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ISRA Thursday Bulletin – January 5, 2017

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ISRA Thursday Bulletin – January 5, 2017

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE
On January 9, 2017, the Illinois Legislature will go into session.  On Monday, the 99th General Assembly will finish unfinished business from the last two years.  While all of the gun bills, both good and bad, are still under consideration, the only one that might be called will be SB433, the suppressor bill.  Then, at noon on Wednesday, January 11, the 100th General Assembly will be seated.  There are a lot of changes among the representatives and senators.  It will take a while to figure it all out.  The real action will start in February.
It is going to be interesting to see what it’s going to be like nationally, under President-Elect Donald Trump.  In Illinois, we are not going to see any improvement unless it comes from Washington D.C.  For us, it will be the battle, as usual.  Many predicted that firearm sales would fall if Donald Trump was elected.  I have checked with a couple of firearm dealers and firearm sales have not slowed down.  I admit this is not a very good sample.
Of course, part of this continuation of sales comes from reduced prices for firearms and ammunition.  The optimistic future, increased availability of products and lower costs may increase the number of visits to the ranges, and more participation in shooting leagues and competitions.
The stock markets are looking at certain gun companies as being very good investments.  The top three of these include Smith & Wesson, Sturm Ruger and the Vista Outdoor Group (Savage Arms, Blackhawk and Bushnell).  Notably, Savage Arms is introducing a new Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR).  The competition among the firearm companies keeps improving every product, I have to say.  Colt is coming out with a new updated 1911, with a new double spring recoil system that looks interesting.
All gun owners need to be aware that Michael Bloomberg is pushing ahead full tilt with his anti-gun campaign.  It is my understanding that in some states he had established offices before the General Election, and he never closed them.  Those offices are still open, and undoubtedly, they are moving their anti-gun attacks to the state and local levels.  Please understand that Michael Bloomberg has billions of discretionary income to put into the campaign against law abiding gun owners.  This fight is not over; it is just beginning.
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Support the Cruz, DeSantis term limits push

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Demand your lawmakers’ support for the Cruz, DeSantis term limits push

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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to use his time in the White House to “drain the swamp” in Washington D.C. Only time will tell if he can. But if Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla) get their way, Trump’s going to have a great deal of reform help.
This week, Cruz and DeSantis officially introduced a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Congress.
“The American people resoundingly agreed on Election Day, and President-elect Donald Trump has committed to putting government back to work for the American people,” Cruz said in a statement on Tuesday. “It is well past time to put an end to the cronyism and deceit that has transformed Washington into a graveyard of good intentions.”
The proposal would limit members of the Senate to two six-year terms and House lawmakers to three two-year terms.
The measure, which DeSantis calls a “first step” to true government reform, has the backing of Republican Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), Deb Fischer (Neb.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and David Perdue (Ga.).
Unfortunately, there is currently no indication that the GOP leadership controlling Congress has any interest in advancing the effort.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made his position on the issue clear last year when he told reporters: “We have term limits — they’re called elections.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), meanwhile, hasn’t indicated whether he believes the proposal will come up for a vote.
If the proposal were able to clear both chambers of Congress, it would also need to be ratified by three-fourths of the nation’s state legislatures before becoming law.
Term limits have overwhelming support for term limits among U.S. voters. Still, when Sen Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) introduced a term limit proposal in 2012, it was defeated by an abysmal margin of 24-75 in the Senate.

Illinois' current legislative rules stack the deck in favor of the House speaker and the Democratic majority.

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Democrats control the Illinois General Assembly and can easily pass their party’s legislation through the House and Senate – and can block any spending or economic reform Gov. Bruce Rauner proposes.
But the majority party holds another source of power that gives its leaders more influence over the legislative process and, ultimately, Illinoisans’ daily lives.
That power comes from the legislative rules that Illinois House of Representatives Speaker Mike Madigan uses on an everyday basis to advance his agenda in Springfield.
New research from the Illinois Policy Institute provides an analysis of legislative rules in all 50 states, and shows that Illinois gives more power to its House speaker than virtually every other state in the nation.
Four of Illinois’ current legislative rules stack the deck in favor of the House speaker and the Democratic majority.

  1. Under current legislative rules, Madigan has the power to appoint – and remove – Democratic committee chairs, and thereby bestow and take away the $10,000 stipends that accompany the positions.
    • Illinois is 1 of only 18 legislative chambers that compensate leaders in every standing committee in the legislature.
  • By comparison, more than two-thirds of state legislative chambers provide no additional compensation to committee chairs.
  1. Madigan can substitute members of legislative committees – thereby getting the votes he wants while protecting committee members from taking votes that are unpopular in their districts.
    • The Illinois House is 1 of 29 legislative chambers with rules that explicitly authorize the substitution of committee members.
  • Seventy of 99 state legislative chambers have no explicit rule authorizing temporary substitution of committee members, and 33 state legislative chambers prohibit them entirely or do not make use of substitutions in practice.
  1. Madigan has the sole power to dictate when a bill will be called for a vote.
    • Illinois is 1 of only 3 states with an explicit rule authorizing the House speaker to skip from bill to bill with no advance notice.
  • At least 55 state legislative chambers have confirmed that bills are called in a predetermined order.
  1. Madigan can kill bills before they have a chance to be heard, as the Rules Committee – chaired by a longtime Madigan ally – determines whether a bill will be vetted or sit in Rules Committee until it dies.
    • Illinois is 1 of only 9 states that require bills to go to a rules committee before being vetted by a substantive committee.
    • By comparison, 41 states do not require bills to go to a rules committee before being sent to substantive committees.
  • Illinois is the only state that requires a supermajority to sponsor a bill in order to force it out of Rules Committee.

Compared with other states in the country, Illinois’ House speaker has unprecedented power to control Illinois’ legislative and political agendas – to the detriment of ordinary Illinoisans.

Ted Dabrowski
Vice President of Policy

Residents say new industrial park would 'destroy' Lockport

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Residents say new industrial park would ‘destroy’ Lockport

John Basile walked along his six-acre site in Lockport, and greeted his animals by name.
There’s Khan, the tiger; Charlie, the mountain lion, and romping in a nearby enclosure were two of his nine wolves – JJ and Sitka, British Columbian timber wolves.

They are among the 20 animals that comprise Big Run Wolf Ranch at the end of Farrell Road near 148th Street, where 40,000 visitors come every year to get an up close lesson in the lives of these wild, yet tamed animals.
But scenery in the area might be in for changes.

The animal enclosures now abut a cornfield that may become the site of five industrial warehouses.
When Basile first came to the site 30 years ago, it was “very secluded.”
Homes have since sprouted up next to his land, but if the proposed industrial park is approved by the Lockport City Council, it “could be the end of Big Run Wolf Ranch,” he said.
Basile, a former diesel mechanic, said the fuel from trucks visiting the planned site contains chemicals that create air pollution that could be harmful to creatures.
Prologis, a global developer of industrial real estate, proposes to build five warehouses, totaling 2 million square feet on 206 acres between Archer Avenue and I-355, south of 143rd Street and north of 151st on land owned by Tom Small, of Lockport Investments LLC.
Basile is one of more than 2,100 people who have signed an online petition opposing the proposed industrial development in Lockport, saying it will “destroy” the city.

Online comments from petitioners called the project a “travesty,” an “eyesore,” and a “bad idea.”
“I believe this Industrial Park will affect many lives,” wrote one petitioner. “Big Run Wolf Ranch will have to relocate because the pollution alone would harm many of these endangered species. This is being built in the middle of residential areas. Do you really know the affect of pollution on any living being? This is a terrible idea.”
“This is too close to homes, and schools, and the wolf ranch. Don’t give into corporate greed, keep our town beautiful,” penned another.
The Lockport Plan Commission first reviewed the proposal in November and will conduct another public meeting 7 p.m. Jan. 10 in City Hall to further discuss the plan.
Mike Bonomo, president of the Creekside Estates Homeowners Association, a 10-year-old residential subdivision off 151st Street, fears the planned development will depreciate property values, disrupt the roads with truck traffic, and generate no benefits for the citizens of Lockport.
“No one will spend $500,000 for a home to see a warehouse in their backyard,” he said.

The plan has created “a lot of animosity,” and could become a “huge issue” in the municipal election in April, when Mayor Steve Streit is up for re-election, he said.
The site is surrounded by residential property on three sides. But Bonomo questioned how much city officials care about the wishes of residents north of the development — in unincorporated Lockport Heights who can’t vote in city elections.
According to city documents, the property was initially annexed and zoned in 2001. Land immediately east of Archer is currently zoned for general office use while most of the land is zoned for limited manufacturing.
City Administrator Ben Benson said the property has been designated for industrial uses long before homes were built there, but he did not know why single family homes were allowed to be built adjacent to an industrial district, saying that the homes were approved under a previous administration.
But Bonomo said a key parcel in the middle of the 200 acres was annexed and rezoned in 2014, which paved the way for this new industrial park.
Benson acknowledged that there was the same “public outcry” then as now.
The “Don’t Destroy Lockport” webpage claims the project will create “hundreds” of semi-trucks and more than 1,000 cars daily that will generate air and noise pollution, and clog roads.
Benson said he cannot confirm those figures because the tenants are still unknown.
The city has a list of 36 businesses that are prohibited here, including freight, rail and intermodal terminals, recycling facilities, hazardous material storage or disposal, incinerators, asphalt plants, junk/salvage yards, sexually oriented businesses and auto body shops.

The project most likely will feature similar buildings and occupants as the “very successful” Heritage Crossings business park on the east side of 355, Benson said.
He said city officials have been working with Prologis to minimize any impact on residents. The company agreed to increase the distance between the warehouses and the homes, and add a 16-foot landscaped berm with a cedar fence along the southern edge, and an eight-foot berm with a fence on the north, to separate the Lockport Heights homes from the proposed new roadway that will run east-west through the development from 143rd to Archer Avenue.
The city also has designated one of its police officers to be a full time truck enforcement officer, beginning in January, to keep trucks off residential streets.
Prologis also agreed to reduce the size of the one warehouse that lies directly north of Big Run Wolf Ranch and Creekside Estates.
Benson disagreed that the diesel trucks will mean the end of the wolf ranch, noting that other zoos have thrived in urban settings.
The village’s website, which features the details of the Prologis plan, noted that when Big Run Wolf Ranch was built, the northern border of its property was already zoned Industrial. Prior to 2006, the ranch encroached on that adjacent land by constructing animal enclosures directly on the industrial zoned lands. In 2006, the current owner of the industrial parcel sold about an acre to the ranch.
Big Run Wolf Ranch is seen as an “asset” to the community and, Benson said, the proposed industrial development will have a “great” economic impact on the city by creating jobs, and generating daytime traffic that will spur more commercial growth.
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Property Taxes By Taxing District in Homer Township

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By Steve Balich  January 2016
Last March we the people got enough signatures to put a Referendum on the Ballot telling local Boards wholly or partially within Homer Township we the taxpayers want local taxing bodies to ask the people with a referendum before raising our property taxes.  The people of Homer Township by 87% passed this advisory Referendum. I promised I would put some consequence to it by publicizing the names of members of the Boards that defied the will of the people by voting to raise your Property Taxes.
Property owners are fed up with yearly increases in Property Tax which results in their home value decreasing. Yearly property tax increases are unsustainable. There are many especially those on fixed incomes like seniors who are being forced out of their homes because they can no longer afford the taxes. There are numerous families where parents must have part time jobs to meet family expenses. We are all concerned about our children. We all understand they need guidance from their parents, yet in order to cover expenses, parents have less quality time for their children.  The disposable income for every family is going down especially with healthcare increases. The people said loud and clear to local Boards “Stop Raising our taxes”.
The various taxing Districts voted on the Levy (property tax) recently. The message to local Boards Last March approved with 87% of the vote that local taxing districts go to referendum before raising their property tax.  Sounds very clear, but like anything people on these Boards, (School, Library, Fire, Township, Road Dist.) point out that keeping the Tax Rate the same or lower results in paying the same or less property tax depending on the assessed value. Keeping the rate the same or less allows the Tax District to get the tax money from new homes and businesses. This opinion implies that the extra money is needed to pay for new services.
While for the most part keeping the tax rate the same or less keeps the property tax the same or slightly lower. (Depending on assessed value). I’m of the opinion that the total dollars asked in the Levy need to either stay the same or be less. This means property taxes will go down (Depending on assessed value). It also forces government to cut or keep things the same. I don’t like increasing the size of government unless it is absolutely necessary. A referendum asking the people for more money Like N.W. Homer Fire District did (passed costing apx. $30 per $100,000 in assed evaluation), is the appropriate method since the people of the District are the ones footing the bill.
I am pleased when the rate stays the same or goes down. I do however prefer the Dollars to go down. I am upset when the rate increases, which means a definite tax increase (Depending on assessed value).
North West Homer Fire District Board: Joe Malacina, Vicki Frome, and Jim Kuzma voted to ask the people with a Referendum which passed to increase the property tax.
Will County: Local Board members from District 7, Steve Balich and Mike Fricilone voted to decrease property tax as did the rest of the Board.
Homer Glen:  Thank you to this Current Board: Mayor George Yukich, Mike Costa, Carlo Caprio, Brian Burian, Christina Neitzke-Troike, Sharon Sweas, Beth Rodgers and all past Boards. Homer Glen has no property tax.
City of Lockport:  Steven Streit, Mayor, Jim Petrakos, 1st Ward, Kris Capadona, 1st Ward, JR Gillogly, 2nd Ward, Brian Smith, 2nd Ward, Jason VanderMeer, 3rd Ward, Darren Deskin, 3rd Ward, Joanne Bartelsen, 4th Ward, Robert Perretta, 4th Ward, voted to decrease your property taxes
School District 92: Board Members  Gorecki, Houlihan, Adamczyk, Bilotta and Messina voted to keep the property tax rate the same meaning no increase in property tax. Absent from the meeting where Board Members Sweis and Kropf. School District 92 will not be raising your property taxes
Homer Library: President Edward O’Brien, Vice president Jane Klunk, Secretary Phyllis Levine, Treasurer Kitty Mitchell, Board members Brian Smith, Kevin Owens, Cindy Bocheneck voted to keep the property tax rate the same. Homer Library District will not be raising Your Property Taxes.
 
Homer Township: Supervisor Meyers, Trustees Fijan, Ed Kallas, John Kruczyk voted yes to reduce the property tax rate;
Trustee Vicki Bozen voted no because she felt the rate and actual dollars should have been lower reducing taxes even more.
 
 
Homer Township Road District: Commissioner Mike Devivo Presented a property tax increase of just under 2 ½ percent. It was certified by the Homer Township Board with one no vote by Trustee Vicki Bozen. Voting Yes to the property tax increase were Supervisor Pam Meyers, Trustee John Kruczak, Trustee Ed Kalas, and Trustee Fijan,                                                                                                                                      Homer Township Road District will increase your property tax.
 
 
Homer Township Fire District: Trustee Mark Lobes, Trustee Paul Anderson voted to raise your property Taxes. Trustee Fijan was absent for the vote.
Homer Township Fire District will increase your property tax.
 
High School District 205: President John Lukasik,  Vice President Ann Lopez-Caneva, Secretary Della M. Travis, Members Lisa Bickus, Lou Ann Johnson, Michael Lewandowski, Mike Petty, voted to increase your property taxes.
Lockport H.S. 205 will increase your property tax.
 
School district 33C: Board members: Barb Wilson, President, Angela Adolf, Vice President, Amy Blank, Secretary, Deb Martin, Member, Ed Campins, Member, Elizabeth Hitzeman, Member, Russ Petrizzo, Member, voted to raise your property tax.
Homer School District 33C will increase your property tax.
 
 

EU uses terror threat to push more gun control

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EU uses terror threat to push more gun control

 

magazine and bulletsEuropean Union officials are working to make already tough European gun laws more draconian by citing the threat of terror to limit legal gun ownership. As we previously reported, U.S. officials are likely in the early stages of similar efforts.
The European Commission said EU member nations have reached a preliminary agreement to “allow better tracking of legally held firearms thus reducing the risk of diversion into illegal markets.”
The agreement, according to EU officials, bans automatic firearms which have been converted to semi-automatic, and increases regulation on firearms that have been deactivated. In addition, the move increases scrutiny of online firearm sales and makes it easier for member states to share information on firearm owners.
The European Commission began working on more gun control proposals after the deadly attacks in Paris last year which left 130 people dead.
Members of the group had originally sought to completely ban the ownership of all of AR-15 and AK-47 semi-automatic rifles and magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds across the whole European Union.
“The Commission had proposed a greater level of ambition with a complete ban of the most dangerous semi-automatic firearms, including all semi-automatic firearms of the AK47 or AR15 families and a ban of assault weapons for private collectors,” officials said in a statement. “The Commission also regrets that the magazine size was not limited to 10 rounds for all semi-automatic firearms.”
The idea was quashed by pressure from EU gun manufacturers as well as countries like Finland, whose mandatory military service requires the ownership of weapons that would have been banned by the rules.
After the attacks in Paris last year, European leaders lamented that France’s harsh gun laws were thwarted by less stringent firearm regulations in other parts of Europe and the Unions’ open borders policies.
That’s similar to the argument officials in U.S. cities with high rates of firearm crime despite strict gun laws have been using for years.
Similarly, the idea that legal gun ownership makes extremist attacks more likely is popular with government officials on both sides of the Atlantic.
Former NSA head Michael Hayden suggested recently that the U.S. government’s spying capabilities are inadequate to prevent terror attacks, so increased gun control should be a next step in the War on Terror.
Hayden suggested that U.S. officials should look at banning some of the most powerful firearms currently legal in the U.S. to make terrorists “less efficient.”
The Obama administration, meanwhile, is attempting last ditch efforts to ensure U.S. participation in the UN Arms Trade Treaty, which could bring some elements of EU style gun control to the nation.
Altogether, what this suggests is that the international community’s leaders are looking to use terrorism to clamp down on firearm ownership in the same way the threat of terror was used to increase surveillance activity throughout the world in recent decades.

Downplay a real epidemic: the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

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Medical establishment uses phony pandemic scares to cover the pandemic of its creation

Patient Janet Prochazka, 74, said the constant checks by hospital staff made it hard for her to get a good night's sleep during her stay in the hospital. The night before, she said, she pulled the covers over her head in order to be left alone. (Heidi de Marco/KHN)While mainstream medicine and the quacks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blow threats of Zika, Ebola and the flu pandemics entirely out of proportion, they downplay a real epidemic: the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
This is serious business. The CDC tells us that each year at least 2 million people become infected and at least 23,000 die from antibiotic-resistant infectious agents. And the odds are you’re more likely than not to come into contact with these agents in the healthcare setting.
But a new report from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has found that, in England at least, the government’s figures on these deaths are based on guesswork and likely less than half of the real number of deaths. From TBIJ:

NHS England’s chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, has repeatedly claimed antibiotic resistance kills 5,000 people in the UK each year. Yet at least 12,000 people in the UK are likely dying each year just from drug-resistant sepsis (blood poisoning), according to Dr Ron Daniels, chief executive of the UK Sepsis Trust and CEO of the Global Sepsis Alliance.
Sepsis is a serious condition where an infection – such as a lung infection or a urinary tract infection – gets into the bloodstream and poisons it. In severe cases, people suffer organ failure and die within hours. Effective antibiotic treatment is crucial to prevent death and reduce the long-term physical damage suffered by survivors.
Nearly half of sepsis cases are caused by an E.Coli bacterial infection; and about a third of E.Coli bacteria types are resistant to antibiotics.
At least 44,000 people die from sepsis each year – meaning that there are likely at least 5,000 deaths each year linked to antibiotic-resistant E.Coli sepsis alone, Dr Daniels warned.
Once all the cases of sepsis caused by other bacteria are taken into account, and the proportion of those bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics is factored in, the likely death count rises to a number more than twice as high as the official government estimate for all types of infections.
“We reach more than 5,000 deaths just with resistant E.coli alone. If we add in the other resistant bugs we get to almost 12,000 deaths,” said Daniels. “[And] sepsis is just one condition affected by antibiotic resistance, albeit the one that is likely to cause the most mortality.”

As the U.S. and England use similar methodology in tabulating their medical statistics (in fact, England’s are based off of U.S. statistics), it’s likely that the CDC is underreporting deaths as well. The CDC,in fact, admits its figure is just a guess. It took a survey on antibiotic-resistant deaths conducted over 11 states in 2011 and extrapolated those results to the U.S. population. From the report by TBIJ:

The CDC admitted the “limitations” of such a model, with the agency’s senior adviser for antibiotic resistance coordination and strategy telling Reuters that it had come up with a figure that was “an impressionist painting rather than something that is much more technical,” following pressure from Congress to provide a number.

Last year Congress threw $1 billion out the window to “eradicate” Zika, an “epidemic” that afflicted only 185 people in the continental U.S. and another 34,139 in U.S. territories (the vast majority of them in Puerto Rico). 34,000 sounds like a lot of sick people until you realize that Zika is very mild infection that causes so little discomfort that most people with Zika hardly know they’re sick. The great scare about Zika was built around the theory – still unproven – that Zika caused microcephaly in newborns.
But the CDC wants to keep the lid on the antibiotic-resistant superbug epidemic because that might mean we enter a time where people question the practices of the medical establishment, which, in addition to overprescribing antibiotics (one of the causes of the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria), is killing 106,000 people annually with adverse drug reactions to the prescription medications being doled out and another 250,000 per year through medical errors.
The superbug epidemic has other root causes as well, as I told you in “Doctors fret over future of drugs as antibiotic overuse creates antibiotic-resistance ‘superbugs’.”

This increase comes as a direct result of the growing and widespread use of general antibiotics across the human spectrum.
Antibiotics are pumped into the chickens we eat and that produce our eggs. Antibiotics are pumped into the cattle that we eat and that produce our milk. Antibiotics are pumped into the pork we eat. Antibiotics are pumped into the turkeys we eat.
On top of that, doctors are prescribing antibiotics pre-surgery and post-surgery, whether or not infections are present. And medical practitioners are not only prescribing antibiotics for common bacterial and fungal infections, but also for viral infections on which antibiotics have no effect. And this is often done, the doctors admit, in order to placate parents conditioned… to equate medicine with health and who do not want to hear that the earache little Johnny is suffering from will heal on its own if Johnny’s immune system is made strong.

And antibiotics are being leaked and dumped as industrial waste by factories in which they are produced. One strain of drug-resistant bacteria first found in India in 2014 is now found in more than 70 countries around the world.
The CDC, ostensibly created to keep Americans safe from disease, has become little more than a government-funded marketing arm for Big Pharma. If the CDC wanted to keep people safe from pandemics it would use the majority of its budget to promote healthy immune systems, which is the key to avoiding infection.
Disease comes from within. When the body is overly fatigued with excess stress, toxins and malnutrition, there is a breakdown of immunity. So a body must be made healthy with proper hydration and proper nutrition (which means whole foods, mostly raw, and very little meat). It must have a healthy pH and it must have a proper level of essential nutrients, not antibiotics which are becoming less effective at killing the “bad” bacteria but continues to kill the “good” bacteria the body needs to remain healthy.

Tens of Thousands Of Scientists Declare Climate Change A Hoax

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Tens of Thousands Of Scientists Declare Climate Change A Hoax

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Sci/Environment //

30,000 scientists declare man-made climate change a hoax

A staggering 30,000 scientists have come forward confirming that man-made climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the elite in order to make money. 

One of the experts is weather channel founder, John Coleman, who warns that huge fortunes are being made by man-made climate change proponents such as Al Gore.
Natural News reports:
In a recent interview with Climate Depot, Coleman said:
“Al Gore may emerge from the shadows to declare victory in the ‘global warming’ debate if Hillary Clinton moves into the White House. Yes, if that happens and the new climate regulations become the law of the land, they will be next to impossible to overturn for four to eight years.”
Climate change proponents remain undeterred in their mission, ignoring numerous recent scientific findings indicating that there has been no warming trend at all for nearly two decades.
Al Gore’s dire predictions of the melting of polar ice on a massive scale have proved to be completely false. In fact, in 2014 – a year that was touted as being “the hottest ever” in the Earth’s history – there were record amounts of ice reported in Antarctica, an increase in Arctic ice, and record snowfalls across the globe.

Debunking the “97 percent” lie
On top of those “inconvenient truths,” the White House’s assertion that 97 percent of scientists agree that global warming is real has been completely debunked. Several independently-researched examinations of the literature used to support the “97 percent” statement found that the conclusions were cherry-picked and misleading.
More objective surveys have revealed that there is a far greater diversity of opinion among scientists than the global warming crowd would like for you to believe.
From the National Review:
“A 2008 survey by two German scientists, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, found that a significant number of scientists were skeptical of the ability of existing global climate models to accurately predict global temperatures, precipitation, sea-level changes, or extreme weather events even over a decade; they were far more skeptical as the time horizon increased.”
Other mainstream news sources besides the National Review have also been courageous enough to speak out against the global warming propaganda – even the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece in 2015 challenging the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) pseudoscience being promulgated by global warming proponents.
And, of course, there are the more than 31,000 American scientists (to date) who have signed a petition challenging the climate change narrative and 9,029 of them hold PhDs in their respective fields. But hey, Al Gore and his cronies have also ignored that inconvenient truth, as well.
Many of those scientists who signed the petition were likely encouraged to speak out in favor of the truth after retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist John L. Casey revealed that solar cycles are largely responsible for warming periods on Earth – not human activity.
Al Gore and cronies continue getting richer from the global warming hoax
But the global warming crowd continues to push their agenda on the public while lining their pockets in the process. If you’re still inclined to believe what Al Gore has to say about global warming, please consider the fact that since he embarked on his crusade, his wealth has grown from $2 million in 2001 to $100 million in 2016 – largely due to investments in fake “green tech” companies and the effective embezzlement of numerous grants and loans.

County board member urges Governors State to bar illegal immigrants

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County board member urges Governors State to bar illegal immigrants

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Will County Gazette

Michael Carroll | Jan 1, 2017
County board member Steve Balich urges Governors State to bar illegal immigrants. | File photo

 

A Will County board member this week called for Governors State University and other publicly funded universities in Illinois to stop serving illegal immigrants.
Board member Steve Balich (R-Homer Glen), who founded the 11,000-member Will County Tea Party Alliance, called on publicly funded universities such as Governors State to follow federal law and serve the interests of taxpayers by no longer providing higher education to illegal immigrants.
“They still don’t belong here,” Balich told the Will County Gazette. “They’re taking a spot from an American citizen at that school.”
Governors State reports that during the fall term, 16 university students identified themselves on applications as illegal immigrants, although no illegal immigrants have apparently applied for admission for the Fall 2017 session. Other state universities, however, report higher numbers of illegal immigrants in their student populations.
“I’m hoping that when (President-elect Donald) Trump gets in, he will enforce the law,” Balich said.
He went on to add that it’s costing the debt-ridden state a huge amount of money to educate illegal immigrants at its public universities.
Governors State, however, expressly states on its website that people who are not legally residing in Illinois can still apply to the university and pay the in-state tuition rate. The university’s policy cites a state law that allows illegal immigrants to be considered Illinois residents for the purpose of paying tuition.
Such students, however, do have to meet certain criteria. The requirements include having attended a high school in the state while residing with parents, as well as receiving a high school diploma or equivalent certification in Illinois. Affected students must also provide an affidavit promising they will file documents to eventually become permanent U.S. residents.
Balich said the issue of sanctuary cities, such as Chicago, that protect illegal immigrants from being prosecuted for violating federal immigration laws is another major problem that leads to negative effects on state taxpayers. If a city wants to be a sanctuary, federal money going to its schools and other infrastructure projects should be withheld, while the mayor should be held in contempt of court and prosecuted, he said.
If the mayors of smaller cities violate any of an array of laws, they would be prosecuted, Balich said. As such, he wonders why the Chicago mayor is seemingly above the law.
“Put them in jail and lock them up,” Balich said.
The Will County board member argues that no additional state laws are needed to prevent illegal immigrants from attending publicly funded universities. All that’s necessary is to enforce existing immigration laws, said Balich, who doesn’t want new immigrants attending public colleges unless they have either education or work visas.
While working at the local level in Homer Glen, Balich spearheaded the passage of a bill that called for enforcement of all existing immigration laws and to make English the official language so that ballots would need not be printed in multiple languages. Such a common-sense approach could benefit taxpayers across the state, he said.
“There’s no way an illegal alien should be allowed to get any benefits whatsoever and use any of our infrastructure for free,” Balich said.

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