New Minister of Economy and Trade Naftali Bennett hit out at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday over his response to an apology delivered by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for a May 2010 IDF raid on a flotilla heading for Gaza, in which nine Turkish nationals died.

“It seems that since [Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s] apology, Erdogan is doing everything to make Israel regret it”, Bennett wrote in his official Facebook page. “He is running a personal and vitriolic campaign at the expense of Israeli-Turkish relations.”

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Today Dr. Coburn sent the following letter to OPM Director John Berry urging agency heads to avoid critical furloughs by first eliminating employees that do not show up for work, who are not performing official work, or are simply not working at all, which cost the federal government millions in lost man-hours.

•    AWOL Employees: Between 2001 and 2007, employees at 18 departments and agencies were AWOL for at least 19.6 million hours, equivalent to 9,410 years of lost work.  Findings from Dr. Coburn’s oversight report Missing in Action: AWOL in the Federal Government.
•    Employees Being Paid to Perform Union Duties: In 2011, the government spent over $155 million on 3.4 million hours of official time for employees that show up for work but were being paid to perform duties not related to the mission of their agency or the government – including union-related activities.  According to the Office of Personnel Management, this is equivalent to a full year’s worth of work for 1,632 employees.
•    Employees Paid to “Stand By”: At least 919 employees received standby pay in 2010, and 906 received it in 2011 according to the Congressional Research Service. The total cost of paying for these employees not to work over this two year period was over $13.1 million.
•    Government Contractors Paid to Do Nothing:  Delays in the security clearance process have kept between 10 and 20 percent of all intelligence contractors sitting idle awaiting a clearance while still being paid large salaries.  The cost of wasted contractor man-hours to the government has been estimated to be roughly between $900 million and $1.8 billion a month.

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It began as many news stories do with a tip from a reader of Breitbart News which set social media blazing and then the Drudge Report features a story by the Weekly Standard that assert the Obama’s average more than one vacation per month even as the White House is closed to tours of school children, Obama’s children, Sasha and Malia are quietly vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

Breitbart confirmed President Barack Obama’s daughters’ trip with other sources and you may read the original story by clicking here. Both the White House and the Atlantis resort declined to confirm the report or comment, but another guest provided a photograph of Sasha and Malia at the resort.

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North Korea has released a film which appears to show an invasion of the USA in revenge for the Korean war.

The YouTube clip begins with historic footage of American and South Korean forces attacking the communist North during the 1950s conflict.

It shows children crying and scenes of devastation while the Stars and Stripes flutters.

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