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Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 9:06am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

'Disinformation' Can Sort Itself Out

Hans von Spakovsky

Monday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

“PUBLIC CHARGE” RULE BLOCKED: “Under the rule,” The Hill reports, “any immigrant who receives at least one designated public benefit — including Medicaid, food stamps, welfare or public housing vouchers — for more than 12 months within any three-year period will be considered a ‘public charge’ and will be more likely to be denied a green card by immigration officials.” Federal Judge George Daniels “said the Trump administration likely exceeded its authority.”

ACTING DHS SECRETARY OUT: “Kevin McAleenan,” Trump said Friday, “has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well together with Border Crossings being way down. Kevin now, after many years in Government, wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. … I will be announcing the new Acting Secretary [this] week.”

Government & Politics

GOWDY PRECLUDED: As a corollary of lobbying rules, “a deal that [Trump’s legal team] had reached with former South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy fell through,” The Daily Wire reports.

DUBIOUS TIMING: Hunter Biden stepping down from Chinese firm, vows no foreign work if father wins in 2020 (The Hill)

National Security

SYRIA UPDATE: “Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed Sunday that President Trump has ordered a larger withdrawal of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria than was previously indicated,” according to The Hill. Meanwhile, Fox News says, “Fresh airstrikes from Turkey reportedly targeted civilians and a group of foreign reporters in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn.”

TALIBAN PEACE TALKS: “U.S. officials and representatives of the Afghan Taliban have begun discussing ways to revive a peace process after talks fell apart last month.” (The Wall Street Journal)

GETTING ITS ACT TOGETHER: Mexico halts caravan of 2,000 migrants bound for U.S. (Fox News)

STOMACH-CHURNING: Master Sgt. Mark Allen dies 10 years after being shot while searching for deserter Bowe Bergdahl (Fox News)

Culture & Heartland

POWER RESTORED: “PG&E Corp. crews have restored power to more than 700,000 homes and businesses in California that had been subjected to a deliberate blackout,” The Sacramento Bee reports. Ironically, many Californians are discovering that solar panels don’t work in blackouts.

VILLAGE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM: Pointing a finger gun lands bullied 12-year-old student in handcuffs (The Kansas City Star)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: A new dark age: California’s blackouts are self-inflicted (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Why price transparency can revolutionize healthcare (Tom Coburn)

HUMOR: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren recalls how she lost her teaching job when her fake mustache fell off revealing she’s a woman (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66096?mailing_id=4586&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4586&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Ridiculous Shift – scumbag-Adam Schiff

No Longer Requires CIA Gossip

for Impeachment Testimony

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Well, this was entirely predictable. First the impeachment strategy needed the anonymous CIA gossiper to testify... Then it leaked about how HPSCI Chairman scumbag-Adam Shiff and his Lawfare staff actually created the “gossiper’s” silly third-hand complaint to an inspector general; who then changed ‘gossip’ rules to allow second and third-hand hearsay. It was all becoming more brutally sketchy, and the impeachment jenga blocks were tenuous at best. As a result, republicans were going to inquire about how the CIA gossiper constructed his complaint; and then the complaint attorney’s started saying the gossiper would not appear in person, but rather write more complaint letters instead of testifying. The shift from sketchy testimony to “Dear Sir” letters was ridiculous in the extreme. So what happens next? Well, this is predictable…. Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff now says there will likely be no gossiper testimony because now he doesn’t need it. REP. scumbag-SCHIFF: You know and I think initially, before the president started threatening the whistleblower, threatening others calling them traitors and spies and suggesting that you know we used to give the death penalty to traitors and spies and maybe we should think about that again. Yes we were interested in having the whistleblower come forward. Our primary– MARGARET BRENNAN: Not anymore?... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/13/ridiculous-shift-adam-schiff-no-longer-requires-cia-gossip-for-impeachment-testimony/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnN2TlNu3CI

Turkey Attacks US Special Forces

in Syria, Apparently by Mistake

By Tom O'Connor , James LaPorta and Naveed Jamali

{ newsweek.com } ~ A contingent of U.S. Special Forces was caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria... days after President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart he would withdraw U.S. troops from certain positions in the area. A senior Pentagon official said shelling by the Turkish forces was so heavy that the U.S. personnel considered firing back in self-defense. Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and the senior Pentagon official that Special Forces operating on Mashtenour hill in the majority-Kurdish city of Kobani fell under artillery fire from Turkish forces conducting their so-called "Operation Peace Spring" against Kurdish fighters backed by the U.S. but considered terrorist organizations by Turkey. No injuries have been reported. Instead of returning fire, the Special Forces withdrew once the shelling had ceased. Newsweek previously reported Wednesday that the current rules of engagement for U.S. forces continue to be centered around self-defense and that no order has been issued by the Pentagon for a complete withdrawal from Syria. The Pentagon official said that Turkish forces should be aware of U.S. positions "down to the grid." The official could not specify the exact number of personnel present, but indicated they were "small numbers below company level," so somewhere between 15 and 100 troops. Newsweek has reached out to the Pentagon for comment on the situation... https://www.newsweek.com/us-troops-syria-turkey-1464727?amp=1

Deceptive Democrats Distort

Whistleblower’s Identity

by americanretirementinsider.com ~ Everyone wants to know the identity of the whistleblower. This is the person who started the mess that has filled the news over the past several weeks. The dumb Democrats want to hide the identity of the person... But the accused do have the right to face their accusers. The Democrats have been so resistant to identify the person that it has led many to determine that the person just simply does not exist. This is just another attempt by the Democrats to have a reason to move forward with the impeachment inquiry. liar-Nancy Pelosi has moved her position to be in favor of the impeachment but has not taken the vote to get things started. There is a lot of mystery surrounding the legitimacy of what the dumb Democrats are trying to do. What the stupid Democrats want to do is hide the identity of the person during any type of interview. The dumb Democrats are so suspicious and untrusting of the Republicans that they are afraid the identity of the person will be revealed. They want to mask their voice during the phone call. The idea is to distort the voice is just like a spy distorting his voice, so he can stay in the shadows. The Democrats are coming after the president with the intent of taking over the presidency. Their dumb concerns about the Republicans leaking the identity of the whistleblower are not warranted. The only people the Democrats need to be concerned with is themselves. They are the ones that are always leaking sensitive information to the public. What the Democrats are proposing will certainly divide the rift between all political parties. The Democrats have shown themselves to be living in a paranoid state. They do not trust anyone, and they certainly have not worked well with the Republicans at any turn. There is no reason for anyone to even trust them concerning the true identity of the whistleblower unless that person comes out and goes public. The dumb and deceptive Democrats would most certainly have a fake person take their place to talk on the phone. It is not beneath the Democrats to do this sort of action... https://americanretirementinsider.com/deceptive-democrats-distort-whistleblowers-identity/

Anti-Trump Whistleblower

Does Not Want to Testify in Person

by /thepoliticalinsider.com ~ The so-called Ukraine whistleblower — the individual whom House Democrats are hoping will help them impeach President Donald Trump... said he does not want to testify in person before Congress. Instead, lawyers for the whistleblower have asked that the unnamed person be allowed to testify in writing only. The House and Senate Intelligence Committees reportedly have not yet responded to the request from lawyers representing the anonymous CIA official, according to The Wall Street Journal on Friday morning. Democrats have been trying to protect the identity of the whistleblower from the start, while Trump and other Republicans have argued the president should have the opportunity to confront his accuser in person. Lawyers for the whistleblower have already confirmed that the anonymous person is a Democrat who has worked with at least one 2020 presidential candidate — and new reports indicate this candidate is loose lips liar-Joe Biden. One former congressional intelligence official told WSJ it’s highly unusual for a witness to testify in writing. The official added that while this kind of testimony is unprecedented, there also isn’t a precedent for this situation — as there has never been as high-profile a “whistleblower” report as this one. But some Republicans have said this isn’t a whistleblower at all. Meanwhile, House Dems would like to have articles of impeachment brought forward by Thanksgiving of this year — a time frame that many people feel is unrealistic and likely will backfire on them...

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/anti-trump-whistleblower-does-not-want-to-testify-in-person/?utm_campaign=TPI101219SatBR&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

The Last Desperate Effort to Protect “The

Chosen One” Will Likely Fail (Perhaps by Design)

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Jonathan Turley asks a question today about why the media will not allow any discussion of loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s obviously corrupt Achilles heel to be discussed... Within his article Turley cites examples of CNN, NBC, MSNBC and a host of other mainstream news outlets that will not allow any discussion of loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s transparently visible weakness. He ponders ‘why’? […] When Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) raised the issue on CNN, host Erin Burnett cut him off: “There is no evidence of loose lips liar-Joe Biden doing anything wrong, and this is something that has been looked into, and I think — I want to make a point here — I think what we need to talk about right now is what did the president right now do or not do.” Other CNN hosts have repeated the line of “no evidence of wrongdoing” like a virtual incantation. […] For news shows on MSNBC, CNN and other cable networks, nothing is more disgusting than the mention of what Hunter Biden actually was doing in Ukraine. […] loose lips liar-Joe Biden has insisted he never spoke with his son about his foreign dealings — an incredible but categorical statement. The then-vice president flew with his son on Air Force Two on an official trip to China but suggests they never discussed his son’s deal seeking $1.5 billion in investments with the state-backed Bank of China. During the trip, Hunter reportedly introduced his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li, who was part of that deal. Yet loose lips liar-Biden insists he was never told of any business linkage or dealings. Perhaps here’s “why”…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/12/the-last-desperate-effort-to-protect-the-chosen-one-will-likely-fail-perhaps-by-design/

Stephen Miller Discusses the “Fourth

Unelected Branch of Government” and

the Impeachment Agenda

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller appears with Jesse Watters to discuss the ongoing impeachment efforts and the political agenda of those within the administrative state who are opposed to President Trump.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/12/stephen-miller-discusses-the-fourth-unelected-branch-of-government-and-the-impeachment-agenda/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z2-r0oh5tI

France: More Death to Free Speech

by Guy Millière

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ On September 28, a "Convention of the Right" took place in Paris, organized by Marion Marechal, a former member of French parliament and now director of France's Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences... The purpose of the convention was to unite France's right-wing political factions. In a keynote speech, the journalist Éric Zemmour harshly criticized Islam and the Islamization of France. He described the country's "no-go zones" Zones Urbaines Sensibles; Sensitive Urban Zones as "foreign enclaves" in French territory and depicted, as a process of "colonization", the growing presence in France of Muslims who do not integrate. Zemmour quoted the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who said that the no-go zones are "small Islamic Republics in the making". Zemmour said that a few decades ago, the French could talk freely about Islam but that today it is impossible, and he denounced the use of the "hazy concept of Islamophobia to make it impossible to criticize Islam, to reestablish the notion of blasphemy to the benefit of the Muslim religion alone..." "All our problems are worsened by Islam. It is a double jeopardy.... Will young French people be willing to live as a minority on the land of their ancestors? If so, they deserve to be colonized. If not, they will have to fight ... The old words of the Republic, secularism, integration, republican order, no longer mean anything ... Everything has been overturned, perverted, emptied of meaning." Zemmour's speech was broadcast live on LCI television. Journalists on other channels immediately accused LCI of contributing to "hate propaganda". Some said that LCI should lose its broadcasting license. One journalist, Memona Hinterman-Affegee, a former member of France's High Council of Audiovisual Media Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, the body that regulates electronic media in France, wrote in the newspaper Le Monde: "LCI uses a frequency which is part of the public domain and thus belongs to the entire nation ... LCI has failed in its mission and lost control of its program, and must be sanctioned in an exemplary manner". The journalists of Le Figaro, the newspaper employing Zemmour, wrote a press release demanding his immediate dismissal. Calls heard on most radio and television stations for a total boycott of Zemmour stressed that he had been condemned several times for "Islamophobic racism"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15002/france-free-speech

'Disinformation' Can Sort Itself Out

Hans von Spakovsky

Facebook recently stated that it will neither censor nor “fact-check” statements by politicians on their site. This is great for political speech but — apparently — unwelcome news to the leadership of at least one of the major political parties.

The Democratic National Committee slammed Facebook’s decision, arguing that “Trump has an utter disregard for the truth” and that “social media platforms have a responsibility to protect our democracy and counter disinformation online.”

This is only the most recent effort by leftist politicians to goad social-media companies into silencing conservative politicians and anyone else they disagree with.

Several weeks ago, we warned that Federal Election Commission chairwoman Ellen Weintraub (D) was convening representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google to pressure them into “fighting the disinformation that risks further corroding our democracy.” In other words, to appoint themselves as Big Brother — with her approval — to censor political speech and reporting on elections and hot-button issues.

It’s a heartening sign that at least one of those social-media platforms has wisely decided that less is more when it comes to policing and censoring political speech and the global Internet arena where so many Americans today gather information and news and debate, discuss, argue, and vigorously contest the public issues of the day. To its credit, Facebook seems to appreciate, much more than some progressive politicians, the value of robust political discourse and the danger of vague limitations on political speech.

“I know some people will say we should go further,” Facebook executive Nick Clegg said, seemingly referring to left-leaning critics. “But imagine the reverse. Would it be acceptable to society at large to have a private company in effect become a self-appointed referee for everything that politicians say?” Clegg asked rhetorically. “I don’t believe it would be.”

Clegg went on to clarify how Facebook views its role vis-à-vis political speech: “To use tennis as an analogy, our job is to make sure the court is ready — the surface is flat, the lines painted, the net at the correct height. But we don’t pick up a racket and start playing. How the players play the game is up to them, not us.”

With political discourse, as with sports, Facebook’s “let ‘em play” approach is for the best. Attempts to tightly referee political discourse often devolve into partisan point-scoring.

As peer-reviewed academic studies show, so-called media “fact-checkers” have a strong track record of partisan bias. Indeed, one very popular fact-checker, Politifact, rated Republicans as more deceptive than Democrats at a rate of about 3 to 1, with no rational justification explaining that discrepancy.

Even the most well-meaning effort to fact-check political statements is likely to be hamstrung by subjectivity. When researchers look at the way mainstream fact-checkers rated the exact same statements by politicians, they found very low agreement. It is difficult to explain that disagreement as due to anything other than the differing personal political opinions and biases of the fact-checkers.

This is especially true with statements and stories deemed to be partially true. Too often, so-called fact-checkers use ambiguous, in-between categories for stories and statements that get the facts right, but that they nonetheless find misleading because the targets of their fact-checking leave out some supposedly “relevant” information.

Politicians sometimes exaggerate, flub the numbers, or even lie intentionally to deceive the public. When they do, it’s fair to call them out on it. But it’s not fair to keep them from speaking at all. The thorniest political battles are usually not between truth-tellers and liars, but between rival camps who disagree about which facts are most relevant.

Kellyanne Conway’s phrase “alternative facts” may be ripe for parody, but it is not Orwellian double-speak. Very often one side is armed with facts, and the other side is armed with a different set of facts. Their political disagreement usually focuses on which set of facts is most important to the issue at hand.

For instance, where progressives point to rising income inequality and the rising cost of health care, conservatives emphasize the importance of improved material conditions at every income level and the rapid pace of medical innovation that is making us a healthier society. Neither side’s facts may be wrong, but opposing sides often disagree on the relevance, meaning, and importance of those facts.

Too often, fact-checkers mislabel as a lie any statement that does not emphasize the facts supporting their own biases and opinions about an issue.

Facebook is right to recognize the vagaries of so-called “fact-checking” and its profound, potentially misleading influence on our public discourse. It correctly perceives the danger of appointing itself as the all-seeing Big Brother who will regulate, censor, and decide what information and what political speech is acceptable.

While Facebook has taken heat from both the right and the left of late, its hands-off approach is praiseworthy and should be followed by all the social-media platforms that dominate the Internet and are used by the public.

Nick Clegg got it exactly right when he said it isn’t Facebook’s job to “prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny.” “In open democracies,” he added, “voters rightly believe … they should be able to judge what politicians say themselves.”

Too bad the DNC and FEC commissioner Weintraub don’t have the same faith in the ability of the American public to make their own decisions. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65983?mailing_id=4580&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4580&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Monday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 14, 2019 at 7:16am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

End Impeachment Secrecy

Byron York

Maria Bartiromo: DOJ inspector general report

due out Friday and covers 'more

than just FISA abuse'

by Daniel Chaitin

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo says her sources are telling her an extensive report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the Justice Department and the FBI will be released by the end of next week... Bartiromo, who is the first journalist to report an exact release date, discussed what she had learned on her Fox News show, Sunday Morning Futures, with two Republican congressmen who deduced former high-ranking government officials are bracing for a scathing critique. "I’m hearing the IG report will be out this upcoming Friday, Oct. 18, and my sources say it’s as thick as a telephone book," Bartiromo said, adding that it covers "more than just FISA abuse." It has been exactly one month since Horowitz announced the completion of the investigation by his team, who pored over more than 1 million records and conducted 100-plus interviews. The inspector general gave a draft to the Justice Department and FBI for a classification review. Upon the completion of that process, the report will first be delivered to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who has pledged to do a "deep dive" of his own into FISA that will run concurrently with U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the early stages of the Russia investigation. The South Carolina Republican said his "No. 1 goal" is to have as much of the report declassified as possible. Republicans allege top Justice Department and FBI officials misled the FISA court by using an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain warrants to electronically monitor onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in an attempt to dig up damaging information about Trump... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/maria-bartiromo-doj-inspector-general-report-due-out-friday-and-covers-more-than-just-fisa-abuse?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_10/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hfpFu4RXQ

John Durham Has Expanded

Investigation Of CIA, FBI Activities

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The U.S. attorney probing FBI and CIA counterintelligence activities related to the Trump campaign has expanded the scope of the inquiry, according to Fox News... John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, is using additional agents and resources as part of the inquiry, which is also looking at the activities of foreign intelligence agencies. Senior administration officials told Fox News’s Bret Baier that Durham has expanded the investigation because of information he has obtained in the probe. However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel. Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to oversee the inquiry shortly after the end of the special counsel’s investigation, which said there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government. Barr has said he has questions about the timeline of events leading up to the FBI’s opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. “I assumed I’d get answers when I went in, and I have not gotten answers that are well satisfactory, and in fact probably have more questions,” Barr told CBS News on May 31, adding that “some of the facts that … I’ve learned don’t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.”... https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/john-durham-fbi-cia-barr/

Oops! California’s expensive solar panels to

fight climate change don’t work during blackout

by Samantha Chang

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Californians who screech about climate change were furious after discovering that the expensive solar panels they installed on their rooftops don’t work during a blackout unless they buy an equally expensive battery system... This week, a mass power outage occurred when utility company PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Co. shut down the electric grid in Northern California to prevent wildfires, which have been ravaging the state. The grid shutdown in 34 counties caused more than 738,000 area customers to lose power, KCRA reported. The irony is that California’s insistence on solar panel installation has not helped at all during the forced grid shutdown. Moreover, beginning in January 2020, California has made it mandatory for all new homes to be built with solar panels. “Energy experts estimate that building solar panels can add another $10,000 to $15,000 to the cost of rebuilding,” according to Action News Now. In other words, installing solar panels to combat climate change is not only more expensive, but has proven to be ineffective in helping maintain power during a blackout. So what’s the point? Fortunately, leftists believe that interpretive dance can combat climate change...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/12/oops-californias-expensive-solar-panels-to-fight-climate-change-dont-work-during-blackout-838403?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v8axzz-oops-california-residents-learn-solar-panels-dont-work-during-blackouts.html

commie-Ocasio-Cortez Hauled Off

To Court… She’s FURIOUS

by youtube.com ~ Rep. commie-Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is being hauled off to court. She is furious about it, but there’s nothing she can do. Justice has arrived... The socialist congressman’s “use of Twitter is landing her hot water, with several people filing suit against her for blocking them on the platform,” reported One America News Network (OAN) in a recent newscast. OAN’s Ryan Girdusky interviewed one of the plaintiffs, Dov Hikind — a Democrat and former member of New York’s legislature who has “an ongoing lawsuit” against commie-Ocasio-Cortez. “Very, very excited,” said Hikind. “November fifth, eleven o’clock in the morning, commie-AOC will be on the stand. The big question from the judge, from everybody, why did you block me, Dov Hikind?” “Five million followers, one of the few people she had a problem with was me,” he continued. “When her campaign manager was on the stand … and was asked why commie-AOC blocked me, she didn’t have an answer.” Girdusky noted that commie-AOC blocked Hikind after he tried to correct her comments about “concentration camps” being on the border. Hikind, a Jewish man, said he found this, in particular, to be “one of the most objectionable things.” VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nazTWc_jI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2JGRck-OpqkjyMrdEXnTwb9PGu45qF6hHwYHVbsu3sa1NR6l_a-ROEEMo

End Impeachment Secrecy

Byron York

There have so far been two hearings in the House Democrats’ effort to impeach President Donald Trump over the Ukraine matter. Both have been held in secret. One was last Thursday, the other Friday, and the public does not know what was said in either. Two more are scheduled for this week, and they will be held behind closed doors, too.

The hearings are part of an effort to remove the president from office. There could not be a matter of more pressing public concern. There could not be a matter in which the American people have a greater stake. And yet the public has no idea what is being discovered.

Last week’s sessions weren’t just secret. They were super-secret. The first hearing, in which the witness was former Ukraine special envoy Kurt Volker, was held in what is known as a SCIF, which stands for sensitive compartmented information facility. It is a room in the Capitol, built to be impervious to electronic surveillance so that lawmakers can discuss the nation’s most important secrets without fear of discovery.

The second hearing, in which intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson testified, was also held in the SCIF.

Were highly classified matters discussed at the Volker and Atkinson hearings? Apparently not. Neither interview was classified. And even if some classified information were involved, it would be astonishing for Democrats to believe they could attempt to remove the president on the basis of information that is not available to the public.

The secrecy, decreed by House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, has taken Republicans by surprise. Some are now speaking out about it.

“scumbag-Adam Schiff is running an impeachment inquiry secretly, behind closed doors, and he’s making up the rules as he goes along,” said Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe.

“These proceedings should be public,” added Republican Rep. Jim Jordan. “Democrats are trying to remove the president 13 months before an election based on an anonymous whistleblower … and they’re doing it all in a closed-door process.”

“This is nothing more or less than a show trial for the media,” said Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, noting that with secrecy rules in place, the public knows only what is leaked to the press. “The Democrats leak what they want to leak to build narratives.”

Of course, that is not how Democrats would describe it. For his part, scumbag-Schiff has said that secrecy is needed to protect the identity of the CIA whistleblower who started the entire process. “The whistleblower has the right in the statute to remain anonymous,” scumbag-Schiff said recently, referring to the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, which lays out the process through which intelligence community whistleblowers can file complaints.

In fact, the law says: “The inspector general shall not disclose the identity of the employee without the consent of the employee, unless the inspector general determines that such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation.”

First, the inspector general is the only official specifically prohibited from disclosing the identity. And second, even if the statute’s use of “investigation” refers to the inspector general’s probe, the fact is, the whistleblower is now part of an impeachment proceeding. Disclosure is, in fact, unavoidable; Democrats cannot keep entire hearings secret, keep vital information away from the American people, in the name of preserving the anonymity of a whistleblower.

Yet that appears to be what scumbag-Schiff and his Democratic colleagues are doing. This week the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, was scheduled to be interviewed, but the State Department nixed his appearance at the last minute. That session was set to be held behind closed doors. Also this week, lawmakers will interview former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich — behind closed doors. Republicans can complain, but Democrats, in firm control of the House, can do as they like. (An inquiry to scumbag-Schiff’s office went unanswered.)

The Democratic drive to impeach President Trump over Ukraine is the first impeachment proceeding solely about foreign policy. The exercise of foreign policy sometimes involves secrecy. The imposition of secrecy was an enormous problem in public understanding of the Trump-Russia affair, which ended with the special counsel unable to establish that there had been any conspiracy or coordination involving Russia and the Trump 2016 campaign. In that investigation, the public would have been better served by more disclosure, more quickly.

Now, the American people deserve to know precisely why one party in the House proposes to remove the president. They deserve to know the facts behind the Ukraine matter. It is simply inconceivable that a party could seek to remove a president but say to the American people, in essence, “Trust us, we’ve got good reason.”

The impeachment proceedings should be opened up — now.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65978?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Alinsky’s Rules for Rhetorical Radicals

Posted by Craig Andresen on October 13, 2019 at 4:19am

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Last week, the political party tolerance, peace, free speech and equality was at it again as they sent their ambassadors and moral guardians into the streets of Minneapolis to welcome Republicans and Conservatives who were arriving, and departing a Trump rally in the Target Center.

Typically, things got ugly, as they often do when democrats gather, and the hateful mob of liberals attacked Trump supporters as they arrived, and again as they left after the rally.

Reports stated that there was the customary pushing and shoving, the requisite punching of Trump supporters, arson…always a must at any given democrat-led protest, the throwing of urine at Trump supporters, and of course, the always relied upon shouts calling individual Trump supporters…Nazis.

Congressional Republican, Mark Meadows from North Carolina immediately called the typical display of hatred by democrats lawlessness.

Meadows said…

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Saturday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 4:35pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

loose lips liar-Joe Biden is

a Hypocrite on Ukraine

Marc A. Thiessen

The case for identifying the whistleblower

by washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The identity of the person who filed the intelligence community whistleblower complaint that sparked the drive to impeach President Trump remains a secret... Democrats leading the impeachment campaign say his or her identity for brevity, the whistleblower will hereafter be referred to as "he" must remain closely guarded. Advocates of whistleblower laws, such as Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, agree. The New York Times came under heavy criticism when it reported that the whistleblower is a CIA officer. "Any decision to report any perceived identifying information of the whistleblower is deeply concerning and reckless, as it can place the individual in harm's way," Andrew Bakaj, the whistleblower's lawyer, told the Times. "The whistleblower has a right to anonymity." Does he? And does that right outweigh the rights of the public to know salient facts in a proceeding designed to lead to the impeachment and removal of the president? The answer to the first question is yes, the whistleblower does have a right to anonymity. But the answer to the second question is no, that right does not outweigh other rights in an impeachment battle. Here are three reasons the whistleblower should be publicly identified: 1. The public has a right to know. There is no higher public concern than a debate that could lead to the president's removal. Simply put, everything should be public, because the public should be aware of everything that figures into the process. The whistle has not been blown on a mid-level bureaucrat using a government credit card for personal expenses. The whistleblower has accused the president of serious wrongdoing, and in doing so, has set off a proceeding of the highest public concern on Capitol Hill. 2. The whistleblower set the terms of the debate. In his Aug. 12 complaint, he laid out the accusation that Democrats would later wholly adopt in the effort to remove the president. "I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election," the whistleblower wrote. "Namely, he sought to pressure the Ukrainian leader to take actions to help the President's 2020 reelection bid." 3. He's not Deep Throat. The most famous anonymous source in all of journalism is Deep Throat, the man who gave Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein a number of leads in the paper's Watergate reporting. Woodward and Bernstein agreed not to reveal Deep Throat's identity, an arrangement that lasted for decades until 2005, when Mark Felt, who was a top FBI official during Watergate, revealed that he was the source. The whistleblower is not a similar case. He has gone through official channels to accuse the president, working with a team of attorneys to produce a polished legal document outlining Trump's alleged wrongdoing. Journalists have not made any agreement to keep his identity a secret...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-case-for-identifying-the-whistleblower?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 Lights Are Out in California,

And That Was the Plan All Along

By Chuck DeVore

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The power is out in Northern California. More than 1 million Californians are now without electricity, one of modern life’s essentials that is frequently taken for granted... The blackout was done on purpose—to prevent sparks from powerlines that could ignite deadly wildfires. Before planned blackouts are through in two or three days, as many as 3 million Californians may go without power. On the surface, the blackout and its causes are simple to understand. But the deeper causes are complicated, span decades of public policy, and dozens of overlapping unintended—and intended—consequences of decisions, both related and unrelated. The wind in Northern California is blowing in from dry Nevada, as it often does this time of year. It’s called the “Diablo wind.” In Southern California, the comparable current blowing in from the Mojave Desert is known as the “Santa Ana winds.” In both cases, as the wind rises above California’s mountain spine, then descends, it compresses and heats up. Forests, chaparral and brush, dry this time of year in California’s Mediterranean climate, are primed for wildfires. This Isn’t Climate Change. Michael Wara, Stanford University’s director of climate and energy policy, warns, “We are having to adapt to new circumstances brought about by climate change.” He estimates that this week’s blackout could cost the state as much as $2.6 billion in lost economic activity. Politicians, journalists, and some scientists repeat a common refrain: California is getting hotter and drier because of climate change. They ignore the fact that annual precipitation totals over the past 100 years show no statistically meaningful trend... Thats bull, it's not climate change. This weather change has been going on for decades.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/09/the-lights-are-out-in-california-and-that-was-the-plan-all-along/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRreFpUWTVNR1V5TnpaayIsInQiOiJEQndhZW9qUmk3eE41NHUwVENHRUZVZDZJWGowZEI2WGlQNWs5RDNrYkVCY1BHTm50cVBRejVuMzByeFNwbDlMMDNkVHBJTHlhK3FmVmNpUExxQzhHd25LUXVWVVNTM2dGeDJPa2I2R2lOTFJyaW5ZRmo2cXNcL2VXbnN2ZHFhMlYifQ%3D%3D

No, We’re Not Selling Out the Syrian Kurds. But

We Should Mediate Their Conflict With Turkey

by James Phillips

{ dailysignal.com } ~ Caught up in a conflict between long-standing NATO ally Turkey and a recently engaged Kurdish tactical partner in Syria, the Trump administration has accommodated the legitimate security interests of Turkey... by staging a partial pullback of U.S. special operations forces in northeastern Syria. It did so to get out of the way of a Turkish intervention launched Wednesday. Although critics of the Trump administration have rushed to denounce the decision as a “sellout” of the Syrian Kurds, that’s not true. Washington received no payoff from Ankara for stepping aside, and is not “abandoning the Kurds,” as many critics contend.
Washington’s ad hoc partnership with Syrian Kurds never included a commitment to help them fight Turkey, only to fight the Islamic State, the terrorist army also known as ISIS. The United States still supports Syrian Kurds against ISIS, just as it supports Iraqi Kurds and the Iraqi government against ISIS. But Washington has remained neutral with regard to Turkey’s complaints about the threats Syrian Kurds pose to Turkey. To be more specific, the Pentagon continues to support the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces against ISIS. It has declined, however, to work with the largest Kurdish armed faction within the those forces, the People’s Protection Units (YPG in its Kurdish acronym) to resist the Turkish intervention. In geopolitical terms, that’s a logical and necessary decision. Trump Warns Turkey’s President: President Donald Trump on Oct. 7 warned Turkey against going “off limits” in Syria, and has threatened to apply economic sanctions if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ignores the warning. The president doubled down on the sanctions threat Friday by authorizing the Treasury Department to prepare “significant sanctions” against Turkey, if necessary. That’s a far cry from giving Ankara a “green light,” as some critics contend...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/11/no-were-not-selling-out-the-syrian-kurds-but-we-should-mediate-their-conflict-with-turkey/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRreFpUWTVNR1V5TnpaayIsInQiOiJEQndhZW9qUmk3eE41NHUwVENHRUZVZDZJWGowZEI2WGlQNWs5RDNrYkVCY1BHTm50cVBRejVuMzByeFNwbDlMMDNkVHBJTHlhK3FmVmNpUExxQzhHd25LUXVWVVNTM2dGeDJPa2I2R2lOTFJyaW5ZRmo2cXNcL2VXbnN2ZHFhMlYifQ%3D%3D

Ukraine Prosecutor Says Amb. Yovanovitch Obstructed Crime Evidence From

Reaching AG Barr

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ Today, Friday, October 11 former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch will testify to scumbag-Adam Schiff’s Democratic Party hit squad about Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to get evidence of Ukraine Interference with the 2016 election and the Hunter Biden scandal... As scumbag-Shiff’s team doesn’t care about the truth, it is doubtful they will ask her about the Senior Ukrainian prosecutor’s charge that Ambassador Yovanovitch prevented him from presenting evidence of Democratic Party and Hunter Biden wrongdoing to AG Barr. Ambassador Yovanovitch is a career diplomat since 1986 who was appointed by former President scumbag/liar-nObama to be the US representative to Ukraine in August 2016 and was removed by the present administration fired in late May of 2019. Kostiantyn Kulyk deputy director of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s International Legal Cooperation Dept. told John Solomon in April that for a year he’s been blocked from getting visas for himself and a team of senior law enforcement officials to go to the U.S. to deliver evidence of Democratic party wrongdoing during the 2016 election to the DOJ. The senior prosecutor said he never was able to make the trip because the visas were blocked by the U.S. Ambassador. Per Prosecutor Kulyk: We were supposed to share this information during a working trip to the United States,” Kulyk told me in a wide-ranging interview. “However, the U.S. ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa. She didn’t explicitly deny our visa, but also didn’t give it to us.” One focus of Ukrainian investigators, Kulyk said, has been money spirited unlawfully out of Ukraine and moved to the United States by businessmen friendly to the prior, pro-Russia regime of Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainian businessmen “authorized payments for lobbying efforts directed at the U.S. government,” he told me. “In addition, these payments were made from funds that were acquired during the money-laundering operation. We have information that a U.S. company was involved in these payments.” That company is tied to one or more prominent Democrats, Ukrainian officials insist. In another instance, he said, Ukrainian authorities gathered evidence that money paid to an American Democrat allegedly was hidden by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) during the 2016 election under pressure from U.S. officials. “In the course of this investigation, we found that there was a situation during which influence was exerted on the NABU, so that the name of the American would not be mentioned,” he said. As we reported in late March, the former Ukranian Government is known for being very corrupt, and that includes the head of the NABU Artem Sytnyk. A prosecutor other than Kulyk is investigating Sytnyk for trying to help scumbag/liar-Hillary to win the 2016 election, which was initially reported two years ago by Politico... https://lidblog.com/ambassador-yovanovitch/

Judge Blocks Trump Rule That Could Deny

Visas and Green Cards to Immigrants on Welfare

By Bradley Evans

{ westernjournal.com } ~ A federal judge in New York issued a temporary injunction Friday against a Trump administration immigration rule... that will prevent the rule from taking effect Tuesday as originally planned. Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York issued the ruling, according to The New York Times. The rule, announced by the Trump administration in August, would allow the government to turn away green card and visa applicants based on their use of benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps, CNN reported at the time. Other “negative factors” the government could consider under the rule include being unemployed and lacking proficiency in English, according to The Times. According to a White House news release, the rule was designed to “help ensure that if aliens want to enter or remain in the United States they must support themselves, and not rely on public benefit.” In his ruling, Daniels argued that were the rule to go into effect, those potentially affected could suffer “irreparable harm,” The Times reported. The inclusion of English proficiency as a standard for accepting applicants was among Daniels’ reasons for issuing the injunction.“It is simply offensive to contend that English proficiency is a valid predictor of self-sufficiency,” he wrote. “The rule is simply a new agency policy of exclusion in search of a justification,” Daniels said. “It is repugnant to the American Dream of the opportunity for prosperity and success through hard work and upward mobility.” Ken Cuccinelli, President Donald Trump’s acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, addressed similar claims of “repugnance” in an August interview with NPR. Just days after the announcement of the new rule, Cuccinelli defended the administration. He argued that it “doesn’t seem like too much to ask, as we open our doors currently to more than a million new people a year, that they not become a burden on an already, frankly, overburdened and bankrupt welfare system.”...

https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-blocks-trump-rule-deny-visas-green-cards-immigrants-welfare/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=WJBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal

San Francisco’s False Solution

by Erica Sandberg

{ city-journal.org } ~ San Francisco’s radical Left has a peculiar partner in Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. As a backer of Proposition C, he joined the Coalition on Homelessness to strong-arm high-revenue businesses into supporting bloated city government departments to address the city’s homeless problem... Companies earning gross receipts over $50 million now pay an additional tax on the excess, with rates ranging from 0.175 percent to 0.69 percent. It will garner the city between $250 and $300 million, doubling its current budget for homeless services to half a billion dollars annually. Prop C, dubbed the “Our City, Our Home Fund,” passed in November of 2018 with 61 percent of the vote. Since then it’s been hotly contested. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has sued the city. “Approval for special taxes needs a two-thirds majority, so it’s now in the appeals process,” says senior staff attorney Laura Dougherty. “We need the clarity of the California Supreme court.” Meantime, the tax revenue is being collected, but the city is holding the funds until it gets the nod to spend them. If you believe that lack of funding is the cause of San Francisco’s homelessness problem, then the measure is a great idea. Fifty percent of the funding would go toward housing, 25 percent to mental health and addiction programs, 15 percent to people who are at risk of becoming homeless or have recently become so, and 10 percent to short-term “residential shelters and hygiene programs.” It won’t help. The plan is wildly expensive. After administrative costs are skimmed from the top, the remainder will be distributed among the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, and the Department of Public Health. Combined, these agencies employ hundreds of government workers, whose average compensation salary and benefits is $175,004. The city will then parcel out the rest to dozens of non-profit agencies, each with its own set of directors and employees. Just how much is left for those they purportedly serve remains to be seen, but chances are it won’t be enough... Round these homeless off the streets and send them to where they can be helped. https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness-marc-benioff?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRreFpUWTVNR1V5TnpaayIsInQiOiJEQndhZW9qUmk3eE41NHUwVENHRUZVZDZJWGowZEI2WGlQNWs5RDNrYkVCY1BHTm50cVBRejVuMzByeFNwbDlMMDNkVHBJTHlhK3FmVmNpUExxQzhHd25LUXVWVVNTM2dGeDJPa2I2R2lOTFJyaW5ZRmo2cXNcL2VXbnN2ZHFhMlYifQ%3D%3D

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Is

a Hypocrite on Ukraine

Marc A. Thiessen

Former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden has said that in holding up vital military assistance to Ukraine, President Trump “used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation, a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia … to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.”

That’s rich. The aid in question is lethal military assistance that the swcumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration refused to give Ukraine.

In 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea and began arming separatists in eastern Ukraine with tanks, armored vehicles and rocket launchers, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko came to Washington to plead for weapons to defend his country. In an impassioned address to a joint session of Congress — with loose lips liar-Biden sitting directly behind him — Poroshenko said his country appreciated the nonlethal assistance he was getting, but declared “one cannot win a war with blankets.”

The scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration was unmoved. The Wall Street Journal reported at the time that “President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama stuck to his refusal to provide weapons or other lethal military gear to Ukraine, despite a passionate appeal Thursday for help in fighting pro-Russian rebels by Ukraine’s president.” Why? The administration feared that lethal aid would provoke Moscow.

So what did the administration give him? Instead of RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), we provided MREs (meals ready to eat) — food rations. As one frustrated former Pentagon official put it at the time, “What kind of message does that send anyway? We are sending MREs while they are being invaded by an aggressor.”

Answer: a message of weakness.

When Trump took office, he delivered a message of strength. In December 2017, the new administration announced that the United States would send the lethal aid to Ukraine that Poroshenko requested and scumbag/liar-nObama and Biden refused — the sale of $47 million worth of Javelin antitank missiles. In May 2018, after Ukraine tested its new Javelin missiles, Poroshenko exulted on Twitter, “Finally this day has come!” and personally thanked Trump “for supporting Ukraine and adopting a decision to provide Javelin antitank missile systems.”

For loose lips liar-Biden to now attack Trump for a temporary delay in a new round of lethal military aid reeks of hypocrisy. It was on loose lips liar-Biden’s watch that the United States refused to deliver military aid at all. Yet the same vice president who sat there impassively while Ukraine’s president begged for weapons now dares to cite the Russian threat to Ukraine in castigating Trump? Talk about chutzpah.

And since loose lips liar-Biden raised the Russian threat, let’s recall that the scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration bears much responsibility for the annexation of Crimea that necessitated the delivery of lethal aid to Ukraine in the first place. Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine came in the aftermath of the scumbag/liar-nObama/loose lips liar-Biden administration’s failure to enforce its red line against Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons by Syria. In March 2013, loose lips liar-Biden declared, “Because we recognize the great danger Assad’s chemical and biological arsenals pose to Israel and the United States, to the whole world, we’ve set a clear red line against the use or the transfer of those weapons.”

Assad responded by using chemical weapons on innocent civilians not once, but 16 times. And yet scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden did nothing, failing to carry out even “unbelievably small” military strikes — a decision loose lips liar-Biden publicly defended. “We can easily say we should have bombed and gone in and taken out their air defense system,” loose lips liar-Biden said, “Well, you know, big nations can’t bluff.”

Bluff is what scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden did — and Assad called their bluff. Not only that, they turned to Russia for a face-saving way out, letting Russian President Vladimir Putin broker a phony deal to have Syria disarm. It was one of the most embarrassing foreign policy debacles of the post-Cold War era. So it should come as no surprise that, when scumbag/liar-nObama threatened to impose costs on Putin if he invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin called his bluff, too. Putin knew scumbag/liar-nObama and loose lips liar-Biden did not have the will to stand up to him in Ukraine. And he was proved right when they refused to give Ukraine lethal aid for fear of further provoking him.

None of this excuses Trump’s delaying a new round of lethal military aid to Ukraine. But if this military assistance was as vital to countering the Russian threat as loose lips liar-Biden says, then it’s fair to ask: Why didn’t the United States provide it when loose lips liar-Biden was the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s point man on Ukraine?

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65981?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 12:13pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Durham Expands Probe Into

Russia-Collusion Hoax

Nate Jackson

Giuliani Under Investigation

for Lobbying Violations

by newsmax.com ~ Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is being investigated by federal prosecutors in New York for possible lobbying violations... That's according to a report Friday in The New York Times, citing two anonymous people familiar with the inquiry. One of the Times' sources says the investigation is related to Giuliani's efforts to undermine former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Two Florida businessmen tied to Giuliani were charged Thursday with federal campaign finance violations. The men had key roles in Giuliani's efforts to launch a Ukrainian corruption investigation against Democratic presidential contender loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter. A whistleblower complaint about Trump's involvement with Ukraine has led to an impeachment investigation. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan declined to comment Friday night on the Times report. Giuliani has said he has broken no laws, though he admits working with the men trying to find out information on loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, on work he did serving on a board of Ukrainian energy company. Giuliani told the Times he did not violate U.S. laws because he was working on behalf of Trump and not Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko when he gathered information on Ambassador Yovanovitch and others to give to the U.S. government and the media. "Look, you can try to contort anything into anything, but if they have any degree of objectivity or fairness, it would be kind of ridiculous to say I was doing it on Lutsenko’s behalf when I was representing the president of the United States,” Mr. Giulian told the Times.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/us-trump-impeachment-giuliani/2019/10/11/id/936790/?ns_mail_uid=62cddd55-241d-495e-8ad9-b8a04d508a36&ns_mail_job=DM59467_10122019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105020mawf0

Last Night, We Saw Fascism in The Streets

By JOHN HINDERAKER

{ powerlineblog.com } ~ Last night President Trump conducted a fabulously successful rally at the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. Scott had a great experience that included meeting the President and hearing his reporting praised repeatedly by President Trump... The 20,000 who were lucky enough to get into the Target Center had a wonderful time; by all accounts it was one of Trump’s best rallies. But outside the arena, things were quite different. Thousands of lawless, violent Democrats “protested” Trump’s appearance by committing assault, among other crimes. They battled police officers. They attacked Republicans leaving Target Center. They set bonfires and burned patriotic regalia. They carried the flag of the defunct Soviet Union. They spat on peaceful Trump supporters. They assaulted an uncounted number of normal citizens leaving the Target Center. They struck a woman across the head with a piece of lumber. They waved a sign that said, “Blue Lives Don’t F@$king Matter.” The Minneapolis Chief of Police reported, “Objects containing liquid believed to be urine were hurled at some of my officers along with bottles and rocks. Police horses were also assaulted by protesters striking them with sticks.” These leftists are identical to the Nazi Brownshirts of the 1930s. But make no mistake–they represent today’s Democratic Party. A sitting Democratic State Representative, Aisha Gomez (DFL-Minneapolis), was seen among the fascists, dressed in black like an Antifa hoodlum. And Minneapolis’s boy Mayor, Jacob Frey, who expressed regret that he could not legally prevent President Trump from visiting Minneapolis, and then tried to do it anyway, issued an order to the Minneapolis Police Department not to use chemical irritants on the mob of criminal Democrats. [UPDATE: We have a disagreement between Boy Mayor Frey and the mob: Frey denies issuing such an order, putting him at odds with fellow Democrat Gomez.] And not a single local Democrat has condemned the violence and disorder that took place last night. The facts are very, very bad for the Left and for the Democratic Party. We need to bring those facts to light before it is too late. If they don't like it here they can get out of the USA.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/last-night-we-saw-fascism-in-the-streets.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

VIDEO 1: https://cbsloc.al/35qxH4E

VIDEO 2: https://www.fox9.com/video/613912

VIDEO 3: https://www.facebook.com/KARE11/videos/2413680658849947/

(videos 1 & 2 copy and paste)

ISIS's Turkish Homecoming

by Con Coughlin

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ One of the more ludicrous suggestions to have been made during Turkey's military offensive against the Syrian Kurds is that... in return for Washington's approval, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would take responsibility for the estimated 90,000 ISIS fighters and their dependents, currently languishing in Kurdish-controlled detention centers. It is one of the worst kept secrets in Western intelligence circles that, for long periods during the brutal Syrian conflict, Mr Erdogan's regime supported a number of groups that enjoyed close affiliation with ISIS, as well as other Islamist terror groups such as Al-Qaeda. It is, therefore, the epitome of hypocrisy for Mr Erdogan to offer to take responsibility for the ISIS fighters being held in Kurdish-run detention camps such as the al-Hol complex in eastern Syria. If that really were to happen, and the ISIS captives were repatriated to Turkey, it would, for some, be more like a homecoming. There is, fortunately, only a remote likelihood that captured ISIS fighters will be making their way to Turkey anytime soon, for most of the detention camps are located well away from the 30 km buffer zone on Syria's northern border, the main target of the Turkish offensive. The far more worrying prospect is that the captives may be able to escape, and return to the ranks of ISIS's terrorist infrastructure because the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which are currently responsible for holding them, will no longer have either the manpower or the will to continue running the numerous detention facilities in which the captives are being held. Prior to Turkey launching its offensive, which bears the unlikely codename "Operation Peace Spring", Mazlum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, announced that some of his forces tasked with securing the ISIS prisoners would need to be redeployed to the border to do battle with the Turkish military. If the Kurds cannot guard the ISIS captives, then who will?...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14992/isis-turkish-homecoming

scumbag-Adam Schiff Is Doomed After Another

CNN Guest Admits He’s In Huge Trouble

by familyretirementclub.com ~ The following video is brought to you courtesy of The Next News Network YouTube Channel. Click the play button to watch it now... Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, CNN guest Linda Chavez criticized House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff during a CNN panel Sunday, saying that he had “caused himself a lot of problems” with regard to impeachment hearings.

https://familyretirementclub.com/2019/10/11/adam-schiff-is-doomed-after-another-cnn-guest-admits-hes-in-huge-trouble/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgj8tw9o8SA

JW Videos of the Week

'These aren't Whistleblowers--This is a Palace Coup against President Trump!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvduObiKS7Q

Tom Fitton's Video Weekly Update

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

NEW Docs Show State Dept KNEW about scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's Secret Email Account

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBFR0c_dsA

scumbag/liar-nObama Knew about scumbag/commie-John Brennan's Illicit Anti-Trump Targeting Scheme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHMUMDyc4k

Is Climate Change Doomsday Coming?

By Mark Deutschle

{ americanthinker.com } ~ TIME Magazine published an article on June 24, 1974, titled "Another Ice Age?," stating that "the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades... The trend shows no indication of reversing." This climate theory didn't last long, as the planet apparently began to warm slightly in the latter 1970s, paving the way for the introduction of a new theory called global warming. Unfortunately, the planet failed to warm up as predicted, so yet another climate theory was created called climate change. This all-encompassing label meant that incidents of heat waves, cold snaps, rain, drought, hurricanes, and so on could all be identified as problems resulting from man-caused climate change. In a 2005 Gallup poll asking people to identify America's biggest problem, global warming didn't even make it into the top ten concerns. Climate change adherents understood that if this lack of concern persisted, they would never achieve their goal of radically reducing fossil fuel use throughout the industrialized world. So marketing efforts to "sell" climate change to an unconcerned public ramped up, starting with scumbag-Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which earned scumbag-Gore an Oscar and Nobel Prize. Even though a British court ruled in 2007 that the film "makes a political statement and ... supports a political programme" and contains nine serious science errors, climate change theorists began to use the movie both here and abroad to influence millions of public school students to become believers in man-caused climate change. One should not be surprised by a 2018 Gallup poll that shows that 70% of Americans aged 18–34 are somewhat or very worried about global warming. Today, 40 states use a public school science curriculum that identifies mankind as the major cause of global warming, so it is clear that the "selling" of global warming continues to be increasingly effective. The fact that majorities of our Millennials and Generation Z embrace the theory of man-caused global warming is beginning to have a dramatic effect in America. Millennial commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has over 5 million followers on Twitter, recently said the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. Fighting climate change is an essential part of commie-Ocasio-Cortez's proposed New Green Deal legislation, which, if enacted, will require the U.S. to nearly eliminate all use of fossil fuels within ten years. Most of the Democrats running for president, the mass media, celebrities, and the Left are all singing the same refrain as commie-Ocasio-Cortez, warning of a rapidly approaching man-caused Climate Doomsday, which can be avoided only by taking immediate and drastic action. For example, at a September town hall on climate change, former vice president loose lios liar-Joe Biden said "We have to take combustion engine vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can." However, many millions of Americans, especially those over the age of 30, are not so sure that the climate doomsayers have the facts on their side. Therefore, I propose that we have a nationally televised debate on carbon emissions and man-caused climate change. Let Americans hear the relevant facts so they can decide for themselves if we need to completely gut our economy now in order to save the planet later. Maybe scumbag-George Soros or Tom Steyer would like to put up a big pot — say, 10 million dollars to the winner, just to make things interesting... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/is_climate_change_doomsday_coming.html

Durham Expands Probe Into

Russia-Collusion Hoax

Nate Jackson: American politicians may have improperly colluded with foreign nations to influence U.S. elections. That would be Democrats, of course, and back in May Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to get to the bottom of those efforts. News this morning is that Durham’s investigation has expanded.

According to Fox News, “Durham has expanded his investigation [by] adding agents and resources… The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.”

Why is Mueller important? Well, in another Fox News report, we learn “that when Robert Mueller met with President Trump in May of 2017, Mueller was indeed pursuing the open post as the director of the FBI — something the former Russia probe special counsel denied under oath during congressional testimony this summer.” Thanks to now-revealed private conversations with then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Mueller “knew there was a real possibility he could be named special counsel if he wasn’t chosen as the next FBI director.”

Talk about a conflict of interest. President Donald Trump pointed this out before, and now we see that another “outrageous” Trump statement has proven true. If Trump tends to obsess about how The Swamp is out to get him, well, it is.

Meanwhile, a report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected soon. His effort will detail almost certain corruption in securing FISA warrants to surveil Trump’s presidential campaign. That corruption is what kicked off the entire Russia-collusion fiasco, which in turn provided the template for the present impeachment coup attempt. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65995?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Sat/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 9:40am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

'Whistleblower' Tied to 2020 Democrat

Political Editors

Trump announces acting Homeland Security Secretary McAleenan to leave post

By Samuel Chamberlain

{ foxnews.com } ~ Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is stepping down from that position, President Trump announced Friday night... "Kevin now, after many years in Government, wants to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector," Trump tweeted shortly before taking the stage at a rally in Lake Charles, La. "Congratulations Kevin, on a job well done!" The president added that the new acting homeland security secretary would be announced next week and said he had "Many wonderful candidates" to fill the position. A former senior DHS official with close ties to the administration told Fox News on Friday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli is on the top of President Trump's list to be the next acting secretary. The source noted that a Senate confirmation hearing would be bruising for Cuccinelli but "he, White House adviser Steve Miller and Trump are all in sync on a number of key policies. They have been trying to clear the way for a while." Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach would likely be Trump's second choice, the official added. While Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Dave Pekoske is next in line according to succession rules, Miller doesn't think "he is tough enough," the source said...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-acting-homeland-security-secretary-mcaleenan-to-leave-post

Sen. Graham Threatens to Call Volker to Testify

If House Dems Fail to Release

Deposition’s Transcripts

by EDWIN MORA

{ breitbart.com } ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday demanded that House Democrat leaders release the full transcript of the testimony provided by the impeachment inquiry’s first witness... former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker. Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, threatened to call Volker to testify before his panel if Democrats did not meet his demand. Volker is at the center of the impeachment investigation. He resigned as the special envoy to Ukraine at the end of last month as the inquiry began to heat up. Sen. Graham described the House Democrats’ refusal to make the full transcript of Volker’s deposition last Thursday public as “an abuse of power.” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and other Republican congressmen who witnessed Volker’s testimony have called on Democrats to release the transcript. Jordan is the top Republican of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Democrat-led House Committees on Oversight and Reform, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs are pursuing the impeachment inquiry. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said the full transcript of Volker’s testimony “obliterated” the “whistleblower’s” claim fueling the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The comments from Zeldin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who also witnessed Volker’s testimony, came while he was briefing reporters alongside Jordan. Citing a Fox News story highlighting the Democrats’ refusal to releae the transcript, Sen. Graham wrote on Twitter Wednesday, “If this continues, I will call Volker before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify publicly to ensure the full story is told.”...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/09/sen-graham-threatens-to-call-volker-to-testify-if-house-dems-fail-to-release-depositions-transcripts/

President Trump and Vice Premier Liu

He Announce “Phase One” Trade Agreement

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin gathered with their Chinese counterparts in the Oval Office for a lengthy announcement of “phase-one” of a U.S-China trade agreement... Vice-Premier Liu He leads the Chinese delegation. According to the presser: Phase One has reached ‘agreement in principle‘, and includes: Intellectual Property issues; Banking and Financial Services to include currency devaluation; and major agricultural purchases $50 billion +. There will be several phases, and each phase will have an individually tailored enforcement mechanism. Note: this approach sounds similar to the ‘six sectors and stages’ USTR Lighthizer discussed in March 2019. The Phase One agreement details still have to be put on paper over the next five to six weeks. The U.S. and China are hopeful to have ‘phase one‘ complete by December. In exchange for current AG purchase commitments, and as an act of good faith while phase-one is finalized, the U.S. will suspend the tariff rate increases scheduled to take effect on October 15th. The tariff increase from 25% to 30% have been suspended. The scheduled U.S. tariff increases for December are still planned; however, they will be assessed as part of the ongoing negotiations. Meanwhile, touchy issues like tech company Hauwei, 5G, telecom and the Chinese firms on the U.S. blocked “entity list” ie. trade ‘blacklist’ are not part of the discussions. Those issues fall under U.S. National Security issues and will not be part of any ongoing trade negotiations... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/11/president-trump-and-vice-premier-liu-he-announce-phase-one-trade-agreement-video/

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

Voters Will ‘Send Home’ Lawmakers Who Act

to Impeach Trump, House Conservative Says

by Rachel del Guidice

{ dailysignal.com } ~ If Democrats are successful in impeachment efforts against President Donald Trump, voters will send them home, a leading House conservative said Friday at a gathering of “values voters” in Washington... “Even before this president was sworn in they were talking about impeachment, and they’re bound and determined to do it,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said at the annual Values Voter Summit organized by FRC Action, the lobbying arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council. “And we need to send a clear message that if they do it we will send them home,” Meadows told the crowd at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., last month opened what she called an official impeachment inquiry, saying Trump’s actions as president “have seriously violated the Constitution,” and that Trump “must be held accountable.” liar-Pelosi said Trump had “seriously violated the Constitution,” citing his July 25 phone conversation with the president of Ukraine that she said was meant to “benefit him politically.” “We’re not taking this sitting down, or even lying down,” Meadows said. “We’re going to stay in the fight because of people like you that continue to encourage us to stay in the fight.” Meadows, former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said it has become commonplace for politicians to stray from what their constituents sent them to Congress to accomplish. “We need to have some kind of vaccination for the Potomac fever,” the North Carolina Republican said, adding... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/11/voters-will-send-home-lawmakers-who-act-to-impeach-trump-house-conservative-says/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voters-will-send-home-lawmakers-who-act-to-impeach-trump-house-conservative-says&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTTJVeE5qWmpPV1prTURBMCIsInQiOiJlVkRZTzZnS0FVXC9IbWl4clBpU2lMZG9TNW1xY1JiRVhJd1V4MDFWMG9iQVJtRVhNSURENGN5KzRiUzFSZHhoVzJtR1wvcjdxeFQ0Z2oza3pWZElna0p4VXN0MU1halBtQlREdEpyNnFFMHJWNGlGQVZldE4wNGRQZFJKZUxKSW1xIn0%3D

Adoption Attorney Charged With Human

Trafficking Connected To “Songbird”

rino-McCain & rino-Jeff Flake

by thewashingtonstandard.com ~ Recently, we reported on the arrest of Paul Peterson, an attorney and former elected public servant, who is now facing DOJ charges relating to adoption fraud and the smuggling of illegal aliens... Peterson was allegedly bringing pregnant here is a quick rundown from yesterday’s article at our sister site…nt women from The Marshall Islands to America and putting their children up for adoption, for hefty profits. It is now being reported that, in some cases, the women did not want to give up their children. The Trump Administration’s crackdown on human smuggling and trafficking continues. Many unborn children may have just been saved from a horrid existence by The DOJ. An Arizona adoption attorney is facing several federal charges in Arkansas after being arrested in California Tuesday evening. Paul Petersen, who is an assessor in Maricopa County and an attorney that practices law in Arizona, Utah and Arkansas, reportedly “devised a scheme to defraud and obtain money and property from unknowing adoptive parents and others. ”According to the Department of Justice, Petersen would pay pregnant Marsallese women to travel to Arkansas and put their babies up for adoption. He allegedly bought airline tickets and had them hide the motive to travel from Republic of Marshall Islands and United States authorities. “In furtherance of this scheme, Petersen caused adoption case files to be opened that were supported by documents containing fraudulent material false statements,” the DOJ press release stated. Those documents were then filed in Washington and Polk counties. Authorities say Petersen reportedly hid his involvement in the payments, transferring “more than one million dollars into a bank account.” He has been charged with one count of conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain, four counts of aiding and abetting, seven counts of wire fraud, five counts of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/arizona-adoption-attorney-charged-with-human-trafficking-connected-to-songbird-mccain-jeff-flake/

A SENSIBLE TAKE ON SYRIA

By JOHN HINDERAKER

{ powerlineblog.com } ~ Liberals’ foreign policy views are inconsistent, but entirely predictable: whatever a Republican president does, they oppose. Thus, Democrats applauded when President scumbag/liar-nObama prematurely withdrew American troops from Iraq, enabling the rise of ISIS... But when President Trump pulled a few hundred out of Syria, it was: OMG! The Kurds! James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation and the Institute of World Politics gave an interview to the Daily Signal that gives the best take I have seen on Trump’s recent Syria move. You really should read it all, but here are some highlights: When President Trump came in office, he actually expanded the U.S. footprint in Syria, because military advisers made the argument that … you couldn’t take down the caliphate—in other words, destroy the physical state that the terrorist had—if we didn’t actually have forces in there working with indigenous groups that were fighting ISIS, chief among them, the YPG, which is a armed Kurdish group. And so President Trump actually increased the U.S. footprint in Syria. Then subsequent to that, after the caliphate was destroyed, the president wanted to withdraw U.S. troops. The military advisers and several allies, including Israel, said, “Well, look, there’s still concerns that need to be addressed.” So we’ve maintained a small footprint in Syria for the last year or so. *** We estimate it’s a relatively small print of a few hundred Americans in uniform that are spread around the areas that are not controlled by the Syrian government. *** Let’s start by what the Turks are doing. They’re not invading Syria. There is a portion of Syria which borders Turkey, which right now is kind of uncontrolled. Nobody really controls the port. The Syrian government doesn’t control the border. There are Kurdish groups in that area and the Turks wanted to control that area. It’s several kilometers wide, so it’s really a small chunk of Syria. Why do they want to control it? Well, one, they don’t want it to be a platform for Kurdish terrorist groups, not the Kurdish people. There’s a difference, right? There are Kurds all over the region. There are Kurds in Iran. There are Kurds in Iraq. There are Kurds in Syria. There are Kurds in other places. So when you say the Kurds, that’s a lot of people spread all over the Middle East, but there are Kurdish groups which are affiliated with specific terrorist groups, like the PKK, which is a terrorist group that … focuses on attacking Turkey...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/a-sensible-take-on-syria.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29

'Whistleblower' Tied to 2020 Democrat

Political Editors: When Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson first addressed the “whistleblower” complaint back in August, he noted that the individual showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.” After the complaint came to light, it was learned that the whistleblower was a registered Democrat, which many may have assumed was the reason behind Atkinson statement suggesting that the whistleblower had “arguable political bias.”

However, now it has come to light that the whistleblower’s political bias runs much deeper than merely being a registered Democrat. During his closed-door testimony last Friday, Atkinson noted that the whistleblower had significant ties to a 2020 Democrat candidate. The Washington Examiner reports that three individuals with knowledge of Atkinson’s testimony stated that he said the whistleblower had “a professional relationship” with a current 2020 Democrat candidate, but Atkinson did not disclose who the candidate was.

So, here’s what we know about this whole “whistleblower” charade so far. The original form the whistleblower submitted had previously only accepted first-hand information to meet the “urgent concern” criteria in order to trigger a congressional alert, but it was mysteriously changed to eliminate the first-hand knowledge criteria. And we still have no answer as to when or why this change occurred. Later, we learn that the whistleblower contacted Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s office weeks before submitting the complaint. scumbag-Schiff lied about having no prior knowledge of the complaint. Now we find out that the whistleblower had a “professional relationship” with a 2020 Democrat candidate. This is the real scandal, not President Donald Trump’s Ukrainian phone call.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65999?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Saturday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 12, 2019 at 6:40am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Thanks to scumbag/liar-nObamaCare,

Insurance Costs Keep Climbing

Political Editors

Ukraine President Says 'There Was No

Blackmail' from Trump, Thinks

Call Transcript 'Matches Completely'

By Andrew J. Sciascia

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday rejected claims that President Donald Trump has attempted to blackmail him in diplomatic relations this year... Zelensky told reporters his now-controversial July 25 phone call with Trump was not related to the U.S. having withheld foreign aid from Ukraine. In fact, the Ukrainian president said he was not aware of Trump’s decision to withhold the nearly $400 million in aid at the time of their phone conversation. And he believes the transcript of the phone call reflects that. “There was no blackmail,” Zelensky said during a day of televised news briefings in Kiev, according to Reuters. “This was not the subject of our conversation,” he added. The July phone call has come under immense scrutiny in recent weeks after an intelligence community whistleblower came forward with allegations that Trump leveraged U.S. foreign aid to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden. loose lips liar-Biden’s son, Hunter, used to sit on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, which was at one time investigated by a prosecutor who loose lips liar-Biden — the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s point man for Ukrainian foreign policy — pressured the country to fire. Earlier this year, a Ukrainian anti-corruption government agency requested that the investigation into Burisma be reopened — in part due to”unusual transactions” worth millions of dollars, according to investigative reporter and Fox News contributor John Solomon. Alleging that Trump tried to improperly leverage U.S. aid for the purpose of forcing Ukraine to investigate the loose lips liar-Bidens, House Democrats announced a formal impeachment inquiry against the president late last month...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ukraine-president-says-no-blackmail-trump-thinks-call-transcript-matches-completely/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservative-brief-CT&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-tribune

US-China reach trade war 'pause'

by foxbusiness.com ~ The U.S. and China have reached a partial trade pause. President Trump, speaking at the White House, said: “We’ve come to a very substantial phase one deal”... adding it will take three to five weeks to get written. The deal includes intellectual property, financial services and $40-$50 billion related to agriculture products. It is unclear what the U.S will give up in return and a comprehensive trade deal will have two or three phases. The U.S. will not be raising tariffs on the Chinese next week to the 30 percent level as part of this agreement. U.S. stocks spiked to the highs of the session, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by nearly 500 points, before pulling back slightly at the close. The move signals the third major trade deal President Trump has sealed. President Trump signaled this morning that talks were heading in the right direction after a week of trading barbs with the Chinese. "Good things are happening at China Trade Talk Meeting. Warmer feelings than in recent past, more like the Old Days," he tweeted.Bloomberg was first to report that some type of deal was in place. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-china-reach-partial-trade-deal-reports

VIDEO: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6094047770001/#sp=show-clips

Appeals Court Upholds Subpoena For

Trump Accounting Records,

Teeing Up Supreme Court Fight

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by Kevin Daley

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a subpoena for President Donald Trump’s accounting records Friday... potentially teeing up a landmark fight between the president and Congress in the Supreme Court. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Mazars USA LLP after former Trump associate Michael Cohen accused the president of inflating assets and erasing liabilities on federal financial disclosures. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta upheld the subpoena in May. “Contrary to the president’s arguments, the committee possesses authority under both the House rules and the Constitution to issue the subpoena, and Mazars must comply,” the decision reads. Judge Neomi Rao dissented from the ruling. House Democrats say Trump’s alleged actions raise “grave questions about potential conflicts of interest.” The case is Trump v. Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/appeals-court-upholds-subpoena-for-trump-accounting-records-teeing-up-supreme-court-fight/?utm_campaign=TPINewsletter10112019afternoon&utm_source=criticalmpact-&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

Trump Says Trey Gowdy

Can’t Join His Legal Team Just Yet

by PHILLIP NIETO

{ dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy could not join his legal team to fight impeachment until January... Gowdy reportedly accepted an invitation by the White House on Tuesday to assist in the impeachment inquiry led by Democrats against Trump. The following day Fox News “terminated” Gowdy as an on-air contributor for the network. “Trey Gowdy is a terrific guy. I think there’s a problem with, he can’t start for another couple of months because of lobbying rules and regulations. So you’ll have to ask about that,” Trump said to reporters outside the White House, according to CNBC. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times notes, “Gowdy is unlikely to ever join in the capacity he was hired for. It is not unlike when DiGenova was announced and then unannounced. Someone in West Wing badly wanted a win internally and put out Gowdy before it was a done deal. So it was quickly done yesterday and then had to be undone.” The former representative from South Carolina became known for his role as chair of the House oversight committee. He supported investigations into former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. Gowdy decided to not run again for the 2018 midterm election after serving 8 years in the House of Representatives.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/10/trump-says-couple-months-before-trey-gowdy-legal-team/

Shep Smith Resigns From

Fox News Effective Immediately

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith resigns from Fox News effective immediately... Attorney General William P. Barr met privately Wednesday evening with Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who is one of President Trump’s frequent confidants but whose Fox News is viewed by the president as more hostile toward him than it used to be. The meeting was held at Mr. Murdoch’s home in New York, according to someone familiar with it. It was unclear if anyone else attended or what was discussed. Aides to both Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Barr declined requests for comment on the meeting. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/11/shep-smith-resigns-from-fox-news-effective-immediately/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtmlozSpm0

Look Who Dems Are Begging

to Run for President

by rightwing247.com ~ On paper, at least, the Democrats appear to be in good shape to send President Trump packing in the next election, making him a one-termer... The IBD/TIPP poll shows all of the Democratic front runners ahead of the president in head to head matchups. loose lips liar-Biden is ahead by seven. dinky liar-Warren is ahead by two. commie-Sanders is ahead by four. Pundits suggest that the impeachment push is less about removing Trump from the office than it is to damage him to make sure that voters will turn on him in 2020. It will not matter if the Republican Senate votes to acquit, The president will be forever tainted. Writing for Fox News, Liz Peek is reporting that Democrats are beginning to be increasingly alarmed about their prospects for taking back the presidency. Their solution is to get former first lady Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama to run. Democratic insiders are looking at the current candidates, weighing them in the balance, and finding them wanting. loose lips liar-Joe Biden is in free fall, bedeviled by gaffes, a low energy campaign style, and the Ukraine matter. Elizabeth dinky liar-Warren is surging, but she is being judged to be far too radical to win. commie-Bernie Sanders is old and has just had a heart attack. Also, he is a confessed socialist and polling suggests that few people want to vote for one of those. Michelle scumbag/liar-nObama, on the other hand, was voted the most admired woman in America. Her husband, the former president, is still popular among Democrats. If she were to enter the race, the move would dominate several news cycles, knocking the rest of the field out of serious consideration, giving Ms. scumbag/liar-nObama a clear path to the nomination. Of course, Democrats cannot conceive of the idea of her losing to Donald Trump. Hence, the way would be cleared to an scumbag/liar-nObama restoration and the Trump presidency fades into history like a bad dream. That is the theory, in any case... Didn't she say she was not interested in running/

https://rightwing247.com/2019/10/07/look-who-dems-are-begging-to-run-for-president/

Thanks to scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, Insurance

Costs Keep Climbing

Political Editors: Health insurance now costs the average American family over $20,000 annually, according to a recent survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The foundation’s chief executive, Drew Altman, noted, “It’s as much as buying a basic economy car, but buying it every year.” Bloomberg reports, “While employers pay most of the cost of coverage, according to the survey, workers’ average contribution is now $6,000 for a family plan. That’s just their share of upfront premiums, and doesn’t include co-payments, deductibles and other forms of cost-sharing once they need care.”

Even more troubling is that as the price of health insurance has steadily increased, the percentage of employers who offer insurance coverage has been decreasing. “Fewer Americans under 65 had employer coverage in 2017 than in 1999,” observed Bloomberg. “That’s despite the fact that the U.S. economy employed 17 million more people in 2017 than in 1999.”

Wasn’t scumbag/liar-nObamaCare supposed to “solve” this problem? After all, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama promised that the average family could expect to save $2,500 in insurance premiums per year. In reality, scumbag/liar-nObamaCare has proven to do just the opposite, rapidly increasing the cost of insurance. And the reasons for the increase can largely be attributed to scumbag/liar-nObamaCare’s mandating coverage of pre-existing conditions and the consolidation of the healthcare sector. The Federalist notes, “While providers claim their mergers will provide better care to patients, they also represent a way for doctors and hospitals to demand higher payments from insurers. Reporting has shown how hospitals’ monopolistic practices drive up prices, raising rates for patients and employers alike.” In short, scumbag/liar-nObamaCare worked to limit the free market, which by nature constrains costs.

The problem is everything the Democrat presidential candidates are proposing would only make the problem of healthcare costs even worse. More regulations and more government spending is a recipe for higher taxes and higher healthcare costs. scumbag/liar-nObamaCare proved the government cannot make healthcare cost less. Americans need to avoid making this mistake a second time. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65973?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 4:17pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump Declines Dems' Invitation

to Impeachment Hoax

Thomas Gallatin

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Press Conference

on Sanctions for Turkey and

China Trade Discussions

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held a press conference at the White House to announce a new executive order constructed by the Trump administration that would deliver economic sanctions... due to Turkish activity in Northern Syria. “These are very powerful sanctions. We hope we don’t have to use them. But we can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to,” Treasury Secretary Mnuchin tells reporters. Hello everybody. So, I just met with President Trump, and he has authorized and will be signing a new executive order giving the Treasury Department, in consultation with himself and Secretary Pompeo, very significant new sanctions authorities that can be targeted at any person associated with the government of Turkey, any portion of the government. This will be both primary sanctions and secondary sanctions that will be applicable. The President is concerned about the ongoing military offensive and potential targeting of civilians, civilian infrastructure, ethnic or religious minorities. And also the President wants to make very clear: It is imperative that Turkey not allow even a single ISIS fighter to escape. Again, I want to emphasize: At this point, we are not activating the sanctions. But, as the President has said, he will provide very significant authorities based upon the continuing efforts...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/11/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-press-conference-on-sanctions-for-turkey-and-china-trade-discussions/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjbbLbr2Tk

US sending 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia

as Iran threat grows

by Tim Pearce

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Pentagon is deploying about 2,000 more troops and military hardware to Saudi Arabia to combat Iranian aggression... Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have escalated in recent months, most notably when Iran bombed Saudi oil refineries in September. The Pentagon’s latest deployment to the region is the third since July and it is the largest, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon is sending three missile defense systems and two squadrons of jet fighters along with the troops. U.S. lawmakers are growing increasingly resistant to American support for Saudi Arabia in the escalating Middle East conflict. The troops will join 700 other soldiers already stationed in Saudi Arabia. Iran has grown increasingly aggressive since President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. Trump withdrew from the agreement and reinstituted U.S. sanctions that have squeezed the petro-state. Iran has launched several attacks into the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane, since Trump's action, even shooting down a U.S. drone. Trump announced on Sunday that he had ordered several dozen troops out of northern Syria in an effort to end the "endless wars" in the Middle East. The move made way for Turkish forces to launch an assault on Kurdish forces that had aided the U.S. in the fight against the Islamic State. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-sending-2-000-troops-to-saudi-arabia-as-iran-threat-grows?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/11/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Trump's ambassador to the European

Union will testify in impeachment inquiry

by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union who has become a key figure in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, will appear for questioning in the Capitol on Thursday, he announced... Sondland said he would honor a House subpoena compelling him to appear and answer questions about President Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to open an investigation into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden as well as actions by Democrats to solicit help from Ukraine to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign. Sondland was scheduled for a closed-door deposition on Monday but did not show up after the State Department prohibited his testimony. Three House committees led by Democrats are conducting the impeachment investigation. Sondland is a major GOP donor who Democrats believe has information about whether Trump delayed $400 million in security aid to Ukraine in an effort to get the Ukrainian government to investigate loose lips liar-Biden and the Democrats. Sondland’s lawyers said Friday that while the ambassador will appear to answer questions, he will not bring the documents requested by Democrats because the documents are under the control of the State Department. Democrats want to see Sondland’s texts and emails relating to Ukraine’s security aid. Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was recalled from the post early, is scheduled to appear before the committee on Friday. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/trumps-ambassador-to-the-european-union-will-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/11/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Lawyers say they may let whistleblower

testify, but only in writing

by Tom Tillison

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The whistleblower driving the rogue House Democratic impeachment inquiry wants to testify to Congress in writing, rather than appearing in person... Lawyers representing the whistleblower, who is reportedly a CIA official, have asked that their client submit testimony in writing, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The intelligence committees haven’t yet responded to the inquiry about potential written testimony,” the Journal reported. This being the latest talk of concealing the identity of the intelligence official who expressed concern about President Trump’s phone call to the Ukrainian president, suggesting Trump threatened to withhold foreign aid to get Ukraine to dig dirt on former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. The Intelligence Community’s inspector general informed Congress in August the whistleblower had a “professional tie” to a Democratic candidate and showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate,” and on Thursday it was reported that the candidate isnone other than loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Earlier this week, it was reported that House Democrats were considering taking “extraordinary steps” to prevent Republicans in Congress from learning the identity of the whistleblower. The Washington Post said scumbag-Schiff’s team was considering masking the whistleblower, having the CIA official testify from a remote location and obscuring the individual’s appearance and voice. The unprecedented move would be a “highly unusual arrangement,” the paper said. Given the highly partisan nature of the impeachment inquiry, the attention on hiding the identity of a person who could be central to removing a sitting president from the American public is noteworthy. His attorneys are participating in the effort to keep his identity a secret. “The whistleblower is not the story,” his legal team said earlier this week, according to Fox News. “To date, virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other sources. For that reason the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant.”... This bull, when was this hiding a whistleblower illegal? https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/11/lawyers-say-they-may-let-whistleblower-testify-but-only-in-writing-838108?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

scumbag-Schiff hires

ex-National Security Council staff for panel

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

{ apnews.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff has hired former National Security Council staffers to work for him as he launches a sweeping new investigation into President Donald Trump’s finances and foreign connections... a move that appears to have drawn particular ire from the president. Trump tweeted Thursday that scumbag-Schiff and Democrats were going “nuts” with investigations and wrote, without elaborating, that they were “even stealing people from the White House!” It’s unclear exactly who Trump was talking about, but the tweet comes as scumbag-Schiff appears to have hired at least one staff member who served on the National Security Council under Trump. The staff member, Abigail Grace, is listed in a House directory as working for scumbag-Schiff on the intelligence panel. A person familiar with the committee’s staff confirms that she is working for the panel and used to work for the NSC. The person declined to be identified because scumbag-Schiff has not publicly announced his new hires. Grace worked for a bipartisan think tank, Center for a New American Security, after working for both former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and Trump on the National Security Council from 2016 to 2018. She focused on Asia-Pacific security issues, according to a spokesman for the group. scumbag-Schiff wouldn’t confirm the hires in an interview Thursday, but hinted at them while snapping back at Trump. “We have a long tradition of hiring out of the intelligence community, out of the National Security Council, and if the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people maybe he should work on being a better employer,” scumbag-Schiff said. A committee aide said that none of scumbag-Schiff’s staff have come directly from the White House, but said the panel has hired people with prior experience on the National Security Council staff. “We do not discriminate against potential hires on the basis of their prior work experience, including the administration,” the aide said. The person also declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publically about confidential committee business. https://www.apnews.com/210e8f09f1df49e88a02a4b84fd40070

The Great Triggering

By Ted Noel

{ americanthinker.com } ~ With the revelation that a "second whistleblower" has firsthand knowledge of Donald Trump's call to the president of Ukraine and was upset at what he heard on the call, the left-wing legacy media are all a-Twitter... At this point, the rational observer would have to ask, "Just what can this publicity-seeker reveal that is not already in the transcript of the call?" We already know from a rational analysis of the transcript and the testimony of special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker that there's no "there" there. The call was a to congratulate the new president of Ukraine, with a side issue of continuing an ongoing investigation of Ukraine's corrupt former government's involvement in our 2016 election in favor of — drum roll, please — scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. Coincidentally, loose lips liar-Joe Biden is both a central figure in that corruption inquiry and a candidate for the Democrat nomination for president. Somehow, this last fact is the most important facet of a much larger issue. When multinational crime is committed, it is routine for multinational investigations to be done. Diplomatic niceties often involve heads of state making the request for cooperation between their respective investigative bodies. Since Volodymyr Zelensky had recently assumed office and the investigation has been ongoing, it's natural for President Trump to ask him politely to continue the cooperative effort. "Do me a favor" is simply one polite way to ask. We have to note that this investigation is focused on crimes committed in 2016, not opposition research on a 2020 candidate. Yet the Lefty Loonies are screaming about 2020. "You can't call up a foreign country to dig up dirt on a presidential candidate!" Curiously, this is exactly what scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton did in 2016, but no one seems interested. If the Left were to be consistent — other than consistently insane — it would be suppressing the "whistleblower's" testimony. After all, President Trump is also a presidential candidate in 2020. Let's go a bit farther. Recent reports indicate that liar-Nancy Pelosi's son was also in on the Ukrainian gold mine. Trump's chief irritant, scumbag-Adam Full-of-Schiff, also looks to have Ukrainian problems. Are they immune because they are political candidates? Does investigating wrongdoing by a political personality automatically go off-limits because of the political point of contact? We should ask the late Vice President Agnew or New Jersey's Senator scumbag-Menendez that same question. I'm sure they would have appreciated "political immunity."...

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

Trump Declines Dems' Invitation to Impeachment Hoax

Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump is done playing the Democrats’ impeachment game. On Tuesday, the White House sent an eight-page letter to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and Reps. scumbag-Adam Schiff, scumbag-Eliot Engel, and scumbag-Elijah Cummings essentially telling them to put up or shut up. The letter highlighted the fact that liar-Pelosi and Democrats have violated the Constitution, “the rule of law, and every past precedent” in their politically partisan quest to see Trump impeached. The letter, written by Trump attorney Pat Cipollone, bluntly exposes the Democrats’ true political motivation:

Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen. Many Democrats now apparently view impeachment not only as a means to undo the democratic results of the last election, but as a strategy to influence the next election, which is barely more than a year away. As one member of Congress explained, he is “concerned that if we don’t impeach the President, he will get reelected.” Your highly partisan and unconstitutional effort threatens grave and lasting damage to our democratic institutions, to our system of free elections, and to the American people.

Cipollone asserts that liar-Pelosi and company’s impeachment inquiry is invalid because no vote was held in the House or even in a House committee to initiate the current inquiry. Instead, liar-Pelosi unilaterally “announced an ‘official impeachment inquiry.’” Cipollone writes, “Your contrived process is unprecedented in the history of the Nation, and lacks the necessary authorization for a valid impeachment proceeding.”

As a result of liar-Pelosi’s invalid initiation of an impeachment inquiry, Cipollone points out that Trump’s due-process rights have been violated. While Democrat-led committees subpoena White House officials demanding compliance under threats of obstruction charges, Trump on the other hand is denied the right to confront witnesses against him, to call his own witnesses, and “to have the assistance of counsel.” All of those things would be afforded him if liar-Pelosi were to actually hold a House vote to officially launch an impeachment inquiry.

The letter concludes, “The President cannot allow your constitutionally illegitimate proceedings to distract him and those in the Executive Branch from their work on behalf of the American people.”

Predictably, liar-Pelosi responded with her own letter alleging that Trump is the one guilty of trying “to normalize lawlessness,” ridiculously adding that “he is trying to make lawlessness a virtue.” And once again liar-Pelosi vacuously asserts that Trump’s “actions threaten our national security, violate our Constitution and undermine the integrity of our elections.” She further asserts that the White House is engaged in a “cover-up” of Trump’s “betrayal of our democracy.” It will be interesting to see if liar-Pelosi moves forward with an impeachment vote, or if she continues to drag out her lawless charade. ~The Patriot Post

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Friday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 11:28am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Democrats' Twilight Zone

Cal Thomas

Californians Fume Over Massive Power

Outages and Sky-High Gas Prices

by Leslie Eastman

{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ This week, I reviewed the climate alarmist protest organized by “Extinction Rebellion,” whose members want us to drastically reduce our use of electricity and other resources... These green justice warriors should head over to California where we are living the dream! In an effort to avoid another devastating spate of autumn wildfires such as last year’s Paradise fire, approximately 800,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers are preparing for the company to intentionally cut their power. This is likely the largest deliberate power shut-off in state history. A Red Flag Warning is being issued over the next few days with strong winds expected to make the risk of wildfire extremely high. The outages are expected to start as early as Wednesday at midnight and could last until mid-day on Thursday. They may affect millions of people living in 34 counties. While 34 northern and central California counties are included on the list, PG&E said it won’t be every customer within those county lines.The action created a backlash with many Californians, especially in light of the short notice PG&E gave before the shut-off occurred. …Brady Miller, a resident of Red Bluff, about two hours north of Sacramento, said he barely had cell service and no way to charge his phone, lamenting he had only flashlights and canned goods to get through the power outage. “It sucks,” he said. “Twenty-four-hour notice gave panic to our community.” Angie Sheets of El Dorado Hills noticed that generators were flying off the shelves at Costco as she shopped for groceries earlier in the week. Considering the nearly $1,000 worth of food she planned to purchase and the imminent power outage, Sheets said, she called her husband to talk about buying one for their home. “By the time I had done that, the last big generator was gone off the shelves,” she said. Her husband, a law enforcement officer, found a generator at a Costco in Rancho Cordova and paid about $600 for it. On Tuesday night, they filled up their bathtubs with water, unsure whether the toilets would flush without electricity. Sheets went to Safeway to pick up more bottled water and said a line of cars snaked around the gas station parking lot. “In this particular area, they did say we could lose power for up to seven days,” Sheets said. “I think that’s what’s making people on edge, the fear of the unknown and wanting to be safe for your family.”...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/10/californians-fume-over-massive-power-outages-and-sky-high-gas-prices/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=89334443-1f59-47c2-8097-81df560eefc3

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0oE_tOf8V4

Democrats Drag Rick Perry Into

Impeachment Mess, Issue Subpoena

By ANDREW DESIDERIO, KYLE CHENEY and ANTHONY ADRAGNA

{ politico.com } ~ House Democrats issued a subpoena on Thursday to Energy Secretary Rick Perry as part of their impeachment inquiry... The subpoena demands a series of documents related to Perry's knowledge of President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump pushed his counterpart to investigate former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden. Three House committees investigating the episode note that Perry reportedly encouraged Trump to make the phone call. They also want information about whether Perry sought to press the Ukrainian government to make changes to the advisory board of its state-owned oil and gas company, Naftogaz. In a statement, Energy Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said: “The Department of Energy is aware of the House Committees’ letter to Secretary Perry and it is currently under review by DOE's Office of General Counsel.” POLITICO previously reported that Perry asked the company to expand its board to include Americans, though he said he offered suggestions only at the request of the Ukrainian government. Zelensky denied Perry asked him to dismiss the head of the state-run gas company in comments to the Kyiv Post on Thursday. POLITICO has reported Perry intends to depart the administration within months, though he denied the report earlier this week. The subpoena demands records and communications related to the May inauguration of Zelensky, for which Perry led the U.S. delegation. It seeks records connected to a host of meetings abroad and at the White House that Perry attended along with senior Ukrainian officials. And it requests all records related to “proposed or actual transactions, investments, or projects relating to liquified natural gas (LNG) in Ukraine.”...

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/10/democrats-subpoena-rick-perry-for-documents-in-impeachment-inquiry-000280

Andrew McCabe Opens Up About Steele

Dossier, Origins Of Trump-Russia Probe

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Andrew McCabe, the embattled former FBI deputy director, said at a recent event that former British spy Christopher Steele disclosed to FBI investigators that his infamous anti-Trump dossier should not be taken as “gospel,”... and that he could not vouch for the accuracy of some of the material in the infamous document. McCabe, who spoke Oct. 3 at an event hosted by journalist Carl Bernstein, was defending the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier by insisting investigators were aware of the document’s flaws during the Trump probe. The FBI’s handling of the dossier is the subject of a Justice Department inspector general’s investigation that began in March 2018. McCabe, who was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018, also described in the most detail to date how the FBI decided who to initially investigate as part of Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. McCabe said the FBI opened its case in late July 2016 based on information about Trump adviser George Papadopoulos. “We open the case, and then we think, ‘OK, now who are we actually going to investigate?'” McCabe said at the event, which aired Tuesday on C-SPAN. “Who do we know who is associated with the campaign who has known, significant ties to Russian intelligence?” he asked rhetorically. “We quickly come up with four names that will not surprise you.”McCabe, who served as deputy director of the FBI during the investigation, defended the FBI’s decision to open the investigation, which initially focused on Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Carter Page. He also sought to defend Steele and his salacious dossier, which the FBI used to obtain surveillance warrants on Page. “It is raw source reporting,” McCabe said, “and Steele presented it as such.” “We knew that Steele was working a number of different sources, some of which has sub-sources, and sub-sub-sources, and he would represent that in the reporting, as any good source should. It didn’t come with his imprimatur of, ‘this is all gospel.’ It was like, ‘this is what I’m hearing,'” said McCabe, who is under Justice Department investigation...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/10/andrew-mccabe-crossfire-hurricane-trump-steele-dossier/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10436

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

Despite Sanctions, Iran Exports Hundreds

of Millions Worth of Polyethylene to China

by Saeed Ghasseminejad

{ fdd.org } ~ Abdolnasser Hemmati, the head of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), announced last week that from March to September 2019 the CBI managed to provide $19 billion to pay for Iran’s imports... of which $11 billion came from the proceeds of its non-oil exports. According to Iran’s customs organization, Tehran exported $21 billion of non-oil goods in the aforementioned period, 10 percent less than in the same period the previous year. Assuming their accuracy, these figures indicate that Washington’s success in reducing Iran’s oil exports has not extended to other valuable export commodities, including the key petrochemical polyethylene. Petrochemical products are among Iran’s top non-oil exports even though the industry has labored under sectoral sanctions since November 2018. Previous FDD analysis showed that in its first four months under sanctions, Tehran’s average monthly export of petrochemicals dropped by 18 percent in comparison to its level during the seven months before sanctions. According to Iranian customs data, in the last full year of the Persian calendar March 2018 – March 2019, $14.1 billion of Iran’s non-oil exports, or 32 percent of the total, came from the petrochemical sector. Within that sector, $3.4 billion, or 24 percent, came from polyethylene, the most common plastic in the world, whose primary use is in packaging. In the March 2018-March 2019 reporting period, Iran exported $2.7 billion of polyethylene, or 80 percent of the total, to China. Beijing is the largest importer of polyethylene in the world. According to the China Customs Organization, in 2017, China imported $14.2 billion worth of polyethylene. The top seven exporters of polyethylene to China that year were Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, and Qatar. These seven supplied 80 percent of China’s polyethylene imports, with Iran accounting for 16 percent of the total, or $2.24 billion. The latest Chinese data shows that, in the first seven months of 2019, China imported $1.43 billion of polyethylene from Iran, an amount comparable to its imports during the corresponding period of 2018 and higher than those in the corresponding period of 2017. In terms of weight, China’s imports of polyethylene from Iran have increased significantly, rising from 1.2 million tons in the first seven months of 2018 to 1.4 million tons in the same period of 2019... https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/10/despite-sanctions-iran-exports-hundreds-of-millions-worth-of-polyethylene-to-china/

Report on Status Iran Nuclear Program

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by news.usni.org ~ Iran’s nuclear program began during the 1950s. The United States has expressed concern since the mid-1970s that Tehran might develop nuclear weapons... Iran’s construction of gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facilities is currently the main source of proliferation concern. Gas centrifuges can produce both low-enriched uranium (LEU), which can be used in nuclear power reactors, and weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is one of the two types of fissile material used in nuclear weapons. The United States has assessed that Tehran possesses the technological and industrial capacity to produce nuclear weapons. But Iran has not yet mastered all of the necessary technologies for building such weapons. Whether Iran has a viable design for a nuclear weapon is unclear. A National Intelligence Estimate made public in 2007 assessed that Tehran “halted its nuclear weapons program” in 2003. The estimate, however, also assessed that Tehran is “keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons” and that any decision to end a nuclear weapons program is “inherently reversible.” U.S. intelligence officials have reaffirmed this judgment on several occasions. Obtaining fissile material is widely regarded as the most difficult task in building nuclear weapons. As of January 2014, Iran had produced an amount of LEU containing up to 5% uranium-235, which, if further enriched, could theoretically have produced enough HEU for as many as eight nuclear weapons. Iran had also produced LEU containing nearly 20% uranium-235; the total amount of this LEU, if it had been in the form of uranium hexafluoride and further enriched, would have been sufficient for a nuclear weapon.. After the Joint Plan of Action, which Tehran concluded with China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States collectively known as the “P5+1”, went into effect in January 2014, Iran either converted much of its LEU containing nearly 20% uranium-235 for use as fuel in a research reactor located in Tehran, or prepared it for that purpose. Iran has diluted the rest of that stockpile so that it contained no more than 5% uranium-235. In addition, Tehran has implemented various restrictions on, and provided the IAEA with additional information about, its nuclear program pursuant to the July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Tehran concluded with the P5+1. Although Iran claims that its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes, the program has generated considerable concern that Tehran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. The U.N. Security Council responded to Iran’s refusal to suspend work on its uranium enrichment program by adopting several resolutions that imposed sanctions on Tehran. Despite evidence that sanctions and other forms of pressure have slowed the program, Iran continued to enrich uranium, install additional centrifuges, and conduct research on new types of centrifuges. Tehran has also worked on a heavy-water reactor, which was a proliferation concern because its spent fuel would have contained plutonium—the other type of fissile material used in nuclear weapons. However, plutonium must be separated from spent fuel—a procedure called “reprocessing.” Iran has said that it will not engage in reprocessing... https://news.usni.org/2019/10/10/report-on-status-iran-nuclear-program?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=6429856c90-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-6429856c90-231491269&mc_cid=6429856c90&mc_eid=3999f18767

France's Homegrown Terrorism

by Giulio Meotti

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ This time, the terrorist did not use firearms; his victims were not unarmed children, cartoonists or Jews but policemen... The site of the October 3 attack was also striking: "The interior of the Paris police headquarters is supposed to be a stronghold; it is the symbol of public order in France and of the anti-jihadist struggle that has been shaken," the French scholar Gilles Kepel told Le Figaro. "We have entered a... terrorism made in France... with a mixture of Friday preaching by extremist imams, social networks and the instrumentalization of fragile individuals. It is about creating a new panic in society by targeting iconic ... places... The attack is a major turning point in Islamist terrorism." The assailant, Mickaël Harpon, born in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, was shot and killed after stabbing four people to death with a ceramic kitchen knife during the lunchtime assault at the Paris police headquarters. Harpon, a civilian IT specialist in the intelligence division holding high-level security clearance, had worked for the police for 16 years. First he killed three men in the intelligence division, then he stabbed two female police employees in a stairwell one died from her wounds before he finally was shot and killed in the building's courtyard. Harpon was a longtime convert to Islam and a conscientious attendee of his local mosque, where he attended morning and evening prayers. A radical imam who was nearly expelled from France officiated there. According to the Wall Street Journal: "Authorities discovered several USB flash drives at his desk, one containing the personal information of agents and violent Islamist propaganda, authorities said. "A key question is whether Harpon downloaded that data onto the flash drive for his job... or to send it to his extremist contacts that could use it to target the police."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14980/france-homegrown-terrorism

Democrats' Twilight Zone

Cal Thomas

A 1961 “Twilight Zone” episode starred Peter Falk as a Central American revolutionary whose paranoia eventually leads to his destruction. The dictator he has deposed tells him about a mirror given to him by “an old woman,” a mirror that will show him who’s plotting to assassinate him. The revolutionary soon sees enemies everywhere and begins to unravel, picking off his comrades one by one, believing they are out to get him.

Fantasy, sure. But President Trump and Vice President Pence could use such a mirror to reveal those partisan forces attempting to carry out political assassination on the entire Trump administration.

The latest assault comes from another anonymous “whistleblower,” who told The Washington Post a Treasury Department official appointed by Trump sought to interfere with an audit of the tax returns of the president “or” vice president. Doesn’t that sound vague? On Sunday, the attorney for the first whistleblower told ABC News he is representing a second whistleblower who has “firsthand” knowledge of the president’s call to the president of Ukraine.

The first anonymous whistleblower has tentatively agreed to meet with congressional lawmakers, according to CNN, on the condition that his or her legal counsel is cleared to accompany the whistleblower to the meeting. No word yet on the second whistleblower’s conditions.

This is all political theater and bad theater at that. Democrats are going through the motions of impeachment, hoping to thwart the president’s re-election. They know the Senate is unlikely to convict him should impeachment articles be approved. It’s all about pleasing their base and fundraising, which both sides are doing. This is one of many reasons Congress’ approval ratings remain low.

Ruslan Ryaboshapka, Ukraine’s new general prosecutor, told Reuters that he was not aware of any evidence of wrongdoing by the son of former U.S. Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden, but would be reviewing criminal cases opened by his predecessor, including some that could relate to the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, a natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden.

If John Durham, the Connecticut prosecutor tapped by Attorney General William Barr to look into the origin of the phony Russian collusion probe, comes up with facts that lead to the indictment of anti-Trump Democrats, will that make any difference to those smearing the president? It might in public opinion, which Democrats are trying to shape against the president, but probably not to the real conspirators and colluders, except perhaps some lower-level types. The Establishment always protects its own. Could it be possible that Democrats are rapidly pursuing the impeachment inquiry to soften any blows that might come from Durham’s report?

That the president had to suggest Ukrainian and even Chinese leaders look into Hunter Biden’s possible corrupt activity is its own indictment of the anti-Trump media, scumbag/liar-nObama administration holdovers and career prosecutors.

The conservative organization Judicial Watch has been relentless in its pursuit of collusion by anti-Trump actors. It has released 145 pages of communications between former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and others which it says include a one-line email to special counsel Robert Mueller. It said, “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.” The communication included “off the record” emails with major media outlets (collusion?) around the time of Mueller’s appointment and “show that Rosenstein did not dispassionately go along with the fraudulent probe in an attempt to get at the truth, but was an active participant in the deep state coup, secretly plotting with other FBI and DOJ officials against the president of the United States.”

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said, “the astonishing emails further confirm the dishonest corruption behind Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller. The emails also show a shockingly cozy relationship between Mr. Rosenstein and anti-Trump media reporters.”

If true, why is that shocking, given the nonstop media assault on Donald Trump even before he took office? Their goal has been to impeach, or damage him sufficiently so a Democrat will win the White House next November. Consider the one-sided “coverage” in major newspapers, the broadcast and at least two cable networks.

More facts will emerge that undermine the Democrats’ narrative, but it won’t matter to anti-Trumpers. They live in the Twilight Zone.

~The Patriot Post

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Fri/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 9:49am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trouble Comes After Trump's Syria Move

Nate Jackson

Friday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

WILD, INDEED: loose lips liar-Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal (Washington Examiner)

JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT: “Lawyers for the CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint helped ignite an impeachment inquiry into President Trump have asked Congress whether their client could submit testimony in writing instead of appearing in person.” (The Wall Street Journal)

Culture & Heartland

FELON VOTES: The Hill reports that 22,000 felony convicts have had their voting rights restored by Gov. Ralph Northam, which Democrats hope will turn the state supremely blue.

MORE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DECEPTION: “An arson attack on a Planned Parenthood facility that was reported as a hate crime inspired by undercover videos was actually an incident of domestic violence, a senior executive of the organization has been forced to admit in a San Francisco court room.” (The Daily Wire)

PRIORITIES: California Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom signs ban on small plastic bottles in hotels — as blackouts batter that state’s economy (National Review)

TEXAS SHOOTER DEFIANT: Suspected assailant in El Paso Walmart shooting pleads not guilty to attack that killed 22 (NBC News)

World

MIDDLE EAST AGGRESSION: Iranian oil tanker near Saudi Arabia coast hit by missiles (Fox News)

NANNY-STATE COURTS — COMING SOON TO AMERICA? Canadian court strips father of rights, allowing teen to transition against his wishes (The Daily Signal)

Other Notables

“NEXT!” “Democratic House committee chairmen scumbag-Elijah Cummings, scumbag-Eliot Engel, and scumbag-Adam Schiff sent a letter Thursday to Energy Secretary Rick Perry alerting him to a subpoena demanding documents related to their impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s dealings in Ukraine — the ninth subpoena issued so far.” (National Review)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Ronan Farrow book claims scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton pressured Farrow to drop Harvey Weinstein investigation (The Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The electric grid in the digital age (National Review)

POLICY: Preparing for the next economic recession (InsideSources)

HUMOR: Nike updates Kaepernick slogan: “Believe in something, unless it upsets the Chinese government” (Genesius Times)

~The Patriot Post
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Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill Aimed

at Muting Turkey’s Attacks in Syria

By John Grady

{ ews.usni.org } ~ A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would impose economic sanctions on Ankara for its military incursion into Syria as Turkey seeks to create a buffer against the Syrian Defense Forces... a key American ally in the fight against the Islamic State. The bill proposed by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) specifically singles out Turkish leaders – from the president down to a host of ministers, including defense and foreign affairs – for penalties; cuts off assistance and supplies, including ammunition, to its land, sea and air services despite Ankara being a member of NATO; and slaps sanctions on anyone from outside Turkey doing business with its energy sector. Graham has been quoted as saying he expects “our bill will have bipartisan, bicameral support.” It also asks for even more penalties to be put into place for Turkey’s earlier decision to buy the Russian S400 air defense system. The United States already has pushed Ankara out of the F-35 manufacturing and purchasing program. The Russian system is “incompatible” with existing NATO systems, Pentagon officials have said, and the fear was that Moscow would use data and intelligence gained from Turkey on the development and operations of the F-35 to deter its effectiveness in combat. Events have moved swiftly in northeast Syria since President Donald Trump announced Sunday he was pulling American forces back. How many of the estimated 1,000 service members serving with the SDF are affected by the decision is unclear. But what is clear is the decision – the second such pullback Trump has announced – again surprised Congress, other members of the administration and the former combatant commander in the Middle East and raised new questions of how trustworthy the United States is as a military partner... https://news.usni.org/2019/10/10/senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-muting-turkeys-attacks-in-syria?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=6429856c90-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-6429856c90-231491269&mc_cid=6429856c90&mc_eid=3999f18767

Iranian oil tanker near Saudi Arabia

coast hit by missiles, officials say

By Lucia I. Suarez Sang

{ foxnews.com } ~ An Iranian oil tanker cruising 60 miles off the coast of Saudi Arabia was rocked by a pair of missiles Friday, briefly causing an oil leak and more broadly threatening to further inflame... fraught regional tensions between the two heavyweight Muslim nations. Iranian state television reported the explosions damaged two storerooms aboard the oil tanker – which is owned by the National Iranian Oil Company – and caused an oil leak into the Red Sea near the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The leak was later plugged, IRNA reported. “This latest incident, if confirmed to be an act of aggression, is highly likely to be part of the wider narrative of deteriorating relations between Saudi and the U.S. and Iran,” according to an assessment provided to the Associated Press by private maritime security firm Dryad Maritime. “It is likely that the region, having been stable for the last month, will face another period of increasing maritime threats, as the Iranian and Saudi geopolitical stand-off continues.” The stricken vessel, identified by IRNA as the Sibiti, was carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil when it was struck, an analysis from data firm Refinitiv showed. The news agency did not say whom Iranian officials suspect may be responsible for launching the missiles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi described the incident as an "attack" carried out by those committing "dangerous adventurism." In a statement, Mousavi said the Sabiti was struck twice in the span of a half-hour and an investigation was underway. Images taken from the ship's bridge that have been released by Iran's Petroleum Ministry did not appear to show any damage to the Sabiti, though the view did not show the ship's sides. Satellite images of the area did not show any visible smoke. There has been no word from Saudi Arabia about the reported attack. Oil prices jumped by two percent after the news broke. According to the AP, the Sabiti turned on its tracking devices late Friday morning in the Red Sea. The last time the vessel had turned on its tracking devices was in August near the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas... https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-oil-tanker-saudi-arabia-missile-attack

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093968822001/#sp=show-clips

Justice Department to Question

scumbag/commie-Brennan in ‘Spygate’ Inquiry

By IVAN PENTCHOUKOV

{ theepochtimes.com } ~ The special prosecutor investigating the spy operation against the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump will question former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan... according to scumbag/commie-Brennan’s remarks aired on Oct. 2. “I am supposedly going to be interviewed by Mr. Durham as part of this non-investigation,” scumbag/commie-Brennan said on MSNBC, referring to U.S. Attorney John Durham. Attorney General William Barr assigned Durham, a career prosecutor, to investigate whether scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials who surveilled Trump’s campaign did so legitimately. scumbag/commie-Brennan made the comments as news surfaced that Barr and Durham expanded their investigation overseas to Italy, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Roughly a week prior to scumbag/commie-Brennan’s comments, Barr and Durham spoke to senior Italian intelligence officials. “I don’t understand the predication of this worldwide effort to try to uncover dirt, either real or imagined, that would discredit that investigation in 2016 into Russian interference,” scumbag/commie-Brennan said. The Department of Justice didn’t respond to a request for additional information. The FBI secured a secret court surveillance warrant in October 2016 to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. While the extent of the surveillance granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is still classified, the warrant may have granted the FBI access to the records and communications of virtually every Trump campaign official... https://www.theepochtimes.com/justice-department-to-question-brennan-in-spygate-inquiry_3105102.html?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191011145409

Turkey's Assault on Kurds

The Silence of the Islamists

by John Rossomando

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ A stateless people comprised of a large number of Sunni Muslims is being bombarded by a country with an overwhelming military advantage. It's the kind of thing that normally has American Islamist groups organizing protests and lighting up social media feeds... But this time the aggressor is Turkey's authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a man who has positioned himself as a defender of violent Palestinian terrorists like Hamas, and as a patron for Muslim Brotherhood leaders who sought refuge from Egypt's military rulers. He is bombing Kurdish targets in northern Syrian and has sent his troops into the country. The Kurdish Red Crescent claims there have been at least 11 civilian deaths, including an 11-year-old girl, and 28 wounded. Erdogan's invasion displaced at least 60,000 people, many of whom have nowhere to go. American Islamists, normally not shy about Middle East conflicts, are largely silent about Turkey's unprovoked bombing of Kurds, Syriac Christians and Arabs. When Israel has launched defensive operations to stop Hamas and other Gaza-based terrorists from raining rockets on civilians in southern Israel, the same groups are quick to condemn, organize protests, demand U.S. government action and organize social media campaigns. Kurdish victims fail to generate similar concern. Images on social media show Turkish bombing and shelling of civilians all along Syria's northern border. Civilians in the town of Kobane, who withstood a 2014 ISIS onslaught, found themselves under attack Thursday by Turkish artillery... https://www.investigativeproject.org/8116/turkey-assault-on-kurds-the-silence-of

loose lips liar-Joe Biden Had Working

Relationship With ‘Whistle-blower”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ This makes sense on many levels. As a member of the scumbag/liar-nObama National Security Council, the CIA “whistle-blower” would have held a working relationship with Vice-President loose lips liar-Biden... who was given the primary authority to oversee Ukraine effort within the scumbag/liar-nObama administration. The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a “professional” tie is loose lips liar-Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only “in the executive branch.” The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he “was detailed to the National Security Council at one point.” Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a “professional tie” to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower’s complaint was credible, he had shown “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.” A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner: “From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with loose lips liar-Biden when he was vice president.” As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whistleblower briefed loose lips liar-Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of the six visits the 2020 candidate made to the country... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/10/report-joe-biden-had-working-relationship-with-whistle-blower/

If Accurate, The Impeachment Game is Over –

Fake Whistleblower Lawyers Now Retreat

From Testimonial Appearance

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ A report from the Wall Street Journal outlines a request by lawyers for the fake CIA ‘whistleblower’ that ultimately spells doom for the entire phony construct of the impeachment construction by anonymous complaint... Lawyers for the CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint helped ignite an impeachment inquiry into President Trump have asked Congress whether their client could submit testimony in writing instead of appearing in person, according to people familiar with the matter. The request reflects concerns about whether the whistleblower could testify to Democrats and Republicans without revealing his identity, and fears that doing so would lead to it being publicly leaked, jeopardizing his personal safety. The intelligence committees haven’t yet responded to the inquiry about potential written testimony, the people said. Spokeswomen for the House and Senate intelligence committees didn’t respond to requests to comment... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/10/if-accurate-the-impeachment-game-is-over-fake-whistleblower-lawyers-now-retreat-from-testimonial-appearance/

Trouble Comes After Trump's Syria Move

Nate Jackson: Few moves by President Donald Trump have been as universally condemned as his abandonment of our decades-long Kurdish allies in Syria. In fact, many of the loudest criticisms have come from Trump’s supporters. After pulling out a small number of U.S. troops from northern Syria, Turkey no longer had any deterrent from an incursion into the region. Predictably, it happened almost immediately.

“The Turkish military began an offensive in Syria to seize territory held by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “Turkish authorities kicked off the operation on Wednesday despite U.S. warnings that it would punish Turkey if it attacked the Kurdish militants, Washington’s partner in the fight against Islamic State in northeastern Syria.” The Journal then explains, “Turkish officials said their twin goals in the offensive, Turkey’s third in Syria since 2016, were to drive armed Kurdish groups it views as terrorists back from its border and to create a safe zone to relocate millions of Syrians who have fled the eight-year conflict.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the European Union, “If you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, our task is simple: We will open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants to you.”

For his part, President Trump offered, well, indefensible comments. While he called Turkey’s incursion “a bad idea,” he didn’t threaten much more than “tougher sanctions.” Regarding the Kurds, he says they “are fighting for their land,” but “they didn’t help us in the second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example.” That’s after he explained we didn’t owe the Kurds any continued alliance because we have previously paid them and will continue to help them financially and with weapons. His transactional view of alliances is problematic to say the least, and it will cause other U.S. allies to rethink how much partnership they’re willing to offer. That’s especially true given how critical the Kurds were in defeating the Islamic State — and they gave 11,000 lives to do it. Now, it seems Trump got what he wanted, so he’s dropped the Kurds like… well, fill in your own analogy from Trump’s previous dealings.

Memo to the president: Normandy wasn’t our land either. And notably, the only land we’ve taken in foreign wars over the last century was that needed to bury our dead.

Because of the way Trump speaks about his decisions, they seem impetuous. We’re not convinced that was the case here. After all, the U.S. has been debating troop presence in Syria for the better part of the last decade. And it was disagreement over strategy there that led to the departure of former Secretary of Defense James Mattis in December. Trump obviously hasn’t listened to his advisers, but that doesn’t mean he’s acted impetuously.

We’ll reiterate a strategic point we made Tuesday: The U.S. is not withdrawing from Syria entirely. The shift of a relative handful of U.S. troops from one part of northeastern Syria is nowhere near as significant a move as Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s total abandonment of Iraq also a campaign promise, which led directly to the creation of the Islamic State.

But that also leads to another problem with Trump’s move. The Kurds currently hold about 12,000 ISIS fighters and 70,000 members of their families, but are redirecting personnel toward fighting Turkey, prompting concerns over what happens to those prisoners. Trump bizarrely argued, “They’re going to be escaping to Europe. That’s where they want to go. They want to go back to their homes.” He also says those detainees are Turkey’s responsibility. Maybe he should review Erdogan’s threat about refugees to see how seriously Turkey will take that responsibility — particularly given Turkey’s ties to ISIS. ~The Patriot Post

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Friday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 11, 2019 at 7:07am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

A Recycled Smear Campaign

Gary Bauer

loose lips liar-Joe Biden worked with

whistleblower when he was vice

president, officials reveal

by Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, & David M. Drucker

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is loose lips liar-Joe Biden... according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point." Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower's complaint was credible, he had shown "some indicia of an arguable political bias ... in favor of a rival political candidate." A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner, “From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with loose lips liar-Biden when he was vice president." As an experienced CIA official on the NSC with the deep knowledge of Ukraine that he demonstrated in his complaint, it is probable that the whistleblower briefed loosw lips liar-Biden and likely that he accompanied him on Air Force Two during at least one of the six visits the 2020 candidate made to the country. A former Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said loose lips liar-Biden’s work on foreign affairs brought him into close proximity with the whistleblower either at the CIA or when he was detailed to the White House. “This person, after working with loose lips liar-Biden, may feel defensive towards him because he feels loose lips liar-Biden is being falsely attacked. Maybe he is even talking to loose lips liar-Biden’s staff,” the former official said. “Maybe it is innocent, maybe not.”...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-worked-with-whistleblower-when-he-was-vice-president-officials-reveal?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/10/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

Pump Price Over $4 a Gallon

Gives Californians Gas Pains

by Jackson Elliott

{ dailysignal.com } ~ A dollar won’t take you very far in California these days. Today, the state has an average gas price of $4.18 per gallon, more than $1.50 higher than the $2.64 per gallon average from every other state... according to the American Automobile Association. California has the highest gas taxes in the nation at an average of 57.8 cents a gallon—more than one-eighth of the total price of the gas, the AAA says. The tax was raised most recently by 5.6 cents per gallon July 1. California imposed a 12 cents-a-gallon tax increase in November 2017. The last time gasoline cost more than $4 a gallon nationwide was in 2008, during the Great Recession, according to AAA’s statistics. The California price increase comes even as prices fall across the rest of the country in anticipation of lower fuel use in fall and winter. Every fall, refineries switch to gasoline formulas better suited to winter and retrofit their infrastructure, AAA spokesman Devin Gladden said. In the past few weeks, seven of California’s 25 refineries experienced outages in production at the same time. “The challenge is that there’s a special formula of blended gasoline needed in particular places in California, and when there’s a supply problem, it can be difficult to import the special formula into those places,” Gladden said. “That can cause prices to spike.” According to the Los Angeles Times, California gasoline costs extra primarily because of state government regulations. The state demands that companies create a fuel mix that reduces pollution, and that formula costs more money and effort to make than normal gasoline... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/09/pump-price-over-4-a-gallon-gives-californians-gas-pains/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pump-price-over-4-a-gallon-gives-californians-gas-pains&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRnd01qRTROamt4WVRKbCIsInQiOiJDNGJvUU1PMUZwVWdhTUtCNXZUXC92TTgrVkdmNlBjZE1VUzRxTE1mbk8yelNhb2pKV2hrckFaRWoyek1EN0NWN0p0RjJWYWZiWG5kNXZ3SFQ3Mk1FNzhOTWdmSkdxUGVTNkJkNTFtWUg4WHpNU0hGdzBqSDdvOXVwM2tcL0VCU2MyIn0%3D

Report Shows Dems’ Plan to Provide Insurance

to Illegal Immigrants Could Cost Taxpayers

as Much as $23 Billion

by Madison Dibble

{ ijr.com } ~ When the 2020 Democrats all raised their hands agreeing to provide illegal immigrants with health care, they may not have realized they just saddled the taxpayer with a huge check... During the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates earlier this year, every single candidate raised their hand when asked if their health care proposals would cover illegal immigrants. Every single candidate raised their hand to signal their support for the policy, but a new study from the Center for Immigration Studies found that this move could be costly. Estimates for the total bill sent to taxpayers to fund illegal immigrant health care ranges from $10 billion to $23 billion per year. The total cost varies as the exact number of illegal immigrants is unknown, as is the percentage of illegal immigrants who fall below the income threshold to qualify for such health care programs. This study used an estimate of 4.9 million illegal immigrants qualifying for the program, resulting in a bill of $10 billion per year, rising to $23 billion if that number includes all illegal immigrants. Broken down, each Affordable Care Act subsidy would average $4,600 per undocumented person per year to fulfill the Democrat’s promise of health care coverage for illegal immigrants. Beyond the hypothetical costs of funding the Affordable Care Act stipends for all illegal immigrants, the Center for Immigration Studies also looked into the costs associated with Medicaid today for both legal and illegal immigrants to better understand the total costs Americans are facing today — without paying for all illegal immigrants as Democrats suggested. Under the current Medicaid system, the average immigrant family added $2,796 to the taxpayer’s tab on Medicaid. In comparison, the average family of native citizens only added $1,983 to the total tab. The vast majority of this funding is going to immigrant families that are legal citizens, but the data used by the center does include some illegal immigrants, as certain states allow illegal immigrant children and pregnant women to use the program. This Dems plan is not going to fly. https://ijr.com/report-costs-dem-plan-provide-illegal-immigrants-insurance/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=77921582&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nb5s2alSYWqm5rm33b5-5dGiD3y6TBPNO9GNNL3F3BVXRNLwVY-Il9RPbbcB1OucGwir61rcV6FsCH8ZUgI-sQsi44w&_hsmi=77921582

Clarion Special Report: NY’s Sharia Patrol

By Ryan Mauro and Martin Mawyer

{ clarionproject.org } ~ Not surprisingly, the sight of official-looking cars – made to look like police New York City cars — emblazoned with the words “Muslim Community Patrol” cruising the avenues of Brooklyn and Staten Island... in the United States of America—was quick to generate news coverage, commentary and alarm. Most of the mainstream American media reacted in typical fashion. Ever fearful of offending radicalized Muslim communities or digging too deeply into unsavory truths, they gushed in glowing news reports about the new patrol cars and portrayed them as a “neighborhood watch” for Muslim-dominated areas. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said the Muslim patrol units would help keep the city safe and vowed that his administration would help organizers acquire more police-style cars and equipment. “We believe we need to do more to assist them,” he told NY1 News. Yet, a little digging shows that the Muslim Community Patrol has an underlying agenda: to enforce Islamic sharia law first in the Muslim community and then in American community at large. Community-based safety patrols are in fact not unusual in the Big Apple. From crime-prevention groups like the Guardian Angels to the Brooklyn South Safety Patrol a Jewish civilian patrol, New York City has seen its share of neighborhood watch groups. Some of those patrols have even become embroiled in controversy of their own, with the Jewish patrol once being described as “bullies” and criticized as acting like “judge, jury and executioner.” Unlike other New York City safety patrols, however, MCP&S attracted suspicion, alarm and consternation from the very start. But the backlash from concerned citizens, political groups and conservative news organizations has been to no avail. The liberal Brooklyn news organization Bklyner declared: “Muslim Community Patrol & Services is here to stay.”... They are making a big mistake.

https://clarionproject.org/clarion-special-report-nys-sharia-patrol/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=668da7e9fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_12_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-668da7e9fc-6442509&mc_cid=668da7e9fc&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

US Takes Custody of Notorious ISIS Beheaders

by clarionproject.org ~ Before turning the guardianship of ISIS prisoners over to Turkey, the U.S. gained custody of some of the most notorious ISIS beheaders... suspected of torturing and murdering American and other Western hostages. U.S. officials announced that two of the four members of the British cell responsible for the imprisonment and beheading of American journalist James Foley as well as at least 27 other prisoners, including Americans Steven Scotloff and Peter Kassig. Foley’s murder was choreographed, videoed and broadcast to the world in 2014 in what would become the first of many gruesome propaganda videos put out by the terror group. The cell members in U.S. custody include El Shafee Elsheikh, 31, and Alexanda Kotey, 35. Another famous member of the cell, Mohammed Emwazi, believed to be the executioner on the videos, was killed in a drone strike in 2015. The four-man cell was dubbed the “Beatles” by their Western hostages because of their British accents. Elsheikh and Kotey were captured by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2018. SDF forces include America’s Kurdish allies, who proved to be the most effective force in combating ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Last week, President Trump made the shocking decision to pull out American troops in Northeast Syria, making way for a Turkish invasion and almost certain slaughter of the Kurds by Turkey forces. Fighting for their lives, the Kurds no longer have the capacity to guard the ISIS prisoners. Before the U.S. retreat from northeast Syria, it appears the U.S. military took custody of 40 high-value prisoners, moving them to Iraq... https://clarionproject.org/us-takes-custody-of-notorious-isis-beheaders/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=668da7e9fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_12_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-668da7e9fc-6442509&mc_cid=668da7e9fc&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5

Why Fox's '51% want impeachment'

poll is probably wrong

by wnd.com ~ Remember the 2016 presidential election polls just before the vote? The American Association for Public Opinion Research concluded scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton's "likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent... with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent." Now, President Trump is recalling that failed forecast in his response to a Fox News poll that finds a new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office. "From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll," he wrote Thursday on Twitter. "Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days." Fox News said that "since July, support for impeachment increased among voters of all stripes: up 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans and 3 among independents." "Support also went up among some of Trump's key constituencies, including white evangelical Christians (+5 points), white men without a college degree (+8), and rural whites (+10). "The report, which was the top headline on the popular Drudge Report, said that "among voters in swing counties where scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Trump were within 10 points in 2016, support for impeachment increased to 52 percent, up from 42 percent in July." Fox pointed out that "a lot has happened" on impeachment, with House Democrats ramping up their "impeachment inquiry." But just a day earlier, a Zogby poll found that in most of the nation's demographic groups, a plurality expects President Trump to be re-elected in 2020. "Nearly half of voters (47%) think President Trump will win re-election in 2020, while 41% say no, and it's not just his base!" the report said. Men by a 55% to 29% percent margin say so. So do young Millennials by 43% to 38%. And Gen X by 49% to 30%. And older voters 47% to 32%. Independents by 36% to 29%. Suburban voters, 42% to 34%. Large city voters, 51% to 32%. Union voters, 58% to 23%. Middle income, 56% to 32%. Upper income voters, 59% to 26%... https://www.wnd.com/2019/10/dem-drumbeat-impeach-hits-polling/

A Recycled Smear Campaign

Gary Bauer

Sunday marked the anniversary of the Senate vote confirming Brett Kavanaugh as a justice of the Supreme Court. The left still hasn’t gotten over that loss. There were protests at the Supreme Court Sunday.

I was thinking about how terrible the Kavanaugh confirmation process was. It was clear then that the left’s strategy was to produce one accuser after another. And then it hit me: The left is recycling its strategy in the Ukraine hoax.

As you may recall, Brett Kavanaugh breezed through his confirmation hearing, answering all the left’s questions without breaking a sweat. They just couldn’t trip him up.

President Trump fully cooperated in the Russia investigation. Robert Mueller couldn’t find evidence of collusion. The left failed to trip Trump up.

Then, all of a sudden, a senator says she has in her possession a letter from a “whistleblower” — a woman claiming Kavanaugh did something terrible.

Fast-forward to today. The president was rising in the polls and headed to the UN to deliver a historic speech on religious liberty. All of a sudden, a member of Congress says there’s a complaint from a Deep State operative, an intelligence community “whistleblower,” that could take the president down.

Kavanaugh’s friends and supporters were indignant. “How dare you! He’s never done anything like this,” they said. "No anonymous smears. The accuser must testify,“ they insisted. The left replied, "Well, we’re talking to her. She’s afraid for her life.”

Fast-forward to now. The president and his supporters demand to know who the Deep State leaker is. “Well, he’s afraid for his life. He must remain anonymous,” the left says.

Eventually, Christine Blasey Ford did testify. She had no evidence and no corroboration, and there were inconsistencies in her story. But wait… another accuser has come forward! And another! The left insists there’s a disturbing pattern about Kavanaugh’s behavior.

Back to Trump. The CIA leaker’s complaint turns out to be based on hearsay, and there are inconsistencies in the complaint. The transcript proves the central premise of the complaint is false.

So what happened this weekend? Another so-called “whistleblower” came forward, and this one supposedly has firsthand experience of the president’s phone call. I guarantee you, my friends, there will be additional “whistleblowers,” just like Kavanaugh’s accusers.

In both battles, the real target is the Republican Party. In the Kavanaugh controversy, the left believed that if it could turn the heat up high enough, it could peel off three or four GOP senators. Women are supposed to be believed in all cases, right? They got rino-Murkowski and almost got rino-Flake and Collins.

In case of the Ukraine call hoax, they’ve got Romney, Collins, and maybe Sasse. The left is also trying to confuse the public and convince them that there is something wrong with this president. Intelligence agents are good people who we’re supposed to believe protect us, right?

Of course, there’s another obvious link: The courts. The left can’t stand Trump’s success in restoring balance to the federal courts, and it can’t stand the fact that every day he remains in office is another day that he could nominate another justice of the caliber of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

The Cover-Up Continues

Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, refuses to release the 10 hours of testimony from Kurt Volker, the former envoy to Ukraine. As we reported last week, Volker’s testimony supports President Trump and undermines the complaint filed by a disgruntled Deep State operative.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is so confident that he is daring Rep. scumbag-Schiff to release Volker’s testimony.

Yet all weekend long, all we got from the media was breathless reporting of a second “whistleblower,” supposedly with direct knowledge of the president’s phone call.

This is absurd! We already have direct knowledge of the call. We have the transcript. The president voluntarily released it.

This is like someone saying, “I have direct knowledge of the score of the Washington Redskins/New England Patriots game!” I should hope so — we all watched it Sunday. How can this be news?

Meanwhile, it is being reported that the Deep State operative who filed the complaint is a registered Democrat who “had a prior working relationship with a prominent Democratic politician.” And we know that the law firm representing him has deep ties to far-left activists.

dinky-liar-Warren’s Truth Troubles

Sen. Elizabeth dinky-liar-Warren seems to have trouble telling the truth. Everyone is familiar with her claim of indigenous heritage. But now we’re learning of yet another bogus claim.

In telling her biography, dinky-liar-Warren has suggested multiple times that she was the victim of sex discrimination. She claims that she was fired from a special education teaching position because she was pregnant. She said this last week in Nevada and during her closing statement in last month’s Democrat debate.

But in a 2008 interview, dinky-liar-Warren tells a very different story. She acknowledges not having all the necessary credits for the job, so she went back to graduate school. dinky-liar-Warren said:

I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, “I don’t think this is going to work out for me.” I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years…

There’s nothing in this 11-year-old interview that remotely suggests she was fired. But dinky-liar-Warren seems so eager to claim the mantle of victimhood, whether as a Native American or a fired pregnant woman.

And here’s another example that has fallen through the memory hole: dinky-liar-Warren has also claimed to have been the victim of sexual harassment, claiming that an older male colleague once “lunged at her” in his office and then chased her around his desk.

But in telling this story, she neglected to mention that the man had polio, which limited his mobility, and that she later spoke at his funeral!

Craven Appeasement

Friday night, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressed his support for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Morey tweeted, “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Within hours, the roof caved in on him.

The Chinese consulate in Houston expressed its “strong dissatisfaction.” The team’s owner rebuffed Morey, making it clear that Morey did not speak for the team. The NBA issued a statement calling Morey’s tweet “deeply offensive” and “regrettable.” And yesterday, Morey was tweeting his apologies.

Morey did the right thing, but the NBA is scrambling because of its big investment in China. Just the latest example of how trade with China has changed us more than it has changed China.

Better Late Than Never

Last week, news broke that four people were stabbed to death inside the Paris police headquarters. Initially, French authorities treated the attack as just a workplace dispute involving a disgruntled employee who had been reprimanded by his supervisor.

It took them a while, but French authorities have finally acknowledged what we all knew days ago — Michael Harpon was a radicalized Muslim. The alleged “workplace dispute” involved his refusal to work with women. ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 10, 2019 at 4:22pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Restoring Deterrence to Have Peace

Harold Hutchison

Flashback: hanoi-John Kerry bragged about

getting re-election support from foreign

leaders in ‘private’ conversations

by Zachary Leeman

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ Democrats may be expressing shock over President Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone call with the Ukraine president... but it’s all part of a “do as I say, not as I do” motto politicians have been getting away with for years. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson broke down this motto this week by uncovering 2004 comments from hanoi-John Kerry where he bragged about how foreign leaders contacted him and told him how much they wanted him to beat George W. Bush in the presidential election — to put things into context, hanoi-Kerry is one of the many Democrats claiming Trump did something wrong by suggesting Ukraine investigate loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s ties to his son Hunter’s businesses. “hanoi-John Kerry has been talking to anyone who will listen about the president’s shocking behavior with Ukraine,” Carlson said of the former secretary of state. The Fox host then cut to a recent MSNBC interview where hanoi-Kerry reacted to Trump’s Ukraine phone call. “My reaction is one of absolute shock and abasement … that is a fundamental, profound abuse of power. There’s no other way to put it,” hanoi-Kerry said. “hanoi-Kerry is full of it, as you know. But, just to put some meat on those bones, during the 2004 election, which he lost, hanoi-John Kerry openly bragged about soliciting support from foreign leaders against his opponent that year, the incumbent President George W. Bush,” Carlson said in reaction. “I’ve met foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, ‘you’ve got to win this, you’ve got to beat this guy, we need a new policy.’ Things like that,” hanoi-Kerry reportedly said in 2004. Carlson also criticized hanoi-Kerry for refusing to name the leaders who supposedly said such things to him. The then-presidential candidate kept mum on names because he said that sort of trust between leaders was necessary to run the country...

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/09/flashback-john-kerry-bragged-about-getting-re-election-support-from-foreign-leaders-in-private-conversations-836890

VIDEO: https://rumble.com/v8af6h-tucker-carlson-uncovers-troubling-john-kerry-2004-comments.html

Pompeo: 'The United States

Didn't Give Turkey a Green Light'

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By Susan Jones

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended President Trump's decision to remove U.S. troops from northern Syria... allowing Turkey to conduct its "long-planned operation" to clear the area of Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey considers terrorists, but the U.S. considers allies. Turkish troops began their attack on Wednesday. PBS's Judy Woodruff asked Pompeo about what will happen, now that the "U.S. has given Turkey a green light." "Yes, well, that's just false. The United States didn't give Turkey a green light," Pompeo responded. The mission was that, when we came into office, there were people being beheaded, people being burned, people in cages. President Trump made the decision that we would begin a campaign that would take down the caliphate. We have succeeded in that. On the phone call on Sunday night, it became very clear that there were American soldiers that were going to be at risk. And the president made a decision to put them in a place where they were out of harm's way. That's what we have done. President Trump has been unambiguous about making sure that radical Islamic terrorism, wherever we find it, this administration will take it seriously. And I think the success that we have had in Syria, along with many allies of the defeat ISIS coalition that the State Department put together numbers countries in the dozens and dozens. I'm confident that we will continue to protect the American people from that terrorist threat. Asked if he still view the Kurdish YPG as a U.S. ally, Pompeo said, "The Turks have a legitimate security concern. We have talked about that. I have talked about that repeatedly. They have a terrorist threat to their South...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/pompeo-united-states-didnt-give-turkey-green-light

VIDEO: https://www.mrctv.org/videos/pompeo-united-states-didnt-give-turkey-green-light

The IDF's Secret Weapon Against Iran

BY ANNA AHRONHEIM

{ jpost.com } ~ Israel’s military has a secret weapon as the war-between-war campaign against Hezbollah and Iran continues to expand... the Language Teaching Department at the Military Intelligence and Cyber Instruction Unit (MICIU), a language school where soldiers become fluent in Arabic or Farsi in under two months. In a nondescript building in a base in the center of the country sits the largest intelligence school in the entire Middle East. Thousands of soldiers and officers pass through its doors every year, training for positions in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Division. “It’s not like in a normal school where students are taught just a language,” Maj. V., head of the MICIU’s Language Teaching Department, told The Jerusalem Post. “We aren’t here just to learn a language; the language is a tool to get and understand the intelligence we collect.” The school, which has existed for over 50 years, uses innovative approaches and learning environments that within weeks have soldiers understanding both the language and culture of their enemies. V.’s name can’t be divulged for security reasons. The identity of R. and N. are similarly secret. R. has been an instructor at the school for 47 years, and teaches spoken Arabic. Her daughter, Master Sgt. N., teaches written Arabic. “It’s a challenging and hard role because we have the responsibility of the state’s security on our shoulders,” R. said. “To work in this environment is serving the country, on all levels.”...

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-IDFs-secret-weapon-against-Iran-604190

Senators Launch Bipartisan Push

to Sanction Turkey Over Syria Offensive

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By Patrick Goodenough

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Breaking with President Trump over the issue, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday joined Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in announcing a bipartisan push for sanctions against the leaders and military of Turkey... a NATO ally – until it halts a unilateral military operation in northeastern Syria and withdraws its forces. Their targets include President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his senior ministers, military assistance, transactions with Turkey’s military or energy sectors, and visas for Turkish leaders wanting to travel to the United States. They also Ankara sanctioned for buying Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, under a provision of the 2017 Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which seeks to punish those who enter into “significant” financial transactions with Russia’s military sector. Van Hollen said Wednesday the bill would be introduced as soon as Congress returns, and that its sponsors will “ask for an immediate vote to send a clear message to Turkey that it must cease and desist its military action, withdraw its fighters from the areas under attack, and stop the tragic loss of life.” Turkey’s Islamist president on Wednesday announced the launch of his offensive, aimed at ridding territory near the Syria-Turkey border of Kurdish fighters who were allied to the U.S. in the campaign against ISIS. Asked at the White House about the sanctions push by Graham – normally a vocal ally – Trump seemed unperturbed, reiterating that he has himself warned Erdogan to be cautious, or face consequences...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/senators-launch-bipartisan-push-sanction-turkey-over-syria-offensive

VIDEO: https://www.mrctv.org/videos/trump-okay-about-senators-bipartisan-turkey-sanctions-push-says-hes-already-cautioned

Uncovered Transcript Shows scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton Did Exactly What Dems Accuse Trump

of Doing with Ukraine

By Joe Saunders

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Democrats convinced they’ve got the goods on the man in the White House really need to look at their own history first... As an “impeachment inquiry” gathers steam, based largely around the accusation that President Donald Trump used his position in the Oval Office to try to influence the outcome of an upcoming election, Fox News host Tucker Carlson hit the airwaves this week with documentary proof of former President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton doing that very thing. And his terms were far more explicit, and more politically self-serving, than anything Trump actually said. On Monday’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson dredged up a White House transcript of a telephone call between scumbag/liar-Clinton and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the conversation from February 2000, scumbag/liar-Clinton sought Blair’s help in resolving a commercial dispute between British Airways and two American carriers, USAir and American Airlines. That was an election year in the United States, of course, when Americans would be going to the polls in nine months to select scumbag/liar-Clinton’s successor in the presidency. scumbag/liar-Clinton obviously did not want to make the election more difficult than it had to be for then-Vice President scumbag-Al Gore, who was to win the Democratic nomination after crushing former Sen. Bill Bradley in a perfunctory primary fight. “Back in 2000, President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton had a conversation with Tony Blair of the U.K. and asked him directly to intercede in a dispute between British Airways and two carriers,” Carlson said. “The president, at the time, was much more direct than President Trump was in his conversation. “This is scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, and I’m quoting: ‘In a political season, it would be big over here to get this open sore resolved. If you could have somebody take a look at it.’ Tony Blair responded that he would.” Now, as Carlson pointed out, this set-up is more or less what Democrats are caterwauling about: An American president, speaking to the leader of a foreign country, asks for assistance. In neither the scumbag/liar-Clinton case nor Trump’s now-famous phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky did the American president promise anything in return...

https://www.westernjournal.com/damning-transcript-bill-clinton-call-shows-asked-tony-blairs-help-influence-election/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance

VIDEO at the site.

The Homeless Myth

by Daniel Greenfield

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Los Angeles used to be known as the epicenter of the entertainment industry, nutty health fads, and compulsive narcissism... These days, it’s ground zero for the homeless crisis and its myths. Every underpass harbors grimy tent cities with their own colonies of rats and roaches. Schizophrenics wander the most fashionable streets shouting at the sky. Human waste and needles litter downtown streets. Typhus and Hepatitis A spread out from these oases of misery into the general population. It’s not that the city doesn’t care. If anything, Los Angeles cares too much. Voters have passed multiple propositions spending over $4.6 billion on the homeless. They raised their own sales tax. They built homeless housing at as much as $500,000 per unit. That’s enough to buy a mansion in some parts of America. Did that solve the problem? Try walking through one of those tent cities and you’ll find out. After all this, the number of homeless is up 12% to 58,936 in Los Angeles County and up 16% to 36,165 in Los Angeles. Despite all those billions of dollars thrown at the problem, only 3 districts saw a decrease in the homeless population. Fortunately, no lessons were learned from this Sisyphean exercise. Billboards all across the city feature a multicultural cast of young activists chanting, “Homes End Homelessness”. The only problem is that homes don’t end homelessness. Homelessness is not the problem, it’s a symptom of the problem. That’s the real news in the latest homeless numbers. While pro-homeless activists falsely claimed that only 29% of LA’s homeless had drug and alcohol problems or mental illness, the Los Angeles Times, after reviewing the same questionnaires used as the basis for the data, found that actually 67% had a mental illness or drug and alcohol problems...

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/homeless-myth-daniel-greenfield

Restoring Deterrence to Have Peace

Harold Hutchison: The world is not a nice place. It seems odd to have to say this, but in today’s upside-down world such a statement is necessary. In an ideal world, disputes would be based upon high moral values and resolved through nonviolent negotiations that lead to a compromise all sides can live with. In an ideal world, nobody would think of trying to use force to resolve a dispute.

In that ideal world, the People’s Republic of China would be swayed by a simple reminder that governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed, and that cracking down on peaceful demonstrators or forcibly returning Taiwan to the fold is wrong. In an ideal world, senior leaders of Iran would not be voicing a desire to wipe Israel off the map.

As you are well aware, we are not in an ideal world. We’re nowhere close to one. So, why isn’t China trying to force Taiwan under the rule of the butchers of Beijing? The answer is very simple: If they were to try, they know that the United States Navy has the capability to sweep the People’s Liberation Army Navy from the seas. China would be at the mercy of the United States as a result. That is something that the Chinese are rational enough to want to avoid.

As The Patriot Post team has pointed out during coverage of the U.S. Navy’s issues, navies take a lot of time to build — or rebuild. Could China’s leaders survive such a setback, especially given the situation in Hong Kong? They’re not going to want to take that chance.

In essence, American strength deters hostile action. The same dynamic largely works with Iran. Yes, it shot down a MQ-4C Triton UAV, but its direct acts of aggression and belligerence haven’t caused any American fatalities. Well, no recent fatalities is the more honest way to put it — America still owes Iran for that theocratic regime’s provision of IED components to Iraqi insurgents. But the reason Iran hasn’t moved much beyond talk is that the mullahs know full well that America is willing to deliver a major butt-kicking if they push things too far.

So, from these two examples, we should understand that deterrence, in order to work correctly, has two components. First, there is the ability to deliver a devastating blow, and second, the willingness to deliver said blow should a country cross certain lines. If either of these is missing, then deterrence will inevitably fail.

Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, Barack scumbag/liar-nObama had reduced America’s deterrence capabilities in both ways. His defense cuts severely limited America’s ability to bring the pain, and he also was singularly unwilling to deal with Iran in the decisive manner needed. In short, BO gave the message that America could be a global doormat.

The fact is, if America is to avoid war, it never hurts to have a strong military in all facets. But it is also equally important to ensure that when a foreign country does something along the lines of firing missiles at a Navy destroyer, then we are able and willing to make them pay. Otherwise, we may very well find ourselves again in an armed conflict in the Middle East. Or elsewhere. ~The Patriot Post

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Thursday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 10, 2019 at 12:28pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Trump's Turkish Test on Syria

Nate Jackson

We Now Have a Genuine Constitutional Crisis

by DAVID CATRON

{ spectator.org } ~ The term “constitutional crisis” has been tossed around so often since President Trump took office that it now has little meaning in our public discourse... But regardless of what we call the current impasse between the executive branch and the House of Representatives pursuant to the “impeachment inquiry” launched by the latter, our government now faces a genuine crisis whose magnitude the nation hasn’t seen for more than 150 years. Americans have long celebrated the orderly transfer of power that is unique to our form of government. The Democrats, however, have abandoned that tradition by refusing to accept the outcome of the 2016 election. Having pursued a policy of transparency and shown extraordinary forbearance with the antics of House Democrats only to be declared “illegitimate” for his trouble, President Trump has had enough. Tuesday, Counsel to the President Pat Cipollone put House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi on notice that Trump would no longer allow their machinations to distract him from his normal duties. Pointing out that the ersatz impeachment inquiry concocted by liar-Pelosi and her accomplices was constitutionally invalid, in brazen violation of basic due process, and contrary to the separation of powers doctrine, Cipollone wrote that the president would ignore it henceforth: The President cannot allow your constitutionally illegitimate proceedings to distract him and those in the Executive Branch from their work on behalf of the American people. The President has a country to lead. The American people elected him to do this job, and he remains focused on fulfilling his promises.… We hope that, in light of the many deficiencies we have identified in your proceedings, you will abandon the current invalid efforts to pursue an impeachment inquiry and join the President in focusing on the many important goals that matter to the American people. Speaker liar-Pelosi responded to the president’s refusal to cooperate further with the farce by releasing a bizarre statement declaring that the letter itself is somehow unlawful and that the refusal to respond to illegitimate requests from a coequal branch of government constitutes obstruction: This letter is manifestly wrong, and is simply another unlawful attempt to hide the facts of the Trump Administration’s brazen efforts to pressure foreign powers to intervene in the 2020 elections. Despite the White House’s stonewalling, we see a growing body of evidence that shows that President Trump abused his office.… The White House should be warned that continued efforts to hide the truth of the President’s abuse of power from the American people will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction. Mr. President, you are not above the law. You will be held accountable. Never mind that President Trump has been investigated relentlessly by the Democrats and their surrogates since he was elected, and no credible evidence has been found that he has abused his office. Yet Madam Speaker gratuitously insists that he has committed all manner of offenses, and she has arbitrarily launched an “impeachment inquiry” without authorization by the full House — the first time this has been done in the history of the republic. The House has initiated impeachment inquiries against three presidents: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton. All were authorized by a vote of the full House. As the White House letter points out...

https://spectator.org/we-now-have-a-genuine-constitutional-crisis/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=c608e14943-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_02_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c608e14943-104608113

Giuliani predicts Senate Judiciary will call

on loose lips liar-Biden to testify on Ukraine

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By ALEXANDER BOLTON

{ thehill.com } ~ President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he believes Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will call... former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden to testify before his panel about corruption in Ukraine. Graham told reporters weeks ago that he had no intention of bringing the loose lips liar-Bidens in, but Giuliani said he believed that position had changed amid an escalating Democratic impeachment effort. “I think that changed. Go ask him now,” Giuliani told The Hill Wednesday when asked if Graham made a mistake by ruling out the possible appearance of loose lips liar-Joe or Hunter Biden before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A spokeswoman for the Judiciary Committee did not indicate Graham's position had changed, saying the senator will make a final determination on witnesses at a later date. “On witnesses, we’ll hear from Giuliani and then determine what, if any, additional witnesses need to be called,” said Taylor Reidy. Giuliani says the loose lips liar-Bidens are key witnesses related to an investigation into corruption in Ukraine and allegations that interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election stemmed from Ukraine and not Russia. “If I were in the House and I had subpoena power, my first witness would be loose lips liar-Joe Biden — for Trump. Because I would want to show the corruption that he unleashed in Ukraine that deprived us of the information that could have exonerated the president,” Giuliani said...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/465070-giuliani-predicts-senate-judiciary-will-call-on-biden-to-testify-on-ukraine

Say Goodbye to Charter Schools

by STEVEN GREENHUT

{ spectator.org } ~ Sacramento California progressives claim to be the champions of the poor and downtrodden, but their vocal support for legislation that obliterates the state’s charter schools reinforces that they mainly are the cat’s paw for the state’s powerful public-employee unions... If Democratic leaders really cared about the plight of poor kids, Assembly Bill 1505 would have died in committee given that it will keep low-income kids from escaping ill-performing and even dangerous schools. Instead, Gov. scumbag-Gavin Newsom signed it this week amid much fanfare. There’s no way to reform public schools, in California or elsewhere, given that they are government monopolies that are dominated by unions. They will put kids first, as one former teachers’ union official reportedly said, after the kids start paying dues. People who think that such schools can be improved through new reforms and more money probably believed that the Soviet economy could have been fixed with a better-developed five-year plan. The only way to deal with that reality is to escape. In 1992, California passed one of the nation’s most far-reaching school-reform experiments, by making it easy to create publicly funded alternative schools where kids could flee. The original law authorized the establishment of 100 charters. The state now has more than 1,300 of them, and they educate 11 percent of the state’s students. The original law tilted the balance of power in favor of charters by providing myriad ways that charters could get around union-controlled school boards that opposed the competition. Former Gov. Jerry Brown had started charter schools in Oakland and served for eight years as a backstop against increasingly aggressive efforts by the California Teachers Association to stamp out charters or at least significantly curtail their growth. Brown’s state board of education was filled with charter backers, who could legally overrule any anti-charter decisions made by the locals. Brown was replaced by scumbag-Newsom, who wasn’t particularly hostile to charters as San Francisco mayor but wasn’t known as a champion of them, either. The state’s main charter-school group, the California Charter Schools Association, went all in during the governor’s election for former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a liberal Democrat — but one who took on his city’s teachers’ unions over the charter issue. It seemed unlikely that Villaraigosa would have pulled an upset over the Democratic establishment’s main choice, but that didn’t stop the charter proponents from depicting scumbag-Newsom as an “unprecedented threat” to charters. If he wasn’t then, he certainly has morphed into one now... https://spectator.org/say-goodbye-to-charter-schools/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=c608e14943-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_02_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c608e14943-104608113

The “Bull” Durham Expanding Investigation

And It Has A Lot Of Top Democrats In Panic

by Dean James

{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are aware of the non-stop baseless attacks against our great president including a hell of a lot from scumbag/liar-nObama ‘plants’... who are allegedly guilty of spying, leaking and basically sabotaging everything Trump tries to get done. From day one and before the dems have been on a rampage and now after the Russia witch-hunt failed they are wasting time and tax-payer money arranging and executing a coup attempt against a legitimate, duly elected president. Among those who have betrayed the President and the American people are former CIA Director scumbag/commie-John Brennan and former Director of National intelligence scumbag-James Clapper. We’ve been waiting for months and months now to learn more details about whether these two Trump haters are legitimately in the crosshairs of Attorney General William Barr as he investigates the origins of the “Russiagate” scandal. Because if they’re not, we concluded, then the probe isn’t serious and we shouldn’t expect a damned thing to happen to them. Well, it appears as though a) Barr’s probe is indeed serious because b) the roles scumbag-Clapper and scumbag/commie-Brennan played in Russiagate are indeed being examined. That’s the conclusion of former House Government Oversight Committee chair and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). He notes that John Durham, the prosecutor Barr has assigned to look into the scumbag/liar-nObama-era plots against Trump, has just expanded the ‘Russia’ portion of his probe, which he adds is “bad news” for these two scumbags. There is also a bit of news regarding a potential timeline as to when Durham’s and Barr’s final reports are going to be ready — let’s just say you shouldn’t expect to see them this year... https://rightwingtribune.com/2019/10/09/breaking-the-bull/

Released Terrorist Protests

Court-Imposed Restrictions

by Patrick Dunleavy

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ A recently released would-be jihadist who wanted to attack Southern California military targets and synagogues will be subject to warrantless searches of his home and belongings... including computers, cellular phones and other electronics. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney on Monday made permanent a series of extra restrictions for Kevin James, who violated limits on cell phone use and outside activities almost immediately after his July release from prison. While an inmate serving time for armed robbery in California state prison, James created the radical Islamic group Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS). Prosecutors described JIS as "a Muslim extremist group who recruited others to carry out violent attacks ... against U.S. military locations and Jewish synagogues." He designed the plot and recruited others "even while his freedoms were restricted in state custody." James pleaded guilty in 2007 to conspiring to wage war against the United States through terrorism. But at that time, prosecutors and probation officers did not anticipate the need to impose added restrictions once his sentence was over. As we reported last month, the case illustrates a pressing challenge facing the country as more jihadis complete their sentences. The added restrictions on James' computer use and movements would "have a detrimental effect on his rehabilitation," his attorney argued... https://www.investigativeproject.org/8112/released-terrorist-protests-court-imposed

Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Our Dumbing-Down

in Time for comie-AOC

by BEN STEIN

{ spectator.org } ~ Meanwhile, while we are talking about leadership, let’s not forget commie-AOC and her “Squad” and the “Green New Deal.” This is her plan to completely stop using fossil fuels and eating meat within the next 11 years... This, supposedly, is necessary to save the planet from destruction. I don’t want to get too far into the weeds on this, but it’s the most idiotic plan in the history of modern civilization. It’s just mind-blowingly stupid. Yes, it’s a good idea to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. I don’t think anyone doubts that. But to think a complete stop can be applied to fossil fuel usage is just an impossibility. The fact that anyone at all takes it seriously, that bystanders don’t start laughing and crying any time commie-AOC or her posse appears in public is just a pitiful sign of how corroded and wrecked our educational system has become. Everything important runs primarily on oil and gas and nuclear. To think we can just wave a wand and change that in 11 is a cruel hoax. How could it have gained any currency at all? On the other hand, the whole idea and the public fawning over commie-AOC reminds me of a sad impression about government that sank into my brain long ago when I was a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford, immediately after RN left office. Now, Mr. Nixon was a genius and a great friend of freedom. It’s hard to think of another president with the brute brain horsepower RN possessed within the past hundred years. But Mr. Nixon had a certain idea of status and propriety. He did not invite us lowly speechwriters to any but a few cabinet meetings. Gerald Ford, on the other hand, invited a speechwriter who had anything to do with a subject to come to cabinet meetings. The result was that I was invited to dozens of cabinet meetings and other high-level confabs. It was a stunning experience. Mr. Ford was a small-city politico from western Michigan. His friends and cabinet members tended to be somewhat like him. Small-town, provincial businessmen, lawyers, and politicians. To put it mildly, they were not an impressive group — not even remotely in the same league as RN’s top dogs. Very kind people, the sort of people you would want your daughter to marry. But highly limited in sophistication and education...

https://spectator.org/ignorance-is-not-bliss-our-dumbing-down-in-time-for-aoc/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=c608e14943-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_10_02_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c608e14943-104608113

Trump's Turkish Test on Syria

Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump was elected to drop a figurative bomb on the Beltway Establishment — of both parties. Dropping bombs is an ugly business, but there’s no question some good has come of it. However, Trump’s announcement regarding U.S. troops in Syria is one of those things that’s difficult to put in a “good” or “bad” box. So here are some key analysis points.

“I campaigned on the fact that I was going to bring our soldiers home and bring them home as rapidly as possible,” Trump said. That may be true, but commitments made by political neophytes in the heat of a campaign are not always wise to keep. It’s certainly not sufficient justification. Trump also reportedly “completely blindsided” the Pentagon with the announcement.

The U.S. is not withdrawing from Syria entirely. The shift of a relative handful of U.S. troops from one part of northeastern Syria is nowhere near as significant a move as Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s total abandonment of Iraq (also a campaign promise), which led directly to the creation of the Islamic State. Yet the U.S. has vital interests in containing the ISIS threat, and it is possible that Trump’s move will have an undesirable effect on this front. On the other hand, U.S. troops were in Syria for the sole objective of defeating ISIS. The caliphate is now destroyed, and Trump argues that means it’s time to come home.

Abandoning allies — in this case, the Kurds — is never a good look for America, and it will have foreign-policy ramifications elsewhere. For many years, the Kurds fought and died alongside U.S. troops in the fight against ISIS, while Turkish President Recep Erdogan has threatened to attack the Kurds in northeast Syria. Were U.S. troops the only thing holding him back? “The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so,” Trump said. Yet that’s a crass transactional view of foreign policy.

Turkey, which seemingly has the green light for incursions into Syria, is being tested. Trump has taken on the NATO establishment, and Turkey’s membership in that defensive alliance as well as its efforts to join the European Union are now on full display. Either its increasingly authoritarian president will pass the test, or he will fail before the whole world. Trump promised major consequences for Turkey’s economy if it “does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits.” That’s ridiculously overwrought Bronx bluster at the wrong time, though Trump (probably) doesn’t actually think that; he’s just being Trump and, again, he’s testing Erdogan.

All of that said, it’s interesting to note an overall dynamic with this news. The Beltway Establishment is almost uniform in harshly criticizing Trump’s move. Sen. Lindsey Graham called it “shortsighted and irresponsible.” Rep. Liz Cheney decried it as “a catastrophic mistake.” House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi said it’s a “dangerous decision” that is both “reckless” and “misguided.” Of course, she didn’t seem to mind scumbag/liar-nObama’s Iraq withdrawal, and she’s too busy running the impeachment charade now to be taken seriously.

But we suspect the average American isn’t so keen on keeping our sons and daughters in harm’s way for a murky objective in Syria — as Trump put it, “to the benefit of people who don’t even like the USA.” After all, it’s less likely to be the loved ones of members of Congress spilling blood for their country than it is grassroots American Patriots.

In any case, Trump’s Syria decision isn’t black and white; it’s various shades of unappealing gray. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65966?mailing_id=4575&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4575&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thurs/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 10, 2019 at 8:58am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Dems Expand Ukraine Charade With

Second 'Whistleblower'

Thomas Gallatin

Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

WILD PRESSER: NBC News highlights the eight wildest moments from Trump’s press event yesterday — including Trump’s bizarre assertion that the Kurds “didn’t help us with Normandy.”

LEAKER ARRESTED: Defense Intelligence Agency worker arrested on charges of leaking top-secret information to reporters (CNBC)

Government & Politics

DEREGULATION MEETS TRANSPARENCY: “Regulatory reform in the Trump administration isn’t just about dollars and cents”: Trump moves to increase transparency in government regulations (The Daily Signal)

BIPARTISAN REPRIMAND: commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins Ted Cruz, Ben Sasse, and others in letter to NBA condemning league for “betrayal of American values” (National Review)

WOKE PLATITUDES: ESPN bows to China, posts illegitimate propaganda map of communist Asian nation (The Daily Wire)

JUSTICE FOR KAVANAUGH: “Republican senators are pressing the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against women who made false rape accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing last year.” (The Washington Times)

Other Notables

TERRORISM REAWAKENED: After a lull, Islamist terrorism in Europe returns with a vengeance (The Daily Signal)

DISTRICT OF CONFORMITY: “Is this the last time we can celebrate Columbus Day? A wave of cities have decided to remove the holiday from the calendar and replace it with ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” reports The Daily Signal’s Jarrett Stepman. That now includes Washington, DC, which was named after … Christopher Columbus.

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Major threat to the U.S. economy — unfunded retirement deficits (The Heritage Foundation)

POLICY: School choice can bust government’s education monopoly (The Heartland Institute)

HUMOR: Haunted house for progressives just normal conservative man’s home containing Bibles, guns, and a copy of the Constitution (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/66026?mailing_id=4580&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4580&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

The Bluffpeachment

By Gary Gindler

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The current situation in Washington is, in the language of poker, a bluff... The Democrats are bluffing; they have only weak cards in their hand. They actually have nothing against Trump. That's all they have ever had. As it is known, impeachment is simply a vote of no confidence. A vote of no confidence exists in many countries where there is a political separation of powers. In some countries, for example, the president has the right to dissolve parliament and call new parliamentary elections, and as a political counterbalance, the parliament can declare a vote of no confidence against the president. In America, the president cannot dissolve Congress under any circumstances, but the price for such protection of the Congress is high: as a counterweight, both chambers — the Senate and the House of Representatives — must speak out against the president in case of impeachment. This process of a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives is called impeachment, and in the Senate, a trial. What awaits the president after impeachment? The answer is...nothing. Impeachment is a purely political maneuver, and the president remains to fulfill his duties until the end of his term, knowing that the House is unhappy with him. The last well known example is President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, who was impeached in 1998 but acquitted by the Senate. And so what? Nothing — he continued to work. The fact is that the second part of the vote of no confidence takes place in the Senate. Here in the Senate, according to the US Constitution, a trial of the president occurs. The trial takes place in a manner close to a real court proceeding — with lawyers, prosecutors, judges, prosecution witnesses, and defense witnesses. Contrary to the House decision, the Senate's trial considers whether or not there was a violation of the law by the president. If a violation of the law has occurred, then the president could lose his post. The current hysteria of the Democrats regarding impeachment is unusual. Firstly, it is based on rumors. That is why, secondly, the Democrats still have not decided which law Trump has violated. Thirdly, there was no vote in the House of Representatives to initiate the impeachment procedure more precisely, the House of Representatives, in which the majority belongs to the Democrats, in a 332-95 decision, chose not to bother with impeachment...

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

Sen. Tom Cotton Unloads On Intel Community Inspector General: ‘Evasive,’ ‘Insolent,’

And ‘Obstructive’

By Sean Davis

{ thefederalist.com } ~ Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., unloaded on the inspector general at the center of the anti-Trump whistleblower kerfuffle, calling him “insolent” and “obstructive” in a scathing letter released on Wednesday afternoon... Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, or ICIG, is under fire for secretly eliminating a requirement that whistleblowers provide first-hand information to support allegations of wrongdoing. The ICIG admitted that it secretly changed its rules and forms in response to an error-ridden complaint filed against President Donald Trump that consisted entirely of gossip, rumor, and second-hand information.“Your disappointing testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 26 was evasive to the point of being insolent and obstructive,” Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), wrote on Wednesday. Cotton said Atkinson refused to disclose to SSCI members why Atkinson initially determined the anti-Trump complainant had a partisan political bias against Trump. “Despite repeated questions, you refused to explain what you meant in your written report by ‘indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of a rival political candidate,'” Cotton wrote. “This information is, of course, unclassified and we were meeting in a closed setting. Yet you moralized about how you were duty bound not to share even a hint of this political bias with us.” “But now I see media reports that you revealed to the House Intelligence Committee not only that the complainant is a registered Democrat, but also that he has a professional relationship with a Democratic presidential campaign,” Cotton continued. “I’m dissatisfied, to put it mildly, with your refusal to answer my questions, while more fully briefing the three-ring circus that the House Intelligence Committee has become.”...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/09/sen-tom-cotton-unloads-on-intel-community-inspector-general-evasive-insolent-and-obstructive/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=01cf009811-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-01cf009811-83771801

scumbag/liar-Clinton Impeachment Chief

Trump Did Nothing Wrong He Did His Job

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by R. Cort Kirkwood

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ President Trump did nothing impeachable in his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky... during which Trump asked for Ukraine’s help in exposing possible influence peddling in the country by former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden on behalf of his son, Hunter Biden. Indeed, Trump did what a president should have done. That conclusion comes from former federal prosecutor Bob Barr, who, as a congressman, ran the effort to impeach scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton. Writing for The Daily Caller, Barr concluded that Trump was duty-bound to ask Zelensky for the probe. Message for the Democrats and NeverTrump nuts in the Republican Party: Trump did nothing wrong. The Trump-Zelensky call of July 25 became the object of the latest impeachment hysteria after the hearsay account of an anonymous CIA whistleblower surfaced. Written after the whistleblower consulted with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, which itself points to suspected wrongdoing, the account claimed that Trump sought “foreign interference” in the 2020 election...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33631-clinton-impeachment-chief-trump-did-nothing-wrong-he-did-his-job

Ukraine Re-opened loose lips liar-Biden-Burisma Probe Before Trump Call. Whistleblower

Linked to 2020 Democrat Candidate

by R. Cort Kirkwood

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ The hoked-up “impeachment inquiry” into President Trump has taken another two sharp turns that should send the credibility of the anonymous CIA whistleblower heading over a cliff... Speaking to Fox talker Sean Hannity, The Hill’s John Solomon revealed that Ukraine reopened its probe of the loose lips liar-Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scandal long before President Trump’s call on July 25 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump asked Zelensky to do just that. Even better, or worse as the case might be, the ballyhooed whistleblower, whose hearsay account of that call ignited the latest impeachment frenzy, worked for one of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates. So even as the impeachment probe inadvertently threatens to fully expose loose lips liar-Biden-Burisma and the scumbag/liar-Clinton-Ukraine collusion during the 2016 election, the narrative that Trump committed an impeachable offense is falling apart. Solomon told Hannity that U.S. officials knew Ukraine would re-open the probe into loose lips liar-Biden-Burisma long before Trump’s entirely appropriate phone call. “The U.S. government had open-source intelligence and was aware as early as February of 2019 that the Ukrainian government was planning to reopen the Burisma investigation,” Solomon said. “This is long before the president ever imagined having a call with President Zelensky.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33633-ukraine-reopened-biden-burisma-probe-before-trump-call-whistleblower-linked-to-2020-democrat-candidate

Turkey Flooding Europe with Migrants

by Soeren Kern

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Greece has once again become "ground zero" for Europe's migration crisis. More than 40,000 migrants arrived in Greece during the first nine months of 2019... and more than half of those arrived during just the past three months, according to new data compiled by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The surge in migrant arrivals to Greece during the third quarter of 2019 — 5,903 arrivals in July; 9,341 in August; and 10,294 in September — has coincided with repeated threats by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other members of his government to flood Europe with Muslim migrants. Although the number of migrant arrivals to Greece is still far below the number of arrivals at the height of the migration crisis in 2015, when more than a million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East poured into Europe, the recent surge in newcomers suggests that Erdoğan's threats to resume mass migration are becoming a reality. In March 2016, European officials negotiated the EU-Turkey Migrant Deal, in which the EU offered Turkey a series of economic and political incentives in exchange for a pledge by Ankara to halt the flow of migrants from Turkey to Greece. European officials, negotiating in great haste, promised Turkey more than they were able to deliver — in particular a controversial pledge to grant visa-free travel to the European Union for all of Turkey's 80 million citizens. Since the agreement's entry into force, Turkey and the EU have accused each other of failing to honor key parts of the deal, and Erdoğan has repeatedly threatened to allow potentially millions more migrants to pour into Greece. In practice, the EU-Turkey deal substantially reduced the flow of migrants from Turkey to Greece. As a result, migration routes shifted westward from Greece to Italy, which in 2016 replaced Greece as the main point of entry for migrants seeking to reach Europe... Turkey sounds like another Iran.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14970/turkey-europe-migrants

George Will and American power

by Clifford D. May

{ fdd.org } ~ For more than 40 years, George Will has been producing erudite political commentary. Most often, I find myself agreeing with the arguments presented in his twice-weekly columns for The Washington Post... When I don’t, I have to wrack my brains to figure out why, and how I might frame a cogent dissent. He’s recently published “The Conservative Sensibility” — no subtitle — a 538-page reflection on Western political philosophy and tradition, and the specifically American vision of the Founders. “A sensibility,” he writes, “is more than an attitude but less than an agenda.” The American conservative sensibility, he adds, includes “an unsentimental, almost bleak realism,” while applying “general principles to untidy realities.” American conservatives in the current era, he argues, have no higher obligation than to defend the “classical liberal tradition” upon which the United States was founded. For more than a century, that tradition has been under attack by progressivism which “began as a forthright rejection of the Founders’ philosophy.” Today’s progressives seek nothing less than “the overthrow of the Founders’ classical liberalism.” Of the 10 chapters in this volume, all worth reading, only one grapples with foreign policy. But that single chapter is packed with ideas, a few of which I’ll attempt to unpack here. Mr. Will, who received a Ph.D. is from Princeton decades before America’s elite universities were debased by political correctness, begins by suggesting that in “foreign policy, as elsewhere, one of conservatism’s functions is to say things that people do not want to hear, such as this: War, which has always been part of the human story, always will be.” More than that: “History is, to a significant extent, a story of hostilities between groups — tribes, clans, cities, nations.”
underlies these failures. “Nothing can be properly called a ‘community’ if it jumbles together entities as different as Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand, Japan and Sudan, Italy and Iran, Norway and North Korea,” Mr. Will points out. “The phrase ‘community of nations’ may seem harmless, if hackneyed, but it is a symptom of a blinding sentimentality.”...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/10/08/george-will-and-american-power/

Dems Expand Ukraine Charade With

Second 'Whistleblower'

Thomas Gallatin: As the Ukraine charade enters its third week, a second “whistleblower” has come forward according to Mark Zaid, attorney for the first “whistleblower.” This second whistleblower, also an intelligence official, claims to have first-hand information corroborating some of the initial complaint. It is likely, since this new whistleblower is not offering a new complaint but is rather supporting the original complaint, that this second individual is seeking protection to prevent himself from being exposed as a source for the first whistleblower. Indeed, Zaid seemingly confirmed this, stating that the second individual “made a protection disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against.” Furthermore, Zaid claimed that “there are definitely multiple whistleblowers,” so it’s looking like everyone behind this complaint is seeking cover.

However, there may be another reason why more “whistleblowers” are now suddenly coming forward, claiming to have first-hand knowledge that allegedly corroborates the original complaint. The Democrats need the whistleblower complaint to be shored up by first-hand testimony.

Last Friday, Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Michael Atkinson testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, but he continued to stonewall lawmakers’ efforts to get answers for why the whistleblower form was secretly changed to eliminate a first-hand knowledge requirement — a change apparently made in September following the whistleblower’s complaint. As The Federalist reports, “Despite having a full week to come up with explanations for his office’s decisions to secretly change its forms to eliminate the requirement for first-hand evidence and to backdate those changes to August, Atkinson refused to provide any explanation to lawmakers baffled by his behavior.”

Atkinson’s refusal to answer only serves to bolster suspicions that Democrats, led by Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff, are behind this whole whistleblower fiasco. scumbag-Schiff has been exposed as a liar by none other than The Washington Post over his claim that he had no advanced knowledge of the whistleblowers complaint, when in fact he at the very least knew about the complaint before it was even submitted to the ICIG. Furthermore, as Atkinson confirmed the whistleblower was a politically motivated Democrat.

Finally, as this Democrat-orchestrated scandal further unfolds, several text messages between Trump administration officials have been selectively released to the media in an effort to prop up the anti-Trump narrative about a quid pro quo. Never mind the fact that the former American envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, gave testimony regarding the texts before the House last Thursday and repudiated the Democrats’ impeachment narrative. As Jim Jordan, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, stated: “Not one thing [Volker] said comports with any of the Democrats’ impeachment narrative. Not one thing.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw also observed, “One key fact about [Thursday’s] closed-door witness interview [with Volker] — Republicans are the ones calling for public release of the deposition transcript. That should tell you something. Democrats prefer narratives, not facts.” ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65941?mailing_id=4573&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4573&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Thursday AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 10, 2019 at 7:15am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Ten Hours of Testimony

Gary Bauer

IG Report on FISA “Will Be Released

October 18th – As Thick as Telephone Book”

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Against new information that U.S. Attorney John Durham has lengthened the time-frame for this investigative inquiry into the DOJ and FBI activity around the 2016 election... earlier today Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo revealed and President Trump tweeted the FISA report by Michael Horowitz will be released on Friday October 18th. If that time-frame for the IG report is accurate, that means the classification review has been completed; any remaining classified information not specifically authorized in the inspector general report, a decision granted to AG Bill Barr, would be placed in a classified appendix that is not available to the public. A publication date in/around October 18th would also mean the time allotted for principal review has expired. Generally the people whose conduct is under review are granted a preview of the report that covers their activity. The IG may or may not include any response from the principals outlined. If the IG permits inclusion of a principal response, the IG usually outlines additional information to rebut or support the principal position. A final draft is assembled only after the OIG administrative referencer makes a final review of all statements of fact and provides citations therein. Then things get a little troublesome… https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/09/maria-bartiromo-ig-report-on-fisa-will-be-released-october-18th-as-thick-as-telephone-book/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sZPhve4q90

Moving Troops Out Of Syria Was The Right

Call, And Trump Should Go Further

by WILLIAM RUGER

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Official Washington was rocked Sunday night by the Trump administration’s announcement that it was pulling military forces from the Syria-Turkey border... Trump took to Twitter first thing Monday to explain, noting that “it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home.” He then added that “Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to figure the situation out.” While families of these troops likely said, “Thank God” and careful observers saw that this was only a redeployment of a small number of forces rather than the withdrawal suggested by Trump’s tweets, the foreign policy establishment went ballistic. Former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, for example, tweeted: “Let us be clear: The president has sided with authoritarian leaders of Turkey and Russia over our loyal allies and America’s own interests. His decision is a sickening betrayal both of the Kurds and his oath of office.” Not to be outdone, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stated that: “This impulsive decision by the President has undone all the gains we’ve made, and thrown the region into further chaos.” Many other officials and think-tank scholars raged at Trump’s move. Of course, it would be easier for Americans to believe these folks if it weren’t for the fact that, to use President Trump’s words from the 2016 campaign trail, they have “perfect résumés but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war.” In this case, even though it is a small redeployment, Trump is right to pull back those troops. As has been the case repeatedly since the end of the Cold War, the foreign policy elite is wrong. Indeed, we need to go further and withdraw all overt military forces from the country and rethink our entire approach to the Middle East...

https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/trump-syria-withdrawal-right-call/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10402

Trey Gowdy out at Fox News amid

talks to join Trump defense team

By JOE CONCHA

{ thehill.com } ~ Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) is no longer a contributor for Fox News amid discussions on him joining President Trump's legal team... battling House Democrats in their impeachment inquiry. "Trey Gowdy has been terminated and is no longer a contributor," a Fox News spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. Reports began to surface on Tuesday afternoon that Gowdy, a former prosecutor in South Carolina, was in discussions to join the president's impeachment defense team. "We are in discussion with Trey about joining our team," Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday, adding that no final decisions have been made. Fox News reported during the network's "Outnumbered" program Wednesday that Trump has hired Gowdy as outside counsel. The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment. The 55-year-old is a former chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and led the House Benghazi Committee, where he grilled former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and other scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials in October 2015 over what occurred in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya...

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/465035-trey-gowdy-out-at-fox-news-amid-talks-to-join-trump-defense-team

Turkey says ground forces have invaded

northern Syria; multiple civilians reported dead

By Melissa Leon

{ foxnews.com } ~ Turkey announced Wednesday that its ground forces invaded northeastern Syria to fight against Kurdish forces just hours after launching an initial assault in the area... as the first reports of deaths emerged. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched Operation Peace Spring on Wednesday after President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw American troops from the area, a move considered by many analysts a blow to the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces there. Erdogan said the mission was to "neutralize terror threats against Turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone, facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes." At least seven civilians were killed in Turkish strikes in northeastern Syria since the country launched an assault Wednesday morning, according to activists and a war monitor. Trump warned Turkey that its initial assault was a "bad idea." "The United States does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea," Trump said in a White House statment. "Turkey has committed to protecting civilians, protecting religious minorities, including Christians, and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place -- and we will hold them to this commitment." President Trump announced Sunday the U.S. would pull American troops out of northern Syria, a move leaving the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces -- longtime allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria -- in peril. Ankara has considered the Syrian Kurdish forces to be terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-syria-invasion-ground-forces-civilians-dead

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093519965001/#sp=show-clips

Defense Intelligence Agency Employee Arrested Leaking Classified Information to NBC Reporter

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employee Henry Kyle Frese was arrested yesterday and charged with leaking multiple classified intelligence reports to media... A U.S. counterterrorism analyst was arrested at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he worked on charges related to alleged leaks of information to two journalists, the Justice Department said. Henry Kyle Frese, 30 years old, accessed classified intelligence reports about a foreign country’s weapons systems last year and provided them to two unidentified journalists, according to newly unsealed court documents. The journalists aren’t named in the indictment, but they are identifiable as Amanda Macias, a national security reporter for CNBC, and Courtney Kube, a national security reporter for NBC. Public tweets cited in the court filings correspond to tweets sent by Ms. Macias and Ms. Kube in July of last year. Both journalists and NBC and CNBC didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. In a statement, the Justice Department said Mr. Frese “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information.”...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/09/defense-intelligence-agency-employee-arrested-leaking-classified-information-to-nbc-reporter/

Jarrett: 'If Democrats were serious about impeachment liar-Pelosi would dump

scumbag-Adam Schiff'

By Matt London

{ foxnews.com } ~ On Fox Nation’s “Deep Dive,” Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett warned that Democrats are pursuing an impeachment process that the authors of the U.S. Constitution would have opposed... As evidence, Jarrett pointed to the man that House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi D-Calif., has empowered to lead the inquiry. “liar-Nancy Pelosi knows this,” said Jarrett. “In January of this year, she said we cannot impeach for political reasons and now she is doing precisely that. And the person that she has handled the gavel to, scumbag-Adam Schiff, has a long and distinguished record of not just hatred of President Trump but lies and deceptions and false claims.” “This is exactly what the framers feared: that an opposing party would seek to remove a president under impeachment for purely, political, partisan reasons or personal animus,” Jarrett argued. On Friday, The Washington Post awarded House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Schiff “Four Pinocchios” for misleading the media over his advanced knowledge of a whistleblower’s concerns regarding the now-infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Jarrett said he listed a litany of instances raising concerns over scumbag-Schiff’s integrity in his new book, “Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History.” “scumbag-Schiff pretended he had information he never had, he lied about Carter Page, he lied about the dossier, he lied about saying he had evidence of collusion with President Trump and Russia… He is absolutely the worst person to be presiding over this and if Democrats were serious about impeachment liar-Pelosi would dump scumbag-Adam Schiff,” he said. Laurie Watkins, former Florida Policy Director for President scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2012 presidential campaign, disagreed with Jarrett, saying that President Trump has behaved in ways that have warranted an impeachment investigation. Fox News Political Contributor Tammy Bruce said that Democrats may have reason to demand an investigation of the president, but she believes that the process that they are carrying out is fatally flawed... Laurie Watkins is a fool.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/jarrett-if-democrats-were-serious-about-impeachment-pelosi-would-dump-adam-schiff

VIDEO: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6092986021001/#sp=show-clips

Ten Hours of Testimony

Gary Bauer

Kurt Volker, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, testified on Capitol Hill Thursday for nearly 10 hours. He was one of the first witnesses deposed in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. (More on that below.)

I’m pretty sure that if our brave men and women at Gitmo interrogated a jihadist for ten hours, the left would be yelling that it was torture. But that didn’t stop Democrats from interrogating Volker for ten hours.

And, of course, they did it behind closed doors, presumably because they were touching on classified subjects. Or maybe they just didn’t want the American people to hear what Volker had to say. I suspect it was the latter because Republicans came out of the hearing unfazed.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told reporters that “not one thing [Volker] said comports with any of the Democrats’ impeachment narrative. Not one thing.”

Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff left the hearing and told reporters that he had no comment. scumbag-Schiff’s silence speaks volumes. If Volker’s testimony had been damaging to Trump, scumbag-Schiff would have had plenty to say.

liar-Pelosi’s Charade

The White House is expected to notify Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi that it will provide nothing in response to the Democrats’ subpoena blitz until there is an actual vote by the full House authorizing formal impeachment proceedings.

Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, is also telling a federal court that demands by the Judiciary Committee to access grand jury testimony from Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation are illegal because the House has not yet authorized formal impeachment proceedings.

As Andrew McCarthy, Mark Levin, Newt Gingrich and others have pointed out, there is no impeachment process going on right now. There is no impeachment process because the speaker of the House refuses to call a vote on the rules governing the process as has been done in every other formal impeachment.

What we have is a political charade where liar-Nancy Pelosi is making up her own rules as she goes along.

The purpose of this charade is to damage the president, demoralize his supporters and scare independent voters into thinking there is something seriously wrong with the Trump Administration.

By avoiding the vote, liar-Pelosi is also shielding 31 House Democrats who hold seats Trump won in 2016 from having to vote on impeachment, which is really a vote to reverse the 2016 election.

The other advantage for liar-Pelosi is that House Republicans don’t have the benefit of additional tools that would help them defend the president during a formal impeachment process.

Trump, loose lips liar-Biden & China

On Thursday, President Trump said that China should be investigating Hunter Biden’s $1.5 billion business deal. Of course, the media immediately went into a complete meltdown. And I know some Republicans were frustrated he said that.

But the reason he said it is very important. He cannot allow the left and the media to convince the American people that it is somehow against the law for the president to pursue corruption that has occurred in the past when those accused are political opponents of the president.

If weak-kneed Republicans allow that idea to become accepted as fact, then the Deep State probe being conducted by Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham must be ended immediately.

Barr and Durham are looking at how the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration weaponized our intelligence agencies, along with foreign intelligence services, to surveil the Trump campaign and accept dirt from foreign sources in order to take down the duly elected president of the United States.

Consider this: If loose lips liar-Joe Biden does poorly in Iowa next year and drops out of the race, would the president then be allowed to investigate corruption in the loose lips liar-Biden family? The left’s absurd narrative suggests it would be okay to investigate loose lips liar-Biden then, but not now. In what world does that make any sense?

scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton appears to be deeply involved in the 2016 conspiracy to take down the president with false information. She is not running for anything yet. Can the president investigate scumbag/liar-Hillary and whether she was working with scumbag/commie-Brennen, scumbag-Clapper, the scumbag/liar-nObama White House and Ukraine?

Candidates routinely run for office on the platform of cleaning up corruption. Trump made “draining the swamp” a central element of his 2016 campaign. It’s a very popular position to take.

But are we now supposed to believe that candidates who vow to clean up corruption can’t seek information from foreign countries where the corruption extended if the people under investigation happen to be political opponents?

When it comes to Hunter Biden’s business dealings, there are a lot questions that demand answers.

For example, Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, wants to know why the scumbag/liar-nObama Administration signed off on a deal involving Hunter Biden, Chris Heinz (hanoi-John Kerry’s stepson) and a Chinese government-owned company that had previously stolen technology related to the newest generation of stealth fighters.

Can Fox Be Fixed?

As you probably know, the president has complained recently about what he has seen lately on Fox News. I have also heard from many supporters who are unhappy with the messaging on the supposedly “fair and balanced” network.

While some hosts including my friends Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson remain strong conservatives, it is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish the difference between Fox’s daytime hosts and other left-wing networks.

But recently the dean of conservative media, the man who broke the left’s stranglehold over the media, Rush Limbaugh blasted Fox, saying, “You know, Fox really ought to change the name of the network from the Fox News Channel to the Fox Never Trumper Network.”

Going Strong

Friday’s jobs report shows that the economy is still going strong even as pundits and left-wing politicians keep hoping for a recession. The unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low of just 3.5%. Job growth in September came in at 139,000 new jobs. That was slightly short of expectations, but the previous two months were revised upward by 45,000.

What a contrast: Job creation under Trump versus every progressive/socialist seeking to replace him and their radical job-killing ideas. ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65924?mailing_id=4573&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4573&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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

Posted by Jake Martinez on October 10, 2019 at 5:30am

Please Read Part 103R:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103R)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On September 29, 2019:

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

The following recent thought-provoking article revealed that 'U.S. Attorney John Durham is now allegedly expanding his probe into the 'Russia Hoax'-You Decide:

Durham Expands Probe Into Russia-Collusion Hoax: Robert Mueller had a huge conflict of interest, and it may come back to bite him!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 9, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65995-durham-expands-probe-into-russia-collusion-hoax?mailing_id=4578&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4578&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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:

Need to Know: The Senate Report on Russian Election Influence: Russia didn't "favor" Trump, and its election interference didn't change a single vote!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Political Editors-On October 9, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65994-need-to-know-the-senate-report-on-russian-election-influence?mailing_id=4578&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4578&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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Senate Intel Report Shows Russian Propaganda Was Not About 2016 Election!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 8, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/senate-intel-report-shows-russian-propaganda-was-daniel-greenfield

Video: Ep. 1084 Trump Was Setup. The Dan Bongino Show 10/9/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO8LCQ5yr7s

Video: NEW Docs Show State Dept KNEW about Hillary Clinton's Secret Email Account!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 6, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBFR0c_dsA

Hillary Clinton Says ‘Maybe There Does Need to Be a Rematch’ Against Trump!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/hillary-clinton-says-maybe-there-does-need-be-rematch-against-trump

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Trump Issues Executive Orders Designed To Deconstruct The Deep State While Dems Focus On Impeachment!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Daily Caller-On October 9, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-issues-executive-orders-designed-to-deconstruct-the-deep-state-while-dems-focus-on-impeachment/

Video: Harvest Confirmed, Pelosi’s Impeachment Irrevocably Tainted, Hammer Introduced - Episode 1991b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nahsyQKm_Y

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Graham Will Call Bidens Before Senate Judiciary, Giuliani Says!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Solange Reyner-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rudy-giuliani-lindsey-graham-senate-judiciary/2019/10/09/id/936392/

Damning Transcript of Bill Clinton Call Shows He Asked for Tony Blair's Help To Influence Election!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Joe Saunders-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/damning-transcript-bill-clinton-call-shows-asked-tony-blairs-help-influence-election/

NYT: ‘Whistleblower’ Redacted Third Fact Suggesting Potential Bias Against Trump!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Sean Moran-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/09/nyt-whistleblower-redacted-third-fact-suggesting-potential-bias-against-trump/

H/O: Henry Kyle Frese

Defense Intelligence Agency worker arrested on charges of leaking top-secret information to reporters!-Posted on CNBC.com-By Dan Mangan/@DanMangan-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/defense-intelligence-agency-worker-arrested-for-leaking-to-reporters.html

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 10/9/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS October 9, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US NEWS SHOW-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6bzFdofKE

Top Ukrainian justice official says US ambassador gave him a do not prosecute list!-Posted on The Hill-On October 10, 2019:

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434875-top-ukrainian-justice-official-says-us-ambassador-gave-him-a-do-not-prosecute?page=138

Giuliani: Hunter Biden Reportedly Involved with Romanian Locked Up for Corruption!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/giuliani-hunter-biden-reportedly-involved-romanian-locked-corruption/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=minutemennews&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=libertyalliance

Nunes: Democrats “Can Do a Lot of Really Bad Things.” Amid Allegations Of Government Monitoring Of Journalists!-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 9, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/09/nunes-democrats-can-do-a-lot-of-really-bad-things/

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Video: 2015 Whistleblower Documents Show VP Biden Accepted $900K to Front a Billion Dollar Deal for Ukrainian Natural Gas Deal!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 10, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-radio-shows/2015-whistleblower-documents-show-vp-biden-accepted-900k-front-billion-dollar-deal-ukrainian

(INSET: Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson) Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, on global challenges and U.S. national security strategy. The witnesses were former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State George …

Tom Cotton: Intel IG Obstructing Congress on Backdated ‘Whistleblower’ Form Changes!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Penny Starr-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/10/tom-cotton-intel-ig-obstructing-congress-on-backdated-whistleblower-form-changes/

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks as he and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Ukraine President Says Trump Didn’t Seek to Blackmail Him!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Reuters-On October 10, 2019:

https://ijr.com/ukraine-president-says-trump-didnt-seek-to-blackmail-him/

Feds Arrest 2 Florida Businessmen Linked to Giuliani on Campaign-Finance Violations

Feds Arrest 2 Florida Businessmen Linked to Giuliani on Campaign-Finance Violations!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-giuliani-ukraine-arrest/2019/10/10/id/936494/

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Five things to know about arrest of Giuliani associates!-Posted on The Hill-By Brett Samuels ,Harper Neidig and Morgan Chalfant-On October 10, 2019:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/465311-five-things-to-know-about-arrest-of-giuliani-associates

Here's the Anti-Joe Biden Ad That Biden's Team Tried To Get Banned from Facebook!-Posted on The Western Journal-By C. Douglas Golden-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/anti-joe-biden-ad-bidens-team-tried-get-banned-facebook/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=eheadlines&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=ttp

Declassified FISA Judge’s Ruling Shows FBI Targeted Americans With Improper NSA Searches!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 10, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/declassified-fisa-judges-ruling-shows-fbi-targeted-americans-with-improper-nsa-searches/

Video: Ep. 1085 Are the Deep State Players Keeping a List? The Dan Bongino Show 10/10/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQN8tM-VII

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Report: Biden Had Ties to Whistleblower!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Solange Reyner-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-whistleblower-ukraine-trump/2019/10/10/id/936600/

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Trump bashes Biden at Minnesota rally, asks 'Where's Hunter?-Posted on The Hill-By Rachel Frazin-On October 10, 2019:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/465336-trump-bashes-biden-at-minnesota-rally-asks-wheres-hunter

Biden Campaign to New York Times: Drop the Biden-Burisma Coverage!-Posted on New American-By R. Cort Kirkwood-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/33650-biden-campaign-to-new-york-times-drop-the-biden-burisma-coverage

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 10/10/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS October 10, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US Victory-On October 10, 2019:

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

Video: FULL RALLY: President Trump rally in Minneapolis, MN!-Posted on YouTube.com-By FOX 10 Phoenix-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT3O5WFYUxo

Video: Bombshells Dropped, HB, BO Missing? IG FISA Report On The Way - Episode 1992b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 10, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zROgzrcyPr8

Andrew McCabe Opens Up About Steele Dossier, Origins Of Trump-Russia Probe!-Posted on The Political Insider-By Chuck Ross, Daily Caller-On October 10, 2019:

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/andrew-mccabe-opens-up-about-steele-dossier-origins-of-trump-russia-probe/

Communism Sucks!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By J.D. Pendry-On October 11, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/communism-sucks/

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U.S. Marines reserve units activated for “emergency within the United States” which “will come with little warning” – cites “threats in the Homeland”!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 10, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/agenda-21-conspiracy-martial-law/us-marines-reserve-units-activated-emergency-within-united-states-which-will-come-little-warning

Report: Ukraine Whistleblower Wants To Testify In Writing Instead Of Appearing In Person!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Alicia Luke-On October 11, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/report-ukraine-whistleblower-wants-to-testify-in-writing-instead-of-appearing-in-person/

Andrew P. Bakaj

‘Whistleblower’ Attorney Was Informant who Scuttled Trump’s Nominee for CIA Watchdog!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Aaron Klein-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/11/whistleblower-attorney-was-informant-who-scuttled-trumps-nominee-for-cia-watchdog/

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 09: Attorney Mark Zaid (R) speaks about husband and wife restaurateur's Khalid Pitts (R) and Diane Gross's unfair competition lawsuit, against President Donald Trump, on March 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. The couple owns the Cork and Wine Bar in Washington and are suing President Donald …

‘Whistleblower’ Attorney Devised Scheme for Mueller to Disclose Classified Info!-Posted on Breitbart.com-By Aaron Klein-On October 12, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/12/whistleblower-attorney-devised-scheme-for-mueller-to-disclose-classified-info/

Whistleblower Windfall Arrives as Numerous Anonymous Insiders Contact Congress!-Posted on Freedom Outpost-By Andrew West-On October 11, 2019:

https://freedomoutpost.com/whistleblower-windfall-arrives-as-numerous-anonymous-insiders-contact-congress/

Trump: Not Sure Giuliani Is Still His Lawyer!-Posted NewsMax.com-By Josh Wingrove-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-giuliani/2019/10/11/id/936781/#ixzz628wwgvqz

Video: Ep. 1086 The List of Suspects is Short. The Dan Bongino Show 10/11/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ntbWuZYH7g

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/11/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News October 11, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Porto-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS2pbcX5eCk

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 10/11/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS October 11, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Porto-On October 11, 2019:

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

Video: The Ingraham Angle 10/11/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News October 11, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Porto-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9928_wGFRA

Video: Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update-Topics: Trump Pushes back against Coup; JW Battles in Court to Question Hillary Clinton; & More!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Judicial Watch-On October 11, 2019:

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

Video: Impeachment Coming Apart, WB Revealed?, [DS] Is Trapped - Episode 1993b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 11, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sA33xhfxYY

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The time has come for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and put down the lawless, left-wing insurrection against America!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 12, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/time-has-come-president-trump-invoke-insurrection-act-and-put-down-lawless-left-wing-insurrection

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Video: Is a Snap Military Drill Taking Place In Morgan Hill, CA?-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 12, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/conspiracy-immigration-united-nations/snap-military-drill-taking-place-morgan-hill-ca

Papadopoulos Implicates Comey, Australia, Maltese Professor in “Intel” Drop. Was Misfud Part of An International Plot To Frame The Trump Campaign?-Posted on The Post & Email-By Sharon Rondeau-On October 12, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/12/papadopoulos-implicates-comey-australia-maltese-professor-in-intel-drop/

Video: Justice With Judge Jeanine 10/12/19 FULL | Jeanine Pirro Fox News October 12, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Porto-On October 12, 2019:

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

Trump Stands By Giuliani After Report on Federal Probe Into Ukraine Work

Trump Stands By Giuliani After Report on Federal Probe Into Ukraine Work!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 13, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/us-trump-impeachment-giuliani/2019/10/11/id/936790/

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Knowing the odds, Trump considers suing Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi: ‘I told my lawyer sue anyway’!-Posted on BizPac Review-By Tom Tillison-On October 13, 2019:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/13/knowing-the-odds-trump-considers-suing-adam-schiff-nancy-pelosi-i-told-my-lawyer-sue-anyway-838964

Video: Sunday Show Live: Deep State War On America Reaches Crescendo As Soros Mole Exposed: This comes as IG FISA report set to be released this week -- share this link across all systems!-Posted on News Wars-By Infowars.com-On October 13, 2019:

https://www.newswars.com/sunday-show-live-deep-state-war-on-america-reaches-crescendo-as-soros-mole-exposed/

Video: Fear Is Flushing The [DS] Out, The Only Way Forward, Expose, Transparency & Truth - Episode 1994b!-Posted on YouTube.com-By X22Report-On October 13, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTUNjwolY0

Why Democrats Are Crying Wolf!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Pastor Roger Anghis-On October 13, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/why-democrats-are-crying-wolf/

Politicians And Their Families Are Playing in The Corrupt Ukrainian Sandbox!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Kelleigh Nelson-On October 14, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/politicians-and-their-families-are-playing-in-the-corrupt-ukrainian-sandbox/

Video: Ep. 1087 Adam Schiff Gets Busted Again. The Dan Bongino Show 10/14/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJiUtt9KPY

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Trump Did Not Betray the Kurds: It's impossible to know what the future holds for the Kurds, the Turks, the Iranians, the Syrians, or anyone else!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Caroline Glick-On October 14, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/glick-trump-did-not-betray-kurds-caroline-glick

America’s Marxist “Allies” in Syria!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 15, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/americas-marxist-allies-in-syria/

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/14/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News October 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Milan Djukic-On October 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xev0ui9_LDE

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 10/14/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS October 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Milan Djukic-On October 14, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQmPJs0Vmj0

Video: The Ingraham Angle 10/14/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News October 14, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Milan Djukic-On October 14, 2019:

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

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The Cultural Civil War and Trump Derangement Syndrome: And what happens when politics becomes culture!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Daniel Greenfield-On October 11, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/cultural-civil-war-and-trump-derangement-syndrome-daniel-greenfield

Impeach The Enemy Within, For Treason!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By George Lujack-On October 15, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/impeach-the-enemy-within-for-treason/

Video: Ep. 1088 They Can’t Hide This Forever. The Dan Bongino Show 10/15/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew9VrdoXosQ

Video: Lou Dobbs Tonight 10/15/19 [Full] | BREAKING Fox News October 15, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US News TV-On October 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RImry-XVRkw

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/15/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News October 15, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Milan Djukic-On October 15, 2019:

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

Former CIA Chief Says Brennan Is Fearful of Being Indicted for Staging a Coup!-Posted on News With Views, NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On October 16, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/former-cia-chief-says-brennan-is-fearful-of-being-indicted-for-staging-a-coup/

Sen. Paul: Need To Investigate Democrat Letter Threatening Ukraine Over Mueller-Trump Probe!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Michael W. Chapman-On October 15, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/sen-paul-need-investigate-democrat-letter-threatening-ukraine-over-mueller

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JW Investigates If Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Ordered State Dept. To Monitor Journalists, Trump Allies!-Posted on Judicial Watch-Ob October 15, 2019:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/jw-investigates-if-ousted-ukraine-ambassador-ordered-state-dept-to-monitor-journalists-trump-allies-2/

Hunter Biden Fails to Smother Smoke From Ukraine Scandal: Hunter admits to "poor judgment" and reaping career benefits from his last name!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 16, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66150-hunter-biden-fails-to-smother-smoke-from-ukraine-scandal?mailing_id=4591&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4591&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Demo Debate: Taking on the Constitution: From taxes to guns to impeachment, Democrats trash our founding documents!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Nate Jackson-On October 16, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66151-demo-debate-taking-on-the-constitution?mailing_id=4591&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4591&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

The Totalitarian American Left!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By David Limbaugh-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/david-limbaugh/totalitarian-american-left

Venezuela Lawmaker Blasts Bernie, Dares Him To Try Socialism Without His Bodyguards!-Posted on The Western Journal-By Randy DeSoto-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.westernjournal.com/venezuela-lawmaker-blasts-bernie-dares-try-socialism-without-bodyguards/

Trump: ‘Dems Want to Destroy America as We Know It’ by Teaching Kids We’re a ‘Sinful, Wicked Nation’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Craig Bannister-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/trump-dems-want-destroy-america-we-know-it-teaching-kids-were-sinful-wicked

These 3 Countries Tried Socialism. Here’s What Happened!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Lee Edwards-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/16/israel-india-and-uk-rejected-socialism-aftter-seeing-its-effects/

It's a Middle-Class Boom!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Stephen Moore-On October 16, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/66107-its-a-middle-class-boom-2019-10-15?mailing_id=4592&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4592&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body

Trump On 2020 Democrats: ‘NO WAY’ Any of Them Can Be POTUS!-Posted on Independent Journal Review-By Bradley Cortrigh-On October 16, 2019:

https://ijr.com/trump-pushes-back-criticism-2020-democrats/

Historically accurate election model predicts Trump will win in 2020!-Posted on Breaking NewsWire-On October 17, 2019:

https://breakingnewswire.com/election-model-predicts-win/

Video: Ep. 1089 Another Debate Disaster for the Democrats. The Dan Bongino Show 10/16/2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Dan Bongino-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SscKkDtFEL8

Video: Tucker Carlson Tonight 10/16/19 FULL | Tucker Carlson Fox News October 16, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Охота в Якутии-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUqAZX4gC1I

Video: Sean Hannity [FULL] 10/16/2019 -BREAKING FOX NEWS October 16, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Sing Ying TV-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zho9p-pTyOg

Video: The Ingraham Angle 10/16/19 FULL | Laura Ingraham Fox News October 16, 2019!-Posted on YouTube.com-By US News TV-On October 16, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icb8wrilfnc

Battle Lines Over War Powers: Congress "disapproves" of Trump's policy in Syria, for which he fails to make the case!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By National Security Desk-On October 17, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66173-battle-lines-over-war-powers?mailing_id=4594&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4594&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Dems Play Political Theater in Walkout of Trump Meeting: Pelosi and Co. use meeting with Trump as an opportunity to claim he's unhinged!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By Thomas Gallatin-On October 17, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66175-dems-play-political-theater-in-walkout-of-trump-meeting?mailing_id=4594&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4594&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Pence: Turkey Agrees to Cease-Fire in Syria

Pence: Turkey Agrees to Cease-Fire in Syria!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/united-states-syria/2019/10/17/id/937535/

Admiral William McRaven (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

Admiral McRaven in NYT: Remove Trump from Office ‘The Sooner, the Better’!- Posted on Breitbart.com-By Joel B. Pollak!-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/17/admiral-mcraven-in-nyt-remove-trump-from-office-the-sooner-the-better/

One military commander made this unthinkable comment about taking out Donald Trump!-Posted on Renewed Right-On October 20, 2019:

https://renewedright.com/one-military-commander-made-this-unthinkable-comment-about-taking-out-donald-trump/

Note: I believe that the disturbing information revealed in the following videos and my blog from the recent past relates to the tragedy that ended up taking the lives of numerous 'Seal Team Six members', to include their disgusting 'funeral services' that took place under the command of 'Admiral McRaven' shortly after the supposed killing of 'Osama Bin Laden by members of Seal Team Six'-You Decide:

Videos:

Video: Michael Savage: Seal Team Six Was 'Set Up and Murdered in Afghanistan’!-Posted on YouTube.com-By RT America -On July 8, 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnr5T7knvU

Video: Michael Savage: SEAL Team Six was “Set Up” and Murdered in Afghanistan!-Posted on Gateway Pundit-By Jim Hoft-On July 10, 2014:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/michael-savage-seal-team-six-was-set-up-and-murdered-in-afghanistan-video/

Parents of Fallen SEAL Team VI Member Write Open Letter Demanding President Obama’s resignation!-Posted on Eagle Rising-By Onan Coca-On September 3, 2014:

https://eaglerising.com/parents-fallen-seal-team-vi-member-write-open-letter-demanding-president-obamas-resignation/

Video: Dr. Manning Explains Why Andrew Breitbart Was Assasinated As It Relates to Extortion 17 and Osama Bin Laden Raid!-Posted on YouTube.com-By JUN J-On November 26, 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDx09abs-E

Video: Trump brings attention to Osama Bin Laden (Mark: 13:55)!-Posted on YouTube.com-By American Intelligence Media-On November 20, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42CTNVvhPSU

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Video: Revealed - Obama’s Betrayal of SEAL Team Six: The treacherous administration with American blood on its hands!-Posted on Frontpagemag.com-On September 19, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/09/video-revealed-obamas-betrayal-seal-team-six-frontpagemagcom

Flashback: Video: Seal Team 6 Funeral Ceremony w/Obama Hired Muslim Priest to 'Damn Them To ETERNAL HELL'!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Patriot News Organization-On May 13, 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVyL1dVH7jI

My Blog:

Letter to NM U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (re: Request For Congressional Investigation Into Mysterious Downing of Chinook Helicopter in Afghanistan)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On December 12, 2016:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/request-for-congressional-investigation-into-mysterious-downing

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The President's Life Is In Grave Danger-Pray for a Veil of Protection Over President Trump!-Posted on The Common Sense Show-By Dave Hodges-On October 19, 2019:

https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-martial-law-tragedy/presidents-life-grave-danger-pray-veil-protection-over-president-trump

Erdogan: Turkey Won't Forget Trump's 'Tough Guy' Letter

Erdogan: Turkey Won't Forget Trump's 'Tough Guy' Letter!-Posted on NewsMax.com-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/erdogan-trump-syria-letter/2019/10/18/id/937650/

Talking Turkey With Trump: The Middle East has never been peaceful, and Trump is thinking several chess moves ahead!-Posted on The Patriot Post-By National Security Desk-On October 18, 2019:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66213-talking-turkey-with-trump?mailing_id=4596&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4596&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

Syria

Conservative veterans will fan out in Washington to defend Trump Syria strategy!-Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Steven Nelson-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/conservative-veterans-will-fan-out-in-washington-to-defend-trump-syria-strategy

Old Frank on Trump’s Syria Decision: “This is the Time to Withdraw.” “We Have No Skin In The Game!”-Posted on The Post & Email-By Old Frank-On October 18, 2019:

https://www.thepostemail.com/2019/10/18/old-frank-on-trumps-syria-decision-this-is-the-time-to-withdraw/

WH: Media Has Been Lying About Turkey

WH: Media Has Been Lying About Turkey!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Melanie Arter-On October 17, 2019:

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/wh-media-has-been-lying-about-turkey

Investigate Obama’s CIA For Syria Fiasco!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By Cliff Kincaid-On October 21, 2019:

http://newswithviews.com/investigate-obamas-cia-for-syria-fiasco/

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Schumer Complains About ISIS Terrorists: A proven master of hypocrisy!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Michael Cutler-On October 22, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/schumer-complains-about-isis-terrorists-michael-cutler

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Don’t Blame Trump for Syria: Blame our schizophrenic foreign policy!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Bruce Thornton-On October 22, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/dont-blame-trump-syria-bruce-thornton

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Christopher Columbus: A Progressive Tool for Discrediting America: The Left’s vicious assault on American history ensues!-Posted on Front Page Magazine-By Bruce Thornton-On October 16, 2019:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/legacy-christopher-columbus-bruce-thornton

Please Read Part 103T:

The Most Dangerous and Treacherous Times in U.S. History! (Part 103T)-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On October 18, 2019:

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

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

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

Wednesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 9, 2019 at 4:21pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Christian Crackdown? Students Must Submit Speeches, Swear Oath to School

Todd Starnes

Why the U.S. Should Support a Kurdish State

by Joseph Puder

{ frontpagemag.com } ~ The Kurds of Syria have once again been excluded by the international community, or to be more accurate, by the United Nations-backed committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for war-torn Syria... Kurdish demonstrators protested their exclusion in front of the UN offices in the city of Qamishli, the capital of the Al-Hasakah governorate, where Kurds are an absolute majority. They carried placards that read: “It’s our right to participate in the drafting of the constitution.” The Kurds now control an autonomous territory, about 30% of Syria’s territory, mostly in northern Syria. They call their territory Rojava meaning Western Kurdistan, which contains most of Syria’s oilfields, and its bread basket. The Kurdish administration of Rojava complains about not being represented in the UN draft plan. Talaat Younes, a Kurdish administration official, stressed the need to include “all components of Syrian society.” Syria’s Kurds led the US-backed fight against the Islamic State (IS) in northern and eastern Syria, expelling the jihadist group from their last major redoubt in the country in March, 2019. Given their sacrifice, the U.S., and the international community owes them a role in drafting the constitution for Syria, and much more. Under the Baathist regimes of the Assads, the Kurds of Syria, long marginalized, have suffered systemic discrimination, repression, and Arabization. Among the egregious forms of inequity are the makings of 500,000 Syrian Kurds stateless, which amounts to about 15% of the Kurdish population in Syria, estimated to be over 3 million Kurds are the largest minority in Syria. It means that these stateless Kurds live in a legal vacuum and are deprived of fundamental rights. Syria’s Kurds have largely stayed out of Syria’s eight-year civil war except for fighting the IS with U.S. aerial support, and 2,000 special forces members. Instead, they setup their own institutions in areas under their control. They have been previously sidelined from UN-led peace talks as well as a parallel Russian-backed negotiation track, mainly due to objections by Turkey, which considers them to be terrorists. Unfortunately for the Kurds, theirs is an internal self-defeating rivalry rather than a defeat in the battlefield. In fact, in the battlefield, Syrian-Kurds proved to be heroic and triumphant. Internally however, there are three political forces pulling at Syrian-Kurdish society. One is made up of 8 small parties established during the late 1950’s that has been supported by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP) from across the border. That relationship started with Mulla Mustafa Barzani in the early 1960’s, but his son Masood cemented them into an alliance under an umbrella organization in 2011... https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/kurds-are-once-again-being-excluded-joseph-puder

Shotgun loose lips liar-Joe Biden

Incompetent, Dishonest, or Both

By Civis Americanus

{ americanthinker.com } ~ loose lips liar-Joe Biden, the most centrist and therefore strongest Democratic contender for 2020, has gone on record with a statement about the Second Amendment that should disqualify him from any position of public trust whatsoever... The following quote is directly from loose lips liar-Biden's campaign website and cannot be written off as disinformation or fake news. Shotgun loose lips liar-Joe, who once advised people to discharge shotguns recklessly to frighten prowlers, says, "Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Federal law prevents hunters from hunting migratory game birds with more than three shells in their shotgun. That means our federal law does more to protect ducks than children." New York's governor, scumbag-Andrew Cuomo, said similarly in a 2013 speech, "No one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer." Both of these gentlemen have told a literal truth with the intent to deceive. scumbag-Cuomo is literally correct; no ethical hunter would take the shot if he thought he needed more than one bullet to turn a deer into venison. loose lips liar-Biden also is telling a literal truth with the intent to deceive; it is illegal in many if not most jurisdictions to hunt birds with any kind of rifle because a bullet that misses can come down literally miles away. Deer and ducks do not, however, invade people's homes at night, rob banks and convenience stores, rape women, shoot up the Pulse Nightclub, Fort Hood, a Black church, or a Pittsburgh synagogue, or go abroad in armed gangs such as MS-13 to terrorize innocent people. Semiautomatic rifles, which scumbag-Cuomo mischaracterizes as "assault rifles," are extremely useful against violent felons. The laws of most if not all jurisdictions, including New York, permit their use in these situations. Yes, even NY has a castle doctrine: "…the actor is under no duty to retreat if he or she is: in his or her dwelling and not the initial aggressor." Listen to an Expert, Not Politicians. Massad Ayoob is a nationally-known law enforcement instructor who will be the first person to tell you that use of deadly force is an absolute last resort, as described in his book In the Gravest Extreme. He has testified successfully as an expert witness in numerous defensive shootings. Ayoob's expert testimony against the city of San Francisco is worth sharing with anybody who still believes that ordinary citizens do not need 15-round handgun magazines or 30-round rifle magazines...

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

Something Huge Is Brewing! Military Just

Approved Marines for Activation On US Soil

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by Shepard Ambellas

{ intellihub.com } ~ The Department of Defense issued an order signed by Brigadier General Daniel L. Shipley, Director, Manpower Plans and Policy on October 3, 2019... which authorizes the rapid activation of military forces to protect civil authorities in response to a “major disaster or emergency.” The order titled Manpower Guidance for Activation and Deactivation of Reserve Component (RC) Marines Ordered to Active Duty ISO Defense Support of Civil Authorities details how Marines will be called to “active duty” upon orders from the U.S. Navy. Shockingly, one of the first paragraphs details how it “will come with little warning.” Requests for Federal assistance will come with little warning. As required, the Marine Corps must rapidly mobilize RC units and personnel IAW this MARADMIN in order to respond to threats in the Homeland. Translated, this means that martial law may be coming sooner than later as the U.S. government appears to actually be anticipating nothing short of an impending civil war, asteroid strike, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, or some other type of similar but expected disaster scenario...

https://www.intellihub.com/dod-prepares-for-martial-law-in-conus-u-s-marines-approved-for-activation-live-fire-on-american-soil/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UWE-Yfnsyg

Idiotic Environmental Predictions

by Walter E. Williams

{ dailysignal.com } ~ The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials... My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity? As reported in The New York Times (Aug. 1969) Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich warned: “The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. We must realize that unless we’re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.” In 2000, David Viner, a senior research scientist at University of East Anglia’s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” In 2004, the U.S. Pentagon warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be beneath rising seas. Britain will be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020. In 2008, scumbag-Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap would be gone in a mere 10 years. A U.S. Department of Energy study led by the U.S. Navy predicted the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016. In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry that “we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.” Peter Gunter, professor at North Texas State University, predicted in the spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness: Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. … By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine... https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/09/idiotic-environmental-predictions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=idiotic-environmental-predictions&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRVek9EVTVOV014T1RRMCIsInQiOiJFM0FJWnJZMXNaQVZiWmFUcXdYVXJZNjVNb2ZYTEdPSzZEYTVUdjFZZXhjQ0JQQ0p6ZXl3aHpWRElqdTF4XC9mbG9GQ2JSNGlDWU5cL0JSVkF5cnc3WEo0UVM4OGZRZXhlMW5oNXN3VXRaU0hWc2xtNHU2bU5URWdHREFaOTl6NmUwIn0%3D

Dearborn Public Schools Bow to Sharia Law

at Taxpayer Expense – Now Serve

ONLY Halal Meat

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by STEVEN AHLE

{ steadfastandloyal.com } ~ Dearborn School District is now serving only Halal meat for school lunches. Besides the hefty extra expense involved in the fact that Halal certification organizations use some of their funds for terrorism... That should be unacceptable for the parents of kids in the Dearborn School System. They could end up paying for the bullet that kills their child. It is actually unconstitutional I believe. They are promoting Islam over Christianity and Judaism. What if schools were to reverse that and promote Christianity over Islam? CAIR would sue the school and scumbag-Adam Schiff would call for Trump’s impeachment. Dearborn Public Schools bragged about overhauling its public school menus to make them ‘more diverse’ and by ‘more diverse’ they mean Sharia compliant. All the meat served in Dearborn will now be halal. Before some schools offered all halal, while other had a mix, which contributed to confusion about which menu was being served at which school... https://steadfastandloyal.com/politics/dearborn-public-schools-bow-to-sharia-law-at-taxpayer-expense-now-serve-only-halal-meat/

Climate Alarmism Isn't Rational

by Bjorn Lomborg

{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, breaks down the facts about the environment and shows why the reality of climate change may be very different from what you hear in the media. Don't miss it!

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/prager-u-video-climate-alarmism-isnt-rational-prager-university

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUR0LrSadkg

Christian Crackdown? Students Must

Submit Speeches, Swear Oath to School

Todd Starnes

Anyone who delivers a speech at an event hosted by the school district in Appleton, Wisconsin, must submit the speech in advance and then swear under oath they will not deviate from the script. And that includes students.

“The opportunity to speak at a school event is a privilege, not a right,” the Appleton Area School District wrote in a statement. “These guidelines do not restrict or regulate individual or regulate individual speech or expression. However, individual speech and expression may still be subject to other restrictions or limitations that are imposed by law or that the District may lawfully enforce through other policies, rules or practices.”

The new regulations were implemented after a Christian school-board member invoked the name of Jesus Christ during a graduation ceremony last June.

Rev. Alvin Dupree told students to “never succumb to the pressure of being politically correct,” the Post Crescent reported. He also changed the district’s prepared statement of “best wishes” to “God bless.”

The new guidelines require all speakers, including students, to submit their entire speech in writing two weeks in advance of delivery.

First Liberty Institute, one of the nation’s leading religious-liberty law firms, told Starnes Media it stands ready to assist any students who become targets of hostility because of their religious beliefs.

“Students who earn the right to address their peers are free to reference their faith as a part of those remarks,” First Liberty Institute attorney Jeremy Dys told Starnes Media. “Any school district that requires students to submit their speeches for pre-approval must be careful they do not force students to secularize their private remarks to satisfy government censors.”

Speakers are also not permitted to wear “jewelry, clothing or accessories that reasonably could be understood to communicate a message to the audience when the speech is given.”

Does that mean students will be banned from delivering a speech if they are wearing a cross necklace or a T-shirt that references the Almighty?

But the swearing of an oath is perhaps the most disturbing part of Appleton’s crackdown on free speech.

“Speakers that submit proposed speeches shall be required to certify that they will deliver the speech as written, except for minor and immaterial variances from the text of their proposal,” the district wrote. “Certification shall be in writing and shall be sworn under oath.”

I wonder if they are going to make folks swear that oath on a copy of the Holy Bible or a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals?

The oath must be signed by student and adult speakers and must be witnessed and sealed by a notary.

The oath states, among other things, “that I am affirming the statements to be true and correct under penalty of law.”

First Liberty’s Dys blasted the school district’s draconian speech oath.

“The only oath these school officials should require of anyone is that they uphold the First Amendment to the US Constitution,” he told Starnes Media.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an organization that targets and bullies Christians, praised the school district’s crackdown on free speech.

“We think the district did the right thing,” FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne told the newspaper. “We expect there won’t be any problems with (Rev.) Dupree speaking at district events in the future, because under these guidelines we don’t expect that he’ll be allowed to speak.”

And that’s exactly the point the school district is trying to make. Their new policies and procedures are meant to silence people of faith — specifically Christians.

Many of our public schools have been turned into indoctrination centers for left-wing propaganda. Every freedom-loving American should be appalled by the actions of the Appleton Area School District.

Heaven forbid the day comes when an American teenager or a pastor is dragged off the stage by security forces simply for uttering the name of Jesus Christ at a graduation ceremony. ~The Patriot Post

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Wednesday Noon ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 9, 2019 at 12:45pm

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

commie-Sanders Received Much

Better Healthcare Than What

He Prescribes for Others

Arnold Ahlert

Trey Gowdy to join Trump's legal team

on impeachment inquiry

By Brie Stimson

{ foxnews.com } ~ Former U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., is joining President Trump’s legal team as outside counsel for the House's expanding impeachment inquiry... according to a report. An administration official who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity confirmed Gowdy's hiring Tuesday. Gowdy, who formerly chaired the House Oversight and Reform Committee, decided not seek to reelection last year and joined the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP after leaving office. He has also been a Fox News contributor. The White House wrote in an eight-page letter to Congress on Tuesday that it won’t participate in what it's calling an “illegal” investigation, writing that the inquiry “violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process” and “lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation.” The letter came to the same day the administration blocked U.S. European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland from testifying on the Hill. “The White House should be warned that continued efforts to hide the truth of the President’s abuse of power from the American people will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction,” House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement responding to the letter. “Mr. President, you are not above the law. You will be held accountable.” https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trey-gowdy-to-join-trumps-legal-team-as-impeachment-inquiry-expands

Trump Gave Turkey A Choice on Syria:

Cooperate With the U.S. Productively

Or Risk Catastrophe

By Erielle Davidson

{ thefederalist.com } ~ The brewing conflict along the Syrian-Turkish border, which reentered the news cycle this week as Turkish President Recep Erdoğan threatened to invade Syria, is rooted in scumbag/liar-nObama-era policies that were always destined to erupt in chaos... The conflict in Syria is one of the geopolitical crises that the Trump administration has been both quite focused on and fairly sophisticated in addressing. None of this was apparent from the last few days of media coverage, however. To put it bluntly, President scumbag/liar-nObama left Trump an intractable situation in northern Syria. Back in the mid-2010s, after President scumbag/liar-nObama dismissed the Islamic State as a “JV team,” his administration scrambled to address the very real ISIS threat that had fomented in Syria. They had a range of allies to choose from in Syria, but they chose to empower the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which has close ties with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, European Union, United Kingdom, and Japan. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration helped to install the YPG along hundreds of miles of Syrian-Turkish border. There are compelling arguments that suggest their decision was more broadly linked to the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s wider pivot toward Iran and away from traditional American alliances, an assertion policy expert Michael Doran has posited here. Regardless of their motivations, the alliance created an impossible situation for Turkey. The Turks, justifiably or not, were never going to allow forces that they believed to be terrorist enablers to post up indefinitely across their border. Absent some alternative to address Turkey’s security concerns, military action was all but inevitable. To complicate the situation even more greatly, the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s decision entangled us in the fate of the Syrian Kurds as never before. We threw our weight vociferously behind their cause and vice versa. In the process, they took enormous losses in battles that we had declared to the international community were absolutely critical to our national security. With the Syrian Kurds, we had become allies. And that means an enormous amount...

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/09/trump-gave-turkey-a-choice-on-syria-cooperate-with-the-u-s-productively-or-risk-catastrophe/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=f90b387955-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-f90b387955-83771801

Turkish president announces military

offensive into northeastern Syria

by John Gage

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his country would be invading northeastern Syria... The announcement came by Twitter on Wednesday, with Erdoğan saying his country plans to "destroy" the "terror" at Turkey's southern border.The invasion comes after President Trump announced earlier this week that the U.S. would be pulling all troops from the region. The move by Trump brought widespread condemnation from both Republicans and Democrats. Rep. Liz Cheney, a top House Republican, called the latest news "sickening" and blamed the president for allowing it to happen. "News from Syria is sickening. Turkish troops preparing to invade Syria from the north, Russian-backed forces from the south, ISIS fighters attacking Raqqa. Impossible to understand why @realDonaldTrump is leaving America’s allies to be slaughtered and enabling the return of ISIS," Cheney said Wednesday on Twitter.Turkey gathered troops on its southern border this week in preparation for its invasion of Syria's northern border. Erdoğan claims he wants to make a "safe zone" against terrorism, but the region is occupied by American allies, the Kurds. Trump insisted he had "in no way" abandoned the Kurds and warned Turkey against "unforced or unnecessary fighting." A spokesperson for Kurdish fighters said Turkish warplanes have already begun their attacks.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/turkish-president-announces-military-offensive-in-northeastern-syria?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/09/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMKGv6TjT8

Giuliani and diGenova Discuss Ongoing

House Impeachment Efforts

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova appeared together on Fox News to discuss the ongoing impeachment effort by Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and House democrats.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/09/giuliani-and-digenova-discuss-ongoing-house-impeachment-efforts/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kklab2KwyRk

Solomon Reports: Ukraine Investigation into Burisma/loose lips liar-Biden Was

Re-Opened in February 2019

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Journalist John Solomon appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity last night to drop a considerably important revelation... According to Solomon’s reporting the White House has open-sourced evidence that Ukraine re-opened their investigation into Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden in February 2019; several months before President Trump spoke to President Zelenskyy. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/09/solomon-reports-ukraine-investigation-into-burisma-biden-was-re-opened-in-february-2019/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VggkWGVlQE

Samantha Power on Her Unmasking Requests

in 2016: 'It's Completely False'

By NICHOLAS BALLASY

{ pjmedia.com } ~ Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power pushed back on reports of her frequent "unmasking" requests in 2016 during the presidential campaign, calling them "completely false."... According to reports from several media outlets pertaining to the Russia probe, Power's unmasking requests totaled more than 260 in 2016. "Two sources, who were not authorized to speak on the record, said the requests to identify Americans whose names surfaced in foreign intelligence reporting, known as unmasking, exceeded 260 last year," read one report from September of 2017. Power, now a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, was asked why she "unmasked" so many individuals in 2016 while the presidential election was underway. "It's false," replied Power, who served in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration from 2013-2017. "It's completely false." When asked why the unmasking story is false, Power declined to respond. Power testified before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the Russia investigation during a private closed-door session in 2017. Following the testimony, then-Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) summarized Power's testimony before the committee. "The intelligence community has assigned this number of requests to her. Her perspective, her testimony is, they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests," he said. "So, we've got to get to the bottom of that." Power was in Washington delivering the 2019 Daniel Patrick Moynihan lecture sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

https://pjmedia.com/video/samantha-power-on-her-unmasking-requests-in-2016-its-completely-false/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newslink&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191009142046

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDFLYRASF2I

commie-Sanders Received Much Better Healthcare Than What He Prescribes for Others

Arnold Ahlert: Democrat presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders felt pains in his chest last Tuesday. “Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted,” stated senior adviser Jeff Weaver. Actually, it turned out to be a heart attack. Following that successful surgery, commie-Sanders re-entered the political arena with a tweet. “Thanks for all the well wishes,” it stated. “I’m feeling good. I’m fortunate to have good health care and great doctors and nurses helping me to recover. None of us know when a medical emergency might affect us. And no one should fear going bankrupt if it occurs. Medicare for All!”

commie-Sanders has a point. No one should have to fear going bankrupt to pay for a medical emergency. But who’s kidding whom? As a member of the Ruling Class, commie-Sanders will never experience anything remotely resembling the trials and tribulations ordinary Americans endure, healthcare being among them.

Despite promises that Congress would receive the same healthcare as every other American when scumbag/liar-nObamaCare was implemented, leaders from both parties “quietly and gratefully accepted the special deal from the administration’s Office of Personnel Management,” The Hill reported in 2015. “It gives legislators and staff ‘Gold Level’ scumbag/liar-nObamaCare coverage with a 75 percent subsidy paid by taxpayers or even the option of opting out and retaining their previous heavily subsidized plan. The income of members and staff is simply not counted.”

Two years later, columnists John Malcolm and Michael F. Cannon further illuminated a double standard they deemed “illegal and egregious,” noting that Congress should have been kicked out of the Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and lost that tax-free federal contribution of up to $12,000 toward their premiums, as soon as scumbag/liar-nObamaCare went into effect in 2010. Instead, the administration allowed Congress to remain in the program until 2014.

Yet even when they were finally ousted from FEHBP in 2014, scumbag/liar-nObama pressured the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to reverse its initial — and correct — interpretation of the law that forced Congress and its staffers onto the scumbag/liar-nObamaCare exchanges. Instead, Malcolm and Cannon explain, “OPM ruled Congress could both enroll in the District of Columbia’s small-business exchange and keep receiving the FEHBP premium contribution. D.C. officials played along by ignoring a D.C. law prohibiting participation in its small-business exchange by all but ‘employers with 50 or fewer … employees.”

In short, “scumbag/liar-nObamaCare for thee, but not for me” became the law(lessness) of the land, and Malcolm and Cannon made it clear exactly why. “Washington’s most powerful special interest group is Congress itself, and its members are more than happy to reach across the aisle when their personal interests are on the line,” they add.

Indeed. And if anyone thinks “Medicare for All” will be any different, they will only be right in one respect: It will make the American people even more miserable than they are under scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, even as Congress will remain wholly insulated from its “utopian” ambitions.

As the editorial board of Issues & Insights reminds us, within hours of experiencing chest pains, commie-Sanders received his stents. What would have happened in government-run systems such as Canada or Great Britain? “A 1995 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that no patients needing an urgent coronary angiography test — used to reveal artery blockages — received one within 24 hours in Canada or the U.K., whereas 65% did in the U.S.,” the board reveals. “Nearly two-thirds of Canadians and 94% of Brits had to wait more than three days. The same study found that while 80% of urgent coronary bypass operations occurred within 24 hours in the U.S., only 24% did in Canada and 10% in the U.K.”

And if anyone thinks such delays have decreased since that study was published, think again. A 2016 Fraser Institute report revealed that Canadians who needed medically necessary surgery were waiting an average of 20 weeks before receiving it. Moreover, those times were determined by what the patient needed: those needing access to a medical oncologist waited only 3.7 weeks. Yet if one required neurosurgery, one endured an average waiting time of 46.9 weeks — as in nearly a year. In 2017, average wait times increased to 21.2 weeks before slightly dipping to 19.8 weeks last year. Reality check? Last year’s lower wait time was still 113% longer than in 1993.

What about the UK? “The NHS waiting list has hit another record high with almost 4.4 million people now waiting for routine treatment,” The Daily Mail reported in July. “For a third month running the figure has risen to a new high, increasing by a quarter of a million people between February and May alone. Other statistics also revealed by NHS England today show the number of A&E patients stuck on trolleys waiting for an inpatient bed has increased by 70 per cent in a year.”

And if Americans are enchanted by long wait times, they’ll be absolutely infatuated with another “feature” of government-run healthcare: rationing. “Since Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016, there have been at least 6,749 cases of medically assisted deaths, with over 803 dead in the first 6 months of legalisation,” LifeNews.com reports. “2018 saw Canada’s euthanasia figures soar with over 3000 Canadians killed by their doctor.”

The UK is no better. “Did you know that hernia repair; hip or knee replacements; removal of cataracts, tonsils, haemorrhoids or a gallbladder; injections for back pain; and referral to specialised pain clinics are among the growing list of treatments that are no longer routinely funded by the NHS?” writes Dr. Zara Aziz. “As a GP in a large urban practice, over the last year I have seen unprecedented restrictions on primary care’s ability to access many of these treatments, and more, for patients.”

commie-Bernie Sanders and his fellow members of Congress will never see restrictions on anything, much less experience rationing or unconscionable wait times. Nor will they be denied surgery if they are “undeserving,” such as the NHS’s decision to deny surgical treatment to patients unless they lose weight or quit smoking. And they will never ever be forced onto anything resembling the UK’s “Liverpool Care Pathway,” a euphemism used to obscure the reality that the cash-strapped system is incentivized to withhold even basic treatment such as fluids and food to patients they assume will die anyway — even when some of them don’t.

Here’s hoping commie-Bernie fully recovers. But one is left to wonder when the senator would be as gung-ho regarding “Medicare for All!” if he actually had to experience it firsthand. Perhaps two or three days walking around with chest pains — like the overwhelming majority of Brits and Canadians are forced to do — might have “clarified” his thinking.

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65939?mailing_id=4573&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4573&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Wed/Med AM ~ thefrontpagecover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on October 9, 2019 at 10:16am

TheFrontPageCover

~ Featuring ~

Another dinky-liar-Warren 'Victim Status' Lie

Thomas Gallatin

Wednesday Top News Executive Summary

Media Editors: Above the Fold

WITCH-HUNT NONCOMPLIANCE: “The White House outlined in a defiant eight-page letter to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats on Tuesday why it will not participate in their ‘illegitimate and unconstitutional’ impeachment inquiry,” Fox News reports. Meanwhile, The Washington Times says, “Former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy has been tapped to serve as outside counsel to President Donald Trump as the House impeachment inquiry expands.”

WE’RE SHOCKED — SHOCKED!: Whistleblower had a “professional” tie to a 2020 Democrat candidate, Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson reveals (Washington Examiner)

Government & Politics

UKRAINE PROBE: “A newly unearthed document shows that Ukrainian officials had opened a new probe into the firm linked to Hunter Biden months before President Trump’s phone call with that country’s leader.” (Fox News)

DELVING DEEPER: “United States Attorney John Durham is expanding his investigation into the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russia and the Trump campaign after his team reportedly made significant discoveries.” (The Daily Wire)

SUBTERFUGE SHOT DOWN: Supreme Court refuses to throw out New York gun-rights case, rejects New York City’s attempted legal dodge (The Washington Free Beacon)

PROFILES OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT: Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Attorney General Edwin Meese (CNSNews.com)

National Security

PRIVACY ABUSE: “Some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s electronic surveillance activities violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans swept up in a controversial foreign intelligence program, a secretive surveillance court has ruled.” (The Wall Street Journal)

TURKISH TEST BEGINS: Turkey launches airstrikes on northern Syria after Trump pulls back U.S. troops (CBS News)

Economy & Culture

VIRTUE SIGNALING: “The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods told CBS News this weekend that his decisions to stop selling certain guns and hire lobbyists to push for new gun bans have cost his company roughly $250 million. … [Ed] Stack also said the company destroyed $5 million worth of rifle inventory because Stack believed no one should be allowed to own them.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

DEBAUCHERY: The U.S. saw a record 2.4 million reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. News & World Report)

CALIFORNIA BLACKOUT: “Nearly 800,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers are preparing for their power to be intentionally cut for what could be the largest deliberate power shut-off in California’s history.” (FOX40)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: The big problem with the Senate’s election-hacking report (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: Turkey’s alleged ties to ISIS can’t be ignored (Washington Examiner)

HUMOR: Progressive parents sit their kid down for talk about the birds and the bees and the birds who want to become bees and the bees who identify as birds and buckle up, this might take a while (The Babylon Bee)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65997?mailing_id=4577&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4577&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Jordan, Meadows, Gaetz and Zeldin Respond

to scumbag-Adam Schiff Impeachment Manipulation and Gordon

Sondland Non Appearance

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland was directed by the State Department not to appear Tuesday for an interview with House committees leading the fraudulent impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump... The non-appearance follows Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff’s manipulative media releases based on Ambassador Kurt Volker testimony. Knowing that testimony from “impeachment inquiry” participation is being selectively used to create a false narrative; and knowing the committees’ will not release full transcripts and or documents gained therein; the administration is not going to assist liar-Pelosi and scumbag-Schiff’s scheme to create the illusion of something that doesn’t exist. These “requests for interviews” are not legal subpoenas because the House has not created judicial authority within the committees’ by holding a full House vote to authorize. Therefore non-appearance puts more pressure on liar-Pelosi to hold a House vote. Republican members Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Mark Meadows and Lee Zeldin explain.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/08/jordan-meadows-gaetz-and-zeldin-respond-to-adam-schiff-impeachment-manipulation-and-gordon-sondland-non-appearance/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPIfysPL0VU

White House announces it will not comply

with 'illegitimate and unconstitutional'

impeachment inquiry

By Gregg Re and John Roberts

{ foxnews.com } ~ The White House outlined in a defiant eight-page letter to House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats on Tuesday why it will not participate in their “illegitimate and unconstitutional” impeachment inquiry... charging that the proceedings have run roughshod over congressional norms and the president's due-process rights. Trump administration officials called the letter, which was written by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and obtained by Fox News, perhaps the most historic letter the White House has sent. The document tees up a head-on collision with Democrats in Congress, who have fired off a slew of subpoenas in recent days concerning the president's apparent efforts to get Ukraine to investigate political foe loose lips liar-Joe Biden. "President Trump and his administration reject your baseless, unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic process," the letter stated. "Your unprecedented actions have left the president with no choice. In order to fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the Presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances." The document concluded: "The president has a country to lead. The American people elected him to do this job, and he remains focused on fulfilling his promises to the American people." Substantively, the White House first noted in the letter that there has not been a formal vote in the House to open an impeachment inquiry -- and that the news conference held by liar-Pelosi last month was insufficient to commence the proceedings."In the history of our nation, the House of Representatives has never attempted to launch an impeachment inquiry against the president without a majority of the House taking political accountability for that decision by voting to authorize such a dramatic constitutional step," the letter stated. It continued: "Without waiting to see what was actually said on the call, a press conference was held announcing an 'impeachment inquiry' based on falsehoods and misinformation about the call."... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeachment-inquiry-white-house-not-comply-pelosi

VIDEO 1: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093211711001/#sp=show-clips

VIDEO 2: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093111284001/

Whistleblower Lawyer Is an

Ex-scumbag/liar-Hillary,

scumbag-Schumer Staffer

by JEFFREY LORD

{ spectator.org } ~ Andrew Bakaj, the lawyer representing the two anti-Trump “whistleblowers,” is both an ex-CIA official and a former staffer for both scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton as a New York senator and current New York senator and Senate Democrat leader Charles scumbag-Schumer... This according to his posted biography as seen here at the website for his law firm, Compass Rose Legal Group. According to FEC records, in April of this year Mr. Bakaj was also a two-time contributor to Act Blue. Act Blue self-describes its purpose this way: We’ve built a powerful online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot, progressive organizations, and nonprofits. The Washington Times also says this about Mark Zaid, a lawyer who has joined with Mr. Bakaj to defend the two whistleblowers: Mark S. Zaid, a prominent national security lawyer in Washington and a Trump critic on Twitter, has joined the legal team representing the intelligence community whistleblower who is targeting President Trump. The legal reinforcement in a media-political frenzy not seen since the 2017 Trump-Russia brouhaha signals a tough battle ahead for the White House and the Justice Department. Mr. Zaid’s law partner, Bradley P. Moss, is counterattacking conservatives who have vilified the unidentified whistleblower. He called the Trump supporters “human excrement posing as human beings.” Everyone is entitled to a lawyer, and the whistleblowers are no exception. But the choice of these two particular lawyers is a classic case of just how the president’s enemies repeatedly hand him ripe political opportunities to brand and defeat them. The president could ask for no better foils than whistleblowers and their lawyers who, between them, are connected to the living embodiments of the Swamp — ex-CIA officials and Trump-hating lawyers, one of whom worked for both scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Chuck scumbag-Schumer. One can only imagine the glee with which the president can pounce on this at his next massive rally in the middle of America. Indeed, one can only imagine the fury from half of the country when they realize the president they elected is being targeted for what is already seen as an attempted coup d’état by those who can be instantly seen as nothing more than the latest in a seemingly endless parade of Deep State operatives — Swamp creatures who simply cannot abide the millions of hard-working Americans who believe that yes, indeed, elections are to be decided by the people and not overturned by elites who despise the voters... https://spectator.org/whistleblower-lawyer-is-an-ex-hillary-schumer-staffer/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=c207469800-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_08_02_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-c207469800-104608113

Trump Threatens To ‘Totally Destroy

And Obliterate The Economy Of Turkey’

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by Shelby Talcott

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that if Turkey does anything that is considered “to be off limits,” he “will totally destroy and obliterate” the country’s economy... The White House announced Sunday evening that Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the U.S. would clear out of northern Syria so that Erdogan could invade. Trump tweeted Monday that the U.S. military could “always go back & BLAST” if necessary. “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, referencing Turkish tariffs implemented in 2018. Trump wrote that “the U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected” and suggested it was time “for others in the region…to protect their own territory.” “The endless and ridiculous wars are ENDING!” Trump wrote in another tweet. The White House announced Sunday that Turkey would soon launch a military operation in northern Syria, adding that U.S. troops wouldn’t be “in the immediate area.” The U.S. had over 1,000 troops deployed in northern Syria, The Hill reported. Republican lawmakers have pushed back on the decision to withdraw. South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham called the news a “disaster in the making” and Utah GOP Sen. rino-Mitt Romney called it a “betrayal,” according to The Hill.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-threatens-to-totally-destroy-and-obliterate-the-economy-of-turkey/?utm_campaign=TPI10072019BR2&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

Media Narrative on ‘Spygate’ Figure

Mifsud Shifts as Barr Investigates

By PETR SVAB

{ theepochtimes.com } ~ There appears to be a shift in the way media are reporting about Joseph Mifsud, one of the central figures of the 2016 Russia investigation... coinciding with the progress of Attorney General William Barr’s review of the investigation’s origins. While media previously portrayed Mifsud as a mysterious character with nefarious ties to Russia, it appears the narrative has switched to downplaying his importance. As the official narrative goes, Mifsud allegedly told a Trump campaign aide in April 2016 that Russians had “dirt” on former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, in the form of “thousands of emails.” This information was ultimately used by the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation that involved extensive spying on Trump campaign staff. The initial portrayal of Mifsud as a Russian spy was undermined by the fact that Mifsud had extensive contacts with people in the Western political, diplomatic, security, intelligence, and even counterterrorism circles, and none of them seemed to be concerned enough to keep distance from Mifsud. In April, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, asserted the Mifsud story was the other way around—he was a Western “counterintelligence operative” involved in what looked to Giuliani as a “counterintelligence trap.” Barr reportedly visited Italy in late September to meet with security officials and, among other things, inquire about Mifsud... https://www.theepochtimes.com/media-narrative-on-joseph-mifsud-shifts-as-barr-investigates_3107644.html

Turkey strikes Syria-Iraq border, Lindsey Graham warns ‘sanctions from hell’ looming

by Frieda Powers

{ bizpacreview.com } ~ The Turkish military bombed the Syria-Iraq border ahead of its planned offensive move into northern Syria. The overnight strikes on Monday, which were confirmed to Reuters by Turkish officials... were aimed at destroying a Kurdish-used transportation route between Iraq and Syria and followed an announcement by the Trump administration to pull U.S. troops from northeast Syria. “In this way, the group’s transit to Syria and support lines, including ammunition, are shut off,” the official said. Kurdish-led forces are seen by Turkey as a terrorist insurgency though many Kurdish fighters have been part of the Syrian Democratic Forces which have been allies with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Trump’s abrupt policy announcement left many in Washington voicing their criticism and disagreement. But the administration has insisted the withdrawal of troops is not giving Turkey a “green light” to invade Syria. Though it was not clear if there were any casualties in the strikes, one official told Reuters that the site was made “unusable through various means.” Another official referred to the joint operation by Turkey’s intelligence service and the military as an airstrike. “The TSK will never tolerate the establishment of a terror corridor on our borders. All preparations for the operation have been completed,” the Turkish Defense Ministry said... https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/10/08/turkey-strikes-syria-iraq-border-lindsey-graham-warns-sanctions-from-hell-looming-836482?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get+Response&utm_term=EMAIL

Another dinky-liar-Warren 'Victim Status' Lie

Thomas Gallatin: Elizabeth dinky-liarWarren has difficulty telling the truth, be it her continued refusal to acknowledge that her Medicare for All plan would require tax increases upon all Americans (something commie-Bernie Sanders freely admits) or her long-running false claim that she is part Cherokee — a claim Warren used to tout herself as a “minority” while she worked at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania. Only after a DNA test revealed her claim to be fraudulent did she partially acknowledge the truth, while still insisting she was merely the victim of a false family ancestry she grew up believing.

Now dinky-liar-Warren has come under scrutiny for another autobiographical tall tale that contradicts the record and even her own past statements. To paint herself as a victim of sexism under the “patriarchy,” Warren has repeatedly relayed a story of being fired from her first teaching job after it became apparent that she was pregnant. dinky-liar-Warren claims, “By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days — wish me luck and hire someone else for the job.”

However, back in 2007, dinky-liar-Warren told a different story. She stated, “I was married at 19 and then graduated from college after I’d married. My first year post-graduation, I worked — it was a public-school system but I worked with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I actually didn’t have the education courses, so I was on an ‘emergency certificate,’ it was called. I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, ‘I don’t think this is going to work out for me.’ I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, ‘What am I going to do?’”

Furthermore, The Washington Free Beacon obtained “minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting,” which “show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend dinky-liar-Warren a ‘2nd year’ contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was ‘accepted with regret.’”

So, was dinky-liar-Warren a victim of sexism? Not even remotely. Yet for today’s Democrats, creating a fraudulent and politically expedient victim narrative is more important than speaking the truth. The question for the country is, if Warren can’t be trusted to be honest about her past or even who she is, how can she be trusted to govern the nation? The simple answer is, she can’t. ~The Patriot Post

VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=831129063948395

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Happy Indigenous People's Day!

Santa Maria in Portland Harbor

Tom McLaughlin

Lindsey Graham Invites Rudy Giuliani to

Testify About His Ukraine 'Concerns'

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By Susan Jones

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has invited President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani... to appear before the committee to air his concerns about Ukraine corruption. Graham made the announcement via Twitter on Tuesday: Have heard on numerous occasions disturbing allegations by @RudyGiuliani about corruption in Ukraine and the many improprieties surrounding the firing of former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Given the House of Representatives’ behavior, it is time for the Senate to inquire about corruption and other improprieties involving Ukraine. Therefore I will offer to Mr. Giuliani the opportunity to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee to inform the committee of his concerns. No date has been set. Giuliani says Ukraine Prosecutor-General Shokin was told to drop an investigation of Burisma, the Ukraine natural gas company that put then-Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden's troubled son Hunter on its board in 2014. Giuliani, in a long Sept. 29 interview with Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures," said he was "a lawyer defending a client" -- a client accused of Russian collusion -- when he started investigating what went on in Ukraine. He said he didn't go looking for dirt on the loose lips liar-Bidens -- it was "handed" to him as he probed the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Giuliani argues that the 2016 "collusion" wasn't in Russia, it was in Ukraine. "And it was bought and paid for. It was done by scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee," he said...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/lindsey-graham-invites-rudy-giuliani-testify-about-his-ukraine-concerns

Trump administration blocks ambassador from testifying in House impeachment deposition

By Adam Shaw

{ foxnews.com } ~ The Trump administration ordered the U.S. ambassador to the European Union not to appear at a scheduled Tuesday deposition on the Ukraine controversy... triggering a fiery new clash with House Democrats amid their impeachment inquiry. President Trump dismissed the deposition as a "kangaroo court" as he defended the decision to block Gordon Sondland from appearing at the closed-door session on Capitol Hill. But the move, first reported by the New York Times, prompted new warnings from Democrats that such acts will be seen as an obstruction of their investigation into the controversy surrounding Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of Congress,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday morning. scumbag-Schiff and other top Democratic committee chairmen later released a statement saying they indeed consider the administration’s “interference” to be “obstruction of the impeachment inquiry” and they plan to subpoena Sondland “for both his testimony and documents.” The statement said they learned Tuesday morning from Sondland’s attorneys that the State Department left a voicemail at 12:30 a.m. telling them he could not appear. Further, they said the attorneys reported that Sondland turned communications sought by the committees over to the department, which “is withholding them from the Committees, in defiance of our subpoena to Secretary Mike Pompeo.” An attorney for Sondland also said in a statement that the order not to appear came from the State Department. Attorney Robert Luskin said Sondland, who had agreed to appear voluntarily for the closed session, is required to follow the department's direction. No reason for the direction was cited, he said. Luskin said Sondland "is profoundly disappointed that he will not be able to testify." His statement said: "Ambassador Sondland hopes that the issues raised by the State Department that preclude his testimony will be resolved promptly. He stands ready to testify on short notice, whenever he is permitted to appear."...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-us-ambassador-to-eu-from-appearing-at-house-impeachment-deposition

VIDEO 1: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093145307001/#sp=show-clips

VIDEO 2: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6093145348001/

Decision to Block Sondland’s Testimony ‘Based

on the Unfair and Partisan Process’

scumbag-Schiff Has Been Running

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By Melanie Arter

{ cnsnews.com } ~ Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that he understands why the State Department blocked U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying... before the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door meeting as part of the impeachment inquiry. House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sondland had documents related to Ukraine on his “personal device,” but the State Department is withholding it from the committee. “We understand the reason why the State Department decided not to have Ambassador Sondland appear today. It’s based on the unfair and partisan process that Mr. scumbag-Schiff has been running, you think about what the Democrats are trying to do impeach the president of the United States 13 months prior to an election based on an anonymous whistleblower with no firsthand knowledge with a bias against the president,” Jordan told reporters on Capitol Hill. “The guy running the process Chairman scumbag-Schiff didn't even tell us that he had met with the whistleblower prior to the whistleblower filing the complaint,” he added. “scumbag-Adam Schiff didn't tell us - the way he treated … Ambassador Volker in this interview last week, that treatment is the reason why the administration and the State Department said we’re not going to subject Ambassador Sondland to the same treatment,” the congressman said. Jordan said Republicans on the committee were “looking forward” to hearing Sondland’s testimony, because they thought it would “reinforce” what former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, who is also a former ambassador to NATO, told the committee...

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/jordan-wh-decision-block-sondlands-testimony-based-unfair-and-partisan

Hey, Congress: Take Back Your War Powers,

Or Shut Up About Syria

By David Harsanyi

{ thefederalist.com } ~ If you want to stop Donald Trump from making unilateral decisions regarding war and peace, then stop letting all presidents make unilateral decisions about war and peace... It’s really quite simple. Trump can abruptly pull back U.S. troops from northern Syria because Congress, having abdicated its foreign policy responsibilities long ago, has no leverage to stop him. When Congress passed the War Powers Resolution as the Vietnam War was winding down, it gave presidents the power to send troops abroad for 60 days in response to any “national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.” If the president failed to gain congressional support for the deployment, he would have another 30 days to pull back troops. Congress is the institution vested with the power to declare wars, to debate where we send troops, and decide which conflicts are funded. Presidents have been ignoring this arrangement, abuse authorizations for the use of military force (AUMFs), and imbue themselves with the power to engage in conflicts wherever they like, without any coherent endgame, and without any buy-in from Congress. Congress, in turn, has shown no interest in genuinely challenging executive power, because its members are far more concerned with political self-preservation. Ignoring abuse shields them from tough choices and ensuing criticism—even as they use war as a partisan cudgel. Even if you don’t believe all these conflicts rise to an Article I declaration, and I don’t, the more accountability there is in foreign entanglements the better. Right now we have little genuine debate or consensus building—in a nation that already exhibits exceptionally little interest in foreign policy—regarding the deployment of our troops, almost always in perpetuity, around the world. It’s a bipartisan problem. Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, whose political star rose due to his opposition to the Iraq war, was perhaps our worst offender, circumventing Congress and relying on a decade-old AUMF, which he invoked 19 times during his presidency, to justify a half-hearted intervention against ISIS not al-Qaeda in Syria not Afghanistan... https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/08/hey-congress-take-back-your-war-powers-or-shut-up-about-syria/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=87b36f4f23-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-87b36f4f23-83771801

The Democratic Primary Has Already Fallen Apart

by libertyplanet.com ~ There’s a serious case to be made to limit presidential campaigns to just six months before election day: and it comes in the form of the Democratic Party’s current primary season... With seemingly everyone with a ‘D’ next to their name vying for the top spot, it didn’t take long for just about every major campaign to fall apart right in front of our eyes. The frontrunner can’t remember his own name. The distant runner-up has lied about everything from her employment to her own genetic make up. And the next-best option just had a heart attack — right after repeating the same Marxist mantra he’s been bellowing for the better part of four decades. Democratic voters can’t admit this yet, but we see it as clear as day: there is no viable candidate to take on President Donald Trump in 2020. Just imagine any single one of the candidates we’ve seen from the blue team standing on a stage next to the President: how do you really think that would go? loose lips liar-Biden might find himself accidentally agreeing with whatever Trump says, before timing himself out to safe face. We can easily picture dinky-Warren nervously staggering her way through forced sentences, as if she really is the third scumbag/liar-Hillary campaign. How did Democrats manage to screw this up so badly? At this point, the election truly is Trump’s to lose. And while there’s definitely room to argue about his own campaign brass, there’s no question that his competition has a lot of work to do. Maybe they’ll actually hit up Wisconsin this time? Who knows if that will even work at this point. Middle America has a clear picture of what the Democrats think about them. There are a lot of ways to pick this apart, but we’ll let Razorfist do the rest. https://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/the-democratic-primary-has-already-fallen-apart/

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePgVPKza110

Iran to Sue U.S. Over Breach of Nuclear Deal

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ Iran is readying to sue the United States in the International Court of Justice over President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the landmark nuclear deal... and reapply tough new sanctions on Tehran, according to officials in Iran’s judiciary. Laya Joneidi, Iran’s vice president for legal affairs, announced on Monday that Iran will bring charges against the United States and seek an undisclosed amount of monetary damages as a result of America’s "breach of the nuclear deal," according to the country’s state-controlled press. With Iran’s economy on the ropes as a result of the Trump administration’s sanctions, Tehran is seeking multiple avenues to recoup lost revenue. Iran has won monetary awards in the past for suits brought before the ICJ. The scumbag/liar-nObama administration sought to settle several pending cases at the court that resulted in Tehran being awarded hard currency. Iran also has sued the Trump administration in the ICJ over the recent imposition of sanctions, claims the United States has described as "baseless." Iran is ready to provide the court with documentation about its loss of revenue under the Trump administration sanctions and will argue that the country deserves to be compensated for these losses, according to the latest statements by Iranian officials. Meanwhile, Iran continues to breach key provisions of the nuclear accord, which remains upheld by multiple Western nations. This includes violations of the amount of nuclear materials it can stockpile in the country as well as revamped work on the advanced enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-to-sue-u-s-over-breach-of-nuclear-deal/

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

Santa Maria in Portland Harbor

Tom McLaughlin

{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ What struck me most about the Santa Maria was how tiny she is. A replica sailed into Portland Harbor last month and I paid ten dollars to go aboard and look around. More astonishing still was remembering that the Nina and the Pinta — the two caravels sailing with the Santa Maria — were even smaller. There’s only one enclosed space on the biggest ship, and that was where the captain slept. Its fifty-two crew members slept on the open deck of the 117-foot ship, only going below with the cargo when the weather was bad.

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Good Columbus

Americans my age were taught to revere Columbus for his intrepid maritime leadership sailing across uncharted waters, holding a mutinous crew together, and discovering what we call America. Now school children are taught that Columbus was a money-grubbing, European, white guy who slaughtered and enslaved innocent Native Americans who only wanted to help him and his men. When Democrats took over Maine government in 2018, they abolished Columbus Day and ordered Maine citizens to celebrate “Indigenous Citizens Day” instead.

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Bad Columbus

Not only that, schoolchildren are now taught that Columbus was too dumb to know he had bumped into two previously unknown continents and thought he was in the Indies. So, he called the people he found “Indians,” and they continued to be called that for the next five centuries until progressives insisted they be called Native Americans. Whenever I meet someone who is a real American Indian and looks nothing like Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren(liar), I ask whether he or she wishes to be called Indian or Native American. So far, all have said, “Indian.” Next time I’ll also ask: “How about calling you ’Indigenous Person’?” but I think I know what the answer will be.

In light of all this, I wonder if I should be wishing people “Happy Indigenous People Day” over the weekend in Maine, and “Happy Columbus Day” in New Hampshire since I’m so often driving back and forth across the state line. Will automobile dealerships in Maine be putting on special Indigenous People’s Day Sales? Is it now illegal to sponsor a “Special Columbus Day Sale” over here on Maine’s side of the border?

Since no drawings or plans of the original Santa Maria exist, we cannot know how closely the ship I explored compared to it. All I can say is that it represents the closest guess of what it probably looked like based on other ships in use at the time. I have to wonder if the Spanish crew members knew about what happened in Maine when Democrats returned to power. Would they have sailed right on by Portland if they knew?

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Portland Progressives demonstrate

I didn’t see any left-wing demonstrators down there on Commercial Street while I was touring the ship and it doesn’t take much to get them cranked up enough to staple signs to sticks and march down the street chanting. I expected the arrival of Columbus’s ship would have been enough to turn them out. Doing research for this article, I learned that a replica of Nina sank last April in Corpus Christi Texas, but the articles I read said nothing about foul play and the ship was eventually re-floated.

The City of Portland had earlier (2017) abolished Columbus Day before the whole state did it in 2019 but I don’t recall seeing any Indigenous People celebrating the new holiday and I’m often there during the second Monday of October. Come to think of it, I never saw any Spanish Americans or Italian Americans Columbus was Italian celebrating when it was called Columbus Day either. I do see people celebrating other holidays like the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, but those last two are threatened by progressives as well. The Pilgrims, after all, were also white Europeans. Progressive groups are now claiming that Thanksgiving is “celebrating ongoing genocide.”

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And of course, Christmas has been under siege by the left for decades now. Public schools no longer mention the word, calling it “Winter Holiday” instead. People paying homage to political correctness are hesitant to say, “Merry Christmas” outside their own household, wish people “Happy Holidays.” It all makes me wonder: what’s next? Labor Day? The diminishing number of unionized workers still marks the occasion but most of our populace gives it a big ho-hum.

Memorial Day is celebrated and we’ve all known soldiers who have died in recent wars. That holiday should be safe, and Veteran’s Day too. Martin Luther King Day? It’s still relatively new so I guess it’ll be okay for a while. I have come to believe most Americans care much more about getting a paid holiday off from work than whatever it is that day is supposed to commemorate.

It’ll be up to the Spanish now to decide whether they’ll pay future voyages of the Santa Maria to Portland, Maine.

https://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/10/happy-indigenous-peoples-day.html

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