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  1. New ISIS Military Commander Was Trained by State Department as Recently as 2014

    Gulmurod Khalimov, the new ISIS military commander whom the U.S. just days ago announced a $3 million bounty for, was trained by the State Department in an anti-terror program as recently as 2014 while serving in the security service of Tajikistan.

    He replaces former ISIS commander Tarkhan Batirashvili, aka Umar al-Shishani, who was also trained by the United States as part of the Georgian army and who ISIS claimed was killed fighting in Iraq this past July.

    The State Department confirmed Khalimov's U.S.-provided training to CNN in May 2015:

    A State Department official said Khalimov was trained in crisis response, tactical management of special events, tactical leadership training and related issues.

    Unironically, the State Department spokeswoman said that Khalimov had been appropriately vetted:

    "All appropriate Leahy vetting was undertaken in advance of this training," said spokeswoman Jhunjhunwala.

  2. Poll: Trump Leads Clinton Among Military and Veteran Voters

    Sep 7 2016,

    Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 19 points — 55 percent to 36 percent — among voters who are currently serving or have previously served in the U.S. military, according to the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-trump-leads-clinton-among-military-veteran-voters-n643501?cid=sm_tw

  3. Chaffetz: Clinton bought used Blackberrys on eBay

    Reckless users and antiquated technology represent the federal government's most critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities, House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on Wednesday, a problem he said was exemplified by Hillary Clinton's practice of buying Blackberry devices from eBay.

    "We have a huge problem with personnel," Chaffetz said at a forum in Washington, D.C. "I don't want to get into this too much, but part of what was happening with the secretary of state was, she was acquiring technology that wasn't even supported by Blackberry. You couldn't buy it. She was actually buying this stuff off of eBay because somebody was selling their old machine. That's what she liked, so she did. It creates this huge vulnerability. And it's unnecessary

    "I think the administration's sending all the wrong signals," Chaffetz added. "When you take all this classified information at the State Department, and you take four years of federal records, and you put them in a nonsecure location, you give 10 people or so access to all this information who don't have the proper security clearance, what do you think is going to happen?"

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2601154/

  4. Car packed with explosive gas cylinders and left near Paris's Notre Dame 'belonged to radicalised French woman who wanted to join ISIS'

    • Seven gas cylinders found in car close to Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
    • The vehicle was found with its hazard lights on last Saturday night
    • Car's owner, now in custody, is on watchlist of suspected religious radicals

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3777632/Car-gas-cylinders-near-Paris-cathedral-Saturday-police.html#ixzz4JaYTTsps

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  5. Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in 'most severe ever' rationing in the NHS

    Obese people will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale.

    Hospital leaders in North Yorkshire said that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above – as well as smokers – will be barred from most surgery for up to a year amid increasingly desperate measures to plug a funding black hole. The restrictions will apply to standard hip and knee operations.

    The decision, described by the Royal College of Surgeons as the “most severe the modern NHS has ever seen”, led to warnings that other trusts will soon be forced to follow suit and rationing will become the norm if the current funding crisis continues.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/obese-patients-and-smokers-banned-from-all-routine-operations-by/

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  6. Clinton’s experience with classified data contradicts ‘unsophisticated’ excuse

    Hillary Clinton wasn’t a newcomer to secret documents when she reached the State Department.

    She said she handled classified information as first lady and had regular access to secret documents as a senator, particularly during her six years on the Armed Services Committee — all of which makes Mrs. Clinton’s bungled treatment of the most sensitive information while secretary of state difficult to understand.

    “She doesn’t come into this as your average person. She comes in as someone who served on the Armed Services Committee, who has been privy to classified information in the past before she became secretary of state, and, by the way, she was a former first lady,” said Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who sits on the same committee, and who said she found Mrs. Clinton’s explanation to be incredible.

    Those who have been through classified briefings on Capitol Hill, however, said she should have known better based on that experience alone.

    Former Sen. Jim Talent, who served with Mrs. Clinton on the Armed Services Committee for six years beginning in 2003, said when they encountered classified information or had briefings, they had to go into a locked room with staffers monitoring the door. They weren’t allowed electronics, and couldn’t even take their own handwritten notes from the room.

    “It’s impossible to go through that experience without being aware that there are strict protocols,” he said.

    He said the documents they encountered at the committee would typically be marked classified, and said it was not credible to think she was unaware of those designations.

    “Of course you would be told what the markings meant. I can’t imagine anybody being under that misimpression. And no staff would send you anything over an insecure email that was classified, unless they’ve been told to do it or they understood they were supposed to do it,” he said.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/6/hillary-clintons-experience-handling-classified-da/

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  7. Washington (CNN)Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton start the race to November 8 on essentially even ground, with Trump edging Clinton by a scant two points among likely voters, and the contest sparking sharp divisions along demographic lines in a new CNN/ORC Poll.



    Trump tops Clinton 45% to 43% in the new survey, with Libertarian Gary Johnson standing at 7% among likely voters in this poll and the Green Party's Jill Stein at just 2%


    The new poll finds the two major party candidates provoke large gaps by gender, age, race, education and partisanship. Among those likely to turn out in the fall, both candidates have secured about the same share of their own partisans (92% of Democrats back Clinton, 90% of Republicans are behind Trump) but independents give Trump an edge, 49% say they'd vote for him while just 29% of independent voters back Clinton. Another 16% back Johnson, 6% Stein.



  8. On President Obama’s final trip to Asia, his impending lame-duck status is showing.

    Mr. Obama, who arrived in Laos late Monday night to become the first U.S. president ever to visit the Southeast Asian country, is encountering more than his usual share of friction and confrontation on his 10th trip to the region.

    It started with his arrival at the airport in China, where Chinese officials failed to provide a portable staircase for Mr. Obama to disembark from the upper door of Air Force One with the typical grandiose visibility befitting a visiting head of state. Instead, the president emerged from a smaller staircase in the belly of the aircraft, and many saw it as a deliberate sign of disrespect by the Chinese.

    In Laos Mr. Obama was to hold his first meeting with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, but the White House canceled it after the Philippine leader called Mr. Obama a “son of a

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/5/obama-disrespected-by-china-rodrigo-duterte-on-fin/

  9. 9/11 memorial stirs debate over 'Islamic terrorists'

    OWEGO, NY (KTRK) --

    Two words included on a memorial to victims of the 9-11 terror attacks are now stirring a major debate in New York.

    A group is taking issue with the words "Islamic terrorists" as they appear on the monument in Owego.

    Donald Castellucci, town supervisor for the city of Owego, says he doesn't see it that way.

    "I don't live in a politically-correct worldm" Castellucci says. "I live in a historical fact world and cross terrorism, whether it's American homegrown, Christianity, Islamic, you call it what it is."

    Castellucci also says the town "doesn't whitewash things," and think the monument is accurate in its description of those responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington.

    http://abc13.com/news/9-11-memorial-stirs-debate-over-islamic-terrorists/1493971/

  10. Effects of Environmental Regulations on the Dairy Industry in California

    http://gradworks.umi.com/36/02/3602270.html

    This dissertation is a study of the economics of the environmental regulation of agricultural and food production, with a focus on the dairy industry in California. In this dissertation, I examine two sets of environmental regulations related to the dairy industry in California: the greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade program adopted by the California Air Resources Board in 2011, and the air quality rule on confined animal facilities introduced in the San Joaquin Valley in 2006.

    Rule 4570 increased hired labor costs by $0.23 per cwt of milk and increased operating costs by $0.25 per cwt of milk. These estimated effects of the amended Rule are equivalent to a 16% and a 10% increase in hired labor costs and operating costs for dairy farms covered by the Rule. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

    More rules and regulations

    Liberals want to drive ag out of California ....

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