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Eligibility challenge returns to haunt Florida

WND/ Bob Unruh

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A lawsuit challenging Barack Obama’s presence on the 2012 presidential election ballot because of questions over his constitutional eligibility that was thrown out by a judge who earlier determined it wasn’t timely has returned to haunt election officials in the state with a request that the Obama victory results be quashed.

“Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is a direct threat to the safety and security of the United States, and its Constitution, which plaintiff must protect and defend by oath,” according to the complaint, which was delivered to Secretary of State Ken Detzner today.

The case earlier this year was dismissed by Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, who said Obama’s eligibility could not be challenged at that time because under Florida election law, technically, Obama hadn’t been nominated to the position.

As WND reported, Michael Voeltz, who identifies himself as “a registered member of the Democratic Party, voter and taxpayer in Broward County,” had challenged Obama’s eligibility, arguing that the “natural born citizen” clause was rightly understood in historical context to mean a child not only born in the U.S., but born to two American-citizen parents, so as not to have divided loyalties. Obama, however, readily admits to being born a dual citizen because of his father’s British citizenship.

In his decision then, Lewis noted that the United States Supreme Court has concluded that “every person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, becomes at once a citizen of the United States.”

However, attorney Larry Klayman, who is representing Voeltz, said, “The judge equated being a ‘citizen’ with a ‘natural born citizen’ and cited no authority to conclude the two terms are the same. He quotes other state’s cases, where judges reached that conclusion, but that’s not precedent for him. What other courts said in lower cases means nothing to him.”

Klayman also had been concerned that the judge determined the burden of proof that Obama is ineligible fell on Voeltz – but then refused to authorize discovery in the case which could have confirmed that eligibility status.

“How can you say we have the burden of proof, then not allow discovery?” Klayman asked. “He says we have burden, but doesn’t allow us to meet it.”

And he said Voeltz has standing to bring the case, under Florida law. More >>

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More suspicious voter forms found in Florida

y los medios de prensa del sureno estado sin darse por enterados del asunto.

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By LIZETTE ALVAREZ

After reports of suspicious forms surfaced in Florida, the company — owned by Nathan Sproul, who has been involved in voter registration efforts since at least the 2004 presidential election — was fired last week by the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee. The party had hired it to conduct drives in Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia.

In Colorado, a young woman employed by Strategic Allied was shown on a video outside a store in Colorado Springs recently telling a potential voter that she wanted to register only Republicans and that she worked for the county clerk’s office. The woman was fired, said Ryan Call, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.

The Florida Division of Elections has forwarded the reports of possible fraud to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for investigation. Prosecutors in some affected counties are also investigating. It is unclear how many forms have been forwarded, in all: in Palm Beach County, the election supervisor found 106 suspicious forms, but the number in several other counties is far lower.

Bay County has found eight suspicious forms with the Republican Party registration code connected to Strategic Allied. In Pasco County, three have been found.

The state Republican Party, which paid the company $1.3 million to register voters here, said it would file an elections fraud complaint against Strategic Allied, which is based in Tempe, Ariz.  More >>

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83,000 fallecidos en Florida registrados para votar

WND/ Roger Hedgecock

Voter fraud is the big issue that may decide the outcome of this election

In Seattle, Wash., last month, Brenda Charlston received a voter registration form in the mail from the Voter Participation Center with all the blanks filled in for “Rosie Charlston,” her black Labrador who died in 1998.

The Obama supporting center says it has mailed some 5 million forms using commercially available databases to target Democratic-leaning groups such as unmarried women. What did they use in the Brenda/Rosie mailing? The dead dog mailing list?

In June, in Buford County, Va., Tim Morris received a filled-out voter registration form for “Mozart Morris” addressed to “Mo,” his dog that passed away two years before. Again, the form came in the mail from the Voter Participation Center.

In Bernalillo County, N.M., an anonymous Republican registered his dog as a voter at a voter registration booth at the University of New Mexico to show how easy it would be to defraud the system. Election officials claim they followed the law and referred the case to state prosecutors for criminal investigation of the dog owner!

Election officials throughout the country report a surge of voter registrations from animals, dead people and noncitizens.

Republicans believe Obama is depending on these registrations to win the election and want laws requiring voter ID at the polls. Democrats charge that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote to increase the odds of a Romney win.

This Democrat charge formed the basis of a lawsuit by Obama’s Department of Justice to block a Texas law that requires voter photo ID to vote. Texas is one of 26 states with such laws.

The DOJ claimed the requirement would bar eligible voters from voting and that the cost of getting the proper ID amounted to a “poll tax.” The Texas law provides for a free state ID to anyone lacking a driver’s license or other photo ID.

A study by a DOJ expert produced a long list of Texans who lacked government-issued photo ID and, it was alleged, were thereby disenfranchised. The list and the study were a fraud.

The list turned out to contain the names of 50,000 dead people, 330,377 seniors who can vote by mail without ID, 261,887 voters who included a driver’s license number on their voter registration form, 800,000 Texans who were, in fact, registered to vote and who did have a government issued photo ID.

The list also contained the names of Texans with U.S. military ID (acceptable for photo ID to vote), former Texas residents who had moved to other states, disabled voters who were exempt from the Texas photo ID law and noncitizens.

Strangely, the list of those who “lacked government issued ID” included former President George W. Bush, two state legislators and the wife of another, former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, current U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and even the Texas director of elections, Keith Ingram – who was listed not once but twice!

However, even the Texas attorney general has yet to find the names of any dogs, living or dead, on the list.

Obama’s DOJ also went after Florida for passing a similar law. It seems that Obama voters who were dead, felons or noncitizens would not get to vote.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott ordered county election officials to examine the integrity of the voting rolls. In the first review, the names of 83,000 dead people were discovered still registered to vote.  More >>

The Cuban Government and Multi-Million Dollar Medicare Fraud in South Florida

by Chris Simmons

The dilapidated state of the Cuban economy has left the Cuban government scrambling for ways to obtain hard currency. Cuba has contrived ways to benefit from leasing doctors, nurses, teachers, and security agents abroad; more recently, Cuba has also found ways to capitalize on large-scale Medicare fraud, possibly committing economic warfare on the United States.

Medicare fraud is one of the highest dollar volume crimes in the United States. In October of 2009, it was estimated that such fraud has reached $60 billion a year. (1) And South Florida has become the epicenter of this federal crime.

Federal authorities, in July of 2010 in conjunction with the first Healthcare Fraud Summit (taking place, rather symbolically, in Miami), led a crackdown in the 5 major U.S. cities that have the dubious recognition of being the largest Medicare fraud perpetrators: Miami, Brooklyn, Baton Rouge, Detroit, and Houston. Of the 94 people charged by authorities for fraud, 25 are from Miami-Dade. (2) Florida’s mental health claims are 4 times higher than Texas, where healthcare fraud is also substantial (Florida’s population is ¾ that of Texas’). Florida’s physical and speech therapy claims are 140 times higher than New York’s (while New York’s population has 1 million more people than Florida’s) and 10 times higher than in California (which has a population double the size of Florida’s). Ultimately, South Florida is responsible for one-third of the nation’s healthcare fraud prosecutions. (3)

The question should be posed: What makes South Florida different from any other region and can account for the troubling number of fraudulent claims emanating from the area?

See the entire assessment here:  http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/FOCUS_Web/Issue137.htm

Brazilians snap up South Florida real estate

By Michelle Balani and Mary Murphy
Rock Center

Dressed in an expensive pinstriped suit and sporting the latest Louis Vuitton sunglasses, Miami real estate broker Cristiano Piquet is ready to make a sale. He has a client in his shiny new white Rolls-Royce, and they’re on their way to see $9 million apartment at the W Hotel on South Beach.

Piquet’s client, 32-year-old Antonio Luciano, who comes from a wealthy family in Brazil’s sugar cane and commodities business, had already purchased two properties from Piquet over the phone. Now he is in search of a larger home with a better view. Like most rich Brazilians, Luciano is ready to pay cash for that perfect place.

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Professors' challenge to Florida Cuba travel law

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TALLAHASSEE - The U.S. Supreme Court could decide this week whether to hear a challenge to a 2006 Florida law that blocks funding for university professors to travel to Cuba or other countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.

The Florida International University faculty senate and individual professors challenged the law, contending that it improperly infringes on the federal government's power to make decisions about foreign policy.

"As Congress and the president work to develop a response to current global events that harmonizes the nation's self-interest with the democratic ideals it promotes, the treatment of terrorism and the individuals and nations sponsoring it is at the core of America's foreign policy,'' attorneys for the professors wrote in a brief. "… That the Florida Legislature passed the travel act (state law) to take a harder line against Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria than the president or Congress have taken impermissibly blunts the consequences of the president's discretionary authority to manage relations with the listed states."

But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2010 upheld the law. In a brief to the Supreme Court, state attorneys wrote that professors are "not constitutionally entitled to demand state support for their academic travel simply because federal law permits such travel."

"Indeed, a state's decision to support academic travel to one country rather than another, and to take into consideration the safety of its faculty and students in making such decisions, does not present an important federal question that should be settled by this court,'' the brief said.

Supreme Court justices are scheduled Thursday to consider whether to hear the case and will make an announcement later. The court receives thousands of petitions a year for it to take cases, but agrees to hear only a fraction. If the court agrees to hear the Florida case, it would start a months-long process that would involve arguments and an ultimate ruling on the professors' challenge.

Huyen a Cuba Estafadores del Medicare

By gusanomarielito

Autoridades temen que huya cubano acusado de fraude al Medicare

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Oppenheimer Goes Off the Deep End

Capitol Hill Cubans/ Mauricio Claver-Carone

We tend to agree with Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer.

However, in his latest piece on Florida's Cuba-Syria procurement law (H.B. 959), he really goes off the deep end.

Oppenheimer argues that the new law, which prevents Florida's taxpayer-funded entities from contracting with Castro and Assad's business partners, actually helps these regimes.

Seriously?

Nevermind that this law forces some of Castro's biggest business partners to choose between profiting from tyranny or Florida's taxpayers.

According to Oppenheimer's illogical theory -- concurred by St. Thomas University economist Tony Villamil -- it serves to help Castro as it gives him an excuse to bash the U.S. further.

That's really deep.

Because, of course, if it weren't for H.B. 959, Castro wouldn't bash the U.S. That's just absurd.

And what law gives Chavez an excuse to bash the U.S.?

These tyrants are going to blame the U.S. regardless. Moreover, no one believes them -- except apparently Oppenheimer and Villamil.

But here's the real kicker.

Oppenheimer argues that this will encourage other states to pass laws giving Castro business benefits.

That might seem logical from his desk at the Miami Herald, but it's void in the real world.

As a matter of fact, other states (e.g. Indiana, Michigan and Arizona) have similar laws to H.B. 959 that include Cuba.

Plus, it's ludicrous to think that any legislature and Governor in the U.S. would pass a law to provide public subsidises for business with Castro or any other state-sponsor of terrorism.

If Oppenheimer and Villamil have no problem giving their hard-earned money to Castro and Assad's business partners, then they should set up a voluntary fund to do so.

However, Florida's taxpayers, through the democratic process, have chosen otherwise.

Florida prohibirá a entes públicos contratar empresas con negocios en Cuba

Miami (EEUU), 30 abr (EFE).- El gobernador de Florida, Rick Scott, firmará mañana martes una ley que prohíbe a los organismos públicos de este estado sureño de Estados Unidos cerrar contratos con compañías que negocien con Cuba, así como con Siria.

Esta ley será firmada en la Torre de la Libertad de Miami, un inmueble simbólico para la comunidad cubana de Florida, ya que allí se atendió inicialmente a los primeros exiliados que salieron de la isla huyendo del régimen castrista.

El texto, que fue propuesto en febrero pasado, ya ha sido aprobado por el poder legislativo de Florida con un apoyo prácticamente unánime, pero ha recibido críticas por parte de las autoridades de Canadá y Brasil, al tiempo que la Cámara de Comercio de Florida la ha calificado de inconstitucional.

La nueva norma afectará a empresas como la multinacional brasileña Odebrecht, cuya filial estadounidense tiene su sede en Miami y realiza importantes proyectos de infraestructuras en Florida.

En una entrevista radiofónica con Radio Mambí, Scott defendió que "el historial de los Gobiernos de los (hermanos) Castro y de (el presidente de Siria Bashar al-Assad) es irrefutablemente represivo", al tiempo que ambos "apoyan activamente el terrorismo internacional".

"Voy a firmar esta regulación para proteger a los contribuyentes de Florida de apoyar sin quererlo a dictaduras que cometen actos tan despreciables", argumentó el gobernador.

Una vez firmada la nueva norma, que también establece medidas en previsión de la ruptura de contratos vigentes si con el tiempo se descubre que una compañía tiene operaciones comerciales con Cuba o Siria, entrará en vigor el próximo 1 de julio.

Estados Unidos mantiene desde hace cinco décadas un embargo contra Cuba, una medida que durante los últimos veinte años ha sido condenada consecutivamente por la Asamblea General de la ONU.

El embargo fue impuesto de manera oficial en febrero de 1962, durante la Administración del presidente John F. Kennedy, aunque

How Many Crimes Did the New Black Panthers Commit in Florida?

PJMedia/ By J. Christian Adams

When New Black Panther Mikhail Muhammad called for the mobilization of a 10,000-strong black male mob to capture George Zimmerman, we glimpsed into the depths of racial depravity of the organization. “An eye for an eye,” Muhammad threatened.  A cash bounty for Zimmerman, “dead or alive,” provided a nasty incentive for thugs across the land.

But did a crime occur in the New Black Panther Party’s call for mob vengeance against Zimmerman? Quite possibly.

I’ve been familiar with this crowd since the day President Obama was elected when I worked at the Department of Justice.  Soon after election day 2008, I and other attorneys would bring a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.  The Obama administration famously dismissed the case.  Afterwards, I and another DOJ lawyer testified under oath about the hostility within the Obama DOJ to bringing cases against defendants like the NBPP.  Nobody has ever contradicted the specifics of our testimony, or the details in my book Injustice, which describes, among other things, Eric Holder’s personal involvement in the Panther case dismissal.

Now Florida officials may have a chance to do what Eric Holder refused to do — bring these New Black Panther gangsters to justice once and for all.

State Attorney Norman Wolfinger is busy these days.  While he is busy looking at the underlying facts of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, he needs to look at the New Black Panther threats also.

America is not a land where thugs should be allowed to threaten free Americans who have been charged with no crime.  Seminole County, Florida, is not Ox-Bow Canyon, where resolutions come quick by murderers with rope and a tree.

We can thank Eric Holder in part for the disgusting bravado we’ve seen from these lawless thugs over the last few days.  Not only did his DOJ drop the voter intimidation charges against them, the DOJ refuses to bring what appears to be slam dunk felon-in-possession gun charges against one member.

The New Black Panthers act like they are above the law because so far they have been.

Americans are taking renewed notice of the New Black Panthers and the politicians who have enabled them.  What sort of country have we become that racist uniformed thugs can stalk polls and threaten free citizens with mob arrest and murder?  Is this a post-racial America, or a wicked reminder of a lawless age we thought we had moved beyond forever?  More >>

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Agricultores floridanos se afilan los dientes con Cuba

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Spectacular 'cloud tsunami' rolls over Florida high-rise condos

JR Hott / Panhandle Helicopter

Panama City Beach, Florida -- Fog rolls up along the shore of Panama
City Beach, Florida on Feb. 5th, 2012.

JR Hott / Panhandle Helicopter

Panama City Beach, Florida -- Fog rolls up along the shore of
Panama City Beach, Florida on Feb. 5th, 2012.

By Natalia Jimenez, msnbc.com

Helicopter pilot Mike Schaeffer was wrapping up a tour when he spotted this incredible weather phenomenon along the coast of Panama City Beach, Fl. on Sunday. As soon as he landed, he alerted Panhandle Helicopter owner JR Hott of the "cloud form waves," and together they went up for a better view. They moved quickly knowing that it is only in very specific weather conditions that this beautiful effect occurs. While the online community has dubbed this a "cloud tsunami," Hott disagrees with the popular moniker:

I wouldn't call it a "cloud tsunami." The term tsunami implies a natural disaster. The event, while it can form quickly, moves gently and slowly. It isn't something that happens with more than a gentle breeze.

While the images appear non-threatening and peaceful, as an experienced pilot, Hott has been trained to treat all fog and clouds as if they are solid objects. He and Schaeffer were very careful approaching in the air to get a better view. Fortunately, because of the location of the condos, they were able to approach the cloud waves from the side and did not place themselves in the direct path of the fog.

JR Hott / Panhandle Helicopter

Panama City Beach, Florida -- Fog rolls up along the shore of
Panama City Beach, Florida on Feb. 5th, 2012.

JR Hott / Panhandle Helicopter

Panama City Beach, Florida -- Fog rolls up along the shore of
Panama City Beach, Florida on Feb. 5th, 2012.

Meteorologist Dan Satterfield explains this occurrence on his blog:

Cool air offshore was very nearly at the saturation point, with a temperature near 20ºC and a dew point of about 19.5ºC. The air at this temperature can only hold a certain amount of water vapor, and how much it can hold depends heavily on the temperature. If you add more water into the air, a cloud will form, but you can also get a cloud to form by cooling the air. Drop the temperature, and it can no long hold as much water vapor, so some of it will condense out and a cloud will form.

Hott will see this happen a couple times a year, but Sunday's visibility was especially clear and he was able to make all these pictures in only five minutes! He is more amazed at the attention his pictures are getting, rather than with the event itself. "This is not so much a study in photography, but a study in how something can go viral," he said. Hott posted the photos to his company's Facebook page and suddenly he was getting requests for the pictures from all over the world. He is happy with the attention, hoping it inspires some to take a tour with him along the coastline.

JR Hott / Panhandle Helicopter

Panama City Beach, Florida -- Fog rolls up along the shore of
Panama City Beach, Florida on Feb. 5th, 2012.

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