Obama To Violate Federal Law By Slashing Military Pay Raise, Will Negatively Impact Combat Troops

Via Newsmax:

President Obama has told Congress he will cap next year’s pay raise for U.S. military personnel at 1 percent instead of boosting pay by 1.8 percent as called for by a federal law.

The president’s move will negatively impact American combat troops scheduled to remain in Afghanistan through 2014.

The federal law says military pay raises must be based on the Employment Cost Index compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which ties military raises to private sector pay growth. Under that formula, military personnel should be getting a 1.8 percent pay raise beginning in January 2014, CNS News reported.

But the law also states that the president can inform Congress of an alternative pay adjustment “if because of national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, the president considers the pay adjustment which would otherwise be required by this section in any year to be inappropriate.”

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Permit Denied to 2 Million Bikers to DC on 9.11.13

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Washington DC has DENIED our permit for a no-stop ride through Washington DC. We find this regretful for the residents and businesses of that great city, and humbly offer our apologies. What could have been a one or two hour ride through will now likely be an all day event. We will be obeying all laws. We will be stopping at all stoplights, stop signs, and yielding to all pedestrians.

RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES OF WASHINGTON DC: On behalf of the National “2 Million Bikers to DC” Team, please accept our sincere apologies. We did the right thing and went through the proper channels to secure a no-stop permit to ride through your great city. We wanted to ride an established route, which would have taken us past the Viet Nam Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial, across the bridge into Virginia, and that’s it! We would have been completely out of Washington DC, and your city would have been back to normal.

The National Team fully expected our permit to be rejected, and have already drafted a Plan-B. That Plan-B will be posted a little later today once the final details have been bolted down.

We know that California and Texas riders had kicks stands up yesterday. Many other western states have kickstand up today and throughout the weekend.

RIDERS: You are true, blue Patriots and we salute you for your participation in this event! Many of you have taken time off of work to be here. You have freely given of your time, your funds, and your bikes to ride shoulder to shoulder in this event. You have have left your families and your jobs to be here. Those of us who ride come from different clubs, chapters, and organizations. Some of us ride with family and friends and some ride alone. But on September 11th, we ride as one!! We ride to pay tribute and offer respect to those that lost their lives on that day 12 years ago, and to salute our troops engaged in the War on Terror. Riders!…we are the best of the best in America!! Our love for these people and this country is staggering, and we will make a display of Patriotism and solidarity America won’t soon forget!!

Riders!…we lift you up to the Lord and pray that His hand and divine protection will ride with you all.

Rubber side down, brothers! See you Wednesday morning!!

Benghazi Anniversary: Known Benghazi Liar Susan Rice to Brief Congress on Syria

Do you sometimes feel as if America has fallen into the Twilight Zone?   First, we have a (Less than) Million  Muslim march coming up this Wednesday, September 11.  Second, we have the  United States Senate voting  to aid jihadi terrorists al-Qaeda in Syria on Wednesday.  Finally, we’re  getting the word that known  Benghazi liar and National  Security Adviser Susan Rice will brief Congress on Syria on Wednesday,  September 11, the anniversary of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya that left four  Americans dead.

According to   CNS:

On Monday, Rice will give a speech about Syria to the New America  Foundation, then speak to the Congressional Black Caucus and participate in a  classified briefing that the administration will provide to members of  Congress,  the Associated Press has reported. She will then participate in  another  classified briefing for Congress on Wednesday–which will be the  twelfth  anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.  homeland and the  one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the State  Department and CIA  facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

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Breaking: Britain Sent Poison Gas Chemicals to Syria

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Between 2004 and 2010 two British companies sent sodium flouride to a Syrian firm, the chemical is the main ingredient to make Sarin gas.  These chemicals were possibly the ones used to kill 1,429 people, including 426 children in Damascus.

Daily Mail reported:

British companies sold chemicals to Syria that could have been used to produce the deadly nerve agent that killed 1,400 people, The Mail on Sunday can reveal today.

Between July 2004 and May 2010 the Government issued five export licences to two companies, allowing them to sell Syria sodium fluoride, which is used to make sarin.

The Government last night admitted for the first time that the chemical was delivered to Syria – a clear breach of international protocol on the trade of dangerous substances that has been condemned as ‘grossly irresponsible’.

The sales were made at a time when President Bashar Assad was strongly suspected to be stockpiling the chemical weapons that have caused an international crisis.

The UK firms delivered sodium fluoride to a  Syrian cosmetics company for what they claim were legitimate purposes. But intelligence experts believe President Assad’s regime uses such companies to divert chemicals into its weapons programme.

Thomas Docherty MP, a member of the Commons Arms Export Controls Committee, said: ‘These are very disturbing revelations uncovered by The Mail on Sunday regarding the provision of sodium fluoride to Syria. At no time should we have allowed President Assad’s regime to get its hands on this substance.

‘Previously we thought that while export licences had been granted, no chemicals were actually delivered. Now we know that in the build-up to the Syrian civil war, UK companies – with the backing of our Government – were supplying this potentially lethal substance.

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