Benghazi Gate: Transcript of the House Hearing May 8, 2013

Benghazi Gate: Transcript of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Hearing on May 8, 2013

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Rep. Darrell Issa opened the hearing noting the many ways in which the Obama administration has stonewalled Benghazi investigations, and how the Democratic minority in the House has aided the stonewalling.

Europe Day 5: Preppers Against Central Seed Corporatism

Activist Post: All About The New EU Seed Law activistpost.com/2013/05/all-ab…
— Joshua Roberts (@Joshua_Roberts_) May 7, 2013

The EU is not just hard at work for you with regard to the persecution of evil tax skeptics (part 1), the founding of institutions you know nothing about (part 2), the recycling of your tax euros into market hostile subsidies (part 3), and brainwashing you on your own dime (part 4).

Europe Day 4: The Well Oiled Propaganda Machine

The EU has commissioned a report (High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism (PDF), declaring that media oversight needs to be stept up and EU officials must be given control of national media watch dogs. 

Europa Day 3: Recycling Your Tax Euros into Perverse Subsidies

Good news: the world is not running out of oil. Bad news: Europe is. Unsurprising news: it's the eurocrats' fault fb.me/1FTdLA2Mf
— The Commentator (@TheCommentator) May 8, 2013

The battle for EU carbon subsidies has been joined. Dutch energy producer Delta wants to substitute its coal fired power plant for wood combustion and means to get 1 billion euros for it from the EU's giant SDE+ fund totalling 3 billion euros.  But that's not all! True believers in the religion of environmentalism want more.

Europe Day 2: The EU's Covert Operations

The EU Naval Force is flying the EU flag off the Horn of Africa flickr.com/photos/eunavfo…, youtu.be/YJUJshmp4IM. @eu_eeas #EUNAVFOR
— EUNAVFOR (@EUNAVFOR) May 9, 2013

• Bet you didn't know the EU has a Navy? @EUNAVFOR
• Bet you didn't know the EU has a paramilitary police force? WWW.EUROGENDFOR.ORG
• Bet you didn't know the EU has a Foreign Service? @EU_EEAS (commie Ashton's outfit)

On Europe Day (since the EU has now appropriated the entire continent) this and much more you didn't know about the EU!

By all means snitch if you know of any other of the EU's lesser known institutions @pomoland

Earlier
- Europe Day 1: Barroso, Net Closing on Free European Citizen
- Europe Day 2: The EU's Covert Operations
- Europe Day 3: Recycling Your Tax Euros into Perverse Subsidies
- Europe Day 4: The Well Oiled Propaganda Machine
- Europe Day 5: Preppers Against Central Seed Corporatism

Europe Day 1: Barroso, Net Closing On Free European Citizen

Tax: @barrosoeu calls for agreement on automatic exchange of information on 'all forms of income' at 22 May summit europa.eu/rapid/press-re…
— Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) May 8, 2013

Telegraph: Federal Europe will be 'a reality in a few years', says Jose Manuel Barroso

A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like "political science fiction" today but will soon become reality for all European Union countries whether inside or outside the euro, Jose Manuel Barroso has said.

Read the letter >>>

Also in this series

- Europe Day 1: Barroso, Net Closing on Free European Citizen

- Europe Day 2: The EU's Covert Operations

- Europe Day 3: Recycling Your Tax Euros into Perverse Subsidies

- Europe Day 4: The Well Oiled Propaganda Machine

- Europe Day 5: Preppers Against Central Seed Corporatism

LIVE STREAM OF THE BENGHAZI HEARINGS

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A former U.S. diplomat in Libya who says more could have been done to protect Americans at the U.S. mission in Benghazi when it was attacked last September will be a featured witness on Wednesday during a congressional hearing.

Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Libya at the time of the attack, will be one of three whistleblowers at the hearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.

The other two witnesses are Mark Thompson, the acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism at the State Department, and Eric Nordstrom, a former regional security officer in Libya.

Hicks has questioned why the U.S. military did not send a plane into Libyan airspace as a show of force and why four American special operations soldiers were not permitted to go to Benghazi.

Four Americans including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens were killed on September 11, 2012, in the attack on a lightly defended U.S. diplomatic mission and a more fortified CIA compound in the eastern Libyan city. 

Yaron Brook Speaking Tonight in Toronto About Ethics of Capitalism

BREAKING: Blasts in Tehran, Syria Drops off Internet

Residents in WESTERN Tehran say they have heard 3 explosions from an area where #Iran mainaitns its missile research and depots.
— Kasra Naji (@BBCKasraNaji) May 7, 2013

Syria drops off Internet, reasons unclear f24.my/10nMuE5
— FRANCE 24 (@FRANCE24) May 7, 2013

Review: The End is Near and It's Going To Be Awesome!

In his new book, The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure, Kevin D. Williamson examines the crisis of the modern welfare state and demonstrates that the crucial political failures of our time are the direct result of government monopolies. Entitlement programs have stifled innovation and efficiency in attempts to deliver failed promises.

There is, however, a light at the end of the tunnel, as millions of people reject the status quo and turn to their own ingenuity to create successful market-derived alternatives to these government monopolies.