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Monday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 25, 2016 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Glick: Israel and the Russian Challenge
Caroling Glick
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Turkey: Christian Refugees Live in Fear
Uzay Bulut
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Left: A memorial in France commemorating the 1915 Assyrian Genocide in Turkey. Right:
An Islamic State member destroys a Christian tombstone in Mosul, Iraq, in April 2015
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Around 45,000 Armenian and Assyrian Christians also known as Syriac and Chaldean who fled Syria and Iraq and have settled in small Anatolian cities in Turkey, are forced to hide their religious identity, according to the Hurriyet daily newspaper... Since the Islamic State (ISIS) invaded Iraqi and Syrian cities, Christians and Yazidis have become the group's main target, facing another possible genocide at the hands of Muslims. Anonis Alis Salciyan, an Armenian who fled Iraq for Turkey, told Hurriyet that in public, they pretend to be Muslim. "My husband and I fled Iraq with our two children one year ago with around 20 other families. There was pressure on us in Iraq," Salciyan said, recalling that her husband, who ran a jewelry shop in Iraq, is now unemployed. "We have relatives in Europe. Only thanks to their support we are getting by. Our children cannot go to school here; they cannot speak Turkish."
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TTIP Enters New And Dangerous Stage
As Democracy Is Dismantled In Secret
Graham Vanbergen
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{activistpost.com} ~ TTIP negotiations continue in the shadows in both America and the EU and they enter a new and dangerous stage as existing legal barriers that would inhibit certain types of harmful trade are dismantled in favour of a new set of rules termed ‘regulatory cooperation’... It sounds collaborative, it is, but just not in the public interest. What this really means is that decades of regulations passed by governments, legislated upon for public interest and safety reasons are being swept aside. These new regulations that the public and journalists are barred from being a party to include the demolition of environmental protections, safety at work regulations, food safety and other laws designed to protect and defend public safety. Any new regulations that EU states would want to impose in future are now facing considerable barriers and hurdles that could take years to negotiate, and the system is clearly being designed to be onerous and just plain difficult in order to favour corporate interests above public interest.       http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/ttip-enters-new-and-dangerous-stage-as-democracy-is-dismantled-in-secret.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ee8a528100-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-ee8a528100-387888649
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nObama's Syria Diplomacy 
is Doomed to Fail
A.J. Caschetta
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{meforum.org} ~ The nObama administration will spend its final year attempting "to de-escalate the conflict in Syria...through a political transition."... This effort to impose a diplomatic solution on Syria will be lauded as a great success by the State Department and recognized for the failure it is destined to be by nearly everyone else. John hanoi-Kerry may get his temporary cessation of killing, but not of hostilities. He may preside over grave and haughty signing ceremonies, but few of the parties will abide by the promises they make. An admirable impulse to own the moral high ground, never "stoop to the enemy's level" and exercise all diplomatic efforts before, during, and after a war has taken hold of all levels of the US government, but the results are often counterproductive. Diplomacy only succeeds when backed by a credible threat of force, and few believe that the U.S. will exert anything beyond the bare minimum in Syria. The president has somehow failed to learn the most important piece of advice Machiavelli gave to the prince – "it is better to be feared than loved."        http://www.meforum.org/5805/obama-syria-diplomacy
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Going After ISIS –
New Rules Of Engagement For US Troops
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Things just got a whole lot less comfortable for ISIS in Afghanistan. The rules of engagement have changed, with US ground forces now permitted to take offensive action against the terrorist group... Last week the US State Department designated ISIS in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, an action which brought with it a changing of the rules of engagement for our troops in Afghanistan.  American “boots on the ground” can now be utilized in offensive military operations. The particular terrorist designation applies to a group identified as specifically as ISIS-K, a Khorasan affiliated branch. They are believed to be responsible for conducted suicide attacks, small-arms attacks and kidnappings, targeting civilians and Afghan government officials. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25113
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Lawmaker: nObama Admin Fueling
‘Campaign to Destroy Israel’
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A leading member of the congressional Israel caucus says the nObama administration is fueling hatred against the Jewish state following comments by a top U.S. diplomat accusing Israel of not upholding democratic rule of law... according to a letter sent Wednesday to the State Department and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.), co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, lashed out at the administration, chastising it for seeking to inflame a diplomatic fight with Israel as the Jewish state grapples with a new wave of Palestinian terror attacks that has killed and wounded many civilians. Dan Shapiro, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, elicited a sharp rebuke from Israeli leaders Tuesday when he accused the Jewish state of failing to properly investigate crimes committed against Palestinians.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/lawmaker-obama-admin-fueling-campaign-destroy-israel/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=311bb0af7e-Best_of_the_Beacon_1_24_161_23_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-311bb0af7e-45611665
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nObama Clinton Not Talking Gun Confiscation?
NRA Says, Oh Yes They Are
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ They play a short clip of Hussein nObama talking with the host of his gun-grabbing town hall, Anderson Cooper... In it “Best Actor nObama” is claiming in his “I’m so miffed” character that they are being wrongfully accused of plotting to disarm the American people. He called out his schemers and then belittled the accusation, saying, “Creating a plot to take everybody’s guns away so that we can impose martial law is not a conspiracy, yes that is a conspiracy.”  He’s right, it is a conspiracy; it’s an active nObama commie plot and we’re on to him. His denials or word parsing of taking “everybody’s” guns when his privileged few will be able to hang on to theirs are as meaningless as his oath of office. In exposing that nObama and his minions are indeed talking about gun confiscation in spite of their denials, the NRA plays a quote of nObama talking about allies of ours, Britain and Australia as models and Clinton describing the Australian example as “one worth looking at.” For those not aware of what the Australian example is comprised of, the NRA explains it simply: “Here’s what ‘president’ nObama and Hilly Clinton don’t want you to know…What they’re talking about when they’re talking about Australia”  http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25168
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Taliban demands prisoners 
released, sanctions removed 
before joining peace negotiations
BILL ROGGIO
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{longwarjournal.org} ~ The Afghan Taliban has demanded the “release of prisoners” and the removal of its senior leaders and officials from UN and US sanctions list, before it will consider joining peace talks with the Afghan government... Additionally, the group said that it would only make peace with “believers” and not with “non-Mulims, invaders and combatants.” The Taliban made its positions on negotiations known in two statements that were released on its official website, Voice of Jihad. “Some preliminary steps should be taken prior to starting peace because without them, progress towards peace is not feasible,” according to a “Summary of the Statement by Representatives of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan given in Pagwash Conference (23-25 Jan, 2016) in Doha, the Capital City of Qatar.” Pagwash is an international non-governmental organization that seeks to facilitate the resolution of local conflicts.
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Martial law declared in New York City
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{wnd.com} ~ It’s the nagging fear many have about our government: what would happen if martial law was declared? New York City just found out, at least temporarily... Eleven states as well as Washington D.C. declared states of emergency in the wake of the massive record-breaking snowstorm which blanketed the East. But New York City went a step further. Governor Andrew Cuomo declared “martial law” in New York City by ordering all people to stay inside under police enforcement. He issued an absolute travel ban for anything that is not an emergency vehicle. The New York Police Department put out a blunt announcement on Saturday: “After 2:30 p.m. and you’re on the road, we will arrest you.”        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/martial-law-declared-in-new-york-city/
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Congress gets OK for 
'evading democratic accountability'
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{wnd.com} ~ A Supreme Court decision not to review the fact that although the U.S. Constitution requires tax bills to be launched in the U.S. House, nObamacare, which raises an estimated $800 billion in taxes, was launched in the Senate, will mean trouble for the United States, critics contend... Eventually. “At issue was the Constitution’s Origination Clause, which requires all new taxes to start in the House, the chamber closest to the people. nObamacare is a massive tax bill, but it was launched in the Senate through a procedural ploy,” said Timothy Sandefur, the principal attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation.  Pacific Legal is representing small-business owner Matt Sissel. “The Senate’s subversion of the constitutionally mandated rules for tax bills is a danger not just in this case but in future cases as well. By allowing Congress to use procedural tricks to evade the constitutional rules, the court has opened the door to Congress further evading democratic accountability for the laws it passes,” Sandefur said.
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The One Reporter 
With The Courage to Call Out 
nObama Admin For ‘Fantasy World’...
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{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ Associated Press reporter Matt Lee must have finally reached the end of his rope with the constant stream of lies and obfuscations and spin that continually falls from the lips of State Department spokesman John Kirby... In a rare display of media honesty, he called out the nObama administration for pursuing a ‘fantasy world’ type of foreign policy. While discussing North Korea’s recent claim that it has successfully tested a nuclear weapon, “Every time this happens, we hear from people in this administration, and other governments as well, that we will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state. And yet it is. You also say this about other things too. You say you will never accept Crimea as a part of Russia. And yet it is. Isn’t it time to recognize these things for what they are and not live in this illusion or fantasy where you pretend that things are, are not?”
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nObama DOJ is hedging its bets by
not working with the FBI on Hilly investigation
J.E. Dyer
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{libertyunyielding.com} ~ If you’re like most people, your mental concept of the investigation of Hilly Clinton’s Emailgate has probably involved a hazy idea that standard things are being done... I know that’s been the image in my head — to the extent I’ve given it any thought. The story line goes: Department of Justice has the FBI investigate something, with the idea that a grand jury may be convened and an indictment may be sought. A federal prosecutor is at the helm. His or her office would at some point be talking to us, explaining decisions about charges and prosecution. That’s the normal way of things.  It’s how our system works. But it hadn’t really registered with me that we have not heard from a federal prosecutor.  http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/01/23/reminder-dojs-not-working-with-the-fbi-on-hillary-investigation/
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Glick: Israel and the Russian Challenge
Caroling Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Israeli air force commanders are reportedly deeply worried about Russia’s military presence in Syria.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin deployed his forces to Syria last year, he claimed that the deployment would be brief. Russian forces were placed in Syria, Putin said, to protect Assad and would leave once he was able to defend himself.
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Last week, when the terms of the deployment agreement concluded between Russia and Syria were made public, we discovered that those early claims were false. Under the terms of the deal, Russia can maintain permanent bases in Syria.
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Israel’s Air Force is no match for Russia’s. The S-400 anti-aircraft system Russia is deploying to Syria covers half of Israeli territory. Russia’s deployment means that Israel has lost its regional air superiority.
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To be sure, Putin’s decision to set up permanent bases in Syria is not directed against Israel. He is interested in defending Russian interests in areas like oil and Syria where Israel is not an actor. This is the reason that Russia and Israel have been able to reach tactical agreements over Syria.
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Among other things, the sides agreed to deconflict their aircraft flying over Syria.
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But Israel’s ability to reach tactical understandings with Russia doesn’t mean Israel can trust that Russia’s operations in the area will not harm its national security in significant ways.
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For instance, the reports that Russia is transferring arms to Hezbollah are deeply worrying. For the past five years, according to reports in foreign media, the Air Force has repeatedly bombed shipments of Iranian weapons destined for Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
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Israel is not in a position to contemplate bombing Russian military shipments to Lebanon. It is also not in a position to challenge a Russian decision to allow Hezbollah to use advanced weapons like Yakhont anti-ship missiles against naval ships either from Lebanon or Syria.
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And there is no reason to believe that Russia won’t do so.
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Russia has been acting in alliance with Hezbollah, Assad and Iran since the 1980s. Putin’s reported willingness to cooperate with Israel in various areas does not mean that Russia is no longer Iran’s partner in supplying Hezbollah and facilitating its operations.
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The government and military have no options for dealing with Russia’s sudden emergence as a major power in our backyard. And there is nothing new in Israel’s helplessness.
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We’ve never had an option for reining in Moscow.
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But until Barack nObama came into office, Israel never had to worry about Russia.
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For 65 years, the US forced Russia to curb its activities in the Middle East.
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Until Barack nObama entered the White House, every US president from Franklin Roosevelt on believed it was a US economic and strategic interest of the first order to curb Russian power in the Middle East. The chief reason the US began its strategic alliance with Israel after the 1967 Six Day War was because by defeating Russian clients Egypt and Syria, Israel proved its value to the US’s Cold War strategy.
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In the succeeding decades, Israel and the US had a division of labor. It was Israel’s job to defeat or deter Russian – or Soviet – clients in the Arab world. It was the US’s job to deter Russia – or the Soviet Union.
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Now, in the final year of the nObama presidency, all that is gone. nObama is content to see Russia exert power and influence that none of his predecessors would have countenanced. And so, for the first time, Israel finds itself standing alone against Russia, with no clear means of protecting its vital national security interests.
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nObama’s refusal to take any steps to curb Russia’s deployment and ambitions in the region is not surprising.
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It not that he doesn’t understand that Russia’s rise means America’s fall. He undoubtedly has been warned of the implications of Russia’s return to region by the relevant government agencies and the military.
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But none of that matters to him. The only thing that nObama cares about is his legacy. nObama cannot take action against Russia without discrediting his entire Middle East policy, and so destroying his own legacy.
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nOBAMA’S POLICY in the region is based on the assumption that the US is responsible for instability and war in the Middle East. As a consequence, nObama’s regional policy is one that requires the US to abandon those who benefited from US protection and partnership – first and foremost Israel and Saudi Arabia, and appeasing those who most oppose the US and its allies – first and foremost Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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With Iran’s capture of the US naval craft and its illegal detention of 10 US naval personnel last week, Iran demonstrated, once again, that it has not been appeased by nObama’s nuclear and financial concessions.
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Iran continues to view the US as its primary enemy and it continues to view itself as at war against America.
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It is beyond dispute that Iran committed a war crime in photographing the US military personnel in humiliating ways and forcing one sailor to film an apology to Iran. The language of the Geneva Conventions is cut and dry on the subject.
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But rather than take action against Iran, by among other things, delaying the revocation of economic sanctions against Iran, the nObama administration defended Iran’s act of war against the US.
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In a press briefing, State Department spokesman John Kirby argued that Iran did not commit a war crime when it detained and photographed the US sailors in humiliating ways because Iran is not at war with the US.
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This is an idiotic statement meant to hide an indefensible position. Obviously, if Kirby is right and Iran is not at war with the US, then the act of detaining and photographing the sailors moves from a mere war crime, to an act of international piracy and hostage taking.
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In other words, in detaining US sailors and photographing them, Iran either committed a war crime and an act of war, or it committed an even larger crime – and initiated a war with the US.
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But nObama cannot acknowledge that this is the case, because if he does, he will be unable to defend his larger policy – which is equally indefensible.
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Iran began broadcasting photographs of the sailors kneeing before their Iranian captors and a video apology in which a sailor issued a groveling apology and thanked Iran for its kindness and hospitality the day before Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry stood before the cameras in Vienna and announced that the US and its partners would remove economic sanctions against Iran as soon as the IAEA announced that Iran was abiding by the nuclear deal.
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The IAEA then duly announced that Iran was in compliance and it could receive its $150 billion in frozen funds.
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Iran crowed that the American sailors cried and otherwise acted like cowards when they were apprehended just hours before nObama went before the cameras and congratulated himself for his brilliantly smart diplomacy that has prevented war. nObama similarly chastised unnamed critics for criticizing his decision to bow and scrape before Iran as it committed acts of war against America.
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nObama was undoubtedly relishing the moment as he declared diplomatic victory over his political opponents, but even if he was unhappy about Iran’s behavior he couldn’t have done anything about it.
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nObama brags that he was able to reach a nuclear deal where all his predecessors failed. But this hides the main distinction between him and those who came before him.
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None of nObama’s predecessors concluded a nuclear deal with Iran because unlike nObama, none of his predecessors were willing to abandon US interests – including the interest of preventing the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism from acquiring nuclear weapons – in order to get a deal. nObama cannot attack Iran’s aggression on the high seas without calling into question the wisdom of his nuclear diplomacy.
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He cannot take action against Russia without calling into question his belief that US power in the Middle East is the chief cause of all the region’s problems.
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Israel’s military and political leaders are right to be concerned about the implications of Russia’s return to Syria. And it is far from clear that there is a way to credibly minimize the dangers. But, since we’re not going anywhere, we will have to make the best of a bad situation.
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Whatever we do, we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that unless the next US president rejects nObama’s entire Middle East policy and shepherds the military and financial resources to abandon it, on Russia, Iran and beyond, Israel will have to fend for itself for the foreseeable future.
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Saturday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 23, 2016 at 1:48pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
Featuring:
Don't Thank nObama for Cheap Oil
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 nObama Deploys the 'Great Green Fleet' 
From December 1907 to February 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered America's steel-hulled, steam-powered battle fleet to circumnavigate the globe. Nicknamed the "Great White Fleet," the excursion showed that the United States' military was a technologically current global superpower. A hundred years later, Barack nObama is trying to demonstrate that the world's greatest superpower can operate within the constraints of his climate change agenda with a Navy, Mitt Romney noted in 2012, that is the smallest its ever been since 1917. We suppose that's one way to pay tribute to the past.
          On Wednesday, the "Great Green Fleet" launched from San Diego to demonstrate that it can steam across the world's oceans using nothing but alternative fuel. The Department of Defense wanted the U.S. Navy to run on a 50/50 mix of traditional petroleum and biofuels by year 2020. It seemed to be making headway by using a plant-based jet fuel — for which it paid $29.30 a gallon. After Congress mandated that any alternative fuel had to be competitive with petroleum fuel, the military lowered its standards, as the fuel some ships in the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group are burning is a blend of 10% biofuel and 90% petroleum. In other words, those green ships are running on a biofuel mix similar to the one found at the common gas station. At least the price is right — $2.05 per gallon — for a biofuel that's composed of beef fat. How American.
          While the nObama administration might cite warm, fuzzy feelings for turning the U.S. Navy green, the move toward biofuels means an increase in cronyism, with the green industry positioning itself to make a killing. Meanwhile, the price of oil, thanks to OPEC holding steady on production and Iran entering the world market, is heading ever lower. It makes more sense for the U.S. military to develop nuclear power, but this is what we get from a commander in chief more concerned with fighting the temperature than terrorists.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Stonewall Jackson 
"[M]y religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave." —Stonewall Jackson
          Today we mark the birth anniversary of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863), a great military commander and a man of equally great faith who gave his life for the cause of Liberty and states' rights.
          Jackson died of pneumonia after being wounded by a security detail in the dark of night after resounding victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. Upon learning that Jackson lay dying, Gen. Robert E. Lee said, "Give General Jackson my affectionate regards, and say to him: He has lost his left arm but I my right."   -The Patriot Post 
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 DC Blizzard? These Guys Never Take a Break 
Hilly Clinton kept information on her home-brew server that went beyond the government's top-secret designation. This is information dealing with Special Access Programs, a security designation on information to which only a handful of people have access. Information so secretive that when members of Congress who sit on intelligence oversight committees are briefed on it, they cannot take notes. When that level of information was found on Clinton's server, the inspector general of the intelligence community had to get special security clearances just to continue the investigation.
          Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey believes the FBI has enough cause to prosecute Clinton. "But will it be brought?" Mukasey wrote. "That depends in part on the recommendation of FBI Director James Comey, a man described by President nObama, at the time the president appointed him, as 'fiercely independent.'"
          Anthony DeChristopher, a former Special Forces soldier and currently an intelligence analyst, wrote that when his team in Afghanistan lost a thumb drive with classified information and later found it for sale on the black market, the military changed its protocol for working with classified information — for a thumb drive. And as far as what's been found on Hilly's home-brew server, "Special Access Programs (SAP) is a game changer," DeChristopher wrote. "It is now undeniably clear that the results of the FBI investigation will be the end of one of two things: Hilly's bid for the White House or the legitimacy of the FBI — at least when it comes to prosecuting cases on the mishandling of classified material."
          Finally, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, "given the fact that the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day, I think the odds are pretty high" that whatever classified information is on Clinton's server, China, Iran and Russia have it.
          So given the punishment for Gen. David Petraeus, where will Clinton find herself?   -The Patriot Post
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Congress, White House Ignore 
Grim CBO Debt Report
Steve Byas
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Last August, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a grim report regarding projected federal spending and revenues, concluding that the present course of deficit spending cannot continue indefinitely... CBO Director Keith Hall told reporters, “This is an unsustainable path here for federal debt. At some point, it’s going to get to a very high level. Obviously, you can’t predict tipping points, but at some point this becomes a problem.” Conservatives in and out of Congress expressed deep concern over the size and scope of the federal debt, especially since neither House Speaker John backstabber-Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, nor President Barack nObama seemed to share that concern. In fact, backstabber-Boehner had offered little resistance to the leftist agenda out of the White House. As Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit this past summer...
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Iran: ‘We Welcome 
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{pjmedia.com} ~ John hanoi-Kerry said Monday that “the world is safer today” because of the Iran nuclear deal. Details of how loud and long the mullahs laughed have not been released... In reality, the world is more threatened than ever by an aggressive and assertive Iran, confident and swaggering after besting hanoi-Kerry at the negotiating table. As the International Atomic Energy Agency certified Iran’s compliance with the stipulations of the nuclear deal and the U.S. and EU ended sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the head of Iran’s armed forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, was not in a conciliatory mood. After Iran seized two U.S. Navy boats and briefly held ten American sailors hostage, Firouzabadi declared:
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Judge Napolitano:
Case Against Hilly 'Overwhelming, Damning
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{pjmedia.com} ~ Reacting to the latest bombshell revelations about Hilly Clinton's email arrangement, Judge Andrew Napolitano said on The Kelly File Wednesday night that Clinton should be lawyering up... because "the case against her is overwhelming, damning and, from her perspective, grave." Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, continues to insist that the latest allegations about her emails while secretary of State change “nothing." During a Wednesday interview with NPR, she said, “I'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the Justice Department, because nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified.” What a liar.
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Fast and Furious Scandal 
Resurfaces—Media Ignore It
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The liberal media avoid reporting on President nObama’s many scandals at any cost, and Fast and Furious is no exception... Despite the media’s studied avoidance of these scandals, their impact continues. When Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents discovered that a weapon from Fast and Furious was found in Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Mexican hideout, there was virtual silence from the mainstream media. But U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling that President nObama cannot use executive privilege to prevent the release of records to Congress has the potential to breathe new life into this ongoing scandal. “Berman Jackson limited her order to information not covered by other protections and told the Justice Department to produce it by Feb. 2,” reports Bloomberg. The judge is an nObama appointee, and yet none of the network evening news shows found this story to be newsworthy. The only mention of it in The Washington Post was in an online blog, PowerPost, under the heading “Hot on the Right,” that linked to a Politico story. You see, it’s a story that only appeals to conservatives, so why bother to put a reporter on it? Don’t expect reporters to suddenly start reporting on Fast and Furious’ ongoing death toll.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fast-and-furious-scandal-resurfaces-media-ignore-it/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email012116&utm_medium=email
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Understanding the Caliphate Curve
Daniel Greenfield
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{aim.org} ~ A report by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation found that the Syrian rebels were mostly Islamic Jihadists and that even if ISIS were defeated there were 15 other groups sharing its worldview that were ready to take its place... And that’s just in Syria. The official ISIS story, the one that we read in the newspapers, watch on television and hear on the radio, is that it’s a unique group whose brand of extremism is so extreme that there is no comparing it to anything else. ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. Or with anything else. It’s a complete aberration. Except for the 15 other Jihadist groups ready to step into its shoes in just one country. Islamic Supremacist organizations like ISIS can be graded on the “Caliphate curve”. The Caliphate curve is based on how quickly an Islamic organization wants to achieve the Caliphate. What we describe as “extreme” or “moderate” is really the speed at which an Islamic group seeks to recreate the Caliphate.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/understanding-the-caliphate-curve/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email012116&utm_medium=email
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Jewish Human Rights 
Group ‘Horrified’: British Doctors’ Request to Revoke Membership From World Medical Association
algemeiner 
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{algemeiner.com} ~ An international Jewish human rights organization expressed horror at a request made to the World Medical Association (WMA) by a large group of UK doctors that Israel’s membership be revoked... The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) sent a letter to WMA President Sir Michael Marmot to protest. SWC Director for International Relations Dr. Shimon Samuels warned that “the very mission of the World Medical Association (WMA) ethics programme is about to be impugned by a group of 71 British physicians intent on expelling the Israel Medical Association from your membership.”
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US Grand Strategy: 
Destroying ISIS and al Qaeda
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{aei.org} ~ The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute conducted an intensive multi-week exercise to frame, design, and evaluate potential courses of action that the United States could pursue... to defeat the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. The planning group weighed the national security interests of the United States, its partners, its rivals, and its enemies operating in or influencing the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. It considered how current policies and interests are interacting in this complex environment. It identified the minimum end states that would satisfy American national security requirements as well as the likely outcomes of current policies. The group also assessed the threat posed by al Qaeda and ISIS to the United States, both in the immediate and long-term, and tested the probable outcomes of several potential courses of action that the United States could pursue in Iraq and Syria.
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Libya's Chaos: Threat to the West
Mohamed Chtatou
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The Skhirat Agreement (left), with its good intentions, is not enough to save Libya from Islamist militias such as Fajr Libya (right).
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In 2011 when Libya's former ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, was murdered by the mob of militiamen, many people believed it was the beginning of a new, free, democratic country... Libya, however, did not become free or democratic. Instead, it became fractured, violent, tribal and divided. Rather than starting a new life, Libya was sliding slowly toward some sort of hell. Over the years, as violence became a daily casual occurrence, Libya almost became synonymous in the news with disorder, and on its way to becoming yet another failed stated, like Somalia. In spite of that, hope emerged anew with the attempt of the United Nations to negotiate a national agreement through UNMSIL (United Nations Support Mission in Libya).
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Robert Gated:
Odds are Pretty High' Russia,
China, and Iran Compromised Hilly's Server
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates visited the Hugh Hewitt Radio show to talk about his new book, “A Passion For Leadership: Lessons On Change And Reform From 50 Years Of Public Service.”... But the host rightfully could not let an interview with a former nObama cabinet secretary go by without asking about Hilly Clinton’s email problems. Gates was pretty sure that some unfriendly countries got into Clinton’s server, “Well, given the fact that the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day, I think the odds are pretty high.” And when that is combined with the recent news that information that was classified as higher than top secret was on her email, it means that Ms. Clinton’s cavalier attitude toward secrecy may have exposed America’s most sensitive information to belligerent countries—not exactly what we need in a Commander-in-Chief.
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Inspector General Confirms
Clinton Emails Contained Most Secretive Intel
Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ According to a letter sent last week by Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III to senior lawmakers, the emails on Hilly Clinton’s homebrew server contained information that was more than secret... In fact, a recent review conducted by intelligence agencies located several dozen emails that contained intelligence classified as SAP (special access programs). To give you an idea, SAP is one step above TOP SECRET. “There is absolutely no way that one could not recognize SAP material,” a former senior law enforcement member told Fox News. “It is the most sensitive of the sensitive.” The SAP intel in question was so sensitive, in fact, that McCullough and his aides had to obtain special clearance just to be read in on the info before viewing the sworn declaration regarding the Clinton emails.        http://punchingbagpost.com/inspector-general-confirms-clinton-emails-contained-most-secretive-intel
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Don't Thank nObama for Cheap Oil
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{townhall.com} ~ The big fall-off-your-chair moment during President nObama's State of the Union address came when he proclaimed: "We've cut our imports of foreign oil by nearly 60 percent and cut carbon pollution more than any other country on Earth. Gas under two bucks a gallon ain't bad, either."
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Sure, Mr. President. Take a bow for the smashing success of the very domestic oil and gas industry that you have tried to destroy.
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Even nObama couldn't carry this off. The smirk on his face as he sang the praises of the oil and gas industry was unmistakable.
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Right after nObama boasted of these low gas prices, he reverted back to form, by sermonizing:
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"We've got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy" -- by which he means fossil fuels. Then the hammer came down: "I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet."
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So, 30 seconds after toasting lower gas prices, he pledges to find ways to make gas more expensive.
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The irony of the nObama war against fossil fuels is that the shale oil and gas revolution in America has saved nObama. During his first term, all the net new jobs created in America came from oil and gas as fracking took off in Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. nObama owed his re-election to the frackers, but instead he and his Environmental Protection Agency have tried to shut them down.
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The EPA has issued three regulations in the last year -- the clean power plant rule, the methane rule and tougher clean air statutes -- that have begun to shut down fossil fuel production in America, as planned.
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How bad are these rules? According to Harold Hamm of Continental Resources, a major driller in North Dakota: "These rules and red tape are killing us. They are raising our costs at a time when oil prices are low, and margins are already thin. This means layoffs of workers." nObama seems to be doing exactly what the Saudi oil sheiks are trying to do: shutting down fracking in America.
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nObama won't allow drilling on federal lands. He wants to raise taxes on oil and gas production. He won't give the go-ahead to the Keystone XL pipeline, or any pipelines for that matter, and he just handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the solar and wind industries from bankruptcy. Other than that, he's pro-oil and pro-gas.
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He also neglected to mention that the major reason that U.S. carbon emissions are falling is that cheap and clean-burning natural gas, due to shale drilling, is becoming the No. 1 source of electricity production in America. The lesson: Free markets and innovation are almost always the best way to clean the environment.
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If nObama's vision of an American energy future is fulfilled, the price of oil and gas will skyrocket -- again. He'd like that to happen. This is the only possible scenario that makes green energy financially feasible.
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One last point about low gas prices. How come when oil prices rise, the entire industry is accused of price fixing to gouge consumers? But if the industry has the monopolistic powers to keep prices as high as possible, why aren't they doing that now? The answer is in the new era of shale oil and gas this a brutally price-competitive industry -- unlike in the past, where the OPEC monopoly was able to fix prices. OPEC can't manipulate prices now, because the U.S. will soon be the world's largest producer. All the more reason to let the domestic oil and gas industry flourish.
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For now, nObama, unbelievably, will hog the credit for lower gas prices that he never wanted in the first place, while he finds every way possible to make gas more expensive in the years to come. No wonder voters have grown so cynical of the political class.
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Saturday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 23, 2016 at 9:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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The Republican Race Heats Up 
While Hilly Clinton Falters
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 Of Course the Establishment Backs Trump 
In the days leading up to the Feb. 1 Iowa Caucus, the Republican presidential field has undergone some significant shifts. After last Thursday's debate, the consensus seemed to favor a three-man race — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. But some would go even further to say it's really down to Trump and Cruz. Establishment versus Outsider. But who is who?
          As for the rest of the field, Rubio's path to the nomination seems to be getting more, not less, difficult. His battles with Cruz and Chris Christie have exposed the problems his record poses for both conservatives and the rest of the base, particularly on immigration. And without a win in the early states, as seems likely, many wonder if Rubio can stay strong long enough to turn the tide.
          And what of establishment darling Jeb Bush? Well, Jeb! has spent much of this contest polling in the single digits, and despite (or rather because of) his attacks on Trump and his numerous and uninspiring policy speeches, he just isn't gaining traction with an electorate looking to throw the bums out. An almost sure loss in New Hampshire could mark the end for Bush.
          As for Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, Rand Paul and the rest? We can expect to see them all to be picked off in the early primaries as their predictably meager showings lead to a bleeding of cash and supporters and the inevitable campaign suspension announcements.
 -The Patriot Post
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 Half a Million Foreigners Overstay Their Visas 
The Department of Homeland Security this week published its Entry/Exit Overstay Report For Fiscal Year 2015. The Visa Waiver Program study "provides data on departures and overstays, by country, for foreign visitors to the United States who were lawfully admitted into the United States for specific, temporary purposes, but overstayed their lawful admission period." From the report: "In FY 2015, of the nearly 45 million nonimmigrant visitor admissions through air or sea ports of entry that were expected to depart in FY 2015, DHS determined that 527,127 individuals overstayed their admission, for a total overstay rate of 1.17 percent." And "more than 90 percent of those who remained in the country illegally, a total of 482,781, were believed to still be present through the end of last year," the Washington Examiner reports.
          Even a fraction of that number would be concerning. Adds the Examiner, "[A] number of countries with ties to terrorism had significant numbers of nationals still in the U.S. accounted for by the federal government: 1,435 from Pakistan, 681 from Iraq, 564 from Iran, 440 from Syria, 219 from Yemen, 219 from Afghanistan, and 56 from Libya." This particular study doesn't take other significant visa programs into account, so the actual number of nonimmigrants who are still in the U.S. despite having expired visas is higher. Among the ways terrorists can slip through under the radar, none are more obvious than our broken visa system. After all, those overstaying visas account for somewhere between 40% and 50% of illegals in this country.  -The Patriot Post
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 NOAA Confirms 2015 Was World's Warmest, But...  A few days before a blizzard threatens to shut down Washington, DC, probably isn't the best time to make a major global warming announcement. Nevertheless, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today said that the 2015 global temperature finished 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit above average, which easily beat out 2014. According to the report, "This was the highest among all 136 years in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set [in 2014] by 0.29°F (0.16°C) and marking the fourth time a global temperature record has been set this century. This is also the largest margin by which the annual global temperature record has been broken." An independent analysis by NASA foundsimilar results.
          However, satellite measurements were less daunting. NOAA says, "The 2015 temperature for the lower troposphere (roughly the lowest five miles of the atmosphere) was third highest in the 1979-2015 record, at 0.65°F (0.36°C) above the 1981–2010 average, as analyzed by the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH). It was also third highest on record, at 0.47°F (0.26°C) above the 1981–2010 average, as analyzed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS)." And that's exactly what climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer predicted last month. In fact, he went a step further: "What is interesting is to consider the possibility that 2016 will indeed be a record warm year, even in the UAH (and probably RSS) satellite data. This is because the second year of El Niño year couplets is almost always the warmest, and 2015 is only the first year." Translation: Expect 2016 to be record warm, even among satellite measurements. And when it is, remember that it was forecasted using natural variables. Speaking of which, the current El Niño is expected to flip to La Niña later this year. How will NOAA respond when global temperatures then dropbeginning in 2017?  -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Supporter Lena Dunham 
Bashes Clintons in Private
Tiffany Gabbay
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ She is stumping for Democrat presidential candidate Hilly Clinton and claims to be one of the frontrunner's biggest supporters, but it's now revealed that during a private event actress Lena Dunham blasted Bill and Hilly Clinton over their treatment of women... in particular those who accused the former president of sexual misconduct. Dunham, star of the HBO series, Girls, was disturbed by how the Clintons discredited women who accused Bill Clinton of rape, yet still defends Hilly. The actress maintains that Hilly is the target of hatred because she is a "successful woman." A successful woman by lying and cheating.         http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hillary-supporter-lena-dunham-bashes-clintons-private
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Palestinians: Western Media's 
Ignorance and Bias
Khaled Abu Toameh
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Two Western journalists recently asked to be accompanied to the Gaza Strip to interview Jewish settlers living there... No, this is not the opening line of a joke. These journalists were in Israel at the end of 2015, and they were deadly serious. Imagine their embarrassment when it was pointed out to them that Israel had completely pulled out of the Gaza Strip ten years ago. These "parachute journalists," as they are occasionally called, are catapulted into the region without being briefed on the basic facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sadly, correspondents such as these are more the rule than the exception. A particular clueless British reporter springs to mind.
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Hilly Campaign: 
nObama-Appointed Inspector 
General Part of Right-Wing Conspiracy
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Smell that? That’s the sweet smell of a desperate campaign... Yesterday, Fox News reported that the Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III told both the Senate Intelligence and Senate Foreign Relations committees that intelligence agencies found messages on Hilly Clinton’s server relating to what are known as “special access programs,” or SAP. That’s an even higher level of secrecy than top secret. Today Hilly’s Spokesman Brian Fallon, was interviewed by Alisyn Camerota on CNN and claimed that the nObama-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General’s report is the result of political coordination with the Republicans.  In other words the nObama-appointed IG was part of what the “vast right wing conspiracy” which was invented by Ms. Clinton in 1998: That is so much bull now, as it was in 1998. Can you smell it?        http://lidblog.com/hillary-clinton-campaign-obama-appointed-inspector-general-part-of-right-wing-conspiracy/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=007e6c7b2e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-007e6c7b2e-291705165
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Hilly's Aide Huma Abedin 
Strongly Linked to Radical Islam, 
Saudi Arabian Government
Matalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Throughout Hilly Clinton’s political career, one thing has remained consistent: Huma Abedin has been by her side... Abedin has held a number of roles within the Clinton team including the ambiguous “body woman”, traveling chief of staff, senior adviser, and deputy chief of staff. Despite this very public career path, not much is known about Abedin outside of her relationship with disgraced New York congressman, Anthony Wiener. However, a recent Vanity Fair article shed light on the past of Clinton’s right hand woman. Abedin moved to Saudi Arabia with her family at a young age where her father, along with Abdullah Omar Nasseef, the then president of King Abdulaziz University, founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Her father then became the first editor of its Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, where Huma worked between 1996 and 2008.       http://punchingbagpost.com/hillary-aide-huma-abedin-strongly-linked-to-radical-islam-saudi-arabian-government
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Former Intelligence Chairman
Warns 'Stealth Jihad' Is Moving 
Through The West
Ginni Thomas
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Former House Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra is genuinely worried about the fundamental changes President Barack nObama has made to American foreign policy... according to this 28-minute exclusive video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation. A Michigan congressman for 18 years, the native-born Dutchman is a man of integrity and candor who has seen American statecraft up close. His years in politics gives Hoekstra the perspective that "the ruling elite in Washington is becoming disconnected from citizens." Hoekstra said when former President George W. Bush and nObama claim "Islam is a religion of peace," many citizens are taken aback. Americans think,"'Whoa. They're beheading Christians. They're suicide bombers. They're taking gays and lesbians and throwing them off the tops of buildings and they're selling women into sex slavery. That doesn't kind of look like a religion of peace to me,'" Hoekstra said in the interview.
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The Inside Track From Israel's 
Gaza Border Defenders
Paul Alster
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Like it or not, the Iran nuclear deal is done. In much of the Middle East, defense officials in many states believe that a sizeable proportion of the soon-to-be released $100 billion Iranian windfall will be directed toward funding proxy armies of the Islamic Republic, for whom the Jewish state remains the prime target... Israel's focus is now, more than ever, on defense and surveillance. In the north, Hizballah, Iran's proxy Lebanese army, remains a massive threat to regional stability, siding with Syria's disgraced President Bashar Assad and his saviors from Russia. In Gaza, it is no secret that a previous rift between Iran and Hamas has been smoothed over to further mutual objectives and that another, and possibly more brutal round of hostilities between Israel and Hamas may not be far away. "The sanctions relief and the nuclear deal with Iran represent a strategic shift that the IDF will have to tackle over the next decade," Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said Monday in a speech at the INSS conference in Tel Aviv. "We also see Iran's attempt to influence Arab Israelis and those in the Gaza Strip, and the estimation is that as Iran's economic situation improves, over the next one-to-two years, it will divert considerably more resources into opposing Israel, via the Iranian military industry."        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5136/the-inside-track-from-israel-gaza-border-defenders
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BREAKING: Benghazi Dem- "I Will Resign"
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{americanactionnews.com} ~ “Cummings agreed to resign from Congress if his office was responsible for leaking Benghazi committee testimony, then tried to walk it back,” said Ferguson. “He is already under an Ethics investigation for similar charges...  If the leaks are traced back to Cummings, he has no choice but to resign from Congress for obstructing an official investigation.” During an exclusive noon campaign fundraising event at posh Capitol Hill cocktail lounge Stanton and Greene, Cummings was confronted by Stop Hilly PAC Political Director Donald Ferguson on Democrat efforts to obstruct the Benghazi probe. Stop Hilly PAC staff attended the event after the Campaign bizarrely sent an invitation to Dan Backer, the Counsel for Stop Hilly that Cummings had personally attacked in an official House press release as part of his campaign of obstruction. Say good-by Cummings.
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Hilly's Path Back to 9/11
Arnold Steinberg
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The Iowa primary caucuses will be held one week from Tuesday. But a defining moment happened about three months ago in Des Moines when Hilly Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley held their second debate... That’s when Hilly was unprepared for an easily anticipated question about her connections to Wall Street. Her incoherence reminded of when Jeb Bush, once his party’s frontrunner, flubbed his most likely question: “Knowing what we know now, would you have invaded Iraq?” When that Democratic debate at Iowa’s Drake University turned to a discussion of Hilly’s relationship with Big Money, Bernie Sanders was precise.  Wall Street supports Hilly, he said, because, “They expect to get something. Everybody knows that.” And then it was Hilly’s turn.     http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261541/hillarys-path-back-911-arnold-steinberg
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Did John hanoi-Kerry
Just Admit to Funding Terrorism?
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{minutemennews.com} ~ U.S. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry on Thursday admitted that some of the $55 billion in sanctions relief that will be released to Iran under the nuclear deal will ultimately end up in the hands of terrorists... “I think that some will end up in the hands of the IRGC or of other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists,” Mr. hanoi-Kerry said in an interview with CNBC, using an acronym for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard. “You know, to some degree, I’m not going to sit here and tell you that every component of that can be prevented, but I can tell you this,” Mr. hanoi-Kerry continued. “Right now, we are not seeing the early delivery of funds going to that kind of endeavor at this point in time. I’m sure at some point some of it will.” Then why did you agree on this Iran deal?        http://minutemennews.com/did-john-kerry-just-admit-to-funding-terrorism/
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GOP Reps Subpoena Treasury Secretary Over nObamacare's 'Unlawful Payments'
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Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew 
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{townhall.com} ~ Two GOP representatives have subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew to provide documents to the Committee on Energy and Commerce regarding the shady business dealings of President nObama’s health care legislation... House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX)are determined to get to the bottom of the $5 billion that was shelled out to insurance companies under the so called Affordable Care Act. The payments in question appear to have been made to reduce the out-of-pocket costs for people enrolled in nObamacare. As such, Upton and Brady are requesting relevant information from Lew because such “cost-sharing reduction” payments as these appear to have been need to be appropriated by Congress. In a statement on the committee's website, they explain that they were forced to issue a subpoena after the White House dragged its feet for a year.        http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2016/01/21/gop-reps-subpoena-treasury-secretary-jacob-lew-for-obamacare-answers-n2107506?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
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The Republican Race Heats Up 
While Hilly Clinton Falters
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{townhall.com} ~ The race for president is accelerating in high gear, or, rather, the races for president -- in the Republican and Democratic parties, in the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and primaries and caucuses to come. How's it going? Let's look at these separate races.
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The Iowa Republican caucuses: The polls show a two-way race here between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, with little room for an outsider to crash through to victory as Mike Huckabee did in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012. Each of the poll leaders has recently lobbed a cheap-shot attack on the other, and each slapped the other down in last week's Fox Business debate.
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Trump's coy hints that Cruz may not be a "natural-born citizen" may have rolled back Cruz's Iowa surge, but Cruz knocked them down convincingly in the debate. But then Cruz slyly charged that Trump embodies, without specifying just how, "New York values," and Trump responded by reminding everyone of how all Americans admired New Yorkers for their response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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It looks like a close contest between Cruz's base of religious conservatives (57 percent of caucus-goers in 2012) and Trump's base of non-college-graduates (who could substantially increase Republicans' previous anemic caucus turnout). Far behind, running third in polls, is Marco Rubio. Rubio, perhaps responding to Rich Lowry's observation in National Review that his sunny temperament is out-of-sync with Republican voters' anger, angrily attacked Barack nObama, Hilly Clinton, Ted Cruz and Chris Christie. Which has relevance for:
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The New Hampshire Republican primary: In 1984, Gary Hart leveraged a 16 percent second place in Iowa to a win in New Hampshire. Rubio surely hopes a distant third in Iowa, which is likely if Ben Carson continues to sag, will do something like that for him in New Hampshire, where he is competing with three other candidates -- Christie, Jeb Bush, John Kasich -- for the state's many moderate and/or secular voters.
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Christie's blunt style has been effective in numerous town-hall events there, and in the debate Rubio went after him on Common Core, gun control, the Sotomayor Supreme Court appointment and Planned Parenthood. Christie concentrated on sharp, even snide attacks on Barack nObama, hoping Republicans would forget his pre-election-week hug of the president in 2012, and came out strong on foreign policy. But his ridiculing of squabbling senators looks like a process argument that won't sway votes.
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Jeb Bush and John Kasich largely ignored their New Hampshire competitors. Bush went after Trump, with solid criticisms of his call for banning Muslims from the country. But did he show the sense of command voters seek in a president? Kasich was less frenetic than in past debates. Both candidates have records in office that deserve respect -- but haven't gotten much of that recently.
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The national Republican race: Many observers think the race will come down to a choice of Rubio and Cruz, and the two went at it on two major issues. On immigration Cruz attacked Rubio for supporting the Gang of Eight "comprehensive" legislation and Rubio attacked Cruz for flip-flopping on specifics.
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More enlightening was their intellectually serious argument over their significantly different tax plans. Expect much more of this if they achieve their goals in Iowa and New Hampshire, plus confrontations on their significant differences on foreign policy.
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The Democratic race: January Republican polls look a lot like Republican polls in December. January Democratic polls look a lot different from those taken before the two-week holiday blackout period.
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Before the break Hilly Clinton was leading Bernie Sanders by solid margins nationally and in Iowa, and they were tied in New Hampshire. In January Clinton's national lead has been cut by two-thirds; she and Sanders are statistically tied in Iowa, and Sanders has a bigger lead in New Hampshire. Did Clinton fare poorly in extended family holiday dinner table debates?
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Clinton has responded with none of the political and policy deftness Bill Clinton showed during most of his political career until he picked up his pardoning pen in the last hours of his presidency.
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She continues to hammer Sanders on gun control, the one issue on which he's to her right, but has done nothing to restore her credibility. She has run ads suggesting Sanders would cut off all government health care -- not an intellectually or politically sustainable argument.
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Clinton can still win even if she loses Iowa and New Hampshire. But she doesn't look like a strong nominee.
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Friday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 22, 2016 at 1:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
 
 
 
Featuring:
Seeing Bigots Under Every Rock
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More Petraeus Punishment Looms as Hilly Evades Scrutiny 
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is weighing whether to add to retired General David Petraeus's punishment for the latter's confessed  mishandling of classified information. The Pentagon could demote Petraeus, stripping him of one of his four stars — a move that could cost Petraeus not only hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost pension money but deal yet another blow to his once-sterling reputation as one of the most brilliant military men of this generation. His "surge" saved Iraq — until Barack nObama abandoned it. According to The Daily Beast's initial report, Carter is seeking to "to send a message that even men of Petraeus's fame and esteemed reputation are not immune to punishment." But it's more likely the nObama administration leveling retribution for a commander who has criticized nObama's strategy. As Investor's Business Daily put it, "The real goal is a Chicago-style warning flare to any retiring military to keep your mouth shut. And don't testify before the Benghazi committee, as Petraeus just did."
          Equal application of justice is a welcome idea, but will the same level of punishment and scrutiny apply to another famous person who happens to be running for president? A newly disclosed letter from intelligence Inspector General Charles McCullough reveals that Hilly Clinton had "several dozen emails containing classified information determined by the [intelligence community] element to be at the CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, and TOP SECRET/SAP levels." SAP stands for "special access programs, and that information is even more sensitive than "top secret." Some 1,300 classified emails have so far been discovered. There's no way Clinton didn't know exactly what she was doing, and her actions did far more damage to national security than Petraeus's. She's the one who might best preserve nObama's legacy, but we still think it's possible she'll be indicted by the FBI, and that her candidacy is serving as a placeholder for Joe loose lips-Biden or Elizabeth Warren at the Democrat convention.  -The Patriot Post
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 SCOTUS to Review Obama's Unilateral Amnesty 
Finally, after a year of legal hurdles in the lower courts, the Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of Barack nObama's unilateral amnesty. On Tuesday, the justices agreed to hear United States v. Texas, the subject of two executive actions. "One, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), would halt deportations and offer work permits to the parents of U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents," The Hill explains. "The other would expand nObama's 2012 program — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative — which provides the same protections to some high-achieving illegal immigrants brought to the country before age 16. The expanded program would simply extend DACA eligibility to a greater number of people." 
          Twenty-six states sued to stop nObama's amnesty shortly after it went into effect. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued a temporary injunction  last February, correctly accusing nObama of exceeding his executive authority. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed in November and upheld the injunction. But the Supreme Court will ultimately have the final say. The timing is interesting to say the least. The Hill notes, "If the justices had declined to [take up nObama's amnesty] in the next round of cases, it would have solidified the Fifth Circuit's injunction through the end of nObama's White House tenure." Since a Republican president could undo these actions as early as next January, the justices' decision to take up the case leaves open the possibility that they have enough support to uphold nObama's amnesty. The administration's track record in cases regarding executive overreach, however, suggests otherwise. We'll find out by June.   -The Patriot Post
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 Iran Embarrasses U.S. in Prisoner Swap 
In a twist of statecraft, the United States waited until the five Iranian-Americans held prisoner by Iran were safely on an airplane out of Iran before slapping sanctions against the country for test-firing ballistic missiles — sanctions that prevent 11 organizations and individuals associated with the tests from using U.S. banks. But it sure wasn't the diplomatic victory nObama wants us to believe. Iran still gets its $150 billion in unfrozen money thanks to the nuclear deal. And the administration left a man behind: Former FBI agent Robert Levinson still remains in Iranian custody. Furthermore, the administration claims it learned about Levinson's fate the same way nObama learns about so many other major news events: through the news.
          State Department spokesman John Kirby said, "Unfortunately, so many other people found out about it through press reports because the Iranians leaked the information early, too early for us to have made the phone calls and notifications that we wanted to make. Believe me, nobody is happy about the way that went down. That's not the way that we wanted it to happen." In the same way Iran humiliated nObama when it broadcasted the images of detained U.S. sailors when their boats drifted into Iranian waters last week, the country is trying to embarrass the United States by broadcasting news of Levinson so that the U.S. couldn't notify Levinson's family in a respectful way. The missile tests and failed swap of Levinson could be another sign that Iran's hard-line leaders are marginalizing moderates. Iran will hold parliamentary elections soon, and of the 12,000 candidates, nearly two-thirds of the candidates, the majority of them moderate, were disqualified by Iran's Guardian Council. Even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's grandson was disqualified because the candidate advocating for reform missed a test into his knowledge of Islamic law.  -The Patriot Post
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FBI and DHS Investigating
Kent State Professor for Supporting ISIS
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ According to Fox News, “an independent probe” turned up some “disturbing posts” on his Facebook page “praising Usama bin Laden and urging Al Qaeda fighters to merge with the black-clad terror army.”... “Kent State is fully cooperating with the FBI,” said University Spokesman Eric Mansfield. “As this is an ongoing investigation, we will have no further comment.” Mansfield would not comment on whether or not Pino would continue to teach at the university as he’s investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force for supporting ISIS and recruiting students to join the terror group. However a Kent State spokesperson told FoxNews.com that Pino is still teaching classes.      https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/fbi-and-dhs-investigating-kent-state-professor-for-supporting-isis/
Video:  Here is a video from 2010 of Pino in full taqiyya mode – sounding more like a hippy-drippy, new-age Gaia-worshiper than an ISIS fanboi.
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nObama Continues Caving
to Iran While Taking Credit for Diplomacy
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The mainstream media cannot stand that the film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, in depicting the violence in Benghazi and the heroism of the Global Response Staff (GRS) has a straightforward common-sense message... Instead, reporters like Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post see fit to mock that heroism, and even suggest that President nObama’s latest appeasement to Iran deserves equal Hollywood fame. “But, as Secretary of State John F. hanoi-Kerry secured the release of American prisoners in Iran just hours after ‘13 Hours’ opened, the movie’s simplistic, shooting-good-talking-bad moral scheme began to ring impressively false,” argues Hornaday. “Maybe one day, State Department envoy Brett McGurk, who led the team that negotiated the release, will get his own big-screen blockbuster, even if it doesn’t feature prominent biceps, heavy ordnance and a careening SUV with its wheels on fire.” A key message of 13 Hours, and the Benghazi scandal, is that the GRS’s gun-toting heroism wouldn’t have been necessary if President nObama and Secretary of State Hilly Clinton hadn’t been derelict in their duty to secure the U.S. Special Mission Compound beforehand, or to provide military support to the Americans once the shooting started.
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Missile Defense Agency
Head Syring on North Korean Nuclear Tests
John Grady
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Vice Adm. James Syring briefing at the Pentagon
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{news.usni.org} ~ While terming North Korea’s most recent nuclear tests “alarming and provoking,” the director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said he doesn’t believe they show any increase in Pyongyang’s technical capabilities... Speaking Tuesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think-tank, Vice Adm. James Syring said the United States’ ballistic missile defense (BMD) posture is unchanged for now. The agency will, however, “continue to watch it closely and continue to watch North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s actions with scrutiny.” He added in answer to a question on the North Korean tests: “I believe we are absolutely on the right path to stay ahead of that threat.” In answer to another question about agency priorities, Syring said the Redesigned Kill Vehicle is “the necessary and first step” before moving onto the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle. He said one question the agency faces is “how do you improve reliability” of the kill vehicles “for decades to come?” He said the three-contractor teaming on the project “has worked well” and the first flight test, without an intercept, is scheduled for 2018.        http://news.usni.org/2016/01/19/missile-defense-agency-head-syring-on-north-korean-nuclear-tests?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=4f8d5a6d8a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-4f8d5a6d8a-231491269&mc_cid=4f8d5a6d8a&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Arms for hostages, the sequel
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Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on what is expected to be “implementation day,” the day the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verifies that Iran has met all conditions under the nuclear deal, in Vienna January 16, 2016. 
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{aei.org} ~ As the United States and the international community lift sanctions on Iran and release to Tehran upwards of $100 billion in frozen assets, the Islamic Republic has announced that it has released four Iranian-American hostages... UPDATE: A fifth American, Matthew Trevithick, is also being released by Iran, U.S. officials have reported. President nObama and Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry might celebrate the release as a diplomatic coup, never mind that the deal abandons Robert Levinson, the longest-held hostage, but it’s worth remembering what happened the last time the United States effectively bribed Iran to release hostages. There is broad consensus today that the Reagan-era “Arms for Hostages” scheme was a strategic and moral mistake. Few people remember its genesis, however: the desire to cultivate relations with relative moderates and pragmatists in the Iranian power structure in order to privilege them relative to the hardliners. In other words, the logic behind the Reagan-era strategy was exactly what nObama’s team would embrace three decades later.        http://www.aei.org/publication/arms-for-hostages-the-sequel/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=012015
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Evidence Growing that a
Benghazi Stand-Down Order was Given
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Evidence seems to building to confirm the accusation that troops were given an order to “stand down” and not help the Americans under attack on 9/11/12... Lost amid the recent stories about the Trump/Cruz pissing war and Hilly losing her lead over Larry David I mean Bernie Sanders, was a major Benghazi story. Evidence from the House Select committee and from investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson seems to confirm the accusation that troops were given an order to “stand down” and not help the Americans under attack on 9/11/12. The Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), was interviewed by Boston Herald Radio  on Wednesday and related that a number of witnesses testified that a stand-down order was given to military assets in proximity to Benghazi the night of the terrorist attack on 9/11/12. He also acknowledged that there were witnesses who denied a stand down order was given. I would like to see those men step forward and say so. Then face the ones who said there was an order to stand down.
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nObama and GOP Unleash
“Community Schools” to Replace Parents
Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Parents, beware — Big Brother is coming for your kids. Buried deep inside the mammoth “bipartisan” so-called “education” legislation approved last month, dubbed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), is a radical expansion of what the statute refers to as “full-service community schools.”... The controversial institutions, more accurately described as parental replacement centers, seek to oversee every aspect of your child's life, ranging from their “mental health” and “well being” to nutrition and even dentistry. You are in the crosshairs, too, as the nObama administration defines parents as “equal partners” in child rearing. And those are just some of the many unconstitutional provisions in the bill and beyond that aim to turn government schools into parents, and parents into pariahs.   In short, an increasingly out-of-control Uncle Sam — with support from the leadership of both major political parties — wants to raise your child. And with the support of virtually every education-related special interest group you can think of, the latest federal education statute, passed by the GOP Congress and cheerfully signed as a “miracle” by nObama last month, is among the primary means by which the feds plan to further undermine and attack your role as parents. The implications of the accelerating assaults on families, parental rights, constitutionally limited government, the future of America's children, and the future of the nation itself cannot be overstated.
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nObama halts most new
coal-mining leases on public lands
Amy Harder
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The nObama administration is placing a moratorium on most new leases for coal mining on public lands
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{libertyinvestor.com} The nObama administration announced Friday it will place a moratorium on most new leases for coal mining on public lands... while the Interior Department conducts a review of such leasing and considers plans to overhaul it. The department will review the environmental and public health impacts of coal production on federal lands and “how to ensure American taxpayers are earning a fair return for the use of their public resources,” according to the department. The review is expected to take three years, so that is how long the moratorium is expected to last, though a new president that takes office next year could change that policy.  http://libertyinvestor.com/obama-halts-most-new-coal-mining-leases-on-public-lands/
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nObama May Have Gone Too Far:
He Just Got Blasted With A Major Lawsuit 
Randy DeSoto
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ The first lawsuit has been filed challenging the constitutionality of President Barack nObama’s executive actions concerning gun control, which he announced earlier this month... Conservative attorney Larry Klayman filed a suit in federal district court in Florida which accuses the president of seeking to circumvent the legislative process and invent new gun laws in violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers. “The president states that he is doing so purely because he does not like the legislative decisions of the Congress,” argues Klayman, the founder of Freedom Watch. “These actions are unconstitutional abuses of the president’s and executive branch’s role in our nation’s constitutional architecture and exceed the powers of the president as set forth in the U.S. Constitution,” he continues.
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New York Times Downplays Palestinian
Terror, Disregards Israeli Victims, 
Distorts English Language
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A knife from a foiled Palestinian stabbing attack
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{algemeiner.com} ~ A media watchdog blasted The New York Times on Wednesday for “continuing to downplay Palestinian terrorism, disregarding both the Jewish victims and the English language.”... The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) was responding to the way a piece that appeared in Tuesday’s “newspaper of record” reported on the current wave of terrorism against Israelis. The article in question, called “Anger in a Palestinian Town Feeds a Cycle of Violence,” does not mention the word “terrorism” in relation to two young Arabs who were killed while engaged in stabbing and rock attacks, referring to their activity instead as “resistance.”        http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/01/20/watchdog-new-york-times-downplays-palestinian-terror-disregards-israeli-victims-distorts-english-language/
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Judge Rules against Obama’s
Use of Executive Privilege on Fast and Furious
TIM BROWN
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{sonsoflibertymedia.com} ~ It appears that Barack Hussein nObama Soetoro Sobarkah has once again acted wrong in the keeping of records about the notorious and criminal Operation Fast and Furious from Congress by executive privilege... On Tuesday, US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson determined that nObama’s use of executive privilege was not necessarily one of impropriety, but said that in light of other information the Justice Department had already released could not be sustained. “This ruling is not predicated on a finding that the withholding was intended to cloak wrongdoing on the part of government officials or that the withholding itself was improper,” Judge Jackson wrote. “There is no need to balance the need against the impact that the revelation of any record could have on candor in future executive decision making, since any harm that might flow from the public revelation of the deliberations at issue here has already been self-inflicted,” Jackson added. “The Department itself has already publicly revealed the sum and substance of the very material it is now seeking to withhold. Since any harm that would flow from the disclosures sought here would be merely incremental, the records must be produced.”        http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2016/01/judge-rules-against-obamas-use-of-executive-privilege-on-fast-and-furious/
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Seeing Bigots Under Every Rock
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{townhall.com} ~ Remember when universities used to encourage freedom of academic inquiry and were seen as intellectual and social preparation for the transition into adulthood? I know; that was a long time ago -- before the left infected these institutions.
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Everyone knows about the leftward slant of most American universities: their monolithic biases; their bent toward politicizing their curricula; and their practice of indoctrinating students. But increasingly the results of leftist community organizing -- the toxins of political correctness -- are seeping into university disciplinary rules.
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This deplorable trend has concerned me for years, but it is particularly disturbing when it is occurring at my alma mater, the University of Missouri.
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I'm not talking about Mizzou's recent racial controversy but reports that the university is now encouraging its students to file a report any time they witness or experience a "bias incident." It would be one thing if they were talking about true incidents of racial or some other form of discrimination, but it appears it's much more expansive than that.
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According to the university's online statement, a "bias incident is an act of intolerance which is committed against any person, group or property and which discriminates, stereotypes, harasses or excludes anyone based on" any of some 20 different categories, from race to religion to gender expression, and yes, even physical appearance.
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Look out, social fraternities. You better make sure no one overhears your actives talking to pledges.
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Does it ever bother you that liberals seem to be preoccupied with these kinds of things -- as if they just sit around stewing about how they might be offended?
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Do you think it helps society for academic institutions and government to shove these things in our faces all the time and invite us to feel offended at the drop of a hat? Shouldn't we aspire to colorblindness, not look for slurs at every opportunity?
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Is it good for students that institutions of higher learning proactively try to turn them into thin-skinned, paranoid wimps? Isn't it bad enough that they offer classes largely devoted to convincing students that men hate and exploit women, whites routinely abuse blacks, the rich are evil and exploit the poor, cops are the enemy and Christians are science-averse Neanderthals -- as well as other types of poisonous bilge?
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I am not discounting actual incidents of racial bias where people are harmed. But I don't think it's healthy for our institutions to pressure students to see racial or other types of prejudice at every turn. Why pit people against each other? Why stoke people's suspicions of each other? Won't that lead to distrust instead of reduce it?
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College students are being groomed for the workforce where they will encounter all kinds of challenges. Should our schools train them not to handle even minor perceived sleights on their own but instead hone their skills as tattletales? I suppose it's not that surprising, considering that progressives advocate cradle-to-grave dependency in other respects.
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The progressive mindset thrives on generating angst between different groups. Along those lines, Katherine Timpf has observed in National Review Online that the university is encouraging not just alleged victims of "bias" to report these incidents but also others who witness them, even if the alleged victim doesn't feel victimized. The school might as well supply volunteer student thought policemen with uniforms to troll around campus to chill speech.
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It appears that this nanny-state administration wants students to report, for example, teasing based on physical appearance. It may not be nice, but does this rise to the level of a disciplinary matter?
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Indeed, "name-calling" is listed on the form as an "act of intolerance." The instructions go so far as to say that "extreme examples of bias incidents -- regardless of severity -- can be reported using this form." Regardless of severity? Wow.
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There's another problem with these speech and conduct codes. Those who promulgate and enforce them often have their own biases and generally don't recognize certain groups as worthy of protection. Do you think, for instance, your typical university administration would consider the dissing of Christianity or conservatism actionable violations of the code?
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These types of overzealous regulations trivialize actual incidents of discrimination and harm the very groups they purport to help as well as society as a whole.
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Maybe the people obsessing over "intolerance" are projecting their own malcontented worldview and would be better served, and would serve others better, if they would just chill out and back off a little bit. Students aren't as helpless or as prejudiced as progressives enjoy depicting them.
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Friday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 22, 2016 at 8:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
 
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Featuring:
Iran and North Korea Share
a Bond Built on the Bomb and America’s Demise
Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.)
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 Feel the Tax Bern 
While Republicans like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are working on ways to lower taxes, Bernie Sanders is rolling out a multitude of ways to raise them. And not just rate tweaks here and there; we're talking tax hikes to the tune of nearly $20 trillion over 10 years. Some $14 trillion in tax hikes on both businesses and individuals are meant to fund Sanders' single-payer health care plan. But Bernie also wants to raise Social Security taxes, other payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, the death tax, corporate taxes, oil taxes and marginal income tax rates. As we've noted before, at least Sanders has the integrity to admit he's a socialist. That ideology is exactly what inspires all these tax proposals, since the Left is all about certain people paying their "fair share" so that income can be redistributed to favored constituents. If you think the economy is in the ditch right now, just wait and see what would happen if Sanders got his way.  -The Patriot Post
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 Robert E. Lee 
Today we take a moment to remember the birth anniversary of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), one of the greatest military commanders in American history. He was also a great man of faith who gave his all for the cause of Liberty and states' rights.
          There were many honorable men of the Confederate States of America, whose objective was, first and foremost, the protection of states rights, and decidedly not the continuation of abhorrent institution of slavery. For a better understanding on the issues of the day, read this perspective on Abraham Lincoln, which was not included in your grade-school civics class. The honor we give these men has its roots in the founding of this great nation.
           Mark Alexander notes in his essay, "Lincoln's Legacy at 200," that "the causal case for states' rights is most aptly demonstrated by the words and actions of Gen. Lee, who detested slavery and opposed secession. In 1860, however, Gen. Lee declined President Abraham Lincoln's request that he take command of the Army of the Potomac, saying that his first allegiance was to his home state of Virginia: 'I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the army, and save in defense of my native state ... I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword.' He would, soon thereafter, take command of the Army of Northern Virginia, rallying his officers with these words: 'Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self-government, liberty, and peace shall find him a defender.'"   -The Patriot Post
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 Could a Movie Derail Hilly Clinton for Good? .
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Benghazi. Four Americans killed. A film with the recurring theme of a fading superpower that trades on its still-existing military power while trying to figure out its purpose. A movie depicting men who were denied everything yet gave everything they had to protect their fellow Americans.
          "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" is the title of this newly released movie and it tells the story of what happened during the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate from the perspective of American fighters on the ground. According to The Washington Post, Paramount insists the film is "not political," but the Post argues that it is political — even though former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton is not mentioned by name and Barack nObama is mentioned only in passing. The Post has a point, but that's only because nObama and Clinton politicized the attack from the beginning.
          Further, while the movie does not directly attack the nObama administration, it does show the general incompetence, corruption and sluggish bureaucracy in Washington. And it shows what our guys on the ground went through having been abandoned by nObama and Clinton.
          National Review's David French, an Iraq war veteran, notes, "The Benghazi controversy is the story of three great failures — the failure to either fortify or evacuate Benghazi when threats increased, the failure to adequately protect and support American personnel during the attack itself, and the repeated lies told the American public after the attack to minimize both the nature of the jihadist threat and the scale of the administration's incompetence."  -The Patriot Post
 
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Supreme Court agrees to review 
nObama immigration plan
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{foxnews.com} ~ The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review President nObama’s plan to shield up to 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation... after lower courts blocked the president’s sweeping executive actions from taking effect. The decision sets up an election-year clash over the controversial plan that many Republicans have likened to “amnesty.” The justices said Tuesday they will consider undoing lower court rulings that blocked the plan from taking effect. The nObama administration had appealed to the Supreme Court last fall.        http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/19/supreme-court-agrees-to-review-obama-immigration-plan.html?intcmp=hpbt3
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Inspector General: Clinton emails had intel from most secretive, classified programs
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{foxnews.com} ~ Hilly Clinton's emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's most secretive and highly classified programs... according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers. Fox News exclusively obtained the text of the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special access programs" (SAP). That indicates a level of classification beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling of the government’s closely held secrets.
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Former Hilly Clinton Spokesman:
There’s No Republican War on Women
Graham Vyse
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{insidesources.com{ ~ For years, Democratic Party leaders have attacked Republicans for waging a “war on women.” Now a former spokesman for the Democratic National Committee — and Hilly Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign... is denouncing that rhetoric as “overly incendiary,” “not true,” and part of why Americans hate politics. “I do not believe that there’s any sort of Republican war on women,” Mo Elleithee said Tuesday. “I hate when people say that, just as I hate when Republicans say that there’s a Democratic war on religion or the military.” Elleithee made his comments at an event for Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, which he’s run since leaving the DNC in June. The longtime Democratic operative later told InsideSources that Republican policies are bad for women, but “overly hyped” political language turns voters off.
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Iran Building Two New Nuke Plants;
Doesn't Violate the Agreement
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{minutemennews.com} ~ Did you know that under the stellar nuclear agreement that John hanoi-Kerry and his cohorts put together, Iran is allowed to continue building nuclear reactors?... Even better – they’re getting help from Russia and China. This administration has got to go! As reported by The Washington Free Beacon: The head of Iran’s atomic energy organization announced on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic, with assistance from Russia and China, will move forward on the construction of two new nuclear power plants, according to comments published in Iranian state-controlled media.        http://minutemennews.com/iran-building-two-new-nuke-plants-but-that-doesnt-violate-the-agreement/
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Clare Lopez Exposes Benghazi, 
Clinton & Blumenthals!
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{noisyroom.net} ~ Clare Lopez, former CIA analyst and member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi chronicles how Hilly Clinton created and plotted the video narrative to deflect attention away from the State Department's illegal gun running operation in Benghazi... This segment examines emails from Sidney Blumenthal, a personal confidant of the Clinton's, which are designed to place the blame of the Benghazi attack NOT of the nObama/Clinton Administration but on the foolish video "Innocence of Muslims." In an almost unbelievable disinformation moment, Sidney leads Hilly to use his son Max's article about the video as the cause of the attack. Do not miss this segment of the Benghazi series, "What Difference Does it Make," where Clare Lopez and Tom Trento deconstruct the Blumenthal/Clinton act of treason.
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Saudi Arabia Dairy Company
buys 1,790 Acres of Land in California
Kerry Lear
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Saudi Arabia's Almarai Co has officially purchased even more farmland in the Southwest of the US. For 32 million, The Saudi food giant acquired the agricultural town of Blithe, California... The company cited alfalfa hay as the reason for securing the land. This is just the next step in the plan by Almarai to phase out the growing of crops and fodder on Saudi Arabia’s home soil. The country is no longer having as much success considering their scarce water resources in their desert environment. So that means, it’s time for them to exploit America’s land and water. The company defended the purchase by saying the deal "forms part of Almarai's continuous efforts to improve and secure its supply of the highest quality alfalfa hay from outside the (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) to support its dairy business. It is also in line with the Saudi government direction toward conserving local resources." Why should the country dry up their own water reserves when they can venture abroad and do so? Even when California is currently experiencing its own a drought.        http://punchingbagpost.com/saudi-arabia-dairy-company-buys-1,790-acres-of-land-in-california
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We've Got It Wrong:
ISIS Is Not the Main Problem in the Middle East
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{pjmedia.com} ~ On a recent reporting trip to Iraq and northern Syria, two things were made apparent to me -- one of them relatively encouraging, the other far less so... The encouraging news is that ISIS is currently in a state of retreat. Not headlong rout, but contraction. The bad news? Our single-minded focus on ISIS as if it were the main or sole source of regional dysfunction is the result of faulty analysis, which in turn is producing flawed policy. Regarding the first issue, 2015 was not a particularly good year for ISIS. In the course of it, the jihadis lost Kobani and then a large area to its east, bringing the Syrian Kurdish fighters of the YPG and their allies to within 30 km of the Caliphate’s “capital” in Raqqa city.        https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/01/19/weve-got-it-wrong-isis-is-not-the-main-problem-in-the-middle-east/
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New Iranian-Backed Terror
Group Makes Inroads in West Bank, Gaza
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A new Iranian-backed terror group is making inroads in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, where it operates underground with the potential capacity to deliver devastating attacks to Israel... according to regional experts who have been investigating the organization’s rise. The group, which goes by the name Harakat al-Sabireen, was established around May 2014 but has begun in recent months to boost its public profile on social media and brag about its plots to wage jihad against Israel, according to information gathered by regional analysts and provided to the Washington Free Beacon. Al-Sabireen is believed to receive $10 million a year from Iran via funds that are smuggled through a large network of tunnels built by terrorists to facilitate illicit travel beneath the Gaza Strip, according to estimates disseminated in the Arab language press.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-backed-terror-group-makes-inroads-west-bank-gaza/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ba3399a99c-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_19_161_19_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ba3399a99c-45611665
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17 Alias Cop Killer Illegal Felon Drug Dealer 
Arrested After High-Speed Chase 
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ He has 17 aliases, is a drug dealer and has murder charges pending in the Dominican Republic. Yet this illegal alien was still roaming around in our country free as a bird... with our supposed Department of Homeland “Security” treating him no differently from the way every other illegal alien is coddled, allowed to roam at will around our country as if he owned the place. The illegal is 60-year-old Ramon Aguasviva-Mejia, who recently lived in Lawrence, MA. He has warrants out of Suffolk Superior Court for drug distribution. Did anyone bother to mention to these Massachusetts liberals who are tying up their court system and catering to a drug dealer in their community that being an illegal alien in the US is illegal? They mention that he is also wanted by Quincy District Court for felony assault, according to police. Yep, he’s still an illegal and he still is being treated better than a citizen.
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Nope. nObama was NOT 
a Constitutional Law Professor
Tim Brown
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{eaglerising.com} ~ During a townhall meeting on guns, which I wrote about here, Barack Hussein nObama Soetoro Sobarkah said, "I believe in the Second Amendment. It is there, written on the paper... It guarantees a right to bear arms. No matter how many times people try to twist my words around — I taught constitutional law, I know a little bit about this — I get it." However, one writer has sought to clarify that nObama was not actually a professor, which means he never taught constitutional law. Karin McQuillan writes at American Thinker: nObama was never a professor; he was a lecturer. He did not have the qualifications to be a professor. nObama never published a single law paper. He was hired by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard. There was no book – just the contract, which he later reneged on. This is not the normal level of accomplishment for a University of Chicago professor or even lecturer. Well, I suppose nObama's deception and outright lies are par for the course. So, no one is surprised by them. In fact, many have questioned his mental stability as a result of his chronic lying. The irony is that he has used the mental health issue to go after people's guns, especially our veterans.        http://eaglerising.com/28861/nope-obama-was-not-a-constitutional-law-professor/
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Iran and North Korea Share
a Bond Built on the Bomb and America’s Demise
Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.)
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{aim.org} ~ In his 2002 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush used the collective tag of the “Axis of Evil” to describe three of “the world’s most dangerous regimes…threatening us with the world’s most destructive weapons.”
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Of those three Axis members – Iraq, North Korea and Iran – the latter two remain committed to destabilizing a world order America seeks to maintain. For them to be successful, America must be destroyed. While one Axis member looks to play the role of an accessory to this evolution, the other looks to be the hit man.
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Evil nurtures evil. We saw this during World War II. Two ideologically diverse dictatorships – Japan and Germany – were able to come together to form the Axis powers along with Italy to combat Western democracies. The Axis powers only failed after the Free World came to understand and defend against the threat.
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We see it happening again today. An incompetent President Barack nObama ignores it at great risk to U.S. national security.
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With Pyongyang’s recent claim it conducted its first successful test of a hydrogen bomb, the plot thickens and the threat to the U.S. increases.
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Some experts doubt Pyongyang did successfully test a hydrogen bomb. However, a ground disturbance, registering at 5.1 magnitude and initially believed to be an earthquake, was detected by international seismic monitoring stations just before North Korea made the announcement. Those seismic characteristics have led others to give Pyongyang’s claim credence.
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Needless to say, the White House – which has proven incapable of recognizing threats from the Islamic State to a nuclear deal with Iran that it has already violated – downplays the North Korea threat as well.
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But, if Pyongyang did test a hydrogen bomb, it is most disturbing as such a weapon is a hundred times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
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While nObama seeks to dismiss the test’s low-kiloton yield and relatively small seismic wave, an expert on electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons, Peter Vincent Pry, does not.
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Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, Pry warns the test may well have been something to cause us major concern – a Super-EMP weapon.
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EMP is created either by nature – i.e., severe solar storm activity striking the Earth – or by man – i.e., a high-altitude detonation of a nuclear device. Regardless of the source, an EMP’s impact would be devastating.
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A strategically detonated nuclear weapon above the U.S. could kill 90 percent of the population. Most deaths would result, not from the explosion, but from its after-effects – destroying our electrical grids and causing critical infrastructure failure. Recovery could take four to 10 years, costing $2 trillion for the first year alone.
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Pry has previously warned about North Korea’s development of an EMP weapon – and that it is being assisted in this effort by the Russians.
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Were such an EMP weapon in North Korean hands, the news would be both good and bad.
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The good news is, it is highly unlikely Pyongyang would use it to launch a first strike directly against the U.S. The bad news is, Pyongyang would sell the weapon to Tehran, which would.
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The two Axis member nations have long been working together on a nuclear arms program and potential delivery system. Iranians previously attended both missile and nuclear tests conducted by North Korea. In fact, it has been speculated Iran may be outsourcing some nuclear weapons development to Pyongyang.
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And, lest there be doubts Shairah Law might bar the use of EMP weapons, Muslim scholars have ruled otherwise, justifying usage as electronics, rather than people, are directly targeted. A secret Iranian military handbook, obtained by U.S. intelligence, endorses EMP usage as well.
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Earlier North Korean/Iranian collaboration led the former to surreptitiously build a nuclear reactor in Al Kibar, Syria, on behalf of the latter – obviously funded by Tehran. However, before the reactor became operational, Israel destroyed it in a September 2007 raid. Most telling was the fact the Syrians chose to maintain a low profile on the matter, quickly razing the site without allowing international inspectors access beforehand.
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Cash-strapped, Pyongyang is willing to sell anything to anybody who has the money to pay for it. nObama’s ill-advised nuclear deal with Iran will now put more than $100 billion in Tehran’s coffers, giving it the ability to pay North Korea whatever its asking price for an EMP weapon may be. Thus, we may well be sowing the seeds of our own demise.
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U.S. intelligence officials reported while they were not “strategically” surprised by the North Korean test, the specific timing of the detonation did catch them off guard. This brings into question U.S. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry’s assurances about our ability to monitor any nuclear mischief by Iran.
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The two Axis of Evil members share a common goal – only seeking to play different roles to achieve it. Pyongyang seeks to provide a nuclear bullet; Tehran seeks to use it.
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During the Cold War, a nuclear exchange never occurred as both sides’ actions were restrained by the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction. Ironically, the thought of one side launching a nuclear attack that would trigger a similarly devastating retaliatory strike provided both sides with a level – albeit an uneasy one – of comfort.
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But this theory’s comfort level is lost on Iranian mullahs whose apocalyptical beliefs leave them with thoughts of sexual “sugar plums dancing in their heads.” They would welcome a devastating retaliatory nuclear strike sending them on their way to an afterlife of milk and “honies” – the latter an endless supply of“eternal” recycled virgins – as promised by Prophet Muhammad. Thus, they have no fear in launching a first strike.
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nObama’s failure to grasp this mindset was evident in his final State of the Union Address on January 12 when he boasted, “No nation attacks us directly or our allies because they know that’s the path to ruin.”
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With the purported successful testing of a hydrogen bomb by North Korea and an apocalyptical eagerness by Iranian mullahs to get just such a device in their hands, the U.S. president responsible for protecting us should be getting nervous. We should be getting nervous that he is not.
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Thursday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 21, 2016 at 7:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Fraud!!! nObama Lied and Misled
about Iran Deal/Hostage Exchange on Sunday
Jeff Dunetz
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 Mauling MLK's Legacy 
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday celebrating the man who in 1963 dreamed that "my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Fifty-three years later, leftists, especially those indoctrinating our children in public schools, are making an utter mockery of that concept.
          Illinois' New Trier High School is but one example. While most Americans are enjoying the federal holiday, New Trier has made today a mandatory school day, during which they will marinate their students in a series of seminars exploring black victimhood, inherent biases against people of color, and white guilt and privilege — "to better understand how we can all work to counter the impact of systemic racism in our lives," the school's website states. 
          More than 60 workshops are a compendium of leftist talking points.   -The Patriot Post
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 Democrats Want to Strip Immunity From Gun Companies 
Socialist Bernie Sanders was surprisingly moderate about the issue of gun control last May. The Washington Post wrote of Sanders' position then, "When socialism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a concealed firearm — without a permit." Among the issues, Sanders voted on a National Rifle Association-backed bill in 2005 that affirmed gun companies had immunity if one of their firearms were used in a crime or murder — just like a car company would have if someone decided to drive the car into a crowd of people. But Hilly Clinton, the "realistic progressive," believes that she has a backdoor policy that could dismantle the gun industry: remove that immunity from the nation's firearms manufacturers. Her plan would choke up their legal teams with lawsuit after lawsuit when guns are used for illegal acts, not just when manufacturing defects cause firearms to fail.
          This week, Sanders, who said he's running "an issue-oriented campaign," indicated he is moving toward Clinton's position. Democrats in Congress introduced a law that would roll back essential parts of the 2005 immunity law and hours before Sunday's debate Sanders said he would support it. He said in the debate that he'd "support stronger provisions," but he doesn't want to make it so a small, community gun shop is liable if it sold a gun later used in a crime. But that's beside the point. The First Amendment is protected by legislation that prevents the sue-happy from muzzling someone's free-speech rights, though the Left regularly attacks free speech and religious liberty. Clinton's idea of stripping gun companies' immunity and siccing lawyers upon them is no less unconstitutional.  -The Patriot Post
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ACLU Forces NYPD to Consider 'Equality' Before Security 
For years, the New York Police Department viewed Islamic terrorism through a study titled "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat." It featured analysis from the RAND Corporation, studies of recent terrorist attacks in other countries, and studied how Muslim men radicalized to the point of attacking the West. Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union managed to force the NYPD to stop using the report to understand the metastasizing threat of Islamic terror. It was biased against Muslims, the ACLU insisted, and that obviously trumps security to the politically correct Left — once again illustrating the Left's blithe disregard for how Islamic terror develops. Instead, they want national security to be an equal opportunity investigation, lumping right-wing extremists and Islamic terrorists in the same suspect file.
          In related news, the House voted, with enough votes to override a veto, to send a bill to the Senate that would reform how Syrian and Iraqi refugees are screened before entering this country, ordering FBI background checks on them. Barack nObama and the Senate Democrats will fight, saying that the legislation isn't compassionate, but the bill's success in the House shows there is real concern over this administration's refusal to diagnose the reason some Middle Eastern immigrants turn to violence.  -The Patriot Post
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'Death list' and IRS ravaged 
'women of Clinton'
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{wnd.com} ~ It’s a sordid tale of two Bills: In both cases, dozens of women say they were sexually victimized by powerful men and threatened to stay silent about the traumatic assaults... But there’s a crucial difference between the two scenarios involving actor and comedian Bill Cosby and former President Bill Clinton. Women in Clinton’s past were targeted by the IRS and reportedly found themselves on death lists. Clinton paramour Monica Lewinsky and Lewinsky confidante Linda Tripp – who secretly recorded phone conversations about the White House intern’s trysts with the president – found their names on those death lists. Meanwhile, Clinton’s female sex-assault accusers were audited by the IRS – including Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick. Also added to the list of IRS targets was actress and former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen, who had sex with Clinton in 1983 and was warned to keep quiet about the affair.
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“Iran will now have more resources
 to divert to terrorism”
Sharona Schwartz
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran would free up more money for the Islamic Republic to pursue terrorism...  “What is clear is that Iran will now have more resources to divert to terrorism and its aggression in the region and around the world, and Israel is prepared to deal with any threat,” Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet meeting, according to a transcript released by his office. Netanyahu’s assessment stood in stark contrast with that of U.S. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, who a day earlier said that both the world and the Middle East were now safer thanks to the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal. Can’t argue with that, Bibi.
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Court Requires NYPD to
Purge Docs on Terrorists Inside U.S.
Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The New York Police Department has been directed by a U.S. court to remove from its online records an investigation pertaining to the rise of Islamic extremists in the West... and the threats these individuals pose to American safety, according to legal documents. As part of a settlement agreement reached earlier this month with Muslim community advocates in U.S. District Court, the NYPD will purge from its website an extensive report that experts say has been critical to the department’s understanding of radical Islam and its efforts to police the threat. The court settlement also stipulates that the NYPD make a concerted effort to mitigate the impact of future terror investigations on certain religious and political groups, according to a copy of the court documents published by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has spearheaded the case since June 2013.
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Banned Commercial That Bill
And Hilly Clinton Didn’t Want You To SEE
AmyElizabeth
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Do you think Hilly the serial killer did this to Bill Clinton the rapist?...
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Pentagon Considering
Retroactive Demotion for Gen. Petraeus
teaparty
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{teaparty.org} ~ The Pentagon is considering retroactively demoting retired Gen. David Petraeus after he admitted to giving classified information to his biographer and mistress while he was still in uniform, three people with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast... The decision now rests with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who is said to be willing to consider overruling an earlier recommendation by the Army that Petraeus not have his rank reduced. Such a demotion could cost the storied general hundreds of thousands of dollars—and deal an additional blow to his once-pristine reputation. “The secretary is considering going in a different direction” from the Army, a defense official told The Daily Beast, because he wants to be consistent in his treatment of senior officers who engage in misconduct and to send a message that even men of Petraeus’s fame and esteemed reputation are not immune to punishment. What about Hilly's miss us of classified information       http://www.teaparty.org/pentagon-considering-retroactive-demotion-gen-petraeus-139714/?fb_action_ids=1542013692778520&fb_action_types=og.comments
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NYC Mayor Surrenders to Shariah Law...
REVIVE AMERICA
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{reviveusa.com} ~ New York City law enforcement officers have been placed even more in harm’s way thanks to recent changes from liberal mayor Bill de Blasio... De Blasio has settled a case that emphasized social justice over the safety of the public and essentially made the police powerless against radical Islam. In the case of Hamid Hassan Raza v. City of New York, Muslim activists accused de Blasio and the police department of profiling. In response, de Blasio removed a valuable intelligence gathering tool from the police department’s training strategy, according to National Review. The counterterrorism strategy has allowed police to keep the city safe since Sept. 11, 2001. The strategy, inspired by the 2007 report “Radicalization in the West,” was put in place by then-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and it helped identify patterns often associated with individuals who participated in jihadist violence.
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nObama’s Coal Killer
Blocks Energy But Same Logic Won’t 
Stop Terrorist Import Program
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Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ As life has taught us, there’s liars, damn liars and the most despicable of all, damned treasonous communist liars... Hussein nObama is emblematic of that last category, offering evidence as to just why they are to be so loathed as the lowest of subhuman life forms. On Friday, nObama’s bug-eating Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, announced the continuation of the regime’s war on American prosperity and energy. It’s the next step in the war on coal; a moratorium on new coal development on public land. Jewell is another of the many within the nObama regime occupying a top government position in spite of the fact that they were not born an American citizen. She’s a naturalized Brit, unencumbered by the burdens of patriotism, loyalty and solidarity with her victims, her fellow Americans.
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Soros-Linked Human Rights
Group Calls on Businesses to Boycott Israel
Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A leading U.S.-based human rights organization linked to Hilly Clinton supporter George Soros is planning to release a report this week that will call on businesses to sever relations with any company operated by Israeli Jews in the West Bank... according to an advance copy of the report provided to the Washington Free Beacon. Human Rights Watch, which has been substantially funded by Soros and long accused of harboring an anti-Israel bias, will publish on Tuesday a 163-page report purporting to document how so-called “settlement businesses” harm Palestinians, according to an advance copy of the report set to be released Tuesday and provided independently to the Free Beacon. Pro-Israel critics of the report describe it as biased and part of a larger effort by Israel’s critics to mainstream support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which had been used by Israel’s detractors to wage economic warfare on the Jewish state.
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nObama Pardons 21 Iranians
Convicted of Violating Sanctions
Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration confirmed late Sunday it had delayed the imposition of new ballistic missile sanctions on Iran to ensure the Islamic Republic released five imprisoned Americans under a secret agreement reached... on the sidelines of the nuclear negotiations, according to senior administration officials. The officials confirmed that “secret” talks between U.S. and Iranian officials had been taking place for the past 14 months. In exchange for the release of the five Americans—including a Washington Post reporter and Christian pastor—the nObama administration pardoned or dropped charges on 21 Iranians convicted of violating U.S. sanctions, including seven who had been detained in the United States, according to a State Department official who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon on background. And now we learned its not 7 but 21 Iranians that are released to Iran. He must go before he does more harm to our country.
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Rep. Trey Gowdy, Journalist Sharyl Attkisson, and the Benghazi Families Unite Against Hilly Clinton!
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ As Hilly Clinton’s email scandal continues to unravel and it grows ever more likely that she will be indicted for criminal activities from her time as Secretary of State, the Benghazi scandal is also heating up... While two separate investigations are being conducted on the activities around the State Department, the two investigations are also inextricably linked by the bad behavior of Hilly Clinton and her cronies. Over the last week, Clinton and her allies have faced fire from three different angles of the Benghazi/Email scandal story. Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) explained that the testimony seems to contradict the nObama administration (and State Department) story about what happened on the ground in Benghazi. Journalist Sharyl Attkisson agrees with Gowdy, saying that the evidence is now “overwhelming” and proves that the government has lied to us about what happened. Finally, the families of the Benghazi dead and those who survived are beginning to fight back against Hilly Clinton’s attempts to paint them as either liars or simpletons. First, Attkisson lays out the argument that the government is lying about how the situation in Benghazi played out.        http://eaglerising.com/28785/rep-trey-gowdy-journalist-sharyl-attkisson-and-the-benghazi-families-unite-against-hillary-clinton/
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Fraud!!! nObama Lied and Misled
about Iran Deal/Hostage Exchange on Sunday
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ When President nObama spoke about the implemented Iran deal on Sunday, with the exception of “God bless the United States of America,” almost everything the President said was a lie.
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nObama said, “Iran is being subjected to the most comprehensive, intrusive inspection regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program.  Inspectors will monitor Iran’s key nuclear facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.” But inspectors are not allowed in Key Nuclear facilitates.
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For example when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its report Saturday saying that Iran has complied with the P5+1 nuclear deal. It would have been astounding if they had announced a different result, after all it was Iran who inspected some of Iran’s nuclear facilities including Parchin.
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When air, soil, and dust samples were taken from the Parchin nuclear site there was no one form the IAEA present. It was Iranian nuclear experts who took the collection. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano claims that the collection was done according to the IAEA guidelines, because everything was observed buy the UN nuclear agency on TV monitors….Television? Does Mr. Amano also believe there is really a star ship Enterprise speeding through the Universe? Anything can be shown on a TV feed, without someone there we can never prove what happened or didn’t happen.
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In world politics very few secrets stay that way. The side deal originally published by the AP exposed Iranians would get to collect their own samples at Parchin, those samples would have to come from mutually agreed upon areas under overlapping photo and video surveillance, and the number of the samples would be limited.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had long sought access to Parchin which has long been suspected of being the location were Iran was developing it’s detonation systems for nuclear weapons.
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In October 2014 Iran admitted to using Parchin to test exploding bridge wires, which are used as nuclear detonators, but they claimed the test explosions were not for weapons development.
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Access is needed to clarify the nature and scope of Iran’s past nuclear weapons work. What were the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s atomic program? They need to establish what the Iranians did and how far they got, which are the prerequisites to setting up a a baseline for an inspection regime against future violations. The nObama administration had promised lawmakers that IAEA inspectors would be able to inspect Parchin and resolve all PMD issues before any final deal was inked. But that didn’t happen; instead they allowed Iran to sign a secret side deal with the IAEA permitting the Iranians to self-inspect the facility rather than grant IAEA inspector robust access.
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Even the IAEA report in December when they announced they finally had all the evidence about Iran’s previous nuclear activity relied on unverified information from the terrorist regime. If you read the report this phrase is repeated over and over, “The information available to the Agency…” A nice way of saying we had to take what we got from Iran. An Iranian statement this morning confirmed that the Iranians collected their own samples.
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In other words, the inspections were meaningless.
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While the president said during his announcement on Sunday Morning that Iran had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that can enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb, and “today, Iran has removed two-thirds of those machines, ” he was being accurate but not honest.
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The deal allows the rogue nation to continue to run centrifuges most of which will be enriching uranium.  But if the Iranians are really running a peaceful program there is no need for them to have centrifuges or enrich uranium.  Even John hanoi-Kerry said at the beginning of negotiations that there was no reason for Iran to enrich and more importantly there was no right for them to enrich.
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Under the agreement Iran is allowed to keep 5,060 centrifuges, which according to former deputy director of the CIA is a large enough program to produce bombs but not enough for a power program. On Feb. 18th of this last year, Mike Morell told Charlie Rose (video embedded below):
If you are going to have a nuclear weapons program, 5,000 is pretty much the number you need,” Morell, now a CBS analyst, said on Charlie Rose. “If you have a power program, you need a lot more. By limiting them to a small number of centrifuges, we are limiting them to the number you need for a weapon.” .
Video:  http://www.mrctv.org/videos/mike-morell-charlie-rose-21815-talking-iranian-centrifuges
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The president celebrated the release of five Americans from Iran and it’s true that we should all be happy these Americans are coming home.
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But lets understand what we paid. The deal announced Saturday returns four Americans in exchange for the release of seven Iranians (a fifth American was released supposedly unrelated to to the prisoner exchange).
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The seven Iranian who were released were either sentenced in or awaiting trial in the United States court system, and as the president said they were not associated with terrorism. What they were sentenced or arrested for was helping Iran secure what it needed for nuclear weapons.  International arrest warrants for other Iranians accused of the same crime were dropped.  The president called it a humanitarian gesture which is phony political speak for “we released them in exchange for our hostages.” We also announced that American taxpayers were giving Iran a $1.7 billion dollar check covering a $400 million debt and $1.3 billion in interest, but the timing being announced with the hostage exchange makes it sound more like a ransom.
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In the end Iran released our hostages in exchange for nObama being able to claim Iran’s nuke program was neutralized, 7 criminals, a lifting of sanctions and anywhere between $100 and $150 billion dollars, and being able to sell its oil on the world market.
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The bottom line is Iran got everything, and the U.S. basically taught terrorists around the world that the way to get their terrorists out of jail is to kidnap some Americans.
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Once again our president has been played for a fool.
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Wednesday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 20, 2016 at 8:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Benghazi Movie Premiere
Was a Memorable and Moving Event
Roger Aronoff
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 Democrats Have Made the Dream a Nightmare 
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true." —Martin Luther King Jr.
          Of course, today's Democratic Party has turned the wisdom of this iconic sovereign inside out, as if King had said, "I have a dream that my children will one day be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character." They've turned it from a dream into a nightmare.
          King's 1963 address from the Lincoln Memorial was his most famous, but you have likely never read King's 1966 assessment of racial violence in nObama's hometown of Chicago back: "This is the most tragic picture of man's inhumanity to man. I've been to Mississippi and Alabama and I can tell you that the hatred and hostility in Chicago are really deeper than in Alabama and Mississippi." King added, "Those who are associated with 'Black Power' and black supremacy are wrong."
          So you thought racism was just a "deep south problem"? That is what the Democrats and their Leftmedia sycophants would have you believe.
          "Black supremacy" is precisely what was drilled into Barack nObama's psyche by his Marxist mentor Frank Marshall Davis and his religious mentor Jeremiah Wright.
          Two years ago, nObama dismissed his low approval ratings as being due to racism: "There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president." Yes, nObama used the anniversary of King's birth to establish that his true legacy is being a half-black president who is nothing more than a race-bait political hustler.
          Regardless of one's conclusion about King's proper place in history (given the historical account of his sometimes-lacking personal integrity and character), his letter from a Birmingham jail is well worth reading.
 -The Patriot Post
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 Iran's Powerball Jackpot 
Great news, everyone: Barack nObama has saved the world through "smart, patient and disciplined" diplomacy once again. The occasion for his Sunday boast is two-fold: Iran released several American hostages and the U.S. lifted $100-$150 billion in sanctions on Iran.
          Former Marine sergeant Amir Hekmati, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari and Matthew Trevithick were all held by Iran but released over the weekend — timed to coincide with sanctions relief — though the whereabouts of former FBI agent Robert Levinson remain unknown. At least nObama promised, "[W]e will never forget about Bob." But Iran got even more in return. nObama noted Sunday, "In a reciprocal humanitarian gesture, six Iranian-Americans and one Iranian serving sentences or awaiting trial in the United States are being granted clemency."
          As The Wall Street Journal notes, "Iran gets back men who were assisting its military ambitions while we get innocents. This is similar to the lopsided prisoner swaps that Mr. nObama previously made with Cuba for Alan Gross and the Taliban for alleged deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl." Nonetheless, the emotionally appealing saga and release of our hostages will trump the consequences of this bad deal in Leftmedia coverage.
          Meanwhile, we all know nObama's grand nuclear deal is really the sum of all lies, but that didn't stop nObama from bragging more Sunday: "Under the nuclear deal that we, our allies and partners reached with Iran last year, Iran will not get its hands on a nuclear bomb. ... Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen. And perhaps most important of all, we've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East." Again as if it's his way or war.
          Notably, nObama announced new sanctions that applied to 11 persons and companies involved in Iran's missile program — months after two ballistic missile tests that violated UN resolutions. But this too is a smoke screen. Finally, as if it could get worse, the U.S. will pay Iran $1.7 billion (most of which is interest) to settle a 35-year-old disputed bill on military equipment we never delivered — because Iran happened to be holding more than 60 Americans hostage at the time.
          So to recap, we get a few captive Americans (which is good), while Iran can detain 10 American sailors and exploit them for propaganda just before receiving nearly $2 billion in exchange for finalizing a deal preserving its nuclear program. nObama sure knows how to drive a hard bargain.  -The Patriot Post
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 Bernie's Health Plan Is Logical Step for Demos 
Hours before the Democrat debate in Charleston Sunday night (another weekend debate that nobody watched, by the way), Bernie Sanders released his final solution for fixing the problems nObamaCare wrought: Instituting a single-payer health care system by giving "Medicare for all." The cost would be tremendous. The Wall Street Journal reported the socialist candidate's plan would increase government spending by $14 trillion over 10 years and would be "funded" by instituting a 2.2% increase tax on income, a payroll tax on employers, oh, and Sanders' go-to promise that the rich will pick up most of the bill. Since the beginning, some Democrats planned to use nObamaCare as a stepping-stone to single-payer health care. Sanders is just taking that logical next step and demanding what the Left has really wanted all along.
          Hilly Clinton responded in the debate by attacking Sanders' consistency, arguing that he flipped on several issues to make himself more compelling to Democrat voters — such as becoming a more ardent supporter of gun control and tweaking his health care plan. Clinton's biggest critique of Sanders' plan is that it would dismantle nObamaCare, an evidently unforgivable sin after how hard Democrats wheedled and worked to get that failed institution passed. At one point, Sanders said many of his supporters implored him to make a "vicious attack" against Clinton, but he hasn't done that because he's "trying to run an issue-oriented campaign." And Sanders is overtaking Clinton in the polls, leaving the woman who regularly reads the political winds and changes tack accordingly to try to win voters by harkening back to nObama administration nostalgia. At least Sanders has the integrity to say he is a socialist.    -The Patriot Post
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State Department 
Discovers ‘Thousands’ of Previously 
Undisclosed Clinton Documents
Alana Goodman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Department of State recently discovered “thousands” of previously unreviewed documents that relate to Hilly Clinton and the Benghazi attack... according to a watchdog group that has been suing the department to release public records from Clinton’s tenure. The State Department disclosed the existence of the additional records in a court filing on Friday and asked the judge for further time to search and review the documents. The watchdog group Judicial Watch has been suing the State Department for years to turn over public records related to Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation, the employment arrangements of Clinton’s top aides, and her response to the Benghazi attack.
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Clinton Considered Secret
Plan to Spark Palestinian Protests
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Former secretary of state Hilly Clinton considered a secret plan created by her then-advisers to foment unrest among Palestinian citizens and spark protests in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table... according to emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server. In a Dec, 18, 2011, email, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering suggested that Clinton consider a plan to restart then-stalled peace negotiations by kickstarting Palestinian demonstrations against Israel. Pickering described the effort as a potential “game changer in the region,” recommending that the United States undertake a clandestine campaign to generate unrest. Clinton requested that his email be printed.
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THIS BRITISH LEADER: Thinks a
TALK with Brutal ISIS Jihadists is Sufficient
Keith Jacobs 
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{patriotpowerednews.com} ~ The dude is usional. Go to talk with the Islamic State and you will get your head chopped off. Why do these leaders want to negotiate with terrorists in the first place?... LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has sparked outrage after suggesting the UK government should engage in ‘back channel’ talks with ISIS terrorists. The firebrand leftie made the shocking on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show, as he called for a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Mr Corbyn stated there must be a “route through” to Islamic State, also known as ISIL, which could help end the bloodshed. But he did not go as far as suggesting a ‘dialogue’ could be struck up with the murderous jihadis, who regularly post beheading videos on. The incumbent pointed to other governments in the region who are “in touch” with the leaders of Daesh, another term for ISIS, and compared that to Britian’s position in the past.        http://patriotpowerednews.com/this-british-leader-thinks-a-talk-with-brutal-isis-jihadists-is-sufficient/
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Hilly To Jake Tapper: I’m
Too Busy Campaigning To See ’13 Hours.’ 
Jay Caruso
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{redstate.com} ~ Could this lady be any more tone deaf? Contrary to what her lackey, David Brock, over at Media Matters thinks, the issue of Benghazi is not going away... It’s bad enough she has accused the families of the victims of being liars but now she’s going to try and have us believe she’s “too busy” for a two hour movie? Watch the clip. It’s 47 seconds. Watch the whole thing because she says something truly infuriating: Did you catch that? She’s asked about the movie and she has to throw in a reference to her eleven hours of testimony. Unreal.
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Saudi/Iran Conflict Could 
Threaten Global Economy
Martin Hutchinson
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ It was only a matter of time… Last week, relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran worsened sharply. First, the Saudis executed a Shia cleric. Then a mob attacked Saudi Arabia’s Tehran embassy. Diplomatic relations between Iran and a number of Sunni Arab states deteriorated. Since Saudi Arabia and Iran are the second- and third-largest economies in the Middle East (after Turkey) and represent a large portion of the global oil market, their religious differences have both economic and political implications. It’s this conflict more than any other that could crash the world economy.        http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/01/18/middle-east-conflict/
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New Survey Exposes 
Stunning Cyber Attack Risks
Martin Denholm
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ The figure is staggering…According to a survey by cyber security firm EY, a whopping 88% of global organizations don’t believe their online defenses are good enough to meet their needs... Now, with a figure like that – with a crystal clear majority acknowledging that there’s a problem – you’d think all these firms would be busy addressing the issue. Alas, you’d be wrong. One-third of banking companies  won’t be boosting their cyber security budgets this year. The number is even higher in the retail sector, where 40% of companies don’t plan to increase spending. For two sectors that hold virtually all our sensitive personal data, that’s downright alarming. Have these firms learned nothing from the growing list of high-profile security breaches at the likes of Target Corp. (TGT), eBay Inc.(EBAY), Home Depot Inc. (HD), and JPMorgan Chase & Co.(JPM)?        http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/01/18/cyber-security-attacks/
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Socialism is Force - A Message
from one of the Smartest Men on Earth
Joe A. Gibertson
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 Milton Friedman 
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ In the video below, Milton Friedman explains why socialism is fundamentally flawed... The essential notion of a capitalist society is voluntary cooperation, while the basis of socialism is force. “Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad morale value of force triumphs over good intentions,” he says. Government is the large scale managing of relationships between people and those relationships should be based on respect, not use of force.        http://punchingbagpost.com/socialism-is-force---a-message-from-one-of-the-smartest-men-on-earth
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Clinton's 'no individual
too big to jail' tweet backfires ... hard
GABBY MORRONGIELLO
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Hilly Clinton's campaign encountered heavy backlash Sunday night shortly after tweeting a statement made by Clinton during the fourth Democratic primary debate... "There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail," Clinton told the moderators during the first hour of the debate Sunday. Within seconds, the remark was tweeted out to the former secretary of state's five-plus million Twitter followers.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clintons-no-individual-too-big-to-jail-tweet-backfires-...-hard/article/2580775
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Islamist running 140 tax-funded 
charter schools in U.S.
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Muhammad Fethullah Gulen
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{wnd.com} ~ Muhammad Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Islamist, writer and preacher with a secret plan for bringing Shariah law to America...  Arguably Turkey’s most influential spiritual leader of the past 50 years, Gülen left that country in the late 1990s and now directs his cult-like Islamic movement from a guarded compound in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Part of his empire consists of a thriving network of more than 140 charter schools in 26 states that sell themselves to parents as a secular and more academically rigorous alternative to public schools. As the second largest chain of charter schools in the United States, Gülen schools rake in tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year.
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Intermediate Black Hole 
and Second Largest in Milky Way 
Potentially Discovered
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{ibtimes.co.uk} ~ A new type of black hole and the second largest in our galaxy may have been discovered, say astronomers from Japan... The black hole is thought to be in the middle of an enigmatic gas cloud located 200 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. The researchers found that this gas cloud, known as CO-0.44-0.22, moves at such varying speeds that a specific type of black hole is thought to be the cause. Should this be the case, it would be the first ever official discovery of a third classification of the phenomenon – an ‘intermediate’ black hole. The gas cloud has been spotted 200 light years from the centre of the Milky Way, which spans 100,000 light years across. Researchers found that the cloud has an usually wide range of velocities – some were moving very fast as they approached a certain point and then moved slower as they moved away from it.
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Benghazi Movie Premiere
Was a Memorable and Moving Event
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ This week I had the great honor and opportunity to attend the world premiere screening of the new Michael Bay movie, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.” It is the true story of a group of men—heroes—who risked their lives to attempt to save Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and their colleagues at the Special Mission Compound, and then continued fighting al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists, saving the lives of dozens of people working at the nearby CIA Annex. Among the questions surrounding the film is whether it is meant to be political in any way, and if it is, in fact, political.
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The premiere took place at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, and was shown on a screen that was two-and-a-half times larger than the largest IMAX screen. The audience, depending on the source, was in the range of 30,000 to 40,000 people. Tickets were complimentary, and the event was set up as a benefit for military veterans. I was there along with other members of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi, which Accuracy in Media established back in the summer of 2013.
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We met the three named co-authors of the book on which the film was based, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi—John “Tig” Tiegen, Mark “Oz” Geist, and Kris “Tanto” Paronto—early on, and were well aware of their story. The book and the audio CDs were dramatic and exciting, but nothing prepared us for this movie, which opens this weekend nationwide, and is receiving mixed reviews.
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The premiere was quite an event, with two hours of festivities prior to the start of the film. The festivities included interviews with the three afore-mentioned men who were part of the Global Response Staff (GRS) at the CIA Annex; with the director, Michael Bay, who also directed the “Transformer” movies, along with “Pearl Harbor” and “Armageddon;” and with some of the actors, including John Krasinski of “The Office” fame. “Entertainment Tonight (ET),” the syndicated nightly show about the entertainment business, which, like the movie itself, is produced by Paramount, hosted the red carpet event on a stage on the floor of the stadium. You can see the ET report here:
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The job of the GRS was to protect CIA personnel who were stationed at the Annex, which was approximately one mile away from the Special Mission Compound, often referred to as the consulate—although it wasn’t actually a consulate. Two of the three, Oz and Tig, were former Marines, and Tanto was a former Army Ranger.
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I wrote about this when the book, 13 Hours, came out in 2014, and Fox News did a one-hour special on it. Fox News was punished for it by the nObama administration, according to Greta Van Susteren, who said that Fox was excluded from State Department and Central Intelligence Agency media background meetings. “Well, I think Fox News is being punished for aggressively asking questions, doing our jobs,” said Greta.  That wasn’t all. “A few weeks later, when reporter Jennifer Griffin said she was told that there was a stand down order at Benghazi, I got a weird call from the nObama administration trying to pressure me to get Jennifer to back down on her report. I thought the call from the nObama administration was dirty,” contended Susteren.
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The film touches on the personal lives of the men, just enough to help understand their motivations.
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I have written extensively about the series of scandals that comprise Benghazi, including this article from last month. And while the movie presents enough background information to touch on all of them—the focus of the film was on the failure to provide adequate security to the ambassador and others at the Special Mission Compound, and the dereliction of duty, in failing to bring military assets to at least attempt to help the security team hold off and kill the terrorists.
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Just last month, Judicial Watch, which has unearthed many explosive documents over the last 20 years through Freedom of Information requests, and specifically on Benghazi, received an email pursuant to a 2014 FOIA lawsuit against the State Department. The email was from military chief of staff Jeremy Bash, who wrote to the State Department approximately three-and-a-half hours into the eight-hour attack—well before the terrorists killed CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods—that “we have identified the forces that could move to Benghazi. They are spinning up as we speak. They include a SOF [special operations forces] element that was in Croatia…”
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Sharyl Attkisson, on her weekend Sinclair Broadcasting show “Full Measure,” did an outstanding investigative piece showing that military assets were in place and ready to come to the aid of the CIA Annex, but the request to cross the border into Libya was never made, and the forces that were “spinning” and ready to go were obviously told to stand down, whether by omission or commission. Attkisson’s investigation is divided into two segments of about six-and-a-half minutes each, and I highly recommend watching both segments. Segment one is here:
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This is the sort of investigative reporting that Attkisson was prevented from doing at CBS News, where she worked for more than 20 years. It just so happens that the president of CBS News, David Rhodes, is the brother of President nObama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, and this report on Benghazi serves as a devastating indictment of the nObama administration. David Rhodes was named to that position in 2011.
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The reasons given by the nObama administration for not sending in Special Forces or military aircraft was that they didn’t have enough time and that the intelligence wasn’t good enough. As then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said during Senate testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “…time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response.”
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But we know that they had advance warning, both tactical and strategic, of a potential attack in Benghazi. And considering that it was the anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks, there was no excuse for not being on high alert anyway. Attkisson’s reporting makes the dereliction of duty very clear.
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As much as the movie stays away from politics, and never once mentions Hilly Clinton or President nObama by name, it’s hard to imagine people watching this movie and not being outraged by the failures of this administration to protect these people who put their lives at risk for this country.
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Variety magazine headlined its article, “‘13 Hours’ Is Light on Politics, But Sure to Stir Benghazi Controversy.” But not everyone agreed that it was so light on politics.
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Many on the left are apoplectic about this film, fearing that it could tarnish even further the legacy of President nObama, and prove to be a serious problem for Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the White House. Here, for example, is an excerpt from a review in the left-wing British Guardian:
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Don’t tell me this movie isn’t political. Michael Bay’s Benghazi bonanza is timed for release just before the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. It’ll hit DVD in time for the general election. There are approximately 400,000 instances in this not-very-subtle screenplay where Fox News viewers are cued to hiss at a phantom Hilly Rodham Clinton, the right wing’s scapegoat for the missteps that kept the Benghazi outpost fighting so long without backup. As these brave men take fire, their inquiries about air support become a clear indictment against a perceived US policy of pussification. While the boondoggle portrayed in 13 Hours may be based on fact, this is movie is fueled by paranoia and hate. Paranoia about a culture too foreign to grasp except as a bunch of mindless monsters, and hate against a government that won’t let us destroy them. Abhorrent politics aside, it’s also a terrible movie. The dialogue is atrocious, the performances rote.
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I personally thought the film was brilliant, powerful and emotional. It felt like you were watching this horrible nightmare unfold before your eyes. I strongly urge everyone to go see this film. You won’t wonder any more what all the fuss is about Benghazi. And I certainly hope that the members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi all see the film before issuing their final report.
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Tuesday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 19, 2016 at 8:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
The GOP Establishment’s Civil War
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 Clinton Campaign Flounders Ahead of Iowa Caucus 
Getting Hilly Clinton elected is a family (crime) business, but one that's facing a bear market. Her lead in the polls has shrunk to only 8.6 percentage points ahead of Bernie Sanders — the narrowest gap in the campaign so far. Clinton is running an uneven racetrack. Of course an avowed socialist named Sanders is making headway, because a socialist named Barack nObama has paved the way and the party can't tell the difference between Democrat and socialist.
          This is terrible news for the Clinton campaign 15 days ahead of the Iowa caucus, as Clinton's lead is shrinking faster than it did in 2008. In what appeared to be a last ditch effort to reach out to younger voters, the Clinton campaign sent Chelsea Clinton to attack Sanders' health care policy in New Hampshire Tuesday, saying it would destroy nObamaCare, and thus take away health insurance from millions. (She didn't mention he would replace it with a single-payer system.) Chelsea is the figure Clinton has used to soften her image, to highlight her maternal side, to mitigate the fact that she fought for her husband's reputation after women accused him of sexual assault — a fact that has come back to hurt Hilly because today's society is more likely to believe women who speak up.
          But this race isn't for Sanders or Clinton — with the baggage of the email scandal and dealings through her nonprofit — to decide. "The person who will decide the nomination on the democratic side is FBI Director James Comey," said commentator Charles Krauthammer. "If he decides to do a criminal referral [on Clinton], I think she can collapse — either it's quashed and then there's a huge scandal, or there's an indictment, in which case, [Joe] loose lips-Biden steps forward and he offers himself, self-sacrificially." Don't count out Elizabeth Warren, either. While many of the deadlines have passed to get loose lips-Biden's or Warren's name on the primary ballots in key states, Democrats could make the unusual move of running a brokered convention months later, replacing their inevitable candidate with a savior.  -The Patriot Post
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 Archbishops Rebuke Episcopal Church 
The Archbishops of the World Anglican Communion convened in Canterbury, England, this week, and in a grave decision regarding the future of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA), directed Archbishop Justin Welby to relegate of the American church to "observer" status. The move, which prevents Episcopal leaders from any role regarding "issues of doctrine or polity," has been anticipated for some years. The Episcopal Church was organized after the American Revolution and George Washington was an early communicant. But, as with the erosion of many other bedrock institutions by America's elite, ECUSA's current leaders have discarded the Church's biblical foundation.
          In 2003, the "enlightened" U.S. bishops rebuffed the 85-million member World Anglican Communion, and codified their rejection of scriptural authority by ordaining Vicky Imogene Robinson, a divorced father of two, as the first openly homosexual Bishop of New Hampshire. Since then, ECUSA's Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori (the first female archbishop in apostolic Christian history), has embraced a broad slate of statist positions in opposition to the basic tenets of the church. She has decreed that "gay marriage" has equal in standing with biblical marriage, in clear opposition to Jesus's teaching on marriage, and the tradition and reason pillars of the church. She has further offended Christians by affirming a "nuanced approach" on killing unborn children — a "do as you please" approach. As a result, there are now fewer than 650,000 church attendees in the U.S. — and that number continues to decline. ECUSA leaders have done with the Bible what their fellow leftists have done with our Constitution. The ECUSA suspension is, in effect, one step short of expulsion, isolating the apostate U.S. Church so that its wealth and corrupting influence can't further diminish the biblical foundations of the World Church.
          For further reading, see Mark Alexander's essay "Gender Identity, The Homosexual Agenda and The Christian Response."
 -The Patriot Post
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 Fleecing Taxpayers for Sport 
An overwhelming vote by NFL owners Tuesday means the St. Louis Rams will return to Los Angeles for the 2016 season after having spent 21 years by the Mighty Mississippi. St. Louis sportswriter Bernie Miklasz summed up the situation well, saying the "NFL is guilty of a personal foul." Miklasz's recap of the sordid details is well worth reading, even for those uninterested in the Rams themselves or football in general. Focused as we are on promoting Liberty and free enterprise, we consider the fleecing of taxpayers to be the essence of this story.
          Taxpayers put up $280 million to largely finance the building of the Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis two decades ago. Inexplicably, St. Louis included an opt-out clause so the Rams could leave if they no longer liked the stadium. Surprise — the team exercised its option. Now, without the Rams' presence and their $500,000 annual rent, the remaining $100 million bill becomes all the more difficult to pay off. Indeed, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is working on legislation to require franchises to pay back taxpayer money if they leave town "prematurely." The problem, however, is that cities are willing to put taxpayer money on the line for these stadium boondoggles in the first place. St. Louis taxpayers are in a bad spot, but their own politicians put them in this predicament — as do politicians in cities around the country when handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to billionaire sports owners. And McCaskill sure didn't seem to mind the city's offer of yet another $400 million to partially finance a brand new stadium for the Rams to replace the one not even as old as the team's youngest player. (And you thought players had short careers.)
          In the end, the Rams brought one Super Bowl title to the Gateway City, but they also brought 16 years of losing (and often downright lousy) football, as well as the politically charged Michael Sam draft debacle and the notoriously non-factual "hands up, don't shoot" player protest in the wake of the Ferguson shooting. And the city is still on the hook for $100 million now that the party's over. Maybe LA shouldn't be so quick to celebrate the NFL's return.  -The Patriot Post
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Prisoner swap had ties to nuclear 
deal but a 'one-time' situation
foxnews
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{foxnews.com} ~ The White House acknowledged Saturday that the prisoner exchange with Iran that included Washington Post reporter Jason Razaian was connected to the international nuclear deal with Tehran but that it was also was just a “one-time-only” situation that will not open the door to prisoner swapping between the rival nations... As Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently concluded the nuclear talks, they also “recognized a unique opportunity … for release of those citizens,” a senior nObama administration official said on a conference call with reporters. “This is one-time-only type of arrangement. We don't anticipate replicated in the future, but if the window opened up we’d wanted to take advantage of it,” the official also said.
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nObama grants 'refugee' status 
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{wnd.com} ~ The number of Central American migrants crossing illegally into the United States through the Southern border has grown exponentially under the nObama administration.... More than 130,000 came in 2014 alone, most of them welcomed by sanctuary cities and then protected from deportation by President nObama’s executive actions. The legality of those actions remains unsettled and appears headed to the Supreme Court. But now President nObama has invented a new way to continue the influx of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador and do it in a way that is deemed “legal.” He will simply re-categorize them as “refugees.” It's going to be an ugly last year.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/obama-grants-refugee-status-to-new-wave-of-migrants/
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nObama Administration stonewalling
investigation into 113 terrorists inside US
Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Leading senators on Monday petitioned multiple nObama administration agencies to stop stonewalling a congressional investigation into the immigration histories of at least 113 foreign-born individuals implicated in terrorist operations after legally entering the United States, according to a copy of the letters... The latest investigation comes just days after the Washington Free Beacon disclosed that an additional 41 foreign-born individuals who legally entered the United States had been arrested for planning a number of terror attacks. Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) disclosed Monday that they had been pressuring the nObama administration for months to disclose the immigration histories of these foreign-born individuals implicated in terror plots. Agencies including the Departments of State and Homeland Security have stonewalled these efforts, declining since mid-2015 to provide Congress additional information.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-stonewalling-investigation-113-terrorists-united-states/
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Stunning Truth Behind the Capture of 
Our U.S. Sailors by Iran
S. Noble
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ The line we were fed by the government and the media about the capture of our U.S. sailors is unbelievable – literally...  The media and the administration droned on with the message – “mechanical failure” and “inadvertently drifted” and “boat in distress”. Boats don’t drift 50 miles off course when one is capable of towing the other. As John McCain said, “boats do not lose their sovereign immune status when they are in distress at sea.” The Iranians took the ships GPS equipment so we can’t prove they were in international waters. We already know our government lies about almost everything and we know they will do anything to get this Iranian nuclear deal. These sailors were in hostile territory and they knew they had to avoid the Iranian waters. One boat was reported to have problems. Normally, the other boat would tow them, they would not look for safe harbor in Iran. Certainly they would not have entered these waters without both ships being in top condition.
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What the US Government Won’t
Tell You About the Prisoner Swap With Iran 
S. Noble
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ Hours before the United States handed over tens of billions to Iran, Iran released four U.S. Prisoners... Jason Rezaian, journalist,  Amir Hekmati, US Marine, Saeed Abedini, pastor, Nassadallah Khasav and possibly a student named Matthew Trevithick. Only three of the hostages have flown out of Iran. None of these people did anything wrong and they were swapped for men who were guilty of supporting Iran’s nuclear program. Iran is still holding al least four other innocent Americans hostages in Iran, Catherine Herridge said. There are no promises that they will be returned in the future. One is a simple businessman, another was Ron Levinson who was a former vacationing FBI agent. A photo of Levinson four years ago is believed to have been sent by the Revolutionary Guards.   Another 14 wanted by Interpol will also be freed. Herridge said this had everything to do with the nuclear deal though hanoi-Kerry is trying to say there were two tracks. He doesn’t want you to believe your lyin’ eyes event though this was obviously staged.
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10,000 Fighters Now in Hilly’s Libya
S. Noble
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ Hilly Clinton’s Libya, the Libya she created with the help of Barack nObama, now has 10,000 ISIS fighters seizing control... Keep in mind that this is a gateway to Europe which is actively taking refugees from Libya even though ISIS has said they will sneak into the EU via Libya.        http://www.independentsentinel.com/hillary-is-responsible-for-thousands-of-deaths-10000-fighters-now-in-hillarys-libya/
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As deal kicks in, PM credits
Israel with deferring Iran nukes
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2016.
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israeli efforts had put a nuclear bomb out of Iran’s reach for the time being... a day after the implementation of the landmark accord and the removal of sanctions from the Islamic Republic was announced. “If it weren’t for our efforts leading the way in enforcing the sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon long ago,” the prime minister said at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. “Israel’s position is, and remains exactly as it has always been — to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. What’s clear is that Iran will now turn its resources toward its terrorist activity in the region and rest of the world, and Israel is prepared to handle that threat,” he said.
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The roots of Black Lives Matter unveiled
James Simpson
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{wnd.com} ~ The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) casts itself as a spontaneous uprising born of inner city frustration, but is, in fact, the latest and most dangerous face of a web of well-funded communist /socialist organizations that have been agitating against America for decades... Its agitation has provoked police killings and other violence, lawlessness and unrest in minority communities throughout the U.S. If allowed to continue, that agitation could devolve into anarchy and civil war. The BLM crowd appears to be spoiling for just such an outcome. Nevertheless, BLM appears to be exercising considerable leverage over the Democratic Party, in part by pressuring and intimidating Democratic candidates such as Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders (VT) into embracing their cause. The movement could also assist President nObama’s exploitation of racial divisions in society beyond his final term in office. This report examines in detail, for the first time, how communist groups have manipulated the cause of Black Lives Matter, and how money from liberal foundations has made it all possible.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/the-roots-of-black-lives-matter-unveiled/
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What Saul Alinsky Taught nObama...
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ It past time to stop kidding ourselves, for those who might still be. This government that rules over us isn’t of the people, by the people or for the people... If it hasn’t yet perished from the face of the earth, as Lincoln was fearful it would, its demise is imminent, set to happen at any moment if we don’t act. The current communist figurehead of the anti-American “government,” Hussein nObama, as well as the two front runners for the Communist Democrats, Clinton and Sanders, are clearly working to advance the communist agenda; their political positions and agenda are unrecognizable from anything else. Their Republican opponents, largely puppets owned by the money elite, have surrendered much of their independence to the ruling class. With their forfeiture of independence also goes ours, in stealthy,  private arrangements, deals made as they are always made, to benefit those who can make it worth the politician’s while.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24901
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John hanoi-Kerry – Iran Deal
Makes The World Safer For One Day
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ John hanoi-Kerry had to be giddy as he put into motion his part of the sanction-ending process following the clean bill of nuclear conduct awarded by the IAEA to Iran... They followed through in true UN style, putting deal making and profiteering at the forefront, in service to their globalist masters. While they’re touted as some kind of objective body, they are part of the UN, they work for the same corrupt people who are running the climate fraud, the Sustainable Development takeover of the world and this nuclear charade. It’s a scam just like every other UN scam, a money and power enabling carnival show with the most despicable of players involved on every front. The IAEA works for the UN, after all, they are the UN. That’s where their orders come from. $150 billion means two things, a lot of well-funded Islamic terrorists and some very happy, financially fat, well-off oligarchs hanging around the hallways at UN headquarters, in Iran and in Washington DC. It was important that hanoi-Kerry act quickly for a couple of reasons. One, there’s a ton of money to be made by those in the right industries, particularly arms, energy and nuclear and he who hesitates ends up with a smaller piece of the pie. Secondly, you never know when a Mullah might wake up on the wrong side of the bed or with something stuck in his beard and decide there’s some aspect to an agreement that he just doesn’t like or want to follow anymore.       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24921
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The GOP Establishment’s Civil War
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ What everyone’s waiting for is the winnowing. New Hampshire and Iowa will force some Republican candidates out. When we know who’s still in we’ll have a surer sense of the contours of the race.
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It is still true that the party has never had a year like this, with the ground shifting beneath its feet. It’s hard to see this clearly because on the surface the things you expect to see happening are happening.
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The candidates are starting to throw hard punches. They’re all trying to show they can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee—a necessary talent if you make it to the general election. No point in hand-wringing or telling them to stop on the grounds that what they’re doing will produce, for the Democrats, a badly bloodied GOP nominee.
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Best and worst have come from Chris Christie, who has a way of keeping things lively. Earlier he counseled his fellow contenders not to savage each other—don’t waste your ammo, keep your eyes on the prize. Good advice. This week Marco Rubio’s PAC unloaded a spot slamming Mr. Christie on the old charge he embraced President nObama during Hurricane Sandy. The governor answered Wednesday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. He called Mr. Rubio “a first-term United States senator who has never had a tough race.” He continued: “This guy’s been spoon-fed every victory he’s ever had in his life. That’s the kind of person that we want to put on stage against Hilly Clinton? I don’t think so. She’ll pat him on the head and then cut his heart out.” It was wonderfully colorful and malicious and reminded me of Sen. Bob Kerrey, who said of Bill Clinton in 1992 that he wouldn’t win in November because he hadn’t served in Vietnam: “He’s going to get opened up like a soft peanut.”
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Democratic presidential primaries in those days were fierce. They’re not anymore, because the new Democratic Party, the one of the progressive left, has only a single unifying principle: winning. Hilly Clinton’s opponents haven’t laid a glove on her, and won’t.
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Mr. Rubio has turned stern and indignant, as if he’s decided the base is angry so he’ll enact anger too. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, he darkly alleges, are “isolationist candidates” whose intent is “weakening our military and intelligence capabilities.” Mr. Paul responded by comparing Mr. Rubio to Rahm Emanuel.
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More touchingly, Jeb Bush again warned the base about Donald Trump. “It’s very fun to talk about the theatrics,” he said on “Morning Joe.” Mr. Trump has tapped into “angst and anger,” but “his views are not the views of a conservative.”
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Mr. Trump’s supporters don’t care if he’s classically conservative. Doctrinal purity is not the story this year. The GOP base is a big jumble.
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Democrats are likely less unified than they think. On the rightward and leftward edges of both parties they hate political correctness, illegal immigration, Wall Street.
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A new playbook is emerging while some contenders seem to be reading from the old playbook and wondering why the plays they’re calling aren’t working.
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And the GOP is struggling. In Virginia the state Republican Party wants a so-called loyalty oath in the March 1 presidential primary. Virginia is an open-primary state—any registered voter can vote in either primary—but the GOP apparently wants to discourage independents and Democrats from voting for Mr. Trump. So they’ve decided voters should sign a statement of affiliation with the GOP before they get to cast a ballot. This is so idiotic it’s almost unbelievable. When Democrats and independents want to vote in your primary you should be happy. Politics is a game of addition! You want headlines that say “Massive GOP Turnout.” You don’t greet first-time voters with an oath but with cookies, ginger ale and balloons. Ronald Reagan reached out to Democrats in 1984: “Come too, come walk with me.” We still speak of Reagan Democrats.
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I do not understand the inability or refusal of Republican leaders to take Mr. Trump seriously. They take his numbers seriously—they can read a poll—but they think, as Mr. Bush said, that his support is all about anger, angst and theatrics. That’s part of the story, but the other, more consequential part has to do with real policy issues. The establishment refuses to see that, because to admit it is to implicate themselves and their leadership. Political consultants can’t see it because they don’t think issues matter—not to them and certainly not to the dumb voters.
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But issues do matter, and Mr. Trump has functioned this year not as a great communicator or great compromiser but as the great disrupter. He brags that he has brought up great questions and forced other candidates to face them and sometimes change their stands—and he has. He changed the debate on illegal immigration. He said he’d build a wall and close the border and as the months passed and his competitors saw his surge, they too were suddenly, clearly, aggressively for ending illegal immigration.
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Mr. Trump touched an important nerve in opposing the political correctness that has angered the American people for a quarter century. He changed the debate when he asked for a pause in Muslim immigration until America “can figure out what’s going on.” In the age of terror, that looked suspiciously like common sense. Americans do not want America to become what Europe is becoming.
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You only have to look at what is reported to have happened in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve to get a sense that Europe’s establishment, with its politically correct thinking, is losing control. Angela Merkel is a great lady and most of her leadership has been sound as a drum, but she will probably lose her job eventually because of her epic miscalculation in accepting more than a million Middle Eastern refugees.
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Her decision was no doubt driven by heart and sympathy, but it reminds me of the fall of Margaret Thatcher. In 1989 Thatcher moved to impose a change in the British tax system. This caused resentment and then unrest. She wouldn’t back down, and the next year she fell. Years later she told me what she’d learned. People are afraid, she said; they live closer to the margins than we understand. When you propose a big change you can leave people feeling as if the rug is being pulled from under them. That’s a big thing to learn, and she spoke of it with humility.
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She lost her job by being too tough. Ms. Merkel has imperiled hers by being too soft. But the lesson is the same: know how close to the edge people feel, how powerless, and respect their anxiety. Don’t look down on it, and them.
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Back to the Republicans. It reflects badly on the party that Donald Trump—whom one journalist this week characterized as a guy running around with his hair on fire—had to become the party’s 2016 thought leader.
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Bernie Sanders has, in a way, had the wit to see this, which is why he said he is reaching out to Trump supporters.
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Monday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 18, 2016 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
The State Of The Presidency: Spent
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 A Way to Slow Executive Overreach
"Our Founders distributed power between states and branches of government, and expected us to argue, just as they did, fiercely, over the size and shape of government, over commerce and foreign relations, over the meaning of liberty and the imperatives of security," Barack nObama told us Tuesday night in a civics lesson meant to browbeat everyone into agreeing with him.
          So how do we use the separation of powers he mentioned to slow the unilateral advance of his agenda by executive fiat? Genevieve Wood of The Heritage Foundation has a strategy: "Though Congress has given up much of its power when it comes to using its 'power of the purse' to stop executive overreach, there is one power it still holds, and there is absolutely no reason not to use it. Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, popularly known as 'Advice and Consent,' requires the Senate to approve all presidential appointments of cabinet officials, ambassadors, and federal judges. The day of the Senate 'consenting' and following a go-along get-along strategy on such matters should be over."
          While this wouldn't cause much trouble for judicial appointments — 91% of those seats are filled — there are more than 100 key administration jobs being held by an acting deputy if not by an empty chair. (And we all know how much nObama likes empty chairs.) It's not uncommon for this to happen to some extent in the final year of a president's second term, but nObama's vacancies are more numerous than his predecessors'. Republicans shouldn't hesitate to use any tool at their disposal to make nObama's final year as unproductive as possible.
 -The Patriot Post
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 nObama Still Working to Close Gitmo 
During his State of the Union remarks, Barack nObama said that he would continue to make the closing of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center a reality — just like he's said for the last seven years. "I will keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo," nObama said. "It's expensive, it's unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies." Late last year, nObama lost a political fight to close the prison that is holding terrorists and suspected terrorists. He tried to attach a proposal to the defense-spending bill that would authorize a move of Gitmo detainees to a prison in the States — even vetoing the bill when it arrived on his desk without his demands. Now, nObama will again use executive action to subvert the will of Congress and U.S. law. His administration has been releasing prisoners, five in trade for Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, and now 10 Yemenis will be shipped off to the United Arab Emirates because this administration no longer considers them a threat. But this administration also once argued Iraq was stable enough to leave. While nObama won't close Gitmo all at once, he will close it one prisoner at a time.   -The Patriot Post
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 State of Fundamental Change 
When Barack nObama campaigned for president in 2008, he pledged to strengthen the economy, create jobs and restore confidence in America. On Tuesday in his final State of the Union Address, he tried to convince America that he had succeeded. But after seven years of watching the White House operate outside the realm of reality, no one is fooled.
          nObama set the stage by preemptively insulting anyone who would attempt to unravel the spin he was about to spew, stating, "Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction." Of course, someone who lives in a world of fantasy, where a jump in the national debt from $10.6 trillion in 2009 to $18.8 trillion today is "economic progress," can hardly be trusted to judge fact and fiction.
          In the land of reality, nObama's economy is a downright failure. First, as The Daily Signal explains, while nObama touted lower unemployment and more jobs, the fact is that the 5% unemployment rate today is worse than the 4.4% rate under George W. Bush in May of 2007. And the unemployment rate doesn't count the millions who have left the workforce during nObama's reign. Indeed, the labor participation rate today is the lowest since 1977, standing at just 62.6%. What's more, the average unemployed worker has been jobless for more than six months, longer than at any time between 1945 and nObama's inauguration.
          As for those new jobs? Job creation has mostly kept pace with population growth. While treading water is better than the alternative, it's hardly worthy of a medal.   -The Patriot Post
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Iran, the American Sailors, 
and Current Laws
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Given the news that Iran held U.S. naval personnel and their two vessels for a day or so, and broadcast the images and videos of the sailors, we thought it prudent to explore the legal, security, and policy ramifications of Iran’s latest provocative actions...
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1) Why did Iran hold American sailors? There are myriad issues tied up in Iran’s actions, and it is important not to merge or commingle the legal, national security, and political aspects of their actions. But before exploring those parts, it goes without saying that Iran clearly broadcast images of U.S. sailors, on their knees, as a way of embarrassing the sailors, this administration, and the United States of America. These are not the actions of a country that can be trusted, let alone those of what the Obama administration considers a potential ally.

2) Was the timing of this maritime capture and detention arbitrary, or is something else going on?
It was not arbitrary. Iran detained American sailors the same week the United States Supreme Court heard argument in a case dealing with whether Iran’s central bank must fork over $2 billion to American victims of Iranian terrorism, and shortly before the Iran nuclear deal is to be implemented, guaranteeing Tehran billions of dollars in sanctions relief. Iran knew the political stakes going into the capture and detention and exploited the situation for maximum advantage.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/14/qa-iran-the-american-sailors-and-current-laws/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvqrMZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMdgNK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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nObama Sacrifices National Security
 to Keep Iran Happy
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ Republican lawmakers have accused the nObama administration of putting Iran’s interests ahead of the U.S. in a scathing letter to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry... The letter, signed by 13 senators including Mark Kirk, Tom Cotton, and Kelly Ayotte, was inspired by the administration’s efforts to block congressional legislation that would have tightened the government’s visa waiver program. “Iran-sponsored terrorists and militants are responsible for the death of more than 700 Americans,” the senators wrote. “As you continue to engage with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif], we urge—rather than seeking to placate the complaints of Iran, the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism—you to press him and his government to cease its support for terrorism and provide tangible evidence that it is doing so.” At the end of 2015, urged on by the serious security concerns exposed by San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee set about developing new visa restrictions. Under the new law, foreigners would be prohibited from entering the United States if they had traveled to Iraq, Iran, or any other country designated a sponsor of terrorism since 2011. Rather than support the effort, hanoi-Kerry sent a letter to Tehran leaders in December, assuring them that President nObama would veto the new restrictions.
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In Dangerous Gamble,
the nObama Administration Is Abandoning 
Decades-Old Mideast Alliances
Tony Badran
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ In response to the crisis in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, following the latter's assault on the Saudi consulate and embassy in Iran, the nObama administration has taken to the media to unleash a furious rebuke... But the administration's condemnation was not aimed primarily at Tehran; instead it's been largely directed at America's longstanding ally: Saudi Arabia. Administration officials have charged that, by executing radical Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, the Saudis have exacerbated sectarian tensions in the region and jeopardized U.S. policy in Syria. "This is a dangerous game they are playing," an unnamed U.S. official told the Washington Post. "There are larger repercussions," including damage to "counter-ISIL initiatives as well as the Syrian peace process." This is a common thread that runs through the administration's briefings against the Saudis, which reveals the White House's backing of Iran's regional position over and against the traditional U.S. alliance system. The claim that the Saudis were damaging the supposed Syrian "peace process" sounds surreal on its face. But it is quite revealing, not just about how the White House defines success, but also about its overall policy in Syria.
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The Islamic State vs. Al-Qaeda:
The War Within the Jihadist Movement
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The post-Arab Spring period has seen extraordinary growth in the global jihadist movement... In addition to the Islamic State seizing a vast swathe of territory spanning Syria and Iraq and al-Qaeda establishing itself as a potent military force in the Syrian civil war, instability and unfulfilled expectations in numerous countries — including Egypt, Libya, Mali, Tunisia, and Yemen — have presented jihadists with unprecedented opportunities. But even as the jihadist movement experiences rapid growth, it has also endured unprecedented internal turmoil. The Islamic State’s emergence marks the first time that leadership over the global jihadist movement has been seriously contested. Since that group’s expulsion from the al-Qaeda network in February 2014, a fierce competition between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda has defined the militant landscape. The United States has an opportunity to exploit and aggravate fissures within the jihadist community, but to do so successfully, it is essential to understand the differences in the modus operandi of these two rival jihadist groups.        http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/gartenstein-ross-daveed-the-islamic-state-vs-al-qaeda-the-war-within-the-jihadist-movement/
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Defense Secretary Slips Up,
Reveals nObama Admin LED IRAN 
Straight to Our Sailors
conservativetribune
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ It doesn’t matter if “the 3 a.m. phone call” comes in the middle of the day. Not only will the nObama administration not answer it, but they’ll aid our enemies instead... First came the fact that President Barack nObama refused to address the arrest of 10 of our sailors by the Iranian military after their boats had mechanical trouble at sea. Then came news that the nObama administration had offered the Iranians an apology for the release of the sailors. Now comes the disturbing revelation, apparently delivered by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, that the nObama administration tipped off the Iranians that our soldiers were lost at sea and requested their aid.
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The Cult of Liberalism has
Infected the USA and SOTU is proof
Nicholas Wishek
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{lidblog.com} ~ Progressivism as a Cult? It Would Explain the President’s State of the Union Address... It is more than a little ironic that progressives are so disdainful of people of faith. Their progressive belief system, they claim, is based on reason and science. In reality those claims are boloney. That is why the President’s recent State of the Union address could be so full of contradictions, hypocrisy, half-truths, and outright lies, and still be accepted by his followers on faith, just like a cult. One obvious problem in accepting progressivism as a “logical” ideology is all the contradictions they have to accommodate in their worldview. The death penalty is morally wrong, but late term abortion is a woman’s right to choose. Women’s rights are a paramount concern, but the demeaning of women under Islam isn’t all that important. Likewise, while Christian disapproval of the LGBT life style is evil, Islam again gets a pass even while executing homosexuals. Smoking tobacco should be banned, but marijuana use is fine. Peaceful and orderly Tea Part rallies were condemned, but destructive Occupy demonstrations were praised as being in the best tradition of American dissent. Free speech is an American right, but conservative speakers need to be barred from talking on college campuses. The list goes on.
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The Federal Lands Freedom Act:
Empowering States to Control 
Their Own Energy Futures 
Katie Tubb and Nicolas D. Loris
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{insideronline.org} ~ The United States is now the world’s leader in both natural gas and oil production— centuries’ worth of oil, natural gas, and coal resources lie beneath private property as well as under lands owned by state governments... While federally owned lands are also full of energy potential, a bureaucratic regulatory regime has mismanaged land use for decades. The tremendous economic benefits of open energy markets and the proven track record of the individual states’ regulatory structures dictate a re-examination of the way the federal government manages resources on federal lands. The Federal Lands Freedom Act gives states the authority to administer leasing, permitting, and regulatory programs for development of all energy resources on federal lands. States are already well positioned to help make a transition to better management of these resources. While Congress should pursue opportunities to reduce the size of the federal estate, the Federal Lands Freedom Act is a significant step toward better management of America’s lands and natural resources.         http://www.insideronline.org/reader.php?id=XqER
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Incandescents Now
 More Efficient than LEDs
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{fee.org} ~ Researchers at the MIT are publicizing that they have fixed the incandescent lightbulb with a brilliant improvement... They have wrapped the interior filament in a crystal glass that both bounces light and contains heat. It recycles energy in a way that addresses the main complaint against Edison’s bulb: It burns far too much energy for the light that it produces. Why is this interesting? About a decade ago, governments around the world developed a fetish for banning incandescents (through an efficiency rule) and replacing them with expensive LED technology and florescent bulbs. It happened in Europe first but eventually came to the United States. The last American factory to produce them closed in 2010, and they are ever harder to find in even the big-box hardware stores. (As with all such bans, there are exceptions for elites who desire specialty bulbs.) The change has been seriously annoying for many consumers. It has even given rise to hoarding and gray markets (in Germany, such bulbs were repackaged as “heat balls”). It has produced something of a political backlash, too.
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'Overwhelming Evidence' that
Rescue Teams in Benghazi were Turned Back
Alice Greene
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Sharyl Attkisson
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Emmy Award winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson spoke on Newsmax TV this Wednesday, saying there is an “overwhelming body of evidence that leads us to believe that somebody stopped a number of teams and potential rescuers from entering Libya or going to Benghazi to help while those attacks were underway.”... Speaking via phone on “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Attkisson discussed the worrisome results of her Benghazi investigation. Based on email evidence and eyewitness accounts, Special Forces in Europe were turned away when they attempted to respond to the 2012 attacks. “This is something that the president and the White House has steadfastly denied,” she said.  “According to experts and people that have information we spoke to, they, the rescue teams could have gotten there before the last two Americans died," she said. "Those attacks went on for eight hours.” The infamous Benghazi attacks resulted in the death of five Americans including an ambassador and two Navy SEALs.        http://punchingbagpost.com/overwhelming-evidence-that-rescue-teams-in-benghazi-were-turned-back
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Iran JUST Released
American Pastor, Marine And Reporter
Carol Morello, William Branigin 
and Karen DeYoung
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{washingtonpost.com} ~ Iran released Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and three other detained Iranian Americans on Saturday in exchange for seven people imprisoned or charged in the United States... U.S. and Iranian officials said, a swap linked to the implementation of a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers. Hours after Iranian officials said Rezaian, 39, was freed from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after 18 months of captivity, and after a planned ceremony on the nuclear accord in Vienna was repeatedly postponed, the Post journalist and the other Americans remained in Tehran, waiting to be flown out of the country aboard a Swiss plane. But the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency then announced the release of a report Saturday “confirming that Iran has completed the necessary preparatory steps to start the implementation” of the nuclear deal, a move that apparently paves the way for the exchange to go ahead.        https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-releases-post-correspondent-jason-rezaian-iranian-reports-say/2016/01/16/e8ee7858-ba38-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html
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The State Of The Presidency: Spent
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{freedomsback.com} ~ President nObama’s Tuesday night address to Congress was less about the state of the union than the state of the presidency. And the state of this presidency is spent.
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The signs of intellectual exhaustion were everywhere. Consider just three. After taking credit for success in Syria, raising American stature abroad and prevailing against the Islamic State — one claim more surreal than the next — nObama was forced to repair to his most well-worn talking point: “If you doubt America’s commitment — or mine — to see that justice is done, just ask Osama bin Laden.”
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Really? Five years later, that’s all you’ve got?
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Indeed, it is. What else can nObama say? Talk about Crimea? Cite Yemen, Libya, Iraq, the South China Sea, the return of the Taliban?
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“Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office,” nObama boasted. Surveys, mind you. As if superpower influence is a Miss Universe contest. As if the world doesn’t see our allies adrift, our enemies on the march and our sailors kneeling, hands behind their heads, in front of armed Iranians, then forced to apologize on camera. And our secretary of state expressing appreciation to Iran after their subsequent release.
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On the domestic side, nObama’s agenda was fairly short, in keeping with his lame-duck status. It was still startling when he worked up a passion for a great “new moonshot”: curing cancer.
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Is there a more hackneyed national-greatness cliche than the idea that if we can walk on the moon … ? Or a more hackneyed facsimile of vision than being “the nation that cures cancer”? Do nObama’s speechwriters not know that it was Richard Nixon who first declared a war on cancer — in 1971?
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But to see just how bare is the cupboard of ideas of the nation’s most vaunted liberal visionary, we had to wait for the stunning anachronism that was the speech finale. It was designed for inspiration and uplift. And for some liberal observers, it actually worked. They were thrilled by the soaring tones as nObama called for, yes, a new politics — a post-partisan spirit of mutual understanding, rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents.
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Why, it was hope and change all over again. You’d have thought we were back in 2008 with nObama’s moving, stirring promise of a new and higher politics that had young people swooning in the aisles and a TV anchor thrilling up the leg — and gave nObama the White House.
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Or even further back to 2004, when nObama electrified the nation with his Democratic convention speech: “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
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Tuesday night, nObama did an undisguised, almost phrase-for-phrase reprise of that old promise. Earnestly, he urged us to “see ourselves not, first and foremost, as black or white, or Asian or Latino, not as gay or straight, immigrant or native born, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans first.”
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On cue, various commentators were moved by this sermon summoning our better angels. Good grief. I can understand falling for this 12 years ago. But now? A cheap self-quotation, a rhetorical mulligan, from a man who had two presidential terms to act on that transformative vision and instead gave us the most divisive, partisan, tendentious presidency since Nixon.
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Rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents? This is a man who campaigned up and down the country throughout 2011 and 2012 saying that he cares about posterity, Republicans only about power.
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The man who accused opponents of his Iran treaty of “making common cause” with Iranians “chanting death to America.”
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The man who, after Paul Ryan proposed a courageous, controversial entitlement reform, gave a presidential address — with Ryan, invited by the White House, seated in the first row — calling his ideas un-American.
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In a final touch of irony, nObama included in his wistful rediscovery of a more elevated politics an expression of reverence for, of all things, how “our founders distributed power between … branches of government.” This after years of repeatedly usurping Congress’ legislative power with unilateral executive orders and regulations on everything from criminal justice to climate change to immigration (already halted by the courts).
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There is wisdom to the 22nd Amendment. After two terms, presidents are spent. Nothing shows it like a State of the Union valedictory repeating the hollow promises of the yesteryear candidate — as if the intervening presidency had never occurred.
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Saturday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 16, 2016 at 9:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Glick: The nObama Administration’s 
Most Covert War
Caroline Glick
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 Holder endorses Hilly -  AP: “As she works to maintain an advantage among African-American voters in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hilly Clinton has secured an endorsement from the nation's first black attorney general. The Clinton campaign announced Eric Holder's support in a statement to the Associated Press. Holder, who served as President Barack nObama’s top law enforcement appointee for more than five years, said Clinton ‘is the candidate that we need in the White House’ to continue ‘the progress of President nObama.’”  -Fox News
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 How would a Hilly prosecution work? - RCP’s Charles Lipson gives the possible outcomes of the FBI’s long investigation into Hilly Clinton’s email. Indictment or not, Lispon says this scandal will cause more problems for the presumed Democratic nominee, and President nObama, than it has so far.  -Fox News
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 ROAD HOG 
The Guardian: “Russia has detained a senior prison service official on suspicion of stealing a 30-mile (50km) stretch of public road, investigators said. Alexander Protopopov oversaw the dismantling of a concrete highway and sold off the slabs while prison service chief in the far-northern Komi region, the Investigative Committee said in a statement. The road, which was made up of more than 7,000 reinforced concrete slabs, was ‘dismantled and driven away’ over more than a year, between 2014 and 2015. The slabs were subsequently used by a company that sold them on for a profit, investigators said. Protopopov, now acting deputy chief of the national prison service, faces charges of misappropriating state property while using his official position, which could lead to 10 years in jail.”   -Fox News
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nObama Refugee Planned to Bomb 
Texas Malls “I am against America”
PAMELA GELLER
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Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan
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{pamelageller.com} ~ According to a federal agent who testified, “an Iraqi refugee who is facing charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group wanted to set off bombs at two Houston malls and was learning to make electronic transmitters that could be used to detonate explosive devices.”... U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes denied granting Al Hardan a bond, ruling that there would be a serious risk that the Iraqi refugee would flee if released from federal custody. The judge made the decision on bail after hearing how Al Hardin wanted to set off bombs at two popular Houston malls and was learning how to make electronic transmitters that could be used to detonate an improvised electronic device. Al Hardin was trying to use cell phones to remotely detonate explosive devices; a collection was found at his apartment, according to Special Agent Herman Wittliff.
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Saddam's ISIS?
Samuel Helfont and Michael Brill
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{foreignaffairs.com} ~ The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) might be led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and may have emerged out of al Qaeda in Iraq, but the question of who exactly is responsible for the group’s rise is still debated... One increasingly popular argument places the blame on the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As blogger Kyle W. Orton wrote recently in The New York Times, “Those who assumed leadership roles in the Islamic State’s military council had been radicalized  earlier, under Mr. Hussein’s regime.” Before Orton, Liz Sly of The Washington Post portrayed Saddam as an Islamist, based on the revitalization of Islamic practices during his 1993 Faith Campaign, and even argued that he promoted Salafism, the rigid brand of Islam practiced by ISIS. Amatzia Baram, who wrote a book about Saddam and his relationship with Islam from 1968 to 2003, has since stated that Baghdadi “is Saddam’s creation.” These depictions are inaccurate and dangerously misleading, as documents in the Iraqi archives and at Hoover Institution’s Ba’ath Party records make clear. Our rigorous study of those records has found no evidence that Saddam or his Baathist regime in Iraq displayed any sympathy for Islamism, Salafism, or Wahhabism. Proponents of the Islamization narrative have attempted to distinguish between the latter two terms, arguing that the regime supported Salafism but not Wahhabism.      https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iraq/2016-01-12/saddams-isis?cid=nlc-twofa-20160114&sp_mid=50464521&sp_rid=cnVkeXRpcnJlQGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2&spMailingID=50464521&spUserID=MTczMTAzMTU3MTM2S0&spJobID=841863043&spReportId=ODQxODYzMDQzS0
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nObama Administration blocked
visa waiver reforms to avoid upsetting Iran
Adam Kredo
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Recent congressional efforts to tighten gaps in the U.S. visa waiver program were blocked by the nObama administration out of fear the counter-terror effort would upset Iran... which opposes the reform to the visa process, according to a letter sent by a delegation of leading senators to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry. Congress approved late last year a measure to tighten restrictions on those entering the United States via the visa waiver program, which facilitates travel between America and many European countries. The law prohibits travel to the United States for any foreign individual who has since 2011 visited Iraq, Iran, or any other country designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. The nObama administration threatened to waive the provision after Iran publicly opposed the measure and warned that it violates the nuclear agreement with Iran.
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Hundreds, maybe thousands, of
Muslims from China waging jihad in Syria
 Ananth Krishnan
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ There are “many hundreds or thousands” of Chinese Uighurs from the country’s western Xinjiang province involved with the Islamic State (IS) or other groups to wage jihad in Syria... according to a leading Chinese strategic expert who advises the government on its West Asia policy. The Chinese jihadists, involved “not only with the IS but with other Syrian forces”, posed “a major threat” to China if they returned home, warned Li Shaoxian, a long-term West Asia expert and the Vice President of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a Beijing think-tank with ties to the Ministry of State Security. “Whether there are Chinese citizens involved in IS, the answer is certainly yes,” he said in an interaction with journalists on Thursday. “I don’t have the specific number but I think there are possibly many hundreds, or thousands, of them. As a researcher I have been following the situation closely. I believe there are quite many Chinese citizens fighting in Syria, not just with the IS but also other forces in Syria, where there are all kinds of groups who have people fighting who are from China.”        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/hundreds-maybe-thousands-of-muslims-from-china-waging-jihad-in-syria
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UN Plot Specifics – 
Docs Details Destruction Of America
Already Agreed To By nObama
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The UN oligarchs are, above all else, control freaks who demand that they make the rules that they expect their subjects, the formerly free men and women of the United States, the West and elsewhere to follow... Those rules have been laid out in a generally specific outline form, for “voluntary” compliance during this transition stage in the approach to 2030, in the 2030 Approach to Sustainable  Development, a vague and non-descript name for UN world government, the much New World Order that we’ve been told doesn’t exist. The documents, meetings and organization all exist and are in various stages of implementation worldwide, including at the local level in every community in the United States. The UN power distributors operate using a hidden in plain sight model, with a variety of meetings on various topics, most building upon the scheming that already has taken place. They make grand sounding proclamations that most of us dismiss as empty words, the fantasy dream world of power mad fools. Only those fools, such as Hussein nObama and his cronies, have managed to gain control of our wallets and our regulatory agencies. They have jurisdiction over our power grids and industry and our access to land and the redistribution of our money and assets to others in other nations. They’re not the harmless disturbed individuals they used to be. They’re dangerous. Throw the UN out of this country.
http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24761
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Hilly Clinton’s Email Scandal
is Exploding and this Could Get Very Ugly
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Hilly Clinton has been embroiled at the center of an ever-growing scandal for several months now, and there has been more than a couple big scares for the Clinton campaign, but the latest tremors may be the most destructive yet... While there have been many close calls for the Clinton campaign over the last year, the latest revelations may be the most damning yet. Over the last few days, several major stories have dropped shedding light on Clinton’s crimes as Secretary of State. Each on its own would be embarrassing (as they each prove that Hilly lied at various times and in various ways), but taken altogether they paint a damning portrait of a craven liar and a crass criminal. The first revelation was that Clinton ordered her subordinates to strip the classified markings from important data and send it through “unsecure” methods. Both commands – first, to strip the markings and then to send the data in an unsecure manner -- are both in abject contradiction to federal law.        http://eaglerising.com/28655/hillary-clintons-email-scandal-is-exploding-and-this-could-get-very-ugly/
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The New Terror Threat: Organized Rape
Abigail R. Esman
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ It was a different kind of terrorist attack: a carefully orchestrated, coordinated mass rape and sexual assault on hundreds of women across Cologne, Germany amongst the firework celebrations of New Year's Eve... Reports of the attacks describe women  desperately fleeing as men pulled at them, groped between their legs, dragged them into alleyways, and witnesses who struggled to rescue them as men threw bottles and fireworks at the police. Two weeks later, more than 500 women, along with other victims in Hamburg, Stuttgart, and Berlin, have filed complaints, and 22 suspects have been identified. Most of those suspects are asylum-seekers, new arrivals from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan who, German officials now say, used the country's open-armed offer of sanctuary to the victims of terrorism as a gateway to wage even more terrorism in the West. It worked. Across Europe, women have voiced a new fear of being on the streets at night and concern that the attacks in Germany will spread. In fact, they have already. Other such rapes were reported in Finland, Sweden and Austria over New Year's as well, though on a smaller scale.
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Folks, here’s what I find 
VERY ODD about what happened 
with Iran and our Navy this week…
Lt. Col. (Retired) Allen West
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{aim.org} ~ There are so many moving pieces surrounding this Riverine Assault boat seizure incident and the capture of 10 U.S. sailors... The pictures of our sailors on their knees, hands over their heads, is being displayed all over the world, and paraded about by our enemies. This is an utterly embarrassing moment and is not in keeping with the great traditions of John Paul Jones and Stephen Decatur. But I thought it important to take the time to provide an analysis of what we do know. This incident reminds me of when three American soldiers were captured by the Yugoslavian army back in Bosnia, 1999. That brings me to this current incident with the Iranians. First of all, I find it odd that these Riverine craft were operating on an excursion from Kuwait to Bahrain. Why were they not hugging close to the coast line? Now, I also find it perplexing to be told that the engines of the boats malfunctioned. If that were the case, an immediate call should have been made and at least, aerial surveillance and support should have been dispatched. The next thing would have been immediate dispatching of a recovery vessel to support these two boats. Regardless of one or two boat engines malfunctioning, what should have happened after a distress call was all hands manning the boat weapons. They should have been in an immediate defensive posture to secure themselves until recovery was complete – or they were back underway. I find it rather disturbing that any Iranian watercraft were able to approach these two heavily armored assault boats.
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How (and Why) Palestinian 
Leaders Scare the World
Khaled Abu Toameh
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Mohamed Dahlan (right), a former PA security commander in the Gaza Strip, is one of the major critics and rivals of PA President Mahmoud Abbas (left), and hopes to succeed him in the presidency.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What do you do when your home has become hell? If you are Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, you divert attention from the mess as fast as possible... For a start, Abbas is trying to scare the international community into believing that without increased pressure on Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will be forced to resort to unilateral measures, such as attempting to create new "facts on the ground" in the West Bank. Next, Abbas is threatening to renew the Palestinian call for convening an international conference for peace in the Middle East and to step up rhetorical attacks against Israel. Finally, Abbas has perfected the art of financial extortion. Every Monday and Thursday, as it were, the PA president has threatened to resign and/or dissolve the PA. This tactic has a twofold aim: cold hard European and American cash and a gaze directed away from the PA's turmoil.
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nObama Judicial Nominee Who 
Accused Reagan of ‘Bigotry’ 
Faces Confirmation Vote
Philip Wegmann
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Justice Wilhelmina Wright
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{dailysignal.com} ~ President nObama’s nominee for a federal judgeship in Minnesota accused the Reagan administration of “bigotry” in her writing for the prestigious UCLA Law Review in 1989... Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Wilhelmina Wright, who is expected to win Senate confirmation to federal District Court in her state next Tuesday, wrote the accusation shortly before graduating Harvard Law School. Wright accused Chief Justice William Rehnquist and President Reagan of aiding “white people who are running and hiding” from desegregated public schools.
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Glick: The nObama Administration’s 
Most Covert War
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Over the past several weeks, we have learned that the nObama administration believes it is at war with Israel. The war is not a shooting war, but a political war. Its goal is to bring the government to its knees to the point where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loses power or begs nObama and his advisers to shepherd Israel through a “peace process” in which Israel will renounce its rights to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
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One component of this war is espionage. Last monthThe Wall Street Journal reported that Israel is a top target for American espionage.
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The other component of the administration’s war against Israel is political subversion. Over the past week, the administration has campaigned against the NGO bill sponsored by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. If the bill, which was approved by the government, becomes law, it will require political NGOs that are principally financed by foreign governments to identify as foreign agents in their official communications and interactions.
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Last week, State Department spokesman James Kirby lambasted the bill at an official briefing. Among other things, Kirby rejected Shaked’s claim that her bill is less restrictive than the US’s own Foreign Agents Registration Act. Kirby offered no substantiation of his claim.
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Earlier this week, US Ambassador Dan Shapiro met with Shaked. Following their meeting, the US Embassy published two statements attacking the NGO law. In one of them, the embassy sought to substantiate Kirby’s claim regarding FARA. By the embassy’s telling, FARA relates only to agents whose action are directly guided by foreign governments, while Shaked’s NGO bill relates to entities that receive financing from foreign governments whether or not their actions are directed by the government financiers.
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The embassy’s claim is deeply misleading.
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As attorney Lorri Lowenthal Marcus explained this week in The Jewish Press, in practice, the burden of proof that US entities are not directed by foreign governments that fund them falls on the entities, not on the US government. In her words, the US law “uses ambiguous words and tests which are far more likely to lead to over-broad applications and chilling of speech than does the straightforward Israeli proposal’s standard.”
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Moreover, whereas Shaked’s proposed NGO law would fine entities that fail to abide by reporting restrictions, under FARA, US entities that fail to abide by the restrictions of the law can face both fines and up to five years in prison.
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The duplicitous nature of the administration’s assault on Shaked’s bill is all the more obvious when we consider how senior US officials view these politicized organizations.
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Currently, the State Department is slowly fulfilling a federal court order to publish the emails Democratic presidential hopeful Hilly Clinton sent from her private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Over the past several weeks, the department has published a number of emails regarding Israel that reveal the depth of hostility Clinton’s closest advisers harbored toward Israel.
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Last week, one such email demonstrated that Clinton’s senior anti-Israel advisers viewed radical Israeli-registered NGOs as agents for the administration to use in order to carry out covert anti-Israel policies.
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The email in question is a letter Clinton received in December 2011 from retired ambassador Thomas Pickering. Clinton asked her chief of staff to print out his letter.
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Pickering’s illustrious career reached its peak during Bill Clinton’s administration. Clinton’s husband appointed Pickering, a former ambassador to Israel, to serve as undersecretary of state for policy planning, the third-most senior position at the State Department.
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Pickering retired in 2001, at the end of the Clinton years. Since retiring, he has enjoyed the status of elder statesman among the American foreign policy elite. He has also been a loyal supporter and lobbyist for Iran, and a signatory on numerous plans to stick it to Israel.
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In his letter to Clinton, Pickering recommended using leftist NGOs – including Peace Now, which he mentioned by name – to destabilize the political situation on the ground in Israel.
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Pickering set out a plan, which in his view would force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ask the Americans to initiate a new diplomatic process with the Palestinians.
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Pickering’s plan involved organizing a protest movement of Palestinian and Israeli women to “bring continuing pressure to change minds at the top.”
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On the Palestinian side, Pickering said, “there might be peaceful demonstrations against all aspects of the occupation on the Palestinian sides – roadblocks, land confiscations, new settlement activity, around military government installations and perhaps in Area C, which they do not control.”
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These actions Pickering wrote, “could create the kind of action which no army can easily use force to deal with.... With all and only women demonstrating peacefully under the eyes of the world, the chances are much less force will be used against them, since that action has its own consequences.”
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In other words, Pickering sought to organize provocations of IDF units “under the eyes of the world,” in which IDF soldiers would be portrayed as being mean to Palestinian women. These women for their part would provoke them to be mean by interfering with military operations or disrupting the lives of Israeli citizens in Judea and Samaria.
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Pickering made no bones about the covert nature of this US anti-Israel subversion. He warned Clinton, “Most of all the United States, in my view, cannot be seen to have stimulated encouraged or be the power behind it for reasons you will understand better than anyone.
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“I believe third parties and a number of NGOs on both sides would help.”
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That is, Clinton’s confidante, the elder statesman who organized a lobby on behalf of nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran, called for the secretary of state to use radical Israeli NGOs as US agents to carry out a covert US operation against an allied government.
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A notable aspect of Pickering’s plan is his underlying assumption that the US-organized demonstrations would be filmed and used against Israel in the court of public opinion.
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For the past several years, the US government has funded B’Tselem’s video project.
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According to NGO Monitor, in 2014 the US paid some $68,000 for the project which provides video cameras and photographic training to Palestinians. The goal is for them to film IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians in fraught situations and call their morality and legitimacy into question.
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It was his recognition that cameras are the new weapon of Israel’s enemies that caused Gilad Ach, a 32-year-old master’s student at Tel Aviv University, to form his own NGO – Ad Kan. Ad Kan’s goal is to penetrate radical Israeli NGOs to expose their problematic activities.
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In a bit of bad timing for the administration, last Thursday, the same day Kirby launched the administration’s public assault against Shaked’s NGO bill, and just before Pickering’s email to Clinton was published, Uvda, Channel 2’s investigative news magazine, broadcast a report revealing some of the findings that Ach and his colleagues have uncovered in Ad Kan’s three-year operation.
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Over the past three years, Ad Kan employees have seeded themselves inside radical Israeli NGOs and surreptitiously filmed their operations.
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The footage broadcast last week on Uvda showed senior “human rights” operatives for B’Tselem and Ta’ayush, Nasser Nawajah and Ezra Nawi, plotting to bring about the arrest, torture and murder of a Palestinian by the Palestinian Authority’s US-trained and -funded security services.
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The Palestinian in question was, as far as they were concerned, marked for torture and murder because he was hoping to sell his land to Jews in the South Hebron Hills around the Israeli community of Sussiya.
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One of the strangest aspects of the Uvda report was the radical Left’s response to it. By and large, leftist groups refused to condemn what Nawi and Nawajah were doing. B’Tselem, which is supposed to fight for Palestinian human rights, said that it is legitimate to turn Palestinians who wish to sell their property to Jews over to the PA, despite the fact that the PA’s penalty for such actions is death.
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Beyond what their refusal to condemn solicitation of murder and torture says about their commitment to Palestinian human rights, the radical Left’s silence reveals just how key Nawi and Nawajah are to their operations.
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In a word, Nawajah and Nawi are superstars of the radical Left in Israel and throughout the Western world. Last July, Nawajeh published an op-ed in The New York Times. In it, he accused Israel of denying the property rights of Palestinians in the exact area where he and Nawi plotted the murder of a Palestinian who sought to exercise his property rights by selling his land to Israelis.
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As Liel Liebowitz reported in the Tablet online magazine, in 2007, after Nawi was arrested at a violent protest against the IDF, 20,000 people, including the who’s who of the radical Left in Israel and in the US, signed a petition demanding his immediate release.
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Leading members of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement in the US, including Jewish Voices for Peace, have financed Nawi’s activities.
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Pickering recommended using NGOs to organize protests. Ad Kan exposed how this is done.
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On Monday, Channel 2 broadcast Ad Kan surveillance footage showing a Breaking the Silence employee paying Nawi and his Ta’ayush colleague Guy Botavia for organizing a demonstration against IDF soldiers. Botavia serves as the head of Ta’ayush’s video project.
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In the same report, Ta’ayush activists are filmed paying Palestinians in cash for participating in the demonstration, in which they threw rocks at IDF soldiers.
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In a conversation this week with The Jerusalem Post, Ach claimed that without the NGOs, the Palestinians would not be demonstrating. “I asked one of the Palestinians if he would be rioting if the NGO wasn’t paying him. He said no.
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“I asked him what he does when he isn’t rioting.
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He said he’s a construction worker in Modi’in Illit, an Israeli settlement beyond the 1949 armistice lines. That is, five days a week, Israelis pay him to build settlements, and the rest of the week, other Israelis pay him to throw rocks on soldiers.
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“This guy only works for Israelis – either to build or destroy,” Ach wryly noted.
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One of the common claims the far Left has made in response to the Uvda report is that if the report is all Ad Kan managed to learn in three years of planting moles in these groups, then clearly there is nothing to expose.
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But Ach explains, what Ad Kan has revealed to date is merely the tip of the iceberg.
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And so, as the nObama administration ratchets up its political war against Israel in its final year in office, we can expect to learn that like the administration itself, the NGOs the administration is so concerned about protecting have and will stop at nothing to achieve their goal of demonizing Israel and destroying its good name in the Western world.
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Friday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 15, 2016 at 1:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
These armed civilians are patrolling
the border to keep the Islamic 
State out of America
Peter Holley
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 Opportunity Is Key to Fighting Poverty 
A number of prominent Republicans gathered in Charleston over the weekend for a detailed discussion of poverty in America and what can be done about it. The Expanding Opportunity Forum was hosted by the Jack Kemp Foundation and moderated by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. In short, there are a lot of conservative solutions to poverty, and, given the Left's 50-year track record of failure, it's time to give them a try.
          Six GOP presidential hopefuls joined the discussion, including Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Mike Huckabee. They were joined by Gov. Nikki Haley and Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute. Current 2016 frontrunners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz spent the weekend on the campaign trail instead, but they missed a substantive discussion and an opportunity to show some empathy for the plight of millions of Americans.
          The GOP needs to prove to voters this year that it has not only the ability, but also the willingness to find solutions to the ongoing poverty problem in America. As Rubio stated at the event, "We have an outmoded, outdated government ... and a Big Government Left that is more interested in protecting the status quo than in modernizing our policies to address the challenges of the 21st century."
          Since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964 and established his "Great Society," the federal government has spent over $22 trillion in entitlements and grants for programs that have made little to no progress. And in all that time, poverty has never been driven below 10% of the population.
          As we begin the final year of Barack nObama's term in office, one in seven Americans lives in poverty. There are a record 46 million people on food stamps, 14.5 million more than when he took office in 2009. Nearly 70% of the federal budget is currently being consumed by government income-redistribution programs, and close to 50% of Americans reside in a household that is receiving that assistance.  -The Patriot Post
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 Haley shows veepstakes strength in rebuttal 
David Drucker writes that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s rebuttal to President nObama’s State of the Union should put her in the top spot for a vice presidential pick. Drucker says, “Haley was praised for her delivery and her eloquent and sharp rhetoric. She displayed an ability to marry an aggressive pitch for conservative values, such as stating that illegal immigration must be stopped, with calls for inclusiveness and respect for people with which Republicans disagree. For a party that is simultaneously looking for strong leadership and a messenger that can help the GOP appeal to an increasingly diverse electorate that has increasingly sided with the Democratic Party in presidential elections. The performance should immediately elevate the second-term Indian American governor, who is just 43 years old, into top consideration for her party's vice presidential nod.”  -Fox News
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 HILLY GETS COLD SHOULDER FROM IOWANS 
NYT: “Iowa Democrats are displaying far less passion for Hilly Clinton than for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont three weeks before the presidential caucuses, creating anxiety inside the Clinton campaign as she scrambles to energize supporters and to court wavering voters. The enthusiasm gap spilled abundantly into view in recent days, from the cheering crowds and emotional outpourings that greeted Mr. Sanders, and in interviews with more than 50 Iowans at campaign stops for both candidates. Voters have mobbed Mr. Sanders at events since Friday, some jumping over chairs to shake his hand or snap a selfie…With a new poll showing Mr. Sanders surging ahead in Iowa, Mrs. Clinton and her aides have dropped any pretense that they can ignore Mr. Sanders or treat him like a gadfly. They have become zealous and combative as they try new ways to undercut his high favorability ratings.”  -Fox News
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Ronald Reagan's Response 
to Iranian Aggression
AAN Staff
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{americanactionnews.com} ~ President Barack nObama's response to an act of Iranian aggression was to pretend that they were just helping American sailors who had broken down and were in distress... This story fell apart yesterday when Iranian state media released images of American soldiers on their knees, hands behind their heads, being captured, and an interview with an American Navy man being forced to apologize for entering Iranian waters. The truth is, nObama had no course of action but to apologize. He's built his entire foreign policy around pursuing peace at all costs with a regime that is openly hostile to American interests, negotiating from a position of weakness despite leading the world's most powerful military and the stick that is a broad sanctions regime. At this point, it's far easier to lie than to admit his preferred foreign policy is a complete and utter failure. So what would a good response have looked like? Back in the 1980's, Ronald Reagan faced a similar situation, but his response was radically different. Writing at the Insurgent, Brian Sikma notes:
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Will Hilly Be Thrown off the Ballot?
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{americanactionnews.com} ~ Hilly Clinton's shot at getting on the ballot in Illinois might be down the tubes, thanks to the hard work of StopHillary PAC... Democratic presidential frontrunner Hilly Clinton is ineligible to appear on Illinois’s primary ballot, a petition filed with state officials on Wednesday claims. The petition argues that thousands of signatures submitted to get Clinton’s name on the state’s primary ballot are invalid for a litany of reasons. As a result, it claims, Clinton’s signature total is under the 3,000 needed to qualify for a spot on the ballot. “Hilly Clinton violated rules that even Rod Blagojevich followed,” Dan Backer, who heads Stop Hilly PAC, the group that organized the petition, said in a statement. “The sheer number of defective registrants is a typical bit of Clinton sloppiness and their usual lack of respect for the law.” 
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North Korea, South Korea 
At "Brink of War"
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ North Korea recently made claims saying the country successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that quickly prompted responses from nations across the world... South Korea has lashed out against North Korea’s recent nuclear test by asking China to enforce the strongest possible international sanctions against the country. South Korea’s President claims its neighbor to the north flew over and dispersed propaganda leaflets calling South Korea’s government “mad dogs”. South Korea is not the only force pushing for sanctions. The U.N. Security Council has also expressed a desire in enforcing strict sanctions against North Korea, but understands doing so requires China’s cooperation. http://punchingbagpost.com/north-korea-south-korea-at-brink-of-war
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Another Dubious State of the Union Guest
Steve Emerson
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Sen. Cory Booker
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{aim.org} ~ A New Jersey Muslim community leader attending tonight’s State of the Union Address with Sen. Cory Booker also serves as treasurer of a political group which strongly supports the Muslim Brotherhood and demands its return to power in Egypt, documents discovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show... Ahmed Shedeed is president of the Islamic Center of Jersey City. In explaining his invitation, Booker said Shedeed “has spoken out for religious tolerance and mutual understanding” and shows “how the diversity of America makes us all better.” It is unclear whether Booker knows of another leadership post Shedeed holds – treasurer of the Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights (EADHR). The group emerged in 2013, after Egypt’s military ousted President Mohamed Morsi – a member of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party – from power.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/another-dubious-state-of-the-union-guest/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email011416&utm_medium=email
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This Newly Released Benghazi 
Document Reveals Hilly’s Lies
AmyElizabeth
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Fox News Insider Following the premiere of the film “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Megyn Kelly spoke to family members of two of the four Americans who died in the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya... Charles Woods and Jeremiah Woods, the father and brother of Tyrone Woods, and Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, shared their emotional reactions to the film. Charles happened to bring some evidence that ran contrary to Hilly’s claim.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMx0huMabos  Charles opened up a small notebook and read an entry he wrote several days after the attack.
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A Russian Spy In The NSA:
A True Story Of Espionage
Cliff Kincaid
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{noisyroom.net} ~ Before Edward Snowden, there was Robert Lipka. He spied for the Russians at the NSA... Rather than flee to Moscow, Lipka moved to Pennsylvania and used the money he was paid by the Russians to bet on horse races. It took 32 years to bring Lipka to justice, and we may never know all of the state secrets he betrayed. Former FBI agent John Whiteside, discusses his book about the case, Fool’s Mate. He also addresses current security measures in the federal government and whether Barack nObama could pass an FBI background check.        http://noisyroom.net/blog/2016/01/14/a-russian-spy-in-the-nsa-a-true-story-of-espionage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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2 Smoking Guns For Hilly
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{wnd.com} ~ The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known... This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBI’s investigations in two months. I have argued for two months that Clinton’s legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the Department of Justice addresses these failures. Before she was entrusted with any state secrets – indeed, on her first full day as secretary of state – Clinton received instruction from FBI agents on how to safeguard them; and she signed an oath swearing to comply with the laws commanding the safekeeping of these secrets. She was warned that the failure to safeguard secrets – known as espionage – would most likely result in aggressive prosecution.
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This Should Settle Cruz 
Eligibility for the Trump Tribe
Susan Carleson
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{theacru.org} ~ Who was Aldo Mario Bellei, and why should Donald Trump care and Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe know? Because Mr. Bellei puts the lie to Donald Trump’s attack on the eligibility of Senator Ted Cruz to be president... backed up by Professor Tribe’s claim that “the Supreme Court has never addressed the issue of natural born citizenship one way or the other, as I believe Ted ought to know.” Donald Trump is trying to slow Ted Cruz’s progress in Iowa by casting doubt on the latter’s eligibility for president. In arguing that Sen. Cruz is not a “natural born citizen,” Mr. Trump is relying on liberal law professor Laurence Tribe. Of course, Mr. Tribe’s agenda obviously is to help the Democrats and deny the presidency to the best conservative candidate. To do so Mr. Tribe has been misleading Iowa voters and the American public. Despite Mr. Tribe’s personal belief that his former Harvard Law student is eligible to become president, he’s provided oxygen to those desperate to kill Ted Cruz’s candidacy by claiming that nothing is “settled law” until five lawyers on the current Supreme Court say so. Well, in 1971, five Justices on the Supreme Court settled the question of the citizenship right of a person born abroad to an American mother.
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Gowdy: Witnesses have confirmed
stand-down order on night of Benghazi
SARAH WESTWOOD
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Rep.Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Wednesday that a number of witnesses had confirmed a stand-down order was given... to military assets in proximity to Benghazi the night of the 2012 terror attack, while others said no one issued such an order. "The best I can do is tell you what the witnesses say, and then you can decide who you think is more credible," Gowdy said during an interview with Boston Herald Radio. His comments came the same day the committee interviewed Jeremy Bash, a high-ranking Pentagon official who in 2012 authored an email indicating the military had forces "spinning" and prepared to head toward Benghazi when approved.
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Have You Seen These 
Disgusting EPA Power Grabs?
John Thomas
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{teapartybulletin.com} ~ The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is, ostensibly, in place to protect the places we live and our natural resources so that we leave an inhabitable world for our children and grandchildren... Supposedly, they are the “good guys” and on our side. I find those ideas, dubious, at best, but, regardless of your opinion that you’ve had of the EPA and it’s purposes in the past, new moves by the EPA in 2015 may make you question your previous positive thoughts about them. For example, take The Clean Power Plan (CPP), which the EPA attempted to put into place to fight global warming. The problem is, the legality is questionable, at best. As soon as it was put into place, 26 states filed law suits against the EPA to block it based on it’s questionable legality.
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These armed civilians are patrolling
the border to keep the Islamic 
State out of America
Peter Holley
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Tim "Nailer" Foley was more than 5,000 miles away from Paris when Islamic State terrorists launched a series of coordinated attacks throughout the French capital, killing 130 people and injuring hundreds more. But Foley - a former construction foreman who now spends his days with a band of heavily armed civilians, voluntarily patrolling the some of the most remote and dangerous stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border - wasn't surprised.
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For years now, Foley said, he's been warning the FBI that sprinkled among the groups of immigrants he intercepts illegally crossing the border are foreign nationals who aren't from Mexico.
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"We have pictures from trail cameras that show Somalis and Middle Eastern guys with beards and everything else, but nobody is listening," Foley told The Washington Post. "We're going to have something like Paris had. It's not a matter of if, but when."
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The 56-year-old founder of Arizona Border Recon added: "People need to wake up and realize this border is not secure."
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Officials say the threat of an Islamic State operative slipping into the United States from Mexico is a real one: the FBI confirmed that five men from Pakistan and one from Afghanistan were captured just recently near Arizona's border with Mexico, according to ABC affiliate KNXV.
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Art Del Cueto, a spokesman for the Tuscon Border Patrol, told the station that nearly 80 percent of those picked up around the U.S.-Mexico border were from counties other than Mexico. "We catch different people from different parts of the world all the time," he said.
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Authorities processed the men from Pakistan and Afghanistan, checking their identities against "numerous law enforcement agencies and national security databases," according to a U.S. Border Patrol statement. But, the agency said, authorities found no "derogatory information" on their records.
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Regardless, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, said in a statement: The incident "only reinforces the need to take our national security seriously on all fronts. News like this is very troubling, especially in light of new threats on the United States from ISIS."
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He added: "It's clear, our nation needs to up its game and improve border resources if we are going to protect our homeland."
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Ducey singled out "the law enforcement officials and agents on the ground who made these apprehensions."
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But Foley - whose group was not involved in the recent capture - is a rare civilian taking America's national security into his own hands.
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He lives in a modest home about 400 yards from the U.S.-Mexico border, providing him with a front-row seat along some of the last untamed territory left in the United States.
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For the past five years, Foley has led volunteer vigilante outfits deep into the borderlands. Their goal: To intercept illegal border crossers and disrupt the ceaseless flow of drugs coming through a heavily trafficked corridor in the rugged desert 30 miles west of Nogales, Ariz.
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To join Arizona Border Recon, volunteers must fill out an application, pass a background check and abide by strict rules of engagement, Foley told The Washington Post. "We want to make sure you're not a sexual predator or prohibited possessor, and by doing this it shows the Border Patrol agents that we have a sense of professionalism and they don't have to sit there and wonder, 'Who are these guys?'" he said.
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On the group's Web site, it notes:
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We are not affiliated with any form of government, nor are we a militia. Our objective is not to overthrow any government, or take the law into our own hands. We are not here to replace the Border Patrol. We operate within the scope of the law as citizens, by observing and reporting what we see.
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Foley was vetted by FBI agents in 2011 after the bureau received an anonymous tip that accused him of leaving pipe bombs on heavily trafficked trails, according to Al Jazeera America. Foley was never charged or arrested, but some local law enforcement officers remain wary of him.
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Each Arizona Border Recon mission can last a week or more and usually includes at least a dozen civilian men, many of whom have experience in the military or with law enforcement agencies or private security firms. The group was featured in the recently released "Cartel Land" and has been documented by New York photographer Johnny Milano, who spent five days with Foley's men.
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"I've been called racist, a Nazi and an assassin," Foley told The Washington Post. "That's because people have preconceived notions about people who are down here trying to help. They don't know how many people we've saved when it's 115 degrees out and we find someone alone in the desert who has been left behind."
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Before the economy crashed in 2008, Foley worked in heavy construction as a layout general foreman in Phoenix. It had taken him more than 30 years to rise from digging ditches in high school to overseeing a 150-man crew building high-rises. He built a comfortable life for himself that included a suburban abode, multiple cars and a swimming pool, he said.
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But after the economy collapsed, construction work in Phoenix dried up, Foley said. He went from $40-an-hour work to struggling to find odd jobs that paid a third as much. His home was foreclosed, a divorce followed, and Foley said he found himself untethered and alone for the first time in decades.
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"You know why they call it the American Dream?" he said. "Because you gotta be asleep to believe it."
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Foley formed Arizona Border Recon in 2011 and has been running five or six missions each year since. The group, he said, has detained hundreds of people, including illegal immigrants, drug mules and narco-scouts. AZBR has saved more than 100 people, as well, he said.
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But the group's primary activity, Foley said, is staking out trails used by drug mules. The interference forces mules into less favorable terrain, where the drug-runners are more likely to be seen and intercepted by Border Patrol agents. Over a few days, he said, an AZBR operation can redirect more than 20 mules and dozens of illegal immigrants into custody.
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It's an unprofitable existence, but one that Foley said keeps him mentally engaged and physically active. He lives off his modest savings and donations that arrive via the AZBR website from supportive individuals mostly, he said. His goal, he noted, is to eventually buy a dude ranch where military veterans with PTSD can heal their minds by patrolling the border, getting outside and enjoying the company of people they can relate to.
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Asked whether he'd ever return to Phoenix, trading his new life for his old one, Foley said there's no going back.
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"There's that scene in 'The Matrix,' where Morpheus offers the blue and red pill," he said. "I've taken the red pill, and I've woken up, and I can't go back to sleep. I've seen the truth. How can I turn my back on it and go get another 9-to-5 job, pay my taxes and pretend it isn't happening?"
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Friday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 15, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Glick: In Pakistan, They Trust
 Caroline Glick
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 When the Orator Heckles 
"What do you mean, 'Make America Great Again'? I've already done that!" That was the essence of Barack nObama's thankfully final State of the Union Address last night. We've watched a lot of nObama's speeches over the years (our humble service so that you won't have to), and this one was particularly remarkable for his cocky, smug and hectoring tone — and that's saying something for a petulant narcissist like him. Whether it was insisting that the economy is great or that climate change requires his solutions or that "America is the most powerful nation on Earth — period," nObama is right and righteous, and anyone who disagrees is a lying clown. We're only surprised he didn't claim credit for the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, because nObama's awesome, America's great, and, oh, by the way, you're welcome, you ingrates.
          What makes the tone even more obnoxious was that he eventually got around to lecturing us about political disagreements in general. "It's one of the few regrets of my presidency that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," he lamented, as if he was an innocent bystander. Of course, he has done more to foment rancor and suspicion than any other president in history.
          And then there was his parade of straw-men. For example, we don't keep America secure by "either isolating ourselves or trying to nation-build everywhere there's a problem," he said, outlining two positions held by exactly no one. His way, he tells us, is really the only enlightened one.
          One final observation: Are we the only ones who noticed how very ticked off Michelle nObama looked throughout the speech? Is the woman ever happy?  -The Patriot Post
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 Iran Humiliates nObama, Again 
Ten U.S. Navy personnel aboard two small boats were detained by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) on Tuesday after at least one of their boats reportedly had mechanical trouble near Farsi Island in the northern Persian Gulf. A Fifth Fleet spokesman confirmed on Wednesday the IRGCN had released all 10 sailors, who are safely aboard USS Anzio. The IRGCN also returned the two small boats, which were manned by other U.S. sailors and are en route to Bahrain.
          Taking U.S. Navy personnel captive is consistent with Iran's pattern of hostility to the U.S. under nObama's weak leadership. But the Iranian regime is focused on getting the recent nuclear deal implemented (and $150 billion in sanctions relief flowing), and Iran doubtless wanted to avoid a repeat of 2007, when local IRGCN forces took 15 British sailors and marines captive at gunpoint and held them for two weeks. U.S. military analysts believe that  incident was instigated by a local commander with no prior approval from higher authorities, and that the Iranian regime was caught by surprise in a very dangerous standoff not of its own design. This time the Iranian regime apparently exercised its authority over the IRGCN and prevented another major incident.
          But was there concern in the nObama administration? Was there even a minute when the administration was rethinking the Iran nuclear deal? After all, Iran has been busy the last few weeks, test firing ballistic missiles contrary to international treaties, test firing other missiles downrange of U.S. ships, and now, in the words of Sen. Tom Cotton, "humiliating Barack Obama" on the night of his State of the Union Address.
          Last night, nObama, knowing full well that 10 sailors were being treated with "Islamic compassion" by their Iranian captors, kept to his rosy script for his speech. "There is a smarter approach," he said, "a patient and disciplined strategy that uses every element of our national power. ... That's why we built a global coalition, with sanctions and principled diplomacy, to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. And as we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war." No mention whatsoever of the captured Americans from the commander in chief.  -The Patriot Post
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 Who's 'Peddling Fiction' About the Economy? 
At last night's State of the Union Address, Barack nObama crowed about his track record with the economy. Jobs have been increasing, he said, and because of that, everything is on the up and up. "Let me start with the economy and a basic fact," nObama said. "The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. We're in the middle of the longest streak of private-sector job creation in history. ... Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction."
          Yes, every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases that jobs report and the headlining numbers — how many jobs added, the unemployment rate — look good. But nObama is painting with too broad a brush when he says his naysayers are describing a fictional reality. The numbers deeper in those reports tell a more ominous story. As Fortune demonstrates, wages under nObama's administration have basically stagnated. Personal debt held by Americans has increased by about $1 trillion. Meanwhile, fewer Americans are buying homes. And as for those increased employment numbers, it is undercut by the fact that the overall percentage of Americans in the workforce is hovering around record lows.
          As a hallmark of his economy, nObama said last night more Americans work in the solar industry than coal. Of course — this is because the nObama administration has decimated the coal industry through regulation, as the second largest coal company filed for bankruptcy and West Virginia struggles with staggering unemployment numbers. The chief executive's divisive rhetoric on the economy isn't helping, either. But here's some good news: America's economy is durable. It will move past the nObama era.  -The Patriot Post
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Islamophobia & Political Correctness
Herbert London
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{aim.org} ~ In accordance with a ten year plan of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to implement United Nations’ Resolution 16:18 which criminalizes all criticism of Islam worldwide... the U.S. House of Representatives issued H. Res. 569 condemning violence, bigotry and “hateful rhetoric” toward Muslims in the United States. This proposal comes on the heels of Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s post San Bernardino promise to prosecute anyone guilty of anti-Muslim speech. It is clear that Ms. Lynch is firing a canon at a fly. According to FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, there were 1014 hate crime incidents motivated by religious bias in 2014. Of those, 154 – 15.2 percent – were anti-Islamic. More than half were anti-Jewish incidents. Not only is this yet another example of the nObama administration exaggerating minor threats, but it suggests as well an ignorance or callous avoidance of the First Amendment. Progressive elites have accused those who condemn Muslim extremism of being extremists themselves – claiming that censure of radical Islam is an indiscriminate criticism of all Muslims. Here is an example of what progressives would call “Islamophobia,” dubbed appropriately by Andrew Cummins as a word “created by fascists, used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”
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FBI Has Enough Evidence to
Prosecute Hilly Clinton for Public Corruption
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{breitbart.com} ~ An investigation into possible mishandling of classified information on Hilly Clinton’s private email server has expanded to consider whether Clinton’s work as Secretary overlapped with her work for the Clinton Foundation run by her family... Fox News‘ Catherine Herridge published the report, citing unnamed FBI sources, Monday morning. The report indicates the initial security referral looking into whether or not classified information was mishandled has expanded to look at possible public corruption involving the Clinton Foundation. The report paints a picture of an internal struggle within the FBI over whether or not to prosecute Clinton. Herridge quotes an unnamed FBI source saying, “many previous public corruption cases have been made and successfully prosecuted with much less evidence than what is emerging in this investigation.”
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The U.S. Has a Massive
Asylum Fraud Problem No One Talks About
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{pjmedia.com} ~ Until her 2013 arrest in Texas, the Mexico City-based Nepalese smuggler Rakhi Gauchan was one of the most prolific kingpin smugglers of Islamic world migrants that federal agents had seen in years... During her long career, Gauchan delivered scores of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Indians to the Texas and Arizona borders. Ten or more every month, according to court filings from her case. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “special interest alien” (SIA) hunters were glad to finally remove her from the borderlands, because Gauchan confided to an undercover government agent that she believed a Pakistani client she had smuggled into Arizona was a bonafide terrorist. ICE agents rushed to track down the Pakistani, learning he was quite real and living in America, having gained political asylum. They learned he had come from the embattled Kashmir region of India and Pakistan, a notorious magnet for the global Islamic jihadists. Court records conspicuously omit reference to whether the agents confirmed Gauchan’s hunch. However, they did disclose that Gauchan had regularly helped clients like the suspected Pakistani terrorist obtain the most cherished of illegal immigration door prizes: U.S. political asylum enabling permanent residency and American citizenship.        https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/1/13/the-u-s-has-a-massive-asylum-fraud-problem-no-one-talks-about
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nObama SET TO UNFREEZE 
$100 BILLION to Iran, After Deep 
HUMILIATION and Sailor Capture 
PAMELA GELLER
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{pamelageller.com} ~ ….. defense officials said they no longer believed that mechanical problems were the cause, noting that both boats returned to United States custody under their own power... As I said here when I first reported the Iranian attack and have now been proven right by defense officials, there is no way that the engines of two US navy boats died at the same time and “drifted” into Iranian waters. The US Navy sailors are well trained, know their exact locations and emergency procedures. I do not believe they were captured in “Iranian waters.” The nObama administration’s story stinks to high heaven. And all of this has happened before Iran “will cash in with $100 billion plus in sanctions relief,” added Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Camera Catches Joint Chiefs
After nObama Mocks Them at SOTU…
conservativetribune
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ It’s little secret that America’s military strength hasn’t just waned under the nObama administration, but plummeted... Weapons systems have been neglected, troop strength has declined and the president has been using the armed forces as a social experiment. So, if someone were to tell you that America’s military were just as strong as ever, you would probably laugh. One group that wouldn’t, though, are the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When nObama mocked them over America’s military strength during last night’s speech, the men who lead our military said it all with their demeanor — stony-faced, unsmiling and not clapping.         http://conservativetribune.com/camera-joint-chiefs-obama/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=MailChimp&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail01.14.16
Video at the site
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Finally, a Strategy to
Checkmate nObama’s Executive Actions
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Many of President nObama’s executive actions—whether the most recent ones calling for more gun control or past ones extending amnesty to millions here illegally—are already being or will one day be challenged in the courts... This is why it’s encouraging to see reports this week that lawmakers may finally make a real effort to checkmate the president’s proclivity to go around them and create laws on his own. It’s a strategy grassroots activists should demand. Though Congress has given up much of its power when it comes to using its “power of the purse” to stop executive overreach, there is one power it still holds, and there is absolutely no reason not to use it. Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, popularly known as “Advise and Consent,” requires the Senate to approve all presidential appointments of cabinet officials, ambassadors, and federal judges.
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4 Issues Benghazi Committee 
Is Focused On
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The House Select Committee on Benghazi, far from intimidated by its critics, is plowing ahead with a heavy schedule... Last week, former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus was deposed by the committee in a closed-door hearing, in which he reportedly offered the committee important clarifications on the CIA’s role in Benghazi—before, during, and after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2012. Others on the schedule include former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Charlene Lamb, and former Pentagon Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash. While three of the four have given public testimony before, new information has recently come to light through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, lawsuits, and the testimony of the 64 witnesses interviewed by the Benghazi committee. Of the 64, 53 told their stories for the first time.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/13/4-issues-benghazi-committee-is-focused-on/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvqnJZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMZlNK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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Why Have Western Leaders
 Sold-Out to Islam?
Nonie Darwish
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{joemiller.us} ~ Is someone holding a gun to the heads of Western politicians, forcing them to state immediately after every Muslim terror attack that “Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with terror”?... Who cares about whether Islam has or has not something to do with terror? The only people who care about Islam’s reputation are the so-called “moderate” Muslims who have been making excuses for jihad terror, and covering up for Islamic atrocities for centuries, while blaming Western foreign policy for their jihad. As for all the jihadist groups themselves, they couldn’t care less about associating terrorism with Islam. In fact, jihadists have no problem with expressing pride in their terrorism, and love to see us disappointed and confused in our Western dilemma over what is or what is not Islam. But now Western leaders are joining the ranks of “moderate” Muslims to cover up the real agenda of Islam. While their statements defending Islam are getting more and more outrageous and even sickening in the eyes of the informed Western citizen, they continue to mislead people as they blame Western thinking for not being tolerant enough.
We Need Term Limits: How
"Career Politicians" took Over Congress...
Ken Lambert
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{lidblog.com} ~ A term, and job, most Americans despise is “career politician”. These are men and women who have spent most or all of their adult working life within politics and public “service”... Generally, the typical voter views these eternal bureaucrats as power-hungry, corrupt, lazy, sneaky, snobbish, incompetent, and a myriad of other adjectives not appropriate for Eagle Rising. Over the decades since the earliest Congress, more and more people are electing to be in power positions within the federal and state governments, on a full-time basis. The pay, and of course the perks, have risen substantially since the early days of the U.S. In 1815, adjusted for 2014 inflation and dollars, the annual salary of a U.S. Representative was $19,085. Researching wages in the early 1800’s is very difficult, but let’s assume that was roughly 50% of an average annual salary or wage. This was likely because it was determined that being a U.S. Representative was a Part-time job.
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Kentucky Cuts Ties With 
Key Piece of nObamacare
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Kentucky, one of 14 states in the United States that operate their own state health insurance exchanges, has plans to cut ties with nObamacare by the end of the year... Kentucky’s Governor, Matt Bevin, notified officials that the state exchange will be shut down “as soon as it is practicable” which means at the minimum, a year from now according to federal law. Kentucky residents who have purchased 2016 plans will not be affected by the news. The state-run health insurance market is one of the main pieces of nObamacare, and over 100,000 people have used it to sign up for coverage in Kentucky since 2013. The market is paid by a 1% tax on any health plans, both outside of and within the market, in the state of Kentucky. Bevin has stated that only $2.5-$4 million of the $27 million operating costs are covered by the tax.
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Glick: In Pakistan, They Trust
 Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ It is a testament to the precarious state of the world today that in a week that saw North Korea carry out a possible test of a hydrogen bomb, the most frightening statement uttered did not come from Pyongyang.
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It came from Pakistan.
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Speaking in the military garrison town of Rawalpindi, Pakistani Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif said that any Iranian threat to Saudi Arabia’s territorial integrity will “wipe Iran off the map.”
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Sharif made the statement following his meeting with Saudi Arabia’s defense minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. According to media reports, Salman was the second senior Saudi official to visit Pakistan in the past week amid growing tensions between Iran and the kingdom.
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Salman’s trip and Sharif’s nuclear threat make clear that following the US’s all-but-official abandonment of its role as protector of the world’s largest oil producer, the Saudis have cast their lots with nuclear-armed Pakistan.
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When last October, the USS Harry Truman exited the Persian Gulf, the move marked the first time since 2007 that the US lacked an aircraft carrier in the region. Nine years ago, the US naval move was not viewed as a major statement of strategic withdrawal, given that back then the US had some one hundred thousand troops in Iraq.
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While the USS Truman returned to the Gulf late last month, its return gave little solace to America’s frightened and spurned Arab allies. The nObama administration’s weak-kneed response to Iran’s live-fire exercises on December 26, during which an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel fired rockets a mere 1,370 meters from the aircraft carrier as it transited the Straits of Hormuz, signaled that the US is not even willing to make a show of force to deter Iranian aggression.
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And so the Saudis have turned to Pakistan.
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It would be foolish to view Sharif’s nuclear threat as mere bluster.
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By every meaningful measure, Pakistan is little more than a failed state with nuclear weapons. Pakistan appears in every global index of failed or failing states.
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To take just a few leading indicators, as spelled out by Basit Mahmood in a report last summer for The Political Domain, barely 1% of Pakistanis pay taxes of any kind. More than half the population lives in abject poverty. The government has no control over most Pakistani territory.
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Between 2003 and 2015, more than 58,000 people were killed by terrorism countrywide.
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Public health is a disaster. Polio, eradicated throughout much of the world, is now galloping through the country.
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Last summer more than 1,300 people died in a heat wave in the supposedly advanced city of Karachi.
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These data do not take into account the wholesale slaughter and persecution of minority groups – first and foremost Christians – and the systematic denial of basic human rights and widespread, violent persecution of women and girls.
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As for its nuclear arsenal, a 2010 report by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists estimated that Pakistan possesses between 70 and 90 nuclear warheads. Other credible reports estimate the size of the arsenal at 120.
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Pakistan refuses to adopt a no-firststrike policy. In the US and worldwide, it is considered to be the greatest threat to global nuclear security.
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Following a Pakistani jihadist assault on the Indian parliament in late 2001, India and Pakistan both deployed forces along their contested border. In the months that followed, due to Pakistani nuclear threats, the prospect of nuclear war was higher than it had ever been.
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Cold War nuclear brinksmanship – which reached its high point during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis – paled in comparison.
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In 2008, following the Pakistani jihadist assault on Mumbai, India threatened to retaliate against Pakistan.
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India’s threats rose as evidence mounted that, as was the case in 2001, the jihadists were tied to Pakistan’s ISI spy service. Once again, rather than clean its own house, Pakistan responded by threatening to launch a nuclear attack against India.
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And now, following the unraveling of US-strategic credibility, Pakistan’s aggressive nuclear umbrella is officially coming to the Persian Gulf.
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Saudi Arabia’s decision to turn to Pakistan for protection indicates that the second wave of the destruction of the Arab state model is upon us. The notion of Arab states was invented nearly 100 years ago by the British and French at the tail end of World War I. The Sykes-Picot agreement, which partitioned the Arab world into states, rewarded national dominion to the most powerful tribal actors in the various land masses that became the states of the Arab world.
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With the possible exception of Egypt, which predated Sykes-Picot, the Arab states formed at the end of World War I were not nation states. Their populations didn’t view themselves as distinct nations. Rather the populations of the Arab states were little more than a hodgepodge of tribes, clans and sectarian and ethnic groupings. In each case, the British and French made their determinations of leadership based on the relative power of the various groups. Those chosen to control these new states were viewed either as the strongest factions within the new borders or as the most loyal allies to the European powers.
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The first wave of Arab state collapse began six years ago. It submerged the non-royal regimes, which fell one after the other, like houses of cards.
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Syria, Libya, Yemen ceased to exist.
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Egypt, which in the space of two years experienced both an Islamist revolution and a military counter-revolution, still teeters on the brink of collapse.
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Lebanon will likely break apart at the slightest provocation.
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Today we are seeing the opening stages of the collapse of the Arab monarchies, and most importantly, of Saudi Arabia.
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Most of the international attention to Saudi Arabia’s current threat environment has focused on Iran. The Iranian threat to the Saudis has grown in direct proportion to the nObama administration’s determination to realign the US away from its traditional Sunni allies and towards Iran. The conclusion of the US-led nuclear pact with Tehran has exacerbated Iran’s regional aggression as it no longer fears US retaliation for its threats to the Sunni monarchies.
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But Iran is just the most visible of three existential threats now besetting the House of Saud.
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The most profound threat to the world’s largest oil power is economic.
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The drop in world oil prices has endangered the kingdom.
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As David Goldman reported last week in the Asia Times, according to an International Monetary Fund analysis, the collapse in Saudi oil revenues “threatens to exhaust the kingdom’s $700 billion in financial reserves within five years.”
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The house of Saud’s hold on power owes to its oil-subsidized economy. As Goldman noted, last month dwindling revenues forced the Saudis to cut subsidies for water, electricity and gasoline.
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According to Goldman, Riyadh’s mass execution of 43 long-jailed prisoners at the start of the month was an attempt by the aging royal house to demonstrate its firm control of events. But the very fact the Saudi regime believed it was necessary to stage such a demonstration shows that it is in distress.
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The third existential threat the regime now faces is Islamic State. Since 1979, the Saudis have sought to deflect domestic opposition by promoting Wahabist Islam at home and Wahabist jihad beyond its borders.
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Now, with Islamic State in control over large swathes of neighboring Iraq, as well as Syria and Libya and threatening the Saudi-supported Sisi regime in Egypt, the Saudi royal family faces the rising threat of blowback. Some analysts argue that given the popular support for jihad in Saudi Arabia, were Islamic State to cross the Saudi border, its forces would be greeted with flowers, not bullets.
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If the House of Saud falls, then the Gulf emirates will also be imperiled.
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The Egyptian regime, which is bankrolled by the Saudis and its Gulf allies will also be endangered. The Hashemite monarchy in Jordan, which is protected by the US and by Israel, will face unprecedented threats.
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The implications of expanding chaos – or worse – in Arabia are not limited to the Middle East. The global economy as well as the security of Europe and the US will be imperiled.
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Obviously, the order of the day is for the US security guarantee to Saudi Arabia to be reinforced, mainly through straightforward US action against Iranian naval aggression and ballistic missile development.
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Unfortunately, the nObama administration can be depended on to take just the opposite approach. And as a consequence, at least for the next year, the main thing propping up the Gulf monarchies, and with them, the global economy and what passes for global security, is a failed state with an itchy finger on the nuclear trigger.
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Thursday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 14, 2016 at 1:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Poor, poor Putin: Russia 
is a new front for militant Islam
Leon Aron
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 2016 Not Looking Good for nObamaCare 
There's a high probability that Barack nObama will boast of the success of his signature health care legislation at tonight's State of the Union Address. It was one of the policies he highlighted in his first weekly address of 2016, saying his administration has covered 17 million people. But nObama is throwing out an eight-digit number, saying it with a smile, and selling a statistic that actually shows nObamaCare isn't performing like promised. As Investor's Business Daily notes, 11.3 million people enrolled through an nObamaCare exchange in 2015. But many of those people were switching plans, through voluntary effort or government coercion. Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that nObamaCare needed to enroll 20 million Americans for it to become solvent. nObama's rosy 17 million doesn't look good now, especially in the face of crumbling co-ops and fewer Millennials signing up than expected. This lack of participation comes as 49 states expect insurance premium hikes this year. While Mississippi is the only state expected to see a (slight) drop in the price of health insurance, 29 states will see double-digit percentage increases (like the 25% increase The Patriot Post faced in 2015). Minnesota will get hit the hardest, with an expected 47.7% increase. But all this insolubility only underlines the biggest issue with nObamaCare: It's still unconstitutional for the government to tell Americans to get insurance and dictate what kind of insurance they can receive, two legislate-from-the-bench Supreme Court rulings notwithstanding.  -The Patriot Post
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 Fewer Democrats Than Ever 
"I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals." —Barack nObama, upon securing the Democrat nomination in 2008
          Oh how the mighty have fallen. Yes, nObama won re-election, but his two mid-term elections have been disasters for his party. He proved too heavy a load down the ballot, even in off-year elections. And it turns out the blow wasn't just to elected Democrats around the country, but to registered voters as well. In the latest Gallup survey, "the percentage of U.S. adults identifying as Democrats is now at the lowest point in the past 27 years, down from the prior low of 30% in 2014." The current tally is just 29%. To be sure, the GOP has its own problems, and Gallup measures its numbers at a paltry 26%, but that's not a record low for Republicans either. And conservative-leaning voters are less party-loyal than liberals.
          According to Gallup, "The rise in political independence is likely related to Americans' frustration with party gridlock in the federal government. In the past several years, dissatisfaction with the government has ranked among the leading issues when U.S. adults are asked to name the most important problem facing the U.S., and was the most frequently mentioned problem in 2014 and 2015. Also, Americans' favorable ratings of each party are on the lower end of what Gallup has measured over the past few decades."
          So why do voters keep voting for more government?
 -The Patriot Post
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 Corrupt Clinton Foundation Under Expanded FBI Investigation 
For Americans who have been paying attention to the numerous scandals that have always surrounded Hilly Clinton, many are wondering when and if she will ever be indicted and charged for her crimes. If her improper handling of classified emails, use of her private server and failure with Benghazi have not been enough to derail her campaign for the presidency, perhaps an expanded FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation will be.
          Last spring, we wondered whether the Clinton Foundation would actually be Clinton's downfall, but for the last several months the FBI investigations have been primarily focused on her emails and use of a private server. That has now changed.
          The FBI has expanded its investigation to include the Clinton Foundation and is looking into whether or not there is a connection between Foundation work and State Department business. If there is a connection between the two, then that would be a violation of public corruption laws, and should be disastrous for Clinton.
          Why would that be? Well, it just so happens that on the official website of the FBI, public corruption is listed as the top criminal priority. And by all indications, the FBI is holding to this standard.
          In fact, there are reportedly at least 150 FBI agents on the case. According to former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova, that is "a very unusually high number" of investigators to be working on one case.
 -The Patriot Post
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Calif. DMV Squashing Auto Innovation
Greg Miller
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ From the rugged coastline to the redwood forests and fantastic array of wineries in Sonoma and Napa, the area around San Francisco is one of the most beautiful places on Earth... Heck, it’s such a great area, I can almost understand why tech companies put up with California! Why? Well, for as much press as Silicon Valley gets as America’s hub of technology, there are some drawbacks to California. For one, it’s an expensive state. And its water shortage issues are well-documented, too. But for tech companies, there’s a bigger boogeyman – the ultimate boogeyman, in fact... Government.
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Military brass gives nObama stone-faced
SOTU stare-down for saying this . . .
Carmine Sabia
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{bizpacreview.com} ~ If looks could kill . . .During the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, nObama bragged that America’s military is still in great shape under his watch... After proudly stating that we have the strongest military in the world, he waited for the predictable crowd response. But cameras zoomed in to top U.S. military brass, who had a much different reaction.  http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/01/13/military-brass-gives-obama-stone-faced-sotu-stare-down-for-saying-this-293867
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Undercover Videos Could 
Bring Down Common Core
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ Common Core educational standards have been criticized from all sides. Some say they represent President nObama’s attempt to launch a federal takeover of public education... Others take issue with the standards themselves, which often seem at odds with childhood development research. And many parents and teachers have slammed the supplemental material for the confusing and bizarre ways children are being taught math and other important subjects. But a new series of undercover videos from Project Veritas exposes Common Core from a different angle, making the case that this is little more than a scheme to sell textbooks. At the core of the first video is an interview with Dianne Barrow, the West Coast sales manager for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. “I hate kids,” Barrow told the guerrilla journalists. “I’m in it to sell books. Don’t even kid yourself for a heartbeat.” Barrow went on to say, “It’s all about the money. You don’t think that the educational publishing companies are in it for education, do you? No, they’re in it for the money.”        http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/undercover-videos-could-bring-down-common-core/
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Sweden's Walking Diplomatic Disaster
Ingrid Carlqvist
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Margot Wallström
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It seems that pretty much everything is going wrong for Sweden's Foreign Minister these days... Margot Wallström, of the Social Democratic Party, ascended with much fanfare to the post of Foreign Minister in the fall of 2014. She had introduced a completely new concept: a feminist foreign policy. In the Statement of Foreign Policy of 2015, she asserted that "A feminist foreign policy is now being formulated, the purpose of which is to combat discrimination against women, improve conditions for women and contribute to peace and development." One year later, we now know the outcome: "Feminist foreign policy" is not so much about protecting women's interests, as it is about fawning over the Arab states and the Palestinians -- and constantly attacking Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7135/sweden-wallstrom-disaster
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How to tell if someone is lying, 
featuring nObama
TRUTHSTREAM MEDIA
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{thedailysheeple.com} ~ Here are some hallmark examples of verbal and bodily cues that lying liars exhibit when they lie, as demonstrated for you by the president… with a bonus from the State Dept. The question in this particular example regarded how the federal government would go about confiscating America’s guns, asked by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly. After a lengthy subject change of nearly a minute, the president said he believed Kelly was alluding to a conspiracy to disarm American citizens and impose martial law.        http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying-featuring-president-obama_012016
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Give Women the 
Right to Defend Themselves
Geert Wilders and Machiel de Graaf
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Geert Wilders
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "Cultural enrichment" has brought us a new word: Taharrush. Remember it well, because we are going to have to deal with it a lot... Taharrush is the Arabic word for the phenomenon whereby women are encircled by groups of men and sexually harassed, assaulted, groped, raped. After the Cologne taharrush on New Year's Eve, many German women bought pepper spray. Who can blame them? A culture that has a specific word for sexual assaults of women by groups of men is a danger to all women. The existence of the word indicates that the phenomenon is widespread. Frau Merkel, Prime Minister Rutte and all the other open-door politicians could and should have known this. The Islamic world is steeped in misogyny. The Koran explicitly states that a woman is worth only half a man (Suras 2: 228, 2: 282, 4:11), that women are unclean (5:6), and that a man can have sex with his wife whenever he wants (24:31). The Koran even says that men are allowed to have sex slaves (4:24), and that they have the right to rape women whom they have captured (24:31).  http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7219/geert-wilders-taharrush-sexual-assault
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Hilly's Benghazi 
stand-down order exposed
Kenneth R. Timmerman
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ A preview by Benghazi security officer Kris “Tanto” Paronto of 13 Hours, the block-buster Michael Bay film that premieres on Thursday, raises dramatic new questions about the refusal by Secretary of State Hilly Clinton to authorize a military rescue of the besieged U.S. diplomatic facility and the nearby CIA Annex on Sept 11-12, 2012... In a presentation at a conference organized by the Maryland Citizen Action Network last weekend, Paronto revealed that two AC-130H “Spectre” gunships were “on call” that night, both within range of Benghazi. The Spectre gunship with its 25mm rapid-fire gatling guns, its 40 mm precision Bofors gun, and its 105mm canon is “good in urban warfare because you have little collateral damage,” Paronto explained. In fact, it was just what the beleaguered security team needed. They could see the jihadis advancing on the Annex compound throughout the night and lit them up with lasers, which the airborne crew could have used for precision targeting purposes. On-line videos of the Spectre gunship in operation show that it can walk its cannons up narrow streets, killing fighters while leaving the surrounding buildings intact and people inside them unharmed. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261442/hillarys-benghazi-stand-down-order-exposed-kenneth-r-timmerman
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Little doubt Hilly broke law 
but...now what?
Chad Groening and Billy Davis
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{onenewsnow.com} ~ A former U.S. Justice Department attorney says it's obvious Hilly Clinton failed to protect classified information in her private emails, and the question is what happens next... Citing federal intelligence sources, Fox News confirmed this week that an FBI investigation into Clinton's use of private email has expanded. The federal agency is also looking into her controversial Clinton Foundation and whether it violated public corruption laws when she was secretary of state. The question, says Adams, is whether the nObama-led Justice Department indict Clinton? Who you are depends on whether you are prosecuted by the DOJ, he says. "But with Hilly," he adds, "the situation may be so bad - the law breaking may be so brazen and so easy to prove - that Attorney General Loretta Lynch may not have any choice other than to follow the law, follow the facts, and charge Hilly Clinton with crimes."
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Ex-DOJ official: Twisted Hilly
 scandal 'is felony corruption'
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{wnd.com} ~ The FBI is expanding its investigation into former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s private email server to examine whether Clinton used her office in a way that benefited the Clinton Foundation... The story was first reported Monday by Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne of Fox News. “The FBI investigation into Hilly Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible ‘intersection’ of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News,” wrote Herridge and Brown. “This new investigative track is in addition to the focus on classified material found on Clinton’s personal server,” they added.
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Reds Exploiting Blacks:
The Roots of Black Lives Matter
James Simpson
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{aim.org} ~ The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) casts itself as a spontaneous uprising born of inner city frustration, but is, in fact, the latest and most dangerous face of a web of well-funded communist/socialist organizations that have been agitating against America for decades... Its agitation has provoked police killings and other violence, lawlessness and unrest in minority communities throughout the U.S. If allowed to continue, that agitation could devolve into anarchy and civil war. The BLM crowd appears to be spoiling for just such an outcome. Nevertheless, BLM appears to be exercising considerable leverage over the Democratic Party, in part by pressuring and intimidating Democratic candidates such as Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders (VT) into embracing their cause. The movement could also assist President nObama’s exploitation of racial divisions in society beyond his final term in office. This report examines in detail, for the first time, how communist groups have manipulated the cause of Black Lives Matter, and how money from liberal foundations has made it all possible.        http://www.aim.org/special-report/reds-exploiting-blacks-the-roots-of-black-lives-matter/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email011316&utm_medium=email
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Poor, poor Putin: Russia 
is a new front for militant Islam
Leon Aron
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ As Russia deepens its involvement in Syria, it risks more than a military quagmire. Its intervention exacerbates a growing domestic threat, one that could destabilize the whole country. A new brand of radical Islam is rising in Russia, fueled by Russian fighters eager to perpetrate acts of terror at home.
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Even a decade ago, the scope and depth of this emerging terrorist network would have seemed inconceivable. While Russia has suffered its share of domestic terrorism, those crimes were largely perpetrated by Chechen fighters based in the North Caucasus region. When Moscow declared victory in Chechnya in 2009, it suggested that the threat of radical violence had been largely contained.
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But militant Islam didn't disappear. In fact, the fundamentalist teachings have spread from Chechnya throughout central Russia. They're propagated by Russian imams trained in the Middle East and are finding new audiences among the country's native Muslims, as well as Central Asian migrants in Moscow. Even some younger and seemingly long-assimilated believers are becoming radicalized. Like their counterparts across Europe, they're turning to Internet videos and social-media messages aimed at arousing anger at Western "crusaders."
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This is a real danger for Russia. The country has become a new front in the war against militant Islam, a battle that Europe's largest Muslim country is largely unprepared to fight.
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Russia is no stranger to Muslim radicalism. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Chechen independence movement became more militant, propelled by a growing belief in Islamic fundamentalism.
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Moscow responded harshly. In 1999, newly appointed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched a scorched-earth campaign that made the Chechen capital, Grozny, look like the ruins of Stalingrad. Chechen fighters struck back, often with spectacularly gruesome terrorist attacks, such as the 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater and the 2004 attack on an elementary school in North Ossetia. But this didn't derail Moscow. After a decade of brutal fighting (accompanied, often, by massive human rights violations), the Kremlin ended the antiterrorist operation in 2009.
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Since then, the number of terrorist attacks from the North Caucasus has dropped precipitously. But that's not because Russia's Muslim radicals have been wiped out. Militant Islam's center of gravity has simply begun to shift to the Russian heartland.
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Today, an estimated 20 million Muslims (including 6.5 million migrants from Azerbaijan and Central Asia) live in Russia, up from 14.5 million in 2002. While the vast majority of these men and women are peaceful, a small but growing number follow the fundamentalist teachings of Salafism and Wahhabism, ultra-conservative movements within Sunni Islam. In many cases, these ideas are spread by Russian-born imams (numbering in the tens of thousands) who trained in the Middle East.
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The impact of that radicalization is already apparent in central Russia, home to the Tatars, Russia's largest Muslim ethnic group (there are about 5 million). Imams who share Wahhabi views are said to preach and serve in dozens of the 1,000-plus mosques in Tatarstan. In 1999, one of their adherents, Irek Hamidullinled several Tatar families to Afghanistan. That group went on to start Uighur-Bulgar Jamaat, an al-Qaida offshoot reportedly set up with the direct participation of Osama bin Laden, which waged attacks on Russian troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Soon UBJ refocused its energies. Encouraged by al-Qaida leadership, it worked to create a network of cells throughout Russia. In 2006, one such cell was founded in the autonomous republic of Bashkortostan. Its mission: attack critical infrastructure and law enforcement in the region. The group's leader, a 36-year-old ethnic Russian convert named Pavel Dorokhov who reportedly trained with the Taliban and al-Qaida, was killed by Russian special forces in August 2008;nine UBJ members were eventually arrested.
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The crackdown did not stem the UBJ's violent efforts. In July 2012, affiliated terrorists attacked the chief mufti of Tatarstan and his deputy, both moderate clerics who had opposed what they saw as the spread of Salafism and Wahhabism, and who had fired imams and madrassa teachers whom they thought nurtured radical Islam. The deputy mufti was fatally shot, and in a separate attack, the mufti was badly injured by a car bomb. Later that day, a cavalcade of cars under the black-and-white banners of global jihadists raced through the city. The UBJ also was also likely behind a November 2013 rocket attack on a major oil-refining facility in Tatarstan.
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In May 2013, another group of radicalized Muslims was captured by anti-terror forces in an apartment building outside Moscow. They were accused of planning bomb attacks on the capital. They were ethnic Bashkirs, Russia's second-largest Muslim ethnic group; it was the first time an act of terrorism was allegedly plotted in Moscow by Muslim extremists who were not from the North Caucasus.
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Tatars have joined the international jihad as well. Six of the nine Russian nationals held at Guantanamo Bay were ethnic Tatars. The first Taliban officer tried in a U.S. civilian court, Hamidullin, is from Naberezhnye Chelny, the most radical of Tatarstan's large cities and a focal point for Salafism in the region.
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There are other forces at work, too. Russia hosts millions of guest workers, most of them from Muslim Central Asia. An estimated 2.5 to 5 million Uzbeks, 1 million Tajiks and 1 million Kyrgyz reside in Russia today, up from 360,000 migrants in 2002. There are an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Muslims in Moscow alone, making Russia's capital the largest Muslim city in Europe.
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These men live in the shadows, often without work permits. They are culturally and ethnically marginalized, and often subject to abuse, extortion and occasional racist violence. According to one recent poll, 40 percent of Russians have a negative opinion of Islam.
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In the face of this, some understandably turn to the faith of their grandparents as a means to sustain dignity. As a result, some Tajiks, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks who would not have known the way to the nearest mosque in Dushanbe, Bishkek or Tashkent have become zealous Muslims in Moscow. At least some fall under the influence of radical clerics.
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International terrorist organizations have taken notice and have begun to ramp up their activities in Russia. Moscow has become the base of operation for an estimated 300 to 500 Islamic State recruiters. According to reports in the Russian media (much of which is controlled by the government), most Islamic State fighters from Central Asia have been recruited at construction sites in Moscow, including an estimated 300 ethnic Uzbeks. Nusrat Nazarov, the leader of Tajiks fighting with the Islamic State, was radicalized during his working stints in the Russian capital. (He was quoted saying there are 2,000 ethnic Tajiks under his control in Syria; in June, the Tajik Interior Ministry put the number of Tajik fighters in Syria at 500.) The secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, admitted recently that the authorities lack the means to stem the flow of volunteers.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry estimates that there are 5,000 people from Russia and the former Soviet Union fighting alongside the Islamic State (independent observers put the number as high as 7,000). Today, Russian is the third-most-popular Islamic State language, after Arabic and English. Russian graffiti reportedly seen in Darayya, Syria, reads: "Today Syria, tomorrow Russia! Chechens and Tatars rise up! Putin, we will pray in your palace!"
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The Russian authorities appear to be waking to the danger. Putin's chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said many of the Russians who have fought with the Islamic State have returned home, presenting a direct threat. In his speech at the U.N. General Assembly in September, Putin declared that, having "tasted blood" in Syria, fighters will come back to Russia to "continue their evil doings."
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But Russia's security services are used to fighting terrorism in the relatively small, sparsely populated and largely rural North Caucasus. They are not ready to take on radicalizing Tatars and Bashkirs, disaffected Central Asians in large cities and the Islamic State's growing penetration of their homeland. The task is especially challenging because the new jihad is geographically vast (Russian media outlets have reported arrests of militants as far as Eastern Siberia) and far more urban. As a result, terrorist networks will have an easier time organizing and hiding.
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Putin has further multiplied the risks of terrorism by casting his lot against Sunnis in Syria, though the overwhelming majority of Russian Muslims are Sunnis. Already, 55 Saudi Wahhabi clerics have called for a jihad against Russia for its military intervention in Syria. The Islamic State has released a video threatening attacks against Russia. "Soon, very soon, the blood will spill like an ocean," a narrator says in Russian, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. And of course, there's mounting consensus that a bomb planted by Muslim extremists brought down a Russian charter jet last month over Egypt, killing all 224 people on board.
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These actions need to be taken seriously. The threat of a Russian-wide jihad is now clear and present.
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Thursday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 14, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Will the New Year’s 
Tumult Trump the Old?
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 Hilly calls for taxpayer funding of abortions -  At a Planned Parenthood endorsement rally for Hilly Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee called for an end to the 40-year-old ban on taxpayer funds for abortion. The so-called Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, is the long-standing compromise between pro-life and pro-choice lawmakers that restricts federally funded abortion cases only to those of rape, incest and life of the mother. Over time, this has grown to include government health programs like Medicaid and nObamacare. At the rally, Clinton said she believes Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, should be “fully funded” citing that the measure discriminates against low-income women. The group took in over $500 million from taxpayers in 2014 for non-abortion activities.  -Fox News
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 KOCH GROUP UNVEILS nOBAMACARE RATE TRACKER 
Freedom Partners is releasing a 2016 nObamacare Premium Increase Tracker today, ahead of  President nObama’s State of the Union speech. The tracker shows the average health care premium increases in each state on the individual marketplace for 2016. Freedom Partners’ policy team calculates that premiums on the individual marketplace increased in 49 out of 50 states. In most states, costs went up by double-digits. Seventeen states will see premium increases of 20 percent of more, the group says. -Fox News
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 Ghosts of SOTU, Past and Present 
In January 2009, Hope 'n' Change™ was still fresh, and Democrats and many Americans were looking forward to a new start and a real recovery from a tough recession. As Barack nObama prepares to deliver his final State of the Union Address tonight, however, the shine is tarnished, and he has no one to blame but himself. Looking back to his first address to Congress in 2009, nObama said things that would make us laugh out loud if they weren't so serious. He renewed his call for a "recovery plan" (a.k.a. the $800 billion "stimulus") though he insisted it was "not because I believe in bigger government — I don't" and "not because I'm not mindful of the massive debt we've inherited — I am." He also declared we have a "responsibility to ensure that we do not pass on to [our children] a debt they cannot pay." When nObama gave that speech, total national debt was $10.8 trillion. It's quickly approaching $19 trillion. So he was mindful, alright — as he whipped out the nation's credit card to pay for redistribution to Democrats' favored constituency groups, thereby setting a new minimum level of spending that would be very hard to cut. He'll come very close to doubling our national debt over his (insufferably long) eight years. 
          In terms of his other numerous initiatives and promises, he delivered on nObamaCare (though it was built on a foundation of lies and is not at all the success he claims), climate change regulations (via the EPA, not Congress), withdrawing from Iraq (we all know how that turned out), homosexuals serving openly in the military, raising taxes on the top two income brackets, and a handful of other things that grew government, increased debt or advanced leftist social engineering. Fortunately, however, Republican wins in 2010 and 2014 slowed his progress. Intentionally declining to tackle immigration reform with Democrat congressional majorities, nObama eventually made a show of executive action and decreased enforcement to keep the issue as a political wedge. But he did not succeed in achieving his idea of reform. Likewise, he has failed to do anything really meaningful to restrict gun rights, and he managed to become Gun Salesman of the Decade. The extent to which he was able to raise taxes was limited, as was the trajectory of federal spending. His current boasts of cutting the deficit are both disingenuous and empty — he nearly quadrupled it first, and it's only falling because Republicans blocked many further increases.
          So tonight we can expect a typically petulant man to take aim at his opponents, painting them in the worst possible light as he blames them for his failures. On the bright side, it's his last State of the Union. 
 -The Patriot Post
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Fatah Airs Video Urging Killing Israelis
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has called for killing all Israelis throughout the country – "in all their neighborhoods"... in a music video broadcast on Fatah-run Awdah TV channel on last week, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. "Pick up your weapon and advance, Jerusalem is calling in pain," the song's lyrics say. "Come on, strike them, you have the strength. Turn your anger into the fire of Hell... Besiege them in all their neighborhoods. Drown them in a sea of blood. Kill them as you wish." Young Arabs are depicted knocking over and a beating a Jewish man running down a street in Jerusalem, wearing a prayer shawl.
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GOP Congress critters would rather
 watch the USA die than...
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{renewamerica.com} ~ With ongoing acts of patent lunacy – or the darker reason... collaboration – the Republican-controlled US Congress refuses to remove the cancer eating away at Washington D.C. just as the Democrats have done for decades... Instead, the aforementioned Congress seems to prefer the ultimate demise-for-lack-of-proper-care that will soon be the cause of death. One of the primary reasons used as an excuse is the now cliché false fear of being called a "racist" if they oppose the country's enslavement of its citizens with replacement of illegal ones and totalitarian leftist policies. Note...at some point almost all politicians become leftists in order to enrich themselves and they begin to view their constituencies as "the great unwashed masses" who are beneath them. They, then, begin to use any inane excuse to draw curious eyes away from what they're really doing. And, at some point it no longer matters on which side they pretend to be...because it's the side that solely enriches them.
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American charged 
with supporting Shabaab,  
serving in ‘specialized fighting force’
THOMAS JOSCELYN
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{longwarjournal.org} ~ The Department of Justice has announced that Maalik Alim Jones, a 31 year-old American citizen from Maryland, has been indicted for allegedly supporting Shabaab, al Qaeda’s official branch in East Africa... Jones appeared before a judge in the Southern District of New York last month, but the DOJ released the indictment and complaint in his case earlier today. Jones allegedly traveled from New York to Kenya in July 2011. Once in Kenya, according to the DOJ’s announcement, he traveled by land to Somalia, “where he trained, worked and fought with al Shabaab in Somalia.” Jones “received military training at an al Shabaab training camp,” learning “to operate an AK-47 assault rifle and rocket-propelled grenades.” He also purportedly jointed Shabaab’s “specialized fighting force, Jaysh Ayman, and participated in combat against soldiers of the Kenyan government.”
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Iran Kidnaps 10 U.S. Sailors
and Two U.S. Military Boats in Persian Gulf….
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ So Much for nObama’s appeasement approach toward Iran.  Two small U.S. naval vessels containing 10 U.S. Military service members were traveling from Kuwait to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf... The U.S. Navy lost contact with the vessels after the Iranian Navy intercepted the two boats and detained the sailors.
UPDATE:
AP Has Outline – […]   Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told The Associated Press that the riverine boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the U.S. lost contact with them. U.S. officials said that the incident happened near Farsi Island, situated in the Persian Gulf. They said that some type of mechanical trouble with one of the boats caused them to run aground and they were picked up by Iran. The sailors were in Iranian custody on Farsi Island at least for some time, but it’s not certain where they are now. The semi-official Iranian news agency, FARS, said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy has detained 10 foreign forces, believed to be Americans, and said the sailors were trespassing in Iranian waters. Sailors are back home now.
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UN “Green” Agenda vs. the Constitution
Larry Greenley
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ As has been documented in the pages of this magazine, Americans are facing a very serious threat to their liberties, prosperity, and national independence... Make no mistake: The globalists behind the dangerous “green” agendas — sustainable development, global warming, and more — fully intend to subjugate the United States and the world. Right at this instant, glob­alists at the United Nations and in Washington, D.C., are busy forging the chains of tyranny. They intend to shackle all of us with them. And the “environmental” agenda being used to justify it, while it must be understood in the context of everything else that is happening, will play a crucial role in their broader agenda: Global totalitarianism. But as Americans, we still have a variety of tools at our disposal to stop it, including the truth and the U.S. Constitution. We must use those tools.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/22306-un-green-agenda-vs-the-constitution
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Hilly: White Terrorism, Police Violence
 as Big a Threat as ISIS
Sarah Fisher
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Hilly appeared at the Brown and Black Forum in Iowa on Monday and equivocated between the threats of "white terrorism" and "police violence" with the radical Islamic group ISIS... The moderator asked Clinton, “Personally, I know many minorities who are much more concerned with racist attacks at the local level than radical Islamists. So, question to put it plainly since often issues of race are tiptoed, do you believe that white terrorisms and extremism is as much a threat to some in this country as something like ISIS?” Hilly responded, “I think we have all kinds of threats in our country, and I wouldn’t discount any of them. I think we have to take them all seriously. And many of those threats are fueled by the gun violence that we face every single day…,” she said. What she said carries no weight with me and a lot of others.
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Sheriff Clarke Weighs in as
nObama Replenishes the Supply of Terrorists
S. Noble
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Haji Hamidullah
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ Putting GITMO terrorists into US prisons where they can mentor new radicals is an obvious mistake but our president will do it this year regardless... It’s the only foolhardy promise he hasn’t fulfilled. nObama feels the need to continually replenish the supply of terrorists to destroy Western civilization and has been releasing some to paper prisons in the terrorists’ homelands but now plans to put some in US prisons. Seventeen more are being released in December and January. To give just one example of how bad these people are, one of those being released is “forever” prisoner Haji Hamidullah who is a “high value” and “high risk” target who was listed as “one of the most significant former Afghan HIG members detained” at Guantanamo because of his extensive involvement in anti-Coalition activities.
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Chemical Weapons Threat from 
ISIS Could Easily Hit Disney World, 
Malls, the Academy Awards
S. Noble
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ House Homeland Security Chair Michael McCaul warns in a new book that it would be easy to hit Disney World, The Academy Awards, and malls with biological attacks... In Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland–and How to Thwart Them, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul outlines nightmare scenarios of attacks against the United States, and even outlines a possible Russian invasion of Eastern Europe in two years. He lays out possible nightmare scenarios with one of the most chilling an attack on Disney where 1,000 could die. McCaul believes there is a failure of imagination in America, the same failure that led us to ignore the 9/11 threat.
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New ISIS Handbook Provides
Chilling Instructions to Homegrown Terrorists
 S. Noble
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ SIS developed a chilling new step-by-step handbook for would-be jihadis in the hopes that they can create mayhem like the terrorists in Paris... Future terrorists are being instructed to cut their beards, shun mosques, wear western perfume, wear gold wedding bands because Muslims are prohibited from wearing gold, and wear crosses so people think they’re Christians. The booklet, called Safety and Security Guidelines for Lone Wolf Mujahideen, gives further insight into the planning and deviousness behind their planned attacks. The 58-page terror manual, which has burning western-style buildings on the front cover, emphasizes surprise to create the most terror.
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Panel to HASC: ISIS Militants
Will Be Difficult to Totally Defeat
John Grady
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{news.usni.org} ~ Grinding the Islamic State “out of its holes will take longer . . . than taking Ramadi” or any city, such as Raqqa in Syria, or Mosul in Iraq, because ISIS fighters believe they “are surviving,” even if driven underground... Robert Ford, former ambassador to Syria, told the House Armed Services Committee Tuesday. The Islamic State fighters believe they have experience in doing that “and will do it again.” Michael Morrell, former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, added that followers of the Islamic State are convinced “Allah has chosen them personally to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi, the prophesized redeemer . . . and the end of the world is coming. It’s exactly what the al Qaeda leadership believes,” but al Qaeda did not proclaim a caliphate—in large part because it does not hold territory. He said in addition to resembling a state in its day-to-day activities and a terrorist group in carrying out attacks such as the one in Paris, ISIS is also a revolutionary movement that can radicalize sympathizers, such as those in San Bernadino, to strike targets far from its territory, posing an indirect threat to the United States, Europe and Asia.        http://news.usni.org/2016/01/12/panel-to-hasc-isis-militants-will-be-difficult-to-totally-defeat?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=0fac169ea2-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-0fac169ea2-231491269&mc_cid=0fac169ea2&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Will the New Year’s 
Tumult Trump the Old?
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ In 2016—soon, in just about a month—we’ll find out if Donald Trump voters vote. They say they’re voters and not just rally-goers. In Iowa on Feb. 1 and New Hampshire on Feb. 9, we’ll know if it’s a movement or a moment.
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We are going to learn a lot pretty quickly.
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In the next few months we’ll find out who emerges as the not-Trump, or not-Trumps. We’ll see a battle. If it is not resolved we’ll have a clearer sense of whether this thing is going to go to the floor of the convention in Cleveland in July. In Washington, what we sloppily but handily call the GOP establishment refers to this possibility as a “brokered convention.” They do this because they think they’ll be the brokers. Will they? Or will they be combatants? If it gets to the floor the correct term will be “open convention,” in the Katie-bar-the-door sense of wild and woolly.
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If at some point Mr. Trump appears to be on a sure glide path to the nomination, will the party establishment begin to bolt? If so, what will that look like? If Mr. Trump is done in and his supporters perceive it as the dark work of an underhanded establishment, will they bolt? What will that look like? Will it mean they go home, stay there and refuse to come out in November? Or will they mount a third party with Mr. Trump, having changed his mind once again, at the top? If that happened—here the unknowables and the potential for drama begin to spin out in creative and unexpected directions—could each of three parties garner enough support to produce an Electoral College deadlock? That would be resolved by the House, where Republicans will likely continue to control the majority of state delegations. Would GOP representatives go for the establishment Republican or the third-party Republican?
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I have not seen a political cycle so confounding in my lifetime, and it could continue into a year of the most historic kind. If you love politics—the excitement, the unknowability, the to-and-fro—this is the year for you. If you take unhappy U.S. political trends seriously—the shallowness, the restiveness, the division of our polity—you will feel legitimate concern.
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We could see a great party split in two. That, I think, is what I’m seeing among the Republicans, a slow-motion break. The question is whether it will play out over the next few cycles or turn abrupt and fiery in this one. Some in Washington speak giddily of the prospect, wondering aloud if the new party’s logo should be a lion or a gazelle. But America’s two-party system has reigned almost since its beginning, and it has kept us from much woe. It has provided stability, reliability and, yes, progress. The breaking or splintering of one of those parties would be an epochal event. Ross Perot in the 1990s was a one-off; the party soon enough healed back into one. Mr. Trump may be a one-off, but the divisions he’s revealed—on how on-the-ground and unprotected people feel about illegal immigration, on the deeper and more dangerous implications of political correctness, on a host of economic and cultural issues—will not, I suspect, be resolved so easily.
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If the GOP breaks it will be bitter. The establishment thinks they are saving the party from the vandals—from Trumpian know-nothingism. But Republicans on the ground think those in the establishment were the vandals, with their open borders, donor-class interests and social liberalism.
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The distance between the top of the party and the bottom has been growing for years, at least since 2008. The bonds between the two have stretched and stretched, and this year they began to snap. That’s the story of the year, that the snapping became obvious. Mr. Trump and the Trumps of the future are the result, not the cause. The establishment does not see this. They think it’s about him. It’s about them.
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Finally, briefly and befitting an end-of-year column, what did I get right and wrong in 2015?
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A year ago I said Mitt Romney should not run. “This is a moment in history that demands superior political gifts. . . . Mitt Romney does not have them. He never did. He’s good at life and good at business and good at faith. He is politically clunky, always was and always will be. His clunkiness is seen in the way he leaked his interest in running: to mega-millionaires and billionaires in New York. ‘Tell your friends.’ ” I still think that was right. Whatever is ailing the party now, he is not the answer.
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A month later I said I didn’t see Jeb Bush as the front-runner but just another candidate, and one making “a poor impression.” Mr. Bush at that point was “spending much of his time in The Rooms—offices and conference rooms—with millionaires and billionaires.” He spoke their language, his family name provided entrée, his fundraising prowess was impressive. However: “There’s something tentative and joyless in Mr. Bush’s public presentations. He isn’t mixing it up with voters or wading into the crowd. So far he is not good at the podium. His recent foreign-policy speech was both bland and jangly, and its one memorable statement—‘I am my own man’—was the kind of thing a candidate shouldn’t have to say.
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“What is most missing so far is a fierce sense of engagement, a passionate desire to lead America out of the morass, a fiery—or Churchillian—certainty that he is the man for the moment. In its place we see a softer, wanner I’m smart, accomplished, know policy, and it’s my turn.”
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An October column said: “Jeb just isn’t very good at this.” I said his victory was impossible for me to envision. Still is.
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In July I thought Scott Walker would be “highly competitive” for the nomination. He was not. In August I said Ted Cruz would get “deadlier as the number of candidates winnows down.” That seems to be bearing out.
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When Mr. Trump announced in June, I knew he’d hit a powerful nerve but did not see him lasting as long as he has. He was a product of voter anger, contempt and lowering standards: “We’re entering Weimar, baby.” In time I saw his power. In August I noted: “The traditional mediating or guiding institutions within the Republican universe—its establishment, respected voices in conservative media, sober-minded state party officials—have little to no impact on Mr. Trump’s rise. Some say voices of authority should stand up to oppose him, which will lower his standing. But Republican powers don’t have that kind of juice anymore.” Traveling around the country, “my biggest sense is that political professionals are going to have to rethink ‘the base,’ reimagine it when they see it in their minds. . . . America is so in play,” and the base is “becoming a big, broad jumble that few understand.”
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I asserted his appeal was not limited to Republicans. My highly scientific reason is that in talking to Trump supporters it often emerged that they were Democrats or independents.
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Happy New Year; let’s get through it together.
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Wednesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 13, 2016 at 1:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
America on Edge
Judith Miller
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 Let's Have a Town Hall to Compromise on Liberty 
Barack nObama held his much-ballyhooed town hall last night on guns, as a follow-up to his tear-jerking and totally ineffective gun control measures  announced earlier this week. "We should politicize this," nObama said of gun control in October. In 2008, he criticized those who "bitterly cling" to guns. And yet he supposedly wanted to rise above all that last night for an open and civil discussion about why every American should agree with him on restricting gun rights.
          He skillfully insisted that all he wants to do is "make progress" with "modest" proposals, not "solve every crime." He tried hard to appear to be the reasonable adult in the room, only wanting to protect us from awful things. (Perhaps he should try enforcing the laws on the books then instead of writing new ones.) But his demeanor was a thin veil for the emotional appeal of his nonsensical, illogical, and, most importantly, unconstitutional approach to the issue.
          He couldn't completely conceal his ideological colors, either, resorting as he often does to drawing caricatures of his opponents. "The way it is described is that we are trying to take away everybody's guns," nObama said. "Our position is consistently mischaracterized. ... If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top, it is so overheated." He dismissed as "a conspiracy" any desire he has to take guns. It's probably true that he wouldn't actually try to confiscate guns, knowing that would likely spark outright civil war, but he's the one who has repeatedly praised Australia's gun confiscation as a model we might want to look at. He's also the one hawking the ban on so-called "assault weapons," which number in the millions. Besides, no one thinks he or the Left will stop with a little "progress." It will never be enough; we'll always need more "common sense" gun control, eroding Liberty incrementally.
          As we note often, Justice Joseph Story once called the Second Amendment the "palladium of the liberties of the republic." In other words, owning guns isn't primarily about hunting, sport shooting, or even stopping criminals. Bearing arms secures all of the rights of a free people against tyrannical government. That's why nObama and his ilk hate guns so much, and that's why no town hall will ever find common ground between tyrants like him and the Patriots who hold Liberty so dear.
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 Election-Year Economic Outlook 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' jobs report for December is in: The job growth is decent, but wages remain low. Before the report, economists hoped for 200,000 jobs added to the economy, a slow, plodding increase that has become the hallmark of the nObama recovery. What we got was 292,000 jobs. The BLS also revised the job numbers up for October and November to 307,000 and 252,00 respectively, a net increase of 50,000 jobs for those two months. This is heartening news for investors after the stock market in China tumbled in the first 30 minutes of trading Thursday, affecting the U.S. stock market — and thus millions of Americans. And it seems the U.S. economy made a small recovery. After all, the headline unemployment rate is holding at a low 5%. The fuller unemployment number, the seasonally adjusted U-6 measure, held steady at 9.9%. As American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis tweeted, full employment would have the U-6 skimming along at 8.9%. But the problem is these headlining numbers are not felt by most Americans going to work and putting a bit away in their retirement accounts. The downturn in the stock market shows that there is distrust in the U.S. economy. What gives? This could probably be explained by the sluggish increase in the average hourly wage, which as the BLS reports "changed little" when it edged down one cent to $25.24. With most paychecks staying the same month after month, year after year, it's no wonder Americans are dissatisfied with the economy. And that, heading into the November election, will influence votes. It's time for Republicans to make a case for how the free market can make Americans' efforts worth more.  
 -The Patriot Post
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 For Now, Green Lobby Is Dead Meat in Dietary Debate 
Every five years, the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services revise nutritional standards for what is considered a balanced diet. The new edition, released Thursday, contains most of what you would expect — a recommendation to drastically reduce artificial sugar intake and consume more fruits, vegetables and grains. But the guidelines retained one surprising element that was thrust to the forefront of the debate last year: Red meat. It all ties back to a controversial proposal that was weighed by a panel of nutritional experts who appear to be covertly working to do the environmental lobby's bidding. The Hill explains:

The recommendations for what Americans should and shouldn't be eating ... created unprecedented controversy in 2015 when the federally appointed panel of nutritionists that helps draft them considered environmental concerns in recommending that people should eat less meat. The USDA and HHS relented to industry outrage and promised the environment would not be considered, but congressional leaders wanted to be sure, adding language to the year-end $1.1 trillion spending bill requiring the agencies to conduct a 'comprehensive review' of the guidelines and the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee within 30 days. Groups in the meat industry were relieved to see that lean meats had ultimately been left in the description of a healthy diet."

That's not to say the meat industry was given a free pass. "The guidelines note that there is strong evidence to support that eating less meat, including processed meats, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease," The Hill adds. Nevertheless, Americans can keep chomping away at modest proportions of red meat with the government's blessing. But for how long? Writing in The Wall Street Journal in November, Julie Kelly and Jeff Stier discerned how the meat-cancer link was conveniently well-timed and may have been a clever ploy ahead of the Paris climate talks. And it's possible now that those talks are over and considered successful by most environmentalists that USDA and HHS have a little leverage to back off the pedal for a time. But rest assured, the proposals will be back. After all, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change proposes no less than a 25% reduction in global meat consumption, and maybe up to 75%, arguing that fewer livestock means less methane emissions escaping into the atmosphere — rather ironic considering livestock is nature. The war on meat is a coordinated effort that won't be easily overcome. On the bright side, the dietary guidelines also put a positive light on caffeine. Which is great news. We'll need all the coffee we can get to expose behind-the-scenes fraud like this.   -The Patriot Post http://patriotpost.us/digests/39912

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Clinton Accepts $20 Million
 From Planned Parenthood
Natalie Myers
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Hilly
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ On Sunday, Hilly Clinton announced her official acceptance of the Planned Parenthood endorsement in the Presidential election... stating that their support reinforces her commitment to women’s “reproductive rights”. Planned Parenthood has never publicly endorsed a presidential candidate, making this move historical, especially with the organization announcing they will commit $20 million towards her campaign with a focus on hitting the most competitive states. The organization released a statement saying, “We're proud to endorse Hilly Clinton for President of the United States. Hilly Clinton holds the strongest record on reproductive rights of all presidential contenders in not just this election, but in American history.” That's are tax dollars, folks.        http://punchingbagpost.com/clinton-accepts-20-million-from-planned-parenthood
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Nuclear War And The Theft Of Nuclear
 And Radioactive Materials
Graham Vanbergen
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{activistpost.com} ~ In 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to reduce America’s atomic firepower by as much as 50% on the grounds that its stock alone was enough to wipe-out the entire human species and then some... Eisenhower was aware of US plans to kill millions of civilians in Russia in the event of a nuclear war. Documents revealed recently by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration confirms the “systematic destruction” of major cities, including 179 in Moscow, 145 in Leningrad and 91 in East Berlin. The targets are referred to as DGZs or “Designated Ground Zeros.” While many are industrial facilities, government buildings and the like, one for each city is simply designated “Population.” In other words, America had atomic weapons targeted on mass population areas to kill as many civilians as possible in the event of a conflict with Russia. Matters have not got better at all. In fact, the Cold War may have been a very tense time but the situation is now much worse; or in the words of Richard Falk, American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, “Not since the dawn of the nuclear age at the end of World War II has the danger of nuclear war been greater.” Falk said just ten years after the end of the Cold War.
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ISIS Shifts to Libya After Strikes in Syria
Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Islamic State terror group is making significant gains in Libya as hundreds of its members have been detected moving there from Syria and Iraq in recent weeks amid stepped up bombing and tighter border controls... U.S. intelligence agencies have identified at least 500 ISIS fighters over the past two months moving into the war-torn North African state that became an al Qaeda safe haven following the ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi in 2011, according to American defense officials. Since then, Libya has become a chaotic, largely ungoverned territory as large numbers of jihadists and militias operate in the country amid competing government factions.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/isis-shifts-libya-strikes-syria/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=141a90f905-WFB_Morning_Beacon_1_12_161_11_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-141a90f905-45611665
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Email to Clinton Contained 
Sensitive U.S. Intelligence Info
Lachlan Markay
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Philippe Reines
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Hilly Clinton’s personal email server contained sensitive information disclosing internal workings of the U.S. intelligence community, redactions to a previously unreported email released last month indicate... In March 2009, shortly after Clinton took office as secretary of state, her top aide Philippe Reines sent an email to her personal address that contained information subsequently redacted pursuant to the National Security Act of 1947. That law includes language that exempts information from public disclosure that might reveal sensitive information such as confidential intelligence community sources and the “operational files” of U.S. intelligence agencies, which detail their internal structures or operations.      http://freebeacon.com/politics/email-to-clinton-contained-sensitive-u-s-intelligence-info/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=141a90f905-WFB_Morning_Beacon_1_12_161_11_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-141a90f905-45611665
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FOIA: Officially, Undeniably Broken
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From left: Sharyl Attkisson, Investigative Reporter Full Measure; Jason Leopold, Investigative Reporter, Vice News; David E. McCraw, VP Assistant General Counsel, New York Times; Leah Goodman, Investigative Reporter, Newsweek; Terry Anderson, Adjunct Professor, University of Florida, former AP Correspondent testifying to House Oversight Committee, June 2015
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Secrecy is the order of the day at many federal agencies when it comes to their actions and to public records... That’s according to a new report today from the House Oversight Committee staff. Today, the House votes on ideas to reform the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) sponsored by House Oversight Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz and the lead Democrat on the Committee: Rep. Elijah Cummings. The action is an outgrowth of hearings held last June by the Oversight Committee. In one unprecedented session, I and other journalists (from Newsweek and Vice News) testified to the Committee about the seriously broken system. Instead of being an effective tool to help the public obtain public information, the FOI process has been perverted by federal agencies and is now used to obstruct the release of public information.
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nObama’s Middle East Policies 
Dictated by Phony Iran Deal
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The nObama administration continues to capitulate to Iran’s demands in order to ensure that an unworkable, unsigned international agreement somehow restrains that regime’s quest for nuclear weapons... The media are also working overtime to make sure that nObama’s White House isn’t embarrassed by its repeated concessions to Iran. “Hours after circulating a draft of proposed sanctions on Wednesday…the White House did not provide a timetable or even say that they would be put into effect,” reported The New York Times on December 31. In reality, the administration sent multiple messages retracting an earlier Treasury Department statement. The first one,  according to The Wall Street Journal on January 2, said that the sanctions announcement would be delayed for “a few hours.” By late that evening the decision had been delayed indefinitely. The initial administration release contained strong language about holding Iran accountable. “We have consistently made clear that the United States will vigorously press sanctions against Iranian activities outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—including those related to Iran’s support for terrorism, regional destabilization, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile program,” stated the Treasury’s acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Adam Szubin, in the retracted release, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
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When Worlds Collide: 
Unassimilable Muslim Migrants 
Crash Europe’s Fantasy Islam
Andrew McCarthy
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{aim.org} ~ What happens when the West’s fantasy Islam collides with the reality of an imported critical mass of unassimilated—and defiantly unassimilable—Muslims?... Cologne happens. Nor is it only Cologne. That was just Ground Zero of the New Year’s Eve rape jihad in Germany. As National Review’s Ian Tuttle notes in an alarming column about the predictable—and, if I may say, predicted—surge of sexual assault in a Europe overrun by “migrants,” the jihad included similar episodes, albeit on a smaller scale, in Stuttgart, Hamburg, and even astride the Brandenburg gate in Berlin. We are finally learning about the magnitude and harrowing details of the attack after days of Stasi-like information suppression. Chancellor Angela Merkel may not be big on German security, but she is a bulwark when it comes to fantasy Islam.
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Country Legend Loretta Lynn
 Destroys Hilly Clinton
AmyElizabeth
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Loretta Lynn slammes Hilly
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Loretta Lynn Slammed Hilly Clinton during a recent interview and she also revealed the one candidate she’s so “sold” on that she’s willing to go out and campaign for them... In an interview with Reuters  the 83-year-old Lynn says she’s been endorsing Trump after concerts, and her fans like what she has to say. When you get up there and try to say you want to see Hilly Clinton win, that wouldn’t go over so big,” the Nashville legend told Reuters, adding: “Trump has sold me – what more can I say?” The First Lady of Country revealed that her second choice for president would be Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
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Pope Promotes Islamic Invasion:
Those ‘Humanistic Spirits’ Are Collateral Damage
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ UN darling and global government advocate Pope Francis showed a bit of the shadow of Karl Marx that is hiding just beneath his robes in a proclamation made during a major address at the Vatican on Monday... Francis has been a prominent and vocal proponent of open borders and unrestricted global migration, the very source of the tensions that are now threatening the societal fabric of Europe and its Judeo-Christian heritage with extinction. Francis told the gathering of diplomats, at what is known as his “State of the World Address,” that “the present wave of migration seems to be undermining the foundations of that ‘humanistic spirit‘ which Europe has always loved and defended.” It’s undermining far more than a spirit, it’s threatening the very existence of civilization as they have known it. Many of those threats exist both with the aid and blessing of the open borders, UN global governance advocate and Argentine Marxist turned Pope. Blurring the lines between religious leader and UN operative, Francis told his audience that the Vatican is looking forward to the United Nations’ World Humanitarian Summit in May, to succeed in “placing the personal and human dignity at the heart of every humanitarian response.”       http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24709
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Senators Pleading For Terrorist
Info From Stubborn nObama Officials
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Recoil, duck, roll, cover and deny are the instinctive initial reactions on the part of the least transparent regime in history to any effort by those not in their exclusive executive branch club to find out what they are up to... Ignoring those attempts can be an equally valuable tool of nObama obstructionists, as Senators Jeff Sessions and Ted Cruz have learned over the past five months. Back on August 12th of last year, the two Senators sent a letter to a trio of nObama officials, DHS Secretary Jihadi Jeh Johnson, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry. The pair requested information regarding 72 individuals, many naturalized US citizens, who are charged with committing or plotting terrorist acts. They made it “coloring book easy” for the busy nObama operatives to reply by attaching a chart with spaces in which the information could be written. In the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the Senators sent a follow-up letter to their first, in which they repeated their requests. Still, for some reason, the nObamanistas have not found the time within the last five months to respond to the two Senators’ requests. Maybe they were too busy peddling the “greater threat” of climate change or harassing Americans if they were found to be insufficiently nice to Islamists. Being an anti-American agent does require a significant time commitment.  http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24713
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America on Edge
Judith Miller
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{city-journal.org} ~ America was on edge during the holiday season. The mass shooting in San Bernardino by an Islamic married couple, which killed 14 people, was the deadliest terror strike in the United States since 9/11. It followed the dramatic suicide attacks in Paris, the downing of a Russian plane in Egypt, and an assault on a hotel favored by Westerners in far-flung Bamako, Mali. In mid-December, Los Angeles shut down its 1,087 schools for a day, after receiving a terror threat.
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Forty percent of those surveyed in a Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll in mid-December said that terrorism and national security should be the government’s top priority; 60 percent cited one or the other in their top two concerns, up from just 39 percent eight months earlier. Some 25 percent said that they worried that they or their family would be a victim of a terror attack; 60 percent disapproved of President Barack nObama’s handling of the Islamic State, as opposed to 55 percent a year ago. Of even greater concern for Democrats in the coming elections, 70 percent said that the country was “on the wrong track.”
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nObama belatedly got the message. He adopted more bellicose language in place of his earlier dismissive references to the Islamic State as the “JV team,” a threat that had been “contained.” America, nObama said, was intensifying the fight against terrorists who were on the “wrong side of history.” Seeking to calm fears and reverse antagonism toward him and his policies, nObama addressed Americans twice within a week, first from the Oval Office and then from the Pentagon. “You’re next,” he warned ISIS’s leaders in language reminiscent of his predecessor, George W. “bring it on” Bush.
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Though his message toughened, nObama has doubled down on a four-prong strategy to degrade and defeat ISIS that some critics call inadequate and others warn is doomed to fail. Belatedly stepping up air strikes to a total of 9,000 has not prevented the would-be caliphate from deepening its roots in nine countries or from staging or inspiring a growing number of lethal attacks at home or abroad. While French president François Hollande told his traumatized citizens after the Paris attacks that France was “at war” with radical Islam, nObama continues to resist identifying the religious identity and motivations of America’s extremist enemy and seems deeply uncomfortable with his role as its wartime president. Though nObama has killed Osama bin Laden and decimated al-Qaida’s core leadership and infrastructure, expanded the drone war, and helped reclaim 40 percent of the land that ISIS seized in Iraq in last year’s blitzkrieg through Iraq and Syria, “the image of a risk-averse president is tough to shake,” says Aaron David Miller, a former government official now at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
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Nor have soothing statistics from scholars and officials sympathetic to nObama’s approach reassured Americans that the ship of state is in steady hands. Writing in Politico, Daniel Benjamin and Steve Simon, former national security officials, noted that since 9/11, only 45 Americans have been killed on American soil by jihadist violence. (Before the San Bernardino slaughter, they also called American anxiety about a Paris-style attack here “unwarranted.”)
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But comparative body counts miss the point. The fact that more people die slipping in bathtubs than in terror attacks does not allay concern about the nation’s vulnerability. All forms of violence are not equal. And terrorism is destabilizing because its goal, in fact, is to terrorize.
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Republican presidential candidates, by contrast, have lost little time trying to capitalize on America’s anxiety. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee compared San Bernardino with Pearl Harbor. New Jersey governor Chris Christie said that America was in the “midst of the next world war.” In response to his demand that the U.S. ban the entry of all Muslims, Donald Trump saw his poll ratings surge. Exaggerating the jihadi threat may be politically advantageous, but antagonizing the Arab nations needed to fight ISIS in Syria and the largely integrated American-Muslim community, whose support is needed to help identify, isolate, and delegitimize extremists in their ranks, makes terror harder to combat.
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Questions about the administration’s ability to prevent terror strikes at home have also eroded public trust in nObama. While most American employers routinely check prospective employees’ postings on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, government officials cannot routinely review direct and private messages sent through such social media. Tashfeen Malik, the female half of the San Bernardino terrorist couple, sent direct, nonpublic messages hostile to the U.S. through Facebook and a dating website before moving from Pakistan to the U.S. with a K-1, or “fiancée,” entry visa, but the government needs special authorization to access such communications. Fox News reported that Malik passed at least three background checks before being granted the visa, despite having given a false address on her visa application.
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Syed Farook, by contrast, her Internet husband and jihadi partner in crime, was a homegrown fanatic. The danger of homegrown militants has been known to law enforcement and homeland security officials since 2007, when New York Police Department intelligence analysts Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt warned of the trend, in a controversial report. Many of the FBI’s 900 active investigations of potential jihadi violence—at least one in every state—are said to focus on such extremists. But President nObama has downplayed the homegrown threat, fearful of alienating Muslim-Americans.
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Anxiety about terrorism has prompted policy shifts and demands for the reexamination of an appropriate balance between tolerance, protecting privacy, and preventing terror. Even before the San Bernardino attack, the Republican-led Congress seemed determined to oppose nObama’s stated desire to accept some 10,000 Syrian refugees in a year. Though none of the Syrians admitted to the U.S. as refugees has engaged in terrorism on American soil—nor have any but two of the more than 130,000 Iraqi refugees admitted since 2007—American resistance to their entry has grown. Even in liberal New York, 52 percent of registered voters in a December poll said that they oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the country.
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America’s decision to restrict the bulk collection of domestic telephone data, a program run by the National Security Agency, may also be reconsidered in the wake of the terror attacks. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has urged Congress to revisit the new metadata collection law, which authorizes but does not require the nation’s telephone companies—as opposed to the NSA—to store telephone metadata and orders the NSA to destroy all such call information more than 18 months old. The old program, Rubio has said, helped prevent terror attacks.
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Former CIA director General Michael V. Hayden, who also once headed the NSA, has welcomed such a review, arguing that the NSA collection program was not abused and helped thwart terror. The elimination of such programs was “self-destructive,” he said in an interview. Another tendency worries him: the potential for panic in the event of a future terrorist attack. Both underreacting and overreacting to such assaults are likely to result in bad policy, endangering security and civil liberties. Americans have too easily permitted themselves to be terrorized by terror, Hayden believes. Echoing terrorism analysts Benjamin and Simon, he worries that Americans sometimes lack what they call the “societal resilience” essential for the fight against such violence. Resilience, as Israel has shown, denies jihadis the victory they seek. Time may tell if Americans sufficiently possess it.
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Wednesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 13, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
When Black Lives Mattered
Jason L. Riley
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 Hilly's Highlight Reel Continues 
The State Department finally got around to dumping a few thousand more of Hilly Clinton's emails Friday, and there are at least a couple of real doozies. For starters, there are another 66 emails sent or received that containing classified material, bringing the total of such emails to 1,340. Remember that time she insisted, "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email," or her promise, "There is no classified material"? Good times.
          Another revelation is that she instructed Jake Sullivan, her deputy chief of staff at the time and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, to strip classification from some material and fax it to her over an unsecured channel. "[T]urn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure," she told him in what can only be construed as a direct order to violate the law regarding sensitive or classified information.
          Less serious — indeed, more humorous — she expressed dismay, again to Sullivan, that someone at the State Department was ... wait for it ... using a personal email account. "I was surprised he used personal email account if he is at State," she wrote from her private email account and server. Oh, and by the way, that particular email was marked classified. 
          But never mind all that, she told us when the scandal blew up. "What I did was legally permitted."
          Clinton's campaign insists, "It is false that Hilly Clinton asked for classified material to be sent over a nonsecure system." Furthermore, she said what she requested of Sullivan was "common practice." So we suppose that's a Clintonesque "meaning of is" parsing.  -The Patriot Post
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 The Heart of the GOP 
There's no shortage of ink (both literal and virtual) spilt analyzing the danger, disruption and fear of destruction underway within the Grand Old Party. The presidential primary features a mobilized base of voters who appear through their support of "outsider" candidates like Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina to be ready to end the current practice of governing by Republicans. And make no mistake: The establishment is panicking.
          It's fascinating that the glare of the spotlight is fixated on the personalities of these political novices. The establishment argues that these candidates' lack of experience should disqualify them for the highest elected office in the world. Yet voters see their inexperience as a positive attribute, and largely favor the solutions these candidates offer.
          The Leftmedia and the governing elites cringe when Trump proposes a pause in the immigration of individuals whose countries of origin are either in the heart of the Islamic State or in close proximity. However, average Americans don't want terrorists entering our nation among the masses who truly are displaced by Islamic extremism. The Islamic Trojan horse is a serious threat.
          December's passage of latest spendthrift budget by Republican majorities in the House and Senate was praised by Barack nObama, Harry dinky-Reid and Nancy Pulosi. And why not? It funded everything nObama wanted, including his Syrian refugee plan. In part, Republicans were budgeting for a GOP president — to remove the budget as a political weapon in the 2016 race — but most grassroots conservatives simply feel betrayed. Again. Still.  -The Patriot Post
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 SOURCES SAY FEDS PROBING CLINTON PAYOLA CLAIMS 
Fox News: “The FBI investigation into Hilly Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible ‘intersection’ of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News. This track is in addition to the focus on classified material found on Clinton’s personal server. ‘The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed,’ one source said.”           Wait. What? - WSJ: “In [a recently released] 2011 email exchange about faxing a talking points document, the former secretary of state instructed aide Jake Sullivan to take a secure fax and ‘turn [it] into nonpaper with no identifying heading and send nonsecure’ if technical difficulties with the secure fax system persisted…‘I was looking for a secure fax that could give me the whole picture,’ the Democratic presidential candidate said Sunday on CBS. ‘But, often times, there’s a lot of information that isn’t at all classified. So, whatever information can appropriately be transmitted unclassified often was...’ Mrs. Clinton said Sunday that the request to her staffer didn’t amount to an order to violate laws on handling classified material, and said the email was never sent in any case.” 
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The FBI is getting ready
to absolutely wallop Hilly Clinton
Chuck Ross
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{dailycaller.com} ~ The FBI is investigating whether Hilly Clinton’s State Department improperly directed contracts to Clinton Foundation donors, in possible violation of public corruption laws, Fox News is reporting... Three sources confirmed the previously-unknown investigation angle to Fox reporters Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne. “The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed,” one law enforcement source told Fox.
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Fox host zings nObama aide: 
What about the Constitution?
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{wnd.com} ~ Fox News host Chris Wallace zinged the White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, during a televised interview, asking the presidential mouthpiece during discussion of executive orders: What ever happened to the notion of Article One, in the Constitution?... That's the one that reads, in part: "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." Wallace asked: "Whatever happened to that?" But Wallace wouldn't let the matter drop, asking McDonough again about "what the Constitution says" in regards to the rights of the legislative branch, versus the powers of the executive.       http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/fox-host-pings-obama-aide-what-of-constitution/
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House Democrats Turn to the Wrong Muslims for SOTU
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ As many as 25 House Democrats are expected to have Muslim guests during Tuesday night's State of the Union speech... It's in response to a call from Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim voted into Congress, to counter an "alarming rise in hateful rhetoric against Muslim Americans and people of the Islamic faith worldwide." The gesture might not generate much more than a shrug, except that in at least two cases, Democrats invited officials from a group the FBI formally avoids due to historic ties to a Hamas support network. Delray Beach Rep. Alcee Hastings invited Nezar Hamze, regional operations director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Florida. And San Jose, Cal. Rep. Zoe Lofgren invited Sameena Usman, a 10-year veteran government relations official with CAIR's San Francisco chapter, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned. CAIR officials routinely accuse federal law enforcement often trapping otherwise innocent and peaceful Muslims in order to gin up terrorism prosecutions. Hamze's colleagues in CAIR-Florida are helping a family sue the FBI over the 2013 fatal shooting of a terror suspect who attacked agents after extensive questioning.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5123/house-democrats-turn-to-the-wrong-muslims-for-sotu
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Russia Giving Advanced
Weapons to Hezbollah, ‘No Strings Attached’
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{algemeiner.com} ~ Russia has been arming Lebanese terror group Hezbollah with heavy munitions as fighting in southern Syria intensifies, the Daily Beast reported on Monday... The weapons come with no strings attached, a Hezbollah recruiter in Lebanon told the publication, even against Israel. “When it comes to Israel, Hezbollah doesn’t take directions from anyone,” said Assir, the recruiter, although the report acknowledged that he may not have been senior enough to know full details about the weapons arrangement.
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Israeli Left-Wing Extremist
Arrested Fleeing the Country
Truth Revolt
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Ezra Nawi
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Ezra Nawi – the extreme left-winger who was featured in a television investigation last week in which he was recorded saying that he helps Palestinian authorities find and kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews... was arrested today at Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport while trying to leave the country. Israeli media has reported that police were following him, and upon learning he was trying to leave the country and check in for a flight, he was arrested. According to The Times Of Israel today: A recording of Nawi was aired on Thursday by the investigative television program Uvda, on Israel’s Channel 2. In it, Nawi is heard speaking about four Palestinian real estate sellers, whom Nawi said mistook him for a Jew interested in buying their property.
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Gitmo Detainee who nObama
Freed Monday Said He
Would‘KILL AMERICANS’ if Released
PAMELA GELLER
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Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani
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{pamelageller.com} ~ I wouldn’t be surprised if nObama supplied the arms to do it with... The fifth column got what it had been working on for decades — a plant in the White House. I warned of what an enemy he was in my 2009 book, The Post-American Presidency: The nObama Administration’s War on America. Gitmo should be expanded, not closed. Any Muslim found guilty of jihad-terror in the USA should be incarcerated at Gitmo, along with any others caught on the battle-field. The nObama Pentagon announced Monday that Guantánamo detainee Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, 40, will be transferred back to his home country of Saudi Arabia. Need more prove he sides with the enemy.        http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/gitmo-detainee-who-obama-freed-monday-said-he-would-kill-americans-if-released.html/
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The big but hidden US jobs problem
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{aei.org} ~ While the Labor Department reported 292,000 net new jobs in December, the U.S. labor-force participation rate, 62.6%, has remained at near record lows after more than five years of steady decline. It increased a bare tenth of a percent over November... Meanwhile, labor-force participation in Great Britain stayed flat through the downturn; and for 25 to 54 year olds, it increased 2.2 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. Over the same period in the U.S., the labor-force participation from ages 25 to 54 dropped 3.1 percentage points. Running New York City’s welfare program for six years in the Bloomberg administration until 2013 taught me that employment is central to the well-being of families and the economy. The fact that so few Americans are holding or actively seeking a job is a serious problem, especially for those at the bottom.
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FBI Expands Hilly Clinton
Investigation to Include Public Corruption
Kemberlee Kaye
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Hilly Clinton
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Bad news for Hilly Clinton as Fox News reported Monday that the FBI has expanded its investigation... What began as an investigation into Hilly’s use of a personal email account during her tenure as Secretary of State due to classified information found on their home-brewed server has expanded to include examination of business conducted the The Clinton Foundation. The development follows press reports over the past year about the potential overlap of State Department and Clinton Foundation work, and questions over whether donors benefited from their contacts inside the administration. The Clinton Foundation is a public charity, known as a 501(c)(3). It had grants and contributions in excess of $144 million in 2013, the most current available data. FBI agents with experience investigating cases like Clinton’s are pressing for prosecution.   http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/fbi-expands-hillary-clinton-investigation-to-include-public-corruption/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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America’s Markets Running on Empty
Carl Delfeld
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ It takes a number of catalysts to drive a great, lasting bull market that delights workers and investors alike... Take the great Reagan bull market ignited in the early 1980s; looking back, the fuel for economic growth was explosive and long-lasting, enough to rocket the economy forward for almost a decade. This is why the current financial situation in America gives me pause. Stocks certainly aren’t cheap when compared to history. Our massive debt makes large tax cuts or sharp increases in military or infrastructure spending unlikely. Interest rates will have to begin going up sometime, and Baby Boomers are headed into the low consumption and conservative investing stages in their life cycle.        http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/01/12/u-s-japan-stock-market/
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ISIS Followers Plan 
to Take over Gaza Strip
Khaled Abu Toameh
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In Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Army (PIA)
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A new group calling itself the Palestinian Islamic Army (PIA) has popped up in the Gaza Strip, signaling incontrovertibly the growing influence of the Islamic State (ISIS) among Palestinians... A thirty-minute video put out by the PIA shows its followers pledging allegiance to ISIS "Caliph" Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and paints Hamas leaders as "apostates" and "infidels" for failing to implement Islamic sharia law in the Gaza Strip. The video constitutes proof positive that the ISIS ideology has infiltrated Gaza -- a truth that Hamas has unsuccessfully been trying to conceal for the past year. In the video, Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal are denounced for aligning themselves with moderate Arab leaders in the Gulf, who are described as "criminals and enemies of Islam." Apparently, Hamas has been too kind to Christians living in the Gaza Strip. The narrator blasts Hamas leaders for offering greetings to Christians on their holidays and condolences on the death of some of the community's members. Hamas leaders are featured making visits to Christian "polytheists" in the Strip.  http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7209/isis-gaza-takeover
Video:  (need to understand and speak Arabian)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5DVxrnVp-0
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When Black Lives Mattered
Jason L. Riley
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{city-journal.org} ~ Three decades ago, in response to a drug epidemic that was laying waste to urban minority communities from Los Angeles to Miami to New York, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which imposed much harsher penalties for crack-cocaine offenses than for crimes involving powder cocaine. For federal sentencing purposes, someone convicted of selling 50 grams of crack was subject to the same mandatory-minimum ten-year sentence as someone convicted of selling 5,000 grams of powder cocaine. This crack/powder disparity was increasingly attacked as racist—crack offenders tended to be black, while powder offenders tended to be white. Never mind that Representatives Charles Rangel and Major Owens, two black liberal Democrats from New York not known for their reluctance to play the race card, led the fight to impose the differential. Never mind that 11 of the 21 black lawmakers serving in Congress in 1986 supported the new law. And never mind that even those black congressmen who opposed it did not do so on grounds that it was racially unfair.
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At the time, many black lawmakers and activists saw in crack cocaine a unique threat. The drug was considered more accessible, more addictive, and more closely associated with violent behavior than its powder form. Proponents of the “crackdown on crack” believed that lawful inner-city residents would be better off if crack offenders were locked up for longer periods of time. In other words, the motivating factor was safety, and the resulting racial disparities were incidental. Yet today’s critics of the 1986 law ignore or play down the role of black leaders in its passage and pretend that racial animus drove the effort.
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According to Michael Javen Fortner’s urgent and extraordinary new book, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, this sort of politically expedient revisionism also shapes today’s related debate over the mass incarceration of black men. Fortner responds to best-selling authors like Michelle Alexander, a law professor at Ohio State University, who has argued that a white backlash against the civil rights gains of the 1950s and 1960s led to the utilization of penal policy to restore the old Jim Crow social order of white supremacy. To Alexander and most of the liberal commentariat, mass incarceration has less to do with black criminality and more to do with historical white resistance to racial equality. In their view, prisons are tools of racial subordination. Under the auspices of a war on drugs, a racially biased criminal-justice system targets people simply for being black, not necessarily for breaking the law. Hence the tendency of leftists to obsess over the racial imbalance of the prison population while rarely discussing the racial imbalance among perpetrators of crime—as if the two are wholly unrelated.
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Fortner, a political scientist at the City University of New York, challenges this wobbly liberal narrative by detailing the history of black activism that spurred Governor Nelson Rockefeller in the early 1970s to make New York the first state to mandate lengthy prison sentences for drug offenses. Today’s mass-incarceration phenomenon, the author argues, is an outgrowth of Rockefeller drug policies that enjoyed strong support from working- and middle-class blacks who were being terrorized by black criminals.
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Crime rose rapidly nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and law-abiding blacks in places like New York bore the brunt of the consequences. Between 1960 and 1968, for instance, violent crime rose by 50 percent nationwide and by more than 450 percent in the Big Apple. Within New York City, some neighborhoods suffered a great deal more than others. “Homicide rates in white working-class precincts (Canarsie, Brooklyn), white middle-class areas (Bayside, Queens), and white upper-class precincts (Upper East Side) were dramatically lower than in precincts in minority communities,” writes Fortner. The homicide rate in one Harlem precinct “was over twenty-six times the rate in the Upper East Side, almost fifty times the rate of the most dangerous precinct in Bayside, and almost forty times the rate in Canarsie.” Between 1966 and 1976, blacks in New York City constituted half of all homicide victims—as well as about 50 percent of drug-related deaths—despite being only about one-fifth of the city’s population.
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The book’s broader point—and Fortner makes it in a clear, fluid prose style that rarely lapses into academic jargon—is that a black silent majority at the time “was much more alarmed about drug addiction and violent crime than its white analogue” and ultimately motivated to take action. It was blacks who instigated the crackdown on black criminality, often over the opposition of white liberals and black political elites. “Many minority legislators voted against the drug laws, and survey evidence indicates that, driven by their own interests and ideologies, they were at odds with the communities they represented,” writes Fortner. Eventually, Rockefeller, “no pioneer of punishment,” began to recite the grievances of working- and middle-class blacks, to “appropriate their language and echo the discourse of their movement.”
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In addition to assessing academic studies, Fortner has marshaled interviews with black activists, transcripts from legislative hearings, literature of the period, and numerous press reports to support his central claims. Readers may be especially intrigued by the punitive bluntness of the black press at the time. The Chicago Defender ran political cartoons in the early 1970s that portrayed black thugs menacing black neighborhoods and included captions like “Brother ’HOOD in Black Communities” and “Stop Black on Black Crime.” After a bank employee was shot dead in 1970, the Atlanta Daily World published an editorial with the headline CRIME MUST BE STOPPED. “It goes hard for the Christian heart to say this, but stiffer measures, all the way up to capital punishment, seem to be the only tangible way to protect that portion of society, which has not fallen under the heels of hardship and become animals. Animals!” wrote the editors. “This bank, which has apparently become a target of hoodlums, and has young female tellers scared out of their wits, has employed numerous black people for years, and is making major contributions to the cause of advancement in Atlanta.”
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Or consider this 1972 editorial on crime in the Washington Afro-American: “The exceedingly high incidence of housebreakings, pocketbook snatchings, robberies, shoplifting cases and shootings are not simply the outgrowth of bad social conditions,” said the editors. “It’s time to recognize that basic honesty has a lot to do with it. Honesty begins at home and makes little difference whether or not you are poor, unemployed and whatsoever.” The editors continued: “It’s also time we stop blaming everybody else for the criminal acts which occur in our neighborhoods. The victims of most of these criminal acts are black, and . . . the vast majority of these acts are caused by black people, and in the end the whole city . . . suffers.”
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I don’t know Fortner’s personal politics, and his book is a work of scholarship, not a polemic. But in a moving preface, he does mention that his experience as a black youngster reared on Brooklyn’s mean streets during the height of the crack epidemic informs his perspective. “While the literature on mass incarceration has correctly highlighted racial discrimination within the criminal justice system, it has unnecessarily discounted the hurt and terror of those who clutch their billfolds as they sleep, of those who exit their apartments and leave their buildings with trepidation, and of those who have had to bury a son or daughter because of gang activity, the drug trade, or random violence.” Fortner wrote Black Silent Majority, he says, “to recover the voice of the ‘invisible black victim.’” His book accomplishes that and much more.
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Tuesday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 12, 2016 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
The Term 'Neocon' has Run its Course
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nObama Has His Sights Set
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ It’s been a rough seven years, but we’ve somehow muddled through as a country... Now, as 2016 is finally here, we all thought we wouldn’t have President Barack nObama to kick around any more. Well, if a report out of The Jerusalem Post is any indication, that may not be the case. No, nObama isn’t going to suspend the Constitution and run for a third term. He may be doing something even worse. According to the report, which was translated from Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida, nObama wants to replace United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon when the South Korean’s term is complete at the end of this year.
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Forensic Profiler: 
nObama accepts ISIS attacks
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{wnd.com} ~ President nObama, despite his promises the U.S. “will not relent in the ISIS campaign” and his assurance that the world would not accept extremists’ attacks, such as that in Paris, actually is saying he is doing nothing of real consequence, “In fact, accepting the ISIS attacks as normal.”... “Indeed, he has constructed a new normal by failing to protect America, a stance which he has totally rationalized. In fact, he remains totally submissive to ISIS.” The new comments come from Andrew G. Hodges, M.D., He explains that nObama is confessing to enabling ISIS. “America’s current president is leading us ever so certainly into a worsening crisis that will encourage future attacks by ISIS. In order to learn why, we must appreciate two basic subconscious mechanisms – denial and projection – and Barack nObama’s own unconscious mind will take us to the heart of who he is and reveal his deepest motivations regarding the Islamic State.”        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/forensic-profiler-obama-accepts-isis-attacks/
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House Foreign Affairs Chair Royce 
Critical of U.S. Policy Toward Iran
John Grady
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Rep. Ed Royce
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{news.usni.org} ~ The perception among American Middle Eastern allies and partners is that “we have tilted to Iran” since concluding the nuclear agreement and are now regularly showing a failure to respond to new provocations from Tehran, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday... “The crux of the problem” with President Barack nObama’s foreign policy is it is “a policy of constantly backing down,” Rep. Ed Royce, (R-Calif.), said Friday, and it is a policy that needs to change when a new administration takes office next year. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank, he asked, “Why aren’t we sticking to the letter of the agreement” with Tehran and calling for tougher United Nations’ sanctions against Iran for its intercontinental ballistic missile tests, firing a missile close to American carrier USS Harry S. Truman, the hacking of a dam in New York state and taking of an American hostage.
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Germany Just Can't Get It Right
Douglas Murray
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The late Robert Conquest once laid out a set of three political rules, the last of which read, "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."... This rule comes in handy when trying to understand the otherwise clearly insane and suicidal policies of Chancellor Merkel's government in Germany. These policies only make sense if the German government has in fact been taken over by a cabal of people intent not on holding Germany together but on pulling it entirely apart. Consider the evidence. There can be few other explanations for why Chancellor Merkel's government last year let in more than one million people (about 1.5% of the current German population) without having any idea of who they were, where they came from or what they think. No democratic leader could possibly push through such a startling measure. How else can you explain why a country that in the 20th century had such a gigantic anti-Semitism problem, would import so many people from those areas of the world which, in the 21st century, now have the same gigantic anti-Semitism problem? A document that was leaked late last year from the German intelligence service warned that the country is "importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples..." How to explain a government and security service policy which allowed this to happen? Or a Chancellor who, when asked a very lightly critical question about all of this by a concerned German citizen, responded with a long disquisition that failed to answer even one part of the pertinent point?        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7201/germany-migrant-policy
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Russia Suspected to be
Behind Cyberattack on Ukrainian Power Grid
Kerry Lear
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ It has been reported that for the first time in history (that we know of) that a cyber attack has caused a power outage... Hackers have been linked to the major blackout that occurred in Ukraine during the holiday season. An estimated 700,000 homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country lost power for several hours on December 23rd. Although it’s difficult to determine the real culprits of the outage, this breach has been linked by the researchers at iSIGHT Partner, a ThreatScape Cyber Espionage group, to a specific kind of malware called BlackEnergy. This type of malware wipes files off computer systems, shuts them down and can lead to a blackout. According to John Hultquist, the head of ISIGHT Partner, at least one of the power systems in Ukraine was infected with this malware. I wonder if this is a dry run to attack the USA?       http://punchingbagpost.com/russia-suspected-to-be-behind-cyberattack-on-ukrainian-power-grid
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13 Hours: The Secret 
Soldiers of Benghazi Featurette
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ The long awaited film, directed by Michael Bay, stars John Krasinski, Max Martini, and Toby Stevens, tells the real story of what happened in Benghazi. It’s the story the nObama Regime doesn’t want you to know, and Democrats continue to contest... The following is a “featurette” on the actual heroes who fought to save the lives of their fellow citizens on 9/11/2012 in Benghazi, Libya against overwhelming forces. It recounts what was most important to them as they headed into battle  – their faith, and a belief in doing the right thing. It’s a story that somehow got missed amidst the nObama administration’s lies, corruption and scandal. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/13-hours-the-secret-soldiers-of-benghazi-featurette-michael-bay-as-director/
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Judge Pirro Goes After
Pandering Pro-Islamic Mayor For Idiocy...
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro is fuming over the actions of Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, the career Democrat who used a press conference in the wake of the shooting of Police Officer Jesse Hartnett to recite the apologist mantra for Islam, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary... That evidence only serves to indict the Mayor as being a pandering liberal in the service of the anti-American forces within our government, including the squatter in the White House and his pro-Islamic invasion comrades in CAIR and elsewhere. Hartnett was shot three times in the left arm, with nine other rounds somehow missing the mark, at point blank range by a self-confessed devotee of ISIS. The video shows that assailant wearing Muslim garb as he approached the officer firing in a video that the Mayor played just prior to making his absurd comments. Judge Pirro described Mayor Kenney as making “One of the most astounding, asinine statements that I’ve heard since the last time I listened to a White House press conference.”        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24695
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HIlly gives lame excuse
for email instructing adviser to ignore security
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Emails released this past Friday morning  showed Hilly Clinton instructing a State Department employee to ignore the rules about secrecy, telling him to remove the heading which marked the fax as confidential and email it as if it wasn’t secure... Specifically she said,  “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” Hilly appeared on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday, and stumbled when trying to defend her cavalier attitude toward email security when pressed by host John Dickerson. Clinton’s defense was that there is no proof that the information she requested was ever actually sent which was true, but that still ignores the fact that she instructed her adviser to ignore security rules. The email in question provides the clearest evidence yet of Clinton’s disregard for national security and protecting intelligence. The woman who wants to be in charge of all the U.S. secrets not only knew how to bypass government security measures but she ordered others to do so.
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The 21st Century
“Peace Through Strength” Mandate
Lt. Col. (Retired) Allen West
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{aim.org} ~ We will not be successful on the 21st Century battlefield unless we have a 21st Century plan, a mandate. And I believe it must be “peace through strength.”... The enemy we are facing, global Islamic jihadism, understands only strength. We will not have peace without it. When I ponder the current conflagration in which our nation – actually the world – finds itself, I am reminded of this quote by Sun Tzu, from The Art of War: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
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FBI Probe Into Clinton 
Emails Expanded To Look Into 
Clinton Foundation Malfeasance
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ Washington insiders have long maintained that the biggest scandal of Hilly Clinton’s scandal-prone political career, is not EmailGate, but the Clinton Foundation’s sketchy fundraising practices... Now the FBI investigation into Hilly Clinton’s emails, has been expanded to probe the apparent “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business to see if it violated public corruption laws, Fox News reported this morning. Three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News that the “new investigative track is in addition to the focus on classified material found on Clinton’s personal server.”
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The Term 'Neocon' has Run its Course
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{townhall.com} ~ In interviews and on the stump, Sen. Ted Cruz likes to attack President nObama, Hilly Clinton and "some of the more aggressive Washington neocons" for their support of regime change in the Middle East.
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Every time we topple a dictator, Cruz argues, we end up helping terrorists or extremists.
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He has a point. But what interests me is his use of the word "neocon." What does he really mean?
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Some see dark intentions. "He knows that the term in the usual far-left and far-right parlance means warmonger, if not warmongering Jewish advisers, so it is not something he should've done," former George W. Bush advisor Elliott Abrams told National Review. Another former Bush adviser calls the term "a dog whistle."
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I think that's all a bit overblown. Cruz is just trying to criticize his opponent Marco Rubio, who supported regime change in Libya. There's little daylight between the two presidential contenders on foreign policy, and this gives Cruz an opening for attack.
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But Abrams is right -- and Cruz surely knows -- that for many people "neocon" has become code for suspiciously Hebraic super-hawk. It's an absurd distortion.
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At first, neocons weren't particularly associated with foreign policy. They were intellectuals disillusioned by the folly of the Great Society. As Irving Kristol famously put it, a "neoconservative is a liberal who was mugged by reality and wants to press charges." The Public Interest, the first neoconservative publication, co-edited by Kristol, was a wonkish domestic policy journal.
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Kristol later argued that neoconservatism was not an ideology but a "persuasion." William F. Buckley, the avatar of supposedly authentic traditional conservatism, agreed. The neocons, he explained, brought the new language of sociology to an intellectual tradition that had been grounded more in Aristotelian thinking.
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The neocon belief in democracy promotion grew out of disgust with Richard Nixon's détente and Jimmy Carter's fecklessness, but it hardly amounted to knee-jerk interventionism. When Jeane Kirkpatrick articulated a theory of neoconservative foreign policy in Commentary magazine in 1979, she cautioned that it was unwise to demand rapid liberalization in autocratic countries, and that gradual change was a more realistic goal than immediate transformation.
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During the Cold War, neocons weren't any more hawkish than anyone else on the right. They were advocating containment of the Soviet Union while National Review conservatives were demanding "rollback" and Barry Goldwater was talking about nuking the Kremlin.
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Even through the late 1990s, neocons were far from outliers in their belief that the United States should use its military power to support democracies abroad. Many members of both parties held that view. Remember, it was Bill Clinton who in 1998 signed the Iraq Liberation Act calling for regime change.
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After 9/11, some neoconservative intellectuals had off-the-shelf foreign policy ready for George W. Bush -- which, yes, was hawkish in nature, but other Republicans and even Democrats supported their prescriptions, at least at first. As the Iraq War went south, the neocons were the only ones left defending it, and so got all of the blame.
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The association between neoconservatism and Jews stems partly from the fact that the first neocons were mostly Jewish, partly from the reality that they are all to this day -- gentiles included -- pro-Israel. That's not particularly remarkable, though, since neocons want to help America's democratic allies everywhere and since most Christian conservatives are pro-Israel, too.
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Today the neocon sociological persuasion is simply part of the conservative mainstream. The idea that self-identified neocons are uniformly more "pro-war" than other conservatives is ludicrous.
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Granted, neoconservatives contribute to the confusion. They like to claim that the alternative to their approach amounts to "isolationism" -- another horribly misused word. Rubio recently leveled that charge at Cruz.
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Cruz, for his part, says he wants to "carpet-bomb ISIS" until the "sand glows." There are many criticisms one can level at the position, but isolationist isn't one of them.
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Neoconservatism is a product of the Cold War. It's understandable that neoconservative intellectuals who helped win the Cold War might want to hold onto the label, but it's time to give it a comfortable retirement in the history books.
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Meanwhile, the right is having a long overdue, and valuable, argument about how to conduct foreign policy. Keep it going, just leave neoconservatism out of it.
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Monday ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 11, 2016 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Inside the Garden of 
Political Town Hall Plants
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Flood Of Illegals Benefit From DHS 
Flood Policy – More Water Means More 
Amnesty, Any Excuse Will Do
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The Department of Homeland “Security” under Secretary Jeh Johnson is an exercise in the most ludicrous, the most ridiculous and the most reckless abuses of power and oath violation imaginable short of detention and physical harm to Americans, and those days are probably not far off... It’s an agency in search of every method through which to counter its mission and stated purpose to the detriment of the United States and the American people. In the eyes of the current regime, Secretary Jeh Johnson is doing an excellent job. The slightest excuse is cultivated, the most unreal false premise which can be distorted embraced by this rogue agency in their pursuit of population replacement. They’ve only got a year to darken up America into something much more appropriate, they’ll use every excuse they can. According to Judicial Watch, the latest crazy idea to make it to policy status is the “Severe Weather Immigration Relief.” They explained how recent flooding in the Midwest and South, which occur in cycles as a normal part of life in those regions, is being given the “Climate Change Treatment.” It’s beyond their control and the government must step in to make everything socially equal for those who aren’t supposed to be a part of our society to begin with. They wrote in a Friday article:        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24605
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Hire Illegals, Lose Your Business License
– State Bill Puts Americans First, 
Illegals In A Moving Van
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ A new bill introduced in the Indiana General Assembly on Thursday could finally mark the beginning of responsible, citizen-first labor policies in the United States... While the federal government consistently chooses to defy the will and the interests of the people, state governments in many ways still maintain the ability to act on our behalf, if they choose to do so. The legislation, Senate Bill 285, would be among the strictest in the nation, allowing judges to strip employers of their business licenses upon a third violation of knowingly hiring an illegal alien, already a violation of federal immigration law. The bill was introduced by State Senator Mike Delph, a Republican representing Carmel, in order to “take away the jobs magnet and remove the financial incentive of unscrupulous business people who profit off of illegal immigration.” http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24615
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Clinton’s Hot Water Getting Warmer – Classified Emails In The Wrong Places And One That Proves She’s Lying
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Those whose professional expertise involves the deliberate obfuscation of the truth, such as virtually every member of the nObama regime, including Hilly Clinton and John hanoi-Kerry, know that the longer that one is forced to cover one lie with another and to misdirect away from the things that could be problematic... the greater the odds are that eventually you’ll find yourself inextricably trapped a web of your own conflicting deception. That very uncomfortable and vulnerable place is exactly where Hilly Clinton may find herself. It’s a place she would have already found herself in had she not had such good and equally culpable friends in the highest of places. The State Department just released approximately 3,000 additional pages of emails on Friday morning, 66 of which fell into some form of “classified” restrictions. This occurred in spite of Clinton’s multiple false assurances that there were none. The fact that she lied about the existence of the classified emails is bad but it may not be the worst of it. Everybody expects Clinton to lie to protect her corrupt rear end. What has the potential to be the most damaging is the fact that one email reveals she ordered a member of her staff to remove the classified markings from one document and then transmit it via a non-secure system.
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Gen Michael Flynn – Next President
Will Inherit Absolute Mess From nObama
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Megyn Kelly opens by describing the world’s most volatile region, the Middle East, as “being on the verge of exploding,” and noting that the White House was asked point blank if their failed leadership was to blame... Of Course there will never be an admission of failure that passes the foul lips of Hussein nObama. She notes the deterioration of the situation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the public display of a new Iranian underground missile depot, the recent shooting by Iran of a rocket dangerously close and in a provocative, taunting manner towards a US warship. There are also expanding threat levels in Afghanistan, with the Taliban now controlling more territory than at any time since 2001. As for Syria, the supposed regime change that had to take place is now on the back burner, not likely to occur until 2017, and not necessarily something that would have been in our best interest, if the results of our nation building attempts under this wrecking ball administration are any indicator. Kelly’s video includes a university setting in which surface to air missile training is being conducted by ISIS operatives. She also comments that the nObama regime essentially wrote off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his 2012 reelection.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/24627
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BUSTED: Lena Dunham Is a Liar 
(Just Like Hilly Clinton)
Andrew Stiles
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Lena Dunham is all in for Hilly Clinton. The millennial heartthrob interviewed the prominent grandmother in September, asking how younger generations could get excited to vote for a candidate that lacks anything resembling charisma... “If you can’t get excited, be pragmatic and do it anyway,” Clinton explained. Dunham in currently on the campaign trail in New Hampshire rallying supporters and taking over the candidate’s Instagram account. She’s also telling big fat lies just like Hilly does all the time. Dunham told a crowd of supporters Friday that Hilly is so cool because she “believes that the globe is actually warming.” Everyone in New Hampshire should know this, Dunham alleged, because “I didn’t even need my jacket outside and it’s January in New England, you guys.” Here’s the clip:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUHydrUr2BU Here’s a photo of Dunham at that same event prior to taking the stage. It’s also proof that she’s a liar:
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Natural Born Nonsense –
Trump And Rubio’s Latest Gambit
Richard Cameron
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{noisyroom.net/blog} ~ John McCain plays Marco Rubio’s Cat’s Paw in the latest desperation attempt to bring Ted Cruz down. Donald Trump is somewhere in the pile as well... There has been a considerable amount of chatter regarding Donald Trump’s latest tactic in his ongoing scorched earth campaign, this time aimed at Senator Cruz’ campaign – in particular, the Senator’s legal qualifications to occupy the highest public office in the land. I refer to it as the NBC (Natural Born Citizen) flatulence.  Flatulence in case you don’t know, is a polite term for stinking the room up. While Senator Cruz’ and his campaign have addressed this issue on numerous occasions (quite satisfactorily) – as far back as August 2013; the timing of this attack from the Trump campaign is curious to say the least. Trump is now behind Cruz in the Iowa Caucus polling. The raising of the NBC flatulence is obvious on the face of it as a cheap desperation move to attempt to derail Senator Cruz’ momentum. The nObama White House is joining in the chorus, questioning Cruz’ status of eligibility! As I told a family member who brought this up this morning, my objection to nObama’s legitimacy as President, did and does not center around his father (whoever that may have been) or whether nObama was born on American soil. It centered around the lies, obfuscations, contradictory documents, possible forgeries and ongoing withholding of details of his background. Details that the American people are legitimately entitled to examine.        http://noisyroom.net/blog/2016/01/08/natural-born-nonsense-trump-and-rubios-latest-gambit/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
(Additional info on NBC: Congressional Research Service, Nov. 14, 2011: The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term “natural born” citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship “by birth” or “at birth,” either by being born “in” the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship “at birth.” Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an “alien” required to go through the legal process of “naturalization” to become a U.S. citizen. And, to add to the roster, Fact Check.org., references Sarah Helene Duggin, a Catholic University law professor, who wrote in 2013 on the subject, “There is a strong argument that anyone who acquires United States citizenship at birth, whether by virtue of the 14th Amendment or by operation of federal statute, qualifies as natural born.” I could add Theodore “Ted” Olsen, former Solicitor General, who defended a lawsuit contending John McCain was not “natural born”.  Mr. Olsen, a noted legal participant of the infamous Bush / Gore 2000 debacle, told National Review that “My conclusion would be that if you are a citizen as a consequence of your birth, that’s a natural-born citizen.”  Another respected Constitutional expert, this one with liberal leanings and personally favorable experience with Ted Cruz, Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz opined in National Review, “Of course he’s eligible.”)
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More Clinton Sexual Assault
Victims Are About To Come Forward
Hannity.com Staff
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{hannity.com} ~ Since returning to the campaign trail as an advocate for Hilly, Bill Clinton has been harried by renewed interest in his past sexual misconduct as well as Hilly’s alleged role in intimidating his victims into silence... Roger Stone, author of the New York Times bestselling "The Clinton’s War On Women", claims that he has personal knowledge of previously unknown victims who are preparing to come forward with accusations against the former president. "I identified 24 women who’ve been assaulted by Bill Clinton," Stone said on The Sean Hannity Show. "Now some of these women are still terrified. Some of them have had IRS audits. Some of them have had their families threatened. But others have come forward."
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Merkel Damage Control, Orders 
Social Media Censorship – Germany, 
Europe In Turmoil She Created
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ A week after innocent women in the German city of Cologne were attacked, groped, mugged, sexually assaulted and generally disrespected and violated in every way imaginable by Islamists on New Year’s Eve... Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has taken decisive action. Her response was the type of thing we’d likely see from her comrade Hussein nObama in this country, she attacked the victims. Merkel, according to the report, has ordered a crackdown on “hate speech” against “asylum seekers,” or “migrants,” the sanitized language used to describe savage street thugs who prey upon the civilized population of Germany. Something or someone smells oddly like a rat. It’s a frumpy female rat, not very attractive, about 61 years old with an anti-German, European Union, Nazi puppet kind of bias. It’s the same rat that has created the situation in which her nation is now under siege by the most vile of foreign miscreants. Merkel ordered and received pledges of cooperative censorship in return from Facebook, Twitter and Google, to act as she dictates in enforcing German law as per her interpretation and instructions. They’ll be removing posts which are critical of those who practice the rape and molestation of innocents or those who share a common illegitimacy in being in Germany, having misrepresented themselves as being Syrians who were being threatened by the Syrian civil war.
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Lawmakers to nObama: 
'Stop importing the threat'
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{wnd.com} ~ Now that two ISIS operatives who entered the U.S. as Iraqi refugees have been arrested on terror-related charges, the heat is sure to get turned up in the debate over the “vetting” of Muslim refugees and whether it is even possible to screen them for terrorist ties... The two alleged terrorists were arrested Thursday, one in Sacramento and the other in Houston. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the arrests “may have prevented a catastrophic terror-related event in the making and saved countless lives,” CBS News reported. Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said the arrests “are precisely why I called for a halt to refugees entering the U.S. from countries substantially controlled by terrorists.” He said the refugee inflow from these countries should end “until there is an effective vetting process that will ensure refugees do not compromise the safety of Americans and Texans.”        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/lawmakers-to-obama-stop-importing-the-threat/
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Joe loose lips-Biden Regrets not
 Joining Presidential Race
Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden disappointed a vast number of Democrats last October when he announced that he would not be seeking the presidency... loose lips-Biden had managed to gather enough support to challenge Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton before stepping down. This week, he told the press that he regrets his decision. “I regret it every day,” loose lips-Biden told an NBC affiliate in Connecticut. “But it was the right decision for my family and for me…and we’ve got two good candidates.” loose lips-Biden has yet to endorse either Bernie Sanders or Hilly Clinton. He did not mention third-place Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley.  After months of deliberations with family members and political advisers, loose lips-Biden announced in late October that he had run out of time and had decided not to run. Many believe his decision had a lot to do with the tragic death of his son Beau, who died in May from brain cancer. “I believed I could win, but that’s not enough,” he said. “I know myself. And I know it takes time.”
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Inside the Garden of 
Political Town Hall Plants
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{townhall.com} ~ On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President nObama as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says nObama will "take questions from the audience."
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Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question.
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CNN has a long history of allowing political plants to flourish in its public forums.
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At the cable station's Democratic debate in Las Vegas in 2007, moderator Wolf Blitzer introduced several citizen questioners as "ordinary people, undecided voters." But they later turned out to include a former Arkansas Democratic director of political affairs, the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, and a far left anti-war activist who'd been quoted in newspapers lambasting Harry dinky-Reid for his failure to pull out of Iraq.
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At a CNN/YouTube GOP debate two weeks later, the everyday, "undecided voters" whose questions were chosen included:
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--A member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hilly Clinton Steering Committee.
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--A young woman named "Journey" who questioned the candidates on abortion and whom CNN failed to properly identify as an outspoken John Edwards supporter.
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--A supposed "Log Cabin Republican" who had declared his support for nObama on an nObama '08 campaign blog.
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--A supposedly unaffiliated "concerned mother" who was actually a staffer and prominent Pittsburgh union activist for the United Steelworkers -- which had endorsed Edwards for president.
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--A supposed "undecided" voter who urged Ron Paul to run as an independent, but who had already publicly declared his support for former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's Democratic presidential bid.
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--A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; a former intern for Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and a former intern for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Once a manipulative gardener, always a manipulative gardener. During the push for nObamacare, Democrat plants spread like kudzu across town hall propaganda events. At White House "citizen town halls" in 2009, Team nObama hand-picked not-so-random "random" questioners who included:
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--An operative for the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care for America Now, the K Street Astroturf outfit with a $40 million budget to lobby for government-run health care that directed its activists to "drown out" opponents at town hall meetings.
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--An "unemployed" cancer patient who was actually working for the DNC's Organizing for America and the Virginia Organizing Project, which coordinated lobbying trips and health care forums with HCAN.
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--A Democrat National Committee member and community blogger at Organizing for America.
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--The 11-year-old daughter of a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for nObama who had donated thousands of dollars to the campaign, as had her law firm employer.
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Using young people as horticultural conduits to shape narratives wasn't an nObama invention, of course. Last week, Hilly Clinton's town hall events featured two children reading scripted questions on gender pay equity and guns. The campaign balked at accusations that they would exploit kids and manufacture questions.
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But this is the campaign of the former secretary of state whose staff bragged in emails released last fall that it had "planted" questions with CBS News's "60 Minutes" in 2011.
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And this is the woman whose 2008 presidential campaign staff admitted to providing prefab queries to a Grinnell College student in Iowa. Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff exposed how a senior Clinton staffer approached her with "a binder with pre-written questions." She told CNN -- attention, CNN! -- that the "top one was planned specifically for a college student. ... It said 'college student' in brackets and then the question."
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Gallo-Chasanoff conceded to asking the question, which read: "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?"
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Upon reflection, Gallo-Chasanoff felt ashamed of her cooperation with Democratic Kabuki theater and condemned the charade as "dishonest."
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Saturday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 9, 2016 at 2:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Dems, frustrated with Obama on Iran, 
float new sanctions proposals
Karoun Demirjian
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Islamic State plotters arrested
in Sacramento, Houston, Milwaukee
ROBERT SPENCER
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Federal agents have arrested a terror suspect in Sacramento, along with two others in Houston and Milwaukee in a case involving allegations that U.S. residents were in contact with and trying to provide assistance to Islamic State supporters, sources say... No announcements were made regarding the arrests, but an unusual closed hearing was conducted Thursday afternoon in federal court in Sacramento with U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan presiding behind closed doors. No information regarding the hearing was posted on the court calendar or filed in publicly available court documents, and Sacramento FBI spokeswoman Gina Swankie said she could not discuss the matter. “I can neither confirm nor deny any of the information in your email,” Swankie said in response to a request from The Sacramento Bee.
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Foreign Policy Problems ‘Got Worse’
on Clinton’s Watch, So Why is She Qualified?
David Rutz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell asked former defense secretary Leon Panetta why Hilly Clinton is qualified to be president Thursday given how many foreign policy problems grew worse during her tenure as secretary of state... Panetta, who served as CIA Director from 2009 to 2011 and Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013, the same years Clinton served in the State Department, told Mitchell Thursday he had endorsed Clinton and would provide advice on foreign policy issues to her campaign. “You support her, but all of these problems we’ve just talked about got worse on her watch, as well as on your watch,” Mitchell said. “The growth of ISIS. The Syrian civil war. The withdrawal from Iraq. So why is she qualified to be commander-in-chief?
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Iran to Receive Major Economic
Windfall as Nuclear Deal Begins
Daniel Wiser
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Iran’s economy is set to receive a substantial boost in the next two years as a result of billions in sanctions relief from the nuclear deal, according to a new forecast, a windfall that could also secure more resources for the Iranian military and its terrorist proxies... The World Bank said in a report that Iran’s GDP is projected to increase by 5.8 percent this year, compared to just 1.9 percent last year. Economic growth is then estimated to rise by 6.7 percent in 2017. As part of the nuclear agreement reached between Iran and world powers last year, the Islamic regime could collect as much as $150 billion in unfrozen assets from foreign accounts after it places some restrictions on its nuclear program. Tehran will also be permitted to resume more oil exports, which could increase its sales by 0.5 to 0.7 million barrels per day this year.        http://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/iran-to-receive-major-economic-windfall-as-nuclear-deal-begins/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f599a4dada-The_Lamest_Duck1_7_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f599a4dada-45611665
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Benghazi Cover-up Challenged
by New Film, More Hearings
Roger Aronoff  
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{aim.org} ~ One major aspect of the Benghazi cover-up has been to denounce the words of witnesses in favor of higher officials’ assertions... This is true not only for those CIA contractors who responded to the attacks, but also for the families of the victims. In a recent interview with The Conway Daily Sun of New Hampshire, journalist Tom McLaughlin asked Hilly Clinton who, from among the attendees at the Andrews Air Force Base “transfer of remains ceremony,” was lying. He was referring to the family members of the four Americans killed during the terrorist attacks in Benghazi on September 11 and 12, 2012. Mrs. Clinton responded, “Not me, that’s all I can tell you.” “Not, ‘no one is lying,’” criticized Megyn Kelley of Fox News in a segment with members of the CIA’s Global Response Staff, the quick-reaction force whose story is the basis of the book that inspired this month’s forthcoming film, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. “Not, ‘let’s not impugn anyone’s motives here,’” added Kelly. “Not, ‘I reject the premise of your question.’” Given that she has lied about virtually every aspect of Benghazi and her private email server, reporters ought to approach Mrs. Clinton’s claims with skepticism. Instead, The Washington Post continues to avoid calling Hilly Clinton on her lies even within its own Fact-Checker columns.
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Saudi Barbarity, Iranian Hypocrisy
Tarek Fatah
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{meforum.org} ~ The idiom "pot calling the kettle black" was perfectly illustrated by Islamic Iran's outrage over the public executions of 47 people by Islamic Saudi Arabia on Jan. 2... As horrific and detestable as the Saudi actions that included the beheading of human rights and democracy activist Nimr el-Nimr were, it was laughable to watch Iran's hypocritical self-righteousness in response. Since 1979, Iran has executed tens of thousands of political dissidents, most infamously its state-sponsored execution of at least 5,000 political prisoners across Iran in the summer of 1988. Decades later the Iranian Islamic regime still makes a public spectacle of hanging political prisoners in city squares, using cranes to magnify the image of men writhing as they die a slow death by strangulation.
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Clinton Emails: Hilly ordered aide
 to do THIS to emails!
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{caintv.com} ~ Hilly Clinton is a felon. There is now no question about that. That doesn't mean she's guaranteed to be charged or even convicted... since you still have to allow for the corruption and politicization of the justice system, unfortunately. But no serious person can argue she is not guilty of a felony after the e-mail the State Department released (with great reluctance, I'm sure) late last night. In it, she is talking with her then-deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who is supposed to be getting her some talking points about something, and she's growing impatient waiting for them. Sullivan explains that whoever has the talking points are trying to send them via secure fax - a sure tip-off that they contain classified information, as that's the only reason you would need to send them that way - and that they're having trouble with this and are working on the problem. The long and short of it is this: By ordering the markings removed on material she knew was classified, for the purpose of having it sent over a non-secure server, Hilly violated "18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information." How big a deal is that? It's a 10-years-in-prison big deal.
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Report: Lost U.S. missile winds up in Cuba
CURT MILLS
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A U.S. Hellfire missile that was meant to sent to a military exercise in Europe was wrongly shipped from the continent to Cuba in 2014... before U.S.-Cuba relations were normalized in 2015, according to a report. It's a strange case that's confounded many observers. "Did someone take a bribe to send it somewhere else? Was it an intelligence operation, or just a series of mistakes? That's what we've been trying to figure out," one U.S. official told the Wall Street Journal. The missile was sent from Orlando, Fla., in early 2014 to be used in a NATO military exercise. Through a series of flight confusions and possible mishaps, it was last confirmed scene in Rota, Spain, before appearing in Havana, Cuba.
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Clinton E-Mail Bombshell-
 Nail in the Coffin?
americanactionnews
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{americanactionnews.com} ~ As HotAir notes, a story emerged today that could be a potential bombshell in the investigation into Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton... A direct order from Hilly to send a classified email via unsecured channels: Has the State Department released a smoking gun in the Hilly Clinton e-mail scandal? In a thread from June 2011, Hilly exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she impatiently waits for a set of talking points. When Sullivan tells her that the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hilly then orders Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a non-secure channel. That should be game, set, and match, yes?
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Does This Prove nObama Is Lying 
About Illegal Immigrants?
 Javier Manjarres 
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{shark-tank.com} ~ The nObama administration has been quick to promote that they have deported the most illegal immigrants than any other administration before them... Many media outlets, including the Shark Tank have reported this as news, but now we are scrutinizing nObama’s claims of being the “Deporter-In-Chief” as Republican congressional candidate Brian Mast stated in an open forum that nObama had “lied” about the amount of illegal immigrant deportations, by redefining deportation, and was counting those illegals that were merely turned back at the border, as deportations. We decided to look into Mast’s claim that nObama was counting “catch and release” illegal immigrant numbers to hike up his total deportation tally, and found that there was merit to his accusations. According to the Los Angeles Times, this seems to be the case.        http://shark-tank.com/2016/01/08/obama-accused-of-altering-illegal-immigration-deportation-numbers/
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Kissinger on ISIS: Nobody Was Confused
on How to Deal with Hitler in WWII
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Sky News that there was no question in anyone's mind on how to deal with Adolf Hitler during World War II and so it should be with ISIS... "During the Second World War, nobody said, "What is the solution for dealing with Hitler?" Kissinger said. "And this is an organization that has engaged in mass murder on television in the killing of prisoners. So I do not think that the Islamic State as it exists is a group with which we can negotiate." I don't see any possibility of meaningful negotiation with the Islamic State. I think the Islamic State in its present form has a caliphate to dominate the region and indeed any area where Muslims are living that's incompatible with the international order as we see it. But I can conceive and expect a negotiation taking place between many of the parties in the region to try to create an international order there, minus the Islamic State, that will be more compatible with peace than we've had. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/kissinger-isis-nobody-was-confused-how-deal-hitler-wwii
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Dems, frustrated with Obama on Iran, 
float new sanctions proposals
Karoun Demirjian
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Democrats in Congress are losing patience with the nObama administration for failing to respond quickly enough to Iran's test of a ballistic missile.
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So frustrated, in fact, that some lawmakers are introducing legislation to ensure the next time Iran violates U.S. or international sanctions in any way, they don't have to wait on nObama to act.
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Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, is preparing to introduce a bill, along with Rep. Theodore E. Deutch, D-Florida, and a bipartisan group of co-sponsors, to expedite the procedure for imposing additional sanctions on Iran linked to terrorism, human rights violations, or ballistic missile activities.
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"No response is in effect, a response. . . if responses are nonexistent, ineffective or delayed, those are also responses," Kennedy said in an interview. "When it comes to the enforcement mechanisms, Congress should be acting with the administration. . .there needs to be a mechanism to allow for stronger and more rapid response going forward."
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Kennedy, who supported the Iran nuclear deal, and Deutch who didn't, were two of the first Democrats to call on the administration to respond last month to reports that Iran conducted a second ballistic missile test in potential violation of the U.N. Security Council.
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Lawmakers are concerned the failure of the White House to rapidly punish Iran over its missile test heralds what some worry will be a lax policy toward implementing the controversial nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic. The deal is expected to be implemented in January, meaning that certain other measures - such as the U.N. resolution currently governing ballistic missile tests - will no longer be in effect.
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Since the test, Democrats in both chambers are clamoring for a stronger U.S. response. On Wednesday, a group of leading House Democrats sent a letter to nObama urging the administration to hurry up and announce punitive measures against Iran.
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"The United States and our allies must take immediate, punitive action and send a clear message to Iran that violating international laws, treaties and agreement will have serious consequences," read the letter, which was signed by Rep. Nita M. Lowey (New York), ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee; Rep. Eliot L. Engel (New York), ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida), who chairs the Democratic National Committee; and others.
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"We understand the Administration is preparing sanctions against individuals and entities involved in Iran's ballistic missile program, and we urge you to announce such sanctions without further delay."
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That appeal follows House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer's (D-Maryland) saying he was "disappointed that the Administration has delayed punitive action in response to Iran's recent ballistic missile tests," and 21 Democratic senators signing a letter to nObama last month warning that "if there are no consequences for this violation, Iran's leaders will certainly also question the willingness of the international community to respond to violations of the" nuclear deal.
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Iran has been defiant in its response to the international outcry over the missile tests. Last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered his country to speed up production of defensive missiles. Iran "will not accept any restrictions in this regard," he tweeted.
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Kennedy and Deutch's measure would give leaders of either party 60 days to introduce legislation after the president notifies Congress of a "qualifying event" - defined as an act of terrorism, support for terrorism, or something that violates applicable U.N. Security Council resolutions before and after the implementation of the Iran deal. Relevant committees would then have 10 days to report out that bill, or it could go straight to the floor of the House or Senate for a vote.
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"With nuclear sanctions relief there will be a very large amount of money available for the support of terrorism," Deutch said. "Given all of that, we want to have something in place to permit us to move forward quickly in the event they decide to shift the benefits of the nuclear deal to violate existing U.S. and international sanctions."
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Kennedy called the legislation an effort to "signal" to Iran that "the way they can avoid any additional sanctions going forward is don't violate a UN security council resolution."
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There is also a Senate proposal that would set up an expedited procedure for considering sanctions in light of any future terrorism-related infractions.
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But some lawmakers may be looking for other solutions as well.
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The administration has clearly stated the implementation of the Iran deal does not prevent the United States from enforcing sanctions and punitive measures against Iran for "malign activities" related to terrorism and human rights violations. And thus far, none of the Democrats calling on nObama to act urgently on the missile tests has pushed specific sanctions.
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"I expect that whatever the holdup is will be resolved very quickly and we will see sanctions imposed for the violations of the Security Council resolution," Deutch said.
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Leading Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs committee also want to ensure that any congressional response is bipartisan.
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At a markup Thursday morning, Democrats voiced their disapproval of a bill to subject to further scrutiny the organizations and individuals upon whom sanctions will be lifted under the Iran deal. It's a measure that Chairman Ed Royce, R-California, insisted was necessary in light of Iran's recent ballistic missile tests.
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"The question here is one of pushback, given the violation of the U,N. sanctions," Royce said. "There was an intention, Congress had been notified - and then a decision was made after pushback from Iran not to go forward. . . . It was not supposed to be this way."
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Engel complained that Democrats had not been consulted and warned the measure would go nowhere.
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"We want to hold Iran's feet to the fire, we want to make sure they are sanctions again for other things, nuclear capabilities, their support of terrorism," Engel said.
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While he was "disappointed" that the administration "mentioned that it was going to impose some sanctions on Iran and then seemed to pull it back," Engel explained, "the only way we can effectively do that impose sanctions is in a bipartisan way."
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Saturday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on January 9, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Interview with Hilly Clinton 
about Benghazi
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 NRA Declines Debate With nObama 
The question is this: Can the Second Amendment hold up before a freewheeling and possibly rigged debate? Should a defender of Liberty enter a situation where he or she is unfairly targeted and present their ideas to a potentially hostile audience, hopefully winning some over? While we believe that the truth ultimately prevails, the National Rifle Association declined to send a spokesman to defend its views on firearms to Barack nObama's face. CNN is scheduled to hold a town hall event with the chief executive to talk about the issue of "gun violence" in Virginia Thursday night. But as the NRA told the network through its spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, "The National Rifle Association sees no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House." They're absolutely right about nObama's intentions, but perhaps this was also a jab at CNN, which regularly carries water for the administration. But in a way it's a lost opportunity. Now, more than ever, Americans need to hear that owning a firearm is not only not bad, but good. It's participating in American government.
          As David French so aptly wrote in his response to nObama crying while announcing his executive orders on gun control, "Gun ownership goes to the heart of what it means to be a responsible citizen in our constitutional republic. It goes to the heart of what it means to be a responsible parent or spouse. It isn't merely about hunting, or the joy of an afternoon at the firing range, or 'looking tough.' It isn't about fear. It's about autonomy, independence, and a deep and self-sacrificial regard for the lives of those you love. It's about exercising the fundamental human right to defend oneself and others."
          What would nObama have to say to that?  -The Patriot Post
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 The Case for Clinton's Indictment 
Will Hilly Clinton be indicted? This former U.S. attorney thinks so. Joe DiGenova, a Ronald Reagan appointee, says the FBI has "reached a critical mass in their investigation of the secretary and all of her senior staff, and, it's going to come to a head, I would suggest, in the next 60 days." He argues she'll be indicted because Attorney General Loretta Lynch won't be able to avoid it. "It's going to be a very complex matter for the Department of Justice, but they're not going to be able to walk away from it," DiGenova said. "They are now at over 1,200 classified emails. And, that's just for the ones we know about from the State Department. That does not include the ones that the FBI is, in fact, recovering from her hard drives. ... I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless [Lynch] agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an attorney general. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable." Finally, he said, "The evidence against the Clinton staff and the secretary is so overwhelming at this point that if, in fact, she chooses not to charge Hilly, they will never be able to charge another federal employee with the negligent handling of classified information. The intelligence community will not stand for that. They will fight for indictment and they are already in the process of gearing themselves to basically revolt if she refuses to bring charges." Of course, only time will tell, but it sure would be earth-moving if he's right.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Victor Davis Hanson: "Over the last seven years, the world has become acclimatized to the lead-from-behind role of the United States. Under Obama, friends and enemies bet that America was conflicted about the wisdom and morality of the entire American-led postwar global enterprise and reacted accordingly. But — who knows? — the next American president may identify radical Islam as the catalyst for terrorism directed at the West. Cuba in 2017 may no longer be seen as a newfound friend but as an old-time violator of human rights. Next year, will the Islamic State still be seen as a 'jayvee' organization, or as an existential danger to the U.S. homeland? In all of these cases, uncertainty rather than assured continuity in present U.S. foreign policy is likely — largely because the stubborn and tone-deaf Obama administration has lost the support of the American public on almost all of its foreign policy initiatives, from signing the Iran pact, to dealing with terrorism, to handling China and Russia. Unfortunately, the predictable corrections under a new president in 2017 will make 2016 more dangerous than any year since 1980."
 -The Patriot Post
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SECDEF Carter’s Plan to Trim U.S.
Navy Fleet Size is Dangerous
Steve Cohen
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{news.usni.org} ~ The United States Navy just struck an iceberg. It won’t sink the fleet, but it will damage its ability to deter emerging global conflicts... And one of those challenges became more apparent last week when the Chinese announced it was building its second aircraft carrier. The navigational hazard was in plain sight. But last month the full danger of its unseen mass hit the Navy in the form of a directive from the Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. The Navy Secretary was told in blunt language that the course it was following was wrong, and the sea service needed to change how it spends its money. Instead of building more ships, the Navy should invest in high-end weapons systems such as the F-35 fighter plane and more smart munitions. “While we seek to deter wars,” Carter said, it is more important to “fight and win them.” Carter is an experienced, highly respected defense professional, and his views on curtailing shipbuilding—his exact words were that the 308-ship target “should be met but not irresponsibly exceeded”—undoubtedly reflect the President who appointed him. But this reallocation of resources will affect naval strategy, the perception of allies and foes alike, and even recruitment tactics. The shift is both shocking and dangerous.
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nObama administration sued: nObama
exceeding his constitutional authority
 Ben Wolfgang
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{washingtontimes.com} ~ TransCanada on Wednesday accused President nObama in a federal lawsuit of exceeding his constitutional authority when rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline and, in a separate challenge, said the White House violated a historic trade agreement, igniting an election-year battle over a project that most considered dead — at least until the next president takes office in one year... The company, which proposed the project nearly a decade ago, is seeking $15 billion in damages from the U.S. for the “loss of value” of assets related to Keystone. “In its decision, the U.S. State Department acknowledged the denial was not based on the merits of the project,” TransCanada said in a statement. “Rather, it was a symbolic gesture based on speculation about the perceptions of the international community regarding the administration’s leadership on climate change and the president’s assertion of unprecedented, independent powers.” 
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Hijacked Fed Govt Using
Intimidation Tactics To Target Employers
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{freespeechpatriots.com} ~ CAIR has a powerful ally in their pursuit of Muslim preference in the United States, one that is anxious to insert their boundless wealth and legal resources into intimidation and economic terrorism in order to advance the pro-Islamic cause... That partner standing at the ready to unleash a torrent of bureaucratic pain and abuse upon the non-compliant, non submissive Americans is the United States federal government, in its new persona, Uncle Samar. Just as Attorney General Loretta Lynch offered a special invitation to Muslims to file grievances against any perceived threat or abuse through the DOJ, in a manner of access which is in itself discriminatory to non-Muslims, the regime is also provoking and encouraging frivolous lawsuits by Muslims against employers. There can be no motivation other than to empower the Islamists with privileges which extend beyond those of regular Americans and to intimidate Americans into silent submission. The nObama regime has issued pro-Islamic dictates following the San Bernardino massacres to guard against the potential “irrational backlash” against Muslims for their association with the senseless killing of yet more innocent Americans. We’re all supposed to be bigger than that and, as nObama would say, “it’s not who we are.” He knows nothing of who we are, being a foreigner himself, and we aren’t bigger than that. In fact, we’re exactly that size. Take your ego and “holier than thou” arrogance and go lecture somewhere in Africa, nObama.  http://freespeechpatriots.com/archives/24519
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Senator Jeff Sessions Attacks
 Federal Waste, Welfare, Debt and 
Bureaucratic Mismanagement
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{freespeechpatriots.com} ~ Senator Jeff Sessions notes that the Democrats produced only one budget in five years and that Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) has produced one in his first year as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee... Senator Sessions offers some comments as to the wasteful nature of federal spending and the out of control downward spiral of indebtedness we find ourselves trapped in. Senator Sessions notes that the United States’ gross federal debt now stands at $18.2 trillion dollars, up from $10.6 trillion when nObama took over, what Sessions describes as “a shocking increase by any standards, one that threatens the future of every single American.” He notes that the interest payment on the debt alone is already six times the federal highway budget. Calling it a “national calamity,” Sessions describes how “One in seven dollars taken from the American people and the economy will be utilized and spent for nothing. Interest is a burglar raiding the incomes of next generations to pay for today’s reckless living. It drains the wealth of nations. It is a stealth tax on every working person.”
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Charles Woods Challenges Hilly Clinton 
To Take Lie Detector Test About 
Her Claims Regarding Benghazi
The Last Refuge
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the four men killed at Benghazi told One America News reporter Neil W. McCabe that despite denials by Hilly Clinton... he sticks by his story that Clinton told him a YouTube video was responsible for the attacks on American diplomatic facilities and personnel at Benghazi, Libya. Woods said Clinton was calling him, and other family members of the men killed, liars. The retired administrative law judge said Clinton should take a lie detector test alongside him to see who is telling the truth.
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40,000 Packages of Backlogged
Claims Material Discovered at Single VA Office
Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ More than 40,000 backlogged mail packages of veterans’ disability claims material were discovered at a VA regional office in Florida, according to a new report from the VA inspector general.... Investigators also found more than 1,600 boxes of unprocessed veterans’ claims material at a scanning facility with which the St. Petersburg, Florida, regional office was contracting. The report, published Wednesday, comes just after VA officials touted the reduction of backlogged claims to just under 75,000 cases, a decrease of 88 percent from the highest point in 2013. While the agency had committed to reducing claims backlog to zero by the end of fiscal year 2015, VA officials have since admitted that it may never reach “absolute zero.”
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House Committee: No Funding 
for New Gun Control
Tad Cronn
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{politicaloutcast.com} ~ The House Appropriations Committee has warned the Department of Justice that it has no plans to approve funds for President Obama's latest gun control schemes... House Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies subcommittee Chairman Rep. John Culberson wrote in a terse letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch that any executive orders on gun control should not be paid for out of already approved funding. "I want to express the committee's expectation that the Department of Justice will allocate its resources to the enforcement of existing federal law," Culberson, chairman of the House Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies subcommittee.
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"Ikhwan-101" – Georgetown Profs
Team Up With Suspected MB Front
Abha Shankar
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Two of Georgetown University's top faculty in religion are partnering with a private Virginia think tank long suspected of serving as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood... The think tank in question, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), twice has been the subject of law enforcement investigations, once during the 1980s and again starting in 2003. Its senior leaders were listed among "members and leaders of the IKHWAN [Muslim Brotherhood]" in the United States in records obtained by the IPT from a closed FBI investigation through a Freedom of Information Act request. Georgetown professors John Voll and Jonathan Brown each are listed as faculty members at the Fairfax Institute, an IIIT school. Voll and Brown also occupy senior faculty positions at Georgetown's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU).
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Guest Column: NYPD Caves to 
Political Correctness
Patrick Dunleavy
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Thursday's announcement that the New York Police Department (NYPD) will settle a lawsuit filed by Muslim activist groups is unsettling and confounding... With Islamic terrorist acts on the rise globally and the FBI stating that it has as many as 900 open cases on individuals suspected of being ISIS operatives, it is beyond reason that NYPD would cave to the demands by a select group to impede investigations in potential terrorist cases. The department was accused of singling out the Muslim community for surveillance and undercover operations in a post 9/11 world, as if that was some sort of abnormal behavior by law enforcement. The original suit, brought by several Islamist activist organizations, included the Muslim Students Association and the Muslim Foundation, accused the NYPD of violating their civil rights through a program which including surveillance and intelligence gathering of the Muslim community in New Jersey. It was tossed by U.S. District Judge William J. Martini in February 2014. Then, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the lawsuit last October.
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Israeli Official Blasts Abbas
 for ‘Perplexing’ Leadership, 
‘Many Contradictions’
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{algemeiner.com} ~ A senior Israeli government official blasted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for comments he made during a televised speech from his Bethlehem office on Wednesday night... “There are so many contradictions in Abu Mazen’s Abbas’ stance in general that it’s difficult to know where to start,” the official told The Algemeiner on Thursday. “He says he wants peaceful resistance against Israel and then praises knife attacks against Israelis. He threatens to dissolve the PA and then says he’ll never do it. He says he believes in peace, but embraces Hamas. His leadership is perplexing, and it’s high time the international community demand that he unequivocally condemn terrorism and return to peace talks without any preconditions.” The Israeli official was referring to remarks that the PA leader has been making throughout his presidency, and particularly since the beginning of the current surge in Palestinian terrorism, which began nearly four months ago. Abbas’ speech this week was delivered during and in honor of the Greek Orthodox Christmas celebrations, which take place every year at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
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Interview with Hilly Clinton 
about Benghazi
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“Somebody’s lying,” I said to Hilly Clinton. “Who is it?” “Well, it’s not me,” she answered. “That’s all I can tell you.”
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This was last Wednesday when Hilly’s huge entourage returned to The Conway Daily Sun’s office for another interview. She’d been there in 2007 during her first presidential campaign but I was still teaching then and I missed it. This time I really wanted to be there, so I drove twenty-five miles in a snowstorm, hoping she wouldn’t cancel. She didn’t.
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Few journalists are able to pin her down because she controls who gets to ask her questions as well as what those questions will be. I don’t think she was expecting any tough ones at the Sun interview. Sun publisher Mark Guerringue’s opening comments included a reference to the Benghazi attack and her conflicting claims about what caused it. She referred to several congressional investigations, saying: “If people don’t want to accept the facts, there’s nothing I can do about that… and for people to use Stevens’ death, Seans’s death, and the death of the two CIA contractor’s for political purposes really dishonors them and… their whole purpose is to somehow derail me. And I understand it’s nothing but politics to them but it’s not just politics to me.”
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I inserted myself at this point, saying: “I have a specific question about that if I could interject.”
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“Sure,” said Mark.
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Turning to Hilly, I said, “You mentioned the families of the Benghazi victims and the discrepancy Mark brought up about your email — or conversation maybe — with your daughter…”
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“Um-hmm,” said Hilly.
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“…about it being an al Qaida-like group, Ansar al Sharia. Then you told an Egyptian diplomat in a phone conversation that it was a planned attack and not a protest. Umm, but then, when the bodies were brought back, you spoke to the family members and you told them, they say that you told them, this was a spontaneous demonstration. And then George Stephanopolous asked on This Week: “Did you tell them it was about the film?”
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Hillary on This Week
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“Um-hmm,” she said.
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“And you said, ‘No.’ Now, somebody’s lying…”
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“Well first let me say,” she interjected, but I pressed on.
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“…Who is it?”
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“Well, not me. That’s all I can tell you,” she continued. “But, you know, people were incredibly emotionally distraught. Let, let’s give everybody a little bit of breathing room here and recognize that, [pause] There — I mean I-I’m trying to remember what is in the public record and what isn’t. Let’s just say that some of the families didn’t even know that their sons were working for the CIA and were in Benghazi. This was a huge emotional blow, and I’m very sympathetic to that. I can only tell you what the facts were. That period when I talked to the Egyptian Prime Minister was in that bubble when we thought there was a terrorist group taking credit for it, and that’s what we said. And when they withdrew, and when the intelligence community, led by the CIA, basically said we don’t know yet. Because remember, the CIA and the intel community was guiding us about what they thought happened and we had to rely on that. We didn’t have any independent information or verification. All this material was coming in. The CIA was sorting it out.”
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There were several places here where I wanted to interrupt her, but I restrained myself and let her go on.
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She went on, saying, “And if you look at the reports that were done, ah, by the minority on the Benghazi Committee, because it’s a much more reliable source than the Republican majority. They go through, chapter and verse, timing, about what happened, when, and the bottom line is what happened is that people were doing the best they could dealing with information that was changing, and the CIA wrote and approved the talking points that were used, ahh, and it was also true that from Egypt, to Tunisia, to Pakistan, the video was the primary spark that was sending people into protesting against our facilities. All of this was happening simultaneously. It wasn’t either/or as much as people want to get to the bottom of it. It was an amalgam of information and action.”
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“I’m sure those people were distraught,” I said.
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“Yes,” she said.
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“Three different people — Tyrone Woods’ father said — about you — that you said, ‘We’re going to have those people arrested who were responsible for the death of your son.’ Sean Smith’s mother reported, ‘She [Hilly] said that it was because of the video.’ And then Glenn Doherty’s sister said that, “You chose to, in that moment, to basically perpetuate what you knew was untrue.’ So, all three of them say you told them that.”
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“Well,” she said.
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I ignored her and continued, “And you say you didn’t tell them that.”
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“I can only tell you what I know happened,” she said. “I can’t, I can’t speak to them. I can tell you what Chris Steven’s family believes. I can tell you what Sean Smith’s wife believes. I can tell you what other family members believe, because yes,”
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“But you didn’t tell them that,” I said.
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“I did not tell them that, but, I can’t recite for you everything that was in a conversation where people were sobbing, where people were distraught, where groups of us — the president, the vice president — we were all making the rounds, talking to people, listening to people, and I was in a very difficult position because I had not yet said that two of the four people dead were CIA. Because we were under, ah, very strict directions, from the CIA, not to reveal that yet. So this was — this was — again, part of the fog of war. And, you know, I regret that anybody [pause] has a [pause], you know, an attitude or feeling that I do not [pause] think [pause] is accurate, but I’m not going to do anything other than express my sympathy for them because, I think they deserve it. They were, people who lost their children. They have every right to believe whatever they want to believe, but the facts don’t bear it out.”
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Being part of a team I dropped it there, not because I wanted to — especially when she said, “the CIA wrote and approved the talking points that were used.” — but because I could not dominate the interview with about twenty others present who also wanted to question her.
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Coincidentally, that very morning I did a telephone interview with Carly Fiorina, the other woman running for president, and told her about the pending Clinton interview. I said if you could ask Hilly one question, what would it be? Without hesitation, Carly said: “Why did you lie? Why did you lie to American people the morning after the Benghazi attack?” I told her that’s exactly the question I chose. Carly’s interview deserves its own column, which is coming up next.
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For three years, I’ve been angry that Hilly Clinton, President nObama, Susan Rice, and others, claimed it was a spontaneous demonstration over a video that killed four Americans at Benghazi and not a radical Muslim terrorist attack. I wrote about it several times 
including here http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/search?q=Obama+policy+meltdown and here http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2013/05/riding-high-in-april-shot-down-in-may.html http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/search?q=Obama+policy+meltdownand http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2013/05/riding-high-in-april-shot-down-in-may.html . They knew different, and they said what they knew was not true. That’s lying — but I never heard any journalist or member of Congress ever use that word to Hilly’s face — and that’s what I was determined to do when I had the chance.. They knew different, and they said what they knew was not true. That’s lying — but I never heard any journalist or member of Congress ever use that word to Hilly’s face — and that’s what I was determined to do when I had the chance.
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I did, and the Sun’s account of the interview, containing an accurate but abbreviated mention of my exchange with Hilly, was linked by The Drudge Report. From there it was picked up by dozens of media outlets. My intent here is to give readers a complete and accurate account our five-minute exchange.
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