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Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 18, 2019 at 9:08am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A New Insight Into Media Bias

Cal Thomas

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

CEASEFIRE IN NAME ONLY? U.S., Turkey reach agreement on Syria, but differ over whether it’s a ceasefire or pause in operations (ABC News)

scumbag-SCHUMER THWARTED: Chuck scumbag-Schumer’s bid to rebuke Trump over Syria fails in Senate (The Washington Times)

Government & Politics

PERRY OUT: Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign after Trump blamed him for Ukraine call (PJ Media)

FANNING THE FLAMES: White House announces G7 to be hosted at Trump resort amid conflict-of-interest allegations against loose lips liar-Bidens (National Review)

BORDER WARS: Senate again fails to override Trump veto on border wall (The Washington Times)

FREE SPEECH: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he fears “erosion of truth” but defends allowing politicians to lie in ads (The Washington Post)

SNUBBING NEARLY HALF THE UNION: San Francisco blacklists 22 states over pro-life laws (National Review)

World

TARIFF FALLOUT: China’s GDP growth grinds to near 30-year low as tariffs hit production (Reuters)

BREXIT DOGFIGHT: Boris Johnson is in a race against time to sell the Brexit deal he has struck with the EU to MPs ahead of a Commons vote on Saturday (BBC News)

“ABSURD, IMMORAL, AND OFFENSIVE”: UN member states hand Venezuela’s brutal Maduro regime a seat on the Human Rights Council (CNSNews.com)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: What does Brexit Deal 2.0 look like? (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Why Mexico is cooperating with us on immigration (National Review)

SATIRE: Congress votes to protect Syria’s border but not the U.S. border (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66211?mailing_id=4595&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4595&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Syria: Endgame

by Matthew Continetti

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The slaughter going on in Syria is not a consequence of American presence. It's a consequence of a withdrawal and a betrayal by this president of American allies and American values.
—Pete Buttigieg, October 15

Mr. Mayor has a point. For 75 years, from Fulda Gap to the 38th Parallel, the American soldier has been the last line of defense against violence, chaos, and oppression. From Kosovo to Anbar, he has kept a lid on cauldrons of bloodlust. Remove him, and the poison boils over. That is what happened when Congress reduced aid to South Vietnam in 1975. It is what followed U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. It is happening now in northeast Syria, and it will happen again when Americans leave Afghanistan. Our forces depart; our allies collapse; our adversaries take command. The pattern was established well before Donald Trump took office. It will persist after he departs. There is nothing so consistent as American ambivalence toward our superpower status. Most great powers covet hegemony. We hate it. The costs are too high, the demands too stressful. "For every exercise of the great power's prerogative, there has been an equally strong recoiling from the use of power," wrote Robert Kagan in A Twilight Struggle (1996). "While the United States cannot escape behaving as the hegemonic great power, it is also a great power with a democratic conscience, a strong anti-imperialist streak, and an unwillingness to adopt the role of policeman anywhere for more than a brief time." Kagan was describing U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. He might as well have been talking about the Middle East. Trump is getting America out of a country we were never really in. Our presence in Syria was not enough to deter Turkey. One thousand troops do not constitute a tripwire. They are chips in a high-stakes game. Erdogan called the bluff... https://freebeacon.com/columns/syria-endgame/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2bfb004758-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2bfb004758-45611665

Syria cease-fire in question

after fighting, shelling reported

By Edmund DeMarche

{ foxnews.com } ~ Just hours after President Trump announced a cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish-led forces in Syria, journalists have reported continued fighting in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Friday morning... while other areas have reported relative calm since the agreement. Journalists from the Associated Press reported witnessing shelling and said they could see smoke billowing around the town, which sits along the border with Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported intermittent clashes in Ras al-Ayn, but calm elsewhere. Reuters also reported machine-gun fire and shelling that could be heard from a border town in Turkey near Ra al-Ayn. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is in Jerusalem, did not respond to repeated questions on whether or not the agreement was violated, the New York Times reported. Trump had praised the cease-fire agreement as "a great day for civilization." He pointed to it as a victory after being criticized for his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. At a rally on Thursday, he said it was his “unconventional” approach that led to the deal. The agreement requires the Kurdish fighters to vacate a swath of territory in Syria along the Turkish border, largely solidifying Turkey's position. A senior military official -- who worked on designing the U.S. anti-ISIS strategy with both the Kurds and the Turks -- told Fox News earlier that the 120-hour cease-fire had little chance of success. "There is no way the Kurds can leave that security zone," the source said. "There are thousands of Kurds who live in what the Turks want as a buffer zone. That’s what these fighters’ families live. That is where they are from."...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/fighting-breaks-out-in-syrian-town-despite-cease-fire-reporters-say

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095803182001/#sp=show-clips

Trump Administration Cracks Down

on Chinese Diplomats in U.S.

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration issued new restrictions on the actions Chinese government diplomats are permitted to take in the United States... in response to the communist government blocking American personnel stationed in Beijing from meeting with key assets, according to U.S. officials. The State Department will now require all Chinese foreign missions, including embassy staff and those working in consulates across the United States, to notify the Trump administration in advance of all official meetings held on American soil. The new directive, U.S. officials say, is a response to China's ongoing constraints on American diplomats. In many cases, the communist government blocks American personnel in China from meeting with local officials, academics, and dissident groups, among others. The U.S. restrictions are meant to pressure the Chinese government into providing American diplomats with greater freedom of movement and access to certain officials and groups. "Until that happens, we are going to take some actions that will … go some ways toward leveling the playing field," a senior State Department official, speaking only on background, told reporters. "The State Department is going to be requiring that all of the People's Republic of China foreign missions—their embassy and their various consulates around the United States—will have to notify the Department of State in advance of official meetings with state officials, official meetings with local and municipal officials, official visits to educational institutions, and official visits to research institutions," the official said. These restrictions will "basically add a little bit of reciprocity into the way that U.S. diplomats are treated in China as opposed to how Chinese diplomats are able to operate here in the United States of America," the official continued. "Of course, our job as diplomats is to improve mutual understanding, and to do that we need access to, of course, a broad range of stakeholders in the countries that we're assigned to. Unfortunately, in China, U.S. diplomats do not have unfettered access to a range of folks that are important for us to do our job there."...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-administration-cracks-down-on-chinese-diplomats-in-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2bfb004758-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2bfb004758-45611665

MUOS Passes Final Tests Before

Full Operational Capability Declaration

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ The Navy’s next-generation narrowband satellite communications system is ready for unrestricted operations, having passed the final milestone before a full operational capability (FOC) determination... The narrowband satellite communications system, called Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), recently completed the required Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E). The test included participants from the Navy, Marine Corps and Army, according to a statement released by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) this week. “Since MOT&E was the last prerequisite, we expect FOC designation shortly,” Steven Davis, a NAVWAR spokesman, said in an email to USNI News. The commander of the Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force determined MUOS was effective, suitable and cyber-survivable for regular operations. The test was the last critical milestone before turning MUOS over for full operations, according to NAVWAR. “Sailors and Marines can already use MUOS in situations like humanitarian response, disaster assistance and training,” said a statement from John Pope, who leads the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence and Space Systems (PEO C4I and Space Systems). “Now, these same advanced communications capabilities will be available in the tactical warfare environment. The advantages MUOS provides will help the warfighter compete, deter and win on the battlefield.”...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/17/muos-passes-final-tests-before-full-operational-capability-declaration?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=20a917397d-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-20a917397d-231491269&mc_cid=20a917397d&mc_eid=3999f18767

NJ Republican Blasts scumbag-Booker

for Ignoring Home State During 2020 Run

by Graham Piro

{ freebeacon.com } ~ A new Republican challenger to Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D., N.J.) in New Jersey criticized the former Newark mayor for focusing on his presidential campaign at the cost of his own constituents... Rik Mehta's Senate campaign announcement video accuses scumbag-Booker of "showboating around Iowa" and pretending to be concerned about his own state as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination. "In a few weeks, when scumbag-Cory Booker is done showboating around Iowa and drops out of the presidential race, he'll run back to New Jersey to pretend he cares about all of us he left behind," Mehta said. "One third of New Jersey's population are immigrants and minorities like myself. Yet politicians like scumbag-Cory Booker and New Jersey senator scumbag-Bob Menendez built their careers off the backs of our proud immigrants all while encouraging illegal immigration," he continued. Mehta blasted scumbag-Booker for focusing on his presidential run instead of devoting his attention to issues affecting New Jersey, specifically referring to an ongoing water crisis in Newark. "Where's Spartacus now?" Mehta asked, referring to scumbag-Booker's "Spartacus moment" during Brett Kavanaugh's initial round of confirmation hearings. Mehta, a political newcomer with a background working for the Food and Drug Administration and in pharmaceutical sales, told NJ.com he believes his political inexperience can be an advantage. Mehta also praised President Donald Trump, saying the president has "done an incredible job at staying true to his campaign promises."... Don't you see that in all dems running for office. https://freebeacon.com/politics/nj-republican-blasts-booker-for-ignoring-home-state-during-2020-run/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2bfb004758-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_26_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2bfb004758-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgKsVONUNU

Mulvaney: Ukraine Aid Held Up

in Part Over Election Probe

by newsmax.com ~ Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney effectively acknowledged that President Donald Trump offered Ukraine a quid pro quo for military aid... but tied it to demands that the country investigate the origins of the Russian election interference probe -- not loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son. “Get over it,” Mulvaney said Thursday in a White House press briefing, adding there’s always “going to be political influence in foreign policy” and “elections have consequences.” The top aide, who placed the hold on aid to Ukraine, provided some of the administration’s most extensive comments about the uproar over Ukraine that has fueled an impeachment inquiry by House Democrats. “The money held up has absolutely nothing to do with loose lips liar-Biden,” Mulvaney said. But Democrats zeroed in on Mulvaney’s acknowledgment that the decision to hold back funding was connected to Trump’s determination that Ukraine investigate what he maintains was Democratic wrongdoing during the 2016 campaign. scumbag-Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who’s head of the Intelligence Committee and is one of the leaders of the impeachment inquiry, tweeted that “Things just went from very, very bad to much, much worse.” Many Republicans have have been ducking questions about whether tying aid to a political goal was appropriate, but Alaska Senator rino-Lisa Murkowski on Thursday was more direct. “You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative. Period,” she told reporters. She said she hadn’t heard Mulvaney’s remarks and wanted to study them before commenting on whether how he described amounted to an impeachable offense. Mulvaney suspended aid shortly before Trump told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a July 25 phone call that he wanted him “to do us a favor” and that “there’s a lot of talk about loose lips liar-Biden’s son, that loose lips liar-Biden stopped” a prosecution in Ukraine... https://www.newsmax.com/headline/us-trump-impeachment/2019/10/17/id/937552/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM61232_10172019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010502rxgp2b

A New Insight Into Media Bias

Cal Thomas

Since America’s colonial days the press has been a target of those who believe journalists have a point of view that shapes their reporting.

There have been numerous articles and studies revealing a journalistic predisposition to opinions and subjects that reinforce liberal points of view.

Now comes an excellent critique from World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky. His latest book, “Reforming Journalism,” is a philosophical and even theological deconstruction of historic and contemporary media.

Olasky dismisses the notion of “objectivity” in journalism. Everyone has a belief system, he argues, and it influences how each person approaches stories.

The author says American journalism has gone through four phases: In phase one, “many early American journalists assumed God is objectively real, with an existence independent of our minds.” Noting that the spiritual, then, regularly shaped the way journalists looked at the world, he adds, “Although no one in early American journalism used the term ‘objective reporting,’ some editors obviously understood that factuality demanded taking into account the spiritual.”

Then came phase two: “Starting midway through the 19th century, though, a new phase in the understanding of objectivity took hold among American journalists. They began to see ‘fact’ only as that which was scientifically measurable. As photographs began to provide a record of the visible, many journalists equated the visible with the real and began seeing the world as largely non-mysterious. They did not use the term ‘objectivity,’ but they made their own eyes the standard of authority: they were human cameras.”

What did those human cameras produce? Phase three, which was influenced by the rise of Marxism and Freudianism: “Objectivity could be reached, they thought, only through a balancing of multiple subjectivities. The outcome might be neither truthful nor accurate, but who knew what accuracy, let alone truth, really was? The triumph of theological liberalism in major Protestant denominations in the United States occurred at the same time. … This was no coincidence, since the balancing-of-subjectivities mode often suggests right or wrong does not exist — just opinion.”

Phase four was characterized by “disguised subjectivity, sometimes called ‘strategic ritual’ (pseudo-objectivity that provides defense against criticism). A key aspect of strategic ritual is choice of sources and selection of quotations. With half a dozen legitimate spokesmen on a particular issue, reporters can readily play journalistic ventriloquism by using the one who expresses their own position. As NBC reporter Norma Quarles acknowledged, ‘If I get the sense that things are boiling over, I can’t really say it. I have to get somebody else to say it.’”

Late in the last century, Olasky writes, “…some well-known American television journalists attacked the entire concept of objectivity. Robert Bazell said, ‘Objectivity is a fallacy. … There are different opinions, but you don’t have to give them equal weight.’ Linda Ellerbee wrote, ‘There is no such thing as objectivity. Any reporter who tells you he’s objective is lying to you.’ In the United States, some writers argued for a ‘new journalism’ in which reporters emphasized their own subjective impressions.”

Beyond the predictable distrust of journalists this has caused, the claim of objectivity has had considerable limitations. Some examples: “Reporters have never felt the need to balance anti-cancer statements with pro-cancer statements. In recent practice, secular-liberal reporters have seen pro-life concerns or ‘homophobia’ as cancerous, and many other Christian beliefs as similarly harmful. Objectivity was a reporting of multiple subjectivities, and truth was out there at a constantly receding horizon. If journalists in phase two happily saw themselves as cameras, journalists in phase three unhappily started to see themselves as stenographers or tape recorders.”

See how this works? It’s the same with “climate change,” abortion and many other issues. Anyone who goes against the faith of the secular-progressive culture is simply ignored, or ridiculed. In totalitarian societies it’s called propaganda.

Olasky’s faith shapes his positions, as the non-faith of secular progressives shapes theirs. For journalism to recover its reputation, a degree of fairness, accuracy and at least small doses of “objectivity” when reporting issues needs to be restored. Olasky’s book shows the way. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66110?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 18, 2019 at 7:15am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Eight Debate Questions loose lips liar-Joe Biden

Should Be Required to Answer

Marc A. Thiessen

Rick Perry resigns as energy secretary

amid Ukraine investigation

by Josh Siegel

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Energy Secretary Rick Perry has told President Trump he is resigning amid scrutiny related to his role in the Trump administration’s diplomacy in Ukraine... the Washington Examiner has confirmed from sources with knowledge of the situation. His resignation ends his tenure as the last original Cabinet head from the core energy and environment agencies, after the EPA’s Scott Pruitt and Interior’s Ryan Zinke quit while facing investigations over their ethics. Perry, the former Texas governor and presidential candidate, had been more politically savvy than his counterparts, reveling in his job as chief pitchman for American "energy dominance." It was a stark turn for Perry, who as a presidential candidate pledged to abolish the Energy Department. But he became a central character in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of Trump. Democrats issued a subpoena to Perry on Oct. 10 seeking documents related to Perry's knowledge of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump pushed his counterpart to investigate Democratic rival loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Perry confirmed he asked Trump to hold a phone call with Zelensky but said he sought the conversations as part of efforts to curb corruption in Ukraine’s energy sector and encourage energy investment opportunities. He has denied discussing the loose lips liar-Biden family with Ukrainian officials. It remains unclear how much the Ukraine investigation played into Perry’s decision to resign. He has long been rumored to quit for work in the private sector... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/rick-perry-resigns-as-energy-secretary-amid-ukraine-investigation?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Epic Mick Mulvaney White House Press Conference Announces 2020 G7 To Be

Held in Trump Doral

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Oh man, almost too much winning. President Trump Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney brings the cold-fish slapper to a White House presser and pummels the narrative engineers... Cold-Fish Slapping is like whac-a-mole, only instead of a hammer you use a slightly unfrozen fish; and instead of mole-heads popping up, you get reporters stupid questions. First, Mr. Mulvaney announces the 2020 G7 will be held at Trump Doral Resort in Miami Florida, June 10th – 12th 2020. The pearl-clutching media begin to quiver uncontrollably. Slap. Slap. Slap. More spontaneous ‘splodey heads…. more cold-fish-slapping. Repeat. Then Mulvaney takes questions on Muh Ukraine and Muh Impeach-We-Much, and it becomes necessary for double-handed cold-fish-slapping. This is really good. The White House using Trump Doral-Miami for the G7, just because it is the best place to host the G7 is epic Trump. The media go bonkers… Trump shrugs and says: when you’re done with that, fetch me a Diet Coke. LOL.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/17/epic-mick-mulvaney-white-house-press-conference-announces-2020-g7-to-be-held-in-trump-doral/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4QwN27P58

Path to Israeli Unity Government May Be

Opening, With Gantz Indicating a Willingness

to Sit With Netanyahu

by Benjamin Kerstein

{ algemeiner.com } ~ Despite the current impasse in the Israeli coalition talks, signs emerged on Wednesday that a path to a unity government might be opening... with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz reportedly expressing a positive attitude toward such an arrangement. The Sept. 17 Knesset elections ended in a stalemate, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party nor Gantz’s centrist Blue and White able to form a majority coalition. Despite pressure to form a unity government, negotiations have thus far failed. The Israeli news Mako reported on Wednesday, however, that sources close to Gantz were saying the former IDF chief of staff was leaning toward a unity government along lines recommended by President Reuven Rivlin. “We will hold our noses,” Gantz was quoted as saying, “but Netanyahu will have an expiration date.” Under Rivlin’s plan, Gantz and Netanyahu would both be designated prime ministers in a rotation government. However, Netanyahu would be allowed to go on “recess” to deal with his legal issues stemming from corruption charges. Depending on the outcome of the legal process, Netanyahu would then be allowed to return to government. However, it remains unclear precisely when in the legal process Netanyahu would have to step down. According to Mako, Gantz referred to sitting under Netanyahu “for a few months.” Another possibility is a minority government composed of Blue and White and the left-wing Labor and Democratic Union parties. Such a move would require support — or at least a lack of opposition — from the largely-Arab Joint List and Avigdor Lieberman’s secular-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party. Lieberman has pledged that he would only support a government composed of Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud and Blue and White. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/16/path-to-israeli-unity-government-may-be-opening-with-gantz-indicating-a-willingness-to-sit-with-netanyahu/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/

Trump Nominates Sarah Sanders

To Join The Fulbright Scholars Board

By Jim Hayek

{ americantruthtoday.com } ~ President Donald Trump nominated former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to join the Fulbright Scholarship Board on Wednesday... Sanders, who stepped down from her White House position at the end of June, currently works as a Fox News contributor. Sanders served as press secretary for nearly two years, making her one of the longest serving officials in the Trump administration, and was widely adored by Trump’s supporters. The White House announced Wednesday evening that Sanders would be returning to public service in some form, as the president nominated her to a three-year term on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Sanders thanked Trump for the nomination on Twitter, writing, “Grateful to @realDonaldTrump to be named to the @fulbrightboard – established by the late U.S. Senator from my home state of Arkansas.”Sanders is also rumored to be considering a run for governor of Arkansas. Also currently serving on the Fulbright board is another former Trump administration official: Heather Nauert, who served as the State Department spokesperson and was later nominated for ambassador to the United Nations. Nauert withdrew from consideration before being confirmed.

https://americantruthtoday.com/politics/2019/10/17/trump-nominates-sarah-sanders-to-join-the-fulbright-scholars-board/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=dailyhammer-trump-10_17-mid

Volker Testimony Destroys Narrative

Of Diplomatic Turmoil Following

Ukraine Phone Call

By Mollie Hemingway

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The United States’ former envoy to Ukraine told congressional investigators neither country’s officials were concerned about anything in the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky... until a campaign of leaks alleging abuse of power began surfacing in late August. Far from the media-fed narrative of officials being physically shaken by the call, Kurt Volker told lawmakers no one had expressed any concern to him about it, or about later allegations that requests for Ukraine’s help in corruption investigations was improper. While Volker was tasked with managing the relationship between the Trump administration and the new government in Ukraine, he only heard that the loose lips liar-Biden family had been mentioned in the phone call when anti-Trump bureaucrats began leaking classified details of the phone conversation to media outlets in late August. Volker testified October 3 for nearly 10 hours behind closed doors after resigning his unpaid post as the State Department’s special envoy to Ukraine. Democratic lawmakers leaked portions of his testimony and text messages to paint a misleading narrative that he had confirmed an alleged quid pro quo of military aid for investigation of Ukrainian corruption. Instead, Volker told lawmakers under oath that he was never asked to do anything wrong by any member of the administration, including President Trump. He further described the relationship with Ukraine as extremely positive and as good as anyone could hope for given the tumult in the region. The special envoy confirmed that interactions between President Trump’s attorney Rudy Guiliani and the Ukrainian government were made at his behest, in part to improve that relationship and to assuage concerns that the incoming government was as corrupt as previous governments. Volker said he believed that Guiliani had been giving information to Trump that was unduly negative about the current relationship between the two countries and hoped that increased interactions would help Guiliani’s opinion of the new government improve. While Volker didn’t believe Guiliani should trust the word of former prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko, whom he viewed as self-serving and prone to deception, he did concede that Ukraine’s 2016 election meddling was “plausible.” He further noted that corruption in the country was a legitimate concern given the country’s recent history, adding that when corruption is so widespread, decisions about who to prosecute are inherently political. He was referring to Ukraine, not the United States. Volker confirmed the massive corruption of Burisma, the energy concern that paid Hunter Biden hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on its board despite completely lacking experience or expertise in the industry. He said that Burisma had a long-standing reputation as a corrupt company accused of money laundering. Biden resigned in 2019 shortly before his father loose lips liar-Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential candidacy...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/volker-testimony-destroys-narrative-of-diplomatic-turmoil-following-ukraine-phone-call/

scumbag-Newsom’s Gas-Tax Switcheroo

by STEVEN GREENHUT

{ spectator.org } ~ “Never give the bastards more money,” a friend always says when discussing proposed tax increases.“They’ll only squander it.”... That also epitomizes my philosophy over decades of voting and writing about ballot initiatives and bonds. I always recommend a “no” vote, even if the proposal would fund legitimate and badly needed infrastructure projects — and especially if tax supporters hysterically predict the end of civilization if the measure fails. California voters almost always ignore such advice. Few people track the spending priorities of government officials after voters grant them the cash. After the Santa Ana Unified School District convinced residents to pass a bond to upgrade its overcrowded schools, the board immediately approved a “project labor agreement” that gave union contractors a monopoly over construction. That squandered 10 percent to 20 percent of the budget for nothing other than winning union favor, and the district could only upgrade five of the 13 promised schools. It’s sadly typical. My favorite local example involved the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District, which scared the heck out of residents about West Nile virus and an encroaching menace: the red imported fire ant. Such pests could be handled by, say, calling an exterminator if you found a nest in your backyard. Instead, voters gave the district more money. Its main priority after the increase was to increase its workers’ pensions by 62 percent. A few years later, the agency tried to spend from $1 million to $10 million hatching a mosquito museum. It’s even worse at the state level, of course. In 2017, California lawmakers decided to finally do something about the state’s overburdened infrastructure of roads, freeways, and bridges. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown muscled the Legislature into passing increases in gas and diesel taxes and a significant boost in vehicle-license fees. Brown had a nasty habit of holding transportation funding hostage during budget negotiations. To most of us, roads should be at the top of a state’s funding priorities, but instead Democratic officials prefer to ignore them — and then claim that there wasn’t enough money to expand capacity without a tax hike. The Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 to boost taxes to pay for such funding, as poor road conditions had been stirring up a public furor. Frustrated conservatives warned that there was plenty of money in the state’s record-setting budget to finance infrastructure projects without new taxes. They qualified a referendum, Proposition 6, on the November ballot to try to overturn the law. The state’s political establishment, labor unions, and business groups went ballistic...

https://spectator.org/newsoms-gas-tax-switcheroo/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=1519cd921b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_01_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-1519cd921b-104608113

How California and Foreign

Carmakers Got in Bed to Keep Crony,

scumbag/liar-nObama-Era Rules

by Steve Milloy

{ dailysignal.com } ~ I’m old enough to remember when businesses fought overregulation because it was bad for their bottom lines. That has changed. Now, overregulation is a profit center... There is no better example of this than the ongoing effort to stop the Trump administration from rolling back the ridiculous automobile fuel economy standards issued by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration in 2012. The scumbag/liar-nObama standards require that carmakers achieve an average fleet fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025—up from about 27 miles per gallon in 2012 and about 35 miles per gallon now. Carmakers had originally rolled over for the scumbag/liar-nObama administration on the stiff standards because, well, 2025 was a long way off and the government had just bailed them out as a result of the financial crisis of 10 years ago. The scumbag/liar-nObama standards are impossible to achieve through any existing or foreseeable and affordable technology. The only way automakers can meet these standards is to sell a much greater number of electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles—i.e., smaller, more inconvenient, and less powerful cars with limited consumer appeal and demand. The Trump administration is now in the process of rolling back the so-called corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards issued by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration in favor of essentially a freeze on the standards at current fuel economy levels about 35 miles per gallon. The rollback is estimated to reduce car prices by an average of about $2,300 and reduce traffic accidents and injuries. After all, newer cars are safer cars, and the average age of a car on U.S. roads is about 12 years. You would think that carmakers would applaud such a move since it would allow them to sell more of the highly profitable SUV and crossover vehicles that consumers want... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/17/how-california-and-foreign-carmakers-got-in-bed-to-keep-crony-obama-era-rules/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-california-and-foreign-carmakers-got-in-bed-to-keep-crony-obama-era-rules&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpSbU5XSXlOREF3TkdOaCIsInQiOiJmajJVcnFkMjhtdnczbG52WVNPOUtPSmtnNm1nUDRqRDY0NWZxeklVRW5zOTQ4ZW5URmYrd1RzK2RqdURadUprSUxXc0FmYXQ2anhsK1phVm1vTFR1RlQyajMzWERwVTYyY1ZaQ0ZOZ2k5OGZGMW5UUE9mWExhU3dLXC9cL3laeWwxIn0%3D

Eight Debate Questions

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Should Be Required to Answer

Marc A. Thiessen

When loose lips liar-Joe Biden was asked during a recent news conference whether he had a conflict of interest leading Ukraine policy while his son was working for a Ukrainian oligarch, he said “I’m not going to respond to that” and told reporters to focus on President Trump. If he’s allowed to get away with that at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, it will be a travesty.

The debate moderators — CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett and New York Times national editor Marc Lacey — have a responsibility to press loose lips liar-Biden to address his conflicts. Worryingly, Burnett recently said “There is no evidence of loose lips liar-Joe Biden doing anything wrong” and that “what we need to talk about right now is what did the president … do or not do.” That’s exactly what loose lips liar-Biden is hoping for Tuesday night.

Here are eight questions loose lips liar-Biden should be required to answer during the course of the debate:

(1) Your son Hunter took a position with a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma, just before you visited Kiev and urged Ukraine to increase its natural gas production. He was paid as much as $50,000 a month despite having no experience in Ukraine or the natural gas industry. Why do you think Burisma hired your son and paid him such massive sums?

(2) You say that you pressured Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor because it was universally believed that he was not investigating corruption. Let’s accept that. The Code of Federal Regulations states that when a federal official takes action that will affect “a relative with whom the employee has a close personal relationship” and “the circumstances would cause a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts to question his impartiality in the matter, the employee should not participate in the matter.” Even if the prosecutor deserved to be fired, you clearly had a conflict of interest because a reasonable person could question your impartiality. Why was it appropriate for you to be the one to deliver the ultimatum?

(3) Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz, was your son’s business partner and warned him and Devon Archer not to get involved with Burisma. Why couldn’t hanoi-Kerry, who had no conflict, take the lead on Ukraine?

(4) You recently said that you have “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” But your son told the New Yorker that you did. Why did you say you never discussed it with him when you had? And why would you say to him “I hope you know what you are doing” if he was doing nothing wrong?

(5) The same New Yorker story reports that in December 2015, “Amos Hochstein, the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration’s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter [of Hunter’s relationship with Burisma] with loose lips liar-Biden.” Hochstein may be called to testify under oath in the Senate about that conversation. What did he say to you?

(6) In December 2013, your son flew with you to Beijing aboard Air Force Two. Less than two weeks later, his firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, closed a deal to open a fund whose largest shareholder was the Bank of China. Would you have a problem if Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Beijing on Air Force One and then a few weeks later struck a major new commercial deal with the Chinese government? If so, why was it not a problem for your son Hunter to do this?

(7) Your son announced this week that if you are elected, he will not work on behalf of any foreign-owned companies and will comply with all regulations “to address purported conflicts of interest, or the appearance of such conflicts.” If his foreign work would be a conflict if you were president, why was it not a conflict when you were vice president?

(8) Many Americans are deeply concerned about Trump’s attacks on the news media. But in recent weeks, your campaign has written to the major television networks to “demand” that they not invite the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to appear on their programs, and has accused The New York Times of “active participation in [a] smear campaign” against you for publishing an opinion piece that criticized you. Why is this appropriate? And as president will you use the power of your office to coerce news organizations to silence those critical of your administration?

loose lips liar-Biden is trying to intimidate the media into not asking tough questions about his conflicts of interest in Ukraine and China. Will CNN and The New York Times give in to his demands? We’ll find out Tuesday night. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66108?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103T)

Posted by Jake Martinez on October 18, 2019 at 7:00am

Please Read Part 103S:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103S)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 10, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103s

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that 'Attorney General William Barr recently ramped up the probe into origins of 'Mueller investigation'-You Decide:

Attorney General William Barr ramps up probe into origins of Mueller investigation!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/barr-probes-mueller-investigation/

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following articles and videos relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

Mulvaney: Ukraine Aid Held Up in Part Over Election Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/us-trump-impeachment/2019/10/17/id/937552/

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CNN Falsely Claims White House ‘Admits to Quid Pro Quo’ with Ukraine!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joel B. Pollak!-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/10/17/cnn-claims-white-house-admits-to-quid-pro-quo/

Spinning Mulvaney's 'Quid Pro Quo': His statements actually uphold Trump's claim of no personal political deal with Ukraine!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66210-spinning-mulvaneys-quid-pro-quo?mailing_id=4596&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4596&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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FNC’s Wallace to Mulvaney: ‘Your Fingerprints Are All Over Linking Aide to Ukraine with Investigating the Bidens’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Pam Key-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/20/fncs-wallace-to-mulvaney-your-fingerprints-are-all-over-linking-aide-to-ukraine-with-investigating-the-bidens/

Is a DNC Server in Ukraine, and If So, Why? As With Obama Birth Certificate, Media Asks No Questions, Invokes “Conspiracy Theory!”-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/17/is-a-dnc-server-in-ukraine-and-if-so-why/

Fusion GPS founder says memos from Steele dossier were sent directly to Obama: Report!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/fusion-steele-dossier-obama.htm?utm_source=dc3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc3-1

The Nuclear Option: Democrats Sacrificing Biden to Protect Obama!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Charles Hurt-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/the-nuclear-option-democrats-sacrificing-biden-to-protect-obama/

Video: [DS] Plan Fails, Strange Messages Sent, 17th Mentioned - Episode 1997b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report_n October 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjtj9GplsI

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Comey, Biden and Romney Issue Thinly Veiled Assassination Threats Against Trump on the Eve of His Dallas Visit!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 17, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-economics-tragedy/comey-biden-and-romney-issue-thinly-veiled-assassination-threats-against-trump-eve-his-dallas-visit

Video: Maximum Red Alert: Deep State May Assassinate President Trump Tonight in Dallas: Watch the live link below to learn how Biden & Pelosi both signaled the rouge government's intentions - and how you can stop it!-Posted on News Wars-By The Alex Jones Show-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/maximum-red-alert-deep-state-may-assassinate-president-trump-tonight-in-dallas/

CNN Supervisor Wishes For Trump’s Death: “Hopefully Soon”: Revealing comments caught on tape!-Posted on News Wars-By Paul Joseph Watson | INFOWARS.COM-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/cnn-supervisor-wishes-for-trumps-death-hopefully-soon/

Video: Live Coverage of Trump Rally in Dallas: Will Deep State Take Out Trump?-Posted on Infowars.com-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/live-coverage-of-trump-rally-in-dallas-will-deep-state-take-out-trump/

Dallas Police Arrested Armed Man In Body Armor Outside Trump Rally!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 18, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/dallas-police-arrested-armed-man-in-body-armor-outside-trump-rally/

Video: Ep. 1090 Big Cracks Emerge in the Latest Hoax. The Dan Bongino Show 10/17/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK3S3RrpnuE

Video: The Panic Is Real, Middle East Plan Perfectly Executed, 17, Coincidence - Episode 1998b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Q1G5jd0Dw

John Durham obtains key BlackBerrys connected to origins of Russia-Trump probe!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Tom Tillison-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/18/john-durham-obtains-key-blackberrys-connected-to-origins-of-russia-trump-probe-840904

President Barack Obama speaks during Rutgers University's 250th Anniversary commencement ceremony, on Sunday, May 15, 2016, in Piscataway, N.J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

President Trump suggests Obama put his thumb on the scale in ‘corrupt’ 2016 election!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/obama-thumb-scale-election.htm?utm_source=dc2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc2-1

Video: Ep. 1091 CNN Melts Down After Trump Says This. The Dan Bongino Show 10/18/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmK7zuM5Z8

Over A Dozen Interviews Conducted With Ukraine Show More Hunter Biden Bombshells!-Posted on Bongino.com-By Bongino Staff-On October 18, 2019:

https://bongino.com/over-a-dozen-interviews-conducted-with-ukraine-show-more-hunter-biden-bombshells/

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 29: Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the opening of the Bits & Pretzels meetup on September 29, 2019 in Munich, Germany. The annual event brings together founders and startups from across the globe for three days of networking, talks and inspiration. during the "Bits …

Report: Obama Administration ‘Rebuffed’ Warnings About Corruption Linked to Hunter Biden’s Ukraine Work!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 18, 2019:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/report-obama-administration-rebuffed-warnings-about-corruption-linked-to-hunter-bidens-ukraine-work/

Tulsi Gabbard (Jim Watson / AFP / Getty)

Tulsi Gabbard Rips Hillary Clinton: ‘Queen of Warmongers’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joel B. Pollak-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/tulsi-gabbard-rips-hillary-clinton-queen-of-warmongers/

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Clinton Claims a Democratic Candidate Is a Russian Asset!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Bradley Cortright-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dEOQXR6F8

Why They Hate Tulsi Gabbard: She's a run-of-the-mill Democrat if this were 2005. She shows how far left they've gone!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Brian Mark Weber-On October 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66207?mailing_id=4597&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4597&utm_campaign=weekend_snapshot&utm_content=body

Report: “Big News” Expected in Russia “Investigators” Probe Next Week: “Any Time Now!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/18/report-big-news-expected-in-russia-investigators-probe-next-week/

NEW whistleblower: George Soros behind DNC pressure to fire Ukraine prosecutor at center of impeachment inquiry: He says it's no secret in Ukraine why Joe Biden wanted Ukrainian chief prosecutor to be fired!-Posted on The Blaze-By TheBlaze Staff-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-radio/ukraine-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-fired

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State Department Concludes Clinton Email Review, Says It Found Nearly 600 Security Violations!-Posted on The Politcal Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On October 18, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/state-department-concludes-clinton-email-review-says-it-found-nearly-600-security-violations/

38 People Cited For Violations in Hillary Clinton’s Email Investigation!-Posted Patriot News Alerts-By Seth Connell-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/38-people-cited-for-violations-in-hillary-clintons-email-investigation/

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: Deep State Enemies List Targeting Trump Family, Allies?; Coup Update; & More!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shRo1rSHfjg

Nunes: Origins of Russia “Collusion” Probe in Ukraine. “UKRAINE IS ALL OVER THE STEELE DOSSIER!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/20/nunes-origins-of-russia-collusion-probe-in-ukraine/

The Impeachment That Wasn’t!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Pastor Roger Anghis-On October 20, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/the-impeachment-that-wasnt/

Donald Trump

Thinking clearly about Trump and aid to Ukraine!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Byron York-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/thinking-clearly-about-trump-and-aid-to-ukraine

British intelligence questioned Christopher Steele’s judgement in assessment given to the FBI!-Posted on BizPac Review-By BPR Wire-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/20/british-intelligence-questioned-christopher-steeles-judgement-in-assessment-given-to-the-fbi-841894

Bill Barr Corruption Shocker – He Just Came Forward!-Posted on The Daily Conservative-On October 19, 2019:

https://www.dailyconservative.com/daily-blog/bill-barr-corruption-shocker-he-just-came-forward.htm

Image: ALERT: Antifa puppetmasters to engineer “patriot” slaughter of Leftists to spark violent uprising against conservatives

ALERT: Antifa puppetmasters to engineer “patriot” slaughter of Leftists to spark violent uprising against conservatives!-Posted on Natural News-By Mike Adams-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-10-20-antifa-puppetmasters-to-engineer-patriot-slaughter-of-leftists.html

Democrats Want Trump Dead – And You!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On October 21, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/democrats-want-trump-dead-and-you/

More Veiled Threats? Hillary Clinton Taunts Trump With Fake Letter Of Assassinated President: Clinton tweets hypothetical JFK letter written ‘Trump-style’!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Jamie White | Infowars.com-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/more-veiled-threats-hillary-clinton-taunts-trump-with-fake-letter-of-assassinated-president/

Video: Civil Unrest Levels Rise Exponentially: America could soon reach its boiling point!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By Jon Bowne | Infowars.com-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.infowars.com/civil-unrest-levels-rise-exponentially/

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Video: Who or What Is Behind the Civil Unrest Across the Planet?-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 21, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-economics-immigration/who-or-what-behind-civil-unrest-across-planet

Athletic Apparel Company Launches Disgusting Ad Campaign To Embarrass Trump!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/athletic-apparel-company-launches-disgusting-ad-campaign-embarrass-trump/

Video: Attacks Will Intensify, Who Holds All The Cards? The End Is Near - Episode 1999b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfAUJzMedo

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Trump: Obama is ‘hiding’ from the Ukraine controversy!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/obama-hiding-ukraine-controversy.htm?utm_source=dc2&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc2-1

Hillary: Poster Child of Russian Conspiracy Theories: Clinton claims fellow Democrats are Russian assets, showing her own delusions!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 21, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66242-hillary-poster-child-of-russian-conspiracy-theories-2019-10-21?mailing_id=4599&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4599&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Judicial Watch: New Benghazi Documents Confirm Clinton Email Cover-Up!-Posted on Judicial Watch-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-benghazi-documents-confirm-clinton-email-cover-up/

Benghazi Revisited. “Nothing To See Here…,” Or Is There?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Joseph DeMaio,-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/22/benghazi-revisited/

Zuckerberg Wrong on Free Speech: And then Elizabeth Warren goes after Facebook (again), threatening to break it up!-Posted on The Patriot Post –By Political Editors-On October 21, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66223-zuckerberg-wrong-on-free-speech-2019-10-21?mailing_id=4599&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4599&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Daughter Blasts Zuckerberg: Free Speech Got Him Killed!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Lucas Nolan-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/18/martin-luther-king-jr-s-daughter-blasts-zuckerberg-free-speech-got-him-killed/

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47 States Now Suing Facebook in Antitrust Probe!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Todd Beamon-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/facebook-antitrust/2019/10/22/id/938176/

The Role of ‘Big Data and Big Brother’!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Cully Stimson /@cullystimson-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/the-role-of-big-data-and-big-brother/

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George Soros’ Playboy Son Hosts Obama, Holder, McAuliffe To Redistrict New York!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Shelby Talcott, Daily Caller-On October 22, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/george-soros-playboy-son-hosts-obama-holder-mcauliffe-to-redistrict-new-york/

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Supreme Court Tosses Challenge To Michigan’s Republican-Drawn District Lines!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Kevin Daley, Daily Caller-On October 21, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/supreme-court-tosses-challenge-to-michigans-republican-drawn-district-lines/

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Video: "New California" Is Standing Between the Communists and the Fall of America!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 22, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/new-california-standing-between-communists-and-fall-america

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Video: God and Satan Are Both Seeking to Define You!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 22, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-religion-united-nations/god-and-satan-are-both-seeking-define-you

Anti-Trump Media Bias Evident At Fox Network!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On October 22, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/anti-trump-media-bias-evident-at-fox-network/

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Why the Right Fails to Change Culture: “We don’t do videos!”-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Larry Schweikart-On October 22, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/why-right-fails-change-culture-larry-schweikart

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The Deep State Comes Out Of The Shadows!-Posted on Issues and Insights-By I & I Editorial Board-On October 21, 2019:

https://issuesinsights.com/2019/10/21/the-deep-state-comes-out-of-the-shadows/

Deep State Hate For Rep. Tulsi Gabbard!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 23, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/deep-state-hate-for-rep-tulsi-gabbard/

Biden Condemns Trump for Using the Word ‘Lynching,’ But Said the Same Thing In 1998: Ain’t that something?-Posted on Flag & Cross-By John Salvatore-On October 23, 2019:

https://flagandcross.com/biden-condemns-trump-for-using-the-word-lynching-but-said-the-same-thing-in-1998/

Lynching Hypocrisy: Trump deliberately chose a provocative word that Democrats had used about impeachment!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 23, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66298-lynching-hypocrisy?mailing_id=4604&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4604&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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‘I Hope You Die:’ University of New Hampshire Students Destroy Turning Point USA Display!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Alana Mastrangelo-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/10/22/i-hope-you-die-university-of-new-hampshire-students-destroy-turning-point-usa-display/

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Video: Red Alert: Must Watch for Trump Supporters-Your Location & Safety Have Been Compromised!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 23, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-economics/red-alert-must-watch-trump-supporters-your-location-safety-have-been-compromised

Trump Announces Lifitng of Turkish Sanctions, Says Cease-Fire is Permanent

Trump Announces Lifitng of Turkish Sanctions, Says Cease-Fire is Permanent!-Posted on TTN-By TTN Staff-On October 23, 2019:

https://trumptrainnews.com/articles/trump-announces-lifitng-of-turkish-sanctions-says-cease-fire-is-permanent

Rand Paul Heaps Praise on Donald Trump's 'Extraordinary Breakthrough' in Syria!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bradley Evans-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/rand-paul-heaps-praise-donald-trumps-extraordinary-breakthrough-syria/

The REAL U.S./Turkey Strategic Endgame — Iran: So, what to make of the MSM spin on Trump, Turkey, and Syria?-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Mark Alexander-On October 23, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/alexander/66308-the-real-u-dot-s-slash-turkey-strategic-endgame-iran-2019-10-23?mailing_id=4605&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4605&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=header.default

Deep State Vows Payback After Trump Disrupts Millions in Illegal Drug Trafficking Cash & Kickbacks From Syria!-Posted on Before It’s News-By Knarlydawg-On October 25, 2019:

https://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2019/10/deep-state-vows-payback-after-trump-disrupts-millions-in-illegal-drug-trafficking-cash-kickbacks-from-syria-2635025.html

Video: The Road to Syria--Obama Admin. KNEW Weapons Were Shipped from Benghazi to Syrian Rebels/Jihadists!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPe3V9lEH1o

If Troops are Needed in Syria, Then Congress Should Act!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Jake Macaulay-On October 26, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/if-troops-are-needed-in-syria-then-congress-should-act/

Deep State Hates “America-First” Policy. “THE WISHES OF THE ELECTORATE!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Jeff Crouere-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/27/deep-state-hates-america-first-policy/

a hum vee decked out with american flags sits in a field with soldiers surrounding it

Military Vets Coming to DC to Praise Trump's Syria Decision!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jeffrey Rodack-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/troops-withdrawal-neocons-war-hawks-endless-wars/2019/10/18/id/937685/

None Is So Blind As He Who Will Not See!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Devvy Kidd-On October 28, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/none-is-so-blind-as-he-who-will-not-see/

Importing Middle East Terrorism!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 31, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/importing-middle-east-terrorism/

markos_kounalakis.jpg?itok=zzVJJeER

Clinton Crony Canine Caper: Targeting Trump for dog deployment against Baghdadi!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Lloyd Billingsley-On November 1, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/clinton-crony-canine-caper-lloyd-billingsley

If the Average American Only Knew!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Ms. Smallback-On November 1, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/if-the-average-american-only-knew/

October 1962: How Close to the Brink?-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Servando Gonzalez-On November 1, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/october-1962-how-close-to-the-brink/

Making sense of the Turkey-Syria situation!-Posted on BobLivingstonLetter.com-By Bob Livingston-On November 3, 2019:

https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/making-sense-of-the-turkey-syria-situation/

Note: I believe that the information revealed in the above articles and videos regarding Syria relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Dogs of War, Architects of Terror!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2017:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dogs-of-war-architects-of-terror-1

America’s “Long War” Against Humanity!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on January 30, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/america-s-long-war-against-humanity

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

Journalist Group Launches Petty Campaign To Thwart Trump: Trademarking 'Fake News'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/journalist-group-launches-petty-campaign-thwart-trump-trademarking-fake-news/

The New York Times building is seen on September 6, 2018 in New York. - A furious Donald Trump called September 5, 2018 for the unmasking of an anonymous senior official who wrote in the New York Times that top members of his administration were undermining the president to curb …

NY Times Shifts from the ‘Deep State Doesn’t Exist’ to the Deep State’s Awesome!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By John Nolte-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/nolte-ny-times-shifts-from-the-deep-state-doesnt-exist-to-the-deep-states-awesome/

The New York Times building in Manhattan

White House to Cancel NY Times, WashPost Subscriptions!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Theodore Bunker-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/new-york-times-washington-post-trump-media/2019/10/22/id/938165/

My Pillow CEO Rips Media for Recession Chatter: 'They're Going To Destroy One of the Best Economies'!-Posted on The Western Journals-By Jack Davis-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/pillow-ceo-rips-media-recession-chatter-going-destroy-one-best-economies/

media-bias.jpg?itok=C0DOWo5M

The Media is a Threat to America: And it’s destroying the country!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 25, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/media-threat-america-daniel-greenfield

Building a Movement to Stop ‘Democratic Socialism’!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Kay Coles James /@KayColesJames-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/building-a-movement-to-stop-democratic-socialism/

Mike Pence, Kay Coles James

Heritage Foundation readies to battle socialism, ‘fight like … heck!’-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Paul Bedard-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/heritage-foundation-readies-to-battle-socialism-fight-like-heck

Building the Movement to Stop the Statist Takeover of America!-Posted on Townhall-By Kay Coles James-On October 25, 2019:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kaycolesjames/2019/10/25/building-the-movement-to-stop-the-statist-takeover-of-america-n2555316

Trump’s ‘Haters’ Are the Ones Breaking America, Says Kimberley Strassel-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Daniel Davis /@JDaniel_Davis-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/trumps-haters-are-the-ones-breaking-america-says-kimberly-strassel/

Dr. Cornel West Says ‘We Have To Go To Jail’ to ‘Fight’ Donald Trump!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On October 24, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/dr-cornel-west-says-we-have-to-go-to-jail-to-fight-donald-trump/

Eric Holder Mocks Trump Supporters: 'Exactly When Did You Think America Was Great?'

Holder Makes Another Thuggish Threat: Trump Should ‘Get His A** Beaten’!-Posted on Liberty Headlines-By Ben Sellers-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/holder-thuggish-threat-trump-beat/

Nancy Pelosi Florida

Battleground: 7 in 10 say US ‘on the edge of civil war’!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Paul Bedard-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/battleground-7-in-10-say-us-on-the-edge-of-civil-war

Americans Fear “Civil War!”-Posted on The New American-By Steve Byas-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/33857-americans-fear-civil-war

Prayers for the President Continue in Washington and the White House!-Posted on The New American-By Bob Adelmann-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/33833-prayers-for-the-president-continue-in-washington-and-the-white-house

Why Faith Is Key to Preserving Our Liberty!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Timothy Goeglein-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/23/why-faith-is-key-to-preserving-our-liberty/

Please Read Part 103U:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103U)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 24, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103u

Please Also Read Part 104:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 104)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-104

Note: I also believe that the extremely disturbing information revealed in the above articles and videos relates to and/or further supports my following blogs from the recent past-You Decide:

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Mueller Report)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 27, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-martin-heinrich-re-mueller-report

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 91)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-91

CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes-putin-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-white

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

White Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Weather Underground, Barack Obama, and the Fundamental Transformation of the United States!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 28, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/white-reds-exploiting-bl...

Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 29, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=4301673%3ABlogPos...

Was Obama’s Real Job to Destroy America’s Moral & Ethical Foundations?-Posted on The Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 24, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-s-real-job-to-destroy-america-s-moral-ethical

Is America being turned into a NARCO Nation by design?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On January 4, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/is-america-being-turned-...

New EPA Land Grab, Complete Control Over All Private Land in America! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/new-epa-land-grab-comple...

Greatest Fraud Perpetrated In American History!-Posted on WordPress.com-On June 20, 2011:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpet...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

Follow-up Letter to NM Governor Martinez Requesting The Removal of President Obama From The NM 2012 Presidential Election Ballot!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez on July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-g...

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich Regarding My Request For Full-scale Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arapio’s Cold Case Posse!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On July 26, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/

Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem...

Was Obama Pre-selected & Groomed To Be Our U.S. President & Take Down America to Usher In The NWO Due To His CIA, Communist and Muslim Connections & Influences?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 16, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

9/11 TRUTH SEEKERS: THE ‘LUNATIC FRINGE’ IS WHOM?-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On May 25, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/9-11-truth-seekers-the-lunatic-fringe-is-whom

Brainwashing in America: "WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

Where Is America Today?-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 26, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Against The Deplorable Obstructionists That Are Doing Their Utmost To Take Down Our Democratically Elected President, His Administration and Ultimately Destroy our Country/Republic?-God Bless America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 17, 2019 at 4:18pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

commie-Sanders and dinky/liar-Warren,

Socialism and Fascism

Lewis Morris

Trump celebrates ‘great day for civilization’ as

Pence, Pompeo secure Syria cease-fire agreement

By Ronn Blitzer

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump declared Thursday "a great day for civilization" as Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced terms of a cease-fire agreement... that would end violence between Turkey and Kurds in Syria, following a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. The deal is for a 120-hour cease-fire, during which time the Kurdish-led forces could pull back from the roughly 20-mile-wide safe zone on the Turkish-Syrian border. All Turkish military operations under the recent offensive known as Operation Peace Spring will pause during that time, and the operation itself will come to an end entirely upon the completion of the Kurdish withdrawal, under the terms of the deal. "This is a great day for civilization," Trump declared in a tweet following a press conference where Pence and Pompeo discussed the deal. "I am proud of the United States for sticking by me in following a necessary, but somewhat unconventional, path. People have been trying to make this 'Deal' for many years. Millions of lives will be saved. Congratulations to ALL! "Trump claimed that just three days ago, such an agreement "could NEVER have been made," but that "tough love" was required to accomplish it. In addition to agreeing to the terms of a cease-fire, both the U.S. and Turkey "committed to defeat ISIS activities in northeast Syria," Pence announced during a press conference. “Turkey and the United States agree on the priority of respecting vulnerable human life, human rights, and particularly the protection of religious and ethnic communities in the region,” the vice president added. It remains to be seen whether the Kurds will agree to the terms of the deal, which Pence said was reached after more than five hours of negotiations with Erdogan and Turkish officials. "We think the agreement today first ends the violence, which is what President Trump sent us here to do," Pence said. "We achieved that." Pence said that the U.S. did not approve of Turkey's military operation, but under the terms of the deal will lift sanctions against Turkey upon the fulfillment of the agreement from both sides. The Turkish offensive began after Trump announced the withdrawal of American troops from northern Syria. Trump was heavily criticized for the move by lawmakers from both parties. Last week, Trump sent a letter to Erdogan encouraging him to “work out a good deal,” threatening to “destroy” the Turkish economy if Erdogan continued his aggression against the Kurds. “Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool!” Trump said, before stating that he would call Erdogan. It was reported by the BBC Thursday that Erdogan “thoroughly rejected” the letter and threw it “in the bin,” but hours later Pence announced the potential cease-fire.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-pompeo-secure-cease-fire-agreement-in-syria-after-meeting-with-turkish-president

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095640698001/#sp=show-clips

Ceasefire reached between Turkish and Kurdish forces after US delegation meets in Turkey

by Zachary Halaschak

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Vice President Mike Pence said that a cease-fire has been reached between Turkey and Kurdish forces in Syria. The move comes after Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan... “Today I'm proud to report, thanks to the strong leadership of President Donald Trump and the strong relationship between President Erdoğan and Turkey and the United States of America, that today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a cease-fire in Syria,” Pence said. Pence said that Turkey agreed to pause its military operation, Peace Spring, in Syria for 120 hours until Kurdish forces withdraw from a nearly 20-mile wide safe zone south of the Turkish border in Syria. “All military operations under Operation Peace Spring will be paused, and Operation Peace Spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal,” the vice president added. "In addition, the United States and Turkey have both mutually committed to a peaceful resolution and future for the safe zone, working on an international basis to ensure that peace and security defines this border region of Syria,” he added. Pence also said that Turkey and the U.S. have “mutually committed” to defeat the Islamic State's operations in northern Syria.“This will also include an agreement renewed today to coordinate efforts on detention facilities and internally displaced persons in formerly ISIS-controlled areas,” Pence said. A copy of a statement outlining terms of the agreement was released on Twitter. It shows a number of points that the two sides negotiated, including the pause Turkey's military operation. It also said that pending the successful implementation of the ceasefire, the U.S. would end its recently imposed sanctions against the Turkish economy. After meeting bipartisan backlash, Trump has continued to defend his decision to move troops out of the area allowing Turkey to invade Syria. He said troops shouldn’t be in the region as “two countries fight over land that has nothing to do with us.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cease-fire-reached-between-turkish-and-kurdish-forces-after-us-delegation-meets-in-turkey?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy7DzU4uxOM

Dems Cut Mic On House Floor To Avoid

Steve Scalise’s Impeachment Question

by Dean James

{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement after Democrats cut his microphone on the House Floor instead of answering his simple yes or no question... has the House been authorized to conduct an impeachment inquiry? “Democrats are so determined to keep their impeachment process a secret from the American people that they cannot and will not give us a simple yes or no answer as to whether the House has authorized an impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Every impeachment inquiry in history was authorized by an initial vote, yet Speaker liar-Pelosi has refused to follow that precedent. Does Speaker liar-Pelosi not realize the appalling position she has put the House in? For proceedings with such monumental consequences, the American people must know that a fair process has been followed. Democrats continue to cast aside all historical norms in their insane and obsessive effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election.” Full question: Madam Speaker, my parliamentary inquiry is this: has the House been authorized to conduct an impeachment inquiry into President Trump? Madam Speaker, we ought to know the answer to that question. Madam Speaker, either the House has started an impeachment inquiry or it has not. Can we get an answer to that question, Madam Speaker? [mic cut] These dems are ruthless and corrupt as all hell. https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/10/17/dems-cut-mic/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5qrrxqIfs

A Texas Mayor Defends the

Constitution from Sharia Law

By Amil Imani

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Time and again in every election we see politicians promise everything, and once elected deliver very little or nothing. Beth Van Duyne is a welcome exception and her past record clearly proves it... A person of impeccable integrity, Beth has always remained loyal to the values and wishes of her constituents and has not compromised them on the altar of political expediency so widely practiced by self-promoting politicians. A devoted mother beaming with energy and the talent to get things done, Beth is indeed the kind of person the US Congress desperately needs. Under Beth’s leadership as a Mayor of Irving, TX, the city became one of the best and safest towns in the great state of Texas. Beth Van Duyne’s achievements attracted the attention of President Trump’s administration and accepted to serve, this time, at the national level in the Department of Housing and Urban Development Office in Fort Worth. Van Duyne’s reputation soared outside her city since February 2015, when she became aware that some Muslims intended to create a Sharia court in Irving, TX. To follow with her oath of office, she wanted to make sure if in fact, these stories were accurate. Van Duyne went directly to the source, the Islamictribunal.org website. What she noticed was shocking. The imams at the website referred to themselves as “attorneys” and “judges” even though none of them were lawyers or practice law in the State of Texas. She noted a phone number for legal services. There was also a disclaimer at the bottom that read: “Don’t send us any confidential material, before an attorney client relationship has been established.” They were even charging for their services. They listed divorce cases, product liability, business, and real estate litigations as their legal specialties. Mayor Van Duyne wanted to know why anyone would subject themselves to Sharia law in the United States while everyone is protected under the U.S. Constitution! And she repeatedly noted, her biggest concern was for women were treated differently than men under Sharia law, put at a great disadvantage, and denied basic rights we are all guaranteed...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/a_texas_mayor_defends_the_constitution_from_sharia_law.html

The Democrats -- Who They Are, What they

Want and How to Confront Them

By Alexander G. Markovsky

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Every time the Democratic presidential contenders take the stage, we witness a stunning display of the Democratic Party's ideological conversion to a Marxist-sponsored socialist cartel... In pursuit of utopian/egalitarian virtue, the party has adopted the language of the ideology and is growing perpetually out of sync with American liberties. In a frightening sense of déjà vu, the downsized American replicas of Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Clara Zetkin, and Rosa Luxemburg are seeking to impose the moralities of a flawed society through seductive promises of fairness and equality with an intensity and passion that rivals that of their precursors a century earlier. However, unlike the originals, the candidates are hardly thinkers or mavericks; they sound like pedestrian opportunists having no intellectual basis and as such are unable to define independent philosophical identities. But it doesn’t make them less dangerous. The contenders enjoy widespread support among the ideologically driven legislators who with medieval fanaticism demand the implementation of socialist agendas. Some bombastically prophesy environmental calamities and the end of the world unless we implement insane ideas they put forward as the key to salvation. Those loonies cannot be persuaded by facts, historical records, or common sense. For them, acceptance of reality equates to a denial of faith. “It is more important to be morally right than factually correct,” so asserted socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Morally right” is a method of persuasion that epitomizes radicalism in its most extreme form. A maxim, not bounded by the concepts of reasoning or moral restrains, that justified the Red Terror in Russia, the Cultural Revolution in China, the Holocaust in Germany and many other atrocities that cost tens of millions of lives by those who proclaimed themselves “morally right.” This madness can be stopped if people realize in time where the Democratic Party’s newly adopted ideology may lead...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_democrats__who_they_are_what_they_want_and_how_to_confront_them.html

Feds Kill the Internet’s ‘Largest Child Porn Marketplace,’ 300 Arrested

by WARNER TODD HUSTON

{ godfatherpolitics.com } ~ Federal investigators have announced that they have taken down the biggest child porn marketplace on the Internet... Federal prosecutors filed multiple charges against a 23-year-old South Korean man who they claim was behind the Internet-based child porn website on the dark web, according to NBC News. The website called Welcome to Video,” reportedly hosted more than 200,000 videos — almost 8 terabytes — of child pornography involving children of all ages. Prosecutors said that they also tracked 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth more than $730,000. The site was allegedly run by Jong Woo Son, a South Korean citizen who is already in jail in South Korea of child porn charges. Federal officials say that Woo Son operated the site up until law enforcement agencies shut it down in March of last year. U.S. officials reported that 337 suspects of the site had been arrested worldwide. “You may try to hide behind technology,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu said on Wednesday, “but we will find you and arrest you and prosecute you.” The scale of this crime is eye-popping and sickening,” added John D. Fort, chief of IRS criminal investigations. Nearly half the videos on the site were previously uncatalogued by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children...

https://godfatherpolitics.com/feds-kill-the-internets-largest-child-porn-marketplace-300-arrested/

commie-Sanders and dinky/liar-Warren,

Socialism and Fascism

Lewis Morris: In the game of primary politics, presidential candidates have to differentiate themselves for the voters, even if they’re cut from the same ideological cloth. Take two big names in the race for the Democrat nomination, commie-Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. Both are statist lackeys of the far Left, dedicated to shredding (“fundamentally transforming”) the Constitution and instituting a People’s Republic of the United States. Or is it the United Soviet States of America? So, if you are useful idiot, how do you choose between the two?

commie-Sanders, who has been falling behind Warren in the polls, especially after his health issues, tried to put some daylight between himself and his leftist rival. He attempted to use her own quote against her, saying, “She is a capitalist through her bones.” But only a socialist would think that calling someone a capitalist would be a mark against them. The trouble is Warren is no capitalist.

dinky/liar-Warren has called for a whole host of tax hikes, including significantly raising taxes on upper income families and individuals to pay for universal childcare. She has called for canceling student-loan debt and making college “free.” She supports a $15 federal minimum wage. dinky/liar-Warren wants to make fracking illegal, break up large agricultural businesses, and put multibillion-dollar companies under the control of the federal government. This among a whole pile of steaming leftist manure that includes government-run healthcare, abolishing the Electoral College, opening the borders, slashing the military, and rejecting the USMCA trade pact in favor of greater labor and environmental concessions.

Does this sound like someone who is a capitalist through her bones? Didn’t think so.

dinky/liar-Warren and commie-Sanders are both hardcore leftists, but while commie-Sanders is a socialist, dinky/liar-Warren is arguably more of a fascist.

One of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming that fascism is an ideology of the far Right. It is not. That is a deliberate falsehood spun by leftists going back 80 years — and it’s meant solely to distance themselves from the actions of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. These two fascist dictators were initially embraced by the Left for their statist views — until they started gobbling up Europe and killing people for ethnic reasons. Socialists couldn’t publicly support them after that, so they rewrote them as creatures of the political Right. It’s one of the more bizarre BIG Lies, but that’s what public “education” will get you.

Let’s take a moment to set the record straight.

Socialism is defined by state ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods and services. Fascism is defined by the state control of the economy, while the means of production remains in private hands. When we talk about state control of anything, we are talking about the left side of the political spectrum. The greater the control a government exhibits, the further left it is politically. Ergo, socialism and fascism are right next to each other on the spectrum, not on opposite ends of it.

On the right side of the political spectrum is capitalism, which is private ownership and private control. If you travel further right on the political spectrum, how would you arrive at state control of the economy? You don’t.

Make no mistake, though. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren is no more a capitalist than Chinese President Xi Jinping is a champion of human rights.

dinky/liar-Warren is a fascist because she advocates for government control of large corporations and heavy taxation to keep those corporate interests in line. She wants to use the economy as a cudgel to force people in line behind her policies. Every policy position she holds embraces the concept of government control over the citizenry. Keep that in mind as the media sings the “dinky/liar-Warren for President” mantra, or as she and commie-Sanders both try to convince voters that she’s just another “capitalist” vying for the socialist vote. ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 17, 2019 at 12:26pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

ABC News Caught Promulgating Fake News

Thomas Gallatin

‘Show Us The Money’: Megyn Kelly Says There

Needs To Be Outside Investigation Into NBC

by SHELBY TALCOTT

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Journalist Megyn Kelly said Wednesday there needs to be an outside investigation into NBC News regarding allegations raised in investigative reporter Ronan Farrow’s new book... She spoke to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson about allegations detailed in Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” namely the accusation that the network tried to cover up former NBC host Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct. The former Fox News anchor hit back at NBC News for not having an external investigation into the allegations against Lauer and expressed skepticism that the network had no idea about the alleged sexual misconduct before it fired the host in 2017. She suggested the network should “show us the money” and come clean about any and all agreements made to former staffers. “They haven’t gotten specific about what monies were paid out to home,” Kelly said in her first TV interview in nearly a year. “Show us the money. The number one thing that needs to happen now is they need to release any and all Matt Lauer accusers from their confidentiality agreements.” Kelly left Fox News for NBC in 2017 and parted ways with the network in January after making comments about blackface and Halloween. She returned to Fox for the first time in nearly three years Wednesday evening. Carlson wondered if NBC saying that it had no previous knowledge of the allegations against Lauer is a “plausible claim.” Kelly noted the network had settlements with former employees and that there were complaints about Lauer before that of former NBC staffer Brooke Nevils, who accused the disgraced “Today” show host of anally raping her in a hotel room during the coverage of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “Show us all of the agreements, the enhanced severance agreements reached or at least the number so we can see which ones pop out and which ones are super high,” Kelly continued. “Are they all women? Do they all have a connection with Matt Lauer? Release the women from their confidentiality obligations.”...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/show-us-the-money-megyn-kelly-says-there-needs-to-be-outside-investigation-into-nbc/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10518

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXMflui3ZAc

Megyn Kelly Goes After

The Media For Active Bias

by SHELBY TALCOTT

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Journalist Megyn Kelly went after the media Wednesday for what she described as blatant bias... noting that “it doesn’t belong” and suggesting outlets now worry about being judged for not condemning President Donald Trump. Kelly spoke to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in her first television appearance in nearly a year and hit back at the alleged change in journalism over the years. Carlson showed a clip of CNN’s Anderson Cooper giving a biased question to former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, noting that scenes like this add “up to basically partisan interference in an election.” “You have journalists who feel that their first obligation is to help a candidate or hurt another candidate. That’s not journalism,” Carlson said, and Kelly agreed, adding she doesn’t think subjective judgment should have a place in journalism. “There was a premise that the other media, the mainstream media, maybe they weren’t far left, but that there was a baked-in bias against people who believe in homeschooling, who believe in a pro-life position, who might have a gun,” Kelly said, speaking about how the media has changed and describing how Fox News began. “And so they made a whole empire based on programming to those people. I think what’s happened now on the other half of the country, on sort of the mainstream, is they have embraced it.” “It was sort of passive and now it’s active. Now it’s, ‘Let’s work. He’s too bad. We have to work together. We’ll be judged. History will judge as whether we were for or against this man Trump.'” Kelly noted this change came before voters elected Trump in 2016 and mentioned an interview she did with Jorge Ramos of Univision, who argued that journalists must become partisan and “abandon neutrality.” “He said, ‘That’s over. You’ve got to come out and you’ve got to say Trump’s a racist. Trump’s a misogynist. Trump’s a bigot. Whatever your view is, you’ve got to say it and you’ve got to sell it, and that the time for neutrality has passed,'” she recalled. “And I do believe he’s Ramos persuaded — and others have come to their own conclusion — that that’s the way forward.” https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/megyn-kelly-media-bias/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10518

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTN4_wqsFKM

‘You’ve Already Decided There Is A Crime?’

Martha MacCallum Challenges scumbag-Eric Swalwell On Impeachment

by VIRGINIA KRUTA

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum repeatedly pressed Democratic California Rep. scumbag-Eric Swalwell on the impeachment process Wednesday... asking whether or not the interviews being conducted by fellow California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff were above board. MacCallum began with reports that scumbag-Schiff had repeatedly pressured former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, pushing him to alter his testimony to suggest that the Ukrainians had felt coerced to investigate former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter. “Is it the practice of attorneys in a deposition to try and press the people who show up to explain their understanding of what happened into a different assessment than what they believe it to be? Is that the normal practice?” MacCallum asked scumbag-Swalwell. “I don’t agree that’s what happened,” scumbag-Swalwell pushed back. “Nothing that the Ambassador Volker had contradicted what President Trump said. We have a crime of extortion, we all agree that if you use that —”MacCallum interrupted, “We’re at the beginning of the process, and you’ve already decided there is a crime?” “No, no … yes. That is why we’re doing this. The crime was committed,” scumbag-Swalwell said. “We’re now looking at the suspect, the president, who confessed to the crime by the way.” “It doesn’t sound like you need much of a process then,” MacCallum shrugged. “He’s entitled to a fair process,” scumbag-Swalwell replied... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/martha-maccallum-challenges-eric-swalwell-impeachment/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10518

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBXjVJ6LOmY

Pompeo to visit Netanyahu Friday to offer

assurances over U.S. Syria pullout

by TOVAH LAZAROFF

{ jpost.com } ~ The US pullout of its troops from northeast Syria has not endangered Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said two days before his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday... The two men are expected to “discuss developments in Syria and the continued need to counter the Iranian regime’s destabilizing behavior in the region,” the State Department said on Wednesday. News of the meeting came amid international furor regarding the US decision to remove its troops from northeastern Syria. Prior to Netanyahu meeting, Pompeo will visit Turkey. He and Vice President Mike Pence will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and ask him to halt his attack on the Kurds. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a strong supporter of Israel, tweeted that he worried that as a result of the pullout of US troops – a move seen as an abandonment of America’s alley the Kurds – “we will not have allies in the future against radical Islam, ISIS will reemerge, & Iran’s rise in Syria will become a nightmare for Israel. I fear this is a complete and utter national security disaster in the making and I hope President Trump will adjust his thinking.” He warned it could prove to be a worse disaster than when former US President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama left Iraq. But in an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network, Pompeo dismisses the idea that US strategy was bad for Israel. “You heard earlier in our montage of comments from people – the former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, was in the studio earlier this week, and he said the winners in all of this are Russia, Assad, Iran, and ISIS. Is it your belief that Israel today is less safe as a result of this move?” Bartiromo asked. “No,” Pompeo responded. What is happening in northeast Syria, he said, is “a small part of our Middle East strategy,” explaining that people should focus on the larger picture, which is “the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran.”... https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Pompeo-US-policy-on-Turkish-attack-hasnt-endangered-Israel-604871

Top Diplomat Testified That scumbag/liar-nObama Admin, Not International Community, Orchestrated Ukraine Prosecutor’s Firing

By Sean Davis

{ thefederalist.com } ~ A top U.S. diplomat and expert on Ukraine testified to Congress yesterday that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration — with former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden as its point man... orchestrated the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating a company connected to the loose lips liar-Biden family, sources familiar with the testimony told The Federalist. The testimony of George Kent, a State Department official who works on the agency’s Ukraine portfolio, directly contradicts claims that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration was merely following the lead of the so-called international community in demanding the firing of Viktor Shokin, a controversial Ukrainian prosecutor who was reportedly investigating Burisma, a global energy company long suspected of corruption and money laundering. In 2014, Burisma paid Hunter Biden, loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s son, tens of thousands of dollars to sit on its board despite the younger Biden’s complete lack of expertise or professional experience running a multi-national oil and gas concern. Kent told lawmakers on Tuesday that the scumbag/liar-nObama administration spearheaded the efforts to have Shokin removed from his position as the top federal prosecutor in Ukraine. Kent said the international community — namely the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Western nations within the European Union — were deferential to U.S. directives on the matter. At a 2018 event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, loose lips liar-Joe Biden — who was tasked by then-President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama to lead the U.S. government’s efforts in Ukraine — bragged about threatening to withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee if the Ukrainian government refused to fire Shokin. “I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars,” loose lips liar-Biden said. “I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.” “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours,’” loose lips liar-Biden recalled. “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b-tch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.” After Shokin was fired, he was replaced by Yuri Lutsenko, who also has been dogged by allegations of corruption. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration never demanded Lutsenko’s ouster, despite worries that Lutsenko was similarly corrupt and untrustworthy. Allies of loose lips liar-Biden, who is currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, have defended the former vice president from charges of improperly taking official actions that could financially benefit his son by claiming that the international community, rather than loose lips liar-Biden and the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, were behind the efforts to get rid of Shokin. Kent’s testimony, however, indicates it was loose lips liar-Biden and the scumbag/liar-nObama administration who were running the show, not the so-called international community... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/top-diplomat-testified-that-obama-admin-not-international-community-orchestrated-ukraine-prosecutors-firing/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=b81cd6f718-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-b81cd6f718-83771801

Why It Matters That Sidney Powell Wants

Data From Joseph Mifsud’s Smartphones

By Margot Cleveland

{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Tuesday, attorney Sidney Powell struck again, revealing yet another huge development in the Spygate saga between the lines of her latest motion... That motion, filed in the still-pending criminal case against Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, demanded exculpatory evidence from federal prosecutors. But unlike her previously filed motion to compel, here Powell seeks evidence “that has only recently come into its possession.” And the evidence sought? The data and metadata from two Blackberry devices used by Joseph Mifsud. While Powell’s latest motion barely equaled two pages, the implications are multi-pronged and monumental. That the U.S. government has only recently obtained possession of a pair of smartphones used by Joseph Mifsud tells us two things: that Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Dunham’s probe into the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax is both serious and successful, and that the Crossfire Hurricane targeting of President Trump and former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were neither. After all, Mifsud was the man whose tip to young Trump volunteer advisor George Papadopoulos, that the Russians had dirt on scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, supposedly formed the basis for the FBI to launch Crossfire Hurricane’s targeting of the Trump campaign in late July 2016. Yet no one bothered to interview Mifsud until six months later, when he traveled to D.C. to speak at a conference sponsored by the State Department. And then the FBI let him go, later blaming Papadopoulos for their inability to properly question the purported Russian agent. Mueller seemed equally uninterested in Mifsud—a strange position to take toward a putative enemy agent... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/17/why-it-matters-that-sidney-powell-wants-data-from-joseph-mifsuds-smartphones/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=b81cd6f718-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-b81cd6f718-83771801

ABC News Caught Promulgating Fake News

Thomas Gallatin: When a news organization’s primary commitment is to reinforce a desired narrative rather than presenting an honest and accurate account of facts relevant to an event, then that “news” organization is guilty of biased reporting, if not outright propaganda. Two recent news reports serve to demonstrate the fact that this is what the mainstream news media has become. The first and most egregious instance comes from ABC News, which aired video footage during which a reporter asserted, “This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad.” The problem is that was not what the video footage depicted, rather the footage of heavy machine-gun fire amidst a series of explosions was actually taken from a 2017 event at the Knob Creek Gun Range in Kentucky. It had no relation whatsoever to the events in Syria.

Only after ABC was alerted to this gross “mistake” did it remove the video and release a statement on social media: “CORRECTION: We’ve taken down video that aired on ‘World News Tonight’ Sunday and ‘Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error.” ABC failed to explain why the footage in question was aired but promised to investigate.

There appear to be two possible explanations for how this “mistake” could have occurred. The first is that it was not a mistake at all, but an intentional decision to deceive with the assumption that no one would know it was fake. Besides, the Turkish military had indeed just engaged in operations in northern Syria. But the second and probable reason is confirmation bias. ABC News is committed to the anti-Trump narrative, and the video footage seemed to support that narrative. Therefore, no due diligence was done to verify its accuracy.

The second example of the MSM pushing narrative over news comes from the story of a meme video depicting President Donald Trump violently killing individuals portrayed as the MSM in a church. The meme was adapted from a 2014 movie scene. While the White House, the Trump campaign, and everyone working with the president roundly condemned the parody video — most having never seen it or heard of it before the MSM reported on it — the narrative presented by the likes of The New York Times is that Trump is still culpable because fringe Trump supporters created it. The Times lectures, “The connections underscore how the president’s escalating war on what he calls the ‘fake news’ media has elevated people from the far-right fringe into allies who defend Mr. Trump with extreme language and images.”

Tellingly, the MSM refuses to hold Democrats, the Left, and even themselves to the same standards they use to loudly castigate Trump. Did the Times take any responsibility for sowing discord by its overwhelmingly negative coverage of the president, which in turn motivated Kathy Griffin to post an image of herself holding a bloody decapitated head of Trump? Has the MSM backed off its repeated promulgation of fake and biased news? Americans don’t distrust the news media because of Trump; they distrust the media because the media has failed to live up to the standards of genuinely objective journalism. ~The Patriot Post

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Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 17, 2019 at 9:57am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Barr: America's Religious

Foundation Is Crumbling

Nate Jackson

Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

RIP: Powerful Democrat congressman Elijah Cummings has died of complications from longstanding health problems (Associated Press)

POLITICAL THEATER: Democrats storm out of Syria meeting with Trump: “We have to pray for his health” (Fox News)

Government & Politics

FRAUD, PART I: Estimated cost of commie-Sanders/ dinky/liar-Warren healthcare plan rises to an inevitably still conservative estimate of $34 trillion (Washington Examiner)

FRAUD, PART II: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren scrubs DNA test video from Twitter (The Washington Free Beacon)

FRAUD, PART III: worthless-Ilhan Omar continues to divert campaign funds to alleged boyfriend’s company (The Daily Caller)

National Security

AID RESTORED: Trump administration to reinstate aid to Central American countries that signed asylum deals (The Daily Caller)

GAME OF CHESS: Turkey’s NATO status complicates U.S. response to Erdogan’s Syria incursion (The Washington Times)

Culture & Heartland

SANITY PICK-SIX: Youth football coach faces possible $500 fine for team’s blowout win (NBC Philadelphia)

PLOT TWIST: Cop who fatally shot black woman wasn’t sent on welfare check (New York Post)

Other Notables

BREXIT DEAL DOA? “Negotiators from the U.K. and EU reached a draft Brexit deal in 11th-hour talks Thursday, although there are serious doubts that the agreement will be approved by U.K. lawmakers back in Westminster.” (CNBC)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: U.S. must prevent rise of new ISIS caliphate in Syria following our troop withdrawal (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: House Democrats’ new bill would drive up college costs even further (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: In response to question about raising taxes, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren comes out as a gay man (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
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House Oversight Committee Chairman

Elijah Cummings dies suddenly at 68

by Keith Koffler

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings died early Thursday in Baltimore at the age of 68... The Maryland Democrat, who was helping lead the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, died due to complications from long-standing health problems, according to the Associated Press. He has also led several other investigations into the president and frequently sparred with the administration. Cummings, the son of a sharecropper, was born on Jan. 18, 1951, in Baltimore. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. The five-time congressman from Maryland's 7th District was first elected to the House in 1996. After several terms as ranking member, he became the chairman of the oversight panel when Democrats took control of the House in January. Cummings, who was also a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, reportedly underwent an unspecified medical procedure and did not return to his office this week. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was married to Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who is the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party. Sorry to hear of his passing. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-oversight-chairman-elijah-cummings-is-dead-at-68?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095552550001/#sp=show-clips

The Trouble with ‘Renewable’ Energy

By BENJAMIN ZYCHER

{ nationalreview.com } ~ Renewable” electricity — predominantly wind and solar power — is all the rage, described by numerous commentators, politicians, pundits, journalists, and other such “experts” as cost-competitive, clean, and a major part of the solution... to the “existential crisis” now purportedly looming large as an attendant effect of anthropogenic climate change. A massive expansion of wind and solar power is a central component of the various proposals subsumed under the heading “Green New Deal” (GND), which has faded from the headlines for now, but which is very likely to return to prominence as next year’s presidential race intensifies. Notwithstanding the romantic view of wind and solar power held by many, they are not cost-competitive, they are very far from clean, and they would do remarkably little to limit greenhouse-gas emissions and anthropogenic climate change, the “crisis” view of which is unsupported by the evidence. Several available analyses show that a major expansion of wind and solar power would increase the emissions of such conventional pollutants as carbon monoxide. Even apart from those problems, the renewable-electricity component of the GND is unworkable as a matter of straightforward electrical engineering, unless one believes that the American electorate will accept constant and widespread blackouts. In the larger context, the opposition to conventional energy that is the core of the GND is fundamentally anti-human, because one major implication of the opposition to fossil fuels is an aversion to increases in the value of human capital and other parameters that have the effect of increasing the demand for conventional energy. Moreover, the authoritarian implications of the GND are serious, however unnoticed. High costs are a major problem with wind and solar power. First, wind flows and sunlight are intermittent: Power generation from windmills and solar panels cannot be scheduled in advance, because the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. This means that wind and solar “capacity factors” — the percentage of the time that wind and solar units actually produce electricity — are much lower than those for such conventional units as coal, gas, and nuclear, new installations of which have capacity factors of 85–90 percent. For onshore wind units, the figure is 40 percent or less, and it is 30 percent or less for solar facilities. Note that a massive expansion of wind and solar power as envisioned in the GND would drive those numbers downward, because the sites with the best wind and sunlight conditions are developed first, with new wind and solar farms necessarily sited at increasingly unfavorable locations. Accordingly, the wind- and solar-power industries would experience scale diseconomies — rising average costs — as more such capacity was added to the market... https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/10/28/the-trouble-with-renewable-energy/#slide-1

Why Are Palestinians 'Disappearing'

in Saudi Arabia?

by Khaled Abu Toame

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Dozens of Palestinians have been "disappearing" in Saudi Arabia in recent months and are believed are being held in detention in the kingdom's prisons... according to Palestinian sources and international human rights organizations. The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership in the West Bank, which regularly condemns Israel for arresting Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorism and other anti-Israel activities, has been reluctant to speak out against the Saudi purge of Palestinians, ostensibly for security reasons, not to harm its relations with the kingdom. The PA is not only keeping mum about the unprecedented Saudi crackdown, but it is also trying to prevent the families of the detainees from protesting in public. Last week, the PA's Preventive Security Service summoned the family of Palestinian engineer Abdullah Odeh, being held in a Saudi prison, and warned them not to protest their son's detention. Odeh's family was planning to arrive at a football match between Saudi Arabia's national soccer team and the Palestinian national soccer team as part of the World Cup qualifier held on October 15 near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The family was warned that they would be beaten and arrested if they arrived at the Faisal al-Husseini Football Stadium to protest their son's incarceration in Saudi Arabia. Additionally, the family was ordered to remove all social media posts denouncing the arrest of Odeh and calling for his release. Odeh's brother, Baraa, wrote on his Facebook page on September 6: "My brother, engineer Abdullah Odeh, has been held in a Saudi prison for the past month and we don't know anything about him. This is not how a prisoner should be treated in an Islamic country."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15035/saudi-arabia-palestinians-disappearing

Coast Guard Focused On Being Sea-Based In

Arctic As Merits Of Deep-Water Port Debated

By Ben Werner

{ news.usni.org } ~ For now, the Coast Guard is focused on being sea-based in the high latitudes even as talk of building a deep-water Arctic port gains support in Washington... On Capitol Hill, Alaska’s lawmakers have for years highlighted the attributes for building a deep-water port in the Arctic. Retreating ice in the region is causing maritime traffic to increase as mineral resources are newly accessible. Lawmakers also cite an uptick in Russian Arctic activity as increasing the strategic need for such a facility. For the Coast Guard, a proposed fleet of six heavy icebreakers will provide the service with the resources needed to fulfill its Arctic missions, Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, told USNI News after speaking at an event co-hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the U.S. Naval Institute. “Karl Schultz’s view, as 26th commandant: we will sea-base our Alaska operations moving towards the Arctic,” Shultz said. The idea of establishing a deep-water Arctic port is something Schultz said merits discussion. However, he explained such discussions should involve several government entities, including Congress, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Defense, and Alaska state agencies. Deep-water Arctic port proposals have circulated around Washington for at least two decades, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2015 draft report. A deep-water Arctic port is needed to accommodate predicted increased commercial maritime traffic, the report states. The report also spells out strategic reasons for the military to support the proposed port...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/16/coast-guard-focused-on-being-sea-based-in-arctic-as-merits-of-deep-water-port-debated?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=a811d11b6e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-a811d11b6e-231491269&mc_cid=a811d11b6e&mc_eid=3999f18767

Afghanistan Wants Partnership with US Military

Even as Relationship, Conditions Evolve

By John Grady

{ news.usni.org } ~ Kabul’s ambassador to Washington said “passing statements” about U.S. withdrawal or peace talks with the Taliban made in American political campaigns are “not helpful”... in setting Afghanistan on the pathway to a future as functioning democratic republic. Speaking Wednesday at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., Roya Rahmani said in answer to several questions, “we want the United States to look at us … as partners over the last 18 years.” The major change: “now it is not the Americans fighting” the Taliban or the Islamic State in Afghanistan, she said. Rather, the Afghan security forces are in the lead militarily, as part of a strategy developed several years ago in coordination the United States and NATO. “We could talk about this as a success story.” The ambassador added Afghanistan “is an important part of your foreign policy. We have a rapidly changing environment” inside Afghanistan that includes shifting mindsets over the role of women in society. Rahmani was speaking against the backdrop of the sudden announcement of the American withdrawal of forces from northeast Syria, where they had been working alongside the Syrian Democratic Front against the Islamic State. That sudden withdrawal raised new questions about U.S. commitment to stay in Afghanistan. Even before the U.S. forces pulled out, Turkish aircraft and artillery struck targets in the northern part of Syria, and Turkish ground forces pushed forward to establish a buffer zone where up to 1 million refugees would be relocated. Ahead of an Afghan election last month, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a secret Camp David meeting where members of the Taliban and the Afghan government and the administration would work out the final details of a peace agreement ending the American military involvement in Afghanistan. Rahmani cited the success of the 70,000 Afghan security forces who ensured the safety of voters in the Sept. 28 presidential election as another example of the difference this year from previous national votes, when the United States and coalition forces played a major role in keeping the peace on voting day...

https://news.usni.org/2019/10/16/afghanistan-wants-partnership-with-us-military-even-as-relationship-conditions-evolve?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=a811d11b6e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-a811d11b6e-231491269&mc_cid=a811d11b6e&mc_eid=3999f18767

What should the West do as

UN arms embargo on Iran ends in 2020?

by Behnam Ben Taleblu and Andrea Stricker

{ fdd.org } ~ The Islamic Republic of Iran has consistently proven how much damage it can cause without having access to high-tech military equipment and formal arms markets... The past few months are indeed instructive. Under a slashed defense budget and outmatched in terms of regional military spending, Iran still managed to turn-up the heat without inviting kinetic reprisal. Western powers and Saudi Arabia have concluded Iran was behind the attack on Saudi oil installations with drones and cruise missiles, used mines to damage tankers, seized ships in the Persian Gulf, shot down a U.S. drone over international waters, engaged in hostage diplomacy, escalated its nuclear program, and broadened the scope of mayhem in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen through its partners and proxies. Now imagine what improved Iranian military capabilities might mean for the future. Next October, on the fifth anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s (JCPOA) so-called “Adoption Day,” an international embargo on military-related transfers to and from Iran will end. Before this happens, Washington can take action to extend the UN-based arms embargo, as well as reinforce its policy of sanctioning Iranian arms transfers. The sooner, the better. The Islamic Republic has faced U.S. sanctions, including an arms embargo, since 1984 – the year Washington put Tehran on the “state sponsors of terrorism” list. These penalties helped impede Iran’s modernization, following the bloody 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, of military systems that used American technology. But starting in 2006, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors voted to refer Tehran’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council (UNSC), the country was increasingly subject to multilateral sanctions, and eventually, a global ban on all imports and exports of arms and military-related equipment. These penalties were scaled back in 2015 as part of UNSC Resolution 2231, which codified the nuclear deal and set the five-year timeline for a complete lifting of the arms embargo. The decision to relieve international pressure on Iran’s military-related procurement and proliferation functioned like a sweetener in the final stages of negotiations with Tehran. Notably, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the negotiations, Gen. Martin Dempsey, categorically opposed any concession on military and arms exports. Yet Tehran insisted, so the five-year clock started ticking... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/16/what-should-the-west-do-as-un-arms-embargo-on-iran-ends-in-2020/

Barr: America's Religious Foundation

Is Crumbling

Nate Jackson: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” said John Adams in 1798. Some things don’t change, even after 221 years, and Attorney General William Barr quoted Adams to say so in a stellar speech at Notre Dame about American politics and our crumbling moral foundation.

Barr, a devout Catholic, made the case that modern Americans have replaced dependency on God with dependency on government. He also argued that modern secularists are not merely non-religious; they are outright hostile to religion.

“The campaign to destroy the traditional moral order has coincided [with] — and I believe has brought with it — immense suffering and misery,” Barr asserted. “And yet the forces of secularism, ignoring these tragic results, press on with even greater militancy.”

He wondered, “Among the militant secularists are many so-called progressives. But where is the progress?” Worse, he implied regression: “The secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of religion, including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake — social, educational, and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social-media campaigns.”

In any case, says Barr, the government is a poor substitute for true religion. “Today, in the face of all the increasing pathologies, instead of addressing the underlying cause, we have cast the state in the role of the Alleviator of Bad Consequences,” he said. “We call on the state to mitigate the social costs of personal misconduct and irresponsibility.”

“So, the reaction to growing illegitimacy is not sexual responsibility, but abortion. The reaction to drug addiction is safe injection sites. The solution to the breakdown of the family is for the state to set itself up as an ersatz husband for the single mother and an ersatz father for the children. The call comes for more and more social programs to deal with this wreckage. And while we think we’re solving problems, we are underwriting them. We start with an untrammeled freedom and we end up as dependents of a coercive state on whom we depend.”

Humans were created to worship our Creator. When we refuse to do so, we don’t worship nothing; we worship something else. That explains the contentiousness over who controls the levers of power in Big Government. If it’s not the leftists’ man in power, their very religion has been infiltrated. Hence their crusade to burn the heretics. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66120?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102H)

Posted by Jake Martinez on October 17, 2019 at 8:00am

Please Read Part 102G:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102G)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 2, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-102g

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that a 'Wall Street Journal columnist recently wrecked the Democrats' 'Trump-Ukraine' impeachment claims'-You Decide:

Popcorn: WSJ Columnist Wrecks The Democrats' Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Claims!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On October 16, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/10/16/popcorn-wsj-columnist-wrecks-the-democrats-trump-ukraine-impeachment-claims-n2554627

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following articles and video relates to and/or further supports the disturbing information revealed in the above thought-provoking article-You Decide:

Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Byron York-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump

The Incredible Vanishing Whistleblower!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/incredible-vanishing-whistleblower

Jim Jordan: Americans Have Right to Know Identity of Biased Whistleblower with No 1st-Hand Knowledge!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/jim-jordan-americans-have-right-know-identity-biased-whistleblower-no-1st-hand

Pelosi announces House won't vote 'at this time' on authorizing impeachment inquiry: The speaker insists, 'There's no requirement that we have a vote!'-Posted on The Blaze-By Breck Dumas-On October 15, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/pelosi-announces-house-wont-vote-at-this-time-on-authorizing-impeachment-inquiry

‘A Total Sham’: Pelosi Blasted for Putting off Vote on Impeachment Inquiry!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Madison Summers-On October 16, 2019:

https://ijr.com/house-republicans-blast-pelosi-vote-impeachment-inquiry/

pelosi

Video: The California Democratic Communists Suffer a Humiliating Setback!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 17, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-martial-law/california-democratic-communists-suffer-humiliating-setback

“Grand Jury” Increasingly Invoked as to Current House “Impeachment Inquiry.” What Are The President’s “Constitutional Rights!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/16/grand-jury-increasingly-invoked-as-to-current-house-impeachment-inquiry/

Pelosi: 'The Voters Are Not Going to Decide' Impeachment Issue!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/pelosi-voters-are-not-going-decide-impeachment-issue

McConnell on Impeachment: 'We'll Take the Matter Up'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/mcconnell-impeachment-well-take-matter

Elijah Cummings, head of U.S. House oversight panel probing Trump, has died!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 17, 2019:

https://ijr.com/elijah-cummings-has-died/

Rudy Giuliani

Key U.S. diplomat underscores role of Trump lawyer Giuliani in Ukraine scandal!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 17, 2019:

https://ijr.com/key-diplomat-underscores-role-giuliani-ukraine-scandal/

Now the Deep State Is Calling Trump’s Attorney a “National Security Threat”!-Posted on Restoring Liberty-On October 18, 2019:

https://joemiller.us/2019/10/now-the-deep-state-is-calling-trumps-attorney-a-national-security-threat/

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 30: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets Vice President Joe Biden (C) and his son Hunter Biden as they attend the game between the Duke Blue Devils and Georgetown Hoyas on January 30, 2010 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alexis C. …

Impeachment Probe: State Official Testified Obama Admin Knew Ukraine Company Burisma Was Corrupt!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/impeachment-probe-state-official-testified-obama-admin-knew-ukraine-company-burisma-was-corrupt/

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Kurt Volker, a former special envoy to Ukraine, leaves a closed-door interview with House investigators as House Democrats proceed with the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington. In a statement Monday, Oct. 7 issued by the …

Ex-Ukraine Envoy Testifies: ‘I Was Never Asked to Do Anything’ Wrong!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/ex-ukraine-envoy-testifies-i-was-never-asked-to-do-anything-wrong/

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 16: P. Michael McKinley (C), former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, walks away from a closed door hearing at the U.S. Capitol October 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. McKinley testified before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees as part of the …

Ex-Pompeo Adviser with No Direct Knowledge on Ukraine Testifies in Impeachment Probe!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/ex-pompeo-adviser-with-no-direct-knowledge-on-ukraine-testifies-in-impeachment-probe/

Rep. Ratcliffe: Inquiry 'Baseless' Without Quid Pro Quo Proof!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Sandy Fitzgerald-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/john-ratcliffe-impeachment-quid-pro-quo-proof/2019/10/18/id/937733/

Report: Schiff Tried To Strong-Arm Kurt Volker but It Backfired When Volker Exposed Schiff Instead!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/report-schiff-tried-strong-arm-kurt-volker-backfired-volker-exposed-schiff-instead/

House Intel Republicans: Schiff Is Hiding Impeachment Documents!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 18, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/house-intel-republicans-schiff-is-hiding-impeachment-documents/

Rep. Jackie Speier: 'We're Hearing Conflicting Recall of What Actually Took Place' With Ukraine!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/rep-jackie-speier-were-hearing-conflicting-recall-what-actually-took-place

Nancy Pelosi Compares Impeaching Trump to the American Revolution!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/nancy-pelosi-compares-impeaching-trump-american-revolution/

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“None Of Us Came to Congress to Impeach a President,” Pelosi Lies!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 18, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/none-us-came-congress-impeach-president-pelosi-daniel-greenfield

Trump Threatens CNN with Lawsuit After Undercover Video Emerges!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Bradley Evans-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-threatens-cnn-lawsuit-undercover-video-emerges/

Trump vs. CNN. Will CNN Have To Pay Damages For Biased Coverage?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Jeff Crouere-On October 19, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/19/trump-vs-cnn/

Impeachment Depositions

Fishing: House Democrats Impeachment Lawyer Suggests Probe May Extend Beyond Ukraine!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/fishing-house-democrats-impeachment-lawyer-suggests-probe-may-extend-beyond-ukraine/

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 05: Democratic Representative Adam Schiff speaks during The 2018 New Yorker Festival - Andy Borowitz Brings His Popular Column, The Borowitz Report, To Life Onstage Featuring Democratic Representative Adam Schiff From California at Ethical Culture on October 5, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by …

173 House Republicans Move to Condemn Adam Schiff as Floor Vote Approaches!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Sean Moran-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/18/173-house-republicans-move-to-condemn-adam-schiff-as-floor-vote-approaches/

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Report raises questions about possible forgery by Elijah Cummings’ staff!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/report-raises-questions-cummings/

Depraved Schiff and Lackeys Hold Anti-Trump Hearings in Secret; Pelosi Pulls Plug on Floor Vote!-Posted on News With Views, NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On October 21, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/depraved-schiff-and-lackeys-hold-anti-trump-hearings-in-secret-pelosi-pulls-plug-on-floor-vote/

Wallace grills Pompeo

FNC’s Wallace: ‘Well-Connected Republican’ Said 20% Chance GOP Will Vote for Impeachment!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Pam Key-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/20/fncs-wallace-well-connected-republican-said-20-chance-gop-will-vote-for-impeachment/

Steve Bannon: Trump will be impeached in next 6 weeks and Hillary will run again!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Samantha Chang-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/20/steve-bannon-trump-will-be-impeached-in-next-6-weeks-and-hillary-will-run-again-841596

Pompeo: Schiff’s ‘Kangaroo Court’ Is ‘Deeply Unfair;’ ‘We’re Not Able to Protect the United States’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/pompeo-schiffs-kangaroo-court-deeply-unfair-were-not-able-protect-united-states

Scalise Introduces ‘Open and Transparent Impeachment Investigation Resolution’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/scalise-introduces-open-and-transparent-impeachment-investigation-resolution

McCarthy: Pelosi to Trump: “You Just Wait to See What We Do.” “UNBECOMING OF A SPEAKER!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 20, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/20/mccarthy-pelosi-to-trump-you-just-wait-to-see-what-we-do/

Republicans excoriate Democrats after they defeat resolution to censure Adam Schiff: "Chairman Schiff has fallen short in his duty...!"-Posted on The Blaze-By Carlos Garcia-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/breaking-democrats-defeat-resolution-to-censure-adam-schiff-over-parody-quote-of-trump

Reader Contacts U.S. Senator about Obama’s “Usurpation of the Presidency by Fraud.” Author Of “Imposters” Calls Out Obama, House “Impeachment” Of Trump!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 21, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/21/reader-contacts-u-s-senator-about-obamas-usurpation-of-the-presidency-by-fraud/

Pelosi's Fact-Free Sheet on Impeachment: The big picture is that Democrats have discredited impeachment as a viable solution!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 22, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66266-pelosis-fact-free-sheet-on-impeachment-2019-10-22?mailing_id=4602&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4602&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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Pelosi’s Disinformation Campaign: House Speaker issues bogus “fact sheet” full of blatant distortions!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Joseph Klein-On October 23, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/pelosis-disinformation-campaign-joseph-klein

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks at the 2019 Democratic women's leadership forum, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

'Do-nothing Congress': Pelosi, Dems produce more subpoenas than laws!-Posted on The Washington Times-By Stephen Dinan and Gabriella Muñoz, The Washington Times-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/22/nancy-pelosi-democrats-produce-more-subpoenas-laws/

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 17: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference with Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee about the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center July 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. Past and present members of the committee were very …

Reports: Democrats Forced to Extend Impeachment Proceedings into Christmas Season!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/reports-democrats-forced-to-extend-impeachment-proceedings-into-christmas-season/

Minority Whip Steve Scalise speaks alongside fellow Republicans during a press conference on Capitol Hill

Video: GOP Intelligence Committee Members Sound The Alarm On How Secretly Dems Are Leading The Impeachment Process!-Posted on DailyWire.com-By Molly Prince-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gop-intelligence-committee-members-sound-the-alarm-on-how-secretly-dems-are-leading-the-impeachment-process

Trump Warns Democrats on Dangerous Precedent They're Setting With Impeachment!-Posted on PJ Media-By Matt Margolis-On October 22, 2019:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-warns-democrats-on-dangerous-precedent-theyre-setting-with-impeachment/

President Donald Trump

Trump: 'You Can't Have Quid Pro Quo With No Quo'!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Brian Freeman-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-ukraine-impeachment/2019/10/23/id/938300/

'He Didn't Break the Law': Newt Gingrich Weighs In on Impeachment During 'The View'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/didnt-break-law-newt-gingrich-weighs-impeachment-view/

Orchestrated Impeachment Inquiry Still Flailing: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine claims Trump pressured Zelensky into investigating Biden!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 23, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66300-orchestrated-impeachment-inquiry-still-flailing-2019-10-23?mailing_id=4604&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4604&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

The Associated Press

Ironic Twist: Democrats’ Impeachment Probe Interfering in Ongoing Presidential Race!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 22, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/22/ironic-twist-democrats-impeachment-probe-interfering-in-ongoing-presidential-race/

Support for Impeaching Trump Soars among Independents: Reuters/Ipsos Poll!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 23, 2019:

https://ijr.com/support-impeaching-trump-soars-independents/

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Republicans Storm Closed Impeachment Proceeding!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Shelby Talcott, Daily Caller-On October 23, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/republicans-storm-closed-impeachment-proceeding/

Schiff Flees as Fed-Up GOP Lawmakers Storm Secure Impeachment Hearing Room!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/schiff-flees-fed-gop-lawmakers-storm-secure-impeachment-hearing-room/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-10-24

Schiff Threatened GOP With “Ethics” Punishments After They Stormed Impeachment Hearings!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 23, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/schiff-threatened-gop-with-ethics-punishments-after-they-stormed-impeachment-hearings/

Republicans Expose Dems' Impeachment Secrecy: House Republicans storm the closed-door testimony of Pentagon official Laura Cooper!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 24, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66325-republicans-expose-dems-impeachment-secrecy?mailing_id=4607&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4607&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Trump Lawyer Says POTUS Can’t Be Prosecuted While In Office, Even For Shooting Someone!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On October 23, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-lawyer-says-potus-cant-be-prosecuted-while-in-office-even-for-shooting-someone/

Lindsey Graham Calls for Senate to Dismiss Impeachment ‘Inquiry’!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On October 23, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/lindsey-graham-calls-for-senate-to-dismiss-impeachment-inquiry/

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., criticizes President Donald Trump's pro-Wall Street policies during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Exclusive — Impeachment Backfiring: GOP Polling Memo Shows Public Turning Against Democrat Efforts to Oust Trump!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Matthew Boyle-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/23/impeachment-backfiring-gop-polling-memo-shows-public-turning/

Whistleblower's Last Shred of Credibility Gone as Fox Reports 3rd Source of Anti-Trump Bias in His Background!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/whistleblowers-last-shred-credibility-gone-fox-reports-3rd-source-anti-trump-bias-background/

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Schiff's Double-Secret Impeachment!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 24, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/schiffs-double-secret-impeachment-daniel-greenfield

Man standing in shadows

They’re trying to take out your president, and they don’t want you to know who the whistleblower is!-Posted on Conservative Review-By Nate Madden-On October 25, 2019 :

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/theyre-trying-take-president-dont-want-know-whistleblower/

congress

Video: Blackmailed Republicans Are Coerced Toward Impeachment-The Carrot and Stick Plan to Save America!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 23, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-radio-shows/blackmailed-republicans-are-coerced-toward-impeachment-carrot-and-stick-plan-save-america

Mo Brooks Do It in Public

Mo Brooks to Democrats on Impeachment: ‘Do It in Public’!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Kyle Morris-On October 23, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/23/mo-brooks-to-democrats-on-impeachment-do-it-in-public/

Trump, Fellow Republicans Push Ahead with Anti-Impeachment Offensive!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 24, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-republicans-anti-impeachment-offensive/

Rep. Gaetz: ‘We’re Fighting Against an Angry Pack of Rabid Hyenas’ to Expose Schiff’s Kangaroo Court!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/rep-gaetz-were-fighting-against-angry-pack-rabid-hyenas-expose-schiffs-kangaroo

Mitch McConnell: If House Impeaches Trump, GOP Won't Have Control Over the Senate Trial!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/mitch-mcconnell-house-impeaches-trump-gop-wont-control-senate-trial/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=wcjemail&ff_campaign=CAN&ff_content=2019-10-25

Graham Follows Through on Promise on Impeachment Resolution. “THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE PRESIDENCY!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/24/graham-follows-through-on-promise-on-impeachment-resolution/

Graham, McConnell Demand House Democrats Conduct Fair Impeachment Probe!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Fred Lucas /@FredLucasWH-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/24/graham-mcconnell-demand-house-democrats-conduct-fair-impeachment-probe/

Under Impeachment Pressure, White House Considers Communications Specialist!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 25, 2019:

https://ijr.com/impeachment-white-house-considers-communications-specialist/

Georgia Representative Says Impeachment Effort Will Backfire on Democrats!-Posted on The New American-By Warren Mass-On October 24, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33846-georgia-rep-says-impeachment-effort-will-backfire-on-democrats

The Deep State Wants Trump Impeached Over Syria!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 25, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/the-deep-state-wants-trump-impeached-over-syria/

President Pelosi? Michael Moore Envisages Both Trump and Pence Removed From Office!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/president-pelosi-michael-moore-envisages-both-trump-and-pence

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Judge: DOJ Must Give House Mueller Grand Jury Evidence!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mueller-redacted-house/2019/10/25/id/938760/

U.S. Justice Department Appeals Order to Turn over Unredacted Mueller Report!-Posted on Independent Journal-By Reuters-On October 25, 2019:

https://ijr.com/justice-department-appeals-order-mueller-report/

Judge blocks release of Mueller grand jury testimony!-Posted on Patriot News Alerts-By Jerry McCormick-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/judge-blocks-release-testimony/

NYT Piece Blows Gaping Hole in Quid Pro Quo, Confirms Ukraine Had No Idea Aid Was Held up!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Benjamin Arie-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/nyt-piece-blows-gaping-hole-quid-pro-quo-confirms-ukraine-no-idea-aid-held/

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Poll: Nearly Half of American Voters Oppose Impeaching, Removing Trump!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On October 25, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/25/poll-nearly-half-of-american-voters-oppose-impeaching-removing-trump/

Retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly testifies during the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on his confirmation to be Secretary of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

John Kelly: I Warned Donald Trump About Getting Impeached!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Charlie Spiering-On October 26, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/26/john-kelly-i-warned-donald-trump-about-getting-impeached/

Democrat Congressman’s Final Double-Cross On Death Bed!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Rev. Austin Miles-On October 27, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/democrat-congressmans-final-double-cross-on-death-bed/

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee, leaves the Capitol in Washington after a closed-door interview with acting Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Al-Baghdadi raid does nothing to mute Democrats' impeachment drive!-Posted on The Washington Times-By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times-On October 27, 2019:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/27/democrats-trump-impeachment-drive-undeterred-al-ba/

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Conservatives sound alarm over Justice John Roberts’ role in Trump’s impeachment!-Posted on Conservative Institute-On October 28, 2019:

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/conservatives-alarm-roberts-impeachment.htm

Democrats Release Text of Impeachment Resolution as Republicans Accuse Them of Ignoring House Rules!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Erin Coates-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-release-text-impeachment-resolution-republicans-accuse-ignoring-house-rules/

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House GOP to move from the criticizing process to fighting impeachment on the facts!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By David M. Drucker-On October 29, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/house-gop-to-move-from-the-criticizing-process-to-fighting-impeachment-on-the-facts

Former Bush Press Secretary Suggests Why Pelosi Is Holding An Impeachment Vote!-Posted on Townhall-By Matt Vespa/@mvespa1-On October 29, 2019:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/10/29/former-bush-press-secretary-suggest-why-pelosi-is-holding-an-impeachment-vote-n2555496

New poll shows very few Americans support Democrats' impeachment push: This is a not a good sign for the impeachment inquiry!-Posted on The Blaze-By Carlos Garcia October 29, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-poll-says-americans-dont-support-impeachment

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Impeachment Committees Ask Bolton to Testify!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/bolton-impeachment-testify/2019/10/30/id/939457/

Rep. Lindsey Graham (Getty Images/Drew Angerer)

Sen. Graham: Pelosi’s Impeachment Resolution ‘Is a Crumb of Due Process; It’s Not Even Half a Loaf’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/sen-graham-pelosis-impeachment-resolution-crumb-due-process-its-not-even-half

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Latest Impeachment Witness Contradicts Vindman’s Claim That Key Details Were Left Out of Ukraine Call Transcript!-Posted on National Review-By Mairead McArdle-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/latest-impeachment-witness-contradicts-vindmans-claim-that-key-details-were-left-out-of-ukraine-call-transcript/

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Video: There’s Evidence of Crimes Taking Place by the Deep State against Trump! | Tom Fitton!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cEwPlU5QNg

Pelosi: 'It's Not an Impeachment Resolution': How the Vindman testimony reveals what a sham Democrats' resolution really is!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 30, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66446-pelosi-its-not-an-impeachment-resolution?mailing_id=4619&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4619&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Rep. Matt Gaetz files ethics complaint against Adam Schiff: Congressman Gaetz accused Chairman Schiff of 'unprofessional and divisive behavior!'-Posted on The Blaze-By Breck Dumas-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/rep-matt-gaetz-files-ethics-complaint-against-adam-schiff

Nancy Pelosi targeted in ethics complaint filed by 40 conservative groups

Nancy Pelosi targeted in ethics complaint filed by 40 conservative groups!-Posted on Fox News-By Morgan Phillips | Fox News-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-targeted-in-ethics-complaint-filed-by-40-conservative-groups

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) (Photo: Screen capture)

McConnell: Impeachment 'Is Whatever a Majority of the House Decides It Is...!'-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On October 30, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/mcconnell-impeachment-whatever-majority-house-decides-it

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House poised for partisan vote on impeachment process!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Susan Ferrechio!-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/house-poised-for-partisan-vote-on-impeachment-process

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BREAKING: House Concludes Massive 232-196 Impeachment Inquiry Vote!-Posted on Trending Politics-October 31, 2019:

New Resolution Boxes Out Impeachment Critics, Gives Schiff Even More Power!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Jared Harris-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/new-resolution-boxes-impeachment-critics-gives-schiff-even-power/

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The Pelosi-Schiff Masquerade: House Democrats adopt surreal and kafkaesque one-sided impeachment process!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Joseph Klein-On November 1, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/pelosi-schiff-masquerade-joseph-klein

Rep. Doug Collins Challenges Schiff in Impeachment Fight: 'Folks, This Ain't Over'!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/rep-doug-collins-challenges-schiff-impeachment-fight-folks-aint/

Video: Top GOP lawmakers speak after House passes impeachment inquiry resolution!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Fox News-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6B0NzrSDs8

Battleground Poll Shows Voters in Critical States Oppose Trump's Removal from Office!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 31, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/battleground-poll-shows-voters-critical-states-oppose-trumps-removal-office/

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CNN Pushes Inane Fantasy About Nancy Pelosi Becoming President!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Rusty | Featured Contributor-On October 31, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/cnn-pushes-inane-fantasy-about-nancy-pelosi-becoming-president/

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Video: Bombshell Statement From Secretary Pompeo About Impeachment- Make This Go Viral!!!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On November 2, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-conspiracy-economics/bombshell-statement-secretary-pompeo-about-impeachment-make-go-viral

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Four White House Officials Defy Impeachment Subpoenas for Testimony!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Edwin Mora-On November 4, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/04/four-white-house-officials-defy-impeachment-subpoenas-for-testimony/

Dems Trickle Out Impeachment Testimony Transcripts: Schiff releases transcripts from Yovanovitch and McKinley. Both are negative toward Trump!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On November 5, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66582-dems-trickle-out-impeachment-testimony-transcripts?mailing_id=4634&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4634&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Please Read Part 102J:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 102J)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 7, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-102j

Please Also Read Part 103:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 16, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-103

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (Re: Mueller Report)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 27, 2019:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-nm-u-s-senator-martin-heinrich-re-mueller-report

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 91)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2018:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-most-dangerous-and-treacherous-times-in-u-s-history-part-91

CIA Assessment Concludes Putin Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 10, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cia-assessment-concludes-putin-was-trying-to-help-trump-win-white

Obama is the Manifestation of a Multi-Generational Soviet Plot to Destroy America!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On April 2, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-is-the-manifestati...

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 3, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven't-been-told...

An Open Letter To Communist Valerie Jarrett!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 25, 2012:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-commun...

The Vetting: ‘Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection’! (Part 1)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2013:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-vetting-obama-radica...

When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 17, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/when-a-u-s-president-is-...

Greatest Fraud Perpetrated In American History!-Posted on WordPress.com-On June 20, 2011:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpet...

Investigators Find That Obama's Online Birth Certificate Presented To The American Public Is 'Fake'!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 15, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/investigators-find-sourc...

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-g...

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/follow-up-letter-to-nm-u...

CIA-Columbia Cover Up!-Posted on WordPress.com-On April 28, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/cia-columbia-obama-cover-up/

Why did a black preacher from Harlem have a 'hit' placed on his life?-Posted on WordPress.com-On October 19, 2010:

https://weroinnm.wordpress.cooinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/why-has-a-black-preacher-from-harlem...

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/was-obama-selected-groom...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 13, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

Obama: Submit to Globalism or Face War, Death, Destruction!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 17, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/obama-submit-to-globalism-...

Peace is possible if Trump is elected.

Not Since JFK, Has a President Spit Into the Face of the Globalists, Until Now!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 21, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/not-since-jfk-has-a-pres...

Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-representative-michelle-lujan-grisham-re-2

Brainwashing in America: "WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY”!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On March 21, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

The MSM conglomerates are the most prolific and insidious "fake news" propagators in the marketplace of ideas!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 30, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-msm-conglomerates-ar...

Where Is America Today?-Posted on WordPress.com-On May 26, 2010:

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

Note: The following videos wholeheartedly share my sentiments regarding what we are currently experiencing in America today-You Decide:

A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBAzLCA3DQc

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzd_vRFpms

“Food for Thought”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Please Continue Praying For Our Country/Republic.

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Trey Gowdy Joins Trump’s Team

Fighting Impeachment Inquiry

By Hank Berrien

{ dailywire.com } ~ On Wednesday, it was formally announced that former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who chaired the House Select Committee on Benghazi from 2014 to 2016, had joined President Donald Trump’s personal legal team... as it counters the impeachment inquiry process launched by the House of Representatives against President Trump. Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow stated, “I am pleased to announce that former Congressman Trey Gowdy is joining our team as Counsel to the President. I have known Trey for years and worked with him when he served in Congress. His legal skills and his advocacy will serve the President well. Trey’s command of the law is well known and his service on Capitol Hill will be a great asset as a member of our team,” as NBC News reported.In late September, appearing on Fox News, where he was a contributor, Gowdy said of House Democrats, “A lot of them have already made up their minds. If there’s a smoking gun there — I can’t even find the gun, whether it’s smoking or not.” Gowdy is not unaware of the proper role of Congress; in 2012 he stated, “The notion that you can withhold information and documents from Congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. Respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles.”As The Daily Caller reported, “The View” co-host Meghan McCain warned the liberals on her show who mocked Gowdy for his 2012 statement, “You can go on about Trey Gowdy. But he’s one of the great congressmen. He’s someone I have respected for years. You can laugh all you want, but the fact he’s joining Trump’s team is good news for Trump, and bad news for Democrats.” She added, “…by the way, right now if I was in a fox hole, I would want Trey Gowdy in there with me.” Last Friday, as The Washington Examiner reported, Gowdy said House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff had made himself a “fact witness” in his dealings with the whistleblower who had targeted President Trump for his dealings with Ukraine. Gowdy said on Fox News, “How long is Speaker liar-Pelosi going to put up with scumbag-Adam mishandling this investigation? She has already taken it away from scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler. I’m sure the guys and gals on the Judiciary Committee are not happy about having scumbag-Adam Schiff do it. But if you are going to do it, at least don’t screw it up, scumbag-Adam.”...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trey-gowdy-joins-trumps-team-fighting-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Social Security Changes Coming In 2020

Trump Adjustment Could Affect Millions

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By Adam Casalino

{ patriotjournal.org } ~ President Trump just made a change that could affect millions of Americans... The Democrats are fighting hard to win over voters. They are promising everything while accusing Trump of letting down America’s most vulnerable: retired citizens. But Donald Trump has vowed to protect Social Security benefits. And over his time in office, he’s made good on that promise. Despite the Left’s ongoing efforts to impeach the president, he continues to look after America’s retired. A new report has come out that will mean good news to SS recipients. Here’s what Trump is doing: Earlier this morning, the BLS reported September’s inflation data, allowing for the concrete announcement that Social Security’s COLA in 2020 will be rising by 1.6%…What does this mean for the pocketbooks of Social Security beneficiaries? Based on the fact that the average retired worker and disabled worker were bringing home $1,473 and $1,236, respectively, a month as of August, a COLA of 1.6% should lead to a raise of about $24 a month for retirees and a little under $20 a month for the long-term disabled. The new cost-of-living adjustments have come out, revealing that benefits will receive a meaty bump up in 2020, more than usual...

https://patriotjournal.org/social-security-2020-trump-adjustment/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjnewsletter

Dems storm out of Syria meeting with Trump

'We have to pray for his health'

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer announced at a news conference outside the White House on Wednesday... that they had just walked out of a meeting with President Trump on Syria policy, after he apparently called liar-Pelosi a "third-rate politician" and angrily suggested the Democrats probably appreciated communist Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East. "What we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown, sad to say," liar-Pelosi, D-Calif., remarked. She said later, at the Capitol: "I pray for the president all the time, and I tell him that -- I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now, we have to pray for his health -- because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president." A Democratic source familiar with the conversation told Fox News that scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., started to read the president a quote from former Defense Secretary James Mattis from Sunday: "And, in this case, if we don't keep the pressure on, then ISIS will resurge. It's absolutely a given that they will come back." According to the source, Trump cut scumbag-Schumer off and responded that Mattis was "the world’s most overrated general. You know why? He wasn’t tough enough. I captured ISIS. Mattis said it would take two years. I captured them in one month."Trump reportedly said fewer than 100 ISIS prisoners had escaped amid Turkish aggression and the U.S. troop pullback in the Middle East, and that the escapees were "the least dangerous" ones. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, according to the source, confirmed the president's number, but not that those terrorists were the least dangerous. "I don't know that," Esper told scumbag-Schumer, the source recounted. The meeting devolved into the president calling the speaker a name, the source said, noting that Trump was "quite nasty, so she stood up to go. She started to sit back down but scumbag-Hoyer got her to go. liar-Pelosi and scumbag-Hoyer walked out of the meeting." The source said scumbag-Schumer stayed back for a minute to push Esper on whether the U.S. had specific intelligence that the Turks or Syrians definitely would guard the other ISIS prisoners. Esper reportedly said they didn't have any such reports. The White House did not immediately comment. scumbag-Schumer, standing alongside liar-Pelosi at the news conference outside the White House, claimed the discussion fell apart while the politicians were discussing the president's pullout from Syria -- and that Trump had said that "some of ISIS were communists, and that might make you happy."... This is not the first time the dems have walked out. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-dems-trump-syria-white-house-meeting-storm-out

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6095368251001/#sp=show-clips

House Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn

Trump’s Decision To Remove Troops From Syria

by SHELBY TALCOTT

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria... The White House announced Oct. 6 that Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the U.S. would be clearing out of northern Syria. The news sparked bipartisan backlash because it could make it easier for Turkey to invade Syria and go after Kurdish fighters, who have worked with the U.S. to beat the Islamic State.Republicans and Democrats alike approved a resolution opposing Trump’s decision. The measure passed 354-60, The New York Times reported. A bipartisan group of congressional leaders was set to meet with Trump about the issue shortly after the resolution passed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence are traveling to Ankara, Turkey, to discuss a ceasefire. “The Vice President will voice the United States’ commitment to reach an immediate ceasefire and the conditions for a negotiated settlement,” according to a press release from the Office of the Vice President. More than 150 Kurdish soldiers have reportedly died since Trump announced he would withdraw American troops and Turkey launched “Operation Peace Spring” on Oct. 10, the country’s defense military announced. Turkey’s Defense Ministry said the number is higher, according to Fox News. The resolution is mostly symbolic, but noted that America’s withdrawal is “beneficial to adversaries of the United States government,” including Russia, Syria and Iran. It called for Erdogan to end military action in northern Syria, The NYT reported. Trump has stayed strong behind his decision, noting Wednesday that Turkey invading Syria is “not our problem” and that the Kurds “are no angels.” Why didn't the dems condemn scumbag/liar-nObama when he pulled out of Iraq.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/16/house-condemn-trump-decision-remove-syria/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10517

Jim Jordan Corners scumbag-Elijah Cummings Accuses Him Of Violating Bi-Party Agreement

By Ben Dutka

{ patriotjournal.org } ~ They’re obviously willing to do anything to get an edge on the competition, and this includes violating major agreements... Democrats and Republicans had an agreement: they wouldn’t let bipartisan politics affect law and order. In other words, their biases couldn’t override basic protocol. But surprise! A leading Democrat has been accused of violating that agreement. This time, scumbag-Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has subpoenaed two Department of Homeland Security officials … and the GOP says this is breaking the rules. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio … accused scumbag-Cummings of letting partisan politics supersede standard protocol by issuing subpoenas to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Matthey Albence. Apparently, agreements don’t mean anything to Democrats like scumbag-Cummings! Democrats flipped out when the Trump administration said non-citizens could no longer receive deferred action due to “non-military special circumstances.” In other words, they couldn’t avoid deportation just because they issued a special assistance request. But that didn’t fly, and the deferred action was reinstated on Sept. 19. So, why should scumbag-Cummings hit these DHS guys with subpoenas? Democrats already got what they wanted; the program is back in place! This is just bullying and abuse, as Jim Jordan said in a letter to scumbag-Cummings... https://patriotjournal.org/jordan-cummings-agreement/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pjnewsletter

Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents

Show Major Inconsistencies

by Heather Vogell

{ propublica.org } ~ Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings... giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax. For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street. Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013. A dozen real estate professionals told ProPublica they saw no clear explanation for multiple inconsistencies in the documents. The discrepancies are “versions of fraud,” said Nancy Wallace, a professor of finance and real estate at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. “This kind of stuff is not OK.” New York City’s property tax forms state that the person signing them “affirms the truth of the statements made” and that “false filings are subject to all applicable civil and criminal penalties.” The punishments for lying to tax officials, or to lenders, can be significant, ranging from fines to criminal fraud charges. Two former Trump associates, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, are serving prison time for offenses that include falsifying tax and bank records, some of them related to real estate. “Certainly, if I were sitting in a prosecutor’s office, I would want to ask a lot more questions,” said Anne Milgram, a former attorney general for New Jersey who is now a professor at New York University School of Law. Trump has previously been accused of manipulating numbers on his tax and loan documents, including by his former lawyer, Cohen. But Trump’s business is notoriously opaque, with records rarely surfacing, and up till now there’s been little documentary evidence supporting those claims...

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FI45BfSefE

Middle East 'Insanity'

Charles Paige: “Insanity!” That’s the way one Special Forces soldier who helped train and advise Syrian-based Kurds described President Donald Trump’s policy change in the region. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results — that’s an apt summary of the situation.

George W. Bush was rightly criticized for his premature “Mission Accomplished” banner, and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was rightly criticized, to this day, for his politically motivated withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, giving rise to the Islamic State and creating a massive humanitarian crisis. Now, President Donald Trump is being criticized for his assertion that “we 100% defeated the ISIS caliphate” and withdrawing U.S. advisers from northeastern Syria — in effect, green-lighting a Turkish invasion. We can hope for a better outcome this time around, but, as military planners are fond of saying, “hope is not a viable strategy.”

The absence of a viable strategy has plagued U.S. military employment in the “Endless Wars” for some time. In fact, the wars are seemingly endless precisely because of the lack of an overarching strategic vision. With no clearly defined goal, we muddle along, occasionally stipulating what we won’t do — maintain troop levels past a predetermined date or conduct “combat” operations — rather than what we intend to accomplish. Stream-of-consciousness tweets don’t constitute a strategy, and our unilateral withdrawal from Syria is more likely to exacerbate than solve the problems President Trump cites. For example, we’ve already seen our soldiers threatened by Turkish shelling. Increased involvement from Russia and Turkey, along with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad — none of whom share our interests — threatens to expand both the scope and intensity of the fighting. Detention centers have been left unguarded, allowing hundreds of ISIS leaders and fighters to escape and replenish the terrorists’ ranks, already undermining the “100% defeated” claim.

Our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq started with clear objectives that earned broad bipartisan support in the form of Congressional Authorization(s) on the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Critically, both were also presented to the public in a way that rallied support (at least temporarily) for the policies. While there has been some healthy discussion in military and foreign-policy circles, and a few politicians have attempted to generate interest in a review of the AUMF, our military and political leaders have failed to define and communicate what we should do with these national security challenges and why we should do it. In the absence of a compelling narrative outlining our national interest, cries of “not another American life” and “make the other guys pay their share” resonate, even if it will mean more American lives and dollars in the long run.

This is not the forum to outline a coherent military or national security strategy. The mechanisms are already in place to debate and document those ideas, but they are meaningless if the public is unaware of and our politicians ignore their contents. Congress largely abdicated its role in the process after passing the AUMF. President Bush made the case for the “surge” in Iraq in 2007 at great political risk, but domestic politics have consumed presidential agendas since then. Given the current environment in Washington, that’s unlikely to change in the near term. We will continue to muddle along in this gray area between peace and war until American citizens’ interest and involvement in national security expands beyond thanking service members for their service.

As Thomas Jefferson once said, “An informed citizenry is the true repository of the public will.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66103?mailing_id=4588&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4588&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

OUR SACRED DOCUMENTS

Posted by Joseph Phillip De Marco on October 17, 2019 at 7:00am

time has not decayed nor crumbled words of our Forefathers
even though eager and willing rodents gnaw with vengeance
and jealousy
destruction a determined goal armed with mantra zeal and mayhem
blind banal and unwitted mob finds its empty home deserving well
the bait is all it has to justify its existence

long after and evermore intent will be challenged
these words are mightier than the sword
blood was already shed for them
for all and one these ten will be saved

Joseph Phillip De Marco

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 4:29pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A Striking Contrast

Gary Bauer

Rand Paul calls for investigation of Dem

senators, says they threatened Ukraine aid

during Mueller probe

By Nick Givas

{ foxnews.com } ~ An official investigation should be launched into three Democratic senators who threatened to withhold federal aid to Ukraine... if the country's prosecutor general didn't assist with the Mueller investigation, said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on "Fox & Friends" Monday. "The only thing consistent about the whole discussion of people threatening Ukrainian aid is that everybody seems to be doing it — on both sides," he said. " loose lips liar-Joe Biden threatened the aid and then three senators wrote a letter to the Ukrainian government, and they said if you don't continue investigating Trump, and help the Mueller investigation, we may pull back on your aid. "We can't have two standards," Paul added. "Democrats get to threaten Ukrainian aid and nothing happens to them. Now they want to impeach a president over this?" Paul cited the 2018 letter during a Sunday interview with "Meet the Press" and identified the signators as Sens. scumbag-Robert Menendez, D-N.J., scumbag-Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and scumbag-Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. He also lumped in loose lips liar-Joe Biden's pressure of Ukranian prosecutors to back off an investigation into his son Hunter, who was paid $50,000 a month by the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, while it was under investigation for corruption. "If you're going to condemn Trump, you need to condemn the Democratic senators," he said Sunday. "It shouldn't just be one-sided."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-ukraine-investigate-rand-paul

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094663687001/#sp=show-clips

scumbag-Adam Schiff Hit with Two Ethics Complaints Over 'Ukraine' Prank Call

By Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ House Intelligence Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff was looking for ammunition against President Donald Trump. But he might just have shot himself in the foot... According to Fox News, the California Democrat is the subject of two complaints filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics related to a 2017 phone conversation scumbag-Schiff had with a Russian comedian posing as a Ukrainian lawmaker. One complaint, filed last week by the conservative nonprofit group Tea Party Patriots Action, states scumbag-Schiff “used and abused his position” to “seek damaging and negative information about President Trump,” according to the report. Another was filed Aug. 28 by Republican Jon Hollis, who is seeking to challenge scumbag-Schiff for the Los Angeles-area congressional seat he has held since 2001. It accuses scumbag-Schiff of “illegal collusion with foreign entities,” Fox News reported Wednesday. Both complaints stem from a 2017 phone call scumbag-Schiff had with a Russian comedian posing as a Ukrainian lawmaker. During the call, scumbag-Schiff appeared to be very interested in getting incriminating material on Trump, including a nude photo with a Russian television reality star. However, the person on the other end of the line, who said he was Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Parubiy, was actually Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetzov, a Russian entertainer. The fact that the phone call was fake doesn’t make scumbag-Schiff’s interest in using a foreign government to obtain damaging information about the president any less real, Hollis charged in his ethics complaint. “This letter serves as an official complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) regarding Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s illegal collusion with foreign entities and misuse of taxpayer resources for opposition research on political enemies,” Hollis wrote, according to Fox. “The evidence supporting scumbag-Adam’s Schiff’s violations of the law is compelling and irrefutable.” At the time of the call, scumbag-Schiff was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Now, he’s the committee’s chairman and playing the lead role in closed-door hearings aimed at gathering information for an impeachment case against Trump using a complaint from a “whistleblower” over a Trump phone call in July with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky...

https://www.westernjournal.com/adam-schiff-hit-two-ethics-complaints-ukraine-prank-call/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune

The Senate Voted to End Emergency

on the Border

by Michael Cutler

{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ On September 25, 2019 the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch posted a disturbing report, “Senate votes to end border emergency under which Trump redirected military funds to wall construction”... that began with the following paragraph: The Senate again approved a resolution to end President Trump’s national emergency at the southern border, with Republicans joining Democrats in a bid to prevent the president from redirecting military funds toward a border wall, though Trump was expected to veto it again. The report went on to note that the Republicans control the Senate and ended with this sentence: The vote was an unusual display of Republican rebellion against the president’s quest for his signature policy initiative, which led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history that ended earlier this year. The Democrats refused to accept that there was a crisis on the southern border in the first place, and now the Republican-controlled Senate has voted, yet again, to “end the crisis”! What has not been determined, or reported upon, is how our politicians from either political party have come to the insane conclusion that the emergency on the treacherous southern border has ended. Certainly the “all clear” has not sounded. While President Trump has been successful in reducing the number of illegal aliens who are being apprehended by the Border Patrol along the southern border--though a number of tactics including getting Mexico to deploy their forces along the border and with other diplomatic initiatives--tens of thousands of illegal aliens continue to be apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol each month and narcotics continue to be seized along that troubled border... https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/senate-voted-end-emergency-border-michael-cutler

Trump says scumbag/liar-nObama 'hiding'

from questions about loose lips liar-Bidens and Ukraine: 'I think he knows all about it'

By Melissa Leon

{ foxnews.com } ~ Former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama has been hiding from questions about former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, his son Hunter and Hunter's work for a gas company in Ukraine, President Trump insisted Saturday night... "I think he knows all about it," Trump said of scumbag/liar-nObama during an exclusive interview on Fox News' "Justice with Judge Jeanine."Trump once against defended his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has served as the catalyst for an impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats, notably House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif. "If you take a look at it, scumbag-Adam Schiff made up a phony, fraudulent statement," Trump told host Jeanine Pirro, referring to swcumbag-Schiff's self-described "parody" account of the phone call during a hearing last month. "My phone call was a perfect call -- congenial, friendly, no pressure, no blackmail, as he Zelensky said." What scumbag-Schiff did was "horrible," and he "made it up out of thin air," the president continued. "Very strong action should be taken against this guy." Trump also called "Shifty scumbag-Schiff" a "failed screenwriter" for producing a "phony, fraudulent statement." Democrats have subpoenaed several Trump administration officials and diplomats for documents as lawmakers probe issues surrounding the phone call. House Democrats have accused Trump of violating his oath of office by asked him to investigate Ukraine's involvement in the 2016 presidential election and the activities of loose lips liar-Biden, a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and his son Hunter, a former board member of gas company Burisma Holdings. They have also accused Trump of withholding military aid from Ukraine until Zelensky's government could launch the investigations. The impeachment probe was launched last month after an intelligence community whistleblower's complaint raised concerns about the call... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-judge-jeanine-impeachment-ukraine-obama

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094435039001/#sp=show-clips

US conducted cyberattack

on Iran following strike on Saudi oil

by timesofisrael.com ~ The United States reportedly conducted a cyberattack against Iran in the wake of last month’s strike on key Saudi oil facilities... which many Western countries have blamed on the Islamic Republic. The late September attack took aim at Tehran’s ability to spread propaganda and affected physical hardware, the Reuters news agency reported Wednesday, citing two unnamed US officials.“It highlights how US President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to counter what it sees as Iranian aggression without spiraling into a broader conflict,” the report said. “The strike appears more limited than other such operations against Iran this year after the downing of an American drone in June and an alleged attack by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on oil tankers in the Gulf in May.” The report did not provide more details on the attack and said it wasn’t clear whether there have since been additional US cyberattacks against Iran. The Pentagon refused to comment on the cyberattack, telling Reuters: “As a matter of policy and for operational security, we do not discuss cyberspace operations, intelligence or planning.” The September 14 attack on Saudi oil installations claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a third of Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure and sent global energy prices soaring. Washington, Riyadh, Berlin, London and Paris blamed Iran for the attacks, which Tehran has denied having had any connection to... https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-conducted-cyberattack-on-iran-following-strike-on-saudi-oil-report/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-10-16&utm_medium=email

Fox Star Breaks Silence – It Was scumbag-Soros

by youtube.com ~ Fox News contributor John Solomon said on Friday that fired Ukrainian Ambassador Maria Yovanovich’s had links to a radical scumbag-Soros group... Yovanovich said in testimony on Friday that she was “incredulous” about being recalled for partisan reasons, while understanding that the president can remove any ambassador he wants. Solomon said that Yovanovich repeatedly made negative statements about the president and that Yovanovich had given Ukraine a list of people and organizations that she didn’t want to be investigated or prosecuted, including a scumbag-George Soros-funded group called AntAC. Solomon said that the anti-corruption group was funded jointly by scumbag-Soros and the State Department. He further said there was a “trail” between AntAC, scumbag-Soros and State Department officials that supervised Yovanovich. When asked about the role of foreign money in U.S. elections, Solomon pointed out that a reggae singer was just indicted for taking foreign money and laundering it into scumbag/liar-nObama’s campaign. “I don’t think it’s anything related to impeachment, the timing just makes it look suspect,” Solomon finished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jegqHAQY_hY

A Striking Contrast

Gary Bauer

President Trump delivered a rousing pro-America speech at his rally in Minneapolis Thursday night!

He presented the 2020 election as a stark choice, and correctly so in my view, between those who want to preserve religious liberty, free markets, the sanctity of life, our Second Amendment rights, and our national sovereignty against those demanding open borders, abortion-on-demand, socialism, and gun control.

I was particularly struck by how the president talked at length about what it is like to be commander-in-chief. It involves regular trips to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, which are rarely covered by the media. On those visits, the president sees firsthand the horrific wounds our soldiers endure.

It involves going to Dover Air Force Base to receive the bodies of fallen heroes. It involves writing personal letters, not form letters, to every family who loses a loved one serving in the military.

It was a side of the president people don’t see very often. When I am at the White House, I see him in a very different mood than what is presented by the media. He is a much more compassionate man than the left would like you to believe.

Sadly, there was violence after the rally ended. MAGA hats were burned. Trump supporters were assaulted. Leftists waved the flag of communist China. Police officers had to create a path for cars to leave because demonstrators were attacking vehicles in the parking garage.

It was a striking contrast. Inside the Target Center, Trump praised our brave men and women in uniform, our soldiers, and police officers. He defended our flag and our country.

Outside, the left-wing radicals, the activist base of the Democrat Party, were attacking cops, burning flags, yelling their hatred for America, and assaulting conservatives.

I’m not suggesting that loose lips liar-Joe Biden or Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren would be part of that crowd. But there’s no question which candidate that crowd would vote for come November, and it won’t be Donald Trump. Nor is that crowd ever denounced by the leadership of the Democrat Party.

On Fox News Thursday night, a Democrat consultant was asked about the violence at the rally. Of course, he insisted it was wrong, but then proceeded to justify the violence by suggesting it was a natural reaction to Trump!

If, after any speech by a leading Democrat, a mob formed outside and began punching people and attacking cars, every network would be running the footage non-stop. Every Republican would be forced to condemn it on the record.

But no elected Democrat today will be asked to condemn what happened on the streets of Minneapolis Thursday night. And I won’t hold my breath waiting for any progressives to voluntarily distance themselves from the protests.

Extremism on Display

For the second time in as many months, the Democrat presidential candidates held a town hall dedicated to LGBTQ issues. I still remember when the homosexual-rights movement insisted it was all just about the right to privacy for two consenting adults. Clearly, that’s not the case anymore. Now we’re having town-hall events on cable news networks featuring nine year-old kids.

Needless to say, the extremism of the Democrat candidates, and the left generally, was on full display Thursday night. Among other things, we learned it was “violence” to mispronounce a transgendered individual’s name.

loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren fully supported taxpayer funding for sex-change operations. loose lips liar-Biden also insisted that he would make gay rights a top priority in his foreign-policy agenda.

lowlife-Kamala Harris felt it was important to let the nation know that her pronouns were “she, her, and hers.” Evidently, they are Chris Cuomo’s preferred pronouns too!

And scumbag-Cory Booker promised to do even more to push the gay agenda in the public schools.

But the clear winner of the night’s “Crazy Award” goes to socialist-Beto O'Rourke.

His campaign is melting down politically, but it has nothing to do with the radical positions he’s taking. socialist-O'Rourke is being abandoned simply because he can’t compete against loose lips liar-Biden, dinky/liar-Warren, and commie-Sanders on the national stage. But all the other candidates shares his views on open borders and gun confiscation.

I bring this up because Thursday night socialist-O'Rourke officially declared war on America’s churches and non-profit ministries. He said that any religious organization that opposes same-sex marriage will lose its tax exempt status.

This issue has always been a battering ram to marginalize and attack the church. socialist-O'Rourke has done us a favor by stripping away the camouflage.

We predicted this years ago. If normal marriage is defined as bigotry, then no traditional faith-based group is safe.

Justice Samuel Alito raised the specter of religious institutions losing their tax-exemptions during the 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration attorney replied, “It’s certainly going to be an issue… I don’t deny that."

Neither does socialist-Beto. And if asked, I’m sure every other Democrat would agree with him.

My friends, you see what is at stake next November. Help us reelect President Trump, Vice President Pence, and send more pro-family, pro-life, pro-Trump conservatives to Congress!

Deal or No Deal?

President Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu met yesterday to discuss trade issues. There is considerable hope that the two men can iron out some sort of a deal, even a partial deal. And the Chinese are clearly eager for one.

One of the communist regime’s main propaganda outlets printed an editorial yesterday declaring:

A partial deal is a more feasible objective, and one that would be in the common interests of both sides. Not only would it be of tangible benefit by breaking the impasse, but it would also create badly needed breathing space for both sides to reflect on the bigger picture…

Whether there is a deal or not, this much is clear: The president would have been much more successful if he only had to deal with the Chinese communists. Unfortunately, he has also had to contend with a big swath of U.S. capitalists.

Whenever a Chinese delegation came to the U.S., they often flew into New York City first, where they would meet with Wall Street CEOs. As they headed to Washington, the CEOs would start lobbying on China’s behalf.

As Lenin reportedly said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66077?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 11:58am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Climate Alarmism of the Last 120 Years

Political Editors

Turkish bank charged in $20B scheme

to skirt US sanctions on Iran

By Morgan Phillips

{ foxnews.com } ~ Federal prosecutors in New York charged Turkish bank Halkbank Tuesday with participating in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran... Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said senior bank officials at the state-owned bank helped to move billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue illegally. Prosecutors said that between 2012 and 2016, Halkbank helped run a scheme allowing Iran to spend proceeds from oil sales on international markets, directly violating U.S. sanctions, using a web of front companies. Berman said the crimes were propped up by high-ranking Turkish government officials, some of whom received millions of dollars in bribes to support and protect the scheme. Halkbank was charged with one count of bank fraud, one count of money laundering, and four counts of conspiracy -- including conspiracy to commit bank fraud, commit money laundering, and defraud the United States, according to a Department of Justice statement. Assistant Attorney General John Demers called the scheme “one of the most serious Iran sanctions violations we have seen.” The types of illicit transactions Halkbank participated in would have exposed the bank itself to U.S. sanctions, if discovered. According to prosecutors, Halkbank allowed Iranian oil proceeds to be used by the Tehran government to buy gold, violated a “bilateral trade” rule and disguised fraudulent transactions as purchases of food and medicine to be categorized under the “humanitarian exception” to sanctions against Iran’s government. In total, Halkbank transferred approximately $20 billion of otherwise restricted Iranian funds. In January of last year, one of Halkbank's former executives, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to conduct secret transactions on behalf of Iran and Iran-related entities that were barred by U.S. sanctions. In May 2018, Atilla was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turkish-bank-charged-in-multibillion-dollar-scheme-to-skirt-us-iran-sanctions

Last night's Democrat debate

A cluster of tyrannical fantasists

By Patricia McCarthy

{ americanthinker.com } ~ For conservatives who watched the Democrat debate, it was like visiting Earth-2, as Drunkblogger Stephen Green so cleverly put it. Conservatives probably could not endure these debates without Stephen Green's infusion of both facts and humor... Each of those candidates on the stage seemed oblivious to the reality of the last three years — the fabulous economy, lowest unemployment in decades, international trade renegotiated to our benefit, millions no longer on food stamps. Our military, eviscerated by scumbag/liar-nObama, is being repaired. Manufacturing has been revitalized, and the border, despite the intransigence of the Democrats, is slowly being better controlled. The wall is being built. Everything Trump has done since being elected has been effective; he has tried to keep his campaign promises despite the Democrats' vow to see him impeached from day one. And no matter how vicious the Left is, those candidates on stage last night continue to opt for mindless delusion that he can be removed from office in order to prevent his re-election. Meanwhile, the rest of us are grateful for a president willing to fight back against both parties, who have nothing but contempt for Trump-supporters, for the man who means to drain the swamp. We must be thankful for the distinguished few in the House the Republicans in the Senate are abject cowards who have the courage to defend the president. The swamp was certainly on display throughout the debate. The Democrats are losing. Trump and his supporters are winning — on every issue, even Turkey and Syria. As others have observed, the Left plays checkers while Trump plays 4-D chess. He is way ahead of his opponents on every level, every issue. Most Americans like having jobs and like their friends and family members having jobs. They don't mind the fact that some people are fabulously wealthy. Those are the people who fund the countless attractions we take for granted: museums, medical research, hospitals that specialize, university buildings, public television, and a host of other things the rest of us enjoy and take for granted. Where would we be without the largesse of all the American billionaires and millionaires who have funded so many projects that have enriched us all? However they attained their wealth is of no interest, nor is how they live their lives. They have contributed to the public good beyond what any of us can adequately appreciate. But each and every one of the Democrat presidential candidates loathes and envies the rich. They mean to punish them. They want them to pay for all that free college tuition and health care for illegal aliens. They want to punish all the corporations that produce all the things we take for granted: our vast choices in any grocery store and our freedom to choose our own doctors, cars, where we live, what we watch on television, etc. Like the true totalitarians they are, they want to tell us what we can have, do, eat, drive, and think. They want to transform us into communist China. Nothing would make them happier. They would all still be rich; the rest of us would be under their thumbs, surveilled as the citizens of China are. Not one of the Democrat candidates ever mentions the word "freedom" or "liberty." This missing link should be the biggest wake-up call of all: they want to control how we live rather than let us live according to the principles of the Founders...

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/last_nights_democrat_debate_a_cluster_of_tyrannical_fantasists.html

Turkey Throws Wrenches Into the War on Terror

by LIAM DUFFY

{ spectator.org } ~ Since the start of the Bush administration’s War on Terror, much has rightly been made of the need to defeat the jihadist ideology behind terror attacks using more than simply guns and bombs... But terrorism is only one battleground of the broader ideological fight, and we will ultimately fail to defeat the jihadist threat unless we pull the Islamist rug from beneath their feet — a rug to which, at present, Turkey is adding its considerable weight. As evidenced by the latest incursion into Syria, President Erdoğan’s Turkey is at best hindering the fight against jihadism; at worst our NATO ally is inadvertently or not aiding and abetting the enemy. If we consider jihadism to be the tip of the Islamist spear, it becomes even clearer how problematic the role of Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) really is. Erdoğan himself is a disciple of Necmettin Erbakan, founder of Milli Gorus (National Vision), the Turkish cousin of the globally and disproportionately influential Muslim Brotherhood movement. The Muslim Brotherhood and Milli Gorus share the same ultimate objective as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, although their strategy differs and they are less promiscuous with their understanding of jihad. Muslim Brotherhood ideologues were key in the formation of the al-Qaeda worldview, and the barrier between the “nonviolent” Islamist groups and jihadist groups is porous to say the least, with a number of senior jihadists emerging from the intellectual Islamist movement. Although at one time Erdoğan’s Islamist days appeared to be behind him, he has embarked on a campaign of “re-Islamization” in Turkey— formerly a bastion of secularism. This mirrors the activities of Milli Gorus and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West, which seek to implant an ultra-orthodox and politicized Muslim identity into Western Muslim communities. Milli Gorus is heavily supported and influenced by Erdogan’s AKP, particularly in Europe. In Germany alone, Milli Gorus is estimated to control 300 mosques and can count some 30,000 members 87,000 in Europe in total. Aside from the risk of creating parallel societies that would prove dangerous to social cohesion and integration, Germany’s own assessment concludes that there is a “risk that such milieus could also form the breeding ground for further radicalization.” Alongside the re-Islamization campaign at home and abroad, Erdogan has slowly pressed down on the throat of democratic freedoms in Turkey, with thousands of alleged coup plotters still imprisoned after a brutal crackdown that left hundreds dead. Thousands of websites, including Wikipedia, are banned alongside occasional blockages of social media, and Turkey has tumbled down the ranks of both Freedom House’s democracy rankings and the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law index... https://spectator.org/turkey-throws-wrenches-into-the-war-on-terror/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=3ae5350a14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_16_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-3ae5350a14-104608113

How Erdogan Planned This

Ethnic Cleansing All Along

by Malcolm Lowe

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ It is now clear that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intended the annihilation of the Syrian Kurds already two years ago... Moreover, his plans became evident to the US military by the beginning of 2019 and were conveyed to President Trump at that time. In order to disguise his plans, Erdogan revealed them stage by stage, by making first lesser and then greater demands on the US military, to which Trump agreed -- sometimes in the course of telephone conversations with Erdogan. So Erdogan was able to hoodwink the US military up to January 2019 and to hoodwink Trump up to the current invasion: Trump resolutely defied contrary advice from the military and from everyone else. At first, Erdogan demanded the removal of Kurdish militias only west of the Euphrates river. This was the proclaimed aim of his so-called Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Kurds from the Afrin area. With that accomplished, he began demanding a Turkish-controlled "security zone" east of the river, to be 32 kilometers deep. The US responded by agreeing to joint US-Turkish patrols in the area. Erdogan demanded that the Kurdish towns in the area should dismantle the fortifications that they had raised to defend themselves from the Islamic State (ISIS). The Kurds agreed, reassured by the US military that this step would remove any excuse for a Turkish invasion. Finally, in October 2019, Erdogan asked Trump in a further telephone call to remove US troops from the patrols and Trump agreed, believing that by threatening Turkey on Twitter, he could deter a Turkish invasion. The invasion started forthwith. It has been stalled, maybe, now that the Kurds have invited the army of the Assad regime to deploy throughout northeastern Syria up to the Iraqi frontier. If so, the beneficiaries will include Iran, America's arch enemy, which can now see its yearned-for highway all the way from Tehran to Quneitra on Israel's border. In this timetable, there is no need document with links information that has been reported many times in many media. To be recommended, however, are especially the articles of Seth Frantzman, who personally knows well both the area and the leading Kurdish partisans... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15036/erdogan-plan-annihilation-kurds

In Effort to Deter Iran, DOD Deploys

Additional Forces to Saudi Arabia

by Bradley Bowman and Mikhael Smits

{ fdd.org } ~ In response to continued threats from Iran and a request from Riyadh, the Pentagon announced Friday the deployment of additional U.S. forces to Saudi Arabia... Washington is seeking to strengthen U.S. combat power in the Middle East as a means to deter additional Iranian aggression and avoid a wider conflict. The deployment represents the latest U.S. response to the September 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Khurais oil field and Abqaiq oil-processing facility. The attack featured a swarm of cruise missiles and low-flying drones. Abqaiq represents the world’s largest such facility, and the attack temporarily knocked-out nearly 6 percent of global crude oil production. Shortly after the September 14 attacks, the Department of Defense deployed an additional Patriot missile defense battery, four Sentinel radars, and 200 support personnel to Saudi Arabia. Friday’s announcement adds two additional fighter squadrons, two more Patriot batteries, one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, and one air expeditionary wing. The September 14 attack is part of what Secretary of Defense Mark Esper called Iran’s “larger campaign to destabilize the Middle East and impose costs on the international economy.” During a press conference, Esper hinted that U.S. partners and allies continue to express concerns to the administration regarding additional Iranian aggression – concerns Esper suggested were confirmed by U.S. intelligence. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said the deployment was necessary to “reestablish deterrence with respect to Iran.” The need to deter Iran is clear. Since May, Tehran’s actions have escalated from surreptitious attacks on foreign vessels, to the downing of a U.S. drone in international airspace, to a major cross-border attack on Saudi Arabia that many would consider a clear act of war. Unfortunately, President Trump’s short-sighted decision to greenlight a Turkish military intervention into northeast Syria and withdraw U.S. troops from the area will only reinforce Tehran’s suspicions that Washington’s commitment to the region’s security is hesitant and brittle. In response to Iran’s actions, the U.S. has deployed 14,000 additional troops to the region since May. In addition to the most recent deployments, as Esper noted, this includes airborne early warning aircraft squadrons, maritime patrol aircraft squadrons, B-52 bombers, an amphibious transport dock, unmanned aircraft, engineering personnel, and the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG)... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/15/in-effort-to-deter-iran-dod-deploys-additional-forces-to-saudi-arabia/

About the CNN Debate

by MELISSA MACKENZIE

{ spectator.org } ~ My goodness, these people are boring. What a snoozefest. What was most interesting, though, is what wasn’t talked about... No loose lips liar-Biden corruption. No China. No answer from Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren, the ostensible front-runner, about where the money comes from for her pie-in-the-sky schemes. Hint: It’s the middle class paying higher taxes. If Democrats refuse to answer, the middle class paying higher taxes is always the answer. Here’s some overall impressions, and then I’ll get into the candidates themselves. First, this crew has driven past commie-Bernie the Squad endorsed him!!! and gone off into the weeds and rusting buildings of commieland. Trillions of spending was waved off as no big deal. Gun confiscation was enthusiastically embraced. The Democrats are now the party of perpetual war and foreign adventurism, but there was zero mention of one Barack H. scumbag/liar-nObama. Also notably absent: Code Pink. Where are those ardent, true believers screaming out, “BUSH McHALLIBURTON!!!”? Second, let’s be honest, though. Who really was paying attention to their insanely extreme domestic and foreign policy plans? Mostly, they were boring. Leaden, even. Nothing quotable. Nothing interesting. This is in stark contrast to the Republicans in 2016. That field was strong. Nearly anyone on that stage could be president and America would be fine. Forget who they were? Let’s just look at the candidates who withdrew before the primary: Rick Perry governor, Texas — economic miracle, Scott Walker governor, Wisconsin — economic turnaround, Bobby Jindal governor, Louisiana — growth, Lindsey Graham senator, South Carolina — Years of experience, foreign policy and judicial expert, George Pataki Yuck, but governor, New York. Any of them could lead the nation better than the doofuses on the stage as the premiere Democrats. President scumbag/liar-nObama decimated the party for a generation. Not only did Democrats across the country get destroyed but the bench to build future leaders also sat empty. Hopefully, the Republicans are watching and learning. Just kidding. They never learn. Anyway, the lack on the Democrat side is so complete and sad, it’s a little unnerving. None of these people deserve to lead this nation. Let’s discuss why, one by one... https://spectator.org/about-the-cnn-debate/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=3ae5350a14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_16_12_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-3ae5350a14-104608113

Climate Alarmism of the Last 120 Years

Political Editors: To error is human. And if science is only as good as the scientist, then, since scientists are human … any reasonable person would be foolish not to hold a healthy amount of skepticism toward any declarations of the science being “settled.” This is especially the case when it comes to the politically charged topic of global warming or climate change or whatever it will be called in the near future. A few years ago, Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That? put together a list of the last 120 years of climate alarmism. Given that the list is still relevant because alarmists never quit issuing new dire predictions, here are a few examples of just how wrong they’ve been over the years:

1895 — Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again —The New York Times
1902 — “Disappearing Glaciers … deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation … scientific fact … surely disappearing.” —Los Angeles Times
1923 — “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” —Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, in the Chicago Tribune
1933 — America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise —The New York Times
1954 — Climate — the Heat May Be Off —Fortune Magazine
1969 — “The Arctic pack ice is thinning and … the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two” —The New York Times
1969 — “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000” —Paul Ehrlich (while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation)
1974 — Global cooling for the past forty years —Time Magazine
1974 — “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age” —The Washington Post
1974 — “The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure … mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence.” —The New York Times
1975 — “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind” Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine
1990 — “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” —Senator Timothy Wirth
1998 — No matter if the science [of global warming] is all phony … climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.“ —Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment, Calgary Herald
2006 — "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” —scumbag-Al Gore, Grist magazine
2014 — Climate change: It’s even worse than we thought. Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet’s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer. —New Scientist (undated in 2014)

Again, these are but a few of the climate headlines over the last century. What is telling is how in more recent years the climate alarmism has become increasingly tied to leftist politics, to the detriment of science. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66075?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 9:32am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democratizing China

or 'Communizing' America?

Arnold Ahlert

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

dinky/liar-WARREN SWARMED: On Tuesday night, “Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren took heat in the fourth Democratic debate,” writes CNBC. Check out the top moments from the unconstitutional debate.

SHORT ON VOTES? “Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday she will not stage a vote on the House floor to officially launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump,” according to The Hill. liar-Pelosi claims, “There’s no requirement that we have a vote.” Instead, Democrats, led by scumbag-Adam Schiff, are using a nefarious legal process. As such, Rudy Giuliani won’t comply with a Democrat-issued subpoena.

National Security

VETO, PART II: Trump vetoes measure to end his emergency declaration on border wall; similar measure was vetoed in March (Reuters)

DOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR MIKE PENCE VISIT: Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows never to declare a ceasefire in northern Syria despite U.S. backlash: “We are not worried about any sanctions” (National Review)

MEANWHILE… “Officials are reviewing plans to evacuate up to 50 U.S. nuclear bombs that have long been stored at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in the wake of Ankara’s military offensive in northern Syria.” (Fox News)

Government & Politics

CONSCIENTIOUS PROTECTIONS: Federal court strikes down scumbag/liar-nObama administration “transgender mandate” for doctors (Fox News)

POLITICAL FUTURES: Hispanics become the largest voting-eligible minority group in the country (National Review)

APPEASING THE LAWLESS: California will allow illegal aliens to serve on government boards (Hot Air)

Other Notables

SWEEPING TOLL: “The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year — and it may keep getting more expensive, according to a study released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries.” (Associated Press)

DIABOLICAL: Syrian regime accused of dozens of torture methods from “crucifixion” to rape to eye-gouging (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Free speech must be protected inside and outside the college classroom (American Enterprise Institute)

POLICY: Carbon taxes will never be enough (Capital Research Center)

HUMOR: Oppressed Chinese citizens apologize to NBA players for disrupting their difficult week (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66149?mailing_id=4590&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4590&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

liar-Nancy Pelosi Promises House Impeachment Subpoenas Will Not Have Legal Penalties –

House Will Not Authorize Impeachment Inquiry

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ According to Capitol Hill members, via Politico, House Democrat leadership has taken a climate assessment of democrat House members and Speaker liar-Pelosi announced they will not hold a House impeachment authorization vote... As a direct and specific consequence all committee subpoenas do not carry a penalty for non-compliance. A judicial penalty can only be created if the House votes to authorize an impeachment inquiry. Absent a vote, the Legislative Branch has not established compulsion authority aka judicial enforcement authority, as they attempt to work through their quasi-constitutional “impeachment inquiry” process. Instead of subpoenas, scumbag-Adam Schiff House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Chairman scumbag-Elijah E. Cummings Committee on White House Oversight; and Chairman scumbag-Eliot L. Engel House Committee on Foreign Affairs can only send out request letters.The compliance is discretionary based on the ideology of the recipient. It is likely, highly likely, liar-Nancy Pelosi does not have the votes to proceed with a full House impeachment authorization; so liar-Pelosi, scumbag-Schiff, scumbag-Engel and scumbag-Cummings have to rely on the duplicity of the media to help them hide their scheme. So far the media is complying. Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders will hold off on a full House vote authorizing an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to multiple lawmakers and aides...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/15/fraud-continues-nancy-pelosi-promises-house-impeachment-subpoenas-will-not-have-legal-penalties-house-will-not-authorize-impeachment-inquiry/

135 House Republicans co-sponsor resolution

to censure scumbag-Schiff over 'parody'

reading of Trump-Zelensky call

By Andrew O'Reilly

{ foxnews.com } ~ A motion to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for his “parody” reading of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during a hearing last month... is gaining steam with House Republicans, as Fox News has learned 135 lawmakers have now signed on as co-sponsors. The resolution to censure scumbag-Schiff -- who has become a favorite target of Republicans for his role in the Trump impeachment inquiry -- was first introduced late last month by Rep. Andy Biggs, the Arizona Republican who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and has the support of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., among other ranking Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress. Democrats have the majority and control the floor in the House, but Republicans could still attempt to force a vote on the matter. “scumbag-Schiff simply does not have the gravitas that a weighty procedure such as impeachment requires,” Biggs wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. “He has repeatedly shown incredibly poor judgment. He has persistently and consistently demonstrated that he has such a tremendous bias and animus against Trump that he will say anything and accept any proffer of even bogus evidence to try to remove the president from office.” Fox News has requested comment from scumbag-Schiff's office. scumbag-Schiff, who is leading one of the committees investigating Trump in the impeachment inquiry announced by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has been under fire from conservatives for the “parody” of the president’s call with Zelensky that he read at the testimony last month of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire. Maguire was on Capitol Hill to defend his handling of the explosive whistleblower complaint detailing how Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter... I don't see the issue here when other Presidents have done the same. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/125-house-republicans-co-sponsor-resolution-to-censure-schiff-over-parody-reading-of-trump-zelensky-call

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6089893388001/#sp=show-clips

Klobuchar Wrath Attack

Angry Amy Came to Play

by Andrew Stiles

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Tonight was the night Amy Klobuchar stopped playing coy on the debate stage and started treating her Democratic opponents like she treats her employees... Angry Amy came to play.A confessed bird murderer who presided over a Senate office that former staffers described as "controlled by fear, anger, and shame," Klobuchar (D., Minn.) traded her inside voice for her shouty voice, and lit into her Democratic opponents, accusing them of trying to deceive the American people with lies. De facto frontrunner Senator Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren (D., Mass.) bore the brunt of Amy's rage, especially when it came to the issue of health care and dinky/liar-Warren's refusal to admit that middle class taxes will go up under her proposed "Medicare for All" plan. "I'm sorry, dinky/liar-Elizabeth … I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where we're going to send the invoice," Klobuchar seethed. "I believe the best and boldest idea here is to not trash scumbag/liar-nObamacare, but to do exactly what Barack scumbag/liar-nObama wanted to do from the beginning, and that's have a public option." Klobuchar was just getting started, accusing dinky/liar-Warren of wanting to kick 150 million people off of their preferred health insurance plans by forcing them to enroll in Medicare. "And I'm tired of hearing whenever I say these things, ‘Oh, it's Republican talking points,'" Klobuchar fumed. "You are making Republican talking points right now in this room … I think there is a better way that is bold, that will cover more people, and it's the one we should get behind."... https://freebeacon.com/blog/angry-amy-klobuchar/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bd1347ad9a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_16_01_34_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bd1347ad9a-45611665

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7EcoQ47pLM

Erdoğan Invaded; What's Next in Syria?

by Daniel Pipes

{ danielpipes.org } ~ Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has admitted that American troops in Syria are in a "terrible" position. What happened to bring Americans to this predicament?... Trump has decided that bringing American troops back from the Middle East is his highest priority, ignoring the situation in Syria, morality, and the reputation of the United States. What now is the mission of the US military in Syria after Turkish troops entered Syria? Is there a purpose if the Americans troops don't support anyone - neither Kurds nor Turks? The U.S. military mission in Syria is to leave but also to threaten Turkey if Erdoğan goes too far. Whatever that means. Esper has spoken of withdrawing about a thousand troops from Syria and the main contingent may leave in the coming days. What do you expect next? It's hard to predict because so much of the U.S. government, especially the Department of Defense and the Congress, oppose Trump, so they might be able to stall or push him to get the Turks to stop the invasion. Which forces will take advantage of the vacuum created in northern Syria after the American departure? The U.S. withdrawal helps Turkey, which now can move into Syria; and the Asad government and its Iranian ally, which is making deals with the Kurds. The Kurds are looking to Moscow to stop the Turks; will the Russians go against Erdoğan and support the Kurds? I expect Putin to find a path that maximizes Russian influence over both Ankara and the Kurds. I can't predict what that path will be. How will it all end, what will be the alignment of forces in northern Syria? I foresee a de facto division of northern Syria between Turkish, Kurdish, and Syrian-Iranian areas.

http://www.danielpipes.org/19075/erdogan-invaded-what-next-in-syria?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=7790f3a99c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_15_09_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-7790f3a99c-33703665

'These are not hearings. These are depositions' Democrats justify secret impeachment inquiry

by Kerry Picket

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee defended holding the impeachment inquiry proceedings in secret and withholding transcripts by saying witnesses were giving depositions and not testifying in hearings... “I think that at an appropriate point in the future these transcripts will be released. Let's remember what's happened here. These are not hearings. These are depositions and we're following best practices for investigations," Rep. Denny Heck said Monday night after nine hours of secret testimony from former top Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill. The Washington state Democrat added, "These are depositions, not hearings.” “At some point, I believe in the near future, the transcripts will be released. And should there be a recommendation to the Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment, that will be a public process,” he explained, adding that articles of impeachment would then go to the House floor for a vote. Republicans have cried foul because witness transcripts from closed-door House impeachment proceedings have yet to be released but House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff has demanded the White House release documents related to the president’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin pointed out that scumbag-Schiff had compared the impeachment inquiry to the grand jury process. “If you actually believe that you should be treating this as grand jury testimony, then you shouldn't be leaking and cherry picking any fact that you think" helps your own narrative. Heck said the White House was "darn lucky" the hearings were not public. He continued, “We don't want the witnesses knowing at this stage what one another said. These transcripts will be made available at some point, and this process will become open beyond belief at some point. But we are in the stage of the process which is investigatory." Zeldin said, “So they'll talk to each other through scumbag-Adam Schiff's leaks. That's it. So they will get to know what another person will testify to that scumbag-Adam Schiff believes best fits his spin on reality.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/these-are-not-hearings-these-are-depositions-democrats-justify-secret-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/15/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

Don’t Think the Turks

Are Slaughtering the Kurds?

by clarionproject.org ~ One of the most dramatic instances of the Turks slaughtering the Kurds during their days-long invasion of Syria is the execution of well-loved Kurdish-Syrian politician Hevrin Khalaf... Khalaf, 35, who was the secretary general of the Future Syria Party, and her driver were dragged out of their car and shot to death by Turkish-backed fighters from the group Ahrar al-Sharqiya during Turkey’s military operation against the Kurds. Khalaf and her driver were among many civilians killed during the Turkish onslaught. The execution was summed up by the following cartoon posted on Twitter: A Clarion contact with the Kurdish Red Crescent (Heyva Sora a Kurd) sent us a detailed, day-by-day report of the bombardment and ensuing causalities, of which the figure numbers in the hundreds. In addition to the Kurds, the lives of close to 100,000 Christians in the region are also in danger. Meanwhile, President Trump’s pullout of the American troops in the region — which facilitated the invasion by Turkey — remains a subject of controversy. Trump stated that he would retaliate economically if Turkey crossed the line with the invasion. By Monday the administration had done just that, increasing steel tariffs back up to 50 percent they had been reduced since in May. “The United States will also immediately stop negotiations, being led by the Department of Commerce, with respect to a $100 billion trade deal with Turkey,”Trump announced. Finally, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two ministries and three senior Turkish government officials in response to the invasion...

https://clarionproject.org/dont-think-the-turks-are-slaughtering-the-kurds-watch-this/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=29a63772ba-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_15_02_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-29a63772ba-6442509&mc_cid=29a63772ba&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

VIDEO: https://twitter.com/RenasSino/status/1183057614051123201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1183057614051123201&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclarionproject.org%2Fdont-think-the-turks-are-slaughtering-the-kurds-watch-this%2F

Democratizing China or 'Communizing' America?

Arnold Ahlert: Ever since Richard Nixon’s historic visit to Communist China in 1972, Americans have been repeatedly told by members of both parties and several administrations that contact with the West would “democratize” them. Yet what if it’s the other way around? What if China is succeeding in turning the United States into a Marxist/socialist state? How many Americans have been persuaded that our nation, not China, needs to be “fundamentally transformed”?

We begin with academia — or what passes for such. Last week, former Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at an annual conference hosted by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, was subjected to a heckler’s veto and forced off the stage. The incident took place at Georgetown Law, where one might assume people are earning credentials to defend the Constitution, not trample it.

Such totalitarian-like behavior is the tip of the iceberg. In universities throughout the nation, the Left’s radical agenda has become so thoroughly entrenched that anyone who challenges it can now be run off stage, sometimes in fear for their lives. Moreover, anything that doesn’t comport with progressive ideology is “hate speech,” and course studies revolving around topics like “white privilege,” “toxic masculinity,” and the idea that America is a hopelessly racist, sexist, bigoted nation have become routine.

It’s even worse in the nation’s public schools. A toxic combination of dumbing-down and rank indoctrination, papered over by rampant grade inflation, is turning out legions of weak thinkers, virtually clueless about civics and the Constitution, but imbued with quasi-religious, inalterable convictions about environmentalism, social justice, and anti-capitalist economics — and the need for increasingly expansive and coercive government to “solve” the nation’s problems.

Hollywood is no better. The same celebrities and executives who never miss an opportunity to lecture this nation about its shortcomings are the people who tailor their pictures to suit a Chinese government that demands obedience in order to gain distribution. Such obedience, which is all about relinquishing creative control to Chinese censors, has also become routine.

Big business? In the past week alone, the NBA, ESPN, Apple, Google, and even Tiffany & Co surrendered to ChiCom demands with regard to the protesters in Hong Kong. All of these entities have made it clear that Liberty takes a back seat to lucre.

And not just in China. In Philadelphia and Washington, DC, the NBA actually ejected fans for holding signs in support of Hong Kong and the Uighurs, the Muslim-minority group that has been systematically persecuted and forced into internment camps. They also had their signs confiscated. NBA sports agents are warning their players, many of whom express their social-justice take on America whenever it suits them, to remain silent.

What’s more important than freedom? Sneaker contracts. “You see NBA players constantly over the summer in their off-season running to China to do the bidding of their shoe companies and to sell their shoes in the China market and so the NBA is really being exposed as not nearly as much of American business as it is a global business with China perhaps having more influence over it than even America,” explains sports journalist Jason Whitlock.

Other companies recently caving to Chinese sensibilities include jeweler Swarovski, clothing-makers Versace, Coach, and Calvin Klein, automaker Audi, Marriott hotels, Qantas, Air France, Air Canada, and British Airways. Blizzard Entertainment, a California-based game company, banned e-sport player “Blitzchung” for a year, and fined him the total amount of the prize money he won at a regular-season tournament, because he voiced support for the Hong Kong protesters.

The pattern is apparent and the message is clear: Patriotism, Liberty, and concern for basic human rights take a back seat to multinationalism, and ideas like “last best hope for mankind,” “beacon of freedom,” and “American exceptionalism” no longer resonate among elitists who don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves and their bottom line.

The media? Their unrelenting attempt to force feed the American public the “progressive” narrative has reached metastatic levels. Three years of lies, leaks, and propagandizing — from the Russian hoax to the New York Times’ race-baiting, historically revisionist 1619 Project, and everything in between — has made it clear their two main agendas are to divide this nation, and undo the 2016 election — by any means necessary. They are aided and abetted by felony leaking, courtesy of an unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy that can come at any American, including the president, “six ways from Sunday.” As a result, public trust has reached an all-time low, even as as “fake news” is still disseminated on a daily basis — and a de facto coup remains ongoing.

Media is joined at the hip by the tech giants who’ve made it clear they intend to completely eliminate privacy. It’s a contemptible stew of surveillance-capable and data-mining devices and “algorithms” designed to “filter” dissent and tailor public opinion beginning in American classrooms — and possibly ending in the manipulation of millions of votes — makes George Orwell’s 1984 look benign by comparison. And whether Americans realize it or not, the avalanche of currently obtainable data allows for the seamless transition into the very same Social Credit System the Communist Chinese government will forcibly impose on its people beginning next year. The one where a person’s “trustworthiness” will be evaluated, and those found wanting will be blacklisted, economically and socially.

Politics? One and a half of our two main political parties are willing to not only jeopardize our nation’s economy, but it’s national security as well. If there is anything resembling bipartisanship in our nation’s capital, it amounts to bipartisan contempt for the nation-state, borders, a genuine justice system that treats everyone the same — and ordinary Americans, whose influence on the body politic must ultimately be rendered irrelevant by massive levels of legal and illegal immigration.

Our devolution is further epitomized by the Democrat Party’s effort to undo the 2016 election, even if it takes what amounts to a star chamber approach to impeachment. One whereby the whistleblower form is changed to to accommodate second-hand allegations, testimony and transcripts are kept secret, and the abandonment of precedent is perpetrated by a cabal of House zealots, who refuse to let their colleagues hold a formal vote on the issue — and refuse to grant the Republicans the power to call their own witnesses or issue subpoenas, even as they issue subpoenas of their own. “The subpoenas are part of a two-pronged strategy by Democrats,” explains columnist Chad Pergram. “Get the information to help tailor the articles of impeachment, or convert a refusal to comply into an impeachment article itself.”

Every bit of this charade will be fully coordinated with the Trump-hating media, controlled by America-contemptuous multinational corporations, run by elitists indoctrinated by a corrupt education system, who also can count on useful idiot Hollywood cheerleaders to give them an aura of celebrity-endorsed legitimacy.

So, when it comes to America and China, who’s changing whom?

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” —George Orwell ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66090?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wednesday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 16, 2019 at 6:58am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Request to Require -- Tolerate to Mandate

Tom McLaughlin

Political correctness versus common sense

By Robert Curry

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The masters of political correctness in America are moving fast. For example, consider the explosion of so-called gender identities." In 2016, New York City released a list of 31 genders approved by the city's Commission on Human Rights... While writing my book Reclaiming Common Sense, I consulted Google to find out how many genders there were then and was told that the answer was 63. Today, while writing this article, I re-Googled that question, and it was revealed to me that the latest number is 112. Political correctness about gender identities is metastasizing rapidly, making it difficult for ordinarily busy people to keep up. And keep up we must, just as people living in the Soviet Union had to keep up with the constantly changing Communist party line. Not long ago, everyone understood the unchanging commonsense reality that human beings are either male or female. Today in New York City, the rules have been changed — and failure to keep up can have dire consequences. New York City's special 31 genders are surrounded by special legal protections. Businesses can now be fined as much as $250,000 for refusing to address someone by his preferred pronoun. As we have seen in the news, even in cities that have not yet have caught up with New York City in terms of imposing legal penalties, failing a test of political correctness about genders can result in public shaming or the loss of a job. There is more to this story. Consider the names given the genders officially approved by New York City's Commission on Human Rights. The names include "drag king," "drag queen," "butch," "femme queen," "gender fluid," "gender blender," "gender gifted," "gender bender," and "femme person of transgender experience." Talk about rubbing our noses in it! The commissioners have gone out of their way to be outrageously transgressive. This is not accidental. They are making it abundantly clear they are ridiculing normal people and the world of common sense — the more outrageous, the better. Why would they do that? Because the purpose of political correctness is to humiliate us. Under the cover of empowering people who deviate from normal, the proponents of political correctness are actually disempowering the rest of us... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/political_correctness_versus_common_sense.html

Senate Passes Ransomware Law

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by Phil Muncaster

{ infosecurity-magazine.com } ~ A new law has passed the US senate which will demand the federal government ramp up its support for organizations hit by ransomware... The DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build dedicated teams tasked with providing advice to organizations on how best to protect their systems from attack, as well as other technical support, including incident response assistance. Although the new capabilities would be available to all public and private organizations on request — including businesses, police departments, hospitals, and banks — senate minority leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer focused on protection for New York state schools in his comments on the legislation. “The Senate passing the DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act is an important step in protecting upstate New York school districts from the swaths of ransomware attacks that take hostage the personal information and vital data of our students, school employees and local governments,” he said in a statement. “It’s critical that we use all available resources to protect New York students from cyber crooks, and enhance and increase our resiliency to these attacks. I’m proud of the role I played in pushing this sorely-needed legislation through the senate and won’t stop working until it’s signed into law.” One security vendor calculated last week that ransomware attacks have disrupted operations at 49 US school districts and educational institutions in the first nine months of the year, compromising potentially 500 K-12 schools versus just 11 last year. This makes the sector the second most popular for ransomware attackers after local municipalities. These have been battered by attacks over the past few months, with one campaign in Texas hitting 23 local government entities simultaneously. A similar piece of legislation to the DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act has already passed in the House of Representatives, so the two will now begin the reconciliation process. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/senate-passes-ransomware-law/

Top Conservative Rumored To Replace Shep

Smith At Fox News – This Would Be HUGE

by Martin Walsh

{ explainlife.com } ~ Most people who watch Fox News are well-aware of the liberal hosts who use their shows to bash President Donald Trump... But things kicked up a notch last week when left-wing anchor Shepherd Smith quit from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of Fox News’ breaking news unit. In his absence, anchors Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Shannon Bream, Martha MacCallum, Bill Hemmer, and John Roberts are among the Fox News Channel news anchors who will do a stint in the 3 p.m. hour. But rumors are swirling that one of the most famous voices in conservative media could replace Smith: Rush Limbaugh.The rumors are gaining so much traction that Limbaugh addressed them on his radio program Monday afternoon. Limbaugh said he didn’t have any desire to accept the job if it were ever offered to him, but the fact that he even acknowledged the possibility speaks volumes. So many people want him to have a show on Fox News that Limbaugh said people have been “blowing up” his email, social media pages, and calling into his program to push him into taking over Smith’s program. Below is a partial transcript of Limbaugh addressing the rumors: A lot of people have said, “Rush, why don’t you, when you finish at 3 o’clock, why don’t you just turn on the camera in there and let Fox hire to you replace Shep Smith. I mean, you could segue from your show to the 3 o’clock audience over at Fox.” You know why this is being suggested, is because Shepard Smith abruptly left the network last week in circumstances that are still a bit cloudy and mysterious. Folks, let me tell you something. I have nothing left to prove. I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I have built radio stations. I have built audiences. I don’t need to prove I can do that anymore... https://explainlife.com/top-conservative-rumored-to-replace-shep-smith-at-fox-news-this-would-be-huge-17041/?utm_source=Explainlife.com%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email

Democracy Dies In Darkness: scumbag-Adam

Schiff Just Banned A GOP Lawmaker From

Attending Key Ukrainegate Deposition

By Sean Davis

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., just banned a key Republican lawmaker from the deposition of a former anti-Trump national security official believed to be at the center of ongoing Ukraine proceedings... sources tell The Federalist. Schiff tossed Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., out of the deposition. Although the U.S. House of Representatives has not approved a resolution authorizing a formal impeachment investigation, House Democrats have nonetheless insisted that they have full authority to subpoena all documents and testimony they desire, even if specific committees lack the jurisdiction to demand particular information. scumbag-Schiff, whom liar-Pelosi tapped to lead her party’s anti-Trump impeachment efforts, chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), which only has jurisdiction over the federal government’s intelligence agencies and related components. According to the Congressional Research Service, formal impeachment proceedings are typically referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Gaetz sits on that committee; scumbag-Schiff does not. The House has yet to approve a resolution granting broad impeachment investigative authority to any of its committees. Several officials told The Federalist that they believe Fiona Hill, who was subpoenaed last week to share her knowledge of allegations of wrongdoing against Trump regarding a phone conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, is one of the unnamed sources for the anti-Trump whistleblower whose August 12 complaint fanned congressional impeachment fires. Hill was reportedly planning to testify about her knowledge of the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, a controversial figure who was removed from her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in May. scumbag-Schiff has come under fire for blatantly lying about his staff’s interactions with the anti-Trump complainant. Although he falsely denied that neither he nor his staff had any interactions with the complainant, his team had actually coordinated with the complainant before the complaint against Trump was even filed. scumbag-Schiff has also raised the ire of transparency and open government advocates by selectively leaking incomplete and out-of-context information against Trump while stubbornly refusing to release full transcripts of his depositions of federal officials subpoenaed by his committee. scumbag-Adam Schiff should be the one to be banned, not Matt Gaetz. https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/14/democracy-dies-in-darkness-adam-schiff-just-banned-a-gop-lawmaker-from-attending-key-ukrainegate-deposition/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=57700518e8-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-57700518e8-83771801

The End Of scumbag/liar-nObamacare?

Ruling Expected Within Days

by SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN

{ npr.org } ~ A decision in the latest court case to threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act could come as soon as this month... The ruling will come from the panel of judges in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral arguments in the Texas v. Azar lawsuit. An estimated 24 million people get their health coverage through programs created under the law, which has faced countless court challenges since it passed. In court in July, only two of the three judges — both appointed by Republican presidents — asked questions. Says Nicholas Bagley, a professor of law at the University of Michigan: “Oral argument in front of the circuit went about as badly for the defenders of the Affordable Care Act as it could have gone,” “To the extent that oral argument offers an insight into how judges are thinking about the case, I think we should be prepared for the worst — the invalidation of all or a significant part of the Affordable Care Act.” Important caveat: Regardless of this ruling, the Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land. Whatever the 5th Circuit rules, it will be a long time before anything actually changes. Still, the timing of the ruling matters, says Sabrina Corlette, director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University. “If that decision comes out before or during open enrollment, it could lead to a lot of consumer confusion about the security of their coverage and may actually discourage people from enrolling, which I think would be a bad thing,” she says. Don’t be confused. Open enrollment begins Nov. 1 and runs at least through Dec. 15, and the insurance marketplaces set up by the law aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. That’s not to underplay the stakes here. Down the line, sometime next year, if the Supreme Court ends up taking the case and ruling the ACA unconstitutional, “the chaos that would ensue is almost possible impossible to wrap your brain around,” Corlette says...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/12/769038397/heads-up-a-ruling-on-the-latest-challenge-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-coming

Brutal wipeout for Democrats in Louisiana,

and the press trying to keep it quiet

By Monica Showalter

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The last of the Louisiana state election numbers are in, and it's not pretty for the Democrats. Not only does its moderate Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, face a runoff, as noted here, but the state Senate has taken a supermajority... And a whole bunch of key state offices went squarely to Republicans. Funny how the press isn't covering this much. But Guy Benson at Townhall is, and he found a Democratic Party "decimated": Among statewide office-holders, the incumbent GOP Lieutenant Governor (68 percent), Attorney General (66 percent), Treasurer (60 percent, and Agricultural Commissioner (58 percent) were all re-elected without the need for a run-off, under the state's 'jungle primary'-style system. It also appears that the solid Republican majorities in both state legislative chambers will remain intact — with the GOP expanding its Senate advantage into super-majority territory by picking up a pair of Democratic seats: The Hill, which also had a look, but ran an anodyne headline that didn't match the content of its three-alarm fire for Democrats, noted that this Democrat loss came in a special election, and those normally don't draw large numbers of voters, but this one did. And not only did the Republicans take a Senate supermajority, but they almost snapped away the state House, too: Amid record turnout for what is usually a sleepy off-year, irregular election, Louisiana Republicans locked up enough seats in the state Senate to amount to a super majority. The party came within seven seats of winning a super majority in the state House, too, with eight runoff elections to come in November. What's more, the outlook continues to get strong for the GOP in Louisiana because the Republicans have consolidated: the GOP gubernatorial candidate third-place finisher, Ralph Abraham, endorsed the second-place finisher, Eddie Rispone. This makes the whole thing sound like a wave election, with a big warning to the Left for 2020... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/brutal_wipeout_for_democrats_as_final_louisiana_numbers_roll_in.html

Request to Require -- Tolerate to Mandate

Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ In its early days, what we now know as the “LGBT Community” begged society for tolerance of “alternative lifestyles.” Then it asked for acceptance. After gaining some measure of political clout, it demanded “rights.” Lately, it is imposing conformity by legislating civil penalties against people who adhere to biological facts and religious beliefs about LGBT issues. How soon before it criminalizes dissent? How soon will we discover as Cool Hand Luke did that if you don’t, “Get your mind right,” you’ll “spend a night in the box.”

Last week I saw two stories alerting me that it’s just around the corner. The first was in National Review about a former 30-year Emergency Room doctor in the UK who didn’t have his mind right and was fired. His offense? He said he wouldn’t use a “preferred pronoun” when treating a hypothetical “transexual.” He’d refuse to call a man who claimed he was a woman “she.” He said — as a scientist — that it’s impossible for a man to change into a woman. “If somebody has male XY chromosomes and male genitalia,” he said, “I cannot in good conscience call them a woman.” As a Christian, he believes God created humans: “Man and woman he created them,” he said, citing Genesis, Chapter 5: Verse 2.

Dr. Mackereth

Doctors in the UK, however, work for the government and the LGBT lobby mandates conformity from all government employees. It determined that Dr. David Mackereth didn’t have his mind right and could no longer practice medicine. At fifty-five, he was out of a job. Government would force him to ignore science, deny his religious faith, and lie in order to continue practicing. “I knew it could be the end of my work as a doctor,” he said, “but I could not live with myself if I didn’t speak up. It would be dishonest — and I didn’t want to live a lie.”

The second story was in The Federalist: “Starting July 1, 2020, all Illinois public schools are legally required to teach children LGBT history and only buy textbooks that include the topic. NPR affiliate Illinois Public Radio labeled Christian and conservative opposition to this law while it was being considered as stemming from ‘hate groups.’”

According to government-sponsored radio in Illinois, Catholics who believe Catholic doctrine that homosexuality is intrinsically disordered belong to a “hate group.” How long before Catholics are charged with “hate crimes” and imprisoned?

I’ve watched the steady advance of leftist control in public education ever since my own career began in 1975. In 2000, I had to pick out a textbook for 8th graders, but all texts by the standard publishers contained a pronounced left-wing bias and they were costly. I told the principal if I could pick save him money and purchase two cheaper texts for each student: leftist A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and conservative: A Patriot’s History of the United States by Schweikart & Allen — I could get both for far less the price of one standard text. I could then compare and contrast perspectives in each of my lessons. He said that would be fine if I were to continue teaching, but what if I retired? What was the likelihood that whoever replaced me could do that?

I had to admit it wasn’t likely and had to pick one of the standard, leftist texts: Prentice Hall’s The American Nation, the most-used text in the country at the time. I didn’t like it but figured I would offer students contrasting perspectives from other sources when the bias got too strong. As bad as The American Nation was, it seems middle of the road now compared to what is mandated in Illinois — as well as in California, Colorado, New Jersey, and Oregon where similar laws have been passed. The left controls education thoroughly now, kindergarten to graduate school, and the LGBT lobby is riding high.

Illinois teachers' guide from Human Rights Campaign

Illinois’ Evanston/Skokie schools adopted a curriculum like what will be mandatory next year across the state. The equal sign logo of the Human Rights Campaign — the nation's largest, most powerful LGBT lobby — is stamped all over the materials. Children 3-5 are told about Jazz, a boy who wanted to be a girl. They see a video in which he reads from a book about his transition that made him happy. At the end, Jazz says: “To all the kids out there who are seeing this book for the first time, I just want to say that you can be like Jazz. You can be your true self.”

Illinois teachers' guide from Human Rights Campaign

The left insists homosexuals and transgenders are born that way, but what if they aren’t? Research at Brown University strongly suggests that: “‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ transgenderism may be a social contagion linked with having friends who identify as LGBT, an identity politics culture, and an increase in internet use.” Are public schools turning into laboratories for LGBT identity culture?

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/10/request-to-require-tolerate-to-mandate.html

Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 4:38pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

The Big Picture of Trump's Rallies

Nate Jackson

Trump’s lightweight alternative

to Medicare for All

by James C. Capretta

{ aei.org } ~ President Trump and senior officials in his administration have been signaling for several months that they would release an updated GOP health-care plan... presumably to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — which the president still criticizes as a “disaster.” Last week, the president gave a campaign-style speech denouncing Medicare for All and announcing a new executive order (EO) on improving Medicare. If the EO is the administration’s much-hyped health-care “plan,” it is a surprisingly lightweight offering. The EO tasks the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and officials in the White House with producing several deliverables focused mainly on expanding options in Medicare Advantage (MA), which is the private insurance alternative to Medicare’s government-managed fee-for-service (FFS) option. HHS is to propose regulations within a year to make it easier for Medicare beneficiaries to use medical savings accounts (Medicare’s version of health savings accounts) in conjunction with MA offerings and to facilitate cash rebates to MA enrollees when selecting options with particularly low premiums. HHS is to suggest regulatory changes to make it easier for MA plans to offer innovative supplemental benefits, including telehealth services. Working with the Council of Economic Advisers and others in the White House, HHS is to recommend how payment rates for medical services paid by the traditional FFS program could be tied more closely to the market rates paid by MA plans. To provide more flexibility for MA plans, HHS is to recommend changes that scale back network adequacy requirements in states that limit provider competition and to account for the benefits of telehealth services. The agency is to look for ways to allow MA plans to speed adoption of innovative medical technology and practices. HHS also is to provide beneficiaries with “better” quality and cost data. The EO uses general language throughout so it is difficult to know for sure what some of these administrative actions will mean. Overall, however, it is clear that what is called for are steps allowed under current law. As such, the changes are likely to be incremental and gradual...

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trumps-lightweight-alternative-to-medicare-for-all/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RFNU5XTmhaREpoWXpBeiIsInQiOiJiMGpcL053Sms0UHlOem1IRzJUWlhPV25HdUF2MmVlWmh4T2psM0FzWjd2N1VsUkd6VVRVSCtqV1V6eExRVWZ4S3NrcWFVUlNzOVRzVFBQZklEeWZ3a3pRdDZCQndhWlwvenRwUkpUZHFzNEVDRUZwTWRlam9HaVV5bjNOT3VRVEtsIn0%3D

Iran is pushing Iraq to the brink

Iraqis are fighting back

by Behnam Ben Taleblu

{ fdd.org } ~ Protesters in Iraq are fighting against government corruption and Iran’s malign influence, which is built on hard power, not public good will. Tehran has a lot to lose... “Iran and Iraq are two nations whose hearts & souls are tied together,” tweeted Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Sunday, as protests raged in neighboring Iraq. Alleging that the protests are a foreign plot, Khamenei continued, “Enemies seek to sow discord but they’ve failed & their conspiracy won’t be effective.” Khamenei’s response is proof of panic. Iraq is a pivotal part of Iran’s political project in the Middle East, and a friendly government in Baghdad cannot afford to be lost. The protests, which began over a week ago, aimed at government corruption and mismanagement, have quickly morphed into what The Washington Post termed “a revolt against the entire system.” The system in question is the post-Saddam political order, which has endured oscillations in America’s military footprint, the rise and fall of ISIS, and renewed aspirations for Kurdish autonomy. But it has also been subject to – and fared far poorer against – one constant for the past 16 years: Iranian encroachment. Today, Iraq is home to countless pro-Iran politicians, as well pro-Iran Shia militias, many of whom profess loyalty to Iran over Iraq and have fought and bled on Iran’s behalf in Syria. Some of these militias constitute a pro-Iran bloc in the Iraqi parliament. This bloc has been at the forefront of carrying out Iranian interests, most recently, seeking to use Israeli strikes as a reason to evict American forces. Iran pays close attention to Iraqi factional politics, and retains a key interest in government formation efforts. And strategically, Iraq constitutes the first country in Iran’s “land corridor” to the Mediterranean, a contiguous strip of geography connecting a constellation of groups termed the “Axis of Resistance” that Iran supports...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/11/iran-is-pushing-iraq-to-the-brink-iraqis-are-fighting-back/

Terror Attacks in France: A Culture of Denial

by Alain Destexhe

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On October 3, 2019, a knife-wielding Muslim employee of the Paris Police Department Intelligence Directorate stabbed to death four other employees at police headquarters in the center of Paris... before a trainee police officer shot and killed him. While it was not the deadliest terror attack France has experienced in recent years, the fatal stabbings that took place at the Paris police headquarters were perhaps the most worrisome. Its author a French public servant employed by the police, its highly sensitive target, and the catastrophic handling of the aftermath of the attack reveal the failure of the French institutions. As it was the case for all recent terror attacks, French media and authorities first tried to downplay what happened. The attacker was initially described through potentially mitigating factors, such as his handicap the killer is partly deaf and mute. It took 24 hours before it was eventually revealed that he was an Islamist militant who had carefully planned his attack. That a radicalized militant had been able to remain undetected in a critical security institution for years sent shockwaves throughout the country. Members of the parliamentary opposition asked for the resignation of Home Affairs Minister Christophe Castaner, who at first had said that the attacker "had never shown any warning signs or behavioral difficulties." For the record, this "very normal behavior" included cutting down to a bare minimum communication with women he had for months being avoiding all women but his wife, attending a notoriously radical mosque, and having a phone full of Islamist contacts. His colleagues reported that already in January 2015, he had cheered the murderous Islamist terror attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in front of other police employees. In many countries, a mistake of this scale would be enough for a government minister to resign, but not in France. The whole picture of the attack, which is still not clear, demonstrates an incredible failure of internal control inside the French police. The French Parliament is now asking how the murderer managed to fly under the radar when everything in his behavior clearly signaled an increasing radicalization... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15019/france-terrorism-denial

Iranian Supreme Leader Orders

Construction of Advanced Weaponry

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Iranian supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the country's fighting forces to construct cutting-edge military technology... to take on the United States and other nations that the ruler described as god's enemies. Khamenei, in a speech Sunday at an Iranian military academy in Tehran, decreed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, the country's paramilitary fighting force, should immediately begin production on the "most state of the art weapons," according to reports on his comments carried in Iran's state-controlled press. The supreme leader blamed the United States for increased tension between the two countries. The United States has placed harsh sanctions on Tehran for rapid escalation of its nuclear program in direct violation of the landmark nuclear accord. Khamenei "called on Iranian experts to increase efforts to invent and build more home-made arms," according to Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. "The military equipment of the IRGC must be advanced and up-to-date; you should invent and manufacture them yourselves," Khamenei was quoted as saying. He based his edict on verses from the Quran, the Muslim holy book. "Today, the IRGC is dignified both inside and outside the country, thanks be to god. The enemies have contributed to creating this dignity," Khamenei said. "With violent, aggressive, and hostile behavior, the Americans increased the dignity of the IRGC. The enemies of god show hostility to god's servants, and this hostility makes god's servants more reputable and estimable."... https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-supreme-leader-orders-construction-of-advanced-weaponry/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=04d43d8e6f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_14_08_58_COPY_251&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-04d43d8e6f-45611665

Report: IG Report Delayed Release –

Ongoing “Classification Review”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Maria Bartiromo had initially reported the IG report on the Carter Page FISA situation was going to be released around the end of this week... Ms. Bartiromo is now reporting a delay: It’s the “classifications being made” part that raises concern. President Trump granted Attorney General Bill Barr with declassification authority on May 23rd, 2019, so that any classification issues could be minimized and maximum transparency afforded. WHITE HOUSE: (MAY 23rd) “Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.”...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/14/figures-report-ig-report-delayed-release-ongoing-classification-review/

Guided-missile Destroyer USS Porter

Operates Black Sea, Visits Ukraine

By Sam LaGrone

{ news.usni.org } ~ Guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) is operating in the Black Sea as part of the Navy’s ongoing presence operation in the region... Turkey-based ship spotters posted on social media on Saturday. The warship pulled into Odesa, Ukraine on Sunday for a port visit. “The ship will host five Ukrainian officers as it pulls into Odesa to observe sea-and-anchor operations. These operations enhance regional maritime stability, combined readiness and naval capability with our NATO allies and Black Sea partners,” read a statement from U.S. 6th Fleet. Porter is the seventh U.S. Navy ship to operate in the Black Sea this year. “In July, USS Carney (DDG-64) participated in exercise Sea Breeze 2019 and conducted maritime interoperability training with Standing NATO Maritime Group Two in the Black Sea. In April, USS Ross (DDG-71) conducted maritime training with Bulgaria and Georgia, and a replenishment-at-sea with Turkey,” read the statement. “In February, USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) conducted maritime interoperability training with the Turkish Yavuz-class frigate TS Fatih (F 242) and conducted a port visit to Odesa, Ukraine. In January, Donald Cook and USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) conducted port visits to Georgia and Romania, respectively. The four U.S. destroyers in Rota are part of the U.S. phased European adaptive approach to ballistic missile defense that pairs the capabilities of the destroyers with Aegis Ashore BMD stations in Poland and Romania. The Navy has stepped up its presence in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea since the 2014 invasion of Crimea by Russia... https://news.usni.org/2019/10/14/guided-missile-destroyer-uss-porter-operates-black-sea-visits-ukraine?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=4e6931683a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-4e6931683a-231491269&mc_cid=4e6931683a&mc_eid=3999f18767

The Big Picture of Trump's Rallies

Nate Jackson: “Watching the President in [his rallies], I can’t help but think he needs to do a lot more of these,” says Erick Erickson. “Get him out of the White House, away from the TV, and with the crowds that love him. He feeds off their energy. He is deeply entertaining and funny on the stage. He drives the media crazy. … He needs to do more of these.”

Erickson has a good point. President Donald Trump is a crowd pleaser and a man who loves connecting with people from the stage. His television persona gave Americans a familiarity with him long before he ran for president that made voters amenable to his brand of populism, and he played to that strength in “yuge” rallies across the nation in 2016. It will be a necessary part of his 2020 campaign, too.

He doesn’t speak like a polished politician, rattling off the same old list of policy proposals. Instead, he hits his opponents with broadsides that connect with supporters. For instance, in a Louisiana rally Friday, he declared, “[Democrats have been] trying to stop us for more than three years with a lot of crap. They know they can’t win on Election Day so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional bulls—t impeachment.” That’s salty language, but somehow it works for Trump — because he’s right on the merits.

Not only do Trump’s rallies inspire his supporters, they infuriate his detractors. Gary Bauer writes of last Thursday’s rally in Minneapolis, “Sadly, there was violence after the rally ended. MAGA hats were burned. Trump supporters were assaulted. Leftists waved the flag of communist China. Police officers had to create a path for cars to leave because demonstrators were attacking vehicles in the parking garage. It was a striking contrast. Inside the Target Center, Trump praised our brave men and women in uniform, our soldiers, and police officers. He defended our flag and our country. Outside, the left-wing radicals, the activist base of the Democrat Party, were attacking cops, burning flags, yelling their hatred for America, and assaulting conservatives.”

Furthermore, for those paying attention, that highlights the gross double standard of the mainstream media. Bauer notes, “If, after any speech by a leading Democrat, a mob formed outside and began punching people and attacking cars, every network would be running the footage non-stop. Every Republican would be forced to condemn it on the record. But no elected Democrat … will be asked to condemn what happened on the streets of Minneapolis.”

The more Americans are exposed to the radicalism of the Left, the more Trump’s quirks and idiosyncrasies seem like the sane choice in 2020. ~The Patriot Post

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Tuesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 12:12pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

U.S. and China Push Pause on Trade War

Thomas Gallatin

Trump Did Not Betray the Kurds

by Caroline Glick

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The near-consensus view of US President Donald Trump’s decision to remove American special forces from the Syrian border with Turkey... is that Trump is enabling a Turkish invasion and double-crossing the Syrian Kurds who have fought with the Americans for five years against the Islamic State group. Trump’s move, the thinking goes, harms US credibility and undermines US power in the region and throughout the world. There are several problems with this narrative. The first is that it assumes that until this week, the US had power and influence in Syria when in fact, by design, the US went to great lengths to limit its ability to influence events there. The war in Syria broke out in 2011 as a popular insurrection by Syrian Sunnis against the Iranian-sponsored regime of President Bashar Assad. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration responded by declaring US support for Assad’s overthrow. But the declaration was empty. The administration sat on its thumbs as the regime’s atrocities mounted. It supported a feckless Turkish effort to raise a resistance army dominated by jihadist elements aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama infamously issued his “red line” regarding the use of chemical weapons against civilians by Assad, which he repudiated the moment it was crossed. As ISIS forces gathered in Iraq and Syria, scumbag/liar-nObama shrugged them off as a “JV squad.” When the JVs in ISIS took over a third of Iraqi and Syrian territory, scumbag/liar-nObama did nothing. As Lee Smith recalled in January in The New York Post, scumbag/liar-nObama only decided to do something about ISIS in late 2014 after the group beheaded a number of American journalists and posted their decapitations on social media. The timing was problematic for scumbag/liar-nObama. In 2014 scumbag/liar-nObama was negotiating his nuclear deal with Iran. The deal, falsely presented as a nonproliferation pact, actually enabled Iran – the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism – to develop both nuclear weapons and the missile systems required to deliver them. The true purpose of the deal was not to block Iran’s nuclear aspirations but to realign US Middle East policy away from the Sunnis and Israel and toward Iran...

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/glick-trump-did-not-betray-kurds-caroline-glick

Trump authorizes sanctions against Turkey

amid Syria incursion, calls for end

to its 'destabilizing actions'

By Gregg Re

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump announced Monday afternoon that he will soon issue an executive order imposing sanctions against Turkey for its "destabilizing" offensive in Syria... amid a bipartisan outcry over the president's troop pullback earlier this month that endangered U.S.-aligned Kurdish forces. The sanctions followed the president's Oct. 7 threat, when he warned that "if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!)." Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters that Trump had communicated on a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he wanted Turkey to implement an immediate ceasefire. Trump also offered to mediate an arbitration, the vice president said, and directed Pence and National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien to lead a delegation to Turkey to begin negotiations immediately. And South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally who has strongly opposed his decision to withdraw from parts of Syria, said in a statement that he "strongly" supports the president's sanctions. "The President made it clear to Turkish officials that any attack on Kobani, a Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border, would be an international outrage that could not stand," Graham, who was on the call with Trump and officials in the region, added. He continued: "Equally important, President Trump reached out to General Mazloum, the leader of Kurdish forces that led the main assaults against the ISIS Caliphate in Syria. President Trump assured General Mazloum that he would do everything possible to stop the Turkish incursion and seek a negotiated settlement beneficial to all parties, and was very firm in highlighting the need that thousands of ISIS prisoners in the custody of Kurdish forces cannot and should not be released. "...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-turkey-syria-sanctions-destabilizing-actions

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094705849001/#sp=show-clips

Trump’s Syrian Maneuver Works – President

Erdogan Asks for Negotiations With

Kurds in Syria

y sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump has played this out perfectly. By isolating Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and effectively leaving him naked to an alliance of his enemies... Erdogan is now urgently asking for the U.S. to mediate peace negotiations with Kurdish forces. This request happens immediately after President Trump signed an executive order triggering the sanction authority of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Erdogan called the White House requesting an urgent phone call with President Trump. After President Trump talked to Kurdish General Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, President Trump then discussed the options available to President Erdogan. As a result of that conversation, Erdogan requested the U.S. mediate negotiations. Vice-President Mike Pence announces he will be traveling to the region with National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien to lead that effort. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the situation in and in relation to Syria, and in particular the recent actions by the Government of Turkey to conduct a military offensive into northeast Syria, undermines the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, endangers civilians, and further threatens to undermine the peace, security, and stability in the region, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I hereby determine and order...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/14/trumps-syrian-maneuver-works-president-erdogan-asks-for-negotiations-with-kurds-insyria/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBahrTDqOI

Rep. Scott Perry on former ambassador to

Ukraine's testimony: 'A lot of it was

secondhand information'

By Victor Garcia

{ foxnews.com } ~ Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., who attended a closed-door transcribed interview with the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Friday, said much of Marie Yovanovich's testimony was "second-hand information'... while appearing on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "I sat in the same in the same hearing and quite honestly a lot of it was secondhand information," Perry said Friday. "No really direct knowledge and well, we certainly find her... situation lamentable for her personally. There are bigger issues here for the country for both countries at stake." Yovanovich told lawmakers that she was recalled earlier this year after “unfounded and false claims” against her, as well as continued pressure on the State Department from President Trump to remove her -- as she denied being “disloyal” to the president. Yovanovich, who was recalled in May, spoke as part of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- in which Trump asked Zelensky to “look into” allegations about former Vice President loosew lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter's conduct in the country. Perry, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the testimony should have taken place publicly. "The fact that this is happening in secret, quite honestly the fact that this is happening in the secure area where nobody can see ... that this should actually be a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee because we're talking about a ... diplomat from the United States lends the other issue to this, which is the American people should see what's happening here," Perry said. The congressman called on the transcripts of the meetings to be released and criticized Democrats for "strategically" leaking information. "There's nothing I would like more for them than for you and the rest of America to see the transcript from today's proceedings and the transcript from last week's proceedings," Perry said. "But, that's not being allowed except in certain circumstances where portions of it are leaked out very strategically." https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-perry-on-former-ukraine-ambassadors-testimony-a-lot-of-it-was-secondhand-information

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094237076001/#sp=show-clips

Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman

by Timothy Sandefur

{ prageru.com } ~ Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, but through his own heroic efforts became one of the most influential advocates for freedom in American history... His journey, a tale both agonizing and inspiring, should be known by everyone. Timothy Sandefur, author of "Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man," guides us through Douglass’ amazing life.

https://www.prageru.com/video/frederick-douglass-from-slave-to-statesman/

U.S. Set to Impose New Sanctions on Turkey

in Response to Syria Incursion

By TOBIAS HOONHOUT

{ nationalreview.com } ~ The U.S. could level heavy economic sanctions on Turkey as soon as Monday in response to the Turkish incursion into northern Syria, according to Bloomberg... The news comes as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech that Turkey “will absolutely finish the job we started.” Erdogan also criticized the international community’s negative response to the operation and asked for international funding to establish a planned “safe zone” for refugees in northeast Syria. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi announced on Monday that, after meeting with Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), “we must have a bipartisan, bicameral joint resolution to overturn the President’s dangerous decision in Syria immediately.” liar-Pelosi also suggested that “stronger sanctions” are needed to curb Turkish aggression. “I will be working across party lines in a bicameral fashion to draft sanctions and move quickly, appreciating President Trump’s willingness to work with the Congress. The Speaker indicated to me that time was of the essence,” Graham also tweeted. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters Monday that sanctions are “ready to go,” after announcing last Friday that the White House had authorized potential sanctions on Turkey.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-set-to-impose-new-sanctions-on-turkey-in-response-to-syria-incursion-report/

U.S. and China Push Pause on Trade War

Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. and China had agreed to a partial trade deal, which Trump referred to as “phase one” of ongoing negotiations. One of Trump’s biggest presidential efforts has been to level the trade playing field with China, and a deal is in the interests of both the president and the entire country.

National Review reports, “The provisions include China purchasing $40 billion to $50 billion worth of American agricultural products, along with agreeing to guidelines on how it manages its currency, and policies with intellectual property, including forced technology transfer.” On America’s part, Trump has agreed to suspend the implementation of another round of tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods that had been scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 15. Trump heralded the deal as “very substantial” while at the same time noting that this was merely the first step in negotiating a broader and more comprehensive deal.

News of the deal sent the markets climbing — the Dow closed nearly 320 points higher Friday. The deal is likely to temporarily settle economic concerns, especially with the possibility of a more comprehensive agreement coming as soon as December. However, this long-running trade war is far from over, as China has yet to agree to make any substantive changes to its abusive trade practices.

Update: Bloomberg reports Monday, “China wants to hold more talks this month to hammer out the details of the ‘phase one’ trade deal touted by Donald Trump before Xi Jinping agrees to sign it.” So stay tuned.

~The Patriot Post

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WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING BESIDE OUR FLAG

Posted by Joseph Phillip De Marco on October 15, 2019 at 11:00am

Some well meaning individuals believe we are headed for another civil war; well, that war has already been fought and won by the Progressives/far left via mass indoctrination in all levels of education and generally in the academic and unionized world in our Nation.

The ecological/save the earth propaganda has made us the enemy and has mobilized and has taken control in all agencies in government, including the legal arena.

Just as Hitler named an enemy and controlled every agency/ making rules and regulations aside from the governing/legislative body. Yes, that civil war has been won right under our nose as we were waiting for a glorious armed conflict. It is over, and we are paying the price, and it is going to get even worse.

If we do not begin educating en masse our young people and prepare them intellectually; monetarily and with gusto we will not be the USA we thought.

Time is not on our side. It will take decades to make a dent into this endeavor. Our grandiose assumptions about freedom, liberty etc. is all but slipped away. We are finished if we think things will change with Trump or any President that favors our ideals. They are just fixtures that will be trashed before they finish their terms. They are hemmed into a network of socialist/marxist idealogy; no matter what they claim, otherwise. We cannot chance putting all our chips on him or them that come after.

We must take extreme measures and caution, without becoming them, to overcome this network that was so well planned long before we realized it was in place.

Tues/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 9:09am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Leftists Still Attacking Columbus Day

Robin Smith

Tuesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

TURKEY SANCTIONED: According to Reuters, “President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Turkey on Monday and demanded the NATO ally stop a military incursion in northeast Syria.” At the same time, “The Pentagon on Monday announced the official withdrawal of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria,” The Hill reports.

ABC’S FAKE NEWS: “ABC News aired footage claiming to show a Turkish attack on a Syrian border town that was actually from a 2017 video of an American shooting range,” The Washington Free Beacon reveals. Regardless of anyone’s position on Trump’s Syria policy, engineering a crisis is way beyond the pale.

Government & Politics

QUASHING DISSENT: “Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., an ardent supporter of President Trump, got the boot on Monday when he tried to sit in on the testimony of a former top National Security Council expert on Russia who was appearing on Capitol Hill as part of the House impeachment inquiry into the president.” (Fox News)

CNN’S VENDETTA: CNN whistleblower reveals network “vendetta” against Trump, obsession with impeachment (The Federalist)

Business & Economy

WHO’D A THUNK IT? Target cuts workers’ hours after vowing to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2020 (National Review)

HELPING THE LITTLE GUY: Blue-collar employment thriving under Trump — hits 50-year high (The New American)

From the Department of Corrections

FLYING WOKE: Air Canada to stop announcing “ladies and gentlemen” in recognition of gender fluidity (Washington Examiner)

SWING AND A MISS: Tribal chiefs urge Atlanta Braves to end the “tomahawk chop” (New York Post)

Other Notables

MORE DALLAS-AREA FALLOUT: Ex-Fort Worth police officer charged with murder after shooting black woman in her home; occurred less than two weeks after Amber Guyger’s sentencing (USA Today)

UPRIGHT: William Barr warns of “militant” secularism in speech about declining religious values (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: U.S.-China trade deal: What it is, is not, and may become (Hudson Institute)

POLICY: The painful realities of carbon tax-and-dividend schemes (Washington Examiner)

HUMOR: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren takes 1/1024th of the day off to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
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Tucker Carlson announces Megyn Kelly’s

return as guest; Fox News quells the rumors

by Victor Rantala

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Tucker Carlson announced that former Fox News and NBC news anchor Megyn Kelly will appear on his program Wednesday for her first TV interview since being fired at NBC one year ago... Kelly’s sudden departure from NBC resulted from comments she made on the “Today” show in which she questioned and defended dressing in blackface for a Halloween costume. She said it was “okay when I was a kid” and did not understand how dressing in blackface could now be considered racist. A social media firestorm ensued and NBC quickly parted ways with the conservative news personality. Carlson and Mark Steyn were talking about CNN and network president Jeff Zucker Monday evening before the announcement of Kelly’s one-night return to the network that made her famous. “Of course Jeff Zucker wasn’t always at CNN, he was at another channel for many years. He ran NBC for a decade. Before that, he was the youngest executive producer at the ‘Today’ show. Things have not changed much at NBC since Zucker left. We repeatedly told you the network tried to cover up the Harvey Weinstein story. They sent the Access Hollywood tape over to the Washington Post and they are still lying about it.” “Well, this Wednesday night, two nights from now, someone who knows an awful lot about NBC is making her first TV appearance since parting ways with that channel nearly a year ago. Megyn Kelly will join us as a guest on this program for her first interview. She’s got a lot to say. I hope you will watch.” It will be Kelly’s first return to Fox News since she left more than two years ago in early 2017, after some public clashes with colleagues Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. She also wrote a book about her experiences with former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, called “Settle for More.” Her star began to fade among the network’s conservative viewership the year before, following a volatile series of exchanges involving presidential candidate Donald Trump...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/15/tucker-carlson-announces-megyn-kellys-return-as-guest-fox-news-stems-off-rumors-839458?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v8b8xm-megyn-kelly-to-appear-on-tucker-carlson-wednesday.html

US moves toward a rapid, complete withdrawal

of its military forces from Syria

by ROBERT BURNS

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The United States appears to be heading toward a full military withdrawal from Syria amid growing chaos, cries of betrayal and signs that Turkey’s invasion could fuel a broader war... Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that President Donald Trump had directed US troops in northern Syria to begin pulling out “as safely and quickly as possible.” He did not say Trump ordered troops to leave Syria, but that seemed like the next step in a combat zone growing more unstable by the hour. A US official familiar with the situation on the ground told CNN earlier Sunday that US forces in Syria are preparing to withdraw from the country. Esper, interviewed on two TV news shows, said the administration was considering its options. “We have American forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies and it’s a very untenable situation,” Esper said. This seemed likely to herald the end of a five-year effort to partner with Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters to ensure a lasting defeat of the Islamic State group. Hundreds of IS supporters escaped a holding camp amid clashes between invading Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters on Monday, and analysts said an IS resurgence seemed more likely, just months after Trump declared the extremists defeated...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-moves-toward-a-rapid-complete-withdrawal-of-its-military-forces-from-syria/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-10-14&utm_medium=email

Sebastian Gorka Urges

‘Backbone’ to Resist Socialism

by Jackson Elliott

{ dailysignal.com } ~ If former presidential aide Sebastian Gorka could save only one possession from his house, he would save the crucifix his father carved from a toothbrush while imprisoned under socialism in Hungary... With powerful stories like this about his family’s escape from socialist Hungary and his father’s sufferings in a Soviet prison, the former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump on Friday urged the crowd at the Values Voter Summit to speak out for freedom. Gorka, now an author and talk radio host, told his audience in Washington that the day he understood evil under socialism changed his life forever. When he was 8 years old playing on the beach with his family, Gorka recalled, he noticed two thin lines on his father’s wrists. When he asked what the lines were, his father told him: “Well, son, that’s where the secret police bound my hands with wire behind my back so they could lift me to the ceiling of the torture chamber.” “My life changed in the span of one sentence,” he said. His father’s scars and the crucified Savior who sustained him through prison convinced him of the reality of good and evil, Gorka said. The widespread approval of socialism among young Americans makes support for conservative values extremely important now, he said. According to the human rights group Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, for example, 52% of millennials wish to live in a socialist or communist America. “We have one political grouping in our country that has come out of the closet as socialist,” Gorka said. “We cannot let them win.”...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/11/sebastian-gorka-urges-backbone-to-resist-socialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sebastian-gorka-urges-backbone-to-resist-socialism&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpNMU56WmlNV1l3TUdRMyIsInQiOiJTQktzakJoYWJkR1VhNTd3SkI0Ulh1b1lhSWQ5M1JWU2FGZG1LdURUS3E4M0ZhXC9hZlNkdVNHeGRGQkx5SjQzVGdSZWdWeVpjbW84NzMzQklPU0pXV3JsZUo4MG8zOE92NWROSWxOeTRJUEhaUGRsZVh5Q1VYK3piSHdkd21ZbXMifQ%3D%3D

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz ejected from secret impeachment meeting

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee was ejected from a closed-door impeachment hearing... Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Monday tried to enter a hearing in which lawmakers from three different committees are interviewing President Trump’s former top aide on Russia, Fiona Hill. Gaetz said he believed he should be allowed to attend the hearing because impeachment inquiries traditionally are handled by the House Judiciary Committee and he serves on that panel. But the House parliamentarian told Gaetz he is not allowed to attend the hearing because he does not sit on either the Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, or Oversight panels, which are the official committees conducting the impeachment inquiry. "Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler claimed to have begun the impeachment inquiry weeks ago," Gaetz said on Twitter after leaving the hearing room. "Now, his own Judiciary members aren’t even allowed to participate in it. And yes - my constituents want me actively involved in stopping the #KangarooCourtCoup run by Shifty scumbag-Schiff. "Republicans and Trump have criticized the impeachment inquiry for failing to follow precedent, which includes a House vote, referral to the Judiciary Committee, and bipartisan agreement on rules for the inquiry. Gaetz has called for an end to the impeachment inquiry.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/gop-rep-matt-gaetz-ejected-from-secret-impeachment-meeting?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/14/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Former Associate Of scumbag-James Clapper Assisted In Whistleblower Complaint

by oann.com ~ New details are painting a clearer picture of the controversial whistleblower and their perceived motive. A Friday report revealed that an associate of the former Director of National Intelligence, scumbag-James Clapper... helped the whistleblower with their complaint. Charles McCullough is the attorney who assisted Andrew Bakaj at the beginning of the process. He was previously the inspector general of the Intelligence Community during the scumbag/liar-Clinton email scandal. Critics of the complaint say it makes sense why his former employer has been praising the complaint. After leaving the government in 2017, scumbag-James Clapper became a national security analyst for CNN. He is allegedly responsible for perpetuating fake news surrounding foreign involvement in the 2016 Election. Before that, he lied to Congress about government surveillance, claiming that the U.S. did “not wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans. McCullough now works at Compass Rose Legal Group and is no longer involved in representing the whistleblower. Bakaj, the former staffer for Senators Chuck scumbag-Schumer and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, remains on-board. https://www.oann.com/former-associate-of-james-clapper-assisted-in-whistleblower-complaint/?fbclid=IwAR08XtWV1T41Nw39bwLyNsURNFSATKKOBZOVrP5mnD2mBAvRamlEiyU4P2g

Cali Police Robot Ignores Woman's Calls

for Help, Tells Her To Get Out of Its Way

By Jared Harris

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Leave it to California to introduce a policing “innovation” that makes Barney Fife look like Judge Dredd. When the Huntington Park Police Force rolled out “HP Robocop” in June of this year... it was heralded as a major step for public safety for its supposed ability to keep an extra pair of eyes on patrol without taking an officer off assignment. “This is a big accomplishment for our city and introducing HP RoboCop shows innovation and the incorporation of new technology,” Mayor Karina Macias said at the robot’s introduction. “I am certainly impressed with HP RoboCop and can’t wait to see the public safety benefits it will bring to our community.” RoboCop recently got its first test in the realities of policing, and the machine definitely didn’t live up to its imposing name. According to NBC News, when a fight broke out in Salt Lake Park, a bystander rushed to RoboCop and pushed the robot’s call button. Nothing happened. “I was pushing the button but it said, ‘step out of the way,’” Cogo Guebara said. “It just kept ringing and ringing, and I kept pushing and pushing.” The woman figured it needed to scan a face, possibly a deterrent to prank alerts, and positioned herself in front of the robot’s camera to no effect. A woman with Guebara then used a cell phone to call 911, and first responders arrived 15 minutes later. By then, the fight had already ended and one woman was bleeding from a wound on her head. Despite the chaos, RoboCop continued to follow its pre-determined route. Video shows that the robot plays cheesy sci-fi music as it moves at a snail’s pace around the park... https://www.westernjournal.com/cali-police-robot-ignores-womans-calls-help-tells-get-way/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h62PwuWfyY

The Whistleblower and the

'scumbag-Schiff/loose lips iar-Biden Dossier'

By Daniel John Sobieski

{ americanthinker.com } ~ In a striking parallel to the Trump-Russia "collusion delusion" fueled by the manufactured Steele dossier, we now have what I will dub the "scumbag-Schiff/loose lips liar-Biden dossier," a manufactured tale of Trump corruption involving a tangled web of Deep-State swamp rats... seeking to deflect attention from the real collusion and the real corruption. The Russian collusion fantasy was designed to frame Trump while diverting attention from scumbag/liar-Hilary Clinton's real collusion with Russia in Uranium One and using the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation as a pay-for- play cash cow as secretary of state. With the revelations by the Washington Examiner that the whistleblower worked for former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden and that two of scumbag-Adam Schiff's aides worked with the whistleblower, we can see scumbag-Schiff's fable of a phone call between Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky, even the whistleblower's initial complaint, to be a fraud manufactured by scumbag-Schiff and loose lips liar-Biden, to get Trump while diverting attention from the loose lips liar-Biden family corruption from Ukraine to China. As the Washington Examiner reports: House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA whistleblower at the NSC during the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administrations, the Washington Examiner has learned. Abigail Grace, who worked at the NSC until 2018, was hired in February, while Sean Misko, an NSC aide until 2017, joined scumbag-Schiff's committee staff in August, the same month the whistleblower submitted his complaint. The whistleblower was an NSC official who worked with former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and who has expertise in Ukraine, the Washington Examiner has reported. This mirrors the Russian collusion anti-Trump plot where members, indeed leaders, of the Intelligence Community such as scumbag/commie-John Brennan and scumbag-James Clapper worked hand in hand with scumbag/liar-nObama's DOJ, scumbag/liar-nObama's FBI, and even Sen. majority leader Harry dink-Reid to keep scumbag/liar-Hillary out of jail and Trump out of the White House. Interestingly enough, Misko has a long and strong working relationship with scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, the Washington Examiner reports: Misko, 37, worked in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration as a member of the secretary of state's policy planning staff under deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, who became scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy official during her 2016 presidential campaign. ... Misko's name surfaced in the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton email controversy when he worked in the State Department during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. In a Dec. 1, 2009, email released by Judicial Watch, scumbag/liar-Clinton adviser Huma Abedin sent classified information regarding foreign military contributions to the Afghanistan war effort to her private email account. That email originated with Misko, who wrote to Sullivan that he initially "accidentally" sent it on the "high side" secure but was sending the email again... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_whistleblower_and_the_schiffbiden_dossier.html

Leftists Still Attacking Columbus Day

Robin Smith: In another episode of “As the Offended, Politically Correct World Turns,” we’re greeted with a calendar conflict that’s emblematic of a segment of our population that has abandoned reason and the ability to strive, survive, and succeed in reality. Today, according to some, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, not the commemorative date to celebrate the historical figure who ventured to a new land and found America, Christopher Columbus, or Cristoforo Columbo.

On your “smart” device, your calendar might read, “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” or even “Columbus Day (regional holiday).” Originally, the special day aimed to recognize the landing in the Americas of the Italian-born explorer who approached Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella after rejection from the royalty of England, Portugal, and France, thinking a westward exploration would result in reaching the Indies and Asia. But, in recent years, those who have proven they can’t learn from history, much less honor it, are busy rewriting it in efforts to prove themselves and their anti-American narrative correct and have encouraged the toppling of statues of Christopher Columbus and ignoring the times, the context, and the truth in their efforts.

If you’re celebrating Columbus Day, you’re honoring a man who came from a simple raising in the home of a wool weaver in the seaport, Genoa, Italy. Cristoforo Columbo had no formal education or schooling. He was self-taught. His Italian heritage and his Catholic faith drove his passion along with much of his devotion to exploration.

The mapmaker and sailor lived in a day when the Turkish Empire controlled northern Africa and blocked the fastest trade routes to the Orient, or India and China. Most educated folks, and those who referenced Holy Scripture (see Isaiah 40:22 among other verses), believed the Earth to be round, but the disagreement was on the size of the planet. Columbus believed some of the earliest calculations were too large and argued that the westward route would lead to their trading partners without the hassle and fight of the Muslim enemies.

So, in September 1492, Columbus set sail. His journey was fraught with problems, but he landed, despite near mutiny of crews aboard the vessels in his charge, on Oct. 12, 1492, on modern-day San Salvador. Believing he had arrived at his intended destination of the Indies the natives of the island were deemed “Indians.” His travels continued through the Caribbean with several subsequent journeys to and from Spain to this land he believed to be Asia.

Now, here’s where the revision of history is greatest. Academia and those devoted to a narrative of oppression have declared that Columbus introduced slavery and was a murderous tyrant. He is depicted by those desiring to lift the alleged victims, the “Indians” or Indigenous Peoples, to the place of commemoration, not the inspired explorer.

Columbus is painted as greedy — typical for a guy of white privilege. He also believed in God and His Son Jesus Christ … uh oh. You see, the crew cried, “Blessed be the hour of our Savior’s birth, blessed be the Virgin Mary who bore him and blessed be John the Baptist who baptized him” as they turned the half-hour glass, along with other observances of the Christian faith. He named one of his ships the Santa Maria — Holy Mary. He even dared (get ready for the head explosions of the godless groupies) to set up the standard of the Cross when he first touched land and named it, San Salvador — Holy Savior.

But Columbus sought gold not for personal wealth but for the purpose of evangelism and to, in his own words penned in his journal, liberate Jerusalem from the Muslim captivity: “Thus, I protest to your Highness that all the profits of this my enterprise may be sent in conquest of Jerusalem.”

And, about that slavery of the Indians, you see, Columbus wrote that there were individuals in his crew who “did not deserve water in the sight of God” for selling native girls into slavery. He can’t stand blameless for the cultural acceptance of slavery at the time, but it was also practiced among the natives, as was cannibalism.

Among the Carib tribes, indigenous to the lands that Columbus first touched, not only was slavery practiced, but also mutilation and forced reproduction of children for the purpose of cannibalism.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative that, in the pre-Columbian world slavery, exploitation, evil nor any other type of oppression ever existed. Only once a white male motivated by wealth and raw power was able to establish dominance over a minority people was America born — hence everything about these United States is morally wrong and must be destroyed as part of the restitution to victims that span the line of time.

Currently, there are over 100 cities that have banned the observance of Columbus Day to now herald the Indigenous Peoples instead. Washington, DC, is the latest to join these municipal malcontents through its passage of “emergency legislation.” But shhhhhh, don’t tell — the District of Columbia, a territory that holds the seat of the government of our United States, is the feminine form of Columbus. The original 13 colonies were even referred to as Columbia.

Let’s let “progressive” leftists continue in their embarrassment of honoring Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren as a Cherokee with high cheekbones dishing out her Pow Wow Chow while trying to take over the District of Columbia, which was named for Columbus, while making a mockery of everything great about America — her freedoms, our faith, and our families. While they’re busy rewriting history, let’s ensure that we write our future by defending America’s greatness and the truth. ~The Patriot Post

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Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 15, 2019 at 7:18am

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How scumbag/liar-nObama’s Senior Response Director Profited From Disaster in Puerto Rico

by Daniel Greenfield

No Surprise: scumbag-Schiff Reportedly Hired

Two NSC Aides Who Worked With

Ukraine Whistleblower

by Beth Baumann

{ townhall.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-CA) hired two National Security Counsel (NSC) aides who worked with the Ukrainian whistleblower... while at the NSC during both the scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump administration, the Washington Examiner reported. Abigail Grace worked at the NSC from 2016 to 2018 in U.S.-China relations, followed by a short stint at the Center for a New American Security think tank. scumbag-Schiff tapped her in February to work as an Intelligence Committee staffer to help investigate the Trump White House. The second aide, Sean Misko, worked as an NSC aide until 2017. He was also part of Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's policy planning staff under Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan. He joined the Intelligence Committee as a staffer in August, the same month the whistleblower filed his complaint. A source who spoke to the Washington Examiner had reason to believe both Grace and Misko were untrustworthy...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/10/13/no-surprise-schiff-reportedly-hired-two-nsc-aides-who-worked-with-ukraine-whistleblower-n2554644

Forget the #Resistance,

scumbag-Chuck; Focus on Your Job

by Dan Backer

{ insidesources.com } ~ When it comes to #resisting President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer is certainly busy these days... Criticizing the Trump administration’s “persistent transgressions,” scumbag-Schumer recently claimed “the very foundation of this republic is at risk.” He also accused Trump of “abu(ing the powers of his office and betraying the public trust for personal political gain,” urging Congress to proceed with its impeachment inquiry. Of course, scumbag-Schumer has no problem with exploiting the Ukraine nothing-burger for “personal political gain,” turning it into an excuse to undermine a president with whom he vehemently disagrees. scumbag-Chuck, why don’t you just focus on your job? While he panders to his anti-Trump base, scumbag-Schumer is presiding over a logjam at the Federal Election Commission, which now lacks the legal minimum of four commissioners to make any high-level decisions. As the Center for Public Integrity’s Dave Levinthal explained, the FEC can’t even conduct meetings, let alone issue new rules on campaign finance or vote on the outcome of existing investigations. In other words, the FEC has “effectively shut down.” Why? Because of Chuck scumbag-Schumer. He has consistently refused to honor the tradition of the Senate minority leader recommending names to be nominated to nonpartisan and bipartisan commissions, including the FEC. The agency has traditionally filled two seats at the same time, pairing a Republican and Democrat, each recommended by the leaders of their respective parties — the president and the opposing party’s Senate leader. However, scumbag-Schumer has yet to make a serious nomination to fill the Democratic vacancy at the FEC, or replace the existing Democratic commissioners on long-expired terms. This intentional logjam serves only one purpose: To give scumbag-Schumer and other Democrats a built-in excuse to complain about the very problem they have created, or blame it on Trump. And complain, they have. scumbag-Schumer’s spokesman recently proclaimed, “Congress should address this issue quickly because we need a fully functioning FEC.” Yet he failed to acknowledge the ball is in his boss’s court... https://www.insidesources.com/forget-the-resistance-chuck-focus-on-your-job/

Israelis Demonstrate in Jerusalem and

Tel Aviv Against Turkish Invasion

of Kurdish Region of Syria

by Benjamin Kerstein

{ algemeiner.com } ~ An interfaith group of Israeli Jews and Christians gathered in Jerusalem’s Paris Square on Saturday to protest the recently launched Turkish offensive against the Syrian Kurds... The organizer of the demonstration, Rabbi Roni Lesser, told Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, “I’m a simple person, but as a Jew I can’t see what’s going on and shut up.”As the idea of a protest spread on social media, he said, “Christians from the Old City contacted me, so the event gained interfaith cooperation.” Rabbi Yaakov Meidan, who spoke at the protest, called for Israel to recognize the Armenian Genocide — which Turkey still denies — and said that while Germany has taken responsibility for committing genocide, Turkey has not. Tehila Friedman, another participant, said, “I am a third generation Holocaust survivor and we often ask why the world was silent. Today we are part of the world, and the minimum we can do is not be silent and empathize with the victims. The ability to reach out and express solidarity has meaning.” A young resident of Jerusalem, Haggai Hershman, also attended the protest, saying, “I have come to feel the reality of the Kurdish people, to try to understand what is happening there, to make their reality our reality, and to show that we must identify with them and act in their favor.” According to Israeli news website Mako, another protest took place in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning, with more than 100 demonstrators expressing solidarity with the Kurds outside the Turkish embassy. “We will not forget or be afraid,” the protesters chanted. “The Kurdish people are not alone.” Among other slogans, the demonstrators shouted for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “Leave the Kurds alone,” as well as asking “Who will lift the finger to stop the attack?” Avishay Borla, the protest’s organizer, said that Israelis must speak out to “stop the bloodbath.”... https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/13/israelis-demonstrate-in-jerusalem-and-tel-aviv-against-turkish-invasion-of-kurdish-region-of-syria/

How Terrible Does Turkey Have to Get?

by Burak Bekdil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Turkey's military offensive into the overwhelmingly Kurdish northeastern Syria is sending messages on many wavelengths. One consequence is beyond dispute... Turkey is adding further chaos, bloodshed and tears to a region already in turmoil. The U.S. had apparently "assured Kurdish protection from Turkey." Trump spoke of "economic devastion" if Kurdish forces were attacked. "As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey I've done before!," Trump tweeted on October 7. Microsoft may thoughtfully have censored this tweet for you. Ed. So where is this "economic devastation" against Turkey? Or does that make two promises that the U.S. has not kept? In theory, the Turkish incursion will build a safe zone that is 30 kilometers 20 miles deep and stretches more than 480 kilometers 300 miles toward Syria's Iraqi border -– which just so happens to be the very place where many of the Kurds in Syria live. From there, the Turkish army will push Kurdish militants south and ward off an "existential threat" to Turkey. Once cleared of the YPG forces, the main Kurdish group the Syrian offspring of the insurgent umbrella organization PKK Turkey says it will build homes, hospitals schools and rehabilitation centers for the two million Syrian refugees it hosts. This happy-ending scenario may not materialize so easily. As in earlier cross-border clashes with the Turkish military, the Kurds have vowed to fight back despite allegedly heavy losses. On Oct. 13, the fifth day of the Operation Peace Spring, the Turkish Defense Ministry said its forces "neutralized" 525 Kurdish fighters. Kurdish shelling in over 300 rounds killed 18 civilians on the Turkish side of the border, including a nine-month old Syrian baby. More than 100 civilians were injured in Turkish towns and villages. One Kurdish, politician, Hevrin Khalaf, and nine other civilians were reportedly dragged from their cars and "executed."As for the potential resurgence of jihadist terrorists holed up in the area and held in makeshift prisons, first, on Oct. 11, five Islamic State (IS) fighters reportedly escaped from a Kurdish-run prison and extremists claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded in the regional capital. Then, "at least 750" "militants" have already escaped," and IS's sleeper cells in the region are also expected to take advantage of the Turkish invasion to recapture the land they controlled in the early years of the Syrian civil war. In the US-led, allied war against IS, Syrian Kurds operated as the main land force. As Kurds now flee, radical Islamists are likely to retake control of parts of the war zone... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15007/how-terrible-does-turkey-have-to-get

President Trump is 100% Correct

on Syria Withdrawal – Here’s Why

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Eight years ago Zurich Mike penned an analogy of the ‘Islamist Spring’ that still rings true today, when he said: President scumbag/liar-nObama helped kill the zookeepers and unleashed the big cats…. The Turkish movement into Syria is all part of this continuum. When President scumbag/liar-nObama ignited the “Islamist Spring” with his speech in Cairo Egypt, what he really articulated was a shift in U.S. foreign policy to support The Muslim Brotherhood. Political Islam, writ large, is represented by The Brotherhood. Turkish President Recep Erdogan sees himself as the modern leader of political Islam using the Brotherhood to recreate the Ottoman Empire. Ben Ali (Tunis), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) and Khadaffi (Libya), were the first zookeepers removed. scumbag/liar-nObama’s U.S. foreign policy supported Muslim Brotherhood replacements like Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. However, scumbag/liar-nObama failed in the effort to remove Bashir Assad in Syria; as a result all extremist factions of the Brotherhood gathered to form ISIS.Factions like al-Qaeda, al-Nusra and ISIS all fall under the umbrella of The Muslim Brotherhood. The exiled Brotherhood leaders initially fled Egypt to Qatar until they were further driven-out by the Gulf Cooperation Council and ultimately given safe-harbor in Turkey, by Recep Erdogan... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/13/president-trump-is-100-correct-on-syria-withdrawal-heres-why/

Turkey-Syria offensive

Kurds reach deal with Syrian army

by bbc.com ~ The Kurds in Syria say the Syrian government has agreed to send its army to the northern border to try to halt Turkey's offensive against them... Syrian state media earlier reported that government forces had been deployed to the north. It follows the US decision to pull all its remaining troops from the area over the "untenable" situation there. The Turkish assault, launched last week, is aimed at forcing Kurdish forces from along the border area. Areas under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the main US ally in the area, have come under heavy bombardment over the weekend, with Turkey making gains in two key border towns. Dozens of civilians and fighters have been killed on both sides. Amid fears of the resurgence of the Islamic State (IS) group as a result of the fighting, Kurdish officials said on Sunday that nearly 800 relatives of foreign IS members had escaped from Ain Issa, a camp in the north, as clashes raged nearby... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50036901

How scumbag/liar-nObama’s Senior Response Director Profited From Disaster in Puerto Rico

by Daniel Greenfield

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ By September 2018, despite billions of dollars in aid, Puerto Rico was still a mess. By August, FEMA had stopped paying for the nearly 2,500 displaced Puerto Ricans who had been living in hotels after Hurricane Maria had wrecked their homes. But the FEMA times were good at Casino Del Mar.

San Juan's Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz had become a CNN celeb by wearing a, "Help Us We Are Dying" t-shirt. But no one was dying at the luxury resort in San Juan with its 15,000 square feet of gaming tables and its seven restaurants. Except maybe some especially unlucky gamblers. Its blue neon wave walls were shimmering, the machines were jingling and there were some high rollers at the tables.

One of those high rollers was a FEMA administrator.

Ahsha Nateef Tribble’s job had been to get Puerto Rico working again. That’s why Ahsha had been appointed FEMA's Power Sector Chief and Infrastructure Chief for Recovery.

And she was certainly helping one part of Puerto Rico recover.

At Casino Del Mar, Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, who has been indicted alongside Tribble, was seen in surveillance footage picking up $3,000 worth of casino chips. The indictment alleges that Tribble and Ellison were together at the gambling tables and the cash cage.

Tribble and Ellison were gambling in more ways than one. The stakes would have easily broken the Casino Del Mar. Ellison’s Cobra had received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid. And Tribble had the authority to dispense $200 million in public assistance projects.

What was a mere $3,000 compared to the millions and billions that they were already playing with?

The indictments of Tribble and Ellison ended the game. The dice have come up snake eyes and the croupier is taking back all the chips. But the game of profiting from catastrophe was a fun one.

At Casino Del Mar, Ahsha Nateef Tribble was enjoying the good life at the top of a meteoric career. But while her annual salary of $149,000 placed her among the top 10% of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it wasn’t enough to buy her everything she wanted.

And that’s what Ellison was allegedly doing by, in the language of the indictment, promising, offering and giving “Ahsha Nateef Tribble a stream of things of value, including airfare, ground transportation, helicopter fights, hotel rooms, meals, entertainment expenses.” $149,000 a year only goes so far.

Not that Ahsha had anything to complain about. After earning a BS in Math from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an MS in Meteorology from Florida State, she had traveled out of state to the University of Oklahoma for a PhD in Meteorology. And the year she graduated she was somehow already the Technical Chief of Staff at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce at NOAA.

Two years after graduating, she was the Executive Officer at the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

Five years after graduation, she was the Chief of the Climate Sciences Division for NOAA's National Weather Service.

With that kind of resume, Ahsha must have been brilliant. But her indictment doesn’t suggest a genius. Even an evil genius would have done a better job of cashing in than hotels, a casino and a copter.

There is, unfortunately, another explanation.

And it’s why the blame for the Puerto Rico mess falls squarely on the scumbag/liar-nObama administration.

Under scumbag/liar-nObama, the former Florida girl was in D.C. as a senior policy advisor coordinating with the White House. scumbag/liar-nObama's White House then put her on staff as a director at the National Security Council.

Ahsha Nateef Tribble became scumbag/liar-nObama's Senior Director for Response and even served as an interim Deputy Homeland Security Advisor.

In the waning days of the scumbag/liar-nObama regime, Ahsha was appointed a Deputy Regional Administrator at FEMA. Either Ahsha had guessed correctly that the next administration would not have the word 'scumbag/liar-Clinton' in it or she didn't have the right connections. But she had landed safely. And someone had decided that with her impressive resume, she would be perfect for tackling Puerto Rico's power crisis.

Hadn't she served as a senior advisor to scumbag/liar-nObama's Secretary of Energy?

And, according to her FEMA bio, "led or supported White House response coordination and operational policy for major disasters including Hurricanes Sandy and Irene."

There was just one problem.

The Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency. Disaster relief needs competence, not diversity. But FEMA, like every other part of the government, had gone mad for diversity without ever recovering. For Black History Month, its Diversity and Inclusion unit had promoted a livestream of a transgender panel from the U.S. Air Force Academy. FEMA might not be very competent at managing disasters, but it was great at promoting random lefty social agendas and spending taxpayer money.

Ahsha was the daughter of Israel Tribble Jr, an affirmative action advocate who claimed that the education system pandered to European elitism and was unsuited for those who were “dark or different”. The names of his children reflected the academic’s belief in his own form of Afrocentric Egyptology. In Puerto Rico, affirmative action ran into a wall of corruption and human misery.

A casino in San Juan was a long way from Ahsha’s glory days of traveling to disaster sites with scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden. Or representing the United States at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

But there were still opportunities here. And she allegedly knew how to take them.

Puerto Rico was a crisis. And the thing to do with a crisis was play it up and then cash in. And Ahsha Nateef Tribble was allegedly influencing the payments going to her new friend’s company.

While contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars were dispensed, she enjoyed the little things, a helicopter ride, a hotel room, and a fun time in a casino. Also riding the Puerto Rico gravy train was Jovanda Patterson, another FEMA employee and a good friend of Ahsha’s, who got a job with Ellison.

“Thank you both for My day will be great when I get a picture of Ahsha getting her treatment today please,” Jovanda had emailed Ellison and Ahsha.

Times were still hard in parts of Puerto Rico, but there were other priorities for FEMA’s best.

“I’m on it. I will get her down there at 1pm,” Ellison replied.

You didn’t have to be in a disaster area to get personal service like that. Just tasked with managing one.

A Twitter account with Jovanda Patterson’s name and tweets about FEMA and Puerto Rico, includes a retweet of anti-American racist activist Colin Kaepernick, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and Senator lowlife-Kamala Harris.

Why was Hurricane Maria so devastating?

The answer has little to do with President Trump and a great deal to do with the existing corruption by local officials in Puerto Rico, which has already resulted in multiple arrests, and within FEMA.

It was one of scumbag/liar-nObama’s NSC staffers who had traveled with him and with loose lips liar-Biden, who allegedly conspired to rob taxpayers and to abuse money meant to help Puerto Ricans.

What happened in Puerto Rico is the same thing that happens in Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore.

In another hurricane procurement scandal, FEMA gave Tiffany Brown a $156 million contract to serve 30 million meals to hurricane victims. Brown's company had no employees and no experience in large-scale disaster relief. And was not able to actually provide the meals. But "Dr. Brown" does boast that her Tribute Contracting LLC is a "a minority-owned government consulting firm".

The government can help people. Or it can help itself.

It can help the minorities it claims to care about. Or it can just help the well-connected ones.

A quick walk around Newark, Los Angeles or San Juan can clue you in on who’s really being helped.

The money that’s supposed to help people never actually reaches them. But that’s fine. There’s better uses for that money. And the worse things get, the more money will be spent on not fixing the crisis.

And, if you’re lucky, you can have a fun night in a casino in San Juan where everyone is always dying.

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Monday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 4:35pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Channels George McGovern

Cal Thomas

Details Of EU Ambassador’s Planned Testimony About Quid Pro Quo Have Leaked

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will reportedly testify that President Donald Trump told him in a phone call in September... that he did not want a quid pro quo from Ukraine involving military aid, but that he is not certain that the president was telling the truth. A person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony told The Washington Post that the diplomat will tell lawmakers of Trump’s quid pro quo denial that, “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth.” Sondland is set to appear before Congress under subpoena Thursday as part of Democrats’ impeachment campaign against Trump. The diplomat is likely to be asked about his interactions with Trump, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and other diplomats regarding the administration’s posture toward Ukraine. Sondland and Kurt Volker, the now-former envoy to Ukraine, met with Giuliani at Trump’s urging to negotiate with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration over investigations into whether Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, as well as into whether loose lips liar-Joe Biden pressured Ukraine’s president in 2016 to quash an investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy company that had Hunter Biden as a board member. Giuliani is reportedly under criminal investigation over his links to Ukrainians who he worked with to push the theory about the loose lipsv liar-Bidens. He has denied wrongdoing. Sondland is likely to be asked about his remarks to another diplomat, Bill Taylor, and to Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson regarding whether the investigations were part of a quid pro quo for military aid. Johnson told The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 4 that Sondland told him during an Aug. 30 phone call Trump would release the military aid to Ukraine if Zelenksy announced the investigations. The U.S. had mysteriously withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, Politico reported Aug. 28. Lawmakers did not know why the assistance had been withheld, with some wondering whether it was linked to Trump’s public calls for the politically charged investigations.... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/13/gordon-sondland-quid-pro-quo-trump/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10454

What Do Rolling Blackouts And Sky-High Gas

Prices Mean For Gov scumbag-Newsom’s

Job As Governor?

by CHRIS WHITE

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Recent history might explain why Democratic California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom is lashing out at the public utility company responsible for rolling blackouts in his state as citizens wrestle with increasing gas prices... California’s public utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) began a days-long power shutoff to curb the risk of wildfires in the northern part of the state. scumbag-Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, is dealing with several problems as he struggles with PG&E’s move. “What’s happened is unacceptable. And it’s happened because of neglect,” he said at a news conference Thursday, referring to the decision to shutter power across the state. “This current operation is unacceptable. The current conditions and circumstances are unacceptable.” Power went out for 513,000 northern California homes and businesses Wednesday morning, USA Today reported, and roughly 234,000 customers were expected to lose power later Wednesday night. A previous Democratic governor in the state to confront similar blackouts was recalled in the early 2000s. Former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis of California was recalled in 2003 after increasing the state’s car registration fees and for the perception that he didn’t do enough to forestall rolling blackouts across the state. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger won the election November of that year. California’s blackouts at the time hurt many businesses that were dependent upon a reliable supply of electricity. scumbag-Newsom is also confronting blackouts, though his situation is considerably different from the one Davis faced... The blackout didn't help for a fire was reported on Friday.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/12/newsom-california-gas-prices-fires/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10454

Democrats ratchet up impeachment secrecy

by Byron York

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A week ago, House Republicans complained that Democrats imposed excessive secrecy on interviews conducted as part of the drive to impeach President Trump. Now, the situation appears to have gotten worse... Friday's interview of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, marked a new point — a low point, as Republicans see it — in Democratic efforts to keep impeachment information out of public view. In this way: The two previous impeachment interviews, with former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, were conducted in the format of what is known as a transcribed interview. Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, who is running the Democratic impeachment effort, decreed that transcripts not be released to the public. At the same time, there were no heavily restrictive rules on what would happen should any member of Congress, acting from memory, reveal things that were said in the interview. The Yovanovitch session was different. Democrats conducted the interview in the format of a deposition, which is different from a transcribed interview. One key difference is that there are serious penalties for lawmakers who reveal the contents of a deposition. Doing so would almost surely subject the offending member to a House ethics investigation. All Republicans remember the price paid by Rep. Devin Nunes, who in 2017, as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, faced an ethics investigation based on a complaint from a Democratic-allied outside group alleging he leaked classified information. Nunes was later cleared of all the charges, but he had to distance himself from some committee activities as the investigation slowly proceeded. Now, some Republican lawmakers express fear of Democrats siccing an ethics investigation on them if they reveal what took place in the Yovanovitch interview, even though none of what was discussed was classified. Look at what happened to Nunes, they say. So Republicans feel tight restrictions on what they can say. What was Yovanovitch asked? What did she answer? Were her answers consistent with what is known about the case? Republicans can't say, fearful that scumbag-Schiff and Democrats will come after them... scumbag-Schiff and Democrats are doing a disservice to the American people. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/dems-ratchet-up-impeachment-secrecy?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

AG Barr’s Speech To Notre Dame Rips

The Mask Off The Progressive Agenda

by Wes Walker

{ clashdaily.com } ~ Why do we like William Barr? Because he is a true public servant… here because he wants to be here, not because he has anything he needs to prove or gain... Barr, from the beginning, was openly thinking about character, legacy and the sort of America he was leaving to future generations. He’s not about flash-and-dazzle. He’s about substance. He’s already risen to levels of personal success. He knew before he ever accepted the post that anyone accepting a role in the Trump administration would be vilified and go through the wringer. But he took it anyway. As expected, he’s being demonized in the press — which could be taken to indicate that he’s looking under the right rocks and making the right people nervous. If you want a glimpse of who he is as a person and what he thinks, he pulls back the curtain a little in his speech to Notre Dame. Judging by the outrage in the hostile press, he’s said a lot of things that rattle some chains that have desperately needed some rattling for a long time...

https://clashdaily.com/2019/10/ag-barrs-speech-to-notre-dame-rips-the-mask-off-the-progressive-agenda/

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Qatar Scam to Gain More Influence

on US Universities

By Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess

{ clarionproject.org } ~ The latest Qatar scam to gain influence on America universities, with no accountability to the Department of Education: Over a million dollars in grants to an anti-American, anti-Semitic professor at Northwestern University... On September 12, the president of Northwestern University, Morton Schapiro released a statement condemning a tweet from one of the university’s professors, Justin Martin. Schapiro described a recent tweet by Martin as “insensitive and deeply disappointing.” Martin, an associate professor in residence at Northwestern’s campus in Doha, Qatar used the anniversary of 9/11 to downplay the heinous nature of this terrorist act. Martin, a journalism professor, has a long history of problematic views. He has expressed support for BDS and Qatar’s involvement in promoting the anti-Semitic movement on U.S. college campuses. The Clarion Project recently exposed the exorbitant spending from foreign countries on American Universities and Northwestern University’s particularly problematic relationship with Qatar. However, contrary to common belief, DoE records do not show all donations from foreign actors and disclosure can be avoided with simple evasive measures. U.S. law requires universities to disclose information about foreign gifts, as well as “any ownership interests in or control over the institution by a foreign entity.” Since 2012, the amount of foreign funding to American universities disclosed to the Education Department is $10,629,930,796. Qatar alone has provided $1,478,676,069 to U.S. universities in the form of gifts and contracts... https://clarionproject.org/qatar-scam-more-influence-on-us-universities/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d8b6a01e40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_01_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-d8b6a01e40-6442509&mc_cid=d8b6a01e40&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

The FBI And NSA Caught Spying On

American Citizens ILLEGALLY AGAIN!

By Jason Bermas

{ activistpost.com } ~ The news isn’t necessarily that they got caught; it’s that even a secret court has told them that it’s illegal. The fact is that these surveillance systems pre-date 9/11... and every major telecom company has special servers for federal access. Jason Bermas covers the many violations of our privacy and the apparent illusion that we have a 4th Amendment. We live in a national security state with little oversight and no checks and balances. https://www.activistpost.com/2019/10/the-fbi-and-nsa-caught-spying-on-american-citizens-illegally-again.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=622e9e6533-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-622e9e6533-387888649

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apwvgVKG0CY

Trump Channels George McGovern

Cal Thomas

The year was 1972 and Americans wanted out of the Vietnam War; the right because it was not being won and the left because of the increasing body count and lies from generals and politicians about “progress” toward defeating the communists.

Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern’s slogan “Come Home, America” resonated with growing numbers of people. When Richard Nixon defeated McGovern in a landslide, even Nixon began planning for a U.S. withdrawal. “Peace with honor” was his slogan.

The late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden cited that withdrawal as evidence that the U.S. had no stomach for long wars. He believed the U.S. would grow weary from the “war on terror,” ceding the killing field to the terrorists.

Now comes President Trump with another promise for a unilateral withdrawal of “between 50 and 100 troops,” from Syria. Many critics of the decision believe it is an invitation for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to slaughter Kurdish forces, America’s loyal ally in the region in the fight against terrorism. The Kurds have served as a buffer, preventing an attack by Turkey’s powerful military. Not surprisingly, it didn’t take Turkey long to press its advantage. Reuters reports, “Turkey’s military struck the Syrian-Iraqi border to prevent Kurdish forces using the route to reinforce northeast Syria, as Ankara prepares to launch an offensive there after a surprise U.S. troop pullback.”

Following backlash, the White House appeared to reverse its Syria decision. An administration official, speaking under the condition of anonymity, said, the U.S. is not removing its forces from Syria in the face of a Turkish incursion. Which decision will ultimately prevail?

But Trump has gone further than announcing a unilateral withdrawal of forces, he has threatened Erdogan that if he attacks the Kurds and mistreats ISIS prisoners and does anything the president considers “inhumane,” “they could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy.”

Erdogan is an Islamist and it appears he’s trying to take Turkey back to the days when it was an Islamic state. Does the president seriously believe Erdogan will bow to threats from one he likely considers an “infidel” leader of the “great Satan,” as another Islamist state, Iran, has called us?

The president says he is merely fulfilling a campaign promise to stop involving America in “endless wars.” It is a noble pursuit, but just as it takes two to tango, it also takes two warring sides to declare a ceasefire, or peace. When only one side abandons the battlefield — and with terrorism the battlefield is everywhere — guess which side wins?

Even some usually supportive Capitol Hill Republicans are critical of the president’s decision because it betrays a lack of policy objectives in the region. No one knows, or can articulate, U.S. foreign policy anywhere. Another example: the administration supports the toppling of the Maduro regime in Venezuela, but it is no closer to achieving that stated goal.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was praised by President Trump for her service when she announced her resignation, has joined the growing chorus of people alarmed by the president’s decision. Haley, a potential presidential candidate in the near future, has said that the new U.S. policy toward the Kurds (if one can call it a policy) amounts to “leaving them to die” and is “a mistake.”

Yes, the Middle East is a snake pit and the U.S. has spent a lot of money over many years trying to kill off the “snakes.” But stopping the killing of those who want to kill us almost guarantees they will return to the battle with renewed resolve and new recruits. What will the unilateral withdrawers say then?

Coming home is no guarantee the terrorists won’t come after us here. In fact, Iran has bragged of having their agents inside the U.S., awaiting instructions to inflict more death and destruction.

America’s withdrawal of troops from Vietnam ensured a communist victory, but that war was more about nationalism than communism. This war is different.

When he was president, George W. Bush said we are fighting terrorists over there, so we won’t have to fight them here. Withdrawing troops and risking the destruction of the Kurds is a step too far. ~The Patriot Post

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Monday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 12:21pm

TheFrontPageCover

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The Demo Double Standard When

Digging for Dirt on Trump

Mark Alexander

Rules for journalists focus

on Muslim 'sensitivities'

by wnd.com ~ Journalism regulators in the United Kingdom are proposing rules that critics say would favor Islam over other religions... The aim of the rules apparently is "to respect 'sensitivities' and avoid causing offense – not the factually correct reporting of newsworthy events," wrote Judith Bergman, a lawyer, political analyst and senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute." It does appear to be the case that what is uppermost in the minds of the drafters of the guidance is not so much factually accurate reporting, but concerns of a far more political nature, namely those of accommodating religious and cultural 'sensitivities' and avoiding the causing of any offense." She was discussing a report by the British think-tank Policy Exchange called "Eroding the Free Press." It addressed a leaked draft of a document called "Guidance for Reporting on Islam and Muslims" by the Independent Press Standards Organization, the nation's press regulator. According to the Policy Exchange report, the draft IPSO guidance states: "Journalists should be aware that their content can have an impact on the wider community and on how minority communities are treated. Inaccuracies and insensitivities can damage communities and prevents their accurate representation. They can also contribute to members of communities feeling divorced from, or misunderstood, by the media. Finally, inaccuracies and unbalanced coverage can work to increase tension between communities, which can make harassment more likely."But Policy Exchange said that approach is imbalanced. "In all of this, there seems to be a suggestion that journalists should take a different approach to covering Muslims than that employed towards other faith groups. This all seems remarkably ill-conceived. If we ruled out reporting on matters specific to Muslims not only would we miss some big issues – not least the threat from Islamist extremist terrorism, which continues to dwarf other global terrorist threats – but we would also be unable to report properly on discrimination against Muslims. More generally, we must ask: is it really the role of journalists to consider community cohesion before truth and accuracy? And what are the potential consequences of such an ethos?" Bergman explained the draft report also addresses "accuracy," suggesting that reporters must provide "contextualizing information" and "present more than one opinion."... Their going to wake up to their mistake but it will be to late. https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/rules-journalists-focus-muslim-sensitivities/

US Troops Headed to Middle East

by conservativesociety.org ~ Currently, the Middle East is a giant powder keg waiting to go off. Turkey is launching an offensive into Syria, Afghanistan is under constant threat from the Taliban... and Iraqi citizens are on the precipice of a violent revolution against their government. Take Iran’s constant hostilities over the course of 2019 into account, and one can clearly see that the region is a hot mess. The stabilizing presence of the US in the region has averted numerous catastrophes. However, tensions have drastically risen over the past year, especially this summer. This situation is becoming too volatile for our current allocation of troops in the Middle East to handle safely. As a first step towards providing further security and stability for our allies in the region, President Trump has ordered additional troops to deploy in Saudi Arabia. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper provided clarity on the Pentagon’s official stance with Iran in light of this move during a press conference. We thought it was important to continue to deploy forces to deter and defend and to send the message to the Iranians: Do not strike another sovereign state, do not threaten American interests, American forces, or we will respond. -Mark Esper, US Secretary of Defense This increase in troops is in direct response to the attacks on the world’s largest crude oil processing facility in the world located in Saudi Arabia back in September. America and Saudi Arabia have strong reason to believe that Iran was behind the attack. So, the US is helping to defend one of its most important strategic allies. A total of 3,000 troops are expected to be stationed in Suadi Arabia after this newest deployment. The Pentagon will also send two more Patriot missile batteries and a THAAD missile system. Some details are unknown, like whether or not the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group will be replaced when it finishes its current deployment... https://www.conservativesociety.org/united-voice/us-troops-headed-to-middle-east/?utm_source=AT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AT-101219-pm

Producers of the Flailing Impeachment Inquiry

By Clarice Feldman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Believing scumbag-Adam Schiff’s lies and calling for an “impeachment inquiry” has to be one of the worst blunders of Speaker liar-Pelosi’s career. The whistleblower tale has crumbled and the backup witnesses... the Democrats are relying on only confirm the Deep State bureaucrats and Democrats believe that they, not the elected president, have a lock on executive powers. In fact, the ploy boomeranged and the spotlight is now on the Democrats’ White Hope, loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Despite the media downplaying loose lips liar-Biden’s actions, there is more to come of his and his party’s corruption. The leaker, incorrectly tagged a “whistleblower,” now doesn’t want to testify. Instead he wants to give his testimony “by letter,” presumably from an undisclosed location where no one can test his “testimony.” Ostensibly this is because he fears for his safety. He is anonymous, so any claim of “death threats” seems unlikely, although as we show below, we do have a rather good idea of his identity. In any event the very notion is preposterous. It was already ridiculous to think a presidential impeachment, to remove the most powerful elected political representative of The United States, could continue based on an anonymous complaint. However, expecting the same complainant/accuser to remain invisible during the process is so far beyond nonsensical, the light from where nonsense emanates wouldn’t reach this narrative for a year. Yes, feel free to pummel the left-wing nuts based on the absurdity of this request. Only the most raving Moon bat imaginable would think they could impeach a sitting U.S. President via a ‘Dear Sir’ complaint letter to Congress. These are obviously not stable-minded people. Oh, please, please, please hold that impeachment vote now. It is more clear than ever where this nuttery is heading. If you thought it was delicious to watch the media meltdowns on election night 2016, just imagine the meltdowns as the media attempts to sell impeachment via a strongly worded letter of complaint to their resistance constituents…. Perhaps he could testify via text messages, or… wait, even better… via tweets. Too damn funny. The real reason for this backoff, I think, is that once his identity is confirmed, it will be clear this was a stupid setup by amateurs in Congress who wanted to cover their tracks. From certain clues reported, online detectives have winkled out what appears to be his identity. If they are right, there are a lot of reasons he wouldn’t want to testify. For one he seems to be involved with those behind the discredited Steele Dossier. “Billionaire scumbag/liar-Clinton donor Victor Pinchuk sent MP Bielkova to meet with him the same day she met with David Kramer and kicked Steele Dossier operation into high gear.” For another, his association with two members of scumbag-Schiff’s staff -- Abigail Grace and Sean Misko -- suggests they cooked up his story together before sending it off to the Inspector General to refashion the leaker as a “whistleblower.”...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/producers_of_the_flailing_impeachment_inquiry.html

What appears to be his identity... https://twitter.com/seamusbruner/status/1182714514585903105?s=21

US military denies killing civilians

in Taliban drug lab airstrikes

by Ben Marquis

{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ The United Nations is attacking the U.S., accusing U.S. military forces of unlawfully killing dozens of civilians in a series of airstrikes in May... U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) issued an immediate denial of the U.N.’s accusation, asserting that very few, if any, civilians were actually killed in the long-planned “precision” strikes. The strikes were targeting a methamphetamine-manufacturing facility that sold the drugs on the international black market and used the proceeds to fund the Taliban’s war effort, according to CBS News. The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in conjunction with the U.N. Human Rights Office, claimed in a report that the series of airstrikes on May 5 damaged or destroyed some 60 buildings and that investigators had “verified 39 civilian casualties — 30 deaths, five injured and four ‘undetermined.’ The toll included 14 children and one woman. ”The U.N. groups also claimed to have “credible evidence” that an additional 37 civilian casualties — 30 dead, 7 wounded — also resulted from the airstrikes on the drug-manufacturing operation, though those additional casualties were not confirmed. The groups further acknowledged that the targets of the airstrikes were buildings where methamphetamine was being produced, and even acknowledged the growing problem of drug addiction in the country. However, they asserted that such facilities — particularly when employing civilian workers — were not legitimate targets for military strikes, and therefore deemed the airstrikes to be unlawful and in violation of international humanitarian laws...

https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/un-us-killing-civilians/

'We train our boys to be killing machines'

Trump announces White House review

of Green Beret murder case

by Carlin Becker

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump defended a former Green Beret charged with murdering a suspected Taliban bomb-maker, announcing that the White House is reviewing the case... "The case of Major Mathew Golsteyn is now under review at the White House," the president tweeted on Saturday. "Mathew is a highly decorated Green Beret who is being tried for killing a Taliban bombmaker. We train our boys to be killing machines, then prosecute them when they kill! "Maj. Mathew Golsteyn is charged with committing the premeditated murder of an Afghan man he believed was a Taliban bomb-maker in 2010 when he was deployed in Afghanistan. He first disclosed the shooting in 2011 during a CIA polygraph test while he was applying for a job with the agency. The Army then investigated the incident, but it closed the case with no charges. He later publicly admitted to the killing during a 2016 appearance on Fox News, two years after he was given an official reprimand, which reopened the case. In 2018, Golsteyn was formally charged with premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death. In July, he pleaded not guilty to the charge. His attorney has since claimed the military’s “secretive” prosecution is denying his client his constitutional rights. Trump has considered pardoning him but has not yet made a decision. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/we-train-our-boys-to-be-killing-machines-trump-announces-white-house-review-of-green-beret-murder-case?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/12/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

The New Political Matrix

By Taylor Lewis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Civil war in Syria. China’s authoritarian ambition. Russian chicanery. Iranian proxies interfering with the international fuel supply. Most global threats facing America are relatively straightforward... they’re country-based, tangible dangers to U.S.-enforced global stability. The bad actors are clear enough: Putin, Erdogan, Jinping, Khamenei. The weapons are conventional: guns, bombs, drones, shackles, concentration camps, Facebook memes. The values at stake are classical: human rights, commercial freedom, the integral dignity of all mankind. That current threats are easy to identify doesn’t make them simple to solve. But, for students of the history of warfare, they aren’t de novo. The one exception are the digital didos of Muscovite netizens -- election interference is an old practice, but manipulating social media with Jesus versus scumbag/liar-Hillary graphics is new. The press likes to make outrage hay out of Russia’s attempted manipulation of U.S. political contests, but the effect is frequently overstated. However, chiliastic memes meant to sway elections may be small-bore for now, but they presage something more diabolical down the road. The age of digital warfare is about to get worse. The New Yorker recently covered the rise of artificial intelligence in basic composition. Back in the spring of 2018, Google introduced Smart Compose, a “predictive text” feature that recommends appendixes to close sentences for Gmail users. The words it suggests are basic at first “Have a great weekend!”, but the tool learns from users over time, adjusting the syntax, coming ever closer to mimicking the way real people to speak to one another. The technology isn’t perfect. Yet. There is still a staleness to artificially generated text. But that staleness is also present in everyday discourse, particularly in business, where canned phrases, sanitized daily by H.R., are ubiquitous. Still, AI tech is fast catching up, breezing past Moore’s Law, increasing processing power by a factor of ten each year. Last February, the nonprofit company OpenAI refused to make public its own AI text software known as GPT2. The reason? It’s straight out of a James Cameron-directed dystopia: the machine was too good at replicating human communication. The doyens of OpenAI -- public-minded Silicon Valley grandees like Sam Altman and Elon Musk -- want to ensure artificial intelligence isn’t just used responsibly, but its benefits are egalitarian, not hoarded by the very few... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_new_political_matrix.html

The Demo Double Standard When Digging

for Dirt on Trump

Mark Alexander: I have often observed, “If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats wouldn’t have any.” I’m not sure who said it first, but it frequently bears repeating.

Case in point would be the discovery of the 2018 scumbag-Durbin/scumbag-Leahy/scumbag-Menendez letter to Ukrainian officials, which I mentioned two weeks ago in “Democrat Obstruction 2.0.”

That column was a rebuttal to Demo Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of the Democrat Party’s 2020 campaign platform — a coup d'etat masquerading as an impeachment to overthrow the American people’s lawful election of Donald Trump — or at least to prevent his reelection.

After the colossal failure of their first coup attempt orchestrated by leftist deep-state operatives in the FBI and CIA, in August of this year, House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff used intermediaries to collude with a new group of CIA “whistleblowers” to set Trump up again.

scumbag-Schiff and his shills claim that last July, Trump requested that Ukrainian officials investigate the activities of loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter in a quid-pro-quo exchange for the release of $391 million in American aid.

Apparently, young Hunter collected significant “cash benefits,” both from Ukraine and China, when the old man was Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s vice president, and Democrats are crying foul that our nation’s current chief executive had the audacity to ask then-newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into that and other corruption matters. (We now know that five months before the call from Trump, Ukrainian prosecutors were already investigating Hunter Biden’s Burisma outfit.)

The most amusing correspondence in this latest Demo charade is a letter from liar-Pelosi to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, in which she laughably cites her “solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” liar-Pelosi also insisted, “Our Founders were specifically intent on ensuring that foreign entities did not undermine the integrity of our elections.” As if her reference “to support and defend” our Constitution weren’t enough of an eye-roller, she concludes, “We hope you and other Republicans share our commitment to following the facts, upholding the Constitution, protecting our national security, and defending the integrity of our elections at such a serious moment in our nation’s history.”

Ah, yes, Democrats “upholding the Constitution.”

But the letter of reference exemplifying the Demos’ double standard in this dustup is a correspondence composed on official U.S. Senate letterhead, addressed to then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and signed by Demo Sens. scumbag-Richard Durbin (IL), scumbag-Patrick Leahy (VT), and scumbag-Robert Menendez (NJ).

As political analyst Marc A. Thiessen pointedly asks, “It’s okay for Democratic senators to encourage Ukraine to investigate Trump, but it’s not okay for the president to allegedly encourage Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden?”

This Demo trio made clear that they were “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine” before strong-arming Lutsenko to do as they said. In regard to their fake Russian-collusion delusion to take down President Trump, the Demos complained, “We … are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump.” They then demanded that Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important [Mueller] investigation.”

In other words, these three senior Democrat senators were demanding that the Ukrainian government help find some shred of evidence to back up their “Russian collusion with Trump” investigation or risk the loss of U.S. support for Ukraine.

Or, in still other words, a “quid pro quo”! Sound familiar?

After that reference, I heard from an erstwhile Patriot reader that one of their colleagues had “investigated” my claim about the Demo letter and found it “FALSE.” And the source of that fact-check finding? You guessed it — Snopes.com.

Snopes, for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, is one of the earliest self-appointed “fact checkers” on the Web. It began life as the “Urban Legends” website and, frankly, 20 years ago, was an amusing stop for confirming or debunking folklore. But commercial ad-supported sites like Snopes are always at risk of becoming politicized and failing their own standards of objective assessment. The assessors aren’t machines and are therefore subject to the same human biases as the rest of us.

In its later iteration as Snopes, founders David and Barbara Mikkelson (before they divorced) teamed up to spin a lot of leftist yarn when pretending to fact-check hot-button political issues. D. Mikkelson and his “team” of checkers have ramped up their partisan advocacy since Trump’s election, riding the wake of leftist protagonists and their Leftmedia propaganda machines. Most of what the Leftmedia outlets run as “news” is steeped in leftist brew, and the same can be said for the Mikkelson crew. So, who checks the checkers?

Snopers are so intent in their quest to take on any and all things conservative that they recently went so far as to fact-check The Babylon Bee, a Christian satire website. That’s right — the Snopers are not only the self-appointed arbiters of truth on matters of great import, but now even matters of great humor.

The interesting thing about Snopes is that its leftist spin inadvertently exposes how Democrats spin reality into their own alternate universe. As a case in point, let’s go back to that arm-twisting Demo senatorial letter to Ukraine.

According to Mikkelson, the assertion that this letter constituted a quid pro quo is FALSE because the most leftist media source in the nation, The New York Times, says so.

But when reviewing the NYT’s own fact checkers regarding the clear double standard that it’s fair for Democrats to pressure Ukraine for dirt on Trump, but foul for Trump to ask questions about corruption, including that involving the loose lips liar-Bidens, there’s an interesting revelation.

Here’s how the Times spun it:

“The three Democratic senators did write a letter to Yuriy Lutsenko, then Ukraine’s prosecutor general, in May 2018. Mr. Trump’s claim of an implied ultimatum is a matter of interpretation but the letter does not include an overt threat of withholding foreign aid.”

But the Times does concede that “direct mention of foreign aid was in relation to … cooperation with Mr. Mueller’s investigation.” Which is the very definition of a quid pro quo!

Again, to be clear, The New York Times concluded that the “implied ultimatum” was “a matter of interpretation,” and that the Demos’ letter did mention foreign aid “in relation to” Mueller’s investigation, but that did not constitute an “overt threat of withholding aid.” Got that?

This does not make the assertions about the Democrat letter “FALSE,” as Snopes declared. At best, it makes them inconclusive.

As for Trump’s communication with his Ukrainian counterpart, there is no “overt threat” of withholding aid, and any “implied ultimatum” is “a matter of interpretation.” Thus, no quid pro quo.

But Democrats are using their “interpretation” of an “implied ultimatum” as the basis for impeaching Trump and, with the help of their MSM publicists, are rallying considerable public support.

A double standard? Not if you’re a Democrat! Democrats embrace hypocrisy as if it was the highest of political character traits.

Finally, while the scumbag-Durbin/scumbag-Leahy/ scumbag-Menendez letter is an interesting study in how leftists spin the truth, there is no dispute about another double standard — loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s 2016 threat to cut $1 billion in U.S. Ukrainian loan guarantees if they did not fire Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor whose investigations were getting dangerously close to Hunter Biden’s affairs. I say no dispute because, in Joe Biden’s own words, “I looked at [the Ukrainian leaders] and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b—. He got fired.”

As it stands today, President Trump has appropriately “declined” the Democrats’ invitation to participate in their impeachment hoax.

~The Patriot Post

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