Justice Department working on national car-tracking database

Remember when the first red light cameras went up? Like sheep most Americans went along with it and said nothing allowing the government to trample on their liberty. A couple of years ago I read an article claiming the car companies will soon begin installing some sort of tracking device (under the government's purview) on all new cars. Sure, I know some will say...If you have your cell phone they know where you are anyway. But that's not the point! If I'm going to Home Depot to buy kitchen cabinets (my current project) is that any business of the freaking federal government?

  I read the new NSA facility in Utah

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/16160-the-nsa-is-reading-your-emails

  listens to your phone calls and reads your emails in real time as you're typing. This was in the news cycle a few days and quickly dissipated. You would have thought an intrusion of this magnitude would have shook the pillars of our society. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. 

One day you'll report to a government facility to have a micro-chip implanted under your skin. They'll tell you... it's painless and for your own good. Go ahead and laugh.  

But slowly as our liberties are taken away piece by piece, year by year, the sheep in the flock will come to the realization of what the founding fathers warned us about. By then it will be to late. 

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(Reuters)

The Justice Department has acknowledged constructing a database to track the movements of millions of vehicles across the U.S. in real time.

The program, whose existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is primarily overseen by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to combat drug trafficking near the U.S.-Mexico border. However, government emails indicate that the agency has been working to expand the database throughout the United States over the past several years.

A Justice Department spokesman told Fox News that the tracking program is compliant with federal, claiming it "includes protocols that limit who can access the database and all of the license plate information is deleted after 90 days." In 2012, a DEA agent testified before a House subcommittee that the program was inaugurated in December 2008 and information gathered by it was available to federal, state, and local law enforcement organizations.

It is not clear whether the tracking is overseen or approved by any court.

According to the Journal, the DEA program uses high-tech cameras placed on major highways to collect information on vehicle movements, including location and direction. Many of the devices are able to record images of drivers and passengers, some of which are clear enough identify individuals. Documents seen by the Journal also show that the DEA uses information from federal, state, and local license plate readers to burnish their own program.

Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.

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Justice Department working on national car-tracking database

Proving once again he's no fan of Israel

'There will be a price': Obama team reportedly fuming over Netanyahu visit

This comes on the heels of the WH announcing Barry is going to Saudi Arabia following the death of King Abduallah. Barry has never been a fan of Israel and we would have to go all the way back to Carter to find another president who share the same sentiment. Something which has baffled me is how/why Barry was able to garner the Jewish vote in the second go around. 

 I had to laugh when I read Barry's upset about "departure" from protocol. Where was the protocol when he released the Gitmo 5 and declared amnesty?  

In the world in which we live today he couldn’t find anything of interest to discuss with Bibi (aka “chickenshit” in this administration) like Iran building a nuke. Maybe it's because a Jew and a Muslim can’t get along. You really have to wonder about his priorities.

If you know what I mean.

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Presidential pettiness in Obama-Netanyahu-Boehner dustup?

The Obama administration reportedly is fuming over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to address Congress in March regarding the Iranian threat, with one unnamed official telling an Israeli newspaper he will pay "a price" for the snub. 

House Speaker John Boehner invited Netanyahu -- and the Israeli leader accepted – without any involvement from the White House.

In public, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest politely describes this as a "departure" from protocol. He also says the president will not meet with Netanyahu when he visits in early March, but has attributed that decision only to a desire not to influence Israel's upcoming elections.

But in private, Obama's team is livid with the Israeli leader, according to Haaretz.

"We thought we've seen everything," a source identified as a senior American official was quoted as saying. "But Bibi managed to surprise even us. There are things you simply don't do.

"He spat in our face publicly and that's no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price."

The anonymous quote was a throwback to when, last year, Atlantic magazine quoted another unnamed senior administration official calling Netanyahu a "chickenshit."

Administration officials, including Earnest, did not deny the quote at the time, though the White House stressed the criticism did not reflect how the rest of the administration views Netanyahu. 

On Friday, Earnest once again was asked about tensions with the Israeli government. Asked if the decision to speak to Congress was a slap at the Obama administration, he said, "I certainly didn't interpret it that way."

As for the decision for Obama not to meet with his Israeli counterpart, he stood by the earlier explanation.

"This administration goes to great lengths to ensure that we don't give even the appearance of interfering or attempting to influence the outcome" of democratic elections abroad, he said.

Meanwhile, Haaretz also reported that Obama had directly warned Netanyahu to stop urging U.S. lawmakers to back legislation teeing up new sanctions against Iran.

Obama has threatened to veto such a bill, saying it could derail delicate talks over Iran's nuclear program – and Netanyahu's visit to Washington could give him an opportunity to further encourage sanctions legislation.

Haaretz reported that Israel's ambassador already has been urging members of Congress to support the measures. The newspaper reported that Obama told Netanyahu to stop during a Jan. 12 phone call.

On Friday, Earnest acknowledged that Obama and Netanyahu have a "fundamental disagreement" about the diplomatic talks with Iran.

"He doesn't share [the administration's] view," he said. But Earnest also said the "differences of opinion" do not undermine America's commitment to Israel's security.

As Obama officials often do, he described that commitment as "unshakable."

Proving once again he's no fan of Israel

How PRESIDENTIAL is this?

Just because Barry's a moron you would have thought at least one of his many advisors would have said. Mr President... I don't think this is a very good idea.

Seriously, I don't care if you're a conservative or a liberal. 

Have you EVER witnessed any other president stoop to this level?   

This is beyond stupid!

Video 101

Oh...and this is his interviewer GloZell

Video 102

He could find the time for an interview with this imbecile who eats breakfast out of a bathtub and wears green lipstick. 

But it was asking too much of him to stand in solidarity with the world leaders, or at the very least send a representative, to France.

I guess he has his reasons.

How PRESIDENTIAL is this?

Bill always did have an eye for the ladies...

And the way she's holding that microphone sure brought back fond memories.

Bill always did have an eye for the ladies...

In London, Bobby Jindal slams prospect of Muslim 'no-go zones'

They call this assimilation? A country within a country? I was under the impression when you migrate to a country you adopt the rules and laws of said country. Not create your own. England and France both have a very liberal migration policy which has come back to bite them on the ass. The Muslim strategy from the very beginning was colonization NOT assimilation. I wonder how they feel now as Muslims are literally seizing their country. 

When will they finally get the balls, drop the PC, and eradicate this vermin? The world as a whole has the might and the power to annihilate Islam. Reverse the situation and I wouldn't be writing this. 

The only question left is do we have the will?

Picture via 

http://moonbattery.com/?p=54357

Talk about a clash of cultures!

Does anyone really expect this is going end well?

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday decried the prospect of so-called "no-go zones," in which countries supposedly give up local control of certain areas to autonomous Muslim immigrants, days after Fox News issued several corrections in the wake of a guest's assertion that such areas exist in places like Britain and France.

In an address to the Henry Jackson Society in London, Mr. Jindal said that "in the west, non-assimilationist Muslims establish enclaves and carry out as much of Shariah law as they can without regard for the laws of the democratic countries which provided them a new home," according to prepared remarks.

"It is startling to think that any country would allow, even unofficially, for a so called 'no-go zone,'" Mr. Jindal said in the remarks. "The idea that a free country would allow for specific areas of its country to operate in an autonomous way that is not free and is in direct opposition to its laws is hard to fathom."

Asked later on CNN whether he was backing away about his comments on the existence of such areas, Mr. Jindal said, "not at all."

"And I'm also making a bigger and maybe even more controversial point: that radical Islam is a grave threat, that we need Muslim leaders to denounce the individuals, not just the acts of violence, and also that it is absolutely correct to insist on assimilation," said Mr. Jindal, whose parents came to the U.S. from India when his mother was pregnant with him.

Western societies have a right to "insist that people coming into our society, into our country adopt our values, adopt our language and understand they're coming to become" Americans or Britons, he said, going on to note that such assimilation to Western norms and integration in them "is so important if we want to prevent those 'lone wolfs' and to protect our society against this threat."

The remarks from the possible 2016 GOP presidential contender came several days after Fox News issued several corrections following comments from terror analyst Steve Emerson in which Mr. Emerson asserted that such areas exist in countries like France and Britain.

Mr. Emerson went on to say that there are cities, like Birmingham in the English Midlands, that are "totally Muslim, where non-Muslims simply just don't go in," and parts of London where "Muslim religious police" beat and wound "anyone who doesn't dress according to religious Muslim attire."

"To be clear," Fox host Julie Banderas said Saturday, "there is no formal designation" of these zones in either Britain or France and "no credible information to support the assertion there are specific areas in these countries that exclude individuals based solely on their religion."

(Just to be clear I read a report recently claiming there are places in London and surrounding areas where law enforcement refuses to go.)

Speaking to CNN Monday, Mr. Jindal cited a local example reported by the Daily Mail and said the bigger point is that "radical Islamists hate our values, threaten our way of life."

"They don't appreciate, they don't condone, they don't allow freedom of expression, self-determination," he said. "Anybody that thinks you should be killed for drawing a cartoon obviously is a terrorist, is somebody … we need to get rid of in our societies."

He went on to say that, regardless of whether no-go zones are formally acknowledged by the state, they can still become informally understood by the society.

"The fact that you've got people that … in some cases want to set apart their own enclaves and continue to hold onto their own values — I think that's dangerous … It's not a surprise to folks here that there absolutely are areas where people are less likely to go, there are areas where women feel like they have to wear veils."

In London, Bobby Jindal slams prospect of Muslim 'no-go zones'