled from three years earlier, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the government agency that administers the program. Other doctors are limiting the number of Medicare patients they treat even if they don't formally opt out of the system.
Even fewer doctors say they won't accept new Medicaid patients, and the number who don't participate in private insurance contracts, while smaller, is growing—just as millions of Americans are poised to gain access to such coverage under the new health law next year." - Yahoo Finance
10. John Whitehead, President of The Rutherford Institute, Discusses 'A Government Of Wolves'
John Whitehead discussed his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State -YouTube
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