Note: Taken fro Health Sciences Institute e-Alert - Jenny Thompson - 9/29/15
Dear Reader,
They’re glued to their beds in constant, crippling pain.
Many can no longer walk — and some struggle to even make a fist.
You’d think I was talking about seniors who’ve had their joints destroyed by a lifetime of arthritis. But these are young girls who haven’t spent their first day in high school yet.
And they’ve all had their tiny, healthy bodies destroyed by the HPV vaccine Gardasil.
A stunning report from a prestigious research hospital in Mexico has found that Gardasil is triggering a painful — and potentially incurable — disease identical to fibromyalgia.
Girls around the world are being left in non-stop agony. And they’re the latest proof that the mainstream and our government have been lying to us about the safety of Gardasil for years.
Looking for answers
Autumn was a young, healthy teen with dreams of going to the prom and heading off to college — right until three shots of Gardasil destroyed her life.
She’s now spent five years battling excruciating migraines and pain in her chest, back, pelvis, legs, and knees.
And this former soccer star who used to practice four hours a day now can’t even go to school.
Autumn’s family has spent years looking for answers. But it turns out her case isn’t isolated — and it’s not exactly out of the blue.
In the research out of Mexico, scientists profiled 45 kids from around the world, including the U.S., who developed chronic, debilitating pain and fatigue after receiving an HPV shot.
Dr. Manuel Martinez-Lavin, the lead author on this study, said the condition is remarkably similar to fibromyalgia. And he ought to know — he’s one of the leading fibromyalgia experts in the world.
The research started when Dr. Martinez-Levin treated two girls who had an illness like fibromyalgia that struck shortly after they received an HPV shot.
The doctor said he had never before seen such a devastating and painful disease of the nervous system at such a young age.
And when he started digging around, Dr. Martinez-Lavin found that girls in chronic, debilitating pain were turning up in doctors’ offices all around the world.
In fact, earlier this year researchers from Denmark identified 53 Danish kids who had an HPV vaccine followed by “symptoms consistent with pronounced autonomic dysfunction.”
In other words, the shot attacked and shut down parts of their nervous systems, leaving them in constant pain.
These cases have been piling up in the U.S. for years. As I’ve told you before, the FDA has received thousands of reports on Gardasil through the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
As of 2013 the number of serious side effects reported were just shy of 30,000. That included 136 deaths and more than 900 kids who are now disabled, possibly for life.
But our government and the mainstream couldn’t care less. Believe it or not, they’re claiming that just because kids ended up crippled after getting Gardasil doesn’t mean the shot caused it.
How else do they explain it? Alien abduction?
When it comes to protecting innocent kids from Gardasil, Autumn’s mom wants to know, “Where is the medical community now?”
I’ll tell you where they are. They’re out collecting cash from speaking engagements and do-nothing consulting gigs for HPV vaccine makers like Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.
In fact, right after this latest study went to print, Dr. Eduardo L. Franco from McGill University — a paid consultant for Merck and GSK — hit the airwaves claiming that some people have probably won the lottery after getting Gardasil. So maybe we should start associating the shot with good luck.
Have you ever heard anything so callous in your life? Do me a favor, Dr. Franco — head over to Autumn’s bedside and try to peddle that nonsense.
Sharing my own battle with HPV and cervical cancer was one of the most difficult and personal decisions I’ve ever had to make. But I wanted you to understand that there are ways to beat the disease without resorting to these dangerous — and even deadly — shots.
Now with states like Rhode Island getting ready to force Gardasil on every middle-school girl and boy, it’s never been more important to fight to keep this poison out of our kids.
This isn’t just about medical freedom any more. It’s about the right to protect our kids and grandkids from having their lives destroyed — or lost — thanks to a shot they don’t need.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Sources:
“Case reports of ‘syndrome’ appearing after HPV vaccination” Zosia Chustecka, September 18, 2015, Medscape, medscape.com
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What Hellhole did you Guess?
Scroll down to see what Beautiful city these lovely people have destroyed.
Little More please.
Little More please.
It is Marseille, France’s second largest city!
Lovely isn’t it now.
´´Non , c’est devenu la 1ère ´´… And do you know what is the second language spoken in Marseille? It’s French. The first is Arabic. Give them Paradise and they will turn it to a garbage bin. France is already gone.
Gaddafi once said in a speech that there was no need to invade Europe, because in 20 years Europe would be Muslim.
It has been reported in the London Daily Mail (January 2014) that 50% of all babies born in the UK in 2012 and 2013 were Muslim.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. -THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
Carly Fiorina is now the flavor of the month with the MSM and talk show hosts, none of whom have done any research into the woman’s background and beliefs. Strong debate performances and conservative sound bites don’t tell the full story. If you haven’t read Part 1 of my article on Carly, please do, as you will learn of her destruction of Lucent Technology and Hewlett Packard.
There is a reason Fiorina shows up on lists of the “Worst CEOs Of All Time,” (See here, here, here, here, and here among others) and it’s not because the whole business world is engaged in some kind of conspiracy to portray her as an incompetent. Was HP better off after Carly left than when she arrived? The answer is no. [Link] Despite the spin she tries to put on it, Carly Fiorina was a disaster for Hewlett Packard, and they’re still suffering from her so-called leadership. [Link] Fiorina left HP with one of the largest golden parachutes, really unheard of! [Link]
Don’t forget about her trading with Iran in violation of U.S. trade sanctions by using a foreign entity. [Link] According to a column by Josh Rogin: “Under Fiorina’s leadership, Hewlett-Packard sold hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict U.S. export sanctions.” [Link]
When Carly was forced out of HP, the very next day, HP stock jumped over 10%. [Link]
Don’t forget Carly’s love of the Islamists, and her speeches extolling Islamic history only nine days after 9/11. On Monday, 21 September 15, Fiorina appeared on the Jimmy Fallon show. Besides her singing about a dog, she stated she would not have a problem with a Muslim being president of the United States. Skip to 1:48 in this video and listen to what she says.
There’s even more, more than I included in the first article, and it’s damning to say the least. There is so much damning information on Fiorina, that it’s near impossible to cover it all.
Fiorina and Common Core
Craig Barrett, AZ’s chief Common Core promoter and Chairman of the Board at Achieve Inc. (architects of the Common Core standards), hosted a private fundraiser for Carly Fiorina in AZ on 9/10/15, according to the Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) Briefs.
Craig Barrett, Arizona’s poorer version of Bill Gates, routinely supports candidates for Governor and Superintendent of Education who then go on to advocate for his position of supporting common core learning standards and the suctioning of our kids’ data to all of his buddies at the Chamber of Commerce.
Craig Barrett would not support anyone who is truly against Common Core in their actions.
During her run for US Senate in CA, Carly Fiorina put out a paper praising and supporting Obama’s Race to the Top (RTTT) which tied federal funding to the adoption of what would later be called Common Core, which includes federally driven learning standards, tests, teacher evaluations, and NSA like data suctioning systems, which are all in place now. [Link]
Alyson Klein at Education Weekpoints out, during Fiorina’s 2010 run for U.S. Senate in California, she apparently supported the very programs which helped give us Common Core to begin with, even though CC has been around for years and they simply change the name. A one-page education policy brief is still available on her Senate campaign website and provides the incriminating evidence.
Fiorina-Backed Website Touted Planned Parenthood
During the CNN debate, Fiorina blasted Planned Parenthood and the horror of selling baby body parts for profit. However, she certainly hasn’t put her money where her mouth is. The Daily Caller reported that Fiorina joined Revolution Health Group, (RHG) when it was founded in 2005, along with Colin Powell, as an investor and board member. RHG was a website which promoted abortion benefits and directed users to Planned Parenthood, National Abortion Federation, and NARAL for more information. Women were urged to “think through” their “choices,” but a pro-life perspective was not offered.
The website no longer exists, as it reportedly failed to turn a profit and was merged with health website publisher Waterfront Media in 2008. But the abortion issue page was archived in 2007 on the Wayback Machine.
Her stance on pro-life was quite different when she worked for John McCain’s re-election. Check out her statements back then. [Link]
In this article by Tim Brown, he states, “She (Fiorina) should also be asked why she would invest in a website that promotes an organization that was murdering even more babies at the time. How exactly does this square with Ms. Fiorina’s character?”
While campaigning for John McCain, Fiorina assured pro-choice folks that McCain “has never signed on to efforts to overturn Roe vs. Wade.” Why would a pro-lifer regard this as a positive attribute to be touted? Why would a pro-lifer sign on as a surrogate for that sort of candidate?
In August 2008, Fiorina stood next to one Debra Bartoshevich, a Hillary Clinton partisan, at a press conference, and did not correct Bartoshevich when she said, “Going back to 1999, John McCain did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle saying that overturning Roe v. Wade would not make any sense, because then women would have to have illegal abortions.” Why would a pro-lifer stand on stage and remain silent when the candidate for whom she speaks is portrayed as pro-abortion? [Link]
Fiorina on Hillary
On Fox News, Fiorina said that it’s “absolutely crystal clear” that Clinton broke the rules and that she’s trying to cover it up. She pointed out that Clinton had a “server in her basement” for years, then decided to “wipe it clean” two years after leaving the State Department and before her presidential run.
Well Carly, what about your destruction of five hard drives prior to the ousting of Walter Hewlett and the HP board, and your massive takeover which gained you millions? [Link] Here are the facts from the man who was told to destroy Carly’s hard drives. I’ve spoken to him personally.
My name is Charles Nielsen, and I was an employee with HP from 1/2000 until 8/2001. I worked in the Boise, Idaho Data Center. I was the sole Customer Engineer allowed to work on Carly’s Private Server. It was kept under lock and key, and I was the only engineer allowed to work on it under the direct supervision of the Data Center Manager; I was new to the company and was used as a dupe. In March of 2001, just before Carly Fiorina had taken control of HP from Walter Hewlett, I was asked to remove the 5 hard drives from her personal server and physically destroy them with a hammer. I asked why I would destroy hard drives that at the time were worth over $15k apiece and I was told because she said so.
Shortly after destroying all evidence of her conspiracy to take over the company, she removed Walter Hewlett from the board of directors and made off with approximately $500 million dollars from the company with the rest of the board of directors ($100 million for Carly personally). All of her emails and all working documents were destroyed. I have kept my silence until now, when I find it highly offensive that after laying off close to 33k workers and sending stock prices into the gutter ( $55 a share when Fiorina took over to a little less than $20 a share under her leadership) she is pretending she would never behave like Hillary has. Carly Fiorina is as corrupt as they come.
Fiorina on Illegal Aliens
Jerry Perenchio, the former CEO of the Spanish language station Univision, is Carly Fiorina’s biggest donor at $1.6 million. Perenchio was also the national finance co-chairman for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign with deep ties to California. Remember, Carly was recruited by John McCain as the top advisor for his Republican 2008 presidential campaign. [First on CNN: Who’s giving to Carly Fiorina’s super PAC?, by MJ Lee, CNN, July 31, 2026]. Other major donors are all from Silicon Valley. Fiorina is their best hope (perhaps even better than Jeb Bush) for increased levels of legal immigration, a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens and massive increases in imported foreign workers.
Fiorina supports the DREAM Act. In her first debate with Sen. Boxer in 2010, she said: “I would support the DREAM Act because I do not believe that we can punish children who through no fault of their own are here trying to live the American dream.”
The DREAM Act (acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) is an American legislative proposal for a multi-phase process for undocumented immigrants in the United States that would first grant conditional residency, and upon meeting further qualifications, permanent residency.
The bill was first introduced in the Senate on August 1, 2001, S. 1291 by Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch, and has since been reintroduced several times (see legislative history) but has failed to pass.
Last June, Fiorina appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said she is against a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, but that a path to legal status is “a possibility.” [Link] So, what is the difference? She also added she is open to immigration reforms that would give citizenship to children of illegal aliens. If that’s the case, she might as well give every illegal alien citizenship. They are not “undocumented immigrants.” They have broken the law and invaded our country. Why are we giving these lawbreakers anything?
In a Breitbart article last August, 2015, Fiorina made this statement, “I’ve been very clear I don’t support deportation. I don’t support amending the Constitution or challenging the 14th Amendment. I think these are ideas that stoke anger but don’t solve problems. I think Donald Trump is stoking anger without solving problems. And I think others, now, are sadly pandering to him. There has been a very unfortunate racist tone that has emerged in a lot of the discussion about immigration and that’s inexcusable. We must be a country that welcomes legal immigrants to this country. We must be a country that recognizes that we have industries like agriculture that have depended on temporary migrant labor for generations.”
Sorry Carly, but I couldn’t disagree with you more, not to mention your use of the race card! Donald Trump is echoing what Americans are saying to each other. The lawbreakers are here illegally and should be sent back as they were by past presidents. As for “anchor babies,” the fourteenth amendment should not apply to lawbreakers who purposely invade our country in order to give birth on American soil. The pregnant illegal aliens gain a foothold to stay here, and then collect entitlements from American taxpayers, monies they’ve never paid into and that are bankrupting America.
Stay tuned for more to come, and I’ll also be discussing Dr. Ben Carson.
My Comments: One would think being in the very buckle of the Bible belt would insure a very “clean” state, but that is far from the truth. Not only is TN listed as third in the most corrupt states, but has twice been number one!
Embarrassed by a bribery scandal, Tennessee legislators passed a sweeping ethics reform bill in 2006 they portrayed as the showpiece of a new era of accountability.
But six years later, real questions persist over whether the heart of that bill, the creation of the Tennessee Ethics Commission, effectively polices public officials and lobbyists in this state of 6.4 million people.
Since its creation, the commission has been plagued by infighting, controversy and questions about how serious lawmakers really are about lasting reform. In six years, the panel has yet to find anyone guilty of violating an ethics law.
That mixed ethics message helps explain why Tennessee receives a grade of C and a numerical score of 76 from the State Integrity Investigation conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International. The state did score well enough in some areas to rank 8th overall, but it drew criticism for allowing corporate political donations and redrawing political maps in secret.
One former state lawmaker – who tried unsuccessfully for years to pass ethics legislation – believes his former colleagues never wanted the new reforms. The bribery scandal, former state Rep. Frank Buck said, drove lawmakers to act.
“They did it because they had to do it. I think the public demanded some of that,” said Buck, who retired in 2008 after 36 years in the legislature. “I don’t think the leadership in the House at that point in time, and some on both sides off the aisle, wanted it.”
The six-member Ethics Commission regulates lobbying activity, financial disclosures and ethical conduct among state and local public officials.
Yet it’s not clear how many complaints have been filed against lawmakers, lobbyists and other public officials, because that information is not available to the public.
The rootsof reform
The Ethics Commission was born out of the FBI’s Tennessee Waltz sting, which led to the convictions of nine state and local officials and a lobbyist. The 2005 scandal brought down four sitting state lawmakers, including former Sen. John Ford of the politically powerful Ford family in Memphis.
Following the FBI arrests, the ethics bill emerged from a special session of the legislature called by then-Gov. Phil Bredesen.
“It’s a commonly known fact that, at the time, Bredesen forced the legislature to do something that they did not want to do,” said Bruce Androphy, the Ethics Commission’s first executive director. “That’s no big secret—by holding the special session, he sort of put the legislature’s feet to the fire to do something that they would not have done independently on their own.”
The commission voted to remove Androphy as executive director in 2009 after a rocky 2.5 years. At the time, some said lawmakers and lobbyists had no appetite for an assertive ethics commission. Androphy’s critics said the commission couldn’t get things done, and chided him for opposing a move to combine the commission into the Registry of Election Finance.
A year later, former Jackson, Tenn. Mayor Charles Farmer resigned from the commission out of frustration the panel was doing little to weed out corruption.
In his 2010 resignation letter, Farmer wrote that he was “increasingly doubtful that the Tennessee Ethics Commission can make a meaningful difference in whether the work of government is conducted ethically.” Farmer did not respond to a request for comment.
Then, from November 2010 to June 2011, the commission did not meet for seven months because new members had not been appointed.
Policing judges
Lawmakers have paid little attention to the commission. Instead, they have geared up for a fight with the state judiciary over the judges’ own ethics panel.
The Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, an ethics panel for judges, has come under fire by state lawmakers and some citizens who say it’s not disciplining judges who behave badly.
Lawmakers are upset the COJ dismisses more than 90 percent of complaints against judges. As with the Ethics Commission, the complaints against the judges are not public record. Some files become public only when a judge is formally charged by the panel.
“I question whether or not those complaints should have been dismissed,” said state Sen. Mae Beavers, one of the COJ’s biggest critics. “We have actually had judges who are committing felonies who are allowed to resign, and then they’re never prosecuted.”
Beavers contends the failure to discipline judges or prosecute them when they commit crimes makes them, essentially, unanswerable to the law.
The COJ disposed of 334 complaints against judges last fiscal year, with the overwhelming majority dismissed. The group issued nine public reprimands, six private reprimands, three deferred discipline agreements and five “dismissals with warning.” It suspended one judge after he pled guilty to official misconduct.
Former state Attorney General Paul Summers, once a judge on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, said many complaints come from people angry that they lost their court case.
He says critics can’t assume judges are sweeping complaints under the rug. “That’s just not the truth,” Summers said. “Judges are in the business of making tough decisions about other people, other judges, other lawyers, other citizens every day of their lives. And just the fact that they’re having to make a tough decision about someone else who also is in their profession, that’s like water on a duck’s back. That’s just another day of work.”
The majority of the members on the panel are appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Some members of the legislature, including Beavers, would like to change the law so that the speakers of the state House and Senate appoint the members.
Some judges say their independence is threatened by the Republican-led legislature.
Still, the COJ has a long history of dismissing complaints. In 2009, Tennessee Watchdog reported that of the 2,997 complaints lodged against judges from 1999 to 2009, less than 1 percent triggered disciplinary action.
It remains to be seen what state lawmakers will do with the COJ, or whether they will take up questions about their own ethics panel.
Campaign cash
Also unclear: What role corporate money will play in Tennessee politics.
When Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill on June 1, 2026 removing the ban on corporations making political contributions, the Volunteer State became one of just a few states allowing direct corporate contributions to candidates. Corporations are limited to donating $10,700 per election to candidates for statewide office and to those running for state senate seats. Corporations are limited to donating $7,100 per election to candidates running for local office or for the state house of representatives. Primary elections, general elections, runoff elections and special elections are each considered separate elections.
Bob Tuke, a Nashville lawyer and former chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party, said the law allows big donors to remain anonymous. He says the money will come out of the general coffers of a corporation, but the public will not know who is behind it.
On other fronts, Tennessee has a mixed record. The state ranked 40th in the openness of its redistricting process. Last year lawmakers posted information online so the public could participate in the process and invited public comment, hailing the steps as open government. Yet the actual redrawing of maps was conducted in secret.
The State Integrity Investigation also gave lawmakers low scores for meeting secretly to discuss the budget.
Tennessee government did score well on other gauges of transparency:
The state got a score of 90 for its auditing process. The comptroller’s office regularly issues reports on fraud, waste and theft costing taxpayers millions.
The state pension fund got a solid grade for being well-run and transparent.
The state was highly ranked on selecting competent, professional judges for its appellate courts.
The General Assembly’s website got high marks for being user-friendly.
And, a 2008 law says government officials must respond in writing within seven business days of public information requests – and created an Open Records Counsel to help citizens obtain information from sometimes reluctant agencies.
If you’ve got little ones in your life — whether they’re children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren — you know why they’re called rugrats.
Set them down on the rug, and watch ’em go.
They will explore every inch of that floor if you let them, and find nooks and corners in your home you never even knew existed.
Of course, they’ll also pick up just about everything they can find and try to gnaw on it — and it doesn’t matter how well you childproof your home, they will ALWAYS find something you didn’t.
But at least you can grab that old sock they found behind the sofa before they shove it into the mouth.
It’s what you CAN’T see that’s the real problem. And if you’ve ever had an issue with bugs in your home — if you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans waging war against ants, fleas, silverfish or (shudder) cockroaches — there could be something lingering in the nooks and corners of your home that can be devastating to a child’s health.
It’s the insect killer used to wipe those bugs out.
Yes, you know you shouldn’t ever spray it on or near a child. You know it’s toxic.
But what most folks don’t realize is that those nasty chemicals can linger on surfaces long after they’ve been sprayed. And if a little one comes for a visit and starts digging around behind the sofa, he might come out with something worse than an old sock.
He could end up with cancer!
New research finds that insect killers increase the risk of horrific diseases in children when used inside the home, boosting the odds of childhood leukemia by 47 percent cent and childhood lymphomas by 43 percent.
Kids exposed to this junk can also suffer nerve damage and hormonal problems.
There are even immediate dangers to a kid licking a finger that’s been on some flooring that was recently sprayed, including stomach pain, vomiting, respiratory problems and more.
If you’ve got a bug problem, do the little ones in your family a favor and wipe ’em out the old-fashioned way: with a thorough cleaning and fanatically good hygiene.
And if the little pests are still poking their heads out, go online and search “natural bug killers” for a ton of good ideas that won’t harm the kiddos.
A political action committee (PAC) is an organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation by, for example, making and buying campaign ads.
A super PAC, officially known as an “independent-expenditure only committee,” may not make contributions to candidate campaigns or parties, but may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaigns. Unlike traditional PACs, super PACs can raise funds from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups without any legal limit on donation size.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has four super PACs to raise money for his presidential campaign, which raked in a total of $37.8 million as of July 31, 2026 — a significant haul that puts Cruz in the top fundraising tier. The bulk of the money comes from just seven individual donors. Cruz’s four super PACs are:
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to unveil an ambitious tax plan Monday that he says would eliminate income taxes for millions of households, lower the tax rate on all businesses to 15% and change tax treatment of companies’ overseas earnings.
Under the Trump plan, no federal income tax would be levied against individuals earning less than $25,000 and married couples earning less than $50,000. The Trump campaign estimates that would reduce taxes to zero for 31 million households that currently pay at least some income tax. The highest individual income-tax rate would be 25%, compared with the current 39.6% rate.
Many middle-income households would have a lower tax rate under Mr. Trump’s proposal, but because high-income households generally pay income tax at much higher rates, his proposed across-the-board rate cut could have a positive impact on them, too. For example, an analysis of Jeb Bush’s plan-taxing individuals’ incomes at no more than 28%-by the business-backed Tax Foundation found that the biggest percentage winners in after-tax income would be the top 1% of earners.
Mr. Trump’s plan appears designed to help him, as the GOP front-runner, cement his standing as a populist-though that message is complicated by the fact that the billionaire, like other Republican leaders, would eliminate the estate tax.
“My plan will bring sanity, common sense and simplification to our country’s catastrophic tax code,” Mr. Trump said in an interview. “It will create jobs and incentives of all kinds while simultaneously growing the economy.”
But Mr. Trump will face a challenge in convincing skeptics that his aggressive tax cuts can be implemented without adding to the federal deficit.
To pay for the proposed tax benefits, the Trump plan would eliminate or reduce deductions and loopholes to high-income taxpayers, and would curb some deductions and other breaks for middle-class taxpayers by capping the level of individual deductions, a politically dicey proposition. Mr. Trump also would end the “carried interest” tax break, which allows many investment-fund managers to pay lower taxes on much of their compensation.
A significant revenue gain would come from a one-time tax on overseas profits that could encourage U.S. multinational corporations to return an estimated $2.1 trillion in cash now sitting offshore, largely to avoid U.S. taxes. His proposal would impose a mandatory 10% tax on all of that money, even if the money stays overseas, but allow a few years for the tax to be paid. The Trump campaign estimates that many companies would choose to bring their money back home, boosting jobs and investment in the U.S.
Mr. Trump also would impose an immediate tax on overseas earnings of American corporations; currently, such tax payments can be deferred. All told, the campaign says the plan would be revenue neutral-neither raising nor lowering federal revenues-by the third year and then begin adding revenue.
With the tax plan’s release, Mr. Trump is moving to quell criticism that his campaign has been more style and less substance. This tax proposal follows his well-known immigration plan in the summer and one on gun rights last week.
Mr. Trump saves some money and fiscal headaches by skipping some of the big but complicated and costly changes that other candidates have embraced, such as business-expensing breaks and so-called territorial taxation for multinational corporations.
On the individual side, Mr. Trump would consolidate the current seven rates to four, of 0%, 10%, 20% and 25%. Those changes alone would exempt all married couples making $50,000 or less from the income tax, as well as singles making $25,000 or less.
The 10% bracket would apply to incomes from $50,000 to $100,000 for a married couple; the current 10% bracket has a ceiling of $18,450. The new 25% top bracket would apply to married couples’ incomes in excess of $300,000, which currently are subject to rates as high as 39.6%. Mr. Trump also would cut the top capital gains rate to 20%, from the current 23.8%. And he would eliminate the alternative minimum tax.
But the candidate doesn’t propose to end taxation of individuals’ investment income, as some other Republicans propose, nor would he expand the standard deduction, child-credit and other middle-class breaks as some other GOP candidates have suggested.
For businesses, Mr. Trump’s 15% rate is among the lowest that have been proposed so far. Rand Paul has proposed a 14.5% flat-tax rate for all types of income. Marco Rubio, another candidate with a detailed plan, would tax all business income at no more than 25%. Mr. Bush has proposed a 20% top corporate rate. The current top corporate tax rate is 35%, and small business income is subject to rates of as much as 39.6% (although many small businesses pay out a lot of their profits as lower-taxed dividends or capital gains). The campaign argues the rate would be among the lowest among industrialized nations, giving U.S. companies an edge to compete.
The lower corporate rates would provide “a tremendous stimulus for the economy,” the campaign’s plan argues. Mr. Trump would not, however, allow businesses to expense all their new equipment purchases, as some other Republicans do.
The plan proposes to simplify tax filing for many lower- to middle-income households. The plan says that some 42 million households that currently file tax forms to establish that they don’t owe any federal income tax now will be able to file their returns on a single page.
The 31 million households that have been paying some taxes but now won’t have any tax liability can use the same single-page, and keep an average of $1,000 in tax savings, the Trump campaign says. Today, 36% of American households today pay no income taxes, and that number would grow to 50%.
The Trump plan would raise revenues in at least a couple of significant ways. It would limit the value of individual deductions, with middle-class households keeping all or most of their deductions, higher-income taxpayers keeping around half of theirs, and the very wealthy losing a significant chunk of theirs. It also would wipe out many corporate deductions. All taxpayers would keep their current deductions for mortgage-interest on their homes and charitable giving.
The plan also proposes capping the amount of interest payments that businesses can deduct now, a changed phased in over a long period, and would impose a corporate tax on future foreign earnings of American multinationals.
On September 24, 2015, mayors from eighteen U.S. cities signed a letter to President Obama urging him to take in even more refugees than the mere 85,000that the administration intends to accept this year. The letter, while listing only 18 mayors, is in reality apart of a much broader network that consists of over 84 mayors in nearly 100 cities and growing that are working in conjunction with the organization called Cities United For Immigration Action (CUIA).
In this letter written to the President, the mayors not only commend Obama for accepting 10,000 Syrian Refugees, but call for him to accept tens of thousands more. They state that “as the mayors of cities across the country, we see first-hand the myriad ways in which immigrants and refugees make our communities stronger economically, socially and culturally. We will welcome the Syrian families to make homes and new lives in our cities. Indeed, we are writing to say that we stand ready to work with your Administration to do much more and to urge you to increase still further the number of Syrian refugees the United States will accept for resettlement.”
Furthermore, the mayors write as justification for expanding the number of refugees that “our cities have been transformed by the skills and the spirit of those who come to us from around the world. The drive and enterprise of immigrants and refugees have helped build our economies, enliven our arts and culture, and enrich our neighborhoods.” They then conclude the letter by citing Pope Francis in his call for “greater compassion in the face of this ongoing crisis” while noting that they “have taken in refugees, and will make room for thousands more.”
With mayors signing on from states such as Minnesota, California, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Florida, Colorado, and many more the coalition has pledged their support for accepting refugees with little to no input for the concern of American citizens. Yet, this letter from the mayors represents only the latest push from officials and politicians working to undermine the sovereignty of our country through what James Simpson of the Center for Security Policyhas labeled The Red-Green Axis.
“America is being undermined by a tidal wave of immigration,” writes Simpson, noting that “federal agencies collaborate with multinational entities and a universe of liberal organizations to bring in people from all over the world, while so-called ‘Volunteer Agencies‘ (VOLAGs) are remunerated handsomely on taxpayer dollars.” Every year, for instance, the U.S. government allows approximately 1 million immigrants to establish legal permanent residence in the United States. Among them are people from countries unfriendly or outright hostile to the U.S. as an estimated 140,000 emigrate from Muslim countries and an even greater number from communist countries. And these are just the “legal ones”.
Simpson then notes the following:
“An entire category of immigrant is being overlooked. And this group is having a profound impact on the complexion of our society – an impact that is rapidly rising to the level of a national security threat. At last count, approximately 2,500 referrals from Syria had been received in 2014, 7 with 700 actually resettled so far. More will be received in this and subsequent years to help accommodate a significant proportion of the approximately 2.9 million Syrians fleeing civil war.”
So this twit kid was punching this blind kid. Now that is pretty pathetic in anyone’s book. I have to ask does this come from the parents? I’m not rushing to judgement, because I know parents who are great and just have rotten kids. Anyway Cody steps up and BAM, kinda flattens him. This went viral a few days ago, and the original story had Cody (Hero) being suspended for the good deed. Not so. Watch 3 min vid. Or just a minute to see kid get flattened with one shot. I know I’m rotten… :)
The BBC reports that some fragments of the Qur’an found at Birmingham University are among the world’s oldest. But it may be too soon for any definitive statements about the nature of this manuscript.
The parchment of the manuscript has been carbon-dated to sometime between AD 568 and 645. Muhammad lived in the seventh century AD, so this means the parchment dates to within a couple decades of his death. Carbon-dating is an accurate method for material within a few thousand years.
However, there are a number of very important things that the report does not note. The ink has not been carbon-dated, or if it has, this detail is not recorded in the news stories. It is a well-known fact that parchments can be washed and re-used - such re-used manuscripts are called palimpsests. If something regarded as worthless was written on the valuable parchment, it may have been used to write a copy of the Qur’an much later. Understandably, testing the ink itself is a rare practice because it requires the destruction of part of the writing.
The manuscript has not been published in any academic journals, and it is generally considered “bad form” to release a manuscript find to the media before scholars have had a chance to vet it. We have noted this problem in the past with the lead codices and the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,” both of which were quickly discredited by scholars.
Until scholars have had a chance to examine the manuscript and go through the proper channels, the value of this find cannot be assessed. In fact, some Saudi scholars have raised doubts about this manuscript, and say it may be a publicity stunt. They said, “The university should have examined the ink not the hide on which it was written.” Also, the order of the text was not the same as it was in that era. If some Muslims are rejecting the claims that the manuscript is ancient, surely Christians can, too.
The BBC has had a decidedly anti-Christian bias, but for various reasons, this does not apply to Islam. One cannot imagine a first-century New Testament manuscript receiving the glowing coverage that this seventh-century Qur’an fragment got.
Christians have the most well-documented text of all ancient documents-the New Testament. This new Qur’an manuscript does not change that.
While Breitbart News has been reporting for months thatJohn Boehner’s speakership was in jeopardy, the Washington media was stunned on Friday with the historic announcement of Boehner’s resignation.
The anti-leadership sentiment seems to be growing as theWashington Times is now reporting that a top Republican party official, Louisiana GOP Chairman Roger Villere, has called for Senate Majority LeaderSen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) resignation.
The populist, anti-establishment groundswell could spell trouble for the presidential campaign of donor-class darlingSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
—who has twice fearlessly ignored voters and risked his political career to advance the goals of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The populist backlash has been developing for quite some time. Earlier this year, Boehner received more votes against him than in any other speaker’s election since1923. The revolt came shortly after the historic electoral defeat of Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor—the first majority leader to lose his seat in a primary since the position was created in 1899.
Both Boehner and Cantor’s demise were closely tied to a blue-collar voter insurgency connected to trade and immigration—two issues where the Republican leadership has sided with its party’s donors over its base. Cantor, for instance, was largely taken downdue to his supportfor Marco Rubio’s plan to grant amnesty to illegal minors known as DREAMers.
Now that the Republican base has its sights set on Mitch McConnell, it could pose a serious problem for the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, whose two notable accomplishments are closely tied to Mitch McConnell’s agenda—namely co-authoring the Gang of Eight amnesty bill and casting the 60th and deciding vote for Obamatrade.
According to the Washington Post, it was Mitch McConnell who encouraged Rubio to join the Gang of Eight.
The senator from Florida [Rubio] was added to the group after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made clear to Graham and McCain that Rubio’s participation would be critical to winning conservative support… Graham and McCain initially attempted to recruit conservative Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT, but he declined to endorse a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants… [so] McConnell suggested Rubio, who expressed interest.
Indeed, countless reports have confirmed that it was Rubio’s job to launch a “charm offensive” that would sell conservatives on Obama’s immigration agenda.
As The New Yorker’sRyan Lizzareported at the time, “[Sen. Bob] Menendez told me that Rubio’s role was to ‘work over the conservative universe, particularly the conservative opinion-maker universe,’ in order to ‘neutralize them’ and, in some cases, ‘proselytize them.’”
This process was aided and encouraged every step of the way by Mitch McConnell. McConnell created the very circumstances possible for Rubio to take on the role of“salesman” and to make innumerablemisrepresentationsabout his immigration expansion bill—misrepresentations, which to this day, Rubio hasnever retracted.
Although the Republican base overwhelmingly opposed the policies in Rubio’s amnesty bill, Mitch McConnell refused to block the bill from coming up to a vote—a stark contrast from Sen. Harry Reid, who has blocked numerous bills that were Republican priorities, but were opposed by the Democrat voter base.
Although McConnell eventually cast his vote against the Gang of Eight bill, he did so only once it was clear that the bill would easily pass the Senate and after he had done everything that was necessary to ensure its smooth passage.
One of Republican voters’ many frustrations with its leadership is not only that GOP leadership fails to advance conservative priorities, but that they often times engage in elaborately staged Kabuki theatre to ensure that Republican donors’ agenda is enacted—even if it comes at the expense of the economic and physical security of everyday voters.
As Georgetown University professor Eric Gould has documented:
The overall evidence suggests that the manufacturing and immigration trends have hollowed-out the overall demand for middle-skilled workers in all sectors, while increasing the supply of workers in lower skilled jobs. Both phenomena are producing downward pressure on the relative wages of workers at the low end of the income distribution.
Indeed, as Breitbart News has exclusivelyreported, not one Republican leader in the House or Senate is willing to reduce immigration levels. Moreover, aSenate leadership internal messaging document exposed by Breitbart News failed to make any mention of immigration whatsoever. The leadership’s messaging memo instead encouraged Republican Senators to meet with business groups to tout the GOP’s support for Obama’s unpopular globalist trade pacts.
Obamatrade is one of Rubio’s signature accomplishments. Despite casting the 60th critical vote for the passage of the wage-depressing bill, Rubio has yet to provide any evidence that he read the bill prior to authoring an op-ed in support of it, delivering speeches in favor of it, and passing multiple votes to advance it.
While Democrat donors and leaders fight hard to pursue the priorities of their progressive base (such as mass immigration, expanding welfare, etc.), Republican donors and leaders frequently work against the interests of the Republican base.
Some worry that Republican leadership and the donor class seem to be actively working to minimize the social and economic power of the people voting for them—both by refusing to advance legislation supported by the base (such as legislation tostop sanctuary cities) and by pushing through legislation opposed by the base (such as the Rubio-Schumer bill and Obamatrade).
Perhaps the crux of the voters’ frustration with Republican leadership is the palpable anxiety amongst Republican voters that, with each passing year, their ability to control their own affairs, protect their communities, maintain their schools, and provide for their children, is eroding as the people donating to the Republican party grow wealthier and more powerful and promote their globalist agenda.
Only days before Boehner’s resignation announcement, Rubio seemed to defend John Boehner and Mitch McConnell—arguing that Republican voters were expecting too much when they sent their elected officials to Washington to represent them.
“Expectations were raised unnecessarily high,” Rubio said in an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier.
Rubio told Baier, “The idea that you would win the Senate, control the agenda never was true,” he said. “You need a president. It’s one of the main reasons why I decided to run for president.”
Indeed, even though Rubio was able to pass Republican leadership’s immigration agenda through the Senate, the bill went down in flames as a result of mass public opposition. From the Oval Office, Rubio would have a much greater vantage point to enact Mitch McConnell’s agenda and increase the admission of foreign workers, which Republican donors desperately want to lower wages and reduce their cost of labor.
Given the strong desire of Republican voters to remove Mitch McConnell, it remains to be seen whether the voters will be willing to give over control of the Republican party to the young presidential hopeful who has been one of the most ever faithful champions of the McConnell-Boehner agenda.
hosts, none of whom have done any research into the woman’s background and beliefs. Strong debate performances and conservative sound bites don’t tell the full story. If you haven’t read 
County Republican Committee (MCRC) Briefs.
Federation, and NARAL for more information. Women were urged to “think through” their “choices,” but a pro-life perspective was not offered.
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